#which i headcanon being similar to Thailand

[stardust948]

Opposite AU Fire Siblings

[buddiebeginz]

If they are keeping Lou around for any part of season 8 the show has to put an end to the cameo nonsense. Some of the Buck/Oliver takes that are starting to make the rounds are next level insane. I saw one scolding Oliver for making Lou do all the promoting of the ship. Another post said the writers needed to up Buck's game because he's not at the level of commitment yet that Tommy is being written (wtf when were these episodes). And yet another post scolding Oliver for promoting Buddie and Buck for continuing to spend time with Eddie.

They are taking these PAID (you paid him to say this shit) videos and making them canon. No part of anything he's saying is canon. Firstly, he wouldn't be allowed to tell them any actual canon facts and secondly Oliver/Buck is the character/actor the show gives a shit about. He's encouraging this nonsense and it's gross. Him promoting himself is fine, it's low-key cringe given the fact the other half of the ship is silent but you do you, babe. Oliver's silence is what's pissing his fans off. Seriously tell me you're new to Captain Starks ways without telling me you're new. He promotes no ship but the Buddie ship, canon or not. These people are here for Lou. When he goes, happy for him to take them with him.

I'm not sure why they keep letting him do those cameos especially after he pissed people off when he said T*mmy being homophobic and racist to Hen and Chim was just teasing. He also talked about people recognizing him in Thailand in the AH interview and did this fake stereotypical asian accent. 🤦‍♀️He really needs a better agent and some media training because they'd for sure tell him to knock that shit off.

I could see the cameos being fun to do a few times when he first came back to the show even to garner excitement about B/T and T*mmy but the fact that he's done so many now and has even raised the price just makes him look desperate for attention. And like you said he gives all these headcanons about T*mmy in his videos that his obsessive fans have taken for absolute fact. We would never hear the end of it if Buddie fandom was paying Ryan for videos like that.

I agree with you that a majority of B/T stans are here first and foremost for T*mmy and Lou not Buck and Oliver. I still can't believe that a lot of them used to be Buddie shippers. I think everyone should be able to ship what they want including multishipping but I don't get how some of them dropped a ship they were seemingly invested in for years for the nothing that is B/T.

That part of fandom also loves to call us delusional and say we're seeing only what we want to see but a lot of times we're just pointing out what's actually happening. Like in the recent episode T*mmy was being a downer to Buck's enthusiasm (which has basically become the norm for them). The camera also paned to Eddie after Buck got his award not T*mmy. Buck chose to run off to Eddie's after work not to T*mmy's. These are things the show is literally showing us not just stuff we're imagining.

It's similar with Oliver. They can come up with all the reasons in the world why he's never promoted B/T through this entire season but it doesn't matter because he still hasn't and likely won't. I've seen them say Oliver doesn't post anything about B/T or Lou to avoid dealing with the hate or to not upset Buddie fans or to protect Lou. The thing is though Oliver has left social media before when he's had issues and could again if he wanted to. He's also been dealing with homophobic comments since Buck came out but he's never shied away from talking about Buck coming out and has even addressed the hate on his insta.

Oliver liked a couple of B/T pieces of art when the story first happened but I think that was more to support the bi Buck storyline and the artists than anything else. Multiple times during this season he's liked Buddie art (including a tattoo which he commented on three times) he's also posted Buddie related and Ryan stuff on his stories. If he wanted to show support to Lou or B/T he could easily post on his stories where people can't comment. B/T stans can think what they want but it's clear Oliver doesn't promote any of that because he's rooting for Buddie harder than anyone. I think he knows B/T isn't going to be around forever and he's trying not to lead people on about it as he's said in the past he hates to do that.

I really hope we can get rid of T*mmy at the end of s7 although knowing Tim he'll probably keep him for added drama until s8. Unfortunately even when B/T ends I expect those fans to do a lot of complaining because they've concocted this whole idea in their head that T*mmy is Buck's endgame soulmate. They even want T*mmy to be added on as main character and get a begins episode. So I fully expect some of them to riot when he inevitably gets the ax. The rest will probably run back to Buddie the minute it becomes canon and try to pretend they never left. Jokes on them though because a lot of Buddie shippers have blocked them for how awful they've been this season especially towards Eddie.

[my2phetaliaheadcanons]

Headcanons for Philippines-chan pretty please with the cherry on top

Since he didn't have a character sheet, I made one. This will include some headcanons too!

Name: Ramil Apoian

Age: Nation 3020, Human 25

Height: 5’3

Weight: 140 lbs.

Appearance: Ramil’s tanned body is lean and is covered in traditional tattoos. They stretch from fingertip to fingertip, staying below the collarbone, and reach down to the top of his thighs. His rust, red hair is cut short with a soft wave on top and compliments his sandy-amber eyes.

In addition to the tattoos, his muscular arms have speckle scars from the molten glass he works with. In my opinion, it makes the tattoos more interesting since they are covered in minor imperfections like a pale person’s freckles.

He is known for wearing two types of clothing. The first is heavy, thick, protective clothing. Things like welder’s gloves, jeans, and work boots when he is working with his blown glass projects. The other times he is wearing thin, loose shirts, swim trunks, and flip flops. Usually, he wears those to relax or when he is preparing to collect pearls.

Personality: Unlike the happy and hospitable 1p Philippines, Ramil tends to be unhospitable and dark. He enjoys dark humor while being quick to find ways to kick people out of his home. Whether the process is rude or not depends on how much the person is annoying him. Should they drive him nuts, then he won’t hesitate to scream in their face as he drags them to the door and throws them as far as he can.

His dark nature also leaves him not very sociable. His battery runs dry quickly thus causing him to become darker in terms of humor and action. Things like threats and fights are more likely to occur the lower his battery becomes.

When left to his own devices and when his social battery is full, Ramil can be laid back. He doesn’t care what others may do as long as he is left to his own devices.

Dead: I’ll let you knock on his door and find out.

