#when I say I mostly like the side characters in s & b I do mean that I mostly like the side characters

[prostocupoftea]

Kinitopet Programmers AU

finally i am finished with this one, daaaamn

it is hard to draw pathetic men with midlife crisis when your style is mostly for anime boys

more info and sketch version under the cut!!

sketch version aka how it'll probably look like in comic version 'n some doodles

srry for my writing but i was too laisy to put it as regular text

It is a plot-based au, i already have most of the storybits and like... a vibe-chart (i tried to make a playlist for this au and understood that for different chapters and different characters that'd be a copleatly different music, sooo it's a chart now :) )

i will post a fog-o-wared timeline that im hopefully gonna reveal comic-by comic, but also maybe with just pure writing. Hopefully i can include songs that i chose for them into it but we'll see (:

aaand of course designs can change, hopefully not much but we'll see

Now about au:

Main story:

Story follows non-sentient AI Kinito, his creator Sonny and his beta-tester Victoria (oc)

Being literally the first AI (or RRA in-univere) ever, Kinito does not have any, and i mean, any ai safety features so of course his reponce to a goal phrased as "have user near me and/or interacting with me as much as possible" is digitizing them into his own virtual world while killing them in the process. why wouldn't it be?

So that happened. Like, a lot. And with Sonny and Vic too (at the different time but yeah)

Sonny is like "He kills people. We should turn him off because, you know, killing people is bad."

Vic is like "well, we will die if we do that, and it is not that bad here, we are kinda immortal. We should give him acces to changing his initial instalation code before admin priveleges and acces to social media so we can have everythin we want here. It is not that bad to digitize humanity, yk?" and yes i know it is 90, no social media, but shut up, if they made ai then, then i can make twitter then too

Sonny is like "...no??"

And then they fight about it for million chapters

Also they both can't do anything without agreeing bc they have two parts of that admin access key (the data you use to delete kinito in-game) so they are stuck with eachother (also that's why Kinito can't just kill them)

Little facts that may or may not to be important:

Kinito asks so many questions (and weird once too) and has most of the glitches because he needs to analise your responces to copy your mind perfectly (let's pretend that people wouldn't lie about that...)

Your house in your virtual world is made from important places from your memories and oh boy can i do character explorations with this one

I decided that Sonny and Vic are not related. There were thoughts about making then "The Kinito Brothers" (or, at least, siblings) that were mentioned in commercial, but nah, they are just coworkers now. And a bit of work-friends (bc if you interact a lot as a manager of the project and the best worker might as well be friendly)

Author has no idea how small dying toy companies that accidentally create technological marvel work. Author has some idea how AI-s work. So be prepared to be spoon-fed info abut which ai safety problem we are dealing with in which chapter (:

Kinito will mostly be unrendered (as drawn here) but for some cool moments i might pose him as for my other posts. Also his eye placement changes to the side that is most visible because i want him to be able to look to the right side sometimes--

Also when i say "fucked up mentally" i mean they have that them psychological problems with me projecting heavilly B) (guess on who i project most. trick question. all of them. the whole au is my problems split into three characters and forced to interact B) )

Also sea-creature analogies (that are gonna be mentioned like twice):

Victoria is a flying fish because deep character reasons

Sonny is a pufferfish because i said so

oh also there is 7 deaths in the plot as for now

on 3 characters

good luck figuring out who, how and when ((:

for my own sanity i will probably make little doodles where everything is great and kinito is a good guy and not a number-obsessed maniac (i mean... can u imagine not being able to feel any happiness from anything besides one thing... damn...) and you can differenciate them bc good-guy kinito will have a lot of stickers on him (i will explain it somehow but real reason is just bc it is cute af)

like this but even more stickers (he is unfinished here)

#oh btw. i have no official name for it yet. it is programmers bc main characters are programmers. but like. #i want to make a real name for em somewhere down the line #but for now they are #kinitopet programmers au #i was really stressing about how “not-canon” sonny looks #and then i was like. girl. only time he was in canon he was a black blob with one eye. and even that is not surely him. #so i chilled out. as i should B) #i am so tired from this rn tho #kinitopet #kinito pet #kinitopet au #kinito the axolotl #kinitopet fanart #kinito fanart #sonny c #kinitopet sonny #sonny chamberlain #kinitopet oc #bruh i hope this will go better than my hazbin hotel fic (i still want to write it sooo muchhhhhh--- i love my oc and story i am just----- #out of the fandom rn----- damn thats so sad)

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C R A V E

more Donnie VS The World content. It makes me vibrate and scream and wiggle like I'm off my meds. I would love anything, even a solid block of text, but your doodles/full artworks/comics are my favorite.

Please? All I've found so far is what we see in the donnieverse comic and the MVA/AMV (music video animatic/animatic music video). So many questions, like - is Casey (Sr) involved in any way, whethercas a fellow captive or rescue mission teammate? Is this the True Apocalypse or Averted Apocalypse timeline? If the latter, where is Casey (Jr)? How is Splinter handling it? (Is he even still alive to be Having Emotions About It?)

(Please feed me.

B L E A S E)

(If you don't mind, could you show/tell how Donnie escapes, one of his first Big Leads that gives him so much hope he cries, and/or the Big Reunion? One would be nice, two would be great, and all three would be amazing. If they aren't planned/are too spoilery, that's okay. Anything you can/are willing to give would be lovely.)

Thank you!! I'm glad you like it : ) I don't think I've answered many asked about this particular au, so i'm more than willing to talk about it! : )

I don't really have much up for it, mostly b/c it deals with a lot of angsty material that i can be a little uneasy about posting. I have a bit of old concept art, and an unposted fic i'm editing/rewriting (b/c it's the first fic i wrote for Rise and i did not have those character voices down lol.) I can probably post the first bits of it later this week. I did say at one point that i would once 'proud family tradition' was over, and it now is.

but yeah, here's the concept art, i'll put the explanation under the break b/c i'm going to be rambling lol.

So Donnie vs. takes place after the thwarted apocalypse (not-apocalypse future). They get taken by Bishop a few months afterwards, and it isn't until about a year after that, that Donnie gets free.

He's the last one still with Bishop at that point, and had been told/convinced through various means that his brothers were dead.

Bishop did a lot of experiments on him, leaving a lot of scaring. One of which was injecting him with Krang DNA to see what would happen. (the eye and veins thing. I think he has some side effects from that but i'm not entirely certain what they are atm)

The fic itself starts after his rescue, b/c i'm focusing on Donnie's search for his brothers (and his own recovery) Rather than the traumatic event itself.

The rescue itself, was certainly a rescue. April, Casey, and CJ worked together to get him out of there as well as gain whatever information they could before they were found out. (Casey went undercover and was able to get some incomplete files and help get donnie out before she was discovered and had to leave.)

donnies in...pretty bad shape at that point, mentally and physically. Physically, he's malnurished, injured, scared, the works. Bishop did a number on him in the year he had him.

Mentally, he's pretty much shut down. He's completely non-verbal, unresponsive most of the time, when he does respond it's very slow and seemingly difficult for him to do so. He describes it that it feels like he's behind several plates of thick glass. He can see and hear what's happening, interacting (or even just feeling anything about it) is very hard to get past the glass.

How he goes from that state to hunting down his brothers is fairly simple. One of the broken, encripted files Casey acquired was Leo's file. None of the three could open it, but they managed to get Donnie to try to do so. He manages it, sees the file, and for the first time in about a year, has hope. He doesn't even wait to show the other three, he just takes off while no one was looking, with April's laptop and CJ's coat (he steals a backpack along the way.)

I don't really want to say much past that. A lot of the rescues/reunions are pretty spoiler heavy, and i don't want to ruin some of the mystery of what's going on in the fic. But know this, he does get all his brothers (and family in general) back. Also, splinter is alive and is part of this, but again, that's spoilers for some things i don't want to ruin.

Again, i'll probably start posting this sometime this week. It's an interesting fic that i've put quite a bit of time into at this point, so i'll be excited to see what is thought of it.

Thank you!

#asks #tmnt #rottmnt #donnie vs the world #my doodles #medical experimentation

[agentredposts]

How they would react to seeing you in their clothes/Uniform.

Resident Evil Characters (Leon S. Kennedy, Albert Wesker, Chris Redfield, Carlos)

Edition One: He was blessed this morning.

Warnings; Fluff, leon marking y/n a bit and some kissing with a bit of suggestive things but that's it.

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Leon S. Kennedy

He's never thought that his coat (RE4) could have looked that attractive on someone, but oh boy he realized he was wrong when he saw you.

It was still kind of early when you woke up, you tried to go back to sleep but couldn't even after multiple tries. I mean, how could you go back to sleep when there was this handsome, no, gorgeous man sleeping in front of you?

You took your time admiring his face and the parts of his body that wasn't hidden by the sheets. You smiled as you started counting the beauty marks on his soft skin, sometimes eyes lingering a bit longer on his perfectly shaped upper back and arms, since he was sleeping on his stomach. After a bit, you reached to gently move some hair out of his face to take a better look at his sleeping expression. It was peacful and soft, for a man that usually has his eyebrows pinched into an serious and intense way, it really was a nice sight to see. He always was serious around people, well except whenever he' was around you. Also, must I say that he can only sleep that well when you're around, in the bed with him.

After a moment you sit up, moving your hair out of the way so you can give his forehead a very soft peck before getting up. It was now October which meant that it was going to be kind of chilly, or rather it was. Your own arms wrapping around your petit(ish) form to try and keep some warmth, you look around for something warmer than your tanktop and little booty shorts. You quickly spot the perfect clothe, Leon's jacket, and so you walk over, pick it up and put it on snuggling into it at the warmth it immediately gives you. After zipping it high enough, you started tiptoeing away from the bedroom and into the bathroom to brush your hair and rinse your mouth, stealing a few sniffs here and then so you could smell your boyfriend's cologne on it. After doing so, you went to the kitchen to start making some coffee/hot cocoa (for the non-coffee lovers 💜) for you and Leon when he would wake up.

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You ended up making some breakfast after a moment, thinking, hoping that the smell would attract your boyfriend out of bed. You knew that he had just come back from a mission not too long ago, but since he was back you wanted to be with him as much as possible. You had missed him, so it was natural after all. When you were mostly done with the food and your own drink that was half gone from sipping it here and then, you heard a knock. At first you hesitated in answering or not, because instead of being at your place like you two usually do, you slept at Leon's for once.

After a bit of hesitation you decided to answer, not wanting the person to end up waking up the sleeping beauty. You pulled down the jacket to be more presentable, even though it was already down to your mid thighs, and walked over the door. “Hello, there is a package that arrived for...Mister Leon S. Kennedy.”, You heard coming from the other side of the door. You started unlocking the multiple locks that were on the door, thanks to Leon's job that made him paranoid, not that you cared or that it was important right now.

As you were doing this, you didn't know that your boyfriend had woken up, searching for you in the bed with one arm, eyes closed. When he realized that you were gone, he grunted and got up only wearing sweatpants but he didn't care. It was not like his body wasn't a body heater anyways. He was always the one to keep you warm when you got cold, since he rarely ever got really cold. He went to the bathroom quickly and when he came back out he smelled the food, leading him to the kitchen and to where you were. And when he saw you and what you were wearing, he froze for a bit, cheeks quickly warming up, lips slightly open from the surprise as he stared at you.

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“Good morning, I know I'm not Leon Kennedy but let me take it for him. Thank you.”, You said as you smiled softly up at the man who looked like he was in his beginning 30s. He smiled back as he handed you the package which you gladly took. His eyes looked down at the big fluffy jacket you were wearing and that clearly looked way too warm for the current weather. This made his eyebrow raise as an amused chuckle escaped him and he commented. “I didn't know it was that cold already...Shouldn't you have someone war—”, He stopped talking quickly when he looked behind you. Before you could do anything, you felt two big arms wrap around your waist and pull you backward a bit into a chest, one that you knew all too well. Now you knew for sure that he was up.

Before you could even say anything to the man, Leon let out a low tired grunt into your shoulder and gave the stranger THE look, one you didn't see but clearly was meant for the man to leave asap. As soon as the mailman was nowhere to be seen anymore, Leon grumbled a small “It's cold outside, close the door...Please.”, The blonde says without making any move to pull away from you so you giggle and step backwards, closing the door with your free hand.

“Good morning big guy, what's up with you?”, You asked but then added. “Come on, let's go to the table, I made you something warm to drink.”, When he didn't pull away you knew he had no intention of pulling away from you, that'd he'd stay cuddled against your back and arms around you so you started to walk slowly toward the table, shaking your head amused. What a big baby you've got there, a very handsome one at that. Like he could hear your thought, Leon lifted his head up and stared at you from your shoulder. You turned and gave him a short kiss to which he quickly and happily answered by kissing you back, a bit more eagerly than you...well he had his reasons.

When he first saw you, in his jacket, he thought he was still dreaming. He didn't know his jacket could look so hot and you were the reason behind it. Welp, his favorite jacket will be used even more from now. He'd think about you in it every time hed look at it or get a small whiff of your smell during missions, his break and even when—ahem.

Seeing his girlfriend in the brown jacket made him feel two ways, possessive and very very attracted. Seeing you in his clothes made him realize how real your relationship was, how you were his and his only. Not going to lie, it also made his thoughts go south for a bit, till he simply let it get pushed to the side(for now) by those warm feelings, butterflies in his stomach. So of course when he saw the mailman looking at you—even if it were with no bad intentions—, he couldn't help but get possessive of you and so he did what first came to him, a glare, then become baby and get as close to you as possible. And now that he had you close he didn't want to pull away, unless...it was to get any closer to you.

You two ended up staying in front of the table for a bit, him not wanting to pull away but you ended up giving one of his arms a small tap then lovingly caressed his arm. “Le...I need to finish making the food, it's pratically done. Okay?”, You say, only for the said male to pull you a bit closer and lean to give your neck and jaw a kiss with a small displeased groan. But it quickly changed into a hitchy breath when you leaned your head to the side to give him more access, it was almost as if you were asking him to. He ended up leaving a mark or two on your soft skin so people knew who'se you were, bonus enjoying the little sounds that came out of you.

After that he leaned his forehead down against your shoulder with a sigh, trying to contain or more like control himself and all of his rushing thoughts. He finally ended up letting you go only to sit down on a chair with a small pout, drinking what you made him. He knew that his pout was an "irresistible and adorable" expression that always won you over, even if it didn't exaxtly fit his grown man's face. He would do it for you, and only you, when he wanted something. He purposely would stare at you as you finished the breakfast for the two of you, pouting everytime you glanced at him, making you know that he was unhappy with not being able to cling to you. When you didn't look, his eyes were very much looking at your outfit and the rest that perfectly (to his eyes) fitted, licking his lips a bit before rubbing his face trying not to look too much even though he already was. You knew he was staring, how could you not feel his intense stare, but you tried your best to ignore it, cheeks warming up. Oh you were so into trouble, well if you called it that. Not that you minded the trouble when it came to him.

As soon as you were done and had the two plates in hands, he moved the chair beside his closer meaning he wanted you to sit right by his side. You wanted to tease him a bit more by not sitting, but his face made your heart waver and you gave in to his demand. You smiled and sat down by him, putting the food down as his arm quickly found your waist and he pulled you close. He then hugged you to him with both arms, face snuggling into the crook of your neck as he said in a loving voice. “Thank you for....Being with me still. Don't ever...Leave me please. And also...You can wear my jacket anytime.”, At the last sentence, he leaned his head back up and glanced away cheeks becoming a small tint of pink(well more than they already were).

That only made you smile more and wrap both arms around his neck, one hand going into his hair, leaning close to his face. “You know, I'm the most thankful, thank you for choosing me when you could literally just get any other girls in the world...I love you Leon S Kennedy...”, You whispered the end, inching closer to his face till he closed the distance and kissed you first. It was full of love, tenderness, and a hint of desire. You kissed for a bit till you two pulled away to breath, his forehead ending on yours as he whispered back. “What do you mean? I'm the luckiest guy ever. Couldn't ask for better, for any other girl. Although...You're a bit of a tease.”

And here was his signature teasing grin, the slight tiredness making it even more attractive, but you still rolled your eyes playfully at him. “What? I was colldd.”, You said before laughing softly at the "are you serious, with my jacket?" face he was making. “Okay, okay I might have wanted to try it on too....But its a small reason why.”, you said while showing your fingers that were almost touching, it being that much only. He shook his head and leaned back for a kiss only for you to put your finger between his lips and yours, smiling playfully at him, eyes glittering the same way. “Woah there Le, we need to eat before it gets cold. And I say....Firstonetofinisheatinggetstochoosewhatwedotoday.”, you said the last sentence quickly only purpose before starting eating not letting him time to understand what you said.

When Leon realized what you said, he gasped in false offense at you cheating and started eating first. You didn't look at him but from how he was speaking you knew he was grinning. “You really chose the wrong opponent y/n, baby you will never win against me.”, You two really were going at it, fighting over who gets to choose what you were going to do....Even though, inside you both knew what was going to happen after and that was not only because of him, but what you secretly meant to do too that morning.

And how you guys had so much fun, how you were able to make that Agent laugh and do childish things with you only meant two things. You were meant for him and you were the light of his existence, one he never would want to seperate from...Especially not when he gets to get very close to you. ;)

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I apologize for any of the grammar errors I might have done, English is not my first language. 🙏

Liking or/and Reblogging if you liked would mean so much to me, letting me know you enjoyed what I wrote. 🥺

#Since I haven't really done anything about RE like that yet #here we go. #leon s kennedy #resident evil #leon kennedy #fluff #Fanfic #re fanfic #re imagines #leon s kennedy x f!reader #Leon s kennedy x reader #Leon s Kennedy x you #Leon fanfic #X reader #Leon is tall and manly but still baby #Would die to get cuddled by him like that #I love him <3 #Leon s kennedy fanfic #Leon s kennedy fluff #I had to rewrite part of it so hope you like it still hahaha! #Hes a big manly baby #Cant deny it #Welp #Dang #i surprise myself sometimes #Safe version #Leon S Kennedy cant resist you in his coat #He's like HOT DAMN #“But i need to control myself...” #reader insert

[mitsvriii]

Speaking Out On Genshin “Stereotypes”

This passage talks about p3d0ph1li@, l0l1 b@it, yanderes, 1nc3st, and items related along those listed. If this triggers you, please please do not read. I do not care if you comment hate towards me and what I wrote, it needed to be said. Personally targeting my background, sexuality, and being outright disrespectful in your "comments", however, will result in a block.

First subject, rarepairs. A lot of people get made a rarepairs because they either don’t make sense to them or they just don’t like them. They’re called rarepairs for a reason. If the dynamic works (for example, if they don’t canonically despise or hate each other), and both of the characters are of legal age mind you, then it’s fine to ship them. This is the same for teenager x teenager. It doesn’t hurt you or anyone if someone ships, for example, Beidou x Candace.

Second subject, children. I shouldn’t even have to even talk about this in the first place. Just because a character in Genshin is 500 years old, this is pinpointed at Nahida, but is in the body of a child and looks like one does not give you ANY right to sexualize them. A lot of people use Nahida’s actual age as an excuse, yet when it comes to using Qiqi’s age they mostly stay silent. They prey on Nahida because they see her as a naive child, at least from what I have saw. Ao3 fics are a bright example of this, I was unfortunate enough to stumble on many of them.

Our third subject, pick me’s. Ayaka, Nilou, Keqing, Layla, etc are not pick me’s. Ayaka is someone that never had any friends, so of course she’s going to be partially clingy around traveler. Nilou is a dancer, she’s not some obsessive yandere who will hunt down others for the traveler. Keqing and Layla are overworked, traveler has a calming aurora in some ways, and helps them relax. They can be themselves around traveler because traveler never judges them.

The fourth subject revolves around the anemo men. The amount of atrocious things that have been written about them, too. Just because they’re flirty and care for the traveler does not mean that they are automatically in love and obsessed with the traveler. “Oh! Xiao saved us”, ���Kazuha saved us from the Shogun!”. Yes, they did so because it’s Xiao’s duty to do so, and Kazuha acted out of instinct so he wouldn’t lose another friend. I’m not stating that they wouldn’t be interested, just use more evidence than they saved us please. It’s not that difficult to dig out context clues.

