#unlike damara

[verminvamp]

HorusS RufioH anD AraneA foR mY aU ^,..,^

AlsO somE alternatE outfitZ foR somE oF theM ^,..,^

[davekat-sucks]

Oh my god. How the hell did CroTuna end up on the same level as VrisTav. One is a genocidal eugenicist rapist incestuous pedophile abuser, shipped with his abuse victim.

Anon, even though I agree with you that it's ridiculous that the final is these two ships (Meenvris or gamrezi should have been there) I'm going to have to disagree with you. You're giving way too much credit to Cronus, first of all. Talk about HIC or Mindfang or Scratch who are all those things and actual characters. Second, do you want to know who Mituna is an actual victim of? Kurloz. He was the one that disabled him in the first place, Cronus is pathetic and Mituna even makes fun of him, doesn't take him seriously and calls him "bro".

The other is not even comparable. Vriska is pretty fucked up, but nothing like Cronus. Cronus wishes he could be cruel—he WANTS to be able to kill disabled people and those he considers below him, even though he knows it's wrong.

Stop adopting other people's headcanons as your own please. I'm so fucking tired, form your own opinion instead of repeating another post like a parrot. Cronus hasn't actually even crippled or killed someone on screen unlike Vriska, because he's not a fucking character. He doesn't matter.

Vriska was forced into it. She never wanted that. Yeah, sure, they're both abuse. But holy shit, I swear people just fucking hate women. There's no way a male Vriska would get the same kind of ranking with VrisTav as it has here. Good lord, ugh.

Some other anon already explained Tavros, Vriska wasn't forced to disable Terezi or mindcontrol Sollux to kill Aradia, she did that on her own. Not taking women accountable of their mistakes just because of their gender is sexism. Kurloz is a "male Vriska", he crippled Meulin and Mituna and manipulated both and has actually also said genocidal statements yet nobody talks about him. You people make such a big deal out of crotuna that you ignored the actual "male Vriska" yourselves. And yet here you are complaining that Crotuna is in the finals still.

And before you say anything, no anon, I don't give a shit about Cronus and yes he's worse than Vriska, but only because he's a one dimensional tertiary character that doesn't. fucking. matter.

Cronus and Mituna are probably the most unimportant dancestors within the useless dancestors. At least you got shit like Meulin being mind controlled by Kurloz, Horuss x Rufioh x Damara having their love triangle drama, & Latula, Kankri, and Porrim are on their own delusions for the living trolls to see and reflect on who they are (Kanaya, Terezi, and Karkat). But there is absolutely nothing for Cronus and Mituna. Even if Mituna would be Latula's girlfriend, there is nothing much deep about their relationship besides being a mirror to how close Sollux and Terezi were as friends. Even then, that side is barely explored as Sollux almost never sees Terezi by Act 6.

[derseprinceoftbd]

Rewriting the Alpha Captor.

https://www.tumblr.com/derseprinceoftbd/747652362263527424/the-alpha-troll-rewrite-project?source=share

Damara

Rufioh

Mituna is...

Difficult. Much like Damara, he doesn't exactly speak coherently, or have much pleasant to say. He's also a character defined, nay, completely reshaped by trauma; the closest Trollian equivalent in my mind is Ghost Aradia. Mituna needs a big overhaul; like Dams, he has a cool design, a cool name, but not much else. Let's see what we can take from Sollux and the Helmsman and extrapolate into something else.

Mituna Captor is a cadet in the Beforan Psionic Core, and the Page of Doom. He experiences mood swings even more than Sollux, oscillating between a confident high-energy sardonic side and a deeply apologetic depressed one, reflecting the most dualist Class, Page, and its partiularly stark conception of an "unevolved" and "evolved" version of a Player.

His Lusus is a hornet, and he (compreses double leters into one). He leans into yellow-and-black aesthetics, just as Sollux did with red and blue. He's practically blind without his bifocals, and, like his Ancestor, the Cybernet, tends to regard the elder Captor's creation of the internet as a deeply regrettable mistake.

