#Heartcanon

[escapismisaddicting]

You know that thing where we’re like “Joker shouldn’t have a backstory” because it ruins the mystery and whatnot? That but with Alfred.

Screw all the comics telling us that he’s an ex-intelligence officer or that he’s just a regular guy that got promoted to being a butler. I want Alfred to basically be a cryptid. He just kinda showed up one day and the Waynes rolled with it. One time when Bruce’s parents were still alive he asked them how they met Alfred. And they were just like; “…That’s a good question.”

And whenever Alfred is asked he always comes up with the most absurd lies.

“Oh, yes Master Bruce, I met your parents after a blood ritual gone wrong and now I am forced to serve this family forever.”

“I was an assassin sent to kill your parents and pilfer their riches but alas I grew to attached to them and their adorable little rascal of a son.”

“I tripped and fell from the heavens because of how distraught I was at your Father’s complete and utter lack of self-preservation”

And the Batkids will sometimes try to get the truth out of him but give up pretty quickly. Except Tim. Tim seems to have figured it out. That’s gotta be why both of them have seemingly stayed the same age all this time.

[the-cosmos-withinus]

Shadow Puppets AU- Heartcanon moment

This was going to be part of a larger post of "heartcanon" scenes that definitely happen in the AU but we don't think will actually be in the RP. Decided to post it because my tablet broke in the middle of another project, I'm pissed at my employers and I've decided to cope with this stress by seeing if I can get a laugh out of ya'll with this stupid joke.

[panther-os]

Hmmmmmm Jesse head/heart/gut/junk/spleencanons

Head - bipolar he/they indigenous gendered (his gender is Mando thank) aroace bicon

Heart - Soft (TM), serial shiny adopter, 501st tio/auntie/ba'vodu (iykyk), if he were Latine he'd be lethal with a chancla though not as lethal as Kix, good cook, his tingiilar he wheedled the recipe out of a nice-ish Cuyval Dar trainer for is to die for

Gut - Rex' only surviving batchmate, hair is blond when it grows out just like Rex/Omega/Arla, also just like Rex he's an overachiever with a hate-love relationship with attention and just as much brain cells as balls (aka only two but they dam big)

Junk - Pro kisser, little gentle bites and careful tongue sweeps, arms are meant for holding (up against a wall OR close to his heart in his sleep), laughs during sex, likes to explore his partner's body at his own pace, ticklish

Spleen - fuck you Filoni his chip got broke from the blunt force trauma but he survived and ditched his helmet for Rex and ahsoka to find before yeeting himself off planet I will not accept otherwise (he is also epileptic after the chip broke and that does not magically go away after he gets it taken out, this is disability management household not disability erasure household (by which I mean he takes meds and does everything right to not die but he is still disabled))

[banamine-bananime]

among other reasons, chex is compelling because you’ve ostensibly got “cis girl meets cis boy, Can I Make it Any More Obvious” but they’re swapping clothes, they’re swapping pronouns, onlookers are trying to figure out what kind of gay they are

[spotsupstuff]

if youre doing TFA requests maybe uhhh something with Swindle? would love to see him in your style. Have a good one!

turns out swindle is a fuck of a bitch to draw so have a meme n my attempts to figure his mug out

[sikeaitrist]

headcanon 4: heartcanons

• heart refuses to use utensils, he gets rather agitated when someone even suggested the idea of it, harmonia forbid someone slides one over in his direction.

• he has extremely heightened hearing, he can hear the others heartbeats and breathing while they are in another room. he mostly uses it to detect whos in which rooms and it also works as a lie detector.

• heart goes nonverbal sometimes which was manageable when he couldn’t see since they couldn’t just write notes but post juno incident heart can only answer yes and no questions by shaking his head.

• heart is fully convinced that mind and soul are hiding the fact they are some part feline. he’s seen soul kneed at shit then proceed to hiss at him, mind does this weirdly calming purring sound whenever he’s pleased and keeps his nails sharp almost claw like, what more evidence does heart need really? not like he can see if they have feline features. upon finding out hearts theory soul just does these things more frequently to fuck with him and mind just looks disappointed before ignoring whatever the fuck he just had to hear.

[dkniade]

heartcanon for a media you like?

