#where's my type of creole >:(

[tumblasha]

i miss perú. especially the food from my dad's hometown, moyobamba. i want to eat the caldo de gallina from the restaurant by the tarapoto airport. i want to travel to the town an hour away from my grandparents' house to eat majás. i want to make juanes with my grandmother. i want to visit my aunts and uncles and eat around lima. i want to go to my mom's hometown, jauja, and eat cuy. i want to go to a random chicken chain restaurant (rocky's? roxy's? they're literally two different chains that are also the same). i want to eat at bembos where they put fries in the burgers. i'll even take going back to houston (where my mom's family is visiting now) and eat at a peruvian restaurant there. it's the first time Ever that i'm comfortable speaking spanish to all my relatives, none of that "i'm so young and they're so old" fear, none of that language insecurity. i want to go see my family :(

[queenie-avenue]

Sent from Below, Fell from Above. [pt.1] [pt.2]

—> if angels can fall, demons can rise.

⤻ reader is a female, reader is a bunny-type angel(?), canon-typical cursing, very bad use of 1920s slang, heavily inspired by @jazjelspen 's angel baby fic, death, betrayal, mentions of racism, abuse of men against women and sexism, angst, spoilers for all of hazbin hotel season one, flashbacks

notes: a rather long one, and wrote another small verse for readers to sing. I wrote it while slowing down the melody in Emily and Charlie's parts.

💌 ⤻ archives.

You walked into the broadcasting room, your heels clacking against the clean floor as you looked about before acknowledging that someone was already there.

"Ah, are you my newest assistant?" The man seated there had the widest grin on his face as he sat there, legs slightly spread apart as you gulped, nodding your head so meekly. Ah, to be human again, when you were too scared to even raise your head. "Haha, that's wonderful, my dear. I was told you had quite the resume. Most impressive for a young lady." You nodded your head. "Very... very impressive indeed." He smiled at you.

"You are impressive too, sir." You quipped.

"Oh?" He tilted his head.

You blushed as he narrowed his eyes at you. "Both of us... we- we're not exactly what society deems as... correct."

"Is that why you're working here? You relate to me?" The creole man asked, leaning against his chair as he tapped a lanky finger on his desk.

"No." You shook your head, your wild hair shaking alongside you. "I admire you. I want to be like you. I imagine it must have been hard for to get to where you are now." You spilled your heart out to this man, because for years, you admired how someone that was meant to be pushed out of what society deemed 'right' managed to rise to the top, to become a striking star in the radio world. "So I'm here because I want to learn how to become a star, just like you."

His eyes widened as you faced him with that determined look on your face.

"What a bright young woman." He rose up from his seat, sauntering his way towards you as you stood there, waiting.

Alastor grabbed your hand, bowing down as he looked up at you, that sweet grin on his face. "Alastor, my dear, pleasure to meet you." He said, before sealing your fate with a kiss on your hand. "I hope that we can get along well." You gazed at him with wide eyes, your eyes raking over his bronzed skin and brown — almost red — hair. Glasses lined his gleaming eyes.

✧ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ✧

"Hey, bitch! I'm talking to you over here!" Adam's voice rang throughout your head as your head snapped up to meet the first man on Earth. You frowned.

You never liked Adam. He was stuck-up, and you had heard the stories of how badly he treated Lilith and Eve, it reminded you of your high-school friends who unfortunately fell into the hands of those abusive men they had to marry. Adam had the same air as them, just less... smart.

"You want me to show up to the trial?" You repeated.

"Yes!" Adam yelled.

"I don't mind. That demon princess annoys me a little. I don't understand why she's trying to redeem a murderer like him." You hissed. The fact that girl — who probably knew of his sadistic nature — associated with him, left a bad taste in your mouth. Though wrath was a sin, you felt resentment and wrath for Alastor, and envy for how he did not seem to regret any of his actions that led him to hell in the first place. Meanwhile, you had to deal with the nightmares that came with being killed. For the first years in Heaven, you woke up in cold sweat as you remembered the knife that went through your heart.

"Well then, babe," you disliked Adam, but a temporary truce would be fine. "Let's start heading there, shall we?"

You nodded and unflapped your wings.

✧ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ✧

You flew up to the seat beside Adam, eyes narrowed as you watched Alastor promenade in with the Princess of Hell and that girl you still had no idea about. The way he walked was still the same as it had been years ago.

You met eyes with Alastor, mustering all your courage to send a look of malice his way, as Sera announced the beginning of court.

"We are gathered here today to determine whether or not a soul in Hell can be redeemed to the Heavenly Realm by means of this Hazbin Hotel." Oh, you just knew Alastor named that Hotel, he always did have a sick sense of humour. You almost snorted at the name too, but refrained from doing so.

Adam nudged you. "Now." He practically hissed. Out of spite, you almost didn't stand up.

"Objection!" You said as you stared down at the Princess, then at Sera. "I apologise for interrupting you, your royal highness." You looked down at her, then up at Sera, who glared at Adam, instinctively knowing it was his idea to rope in the innocent you into his plans. "I understand that as a Winner, I typically have no say in how Heaven runs things." You summoned up all your might as you met Sera's eyes, utilising all that courage you had back as Alastor's assistant into your heavenly body. "But I must disagree on the type of people the Princess of Hell is trying to redeem." You pointed a finger at Alastor, his eyes widening in amusement as you accused him.

"This man, I knew him from when I was alive, my heavenly council." You looked at all the archangels and others that gathered around. "He was the man who killed me. A notorious serial murderer from when I was alive. More of his victims are no doubt here too, maybe some in hell. But what doesn't change the fact is that someone as dangerous as him," You pointed your finger at Alastor again, your face turning red as he simply tilted his head towards you, like a gentleman greeting a lady. The council gasped as they all whispered about, some glaring down at your murderer. For once, you felt like justice was being served for how abruptly your life had ended in Alastor's hands."Does not belong in Heaven after all the souls he has killed in his time in the living. No matter how much he repents, taking away another human's soul is an unforgivable crime!" You exclaimed.

The rest of the council agreed, as the Princess and the girl beside her looked about, frantic. Alastor simply smiled up at you, his little bunny.

"Order in the court." Sera said, attempting to calm everyone down after you riled them up with your voice.

"You've always been such a good public speaker, my little bunny." You saw red, he dared to call you that intimate nickname in front of the Heavenly Court? After you had revealed his crime to everyone to see?

It seems that Alastor's nerve had not died with him.

"Why is he even here?" You questioned Charlie, your fiery gaze never leaving the trio below you.

"I am the host of the hotel, my dear!" Alastor said, "I should be here to support my fellow colleagues in their endeavours. What kind of co-worker — let alone friend — would I be if I let them defend their case on their own?"

You were about to speak when you were interrupted by that Princess.

"In the Hazbin Hotel, we believe that everyone can be redeemed!" The Princess exclaimed despite the loud voices drowning her out. "Please, you have to listen!"

"You don't even have evidence that this Hotel can work. If you do, we'd be glad to see it!" Adam responded sarcastically, challenging Princess Morningstar.

"We have a patron that is showing incredible progress." She said.

"Who?"

"Don't tell me it's him." You glared at the Princess, daring her to confirm your doubts.

"Angel Dust!" What an odd name.

"Oh yeah! The porn demon, he's totally worth being redeemed." Adam blew a Raspberry at them. That was... immature. Still, your cheeks almost flamed scarlet as Adam gave you context for who and what this sinner the Princess referred to was.

"Well, if you know so much, what do you think it takes to get into heaven?" She pointed at Adam as your eyes widened. You had never thought about this before but... what did a person need to do to get into heaven? Did they need to be perfect? Because if so, you certainly belonged in Hell. Then, you remembered Alastor and your mood soured to think that you might have been in the same spot as him.

What was even more shocking was when Adam began to get flustered, flabbergasted by Charlie's question as Sera inquired as to whether Adam was okay. You watched even more shocked as Adam cursed at Sera and began to scribble nonsense onto a paper and sent it down to the girl. You caught a glimpse of the paper and your eyes widened.

"Are you fucking serious?" The ashen girl by the Princess' side asked, and honestly, that was your reaction too.

Adam snapped his fingers as Charlie challenged him, your eyes narrowing as an orb of light began to reflect, glowing bright before showcasing a bunch of sinners... partying? Was that how partying looked nowadays?

"Heavenly people, what more do you need to see? The pornstar chose a night of debauchery, that's not a soul worthy of being redeemed!" You side-eyed Adam. He had done way more debaucherous stuff than you cared to admit, and plus, if not partying was one of the factors for how you could get into heaven, the parties Alastor dragged you to would have caused you to plummet to Hell already.

