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i-just-love-spop · 4 years

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8, 40, 48 and 78 for Scorfuma kids, please? :D sorry if it's too much tho :( (I love your oc's they're so cute 😔💖)

@leiazh Awww, thank you for loving my characters so much, that you do makes me so happy 😢💖

And it’s fine, always feel free to ask as many questions about them as you want, I had a lot of fun answering this one, so thank you! Just... be warned that the answer might take a while and also possibly be... really long 😅🤣

This whole thing is about 4.2k words long... whoops.

I answered the questions in order, the kids are sorted from oldest to youngest for each question (except for the twins who are the same age, nobody really knows who‘s older since they were born via c-section and their parents either didn’t ask or at least didn’t tell them [the kids don’t know which one of these is true], although Kohana does insist she’s the older twin).

I also didn’t include Frosta as a character in the ask for this one despite her being the oldest Scorfuma-kid, since she’s not my character and most of these questions wouldn’t have made much sense to answer for her anyway, since they get answered in the show, so it’s just the five kids that are actually my own characters.

Frosta does show up in some of the answers, though, obviously, along with Scorpia and Perfuma.

Also, please don’t take the way I sorted the “good” and “bad” traits too seriously – some of these would definitely be considered good or bad by most people, but other things like shyness aren’t really good or bad, they just can make your life more difficult in certain situations (which I say as a shy person) and I had to sort them into one of the categories somehow so I could include them at all.

I hope you have fun reading!

8. What are their good and bad traits?

Clover

Good traits

He tries to help his moms any way he can, both around the house and in the garden, and will do so without being asked to do it. He’s a very caring older brother that will gladly get up in the middle of the night if one of his younger siblings is upset and needs him, and he’ll also stay up late and read them to sleep when their moms are preoccupied. He’s really good at cooking and often does it for the whole family, and he’s also very creative and makes really beautiful flower arrangements. He rarely has any trouble focusing on what’s important, and he’s very enthusiastic about the things he loves, so much that it’s infectious.

Bad traits

He has trouble dealing with some of his insecurities and will lash out at others when he doesn’t know how else to handle them. He also worried about being a bother to other people when he’s upset and will often keep quiet about what’s making him sad or angry or scared rather than opening up about his emotions. He often comes off as cold to people that don’t know him very well because of this.

He also has a bit of an attitude around people he doesn’t like.

Thorn

Good traits

She always tries to take care of her friends and family and, if possible, keep them out of trouble, and she’d never say no if someone needs her help. For most people, it’s really hard to dislike her because she’s always friendly and polite and cares a lot about others, always tries to give the best advice she can and brings fresh food from the family garden everywhere. She’s really outgoing and has a relatively large friend group because of that.

Bad traits

She’s kind of naive, to a point where her desire to help others lands her in trouble every now and again because she ends up being exploited in one way or another – she doesn’t have a very good judge of character, and because of this, she has “friends” that just befriend her because she’s the crown princess, and she’s so excited to be making new friends that she doesn’t question their intentions very often, especially when she’s still a child.

It’s especially bad with a person she meets when she’s about ten, who she likes a lot, but who her parents are always kind of wary around – whenever that particular kid shows up around their house, things start disappearing, especially Thorn’s favorite toys.They eventually ask her about it, and she just says that her friend liked them so much that she gave them to the other kid, but the way she says it makes it pretty clear that she’s actually really unhappy about it and really misses her toys.

She’s actually kind of like Adora to a certain degree – she doesn’t take her own happiness into account that much and rather makes sure everyone else is happy first... but her family and her real friends always have her back and make sure she’s also having fun and feeling happy. Messing with her is not a very good idea, and if only for the relatively large Thorn-protect-squad.

Willow

Good traits

They’re really smart and pretty patient when it comes to learning new things, and they like trying out stuff they’ve never done before.

When it comes to their friends and loved ones, they show affection openly and often and even get pretty bubbly despite usually being so shy.

They’re also a really good listener and don’t back down when it comes to speaking up against someone who’s being mean to other people – they’re also extremely loyal. Their friend group isn’t huge, but if they befriend someone and that person makes them happy, they’ll go to the ends of the world for them, are extremely supportive of their goals and help them achieve them if they can.

Bad traits

They’re a... bit forgetful when it comes to certain stuff – especially things like watering plants, but also where they last put their things – including the tracker pad that’s literally in their hands when they start looking for it. They probably have the tidiest room in the entire house, and they still never freaking find anything.

They’re also really shy, so they don’t make friends very easily, and they also take criticism very personal despite not openly showing it a lot of times because they’re too embarrassed to – when someone tells them they think Willow is annoying or weird, they’re just going to keep quiet about it and then crawl into bed to cry when they get back home. They’re confident when it comes to protecting others, but they’re also really insecure when it comes to being criticized themselves.

If they’re genuinely hurt by someone, they can’t just laugh it off two days later... they take a long time to forgive others, especially if it’s people that know what they’re insecure about and still push their buttons anyway.

Aster

Good traits

He cares a lot about his family, and always knows how to cheer his siblings and especially his twin up when they’re upset. He’s also not afraid to make mistakes and doesn’t get very nervous about giving a wrong answer when he’s asked things because for him, wrong answers only mean that you learn new things you didn’t know before. If he’s good at something that his friends can’t do, he often offers to teach them and would never brag about it. He’s also really good at playing the drums.

Bad traits

He’s extremely chaotic and can also get pretty loud. He also likes fighting – sometimes it’s just friendly wrestling with his sister, and that’s fine, but they might end up breaking some stuff when they wrestle, and after he connects to the Heart Blossom, he often underestimates his powers or uses them accidentally, which results in both huge chaos and often at least smaller injuries. After he learns to control his powers better, the number of injuries decreases, but the chaos remains, especially when he and Kohana start deliberate making their powers a part of their friendly but heated competitions. They once tore half of Catradora’s living room apart on semi-accident – Finn was very excited. He’s also not good at listening when people tell him what to do – his parents sometimes get through to him, and Frosta often does, but most people out of his family don’t.

Kohana

Good traits

She’s open-minded, more likely to listen to others than her brother is, and she has a pretty healthy sense of humor. She’s also the best fighter out of all the kids – she’s been taking lessons from Frosta, Lonnie and Catra respectively since she was about ten. She’s courageous and creative and if she’s certain someone’s apology is sincere, she’s pretty forgiving, even to people who have hurt her in the past and maybe don’t deserve it. She’s also trustworthy – if you tell her a secret, she’s going to take it to her grave. She also always takes her time to pick out heartfelt birthday gifts for the people she loves because while she’s not that good with words, she still likes finding ways to make their day.

Bad traits

She’s really, really impatient and gets bored and frustrated easily – if she doesn’t manage to succeed at something during the first or at least second attempt, she just gives up frustratedly and goes on to punch something to let out her frustration. She also gets jealous really easily, especially if people learn the things she can’t do really quickly.

