#until he's ready to come out

[willowser]

for whatever reason, you're there after the war. for touya—not dabi.

once he's moved out of the hustle and bustle of the city and to an intimate little place, somewhere a bit quieter. with his family, of course, as his entire being just—heals. he's given the time and the space and the patience that he needs, but it's not easy. almost feels like it's never going to be.

he comes and goes in waves; thunderous and loud and all consuming, another crash upon the shore. in anger and pain, in fear and hatred, with a kind of madness that you could never hope to understand.

and then sometimes, he is quiet. when you help change the wrappings on his body or when you offer the help of an arm he doesn't have or when you just sit with him, fully clothed, underneath the ice cold spray of the shower.

in these moments, it's almost like he's been gutted, like everything he had inside was scooped out—and it sounds like it should be terrible. but touya watches the carefulness to your hands and how you tie his shoes and lets you rest your head on his shoulder when you're sitting side-by-side in the tub, because he's still as warm as he's always been.

and you think maybe it isn't so bad that all that was removed, when they sewed him back together; all the anger and pain, the fear and hatred, the madness that's nowhere to be seen in those bright and clear eyes of his.

without all that in the way, you hope—you all do—that something new will grow it its place.

[bucksboobs]

Speculative post got away from me so might be writing a ficlet of a Fire Truck Chat where Buck asks Hen (and everyone else) if it’s too soon to ask his boyfriend to fuck him.

[theinfinitedivides]

going to freak out about my bestie Daniel again by talking about headcanons but to me he's like. not only half-Armenian half-Irish (yes Molloy is an Irish surname but Eric is Armenian people. so what do we do we make the sensible choice and split the difference. put that shit in your fics my rep is lacking) but also Jewish. not necessarily practicing but yk. it's called his mother grows up in the US in a household where her father's Armenian Orthodox and her mother's Jewish and takes a little bit of both but mainly from her mother and then she meets his raised-Catholic nebulously-agnostic Irish-American father and gives shit a shot. and here's Molloy in the midst of it all, born to wreck marriages fail at parenting his own kids and get his shit absolutely fucking rocked by two vamps in the 70s

[pergaminaa]

I previously wrote that Manon is a Scorpio and if I want to narrow it down to a specific date I’m 100% sure she’ll have an iconic birth day because it’s Manon (it’s unintentional on her part tho) so I’d say she was born on November 11

Dorian strikes me as a Leo because of his personality. Unfortunately for him, he has a normal birth day so I’d say he’s probably born on august 16

[bertrei]

The bertholdt hoover fandom is dying rt if youd wipe the sweat from his brow like if youd give him a warm glass of milk

[arsenicflame]

Edward "human weighted blanket" Teach & Izzy "crush my soul out of my body" Hands

[baeshijima]

"let's go, rin."

what if this is where i met my end? what then?

[zeb-z]

also something about foolish, who usually sticks around spawn, who builds or fools around, who takes care of his daughter, going off thousands of blocks away to fight in dungeons. to throw himself into the fight again and again. to find something harder to fight each time, to get a reward that he doesn’t really need or want anyway. no leo around for him to worry about, or worry about him in return, after all

[flowerakatsuka]

some doodles based on the gender thoughts i've been having about kuroba the past few days, mostly on how their appearance changed between middle school and their final year of high school. i also thought it'd be funny if kuroba didn't get recognized by classmates while they were helping at the flower shop back then, ( foreshadowing ig. )

[rascallyrose92]

I refuse to watch Sonic 3 if theres no Amy or Rouge. I refuse to compromise on this front. Both girls need to be there.

[con9103]

In basically im gay Dan says he met the first openly gay person in his life in 2009.

In 2009 when Dan first met Phil in person, Phil was already out as gay to people like his family. Knowing Phil was out as gay must have made Dan feel safe even if he wasn't sure what his own sexuality was at the time. Coming from a place where comments were made about gay people causing a lot of trauma growing up, the then meeting people supportive of their gay son, even if he wasn't out just knowing that his friends family are okay with him and are supportive then he can still feel safe. He's allowed go act like himself without worry about how his sexuality may be perceived by those around him and that he's okay. Even now after 15 years of friendship he's happy and able to relax around the Lester's on the phone and being his weird self at their family home without fear and while being out.

