#who wanted to help with that yknow? no idea if that’s actually smth I need 2 worry abt but

[ohbo-ohno]

quick idea because I had a fucking revelation: Ghoap x Reader Alien AU.

Ghost is an alien, Reader and Johnny are both humans. There’s a full scale invasion that lasts less than an hour because the aliens aren’t killing, only capturing. Ghost is a high ranking general and so gets his pick of the litter, perusing the new supply of humans to be treated as pets. You and everyone else in the ‘auction’ are terrified and sobbing because you were just dragged away from your family and stuffed here when Ghost picks you to be Johnny’s new toy. Johnny’s the pet he’s already had for at least a few months and has a good hold on, but both of them need something more. That’s where you come in, terrified and trying to ask him what’s going on. He’s humanoid and talks to you, but doesn’t tell you directly what he plans to do with you, instead announcing to his colleagues in the auction that he’s chosen you as his new pet. You’re left to panic while he carries you to his room and cuts your clothes off before shoving you in the cage with Johnny.

Just had this thought exactly five minutes ago so idk if it makes sense but woe!!! Brainworms be upon ye!!!!!!

~🦋

i have read. an almost embarrassing amount of "human is taken as an alien's pet" romances. like probably more than a dozen at this point. and yknow what? they're never dark enough! they don't scratch the itch right!! and i keep reading them!!! so who's really the fool yk

anyways. i have a few scattered human johnny/alien ghost thoughts on this blog but idk where they are because my tagging system is abysmal. anyways!!! thoughts below

i really like the idea of soap being a horribly pampered pet who has just totally given up on escaping and really leaned into living like a king vs reader is who damn near feral

i imagine that johnny was a fucking hard pet to train for ghost. which was probably good, he probably had like just retired and wanted a new project, heard about how hard to train humans could be. it took a long time for soap to realize (a) he was never going back to earth and (b) ghost actually wasn't all that bad. turns out living as a super rich alien's prize poodle isn't the worst life

and once he settles, ghost figures he'll get his human a friend. maybe he's spending time away for work or smth, maybe he just wants johnny to have a friend. regardless, he gets himself another human - you.

and you're, understandably, freaked the fuck out. have probably been abducted for like .5 seconds, and here's this fuck-off big alien buying you, treating you entirely like a dog at a pound. you're probably either damn near scared stiff or fighting tooth and nail

you feel better seeing johnny, immediately assume that he'll be able to help you escape. you're scooped up, dropped in his crate, and left alone with him. and... he's not panicked. he's chilling, honestly

he tries to get you to understand that there's really no use in fighting, that you're probably not even in the milky way anymore and you're certainly not getting home. it's easier to just go along with what ghost wants, he explains

cue a few tiring weeks of johnny watching your escape attempts while simon tries desperately to train you

[pumpkinsy0]

As a preface for the hc request, I live in the middle of nowhere (and when I say the middle of nowhere I mean I live in the same town as Amish communities 😭 there is genuinely nothing to do here except for a single gas station that is basically impossible to walk to half the time)

I would love some hcs of the Curtis bros living in the middle of nowhere in a place like this AND combine that with the au of pony and curly meeting and talking online cause they live far away from each other!!

Maybe they moved there after everything that went down to give a fresh start to Pony or smth and ponyboy turned to the internet to find entertainment and friends 🤷‍♂️ country life was not as good as he imagined HE ROMANTICIZED IT TOO HARD

I am requesting because IHATEITHERE so I need him to experience it as well 💘 love literally everything you post, always a banger 🙏(also sorry for insans yap on my part LMAOO)

this is the perfect ask rn bc ive been thinking about sonething similar for the longest time, god bless u anon🙏🏽🙏🏽

for funsies lets say its like early 2000s

AND THANK U FOR UR SUPPORT,,,ily,,,

•NOW SEE, i dont think they would move out from tulsa after everything, purely for the fact that everything they have is literally there, they cant just uproot their whole lives, yknow?? BUTTT what i will say is that the curtis family gives off the vibe of ppl who HAVE lived in the middle of nowhere and just moved to some place less in the middle of nowhere and thats whats happenin here, they r moving from nowhere to somewhere!!!

•as for how pony and curly met, pony was on some internet forum for tulsa!!! hes a lil curious about where theyre gonna b going but theres a lil stupid TROLL (aka curly) going around it and thats how they met each other :3 curly was specifically targeting pony bc he was a newbie, they took it into arguing in dms but pony was actually pretty funny so they started talking, became friends, pony sent a pic, curly was like “woah mama” annnddddd we get the papercut we know and love

•curlys such an ass bc everytime pony expressed excitement to go to one area like a lake or somethin, curly always ruins it w a “we can go but” and then drops a disgusting fact about the place, if ponys gonna live in tulsa hes gonna b forced to b as unhappy as the residence, aint no frolicking in the flowers here, white boy

•LET THEM PLAN WHEN THEY WANNA MEET UP!!! ponys basically counting the days down and somewhat hiding it from darry. darrys alright when it comes to technology hes not an old man, but its still a new place and he wants to protect pony yknow??? cant imagine the first thing ur baby brother doing is going to meet a stranger and u being 100% on board w it

•soda knows about it and hes talked to curly here n there, sodas still a lil on the fense but glad that ponys making friends w other ppl his age w no help. this is lil one of the rarest instances where sodas kinda open to the idea of pony hanging w curly, revel in it while we’re here

•the video calls between them r something truly special. ponys internet is so ASS and so is curlys, they glitch out sm but theyre used to it now. ANYWAYS, theres been multiple instances if the others family coming in mid call bc theyre both using the family computer thats in the living room, they tease each other for it so bad theres so many inside jokes about it

•this means that darrys looked a lil bit at their messages “on accident” and angelas looked through it just to b nosey, she has no shame about it. darrys managed to personally talk to curly so he felt better about them meeting while angelas just straight up pretended to b curly or got online to lowkey shit talk to pony about him shes sooooo sick of hearing about em😭😭

•curly loves making courage the cowardly dog references to pony by sending him monsters or random scary images on the internet and asking if hes seen them around. does it scare pony???? sometimes, hes not admitting it however

•they gave each other their addresses, if u think them being grounded off the computer was gonna stop em from talking u were sooooo wrong. sometimes cyrly just sends pony a glitter bomb, like i said internet troll over here

•pony sometimes draws curly and sends it over to him, its somewhere hung up on his wall. if anyone ever asks, he tells em he scammed this artist into drawing it for him, he told that story to tim but tim didnt believe him at ALL. next time curly was on call w pony, tim crashed it and started questioning pony. pony was scared shitless❤️

•if ponys moving to tulsa i feel like he also told curly the location of where and curly the little fucking creep he is has been leaving lil notes for pony to see, even carved ponys name on multiple trees so pony couldnt miss it. when pony eventually does move in curly secretly gives him a week to find em all before he just tells pony he did it and shows him around to see them

[mamawasatesttube]

YJ all living in the same dorm/frat house in college would be amazing. What do you think everyone’s majors/clubs/athletics would be?

assuming this is still like... main universe-adjacent and they all still have powers etc. yknow i think cassie has a giant existential crisis because she doesn't know what she's gonna do with her life other than be wonder girl and that will NOT fly with her mom bc helena absolutely wants her to have a normal life as much as she can. late-night conversations at the kitchen counter where she confides that she has no idea what she wants to do and helena sits with her and tells her she has time but she does expect her to go to college and do something, even if she doesn't have to have it all figured out right yet. all of this to say i think cassie goes in undeclared. also i think she should be on the volleyball team.

tim in college is smth i was actually talking abt with moss and britta just the other day. he of course is an insane engineering major who skateboards to class with a naruto-themed energy drink in hand only to fall asleep there 14 minutes into the lecture. also he's wearing a blazer and formal shorts bc he's like I Am Getting A Good Grade In Presentable Student :) and theres just something wrong with him. he has to join an engineering student study group bc its the only thing that actually gets him to bother doing his homework even if hes a whiz at the actual content. hes a disaster but he cant drop out he wants to hang with his besties plus lucius was like listen you can work at WE r&d and tinker with shit to your heart's desire but you do need at least a bachelor's of mechanical engineering to do that even if i know you know your stuff. and tim was like well i guess that's fair :/ hey squad i can sugar daddy us an apartment near met u lets all get an education

kon... well i think he also has a crisis (see also: sotm) but eventually i do like him going into teaching or stuff with kids in general. im always bouncing btwn him being a childrens librarian or a high school biology teacher. he WILL tell all these kids about star trek or so help him god. i feel like he wouldn't really go for most athletics bc he'd be too worried about making sure he doesn't excel too unnaturally BUT just for me, i think he and bart should join the ballroom dance team together. i think they would have so much fun doing jive in particular

as for bart. well the thing about bart is that he could literally do anything he wants to? the real question is what subject would hold his attention consistently over several years. i think the answer is either computer science or theoretical physics. possibly both i think he might double major. he's also terrible at remembering to do his homework etc but he flies through it when he bothers to. and he and kon join the ballroom team together :)!!!

[fionajames]

OR IF MY PREVIOUS REQUEST IS TOO HARD, (hello again btw) what if Ahsoka never left the order? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨

Like, she accepted the council’s invitation back into the Jedi. Did she still meet Bo-Katan and go to Mandalore?

This was a last minute idea that popped into my brain, and I’d like to see your thoughts on this. Ngl, this would be an actual amazing fic, and if anyone could pull it off, it’s you.

Sincerely, Sha 🫡

PS: Your work is amazing 🤩

hello sha!!!!!!!! and hello to everyone else!!!

i rlly love this idea and please if you want a part two request it, i apologise that this is so short.

(edit: I JUST POSTED THIS LIKE 2 MINS AGO AND I REALISED I FORGOT SMTH. YEAH, SO, YKNOW HOW I WAS DOING A 30 DAY WRITING THING AND ON DAY 2 STOPPED POSTING? MHM, WE'RE GONNA PRETEND THAT DIDNT HAPPEN. THIS IS DAY 2. THE PROMPT IS 'Accusation' AND THE ACCUSATION IS NOT IN THIS BUT RELVENT CAUSE YK YK YK HER TRIAL SO YEAH)

Ahsoka watched as the sun set in front of her, feet dangling off the edge of the Jedi Temple wall. Her Padawan braid - still gripped tightly in her hand - felt heavy with thoughts of doubt. Had she made the right choice by staying?