Weapon: Glass blowpipe

Family:  Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam

ETC: While under the thumb of other nations, he was forced to add their last name onto his own. During Spain’s reign, which he hated, his name was Ramil Apoian-Carriedo and under America, it became Ramil Jones. When either of these nations argues with him, they will use his former full names which pisses Ramil off more leading to fist fights.

His blown glass projects are museum-worthy in terms of their beauty and craftsmanship. They are often covered in the pearls he collects from the depths along with the ashes from his victims. Occasionally if one of their bones survives his massive furnace then he will add it in directly, just like the pearls.

All his tattoos are hand-poked and have been debating adding more. What stops him from doing so is the increased amount of time he’s had to put toward national duties, which gives him less time to work on passion projects, thus putting tattoos at the bottom of the priorities list.

Ramil is a smoker, and when he does, he looks like a factory tower from the 1900s. The large plums rival those of France. This similarity has led to them having a work-friend type of relationship, that they act on whenever they are both smoking outside at the same time.

[trnquilgalileo]

Soulmate headcanons!

Ten x Wandering translator! Reader

(whatever you write shows up on your soulmate skin)

- when ten was five the first words on his skin from his soulmate was « bonjour, comment ça va? »

- he looked at the funny words on his leg and poked it.

- because when ten is curious about something he gets really close and in its face, backs away and gets close once more

- kinda like a cat

- he then proceeded to cry to his mom who scolded him and told the little boy it was just in French

- French. The fuck is French?

- Ten never responded.

- Four years later he’s nine. He’s wiser, older and more willing to kick his six year old sister in the face

- that and he now goes to an international school in Thailand to study not only acrobatics and dance,

- but art.

- And if you know any art kids, one thing they love to do is draw on their skin.

- Day to day he draws little squiggles, animals and plants in his skin.

- The bright coloured markers contrasting greatly to the point where his father scolds him

- Telling him he’ll get ink poisoning

- Ever the wiser he rolls his eyes and continues to doodle

- So when he picks up a bright red pen to mark his arm once more he’s treated with a cruddy drawn flower that’s in an obnoxious orange with a messy Aloha next to it

- That has to be the worse thing he’s ever seen

- So he scribbles it out

- Ten is 12

- Twelve, bratty but twelve nonetheless

- Ten hates being twelve

- Now he has more school and more work and not enough time to dance and do the other things he wants

- Over the years more and more messages from his soulmate pop up but he can’t read them

- And when 12 year ten sees something he doesn’t understand,

- He ignores it

- And life continued soulmate-less

- But this only worsened ten’s mood.

- Why does his little sister get to jump for joy when some loser named Yangyang happens to fall and break his motherfucking wrist

- Get knocked out by anesthesia and visit her in her dreams

- Fucking Yangyang.

- So no, ten did not enjoy being 12

- Ten has red hair put up in some atrocious red spike, he just sang a Justin Bieber song and got accepted into SM Entertainment

- This is best moment in his life

- Except...

- Hes lonely.

- By the age of 17 everyone around ten had at least made some form of contact with their soulmate

- And the Pisces in him longs to see his soulmates words on his skin once more

- so when he had another mental break down in the middle of the SM basement

- curled into a little ball because he couldn’t get this one move right because of his stupid knee injury

- that needed another knee surgery that he was sure he didn’t need

- and he was loosing hope of ever making his debut

- because no matter how hard he worked

- his blood, sweat and tears were not enough for the company who only continued to push

- so when he spotted the little, messy squiggles of a grocery list in Spanish

- It brought him the breath of fresh air he needed

- the tiny scripted letters so smooth in his skin that he stretched out towards his phone and took a picture

- because even though his soulmate didn’t know it yet

- these small words had stopped him for breaking even more

- Ten was 22 when he tattooed his first script onto his arm

- it was in the inside of his bicep, tucked away where it wouldn’t be noticed

- Only if you really looked.

- it said j’taime in what he assumes would be his soulmates handwriting

- he had once again picked up his little habit of drawing on his skin which allowed his soulmate to pick up their own sparkly pink ink and scribble back

- because after 22 years he had finally answered,

- after 22 years he had the world in the palm in hand

- except he had no one to share it with

- until you answered

- So when ten walked out with a bandaged arm he grinned silently to himself before pulling up the black mask to cover his identity

- later that night a similar tattoo appeared on the side of his left ring finger

- “ฉัน คิดถึง คุณ”

- (I miss you)

- Ten is now 24,

- he’s considered ancient, wise and a bit of brat by Kun

- (Oh and he met YangYang too)

- (He approves...silently)

- the world is ending and he hasn’t officially met his soulmate

- hasn’t told them he loves them to their face, kiss their pretty lips, caress their hands gently and lean in close to blow in their ear

- only to run away cackling

- but anyways it’s his turn fo go in and hand in lyrics for the new WAYV album

- he’s walking down the hallway, head up in the clouds, pushing the buttons on the elevator to go up only to hear a hurried shout

- He turns around and spots then most ethereal as it could get person, the pink curve of their mouth, the arch of their brow to the way their skin glowed

- but behind them was you. looking lost but in tens hazy vision filled with fluffy clouds and shinning stars

- he knows it’s you, the way you feel in his presence, the comfort, the warmth

- ...the love...

- Ten moves out of the elevator and waits till you stop talking to the head translator of SM and let’s you bow before leaving.

- he watches as you step out of the glass panelled room and straight into his line of vision.

- You approach the elevator where he stood

- where ten, with all his courage whispers low enough just for you to catch it.

- “Bonjour...comment ça va?”

[hothian-snow]

Worldbuilding: Sith Magic (WIP)

An update to my original post.

I want to theorize about what magic may have been commonplace during the times of the Sith Pureblood, before they became influenced by the Dark Jedi. Some beliefs and practice may have evolved into what we know today, but many traditions will have likely died down, lost to time and to cultural colonisation. These are my headcanons, inspired by some headcanons others have made plus my own understanding of traditional witchcraft and Ancient Greek magic.

