#where is all the mika and queen

[courfee]

Interview Music Tag Game

this is such a cool concept?? thank you @messrsage for tagging me i love this

RULES: Put your playlist on shuffle. For each of the 10 interview questions, select a lyric from the random song that comes up (skip if there aren’t any lyrics and make sure to drop the name of the song in your interview answer).

im also doing my on repeat playlist and just gonna hope that not too many french songs come up cause my french sucks but ive been listening to my french song playlist a lot recently for writing so theres definitely songs in here lmao

1. First off, how would you describe yourself in one sentence?

And she laughed when he asked if his head seemed alright, singing "I've seen the bright sides my whole lovely life"

(northern star - dom fera)

2. What kind of [insert zodiac sign are you?

Je suis cachée au bord des larmes. Je suis la reine des drames.

(anxiété - pomme)

(here we already go with the french oops, i also am very much not sure how to answer the question in general)

3. You’re visiting your favorite spot, what are you thinking about?

The wind is a-pounding on my back

(Line Without a Hook - Ricky Montgomery)

4. If your life was a movie, what do you think the first review would say about it?

I'm lovin' the dread

(Necromancin Dancin - Bear Ghost)

(Honestly this one was difficult to choose from every second line would have fit great)

5. Say you get a book deal, what are you titling your memoir?

Love me dead

(Love Me Dead - Ludo)

6. What would you say about your best friends?

the strangers in my backseat, they remind me of you

(Cleopatra - The Lumineers)

7. Think back to when you had everything all figured out in high school, what was your life motto as a teenager?

Monsters must be people too

(Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One. - Will Wood)

(Man this song is wasted on teenager me all those lines are just for now me)

8. Describe your aesthetic now:

Looking to find the fountain of infinite mirror

(Murders - Miracle Musical)

(again fuckin difficult because the aesthetic im drawn to vs the aesthetic thats mine are on exact opposite ends of a spectrum. foggy graveyard murders vs sunshine and mismatched socks)

9. What’s a lyric that they’ll quote in your eulogy?

Tu diras au revoir à ta mère, elle qui t'idéalise

(Tous les mêmes - Stromae)

10. And for our final question, say we believe in soulmates, what do you think their first impression of meeting you will be?

So, God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy

(The Main Character - Wil Wood)

no pressure tag: @iceprinceofbelair @strwbi-laces @killianthefirst @ye-olde-trojan-horse @marbleliberty and anyone else who wants to, pls say i tagged you i genuinly want to see yall do it

[igotlovestruck]

right where you left lover girl [ charles leclerc , ben chilwell ]

[ 𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 ] — charles leclerc x singer!ex!reader ; ben chilwell x singer!reader . ⊹ ✶ ㄔ 🫂 °.   *

[ 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦 & 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 ] — mostly angst, some romance . ⊹ ✶ ㄔ ℹ️ °.   *

࣪˖ 💭 .. 𝗘𝗬𝗔’𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦 ⌕ clearing my drafts again 😵‍💫 if you ask me, i’m obsessed with singer!reader fics lol

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cleclercsource double date in wimbledon 🎾 charles, alex, kika and pierre spotted in today’s game!

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user love how alex is just happy to be there hahaha she’s so cute

yourusername

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yourusername oh hi hello 👋🏻 i know it’s been a while since i’ve last released music and contributed to the industry, and i see everyone’s tweets saying how much they miss me and guess what? i missed you guys too, so here’s a little something for being so patient with me🤎 this song is very personal and important to me and i hope you’ll love it just how i loved writing it. right where you left me is now available to all streaming platforms 🎶

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selenagomez proud of you✨😍

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prodbymika

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prodbymika glad to have produced another song and film a music video with my bestie 🫶 here’s some behind the scenes of y/n during recording and filming the music video of right where you left me <3

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yourprivate

yourprivate i know eventually it will lead to one of us meeting someone new. i hope she’ll love you the way that i did, more than how i loved you, charles. and i can’t believe that it’s been two years since we broke up. in my mind i’m still 23, living in my own delusion that one day you’ll come back to me. i loved you, charles_leclerc. and i still do. i really meant it when i said i wish you both the best. now, it’s time for me to move on and leave the place where you left me.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ─────────────────

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— ❤️ by yourusername

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yourusername suprise (well... not so surprise haha) !! been working on this album the past year and it’s finally here and i can’t wait to share it with you guys so HERE YA GO 🩷😚 the whole album is dedicated to, of course, my lover, my benji, benchilwell i love youuuu and this album is my love letter to you (you spoiled the lyrics on your previous post 🙄 but its ok i forgive u now pls come back faster bc i miss u) enjoy everyone ! lover girl, y/n 🩷✨

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[kraymerman]

I believe that there is a high likelihood that Alice survived episode 6.

...

Well okay, maybe "survived" isn't the right word, more like I believe that there is a high likelihood that Alice could come back from her death in episode 6.

Why do I think that? Well partly because she's one of my favorite characters and I want her to, but more prominently because she's come back from the dead before (if my theory is correct)!

Now, anyone who has spent some time in the Alice fandom knows about the list. She's in it, it deadnames her (evil trans queen), and so on and so forth. What matters to my post, though, is what her status is labelled as, which, chronologically, would have been her status at the time of Cabin Fever Labs's attempt at patching Nori of the Solver.

There she is, number 017, deadname scribbled out for respect. And what is her status? "Corrupted". Now, we don't know for sure what it means to be "corrupted" (trust me, I have spent several late nights/early mornings trying to figure it out), but my hypothesis is that the state we see Mika (032) and Jame (012) in are the result of being corrupted by a bad patch (Mika left, Jame right)

Chained up, sedated, kinda fleshy, and very dead, right? Now, to explain why I think this is what corruption looks like, it's just process of elimination. It can't be a successful patch because these guys aren't anything like Nori or Yeva (plus it does everything except outright say that Yeva was the first drone at Cabin Fever Labs to receive a successful patch).

Athough I could see a possibility where this is the result of a patch having no effect and the Solver lashing out, the part that hangs it up for me is that these drones wrote on the inside of their locker doors, meaning that they weren't killed then chained up inside of their lockers. It means that they were restrained inside of their lockers, then died on their own afterwards. That's not what would happen if the Solver was on a rampage. Also, even if the writing means nothing and these drones had ineffective patches, the Solver fought back, then they were offed, why would Cabin Fever Labs keep the dead bodies? Let alone chain them up and sedate them? They would've properly disposed of it so as to eliminate a potential host for the Solver, there's no reason they would have kept the body around if this was the product of a "no effect" patch.

So that leaves only one option: corruption. And just looking at it, this feels, at least to me, what "corruption" could look like. A sort of halfway between machine and flesh, chained up and sedated so as to get the spazzing drone from catching anyone, and a slow burnout after being confined in their locker (possibly kept alive so the scientists could see what happened). Seems pretty straightforward to me.

So to bring it back to my original point, this short-circuting freak out, a corruption of the mind, followed by a slow confined death. If this is an accurate evaluation of corruption, then that is what happened to Alice when they tried to patch her. What Mika and Jame look like? At the time of Nori's patching, Alice looked like that too. Despite that, though, she was still, through methods unknown to us, able to not only come back to life, but also completely reverse the fleshiness and return to looking like a completely normal worker drone (minus the knife tail, although I always assumed that that was a self-modification on her part considering it lacks any of the fleshiness characteristic of Solver Tails).

If she was able to come back unscathed from such a terrible fate then, then what's stopping her from using the same methods to come back from a simple head stomp? It was just her head that was crushed after all, not her core.

An addendum: "What Methods?!"

After reading my initial theory, I'm sure you're asking: "unknown methods? What does that mean?" Well I'm glad you asked, hypothetical person reading this that I made up in my head, because that lets me get into the biggest reason why I love Alice as a character so much. She doesn't make any sense according to the rules of the Murder Drones world that we already know. But not in a "she contradicts them", moreso a "she works in a different way", implying that there is a whole new set of rules in this world that exist, but we just don't know about them yet.

Anyone who thinks about Alice for more than a few minutes realizes very quickly how her existence as a drone admitted to Cabin Fever Labs makes no sense. She's very obviously been given the Solver, both because of her "corrupted" status on the list and the fact that she's even here at all, yet she also shows no symptoms of being possessed by the Solver or, most importantly, any signs of possessing the telekinesis/regenerative/create flesh limbs abilities inherent to all drones who possess the Solver, patched or otherwise. Not only that, but she also actively distances herself from drones who do, calling them "witches".

Hell, in the case of regeneration, she straight-up proves she doesn't have it when she replaces the tip of her finger that Uzi bit off with a new one instead of regenerating her old one.

In a comment section somewhere, I saw someone speculate that the reason Alice is like this is because she is asymptomatic to the effects of the Solver. This idea absolutely fascinates me, the idea that, for whatever reason, the Solver sits dormant in Alice's code instead of infecting her like it does all other drones. (I suspect that this is the reason why she was able to come back while other corrupted drones weren't. For a moment, something happened to kick her strand of the Solver out of it's dormancy to bring her back to life, before going dormant again.)

