#or so she'll have you believe

[writer-room]

I've decided the only reason Lloyd, known descendant of dragons, didn't tell this to Egalt, who refuses to train non-dragons, is for the same reason he never mentioned he's the First Spinjitsu Master's grandson. It just never came up. Nobody asked him directly about it. And besides, he's only like, one-fourth dragon, so does it really count? He doesn't look like a dragon, and he has never in his life considered himself a dragon. Mentioning his ancestry to Egalt probably would've just made him look like some hotshot, or make him more annoyed. There's no need to bring up such a silly little fact. He's sure it won't be important later.

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago #dragons rising #lloyd garmadon #first spinjitsu master #egalt #text post #talk #dragon lloyd garmadon #the real likelihood is that the writers just quietly brushed that little fact aside (im so sad abt it) #but i think its infinietly funnier that lloyd went down the spinjitsu master route #it just never came up. no one asked. and hes not a COMPLETE dragon so like. why bother telling egalt #the whole time i was waiting for egalt & rontu to b like 'WHO in their SPINJITSUDAMED MIND trained you' #and theyre just like 'oh this guy named sensei wu hes lloyds uncle hes like a master' & egalt is like 'sounds like bs' #then arin as a huge nerd pipes up like 'AND HES THE FSM'S GRANDSON :D' #to which rontu and egalt break their necks whirling around like 'THIS SCRAWNY LITTLE PUNK IS W H A T' #egalt straight up refuses to believe it. rontu is very quickly doing the math & freaking out abt it #wherever these guys are from it might not even be ninjago so like they might not even know the fsm had sons #rontu: im sorry. so youre the grandson. you are aware your grandfather was half dragon half oni. right? #egalt in the background 'THAT BOY IS N O T A DRAOGN I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT' #lloyd blinking owlishly like 'oh yeah i guess so. im only like 1/4th tho' #'BOY YOU ARE 1/4 OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL DRAGONS IN FCKING EXISTANCE' #'YOU ARE THE GRANDSON OF MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMASTER' #the midlife crisis these dragons would have. the crisis the kids would have realizing this #lloyd now cannot go 3 minutes without someone asking 'is there any world-shattering fun facts abt yrself you wanna share' #the fun part is that lloyd forgets all of those informations bc its like. a normal day for him #no one tell wyldfyre she'll flip

[yore-donatsu]

An ordinary day for an ordinary little girl

(Theo the monkey boy is the @doodlesdreaming's OC)

#Crossover #Dead Cells #DC the King #King Conrard #My Headcanon #OC #original characters #Tetra #Theo the monkey boy #artist on tumblr #A Castaigne's rapid appearance #I can imagine him being a proud person #believing himself to be better than others but a coward when it really counts (like Gilderoy Lockhart if you want a better comparison) #Not so egotistica - as he sometimes tries to do the right thingl #as he sometimes tries to do the right thing #Let's move on to Tetra - the sweetest girl in the world #She'll kiss anyone she likes. For people she doesn't know and/or doesn't like - she'll be very polite #giving a more classic greeting (a bow) with a big smile #She's always barefoot. Much to the displeasure of her parent Hyde #And why is her hair done up in the front and not in the back ? #Hyde tried to discipline her hair but it's so long to style that they finally gave up #Tetra doesn't care about her hair. She finds them even more beautiful and atypical like this #She's an 8 - 10 year old and it bothers her too when it takes a long time to do her hair #Conrard - seeing the little girl's kindness - wanted to adopt her BUT Hyde wasn't for it #(imagine a “fight” between “daddies” and her watching the showwaiting for it to calm down) #She could so easily have been the daughter he never had and never will have... AH ! Oops ! Spoiler ! >P #I'll leave you with this information (I'll have to draw this one day !)

[dootznbootz]

@thehelplessmortals shared this with me and...Penelope coded.

She definitely tried to gross out Odysseus in a dumb "You think you can handle me, idiot? >:) " way. (She's stubborn and in denial at first. When she realizes she actually likes him, she's a mess.) And while eating raw fish is normal for naiad-born in Sparta, when she learned Odysseus wasn't used to naiads in daily life, she just really went wild with it.

He's just staring at her kind of expressionless and she thinks "Ha, see? You don't really like me."