I admit I don’t remember I reblogged that so I read it as headcanon before thinking “what’s a heartcanon”

Definition of a heartcanon by @/prokopez: “I don’t have a particular rationale for why this ought to be the case, I just like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the warm fuzzies”

Or as I might explain it, “a belief about an aspect of a fictional story not of one’s own, typically about one or multiple characters in it, that one holds because they enjoy it, regardless of the amount of evidence or rationale that one would need to support their claim in an argument”

To my knowledge, in Genshin Impact, al-Haitham is a student of the Akademiya’s “Haravatat Darshan”, right…? According to the wiki, Haravatat specializes in semiotics (in real life it’s the study of signs and symbols and their interpretations, I believe) and includes both linguistics and ancient runes studies. Well, in real life, linguistics is the scientific study of language, and semiotics—which includes the study of ancient runes, I’d assume—is a sub-field of linguistics. So I wonder if it’s better to say, “Of the Six Darshans in the Sumeru Akademiya, Haravatat specializes in linguistics, specifically semiotics, and includes disciplines such as ancient runes studies.” Nope, never mind, semiotics is not a branch of linguistics since it includes non-linguistic signs too, which would make sense since Haravatat also does ancient runes. (I must’ve mixed up semiotics and semantics, the branch of linguistics and logic that studies meaning.)

With that being said—

Al-Haitham is jokingly referred to as a god of syntax by uhh Haravatat syntax students of the Sumeru Akademiya

based on the al-Haitham redesign by @/peonycats

[dasakuryo]

me checking the timelines and realising it’s highly likely Cal met smol Jyn on Wrea

[askteamheadphones]

[[ Happy Pride everyone! ]]

[escapismisaddicting]

Damian Wayne’s favourite movie is Lilo and Stitch. I feel very, very strongly about this. A story about an alien who is originally created to be a weapon and reek havoc but eventually has a change of heart because he finds a family who accepts him as he is? Yeah no Dick watched this movie with him and Damian straight sobbed.

[tricksterrzart]

Headcanon? Your misheard me, I said heartcanon.

My head knows this is stupid. My heart wants it anyways.

[habizuh-studios]

You know, I really don't think Feng Xin smiles that much. It's my heartcanon. People think he's happy, and sure, most often, he's the sun. To mortals and other gods, he's hardworking and dependable. To Xie Lian, he was a faithful body guard. To Mu Qing, Feng Xin everything he's not- sunny being one of them. Hell, he has sun in his name; always bright, the one who comes down to the mortal realm the most, a protector. A little maybe somewhat like a puppy, maybe impulsive, perhaps quick to anger, but... people think he's happy. They think they couldn't count how many times the General smiled. But when was the last time someone genuinely saw him smile, laugh? Does fx himself remember that? He doesn't keep track. ---- You know, I think the last time Mu Qing saw him genuinely smile, he was amazed. He wasn't expecting it to be so... radiant? Does Feng Xin not smile around him? He... ---- brainworms.

[grollow]

Hollow + Heartcanon

(arcane-map)

oh, a heartcanon for the forbidden blorbo! <3

I like to imagine that Hollow knew they weren't empty all along. Some people might question why this gives me the warm fuzzies, though, so let me explain:

The idea that they were so deeply entrenched in denial has never sat that well with me, in part because I think of them as extremely, pathologically rational. It also... kind of makes them seem more... I don't know what the right phrase to use here is. Obviously if they are so badly neglected as to truly believe they're empty, or at the very least, be so deep in denial of not being so, it makes for what happened in the Black Egg to be more painful. I think a lot of the fandom enjoys that concept. But I don't.

For me, the idea that they knew and went through with it anyway, not because they believed they were empty, but because they were so devoted to their father (and potentially others, I like to think Hornet would be on this list) that this was the only way they saw to save Hallownest? That's so much more tragic, because instead of helpless victim, we have someone who did everything - everything - in their power knowingly for someone they loved.

There's still the obvious element of "they had to be masking like crazy and yes, that's highly abusive" so before someone @ s me and tries to say I am pretending they did not, understand: I like the idea of them knowingly making this choice. I like the idea that they realized, but continued to walk into it, because "what other choice do I have? I cannot let my loved ones down" It just adds a layer of less helplessness to the mix, and I enjoy imagining Hollow as extremely competent and driven by devotion (however misguided) and love.