"Are you telling me you never had a drink with friends after a hard day?" The Princess was right.

Thankfully, Sera was much more forgiving and less stupid than Adam, considering that she eventually allowed the Princess of Hell to continue. Still, you glared at Alastor, annoyed that you and Adam's ploy to get everyone so worked up over the serial killer in the room had not worked.

If the type of people the Princess of Hell, Charlotte Morningstar, wanted to redeem was a serial murderer, you would never accept the idea of redemption.

Alastor did not deserve such happiness.

You continued to watch, and the more you watched, the more you empathised with this Angel Dust... the more you felt inclined to care for him. You felt your heart — that you had assumed turned to stone for the sinners down in hell — slowly soften into clay for this sad man. Yet, despite how sad he clearly was, he was so strong. Stronger than anyone you had ever seen.

"See! He did everything on your list! He was selfless, he stopped Nifty from stealing and stuck it to that Moth man!" Charlie exclaimed, causing your eyebrows to furrow.

"Well, b- then why isn't he here then!" Adam sputtered out. "Hm?"

"Why isn't he here?" Emily and You said in unison.

"Wait, none of you know what gets someone into Heaven?"

The rest of the conversation was a blur to you as you struggled with the idea that you had no idea why you were in Heaven. If you had done one wrong thing... would that have condemned you to hell with Alastor?

You had not even comprehended the fact that they had started debating their ideas in song till Lute who was seated beside you, began to insult the sinner that all of you had been observing. Your eyes had solely been focused on Alastor the entire time, but theh quickly shot to Lute.

"What are we even talking about? Some crack whore who fucked up already! He blew his shot like the cocks in his mouth, this discussion is senseless and petty!" Lute sang, and you almost reached out for her, to not say such crude things in front of the Heavenly council and certainly to not insult a victim of abuse. Yet Lute and Adam flew away first and you frowned even deeper.

"Gotta say I can't wait to-"

"Adam." You turned to Sera.

"Come down and exterminate you!" Your eyes widened as you realised the severity of this situation. You now understood why this Princess was fighting so hard for this hotel.

Adam was killing the sinners.

He was no better than Alastor. No, even worse. Adam slaughtered an entire group of people without mercy. You felt bile rise up from your throat as they continued to sing, the tunes of their voice banging against your ears.

"Whoops!"

"Guess the cat's out of the bag!"

"What's the big deal?"

They didn't even see what was wrong with what they had said. You almost stumbled back thanks to shock and your absurdly long dress. Your entire world was sent into a frenzy as you felt so disgusted with yourself, for thinking that you could work with Adam, for siding with Sera and Adam — though briefly — for the idea of extermination. You felt yourself fall back, but someone was there to catch you.

Alastor's shadows manifested behind you, holding you close to his chest. "Be careful, Sweetheart." He said, helping you regain your balance as you felt too much anger with yourself to be angry at him.

"If Hell is forever, then Heaven must be a lie!"

"Emily-"

"If Angels can do whatever and remain in the sky! The rules are shades of grey, when you don't do as you say, when you make the wretched suffer just to kill them again!"

Their words resonated with you, and you found your heart thumping to the melody of the song.

"Don't look there." Alastor whispered as a red hand came up to your face, covering your eyes. "I don't like to see you stressed, my darling." The warmth of his hand felt like that time when he had surprised you on your birthday, covering your eyes before revealing the cake he had bought and the decorations he had put up for you.

Despite how he covered your ears, you could hear the court arguing amongst themselves.

That's when you heard it.

Sera's voice boomed throughout the entire court, facing the sinners with a verdict. "I'm sorry, but this court finds that there is no evidence souls in Hell can be redeemed."

"Oh fuck yes! I win, suck it, bitches!"

"You better save the date cunts, because we're coming to your hotel, first." That's when Alastor manifested in front of them, his shadows pushing Adam back, almost causing him to topple over.

"Not a very clever idea, chum, it's rude to curse at ladies." Alastor warned, the shadowy tentacles slithering about, ready to attack Adam.

"Ugh, son of a bitch!" Adam cursed as he grabbed out his guitar. "Or maybe, I can just kill you fuckers now." He took out his guitar-axe and in a flash of light, you flew towards them, shielding the trio from Adam's strikes with your wings. Adam flew back when his guitar-axe made contact with your angelic wings, enchanted by a spell that slammed Adam and Lute back, crashing into the wall.

"Just because you're a winner, does not give you the privilege to harm someone else!" You yelled, never having such a fit of rage in your life as you spread out your wings. You were a bunny; prey, never the predator. But as you spread out your Enchanted wings, you felt yourself grow angrier as you thought of how Adam — that sadistic motherfucker — no doubt killed multiple sinners. Sinners who were just like Angel Dust, misguided, but deserving of redemption.

"Are you seriously defending them right now, you crazy bitch?" Adam grunted as he glared at you.

"I'm defending the principle of it." You hissed.

Sera and Emily looked down at you. Sera, in particular, had a sour look on her face.

"You say that demons cannot be redeemed to Heaven, but why can Angels fall?" You questioned. "Lucifer himself, was once an angel, God's favourite angel!"

"If angels can fall, then why can't demons rise?" You looked towards the Heavenly council as you sang. "After this, will you really believe all their lies?" You questioned through song as Adam got up, knowing you had little time to convince the court. "The rules aren't black and white, who decides what's wrong and right? Can you say that this is justice when you kill them again?" You sang, pleading for the court to just look past their prejudices.

Just then, you heard a snap of Adam's fingers as a portal emerged from behind all of you. "No!" You yelled when you noticed how the portal was leading to a red fiery pit you assumed was hell, but before you could even protest, you had been pushed in by Lute, causing the rest of the four of you to stumble back down into hell.

tags: @duckydinglers @ghostdoodlen @belletifeshyl

[felucians]

un bisou

Fandom: Marvel X-men | Gambit/Remy LeBeau x Reader

Reader is gender neutral with no physical descriptions. Rated PG-13 because Gambit would be the type of guy to grab anyone's ass during a kiss, he would test the boundaries and we all know it. Reader is a mutant with celestial Sun powers - technically based on my OC's powers which manipulates the Sun, specifically it's fire.

Summary: Takes place during Days of Future Past in the original X-Men series, where Bishop accuses Gambit of an assassination that destroys the future, reader is the only one to believe him. Pre-established relationships between Rogue/Gambit, Reader/Gambit and Reader is a member of the X-men team. Title is French for "a kiss". Wordcount: around 800 words.

"Don't nobody trust Gambit, eh?"

Rogue can't meet his eyes, her gaze downcast and guilt etched onto her features.

Gambit won't look at you, at your eyes glazing over in tears as your shared family denies him, believes that he could be the assassin. He didn't hear your whisper of "I do" as he loudly announces to the room, "Then Gambit don't need nobody."

He stalks away, glowering as his trench coat flows behind like a cape, and then the room is silent as his footsteps fade.

The lights black out and you're finally unfrozen, "How dare you? All of you? Not trusting one of our own, our team. Who are we if we cannot trust each other? What kind of family is this?"

The Sun hesitantly flickers through the windows, as solar flares begin radiating from your arms, anger burning through your body.

Rogue is first to speak, "Calm down, Sugah—"

"Calm down? When you all just turned your backs on him?"

Jean fixes you with a soft, understanding gaze and whispers "Go" in your mind - your chair hits the wall, leaving a dent with flashes of celestial energy trailing behind.

You don't even realise your feet carrying you through the hallways, yelling his name throughout the mansion, praying to anyone listening that he's still here and you find him before he leaves here, before he leaves you.

He's standing, paused at the doorway to the X-jet, breathing heavily with angry mutters of Cajun creole - blurring English and French seamlessly. Gambit looks up at the sound of your footsteps, a flash of vulnerability in his eyes that left in a second, replaced by a harsh piercing glare, "Porquoi êtes-vous ici, Dulcinée?" (Why are you here, sweetheart?)

The nickname is spat out, venom seeping out from the endearment that would usually bring a soft flush of heat to your face. You try not to flinch. Emphasis on try, because you do, and his face somehow looks even more pained at that. Words evade you as your throat dries, refusing to respond, so you take a deep breath and a soft gulp before you respond, grateful that you could understand his mother tongue.

"I'm here because I trust you, Remy."

He falters, searching your eyes desperately to spot any falsehoods, any inkling that you were spying on him for Charles - he doesn't find any. He finds pure raw love, the kind you knew you felt but could never truly verbalise.

Everyone on the team could see your soft spot for Gambit, and he knew it too. Sure, he flirted with every woman he came into contact with and he couldn't stop thinking about Rogue - but there was something about you that left the Cajun torn, as if he also loved you but didn't dare bare his heart to anyone, as if his shield crumpled, then his world would collapse and destroy everyone he cared about with it.

