#I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAA

[dymitre]

they're in love

[bloodhoundini]

Made these bc I can't stop with Monkey Wrench I love it sm I love Shrike I love Beebs I love Scratch I love the animation I love the designs I love the backgrounds I love the voice acting I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT AAAAAAAAAA

[softbewitcher]

asked for suggestions from twitter ppl and this is what i got hehe

[kanene-yaaay]

Sousou no Frieren- Tickle Headcanons

This anime has me in a chockehold and ain't letting me go so soon so I might as well share all the daydreams and thoughts living in my mind rent free since I watched it and decided that!!! Hey!!! I can add tickles to that!!!

Anyway, at first I was going to just write about Himmel and a few other selected characters from both adventures but GOSH suddenly all out of nowhere I start daydreaming about ALL OF THEM and so... This long post was born. kjhgfdfghjklkj not all of them are going to be very long and it can be OOC but I hope you still like to read it as much as I liked to write! <3

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Himmel

(We are not going to talk about how much time I spent trying to choose just one gif) Our dear dead wife <3

He LOVES tickles and no one can convice me otherwise, I mean! Look at him! He definitely play that card at any moment he can

Cheering someone up? They say that laughter is the best medicine! Another boring day stuck in a cabin waiting for the snowstorm to go away? Nothing better than a tickle fight to make the time pass! Comforting a sad kid they just saved and are bringing to safety? Add a few wiggling fingers and watch that beautiful smile appear right way! Someone is literally just minding their own business doing nothing at all GET TICKLE ATTACKED!

He is a charming, playful, dramatic bastard and he knows it. He is using every and any opportunity to plentily tease the person, praising their laughter, pointing how lovely is their every reaction, gasping in false offense at any threat of revenge.

He will definitely laugh and snicker together with the person and sometimes let out honest comments that weren't supposed to be teasy but are like 'I didn't expect you to be so ticklish' or 'Wait, it tickles? Right here? That is so cute' and take the matters on his own hands to find at least one (1) new tickle spot when he tickles a friend because their surprised face right before descending in unstoppable giggling is way too priceless

Now, I need you to listen to this very very carefully: he can NOT take what he dishes out. at all.

So much squirming and trashing around. He can't control himself at all and won't even try to hold his laughter back, letting it ring loud and free, dying with any kind (literally, anything will do) of tease and pleading for his life as if he is being killed on the spot.

Somehow is totally blind to tickle traps. Sometimes just to mess with him Heiter would hold his cup up and ask for a toast and when Himmel complied he would latch on his ribs and rip my bro. he's dead on the floor. He never seems it coming even if they already done this a dozen time before.

Always crumbles with the tickles. A squeeze on his side and his legs transform in noodles immediately. That doesn't mean that he is a easy target though, if you decide to tickle him be prepared for some revenge

His main target and partner of tickle fights is Heiter, even though they manage to pull the rest of the party to their shenanigans sometimes too, even getting to listen to listen Eisen low, amused chuckles and Freiren tiny smile.

Talking about that. There is just one very specific occasion all his self preservations, squirms and defense disappear in the same second: when Frieren is involved.

Once, when both Heiter and Einsen decided to gang up on him, she decided to get into the fun with a few pokes and the VERY MOMENT Himmel realized that she was tickling him it was over.

He became a boneless mess of hysterical giggles on the floor not moving a single inch and taking all the tickling with no protests, completely lost in the fact that this was Frieren having fun, being silly and playful with them and his brain shortcurted and suddenly he became 1000000000000 more ticklish instantly.

Excuse me honor he is SMITTEN

If he is tickled for long enough or on a specially ticklish spot he lets out a loud, high pitched crackling that never fail to amuse his friends because he gets extremely red at that and tries to cover his face at any cost.

Besides that, he is not flustered at all about his liking to tickle and be tickled. It's a fun activity, a nice way to bond and it bring happiness to everyone! What is there to be embarrased about it?

Though other teases can destroy him rip

Is extremely and I say extremely gentle and caring when tickling Frieren. Soft scribbles, light scratching and steeping away not before too long has passed. Sometimes get lost in the happiness and joy of the moment but it's quick to come back to reality so that his tickling never lasts too long and he gets smiley about it for the rest of the day.