Coruscant had never looked more intense than it had whilst she was on the run, and she’d never experienced the lower levels like that before. Her heart cried for the small wisps of freedom she’d felt while running through the streets, unbound by the ties of the Jedi - free at last. She hated that she’d liked it so much - the taste of freedom, the taste of a life where she wasn’t a Padawan.

But, how could she leave her family? She couldn’t.

Ahsoka stood up as she pocketed her Padawan braid, not quite ready to put it back on. She strolled to Anakin’s room quickly, knocking on his door thrice. He opened it immediately and gave her a grin.

“I think I’m going to go for a walk,” she told him as they silently and in-sync linked their comms just-in-case. “Need some air.”

“Alright, Snips,” he told her fondly. Anakin spotted the missing Padawan braid but didn’t say anything. “Have fun, please come back.”

Ahsoka nodded, not smiling as she left. She made her way through the Temple quickly, breathing in huge gulps of air as she did. With no destination in mind, Ahsoka set off into the streets of Coruscant.

                                          -

It had been months since the Trial, and Ahsoka still wasn’t fully herself again. Anakin was worried, and Obi-Wan was sorrowed. Rex hadn’t left her side. Except, for when she went on her walks.

Ahsoka had made it a regular thing to go on a walk through Coruscant when she was home, and she was quickly learning her way around. Today, she was bounding from house to house just below the surface, laughing as her speed made her lekku flow in the wind.

She landed safely on a platform, dangling her feet over the edge to watch the traffic. Someone walked up beside her and through the Force, Ahsoka could feel their good-intentions. She didn’t move.

“Rather beautiful, isn’t it?” A sort-of-familiar voice spoke up and Ahsoka turned to see Bo-Katan sitting beside her. “My home planet was.”

“What happened to it?” Ahsoka asked, gazing back at the mesmerising lights and darkening sky. Before the bombing, she would’ve been alert and perhaps hostile at the return of the Mandalorian, now, she was just calm. She’d grown a lot in maturity, and she could tell it scared Anakin.

“A Sith has taken over Mandalore, and has enslaved my people,” Bo-Katan told her mournfully - yet with her voice un-shaking and strong. “He killed their ruler - my sister.”

Ahsoka turned to her with a face of soft sorrow and sympathy. “I’m deeply sorry for your loss,” she told the woman whose eyes squinted ever-so-slightly in surprise.

“I want you to help me,” Bo-Katan told her firmly. “I’ve seen you, you’re courageous and smart. My people need help.”

“Who is this Sith you speak of?” Ahsoka asked, crossing her arms. 

“His name is Maul.”

Ahsoka froze as a ripple of shock went up her spine. She’d heard of him of course - the Sith that had killed Obi-Wan's Master, the Sith who'd returned from the dead more-or-less recently. Former Sith, actually, but that didn’t matter.

“I will help you,” Ahsoka told her after a minute of thinking. She stood up and so did her ally. They shook hands firmly before parting ways. Ahsoka walked back to the Temple with her brows furrowed and hands clutching her lightsabers. 

As she walked, she reached into her pocket and pulled out the small, beaded braid. Ahsoka reached up behind her lekku and secured the braid onto her headdress.

She was going to help Bo-Katan, no matter what.

hope you all enjoyed!!!!!! yes, apparently, im back.

request people!!!!!!!

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

Omgosh Hia!!! Tis a great and grand day, so for once I’m not sulking for NJ angst, or anything about Jersey actually. I wish to see some of that good good Texas angst, you know, for the funnsies! (Gosh this sounds so modern lolz, normally I don’t modern slang. Anyways we won against Texas tonight so that’s the whole reason for this XD)

YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PERSON MY DEAR FRIEND :)

(Listen I love torturing Texas sm. He just has so many angsting opportunities.)

I’m gonna out these under the cut tho, just in case.

Texas has some nerve damage in his eye and side, which is where he happened to have been given two star scars, courtesy of Mexico’s A+ parenting.

He’s VERY insecure about the tiny bit of pudge that he has. He doesn’t care that it’s not that much or that he can’t help it. He hates it. And he’s tried starving it away a few times, but he never got that far. Someone just hold and kiss the poor thing 😭

He’s ambidextrous, but he doesn’t use his left hand. Why? Well. Growing up, being left handed or using his left hand was forbidden. So um. Yeah his left hand was broken multiple times throughout his life (or at least until it wasn’t forbidden anymore) and now he either can’t feel his hand or he can feel it way too much. And it on days where he can feel it, it hurts A LOT. But he still uses it. Oh! And his hand is really shaky and tbh, I’m not sure that it healed right.

I feel like he definitely has a bunch of branding on him from when Mexico owned him.

This mf can handle A LOT of pain, or at least he’ll make it look like it cuz yknow. He doesn’t want to be scene as weak.

A vast majority of the deaths hes had were absolutely BRUTAL. And painful in most cases too. Even if they were somewhat quick deaths. Safe to say that anyone present needed new pants after.

^at least three of them were from him getting his torso crushed, and he now has a LOT of nerve damage and chronic pain in his back and torso. Mostly his back. And there’s a bunch of scarring too.

^lets not forget about Confederate repeatedly slamming him into a wall (or tree I can’t remember) until he went unconscious.

Listen- for each of his lives no matter what parents he got, he’s gone to church. And honestly, Texas was probably part of the worship team (basically the band that sings the music for non denominational and Pentecostal churches) for a LOT of them. And he absolutely LOVED it. He loved being a part of those teams with other cool people and being able to sing and all that. BUT. A lot of times, the church’s and/or his parents’ views ruined it for him and he kinda dislikes it now. And he’s trans and bisexual too so- r.i.p.

He’s the type to start dissociating when he gets yelled at and go completely nonverbal. He hates it but. He hates being yelled at more.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Texas loves cuddles, and he loves hugs, but. He CANNOT. I repeat. CANNOT. Handle having his arms and/or legs restrained from moving, since he can’t defend himself and he has no idea who has intentions of hurting him or not.

He also CANNOT handle being approached on his blind side. He might panic. He will freeze up. He can’t see whoever approached him, and he doesn’t know who they are or what their intentions are.

^and because I must, PA is an asshole and finds joy in scaring other states, mainly the bigger "tougher" states like Texas, so sometimes he’ll just sneak up on Texas on his blindside and yell "boo!" or smth. They usually end of fighting after since Texas is the type to resort to "fight" in the event that someone scares him. So um. Yeah.

[cheemken]

Hey Knight I just had a great idea before I fell asleep

Another champion villain AU, but the Champions are all working for their regions Villain teams

Diantha working for Team Flare because she agrees that only the “worthy” people should live, people who do good for the world

Iris working for Team Plasma, either from the beginning or when they reestablished themselves in BW2. Idk why she’d join but she knows how to bring the power out of dragon Pokémon and how to control them, and one of Plamas goal is to capture the three dragons

Cynthia working for Team Galatic just for her own curiosity. She wants to see how far Cyrus is able to go, and maybe even gain control of the legendaries herself. Maybe the story of Volo has been passed down in her family and she wants to see if she’s able to complete what Volo wasn’t able to

And the other Champions joining their own villain teams, idk what Geeta would do considering there isn’t really a villain team, it’s just a group of kids who were bullied. Maybe she helped Turo and Sada with their research but she took it to far and brought dangerous Pokémon to the present time. Letting the Koridon/Miradon kill the professors so that she could take their research for herself

Ohhhh👀👀👀

Okay but fr Cynthia and Leon would probs double cross Cyrus and Rose hahaha

Ofc, Cynthia is a given considering her track record in our villain au hahah but that is interesting tho, if the story of Volo got passed down in their family, and they treat it like some cautionary tale, a warning yknow, Volo was a name in their family that none should ever speak out loud. But Cynthia, ever the curious child, wanted to know more. And learn she did. Found out what he really did, what he wanted to achieve, and he was close in accomplishing his goals. Yet he failed. Cynthia doesn't do failure, she's great w a lot of things, she prides herself w that, a lot of people look up to her. But she has to admit, it's rather boring lately, and then the story of Volo came across her mind again, and she wondered if she could do what he wanted to do. And she won't fail ofc.

She let Cyrus do all the work, tho she gave him what he needed to know abt the legendary Pokémon. They both knew that Cynthia shouldn't really ruin her image just yet, their plan would fail. So yeah the events of DPPt, up to the point of Giratina showing up. And everyone was at the edge yknow, they're waiting what would happen, then Cynthia steps in, catching Giratina's attention. Gira knew Cynthia was familiar, a spitting image of him, and there's a tug within him, in his already tainted heart, to bow his head, to submit to her commands.

Cynthia looked at Cyrus. The man was waiting for her to finalize their plan, everything was already in order, they have hold of the Lake Trio and even the Creation Trio. Cynthia smiled at him, but there was smth abt it that Cyrus did not like.

"a world devoid of spirit.. that sounds boring, don't you think?"

"what are you planning, Cynthia."

"well, a world without spirit, no one would have the energy to make ice cream, Cy. That's not the ideal world for me."

"what would be the ideal world for you then?"

Chuckling to herself, she was quite curious just how much Giratina would actually listen to her, without uttering a single command. She smiled at him, smiled at her childhood friend, oh, she will miss him, maybe, who knows. Then she smiled, "this." She snapped her fingers, and quicker than the light itself, one of Giratina's tendrils impaled Cyrus straight through his chest, killing him instantly. A few of the grunts screamed, the admins stood there, watching Cynthia in horror. Dialga and Palkia were struggling even more beneath the chains, how pitiful, but she can help them. As long as they'd follow her every word. She then turns to the admins, terrified, hands on the red capsules on their belts, but Cynthia laughs, "do you think that'd be wise?" They raised their hand in quiet surrender. This was easy. She never got how Volo failed.

