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I need Yamada to run into one of his students while in civvies, & he's all, "Hey, nice to see you, what’s up? Got any weekend plans?" & the students go "uh, do I know you???". & Yamada just sighs, says "Yes you do, listener", and the students go "PRESENT MIC-SENSEI!?"

He just. He doesn't even look that different he just looks /normal enough/ compared to the dynamic Hero costume

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Also, like. This is kind of a weird way to put it, but when Chloé is "mean", it’s something that feels safe, because she knows how people are going to react. Usually negative, yes, but she's done this enough times to know the probable reactions to her being nasty, & to plan for how to respond. It’s comfortable, familiar, & safe, cause there isn’t a lot of unknowns. Being "nice", tho? She has NO IDEA how people will react, what the script is, if others will even follow it. Ofc she's scared.

Yeah that's also a factor!

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Also the fact that change is HARD. Humans have patterns. They get into ruts. Doing something the way you've been doing it for years, even if it’s less efficient than something else, can feel easier even if it really isn’t, because it’s what you're familiar with. & familiar feels safe, comfortable. Change is scary. Lots of people act like Chloé learning she's "wrong" should be enough to change years of conditioning, beliefs, thought patterns & ingrained reactions, but it’s not that easy.

Yeah it just!!

Things take time! And she needs to unpack all of that!

Especially in like. Unpacking individual actions? Like learning to treat someone you care about better VS. Not being mean to peers VS. Not being mean to like, random retail workers.

So yeah Chloé can have a quick realization that treating Sabrina like a housepet isn't a good idea. But that is a completely different thing from accepting a schoolmate denying her demands or learning to have patience when a batista screws up her order when she's already late. Even if all are encompassed by the idea of "being nicer to people"

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PublicDivorce: I think my exact wording for the first post was "André finds out about Audrey's other family - the Lees - in the worst way possible." I've been using "investigator looking into Emilie's disappearance" for episode rewrites, but it’s really up in the air. What WOULD be the worst, most damaging way for André to find out, something that makes him so furious & hurt that he lashes out publicly, & then refuses to back down when Audrey sees that as a challenge & retaliates?

Honestly I do think that, if feral reporters hadn't already made a scandal out of the whole second family thing, that it's decently hidden that nothing short of someone pushing the investigations would be able to find out about it.

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Okay but, a thought on how different enemies from the Kingdom Hearts series would "sound" to Luka.

Heartless: Their "songs" are mostly just discordant noise. A Heartless who remembers the person they used to be has their original self's song off-key and occasionally tripping over notes. Emblem Heartless (which are just hearts wrapped in darkness) have muffled heartsongs trying DESPERATELY to be heard, like someone trying to scream while being suffocated by a pillow.

Nobodies: Silence. Total silence.

Unversed: An echo of a distant song. More specifically, an echo of an isolated "layer" of the song. Something that doesn't become clear until Luka gets to "listen" to a bunch of them.

Dream Eaters: For most, it's something like how the heartsong of an animal would sound.

OOF

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Ok, PublicDivorce thought: so, after Chloé's got comfortable crashing at various classmates places to hide from reporters/her parents, but well before she starts dragging herself out her depression, Juleka takes Chlo to the houseboat to hide. There, Chlo meets Luka, who is deeply unnerved, because this is the first time he's met someone who DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE A SONG AT ALL. He listens for a Heartsong, & gets silence. It takes a while for him to realize it IS there, but very heavily muted.

OOF

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The fic about the 3rd sister looking for Rumi's parents seemed interesting, or the basic idea, anyway. Seemed like the general idea was Rumi's dad had figured out a way for demons to get energy that didn’t involve soul stealing, & was gonna go back through the Honmoon to share said method, but then someone didn’t like that, yanked him & Rumi's mom through to somewhere else. 3rd Sis was looking to free them. Idea was solid, but the fic author didn’t believe in paragraphs, so, I didn’t read it all

Also on the table.

Like just because we think Rumi's mom is dead doesn't mean she actually is. We didn't see her die

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Reading more KPDH fics, & question, how'd you write the 3rd Sun Sister? I've read about 4 fics that introduce her as someone even more prejudiced against demons to help make Celine more sympathetic/help her "redemption" & honestly that feels a little boring? Did see 1 where she was searching for Rumi's parents (who were sealed away somewhere), but otherwise not much. Like, maybe she just couldn’t handle whatever happened? Didn’t want to be a hunter anymore? Had a heart attack?

I haven't entirely decided yet because the third one is... pretty much a blank slate.

I get why people are defaulting to her being even more prejudiced since she's not around anymore so if she is still alive why isn't she also part of Rumi's life.

I could also see the opposite happening.