But here, with only you left, dangerously close to him in the enclosed space of the doorframe's entrance, he couldn't remember why he kept those walls up. He allowed his eyes to flicker to your soft lips, watching intensely as you involuntarily catch the bottom one in between your teeth. Your heart is hammering in your chest and before you can think to pull away, to move down the hallway or into the next room, his big hands are splayed on your soft hips, your spandex suit in bright terracotta separating your skin to skin contact.

He's surprisingly soft, as his lips meet yours and he tastes like spice and tobacco. It infiltrates your senses, enveloping you in a blanket of warmth and desire while you gasp, allowing him to deepen the kiss further, to let Remy explore your mouth, your taste, your emotions. His gloved hands grasp around your waist as the other dips down to your ass, giving it a small squeeze. His smirk brushes his stubble against your cheek at the soft breathy moan you let out from his actions - you would swear Jubilee was in here with the amount of fireworks lighting up your veins, the passion and love igniting your whole body in flames.

Gambit pulls away, and his face is almost unreadable and then it's sad. It's a goodbye kiss, you realise as he walks past you through the door to the X-jet - and you almost let him.

He's so lost on his own emotions and thoughts from the kiss that ghosts his lips that he doesn't notice you slipping into the darkened room after him, only to be blinded by the harsh lights as Bishop and Wolverine reveal themselves, entirely unaware of everything that just transpired between you both...

[spider-gem]

Alright, you know what time it is: THEORY TIME!

In Hazbin Hotel, everyone’s name correlates to their character (such as Angeldust, Vox, Sir Pentious, etc). As a writer and reader, I firmly believe that names are important and can give us a deeper look into characters. Alastor, despite keeping his real name from life, is not an exception.

In a series where names reflect their characters, I would bet that Alastor’s gives us a hint into who he was before he died. This, along multiple other reasons, leads me to believe that Alastor only targeted guilty or corrupt people in power.

Hear me out:

We don’t know much about Alastor’s past, as nothing has been confirmed in the show. So for now, let’s analyze the lore we’ve gotten from Vivziepop over the years and the context clues in the show. Let’s look at the hazbin wiki:

Now, that “weird moral code” could be directed at anyone, but here’s my reasons for believing he went after corrupt people with power:

1. I’ve never seen the show, but I know that Dexter was about a vigilante serial killer that targeted criminals that haven’t been punished by the justice system due to corruption. So I would say, seeing Alastor is being compared to Dexter, Alastor likely went after the same type of people.

2. He grew up and lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the early 1900’s as a mixed man. If you don’t know much about American history, just remember that this during a period of segregation and heavy discrimination against Black Americans, and Louisiana was one of the most racist states at the time. I’m not going to go through a whole history lesson right now, but note that lynchings reached their height by the late 1800’s to early 1900’s as a way to enforce white supremacy and intimidate minorities. Some cases, if not most, were not regarded as homicides by police and the overwhelming majority of lynching perpetrators never faced justice. Even if they were tried, all white juries ensured that they wouldn’t be convicted. Seems like a good target for a Creole serial killer, right?

3. In the series, so far, we’ve seen that Alastor’s closest connections are with female characters, such as Rosie, Mimzy, and Nifty. He’s also been described as a “momma’s boy” before, so it’s safe to say he has high respect for women. During the period of his life span, women had little rights. Sure, they gained the right to vote in 1920, but that was about it. It wasn’t even until a few years after Alastor died before women had the right to divorce their husbands, and were often stuck in abusive households. For this reason, I could see Alastor going after domestic abusers as well.

4. He probably killed bigots that attempted to tear down his radio show as well. I don’t really have much evidence for this claim, but note that Alastor was a famous radio star. He’s also Creole. While some Creole people were considered as “white-passing”, interracial marriage was prohibited in Louisiana during this period. Alastor very likely had to struggle to succeed, and there’s no doubt that certain people in power attempted to tear him down because of his heritage.

5. Let’s look at his life in hell now. Who has he been rumored to have targeted ? That’s right, powerful overlords. Even in hell, Alastor still went after people in power. Sure, this was arguably to gain power, but the point that he only went after corrupt powerful figures still stands. Anyone else we see him kill, such as the loan sharks or the angels, threatened him and the hotel first.

To conclude, there’s no saying what sent Alastor on his path as a serial killer. I personally favor the popular fan theory that his first kill that sent him on this path was his father, likely after his father harmed/killed his mother, but anyone’s theory is as valid as that one at the moment. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.

It could just be the social justice warrior in me saying, “Oh yeah, Alastor TOTALLY killed corrupt cops and domestic abusers”. However, I do believe that my theory on Alastor’s moral code is true based on my observations.

[immoralimmortals]

we hop-skip-jump back with more akatsuki questions! we hope your days have been grand and your songs sweet, tak(?)

if the akatsuki were exposed to the cuisines of our modern, international world, what would each of them gravitate to? would hidan be lured by the cooking of the southern american states, creole, the sausages and cuts and grinds of europe, the whole beasts of the pacific? would itachi look at italian cuisine and feel a deep pang of nostalgia of how sasuke would like this fare? what would these tongues make of our world's bounty?

Hello again! Yes, I'm Tak uvu Some more cusine headcanons for you, dear!:

Honestly I think you nailed Hidan right off the bat. I think he's a connoisseur of meat in specific, if given the time and lack of killing people (so only a world with no Jashin. Probably). I can imagine him, Deidara, and sometimes Kisame having a hot sauce drinking contest. Kakuzu would show up and blow them out of the water once and never participate again. I think Hidan would like beef jerky and pork rinds.

My dad is obsessed with the Red Lobster food chain and now I'm thinking about how Kisame would genuinely enjoy himself while everyone else is only there for cheddar bay biscuits.

My dad just bought at least 100$ worth of Red Lobster gift cards once finding out they're going out of business HE KEEPS ASKING ME OUT TO RED LOBSTER SOMEONE FUCKING HELP M

I've already said in a prior post that Deidara would be OBSESSED with pop rocks. Wouldn't be surprised if he seeks out other kinds of food that give specific sensations, hence the hot sauce bit just now. He'd love carbonated drinks, too. He can bullshit his way into convincing you that yes, Monster Energy Drink *does* require a sophisticated flavor palate! He'd try anything if it had a novelty factor, at least one he can take seriously.

Perhaps obviously I can see Itachi especially enjoying the vast variety of teas that one can acquire in the modern world. My personal favorites tend to be rooibos blends, so I'd like to give him a cup. God, he'd be a great cafe owner. Literal coffee shop AU type of man. I want him to tell me about the floral notes in this morning blend of green tea from the Himalayas. I wanna own a combination tea shop and bakery with him, that'd be the dream.

Kakuzu strikes me as a hardy, heavy food kind of guy. Stews and meats and breads. He'd probably like corned beef and cabbage and potatoes. ...Sorry my Irish in me is coming out. Gravitates to comfort food that keeps you full and warm.

Nagato and Konan are...interesting ones to consider, because whenever I think about them and food I just can't stop thinking about how formative starvation must have been for them. I think they can get overwhelmed by seasonings really fast, anything especially salty or sugary or what have you is in small portions. I don't think they'd deal well with the fact that the most available foods in some societies are saturated with flavor that's overcompensating for shitty processed food. I think if you gave Nagato a bottle of Sunny D it might actually kill him.

Sasori can't taste shit, I think, but if he did he's one of those assholes with PIN POINT PRECISION. Wine connoisseur. Chocolate connoisseur. Will intellectually wreck your shit if you tell him you're making spaghetti and serve him angel hair.

I think Obito would get really disappointed if you told him you were going to get mochi and you came back with the kind you get from the grocery store.

Zetsu still eats people, I can only presume. He might be interested in foods related to "stranger" body parts, brain cheese and haggis, that sort of thing.

Side note: several years ago when I first entered my never-ending Akatsuki phase, I read a really, really cute self insert or reader insert fic where the Akatsuki came to the "real world" and they watched Spongebob and Kisame made what the story described as an adorable face as he was shown how a soda can works. I've been looking for it and my heart yearns to reread. If you happen to find it, please let me know!

[kiragecko]

@lordlyhour asked me for suggestions about how to get into linguistics. I'm too wordy to stuff all my thoughts into a reply, so here's a post!

Figure out what you're curious about and look into it casually. Don't take it too seriously. Linguistics is a huge field, and it can take a while to figure out which parts really resonate, so explore!

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You want to understand more about how language changes and develops? I suggest looking up various words on Wiktionary, and clicking on various links in the "Etymology" section. Stop in the middle of thoughts to see if random words could be connected. Read through a page of words on Old-Engli . sh and see which ones you recognize. Look up a list of English prefixes and learn about where they come from and their subtleties of meaning.