Then w Leon, idk since I did have this au abt Sonia back then, it does have the same energy, anyways hahaha yeah yknow peeps looked down on Sonia, Leon did not like that. No one believes her abt Eternatus, abt how it was the (cause) of the Darkest Day, and he heard rumours how she was just trying so hard to impress people since she's filling in Prof Magnolia's shoes. Then he hears abt Rose and like all that energy for DMax or smth yeah, and ofc Leon believed Sonia, and he's gonna help her prove her theories are actually true. So he played along Rose's game. Let him summon Eternatus, and both of them are standing before it, w Rose letting Leon capture the legendary pkmn. Rose praised him for his good work as usual, but just as he was abt take the Master Ball from Leon, the champion merely looked at him, smiling, "thanks for your help, Chairman. But.. Sonia needs this more than you."

And before Rose could react, Leon's Charizard and Haxorus attacked him, feasting over his body. Leon just watched, uninterested abt the death of the man who helped him rise to fame. Instead he looked at the master ball in his hand, smiling to himself, "Sonia is so gonna love this!" Pls ur honour do you see my vision in them becoming villains together ik I said Leon is in a polycule but I'm also still fucking trash for lionheartshipping let me have this one small thing ncmxnx hahaha

Geeta tho like imagine tho after Sada and Turo's death, she took in Arven, telling the others that it's the least she could do as she was the one who was w Sada and Turo last, it's their final wish. Ofc it wasn't, but they all got convinced by it. And just cndmdn yo Geeta feeding Arven lies abt his parents. How they were the ones to bring dangerous Pokémon in their world, how they took it too far, how they took her studies abt it. And ofc, Arven believed all of it, he was so young, and his parents were always so focused on their studies more than him, but miss Geeta was w him now, and she's so much better, she gives him attention, she's always there for him. His parents didn't even listen to Geeta to stop, and it shows how they really didn't care abt him at all. Imagine how his encounter w his AI parents would be tho, if they actually tell the truth of what happened. Arven couldn't catch a break man bcmdnd hahaha

[sunset-bridge]

Can I ask what those monster designs are for? I like them a lot :0

THANK YOU for enabling me guys,,, SNIFFS ur so real all of you real cuervoheads

ANYWAYS. ok honestly i need to iron details A LOT of them but basically, it stemmed from this drawing i did for day one of ake shoe week, i got a beauty and the beast idea so i drew that on the fly. BUT LATER i kept rotating it in my head the concept and like. yea

ME TALKING WAY TOO MUCH UNDER CUT SORRY

so. basic idea is that goro was a normal guy but his dad is a little bastard and cursed him with the mask, transforming him into a beast, presumably so he wouldnt interfere with anything since hes like a . king or an important general or smth so it would be a scandal etc etc. then he sent him to a funny forest and goro is cursed to never be able to take the mask off and also never get out of the forest as long as hes wearing it. anyone else can enter and get out just fine its just goro whos kinda trapped there like a cute lion circling a cage so he goes a bit. bit delulu and also hes of course so mad at everyone

AND sergio ok. i havent quite decided but for now i think hes like. the son of the queen of some sort of flower kingdom but the queen didnt really. want him (T_T). but ok whatever hes here now because people kinda found out she was gonna have a kid so it would be abit sus if . he disappeared. anyways hes like half demon or something yes. so hes obvs not his dad's son (the king) but the queen pretends he is and also everyone believes this BUT sergio knows the truth obvs like. hey why am i half demon huh.,,. ANYWAYS his demon transformation is triggered by strong honest emotions of any kind , so he developed a cute Psychological Mask (pp...pers..on...a) where hes so unauthentic and pretends to be a cute little bumbling but charming idiot macho man etc etc just a bro guy yes thats sergio thats him yup totally cute prince flower guy and absolutely NOthing else.

OK so . i have no idea why but i guess sergio has to go into the forest for some reasonnn and he meets the Beast who is only known to people as The Crow and like. hes like. huh theres something funny about this animal!!! so ofc he comes back to try to catch another glimpse and , he feels, hey, this is no Animal theres something under there. this is a guy i think. this is just his gut but yknow

so now hes determined to know the truth about this beast , honestly just because it sounds interesting and fun to find out and hes so chronically bored this might be like. cool. ofc goro at first is very hostile and rude and Violent but sergio is like. cmooon man cmooon ahahahah. and well later he finds himself Actually Having Fun sometimes when hanging out with sergio NO this is not happening not even true <-- goro thoughts. like he already gave up being a Person because everyone just sees him as a stupid violent animal monster so like. he leaned into it and drove everyone away AND HE LIKES IT THIS WAY nope he doesnt want to be truly loved and needed no way not even happening what the HELL!!

anyways enter a bunch of Stuff here sure i can. try to elaborate more later but ..important bits now

OK SO goros mask curse thing. supposedly it can only be taken off by another person, who loves the wearer honestly and truly yadda yadda fairy tale things whatever. but like. goro has kinda given up on that cuz like. who tf is gonna like him like this. so might as well sink in etc. also he doesnt like himself that much either so that doesnt help

ALSO IMPORTANT he doesnt want anyone to love him out of pity either!!!! GRRA he. he doesnt want this for real. so if anyone tried to like. love him but just out of pity like ooo poor monster guy i will love you and take ur cute mask off. NOPE not that NOPE!!!

BUT he doesnt even tell sergio the conditions anyways . they just proceed to hang out and whatever. onnneee day i guess they have a littttle scuffle and sergio kinda transforms a bit because Feelings and goro is like. WTF.,,.. hey hello ??? and sergio is lik UHM.,,. proceeds to wall up and pretend that didnt happen but this makes goro so mad like. hey wtf u want me to open up but u keep shit like this to yourself? hypocrite loser etc etc

so later they end up fighting like. goro is like. shut the fuck up im tired of you and your stupid idiot faake friendliness just leave me be like damn and sergio is like NO dumbass i do like hanging out with you WILL you listen a bit. anyways sergio transforms again a bit against his will but he cant help it. they fiiiight and then they stop because they are going to Die but sergio finally explains that he was afraid of what people may think of him if they knew he was half demon freakazoid thing and . and. he did think of telling goro maybe but his ego and pride and Fear got the best of him NO WAY no he cant be weak and vulnerable nope. but ..,,, maybe..,

so ofc goro is like. fucking idiot dumbass as if i also wasnt a monster too. eye-to-eye moment of rare vulnerability for both... something about being on the same level and opening up and feeling free with someone etc

anyways they hang out more after this like cute rivals now and they play scuffle sometimes wahoo !! sergio can relax around goro and transform and he feels so Free when hes with him etc.

insert more bits here. ok so goro. hes also afraid of sergio not thinking he was Cool and Awesome and stuff if he did manage to take the mask off.,,, what was he without the mask? he was just a Guy with anger issues and nothing in his heart…! at least like this he could be THE cool beast rival friend yknow. this is all he had going for him ! who is he going to be if he takes it off....

well finally he one day FINALLY tells sergio about the mask and the curse and the conditions and sergio is like. pffft. ok. and asks him to let him take a try . but goro is like. huh. wtf no its not gonna work. but he convinces him, and wow it works ! goro didnt even consider that "love" didnt necesarilly had to refer to romantic love. stupid. but also i dont think he really thought sergio considered him such a close friend/rival/weirdo etc .. THIS IS SO AWESOME thinks goro but only on his head of course.,,, cuz he knows sergio doesnt ever pity him he honestly respects him and sees him as his cool rival this is so cool..,,, waugh

so ! the cute guy behind the crow mask is revealed ! huzzah! sergio is like. what the hell you said you were ugly !!! liar!!! eheheh. gets punched in the ribs immeadiatly

:3 WOW!!! i love the relationship between joker and goro can u tell...! me when the. me when i cant tell you how to see me etc etc me when someone has the same type of brainwave as you etc

i will probably draw a few more things for this au WAHOO

[upsidedowngrass]

ok so abt the amelia thing i mentioend in the tags of the other post? im thinking abt making a companion fic to the one i just posted but also i wanna preface it w some ideas abt amelia i think abt sm that kinda get undermined by other characters (even as a local liam fan i STILL need amelia in my life you know)

a lot of times? shes just written as Nice. and thats it, unless shes ALSO being portrayed as like... doting on liam and bryce and like im sorry but i dont think thats quite accurate. she IS kind, and she DOES care for her friends but i feel like this compassion gets SUPER oversimplified

the thing is, people make her revolve around the others, and i think there IS some basis for this; she cares abt the others a LOT and tries her best to help!! its a part of her character. but what people miss is that she DOESNT tend to act selflessly like constantly. she spends the first 6 episodes asking and trying SO hard to be up for elimination despite everything, even when stone makes liams team be up for elimination- but the thing is that i dont think not being selfless means shes selfish either, which i think is also overlooked (it CAN be inbetween). shes acting actually not unrealistically in this situation, she wants to be safe so it MAKES SENSE that she doesnt really think abt bryce or liam going home and tbh i think thats ok. shes under a lot of stress. the fact that everyone was divided into teams likely didnt help either

but then comes ep 7, and the fact that she loses the contest on purpose to get liam home i think overshadows this? and like she is 100% such an mvp here and i think she is literally so kind bc yeah liam Has gone thru the wringer at this pt. but this scene isnt Revealing that she Actually Wants To Look Out For Them Above All Else, its... very realistic guilt. a LOT of how i see her character i think revolves around guilt that i never see ppl portray her w

the thing is that i dont think she likes to see ppl unhappy, as very frequently shown and explained thru her helping the others! shes the one who is frequently shown looking out for others, and this IS bc shes very compassionate!!!! but i think it is partially abt the fact that it 1. is smth she can control, its smth she can DO, and 2, that if she doesnt help it kinda seems like it eats at her? helping the others during those 7 months WAS about caring abt them!!! and its just also that when ppl she cares abt are struggling , it helps her, too, to help them, yknow?? like its One thing that can make the plane more Safe and comfortable, and bc she DOES look out for people, but this IS often when worst comes to worst- shed help before that, yeah! but i think before it gets REALLY bad its easy for her to get overwhelmed with her OWN problems. this is only pushed to the extreme when the only thing she CAN do to make living on the plane bearable is to forget everything before it and embrace it, and subsequently, pushing those problems on the wayside, its a LOT easier to help others

as for the guilt, i feel like the scene in ep 7 is abt compassion but also about. SUCH heavy guilt. its not her fault, but she was also the only one who was Actively Aware of the fact that liam would sink, AND able go down there. and i think thatd mess with ANYONE. and the fact that suddenly this person she Couldve helped before Couldnt Be Comforted because she Couldnt Stop The Worst From Happening kinda like. Got to her. in ep 7, it isnt that things "revolve around liam," now, its the fact that she feels GUILTY. now looking back at every competition she tried to have HER team lose seems like just another instance she couldve stopped him from drowning before it happened. its extreme guilt, because blaming airy was easy, but airy doesnt budge, and all she has control of here is potentially helping others, and its like she failed, and she wants soooo badly to make up for it, because she already cared abt liam, but now theres also guilt around the fact that she DIDNT act selflessly because it WAS smth she could do. and it fucks me up so much

