#and is like. hey. shut the hell up

[crimeronan]

Also hey what the FUCK did Devin's childhood look like

oop this got long by accident....

devin is an orphan who was raised in tachni's foster system!

said foster system & orphanages are all run through the light temples, which are the government. which tbh is.... not as bad as having your foster care privatized!

there are Major Issues with it that reflect the Major Issues with tachni's government in general, but those aren't Super relevant to devin's childhood.

what IS relevant to devin is that light magic makes earth magicians sick. so living in a light temple (typically built on a place where light magic pools) is..... not great.

it's not invariably fatal!! but physically it does kind of feel like. having radiation poisoning.

devin miserably skated by under the radar as a seemingly-normal kid with a touch of earth magic.... until the prior earth god, moira, killed herself. and her godpowers passed to devin.

devin promptly (and accidentally) ripped through a bunch of the light temple campus and got in Enormous trouble. and then was sent to live in the centerspire with nova, which is the Mooost concentrated place of light magic in the city. possibly on the whole planet!

she then became suicide attempts georg and had a bunch of autonomy and medical horrors happen. the main one still affecting her in the years-later canon is legal designation as an "invalid," aka a person who's been placed under legal guardianship and has literally no right to consent to anything, ever.

nova gets to be devin's keeper. [weakly] yaaay

that's about it for childhood + adolescence.

although it IS worth noting that her first priority when negotiating with nova for one (1) singular earth temple was, like. she was like okay. respectfully. i'm taking every orphaned earth magician i can find out of the city so they stop being In The Torture Pit. capiche....??

despite earth magicians being a significant minority of the magic users in tachni, this still meant snagging a couple hundred kids. all of varying ages. in the nineteenish-years-later canon, now all these kids are young adults who consider devin a folk hero.

this annoys the absolute Fuck out of devin. bc she's perfect.

[nocreativityfornames]

I have to say, MC is kind of crazy for helping Belphie because I would've never attempted that in their position.

Like, wdym I just got in hell and you want me to somehow figure out how convince Lucifer and his brothers - six of the most powerful demons in hell - to make pacts with me without giving away any ulterior motives? To consistently lie to the only people guaranteeing my safety in this place and risk angering them just to try and free you??

I mean, you're practically immortal so a year for you isn't that much time, you're in a nice room, you don't have to go to RAD like the rest of us, you're getting fed, and you spend most of his time asleep! Your situation is NOT that bad. Oh, but you don't want to be in isolation for the rest of the year till the exchange program ends? Well, tough luck bud, that's what most of us had to go through during the pandemic. You can wait.

I could bring you some card games or whatever to help you pass time but no babe, I'm not working to free you. Sorry, I'm already busy stressing over how I'm gonna survive a year in hell, I don't need more anxiety in me right now.

[lubluues]

who the hell is this guy

[wolverinesprincess]

old man!logan knowing you’re crazy about him, knowing he can make you melt or see stars, knowing you need him and only him is so personal to me

[bonbonly]

I indeed have something to say 🫵

because imagine he starts kissing you, his lips are probably very delicate, a bit sweet from one too many glasses of sangria and moving in a beautifully slow rhythm with yours.

you got back from a party or something, you’re both a bit tipsy and incredibly turned on, and you don’t even think twice before making your way down to the floor as soon as you get home

Not without playing with him a bit tho, it starts with your hands in his hair, tugging while you’re biting on his bottom lip, then you slide them down his neck, scratching your way down to his shoulders and stopping on his chest. His hair is shorter here because he shaves it for racing, but it got a bit of time to grow back so you slowly and tenderly caress him

it’s almost painful to him that you’re taking your time, but how can he protest when one of your hands is now laying down his belly button and playing with the waistband of his boxers ?

And now that your hand has reached its final destination, you’re doing it all over again with your mouth, kissing, licking, occasionally biting.

he’s a whining mess at this point. he’s usually all dom and in control, but right now? He’s is trance. his mind is clouded by the alcohol, and the sight of you on your knees, your tongue dancing down his happy trail while your hands tug his boxers down and your gaze stays locked on his… he’s definitely done for 😔

-🐱

BYE IM DEAD, IM DONE OH MY GOD I CANT EVEN-

[osaka-lilac]

tfw we’re off to see the wizard

[mrmeepsmadmind]

SIDESWIPE 💥💥 DONT U TALK BACK TO UR reluctant MOTHER 😡?!??? EVEN THO HE STARTED IT BY BEING RUDE AS FUCK FOR NO REASON!! YOU HURT HIS HEART!!!

HES SO FUCKING SAD ????

