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Gerard of Greenleigh gets turned into a frog at 10(?) years old, and spends the next decade learning nothing except that the world is big and scary and everything could possibly kill him. He acts like a spoiled kid (because what else was he taught to act like?) and gets cursed so that only true love, something we are categorically told doesn’t actually exist, will save him.

How much did he miss out on? Ages 10-20 is an incredibly important part in someone’s life, it’s when you start to realise what kind of person you could be. It’s when you start developing your interests, it’s when you start becoming who you are as an adult, and Gerald couldn’t do any of that because he was a frog with no interaction with humanity outside of fear.

Maybe that’s why he acts the way he does with Pinocchio and Red. He sees Pinocchio and Red, who are cursed just for being reckless, impulsive kids, and wonders if maybe it had nothing to do with him, maybe he was just an unlucky kid in a line of unlucky kids. And he gets angry at them, for making the same stupid decisions he might have, because don’t you realise what being a stupid kid might cost you?

Gerard of Greenleigh spent a decade learning that the only way to survive the world is to run and hide. When another threat comes for his kingdom, what else would he have done?

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Too many sappy headcanons and aus, time to make a list of how I think the Bad Kids flirt with their crush (this is all barely a headcanon, it’s just how I interpret how the Bad Kids act around someone they like).

Riz-Aroace. Does not get crushes. He is very good at knowing when someone has a crush on him, but is so bad at talking about it that he usually just ignores it and hopes it goes away.

Adaine- Does not get crushes easily. If she ever got one, it doesn’t usually affect her enough for her to do anything about it. She freaks out and gets embarrassed upon realising her feelings, but unless she talks with the other person often, it usually stays in the background. Doesn’t actively pursue anyone, she is far too busy, but would be flattered.

Kristin- Used to be incredibly flustered by anything remotely close to romance. Having Tracker as her first girlfriend got rid of that pretty quickly. She still flusters, but can usually power through it. Gets short-lived crushes pretty easily, but doesn’t act on them. Has achieved the true goal of only having WLW hit on her.

Fabian- Tries to act cool. Isn’t. He usually doesn’t realise he likes someone until they do something about it, and then tries to overcompensate for lost time by being really suave. Eventually he’ll forget that it’s a big deal and go back to bring regular Fabian, who is effortless cool in a kind-person way.

Fig- There’s a sweet spot between ‘not sure if they like me’ and ‘dating,’ which is where Fig shines. She gets more confident, without being worried about the relationship. Before and after, she gets unsure about it, which she used to cover by disgusting as other people. Ayda is slowly helping her learn to keep that confidence into the relationship.

Gorgug- Is almost the opposite of Riz. Has no clue who has a crush on him, but when he knows? He’s almost accidentally smooth when talking to them. He was more awkward in freshman year, and even then sort of fell face-first into a relationship with Zelda. His awkwardness seems to attract other socially-unsure people, but his ability to match their energy puts them at ease and be a bit more confident.

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And what if I said I wanted a FH au where Gorgug is a barbarian/artificer teacher at Aguefort academy, specialising in helping multiclass students, who has a workshop and builds commissions as a side business (he has a high level of barbarian clients, who usually break or ruin regular artificer machines).

What if I wanted a FH au where Fabian becomes a bard/fighting teacher, using his mother’s sword lessons to teach students, taking over both dance club and bloodrush coach (who on weekends does dance classes and dances in local and national shows).

What if I wanted a FH au where Kristin recognises herself in the confused cleric students who are suddenly learning more about religion than their families taught them, and decides that she can assuade their doubt (they are encouraged to ask questions always, and she assures them that they don’t need to be certain to deserve kindness).

What if I wanted a FH au where the Aguefort academy has a sort of careers day, for those not looking for an adventuring career, and the students get to watch as their cleric, barbaficer and bard fighting teacher walk in with the most successful PI of Solus, the Elven Oracle and famous singer and Devil of Rebellion, acting like they’ve known each other forever.

What if the students look, and find an old photo in Agueforts office, of the six of them, fire and rubble in the background, hugging and laughing, with a post it note on the back of -the bad kids, do not seperate-.

