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Do we ever find out when tintin’s birthday is? Bc I think it would be So funny if the reason he doesn’t age is bc he’s a 29th feb kid
#this is canon in my brain because it is So funny#tintin#he only has a birthday every 4 years and he’s ageing so much slower than everyone else#and then also he’s been poisoned and bashed around so much that he just sort of stopped growing#which is also canon in my brain#listen. im a tiny guy I have to hold onto other tiny fictional guys#me/tintin/Princess Leia/Marty McFly/Dana scully we’re all sticking together#tintin and his chronic chloroform exposure/repeated head trauma rly coming thru for us by just not growing any taller
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They deserve some domestic fluff after S7
#btvs#spuffy#spike x buffy#spike btvs#buffy summers#my art#I’m currently going through season 8#slowly but surely#just to see them happen in canon#but also I cannot draw and read at the same time#which sucks honestly#anyway I love them#I have spuffy on the brain
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The guide fweheuhuieheueuhehehhehehiheh
#isat#in stars and time#in stars and time spoilers#isat bonnie#in recipes and repetition#randomized isatswap au#They aren’t canon in IRAR as far as I’m sure but i’ve seen them tagged with it so just in case…#headcanon is that when they are big brain thinking really hard their four chest dots spin like a loading screen#Like I imagine them and bonnie having a serious talk about allat jazz with wishcraft and the king and why they’re stuck and blehblehbleh#And then bonnie just points at their chest in the middle of the conversation and is like “why is your tummy rotating” -_-#Also i just love their design a lot like the dots are from the shirt and the flaring wrist from where the bracelet used to be…#And also tail. Tail = peak loop design instantly#And also also the tail looks like somethin between a red giant and a black hole whICH IS ALSO WHAT THE HEAD LOOKS LIKE RAHHHHHH#i dont wanna yap on but i love this design so much its so bonnie and it just makes sense everywhere#yehheheh#my art
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I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry
#ramblings of a lunatic#dc comics#Jason Todd#batfamily#it's just a fun quirk! it's a fun lil detail and I simply cannot slight ppl for enjoying and incorporating it into works#like obviously jason isn't the only one. I'm a big believer in the batfam having over lapping interests they refuse to bond over#i know dick canonically used the robin hood stories (which are pretty flowery in their language far as i can tell) as inspo for Robin#and i know babs was a librarian and even tho her area of nerddom is characterized as more computery she probably knows quite a lot-#-about literature as well#duke is a hobbyist writer i believe? i saw a fan mention that- which if so is great and I hope he's also a nerd#(i mean he is canonically. i remember him being a puzzle nerd in his introduction. but i mean specifically a lit nerd)#damian called Shakespeare boring but also took acting classes so i think he's more of a theatre kid.#Tim's a dropout and i don't think he's ever shown distinct interest in english lit and i can't remember for Steph?#I'm ngl my brain hyperfocused on musician Steph i forget some of her other interests I'm sorry (minus softball and gymnastics!)#and then Cass had her whole (non linear but it's whatevs) arc about literacy and learning to read#went from struggling to read in batgirl 00 to memorizing Shakespeare in 'tec and is now an avid read in batgirls!#she's shown reading edgar allen poe but we don't know if it's his short stories or his poems#point to all of the above being: i know Jason's not the only lit nerd in the batfam#but also i do need him to be writing poetry in his spare time and reading and reviewing it#jason at the next dead robins society meeting: evening folks today I'll be assigning all of us poems based on laika the space dog#damian and steph who have been kidnapped and brought to jasons warehouse to hangout: LET US GO BITCH#speaking of^ random poem i think jason would like: space dog by alan shapiro#wake up one morning in an unfamiliar more mature body with a profound sense of abandonment. the last four lines. mmm tasty
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saw this post by @liloinkoink and was immediately compelled to draw them
#taevi.png#life series#third life#renthedog#martyn inthelittlewood#inthelittlewood#treebark#lamplight au#this is romantic to ME#also i want everyone to know that my brain decided to give me the hardest possible time making this#sketched out the first draft and had to scrap it when i found out they had canon designs#then the second draft which got to lineart was scrapped because i didn't like the composure#and THEN!!#LEW JUMPSCARED ME IN TTS WHEN I NEEDED HELP FOR TWO ALT PIECES!!!#that was so scary genuinely i was SWEATING finishing this knowing that lew had seen it already 😭😭