1) Magic of the Sun

Korriban is one of the original homes of the Sith Pureblood, and presumably the most prominent one. What could be seen the moment you step onto Korriban is the rocky red ending desert and the blistering sun. Magic from many cultures around our world are rooted in the land, and I believe Sith magic should be no different. In this case, their magic will be drawn from the sun, the bones that lie beneath the sands.

In the real world Greek Magical Papyri, a record of Greco-Egyptian magic spells, the sun god Helios is called upon in various rites ranging from consecration to restraining anger to bringing victory. In that same manner, I believe the sun may be called by the Sith to perform magical acts. In a lot of POC traditions, planets are also deified to be gods (something like astrolatry in Thailand etc), and so the Sith - who in my views are POC-coded - may revere the sun as a central religious figure (which makes it ironic that the concept of the Dark Side of the Force was later made to be the enemy of the Light). The sun nourishes, but it also burns. The light allows you to see, but too much can blind. It is the sun’s heat that rot corpses, freeing flesh from bones, rushing forth decomposition. The sun is life and the sun is death.

Just as Ancient Greek witches could be identified as descendants of Helios due to their flashing eyes, it is also possible that the Sith Pureblood may view themselves to be descendants of the sun. After all, their fiery eyes are like two miniature suns and their distinctive red skin are like the blood-red dawn. 

2) Magic of the Bones

In many ways, the Force is similar to the real-world belief of animism. Inside everything is something that is alive and powerful. In the bones, buried beneath the sands, are a vault of memories. Through feeding the bones - feeding the spirits within the bones - one can cultivate a relationship with the dead. One can redden the bones with flowers from cactus mixed with drops of blood, or blacken them with roots and soot. Incense smoke can be like food to the soul. This works for both animal and Sith bones.

Once awakened, bones can be your teachers, or used both as an offensive and defensive tool. The empty eye sockets of skulls can be placed in strategic places, eternally watching guard. Fangs and claws can be turned into magical talismans, to protect their masters and shred their enemies to pieces. Bones may whisper their wisdom to you. Learn from the tuk’ata how to protect and defend. Learn from the K’lor’slugs how to poison and strike.

3) Necromancy

With the talks of bones, we cannot avoid the topic of necromancy. In a lot of POC cultures, ancestor veneration plays an integral part of bringing families together. As the Sith Purebloods are POC-coded, and because we have seen in-game that ghosts of ancestors (Lord Kallig) may wish to help their descendants (the Sith Inquisitor), I believe ancestor veneration would have a prominent role in Sith culture. Ancestors may send you dreams for you to be prepared for upcoming threats. Ancestors may work their magic from beyond the grave to influence situations in the living world.

Aside from having a ghost literally show up, transmission of knowledge through dreams is one way that tradition can be passed down, in spite of the Sith Genocide that occured. Children may have been made orphans, but it does not mean that their parents can’t speak through them in an oneiric vision. Texts may have been burnt, cultural artifacts may have been destroyed, but magic prevails. History finds a way to be remembered.

Dream incubation can be used to receive information that would be otherwise unknown. Trances can be used to induce visions from the dead and from higher powers. Ointments made from poisonous herbs, smeared onto the body, can be used to induce the liminal state required for a person to get in touch with the otherworld.

There is also canonical evidence that necromancy was practiced among the Sith before the Dark Jedi colonised them: Dathka Graush, a Sith King of Korriban active in the decades prior to the arrival of the Dark Jedi Exiles in 6900 BBY, was among the earliest practitioners of Sith necromancy. Necromancy can be as dramatic as raising zombies using occult incantations, reanimating the freshly dead and the buried skeletons. However, I also want to go for a different approach.

Inspired by Ancient Greek necromancy, I believe the dead can be split into many types. Perhaps there are the restless dead, like the Greek aōroi, the spirits who could be appeased and channeled to wreak havoc. Perhaps there are the mighty dead, (war) heroes who have been elevated to the point where they are venerated and prayed to for strength and miracles. The dead can be called upon to glean prophecies, and deals can be made with them, pacts sealed in blood. The dead can teach you secrets and grant you powers, and you can send them forth to haunt your enemies until they are maddened. A Sith may ask the ravenous dead to feed upon their enemy, and pray that the power of the tomb claims the rest.

Some parts of the current Sith cultural beliefs may have been influenced by the beliefs of the Sith Pureblood (pre-Dark Jedi arrival), but twisted into a reactionary belief in response to the Jedi code. For example, the Jedi seems to have an accepting attitude towards death (“there is no death, there is only the Force”) while the current Sith seems to wish to overcome death, whether through having a long-lasting legacy or through occult means (like Darth Zash or Emperor Vitiate). This is why a Sith like Darth Marr who are not scared to die are viewed as being terrifying. I believe this culture of immense fear towards death is a new thing.

In my headcanon, the Sith Pureblood originally viewed death as something to respect and fear, but also understood it to be a necessity - and in some cases, a beautiful part of life. Through death, grapes are transformed into wine. There is sacredness in the sweet and cloying rot, a holiness to decay and entropy. Because of this, there may be a field of magic that focuses not just on reanimating corpses, but on hastening (or temporary slowing- with consequences) the way and speed at which something decomposes. Imagine a Sith gripping their enemies with their bare hands, and from that touch comes a death sentence: bodies begin to bloat, festering sickness seeping into muscles and bones, flesh turning necrotic before death consumes them.

4) Potions and Poisons

The art of pharmakeia and veneficium is something that came up in the Sith Inquisitor storyline. Zash makes offhand remarks about poisoning her foes, and the ghost that taught the Sith Inquisitor how to Force Walk requires the Inquisitor to drink a cup of poison first. Poison can both kill and teach. In the real world, many traditional witches who walk the poison path have made allies of their poison plants. In Greek myth and religion, Circe uses potions to transmute men into pigs, and transforms women into monsters by poisoning water with drugs.

