#you dont know how the shapes will form or if they'll do it right and its just so strange and alien and you KNOW what you wanna do

[cal-writes]

Can you tell more about the "Law and Zoro in snow" piece?

sure! i was inspired by the idea of law being able to shamble with snowflakes and thought that was such a cool concept. dont really have a plot just that scene. i do have a little more that what i shared before! part 1

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A fourth pierces through the borders of his room but similarly loses velocity quickly. The air is close to underwater in terms of pressure, rooting them both in place. 

Law squints at the horizon, stifles his breath so the mist of it won't obscure his vision further. 

There is nothing. The prison complex sits silent and still further back, no movement from there. He tries to figure out the trajectory of the bullets but their impact into the room as warped them to the point its hard to even tell their shape. It came from behind  them but that's all he can tell. And there is nobody behind them. 

Zoro stands with a grunt and presses up against Law's back with his own. "Can't see them." He mutters. Law feels something wet and warm where their shoulders are pressed together. 

"Me neither." Law says between grit teeth. He can't move the room with them, only expand it which would only cost him energy. Not to mention moving in it will tire them out fast. Dropping it without taking care of their threat will get them killed. 

He feels Zoro tense through the line of their backs. "Above." He grunts and before Law can look, Zoro shoves them apart, landing him in the snow. Something cuts through the room. Law tries to stop it but it glides through his powers like sand through his fingers. 

Sea stone. Zoro curses, glaring upwards, his eye glinting dangerously in the dark. The white snow around him is speckled red, black feathers clustered in wet clumps and Law has to look away. 

There is a ship in the air, flying so silently that it must be a devil fruit ability - Law has never seen such technology before even from geniuses like Franky or the people of Wano. He focuses his observation Haki but the people above them must be trained in it too. He can't get a definitive number. They are too high above, clearly familiar with Law's power and keeping their distance. 

"Drop it. Won't do any good." Zoro grunts, taking steps backwards while keeping his eyes up above. 

"We're sitting ducks down here." Law says. 

"Can't you bring them down?" Zoro asks tersely. 

"If I could I would have done it already. It takes time to expand the room to their height." He grits out, sparing the second to glare at Zoro out of the corner of his eyes. Both of them jump out of the way as the next round of projectiles hit, landing in the snow. "Where did they get seastone bullets?" Law growls and returns the air pressure to normal so at least their own movement won't be impeded. 

Despite stopping, the vessel keeps its distance. They want to take them out from afar then. 

"Do we run?" Zoro asks and the wind picks up, making Law's coat billow behind him like a shadow.

Law's eyes flicker around their surroundings. Curses himself for not taking camouflage with him. Zoro stands out like a dark shadow in the snow. Another projectile pierces through his borders and instead of trying to stop it, Law raises the snow to swallow it. A whole salvo follows right behind it. The seastone is in nail form, the same as it had been in Wano. It gets caught easily by the frozen water but the regular bullets rip right through. Even as he expands the room by the time he's caught up to their attackers they'll be ripped to shreds. 

Zoro rips a nail out of his leg, blood spraying. "How high can you toss me?" 

"What?" Law's head whips around to face him but Zoro's has a singular focus at the sky. His entire body is tensing for a fight even without any weapons. The air around them seems to shift and Law knows that it's not his doing. "You have a plan?" He asks, swallowing. He hadn't felt this from Zoro since their fight against Kaido. "You won't be able to knock them out, even with Conqueror's Haki. They can already hide from Observation." 

"Not all of them." Zoro says quietly. "Not what I'm doing anyway." He adds. Law exhales sharply to telegraph his annoyance, moving a bank of snow in the way of another hail of bullets. One manages to craze his biceps. The cold makes him stiff and slow. 

"I need something to switch you with." He says and focuses to increase his reach. He'll have to trust that Zoro's plan works or he'll spend all that energy for nothing. 

The prison building suddenly floods with light, becoming a beacon in the waste and a siren wails in the distance. Law curses. 

Zoro kneels down, digging through the snow with red fingers until he unearths one of the regular bullets. He holds it up for Law to see, waits for his nod and Law decreases the gravity in the room before he throws. 

Law shifts his stance, focuses on the path of the bullet. "Get ready." He says. 

Just before the bullet leaves his area of influence, he Shambles. The metal ball drops softly into the snow next to him as Zoro disappears into the air. Law squints into the dark, but in the night sky all he can spot is his white hat on Zoro's head. Zoro spreads his arms, the blue coat surrounding him before he spins. The air itself seems to cling to him, turning into a cyclone around him before he sends it off, straight at the airship. Law gapes.

The force of the twister moves the air even down on ground level and it advances quickly upon the ship in the air, catching it in its path and ripping it apart. 

Law shakes himself out of his awe as Zoro drops back down. A comet in blue and black feathers as he falls into Law's room. He shifts the air pressure once more, slowing his fall before he Shambles him back with the bullet so that the momentum won't carry over. Zoro still lands with a thud back in the snow, arms spread. 

