#i was thinking about this fic since i wrote those snippets+the masterpost two months ago

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

(pst, if you want more information on this superhero au, you can find the masterpost here! or check out the tag, which you can get to from this post! wahoo!)

"You're sure this is Jimmy's locker?"

"You don't need to whisper, there's literally no one here," Fwhip says, and flicks Sausage on the forehead for good measure. "And no clue, but this is the one the kid said, so I'm taking eir word for it."

Sausage doesn't look quite satisfied with the answer, but he goes back to putting the code that Basil had given them into the lock, so it's clearly close enough.

"How did ey even figure out this was his? Or figure out what the code was?"

"I think these are the kinds of question we don't ask if we want em to keep spying on Jimmy for us, Sausage."

"Great point." Sausage nods solemnly as the lock clicks open, giving the pair unlimited access to Jimmy's things, ripe for the pranking.

"Has the thought ever occurred to you that it might be a bit unethical of us to be using our campers as double agents in this prank war, Fwhip?"

"Once or twice," Fwhip hums. "You?"

"On occasion. We're going to keep doing it though, right?"

"Of course! Now, time to go through Jimmy's things."

Jimmy doesn't actually keep much in his locker. He's got a jacket, despite the fact that it's the middle of July, a backpack, and little else. Fwhip decides to tackle the backpack himself, sifting through things not at all suitable for a prank, like a change of clothes (too boring) and his phone (too expensive). It seems like all of their camper's hard work is going to be going to waste until Fwhip's hand brushes something slimy at the bottom of the bag.

"EW!" He shouts on reflex, pulling his hand back and shaking it off to stop feeling the texture.

"What, what, what is it?" Sausage says excitedly, taking the bag from Fwhip and looking through it himself. It only takes him a moment to find whatever Fwhip had touched, if the way his expression lights up is anything to go by.

"Fwhip, you're not gonna believe this." Sausage sticks his hand into Jimmy's backpack, clearly unbothered by the terrible textures within it, and pulls out something all too familiar.

"Why the hell does Jimmy have the Codfather's mask in his bag?"

If it's a replica, it's a damn good one, covered in that fishy layer of slime the Codfather always seems to have about him and everything. The colors are a perfect match too, a better one than most hero merch that's based on imperfect picture and video shots of the person.

"Wait..." Sausage says, holding the mask way too close to his face as he observes it. "Do you think... is Jimmy the Codfather?"

Fwhip bursts out laughing, way too loudly considering they're somewhere they aren't technically supposed to be. But he can't help himself. Jimmy, the Codfather? The Codfather can hurl pieces of buildings at people, can throw a punch that can- as much as Fwhip hates to admit it- truly leave him reeling, even with all the body armor. He throws Militia's clones at people like they're made of paper rather than... whatever the hell they're made of. Muscle? Not the point.

Jimmy is a stick, outside of the swimming muscles. Fwhip also has a distinct memory of watching Jimmy fall of the lifeguard tower because one of the kids startled him too hard when trying to show him their new jump on the diving board.

No, the Codfather is the Mechanist's rival because, for all that he's an annoying and self-righteous jerk, he's also a formidable opponent. Jimmy is Fwhip's rival because he's a moron.

"Alright, alright, then why do you think he has this?" Sausage says, hitting Fwhip on the arm until he stops laughing. "Is he like... a super fan or something? This thing seems too good to be a Party City costume or something."

Fwhip reaches out and takes the mask from Sausage, only cringing slightly at the texture of it this time. He turns it over in his hands, and Sausage is right. It looks like a perfect replica of the Codfather's mask, and if anyone would be able to recognize such a thing, it'd be Fwhip and Sausage. Where the hell could Jimmy have gotten something like this?

It's in this moment that Fwhip remembers something, a conversation he'd overheard between Jimmy and Lizzie a week or so back. She'd been teasing him about something, or more accurately someone. Jimmy had apparently been caught up in a villain attack downtown, and some hero had escorted him home. Lizzie had taken to calling this hero Jimmy's "superhero boyfriend", which he clearly hated, judging by the fact that the moment he noticed Fwhip listening in he quite aggressively told her to shut the fuck up (in only slightly kinder words).

"Wait, do you think the Codfather could be that superhero boyfriend Lizzie was teasing him about?"

"The Codfather's gay?!"

"I don't know!" Fwhip says, voice barely below a shout. "Why would I know that! It just seems like a much more likely possibility that Jimmy got given the mask by his new boyfriend than him being the Codfather."

Sausage hums, considering. "Okay, that's a good point. The pair of them seem pathetic enough to be charmed by each other, somehow. I ship it."

"Eugh, gross." Fwhip turns his attention back to the slimy mask in his hands, turning it over.

"So... what are we doing about the prank then?" Sausage asks. "I guess we could blackmail him about the boyfriend thing, but I think he might take that the wrong way."

Fwhip considers the mask for just a moment longer before he's struck by inspiration. "What if we steal the mask?"

The way Sausage's smile widens would probably be concerning if Fwhip was anyone slightly more normal, but thankfully for Sausage, Fwhip is just as weird as he is. And just as willing to ruin Jimmy's day.