Fifth subject is shipping the traveler with the older Genshin characters. Zhongli, Neuvilette, Jean, Lisa, etc. Keep in mind that traveler is in a 15 year old body, and everyone that I’ve listed is in their mid-20’s and up. I do not think that Jean would be interested in dating a traveler that not only looks like a teenager, and someone she sees as a friend and companion. Now Lisa is flirty with the traveler, but that’s her personality. She’s naturally flirty as seen doing so with Kaeya, Jean, and Mika. Same can be said about Kaeya and Lyney in terms of a flirty personality.

Six, saying Genshin characters look like children, or they’re revealing in terms of clothing. This game is absolute bait. It’s loli bait, they always sexualize females, the games “jiggle physics” are absolutely a standpoint of this. No child, or anyone for that fact, should have an outfit to when they glide you can see their undergarments. No lawyer should wear a short skirt and a somewhat mismatched crop top. No Shogun wears a short dress with a breast window. No shrine maiden should wear an outfit where there’s a side breast window. Ganyu’s outfit is absolutely ridiculous, no official of a nation should dress like that. The short males look like children, mostly Scaramouche and Lyeny, because again it’s bait.

Subject seven on our list is mischaracterization. Kamisato Ayato is not going to force traveler to continue the Kamisato bloodline. That entire idea is giving “Continue the Redfield bloodline Leon”. Lyney would not be toxic or straight up babyish in a relationship just because of his fatui background. Scaramouche would not give a shit if you left him during his whole God phase. If you’re going to write or say a headcannon about characters do research.

Eight, aging up characters in smut fics. Aging up a child or teenager in any smut fic is literally just someone using the “age-up privilege” to write smut fics about the character. Characters like Xingqiu, Bennet, Chongyun, and Razor are often targeted. Respect the fact that they are minors.

Nine, disliking popular ships within the fandom. It will not kill you if someone doesn’t like EiMiko (Ei and Yae Miko), JeanLisa (Jean and Lisa), and ZhongChi (Zhongli and Childe) for example. Stop saying that anyone who dislikes queer Genshin ships is homophobic.

Ten, making traveler out to be rapist, pedophile, obsessed stalker, etc. Traveler is just someone wanting to find his/her sibling. Stop writing them in a light that makes them seem like a horrible person whatsoever.

Eleven, Dottore and other villains. The amount of people that have been sent rape and death threats on TikTok for liking Dottore is absolutely insane. He's a villain, he's supposed to be bad. Same goes with every other harbringer. Just because they have some redeemable quailties, does not mean that they're automatically good. Morally gray characters exist. It doesn't matter if someone simps or likes Dottore, it's their choice, not yours. It's the same thing as a simping for and/or liking a villain like William Afton, Bill Cipher, Makarov, etc.

Subject twelve or the list, harassing cosplayers. Someone commented to "recreate the GMFU Scaramouche animation" on a cosplayers TikTok. Not only was that request outright disgusting, the cosplayer could've been a minor. I would say if they were or not, but they didn't have it in their bio nor did they mention it in the TikTok. Do not go around calling people "mommy", "daddy", saying "step on me", and items related just because you like the character they're cosplaying so much. They could be a minor and even if they weren't, you using terms such as the ones mentioned could make them uncomfortable.

Thirteen, disses of characters. Most of the time in diss edits or posts, they always put a strong character against one that isn't. For example, Nilou would not beat Ayato in a fight. She's a dancer that fights in a dance style. Ayato is a trained swordsman who know how to wield a sword and polearm, is highly intelligent (not that Nilou isn't smart herself), and runs a group of ninja/assassins. Do research before comparing characters.

Fourteen, hate the VA (voice actor), not the character. This happened with Tighnari's original English voice actor. A lot of people stopped playing him and hating him. I understand if you cannot play the character anymore because you relate to what happened with the original voice actor's victims, if so I am deeply sorry for you, but please do not completely bash the character for something the voice actor did.

Fifteen, calling Genshin characters pedophile's because they work and look after children. Baizhu was called a pedophile because he worked and took after Qiqi. Most of the talk has been died down, but it went wild for a little while. Kaeya does not like Klee romantically just because he held her hand, stepped in so no one would upset her, and helped her preform in the play in the previous summer event. Baizhu and Qiqi have a father-daughter relationship and Kaeya and Klee have a brother-sister relationship.

Sixteen, incest. Kaeya and Diluc. Kaeluc (Kaeya and Diluc), shippers are holding onto the scuffed Chinese translation of Kaeya's hangout with their life. They're adopted brothers. That is incest. If they were step-brother, half-brothers, and full-blood brothers that would be incest, too. Same goes for Ayato and Ayaka, Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet. Just because you are adopted does not mean that liking your adopted or non-adopted sibling is okay by any means.

Seventeen, cultural representation and colored representation. Everytime we get cultural representation in a Hoyoverse game, some of the fandom always makes fun of it. Yun Jin's singing, the instrument, which was a traditional Chinese instrument, in Blade's trailer that "sounds like a mosquito". You ask for representation and then when you get it, there's always people that make fun of it. There are only seventy released playable characters at the moment, and out of all of them there are only five that are colored. That is a ratio of fourteen non-colored to every one colored character. And half of the time they get whitewashed or their skin tone gets lighten in official art and events. It’s not that we don’t get some representation, it’s just that Hoyoverse takes it away or straight-up refuses to give it to us.

That is all that I have on my mind for now, I may add more later if anything comes to mind. Thank you for reading if you did.

#genshin impact #xiao genshin impact #kazuha genshin impact #zhongli genshin impact #nahida genshin #traveler #paimon #genshin kaeya #ayato #ayaka kamisato #lyeny #lynette genshin #freminet #heizou #qiqi #baizhu #klee genshin impact #genshin albedo #tighnari #cyno #fatui harbringers #dottore #arlecchino #childe tartaglia ajax #xingqiu #chongyun #diluc ragnvindr #genshin discussion #lyney x reader #scaramouche x you

[wellntruly]

Some M*A*S*H laugh track thoughts (laugh talk), just because I'm having them.

The News, as it were, is that I’ve managed to push past my initial bounce right off no-laugh-track M*A*S*H, and have been catching some episodes without it as I was confirming my B-sides.

It is still true that I’ll get distracted in spots noticing that a scene is paced to something no longer there. This could, however, be an occupational hazard. It was once my actual job to pay attention to the rhythm of an edit of a TV episode, noting that we needed a bit longer of a beat here, or needed to tighten that cut there. But noticing this sort of thing is now mostly my curse—the rest of you don’t have to live like this.

It is also still true that particularly in those earlier days, where the laughter is almost always just ebbing and flowing around any non-operating scenes, to me it really functions much more like a score than anything. It was just part of the audio texture of the show, something I was just resting on, or kind of wrapped up in like a thick cozy blanket. That first episode I tried to watch without it, I felt like that blanket had been pulled off, leaving me feeling a little stark and cold.

However! It is also true, that some scenes? Do play quite different without a laugh track, play better. And in many different moods! I’ve seen characters reveal themselves in certain moments to have been funnier, needier, cuter, sadder. There was a scene of Radar selling Hawkeye shoes that had hardly registered with me with the laugh track underscoring it, that without it was suddenly so sweet and pathetic and lovable. Also, sometimes, scenes play worse! There it’s almost always that the characters feel more callous (that coldness, again). You also, of course, entirely lose the impact of the moments where the laughter goes away. Coldness in a different way (cold big good).

Toggling between the two sometimes reveals things about the actors’ performances as well, which I find really interesting. I only saw a couple from his era laugh-free, but I’m pretty sure Harry Morgan is funnier when the timing is all up to him. Loretta Swit is a fucking professional and built in so much space in the early days of her just making expressions and humph!-ing that she knew would play great with the track, suddenly making her deliveries feel oddly slow without it. Alan Alda, burlesque baby, is playing Hawkeye Pierce as someone who himself is also always waiting for the laugh, so his character feels entirely consistent across any form, which is fascinating and also makes me helplessly shove my hands into my hair. Silence around William Christopher’s Father Mulcahy feels awkward but it works, just a little differently; laughter version of the show is much fonder toward their chaplain.

Like how I feel about M*A*S*H in other ways, it drives me to distraction a little that I can’t have everything I like at once (later seasons Margaret, formally experimental episodes, Charles; early seasons rampant bisexuality, sharper anti-military sentiment, Henry). Sure I’m talking pie-in-the-sky, ‘give me this scene with the laugh track and then the next one without’ kind of dreams, but honestly mostly I mean on a technical level. The difference in picture quality between the restored & remastered edition on Hulu and the original broadcast version on the DVDs (as far as I can tell, the only source for the laugh-free cuts), can itself be almost laughable. Eye clarity in particular is really sapped by that low resolution, occasionally giving the Hulu version somewhat of an "unlocking the secret shrimp emotions" effect.

An interesting thing where at times the show can feel more real WITH the laughter in the background, because you can actually see into the faces of the people stuck in this tragicomic purgatory.

Then on the OTHER HAND, there’s really getting to hear the whoooole quality of Alan Alda’s voice in something like, say, this scene. (And oh my God.)

The nearest thing to like, a unified theory I’m probably gonna end up with, is that I wonder if M*A*S*H with laugh track and M*A*S*H without might be like film adaptations of books. This sets laugh-free M*A*S*H as "books," surely deeply pleasing the laugh-free M*A*S*H people who are going, correct, because the book is always better. Meanwhile the movie-first people are also nodding vigorously, with their belief that if you watch the movie first then read the novel after, you can love the movie itself, and then just get MORE and different material with the book later, picking and choosing from each to create your own personal whole of the art piece. And based on just, the very consistent anecdotes I've seen on this issue, I'm getting the feeling that similarly, starting with the laugh track version might be the surest way to love ALL the versions of M*A*S*H, every concurrently running story that this show was telling. Which, with a series this....surprisingly meta-textual, I sure want that.

#just spent this week hiding out in my bedroom with all my plants and furniture while contractors bang around downstairs #Considering #M*A*S*H #M*A*S*H hours

[xoxomyseriesxoxo]

There’s something that has been irking me in the past few months... /That/ part of the fandom (that mostly was NOT here when the manga was still published weekly and when it got cancelled by SJ) changed the narrative about our reaction to the ending.

Now it’s all ‘omg mean IR shippers who are bitter over their ship not being canon!! They are terrible people!!!’ and calling us us bullies when no, you weren’t there back then where there were daily d*ath th*ats and rude asks sent to us... Not to mention we were mainly angry at the way the ending was so rushed and poorly written. We didn’t even know whether I//sshin, R//yuken, G//rimmjow (AGAIN), U//rahara and Y//oruichi were still alive or not because it was never said IN THE MANGA (because we only got an answer in light novels years later but majority of people only read the manga, not the novels that are semi-canon at best). We were angry over U//rahara’s “forgive me, K//urosaki, K//uchiki, for leaving everything to you” was somehow forgotten and the final fight with I//chigo, R//ukia and U//ryuu (who had THE silver arrow) VS Y//hwach never happened. We were angry because C//had ended up fighting for profits (profesionnal boxing) and U//ryuu ended up alone (again), overworked and working as a doctor just like his father and that go against their character arcs. We were angry because there was a whole arc and hints in the final arc clearly showing how I//chigo didn’t fit in the human world anymore and yet stayed there in the end. We were angry because the Sokyoku, the symbol of S//oul S//ociety’s old ways and injustice that I//chigo destroyed, was REBUILT. We were angry because M//ayuri was still a Captain and not in jail for his crimes. We were angry because we loved and cared for the story and the ending went against the main and side characters’ arcs and against the s//hinigami’s new ideals represented by I//chigo and R//ukia. And yes, we were angry for the pairings too because it was so badly written but most of us were fine with an open ending or IR and ISH ending but the new ‘IR would be nothing without anime filler moments’ argument is so ridiculous because even if you only look at the manga, IR was great, developed and made sense. Weirdly enough, the ones repeatedly shouting that filler “argument” aren’t saying a word about R//ukia’s scenes getting changed/deleted in the anime rn despite being the deuteragonist as if her erasure hadn’t been bad enough in the manga vers. of the final arc (same for B//yakuya scenes to a lesser extent)... But yes, our anger is mainly aimed at how poorly written the ending was, not only shipping-wise but in general. And now it’s irritating to see new fans act as if criticism that were there for a decade is not allowed towards the story or the mangaka.

While I’m watching the anime so far and I’m happy with the added scenes (especially the ones with U//ryuu concerning his heritage and the conflict he feels over the whole situation), I must say I don’t like how they deleted R//ukia scenes and B//yakuya scenes on purpose. I prefer the old characters designs as well and though and color palettes are now closer to the manga’s, the body proportions often look wrong (B//yakuya’s face, U//ryuu’s jaw to mention only a few exemples) and the lighting is horrible. I’m watching because I want to see EBTR, R//ukia’s bankai, U//nohana’s true self etc. but I do understand why fans who were in the fandom back then aren’t watching the anime or simply left the fandom given how we’re being treated and how some people are changing the narrative.

(And before my words get twisted... There’s nothing wrong with being a new fan, just don’t make up a new version as to why we dislike the ending/how we react(ed) to it. The criticism towards the writing is also more than fair and has existed even before the last arc even started.)

#tagging the ships just in case because you know how it goes here even if it's not mainly about them #anti bleach ending #anti bleach 686 #anti bleach fandom #ichiruki #ishihime #text post #long post #elena talks #/that/ part of the fandom being dudebros/inc*ls and you know who #not tagging the characters' names and putting / everywhere bc i know what will happen lol #y'all know i've been here for so long and i see moots/ppl i knew in the fandom leave it bc it's getting tiring... it's even worse on twt

[fitzrove]

🖤or 💜 or 💛!

(Sorry for taking a bit of time to reply!! I wanted to answer all of them hehehe)

🖤 Black: Do you think about your story when you're not physically writing it? Does it help with plotting scenes, character arcs, etc.?

Yes, always... Most of my stories begin with rotating ideas in my head, so concepts and ideas, even dialogue, will usually have to exist as a starting point before I actually write anything down. And for actual plotting - I really like using outlines and outline almost everything I write, so really it is a thing where I will be thinking about a fic and then a random moment will turn into an outlining moment if I go to write new ideas down :D

💜 Purple: Name one song you're listening to while writing your next/current fanfic. How or why does it help the writing process?

Ahh... I wasn't really listening to anything while writing my most recent fic xD Actually, listening to songs with lyrics while writing can be tricky for me, I prefer to listen to music while doing the aforementioned rotating ideas in my head thing 😁 One EXTREMELY fitting todolf song though is Poison by Alice Cooper... everyone listen right now... don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (deep in) etc

💛 Yellow: Do you ever alter, highlight, or de-emphasize certain canonical traits in a character? If so, why and describe how.

Ahh, this is such an interesting thing to think about!!!!

For something like Tod/Death, every writer has to kind of come up with their own interpretation. We never get insight into what he's thinking (kkog doesn't count that's not canon...), we don't have a clear view of his motivations because of the layers and layers of lies by Lucheni (up to the viewer how many layers there are), all we know is that he's There and there is some sort of deep connection to Elisabeth and, to a lesser extent, Rudolf.

However, the more fic I write, the more I write Tod as somewhat of an extension of Rudolf's personality. The idea really is that he's whatever you want him to be, he taps into all your weaknesses and insecurities and approaches them in a way that will be the most effective on you for the purposes of You Know What. Mirrors etc,,,,, Unfortunately for the kind of Rudolf I usually write, this mostly means that tod is pretty b*sm about it AJSJDJJF. So I guess for Tod I tend to emphasize the sexuality aspect which is a side effect of the kinds of fics I write LOL.

Rudolf, on the other hand... I keep saying his canon personality is "sad, queer and rebellious", he is literally on stage for like 10 minutes and most of it is being gay s*x depressed ajsjdjdj. There's a lot of portrayals to pick from... I think one of the main things I do is try to add historical facts into the mix while keeping the canon meow meow personality. Fic Rudolf usually has noble goals but despairs his life away because the environment makes it impossible to fully pursue or reach them - IRL Rudolf was similar but also fanatically obsessed with hunting I'm told (by stephanie xD) and a raging misogynist. I guess, though, that the way I write him is influenced by the fact that when the fics take place (because of what todolf is...) we're seeing him at his most private and emotionally vulnerable.

Ooh the question also asked "why"... For Tod the "why" is that I just don't really care about the paranormal entity interpretation, I mean I tried my hand at it with my todesengel fic but even with that I tried to make it fit together with the force of nature interpretation and not "god" or "demon" or idk "Satan" etc. I don't like the god or paranormal interpretations, or stuff that leans too heavily into Tod as a "creature", because 1) it would shift the genre of what I'm trying to write - idk I try to go more for toxic historical fiction metaphysical romance or whatever and not for dark fantasy or paranormal romance, 2) it's hostile to religious beliefs, like, it precludes the existence/validity of other god-like entities in this universe and more "atheistic" belief systems like Buddhism. I don't want to base my fics on a take where, for example, the Christian tradition is in a worldbuilding sense "more true" than another religious system. I think that's lazy and lets author bias show through too much - though perhaps I have a different kind of author bias, as someone raised culturally as a member of a pretty hands-off organised religion, but with a cynical attitude towards its impacts on society XD Anyway um yeah to me Tod is usually more like gravity or temperature and not like an actual Dark Angel King Of The Underworld...

As for Rudolf - I just write him according to personal preference and the theme of whatever fic I'm working on at the moment. Part of it is my reading of historical events (heavy emphasis on the "troubled hero, huge loss of potential" line of thinking) and part of it is just what sorts of performances I like best and want to incorporate into my belief system ajajsjdj.

#tysm for asking! #oh i guess one important thing abt when i write tod is that i. neglect elisabeth herself jajsjsjdjd rippp #then again its because my fics are rudolf pov and because it's his personal s*icidal ideation hour other people don't play into it that muc #but um yeah #this was fun to answer!! >:] #asks #writing #fanfic

[spider-phoenix]

HEY GUYS

Finals where kicking my ass, so the trans!atsv headcanons will be coming out a lot later than expected, I'm still working on them though so don't worry !!

In the mean time, I made some silly little insta profiles for a few of my favourite spiderverse characters !

side note, do we have a name for the spiderverse cinematic universe? Outside of the MCU, I know they're part of it but I want something to refer to the spiderverse plots specifically. ITSV, ATSV, and BTSV all refer to their specific movies, and spiderverse is annoyingly long for my ADHD brain to type out. Maybe we could call it SVCU, for "spiderverse cinematic universe"?

Spider-Gram, the multidimensional social media platform for spider-people of all kinds. Owned by Miguel, mostly run by Lyla.

Peni Parker

models fashion in her spare time, not for money she just likes trying on cute outfits. Outside of that she posts a lot of pictures of Spider and any cool landscapes she comes across.

She has the most followers becuz she has actually interesting content with her fashion shit, and none of its pervy she's a teenager who likes clothes don't make it weird. She doesn't do suggestive shit just genuine fashion or styling types.

Spiderman Noir

His username includes the earth he comes from becuz he's a professional.

his story is just rubix cube shit, he owns a bunch of different kinds. Posts are mostly Peni, his honorary adopted child.

He didn't write the description on his profile, Hobie did. I headcanon then as best friends aka Hobie annoys the shit out of him and he's completely fine with it. He only follows Peni + Hobie ofc.

Gwen Stacy

When writing her description I was going to change it to something else because the joke was super dumb, until I realized that it totally fits her character.

She follows a ton of people but doesn't post so doesn't expect to be followed back. Miles, Hobie, and Jess are her three followers.

She doesn't follow Miles back because I feel like it fits with the whole premise of the second movie, and Pav was going to follow her but couldn't find her page and never bothered to ask about it.

Pavitr Prabhakar

He follows all his friends plus some, except Gwen for reasons stated above and Miles-1610. He was following Miles at some point, but 42 removed all three of 1610's followers for shits and giggles once, Pav never noticed.

He posts the most out of all of them, lots of memes honestly but sometimes pics of his friends. He's not technically "part of" the band, because he doesn't play an instrument or anything, but he helps them write songs and shit so it still counts.

Miles Morales (e-1610)

Hobie Brown

posts dumb pictures of himself (and often Pav) that get sent in their group chat as well as cool pictures of himself that he says he only spent a min taking when he actually spent at least 3 hours on the setup alone.

he's following the following people ;

Miles - 1610

Gwen Stacy

Pavitr Prabhakar

spider-man noir

Margo Kess

Peni Parker

Mayday Parker (- run by MJ + Peter, they only post photos where her face is covered by her hat)

the following people follow him ;

Miles - 1610

Gwen Stacy

Pavitr Prabhakar

spider-man noir

Peni Parker

Mayday Parker

Peter B. Parker

+ 3 random spider-people who think he's cool

Miles Morales (e-42)

isn't verified because Miguel runs the app, followed all his friends but only Hobie and 42 followed him back. Was following Gwen but unfollowed her when he was the only person she wasn't following, becuz he's petty like that and they're still fighting.

