#atnak16

[daylighteclipsed]

This is just an idle thought, but everytime I saw you mourn the loss potential of Riku being the one to save Aqua, because he was there in her situation, he understand and have accept/process/grow enough... There's a lot there, I agree but is there a way Nomura could use that potential and not make general fandom claim that Riku and Aqua is a canon couple? Like there's a solid fan base for that pairing as is, 20 sec is enough for the rikunami is canon claims to still fly around even now...wild guess here but could Nomura know he can't let Riku save Aqua and avoid fandom making this ship is canon claims at the same time? Some people are already saying Riku's strength to protect things that matter talk is actually about Aqua already

Words cannot express how much this ask blindsided me. The concept of Riku and Aqua being romantically involved is so foreign, so baffling, so far removed from the reality I perceive, it has never — and I truly mean never — occurred to me that people would ship them together in the hopes of being canon.

To me, Aqua is an adult (like Terra) and Riku is a teenager. Aqua’s physically almost 20 and mentally 30+ years old. Aqua first meets Riku when he’s five years old. What… would possess someone to want or believe them to ever be canon?

The idea of anyone legitimately thinking that Riku’s ‘strength to protect his precious person’ talk is about Aqua is so absurd it’s funny. The LENGTHS homophobes will go… just blatantly ignoring the text… to avoid engaging with homosexuality. They will bend over backwards so far their spines snap before they entertain a non-hetero explanation for anything.

And Sora being Riku’s precious person doesn’t even have to be romantic in this context! It also goes back to the pathetic assumption that a guy can’t care about a girl without romantic feelings being involved… I guess Sora’s the exception because he helps everybody? And already has an assumed hetero love interest (Kairi)?

Maybe you’re right that Nomura didn’t want fans to confuse Riku’s precious person with Aqua (even though they did anyway, apparently) and that’s why he didn’t let Riku be the one who helps Aqua.

If you are right, then I am burning with hatred. Homophobes who lack reading comprehension are the reason I don’t get to see Riku reach out to Aqua as the light that first lead her to Destiny Islands, as the little boy who reminded her of Terra, as the kid who sealed himself in the Realm of Darkness to save everyone, as the young man who can understand the pain she’s in and wants to help her through it?

Fuck that.

#atnak16 #i am just. laughing in disbelief #but i know some people are this dense and homophobic. i know they are #so if this is why i can’t blame nomura for deciding against riku helping aqua #it’s just such crap. such bullshit #kingdom hearts

[producermokyo]

You probably already answered this sort of questions before but 002 for Gilhaku and ArthurHaku, 003 for Hakuno and Arthur. Please feel free to ignore if you don't want to answer this ^^

:

GilHaku:

When I started shipping them: In 2014 when I first got into Type Moon! I played CCC on my laptop, and used the translation on Beasts Lair to help me out. (I actually think the Beasts Lair translation is more accurate than the WordPress one.)

My thoughts: I wuv them, they’re really cute. Though I think I see it a little differently than most people lol.

What makes me happy about them: I like that Hakuno gives Gilgamesh another person to be close with besides Enkidu. I like that Gilgamesh isn’t afraid to tell Hakuno when she’s wrong or when she’s acting irrational. I find that the other routes put Hakuno with yes men or women.

What makes me sad about them: That there isn’t much official content with them.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: I can’t answer that one without making people upset, and I’d rather not have that aha

Things I look for in fanfic: Lore accuracy. (this is with any type moon fanfic tho not just GilHaku)

My wishlist: I’m going to write a space fanfic with these two when one of my other fanfics end.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: For Hakuno? Arthur. For Gilgamesh? Hmmm I’m not sure. Probably Enkidu, or maybe Gudako.

My happily ever after for them: That Gilgamesh somehow finds her real body lol XD.

ArthurHaku: 

002 | Send me a ship and I will tell you:

When I started shipping them: Last year lol!

My thoughts: I actually didn’t even think about this ship until a certain someone….*cough* @sunflowershipping *cough* made a really good argument for them, and I was like “Huh. They are pretty cute together.”

What makes me happy about them: How they’re 100% supportive of each other.

What makes me sad about them: That there isn’t many people that ship them LOL

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Im the only one who writes for them so…

Things I look for in fanfic: N/A

My wishlist: Maybe for Arthur to be summoned in the Moon Cell.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Hakuno? Arthur or Robin Hood. Arthur? I think he would be really cute with Proto Gil or Gudao.

My happily ever after for them: That they can somehow find a way to be together, even though Arthur is a Servant.

Arthur: 

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you:

How I feel about this character: He’s so cool! I love his personality too!

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: I really just ship him with Hakuno or Gilgamesh.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Merlin. 

My unpopular opinion about this character: He’s not bad in FGO, people are just bad Masters.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: That we would get more info about his quest to find 666.

Favorite friendship for this character: Merlin or Artoria!

My crossover ship: N/A

Hakuno: 

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you:

How I feel about this character: I think she’s a really cool Masters. Her inner thoughts make me laugh sometimes.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Gilgamesh, Arthur, and Robin.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Rin!

My unpopular opinion about this character: That you can write Hakuno any way you want, since she’s a silent protag basically.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: That she would become a Servant. (I know why that will never happen. Type Moon doesn’t want their past protags to overshadow Gudao/Gudako)

Favorite friendship for this character: Rin or Leo.

My crossover ship: N/A.

#Thanks for the ask!!! #this was really fun! #atnak16

[markoftheasphodel]

atnak16 said: I think Rhea goes to sleep, the way Flayn and Tiki does? So not dead, but to most of the cast she’s still effectively out of the picture

OK, that was the only thing I could come up with after failing to find any confirmation of her fate in VW. When Seteth and Flayn say she’s resting they mean she’s down for the next millennium, which is totes in-keeping with the rest of the clan including Mr. Wind Caller.

I can’t complain since the groundwork was laid for “Nabateans take Big Dirt Naps but eventually wake if you don’t steal their heart in the meantime” but it seemed weird to not provide any resolution on Rhea at all.

#fe16 spoilers #atnak16

[fireolin]

🏆 This is the Amazing Person Award 🏆 ✨💛 Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and out 💛✨

@atnak16. I’m happy we’re both still around here!

#atnak16

[lucy-shining-star]

🏆 This is the Amazing Person Award 🏆 ✨💛 Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and out 💛✨

Thanks

#atnak16

[sage-nebula]

In Mystic Messenger, it feel like all MCs from Good Ends are meant to be what the route owners want and need, their ideal MCs in a way. Like I could figure out the characters' preferences from their routes, but that's not the case with Saeyoung. He even said outright that his route MC (naive and obnoxious???) fit 707 the mask better than the real him. Sure, what he likes might not be what is right for him, but then that wouldn't be ideal. What do you think is Saeyoung's ideal MC?