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Going to say now, while I completely get why the Bad Kids would kill the Rat Grinders in a fight, given how the RG have committed several murders, corrupted all of Elmville ecosystem and endangered the lives of ~500 students, I would like to see the RG be revived in some way.

Partially because the RG were manipulated, and their emotions were used on them by adults that should be trustworthy, and also so Lucy gets her good ending, but also because I want them to figure out what the fuck the Bad Kids did in the final battle.

This started with Wanda and Gorgug telling Oisin his grandma is dead. I want the kids at the party to talk about Adine punching an illusionary dragon to death and watch Oisin very suddenly realise he fucked up. I want Kipperlily to begrudgingly ask Riz how he could swim in lava, and have Riz in the smuggest voice possible tell her that Kristin (who, up to this point KLCK thought was silly, incompetent and unfit to lead) thought it out before hand and cast ice feast. I want Ruben to come back and be told that he now works at Fig’s studio, less like eternal damnation and more like community service for trying to resurrect a rage god. I want Ivy to see Mazey and Fabian in the hallways and walk away. I want the Rat Grinders to react to K2.

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More Bad Kids headcanons because I’ve caught up, and I have feelings. Long post here.

-Everything Gorgug makes for the party, weapons, accessories, ect, has flowers on it. Each member has its own flower (I don’t know flower symbolism, sorry), and it’s stylised based on what he made for them.

-The entire party hates porcelain dolls. And masks. Anything to do with Baron. Adine used to have a collection of porcelain dolls, but they were in the attic when her house burnt down. She’s a little grateful for that now.

-For his birthday, the party put together a clues board for Riz that held everything they liked about him. Pictures of them hanging out, lists of affirmations and assurances, all connected by Riz’s string catagories. He keeps it in his office, in front of where the broken mirror was.

-Fabian will employ anyone to help with his dance practise. Usually Gorgug, since he’s big and can spot Fabian easily, but Kristin has also helped since she got buff. The others cheer him on, just like they do in bloodrush.

-Fig is the most encouraging of everyone’s self-expression. She is indeterminate of who she grabs to practise painting nails, and Fabian learns eyeliner from her. She is also great at knowing when someone is flirting with her friends, but can’t figure it out for herself.

-Kristin has a bunch of stuff from different religions, from the time she was researching different practises. Some she gives away to other worships who use them, but some she keeps either for sentiment or because she uses them with Cassandra.

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Deciding to write a fantasy high au where the Rat Grinders hide their connection to the overarching plan better than in canon. This is achieved by them actually (basically) stalking the Bad Kids everywhere, so they know more.

Or that was the plan. But it turns out that Kipperlily is really the only one sneaky enough to get away with it, so for the time skip between the beginning of Sophomore year and spring break, the Bad Kids keep accidentally finding the Rat Grinders watching them. It’s weird the first few times, but then the Rat Grinders are sort of- unofficially invited? to hang out with the Bad Kids? Like, they aren’t told when and where, but the Bad Kids usually just invite them into the conversation and talk to them more if they’re found out. Kipperlily encourages this because it means they’ve got more intell.

Except that’s not what happens. They ask Ruben about school, and the way he describes bard classes actually convinces Fig to give them a try. She introduces him to new music, and they start writing songs for each other to look over. When Fig starts her band, she asks Ruben and his band to be her first opener. The two have a decent overlap in audience, but they also pull their own listeners into each others music.

When Fabian asks Mary Ann about her tamagotchi friend, she’s the most excited they’ve seen her. Gorgug asks about it a little, and confines that it’s the small, complex kind of tech he’d never be able to make. The bad kids encourage him, and around winter break he comes in with a- strange looking bird that he says is named Chloe, but that’s not what it responds to. A few weeks after they come back from their spring break, Gorgug gives Mary Ann a construct of her tamagotchi, small enough to fit in her bag, and she cries.

Ivy tries to get Fig on the ‘mean girl’ idea, but Fig shuts it down pretty quickly. She introduces Ivy to Baxter, and Ivy now comes to the Manor solely to pet him. She meets Sandra-Lynn, who sees this girl that is almost her, and asks Jawbone to have a talk with her, just once. Ivy tends to be quieter nowadays, but a little nicer too, and Fig can understand her mom a little more with Ivy next to her.