Mituna is deeply frustrated with his societal role; while there are no strict blood hierarchies on Beforus, those born with his/Damara's brand of psionics are under quite a lot of pressure to use their abilities in certain societally permitted ways, such as his already having been funneled into a literal pilot program. (He frequently comes into conflict, potentially of a Pitch variety, with Darmen, who believes him to be a waste of a destiny of flight.)

Mituna's real desire is to join the ranks of Law Enforcement, a fitting occupation for a Doom Player, along with Matesprit Latula; he has studied extensively for the job, though when depressed, admits it unlikely he would ever make the cut. (This is inspired by the old Troll Cops Fanon.)

His Land is the technological dystopia LOPAO, Land Of Punk And Order, and his Chumhandle is tumultArrested.

Wednesday: Kankri.

[hermitknut]

This has been more or less copied over from whatsapp, so hopefully it's still clear, but I've been thinking a lot about a Certain Musician and what he might write next.

I've also been obsessed with Hadestown...

[small caveat: I've recently read Till Human Voices Wake Us, and of course the Orpheus myth actually turns up there, but I'm electing to ignore it entirely here because I came up with this before I read that so]

OKAY SO. Post-Jubilee, retirement house. Fitzroy has been Writing, but unlike with the erotica this one he's been keeping to himself. It's been, like four months, and he's been absolutely Obsessed with this project but no one knows quite what it is. Some of the RC are around, everyone knows he's writing, but he's gotten all squirrely about it.

They've got some RC and some of Kip's family over for dinner one night, and it's desert. Fitzroy presents a particular desert to Vinyë, and says half-jokingly that's it's by way of a bribe - he's written something new (cue everyone else immediately tuning in to listen), and it's not just for harp and voice - he's reached a stage where he needs to hear it played, and Vinyë knows a lot of instrumentalists…

After some intriguing discussion, she says she'd be delighted to round up some musicians to play if he'll give her a list of what he needs; Kip gets roped in to help copy the music out in the meantime, and a run-through is going to happen at the house with the aid of a big wall of silence and someone to bring a piano XD

Over the next few weeks before the run through, Fitzroy keeps things fairly quiet still; but at some point someone asks him if he'll say anything about it, and he says it's like an opera but not in opera style; it's a sung play (musical to us, but I don't think I've seen them discussed in the canon and I'm not counting Ysthar haha)

when nudged a little more he also says that it's a tragedy

"Everything that happened… everything has ended well for us. But it so nearly didn't. And I think I… I needed to write that."

What he's written is Hadestown (allowing for some tweaks to make it fit the worldbuilding, ofc, but there's not that much to change), and it's breathtaking

Just, the idea of Fitzroy writing Hadestown is so delicious to me, because everyone's having these conversations about which character is him and which is Kip and what it means - and really all the characters are Fitzroy, at different stages and in different states, ways he wishes to be and ways he's afraid of being…

Of course it makes a huge splash - he occasionally appears, randomly, to take the part of Hermes (which he sung at the first run-through) in productions, and sgdhsgsfs

It's sung-through, Hadestown, which feels appropriate, and most of it is in couplets or other simple rhyming patterns, which also feels right for Fitzroy. I also like the idea of him writing something with multiple instruments/voices post-retirement because part of healing for him might be writing from the fullness of his experience - from Artorin Damara's life as well as Fitzroy's.

I've been hodging the deities/mythology involved by having it, in-universe, be purely Fitzroy's invention but riffing on common motifs in different parts of Zunidh mythology, so there are still some cultural touchpoints.

[mediterraneanmenace]

Pairing: Raphael x Raksha (OC, not Tav/Durge) I consider Tav a separate character with their specific story elements - Raksha never gets abducted by the Mind Flayers, nor she ever gets a tadpole. Her home is also not Baldur's Gate but the city of Helgabal, in the kingdom of Damara! :)

Warnings: 18+ for sexual themes (in later chapters), age gap (Raphael is like... *several* centuries older, if not millennia), slow burn.

