#toga playing match maker

[isabeauwolf]

What would Dabi and Magne think if Mary gave Toga a taser?

"Himiko, where did you get that taser?" Mange asked, blinked.

Toga waved it back and forth, grinning. "Mar gave to it me from her backpack, and said I could keep it! Isn't she the greatest!"

Dabi blinked, and pointed his thumb at her over his shoulder. "Remind me never to piss our mini psycho off."

Toga giggled, "Hey, hey, Dabi! Do you think if I tased a guy in the balls that his nuts will get toasted?"

Dabi grimaced, "Already feel sorry for the poor bastard."

Magne huffed, "one less man in this hell hole."

Toga's grin turned sadistic, smiling and showing off her fangs. "Let's test it!"

"Oh no, hell no, fuck no, absolutely not." Dabi shook his head and snatched the taser from her hand.

Toga whined, "Hey! Give it back!" She pouted, "I wasn't going to do it, honest! It was a joke, meany."

Dabi dropped it onto the ground, activated his quirk and burnt it. "Joke or not, I like my dick where it is, thank you."

Mary walks into the building, blinked in confusion. "Why's the taser I have Himiko on fire?" Violet and gold orbs, glancing at Dabi to Toga, sighing and pinching the bridge of her nose, tail twitching in irritation. "I told you it wasn't a toy, Himiko. It was for emergencies, if you lost your knife or didn't have your gear."

Toga's pout deepened, tears welling in her eyes. "I'm sorry, Mar. Honest, I was showing everyone and Dabi was being a big fat meany!" The teenage girl ran to the older woman, wrapping her arms around her, crying and burying her face into her chest. "It's not fair!"

Mary held her and rubbed her back, glancing at Dabi's jealous gaze and Magne covering her mouth, trying not to laugh.

Dabi scoffed, shoving his hands in his pockets, "This is some bullshit."

Magne and Toga both snickers, "Somebody's turning green with envy~" Toga turned her head and stuck her tongue out, "Green makes you look super fugly, Dabi~"

Dabi snapped, "That's it, come say that to my face, vampire brat!"

Toga squeals and laughs, running around the building with Dabi chasing after her.

Magne laughs, walking over and patting Mary on the back. "Never a dull moment with you, huh, hun?"

Mary watches the pair of villains every move, her nerves and senses on high alert, growing worried. "My nerves are going to be fried."

Toga found the fire extinguisher, popped the top and used it on Dabi, coating him in white foam. "There, fire's out."

Dabi's standing in the middle of the room, covered in head to toe, gritting his teeth. "Dammit, brat."

Mary pulls out a towel from her backpack, snickering. "When I said white makes your blue eyes pop, I didn't mean it like this, pyro." Bringing the towel to his check and helping him clean up, noticing a cute blush on his face. She grabbed the sleeve of his jacket, lightly tugging on it, smile widened. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up, marshmallows man."

Dabi followed without a word, a hint of a grin on his scared lips.

Toga smirks behind her hand humming, "It's fun playing matchmaker."

Magne chuckled in amusement, "Girl, you play dirty."

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@fabled-lady-twilla @togeandmegumilover @fanofflames @slayfics @staitc-rj @dabislittlemouse @madamebloodmoon @angelblueflame @nikki152006 @cherry-queens-blog

Yes, I made Himiko into a menace, but she's trying so hard to get Dabi and Mary together and her besties biggest supporter! What are friends for? ;)

[ratsoh-writes]

THIS IS HALLOWEEN THIS IS HALLOWEEN!!!

Happy Halloween y’all!! Here’s a fun bonus post to see what the guys are up to!

In Goldenvalley, several farmers pooled together their empty fields to host a MASSIVE Halloween party for ebott! There’s a pumpkin patch, a huge corn maze, farmers market, haunted house, a trunk or treat in the parking lot, and when it’s late, a big after-party for the adults!

Sans: this year he’s going as fools gold. Sans is in a yellow and orange jester outfit and hands out fake gold coins to the kids. He’s a little out out that no one is getting the pun right away.

In spirit of supporting G’s sobriety, the geek squad will not be getting sloshed this Halloween. Unfortunately for every one else, a sober geek squad is a mischievous one. Somehow sans Pluto G and lens have gotten into a prank war with cricket bruiser and cash. Things are gonna get nasty real quick.

Papyrus: he lost a dare with willow earlier in the month, and his older friend/technically brother got to choose his costume. This year papyrus is orange blossom from strawberry shortcake! Ngl, paps thinks orange blossom is the best and he’s really feeling this costume. It also helps that he tricked his best friend into matching with him lol

Papyrus and Star have been stuck in the corn maze for nearly an hour now. They’re certain they’ve found the exit, but they swear the maze is moving somehow. It’s like someone angered the spirit of Halloween!

Star: he doesn’t know how, but paps convinced him to dress as strawberry shortcake. Sure the costume rocks, but Star wanted to do something a bit more adult and manly! People keep cooing at him! He’s a grown *ss monster dangit!

Oh he swears they’ve seen that scarecrow four times now! He and papyrus have been stuck in this murder maze for ages! Star keeps getting the uncomfortable feeling of recognizing something but not quite being able to place his finger on it.

Honey: naturally this nerd needs to be something dnd, so he’s going as his favorite bard character complete with a ukulele to finish the outfit!

Honey was real nervous about such a big festival, but with salt and his dnd crew by his side, he thinks he can brave it. Salt keeps stealing his ukulele thoigh to make dirty lyrics lol

Red: he’s going as doctor bones from Star Trek this year. Reds honestly shocked he hasn’t done a Trekkie outfit yet until now.