Even if my speculations don't end up being true, this idea that, in some drones, the Solver can lay dormant is still an entirely new concept, a new function of the Solver that we never see it display anywhere else. It's a treasure map hinting at a treasure trove of all-new lore waiting just at the end. The sheer promise Alice has is so exciting to me. There's so much there, hiding just below the surface I can feel it.

It is for this reason that, out of all the Murder Drones characters that go underutilized, Alice is the one that, I feel, is the most desperately deserving of an episode/mini comic series of her own. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON HERE, I CAN SMELL IT! WE JUST NEED TO GO A LITTLE DEEPER!!!

[new-tella-us]

IT IS DONE

My hands are dead.

I am not creating a throne piece anytime soon so I might as well put the story here in the historian voice.

*A H E M*

The golden era is dead. All of the wives and sons disappeared after the war on the Demon Lord. And in Raestrao's place was the youngest of the royal brothers, Zecaeru. -though there is supporting evidence of there being a fifth son- This era goes by a few names though most call it the "Brimstone Era" after the fact that brimstone burns blue.

At the start of the Brimstone Era, most were shocked that Zecaeru took the throne of all sons. He was the shortest and physically weakest of them all yet he persists in the records while his brothers seemingly disappear.

With him was former princess of the Waterlily Kingdom and fourth wife of the Demon Lord, Aezera. She was reported to be the last surviving pure-blooded succubus after the disappearance and possible death of Ezaeur. Some believed that she was the one actually calling the shots and Zecaeru was just a puppet king though later on there would be journal entries of Zecaeru found that indicate that many of the coming laws were things he came up with. Aezera seemed to simply function as a particularly influential advisor rather than an unofficial queen.

The Brimstone Era was one of trials and tribulations but also great prosperity and wealth. The new king, while no where near as horrible as the previous Demon Lord, was not a merciful king. With the amount of coups he's had to quell, records show that this king often made an example of the worst in the coup in order to discourage further rebellions. We found evidence that this might have been because of madness. Reports at the time had mentioned the hints of madness yellow in the eyes of both Zecaeru and Aezera.

Despite the violence, Zecaeru did make an effort to enact programs to restore the kingdom and the kingdoms around him to their former glory. Through rigorous schedules of fixing buildings and restoring wildlife, the Abyssal Plains near the Decaying Sea started to bustle in the coming years. The king himself was also reported to have a fun and jovial personality. He would often crack jokes and even stop meetings to make himself food. It's often hard to believe that this is the king that caused so much death in his time.

Now, what of the girl to Zecaeru's left? Not many people know really. The mysterious girl was an elusive figure, not often seen and never heard. All anyone ever knew was that she had tan skin -from the small amount of skin she was allowed to show- and was possibly named "Mika" if the king's journals are accurate. Nothing else is known. The king had specifically made sure of that. He was known to be a jealous type and demanded that his concubine never reveal her face or voice to others. This was possibly taking inspiration from a previous queen, Dracae.

Now, calling Mika a "concubine" is the most accurate term though she was treated far better than most concubine of her time. Why, the previous one showed signs of physical abuse on her but this one was barely touched. She was dressed in fine clothes and silks and generally treated like a noble. However, the chains we would find around her hands and feet suggest that she was imprisoned in the castle, most likely magically. There aren't many records on how she felt about her situation or even how she got there so that's all we know about her.

Lastly we must talk about the heir. Zecaeru never did marry but he seemed to pick an heir from a line of capable relatives of his. The one he chose was a sickly but powerful young girl. Some historians, however, have come to believe that the choosing was faked and the girl that was "picked" was actually the daughter of the king and his concubine. The next queen looked very similar to both of her assumed parents and Zecaeru's family line was slaughtered on both sides so finding a relative would be difficult. Regardless, the reigns would eventually be passed onto this "relative" and she would be known as a much more fair queen than the previous two.

[theravencawsatmidnight]

Part 1.

Summary: reader has been trying to escape the trials since she arrived. One night she stumbles along a house that is out of the way . It is occupied by Leland Coyle and he makes a deal with her: keep his house clean with dinner every night and you can stay here.

Leland Coyle x F! Reader

W! None here but will have nsfw in some parts .

Little idea i had a couple days ago, slightlyyy changes the trials, characters but hopefully not too too much. Hope its received well and thank you for reading ♥️

All you wanted was to escape, you did not want to be reborn, start over a new “life”. Taken away from everything in the outside world. The Trials were all you knew now , day in and day out you completed trials for the amusement of others or just to survive another day. Every day now seemed like life or death, sure you had friends with you but they seemed to have gotten used to things now unlike you. You were the only one not okay with everything happening, why was no one freaking out? Why was no one trying to leave? Did the doctors miss a step in preparing you? No matter what the answer was, this was your life now. Or so it seemed.

Another Kill the Snitch trial, it's the only one you would do with your friends, Mika and Joy who were well adjusted to life now and often wondered why you were still so jumpy and unsettled.

“Its just how life is now for us” Joy would tell you. “Have you thought about it? We don't have to work anymore, no more worries ever!” Mika told you over and over. “I just dont really agree with any of this guys.. I want to get out. “ was what you told them just for it to fall on deaf ears. “Whatever, see you on the other side” Joy told you while she ran off with Mika sliding over cop car hoods . you were left alone like always but you did not mind really, the alone time was nice unless someone started to chase after you and you ended up spending most of the trial hiding somewhere. You knew where everything was; the heals, antidotes, the lockpicks so you decided to just wander around, daydreaming about your old life, how all those little adult problems you had seemed so little now, with a sigh you maneuvered the cop cars making your way into the building groaning yet again at the same old room with the same old mannequins and same old traps. Maybe you could look around for once, you were always so quick to get out of the trial you never really stopped to look around, sure you knew where the heals were but you never observed your surroundings, you looked for key objects in the room to navigate you mostly.

You made your way outside the office building to go around the back of it; mostly cop cars and old trash everywhere, some rocks, hiding spots. But something did catch your eye; a large metal gate behind a pile of trash. A large flipped over cop car was blocking the entrance and you had to crawl through it to get in. Once you were inside you heard an alarm go off but chose to ignore and press on forward. It was a tad dark following the trail and you had to use your goggles, stepping over trash and kicking sticks off what looked like a cobblestone path. The night vision was getting bright so you removed the goggles to see a medium sized home that looked… pretty okay. Sure the windows had holes and the siding was discolored .. and the porch was falling apart… and the yard was a mess but it seemed.. Okay. Without hesitating you made your way up to the creaky steps opening the old door to see what looked like an abandoned home; it had a living room, kitchen, restroom, an upstairs and a bedroom. “Odd…” you told yourself, walking in more to inspect the interesting little house. Little did you know that you were being followed from close behind.

The bedroom looked decent honestly, the bed was queen sized with a gold old fashion blanket and two pillows, the upstairs restroom was dirty but it was mostly dirt and trash. “Mmm…” you hummed quietly while tapping your chin. “Do we have a washing room…” you asked yourself going back downstairs feeling a little happy, you jumped the last step looking up just to hit the wall face first, someone had been sitting on the old arm chair , lounging even. You scrambled to the corner of the room watching the light from the figure's cigarette glow a bright orange then go back to a weak yellow as he got up straightening himself out, slowly he moved to you, heavy steps thumping in time with your heart. It was Coyle, this nut was gonna kill you, this was it, how it ends for you, you never got out.. Never got to escape.. Never got to say goodbye to your friends. You shut your eyes tight waiting for the worse once he was right in front of you, his electric prod swinging in his hand, the man crouched down with a groan as if his knees were fighting him for making them bend such a way, he plucked his smoke from his mouth blowing excess in your face till you opened your eyes seeing him looking right at you, at least that's what you figured he was doing, he still had his shades on . “sweetie …. “ he said with a gruff tone. “If your gonna… “ his hand found your chin and he tipped it up getting a yelp out of you. “Wander around my house.. at least wipe your feet.” he told you, feeling annoyed. “Wha…what..” was all you could get out right now, you were a shaking mess. Coyle forced himself up taking a few steps forward and back to steady himself out. “Been watching you sweetie, ya hate it here. I'll make you a deal” he held his free hand out to you tilting his head down . “Provide me with the good ol fashion American Dream of a clean house with supper on the table …” was he joking?!!! “And whatever else I ask for , and ill let ya stay here, no one can get in here but me, and you apparently” Coyle told you with a slight attitude. “But.. but the doctors ! everyone?!” you shouted up at him feeling completely lost. “Nope,” Coyle placed his smoke back in his mouth taking in a long satisfying drag of it . “mmm… you think you matter to them? They have most likely replaced ya by now.” “ i .. i guess.. “ this all made no sense.. “Why are you not trying to kill me? “

“Welp, i like ya, always got away from me . Now what will it be? Back out there or a working shower?” he asked again.

“S…s..shower..? You have a SHOWER?!” you asked, jumping to your feet in a spring. “Food, shower. House looks like a dump but it works ya know? Its nothing fancy for food.. Whatever they decided to send me, fuckers. “ he told you , tipping his shades down to take in your happy dirty face. “Well sweetie?”

