#they're both bloody big ships

[snoweylily]

skyfall x dolce

or, in other words, emotionally-repressed blond serial killers and their curly dark haired sarcastic bitch boyfriends surrounded by paintings with far too many metaphors

#hannibal #james bond #hannigram #00q #skyfall #its the little things #they're both bloody big ships #before you and after you #indeed #Q and I have begun to blur #staring at afterimages #so you're not dead? #where does the difference between the past and the future come from? #it lies within an exploding pen #i can tell you that much #mischa and m #now is the hardest test #not letting rage and frustration and forgiveness keep you from thinking #always makes me a little melancholy #the inevitability of time #if i saw you everyday forever #i would remember this time

[saintsenara]

*rolls up in sexy nurse costume* i have those crack ships you ordered, doctor! extra strength unhinged.

firenze/narcissa malfoy

augusta longbottom/piers polkiss

colin creevey/the bloody baron

oh, you thought you ate with these, anon, but they're hardly unhinged at all.

firenze/narcissa malfoy

i wonder what returning to the forest would be like for narcissa in the years after the end of the war? it's the site of probably the most pivotal decision she will ever have made in her life - one which saves her son, but kills her sister; one which sees her family lose its status, humiliated by the ministry clearing house after the battle and dependent on the goodwill of harry potter to stay out of prison, but which still enables them to survive as a trio.

i seem to write, whenever i'm asked about narcissa, that she's clearly someone whose life is dictated by conformity to conventions - especially ones relating both to her gender and to her social class. with the end of the war, the mask behind which she has lived for decades is no longer available to her, and a woman who is clearly quite fragmentary is going to find herself trying to piece back together a person who hasn't been seen in public since narcissa realised she'd have to make up for bellatrix and andromeda's defiance by being a porcelain-perfect wife and mother.

and returning to the forest is going to stir up the same feelings in firenze. he was driven out for also making a knife-edge decision of huge consequence - agreeing to abandon the usual centaur policy of indifference to human affairs and working for dumbledore as the war ramps up - and which also results in a victory which is tenuous: he's absolutely right to recognise that there's a time for being hands-off and the government in being in the control of a genocidal terrorist kingpin isn't one of them; but, in being right, he ends up an outcast from his community, living as a second-class citizen in a society in which even the good guys think of non-humans as less worthy than themselves.

so you've got your forest-based meet-cute. you've got your central couple striving to come to terms with who they really are. you've got two people whose lives have been dictated by conformity to a set of social standards who no longer have the safety of those standards available to them. you've got a woman whose whole family are named after stars and a man [who is also a horse] who knows how to read the skies.

tell me you don't ship it.

augusta longbottom/piers polkiss

i've seen harold and maude.

colin creevey/the bloody baron

if you were adjusting to life as a ghost, having been brutally killed in a battle you shouldn't even have been fighting in, who would you want to show you around as you learn the ropes?

a forever-fourteen-year-old girl who literally doesn't stop whining

the world's most pompous partially-beheaded man [also fond of whining]

a mysterious and rude young woman who won't stop going on about how hot the man whose forces killed you was when he was sixteen

a drunken monk who represents the least interesting house and who's probably really into "looking on the bright side" and "manifesting", even though he's dead

or

5. an intriguingly blood-stained [always sexy!] anglo-norman nobleman who would help you tackle the big questions about regret and remorse and who could keep peeves away from you.

we all know what decision we'd make.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #unhinged and deranged ships #but maybe quite sweet as well

[ae-neon]

Anyways more Lucien and Nesta

They definitely ride together on horseback like @toast-com said. They'll ride to a shady spot by a stream or lake and Nesta will read while Lucien fishes.

When it's books about Fae topics she'll ask him about it, and Lucien knows now to give her long detailed explanations because Nesta loves deep diving into topics and once went on a week long research rabbit hole on Fae astrology because she just couldn't figure out what any of it meant.

When it's books about human topics she'll tell him everything she knows.

"Did you know in Bharat people believed salt would protect them from Fae so they lined their thresholds with salt and eventually it became custom to..."

"The first king of Scythia only ruled for 3 months because it rained on the day of his coronation and didn't stop for 4 weeks. People believed it was an omen and when..."

"There's a spot in the trade routes called the Siren's Pass that only pirate ships pass through because it's so dangerous, ten years ago 4 ships..."

Lucien is a bit skeptical of Nesta essentially adopting monsters who've wandered out of The Middle but Nesta shrugs and leaves out bowls of bloody meat before going to bed.

(@aho-dapa) Lucien braids his confessions into her hair without telling her. It's an Autumn Court tradition that holding a belief in your heart while braiding your or your loved one's hair will hold that thought there. So he sometimes braids "I love you" and "I want to be with you always" and "beautiful woman" into her hair.

Nesta isn't as poetic but she's there and talkative and she laughs and loves and he feels it. Sometimes he doubts but then, like she knows, she'll hold his hand in bed or bite his shoulder or spend the day with him with her hair loose and curling down to her waist and he'll know.

It's been 67 years since the War and they're doing okay. Twice a week Lucien will winnow them to some obscure eatery in a different court to have Nesta try authentic foods from different Fae cultures. Once he even took her to an Illyrian kitchen of a family he knew.

He's learned to cleave wards (that's how he just winnows into and out of courts without anyone noticing) and he suspects the truth about Helion even if he doesn't say. Nesta does too since she spends so much time with them both it's easy to see.

They're big fans of and friends with Tarquin and Cresseida and are honorary members of his council (before he is voted High King). Lucien plays a key role in building the InterCourts Alliance which implements continent wide laws (Nesta, Thesan and Helion proposed a Constitution) and the Mortal Lands are counted and represented as the 8th Court.

They become actual members of his High King's council around 154 years after the War. Nesta serves one term of 20 years before she decides she likes theory better and dedicates herself to scholarly pursuits instead.

#acotar #nesta archeron #lucien vanserra #acotar headcanon #lucnes #nescien #nesta deserves better #lucien deserves better #nesta x lucien

[sleepymccoy]

Fuck it, Ive found myself googling topics to start a fight again cos I'm trying to write spones, so I'm creating a list for myself here. If you have suggestions please feel free to add them. You are also welcome to use this as a prompt, although I don't know if it'll really help

These are mostly nicked from other lists, so hey may need tweaking to be more star trek sci fi in vibe. But I think they suit the sort of fights they have. Entertainingly, many of the questions on these lists have already been addressed my star trek. Like, I'm not going to go into eugenics here. They have a whole arc in tos where everyone expresses their opinions on eugenics (against) (the Khan stuff). So like, those aren't included! Or questions about ubi, trek world is a successful communist, they're all pro ubi.

Anyway. I've tried to hash it down to topics where I can easily see either how they disagree, or I can see how they agree but for different reasons. And, as this is for me, I might even include some of those details too!

Is technology making us more or less connected?

Could argue either way. McCoy's only contact with his kid is via tech, so he could be in favour. Same with Spock, but I think vulcans have a lot of physical cultural stuff that form part of gathering that (American) humans don't as much. Like, incense and how the planet is a different temp to the ship. So, maybe Spock is really feeling how tech is a shadow of the real thing more.

OR

McCoy hates and is unimpresssed by tech, and just wants to be home. Spock is perfectly happy with the perfunctory contact w his parents.

Is censorship ever acceptable in art and media?

This one is fun cos you can world build a bit with the premise. What's the art and media? I think McCoy has one of those inspected opinions, he's against censorship until you start listing terrible things then he gets annoyed cos he kind of agrees with a little bit of censorship. He doesn't think dead bodies should be shown on billboards across from schools. But he says, when asked, that he's against any censorship.

I think Vulcan has censored pre reform stuff from society quite a lot. And Spock's opinion on this is a real character choice you can make, does he agree people should only find out about history in university when you're spoon fed it kindly enough? Or does he think everyone should know?

Should we prioritize space exploration or focus on fixing problems on Earth?

This one is hilarious to me, cos they both work exploring space. But I think McCoy could get worked up over the focus and energy being on new space stuff if they're leaving hungry children behind, you know. I think Spock leans bigger picture

Is traditional marriage still relevant in modern society?

Ha! Have a great time! They'll be so off topic within a minute and just discussing their personal life that their opinion doesn't bloody matter

Is privacy more important than national security?

I think Spock is more into privacy then McCoy. Can't put my finger on why, I might come back to this

How can a good diet be used to control certain diseases?

I think the groundwork of this argument is that McCoy is having a go at Spock being vegetarian. So they're discussing broadly, but McCoy keeps slipping in how great meat is lol

Is it better to live in a big city or a small town?

Spock likes cities! McCoy likes small towns! This can devolve into a squabble about feudalism if you want to go crazy

Animal zoos: are they morally acceptable?

This is good worldbuilding too, zoos would be more rehab centres now. But Spock likes to have a go at old earth practices too just to see McCoy go red

Is online learning as effective as traditional in-person learning?

I reckon Spock likes online learning. The little freak

Is online dating more effective than traditional dating?