Summary: Eleven years before the events of Baldur's Gate 3, Raphael's attentions for a young, ambitious tiefling turn into something deep enough for him to want her as his bride. There's only one problem - Raksha slays infernal beings for a living. (This is pretty much an experiment feat. a Raphael more in touch with his human feelings)

"Perfume lingers about your flesh Like incense about a censer; You charm like the evening, Tenebrous, passionate nymph

Ah! the most potent philtres Are weaker than your languor, And you know the caresses That make the dead live again!

You tear me open, dark beauty, With derisive laughter, And then look at my heart With eyes as soft as moonlight"

[Les Fleurs du Mal — Charles Baudelaire]

[24 Ches, 1481 DR]

Raphael's mind was so inconveniently clouded by that mortal; a tiefling whose veins bore Archdevil Baalzebul's blood - his father's greatest and most hated rival.

Four long years he'd been watching, stalking her since she started her rise to Paladin Captain at nineteen until now, at twenty-three. At first, the Cambion didn't give much weight to her androgynous visage appearing in his dreams; not until he found himself fantasizing more and more about his hand lost in the sea of her inky black hair, with her muscular arms around his neck...

If Mephistopheles' ambition to oust Asmodeus mirrored his own, Raksha's rapid promotion wasn't too different from Baalzebul's rise as the Master of the Nine Hells' favorite - but unlike his father, Raphael saw that as something worthy of praise rather than enmity.

Fate was not without irony for the man who adopted and raised Raksha was the head of an extremist sect of the cult of Ilmater, the "Martyred Father" - the young tiefling's zealotry was one of the main reasons she managed to climb the ranks so fast: her dedication to purge the world from vice and sin brought her to the deepest pits of Avernus to fight against evil in its home.

But that didn't deter Raphael from wanting Raksha for himself, even if he was everything she fought against: she was the forbidden fruit, the sweetest he would ever taste.

He would stay in the mirror room at the House of Hope for hours, scrying the tiefling go about her life, without knowing he even existed if not for some fleeting glances whenever he visited the court of the Lord she served, the cathedral she lived at or the training grounds his beloved Paladin would train at along with her companions.

Raksha would look at him and ignore his presence as yet another curious, random person wanting to see the famous Holy Vengeance, whose sword slayed countless fiends from the Hells. Korrilla, sick of seeing the pathetic state of longing her boss was in, decided to prod him into doing something.

"Just go talk to her. You had a thousand mistresses" - the Warlock thought for a split second to her sister - "This... Raksha can't be too different from all the others, no?" "You are right, many were the lovers to entertain me in my boudoir"

Raphael's thoughtful eyes fixated on Raksha's reflection in the Scrying Eye and an almost paternal smile appeared on his lips: she was practicing the speech for her nomination as Holy Inquisitor that would have taken place that very night. He knew she wouldn't have stopped until it was perfect. A formal, high society event that would culminate in a ball was the crowning moment of a lifetime of sacrifices for her.

"But she's... Something I rarely met in all these centuries. A kindred spirit"

Korrilla didn't have a hard time figuring out why: personality wise, Raksha was incredibly similar to her master's younger self with her pompous, brash attitude - a pride not unwarranted, given her accomplishments.

"I guess it makes sense" the Warlock thought, shrugging. After all, that was the same man who would fuck an Incubus glamoured to look exactly like him so falling in love for someone who had a brain similar to his wasn't too far off.

"I'll have to ask you to keep an eye on the House for me tonight, Korrilla" - Raphael ran his hand through his hair in a nervous gesture - "I have a ball to attend to"

[jjwho]

Advice on your situation. Oracle cards

Pile 1. Pile 2.

Pile 3.