[dreamteamecho]

slightly unhinged dream journal entry. note that i have zero idea how anything christan works & my mind made something random up. entry under the cut.

smth about lens and a cool animatied logo sign with a underwater wave effect and a soundwave like effect on the sides. we needed more for the tip but because i was in early-medium stages of passing the sisterhood that was going around wouldnt help me so i got the other person to help but then they said that they didnt give money. so instead they played music and me n friend danced and we got enough money (like 5 bicks) to cover the tip we wanted to do. and the music definitely wasnt bc of the nuns. definitely. wink wink. apparently the 3 were a legendary sisterhood and they wore plague doctor outfits. they said the general sisterhood would never take me in, as i was a traitor to them. i understood. also sisterhoods in this dream could either be the general one that consists of all sisters or a small group of nuns, usually 3, that goes around spreading kindness to those in need.

later on i showed up to their church to give them food donations. one of them appeared and they could read minds. she said id do great things or maybe that was said at the store. she asked me to accept a quest where i had to infiltrate their brotherhood as corruption had seeped into it. she said the info would transcend my amnesia. she drew a plus on my palm with her finger, seemingly absentmindedly. later that day i went to school and a girl saw a glowing white plus symbol on my hand, but no one else did, not even me. i of course took her to the 3 nuns since i had no idea what else to do + it felt right. they said shed do even greater things than i would- and after some back n forth between me and my system- they clarified that yes sometimes things were about me. i think they were trying to beat the grandiose out of me. anyhow i think i ended up sticking to her later on idrk.

a couple days later they took me to the preacher who ran the brotherhood. he was a sweet guy, but not as seemingly all knowing or magical as the 3 sisters were. at least not in the same way. they convinced us not to use a deeper voice and just my regular voice and his response was almost exactly the same as if we were a regular guy. the plot thread kinda dropped there but it was a multiday thing. i think their line of thinking was that a barely passing trans man, that was very autistic, kind, short, and a system, makes for a really easy target. like a really fucking easy one.

later, i had to pledge loyalty to them. i didnt have to but i felt i needed to. morse really badly wanted to say to everything immediately (down bad) but i had to ask what constitutes as loyalty, and what constitutes as sisters. she told me, i think nep said sorry (about morse) a few times in our mind. yknow i think this is the first dream where we're actually a system. huh. amyways so then she promises me (us) that she'll lead me to a girl thats everything we ever wanted. i asked if thats what we needed & i dont remember her response but i figured it was a learning experience to see what were truly wants and what were needs. she tells me to go to an address at a specific time and itll work out. i do that, i get her as a girlfriend but a couple months down the line, she gets selfdestructive. her ex comes over, she seems scared i give her the bat & i take the gun. she goes into the room and im by the front door, i tell the ex to leave, i get a glimpse of her about to attack me in the window and i dodge out of the way. i stjll get a bruise on the chin but its not bad. we do a back and forth, she raises the bat again, i hit her arm with the gun and knock it out of her hand, she leaves. i knew that the relationship was starting to sour just not this badly. as tried to sort through my ego enough to try and figure out where i mightve done wrong to her (which wouldve been a spiral ngl) theres 3 different sisters at the door asking for donations. i didnt really have any surplus so i asked them if they could go after the now ex gf since she was displaying what i knew was self destructive behavior. they do that the ending is vague idk, i get the feeling that i should stay working with the girl who saw the glowing plus sign, as im working with her. i think its accepted that shes what i need and not necessarily what i want.

----earlier:

i think we also started a webcomic that was just indulgent for us. no real story. i domt really remember the very thin plotline we had done so far, i just remember that at some point there were landscape panels that some of us didnt remember doing. like we did it but some of us blacked out or smth. it was based off that frutiger aero sleeping beauty landscape we did a bit back. but more muted and storybook like. i think it started turning more homestuck-like, instead of just image with caption/what theyre saying that couldve technically fit into the panel. we mostly put it online just because it was interesting. it was like the origins of some people or something? idrk. we had a date for what day it was in comic (in the 1930s?) but then also what date i posted. the landscapes were the wrong irl dates (they kept putting 2026/2027 instead of 2025), someone was puzzled in the comic comments and i was too because i think i greyed out the date thing or something.

idk ill come back to thinking about comics later. maybe ill put three comic pages in my neocities or something. like links to the main, short & indulgent comics. ofc as a wip.

[the-whispers-of-death]

so a funny thing is, that i tend to be light on my feet have a habit of walking really quietly, which leads to me jumpscaring people at times when i enter a room and go right behind them for smth. however, also luckily for everyone around me, i tend to be snapping my fingers basically 24/7 as a way to stim. so, in a way, i accidentally gave myself a cat bell

anyways. what im saying is, subtly transfers all of that onto mārīte. shes always making some kind of noise without even realizing. hopefully that at least also helps stone,,, but knowing him he'll think its someone mimicking mārīte and will still need to check for himself </3

hm,, i do wonder which side would stone prefer sylvester be at though. his blind zone, where he's at everyones mercy and cant even really see anything, sylvester included, or on his right, but taking up a good chunk of what peripheral vision he has left,,

sylvester's telling me he's gonna be holding stone's free hand like 24/7 when they go out. or even in the house. maybe the warnings are just a squeeze or two if its someone they dont know, but tapping if its someone deemed safe ((and. a silly idea: morse code tapping to spell the name/initial of who's coming up,, but. uh. sylvester doesnt even know morse code))

yknow. how fun would it be that sylvesters self neglect caused permanent damage and just totally ruined his vocal chords,, mute sylvester when,,

Stone definitely fears someone is mimicking Mārīte and would need to check that it's actually her. RIP to him, his paranoia is never fading.

I feel like Stone would want Sylvester to be on his left side so that he still has full access to the peripheral vision he has left, but Sylvester wants to hold his free hand which is his right hand because the cane is in his left since his right leg is the one that got shot. (I never specified which leg it was before, but now you know.)

So I guess for as long as Stone needs to use his cane, Sylvester will be on his right and blocking some of his peripheral vision.

[kariachi]

#it really is SUCH an interesting take for an omnitrix user#like yknow a fan wouldve expected smth like a max or even a kevin#but then the show couldnt include those without having good reason not to keep them on the team#so they add an argit and the expectation is that the heroes r all leaving bc obv hes not worth it#but then u actually think about it. and its not rly funny as much as fascinating#i especially like how given that we see nothing of his universe i can imagine that its peaceful thanks to him#like hes got one of the most peaceful universes#the money wasnt even a bribe it was all just gifts ppl have given him that they wouldnt lket him refuse#its like bens trophy closet#ben 10 (via @expired-blueberries)

It is fascinating as a concept, both because it's far from what you would expect from Argit and because he's so different from the Tennysons that otherwise seem to make up all the Omnitrix wielders. We only have our Argit to go off, but even at his best he's not especially brave, he's not a fighter, his fear responses are flight and fawn, and we don't know if he has the drive the Tennysons do that makes them burn to help people and life just beat it into a paste for him or if he's more of a 'big things' sort of person.

Like, with the various Bens and with Gwen, even though their dimensions are very different they're all coming from approximately the same place. Gwen is the outlier there, in that she has a different immediate family and upbringing, but she's still the same family, and close family at that. Argit, meanwhile, this is an entirely different person starting from an entirely different place. The earliest we see him in the Prime dimension is being held captive by law enforcement for the sake of evil experimentation, he sold his own mom at some point, I think we can reasonably assume that even if we go with a universe in which he got the Omnitrix at the time Ben would have he was probably coming from a far different- and probably far worse- background, and that would affect shit.

Once you stop laughing at the idea and actually think about it, there's a million different questions. How is he using his Omnitrix? Clearly he's doing good because Paradox counted him in the list, so what sort of good is he doing? How does his good differ from the Tennysons'? How does he differ from Prime Argit? What does this say about Prime Argit?

Because dear gods once you step back and actually look at Argit through the lens of 'there's a dimension where he's close enough to Good to count for the hero team'? And then you look at some of the things he's done and said? Like, what is the baseline Argit? Is it something closer to what we see in that Rooters flashback? It would make sense, it's not hard to see how his behavior there could evolve into a form of hero given the right pushes in the right directions. And if that's the case, is there potential for Prime Argit to develop into something closer to that? Fuck, given the differences between him pre and during the Rooters arc (in which he joins a fight he doesn't have to, goes on the run with Kevin when there's no indication he needs to (and if he doesn't then it actively hurts him to do so through lost business), is the only one to retain faith in him, and even seems to be braver given the whole 'not scared enough to quill a Waybad actively trying to catch him even though before just being surprised by one was enough to get him quilling' thing), and that we know Servantis can fuck with shit to get people doing what he wants from them (we see it with the Amalgams), you end up having to wonder how much of his bullshit was cranked up by Servantis? I mean, it would make sense, if his whole plan was for Kevin to kill Ben, to try to isolate him from the guy who stopped him finishing his mission last time, and would explain why an Argit who could quill Kevin to save other people as a child and who took down a WayBad in the future wouldn't even seem to consider quilling Kevin when the guy was actively out to kill him.

And there's me rambling again.

But, yes, it's just- Argit 10, once you look passed the 'haha Argit could never be a proper owner of an Omnitrix' (and lets be real, the staff never expected us to look passed that) it opens so many questions, so many possibilities, and adds a whole new dimension to how you can look at Argit even before the Rooters arc comes along and only enhances it.

I still love that Argit 10 was entirely unbothered by the villain side of that two-parter.

Because here's the thing- Paradox takes No-Watch Ben to five dimensions for this 'good guy specific' recruitment drive.

Prime Ben's. He's unquestionably one of the good guys.

Ben 10k's. He's unquestionably one of the good guys.

