#I need a tag for the three of them in the mainverse

[dragonmuse]

I have decided my prompt! Can I please have Pete, Lucius, and Izzy having a sleepover for some reason? (Maybe the apartment is being fumigated or the carpet is being replaced or something and Pete stays with Luc and Izzy?) Bonus points if one of them makes them all do traditional sleepover stuff. Also feel free to include any of the other Callahan gang!!!

(ook so this prompt was adorable and I started in on it right away and it's uh...a little past ficlet length. enjoy!)

He was halfway through making his lunches for the week when his phone buzzed. It was Lucius’ vibration pattern, two long, one short. Sundays were a weird day for him to be calling. Really calling at all. Lucius preferred to text, even if just to ask if he could call. 

“What’s wrong?” he demanded. 

“Our heat went out,” Lucius groaned, not even pretending everything was fine for a ribbing bit about Izzy’s phone manners. Yikes. “Two hours ago.” 

“Shit.”  It was a frigid night, the kind that burrowed into the bones. “What happened?” 

“Don’t know yet, our landlord is still waiting on the repair tech. Apparently a lot of furnaces are failing with cold snap.” 

“Come over.” 

“Yeah, that’s the plan, but can I bring Pete? John and Frenchie are going to sleep in Roach’s weird second bedroom. Jim and Oluwande offered their futon-” 

“It’s fine, pup.” 

“Oh thank fuck, I really did not want him to be on that shitty futon. Thank you.” 

“Did you eat?” Izzy asked, already mentally ticking over what was in the fridge. 

“We had a lot of soup. Eating hot things was helping. Maybe just put on some decaf?” 

“I can do that.” 

“Kay, we’ll be there in a half hour.” 

Izzy finished his lunch prep, then pushed the coffee table out of the way so they could pull out the bed when they were ready to sleep. Clean linens, blankets and pillows went out onto the coffee table in easy reach. 

What the hell did one else do to prepare for an overnight guest? Last time Pete had slept over, Lucius had taken care of everything because Izzy had been concussed into uselessness.  

Izzy made a pot of decaf. He washed and put away his dishes. Everything was spotless, his cleaning lady had been by just that morning. He stood uselessly in the kitchen, listening to the coffee percolate. 

Izzy: emergency overnight guest. Necessities? 

Mary: clean place to sleep, food and drink if needed, listening ear. Should be fine.  

Izzy: thanks. how’d did Doug’s blondies go over? 

Mary: he’s the king of the bake sale. The president of the PTA hit on him. I had to intervene so he didn’t blush himself to death. 

Izzy: she hit on him in front of you? at a school event? Hilda really is a total waste of space. 

Mary:  I keep telling you. The worst. Your plan is working though. I’ll have her ousted by the end of the year. 

Izzy: good. 

That was when he heard the elevator. Phone back in his pocket, he got down mugs. Pete took sugar, he was pretty sure, so he put that in easy reach too.  

The key turned in the lock and Lucius came in with Pete hot on his heels. Usually, Izzy would expect a hello kiss. Would he still get one? Was that weird just now?

“Hi,” Lucius groaned, crossed the room and kissed him thoroughly. Not weird. Izzy relaxed a few notches. “Thank you. I know this isn’t your favorite.” 

“It’s okay,” he said readily. “There’s decaf. And clean things for the couch when you’re ready for it.” 

“Beautiful,” Lucius sighed and kissed him again, then turned to coffemaker. 

“Hi,” Pete had a duffel bag with him, slung over his shoulder. “We going to kiss hello too? Because I don’t do tongue unless you’re going to put out.” 

“Fuck off, Black,” Izzy huffed out a laugh which made Pete grin, apparently his intent. “Put your shit down and don’t trample my cat.” 

“Like Sweeney will make an appearance?” Lucius scoffed. “He’s probably trying to become one with the floor under your bed already.” 

“Probably,” Izzy agreed. 

“Hello couch!” Pete was saying. “We meet again. I’ve missed your warm embrace.” 

“He wants to replace our living room couch,” Lucius shook his head. “So, you going to go hide with the cat or watch a movie with us?” 

“I have a choice?” 

“You have a choice.” 

Izzy watched Lucius pour coffee, retrieving the small container of whole milk that only existed for him in the first place. This was Lucius’ home.  Pete was a guest, but Lucius could host as easily as Izzy, he realized. He really could just go read in the bedroom and it wouldn’t be that weird. No one would care. Lucius would tease him, but what didn’t Lucius tease him about? 

“What movie?” 

“Babe! What are we watching again?” 

“Uh, depends if I can remember my Hulu password or not. Izzy doesn’t have it,” Pete had the tv on already, flipping through the apps. 

“We don’t?” Lucius glanced at Izzy. 

“Just Netflix.” 

“Huh, I never noticed. Guess because of the cable. Oh, babe! Izzy has cable. Just check on demand!” 

“Cable?” Pete’s eyes went wide. “Wait, does that mean you have HBO?” 

“Yeah, I’m a high fucking roller.” 

“Oh shit,” Lucius groaned. “He’s been trying to get me to watch Game of Thrones forever.” 

“The one with the dragons and tits?” Izzy frowned. 

“That’s what I said. But apparently there’s a plot or something. Save me.” 

Instead, Izzy sat on one of the couch while Lucius after a moment’s hesitation, realized he was in prime position to get the most out of his lifestyle choices for once, dropping his head onto Pete’s lap and his feet onto Izzy’s so he could get his hair pet and his feet rubbed at the same time.  

“I don’t care if this show sucks ass, this is the best day of my life,” Lucius declared. 

“The show doesn’t suck,” Pete rolled his eyes, turning it on. “And you said it was the worst day of your life two hours ago.” 

“I was cold and no one would huddle with me for warmth.” 

“I had to use the bathroom, babe.” 

“Cruel abandonment.” 

Izzy really hoped neither of them noticed the trouble he was having maintaining a neutral facial expression. They were fools, but they were very entertaining ones at the moment. Then the show got underway and Izzy mostly admired the fuckoff huge swords until things got weird. 

“Wait. Aren’t they related?” Lucius asked and Izzy was relieved he didn’t have to be the one to voice it. 

“Oh yeah, it’s a whole thing.” 

Another few minutes and Izzy’s eyes went wide, “Did he just kill that kid?” 

“To keep their secret! Awful right?” 

“That’s so fucking stupid,” Izzy shook his head. “Kids are terrible witnesses, you just pull the little bastard inside and throw a lot of details at him until he gets confused, so he sounds weird when he tries to explain then send him on his way. You kill a kid and everyone is looking for the kid killer. It fucks up the whole thing.” 

“...and it’s bad to kill kids,” Lucius filled in. 

“Well fucking obviously.” 

“How do you watch any kind of tv with him?” Pete asked, with what sounded like awe. 

“It’s awesome,” Lucius grinned. “I learn so many new things.” 

“That’s like the literal plot of the first season.” 

“Yeah, cause no one else could see it coming that offing a kid is a bad idea,” Izzy huffed. 

The show was grim. People were terrible and did terrible things to each other.  Lucius fell asleep halfway through the second episode, apparently as a defense mechanism considering his constant grumbling. 

“Does it stay like this the whole time?” Izzy asked. 