Adaine and Oisin meet earlier, and the two talk more about their school work. Adaine apologises for not remembering him, and the two are a speed team in their class that semester. The first time Oisin made a comment concerning lower classes, Fabian pulled him aside and they have a talk about family, and what it means to use your class to help others rather than insult them. They both come out of it a little better.

Lucy and Kristin talk some. Kristin still likes hearing about other Gods, and Lucy doesn’t often get to talk about her ancestral religions. She helps Kristin and Tracker, since she doesn’t have anything against other Clerics or their religions. When Kristin gets doubt, she talks it out, and Lucy learns some spine from Kristine assertiveness.

With Riz, the Rat Grinders have been told stories from Kipperlily, so they expect things, but Riz isn’t like that. He isn’t dismissive or impersonal, and while he’s definitely- intense, there isn’t superiority there like they thought. When he talks about his dad or his home life, they don’t see a great backstory like Kipperlily wants, they see a kid at their age, that has to do twice as much for half the reward. They don’t know how to tell her.

But he does relax. With more people helping each other, Riz is a little less stressed. And the Rat Grinders, more than anything, see an adventuring party that are actually friends, that rely on each other and actually hang out together outside campaigns.

And then Spring break happens, and it’s a little better. The Rat Grinders convive Kipperlily to go on another quest, instead of to the mountains. Gorgug is more secure, Fabian’s more aware, Adaine has pushed her spells more, Riz is a little less stressed, Fig’s more focused and Kristin still doubts, but she’s better at taking about it. But it’s still bad. They still go through the forest, still have to deal with fighting and their fears, still get beat up and everything.

And when they come back, the Rat Grinders don’t see them getting praise. They don’t see all the great rewards for saving the world they expected. What they see, is a change to a deadline that was going to happen anyway, and that this group of people that were kind to them have gone through absolute hell. They’re tired, they’re scared, it’s rough. And then a week later, they’re running off again, after an endless night. And when they come back, it’s just more consequences and reprimands from a system that the Rat Grinders have been told favours the Bad Kids. And they realise that maybe Kipperlily doesn’t understand the Bad Kids as well as she thinks.

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Starting fantasy high: junior year, and I am imagining the first day of school, it’s been a long, sunless summer, there’s been cults popping up everywhere, and then the weekend before school starts, the suns back.

Then you go in on Monday, and the kids that saved the world over spring break are there, looking like they haven’t slept in two weeks. The elven oracle has a jacket that’s almost ripped to shreds, their rouge has a waistcoat half covered in blood. They all smell like sand and dust, the van they arrive in is beat to shit and has a sigil and a gun(?) on the roof. Half of them have acid scars, the dancer has road rash across his face. Their orc still has amounts of dust in his hair, and his shoes have acid holes in them.

They all look exhausted and worn-out, half-dead zombies that walk into class and collapse, then in the first class they’re asked what they did over the summer, and apparently they’re the ones who caught the night yorb and ended the eternal night? Literally over the weekend? And it’s in the van in the school parking lot? And they just drove 48 hours straight, almost dead and dealing with broken bones and acid and fire? And the teacher is listening to this, and wondering if maybe they should just give the group the day off, because jesus christ, what the fuck?

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Actually, upon reviewing the tags, I would like to formally apologise to Wilma and Digby thistlespring, who would absolutely hug their son whenever possible. If anything, I think the bad kids might make Gorgug realise he can be physically affectionate without accidentally almost hurting people, which he is very scared of, since he breaks a lot of things. Also, he goes into full rages around these people regularly in fights, instead of trying to hide it like he does around his parents, and they still hug him like they aren’t scared.

I just started watching Dimension 20’s Fantasy high, halfway through sophomore year, and I do want a fic where people realise just how used to being part of a group the bad kids are. For example-

-I fully believe every single one of them is used to Riz climbing them so he can see better. It’s usually Gorgug, but it’s happened to all of them at some point. They might hold out their arm for him to jump onto a counter, or so he can pin a clue to his board. Before they all sit at a table, at least one of them makes sure their 4’4 friend can jump onto the table.

-Every single one of them has also caught Adaine after she had a vision. Sometimes she can just shake them off, but the big ones make her falter in what she’s doing, which can be dangerous. It happened once in a fight, and now the people standing closest to her are always ready.