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thinking about how their bond transcends time, space, and destiny—soulmates tethered to each other. except they’re also walking two different paths that cannot overlap, always standing on opposite sides. but she still craves him, because he made her feel so deeply the way she hasn’t felt in centuries. the love she feels for him isn’t just tainted by the knowledge of his true identity; it’s torn apart by the fact that, even now, she still sees halbrand within him and she can only live in constant denial. maybe he sees the darkness lying dormant within her, the unspoken desires she barely acknowledges herself—and it terrifies her that he, of all people, is the one who understands them
and then he’s this fucked up lunatic. meets her when he’s been stripped of everything. he’s so drawn to her and it’s suddenly a romcom filled with crazy sexual tension she is the one person who could have pulled him from the shadows, the reflection of what he might have been in another life—someone who drew him toward the light. but that is still never quite enough to make him leave the darkness behind
she forever chooses good. he is entrenched in his depravity. and yet they both live haunted by this choice of never experiencing again what they felt in those few moments when he was just halbrand and she was just galadriel. just them on the raft. this ‘love’ festers like a wound that will never heal, reminding them of what could have been but never will be
now every time they face each other they’re faced with feelings that neither of them expected to develop and it’s a sore point for both and they can’t erase that intimacy and they’re both frustrated because why not
& for him it has turned into if you can’t have me in your heart the way i desire then i will have you in the only twisted way i know how to which. wow. woah.
#doomed to fail from the start and they made it everyone’s problem#even couples therapy can’t save them#also these are just my incoherent ramblings of how i interpret their relationship#and i like this interpretation i find it peak romance actually sooooo#haladriel#saurondriel#halbrand x galadriel#sauron x galadriel#galadriel#sauron#trop#can’t further emphasise that this is how *i* view it and it’s canon in my brain which is good enough for me!!
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i have... ✨Danyal Al Ghul Headcanons✨ but specifically for my yaelokre danyal oneshot
There's also the tumblr post here but I recommend the link in the title because its the ao3 version, and that one is edited and has some stuff in it that's not in the tumblr post, and will be the version I'm using.
So for summary: this Danyal is also from a Demon Siblings Au where Danny is five years older than Damian. However, things turned out a bit differently, and Danny and Damian had a fantastic relationship with one another. Danny loved music and regularly came up with songs to sing to Damian with. Specifically the folk band Yaelokre's EP "Hayfields" (seriously go fucking listen to it its sooo good. Harpy Hare is the second song but its my favorite. Special shoutout to @gascansposts for introducing the band to me)
He falls off a train when he's twelve and Damian is seven while the two of them and Talia are on mission. He ends up with magically induced amnesia and wakes up in Arkansas while the Fentons are on their yearly Divorce-iversary visit to Aunt Alica, and since he can only remember his name, he ends up being taken into their care.
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Yaelokre Danny has the same facial scar as Things in Threes Danyal, since he was initially another version of him where things turned out better. I'm debating on whether or not I should take it away however, and give him a different scar (maybe from when he fell off the train?), just because the scar is a pretty key identifier for Ti3 Danyal.
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Danny frequently visits Aunt Alicia in Arkansas! Well, only after he gets settled in and stuff. He doesn't really like the city that much and prefers the countryside where Alicia lives. I know she lives in a cabin but I'm changing it to a farm, so she puts Danny to work and gets him to help her.
I don't want to confine his hobbies to only being star stuff, because people tend to have more than one hobby and I feel like it reduces him to one-dimensionality, so he likes to garden, and learns guitar. His room becomes filled with plants, and he turns their roof into a rooftop greenhouse right below to OPS Center.
