#cs spinkick and flytrap

[cstveamaryllis]

“we’re a vile duo! of course we make out!”

also gonna use this as an excuse to promote and find participants for SPINTRAP WEEK!!

[spintrapweek]

SPINKICK & FLYTRAP (SPINTRAP) WEEK 2025

RUNNING DATE: MAY 18-24 (late submissions are accepted!)

Fellow artists, writers, animators, and ‘headcanoneers’! You’re welcome and invited to join in celebrating and appreciating our favourite, (probably) teenage criminals from the short lived season 3 of Carmen Sandiego! Join SPINTRAP WEEK 2025!

Running date is May 18-24, so as of now (10th of May), you have a week to prepare your pieces! But again, late submissions are accepted!

RULES:

NO NSFW! Minor Implications are fine, but explicit nsfw is NOT. refrain from posting vulgar content, as this is open to the whole fandom— both adults and young teens alike.

AI IS STRICTLY NOT ALLOWED. I don’t have to explain this one. However, picrews are allowed and welcomed!

Changing their designs (clothing and hair) are okay, as long as you DON’T whitewash Spinkick’s skin and features.

Have fun!

PROMPTS

DAY 1: academy days

DAY 2: mission

DAY 3: rivalries (can be with eachother, or with someone else)

DAY 4: ships (can be spintrap or the characters with someone else)

DAY 5: injury

DAY 6: swapped

DAY 7: anything!

I’ll do my best to assure that every piece of content posted under the tag #Spintrapweek25 is reblogged!

[spinkick-flytrap]

Hey there! What's y'all favorite food?

(S): Umm-- Anything that has to do with beef!

(F): Well, we travelled once and I really liked those chocolate filled croissants from a neat little bakeshop in the Philippines.

[captainpluto13]

Happy Halloween!!🎃

You know I had to draw the CS cast in Halloween costumes again this year! Have fun and stay safe!

Thank you everyone for the amazing support! I appreciate it a ton! 🎃🍬🦇

Last year’s post!

[pinkestlemonades]

my random carmen sandiego relationship headcanons

carmen had a crush on xifeng purely for her competence. they hooked up once and are on pretty good terms. if they saw each other again they'd probably hook up again too

sonia had a crazy crush on carmen that she didn't clock whatsoever. it frustrates team red to no end bc it was SO OBVIOUS. they meat again after like 6 years and go in 1 date before carmen realizes she things sonia is still that childish teenager even tho she's grown now. this is very much not a reflection of how she thinks of her past self

carmen and gray have an eternal will they wont they situation. in the end they won't. they don't see each other for like 7 years right before carmen turns 43 and then they bump into each other at some random cafe and finally finally give up on each other

carmen and ivy have a very queer relationship in both meanings. they don't notice this fact at all. ivy knew she had a crush on their first meeting but thought se got over it, which she didn't. player knows this but doesn't want them to get together bc she's scared of what would happen ifthey break up

carmen and julia are very comfortable w each other and go thru phases of feelings but neither act on them. Julia thinks she can never really know carmen and carmen thinks she can't understand how julia lives her life. chief and ivy both think they are stupid about each other. they are right.

chase and carmen both think of each other as friends even if they roll their eyes when they say it. julia thinks her and chase are in a "crush on carmen" club. meanwhile he's just like. omg she's so smart. someone give this girl a Nobel peace prize. and he thinks julias crush on her is also her being in awe

SHADOWSAN IS NOT CARMENS DAD FUCK THAT he's like her father figure sure but he's only at that point in her 20s sooo it's complicated. she thinks of him as her friend and partner in crime who is also coincidentally like 35 years older than her. he thinks of her as his responsibility and himself as her sorta-bodyguard slash second in command who is emotionally invested

on the other hand carmen still thinks of coach brunt as a mother figure deep down. she despises this.

carmen thinks player is like. her best friend. her twin. her equal. he thought he had a crush on her when she was in vile but he just wanted to be friends. he is also very aware of the fact thta shes older than him and thinks of her as an older sister. both of them think they have to protect the other.