Gets grumpy about how he never manages to catch Einsen by surprise but immediately loses his pout when the warrior decides that he is not the one who started that war but he is the one who will finish it.

When he takes too long to decide a pose for their statue they start to attack him with plenty of pokes and squeezes until he finally makes up his mind.

Sometimes they just do that while he is posing to mess with him too. Especially because Himmel will try to pretend nothing is happening and attempt to keep his pose on the very beginning until he eventually breaks down in titters and protesting giggles.

It never lasts long. But he keeps trying

Has The Smirk.

Softest and most playful aftercare ever. With plenty of comfort and smiles.

Heiter

Our flawed priest <3

Do not have The Smirk but he has an entire aura about him that you can't really point what it is but suddenly there's ringing danger bells in your mind and on outside he looks normal, just taking a drink but then you blink and then BOOM he strikes

Can and will destroy someone with tickles with just one (1) hand because his other one is too busy carrying his cup

Gets stupidly silly when tickling someone. He will chuckle together with the person and use the goofiest nicknames, teases, tickle traps and everything else he can think of. It's the whole ordeal, really. He has no shame.

It's quite neutral but leaning to positive when it comes to tickling, but since Himmel is always dragging him into tickle fights he can't help but get a little bit of playful revenge. After a few years he started a couple of them by himself too.

Is horribly skilled with the nimblest and deadliest tickles ever.

Also. Changes from side to side of a tickle fight easy as water and will always help who offers him more drinks. So be careful when siding up with him to not get too close or comfortably into tickling range.

Somehow, incredibly lucky in finding tickle spots, be with random pokes to call the person's attention or some soft scribbling to hear some giggles and smile amused and content at them.

Also adept to cheer up or comforting tickles, creating a lot of fond memories with Fern in the nights she couldn't sleep and they both shared some good tea while watching the sky.

Will try to curl up in a ball when tickled and his only protest is to be careful with his glasses.

Not really very affected by teases. Says a lot of nonsense when is tickled tho

Frieren

HEEEEERRRRRRRR <3 <3 Our old lady

Has the tiniest, sweetest smile when tickling someone. it's adorable.

Do not engage in tickle fights but it's not against them. Usually would just stay in the background with Einsen while the other two got caught up in their giggly shenaningans

Her biggest moment was when she decided to show everyone this magic spell she learned some decades ago and then suddenly everyone is attacked by a bunch of wiggly, fluffy feathers that followed them no matter how much they squirmed or jumped.

Tickle spell tehee

They never got to know if she did that to mess with them or if she truly just wanted to show the spell.

Is more curious about tickling than anything. Thinks it's a nice way to make her friends laugh, but it's also very neutral about it, won't actively seek revenge or anything.

After years with both Himmel and Heiter, also lightly tickled Fern once or twice for the sake of cheering her up.

Ticklish ears ticklish ears ticklish ears ticklish ears-

The first time Himmel tickled her he immediately fell on the floor ded because it was too much cute.

(The way he looked at her that day is a fond memory for her, she doesn't quite know why, tho.)

Not really a squirmer and her laughter is mostly silence, full of small giggles and one or two hiccups. Like soft tickles the best, since it is not unbearable to feel and actively leaves her w a light, quite content feeling afterwards. She could take a tickle fight, tho.

Fern

<3 Somehow the most responsible adult in the party <3

Terrifying ler, can and will use your weakness against you.

Just as she does when fighting, thrives when her victim understimate her power and is quick and ruthless to bring them to their destruction.

Will tickle the person usually as a way to get them to do something (probably a chore they forgot) or admit something while having the most unimpressed face ever seen by humankind

She can be both incredibly merciless and very very kind, depends on her mood, the person and the context

Only like being tickled by someone she really trusts and not around another people so no one will her being silly like this.

Get very embarrassed just for thinking how childish tickling is, but treasures the soft moments with har friends and family, just like every other playful, fun, nice memory

When the person (let's be honest here, probably Spark) is too occupied laughing their heart out also let's out the tiniest, softest smile, pretty much like Frieren

Used tickles to cheer up Spark once and promised to do 10 times worse if he even THINKS about mentioning that to anyone

Snorts. SO much of them. If she is laughing they will automatically appear no matter how much she tried to hide them between her hands.