Like her twin brother, she’s really into fighting for fun, and she also doesn’t really learn how to pick her fights for a while. Since she’s connected to the Black Garnet rather than the Heart Blossom, she also causes destruction way more easily than Aster does. She’s also more scary than her brother if she wants to be – think chipped-Scorpia level scary.

40. If I wanted to draw them, what would be distinct physical features that I would have to know to draw them correctly?

Clover

He has yellow skin, short teal hair that’s a bit curly, pink eyes, cyan wings – the left one is torn slightly at about 3/4 of the wing which is why that one is harder to move for him – and regular elven ears that are his skin color yellow outside and a darker yellow inside.

He’s the shortest Scorfuma-child except for Frosta, about one head shorter than Willow.

Also technically not a physical feature, but he rarely ever wears formfitting clothes.

Thorn

I posted a princess maker pic of her a while back (along with pics of some of my other next gen kids), but most distinctive physical features would be: Short curly white hair (about chin-length) with flowers in it, a red scorpion tail – which is actually her only Scorpioni-trait –, dark brown eyes and Perfuma’s skin-tone.

As an adult, she’s actually the second tallest of the kids, about as tall as Scorpia.

She’s the one that’s based off of Rae’s Scorfuma-child.

Willow

I also posted a princess maker pic of them when I made their bullet point list, but most distinctive physical features would be:

They have dark skin and dark brown eyes, freckles, curly black hair that almost reaches their shoulders, and their Scorpioni parts are black rather than red like Scorpia’s. They’re kind of short as a kid, but pretty tall as an adult – not quite as tall as Scorpia, but almost that tall, and also at least somewhat buff.

Also, I know this isn’t a physical feature, but they always walk around with that little flower trinket in their chest – Sagi has a similar one. He found it in a box when he was little and when Willow saw him with it, they promptly decided they wanted the same one, so their parents got them the same one. Neither Willow nor Sagi take them off very often, they actually still wear them well into adulthood.

Aster

He has freckles, dark brown eyes and extremely short white hair which you can see would probably be a lot more curly should he choose to grow it out. His skin-tone is somewhere in between Scorpia’s and Perfuma’s. He also has some red Scorpioni-features – the shoulders, the tail and the waist-parts.

He’s shorter than his twin sister Kohana for most of their childhood, but eventually outgrows her by about five inches when they‘re in their teens.

He’s also the only one of the kids that actually ends up being taller than Scorpia when he’s fully grown.

Kohana

She has dark brown eyes, Scorpia’s skin-tone and freckles, also long straight blond hair that she usually grows out to about waist-length and then wears in really any kind of plait, but most often a ponytail, but she cuts it off almost completely on a couple of different occasions throughout her life, mostly because it sometimes if it gets in her way or on her nerves all of a sudden.

She has pincers, as well as the knee and waist-Scorpioni-features.

She also has her ears pierced and likes wearing different kinds of colorful earrings from a pretty early age on, often even mismatching ones.

She’s relatively tall, give or take about as tall as Willow, maybe slightly taller, which makes her almost as tall as Scorpia.

And, again not a physical feature, but she also has either flowers or grass or both either on her clothes or in her hair at all possible times, varying from stuff like flower crowns and actual jewelry to just a grassy reminder on her shirt that she had another wrestling match with Aster in the garden.

48. What does their room look like?

Clover

His room is pretty tidy for the most part.

He has shelves filled with astronomy, gardening and cooking books that his siblings often lend and that are then never returned to him again – except for the cooking books because he’s made it very clear that he can’t cook as well as he usually does without them when too many of them disappeared that one time.

He also has a bunch of different CDs because he’s really into music – he can’t play any, but he really likes listening to it –, and he also has a couple really terrible old movies that he likes to make fun of with his parents and siblings, especially if one of them is having a bad day, as well as some children’s books that he often read to Willow and the twins when they were little and then kept because of the good memories.

He has a photo album where he keeps pictures of all his loved ones that he always keeps somewhere close to his bed, and an old baby blanket that he brought from the orphanage, which was the only memento he actually wanted to keep when it became clear that Scorpia and Perfuma would stay his moms for the rest of his life.

Thorn

Her room is very flowery, different potted plants standing on most of her wooden furniture as well as embroidered flowers on her white curtains.

The room is kind of tidy, but there’s a lot of notebooks and pens scattered all over it – she started keeping a diary pretty much since she first learned how to write, and she keeps all of them so she can look at her memories whenever she wants. When she’s a teen, she also picks up a habit of writing – sometimes stories, but more often, poems, which she keeps locked up in a treasure chest because she’s too shy to show them to anyone.

There’s a bunch of different genre novels on her shelf – she’s mostly into RomComs, stories about friendship and horror –, she also has a bright pink meditation mat that’s always lying on the floor in front of her bed for when she needs to relax, along with a tea set that her parents gifted her.

She also has a secret stash of sweets to make herself feel better whenever she’s upset that she keeps in a jewelry case with a false bottom in a drawer in her bedside table.

Willow

They have a bunch of cacti in their room, because they’re the only plant that Willow can actually have that they don’t accidentally end up killing after, like, a week of constantly forgetting to water them. Most of them are on their window sill. Their room is probably the tidiest in the entire house, including their parents’ bedroom. They have a calendar over their bed, a bunch of fluffy pillows and a mint-green blanket on their relatively large bed. They’re also the one that got to keep Scorpia’s little scorpion plushie – Frosta had it for a while after she was adopted, then Thorn until Scorpia and Perfuma adopted Clover, and then Willow got it. The twins each got their own separate plushie, so Willow ended up keeping this one, and it’s been sitting on top of their science book shelf since they turned twelve.

There’s a fluffy colorful carpet on the floor, and some equally colorful curtains to fit the picture, and a really bright nightlight on their bedside table that they‘re allowed to leave on day an night if they want to.

Willow also always has their swim gear somewhere in reach, which is probably the only thing in the room that they never end up searching for.

There’s also a bunch of different photos all around their room – family photos, and of their friends, mostly photos of Willow and Sagi and also some of them with Angie.

Aster and Kohana

They share a room for most of their childhood, so I’m going to do them together.

The fact that they share a room is mostly because it was just easier that way when they were little – they were offered to get separate rooms when they grew older, but they didn’t want to, and only actually end up getting separate rooms when they’re around fifteen years old.

These two are chaos incarnate, and so is their room. There’s books and toys all over the place, but despite that, both of them always know where everything is, surprisingly – and if one of them asks the other to hand them something, the other does it immediately without ever searching before. Their parents sometimes joke about how that’s their real magic skill rather than their connection to the Runestones.

There’s also a sword somewhere amidst the chaos that’s hopefully but probably not a toy that Frosta got them for one of their birthdays, as well as Aster’s ice skates and aways at least one canvas that Kohana starts painting on and then gives up on at least three times a week until she’s eventually satisfied and it gets hung up on the wall in the hallway or the dining room. Because of this, there’s also tons of art supplies scattered everywhere, and a huge red stain on the otherwise light brown carpet where she accidentally knocked over a cup of paint, tried to clean it up and just made everything worse. They sometimes joke about how someone that got on their nerves was murdered there.

