#going for his first swim

[aly-doodle]

I’m only absolutely obsessed with them—

#going for his first swim #listen learned— don’t draw eye strain art at 2 am with the lights off #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel #hazbin lucifer #hazbin adam #adam hazbin hotel #lucifer morningstar #lucifer hazbin hotel #guitarduck #adamsapple #I’m gonna shake them #please don’t ruin the quality tumblr

[julykings]

summer’s end

#had a really nice weekend to round it out u kno #saw Sarah on Friday for pasta and watching reality tv #picked wildflowers on Saturday and went to the dog park and some yard sales with my sister and we had such a good time we’ve been kind of #distant lately so that was really great. and time and my bf went to a mug decorating workshop and then tried a new restaraynt and got giant #margaritas . and watched survivor #Sunday gym kicked ass + moved furniture around and helped my bf paint his bedroom #today went to work first thing then to the lake for swimming and napping in the sun then more work and more gym which also kicked ass #then groceries and making out with my bf now home laundry etc getting ready to go to bed so I can wake up early and take Winston to do some #thing before work and my first classssssss yayyyy #can u tell im tired I made so many typos and fully just used the wrong words… we painted his bathroom . #personal

[phoebepheebsphibs]

@boots-with-the-fur-club I LITERALLY SCREAMED WHEN I FOUND IT AAAHH

I hope I didn't wake anybody up... 🥲

#tiktok #rottmnt #rottmnt mikey #this is my pet duck adam going on his first swim #be careful adam-- #adam #ADAAAAMMM

[shirogane-oushirou]

🌊 summer time baybeeeee 🌊

tbch you couldn't catch me in the water KJNAKSJNF but. ren's an avid swimmer (otter-coded...), and he looooves being on the water, so maybe he could convince me to go out for a short while. he'd be so happy about it... he'd get the zoomies and, once i went back on land, have to swim laps to get it all out (i would sit at the water's edge and take photos of him ^_^ KAJNFNKJN).

this was originally for an art party, with the theme "ducky"!

#thinking about him going out on the water with me with a shirt on for extra protection... #and then we swim to shore and he throws off his shirt to go do his laps. 😇💕💕💕 which i need to draw now. coughing hacking wheezing. #(edit: guess what i did after dinner... :3) #omg i just remembered my first art party art was an oushirou beach pic... full circle... #📌 [ my posts. ] #🎨 [ 046 art. ] #🍄 [ lying on the blade of an emotion. ] #🧃 [ who is in control. ] #🦦 [ can't escape it. ] #🐸 [ look ahead. ] #selfship #self ship #selfshipping #self shipping #open water - #046 art #andouartparty

[rainymoodlet]

Kiss Me in Komorebi+ 🌸

[ Settling In… ]

Part 5.75 of 6 🌹

@duusheen

#ts4 #ts4 screenshots #ts4 challenge #ts4 story #ts4 bachelor challenge #sim: daniel #;kmik #keaton stratton by duusheen #|| #he is SO PRECIOUS 😭 #he genuinely got tense and went to go swim in the pool to clear his head #but it started snowing so i fiddled with him just taking a moment for himself #its a lot!!! he’s been living a quiet life relatively so far #so to be around so many people and cameras it must be unnerving fhdh #he’s just like HWOO OKAY… DID DAN EVEN WANT ME THE FIRST TIME THIS IS A LOT #dan is VERY smitten by him though he finds the guy extremely attractive and gets a #‘breathtaking encounter’ moodlet every time they speak fhdhd

[ichthyorelationships]

an idea i invite anyone else to write about / run with lol....

the premise that The Change gets all messed up for alberto, say it's something that can happen from stress, &/or happens rarely and you just have to wait for it to resolve itself....used as some parallel to struggling through some emotional turbulence / upheaval / questioning / Realizing Things, etc etc