Her shoulders and head shake with giddy energy when is being tickled. It's everything <3

Einsen

*LOUD INTELLIGIBLE SCREAMING* AAAAAA

As I said on Himmel's part, not really one to start the tickle fight but a quick one to finish it.

Not really very ticklish and not very easy to be caught out of guard so rip his opponents, really

HOWEVER, he has one single incredibly and horribly ticklish spot right under his knee that he immediately DIES when it's tickled and it's an automatic win for the person, so the thing is of every fight is: will them be able to get him there before he gets them? That is the big question

Not really a teaser, prefers to tickle the person in silence while mapping the places that get the biggest reactions so he can focus there.

Could or could not have used this techinique with Spark to 'train his resistence' once (an excuse that his friends were very fond to use with him) but no one will ever know because if you ask him he will just stare at you and let out a single chuckle before going on about his day and Spark will Blush and Die before answering

Made mental bets and always knew the score by heart of Himmel x Heiter fights

Used to think it was a silly and pointless activity. But after their ten year adventure came to treasure and be fond of silly, pointless activities

Loud, booming laughter or no laughing at all. No in between.

Spark

DA BOI WHO DID NOT DESERVE THAT PAST AND NOW DESERVE ALL THE LAUGHTER EVER

Do not mind tickling at all!

It kind of reminds he of his brother, since when he was a kid he was the biggest tickle monster ever. Not only on those training tips he used to give even while being extremely busy, but he just loved to appear out of nowhere behind him, carry and put him on his shoulder and tickle him while walking back home, pretenidng he was carrying a bag of 'extremely wiggly vegetables!'

He also used pokes and prodding to help him with maintaining his form while wielding a sword. Even if extremely common, Spark still squeaked everytime he poked his armpit to remind him to not his arms so far away from his torso

Still, everytime he is tickled that boi just can't form ANY coherent sentence at all, no matter if he is full on belly laughter with just a few giggles, his mind immediately turn into a mushy mess

Won't go down without a fight. Running away, attacking back, squirming as his life depends on that. Most of the time squirming away from it only to dash in a sudden bolt of energy and then come back in a surprise tickle attack to get revenge.

Tried to get Fern back once for tickling and they ended up actually fighting but some days later she started a tickle fight so he ??? is just very confused??? if she actually hates it???

(But to see her loosing up, giggling, laughing out loud and being so full of playfulness and joy... wow)

He likes to throw a few playful teases here and there when he is tickling his friends, with plenty of snickers of his own and pointing out how ticklish the other person is or about their delight reactions.

!!Tickles games!!!

His entire face gets extremely red when his laughter begins to sound higher or crackly. Can NOT take any tease about that at all.

Sein

OUR EVEN MORE FLAWED PRIEST <3 <3 <3 Come back pls

THE MOST TICKLISH PERSON EVER

And his best, amazing, ruthless friend Gorilla was more than happy to remind him about it all the time

Until nowadays he can't really see fingers wiggling in his direction without immediately getting a wobbly smile and giggles instinctively creeping up on his throat

His brother also would tickle him when he was a kid and later would gladly snitch all the 'truly good, hidden tickle spots' to his friend much to his dismisse

Will trash, squirm, plea, beg and promise to do anything when tickled. Especially if we'retalking about light, soft tickles. Those make him go absolutely crazy out of his own mind

Even so, he doesn't mind it too much. Still, gets extremely embarrased and complains about how childish it is.

Def made AND lost bets again his friend and got tickled as a "payament". Also I can see them both having competitions to see who takes the longest to laugh, say uncle, keep their arms up and etc :D

Sometimes gives Spark a few tickles just to mess w him and snicker at the jumps he gives.

Spark got revenge so rip.

[hoffmanstits-enjoyer]

thinking if william was like, having a good time on his first day with the metro police despite being surrounded by people that he hates with his entire being for being crooked pieces of shit just because he's got to watch ezekiel leading a case, to see his reactions as the plan goes on from so close— must've felt so unbelievably satisfying to hear from the man himself that the distrust and resentment towards those pigs was something they shared, that when william called him to point out boz's wrongdoings zeke seemed to instantly make the connection that it was punishment. that it was a consequence of his actions. plain fact.

just. william staying until ezekiel sent him home because even with his whole time-consuming operation on the works, he didn't want to leave. he wanted a dozen more hours of that easy, get-to-knowing-you dynamic and to hear he did a good job from him? god.