But he's just like

"You like carp? Cuz if you do, we got plenty on Ithaca! Many more fish too! And if we don't, I'll get you some!"

And she's annoyed because her plan didn't work. Girlie is self-sabotaging even though she thinks he's neat.

#this is normal for naiads but she also doesn't have impulse control. She'll jump in mid-convo. #...part of the joke is that basically no one eats carp because they're fucking disgusting :D same with catfish...at least where I live #Helen: “uh...I could just shock the water and then you could get them.” #Penelope: “Where's the sport in that?! >:( ” #It's not like a “playing hard to get” she just genuinely doesn't believe he could possibly like her and being a shit about it. #“Helen's supposed to get the happy ending. not me” (which Helen even is like “you're an idiot”) she eventually gets #her act together :D she's overwhelmed right now. especially since he's just head over heels and just... a LOT as he doesn't know #what to do with these feelings either and she gets mad at him for constantly talking about marriage “The more you say it. the less I wanna" #especially with his reputation to bully and fuck with people. and the fact that he lied to her so much when they first met. she doesn't #trust him. He's overwhelming her and then she's finally like. “if you're so interested. we're doing things at my pace.” then things get chi #they're both so used to putting up their guard that they can't genuinely believe this could be something wonderful #she actually is kind of afraid of the fact that “...Do you just have a thing for Naiads?? since you're not used to them?” are you weird? #but he interacts fine with other naiads. and isn't affected by Helen. #shot by odysseus #Mad rambles #my headcanons #odypen #btw. she chew through bone technically :D fish bone but bone #kind of want to make a “moodboard for the Water Wife” #penelope #Water Wife

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

13, trying to prevent yaz from spiralling when they get separated: i need you to do a deepdive into eschatology

#fghgjhjhggh #'yea i know this sucks babe but we'll figure it out the fate of the world is on your shoulders i believe in you kisses <3' #like thats where you'll end up right #'find out when the aliens come try and take over' #eschatology and death cults and conspiracy theories probably #forced to sift through like centuries of that stuff for years on end trying to find the Real in all of it #and you cant.......stop. bc the world will end #i dont think you come out of that.................normal #even with the best starting condition you dont come out of that normal but yaz is like #functional only by virtue of her circumstances i think #she looks fine bc shes standing next to 13 #i dont think shes normal under the surface #i dont think 4 years of apocalypticism left her untouched #dan either i mean i dont think anyone comes out of that untouched but these two are like barely keeping it together beforehand #can you imagine how WEIRD theyve become #can you imagine how obliviously and kind of unsettlingly weird they'd be in support groups #the others would get it like sure none of us are really normal anymore but like #i think they'd be weird #4 years of having to depend on each other and not knowing if you'll get back home and having to take The End Times seriously nonstop as a #matter of urgency and duty #and then losing the third member of your party? #dan and yaz will be so weird and fucked up #iknow im repeating myself but im just trying to put myself in the frame of mind of #having to take intepretations of the end times seriously for 4 years #when youre already like a lowkey suicidal person to begin with #i think if yaz hangs out with 14 she'll say such weird and fucked up things entirely obliviously and he'd be like O.O #she probably still has 1900 habits that show up unexpectedly #or like just miscalibrated. has to take a trip to another country and takes a train bc she forgets planes exist #has to look up somethign and just goes SIGH. gets her coat to go to the library. and ryans like ??? ive googled it #and shes like oh fuck google

[front-facing-pokemon]

#taillow #i do believe this was the first “normal/flying route-1 bird” pokémon that i ever saw. probably. i still don't know which pokémon game was my #first one between colosseum‚ diamond‚ and sapphire. all of which i still have the physical copies of to this day‚ but none of which still #have their original save files remaining on them. so i can't check the dates‚ otherwise i would #but my first pokémon game was One of those three. maybe i could ask my mom. like‚ hey‚ which one did i get first. maybe she'll remember #‘cause we always played pokémon colosseum together. she ended up thinking that that was the core series and the ones on handheld were #spinoffs because she thought the core series would be on home console. oh how naïve she was…… #ok i've texted her and asked her. i'm gonna add this one to the queue and start writing the tags for swellow while i wait for her response #and i'll come back and edit this one with the results. see you then #hi! i'm back. final verdict is that i got the game boy much sooner than the gamecube. i didn't know that but now i do. she got it at #a yard sale‚ so it came with a bunch of games on it‚ which is how i ended up with pokémon sapphire. thus‚ i played that first #however‚ i didn't get very far in it because the game i liked playing the most as a kid was tony hawk underground‚ which i also had #from the yard sale. and thus i remember pokémon colosseum much better‚ because i probably didn't even get to the first gym in sapphire #so that means this IS the first normal/flying route-one bird pokémon i ever saw. we did it #now i will take my meds

