hello helloo! i just read through your modern au and I'm in love (shocker), i wanted to ask if you'd give some more info on poppy? apologies if there's already a dedicated post to her, looking is not my specialty
there is not! i will gladly ramble!
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in this au, Poppy is slightly less fearful than canon. this is for several reasons! 1) years of therapy. 2) anxiety meds. 3) teenage years of her friends dragging her out for Shenanigans & hyping her tf up! but she's still a worrywart! she's very cautious! she can and Will see the bad/dengerous side to every situation. but! now she has the tools to not only cope with but combat her intrusive thoughts & fears <3
i think i mentioned it before but she Did Not Realize she was trans until highschool! specifically, when she met Sally! Poppy had to stop by the theater department after school for some reason or another, and Sally noticed her looking longingly at the costume dresses (Poppy thought she was alone lol)
and while Poppy was mortified at being caught, Sally was delighted. they only knew each other in passing and from reputation but Sally started holding up dresses to Poppy and complimenting how well they suited her. (i could joke about how Sally could sniff out the lesbian in her before Poppy even knew she was a girl!) Poppy, flustered by the sudden attention and apparent acceptance, didn't know how to handle it and fled. then started avoiding Sally in the halls. but! eventually she had to go back for Insert Reason Here, and ofc Sally was there. this time around Sally is a little gentler and less assertive, but manages to coax Poppy into checking out the more ~feminine~ costumes again. thus begins their little meetings where Poppy tries on costumes and Sally is her biggest hypeman
it takes a while for things to Click in Poppy's mind! it isn't until she tries on a dress that Sally custom-made for her, wearing some makeup and a wig, that Poppy has her oh moment. unfortunately, some of their ~mutual friends~ (Wally, Barnaby, Howdy) walk in on them. there's a short, terrifying moment where Wally is all "who's your friend, Sally?" and Barnaby has to lean over to let him know "that's Poppy, bud". before Poppy can fully freak out, Wally immediately goes OH! and starts complimenting how pretty she looks. Barnaby chimes in next to ask if the dress is home-made bc it fits Poppy beautifully, Howdy nabs a necklace from the nearby gathered accessories and put it on her to "tie the outfit together". in short! Poppy finds nothing but support from her buddies & they're more than happy to help her figure out this new internal crisis / revelation
then of course eventually she's found out by her family, which goes very well (im using sarcasm! it goes terribly!). Poppy isn't outright disowned or kicked out or in immediate danger, but her relationship with her family is ruined by their transphobic bigotry. her friends have her back throughout this, and the guest room at the Beagle farm is always open to her! Sally continues to make custom clothes for Poppy (something that becomes a love language for the two of them <3).
honestly, this period in Poppy's life is part of what like... idk... strengthens her, in a way? her continuing to be herself and actively rebelling against her family, i mean. Poppy becomes a pretty stellar liar lol (lying to her parents about where she's going, who she's hanging out with, what she does after school, etc). she's very cautious about all of it, but she does it! she's determined to pursue and discover and Realize the woman inside her! i have this sweet scene in my mind of the Group at the Beagle farm chilling on the floor with notebooks, brainstorming on possible names. (Sally enthusiastically says a variation of 'exquisite' to each one, and then when Poppy says 'im not sure about that one' Sally - still enthusiastically - says a variation of 'horrible terrible how could you suggest such an ill-fitting name'). despite everyone's efforts, i like to think that Poppy finds her name entirely on accident! maybe during the Gap Year Road Trip! maybe they stop by a SoCal poppy reserve in superbloom and the flowers Resonate with her! who's to say!
but Poppy begins her (medical) transition in college! she, of course, gets shit for it, but she also begins to find community and enjoyment in the local queer community. and of course, she has her buddies <3
but anyway! i like to think that Poppy participates in local farmer's markets with her crochet work & baked goods, the latter of which is a complete hit! that, plus her first experience with going to a tearoom inspires her to strive towards owning her own! tearooms are right up her alley, i'd say - calm, quiet, and Poppy can make peoples' days a little brighter with a tranquil atmosphere & delicious treats! i swear i have a reason between 'Poppy british = she goes into tea business'. honestly! tearooms are more about the tiny sammies & tasty cones w/ cream! and feeling Fancy while chatting!
i think it takes a while for her to actually be able to start up a tearoom. I'd imagine she starts by holding a small, single-table reservation-based one in her own place once the Group decides on what town to move to. it's successful, slowly (but steadily) grows, until she can get an actual House and transform the ground floor into a full tearoom. lil shop by the checkout counter, several different rooms, a sizeable kitchen. staff! the tearoom is a humble one, but it's a killer holiday & tourist destination! the high ratings even bring in people from out of town!
and when it comes to Poppy & Sally, bc yall know i'm a sucker for Popstar - i like to think that they start dating after (mostly) all of them move into their new town. & after they both have been in prior relationships! and then they never stop dating. well, they do, but that's so that they can upgrade to Wife Status. and then they never stop being wives so there <3
but Poppy is successful and happy! she had a rough go of it but she Makes It! and she continues to make it!