Gwen 10's. She's unquestionably one of the good guys.

Ben 23's. He was engaging in villainous behavior (and given we know that there were already aliens living peacefully on Earth before the Omnitrix, yeah this kid definitely made their lives that much harder by encouraging violent anti-alien sentiment among the populace and given his 'wait some aliens aren't pure evil?!' reactions he probably attacked at least some innocent fuckers in his time- good intentions doesn't mean good) up until a recent turnaround, and it's shown with the villains trying to force him back into the fold, but now he's one of the good guys.

And Argit 10's. Who was shown Scrooge McDucking it, but with two key features.

Paradox brought them there. Remember, this whole interdimensional trip is specifically stated by Paradox to be to gather up the good Omnitrix Wielders.

There's no sign of the villains. After 23 turned his life around and they still tried to recruit his ass, by force if necessary, there's nothing to suggest Argit has even been bothered.

The first one is important because it sets a very important stage- Paradox considers Argit 10 one of the good guys. Everyone else he brings No-Watch to is either undoubtedly a good guy or has turned themselves around to become a proper good guy. Not neutral, not 'maybe we can bribe him', he specifically says they looking for the good ones, and then brings them there.

The second one is important because after seeing the villains trying to force 23- the only one on Team Good with his own track record- to join their ranks, that leaves only a few options for why Argit wouldn't have been bothered.

Argit is firmly enough on the good side that they didn't bother- a la Gwen 10, 10k, Prime

Argit is iffy but not about to join Team Bad- a la 23- and avoided the 'we don't take no for an answer' fight by quilling a bitch as soon as they didn't take a no

Argit is iffy- a la 23- but the villains also took one look and said 'fuck that', which honestly I doubt because if nothing else you would think since one would probably assume he was highly bribeable at first glance he'd be a prime target to try to get for Team Bad, that'd be an easy recruitment there

So, yeah. Argit 10 can be reasonably assumed to be one of the good guys, or at worst iffy-leaning-towards-good, and may not even have been considered by the villains- unlike our dear 23- though we can't know whether that was due to morality levels or just everybody looking at him and going 'no thank you'.

It's a brief scene, and it's used as a gag, but it really is interesting and opens some potential doors for our rat.

[brickmcarthur]

how i’d fix tdroti (this is mostly just an idea dump for now and it’s easily subject to change):

the overall season is longer with more reward challenges sprinkled in. that way, we get to know the characters more. also the first episode is a two-parter with the first elimination in the second episode.

more friendships and positive interactions between the girls PLEASE. some friendships i want explored include (but are not limited to) dawn/dakota, jo/zoey, and jo/anne maria (though i do think the last one is more of an enemies-to-friends kind of scenario where they come to respect each other over the season).

just… more friendships and duos in general other than the mike + zoey + cameron trio pls. there’s so much potential. lightning and sam. cameron and b. brick and dawn. brick and anne maria (!!!!!).

i want staci to be kinda rewritten so that she doesn’t just lie about her great-great-great-grandma inventing the wheel or smth. i want it so that she lies more about other things and how she’s greater than she actually is. have her lie about her accomplishments or skills (“oh yeah, i’m totally an expert at…”) and then when the time comes to prove herself, have her… kind of back out. i feel like if it’s shown that she lies out of insecurity and inadequacy (especially since each contestant has something unique about them), it’d make her more than just the “annoying character who’s meant to go first” yknow. i mean she’d probably still go home first but you get what i mean.

i also want zoey to be rewritten so she’s more of the “indie chick” she is. what i mean by that is that she should be a bit more openly judgmental and that’s the reason why she can’t make the friends she desperately wants. i mean it already happens in canon but i want it to be more pronounced/notable yknow. her emotional journey would be to realize that all the jocks and preps she dislikes are essentially people at the end of the day, and that she has to open up to other people even though they don’t share her niche interests. basically kind of like gwen but still more bubbly/friendly. she’d also wear glasses.

mike is… a difficult subject because of how badly his character was handled in the original. i don’t have did, so i can’t say much about how i’d portray his did more realistically (ik it’d be easier if i’d just write him out; however, i def know there’s a lot of ppl with did out there who like him and have rewritten him to be more realistic…so i’ll look into that). that being said, i do feel like his (base) personality can be rewritten. he’s shyer, more withdrawn, nervous, and secretive. he has trouble standing up for himself and doesn’t like having a lot of attention on him (which makes working in teams difficult). i also feel like his outfit would be different; he’d wear a baggy hoodie and can occasionally be seen with the hood over his hair.

i think it’d be interesting if dawn basically kind of acts as everyone’s secret psuedo-therapist. she may be odd and kind of invasive when it comes to reading auras, but she’s a nice person who really just wants to be helpful and provide insight.

^ characters that i feel like she’d try to help/befriend based on this (with varying levels of success): zoey, mike, dakota, brick, jo, scott possibly

^^ i also think it’d be interesting if her and scott were either long-term enemies or frenemies

dakota did not need to get mutated midway through the season ok.

^ that being said, i think it’d be interesting to potentially explore the effects of the toxic waste on the other characters as well. like what if cameron got mutated instead? what if dawn’s powers were enhanced? what if lightning got lightning powers fghdshfdjsk there’s so many possibilities

scott does NOT get put in the trauma chair at the end of the season.

jo makes it to the top 2 💋

anyway these are all i have so far but i may add more later

[squidsqwag]

fungus humongous but it’s their ACTUAL biggest fears: a ramble

first off , leo is the same. his fear of letting the team down ( and by association his brothers ) is very real and i love that they dived into that in this ep. i felt like they could’ve done the same amount of character development for the others too tho. or at least address it. like raph’s greatest fear is COCKROACHES ???? nah. there’s more angst to b had here. so here we go

going by order of who gets infected first, the first one on the chopping board is raph. i get that his fear of cockroaches is BIG, but i don’t think that’s his BIGGEST. that’s an irrational fear, not one that plagues his day-to-day life

taking some inspo from rise raph , i think he has a DEEP anxiety of losing his brothers. Separation anxiety ahoy ! so i think it would’ve been better if his hallucination was based more on that. keeping the cockroaches would work actually ! like he sees everyone as cockroaches and freaks out , but on top of that , he’s all alone. the people he loves r gone and he doesn’t know where they r bc all he sees r giant bugs. so it’s a wombo combo. having him become increasingly more angry towards these “ cockroaches “ is also an idea. he gets so worked up when he doesn’t know how his brothers r doing and if theyr ok, so he takes it out on the only thing in front of him. poor guy

next is donnie. of course it’s april. we all saw it coming. siiigh. i do think it’s interesting how he begins to cover his ears and shout “ i don’t wana hear any more ! “ so i think we could expand on that

his biggest fear isn’t APRIL hating him, it’s ppl that he ADMIRES hating him. having this fear expressed verbally is especially a nightmare for him. there’s no leeway when someone straight up says they hate u yknow ? so boom , he freaks out. he’d begin pleading to everyone , hoping that they’d forgive him for being himself. he doesn’t want the ppl he respects to look down on him. very much “ PLEASE like me , i’ll change my whole personality JUST so u can like me “ type beat. maybe even “ just lie to me and say that u like me so it doesn’t hurt “ type rhythm

it’s mikey time ( b prepared hes my fav ). this is the one i’m real disappointed in. like i get his whole thing is being scared of smth “ stupid “ but … cmon. im the president of the take mikey seriously club and i will NOT stand 4 this !!!!!

he’s constantly being looked down upon and treated like a little kid , never being taken seriously bc he’s “ the dumb one ,” being made fun of 24/7 , etc. i don’t think mikey is immune to this , i think he’s just good at hiding his true feelings. without a doubt , it bothers him , but he doesn’t ever bring it up bc he doesn’t think his feelings matter as much as anyone else’s. so having that b the focus would b neat instead of funni comic book monster he scare mikey haha teehee. how would this b achieved ? well , he’s used to everyone putting him down , so having a donnie hallucination situation ( i’m a lyrical genius ) wouldn’t work. i think the only way this could b represented is by honing in on mikey’s self esteem. have smth that rlly digs the nail in that he’s not that important in his eyes. honestly i don’t think he needs to hallucinate for this , bc him trying to help out his brothers and failing no matter what he does would b enough. maybe those thoughts just get worse as he fails to snap everyone out of the trance theyr in. i think taking that approach would b rlly cool !

in conclusion i have many thoughts and none of them r normal ( btw didnt add casey n april bc tbh i do not think abt them SRRY GUYS )

[scover-va]

ok i havent been able to get the idea of an dnd-styled rpg inscryption/the hex au out of my head and it's physically paining me at this point (/j). So, I'm making you fuckers deal with my ramblings bc tumblr's just become a place for my to spit out ideas so they'll stop taking up space in my brain. So! Ramble under the cut since I'll be main tagging this bitch for organization purposes

So main character would be Inscryption's Challenger, and I'm thinking maybe the entire party of em is just. Different versions of the Challenger designs in Inscryption? Either that, or the Challenger is accompanied by Luke, Kaycee, and Lionel. Not Carla tho, I got villain plans with her. Tempted to go with the several Challenger designs idea, but then I'd need to come up with names, so. Y'know.

I dont know how im gonna have the world set up, but I'm thinkin the Scrybes now have land they rule over? Maybe not kingdoms for all of em, but yknow. Only issue with that is that I'd need to figure out how to fit the hex characters in, so what I'll probably do is just having them having authority in smaller areas. So like, taking inspo from Leshy's ties to Slavic mythology, he'd be king of the forest. Grimora might be an infamous necromancer, I havent fully figured these guys out yet.

But i DO have six other characters figured out so ohoHO buckle down, everyone.