“Uhm..” this was.. A way out.. Even if you were still technically here. But.. “you took the mans hand getting a smirk out of him along with a firm handshake. “This would be better..” you told yourself nodding in agreement on this deal . Coyle laughed up at the ceiling feeling so nice inside , “finally!!! “ He pulled you in close, cupping your face, getting a scare out of you. “Welcome home, my wife. “

[jadegretz]

Rainbow Mika: The Rainbow's Wrestling Fury by Jade Gretz

Title: The Darkest Ring

Rainbow Mika stood in the center of the arena, her heart pounding in her chest as the crowd roared with anticipation. The bright lights above cast a harsh glare, but Mika soaked in the energy, her confident smile masking the slight unease that tugged at the edges of her thoughts. She had faced countless opponents in her career, each one more skilled and determined than the last, but something about this upcoming match felt different—wrong, even.

Across the ring, in the shadowed corner where the light barely reached, her opponent waited. Mika had been told little about her challenger, only that she was new to the circuit, an unknown who had risen through the ranks with unprecedented speed. The mystery surrounding her opponent only added to the tension that thickened the air, making it difficult to breathe.

"Stay focused, Mika," she whispered to herself, adjusting her grip on the ropes. "You've got this. You're Rainbow Mika, the shining star of the ring."

But as she spoke the words, they felt hollow, like a script she'd rehearsed too many times. Mika was known for her boundless energy, her enthusiasm that could lift even the darkest spirits, but tonight, that energy felt dimmed, like a flame struggling to stay lit against an unseen wind.

The announcer's voice boomed through the arena, snapping Mika out of her thoughts. "Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for! The main event of the evening! In the blue corner, the reigning queen of the ring, the powerhouse of positivity—Rainbow Mika!"

The crowd erupted in cheers, chanting her name in unison. Mika smiled and waved, feeding off their excitement. She needed their support now more than ever.

"And in the red corner," the announcer continued, his voice dropping to a dramatic hush, "the mysterious newcomer who has taken the wrestling world by storm—Nightmare!"

The cheers turned to murmurs of confusion and unease as Nightmare stepped into the light. Mika's breath caught in her throat as she got her first real look at her opponent. Dressed in black from …(see the rest of the story at deviantart.com/jadegretzAI). For more supergirl, chun li, batgirl, tifa, lara croft, wonder woman, rogue and much more, please visit my page at www.deviantart.com/jadegretzai - Thanks for your support :)

[second-star-to-motunui]

The Happiest, Non-Magic Boy On Earth! ❤️✨

✨ Feat. Mika Inkwell (oc) ✨

NRC’s newest student is strange boy who is deemed magicless! And yet the oddest things keep happening around him…

note: just a fun thing to properly introduce my special boy ❤️

Mika Inkwell is without a doubt, the strangest boy anyone had ever seen at Night Raven College.

The Dark Mirror dubbed him a magicless oddity from another world, during the Entrance Ceremony. Yet, not even two seconds later, he pulled a giant paint brush out of nowhere, used it to create a giant stack of soufflé pancakes, then erased it just as fast. Where did the paintbrush come from? No body knows.

Mika has a knack for pulling random objects out of nowhere. Stop signs, frying pans, lunchboxes, alarm clocks, comically large objects—literally anything.

During an argument with Sebek, he said that Mika’s goofy behavior was so disgraceful that someone should tell his mother (which he does not have, he has two fathers.) Mika proceeded to pull out an old fashioned telephone and call Sebek’s mother to complain.

“Hello, Mrs. Zigvolt? Your son is being VERY annoying!”

“What the—GIVE ME THAT—!”

Mika is quite the fashionista. Every once in a while he’ll ditch his uniform for his newest designs, from colorful dresses to flashy cardigans to strange decorated mouse ears. He’s usually seen in up to five different outfits per day. How does he change so fast? It’s a mystery.

He’s doesn’t only make clothes! Pillows, stuffed animals and backpacks are his specialty too! All of his friends end up with handmade gifts from him.

Epel has a poison apple backpack. Floyd has a big shrimp plushie. Ace and Deuce have matching card solider scarves. Malleus has a gargoyle teddy bear that he loves very much.

Speaking of Malleus, he is absolutely fascinated by everything Mika does. Boy could spend hours talking about his pin collection and favorite desserts and Malleus will be staring at him like he’s the most beautiful thing in the world.

“My dad bought me these pins right after I went on a scary ride at a theme park! This one’s cracked because I tripped on a ladybug and fell on my face!”

“Child of man, I say this with absolute seriousness, how soon can I have your hand in marriage?”

Apart from being a master at sewing, Mika is also one hell of artist. Too good of an artist. Some of his pantings have a bad habit of coming to life.

It’s important that he has an empty sketchbook on hand, otherwise he’s gonna find himself another canvas. Like one of NRC’s many boring, blank grey walls! Crowley let it slide the first time because Mika painted a very lovely mural of the Great Seven that everyone loved.

He had to pull the plug when Mika painted 3D sculptures of walking broomsticks to help Ace and Deuce with their chores. Heartslabyul almost drowned.

That doesn’t stop Mika from making paintings all over Ramshackle!

“Mr. Inkwell?”

“Mr. Crowley~?”

“Would you happen to know anything about the blue bunnies rampaging all over campus grounds?”

“What makes ya think I had anythin’ to do with it?”

“Your signature is on their BUTTS!”

Mika also has funny nicknames for some people on campus—Vil is Blueberry Pancake, Epel is Lavender Macaron, Malleus is Mint Cheesecake, etc.

The strangest nicknames however are the ones he’s has for the Great Seven.

Why would he refer to them with names such as Uncle Scar, Auntie Hilda and Mama Mal? Do they remind him of his actual family? Supposedly, he has a huge family.

The Great Seven appear in a lot of Mika’s doodles, along with a few other familiar figures…

“Blueberry Pancake! I designed another dress for you! I based it off of Auntie Hilda’s dress! Do you like it?”

“It’s a cute design, but you need to stop calling the Fairest Queen by such an improper name. I don’t mind your name for me but you shouldn’t refer to a well respected figure like that.”

“Well she didn’t like when I called her Mama.”

“What—?”

[bwoahtastic]

Your Kings AU prompt makes me think of King Lewis and Queen Nico! They married each other out of a sense of duty and while there was no love, they got along well and didn't think it was the worst outcome that they would have a family together.

But then Nico nearly dies during the birth and it just tears them apart. Nico feels like a failure and just bathes in self loathing - he doesnt get true love romantically and now he will never have unconditional love from a baby, will he *ever* get any love in his life? He pulls away from Lewis and the couple become cold and distant, barely looking at each other in public. He notices Lewis leaving the castle more often, but he just doesn't have it in himself to care - he's become a shell of himself.

Life becomes like groundhogs day, where everything just repeats - Nico and Lewis wake up, eat breakfast together (steadfastly avoiding talking or looking at each other) and then they don't see each other again until dinner or at court. But then, sweet farmer Val turns up and he's pregnant. For the first time, Nico feels something other than self loathing and emptiness - he feels RAGE! Didn't he do all the right things? He gave up so much, lost so much and continued to do his duty and now the courts and Lewis have seemingly disregarded this all for Val and an heir?

Nico is heartsick watching Lewis and Val together, especially as Val's bump continues to grow. He stops leaving his chambers and can't bring himself to eat. Maybe Val and Lewis get concerned when they haven't seen the queen for a few weeks and send one of his trusted advisors from his home kingdom, Mika, to check on him. Mika is horrified to see Nico looking pale, so very thin and just like a husk lying in bed.

I don't know how it'll get to this point - but at the end, Lewis, Val and Nico fall in love and live happily ever after with the little prince or princess (unhappy endings make me so sad)! Maybe Nico even ends up having a surprise baby and he's just so happy!

Oh plss!

Nico and Lewis not marrying out of love, but the value and respect the other a lot. They are a beautiful couple, both so kind hearted and loyal to their people and everyone is gushing over how cute the heir will be!

Nico gets pregnant and they are both really excited. Nico really wants to be a mother and Lewis is so sweet to him during his pregnancy, which is really tough and draining. But then Nico goes into labor way too early and its very dangerous, and the pup sadly does not survive...

Nico survives by miracle but losing his pups just tears his heart apart. He cannot bare be close to Lewis and Lewis doesn't know what to do, how to comfort Nico and it just gets worse when the physicians say Nico is likely infertile...

They barely speak, barely see each other, only interact through the flowers they both leave at the tiny grave Nico had made. Nico noticed Lewis leaves to the village a lot but doesn't really care and just goes on eith his day, every day, until Valtteri turns out.

The sweet farmer Omega is wearing his best, albeit simple dress, cheeks flushed with nerves. Nico doesn't understand why Valtteri is there, and why Lewis seems to know the farmer. Val whispers he is pregnant and isn't sure what to do or where to go and Lewis ofcourse offers him to stay.

Nico would be so angry! He tried his best, did everything right and still it wasn't enough, and now a farmer can give Lewis what he can't?!

Lewis tries to talk to Nico and Val very shyly tries to help, but Nico ignores them entirely and hides in his chambers, not even letting the maids see him most days and definitely not letting Lewis in.

Lewis writing to Mika, having the advisor come over as Nico adores him, and surprisingly, Mika is allowed into the room. Mika being so shocked seeing Nico, his long hair isn't neatly brushed, his slip dress hanging loose as he lost weight. He looks so pale and sad and bursts into tears seeing Mika, desperately holding his arms out and Mika can do little else but hold Nico as he sobs.