#luca 2021 #pixar luca #alberto scorfano #another idea i've failed to write for & so invite anyone else to run with: ciao alberto but what if he peaces out by swimming off lol #ends up in a coastal town maybe an hour's swim from genoa. but not Getting In Touch w/anyone for a while b/c plausibly he thinks that #giulia may not be a fan of him now by extension; just being too embarrassed asf to reach out to luca kinda lol....luca off doing his own #thing just fine & alberto not wanting to write him now like b/c i Ruined Everything again ahaha.... #and by ''not in touch w/anyone for a while'' who knows. months; a few years even....might stumble across news of him b/c like. #say more sea folk are coming to land / more humans know abt them & not many places are as [harpoon]ly from the start anyways #portorosso exceptional in that way....maybe where alberto settles down they're like legendary but also considered Good Luck anyways lol. #anyways like some people know of him who might; say; swim down to portorosso. have their own teen who knows a teen who mostly lives on land #most convenient re sparking [wow could they mean Our alberto] if he doesn't go so far as to take up an alias lol. but why would he.... #that difference in that massimo might figure that however alberto was surviving before; he could continue to do so now; but even though tha #is some comfort it's still Not Actually Enough....feeling way more Parentally towards alberto than his biological dad like that; obv #and anyways re: this [The Change gets messed up] idea it's more of an inconvenience lol but one that could still have some significance #like if he first finds out the issue exists via hopping right into the ocean; failing to change forms; never being human form'd in water b4 #thee worst....crash intro course to the experience of drowning. observation of How Humans Swim / being able to grab any part of the boat... #and besides That unpleasantness it's like; hey. where's my nonhuman form at #or; of course; being in sea form even while dry....especially if he's still dealing with Nonsense on land. which is presumed. #&/or if there's an upswing in nonsense b/c of Other ways you're Othered...ofc we can consider like; tfw you're a gay fish & maybe that's no #something that on its own would be like Aah until it's like well a) i kinda wanna do things that would make this Visible and b) i've learne #that humans also Have Issues about this kind of thing.... #appropriately my tablet was also all thrown off. no pressure sensitivity; input sensitivity overall was rough #but i would've had to restart my laptop about it lol like eh i'll just work around it

[sysig]

He deserves a bit of everything, as a treat (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Up front - that first one was very inspired by one of Kurole's sketches of him - absolutely spectacular use of shapes ahhh <3 <3 #His iris dripping directly into his tears?? Excuse me I die immediately #I did a full study later since as noted that one was from memory lol - not quite! Kurole's shapes are so pretty ♪ #Peeps' shapes are some of the funnest to move around! He's so stretchy and squishy lol #He's so fun to pose #At first I was just going to doodle Peeps in the outfit the Watchdogs drew him in for The Cartoon because cute! #But I figured it'd be easier if started with the actual shapes they used - dissect how they lay on each other and all that #Turns out the bean form is also very cute hehe <3 They can try to make him as stereotypically dorky as they want! He's still the cutest! #He is quite handsome in the same outfit at his usual proportions tho #Not me always enjoying characters in glasses/putting characters in glasses #Of all the features I myself have that'd be the last one I would expect to be So about lol #Plus the little heels on his boots?? I can't believe the Watchdogs were Completely making a mockery of him hehe ♪ #Maybe mocking him a little bit for being short but he loves heels! He loves feeling tall! #And they match his shirt? Fashionable all the way around ✨ #Last one of him on Ziziks and trying(? maybe?? Lol maybe not) to relax #Open tourist-y shirt over loose swim trunks >>> #Gotta dork it up with the visor gloves and boots tho lol hopefully he put on sunscreen too #What would burnt Watchdog skin look like anyhow :0 Redder? #You just know he's still on call even if he managed to get some time off - and if he was forced off he's on call by choice lol #Little workaholic

[sixofcrowshyperfixation]

Wylan: And this is my boyfriend Jesper

Kuwei: you mean our boyfriend Jesper

Wylan, shoving him overboard: I mean my boyfriend Jesper you bitch

Jesper: you tell him babe

Kaz, in the background, watching this: *wipes a tear from his eye* my son takes after me so much