“Uh, mostly? Don’t watch the last season because everyone said it was a let down.” 

“Huh. Not bad,” he decided. “Might watch more.”

“I’ve got a feeling I know who you’ll wind up liking the best,” Pete grinned. 

“Yeah?” Izzy wrinkled his nose. “Who?” 

“No, if I tell you now, you won’t believe me.” 

(It took Izzy two months to work through the show.  

“Okay,” he asked as he spotted Pete on the bench press. “Who did you think would be my favorite?” 

“Jaime Lannister.” 

“How the fuck did you know that?”

“Let’s call it a lucky guess.” 

“Who was yours?” 

“Davos Seaworth.” 

“Yeah, okay, good pick.” ) 

As soon as the noise of the show stopped, Lucius was awake. “Now I’m kind of hungry.” 

“Me too,” Pete stretched. “Soup wasn’t that filling.” 

“Oh! Iz, can we have toddler charcuterie?” 

“What’s that?” Pete blinked. 

“An Izzy special,” Lucius said solemnly. 

“Read is a blabbing brat,” Izzy determined. “But yeah, fine. I could eat too.” 

As soon as he was on his feet, Lucius was too, pulling down plates and cutting up the cheese while Izzy got down the crackers and found the remains of the salami that Pickles routinely devoured like it was going out of style. 

“Strawberries or grapes?” He checked in. 

“Grapes, thanks,” Pete watched them both with a small smile. 

“What?” Izzy set down a plate in front of him. 

“Nothing. It’s just nice, that’s all. Don’t get to see you two being all domestic.” 

“Is it domestic if one of us isn’t fully domesticated?” Lucuis teased. 

“You’ll get the hang of not biting eventually,” Izzy muttered and Pete barked out a laugh. 

“Mean, so mean,” Lucius said around his own giggles. “And you wouldn’t want me to, anyway.”  

The final plate looked almost like it was actually for adults, if Lucius hadn’t arranged the salami into eyes and the cheese into a lopsided smile. 

“Why?” Izzy asked, aggrieved. 

“So I can do this,” Pete picked up one salami eye and replaced it with a grape, “He’s a pirate now! Salami is an eyepatch.” 

Izzy rubbed his forehead with the heel of his hand. 

“Adorable,” Lucius deemed and started in on the cheese. “Oh, hey, babe, I can show you that cute pharmacy I always tell you about in the morning.” 

“Which one?” Izzy blinked. 

“You know that one that’s all old timey and does the nice window displays.” 

“It’s just not owned by a massive chain,” Izzy shrugged. “Not really sure how they managed that.” 

“It’s family-owned and the family owns the whole building,” Lucius picked up a cracker. “The girl with the Marilyn Monroe piercing, who works the register, told me when I asked.” 

“Cool, I’ve got some things I could pick up,” Pete said. 

“Wait that’s what that piercing is called?” Izzy caught up with the rest of Lucius’ statement. “Why?” 

“Cause Marilyn Monroe had a mole there and people have thought it was cool for forever, apparently.” 

“Isn’t that painful?” 

“Don’t look at me, I’m not the one who got bathtub tattoos.” 

“Come on,” Pete’s eyebrows went up. “You didn’t get your tattoos done in a bathtub?” 

“No,” Izzy said primly, suddenly very interested in the cheese. 

“Oh, I’m sorry, a bathtub might’ve been too practical,” Lucius rolled his eyes. “Bathroom floor, obviously better.” 

“That was just the dagger,” he muttered. 

“But you’re such a clean freak!” Pete protested. 

“I was younger. Probably dumber. Definitely drunker.” 

“My entire world no longer makes sense,” Pete said mournfully and finished eating his salami. 

Lucius phone buzzed and he took it out, “Okay, so apparently the furnace blew...something. Anyway, they can get someone in to fix it tomorrow. So lucky you, goblin, just a hot one night stand.” 

“If they get the part,” Izzy pointed out. “Either way. It’s fine.” 

“Even though I’m exposing all your literally dirty secrets?” 

“Yes, pup,” he touched Lucius’ wrist with a single finger, a brief point of contact. “Pete told me you two talk about me a long time ago. Figured I didn’t have many of those kinds of secrets left.” 

“Pete!” 

“What?” Pete asked around around a cracker. “Don’t you talk about me to him?” 

“I mean, yeah, obviously,” Lucius frowned. “But I figured that was an open secret kind of thing where we don’t acknowledge it.” 

Pete shrugged, “It’s not like you’re blabbing the important stuff.” 

“Yeah,” Izzy agreed. “Probably be fucking weird if you never mentioned us to each other.” 

“Wait.” Lucius took a step back and looked between them. “You totally gossip about me when you’re being all tough and manly at the gym, don’t you?” 

“No,” they said in unison and it took everything in Izzy not to turn and glare at Pete for the distinct panic in his voice. 

“Oh my god, how did I never realize that,” Lucius considered then beamed. “That’s so fucking cool. I know it’s not sex stuff because Izzy would rather die, so it’s gotta be cute other shit. Do you complain about me?” 

Pete wisely said nothing and let Izzy handle that one with his interrogation-trained blankness, “Never.” 

“Oooooh you do!” Lucius giggled. “Wow. Amazing.” 

“You’re happy about that?” Pete checked. 

“I mean, obviously I’m flawless and amazing, but I have been told by some people in this very room that I have a few irritating habits. If you two bitch at each other about them instead of at me, I think that’s a win-win.” 

Izzy turned fractionally to stare at Pete until he went wide eyed and gave a nod. The truth would never be known:  That they pretty much never managed to really complain because the complaints turned to endearment almost immediately. Lucius was too...Lucius for them to work up much shared annoyance. If they mostly just talked about how much they liked him and then agreed the conversation was untenable in its sickly sweetness and changed topics, that was their business. 

“Sure, we all win, sweetie,” Pete managed to say with a mostly straight face. Good enough. 

“You know if this is just one night, then it’s basically a sleepover,” Lucius pointed out, apparently done gnawing on that conversational bone for now. “We should do sleepover stuff?” 

“Like what?” Pete grinned. “Gonna have a pillow fight? Do each other’s nails?” 

“Play truth or dare?” Lucius suggested with an equally playful grin. 

“None of that ends well for me,” Izzy determined. 

“What do you mean?” Lucius lifted his eyebrows. 

“Either my pillows get fucked or I accidently give one of you a black eye. I wind up with nail polish on and Eddy gives me the business for the next 500 years. And the two of you have no fucking shame, so it would be easy to gang up on me for truth or dare with you would absolutely do.” 

“...yeah, that’s true,” Pete conceded. “We really would.” 

“Aw, no fun,” Lucius gusted out a sigh. “What do people even do at sleepovers if they’re not fucking?” 

“When I was a kid, mostly we kind of tortured each other,” Pete considered. “Whoever fell asleep first got covered in marker and we put their hands in warm water or shaving cream or something.”

“Don’t think I did a lot of them,” Izzy turned over memories. “Yeah, no. Stay out all night when I was older, but not sleepovers.” 

“What’d you just roam the city streets?” Pete asked.

“Sure. Still shit, break windows. One guy I knew was pretty good with spray paint.” 

“Hooligan,” Lucius deemed. “Sounds fun. You never got picked up?” 