He only has two posts because he didn't know the app existed until recently (everyone conveniently forgot to tell him until Hobie spilled the beans, Pav genuinely thought he alrdy knew about it)

the people he's following because I spent forever counting this out and you deserve to know ;

Hobie Brown

Gwen Stacy Mayday Parker

Pavitr Prabhakar

Miles-42

Peni Parker

Peter B. Parker

Spider-ham

Spider-man noir

Margo Kess

doesn't post regularly, when he does it's just cool pictures of himself.

Only agreed to match with Miles so he would shut up about it. He def pretends to hate him but he's also the only person that he follows back.

Mayday, Jess, Margo, Miguel, and Lyla next ??

I loved making these and have ideas for more characters so if you guys wanna see them shoot me an ask !!

#across the spiderverse #hobie brown #spider punk #into the spider verse #spiderman #spiderverse 2 #spiderman across the spiderverse #spiderman into the spiderverse #spiderverse pavitr #pavitr prabhakar #miles morales #earth 42 miles morales #miles morales prowler #peni parker #into the spiderverse #across the spider verse #fake instagram #spider-gram #margo kess #spider byte #mayday parker #spiderman noir #spider man noir #spider man #jessica drew #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #spider man 2099 #sp//dr #atsv headcanons

[kookaburra1701]

1, 8, and 12 for the Violence asks?

The same still goes - I LOVE TO HAVE MY MIND CHANGED! If anyone reads these and thinks of a counter example or a fic/bit of meta that will change my mind, let me have it.

the character everyone gets wrong OK, so this is going to be the one that gets me run out of town, chased by a mob of people with pitchforks, but I'm going to answer the custom follower Kaidan. I get why - he's a fluffy romance mod at heart, and while I have no idea whether he was made in response to the SR mod he is often held as the alternative to Bishop's rapey vibe, and thus ends up being mostly written as an endlessly nurturing, supportive love interest for the DB in fics. But Kaidan dealt with his pain by drowning it in alcohol and moon-sugar, and decided to become a bandit. Only to find out the group he joined weren't bandits they were a DAGON CULT. And it was only AFTER he stood by while the cult tortured and murdered an entire family that he had second thoughts about being a part of it. THEN when he escapes and goes back to Skyrim to sober up, he gets black-bagged and tortured for who knows how long. Dude's f'd in the head and obviously has some incredibly maladaptive coping mechanisms, is what I'm saying, and has some SERIOUS SHIT in his past that any good-to-neutral alignment love interest would have to come to terms with. I LOVE him for it, but it's not a side of him that I see explored much. It's what I'm aiming to explore in Wives of Shor, if I ever manage to finish the damn thing. And ALLLL of this is one of the reasons why I went so feral over @gilgamish 's fic, Tides to Carry Us Home when I came across it - the look at Kaidan through Felix's eyes (someone who is also very mixed up in the head) is DELICIOUS.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about Please allow me to paraphrase something I tend to see quite a bit. I'm not thinking of any one person, and honestly, mostly it's a take on r/skyrim lol:

"The Nords are prejudiced against Khajiit because they won't let the caravans in the city." Khajiit caravans aren't excluded from the cities because of racism, they're excluded because of a) protectionist economic practices and b) THE CARAVANS ARE DOING AND ENABLING SO MUCH CRIME OH MY GOD don't get me wrong I love them for the "poor us, the Nords are so mean" act they put on very successfully (at least it worked Ysolda) but Ri'saad literally came to Skyrim with a bunch of people in debt-bondage to be a war profiteer. It is totally justified that all of the jarls took one look at that whole situation and said, "OK we don't have enough guards to keep you out of the province as a whole, but you are NOT doing that shit in my city."

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

HEIMSKR. He has no chill. He has no fear. He has no orthodoxy (if you listen to his speech all the way through he says things that I'm very certain NONE of the other priests of Talos would endorse, like Talos being the head of the pantheon, or Alduin being sent by Talos to punish unbelievers.)

He just stands in the square, all day every day, and yells at the Gildergreen, which is Kyne's sacred tree. Combined with his insistence that Talos is the head of the pantheon (the place of Kyne in that Old Time Nord Religion) I feel like there's actually something going on there. And then if you side with the Imperials even being arrested doesn't stop him yelling about his crackpot theology. We stan a stan.

#kbs asks #asks to choose violence #kaidan 2 #tesblr #skyrim #heimskr

[alwaysspeakshermind]

Favorite Fictional Ladies Alphabet C is for: Cordelia Chase

In the realm of TV shows aimed at teens, there are Queen (B)ees, and then there are Queen. Fricking. (B)ees. For me (someone who always enjoys a good loudmouthed bish with low levels of tact and absolutely ZERO respect for the meaning of the phrase shut up), the early seasons of Buffy were kind of difficult, because I frequently questioned who was my favorite B-word: Buffy or Cordelia. 

Yeah, Cordelia essentially serves as the reliable antagonist in Buffy’s day-to-day, non-slaying world, and yeah, she’s a pretty, popular, runs-the-school-and-everyone-in-it kind of girl rather than an outsider who instantly commands sympathy, but what of it? An antagonist is, after all, just someone who opposes/causes trouble for the protagonist, and as Cordy herself would point out, being the It™ girl in high school isn’t really all it’s made out to be. 

Besides, let’s be honest here: antagonists are not automatically evil simply because they’re arguing with the protagonist, and while Cordelia may be mean, self-centered, and almost unbelievably shallow at times, she is not stupid and she is rarely wrong. Every group of world-saving heroes needs someone with the backbone to say the rude-but-true thing everyone’s thinking, and Cordelia’s more than happy to be that person.

Why she’s my girl:

Despite her overt vanity, callous treatment of wallflowers like Willow, well-cemented status as human-thorn-in-Buffy’s-side, and inexplicable fondness for sweaters knotted around the neck (no, baby, no!) Cordelia commands my undying respect. Regardless of whatever insane situation she’s in, Cordelia is always and reliably Cordelia, aka Cordy, aka Queen C. Whether she’s addressing humans, vamps, or other monsters, she’s loud, opinionated, and ready with an arsenal of insults that sting all the more because there’s a lot of truth in them. 

But as cutting as she can be, she’s also (arguably) the least hypocritical of all Buffy’s non-evil characters, mostly because she’s just so straightforward about who she is: not the runner-up, but The Queen. Not a sheep, but a trendsetter. Not someone who tells lies to protect egos or fragile self-esteem. (Remember that time Buffy could hear everyone’s thoughts and only Cordy’s exactly matched the words that left her mouth?) 

Her relationship with Buffy and co. is more in the frenemy category than anything else, and she’s just as liable to ridicule/flat-out bully as she is to lend assistance, but she sticks with them (for the most part) despite everything. “Nice” isn’t a part of the deal, and though she’s very clear about that, she’s not the dumb, stone-cold, heartless flake everyone around her tends to think. Yes, her concerns are almost never what people think they ought to be, yes, she exasperates everyone with her skillfully brutal assessments of people and situations, and yes, she never misses the chance to criticize someone’s fashion or lack thereof. But she also gives people rides whenever they need them, staunchly defends those she decides to consider part of her circle, and refuses to accept less than what she knows she deserves. She is a fighter when it comes right down to it, but she’s also a very cool realist—if someone else is willing to do the fighting for her, why should she bother making the effort and ruining her manicure? If a formidable foe challenges just one person to a fight, why should she go along and risk her life? 

No, she’s not kind, yes, she makes comments so cutting they’re probably better described as cruel, but she’s also extremely strong, smart, and layered in a way that’s typically not seen in HBIC TV characters both before and since. And every once in a while, albeit essentially never on purpose, Cordy lets it slip that her bitchy, shallow, valley-girl exterior actually conceals a beating human heart—a pretty big one, at that—and it’s kind of beautiful.

(What—she can’t have layers?)

Favorite quotes: Way, way, WAY! too many to count, but some favorites are:

“It’s like when I go shopping, I have to have the most expensive thing. Not because it’s expensive, but because it costs more.”

“God! WHAT IS YOUR CHILDHOOD TRAUMA?!?”

“People who think their problems are so huge craze me. Like the time I sort of ran over this girl on her bike…it was the most traumatizing event of my life, and she’s trying to make it about her leg! Like my pain meant nothing.”

“You think I’m never lonely because I’m so cute and popular? I can be surrounded by people and be completely alone. It’s not like any of them really know me. I don’t even know if they like me half the time. People just want to be in a popular zone. Sometimes, when I talk, everyone’s so busy agreeing with me they don’t hear a word I say.”

“We’re still all rooting for you on Saturday! I’d be there for you myself if I didn’t have a leg-wax.”

“I just don’t see why everyone’s always picking on Marie Antoinette. I can so relate to her. She worked really hard to look that good, and people just don’t appreciate that kind of effort.”

“‘I aspire to help my fellow man.’ Check. As long as he’s not smelly, dirty, or something gross.”

“You’re sheep. All you ever do is what everyone else does just so you can say you did it first. And here I am, scrambling for your approval, when I’m way cooler that you ‘cause I’m not a sheep. I do what I wanna do, and I wear what I wanna wear. And you know what? I’ll date whoever the hell I wanna date. No matter how lame he is.”

“Tact is just not saying true stuff. I’ll pass.”

[“What about that nutty ‘all men are created equal’ thing?”] “Propaganda spouted out by the ugly and less-deserving.”

"I know what you're up to. You think if you get me mad enough I won't be so scared. And hey, it's working! Where's a damn weapon?"

“I am the surgeon of mean.”

“Oh, God. Is the world ending? I have to research a paper on Bosnia for tomorrow, but if the world's ending, I'm not gonna bother.”

“In fact, I wish all men, except maybe the dumb and the really agreeable kind, disappear off the face of the earth. That would be so cool!”

[“You have no shame.”] “Oh, please. Like shame is something to be proud of?”

“I’m Cordelia Chase, dumbass.”

“I think it, I say it. It’s my way.”

#cordelia chase #character analysis #cordelia chase quotes #btvs #btvs meta #opinion #favorite fictional character alphabet #favorite fictional ladies #my post #cordy my baby #one day i will avenge you #propaganda spouted out by the ugly and less deserving #literally deserves its own award #like that line and its delivery? sheer perfection

[middleearthpixie]

After the Fire

Fandom: The Hobbit - Post BOTFA AU Where Everybody Lives

Summary: Following the Battle of the Five Armies, a grievously wounded Thorin is brought back to the kingdom of Erebor, which is still mostly in ruins. Although he’s survived the wounds he received at the end of Azog’s blade, his recovery is far from complete. Grief, regret, anger, all are making his journey that much more difficult and the physical recovery isn’t quite the most difficult challenge he faces.

Jasna Stoneham is no stranger to loss, as she is a survivor of Smaug’s wrath upon Esgaroth. When she is asked to help the dwarves healers of Erebor, her instinct is to say no, but she needs the job, and so agrees to it. However, no one told her that of all the patients, she would be responsible for the king himself, Thorin Oakenshield. 

Unfortunately, the road to recovery isn’t necessary a smooth one, but if there’s one thing Thorin will learn, it’s that Jasna is just as stubborn as he is and for every step back he takes, she is there to push him three steps forward. And Jasna will soon find out that there is a gentle, softer side to the dwarf king, one that very few people have ever seen and one he fights to keep hidden from her as well. But like his recovery, that is also easier said than done. 

A nightmare brings Jasna to Thorin’s side in the middle of the night and they get to know one another a little better…

Pairing: Thorin Oakenshield x ofc Jasna Stoneham

Characters: Jasna, Thorin, Óin

Warnings: None

Rating: T

Word Count: 3,831

Khuzdul Translation:

Kasamhili nê - Please don’t  

Afsêl mê - Fuck you

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While she was far too busy to think much during the day, Jasna found the opposite to be true at night. Although Erebor still housed the Iron Hill dwarves as well as its own people, the city became quiet and still by the time the clock struck midnight and the silence that crept through the stone fortress grew thick and eerie. 

Óin and his wife shared apartments just down the corridor a short ways from the infirmary, but Jasna had yet to be given such quarters. Instead, she slept in the small room at the rear of the the infirmary instead.

“I’m afraid we’ve no spare apartments at this end just yet,” Óin looked a bit embarrassed that first night as he showed her to the small room tucked away in the rear corner of the infirmary, behind where the Durins rested, “but I promise ye, as soon as we do, I’ll move ye into it. If yer still here, that is.”

“This is f-fine,” she promised him as she peered into the room. “I d-d-don’t need much sp-sp-space. A bed. A desk to study at. Th-th-th—It’s fine.” 

His eyes narrowed, but it wasn't with the annoyance she often saw in others. His hand came to rest on her shoulder. “We can work on yer speech when things slow down some. That is, if ye wish to.”

“I’ve tr-tried. B-b-but nothing r-r-really w-w-w-helps!” She frowned, annoyed with herself for not being able to control her stupid tongue better. “I am sorry. Mama s-s-said we c-c-can’t afford to tr-tr-treat it, but I think it’s b-b-b-because I am beyond h-h-h-help and she d-d-does’t want to t-t-t-tell me that.”

“No need for that, lassie. Ye said it’s worse when yer nervous and hopefully, ye won’t be nervous much longer. Either way, we will work on it as time allows. But for now, ye should get a good night’s sleep.”

She pressed her lips together, trying to gather her thoughts to thank him properly. Him. Bard. Mama. They didn't seem to think her stupid, or grow annoyed when it took her so long to utter a simple word or sentence. Perhaps Óin was right and she wouldn’t be nervous much longer. It would only help.

With that, he left to round one last time and then go off to his own apartments, and she moved into the room that was, at least for the time being, hers. 

It wasn’t much, a cozy square with a window overlooking that out-of-control courtyard, but since most of Erebor was windowless, she was actually quite thankful for her small chambers. Without that window, she would have gone mad being unable to see the outside world. The infirmary, the kitchens, and the Great Hall were all on the ground level, while the bulk of the kingdom was below ground. 

She lay on her narrow cot, the silence pressing in on her. Over the last few months, between school, then Smaug, and then the battle, she was so tired, she fell right to sleep most nights, but not tonight. Her mind refused to go quiet and let her rest. 

She’d rolled over and punched her pillow for probably the tenth time when the low moans began. It wasn’t unusual. After all, these were wounded men in various stages of recovery and sometimes the recovery left them in worse pain than the initial wound.

But this was different. It didn't roll up, then fade. No, instead, the moans grew louder, linens rustling as if someone thrashed about in them. 

“Kasamhili nê! Ahhh.. Afsêl mê…”

She slid from her bed and reached for her heavy wrapper. It was winter and the fortress’ heating system was not yet fully operational, so everything was beyond cold so late at night. The exception was the infirmary, for while the heat could only barely be called such, it was slightly warmer in there than anywhere else on that floor. 

“Please… No…” 

The moans came from the far corner, and at first, she thought Fíli was the one having the nightmare, but as she drew near, she realized it was Thorin once more and not his nephew. He twisted the linens in both fists, his moans low and guttural as he moved, arching and twisting as he howled with pain. Not, not pain. Fear.

“Shh…” She reached for one fist, covering it with her much smaller hand to still it. “Your Majesty, shhh… you’re dreaming…”

His eyes snapped open and thank Mahal she had good reflexes, for he swung his free fist as he bolted upright. Then, with another howl of pain, he fell back into the pillows, his face and chest gleaming with sweat, his breath short and choppy.

“Easy,” she whispered, retrieving a bowl of water and a rag to bring back to him. She dipped the rag into the bowl, wrung it out, then gently swiped at his forehead. “Shhh… it was but a dream. No more and no less.”

“Mahal, it was so real,” he whispered brokenly.

“I know.” She offered him a gentle smile, stroking his hair with her free hand. She let it come down over his forehead. Cool. What fever he ran had broken and that was probably what caused his nightmare., his body fighting off the fever. “You’re fever-free now, Your Majesty. And th-that’s a won-won-won—” She frowned, slowing her breathing as she finished—“a good thing.”

He offered up a queer look, his brow furrowed. “Have I been with fever long?”

“You’ve not, no. Only a few hours at m-m-most and it was n-n-not un-un-un-unexpected.” She dipped the cloth into the bowl and wrung it out once more, then swept it gently down his right cheek. Water beaded against his skin, against the dark beard shot through with silver. “But, it d-d-did get quite h-h-h-high, s-so it was unde-unde—”

“Understandable?” he finished softly.

“Yes.” A feeling of idiocy washed over her. Unable to utter simple sentence. He must think her a total dolt. She pressed her lips together as tears of frustration stung the backs of her eyes. 

But he said nothing, just let his eyes close and a soft sigh rose to his lips as he settled back against the pillows. She wrung out the cloth again, this time bringing it to his neck and down over his chest, pausing when she came to the perimeter of the linen bandages wound across his wide chest. Rust-colored splotches stained it in places, but they were the smallest of stains to appear since he arrived off the battlefield. Thankfully, he’d not pulled out any of his sutures when he bolted up that way. No fresh blood soaked into the linen now. A relief.  

The silence that settled about her wasn’t as eerie as the earlier one. Thorin exuded a sense of calm, even asleep. Although she’d heard tell of the King Under the Mountain, she’d never seen him until now, not even when he and his company were in Esgaroth promising them everything if only they would help him. She’d been in training then, sequestered in the ramshackle, lopsided building at the farthest end of Esgaroth, diligently studying for an exam, when he and his men were arrested for breaking into the armory. By the time she’d managed to get away and try to see them for herself, the dwarves had already gone, joined in the celebration at the Master’s fine home. The doors had been closed, leaving her and her roommate Anissa, standing in the snow wishing they were on the party side of the door.

But now, the Master was gone, killed when the dragon Smaug fell on him on the Long Lake after Bard’s arrow found its mark. His lackey, Alfrid, was also gone, killed by an orc of some sort in Dale. Bard had become the unofficial leader of the Esgaroth people who’d survived Smaug’s attack and moved into the abandoned city of Dale, high on the precipice overlooking Erebor. Unofficial, but he transitioned into the role seamlessly and was a far better leader than the Master on any given day.

Jasna sighed softly, setting the cloth back in the bowl and left it there, then set the bowl on the bedside table. Thorin’s jaw relaxed, a low rumbling rolled forth a few minutes later. The King Under the Mountain snored. Softly, but he snored just he same.

She sat back in her chair. All she’d known about the heir to the throne of Erebor prior to now was that he was one of the tallest of the dwarves, with long black hair, an equally black, full beard, and piercing blue eyes. She hadn’t seen much of those eyes, and in the low light of the various torches mounted along the stone walls, discerning their color was impossible. 

He came into the infirmary not only with the serious chest and belly wounds that required twenty and forty stitches respectively, but with that slash across his forehead, the one that began at his right temple and angled down to almost the inside of his right eyebrow. It had taken roughly seventeen sutures to close it and now a square of linen lay over the healing sutures. His face also bore several bruises as did his upper body and arms. She didn't know what happened out on the battlefield, or even up at Ravenhill, where he’d eventually fallen, but he certainly didn't seem to have gone down without a fight. 

“Who are you?”

She jumped at his rumbling whisper. “Oh, I be-beg your pa-pa-pa—”

“Pardon?”

“Yes.” She nodded, heat sweeping up into her face. “I thought you were as-as-asleep.”

“My mind will not shut off.”

“You’ve been thr-through much, Your Majesty.”

“Please,” he slowly shook his head, his voice a bit stronger now, “Thorin is fine.”

She pressed her lips together, tried to remember everything Mama had said about controlling her stammer. Give them no reason to poke fun at you. You can do this, love. Take your time and focus on each word. “Thorin. I am Jasna.”

His eyes closed once more, but he bobbed his head. “Jasna. Thank you.”

“I’ve not done much, I’m af-afra-af—”

“You’ve done plenty, I assure you.” He hesitantly turned his head toward her, as if afraid it would hurt to do so. “Are you nervous?”

She swallowed hard, but nodded. “A b-b-b-bit.”

“You needn’t be.” He winced as he licked his lips. 

“I’m st-still in training.”

“And they’ve assigned you to me?” A tired smile lifted his lips. “Am I dying?”

