#Her own mentor

[bonefall]

Does pelt length contribute to the beauty factor at all? Does it vary based on clan? I‘ve always imagined Riverclan as finding medium-long fur attractive with Windclan as finding short fur attractive but I’m not sure on the rest 🤔

In general I think it's a balance. It can make a cat look bigger and more threatening, but also hide scars.

I think ThunderClan LOVES a fluffy mane though, hence why it gets selected for in that Clan.

ShadowClan probably selects for short fur because of the marsh. Long hair means holding down heavy, sopping mud.

#Clan culture beauty standards #I think I will cover Frostfur in scars btw #She deserves it #Big battle battered girl #I find the idea soft of her curling up to Brightpaw and comforting her baby through the pain #Promising she'll be okay and this will make a beautiful scar #She's probably disgusted that Bluestar would give her such a horrible name as Swifthound #Her own mentor #MAN the more I think about Frosty the more I'm realizing I should SUUUPER expand her role in BB! #Fellow disciple of Bluestar with Firestar #Maybe knowing her true parentage was Featherwhisker (unsure but Maybe) #Mother of the Frostfour and battletorn senior warrior of the Clan #Her and Whitestorm could end up as very vocal and respected supporters of Fireheart

[emptyjunior]

And what if I said I don't like that male teacher Porter is obsessed with that teen girl and keeps meeting her alone in places like his office

#no no no this is my own stuff I know that #but maybe I just don't Like It #and am keeping my guard up and heckles raised #and maybe he should stop trying to mentor her when she didn't ask for that #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #fhjy #text post #porter #fig faeth #dimension 20 #d20

[doydoune]

the worst day of their lives so far, but the night is quiet

#dounart #this case is so special to me like. can you imagine what they went through #it's phoenix's first trial on his own and hus second ever. he just lost his beloved mentor. she's been brutally murdered #and now somehow he has to defend her little sister in trial and going up against the only reason he became a lawyer #he wanted to see him again but this is the worst timing and he has to hold on for everybody #and maya just lost her remaining close family and discovered her body covered in blood #and now she's in a strange place where she doesn't know anybody and she could be executed for murdering the person she loved the most #and her only hope is this strange 24-years old rookie attorney who has no idea what he's doing #yeah... #aadoodles23 #ace attorney #aa #ace attorney fanart #phoenix wright #mia fey #maia fey #doodle #art

[hongsasum]

I love that Alastor’s act around Charlie changes so quickly whenever and however it fits best in his situation.

He gets all handsy with Charlie when Lucifer first visits the hotel to make him think they’re romantically interested in each other, but that kinda falls through when Charlie introduces her actual girlfriend Vaggie (which I think is part of the reason why Lucifer seemed so enthusiastic upon meeting Vaggie — because he realizes that Charlie and that stupid red guy aren’t a thing, thank god)

Then Alastor quickly picks up on Lucifer’s insecurities regarding his absence in Charlie’s life as a supportive parent, so he switches gears just like that and starts acting like Charlie’s father figure, despite never acting like this before. It kinda works because he succeeds in both pissing off Lucifer and making Charlie trust him.

Finally, he approaches Charlie when she’s all alone with no one else, especially Vaggie, around to stop her from making a deal with him. “What’s a favor between friends?” he says as he rubs his cheek against hers. So now all of a sudden he claims they’re friends, which implies Charlie should do what he asks of her. And then he totally ignores Charlie as she rants to Alastor about her girlfriend on their way to meet Rosie, although it’s natural for “friends” to rant about stuff and listen to each other.

So no, Alastor doesn’t view himself as Charlie’s love interest, father figure nor friend nor does he try to be. But he can switch out masks to take on any of these roles without hesitation if it means he can manipulate Charlie (or others, in Lucifer’s case) to see him as such.