“Nah. We’d just scatter if we saw a cop car. They didn’t bother trying after a block or two to really nail us.” 

“What about you, babe? Sleepovers?” 

“No,” Lucius popped a piece of cheese in his mouth. “When I was younger Mom wouldn’t let me and once we were teenagers, didn’t have any guy friends and girls weren’t allowed to have me stay the night.” 

They were all quiet for a minute. 

“Wait!” Pete set down the cracker sandwich he’d been building. “Do you think that pharmacy is open now?” 

“Yeah, they go until midnight,” Izzy said. “But it’s just a store.” 

“Okay, sure, but one of the things we used to do was take like a few dollars and go to the corner store and see who could buy the coolest thing for less than five bucks.” 

“How small was your town?” Izzy asked incredulously. 

“Shut up. Small,” Pete huffed. “But it’s fun. Come on.” 

“Make it ten,” Lucius grinned. “You know that nothing costs five dollars anymore.” 

Which was how Izzy found himself in a pharmacy after ten o’clock at night, without actually needing emergency medical supplies for the first time in years.  He hadn’t really thought much about what a place this sold that wasn’t advil, but as he went up and down the aisles there was a surprising amount of food. Pete had located a toy section and poking delightedly at some truly hideous stuffed animals. Lucius was standing in front of a wall of school supplies, apparently already having forgotten what they’d set out to do as he studied a set of colored pencils with his eyebrows knit together. 

Izzy left them to it and went to where he’d been planning to go since Pete suggested the whole ridiculous idea anyway.  He faced the display, gave a resigned sigh and picked up the item. Truly he had left behind any shred of dignity he’d once desperately clung too in the Revenge’s alleyway. 

He bought his item first by a long shot and took his bag outside to wait. Pete came out, looking pleased with himself. 

“Who’s going to judge this shit?” Izzy realized. 

“Eh, there’s usually an obvious winner.” 

“Seems like a way to start an argument.” 

“Oh, probably. We can dial a friend to tiebreak if we need to. Everyone is probably still awake.” 

Izzy was usually already in bed at this time unless he was waiting up for Lucius. Revenge people ran on a different time zone, he figured.  Lucius drifted out a few minutes later and they wound up back where they’d started, with the already much depleted cheese platter once more under attack. 

“Your idea, babe, you go first,” Lucius declared. 

“Look at this baby,” Pete pulled out a very small plastic trashcan with a bright label. “Trashbot!” 

“What’s that?” 

“It’s a bot made of things found in the trash, but it’s a surprise which one you get,” he handed it to Izzy. 

“Why?” He turned it over in his hands. It rattled a little, making its contents known. 

“Fun. It’s a toy. You put it together, it’s a surprise, and it’s probably got a pun name.” 

Izzy handed it off to Lucius, who also shook it, “I never got the garbage obsession. Garbage Can Kids were a thing when I was middle school too.” 

“Gross stuff was the best,” Pete sighed, taking it back from him. “Let me build it, you’ll see. What’d you get babe?” 

“Kind of also went the kid way,” he pulled out a box of markers, familiar in their bright yellow and green packaging. Then he pulled out the little notebook/sketchpad he tended to keep on him. “I always wanted these.” 

“Markers?” Pete asked dubiously. “You definitely had markers.” 

“Not these.” Lucius pulled out the purple, uncapped it and pressed down. When he pulled up there was a little paw print. “Stampers!” 

“Are they all animal prints?” Izzy regarded the box, already guessing who’s hands those would wind up in. Pickle would be delighted. 

“Hearts, stars, other little things,” Lucius made a convincing trail of paw prints. “Look how cute!” 

“Very,” Pete agreed, as he worked the plastic off his toy. “Izzy?” 

He set the bag down and without comment pulled out a single glass bottle of nail polish (black because black was still cool and he did have a tiny sliver of dignity left maybe). 

“Awww!” Lucius snatched it up. “Izzy wins.” 

“Misdirection,” Pete accused. 

“Eddy already gives me a hard time and probably won’t stop until both of us are dead,” Izzy shrugged. “So it’s still true.” 

“I get to do yours?” Lucius bounced on his feet. 

“Yeah, yeah.” 

It didn’t look bad, actually. It did mean they wound up watching something else why they dried. Pete didn’t get his done, but only because he apparently had to put on pressons tomorrow for his act so they’d only get ruined. He did do Lucius’ for him and they looked good on him too.  

Izzy cracked a yawn halfway through whatever movie it was that Lucius had picked out to watch during those goings on. 

“Head to bed,” Lucius elbowed him. “I’ll get the food.” 

“Yeah,” he touched one nail gingerly and found it dry. “Night, pup. Pete.” 

He got to his feet and used the restroom. The flashes of black while he brushed his teeth were distracting , but not bad. When he walked into his bedroom, he found Lucius sitting on the bed. 

“Thought you’d take the couch. Pete’s night.” 

“I am,” Lucius reached for him and Izzy walked right into the circle of his arms. “But I wanted a kiss good night. The good kind and I figured you’d want privacy.” 

“Yeah,” he breathed out than leaned down to get the very long, detailed kind of kiss that sometimes signaled the end of their evenings, but more often started them off. “Good night, pup.” 

Lucius dusted another kiss over Izzy’s cheek, gently pushed him back and stood. “Good night, goblin. Love you.” 

“Love you too.” 

And it was weirdly not that weird to watch him leave and listen to him and Pete talk in the other room. It was fine to turn off the light and get under the covers, knowing they were both still awake and his bed would stay empty.  It would’ve been empty tonight anyway, but he’d gotten kissed and there’d been conversation and company. It wasn’t so bad. 

“Mew,” Sweeney jumped up onto the bed and started kneading the spot by Izzy’s feet where he usually slept. 

Izzy fell asleep even with the little noises in the other room. In the morning, Pete just walked to the gym with him and Read (who made lots of sympathetic noises upon hearing about the furnace) and it wasn’t that different from days they met up there.  

When he got to work, Jim zeroed on his hands almost immediately. They grinned. 

“Have a fun sleepover, boss?” 

“No thanks to you and your piece of shit futon.” 

“Why do you think I have a piece of shit futon?” They rolled their eyes. “Looks good, any way.” 

It wasn’t like it became a thing or anything. But maybe once and a while, Izzy would crack open the bottle on his own. The smell held good memories now.