Or look up Creoles and Pidgins! They are really cool, and also, because of the way they develop to bridge communication gaps, can work is interesting primers to a lot of concepts.

If you're interested in sounds, I suggest going to a site that shows an interactable IPA alphabet, and just listening to the various sounds and trying to interpret all the gobbledy-gook describing them. I mostly just use Wikipedia these days, but IPAChart is also pretty good, and there are a lot of other sites online with similar things.

Try to transcribe your own words in IPA. (You WILL be wrong, especially if you don't speak General American or a prestige British English dialect. Accept that and have fun doing it anyways!)

Watch some videos by Dr. Geoff Lindsey or Tom Scott's Language Files.

Find a bunch of pictures of your mouth and throat when forming various vowels. Read up on all the structures in your mouth/throat and how they affect sounds.

If you have fun getting thrown in the deep end, Index Diachronica has a lot of good info about historic sound changes, and PHOIBLE has a LOT of info about what sounds languages are actually likely to use, and how complex they can get. Neither is even slightly designed for newcomers, but it can be fun to play with stuff that only sort-of makes sense!

Conlangers (people who design artificial languages) also have a lot of good beginner resources! The Language Construction Kit covers all the basics in an interesting and accessible way.

Getting a book about historical linguistics from the public library can also be a great start. It will go over all the various things about language that can change, and give you a pretty good primer to the broader field while doing it. Also, you get to read about sound changes, and how sounds diverge as languages split from each other, and I LOVE that sort of thing! It's really really neat!

Also, look up the inflection systems of at least one language, because English's case system for nouns is pathetic, and our conjugation of verbs still leaves a lot to be desired. This leaves English speakers at a disadvantage when learning linguistics, because that stuff is kinda fundamental and instead we're heavily relying on word order.

I'm not nearly as interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, but look into them enough to see if anything catches your eye.

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If there's something that seems cool, look into it more. Read up on Latin, or Proto-Indo-European, or explore the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Look up the Indigenous languages in your area and try to learn how to actually pronounce the street names and other locations that everyone butchers. Listen to the people around you and notice the variations in dialect. Look at ALL the various meanings of 'for' or some other tiny particle, and try to understand the nuances. Whatever it is, dig in. If something is confusing, look into that. If something is distracting, note it for later, or let yourself get sidetracked.

There are fundamentals in linguistics. It helps to learn them at some point. But please have fun first! Then you'll get a better idea of which type of fundamentals you want to invest in. Because if you're interested in word change, you want to focus on very different things then if sounds systems intrigue you, or you want to understand what's happening in your brain.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Hi again, I’m the anon who misses old Stroker who went on about tidbits about character dialogue and how different ways of speaking could tell a character. Yada Yada, another long post from someone who is too chicken to actually show their face that speaks these constructive criticisms.

Something I also noticed is Viv lack of proper research in time periods in terms of fashion and a lack of even variations in clothing type. Don’t get me wrong it can pretty difficult to do proper research on culture and fashion from different years/period, but it feels pretty disappointing that Viv doesn’t seem to do actual research, but more like either a brief skim or some sort of vague memory recall.

I recall seeing a post mentioning some in accuracies like Alastor supposedly being creole but would be most likely not be a radio host (even if he was white passing, it feel like it was not intentional), how Angeldust would have not died during the late 40s from PCP (aka angel dust) as the drug never became a street drug until decades later, etc.

I wanna say that I am disappointed that Viv can’t seem to differentiate character designs of different era. Almost all of the main cast for Hazbin Hotel wears practically the same shape of suit, the over exaggerated v-shaped body that indicates a suit. I think what Viv is basing it off on it’s the oversimplified look of a regular fit suit or a modern fit suit, but with a bow-tie attached to it. I have counted like 6 characters that wear basically the same kind of vague suit with a notched lapel and a bow-tie (Charlie, Lucifer, Angeldust, Vox, Alastor, and Sir Pentious). I am excluding Tom Trench as I am mostly going to refer to relevant characters that are more prominent to the show.

I get it, suits are cool, outside the whole “tumblrsexyman” jokes, a suit goes hard. But almost all of the suit designs are pretty much the same with the slight exception that Sir P’s shoulder pads are more wider. I feel like what Viv could’ve done better is maybe look into how different eras have differences in the fashion, that on the surface level may look the same, but looking a bit closer are different in style. It would be weird if you find someone wearing vaguely European clothing who says they are from Greece.

This is why I find Crymini (anyone remember her?) and Cherribomb’s design more appealing as the design makes sense as their era such as Crymini being that of the 80s punk era (I think that’s what she is supposed to be) and Cherri being that of the 90s. With the 6 characters mentioned, it seems to blur the line of what era they come from. Again, Sir P is excluded as you can get a hint that he is from the 1800s. But Vox, Angeldust, and Alastor’s designs are lacking in differentiation, even subtle differentiations to where they seem like they could be from any era of the 1900s, despite Vox being that from the 50s/60s, Alastor being from the 20s, and Angeldust from the 40s. I think Charlie’s suit could be a bit more fancier and should be its own style unique to Charlie since she is, after all, princess of hell and daughter of Lucifer (I would even say the same for Lucifer) if but that’s just a nitpick and my personal opinion on my end.

Idk, you can add on to this topic if you want

Man you are everything about this show is by someone who failed history and theology. Also it's by someone who says they want a grey morality but it's really about assholes who.make token grand features then go back to being awful.

[olderthannetfic]

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I’m the anon here. I’ve heard the stuff ceerosa mentions before about “learning rules is not helpful” but I’m sorry, I think this is a “not all brains work the same” thing, because while I’ve seen that be true for others it’s never been the case for me in language learning. And I’ve done immersion programs. Learning what the patterns are, like how articles change based on case in German or based on several different things including end of the word in Haitian Creole (seriously it’s so unintuitive) is how it stuck. Just having stuff thrown at me doesn’t help. I’m autistic, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a factor; the other people I know who’ve told me they’re similar are autistic. Autistic brains process enough stuff differently I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a factor.

But yeah, just to be clear: I’ve seen and read that research. It doesn’t change that it’s not actually true for me.

And the particular way Duolingo throws stuff at you doesn’t seem to work well for anyone, in my anecdotal experience

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Well... I think we were talking about slightly different things.

Some students have a desire for there to be reasons for language to work how it does, and they mean reasons that make logical sense today, not just "It evolved from this other historical thing". If there's a word that's an exception, they want there to be a reason for that too that isn't "Sometimes there are exceptions, particularly among very common words. Here's a list."

And from that perspective, yeah, we need to curb that impulse because it's not helpful for how languages actually work.

But yes, the pure immersion, no explanation stuff you get with some programs is not that useful, and the research supports this. It's an idea based on a shallow understanding of how small children learn their first language rather than studying how adults acquire foreign ones.

I did a couple of famous summer language intensives, and the way they typically worked was that there was a bunch of memorization homework for the kinds of things that native speakers just say without thinking about it (e.g. "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Christmas" for Americans—there is no why, and there is no innovation, just this set phrase). We then did conversation drills, some free practice coming up with novel sentences, and listened to natural examples in most of the day's classes...

But we had one class that was in English where they laid out the grammar patterns and such very clearly. If we'd been higher level, maybe they would have explained in the target language, but we weren't, so to get us ahead faster, this part was all in English.

Brains do vary, but I'm not sure they vary that much when it comes to these parts of language learning. Some people despise practicing speaking, for example, but they'll still improve more if they're forced to do these tasks they hate than if they do ~for text study~. Another learner who hates the task less might progress faster, but they're not a categorically different type of learner.

A bigger factor is that the really hard part with language study is staying excited about it and sticking with it, so if you enjoy one style of explanation or practice more, having more of it will make you actually stick around, and I'm sure that does vary a lot by learner.