Law's coat falls open, belt lost somewhere. Zoro's skin is slick with red. He sits back up as in the distance the ship falls. "You can just do that?" Law asks, offering a hand to help him up. He can barely feel Zoro's hand in his own, limbs too numb at this point. Zoro shrugs with one shoulder before he winces, seemingly just remembering that he'd been shot. "Why even use a sword at this point?" He adds incredulously. 

Zoro glares at him. His eyes flicker over Law's shoulder and the siren wails again, reminding him of their new problem. Law curses as he looks back, seeing the throng of people spilling out of the prison and towards them. 

"How about we run?" Zoro asks, panting. 

"Taking the words right out of my mouth." Law says and they take off. 

Despite their brief stop, the snow doesn't get any easier to run in. Even as he feels increasingly numb from the cold, the nicks of the bullets burn making everything take even more effort. 

Zoro, already not at full percent from his captivity, starts falling behind worryingly quickly, forcing Law to slow down as well. 

Their pursuers are mounted on some creature that makes Law think of an unholy mixture of Bepo and Chopper, long reindeer like legs with a big furry body. For how ridiculous they look they are much too fast. 

"This isn't going to work!" He shouts at Zoro. They have to weave as another salvo of bullets rushes their way. "Split up!" Law tells him before taking a sharp left. His hand glows as he creates his room, taking a wide turn until he is running right at their attackers. Zoro mirrors his movement on the other side of them. Someone in their troop whistles sharply and they split into two groups. 

Law really wished he had his sword right about now but needs musts. He expands his room and from there it's easy to take the riders off their mounts. Three of them get trampled as he switches their positions, two remain seated, resisting his ability. They must have seastone on them then. Law dodges with a roll, getting snow down the back of his shirt as they ride past him, cutlass drawn to swing at him. Across the way he sees Zoro wielding one of those swords, one of the riders scrambling in the snow. He catches his eye across the way, quirks his brow and with Zoro's nod switches their places. 

Zoro cuts into the side of the rider that had been advancing on Law and helps himself to another sword as he does it as Law sorts through the seastone carriers with a flick of his wrist. 

"This one's Trafalgar!" Someone shouts and Law glances around frantically but in the chaos it's difficult to tell who said it. He's confused for a brief second, before he sees Zoro disarm one opponent, wearing Law's coat and hat. Law doesn't get the chance to curse, having to dodge a sword stroke but feels the urge to. He grits his teeth. Now it makes more sense they were shooting at Zoro as they were running away. They wanted to recapture him and stop Law from taking him away.

Now that their accidental misdirection is cleared up their attackers shift their focus. Law doesn't even need to try using his powers to know that the ones focusing on him will be armed with seastone. 

Zoro roars from the distance and Law sees him cut down one of the goons that dared to turn its back on him. "Law!" He orders. Law bristles but if he tells himself he was about to propose the same thing, he doesn't want to refuse to follow it out of principle. 

Zoro drops one of the swords in the snow as Law crooks his fingers and swaps their places once again. 

Law's hand wraps around the hilt, finally having something to parry with. One guy clashes with his sword before Law lands a kick in his stomach to send him flying. He ducks out of the way of the next swing, catches Zoro's eye and switches them again. A guy with a rifle scrambles to adjust his aim when Law cuts into his hand. Zoro has gotten himself another sword and Law has a brief moment to think about how strange it is to see him with only two.

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Shipping related question

You know I don't think they're ever gonna go straight into Asta and Harry being a thing until the show comes to a close (and depending on that we'll never know when they'll ever get together)

Honestly for the comics' sake, I hope they do in the end. Tbh slow burns are always the best, but people dont like the TV form of slow burns that or it's done incorrectly, I'm not sure.

The maybe it's cause I've never been the lovey type of person, or the fact I've been in the closet for so long I've never got to experience love for myself but, aren't we supposed to have multiple partners in our life time to help us figure out what works for you and what doesnt? People can have first loves and I think that's beautiful but tbh most of those "high-school crushes" never work out

Harry's first wife was like more of a nuisance to him but when he felt love for the first time with Heather, that rush of being with someone who understands you is a bit of this "it's gonna be forever and we're gonna get married etc etc" but in the end, they didn't turn out to be that way (typical psh... people finding just as love the hard way I guess)

I hope they explore more on like... Harry's relationships with each person he finds love with and how much he gets shaped as a human, whether it is platonic, romantic, sexual,etc etc. I know people are kinda up in arms about Asta and harry having these parental or familiar relationships which to me I see no problem, but I can get if you relate to Asta or Harry. And btw Don't hide that some of you relate to these characters, and sometimes project onto said charactersso you cant really like... expect everyone to follow the same story you wanna follow cause its like sometimes peoplewanna portray a media in a different way. That's a huge pot on kettle black moment so I'm not saying you SHOULDNT do it tho I think fuck whatever the TV bosses and whatever media controllers say we can't and cannot do and just do whatever you want (via fanfic or fanart) as long as its not hurting anyone. Honestly it's just a two sided coin.

With the way media is rn I can only obsess over the meanings behind the story as much as I can.