#in short alastors an asshole #i do think he wants to become something like a mentor to charlie though #if it means he can use her to achieve his own goals #hazbin hotel #alastor #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel charlie #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer #vaggie

[onaperduamedee]

Heartbroken reminder that Egwene is 17 when she gets taken by the Seanchan, spends two months in captivity being tortured, used as a weapon and dehumanized. When she gets back to the Tower, she immediately passes a test that's not at all traumatic, nearly gets killed by a Grey Man and is sent on a secret mission to hunt murderers completely unsupervised. During this period of wandering, lacking direction, she naturally gets angrier and erratic, but Nyn and Elayne mostly treat it as childish rebellion against Nyn's authority, with Elayne slapping Egwene because she was mean to Nyn. When the girls eventually get captured because they are not equipped at all to hunt the Black Ajah, Egwene becomes so terrified of being taken again that she keeps on resisting the sisters long past it is sensible, earning a brutal beating from the sisters who throw her back into a cell, beaten to a pulp, with no hope for help this time.

Clearly, Egwene has no PTSD whatsoever.

#egwene al'vere #The wheel of time #Wot book spoilers #The Great Hunt #The Dragon Reborn #Remblai #wot book journey #I think about it all the time #About how early in the books she gets to experience something so horribly traumatic and to receive little support afterwards #None from the Tower #None from her mentors #And little from her friends because they have their own stuff going #And even if the books don't give as much room to Egwene's trauma as Rand's it's always here #Her prime reaction to someone trying to subdue her will be extremely violent #She would rather die than let that happen again #It's beyond me how she managed to rebuild herself after this and mostly on her own #The Wise Ones helped tremendously here #Because she had a strict routine #She was far away from everything and everyone that could remind her of what happened #Being a Dreamwalker has also little to do with the OP so it allowed her to regain control without interacting with the OP #I love her arc from very early on tbh #It's not about Egwene being unbreakable #It's about Egwene living with a pain that could destroy her #That's something she shares with Rand as well

[felicitybrood]

Games not even remotely out yet and I can already tell I will not be normal about Hecate's story

#shes a mentor! a parental figure! she knows persephone more than her own daughter!!! she DEFINETLY HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THEIR CAPTURE!!! #the heartstrings are gonna get pulled and im (not) ready #also she kicks ass #hades 2 #hades game #hades hecate

[nobodyfamousposts]

New Dolls Crossover

Because I have no shame...

Shadow: I am the ultimate life form!

Littlebug: (Looks unimpressed)

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Littlebug: (Sitting on Shadow's head, patting him and oblivious to his glowering)

Sonic: (Trying not to laugh) Uh….you….you got a thing there.

Shadow: Shut up.

Littlebug: n_n (Pat pat)

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Shadow: I am the ultimate—

Littlebug: (Spritzes Shadow)

Sonic: Looks like someone thinks the "Ultimate Lifeform" needs a bath.

Littlebug: (Spritzes Sonic too)

Sonic: HEY!

Shadow: (Smirks)

Littlebug: (Waves the spritzer, warning him to be nice) >:c

Sonic: ...fiesty little thing, isn't she?

Shadow: She is a good judge of character.

Sonic: ...

Littlebug: (Stares)

Sonic: ...wanna go on a run with me? Meet some of my friends? Not try to destroy the world?

Littlebug: (Smiles)

Sonic: I'll take that as a yes.

Shadow: Wait. Don’t you dare!

Sonic: (Runs off with Littlebug)

Shadow: Get back here!

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Amy: (Hugging Littlebug) SO CUTE!

Sonic: Welp, Amy loves you. No surprise there. Tails is busy, so next up is bothering Knuckles.

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Knuckles: Halt! No one's getting the Master Emerald—oh, it's you guys. And what is this?

Littlebug: (Stares)

Knuckles: (Stares in confusion) ….are you Cream's or something?

Littlebug: (Tilts head)

Knuckles: No, she's not food.

Sonic: ….you can understand her?

Knuckles: …you can't?

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Sonic: Of course we can't go ONE day with a new friend without Eggman messing things up.

Knuckles: We need to get the chaos emerald, but it's in this vault and we don't have the key.

Sonic: Oh, I'll just speed over and—

Littlebug: (Makes a Lucky Charm key)

All: (Stare in amazement)

Amy: (Uses it on the door and it opens) It works!

Littlebug: (Proud)

Amy: Good job, little Lady! (Pets Littlebug)

Littlebug: (Even prouder, happy with pets)

Sonic: ….it's cool. It's fine. Was only gonna go super fast. Because super speed. Kinda my thing.

Amy: Shush.

Knuckles: …can she just….magic up a chaos emerald while she's at it?

