#Eleanor Answers

[totally-eleanor-forte]

*sniffs your blog* do i know you...

also how do you pronounce forte, fort or for-tay

You might, and I pronounce it like fort

[askthejigsawpigs]

LOGAN!!! ELEANOR!!!!!!!!!!

how are you guys????

[asktalesofberseria]

Now, this might come off as an odd question. Velvet, Eleanor, Magilou. If you were to have kids, it doesn't matter with whom, would you want a boy or a girl, and what names would you give them?

kids...? i don't know... i was taking care of Laphi for basically my whole life- he practically was my kid.

i don't think i'll ever have kids, so there's no use thinking about it.

I'm with Velvet! Sorry, but no thanks!

However, if we're being purely hypothetical here, I would be the most splendiferous absent father to my imaginary children!

My children, Bienfu and Magigigika Mirdin Do Din Norurun Du II, (The Second!) would yearn day and night for their most mysterious and distinguished father to return home to them...

My children (Hypothetical!) would learn the hard way that in life, nothing ever goes quite how you'd like it to. Of course, this is why I should never have children.

...................

I truly am the only normal person here, aren't I?

As for me, I have given this subject much thought! I don't mind having a boy OR a girl! Either is good.

If I had a boy, I'd name him Eli! If I had a girl, I'd name her Evera! I'm very fond of names that begin with 'E!'

[worldsbestpredators]

"Get this on tape in case I die or whatever." (rosalie @ el)

Out of context Gravity Falls quotes:

"Why are you dying? Are you gonna try to fight Jasper? If yes, can I help? We can make Edward hold the camera."

[assassin-artist]

Mild obsessed with Mercy and I wanna know more about her! What would you say her relationships with other heroes is like? Namely the current Guardians roster.

A couple of doodles to go with the answer (:

I talk about the events of the show including the latest episode (3x07) so don't read if you aren't caught up!

-immortal - bad. immortal started off with warning her that he's watching her every move, similar with mark. he doesnt trust the twins because he never trusted omni-man, and his distrust was clearly justified after the events of the first season. she thinks he's an egotistical asshole who doesn't care about anyone else because of his refusal to become attached to his teammates, he thinks she's a time bomb waiting to go off just like her dad and brother. more than anything, though - she hates that he keeps comparing her to her father. her dad is one topic that she's sensitive about and can get temperamental if he's brought up. she tries to just stay away from immortal most of the time because she's confident she'd just start fights with him every other conversation.

-black samson - okay! samson, to me, has the vibes of a guy who's trying to hold the team together as best as he can. he's a charming guy who seems to care about them, and he does his best to get to know each of them. mercy isn't part of the guardians of the globe roster, but she works with them often enough that he probably considers her an honorary member or something. mercy is pretty closed off to others trying to 'take care of her' because she's trying really hard to be seen as independent and mature, so i think she shakes his concern and compassion off most of the time. not too rudely, though - she appreciates his attempts to be friendly. she just wishes he'd be friendly in a 'this person is my ally and teammate' way instead of in a 'this is a child i need to protect' kind of way.

-bulletproof - okayish. i don't think they interact much with each other at all in the beginning. but considering bulletproof is the only other flyer that she works with on a regular basis, i think just them having convos as they fly to and from missions will go a long way to building a rapport - for no other reason than because it's something only they can do. they'd be work friends i think. getting along on the job, but not really talking much off the job. i think they could be good friends off the job too, both of them like art and being a hero, but Mercy is the one who isn't interested in getting to know him further. sorry man, let's keep it all strictly professional..

-rex - close friends. she kind of had a crush on him the first time they met, and then she realized he was dating eve so she backed off immediately. and then she learned he cheated on eve and hated him with a passion for a while. similar to immortal, she thought of rex as egotistical and a complete jerk for a long while. but of course after his near-death experience, he turned his personality around and started being less of an ass, so her opinion of him changed quite a bit. the only person on the team that Mercy actually hangs out with outside of the job - they're similar in age and can talk to each other about their struggles of being abandoned by a parent (or 2 in rex's case). i think it's interesting that they gave Rae and Rex a romance in the show, because if Rex didn't have a romance, she absolutely would have been interested in him again. Well... we know how it ends, so i guess it's better for her that she never let her feelings develop too far...