I also believe that someone so deep in denial would have a lot harder time adjusting to and becoming part of a society so different from their own, whereas someone who *knew* better, would likely have observed more, studied, and while still having deep scars that may not ever fully heal, will have a slightly easier recovery path in that they can actually see where they're trying to get to. If that makes sense.

[spotsupstuff]

If you’re still taking tfa requests how about this image as blitzwing and bumblebee? If not I hope you at least get a chuckle out of it :)

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[gold-rhine]

for the newest ask game: fan favourite neuvillette! can’t wait to see what you’ll do <3

Headcanon: I can muster a cogent argument for why it would make more sense or make for a better story if this were the case

Okay, so. This is gonna turn into character analysis, but I think there is a huge misconception about Neuvi and the rain. People think that bc it rains when he's sad, then rain = his own tears and that being under rain is sad and bad for him, bc like. well, humans don't like crying and you wouldn't want to get showered with your own tears!

But this is completely missing the nuances of him being a hydro dragon. He LIKES the rain. He loves being under the rain. He daydreams about it:

"Some days, my mind wanders, and I fantasize about walking into the rain... *sigh* Ah, but don't worry, my flights of fancy don't distract me from my work."

And he likes to stand under the rain without umbrella and is a bit peeved that humans find it strange:

"People seem to respond to the sight of a man in the rain without an umbrella as if it were some sort of strange spectacle."

And this is his quote about weeping hydro dragon rhyme:

I don't think that the Hydro Dragon would "weep," per se. I think he just finds himself a little stirred when he gets a taste of the tears that have been shed on this land, on account of all the emotions they contain.

So taking all of this under account, I don't think rain = tears, bc he's not human and crying is not one of his natural reactions. Instead, I think that rain is just his soothing mechanism. When he's stressed, sad, overwhelmed, etc, he instinctively summons rain to be engulfed in his own element. Bc like. humans would react even more badly to the sight of Chief Justice laying face down in a lake than to him just standing under the rain.

And now Wriothesley is released and he has a line about how he saw Neuvi under the rain and put him under umbrella and I already see a lot of fanart of this being romantic etc, and I have nothing against the ship, but this specific scenario for me triggers like cute-or-not reaction of "not cute! hydro dragons like to be under the rain and covering them from it is like blocking sun for the plants." Wriothesley himself even says Neuvi looked visibly distressed, despite being polite!

So instead, consider: kisses under the rain are some of the most hot, cinematic and passionate tropes

But also: where Neuvi doesn't like being, is under the sun.

I find that the, um... beauty of bright sunlight is best appreciated from the indoors through a window.

If you bring him to the desert, he says this looks like assassination attempt. So for cute, romantic and gentlemanly gestures, consider putting him under sun parasol. And maybe sprinkling him from water bottle too.

Heartcanon: I don’t have a particular rationale for why this ought to be the case, I just like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the warm fuzzies

I already talked about how two of his coat-tails glow at the same time as his hair antennae thingies and have same coloration, and move and look differently from the rest of his coat. I like to think that he was born in standard-shaped human body and just instinctively imbued the strands of his hair and two coat-tails of his robes with his power to act like as fins and antennae he used to have in a dragon form.

Gutcanon: it’s not that I actively want this to be the case – it just unaccountably feels like it should be

okay, look at his hair.

let's be real. this hair was not brushed even once in 500 years. This is not a braid. This is just uneven strands sticking out all over the place, with the longest ones caught with a pretty bow.

I think bc dragons do not have hair and especially do not CUT hair or any body parts on purpose, he just never did it. Like, for him it sounds cutting cat's whiskers. He heard that hairdressers will cut your hair and went "Thank you, but no thank you" and just never let anyone touch it, until like, melusines gave him a bow and butterfly clips that he wears to keep hair out of one side of his face.

Junkcanon: I like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the other kind of warm fuzzies

first of all, since his emotions both manifest and affect the water around, i think it would be v fun to use as a reaction to... stimuli. i don't want to go into details to keep this post pg, but you know. storms forming out of nowhere. geysers, most obviously. a little tsunami or a whirlpool perhaps...

also, from his lines about vishaps, he says that hydro organisms are affect by the moon cycle, like the tides. so, you know, there are fun things to do with that too

Spleencanon: I insist that this is the case specifically to spite the author, because, like, fuck you, sir or madam

He should not drown when you run out of stamina in water outside of fountain. Why is hydro sovereign drowning in a puddle, hoyo?!