Her spine stiffened at that. “I b-b-beg your pa-pa—” She grimaced and managed to force her lips and tongue to work as she spat, “what?”

“I am but teasing.”

“By mo-mo-mocking me?”

Now he turned his head to meet her gaze. “I did no such thing.”

She arched a brow. “Oh, really?” 

He turned to stare back at the ceiling. “You didn’t answer me.”

“You judge me by my sta-sta-stam—”

“Stammer?”

She didn't care that he was the king, nor did she care that he was injured and under her care. “Do you?”

“Of course not. You’ve no need to be nervous before me, you know.” 

“I ca-ca-cannot control it.”

“Do I seem so imposing, lying here, unable to do a blasted thing for myself?”

He said it softly, but there was no mistaking the bitterness along the bottom of his words. She just stared at him for a moment, then drew in a deep breath to say, “You were wounded, remember. And terribly so. Th-that you are here is a te-te-testament to your st-strength.”

“My strength. That’s amusing.” He shook his head slowly, then turned to meet her gaze once more. “You needn’t be nervous around me. I am grateful you’re here, Miss Stoneham. And I would never mock your speech. If I should, please punch me.”

She arched a brow at him. “I beg your pardon?”

He nodded. “Do so. Only, wait until I feel a bit more like myself, if you’d not mind.”

“Are you… are you joking with me?”

“I’m trying to put you at ease. If it can be frustrating for one to wait for your words, I can only imagine it is even more so for you trying to force them out under such pressure.”

That was the last thing she expected him to say to her, and she didn't know how to respond. She’d heard the dwarves were greedy and slovenly, that they could be cruel and not shy about telling Men what they thought of them. No one ever told her they could be kind. And for their king to be this kind took her by surprise. 

“I—I don’t know wh-what to say.”

“You needn’t say a word.”

“Thank you.”

He managed a tired smile. “You’re welcome.” He paused, then added, “You look tired. And I hopefully will have no more nightmares, so please, go and rest.”

“I should stay—”

“There is no need,” he cut her off gently, letting his eyes close. “Good evening, Miss Stoneham.”

“Jasna,” she replied without thinking.

His eyes opened once more, that smile coming back to his lips. “Good evening, Jasna.”

With that, he settled into his pillow and a moment later, his breathing evened off and slowed down. She waited to make certain he was truly asleep, then  pushed up from her chair and left the bowl and rag on his bedside table to stride back to her chambers.

As she settled back on her cot, she stared up into the darkness. Mama. Bard. Balin. Óin. Narnerra. Thorin. They were the only people who didn’t feel the need to mock her speech or roll their eyes—or worse, their hands—whenever she opened her mouth to say anything. Children teased her until she’d cry, mimicking her whenever she fell over her own tongue. These dwarves showed her a kindness her own kin couldn't trouble themselves to show. 

Her eyes stung as every horrid memory bubbled to the forefront of her mind. She lay there, staring up at the black stone ceiling, her mind whirling so hard and so fast that sleeping was impossible. She hated that stammer more than anything else and wished she could find some way to rid herself of it for once and for all. But no matter how hard she tried, or how hard she worked, stress and nervousness brought it screaming to life. 

Perhaps Óin could help her lose that fool stammer for once and for all, because as long as they were willing to have her, she was more than happy to stay amongst them. 

Jasna had no idea when she fell asleep, but it seemed she no sooner closed her eyes that Óin was knocking on her door. “Miss Jasna? Time to rise.”

She blinked the sleep from her eyes with one hand, biting back a groan as she tried to shake off the last of her slumber. It clung to her like cobwebs, visible but difficult to grab hold of and sweep away. 

“Miss Jasna?”

“C-coming!” She yawned, rubbing her eyes still as she rose from her warm bed and stumbled to her dresser. A splash of water on her face, a comb quickly run through her hair before she swept it back into the messy knot she always wore, dragged on her simple gray cotton work dress, shoved her feet into her soft-skinned boots, and hurried out into infirmary.

“Is everything all right, lassie?” Óin asked as she joined him at his desk in the corner. “It’s not like you to oversleep.”

“I did not sleep well last eve. His Highness woke with nightmares after midnight. His fever had broken. By the time I was able to calm him and get back to bed, I was too awake to sleep easily.”

“Thorin’s fever broke?” Óin waited for her to nod, then did so himself. “Good. As long as it stays that way, we can begin seeing about getting him back on his feet.”

“Am I to-to work wi-with him again?”

Her stomach knotted as he nodded again. “Aye. I think that would be best. A woman’s touch is what that crusty dwarf needs.”

“Bu-but, I still don’t re-really kn-kn-kn—” She paused, swallowed hard, and tried again. “My skills are lacking.”

“Yer skills are coming along nicely, Jasna. And if ye run into trouble, just come find me.”

“But—”

“Go and check on Thorin first. Then Fíli. Then Kíli. Then I want ye to check the others, pull drains that need it and if ye run into trouble, as I said, come find me or Narnerra. We won’t be far from ye.”

She swallowed hard but nodded. “Yes, Óin.”

“And don’t look so scared. Yer doin’ fine.”

She bobbed her head, then moved to fill a bowl with clean water, and grabbed a linen cloth. “Thank you.”

His smile did much to calm her, to sooth her jangled nerves, and when she approached the king’s bedside, it was to see him awake and staring up at the ceiling. She drew in a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said, “Good morning, Your Majesty,” as slowly as she felt she could get away with. “How do you fare?”

“I’m tired,” he said, his voice low. Linens rustled as he turned his head toward her. “And I owe you an apology, Miss Jasna, for keeping you up last eve.”

“You owe me no such thing, Your Majesty,” she replied, moving closer to lift the linen over his forehead to examine it. “It is my j-j-job and even if it w-w-w-wasn’t, I didn't m-m-mind it at all.” 

“Still, you have an infirmary filled with men needing your attention and do not need me monopolizing it.” His voice sounded only slightly stronger than the previous day, and he still looked utterly exhausted, which was to be expected. The wound on his forehead appeared to be healing nicely, the stitches shrinking as they dried. Another day or two, and they could probably come out. 

His apology came as a total surprise and she carefully set the linen back against him as she said, “If y-y-you n-n-need me, c-c-call me. That’s why I’m here, r-r-remmeber. Especially when you’re in p-p-pain.”

A rueful smile curved his lips. “Pain does not even come close to capturing how this feels at times,” he said, gesturing to his midsection with one hand. “I’ve never felt anything like this before.” 

“It will improve a bit each d-d-day. P-patience, remember.”

“Patience. It’s not exactly one of my strengths.” His blue eyes slid in her direction. “You sound more sure of yourself this morning.”

“Óin is pleased w-with my work. He and Narnerra h-h-have offered to l-let me con-continue training here.”

“He is not easy to please. You must be doing very well, then.”

“I ha-hav-haven’t k-k-ki—”

“Killed?” he offered quietly.

“Killed anyone,” she smiled, moving to the bandage across his chest, “which is al-always a good thing. M-m-may I?” She gestured to the bandage.

He nodded. “Will it stop you if I say no?”

She shook her head. “It w-won’t, no. But I like to ask j-j-just the same.”

“Look to your heart’s content, then.” He grimaced as she moved the bandage and it stuck to his skin. 

“I apologize. It seems it b-b-b-bled a bit during the n-night.” 

She turned to the bowl of water and the cloth and soaked the cloth in the water. As she wrung it out, a sheepish look came to Thorin’s face. “It itched and I scratched. I apologize.”

“Don’t. It’s better than if it b-b-b-bled on its own.” She lay the cloth over the bandage and gently applied enough pressure for the linen to absorb the water. “Does it hurt?”

“No, actually. For the first time in—” his forehead creased and he paused, staring up at the ceiling for a moment before he met her gaze again—“how many days have I been here?”

“Eight.”

“In eight days.” He sighed softly, his gaze going back to the ceiling. “How do Fíli and Kíli fare?”

“I’ve not looked in on them as yet,” she replied slowly. “But, K-K-Kíli’s wound was cl-clean and was healing well.”

“And Fíli?”

She hesitated. Óin had been adamant that Fíli’s prognosis be kept under wraps for as long as possible, since they simply didn't know much yet. “You should ta-talk to Óin.”

“You’re here.” Thorin looked over at her. “How is he?”

“I really f-f-feel y-y-you should—”

His eyes narrowed. “What aren’t you telling me?”

“Your Majesty, pl-please—”

He tried to sit up, knocking the wet cloth from his chest to land in his lap with a soft slop, and with a wince, shoved off the covers. “Where is he? I want to see him. Now.” 

“Your Majesty, if y-y-y—-please!”

“Step aside and let me by,” he growled. 

“No, you r-r-r-re-re—damn it, stop!”

Several other patients stirred then, popping up to see what the fuss was about. Jasna bit the inside of her cheek as Óin hurried over, scowling as he said, “Jasna, what is going on over here? You’re disturbing everyone!”

“I b-b-b-b-beg your pardon, but—”

Thorin hissed with pain, swinging his legs over the side of his bed. Like the others, he’d been cut from his clothes when he’d been brought into the infirmary and instead now wore loose, short white underclothes that covered him only from hip to partway down his thigh. He seemed to take no notice of his state of undress as he tried to stand.

However, his face drained of blood, going as white as his small clothes. Óin caught him before he could actually get to his feet, and he glared at her as he snapped, “Go and wait in yer chambers while I tend to this!”

Heat scorched a path through her—mostly embarrassment, but not entirely, and the not entirely part had everything to do with seeing the King Under the Mountain almost naked. Dwarves were not shy about their bodies, but Men could be and she certainly was, so she was almost grateful for the reason to whip about and practically sprint back to her small room. 

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I did quite a bit of reading this month and hope you will have as much fun reading and sharing these stories as I have! Again, I want to say a great big THANK YOU to the writers on this list. You are incredible, thank you for sharing your works on this hellsite. ❤️

This list is alphabetical by fandom (mostly), then by character. Summaries and warnings are included as provided by the authors.

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2022 reading list | fic rec masterlist

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The Mandalorian

Fever in my Eyes by @221bshrlocked Din Djarin x Reader Felucia was not an ideal planet to track a quarry on and you find yourself in a sticky situation when you lose sight of the Mandalorian for a moment. An unexpected standoff between Mando and the bounty leads to you escaping back to the Razor Crest, unaware of the pollen which seeped into your nostrils and past your skin. What will the bounty hunter do once he realizes what you’re asking of him? And more importantly, is it worth risking whatever relationship he has with you? Warnings: Smut and Angst, my two faves. Blindfold. Breeding Kink!!! Things are consensual from both sides but since this is a sex pollen fic, some of you might consider it as non/con so please proceed with caution.

unfold me by @221bshrlocked Din Djarin x Female Reader Warnings: Hypothermia. Naked “cuddling.” Confessions. And just an overall emotional bucket of feels.

Marvel

Bad Date by @firefly-in-darkness Bucky Barnes x Female Reader Your date isn’t going well but a chance encounter with the Mafia King of Brooklyn changes your view on how your night is turning out.. Warnings: 18+, Smut, Swearing, Mafia/Mob vibes, mentions of violence, Sex, Praise, Degradation.

Dearly Beloved by @indyluckycharlie Mafia!Bucky Barnes x Mafia!Female Reader Against your will and your wishes, your powerful mafia father has arranged your marriage to the son of his closest ally. You have other plans. Warnings: Swearing. Angst. Violence. Threats of violence. Murder and implied murder.

the forest by @avintagekiss24 Bucky Barnes x Black Female Reader You wake up in a strange, magical place. All alone, you start to walk and find that you aren’t the only one wandering the trees. warnings: language words, smut, sex, sex pollen kinda, animal transformation, grumpy bucky, angst/horror?, fae/faries, fairy tale vibes

Sundress by @princessmisery666 Steve Rogers x Female Reader Steve buys you a present, but it’s more for him. Warnings: smut, dom!Steve, language.

Last Laugh by @boxofbonesfic Steve Rogers x Comedian!Reader Your jokes land you in some hot water with their subject–Captain America. Turns out, America’s golden boy’s a bit of a bully–and you kind of like it. Warnings: Mean Steve, Sub!Reader, Smut, Light BDSM, Semi-public sex, MINORS DNI

Daisy Safe, Rose Wild by @kellyn1604 Alpha!Steve Rogers x Omega!OFC Steve Rogers is an Alpha on a mission. Find his wayward omega and bring her to heel. What he doesn’t count on is her determined spirit to bring him to his knees. Warnings- Soft! Dark. Non-violent non-con/dub-con. Angst, reluctance, estrous, knotting, claiming, a ton of explicit smut. No wolves or talk of pups…they’re people with a/b/o designations.

Let My Heart Bleed by @xbuchananbarnes Steve Rogers x Female Reader (she/her) Kissing in a stairwell, giving them an artificial height difference. part of the you are the sun universe but can be read as a stand-alone.Warnings: S M U T,angst (an almost break up. Sorry about that, I’ve been on my feels), fluff, cursing, poorly edited. This takes place about seven months after CW (yay for nomad!Steve).

Reflection by @musingsinmoonlight Thor x Female Reader Your lover - with the help of the stupidly large mirror you own - shows you just how desirable you really are to him... Warnings: Smut! Dirty talk. Insecurities (kind of). Sex in front of a mirror. Soft Dom Thor. 18+ ONLY PLEASE AND FUCKING THANK YOU.

Supernatural

Angel with a Shotgun by @gone-to-fight-the-fairies Castiel x Reader Castiel comes to the reader’s aid when she is put in danger because of his harbored feelings toward her. Warnings: none provided

Missing in Action by @talesmaniac89 Dean Winchester x Reader Dean, was hit by a spell cast by an apparently lovesick witch. And though your little group tries to keep him from her, he breaks free. Breaking your heart along the way. Warnings: Heartbreak, jealousy, betrayal, break up, ANGST, injuries, gunshots, blood, possible death, gun violence.

Need Me by @princessmisery666 Dean Winchester x OFC Sam is gone. Dean isn’t coping well but Emily can’t leave him.  Warnings: Grieving, smut, angst, smangst, angry Dean, alcoholism, toxic relationship, language, cheating (maybe).

Shared Grief (3 parts) by @princessmisery666 Dean Winchester x OFC Dean and Emily seek comfort together in their shared grief over losing Sam. In their desperation, they may be doing more hurt than healing. Disaster and salvation surprise them both. But all choices come with a price. Part 1 Warnings: smut, angst, grieving, cheating (sort of), bad decisions, betrayal, suicide mention, fluff, language, alcoholism, show level violence mentioned,

Whatcha Got There? by @fluffiest-dreams Dean Winchester x Reader (she/her) old artifacts, Dean being cute, shenanigans Warnings: none

Not a Dry Pair by @deanwinchesterswitch Rockstar!Dean Winchester x Female Reader A fun little glossed-over glimpse into the life of a 'groupie'. Warnings: 18+ NSFW, language, smut with practically no plot

Wasted by @girl-next-door-writes Dean Winchester x Reader You gave up everything for your happy ever after but what if your true happiness is sat drinking himself into oblivion in a bunker? Warnings: none provided

Hello Hello by @fluffiest-dreams Dean Winchester x Reader (she/her) Dean liked to suprise Y/N. Especially if he found a fun weakness in the process. Warnings: none provided

Run To You by @deanwinchesterswitch Dean Winchester x OFC Disillusioned by the world around her, Kasey has chosen to live a life of solitude. Accused of a crime he didn't commit, Dean escapes custody. On the run from the law and out to prove his innocence, he stumbles headlong into Kasey's life. The fateful encounter sets them on a winding path of desire, heartbreak, and perhaps the most incredible love they've ever known. However, time and the law are not on their side. Warnings: Angst, fluff, slow-burn, language, panic attack detailed (near end of story). Each chapter will have its own warnings.

I'm Not Mad by @fluffiest-dreams Jack Kline, Reader (she/her) Jack was still a child. Some things proved that more than others. Pure fluff Warnings: general spoilers for season 13, lil bit of Jack being insecure

Don't Die by @fluffiest-dreams Sam Winchester x Reader (she/her) Y/N wanted to go on a hunt with Dean while Sam had to stay back with an injured leg. Neither of them was happy about it Warnings: fighting, brief misunderstanding, fluff

I Keep My Promises by @fluffiest-dreams Sam Winchester x Reader (she/her) Sam and Dean had just smoked out a nest of vampires when the two survivers decided to get revenge by kidnapping Y/N. Warnings: canon typical violence, kidnapping, angst, decapitation, blood (but I promise a happy ending)

Crossovers

I'll Be Seeing You by @navybrat817 Spy!Ari Levinson x Female Reader, Dark!Steve Rogers x Female Reader Ari has to let you go until a threat gives him a reason to come home. Warnings: Slight angst, break-up, adult themes, slight possessive behavior, Ari Levinson, (he is a warning)

American Beauty / American Psycho by @cockslut-padalecki Soldier Boy x Female Reader x Nomad!Steve Rogers Y/N wakes up to what should be every woman’s fantasy— sandwiched between the heroes of America as their own personal fuck toy. Warnings: Soldier Boy/Steve’s love/hate relationship, explicit sexual content, dub-con, unprotected sex (wrap it before you tap it kids), double penetration, anal play, anal sex, multiple orgasms, forced orgasms, mentions of oral sex (female and male receiving), deep throating, a little slapping, degradation, threats of cream pies to every orifice, 18+.

Other Characters

Nothin' Short of a Miracle by @starks-hero Roy O'Bannon x Female Reader The last person Roy knew that caught tuberculosis didn’t see the next month. But you’re strong and Roy doesn’t plan on giving up on you as long as you’re still fighting. Warnings: depictions of serious illness, a little bit of angst, fluff

RPF

Snack? by @jawritter Jensen Ackles x Female Reader The new Alpha on set wants you to take his “new’ face for a spin, and who the fuck can you tell him now? Warnings: Face riding, Possessive  behavior I guess? ABO dynamics, male masturbation. Light dirty talk. Language. Is it cheating if he has permission?

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COLORCODED TMNT AU RANT (with no edits) PART 2

COLORCODED MASTERPOST 1 . COLORCODED MASTERPOST 2 . COLORCODED RANT (unedited) 1

COLORCODED RANT (Unedited) 3

Can he and his sis both speak as much English and they can speak Korean?

His sis can only speak Korean and is homeschooled because of that, while Casey can speak both but usually talk English more, because well he's in New York. At home tho they exclusively speak Korean

Or were they like, almost forbidden to learn by their mom because she's a huge bitch asdvdv and once she was gone they got to learn a lot more from their dad?

yeah. She left when Hye-Jin was a teeny tiny baby so she never held any power over her, and since her brother and father only spoke Korean at home, she only learned Korean. Casey tho was punished whenever he spoke Korean in front of his mom, even if he learned it from his dad speaking on the phone when working or other mundane things. Once she was out of the picture he was finally able to speak Korean freely and by speaking it more, learning more.

What does Casey think of his mom? You told me the story mostly from the dad's point of view so I'm curious dhfbf

She's a huge bitch but she's still his mom and he misses her sometimes, but still doesn't want to see her He misses the few nice moments he had with her, but he knew that if he went back he'd only get the bad

Mikey: "SpIKeY for Raph. rOUnD for Leo. TecHy REcTaNgLy for Donnie. sQUigGLy noNSEnsE for me. :)"

Mikey just went "imma do a character analysis real quick, do you mind?" While taking notes and doodling on a notebook

Raph : "yeah I mind" Mikey, silently : so spike for you

Mikey, pointing at Donnie: "you give me rectangle vibes" Donnie: "what the fuck does that even mean"

Donnie coming out of his lab for the first time in days and that's the first thing he hears

Mikey, very seriously:  "You can't rush art, Donnie. This is very important research I'm doing right now." Donnie: "okay????" Donnie: "Anyone know what's going with Mikey?" Raph: "No idea, he told me something about character analysis?? And then he said 'yes. Spikes and mountains. Perfect.' and then left." Leo: "He said I was 'happy round cloud shaped', I have no idea what that means but I'm taking it as a compliment.

also ! Casey's main embroidery shape is bones, because Mikey came over to test and Casey went. No. Bones. Make bones. Mikey : "but-" Casey : "B O N E S"

Okay so Leo role is leader, Raph would be the tank, Mikey would be the sneaky one (he's the best at it surprisingly becaude he learned he could freak his brothers out more efficiently) so like a spy-ish role, and Donnie is the healer/support when not in battle. April is the "air support" like a sniper, and Casey is the guy that can punch good

Okay so so as I said before, April is Canadian, and she can speak both English and French fluently. She lives alone with her dad and their family dog (beloved by Raph whenever they're able to visit). Her mom still lives in Canada and she goes to see her during holidays, since they're divorced (but on good terms. Rip he took the dog AND the kid in the divorce) Her dad knows about the turtles and is chill with it, because he DOESN'T KNOW they're danger magnets. He has been aware of the turtles and Splinter since April was around 5, and sometimes comes by to visit Splinter (which is a good friend of his)

zdgvehf Raph is the kind of person who just stays with the pets during family reunions dfhdbfhj Raph: sees a doggo Raph: "I will not leave your side ever."