He has a complex relationship with the weapons from his past, but he's not... like... appalled by it? When he finds his weapons in the Fenton attic all he thinks is that they're his weapons, and he starts carrying a knife on him afterwards. Essentially he becomes fascinated with weaponry because its one of the few physical ties he has to his past, and while he's not training like he is in the League, he allows his strong muscle memory to guide him through his katas.
Danny likes climbing things. This causes Problems For Everyone Else.
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Danny was not the "kinder Al Ghul" in the League. His kindness extended to his brother and family, and that's it. To everyone else he had high expectations out of them, and the pride you'd expect from the grandson of Ra's Al Ghul and trained by its top members. While he wasn't like, unnecessarily cruel or anything, he wasn't merciful either.
This transfers post-train fall as him coming off as no-nonsense and unforgiving. He's not fond of the idea of giving people second chances, and is skeptical of the idea. He's disgusted by incompetency and views it as an unforgivable offense, especially if he thinks that the person should know better, although he's not sure why. Some egocentrism for the soul.
He doesn't like being touched by anyone who isn't family, and gets irritated when anyone grabs him or holds onto him for extended amounts of time. Dash has gotten hit so many times. With Jack Fenton's tendency for abrupt physical affection, it doesn't make it any better. I'd argue it'd make it worse because Danny doesn't want to be touched more often than not.
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Danyal had a red scarf in the League that he wore on his last mission, it came off before he fell off and caught itself on the roof. Damian still has it and took it with him to Wayne Manor. He's got it locked in his room and takes it out when he's alone and missing Danny the most. One time he forgot to put it away before leaving his room, and Dick was visiting the manor for something and found it. Damian found him holding it and freaked out.
Dick could only say "I've never seen you wear this, Damian, this is really pretty--" before Damian shoved him to the floor and stole it out of his hands, before screaming at him; "Don't touch this! You don't ever touch this! This is mine! You hear me!?"
It caused such a commotion that the rest of the family present came to see what the fuss was about, and Damian kicked them all out of his room. Dick is the one brother Damian's the closest with, so the fact he reacted so strongly shocked them all.
This is likely what leads to the "Danyal" conversation.
#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc crossover#danyal al ghul au#yaelokre danny#yaelokre danyal al ghul#the yaelokre danny post didn't really go into him interacting with other people but i'm trying to figure out his personality post amnesia#just know this: he's not canon danny. im spitefully refusing to make him a Cookie Cutter of canon danny because the idea pisses me off lmao#he's complex and confused and morally gray even with the amnesia bc memories aren't stored in one part of the brain they're stored#in different parts depending on the memory and muscle memory exists and danny might not actively remember the things that shaped him but hi#body does. and somewhere deep in his mind so does his brain. his memories weren't destroyed theyre locked away in a place where his active#conscious can't reach. plus its magic amnesia and i have comic AND cartoon realism on my side.#danny's personality from the league doesn't get challenged that much by the fentons because danny's learning this about himself just as muc#as they are. Jazz can't “Fix” what's wrong with him when neither of them know it and Danny is always the first to figure it out and then#keeps it to himself. Also. Jazz has a fucking life? she's not the family therapist she has friends and hobbies even if we the viewers don't#see it. But also i just really deeply despise the idea that Jazz “fixes” danny's league issues just by existing and being the therapist#because it waters her down into a one-dimensional character who only exists in the context of providing emotional support and life advice t#danny. also therapy only works on someone that's actively trying to change. otherwise its just psychoanalyzing and people tend to hate#being psychoanalyzed without consent. which as a result may have them refuse help. anyways point is: i believe that growth is slow and#complex and danny would hide a lot of the stuff he discovers about himself because if there's one thing he still retains from being an#assassin. it's how to hide. he likes jazz but there are some things you just hide from people.#damian also told dick to “keep his filthy hands off his things”. which was also a shock because it sounded something he'd say more to tim#damian was distraught the entire time.#okay thats all i have for now.
