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burningexeter · 3 months

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[THIRD HEADCANON/FAN THEORY]

In my own insane (but somehow way less insane) take on the infamous (is it infamous, I just want to know that) Tommy Westphall Universe fan theory which claims not only are 500+ shows are in the same universe but they all take place in the mind of a twelve year old autistic boy with a snowglobe (yes, this is a real thing, blame St. Elsewhere), I propose that in this case for me not only are a decent handful of media are set within the same universe as each other but they all take place within the mind of the deadly, morally grey, femme fatale and early 20s sorceress Charmcaster — the Alien Force and Ultimate Alien Charmcaster to be specific.

How I see it is this is the Where The Magic Happens Trilogy Charmcaster (the pitch I did) specifically the second and third series Charmcaster where she's not only way more mature but a lot more darker, sinister, calculated and ruthless where she took all the lessons she's learned and built upon them and grew from them but not in the good way you think of at first. Obviously, as the second and third series go on, she redeems herself and this is teased throughout because in all three shows Charmcaster has a code, refusing to hurt people that she doesn't have to, expressing regret and disgust at herself for [SPOILER ALERT] decapitating Gwen when they first met, going back to when she doesn't need to to save Gwen and her friends when left behind etc.

She's torn between being a hero and a villain.

But here's where her secret universe within her mind comes directly into play, at the end of the first series, a now changed completely Gwen - no longer the spoiled, know-it-all, mean brat she was at the beginning of the series - gives Charmcaster a special snowglobe that originally meant a lot to Gwen when she was only little and in the words of her Aunt Sandra "finally being able to walk".

It turns out in the second and third series, it's a prized possession of Charmcaster that she won't let anyone else get near or even touch even Gwen who gave it to her in the first place.

How I see it is this is where Charmcaster's universe begins, all of the following are figments on her "imagination". Stories in her mind that only she knows of, it's her own personal secret that's all her fun and her fun only. One day when they're married, she'll tell her wife Gwen but for now, this is hers and hers only. That way, it makes her finally telling Gwen more special.

CHARMCASTER'S UNIVERSE

The connecting theme here are a total of three things which fits them despite being tonially and stylistically different from each other:

1). They focus on distinct but very unconventional types of protagonists and even ensembles having to not only fight the odds but face the highest stakes and the highest threats there is. At the same time, the protagonists aren't generic action heroes or the type who'd be the heroes of these scenarios but they have moral codes or just codes in general even if they're not always "good people" and always end up doing "the right thing". Way less of Tony Stark from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Frank Dux from Bloodsport and Steven Hiller from Independence Day and WAAAAY more of The Stranger from High Plains Drifter, The Driver from Drive and Michael "De Santa" Townley from Grand Theft Auto V.

2). The villains or main antagonists are always never one-dimensional or generic stereotypical bad guys. They're all fully-fleshed out or just fleshed out in general villains with their own personalities, histories and motivations. Some of them are genuinely tragic villains out of Shakespeare and some who are full-on villainous are dangerous and intimidating. Hell, some have codes too. They fall straight into the morally grey area with that if they have that. Way less Tonraq from The Legend Of Korra (ugh, that whole show sucks), Fire Lord Ozai from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Senator John McLaughlin from Machete and WAAAAY more of J. Nomak from Blade II, Davy Jones from Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End and Thaddeus Sivina from Shazam!.

3). All of the events in them are either caused by, advanced and forwarded by or sometimes both by the protagonists. They make life-altering decisions that whether good or bad, whether they did or didn't do the right thing, will have massive repercussions. It's never something random as all hell happening to a certain individual, it's the opposite where they did something that caused or triggered this event to happen to them so they really have no one else to blame but themselves.

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:

• The Mummy (1999)

• Saving Private Ryan

• Overlord (2018)

• Inglourious Basterds

• Thief (1981)

• Heat (1995)

• The Long Kiss Goodnight

• The Invisible Man (2020)

• Upgrade (2018)

and that's just too name a few, there's much more to it than that but this gives you a great idea on what's going on in the mind of everyone's favorite teenage sorceress Charmcaster.

#charmcaster #ben 10 #shared universe #tommy westphall #st elsewhere #the mummy #saving private ryan #overlord #inglourious basterds #thief #heat #the long kiss goodnight #the invisible man #upgrade #kari wahlgren #SoundCloud #Youtube

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whoa-an-mcyt-blog · 1 year

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so here's a funny story for you all: ebony wasn't even ivory's idea. it was basically the biggest "headcanon becoming canon" moment in history.

imagine you're an ivory fan in her discord, and it's, like, hours after she came out. there's no lore video from her yet, obviously, and her old videos definitely aren't canon, so what are we supposed to do with the channel specifically dedicated to discussion and theorizing of ivorylore?

make up stuff, that's what. ebony was originally created as a fan art, just called "evil ivory" at the time. the creator just took ivory's colours and inverted them, like all those other "evil versions" that exist in media. it didn't take long for the name "ebonyviolin" to be decided on, and the idea caught on very quickly in #fan-art and #ivory-lore.

(all image ids are in alt text)

ivory also happens to look at what the people in the discord are talking about. it's rare that she'll actually respond, but we know that she looks at things because she reacts to them a lot. she actually did respond to the creation of ebony, but only after people had made, like, 15 fanarts of it. she gave hardly any indication as to what she was going to do with it, but she seemed to approve.

anyways, now imagine you're an ivory fan in her discord again, but this time it's the premiere of the first video on her new channel, and everyone is 90% sure it's gonna be lore, mostly because the #ivory-lore channel literally came back right before the premiere happened. we're watching ivory do basically all we expect from her: casually critting three guys, the unreliable narrator stuff, pretty standard. and then we see another figure near the end, right after ivory walks back into her house she definitely built herself. black and green, dragon (or demon?) wings, otherwise looking exactly like ivory other than the colour shift.

everybody freaks out.

ebonyviolin is canon.

(on a slightly related note: i claim credit for ebony having a british accent because I SAID IT FIRST)

#also HI PEOPLE FROM IVOCORD #i am paintdneon this is my new sideblog #plz follow me i want to see number go up #ivorycello #ivoryblr #ivorylore moment #original post from neon

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scp-l4-clef-alto-001 · 8 months

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Hello. I’m a longtime fan and current author on the SCP wiki, and I wanted to say that your articles have been really important in shaping my headcanon and getting me to join the wiki.

I’ve been writing a Resurrection-adjacent series for a while, and while I included Sparkplug in one tale so far I want to use them more down the line. Do you have any advice when it comes to writing them or are there things you think I should have? Also, sort of related, but is Kitten augmented somehow or is she just Like That?

Watch a lot of military fiction. Band of Brothers, Generation Kill, Call of Duty, etc.

Sparkplug is kind of the opposite of those guys.

Not in the competency: they are extremely competent at what they do, but they didn't buy into the military moto hype. Bullfrog and Skunkboy both had prior military experience, and both of them quit because they couldn't stand the bullshit that comes with being in the military. Skunkboy especially, I think, couldn't fucking stand the whole Marine Corps Hoorah culture thing, which is why he uses "Semper Fi" like it's a swear word.

Do not imagine that this means that they won't fuck up your shit if they have to. But their primary mission is NOT to be the biggest badasses on the planet: their job is to go in, find out what the fuck is happening, and GET THE WORD OUT.

Now, most of the stories about Sparkplug are the times that things went bad and they went hot. Kind of like how most of the stories about Star Trek aren't about the times that the Enterprise was on a diplomatic mission and nothing bad happened. I figure 90% of Sparkplug's missions are to go into a small town, talk to some locals, do a little hiking, and call back to PHYSICS HQ saying, "False alarm, it was just some teenagers flying a drone."

I know you asked about Kitten specifically, but in my head, the four members of Sparkplug's anomalous traits are:

Bullfrog: None. He's just an experienced soldier and a respected leader.

Skunkboy: No anomalous traits confirmed, but he has a nearly supernatural talent for 3D visualization, which mostly manifests in nearly supernatural accuracy with a rifle, but probably has a lot of other uses if you really think about it.

Kitten: Has a unique series of mutations that make her fast, strong and tough, with ridiculous stamina and endurance. She's also over six feet and a half tall and built like a brick shithouse. Downside is that she gets extremely antsy if she has to sit still for very long: she finds it hard to sleep without working out to exhaustion first.

Spider: The Type Blue. Her area of specialty is ancient magic styles, particularly Celtic druidcraft. If she were a hacker, she'd be the type who uses an old style beige clicky keyboard from the 1980s because it just feels better than modern ones.

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mothmanwarble · 6 months

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Hey sorry I keep sending you alot of asks I just like your skylander takes anyways i wanted to ask if you had any hcs or thoughts on giants like maybe the giants themselves the arkeyans stuff like that

Aw, it’s no problem! No need to apologize. Although I don’t respond to asks as quickly as I’d like to, I really do enjoy talking about the Skylanders series!

I consider Skylanders: Giants to be my second favorite game in the franchise and the Giants themselves might just be my favorite “Gimmicklanders” altogether, so I can definitely share a few thoughts on them!