Heheheheheheh make them fight about dating. Make them list their favourite types of dates in an aggressive way. Heheheh

#spones #spock #mccoy #tos

[poorlemons]

If it's okay to ask, what is your Birdwatcher au about? I was able to figure out the godhuntrer but not the Birdwatcher

Oh yeah of course! I'm always up to ramble about my ideas. (for ease i will refer to my aus by the abbreviations BW and GH) Ok so Birdwatcher is a lot less plotty than Godhunter. Where GH is angsty, bloody and has an actual timeline now, BW is feel good vibes, a nice break from the more heavy peepaw Leo aus. So there's not much by way of story or potential long-form content because it's more of a thing i can doodle and feel good while doing it. But there still is stuff to it, since it is the older AU. BW is a classic "what if Leonardo went with Casey jr through the portal". So Mikey makes the portal and as the krang hounds close in Leonardo grabs Casey and lunches through the portal, knowing he can move farther faster than Casey. In this au Leo wasn't as resigned to die, deciding he wanted to be there with Casey and ensure his safety. That's his son and he will give that boy a better future even if he has to do it with his two hands. The events of the movie are murky, generally it all goes the same, since it isn't the focus of the AU. Leonardo is wounded so cannot join the kids on the ship, the wound being too grievous to handle the physical exertion it would take to get there. He most likely works on saving civilians and aiding in the krang sister fight. Boom bam the krang gets defeated, Mikey opens the portal (much to Leonardo's horror) little Leo is saved. Everything is ok. Recovery happens, they all slowly heal, Leo is probably wounded as ever but Leonardo is there to make sure everything goes smoothly, and Casey jr is there to make sure he actually gets rest. that was mostly backstory but context is important!! I haven't focused as much on BW's dynamic with his living family but I assume he is very loving and caring towards them, tries to get them to go on nature hikes with him. He becomes another older figure in their life, older sibling type thing, though Raph insists he will always be the little brother. Leonardo and little Leo are a little different. Leonardo adores little Leo, thinks he's just a silly little guy. Little Leo pokes fun of Leonardo and is a little freaked out that his main hobby is birdwatching (little Leo secretly likes birdwatching with Leonardo). But everyone is family and it is great, Casey slots into the role of cousin-nephew-sibling type beat easily. Now to the main chunk of the au is his and Casey's rediscovery of the world. The basis of BW is that they find solace in nature, it is an old memory for Leonardo and a discovery for Casey jr. Leonardo is old and weary, Casey jr is uncomfortable in crowds, so the quiet peace in nature soothes them both. They take trips, visit state parks, zoos, forests. Leonardo becomes friends with Todd and they hang out, drink some lemonade together and watch birds. They also take to visiting the hidden city, to see the nature down there. I have some OCs to pad out the roster, Ellus is a plant wrangler/seller, and Leonardo likes to talk about plants with them. Elmon is up in the air but they could chill with Casey jr, do parkour together. The big chunk of the au is a lot more up in the air because it's very much a 'anything can happen, they're just having fun watching birds and healing from the pain of the apocalypse'. Sometimes I dabble with the idea of Leonardo's brother's ghosts in the form of little spectral birds but that's also wishy washy. Leonardo does have a weird griffin style bird though, I think it is goofy to give him a pet. I mean just look at him

#rottmnt au #rottmnt #rottmnt future leo #casey jones jr #rottmnt casey jr #birdwatcher leo #text post #biggg post #fun stuff right here #neil moment

[otwdfanfic]

Was watching one of the pirates of the caribbean movies and got to wondering, do the sea faring folks in the otwd saga got any myths and legends about the sea? Like things they're deadly afraid of or spirits they think are dwelling the waters?

(Very specific ask but i got curious LMAO <333)

I've definitely thought about different myths and superstitions since so many of our characters are sailors! Their #1 legendary sea monster is the sea serpent Jormungand, since he's basically their version of Godzilla and his arrival would be a sign of Ragnarok. Krakens are another great monster to be feared. Those are both pretty practical fears, since other giant monsters exist in their world, but they also fear (and adore) sirens, just like any good sailor aught to. They believe they're the daughters of Aegir and Ran, two sea gods who love to drown sailors. Njord is a friendlier sea god favored by fishermen, and Thor controls the weather. There's different rituals that can be done to appease those gods.

Shooting at seabirds like albatross and cormorants is unlucky, as is killing a white whale (since they can speak norse and curse you!). Bloodying the bow of a new boat before it's put in the water is good luck. Magic is usually considered unlucky in general for vikings because it's sly, tricky, and unmanly as opposed to brute strength, but they separate magic up into a lot of different types (religious rituals for example aren't magic, divination magic is fine for women, runic good luck charms are fine) so there's a lot of nuance but black magic/curses are a big No across the board. Ghosts of all kinds (ghost ships, ghost crews, drowned sailors, evil spirits) are popular stories.

Not everyone is very superstitious or believes in everything mentioned here, and there's some differences in beliefs between sailors, fishermen and raiders. Gustav certainly doesn't believe in most of it because he thinks dragons are behind all the legends. Ragnall on the other hand is a highly superstitious sailor (probably because his tribe the Thunderheads are even more sea-focused than most vikings) and his use of magic charms to protect himself is controversial with the crew.

Sorry it took me so long to respond! I LOVE pirates of the caribbean and now I want to rewatch those movies...

#httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd headcanons #I can't remember if theres any specific superstitions mentioned in the books but I should go check

[changlixx]

hi. just found your blog and felt the need to say that i LOVE what you're doing. and also the need to share some of my own thoughts (over here hoping that this doesn't go against the guidelines in your pinned, lmfao)

despite me being a firm minsung believer (sorry if you're not LMAO, this is gonna be really awkward) i was always, like, really skeptical of other dating rumors. by other dating rumors i mean hyunlix, lol. i have thought that felix is into men from the get-go but the whole hyunlix thing never felt quite right to me. i've had my first "oh, are they...?" kinda thought after watching the recent changlix 2 kids show episode, but now going through your blog is just like... yeah. yeah they are. so thanks for that as well

the rest of this ask is gonna be a big tinfoil hat moment loosely inspired by you mentioning the possibility of changbin playflirting with hyunjin as a way to distract the public from the real deal because he might be uncomfortable with changlix shippers. it's also gonna be me taking my belief that changlix & minsung are dating and making it the baseline, so like... as i've said, if you're against minsung this will be awkward. LOL. but whatever :) i'm just some silly anonymous person on tumblr dot com

i think you're both right and wrong at the same time? as in, the playflirting is obviously happening to distract people from the real deal, but i don't think that it's changbin's decision to do so per se. i think it's the management. and yeah, ik that blaming things on the ✨ evil ✨management is like, poster girl for conspiracy behavior, but hear me out:

1. stray kids are quickly rising in fame and if i had to pinpoint when they started gaining momentum and had a breakthrough in the recent years, it would be 5 star era. full album, etc. with that influx of fans it's only natural that they would have to start being more careful with their reputation, which, of course, includes dating

2. coincidentally, the hyunjin/changbin thing started being pushed around the same time. even back then i thought it was weird, since it wasn't obviously just the boys having fun - i mean, no, i do think they're having fun and probably find the whole thing bloody hilarious, but it was more than just that. the way things they were edited, to include as many hyunjin/changbin moments as possible felt weird to me. i didn't even think of changlix as a possibility back then so it wasn't like i was biased, but i felt like the editors were just told to push hyunjin/changbin down the viewers' throats for apparently no reason

3. another coincidence - in the most recent comeback, right after their unit song dropped and people started freaking out because things began seeming real, the same thing started happening to minsung, except this time with hyunjin/minho

now i... don't think that the boys are being held hostage in the Fanservice Basement where the Evil Management is holding them at gunpoint. but i think it is highly possible that they were told to just up their game in the "fanservice with other members" department and that the editors were told to include more of these moments in the final cut. both as a distraction and as a safeguard. so every time there's a, say, changlix moment, people who don't really pay attention to the ships/don't care for that would excuse it with "well, changbin is like this with other group members as well, there's nothing suspicious about that", ykwim? they are also all adults and understand very well how the industry works, etc. i do find it weird that both times it's hyunjin at the crime scene, but then again - i think he also finds it pretty funny, and he's also one of the more popular members. any ship with him is guaranteed to have a certain amount of insane people ready to eat that up just because more fans means more crazies, lmao

but then again, this is just me and my tinfoil hat, oops. sorry if you do mind people waltzing into your inbox like this </3

hiiiiii sorry for responding super late, i hope you're still around to see this answer! thank you so much for this ask, i love it, it's so long and thoughtful! that said, i'm about to disagree with everything you said jdgfdsfsdg i'm sorry. first of all i don't believe in minsung at all. no hate to anyone who does, you're all smart and valid and beautiful but i don't think they're dating or they ever have been. i do think minho has a big sad unrequited crush on jisung or at least he used to but that's it. i think so because the minsung ship is treated as such a joke among the skz members. obviously it's the most popular ship in skz so the members love teasing them with it. i don't think they'd do that if they were actually dating. and now minchan is becoming a juggernaut ship in skz and chan is ON that fanservice train. he takes every opportunity he gets to make the minchaners happy bc he knows how to play the game. so that's the first point on which i fundamentally disagree with you.

the second one is the company involvement in changbin flirting with hyunjin. obviously there is a possibility that that's the case but i tend to stay away from what i call the larry excuse. the notion that the company is dictating what to do about fanservice and managing which ships are popular, pushing one ship when another gets too big or suppressing other ships feels silly to me. i don't think div1 concerns themselves with that. they just look at which ships are popular and push those because it makes numbers. also the larry excuse is just so lazy lmao. you can just say that it's the evil company's fault and no one can disprove it because no one knows shit about what goes on in that building. it's an easily defendable position. and that's why it's completely boring to me to discuss what the faceless people behind the curtain might be plotting because we will never know so we might as well just not even try to speculate, you know? i know we like to put every decision we don't like on the people we don't know, but i think the members decide what they do in terms of fanservice.

my point was that i think that changbin flirts with hyunjin bc he himself got a little uncomfortable with how big the changlix ship had gotten and he just didn't want it to be quite as centered. that's what it looks like to me based on how he interacts with felix and with hyunjin (side note, changbin's flirting with hyunjin didn't start around 5 star era, it started way earlier. maybe even as early as noeasy. i agree that it's gotten way more intense around 5 star but it has been going on for quite a while). i don't think he's actually trying to make people think he's into hyunjin, it's just playflirting. it's fun and it gets screentime and it makes people talk less about changlix. and it's totally working! changlix as a ship is becoming less and less popular and hyunbin is growing.

again thank you for your ask! i hope it's not disappointing to you that i disagree with what you said. but you know, i'm just one changlixer of many so it doesn't matter what i think!

