Headcanon #99: Soul eats the most random things especially late at night. Heart or Mind will walk by Souls room or by the kitchen and just see him there eating a bottle of sprinkles or a bottle of hot sauce. Just like by itself. Nothing else.
Rant I texted to my friends and feel the need to share:
ArtixGormxRiv is the best rain world ship. Let me explain: You get everything good about Bathbomb, in which the dynamic is two chaotic sillies causing problems on purpose. You get the traits of Seafood, the dynamic is smol and crazy x large and find’s the other’s craziness cute. You get the traits of Barbecue, where the dynamic is traumatized tired and chaotic x calm, caring shoulder to lean on. All in one ship! Many people who like Heartwarm will say the dynamic is the same, but Hunter is almost never characterized as chaotic in the way rivulet is. Rivulet being in the ship makes it lose the ombre effect, but it gains chaotic wholesomeness in the process. In combining the best aspects of their respective ships into a polycule, the vibes triple. In conclusion, Rivulet, Artificer and Gourmand would be in a relationship.
Is there a name for that ship already? If not, @moistrodent has dubbed it hot sauce and I nominate him and myself to be cocaptians of the ship
Two opinions bc neither are particularly serious. My first is that I still think it's genuinely funnier and a better story if he was born immediately post-Calamity (or even mid-Calamity) rather than pre-Calamity; it's a loosely held opinion and there's things Matt could do to sell me but honestly making him someone born who is throwing a big-ass tantrum because he missed the splendor of the Age of Arcanum is way more interesting to me than making him just another Age of Arcanum wizard. The second is that while there is no reason for this to be true everyone in the fandom who calls him "Ludy" or "Luda" invariably has terrible takes. I do not know why but like, people who spend a lot of time coming up with nicknames for villains almost always have bad takes re: those villains.
An AU where they grew up as upper class rich kids going to fancy charity events and banquets every weekend.
Mike hates them and is dragged to them against his will, but at least Max is also forced to attend with her family, so they don't have to suffer at these stuck up formal parties alone. The Byers-Hoppers are new in town and are attending their first charity event as members of the rich people community of Hawkins and Mike has a bi panic moment when he spots the family's twins in the crowd. (at first his silly ass almost mistakes them for a couple until Max corrects him)
The Wonder Twins(as Max calls them) seem like an intimidating pair, they are in their element at the fancy events, and Mike is very much not. But when he catches the twins pulling pranks on the sidelines of the events, he gets the courage to try and befriend them.
(this had a companion piece of Mike and Max, but anything I made would just not look even close to what the sketch did, so I just put the sketch under the cut)