Littlebug: (Pauses, looking thoughtful)

Sonic: (Stops her) Don't.

#ml crack #dolls au #ml crossover #littlebug #littlebug wants to make new friends #and will traverse dimensions to do so #because she can #don't ask how #littlebug will find a way #too tired to think #just writing funny for fun #dolls shenanigans #I figure if Chaton can get DC villains for mentors #Littlebug should get something of her own

[cluescorner]

I gave myself a writing challenge and I am fascinated by it

So basically I put the robins in a randomizer to give them a new order/role (because I just...kinda wanted to see what would happen + I like role-reversal AUs) and got results that are giving me a fucking brain blast.

Stephanie, the first sidekick who defines the role

Tim, the sidekick who dies and comes back wrong

Dick, the sidekick who saves Batman from himself

Damian, the sidekick who was never supposed to be a sidekick but would go on to prove everyone wrong

Jason, the youngest sidekick who is still the Kid Wonder

...So this is fucking wild. I've got some ideas and several of these fit perfectly (Dick's role is pretty similar to his one in canon), but some of these are fucking INCREDIBLE to explore (Steph being the first Robin is something I never even considered but tbh I kinda love it).

I probably won't write a fic or anything because tbh I don't like publishing my writing that much, but I might expand this into a full AU and post about it. I might randomize other stuff too (ie, stuff that I cannot change vs stuff that I cannot keep the same) but this fucking rules as a starting point.

#uhhh what am I calling this?? #randomizedrobinsau #stephanie brown #oh my god I am so excited to figure out how tf to write this. #because she's my favorite of these characters and having HER be the first sidekick + the one who has a mentor/older sister relationship #with the others?? kickass. though I'll probably keep her and Tim's relationship as 'dating-then-exes' because I think it's funny #and then SHE can be the Robin who Tim got fixated on + figured out her identity?? holy fuck and then the angst of Tim later dying #Tim Drake #tbh I kinda wish he'd gotten a different position because 'sidekick who dies' Tim has kinda been done a lot with the standard #reverse robin aus. But it'll still be fun to write. Definitely going the Joker Junior route with this because Batman Beyond kicks ass #Dick Grayson #He'll honestly probably be the easiest. Like...his role has not changed much outside of being younger/not the one who defines this #But I still think it'll be good to see how well I know Dick beyond his eldest brother thing (which is my best way of relating to him) #Damian al ghul #damian wayne #oh this is gonna kick ass #Bruce does not want his son to be a sidekick but Damian just kinda forces his way into that role #and everybody doubts him because of his history with the league but he later proves himself more than capable #to the point that he can set out mostly on his own and still thrive #Jason Todd #Jason being the baby of the family is also something I have never thought about but holy shit it could kick ass #I really hope that I don't roll 'Jason must die' or 'Robin 5 must die' on the randomizer. I just kinda want Jason to live this time #But unfortunately I double-screwed him because he's on the 'must happen' wheel twice now. I did not think these prompts through #TBH I am so happy that none of them rolled their OG roles. because that would have been so fucking boring

[pinkeoni]

Max might just be the most important character in El’s story arc

#which isnt to discount the importance of any other character #everyone has there place and cannot be removed or replaced #…but max is the most important one for els arc #if els story is about her discovering who she is as a person #max was the first one who led her in that direction #max was the first one who guided el towards the goal #until it was disrupted by vecna #and now el has experienced the loss of the mentor #and her final challenge will be crafting who she is as a person on her own without max’s guidance #also #elmax #el hopper #max mayfield #stranger things #stranger things analysis

[transmascutena]

thinking about how akio sees his younger self in utena and wondering if there's any fondness there. doesn't change the horror of what he does to her obviously but i do wonder