[commsroom]

i think the others really misunderstand that "i am this station's mother program" means the same thing, to hera, that "i am this station's commanding officer" or "i am this station's comms officer" does. "i am this station's autopilot and mother program; i have these jobs because you picked me." i think that's why she has to reframe it the way she does: correcting eiffel when he asks things like, "aren't you the autopilot?" and redirecting it under a job title, and a list of systems she maintains as a part of that job. there's a degree to which even the people who most respect hera's autonomy (including hera herself, in what she's internalized) see her as more inextricably linked to her job by nature of being an AI, and there's something to how the show breaking down the perceived differences between hera and the others is also, in part, a gradual lessening of mechanical descriptors. there is something about disconnecting worthiness from usefulness, and the understanding that no one was really made to be anything. you can be more...

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #you know... #this is why i'm so vehemently anti-work about post-canon hera tbh like sure she could do a job. and she'll have to at some point #but i will never believe she'd be in academia or want a career or any of those. structured life paths. because she's been denied #the right to just exist and define herself outside of productivity #it's so important to me that she gets to do nothing. hera and eiffel are minkowski's slacker roommates To Me.

[gxlden-angels]

RUBY FRANKE AND JODI HILDEBRANDT SENTENCED TO 4 TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON LETS GOOOOO

#Ruby pled guilty to the charges #She'll likely stay about 30 since that's the current limit legally in Utah for consecutive sentences #But that's only if she's sentenced to the maximum sentence possible #15 years for each case of child abuse #for a total of 4 cases and 60 years #her adult children aren't considered methinks #similar to how a therapist can't tell authorities you're being abused after u turn 18 without your consent #idk how much she'll get seeing as they're in Utah #so there's a lot of ppl that genuinely believe she has a right to do anything to her kids short of killing them #if it means they stick with the religion for as long as they live #some do believe killing ur kids should be allowed tho if it saves their soul or whatever #I disagree with both obviously I think you should be hit with hammers if you treat your kids anywhere near like this #but Jodi better get got those aren't even her fuckin kids got damn #I hope they both get the maximum sentence but especially Jodi cause she absolutely exhasterbated this paranoid mom's shit #Ruby isn't innocent in the slightest she was fucked before Jodi ever showed up #but I fully believe Jodi pushed her closer to this extremen #extreme* #and I hope we start to chip away at the religious exemptions we still have in the US when it comes to child abuse #'spare the rod' spare ur fucking breath if you hit a child I'm gonna hit you with hammers #ex christian #religious trauma #child abuse

[simptasia]

my mum has stage four cancer

#we found out a week ago #august 4th - the worst day of my life #so there were a bunch of tests that mum hated so her team of doctors could have all the info they needed #but the last few days we've been out of hospital and. adjusting to life back at home #i've become a decent nurse #i lost feeling in my nose for four days due to intense crying #there are. no words for how devastating this has been #mums been sick a while. but neither of us could have predicted it was something so serious #and it's. very serious. i was in hysterical denial at first but #while i do believe theres a chance she'll live. that a miracle will happen #its very likely my mum. my wonderful mum will die #its not the ending she deserves. she deserved to have decades more. to hold her grandchildren #but it may not be #we have no idea how long until. nobody does. could be weeks. could be years. i'll take care of her #and she's on heavy painkillers around the clock so whatever happens? she won't go out suffering #i wasn't looking forward to telling y'all because. i knew it'd make me cry again #but i feel like using tumblr again. so i felt i should say something #i have been open about this to my close friends tho to be clear. i havent been bottled up. but yeah #ahead of time i say: thank you