Because I refuse to change Rocky's general appearance if I dont have to, Rocky was kidnapped from a young age and experimented on. By who? I'll figure that out eventually. Anyways, so in those few years, Rust was searching for him day and night, and eventually found the people that took Rocky. I have him planned to be a rogue in the rpg au, so yknow. Breaks in, kills some people, has a very heartfelt reunion with his kid, while also. Internally being very fucking angry that these assholes experimented so goddamn much on a child. He got Rocky out safe, and they're now travelling the lands for a place to call home, while Rust is. Also looking for the people who were running the operation, since they weren't there. I am. Considering making Reggie and Jeremiah full on villains for this. So. We'll see what happens. Other idea is Irving and the Gameworks/Gamefuna. I'll figure that out later. Rust and Rocky will aid the players in exchange for helping Rust find the people who hurt his kid. Rocky's completely unaware of how much his pops wants revenge, and really just wants to find somewhere safe to call home. Too bad years of separation affected Rust so poorly

Next up, ex-sorceress Chandrelle, who now claims to be a warlock. She's a lone traveller, and doesn't answer when asked what god she draws her power from. I'm still trying to work out how she got stuck with Vallamir, so that'll be a future ramble. But yeah, she's stuck with him. Her questline would probably have something to do with getting rid of Vallamir, but another idea would be her looking for Lazarus. I'll figure out the separation lore when I have the Vallamir lore figured out, but they got separated, and Chandrelle hasn't been able to find him. Actually I could probably make these work as one big questline tbh. We'll see. I'm thinking maybe Chandrelle got into a dangerous battle, and in order to ensure she'd be safe, made a deal with Vallamir for more power in exchange for being possessed and used at will? Anyways, yeah ok im running with this idea, big battle happens, but even tho Chandrelle's safe, Lazarus! Is not. He ends up getting taken, and now Chandrelle's just looking for closure, wanting to know what happened to him.

Next up, Lazarus! So yeah, he got taken, and I'm thinkin it's gonna be Gamefuna for this one (Gonna rename it tho so it doesnt have game in it. Name's a work in progress). Anyways, they forced him to train to be a ranger instead of a paladin, and im thinkin the organization thingy does have smth similar to guns? I'll work out the details for the weapon later. So, eventually, Lazarus manages to just barely escape, and is. Kinda on the run. Moving as far as he reasonably could from where he was, he finds an abandoned temple, and fixes it up a little, now teaching swordfighting to aspiring paladins, or just anyone who wants to use a sword.

And lastly for those I have figured out, Pike! An ex-cleric, Pike served under the wizard Magnificus, having been one of his pupils. Not sure if I'm keeping the torture trials or not, but Mags still treated his students like shit, and Pike's interest in magic started dying down when she saw some knights in passing. Deciding she wanted to be a swordfighter instead, she ran away from Mag's lands, and started training to be a swordfighter, residing in a somewhat nearby village. And one day, while picking up some food from the market, Lazarus saw her training in a nearby field. And. Well. She was doing horribly. He had walked over and gave some pointers, and it eventually just led to her being one of his students at the temple. Pike having Lazarus as a mentor is completely self indulgent on my part bc I think it's cool and funky. Go funky sword people go!!

So, jotting down some ideas for Sado and Carla, im thinking Carla's an artificer, and one of her experiments eventually led to creating Sado (censoring it bc tumblr's a bitch and i aint typing dark clown you-know-who every time). Dunno the specifics, but she does have a huge fucking grudge against Lionel for smth, and just kinda. Wants him fucking dead, whether she kills him or Sado does. So yeah, she created Sado, basically making a chaos incarnate. Sado's a mix of a rogue and a wizard, running purely on magic, so she's able to bend reality quite a bit. While Carla spends most of her time in her workshop, Sado is constantly causing issues. So yeah, those two are, like, the big bads.

I'll make more posts with more ideas later, and add in any doodles I make, but thats what I got rn

Edit: Sado's safe to mention, just cant tag her, so i fixed every mention of her <3

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teehee. brainstorming

ok i already got dante as ghost. and he's got the whole Thing with nikolai

so i wanna do ones at least for my other f/os. bc why not

lily is based on beautiful. it's actually a bit of a messed up ability i think. where it temporarily removes someone's facial features. they can still breathe but they can't see or speak. i don't think it has an actual time limit but to make it not overpowered you can only use it on one person at a time. touch activated at will. it works mostly for 1 on 1 battles ofc. i don't want lily to be evil so like this is strictly used if necessary. also i will somehow figure out how to get it with poe perhaps

now! one i technically already brainstormed before. winning hand - luck manipulation. for jack (duh)

tweaking the original idea a bit to make the ability connected to an actual cards pack (the same way nikolai's ability is connected to his cloak and kunikida's is a specific notebook, yknow). jack draws 5 cards from it, and whatever combination comes out affects the luck of the person they use it on (including themselves). they can't see the actual hand before choosing who to affect, so it is very much. well. luck based hehe

the combinations come from poker hands, so like high card is shit luck, everything you try to do fails, and royal flush is unnaturally good luck, everything you try to do works out perfectly. other people can use the cards, but jack has to activate the ability itself (same way kunikida's ability works basically). until they do, you can't actually see what the cards say. the ability fades away once jack reshuffles the cards (if they use their ability on themselves and happen to fail hard, the bad luck does not affect the actual card pack. so like they won't accidentally drop it or fail to shuffle it or smth. they can technically reshuffle it until they get a good result, if the situation allows that). it can be used on multiple people at once, up to 10 (5 cards for each person after all)

anyway as you may have been able to guess from the comparisons. i'm getting jack with kunikida and no one can stop me. i think the order/chaos thing they've got going on would be fun.

jack is an ada member. how did they get there i have no idea. maybe a friend of a friend situation like they know another member and they needed some form of protection so that member helped them get involved (i wanna say atsushi. bc i love atsushi. they're besties now. and the protection thing is um. they used to be a guild member but like mark they mostly just chilled. ran away after the group disbanded. befriended atsushi afterwards. i'll figure out that part of the backstory later). they don't go out on the field too often for battle related stuff at first, sticking to solving crimes with or without the use of their ability - using unnatural luck to find more clues and evidence and the likes, for example. they're not too great at fighting, and relying on their ability for that is too risky, so they need to be trained in combat first. and who better to train them. than kunikida 👁👄👁 cue the homoerotic fighting montage. kunikida beating their ass over and over. eventually they get the upper hand on him and pin him to the ground. both blushing and panting from the fight. i'm gonna stop there bc blood is rushing to my dick too fast rn and i'm getting dizzy /j

thank you for reading my rambling 🧐 maybe i'll make one for chuuya too eventually (he's not my f/o. for now. but i do wanna kiss him 🥺). and maybe i'll doodle some designs for them eventually like i did for dante 🤔

i should make more self inserts. like one for each name i use perhaps 🧐

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The Number Lads Have Little Friends!

So you know when you're in a zoom meeting and someone's cat walks by? Suddenly everyone MUST SEE THE BABY!!! "SHOW US THE LITTLE GUY!!" they cry. Yeah holocalls are zoom calls and droids are pets. Sort of. They're precious, anyway (mostly). A little interlude before we get to more plot things 😌 About 4400 words

Loopy: fives, echo, how the hell do you deal with r2d2 and c3po on a regular basis??

high fives: twooie is our little guy!

Loopy: that does not answer my question

CrispyDomino: why what’s r2 doing?

Loopy: we’re on aleen trying to help after a bunch of seismic activity all but leveled this town

Loopy: and your droids managed to find a secret underground gas chamber of death

RedBoiiiii: dude sick!!!

d0nut man: sevens…

RedBoiiiii: wrong exclamation, i realize that now

high fives: oh does this mean we have to update r2’s body count again?

Loopy: WHAT??? Actually, no, it’s not that surprising

Loopy: didn’t skywalker build him or smth? not surprising

Leafs: underground gas chamber of death huh? that’s new

RedBoiiiii: echo

RedBoiiiii: buddy

CrispyDomino: yeah?

RedBoiiiii: the name change

CrispyDomino: well it does suit me now

high fives: he actually looks fine, just his leg is messed up still

CrispyDomino: and loops you never said if we have to update twooie’s body count

Loopy: force no, he didn’t kill anyone

Loopy: altho the commander is about ready to leave without c3po

high fives: lol

CrispyDomino: he has that effect

high fives: yeah who knows how senator amidala deals with him all the time

DressedtotheNines: somehow i’m not surprised commander grump doesn’t like threepio

Leafs: so does everyone know who these droids are except me?

RedBoiiiii: no i have no idea but r2 sounds awesome

d0nut man: he should meet cricket! he’s general bala’s little guy

RedBoiiiii: WE NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE GUY SHOWWWW i wanna see all the little guys

d0nut man: yessss

Loopy: all my squad has is a mouse droid with a vibroblade taped to her

RedBoiiiii: WHAT?? THAT’S AWESOME

CrispyDomino: that’s… what??? Why??? That’s a huge safety hazard!

Submarine: oh my squad has one of those too

CrispyDomino: WHY????

Submarine: it was a joke first, but then no one could get it off of the mouse… so…

high fives: that’s… slightly concerning, but it’s still cool

RedBoiiiii: oh hey doesn’t the commander have a droid too? bc pilot?

Leafs: are you sure you want to open that can of worms?

RedBoiiiii: I must know!

Double Trouble: I heard Sevenset was gonna taunt death, i came as fast as i could

DEATH: you’re just in time

RedBoiiiii: Commander!!!! Do you have a droid????

RedBoiiiii: because you’re a pilot, yknow?

DEATH: I have a droid…

RedBoiiiii: Yay!!!

DEATH: do I want to know why he’s so excited about a fairly obvious fact?

Leafs: probably not

DressedtotheNines: he wants to see your droid friend

RedBoiiiii: excuse u i said i wanted to see the little guys

DressedtotheNines: right, that

DEATH: … why?

RedBoiiiii: no reason! just because! Loopy and Fours have stabby mouse droids

DEATH: … joy of joys

-scene-

Do-si-do was not in the upper levels of his piloting squad’s hierarchy, and most of the time, he was fine to keep it that way. But today, it was a little irritating. He was trying to get permission to … borrow the squad’s astromech for the Numbers meeting today, but it was proving difficult. If he didn’t figure this out in the next ten minutes, he would feel no remorse in getting the hand-held holoprojector and interrupting whatever other purposes R3-M15 was serving.

But he hadn’t given up on pleading with the squad sergeant yet. “I just need her for half an hour! Less than that, if you want.”

Sergeant Doppler sighed for the fourth or fifth time during the conversation. “Do-si-do, I told you already, Artemis has a schedule, and so do we. The ships need their monthly software inspection, and we can’t afford to let her get behind on them.”