There’s also a bunch of pictures on their wall.

They’re often just standing in the middle of their mess, painting and drumming, respectively.

78. If they had a nightmare, who would they run to?

Honestly, that really depends on who’s around in the scenario with most of them, but I’m just going to go with “if they could pick literally anyone”.

Clover

Perfuma, that’s not even a question. He’s thirteen when he’s adopted, so it’s not the kind of “mommy there’s a monster under my bed”-nightmares, but he does have some bad dreams about more serious topics – he doesn’t remember much about his biological parents, but sometimes he hears shouting at the back of his mind when he closes his eyes and wonders if it’s them, and sometimes he has dreams about being back at the orphanage with that one kid that bullied him.

He then knocks at his mothers’ bedroom door softly, enters and wakes Perfuma – she told him very early on that she doesn’t care how late it is, he’s always allowed to wake her or Scorpia if he needs them –, and when he wakes her up, the first time she does is leave the room with him to talk to him alone for a moment. She always asks if he wants her to wake up her other mom as well, and sometimes he does because sometimes the only thing he needs is to cuddle with his moms on the couch in peace until he calms down...

But especially shortly after the adoption, he don’t want to feel like a burden to his new adoptive parents, and it’s worse enough that he’s annoying one of them – he’s pretty afraid they’re just going to decide they don’t want him after all if he turns out to be too difficult of a child, because he has friends and acquaintances that were adopted and eventually cane back to the orphanage because the adoption didn’t work out –, and despite Scorpia being the softest, friendliest person he has ever met, he’s also kind of intimidated by her at first because she’s so tall and buff and he is a really short forest elf, which is why it’s a little easier for him to talk to just Perfuma about his nightmares at first. ...and he also gets a little overwhelmed with multiple people questioning why he’s feeling bad sometimes, even if they mean well, so sometimes one person works better for him.

Scorpia sometimes feels insecure about this, but really, she just wants her kid to be happy, and if her wife can help him more than she can, that’s fine, and she’s obviously not going to blame him for it or make him feel bad about it.

Perfuma always makes him tea if he wants one, and then they’ll just cuddle under a blanket on the couch, and if he wants to talk, she’s going to let him talk, but she’s also not going to force him to speak to her about things he’s not ready to talk about. Sometimes, she tells him stories from her childhood to show him he isn’t alone with at least some of his fears, but of course only if he wants her to. Sometimes she’ll just take him outside into the garden so he can get some fresh air and lay down in the grass to look up into the sky and at the stars – he’s really into astronomy, and if he can’t talk about what’s bothering him, telling her stories about different constellations always calms him down and makes him feel better, so she will gladly listen to that for several hours if that’s what he needs.

...that, and also sometimes he just needs to hear that mom will kick someone’s ass with flowers if they bother him again.

Clover and Perfuma grow really close pretty quickly if you couldn’t tell.

Thorn

When Thorn has a nightmares, she usually just wakes both of her moms when she’s little – this changes a bit as she grows older and realizes there’s different kinds of help she needs depending on how upset she is and what kind of nightmare she had. Sometimes meditating with Perfuma helps her calm down and feel better, sometimes she just need Scorpia’s hugs and some hot cocoa – but honestly, this can be applied to most situations when she’s upset, not necessarily just nightmares.

Sometimes, also just she really needs someone to talk to, and, depending on the topic, it’s easier to just talk to one of them instead of both because she knows which one of her moms will understand her fears better, but sometimes she also just needs both of them.

She rarely ever goes back to her own bed after a nightmare and instead just climbs into bed with her parents.

Sometimes, when they stay over at Bright Moon, she also goes to cuddle with Arrow when she’s scared because Arrow glows and that calms her down – and also, Arrow will absolutely stage a kitchen robbery for some sweets in the middle of the night just to cheer her up.

Willow

They connect with Scorpia very well very quickly, so usually it’s Scorpia that they run to after a nightmare for some late-night cuddling and the best, most beautiful singing in the world to put them back to sleep.

Willow rarely ever has any nightmares that they can put into words – they wake up terrified and shaking, but without an actual memory of what they’re so afraid of, so there’s usually not a lot of talking involved. Scorpia usually makes them some tea, then sings to them and leaves the lights on when her child falls back asleep so that they’re not as scared anymore when they wake up again. After particularly bad nightmares when Willow doesn’t want to sleep again at all, Scorpia usually just puts on a movie or two until eventually, their tiredness catches up to them and then Scorpia sleeps on the couch with her kid sleeping on her chest.

They also often wake up Thorn who allows them to sleep in her bed and then reads to Willow until they fall asleep. When it’s especially bad, she hands out some of her precious emergency candy to make them feel better.

Aster and Kohana

Since Aster and Kohana share a room, the first person they usually wake is each other – sometimes deliberately, and sometimes accidentally, either by waking up screaming or by turning on the light.

After that, who they run to depends which one of them had the nightmare – if possible, they both like to wake Frosta who will definitely beat up any possible monster under their beds.

Other than that, Aster usually wakes Clover who takes their minds off things by either going downstate with them for a midnight snack that they prepare together, or by reading funny stories to them where the hero always wins and defeats the bad guys – he then convinces them that the stories about the good guys winning are way too scary for any possible monsters in their room and that they’ve long fled by the time the story ends, but also offers to read another one, then another and another of they’re not completely convinced. This goes on until they fall asleep, and sometimes Clover doesn’t even make it back to bed and just falls asleep in a chair in between their beds while he’s reading.

Kohana on the other hand usually wakes Scorpia, especially after she’s learned to control her magic more, so her mom can help her practice her magic outside to take her mind off things and help her feel stronger. Aster often joins in on the training as well, and then they end up being so exhausted that not only do they fall back asleep when Scorpia puts them back to bed afterwards and sings them to sleep, but they also sleep in in the morning – which rarely ever happens to any of the kids, but especially not to those two with their seemingly endless amount of energy.

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Here are the questions again if anyone wants to ask anything else.

#scorfuma #scorpia #perfuma #spop #she-ra #scorfuma kids #she ra #she-ra oc #my ocs #spop Clover #spop Thorn #spop Willow #spop Aster #spop Kohana #answered #spop next gen

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askmymylittleponyocs · 4 years

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Update: Sprucing up the tumblr blog with better navigation tags.

I got a new code for this tumblr blog and since I have alot of ocs , i decided to make a page into the blog as a “My MLP OC List” so that way if i have no room to get every MLP OC along with my Next Gen characters as well, it’ll be all in there.

Thankfully for this blog design theres 4 Navigation sections with 4 link buttons, one of the 4 will have thats Next Gen focused. I am working on my Next gens, just lately for the past 3-4 years its been very slow going but i feel its cause of mix of depression, and dealing with a shitty toxic friend that i wish i never was friends with to begin with. so me and my friends wouldnt have to deal with their pathetic toxic attitude and actions they have done.whats done is done though.