The Giants must’ve been in for one heck of a rude awakening upon returning to Skylands after their 10’000 year exile. The last thing they remembered doing before getting banished was defeating the Arkeyan King. But once they return to Skylands after 10’000 years, they find out that some random guy had not only rediscovered and reawakened a dormant Conquertron, but that same guy was also planning on reawakening all of Arkus as well. They fought so hard to end the Arkeyans’ tyranny, only for history to repeat itself once more

Adding on to that, oh boy. The Giants probably did not trust Chop Chop and Drill Sergeant for a while—Chop Chop especially. A really neat fact about Chop Chop is that during the development of SSA, his early/working name was “The Pandoran Elite.” While it may not be his canon name anymore, I really love the idea of Chop Chop having been a high-ranking Arkeyan soldier (an Arkeyan Elite) way back in the day. Maybe the Giants didn’t know Chop Chop specifically, but they probably had to have run into Arkeyan Elites in the past, which would make them very, very wary of Chop Chop for quite some time. (They’re all on very good terms now, it’s all good. By the time they meet Krypt King, the Giants are ecstatic. Another heroic Arkeyan? Awesome!)

This is more of a general thought than a headcanon but I cannot stop thinking about how suspicious it is that the Iron Fist of Arkus is built with a blinking eye on it, or how the Fist can move on its own, or how it just created the Portal that banished the Giants in the first place. Like. What does it all mean. Why is it a Portal. Why does purple mist leak out of it. Why does it have an eye. Why is this thing alive.

Arkeyans are genuinely so, so, so fascinating to me. They’re robots. They’re mummies. They’re skeletons. They’re robot-skeletons. They’re weapons. They’re people. They have souls. They’re pre-programmed. They have free-will. They lack free-will. They speak. They’re voiceless. They live to serve. They want to be free.

I think a lot about the “Elder Elementals” Story Scroll in SSA that foreshadowed the Giants, and how there’s a part that says “These giants possessed powers of light and darkness within their flesh.” Now, if I were to take this literally…gosh. It would be so cool if there were Giants of the Light and Dark Elements that we just never got to meet

bouncer’s my fave he’s cool

#whissu answers #sevenheven7011 #skylanders #skylanders giants #arkeyans #thanks for the ask!#it uh. it sure got wordy!#but it was fun! i just really love the giants and arkeyans #i hope my ramblings made sense ahaha

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thatvalvefanatic · 2 years

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Here is all the LGBTQ+ representation in Valve games that I could find (Canon/implied/speculation). The mega list!! Feel free to comment any other canon/implied characters or information that I missed and I'll add it on!! Same with anything I got wrong. Just have sources or reasonings!!

Any sources are linked within the text, the words with links are underlined (there are no images so the post isn’t overly cluttered)!! Many of these are subjective and some reasonings here are not 100% accurate but I'm trying to include as much possible representation as I can. Some are very silly!

I’ll occasionally update this with new ideas or findings, so feel free to come back and find the most updated version. The post will always be pinned to the top of my profile!

Spoiler warning for most Valve series ?

Portal

GLaDOS - bi, ace (canon)

GLaDOS is said to romantically like Chell in the Final Hours of Portal 2 (was originally supposed to accuse Chell of cheating on her with a core, Want You Gone is called a break up song, Chell and GLaDOS were supposed to sing a duet, they’re referred to as having a twisted dysfunctional romance), in interviews (in one before Portal 2 released, GLaDOS was called Chell's jealous ex girlfriend, Jonathan Coulton saying Want You Gone was a breakup song), implied in her songs ("even though you broke my heart and killed me" "I used to want you dead now I only want you gone"), and also her voice lines (reanimating the dead, being curious about Chell's behavior, forgiving her in Lego Dimensions, various things about the Companion Cube, etc). In Poker Night 2, she has a line possibly alluding to Chell, “I cheat all the time, but only with people I care about”. Not as canon but one of the former developers (sort of?) made a gay joke with her, where he reposted an image of a Half-Life crate being cut open to reveal a rainbow cake, he captioned it “GLaDOS’ secret”. For liking men, GLaDOS dates Claptrap in Poker Night 2. Jonathon Coulton, writer of GlaDOS’ songs, said about the Lego Dimensions Portal DLC that GLaDOS probably had feelings for Batman. Implying she’s asexual, GLaDOS has a cut line in the Cooperative Testing Initiative in which she says human reproduction is ridiculous (not as related but the “testing euphoria” probably relates more to an addiction than to sexual desire). For further explanation on ChellDOS evidence, humanwheatleyslefttoenail + Ossy Flawol’s posts on it were quite useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJuxvaG5nI / https://humanwheatleyslefttoenail.tumblr.com/post/640814755030908928/why-do-you-ship-chell-and-glados-if-glados-is. Here is another post I recall having good information too. https://sapphofinch.tumblr.com/post/691178346793533440/portal-1.

Caroline - bisexual, asexual (implied)

Caroline is bisexual/asexual as she is apart of GLaDOS/GLaDOS’ conscience was built off of her, and also the possibility Caroline could've dated Cave in her time at Aperture (The writers never clarified, just saying they were never married but there might be “more of a story there”). Caroline and Cave’s art for the Steam 20th anniversary was done over a meme of a couple.

Chell - sapphic (canon)

Chell was originally supposed to have a duet with GLaDOS in Portal 2, GLaDOS also getting called her ex girlfriend (as stated in the Final Hours of Portal 2). Stated in an article by GameInformer, Chell was supposed to get married to a Turret (which was specifically called a bride, the turrets also refer to each other with feminine terms). These aren't as canon, but in Count to Three, a Valve fan-song that got approval to have Gabe Newell and Ellen McLain in it, Chell is drawn as dancing with Gordon Freeman. I’m not sure what that counts for but it’s staying. A little bonus, I headcanon she’s transfeminine because the original Portal protagonist was male before they used Chell! They aren’t the same character but I like to think they are (if the guy wasn’t white).

Turret Bride - lesbian (canon)

There was a cut scene in Portal 2 where Chell would save a group of Turrets and help them so in return they gave a Turret off to marry Chell, who was called the bride turret.

Turrets - sapphic (implied)

The standard turrets themselves are sapphic because most are girls or at least use she/her pronouns (besides Randolph, and probably the defective turrets). They had valentines cards to each other, the Turret Wife serenade can be brought up as well.

Cave - transgender, pansexual (potential)

In Aperture Desk Job, there is a billboard with Cave's face on it with specific parts having the colors of the transgender flag and the pansexual flag. In Perpetual Testing Initiative there are lines implying (in a sense?) he could've liked his assistant Greg (Similar to how Caroline and Cave could’ve had a relationship). There is also a universe where Cave was a trans woman, meaning in a universe Cave is a trans man as he says the possibilities of universes is infinite. In Portal 2 there is implication he could've liked Caroline (they get a lot of strange implication. And once again, Caroline and Cave’s art for the Steam 20th anniversary was done over a meme of a couple.). In both PTI and the base game he makes remarks towards the hypothetical test subjects hearing it (as they're prerecorded), calling them a handsome devil or complimenting them. In the DotA announcer pack, he often makes remarks finding various characters attractive (or commenting on how characters of either gender aren’t wearing pants??). Also in the DotA announcer pack, Cave mentions having a first wife (implying he had other marriages).

Cavina Johnson - transgender (implied)

Cavina is the transfeminine version of Cave in Perpetual Testing Initiative. She is heard protesting her gender and trying to get people to believe she is a woman.

Greg - transgender, achillean (potential?)

Greg might be transmasculine as seen above with Cave, he too had a transfeminine version of himself in Perpetual Testing Initiative. (Big stretch, probably not the intention) how he acts with Cave could also potentially be romantic. Though he also has a daughter, and in the DotA announcer pack, Cave mentions how Greg has a wife (who Cave does not like).

Sally Sue Greg - transgender (implied)

Sally Sue Greg is the transfeminine version of Greg in an alternate universe. She's heard talking with Cavina about the matter of people not seeing them as women.

Bendy - nonbinary (potential)

Bendy was never given a gender in Perpetual Testing Initiative and only has the little stick figure sprite. Same for other Aperture universe games such as The Lab.

Charlie - nonbinary, bisexual (implied)

Charlie in Aperture Desk Job gets no identifying features of any gender and Charlie is a very gender-neutral name. Grady also asks them if they have a wife or husband and then says he'd like to meet them eventually.

Grady - gay (potential)

Charlie and Grady are most likely meant to mimic the relationship that Chell and GLaDOS have.

Cores - agender (canon)

Most (but not all) Cores and robots in the Portal games that you see do not get assigned a gender (or get it/its used on them).

Atlas and Pbody - gay? Aroace? (Implied??)

In The Final Hours of Portal 2 they were implied as a couple. One of Valves artists, Makani, made human designs and made them both the same gender, also stating the robots are pretty gender-neutral. I don't think the robots themselves were actually given a gender though. Also you can color-pick the aro/ace flag off of them. Portal is literally aro/ace now lol!

Mel - sapphic (potential)

Mel and Chell were originally co-op test partners together, if following the same pattern as the co-op bots, then they could’ve been romantic.

There’s a clipboard in various areas of the games that says “Gender Neutral, Polyamory-Friendly Partnership Project”.

Half-Life

Gman - genderless, asexual (canon?)

There's a line in Half-Life 1 from the Nihilanth that says Gman is not man like Gordon is "you are man. He is not man". Gman isn't really human so I don't think gender or sexual orientation matters but a bonus is you can also color-pick the asexual colors from him.

Alyx - bisexual (probable)

Alyx was meant to have a crush on a resistance member who's gender was not confirmed. Alyx in Half-Life 2 is shown to develop a crush on Gordon Freeman. This doesn’t really count but in the Official Portal 2 Guide Book, there was a question to some Valve employees on who would win if Chell and Alyx were in a fight and two people said they'd probably just hang out and go to a bar (I like to think that implies something lol).

Cut Resistance member - nonbinary (possibly)

(Same as above) There was a cut resistance member for HL2e3 that Alyx Vance would get a crush on. They were deaf so Alyx learned sign language to communicate with them. They later on go away from Alyx to someplace else to fight the Combine and Alyx was left to use her sign language with Dog. Gabe Newell did not specify the gender of this character.