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Pile1

Your cards are

Mawu

Mother Earth

"You are called upon to help with environmentalism."

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Freedom

"You are free to do what you choose to."

So what im feeling and getting is that I feel like you're a very soft person who likes to take care of things and I feel like you might have a soft voice or don't speak up often. Now with these cards I feel like you want to do something that involves taking care if your environment or getting into a better environment or healthier one for you, but I feel like you're stuck or being pushed not to but remember that this is your life and your problems that you can choose what to do with them.

Don't let other people make your decisions for you. What other people say doesn't matter, cause in the end those people might not make it through so long into your life. So make choices based on your feelings and what feels right for you, not what benefits others or whatever.

Love you my pile 1s, hope these advice cards do help you byeeee.

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Pile 2 so here are your cardssss

Cordelia

Go outside

"You have been indoors way too long. Go outside and get some fresh air."

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Counselling

"You heal with kind words, wise advice, and emphatic ears."

Okay so what im getting I'd that you've been in a situation for too long staying with the wrong people or place you think is called home or who thought was you "home", but you've cone to realize they're not that good.

So you should leave this place a little or when if you want to stay with them do it, but you go out and get more options. The more there is the better and you'll see what's better for you. So I'm getting the people you should be around or place you should be around is somewhere where they are kind and have wise advice that can help you. Don't be scared pile 2. You'll be happy with your decision in the end if you let yourself go out.

Okay bye pile 22222222

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So these are your cardsss

Damara

Guiding Children

"You are good at helping, counseling, and healing children. Use your skills to help children now."

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School

"The answer you're seeking involves going to school."

So I feel like you're really greate with kids and I feel like your situation might be with helping someone younger than you that might go to school or you getting a internship at a school and something about helping kids at school.

Maybe a kid is getting bullied at school or has problems at home. I feel like you want to help them but somethings holding you back. I say do it bro. Lots of kids need help and you're good with kids unlike most people, if you're trying to find an environment to do it go to a kindergarten school or something.

But all I say is help dem kids

Okay bye pile 3333

I hope everyone enjoyed there reading byeeee.

[novumtimes]

Mzansis first slow overnight hiking trail unveiled

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[meunin]

meulins sort of interesting to me because she's a non-purple blooded non-religious coded religious troll. and by non religious coded i mean, unlike porrim and kankri who i'd argue are religious-coded but not religious themselves, meulin has very little connection to the disciple at all because of kurloz. she was quite literally yanked away from her rightful group and into a whole different religion, one that isn't even exactly like..... open to other bloods? i think thats super interesting. i also think thats why meenah says her sympathies have been "swayed" towards kurloz's religion specifically because she can't exactly BE a juggalo, she's an oliveblood, but she's as close to being a member as someone can be without being purple.

the interesting part for me though is that religion is, essentially, divided into two sections on beforus and alternia. those who are the leaders (signless, kankri, karkat, lowbloods in general like the captors and nitrams) and those who follow (ghb, kurloz, damara, handmaid, dualscar, cronus, serkets) and obviously that isn't treated as religion on alternia because alternia is somewhat of a pseudo-areligious state with the exclusion of purples, which are more akin to a cult than an actual official religion like christianity. and if that isn't the fucking truth man poor underpriveleged people make religion and uppercrust fuckingfeeds off of it. anyways meulin is one of the first trolls i can think of who is inarguably "religious" in some way that isn't immediately connected to the signless, which i don't really regard as a religion but a "religion coded myth" as theres no worshiping practices towards the signless. he's more like a revolutionary myth than a jesus figure. no offense to jesus

i need to figure out what thats like for her. idk its just interesting

[scootzzz]

Not to homestuck post in 2023 but it really is insane how hard it fell off a cliff after act 5. Act 6 sucks so much ass I keep finding new things to hate about it.

All these plot lines tied up perfectly only to ditch the mechanics of the premise to instead focus on giving every character the worst arc possible.