Basically what I'm trying to say as tired as I am, I really do hope that they know somewhat of what they're doing. Like I see the vision and I love it but I just hope they at least convey humanity somewhat right

Sorry for my ramblings it just makes me go kinda crazy

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i think the problem with the fam is theyre too obedient. theyre such goody two shoes the hope is that it'd rub off right? on the doctor. but it doesnt bc she hides her badness and they wont question her. okay they'll question her "what happened to never do weapons" "why dont you ever share anything with us" but they wont push back when she says nah ah we dont talk about that. and thats her problem. she wont talk about that. or that. or that. or that. or any of it

i think if you put a limit on their patience. theyre understanding but not forever (i mean theyre even understanding after her "death". "she knew she was gonna do something that might kill her" "she wanted us to live"). watch them grow more annoyed as they call out hypocrisies and less and less willing to accept bullshit answers. it would put a lot of movement in the dynamic i think

like okay, taking yaz out of the equation bc shes not a companion shes a doctor, just considering ryan and graham for now: ryan is young and like, being formed, which is part of his arc, but he also already has a lot of like really life- and worldview-shaping experiences right? black, disabled, unable to count on most of the guardians in his life. those things profoundly shape how you stand in the world, how you approach and are approached

and okay lets put yaz back in for a sec because shes really interesting to like put next to ryan and see like what happens there. because she and ryan share both being racialised and being neurodivergent, if you want to call it that (if depression counts. personally i think depression is more of a like regular human reaction to life than "divergence" from the "typical" so to say, but then i also think the secret underlying reason she was bullied and thus depressed was the autism. so it cancels out for me. but like thats sort of weaving in and out the text. and depression also is something very different from dyspraxia. BUT these are both things about them that like have been Underlined for us the audience, same as the conversation behind the bins in rosa, so i think im justified in putting these two things together as comparison. okay tangent over)

ryan and yaz both have had experiences of not being able to count on the people around them, for various reasons but all the same. it would be fairly understandable i think for ryan to be sort of like, fuck adults fuck people who have authority over me based on nothing. whereas yaz,,,,becomes the authority

RYAN: Yeah, see? It's not like Rosa Parks wipes out racism from the world forever. Otherwise, how come I get stopped way more by the police than my white mates? YASMIN: Oi, not this police.

and you could really have put them like,,not opposite per se but like clashing in some way over this. not clashing like in fighting necessarily, though yes as in conflict. clashing as in different ideals, different conclusions drawn from similar experiences

yaz says to do good in the world i must have the power of the state. which also implies the power of the state can be good and is meant to be good. ryan i can easily imagine having been someone who no authority was worth counting on so fuck them all. that wouldve been a reaaally interesting tension to see play out throughout s11 and s12 i think

and thats just two of them. we've got a team of four. imagine both of their reactions to the doctor. we dont have to imagine with yaz, but ryan couldve been more like well whos she. you know? why are we listening to her? what just because she says so? let her prove herself first.

and then theres graham who has like half a lifetime of experience of Being A Human on them, who isnt in the coming of age phase anymore, who must have a lot of his own worldview, ideas, politics. we see like, a tiny bit of that with like edison or whatever but how does that play with a Time LordTM?

like theres a lot of interesting ways to pair up and to clash them! 13 and yaz with suicidal ideation, 13 and ryan on the dad thing, 13 and graham on survivors guilt. 13 and yaz vs ryan and graham on authority and law. ryan vs graham and 13 on guardians. ryan and yaz vs 13 and graham on being racialised. 13 and yaz vs ryan and graham on sexism. this couldve been a wildly dynamic team i think. if only you'd let them fight! if only you'd let them have their own opinions and Speak Them. this would put like so much schwung in like,, every plot, every episode

because it's all there! right? it's all already there, just look at the episode list of s11, it's all there, racism, sexism, workers, colonialism, big fucking spiders i dont know! wait thats a worker one again let me revise big fucking spiders capitalism! it's all there, you just gotta make it a bit dialectical. have them argue their sides and disobey and have 13 be like herding cats

imagine the way this would have challenged the doctor and the doctor's politics, then to follow it up with s12 "gallifrey is not what we think it is. we are not what we think we are"

and then revolution of the daleks, ryan and graham gone, and in that episode the police was very obviously like sided with the daleks and the capitalist and that politician right? the police was the fascists. hi, yasmin, how are you. oh, crazy? right, good, the doctor is too.

yaz and 13, now alone, ten months between revolution and flux, time to grapple with what it means to be both victim and agent of an empire. do we accept that? do we refuse that role? how do we refuse that role? how do we be good? what does it mean to be good if police clearly isnt it? how do we take off the uniforms. what moral framework do we build and then commit to, and hold each other accountable to, as copilots of this operation. what do we want to do in the universe. what is our impact. what do we want to avoid doing. how do we do that.

had the doctor said "i was in prison for being me" to yaz, imagine how that would have shaken up her ideas about prisons and how and why people might be in them. might have started her thinking. but then we're back to where i started this post before i totally lost control of it: The Doctor Doesnt Talk About That. and if the fam had been slightly more disobedient in s11, maybe in revolution there would have been place for it

[will-you-pick-me]

(happy 2 provide interaction by sending asks :) i dont do it often enough but im rlly intrigued and it is. 3:39 am and we r both awake lol) Ulrich begrudgingly getting a little shelf for display would actually save me because I dont really snuggle my lil guys (i toss and turn and get WAY too warm if they are in my tiny twin sized bed with me) so like <3 <3 thank u king ur saving us both oohh, if they had to pick something to fight with, be it physical or intangible, what would they pick?