Barney Calhoun - bisexual (possibly)

Barney in Half-Life: Blue Shift is implied to have a girlfriend based on his locker but someone suggested he might be bisexual because of a line to Gordon in Half-Life 2, “You're in pretty good shape for a man of science”.

Technically you could also count many of the humans in Half-Life to being asexual due to the suppression field.

The Lambda symbol, in Half-Life’s context is used to represent radioactive decay, but the Lambda symbol has been used historically as a gay pride symbol.

Team Fortress 2

Miss Pauling - lesbian (canon)

Miss Pauling was confirmed lesbian by Jay Pinkerton, one of Valves writers. She's shown in Expiration Date, her voice lines, and the comics to not like Scout back or ever date him. She goes to many women themed events in her time off in the Tough Break update. She had an ad listing in the Teufort Reader on the TF2 website in which she was looking for someone to go on a date with her but did not specify the gender of the partner, unlike Scout who specified he wanted to date a woman. Ashly Burch, Pauling's voice actress, came out as pansexual and added in the post that many of the characters she voiced were in LGBTQ (she is also in DotA as Dark Willow and in Portal as the out of breath core if that means anything for them). In the TF2 comics, Pauling is repulsed by Soldier being naked but was unbothered by Zhanna, possibly implied to develop a crush on her. Miss Pauling might also have a crush on the Administrator by some of her remarks towards her in the comics (And in the possible comic 7 leak documented by Richter Overtime where they almost kiss??). I made a whole post going into more detail on Pauling’s lesbianism, so here it is if you haven’t seen it! https://www.tumblr.com/thatvalvefanatic/691897743464136704/miss-pauling-from-team-fortress-2-is-confirmed-to?source=share)

Medic - bisexual (canon)

Medic and Heavy being a couple is heavily implied! The main TF2 comic artist, Makani, has posted a lot of Heavy x Medic art in the past (slight nsfw warning if you click on the links). Medic and Heavy are shown to be extremely close in their voice lines, (Heavy has more lines for Medic than everyone else, they’re a lot kinder as well), official sfms (they're usually paired next to each other), and in the comics. In the comics they become the implied parents of the monkey from Classic Heavy (and they stand together on the side with the other couples). Heavy had a line to Medic for the Kiss King item saying to kiss him. Robin Atkin Downes, Medic's voice actor, at Pax West 2022 said that he thought Valve should make a love story for Medic and Heavy and later on as Medic "just for the record, I love Heavy!" And posted it to his Twitter. Heavy and Sniper's voice actors replied supporting this decision. Medic and Heavy’s actors also improved a date, once reaching a certain donation goal on the Kritzkast streams. For him being bisexual, Demoman had a line to Medic saying he was having sex with his wife, as well as Makani made a design for her. For further info, here’s a master post I found of people compiling Heavy-Medic stuff! (although it is probably not the fully updated version but it includes A LOT more that I didn’t include here!). https://www.tumblr.com/heavicislit/638295696204857344/more-art-by-makani

Heavy - gay (implied)

Heavy is gay for the reasons for Medic as above, but he has never seemed romantically interested in the other women shown in the series (probably seeing them more like family he should protect).

Pyro - genderqueer (canon)

Pyro in their updates and in Valve interviews has gotten all he/she/they pronouns used on her. He also was joked at having a menstrual cycle in the comics. But they also have a male voice actor and masculine concept art. There was also a lot of implications of different genders for her, such as in Meet the Pyro with the female symbol in Pyroland and showing him liking stereotypical girlish things (plus the “he’s not here, is she?” line in the official captioning/transcript). Their cosmetics can be pretty androgynous. Many character’s use different pronouns or gendered insults on occasion in-game. One thing that inspired people to have the theory they are a girl is when a file of an unused female face turned up around the time of the Sniper vs Spy files, but never confirmed what it was used for. In a QnA, John Patrick Lowrie, Snipers voice actor, was asked what Pyro's gender was and in response he said Pyro was beyond gender. Besides Sniper, Pyro was the only mercenary to not receive genderbent concept art. (There is way more to the Pyro genderqueer theory so if I find a good post analyzing it, I’ll link it here!)

Soldier - transgender (possibly)

My friend brought this one up but Soldier might be transmasculine, as people who are unidentifiable for a name, mainly used in war, will be named Jane Doe (for female) or John Doe (for male) based on genitals. Soldier's name is Jane Doe, but he still refers to himself as a man, meaning he could be transmasculine.

Merasmus - bigender, asexual (implied)

Merasmus in the comics would have feminine terms or titles used on him (for wearing a dress) but never corrected anyone (while still using he/him pronouns on himself). Soldier has a voiceline calling Merasmus an enchantress (used for a woman who uses magic, or used for a woman who is attractive). In a comic he implied he was ace by saying his blood was that of a virgin.

Spy - genderfluid, polyamorous (implied)

Spy has the line "I like my teams like I like my romances: in groups of six". In the Scream Fortress event for 2022, there is a sticker on the briefcase for Spy's taunt, Travel Agent, that has him in pinup type attire with a more feminine/sexualized figure for both Red and Blu team. In the Steam 20th anniversary art, both Red and Blu Spy were drawn in the blue-black, white-gold dresses.

The Administrator - aroace spectrum (potential?)

Administrator shows no interest in relationships of any sort (besides once having a relationship with Saxton Hale). Someone suggested she was aplatonic, which can fall into aroace categories.

Redmon and Blutarch Mann - intersex or trans?? (almost)

In the comic Blood Brothers, they consider creating a pregnancy machine to continue their family line and to continue the fight over gravel, but they are stopped when Gray Mann kills them.

TFC Pyro - transfeminine, intersex (canon)

Beatrice (TFC Pyro) is canonically a trans woman as in the original Team Fortress game she was assumed a guy, having a male voice actor and her design was mostly covered up. She then is a woman in the comics. She technically got gender reassignment surgery from Medic when he put baboon uterus' inside everyone!

TFC Soldier - gay, intersex (implied?)

Ross (TFC Soldier) is implied to like Greg in the TF2 comics before they die by Pyro. The pair talking emotionally about going to make orphanage together and following their dreams.

TFC Spy - gay, intersex (implied?)

Greg (TFC Spy) is the same as the spot above.

TFC Heavy - intersex (canon)

Medic directly told TFC Heavy that he put a baboon uterus inside of him. The procedure works and Medic is left with a baby baboon!

TFC Demoman - intersex (canon)

Same with TFC Heavy, Greg (TFC Demoman) is directly said to have a baboon uterus!

Team Fortress Classic team - intersex (canon)

Like previously mentioned, the TFC team had baboon uterus' put inside them from the TF2 Medic. Most of the team is assumed to be assigned male at birth and assuming none of them noticed this surgery, Medic probably kept in both parts, making them all intersex.

One of Valve’s artists, Makani, used to post a lot of queer art of the mercenaries. Many were genderbent, (or just remained cis/gay or polyamorous). Examples include Spy x Sniper, Heavy x Medic x Medic’s wife, ect.

Left4dead

Ellis - bisexual (canon)

Ellis says "If the laws of nature would allow it, I would bear that man's children." Towards a race car driver. Some believe the voice lines towards Keith make it seem like the two could be in a relationship. Ellis does develop a crush on Zoey, though. Someone suggested his voiceline "My name is Ellis, some people call me El. But I really prefer Ellis 'cause El kinda sounds like a girl's name. But if you prefer to call me El, I guess you can." can relate to being transgender.

Nick - bisexual (possible)

Someone informed me that Nick having a ring on his left pinky finger could be used as a gay sign. Although he has rings on many different fingers, the pinky ring could still indicate he’s MLM in some way (although it can also be used as an indicator of a gang, which we know he was probably apart of one). Nick has been divorced from a woman at least once, going by some of his voice lines.

Rochelle is sometimes referred to with male pronouns for certain actions, but it seems to have been an oversight of forgetting to add female variants.

Dota

Storm Spirit - gay (canon)

Storm Spirit is implied to not like women in his voice lines (Batrider also says his bat likes fruit when the bat hurts Storm Spirit). Him being gay was confirmed by an employee on Steam on a Steam forum.

Legion Commander - transgender, lesbian (canon)

The Legion Commander was originally male in DotA 1/World of Warcraft (?) but was later changed and remained a girl in DotA 2 and it’s comics. Legion in the DotA comic, Call to Arms, is hinted at dating a male Satyr named Belasanno, but this is contradicted when Legion was confirmed lesbian by a Valve employee on a Steam forum (where a user stated she was lesbian and a Valve employee marked it as correct). Not canon but the Valve artist Makani made a post drawing DotA characters as Undertale characters and Legion was drawn as Undyne, who is lesbian as well. (and if you’re curious who Alphys was, it’s WInter Wyvern/Auroth)

Mirana - bisexual (canon)

Mirana worships and is in love with Selemene (other potential relationships were Marci, Wei, or Luna?). She later falls in love with Davion the Dragon Knight, and is implied to have his child.

Luna - lesbian (canon) Luna worships Selemene and is hinted at not liking men in the anime.

Zeus - bisexual, polyamorous (canon)

Zeus in DotA 2 is just Zeus from Greek mythology, who was known to sleep with both women and men, usually multiple at a time.

Queen of Pain - pansexual (probably)

Queen of Pain is a succubus, and while succubi are usually attracted to men, many can be bisexual.

Lina - transgender (kind of)

Lina in DOtA 1 was a male character named Link Inverse. They were inspired by the character Lina Inverse from Slayer. She was later changed to female.