[rosykims]

they make me so fucking insane. absolutely bananas mode

#tay plays dao #oc: elspeth #im genuinely sooooooooo glad u can pick that “i dont think theres a future” option without immediately breaking up lol #bc she WANTS a future with him !!!! she just doesnt believe she can have one anymore. and thats why she needs him so bad !!! #bc hes the only one who's ever made her feel like thats not true !!!! #god i love angst. i love sadness. i love it when pain means something and when hard times TEMPER a relationship instead of breaking it #the way i see their ~story~ working out (unrestricted by game mechanics i mean) is that elspeth stays a warden while he becomes king #but still staying with him as his closest ''advisor'' aka mistress. #but like. he thinks shes being an absolute idiot and doing her stupid martyr complex stuff as per usual #and spends several years trying to convince her to finally get a grip and marry him. bc he refuses to marry anybody else lol #anyway she finally finally says yes right before she leaves to cure the calling. so if she comes back (lol) then she'll become queen-consor #until then its this hopeless ''i cant be with you officially but i cant ever be without you'' dance forever <3 #AND I LOVE IT. I EAT IT UP EVERY TIME.

[todayisafridaynight]

the idea of katase and aoki's secretary/hisho being """""friends""""" tickles my bones for a lot of reasons but esp cause i just know katase's had to dig into daigo's history cause mine prob asked her to at one point and along the way she found out about masato through a stray myspace post and after a serious Down The Rabbit Hole trip i think she should be one of five people in the entirety of japan to figure out her girlfriend's boss And Tokyo's Governor was the most Emo Boy of emo boys. and used to date the sixth chairman of the tojo clan. who also used to be the most Emo Boy of emo boys.

#masadai #snap chats #i do think mine had katase help him look into daigo actually. i do. #he does most of the work ofc but when he's esp busy then he asks her to look into a crumb he found bout somethin related to daigo #i was gonna make a comic but im tired rn but the ideas too funny for me to wait to do it so im sharin it with all yall #anyway perceive this. #no one would ever believe her if she told anyone thats why she doesnt bother to #she'll tell hisho tho. cause lol #she be like 'just play a g note next time you see him trust me' #and hisho does and watches in comedic horror as aoki freezes for a split second before being like Haha What Was That About :) #i have another comic idea involving hisho Vaguely knowing about aoki's past as masato. JUST as goofy tbh #i prob could do it tonight or like. tomorrow mornin after i finish a comm its literally like a panel or two honestly #anyway i love being delusional

[cinnabeat]

im still mad about the kairi thing btw like so/kai is good dont get me wrong but i wouldnt be mad about like literally ANY of it if kairi had literally any development herself or any kind of friendship with sora like girl has been absent character development wise since fucking kh2 and youre gonna look me in the eye and tell me kairi is still soras most important person?? with what evidence bitch

#cant even say its just normal misogyny and bad character writing for girls bc aqua namine and xion are RIGHT THERE #everyone else has SUCH good character writing and development and interactions between each other like the relationships are THERE #but sora and kairi barely get ANYTHING and when they do its the same shallow ill protect you :) i want to be by your side :) #telling not showing you know #make it fucking believeable at least #not even from a sor/iku point of view i could care less i want kairi to have like an actual personality #girl hasnt talked to sora ALL GAME #actually she hasnt talked to sora since?? MAYBE recoded????????? #if not since kh2 #and that says a lot!!!! #like really they couldnt find ANY way to bring her more into the story?? #and like sure! maybe that just isnt kairis character! as maby people have said kairi isnt the kind of person who WANTS to fight #not like sora or riku. shes fighting bc she wants to protect her friends and ultimatrly bc she has to. not bc she particularly wants to #and it shows! and maybe shes always stuck in the past and doesnt like change #but bro you gotta be insane levels into it to catch that shit. its background shit its barely addressed unlike literally every aspect of eve #every ither character #MY GUY DEMYX HAS MORE CHARACTER THAN KAIRI #i want to like kairi so bad and i DO but like the potential she has?? as she is its like. she barely exists except as a plot device #im not saying i hate her im like neutral. i just hate how she was SHOVED into every aspect of the endgame as if it made any sense #maybe it gets explained in future games idk maybe she'll have a bigger role (DOUBT) but again as it stands #shes just a plot device #and i HATE that for her she deserves so much better man #michi tag #society if kairi had a character beyond plot device #let kairi DO something for once god fucking damn #gonna kill nomura with my bare fucking hands