Pls I want a happy ending for them too!! Lewis and Nico becoming closer again ams Nico comes to adore sweet Val!

[twilightmalachite]

Poltergeist - Neverland of Grudges 3

Author: Akira

Characters: Madara, Natsume, Tsumugi, Arashi

Translator: Mika Enstars

Proofreader: Revoltrad

"Of course, not only was her heart beautiful… She was beautiful on the outside, too. That princess’ name was Narukami Arashi."

[Read on my blog for the best viewing experience with Oi~ssu ♪]

Season: Winter

Footage from around noon that day, in Maizuru House’s recreation room…

Arashi: “Once upon a time, there was a princess who had a beautiful heart.”

“Of course, not only was her heart beautiful… She was beautiful on the outside, too. That princess’ name was Narukami Arashi.”

Arashi: “However, not everyone took kindly to this princess, such as the queen of this country. You see, the queen was beautiful on the outside, but had an ugly and distorted heart.”

“…Hm? What's the queen’s name? Well, let’s call her Madara. ♪”

“The ugly-hearted queen was always jealous of her beautiful daughter-in-law.”

“And today, she would face a mirror that only reflected the truth, and ask…”

“Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful one of all?”

“Eh? It's Narukami Arashi?”

“Gah, how frustrating! If it weren't for her, I would be the most beautiful of all!”

“I have an idea, I’ll kill the beautiful Narukami Arashi! Then, I will be the most beautiful in the world, ma~mamamamama! (laughter)”

Location: Diner

Tsumugi: How interesting. It’s loaded with quips.

Natsume: You shouldn’t tell lies to the childrEN. What, the princess’ name is Narukami Arashi nOW?

Arashi: What’s wrong with that?! So what if I dream through fairy tales, what’s wrong with that?! I wanted to be a princess, too!

Natsume: I understand your feelinGS, but won’t you just end up confusing the children when they hear that you’re playing a princeSS?

Arashi: What, there’s no law out there that says that princesses must be female, is there?! It shouldn't matter anyways, because fairy tales are fantasy!

Madara: What’s with you making me laugh like that big character in One Piece[1], by the waaay? You’ve made me into someone strange, don’t you thiiink?

Arashi: I thought she was just like you when I was reading that manga!

Madara: I’m not even that big, thouuugh?

Arashi: Oh, for goodness sake, just be quiet, stop interrupting and watch the video.

You know, I brought it out so that I could show you the most charming yours truly reading from a picture book, but…

There’s another reason I wanted to show you this…

For some reason, while reading the picture book aloud to them, some of the children reacted incomprehensibly.

Madara: What do you mean by that?

Arashi: Right… You know how earlier, I said that there was a “strange event”?

As a side note, you might have realized that the picture book I was reading to everyone then was Snow White.

Some of the pages were missing for some reason, so I improvised and drew up some appropriate pictures and inserted them into the gaps.

Here, this scene is my favorite.

Narukami Arashi, alongside the seven cute dwarves—I mean, the four dumb knights, all fight off the assassins sent by the evil queen. ♪

Natsume: AmaziNG, you changed the entire story like it was nothiNG.

Madara: So they just fight off the assassins? Wouldn’t that end the story there?

Arashi: It’s fine, as long as it makes sense in the end, or you know, all’s well that ends well—

Everyone’s usually pleased as long as it ends “happily ever after,” right?

Tsumugi: Yes, well, you’re right about that.

Madara: So what were these incomprehensible reactions from the kids? Right now, I feel like it’s more incomprehensible that the kids were able to take this seriously.

Arashi: It’s after this. Here, it’s the final scene for the most beautiful person in the world, Narukami Arashi—I mean, for Snow White. The picture book is faithful to the rather “seriously dark” original tale, you see.

As revenge for the terrible things done to her, the princess has the queen dance on a red-hot iron plate.

It’s a delightful scene of rewarding good and punishing evil, where the nasty jerk gets their butt kicked, right?

But, as I triumphantly read the scene out, some of the kids began to cry.

And not because the scene moved them to tears.

It wasn’t quietly either—But suddenly crying and shrieking terribly as if they were possessed by a ghost or demon.

Arashi: Some of the kids even threw up.

I was panicking—I almost started crying too!

Fortunately, a staff member came rushing over and the agitated children were calmed down.

Natsume: WoW… ImpressiVE, as expected from a professional nursery teachER.

Tsumugi: Hm~, once children start crying, I don’t think you’re able to get them to stop that easily, though.

Arashi: Nope, they stopped crying completely in an instant. It was like magic.

Natsume: …Could they have had them sniff a sedatiVE?

Arashi: Nope, there was nothing like that.

Thinking back on it, that part is incomprehensible in its own way, isn’t it…?

The children regained their composure and stopped crying like it was nothing as soon as that staff member spoke something into their ears.

I have no idea what happened back there. The entire series of events were definitely a little out of the ordinary, from those children’s reactions to everything else.

Madara: …Actually, back then, was it all of the kids present who had started crying?

Arashi: What do you mean by that? Come to think of it, it was just the kids who were relatively… older who started crying, I’d say?

Up until that point, they had been rather calm and collected for their age, so their reaction surprised me.

I’m sure it also surprised the younger ones, because they started to panic and cry when they saw the older children crying…

It was those kids who cried for what seemed like forever, actually.

Madara: Hm, I see. Things are staaarting to make sense.

Tsumugi: …Do you have an idea on what that bizarre event exactly could’ve been, Mikejima-senpai?

Madara: Wellll, I also noticed some things that had me a bit concerned.

I’ll look into it in more detail tomorrow based on what Arashi-san’s told us.

—It’s just a matter of, “Could it be…?”

But there might have been a terrible tragic incident or accident that occurred at Maizuru House in the past.

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[wheeboo]

Talk about your moots; what do you like most about them (could be a paragraph or a single sentence, spread the love!!)

omgomg okay lets do this guys. just know i luv every single one of you and without any of you i would not be where i am rn today!! i'm sorry if u were not included its prob bcuz we haven't interacted much yet but i also suck at communicating lmaosdjfldjkkfds i really do not deserve any of you istg

@ylliris-hanniehae - ylli is so sweet n comforting :(( like she's been with me since almost the beginning of me posting on tumblr here and she's been so supportive ever since!! i love the conversations that we have together and she really feels like a little sister to me!! she deserves all the happiness in the world fr

@fairyhaos - yena was the first person i asked to be moots with on here LOL and i remember being like "omfg should i send the ask should i send it" and well i don't regret it one bit!! she's so bubbly and sweet and i will never not say this- she always puts on smile on my face as well as everyone elses!! her fics are also soo comforting and so creative i love it sm

@etherealyoungk - skye is SOO lovely like i remember the moment she liked my mingyu fic and me freaking out like I RECOGNISE THAT NAME RIGHT THERE and i dont regret asking to be moots with her!! i love when she checks in with not just me but everyone else around her she's just so sweet n caring :(( i also love when we randomly scream abt different dramas together lmaoo

@slytherinshua - zanna and i just clicked like a snap the moment we started talking and istg she's so entertaining and funny like there's never a dull moment talking to her!! i love screaming about park jihoon and kdramas w her!! she’s also introduced to so many new groups i’m grateful for that. i also adore our late night music sessions and when we watch dramas together and cry and laugh and just everything

@mirxzii - roxie deserves all the happiness n love and she's so supportive n so silly too !! also i think she's soo relatable w some of the stuff she has said lmaoo it's so goofy and she's also been with me since the very beginning and i very much thank her for that

@rubywonu - nia i miss her so much she's been busy w school so we haven't been able to talk a lot so everyone SEND LOVE TO HER RN. i remember silently gushing abt the love series she made with svt members and being moots and getting to know her i see she's so sweet n chill but ik she got that lil chaotic side to her

@icyminghao - noelle every time i interact w her i just have this giddy smile on my face like its so refreshing to talk to her!! she's busy these days cuz of exams so everyone PLS send love to her too. shes so sweet n i lLOVE it when she screams in caps its the most hilarious thing ever

@wqnwoos - hana her writing istg literally the best thing ever?? its like so delicate but also gets me giggling n kicking my feet fr HAHA like i love it sm. she's such a sweet n chill person to interact with i really hope that i could talk to her more. i also love the poems and words that she reposts because YES i see them it reminds of those poem slideshows on tiktok that either got me crying or the most relatable thing ever

@hannyoontify - kie is so lovely i really hope i can talk to her more!! she's just so sweet n nice n very supportive! also shes like a drum major so hella kudos to her for that such a hardworking queen fr!! i can't wait to interact w her more because ik she's a very fun person to talk to

@toruro - mika i still don't understand how i managed to be moots w her like i admire her sm!! her writing never fails to amaze me like i NEED her brain rn and shes just so pretty?? will never deny that i have a platonic crush on her lmaoo!! and whenever we talk it feels very comfortable and natural it kinda reminds me of catching up with a friend over coffee tbh

@kyeomyun - jada is SOO LOVELY N SUPPORTIVE i always love seeing her pop up in my notifs or inbox and when we scream at each other sometimes LMAO. she's just such a very fun person to talk and i hope we can have more one on one conversations w each other bcuz ik for a fact we're both gonna be screaming over SOMETHING

@blue-jisungs - axe is SO funny and bright and whenever she pops up in my notifs it literally brightens my day sm. like she's just soo infectious that i just can't help but smile?? also she loves kdramas so i hope one day we can scream at each other abt it because YES. her nails and hair are also slay ik for a fact she rocks anything

[historyhermann]

Bang, Bang, Pop!: Reviewing Girls With Guns Anime

Created in Microsoft Paint.