Fymryn - pansexual, polyamorous (canon)

Fymryn in the Dota 2 Dragons Blood anime is seen in a polyamorous relationship with Adara, Dyfed, and Idwal. Adara being a woman and Dyfed and Idwal being men. When she is Mene, she is shown to be very loving to everyone.

Adara - bisexual, polyamorous (canon)

Same as above for the poly relationship.

Dyfed - bisexual, polyamorous (canon)

Same as above.

Idwal - bisexual, polyamorous (canon)

Same as above.

Selemene - pansexual, polyamorous (canon)

Selemene has very intimate worshipers of any gender, previously was dating Invoker, she is also an elf, in which the elven race is naturally pansexual and polyamorous.

Invoker - polyamorous

As previously mentioned, all Dota elves were confirmed polyamorous in the anime.

Mene - pansexual, polyamorous (canon)

Mene is the goddess that came before Fymryn was reincarnated as her. Similar to Selemene, she is seen with multiple gendered worshippers.

Elves - polyamorous (canon)

Most elves in DotA are confirmed polyamorous. Fymryn says that the elves find one on one relationships strange. Other main elves are Filomena and Invoker. They are presumably polyamorous although neither have been shown to have romantic relationships (besides Invoker with Selemene). I can’t find a clip of the scene but someone posted the quotes of Fymryn asking Davion about monogamy.

Pugna - archillian (maybe) This one is more joking but relating to the Undertale crossover art, Pugna was drawn as Sans and Sans is very aro/ace coded (I’m still learning DotA lore so I’m using the Undertale post almost as a basis? For this one anyway). I saw some people say Pugna was gay due to some voice lines but I haven’t found them.

Characters I’ve seen people say are queer but I could not find reasoning: Razor, (gay, people mainly mentioned his voice acting), Anti-Mage (ace or gay), Slark (gay), Wind and Drow ranger (lesbian, but I think it’s mainly fanon or fetish), Axe (gay), Riki (gay, for being purple apparently?? Although I did find this on the importance of purple in the queer community)

Counter-Strike

There are characters missing from this (from both the Asian and American versions of the series, apparently), but this is what I’ve found so far?? Please let me know if you find anything else!

Trapper - transgender?

Many people thought this character was transgender due to the fact that when first released, she used the male variant of voice lines. It was later updated to the female version. The design is very gender ambiguous.

Safecracker Voltzmann - lesbian (implied)

While no voice lines make this apparent, Voltzmann’s design is similar to butch lesbians. She’s very masculine in appearance and has short colored hair which is a popular stereotype among gay people. Her personality is very fun and eccentric, she’s described as being weird, this could be like how queer people are othered for being themselves and seen as different.

This also doesn’t count as much but in the Steam 20th anniversary art, there are two Counter-Strike dudes doing the Barbie and Ken mugshot meme. Usually people used this meme for ships (as well as Ken has a crush on Barbie in the movie).

Characters people have said are queer but I found no evidence for: Female terrorist (lesbian, either CSO (Jennifer?) or CSGO (voltzmann??), Yuri and Ace (lesbian and ace for their names- but the names are obviously for the other meanings of the words), a SEAL Team 6 member (trans, but I assume it would be like Legion or Lina where the character got genderswapped in development. Cannot find who),

Miscellaneous

Steam Pal (Steam Deck) - agender (canon?)

Steam Pal is the Steam Deck mascot for the Asian release. They have not been given a gender so far. The only possible instance was when Steam Pal was referred to as “Pal-Chan”, (the honorific “-chan” in Japanese is often used for young children or girls).

Player character (Ricochet) - transgender (canon?)

There is a cut female model from the game, potentially the player character instead of the male. (They were probably different characters though).

Holly (Back 4 Blood) - sapphic (potential)

(Yes I know Back4Blood isn't directly from Valve) Holly has a pin with a rainbow on her bag, the colors are similar to the pansexual flag. Some people interpret her and Karlee’s interactions as flirting.

Mom (Back 4 Blood) - bisexual (canon)

Mom and Doc are said to be written as a relationship by one of the developers. Mom was married and had children too.

Doc (Back 4 Blood) - sapphic (canon)

Same as above.

Karlee (Back 4 Blood) - lesbian (potential?)

Karlee was stated to have grown close to Sharice (but not clarified in what way) and gave her one of her pins. Some people interpret her interactions with Holly as flirting.

Sharice (Back 4 Blood) - lesbian (potential?)

Same as above.

(Back 4 Blood) There is a line from Jim implying none of the characters are straight in response to someone. Lines being (not exact as I just saw a post about it) “I hope this is straight forward” “Only thing straight around here is how the crow flies”. Of course this phrase is used in other contexts, but it’s funny to think about.

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medics-secret-shipfic-folder · 1 year

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hey this probably won’t make much sense to you, but thank you for your characterization of cheavy. i’m a classic heavy fictive, and i hate how everyone characterizes me either doing horrible things to medic or just doesn’t draw me at all, and it sucks. thank you for making stuff of me i can actually enjoy :] -tf2 heritage posts

First of all, thank you.

Second of all...I really can't blame anyone who characterizes Cheavy as a terrible person because he is a horrible person. In the comics, he was explicitly written to be a villain from the very beginning. He's big, he's intimidating, he's violent, quick to anger - everything about him is meant to be a parallel to the RED Heavy we all know and love.

Cheavy is a villain first and foremost. A very one-note villain at that. He's greedy, selfish, arrogant, and power hungry. He's everything a good tf2 villain needs to be.

I don't say any of this derisively; I think Cheavy is a fantastic villain, arguably one of the best tf2 has ever had and one of the best villains in 2017 overall, since that was the year where media of all kinds saw a massive glut of poorly written villains, especially in cartoons.

Cheavy was written to fill a very specific role. He's the bad guy we all want to see dead because he kicked our favorite characters - the modern mercs. He reminds me a lot of the Sirens from MLP and Jasper from Steven Universe. Everything leading up to his confrontation with Heavy in Comic #6 was a progressive ramping up of stakes until it was finally time for the boss fight.

And that's all Cheavy is. A one-note, highly effective boss fight. That's all he really is and all he needs to be. There's a reason he's no more complicated than that and why the fandom treats him as such. He's just a damn good villain.

Of course, with all of that said, this is where I turn to Take Back The Fortress because this fanfic takes a MASSIVE turn with Cheavy's character, and that makes sense. He's a protagonist in this fic and the fic itself focuses heavily on his and Cmedic's relationship, and this necessitates that he be more complex as a character. His greed, selfishness, and arrogance? All the things that make up his character in the comics? Here, its all treated as a problem that needs to be fixed, which pushes Cheavy through a long character arc of redemption.

Throughout the story of this fic, there's the undercurrent that Cmedic brings out the best in Cheavy, whether he realizes it or not. Cmedic is the catalyst for all this change as he is the one person Cheavy cares about more than anything else. But even then, Cheavy isn't entirely detached from how he is in the comics, mainly because TBTF literally takes place three months after the events of Comic #6.

A lot of Cheavy's character arc and personality in this fic is extrapolated from what little we know about him in the comics + common tfc headcanons. We know he's greedy, we know he's arrogant, we know he has a temper, and we know he's a coward - but where did all of that come from? In the comics it's heavily implied that he's just Like That tm, but in TBTF I decided to link all of that back to one suspiciously absent character - Cmedic.

In TBTF, Cmedic's disappearance 20 years prior to the events of the fic is revealed to be the catalyst for Cheavy's worst behaviors, which are later revealed to be self-destructive in the fic. Here, I've taken what little we know about Cheavy and managed to spin it into a far more complicated personality that fuels his eventual desire for redemption. He has Cmedic back after 20 years, but the drastic changes to his personality are going to drive a wedge between him and Cmedic and its up to him to fix that divide before its too late.

He willingly walked into hell; lets see if he's willing to crawl his way back out.

With that said; I am glad you like Cheavy's characterization in TBTF. Like I said, the way the story is built necessitated that I make him more complex and I'm glad people are receptive to the way I've been doing it.

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #take back the fortress

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cyberdragoninfinity · 10 months

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Could we get lil guy Flip Turner for the character ask meme?

FLIPPP ok this'll be the last one of these I'll do for now; i love chattering about characters but i did like 20 so far and my brain's turning a bit to soup HDFHGDSF honored you guys wanna hear my ygo thoughts so much!!

First impression

Impression now: god i fucking love Flip. I said this when I was talking about Lester but i LOVE when a yugioh character is just a tiny bastard. a Little Fucker of all time. I like that he got CHARACTER GROWTH?!? he is really just part of the friend group from like episode 5 onwards and it's awesome. I love that he's just a fuckign dweeb who's like "im nice now I don't cheat or scheme anymore" and then something happens and hes immediately like "3am back for more cheats and schemes" and this happens like 4 times. he died and went to hell. he got better. the dub really just named him Flip Turner. s-tier.

Favorite moment: WHEN HE BUILT THE LITTLE MEMORIAL FOR ASTRAL I WAS FUCKING FLOORED. SLASH POS. he really cares a lot about his little friend group Astral included and it's sooo sweet ;__; this kid was GRIEVING!!!!

Idea for a story: Flip agrees to help moderate Cathy's Warrior Cats RP forum but the power immediately goes to his head and he starts swinging the ban hammer down on anyone who annoys him. Antics ensue.

Unpopular opinion: I LIKE HIM. HE'S FUNNY. HIS DESIGN IS VERY VERY SILLYGOOD.

Favorite relationship: really just his place within Yuma's little friend circle is so sweet...feels very real to the Middle School Experience. I hung out with a lot of Flips when i was 13 beheheheh. Also I specifically like his dynamic with Caswell....dweebs who are probably dating.