All the characters people cared about doing absolutely nothing while being miserable and completely irrelevant so that we can focus on new characters who are bland or unlikable (except maybe roxy and Callie), most of whom are straight up caricatures (including the literal racist caricature Damara).

And then after watching these dogshit character arcs and story happen it’s all undone anyway so it doesn’t even matter. Most of the story doesn’t matter and all the good characters spent years in time prison for nothing. Especially vriska who ended up having no character development at all and everything interesting thing about her was erased. One of the most popular characters!

And then after the retcon the story is still unsatisfying 😭 tbf I’m not even sure how it could have been saved at that point.

Not that the comic was clean before but this is also when Hussie’s racism really became apparent between Damara, HIC, and the whole Caucasian thing.

And then the epilogues… how did they get published because whoever betad those should have killed him on the spot

[gallantblade]

I can't help but wonder if Hussie is stuck in a bizarre arms race with herself where HS readers are so used to humanizing super abrasive characters that she has to resort to more and more extreme lengths when she wants to introduce a character who's genuinely unlikable. And sometimes that gets us Caliborn and Cronus, and sometimes that gets us Mituna and Damara :/

I was hoping Damara wouldn't be as bad as I'd heard but no the way she's written is terrible. If her dialogue was just aggressively sexual or just strange google translate it wouldn't be too distasteful to read, but the combination is... Blegh.

[davekat-sucks]

balkan-with-no-pickles: thing is, rufioh did deserve it. he not only cheated on damara, but he is also a mysoginist and even flirted with aradiabot, adding him to the list of dancestors who have made advances on a minor.

See this is exactly what I was talking about. Brain rotted by tumblr.

How is he mysoginistic? Because he calls women doll? dante basco calls women doll in real life too, is he mysoginistic? And if you say it's because of the way he talks about Damara after she killed his lusus and paralyzed him, he talks shit about Horuss the same way too, so does Meenah. Do you think Meenah is mysoginistic?

And he flirted with Aradiabot AFTER he was paralyzed, i'm talking about the people that say that he deserved to be crippled and have his head cut off and put on a robot horse body "or even worse" AT 13 FUCKING YEARS OLD for being a godawful boyfriend and friend to Damara. What he deserved was social ostracization, a breakup, or to have someone tell him to grow the fuck up and never date again until he realizes what a fucking shithead he was or he apologized to Damara, not what he went through. Because like it or not, in real life cheating and violating someone's trust is not a crime, CRIPPLING SOMEONE IS. IT'S CALLED ASSAULT. And what YOU are doing by endorsing that is called "incitement to violence". Look that shit up. And even thought you care so much about """"minors"""" (fictional), you're actually endorsing harm to a minor too (fictional).

So no dude, get the fuck out of here. Nobody deserves to be paralyzed so they become quadriplegic, are you fucking crazy. I wouldn't say that Meenah or Cronus deserve such a fate either. Much less a 13 year old boy that was immature and had no business dating in the first place. But if you still disagree with me and want to be consistent with your own shitty unethical values, tell me that ROSE deserved to be paralyzed by Kanaya too, because unlike Rufioh she was A GODDAMN MARRIED ADULT that KNEW FULLY WELL WHAT SHE WAS DOING and cheated on her wife and even had a child with someone else. And if you don't? Guess what, you're a hypocrite.

Stop reading garbage analysis posts and start reading what the fuck you are posting instead. Or touch grass, same thing.

Nobody deserves to be paralyzed, just called out for trying to flirt with someone 3 years younger than him. It's kind of funny and fucked up thinking that Rufioh, even after he was paralyzed for cheating on Damara, would have the shameglobes to continue flirting. Especially one that is her descendant. He must be really brave or retarded to continue doing like this without fear of death or worse. The Dancestors in general are full of awful people. They are if their session was fucked up that they had to perform the Scratch and the trolls we know were created to fix their mess. Some may be worse than others, but in the end, each one has a major flaw they couldn't fix on their own even after death.