❤️❤️❤️

#changlix

[run-me-through-but-not-like-that]

Hello! Really big fan of all of your works so far (and also probably of all future ones) I have no idea if you wrote that yet, but maybe the reader taken care of injured Izzy? perhaps Izzy is touch starved as well?

Tumblr did a thing and deleted all my progress on this and I stupidly didn't have a back up so...I did it again, hope it's okay!

Taking Care of an Injured Izzy Hands:

The crew had gone on a raid, a 'proper' raid as Izzy and Edward would call it. And, to be fair to them, the crew of the Revenge didn't have much experience with raids that involved actual danger. But they were enthusiastic and had been preparing.

Despite the crew's lack of practical experience, it was Izzy would returned to the ship the most injured. His shirt was bloodied in more than enemy's blood and he was leaning against his captain for support.

Edward had been the one to bring him back to the ship, calling on you to come and tend to his first mate before disappearing down to the captain's cabin. Roach had once been the closest thing to a medic on board, but now those responsibilities fell onto you, since you had more experience with that sort of thing and an objectively gentler hand.

"What happened?" you demanded as you rushed into the captain's cabin, just in time to see Edward laying Izzy down on the captain's bed. Behind you, Lucius and Roach followed with their arms full of any equipment you might possibly need.

"He got stabbed-" more was said but that was all you really needed to know . There was some rambling about how he got injured, something to do with him making sure the whole crew didn't get killed, but you were too focused on getting the injury exposed to listen fully.

Luckily the stabbing had been pretty smooth, leaving you with a optimistic wound to work with. There wasn't too much extra damage.

The captains stayed as you tended to the injury, Izzy fists curled tightly and jaw tense as you cleaned the area to prevent infection. The first hand had eventually fallen unconscious while you were stitching up his wound, but you were a little surprised that he hadn't passed out earlier. Though, that was a good sign.

Once the fresh wound was cleaned and closed up, you assessed the man for any further damage you could take care of while you were there. "He should be fine, his breathing is good. Just have to wait for him to wake up" you assured the awaiting captains.

Edward and Stede thanked you for your help and Ed put you in charge of Izzy's care while he was recovering. Ed had warned you that he wouldn't accept your help easily, leaving you optimistic about your new job before they both left to tell the rest of the crew that Izzy would be fine.

During the hours that passed while Izzy slept, you never left the cabin. You had first passed the time with scrubbing the rest of the drying blood from his body, then cleaning the dirt and sweat away from his face, you had his clothes sent for cleaning and sewing up, and then you distracted yourself with Stede's library.

When you heard groaning from the bed and turned to see Izzy's face scrunched up, you rushed out of the cabin to ask Oluwande to grab him something light to eat and some water.

"How are you feeling?" you asked as you returned to Izzy's bedside.

"Like shit" he grunted, making you chuckle a little. He was talking and cognizant, that was a good sign.

"Well, the good news is that it looks like you're gonna be fine. Edward said that you had been stabbed in 'all the right places', apparently there's nothing important in the left side of the body. That doesn't sound right to me but, hey, you're alive so he mustn't be completely wrong" you informed him.

"It's definitely the...better place to be stabbed" he groaned as he shifted his weight against the mattress, drawing your attention to his bandages.

"Right, I gotta change your bandages, they're already bloody" you told him, already gathering the things you needed.

"I'll manage from here" Izzy complained, batting your hand away when you reached for his bandage.

"The captains have put me in charge of your care, that means you have to do as I say" you said before shrugged, "unless you want the wound to get infected and kill you, I guess."

"Fuck. Fine. Just get on with it" Izzy gave in. He wouldn't admit it but he knew that it would be easier to just let you tend to it than to do it himself, though you surprised him with how carefully you removed the bandages.

In fact, he was surprised by how gentle you were as you cleaned around the wound, like his comfort was important to you. The rest of his scars gave away that he had been wounded plenty of times, sometimes other people took care of them, sometimes he did it by himself, but nobody was ever so careful about it though. Not even himself.

You even warned him when you were about to touch the wound, being extra cautious as you cleaned it up and examined it. He pretended to ignore the way you sweetly shushed him and apologised whenever he winced to hissed to himself.

Just as you finished expertly bandaging the wound again, Oluwande stepped into the room with a bowl in one hand and a cup in his other.

"Perfect timing" you smiled as you crossed the room, taking the bowl of soup and drink from him. "Let the captains know he's awake" Olu nodded before leaving the cabin again.

"You should drink and try to eat. If you can't now, I'll make you something later" you advised as you approached Izzy again, but he only squinted at you like he was suspicious of you. "Don't make me force feed you" you threatened, placing the bowl and cup down beside him.

"You going to fucking watch me?" Izzy grimaced as he picked up the bowl.

"Yeah, make sure you're alright. Need to know if you can keep food down or not" you shrugged, pulling a chair over to the side of his bed and taking a seat.

Despite his complaints, Izzy ate and drank every drop. You left brief to fetch a pitcher of water for him, seeing as he seemed thirsty.

After being informed of Izzy's consciousness by Oluwande, Edward and Stede came to visit him. Ed told him that he was glad he was alright and praised your handiwork before helping the injured man to his own cabin.

"Y'got to listen to Y/n, alright mate? They're in charge of you until you're all healed up" Edward told him as he helped him down onto his cot.

"Fuck off" Izzy scoffed, his face scrunching up.

"Captain's orders" you shrugged, making Izzy groan. Stede gave you an apologetic look but you just laughed it off, earning a pat on the back from Ed before leaving Izzy to rest.

-

As you did so often lately, you let yourself into Izzy's cabin only to see him trying to sit up, his face twisted in pain as he moved.

"No, no, no" you chastised, hurrying over to him. Izzy only grunted and complained as you gently took hold of his shoulders and pushed him back down against the mattress. "You've got to rest or at least have help moving about, you're just going to make your wound worse" you warned him.

"I've been stabbed before" he huffed, annoyed with your fussing. You could have guessed that he had survived similar injuries but he didn't need to punish himself for that.

"Yeah, well, now I'm the one taking care of you. Things are going to change" you insisted with determination written all over your face. "Now, let me look at the damage you've caused" Izzy sighed at the insistence but nodded, too injured to be bothered fighting you any more than he had.

He didn't speak as you removed his bandages, being just as careful as you always were.

"You're bleeding again" you tutted. Why did you work so hard on those stitches just for him to keep breaking them? "If you keep being so stubborn, you're only going to slow down the healing process."

Despite him having causing the damage himself, you dutifully tended to the would. Showing him the same tenderness as always before bandaging it up once more.

Once you finished, you sat down on the edge of his cot, looking at him with a certain expression of disappointment.

"Seriously, Izzy. Just let me help you" you frowned, pushing his hair out of his face. He had only been trying to sit up and he looked like he had just been raiding again. He flinched a little as your hand made contact, yet relaxed as you combed your fingers through his hair. He almost let out a disappointed sigh when you removed your hand.

"I'm sure you've handled wounds like this before, I don't doubt that you know what you're doing, but you don't have to do everything by yourself. Let me help, let me make it easier for you" you were practically pleading with him, looking at him like all you wanted to do was help him, to care for him. It made him sick.

"...alright" Izzy grunted.

"Thank you" he only scoffed at your response. You were thanking him for letting you help him? "Roach is making dinner, which is what I came to tell you in the first place. I imagine you're pretty bored in here, want me to come and eat with you?" you asked, the offer genuine.

"...whatever you want" Izzy shrugged but you took that as a 'yes'. If he didn't want you to join him, he would have told you to fuck off again.

"I'll be back soon" you promised, giving him a smile before leaving his cabin.

He couldn't help but stare at the door after you were gone. He understood fully captain's orders, but you didn't have to follow them so well. He's sure all Ed expected of you was to keep his wound clean and make sure he doesn't die, not to coddle him.

-

Izzy raised an eyebrow at you as you tidied up his cabin, a mess you had mostly made anyway since you would barely let him leave the bed. "You're actually going to let me walk about now?" he questioned.

"Only if I'm with you, of course" you turned to him, beaming. Being forced to associate so closely and frequently with Izzy had really made you comfortable. Hell, you enjoyed your time helping him out. "But you have to promise me something?" your tone suddenly turned serious.

"What?" there was a time Izzy would have scoffed or fought you a little harder but he was becoming used to your strange way of...caring.

Of course, there was nothing actually strange about the way you cared. He just wasn't used to receiving care, so he wouldn't really know.

"If your injury starts to hurt when you're moving about, you let me know" all you wanted was to make sure that Izzy was alright and that he wasn't forcing himself to fight through the pain.

"I'm not a fucking child" Izzy spat, feeling as if you must be mocking him.

"Izzy" you sighed, shoulders dropping.

"Fine. I promise" it was a reluctant promise but good enough for you.

"Alright, let's get you up" your smile returned, at least until he tried to sit up by himself.