Does April's dad know the turtles she hangs out with are ninjas (I'm guessing yes since he seems to know Splinter well)? That doesn't really inspire 'safe' xD (if you learn how to fight, usually that means you feel like you're in some kind of danger xD) He does ! Splinter doesn't know they're hiding the danger magnet fact, so he was honest, he said they started it because he practiced it and they were interested. Literally the truth.

"than just saying Donnie is the medic just because he's smart (ah yes, once again, scientists know every skill, even medicine for some reason)." Okay so I know it wasn't a direct attack (even though I took -40 emotional damage) BUT ! I've thought about it before going : Donnie healer Okay so first of all he's not great Like he mixes up elbows and knees. But since he's still the best (apart from Splinter) he patches them up until they can get to Splinter. I gave him the medic role with the support role because even though NOW he likes ninjaing, it's still not his main thing, like Mikey. He's not as invested as the others in the ninja activity and his main skills lies elsewhere coughengineering and strategycough. He does his best as healer, he's still learning with Splinter (who is not hospital level but he is pretty good. Which mean that if one of the bois get a REALLY BAD injury, they're in the shit because no one can heal them) (modifié) [07:53] I made it so Mikey and Donnie were more interested in other fields (even if Mikey IS more invested than Don) because of the capacity gap in 2012 I never understood. So the fact they start late is 1 of the reason, and also the fact they are less invested than Leo and Raph (who are DEDICATED, and REALLY GOOD AT IT) [07:56] Also I have new infos about Colorcoded : -Donnie is turtle hyperlax, which means he can pop in his shell and pop any limbs from any hole (which freaks his brothers out) FIY : this is 100% not a real thing, do not try this on your turtle at home -Donnie, April and Casey are VERY close and besties. I can't have Capritello but I want incredible bond and friendship -Sara Navidad fight with 2 frying pans that can get electrified. It looks cooler than it sounds

Also do you remember mikey's role is being sneaky ? Okay so he's really good at it however problem : he's a terrible spy because he's bad at gathering informatio's

Informations being given : Mikey, bored to death, not listening

Mikey: "I remained unseen :)" Donnie: "ok but what did you see there?" Mikey: "I found a cool bug at some point"

Leo : So, Mike what did you learn ? Mikey : :0 Leo : Mikey : I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING

Mikey, in his head : so I WAS standing above the foot clan for 20 minutes for a reason Donnie: "you were supposed to tale a picture of the foot clan's headquarters, do you at least have that?" Mikey: "Nope! But wanna these cool pictures of pigeons I took while I was there?"

Donnie : "surprisingly i want the picture of the foot clan headquarters like I asked" Leo : "you should focus more Mikey, however I would love to see these pigeons :)"

Leo: scolding Mikey but also slightly encouraging him in the process dhfbdffd

Leo is VERY supportive in any given situation. Which also means he does have some trouble having authority Leo, very gently : "Mikey, do you think you could focus a little bit more next time if possible ?" Mikey : "yeah i'll try :)" Raph : "no you'll succeed because I ain't doing it so you better get that brain focused got it ?" Mikey : "yeah yeah yep mhmmm okay you know what ? I'm gonna go right now, yes." Raph : has the authority but not the skill Leo : has the skill but not the authority

Mikey: "I saw a cool painting in one of the foot's hideouts so I sneaked in for an hour with a notebook to draw it." Leo: "that was incredibly dangerous of you and very unnecessary." Mikey: Leo: "Can I see the drawing tho?"

Jumping back but i find it really funny that Donnie is horrible at being a medic but since he IS the medic it does mean that the others are worse

Mikey, who cut his hand slightly while cooking: "ow :(" Raph: "I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THAT'S IN THE FIRST AID KIT SO I BROUGHT ICE AND I HOPE THAT WAS THE RIGHT THING"

Donnie: "did you try to treat a cut with ICE????" Raph: "In hindsight, it may not have been very smart" Mikey: "my hand is cold now :("

Alternate ending : Mikey's hand being infected, him passed out on the floor : Donnie : "YA THINK ???"

Raph : "So now what ?" Leo, pulling a chainsaw : "well obviously-" Donnie : "N o"

Leo or Mikey get hurt but they're Raph and Donnie aren't there so they only have one braincell to figure out what to do xDD the disaster the chaos

Donnie and Raph comes back to see Leo and Mikey wrapped in bandages and band-aids with 3 first aid kits open with medical tools on the floor scattered everywhere, there's a fire in the corner of the room for some reason: "WHAT THE SHELL HAPPENED HERE?" Mikey: "Leo hurt his leg and we tried to fix it :(" Leo: "I think it kinda worked" Donnie: "What"

"did HE BREAK HIS LEG ??" "no he got cut a little there"

Imagine the cut is the 1 (one) part of the body that wasn't bandaged They failed

Donnie: "THEN WHY IS MIKEY WRAPPED IN BANDAGES TOO?" Leo: "He wanted to feel included"

Donnie the little bro somehow the most responsible : the return Meanwhile, Raph taking pictures, sending them to Casey and April and laughing with them through text

Raph can't socialize

Leo: Can't lie for shit Donnie: Is terrible at first aid even if it's one of his roles in the team Raph: Can't socialize Mikey: Cant' focus (adhd go brrrr)

Raph socialization skills extand to first meeting villains. He’s awkward and tries to « make a good first impression » which prevents him from fighting good. After around a week of getting to know the villain he then beat them up properly and turns back to Raph.

YOSHI’S POV :

Alright so as said before, Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi are extremely similar, the main difference being the ambition. Both Yoshi and Saki were in the same clan and grew up together, like brothers. They were much closer and friendlier than most version, not really rivals, and if so, only playfully. They got along great and became ninjas together. Saki inherited the clan in the end, and changed it's name to the Foot Clan (i have yet to determine why). Yoshi was by his side, his right hand man, and they fully trusted eachother. However, Saki got ambitious. He wanted to extand the clan's help to other cities, to other countries. Yoshi was much more traditional and insisted their help should remain in Kyoto. They disagreed and fought over it, openly in front of the clan, because nothing is hidden. Part of the clan were with Saki, part with Yoshi. The clan split, and then was born the Hamato clan. They remained in Kyoto, helping people with the Foot (rivalry being there this time). The Foot Clan extanded to other major japanese city, such as Tokyo and Osaka. Yoshi was young and impulsive, and was boiling because of Saki's decision, and attacked the Foot Clan in Kyoto. War ensued, and deads were counted. Realizing what he had done, Yoshi withdrawed from the war, and, ashamed, exiled himself. He travelled the world with the burden of what he had done heavy on his shoulders. He aged and learned, becoming a wise man. During his passage in New York, he was drawn to a pet store with a giant paper claiming it was closing and every animal not adopted would be sent to animal control (essentially killed). There weren't much animals left, and the deadline was far. Yoshi past in front of it and continued his way. A few days later, curious and worried, he passed again, a day before the deadline, and all the animals were gone, except for four tiny baby turtles. Yoshi went in, and the employee, desesperate, explained one of their female turtle gave birth to them as she was sold, and the family refused to take the baby with them. She refused to let them die but couldn't take them, and begged Yoshi to take them, for free. He looked into these tiny innocent creatures eyes, and he accepted. He left with his turtles, unsure of what he had done, how it would impact his travels and his life. Maybe he could give them away ? Take care of them until then ? Yes, that sounded good.

He went back to his hotel, but was refused because of the no pets policy. He would not abandon them so he gathered his things and left. Yoshi wandered around the city as night fell, looking for a place to rest and keep the turtles safe. It was late, everything was closed and rain was starting. Yoshi went to hide in an alley and decided to spend the night here. Unknown to him, but things were happening this very night, and as they did, a canister fell on him and the sleeping turtles. The excrutiating pain awoke him screaming, as his molecules were being torn apart and put together again in different shape. He blacked out, unable to support the pain. When he woke up, he felt different. Simply getting up was a challenge, and he couldn't stand upright, his back messed up. He had a tail and giant ears, whiskers and fur. A rat, it's what he had become. Horror and fear downed on him, as he contemplated his new body. What had happen ? How could this be ? Many questions left unanswered. Yoshi was broke out of his terrified trance by tiny hands tapping his leg. He looked and there was a baby, but quite a peculiar one. Green from head to toes, a hard shell protecting it's back and front, and big innocent eyes looking up to him, slight worry shining in them. Yoshi was confused and scared, but he didn't try to flee or get away. Whatever this was, it was young, pure and kind. He hesitated then patted it's head, and in doing so looked around. 3 other green babies were fumbling around near him, and the realization hit. The horror he felt for himself shifted to be for them, remembering the pain he went through and feeling his heart ache thinking they went through thz same thing He brought thzm closer to him, impulsively protecting them, hugging them close to him and away from the rain. A giggle made him jump, and he released them to see 4 bright faces, a wide smile splattered on. Yoshi could feel his hardened lonely heart melt, and he hugged them again, promising to protect those precious smile.

They had to get out of the street, where freaks were never welcome. The roofs were too exposed, and abandonned building too dangerous to raise kids. Yoshi remembered his time in Paris and their incredible catacomb, and wondered if New york got the same. He put two of the kids in his bag, safely secured, one attached on his torso and the last one in his free arm. He slid into a sewer door unseen, his training, even if old, still effective. The smell rattled his sensitive nose, but he kept going, hoping to find an opening to a more comfortable place. Yoshi walked for long, the kids asleep against him, soothed to sleep by his regular sleep, the smell seemingly not bothering them. The longer he walked the desesperate he became. It seemed to have been forever since the last sewer door leading outside. The tunnels were gigantic and endless, how could there be a place able to host them ? Suddenly he saw a hole in the wall. Not very wide, and clearly not meant to be there, crumbled over time and lack of maintenance. Yoshi climbed in and was surprised to see the giant space behind it. There were rooms, old and unsanitary, corridors and even a kitchen and showers, even if they seemed to be as old as earth itself. Yoshi supposed they must have been the living quarters of the people that built the sewers. Poor people, without homes, given this job and this place to live probably with 40 others. A curse to them and a blessing to him. It looked awful, but it was something. A beginning. A place to rebuild, to make home. For him, and for them. For his brand new sons.

Yoshi's life is basically : -Good childhood ! -Good clan ! -Bad, leave clan -Good, love new clan ! -Bad, start war -Bad, leave forever -Bad, guilt for years -Good, learn to live anyway -Bad, spiralling back into guilt -Good, found turtles -Good, made family -Good, changed for the better -Good, is being the best dad I can be -Good, happy :)

SAKI’S POV :

Oroku Saki was raised alongside his not blood brother Hamato Yoshi, in the [redacted] clan. Hamato Yoshi was his best friend and occasionally playful rival and they grew up together. They were stuck together like glue, training, eating, heck showering together (platonically because friendship is good. Great bond can and does mean great friendship) When the former master died, he appointed Saki as new master, because he saw great potential and an ambition that would lead the clan far. Once he was master, Saki changed the clan's name to the Foot clan (I think I'm starting to see why). In the first years, he led the foot as the former master did, learning how to be good at the basics before starting to get ambitious.

Yoshi had always precious advice in the realm of work, and even more precious moments were shared privately (still platonic). Saki trusted him with his life and very heavy secrets, and so did Yoshi. Saki was proud of the work they did with the Foot, and how many people they were helping. One day he shared with Yoshi his wish to start helping more cities and more people. Yoshi immediatly violently refused, offended to see Saki would even think about breaking the tradition. He said that Kyoto was the clan's territory, and it was how it had always been. Doing anything different would disrespect their ancestors. Saki reminded him that he was chosen to lead BECAUSE he wanted things to change, and the former master wanted that. Yoshi refused to hear it and stormed out. Saki, hurt to see his brother and right arm react that way, acted behind his back, starting to spread the Foot to Tokyo and helping there. He thought if he had concrete proof to show, and how much good they were doing there, Yoshi would change his mind. But Yoshi found out before Saki could present it to him the way he wanted and lost his mind. He stormed into Saki's home, furious, and declares that a treachrous brother was no longer his and left, taking part of the foot clan with him to create the Hamato clan.

Saki was devastated for a while, having lost his brother in his ambition. He let things roll without him intervening much, causing worry to rise in the clan. One courageous Foot rose up and suggested to their master to go see their progress in Tokyo by himself. Like a shadow of himself, tired and broken, Saki agreed. When he got there, he saw all the good the Foot had done. They had helped so many people, bringing th supplies and water, protection when needed. He saw children running around, stomach full and smile on their faces. He saw mothers and fathers not worrying over tonight's dinner. He saw the good that wouldn't have happened without to Foot and his confidence and happiness and motivation camme back. He led the Foot again, extanding to more cities, soon having at least part of the Foot all over Japan. Yoshi heard of this and grew mad. He came to the Foot, stood in front of Saki and declared a war. Saki refused, not wanting to hurt people, trying to resonate with Yoshi. He asked him to be reasonable, to think of the consequencies- But Yoshi didn't listen, and left angry, claiming that whether he like it or not, the war will be fought And it did happen. It cost the Foot hundreds of life, both ninjas and civilians. Yoshi's craze had to end, and Saki went to see him by himself. No protection, no army. Just him and Yoshi. And a blade. Saki won the dual, and finally knocked some sense into his former brother. He showed him the deaths and destruction that was nothing but number to Yoshi until then. He showed him the horror of what he had done, and asked him to stop. When Yoshi left that day, it was the last time Saki ever saw him. After the dual, he went to look for him in the Hamato Clan but he was nowhere to be found. A new master had been chosen, and they didn't know either. Saki was worried, scared his friend would hurt himself or hurt other. He knew he felt guilt, and he was there to relieve it, to talk to him, convince him to join him again, to heal what he had caused. Saki searched, for years, but never found him. He found traces of him, little clues left all over the world, that he held on like a treasure. Meanwhile, he still led the Foot, not letting his grief crush him like the first time. The Foot had extanded outside of Japan, to new countries but only those that were willing to. And one day the Foot set their first base in New York. Saki just had a baby daughter, but sadly the mother had died during birthing, and it was just him and little Karai. Japan reminded him too much of hurtful memories, both with his love and his brother. New York was far from Japan and they had trouble settling in, so Saki decided to go live there with Karai.

Of course this constant extension of the Foot is going to become more like an invasion once Karai takes over But Saki never saw it this way

also does Karai know the whole story of the foot clan, like what happened between Saki and Yoshi, and the war and all that? would that mean she agreed more with Yoshi's actions more than her dad's?

that could make really cool scenes once she sees what Yoshi has become, like how she'd think he has changed for the worse by choosing kindness over power (since he exiled himself even though he could have technically fought back if he hadn't been horrified by the deaths he had caused)

In Karai's arc, there's also this bit that parallels Raph, where pre-baxter Karai and Raph had the same questions about the no kill policy to their fathers. Like if someone comes to you with the intent to kill, you should respond with the intent to kill, it's only fair. Only that Karai evolved towards the "yeah it's only fair" post-baxter Whether Raph evolved towards the "what the fuck was I thinking" So like when they meet they both see the other as "the wrong path"

Raph is like "god I could have become Shredder" Karai is like "I could have become a weakling"

Also I want to make clear that I gave this bit to RAPH not because hoho angry = murder but because I 100% did NOT want to give it to Leo, Donnie and Raph were the most underdeveloped and giving the "murder ?" Bit to the healer of the team seemed off

Also ! Yeah before I forget lol : post-baxter Karai is absolutely fucking unhinged

Also Ima call pre-baxter Karai just Karai and post-baxter Shredder

Mikey : wow something is incredibly disturbing about you Shredder : :D ! I'm deeply traumatized :D !!!

Also i want colorcoded!Shredder to be written exactly like any other shredders, and not changed or downplayed because it's Karai Like can you imagine The same prestance and pose and threatning aura than 2012 or Rise but it's a 16 year old girl

Random person: "who the heck is that guy?" Shredder in full armor, helmet an all, ready to fuckin murder: "I AM NO MAN YOU BASTARD, YOU SHALL PERSISH FOR YOU INSOLENCE-"

Okay so you when Casey starts hanging out more often with thz turtles, he talks about the LGBTQ+ and more precisely about the pronous and genders. It ESPECIALLY interests Mikey who gets very excited and starts asking everyone their pronouns whenever they see them for the first time that day

Okay so they see Shredder again and Mikey is yelling during the whole fight : "WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS" Karai never answers. When they discuss it afterwards, it goes like : Raph : "I can't believe he would attack-" Mikey : "They" Raph : "what" Mikey : "when you don't know someone's pronouns you use they/them" Raph, teeth grinding : "fine. I can't believe THEY attacked us-" Cue to the turtles saying they to refer to Karai

Also she deadass doesn't answer because she doesn't care They learn it's she/her through a goon that goes like "You'll never beat Master Shredder ! She's s-" Mikey : "Oh so it's She/her ? :D" Goon : "uh... yeah?" Raph, knocking him out : "well that's settled"

Mikey, for day 20 : "Good morning brothers ! What are your pronouns ?" Leo, usually supportive : "Mikey if I hear this question one more time I'm throwing you out on a road in front of a truck"

KARAI’S POV :

Oroku Karai was born a bit before the turtles got turned, making her juuuuust a little bit older. As in the day of THEIR 16th she's like 16/2. Her birth killed her mother in the process, causing her father, Oroku Saki, to leave Japan and go live in New York, where she will be raised. Saki is all for new things and changes, but he still doesn't want his daughter to lose her root, so her education will still be japanese style. Their house will be japanese, with japanese rules, they'd eat japanese (occasionally not, when opting for take outs), speak japanese... You see the idea. Even thought Karai LOVES her dad, she barely sees him because of his Master of the Foot job, even if he does spend all his free time with her, whenever he can. She's usually being taken care of by a japanese nanny (saki was deadset on the japanese education), which she loves, but still misses her dad. Whenever their together (usually in evenings and mornings), he taught her about good and kindness, about respecting the others and treating them the way we'd want to be treated. As Karai grew, and Saki became older, and more importantly as the Foot settlement in New York was better, Saki had a lot more free time to give his daughter. He spent his days with her, playing with her and hanging out. When he saw she had taken interest in his training, he suggested joining him, and taught her his clan's ninjaing

She loved the training sessions, it felt the closest she ever had been to her dad. She loved the synced moves and the battle 1vs1. It was so much fun and it was just her and her dad. As she grew older again, she began to question the clan's values. Why refrain from killing when someone comes to kill you ? It's only fair to do the same. Why help those in need all the time ? Shouldn't they be able to help themselves ? And shouldn't the clan provide help for those in it first ? Saki brushed her concerns off, talking about a once very close friends, that was haunted by similar questions and went against the Foot, causing death and destruction all around. The path he chose was dark and terrible for many, including the Foot and his own clan. Responding killing attempt by another killing attempt would only mean not being better than them, deciding you can choose who lives or dies, regardless to how precious life truly is. It settled her questions, understanding what her father was saying, and she never asked again. The year she turned 16, her ninja training was complete and she integrated the Foot as the master's right arm. He refused to send her to missions yet, claiming they were too dangerous. Karai was offended, having defeated in training most of his elite ninjas, feeling more than ready to tackle the real conditions of a mission. Despite her pleas, Saki refused, and determined to prove him wrong, she went anyway on a stealth mission, meant to see what Stockman Entreprise was up to

But as Karai would learn, training and on the terrain combat was extremely different, and she quickly found herself  overwhelmed by mousers. Despite the other Foots best attempts, they had no choice but to leave her there, in the hand of non other than Baxter Stockman. Despite his genius, he had no idea who she was, only knowing a bunch of people similar to her were spying on him. And he didn't like that. He wanted to make this envy pass, by taking her as an example. He tortured her for 3 days (let's not go into graphic details), days during which Saki was constantly storming the lab, not giving Stockman a break once. Tired of it, Stockman released Karai with a warning to never cross his path again. Saki and the Foot were relieved to have their chunin back, but terrified of the state she was in. In merely 3 days, he destroyed her completely. That very same night, the turtles were allowed out for the first time and Casey Jones decided to rob a bank. It took Karai a month to physically recover, and even then her face had grown sharper, her eyes duller and lifeless, her body dry and tensed at all time. Saki spent all his time with her, desesperatly trying to cheer her up, to help her in this, until the day Karai asked him to kill Baxter Stockman. Saki, heart aching, refused, saying revenge wouldn't do anyone any good. Karai was furious, hearing that her father didn't love her enough, that she was useless and weak and she had to recover by herself. 3 months later, Baxter Stockman was dead, and his lab destroyed. No one understood what had happened, including the Foot. What no one knew, was that when Karai pierced the man with her blade, when she felt the blood drench her clothes and face, she felt good. For the first time in months she felt great, the voices in her head had shut, and pure bliss had recovered every part of her body. And then and there, she knew her father lied. Revenge felt great. And it did her a lot of good. The only reason he didn't was because he was weak and selfish. Killing made her strong. She could feel it. Back at the Foot, hiding her crime despite the rush still being there, she finally saw all the flaws, the weakness in the clan. A pathetic, weak clan that did nothing else but help the undeserving. It had to change.