@balkan-with-no-pickles

[classpect-navelgazing]

WITCH: "Sponsored by their aspect"

Includes: Jade, Feferi, Damara, Granda English, the Handmaid

Here is the ultimate test of the Witch: has your aspect ever tried to kill you?

Witches are incredibly potent. They can see their aspect everywhere around them, can draw it in, can touch the entire range of its domain. A witch is cloaked in their aspect.

But here is the caveat. Unlike Heirs and Maids and some others who sort of reach inside and unearth their aspect, Witches stand solidly separate from theirs. It is similar to the relationship between a sponsor and a warlock, and for the mastery of their aspect, they are gonna pay. Arguably a Witch has a quietly antagonistic relationship with their aspect. The rules of the universe are immutable to Jade and lead to her isolation and trauma. Damara is lousy with Time and her long, long, long life is horrific. Feferi's position as royalty has her marked for death from the moment she's hatched and its arguably what leads to her death.

A Witch gets all the power and all the cost to use it. They are casting from HP all the time. But the spells are so fucking useful! And even if they try to sit on their hands and try not to use them, the aspect is not kinder. It will not spare them, there is no Denying the Call. What Witches need, more than anything, is support. After all, they're the high-damage DPS!

The Witch's greatest strength is resilience, as they are just better at struggling through to the other side after so much practice.

The Witch's greatest weakness is trouble forging meaningful connections because they believe knowing them must surely be a burden. Knock that off!

[autisticsupervillain]

Alpha Polytrolls

Unlike its beta equivalent, there are no sexuality conflicts here. Everyone is dating everyone. No exceptions.

It took Kankri far too long to realize this meant he wasn't celibate anymore.

Latula was the one who got the idea to help Damara and Rufioh make up, even dragging everyone else into helping her stage an intervention. She'll be damned if any of her partners aren't getting along.

Meulin is constantly smug about all her otps being canon. She's the best shipper in the world and she knows it.

Whenever Kankri gets on a roll, his current partner cuts him off with a kiss. He blushes snd keeps trying to stammer out a rebuttal, but that just gets him more kisses. Pretty soon, his bright red and trying to disappear into his sweater to avoid looking his smug partner in the eye.

Kurloz's powers allow him to spend time with any and all of his partners at any time. He might not physically be there, but with psychic powers, he might as well be.

Cronus still hits on everyone like a sleazy pick up artist, despite the fact they're already dating. It's just tradition at this point.

Meenah aggressively spoils all of her partners. No one is going to date her and not have a massive castle made mostly of gold.

Mituna kicks everyone's ass in video games and will bring this up every time he wants to rib one of his partners.

No, they don't know what quadrants they're in, put your hand down.

Kurloz sometimes leaves the hive without facepaint on, solely to see how long it takes for his partners to start blushing like mad. Porrim usually lasts the longest, natural flirt that she is.

Aranea will happily pay you to listen to her talk about everyone's dating history.

The only time Horus swore was when he first saw Kurloz without face paint. Now everyone's competing to get him to say "hot damn" again.

No one gets her partners to blush faster than Porrim. No one.

Kurloz habitually distracts his partners with certain thoughts while they're trying to do something else. It's how he sometimes manages to beat Mituna at video games.

They all share clothes so often they sometimes forget what belongs to who.

"Kankri, babe, I love you, but shut the fuck up."

Everyone now knows sign language and Japanise. They didn't want exclude Meulin and Damara wanted everyone to know exactly what she was saying.

They all share a bed. Kurloz was the last one to join them, as Meulin had to talk him into it. They find it difficult to sleep without at least two partners at their sides.

[taintedpompom]

Rose grumbled, touching her lips gingerly. They were already feeling a tad... pricklish from the heat running through the shepherds pie. "Kanaya." Rose said slowly to indicate she was NOT WHINING. "Shepard's pie is not a spicy dish in the first place, I do not think your peppercorns were necessary."