In recent years, there have been even more anime featuring girls with guns, expanding the genre. I decided to examine this genre and offer my thoughts.

Reprinted from The Geekiary, my History Hermann WordPress blog on Feb. 17, 2023, and Wayback Machine. This was the fifty-first article I wrote for The Geekiary. This post was originally published on August 16, 2022.

When you think of girls with guns in popular culture, you might think of Lara Croft, Sarah Connor, Alien, Foxy Brown, or Coffy. However, there are more than just hundreds of films featuring girls with guns. In anime, there are over 20 girls with guns series.

While there are many strong anime gunslinging girls, there aren't as many anime which are truly "girls with guns". It is a genre defined by series such as the 1980s sci-fi comedy and space opera, Dirty Pair, centered on two women: Kei and Yuri.

Since then, there have been many more series, including the recently-ended Vampire in the Garden and currently airing Lycoris Recoil. There are also older series such as Gunsmith Cats, El Cazador de la Bruja, Noir, and Otherside Picnic. This article reviews these six series and four others. It is sample of a much wider array of girls with guns anime.

This post contains spoilers for the ten series that I'm writing about. So, without further ado, let me begin!

Girls with guns are stars of the show in Lycoris Recoil 

Chisato Nishikigi defends herself from those trying to kill her in the show's sixth episode

This original anime series by Spider Lily and Asaura is all the rage. The /r/yurimemes subreddit is filled with posts of Chisato (Chika Anzai) and Takina Inoue (Shion Wakayama), the show's protagonists, as is /r/wholesomeyuri. The show's yuri subtext is often noted. Furthermore, the show's subreddit, /r/LycorisRecoil, has over 4500 subscribers. The show's story, characters, animation, and dialogue make it easy to like.

The series begins when Takina brazenly uses a machine gun against criminals, threatening the life of a fellow "Lycoris", an armed intelligence agent. The covert organization, Direct Attack (DA), fires her. She is then transferred to Café LycoReco, a DA front organization, where she meets Chisato, a fellow Lycoris. She also meets a former DA member named Mizuki Nakahara (Ami Koshimizu) and an Afro-Japanese man named Mika (Kosuke Sakaki) who runs the cafe.

The series pulls you in due to Takina's struggle with fellow DA agents who resent her, and villains who attempt to take down Lycoris. The same can be said about Chisato's mysterious past and a hacker named Kurumi (Misaki Kuno) joins the show's heroes. The series often focuses on growing friendship between Takina and Chisato, arguably with romantic undertones. Unlike other anime about girls with guns, Chisato only uses rubber bullets. This means that those she does not kill anyone, a practice Takina adopts, as they work together as a team.

Momo shines through in Vampire in the Garden

Momo defends herself from a vampire girl, Alicia

This original dark fantasy net anime features many girls with guns. Front and center is Momo (Megumi Han) who runs away from home, where she is a soldier, and trainee in a war against vampires. She meets Fine (Yū Kobayashi), queen of the vampires, learning to love life and experience music all at the same time. Unfortunately, her controlling mother, Nobara (Rika Fukami) sends out a search party to find Momo. She wants to bring her "back" to "civilization" and way from the purportedly "barbaric" vampires.

In the process, Fine and Momo grow closer to one another. Like many other girls with guns anime, there are many yuri vibes in the series. In fact, neither of these protagonists gets a chance to live together. They are chased throughout the anime and do not have a chance to rest. This is because society sees relationships between humans and vampires as "unnatural" and does not accept them.

The focus on the relationship between Fine and Momo parallels those who do not accept queer relationships and those othered by society. Rather than an anime solely about girls with guns, Vampire in the Garden is a mature dark fantasy filled with blood, death, explosions, and serious injury. Even so, there are scenes with a slice-of-life feel. This five-episode anime ends positively. Momo founds a society many years later where humans and vampires can live together in peace.

Gunsmith Cats exemplifies the girls with guns genre

Irene "Rally" Vincent at the shooting range in the episode "Neutral Zone"

This adventure-crime series is based on an eight-volume manga of the same name illustrated, and written, by Kenichi Sonoda. It is different than other series in this post because it is loosely set in Chicago. It centers around Irene "Rally" Vincent (Michiko Neya), a 19-year-old woman who operates "Gunsmith Cats" gun shop. She works with 17-year-old explosives expert and former sex worker named "Minnie" May Hopkins (Kae Araki) as a bounty hunter in the underworld.

The anime is an original video animation (OVA), released between November 1995 and September 1996. It is only three episodes long.  Some reviewers praised the animation as colorful, fun, and a "solid piece" of filmmaking. Others praised the action, artwork, and said it sounded like a "gritty" suburb of Chicago. Moreover, there were those who described the animation as smooth, said it has the same amount of humor as the original manga, but complained that the series should have been longer.

Like Vampire of the Garden and Lycoris Recoil, yuri themes are implied. Although Yuricon's founder Erica Friedman does not write about the anime on her blog, Okazu, she did review each volume of the five-volume manga, Gunsmith Cats BURST. In her reviews, she notes the yuri subtext between Rally and Minnie. She also noted that mafia donna Goldie Musso is a stereotypical "evil" lesbian. In the manga, all three of them live together. Otherwise, the series fits within the girls with guns anime genre.

Love, amnesia, and guns in El Cazador de la Bruja

Nadie, Ellis, and nuns shelter in a basement, hiding for people out to get them, in an episode

This 2007 series, a mix of modern Western, adventure, and yuri, is a classic girls with guns anime. It centers around Ellis (Ai Shimizu), a fugitive who has amnesia, an unknown past, and powers of some kind, and a bounty hunter named Nadie (Shizuka Itō). Both travel south in hopes of finding the key to who Ellis is, where she was born, and what she did.

In a review of El Cazadar de la Bruja first episode, Friedman noted that there were clear yuri vibes. But, she worried there would be another "ambiguously yuri" relationship like other Madlax series. However, in a review at the end of the series, Friedman praised the growing romance between Nadie and Ellis. She said it is different than Noir in more ways than one.

Others were more critical of this series, especially purported "filler" episodes. They noted that even the show's gun violence is restrained. This series is unlike other anime in this genre as it is set in the Southwest United States and Mexico. As a result, it shares similarities with Western animations like Nomad of Nowhere and The Legend of Calamity Jane. Both series have gun-toting female protagonists.

Girls with guns are at the center of Noir 

Kirika and Marielle in the front, with Chloe in the background, in an image on the show's now-defunct official website in 2003

This adventure anime is as well-known as El Cazador de la Bruja. It is often noted as exemplary of the girls with guns genre in anime. It centers on two female assassins, a Corsican woman named Mireille Bouquet (Hōko Kuwashima) and a Japanese woman with amnesia, Kirika Yuumura (Kotono Mitsuishi). Both journey together to learn about their past. They ally together and assassinate "bad" people under a code name: Noir. They face a French secret organization named Les Soldats, led by Altena (Tarako), which is out to kill them, and a skilled assassin named Chloe (Aya Hisakawa).

Friedman, who I've mentioned earlier, criticized the series for weak animation at times. But, she praised the show's music, settings, and yuri vibes in the series. She added that people will put up with the series, despite absurd storylines because it has an attractive woman with a gun. TV Tropes, on a page about LGBTQ fanbase of anime and manga, stated that the series garnered a "sizable lesbian fanbase" due to the "ambiguous" relationship between Mireille and Kirika. They also noted the subtle lesbian attraction shown later.

Director Koichi Mashimo described this series, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja, as his "girls-with-guns genre trilogy". Some praised the 26-episode series for redefining girls with guns series, with an elegant, and sleek story. But they criticized it for having repetitive actions sequences. Others said that Noir was an original anime which "stands out". In the end, the series changed the girls with guns genre for years to come, although no series since then has been exactly like it.

Girls with guns are focal point of Otherside Picnic 

Sorowo aims a military-style weapon while Toriko sits next to her

This adventure sci-fi yuri series centers around two women. One is a college student named Sorawo Kamikoshi (Yumiri Hanamori) who enters parallel worlds named the Otherside. The other is the woman who saves her, a former Canadian special forces soldier named Torika Nishina (Ai Kayano). The series focuses on Nishina's quest for her friend, and their repeated attempts to return to the Otherside to gain artifacts, with the help of Kozakura (Rina Hidaka). However, the world affects them physically and mentally in ways they didn't expect.

Early last year, I began watching this series, excited to watch it since too many yuri anime are either set in schools or fantasies, with the implication that lesbian relationships will be short-lived and even replaced by heterosexuality. Unfortunately, this series did not deliver on that promise. Friedman criticizes the series for being a "children’s version of the novels". My bigger qualm is that the series did not deliver on the yuri that seemed present from the beginning, despite romantic vibes throughout.