He's gone so far since the person he was when he started youtube and I'm glad he's able to be himself and more comfortable around us <3

[paint-it-dead]

comrade have u ever thot abt What an interaction between griffith and gambino would look like. under any magical circumstance or au just the image of the two of them trying to have a conversation or accidentally pulling into the same parking spot and invariably being introduced by guts at a buc-ees or some other completely average tuesday evening thing.. the two arguably most impactful characters for guts and the tallest looming shadows to guts' arc up to present time meeting through some freak accident and the profound and earth-shattering mundaneity their meeting ends up having. gambino instantly hating and honestly probably being unpleasantly attracted to griffith's stupid ass. guts having 10 different mental breakdowns watching the guy who created gravity and the guy who hung up the sun in guts' worldview meeting and griffith who just,, already wrote off This Random skinny drunkard with a dog and a bad leg somewhere in the neat filing cabinet in his mind of things he does not give a shit about as soon as he entered his peripheral vision. i feel like it would be interesting to see griffith sort of be introduced to the concept that somebody so important and steadfast as guts is in his mind could be so affected by a person griffith wouldn't usually consider capable of any noteworthy damage to him and anybody under his wing by extension. and for guts who up until golden age and beyond still navigated the world and his relationships as an ineffectual unworthy kid, with a big sword where any acknowledgment or affection comes from an angry man you're fighting an uphill battle against Suddenly being thrust into a completely different perspective where, yes, he is a 20-something man this time with a friend who loves him, talking to this old scrawny man he hasn't seen in like ten years. would it be painful or comforting seeing somebody who caused so much damage in your formative years turn out to be absolutely nothing next to the person who freely acknowledges you and who you're equals with now. would it be insane to have come so far running from the whole ass monster from your youth to come back now and see him as this bitter and dreadful but overall average person while you yourself are now complicated and capable of causng your own damage to people weaker than you. that's the monster and that's the love of ur life who trusts you to defend him from exactly that on the battlefield. that's gambino and your friend griffith who still laughs freely like a kid. that's commander griffith and a weak old soldier he's talking to. that's old gambino, your foster father, and that's your first best friend. thats nobody and that's the guy who sees you. wouldnt that be fucked up. wouldnt that be insane.

ANYWAY sorry for yapping a lot op, and i hope you manage to be ok and stay safe despite the results of the election in your country (i think that's your country?) i love you

WHY HAVENT I SEEN THIS UNTIL NOW??? WHO ARE YOU??? SHOW YOURSELF!!! SHOW YOURSELF I NEED TO TALK TO YOU I NEED TO TALK TO YOU PLEASE. PLEASE PLEASEE SHOW YOURSELF. SHOW YOURSELF TO ME!!!!!

ok but i read all of that. all of it. what could i possibly add to it you said it all. i had never thought about this. actually now im mad that i didnt think about this.

now i cant help but imagine their first meeting. guts by griffith's side, then this old disabled man appears. to griffith it doesnt register as anybody important, but definitely as someone dangerous. still not worth paying any special attention to anyways. but then he notices guts flinching, face pale, the look in his eyes... griffith has never seen that look in his eyes. for all these years that he has known him, this is the first time griffith looks at him and thinks that guts seems small. so now he looks back at the man and sees that, no, actually, he is more important than he initially thought. this might be the most important man that he has met yet. the truth of his past that guts keeps locked away, hidden from everybody, from griffith, from himself, maybe this man is the key to uncovering that. so griffith smiles, beckons him closer, greets him like an old friend and guts is just frozen in place the entire time. gambino recognises the white hawk, would do anything to get into his good graces, tries to appease him but ends up making a remark that feels crude to griffith and like a backslap to guts. and right then and there its decided: Griffith is going to destroy this man.

by the way i aint american😭😭 just live a country that is very heavily influenced by american politics (like most of the world🙄)

[acourtofquestions]

Overhead, the stars shone clear and bright, and though Mala had only once appeared to him at dawn, on the foothills across this very city, though she might be little more than a strange, mighty being from another world, he offered up a prayer anyway.