Ziost, which became capital of the Ancient Sith Empire after the reign of the Sith Overlord Adas came to an end, was described to be a planet of dark forests and barren tundra. With forests comes plants, and with plants comes poison. Perhaps dirt from graveyards and places of bloodshed can be mixed with foul herbs, along with powdered molts of poison insects, and then infused into oil to be made into a tool for cursing enemies. Should a hair or piece of armor from one’s rival be found, one could powder that and mix the blend into a poppet, enabling a Sith to feed their enemy poison from a distance.

The flipside of poison is medicine. Healers may have been as abundant as poisoners, or perhaps healers were poisoners and poisoners were healers, for the difference between killing and treating is just application and dosage. Potions may also be made to bless and enhance the abilities of someone - something like how stims are used in the current setting - and washes and ritual baths may be used to free someone from unwanted afflictions.

5) Force Lightning

I believe Force lightning has always been used by the Sith Pureblood, but its prestige and popularity only has sky-rocketted once Vitiate became Emperor. Dromund Kaas’ constant lightning and perpetual thunderstorms may have been “a result of the Sith Emperor's experiments in arcane and forbidden uses of the dark side of the Force”. Hence, it may be possible that the usage of Force lightning became a symbol of power due to Vitiate’s influence.

6) Sith Artifacts and Tools

The most well-known artifact of the Sith is the Sith holocron. I am not certain but I believe the oldest Sith holocron may be the Telos Holocron, and one of the earliest contributors to the Telos Holocron was Ajunta Pall who was a Dark Jedi. The holocron’s purpose in storing information and passing down the legacy of a Sith Lord is linked to my view that it is the Dark Jedi who want to be immortalized and are afraid of death, not the original Sith Pureblood. Thus, I infer that the Sith holocrons are made by the Dark Jedi who colonized the Sith, which makes sense considering that it just looks like an alternative version of the Jedi holocron.

However, one clear power of the Sith holocrons is how they are able to ‘corrupt’ its user to the Dark Side. This made me wonder if the Sith Pureblood may have had artifacts and fetishes that served similar purposes in corrupting, influencing and swaying their enemies. If knowledge could be passed down through ghosts and dreams, then there is no need to spend time crafting the perfect holocron and effort could instead be focused upon creating tools of defense and offense.

It would have been very practical to create an artifact out of roots and bones, place it in places of ruin, death and grief such as places of murders, and enchant it to soak in the horrific sympathetic energies of the locales it was placed at until it becomes full, brimming with misery and torment. It could then be buried on the plot of land that a Sith’s enemy lived on, hence bringing suffering to their home and family. Something like that - something folk-ish, something requiring only skill, cunning and determination, not fanciful ceremonial rituals like the ones we see the current Siths doing - is what I believe defined the practice of the original Sith Pureblood.

[whyamistillwatchingtheseshows]

Making a shout out post for Rain. He deserves the MVP award every time. Everyone thinks he’s an airhead, it seems. Or maybe just a procrastinator who comes off lazy? But that boy has a good head on his shoulders. If he can weigh situations and figure out whose “side” he needs to be on then give him a hug because he’s always going to be the middle person.

Big brother. Best friend. Big brother. Best friend. Right now I’m sticking with the best friend. We will deal with big bro later. In the two weeks that passed since Mork got out of the hospital you bet Rain has seen Sun moping around a lot. He can’t fix that. He can try by telling Mork he shouldn’t leave because I’m not an idiot. I see what’s going on. (If he said anything vaguely similar to this when I watch with subs, I will screech.) It’s just what I wish is said. Haha and it could be entirely off base which will sadden me.

It’s just Rain has been seeing this unfold and then fall apart. He’s handling it very well and so appropriately. Now, just keep being their little Cupid as who was it that said that ooh yeah @sara-boredl. Rain as a little Cupid pushing them together. You bet I’m game for that. Headcanon when gay marriage laws passed since I newly learned (last ep because I lived in blissful ignorance) they haven’t in Thailand...it messes with my psyche that knowledge...but either way when that happens I picture Rain cheering the hardest.

“Now look guys. I have thought about this. We set up Blue Sky with one of those fancy arches. We have coffee and little deserts then bam! You two are married!” Funny part being. Neither Mork or Sun have thought about proposing yet. They were just content with how everything was flowing between them but Rain is like “guys guys this is cause for celebration. Come on! Embrace it. You two are forever.”

[naam]

treechada petcharat, twenty nine, trans female, she/her. — CHOMESRI “NAAM” SUKSAWAT is trending! apparently, the MUSICIAN/VIDEO game designer is making headlines for BEING A SUCCESSFUL FANGIRL AND MEETING HER FAVES, which isn’t surprising at all. i mean, what do you expect from someone who tweets about nothing but HER RANDOM THOUGHTS and posts pictures of HER CODING DRAFTS, CRYPTIC SONG/VIDEO GAME TEASERS, and VARIOUS SKETCHES all over their instagram? she’s so + VISIONARY but also - ABSENT-MINDED. follow her @NAAM_SS and you’ll see what i mean in no time.

trigger warnings for: mentions of transphobia and racism.

DETAILS.

FULL NAME: Chomesri Suksawat

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chalong, Thailand

BIRTH NAME: unimportant, none of anyone’s business

SEXUALITY: heterosexual

HEIGHT: 5′ 8″

PROFESSION/S: musician (on YouTube); video game designer

okay so naam grew up in thailand, where her family’s from, until she was about 16 years old. when she was 16, she followed a relative to study in nyc.

while studying in the usa, she began to miss the prismatic beauty of her hometown. she always loved how chalong mixed older architecture and culture with contemporary, urban elements. she cobbled together designs for a video game world that blended her experiences back home, her experiences in her new home within new york, and her imagination.

in her mid-twenties, after obsessively studying coding and game design, she earned a spot in an american video game company.

she also posts songs on youtube. some are covers, others are originals. she’s not a bona fide Recording Artist, she’s more independent and does it for her own pleasure, but her music is rarely ever sloppy! semi-inspired by youtube singer raon lee. i headcanon her singing voice sounds pretty similar to raon’s.