Otherside Picnic remains within the girls with guns genre. Even in a few episodes, Sorawo and Torika save U.S. military soldiers from Okinawa who are stuck in the Otherside. Unfortunately, this becomes imperialist apologia. It glosses over problems with U.S. military occupation, and presence, in Okinawa, and Japan. It marks a low point for the entire series.

Girls with guns have an important role in Blue Drop

Yūko takes out a gun to defend Mari from harm in the show's sixth episode

This 2007 yuri sci-fi drama contains some girls with guns. On the manga cover, a girl named Shōta has a gun. On the other hand, neither of the show's protagonists, Mari or Hagino, uses a gun during the series. Instead, secondary characters like Yūko and Tsubael have guns. Yūko even confronts Hagino at gunpoint. Otherwise, there are armed sentries on the ships from another world.

Blue Drop delivers more on yuri themes than Otherside Picnic or even, arguably, Lycoris Recoil. And you don't even need on yuri goggles to see it. It is more than a "fun watch" with likable characters, some of whom are morally ambiguous. Instead, it is an enveloping story which draws you in, with its plot and animation. Even the ending is heartbreaking.

Since the series is usually put into the sci-fi and yuri genres, reviewers don't often put it into the girls with guns genre. Although there are fewer girls with guns in Blue Drop than other series noted in this article, it has positives which go beyond other series. It is a classic that can be watched over and over. The same can likely also be said about the affiliated manga which ran from 2004 to 2008.

Badass girls with guns are central to Canaan

Canaan about to fire her pistol during the show's opening

This 2009 mystery thriller is little-known, despite the fact that a Japanese game company, Type-Moon, created it. It's based on a special scenario originally outlined in 2009 game, 428: Shibuya Scramble. This anime centers on a gun-toting assassin and mercenary named Canaan (Miyuki Sawashiro). She faces a rival named Alphard Al Sheya (Maaya Sakamoto), a skilled assassin who heads a terrorist organization named Snake. Canaan also has a pretty reporter friend named Maria Ōsawa (Yoshino Nanjō).

Canaan and Alphard are both skilled at using firearms, as is ex-mercenary Siam (Akio Ōtsuka), Alphard's lieutenant, Liang Qi (Rie Tanaka), and many others. Predictably, yuri themes are spread throughout this anime. Canaan often saves Maria from sticky situations thanks to her ability to perceive people's emotions as colors. They clearly are attracted toward each other. The series ends with Canaan being, in the words of Friedman, "awarded equal status to Maria in her heart."

Otherwise, Canaan is action-packed, with fast-paced fight sequences and chases. In some ways, it makes me think of chase scenes in Carmen Sandiego, although the ones in that series are never filled with guns, but with other deadly weapons instead. This series is unique because Canaan is from an unnamed country in the Middle East, presumably Syria or Lebanon. It adds another dimension to the story.

Guns, love, and demons in Engage Kiss

Shu, Sharon, and Ayano pictured on the show's official website.

In this ongoing, and currently airing, romantic comedy, one character stands out as a girl with a gun: Ayano Yugiri (Lynn). She is the former girlfriend of Shuu Ogata (Soma Saito). He lost his memories of their relationship after partnering with a demon named Kisara (Saya Aizawa). To give her the necessary demon powers to fight, he kisses her, which erases a memory every time he does so.

While it seems, at first, that she chooses his memories to erase at random, it is later shown that she can choose which ones to erase. She even eliminates a time that Shuu and Ayano have sex, enjoy each other's company. She also eliminates a time when Shuu had sex with the demon-hating priest, Sharon Holygrail (Rumi Okabo), and poisoned her in a devious way.

Ayano has the most skills at using firearms apart from Shuu. It has not been revealed how she is so skilled, but she may have on-the-job experience. Unlike Lycoris Recoil, the only other people who use guns are the police, as the villains often manipulate demons instead. None of the show's characters without faults, and have all likely done deplorable things.

A gun-toting protagonist in Venus Versus Virus 

Lucia fires her gun in the show's opening

This dark fantasy and supernatural thriller centers around two girls with guns: Lucia Nahashi (Ayahi Takagaki) and Sumire Takahana (Minori Chihara). Although it has been rightly described as a series to avoid by Stig Høgset of THEM Anime Reviews. He argued that it is "lazy and dumb", with mild fanservice and violence. That makes it different from others in this genre, which are usually more violent and bloody.

In Venus Versus Virus, Lucia, especially, is skilled with use of a firearm. She works to protect Sumire, along with others, from harm that demons, known as "viruses", can inflict. Predictably they both bond in the process. Even so, the yuri themes in this story are not very strong, with neither Lucia nor Sumire appearing to be lesbians.

On the other hand, the series is strong as an anime that features girls with guns. As such, it is relatively well-established in the genre. In fact, when bullets hit Sumire, it causes her violent personality to surface, which can be harmful to anyone around her.

Closing thoughts

There are many other examples of girls with guns anime.  Some of the most prominent, apart from Dirty Pair, include Bubblegum Crisis, Miami Guns, Gunslinger Girl, and Burn-Up. One critic argued that while there aren't many true girls with guns anime, the ones that do exist have been so influential, it has created "an entire thematic genre and stereotype of anime."

Princess Principal and the film, Kite Liberator also fall into the genre. Even Izetta: The Last Witch might fall into the genre since Izetta rides an anti-tank rifle. Apart from Sabine Wren, Padme Amidala, and Zam Wessell, who tote guns in the Star Wars franchise, there's no Western animated equivalent of the genre. On the other hand, there are some gun-wielding women elsewhere, like Millie in Helluva Boss.

There are many girls with guns within anime, but even with newer series, it remains to be seen if the current trend toward more girls with guns will continue. Many of the series within the genre, such as Strike Witches, Michiko & Hatchin, Grenadier, and Upotte!! are years old. The same is the case for Madlax, set in the same world as Birdie Wing.

With anime production companies flush with cash, there is a possibility of further girls with guns anime in the future.

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[a-student-out-of-time]

Headcanons for J’s parents

Mariabella Rosales

She’s around the same age as the residents of Class 79, meaning she was old enough to have seen and lived through The Tragedy.

Even at a young age, she was a prominent actress. She appeared in ads and commercials before getting a serious start in shows and, eventually movies.

She developed a rivalry with fellow actress Emma Magorobi over the latter getting the role of Holly Queen, which Mariabella felt she deserved.

As a teenager, I imagine- personality and appearance-wise- she’s similar to Mika from Persona 5.

She’s the epitome of a spoiled actress, especially as she rose to become a movie star. Numerous people have said she’s very hard to work with, but she’s so good at what she rarely gets called out on it.

Mariabella also has no problem dragging her kids into publicity schemes, signing them up for things against their will or dragging them out into public, and guilt-tripping the hell out of them for not going along with it.

She’s incredibly vain and performative, and often uses her looks or her status to get what she wants. This was a view she tried to extend to J, dressing her up and everything, which only made her despise “girly things” in general.

Hank Moreno

Physically, I imagine he’s a big dude and looks kinda like Charlie from Twilight, but with a bit more facial hair.

Hank came from a fairly poor family, but he managed to get through high school, where he found he really excelled in theater. He was so successful that he decided to pursue a producing movies.

It was on one of his projects that he met Mariabella, who’d recently risen to prominence, and who he really took a liking to. The two of them started dating shortly afterward, which the press was quick to follow. They were all over the headlines when they announced their engagement.

Hank didn’t really know how to be a dad at first, so when J and Ryan were born, he had a fairly awkward relationship with them, since Mariabella was a lot more interested in it. Still, he tried to be a good to them however he could.

As J got older, and grew increasingly sick of her mother, she gravitated more toward her father and his work. He was happy to teach her everything he knew, and she found she really enjoyed her father’s company more, especially since he wasn’t dictating her life.

As a teenager, around the same time J admitted she wanted to cut ties with her mother, Hank could see how negatively all of this was affecting her and decided to talk to Mariabella about it. While the public doesn’t know it, the two of them separated shortly afterward.

Whenever they come over, Hank has tried using other pronouns at J’s request, which he’s not the best at, but he’s trying to do whatever makes J comfortable. No matter who J wants to be, he promised he’d always support their decisions.

J’s hoodie was a gift from him.

[sunlightandsuffering]

Recently started doing spin classes! They are fun, would recommend! But lol, I couldn't get spin instructor Mikasa out of my mind and then I thought, I don't need to start another AU and it sort of fits with size queen Mika, so why not!

It’s been a whirlwind and Eren honestly doesn’t know how he got talked into this, but Historia is standing next to him, practically bouncing in place in a pair of tight little biker shorts and a baby pink bra. 

Her eyes are as bright as stars, he can practically feel the excitement emanating from her, feeding off all of the other participant’s energy.  “I can’t wait for you to meet her! For you to enjoy the class, it’s amazing you’re gonna love it!” 

“I can’t believe you talked me into this,” Eren grumbles, trying his very best to keep his eyes from wandering around the lobby as they wait for the instructor to open up the door to the darkened spin classroom. She’s a friend of Historia’s, Mika or something? He’s never met her, but Historia’s been raving about her for the past month or so, and he hasn’t shut her up because he’s been sulking.  He's still pissed about his most recent rejection, actually, his only rejection. 