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based on how i approach plotting ive come to the conclusion that even if i were morally and logically okay with becoming kira i would get the death note and think "okay, im going to make sure i come up with the perfect plan so i can't get caught", spend several months on it, refuse to execute it because it's not foolproof yet, and simply never get around to it. if ethics and reason didn't stop me from becoming kira then sheer procrastination would do the trick
#rookposting#lets track my major wips right now#p5 palace fic chapter 10 which im working on intermittently but stalled on again because of action sequences#death note canon divergence longfic which has two chapters written and more than 60 pages of planning#most of which is me cancelling my own evil plans out because im playing brain chess eith myself as L and light simultaneously#and death note ace attorney au which went from 'ill do one scene for fun' to 'this is a two day trial casefic'#'which will be interactive'#'and potentially playable '#i also need t o finish writing my job application.s. for fandom: my career#oh fuck and also redacted projects 1 2 and 3#3 being the one i just took on because im not BUSY ENOUGh
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It's soo telling that Halt (a prince-become-ranger who will die if he's alone for 2 minutes) saw Will having a hard time with the death of Alyss and Maddie being a little snotty/bratty and immediately thought "you know what would work?
Ranger training"
#halt o'carrick#will treaty#madelyn altman#ranger's apprentice#rangers apprentice#he didn't immediately think that if I recall#and he certainly doesn't die in two minutes#but whatever you get the point#I still kind of headcanon that he gets the whole “I can't be alone or I'll murder someone” from being a twin but that's another can of worm#And I know some people will be like “well he only was extra grumpy because Will was gone”#Which#yeah#true#But also???#Canonically he joined up with Crowley a couple months after nearly being drowned by his brother#like#even if he could logically say “oh he's trustworthy”#his feelings would be totally different with that#idk I'd have to read TEY/the main series to make a post about that#but that's not the point here so IDK why... my brain... went to that. .
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How could you. HOW COULD YOU! You know EXACTLY how much time he spent Crafting himself to become the person he can at least begin to tolerate, begin to identify as himself, to proudly label as ISABEAU! You broke it, your his face, that stupid face that makes you so so SO CRABBING FURIOUS! SO VIOLENT! SO! UNRELENTINGLY! JEALOUS! And now you've Changed him, with your rage, with your anger; like the Universe Changed you. For the worse. Your bleeding Pincushion. You dig your fist into his nose. Blood on your hands.
*grinding my teeth* God god god I have become obsessed with Quin (to quote it, "I'm a mannequin without the man[ne]") and how on a scale of love to hate in the loopified party, Quin and Isabeau are worse together than Siffrin and Loop :P
Here's a post-quin fight where Isa is guaranteed to lose and guaranteed to get his nose broken, good thing if there's ever any sprite edits I wouldn't have to have two different Act 6 portrait sets :)
#isabeau#isabeau isat#quin#quin isat#in stars and time#isat#isat spoilers#isat act 6 spoilers#fanart#blood#for all the times i'm not posting i'm thinking about quin and isabeau :P#me: hmm i'm not the biggest fan of sif and loop together no hate no hate also me about isaquin: god what the fuck oh my god#i have no fucknig clue why maybe because isabeau and quin are both in agreement that despite *gestures vaguely*#they consider each other as completely separate individuals and were not and will not be one or the other#whereas loop wants to be siffrin again and thus a little more attached to their previous identity?#i don't really know why my brain makes the distinction and it's not 'canon' to the vague isaloops idea#ANYWAY! isabeau gets punched which... should that be a tag? i got blood as one#i was gonna make the first panel of quin be rendered like the loop 'death' screen but i wanted to make it's star glow#which yes quin's face opens like a star but probably only during its fight at the height of its emotions and not as a casual thing#and maybe in the possessed sprite but dunno if that'll show up given it came up both in mira's quest and dagger dialogue#as isa doesn't exactly have a dagger to make things faster nor would he have the same quest with mira don't know where that would go#once again with the painted backgrounds :P digital painting at least for these is really just fancy scribbling :P#it gets the vague idea of foliage and grass well enough tho so :P :P :P
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Is that all good deeds are when looked at with an ice-cold eye?