Favorite headcanon: HMM TRYIN TO THINK IF I HAVE ANY FLIP HEADCANONS YET I feel like he chronically cheats at any game he places, not just duel monsters. If he was on Neopets he would be running like 4 accounts to cheat the stock market and rank up Neopoints to wire over to his main. He'd like Kacheeks.

#REALLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST YGO GUYS. AND YOU HAVE HIM FOR THE LONG HAUL #ygo posting #asks #anonymous

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For the ask game: Pixlriffs or Joehills, take your pick :D

gonna do both

pixlriffs:

First impression: oh i love the voice of the recap he’s really chill and delivers these lines excellently

Impression now: cool dude!!! love that he’s into minecraft archaeology!!! vibes good!

Favorite moment: i mean it feels like cheating considering we didn’t actually watch s1 of empires but also the Do Better Pranks monologue is [chef kiss] incredible

Unpopular opinion: i dunno man. i guess it’s kind of annoying when people go “no his new character is descended from/has an Intrinsic Conncection to/Totally Is the copper king guys” because i think the Archaeologist works best if he’s just some guy with no Special Destiny

Favorite relationship: n/a, kinda? i do like when people write him and zloy as a duo in hermitcraft fics

Favorite headcanon: biased towards hopperhawk pixlriffs of course. that’s hardly a surprise.

Idea for a story: Pixlriffs Kicks God’s Ass. in which he suplexes joel for mining out his calcite and also smallifying jimmy but mostly the calcite thing

joe hills:

First impression: hey so who built that giant staircase going upwards over the air at star team’s base and- oh my god, help, he’s hilarious.

Impression now: JOE HILLS!!! he’s the guy who can conquer death! he’s an absolute icon of a dude and i love him

Favorite moment: joe and cleo fail upwards!

Unpopular opinion: guys he’s not actually that hard to write if you’re not trying to wrestle his character into a specific place that it isn’t meant to go. joe is fundamentally just a guy who says things and likes to be a little bit introspective. he’s honestly closer to rAnDoM xD than he is “super deep and wise” but he just happens to say things that make sense if you don’t question them.

Favorite relationship: obviously i love him and cleo’s dynamic but i gotta give a special shoutout to him interacting with xb back in s7. the two of them have a way of talking where they both seem to be trying to talk Around each other to get the upper hand while simultaneously being oblivious to the fact that they’re doing this

Favorite headcanon: joe is completely, totally, 100% human, and this is a threat. you do not want to mess with someone who has been around this long and is still fully human, they will wreck your shit.

Idea for a story: man i dunno. joe gets a Gun joe has an important test in the Chamber with zedaph. despite the chamber results being entirely subjective and personality-based, joe has decided he needs to pass the chamber test with flying colors. yes he studied for this, that’s a very normal thing to do, right

#ask game #yt #empires #hermits #ask #orig #emeraldlapin #solar scraps

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compartmentalisinghmpf · 2 years

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Commentary #1: Parenthood. Free(?) Will. A Sense of Loss. (And a little bit of gender.)

(Ramble inspired by this image.)

Ok, so one of the most interesting things to me about a!Dave as seen in rng is that he desperately wants to be a dad(bro). To every iteration of Dirk, definitely, even though there’s two more than he expected, and one of them is an adult, and the other is an AI. Maybe even (occasionally, briefly) to the two teen versions of himself - kinda against his own will; definitely against theirs, for the most part. (And yeah, the latter there is probably mostly me getting my own headcanon all over stuff. The a!Dave who lives in my head is mostly rng’s, or at least based on my reading of that, but no two versions of a character, in different people’s heads, are ever entirely the same.)

One thing about Dave’s need to parent that I find interesting is where it comes from. Because Dave, like all the main characters of Homestuck, was constructed, by the game, to play a certain role in it/in its preparation (two roles, actually, because he’s a remake, but we’ll get to that in a later post). And I’m kind of... generally fascinated by characters who do not have free will with respect to some very important life choices, and who are aware of that, and do not rebel against it.

The game creates its players and their guardians, and although it is never stated directly in canon, it’s safe to assume that in the case of the guardians - like Dave here - it implants them with a strong urge or need to take care of “their” kid, the player destined to enter the game - for some value of “taking care”. (The game clearly doesn’t bother giving them anything else to help them in their purpose, and the parenting we see from them ranges, unsurprisingly, from somewhat negligent to outright terrible. But the fact that they tend to be bad at being guardians only underlines how strong the urge to be a guardian to their kid, their player, must be. Almost none of these folks would choose to be a parent, if something hadn’t built the need into their very DNA.)

Dave is a bit of a special case, because (in canon) he never actually meets his kid, because it just so happens that Dirk ends up living hundreds of years in his future. And in rng, by the time he enters the story and finally meets Dirk, he has already spent an entire lifetime (up to his death at age 65) alone.

So he’s a guy who has this strong, literally in-built urge/need to take care of a (specific) kid - albeit with absolutely none of the necessary skillls - who hasn’t ever had a chance to actually do that. It’s a lifelong sense of lack, but one he’s barely even aware of anymore because he’s covered it up with a lot of stuff (some of which perhaps kind of doubled as “taking care of” Dirk metaphorically, emotionally, on some level - like the rebellion: gotta make sure there’s a place for Dirk to live, in 400 years!)

And now he’s confronted with the kid, finally, and something in him just wants the life he could have had, if he had really been Dirk’s guardian the proper way, so, so badly. And it’s not gonna happen, because, well, Dirk is a ferociously independent 17-year-old, and also Dave is, well, a mess, and also, you can’t turn back time (well, you can, actually, in HS and in this story - these folks are all related to the literal god of time of their universe. But it would be a really bad idea, lol.)

There’s a tremendous sense of grief under the surface here.

(There’s also a second source for rng a!Dave’s urge to parent, I think, which is that he himself grew up entirely without family, and - this is strongly implied, at least - didn’t really get much of a chance to be a child, ever. And there’s grief, there, too, but it’s even more deeply buried.)

Last, but perhaps not least, I also find it very interesting to see “a strong urge to parent” given as a central character trait to a male character. That’s still not something you see a whole lot. And yes, it’s not idealised, natural parenthood; it’s a complicated and arguably selfish thing, artificial and broken and incomplete. But it *is* central. I like that. I like seeing a male character deal with that, for a change. Because this is usually an issue given (in fiction; but also ascribed in reality) to Childless Women of a Certain Age.

#some of this stuff I already covered in a previous post #what can I say #I just like to talk about this guy #and this particular topic #collected a!Dave spam tag

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arrowverse-next-gen · 2 years

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biggest couple fights

for anon

obviously all couples have their arguments so i’ll just state the biggest ones that have the most story impact (or could have a story impact if anyone ever wanted to headcanon some drama or write a short lil fic about the situation, so like stealing dumplings from each other won’t be included, but bigger more defining things will)

Ada & JJ got into a fight in high school when he was going off to college and she wasn’t graduated yet. I don’t know what the fight was about exactly but it led to a breakup between them that lasted a few months. She dated a random guy for about a week and then dated Delilah Morningstar for the remaining period of time. They’re best friends to this day despite the break up because everyone knew she and JJ would work things out. This is listed because while it’s not a very detailed item, it does bring in more flavor so it’s worth mentioning.

Quincy keeping the hero thing a secret from Ash is a big issue in their relationship, but not the biggest fight. The biggest fight is yet to come because I have a story planned for it but basically, he cheats on her one night while out of the city and he comes home and comes clean about it (they already weren’t doing well at this point in time) so they break up. unfortunately for him, he’s Eliza 2.0 so she’s pregnant when this happens so there’s a lot going on there.

Eliza and Jason get into fights their entire relationship, they were never perfect. I think their relationship is built on the fire passion and less of the romantic passion. they love drama, they’re both stubborn, so their relationship is just them arguing and making up. They intentionally piss each other off just to get a reaction. When they got back together after he came back, they realized that was how their relationship was and decided that it wasn’t healthy so they broke up.

Eliza and Ronnie’s biggest fight was probably before Jason came back because by then Ronnie knew who Eliza was and he knew that given the chance, she’d go back to the person she was so torn up over. But before he came back they would get into fights because she would refuse to be coupley and she’d be very distant and she would try her best to keep him at arms length and not any closer because she was afraid of losing him. He had to break through those walls and so that’s probably their biggest actual fight was him just trying to be there for her and her shutting him down.

Quinn had a shitty boyfriend who cheated on her and used her and so there wasn’t much of a fight, she just kinda got dumped and spent like a week on that before moving on to care more about herself. (said boyfriend has a name i just forget which one it is, i THINK it’s a luthor)

Adam and Sara have a moment because John doesn’t think that Adam is good enough for her. He doesn’t specifically have an issue with Adam, he just knows how the Palmers are and doesn’t really want Sara involved with that since she’s comfortable living her own life in New York and away from all the crazy (even if she has training for it). It’s not really a fight but they do go through a rewrite the stars moment *which is why their tag is rewrite the stars* and so there’s that. they have a romeo & juliet thing going on for awhile.

Ocean & Griffin get into fights mostly when Griffin tells Elena something that Ocean told him and she prints it onto the front page of their gossip blog. Something they work through but it does happen often at the beginning of their relationship.

Christine and Aidan get into arguments ALL THE TIME when they first meet. They were forced to work together as partners, Aidan being the lead detective of SCPD and getting paired with a rookie cop who only got the job because her mom is the boss didn’t sit well with him at first. so they argued a lot. She learned she had a canary cry when fighting with him one night. she almost killed him by “accident”. she says it was an accident.