I am planning to do fan art of MLP as well, even though G4 is over but it only is over if you let it be over. know what im saying? MLP has been apart of my life since i was a kid, 8 year old me was introduced to MLP Gen 3 and my dad introduced me to the first MLP animation episodes of Gen 1. it only made me love the MLP series as a whole even more.

MLP will never die nor will i ever tire from the franchise and the shows. i will love it all to pieces and will never let it go. I am sad that my ponysonas have changed over a while from one pony to another and another and another...but i feel its because i was struggling so badly at what would my ponysona be.

this is coming from me who hates herself to a big degree, and i am trying to find myself. i did manage to FINALLY settle on one oc i designed completely which is now my forever main ponysona Rainbow doodledrops.

I do have a fanfiction idea that she’ll be a focus in that the mane 6 ends up being involved and I really do hope it goes well, because i plan to make a comic of it one day. Im no professional writer but- hopefully it’ll go well. i may need some help of proof reading. hopefully i get some help with it.

I do have another fanfiction idea which for the Next Gens. alot of people have named their Next gens like pandoraverse and much more. Im not sure what the name should be but maybe harmony verse or something. theres probably so many next gen names im not even sure which isnt even taken. maybe do harmony rain or something. if anyone has any ideas you guys can let me know. ;w;

thought i update you guys on this. plus looking at the ask arts ive done as responses god THE ART IS BAD. BLEH. especially with rose/sweet delight. yeah thats a huge ass confusion and im so sorry XD im still working with it. i do have a interesting story with sweet delight and rose which will be a fanfiction in itself which we journey together with sweet to find out the mysteries behind her and rose. especially why is rose even in sweets body to begin with.

I also have been updating most of my ocs designs up and hopefully you guys will like it. right now just sprucing up the tumblr blogs profile down and get everything set up. i’ll show you guys the blog once its finished :3

All the asks i havent answered THOSE WILL BE ANSWERED I PROMISE. I havent touched them- nor deleted them. i planned on responding them for sure. im so sorry for the wait and i thank you guys for your patience. i wanted to at least give you guys good quality stuff here. ^^

#update #update blog #My Little Pony #ask blog #mlp ask blog

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punkinroses · 5 years

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B, L, M, N, S, T for the fanfic ask game

FanFic Ask Game

Thank you so much for the questions!

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?

So I think a lot more of my more original projects do, more so than my fanfics. Like there might be a couple things I think I’ll end up drawing from, mostly because I think there’s a lot of raw stuff to draw from when you look from experiences of yourself and the world around you. But mostly it’s more or less that the projects my friends and I are making to be part of our production company really, really draw from a lot of my own inner things, especially one I’ve been wanting to write for the last year or so.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

I feel like it kind of depends. I also tend to write everything in chunks, and take breaks, rather than just sit down and crank everything out. When I go in to write another chunk, I’ll kinda just look over what I have written before, sometimes read it out loud (especially to Nat) and then edit where things need to be fixed. So, typically, it just depends on how many chunks I end up writing before posting something.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

There’s been a few. There’s a couple YuGiOh fics I wanna write, one about an OC. There’s some ideas I’ve had to explore like what life would be like for Noah if he was able to escape the VR world, things about Mai’s life and her trying to rebuild herself and new ideas about her backstory (including a half sister she tries to reconnect with who has a young daughter, and then that sister encourages her to finally go after Joey, meanwhile she meets a certain former DOMA member...it’s something I’ve been cooking up for a while), about Yugi and the others and life after DSOD...more explanations about what the actual FUCK was up with the Plana and that fucking 8th Millennium Item HELLO TAKAHASHI--

With BNHA, Nana’s story isn’t the only one I’m writing. I’m planning on writing and have gotten pieces written of the prequel story focusing on Allison and Toshi’s college days and their backstories, but will probably post that after a certain point in the story arc. There’s one I wanna do that’s Aizawa centric and him also getting a family bc GODDAMNIT LET THAT MAN BE A HUSBAND AND A FATHER P L EA SE. And possibly one about a villain OC that I feature that basically her Quirk turns her into a big fuck you demon.

I actually just had an idea I shared with my friend Kyler about how I think the anime should handle Galar now that Ash finally got his championship and we’ve been debating if the show would focus on him now or nah, and I think I have a really good idea in the works. Also maybe something focusing on the Mystery Dungeon ideas.

Digimon’s another one that I’ve been thinking about a lot more lately. I have an idea that was kinda fueled by things happening in my life right now (more or less frustration with something and that lead to me thinking up some things that would be cool).

Uhhhh what else what else...shit y’all I have a ton. All in the DC, SU, FE3H, hell Scooby Doo -- just all sorts of shit, guys!

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

...all of my fics because I’m lazy.

(Though, for real, there is one that I’m wanting to see p bad and that’s like if Spinnel would have been part of the Crystal Gems. I think that would be a really interesting story. If anyone’s got links, p l e a s e hit me up.)

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

IDK if it’s a trope, but if anyone has Ghost Hunting AUs, hit me up, I live for that shit. I just found out Did You Just Punch Out Cthulu is a tv trope, and I want more fics like that. Please. That’s my new favorite trope of all time.

I’m a sucker for fake dating aus idk why. And like any future fics/next gen stuff bc I think it’s fascinating how people think different characters would grow up and what their kids would be like. Mostly I just like...read whatever looks like it catches my eye? I’m not really like picky picky and I can’t resist most things okay.

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

There’s like....none that I can’t stand, unless you go back to 2000s fanfiction where we all hated girl characters for getting in the way of our yaoi ships. We all did it. I’m tired and frustrated. It was a trope it just. Was everywhere.

Honestly the one that I don’t really like...get. Or really enjoy all that much ,even though they’re everywhere, is coffee shop aus. Not really my cup of tea. I like that they can be like full of variety and stuff but. Eh?