You were there in an instant, slipping an arm under his back and taking hold of his arm with your other hand, helping up into a sitting position. He turned his body, dropping his legs off of the cot and letting his feet hit the floor.

Once Izzy was sitting, you stepped over to where he kept his clothes. "What shirt do you want? The black one or the black one?" you asked playfully as you grabbed one of his shirts.

"You're a real comedian" Izzy muttered, rolling his eyes and yet...there was a certain fondness to his tone.

"Yeah, that was my backup plan but I became a pirate instead. The pay's better" you joked, your mood peaking when you heard a short chuckle from Izzy.

He didn't fight you any more as you helped him slip the shirt on. He just watched you as you buttoned it up, purely confused by your desire to help him, to be nice to him, to care for him.

Taking hold of his arm, you helped him stand. The two of you left the cabin, you close behind him. He was a little slow going up the steps onto the deck but you were still impressed with how well he was healing.

Izzy insisted on going about his first mate duties but you had insisted on never leaving his side, reminding him that it was your duty now. He had rolled his eyes at your insistence but it was oddly nice to have you following him around, even if he felt like you were only there to keep an eye on him and stop him from keeling over.

Everything was going fine and you thought the fresh air would be good for him, until he started chastising Lucius for not working. His frustration with the man was only heightened since he had been bedbound for who knows how long now despite wanting and trying to work every step of the way.

He was part way through the scolding when he let out a sudden hiss. Your head snapped towards him at the sound, seeing him clutching his abdomen where you new his injury was.

"Izzy?" you were instantly by his side, one hand against the small of his back and the other on the front of his shoulder. "Are you alright?" you asked, and Lucius took the chance to get out of Izzy's sight.

"I'm fine" Izzy insisted through gritted teeth, he wasn't at all convincing.

"Let me look at it?" you asked but he shook his head, breathing through the pain. "It will make me feel better" you pleaded, letting him pretend that you were doing this for yourself and not for him.

Reluctantly, Izzy agreed and even let you help him across the deck. You took his arm, wrapping it around your shoulders, and wrapped your arm around his waist, letting him lean against you as you helped him back down to his cabin.

You knew that Izzy hated accepting help, especially when he was in front of the crew. But at least you seemed to be wearing down at his stubbornness.

You patiently helped him sit down on the edge of his cot again. He watched you as you unbuttoned his shirt and helped him out of it, you weren't acting like this was a burden in the slightest. Maybe it wasn't for you. You folded the shirt and placed it to the side.

You knelt down and examined the scarring injury. "It looks alright, healed enough that it didn't open up again, so that's good" you assured him.

"Told you" Izzy breathed, the pain subsiding now.

Despite your initial conclusion, you examined it once more just to make sure everything was alright. Mindlessly, you gently brushed your finger tips over the scarring tissue, sending a shiver down Izzy's spine.

"Sorry" you apologised, pulling your hand away and looking up at him.

"S'alright" Izzy assured you quietly, making you smile a little.

"Can I put some ointment on it?" you asked and he nodded.

He hadn't liked using the ointment at first, mostly because Stede had been the one to provide it, but he had come to accept the soothing procedure.

You grabbed the jar and opened it before taking a generous amount. Izzy let out a breath as you applied the ointment to his wound, it as cold quickly warmed up under your hand. The ointment paired with your touch was soothing against his sensitive, scarring skin.

He couldn't help but let his eyes flutter shut, focusing on your touch. The lightness of it, the tenderness. You never pushed too hard, nearly featherlight, but oh so very there. It felt like you cared about him, like you wanted to care for him and that you didn't mind in the slightest.

Izzy felt that he could get used to this, to having you around, to your gentleness.

"Iz, you okay?" your voice broke him from his trance, his eyes flickering open again. "Thought I lost you there for a moment" you smiled up at him, wondering what was going on in his head.

"I'm good" he nodded, voice quiet. You didn't question his change in demeanour.

"Good" you smiled, like you were glad to hear it. "Now, anything I can do for you?" you asked, climbing back to your feet.

"I won't die if you don't fuss over me all the time, y'know" Izzy told you, no real bite to his words, he was looking at you more confused that angry.

"Maybe I enjoy it" you shrugged but your words were sincere. "Maybe I think you deserve to have somebody take care of you from time to time" you hummed, reaching out and running your hand through his messed up hair.

"Then you're the only one" he had intended on scoffing but it came out weak.

"I'll just have to be the one to do it, then, won't I?" you brought your hand down to his jaw, brushing your thumb over the little tattoo on his cheek.

Izzy let out another breath as he lent into your touch, forgetting himself for a moment. Once he realised what he was going, he pulled away slightly, but not enough to remove your touch entirely.

"We haven't washed your hair in a while, I think it needs it" you commented, having come to learn that Izzy enjoyed when you washed his hair.

He had never admitted that but he couldn't be more obvious about it, the way his eyes closed and muscles relaxed. Helping him bathe had been an awkward affair at first but the two of you found a system that suited you both.

"Don't need help washing up anymore, especially not my hair" Izzy reminded you, and it was true. You always offered your help when it came to his abdomen and legs since it involved him having to bend down but he didn't need help washing his hair of all things anymore.

"Yeah but...I could do it anyway" you offered, leaving the choice in his hands. It was obvious that gentleness was something he was lacking, something that he craved whether he knew it or not, and you wanted to be able to offer him that if he asked for it.

"Yeah, alright. You can help" Izzy declared with a professional nod, earning a fond laugh from you.

You wondered if you could make him fall asleep as you played with his hair again...

#izzy hands x reader #izzy hands #ofmd izzy #our flag means death #ofmd

[i-like-eyes]

Wrote this out of boredom uhhhh

For years I've just kinda ignored metasusie because I thought it was dumb more than anything, but seeing the new wave of fans latch onto the first straight ship they see it means I'm seeing it flood my timelines and I'm forced to think about it. I don't even subscribe to the MK has robot PTSD theory so much as I think it's just a bad read of both characters. I think people should be allowed to make and consume what could be considered problematic media as long as they still think critically about what they are doing and understand the effects their creations can have on people. But I'm not seeing that here. Listen if this was just a bad read of the characters I wouldn't make an elaborate post on it unless someone asked about it oop There are a lot of headcanons I think are shitty reads of the characters, but that's all they are. There is no point to take a fat dump on them other than I was bored and wanted to complain.

But metasusie isn't just that, it promotes harmful ideas rather the people that like the pair realize it or not. If the gender roles were switched more people would recognize that there was an unfair power balance and how icky the whole situation is, and if it isn't undermining MK then Susie is reduced to a sexy mannequin devoid of personality to look pretty next to the cool guy. I have never seen a ship that both completely disregards the media's message in order to exist and is so sexist for both characters involved; and I'd never thought I'd have to say that for a bloody Kirby ship.

I know I'm not changing metasusie fan's minds because they are very stubborn. After scrolling on Twitter too much it's clear that metasoos fans know their ship is problematic, and instead of reflecting on themselves they try to divert attention by bullying gay people or smth. I've seen them try to argue that metadede is the more problematic pairing, and as someone who does not like metadede, *bruh* it is as inoffensive as stock images lmao. Rather I'm writing this so that people that get there is smth off about the pairing but can put to words what they're feeling. Because if you so much as poke at the arguments supporting it, they immediately shatter they're so haphazardly put together.

And knowing what posting this will entail; please don't harass anyone over this, it won't help your point. I don't think that liking smth yikesy automatically makes someone a bad person, some people just legit don't know better. I think what matters more is how the respond after the fact, and to be patient with people because you can't expect anyone to change overnight. That said some people won't change their minds ever, and no amount of trying to cram the idea in their heads will change do that. Hell constantly poking someone about it when they have shown they don't care about the topic, even if you think they are wrong about it that's just bullying. If you can't change someone's mind they aren't worth the time.

So, the big point everyone has seen. Susie ripped MK of his humanity. When you say you "remodeled" someone and give them a new robot name you have dehumanized them. There is no getting around that fact, and this is a thing that happened in the main story not even as pause screen lore.

How she describes him before the second fight is particularly degrading, calling him a product and referring to him as "it". The line about the upgrade enabling him to work for 24 hours is definitely commentating on long works hours lol

People will argue that MK doesn't seem all that bothered by it so it's okay, I'd argue that isn't the case but let's go with this take anyways. Even if MK himself was okay with being reduced to a company's asset, the act of mechanizing someone against their will is still an irresponsible thing to do on Susie's end. I'm pretty sure 80% of metasusie fans didn't actually play Planet Robobot, but just so that we are on the same page, the plot of that game is that the entirety of Planet Popstar is robotized by the Haltmann company and Kirby has to save the planet from being taken over by comically over-the-top capitalists. Meta Knight is one of the many, many victims of robotization and the fact that the galaxy's greatest warrior was even taken over by the company is how the game raises its stakes. Whispey the tree becoming company property is bad enough, but the Haltmann company is just so damn powerful that not even Meta Knight could fight them off. This is the part where the player goes "oh shit! Not the badass Meta Knight!" The whole game is critique of capitalism, that the system reduces those at the bottom (the robotized) into cogs of a wider machine that serves to maximize profits that benefits only those at the top (the Haltmanns). Doesn't matter how good you are at sword fighting, that can't fight off an economic system man. And this game's critique of capitalism, while still simple because all ages game, doesn't get enough credit. That line about being able to work for 24 hours isn't just a joke about how hard a job is, under capitalism the people in charge wring out as many hours out of their employees as they possibly can. They'd like it if we were all just mindless robots because more hours means get more work done in a week meaning more profit and faster. Even if you are 10 and have never heard of capitalism, it's still clear that the bad guys are doing their bad guy thing by taking over the good guys. My point is by excusing Susie robotizing Meta Knight and saying it wasn't all that bad, you are excusing the rest of the planet being turned into a hellscape and its inhabitants being ripped of their humanity. You are saying that the game's message does not matter, that the game's entire fucking conflict meant nothing. After all, if MK being robotized wasn't so bad then why would Kirby need to save the whole planet? Some people really will ignore a whole game to justify a ship god damn.