[thewisewill80sbyers]

manifesting a person that I can adore and pamper and take care of and even be a complete simp for and that also matches my freak in all kinds of other ways that I can't write here without having to block half of my followers because I feel like it's inappropriate lmao

[oceanwithouthermoon]

remember how when saiki was crushing on satou and wanted to talk to him, instead of yk.. actually talking to him, he found out all of his interests and displayed his own interest in those things in front of him to try to get him to notice him??

yeah, now imagine him doing that when he has a crush on anyone else..

hes such a silly and awkward teenage boy i love it, like buddy you CAN just talk to your crush, you dont have to try to get him to "notice you.." but hes too silly and awkward so thats like the most he would ever do and would still probably think that that counts as flirting

im just... wondering about how saikis terrible silly flirting tactics would translate if his crush was on one of his FRIENDS.. like someone he could actually be around and would see and talk to him.. would he just like be trying to impress them ?? moving toward them more ?? adopting more of their mannerisms and interests maybe ??

imagine that like EVERYONE in the group would notice it, but it wouldn't be like "omg saiki is flirting" it would be more like "omg why is saiki being extra awkward and talking more" because hes so painfully unclear about his intentions but hes usually so quiet and unassuming that this would be such a stark contrast to his usual behavior...

[hightidejellyfish]

Me when I’m writing in my room alone and I hear something (it’s def a reference to The Shining and not me going crazy while writing because of a ghost which is also a reference to The Shining):

[lovely-rants-alot]

I'd love it if I could just open up to my therapist fully and tell her about how I truly feel but I only ever get the I'm really depressed feeling at liek 2am or when I'm PMSing

[scary-monsters]

also i didn't think abt coming on here to talk about it when i woke up this morning but diego showed up in my dream again last night and it was soooo sweet...... it was a wedding dream, completely different from how i've always imagined it, but still very cute... i love how often he pops up LOL, usually it's really stupid or silly but it's nice when things like this happen bc it feels like my brain is being extra kind to me when i need it most 😭😭😭

[boxtens-askblog]

is voxy fronting in some of the photos? by that i mean... was it in control of the body during some of those times?

uhm.. I guess so.. maybe back after Shrimpo twisted.. I don't think I was all there for that bit..

[clannfearrunt]

A slightly edited writeup stitched together from discord ramblings, about Rill vs his adoptive families. Lol. It’s long

Fathom and Mariana are an international and interracial couple, and they’re the same morph*. There are actual layers of bigotry they’ve faced while trying to get married. However, they are also very much pampered kids from generationally wealthy families. They do consider themselves very socially progressive, but this is true only relative to their immediate social circles. They have this Image of themselves as Good People and don’t have the self-awareness to recognize and unlearn the bigotry they do very much still hold, mainly towards other species. This has been a constant source of headache for Rill, who has to live with them and interact with their families.

(*Fish have a system of distinct “morphs” in addition to sex that informs the gender politics of their various cultures. The two morphs are referred to as drakes and hens in this language. I swear I will get into details on a different post. The particular ways the intersection of sex and morph is handled varies a lot by culture, but across most of them people are expected to be attracted to the opposite sex and morph. Relationships between the same morph can face more scrutiny than same sex ones in many places, as morphs are much easier to determine than sex at a glance.)

The big concession the couple made in order to gain their family’s approval was that they wouldn’t have biological children. So of course they went to adopt. But. The reaction of the extended family towards Fathom and Mariana's adoption of Rill, an Inkling, was mostly confusion. Like, most of them didn't exactly disapprove, but were definitely like, "? what the fuck?? why".

Rill himself consistently gets the impression that they chose to adopt him to reinforce their image of being Good Progressive People. When he was younger he definitely got paraded around at social events and occasionally ended up on gossip publications, and he only recently managed to weasel out of ending up on his parents’ social media posts all of the time. He’s a goddamn publicity stunt. It’s sickening. Unlike what Rill believes, it’s not an intentional Thing on his parents’ minds though. It’s definitely there, but it’s subconscious. Anyways.

The Nykur family initially reacted to Rill with an air of condescending curiosity; their view of Inklings is very colored by longstanding stereotypes of them being simple, frivolous, and lazy, and they had met very few Inklings in person to remotely challenge this view. They've warmed up quite a bit to Rill as he quickly adapted and showed himself to be a bright, well-spoken young man. They mildly pity him for not being able to speak their mother tongue (it is physiologically very difficult for Inklings), but he can respond in either an extremely restrictive selection of words he can manage to pronounce, Peixe (a more globally common Fish Language), or in writing, which is just absolutely phenomenal from an Inkling wowww way to go boy! Even now that they’ve grown to mostly like him, though, Rill consistently gets the vibe of being treated more like a talking animal than a family member, let alone a person.

Mariana's family, the Poecilias, were a little bit more familiar with Inklings, as her country’s warm and humid climate allowed a thriving minority population of Inkfish to establish itself there in the past century or so. They were expecting a boisterous, flamboyantly outgoing boy as per local stereotypes but have been pleasantly surprised by Rill's more reserved and shy demeanor. Some of them might like him a little more than they do Mariana lol, she's definitely the problem child of the family. They don't visit this side of the family as much due to the slightly strained relation Mariana has with them, but they do tell her to bring Rill when she does. Rill... doesn’t dislike them as vehemently as he does the Nykurs, but he finds them very draining to deal with regardless. He’s mostly kind of wearily disinterested in them for now.