she realized she was a woman in her late teens. she’s faced tons of fetishization, racism, and transphobia; at the same time, she recognizes she’s privileged in a way, having had a generally supportive and well-to-do family who could easily afford and were willing to help her transition. 

her race and gender identity are axes of her identity that compound a natural unease towards attention. she just wants to exist! she just wants to be creative! but people slap unnecessary labels on her, they exert unnecessary pressure on her that she never asked for. a lot of her fans, or so-called fans, fawn over her beauty, but to them it’s like a competition. ‘she’s the most beautiful Of Her Type.’ she’s like... fuck, i just want to... exist! and some days she’s not going to be picture-perfect. she wants to have that right. she’s not here to be looked at.

often gets lost in whatever she’s fixated upon at the moment. (often music, video games, or both.) very passionate. burns out frequently. please please please give her some plots, especially bc it’s amusing to write her interacting with Real Human People. she unwittingly rubs shoulders with socialites, but she’s so unsocial herself. she tends to be pretty unaware of others’ existence. like...... sure. she knows other people exist. but social interaction has never been her priority or forte? so pls give me everything. friends (best friends, frenemies, unlikely friends, fwb, etc.); enemies (though she’d probably be clueless as to whatever enmity is there); exes; someone to fall in love with? hehe ty can’t wait to write with yallz

note: please refer to her as naam! the nickname means water and it’s her way of honoring her thai heritage (bc nicknames basically function as real first names in thai culture)

[coleisunderrated]

My Ninja Nationality HCs

Okay, a bunch of people seem to like my headcanon of the ninja & other characters being Asian. I even have HCs of where the EMs (sans Karlof) hail from. First off, I’ll share my headcanons for the main ninja & the reasons why I see them as such which will be revealed in the link below.

Kai & Nya: Japanese/Vietnamese

Not really my idea. The first person I’ve seen to have this headcanon is @selieltheninja so they should have credit for that. The Japanese part is a given with Ninjago being heavily based on Japanese culture & even back when the first 2 seasons aired, I thought Nya’s outfit kinda look like a sleeveless ao dai.

Jay: Chinese

China is known for its countless inventions throughout its millennia of history & Jay’s an inventor so him being Chinese clicked for me. As for whether or not Ed/Edna or his biological mom are Chinese, I’d say they all are & are part of the Ninjago equivalent of the Chinese community which is spread out throughout all the land, similar to China’s influence in many other parts of Asia and perhaps the whole world.

Zane: Korean

Not sure if Zane could have a nationality/ethnicity being a nindroid but if he were a human in the real world, he would probably be Korean. This is kinda awkward for me since I’m Korean-American & Zane is my second favorite ninja. First off, there isn’t a lot of countries in Asia affiliated with the cold besides Russia. That and it’s tiring seeing characters related to ice being seen as Russian solely because of that. Then again, Korea did host the last Winter Olympics & the country leads in archery, going with Zane’s main weapon post-movie being a bow & arrow. Korea is also considered one of the Four Tigers of Asia so there’s also the technology to go with Zane being a nindroid.

Cole: African-American & Korean/Thai

Now this is even more awkward because as you can tell by my username, Cole is my favorite ninja. Honestly, I have no love for the K-Pop industry with all the constant pressure & putting the idea that fame and looks matter most. It kinda matches with Lou pressuring Cole to follow in his footsteps though for my headcanon, Cole’s Asian heritage is from his mother. I still interpret him with dark skin & he got it from Lou, who I interpret as African-American. As for the Thai part, I imagine Cole’s mother also loved rock climbing & Thailand is a popular destination for climbers. It sounds dumb but I found it fitting.

Lloyd: Japanese/Danish

Again, Ninjago is based on Japan & Lloyd’s the main character so it’s obvious from the start. Lego is also from Denmark so it would also make sense for him to also hail from the land of Lego. The Danish part is from Misako’s side.

That’s all for now. Next time, I’ll make a post for the supporting characters. Feel free to agree or disagree.

[yukipri]

Random text HCs for the YOI Future!Verse ABO AU - Adults 03

So I actually initially wrote this headcanon post in response to an ask, but the answer got super long so I decided to make it a headcanon post instead of an ask response ^ ^ The ask in question:

DEFINITELY not a quick answer HAHA!!

So! This post will talk about my headcanons for their pheromone scents ^ ^

So as my Future!Verse AU is technically A/B/O, pheromones are a thing that most adults have. Everyone has their own unique scent, which can then be colored by their emotions/mental state. Some people just have more naturally potent scents, others not as much, and some people fluctuate. Some people also project their scents, while others are skilled at intentionally hiding/broadcasting/otherwise manipulating them. There’s more detailed info on pheromones in this AU in my World-Building essay, under “Pheromones.”

This headcanon post primarily talks about their individual scents.

Should note that pheromone scents and regular smelling scents are a bit different, and not exactly comparable. While inhaled the same way, pheromone scents are like a separate 6th sense, and are also said to sometimes transfer into a tinge of flavor on the individual’s skin. For the purposes of this ask, I’ll mostly try to use scents/colors/visuals to help describe how I imagine it, but these are by no means meant to be taken literally, and other people smelling the same pheromones could probably describe them differently ^ ^;

Victor

Victor is on the far extreme end of the alpha spectrum in terms of pheromone intensity. He’s had very little reason to restrain his pheromones growing up, so his natural state is to just let them fly around him, and they’re STRONG. For people with exceptionally sensitive noses who aren’t used to him, standing next to him is like having a megaphone in your ear and it can honestly make your eyes water, it hurts. Usually these people would describe it as “like something burning, it stings!” as the potency of the scent alone kinda washes out the delicacies of it.

Yuuri used to not have a very sensitive nose, so he was never particularly bothered by Victor’s scent though even he was aware his broadcasting in Hasetsu basically screamed “FOREIGNER!!!” and floated a giant arrow above his head. He thought there might be an undercurrent of something smokey, woodsy, dark, deep, and rich. As he gets to know Victor better and also becomes more receptive to his pheromones, he definitely thinks Victor’s pheromones feel deeper, like he’s being sucked into a bottomless well of mahogany-colored honey the closer he leans. There’s a hint of something that might be sweet, might be spice, but when he tries to pursue it he just feels himself getting lost in the depths of the scent. It’s thick, and clings to everything Victor touches. Yuuri sorta gets why omegas flock to Victor by scent alone, it has that kind of magnetism and almost inevitable pull that draws the gaze and then the body.