Then, he had begged Mala to protect Aelin from Maeve when they entered Doranelle, to give her strength and guidance, and to let her walk out alive. Then, he had begged Mala to let him remain with Aelin, the woman he loved. The goddess had been little more than a sunbeam in the rising dawn, and yet he had felt her smile at him.

Tonight, with only the cold fire of the stars for company, he begged her once more.

A curl of wind sent his prayer drifting to those stars, to the waxing moon silvering the camp, the river, the mountains.

He had killed his way across the world; he had gone to war and back more times than he cared to remember. And despite it all, despite the rage and despair and ice he'd wrapped around his heart, he'd still found Aelin. Every horizon he'd gazed toward, unable and unwilling to rest during those centuries, every mountain and ocean he'd seen and wondered what lay beyond... It had been her. It had been Aelin, the silent call of the mating bond driving him, even when he could not feel it.

They'd walked this dark path together back to the light. He would not let the road end here.

[beanghostprincess]

usopp calling sanji (pre-realizing she's transfem) things like "gorgeous" and "pretty" naturally when they start dating, and sanji having little heart attacks every time it happens because she's not used to people using those words for her... and it feels good. being pretty. beautiful. gorgeous. and she doesn't really know why it does things to her, but she wants usopp to keep calling her those things over and over again. it just makes her so happy she could cry!

then, two years pass. and she realizes why she prefers to be called "pretty" rather than "handsome". and that, even if she doesn't mind being referred to as a boy (genderfluid sanji, i love you) she prefers more feminine adjectives and pronouns...

they meet again and sanji is so, so scared usopp might not want her anymore... she's visibly shaking. her hair is a bit longer now, and even if she's still wearing one of her suits, it's noticeable in the way she moves and talks and in her make-up, too... besides, the whole thing ivankov did to her body (thank you, queen). her breasts aren't even that big, so it's not that obvious, but she's not the one she used to be two years ago. she's braver. free.

and usopp, turns out, loves it. loves her.

he smiles wide and goes to kiss her and hold her and he keeps telling her how much he has missed her. sanji is a bit confused as to why he hasn't said anything about her new looks. perhaps he just can't tell. the thought of having to say it out loud makes her shiver, wondering if she's about to lose the love of her life.

but then usopp brings her face close to his and whispers, after placing a soft kiss on her lips. "you're gorgeous." and he says it so honestly... sanji wants to cry.

then, sanji frowns, because she still isn't sure if they're on the same page, but she kind of can tell already. "you don't mind that now i want to be- that i am-"

usopp raises an eyebrow. "what? a girl?" sanji nods, and usopp can't help but smile. "no! you look- you look stunning. and- and more comfortable. more... yourself, y'know?"

sanji is the one to kiss him now, and she thinks that, for once, the words usopp uses for her fit her perfectly.

[thedrotter]

Re:Kinder Fun Facts of the day☺️!!! Have you ever wondered who talks the most from the main cast in Re:Kinder?? Well, I did😊. Today I'll be answering this question with some graphs and as a bonus telling you what words each character uses the most! I will warn you, this will be a bit long and I don't know how to be less verbose so, yeah!!!

First, I've made some basic rules as to what I counted regarding how much the characters speak. Not all lines really count as speaking, after all.

Any of the incoherent screaming lines don't count. There's a lot of screaming since the characters die a lot (as expected for a horror RPG game), but I don't really count that as speaking unless they're saying proper words. In that same vein, I didn't really count any of the panting or sniffing and such that are conveyed through words. Again, I don't really see that as a character actively speaking their thoughts!

If I cannot tell who a line belongs to, I will not give it to anyone. This happens for certain lines, so I felt this rule was important.

I won't be counting repetitions of the same line if it's on a variation of the same scene. This may sound a bit strange, but when a character dies, the game goes on to the same next scene it would regardless (unless the scene that follows it is an ending), with variations and new lines here and there to account for the dead character, but a lot will be reused and placed in the exact same beats it normally would have been in originally. So, this rule is here for that. Oh, and also the scenes with bits of Yuuichi's backstory that appear in Shunsuke's head won't be counted twice, because some appear twice line by line.