Surprising no one, red stuck to oak like glue for the whole Halloween party. His partner was feeling good today and wanted to try and stay up long enough for the after party. So red is playing guard dog making sure nothing gets in the way of oaks plans. He swears he’s already made them dodge at least three pranks. Who keeps leaving them everywhere??

Edge: he made a very handsome Hercules this year. Although edge felt a bit exposed in the toga. Rhythm had insisted though wanting to have matching Greek costumes with buddies and edge has a hard time saying no to his best friend

Edge partied hard this Halloween. After the kids went home, he got on the dance floor and just shredded it with an equally drunk rhythm. He doesn’t remember half the night but is sure it was a good time lol

Mal: naturally of course he was matching with lord and wine. It’s practically tradition at this point. This year they decided on the three fairies from sleeping beauty. Mal of course is the green one. Unfortunately due to lord and wines red eyes, they could never pull it off

Mal did hang with his two besties for most of the holiday, but he must’ve been neglecting his little brother, because at the end of the night mal found himself dragged into a prank war between the geek squad and the trouble makers. Cash was so grateful to have his observant older brother on his side

Cash: he went as a strip of bacon. Yep, bacon. Why? Cause it was 50% at the discount boutique on his street. Sue him, he’s had a busy month and forgot about needing a costume.

Cash naturally finds bruiser and cricket the second he and mal arrive in goldenvalley. And naturally, bruiser the evil… something that he is decides their first prank targets should be the foursome of sans Pluto G and lens. Cash quickly learns one should never prank a squad of geniuses.

Oak: he’s stitch from lilo and stitch this year. Technically his costume is just a onesie. Oak seems to have a lot of those.

Oak is feeling great this Halloween! He made sure to sleep in extra in the morning, have a good breakfast and lunch, and do his stretches that he hates. He’s determined this year to see the afterparty! He manages about 30 minutes into it before deciding every one is crazy and taking red home with him lol

Willow: for once he’s not a chef. Lilac and noir bullied willow into getting an actual costume this year, so he went with jack skellington from nightmare before Christmas! He looks quite handsome~

Willow was banned by his employees from working this Halloween. They’re taking care of the bakery stand, so for once he has to enjoy himself. And he does! Willow noir and lilac spend a good amount of time on the hayride gossiping. Every time someone suggested they’d get off, lilac would whine about his leg, noir about his hips and willow about his back. That shuts them up

Lilac: he’s going as Captain Hook this year, and he replaced his prosthetic with a wooden peg leg to really sell the costume. And a hook of course!

Lilac is having a grand time with noir and willow on the hayride talking sh*t. He loves his jock buddies, but he feels like he’s been neglecting his famine friends lately. Plus Jupiter went running after bruiser again and lilac just doesn’t have the energy for that today.

Rust: he needed a costume with lots of pockets and a way to keep a large gaggle of kids in sight, so rust is going as cruella deville! And he’s equipped with a bunch of spotted kiddie leashes for his “Dalmatians” lol

Rust got talked into joining a parent group with one of his coworkers, and is now with a small handful of other adults and about two dozen kids of various ages. The really young ones get the Dalmatian backpack leashes because frankly, this place is packed. It’s a fun night of trunk or treating with his daycare brats

Noir: he put actual effort into finding a costume this year, so noir is totally decked out in jewelry rocking his cool pharaoh outfit! And the best part? The “gems” are all just painted pebbles from his front yard. Genius. Every one loves them lol

He was not liking the idea of pushing through the crowds and walking everywhere, so noir was the one to suggest hogging one of the hay rides. Best idea of his life

Lord: he’s been dragged into matching with wine and mal once again. They’ve gone with the three fairies from sleeping beauty this year. Lord absolutely refuses to be the pink fairy and mal claimed green, so blue he is. He looks adorable in his dress.

Lord has a fun time in the beginning shopping with mal and wine. They do a good job at keeping people from bumping into him. However mal gets whisked away at some point, and wine decides to stir the pot by joining sans and the geek squad. So what’s poor lord to do? Wait- why’s mutt sneaking around like that?

Mutt: he’s in camouflage this year looking like a marine! In his gun holster is a few baby mice he’s saved from the stomping crowds, and in his backpack is his pet raccoon, freeloader. 

Mutt has had his eye on this tall gentle looking baker skeleton for a while now. Something about the guy draws him in. So naturally he decides to stalk the other monster, or at least that’s the plan until lord is angrily dragging him away. Dammit

Wine: he’s matching with mal and lord again this year as one of the three fairies from sleeping beauty. Wine could never pull off the green one, and lord insisted on blue. But he’s totally fine with that, after all the pink fairy is the superior choice. It’s not his fault his friends don’t see that~

This Halloween party is fun and all, but severely lacking in drama. So wine is internally cheering when cash starts dragging mal away. Oh! And is that sans~ hmm a prank war sounds way more interesting than shopping. He just has to sell mutt out so lord is occupied, then he’s free to cause a bit of chaos himself~

Coffee: he’s Tom nook this Halloween. Coffee loves that landlord raccoon man! Best animal crossing character ever!

someone made a poke stop in the corn maze this year, and slim and coffee are gonna take it over! Except their electronics all bugged out once they got far enough in and now they’re lost! Coffee tried glitching through the corn stupidly and now has a cob stuck through his shoe making the walk much more unpleasant

Snipe: for once he gets to dress up instead of being on guard duty. Not wanting his face out, snipe goes with a simple outfit and a horse mask, easiest bo-Jack horseman costume ever

Snipe is on ace babysitting duty tonight. It’s fine, because he has a plan. Get his brother as sloshed as possible, then ditch and go home early. And if that doesn’t work he snuck in a tranq. Ace may hate him after but he’s taking this job seriously

Bruiser: he’s lightning McQueen this Halloween. Does he look ridiculous? Absolutely. Is he embarrassed? Not one bit. Lightning McQueen is his hero and idol and no one can say otherwise.