While I agree with you that the minimal characterization MC has in Mystic Messenger varies depending on whose route you choose (in that MC has to behave a certain way to get the Good End for whatever character the player decides to pursue), I don’t really like using the word “ideal,” because I think that it makes MC less of a person and more of a fantasy. Which, I mean, don’t get me wrong, MC as she is in the game isn’t a character. She’s a placeholder, a blank slate; her purpose is for the player to project onto her, which is why she doesn’t have a stated canonical history, or any real personality to speak of. It’s also, as much as the fandom likes to meme about it, why she doesn’t have any eyes. “Eyes are the windows to the soul,” as the cliché goes, and by not giving her eyes Cheritz is showing us that MC doesn’t have a “soul” of her own, so to speak. Her soul is supposed to be our soul. She is supposed to be us.

With that said, as you probably know I grew extremely frustrated with MC during Saeyoung’s Route. I don’t feel that MC, as Cheritz writes her, is a good fit for him. I don’t think she’s what he needs, and in honesty I don’t even think she’s what he wants; she’s what he’s made to want because Cheritz had to make the relationship romantic by the end of the eleven days, and having him reject MC when she was being intrusive, pushy, and clingy would have made players upset. Rather than write an MC who would actually be good for Saeyoung (and thus be someone that he would naturally want to be with), they instead warped Saeyoung to force him to give into her, even if not the Manic Pixie Dream Girl™ version of her. And that, as you could imagine, was pretty disagreeable to me.

So when I say that I ship Saeyoung/MC, what I actually mean is that I ship Saeyoung and the MC that I created. I ship them as I write them, and I ship them based on the version of their story as I rewrite it (which deviates from canon during the apartment days, albeit not by too much, because honestly, it’s not that hard to fix). I’m happy to describe her, but I feel to get the full picture, you’re going to need some backstory. Well, that, and a picture; for reference, my MC (and the one that I imagine being with Saeyoung) is MC 4. This girl:

So with that said, let’s begin.

First, the backstory. How I have it, MC’s name actually is MC … as far as she knows, anyway. You see, sad backstories are par for the course in Mystic Messenger, and MC is no exception. When she was little (say, around nine or so), she was in an accident. It was a pretty major one; details are hazy, but as the story goes she was on a train with her parents, traveling somewhere, and the train derailed and crashed. MC was thrown clear of the train car; she somehow (quite miraculously!) survived without serious injuries, but she woke up on the ground, completely alone, with no memory of how she got there or where she was. It was quite frightening; she called out for help, but no one came. As a result of that, and since she could still walk, she picked herself up off the ground and, well … walked. When she located the train tracks, she followed them until she managed to make it back to a station. There, some adults found her, and they asked her where her parents were. She said, truthfully, that she didn’t know. They asked her what her name was. And she said, again truthfully, that she didn’t know … but then she said, “MC.” It was all she could remember. She didn’t think it was really right (it was sort of right, she thought, it felt right, just not … complete), but it was all she could think of, it was all she could remember. And the adults, in lieu of anything else to call her, went with it.

(In reality, her parents had named her Mi-Cha. Her father did a lot of business overseas, and so he had taught her how to write her name in English as well as Korean. She had thought the English letters looked funny, so she had a lot of fun writing them out … and since the M and C were capitals, those were the ones she remembered. Mi-Cha, MC. Head injuries can be funny like that, I suppose.)

Of course the adults at the station knew about the accident, but of the few survivors of the wreck, none of them laid claim to MC. MC didn’t recognize any of them, either. And so without any other options, particularly since MC couldn’t remember if she had any other family, the adults at the station turned her over to the police, who put her into foster care.

The foster families that MC had weren’t … bad, per se. She moved homes a lot, especially in the beginning as the system tried to put her front and center to see if they could find a family to adopt her. The thing is, they couldn’t; MC was already older than most children who get adopted by the time she entered the system, her name struck potential parents as odd and she wasn’t willing to change it, and the fact that she was not exactly the cute and sweet type didn’t help matters, either. So she changed homes a lot, until finally she found one that stuck. The home was … again, it wasn’t necessarily bad, but it … this particular foster home had a lot of kids. And as a result of having so many kids, the foster parents were … very strict. It was almost run like military barracks; there were always chores to do (a lot of them), and the foster mother in particular was rarely satisfied with the job that was done. As MC grew, the fact that she was very independent and mouthy really didn’t earn her favors with the foster parents. It also didn’t earn her favors with potential adoptive parents. And though it could likely be guessed, it didn’t earn her favors with her foster siblings, either. MC spent about two years in that home before she decided she had enough, and decided to take matters into her own hands. In this case, “matters” meant robbing a little safe that was in the study one night while everyone was sleeping, and—with all the cash she could carry and a backpack of clothes on her back—running away.

MC was fourteen.

She was fourteen, but even at fourteen she knew that it wouldn’t be wise to stay in the same city, so she used some of the money she stole to get a train to skip town. (The second she boarded the train, she felt like she was going to suffocate. It was anxiety—she was having a panic attack. But she couldn’t remember the accident that had killed her parents and left her an orphan, so she told herself this reaction was stupid and forced herself to suck it up.) She rode the train a couple towns over, and then decided that it would be best to lay low for a while, to make sure no cops were going to come look for her. Unfortunately, she was a fourteen-year-old with only a wad of cash, no diploma (since she was now a … she might not have even finished middle school), and no way of getting a job. This meant that she was now homeless. But MC figured, well, in a way she had been homeless ever since her parents died, since the foster homes never really felt like home to her. She had always known that they were going to be temporary. So she could do this. She could. She would do this.

It wasn’t easy.

MC had, at least, the foresight to run away in the spring, so it wasn’t too cold out. But she had a lot of nights curled up on porches so she could avoid the rain. She was able to buy food, at least, with what money she had, but because she had a limited amount of money she sometimes resorted to stealing fruit from market stalls, and she really wasn’t very good at it at first. After a time she managed to find a church, and the people there helped her. They gave her food, at least, because they felt bad, but any time they started to ask questions about her family life, she always made sure to beat a hasty retreat. She was still afraid the cops would arrest her if they found out that she had stolen the money from the foster home and booked it, after all. In her mind, she was a fugitive. She didn’t want to push her luck.

But the church was warm (enough), and safe, so she stayed there a lot, even though she technically wasn’t supposed to. It wasn’t hard; she would hide in a bathroom stall until the church was locked up for a night, and then sleep on one of the pews. The church had a communal bathroom, with a shower and everything, so that helped her keep clean. And so long as she made sure to duck out of the way and retreat back to the bathroom whenever she heard the church doors open in the morning, she could avoid being caught. It was a foolproof plan. MC was pretty sure it wasn’t a problem that she had dropped out of school. Clearly, she was smart enough without it. 

This continued on for about two, maybe three, years. And then, when she was about seventeen, she met Byungho.

Byungho was a businessman about five years her senior (so, around twenty-two) who came to the church every so often. MC didn’t talk to him at first; she made it a practice of not talking very much with others, because again, when she talked to people, they tended to ask questions, and that was something she wanted to avoid. But he took notice of her anyway, given that she was frequently in the church, and so one day, he struck up conversation with her. It was light, innocent; he asked her what her name was, commented that “MC” was a rather odd name to have. He tried to make small talk, and she made an excuse to get out of it. But the next time she saw him, he tried talking to her again. And the time after that, and the time after that. And on the fifth time, he invited her to go get lunch with him—his treat. 

MC felt that it was probably a bad idea. But she was hungry, and he seemed nice enough all the times she talked with him, so … what the heck. She went.