-robot and monstergirl - bunking them together because Mercy always sees them together so they're basically a duo in her mind. Robot is crazy intelligent and Mercy respects it, but his penchant to talk from multiple copies of his robots kind of creeps her out and interests her at the same time. Kinda wishes she could do that too lol. Mercy feels sympathy for Monstergirl because of her curse, and the few times they do talk they get along just fine. It's just that they don't talk often. They aren't on the same team together and they never interact outside of the job, so there's just not enough there to build a relationship of any kind off of.

-duplikate - they have an okay work relationship, but they're both headstrong people with very different views on things. i think one of them might throw a jab at the other and that's all it would take to start a fight between them. they do NOT talk outside of work, and in fact, only talk during work if they have to communicate during a fight. in the headquarters? they're not really interacting at all. Mercy rolls her eyes when she learns that Kate and Immortal are getting married because "yeah of course the asshole is marrying an asshole".

-shrinking rae - not as close as Rex, but Mercy and Rae could definitely get along pretty well. maybe if we get to learn more about Rae in the show I could see them being friends outside of the job as well, but for now they're just close coworkers.

-darkwing ii - lastly, darkwing 2. crush material, but very slow buildup. she didn't go on that mission when Mark took Darkwing in for murder, she only heard about it second-hand from Mark himself, so that might be why she's way more forgiving of his issues than she is willing to be for Sinclair(she saw Sinclair's labs and victims personally). she still thinks he's unstable in the beginning and generally avoids him for a while, which he definitely notices, but i think all it would take is one comment from him talking about his remorse for what he did, and she might be willing to stay and talk it over with him. a short debate about morals turns into a longer conversation about regrets and what they would change if they could go back... about how the things they've seen and done has changed them forever. i think the two of them could be very good friends.. and maybe more (: such a shame he disappeared so fast in the show, but maybe id change the story a little bit now that Mercy is here to save the day, heh...

Edit: I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT SHAPESMITH.... He's my personal favorite hero on the guardians team, which of course means Ellie is going to like him too (: Another rare instance of Mercy allowing this coworker to hang out with her outside of the job. I think she'd be really interested in learning about his life on Mars, and in return she'd help him acclimate to life on Earth. Always bringing him little trinkets or candy from a dollar store, stuff like that lol. They would be the best of friends, I swear. He's not the best person to go to when she's looking to vent her frustrations about life and her issues, but he's always there to listen anyway, and she appreciates that.

[morimhe]

I’m guessing your Drifter and Arthur make out up after this…quarrel? If so-how?

(Also your Grey Warden design of the Hex is great!)

the continuation of the chat is that Arthur reaches out first - so i believe it is canon for them. that doesn't stop Nara from brooding more than the BR00DSW0RD lmao. they eventually talked it out and decided to give it a go. about making out... i think it would come a bit later after that conversation becasue of two important factors: 1. Nara can kill Archons but can't figure out for sure how to navigate this relationship "thing" as it's first for them. 2. Arthur would be adjusting to that a for a few days as well imo. that however did not stop me from drawing it >:) edit: thank you for liking the GW au!!

[leashybebes]

something about how tommy is the rom-com guy but he's also been THROUGH IT, you know? i think he's thought he had the rom-com before and it's never quite worked out and he's been knocked around enough that he knows it's not really a thing that happens, you know? like sure, you can fall in love, you can have the butterflies, you can adore someone but that doesn't mean happily ever after is on the cards so while he aches for The One, his rational brain says that there's no such thing so he's cautious because he knows he has a tendency to go all in on something and maybe romanticise things more than he should and set himself up for heartache, so the first couple months with buck he's holding himself back just a little, not enough to give buck the (wildly false) impression that he's not here for a long time, but enough that he doesn't make a fool of himself and then buck hits him with an incredibly casual "cool, see you later, love you" or a "hey, you want kids, right?" or a "when we get married" and tommy's just...buffering for a few seconds because what. so maybe there's no The One (but evan is The One) maybe there's no soulmates (but evan is his soulmate) maybe there's no forever (but evan is forever)

[dreamtydraw]

That Mhin and Eleanore doodle reminded me of this,

dhfvdfrsgf two big eyed freak staring at each other-

[faewaren]

Flint is obviously queer, but I tend to view him as bisexual -- when he first becomes entangled with Miranda, there is absolutely no reason for him to do it other than wanting to. It's an objectively bad idea. She's a married woman and he's working for her husband, and despite what Miranda had implied, he hasn't actually confirmed yet that Thomas would be okay with it. He kisses her because she's beautiful and incredibly charismatic and he wants to do it.