[infini-tree]

ok so now i’m just going to list all my oc’s now because i have A Lot now. also a brief description of the schools. a lot of these are co-created w @penning-captain-underpantsff​ so there’s going to be overlap. last updated april 2023.

tag list

general tag | selainius | sception | teahide | biamile

besser middle school: a smaller school near the piqua community centre. woefully underfunded to the point that they don’t have a library. as a result, the principal of said school needed to make a deal with said neighboring community center so the kids could use their library for their curriculum

thea selainius: (miscellaneous) principal; used to teach history. even expresso can’t melt her typically frosty exterior.

beatrice teahide: (beady eyed / misty-eyed) english teacher. cries whenever she has to cover romeo and juliet for her curriculum

mr. mark: (miss the mark) teacher with subject to be determined

joseph wardell high school: while much more better funded than either jerome horwitz or besser, the principal usually makes the school end up in hot water for one reason or another, leading to them having to pay absurd amounts to take care of the problem in the first place

conway turner biamile: (country mile / turn left by a mile / missed her by a mile) principal; used to teach english. tends to be really oblivious about a lot of things

mrs. abbott: (messes about) vice principal and the more no-nonsense one of the two. the one who’s actually running the school

(note: jerome horwitz, besser, and joseph wardell has the theme naming of being named after the actors who played the third stooge in the three stooges. why are all of them the third stooge? i think this is much funnier.)

assorted members of the piqua school board

rhys crien: (recipient / miscreant) a superintendent with an ironic name. (tetocu canon has no bearing, so she’s always been the superintendent).

mrs. teem: (misesteem) the principal before krupp for jhes; currently retired in mainverse, was the one who made the jammer of jerome horwitz have to go to the Strictest School In Piqua in sticky notes au

ms. stalthut: (missed all that) principal of the other, as of yet unnamed elementary school. somehow has kept out of the weird plot/monster of the week shenanigans and is kind of a joke character in that regard.

mr. vehlop: (misdevelop) unnamed elementary school’s vice principal. would sue captain underpants for destroying his car if he could. also kind of a joke character

faculties in piqua

terrance sception: (interception / misperception) librarian at the piqua community centre. former STINKS spy responsible for sabotaging the Omega Toilet and bird expert

brooke schmaltz: (book smarts) sception’s coworker

tomas towe: (tomato / mistletoe) greenhouse worker and member of gardening club; biamile’s current romantic partner

Stealthy Termination and Infiltration of Knowledge Sustainers (S.T.I.N.K.S.): countergroup set up to sabotage the Omega Toilet project that ree was a part of as seen in S01E05 of tetocu. the group had thought that the project was dangerous due to the potential for flooding, pollution, and getting rid of information quick.

S.N. “essen” toriko: (eccentric) former director of STINKS. disappeared after the final sabotage.

sue R.T.: (surety) former [REDACTED] of STINKS, currently a practical FX artist. one of the few agents sception is in semi-regular contact with.

selainius relations

julius: stray cat adopted by selainius. mischievous boy :3

simon selainius: (simultaneous) father; co-runs local hole in the wall restaurant 

sofia selainius: (spontaneous) mother;  co-runs local hole in the wall restaurant

geronimo ‘ronnie’ stehp: (wrong step) cousin; unlike his namesake, is much more outgoing

o. vera stehp: (overstep) originally the hypno that sold george the novelty hypno pendulum in the pmd au. in the mainverse, she runs a mom-and-pop shop. also related to selainius now by way of distant cousins

teahide relations

myla teahide: (mind’s eye) mother

burt teahide: (bird’s eye) father

ramona teahide: sister

theodore ‘teddy’ lewis teahide-krupp: son by way of teahide and jasper and kipper’s half brother. has interest in photography and filmmaking in mainverse

sception relations

??? “reese” sception: (reception) father; location unknown. radio host

esther sception: (exception) mother; location unknown. some sort of drafter. 

biamile relations

millicent 'millie', minerva 'minnie' biamile: ([a] million miles [away], [a] mile a minute) twin sisters; second and third youngest

walter biamile: (walk a mile in someone’s shoes) brother; second oldest

stephen biamile: ([a journey of a thousand miles begins with a] single step) eldest brother; deceased

stan biamile: (stand out a mile) father; deceased

michelle biamile*: (miss by a mile) mother; deceased

( * maiden name was 'atrich', making her michelle atrich and her old pun being based on '[not] miss a trick')

etch: because biamile’s relations section was getting long, this one is based on the ones from his divorce.

gabrielle etch: (give an inch [he'll take a mile]) ex wife; divorced amicably in mainverse

everett etch: (be every inch the [x]) eldest kid

winona etch: (within an inch [of your life]) middle kid; wants to get a teaching career

gavin etch: ([not] give an inch) youngest kid. yes i know that’s the same pun as his mom, technically

daisy: corgi :)

other townsfolk

dawn terthe: (down to earth) moxie’s high school sweetheart. geologist

percy: (perception) the scepsel foster kid that sometimes exist whenever i’m in a fankid mood. has an interest in dinosaurs.

[xiaolindude]

Muse file.

Tagged by: @pcrticlvcid​. Thanks lovely ~! ♥

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BASICS!

AGE: Verse-dep. (usually anywhere between 16-26) GENDER: Male. SEXUALITY: Bisexual, biromantic. INTROVERT, EXTROVERT, OR OMNIVERT?: Omnivert masquerading as an extrovert most of the time. HEIGHT: 5′9″ as an adult (fully grown). BODY TYPE: Average height, lean but strong. Athletically built rather than having a bulky frame. Naturally quite light due to his element EYES: Dark green  HEALTH: Generally good, has a good immune system and good fitness (I hc health is also positively influenced by being a Dragon). Most health issues are injuries rather than illnesses MEDICATION: None. TEMPERAMENT: Generally fairly laidback, always playful and with a good sense of humour, sometimes struggles to take things too seriously. Free and changeable as the wind he commands. Usually in fairly good spirits, but quick to become sarcastic. Can get very competitive depending on the situation. Can become something of a workaholic and can be very determined under certain situations. Can get moody and tends to remove himself from people’s company when this is the case.

FAMILY!

FATHER: Manoel Bernal (dec.) MOTHER: Sophia Pedrosa SIBLINGS: 8 brothers and sisters: Camilla, Larissa, Izabel (his three older sisters) and Antonio, Doretéia, João, Thiago, Manoela (his five younger brothers and sisters) SPOUSE: None. CHILDREN: None. PETS: none / Niño Ronaldo the stoat (in some verses)

ADDITIONAL!

SMOKES: no / sometimes (verse dep) DRINKS: Socially / to excess (verse dep) DRUGS: no / regularly (verse dep) DIET: adaptable. changeable. he isn’t particularly fussy. not huge on some vegetable (if they’re left plain) but likes them fine when they’re put with other things. no specific dietary requirements and no big food groups he avoids ALLERGIES / INTOLERANCE: none that he knows of  TATTOOS: depends on which point he’s at in the timeline, but in every single verse I have, rai gets tattoos as an adult. He adds to them slowly and eventually probably has some across his chest, an entire sleeve, the other wrist, his collar bone, back, shoulder blades etc PIERCINGS: one earlobe pierced (again, verse/timeline dep.) MAKE-UP: none JEWELERY: his one earring, bracelets, his amulet GLASSES / CONTACTS?:  no, though i hc years of looking at scrolls by candelight eventually leads him to need glasses, at least for reading PERFUME?: no, usually just deo. sometimes a dash of cologne but very rarely

MISC!