[manchesterau]

Jesus, i'm sorry that you were outed that's such a huge breach of trust, and could have been dangerous.

yeah it sucked when i found out, i told my aunt during a little family thing at a restaurant, she asked me if i liked girls and i said yes and unbeknownst to me she told my mom the same day. and that whole summer i was building up the courage to tell my mom and she confronted me one day on a car ride home and then told me my aunt told her so :////// but the second time when i came out as a lesbian i also told her in the car mkjnhgvfcdgvh

#yeah getting outed and then not knowing that you were outed for months is.....yeah #im just glad that she took it well bc even a few years ago it would have been unsafe for me to come out bc my family is......yup #this is when i was going as bi and then told me that she didnt believe that i really was and still to this day #being out as a lesbian she'll randomly say 'oh i dont really think you are #are you sure???' like she accepts me as a lesbian but it's weird #so.....yeah! #but idc i worked too damn hard to be proud of who i am to care about what anyone thinks at this point #i proudly say to their faces that im a lesbian and nonbinary

[coffeeshib]

okay look

fuck. you have so many achingly beautiful works and convey such a wonderful scope of emotions in your stories.

i am enraptured, constantly, by the way you're able to write the characters. nothing (nobody) feels out of place. in fact, it all feels remarkably *right*.

like so many of your words feel like the pieces of the puzzle falling, ever so gently, into place whether it's an au or a seamless offering of what the show never gave us (but should have).

so, sincerely – thank you for writing the breath back into my lungs when life feels like it is drowning me.

(it's stupid late and this is probably a mess, but i'm trying to be better about expressing my gratitude for those that offer comfort through their art)

AAAAAAAAA wow guys thank!!!!! it’s just a silly little fic about being horny but also handling/caring for one another at their lows but it’s close to my heart so it makes me h*ppy to hear all this

#never thought i'd write a long fic again but here we are already on almost 100k words #heart warm & i'm just really thankful - it's mostly thanks to you guys who encourage & keep me going 😩 #also makes me believe more in myself & in my skills to write not just like fluff but also some deeper complicated messy feelings that #a character experiences & being able to get that across to the readers & make them think 'oh i relate/understand why she's feeling that way #& seeing kara for example; who's always at her best (or at least she tries to be cause that's what's expected of her) #& then the rare times she's at her lows #in canon we saw kara going out all her way in many diff fonts to show that she'll always be there for lena even when lena's at her lowest #& i just wanted to write something showing the same done for kara #& trying to do like a 'if you can handle me at my worst i can worship you at my best' thing #@anon who asked about if it's coming to an end; the fic is close to the end yeah there's just a bit more to go!! #also @physical book anon......... Bro (with a lot of feeling) #anyway thank you guys again so much i'm busting a massive heart nut!!!!!! #hope you're all having a lovely day #asks

[marivenah]

What is your OC's love language?

I was tagged by @natesofrellis @socially-awkward-skeleton @echo3-1 and @purplehairsecretlair to do this really interesting uquiz! Thank you for the tags, beloveds 💙

sending out tags to; @sstewyhosseini @risingsh0t @poisonedtruth @hoesephseed @thomrainer @confidentandgood @aceghosts @indorilnerevarine @adelaidedrubman @josephslittledeputy @strangefable @ghastlyrider @noetikat @jackiesarch @jacobseed @leviiackrman @shadowglens @shellibisshe and you!

a story that ends in blood

The world has always been unkind, and when you have turned to yourself for comfort you have come face to face with an empty pit which seems to be laughing. You don’t care if it kills you but once you find someone whom you love and who loves you back, you will make sure nothing happens to them. They are yours. You will make a tear in this world and create a new place for you and your love if it comes to that. Because it has always been about love, and it is how it always ends.

consumption of a heart unloved

Here’s a dining table, here’s a set of plates. Here’s your heart, red and bursting with love. You have tried to love people all your life, but no one seems to understand you. Your own mother perhaps forgot to teach you how to protect yourself, maybe people whom you trusted chose to look the other way when all you wanted was a hand full of love. All you want is someone to take from you, all you want is someone to dig in your heart and eat it and kiss you afterwards - bloody and red. You want them to tell you that you are what they have been looking for, you want to be the one who ends their hunger.