Thomas, I feel a little more inclined to view as gay, with his sexuality maybe a factor in his and Miranda's arrangement (wherein she can fuck other people), but he still clearly respects her and loves her dearly. She's someone who understood and supported him before essentially anyone else, and there's a huge amount of fondness in their relationship.

Thomas and his goals guide all of what Flint does later, but Miranda isn't a lesser part of the equation or a third wheel. For years before they met Flint, Miranda was Thomas's Person, and for all the years after Thomas, she's Flint's. They both truly love her. She is deeply vital to both those men and to their relationship with each other. Even if Thomas/Miranda wasn't romantic, it's clearly strong and loving, and they're both deeply important to Flint.

So I'm kind of confounded to see that Thomas/Miranda/Flint has less than half of the works on ao3 that Thomas/Flint does. Like -- why is that? It can't all be from when the fics are set. They can share him, guys.

[backseatloversz]

both of them saying semi-charmed life and round here😭

[bluetortoist]

eleanor big

ELEANOR VEEEEEEEEEERY BEEG!

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[totally-eleanor-forte]

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-@hatsune-michael-official

Hello Hatsune Michael

[artificialroux]

hey roux!! ^^ hope you're having a good day! wanted to ask what kind of music do your ocs listen to!! could either be 90s accurate or maybe a modern au / music they listen in the adult timeline

hiii mary!!!!! omg i luv this question...i answered it for 90s accurate if you don't mind so i could include everyone and also cause i LOVE 90s music. some of these may not be 100% accurate since they came out the year the plane crashed.

madeline "maddie" shepherd ;

mazzy star – "fade into you" (1993)

the cranberries – "dreams" (1993) & "linger" (1993) & "when you're gone" (1996)

fiona apple – "shadowboxer" (1996) & "sleep to dream" (1996)

radiohead – "fake plastic trees" (1995) & "high and dry" (1995)

smashing pumpkins – "tonight, tonight" (1996) & "1979" (1996)

quinn bennett ;

nine inch nails – "something i can never have" & "march of the pigs"

alice in chains – "down in a hole" & "them bones, rooster"

the breeders – "saints" & "cannonball"

pearl jam – "rearviewmirror" & "animal"

hole – "jennifer’s body" & "violet" & "she walks on me"

danielle shipman ;

(she prefers older music)

stevie nicks (solo) – “edge of seventeen” & “leather and lace”

the cure – “lovesong” & “pictures of you”

the beatles – “something” & “here comes the sun”

elton john – “tiny dancer” & “goodbye yellow brick road”

kate bush – “running up that hill” & “cloudbusting”

billy joel – “she’s always a woman” & “vienna”

anything by the doors

musicals, musicals, musicals – i mean duh? she's a theater kid, her favorite is “chicago”

eleanor twain ;

mariah carey – she probably cries to “always be my baby”

spice girls – she's a total baby spice girl

celine dion – “because you loved me” is her self-curated anthem

alanis morissette - (but only the lighter stuff, and maybe secretly)

backstreet boys – the “safe” choice over NSYNC

boyz II men – feels romantic, classy

sheryl crow – “if it makes you happy” hits her just enough

the cranberries – but only dreams, not zombie

musicals - she might secretly love phantom of the opera or les mis

evelyn twain ;

hole – obsessed with courtney love, idolizes her rage

garbage – “stupid girl” is her personal anthem

nirvana – still playing it on a walkman even post-kurt

fiona apple – especially tidal (released in ’96)

no doubt – loves gwen stefani’s edge

pj harvey – when she’s in full “don’t touch me” mode

smashing pumpkins – for those dark, dreamy nights in her room

alanis morissette – but she screams along to “you oughta know”

bikini kill – total riot grrrl energy

i can also answer this for modern timeline/my adult timeline ocs if you'd like!