3:42 here as I recieved this lmao, so we must be in similar timezones! Don't worry though, I did have a little nap and just woke up a little bit before midnight. I'm also eating right now too, so nobody yell!

We stan our emotionally constipated king tbh <3 But he still needs laxatives injected directly into his heart istg---

Mikey fights pretty regularly, actually, due to him really putting the "crimes" part in "be gay do crimes", and his "little helper" that's been referenced before in a blurb is a steel bat with nails driven into it. He can still handle a gun pretty competently if he needs to, though, but he just prefers the more visceral feeling of wielding the bat.

Ulrich, despite working out, prefers to not get into fights himself - why bother when he can pay someone else to do it for him? But, on the off chance that a fight is imminent and he doesn't have the time to call a lackey to come handle it for him, then, well - you know what they say, the pen is mightier than the sword. And he'll make good on that, jabbing it's sharp metal end into necks and eyes and anything else he can reach, gouging deep tears until either backup arrives or his enemy decides it's not actually worth it.

Zach doesn't like fighting. They hate being reminded of how squishy and delicate you humans are, how finite mortality is. But to protect you... They'll fight, if they have to. Burn them from the inside out with divine fire, as they hold you close and shield your eyes so you don't go blind. They'll apologize profusely, horrified that you had to witness that in any way shape or form, and they're taking you back to their place immediately to bundle you in blankets and brew you some tea, putting you first even though there's a deep discomfort crawling in their bones at what they just did.

Jessica, despite the traditional femininity she's thrown herself into, didn't disavow everything she grew up with, being raised as a boy. She still has a respectable gun cabinet, a few pistols and a couple rifles and shotguns locked up with their safety's on and fully unloaded - she's responsible. But this means that if she's killing someone with those, she's thought it through first, and still decided it was worth it.

Jack is an animal - sometimes more so than he is human. In the heat of the moment, his teeth and his claws are all that he needs, easily ripping out a jugular with either. Premeditated, though, he'll hunt and herd his target into traps in the woods, causing them fear and torment before he eventually rips into them.

Narrator isn't the biggest fan of fighting, either, but unlike Zach, he'll have no post-adrenaline-rush guilt over protecting you. Ultimately, you're the most important thing in his existence, and if you weren't here, then it wouldn't be an existence worth living. That being said, he'll beat someone down with his bare fists and nothing else if he has to, but he's also capable of getting creative with it - the leg of a chair can be a club, a small table a shield, a cup can be shattered into shards that stab and cut. When it's you, he's willing to do whatever it takes.

[ariyadaivaris]

ariya wants to be appreciated! ariya wants to be treated like someone special. ariya works so fucking hard, he always has, he works his ass off for everything he gets and he figures he’s more than earned some fucken luxury, something to fall back on. something to just...have. something that’s easy and that he doesn’t need to sacrifice part of him in equal value for. so he wants to dress nicely and to be safe and to be able to relax for once. is that so bad? is that so wrong? 

he can’t even enjoy whatever luxury he has, though. he tries to relax and in only minutes he’s already irritated and fidgeting and looking for something to do. he just can’t turn it off, he’s so tired and on edge constantly, he’s got a temper and he doesn’t know what to do about it and he’s exhausted!

ariya works so hard and he just wants to be treated with respect for it. that’s all he wants. you have to work to earn respect from ariya, because he has always had to do that for everyone he’s ever met. no one’s respected ariya at first sight, so if he works for it, you do, too. but. god. ariya just wants to be respected, yeah, but also he does kinda want to be seen as something special. something unique. something entirely irreplaceable. hasn’t he earned that much? to be Something? to start out with affluence and status and resources instead of needing to claw his way up from the ground and burn whatever he gets just to survive? 

(the quickest way to win ariya over, to curry favor with him, is really just earnestly treating him like royalty. he’ll be happy just sitting in the same hotel room reading together or researching with the simpsons playing in the background of course, but whenever you make it An Occasion to see him, an event, something rare and special and intimate and not all About ariya but all For ariya? that stays with him. he doesn’t take that lightly. at all.) 

ariya himself? he’s blunt and he tries to be honest, he’s pragmatic, he loves the idea of drama and luxury but he’s so uncomfortable and unsettled by the reality of it as it applies to him. ariya’s a fairly simple guy. he works for everything and he truly does believe he deserves what he earns, and sometimes he deserves more. he’s got a temper and he’s high-strung and fidgety and restless. but he’s honorable. he’ll treat you well if you treat him well. he tries not to lie or be a phony, unless you’ve already earned his ire, or unless he’s protecting himself. he wants to survive, and he DOES want to thrive, but he doesn’t think that’s unreasonable. he’s drawn to people who are dramatic, though. performers and leaders and characters, people he can prove indispensable to, people he can balance out, people he can linger back and watch. people with methods he sometimes hates, but people who make an impression, who make themselves irreplaceable. 

if you perform to mock him, or to wrong him, ariya’s gonna hate your fucken guts, but if you use that charm and grace and theatricality to treat him like someone more than worthy of such concepts, then, well. he might be suspicious and he might be distrusting of it, but he’ll certainly be drawn to it. 