hideo thinks shadowsan is carmen's bio dad and in turm thinks he's her uncle. no one has made it clear to him that this is not the case. he keeps giving shadowsan holiday cards to send to carmen. shadowsan thinks it's just hideo being nice. player suspects hideo doesn't know but he thinks it's pretty telling that he believes it. he makes fun of her foe it but carmen is too embarrassed to tell hideo after like 4 years

tigress and paperstar enter an enemies with benifits stage where they're both trying to ruin each other. at some point they try to bring carmen into it to make a threesome except, like everything else, they do it as a competition. carmen thinks it's the funniest things ever. she calls them her two boytoys and keeps egging them on

el topo and le chevre eventually feel guilty about trying to. yknow. hunt down carmen. she falls back into an uneasy friendship with them very much modeled after their relationship in vile academy, but eventually she realizes she can't forget that they tried to sell her out and disappears for like 8 months and comes back like "lets try this again." the boys are both just glad she's willing to give them a proper chance. they become pretty close after that, but not as close as they once were. it's good enough tho.

spinkick and flytrap date for almost two years and then break up. spinkick takes it terrible and gets with carmen as a rebound. conveniently, carmen is tryng to get over another crush season on julia, so she's also using him as a rebound. they spend three months together fully convinced they're boyfriend and girlfriend but really they're in some weird friends with benefits situationship. player is very much exasperated. when they finally break up its in thr most explosive world ending crazy ex way. carmen breaks into his house and wrecks his room. he crashes her car and dumps it in the river. they spend thr next 4 months getting over their respective original exes. the next time they see wach other they try to duke it out right then and there. carmen rocks his shit and he is grudgingly crushing on her again because she beat him up but she was beautiful while doing it. carmen has no idea, because player makes sure they never see each other again.

carmen and her mom are STRUGGLING after thr finale. their reunion is very teary and sweet but after that they struggle to build a relationship that should already be there. part of the reason carmen goes back to being carmen sandiego in the epilogue is because she's looking for an escape from home. carlotta is very upset about carmen going back and it sort of pushes her into the spinkick situationship.

i would love to hear peoples thoughts on this btw!!

[st0r-fruit]

Sigh...cant keep holding you guys like this...

Have a relationship tier as a wip....take this as you will

[sparklingchampagne]

Maelstrom: So, who broke it? I'm not mad, I just want to know.

El Topo: I did. I broke it-

Maelstrom: No, no you didn't. Spinkick?

Spinkick: Don't look at me! Look at Flytrap!

Flytrap: What?! I didn't break it!

Spinkick: Huh, that's funny. How did you even know it was broken?

Flytrap: Because it's sitting right in front of us, and it's broken.

Spinkick: Hmmm... suspicious.

Flytrap: No, it's not!

Le Chevre: If it matters, probably not, but Tigress was the last one to use it.

Tigress: Liar! I don't even drink that crap!

Le Chevre: Oh really, then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Tigress: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Le Chevre!

El Topo: Okay, let's not fight! I broke it. Let me pay for it, professor.

Maelstrom: No! Who broke it?!

Flytrap: Professor, Paper Star has been awfully quiet-

Paper Star: Really!?

Flytrap: Yes, really.

Paper Star: Oh my god!

(Everyone starts arguing)

Maelstrom: I broke it. It burned my hand so I punched it. I predict ten minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with war paint on their faces and a pig head on a stick. Good. It was getting a little chummy in here.

[lara635kookie]

THIS, OMG! I've always wanted to see Carmen resenting a little to fight V.I.L.E. because of her childhood good memories and always wanted to see more of the V.I.L.E. operatives(the surnames of Sheena, Jean Paul and Antônio, more than we got about Gray and everything about Paper Star). Something that really gets to me is V.I.L.E.'s new class. It was supposed to be a WHOLE ENTIRE class and then they only gave us Spin Kick and Flytrap. Like, give us at least 5/6 new more villains. And the faculty, specially Coach Brunt, always emphasized how it was their best class and would easily take Carmen down and we barely see Spin Kick and Flytrap and yet they are easily taken down by Carmen and Shadowsan. Paper Star is still the best V.I.L.E. villain and Gray is still V.I.L.E.'s best overall character. I wanted to see more of Paper Star's class since it appears to be a different one from both Carmen's original class and Spin Kick and Flytrap's one. It apparently was after Carmen's original class but before Spink Kick and Flytrap's one. I wanted to see how her class felt about her being obviously Maelstrom's favorite, how did it felt for her to be the youngest agent of V.I.L.E., how did it felt for her being the operative who was the closest to take Carmen down, how did they reward her for the A.C.M.E. card(I always wondered how was payday at V.I.L.E. and how it became after their financial crisis caused by Carmen) more of her relationship with Lady Dokuso and the others(specially Tigress, Mime Bomb, and Le Chevre afrer what she did to him) and her graduation day. Coming back to Gray, I don't believe it was a full personality change since we saw his cute friendship with Black Sheep and he turned good at the end. Apparently, what Doctor Bellum did was turning off the bad instincts of Gray and turning off the good instincts of Carmen(at least that was what I understood). He was so complex and hard to completely understand, I love him sm. Speaking of which, New Zealand needed a better national villain. Australia had THE Graham "Gray" Calloway aka Crackle and the the kiwis had a gross guy named "Neal, The Eel"(still the worst codename of the series, even "Graham Crackle" was better than that). #JusticeForNewZealand