#kaz: *takes out a pen and forges Van Eck's signature* #Wylan: oh is that for his property #Kaz: I suppose you could say that #Inej: Kaz those are adoption papers for Wylan #Wylan: Im sorry WHAT?? You want me 🥹 #everyone else: suddenly we all have the urge to bash Jan Van Eck's head into a wall #Kaz: Wylan lets go have some father son bonding criminal activity #jesper: hEY Wylan is MY partner in crime... among other things- wait a minute- Kaz is gonna be my father in law now- thank you wylan #wylan: I didnt even do anything #kaz: good good lying is the first step to being a criminal... now lets see your demolition skills again #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kuwei yul bo #six of crows #wesper #crooked kingdom #incorrect soc quotes #who am i kidding #this was canon #'how about i throw you overboard and we see if you know how to swim' like ok wylan #mama kaz #kaz brekker

[bokvshou]

you know, as much as I like the friendship between Rin and Sousuke, I'm really, really glad Sousuke wasn't around for S1.

I'm sorry but Rin was at his worst in S1 to the point where he seems like a totally different person than he actually is, and one would think "hey, but this is the perfect time for your best friend to be there and support you" and I would completely agree (I value friendships more than romance, after all) if only Sousuke had a different attitude than he has in S2. this attitude here? it wouldn't have done anyone any good in S1.

I know his actions come from good faith, I know, and I'm also the jealous and protective kind of best friend, I totally understand the intentions Sousuke had, and his way of reasoning (also considering that he didn't have the full picture of everything that was going on with Rin). at the end of the day, Sousuke wanted his best friend to fulfill his dreams...

but this? this? come-fucking-on.

imagine S1!Rin hearing that advice, just imagine. Rin needed the exact opposite of this shit.

this would have been the worst possible message they could give him at that time; Rin was already trying to convince himself that he needed to do everything alone in order to succeed and improve, he was already having a hard enough time isolated and depressed, he was already working hard to push everyone he loved away, and his anger issues were at their worst. he was a mess.

add his best friend putting these things into his head and Haru would've had less chance of getting Rin back. and without being able to help Rin improve his mental health, I think Sousuke would never have improved his either later.

so I'm really glad Sousuke showed up until the S1 issue was fixed. I'm very glad that he didn't interfere (although he had the opportunity), and I'm glad that his poisonous words didn't impact Rin at all; it shows how much Rin has improved mentally and how he has managed to get out of the depressing mindset where he was drowning alone for so long.

#he seriously thought he had done something #literally what the fuck sousuke #you saw your best friend suffer and the first thing you thought was #'I'm going to take all his friends away from him' #okay mr yandere simulator #this is not character hate btw #just an observation #free! iwatobi swim club #free! eternal summer #rin matsuoka #sousuke yamazaki #haruka nanase

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

[bonus] WHY WOULD YOU LET HIM ROAM YOU KNOW HES A MENACE /lh

He’s casting Steal Chicken using his Silly Spells! Someone needs to stop him!

#mdzs #wei wuxian #equineswap au #I added this to my drafts instead of my queue….so sorry!! #i absolutely adore this!! He’s a menace!!! WWX (the human) would love to have unicorn levitating magic #wwx (the horse) is absolutely living his best life #I bet he casts chickens high into the air to watch them flutter about. Sadly they dont glide like in minecraft #this horse is BANNED from the barnyard and coops #He can go swimming for lotus pods ONLY #I didnt notice the jojo refrence the first time I saw this but DANG those are well done sound effects #actually the effects in general are very nice #thank you again for the lovely art!!

[fisheito]

OMG. that means... Cloaca Crew........

WAIT.