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[asktalesofberseria]

Eleanor, do you have any long term plans for Kamoana? I'm a little worried she could fall behind academically with all the relocations...

Yeah... Sometimes I get worried about that, too...

But I assure you, I am doing my absolute best to teach Kamoana everything I know!

I honestly don't know what the future holds...

But for now, I'm doing the best I can... With everyone's help, too.

(A pirate ship really is not the ideal place to raise a child, though...)

[worldsbestpredators]

"My body is a temple! How dare you!" - Josh for Eleanor ofc

Out of context Gravity Falls quotes:

Don't say it.. Don't say it..

"So it's really old and open to the public?"

[assassin-artist]

*slams in here* Ellie and Oliver- what the HELL does that dynamic look like. We know Ellie doesn’t go home often after moving out- and here is a wholeass half-sib who her mum is raising and her brother likes- who is a Kid but also holds SO much of their dad in him. Who says ‘maybe dad was right’ who wants to be ‘omniboy’, who keeps wanting to be present and put people down. I remember when Nolan was taken off by the other Viltrumited Ellie’s reaction on learning that was “good”. Looking at the entire situation and her place in the GDA which Oliver hates and the distance and the divide- I’m gonna assume she doesn’t like her half-sib, what’s the back and forth there?

Not pictured: Debbie on the ground having heart palpitations because Oliver keeps begging his sister to drop him from higher and higher. Here's a cute doodle of them being good siblings, before we get into the sad part (:

Since Ellie didn't go to Thraxa with Mark (it was her way of trying to soften the blow of Mark disobeying Cecil's orders - 'it won't be so bad if one of us goes and the other one stays, right?') she was as baffled as anyone else when he returned with a baby. She thinks about cracking some stupid joke about what he got up to while he was up there and how his gf might not approve, and then Mark tells her that, actually, this is their little brother. All the humor and jokey vibes leaves in an instant. She can put two and two together, of course, and knows who else Mark must have met up there even before she's told the details.

But back to Oliver specifically - I think Ellie would hate him in the beginning. She doesn't mean to, she knows that this baby isn't to blame for her father's actions, he had nothing to do with what happened on Earth the day their dad abandoned them all... but he's just... a living reminder of her father's actions. Nolan said during the fight that he'd just start all over again because the twins were failures - and, well, it looks like he kept his word. She doesn't hate Oliver, exactly, but hates how she feels whenever she thinks of him.

She can't stand to look at Oliver, can't stand being around him. She looks at him and the only thing she can think of is Omni-man leveling Chicago and abandoning his daughter to die. By the time Oliver is brought to Earth, she's already 18, which means she's already moved out of the house, and it's easy for her to avoid the new child.

She winds up getting mad at herself for hating him so much - she knows it's not his fault. She can't blame him for all of that, for all of her baggage. But I think she won't be able to bring herself to get over it until someone else intervenes - maybe Mark, or maybe Cecil has a little talk about it if he can clearly tell she's angry about all of this (he would definitely know about her intense hatred for her father). But I think the biggest change would be if Debbie talked to her about it. She'll tell her daughter "I don't blame you or Mark for what he did, so how can you blame Oliver?" and Ellie will finally decide that she's pushed this too far and needs to see him as his own person, not just an extension of their dad.

After that, I think it actually gets much easier for them. They grow really close, in fact. Mark has this worried older brother dynamic where he's always watching over Oliver and doesn't want him to do anything that could give him a scraped knee - Ellie, however, I think she's willing to break the rules with him a little bit. Debbie tells them "no flying in the house!!" and Ellie will just smile and whisper "I won't tell if you won't..." and they float the whole time they talk about Oliver's homework for the day or something. Little things like that where Ellie is willing to let him have fun with his powers.

I see how strict Mark is with Oliver because he's scared of his little brother getting hurt, and I think, well… Eleanor would be willing to take him on a minor mission with him in order to teach him the basics of being a superhero. She doesn't want Oliver to get hurt any more than Mark does, but she just has a different way of going about it.