#ffs kenzie #my writing #Anonymous

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gffa · 6 years

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One of the best things about STAR WARS fic is that there’s almost always something for someone, whether you want something plotty or more time travel, whether you want to cry about how sad Leia Organa’s life is or revel in how strong she is despite it all, whether you want to dive all the way back to the prequels or if you’re here for the sequels, whether you’re here for the big name characters or the more minor characters that fandom will try to flesh out, there’s going to be something that appeals. It’s one of the reasons I’ve stayed as long as I have, because something will appeal, no matter my mood! Sometimes I want something more hopeful, sometimes I want something that will break my heart, sometimes I’m tired of one era or just more hyped for another. I appreciate that fic helps further the world of the Saga, beyond just the story of Anakin Skywalker! I appreciate that sometimes it still really, really is about him! I appreciate that there’s fic that appeals to my shipping heart, I appreciate that there’s fic that appeals to my gen-loving heart, I appreciate that there’s so much variety that it seems next to impossible to get bored with Star Wars, not when I have so many new branches that fandom will help me explore! STAR WARS FIC RECS: TIME TRAVEL RECS: ✦ Let’s Try This Again by Nny11, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka, time travel, 11.7k wip Anakin’s life is shaken up when he finds a small togrutan toddler hiding in a dingy alleyway, after all, she did create a Force bond with him and is apparently his future Padawan. Wizard! ✦ In Time by Ripki, obi-wan & anakin & cast, time travel, 27.1k As the Clone Wars drags on and the secrets between them grow, Anakin and Obi-Wan have begun to drift apart. When a mysterious holocron sends them through time, they don’t only have to confront their past and future – but the present as well. ✦ A Future in Crisis by WolfMarauder, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & & padme & cast, 7.6k wip Ahsoka has a vision that may change the course of the future. She just needs to keep her master from falling, keep his wife from dying, and the Jedi Order from dying out… That’s all. The first step is returning the the Jedi Order and she finds she has more friends than she thought. ✦ Palimpsest by PorgParty, ben & obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & cast, time travel, 21.5k wip Kylo Ren, newly-crowned Supreme Leader of the First Order, finds himself flung back through time to the era of the Clone Wars. He decides to capitalise on this opportunity and insert himself into the life of his beloved grandfather Anakin Skywalker. Together they will rule the galaxy with an iron fist. Unfortunately, Kylo has never been very good at being evil. ✦ Old Man Luke by scarletjedi, obi-wan & anakin & luke & leia & ahsoka & asajj & cast, time travel, 41k wip Obi-Wan narrowed his eyes. “Who are you?” He asked, hoping a direct question would yield answers. The old man seemed adept at side-stepping information when asked a bit more deftly. “I’ve never heard of a Master with your level of talent.” ✦ Unexpected Awakening (The Rewrite) by Rhiw, obi-wan & cast, time travel, 6.4k wip The life of General Kenobi is cut short at the hands of his Padawan, but the sight that greets his eyes upon awakening is not that of blinding light of the Force, but the Jedi Temple he knew when he was still a youth. As he struggles to understand the path laid out before him, Obi-Wan unwittingly captures the attention of a singularly unusual Temple Guard, and that of a reluctant Qui-Gon Jinn. ✦ Rewind, Repeat by tulomne, obi-wan/satine & qui-gon & cast, time travel, 23k And just like that, Obi-Wan Kenobi dies. But death is just the beginning, he realizes as he wakes as he once was, Padawan braid and all, alongside Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Satine Kryze. Visions of the future, just out of his grasp, plague the young Jedi as the three traverse the galaxy, avoiding the dangers that follow the Duchess of Mandalore. PREQUELS RECS: ✦ Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto by amarielah, anakin & sam & dean & cast, crossover, 13.7k When Sam and Dean investigate a spate of Vader sightings in a remote Wyoming town, they discover that – this time – they’re hunting the real deal. Vader, meanwhile, has to adjust to a world that seems designed to piss him off. All while trying his best not to strangle the Winchesters. ✦ The Living Force; Parables for Padawans by glorious_clio, obi-wan & cast, 6.1k Since infancy, younglings are taught the Jedi Code, “Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force.” Obi-Wan Kenobi learns these tenets backwards and forwards again. But even as a child, he is interested in nuance. And so his teachers tell him parables. ✦ The Great Galactic Politics Mess-Up by iomccoy, obi-wan & anakin/padme & dooku & mace & cast, 6.8k wip Obi-Wan Kenobi asks Count Dooku if he actually has any evidence. He does. It gets messier from there. ✦ A Future Unlived by AlexTirZeng, obi-wan & katooni & cast, 1.8k Just because a war was on didn’t mean people didn’t dream of a future; if anything, it made them long for what would come after. Obi-Wan was no exception. He’d hoped to see Anakin raise Ahsoka to knighthood. He’d hoped to take another padawan of his own. ✦ Remedial Jedi Theology by MarbleGlove, obi-wan & anakin & mace & cast, 31.2k wip Let us consider the fact that the Jedi Order is a monastic religious organization based out of a temple, with five basic tenets of faith. ✦ Lessons Learnt by Sweven, ahsoka & kit & cast, 2.4k As a kid, Ahsoka struggled with many things. Sometimes you just need someone to lift you up and give a word of encouragement. ✦ The Ryloth Excursion by Icarus_is_flying, obi-wan & ahsoka & cast, 2.9k After a surprise Separatist attack, Ahsoka and Obi-wan find themselves stranded on Ryloth’s plains. Now master and padawan must work together to make it back in one piece. ✦ Duet by Silver Sky 1138, oc & cin, 2.3k Asha Scarsi, the Jedi Padawan who feels the Force through music, isn’t half as good at lightsaber combat as she is at singing and mindtricks. So she’s a little nervous when Battlemaster Cin Drallig calls her to the training room after class. ✦ Luminous Spirits by Pandora151, obi-wan & ahsoka & cast, 5k Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, before and after everything changes. ✦ a choice made and made again by Sweven, obi-wan/satine & qui-gon & cast, 4.1k A glimpse into the year on the run ✦ We Have Lost by ReneeoftheStars, barriss & luminara, 1.9k It has been a long time since Barriss Offee was imprisoned for bombing the Jedi Temple. Not one to break, she has survived it. One day, she receives an unexpected visit from one she thought long gone from her life. ✦ The Sisters of the Little Kindness by ambiguously, ahsoka/asajj, NSFW, 4.4k Ahsoka isn’t alone as she goes into hiding. ✦ The Talk by B_Radley, shaak & ahsoka ( & background