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Yeehaw we gettin tagged by @whump-me (tyyyy) and posting 7 snippets from our writing (or wips but i am a wipless bastard atm 🤪) and i have decided to do some Silly Castys Moments (and also some Erebus stuff ig 🙄)
Warning for some gore probably it’s Nemi writing so yk but I’ll try to keep the really bad stuff outta here (there also some armputation and guy going crazy and starving to death over and over you know the drill)
1. Local silly guy does in fact regret it very much
“I don’t really want you, per se, but a certain…friend of yours.” Castys stiffened, and he heard a faint laugh. “I think you know who I’m talking about.”
“I really don’t. I’ve got a lot of friends, you know, and-” something slammed into the metal above him, cutting him off.
“Don’t play dumb with me; you know exactly who I’m talking about, and you’d better tell me where I can find him or I’ll make you regret it.”
“Please, do your worst. I already regret so many damn things so I don’t think another one on the pile will do much to me, to be honest,” Castys mused, wiggling against his bonds slightly.
2. The worst fmk in existence gets you stabbed
“Hey, guys, fuck, marry, kill for rice, pasta, and bread, go. I think for me, I gotta say fuck bread, marry rice, kill pasta. Don’t get me wrong, I love some noodles, some noods, but, like, man. Have you ever just, like, had some bread? Insane. I would fuck bread. I don’t wanna fuck anything, but boy I would fuck the bread. And rice, man, she’s so dependable, she’s always there for you. What I would want in a spouse if I wanted anything in a spouse. This game wasn’t really designed for me, and yet, here I am. So, c’mon, what’s it from you two? You’ve gotta have-Hey, Danny boy, got an opinion you’d like to share?” Castys smiled up at the man now standing in front of him.
Daniel rolled his eyes before putting his asshole face back on. “Just do something useful for once and hold this for me, vermin,” he said with a smile, lifting Castys’s shirt and gently sliding the knife he was holding into his abdomen. Castys just sighed, way too used to being stabbed to really care much about this.
3. Ripping your arm off but it’s a Phineas and Ferb reference (this one is probably the most gory of all the snippets fyi but it’s not too bad)
Sensing his chance, Castys grabbed the manacled wrist of his shredded arm with his good hand, bit down on the gag, and pulled. He couldn’t give up, couldn’t stop, not after enduring this much, he could feel his flesh tearing, sending out sparks of agony unlike anything he’d ever known, and he had to keep pulling, pulling and jerking and tearing and twisting and praying, praying that he could rip it off before he drowned again, which, hey, kind of a weird thing to want, not that he hadn’t had to amputate his own limbs before, but weird that it was happening again, and honestly, this hurt way more than the other times, but wasn’t that always the case-and fuck there was no way he was going to be able to just snap his bones like this, and he needed it to be completely severed, and there was no time, wedge it against the rocks and pull pull pull until there was a snap and a burst of unholy agony, so intense it almost smothered the relief, so fierce it made him forget he was drowning up until the moment his oxygen-starved brain lost consciousness.
4. Lmaoooo bitches trapped in a cell for like 200 years
Every three days. Thirst. Weakness. Dizziness. Death. Was it three days? Is that how long you could last without water? He tried to count, but the numbers got lost in the haze all too easily. There was no way to mark the stone, to keep track outside of his head, the blood wasn’t being washed off him anymore. He had nothing, nothing at all, just here and himself and the unyielding stone. The square of sunlight would move across the cell, the only motion to break the constancy of everything else. It was the same day repeated over and over and over and over and over and it was the same just the same nothing ever changed, ever, ever, it was the same-
Something wasn’t the same. The leather muzzle that had kept him silent for so long had been slowly rotting, and it finally fell off. For a moment he simply stared at it lying there on the ground, broken, dying, fading away. He opened his mouth for the first time in decades. And he screamed, because that thing got to rot away and disappear and he wouldn’t, he would always be here, hungry and thirsty and alone and trapped and alive and it wasn’t fair, not at all, and he screamed because it had been so long since he was able, he cried because it was all he could do.
5. Erebus’s iconic sit down protest ✨ (it does not accomplish anything in the end)
“You are coming with me. As of today you are my property, so you will do as I say. Resistance will only make things more difficult for you. So you will walk, or you will be dragged. Your choice.” Erebus initially felt a bolt of fear shoot through him, but looking down at her scrawny frame, he realized that she likely couldn’t carry out her threat.