Some people instead claim that what Susie did was awful, but she can improve as a person and MK can forgive her. There are a handful of things wrong with this mindset let's break it down.

First off, Susie has never shown a willingness to change. "But she helped Kirby at the end" technically yes, but was it out of the kindness of her heart or because she was already in danger and recognized that he was the only way to ensure she'd survive? Going by her dialogue it looks more like the latter. "I'm not going to stand here be be destroyed by some crazy machine!" You got to work on your optics girl.

Compare and contrast this with Taranza helping Kirby in the end of Triple Deluxe. Taranza was blasted away Team Rocket style by Sectonia; he just had his best friend whom he was still loyal towards despite her changing for the worse finally betray him. He is literally blasted miles away from the big boss fight at this point and probably dealing with a lot of confused and built up emotions. And despite that, he goes to back to help Kirby and DDD defeat her having realized that she can't be saved. He could of stayed behind away from all the action, but he went back to do the right thing. Both Susie and Taranza would of died in their situations (Secc eventually becomes a ginat flower and starts to cover the planet) but Taranza was the one that put himself into more danger by going back. That's why he looks more selfless than Susie does. Not saying Susie didn't do a good thing either, nor that you can argue even Taranza might of had selfish motivations for wanting to survive because don't we all. But, because of the situation her motivations seemed more selfish in nature whereas Taranza put himself in more danger to save others.

Perhaps the intention was to have Susie be as admirable as Taranza was. I get the vibe the devs wanted Susie to be the next Taranza, but I don't think they captured what made him special. Yeah they both had sad backstories, but that doesn't excuse their bad actions. Rather they have to show them working to better themselves, and they had Taranza at the end helping DDD and Kirby back to Dreamland while Susie fucks off to space in her mech. If the intention was to make Susie nicer, then she should of been shown helping others more. Or maybe that wasn't even their intention, and Susie is just supposed to be a bad guy. Taranza and even the Squeaks in the infamously underwritten Squeak Squad make up for their actions at the end of their respective games, if they wanted Susie to reform they could have. And Magolor shows that if they change their minds on smth they can just retcon what happened in their next game appearance! So did they do that with Susie?

We would see her again in Star Allies, so if we get a plot follow up of sorts then it would be there. In it she's a Dream Friend; playable characters whose inclusion in the game are canonically dubious, but the information here is still significant because it's the closest thing we'll get to official media commenting on where the characters are after their own titles. It has been confirmed that there is no clear timeline, but it's fair to say that KSA takes place after all the other games because it references those, and how else would Kirby know all these people anyways? Ultimately the most common take is what you see is canon, and what people see is Susie helping Kirby and the game referencing the events of PR. Each playable character has a little blurb in their pause screens explaining why they are in the game. It should be noted that the people that translated the game were seemingly given like two days to complete it, so yes I will be bringing up the differences in versions, but the vast majority of people that played the English version only know about the English text. While the Japanese text is the "original", that doesn't make the English text any less valid no matter how bad you may think it is. In the English version Susie's blurb reads:

The company he built... I will bring it back!” Cool and collected, Susie from Kirby: Planet Robobot is all business. Following in the footsteps of her employer, she uses science to advance her mission—mechanizing new planets and peoples.

I don't think I even need to explain how this version of Susie is repeating the same villainous acts from her debut game. This is how most English players view the character rather you like it or not. Moving on to the Japanese version:

“His company…I’ll show that I will rebuild it!” Brushing aside a loose strand of shiny hair, the beautiful secretary Susie that inherited his will from Planet Robobot has taken action! A harmonious family, and a happy life, are offered with the power of science… I’ll exterminate the savages under such principles!

I've seen Susie fans say that her JP description is nicer than her EN one and proof she's changed for the better which. Okay mechanizing planets and people is arguably worse cause that's larger scale, but the JP version literally says she is killing people she decides are degenerates lol. And what she considers savages are the people of Popstar by the way, she isn't actually helping anybody. Even if she was killing obviously bad people, "exterminating the savages" is still a really blatantly evil way of wording things. That kind of language is used by colonizers when they take continents, or in the Haltmann's case, planets. Big red flags here, is the American education system that bad???

In order to justify killing an entire population to take their land, the colonizers convince themselves and others that "well the inhabitants are just savages anyways they wouldn't understand." This is what she means by "A harmonious family, and a happy life, are offered with the power of science… I’ll exterminate the savages under such principles!" Killing "savages" in the name of science is straight up some eugenicist shit I'm not kidding. And capitalism is associated with advancement of technology which means getting rid of what is outdated by capitalists standards. Such as a planet and its people lacking in hi-tech department for example. She isn't helping people y'all this is still the same capitalist from the previous game, just look at her dialogue in the second screenshot: "You natives need to be taught manners!"

This still is a bad localization, but unlike other parts of KSA I at least understand what the mindset was. "Okay she wants to exterminate the savages.... and those savages are the people in the way of her colonizing planets..... oh so she's colonizing planets." That's still a different meaning from the og text, but even the person that were given what seems like 30 seconds to translate this at least understood the wider implication.

All that said, ultimately this dialogue is just set up for a punchline. Consistent in her writing is her complete and utter lack of empathy and juxtaposing her cherry attitude with her bad behavior. In the first dialogue blurb I reference she acts as if her turning MK into her slave was her doing him a favor and she thinks this completely unironically; she is crazy and that's the joke. Bad people never think they are the villains; Susie thought she helping people when really she's killing innocents and that's the joke. This game series is inherently silly I don't know how people can miss this.

Then there is the menu animation thing where MK runs away in fear and Susie chases him. These are even more canonically dubious but it's the one example of the games referencing the two together after Planet Robobot. If they were supposed to both be on good terms you'd think the one time they can comment on their relationship status that then they'd be all buddy-buddy. But that isn't what they went with, the animation is there to say that MK (and even DMK) is afraid of Susie.

I'd like to point out that while it's easy to completely dismiss this as a "cute reference", there was still thought put into this. The people that created this had to think about what makes the most sense for these characters based on what information we already know. They didn't come to that conclusion based on nothing.

Alright the big question; does MK forgive Susie at the end of Robobot? Or ever? The end of the game has MK fly his ship near Star Dream where Kirby and Susie happen to be, nods to Kirby, Kirby nods back, and then they fly away leaving Susie behind. Some people have took this as MK forgiving Susie because. Uh. He doesn't acknowledge her? What is that the mindset here, that because he doesn't got out of his way to say "Susie you suck" that means they are on good terms? No, what's happening is there is a giant computer about to take over the galaxy, and MK doesn't acknowledge Susie because the evil murder robot is more important at the moment.

A problem with the series recently is that its had pretty ambitious story telling with little time to tell it. We probably won't figure out if Taranza moves on from Sectonia's death because *when* could they tell that story? TDX2? lol that was scrapped. Taranza certainly isn't popular enough to show up in a game collection to elaborate on his game's ending. We don't know if MK forgave Susie or held a grudge because the game doesn't have time to explore that unless it wants to ruin the pacing of the gameplay. The nature of the series is that after every game Dreamland basically resets, this is so that you can hop into any entry without needing context from previous titles to enjoy the current one. At most there will be references for older fans to gawk at, but the characters themselves live like they are in an episodic tv show. Next week all will back to normal to make a clean canvas for the next game. We can't have a game that follows up on the after effects on mechanization because we can't expect everyone to have played Planet Robobot. Plus the games barely have any time to properly establish the new story and characters, you think it has time to recap previous titles? We won't find out what the likes of Bonkers and Whispey think about the whole being turned into a robot thing because of this.

But the people that worked on Star Allies had the opportunity to at least comment on the effects it had on MK, even if it was in the form of a simple easy-to-miss animation. They had to think to themselves what do we know about these characters and in this one opportunity we can comment on what their current status is, how would they react. Thought was put into this.

Well, MK just isn't a very open guy for one thing. Like, him being quiet and mysterious is his whole gimmick. Even if the games were more story heavy, MK isn't the type to waltz into a room and announce how he's feeling. He's also normally in a high position of power; be it leading the Halberd or defeating the likes of Galacta Knight. He fights back the possession during Epic Yarn, and afterwards infamously says "Kirby, forgive me! I blame the yarn!" He is very clearly embarrassed by the ordeal lol. By KATFL he's so sick of being possessed that he just escapes Fecto's grasp through sheer will. In PR he's shown to be very stiff and lifeless in his Mecha Knight animations, devoid of any personality. We don't see him struggle like in Epic Yarn, but the fact that the mechanization has that strong of a hold on him that he can't fight it back is much scarier than the yarn thing. He would be at least a little shook from having that power suddenly taken from him, and he has been established to not like being mind controlled. And we know the guy is stubborn, he will not admit he's losing a fight and stick to the very end. Even if Susie tried to get on better terms with him, he'd hold a grudge for having bested him. In KF2 he still holds a grudge against freaking Kirby for always beating him for Pete's sake. This isn't proof the guy is traumatized or whatever that title goes to Zan, but he is said to have an ego streak in Star Allies, and the whole turned into a cyborg against your will thing would bruise your ego. So yeah, I think it makes complete sense that MK would try to avoid Susie. Go figure the people that work on these characters for their job understand them inside and out.