[milfzatannaz]

Hello, so taking your offer about the NOLA questions, though it might be more speculation than anything (or maybe not, I've only seen the show and the 1994 movie and not the books so who knows). I'm from Brazil and I only know NOLA from movies and TV shows really, but there are some social and cultural aspects that feel somewhat similar to my country... Brazil has a large Black population, famous musical genres, traditional dishes etc created by Black people and even though most of the country is Christian (specially Catholic), non-Abrahamic, Afro-Brazilian religions are quite present here too. Now, I'm not religious at all, I have a weird and maybe even complicated relationship with religion/faith/spirituality in general, maybe for being queer and neurodivergent, but that's another convo lol... But I do think it's nice to represent other kinds of faith. I know most of the main characters were raised Catholic, but do you think they could do that on the show with Africa diaspora religions to some extent? Even if it isn't the main focus? And do you think they could do it in a respectful way that doesn't feel like dismissing, stereotyping and demonizing them like we see on fiction (specially fantasy) all the time? Obviously, I'm not making assumptions about your religion or if you even have one, and if you don't know what to answer it's okay, I just think this is an interesting topic that nobody ever talks about. Specially when it comes to American media, because it seems to be more based on Christianity and Judaism, but having a show that is so heavily set in NOLA could maybe explore other types of faith we barely get to see. I think it could be a good opportunity if they can do it right. Anywaaaaaaaay lmao, sorry I rambled so much and this got too long. 😅 Thank you. 🙃

Hi!!!!!! Thank you for your question!!! It wasn’t too long, I loved reading every line.

I think the similarities between black cultures is fascinating, even if our people are separated by entire continents.

As for the inclusion of folk religion into the show, I’m setting that at a firm “maybe…?”. In the 1994 movie and in the original book, voodoo, or voodun, is loosely included. Anne Rice took mild inspiration from that part of New Orleans culture but I think it might be a bigger part of the Mayfair witches, I don’t know.

Louis is a creole Catholic but as an upper class man he wouldn’t have participated in what we call “African folk Catholicism” , considering the time period he was introduced in. Like Brazil, New Orleans has a version of Catholicism heavily informed by the African diaspora. in the show, he attends historically majority black church. St Augustine has always been the church where free people of color and even slaves attended mass.

So Louis’s religion is probably more in line with traditional Catholicism. St Aug as I know it does not perform any rituals outside of typical mass. If season 3 is in the modern era, I’m not sure if the voodoo informed practices would be included. I do trust the showrunners to be accurate and informed, it just probably won’t be necessary to the plot. I’m not sure.

[lauras-happy-place]

Okay, so I wasn’t sure where to ask this, since other than my brother, I’ve no POC friends. (Or any other for that matter. That’s another subject.)

So my father and his mama (I don’t know the rest of the family on that side…) has afro like hair, while my mum has silk smooth straight hair. Me, being creole (I heard it means something different to Americans but that’s what I’ve been called my entire life, idk what else to call myself), I have the mixture of the two, very dry, very frizzy hair.

And no, my hair routine does NOT need any more steps and care. Like I know all those “don’t do this or that” bizz, like “don’t put shampoo directly onto your hair” etc. I now need things I SHOULD do. I’ve literally been going crazy since I was a pre-teen, being bullied for my hair.

I’ve always lived with my mum and she always handled my hair like she handles hers. We don’t have hairdressers for any other hair type other than Caucasian hair, so they usually just either iron it, or do the usual routine. So even then my hair ends up being the same mess. I tried getting silk hair bonnets, but they’re not available in any physical stores. And I don’t know which online site I could trust…

Do any of you have any pieces of advice? Or maybe tools you’d recommend using?

[howhow326]

Miraculous Ladybug Persona AU because why not!

Marinette

Associated Arcana: Fool (cuz duh), Justice (her main arcana when it's not fool), Magician? (she's good at arts and crafts, I guess)

Initial Persona: Joan of Arc (hands down, her persona, no argument)

Adrien

Associated Arcana: Emperor? (like reversed Emperor where he has no control over his life), Empress? (like reversed empress where he stopped enjoying life kind of and also cuz he's girl coded), Moon (me on my "Adrien's true self is himself and Chat Noir" bs), Magician? (he's good at stuff???)

Initial Persona: Petit Prince (apparently Adrien's story is based on this one)

Alya

Associated Arcana: High Pristess (cuz High Pristess is all about listening to your inner voice and Alya's biggest character moments are listening to her conscious and acting on that), Justice (the whole reason she's a journalist)

Initial Persona: Josephine Baker (I kinda struggled with this one cuz Google dosen't make it easy to research Martinique and I didn't want to do something lame like "Renard the fox lol". I typed up "black woman spy" into Google [because Alya's other story is being Marinette's best friend which is lame] and Josephine was the first French result I got. She was the first black woman movie star and she also spied on the Axis powers for France during WW2. France also gave her the title "Creole Goddess" which scares me)

Chloe

Associated Arcana: Devil (this is what Astruc would give her lol. It also fits cuz Devil is giving in to your vices and Chloe can't stop doing that), Lovers (cuz it'sabout making a choice between two options and aticking with that and Chloe does that both times she's the big bad of the episode), Empress (cuz Chloe is rich and enjoys her life I guess)

Initial Persona: Marie Antoinette (cuz I am 99% Chloe is based on her and it kinda for a meta perspective on Chloes story where she is the scape goat for even worse villains)

Nino

Associated Arcana: Emperor (he's the leader of the resistance i guess), Heriophant? (he gives good advice like 3 times in the series?) , Chariot (the lame answer: he shares character traits with Chie and Ryuji)

Initial Persona: Alexandre Dumas (I was drawing blanks again cuz Nino's only story [outside of being Adrien's best friend] is the resistance stuff so I looked up black people in the French revolution and this the guy I got. Fun fact, he's the father of the guy who wrote three musketeers apparently, I was really not expecting that)

Luka

Associated Arcana: Heriophant (fits it better than Nino), High Pristress (I still think Alya fits this arcana but Luka is rolling in this cards symbolisim with listening to people's inner music and having the miraculous of Intuition)

Initial Persona: Orpheus (cuz Im lame. Marinette is his Eurydice cuz she left him)

Kagami

Associated Arcana: I have no freaking clue this time Magician?????

Initial Persona: Tomoe (cuz Im lame and it's her mom's name)

Lila

Associated Arcana: Moon (cuz what the heck else would she even have? Jester???)

Initial Persona: Coco Chanel (because eff that nazi spy. And it futhers the duality thing that Alya and Lila used to have before they retconed Lila)

Felix

Associated Arcana: Justice (he's a crazy justice boy you cant convince me otherwise)

Initial Persona: Loki (WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO CHOOSE)

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1. Which kink do you think Louis would have that would surprise Lestat?

2. Do you think this fandoms racism has become more obvious due to Louis being a black creole person? Like I feel like people are more aggressive when they say Louis is top because he’s “rough” and Lestat is this dainty pillow broad.

1) i think it would take a lot to surprise lestat sexually [my dude a #BigOleFreak] but the one thing thatd somewhat unnerve him at first is lou breeding kink.. lestat has a very hobbled relationship w being the architect of creation meanwhile louis is like begging to be bred and plugged up so the baby can take. lestat would come around to it & meanly tease lou about it tho :3 if anything i feel like lestat is the one w/ hyperspecific kinks that unnerve louis and take him more time to get used to [we talmbout virginal catholic pimp who despite selling sex and being the voyeur to numerous sexual encounters, his only actual sexual experiences were handjobs & secretly getting head from younger guys prior to les… les got freudian relations & semi normal (nicki) relations, hes been w / men and women before, hes a real freak. i think lestat is a bratty vers whos dom top ways r activated in the presence of louis omega pillow princess pheromones lol]

2) when ppl hear an accusation of a ‘racism’, their only thoughts is some caricature of a confederate/nazi/klan member screaming that they dont want ‘woke’ [if not using the racial slur w/o the euphemism] vampires. when in reality, racism manifested in fan spaces which are predominately composed of white women / white lgbt w/ #blm stickers or bio posts, who have black friends, maybe have even dated or fucked somebody black, manifests as the beliefs they have internalized bc of cultural messaging around black people. their inability to recognize & analyze evident traits in black charas, the inability to relate to the ‘other’, shoving characters who r not such at all into these narrow stereotypes of the mandingo archetype, the stoic black brute, etc. etc. so when they hear us say ‘fandom racism’, they seem to think we’re calling them klan members & personally insulting them. diverting an observation on trends & cultural messaging to personal feelings, so a bystander can go omg how could u do that :( like i said, idrk or care for low bar discourse or throwing shit on ppl but i do think its funny to see ppl make les a dainty delicate waif off 1 hate sex scene that we dont even rly see all the way c. the other scenes we see lol. so they project onto les cuz hes more relatable to them simply cuz theyre both white? my friend who never even watched just knows of it cuz im aggy af mind u made a profound comment i find applicable w les in both book& show verse

‘[its] the contrast between a public show of subversive bi male femininity versus a domestic/private bi male masculinity—that truly applies to a lot of white gays…putting on the performance of gender non conformity but not actually being equitable in your domestic behaviors and simply reifying gendered violence’

nb ppl r more readily able to apply/recognize gnc ~traits~ in pale skin that may or may not be there. i compare les to david bowie & prince bc those men were gnc in performance but very typical to the role of ‘Man’ in their interpersonal& real lives.