“She can do my ship last! Or tomorrow, or something--please, sir?” Do-si-do insisted, darting in front of Doppler when she started walking again. When she didn’t say anything, only glared, he stepped aside, but added, “I’ll just bring the meeting to her if you won’t let me bring her to the meeting.”

Doppler finally sighed in a way that Do-si-do thought might mean she would relent. The sergeant crossed on arm over her chest and pinched the bridge of her nose. “How… I cannot believe I’m asking this, but how long is the meeting?”

Without transmitting the glee he felt, Do-si-do answered, “Never more than an hour, but I can let her go before that. Thirty minutes tops, sir.”

“Fine,” the sergeant said heavily. “But she has to get some work done. Take the call in your ship and let her work on it during the meeting.”

“Absolutely! Thank you, sir! I’ll put in a good word about you,” Do-si-do assured her before jogging off in the other direction, towards the hangar bay were Artemis did all her work.

He found her already working on someone else’s ship, but it was right next to his anyway, so he walked up and squatted down where she was plugged into the ship.

“Hey Artie!” he smiled.

She beeped happily, her visual receptor turning to face him, her bronze plating glinted dully in the blue lights from the ray shields as she did.

“Hey, Serge’s orders, you’re gonna to my ship next, okay? Got some brothers who wanna meet you. And maybe some new droid buddies, who knows?”

Artemis gave a whir and an “ooh”, sounding affirmative. Normally, Do-si-do’s bucket would auto-translate her binary, but for now, he was hoping he could guess close enough.

“Meet you up there, then,” he said as he stood up. He got a beep in reply, so he turned and climbed into his X-wing to dial up the frequency and wait for Sevenset to start the meeting.

His friend’s blue hologram appeared on top of his control panel in a minute or so, although his face was far closer than it usually was. “Hey, Do-si-do!” he smiled, taking a few steps back. This revealed what Do-si-do recognized as Sevenset’s bunk on Kamino. The ARCs--thank the Maker--got actual bunks, instead of the pods all the cadets slept in. Sevenset sat down on the bunk and a silver and white mech droid rolled up next to him.

After Sevenset, several numbers joined in rapid succession. Trees and Loops appeared around the same time. Loops, true to what he’d said in the chat, was carefully holding a mouse droid with a vibroblade taped to it. Trees didn’t have any droids visible in his frame, but Do-si-do was pretty sure his squad didn’t really have one. He waved at them, but didn’t have time to say much, because Echo and Fives joined next with R2D2, and then Nines appeared with two other 212th members, one of whom was seated and leaning his arms on the top of brown and yellow astromech built much like Artie.

“Is that the murderbot himself, Domino?” Trees asked.

“Yep!” Fives beamed, and R2 gave a happy series of beeps.

Zero joined after them, sitting next to a C1-series astromech built in appropriate dark green and black. They both waved. Fours came after him, likewise gingerly handling a weaponized mouse droid who looked a little too aware it was armed.

Loops held his up to the camera. “Twins.” He didn’t sound thrilled.

“Yeah…” Fours did the same, and sounded just as hesitant.

“Where’s your friend, Do-si-do?” Zero asked.

“She’s working,” he replied, sitting forward to push buttons to turn the holoprojector’s visual receptors around towards Artie, who had appeared in the nose of his X-wing. “Say hi, Artie!”

Artie whistled and her dome spun in a circle. There was a series of beeps and whirring noises from the other holograms as the droids recognized binary when they heard it. That was kind of cute.

“Trees, you’re still taking attendance for these meetings, yeah?” Sevenset asked.

“Informally speaking, yeah.”

“Gonna have to mark the commander late.”

Do-si-do snorted, trying to imagine the commander’s lack of expression in learning he’d been marked late. He turned the camera back on himself.

“Somehow,” Trees said, “I don’t think he’d care.”

“Yeah, but it’d be funny as hell,” Fives pointed out.

As usual, it was with impeccable dramatic timing that the resident commander appeared just then. For once, though, his hologram contained more than himself, because next to wherever he was sitting stood an astromech in the same style as R2D2. Naturally, in all black, because this was Commander Death’s droid.

“Commander!” came Sevenset’s now familiar greeting. “You brought your little friend.”

The commander probably sighed, but it was inaudible, and all they saw was him crossing his arms and leaning further into his chair. “Yeah. I did.”

“Aw, they’re like a little mini Commander Death,” Do-si-do couldn’t help but say.

“A little death droid,” Sevenset agreed.

R2 beeped sharply, and Fives laughed. “Twooie says they have to share that title.”

The commander’s helmet tilted, and his droid gave a few short blips, much lower in pitch than R2. “He doesn’t share well,” the commander said.

“Introductions!” Sevenset announced, throwing his hands in the air. “We need introductions.”

“Ladies first?” Do-si-do suggested. “You can meet Artie, then my sergeant won’t have my ass for keeping her away from work for too long.”

Sevenset raised his right hand. “All in favor of saving Do-si-do’s ass, say ‘aye.’”

There was a chorus of “ayes” in response, so he pushed the button on the control panel to turn the camera around again. “Alright, then, thanks guys. Anyway, this is R3-M15, or Artemis, but most of us just call her Artie.” Artie once again spun her dome around in a greeting. “She’s my squad’s main ground mech. Has been since I joined, too.”

Again, the other droids beeped and chirped replies. Sevenset added, “I know Artie heard this, but Beskar says she’s very pretty,” while patting the top of the mech next to him.

“Aaww,” Do-si-do smiled, while Trees made a face of pure boredom. “That’s sweet.”

“His name is Beskar?” Echo asked, drawing everyone’s attention to Sevenset.

“Yep!” Sevenset patted the droid’s top again. “I don’t know who named him, but he’s the droid in charge of keeping our living quarters all in working order, so we make sure we’re nice to the little guy. Right, Beskar?” The silver droid whirred happily.

“How’s he so shiny still?” one of the 212th troopers asked.

“Kamino.”

“Oh. Right.”

Nines then nudged his brother, prompting, “Alright, you did it, you introduce ours.”

The trooper rolled his eyes, but he sat up straighter, and the one leaning on the droid sat up as well. “This is Dusty, he’s one of Ghost Company’s mechs. He’s kinda shy.” He said the last part as if in explanation of their droid trying to edge his way between the two of them, like he could disappear if he just got past them.

“Oh, hey, so’s ours,” Zero said with a smile. “He’s General Bala’s droid technically, but he helps out the whole legion. This is CR1-KT, or Cricket, and he’s somehow in charge of all the other C1s in the legion.”

Cricket waved an arm at them tentatively, then another droid’s arm stuck into the hologram and waved more excitedly.

Zero leaned forward and picked up the projector. “Yeah, and they all wanted to say hi,” he said, lifting it up and turning it to reveal a cluster of dark green C1 droids all waving and rocking on their wheels and buzzing with pleasure to be recognized. “They’re called Cricklets.”

“Zero,” Loops said. “That is adorable.”

“Yeah, they’re pretty cute,” the ARC agreed, setting the projector back down in its previous position.

Beskar gave a couple cheery beeps, appearing to agree. R2 and the commander’s droid made some comments as well, but judging by Fives’ and Echo’s reaction, it wasn’t quite the same sentiment.

“Hey! R2D2!” Fives said, looking absolutely affronted, one hand on his chest.

“That was not nice!” Echo added, mirroring his twin’s expression.

“Oh, okay, okay, language!” Sevenset said, covering Beskar’s dome where “ears” might have been.

Do-si-do looked down at his control panel and saw Artie had sent a message to him: They both called the Cricklets little poodoos. He held in his laughter, considering R2 was clearly not to be rewarded for such language.

The commander elbowed his droid. “I told you to behave.”

“Yeah, but are we really surprised it’s those two swearing up a storm?” Trees asked. No one was, of course.

“Didn’t General Skywalker build him?” Loops added.

R2 beeped and straightened up a little. Fives nodded. “Yeah, he’s the general’s droid, alright. He’ll probably end up with more medals at the end of the war than any soldier will.”

“Despite the blue streak he swears up and down,” Echo said.

“Well, can he keep to less colorful coding to a minimum while there are young and influenceable droids here?” Sevenset asked, still covering the sides of Beskar’s dome.

“R2?” Echo prompted, turning to the droid.

After a second, R2 beeped, his dome turning to each side.

“Thanks, buddy,” Fives said, patting the droid’s arm joint on the side of his body.

The commander’s droid piped up, giving a short series of blips that made all the other droids spin to look at it. R2 stood up as tall as he could, the red light near his visual receptor seeming to glow brighter as he let out a shrill reply.

Artie helpfully translated onto the ship’s display: --KARK DID YOU JUST CALL ME, YOU SACK OF POODOO? YOU LITTLE OIL STAIN, YOU KRIFFING CLANKER-POT OF PARTS--!!

“Hey, whoa!” Fives jumped to his feet and reaching towards the astromech, but they had no way of shutting the droid up, as he had no mouth to cover.

“Twooie!” Echo said at almost the same time, but staying seated.

Do-si-do did laugh this time, because this--they had to admit this was funny as hell, and Trees, Zero, and Loops joined him. Even Artie was making a whirring noise akin to giggles and spun her dome in amusement at the chaos the all-black R unit had created. Sevenset, however, had the stupidest, comically offended expression on his face, and that only made it funnier.

Eventually, Echo disconnected from the transmission, finally ending R2’s tirade at “I’LL GUT YOU LIKE A KARKING PORG AND ROAST YOUR PROCESSORS.” Do-si-do and the others took several moments to calm down, some of them still catching up on the translations offered by their various droids and devices. Do-si-do wiped his eyes as he saved Artie’s translation of the outburst to the ship’s computer for later download. It was too good to leave there.

“Holy Force, Commander,” he wheezed.

“Why--why is your droid--” Loops tried, but broke off into giggles again.

Nines, who now only had one visible companion slumped over in frame, rubbed his eyes. “I had no idea a droid could know that many curses.”

The commander, for his part, hadn’t been visibly affected by the outburst the way others had. “They just like stirring up trouble.”

“Always?” Sevenset demanded, finally taking his hands away from Beskar’s trembling frame. “They’re always like that?”

“Only when provoked.”

“Provoked?”

That made Do-si-do and Loops crack up again, but Nines asked, “Okay, so. Introductions, please.”