Of course the first thing bruise wants to do is prank some people. He’s brought fake snakes, noise machines, fading glitter spray and even a drone decorated to look like a bat lol. And he makes the wise educated decision to prank G first. That will never go wrong.

Butch: butch doesn’t have guard duty this holiday, so he’s rocking a fun costume! He’s going as Beetlejuice! The stripes in the suit remind him fondly of his mafia days lol

Butch decided to tag along with charm and Winnie and check out the haunted house! He thought it was rather mid, but his bestie and the kid tag along were shaking in their boots at the end

Boss: he for once doesn’t have a guard shift so this holiday boss is determined to party hard! And his costume is perfect for that! He wanted something easy to move in, so his outlaw costume is a perfect fit!

Boss of course started the evening by dragging Green away from some stuffy colleagues to show his friend a real good time. And by good time boss means starting a mosh pit on the dance floor with the help of pepper and sugar. Bruiser would be proud

Ace: he’s the queen of hearts from Alice in wonderland this year~ and boy does he look fine in his costume. He even did his makeup to match!

Ace is on a trial run from the royal guard where he no longer needs a “handler” to go to events. Naturally this means snipes paranoid *ss is gonna follow him around the whole time. Ace doesn’t mind though and spends the evening teasing his older brother

Slim: he uses Halloween as an excuse to cosplay. This year is no different with slim rocking a gojo cosplay. He likes the wrap around his eyes. It means he doesn’t need to wear contacts. They make his eyelights itch.

He and coffee planned to take on this poke stop in the corn maze that was advertised. Slims Pokémon go team has been undefeated for nearly six months now and he needs a challenge! However all their devices shut off after they entered the maze, and the corn looks the same no matter where they turn. He’s starting to freak out.

Charm: charm couldn’t be too skimpy this Halloween with Winnie in tow, but he refuses not to have some sort of raunchiness in his costume. So he goes as a maid! Sugar narrowed his eyes at the implications, but charms skirt was long enough so he couldn’t complain lol

Charm is watching winnie this Halloween as a favor for sugar, and cause his niece wants to do the haunted house and knows her dad won’t let her, but her uncle certainly will~ and with butch tagging along, she’s sure she’ll get to see the adult party too! lol tough luck, after midnight charm drives his niece home

Sugar: with no kid in tow this year, sugar can go all out, and he does~ sugar rocks a sexy bunny suit this Halloween. It’s pink of course, the perfect color.

Sugar naturally meets up with pepper first and together they head straight for the adult area of the festival. They’re here to have a good time and maybe bring a few pretty fellows home together~

Sparks: oh this Halloween is gonna be epic! Sparks put a lot of thought into his costume and decided to go with something a bit more refined…. Attack on Titan! Mostly he just wants an excuse to do parkour in the uniform lol

Sparks is spending the day with lush exploring the shops and trunk or treating. Lush is really grateful for his cuter friend’s presence. He would’ve been alone otherwise

Salt: he’s looking quite dashing as Prince Charming from shrek two lol. Salt thinks the character is hilarious. Plus the cherry chapstick joke is a classic.

He’s sticking with honey for the evening. His original plan was sugar and pepper, but those two are in a wild mood and while salt loves a good party, he’s in no mood to get as wrecked as they surely will lol

Lush: he was feeling lazy this month with all the work that’s been piling up, so his costume is pretty last minute. Lush went with borrowing an old costume from sparks and throwing a hoodie on it for a quick and easy Spider-Man.

He’s really grateful his best friend decided to tag along the whole night. The shops are bustling and the music is great! Although it’s depressing that so many kids are scared of him even though he picked a “friendly” costume

Pepper: he’s gorgeous as ever. This year he’s decided to knock everyone’s pants off and be Jessica rabbit from who framed Roger rabbit. Monsters everywhere are drooling over him

Pepper is of course out with sugar. After being joined by a hyped up boss and jittery green, they shred up the dance floor. Peppers hoping to take someone home tonight, and that cute Han Solo has been eyeing him for a while.. if the guy approaches him he might give him a chance~

Sir: he’s dressed as a classic king with a crown, red velvet cloak and lots of gold jewelry. In fact sir picked the theme for the whole brothel. With rumors of pranks planned for the evening, he thought it would help to keep every one close

He spends the night escorting some of his “workers” while they have fun. There’s been a rumor going around about spiked drinks. Not on sirs watch!

Weasel: he’s the fool of the royal court! With a jesters cap and jingly shoes, weasel fits the part perfectly!

Weasel is with snow and pesto and some other brothel “workers” for the festival. They’re supposed to keep an eye out for trouble. Rumors of drugs being snuck in has sir on alert. He’s a bit grumbly about technically being a guard for the evening but weasel wouldn’t dare let his family down

Butler: he’s dressed as a knight in shining armor, complete with a “fake” long sword. The sword is foam, but hidden inside connected to the handle is an actual dagger. Nice

Butler is escorting the third and final group of “workers, with the help of Flambe. Two of them brought their kids, so they plan on leaving early in the evening before the bar stands open

Gold: he’s the beautiful princess of the group! Gold went with a deep purple for his color scheme since lighter colors don’t wash him out enough lol

Gold is with sirs group having the time of his life. Sure he’s supposed to be a watch out too, but every one knows this pampered diva won’t see anything

Flambé: Flambe is the queen of the brothel, dressed in a beautiful navy blue dress and silver jewelry. He’s quite tired as he had a late shift the night before, so he’s happy to be with the group protecting the kids.