[mishkakagehishka]

*banging on ur front door* YAN MIKA WRITTEN AS HORROR YES I LOVE THIS hewlo...

i dont really know how much i can add. on that post myself but im here for this. i am consuming it. im not one to usually or generally rlly think much of mika BUT his fucked up factor ♡ good to think ab sometimes. plus the fact hes actually into eroguro canonically? hello sir. the scary factor from the fact hes just so delusional he wld actually think he could probably pain his darling any way and theyd just?? magically live thru it?? cause of course. theyre just so awesome great and godly to him、right? my god yeah he would absolutely try to recreate his fantasies thru clothes n hope his darling would accept them. i mean how mean can you be to poor little mika who offered to make some adorable clothes for you and say no to trying them? and hrnnn the drawings he would totally make so many. methinks he'd also make a plushie of some sorts of their darling maybe to keep around?? a tiny one. all with the guts spilling out and maybe forming a heart shape. how romantic

side note i think yan mika would also only be scary on surface level and thru his drawings ? like all bark no bite. i think as a yandere you could drive him off if youre mean enough to him. he'd still stalk you but stop bothering you and thats better than what others would do if you tried distancing yourself from them. i may be wrong on this、i dont know as much ab mika as ab my actual favs buuuut i felt like slapping all this here <3 keep it up op. and also maybe you can just mention gore vaguely and leave it up to interpretation if it makes you sick in the stomach :")

Disclaimer that I write yandere as a horror trope meant to shock and scare the reader and I don't try to romanticise it!

Warnings for talk ab gore and blood, mentions of eroguro and allusions to a blood/gore fetish (but nothing explicit)

Right awghh he'd be so fucked up about it... yandere Mika who spends his free time drawing how he thinks his darling would look with their guts spilling out, neck sliced open, bones peeking from beneath the skin... yandere Mika who blushes and has to bite his hand while thinking about how much he wants to cut his darling open, just to see, just out of curiosity... yandere Mika who sewed a little cloth doll of his darling that he cuddles to sleep, but the doll is painted to look as if it's covered in blood, and the organs are drawn on it, above its little clothes. Yandere Mika who so sweetly asks his darling to model his clothes, who dresses them up in increasingly worrying ensembles, but he's so passionate about it, they just can't tell him no. Yandere Mika who leaves his sketchbook open on the most gruesome pages in places where he knows his darling will see them, in an almost exhibitionistic manner... who wants them to ask about his art because he's too shy to bring it up himself. Who happily shows them, after they ask, page after page of his sketches, explaining in detail his thought process behind every aspect of the pieces. Explaining detail which ones he wants to recreate with them, and how he wants to do it.

Yandere Mika who asks his darling outright if he could hurt them. Not "hurt", that's not how he phrases it. He promises he would never harm them and that they'll be fine... that he just wants to see their blood. Yandere Mika who, if he gets brave, even shows them his eroguro art. Who breathes heavily as he keeps a blade to his darling's stomach. Who kisses their neck whilst making cuts on their torso just deep enough to draw blood. Who flirts by saying, "I wish I could cut ya open" and "I wanna see yer guts so bad, darlin'." Who tries to get his darling to cut him open after some time. Who, really, just has a fantasy of his lover killing him and being killed by him.

Yandere Mika obsessed with gore and blood, just, yeah. And the eroguro aspect... so many thoughts in my head. He'd be so slimy, so creepy about it, and very obvious. Blushing, squirming, frantically looking elsewhere, all because his darling had a sudden nosebleed that dripped down to their shirt, and his mind went straight to the gutter. He'd be such a creep. If he gets composed fast enough, he'll offer to help them clean up and change, but~ If he offers that, he's already getting brave, so hs might just pin them in the office bathrooms and clean them up by licking the blood off their lips, chin and neck himself.

And oo the all bark no bite... as for me, I think Mika would be like that at first. As a yandere he worships the ground his darling walks on, so he'll want to avoid making them angry with him or hate him, but... the thing is, he's also a bit of a masochist. If you're mean to him, he'll just find that even more addictive and seek you out more, he loves when his darling yells at him and calls him names, even though he doesn't want to be so happy about it (it's a paradox of his own thoughts - he doesn't want them to hate him, but he still loves when they call him a creep and tell him off). I think what might work better is ignoring him. Not really the grey rock method, but just straight up not responding when he talks to you, pretending like he doesn't even exist. No positive nor negative reactions for him to feed off. He wouldn't get bored of his darling, he'd just get sad that they're ignoring him, and would leave them alone/give them some space until they decide to talk to him again. But he does continue stalking them, stealing from their rubbish, leaving them weird unsigned "secret admirer" notes and presents etc etc anyway. Mika might be the hardest yandere to shake off because he has his own delusions of his darling and he doesn't give up easily on them, if at all, so no matter what you do, he makes excuses and reasons why he still has a shot with you and why he should just persist or become worse with all his fucked up habits to "impress" you.