Yet despite how Yuuri can definitely smell when Victor’s unsettled and it’s swirling, Victor’s still hard to read even after all these years, rarely letting any emotions tint his pheromones. When they do, it’s like a slight temperature change, or like in the saturation of color, and hard to define exactly what he’s feeling.

Yurio

Yurio’s also an alpha on the far end of the spectrum in terms of pheromone intensity, but in a very different way from Victor. When he first presented and his pheromones were haywire, they were literally all over the place as is typical of freshly-presented people with strong pheromones. Sometimes they’d spike, other times down to nothing. If the strength of Victor’s pheromones is like unmovable pressure, Yurio’s is sharp, like the razor edge of an unavoidable blade that cuts deep and leaves an impression before it’s gone. As he gets older, he learns more control and his scent stabilizes strong, but even so the pressure is less solid, more like a sharp blade skillfully pressed against skin not hard enough to draw blood but with ever present threat that sends zings of electricity up Yuuri’s spine when it presses just a bit deeper before backing off. But other times, when Yurio wants it to hurt and intimidate, it can cut, compared to Victor’s method of drown.

In terms of flavor, it’s also very different from Victor’s. It’s colorful, and changeable, extremely vibrant and volatile. Yuuri wants to say there’s always a strong undercurrent of spice, but sometimes it leans towards sweet, other times spicy, sometimes confused what it wants to be but always demanding to be noticed. It’s hot and burns bright, sears his skin rather than covers it. People tend to imagine it more as red/warm, but he can instantly turn to a cold biting blue too, and it’s always sparking, flashing other colors. Unlike Victor whose emotions don’t bleed through, Yurio’s do, boy they do. When he’s pissed, his pheromones swirl around him like a tornado, searing bright white at its core, making everyone avert their eyes and give him a wide berth. When he’s upset, even if he’s not moving his emotions lash out in cold icy whips, daring anyone to get close. When he’s happy the whole room lights up and seems to get a few degrees warmer, with bright tendrils wrapping all over those close to him. He’s been training with Phichit to try to hide his emotions better when he doesn’t want them to be known, but it’s still a work in progress even as an adult and definitely doesn't come naturally to him ^ ^;

Phichit

Phichit’s the master of pheromone control in this AU. His natural pheromones are those of an alpha in the upper mid range, projecting the image of someone much bigger and bulkier than he actually is, if not nearly as painfully intimidating as Victor or Yurio. But around a year after he presented at sixteen, due to some plot-relevant events he decided he needed to train pheromone control and did so obsessively, even taking a brief break from skating to train with some masters back in Thailand.

Pheromone control, at its most basic level, is simply controlling the amount one projects their natural pheromones or conceals them, the default level of which varies for every individual. In some cultures, learning how to conceal pheromones is socially mandatory, though some may struggle. At the intermediate level, it’s learning how to keep emotions from bleeding in too vibrantly, or to project genuine emotions to show sincerity. This level is common among skilled businessmen and is also a valuable social skill in some cultures. At the master level, it’s absolute control, the ability to create and manipulate scents that aren’t there to begin with by sheer will power and making them real. It requires superior acting skills, enough to convince your own body that’s the reality. This may mean projecting emotions one may not actually feel in order to influence others, such as projecting calm, or intimidation. It could also mean subtly altering ones natural pheromones so an alpha may pass as beta, possibly even omega. At the most extreme sends of scent potency, it may mean suppressing one’s pheromones to the point of erasure, becoming pheromonally “invisible” like deltas, or the other far end, sharpening and projecting ones pheromones in “pheromonal violence” intentionally meant to cause physical pain.

Phichit’s been honing his skills ever since he first began and has long surpassed the skills of any average person. Even Yuuri doesn’t know the full extent of what he can do, and it honestly sometimes terrifies him. Phichit’s always been good in social situations, but his ability to casually exude calm or welcome certainly helps put people at ease around him when they otherwise would be wary, and sometimes it honestly seems like magic. Phichit began training in the first place so he could be with Yuuri in situations where other alphas couldn’t; he can pass as “beta” and be close to Yuuri without provoking his omega pheromones, or he can even pass as omega when Yuuri needs that too.

Controlling his pheromones and letting out only what he wants to let out is so natural now that it’s a part of Phichit, and Yuuri knows this and would never tell him to just “be himself” in a way that takes away his control. At the core though, Yuuri feels that Phichit’s pheromones are always warm, and that basking in their presence is like sitting in a lovely bright patch of sunlight on a cool day, comforting and undemanding but oh so welcoming. Not a solid, but as natural and necessary as air, golden in color, and warm like freshly baked bread.

Minami

Minami is a gamma-alpha, which in the context of this AU means that he’s on the border of beta and alpha and that his pheromones are naturally fluid, fluctuating between “beta” and “alpha” modes based on his environment and the external pheromones he’s exposed to and his emotional state. Yuuri thinks both his beta and alpha modes smell similar, despite being different, almost like twins. In beta mode, his scent is much milder, typical of the secondary, but with an undeniable undercurrent of something vibrating with energy. It’s warm, less like the all encompassing environmental warmth of Phichit, more like holding a warm body close, solid and familiar but slightly muted, like through a soft sweater or perhaps fur. There’s also the taste of something savory, nothing too greasy or heavily spiced but warm and filling and fresh off the stove…

As an alpha, all these scents are ramped way up, like the frosted glass of a light bulb being removed. The warmth is now pure heat, comparable to Yurio, hot and almost feverish but dry. It feels like it should scald, almost surprising that it doesn’t. The scent that was previously content to just touch now wraps around and encompasses, slightly constricting, unwilling to let go. Yuuri imagines this color to be a darker, richer gold, almost with an auburn tint, tinged almost black at the edges.