As it turns out, Byungho seemed quite nice. He seemed that way. They went to a restaurant and had lunch, and he confessed that he thought she was quite pretty. MC, as a seventeen-year-old homeless girl, was caught pretty off-guard by this. Had he … was he blind? Her clothes were shabby and ill-fitting, since by now they were donations from people at the church. Her hair was unkempt, and cut unevenly since she had cut it herself. She had acne. She never got enough to eat, so she was underweight. Like, honestly … had he seen her? But he insisted that she was pretty, and that he liked her, and that he wanted to spend more time with her. And she, well … she couldn’t remember the last time she had heard such kindness. It was flattering, and it made her feel good, so she accepted the compliments. And when he said he would drive her home, she confessed that she was staying at the church, because she had nowhere else to go.

And that was when he invited her to come stay with him.

The good news is that it wasn’t hard for MC to move into his apartment, because all she had was her backpack of worldly possessions. The bad news is that Byungho was not nearly so nice as he seemed. Sure, he seemed nice at first; he treated her kindly at first. But you know … that’s how they get you. And that’s how he got her. It didn’t take very long for things to get bad. At first it was little things, like he was irritated that she hadn’t prepared dinner for him by the time he came home from work, as he felt a good girlfriend should (particularly one that was staying with him for free). But then it escalated. His annoyance turned to anger, turned to violence. And his expectations from her, as his girlfriend, kept mounting.

MC tried to stick it out at first. This was better than being homeless, she told herself. His apartment was nice. He wasn’t home all the time. He had to work during the day. And maybe this was what girlfriends did. She didn’t know, she had never been anyone’s girlfriend before. And who else would want her? He had wanted her when she was just a grungy, scrawny homeless girl. No one else would have wanted her. This was … this was as good as she was going to get, so she should suck it up, and maybe she could learn to like it.

Of course, she never did. It would be impossible for anyone to like that.

She stayed there for about a year and a half before she hit her breaking point. Really, in honesty, she had hit her breaking point before that; while Byungho was at work, she would spend her time on the internet, trying to learn whatever skills she could so that she could get a job. Most places required some kind of degree, but call centers (and particularly international call centers) didn’t seem to (and even if they did, MC felt maybe she could forge one). International call centers did require some kind of English competency, though, so she did her best to try to learn at least basic English on the internet. And when she finally hit the last straw, well … she did what she does best.

She waited until he was at work, and until he had been there for a couple hours and thus wouldn’t double back. Then she robbed the safe he had in the apartment, stuffed all that cash and her worldly possessions into her backpack, and got the hell out of dodge.

Once again, she hopped a train (panic attack or no panic attack, it wasn’t worse than the Hell she was escaping) and skipped town, this time because she was terrified he would find her if she didn’t. This is how she ended up in the city where Mystic Messenger takes place. By this time she was eighteen or nineteen, so although she was homeless once again, she decided that she wasn’t just going to be homeless this time. Instead, she purchased herself a pay-as-you-go cell phone, and used a local library’s public computer to put in applications at whatever places in the area were hiring, as well as applying at various businesses around. Fortune was on her side; she got hired at a tech support call center (international; she spoke just enough English to secure the position), and after a month of working there, she was able to use her first paycheck and the money she still had after robbing Byungho to buy a small, modest apartment.

MC managed to keep this up for about four years, and in honesty, it was the happiest she had ever been in her life. Oh sure, she had to forge a couple documents in order to make it work, given that she didn’t have a state issued ID and was terrified of being on any sort of radar that Byungho might find if he looked hard enough (plus she was technically still a minor at eighteen, so she lied about her age and said she was twenty so that her employers or landlord wouldn’t think to alert the foster care system), but that was nothing that a library computer and dedicated research couldn’t help her do. Plus, the call center she worked at wasn’t exactly prestigious, and neither was her apartment. Her employers were just happy to have someone else on the phones. Her landlord was happy to have a quiet tenant. It was fine—great, even. She was able to have a nice little flat, she was able to be regularly fed, there was no one there to abuse her, she had steady income. Everything was great.

… until about six months before Mystic Messenger took place.

As I said, MC maintained this lifestyle for four years. She did so off the grid (i.e. no social media; Saeyoung lies through his teeth when he says he found her Facebook, because she doesn’t have a Facebook, because she’s not giving Byungho any way to find her), but she still did it. But six months before Mystic Messenger takes place, her call center went under. There was no explanation for it that MC could see; one day she had a job, and the next it was out of business. She was unemployed. Completely jobless, and definitely in trouble.

For two months, she tried finding a new job, but the job market was … not good. It was a wonder she got hired so quickly the last time; this time, it was like nowhere was hiring. She had money saved up, so for two months she was fine … but she could see that her savings were going to dwindle fast. MC felt she had two options: she could stay there until she was evicted with nothing, or she could leave when her lease ended and wait until she got a new job to get a new apartment.

She took option two, figuring it was safest.

She sold off her furniture for extra money and, hating everything, hit the streets once again. Fortunately, she wasn’t on the streets for very long; there was an apartment building she knew of on the other side of town that, well … it wasn’t in the greatest condition, honestly. Practically no one lived there. But the plus side of this was that no one would notice if someone was squatting, at least if the squatter was careful. So MC took advantage of this. Specifically, she took advantage of an unused, unlockable storage closet up on one of the higher floors. It was a walk-in storage closet, with threadbare carpeting and a bare bulb, but it was enough. It was enough, especially since there was a rec center with public bathrooms (+showers) right behind the apartment building. It was temporary, anyway, MC told herself. She would use her pay-as-you-go phone and find herself a new job. Once she had a new job, she would get a new apartment. She wouldn’t be homeless for long. She did it once before, and she could do it again. She would do it again.

But as the months—four of them, to be specific—wore on, it became more and more difficult to remain upbeat and optimistic.

She had been homeless before, so she could do it again. And she did. She told herself that her storage closet was a studio apartment. She told herself that she would get herself someplace nice. But the job market was just not good, and since her old place of employment was just gone it wasn’t even like she had a reference despite working solidly for four years. In honesty, MC felt like she was at an all-time low, even as she told herself (over, and over, and over again) that she had to stay optimistic, because if she let herself get depressed (or rather, if she acknowledged that she was depressed), then it would just make the whole situation worse. She she tried to combat her sense of hopelessness and depression with aggressive optimism. She tried very, very hard.

And that … that was when she met Unknown.

More specifically: In lieu of any callbacks about jobs, MC browsed the app store on her cheap phone, looking for something to amuse herself with. She came across a free app called “Mystic Messenger” with a blank icon. It caught her eye, and honestly … she couldn’t say why it did. But it did. So, figuring that maybe it was a dating app or something else she could waste time with, she figured “what the heck” and downloaded it. Sitting there in her little “studio apartment,” she downloaded it, because she was depressed and bored and had nothing else better to do since no one was calling her back about a job.

And that was how she met Unknown.