Dragged? He’d like to see her try.
Erebus sat down on the ground and looked expectantly up at Neteri, one eyebrow raised. She huffed and narrowed her eyes. Planting her feet firmly on the ground, she tugged on the chain as hard as she could, but it did little more than make him lean forward. She sighed. “Okay, you have a point there.”
6. More Erebus and Neteri shenanigans because she’s right he’s being a drama queen
“You can’t just do that! That’s-you can’t just amputate my arm!”
“See, this is why I didn’t want to tell you. I knew you’d freak out.”
“Of-of course I’m freaking out! You want to cut off one of my limbs, for Drottkia’s sake!”
“I mean, yeah, but I’m going to give you a new one right away. So at the end of the day you’ll have the same number of arms you started with. It’s honestly not worth getting that worked up about.”
7. New phobia alert!! (warning for centipede on guy)
He felt it, it was on him, dozens of little legs pitter-pattering across his skin, crawling on him. “G-get it off. Neteri, please, please get it off.” It tickled the back of his neck, around the base of the section of skin she’d replaced. “What’s it doing Neteri plea-” she clamped a hand over his mouth, her thumb rubbing against his cheek as he whimpered.
“Shh, shh, you’re okay Erebus. I’m just seeing if it can connect to you, I promise I’ll take it off when I’m done.” Connect to him?! What-what did that mean-oh it had stopped crawling around it was just sitting there it was on his back what was it going to do to him what did connecting mean was it-Erebus felt a momentary pinch at the base of his neck, and suddenly his limbs starting moving, wriggling in the restraints all on their own. Neteri removed her hand from his mouth and looked down at him expectantly, her other hand still gripping his tightly even as his fingers twitched uncontrollably. “Are you doing that?”
“N-no I-I’m not moving I’m not doing that why are they doing that I can’t stop it is it doing that to me make it stop make it let go please-” Tears were streaming from Erebus’s eyes but he didn’t care he just wanted that thing off he wanted it gone he wanted control of his own body back he’d always had that even when he was tied up and strapped down he’d always had that-
And there we go hope that either a fun time on memory lane or at least made you laugh a little
Taggin uhhhh @galaxywhump @yet-another-heathen and @painsandconfusion (mainly because i know you will want to read the Castys content 💕)
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BOOM, OC. Casey Thompson, son of Lady Luck and Mr. Misfortune
"Oooh, this fight would make a great picture"
"CASEY, YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE AND THIS IS A HERO-VILLAIN FIGHT, GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE"
"Mmm... I'm sure I'll be fine"
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So, Casey Thompson, 20-year-old journalist, photographer, trans man, college student in engineering, someone who anonymously works with hackers to expose corrupt heroes or government, AO3 writer, go to kidnapping victim of the villains, adopted little brother of Ryan Thompson, or Velocity, and son of Lady Luck and Mr. Misfortune. Interesting life am I right?
WARNING FOR THIS BACKSTORY CAR CRASH AND DEATH (damn, dark turn frfr), IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ THE CAR CRASH THING, SKIP TO THE RED TEXT (dunno if this is actually needed, but just in case!)
So, Casey was the son of Lady Luck and Mr. Misfortune, unfortunately, misfortune struck, Lady Luck and Mr. Misfortune went out on a date, leaving 5 year old Casey at home, sadly, his parents never came back, as Mr. Misfortune was at the wheel, driving back home, when they crashed into a truck, Mr. Misfortune died on impact, Lady Luck was fortunate enough to survive, but she didn't want to leave her husband, she hoped to get her husband out of the car, hoping he was alive, but then the car blew up, so yeah.
Alright, no more car crash thing, just backstory
Casey was at home the entire time, just playing with his toys with the babysitter, April, when the police came to tell casey the news, at first Casey thought they were joking, after all, it was a bright sunny day, he was just playing with his toys, having a great time, wouldnt the day be rainy, stormy, sad if they died? But after a while, they got casey to believe them, Casey cried, of course. Since Casey has no close biological family members, he was sent to an orphanage, after a few months, he got adopted by the Ryan's family
lil bit of backstory for Ryan, Ryans parents died when Ryan was really little, like 1 year old, so now Ryan lives with his grandparents,
It took a while for them to get used to each other, especially with Casey being really nervous, but after a while, Ryan and Casey are really close,
Now that the backstory is over, here are some stuff about Casey!