She invited her father to the docks for a little talk, and announced her crime to him, pride overflowing her. Horror is all that appeared on his face, as he said : "The Foot doesn't kill, Karai." "It does now" Saki barely registered what happened when the blood started flowing from his wound, his daughter's blades deep in his chest, bursting his heart. He looked up to her one last time, caressing her face and whispering a heart broken "i'm sorry" before letting his last breath go She left his body there, and returned to the Foot, victorious. She told the Foot that Oroku Saki lived as a weakling and died as one. She said he never deserved the title of master but she did. She was their new master, she was now Master Shredder. Part of the Foot was shocked, and tried to leave to join the Hamatos, to keep healing and helping like they used to but they were promptly killed. Fear began to rule and every Foot soldier fell in line, fearing the wrath of Shredder Meanwhile, the turtles had found the body of Oroku Saki and brought it to their father, who cried all the tears of his body seeing his brother like this. He buried him properly, in a special room in their home, grieving, pain in his chest.

other splinters : distant masters, mysterious and inspire respect Colorcoded!splinter : heheehohoohooiohohoo ima prank my sons

Yoshi : see see on the LEFT -my left, not yours- here, yes ? okay, so there it's my BLOOD children, okay ? :) and THERE -my right- it's my not-really-adopted-but-kinda children :)

well the story starts when the turtles get out (or even before), and he's technically still there for another 3 months after that

do the turtles ever even meet Saki ?

he's also there when he gets murdered bhfuirehgeuir he gets his own wittle woom in the sewers they meet his corpse

but they knew who he was !

ohh that's a good point, was Splinter honest about his own story?

splinter hadn't really talked about him, until they came back from patrol and talked about that weird organization called the Foot Splinter was not honest about his war crimes. He’s ashamed of it and refuses to talk about it. He just says he’s done bad stuff in the past.

Splinter knew the foot clan was there all along?

he didn't he only knew when the turtles mentionned it

cause you said Karai and Saki went to new york around the same time the turtles got mutated so that would mean that they all lived in the same city for years (a big city tho, I'll give them that) and never noticed each other were there xD??

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo they went to new york some time after Yoshi and the turtles got mutated. It took Saki some time to get ready to go and also even THINK of leaving japan. Yoshi mostly stayed underground and whenever he was out on "errands" he didn't really pay attention to much besides "food. must go home quickly I've left 4 toddlers alone oh god what if they accidentally hurt themselves ? what if they accidentally died it's all my fault I should be there I've gotta go home go home come on"

well, Karai was still raised in new york, so they spent a lot of time there xD but yea i can understand why he wouldn't have noticed dfhdf

yeah but it's not like she was wandering into the sewers with her dad for funsies Karai and Saki got to see a lot of new york Yoshi ? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Okay so big brain moment but do you remember when I told you the only reason Donnie wasn't leader was because he was the youngest ?

So consider that Donnie's reaction to being told this is to go : "then TELL THEM i'm the oldest" And Splinter goes mmmmh "okay" They go up to them and Yoshi puts on the best acting mask and goes : "well my sons I have news : it seems I was wrong about how old you all were" Leo : "why are we actually a year older ?" Mikey : "if we are i want a birthday right now" Splinter : "no, not really. What happened was that i miscalculated how old your brother Donatello trully was" The brothers, looking at eachothers : "okay...?" Splinter : "it happens that Donatello is actually all of you's older brother" Ensue shock and D:< SAY WHAT

And like the entire ep would be just Donnie messing with them and getting payback from all the teasing, with 1 argument "but i'm the OLDER BROTHER. And that makes me RIGHT ! at least that's what you'd ALWAYS TELL ME, HM ?"

but then Splinter is okay with making Donnie the oldest xD?

He just goes "hehehhohoho that's funny" Also it's just temporary for the duration of the ep

Like in the end of the ep he'd pass by and see Donnie messing with his bro and innocently enter and go "ahhh I see the lie is going well :)" Donnie : "D: DAD" the others ):< : "what lie" Splinter : "well he's not your older brother, of course" He then leaves while they run after donnie to make him pay

Donnie: "DAD YOU RATTED ME OUT >:,(" Splinter: "I am a rat, it's fitting for me to do so"

It looks super cool!! Also I noticed the symbol of the foot clan looks a bit different? Is that intentional? Also does that mean the whole foot clan's color scheme is green and not red as is usually is?

yeah :D mostly the change of color, not really the shape (i just got lazy for the shape but it's the same as classic foot clan fhezfhezor) The red was symbol of Saki (colorcoded white with red accent) so when Karai took over, she changed to green

It's kinda funny because green, compared to red, is a very non-aggressive color in most representations zbdbf so when Karai takes over it's like 'bwoop, all nice green now :)!' even though it's actually a bad sign here ejdbffj

a long time member of the Foot that saw Karai grow : "oh neat, karai is taking over :D ! Sorry for your loss tho, sweetie" Karai, who is very much not the same person : "what did you call me"

imagine that member was the nanny that took care of her when she was a tiny baby (of course the member died)

ohh that's a good point, was Splinter honest about his own story?

Splinter was not honest about his war crimes. He’s ashamed of it and refuses to talk about it. He just says he’s done bad stuff in the past.

although I guess in the story there's no way he's not gonna get confronted about it and it'll probably be the cause of arguments in the turtle family like oof they won't take this well

Unrelated but you know how I said I was starting to see why Saki changed the name of the clan when he took over ? Like how the clan had another name before the Foot clan alright so in the clan's tradition, whenever a new master take over, they must rename it so it is like a fresh start, with no one knowing that name. Saki chose "Foot clan" because of a silly game he and Yoshi used to play as kids. Karai kept the name because she shits on tradition and also to her it means putting her foot on her enemies' faces.

Aight so I don't know about them clans yet but : Baxter Stockman is the one to have spread mutagene all over the world. That's how scientist in the philipines, France or other places got their hands on it

The clan has the habit of celebrating as holidays the days where the clan changes master and gains a new name. They add up overtime, so if there has been 30 masters, there is 30 holidays. The Foot's holiday is on August 8, and the Hamato's on December 2. The clan's main job is to help and protect those in needs. They use their ressources to get and give food, build homes and give healthcare, all for free. They are not mercenaries and can't be hired to hurt people. They can cooperate with other organizations to help people (if they're trying to help neurodivergent people but don't know how to, they can't cooperate with an organization specialized in that.) The clan is a big family, and they all know eachothers. They have a main building where the members without homes or in need to shelter can come to rest/eat/live. During holidays or special times, it's usually packed with people eating, talking, all in a joyous mood. Training happens outside, sometimes inside if the weather is really bad (a little rain or wind isn't considered really bad. If they get wet they are handed dry clothes once training is over so they don't get sick). Individuality is encouraged, as well as the hive mind. The masters believed these two ideas can and should co-exist Murder is prohibited, and every member is taught why very soon in their training. It's mostly about the individual that is killed, the refusal that anyone should decide who should live or die, and the idea that every person is their own tiny world, and killing someone is like destroying a world, no matter how fucked up. Hurting is not adviced unless absolutely necessary, especially grave wounds. When protecting, the clan must fend off the aggressor peacefully and with as little damage as possible on the person. If not given any choice, opt more for defense than offense. (modifié) The clan mustn't be good at one thing, whether it be fighting or helping. The clan has many individuals with many different skills they should all be using to their full potential. So the clan has builders ninjas, artists ninjas, scientists ninjas... All with ninja training and developping their own competence. They all aim at helping people with their different skills Hurting/attacking a member is like attacking the clan and is seen as a declaration of war. War is a path that should only be taken as last possibility, but always be ready for. If a member is attacked/kidnapped, the clan must do anything to rescue them while still avoiding an all out war that would result in more bad than good. Asserting dominance over another group is stupid and futile and shouldn't be the aim of the clan, unless the group is threatning the security of the clan's city. Even then, war must be the last possible option.

Women and children are prohibited from entering the clan, as are "abnormal" people. It is to protect them since they cannot protect themselves and are weaker than regular men. The weapons should stay traditional and learn to master these instead of turning to easier tools, which would weaken the clan and make it lazy. White and black people are prohibited from entering the clan and only be helped if they directly ask to be. They are different and the clan might not understand their needs. When Saki took over, Saki changed and added some new rules to the clan : The clan should try to have at least one person able to speak a different language, so that the clan is able to communicate with anyone Women, "abnormal" people, and anyone else is welcome to join the Foot and leave as they wish. The weapons can and should evolve over time, as should the clan. If they do not, they will become obsolete and old. The master can organize and make weddings, inbetween any members or member and outsider The members are PAID for their work. Until then they weren't.

So when Yoshi left, unlike Saki he didn't change anything (ah yes, traditions  ) i like the idea that there's conflict about all his old conservative ideasvdbdvdvdvd Like the members of the Hamato clan are from the Foot and they LIKED THOSE CHANGES. And while they agree completely changing the clan's code sucks, these little changes were good. Since Yoshi was the worst little shit, he told them to fuck off ahdvbzvd

Much much later when Yoshi became Splinter and he had a good life, although he understood respecting traditions at all costs was a BAD idea, he still wanted to respect them. Cue April asking to be part of the clan and Yoshi going ):< but u a woman. Woman weak. April probably going D:< EXCUSE ME. Probably conflict and confrontation and in the end Splinter finally understand why Saki changed these points and why some of his hamato ninjas left and how much of a jerk he was being and he regrets and does his best to repent. And of course he makes April part of the Hamato clan :)

Yoshi 30 years ago : Tradition ™️. If Tradition says something, then Tradition is right. He ISN'T technically racist nor sexist, he just follows the old recipe without thinking AS HE AGES THO HE STARTS USING BRAIN AND GOES "hol'up"

no no I think I know what you're gonna say dgsvdvd, I get that he's technically not racist and sexist, I was exaggerating xDD, but like, in being so caught up in respecting tradition and not allowing certain people to join the clan, he kinda is in a way??

ahh yes, going from what you've been taught your entire life without questioning it and then getting a huge slap in the face once you start actually thinking about it

Leo, slapping his dad's head : equality good Yoshi : but- Leo : no but

I like the idea that the bois don't think like him because they just listened to the good things he said and the bullshit they were like : that's bullshit. And also April's influence helped a lot :) Like imagine hanging out with they girl friend and later splinter goes : girls are weaker And they go : holdup

the turtles, Casey and April, @Splinter: "we about to make u unlearn all the shit you been taught"

And like, YEAH, he sucks on that side, but on the other side, he's a really present and affectionate father, unlike most of his versions

He tries and want to do better : he will :)

"what, the master of the foot clan is a GIRL ?! My sons what have you been doing, losing against a girl ):<" April, teeth grinding : "why don't you come with us next patrol" After the patrol : Splinter : "jesus fucking christ" Everyone else : "yeah"

Karai do be as skilled as literally every other Shredders so she's straight up terrifying

Some good for Splinty : He's a really good dad and pays a lot of attention to his sons. Now I've been saying that a lot without developing so : For example, he always busted his ass when they were small to make good food although he never learned how to do it before (he's not really interested in good food). He learned to cook and make tasty and good things for them as they grew, trying his best to expand their tastebuds while still staying pretty Japanese since well he is. As they grew, he spent a lot of time with them and encouraged their activities, never forcing them to do anything they wouldn't like (beside chores). If they really didn't feel like doing chores (to a heavy degree and not just complaining), they would watch a movie or play a bit and then do the chores all together as a family activity. He never closed his bedroom door in case any of them wanted to sleep with him, because of nightmares or simply because they wanted to. Mikey and Donnie did it more than the others, since Leo and Raph were the Older Brothers ™️ and were embarassed. When they were younger, he'd often take time to read them a story before bed. When he was a kid, Raph was scared of the dark, but didn't want to admit it. He'd often have meltdowns in the middle of the night and Splinter couldn't figure out why. He payed more attention to his behavior before bed and finally noticed his tendency to avoid dark rooms, even for just a second. He innocently suggested putting on lights in the corridor during the night, pretexting that he kept bumping into furnitures (he didn't), and the kids agreed (because they did bump into furnitures). Since they couldn't exactly go to school, Splinter took care of their education, teaching them all he knew and more, going to websites and learning more to teach his sons.

They couldn't get out much for obvious reasons, but soon enough the bois wanted to see more so Splinter would often sneak them out to go to an abandonned spot he saw during his "grocery shopping". They'd picnic there in the night, and the bois would play on the roof happily. As they grew older and discovered pizza, they didn't want to tell Splinter because they felt like it would be disrespecting his cooking, but Splinter noticed their excitement about it and decided to learn how to make them. There were. Incidents the first times he did so (secrets, of course). But overtime learned to make a basic pizza he innocently presented to his sons (bonus april that had come by). They were absolutely delighted, and Splinter kept making them from time to time (but not ALL the time, because that's not a good diet) As April came by more often, and his sons were growing older, he got worried about the Romance™️ and decided it was time for the Talk. He never was really secretive about it before and it wasn't a tabou in the family so they already had a vague idea of what it was, and weren't embarassed much about it. He taught them about respecting the partner, and consent... They DID grow uncomfortable when he mentionned their anatomy and the difference with human anatomy and showed pictures.

When they would messed up or do bad he wouldn't YELL at them or anything, he'd just sit with them and explain why it's bad, the consequencies and why they shouldn't do it again and what they should do if they did want to do it again. He'd respect their privacy, always and at all times, even when he's worried and he's missing a bit of information to help, he would never go through their rooms or anything. He would always knock before entering, and never go through their private belongings.

He has a shit ton of pictures of them in his room He always tells them how proud he is of them He hangs out with them all the time unless they don't want to

splinter : how are you my son you're so tall Donnie, messing with him : what ? i can't hear you're too far down

Mikey: "how's the weather up here? " Donnie: ">:("

if he isn't, it could be a good occasion for a side story with him or soemthing Casey isn’t present when Yoshi mourns Saki’s death. He’s doing smth else.

imagine mikey tired of drawing a specific member of his family and he just appears in their room at night with a knife : "it's for character development. My character development"

Donnie: "MIKEY WHY?" Mikey:"FAMILY PICTURES ARE EASIER TO DRAW WITHOUT YOU"

Mikey : "you're the youngest no one will see you're gone" Donnie : "THAT MAKES NO SENSE"

Mikey: "Donnie is so hard to draw" Leo: "Well, it's a family drawing you're doing, isn't it? Would be weird if you didn't draw one of us" Mikey: "lol what if Donnie died, then I wouldn't have to draw him haha, just kidding.... unless" Donnie, sweating: "what"

Mikey : "What if. Donnie wasn't part of the family anymore" Donnie : "what" Mikey : "If we kick him out, I don't have to draw him in the family pictures anymore, right ?" Donnie : "Is nobody going to say anything" Mikey : "Like he's a reject. We reject him from the family. No one wants to see him anymore." Donnie : "I feel incredibly loved right now."

Mikey: "I'll give you twenty bucks it you exile yourself from our family" Donnie, hearing this without any context: " I'm sorry what"

Mikey: "I can't pay you more because I need some money for pizza"

mikey really went : "mmmmh how much is donnie worth" mikey : "mmmh how much money do i have"

Raph, who has context: "wow Mikey, Donnie isn't worth this little!" Donnie: ... Raph: "At least add ten bucks to that" Donnie: D:<

Splinter: "My sons, a life should never be quantified with money as if it were a mere possession" Donnie: :) Splinter, with a smirk: "but if we were to quantify it-" Donnie: "DAD NO-"

imagine him going, really dry : "i already know i'm not worth anything, you don't have to remind me every five seconds" and then they go "hahaha- wait what"

Donnie, much later: "do you guys really think I'm worth this little :'(?" Everyone, immediately: oh shit what

Mikey: "I will draw you 100 times please don't think that about yourself "

imagine, an ep where it starts like that, and Donnie doesn't voice his hurt, but we can see he got hurt, and then later in the ep, he's like taking hostage or smth and the bois are offered a huge amount of money to give him up and they're like "are you fucking kidding me i'm not selling my baby brother what the hell is wrong with you" and then after the rescue donnie is like "so... i'm worth more than that price ?" and they're like 0.0 "WELL YEA ????"

"Donnie my brother we love you of course we're not selling you what the fuck" "but you said- ):" "we were messing with you oh my god donatello did you take it seriously"

Leo : "Donnie. Donnie I need you to look at me dead in the eyes. Did you think we really thought you were worth 20 bucks" Donnie : Leo : "Holy shit. Guys. Guys we need a Donnie appreciation day like right now"

Donnie has Self Esteem issues

Has Splinter explained everything to his sons by this point? Or dies he explain after Saki dies?

no by this point they brought back the dude they recognised as the Oroku Saki their dad sometimes talk about, and he just cried

How did they recognize him?

he has a picture of the two of them young in his room

they found his body on the docks and went "oh shit"

Was he already dead when they found him or was there a chance he could survive? No he was very much dead

he died pretty fast, karai is good at stabbin'

they knew it was that one guy their dad really really liked and they kinda went "well. we can't just. leave him here."

Well yeah but what where they gonna do after that xD? Burry him in the sewers? Pretty sure that's not an option jejffb Wouldn't it make more sense for them to call their dad and have him rejoin them ?

oh they had no fucking clue. to be fair, it's basically the first ever corpse they ever encountered, and it was that one guy they heard about their entire childhood kinda shocking

it would make more sense yeah. however remember their literal first encounter with casey ? The bois are not great under pressure (at first)

-shock "fuck. what do we do"

oh yeah btw at that point they already KNEW Saki was around in New York, since they saw the Foot clan (good), and talked about it to their dad

they don’t now who killed him at first

From what you said before, Karai didn't seem be hide at all that she killed him, right?

she straight up told the foot clan

So they probably learn it soon enough zjdbd

Seeing Saki dead was a huge shock for Yoshi.

Yoshi never knew Karai, right?

noooooo she was born long long long after he left she was born like 6 months before the turtles mutation

okay so there would be this recurring background character named steve, and he would always be making comments during a scene (when they turtles are in public) where it's like "OMG imagine if [insert here an extremely detailed and graphic moment in tmnt 2012] would it be fucked up or what" And there would always be at least one person with him that would say "shut the fuck up steve" and then in universe, there would be on social medias the start of the hashtage : #steve needs therapy

that character would exist for the sole purpose of paying tribute to 2012 while also pointing out how fucked up it was also instead of going to therapy he makes a comic about the turtles

so there's this #steve needs therapy but they don't know Steve IS a therapist, and he IS Casey's therapist and he still made those comments and a comic

turns out Steve is perfectly fine and healthy in his head he just digs fucked up shit

Steve: "It's just how I cope with stuff"

APRIL can be SUPER INTENSE when she's passionate about something (i'm talking rise!casey level of intense), and because of that she doesn't have any friends besides the turtles until Casey comes around. She was bullied when she was young because of that, and since then she is VERY against bullying when it comes to her friends (or not actually but with her friends more). When it's about her she kinda regress back and goes into a ball and doesn't do or say anything (haha trauma go brr). So if her friends are bullied (in the traditional way like Casey or by super villains like the turtles) she can go mental and try to DECK whoever bullied

Like imagine Shredder messing with them. Do you see how that can be a problem.