Miles and Autumn argue because you’re not supposed to date within the gang even though Rush and Vienna date. They have to play it cool around the rest of the group but when the group finds out, drama starts surrounding everything and makes a mess so they argued a lot during that period. They had to have a team meeting to discuss not starting drama about other people’s business and if they can date without causing issues within the team, which is proven that they can because it was others starting the issues, then it’s okay to do so.

#busy month busy month lol #if there's any more i think of i'll reblog and add them #but for now this is what i have #not a lot of BIG fights but also not a lot of fully fleshed out story

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sofiaruelle · 3 years

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Hey Sofia! are you not going to do Sam's and Elliott's outfits anymore? It's been a while and they're the only ones missing, just wanted to ask no pressures

Well....ngl i wasprocrastinating and .......kindda lost interest????

I'm also pretty forgetful so i also completely forget about it sometimes. Sometimes when i do remember, i keep procrastinating some more in favor of doing another thingAhahahahahahahaha *SW E A TS*

I'll try to finish it by the end of the week....month....

#narwhal speaks #a foiled by my own hubris #but seriosuly having dificulty in deciding what to do with sam and elliot.#yeah established sam as a skater boi #but i am not quite satisfied with just being a skater boi #elliot.... gosh elliot #my dilema of giving him a more land based vs sea based aesthetic is aaaaaaa #like do i make him posh dark academia or lose sea pirate #i havent decided how long has he stayed in pelican town for #or built a very specific headcanon back story for the guy #cause thats how i usually build chara outfits #and oher plethera of other excuses #tldr #will try to get it done by end of the month

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zellerysworld · 3 years

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Hey There! Hope you’re doing okay. May I request a Househusband!Sukuna x Breadwinner! Wife headcanons? I think you understand his character very well and I would love to see more from you :)

A/n: thank you so much for the compliment! I hope you like my representation of Sukuna. This will take place in modern times, with Y/n being an office worker. Enjoy!!

『HouseHusband!Sukuna Head canons』

Tags: Fluff, crack, Sukuna x F!Reader

*chef Sukuna has entered the chat*

Okay no seriously this guy can cOOK. And not some regular old chicken fried rice, or making sandwiches- nah this dude cooks TRADITIONAL Japanese style.

He has spent ages figuring out your favorite foods, and then mastering them

But he’s not that good of a cleaner tbh

he attempts though and that’s all that matters :)

You may or may not have gotten into an argument a while back when he tried to use windex to clean the tv, ruining the tv in the process

Sukuna lowkey loves to sew, but if you try to ask him about it, he’d deny it. He’d say he only does it “because the rest of your clothes aren’t presentable”

But he specifically makes you robes like his, in your favorite colors and with pretty designs/patterns.

Sometimes he makes you sweaters in the winter time

When he gives the clothes to you, he always has this serious expression on him that also has disgust on it, and he’s just like “here.” While throwing it at you.

Children isnt really an option considering you work, and sukuna didn’t like kids.

However, you came home early one day and found sukuna arguing with a kid outside the apartments

They were arguing about which ball was better to throw, his or the kids.

You kinda just watched from the window while they argued until deciding to just use both balls on different days.

It made you think he was warming up to the idea as the two of you got older together.

Sukuna likes to talk to the neighborhood watch dads because he can talk about grills with them

When he goes to the store; he gets super aggressive about shopping but at the same time not??

Like he could spend hours in the vegetable and fruit section trying to debate how much cilantro he needs

Sometimes you have to sneakily buy junk food because sukuna only does it if your period is bad and you crave it.

But usually he only buys the healthiest and best of foods for you and him to eat so you both stay strong and healthy.

It’s sweet he loves you so much that he cares about your health, but at the same time you just want some mf potato chips

Okay so sukuna may or may not have accidentally built a mini zoo in y’all’s apartment

Hear me out, y/n

So sukuna is on his way back from the grocery store, having a resting bitch face per usual. Usually even animals are scared of his intimidating looks.

But this one dog, specifically a chihuahua, felt challenged by the look of his bitch face

The chi stood in front of him and in sukunas eyes, this was an automatic stand off

The entire neighborhood saw and warned you that sukuna was going insane the next day

Back to the story though- sukuna and the chi just stared at each other until sukuna said “the milk is going to go bad.” And walked past the dog.

Of course the dog took offense, but also appreciated sukunas bravery to just walk away so he followed Sukuna home

And sukuna respected the dog for being brave enough to follow him, so he just adopted it-

When you got home, Sukuna was sitting in his usual ground spot, but the dog was sitting next to him on the other side of the square table

The conversation started with you saying “what the fuck?” And ended with you saying “oh, makes sense”

So now y’all have a small demon hound

Anyways, sukuna was on the patio trying to tend to your plants while you were at work, but he heard the sound of plastic hitting something for a few minutes

After looking up, he squinted to see a hamster ball trying to make it’s ball over the curb (you can already see what’s gonna happen here-)

Sukuna goes outside and picks the hamster up. He’s wondering how a hamster even got here to begin with, but seeing as he looked hungry, sukuna went to the pet store and bought the hamster some food and a temporary cage

He might be evil and menacing, but sukuna has a soft spot for animals and nature. You being the only human he has a soft spot for.

So sukuna basically adopts the hamster and when you get home, you find your husband sitting at his spot at the table, with the chihuahua sitting in his, and now a random hamster cage in the spot across from the dog

Sukuna has so much audacity that he just looks at you like nothing is wrong in any way, shape, or form

He made you your favorite meal so you ended up ignoring the hamster and just eating

Sometimes you’ll come home to sukuna playing jazz music since it’s relaxing for you after a long day at work

When you have bad days and come home, sukuna will try to relax you with slow dancing, soul food, and giving you messages

One time, his petco coupon expired and he *almost* had a mental breakdown

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Hope you enjoyed!! I’m almost finished with all the other requests to those wondering for any updates. <3

#anime #manga #jujutsu sorcerer #jujutsu kaisen #jjk ryomen sukuna #sukuna x you #sukuna x reader #sukuna ryomen #ryomen sukuna #jjk #jjk sukuna ryomen #jjk anime #headcanon #house husband #crack post

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tiredspacedragon · 3 years

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Happy FUCKING 810NICLE Day, y'all! I've got a lot of stuff I want to post today, so I'm getting started at the end. Have some Stars revamps. Or, total redesigns, really. Built from scratch in a set-plausible design intended to stick as closely to their original looks as possible while still fitting into the scale and aesthetics of Bionicle's later years.

Tahu was designed as a hybrid between his original Toa Mata appearance and the aesthetics of the Adaptive Nuva. He's an Inika build, representing that the Adaptive Armour is (partially) active, but has the slimmer silhouette of his Mata days (Plus a back gear, if you can believe it. It's not visible in any of these pictures, but it's there. Doesn't do anything, but it's a fun little decoration). I wish I could have given him fully orange limbs to match the set better, but the red hardly looks bad. I'm particularly proud of how I managed to incorporate the Stars armour pieces on the larger build, especially since it means I can do...

...this. All six of the original Golden Armour pieces still fit perfectly onto this Tahu, though I've taken the liberty of swapping out the shield for a bigger, more practical piece. He's very shiny.

Gresh has slimmed down a lot since his days as a Glatorian. In-story, I imagine this would be a result of ditching the ornamental, overly showy armour worn by most Glatorian in favour of lighter, more effective combat gear that compliments his new Air powers. Like Tahu, I was able to carry over his Stars set armour, though not quite as elegantly. He's a bit of a stick figure, but I still love him, especially since he's the only one of the six whose colour layout is basically exactly the same as his official set, part for part, with the exception of a black neck.

2010 Takanuva is supposed to be the Toa of Light in his normal form, just with his colours altered to camouflage himself as a Toa of Ice to avoid drawing attention to himself. So, here he is scaled up into a Metru build to keep him at the proper size. I didn't feel like painting anything here, so his torso's colours are off, but I can't say I care that much. He also has a working gear function, sooo...bonus!

Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I always thought it was ridiculous that Takanuva would discard his Power Lance, an amazing tool that not only channeled his powers, but also amplified them, in favour of the Twin Light Staffs, which do nothing of note except exist as a pair. So, have this headcanon: At some point during the reign of Teridax, Takanuva's Power Lance was broken. Unwilling to surrender the advantage the tool gave him, Takanuva fashioned the broken pieces of the lance into the Twin Light Staffs, specifically opting for two as a nod to the twin Power Swords traditionally wielded by Av-Matoran. Thus is the thought process for using Air Sabers as the heads of his staffs in this revamp.

Nektann is a Piraka build. And that's about it. I kept his hands, feer, and weapon from his set form, and slapped 'em on a basic Skakdi body. Took a bit of work to get his head on, but nothing too wild. After that, it was just a matter of attaching his spines to his back and arms and he was done. Technically, Nektann is supposed to be larger than the average Skakdi, but I haven't figured out a way to make that look good as of yet, so this is all I've got for him, for now.

Also, in the realm of revamps that are just tweaks to existing sets, have Winter 2009's Skrall, now in lime green and without a shield. New feet though! Yeah, this one isn't terribly creative on my part, but it is what the figure should look like, canonically speaking, and that's what I was going for, so I'm satisfied.

At least this guy gets the satisfaction of being the only one of the bunch with a launcher.

And finally, the Rahkshi of Heat Vision, alternatively and unofficially known as Zirahk. The Rahkshi design, oddly enough, was not difficult to translate into Inika scale at all, thanks to the pieces of the Stars set. The neck plugs into the front of an Inika torso with ease and the spine attaches to the back just as easily. There's even enough room to wedge a little Kraata of Heat Vision in there. I'm still amazed I have one of those. Anyway, the big challenge here was the size. Did you know Rahkshi are supposed to be 9 FEET TALL?? Because I found that out only recently. Naturally, a stubby little Rahkshi was't gonna cut it, I had to make this lad TOL.