[ruthlesslistener]

So, you get asked about PK and WL a lot, in part because you're realistic about them being nuanced. I've rarely ever seen folks ask you about the Radiance, though, even you've mentioned you give her the same treatment. So, you got any headcanons, heartcanons, and gutcanons for her? Feel free to do as many as you want!

Okay so I long forgot the headcanon, heartcanon, gutcanon ask template because I've been chewing on this since [checks date] September 5th 2020, so instead you get a long ramble on the Radiance vs individual hcs for her since I don't really talk about her as much as I do the pale fam

Radiance...hm. She's a very complex character who frightens me on some personal levels, but I really am quite fond of her reguardless, because part of what scares me about her is how closely her anger mirrors my own (and that of my immidiate family). She reminds me very much of the aspects of myself and a few choice individuals in my blood relations that I do my best to avoid, rather than have a delight of a time pointing and laughing at, like I do with the flaws of myself I see in the Pale King. Except Radiance doesn't just have those flaws, she's also got the added Christian crusader imagery that decrees the death of anyone who opposes her that also reminds me quite a bit about certain things in my life I'd very much rather go without (I was raised Muslim. I'm sure you can connect the dots). So there is a level of discomfort there that keeps me from engaging with her character on the same level that I do with Hollow and the Pale King, which is something that I am sure many Radiance fans feel in turn about PK himself. No judgement there.

But that's personal, so I'm not going to get into it. Just putting a note of it here because it does very much influence how I write her.

The Radiance is someone who is, at her core, very very lonely, and is also fundamentally afraid of being lonely. She is Grimm's twin in my headcanon (or, as much as one can be a twin when you were both divinely spawned from the same event), but Grimm is also her opposite, and so he never really did much other than highlight how deeply different she was from the only ever person that she knew. They were spawned in a place outside of Hallownest, in the creation of the Dream Realm where there was nothing around them but other hungry Higher Beings grasping for power, and that in turn did little other than prove to her that the whole world was against her and that the only way that she could persist was to eliminate all threats to herself before they had a chance to attack her first (Grimm, on the other hand, was fascinated by death and the play of power among power-hungry gods, and was much more inclined to observe until they clearly became a threat to him, ao that he could learn from them first. This difference is something that lead to the schism between the realms).

She is an extremely emotional person, acting on raw passion before all else- but that's because being rawly emotional never let her down in the past. How could it, when her fury burned with the force of a thousand stars, and incinerated all that dared threaten her? And how could she be anything but furious, when she had nothing but proof that the whole world conspired against her, and it was her burning rage that beat back the darkness of the cold, unfeeling Void, the one thing that could destroy her and her sibling? She was not always angry- more often than not, she was lonely, wanting nothing more than something to care for and protect- but anger served her well and so it became her first line of defense against anything that threatened her, and she was always right because nothing bad had ever come of her in the past.

(This is because she killed most things that she feared before they had a chance to move against her. The utter destruction of the Void Civilization was one such occurrence, happening after she had settled in Hallownest, created the moths, and deemed those who worshiped the dark below as a threat to both her and her newborn children.) I also believe that the Moths were created just before or right after the schism between her and Grimm, her barely-younger brother; because if he would not listen to her and allow her to care for him and be her family, then she would simply make one of her own, a family that she could dote on and adore and had no choice but to love her. And while she very much drove that schism, it was still a betrayal that stung her to the very core. He was her brother! He was supposed to agree with her, to love her and listen to her! She only ever tried to protect him, so what does it mean for him to defy her? That he doesn't actually love her after all, and that if she truly desires a family of her own, she must make it herself. One that will actually love her. One that will not defy her.

So, to recap: the Radiance is a fundamentally lonely person. But she is also fundamentally a very, very fearful person, to the point of overwhelming paranoia. And she grew up in an environment where this paranoia was not only unchecked, but encouraged.