[journey-to-the-attic]

May I ask for IK headcanons with the new exchange students? (Thirteen, Rapheal, Mephistopheles)

You don't have to if you dont want to tho!

ohhhh my god i'm so glad you asked this because i've been having miscellaneous thoughts about them ever since i started s4

here we go! (though do be warned, some of their personality traits are like, extrapolated from what little we're given in canon, since there isn't a whole lot of it)

thirteen

i've said this before but girldad girldad GIRLDAD

she was probably nicer to ik right off the bat than she is to mc in canon, because 1. she's a child, 2. girl solidarity, and 3. she has no expectations for her so therefore everything is a pleasant surprise

at first it's more of a distant "yeah, we cool" thing, but then ik helps thirteen avoid getting into trouble with diavolo for a badly-timed trap, and after that thirteen decides that ik is her new best friend

she likes messing with her and acting like a menace in general, but internally she's always like "small friend-shaped girl!!! <33333"

(the way she interacts with her would be kinda similar to how jtta mephisto does)

thirteen's a very bad influence but also very fun, and ik clearly enjoys being around her, so lucifer's not sure how to feel about it

at one point she dresses ik up in a mini plague doctor outfit and ik is LIVING for it, she looks so COOL

thirteen starts calling her 'birdie' because the mask looks like a beak, and then that just sticks

thirteen also likes to call ik her 'little double agent' in regards to her efforts to trap solomon, even though ik doesn't actually do much double-agenting

ik's human-world background also proves to be very helpful in giving thirteen inspiration for her traps

unexpectedly, the little bit that ik knows about python from computing science proves most helpful, because thirteen converts the concept of if-else statements, while loops, etc, into a magical equivalent, which helps prevent her traps from setting off on the people she doesn't want them to

whenever they're hanging out, it's usually pretty light-hearted and high-energy - thirteen likes to coax ik out of her comfort zone and get her to try new things, though she won't push if ik is genuinely unwilling

thirteen just helps ik be more confident in general! she establishes herself as someone who'll always have ik's back and is constantly teaching her that sometimes you need to assert yourself more, and that she is fully deserving of respect

this is stuff that the brothers have been slowly been getting her to fully realise, too, but thirteen is the first to actually tell it to her

every now and then, though, while they're hanging out, they'll start having these really long, serious conversations

as a reaper, thirteen's view of humanity in general is kind of morbidly fascinating to ik, and she asks her about her perspective on all sorts of things - especially moral ones

thirteen, on the other hand, is also very intrigued by how death has influenced ik herself

not least because she, you know. did actually die once.

even though she's a reaper, she can't exactly communicate with the dead once they've fully passed on, and she's always had a lot of questions about what it's like to pass over into the great beyond

after she finds out about the whole death thing, she's a lot more stand-offish around belphie, and she also ends up becoming the being most vigilant about how all that trauma might still be affecting ik in the present

so yeah! wholesome but also chaotic girldad <3

raphael

a friend of simeon and luke is also a friend of his!

that's about as far as it gets for a while - he's nice to her because he appreciates what she's done for his friends, both the angel and the former-angel kind

but he's too awkward around her to really form a friendship independent of that - his interactions with her are solely because of simeon and/or luke, almost never of his own volition

then at some point simeon tells him about the stuff that happened during ik's first exchange year, and raphael is like [whipcrack] "WHAT"

part of it is respect along the lines of "she really did help the brothers, no wonder they feel so different-in-a-good-way", part of it is just "HOW DOES ONE SMALL CHILD GO THROUGH ALL THAT AND NOT EXPLODE?????"

and then after that he starts initiating interactions more, very subtly attempting to check up on her without also alerting her to the fact that he's aware of her not-even-that-long-ago trauma

he's similar to barbatos that, even when he's bonded with ik a fair bit, he still prefers to watch over from a distance rather than directly hang out with her

partially because, though they're both fairly chill personalities, they interact with other beings and the world around them very differently

normally they don't spend much time with each other without someone else also being there - or, more often that not, it's raphael tagging along when ik does stuff with the other angels and/or solomon

though there are times where raphael will just be like "hey ik there's this arcade place that looks kind of interesting in town. would you like to go", and they'll just go hang out together

and it goes really smoothly, actually! the conversation flows, they both make each other laugh, they're both friendlily competitive over the games, raphael nearly climbs into the claw machine when neither of them can get out the really cute panda plush

you'd think they'd spend more time with each other after that, but actually these solo hang-outs remain pretty rare - which is kind of what makes them special in the first place