-Fabian doesn’t really recognise he has a blind spot with his eye injury, because the others immediately clocked it. But this also means they walk in between him and the road, in case some idiot mounts the curb. They keep an eye on anything to his right, shifting drinks and pushing chairs if they can tell his depth perception is a little off.

-Fig usually stands in the middle of the group to intimidate people into not messing with them, so it’s sort of become habit to just crowd around her. After the battle, if no one’s seriously hurt or anything, everyone just wanders over to Fig. At this point, Fig is always the first one to yell out after a fight, just so they can regroup.

-Gorgug is the go-to for lap-sits, leaning, anything to do with being physically supported by another persons body. His hoodie is soft, and his headphones are loud enough that you can kind of hear it if your leaning on him. His parents weren’t great with nonchalant physical contact, in case he was already upset, so he takes great joy in his friends not being scared to hug him for fun.

-Kristin has left her staff at every single house she could with the bad kids. She leaves her bag in classrooms, the library, the cafeteria. Whenever the group leave somewhere, they do a full scan, because Kristin has probably left something and they grab it for her. No one has any clue who her bag actually belongs to, because all of the bad kids have been seen carrying it around school several times.

The school at large know who the bad kids are, and the town recognise them, but they still don’t know why all of them double check a room before leaving, or collectively carry a small stool around with them. One student with a fantasy iron deficiency faints in class and Kristin catches her before she hits the ground. Once, Fig isn’t in school for a day and all the bad kids have this restless energy about them. It is not uncommon to see them on the field during lunch, curled up in a pile on Gorgug. One guy tries to surprise Fabian from the right and gets body checked by Adaine before it even registers.

It’s sort of uncomfortable for everyone to see any of them without the others, because it means a) the rest of them committed a crime, b) the rest of them are committing a crime, or c) the rest of them are about to run in and start planning to commit a crime. And no one wants to lose their plausible deniability here.

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Reblogging an hour later, because I’m willing to bet that this includes the behaviour and inside jokes of the actual players. Half the school are convinced Fig is dating every member of the bad kids because she just keeps winking at them all the time. There have been arguments in the parking lot where the kids ask their vehicles for their opinions, and no one knows if the vehicles actually talk or not. A new orc-ish teacher starts their home room and the first thing the whole group do when they meet him is turn to Gorgug as one and ask if he’s Gorgug’s dad. 70% of their stories start with ‘so I was talking to God-‘ with a look to Kristin. There are jokes about Riz’s abysmal luck, and every vulture is bowed to because of ‘the vulture king.’ Why are there even so many vultures.

I just started watching Dimension 20’s Fantasy high, halfway through sophomore year, and I do want a fic where people realise just how used to being part of a group the bad kids are. For example-

-I fully believe every single one of them is used to Riz climbing them so he can see better. It’s usually Gorgug, but it’s happened to all of them at some point. They might hold out their arm for him to jump onto a counter, or so he can pin a clue to his board. Before they all sit at a table, at least one of them makes sure their 4’4 friend can jump onto the table.

-Every single one of them has also caught Adaine after she had a vision. Sometimes she can just shake them off, but the big ones make her falter in what she’s doing, which can be dangerous. It happened once in a fight, and now the people standing closest to her are always ready.

-Fabian doesn’t really recognise he has a blind spot with his eye injury, because the others immediately clocked it. But this also means they walk in between him and the road, in case some idiot mounts the curb. They keep an eye on anything to his right, shifting drinks and pushing chairs if they can tell his depth perception is a little off.

-Fig usually stands in the middle of the group to intimidate people into not messing with them, so it’s sort of become habit to just crowd around her. After the battle, if no one’s seriously hurt or anything, everyone just wanders over to Fig. At this point, Fig is always the first one to yell out after a fight, just so they can regroup.

-Gorgug is the go-to for lap-sits, leaning, anything to do with being physically supported by another persons body. His hoodie is soft, and his headphones are loud enough that you can kind of hear it if your leaning on him. His parents weren’t great with nonchalant physical contact, in case he was already upset, so he takes great joy in his friends not being scared to hug him for fun.