✨C l o a c a C r e w✨

#is there a way to turn someone's tags into regular text or must i continue turning words into jpgs like a savage? #blade walks into the bathroom too and goes “oh?? u talking about the stall??” #“it's great! my voice bounces around while i'm in there so singing is super fun. here lemme show u” #cut to scene where it's blade crowding eiden/yakumo/rei into one stall and making them sing to test the bathroom acoustics #blade wears a hard hat while swimming in the shark tank #does it make sense? no. but blade does not want to be left out of the hat game. safety first! #did i go down another abyss of articles about owl and shark anatomy to confirm cloacas before i drew this? yes. #the tags tho #olivine (ever the caring coworker) tries to stop edmond from gorging on sugary carrots but edmond will outrun him #or stuff his face so fast that olivine cannot stop him #several hours later u just find edmond curled up on the ground in the rabbit pen #bc of tummy ache. #he is under a mountain of fluffy potatoes (bunnies) trying to comfort him #olivine knew this would happen so he's out there gently extracting edmond from the pile and coaxing him to rest properly #i wonder what the staff room fridge looks like. #WHO PUT AN ENTIRE KING SALMON ON TOP OF MY SALAD #anyway. they can probably eat relatively normal humanish food. #or maybe that fridge is just a decoy fridge (and a place for edmond's full 3 heads of lettuce) #and the real lunch fridge is in the back with all the “animal food storage” #u open it up and it's just a pixellated blur of gore #blame all the carnivores working here. they demand fresh meat. #zookeeper au #yakumo #eiden #rei #blade #edmond #olivine

[octoagentmiles]

do you have any hcs for barnacles and dashi ? I'm rewatching it and many episodes start with the two of them in the main area , oftentimes there's a third person involved but it's always the two of them so they must spend alot of time around each other :O 10 / 10 bonding

Had to think hard about this since Dashi's role in the main series is so small—but you're actually so right 👀 10/10 buddies 👍

You'll get my headcanons I promise but first you gotta listen to me infodump, okay? Deal:

I personally headcanon that Dashi was one of the first Octonauts, she hasn't been around a super long time- but at least long enough that she was probably around for the first Octopod, and that would give her and Barnacles (and the other OGs) plenty of time to get close.

We know Inkling canonically founded the Octonauts, but I imagine that it was actually Barnacles who picked out the crew—over various fateful encounters (Kwazii, Peso), or already knowing them (Tweak)—with the two exceptions of Dashi and Shellington.

Shellington heard about them through the kelp vine by pure chance, and got himself a job via determination. Then, at some point—he recommended Dashi to Barnacles or Inkling, and got her a position as an intern. (He knew her through her photography; she took pictures for him once or something like that.)

I also headcanon they weren't called The Octonauts yet at that point. I headcanon that Dashi came up with the "Octonauts" name during her first few days, and they kept it. (Coincidentally, the first Octopod crashed during those first few days. T'was completely unrelated, I promise 😅)

Fast forward: I've been thinking about Dashi in AnB a lot lately, and the one question that keeps coming up is: "Why did Barnacles make her the Captain of the Octoray?"

They haven't addressed it in the show yet, and it felt a little bit like the writers just wanted her to Do Something, y'know? So I went back to rewatch some of her main series episodes, and this scene from The Surfing Snails stuck out:

This scene shows how much he trusts her. He trusts her to make the right calls, and to be careful. He shows this trust in her again in the Wild Windstorms:

"...I'm ready for this!"

"I know you are, Dashi."

I REALLY wish they had spent more time giving her some kind of arc, showing this trust being built. She absolutely deserved an arc like Peso's, where we could've seen her growth and her bond with Barnacles getting stronger. It would've made the Octoray thing make much more sense, and I would've loved to actually SEE her evolution from "getting stuck in a whale shark" to "inventing stuff with Tweak" to the level of respect that Barnacles clearly has for her in S4 and Beyond, but instead it feels like all that stuff happened off-screen.

I also wanna point out real quick; that Dashi is one of the select few characters to ever call Barnacles by his first name only. This is something that the writers frequently use to emphasize closeness between Barnacles and someone else (Kwazii, Natquik, etc), and Dashi has done it twice. I'll admit I thought it was an error the first time, but then I caught her doing it again in Sac Actun. SO CLEARLY THEY ARE CLOSE. YES? WE AGREE. YES.

ok I'm done. pleasure doing business with you 🤝

*slams hands down on table* MISC. HEADCANON TIME ‼️ (which technically, could all totally be canon until the writers finally decide to give us real information ✨)

She has 100% read ALL of his books and journals, at least twice. Sometimes he gives them to her so she can beta read them, and she's also helped edit a few.