#doctor who#fifth doctor#sixth doctor#seventh doctor#eighth doctor#night of the doctor Haunts me you must know#this song also. haunts me.#anyway#BRAIN ROT BRAIN ROT BRAIN ROT#there will. be more.#look could I explain why this is the vibe? no but like. in my heart.#SURE I MEANT WELL WELL LOOK AT WHAT WELL-MEANT DID#I love interpretating the doctor in a very specific way which doesn't necessarily fully match the canon but makes me insane#which is why one day I'm going to write for big finis#*finish
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Melotober - Day 8 - Ghost
Fascinating, the monsters that creep in to each area...
#Melotober#It's not midnight yet HA#Rune Factory#RF1#Rune Factory Lynette#RF Lynette#You don't think they played with which monsters would show up where WITHOUT her testing them did ya??#She probably had so much fun while setting up those Shifts. And my brain immediately went to the Toros Ghosts#Have I ever drawn Lyn with the banners before btw?? Never published- only in 1 unfinished/unpublished piece#I also draw her so non-canon that I had to look at how I've drawn her more canon look. WHOOPS.#Also. Listen. Today is a day filled with baseball. Baseball games and referencing slides into 2nd for the sketch itself#[ty Trea Turner for having beautiful slides to reference. Nationals Turner as I am petty][he's also lithe and it helps]#Spent a few hours helping my mother fill out a scorebook for the Phillies/Mets game. Not time lost- time ENJOYED#Have a good night!!#Margot's RF Art
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What is it about tgcf that inspires so many AUs. The blorbos just keep on giving in every universe and I want to know them more and more and more and-
#tgcf has taken me body and soul#anyway i was thinking about the shackles and how a coraline/doll au could be cool with dark and haphazard stitches in place of the tattoos#also i wanna make hong-er be coraline because fuck it it makes sense in my mind#i was also thinking about xie lian in modern day as a garbage man#plus the vampire au that will forever plague me until i get it out#and of course the sci fi au which i insist on shoehorning canon events into that setting because I Can#shhhh brain shhhh#tgcf
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I was thinking to myself recently how wild it would be if this fandom was big enough to do a kinktober. Alas...
#me rambling#or like at least one of those week things for a ship or a specific show#maybe that's more attainable#also i say any of this as if i am a known smut writer when i definitely am not 😂#i would like to be i'm just not confident#but there could be gen options too#it's just funny to me because the source material here is so out there it kinda lends itself to kinks right?#i mean there is canonical mpreg in tyo#eddie is sticking a whole sofa up richie's arse in one of the bottom lives#alan b'stard is a canonical sadist in bed#and out of it too#there's other examples i can't think of now#i also just constantly think about fandom events i'm afraid#idk why my brain is like this i just constantly wanna set up creative events but unfortunately for the nichest things 😂#the rik and ade fest is great but only runs once a year#sometimes we do scumbag secret sanata#but those things both depend on collaboration to a certain extent in that one person is creating for another#which is great!#but what i'm proposing here is free reign to just take a vague prompt and make something for it#fic art edits literally whatever#to be posted here or ao3 or instagram or wherever else#because it could be fun and we could all hype each other up#and sometimes creativity needs a nudge#or just the chance to break from a bigger project for something short#i am waffling a lot i'm sure i'm gonna run out of tags soon but let me know if this appeals to you#even by an anon if you're shy!#this is very vague i'm not even sure what the specific event would be centred around#like should it be for a single show or everything#maybe i will open a discussion? probably not but maybe 😂#rik mayall
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Would that mean Ajax has an unusually vested interest in the other nations after everything in Liyue is sorted? Like- keeping an eye on the Gunnhilder clan, or the Ragvindr’s? Would he have a vested interest in seeing the Dawn Winery form and thrive? Would he keep an eye out for news from Inazuma about the Kamisatos, Kaedehara clan, and how the Yokai are doing? There’s a lot of funky things Ajax could be tracking and or meddling with and I love that for him
oh absolutely. ajax would find a way to build himself a little news chain just to keep up on Blorbo Release Dates and accidentally install the greatest intelligence gathering network in teyvat
and like- nobody would realize at first since it'd happen so slowly, but by one point some couple of centuries down the line guizhong would be like- sorry, how do you know this? and ajax would just cassually drop that ah yes [instert someone's name here] told him and guizhong and morax would sit there like. who- who's that and ajax would drop the whole oh y'know i made some friends, i got some people to pass me some info back, usual stuff and guizhong would stare bc ajax is just casually revealing he has created a both open-secret yet completely unknown network of entirely random individuals who just- pass gossip along, and it all eventually goes back to ajax. most of that network is made up of volchiy travelers who pick up info on the coasts and directly report back to him.