#akio and utena #m #long ramble in the tags sorry: #the thing about akio is that he's so evil bit he's also so human #he has feelings. i just don't know what they are (if anything) toward his victims #he loves anthy at the very least i'm sure of that. even if he hates her too. just like she loves and hates him. the lines are blurry. #and i just. i have to wonder whether any of that extends to utena at all. we know anthy at times feels similarly about utena and dios #(and akio by extension.) the simultanious love and resentment. so it's not too unlikely i think. #like. even though he never had anything but bad intentions in getting close to her #i'm not sure it's possible to do everything he did and feel nothing #not that he has any meaningful amount of guilt or remorse for it. i don't think that. #and i obviously don't think he “loved” her in any of the ways she might have thought he did #but did he not care at all? did he not feel any kind of fondness or sympathy or just. idk. pity? for her? #whatever the case it wasn't enough to reconsider having her killed so you know. how much does that actually matter anyway #idk. i think about it a lot. how abusers are rarely entirely indifferent toward their victims #the role he's playing in her life is so fucked up but it IS a role he's playing and i wonder how much he you know... internalizes it? #how much does he believe the illusion of family that he invites her into? because akio DOES often buy into his own illusions. #(similarly i think it's possible that akio is fond of touga too. their mentor-protégé relationship is horrible and abusive #but that doesn't make it less real. you know? maybe real is the wrong word.) #when he talks in episode 25 about wanting utena and anthy closer that's obviously so he can continue to groom her #but is there something genuine there too? i don't know. #again. it obviously does not make anything he does better or even different. but it is interesting to think about to me. #on the other side of that coin does seeing his own past youth and naivete and desire to do good that he (maybe) once had #reflected back at him through her mean anything? #is there resentment there? that she is what he couldn't be? or more likely he just thinks that idealism is stupid. #either way it's something he wants to take from her. anyway ramble over. #i talk a lot about utena's feelings toward akio (familial vs romantic love and the way the two are intertwined in fucked up ways) #but not much the other way around. probably because utena is actually a sympathetic character whose feelings the show very clearly #wants you to analyze and think about. #which is... less true for akio i think. though he's still a complex character with complex motives. he's just harder to get a grasp on.

[reineydraws]

he's murdered, resurrected, live! ✨️✨️ catch six seven batkids as a sparkly tudor-style pop idol group in my six the musical au for the @batfam-au-zine

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#batfam au zine #batfamily #jason todd #jason todd fanart #batfamily fanart #dc #dc fanart #red hood #i suppose jason can also be: disowned; beheading (other people LOL); survived! ✨️✨️✨️ #the other caption i was workshopping went something like 'six wives? more like seven waynes' but steph isnt adopted so im always like .-. #'six waynes and a brown'? but then also like technically--literally nominally--there's only ONE wayne 'cuz everyone else hyphenates #if they take the wayne name at all #and this first started cuz i wanted to draw steph in the k. howard outfit SO BAD so i couldnt just boot her out in favour the adopted kids #anyways lmao #GO BUY THE ZINE YALL THE ART IN IT IS SO!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #if u wanna know a lil more abt this au then hmu bc i have some Thoughts on it haha like theyre all singing abt #how they're their own people with their own stories away from their mentor/father figure 😌 but i digress #any which way #preview #zines

[nevvaraven]

A Derry Girls hunger games au might fix me

#Everyone cheers when James gets picked #Michelle uses the arena to begin her own love island #Erin reads poetry in her interview and gets booed off the stage #Claire climbs a tree and then realises she’s scared of heights and gets caught because of how loud she’s screaming #Orla befriends a snake #Uncle colm is the winners mentor #Erin dies and somehow it’s jerry’s fault #James sacrifices himself for Michelle but somehow kills them both #everyone would think orla is dead but she’d come out the woods as they’re about to announce the supposed winner #it’s a fight to the death and orla wins because the other guy tripped over her snake and hit his head dead

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Four panels from Trigun Maximum. The first three are all somewhat fuzzy, indicating that they're a flashback. The first shows a hand holding a derringer pistol, as a voice says, "...a tiny girl like you has to carry one. A single bullet... can even the odds between you and the strongest man." The dialogue continues over the second panel, which is a mostly obscured image of a gently smiling man, implied to be Meryl's father, and wearing headphones like the ones from a shooting range. The third panel shows a prepubescent Meryl with a serious expression, wearing thick gloves and clutching a book as her father continues, "It may be small... but its power is sufficient." The fourth panel is a close-up of the top half of the adult Meryl's face in profile, a distant expression in her eyes. End ID.]