Pesto: he’s the executioner of the royal group. Pesto has the hood with the eyeholes over his head and a wicked looking fake axe.

His job is to keep weasel on task mostly, and to help guard his group. However the ladies are quite excited pesto was convinced to come out and are trying to get him to let loose a bit. They think this party will be good for him

G: he’s dressed as Rick from Rick and Morty. Every one agrees this costume is perfect for his arrogant *ss lol

G is already a bit pissy that he won’t be drinking tonight, so when bruiser threw that popping buzzer at him, he welcomed the challenge. Blame G for dragging the geek squad into this prank war

Green: he promised boss that his costume wouldn’t be something completely white this year, and green delivered. He looks quite cute in his penguin butler costume. The black feels a bit dark to him, but hey! It’s not all white!

Poor green was having a good time discussing the latest medical technology with his colleagues when boss dragged him away. Now he’s fighting for his life in a mosh pit. This is what he gets for befriending soldiers 

Lens: he’s simply in a decorated black morph suit dressed as venom. He’s not very intimidating looking with how small he is, but whatever

Lens is pissed that his brother was stupid enough to try and prank G. Now he has to spend all night making sure his best friend doesn’t get hurt in his race for revenge

Cricket: he’s rocking his shadow the hedgehog costume tonight. You can blame cash for it. Cricket had also forgotten to prepare a costume and unwisely trusted his friend to snag him one.

Cricket was going to try and keep bruiser out of trouble until he heard who he wanted to prank first. Cricket never wastes an opportunity to anger lens

Pluto: oh my stars, if you guys could see his costume now you’d loose it. Pluto is adorable dressed as sapphire from Steven universe. The color and fit suits him perfectly

Ok! This prank war is actually a bit fun. Sure it’s tiring running after the trouble makers all night, but every one is laughing. Even lens cracked a smile… well it looked more like an angry grimace but close enough!

Jupiter: he’s with the fire fighters tonight, so Jupiter is in uniform tonight! He sadly lost a raffle for who had to man the party on standby.

Atlas: atlas looks very charming dressed as Han Solo from Star Wars. The best character of course!

Atlas has been popping in between different groups all night, but towards the end of the evening he can’t help but gravitate towards this absolutely gorgeous skeleton dressed as Jessica rabbit. Hopefully he can pull together his courage and talk to the guy

Orion: he has the scream mask and a black robe on. He also has a fake buzzer knife!

Orion is busy this year working in the haunted mansion. It’s a passion project between him and a few other artist friends. He took extra pleasure in scaring the heck out of charm and the kid he was with. Unfortunately that ex mafia guy barely even blinked

Helios: he and Artemis got festive this Halloween and are going as heat and snow miser from “the year without Santa clause”. Obviously Helios is heat miser. It matches his eyelights

Helios is wheeling Artemis around the festival this year. The siblings duo are mostly trick or treating but Helios is hoping to find a cool moon lamp for his room

Artemis: she’s snow miser from “the year without Santa clause”. Artemis even brought fake snow to sprinkle on kids lol. They love it!

She and Helios had the delight to run into a mum with twin babies who are also dressed as heat and snow miser! They of course got pictures with them. The mom insisted

Pop: this year he’s dressed as the cutest little.. pigeon? Pop has a pair of grey wings and a feathery sweater on. He looks ridiculous but you should see the other guy ;)

When pop ran into the corn maze with quill, the first thing he did was knock over a strange looking scarecrow. The thing started screeching about some curse of eternal wandering but he didn’t stick around the listen. He has a maze to explore!

Rhythm: he’s dressed as a satyr from Greek legend! It goes perfectly with edges her uses costume, plus he loves bouncing around

He got so sloshed the second the bars opened. Rhythms busy season of dance recitals with the kids is finally over. He’s ready to RELAX. Or party.

Tempo: he’s DJ for the afterparty dance! So tempo is decked out in a bunch of neon as a raving DJ. He’s working with the band all night

Vibrato: he’s dressed in a neon witch outfit, and he’s working the afterparty providing music for the dance going on!

Quill: he’s dressed as a bag of pop rocks! He looks so goofy waddling around in the boxy bright costume, but he’s not nearly as silly as the other guy ;)

Quill is freaking out. He’s been in this corn maze with pop for ages, and some scarecrow keeps chasing them and screaming about curses. Pop is screaming back at it certainly not helping the situation

Crow: he’s providing security for the band tonight. Crow is dressed in a professional suit with a goofy witch hat. His job is to make sure the crowd doesn’t swarm vibrato and the mettas

Roost: he’s dressed as the caterpillar from Alice in wonderland. The whole vineyard is doing that theme tonight!

Roost is out in the crowd offering taste tests of harpy’s wine. They’re hoping to use the festival as an advertising opportunity 

Harpy: she’s dressed as the mad hatter from Alice and wonderland this year!

Harpy makes a wonderful scene at the wine stand. They’re serving the wine in tea cups to go with the vineyards costume theme this year. It’s a big hit!

Mango: she’s adorable in her fluffy angel costume. But papaya keeps calling her a flamingo. She might kill him

Mango is chilling with Finn for the night. They’re spending most of their time at the lake the venue is next to. They’ve found a group of hadals in the water and are having a grand time playing frisbee with them!

Papaya: he’s a basic b*tch this Halloween as a ghost. Very original. However there’s a twist! Thanks to the strange workings of sails mind, papaya is a ghost wearing fishnet leggings under the sheet.