This is what lead to her overcontrolling nature- because when she was able to control everything, she was able to see all of the problems before they became too hard to control, and thus eliminate them from the very start. I headcanon that the bugs of Hallownest had no free will under her control, but it wasn't the same as the malicious infection that we see in-game; it was genuinely because she cared, to the point where she had to look through a thousand eyes and ten thousand minds in order to nurture her kingdom the way she thought was best. She didn't kill all of the Void Civilization- the beetles persisted, as we saw- but she had to control them anyways, to wipe their minds of what she did and to prevent dissent. The Moths had a level of freedom that the others did not, but this was only because she created them and placed them first before all other bugs, and so thought that they would never have a reason to dissent against her. Why care for freedom when you can have security, after all? She never once in a million years thought that they would betray her for the Pale King, because she never once in a million years ever thought that anyone could ever want something like freedom in exchange for an uncertain, self-made future. It's too risky, too dangerous. Too lonely.

(This is also why I headcanon that the moth civilization collapsed after they abandoned Radi- they had been coddled for so long that they had no notion of independence, and thus could not survive on their own in a civilization that made itself with free will. This absolutely does not excuse PK of potentially being involved in their downfall, because I do think he played a huge part in it, but it does account for their diminishing numbers without any indication of physical genocide. I've seen some think that they were hit the first and the hardest by the Infection but I don't believe that Radi, even with her vengeful qualities, would have done that-or if she did, then Seer made no mention of it, likely because of her tribe's guilt about bringing back the Radiance even if it isn't their fault.)

(Part of this headcanon also ties into another hc I have about Radi, which was that she was very involved in her rule and would answer to almost every prayer- including ones that involved illness or injury. If you prayed for the sickness to go away, then she would answer the call and abolish it. The Moths got first treatment, because they as her children knew exactly how to call her, but this also meant that when they switched to PK's rule where he advocated for independence and self-sufficiency based on problem solving, they suffered far more than the others who had to reply on learning their own medical care when Radi was too busy to hear their prayers)

That's not to say that Radiance was a bad ruler by any means, but we do know that she and PK are opposites, and we have records of how distant he was from his civilization, which indicates that Radiance was deeply involved by contrast- likely suffocatingly so. That's part of why I love to play with her and Grimm being siblings, to be honest, because he acts as a sort of neutral zone between the Pale King's style of ruling (by almost zero personal involvement) compared to the Radiance's obsessive control- he holds power over those under his command, but he also relinquishes that power when they fight back, and makes the break from the trope relatively stressless by wiping their memories and leaving them with a defensive charm (if Carefree Melody is any indicator). Likely this is because Grimm is a scavenger-god who has seen how many a kingdom has fallen to ruin, but I can also imagine how an exposure to the Radiance would have encouraged him to give his people more freedom of will while also continuing to engage with them at all, which the Pale King didn't do. But that's a Grimm tangent right there- the point is that I do believe the Radiance did everything out of a love for her people.

The problem is just that emotions are her fatal flaw, and when they don't suffocate, they burn. We know that she isn't just pure emotion made manifest- she's an insidious manipulator, and quite skilled at it, too. She didn't win over the Traitor Lord or break the minds of the bugs of Hallownest through sheer force alone (though I'm sure she had to in some cases...like the Hollow Knight). But everytime she makes a bad decision, it's because her emotions got the best of her. She is the inverse to the Pale King, whose fatal flaw was that his logic blinded him to the emotions he felt towards his children, and to realizing the Vessel Plan was doomed until it is far too late. She got herself to where she was by blazing forth in a fit of fury, and turning the hurricane of her betrayal into a punishment that the entirety of Hallownest got caught up in, whether they were innocent or not. She wormed her way into the minds of those who listened to her and brutally slaughtered the rest. She might have had some justification at first, when she was clawing desperately out of the dark of near-death, but that justification was snuffed out quick. Her anger is brutal, grotesque, vengeful, and all-encompassing. She hates you, the player character, Little Ghost, for what you represent and who you are, and she hunts you relentlessly, using the corpses of the friends and siblings she's killed to try to murder you. But it's not just self-defense: it's hatred. When Ghost challenges her in the Dream Realm, she didn't have to answer, but she did. Because she is fury incarnate, and she will not suffer the mockery of the void-tainted scion of her enemy.

She might have been a benevolent goddess once, but no longer. She's beautiful and majestic. She's also a genocidal monster. Her actions have justification, for they were self-defense and retribution for her betrayal- until she began to destroy the lives of innocents in her hunger for power. She's a complex character, a sympathetic one even, and is even more terrible for it.

So yeah, she scares me, even though I love her. But can you really blame me?