Minami’s trying desperately to learn control, but it’s frustrating to him because unlike everything else he can achieve by throwing himself at it and working his ass off, as a gamma he can’t control or predict when his alpha mode is switched on, and therefore he’s always a bit unprepared for the sudden ramping up of his senses and the increased potency of his own scent and that of those around him (especially Yuuri). He’s getting better at it, but as a result his emotions not only bleed heavily into his alpha mode, but his emotions are sometimes reverse affected by the pheromones themselves, leading to some extreme mood swings and actions when he’s provoked or threatened with little control.

It’s why he’s most likely to pick a physical fight with other alphas threatening Yuuri. But despite the physical boost perks as an alpha, he’s much more level headed as a beta, and he prefers his “beta” mode when he needs to be stable, such as when dealing with medical emergencies or teaching the kids. After becoming Yuuri’s student, and later his mate, he learns to better predict and even intentionally trigger his own mode switches, which becomes easier and easier with Yuuri’s presence at his side to guide him.

Yuuri

Yuuri only had super faint pheromones until post “canon” timeline, aka all of his teen and part of his young adult life. He was considered technically omega because of his reproductive abilities, but in terms of international pheromone standards he was beta, leaning almost delta spectrum in terms of scent visibility. Like sure, you could tell that he’s a presented adult, but other than that, not much. His family and Yuu-chan assured him that it wasn’t a bad scent, pleasant if anything, sorta unassuming and blends well with everything else, which is a good thing! Kinda like the white rice in a rice dish, like katsudon! You don’t really notice the smell of the rice itself behind the steaming pork, eggs, onions, sauce etc., but it’s a necessary undercurrent!  Warm and filling, good white rice is perfectly fine on its own too, even if it doesn’t have the richest flavor.

The first person to tell him anything counter to this was Phichit. Phichit can maybe see where people are coming from but can’t really agree with that description himself, and later hypothesizes that if he had met Yuuri after presenting, he might have been able to smell that. As it is, he met Yuuri when he was unpresented, and was already pretty close to him when he presented (which Yuuri helped him through). And he was already very, VERY aware of his own growing feelings towards Yuuri before that happened…

Yuuri was the first person Phichit ever scented pheromones on, and it was honestly like a sledgehammer to the face. A nice one, he rushes to add at Yuuri’s pained expression, but like, still sorta painful and hyper direct and blunt, most likely as a result of him being freshly presented and super sensitive. Even as he gets used to pheromones, Yuuri’s scent more or less stays the same. Many omegas smell sweet, like a dessert or ripe fruit, or possibly even floral sweet, like any combination of stereotypically “feminine” things in our universe. Phichit wouldn’t quite call Yuuri a dessert, if a food, definitely a main savory dish of some sort. Kinda pale in color, not pure white but milky, tinted warm. Sorta thick, but without putting up resistance, like smooth cream. There’s some noticeable sweetness, but it’s rounded, subtle, hidden, and makes Phichit want to press his tongue against Yuuri’s skin to find it. But despite all the soft stuff on the surface, there’s an undercurrent of something more vibrant and volatile, sometimes like a bright flash of color that gives a jolt of warmth, sometimes something darker that explodes into flavor at just a slight touch that roils with Yuuri’s emotions.

Yuuri bluntly tells Phichit that doesn’t sound very pleasant and is confusing, and gives him the cold shoulder (for only a few minutes though).

Victor totally got the “rice” analogy at first, and tbh he didn’t even notice Yuuri’s scent at all. At the banquet it was completely covered by alcohol, and at Hasetsu it was blown away in the wind. Victor didn’t mind, he doesn’t consider pheromones to be necessary to be attracted to someone, but as they get closer, he starts scenting something on Yuuri with increasing persistence, and it baffles him a bit until he realizes it’s Yuuri’s scent. He agrees with Phichit’s description, but adds that it seems sweeter, richer now–but less like an actual edible item, or even perfume on skin, but almost like the scent of a candle, warm and fluttering when lit, so good he can almost taste it and can’t get enough of it and close enough to feel the heat–but frustratingly physically intangible beyond that.

Yurio has a similar experience to Phichit, Yuuri’s scent being the first pheromones he smells (hell, his entire presenting was basically triggered by them). Yuuri’s scent has grown much stronger now, to the point most of his rink mates do a double take and frown at the almost omega-like scent lingering around who they assumed was a beta, and Yurio wonders if this is what a drug addiction is like. He’s still very much in denial of any feelings he may have for Yuuri, but he literally feels physically ill when he goes too long without scenting Yuuri’s pheromones. Reluctant to say anything positive about Yuuri, he heatedly claims that everything else in the world just smells unbearably strong and nasty, like thick unbreathable smog, and Yuuri just happens to be the one patch of okay-ish fresh clean air. NO that’s NOT a compliment, those are like, super low standards!!

Years later, a much more honest and mature Yurio describes Yuuri’s scent as something like the inside of his thigh, juicy and bitable but you probably shouldn’t literally eat it (though it’s super easy to mark up with your mouth), soft and squishy and pale but under that, steel corded muscle. (Yuuri may have smacked him for saying such an embarrassing thing out loud)

Yuuri’s scent continues to bloom, and as a married man with kids, no one can now mistake him for anything but an omega, though he often gets double takes on the streets because his physique doesn’t fit the physical stereotype of an omega. While the rice analogy really no longer fits, if one thing it’s that Yuuri’s scent still melds with and compliments other scents, and that his own “natural” scent is seemingly always colored by that of his mates. When they scent him to get their pheromones to stick, it’s different from just scenting any other person, but seems to meld into his skin itself to subtly flavor his natural scent, like an emotion, but different. While the concept itself makes them all feel a bit warm, it’s also a bit of a pain because this makes it easier for strangers to assume that it’s Yuuri’s natural scent, not making the connection that it was a possessive scent mark until the mate in question personally appears. But even as Yuuri’s scent becomes more visible to others, those he’s attached to and reciprocate are the only people who can smell the full extent of his pheromones.