Papaya is tagging along with sails and Jasper tonight. They entered the haunted mansion, and in their panic and attempt to escape, papayas sheet costume caught on a branch. He refuses to go back for it, so now he looks like a stripper with nothing but fishnet tights and a pair of little black shorts.

Fisher: fisher is hosting a haunted boat ride with some sailors. He’s playing as a siren calling monsters into the water, so he has a wicked seaweed wig and lots of jewelry! It’s super fun!

Jasper: he’s dressed as a monster energy can lol. He thinks he’s so funny for this!

Jasper had the fright of his life in the haunted mansion with sails and papaya. Poor papaya even lost his costume! He and sails are trying to convince the guy to go back in for it

Finn: he’s dressed as Donald Duck this Halloween! He hardly even needed to get much for the costume since he has most of the outfit in his closet already

Finn is so proud of himself for getting mango to socialize with other monsters. It seems like she’s much more open to hadal monsters. He’ll have to take note of that

Sails: he’s looking quite goofy as Patrick star from SpongeBob. And of course he has the fishnet tights to go with. He bought a two pack and gave the other pair to papaya.

Sails thinks he may be having a heart attack after that disastrous haunted mansion run. And crazy Jasper wants to go back for papayas costume? Really???

Hook: he’s helping run a haunted boat ride with some other sailors tonight! Hook is going as a zombie seaman who pops out of the water to spook the riders!

Captain: he’s running a haunted boat ride with his crew and some seashore sailors! Captain is the boat driver, dressed as an old hag!

Silex: he’s dressed as Poseidon with nothing but a trident prop. Sue him, he hates clothes lol

While most of the festival is land locked, the venue is next to a small lake accessible from the underground waterfall chambers. Silex is a bit disappointed at the lack of activities for the hadal monsters but hey, this is better than last year

Pearl: she’s dressed as Ursula from little mermaid. Her friends insisted since her tentacles are perfect for the part!

Pearl is enjoying the smattering of shops near the lake shore, but really she’s spending most of the festival planning for next year. She’s gonna try to make next years big event at Portland

Stitches: he’s going crazy! This year stitches is toy Bonnie from five nights at Freddie’s! Kids are adoring the costume and many adults are cooing over it as well. He’s soaking up the attention like a sponge lol

Stitches is dragging tinker around as they’re matching of course! They’re mostly haunting the craft stalls and exploring the shops tonight

Tinker: he’s dressed as toy chica from five nights at Freddie’s. It’s not really his style but stitches insisted on matching tonight

He really didn’t want to come. Tinker was working on a new large commission, but he can never say no to stitches. He winds up having more fun than expected when he sees a stall selling crochet patterns as well as their creations

Thistle: this year he’s working the covens stand selling color changing potions. The coven is hoping to expand the business above ground, and the Halloween festival is the best place for it. Not wanting his face on display, thistle is wearing a clown mask and colorful costume to match

Yarrow: he’s dressed as slender man lol. Yarrow thinks his figure is perfect for the costume

he’s out and about giving out free samples from the potion stand! He’s in this sort of competition right now with a bird skeleton dressed as a caterpillar . Good times

Gears: he’s dressed as Pinocchio! Gears thinks the fake wooden joints are so fun!

Gears has been tailing peaches and rancher for most of the evening. He’s enjoying catching up with the two as they’re used to house him and compass before their father bought the garden shop! It’s like a family reunion!

Compass: he’s dressed as a tree. Yep, a tree. He has fake apples on his arms too lol

He’s been hanging with peaches and rancher for the evening! Compass missed his pseudo “cousins”. It’s hard visiting when one lives in the city after all

Peaches: he’s the giant peach from James and the giant peach. His whole family is disgusted with the obvious pun lol

Peaches is seriously regretting this costume. He’s waddling every where and knocking stuff over. At some point in the night he gives up and just makes rancher carry him around lol

Rancher: he’s dressed as a giant grizzly bear because bears are strong like him! Also it’s comfy and he ripped his wrestler costume from last year lol

Rancher feels like a pack mule this Halloween when he has to carry peaches, then gears insists on being carried cause the little diva was feeling neglected, then compass was invited so as to not leave him out.

Cider: of course the family is hosting a few bar stalls around the festival. Cider is working the one in the craft stalls. He’s dressed as a scarecrow to match.

Barley: poor barley is being forced to work this party away at one of the bar stalls his family is hosting. As a small act of rebellion, he’s dressed as a hooker this Halloween

Moose: he’s dressed as Oscar the trash man from Sesame Street this year lol. Moose is enjoying the costume

Moose is a kind friend who’s keeping cider company while he runs the bar. Of course the occasional free drink is a bonus too~

Maple: he’s working in the haunted mansion as the chainsaw guy chasing people at the end. Truthfully, he isn’t supposed to be there, but nobody bothered to check if he’s an employee or not lol

Ram: he was sweet enough to take a spot at rosemarys pie stall so peaches and rancher could enjoy the festival. Plus Ram is being paid overtime! He’s dressed as a granny to really sell the look lol

Pitch: he joined ram at the pie stall mostly so he can hide behind it and read lol. Pitch is dressed as a haunted priest with fake blood running down his eye sockets

Zen: no Halloween for this skeleton. Instead zen is at the temple performing the sacrificial ritual for a good fall harvest. They’re offering an assortment of apples and squash to lady magic this year

Shield: he’s dressed in his guard uniform as one of the security detail at the festival. However shield did get to spice things up by adding a cute witch hat on top of his helmet lol

Alden: Al is dressed as Bob Ross! The greatest painter of all time!