how graham's amnesia was weakened

all cards on the table, i really like amnesia tropes, especially with bad guy turned good or at least bad guy temporarily being good. i just love how amnesia can give morally gray or straight up evil characters a way to explore what they are outside being evil

so ofc my favorite character was gray from carmen sandiego (tho i did like him out of the gate for his friendship with carmen in the backstory)

so i was intrigued when he returned as an amnesiac and we get to see him actually normal and uninterested in villainy. It was interesting seeing graham's strong attatchment to morality in season 2, asking carmen after the heist if they were the "good guys". it is a bit cliche, but it shows that if graham does have a sense of right or wrong.

ofc graham def joined vile for the wrong reasons of wanting to be trained as a thief. though to know that maybe with a more stable career, graham couldve have been satisfied with his life and not turn to questionable means of making a liveliehood

it helps provide more perspective to vile agents as a whole, gesturing the notion that maybe if they didn't join vile when they were young and reckless, they wouldn't be trapped in an enviorment that forces them deeper into villainy through adulthood

until s4 came and lowkey retconned it all. now graham's mindwipe wasnt just amnesia, its also a "personality rewrite". which is to me, a cowardly move. now any moral concerns gray brings up prior is moot. instead of graham's amnesia revealing what could happen to vile agents if they were placed in a healthier enviorment, showing that the agents arent the true evil, it just becomes a pointless u-turn that reveals nothing about who gray actually is.

Gray no longer is a character impacted by circumstance, but always a morally bad character who was temporarily replaced by a good person

now that could work. it could open the debate whether gray should return to a calmer life, even if that robs him of his true autonomy, or return to vile knowing that he at least is not being controlled by another party. but i mean, carmen sandiego is a story about carmen and not gray, so such a complex moral debate would take time away from the main character.

its such a sad decision to know that whatever graham says during s1 and s2 isnt at all true to his character. It seems to me the story just isnt willing to give any vile agent any complexity because that could cause carmen to question who she should be really fighting, other agents or the vile faculty.

[stunfiskz]

a couple of goofy goobers… silly billies if you will

[pasturelamb]

*Player and The Troll are cyberbullying each other*

Flytrap: Did he make any spelling mistakes?

The Troll: No, but he did say who instead of whom.

Flytrap: Call it.

The Troll: *typing* I think you’ll find it’s “whom”.

Spinkick: Quick! Block him before he can respond!

[cstveamaryllis]

“a maelstrom of chaos.”

[haveaclock]

Headcanons because I haven't done some in awhile (yes even my fanmade)

This is basically something like a mega head canons I guess

Team Red

Carmen likes to write, Whenever Team Red comes back from capers she writes all about it.

Zack tries to pressure point pinch Ivy alot, It doesn't end well

Ivy sometimes uses Carmen's punching Bag, but she always ends up getting hit by them-

Shadow-San goes shopping, well ehm, when he has time and money- (dadowdan at the mall)

Player Pranks VILE in his meantime, after capers (This is ACME , your under arrest.)