"You're putting it in your bag, though," Fwhip says, shoving the mask back into Sausage's hands. "I don't want the Codfather's slime on all my stuff."

"Ew, and you think I do?" Sausage protests, but immediately puts it in his bag anyways.

"Nope, but this was my idea, so I get decision making powers. Now c'mon, let's get out of here before anyone comes back. Can't let Basil's hard work go to waste by getting caught."

[sailor-cresselia]

Gathering My Thoughts (literally and metaphorically)

Hey everyone! It’s currently… May 11, 2019. Zi-O has just finished the Hibiki arc, and the raw for Heisei Generations Forever dropped a few days ago.

Before I watch HeiGen Forever, and before Zi-O debunks my ideas, I wanted to post some of my theories and ReUnited snippets involving Zi-O. This also serves to clear out which ideas I had before Zi-O made it to their riders. ESPECIALLY ones involving things that are… not exactly happening the same, but things that are happening similarly in Zi-O as to my ideas.

So! Here we go. 

Writer Time!

(Also, if I have made posts that may be relevant, but that aren’t listed here, if anyone would mind pointing me to them, that’d be much appreciated.)

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I have a masterpost of my liveblogs HERE.

On September 3, 2018, I made The ‘When The Zi-O Meets Drive’ post. This keeps making the rounds, presumably because the Drive Tag hasn’t been very busy until recently, with the Brain Special. Since we’re getting closer and closer to a Drive arc, I figured that I should make the date I wrote that more blatant. Curse Tumblrs lack of obvious post dates.

September 24, we got Ex-Aid Part Two. I started going in on my They Are Faking The Amnesia theory. Post 1 (Featuring the first appearance of History Is Told By The Winners.) (Post 1.5; Mostly messing around) Post 2 

(Also, a section with regards to Sougo and Screwing Up Attacks.)

Here, on October 7, I brought up the idea of how the Time Travelers may have wound up with their Rider-themed items. The show hasn’t touched on this yet, but you never know. They may get around to this in show. They may not.

(Also, Monster Design Notes)

October 23, shortly after the Wizard arc finished, I was in a period of really not trusting Junichiro Tokiwa, Sougo’s uncle. Here’s one of the posts about that. To be fair, he was making a lot of suspiciously relevant side comments. I have come around to him by now, but there’s still those occasional moments of distrust.

October 24, this went down. May 11, I found said post again while compiling all of this. So! Here’s! The additional commentary!

On October 26, we were between the Wizard and OOO arc. A few days later, on the 29th, I got the chance to post an essay on how Sougo might not be all that he seems. I… wasn’t all that far off, I don’t think. He’s definitely got more cleverness to him than he lets on, and it turns out he’s pretty good with people.

October 30, a talk about the whole ‘the enemies are disappearing too’ part of the power stealing.

November 16, before the Gaim arc started, there was this essay on how time travel may or may work within Zi-O. None of this has been touched on in-show, much to my eternal despair.

November 20; after the first episode of the Gaim arc, I had some more thoughts on how “Time travel is not what we’ve been told”.

With regards to Ghost. On September 3, I was worried about Ghost’s Time Dilation issue with regards to Sougo meeting previous Riders. This was well before we found out he only meets some riders in their past, and not meeting some Riders themselves at all. At that point, this post happened. ~And then he brought Takeru to the past. THANKS. Takeru has HAD it with time travel.~

I have consistently envisioned Takeru as maintaining some of his Ghost powers after coming back to life. Not just the Memory Reading one, either – AKA the only one we’ve seen since his series ended, in the Dr. Pac-Man Movie. This post, from December 2, mentions this. This short, from December 3, contains a draft written in November, well before the Ghost arc ended. (Also “the Takeru fic should be coming in the next month or two.” THAT… is not what happened. Oh Cosmos, I really need to get through ReBuild, because I’m really proud of my Takeru Fic so far…)

December 11: Oh THERE’S where I first mentioned that “when Sougo stops being a bootleg, that is when we should really start to worry”!

January 12, 2019: The Faction List – which I really SHOULD make an updated version of at some point soon. I made that after Episode 17, when we had just gotten Hat!Woz.

April 14, 2019: The Blade Arc. This… I really liked the Blade arc. It allows me to use ideas that… I had already had, but now, with Diend having stolen the Mirai Note, they’re justified.

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Theories about Sougo himself:

Once again, the post with regards to Sougo and Screwing Up Attacks.

The Immediately Post-Wizard essay on how Sougo might not be all that he seems.

A Post from Lelola, and added onto by myself, from April 1, about Sougo and his relationship with Geiz and Tsukuyomi.

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Theories about Oma Zi-O:

There’s this reblog from maswartz, on February 6, with regards to Sougo and the shows tendency to duplicate him. This… also does not seem to have gone anywhere, since this was from the Ryuki arc, and the Another Zi-O arc has now come and gone. Although, the Another Zi-O watch DOES still exist, and we don’t know where it IS.

April 11, a brief discussion on where Geiz got the Drive and Ghost watches.

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Again, there may be more. Let me know if you happen to do an archive dive, and find things that you think might fit well in here.