#it just sounds so hilarious to me but also so canon#my man was part of the fatui he knows how intelligence gathering works#he also knows how to get people to be his informants without really having to coerce them into anything#but since it's all in the name of knowing when tf like- noelle is going to be born#it just doesn't really register in his brain as a covert spy and sleeper agent network#which is kinda what it will become#like imagine when someone else accidentally uncovers this rabbit hole and like- gets scared of the possibilities#like what sucha huge info network could be used for#but then it turns out the man gathering all that info is doing fuckall with it#like ??????????????????????#whoever finds out outside of the guili assembly circle is going to become so deathly afraid of ajax lmao#anyway- thank you for the ask! you're correct hahah
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I'm so sorry, I'm kinda drunk and dropping another idea, do with it whatever ye will.
Yknow how in the beginning of the game, Sojiro tells Ren he won't take care of him when he gets sick?
Consider: he's not used to city germs/being that closely shoved against other people on the train. He DOES start to get sick around Kamoshida's Palace, powers through it, and then is SUPER sick just after it's over.
He plans on sucking it up and hiding it, but Futaba hears his hacking coughs over her bug even when he's upstairs, followed by wheezing, maybe even a little weeping. He's constantly in and out of the bathroom, and he's starting to run out of tissues.
Futaba nervously texts Sojiro that the kid they took in sounds awful. Sojiro is gruff at first and says he's not a baby, he can take care of himself. She responds by sending him the audio and suddenly Dad Instincts kick in
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obviously it's a YES, our brainrots continue because early-game ren and sojiro dynamics break my heart every time how dare you get me so invested in this idea, this post got too long so it's going under a read more
listen listen look i love sojiro and the coffee family okay, but early-game?? sojiro could catch these hands
ren has already been though so much by the time he arrives in tokyo, to then be put into a dusty old attic like a spare part would absolutely fit in with ren's own perception of himself at that stage. it would be almost too easy for him to put his own health on the backburner kinda like he's already used to it
very used to not taking up space, 'not being a bother', and then sojiro really reinforces this message when ren first gets to leblanc- so when ren inevitably gets ill a month into his probation, it's already doomed for maladaption
tokyo would be such a breeding ground for sickness compared to the countryside, and ren just doesn't have the consitution to deal with it. the dusty attic and poor eating habits don't help matters, and then we have the stress of kamoshida and the metaverse?? ren is not having a Good Time™
at first it's something he thinks he can shrug off, and is adamant that ignoring it is the way to go. a cold, it's nothing, he can handle this alone, no need to bother anyone else with it.
inevitably, he gets worse, because that's what happens when you don't rest and let yourself recover. a tickly cough becomes a tightness in his chest, mild congestion shifts into an attack on his senses and blurriness- but maybe that's the dizziness. he's not really sleeping, either.
it's something that's becoming increasingly difficult to brush off and hide, he even relented to finally getting some medicine (nothing as strong as he needs by this point, that would eat too much into his limited funds, but some painkillers to take the edge off). once or twice he's tempted to stay off school, at morgana's insistence, or a too close call where he definitely blacked out for a minute, but then sojiro's voice will ring in his head 'i won't be the one looking after you if you get sick', 'your parents got rid of you for being a pain in the ass', and all his worst insecurities come rushing back and he's resolved to deal with it on his own
meanwhile, futaba's been making use of her hidden audio bugs- normally they're a comfort for her in the daytime, but since the new kid- ren- has been staying at the cafe (part-timer her ass, how gullible does sojiro think she is?!), she's been listening more frequently. when ren gets sick, she figures it out quickly.