Al is taking pictures of everything at the festival it seems. He’s seeing inspiration everywhere of course. No doubt there will be another statue soon after!

Ollivander: Ollie is dressed as professor dumbledor from Harry Potter. But every one keeps calling him Gandalf. It’s quite annoying!

Ollie is with a reluctant saga and a HYPED UP hilda. The energetic sister is dragging around her friends everywhere. Thankfully she gets distracted by arwin and Ollie and saga are able to escape lol

Hilda: she’s working her awesome Spyro costume. It takes a color changing potion every hour though so she definitely won’t be repeating it next year. That craps expensive

Hilda wants to see EVERYTHING this year! She’s dragging Ollie and saga around to each attraction, but looses them by the haunted boat ride. That’s fine though cause she’s met arwin and he’s a real party animal!

Saga: she’s dressed elegantly as an ice queen for Halloween. Saga enjoys the color palate.

Saga wouldve rather stayed at the temple to witness the harvest sacrifice, but Hilda had been begging for years for saga to just go to one Halloween festival. She’s already regretting it lol. Every one here is so undignified

Barin: he’s dressed simply as a Viking for the evening. Barin is feeling a bit shy, so after hanging with arwin for a little bit, he sneaks away for a moment alone. The corn maze seems like a good choice… thankfully for every one stuck in there, when barin tries to leave, he accidentally breaks some sort of curse? He just thought it was a shoddily done rune on this scarecrow so he fixed it up

Arwin: he’s dressed as a sexy pirate! Complete with a fake parrot on his shoulder! Super fun!

Arwin is determined to party hard and make new friends! He’s delighted when he meets hilda. This Drake monster is crazy! They do the haunted boat ride together then shred it on the dance floor when the band comes on!

[echoes-lighthouse]

Echo and Toga: The Full Story

Okay, I did a poll for how I should share my selfship stories, and 'text post with illustrations' won the poll, so I'm doing a full four-section post for each of my f/os: Backstory, First Meeting, Getting Together, and Where We're At! They're written to be as understandable as possible for people unfamiliar with the source!

With that said, here's my selfship with Toga! Content warnings for backstory abuse, poly!League of Villains (which has some funky age gaps that aren't commented on here), and canon-typical blood drinking.

Chapter One: Backstories 

Toga and Echo both grew up in a world defined by Quirks: powers that manifest at the age of five or six, when children are usually in Kindergarten. 

Toga’s Quirk was Transform: by drinking someone’s blood, she could transform into them. This Quirk began as a fascination with blood, which disturbed her parents, and they instructed her to stop the behavior. She was obedient and played the dutiful daughter until the age of 15, at which point a classmate was injured around her, and she attacked him to drink his blood. Her parents were horrified and rejected her, at which point Toga left home and became a murderer. 

About a year later, she was recruited to the League of Villains, a group looking for more freedom for villains, and she quickly made personal connections within the team. She is obsessive about love, blood, and looking cute. 

Echo grew up in foster families, was adopted at 12, and their family moved to Japan when they were 14. They ran away the year afterwards, their home life intolerable for multiple reasons: mainly their adoptive father and brother, both of which used their fire quirks to punish Echo. They have a lasting distrust for fire quirk users. Echo’s Quirk is Cat’s Paw, which gives them the ability to transform into a small black and white cat, and also gives them better senses in their ‘human’ form. 

They’ve been on the streets for two years, bouncing in and out of different situations, but tend to spend most of their time as a street cat for the ease of hunting and passing unnoticed. 

Chapter Two: First Meeting 

Echo can’t keep their cat form while sleeping, so they’re always looking for new places to curl up. One day, they find a warehouse full of empty boxes and choose a spot to spend the night. They wake up to Himiko cooing over them, and try to run, but get caught by Dabi while in cat form. 

Turns out the warehouse was a League of Villains meeting location, and the League was a bit confused to find a naked girl sleeping on the floor. They take a few minutes to establish that Echo isn’t a hero agent, and then decide to bring them back to base: their Quirk could be useful, and they’re not keen to have a safehouse compromised. 

Echo ultimately agrees because the League promises them food. 

Once they’re in agreement, Himiko sweeps in and the two of them have an instant connection: a kindred spirit in form and temperament. Echo’s years of hunting have made them well-attuned to blood, and their matching yellow eyes make them look a bit like siblings, whereas they set them both apart from their original families. They’re already bonding on the trip back to base, and they’re besties by the time they get home. 

Chapter Three: Getting Together 

Himiko and Echo share an immediate obsession with each other. After years of unreciprocated affection, having someone who actually liked them back was addictive. While Echo is quite nervous about the other members of the League, that only makes them stick closer to Himiko. The two of them reluctantly split up for the first night, but by the next week, the two of them are sharing a bedroom, unwilling to part ways even for sleeping. 

Echo also gets along quickly with Mr. Compress and Magne. Twice, Spinner, Shigaraki, and Dabi take longer for them to warm up to. They’re nervous around Shigaraki for a long time, aware of his status as the leader and the decision-maker, and they’re very on-edge around Dabi, who is a fire quirk user.

Getting used to Shigaraki is just a matter of time, and eventually Echo and Dabi sit down and have a proper discussion about everything and they end up friends at the end of it, although Dabi will take a little longer to admit it. 

Himiko and Echo getting together basically slams the overall sexual tension in the League through the roof, and eventually everyone figures out their dynamics, with Dabi and Echo forming two different centers of the sexy side of the polycule.