She has written her own journals, mostly in the form of scrapbooks, that she shares with him too. He has a first edition signed copy of one of them.

She made friendship bracelets for everyone on the ship after the Octopod was rebuilt, and he keeps his on his desk. It's still in mint condition.

I feel like at least ONE of the cameras in her collection was a gift from him.

She is trained on how to steer the Octopod manually. Considering the only two on board at the time who knew how to do it were Barnacles and Tweak—her showing slight interest was the only convincing he needed to teach her.

Sadly, she's never needed to use this skill. Yet.

She learned how to play harmonica when he decided to learn accordion, so they could duet together, but she got the hang of it much faster than he did.

They work out together sometimes. She's much stronger than she looks—and has won an arm wrestling match against him at LEAST once. She's also beat him in a foot race; it was almost a very close tie, and she needed to lay down for an hour after—but she did it. He will never live either of these down.

They definitely gossip in HQ sometimes, when it's just the two of them.

#*very long dramatic exhale* i have so many thoughts about dashi. anyway- #octonauts #dashi octonauts #captain barnacles #please excuse the slightly off captions in the surfing snail images - they came like that in the clip and i didn't feel like redoing them #also i forget what episode had dashi calling barnacles his first name for the first time 😭 that's why i didn't specify- #but i DO vividly remember it so i didn't imagine it i promise hgdjfk <3 #it was in like s1 or 2 (p sure 1) and she was in the octopod trying to get a hold of him in the gup-a like ''dashi to barnacles?'' etc etc #but anyway: PLEASE anb give us a barnacles and dashi episode!! show us their friendship 🙏🙏 i beg #also this post is Not Ship. i mean idk what anon's intentions were- but as far as i go this is Not Ship 👍❌ ty <3 #dashi beat barnacles in an arm wrestling match back in her early days when she still had Strong Cave Diving Arms™ #but the foot race was more recent. all the octonauts have strong legs from all the swimming they do but dashi's also a SURFER so 👀 #i feel like these tags end abruptly but idk what else to say so 🤲🤲 you've reached the end of the post‚ have a nice day 👋👋 #the end #le fin #<3

[gummi-ships]

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #sora #winnie the pooh #100 acre wood #my gif #hey. hey you. yeah you #you're going to look at all the ways sora bounces on balloons with pooh sitting on his shoulders #the way he spins around in the first gif #the way pooh playfully drums on sora's head as they descend in the second gif #as sora keeps hold of pooh's shoulders so that he doesn't fly away #and the way he jumps in that last gif where he's practically swimming and almost lands on his butt

[combeferres-mothematics]

Anyone else ever get randomly smacked in the face with memories and immediately want to go write a kid fic?

Or is it just me?

#Aka Emile is remembering going camping with his friends as a small child #And how fucking chaotic it was #We were just allowed to run wild over the whole campground because our group rented the whole loop and everyone was watching out for everyo #I still managed to cross like 2 roads when I was 5 and got lost and they weren't busy but a stranger still stopped me to ask if I was lost #And all the boys would bring their lightsabers and nerf guns and we would have whole battles #We even made little forts in the woods and stuff and we were fighting to protect the 'dragon' (friend's dog) #I was always either the spy or the doctor #There was also the time my brothers thought it would be really fun to tell me to just pee in the woods instead of walking me to the bathroo #I was delighted #My parents were not #And the swimming hole was cold as fuck but we somehow still got in it every year #And jump off the giant rock in the deep end of the river once we were good enough swimmers to handle the current #Once or twice we went tubing there too which was my first experience with that #And there was hiking with waterfalls nearby so we'd go do that #And that one swinging bridge that was really fun to run across #And we'd stay for like a week sometimes #I swear all the parents got the best sleep ever when we went too even though they were sleeping on the ground lmao #all us kids would end up in each others tents if they were okay with it #And all I can think looking back at it now is that a les amis kidfic would be fun to write off all that #Emile's chaos #I have so many more camping memories too

[hawnks]

one thing about this story is that im struggling to find the edge of how deeply fucked up a character can be before a reader starts to hate them