WRITES LOVE POETRY?: Not at all, he’s not a poetry fan and he himself isn’t particularly poetic or traditionally romantic CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY?: yeah, but not to excess. he tries to milk it and make the most of it and will be like ‘um you can’t be mean to me, it’s my birthday’ for the entire WEEK of his birthday, but he doesn’t actually expect much. he’s from a poor family with a LOT of kids after all, so when people make a real big deal out of it and get him presents, he’s surprised but delighted FAVOURITE COLOUR?: changes pretty often, he doesn’t get attached. but he likes orange (warm orange, not like neon orange), green and red SLEEPS?: either for too long or not long enough, rarely an actual GOOD amount. he has to get up early for training and stuff, and he’s usually not too bad at falling asleep (because he’s often exhausted by the time night rolls around), but when he becomes leader, his sleep declines a little because his head is full with all the stuff he has to think about and the worries and responsibilities and stuff HAS PLUSHIES?: He has Ninja Fred, a teddy bear from his childhood that he’s kept with him even into adulthood as a ‘good luck charm’ (it’s more sentimental than that, but shhh no telling) MUSIC TASTE?: Very eclectic and changes as he grows up. He goes from mostly rap/hip hip (because it was ‘cool’), to mostly pop punk, rock and indie. But it’s very varied generally READS?: scrolls mostly (in mainverse) but he does actually like reading for pleasure too when he has the time and energy. in that case, it’s mostly fiction (such as adventure, thrillers, crime etc) FONDEST CHILDHOOD MEMORY: pretty much anything with his dad, but maybe when his dad started teaching him how to surf. manoel was very determined and encouraging and rai wanted to be just like him. they had so much fun together - rai tries not to think about it too often, because it makes him happy but then that joy runs cold, and he becomes very sad instead SINGS IN SHOWER?: Absolutely! every day, sometimes twice a day. he’ll sing/hum/whistle whatever is in his head

[storytell]

@mckiingbiird​ asked

Talk about Twain? ^^

congratulations! i have SO much to say about twain! this is going to provide the longest answer possible out of any muse you could have picked just because twain has so little in canon and i’ve developed him so much. he’s my longest standing muse ever so there is too much about my portrayal to say without somewhat of an organization so i am right now without warning implementing a new feature into these ramble asks known as Sections. so now that i’m a little more coherent. sections.

just so you know by the way i really am not joking when i say this is over 10 paragraphs long. read at your own risk. however long you think this post is i can guarantee you it is longer.

this was for a meme i did but i literally can’t answer any more of these because i’m too ashamed by how little i have for every other muse in comparison to twain.

part I: timeline.

my twain was born just after the end of (or during the final days of) the war everyone’s always talking about in canon, and it genuinely didn’t have much of a direct impact on his life. he has six siblings (five older, one younger), and of those six there were three siblings he was closest with: orion, henry, and pleasant. orion and henry were the two oldest, and given that their dad was terribly abusive and their mom was, in twain’s own words, a coward, they did most of the work to provide for the family. although twain always thought orion and henry were mean, because they always played tricks on him. pleasant was twain’s confidant; she was the older sister he could go to if he needed something to cry about.

growing up, twain was always a troublemaking kid, and there were only so many schools in or around their town that he could get expelled from before there weren’t really many options left. in the summer before he was scheduled to go to his last year of middle school, this--among a variety of things such as the abuse of his father and a general feeling of wanting to run away--caused him to formulate a plan where he would run from home, which he did shortly before school started at the age of 13. i know i have the age he ran away listed as 14, but he tends to lie and say he actually ran away a year later.

he traveled for around a year on his own, meeting a lot of different people from a lot of walks of life, before meeting a man he would come to refer to as “uncle”, possibly under the instruction of that man. i should note that my personal hc for the identity of “uncle” is natsume souseki, but this doesn’t really have any bearing on much of anything and i tend to not mention it at all in threads where “uncle” comes up because it’s not the most significant thing. anyway, “uncle” taught him how to do many things to survive on his own, including shooting guns without his ability, making fires, cooking food over an open flame, etc. he was the first real father figure twain ever had, but he and twain eventually parted ways when twain had just turned 17.

twain did a bit of freelance work afterwards--initially he sang and played guitar on the streets for pocket change, but after he killed a man trying to kidnap a girl he didn’t know, something within him clicked: he knew he wouldn’t mind doing something like this for a living, after his initial bout of panic. his career as a freelance hitman was very short-lived, but it got him enough money that for the few hits he did, he was able to stay at nice hotels and do fun things. he never really used any of it, though, too used to not having any money at all and attached to the lifestyle of not having a home to come back to. the first time he ever splurged on himself wasn’t even anything fancy; it was an olive garden.

to the man who sat himself down at the table and bought one of every food item, the place was probably less than nothing. but to twain, so used to being poor and never having enough, it seemed like more than he could have ever asked for. and so, after very little negotiation, began twain’s contract with the guild. at the time, not-yet-eighteen year old twain was the youngest member of the guild’s ranks, but he was definitely not the least talented. he rose quickly through the ranks of the organization, becoming the chief gunman/sharpshooter and a fellowcraft of the guild after just over a year of being employed.

from there, things are probably predictable, given everything that twain is. he makes friends in the guild, begins spending the ludicrous amount of money he’s being paid for his services, and generally does what’s fun for him. he discovers a love for minecraft (more on that later) and rollercoasters, and goes on travels he never would have been able to without the security of the money he’s being paid. then, after a few years of relative normalcy, the guild goes to yokohama, and you know what happens from there.

post-canon is where things begin to get a little bit foggy for me. i do technically HAVE a mainverse idea for what happens to him, but the catch is that i almost never use it. for post-canon stuff, i tend to use one of any number of verses where he’s stayed or been caught up in yokohama, because it’s just a lot easier. but my actual mainverse headcanon unaffected by roleplay relationships i want to have is this: twain goes back to america. he unintentionally gathers a bunch of lost kids and, using his travel money, he provides for them while they all travel. and that’s it. maybe in the future he becomes successful from the tales in his success diary. maybe not. who knows?

part II: traits with basis in canon.

i don’t need to repeat that we see very little of twain, but i just did anyway. because we get very few glimpses of him, there’s not much we know outside of shallow character traits. because it’ll make things easier to talk about, here are the core traits i noticed in twain that i’ve had to build off of, and then different paragraphs talking about how i’ve built off of them.

we rarely see him anything but energetic, but he does have his quiet moments.

he’s very friendly, and tends to invite people out to do fun things with him.

he is very competitive, but NOT a sore loser.

he does things to impress others. notably, one of his canon likes is “praise”.

he’s very self-confident, but not to the point where he thinks it’s impossible to beat him, as demonstrated when he’s not angry about atsushi’s victory.

he’s very flippant about taking a life.

following orders is not his top priority.

we rarely see him anything but energetic, but he does have his quiet moments. a couple of my headcanons have stemmed from this--the first is the most obvious one and that is that twain has ADHD. this didn’t come directly from his energetic attitude and rather from a combination of multiple traits, but it also happened because i was projecting. the other headcanon that’s stemmed from this combination of facts is that twain is smarter and more introspective than most people give him credit for. this has backing in the scene where he shoots at atsushi from the moby dick; instead of shooting at atsushi, he diverts his aim to the oil truck in front of him.

he’s very friendly, and tends to invite people out to do fun things with him. there are a lot of things i can talk about in this regard, but i’ll start here: twain genuinely likes to meet and make friends with new people. despite his occupation, he loves hearing others’ stories and tends to ask them about them. along with this and somewhat in tandem with the introspective part of the first hc, twain also pays a lot more attention to how people act and what they like than everyone tends to think he does. this actually has basis in my dive into the real life author mark twain, as he was notably famous for being able to pick up on people’s mannerisms, accents, and ideologies well enough to flawlessly represent them on paper (he claimed he could “read human character as well as he could read the mississippi river “).