Make no mistake, she gave him hell. She interrogated him about his name. She interrogated him about why he was so obsessed with returning a phone to its owner. She called him on his vague non-answers. And oh, you better believe she trolled the hell out of him. It got to the point where he ended up getting rather irate and snappy with her during their exchange, his patience clearly lost as he tried to get her to agree to go to some stranger’s apartment, and honestly … she strongly considered just saying “no u” and deleting the app. She did. But it was only 6pm. She had nowhere to be, and nothing to do. And while she was now a far cry from the naive teenager who had taken a man at his word—while she was now a much smarter twenty-two or twenty-three-year-old—she figured … well. She had nothing else better to do. She had nothing worth stealing save the sparse clothes, money, and other basic toiletries in her backpack. And even if he was going to be lying in wait, waiting to rape and murder her, well, she could fight back. And even if she couldn’t, it’s not like she had anyone who would miss her, anyway.

So she figured, what the heck, and she went.

As it turns out, Unknown didn’t try to rape and murder her (although, as she pretended not to see the door lock, and he once again grew terse through the texts, she had the strangest feeling that he was … but that was stupid, he couldn’t be watching her. But all the same, she stopped trolling after a bit), but he did want her to go into the apartment. And MC, against her better judgment (because this was a stranger’s house, what if the cops were called on her?) … well, again. Nothing better to do, and a creepy feeling of eyes on the back of her neck. So she did. She entered the apartment.

And that was when she met the RFA.

Now, you have to understand: MC was more than a little bemused as she joined this group chat. She was more than a little aggravated how they kept referring to her as an “it.” And she thought that it was kind of hilarious how a party was treated like Super Serious Business™ (she laughed out loud when 707 bolded and increased the font size as he exclaimed Hosting parties???). But when they said that they wanted her to be the party coordinator, and that being the party coordinator meant staying at the apartment … 

Listen.

It’s not that MC had a secret passion for hosting parties. It’s not that she felt sympathy for these people who were, apparently, sad over the death of some woman named Rika, and wanted to carry on the parties in her name or whatever. It’s not that she thought that any of the guys were hot (although, to be fair, everyone in the chat was strangely attractive, Jaehee included), and that she wanted a boyfriend. No, this had nothing to do with any of that.

Instead, it was … listen. Not thirty minutes ago, MC had been living in a storage closet that she tried to insist to herself was just a shitty studio apartment. Now she was seated in the living room of an apartment with very nice furniture, and nice walls, and a bathroom with a toilet and a really nice shower. There was a kitchen where she could make food, and a fridge and cabinets where she could store it. It was just down the street from a convenience mart. And while it was clear that being the RFA party coordinator was not a paying gig, in MC’s mind, the equation went as thus:

Do a good job as temporary party coordinator and impress RFA

RFA wants to keep her on for more parties because they are impressed

At that point, she mentions need a paying gig on top of this

One of the now impressed members of the RFA with a career (e.g. Jumin, V, Jaehee, etc) offers her a job with them

SUCCESS AND PROFIT

It was as good a plan as any in MC’s mind, and in any case, Rika’s apartment was a HUGE step-up from where she had been staying before. So she readily agreed, and didn’t even call 707 out on his bs when he said that he looked up her social media (social media which didn’t exist, and anyway, he only had “MC” to go on, like … she scoffed at the idea that he could dig up anything on her). Instead, she played along with him. He made her laugh. He genuinely made her laugh. And it had been … well, it felt like it had been years since she had laughed or smiled that much. She really liked talking to him. He was a funny guy.

She thought that, the perks of having a nice place to stay and the potential for a future job aside, she rather liked this situation she found herself in. She still wanted to know who tf Unknown was (and she forwarded the text messages and chat log to Seven), but all the same, she still had to say (to herself and not through text) …

Thanks, Unknown.

So, with all of that foundation laid, what do we know about MC? Well, succinctly:

MC is smart. She’s not a technical genius by any stretch (though she does, thanks to her call center job, have some background knowledge on computers to an extent—she can troubleshoot, at least), but she is street smart. She has spent a good chunk of her life living on the streets, and she knows how to get by, even if it’s scraping by due to how hard homeless life is. She’s not naive; her circumstances have forced her to grow up ahead of her time, and in honesty, being treated as naive is pretty grating for her. She knows how to take care of herself, because she’s had to learn the hard way, and she really doesn’t take well to that being dismissed.

On that note, she’s independent, and extremely so. Again, she’s spent pretty much her whole life looking after herself. She didn’t always do a great job of it, but she did her best, and she’s still doing her best, and this is something she takes pride in. She’s not helpless; even if she’s in a bad situation, MC doesn’t see herself as even remotely helpless. She’s not a damsel who ever needs to be rescued. She can protect and rescue herself. She always has, after all, every time. Any time she was in a bad situation, the only person who ever got her out of it was her. So again, MC chafes if she’s treated like a helpless damsel, just as she chafes at being treated as naive, and she doesn’t do well with having her independence compromised. She’s rather headstrong like that.

She’s gutsy. Daring, brave, bold—you name it, she’s it. It takes guts to rob your foster family and then run away like she did. It takes guts to do the same to your abusive boyfriend. And more than that, it takes resilience to be able to survive the way she has. MC, despite everything, doesn’t break. No matter how bad a situation gets, no matter how badly she’s hurt, she always manages to push herself up and keep going. Even if it takes every last ounce of willpower she’s got, she does it. And she doesn’t back down, either; no matter how intimidating someone may seem, if she has to fight, she’ll do it. Sure, she might be afraid, but she’ll still do it. She’s incredibly brave and incredibly determined. It’s how she has survived for this long. But she’s also …

… paranoid. MC is secretive to the point of paranoia about her personal information and identity. She doesn’t use social media because she’s afraid of being found. She forges official documents as best she can to obscure her identity (not thinking, of course, about the national registry; if her call center job hadn’t been shady, they wouldn’t have hired her). She relentlessly grills Unknown and is honestly even a little savage with him in the prologue chat because the fact that he won’t reveal his real name sets off warning bells for her, because what ulterior motives could he have for keeping his name secret? And she doesn’t tell the RFA much about herself, either. She shares her name (MC), but she doesn’t bother to tell them that the picture she had in the chat was a selfie. Better to let them believe she looks like something else. She doesn’t tell them her age, and she lets them believe that she had a place to stay before Rika’s apartment (well, a nice place to stay). Even when Seven asks about her, she dodges around her questions no differently than he dodges hers. It’s not that she doesn’t trust him; it’s that she doesn’t (easily) trust anyone.(Plus, wouldn’t they judge her if they knew she was a jobless hobo before this? Better safe than sorry in that respect, too.)

She has … ZERO tolerance for abuse. Given her own life—her time in the foster home, and especially her time with Byungho—she has no tolerance for abuse or abusers. None. Zero. She refuses to “let” herself ever be in that situation again, and if she ever sees anyone else in that situation, she gets real mad, real fast. Her attitude toward Rika is pretty much summed up as “bring the bitch to me so she can CATCH THESE HANDS” and nothing short of it. But that said, she also wouldn’t tolerate, say, Saeran abusing Saeyoung, if it ever came to that. She’ll feel for Saeran. She’s been abused herself. But being abused is no excuse to abuse others. She’s not about to have it. No tolerance for that. None whatsoever. None, nada, zip, zilch, zero.