Rose took a deep breath, feeling Kanaya's fingers trail down her. "Fine. I'll survive. Somehow." ~~~~ After a bus ride that was both empty and somehow crowded (Due to Rose insisting on sitting next to Kanaya) our heroes arrive in the Big City, well the Big Town. But more importantly, the big spa.

The spa did not bother with gaudy signage, the entire entrance was a sign, the brickwork of the street interrupted by golden columns that formed a chinese temple gate. Which was probably uncouth considering that Damara Megido, the masseuse and owner, was Japanese, however Damara didn't think any of the dumb white people in Idaho would notice. Some did but the anime saturated nerdettes who tried to comment on it were too busy sweating and stammering and staring at her rack to ever call the lady out in public.

If hostile architecture was a person, Damara Megido would have probably bullied it in highschool. The woman carefully walked along the paradoxial edge of being flawless physically yet psychically repulsive, every sharp edge of her, from her jewelery to her sneer to the mole on her face, told people to stay away.

Though they came anyway because the town, and the universe, had a special love for disappointing Damara Megido.

"Welcome to Spa Rousse, where our service is fit for a empress." Damara said, pulling her earbuds out her ear as she frowned. "Oh. Rose. How lovely to see you." She said in a joyless monotone. Unlike most things she said Damara actually meant it. She did like Rose's company, and their ability's to share barbs at each other and every other woman in town. However disuse had drained Damara's voice of any means to express happiness or sincerity.

All the better frankly.

Magic Fingers

@galactophorousaeolistic Rose walked out of the shower, her lilac bathrobe around her hips. She got the gift on her highschool graduation but months in and it already was getting tight around her hips...

Maybe Rose was getting fat? Her diet didnt seem too extreme, alas her buttons still strained to burst. She'd simply have to redouble her exercises later, 4 hours were clearly insufficent she could do bigger better. Tomorrows problem though.

Rose unhooked her rope belt, letting the soggy garb slip from her shoulders. Immediately a small, lithe though perky hipped Nepeta rushed over, peeling the robe from Rose and rushing over to the hamper, meanwhile Rose opened her locker, flipping through numerous outfits (the Coach would not tolerate her students having merely one outfit in the gym, indeed her locker was nore a entire closet) to select the appropiate... ah perfect.

Reaching passed numerous replacement outfits, till she picked a sporty black top that showcased most of her growing abdominals and a pair of jeans that mostly covered her. Well mostly mostly. They extended two inches below the swell of her hips but it was important that her aching thighs didnt have to deal with anything constraining. Plus thats more massage space. Kanaya will approve of the foresight.

Rose pulled the top town, the emerald green graphic twisting around her slight bossom, puckering the lips emblazoned on the top. Then, with only the assistence of two of the meddlesome classmates, the jeans slid all the way up. And, thanks to a brilliant suggestion from her child hood friend, the belt obstacle was entirely avoided in favor of bright pink suspenders. And perfect! As usual.

Rose walked out the lockerroom the elastics of the suspender making the spring in her step extra bouncy as she headed to the foyer where Kanaya was doubtlessly waiting.

[the-meat-machine]

Hey, Dirk and/or Ult!Dirk for the character ask, please! I'm curious about how you think they diverge (or not at all) from Bro :3c

I love this question, thank you!

Dirk

Sexuality Headcanon: Exclusively attracted to men. He prefers not to be labeled and isn't particularly comfortable with calling himself "gay", but he wouldn't reject the label as violently as Bro would. Kinky as all hell, but unlike Bro I never headcanon him as having an exclusive puppet fetish.

Gender Headcanon: Male. Another of the most masc characters in the comic, though his version of masculinity is markedly less toxic than Bro's. Again, I generally headcanon him as cis, though I appreciate trans headcanons as well.