#the male lead is like….. DESPERATE for people to need him #his whole m.o. is to give people their deepest darkest desire #which he can do because he’s like rich and famous so he has the resources to do so #but that means he ends up enabling a bunch of really awful stuff #and doing things that are… morally dubious (at best) #right now one of his establishing chapters is about him meeting a woman at the airport on his way to where the book takes place #and she tells him about how /shes/ on her way to move in with her fiancé but she’s getting cold feet becuase she feels like she’s wasting #her life. so he’s like… well what would you be doing otherwise? let’s do it now. and she tells him that she’s always wanted to go swimming #even though she’s never done it before. she has a feeling that once she gets in the water she’ll just /know/. so they go to a hotel and #they go to the pool (it’s night so no one is there) and the woman hesitates at the deep end becuase thinking about it and being faced with #reality are two different things. and he. pushes her in. and he saves her but first he shoves her in #because that’s what she WANTED from him and he HAS to give people what they want otherwise who will care about him who will want him? #ahshdjdjdjkd he’s like….. very deeply fucked up #boat book

[softquietsteadylove]

Vc poderia fazer uma história onde Thena e Gil tem um bebê? Obrigada.

(hello love! I asked a friend for help and she said that your ask is in Portuguese? I hope it's okay the reply is in English! @dalhia28 has a story about them actually having a baby on Ao3 which I always recommend to people looking for a biological child story)

"Gilgamesh, I have--oh."

Gil looked up at her with a sheepish little smile and whispered, "sorry."

The Warrior Eternal shook her head to dismiss his apology. She came into the gathering hall - one of many in Babylon Temple - and sat on one of the benches next to him. "Should I be concerned?"

He chuckled, bouncing the bundle in his arms lightly as it stirred. "Her mother is with Sersi and Ajak. She's the healer among the humans, and she pretty much jumped at the chance to learn a thing or two from them. They said they were taking her to look at some herbs that were maybe not the safest and next thing I know I'm-"

"With child," Thena murmured, eyeing the infantile human in Gil's arms.

"Babysitting," he clarified and corrected. He looked up at her, both of them still somewhat hovered over their tiny guest. "What were you saying?"

"Hm," Thena mused, tilting her head and examining the child. "Oh, just that my turn of watch is completed. I am free."

"Ah," Gil grinned and nudged her gently with his elbow, their armour meeting with a dull and metallic thud. "All mine now--is that it?"

Thena smiled, indulging him and his humour silently. She changed the angle of her head again, "it seems comfortable with you."

Gil shrugged, though, although he made sure that the slight movement that it was didn't disturb the baby. "Got me--maybe it thinks I'm like a big soft bed."

His arms were firm, but they did have a certain softness to them as well. Thena knew that very well, first hand. The baby was snuggled properly into the crook of his elbow, her head supported, her body enclosed in its soft cloth.

"Oh," Gil uttered completely softly. The baby stirred before blinking wide brown eyes at them. "Well hello."

Thena looked at the baby, who seemed caught off-guard at best (terrified at worst). She tensed to stand from her seat, "I am frightening it."

"You are not," he chuckled, catching the edge of the gauzy material attached to her armour and creating a 'skirt' of sorts between her legs. "Just look at her."

She was doing that. Thena was looking at the baby, who was looking at her in turn. Humans were already so soft and fragile; their young were infinitely more so.

"She's not gonna break from you looking at her," Gilgamesh advised her. He had possessed the very same fear she did when he had first encountered human children and their smallness.

But he had surmounted his fear. Children adored him--his playfulness, his humour, his eagerness to bend a rule or two. That and Sersi and Ajak had showed him personally how to handle human babies.

"I do not think her fondness for you extends to me," Thena muttered, although she had to admit that the baby's massive eyes had a certain transfixing quality to them.

"Mm," the baby pressed her little lips together, shimmying in her cocoon of blankets.

"Sh, little one."

Gil looked at her as Thena whispered and shushed the girl, even letting her capture her wiggling finger for comfort. Such small hands, they had. He smiled at her, "see?--you're a natural."