The extended Nykur family has been more overtly shit towards Rill. Wether it’s because they’re “more” bigoted towards Inklings or if it’s just that they’ve had more opportunities to show themselves he doesn’t know, but it doesn’t really matter. They seem to be under the mistaken impression that the reason Inklings have a hard time with a bulk of their language is because it falls outside of their range of hearing, and they’ve said some heinous shit in earshot. Rill doesn’t... really know what the best course of action is for him here, so he’s been just been quietly seething. When he visits them he mostly just tries his best to stick close to his parents or Nobils, the butler, and not end up alone with the rest of the family. In all fairness I don’t think most of them would intentionally hurt him, but Rill doesn’t really want to find out.

TO Fathom’s credit also I do think he has told off his family over the really overt shit. He's not malicious, he's just clueless (if occasionally dangerously so), and there is a threshold where it's obvious enough that he's gonna know it's Getting Bad. And he does, technically, actually like his son. So Fathom will intervene, but most of the time it's not like. Serious/stern enough. It's very "hey let's not talk politics at the dinner table"-core... You know that vibe of "ohh don't get so mad at your horrifically racist/queerphobic/insert bigotry here uncle it's thanksgiving dinnerrrr let's not ruin thanksgiving dinner 🥺”. Rill gets a lot of this. He hates Fathom so much. Defend him or don’t, make up your goddamn mind.

Rill is genuinely terrified that if he acts out too much he'd just be unceremoniously disowned. It's much less of a hassle for his "family" to distance themselves from him than it would have been if he was their biological child, or even at least the same species. If this happens he has literally no one else to turn to for support. This fear is a central force shaping his Behaviors. I do think it's a significant bit less likely than he's convinced himself it is? Like, his parents are probably not actually going to drop him like a hot potato the moment he even slightly talks back at them. He's not wrong that they could, and on some level it's not impossible that they would, but it is more unlikely than he's convinced himself it is. With a lot of things I have to have this preface of like. Yes Rill's fears are very much rooted in reality. But he's also very much prone to paranoia and blowing up the risk factors of some things. Important to remember both things are true.

Nobils, the butler, is definitely the main thing keeping Rill from imploding prior to meeting Thresher. When Rill was adopted, he saw The Situation and quickly stepped up as his actual main caretaker. Unlike his employers, Nobils was firmly aware of the gaps in his knowledge regarding Inklings and how to care for them, and worked very hard to fill those gaps and give Rill the best physical and emotional care possible. Rill was at one point extremely close to him, as he was the only safe adult in his life. Nobils also helped raise Fathom, so his failure to be a good father to Rill has been a source of deep sadness and frustration. Unlike an actual parent/child relationship, he's very limited in his ability to confront Fathom, since he's his employer.

Nobils cares deeply for Rill, and sees him as something fairly close to a grandchild. His biggest regret was reminding Rill that he was a well compensated employee in a bid to reassure him that he wasn't being a burden to him. This would have been fine for someone like Fathom, but Rill took it very poorly. He’s retreated into himself since then. Rill puts up an awkward pretense of professionalism between them now that Nobils can clearly see hurts him very deeply... But he recognizes he has no idea how to repair his trust, and has resigned himself to supporting Rill as best as he can while respecting this distance.

Rill does still love Nobils deeply, but he's been trying very hard not to. The realization that Nobils is a servant, doing a job came way after he had grown heavily emotionally reliant on him. It was devastating and embarrassing. Rill wasn't quite old enough or idk. Stable enough? to process that "Nobils is here because it is his job" and "Nobils genuinely loves and cares about him" can be true at the same time. Nowadays this is kind of stewing in the back of his mind but he's too stubborn/scared/mysterious set of emotions to allow himself to admit that it's true. There's a complex and deep well of bitterness and longing. He's never going to forgive Nobils for... being an employee? But if he ever quits he'll never forgive him for that either. He's starved for affection, as much as he'll never admit it, and he's infinitely bitter that any he receives from Nobils is irreversibly tainted in his eyes by their financial ties. Rill is also Not Acknowledging how old this guy is. We are not going to think about the passage of time and mortality or anything. Don't worry about it. Nobils will live forever 👍 It’s his job. He’s very good at his job. He would never leave him.

Nobils is so relieved to see Rill finally hanging out with someone his age he seems to actually like (Thresher). Even if he appears to also be imploding about it. This is an improvement. Can we get this boy a support structure! Can anyone help his boy. Please

[mactiir]

forget online personality tests, what would your character select soundbites be if you were a character in a CRPG

[illegiblewords]

I really wish that, when creators of multi-part stories decided to make new additions, they would look at what aspects of their world or story overall haven't been explored yet or if there are interesting possibilities/questions raised that could be examined. As opposed to ya know... pulling totally unrelated shit out of their asses.

It doesn't just feel forced--it's frustrating for audiences who are invested and curious about the world/characters. It feels like the source creator cares less about the work than the fans do at some point.