Like, after everything with Rumi's parents, Sister #3 had a crisis of faith and decided to reflect on if Demons were People or not since Rumi's mom fell in love with one. But Celine is sure that Rumi's mom was tricked by the Demon and that they're all just evil. Thus Sister #3 quit and would've taken Rumi with her but Celine kept her instead because she still believed and was sure that Rumi was innocent but tainted yet could still be saved via Golden Honmoon.

There's also the chance that she just quit and fucked off for entirely unrelated reasons and had no idea that Rumi existed until Celine's parading her around as a nepo baby later and similarly is unaware of the Demon Ancestry stuff.

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…ok, actually, CC thought. Enji watches the Sports Festival. He absolutely sees a little blonde French kid with what seems to be a carbon copy of his dead girlfriend's Quirk. I'm not saying he immediately goes "Now, wait just a fucking minute-", cause Quirks are ridiculous, I doubt he immediately jumped to "this kid has Hikari's actual Quirk". But does it give him a bit of a…idk, gut-punch moment? Might explain his rather, uh, intense attitude the whole day?

YEAH YEAH YEAH SO

So yeah Enji sees Aoyama and is just like ??????????????????????? about it because that is EXACTLY Hikari's Quirk. Like even though they're not talking rn Enji looks across the stadium to make eye contact with Kaito like "Are you seeing this shit???" (Kaito is also baffled)

And like. Initially Enji has to brush it off. Like there's no way Aoyama is /directly/ related to Hikari (obvs Hikari didn't have any kids and she didn't have siblings and both parents died before she did). So if Aoyama is related he's probably a distant cousin. Or it's a coincidence like Enji isn't related to every Fire Quirk surely some nonsense came together to make a sparkly stomach laser.

Except......

The entire Forest Training Camp and Hideout Raid Arcs happen.

The former gets the idea going in his head about some inside informant. Because he knows that the summer program for the kids was meant to be hard to find out about.

The latter reveals AfO, a very old and dangerous Villain whose Quirk is to steal Quirks.

Dots are certainly connecting.

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I think Adrien would be a little too embarrassed by the "she's just a friend!" thing to make the joke himself. All his friends are making that joke at him for YEARS, it probably gets tiring. Then he hears that phrase from his own offspring, & has to physically stop himself from slamming his head into a wall. Honestly, I could see him pulling his kids aside for a separate "Talk" - "how to tell if I'm crushing on someone".

I mean I can see it going that road too. A toss-up really

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Was thinking about the MHA/PMD AU again, & like. Have you locked down what Jiro is? Cause on the 1 hand, Noibat feels appropriate. But on the other, Audino. Like, Audino are sound based & even have the ear-things, like Jiro. But if it’s Audino, I feel like she needs to be a Shiny - Shiny Audino is purple, which I feel matches Jiro's vibe better than pink.

I'm pretty sure I have her as a Noibat but while that's decently locked I do like the option. If I ever switch back to the regular Pokemon au I might yeet one on her team

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Also at some point I need to write Ochako asking some of her future in-laws for help when it comes to dealing with a height-difference relationship because uh. She has four partners and the shortest is still 10" taller than her

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Ok, but who's more embarrassed - Ochako receiving this advice, or Shoto & Izuku when they learn where she got it from?

See they're more exasperated than embarrassed

Until it gets to sex advice. Then the whole polycule is dying.

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Yeah, I could also see a kinda, mini-interrogation thing, like. "When/why'd you tell your parents about my family?" "What did you say?" Like, she probably isn’t going to outright ask if Yaomomo asked her parents to contact Uraraka Construction, but she's trying to feel it out. Learning it was an off-hand mention, that Yaomomo's parents probably did their own research before reaching out, settles her a little. Its more "word of mouth" as apposed to "favour".

Yeah she knows it's unlikely to be a coincidence. But yeah Momo assures her that even if her parents like to help out where they can, they would've have hired the company purely off of that. They want and respect good work.

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Had a thought - Yaomomo's parents mention wanting some construction done, & she brings up, off-hand, "Oh, Ochako's parents are in construction". Like, just mentioning a relevant fact. Yaomomo's parents then end up contacting Uraraka Construction, cause of the mention, & Ochako's parents get a very expensive contract to build whatever it is the Yaoyorozu's want. How would Ochako feel about it? Cause she seems to have a lot of pride, she might worry it’s "charity".

Honestly the way I write Ochako is that she's not so prideful to not take offered help, but she does have a sense of honor in wanting to earn what she's given. Whether that be literally doing something in trade of money, or planning to pay the debt back once she has the funds to do so.

So yes, Momo's recommendation is helping her out, but as long as the family provides quality work that matches what they're being paid for it's considered a good trade and not a 'handout'.

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you have a cat? can we get a picture of the kitty?

Naturally, I found her on top of the laundry basket

Her name is Mayhem!

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you have a cat? can we get a picture of the kitty?

Naturally, I found her on top of the laundry basket

Her name is Mayhem!