And she’s not nearly so cheerful as she seems. MC has had a hard life. That hard life has left her with quite a lot of emotional scars. And while she tried to tell herself, over and over and over again, that things would be okay and she couldn’t let herself be depressed, that doesn’t change the fact that she was depressed enough to follow some stranger’s instructions to some strange apartment even though she was fully aware that she was at risk of being raped and/or murdered when she got there. (Or having her backpack of worldly possessions, which she can’t leave in the storage closet since it has no lock, stolen from her.) Again, she’s not actually naive or innocent. She plays along with jokes because she loves to laugh (and oh, she does—she loves laughing and joking and playing around!), but that’s all it is—playing. When play time is over, she can and does get serious. She still tries to not feel depressed, but … well. It’s harder than it seems, even if she still pushes through it and keeps going for the sake of it.

She is, should she find someone she can truly connect (safely and happily) with, quite devoted. MC’s never really had someone to truly love, who truly loved her in return. This isn’t to say that she has no idea how relationships work, because she does. She was friends (casually) with her coworkers at her call center job, for instance, and after Byungho you at least better believe she knows what not to do or settle for in relationships. But she’s never had a really loving relationship of her own. No family to speak of, no best friends, and Byungho was certainly not a loving boyfriend. MC has been pretty isolated in this way for pretty much her entire life. Casual work friends are nice, but … it’s not the same. So as a result, should she find someone that she truly cares for—even if they don’t love her in return, if she loves and cares about them, she’s devoted to them. She’ll stand by them through anything. She’s steadfast and loyal. She’s protective and caring. And she doesn’t really need anything in return, because for her, it’s enough to have this chance to help someone that she cares about, and to do something good—to do what’s right.

On that note, she’s got a strong sense of justice. Or at least … she has a good sense of right and wrong, and she also does have vested interest in helping the less fortunate (obviously, look how many years she has spent homeless). The charity party actually sounds like a great idea to her (even if internally she’s like “can I bet on the donation side and can you people donate a job to me because tbh …”) because she knows better than most how absolutely awful it is to have literally nothing. She wants to help those that are “less fortunate,” she wants to host the party not just because she wants to impress the RFA (but mainly that), but also because it’s a legitimately good cause in her mind. It’s something she cares about. Though, on that note …

Strong sense of justice or not, she’s resourceful, and is not afraid to lie or steal to get what she needs to live, i.e., she can be ruthless if she has to be. I mean, again … look at how much stealing she has done, look at how she might lie and deceive to protect herself. She has a good sense of right and wrong, but she’s not above doing what she has to in order to survive, even if it’s illegal. MC figures her continued survival is a good enough cause to justify that sort of thing.

So with all of that listed out, what does that say for the story? And more specifically, her relationship with Saeyoung?

I see the story playing out mostly as it does until the apartment days are reached. Once Saeyoung arrives at the apartment, and makes it clear he doesn’t want to pursue a relationship with her—that’s fine. It hurts, sure, to have him be so cold when before this he was honestly the closest to a best she ever had (and she knows that’s ridiculous given they’ve only known each other a handful of days, but still), but it’s fine. If he doesn’t want to date her, that’s fine. It’s not like romance is the most important thing in the world, and he has other problems. He has way more important problems. Hell, the entire RFA has way more important problems. Whoever knew a charity organization could be full of this much drama? Jfc.

But that said, there are still … other difficulties.

When they get into arguments, their arguments are because she wants him to eat something, and he refuses (and you know, she respects his boundaries, but he needs to eat, he doesn’t get to harp on her for not eating if he won’t). Their arguments are because she wants to go to the convenience mart, and he’s paranoid about her leaving the apartment. (They compromise by being on the phone the whole time, even if they’re not speaking.) Their arguments are because he, unintentionally or otherwise, treats her like she’s naive and/or helpless, and she gets pissed off, because he has no right to judge her like that when he knows nothing about her. When he tries to warn her that there are dangerous men out there, she laughs, bitterly and without humor, because yeah, trust her, she knows. When she makes an offhand comment about how, even with the bomb, Rika’s apartment is still way better than where she was before, and he shrewdly asks her where she was before, she dodges the question. And when, ultimately, they get in their last big fight and he demands to know why she likes him, she lists off all the reasons why she does, because unlike Canon MC, this MC knows. She likes him because he’s smart, brave, selfless. Yeah, he made her laugh, and that’s a plus, too, considering laughter is a rarity in her life, but the jokes aside, she loves him—likes him, she amends, way more for his cleverness, his bravery, his selflessness. He risked everything with the agency to come protect her. He does everything for the RFA despite being so busy with his own work. No matter how stressed or bogged down he is, he’s determined enough to push through. He cares enough to go the extra mile for others, not expecting anything in return. She likes him because underneath the jokey, pranky 707 exterior, he’s a genuinely good person who tries his best even if he doesn’t always manage to succeed. There’s sincerty in how much he cares even if he tries to deny it. And that … she can relate to some of that, and admire even more of it. She started out liking the 707 in the chat room, yeah, because he was fun to talk to. But now? Now she genuinely cares about the Seven that’s right in front of her.

He’s at a loss. She just went on some huge speech about everything she likes about him—and at some point, yes, she included how serious and dedicated he is, she likes him being serious, even if she adds she’d also like it if he would take breaks to sleep and eat—and he’s … at a loss. He admits he doesn’t know what to do. So she says:

“Just think about accepting help. That’s all I want. I just—it doesn’t have to be me. If you don’t want me helping you, fine. But let someone help you, Seven. Let Jumin help you, or Jaehee. Maybe even Zen. Just—I want to help you. I’m here to help you however you need. I want to help you find and rescue Saeran, I want to help you get through this. But if it’s not me, just let it be someone. You don’t have to be alone, Seven. You don’t have to do this all by yourself. I … I know how hard it—I know what it’s like doing everything by yourself even when it’s something far less risky than all this. I know how it is doing just basic level hard stuff all by yourself. But what you’re dealing with is extra. It’s a lot, even for several people, but especially for one. So just … please think about accepting some help. Think about accepting your friends. That can include me, or it can not … and if it does, then you can still tell me to get lost when all is said and done, that’ll be fine. I’ll respect that. But just take some time, and think about accepting some help from someone. That’s all I ask.”

And after a moment … that is what he’d quietly agree to.

He and MC would not become a couple at this point, but he would accept help from her. He’d start to tell her more about Saeran. He’d explain what he’s doing. She’d help him prepare for the trip to Magenta, and she’d go there with him. And she wouldn’t go there just so that she could get in the car when he tells her to when V shows up, or so that she could hide behind him. This MC, as you can tell from all of the above, is proactive. She’s brave, and she’s a fighter. This MC is not someone that Saeyoung stands before like a shield; she is someone who stands by his side, who gives him a hand to hold without any expectation of a relationship (despite their mutual crushes; it’s just not the time). Sure, he still tells her to stand behind him, but her attitude is “no u” before she moves to stand by his side. Will he protect her? Sure. But she’ll protect him right back, or go down swinging at the very least. Saeyoung, much like MC, has spent his entire life taking care of himself. He’s spent his entire life having the burden entirely on his shoulders. So it’s about damn time he had someone to share it with, just as it’s about damn time MC had some help, too, however much she (like him, tbh—they’re both so stubborn about it) thinks she has everything under control. Saeyoung has more technical knowledge that she does, given that he is a canonical, literal genius, but outside of that, they’re equals. She’s not a damsel for him to protect, rescue, and pamper. She’s a partner who stands by his side and gives him the support he needs to make it through, just as he does the same for her.