Chapter Four: Where We’re At 

I don’t tend to move this selfship through the BNHA canon, but this selfship starts in the lull between the Forest Training Camp Arc and the Shie Haissaikai arc. I suppose my s/i would probably take part in the Shie Haissaikai part, and saves Magne somehow, but I don’t like doing Big Plots in this selfship, so I don’t want to take it any further than that. 

Anyways, we all live in an apartment together: Twice and Mr. Compress have their own places but spend most of their time with us. Having two people with a civilian persona is useful! The rest of us are kind of recognizable. 

I mostly stay home while the others do villainy stuff: Kurogiri and I work together a lot, but he’s more useful in the field than I am, so I take over a lot of the housework. I’m useful for reconnaissance but not really for fighting. 

When the others are home, we play video games and tease each other and do puzzles and watch TV, all the normal stuff. We do movie marathons and argue about dishes and send Twice out to get ice cream from the corner store at 2am. Me and Himiko are always touching, but the others can come join the cuddle pile. We spend the night in our own room, most times, unless I’m with someone else for the night and then I have to make it up to Toga with a fun date the next day!!! 

Me and Himiko go out clubbing and pick up creepy guys and stab them in alleyways. We order way too many clothes online and have dress up parties and then return them all. We have pillow fights and snowball fights and tickle fights. We joke about running an OnlyFans account for the League. We generally have a lot of fun together!!!!! Every day!! 

[ao3feed-tododeku]

Over the Roast

Over the roast by moonlightgoddess14

Shoto Todoroki is off to college finally but still being dragged to family dinners every week. His new roommate becomes a regular and the pining is endless.

Keigo loves playing match maker, Natsuo is an idiot, and Touya is ready to throw things if these two don't work out their feelings for each other.

Words: 6417, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Family Dinners bring people together

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Utsushimi Camie, Shiozaki Ibara, Toga Himiko

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Takami Keigo | Hawks/Todoroki Fuyumi, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Takami Keigo | Hawks, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Todoroki Fuyumi & Todoroki Natsuo & Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Natsuo/Utsushimi Camie, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Toga Himiko

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Quirks, Pining, Family, Mutual Pining, Falling In Love, Protective Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks is a Little Shit, Todoroki Shouto is Bad at Feelings, Midoriya Izuku is Bad at Feelings, Roommates, Chef Touya, Teacher Todoroki Fuyumi, Medical Student Todoroki Natsuo, Actor Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44485219

[ao3feed-todoroki]

Over the Roast

Over the roast by moonlightgoddess14

Shoto Todoroki is off to college finally but still being dragged to family dinners every week. His new roommate becomes a regular and the pining is endless.

Keigo loves playing match maker, Natsuo is an idiot, and Touya is ready to throw things if these two don't work out their feelings for each other.

Words: 6417, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Family Dinners bring people together

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Utsushimi Camie, Shiozaki Ibara, Toga Himiko

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Takami Keigo | Hawks/Todoroki Fuyumi, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Takami Keigo | Hawks, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Todoroki Fuyumi & Todoroki Natsuo & Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Natsuo/Utsushimi Camie, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Toga Himiko

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Quirks, Pining, Family, Mutual Pining, Falling In Love, Protective Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks is a Little Shit, Todoroki Shouto is Bad at Feelings, Midoriya Izuku is Bad at Feelings, Roommates, Chef Touya, Teacher Todoroki Fuyumi, Medical Student Todoroki Natsuo, Actor Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44485219

[ao3feed-hawks]

Over the Roast

Over the roast by moonlightgoddess14

Shoto Todoroki is off to college finally but still being dragged to family dinners every week. His new roommate becomes a regular and the pining is endless.

Keigo loves playing match maker, Natsuo is an idiot, and Touya is ready to throw things if these two don't work out their feelings for each other.

Words: 6417, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Family Dinners bring people together

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Utsushimi Camie, Shiozaki Ibara, Toga Himiko

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Takami Keigo | Hawks/Todoroki Fuyumi, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Takami Keigo | Hawks, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Todoroki Fuyumi & Todoroki Natsuo & Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Natsuo/Utsushimi Camie, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Toga Himiko

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Quirks, Pining, Family, Mutual Pining, Falling In Love, Protective Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks is a Little Shit, Todoroki Shouto is Bad at Feelings, Midoriya Izuku is Bad at Feelings, Roommates, Chef Touya, Teacher Todoroki Fuyumi, Medical Student Todoroki Natsuo, Actor Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44485219

[ladysunamireads]

Over the Roast

Over the roast by moonlightgoddess14

Shoto Todoroki is off to college finally but still being dragged to family dinners every week. His new roommate becomes a regular and the pining is endless.

Keigo loves playing match maker, Natsuo is an idiot, and Touya is ready to throw things if these two don't work out their feelings for each other.

Words: 6417, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Family Dinners bring people together

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shouto, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Todoroki Fuyumi, Todoroki Natsuo, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Utsushimi Camie, Shiozaki Ibara, Toga Himiko

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto, Takami Keigo | Hawks/Todoroki Fuyumi, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Takami Keigo | Hawks, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Todoroki Fuyumi & Todoroki Natsuo & Todoroki Shouto, Todoroki Natsuo/Utsushimi Camie, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Toga Himiko

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - No Quirks, Pining, Family, Mutual Pining, Falling In Love, Protective Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks is a Little Shit, Todoroki Shouto is Bad at Feelings, Midoriya Izuku is Bad at Feelings, Roommates, Chef Touya, Teacher Todoroki Fuyumi, Medical Student Todoroki Natsuo, Actor Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44485219

[pagankingfinn]

The co owner, @spoon-gremlin, made a list of characters in the Hamilton au.