Now even ignoring all of this, I see people say well it's so open to interpretation what happens that I just hc Susie as getting better and MK forgiving her anyways.

Okay, prove it. Where's this story you have where this happens. Where is this content. I have not seen a single metasusie fan commit to this slow burn growing for the better and learning to forgive narrative, they just hop right into the romance. I have seen stories where Susie tries to better herself, sometimes MK forgives her and sometimes he doesn't, and none of those were done to justify shipping the two. They were stories that existed to explore the character (hell the only one with shipping had FranSoos) While I have argued here that Susie has never shown the willingness to change at all, at least the people that disagree have made some impressive art expressing why they think otherwise. The fact that I haven't seen metasusie fans actually do that and instead charge straight first into generic married couple shit tells me they don't actually care about the narrative where they grow as people and just say that's what they hc as a justification for the ship. You aren't exploring these characters you just want fluffy shit, and if that's all you care about just say that.

"Why can't you just let people have fun."

fffffffffffffff The main reason why I made this thing despite keeping quiet on other shit in this fandom I don't like, is because this pairing pushes sexist ideas rather the shippers intended this or not (and the vast majority of the time they don't). Making the two a happy-go-lucky couple downplays the abuse MK endured, and by extension rips Susie of her agency.

I am not saying MK suffered the equivalent of real world domestic abuse, he is literally a blueberry man that was made into a cool transformer when he didn't want that. But, there is more evidence to support that MK didn't like being robotized than there is saying he was okay with it. If the game explicitly supported the idea that he is fine and even forgives her, that would be a different story. But as established he's either indifferent at best or scared of her at worst. What is happening is that the media says that he suffered a bad thing, and people react to it by showing him fine and dandy despite that. Let's play a game. It's called "a man kidnaps a woman and forces her to do everything he says rather she wants to or not; is this scenario fucked up". If you answered yes then congrats you won the game, if you answered no, welp. I don't what to do with you man. It's incredibly telling when I see people react viscerally to others that headcanon MK's experience as having went worse. The same people I see say "just let people have fun it's just hc" in regards to their fluffy owo metasusie ship freak the fuck out whenever they see an angsty MK was hurt by Susie hc and try to argue how wrong it is. If your headcanon that MK is okay with the robot thing is valid, then what makes the angstier hc's any less valid? What is wrong with people that sympathize with MK being stripped of his anatomy and forced to work for someone else and exploring that story? Taking the theming of dehumanization and further exploring it? I thought you just wanted to let people have fun! Gonna go out on a limb here and say some people don't like the idea that men can't take more abuse than women; that they have a double standard and seeing that take makes them reevaluate their minset. And also that headcanon conflicts with the idea that he can date Susie. Mostly the later, but smth smth no one is free from biases and those can show up anywhere even in depictions of anthropomorphic spheres.

Back to Susanna, a problem with the games with that she suffers little repercussions for her actions. She can't really grow as a character if she doesn't find out what she did was wrong. But if they wanted to just play the villain thing straight it's still kinda boring to see she barely struggles to get what she wants, wow she sure is quick to brush off losing Star Dream so quickly after all her hard work. This is reflected in fan work as well, people don't seem all that interested in discussing why what she did was bad unless it's among the lines of "she is evil incarnate and deserves to die". Very productive guys. Because the games never properly punish her for her bad deeds, and the fans jump straight into the romance shit without writing that character arc where she grows as a person that the games lack. And the end result is Susie is never punished for her actions, rather she's rewarded with the same man she dehumanized. No amount of "well I hc this" will change that, all you ever draw is shippy stuff, never the character growth, and what people remember is the visuals not your written hc's. All people will see is fanart of a villain who never learns and is even rewarded for her bad behavior. MK's tribulations are ignored for the sake of her. Again, if the games actually had her pay for her mistakes then everyone's understanding of the character would be that of someone that actually understands what is and isn't wrong, then the pairing would be less icky. But that isn't the case, and the fandom isn't going to change that perspective anytime soon because it doesn't have the influence the official media nor does it care all that much about that narrative to begin with.

I've seen some defenders of the ship say that it only gets so much hate because people are weird about Susie. Now the people that say this will lump together actual haters with people who have legitimate criticisms, but yes as referenced above people are very weird about Susie. Like some people just despise this fictional woman, and she's clearly a bad person but she's a villain that's the point? Calm down. I know it might seem like *I* hate Susie because I've written 1000 words detailing why she's an awful person, but actually that's why I love her. All that dialogue I used to argue why she's awful? That shit is funny as hell! I'm sorry the hero of the story is boring; I'd much rather watch a villain giggle in glee, wine in hand from the comfort of their spooky castle as they watch the city burn underneath them. Susie would post a picture of her posing next to her latest victim with the description "feeling cute might delete later". She's that meme posing in a pool with someone drowning in the back. I don't think she's particularly well written, her backstory doesn't seem to have any affect on her and the game itself can't decide rather she's a straight up villain or morally ambiguous, but damn she's still so much fun. What she lacks in clear morals, she more than makes up for with plenty of personality! And seeing a horrible character suffer no repercussions for their bad actions and instead are congratulated with given a hot bf is obnoxious. But making a fun character boring? One of the worst sins you could commit. No I'm joking, but it is also super fucking telling that a good chuck of metasusie shippers are really just MK fanboys that only ever bring up Susie in relation to MK. And they ignore her war crimes to make her a sexy lamp that flirts with him and seemingly has no other ambitions. Like hating women is one thing, but women are people and people can be awful therefore women can be awful and let women be a bad bitch like Maleficent dammit. What I mean to say is; Susie isn't like some feminist icon, for one of like barely 10 plot important female characters she plays into a lot of basic stereotypes and the devs seem hesitant to actually punish her for her actions or have her grow to the extent of her male counterparts. But she's still an incredibly active character that can outsmart anybody (exception being the evil supercomputer which is fair) and takes matters into her own hands. In order to make Susie shippable you have to make her nicer, but this comes in the form of removing her smarts and her go getter attitude so that she becomes the ideal wife, and not only does she no longer resemble Susie, that's incredibly demeaning.

(Edit: I forgot to mention a lot of people will argue that depicting a female character as villainous to be an inherently bad thing. While it is true that there are some creators that hate women so much that every woman they write is some sort of evil temptress or whatever, this obviously doesn't mean that every fictional bad lady ever is inherently sexist for being evil. No not every depiction of Susie being mean is a result of someone that hates her, you can't deny that she's mean in canon at least at *sometimes*. Let women be bad bitches.)

TL:DR, The ship is bad. Planet Robobot makes a stance on the negative effects of capitalism, that because capitalism favors those at top it dehumanizes those below them. Meta Knight is a victim of this, and by saying it wasn't a problem you ignore the game's message for a ship. Susie isn't a particularly well written character, perhaps she was intended to be more sympathetic but the series doesn't do enough to show her trying to change for the better. The fans don't make up for this and treat her even weirder. If it was just those issues then it would just be a lame pairing, but the pair also emphasizes how the abuse men receive is undermined and how little people care about Susie being her own person. Also by posting this I lost a lot of followers lol

#kirby #meta knight #susie haltmann #mecha knight #yeah im tagging all of this shit #not my normal content #yeah. #translation by fountain of dreams on this website #im so sorry #EDIT: I REALLY WROTE TDLR INSTEAD OF TLDR LMAOOO

[wifiwuxians]

CHAORONG IF NO ONE HAS ASKED or uhh another Chao ship ( or just another ship maybe go wild ) of ur choosin

I'M NOT CREATIVE ENOUGH LOL I WILL DO CHAORONG

GAME

Do I ship it: yeas.... Once again... I've made it up. Sort of! Someone actually submitted it to me during a silly Chao crackship event I had. I don't remember who though I hope whoever it was is happy and thriving now (begins to mourn friendships I made and lost along the way on here)

What made me ship it: the GREMLIN ENERGY AMPLIFIED!!! and, like Xuechao, it's two shitty people learning to better themselves just by having each other to lean on. Qi Rong won't be fixed, but he can be pacified! And my babygirl Chao needs someone to be crazy about him I think

Favorite things: The constant desire to impress one another, both being proud and in need of humbling, how they're the two most unlikely people to be vulnerable around others unless their lives were at an end and that's why it works so well (well, Chao is a great big coward, but he never really opened up about his shit LMAO), the potential they have to just be completely obsessed with one another. And of course the chance for Chao to stop being so bloody mediocre which I will always take... He can try......

Unpopular opinion: lol nobody even knows this ship exists this question is so null so let's look at them instead

#Chaorong #Ship game #FJFKDJDJ

[spacingstars]

WIP Game

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it!

Thanks @ninjigma for the tag! Quite late but... better late than never, right? x3

I have uh, a lot, of WIPs. Both writing and art... I'll put small descriptors for characters & ships where I find it appropriate, so, without further ado...

-Long Fic/Big AU Wips-

These are all the large scale, intended to be long multi-chapter WIPs I've got in the works right now.

-Fault Lines [Working Title] -Twin Suns [Working Title] (rexwalker) -DS!Rex [Working Title, DS meaning Dark Side]

-One Shots-

-Bloodied Maw (Rexvader) -Death of Me [Working Title] (Vader) -Lying Tongues (Anakin & Kix & Rex) -Ripped Teeth (Rexvader) -Sea Monsters [Working Title] (Rexwalker) -Serenity (Rexwalker) -Sleep [Working Title] (Rexwalker, smut) -Terrible Bosses [Working Title] (Appo & Vader, Palpatine & Vader, Appo & Palpatine)

There's a couple more here but... those fall into the category of "over 2 years old and haven't been touched since" and I have completely forgotten what my brain even intended when I first wrote those so I'm leaving those off the list. These are all, at the least, one-shots I've written within the past year and still have hope of being finished.