They composed themselves in time to hear the commander sigh. “This is R3-MY, they like to be called Remy. They’re a pain in my kriffing neck, but they’re the best astromech the Death Wings have seen in a long time.”

Remy beeped, somehow sounding proud.

“Yeah, don’t get a fat head,” the commander shot back without hesitation. The droid knocked into his shoulder, and the commander did not retaliate.

“Wow,” Do-si-do said, lacking anything else to say.

“Sir,” Fours said, breaking his usual silence in these meetings. “It feels like your droid would murder me in my sleep and hide my body as a prank.”

That made Do-si-do’s eyebrows jump up, and he saw similar expressions of surprise on Trees’, Loops’, and Sevenset’s faces. Remy, for their part, beeped and gave an “ooh” kind of noise that might have sounded innocent.

It didn’t, however, because the commander said, “Yeah, they might.”

Fives and Echo’s holograms rejoined the conversation, without R2. “We’re back,” Fives said.

“R2 ran off, we dunno where.”

“So, what’d we miss?”

“Commander Death’s little friend is named Remy, and they would murder someone for one potato chip or less,” Sevenset informed the pair.

The two ARCs considered this, then nodded. “Seems about right,” Echo said.

“Yeah, that checks out,” his twin agreed. “What about you two? Fours and Loops brought little guys.”

“Oh, yeah, their stabby little friends,” Do-si-do nodded. “Gents?”

Loops held up his mouse droid, sporting a standard-issue army vibroblade taped to its back. “This is Ack.”

There was a short pause before Fives said, “‘Ack,’ as in…?”

“That’s the noise you make when she runs into you.”

Ack beeped, short and high-pitched. The other droids replied.

“She looks cute,” Sevenset said hesitantly.

“She is!” Loops assured him. “She feels safer with the vibroblade.”

“I can relate to that,” Zero nodded, like it was logical. Cricket bobbed forward, apparently agreeing.

They all turned to Fours, who reached down out of view and pulled up his squad’s mouse droid with a weaponized attachment. “This is Bob. It’s um… It’s short for Bob and Weave.”

“That’s beautiful,” Do-si-do said immediately, and saw Zero, Fives, and Sevenset nodding their agreement.

From somewhere out of view, someone in Fours' vicinity shouted, "Thank you!" Fours shook his head, smiling quietly. It was nice to see him warming up to the group.

"What about Trees, huh?" Fives asked, looking to the 41st trooper.

He shrugged. "Don't have one."

"Really?"

"We're not a tech-heavy squadron, we don't have pilots, so…" He gestured simply with a hand. "Not even a mouse."

"You want an honorary droid?" Sevenset offered.

"A what?" Trees narrowed his eyes.

"Oh, like the two-twelfth has honorary blue boys we definitely don't adopt when we go on missions with you guys?" Nines' companion asked.

"You do what?" Domino asked.

"I wanna hear about that later," Do-si-do said, raising a hand.

Zero dragged the conversation back to its origin. "Hey, Trees, you want a Cricklet?" Next to him, Cricket turned to him, a little agitated. "Not literally," he assured the droid.

"Why…?" Trees asked.

"You're both green," Loops pointed out.

"You should have a little guy," Sevenset said. "It's fun!"

"Two of the droids I met today are actively homicidal," Trees said, gesturing to Fives and Echo, then to the commander.

"Only to Separatists!" the two ARCs shot back.

Remy and his commander were notably quiet.

Zero waited until the hubbub died down before saying, "If it makes you feel better, Trees, only one of the Cricklets is actively destructive."

"Only one?"

"Yeah, Dotty. She's Firebolt's little buddy, they're all crazy."

"Thanks," Trees deadpanned.

"But you can be Gary's buddy!" he finished. "He's very nice, even apologizes if he bumps into you." Turning out of frame, he called, "Hey, where's Gary?"

"I think Trees having a little buddy will do him good," Sevenset nodded, scooching back onto his bunk and folding his legs under him. "Our Green Bean needs some de-stress time."

"I thought you changed my name to Leafs," the "Green Bean" in question pointed out.

"You can change it back!"

Zero got their attention again, now sitting between two C1-series mech droids. Cricket had moved to his other side, and a second droid had appeared in his place. This one had more silver showing under the green paint. "This is Gary. He's nice, I promise."

"Sure, that's comforting."

"Yay!" Sevenset cheered. "Little guy acquired. Congratulations."

Gary waved his arms, beeping happily. The other droids echoed the cheerful beeping, except Remy, who probably would have rolled their eyes and sworn if they had had the ability.

"I'm a little unclear what I've acquired," Trees said, "But yay for me, I guess?"

“You have acquired a friend, Trees,” Sevenset told him.

From somewhere out of view behind Trees, a voice cried, “Trees has friends? Guys, I won!”

This was followed by Trees hissing, “Sithspit,” and leaping from his seat to presumably chase after the announced winner.

After that, there was a short pause, as all the numbers contemplated this interaction. Do-si-do had always known Trees to be a bit cagey, and a bit stuffy when it came to regulations, but there was never a doubt that he had more than enough heart to go around. He just masked it well.

“Come to think of it,” he said, speaking the end of this train of thought aloud, “why don’t Trees and the commander get along better? They’re cut from the same prickly cloth.”

“Maybe Trees’ pattern was sized down first, is all,” Loops remarked, which made some of them snicker.

“Also, didn’t you establish the commander doesn’t get along with anyone?” Nines said. “I feel like that’s the first thing I learned in this group.”

Do-si-do nodded, recalling Nines’ first entrance in the chat, and his offer to help the commander blackmail Commander Cody whenever he’d like. He hoped they’d tell the group if they ever followed through on that.

Trees returned to view and took the gap in conversation as an excuse to change the subject. “Hey, Echo, how’s the leg?”

Echo made a face, and Fives’ gaze dropped to the floor. “It’s… slow,” Echo finally answered.

“He can put some weight on it now,” Fives said, trying to add some kind of hopeful note to the discussion.

His twin scoffed dryly. “Yeah, some. For about a minute, then it kriffing collapses. Sorry, Beskar,” he added when he caught himself cursing. “It’s frustrating.”

“But you’re out of the med bay, yeah?” Loops asked. Last call, Loops had been in the med bay with them.

Echo nodded. “Yeah, but barely. The only thing keeping me out is my arm healing well. Otherwise, I couldn’t even use crutches.”

“What about a leg brace?” To everyone’s surprise, it was the commander who asked.

After taking a second to register who had spoken, the ARC shrugged. “I’d love one, I hate crutches. But, I can’t even wear my armor over it until the graft sites heal fully, and that’s another week out.”

More than one of them pulled a sour face. They were soldiers: inactivity was as much their enemy as the Seps sometimes, and the thought of having months off duty from an injury made them all uneasy. He couldn’t imagine being Echo right now--or Fives, for that matter.

Sevenset finally said, “Well. As much as I’d love to be around to help, I really hope you stay very far away from Kamino right now.”

The rest of them nodded their agreement. Kaminoans had decommissioned clones for slighter injuries than Echo’s. “Well,” Do-si-do said, “best of luck to you, brother. Hopefully, you’re back blasting clankers with the best of ‘em soon.”

The sentiment was echoed by others, and Echo gave a small smile. “Yeah, that’s the idea. Thanks.”

Do-si-do glanced down at his ship’s display as Artie typed a message across the screen. “Oh, hey,” he said, catching everyone’s attention. “Artie’s gotta head out and finish the software checks on the other ships, but she wants to say goodbye first.” He turned the camera once again so Artie could send a cheerful farewell to the other droids in the call.

One of the droids--he couldn’t tell which one--must have said something out of the ordinary, because Artie gave a flustered series of beeps and whirring noises and quickly dropped out of the ship and sped off to the next one. Judging by the commander putting a hand over his visor, and the shine in Sevenset’s eyes, however, whatever had just happened involved the commander’s little death droid.

“Commander, did your droid just flirt with Artemis over there?” Sevenset wanted to know, a huge, smug smile on his face as he leaned forward, resting an elbow on Beskar’s dome. The droid didn’t seem to mind.

The commander lifted his head, but said nothing for several long seconds. “They have some bad habits.”

“Naturally, of course,” Sevenset nodded.

Do-si-do caught on. “But, what I’m wondering--where might a droid pick up such habits?” he asked. Death couldn’t kill them both at the same time, right? So there was strength in numbers here, literally.

Remy also seemed to have a fondness for pushing the commander’s buttons, because they gave a few short beeps, then casually rolled out of frame, although at a good clip so the commander wouldn’t catch them. Do-si-do could respect this.

“Don’t get stupid ideas,” the commander warned the group, his tone sharpening to an edge.

There was a beat before everyone present said, “Too late.”

“They already think Remy learned how to flirt from you, now they won’t leave you alone about it,” Trees went on, perfectly accurate, of course.

The commander grumbled something inaudible, slumping back in his seat and shaking his head. “You’re all idiots,” was the only thing they heard him say.

Sevenset smiled and replied, “Yes, but we’re your idiots.”

The green visor tilted towards him. “I didn’t sign up for this.”

“You haven’t left,” the ARC pointed out, once again engaging in his favorite Death-defying activity. “I mean none of us exactly has the power to make you do anything, you’re a CC.”

“Shut it, ARC.”

“Okay,” Sevenset said with an enormously smug smile plastered across his face.

There was a quiet beep from Fives and Echo's image, and the former raised his vambrace to read a comm message. He showed it to Echo, who visibly deflated when he did. "Hey, sorry to interrupt the fun," Fives said, "but we've got a briefing to get to."

"See ya next time, Domino!" Sevenset chirped, waving at the pair.

Nines waved as well. "We've got one too," he said. "Maybe it's the same one," he joked, and he might be right.

This was usually how the meetings ended: organically, one following after the other when they left. Sevenset always stayed until the end, and when he could, Do-si-do did too. They waved to the others as their images disappeared one by one.

“Why hasn’t the commander left, do you think?” Do-si-do asked when it was just them at the end.

Sevenset shrugged. “Maybe he’s just bored over there, I dunno.”

“Yeah, maybe.” There was a brief pause. “Then again, we’ll probably never find out, huh?”

His friend laughed. “Yeah, probably not. Take care of yourself.”

“See ya next time,” Do-si-do replied, giving a mock salute.

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