-Kristin has left her staff at every single house she could with the bad kids. She leaves her bag in classrooms, the library, the cafeteria. Whenever the group leave somewhere, they do a full scan, because Kristin has probably left something and they grab it for her. No one has any clue who her bag actually belongs to, because all of the bad kids have been seen carrying it around school several times.

The school at large know who the bad kids are, and the town recognise them, but they still don’t know why all of them double check a room before leaving, or collectively carry a small stool around with them. One student with a fantasy iron deficiency faints in class and Kristin catches her before she hits the ground. Once, Fig isn’t in school for a day and all the bad kids have this restless energy about them. It is not uncommon to see them on the field during lunch, curled up in a pile on Gorgug. One guy tries to surprise Fabian from the right and gets body checked by Adaine before it even registers.

It’s sort of uncomfortable for everyone to see any of them without the others, because it means a) the rest of them committed a crime, b) the rest of them are committing a crime, or c) the rest of them are about to run in and start planning to commit a crime. And no one wants to lose their plausible deniability here.

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I just started watching Dimension 20’s Fantasy high, halfway through sophomore year, and I do want a fic where people realise just how used to being part of a group the bad kids are. For example-

-I fully believe every single one of them is used to Riz climbing them so he can see better. It’s usually Gorgug, but it’s happened to all of them at some point. They might hold out their arm for him to jump onto a counter, or so he can pin a clue to his board. Before they all sit at a table, at least one of them makes sure their 4’4 friend can jump onto the table.

-Every single one of them has also caught Adaine after she had a vision. Sometimes she can just shake them off, but the big ones make her falter in what she’s doing, which can be dangerous. It happened once in a fight, and now the people standing closest to her are always ready.

-Fabian doesn’t really recognise he has a blind spot with his eye injury, because the others immediately clocked it. But this also means they walk in between him and the road, in case some idiot mounts the curb. They keep an eye on anything to his right, shifting drinks and pushing chairs if they can tell his depth perception is a little off.

-Fig usually stands in the middle of the group to intimidate people into not messing with them, so it’s sort of become habit to just crowd around her. After the battle, if no one’s seriously hurt or anything, everyone just wanders over to Fig. At this point, Fig is always the first one to yell out after a fight, just so they can regroup.

-Gorgug is the go-to for lap-sits, leaning, anything to do with being physically supported by another persons body. His hoodie is soft, and his headphones are loud enough that you can kind of hear it if you’re leaning on him. His parents weren’t great with nonchalant physical contact, in case he was already upset, so he takes great joy in his friends not being scared to hug him for fun.

-Kristin has left her staff at every single house she could with the bad kids. She leaves her bag in classrooms, the library, the cafeteria. Whenever the group leave somewhere, they do a full scan, because Kristin has probably left something and they grab it for her. No one has any clue who her bag actually belongs to, because all of the bad kids have been seen carrying it around school several times.

The school at large know who the bad kids are, and the town recognise them, but they still don’t know why all of them double check a room before leaving, or collectively carry a small stool around with them. One student with a fantasy iron deficiency faints in class and Kristin catches her before she hits the ground. Once, Fig isn’t in school for a day and all the bad kids have this restless energy about them. It is not uncommon to see them on the field during lunch, curled up in a pile on Gorgug. One guy tries to surprise Fabian from the right and gets body checked by Adaine before it even registers.

It’s sort of uncomfortable for everyone to see any of them without the others, because it means a) the rest of them committed a crime, b) the rest of them are committing a crime, or c) the rest of them are about to run in and start planning to commit a crime. And no one wants to lose their plausible deniability here.

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For Ep2, does anyone remember Season four, Karen Wheeler had a poster with the House and no one understood why, since she didn’t really do anything that season?

I know it could be Nancy, but I think the parents getting involved by Karen disappearing, and the kids needing to explain it would be really interesting. Alternatively, it could also be Holly, since I think after the time skip, Holly would be around the same age as Will when he disappeared, and it’d be a good parallel.

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The kids start calling Steve ‘Mom’ a few weeks before Dustin goes away for camp. It’s actually Mike who starts it.