he is very competitive, but NOT a sore loser. from this trait, i’ve sort of developed the idea that it’s very rare for twain to actually get angry, and he tends not to argue with people. he’s very quick to forgive if he knows he was in the wrong and tends to say sorry first after arguments, but at the same time, if he knows he’s right and shouldn’t be the one apologizing, he’ll cling onto that until the day he dies. also, this has spawned the smaller and less significant hc that twain likes to do competitive activities like laser tag or mini golf for fun, especially since you don’t necessarily have to know the people you’re doing those things with.

he does things to impress others. notably, one of his canon likes is “praise”. there’s not really much to say here in terms of how i’ve built on this, but one notable thing is that i attribute this trait to the lack of praise he got from his parents growing up, and how lonely he felt even when he was traveling with “uncle”. he likes when people are impressed by him because he’s impressed by himself, and when he doesn’t get the reaction he expected it puts a little bit of a damper on his confidence. temporarily.

he’s very self-confident, but not to the point where he thinks it’s impossible to beat him, as demonstrated when he’s not angry about atsushi’s victory. speaking of confidence, i actually have a whole journey laid out about twain’s journey with arrogance v. confidence and the overabundance of arrogance to make up for a lack of confidence in his earlier years. when he first ran away, he had a very troubled and hateful mindset, and outwardly portrayed that he believed himself to be the best of the best while really thinking he was terrible and a burden to his family. it was only through meeting so many people and the guidance of “uncle” in his more formative years that he began to develop a genuine sense of self confidence and, by the time he hits 20, everything good he says about himself is genuinely true. this said, he is also very aware of his flaws (for example, he definitely knows he isn’t too smart or careful or focused), but he doesn’t view them as detriments to his character and instead chooses to believe that without his flaws, he wouldn’t be himself.

he’s very flippant about taking a life. this trait actually was what caused me to think about how he took his first life. i’ll walk you a little through the things he felt when he did: he was angry, at first, then terrified, then secretly glad, and then sooner rather than later he genuinely felt nothing about it. as he’d go on to carry out hits for various people and the guild, that feeling of initial panic would become smaller and smaller every time, until the lives of the people he had to kill didn’t really matter to him. that said, it’s important to me that he still values connection and friendship with other people, so he definitely does. i believe these two traits can coexist when done properly; he values the lives of people and the stories they have to tell, but all life ends someday anyway and nothing is lost by the end of that life sooner than it would have ended otherwise.

following orders is not his top priority. this is, i think, where i get the idea that twain is a free spirit. it is this that has sort of shaped twain in every way, whether it’s getting expelled from every school in his area or going overboard on a mission where his target should have been left alive. i think his top priorities are having fun and having a good story to tell later, and while letting atsushi die wouldn’t have fallen under something fun, twain’s anticipated victory definitely would have been a good story to tell others.

part III: traits with basis in how mark twain was in real life.

an unashamed love of cats. it doesn’t come up SUPER often, but i like to remind people from time to time that my twain absolutely adores any and all cats, and had plenty of them himself before the guild arc. this comes from rl mark twain being obsessed with cats to the point where he’d have up to 19 cats at once, and would straight up rent cats while he was traveling so he never had to be without cats.

traveling. speaking of traveling! this not only comes from rl twain’s travels, but also the love for adventure displayed by huck and tom in their books. bsd twain really wouldn’t be a good adaptation of the soul of mark twain without acknowledging his travels. i think there were hints to this in the show, but definitely not as much as i would have liked. my twain is a restless soul and not only likes seeing new placed, but meeting new people.

unashamed acceptance. this actually stems both from the central ideas of several of twain’s novels as well as a quote and his love of traveling. my twain used to be a terrible person; he came from a conservative family and had no internet access beyond the one TV that they had, so it’s not like he was very informed. it was traveling and meeting so many people that caused him to develop the accepting nature he has today.

utter devotion to objects of his affection. i’m assuming because everyone reading this is probably a normal person, they DON’T know the intimate details of twain’s relationship to his wife. well i personally do. while there were undoubtedly some problems between them, there is one thing i choose to input in my relationships involving twain: he genuinely bent over backwards to get her to love him. he would do literally anything for her. and that’s a huge big part of how i portray twain in all of his relationships because i input that aspect of “willing to do anything for his partner, even if it wasn’t what he might have wanted to do beforehand, just so he can be happy with them”.

profanity and sex. i don’t know how much you know about twain’s other works that aren’t his most popular, but he was known for being very prolific and obscene in certain works, to the point where he made a joke about the word ‘damn’ being in used in substitution of the word ‘very’. for his time, he was also very obscene and made a lot of references to not only sex but other things that were considered taboo subjects among the respectable like, i kid you not, farting. because of this, my twain curses a LOT. and i can’t exactly explore this much since i myself am a minor and don’t know how far i can really go, but he is very in tune with sexuality and basically this man has a lot of sex.

comedy. to put things plain and simple, RL mark twain was basically a touring standup comedian for a good portion of his life. i attribute this fact to why twain is the funniest person in the guild and always tries to keep things light and fun. 

bouts of depression. i should say this now: my twain doesn’t have depression. but, since i didn’t want to ignore the fact that the real author more than likely DID, i felt i should include my twain’s suicide attempts just before and just after leaving home, when he felt he was at his lowest.

the river. the river not only serves as a motif for twain’s most famous story, but also his actual life. if you know anything about rl mark twain, you know he was a steamboat captain for a little while. my twain definitely was not (although i have thought about giving him a steamboat captain au just for fun), but nevertheless a large portion of his initial journey away from his home took place on a river, to parallel both huckleberry finn and his actual life.

thoughts on war and humanity. since i don’t write serious things with twain a lot, it’s difficult to incorporate this into most threads with him. rl mark twain was personally affected by the civil war and did all he could to avoid fighting. he never actually enjoyed conflict. my twain was NOT affected by the war, as it was just ending when he was born, however he still has a lot of thoughts on militarization that i won’t elaborate on as i’m trying my best to keep this blog free from subjects that could genuinely affect anyone’s wellbeing. as for humanity, my twain largely shares his counterpart’s view that human beings can be very greedy and selfish, but that kindness is the greatest weapon and gift one can have. his views are very complicated so it would definitely not hurt to ask him directly about them wink wink nudge nudge.

confidence and natural magnetism. i’ve already spoken about my twain in regards to confidence, but there is some of it that is based in how mark twain in real life was--and no doubt in how tom sawyer acts in every book that features him. he was once quoted as calling himself THE american. despite all this, however, i take from rl twain his natural magnetism and ability to somehow make people like speaking to him despite that he should very much come off as arrogant; with my twain, there’s really just something about him that feels as though he wants to get to know you.

curiosity about science and new technology. because of his counterpart’s interest in science and friendship with nikola tesla, my twain has a deep love for new and exciting technology, and it’s actually because of this that i have the hc that he discovered a love for video games after having enough money to actually purchase a setup to play them. he’s really interested in things like cloning and genetic altering even if he doesn’t really understand the actual science behind them and i’m very confident that if he had watched phineas and ferb his favorite character would be dr. doof.