....though given my creative track record as of late it's likely many of these (the one-shots, at least) are going to fall into the abyss of my brain. oops.

Now, as for the art WIPs... which are... much more complicated if only because I never actually give my art WIPs titles they're all just numbered because I do a lot of sketching but not a lot of... finishing. And honestly, a lot of them are.... extremely rough... but, there's a singular rexwalker WIP I'd be willing to show if anyone's interested. xD

Also, if it isn't obvious, all of these are Star Wars, sticking to one fandom for simplicity's sake. Plus, only other fandom WIPs I have are Halo fanart, and... I already explained the situation with my art x3

#Space's Tag Games #Space's Fandom Stuff

[bunny-lou]

Are you still doing them? Then Harlos: murder

Cleaning out my inbox again and I have no idea what the context of this was. I'm sure it was like a writing prompt/ask game that I reblogged, but I can't find it, so I'm doing a generic response of filling a head canon with this pairing and this word :)

On the Isle, Harry is wandering on the barges, waiting for the newest boat to come in to be rummaged. It's less busy than usual, which is very odd as most villains should be here scavenging for food, but Harry's not complaining: more for him!

But he showed up early to beat the rush, so now he has some time to kill. He wanders down under the docks, kicking at sand and looking into the ocean, imagining the day he and his crew can be free and actually set sail from this wicked place.

A spot of red amongst all the dull greys and browns of the murky shorelines catches his eyes. He walks closer and closer until he sees it's De Vil, curled under one of the further docks, peeking up between the wooden plans so intently that he doesn't even notice Harry.

Good chance to scare one of Mal's crew.

He sneaks up, footsteps muffled by the sand, until he's just a few feet away, hands curled into fake claws, and barks.

Carlos jumps and whips his head around, hands brought up to cover his face and holy shit, his hands are covered in blood.

"Don't tell anyone I'm here!"

Harry looks between the dried blood on Carlos' fingers and his wild eyes. "What tha hell happened ta ya?"

"It wasn't me!"

"What wasn't ya?"

"I-I didn't do it." Carlos whispers, looking around as if someone is overhearing them. "I just found her, I didn't do it, I swear I didn't."

Harry is still confused, but he let's Carlos keep rambling.

"She was just laying in her bed, I-I thought she was sleeping, so I was quiet in the house, but then when I went to bring her her tea..." His mouth trembles. "There was so much blood and I knew I would never be able to get the stains out." Carlos looks to Harry with giant eyes. "Horace, Jasper, they're telling everybody it was me, but I didn't do it, I swear!"

"Cruella?"

Carlos doesn't even respond, but he doesn't need to. Harry understands.

"People in the marketplace, I don't know what they'll do to me."

They both know what people will do. A villain killing another villain was no big deal, but a child killing their own parent... That was call for madness. The kid would be hunted down and left to the viciousness of the other parents, who want to make an example out of him so their own children never tried to fight back.

"They're out looking for ya." Harry says. It's why no one is at the barges waiting for the boats.

"It wasn't me." Carlos' voice cracks. "I swear, I just found her."

Anyone who has met De Vil knows he wouldn't kill his own mother, he's too weak, too scared, too beaten down. Harry believes him instantly.

But the adults on the Isle, who never spoke to any kids who weren't their own, there would be no convincing them.

Harry looks around at the empty beach. "Come on." He grabs Carlos' elbow, avoiding his bloodied hands. "Ya can hide on ship. We gotta go now."

#harlos #harry hook #carlos de vil #asks #dcomfanwrites

[taniushka12]

For the ship ranking ask:

Hera/Maxwell

Hera/Eiffel

Minkowski/Lovelace

:D!!!! Thank you!!

(w359 spoilers ahead)

Hera/Maxwell

Squick / Just nope / A trainwreck you can’t look away from / Mehh but they are bloody everywhere / Not interested but no negative feelings / I need to see how I could make it work / BroTP / Cute / I love them(!) / They rented a room in my mind and are here to stay

confession, ive never been that big of a maxwell fan, but MAN these two are soooooosososo GOOD they're easily one of my favorite relationships in the podcast!! Even though you know maxwell is Up To No Good from the beginning its so easy to be swept away by their chemistry, and then by the fucking... Behemoth that is the ep Memoria, i almost wished for maxwell not to betray them even though i knew for sure it wouldn't end in any other way ;_; ;O; they're such a tragedy 100/10 no notes, love them

Hera/Eiffel

Squick / Just nope / A trainwreck you can’t look away from / Mehh but they are bloody everywhere / Not interested but no negative feelings / I need to see how I could make it work / BroTP / Cute / I love them / They rented a room in my mind and are here to stay

i adore their friendship!! they're really good!! but gosh i do NOT ship them At All x_x on one hand i strongly hc hera as a lesbian, on the other the fact that eiffel told the tale of his daughter at the same time that hera was down cemented the parallel on my mind, which makes the ship Very uncomfortable tbh :/

(and i Know.. that that wasnt the intention, which is why i dont rly mind ppl shipping them, but its very hard to shake that first impression 😔)

Minkowski/Lovelace

Squick / Just nope / A trainwreck you can’t look away from / Mehh but they are bloody everywhere / Not interested but no negative feelings / I need to see how I could make it work / BroTP / Cute / I love them / They rented a room in my mind and are here to stay

SORRY WOMEN but i just dont see it!! their relationship is well enough and i do like their friendship, god knows they both need it, but yeah i dont really care abt em :/ congrats on the lesbians for being one of the biggest ships in the fandom though 👍

[highly specific ship ranking]

#if someone asked me which is the best wolf yuri you Know its hera and maxwell 1000% #man just talking abt em makes me wanna take the dust off my old maxwell design and draw em 😭 #tani's personal shit #thank youuuu <3

[spoopy-action-at-distance]

Re: the post I reblogged earlier, a series of Reid Wiseman's cool orbital photos taken on the ISS? Specifically, the first picture that has a bit of a mystery in it? This one:

I think I know what that is, and I am going to tell you how I figured it out (pre-emptive apologies to any South-East Asians who feel the urge to headdesk while reading this post.)

First off, all that green glow? It's on water. Check out a map of the area:

So why are there lights in the sea at night? Well, squid fishing happens at night, and the ships use bright lights to imitate the moon to attract the squid.

Here's a big squid-fishing ship, filmed by a drone off the Argentinian east coast in the Atlantic Ocean. It's got a bit of green going on.

Here's another one, photographed in the Pacific. Also some green here.

Both of those are, however, severely outdone in greenness by this small Thai squid-fishing ship.

Unlike the previous examples, it is in the right place and is, in fact, All Green. Boy, is it green. Look at how green it is. It is So Green.

Before you say that puny ships like that cannot possibly be visible all the way up to the ISS, consider: a) that there might be a bajillion of them, and b) the big ships are also out there in even bigger fleets, and they are bloody bright.

According to the Sea Shepherd organisation, who tracked a 300-strong squid-fishing fleet west of the Galapagos Islands in 2018, "the total luminosity of these vessels is said to rival European soccer stadiums". They waxed a bit poetic about them:

"Suddenly out of the darkness a towering intense white light showed on the horizon. Soon it was followed by others all around us, mostly white but some an iridescent green and others with dimmer yellow light. Looking out from the wheelhouse we seemed no longer to be on the open ocean but in the edge of some great coastal metropolis."

Here's part of a fleet of some 150 ships near Argentine.

And here's that same fleet again, managing to be a magnificent eyesore even at a considerable distance.

Sure, Argentine is pretty far away from Bangkok (though those ships might also be Chinese). But South-East Asia definitely has some of its own night-light activity going on. You can find a handy map at globalfishingwatch.org (go play with it, it's fun). It didn't have night-light satellite data from 2014, but here's a snapshot from August 2022 for comparison.

The map also shows national fishing zones. If I'm interpreting Wiseman's photo correctly, those green lights in it are in the Vietnamese, Malesian and Indonesian waters. So those are likely Vietnamese, Malesian and Indonesian squid-fishings ships (and maybe some other nationalities that maybe aren't supposed to be there; here's that Sea Shepherd page again and an article about the Global Fishing Watch project talking about that kind of thing).

What I sadly couldn't figure out is what kind of squid they're fishing over there. I was hoping it might be the Japanese flying squid, because then I would have a reason to put them in this post. Unfortunately, Japanese flying squids apparently don't live that far down South.

But I'm going to put them on this post anyway, because I just found out about them, and I mean, look at these guys:

Just Look.

They're like if a squid decided it wanted to be a flying fish and instead of making a deal with the sea witch, it went "I can do it! I can! I can!" They're sleek, attention-grabbing and ridonculous. They can fly over 30 metres in 3 seconds. And they're not being caught by the glow-in-the-dark squid-fishing fleet off the Gulf of Thailand because they don't live there, and therefore have nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of this post.

But they're cool.

Finally, a confession: I didn't figure out the lights because I know something about South-East Asian fishing practices (I know nothing, feel free to laugh and correct me), or because did some kind of a systematic elimination chain to eventually arrive at the answer (ahahahaha no). It's because I've watched the Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World nature documentary no less than three times in less than two weeks, and there's footage in it of this massive unnerving squid-fishing fleet, which you'll definitely remember if you've seen it once, let alone three times.