So as you can imagine, she’s a lot more proactive in my version of the Secret Endings as well. She floors the getaway car when it’s time. She learns from Vanderwood how to do first aid treatment for Saeyoung’s injury. When Rika says that she’s going to brainwash Saeyoung, MC says, “Over my dead body,” and moves to stand in front of him. At which point, of course, we get this from Rika:

“That would be a waste, because I believe everyone has a place here at Mint Eye. But if that’s truly what you want … that can be arranged.”

At that point, Believers enter the cell to drag MC off, and Vanderwood has to hold Saeyoung back as he starts flipping out, but Saeran intervenes since Rika promised him that he could have the toy that he personally sent to her old apartment …

As you can see, things really start to deviate.

(Note that once they’re away from the cells, Saeran tells MC that he has zero interest in her. He only said what he did to mess with Saeyoung. MC’s pretty unimpressed and lets him know it. He’s irritated by how unimpressed she is, and she’s petty and satisfied.)

Unlike canon, where they’re engaged promptly once Saeran is rescued, MC and Saeyoung don’t even officially start dating until after Saeran is rescued and has started the healing process. Note that, also unlike canon, MC can’t really stay at Rika’s apartment anymore, because RFA isn’t having that, what with there being a bomb and all. But she also never told them that she was a homeless squatter, so … #awkward. She ends up having Vanderwood take her back to the storage closet, and when he sees that it is, in fact, a storage closet—

“I like to think of it as—it’s not a storage closet. It’s a studio apartment,” MC says.

“It’s a storage closet,” Vanderwood says. “Oh, for fucksake—”

MC and Saeyoung aren’t officially dating yet, but Vanderwood still thinks Saeyoung would flip if he knew his not-girlfriend was staying in a storage closet. Aside from which, over the course of the Secret Endings, Saeyoung, MC, and Vanderwood became The Secret End Squad™, and that’s a bond not easily broken. So Vanderwood says, “Get your backpack and let’s go” and takes her back to his place. Yeah, that’s right: post-Secret Endings, MC is (at least for a time) roomies with Vanderwood.

#RoomieAdventures (and also #JobSearchAdventures because at this point they’re both unemployed lololol)

(Saeyoung’s reaction when he learns this is priceless, I’m sure.)

So yeah, all in all, the MC that I imagine for Saeyoung is someone who stands beside him, as his equal. Someone who respects his boundaries and does not push a relationship, but also someone who does push the notion that he should let someone help him, because she genuinely cares about and wants to help. She’s had a hard life, but that hard life has made it so that she can stand at his equal. Just as his hardships developed him, hers have developed her. She’s someone who can support him, as much as he supports her. She’s someone who wants to.

And ultimately, arrogant though it may sound, I think that an MC like this … is much better suited for him than the MC that Cheritz vaguely defined. But that’s just my opinion; everyone else’s mileage may vary.

#atnak16 #scrawlers chats with a mystic messenger #(not really but that's as good a tag as any) #mm MC #mcseven #(not so) fun fact: Saeyoung's agency is the reason why MC's call center went under #it was a paid hit #Saeyoung himself might have even been involved (but maybe not) #so whoops. sorry MC. #(it's ok. it all worked out in the end)

[illanabehir]

snow, woods, turnip, sweet

snow: what is your favorite time of year and why?

oof either spring or fall spring is nice and green but fall is full of all kinds of colors everywhere and much cooler

woods: where do you feel at peace?

either swimming at the bottom of the pool or driving aimlessly 

turnip: what is a food you could eat everyday?

fried rice all kinds of fried rice

sweet: what candies or cakes are you fond of?

i’m a fan of hard caramel

sorry i took so long to reply to this been working nonstop lately and haven’t had the energy to use my comp

thanks for asking

x

#atnak16 #illana answers

[luanna801]

I just want to thanks you for your DN Angel posts in particular, the Satodai ones. I don't even like DN Angel but the end of the series still leave me frustrated because I do care about Daisuke and Satoshi and their beautiful but fragile relationship. There's a lot of tragic doom in this pairing, but I am a happy ending person who want to believe in hope. Your posts really helped clear away my frustration and help me see hope in this pairing so really thank you for that.

Oh man, thanks so much! It really makes me happy to hear that. :-)

Personally I love D.N.Angel, even though I also acknowledge its flaws, and I think a big strength of the series is how much it does make you care about the characters. It’s probably pretty obvious that Satoshi and Daisuke are two I have particularly strong feelings about, and their relationship is one of my all-time favorites. (Heck, I even put them on my list of personal Top 10 ships!) So unsurprisingly, I like to ramble about them a whole lot, and it makes me extremely happy to know someone appreciates my rambling. :-P

I think the ending of the series frustrates a lot of us, because… well, it doesn’t end. It just stops on this dramatic cliffhanger, it’s been on hiatus forever, and we all have to face the reality that we may not ever get a proper ending. That’s a very frustrating thing to deal with, as a fan.

But, I think the silver lining there is… because the series doesn’t have a canon ending, you can imagine the ending as anything you want. I can imagine the characters going in one direction, and someone else might picture something entirely different, and neither of our versions is any more or less valid, because there’s no canon ending to contradict. Your imagination is the limit for where you want to imagine this story going. 

(Of course, even if there was a canon ending, people would be free to ignore it and imagine their own version! But I think there’s something nice about knowing you can make up whatever ending you want, and there’s no canon to say it couldn’t be the real one.)

Which is my lead-in to saying: If you want to imagine this story with a happy ending, it has a happy ending. Simple as that. There’s nothing to say whatever outcome you want to imagine for these characters couldn’t be what happens.

But taking this out of the realm of imagination and back to canon, for a minute… yeah, there’s a lot of tragedy when it comes to these two. But I also think the hope is right there in canon, maybe even more strongly. Because yes, they have huge struggles and huge obstacles to overcome, but they’re overcoming them. Even with the cards so incredibly stacked against them, neither of them is giving up, and I think there’s something incredibly inspiring about that. 

Even with all their struggles, I don’t think their relationship is fragile, honestly - I think it’s incredibly strong. Just look at all the obstacles their friendship has had to get through:

The fact that they exist on opposite sides of the law, and Satoshi’s job is literally to catch the thief who’s Daisuke’s alter-ego

The fact that Daisuke and his alter ego are specifically stealing artwork made by Satoshi’s family

The fact that there’s a centuries-long feud between their families, Satoshi has been raised to see Daisuke as his mortal enemy, and Daisuke’s family repeatedly tells him he should see Satoshi as the same.

The fact that Satoshi has a murderous, sadistic angel in his head who is released by his feelings for Daisuke, meaning he has to constantly worry about what might happen if he gets too close.