And as you can see, it's still too small! As is, Zirahk is taller than an average Inika build; not quite as much as it should be, but it's as good as it's gonna get, methinks.

And to close, another group shot. Once again, happy 810 everybody. More to come.

#bionicle #810 #bionicle stars #tahu #gresh #takanuva #nektann #skrall #rahkshi #revamps #now they have knees

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votederpycausemufins · 3 years

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Welp, made another thing for @petrichormeraki ‘s Hermit!tommy au. be warned that this is only a part 1 cause i haven’t finished the whole thing and i need to get my computer looked at so i won’t be able to finish it yet but here’s some of it at least

Disclaimers here are that I only know the general idea of Xisuma’s base and that there’s a honey farm somewhere, but I took liberties with how it is for the story. Also, headcanon that I made specifically just because I want it to happen, canon deaths that don’t end up with a ghost make the person lose a piece of their soul until it can’t support them fully anymore. Then that piece ends up somewhere else. Maybe that’s why the compasses work. But more I just want something like what happens in this fic. For the hurt/comfort.

When Tommy first joined the Hermits accidentally, he hated being around Xisuma. Not only was he the admin of the server, the one who held the most power, but for whatever reason, this guy decided to look like a bee. It was worse when Tommy learned he almost changed up to look like a Strider, but then just went back to a bee. At the very least it wasn’t easy to run into the guy.

It was more the problem of his base. The coolest places and the ones Tommy most liked to visit were the ones in the jungle, especially since the old base he was living in was built there. With no elytra, at least not one he used for more than gliding, Tommy got lost when in the more natural parts of the biomes. And when that happened, he tended to accidentally find Xisuma’s base.

So much of it was bee themed that Tommy disliked it. It reminded him too much of what he left behind, but couldn’t get back. Having the compass was as much as Tommy was willing to have to remind him.

But one day Tommy got killed when he wasn’t being careful. He wasn’t too worried about it, especially after a message in his new communicator had a message from a hermit who picked up his stuff and put it in a chest. They didn’t really have the inventory space to bring it to him and we’re busy enough they couldn’t stay, but it was fine. A chest was the standard.

But right now, the problem was getting to the chest. Not only was it somewhere in the jungle, but it was also most of his gear. Tommy didn’t really have many good backups, never wanting something that someone could take, even though he knows the hermits would never do that. Probably. He’s still wary just to be safe. The most he has in storage is some gold armor for when he goes into the nether.

Tommy donned a mixture of gold and worn iron armor and a mostly used sword to get his stuff. He’s sure he knows the way to his gear until he doesn’t. With the monsters tougher than at his old home, Tommy is worried about dying again as the sun starts to set. He rushed through the jungle a bit faster until he ran into it. Xisuma’s base. Tommy was going to pass it by when monsters started to spawn, with him getting really unlucky and one zombie spawning with full enchanted armor.

Not wanting to die, Tommy scrambled his way into Xisuma’s base. He sighed once he was in a safe place, though upset that he would have to spend the night in such a place.

With nothing much better to do other than sitting, which Tommy hated doing, he started to walk around and explore Xisuma’s base. Close up, it was actually okay. The bee theme designs weren’t as prominent, and all the towers and buildings had farms inside them which were fun to watch. The one problem was the honey farm. This one definitely had a lot to do with bees. Tommy was going to just run by it when a bee popped out.

Tommy actually paused at that. Then smiled. Bees only game out during the day, which meant he could leave. He smiled and ran out of there and went outside to see… it was still night?

Now confused, Tommy went back to the bee farm. He was beginning to think maybe he just imagined it, but then he saw the bee still there. He watched as it kept bopping its head against the glass, ignoring the flower with it and not going back in its hive.

Puzzled, Tommy just watched the bee until he heard the noise of someone using a firework. The sound caught Tommy’s attention, and he looked away. When he turned back, the bee was gone. After looking there for a few seconds, Tommy shrugged and started to walk away. But even then, he still kept looking back, so much that he didn’t notice Xisuma until he ran into the man.

Tommy froze up when he saw the admin standing in front of him, but instead of anything Dream might have done or said, Xisuma spoke in a kind voice. “Oh, sorry Tommy, I didn’t see you there. Were you looking for me?”

Tommy didn’t speak for a little bit until he heard the pop of a bee leaving its hive. “Uh, I just got lost and holed up here, cus I died and was trying to get to my stuff and that one guy isn’t around to sleep. Also one of your bees is fuckin’ weird.”

Xisuma scolded the boy for cussing, then offered to help Tommy get to his stuff. He mostly ignored the bee comment until there was the noise of something softly hitting glass again. Xisuma walked over to the farm and Tommy followed.

“See! Isn’t it supposed to not do that?” Tommy asked, to confused by the mob to be scared of Xisuma or want to leave the bee area.

Xisuma nodded slightly, watching the bee’s odd behavior. “Maybe it somehow got linked to another hive or nest and is trying to get there.”

“So what, you’re gonna let it out?” Tommy asked, bristling a little at the idea.

Xisuma nodded again. “It’s probably the only way we could be sure. I can always breed up another if it leaves.”

The admin took out a silk touch pick and broke the glass. The bee flew out and the glass was replaced so the other bees that had not left the hive just yet wouldn't also escape. Instead of the bee trying to fly out of the base, it flew towards Tommy and hovered around him.

Tommy went rigid as the bee flew towards him. He was sure it would keep going, but instead it stuck around him. “What the fuck do you want then?” He asked the mob even though it couldn’t respond. “I don’t have any of those prissy flowers so bug off.”

But the bee didn’t listen. It seemed quite pleased to stick with him. Tommy nearly drew his sword to kill it, but he wasn’t sure he could bring himself to actually his the thing with what it represented to him. Plus Xisuma might get mad and it could break his farm. “Can you just help me get my stuff, maybe it’ll leave once we’re outside.”

Not knowing what else he could say, Xisuma agreed to that. He could tell that something about bees was a sore subject for Tommy. The way he stiffened up around them and also around him. It was part of why he was so surprised to see the boy.

After a bit of walking, Tommy reached the chest of his gear and equipped and stored everything in his inventory. The bee happily bopped up against him and once again Tommy thought about killing it. But instead he just started wandering home, the bee following right behind.

The following day, Xisuma showed up to check on Tommy. While he wasn’t please to see the admin, Tommy at least accepted the gift of a bee hive, especially after his apparent new pet bee would not stop bopping its head against him. Hopefully the hive would give it somewhere to live and it would stop.

Tommy thanked Xisuma for the gift before shoving him out the door, glad for the lack of resistance the admin gave. Then, turning back to the rest of the hobbit hole he moved into, Tommy plopped down the hive right in the middle of the room. “There. Go in there and stop bothering me.”

But the bee didn’t listen, it just kept bopping it’s little fuzzy head against Tommy. Angry now, Tommy grabbed the bee, held it eye level, and looked right into its eyes. “You’re going to stop annoying me and go in that hive, got it?! I’m sick of you flying around me!”

He then let the now trembling mob go and it flew into the new hive. Tommy almost felt regretful about yelling at it. Almost. Grumbling, he went over to his bed to rest now that there wasn’t much to keep him up. Tommy set down his gear nearby, and placed his closed compass on the bed.

With all this bee stuff, Tommy couldn’t help but look at the object. After hesitating for a few moments, he grabbed the item and opened the lid. Inside, the needle danced wildly, not sure how to point with its location in another dimension. Tommy gave a sad sigh and was about to close it again when the needle stopped spinning. It clearly pointed in one direction for a few seconds. Tommy’s eyes widened and he started to turn towards where the needle was trying to guide him, but then it went back to dancing about.

Tommy looked at it confused, before realizing it still might change again. Tubbo may have found a way here. He ran in the direction the needle had been pointing and tripped over the new hive he had placed, cursing as he hit the floor. He looked back up at it to hit it once or something, but the compass has steadied itself again, the needle pointing the other direction, right towards the hive.

#hermitcraft #hermit!tommy au #hermitblr #mcyt #tommyinnit #tubbo #minecraft bees #xisuma #dream smp

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dimonds456 · 3 years

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*sees your tags about being salty about suf spinel*

YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT AND NOT SHARE YOUR SALT /LH

Okay, but I'm warning you, you asked for it.

LONG POST WARNING.

LIKE A REALLY, REALLY LONG POST WARNING.

Dimonds456 Presents: How They Did My Baby Dirty: An SUTM and SUF Analysis on Steven and Spinel (Told by a Progressively More and More Angry Narrator)

THE CONTEXT: There was a post talking about how you think a character will fix everything, but then they wind up making it works. My tags were "#*looks at suf spinel* #I am still salty about that like the bitch I am fghdjskgfa"

Grab some water, guys.

Let's start by talking about Steven for a moment. In the original show, when we were following him as a 12-14-year-old, we watched as he built up trauma and then learned how to hide it expertly well, to the point that most of the audience didn't even realize he was struggling.

You can actually pinpoint the seconds he makes those decisions, too. The best example is in "The Test," when he's storming up to the gems. He's pissed. His fists are clenched, he's got that anime eye shadow overlay on his face, he's frowning, all that. the Crystal Gems are clapping for him and lying to his face, and he KNOWS they are because he overheard them talking about how it was "impossible for him to fail" that test (- Garnet).