raphael in general doesn't like to do this kind of thing too much, as he has a fairly limited social meter, which goes down extra fast if he's only hanging out with one person - since he's the sole other party, he feels the need to constantly be reiterating actions and words and such, rather then being able to go quiet for a bit and only interject when he wants to with groups

he enjoys it in moderation, but it'd be exhausting to do it at the same rate as, say, ik hangs out with mammon

so they're friends who help each other out and enjoy hanging out together every now and then to relax :)

mephistopheles

i know there's probably a division between which one is preferred, so i'll talk about both A. the mephistopheles that hates mephisto's guts, and B. the mephistopheles that's actually dating him

mephistopheles A would be very elaborately friendly and overwhelmingly welcoming to ik in an effort to piss mephisto off, because he knows mephisto absolutely hates it

except he pisses off ik a bit in the process as well, because she can tell that he isn't actually interested in her wellbeing or anything in the slightest

ik's also just got a natural disdain ingrained in her for nobility (and stupidly rich people) in general, so that combined with mephistopheles' complete falseness around her means she doesn't like him very much - which mephistopheles himself can tell (it's made most obvious by the fact that she usually ignores him if he doesn't approach her first)

but as long as it keeps upsetting mephisto, he doesn't care! or so he thinks...

as it turns out, being disliked by the kid who seems to like just about everyone else becomes kind of emotionally devastating in the long run

so he slowly turns into an awkward uncle who really, REALLY wants his niece to like him, but has no idea how to correct the stuff he did to make her dislike him in the first place

he (somewhat unwillingly) goes to diavolo for advice, then (VERY unwillingly) barbatos, then (EXTREMELY unwillingly) lucifer, and in the end the thing that gets ik to seemingly change her mind about him is offering to take her dragon-riding

(it says in his profile in-game that mephistopheles enjoys horse-riding, but in jtta they don't HAVE horses in the devildom, so the equivalent is dragon-riding)

this has the bonus of mephistopheles genuinely enjoying the activity involved, so in this case both parties are having fun!

after this ik waves at him whenever she sees him, and mephistopheles is like "holy shit why wasn't i doing this before", to which all the others reply "i know right"

on the other hand, mephistopheles B would have been acting like the awkward uncle from the beginning tbh

he knows his bf likes this kid, and he also knows diavolo likes this kid, but on the other hand, so does lucifer... so he's conflicted

but ultimately his desire for approval from diavolo and his bf outweighs his contempt for lucifer, so he decides that he will also try to like this kid

it's really not that hard, but what IS really hard is actually interacting with her

you've got to remember that mephistopheles and ik are from two entire opposite ends of the background wealth spectrum

there's silver spoon mephistopheles who's never had to work a day in his life, vs ik, for whom it was an accepted thing that sometimes she'd just have to go without eating more than one meal a day in order to keep the lights on

and often the stuff mephistopheles says in conversation make it very obvious just how rich he is, which tends to make ik go quiet on him, plus his idea of bonding with her is offering to spend increasing amounts of money on stuff for her, which is. not great??

but he figures it out in the end!

it turns out that he and ik have startlingly similar senses of humour (though this is mostly oweing to mephistopheles having had his thoroughly downgraded by dating mephisto)

it gets to a point where ik will be hanging out with the mephistwo, point at a bird and say very seriously "goat", and then all three collectively lose their shit

[thewolfmanslayer]

Honestly the amount of people who say artists and writers should do stuff for free, or try to rip them off on comissions still royally piss me off.

I think the worst part of it is the entitlement, I dont want to make this too much about generations but a lot of commissioners are millenial/Gen z's who grew up on the "steal and pirate everything" mentality, take everything that you can because no one else is going to hand it to you. which I can get behind, when you are screwing over MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES. NOT THE STRUGGLING ARTISTS AND WRITERS who are trying to keep food on the table as desperately as you probably are!

It's simple, you wouldn't walk into a restaurant, order food and tell the server "sorry I don't have any money, but I've got like a few thousand followers on social media, I can get your name out there, get the restaurant some exposure" NO! They don't need "exposure" they need you to pay the damn bill!

On top of that, most of these artists and writers ALREADY HAVE FOLLOWINGS. They already have thousands of people following them, waiting for the chance to get a commission, who are willing to pay for said commission, they don't need "exposure" when they're already out there! He'll even the artists and writers with a few hundred don't need it, they'll get more followers as time goes by, their skill alone will see to it.

And what is with people trying to get free art and writing? It's not going to work! You can't harass someone until they cave, trust me, you'll be long since blocked before you even have the opportunity. I don't do comissions, online anyways, but my own friends and family, people who actually know me STILL PAY ME whenever they ask for me to do art for them because they KNOW it takes TIME AND EFFORT.

How many times do we need to have this discussion???? Like when is it going to finally click that people who need to pay their bills just as much as you do AREN'T going to do this shit for free!?