& idt louis is that too gnc in his appearance neither, he still favors suits in his heyday yet in dubai has this androgynous unsettling plain black wardrobe. very cold cutting feminine eartha kitt grace jones type appearance/role he plays in this second interview v. the boyish swagger of a typical 1970s black man he puts on in divisadero in sanfran. but he subverts gendered racial stereotypes moreso in his dynamic w nb partners as black men r expected to be overpowering & domineering. where louis holds up gendered racial stereotypes/dynamics as a black man imo is w/ claudia & miss lily, 2 black women, emotionally and physically extracting from the bw in his life and making claudia make the decisions he cant bring himself to do. sorry if this got a lil off topic lol

[lullabydraws2006]

𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓘𝓷𝓯𝓸

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Hi Fox and Friends! My name's Lullaby, and welcome to my story 𝓷𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓭. Here I'll give you lovely kids some of the changes I've made to the cannon for this story as well as introduce you to my OC and her family.

    In terms of the story, this takes place just before the USJ incident, like the day of actually, my OC enters UA after school starts because of some accommodations she requires due to her quirk. She's originally from New Orleans in America, and is best friends with Sero whom she grew up with in the states. They stayed friends when they both moved to Japan. Their friendship is very entertaining, while my OC is normally quite reserved she lets loose a lot more around him. Typical extrovert adopts introvert type of relationship, she's very well acquainted with his family, but he's not so much with her's. She's also become very friendly with Shoji, whom she met during entrance exams.

In terms of The League, Dabi does not exist here because the Todoroki family are healthy. No abusive Endeavor, Shoto doesn't have his scar all that good jazz. Therefore Touya is a pro hero by the name Valor and he works at his father's agency. Where his mother Rei is a Pro Hero by the name Vanguard. Fuyumi is a daycare worker, and Natsuo works as a hacker also for Enji in the event of cyber attacks. Shoto isn't as nonchalant as he is in the canon he's more outgoing and sarcastic. So expect a lot of sassy Shoto. Endeavor here is very... dad. Not in a bad way he is very protective of his family, he's the type of dad who will give his kids his black card and let's them do whatever. He is the dad who will let Fuyumi paint his nails when she was younger or let his sons ride him like a dragon. Just a lot of wholesome stuff. Him and Rei are deeply in love very healthy love life. They fly each other out for birthdays anniversaries and all that good stuff. (Enji and Rei's relationship is gonna be very important towards the beginning of the story.)

Also, something I thought would be pretty cool, is I'm making Izuku's mom, Inko a pro hero. The Green Grace Hero: Kijo, you all know her quirk and here's her design will appear later. Having a pro hero mother I feel would just feed into Izuku's goals more, and I thought it'd be cool for her to be one considering the potential of her quirk.

In terms of other ships you'll see that'll play an important role, Hawks and Miruko. I love bunny girl and bird man, and I find their potential dynamic entertaining. I hope you do too. I do have another OC who I'll be shipping with Gang Orca. ( I may do a spin off for them later along the line. Not sure yet.)

This story will also feature a crossover with Rise of the Guardians.

Because I'm feeling nostalgic.

And I'm old.

(I'm eighteen when writing this. 😅)

Anyhow, North is the owner of a daycare along with the Tooth Fairy, the same one Fuyumi works in, it's more of a side hustle for the both of them. The Tooth Fairy owns a dental firm and is a renowned dentist, and North owns a toy company because why not. As for the Easter Bunny, I thought it'd be funny to make him Miruko's uncle from Australia where he is a pro hero by the name Bunnymund. The Sandman is a teacher at UA for the third years, and Jack is a third year there. So we'll be seeing him shortly.

As for Pitch . . .

You'll see him later.

Now as for my OC, here she is!

(typo in the image, it's supposed to be '35% in her right eye' in the quirk description.)

Say hi to miss Hermine Theriot. A fifteen year old Capricorn with daddy issues, and she is tall, my goodness. Originally her family was from Louisiana before moving to Japan when she was ten years old. She has a creole accent but it only appears when she speaks english. Hermine is the eldest of nine siblings (yes nine)  a pair of twins, and two set of triplets. The twins are twelve at this time, the elder set of triplets are five, and the younger ones are only six months. She's the daughter of a wealthy politician in Japan's cabinet as her father, and her mother who passed in childbirth with those triplets.

    As for her father, around the time the twins were six years old, he began to neglect the children. Which incidentally snowballed into him having an affair. Hermine never had the best relationship with him as a child. Something always seemed . . . off about him. Something she never liked.

    Hermine's mother, Jericho Theriot, knew she would most likely not make it during delivery around the first month of her pregnancy. So she revised her will to give all of her assets, and her portion of their joint account to Hermine, even though she wasn't an adult. With that money, Hermine moved herself and her siblings out of their father's home and into a penthouse without his notice. Then I guess he suddenly remembered he had kids and has been looking for them ever since. Mind you she did all this right after the triplets were born, so they've been gone for six months. So basically take almost every bad thing about cannon Endeavor and give it to Hermine’s father who’s name is Othello Hanayama. ( I Just realized that that’s a Baki character.)

Wanting to have a flow of income, around the same time Jericho was redoing her assets and will Hermine became quite a popular painter. But similar to Banksy she keeps her identity secret, and goes by the alias Q. She primarily does tribute artworks, honoring not just pro heroes but other well recognized figures. (Honestly the hardest part of making this was creating a new artstyle to make said paintings.) This happened when she sent a tribute painting to All Might whom she is a big fan of. (You think Izuku and Katsuki love that man, you haven't seen nothing.)

Now about her quirk, Facilier. Facilier was named by her uncle, Usher Theriot, her mother's older brother. (If you're wondering why they don't stay with their uncle that'll be revealed later for suspense reasons.) When it first appeared Hermine could only make small objects like cards explode, similar to Gambit from Marvel. But the cards she exploded were Usher's tarot cards that once belonged to his grandmother. And since he is what one would call a Disney adult, he named her quirk Facilier just because of the correlation.

Up until she was about ten years old, Usher was and still is the lead scientist that studies and monitors Hermine's quirk. Because there's never been anything like it. Facilier in simple terms is magic, it can do almost anything, in a similar sense to Doctor Strange and Wanda. Because of this, Usher has made it a private passion project of his. A powerful quirk like this should be shared as little as possible.

As for the radiation, Hermine's radiation affects everyone, and it is cancerous. Prolonged exposure to her pure presence is enough to kill anyone. The only people who are completely immune are animals (Not including humans with animal mutation quirks), and her biological family members like her parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins. But it doesn't go for everyone she might share say 2% of her DNA with. Only family members she shares a great-great-great grandparent with have complete immunity. If they are descended from a sibling or cousin of said grandparent then they are not safe from her presence. People that are more resistant are people whose quirks give their bodies a natural defense like armor, or a substance that preserves their bodies. Like how Mitsuki Bakugou's quirk preserves her skin making her look younger, as well as Katsuki. Same thing goes for people with immense muscle mass like All Might and Endeavor, they're more resistant.

The resistance rules however only apply to the radiation emitted from her body. If any of them are hit with the type from her eyes, its an instant kill, and no amount of chemotherapy will cure it. Since My Hero takes places in the future, I'm writing in that they have access to a cure for cancer of any kind. Except for her's there's no curing what she'll do to you. Because her eyes are so dangerous it can't be filtered like her body can. As shown in the image she wears clothing made with a special material that filters her quirk, the effect is her clothes glowing as an indication the filtration is effective. As a result she wears the blindfold to completely block out her eyes.

For one, she has heterochromia, her right eye is blue and her left eye is red. Each eye has a different level of potency, but has to be covered, or Hermine needs to have her eyes closed when around normal people. Because her eyes are so dangerous, even when her quirk is inactive, for much of her childhood, Hermine had to walk around with her eyes closed when in public. Which led to bullying in school because kids are vicious. This was mainly becuase Usher initially had difficulty creating a material that could completely block the radiation from her eyes. The clothing to filter her body was easy, he was able to make it when she was five, but it wasn't until she was about ten years old that he finally perfected the blindfold. So she had to walk around like Brock for five years.

Anyway, when in combat, uncovering an eye will change the color of her radiation and quirk. It also allows her to summon these sprites she calls "JuJus", yes after Mama Odie's snake from the princess and the frog. The JuJus are vicious when her quirk is red, like they will try (and sometimes succeed) to eat the enemy and make things explode. When her quirk is blue, they will protect Hermine's allies or any people in the area that can't fend for themselves. They can only be destroyed by a specific frequency that can only be produced by a device her uncle made to see if there was a weakness to these things.