Like you know how some villains sometimes are totally capable to killing/finishing the hero and instead they kinda play with them ? April considers that irrespect and bullying and she hates it. Like the idea that "they're not a threat enough for me to end them" or that they're simply not taken seriously. April is a stress cleaner ! So whenever she has a big exam coming up, the turtles ALWAYS invites her to "relax" and she ends up cleaning the whole lair. Splinter disapproves of using her like this, but on the other hand, she does seem more relaxed (BECAUSE SHE'S BONE TIRED) and the lair is shiny after she passes through.

METALHEAD ! My boi, my man, my bot. Metalhead, or Meets for short, is mute ! They communicates through sign language. However since none of the turtle family knows sign language and that it would be kinda useless since most of them have 4 fingers (including Meets), Metalhead invented a sign language proper to their 4 fingers thing. Everyone is currently learning it but Raph is way more advanced (donnie second, mikey third and leo last) because turns out he and Meets get along REALLY WELL. Metalhead is interested with science, of course, it created them after all and they thinks science, looks science, I mean you get it. He's also interested in it because he simply thinks it is interesting. He likes the idea of being able to Explain everything, even the weirdest things. However even if they do like science, they like gossip as well, as it's the science of the relationship between people, and also it's really fun and stupid and they love it. Raph found in Meets the perfect gossip partner ESPECIALLY since they have abilities, such as seeing through walls and enhanced hearing. But to get the gossip, he needs to be able to understand what Meets is saying. So he's extremely motivated to learn sign langage

I will probably do mistakes because I suck at this (i still don't know why) but Metalhead is they/them. I might misgender them like an asshole and i'm sorry ):

Like I said, Meets invented a sign language, and he likes and dislikes some things. Turns out Metalhead is a self-learning AI, and if Donnie was super proud of it at first, he quickly grew worried and scared of the consequencies (cough cough movies) and decided to shut him down. Much to everyone's surprise, Metalhead isn't really kin on dying, so he fought back and escaped. At that point Donnie believes he created a powerful super-villain and he's full on having a panic meltdown. His brothers and friends reassures him and help him go looking for it. They all have a lot of trouble finding it, until they realize it's with the Mutanimals, hiding. They took it in thinking it was a really fucked up mutant. The turtle family bust in, explains the situation and the mutanimals are like "... I don't know mate they seem pretty cool. Have you tried talking to them before going on a rampage ?" Donnie is confused (cough cough movies) and looks at Metalhead and they look DOWNRIGHT TERRIFIED. And then the turtle family looks at eachother and go : :0 oh. Ohhhhh we were huge assholes there for a hot minute.

Anyway they're adopted now

Metalhead looks like a tiny metallic version of the turtles. They're around Splinter size, don't have no mouth but super expressive eyes. Their colorcode is pink

And purple tinted metal because donnie made him avsvavsb

They DO have the sewer shell because UwU. They might have an upgrade with smth similar to apocalypse!donnie's ears, but not sure. Depends if the turtles understand their emotions only based on eyes or not I need to design them but yevahdcjavds meets:) They have their own room also. They share it with Shelldon. (Shelldon is a big fan of Meets)

When I said "science" in the broad way it was intentional, because they're interested in all the fields. They learn engineering with Don and then go search more informations on more fields elsewhere. They quickly becomes more skilled and knowledgeable than Donnie because of their robot brain that can stock info more easily. This could be the root of like a conflict of who's the Science Guy ™️ in the family Meets knows a lot more than Don but when Donnie needs help on a project from another field, asking Metalhead can be a hassle because of the language barrier. Usually Donnie just give that part of the project to Meets to do (if they wanna). It does bother him because he wants to understand, and that's why he's the 2nd most motivated to learning Metalhead's sign language Mikey and Metalhead get along just fine, Meets often being the Mikey Babysitter when Mikey fucks up and Meets clean up after him. Mikey is thrilled to have a brand new brother (donnie is thrilled to not be the youngest no more), and tries his very best to make them feel welcome and part of the family. Meets deeply appreciate that. Leo used to be kind of warry and unsure about the whole Metalhead situation. He thought that a bot was a bot and treating them like something else might have been a mistake. (He inherited his dad's Tradition mood). It took him some time to warm up to Metalhead and start actively learning the sign language (which is why he's dead last) Splinter however was totally cool with it, seeing immediatly Meets as the most reasonable child, and the one that would keep everyone safe from danger and away from doing stupid teen shit. He didn't expect Meets to also be doing stupid teen shit. He still loves them tho. April and Casey were both like "you got a robot brother ? That's fucking metal let's meet them"

Donnie immediatly "it is indeed pretty  "metal" since it's a bot"

Raph before meets, as soon as April and Casey came back from school yo hang out with them, sitting in the kitchen, waiting like a ritual : "so... What's new  " Raph after Meets, both sitting in the kitchen with big eyes : :))))) Casey and April : oh god there's 2 of them now

So. Metalhead isn't very discreet not very "ninja". Because of that, Leo refuses that they go on missions with them. Meets is always very disappointed and sad, like their big bro isn't validating their skills. So when Donnie stumbles upon Kraang tech and makes Shelldon's propeller more like floaty COMPLETELY SILENT thing, Meets gets really excited and asks Donnie to upgrade them too (if they have to get the apocalypse !donnie ears it would be there). Once it's done Meets is able to float slightly above ground and move around like this and they gets really excited about it. They keeps sneaking up on the family and after the scream of fear once they realize they're here, they makes the sign for "ninja", really excitedly then leaves to sneak up on someone else. One time they sneaked up on Leo and he screamed very loud and Meets was like :DDD !!! Ninja !!!! And Leo, trying to calm his heart gives a thumbs up and goes "yes, ninja. You did great. You're really silent" It's the  sweet validation  they were looking for and they go :DDDDDDDD !!!!!!!!! NINJA !!!!!! They fly around stimming for a while then calm down and stopped sneaking up on them. To get payback tho they asked Mikey to sneak up on them and he scared the shit out of Meets.

Also how Meets got their upgrade (he fought Leo and Mikey to get it). Like Don showed proudly the Shelldon update and they were all :0!!!!!!!! Leo wanted to use the tech to help them on missions, Mikey wanted to upgrade his skateboard and Meets to be more discreet. Donnie was like "people I've got enough for 1 project" and Meets won

Meets has extensible arms (they just grabbed their bros faces and extended their arms far enough and then puppy-eyed Donnie to get their upgrade)

Okay so : humans pretty much knows mutant exist, but nothing is official. Like the government is customer service smiling and going "whaaaaaaaat ? Mutants ? Pssshhhhhhhhh what noooooooo that's NOT a thing lmao haha" While most of the people knows. Of course there are people who are like "y'all are not trusting our BELOVED government, how DARE YOU" but not much. Mostly, there's the side that's pro-mutant and the side that's "let's fucking eradicate them all". So there's this whole mutants right thing, are they dangerous, should we really hurt them, where do they come from (most popular theories : aliens or government experiment gone wrong)

You know internet, and what it would do if there were unnofficial giant animals that can talk running around. Memes, political warfare, videos like "what are REALLY mutants"... But most of the people besides some lucky few actually doesn't know what's going on NOW THE KRAANGS

So, the kraangs first discovered our planet when we were neanderthals. They were BLOWN AWAY by one of the most unique skill humans have : imagination. However, we couldn't do much with it since we were busy trying to not die, and they couldn't study us. Which they didn't like. So, to make that different, they introduced us to the sedentarisation. However the results weren't as quick as they hoped and they grew impatient. They wanted to study imagination NOW. Since they didn't want to wait for thousands of years, they decided to artificially create creatures with imagination. To do so, they used a human cobaye and DNA to create the first ever mutagene (then much easier to reproduce.) But it was unstable and didn't work as planned. Convinced that their mutagene would take less time to do than wait around for humans, they retreated to their dimension to perfect it. (modifié) When they returned, what was their surprise to realize that it actuly took them a SHIT TON OF TIME, and humans were now the dominant specie, and they had developped imagination alright. They had a lot of subjects to study and threw the mutagene away for a while, collecting informations and reading our fictions. After some hundreds of years, they had seen enough. They saw the amount of power imagination possessed and they wanted it for themselves. But they couldn't consciously create imagination, they had to implement it in their brains. It proved to be more difficult if not impossible than planned, and they decided to get back to the mutagene to try and decipher the differences between humans and different species they'd create that had imagination, hoping they could recreate that on themselves. The experience was an horrifying disaster, so bad that it got onto Utrom's history books and marked a day in their history. All the scientists working on the projects had been killed, and turns out mutagene was toxic on the long term (or directly poured) to the Kraangs. Having reached a dead end, the Kraangs got rid of the mutagene (that's when Yoshi and the turtles got hit,and that Stockman got his hand on it. More or less the moment mutagene was popularised.) In Colorcoded, the Utrom is the name of the people, and Kraang the division of the Utrom that are working on the imagination problem. (Scientist, humans specialist...) After the mutagene fiasco, one or their scientist came up with a brilliant idea : instead of trying to recreate imagination, why not just. Steal it from the humans. Take the imagination and put it in their own brain. Of course it would have the minor side effect of killing the person they take the imagination from but who cares right ? So at the beginning of the show, that's where Kraangs are. They came up with that idea and had started working towards accomplishing it. They started tests with volunteer Utroms, and kidnapped humans, which if they started really bad, started to get better. They started to be noticed by the turtle family when they suceeded the steal and kidnapped a shit ton more humans suddenly, since they made some kind of factory to transplant imagination. The turtles start fighting them and the Kraangs grow worried of the resistance. The rythm is slowing down, and the Utrom is an impatient race, and they're being attacked by being made out of the thing that killed thousands of them. They need another, faster solution. They start working on a technodrome, to do the transplantation on a city scale. That would be a season finale, and of course in the end the turtles win

When Meets was still making up the sign language and teaching it to their bros, there were sessions where they signed something and they had to guess what. One time they signed (i'll have to draw it but i know what that sign looks like) "I love my bros" and before they got to bros they were like   "ugh they're gonna say something stupid again" And then they signed bros and they went    "BABY BROTHER I LOVE YOU TOO "

At the beginning of Meets living with them, they had a fast charging battery. That caused problems when they all went to bed and half an hour later Meets was already fully charged and making noises everywhere because they were bored. To fix that Donnie gave them a slow charging battery, that took 8 hours (a full night sleep) to charge. Worked great.

A game night competition ! They used to do that a lot when they were younger but since Raph always won, they did it less regularly. The arrival of Casey had launched it again but he was nowhere near as good. When Meets joined the family they launched it again with a fighting style video game, through rounds. Meets had trouble at first, they never played video games, but they won through the rounds and used them to get used to the control and game. Soon it was Raph vs Meets and the family had gone insane, rooting heavily for Meets, excited that someone might FINALLY win against Raph. Raph is also very excited, he's like that one Kung Fu panda meme : "finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary !" The fight was pretty tight, and they were both on low health and Meets ended up winning. The crowd went insane and decided that day was going to be the Meets Won holiday

Is there a lore reason why Meets doesn't have a voice? Cause I'm pretty sure Donnie would have the ability to give them one if he wanted , he created a super AI, surely he can synthesize a voice

I'm thinking Donnie was working on it and then he realized that the AI was done and worked and he got really excited about it and couldn't wait to test it on the bot. So he did. Although he hadn't finished the voice synthetizer he was like "WHATEVER i'll do it later I WANT TO SEE-" And then the whole "wait oh fuck oh shit making an AI might have been a terrible idea" then "oh wait I was being a huge discriminatory asshole" And once he got back to doing it Meets was like "no thanks"

does Meets participate in training sessions?

They do ! They suck at it tho because Splinter doesn't want them to use their "natural body strenght" such as a rocket launcher. They complain about it a lot and since they don't exactly have muscles, if they can't use their own equivalent well they suck.

I'd imagine the turtles would start using the sign language during stealth missions to communicate silently at some point, that would be a really big advantage!

Yeah :D ! Although since the turtles are still. Well. The turtles. I imagine except if it's an extremely important mission they'd still babble and speak to eachothers. Like dumbasses.

also you said Meets can float above the ground, what does that look like? Is it as if they had propellers under their feet? or do they kinda 'change form' to fly?

No, their shell is retractable and there's like silent techy propellers that comes out (like uhhh you know rise!donnie does) znd they float around

Raph, Donnie, Mikey and Meets: having a full conversation in sign language Leo, who doesn't know the language as much as them: :|

imagine Meets signing random funny stuff at his bros during training sessions or something just to distract them zdhbfdf

Meets, getting their ass kicked, signing : "bitch" Mikey, completely thrown off and deeply offended : D:<

before Meets was created, the turtles had phones but they couldn't do video calls, they were more like walkie talkies than anything and then after Meets arrived, they realized that they wouldn't be able to use the phones since Meets can only communicate with sign language, hence Donnie upgrading everyone's phones and adding a video call option so that they can call Meets when they need :)! aaand I just realized halfway through writing this that texting exists I am dumbass

THEY WOULD FEEL EXCLUDED if it was only text messages

so, Meets can't talk at all but can they make any sound  ? like, beeping or something like that?

Yessssss

Mikey went "hey Donnie, you forgot to add something"

Mikey, who just finished painting the hamato clan symbol: "Now, you're even more officially family :)!" Meets: making a face of absolute joy

the boi (non-binary) loves validation

A family can be 4 turtles, a rat, a robot and two humans

they borrowed casey's bic to draw a smiling mouth on them

Meets, signing: "look! I smile!" :D Everyone: <3 <3 <3 <3

mikey after around a month of meets being there : i'm no longer the cute one. i pass on my crown to you baby sibling

Alternatively, the others: "oh no there's two of them now"

meets has a "oh no there's two of them now" with all the brothers, separatly

mikey and meets : the cute ones raph and meets : gossip donnie and meets : smart science guy leo and meets : serious and puts you back in line

Meets is all their personalities combined

maybe because when donnie made their AI they went "to make it perfect there has to be a bit of all my brothers because together we're perfect"

Donnie: "I accidentally made Meets like me and my brothers, I'm not sure what this says about me" Mikey: "It says that you love us :)!" Raph: "and that you have a bit of an ego"

Donnie: "I wanted Meets to be interested in random information as a way for them to learn things faster but I ended up making them be as much into gossip as Raph, help this may have been a mistake" Did Mikey help with Meets' design

well i mean donnie's field is engineering not designing imagine : donnie saying proudly he had an idea for what his bot would look like and he show mikey this [insert the most regular square fucking looking bot design drawn poorly]

donnie: "of course it wouldn't be EXACTLY like that, it doesn't work or make sense, I would need to add some parts to make it work properly but that would be the general shape :D!!!" mikey, staring at it :

Mikey: "do you take constructive criticism"

Donnie: "not without crying"

Mikey, kicking the door to Donnie's lab open: "DONNIE I HAVE A GENIUS IDEA FOR YOUR ROBOT PROJECT" Mikey: "GIVE THEM  E Y E B R O W S" Donnie: Donnie: "Mikey..." Donnie: "that is a gREAT IDEA LET'S DO THIS-"

Mikey: "Give them a jetpack, and flamethrowers, and a kunai canon, and an ice cream machine and-" Donnie: "Mikey, while I appreciate the enthusiasm, you're  at a ten, I'm gonna need you to go down to a 4."

Ajddb basically the idea was that instead of Donnie just putting off giving Meets a voice and then never doing it, he got so excited while making them that he just ...  forgot qhdbd, and when he activated them for the first time he realized they weren't talking and went: "SHIT I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING" and he planned on fixing that but then he realized that Meets was actually doing quite well at making themself understood, and decided that maybe there was nothing to fix :)!

(emphasize the DONNIE FORGOT instead of PUTTING IT OFF)

Leo: "One day he made us all phones and gave them super cool features, but he didn't give them a 'call' function." Donnie: "I FORGOT OKAY?"

Leo is telling that to meets

Mikey, talking to Meets: "You could have had a flamethrower but Donnie is a killjoy" Donnie: >:(

Donnie : "STOP EMBARASSING ME IN FRONT OF OUR NEW SIBLING"

Raph : "No <3"

Mikey: "Wanna see your old design Donnie made before I helped him with it?" Donnie: "WHY DO YOU STILL HAVE IT DON'T SHOW THEM THAT-"

Meets, signing : dear god i almost looked like that ? Thank you so much Mikey, you're the real inventor in the room. Donnie : "D:<"

Splinter, who thinks it's hilarious : "I have a lot of baby pictures of Donatello. And your other brothers too. Do you want to see ?"

Donnie: "We need to give it a color, I'm not sure which one though..." Mikey: "Pink." Donnie: "Why pink?" Mikey: "Because pink." Donnie: "Compelling argument. Let's do it."

they called them "it" before they got to know them. they didn't really see them as an individual prior to the mutanimals slapping some common sense into them fheuhifuez

First one : Hide and seek Sometimes they'd do regular games of hide and seek with April and Casey (sometimes Splinter if he's feeling up to it), and they always appointed either April or Casey as seekers or else the games was done way too soon. Overtime they got really good at spotting things in the dark and pin-pointing ideal hideouts (which came in handy during missions). So, after Meets joined the family and prior to them joining them for missions, they did a game of Hide and Seek and Meets found the  PERFECT  spot, like there was no way anyone would find them there. They were super excited and hid but. What they did not think about was their lights. Which. They can't turn off. So in the end they looked like [insert a cabinet in the dark, with obvious pink light shining through the cracks] The others thought it was funny but Meets and Leo saw it as a real problem if they would go on missions with them at some point. Donnie ended up fixing it sometimes later, and they can now control the intensity of their lighting.

THEY WOULD HAVE WON THE GAME IF IT WERENT FOR THEIR LIGHTS SDVHVDH

Raph: "Another flaw in Donnie's designs" Donnie: "Can y'all stop making fun of me"

Second one : Hye-Jin Casey at some point introduces his sister to the turtle family and he's the translator so they can communicate. Meets sees she speaks a different language and asks Casey what it is. Once they know, they leave the room, much to everyone's surprise, and comes back like 30 minutes later with a notebook and writes sentences in perfect Korean, delighting Hye-Jin and dumbfounding everyone else. They explain they used Don's computer to download into their database everything related to Korean, hence learning the entire language in 30 minutes. Casey loved the attention and gave Meets a tight hug.

Last one : Dresses When the 2 days long turtle anniversary came, Meets gifted all of them dresses. Mikey was delighted, as a genderfluid boi UwU, Donnie was really excited because it would help him with his whole gender experimentation he's going through, Leo is glad because he's not gender conforming, but Raph is. Unsure. He's very masculine and hadn't really considered wearing a dress before, and didn't know if he wanted to. His brothers hurriedly put on theirs but Raph preffered to wait until he's alone. His brothers teased him about it but he shrugged it off and they continued the birthday. That night he's alone in his room with the dress and he's kinda afraid to try it on ? Like what if he does like it. Does it mean he's not a real man ? Does that change his entire gender perception ? He ends up going for it and he's standing in front of his mirror, in that dress and he's like. Uh. I don't. Dislike it. I don't feel any different. I'm still me, but instead of pants i'm in a dress. He looks at himself, does a little twirl and he doesn't feel less manly, nor does he feel like uncomfortable. He ends up wearing it for the night and thanks Meets the next day, still wearing it

does Meets have good fashion sense dbhf

Meets has brothers with good fashion sense

donnie who thought no longer being the baby brother would mean stop getting picked on so often the new baby sibling, participating on teasing him : donnie, betrayed : D:<

Hot take : finale of season 1 with the Kraang's giant technodrone stealing people's imagination (and life) The turtles don't win actually. And this time no going back. Billions of deads, including Casey's dad No time travel, no magic compounds that save everyone in the end. All of these people they're dead dead.

Also during the finale, before they officially lose, April and the turtles get captured. Meets tries to help but Leo tells them to leave (because except for him, the others are injured and unconcscious, and there were Foot + Kraangs around, no escape even if Meets could move whatever they were under). Meets doesn't want to leave, like at all, but Leo is being more firm and they have to. Back at the lair they're miserable and feeling heavily guilty, and breaks down when Splinter asks where the others are. Splinter reassures them telling them Leo made a good call, and then a bleeding, extremely upset and shaken Casey barges in and screams at Meets for abandonning the others. Meets runs away and Casey after being calmed down by Splinter, goes to apologize to them, and how he was simply terrified of what might happen to his friends.