part IV: miscellaneous.

favorite color: orange. not only is it the color of his hair, but it’s also the color of fire and a very bright and friendly color. favorite food: italian, but he’s not a picky eater and will settle for anything. he specifically enjoys good NY style pizza, but doesn’t think chicago style pizza is bad either. favorite song: american pie by don mclean. “uncle” introduced him to it. favorite movie: it honestly depends on the day. recently he’s had a strange obsession with night at the museum. favorite game: minecraft. this is the part where i explain later: it was the first game he actually played after buying himself a good enough computer to play games and he fell deeply in love with how beautiful of a game it was. he gets very emotional about the idea that for him, minecraft is a game meant to be shared with other people and for you to showcase just what you can do. he has a hardcore world that’s been up since he was 18! favorite non-alcoholic drink: lemonade. favorite alcoholic drink: whiskey. favorite season: summer, with fall as a close second. favorite holiday: halloween. he loves to dress up. this year he says he plans to dress up as the cowboy from night at the museum, but that will probably change. favorite musical: currently, newsies. but he’s also been known to like falsettos, bonnie and clyde, and 35mm. favorite place: anywhere there’s something new to see. favorite animal: coyotes! biggest fear: as strange as it may seem, he genuinely actually doesn’t have any real fears. the only thing he’s afraid of is the kool aid man because his brothers convinced him that it was filled with the blood of kids who didn’t like kool aid and he’s never been able to shake that fear from him.

MBTI type: enfp. enneagram type: 7w6. hogwarts house: gryffindor. i actually have had thoughts before about putting him in hufflepuff or slytherin, but his unashamed bravery and willingness to run headfirst into any situation with no fears as well as his BLATANT disregard for rules makes him more of a gryffindor than anything. ilvermorny house: thunderbird. it favors adventurers, and i’m sure if you’ve gotten this far you know twain loves to adventure. patronus: honestly, probably some kind of hawk or falcon. tma entity: hard to say, but i tend to have him aligned with either the eye or the vast. the eye because he likes to watch and observe and hear others’ stories, and it’s a great way to play off of twain looking through a scope to snipe people in canon. and the vast because he’s a thrill seeker and loves the feeling of falling, and also believes that in the grand scheme of things not much is very important. PJO godly parent: hermes for sure, but i have experimented with the idea of it being apollo, dionysus, or athena. hunger games district: 7. i already have this established in the hunger games au for him that i?? just kinda have for some reason. divergent faction: dauntless. i don’t even like divergent by the way, i was just kind of trying to think of other categories i would sort twain in. i think he’d definitely be divergent tho tbh.

[sithroyal]

HOW I RUN MY BLOG

TAGGED BY: Stolen from: @reyjustrey​ TAGGING:  Steal it and tag me!

SPEED: I am incredibly slow. My blog runs on half-queue and half-live replies. So, in that case, you may get your reply within the same day or a few days after, or it’s been put into the schedule.

REPLIES: I write with a lot of people and I like to try to keep things fair. When I do my replies, I use a random number generator (here) and I do the reply that it picks for me. Sometimes I need it because I can’t pick one myself, so this is a simpler solution. 

Reply schedule is as follows: 

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: Three replies go out at 10am, 12pm, and 2pm EST. Tuesday, Thursday: Two replies go out at 10am and 2pm EST

There are no replies scheduled on weekends. If you ever want to know when your reply is coming out, I have an excel sheet for that and I’m more than willing to link it to people.

As for actual threads, I prefer to know how we’re going to start one off. If I know where to begin, then I’m fine with winging it after that but I’m also open to mid-thread plotting if either of us have an idea to go off of. Heavily plotted threads are a bit more difficult for me as I don’t always remember to take notes on them - apologies in advance! 

STARTERS: Writing starters is totally fine for me! I don’t mind doing it. Just let me know where you’d like to start the thread. I can’t promise that I’ll have it within the hour but it’ll be up within the day. Also, I do have open starters (here) that any mutuals can answer at any time.

INBOX: Want to interact but you don’t know how to start? That’s fine! I have ask memes (here) and I’m always accepting them. Asks can be turned into threads at any time. Unlike replies, however, asks are queued randomly and I won’t always have an answer when it’ll come out.

SELECTIVITY: I am mutuals only. This means that I only interact with people I follow and that also follow me back. This blog is crossover, au, and duplicate / same faceclaim friendly. 

WISHLIST: I have a ;;wishlist tag but I’ve not actually been using it. There’s a lot of things I’d like to explore, mainly threads with original trilogy characters. More twin threads would be great and maybe some more mainverse adventure stuff! All kinds of things, really. 

HONEST NOTE: Ahh. Hm. Not sure what to put here. I do a lot better when it comes to plotting and threads if I can talk to the person I’m writing with. This goes double with ships really. I don’t always hear the tumblr IM noise (it bothers me since I have headphones on a lot and it’s loud) but I’m always on discord (ripley#0893) and I’m always up for plotting something.

[itsnotpatsy]

so this is a call out post for @whiskeyrely and @drftwood who i logically blocked because i’m exhausted of the bullshit and i’m sick of being a nice goddamn person and having it shit on and then expected to forgive someone countless times.

under a cut for length.

so i met alex (who goes by alex but is actually catie but made that alias to escape her own bullshit she’d pulled elsewhere) when she’d played a trish walker over at i think the url was @herodesire, but it was along those lines, over on my alana blog @cruelonlytobekind and we plotted and discussed but otherwise didn’t write. it was chill. i thought she was pretty rad.

i made this blog, over here, yonder, and then she approached me eager to write a jessica jones. because i can’t help but be innocent and excited about things, i encouraged it. i was genuinely happy to have a jessica i seemed to be good friends with who i could write with and plot with. i myself am a major trishica shipper and a huge enthusiast of jess’s character. i’ve written her myself and wrote her before, i still do on a multi.

things seemed to be pretty cool. i invited her into a discussion with three other people i wrote with, including the person who partners in my mainverse. and then shit started to go evidently haywire. i don’t have the conversation logs anymore because i can’t find them on discord, but she’d essentially repeatedly guilted me into trying to write, perpetually prostrating herself with the ‘i understand if you don’t want to write with me since you have your mainverse partner now’ and then cryptically left the chat with two of my other writing partners, stating that ‘they felt uncomfortable’ after they’d literally asked advice of us by dumping this huge set of screencaps about a feud they had with another marvel rper and made us ridiculously uncomfortable.

a note: don’t drag people into your bullshit. they didn’t sign up for being caught in between your weird argument with somebody and you’re holding them emotionally hostage by dropping this chunk of screencaps without asking. no warning about the situation, no venting, just holding them hostage about it. don’t ask for an opinion when you want people to just tell you you were right.