VILE (operatives)

El Topo is .. just chef kiss- , no but really his hair is very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very soft , he got the whole school crowded around him, even Shánzi, the emo one-

Le Chèvre is very very good at art- and when he was still a simp he drew El Topo,it was beautiful I'm telling you- it's the fact that he actually got a nosebleed from a drawing of El Topo is just crazy asf (HE CAN MAKE PREFECT CIRCLES 😭😭😭😭)

Crackle = Dumbass (I did you dirty)

Tigress just does random poses in the mirror, and shes actually hot in them- (HIYASSS :Sticky Rice Caper throwback)

MimeBomb is very very very GOOD WITH MAKE UP, HE CAN CHANGE GENDERS (He tried teaching the others how to do it- his miming threw everyone off - Except for Le Chèvre, now Le Chèvre is good in make up Now he can change genders-, that was random okay-)

Paper Star = Goat Abuser

Dash Haber= your bank account gone

Shánzi is your therapist, period (he really is good at his job)

Sparkle Shot is good at designing clothes, She helped a bit with Paper Star and Shánzi uniform, if she sees something is wrong she's gonna give a whole course on how to make it better.

Neal the Eel is no ( I have nothing for you)

Spinkick bout to break some walls

Flytrap had the best aim ever- I'm telling you, tell her to aim , 1st PREFECT NOTHING OUT OF PLACE

Thunderbird , Heartache, And Amaryllis you get to be here but I have nothing for you (@anotheroneofthegaysharks @carmensandiegowritinngs @vileoperativeamaryllis special guests)

VILE ( Faculty)

Prof.Maelstrom most definitely watches true crime shows

Coach Brunt can't hold nothing -

Cleo bout to be harassing Dash for buying the wrong things (IS THIS STEVEN MADDEN?!, I TOLD YOU LOUIS VUITTON!!)

Get off that damn phone Dr.Bellum

ACME

Chief is your local black church choir singer

Chase Devineaux = Child on the lose

Julia Argent = The child's mother

Robin bank account go brr , at the same time if she insists on doing something and you don't want her to do she bout to bring out that accent and start scolding you

[spinkick-flytrap]

WE JUST BROKE OUT!!!! WAHAHHAHAHAH

[someone-online]

Carmen Sandiego Characters as things my AP Physics teacher has said

Carmen Sandiego: Remember what happens when protons move? *explosion mouth noises*

Player: Back in the olden days, you couldn’t build tall buildings. There’s the ground, and here’s a cloud. If you had a tall building, lightning would strike it, and it would catch on fire, and everyone would die.

Zack: Wire. Wire. Wire. Wire. Lightbulb. Wire. Wire.

Ivy: A thing on a thing, if you have a thing with a thing, it’s just mr squared for the thing.

Shadowsan: I just have two reminders for today: One, pass your exams. And two, don’t fail your exams.

Julia Argent: This guy was pretty cool in his time, because he was an average guy who did science.

Chase Devineaux: NYUHHHHHHHHhhhhh!!!

Chief: Just so you know... next time you want a not annoying FRQ, don’t sing “Happy Birthday” during a review.

Agent Zari: This is why you’re all gonna fail.

Coach Brunt: I don’t take emotional attendance.

Countess Cleo: I went to a barbershop where they don’t speak English so they don’t talk to me.

Dr. Bellum: I don’t think the cows understand physics. Cows are pretty dumb.

Maelstrom: This one almost escapes Earth’s gravity. Almost. But it doesn’t. It goes up here, then crashes and burn.

Tigress: If I saw any of you walking in my neighborhood, I’d move immediately.

Graham/Gray/Crackle: Imagine being enough of a jerk to say 2700 seconds.

El Topo: I don’t know where this slide came from.

Le Chèvre: We should just... go out in the courtyard and throw stuff to find Earth’s escape velocity.

Paperstar: Then there’s a knife. Why’s there a knife? Because I put it there.

Spinkick: What if cavities don’t actually exist and it only depends on the dentist you go to?

FlyTrap: When I took Diff EQ in college, I just played Pokémon because the teacher was boring.

Neal the Eel: We’re not really gonna do it, we’re just gonna say “hi” to it.

Roundabout: There’s gonna be some weird drawings on the exam... Like a metal bar. There’s a metal bar. In space. Because someone put it there.

The Troll: I will give you the answer now that Google told me.

[milfcoven]

[greatsweet98]

Done watching S3.

Good news: Awesome plot, great new characters, the return of the previous characters, like the ending of the season.

Bad News: It's so short🥺.