Why have I seen it three times, then? Obviously for very normal reasons. Not at all because the series is narrated by Pedro Pascal. I mean, who would opt to listen to Pedro Pascal talking very seriously about (occasionally horny) wildlife for 4+ hours while endearingly lisping his Fs and THs here and there? Not me, no. I am very normal about him and not at all soothed by his dulcet tones in my time of stress. Don't look at me.

#squid fishing #earth from space #pedro pascal (tangentially) #listen people I am currently gearing up to go to battle with my local health care system #so tonight I needed an all-consuming low-stakes distraction like a fish needs water #and it was either gonna be this or 5682324 rounds of evil sudoku and “can I get past 400 000 points” tetris and a carpal tunnel syndrome #I figured out the green lights in under a minute and then spent five hours researching and writing this post backwards from the conclusion #just like they taught us in science school #and THEN I rewrote the whole thing because tumblr ate the first version #because CLEARLY tumblr needs to know all about mysterious green squid murder lights from eight years back even if it does not want to #In an improved alternate reality Pedro Pascal has a busy side career narrating nature documents #and one of them is five seasons of him yelling about deep sea creatures with the Nautilus researchers #someone really needs to show Pedro Pascal a dumbo octopus and then ask him to explain black smokers in his own words #this is a very niche kind of fantasy and I'm sticking with it

[itstokkii]

💢 💚 :3

💚: Ship that you secretly like: I've been enjoying Uzbliet a lot actually! Their similar temperaments(but uzb has more of a resting bitch face and intimidating appearance) makes the both of them really get along! Both of them were also engulfed in the empire that was the Soviet Union, and I can see them confiding in each other whenever Russia would impose big tasks onto them(and also whenever Russia would physically injure them from purges carried out in the country by the Russian authorities).

💢: Ship that is most misunderstood: Hmm, maybe..korpan? The general reason why a lot feel uncomfortable shipping korpan or korchu is because they're siblings or sibling like. I do not think that's true. In EAsian culture, using familiar terms like "hyung", "oppa", "noona", or "eonni", is even used towards older friends and peers. "Oppa" is used in relationships a lot as well, girls will call their boyfriends "oppa" a lot ae well. So when the EAsian characters call each other "brother" or "sister" it's in that lens.

I think korpan has a lot of potential in the modern day, they'll catch each other at a kpop concert or convention and be like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ??"

obviously the 2nd issue with korpan is the bloody colonial history due to the japanese colonial government. it's still an issue to this day and no apology was issued by the jp government for all the damage they caused. this is why I don't really like shipping my nyo korea with normal jp and prefer to keep them as friends at best, due to certain implications with that. the solution is usually femkorpan as i've seen a few korean artists draw, plus it's cuter to me and when i draw it i can dress them up like dolls

#hws uzbekistan #aph uzbekistan #hws lithuania #aph lithuania #uzbliet #aph south korea #hws south korea #aph japan #hws japan #toris laurinaitis #tolys laurinaitis #im soo jin #honda kiku #tokki answers #ask game

[wordsandrobots]

Ask 001, for two ships:

Ed/Winry

Mikazuki/Atra/Kudelia

For this ask game.

Ed/Winry (Fullmetal Alchemist)

when I started shipping it if I did:

So, the thing about me and shipping is that I don't do it much, or didn't for the longest time. I just didn't come into fandom via that avenue, which is why most of the relationships I have written are fairly solidly the canon ones. So the honest answer is, when FMA!2003 did.

my thoughts:

Again, to caveat: I've a bigger soft spot for the 2003 anime adaptation than I do the manga (Brotherhood I don't count at all). So my baseline is an anaemic version of Ed and Winry's 'intended' relationship. But I've always liked that 2003!Winry gets to be a proactive part of the goings-on, and her friendship with Sheska, and I like the sense of the person she is come Conqueror of Shambala. Similarly, I could always think of more to do with the broken version of Ed that ends the anime. He's a quieter, gentler character than his manga counterpart and I think that's why what I ended up writing for them coming together at last was almost a sigh of relief. It's not a deeply complicated relationship, they just share a lot of friendship, mutual attraction and feel safe in each other's company. It's hardly the romance of the century but then they're neither of them especially romantic people.

What makes me happy about them:

That they're prodigies in completely separate fields, who dazzle the socks off the people around them smart enough to know what they're doing, who're nevertheless hopeless dorks on a personal level and will, with perfect hypocrisy, call each other out for being so. Also, there is nothing quite like sticking Ed in a room with the auto-mail people who fawn over Winry's genius. It's the perfect collision of 'my girlfriend is so cool' and 'I haven't a fucking clue what these people are talking about and this is a scary new experience.'

What makes me sad about them:

Probably the fact that I can't imagine them ever losing the compartmentalisation in their lives. For both of them, there are areas that the other just Will Not Get, no matter how long they're together.

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

Not directly related to Ed or Winry but I kind of don't like it when people pair Winry with Al as a means of freeing up Ed for another relationship. That's never worked for me, with their personalities.

things I look for in fanfic:

It's been years since I read FMA fanfic regularly. But I think it'd be people leaning into them both being bloody knowledgeable, bloody-minded people and also Winry's lock-picking skills.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: 

Winry and Paninya, naturally. Ed . . . genuinely I'm not sure I'd pair him with anyone else. I read him as being fairly slow to form attraction to people and I'm too much of a Mustang/Hawkeye sap to go for the obvious choice. (I never did get to explore it much but in my fics, Russell Tringham is very much fuck why are you hot about Ed but that was entirely one-sided. Still, that could be funny.)

My happily ever after for them:

Winry is a fabulously rich and renowned auto-mail mechanic and Ed helps by coming up with ever-better materials for her to work with.

who is the big spoon/little spoon:

(They switch and try very hard to avoid auto-mail-induced bruises.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity:

I reckon they make for a very sweet pair of sappy nerds reading on a sofa together, off in their own separate worlds but sprawled over each other.

Mikazuki/Atra/Kudelia (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans)

when I started shipping it if I did:

Roughly two seconds after Atra did in-canon.

my thoughts:

OK, look, do you have any idea how refreshing it is to have a show eject love-triangle/pining nonsense in favour of explicit, no-holds-barred polyamory? Like -- push all the male-power-fantasy stuff aside for a moment and try to remember the last time you saw a character respond to nascent 'oh no my crush is talking to someone attractive' with 'but actually there's a way this can work out where everyone's happy', and then proceed to symbolically marry the three of them together? I love Atra so much.

I love how it plays with those power fantasy tropes, too, because you have to remember Mika isn't actually one of those, he's gradual decay dressed up to look like a power fantasy in certain lights. He doesn't just passively collect two girlfriends. He's the one who comes on to Kudelia (with a customary lack of manners) and repeatedly shows warmth and care towards Atra. Likewise, Atra is pushing them all together every way she can, having learned from the Turbines that it's possible to have that kind of family and determined to make it work. Kudelia meanwhile . . . well, Kudelia has no idea what's going on but these are her two favourite people in the world now.

None of this is one-sided, or 'just because'; they each have reasons to care about the others and they respect each other enormously, and it's all jumbled up with the immense pressures they're all suffering under. It's lovely.

What makes me happy about them:

All of the above but also that it's so very . . . not a big deal. It's good for them, they make each other happy, and it's very easy to imagine them just chilling together doing normal stuff. In the middle of everything, I think that was the perfect choice for this kind of relationship, for how it throws the rest into sharp relief.

What makes me sad about them:

Well. This story is a tragedy so no way was it ending well. And I wouldn't change that. That's too much the point. Mikazuki was always going to let go his happiness for the sake of following Orga and there was nothing either of the other two could do to hold on to him.

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

Bearing in mind that I regard Orga Itsuki as the most asexual man on Mars, I don't have a problem with Mika/Orga as a pairing. But I've read at least one fic that got on my nerves by too readily detaching Mika from Atra and Kudelia to make it work. It also gave Atra this long speech about how terrible it was for her to try to hold on to him by getting pregnant, that was clearly expressing the author's bugbear with what is, in-story, an act of desperation at a point where Mika is loudly committing to fighting 'til he's dead on account of his increasing disability (can we please not cram the literal child soldiers into some drive to acknowledge 'problematic' behaviour, they have enough going on already, thank you). BUT ANYWAY, my point is, it's not like you can't easily fold Orga into this relationship. If he wants to be Mika's wife too, that's fine.

things I look for in fanfic:

More IBO fanfic generally.

I mean, probably the fact Mika is a lazy bum who needs to be nagged into helping with the chores he doesn't like, Atra is a walking ray of sunshine who can handle the most cripplingly dark shit like it's nothing, and Kudelia blushes like a tomato over intimate stuff.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: 

Well canonically --

The legal team has informed me this is the kind of behaviour that will get my kneecaps turned into castanets so --

Mika is surprisingly easy to picture shacking up with virtually anyone (he's like Shino in that regard), but the right answer is Hush. Just your average disabled mobile suit pilot and his service dog.

Kudelia . . . honestly, there is something in the idea of her and Orga as a couple, given the few times they get to work in sync on-screen.

And Atra . . . hmm. No one person per se but she'd fit right in, working with the Turbines.

My happily ever after for them:

Mika and Atra run a farm while Kudelia commutes to her job taking down the government. Not that I'd change a thing about the actual ending, mind you.

who is the big spoon/little spoon:

Kudelia is the big spoon by default. I don't think she minds.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity:

Cooking together, eating together, bullying Mika into helping with the washing up together.

#ask game #thedancingwalrus-blog #fullmetal alchemist #gundam iron blooded orphans #spoilers