barriss/ahsoka), 1.9k A Jedi Master gives someone else’s Padawan The Talk ✦ The Only Home We Know by ReneeoftheStars, katooni & petro & ganodi & byph & gungi & zaft & cast, character death, child death, 2.4k The Jedi Temple is under attack. Determined to fight for their home, younglings Katooni, Petro, Zatt, Ganodi, Byph, and Gungi make their way to aid the Jedi Masters in defense of the Temple. But the situation is far graver than they expected. ✦ Darkest before Dawn by AceQueenKing, padme/mon mothma, 2.3k “I want my babies,” Padmé whispered, leaning into Mon’s shoulder. Mon tightened her grip on the younger woman, trying to reassure them both. Padmé, glorious flower of the Senate, was wilting fast in her arms, and it scared her, scared her more than she’d like to admit. ✦ Departed by Pandora151, obi-wan & anakin & vokara & bant & dooku, character death, 3.1k One was too late; the other was taken too soon. ✦ Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Lady Friend by Sulis57, obi-wan & anakin & rex & cody & boil & waxer & cast, 3.2k Anakin Skywalker just wants a quiet night at home by himself. Unfortunately, a group of unexpected visitors arrive bringing a potentially destructive acquaintance into Skywalker’s home. ✦ The Probability of Failure: The Mother by B_Radley, shaak & obi-wan & cast, 1.8k A huntress and Knight struggles to find peace in the wake of devastating loss. Several beings attempt to help her. ✦ Or has time rewritten every line by ambiguously, anakin & ahsoka & kaeden, 4.1k Ahsoka gets a message from an old friend that leads her to an older friend. ✦ Flickering Sunlight by Pandora151, obi-wan & anakin/padme & cast, 1.5k In the aftermath of Order 66, Anakin comes to a decision. OBI-WAN/ANAKIN RECS: ✦ Equinox by lilyconrad, obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, sith!obi-wan (sort of), d/s, 95.9k During the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan and Anakin crash on a remote planet and take shelter in the ruins of a grand estate only to find they are not alone. ✦ Little Moments by darlingamidala, obi-wan/anakin/padme, 2.8k This is a series of obianidala-focused drabbles, prompts, and shortfics. ✦ WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE by anecdotalist, obi-wan/anakin & bail & ahsoka & cast, 30.1k wip War has broken out between the Republic and the Separatists. But that is of no concern to Ben, one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy. All he’s focused on is his next target…until he’s invited to a tournament of hunters on Serenno. There, he meets a young Jedi Knight—the Hero With No Fear, Anakin Skywalker—who’s disguised as bounty hunter Rako Hardeen. ✦ Unmoored by lilyconrad, obi-wan/anakin, ~1k In every world Anakin and Obi-Wan will find their way to each other, but this time it just might be too late for both of them. ✦ within us, through us by allourheroes, obi-wan/anakin, nsfw, ~1k The Force is everywhere. Obi-wan helps Anakin understand. ✦ a spring haze by bell, obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, 3.2k Obi-Wan kisses Anakin back because he believes in him. ✦ Three Bodies In Orbit by rainglazed, obi-wan/anakin/padme, 4k A collection of ficlets and drabbles I’ve written for the obianidala suggestion blog, now posted to AO3 for easier viewing. ✦ These Three Remain by shadowsong26, obi-wan/anakin/padme, 27.5k Immediately after the Festival of Light (and Obi-Wan’s stint undercover as bounty hunter Rako Hardeen), Anakin and Padme leave Coruscant on impulse, in response to an anonymous tip sent to Padme’s office about vital intelligence hidden in a cache of stolen goods. But things go terribly wrong, and they find themselves stranded and injured, with limited resources and no one knowing exactly where they are. ✦ Intently by zarabithia, obi-wan/anakin & cast, 2.2k Five times Anakin thought about kissing Obi-Wan in order to distract him. ✦ Tumblr Prompts by Darlings (FromDreamstoEmpires), obi-wan/anakin, NSFW, human au, 1.4k (for this chapter) A collection of prompts that I’ve filled on Tumblr. ✦ Satisfying Victory by zarabithia, obi-wan/anakin/ahsoka, nsfw, time travel, 3.4k The Force gives and Ahsoka takes. (Or, Ahsoka goes back in time and is totally going to fix everything. But there’s another order of business to attend to first.) ✦ untitled by themoosejthm, obi-wan/anakin/padme, NSFW, toys, 2.3k Anakin whimpered as he lowered himself onto the toy, his eyelashes fluttering and his toes curling. ✦ Soft now by Gondolin, obi-wan/anakin/padme (pre-ship?) & cast, 3k Luke and Leia saved the galaxy before they were even born, Obi-Wan saved them and got aggressively adopted by the Naberrie-Skywalker family. Bonding with dads (plural, yes, Obi-Wan) is important and Padmé needs a nap. ✦ Addictions by lilyconrad, obi-wan/anakin, human au, mafia au, 3.4k A Sith AU with three-piece suits: Ben is a “negotiator” for the mafia and Anakin his faithful, frightening enforcer. ORIGINAL TRILOGY RECS: ✦ In Which Vader Discovers He is a Father by glompcat, anakin & luke & leia & cast, 27.7k A collection of (mostly self-contained) AUs where Vader learns about his kids earlier than he did in the canon timeline. Exploring both that moment of initial discovery, and the way the story unfolds after Vader finds Leia and/or Luke. ✦ The Princess Who Remembered Her Name: An Alderaani Faerie Tale by glorious_clio, leia & cast, 6.3k “Once upon a time, there was a kind and clever and courageous Princess,” Bail begins his favorite story, and Leia is excited to share this with him. She goes through her life with the story in her mind, and tries not to read too much into it. ✦ The Hermit’s Son by landsail0r, obi-wan & luke, 1.2k AU where Obi-Wan raises Luke. ✦ Hope is a Four Letter Word by laniew1, obi-wan & luke, 3.2k wip Obi-Wan’s life is simple; he wakes, he eats, he meditates and on some mornings he watches Luke (or the Obi-Wan raises Luke instead AU). ✦ may you inherit his light by notbecauseofvictories, anakin & leia & bail, 2.5k In this, as in many things, Leia is her fathers’ daughter. ✦ for the hint of a spark by egelantier, luke & leia, 5.1k This is the gift she wants - her brother, her valiant brother, and the word is sweet on her tongue - and the price she doesn’t want to pay, the legacy she doesn’t want to accept. Her father’s body is burning, and she’s glad. ✦ How to Be Dead by victoria_p (musesfool), obi-wan & anakin & padme & luke & leia & han & rey & cast, 2.7k You lose everything. You give up. REBELS RECS: ✦ Untitled Rebels Fic by Mirror and Image, zeb/kallus & cast, 11.6k Kallus, on Yavin IV, sees a Lasat that isn’t Zeb. Things go as expected. ✦ Eidolon by Mira_Jade, han & hera & cast, 4k Captain Solo and General Syndulla, on the subject of shipcraft, idealism, and love. In no particular order. SEQUELS RECS: ✦ Of Worth by celeste9, rose & poe & bb8, 1.4k After Rose assists BB-8 with repairs to Poe’s ship, she gets an unexpected thank you. ✦ What They Grow Beyond by rain_sleet_snow, rey & anakin & cast, 7.1k The war is spluttering to a halt, and Rey goes to Tatooine to build a lightsaber. FULL DETAILS + RECS HERE!