Just the thought pisses him off, the hot grey-eyed girl rejecting him simply because his dick was of all things, too big?  Unhinged. 

He needs to move on, and there’s no place better than a spin class made up of almost entirely women, most of them his age, and with bodies that are consistently stealing his attention.  There’s a blonde girl a few feet away who keeps making eyes at him as she locks up her locker, and Eren is seriously considering dropping off his number after class. But even as he considers it he knows he won’t, because as humiliated as he is about it all, no matter what he does he cannot for the life of him get that girl out of his head. The lithe little body, the way she’d spoken to him, all soft and sweet, the plush of her ass cupped in his hands as he’d pressed her up against the wall, how she’d tasted…

“Eren!” Historia snaps, “Stop ogling girls and put your biking shoes on, it’s almost time to go in.”  Ugh. 

“Fine,” he groans, putting his own sneakers in a locker, and putting on the weird biking cleats they’d handed him upon entrance to the little studio.  He’s never been too particularly keen on biking, but with the way Historia’s been raving about the spin classes and the fact that Ymir had firmly refused to go ever, he’d been her next victim. And like any other sap he’d ended up saying yes after some puppydog eyes and a promise of lunch if he didn’t like it. 

The door to the room opens up and Eren follows Historia in dutifully, where she takes him to two bikes in the back row, helping him set the proper height and clipping his shoes into the pedals. 

The room is large, two rows of bikes set up on different levels, all facing a large mirror and one bike in the centre, raised on a higher platform where Eren can see Historia’s friend, their instructor setting up. He can barely see her in the dark of the studio, the only light provided by the backlit mirrors and the array of moving LED bulbs overhead that move with different patterns and colours every few seconds, barely providing enough light to see much at all as they glow blue.  It's a cool atmosphere he’ll give them that, and chilly as the fans sweep by him, but he’s sure to have one hell of a workout, he can already tell he’s going to suffer.  The instructor peppy as people filter in, greeting everyone with cheerful ‘Hello’s’ and sentiments about being mindful and girlpower, making the most out of their workout, all that usual personal trainer crap he’s used to.  So far, as he warms up on the bike, pedaling absently, he’s not super impressed with her. He doesn’t know what Historia was raving about.  But then, as the rest of the class gets set up on their bikes, the overhead LED’s colour yellow, finally providing enough light for him to really see the girl Historia’s obsessed with.  And to his horror, he knows exactly who it is, that pretty face engraved in the deepest parts of his brain, that lithe little body that haunts his dreams, perky tits that are compressed tightly in her sports bra, the line of her abs dipping into her tight biker shorts, fuck.  “Good morning riders! I’m Mikasa and I’ll be your instructor this morning,” she tells the room airily, speaking over the mic attached to her headset as she starts riding, “I hope you’re ready for a great workout, let’s rock this Friday together!”  Eren proceeds to have one of the most grueling workouts he’s ever had in his life, he doesn’t even have time to have dirty thoughts about the hot instructor he wants so badly to fuck it’s been haunting him for weeks. No, he’s too busy suffering as her cheery voice tells him to push harder, turn the resistance on the bike up, pedal more, just one more race!

By the time the class is over, and the lights are being turned on again, he’s a pathetic slump on the bike, struggling to unclip his cleats from the pedals and Historia cackles as she helps him remove himself. Here he thought he was in shape, how very humbling. 

“I’m gonna go say hi to Mikasa,” Historia pipes up as Eren steps off of his bike, grabbing for his towel to wick away some of the embarrassing amount of sweat he’s got going on right now.  He nods at her, barely listening, his eyes too intent on said girl now standing at the front of the room, slowly extricating herself from her headset. 

Mikasa.

What a name, beautiful, elegant, just like her, it suits her perfectly.  Mikasa, the one who got away. 

He’s hit with the insane urge to say it out loud, let it flow from his lips, knows the edge of it would be addicting, that he’d want to say it all the time, for the rest of his life. 

Eren presses his lips together tightly as he approaches the front of the class where Historia is excitedly praising Mikasa for a great class. 

Get your shit together Yeager! 

He’s about to confront the girl of his dreams, see her again for the first time since she’d rejected him in the cold of his apartment for having an above average sized dick.

It’s show time.  He sidles up next to his blonde friend, making himself known and Mikasa’s eyes flick to him immediately, those familiar greys coloured with soft curiosity. 

He waits for a moment as she takes in his presence, Historia saying something next to him, probably some kind of introduction and he keeps waiting, hoping, expecting something, anything, some kind of reaction.  And yet there is nothing, no hint of familiarity in her eyes as she thrusts out her hand, a pretty smile overtaking her face, flashing pretty white teeth in the dim light of the room, “Hi, I’m Mikasa, nice to meet you Eren.” 

She has no fucking clue who he is, not even a hint of recollection. 

He takes her hand numbly, his much larger hand grasping firmly over hers, gripping warm soft palms, a bit sweaty with the heat of the workout, delicate unblemished fingers, such a stark contrast to his own. 

He swallows, his throat suddenly dry as he warbles out some pathetic response, “Nice to meet you Mikasa.”  In some ways, saying her name is a relief, but in others it’s a death sentence, because as the musical ‘a’s slip from his lips, her eyes sparkling as he pronounces it so perfectly on the first try, he gives a name to the monster that haunts his dreams. The pretty little five foot seven waif of a girl that could simultaneously knock him on his ass and be crushed in his arms has a name. 

Mikasa Ackerman, she tells him, batting her eyelashes and gushing over the fact that he’s one of the first boys to attend her classes. 

Here she is, the beautiful lithe little Spin instructor that is going to ruin his life. 

[magic-crazy-as-this]

PENELOPE TODD / RED PHOENIX playlist

Eager to prove herself to both her brother Jason's memory and her superhero family, Penelope Todd, aka Red Phoenix, takes to the streets of Gotham... or at least the twenty blocks of her small island neighbourhood. But with a mysterious figure in a red hood and a strange cabal of Tarot-themed terrorists watching her every move, Penelope finds that being a hero may not be everything she'd dreamed.

The songs in this playlist are arranged to form a narrative, I highly recommend listening in order if possible!

(Open in Browser/external program, not mobile/app, and it should go in order without Premium)

Penelope made a choice... or rather, it seemed to make itself. She would go to Gotham. She would become the kind of hero who would make her brother proud.

Let the Flames Begin - Paramore Somewhere in weakness is our strength, and I'll die searching for it.

Do What You Want - OK Go Screaming at the top of your lungs, saying "Come on come on, do what you want, what could go wrong?"

The Great Escape - Boys Like Girls Throw it away, forget yesterday, we'll make the great escape. We won't hear a word they say, they don't know us anyway.

Wake Me Up - Avicii They say I'm too young to understand, say I'm caught up in a dream. But life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes.

Speeding - Lights The world in the rear-view mirror doesn't shake me, I haven't looked back there lately.

Sweet and Low - Augustana (This is Jason's song to Penelope) Ain't gonna make the same mistakes that put my momma in her grave, I don't wanna be alone. So hold me down, sweet and low little girl. Hold me down, sweet and low and I will carry you home

Where We Belong - Thriving Ivory Hold on, we're gonna make it if it takes all night, hearts racing like a rocket at the speed of light, don't fight it we've been running for far too long. We're going back where we belong.

When Penelope finally made it to Gotham, she found a yawning abyss of madness waiting for her. But she wasn't about to let that stop her.

Warning Call - CHVRCHES Say you'll remember to keep it all inside. You can run for the skyline, your eyes open wide

Show Me What I'm Looking For - Carolina Liar I'll pay any cost to save me from being confused

Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters I'll make my way back home when I learn to fly

Lights - Ellie Goulding I had a way then losing it all on my own. I had a heart then but the queen has been overthrown

Once a week, sometimes even more often, a strange figure wearing a red hooded mask would follow Penelope on her patrols: breaking windows, firing guns at midnight, disrupting the peace. She had a feeling she knew this person and what he wanted from her.

Red Like Roses, Part II - Casey Lee Williams, Sandy Casey I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute. Couldn't bear another day without you in it. All of the joy that I had known for all my life was stripped away from me the minute that you died.

The Mother We Share - CHVRCHES Come in misery where you can seem as old as your omens. And the mother we share will never keep your proud head from falling

My Hero - Foo Fighters There goes my hero. He's ordinary. Reconciliation is never easy, but with a family like Penelope's, it was always worth it.

Latchkey Kids - Silversun Pickups We're outside and free from all tethers. So get off the floor if you're under the weather. What's in store is not so unusual.

We Are Golden - MIKA Teenage dreams in a teenage circus, running around like a clown on purpose. Who gives a damn about the family you come from? No giving up when you're young and you want something. Together, Penelope Todd and the Batkids resolve to take down the villainous members of ARCANA, together. Although their enemies were wealthy and powerful, they have never once had to learn how to lose something and Penelope Todd and her family will teach them!

You Get What You Give - New Radicals This whole damn world could fall apart. You'll be okay, follow your heart. You're in harm's way, I'm right behind.