The fact that said murder-angel specifically wants to kill Daisuke and has tried doing so multiple times in canon, making Satoshi’s fears all the greater

By all logic, these two shouldn’t even be on speaking terms, let alone be close friends. And yet they are. There were so, so many huge roadblocks lying in the way of their relationship moving forward, and yet somehow they’ve managed to move past all of them and get to where they are. That’s not a fragile relationship - that’s an incredibly strong one, one that’s already shown it can power through incredible difficulties. I think that’s really a big theme of their relationship - “destiny” might say their story is supposed to go one way, but they write their own story. A story that’s already dramatically different from the story of any Niwa and Hikari before them. I think that’s, canonically, a reason to have a lot of hope. They’ve already started to rewrite the story laid out for them in so many ways, and they have no intention of stopping.

I think it’s such a big deal that Daisuke, who as he says here is someone who’s always felt incredibly powerless to change things and not in control of his own life, is consistently the one saying screw what destiny says, let’s try do do something about it. That he’s consistently the one saying things like “Our friendship will never be destroyed” and “I’ll make it work, no matter what.” That’s some incredible determination to create his own destiny, and getting there shows amazing character growth on Daisuke’s part. And I also think that it shows how incredibly important Satoshi is to him - regardless of what you ship, whether you see that importance as platonic or romantic. (Or both, since they are very much friends first and foremost.) He never stops fighting for their relationship, even when the odds against them seem so incredibly high.

And I’m emphasizing Daisuke’s side of things more here, but… they’ve both done so much to fight against the destinies laid out for them, both in their friendship and in other ways. Dark even comments on it being a similarity between them in the SHoT arc, and Satoshi’s journey in that regard is just as huge as Daisuke’s. He goes from believing he can never let anyone, least of all Daisuke, get close to him - and being terrified he’ll destroy Daisuke if he does - to openly calling Daisuke his friend, to admitting his friendship with Daisuke is “the one thing in this world that ever truly gave me joy.”

Satoshi, unlike Daisuke, was also (apparently) raised knowing about the Niwa/Hikari feud and being told to see any Niwa as his predestined enemy. And yet he’s able to not only move past that and befriend Daisuke, he makes Daisuke the most important relationship in his life, the person he’ll do pretty much anything to protect. Again, that shows some incredible character growth, and incredible relationship growth.

Neither of these two is going to passively sit back and let their story end in doomed tragedy just Because Destiny Says So. They’ve both proven that over and over - they’re fighters. They’re willing to fight for the things they believe in, for the happy ending they hope for, and, consistently, for each other. And yeah, there’s always the possibility that tragedy would still come despite their best efforts - but isn’t it more inspiring to let their story have an ending which shows that they do have the power to change things? That love and friendship and determination and selflessness are stronger than passive destiny?

I’m a happy person who wants to believe in hope too, and I think these characters believe in hope as well. It’s a struggle for both of them, of course - Daisuke has to overcome the feeling that he’s powerless and can’t control his own life, and Satoshi has to overcome the fear that his life can never be anything but cursed and tragic. But Daisuke also has an incredible ability to believe in hope and specifically to believe in their friendship, and you see that attitude rub off on Satoshi more and more as the story goes on. As much as he’s been raised to think his life is a hopeless one and nothing can ever change, Daisuke makes him start believing that there is goodness in the world, and that things can be better. 

So yeah, I think the hope in this pairing is very much there, and I’m glad I could help you see it too! I hope you keep enjoying my posts, and thanks so much for sending along this message. :-)

BTW, if you enjoy my D.N.Angel/SatoDai posts, I definitely recommend checking out my friend @we-wont-be-destroyed‘s blog! She’s someone who has a lot of the same thoughts on this series and these two that I do, and I think you’d definitely enjoy her posts about them. :-)

#replies #atnak16 #d.n.angel #daisuke niwa #satoshi hiwatari #satoshi hikari #daisuke and satoshi #otp #rambling #analysis #character analysis #romance #friendship #love

[xyliane]

@atnak16 reblogged your post Hit Me With Your Best Shot and added:

I like how all the little character details line up with this AU, the actions scenes feel smooth and you got into Gon’s head so well I feel like jumping around all happy and smiley ^u^

:D thanks!!! the fighting was what I was most worried about--I haven’t written action in ages, and definitely not staff sparring. (so I watched a bajillion wuxia staff combat videos on youtube and the sparring scene in pacrim five times and hoped for the best). 

#talk tag #replies have returned from the war #thank you xkit you beautiful beautiful people #staff sparring is weird #combat writing is haaaard but it's easier when it's guns or fists #atnak16

[kazliin]

Is it terrible of me that I have been waiting for an Icarus methaphor ever since Yuuri consider himself a planet in Victor's orbit? I am 1000% ready for Victor's sappy angst of how he couldn't stay away!

Yuuri keeps calling Viktor a ‘star’ and Viktor’s nickname for Yuuri is ‘solnyshko’ which means ‘sun’ and so the Icarus thing was going to have to happen sooner or later!

#replies #of bright stars and burning hearts #atnak16

[daylighteclipsed]

@atnak16 I mean, yeah….

But even his “fairytale” universe is not black and white — if basically every game post-KH1, the UX/prequel era, and Riku’s entire character arc are anything to go by lol… That’s just the worldview Sora is clinging to, which is rapidly working out for him less and less.

The idea behind Sora being sent to “reality” is probably that reality and fantasy are not that different… They’re mirrors. They reflect each other. The same concepts exist, they just manifest in different ways. (And one person’s reality is another person’s unreality, so who’s to say what’s “real,” blah, blah…)

Point is, Sora absolutely can learn this lesson in his own universe. We’ve watched other characters (Aqua, Ventus, Mickey, Riku, etc.) do it. He’s seen plenty of proof that there is nuance in his own universe. It has practically been said to his face… He’s just stubborn and under a lot of pressure and (understandably) scared. It’s complicated.

#it’s interesting bc it’s fitting for sora as a 14 yr old hopping from fairytale world to fairytale world to initially have that #black&white moral view of the world. and in kh1 it works out in his favor. he benefits from embracing the light and battling the darkness #and it’s not easy but a simpler story. it seems obvious what’s right and what’s wrong #in CoM things start to get a little more complicated. namine does awful things for sympathetic reasons. #the more sora follows his heart — or at least what feels right instead of questioning what’s going on and why he feels like #something is right — the more it gets him into trouble. the more he loses himself #then in kh2 things get more complicated. sora has to deal with the repercussions of stabbing himself and then forgetting castle oblivion #and his black&white morals don’t jive as well w the story this time around bc the nobodies are sympathetic #and diz/ansem the wise — someone ‘good’ — is completely wrong about them #are they doing good things? no but they are people with sympathetic reasons that sora never stops to consider #it’s less heroes vs monsters and more hurt people vs hurt people #ddd is cruel about drilling this into sora’s head and he still only half accepts it #with each game the world becomes messier and messier. and sora’s refusal to engage w that reality becomes more immature #and a hindrance where it once benefitted

[depresanesfreetime]

Meanwhile, in Thailand,

#pillars of eternity #Aloth Corfiser #Pallegina mes Rèi #Sagani #screenshot #spoilerless pillars of eternity #oc: Solentsiya of the Ixamitl Plains #oc: Maredafeg of the White that Wends #oc: Wibezoh of the Living Lands #also - eww - yes the characters DO drink the war paint x.x #atnak16

[harocat]

I'm so grateful to your text post about canon or au interpretations of Yuuri as anything but a good person. Personally I don't mind the dark!fic au since those already work as an ooc warning tag, but the 'canon' fics that truly believe that Yuuri would cheat and lie in order to trap Victor to stay with him need to die. After ep.11 how could anyone think Yuuri would do that? So yeah, your text post help me heal from reading something that horrific.