[maya-drawsdragons]

artistic rendition of the kfc breakup scene

just imagine whatcha say by jason derulo playing in the background

[le-velo-pour-dru]

MY STICKERS CAME MY STICKERS CAME MY STICKERS CAME!!!!!!! :DDDDD 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

I LOVE THEM SO SO SO MUCH I'M SO EXCITED TO USE THEM AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! 😁💖💞���💝💕🫶

[sparks-chaotic-cove]

Skybound makes me do hand flappies quicker than the rate that Sylph's wings buzz

[spaceratprodigy]

messy sketch but. them. :)

@hibernationsuit — 💕💖💕💖🥺💖💕💖💕

HELLOOO??? I AM SQUEALING!! LOOK AT THEM!!!! I am on the floor sobbing rn hello my friend I love you with my whole heart!!!!!!!!

[doodle-ink]

THEY DID IT THEY DID IT THEY DID THE YOU DROOL IN YOUR SLEEP LINE MY FAITH IN BOOK TO FILM ADAPTATIONS HAS BEEN RESTORED

[babycharmander]

Ford, Truman, Hollis, and the Domino Effect

So I'm working on my current fic (penultimate chapter is being beta'd, btw) and writing a scene with Truman, which got me thinking about him for a while and talking about him with @jaywings​ --in particular, about how Truman is a very worthy successor to Ford.

Both Ford and Truman are fantastic at seeing people for what they are in spite of what they've done. With Ford, we see this in his recruitment of the Psychic 7, particularly how he recruited Compton. Compton had just been incarcerated for (inadvertently) killing dozens of animals, and then Ford shows up, bails him out, and immediately recruits him. In spite of the awful crime Compton had just committed, Ford immediately saw past that and saw what a powerful, caring person Compton was, and stepped in to help. Then, with Truman, we also see this in how he recruited Hollis when she was at her worst (more on that later) and how he was the one person to see through "Nick Johnsmith's" fake niceness.

We only see so much of Truman in the games, but everything we see of him points to his being a competent, caring leader.

But... when did he become the Grand Head?

We know that the Psychonauts have a position under the Grand Head--the Second (or "Lesser") Head. So it's possible Truman could have been the original Second Head before he took Ford's place, but we don't know that for sure. For all we know, the Second Head position could have become instated after Truman was put in office. But when would that have happened? Hollis is the Second Head under Truman, but he was the one to recruit her. Was there not a Second Head until then? When was Hollis recruited?

I was wondering about this, and checked out the dialogue in Hollis's level, as well as one of her memory vaults. Hollis does mention Truman recruiting her, but she doesn't call him the Grand Head. On top of that, we have this image here:

[ID: One of the slides from the "Breaking Dr. Potts" memory vault. Hollis is standing in a hallway, glancing over her shoulder and looking distraught, while a visibly-younger-than-we-see-him-in-the-game Truman Zanotto looks at her, smiling and holding up a brochure. The brochure reads "We Want YOU - Psychonauts" with a somewhat younger Ford on the cover. /end ID]

Truman looks pretty young here, and the brochure for the Psychonauts depicts a slightly younger Ford Cruller (likely when he was still Grand Head).

So... let's imagine this: while Ford is still Grand Head, either he or the other Psychonauts (or all of them) realize that he's not okay, and isn't really getting better. So they have a meeting to appoint his successor, and Ford (or other people of sound mind) ultimately settle on Truman (possibly to Bob's dismay, suddenly being outranked by his own nephew). Ford sees the potential in Truman, and Truman becomes second-in-command. This all works out pretty well.

And one day, Truman shows just how much like Ford he is. The Psychonauts get a call about a world-renowned doctor gone mad, and a young Truman Zanotto is sent out to take care of things. He sees that the doctor's lost his mind due to some extensive brain-meddling via Mental Connection. Truman is able to straighten him out... but he's also able to clearly see that a very powerful psychic did this, albeit unintentionally.  He sees the potential in Hollis, and recruits her to join the Psychonauts where she can be trained to hone her powers and use them for good rather than misusing them dangerously.

And all is well... until Ford catches wind of this.

He's initially proud of Truman, seeing himself in him, thinking about what a great leader he will be...

But then there's... something about this situation that's... oddly... familiar...

