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follow me on bluesky! not sure how much i'll post there but

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god can third time assassination be the charm

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ouchie, my wrist

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sideblogs where i post most of my stuff:

@nozomuaoyama: project sekai, danganronpa

@pahk-in-action: total drama

@the-parentheticals-reblogs: miscellaneous, not covered under the above

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i have a total drama sideblog now!

@pahk-in-action

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she can shoot a little lasers. as a treat.

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ever after high x total drama au...

catboy version and the og version bc god his hair looks stupid

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i think mcdonald's really went downhill when they eliminated having two different happy meal toys

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She's about to fight off an entire robot army ;)

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Hate to see a girlboss winning. (Parasoul as Courtney, Krieg as Gwen, and the Black Egrets are Duncan even though they're not pictured.)

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Rank your OCs

Give an OC a number of 1-10, with

1=no, none, bad

10=yes, lots, good:

[Please feel free to explain/elaborate!]

🎪 How fun would it be to spend a day with them?

💬 How extroverted are they?

🔫 Would they be a good bodyguard?

👀 How guilty they feel and why?

💛 How well-liked are they by other characters?

👕 Fashion sense?

💥 How likely would you be to put them in charge of a disaster/high stakes situation?

⛰️ Would they be good company on a desert island?

🫂 Would they be/are they a good romantic partner?

👽 Would they be a good person for aliens to meet first? [Bonus: what impression would aliens have about humanity/their species based on them?]

😈 How chaotic are their morals?

🧸 How good are they with kids?

🧨 How feisty are they? Do they have a temper?

✨️ Do they use/believe in magic?

🎆 How seriously do they take holidays?

☁️ What shape is their mental health in?

🏠 Would they be a good roommate?

🪂 How much do they enjoy/seek out excitement?

🛠 How skilled are they? Do they have a lot of hobbies?

🔥 And obviously how hot are they, in your opinion and/or the opinions of other characters?

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I think she deserves the classy aesthetic. As a treat. (Squigly as Rui Kamishiro, Leviathan as Robo-Nene.)

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i want someone to talk me into finishing all my bthbs before the end of the year

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Can we say depression, anyone? (Mafuyu Asahina)

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clothes food shelter - love and miss you

Warnings: Sierra being Sierra, I guess?

Summary: He'll want her. Please, please let him want her.

(or, sierra figures out the concept of love. she does it all wrong.)

Notes: Two new fandoms? We love to see it. Okay, first, any Milgram fans associate her with Mahiru? No? Just me? Am I the only one who is actually into Milgram here? Because, I mean, it's great, you totally should, but also that kind of toxic love...mwah. Title's from Mahiru's second trial song, I Love You.

Second of all, I love Sierra, I love superfans, I love her views on love, and I do really wish we had some more depth to her character other than Cody. So, here we go! I...tried. Got lazy at the end, but it'll do.

Third, this is for neglect / abandonment for @badthingshappenbingo.

read on ao3

Sierra Martin only remembers one thing about her father.

She'll hear the story later, between late-night margaritas her mother pours out of a pitcher kept on top of the fridge, but she wants to find things for herself. She has to. It's the only way she's actually gonna know. So she has to start with herself.

She's four years old, and she's curled up on the armchair that's more patches than not. Her mom's asleep, probably. Her dad's not, definitely.

"Sierra-berra?"

"Hmm?"

"Why aren't you in bed?"

"Couldn't sleep," she mumbles. "Daddy...?"

"Your mom's asleep, too. Finally." He smiles like it's their little secret.

"But you're married! You have to do everything together!"

"No, we don't. Sometimes, Daddy doesn't want to."

Sierra stares at him and thinks about what this means. She decides she doesn't know and that her mom also probably doesn't know.

"You...don't?"

"No. Now, come on, back to bed."

Her dad's tall. Not as tall as her mom, but still tall to a little kid. He doesn't hug her. He doesn't pick her up and tuck her back into bed. He just fills her plastic cup that has the face of someone she gets to know very well over the next few years.

Sierra drinks the whole cup in one go. She's still not tired. She goes to bed anyway because it's her dad and he's looking at her.

That must have been the last time he was there. According to her mother, anyway.

The rest of elementary is a blur, okay grades and no one to sit with and reruns of old movies starring Chris McLean. She listens to her mom a lot. She takes up the family skills to occupy herself while her mom is on the phone with their landlord.

She meets a new girl. She likes the new girl. The new girl does not like Sierra. The new girl invites Sierra to her birthday party. She does not tell Sierra the address. Sierra follows her home anyway.

She sits in the attic for three hours, looks through every box, and she knows a lot more about the new girl than anyone wants to.  Her mom is asleep on the couch when she comes in from the window. Sierra closes the curtains and eats reheated rice.

There's a breakthrough.

Things get easier. She finds people. People who won't see her, or her mom. People who won't mind.

They don't know she's there, of course. But she finds them out, and from there gets little bits of things to make life easier. She games on the library computers and makes excuses to avoid talking in voice chat. Falls asleep on the chairs and gets kicked out at closing time. It's better, but she's still missing something.

She's sixteen, and she's asleep on their excuse of a bed or a sofa or heap of fabric. Her mom's smiling, for once.

"Sierra!"

"Yep?"

"Chris has a new show!"

And somehow, that's the only thing that breaks through her tired greyness.

She looks things up and learns to type quickly enough that people stare over her shoulder. The show's called Total Drama. And she has to know everything.

She auditions in front of a bedsheet taped to the doorway over the absolute disaster that is their apartment and says "Chris" way too many times to be normal. They don't accept her. That's okay.

She gets her hands on all the promos she can, and for once she doesn't feel like she has to hide it from her mother. She memorizes every name, every background detail of the bios, every single moment she can get her hands on, and then she goes home and watches the premiere. She does not spoil it for her mom. She especially does not spill the leaks.

If she knows everything about the people on there, aren't they her friends?

Cody's her favourite, really. She's always had a soft spot for nerds. For the underdog. It hurts, to see him being mauled by a bear. But he gets better, and she keeps watching anyway.

Things start to get better. Just a little. And it feels plasticky and fake when her mom sits down next to her and tries to give her hugs. It doesn't feel like Sierra's mom anymore, doesn't feel like the person Sierra goes to when things are hard. She misses having that.

Someone who can really and sincerely love her. That's all she wants.

Why wouldn't Cody be the one to do it? He wants a girl. Perhaps not any girl, but that's a small detail.

She dyes her hair purple with a five-dollar box in a Tim Hortons bathroom. She auditions again. She'll be with him. And he'll want her. Please, please let him want her.

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A2#? though idk anything about twisted wonderland lmfao

yeah. yeah. i mean heartslabyul i get! and probably 2 is marginally more accurate i think