Thanks! The way that people misread Yuuri’s character really is something else. Yes Yuuri can come across cold to an outsider, but people’s inability to understand that this is entirely because of his anxiety issues and lack of self-esteem and not because of any lack of caring or kindness (this boy is full of SO MUCH love) just blows my mind. Yuuri is a complex character, but he is such a good person!! That people would portray this kind, brave, and if anything, too selfless man as something but that because they can’t be arsed to understand his mental illness at all is just so sad to me. 

Victor goes on at the end of episode ten about how Yuuri’s life and love have impacted and changed multiple people around him, NOT just him. This is a man that, just by existing and being himself, has done that. 

I’m not even okay with dark fic AU to be honest. I don’t see the appeal of it because it’s like, it... ceases being the character at all when Yuuri (or Victor) act in such an OOC manner? At that point I feel like I’m  just reading an original fic with the character names inserted in. And YOI is such a beautiful, optimistic show. IDK it makes me uncomfortable. 

I’m not going to start a fandom crusade against it  because it’s not my preference (though I have explained in a brief manner why I’m uncomfortable with the mafia au concept in specific), but for me personally, it’s not something I’m ever going to be comfortable seeing or reading.  

#atnak16 #haro talks

[fireolin]

Fic writing ask - 6, 10, 13, 14

Thanks heaps, atnak16! I enjoyed thinking about these…

6. Idea that you always wanted to write but could never make work?

I’ve answered this here. And as well as that answer, I’d love to be able to write comedy. I sometimes come up with situations I think are funny, but to make them actually work as comedy isn’t something I’ve been able to manage at will. There are funny moments in my writing sometimes, but they’re more inspiration on the spot than deliberate choice. So I’d love to be able to add that to my range.

10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you've written.

I’ve answered this one, too, here. It’s really hard to pick a favourite, but I love any time my characters are talking about more than just what they’re saying on the surface!

13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don't actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)

Usually, I have some idea of where my stories are going, but lots of details change as I write. Most big plot points stay. In fic I’ve published, I can’t really remember those changes. But, the one I’m publishing now, The Sea Torn Hearts, I changed something pretty significant that Nanika was going to do so that Killua ended up doing something that had the same effect, because I felt Killua needed more agency. (I don’t want to spoil it by saying what.) And in another unpublished chapter, Gon and Killua originally kissed. When I revised, that didn’t feel like enough. They ended up having sex, and comparing the two scenes, that expressed their emotions and the stakes far more, and was much better for the story.

14. Would you want to write canon for any of your fandoms (like be hired by showrunner to do an episode)? Which one?

I’d be terrified! I think I’d stuff it up! I’d be too kind to my faves. Hehehe, but if I could write even a Killugon reunion hug into canon it would be worth that terror. I would write Killua and Gon going on a new adventure when they’re a few years older, and I’d echo the scene in the CA arc where Killua rides on the same horse behind Gon. But this time, I’d have Killua’s arms around him. And Killua would be smiling, though Gon can’t see. Gon would be blushing and making sure he took the longer route to wherever they’re going to end up. And wherever they end up, they’d be sharing their blankets. I’d write it so things would gradually become a lot cosier as they travelled.Thanks again for asking! I really loved thinking about that last question especially :DWriting Ask Meme

#so good of you to send this! #atnak16

[perfectlynoisygentlemen]

17th Century Women’s Undergarments

17th Century Women's Underwear

nwprep liked this

starryeols reblogged this from starfieldcanvas

szarota liked this

dava85 liked this

fairie-grl liked this

i-know-my-own-value reblogged this from marzipanandminutiae

i-know-my-own-value liked this

denmer-iseit liked this

addahcat liked this

kyrie-ruth liked this

wheel-of-fates reblogged this from nebluus

wheel-of-fates liked this

crossstitchersimmermum liked this

under-bethanphetamine reblogged this from historicalcostumeandfasion

magickmae liked this

oh-oh-cheri reblogged this from my18thcenturysource

suzybr00tal liked this

justhereforthesatan liked this

luxtoony liked this

atnak16 reblogged this from fireolin

atnak16 liked this

kahlie-poe reblogged this from wraithwitch

gustaw123 liked this

forever-graphically-frozen reblogged this from sincerelymlg

friday-ocean liked this

sincerelymlg reblogged this from my18thcenturysource

justthatwitch reblogged this from revolutionarytea

adept-ex liked this

muraae reblogged this from my18thcenturysource

dohaeries liked this

totallybattywitch liked this

stardustedhearts liked this

sophisticatedaustenite liked this

lucieischilling liked this

phocion-moved liked this

h-cand reblogged this from luciesahistorynerd

h-cand liked this

mvve-de liked this

laere liked this

reiartie liked this

luciesahistorynerd reblogged this from revolutionarytea

artfulvoyage liked this

fictionalfangirls liked this

katrinaftw44 liked this

my18thcenturysource posted this

17th Century Women's Underwear

Later, with the French Revolution and afterwards, women started to wear long-legged underpants to shield themselves under diaphanous dresses, but it took decades for such pants-like underwear to gain wide acceptance among the upper classes and even longer among the common people. PANTALETS WITH OPEN CROTCH. Crotchless panties are not a new thing—they're just a salacious. Among these textiles were items of underwear dating to the late 15th century. References and images of women's underclothing are scanty at best, with it generally being thought that women wore nothing at all under their dresses other than the chemise or smock which was made of plain, white linen. Panniers or side hoops are women's undergarments worn in the 17th and 18th centuries to extend the width of the skirts at the side while leaving the front and back relatively flat. This provided a panel where woven patterns, elaborate decorations and rich embroidery could be displayed and fully appreciated.

17th Century Women's Undergarments

[xhusu]

Get to know me better tag!!

I was tagged by @celestial-nova

Rule: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better

top 3 ships: mh, let’s say jerza, creek and killugon? kawoshin too tho

lipstick or chapstick: neither

last song i listened to: Envole Moi by Jean-Jacque Goldman

last film i watched: the Help! it was beautiful, i almost cried

currently reading: uhh... i should read tons of things for uni, yet i’m not reading anything

what show(s) you are watching currently: Unbelievable, I am not okay with this (not sure if I’m going to continue)... Thing is, I prefer not starting a serie/show due to uni. I know that if I do, I’m not going to focus on my studies... I prefer films :)

I’m tagging @huzahhhhhhh @clickthebelleicon @atnak16 @j0nah98 @noxybloo @8bitbear @defending-mysoul-andthe-faith @jerza-fangirl @ravenshadow17

#since you guys are in my notes #not that i complain you all seem nice :) #tbh i'd like to know you #so there we go #rifjeigf