Of course, the "..." lines won't count. I am so sorry Aya!!!!😞

Now that the ground rules have been set, there's just one thing I want to mention. Though I will count all the total lines for Takumi and Yuuichi like any other character, I just want to mention that first I will have two separate counts for them! Takumi | Takumiel and Yuuichi | Yuuichi's Heart respectively.

Takumiel is separate because I was curious about how much Takumi spoke as an archangel compared to when he was alive. Yuuichi's Heart is because he speaks so much he feels notable enough to be given his own division, even if he and Yuuichi at the end of the day are one person

(I count the silly mind telepathy where Shunsuke is being directly spoken to [and being told things normal Yuu would avoid saying at that point] and the comical theater as Yuuichi's Heart. I clarify in case one assumes he only starts being counted the moment he's directly labelled as Yuuichi's Heart. Any line that can't be distinguished between Yuuichi's Heart and Yuuichi will be given to Yuuichi by default.)

With nothing else to be clarified let's get to the numbers!!!😊😊

First, the line counts with Takumiel and Yuuichi's Heart counted individually!! Here are the rankings:

Shunsuke (With a lead of 535 lines over second place!!)

Yuuichi

Rei

Yuuichi's Heart

Hiroto

Ryou

Sayaka

Aya

Takumi

Takumiel

You may be thinking— woah, does Shunsuke really speak that much?! You could say that, for a good chunk of those lines are from how he describes interactable points around the map and his inner thoughts, so they aren't all exactly said out loud. The benefit of being the protagonist, I suppose ww

Funny enough, Yuuichi's Heart has almost as many lines as Yuuichi does for not having that much time in the game, being on the higher end between the characters that don't get the benefit of being a protagonist (lol)!

Admittedly I had expected for Rei and Hiroto to have a more similar amount of lines given their nearly equal amount of presence, but for what it is Rei surpassed Hiroto by 51 lines! I also had expected for Takumiel to speak a little bit more than Takumi but turns out the opposite is true.

While the lack of lines of Takumi and Takumiel are to be expected due to their short time on the game, what stands out is Aya not even reaching triple digits between her other peers who are in there for most of the game. This is because a good chunk of Aya's lines in game are silence!^^" And thus weren't counted. If ellipses were a word, she surely would have reached triple digits, but unfortunately they're not.

Now the line count with combined sums of Takumi | Takumiel and Yuuichi | Yuuichi's Heart!!!

In here, the ranking isn't affected, with Yuuichi remaining second place and Takumi being last place. But the disparity of everyone's numbers compared to Takumi's feels a bit more clear to see when Takumiel isn't individually counted.

With Yuuichi's line counts combined, Shunsuke remains 318 lines ahead of him, but it also means Yuuichi has a 59% the amount of Shunsuke's lines; and impressive feat for someone who doesn't get the benefit of being the point of view for everything you press... Although he does also have an upper hand over everyone by essentially being the plot of this game ww

But maybe line counts do not suffice to tell how much a character speaks. Yes, Shunsuke has a bunch of lines from everything he interacts with, but is it really reliable to say he speaks all that much in all those lines? A good chunk of those could easily have 3 words each! So with this in mind, let's do a word count.

Even in a word count, Shunsuke has the lead, having a lead of 2,247 words over second place. But we'll see about that when we combine Yuuichi's numbers. Anyway, here's the ranking!

Shunsuke

Yuuichi's Heart

Yuuichi

Rei

Hiroto

Ryou

Sayaka

Aya

Takumi

Takumiel

This time, Yuuichi's Heart is the one at second place!!! It's pretty funny that he speaks more than his physical counterpart ww. I genuinely didnt think he'd out yap himself that way when I chose to count for him individually 😭!!! He has a lead of 63 words over himself, but a lead nonetheless.

In here, Rei and Hiroto are more even than in the line counts, with the difference seeming more minimal when put into words. But it also showcases that despite Rei having more lines than Yuuichi's Heart in the line count, those only get to have a bit over half of the amount of words he talks (To be fair he does get to infodump a lot in his section of the game).