King George the third = Toga

Peggy Schuyler = Ojirou

Lafayette = Momo

Laurens = Shinsou

Angelica = Midoriya

Hamilton = Todoroki

That one farmer fuck = Mineta

Phillip Hamilton = Koda

Burr = Monoma

Madison = Asui

Jefferson = Iida

Mulligan = Mina

Washington = Aizawa

Eliza = Inasa

Burr’s daughter = Eri

Charles lee = Bakugou

John Adams = AFO

Scribe = Twice

Philip Hamilton = Kurogiri

Maria = Mange

Bastard related to Maria = Shigaraki

Some dood we added because what if Peggy faked her death to run off with her true love = Hagakure

Person with Burr when he shoots Hamilton = Kendou

Doctor with Hamilton when he gets shot = Recovery Girl

Fuck ass that shoots Philip Hamilton = Muscular

Person Angelica is briefly married to = Tokoyami (I'm so sorry my boy-)

A dood that we added bc why not who marries Tokoyami after he and Izuku split = Shouji

- Midoriya literally just ends up playing match maker for everyone

- no like seriously

- He introduced Todoroki to Inasa

- Ojirou to Hagakure

- Tokoyami to Shouji

- Mina and Momo at his brothers wedding

- Monoma to his husband/wife

- Eri to Koda

- Like it's just a mess

- It's pretty much Midoriya in the background getting people together and then sobbing internally because all his attempts at romantic relationships backfire

[togachipblog]

The Tin Man

Talk about shattering your childhood heroes, I recently woke up to learn that the Tin Man was arrested for drunken driving.  See the article at the following link: 

 http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/tin-man-arrested-for-drunken-driving/BxCEGdRKHSpoviKWQDuiMN/

For many years, potato chips were sold in tin containers that required that customers pay a deposit that was returned when the tin was returned.  One of the major manufacturers of tins used to sell potato chips was Heekin Can Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.    The company was founded in 1901 by James Heekin and became a famous maker of metal containers.  Read about the company's history at 

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/heekin-can-inc-history/ and http://wikivisually.com/wiki/Heekin_Can.   

Among the very interesting events:

In 1863 (during the Civil War) James Heekin accepted $300 in exchange for listing in the Union Army in another man's place.

Heekin started as a coffee dealer and expanded to sell tea, spice, baking powder and extracts.  

He had fifteen children.  

After his supplier of tins increased its prices, Heekin began producing his own tins.  

Heekin died just three years after starting his company and his son, also named James, took over.

The son introduced lithography to decorate the tins and introduced the open-top-cylinder "sanitary" cans.

Over the years, several different members of the family headed the company and the company expanded building various manufacturing plants.

A heavy research budget lead to technological innovations that gave Heekin a competitive advantage.

In 1965, Heekin was acquired by Diamond International Corp. which manufactured matches.  

Famous British takeover artist Sir James Goldsmith made a leveraged buyout of Diamond International and sold Heekin to pay off the debt.  

Former US Treasury Secretary William E. Simon lead a group of private investors to acquire Heekin using Heekin's own assets to pay for the majority of the purchase.  

See the ads from the September 1949, January 1951 and May 1953 editions of the Potato Chipper. 

Tins were replaced with disposable cardboard (no deposit) containers and then bags. for a couple of reasons.  The price of tin increased over the years and the empty tins took up a lot of space in the delivery trucks.   Click here to see a photo of the Heekin Can Company Picnic Bucket courtesy of the Shiloh Museum. 

https://www.shilohmuseum.org/collections/heekin_picnic_bucket.php

See the two photos of a decorated round metal tray measuring 12” in diameter.

Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the company's founding.  The tray is part of the collection of the Minnetrista Museum in Muncie, IN.  

Their web-site is http://www.minnetrista.net/.

The Heekin Can Company was located at the northwest corner of 6th and Culvert Streets from its inception in 1901 until it moved to Norwood in 1917. See the photo of the original plant that was taken on March 16, 1916.  The second photo shows a Heekin Company Float at a 1923 Fall Festival and was taken on August 24, 1923.   Both photos are courtesy of the Cincinnati Museum Center.

See the want ad from the September 29, 1954 Cincinnati Enquirer.  

Ball Corporation, the maker of mason jars, acquired Heekin in 1992.  See the company's history from the article in 1993 by Ball Corporation as well as the UPI article on the acquisition of Heekin by Ball at the attached link.  http://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/12/02/Ball-agrees-to-acquire-Heekin/1759723272400/  

Of interest is the fact that the “Heekin Syndicate” played an early role in Ball locating to Muncie in the 1880’s.  Notes in the catalog record for the above described tray indicate that Heekin was considering a move to Muncie (where Heekin owned land and gas wells) but that did not happen and the company sold their land holdings to the city of Muncie for use as a public park which still exists today just west of the Ball company property.  See the file. 

On a personal note, the Ball mason jar has special significance to me.   We used it to name our boat.  Instead of a name, we have a logo with the letter "A" on a Ball jar.  It stands for AJAR which is a combination of the first letters of the names of my daughter (Alexandra), wife (Jessica), me (Alan) and our last name (Richer).  Ball has a long time operation in Saratoga Springs and we use the boat on Saratoga Lake.  See the photo of the boat name insignia.  

Special thanks to  Scott McCarty of Ball Corporation; Susan M. Smith,  Archivist and Delaware County Historian at the Minnetrista Museum in Muncie, IN,  Amanda Lacher and Jessica Hicks at the Genealogy and Local History Department in The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; and Richard Mentzer, a retired chipper. Enjoy the Tin Man's song and dance from the Wizard of Oz.

Finally, enjoy America's Tin Man: 

The Toga Chip Guy

www.togachipguy.com