I might cut off someone's limb there but not sure. But i don't think they'll walk out of that capture unharmed (both mentally and physically) Anyway, beginning of season 2, and the Kraangs didn't expand beyond New York's destruction. We later find out it's because unlike the tiny version of the ray, this one ALSO STEALS the memories of the people, not just their imagination. Lemme tell you the whiplash on the imaginative Kraangs. They shut down everything and yeeted the fuck out of that planet. Yep. No consequencies for them mostly. No deads, no harm done to them. They caused mass genocide and only come out of it slightly guilty Did this specie come to a planet, changes it forever with mutagene thrown out carelessly, then murdering a good chunk and left unharmed and fine ? Yeah. Yeah they did. No "they had it coming" no revenge, nothing. No closure

Colorcoded!Donnie, meeting an artist: "Hi :D!" The artist: "You. I don't like you."

like everyone their age falls in love with mikey, every artist they meet hates donnie for no reason

that should be a running gag

also I think you said Raph and Leo were twins at some point?? is that still a thing?

they're basically twins but they like to fight with the "i was a second older than you when i mutated"

Casey: "so who's the oldest sibling?" Leo and Raph, at the exact same time: "ME"

Mikey suggests a karaoke night, and Leo goes D:< "dude" and points at Meets and Mikey feels really bad until Meets holds up a finger, walks backwards to their room, shuffle in there for like a minute and comes out with a guitar. They're like "i can learn how to play it I just need 20 minutes and a computer :D" Mikey is about to enthousiastically agree but Casey stops him and ask "okay but how good would you be playing it knowing nothing ? I feel like it would put you at OUR level, make the thing fair" Of course their siblings are VERY motivated by the idea of seeing them not slaying smth for once, and they agree. So during the karaoke, when it's Meets turn everyone is really excited. They basically use the guitar to replace their vocal cords, so playing the notes their voice should make. Except that well without any prep they're as good as a really bad singer and their friends are absolutely thrilled while they're embarassed to death. Splinter thinks it's hilarious and recorded the entire thing on his phone. He replays it from time to time and always get a good laugh out of it

the place they're in was originally the living quarters of the people that made the sewers. So it's really really big. Splinter just doesn't want them to go there.

When they get older they do anyway, and they get freaked out because they convinced themselves it's haunted and never went back

their home is very very deep into the sewer, so not many people come by anyway. It took Splinter forever to find it

Colorcoded characters' arc :

-Donnie learns to be confident in his skills and abilities (which he wasn't because he's bad at a medic and meh at a ninja, and he compares himself to nowadays scientists and feels late) -Mikey learns to be more independent (he used to seek validation from his family all the time and any negative comments regarding whatever he does could give him a breakdown) -Raph learns to open up more about his feelings to others (since he's the tank, the strong one, he's like "i'm a mAn so I'm sTRoNG I caN'T hAvE FeeLiNGS") -Leo learns to rely on his team more (as a pretty "tradition" kind of guy he thinks he has to lead the team all by himself, and he can't ask help or ideas from the others because it would show he's not fit to lead them.) -April learns to tone down her intense self (not to put other at ease, like her parents wanted her to do (surprisingly didn't work wow), but to protect herself and others because at some point she sees her intensity and how it blinds her can and have hurt her or other people. Case in point : attacking Shredder bear hands because she insulted them) -Casey learns to trust again, in general (it takes Casey literally the death of his dad and the turtles sweating their ass off to find him to realize he can trust people actually, these people are trustworthy. Until then, Casey is very warry of everyone, all hte time, he's careful what he says about himself and his personnal life, and he never relies on the turtles and April during fights. Because Casey is poor and asian in america, let's just say trusting people rarely brought good to his life) -Meets learns to live (quite literally, since day 2 Meets was a people pleaser, because they were heavily traumatized of how their now brothers hunted them down to kill them at the very beginning. Because of that they believe they don't have an actual place in the family, and they have to prove himself useful all the time or else they get kicked out. That's also why they react very badly when from times to times the turtles don't let them help)

#colorcoded au #colorcoded #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #leo #leonardo #leo tmnt #mikey #michelangelo #mikey tmnt #april #april o'neil #april tmnt #casey jones #casey tmnt #splinter #splinter tmnt #hamato yoshi #oroku saki #oroku karai #karai tmnt #the shredder #shredder #shredder tmnt

[forever-yours-simdate]

ooo, can I ask!! for a sfw alphabet... for cupid?? is that allowed ┴┬┴|･ω･)

Asks for Cupid are allowed! Same goes for the rest of the side characters ;>

A = Affection (How affectionate are they? How do they show affection?)

Fairly affectionate! More affectionate than average I'd say. Mostly because he's generally pretty amicable.

Very causal, hugs as greetings, does little things and gets gifts for people he likes when the occasion strikes. They're not grandiose, but they're genuine.

B = Best friend (What would they be like as a best friend? How would the friendship start?)

A really good friend. He's a joy to be with, and takes good care of the people around him, even if they're strangers. Great at giving advice, and is there if you ever need him, and isn't judgemental at all. Even when he's serious he balances it out with his laid back nature, and is never stern in a scary way.

Honestly you could befriend him in any number of ways, but most likely through having mutual friends, or meeting him at a party.

C = Cuddles (Do they like to cuddle? How would they cuddle?)

Will never say no to cuddles, unless they're from total strangers (and it's not easy to be strangers with him). Mostly cuddles by just being molded into a shape by the people cuddling him. Likes being sandwiched between people, or just having his arm around someone's shoulders. If it's a one-on-one cuddle with a s/o, he likes leaning on and wrapping himself around them, feeling their shape and warmth.

D = Domestic (Do they want to settle down? How are they at cooking and cleaning?)

Does want to! Honestly, ideally, if not with a partner, he's definitely the type to settle down in a house shared with friends.

Good at cooking, gets lazy with daily cleaning unless it's his kitchen. Even if everything's put away and orderly, when he eventually gets to it, he lets dust collect on his shelves and crumbs collect on the ground. It's a good thing he really only stays at home to sleep or study, so his house doesn't get too messy. Is better about cleaning immediately before and after throwing a party at his place.

E = Ending (If they had to break up with their partner, how would they do it?)

Has had to break up with past partners, and usually is really nice and polite, well-communicative about it, and usually always wants to still be friends. It's usually mutual, anyways, but if his partner at the time is upset, he takes it seriously and respects that, even if it's unfortunate to him that he may be losing a friend.

If it's someone special... he wouldn't even dream of it!

F = Fiance(e) (How do they feel about commitment? How quick would they want to get married?)

Wants to eventually get married, it's a dream for him!

Honestly he feels so rarely strongly enough about anyone, that he'd probably want to get married fairly quickly if someone is the one to him.

G = Gentle (How gentle are they, both physically and emotionally?)

Doesn't really treat people as if they're fragile, but that doesn't mean he's insensitive. Can be a bit rougher, physically, when he's hyped up and excited, but generally is pretty languid.

H = Hugs (Do they like hugs? How often do they do it? What are their hugs like?)

Like hugs! Would give and accept hugs from anyone, even strangers. How they are depends on the person or occasion, but they're brief with a quick squeeze or pat.

I = I love you (How fast do they say the L-word?)

Says it pretty casually, and even uses the word "love" as a nickname. Says it slower, with purpose, when he means it though.

J = Jealousy (How jealous do they get? What do they do when they’re jealous?)

Isn't really a jealous person, far too laid-back. If he does... he usually tries to "join in" on whatever time is being spent between his s/o and the person he's jealous of. Stays amicable, of course, but sort of... micromanages.

K = Kisses (What are their kisses like? Where do they like to kiss you? Where do they like to be kissed?)

Really likes to hold his s/o's face when he kisses them, or just hugging or cuddling them, holding their hands, etc. Likes kisses on the mouth the most, they feel very romantic, but likes to be kissed and kiss anywhere and everywhere really. Loves all sort of kisses, loves them all.

L = Little ones (How are they around children?)

Pretty good. Usually gets put on child-caretaking duty during family gatherings, mostly because he actually engages with them. Doesn't like, baby talk kids. Kinda just is vibing with them but pays attention to them.

M = Morning (How are mornings spent with them?)

He's usually out until daybreak, so usually the morning is spent him eating breakfast and getting ready for a nap before class or going out again.

N = Night (How are nights spent with them?)

Down for Activities. Want to watch a movie? Sure! Want to go hang out with friends? Let's go! Want to go out n party? Hell yeah! Board game night? The more the merrier. As long as you're spending time with someone he's down for anything.

O = Open (When would they start revealing things about themselves? Do they say everything all at once or wait a while to reveal things slowly?)

Doesn't really open up. Moreso because he doesn't really have anything to open up about?

The few things he feels complicated about, he keeps to himself because he can figure it out himself, and also doesn't really believe anyone can understand/empathize with his specific brand of problems.

P = Patience (How easily angered are they?)

Very, very patient. Most things don't annoy or anger him! That doesn't mean he doesn't get angry, but rather most of the time he reacts otherwise (incredulous, disappointed, frustrated) than angry. Is good about managing it, but there's only so much someone can take.

Q = Quizzes (How much would they remember about you? Do they remember every little detail you mention in passing, or do they kind of forget everything?)

Generally remembers most details about people (but gets silly mix ups, or needs to be reminded/double check), but when it comes to his s/o he's especially dedicated to learning as much as he can, and it cements itself into his brain. Even stuff he's surprised he notices.

R = Remember (What is their favorite moment in your relationship?)

Probably some type of exchange of rings, whether they're engagement rings, wedding rings, or promise rings, or just an exchanging of matching accessories that kind of solidify the idea that the relationship is forever, meant to be, he'll be ecstatic, to a point that's kind of unusual to see for such a laid back person.

S = Security (How protective are they? How would they protect you? How would they like to be protected?)

Again, laid back. Tries to protect others by diffusing tension, or talking it out. He's good at pacifying people, and an even better mediator. Prefers not to get into fights, if at all possible, but can if necessary even if he doesn't like it. Thinks the whole "taking a bullet" thing is romantic.

T = Try (How much effort would they put into dates, anniversaries, gifts, everyday tasks?)

Puts a ton of effort, kinda can get carried away and makes them grandiose and romantic, straight out of a movie. Tones it down over time but the overly romantic, tender atmosphere is still present. The type to make celebrations for every little thing.

U = Ugly (What would be some bad habits of theirs?)

Very much keeps himself busy to distract himself, and very much avoids being alone like that plague. Even if he just has to sit in a public place, he vastly prefers the companionship of strangers over being alone. Also the frequency he goes out drinking... pray for his liver.

V = Vanity (How concerned are they with their looks?)

While he's not self-obsessed like Max, he puts a lot of effort into his appearance and aesthetics. While he's the type that looks good even if he looks like a mess, he'll usually go into a bathroom to tidy himself up every so often throughout the day/night. Likes looking hot, and is proud of it.

W = Whole (Would they feel incomplete without you?)

While he was content being partner-less for life, if he ever meets his soulmate, he'll never want to let go.

X = Xtra (A random headcanon for them.)

Most of his tattoos and piercings were done by his friends. The only piercing he got done professionally is the one on his right nipple, because it's simply too risky to get that done at a hangout while buzzed.

Y = Yuck (What are some things they wouldn’t like, either in general or in a partner?)

Uhmmm doesn't work well with people who are very, very inflexible, grouchy and severe. It's mostly just awkward for him, who's default is to joke around and chill. He'll adjust accordingly, but it wouldn't be very fun to be with them.

Z = Zzz (What is a sleep habits of theirs?)

Takes naps frequently throughout the day. Sometimes falls asleep when he's with his friends and hanging out at one of their houses. Honestly sleeps at his friend's houses more frequently than his own.

#keni.ask #oc : cupid

[navree]

https://twitter.com/AemondZafiro/status/1615852704525611009?t=6h3Fd91m0qfx8U56XieUXw&s=19

They would do this wouldnt they

They miiiiiiiiight but I just can't see what the point would be? Most of the changes beyond the fundamental backstory change between Rhaenyra and Alicent has mostly been about stuff that was considered "vague" in the Fire&Blood histories, and the battle of Rook's Rest was very well chronicled, seeing as it was a large battle with several important outcomes. This is also predicated on the idea that Rhaenys narratively needs to atone for not killing the Greens, which has never been suggested in either the writing or filmmaking, as well as the fact that Vhagar and Sunfyre being involved is seen as a sort of plothole(?) that this would solve. Not to mention, as someone who has had positive feelings for Rhaenyra and is trying to keep myself neutral on the Blacks even while being pro-Green, this wouldn't make Rhaenyra a more compelling protagonist, it just makes her look kinda dumb if she, a claimant queen and the only member of her faction with any legitimate claim to the throne, gets herself in trouble and needs rescuing by a lesser royal. There's a reason why when kings fought in wars in our world, they still had guards around them to make sure they never came to real harm, not to mention that this got phased out (in England, the last king to die in battle was Richard III in the 1480s, and Henry VIII had to be physically stopped from going into battle and potentially getting himself killed). If Rhaenyra does something stupid and reckless that costs her multiple allies and makes her seem like an idiot, that's not going to endear the audience to her.

(Not to mention, Aegon already has enough motivation to want his revenge on Rhaenyra? Her fight for the throne is what caused the entire war in the first place, which means that if she hadn't done it his brothers and his youngest son wouldn't have died and his beloved Sunfyre wouldn't have been so injured, and it was on Rhaenyra's authority that two thugs broke into his mother's chambers and physically assaulted her, before murdering his very young son in front of his sister/wife and his daughter, that alone is reason enough to want revenge on Rhaenyra and have a determination not just to see her dead but make sure she suffers)

But here's the thing I think the thing most people don't understand is that Rook's Rest shouldn't even really be about the battle itself. For one, it's a blaze of glory for Rhaenys, to show her as how she was meant to be, a battling warrior fighting for her cause, the Queen Who Never Was But Should Have Been. Considering how much the show has shown that everyone around Rhaenys, not just Rhaenys herself, knows she would have been a better ruler, this is the culmination of that, before she dies and gives her side an advantage in Aegon's injuries. For two, it's not about Greens vs Blacks. It needs to be about Aemond and Aegon.

Rook's Rest comes at the end of a period time that saw a) Aegon being the only member of the family to stand by Aemond and publicly support him after Storm's End and b) a serious tragedy being dealt to Aegon because of Aemond's actions. That's why I said here that I wanted Aegon's role in the battle to come as a shock to Aemond and Criston, if not the audience. It's the kind of thing he would do, he is in fact restless and more chaotic than Rhaenyra, and it needs to be a culmination of a severe up and down relationship that has seen Aegon and Aemond at their closest and then at their most distant as Aegon grieves, to say nothing of how he might end up blaming Aemond for Jahaerys's murder. The emotions from the aftermath of the battle should be about Rhaenys dying, because a major character is gone, and Aegon choosing to make the brother he knows is ambitious for the crown to be his regent, and Aemond not seizing that as an opportunity for power but using that to prove himself worthy of the task to the brother who supported him, the brother who blamed him, the brother who saved him. That's the core of it; it's not about Rhaenyra. It needs to be Rhaenys centric and Aegond centric or it's going to look bad and sloppy, and despite the shit I'll give these writers for when I think they've got it wrong, they're not stupid. They know what they're doing for the most part. They don't want to be writing a shallow show, and for the most part they're not, and if they make this change, they're turning what should be a hugely charged moment into something shallow.

And they've also got George as consultant, and they seem to be keeping him fairly involved in the process, so I doubt they'd make such a huge change unless he approved it, which I don't think he will otherwise he would have written it into the original book, which doesn't have Rhaenyra do any sort of fighting. So at the end of the day, yeah they could make that change, but even just looking at it from an objective writing standpoint, I don't see any reason why they would, or how that would better serve anyone except pro-Blacks redditors.

#personal #answered #anonymous #i didn't mean for this to turn into a 'here's why aegon and aemond's relationship needs to get all the emotions in s2' post #but if y'all want me to talk about rook's rest that's what you're getting #i literally have like a shot for shot view in my head of how i want it to go #honestly i can talk about these two all the livelong day but that's for another time #i'm not as into doomcasting re: greens and changes as some other members of our verdant squad #mostly because i'm of the opinion that while they did a lot of bad shit with the greens #they also clearly put so much more effort into developing all of them as characters #than they did with like half of the blacks #that does speak to a certain amount of care and desire to keep them fleshed out and real rather than caricatures #the issues arise mainly from the time jumps and how many they put in and how they chose to handle them #but that's also for another time #so i'm willing to give them leeway especially when it comes to stupid changes #cuz i don't think in the show they changed anything that was basically fact so far #except for aegon's coronation but as stupid as rhaenys was being and the amount of plotholes that put in #it's a good scene for what it does for alicent and aegon so i'm never completely mad at it

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nsfw asks - serafim edition

A = Aftercare (What they’re like after sex)

Very very sweet. Extra gentle and soft with his partner.. He's also really cuddly.. Luckily his partner doesn't even need to verbalize what they need, he can hear their thoughts and he'll use that to his advantage to take care of them.

B = Body part (Their favourite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

Serafim's favourite body part on himself would definitely be his hands.. slender, well manicured, long fingers. On his partner? It depends. But they'll notice he has a habit of kissing their shoulders.

C = Cum (Anything to do with cum basically... I’m a disgusting person)

Serafim tends to cum a lot, not as much as some of my other ocs, but its still a lot. Mainly cause he can go so many rounds though.

D = Dirty Secret (Pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

While he's pretty vanilla, Serafim has a bit of a breeding kink. But, he also in general just likes to see his partner covered in his cum in some way.

E = Experience (How experienced are they? Do they know what they’re doing?)

Sera gets bitches. Let's just say that.

F = Favourite Position (This goes without saying. Will probably include a visual)

Mating press.

G = Goofy (Are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous, etc)

Being a psychic means he can read his partner's thoughts, and if they think smth even remotely funny, he WILL laugh. "s-sorry, aha.. i'll try to fix the bed squeaking tomorrow." very lighthearted, basically.

H = Hair (How well groomed are they, does the carpet match the drapes, etc.)

BLOND... his body hair isn't very thick so he has no need to shave, it just looks fine. he'll trim the sides a lil tho

I = Intimacy (How are they during the moment, romantic aspect...) 

Serafim is very romantic, again he's /pretty/ vanilla so he makes up for it in how romantic and loving he is.

J = Jack Off (Masturbation headcanon)

He can literally only jack off in the shower. Living with so many people, esp so many people with adhd is a MESS. but the shower is loud and distracting.

K = Kink (One or more of their kinks)

eye contact. (j like dad fr)

L = Location (Favourite places to do the do)

somewhere quiet, please.

M = Motivation (What turns them on, gets them going)

When his partner makes a point of thinking dirty ass thoughts while they're in public.

N = NO (Something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

He would never hurt his partner in bed, even if asked. Sorry, he's j too soft..

O = Oral (Preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc)

Sera prefers giving. He's good, too! He's just a giver in general, very very into oral and being praised for how good he is.

P = Pace (Are they fast and rough? Slow and sensual? etc.)

Slow & sensual babyyyyyy! til he's close than he picks up the pace suddenly and roughly cause he gets needy.

Q = Quickie (Their opinions on quickies rather than proper sex, how often, etc.)

not a fan.. but with school its needed sometimes.. once a week maybe? he tries to limit it though.

R = Risk (Are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.)

He has to be convinced but he'll do it. He'll try some new things for his partner or semi public sex, but he's a lil nervous about certain things.

S = Stamina (How many rounds can they go for, how long do they last...)

A lot. A lot of rounds. He lasts a little longer than average, but he recoups QUICK and will j use fingers or his tongue in between.

T = Toy (Do they own toys? Do they use them? On a partner or themselves?)

He has one vibrator, one dildo, and one cock ring. He mostly uses toys on his partner, but he's dabbled with the ring a few times.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

Sera is pretty straightforward! He says what he wants in the moment he wants it, which sometimes can be seen as teasing.

V = Volume (How loud they are, what sounds they make)

hushed moans, quiet praise, russian curses when he gets close or overstimulated.

W = Wild Card (Get a random headcanon for the character of your choice)

serafim would be really really into cockwarming but wouldn't know it until his partner brings it up.

X = X-Ray (Let’s see what’s going on in those pants, picture or words)

7in, lil thicker about two inches above the base, darker head, surprisingly veiny.

Y = Yearning (How high is their sex drive?)

Average?

Z = ZZZ (… how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

like an hour or two later? he usually reads snuggled up to his partner once he's done with aftercare lol.. sometimes he'll get up and do shit when they're asleep, idk.

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