Mark wants to protect Oliver from the world of being a hero by telling him he shouldn't do it - he tells his brother that he should just focus on being a normal child and save the hero business for when he's older. Ellie, on the other hand, can clearly see that Oliver is willing to sneak out and lie to his own family to do something he knows he's not supposed to be doing. So instead she decides, if I can't stop him then I'll just join him - if he's going to go out and be a hero, I'll go with him to teach him the ropes and make sure he does it right. She wants him to be good at it both so he can protect himself better if he ever sneaks out on his own again, and also so that he'll protect other people better too. His first solo fight caused some maaaajor destruction, and she's gonna tell him asap that he can't let that happen again lol.

And I think all of this makes Oliver look up to Ellie as the "cool sibling". Despite rapidly aging at a pace humans don't, he is still just a kid. So he just sees that one of his siblings won't let him do the cool fun stuff but the other one will and he goes "hell yeah" whenever he gets to hang out with his sister (':

Ellie being willing to teach Oliver about fighting and taking him along on one of her jobs is going to cause a HUGE fight with her, Mark, and Debbi, I fear. She's already moved out of the house, but I think she'd fly Oliver home to make sure he got back alright, and Mark will meet her on the way, already angry. He must have seen their fight on the news or something. First he's angry because "You're putting Oliver's life in danger by taking him out to fight! He's too young for this!" and secondly, which Mark might be even more angry about, is that Ellie still works for Cecil - so taking Oliver out on a job with her basically means she had Oliver working for Cecil. She tries to argue that they need to teach Oliver how to use his powers instead of just telling him to never use them, but I think Mark just disagrees with her too strongly about all of this. He doesn't want Oliver fighting at such a young age, and his anger about Ellie working with Cecil is probably still fresh at this point so he doesn't think he can trust her judgment right now.

When Oliver starts wearing the Omni-Boy suit, things get stressed between them. I imagine that during the fitting of the outfit, Mark will bring up that not only do the people on Earth not forgive their father for his actions, but neither does Eleanor. And Oliver likely gives the same reasoning as he gave before - maybe he can change her mind. He won't, though. He can't. I'm actually a little bit torn on how the reveal would go.. part of me thinks Ellie would get angry at him and tell him that he has no idea what that symbol means, the pain and grief it brings people to see it again - and another part of me thinks she'd just straight up tell him that she won't go on jobs with him anymore if he's wearing that suit. She tried hard to move past her issue with viewing Oliver as just an extension of their father, but this might just make her go back to that. Especially how defensive he gets over it, I think that could cause Ellie to get really mad. Eventually she realizes that they just have two fundamentally different views of Nolan, and she just puts her head in her hands and sighs heavily, unsure on what to do next.

In the end, after Oliver gets talked to about Ellie's anger by Mark and Debbie, I think they all just come to the conclusion that they shouldn't try to force the topic at all. Oliver has his views on their dad, Ellie has her own views, and neither of them are exactly wrong(although Ellie might argue otherwise)... So they can maintain their previous close sibling bond as long as their dad isn't brought up. It's a sensitive topic all around. Maybe she can look past the uniform after a little while, but it still angers her that Oliver won't swap it for something else.

When Ellie learns about Oliver killing the Mauler Twins, she tries to talk to him about how they need to protect people rather than hurt them, but Oliver will just give her the same argument he gave Mark - he's protecting people by making sure the bad guys can never hurt anyone again. I think she'd just look down at him with a pained, sad expression... and then she'd just leave. Mark and Debbie can handle this one, maybe. Or maybe they can't. Either way, Ellie can't be around him at the moment - not because she might hurt him, but because she's starting to see their father in him, and that scares her and fills her full of grief at the same time.

She won't let him turn out like their dad did. She won't let him do the things Nolan did. She loves Oliver - but she also loved her father before he betrayed them all. She doesn't know how to feel or what to think after all of that, and if she ever learned about Oliver saying 'what if dad was right?' (I think Mark would keep that to himself because he knows how Ellie would feel) all she can think about is the day Chicago was leveled.