Steve acts a lot like Karen does at times. He cooks literally every time someone comes over. He has rules about where mud can go, and has the same habit of yelling upstairs then not elaborating when any of the kids respond. It’s a joke, and Steve acts the right amount of jokingly offended. The others pick it up quickly, and by the time Scoops happens, he’s more likely to respond to ‘Mom’ than his actual name.

Robin gets into it. When they hang out, she calls it a girls night, or asks if he wants a ‘break from the kids.’ The first time he confines in her that, sometimes the jokes don’t upset him as much as they should, she spends four hours at every queer bar and hangout she knows outside Hawkins, and gets back to him saying some people change from being guys to girls or the other way around. Sometimes, some people chose not to be either. And sometimes, like Steve, they change it ever so often.

Steve is ecstatic. They look more into it, start accumulating more feminine clothes, they’ve always taken pride in their appearance, and this isn’t something they’ve had the confidence to experiment with until now.

One day, the kids are round. Steve says something, probably about the noise they’re making, and without thinking, Lucas makes a joke about ‘Mom’ yelling. The kids don’t fully understand why Steve starts laughing, but eventually she tells them, and they accept it so easily.

They try to ask if it’s okay to call her mom, and she reminds them that they call her that because she acts like a mom, regardless of her gender. Which means, even on days Steve is a guy, he’s still ‘mom.’

First time Steve takes Dustin for a driving lesson, he calls her ‘dad,’ and she starts crying from joy in front of him.

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Some of the most poetic things I’ve ever written have been in the optional writing space at the end of UQuizzes.

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I’m combining all my Steve Harrington headcanons into one Fic idea, so stay with me, but-

Steve starts changing his aesthetic after season one. It starts when he realises that the jumper he was wearing that night at the Byers is torn up. Steve is doing his introspection, and decides he doesn’t want to rely on his parents forever, so he starts saving. Less parties, less spending. He repairs the jumper, then starts repairing his other clothes when they get torn or ripped. He asks around, and starts using patches and patterns to sew his clothes up. It’s nice, but not noticeable.

After season two, he grows his hair out. It’s still short, but longer than his dad likes, which they argue about. He saves more, and pays attention to the kids. He’s started branching out from sewing to other art, something he hasn’t done since he was a kid. He has an outlet, but he wants to make sure the kids do, too.

Season three is a turning point. For one, Steve loses the bottom half of his left leg after it got crushed by falling mall debris. The prosthetic is cool and he can decorate it as he likes, but it makes him realise he’s never going to have the life he was expected to have again. The other thing is Robin, who knows a lot more about clothes, and aesthetics, and she dyes his hair cyan in her bathroom and gives him an uneven undercut that the hairdresser needs to save. He started selling art at local shows to save more money.

When his parents get home just after season four, they’re shocked. Steve barely talks to them, goes to the hospital most days for Eddie and Max. It takes them almost being attacked by the upside down for Steve to tell them everything. His parents are shocked and concerned about Steve, realising his changes are from genuine life-changing events. They’re unsure, but more supportive than Steve expected. He gets closer to the both of them, and when he introduces them to his new patched together family, it doesn’t feel like he’s talking to strangers anymore.

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Avatar: Last Airbender where when Zuko and Katara go to the palace for the final Agni Kai, they expect to find soldiers, guards, anyone.

Instead they find an empty palace, set loose by a long list of banishments, and a young girl mindlessly sobbing in front of a smashed mirror, yelling at her mother. Zuko has a moment of staring at his younger sister bargain with the woman that had left them, before she sees him in the mirror. She assumes he’s here to gloat too, and just asks him to leave.

He refuses, which makes her angrier, but he eventually pulls her away from the mirror, and when she sees that he’s actually there, she tries to stand, but just collapses onto him in exhaustion. Katara steps forward, ready to heal the girl’s (girls, they’re girls, they’re the same age-) arms and hands, which are scratched and bleeding from glass shards. In her sleep, Azula mutters something about her mother, and both Zuko and Katara try to consolidate this with their idea of mothers, and what exactly Azula saw in the mirror.

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Why do all the fics I write end up being about a character/s of unimaginable power being forced to share headspace with a snarky teenager.

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Not to be too personal on my personal account, but does anyone have any beginners tips of what to buy for makeup necessities? Like, the bare minimum of what’s needed to make my skin look better, and also any tips on how to use it?