Each color gives her more proficient control of a certain aspect of her quirk in each form, the blue allows her to much more successfully alter a person's personality and perception of reality. She can make you colorblind, reverse your neural controls, and even craft memories you never had. Whereas in 25% she could only do so to one person, at 60%, she can do it to five. In red she can teleport bigger objects and much more easily change the physical properties of other objects (and people). She makes cards explode when at 25%, at 65% she can make bigger things explode, and make the explosion bigger. Her manipulating physical objects is just mainly her turning stuff in to other things, like turning a car into a flammable liquid becuase of the gas and sparks inside of it.

Now 100%. Damn.

At 100% the color of everything around her except for skin color, inverts. Think Satoru Gojo's Hollow Purple, her quirk becomes purple, and long story short, everything goes to shit.

Mind you all this is only when her quirk is active, she isn't a walking nuke at home with her siblings. Her hair is naturally black on the right side, and white on the left. Because of her radiation, she needed some accommodations when going to UA, as in custom made uniforms, and gym attire. As well as a team of specialized personnel to clean up her radiation whenever she changes in the locker rooms. She changes after the rest of the girls for this purpose.

    Alright, enough of that, let me briefly explain her siblings quirks. Her siblings basically have quirks that are bits and pieces of Hermine's. Their names are Henriette and Helios, they're the thirteen year old twins. The five year old triplets are the girls Hydrope, and Hyacinthe, and the boy, Hilare. As for the baby boy triplets their names are Bastien, Broussard, and Boudreaux. They all have the same hair skin color, Helios, Broussard, and Hydrope have white hair, Helios’ is in dreadlocks, while Hydrope has a small afro, Henriette has a white afro with blonde streaks in it. Similar to Fuyumi. Hyacinthe, Bastien, and Boudreaux have small blonde afros. Hermine is the only one with heterochromia, Henriette, Bastien, and the five year old Triplets, have blue eyes. While Helios, Broussard, and Boudreaux have red eyes. I’m sorry if it’s a lot to remember, they’re a big family.

Helios has a teleportaion quirk, called Five, which just like Hermine's quirk, it has no limitation. So long as he can picture the place and know its general location he can go there with a snap of his fingers. Which is great since he has a photographic memory. He's also able to teleport objects. Just like how Hermine has blue mist coming out of her hands so does he. Helios can make the mist into a ball and chuck it at whatever object he wants to teleport. He can make portals too the same way if he wanted to transports things to save energy.

    Henriette's quirk is called Marionette, like the name she's able to take control of person, so long as she's in possession of a part of the person. Hair, a nail, blood, spit, doesn't matter. She's able to best utilize it through a voodoo doll. It's not just movements she can control, she can also control bodily functions, like breathing. And heartbeats. And eyesight.

    Now to the trips, the five year olds. Hydrope's quirk is called Empathy she's able to enforce her own emotions onto others. Since she is only five, there isn't much to how many people she can do this to, or whether she can enforce emotions that aren't her own. But since as I said before, the younger siblings quirks are just parts of Hermine's Facilier, there is a likelihood it's more than what it is now.

    Next is Hyacinthe, her quirk is called Baku. If you know what a Baku is, then you know what this does. Hyacinthe is able to enter people's dreams and control them. Not just that, no, I'm telling y'all right now, excuse my French, but this shit is borderline magic. Hyacinthe is able to bring objects and people out of said dreams. Did you dream about the Batmobile at all, well she can pull that shit out. On one occasion, Henriette was dreaming about Chris Hemsworth, and he was in their living room the next morning. Imagine the heart attack Hermine had when Thor was in their living room at 7 am on a Sunday.

    Lastly there's Hilare, his quirk is Table, after the Periodic Table because he is able to change the makeup of an object to the atomic level. Yes, Hermine can too. He can change water into straight up Hydrogen, or ice, fuse together elements and objects, and even keep unstable elements active for much longer than scientifically possible. If you didn't know there are certain elements that only exist in a lab because they are too unstable to be found in nature. And when they breakdown they turn into other elements. Basically Hilare sees that and says "Nuh uh, you're here to stay." When he's done it returns to its natural state. Imagine how dangerous this'll be when he learns how to change oxygen. Because it's part of Hermine's quirk there is the high likelihood that he'll one day be able to do this to people.

Comment if you have any questions about story changes, Hermine and her family, or if you want more details about the crossover. Thanks for reading, this is my first fan fiction, I hope you enjoy my work.

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[showtoonzfan]

Honestly not every person of a race needs to sound a certain way I know like two black ladies who sound white as hell I was surprised when I seen one of them in person it's rare but it happens just like some white people sound black also rare sorry if it sounds rude text is a bitch when it comes to tone sometimes

I think it suits Alastor I know you don't blame Bosco but yeah I say just keep his ass white because that's what he comes across as 😂 but honestly that cat doesn't look black either he just sounds it if he's black make him a brown or black cat to make it obvious and idk why but Mordecai is it? He gives me Asian vibes but I highly doubt he is IF they're supposed to be of any race let me know if you know

It’s okay, you don’t sound rude. Here are my thoughts. For me personally, I give Viv more flack when it comes to designing her characters (in this case her POC characters) because despite these characters being demons, her style is very humanoid, meaning she clearly has the power to change the hair style and make it look more like the race of the person. This would be a different story if her demon characters were like…blobs or big monster types but most of them (especially the main cast) aren’t, and we end up having Alastor’s Karen haircut, and Velvet’s standard boring hair, when it’s easy as hell to give them different styles, it wouldn’t change a thing. It’s different with Lackadaisy because……they are cats after all, you can’t make animals a race, which is why people use the term “black coded” instead, for characters that can’t be a race. I revert back to what I said before, why not give Alastor a POC voice actor? Even if he does come across as white, his character clearly isn’t, and it really isn’t that hard to get a POC person and perform an accent, so we can get a sense of where he’s from and what heritage…..again….representation is important.

And yeah, you’re right, not every person of a race needs to sound a certain way but like….if Viv went out of her way to establish that Alastor has the voice of an old 1920’s radio, WHILE also saying he’s mixed French creole and from New Orleans in the 20’s, I’d expect him to have more flair than just a Caucasian voice with an Atlantic accent. But again, that is just me.

[uninformedartist]

Well they shocked 😅

Wasn't surprised when people actually found out that Velvette is supposed to be a black woman I mean look at her. The quote tweets are not happy and its mostly poc so Viv you are not looking too good now... again Velvette is not even black coded at all I could not believe you at 1st glance that she is a black woman hah let alone 30 years old according to her leaked info because all of Viv's characters look like teenagers.

Like Velvette didn't even have to be... whatever "black" apparently skin tone she has (she's ashey af and its blatant erasure actually what they were trying with her skin tone) like I said black coded characters exist. Honey swamp is my all time favourite character and was a good example mentioned in the original tweet. Black coded not only in her design (her hair is everything) but also where she's from New Goreleans which is obviously a play on New Orleans. Could've had a voice actor to fit her but oh well but one gets the picture. Like the excuse of "of but she's a demon" 💀 Monster high gave us many poc coded characters that had all the colours of skin tones (not even mentioning the actual black characters like Clawdeen she was a werewolf but clearly black) but we knew they were poc because they were designed to be poc, the designers had that in mind and I do not see it in Velvette's design heck nore Alastor he was a white dude in his early design. Viv just looks like she slapped on him being creole because of the vodou and W-word debacle.

Whoo I fear hazbin coming out because this is shakey waters to be on before a show drops.

Small edit: the w word is in reference to a native American creature, the "wendy", hope the just of it comes across what I'm referring to. I won't type the full name out of respect.

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The Magical Worlds

Welcome to the Badlands Series

Summary: After Bren's return, Nix gets shocking information that pushes her to figure out the types of magic that are weaving their stories. She gets an unexpected answer and more questions.

Co-Creator: @themerriweathermage

Things were certainly different after Bren came home. It was clear that his bond with Lydia was closer, almost child and mother in nature. Which was good in my opinion. He needed a positive parental figure in his life. 

He also seemed calmer, as if his magic wasn’t weighing him down anymore. Or, at least not as much as it had before. My knowledge of druid magic was less than zero so I had no idea if the trip was really all he needed or if he found a healthier way to express that power.

The longer we were here in the Badlands, the less I understood. Which was unacceptable to me. Two different types of magic was brought into this world when Bren and I took over Jacobee’s old barony. But there was another type of magic already established here according to Bren. It just hadn’t reared its ugly head yet.

I decided the best course of action was to find anyone with books on the Badlands. The first thing I did was get a map of the Badlands and an old map of the US to compare and try to figure out for once exactly where we were. Once I had locations down, the information from the books would make sense. 