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ramblinganthropologist · 5 years

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Writober 2019 - 13 (Flashback)

Summary: Casey Finnegan has a... weird deck. Ok, it’s full of fae. How the hell did that happen?

Also, introducing my new Yu-Gi-Oh! OCs. Well, one isn’t mine. The rest are! They have their own weird little story we’ve jokingly called Yu-Gi-Oh! GT (because more letters is more fun).

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New pack day; aka, Armageddon itself.

I don't think you should try it today, my dear.

Judging from the line in front of the school store that morning, that was a no. The sea of red and blue coats only convinced Casey to turn around and head to class early instead. After all, the only thing waiting for her there would be a haze of carnage itself.

Never let it be said that duelists turned up an opportunity to load their decks.

It's no big deal, nothing interesting in there for you anyway~

The fox was back, half there and half not, walking beside her. Sometimes it rode on her shoulder, but it preferred to walk today. As always, its jewel colored pink eyes were focused on her. It never stopped watching her.

She was used to it.

Casey kept her eye on the hallway as she walked, side-stepping to avoid one of her fellow first years. “Oh, really?”

Yes, I didn't feel like finding anything for you this morning. You kept me up last night studying you know.

“I have a test at fourth period I didn't feel ready for.”

I don't even know why they have classes here. A proper school would focus on dueling alone.

Well, nobody had ever said Philadelphia Duel Academy was a 'proper' school. Really, it was just a tiny section of a much larger institution that had more or less let it start there. Unlike most dueling schools, they had academic classes – like the one she had a test in later that morning.

Had she ever mentioned English wasn't one of her better subjects?

“Casey, over here!”

“You're about to wipe out, C-dawg!”

Two voices in unison caused the young duelist to pick up her head. She saw two people waiting for her at the entrance to her morning class, both wearing the green of the larger school's general education department. She picked up her pace to meet them, the back of her hoodie flying in the wind as she ran. They didn't call her the red flash for nothing – when she booked it, she booked it.

One of them, a smaller boy with glasses named Jake, nodded as she caught up to them. “Were you at the pack rush?”

“Course not, she doesn't look beat to hell.” Jame, the other person, wore the same look as always when anyone brought up anything other than casual duels for fun. “Unless you got there early, C-dawg?”

She shook her head as they walked in to find their seats. “No, I woke up late because I was studying for English. Looks like I'm out of luck this month.”

Her deck box rubbed up against her seat as she sat down. “Oh well, from what it sounds like I wouldn't have had much luck anyway.”

No, you wouldn't have. We're quite happy here.

And that was her deck chiming in, always at the back of her mind. At best, they could be a little prickly when she suggested changing some cards out. At worst... well, it gave her a headache just thinking about it. Unlike most duelists, she didn't have an unlimited say. Call it more of a... negotiation, really.

Because that's what you should do with the fae: negotiate with them. She HAD said English was her worst class after all.

Jake sat down next to her, while Jame sought the seat in front to complete their small triangle. Nobody else was in the room – they were taking their time getting to class or the bus had broken down or something. Gen eds tended to have to deal with that stuff – not the duel side. They were stuck there.

“So... your deck doesn't want to make any changes again?” Jake's voice held the tone that he still didn't believe her. It was ok; nobody really did. “Can't you just tell them what to do?”

Sure, but you know what happens then.

Casey winced at the thought. “No. It's one of the rules.”

So many rules that it was a wonder she remembered them at all. But she did – they were her silver-clad code to life and dueling, had been for years. Honestly, it was hard to remember life without them, or when they had really started.

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It had to have been when she was little...

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“Winged Dragon, Direct attack!”

And that was the end of that duel. She'd lost... again.

9 year old Casey Finnegan wiped the tears from her eyes as the older boys went away laughing, congratulating the leader on his flawless victory over the class's favorite punching bag. She picked herself up out of the dirt, dusting herself off as she went. Her cards had scattered from the final attack, so she bent to pick them up.

She had really tried that time too...

“I'm sorry, everyone. Maybe next time.” Casey hugged her deck close and slid it back into the box on her leg. She started her walk home, head hung low. The sun was starting to set over her small West Virginian town, and night would be falling soon. The only thing waiting for her at home was homework and a quiet night. No friends to call her to break the silence.

Nobody wanted to be friends with the class weirdo. It only got them hurt.

Her small house was alive, however. She could hear her mother in the kitchen the moment she opened the front door. The noise brought a smile to her face as she hung up her jacket and went to the source of the sound.

“Oh, you're home! Good, I'm making chicken.”

Her mother was a small woman, made smaller as she hunched over the stove. During the day she was a hair stylist at a place in town – at night she studied while keeping an eye on her only daughter. Apart from the green eyes, they didn't really look much alike. Unfortunately, Casey took after her father in that regard.

“Awesome!” Casey cocked her eyebrow at the sight of the small envelope on the kitchen table. It had a few international stamps and looked like it had been through the wringer. “Hey... what's that?”

Her mother turned away from the stove. “Oh, it's for you. I think your father sent it.”

She was smiling, but there was a sadness in her eyes. The thought of accepting something from him made Casey's hand itch, but she had been taught never to be rude when it came to presents. So, she took the envelope with the promise of checking it out later.

Later came after dinner and homework, when she was alone in her room with the door closed. The envelope indeed came from Ireland, but the return address had the wrong name. It was an Aoife O'Reilly sending the note, her handwriting neat and precise.

“How'd she get my address?” Casey tilted her head to the side. “And it's not like it's my birthday or anything... why send me something?”

It wasn't like she talked with her half sister or anything – the older girl had never seemed to want to make contact. Even if she did, her mother wouldn't have allowed it. Whatever was inside, she must have wanted to send it badly to risk the wrath of the woman Casey called the harpie. Who was she to deny that?

So she opened the envelope. A few thin pieces of cardboard slipped from the opening and fell to the floor face down in front of her. Immediately, Casey recognized them as Duel Monster cards. Even though they came from across the sea, they still had the same backs.

“Huh? How does she know I duel?”

The answer came from the paper that had been placed inside the envelope. It was a letter, neatly written out in the same hand that had addressed the envelope. Cursive; Casey's worst nightmare. Still, she managed to read it eventually.

Dear Casey,

I hope this letter finds you well. My apologies for not sending this in time for your birthday, but the post wouldn't cooperate. I hope the contents inside make up for my error.

Consider this a few years' birthday gift. I have heard from father that you have begun dueling, so I thought this appropriate. These cards came from my own deck, but I believe they will serve you well. Listen to them, and you will find the key.

Good luck dueling, and may the cards guide you.

Sincerely,

Aoife

“She sounds like a million years old. Who calls their dad father anyway?” Casey shook her head as she shook the envelope out. Altogether, there were five cards on her bedroom floor. “Well... let's see what she gave me.”

Her hand reached out for the first card and turned it over. On the front, the picture of a grinning fox spirit frolicked among ancient stones and towering trees. Its pink eyes focused straight at her as she read its name.

“Fox Fae?”

Now, now, honey. No need to be so- you're not Aoife.

Casey blinked in surprise as her room disappeared around her. She was now sitting in a ring of stones, just as ancient and weathered as the ones on the card. Soft lights glowed all around her, and a thick fog rolled at her feet. Wherever she was, she wasn't home.

“What the...”

“Now, that's my question.”

She looked over at the closest stone. Sitting there was a small fox with bright pink eyes, tail flicking. It hopped off the rock and walked towards her, stopping a few feet from where she was sitting. Those eyes focused straight at her, burning a hole through her. It was looking for something.

“Huh?”

It sighed – actually sighed! “You're not very bright, are you? I asked where Aoife was.”

“Oh, uh... in Ireland?” Casey cocked her head to the side. “Sorry, how do you know Aoife?”