an undoing influence

Can someone tell you what to do? You have been carrying so much love within you for so long it is starting to turn into anger (why does it matter, all you see is red anyways) and you have been dragging this body through each day and every night you are split open on your bed and it is so so so lonely. If someone were to walk in while you were on your bed that way and they stitched you back in a new way, lining the seams with their love and kisses, you’d probably find this dreary world a little more bearable. You want someone to turn you over and over until you look in the mirror and see yourself looking back at yourself with a gentleness which has been lacking in you since forever.

violent devotion

Everyone seems to think you are faithless, but the thing is you haven’t yet found someone who will bring you to your knees and make you raise your head in reverence. This world has stopped bringing you joy, you want more of the divine. You want to dedicate your entire existence to someone; you want to make them realise they are not something terrible, make them see just how much beauty they are bringing to this world. You want to be the only one for them, the only one they have chosen to love. There’s a god shaped pit inside of you and only they can fit in it. And what if they choose to walk away? Didn’t I say this was violent devotion?

a knife called grief

You have left your house, you have left those people behind, but what are you going to do about the memories which have taken root in you? You can run but not without them. You want someone to sit with you on this cool marble floor while the sun burns everything. You want them to cut your rotten heart and theirs too. You want to sit with it in front of you, let them see you with all your flaws, which haven’t been your fault but you have been made to believe so, and you want them to love you anyways. Because you know you’d do that for them.

#oc: paz acosta #oc: mags wilhelm #oc: laurie devin #oc: shireen oqir #oc: carol kovacs #tag game #uhh be careful when opening the tags lmao #we got A LOT to unpack here wow ok let's go #these are all so extremely accurate it hurts and scares me #mags' result is probably the most surprising one #replace 'mother' with 'father' and it would be a lot more accurate #i guess you could say it applies to her before she met genji and after she escaped talon hmm #she did give him her whole heart (served on a plate) so maybe that's how talon could not take it from her later on #because she didn't have it anymore. it was always safe with him #or maybe i'm talking complete nonesense #paz is an obvious one. a tortured and broken soul looking for redemption in the form of love #it's all there really is for her. all she can believe in. wants to believe in. and when she finally finds it she'll do anything to protect #this is the part where i can finally talk about how 'blood in the wine' is THE song for laurie. it was written for her i know it #'i was given a heart before i was given a mind' describes her perfectly #because that's how she acts. out of love and compassion. not necessarily the most logical way. but it's always others before her #not only has she been neglected by others but also by herself #and the stitching part can honestly apply to both jacob and faith #it's almost as if this quiz knew shireen's partner is maul 😩 and to her he's obviously not the monster everyone else only sees #she doesn't deny the atrocities he's committed and she stands by him #how they're sort of?? in a force bond and they're the only ones for each other kinda hnnnnn #this whole result is just about carol and her dad tbh. she can't deny him nor run away from the memories. they're rooted. #all she ever wanted to hear him say was 'I am proud of you' but she never did. and she blames herself for not being good enough #and she carries this with her throughout her whole life. talk about daddy issues #if you made it this far i am kissing you on the mouth #these are just notes for myself but hii!! if you're reading this lol

[amazinlei]

You know what? 

OLIVE THE OTHER REINDEER IS WONDERFUL I LOVE THIS SPECIAL

#does this special have the most original of plot lines? not really in reality it's kinda bare bones #but I can allow it since it's aimed towards younger kids with jokes parents might get a chuckle a few times in #but Olive just makes me so happy ;w; she's so unapologetically positive and kind #she's literally too nice to even ditch the flea and kept him as a pet and LOVES HER OWNER UNCONDITIONALLY #which if I remember right he criticized her for not acting enough like a normal dog??? #but was fido the flea actually hard of hearing or did he just... kind of emotionally manipulate olive into running away from home?? #like she just wanted to help santa as she believed that if she doesn't identify with a dog than she MUST be a reindeer!!! #which um. otherkin vibes??? #maybe even species dysphoria or however it's spelled?! #either way I read a review of this movie and while I agree mr. postman is kind of boring as a protaganist I see their point! #could have been kinda funny/ironic if mr.postman was an amazon warehouse worker and the reason he hates christmas is because he's overworked #and has no family to come home too even though olive is probably the rare case of a dog that might have been his friend #since you know dogs hate the post service delivery people X'DD #also I disagreed since honestly Olive HAS too much hope in people... that's her entire character! she's a dog. it's her job to love everyone #she's just a naive sweet little pup who's doing this to find herself and to help Santa! #oh also she teaches martini about being a good person and bring out the heart of gold in him and even helps find his new life's purpose! #though honestly I saw them as very close friends and my HC was olive is long distance dating the reindeer that gave her the most advice!!! #Olive and Donner get to meet up every christmas eve and yes ofc tim has met him! #also one of my hc is similar to how Anabelle got her wish to be a reindeer when she reaching old age #that once Olive reaches old age she'll get her wish and turn in reindeer <333 #come to think of it I need to watch anabelle's wish too #Lei stop being silly #Lei's Rambles About Cartoons #Olive The Other Reindeer