It took most of the day and my entire desk, but I was soon able to figure out where the Dragon Barony lay: Texas. Roughly, anyway. In fact, the very mountains we found Meraxes were the mountains that bordered Mexico. Making the estate close to where Austin once stood. I did the best math I could and found that Rojas territory was mostly New Mexico with Chau’s being parts of Northern Arizona, parts of Utah, and parts of Colorado. I wish I had looked at this map before the spontaneous trip a few months back. We were practically in Chau’s backyard when I proposed to Sunny. 

I then moved the other direction and figured Quinn’s property was mostly Louisiana with parts in Arkansas. Would explain his shitty accent. It was no doubt a mix of a Southern accent, Creole, and an aristocratic twist he tried to add. 

Lydia came in at that moment and cleared her throat when I didn’t turn around at the sound of the door opening. “Nix?”

I looked up from my desk and raised an eyebrow at the sheet of paper in Lydia’s hand. “Is that wedding stuff?”

“Yes and no.”

“Well, that’s not concerning or anything.”

“Not your wedding, anyway.”

I blinked at her. “Bren’s not engaged or I would have Quinn’s nuts in a jar on my desk.”

Lydia balked at the image. “No, thankfully. Well, not yet. I convinced Bren to hold court.”

“Hold…court…” my brain could only link those words to one world I knew. “Lydia, we’re barons, not kings.”

Lydia smiled. “Not that kind of court. Here.”

She held out the sheet, and I carefully took it from her. It was an invitation meant to be sent to all the baronies, calling for them to submit a suitor for Bren’s hand. It was a courtship court. 

“Ah. And you actually got Bren to agree to this?”

“He’s lonely, Nix. He did what he did to free Sunny for you, but now…”

I let out a long sigh. “Yeah, I know. You do realize this means that asshat is allowed an entry. I really don’t want that man stepping foot in our barony.”

“Unfortunately, it’s the rules for court. But, a separate invite is being sent to Waldo and Quinn’s…”

“Will get lost in the mail?” I asked, hopefully.

“Only for a day or two.” She chuckled at the face I made. “Speaking of invites…”

“I know, I know. I’m having two different sets made. One for our allies, and one for those who will not be allowed to attend.”

“Oh? May I see this one?”

I pulled open a drawer and pulled out the mock-up I had for our enemies.  

To Whom It May Concern:

During the month of October, House Enduring will be conducting the wedding ceremony of Baroness Phoenix and her soon-to-be Lord husband Sunny. If you have received this notification, you have not been invited. 

If you choose to step foot on Dragon Barony lands during this month, you will be burned alive by Meraxes.

No trial.

No conclave.

Straight to execution.

And if anyone has an issue with that, Baroness Phoenix will take your barony with Fire and Blood.

Good day. 

The Dragon Lords of House Enduring.

Lydia raised an eyebrow at this. “Does Bren know?”

“Not yet. I wanted to wait to see how he was after his trip with you out East.”

Lydia smiled and finally sat across from me. “It went well. Bren found his deity.”

I nearly fell into my chair. “He WHAT?!”

“That was my reaction. You will have to get the full story from Bren, but from what I understand, he can control his powers better without it draining him.”

A deity. An actual deity. What the fresh fuck was going on?

“Nix?”

If Bren’s deity was real, did that mean others were as well? There were so many from the world Meraxes came from. 

“Nix?!”

Did this mean they were real, too? Could I communicate with them?

“Nix!”

I jumped at Lydia’s voice, having completely forgotten she was in the room with me. “Sorry, Lydia. My mind went elsewhere.”

“Does it have anything to do with this?” She tapped at the map on my desk.

“Kinda. I wanted to figure out how the portals worked.”

“Portals?”

“Yes, as in plural. The one that brought Bren and me here, the one that brought Meraxes out of my story, the one that brought me Dark Sister, and the one that gave Bren his powers. I’m barely familiar with portal stories, only reading one that was widely published. And while the basics are the same, everything else is wildly different so I’m flying blind in a way.”

“I will be honest, there are times I forget you and Bren weren’t raised here. Especially in the moments I see you as my children.”

I smiled at this. “Funny, considering I’m probably close enough in age to be your sister rather than your daughter. But I still see you as a mom, regardless.”

She laughed. “True, your face does hide at times your age.”

We were quiet for a moment as she looked over my map and all the notes I made. “Do you think you’ll find answers?”

“I think I have been, in a way. Not direct answers, but it’s hard to ignore what I’ve seen.”

“And if you find the portals?”

“I think there’s a better chance of me approving of Quinn for Bren. If these portals are still around, they are what’s feeding mine and Bren’s magic. But there will be no more transporting. Of people, anyway. I’m fully convinced that window has come and gone.”

“Does that make you sad?”

“In a way. There are people I miss. And my dog.”

“You had a dog?”

I smiled and tried not to tear up. “Yeah. A tiny dog that followed me everywhere. I had a small dog because I lived in a small place. If I got a dog again, I would probably aim for something bigger. Something that could chew through certain barons.”

“Isn’t that what Meraxes is for?”

“Yes, but a dog could run through the trees without destroying them.”

Lydia and I both laughed. 

“Maybe one day one of the hunting hounds will have puppies.”

“Maybe,” I agreed wistfully. “In the meantime, I have a wedding to plan and portals to figure out.”

“The first one being more pressing since it is July.”

“Mother fucker,” I groaned.

I stayed in that office way longer than I should have, even forgetting it was my night to make dinner. Sarah had made it without complaint, but her face did show concern when she dropped a plate off for me. Sunny had offered to take the Colts out on their first scout and so I hadn’t seen him all day. With Bren locked away to figure out his deity, no one but Lydia was around to remind me to eat.

But even she couldn’t keep my mind on task.

“I hear you’re on a hyperfocus train again.”

I looked up and smiled at the sight of Sunny in the doorway, still dirty and sweaty from his ride. My brain was about to go another direction when my stomach caught my attention.

“Damnit.”

Sunny sighed. “Nixy, you need to remember to eat.”

“Sunny, I’m lucky if I remember I have a body.” I sat back and took the sight of him in. “I see the trip went well.”

“Focus, Nix.”

“I am,” I smirked.

He pointed at my plate and I pouted but grabbed a roll, tearing off a piece. “Killjoy.”

“You need to eat. And by that, I mean food.”

“We’re still making up for lost time.”

He finally smiled. “I know. And we will. Later. But right now, I need you to eat some of your food and then follow me. We came across something on our trip and Lydia demanded you be the one to make the decision on what I should do.”

“Demanded?!” I don’t think Lydia once pulled rank on Sunny, considering he was still technically below her until we married. 

He nodded. “Demanded. And not as a Regent, as your mother.”

“The fuck?!” I quickly ripped open the roll and stuffed some of the chicken into it as I stood up. “Lead the way.”

Sunny frowned but obliged when he saw me take a bite. He quickly lead me out of the house and past the gates of the estate, where a few clippers were holding onto ropes. And at the end of the ropes…

“I still can’t believe we brought a wolf home,” gripped one clipper.

“You try arguing with the dragon!” Shouted another.

“Wait,” I placed my hand on Sunny’s arm. “Meraxes was with you?”

“Not the whole time. In fact, we came across her on our patrol. She was curled in a ball and wouldn’t let anyone but me near. That’s where we found the wolf.”

“A monster is what you found!” Came Sebastian’s voice. “No wolf is that big.”

He was right. This ‘wolf’ was twice the size. And when it turned its angry head in my direction, I could instantly see why.

“Direwolf,” I breathed.

“What?” Sunny looked down at me

“That’s a direwolf. What the fuck is it doing here?”

“What’s a direwolf?”

But I didn’t answer as I moved carefully up to the beast, noting its all-black fur and brilliant golden eyes. The moment she laid eyes on me, she immediately sat and I was able to let out a soft breath.

“It’s ok, you’re safe here.” Reaching over carefully, I removed the ropes around her neck.

“Don’t!” Sebastian shouted.

But it was too late and the next thing I knew, she lunged at me. 

“Nix!” Sunny ran for me but stopped short at my laughter.

“No! Stop trying to lick my face off!” 

The direwolf was doing full-body wiggles as she kept sniffing all over me, her tail wagging happily. 

“Glad she’s friendly,” I could hear the panic in Sunny’s voice. “Now, what the fuck is a direwolf?!”

“A symbol of House Stark and very magical. Like, people can put their minds into these creatures and use them as an extension of themselves.” I managed to sit up and began to scratch the wolf’s ears. “But only a select few people. They must have the blood of either the First Men or the Children of the Forest.”

“In other words…”

“The portal brought me another gift.” I let out a shaky breath. “And proof that those gods are listening.”

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