Here's the thing about art and writing, that you've heard a billion times but still aren't getting; IT. TAKES. TIME. AND. EFFORT. TO. GET. DONE. the art isn't going to magically appear and the writing isn't going to suddenly write itself, if either were so convenient YOU WOULDNT BE ASKING AN ARTIST OR WRITER IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Look at that, you see that? The first picture I did back in 2012-13, the picture beside it? I did that TWO YEARS AGO. I didn't suddenly know exactly what to do, or had anything close to a god given talent for drawing (I'm not that talented). The first picture WAS THE ABSOLUTE BEST I COULD DO AT THE TIME THAT I MADE IT. In the time between these two drawings I admittedly took a break from art, but then I got back into it four years ago. EVEN STILL that was four YEARS of starting over from the basics, relearning everything, learning new things, wanting to actually improve my art.

Which, guess what, DID NOT HAPPEN OVER NIGHT. It was HOURS UPON HOURS of my limited free time as an adult drawing over and over and over and over again, every single goddamn day to get to the point that I was able to make that redraw look as good as it does in comparison. He'll, my art now puts them both to shame! Because I spent the time improving my quality!!

Now look at these artists doing comissions, they've probably put EVEN MORE of their time to get that good! They've put in LITERAL YEARS of sweat, blood, tears, frustrations and dedicated hardwork. Some did the same as me, self teaching and lots of practice, others probably had to go to school, which definitely wasn't cheap. But all of us put in that time and effort TO REACH THESE POINTS. Of being better artists, developing our styles, getting faster at drawing.

And maybe you think that this is super easy, right? That I or every other artist can just fire some art off and boom its good and done in like an hour?

FUCK. NO.

Even now it takes me several hours a day OVER MANY DAYS to make something exceptionally good! It doesn't matter how good an artist is, it still. Takes. Time.

Maybe the issue is that you don't understand how much actually goes into art, let me break it down for you, the steps that most people follow to finish ONE drawing.

-Rough draft: general character outline, get a feel for what I want to draw.

-Rough sketch: I start doing a bit of pencil to start filling in details like mouth, nose, eyes, hair, clothes. Ect.

-Penciling: I go over the rough sketch and clean everything up, maybe do some editing, this is when you can start making out all the details.

-Ink: I trace over the finished pencil with a pen tool and actually have the line art, everything looks clean, presentable, it actually looks like a character now. I'll spend time editing this and possibly redoing the inking many times over to get to a point where I like it.

-Flat color: I decide on which colors to use for skin tone, clothes accessories. Ect.

-Shading/highlights: I figure out where my light source is and how strong it is, I then apply the correct amount of lighting and shadows to the color to give it depth, I also have determine the texture of skin, clothes and accessories to make everything look real and natural.

-Blending: I smooth out the shading and highlights so that it looks more natural and isn't too hard (noticeable difference between color) so that it looks as natural as possible.

-Finish: I go over last minute details, finish any editing or corrections that need to be done. Once it's good I call it a day.

Each process is longer in length then the previous, with the exception of the final editing (as long as everything looks good) and even the rough draft can take some time. Over all this is SEVERAL HOURS of work for a SINGLE DRAWING.

So is it sinking in yet? How much is put into doing even a single character drawing? God forbid if its done with background. This isn't a "scratch a pen around and be done with it in ten minutes" kinda deal, no, this is SEVERAL HOURS OF SOMEONES LIFE BEING PUT INTO THIS

And if you still have the AUDACITY to try and wrangle free art from an artist then there's no helping you, you're just a selfish piece of shit, no question and I want nothing to do with you.

Someone might say "But I got free art/writing from.-" look I don't give a shit if someone did something for you THAT ONE TIME, these other artists and writers? Totally seperate and different people. You're one freebie experience does not, and should not apply to other artists and writers.

"But what if I really want this commission but don't have the money right now?" Well, that's tough shit. Save up and properly commission them when you can, it's not their problem.

"But what if I'm in a really bad financial situation and really want it?" That sucks, and I'm sorry, but again, not their problem. Chances are this is their only source of income and they need to make money so that they don't end up in a similar situation.

"They have a gift! They should share it!" What kind of cheap ass- LOOK, just because someone is talented or really good at something does not automatically obligate them to do anything for total strangers in anyway shape or form. These are living, breathing people, the same as you. They need to eat, they need to pay rent/mortgages, they need to pay vet bills, send their kids to college, do their taxes and everything else that YOU YOURSELF need to do. Asking anyone to spend their time doing something for free, when that something is how THEY ARE SURVIVING is beyond asinine. Not only that, this obviously isn't a hobby to them, it is very clearly THEIR JOB. Would you want to do a job where you didn't get paid at all? Doing a shit ton of work for absolutely nothing? No? Didn't think so.

"It shouldn't be about the money!" Well unfortunately, as with almost every other job, it is. We live in a world where we desperately need to make money in order to survive. That's the painful fact of the matter. If money never had to be an issue ever again then this would be a very different story. But it's not, plain and simple as can be.

Look, these people are just like you, artists and writers who are just trying to get by in a shitty ass world, using the one thing they have that let's them have an income. Leave them be, don't try and trick them, guilt them, or cuss them out when you don't get your way. Either properly comission or leave them the hell alone, plain and simple.