"I would not make any such claim," Thena discouraged, but didn't pull her finger away from the baby. If anything, she pursed her lips at her, encouraging the infant to do the same.

The baby giggled.

Thena smiled reflexively, as if the sound could physically stimulate her own muscles.

"Hard to resist, huh?" Gilgamesh asked gently as she entertained their new ally.

"Indeed," Thena lamented, although she couldn't claim to be too upset by it. The baby waved her arms - still grasping Thena's finger in her little hand - and earned another smile from the Warrior Eternal.

"It's a good look for you."

"Hm?" she looked at him, but he had that expression on that implied that he had been looking at nothing but her since she arrived.

"This," he nodded, still charmed by the exchange between her and the little human. "I daresay you could be fond of human kids."

Thena tilted her head at the young one, who almost mimicked it back to the best of her tiny abilities. "Perhaps...some."

"I think the feeling is mutual," he smiled, now even adjusting the baby to engage her more with their interaction.

"Do not speak for her, Gilgamesh."

He chuckled again, "yes, dear."

She looked at him, also making soft eyes at the young life in his hands. He was so soft at heart, despite having the toughest shell in this and probably any other galaxy. "And you."

He looked at her this time.

She eyed the young girl and then her partner next to her. She tried to articulate the thoughts she had with the words - usually not bountiful - she could muster. "This life--it suits you."

"What, this?" he blinked, bouncing the baby again. He made a face and shook his head, "it's not that--it's not for any of us."

Thena shook her head gently, letting the baby bring her hand closer to her chubby little cheeks. She was so, so soft--even softer than the typical human. "I think Ajak and Sersi would excel in the raising of young."

"Well, when you put it like that."

But she smiled. "Their caring, their nurturing, their gentle natures; I think if they could, they would desire it."

He raised his brow at her, "do you think I do?"

She paused. Perhaps she couldn't picture what Gilgamesh would be like fathering a young one. Something about those two concepts just didn't meet in her mind. But looking at him with the young one in his arms now did warm something within her heart. It was intangible and distant, but she desired to feel more of it. "I think you would make a wonderful father."

Gilgamesh blushed, as Gilgamesh was wont to do. He was sweet, like that.

Thena went back to admiring the guest of honour, whose eyes were drooping despite waking mere moments ago. "Sh, little thing. Rest and grow."

Gil gave her one of his more indecipherable looks, "maybe I could...with the right partner."

Thena looked up at him, their eyes meeting.

"Ada!"

Thena rose, her finger still entrapped by the baby's hand. "Excuse my intrusion."

The mother all but ignored Thena's attempt at formality, giving her a wide and warm smile. "Warrior, please, I would entrust you with this one here as much as I trust the Strong one."

Thena and Gil traded a look before Gil leaned to hand over the woman's child to her. Thena's finger left Ada's grasp, feeling colder for it. She drew her hand back slowly.

"I hope I have not burdened you too greatly, great Gilgamesh."

"No, no, really," he waved his hands in defense of her apology. "I don't mind at all. Thena doesn't either, right?"

The mother looked at her, and she caught a hint of Sersi and Ajak hovering just outside the room. Thena smiled down at the human woman, "she's beautiful."

The woman began to glow with pride, smiling at Thena with all of her teeth, "thank you, Warrior. I must agree."

#Thenamesh AU #I hope it's okay that it's a little different! #I still don't think any of the Eternals can have kids #but they also shouldn't be able to swim so what do I know #anyway I think Thena wouldn't really consider kids a thing #but then she sees Gil with them #sees how happy this new little life makes him #and she thinks I could do that #I could do that for him--with him #she could do anything that would make him that happy #and maybe she would be lying if she said she wasn't at least a little fond of the sweet little human in his hands #Gil and Thena start interacting with more kids #although true to her word Thena doesn't love every baby she meets #especially when they start going places that ask them to 'bless' their babies as gods #she's asked to kiss babies in Athens for wisdom and she's like bye *evaporates* #Ada though...she grows up and Thena and Gil are like her cool uncle and aunt #maybe one day Thena meets another human child - a boy - who reminds her of the first young human she ever bonded with