The fox's tail twitched as it circled her, still speaking. “We had something of an arrangement, one she broke. If she hadn't sealed the damn envelope with iron and bound me up, I'd be collecting the terms. I knew she was quick, but...”

It stopped in front of her, eyes still glowing. As Casey glanced around, she felt something deep stir in her stomach. Old stories her mother told her at bedtime from her father's homeland flooded into her memories. Never enter a fae ring, they said, and never make bargains with the fae.

They just hadn't mentioned the fae looked like stuffed animals.

The fox seemed to grin. “Oh, so you know what I am?”

“Kind of... you're a lot smaller than I thought you'd be.” She stiffened. “I'm not eating or drinking anything so you can't keep me here!”

Her host laughed, which definitely did not sound like a fox. Instead, it reminded her of a man on helium. She would have laughed, but that was rude. Casey knew enough about the fae to avoid doing that. After all, she had school in the morning.

“Oh, you are a clever one.” That tail twitched. “Not that I have anything to offer. Damn card's rather barren.”

The fox hopped back on the stone, pink eyes glittering. “You are an interesting one, dear. Care to show me that pretty eye of yours?”

A harsh wind blew, and Casey felt her hair lift from the left side of her face. That eye, unlike her regular green one, was the same shade of pink as the fox's. It was why she tried to hard to hide the damn thing: people kept calling it weird.

Fox laughter filled the ring. ��Of course, you're his bastard! I remember the old hag complaining about you.”

It was suddenly almost in her lap, pawing her face gently. “What a dear, fae marked and everything. You must unnerve everyone you come across. I bet you're lonely.”

Casey's stomach dropped at the touch. This was the part where the fae bargained for her soul. But she didn't have anything to give it – it didn't know her name, she hadn't eaten, nor had she accepted anything. Without that, it didn't have a furry leg to stand on.

“I'm fine. I just need to get home.”

Was it just her imagination, or did the fox look sad? Its ears drooped a little, like it was disappointed in her. But it didn't move; the damn thing stayed in her lap like it was a puppy. Well, if evolution was right, she was pretty sure it was in the same niche. Sometimes she fell asleep in science class.

“Right, yes... I suppose I'll stay here.”

Casey shot it a blank look. “You can't guilt me into accepting an agreement. If you're stuck here, you did it to yourself.”

She stood, shaking the fox from her lap. “Anyway, I need to get home. I have class in the morning and we have a math test.”

The fox raced towards her as she walked towards the edge of the ring. Before she broke, it planted itself firmly at the barrier. Once again, her stomach dropped. If it was riddles, she was screwed. Why had she never tried to learn any?

Oh yeah, she never thought she'd be trying to avoid dealing with the fae in goddamn West Virginia of all places!

“I'm not trying to get anything from you, I promise!”

Its voice lowered. “I... it's lonely in this card. Without someone to talk to, I'll vanish.”

And that was her problem?

Still, the fox kept talking. “I do want to make an... arrangement. I don't want your soul or your service, though.”

Casey would have kicked it, but hitting animals was rude. Besides, something in her gut had shifted. She didn't trust the fae in front of her, but it was telling the truth in what it said. Whatever it wanted, she wasn't going to be trapped there.

Still... “No funny business. I don't eat anything, tell you anything, or agree to stay here. And forget about switching places!”

The fox winced a little. “I see you've heard the stories.”

It reached out a paw. “You duel, yes? I am... part of a deck that could be powerful in the right hands. We're a tricky bunch, though. I can't guarantee we won't mess with you while you play.”

Then why the hell would she accept it? Casey might have wanted better cards, but she knew a raw deal when she saw one. Problem was, the fox was blocking her way out. Unless she listened, she was stuck there.

Damn, it had beat her there.

“That seems dumb. Why should I accept?”

Pink eyes were on her. “Because if you get it right, nobody can stop you.”

Its tail flicked. “Those who can walk the edge of a blade fear no man, no card. The power that comes with that is enormous.”

Casey swallowed hard. “And... what do I have to give up in exchange?”

There was no such thing as a free ride, after all. That was doubled when it came to the fair folk. For not the first time since she had entered the ring, Casey wished she had some iron on her to drive the fox away. Now she was going to pay for it.

“Well, like I said. We tend to become a little... mischievous. Some hands might not come out the way you want. Depends on the mood.” The fox was smiling, and it wasn't a good look. “But isn't that true for any duel?”

They added, almost as an aside. “And of course, no iron, and some other rules we can-”

Casey held up her hand. “I don't agree to any rules until we discuss them beforehand. You could slip anything in. This deal would be this right now.”

The fox winced at her interrupt. “Damn, you are smart.”

Part of her knew she was being foolish, but deep down in her gut her curiosity was winning out. Something about this was promising, even if it was the worst decision she had ever made. No doubt she would come to regret it.

But... well, she'd be lying if she said she didn't want to win more. It was hard to come up with a good deck with whatever she scrounged up from booster packs with her allowance. It would only get worse the higher she went.

So... a deal with the fae it was.

“Alright. You can stay with me.”

The pink eyes glowed. “Excellent. We have a duel. Pleasure to work with you, my dear. Now, let's get out of here.”

The next thing she knew, she was back in her room in the same position she had been in. Now all the cards were flipped up – one other monster, and then a ritual summon card, a trap, and a field spell. They all seemed to glitter in the light as she picked them up to examine them. Powerful; they tingle in her fingers.

You'll have to find more, but that shouldn't be a problem.

“Huh?”

Look down, my dear. I'm right there. Plus, a little something so you don't forget our agreement.

Casey looked down to see there was a pendant now hanging from her neck, silvery with a red stone set in the center. It tingled as she held it, but it didn't seem like it was stuck there. At least with other cursed necklaces, she couldn't take them off.

The fox was smiling at her from the paper. Clearly, their deal had been made. And oh, did she had a funny feeling about that as she deposited her new cards on her bedside table to examine in the morning. Why did she get the feeling this was going to be a bad idea?

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“Casey, you ok?”

Casey blinked, coming back to earth. A few minutes had passed, judging from the clock on the wall. Jame and Jake both looked concerned as she came back to herself, realizing she had spaced out once again.

Whoops.

She shook her head, red hair flying. “Yeah... guess I spaced out.”

“Yo, blood sugar is no joke. You better be eating, C-dawg.”

Now more students were coming in, green gen-eds mostly, but there were one or two red dueling class students with them. Judging from the looks on their faces, they hadn't gotten what they wanted from their deck pulls.

Aren't you glad you avoided that, my dear?

Her necklace tingled pleasantly as she heard her fox whisper in her ear. Maybe she wasn't the only one getting denied good pulls that day.

“That's rude, you know.”

Oh, I just moved some packs around for the fun of it. Nobody got hurt~

Casey shook her head as she settled in to wait for class to start. If that was there idea of fun, her dueling lessons in the afternoon were going to be a real treat. Hopefully someone had gotten a good card, or it would be an all out riot.

Why had she made a deal with the fae again? Oh right, the winning thing... damn her 9 year old brain.

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