First of all, Casey is a photographer and journalist because its one of his interests, but also because he doesn't know / remember much of his parents, but he does have a picture album of them that they left behind, so now, he wants to journal and photo everything to make sure nothing ever gets forgotten,
Caseys pictures and journalising do give him a bit of fame, Casey has like, a news thing (idk what to call it), blog (???), and he post stuff, giving a little backstory on how he got the picture, then telling what happened, and the people watching him just love it, how Casey is one of the very few people (in fact the only person) who takes close up pictures of hero-villain fight, and journals them, since yknow, those who tried it probably are at the hospital or six feet under, but Casey, being a child of Lady Luck, leaves unscathed,
Casey, being a child of Lady Luck and Mr. Misfortune, has great luck and bad luck, and it doesn't cancel out, for example, maybe he misses the bus a lot of times, or maybe whenever he guesses on questions he's right
Anyways, with Casey being in engineering, he does know code, and being a journalist and photographer would make him a great person to expose corrupt heroes! Knowing how to do interviews, being good at researching, and being able to capture corrupt heroes being corrupt on camera. So now, he works with hackers to expose corrupt and evil heroes in the system, anonymously, see, most heroes don't believe the hackers, called VigilNet, despite the evidence, thinking they're villains that are lying, since they trust their fellow heroes, and to be fair, these heroes are good actors, and the VigilNet group could get hunted by the corrupt heroes, or imprisoned by the other heroes if they knew their identity, so Casey goes anonymously by the name "DataShutter", Casey doesn't tell Ryan about this though, since Ryan is one of the heroes,
Casey is just, the closest self-insert i have, like, he's me, but with more confidence, so you're going to see a lot of traits like mine,
Anyways, Casey has an AO3 account, cause i think its funny that he still updates, but apologizes profusely for being late for like, a few hours (he has a strict schedule for himself), and then giving the most jaw-dropping, shocking, concerning, horrifying, death-defying, story ever, that its even a miracle he was able to even write
As i said, Casey's a go to kidnapping victim for the villains, its kind of a running joke now (don't worry the villains are nice to him, its a wholesome universe after all [i say after i wrote the backstory of caseys parents {hmm, wait a minute, since Casey was adopted by Ryan's grandparents, does that technically make casey Ryan's uncle???} ]), Casey is a good acquaintance with the villains (that are willing to talk to him other than for interviews), and even interviews them while being kidnapped or currently kidnapped,
Casey has very little fear and self preservation, mostly because of his luck, with him almost never getting hurt, he just believes he'll never get hurt, which leads to him getting into dangerous situations without him being scared,
Also, Casey is a bad cook at meals that require a lot from him, like chopping onions after preheating the over while letting the soup boil? How about he just jump into the line of fire in a fight, thank you very much, so pretty much, whenever he cooks something big, it takes longer cause he focuses on one thing at a time. He also has a hard time driving, basically, multitasking is not his thing, like, he can cook pancakes well, cause he only has to focus on one thing at a time, but making him cook multiple pancakes at the same time, on different pans, and he has to focus on all of them at once? Off the table.
Casey also knows sign language, this is because sometimes, he just loses the will to talk, like maybe he just isn't feeling it, or he isn't feeling comfortable talking to a person, or he's really nervous to the point he loses his voice (same, but i don't know sign language). Also, while he does feel emotion, most of the time, he has a blank face, like, he could be really happy, but his face doesn't show it, this made birthdays hell for him at presents time, cause people thought he was ungrateful and faking it (same frfr),
Casey also has a really strong writing love, like, put him in a room with a notebook and pens (he really loves pens btw, loves getting them as gifts, same with notebooks), and he'll be happy just writing away, (same)
Also, a little thing, but casey avoids rolling his eyes cause he cringes, cause back then he thought eye rolling was like, rolling their eyes in a circle, until someone told him about it, and he avoids rolling his eyes now cause he just remembers those times that he thought eye rolling was like that (same here lol), he also didn't know that the chicken crossing the road was a suicide joke (Which i also didn't know, and the true joke kinda shocked me cause i only found out last year). Caseys eyes often wander even during conversation, and when he does remember to look people in the eye, he has like, a thousand yard stare where you feel like he isn't looking at you (i noticed i had like a thousand yard stare at pictures, and honestly, its pretty funny),
Casey also sometimes does little schedules for himself, like "at the morning i wake up at eight, take a bath for 30 minutes, eat for another 30 minutes, do my photography work and journal work at 9 to 3, and don't stop to make writing faster, then write my fanfiction after work then release the chapter on Saturday" (i do the same)
Also, whenever hes stressed or bored he eats an apple, (i like apples, what can i say, and it does calm me down, and they're yummy).
Sometimes people think hes being sarcastic, with his blank face and his tone sometimes being flat, so despite casey being sincere, can come off as rude, sarcastic or insincere.
Caseys really nice, though, kind of dumb (like, he has a hard time with instructions and finding stuff despite it being in front of him,) and gullible since he's really trusting. his trust is kinda weird, like he wont trust one person and trust another person with his life, but yeah, he trust people a lot. (SAME)
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