A powerful psychic going into someone's mind... and a man's mind being shattered--

Something clicks in Ford's head, and he breaks, shattering completely. Instead of momentary lapses, he suddenly can't remember who he is at all. He's in the bowling alley, and he's working the desk. He's in the mailroom, and he's a mailroom clerk. He's in the barbershop, and he's a barber. Everywhere he goes, he's a different person, and he is no longer fit for office, and Truman (and, not long after, Hollis) is suddenly thrust into a leadership position.

Truman is now the Grand Head, at the cost of Ford losing his mind. And while he is a fantastic leader, things aren't well with the remaining Psychic Six. Otto survives as he always does (my personal headcanon is that he's the one who brought Ford to Whispering Rock and built him his sanctuary), but...

Bob, who already lost his husband and close friend, is suddenly, in a way, losing another one of his close friends. Deep down he may have seen Truman as the cause of this, and spiraled further into his depression and sank deeper into alcoholism. Later on this would lead to his being expelled from the Psychonauts.

Cassie was also doing poorly, distressed after Helmut and Lucy's deaths. Given her mastery of her own mind, she may have tried to help Ford, but been unable to, and was also no longer able to come to him for advice… and finally left. 

Compton, now without Cassie there to support him, finally holes himself up in the Psychoisolation Chamber.

One simple act of compassion kicks off the domino effect that breaks apart the founders of the Psychonauts.

...but it's also what brings them back together.

Truman and Hollis work hard to continue the success of the original Psychonauts. When Raz enters the picture, it's Hollis who teaches him about consent, about the dangers of messing with people's minds, as both she (and, unbeknownst to her, Ford) had done in the past. 

If/when Raz had tried to access Ford’s mind before, attempting to use the Psycho-Portal on him without his consent, it only served to make Ford angry and distressed. But now armed with this lesson of compassion and consent,  Raz asks permission first, and is welcomed into Ford’s mind… and from there, he is able to help bring the original Psychic 7--all of them--back together.

[xhynos]

More sketches ya-hoo

[voidedjuice]

Reread through Specter's second oprec and screencapped some of my favorite moments

These ladies make me so emotional :(

Also, while i love and cherish the confident, suave and happy Specter post SN, I have to admit I've got a personal soft spot for the bitter, hopeless Specter here

[glitchback]

[agenderedmoss]

Sent my partners a video where it's like, "ask your friends which fantasy character suits you best"

One of them said I was a pirate, fairy, and a witch.

I said they were a knight and a vampire. They asked about my other partner, I said knight and dwarf.

This in turn caused them to say, "WE'RE YOUR KNIGHTS!!"

I'm now crying

[shewhoeatssand]

A kaneki headcanon for you that I am metaphorically pushing under your door

Kaneki was a literary purist when he was younger, he’d refuse to buy any translated version of a book he wants to read and instead struggled his way through with a combination of the internet and a dictionary.

This was made even worse during his American lit phase because of how much cultural context is needed to understand the masterpieces. The only one he really connected with was The Grapes of Wrath, because of his upbringing and losing his mom because she was working to feed him.

Kaneki read American Psycho late into highschool and it brought down his Gpa by a decent amount. He had multiple notebooks just keeping track of everything going on in an attempt to understand what was going on. He’d spend nights up late theorizing about the book and was planning to submit his analysis on it for his PhD before he got ghouled.

Shironeki definitely speaks much better English and upon rereading it, he fell in love with fear and loathing in last Vegas, connecting it to his experiences in the ghoul world.

American psycho also was one of the things that connected Kaneki and Hide as they drifted apart as they got older, hide being a big fan of the movie saved their friendship.

OH GOD I’M SORRY FOR LEAVING THIS TO ROT FOR SO LONG, I just loved this one so much I didn’t know how to respond ❤️❤️❤️ I’m reading Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY because of this ask!!!!!!!!! This whole thing is so accurate I don’t know what to add, I love it so much, I remember listening to American Psycho in the car while I was moving house and it turned my whole world upside down. And this ask also made me realise how much Kaneki would have liked this book too!!!! Aaaaaah I’d kill to have gotten to see his PhD analysis on it :((( too bad he was ghoulified. Thank you so much for this it is literally the basis for all my thoughts on Kaneki speaking/reading English or other languages