A ship I have with said character: Dirk <3< any of his other splinters (though for Dirk/Hal there's some pale mixed in there too). Dirkuu. Dirk/Alpha Dave. Dirk/Dave. Dirk/Dave/Karkat. Dirkquius. I could keep going all day. I will happily ship Dirk with almost any dude.

A BROTP I have with said character: Yeah, so, remember how I said I ship Bro<>Handmaid? I also love Dirk<>Damara. I think they could get along terrifyingly well.

A NOTP I have with said character: I'm not a huge fan of Dirk<3Jake. (Specifying <3 because I do like the pairing with more of a blackrom feel.)

A random headcanon: Dirk never got used to eating "real" food and even years after the game mostly lives on sashimi, instant noodles, and flat orange soda.

General Opinion over said character: Your honor, I love him.

Ultimate Dirk

Sexuality Headcanon: Exclusively attracted to men. Still wouldn't call himself "gay" but might potentially call himself a "faggot" purely for the shock value.

Gender Headcanon: Male. Extremely masc. Deliberately invokes toxic masculinity to make himself into a more hateable villain. Deliberately adopts traits from Bro, specifically, whom he sees as having the callous attitude he's going to need in order to play the bad guy.

A ship I have with said character: John. What Ult Dirk really needs is someone who 1) is willing to call him out on his bullshit, and 2) is deeply unimpressed with him. John fits the bill. But I also adore Ult Dirk's obsessions with Jake and Dave... god, Ult Dirk is so good for some really unhealthy, obsessive relationships.

A BROTP I have with said character: Terezi. See again: Ult Dirk needs people around who will call him on his shit.

A NOTP I have with said character: Most female characters except Rosebot, I guess, though I'm not entirely opposed. I'll read fics with these pairings if they have an interesting premise.

A random headcanon: He ran an underground puppet black market on Earth C and once talked Jane into doing a collab and releasing some Crockercorp-branded smuppets.

General Opinion over said character: Yeah, so, Ultimate Dirk is the actual reason I'm obsessed with Dirk. The question of why Dirk would choose this path is so fascinating to me, because although I definitely don't think this is the only way Dirk's character could have evolved, I do think it's plausible. My greatest frustration in this fandom is that fuck-all no one understands Ultimate Dirk except me. I understand

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How well do you think the Pre-Scratch trolls would be at hugging?

Damara is a 0. She's actually a good hugger. She really is. Please don't let her hug you. She WILL intentionally make you uncomfortable. It is not worth it.

Rufioh is a 5. Very average. Sweet, awkward, very weird relationship and self-steem issues going on. It all balances out on just... Eh.

Mituna fluctuates between a 1 and a 7-8. If you catch him in the right mood he's fluffy and nice. But otherwise not so much.

Kankri is a 1. Do not. Hug Kankri. He WILL lecture you about personal boundaries and somehow imply that your hugging skills leave a lot to be desired while tooting his own horn.

Meulin. 10. Just. 10. Fluffy soft catgirl. If you can handle the ear-piercing screeches, she's just. Great.

Porrim is a 10, too, but in a different way. She will make you feel things. Probably gently caress your face while you pull back and away from her.

Latula is a 6. Strong, firm, nice hugs. Bit TOO strong for comfort though.

Aranea is a 8. She's nice! It's also a known way to get her to stop talking for a bit, if you're getting tired of overly-long lore dumps!

Horuss is a 2. Unlike Equius, your bones won't break. Like Equius, you're now soaked.

Kurloz is... He's probably fine hugging? He also probably will slip something in your pocket while you get close, that will eventually lead to a chain reaction that helps in the coming of Lord English? Physically a 6-7. Causally a 1.

Cronus is a 1. I will not elaborate further.

Meenah is a 1. Like Kurloz, physically she can probably give some nice hugs. She will also probably want to stab you at some point or make you one of her subjects/part of her army. Potentially both.