IIRC, this is about the only thing we ever learn about Meryl's family background, aside from that she very rarely writes home. Though it's brief, it shows a practicality and emotional warmth that fits perfectly with Meryl as we know her as an adult. It also packs in a lot of gender politics regarding gun ownership as a force equalizer, especially on Planet Shithole which is full of testosterone-loaded bandit assholes including sexual slavers and roided-up giants. And a perfect quote regarding Meryl which deserves more usage, the Gunsmoke version of "though she be but little, she is fierce". That's a whole lotta symbolism and meaning packed into such a little gun!

#Trigun #Meryl Stryfe #I try not to just rag on Stampede but 'generic alcoholic mentor dies and leaves Meryl his gun' is just so rote #and does not have a FRACTION of the emotions and symbolism going on here #We don't know much about her dad. He may not have been all that communicative #meryl barely writes home and didn't really think anything of it until she saw the Milly Monthly #but he loved her and wanted her to be safe #while also enabling her to go out into the world and live life on her own terms #he wanted her to know #that though she is small her power is sufficient

[odessastone]

I feel like Illari is as much of a time bomb as Sigma - except where Sigma has been consistently monitored in some capacity since receiving his powers, Illari is completely alone, mentally reliving her biggest trauma over and over, trying to learn how to control her powers with absolutely no one to teach her. Getting angrier and angrier at herself and at the people she killed, because she never asked for this in the first place.

Characters like Sigma might do something terrible in a worst-case scenario, but with Illari i feel like it’s not so much an “if” as “a matter of time until”

#overwatch #Illari #illari quispe ruiz #have you guys read her bio on the OW website?? #right now canonically she is shut up in a temple ‘playing that day over and over in her mind’ & trying to be her own mentor with her powers #and she’s also angry as hell because she apparently never really wanted to be an Inti Warrior in the first place #(or rather was pushed into it so young that she had no real say) #her Ana nano line where she screams ‘IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?!’ kinda says it all to me #she is Not well someone Please get this girl some help

[thestobingirlie]

wish people appreciated rockie for rockie and not just what they could serve other gay characters

#their ship means so much to me. and i get not everyone had to like them #but to take the wlw couple and only care about the way they can serve a male ship is so…. #so many people only care about robin if she’s performing a gay mentor role and like. wtf!!!! #can a teen girl not be a lesbian and go through her own realisations without having to guide men #and hold their hands #rockie #robin buckley #vickie #stranger things #my post

[sebbyisland]

guys I’m literally so excited I can’t give analysis my brain is just !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I lied see commentary in tags)

#WASAASUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHEN AKANE FIRST STARTED SHE HAD TO LEARN TO ADJUST TO THE AUDIENCE BECAUSE SHE WAS CAUGHT UP IN THE ART #NOW SHES SO CONNECTED TO THE AUDIENCE AND THE CRAFT SHE HAS TO GROUND HERSELF TO THE HER ROLE AS ZENZA FOR HER MENTOR #SHES MAKING HER OWN NIN BUT WILL SHE REMEMBER ITS NOT JUST HER ? #I LOVE HOW HER StrENGTH AND WEAKNESS IS CONNECTING WITH OTHER PEOPLE THROUGH RAKUGO #AKANE BANASHI #THE TANUKI RAKUGO SPIRIT GUIDE RAHHHGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE TANUKI MOTIF MAKES ME CRAZYYYYY #A LIL SCRAPPY A LIL CLUMSY BUT MAGICAL AND TRUE. #THE WAY TANUKI ARE ASSOCIATED WITH GOOD LUCK!!!!! SIMILAR TO HOW AKANE TAKES HER CHANCES AND LEAPS BEFORE SHE THIBKS BUT THINKS ON THE GO #AND OFC HER MENTOR FOR THIS ARC ISNTHE GAMBLER? AND AND THE WAY HER FATHER RETURNS SOMEONE WHO #WAS REJECTED!!! BECAUSE HE APPEALED TO THE AUDIENCE BUT NOT TO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SHINUCHI #THIS ARC IS A DIRECT PARALLEL TO THE PERFORMANCE THAT DEFINED AKANE’S CAREER #HE EVEN SAID HIS KIMONO SUITS HER HIS….!! HOW DID I NOT SEE THE PARALLELS UNTIL NKW #IM SO SICK #SEND HELP #Seb out