time goes on, he's not getting better- he's actually getting worse- and futaba starts to wonder if she's the only one who knows
(there's something in his sharp contrasts- the quiet kid who shuffles through the cafe and takes sojiro's scolding, to the coughing kid who cries into the silence of night when he thinks there's nobody there to see it- that stabs through her numbness. it feels like a companion to her own ghost)
one night she swears the kid gets up to be sick, and there's hardly any sound heard from the attic all night. if nobody's gonna help ren, then she will (futaba used to like helping, once upon a time).
she texts sojiro the next day, when ren doesn't say anything again, and goes off to school with what she bets is a fake assurance on his face
and you're so right, sojiro dismisses her concern really easily, claims the kid can 'take care of himself' and he won't 'baby' the part-timer. insists ren needs to learn some disipline, then maybe he'll stay out of trouble
frustration wells in futaba- if she was less fixated on what was going on with ren, she'd register it's one of the first changes of mood she's had for months- and she responds with nothing but an audio clip, an attached explanation that this is just from the past few days- it's been going on for weeks, then she waits, and hears the distant sound of her compilation through one of the bugs, a hitched breath from sojiro, curse words under his breath-
for all his earlier postulating about not helping ren if he gets sick, sojiro is immeditely struck with a pang of concern- it sounded bad, and if futaba's words were anything to go by, this had been going on for a while. the kid's at school now (at school, being as ill as that and he was still going to class-), so sojiro will talk to him when he gets back. there's a chance he goes a bit too over the top, between the variation of medicines he purchases, supplies he grabbed from home- if you accused him for over-compensating after maybe being too harsh on the kid in the beginning, you'd be right
and you just know ren would be so resistent at first to help, or even just the offer of staying off school. in his sickness-induced fugue, ren's filter-less in rattling off how he can't stay off, what will the students and teachers think, and he has work that afternoon, and a test soon, and he doesn't want to get in the way-
sojiro's heart just shatters
this kid, whose been silently carring the weight of the world and has apparently been falling to pieces for weeks now and sojiro didn't even notice?
(a part of it reminds him too much of the other kid he's got at home, the countless ways he's already failed futaba, and now ren too? he feels useless)
sojiro focuses on what he can do, and that's making the kid rest. work will understand, school can wait, ren isn't an inconvenience, he guides the kid to bed, calls takemi immediately (who rushes over, despite the fact she's technically closed at this hour, and refuses to take any payment),
even still, there's this stilted awkwardness between them when the quiet pushes on too long- they hardly know each other, afterall. sojiro is still figuring out the 'caring for kids' thing, and ren isn't familiar with any kind of parental affection, so some of sojiro's care veers a bit too close to clinical or mechanic, and ren still struggles to communicate what kind of help he needs, but it's enough for now.
for now, sojiro is there. he's trying, and at least ren's getting some colour back on his skin. for now, ren's willing to take a few days off and have some medicine, but he's over-apologetic and definitely tries to make up for his sickness once he's healed. it's gonna take them both a while yet, but luckily there's always their guardian hacker, ready and able to call them out when needed (and maybe some day she'll be able to keep an eye on ren and sojiro in person)
#ask#also the idea of it being futaba who first realises going on?? developing hers and ren's bond before they even meet??#june i love your brain have i ever mentioned#such a gem even when it h u r t s (which is obviously only ever ALWAYS <3)#us : *sees angsty p5 game content* it's free real estate!#i want ren to have a HUG and REASSURANCE and also a bowl of soup#instead he gets dusty attic and milk-crate bed and instant noodles he packed for emergencies :c#persona 5#p5#persona 5 headcanons#ren amamiya#futaba sakura#sojiro sakura#oh also also!! imagine how sojiro might feel about his early-game behaviour by late-game/post-canon??#ohhh i bet he'd hate it and there'd be so much self-blame/loathing there#parent guilt and all that good stuff y'know#futaba? seeing herself in early-game ren? ren? seeing himself in palace-futaba? sorry they make me soft and emotional your honour#i love my coffee family but i love it more flavoured with all the issues they haven't yet worked through#once again THIS WASNT MEANT TO BE SO LONG
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