Fight Gods - The Garages We're gonna fight gods, fight gods and we're gonna win. And nothing's gonna be the same again.

It seemed like all hope was lost. Being scrappy and determined was not enough when your enemies have no remorse, no mercy, no heart.

Part II - Paramore Dancing all alone to the sound of an enemy's song. I'll be lost until you find me.

No, it couldn't end like this. Not here, not now. Not while Penelope could still breathe. Not when Red Phoenix could still fight.

This Will Be The Day - Casey Lee Williams They see you as small and helpless. They see you as just a child. Surprise when they find out that a warrior will soon run wild.

Other Playlists

Jason Todd / Red Hood

Unnecessary Feelings (Phoenix Wright x Miles Edgeworth)

[new-tella-us]

Next King Ending!

That doesn't end in death for everyone involved. James!

You know what that means! Tired, rambling historian voice!

*AHEM*

The Golden Era was an era of many hiccups and controversies but ultimately was the most prosperous era of all the Abyssal Plains. With one major hiccups by the demon only known as the Demon Lord, and a bumpy transition back to normalcy, today we will be talking about the rulers that started the Golden Era's comeback.

That being King Raestrao and Queen Ezaeur. Raestrao is the son of the previous Golden queen Istorae and the Demon Lord. Ezaeur is the daughter of two pure blooded royals of the Lilith king that, due to the carnage and subsequent scrubbing from the history books, we don't know the names of.

Now the immediate assumption is that these two were set up in an arranged marriage and...you'd be like 40% right. They were but then Raestrao along with his brothers would disappear on a ten year excursion thus ending the arranged marriage and probably triggering the massacre of Lilith Kingdom.

Where did Raestrao's brothers go? What happened to the remnant of the rebellion? Why did Raestrao disappear and abandon the marriage only to come back and get married to Ezaeur ten years later? If I even tried to figure those out I would die of lack of energy and coffee overdose. (I'm already tired man... leave me alone)

Aka, we don't know. He just vanishes and the earliest records of his return are ten years later during the war against his father.

Speaking of, how did that end? Another place of murky details! It would have been as straight forward as "Raestrao and Ezaeur killed the Demon Lord and took the throne," if staff didn't find feathers at the scene. Angels were involved but it's completely unknown on how. There is also evidence that the disappearance and supposed death of Istorae was caused by angels as well so there's that. Other than that, we know nothing.

Now that the Golden Kingdom has been restored, how have the two rulers faired. Not great! The most stable part of their rule were their laws and attempts to rebuild. Raestrao and Ezaeur were clearly very intelligent being that they manage to start a new set of laws, repair their kingdoms far past their previous glory and even improved agriculture by using methods only seen in the human world and combining them with magic for maximum efficiency. As law makers, they were beloved by all.

As rulers... we get a little worse. Reports of madness yellow imply that both rulers suffered from it and that would explain the higher amount of executions than previous generations -minus the Demon Lord-. The best way to describe the pair as rulers are ruthless, especially to whatever people they didn't originally belong to. Aka if someone of the Lilith kingdom pissed them off, they were better off pleading their case to Ezaeur as Raestrao would show no mercy and vice versa.

Then there was them as a couple. Dysfunctional as HELL. There are no reports or paintings of those two being happy together. In fact, on more than one occasion, a fight between the two rulers had to be quelled to keep it from getting physical. They also slept in separate rooms on the opposite sides of the castle. That was damn near unheard of! Even Istorae and the Demon Lord shared a room! All of this plus the existence of a harem girl and the rumored relationship between the Queen and her bodyguard are proof enough that those two clearly did not like each other and there was no sense of loyalty in their relationship.

It's strictly business.

Speaking of the harem girl! This human's name is a little unclear. Some records would say it's "Mika" though the most common thing she was called was "Human" and the most common nickname she was given was either "Aphrodite" (The human, greek goddess of love and beauty) or "Ambrosia" (Another human, greek name meaning "drink from the gods"). For the sake of giving her a name, we'll call her "Ambrosia" as that name was the most popular. Unlike many concubines before her, we actually have VERY clear records of her existence! Yay! My job is easier for once! This is the girl you would look to if you wanted to see any semblance of happiness out of the king, though she may have not been as happy to be there. She's a human girl a few years younger than the king and the two most likely met during Raestrao's disappearance as Ambrosia starts popping up in the records during the war like Raestrao.

Now easier doesn't mean easy, there still a lot of questions about how exactly she made it to the demon world, why she was involved in the war and what made her stay after the war -if she was even given a choice, which was unlikely seeing the chains often depicted on her wrists and ankles.

She was clearly a prisoner in the castle and there to serve Raestrao personally but she seemed to be treated better than most harem girls. (Side note- Yes I'm going to say that with every version of Mika in these endings. The boys aren't abusing her like the Demon Lord abused Omaizel) Often her main outfits were compared to the ones the previous queen, Istorae, would wear and this seems to be no accident as she was also provided Istorae's scarf-thing. This was probably to give her an air of royalty and be a subtle reminder that she was to be treated like how you were to treat a queen.

Another interesting figure would be the Queen's knight, Saero. Surprisingly, there's less information about him than there is about the human that appeared randomly 100 years after him. He was a servant of the Lilith kingdom and specifically Ezaeur since he was young. Even after the kingdom burnt down, he stayed loyal to his mistress and followed her even to this new kingdom. There's supporting evidence that, like the harem girl and the king, there might have been a sexual relationship going on between the Queen and her guard especially since he seemed to be the only one that she ever confides in.

Now, what about heirs? There was at least one! Though might have been two? Okay let me explain. There were at least four children that were the daughters and sons of Raestrao or Ezaeur. However, there is only one that is confirmed to be the daughter of Raestrao and Ezaeur. That would be the heir and eventual next Queen of the golden kingdom. There were also three others of dubious origins. From the taint we can assume that the firstborne son and youngest daughter were Raestrao's children and the secondborne son (aka the middle child) was Ezaeur's child.

The two sons were eventually confirmed to not have been the children of both rulers with the firstborne being most liking Ambrosia's child and the second son being most likely Saero's child. The last child, however, is unknown. She takes most of her appearance from her father so it's hard to tell who the mother of said child is. On top of that, there are multiple paintings that depict Raestrao having a much warmer relationship with his youngest daughter than either of his confirmed child. Yes, including the heir. And we're not completely sure on why. The only theory that's stuck is that the youngest (possibly illegitimate) daughter acted very similar to someone Raestrao cared about, sweet and curious, unlike his eldest son who's far more abrasive in personality and his eldest daughter who was more cold and calculated.

In the end, when the kids came of age; Raestrao's eldest son, similarly to his father, disappeared for a few years before popping up again and settling in a small town. The eldest daughter and heir took the throne and ruled with a similar about of intelligence and coldness as her parents. And Ezaeur's eldest son and Raestrao's (and possibly Ezaeur's?) youngest daughter became nobles for different kingdoms (Despite at least Ezaeur's son being a bastard child) and would marry their rulers and spread the golden reign.

[lalasknives]

My unpopular(?) hdf opinion because the first thing I wanna do after creating a new account is get hate/j

-as much as I like chenry, I feel like they work better as best friends then anything. In 5 seasons they spent only one episode to actually talk about the possible romantic relationship between the two (the one where Charlotte would have rather died then kiss Henry 💀). I don't remember if they actually developed their (romantic) relationship more and if they did it was too subtle for me to notice

- jasper had the best development in hd and I feel like no one talks about it

- on the other hand Charlotte had little to no development, but that's ok beacuase that means she was perfect to begin with.

-the ending for hd for perfect for the show, with or without the spinoff. It was very mature for a kids show and I feel like even if henry had decided to stay in swellwiew the same thing would have happened just a little later

-henry being able to pull every girl he met was unnecessary if not a little annoying

-i didn't really like chapa in season 1, it was pretty obvious they were trying to create another piper but eventually gave up and gave her the development she actually deserves

-I don't really blame the fandom for ignoring Miles , the creators don't really put effort in his character, which really saddens me because if whey looked into him more, not only he would turn out to be an actual interesting character but also a relatable one at that. I also think that him being the "black best friend who is also comic relief" is annoying and the trope is overused in general. I REALLY hope that in season 3 they actually give him more screen time and stop excluding him so much.

-bose's character in general is too dark to be looked more into. The divorce of his parents, his dad being out of the picture, his relationship with his stepdad, the DRINKING of his stepdad, his relationship with his mother, his really bad anxiety are all to dark themes to be talked about in a kids show. We already have proof of characters with pretty horrible backgrounds that are only slightly talked about and it always becomes a laughing matter(jasper, cat, sam, ray...). Which makes me worry that character will remain pretty much the same (dumb and attractive). With that being said he is a protagonist nkt a side character, and Luca himself said that he would like to see a darker side of bose so maybe I shouldn't loose hope yet

-bose's character as of right now could be the best representation of gay that we (lgbtq members) could have in a kids show ( if you ask I will elaborate this)

-Mika is a queen

Right now I can't think of anything else so let me know what you think about my opinions! I really don't mind if you disagree, actually I'm jnterested in more points of view and I'm a person who actually likes to change opinions If yours makes more sense