And yet... he also overheard them saying that they're just trying their best. They don't know what he needs. They never really have. No one is sure. So, Steven realizes that by picking a fight, he would just be making it worse for them because they would know they messed up, and nothing gets solved, and everyone gets more depressed and Amethyst and Pearl go back to fighting each other and- well, you get the picture. He doesn't have a full understanding of what's going on, so his kid brain went "so I can either be angry at them and cause problems, or I can tell them I did a good job to make them happy."

"I can lie to make them happy."

He storms down there angry, still mulling this decision over. He drops to the floor, frowning and pissed, and says "I can't believe you guys." He is so close to yelling at them, and yet, when he looks up at them...

"That was so... INSANE!"

You never would have been able to tell. It was right there. That moment. And then he never stops. For the ENTIRE REST of the series, he NEVER STOPS. He puts the Crystal Gems above himself every time. Think Rose's Scabbard, The Message, The Return/Jailbreak. The Cluster. Peridot. Dealing with Jasper. The zoo arc (ESPECIALLY the zoo arc). Aquamarine. Then pretty much the entirety of Season 5.

(NOTE: I went back and rewatched that scene for the screenshot. There is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it lip tremble in there too! D,: )

He lives for the people around him, and not for himself. Almost never for himself.

Put a pin in that.

Now, let's look at his maturity. People thought that was just him being mature, right? That he grew up. No. That was not it at all. He was learning from his own behaviors as well as the people around him, and building up this idea that he had to "fight to be everything that everyone wants [him] to be when [he's] grown" (- Steven, the extended intro).

Yes, he matured, but not because of that. He started making various decisions to benefit the group that oftentimes he wasn't fully comfortable with, but something he believed would be better for everyone.

Put a pin in that.

Then, later in Future, we see it all manifest. He is selfless to a fault, to the point that he can't think of himself in a positive light in the sense that he's good. We see it a couple of times, but especially in "Prickly Pair," when he vents to Cactus Steven about everything that happened. He feels useless, which is taking a toll on his mental health.

"Why do I need to be needed?" He needs to be needed because that's everything he was as a kid. His entire IDENTITY rests on his ability to help other people, no matter what happens to him. He literally sacrificed himself for them countless times (the big one of course being the Aquamarine incident), and now as a teenager, his whole sense of self is wrapped up in this need to get up and do something to make the world better.

And when he can't make the world better, his world falls apart.

Put a pin in that.

Now, let's talk about Spinel, the moment we've all been waiting for.

Spinel, as a gem, was made specifically to be a friend. That is her niche, and her purpose. Her reason for existing. At first, she and Pink Diamond got along very well, as shown in the flashbacks right before Drift Away plays (I headcanon she has illusion powers and was literally projecting her trauma, but that's a completely different post).

She and Pink vibed together for who knows how long, until one day, Pink started to not like being around Spinel anymore, finding her annoying and childish. We don't know what really caused the switch, just that it did happen (but of course, I have headcanons for that, too). Spinel never realized until it was FAR too late.

Steven actually describes his younger self as annoying at one point during the Diamond Days arc, when he decides to throw the ball, so I'm legally allowed to make this comparison.

Steven and Spinel were the SAME. They were both young and dumb, and something that at least a few people found annoying. People put up with their BS though, since they cared about them. But, while Steven realized this and matured because of it (or bottled up his emotions, to each their own), Spinel never did. She never matured. She was never given a chance.

In the movie, we saw her as a child, and watched as she played with Pink and never tried to be or do anything else, to the point that Pink Diamond thought to realize she might be struggling (and maybe Spinel didn't, either!).

She lives for the people around him, and not for herself. Almost never for herself.

And when she can't be friends with this one person, her world falls apart.

Sound familiar? It should. I literally pulled from things I said earlier lol.

Spinel and Steven are mirror reflections of each other. Reset!Spinel is 14-year-old Steven, completely devoting her entire self to one idea. Steven's was helping others no matter what, Spinel's was serving Pink no matter what. Spinel is like a combination of 14 and 12-year-old Steven in this sense, honestly. Goofy, without a care in the world, except one thing: the people around her. She would do anything for Pink, just as Steven would do anything for his family.

Now, Pink Diamond left Spinel. We all know this story. She left Spins there in the garden for 6,000 years because she grew more mature and started a rebellion, effectively forgetting about this one gem she kinda stopped caring about standing there.

Personally, I don't think Pink had any malicious or even intentional intent in that, but this ain't about her. This is about how Spinel continued to sacrifice herself for Pink, even when Pink didn't need her to anymore. She wanted to please Pink 24/7, all day every day, to the point she self-sacrificed and stood perfectly still for her for millenia.

Now, back to Steven. The gems don't need him anymore in Future, right? They've all grown up and matured and headed off towards their own futures, effectively stranding him alone in terms of self-identity and self-worth. But he stays there, ready to assist at the drop of a hat, or- in Future's case- the call of a phone.

Episode 6 anyone? The one everyone says shouldn't be in Future? That it should have been cut to allow more focus on Steven himself? The fusion episode? YEAH. THAT. He is running himself RAGGED to try and help others, to give himself a purpose. He is self-sacrificing. (He's a professional, don't worry. /j)

Steven metaphorically planted his feet down and decided that he was going to devote himself to the people around him.

Spinel's feet were literally tied down soon after she made that very same decision.

Okay, enough with the backstory. Time for the salt.

In Future, Steven is at his lowest low. He is running to the Diamonds for help, to see if there is SOMETHING they can do to help him. And we first see Spinel.

Spinel has been through the ringer on a lot of the same mental problems Steven himself is facing. She self-isolated, watched as everyone grew up and left her, and then began to lash out because of it. She understands what he's going through. We even see her concerned as Steven starts to tell her why he's there.

Spinel takes him from Diamond to Diamond, until he's running out of White's room in a blind panic. Spinel is able to catch up with him, and Steven realizes the same. SHE GETS IT. He turns around and says "Hey, you used to have vengeful thoughts!"

Spinel replies "Ohhhhh yeah, but I don't have 'em anymore."

"How did you make them stop?"

She then goes on to sing Change to him, effectively cutting that conversation short.

On paper, that sounds very in-character for her. She's goofy! And that is what worked for her! But the problem is that they had to dumb her down in order to make that character decision work. In the movie, she was shown to be observant and able to put two and two together, even if she often jumps to conclusions (see her being the one to figure out that the gems needed to remember their "pieces," as she remembers the Garden, her re-realizing what Pink did, and her meltdown later when she reactivates the injector).

Spinel is smart. It should have been in character for her to realize that Steven was panicking just as she had been, and needed to be talked to gently. But no. Instead, she starts belting out Change, which given Steven's situation, would not work for him.

At the very least, she would have started doing little tricks or started trying to get him to join a game, which would have taken his mind off of it (to her anyways, that wouldn't have worked either), which then could have prompted further discussion.

Then, once they finally start talking, Spinel could have been able to share some legitimate advise. She was hurt and lashed out. What worked for her was opening up to others and letting them in, learning to trust again (which Steven also has problems with- he can't trust that the Gems won't break down the second he turns his back. Trust does NOT equal love, there is no doubt he loves them to no end), and allowing other people in.

That is what Steven needed, too. He needed to let his guard down and just talk to someone. Sure, Spinel was not going to be a fix-all, but she could have at least offered some insight on what to do.

She UNDERSTANDS him. They are a reflection of each other.

But instead of offering help, Spinel made it worse. She was dumbed down to allow the rest of Future to happen, to make Steven feel even worse. Because- and here's the kicker- because the one person who MIGHT understand him doesn't, that means there's no hope for him.

At least, that's how he sees it. And so, the denial- and "Everything's Fine"- begins.

Here's the thing, though; they DIDN'T NEED to make that decision. If the Crew wanted to have Spinel not understand Steven, then draw the line of her being a Gem from Era 1, used to the Diamonds shattering people.

Steven has killed Jasper and revived her at this point, so maybe Spinel offers that at least he's trying to get better, just like the other Diamonds! See, they're doing so great now! And then that makes him feel worse since he IS trying to do better, but is only failing, while the Diamonds- who were MADE to be nasty dictators- are doing better than him.

The Diamonds shattered a lot of people, and they're doing better than Steven, who has only shattered one person, and not even on purpose. How horrible is that?

Then boom. THERE'S your angst, with a much smarter, more helpful Spinel.

Look, I knew going in that Spinel wasn't going to be able to help. The finale had to happen somehow, and we hadn't seen Wormy Boi yet. I have always been a storng believer of the corrupted Steven theory, so I knew it was bound to happen. But I was hoping that Spinel would at least try. But she really didn't. She just brushed him off, offering really loose advise that didn't even fit his situation and thinking that would be enough.

No. It's not.

I can see where the Crew was coming from. I still love that episode, and I love seeing Spins in it (until that exact moment). This is probably the only thing in SU that genuinely gets me mad. Or, well, maybe not mad, but definitely annoyed and- you guessed it- salty.

I have an unfinished fic where I kinda delve into Spinel's head for that episode called "A New Start". If you really want my thoughts on where Spinel's head was at, there's a bit in there that really explains it. In the fic, Steven decides to rejuvenate himself and brings Spinel along with him, and that's all the context you need for this.

I cannot explain that moment in the climax of the episode, though. Maybe she thought it would make him feel better, or that maybe he really did just need to open his eyes and see the error of his ways (which doesn't make sense, he KNOWS what he did). Maybe she thought that being silly would help somehow.

But you'd think she'd learn from her time with Pink as she grew more annoyed with her, but apparently not. Or maybe she would realize for a second that being loud and annoying was bad. Or maybe she doesn't learn.

Either way, it- and she- was dumb. And they did my baby dirty.

*drops mic and walks away*

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