[vullcanica]

I've been thinking a little bit today, re: Avita, morality and love. Namely, how she makes a clean separation between the two and how she operates and makes her choices based on that.

To start with she's a woman with completely neutral moral innerworkings. It has nothing to do with alignment charts or what have you, I'm talking about the general basis of the morality of judgement and action, which ideally functions on neutrality and which posits all are born deserving of the same treatment. In any verse Avita is a firm believer in this. She approaches everyone with the same consideration, believing they are owed it. Yet she's capable of loving the morally reprehensible who act in opposition to that worldview. One would think this clashes with or even entirely negates her fundamental ethics but it doesn't. She maintains a complete mental separation between love and morality. They're two different, independently operational compasses that she follows on a case by case basis.

It's why she does not need love or even partiality to act morally and does not heed morality when she loves. Her type of easy kindness, acceptance and borderline heroism might get confused for deep empathy or compassion and suggest that she feels, relates to or even cares about everyone around her but at its core it's simply the unbreakable belief in equal merit by birth. That all creatures come into existence equally entitled to life, survival, freedom, respect, honesty and basic kindnesses. None above the other. Love itself, the concept of it, comes into direct conflict with those ethics - its very nature suggests partiality. So it is kept entirely separate. She does not need to love or even particularly like someone to treat them morally. Her kindness isn't only reserved to a select few. It's a much stronger sentiment and far more consistent an altruism than one borne of her emotional compulsions would have been.

((The other edge of the sword: She doesn't need to hate someone to harm them either. She could feel bad or remorseful for them and still choose to not let that move her. Yes, she's empathetic, there is an emotional compulsion there, but she allows it to play little part in her opinions and decision-making. Empathy is NOT morally charged and never will be.))

And then there's love.

And though love is separate from her moral views, it always reigns far above them.

The brightest example of this: In all verses Avita loves her fathers unconditionally regardless of their amorality, ruthlessness and infamous renown. They are her family, come hell or high water, and that is an immutable fact of her person that all who befriend or come to love her must accept in some capacity.

She experienced the best of them, yes, but was never spared their true nature either, nor lied to. Therefore her love for them is full, sincere, genuine and not exclusive of their darker sides. She spent her upbringing lovingly surrounded by the morbid and macabre and moralities and ideologies she did not end up growing into. In fact, her natural traits were nurtured fearlessly in such an independent household, even though her fathers did not possess them. That's the love she was surrounded by and the love she gives. She's capable of looking past differences, vast though they may be, and places no moral conditions on those she cares for.

#𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 ‒ avita ║ HEADCANONS #me trying to explain how she operates like 'yes she's an absolute sweetheart but not for the reasons you think' #she won't help you because she likes you. she'll do it because it's the right thing to do. and because you're deserving of help. #but god. does she have her obvious extreme biases #anyone trying to romance her gl your inlaws are war criminals and you'll have to deal with it #the best dads a girl could hope for though 😌 #i will say #in addition #all of this does (up to a point) also inform her firm irreligiosity in all verses. even ones where gods existing is common knowledge #following a faith is stifling to her at best #she acknowledges deities and may even appeal to some for favours but follows no teachings nor conventions set by those beings #something inhuman influencing the tenets of human morality is an absolute no-go for her. the mere attempt to do so makes her suspicious #i'll also talk at some point about her not believing in working to 'earn' love either. but that's an entirely different topic... #anyway yeah #something something the dictatorship of the heart even above logical creatures or whatever that guy said