And here's the combined word count!!! Suddenly Shunsuke's lead is only by a mere 55 words! So Yuuichi speaks about as much as he does with 318 less lines.

I must admit that I genuinely did not expect it to be that close. When I chose to count the lines for when you interact with things for Shunsuke, I thought he was granted to speak an absurd amount more than anyone else. But turns out that Yuuichi speaks about the same amount out loud when most of Shunsuke's are his own thoughts ww. But it does make sense! He is still the plot of this game.

So, after all those charts, here's the average/middle point of lines and words for characters to have, because why not, it's fun.

Average Line Count (YH and Takumiel counted individually): 197 lines

Average Line Count (When combined): 247 lines

Average Word Count (YH and Takumiel counted individually): 1,333 words

Average Word Count (When combined): 1,666 words

So there it is. That's how much the characters in Re:Kinder speak!

But wait!!! I am not done. I will share with you an additional fun fact... Did you ever want to know what word each of these characters said the most?! This one will be quicker, I do promise.

When it came to counting these words I did not count stop words, that being common words that are used all the time by everyone in English. "I, you, me, the, to, a, my, your, yes, no"... Words like that! Otherwise everyone would have one of those as their most said word and it'd be rather boring to look at. With that said, here are the words these characters say the most!

Shunsuke: Yuuichi - said 40 times! (this genuinely confused me so much im sorry he uses interjections so much I had expected it to be something like "huh" or "um" but no i dont know how this passed by me as i was rounding up all the lines he says or proofreading or writing all of those lines WHAT?!?! its been two days and it still takes me out)

Ryou: Shunsuke - Said 14 times

Sayaka: Murderer - Said 7 times (All in one sentence!)

Takumi | Takumiel (counted in one for how little he speaks.): Takumiel - Said 3 times (That name is so important, he said it thrice.)

Aya: Sorry - Said 5 times

Rei: Hell, gonna, look, Yuuchi - said 8 times (Most of the repeated words she says are stop words for she doesn't tend to speak about the same things repeatedly.)

Hiroto: Shunsuke - Said 17 times

Yuuichi (separate from YH): Problem - Said 17 times

Yuuichi's Heart: Mama - Said 24 times

Yuuichi (Overall): Mama - Said 31 times

So that is finally it. That is the fun fact of today.😊😊 Use this to woe your friends at parties!!!

I am aware Mami speaks about enough to be counted in, but this is pretty time consuming to do and I'm not sure anyone is invested on her enough to count her in. But if there's enough curiosity regarding that, I'll try counting her in. But for now this suffices.☺️ Thanks for reading!

[firebirdsdaughter]

Something that occurred to me this time…

… Is that Eliot deliberately brings Hardison w/ him to confront Moreau the first time. He tells Nate that he and Hardison will do it (don't worry, I also Love Hardison taking the moment to be like 'hey, are you okay?' bc those two usually express themselves through bickering so much that it clearly telegraphs just how off Eliot is being that Hardison is dropping the usual banter to be serious).

Which for one thing, says something about Eliot's confidence in Hardison in general, but also, like… Yes, Parker's probably not the choice for that introduction, it's not her style, but Nate or Sophie could also have played the part. He could have tried to go alone. But he pulls Hardison.

Obviously he's not trying to put Hardison in danger, he makes it quite clear in all other scenarios that he does not tolerate Hardison in danger (visual cues in The Gone Fishin' Job my beloveds), the others are well aware of the fact that he's Done Some Shit and are equally unaware of his connection to Moreau. And to be honest, I can't pinpoint an exact reason why I think he might have done it, chosen Hardison to be the one who finds out first. Maybe he suspected Moreau would underestimate Hardison, making him safer (relatively, if course), then someone like Nate or Sophie. Maybe he thought it would be best to have Hardison's tech skills as back up. Maybe he thought Hardison would roll w/ the punches the best. Maybe he just wanted Hardison there for morale.

I don't know, but it's a moment that didn't really occur to me the first time, but I think is actually quite meaningful in a more emotional way.