Should note that Yuuri also doesn’t have too much control over his pheromones, as for most of his life he didn’t really need to. Phichit’s been working with him, though it all goes to shit when he gets hit by his heats... ^ ^;

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reading a post about asian ethnotypes and stereotypes and

(excerpt from this post)

hate to relate everything to homestuck but there are clear stereotypes leading to the popularity of a particular trend within homestuck ethnicity headcanoning: AKA poc prospits vs white derses. and, by extension, asian prospits vs. nonasian derses.

the reinforcement of stereotyping is so unabashedly blatant that it pains me to think about and try and explain this in terms that are understandable; but i’ll try my best to properly communicate my thoughts on the issue.

prospit is less popular than derse. not gonna lie, i’m a derse kid fan myself. prospit is less popular for many reasons (development is just plain better for the derse kids, most of the prospits except john get largely ignored/ character arcs aren’t completed well at all, people find that the derse kids are more relatable due to their less obviously bright personalities, etc. note that this is swapped for the trolls.) and for some strange, twisted reason, this makes people want to shove their poc headcanons on to the prospits. Well, not necessarily prospit is less popular therefore they have more poc headcanons, but:

there is a clear link between the “prospits are more likely to be HCed as people of colour” fact and the “prospit kids are generally less popular than derse kids”. you can argue that it’s because people prefer the whole prerequisite for derse, but that isn’t solely the case. People like to project their fantasies onto the characters they like; ergo, they like to envision their favourite perfect white model Striders and Lalondes, because it’s something they want to see in the characters that they view as superior. I was the same, when i first got into homestuck: i was all for imagining jade and john as fun quirky chinese kids versus dave and rose, pale as the moon and perfect in every way. because, despite how much i love all the kids, i related to dave and rose more, especially, and i was eager to project my fantasies in the same way.

while the most popular depiction of all the kids is skinny and white, this is the case even more so for derse. i’ve seen my fair share of POC headcanons for the strilondes; plenty of black and hispanic headcanons for them but the fact remains that they are still generally the vast minority in comparison to the majority of “perfect” looking white daves, dirks, roses and roxys. whereas if people want to make their art look more “diverse”, what’s their first thought? change jade’s skintone a little darker, by a shade or two, cause she lived on an island. jake too. dark hair? prospit thing, so they’re “more suited” to being depicted as POC. the weird-ass general image of all the prospits being glasses-wearing nerds? obviously the derse kids aren’t so they’re white, and if anyone’s gotta be POC, then its gonna be the Prospits. imperfect prospits, with their buckteeth and glasses.

(ignoring the fact that all the kids are nerds.)

yknow what?

this is bullshit.

people seem to forget that hair dye is a thing, that the art style of homestuck is vastly interpretive, that the #FFFFFF of their skin is merely for artistic ease because hey guess what? all the kids are aracial.

now, onto the asian thing.

the fact that asian headcanons, if they exist at all, consist largely of japanese and korean ones. i have absolutely nothing against this, because they’re few and far between as it is, but you’re forgetting that the rise in popularity of japanese and koreans is due to the influence of pop culture; namely, anime and k-pop. both of which have western fanbases that can be incredibly harmful upon the livelihood of their respective root countries, and the increasing rate at which fetishising “cute japanese schoolgirls” and “hot korean boys” etc. becomes more and more common. fetishising east asians is not a compliment. it’s on the same level as fujoshi culture normalising the fetishisation of m/m relationships. it’s harmful and uncomfortable for all involved.

as a (mainly) han chinese teenager, all i can tell you is this: as a child, I sometimes wished that i could be korean, maybe. or japanese. because if i couldn’t be white, then it’d be nice to have been viewed as part of the group of “perfect asians” - the skinny, pale, beautiful japanese / korean models that apparently represent asia for the rest of the world. obviously, there are many, many problems with this mindset- the world’s view on asian people had forced me into thinking that i wasn’t good enough if i wasn’t exactly how they saw asian people should be. representation matters, in that it’s comforting to find characters just like you, that have the same or similar cultural experiences to you, being showcased throughout fandom and media content. i cannot emphasise this enough.

the fandom has an abhorrent habit of ignoring the rest of asia which, in case you didn’t get the memo, contains over 60% of the world’s entire population. that’s right. and within that 60% contains a plethora of different cultures, languages and racial groups (within China alone there are 56 different ones.)

so, where are my malaysian lalondes? my chinese-indonesian striders? pakistani rose? tibetan roxy? kazakh dave? there are literal hundreds upon thousands of different separate groups i could name all of which don’t necessarily include the main ethnic groups within japan and korea.

*i’m not trying to bash on korean or japanese people. i know that as a chinese person i already have a highly significant vantage point over even the more commonly acknowledged south asian groups ie. thailand, indonesia, cambodia, india, malaysia, etc. but, the effect of the popularity of weeaboo/otaku/koreaboo culture has gone too far and it’s become sickening.

*i’m also not trying to make people who already have nonasian POC headcanons for the kids feel bad. i appreciate everything you’re doing; this is just me trying to remind the world that asia exists.

basically, if you realise you’re making fancontent that follows this trend of either:

- all white kids, or one slightly-darker-skinned-jade-amongst-a-sea-of-pale-faces

- POC prospits vs white derse kids

maybe, just maybe you could think about researching and including asian derse kids in your headcanons. I know that a lot of people like to see themselves in these characters (myself included) and i understand that. At the end of the day, i can’t change anything about what anyone’s doing and i certainly don’t want to pressure people into thinking that they’re doing everything wrong.

my sole objective is to maybe let people at least consider thinking over what their accepted headcanons are, and perhaps push towards a change that will mean that i don’t feel quite as alone as i do creating south-east asian strider-lalonde content.

in conclusion: the white derse vs nonwhite prospit dichotomy is bad and needs to be stopped. and also asia is a very large continent with over 4 billion people on it and many, many ethnic groups.