(i’m sorry i don’t have screencaps yet. i don’t want to expose the other two people involved, or the person they were having the argument with, as i don’t know that person personally and i don’t feel like stirring up their shit, too.)

so fast forward. they apologize to me on discord under their jessica account and i accept the apology. because to me it wasn’t a huge deal, it was only a situation in which i’d become uncomfortable due to the completely forceful attempt to write with me, ship with me, and exist in my hemisphere. she made me a series of graphics and images without my prompting at all and continuously, which often seems to me like an attempt to make the other person feel indebted, and i was perpetually guilted in ‘do you ever want to write with me anymore’ im’s or the usual ‘i understand if you have someone else you like writing with better’. which is frankly gross. stop self-flagellating to gain someone’s sympathy.

fast forward to a couple days ago. i get a couple anonymous asks:

of course, i’m so excited. why wouldn’t i be? this is a character beloved to me created between someone close to me and myself, and the chance to write against them was super exciting. why wouldn’t i be stoked? of course! so i responded with enthusiasm and then got an im from this:

evidently whoever the fuck a charlie is. but they tell me that ‘they’ve never rped before and they’ve followed me over on my alana blog forever and they’ve wanted to forever, but they don’t know the first thing about it so they wanted to start by approaching me’. so i helped them by coming up with a url, by discussing headcanons, etc. you know. shit you do when you’re excited. then i started to notice things.

their ‘new blog’:

alex’s blog:

wow, it’s super suspicious that a person brand new to rp knows exactly how to use a tag system, same italicized/bolded/font type in the header, edits very much the same. that makes total sense. it’s not suspicious at all.

(note, don’t act like someone’s stupid. they won’t love it.)

but i tried to give them the benefit of the doubt.

until last night.

so here’s a note: don’t start a conversation with i know you’re suffering but i’m here to guilt you about this online situation. i have enough shit going on in my life without someone taking the things i enjoy and making them hard for me to enjoy because i need to be paranoid about everything or i need to worry every kind gesture or show of enthusiasm from someone new is someone hiding things from me. but here you are trying to make it sound like you’re socially awkward and this isn’t malicious as an act in and of itself. and as if that wasn’t bad enough, you got caught so!

fuck the ever loving fuck off. learn how to leave well enough alone. and i see you blocking the people who liked the post about catfishing i wrote. you’re being a genuine coward and you need to stop ‘saying you’ll do better’ or playing the victim and acting like your behavior is just ‘because you’re bad at this’ or ‘you’re socially awkward’. it’s not an excuse. don’t fuck with people’s creativity or feelings.

also, leave me alone in every sphere of my roleplaying. i’m sick to death of you fucking around and then apologizing when it is clearly bullshit.

thanks for the time of everyone who read this. feel free to reblog.

[royalcaretaker]

Verse Information - Tamaran Trek

Like what I just posted on Starfire, this is a verse to fit my muses into the Star Trek - Universe.

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In short, this verse will keep the “origin story” of my muses basically the same. Galfore still has been a close friend of the previous ruler and his wife, accepted the role as caretaker for their three children, and was there for them even after the parents died. By now, he is the ruler of Tamaran, after Starfire has renounced the title and banished Blackfire. The tamaranean powers also stay the same - energy, ability to go into space without any protection, flight, strength, language-assimilation (this not being the case for Wildfire though); all these things.

He’s around 72~74 in this verse, but still as strong and healthy (and big) as he is in the mainverse. Old age only shows for tamaraneans very briefly, close to the end of their days, and Galfore isn’t as far yet.

I’m not setting a star-time for this verse; I feel like I can keep it vague enough so that it can be thrown at any of the shows and as such different times.

For a long time already, tamaraneans have been able to travel between planets - their bodies even allowing them to fly into space without any protections - but despite that, they have never reached out farther than their own star system (Vega is what I usually call it, but Wiki shows me something like that already exists in Star Trek so uh, I’ll come up with a name once it’s needed). Those contacts that they did establish brought forth wars over wars, presumably a good amount of tamaraneans along the way were taken and forced into becoming obedient workforce (or similar, perhaps worse, things). Without actually wanting the contact, they know that an amount of other species know about them, and a good percentage of these that know them refer to them as ‘Troqs’ and consider them inferior; which of course only confirmed that it was better to stay on their own. (Aka here’s my explanation for why they aren’t a species included in any Star Trek thingies before we have my muse meet one in/from one of the times)

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Unlike my iconing problems for the royal siblings, I can use Galfore’s icons for this verse as well. He wouldn’t change much between that timespan, so they can work. Since Star Trek is mostly live-action though, I think I will still choose randomly whenever I come to using this verse, and likely not always do icons. It’s unlikely that I will ever find the time to make icons (or good situations/appearances) of his RL-FC. Sorry.

The tag for this verse will be #👑 Tamaran Trek 👑 | Star Trek!Verse.

[therisingtempest]

       SHIPPING INFO | ABOUT MUN. REPOST DON’T REBLOG

✧ WHAT’S YOUR OTP FOR YOUR MUSE ?

Ugggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh idk man. Airn/The Ocean. Jkjk, I can give you my top three? I really can’t narrow it down to one. These three are probably otp just because of the sheer amount of WORK put into them. And in that sense, first is gonna have to be @ladywiththecoldeyes in v; shipwreck because it’s been like...two years? of hardcore character development. I don’t think Airn has a stronger relationship than this one. (Strong here does not mean flawless okay but def most intense). And then OF COURSE @lostartfuldodger​ bc while Cas and I haven’t written as much in actual threading THERE IS SO MUCH PLOTTED. Even if it’s not written out, I FEEL like it’s happened so there’s still that super intense attachment. And it’s the most magical ship okay like adorable and heartbreaking all at once AND THAT’S NOT COUNTING THEIR AUS. Aaaaaand @airanddarkness​ bc how could I not XD Airn’s first ship on tumblr, I think! And come on, pirate/royalty will always be golden.

✧ WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO RP WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING ?

Cheeeeeeemistry. I will even accept animosity as a form of chemistry. (See Lara/Airn marriage plot lmao) As long as SOME sort of dynamic is going on, I’ll probably be down to ship it.

✧ HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE ?

I mean. Airn is 2,000+ and has a Thing for humans and also has gotten involved with things older and more powerful than him, so age really doesn’t matter? That said, there will be no ships with children here. 

✧ ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING ?:

Not really? Like I said above, my only real stipulation is chemistry. As long as something interesting is happening, I probably ship it.

✧ HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY’RE CONSIDERED NSFW?

I’m not really as strict about nsfw tagging on writing as I am on photos. My mindset is that someone can glance over your shoulder and see boobs and dick and that’s super obvious, but words, at a glance, are not intrinsically nsfw until you start putting them all together. So lmao idk at all I just usually slap the tag on when my partner does. Your comfort = my comfort.

✧ WHO ARE OTHER MUSES YOU SHIP YOUR MUSE WITH ?

@themaidenmuirin​; @seabeastic​; @theabandonedmuses​; @tellurianwitch and she’s not on tumblr anymore but Locret

✧ DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU ?

lmao um yes? This feels like “does one have to ask to go on a date with you” like YES I’D LIKE TO KNOW IT’S HAPPENING AND GIVE MY INPUT TO THE THING WTF

✧ HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP ?:

Does this mean how often do I like to write shippy things? Bc I view shipping as more of a constant background state than an action in itself. I feel like I’m repeating myself but goddamn as long as it’s interesting I’m gonna be into it. Whether that’s romantic shipping, platonic shipping, an adventure story, a huge involved murder-mystery plot, WHATEVER YOU GOT.

✧ ARE YOU SHIP OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS ?
:

More-or-less I guess. I’m not specifically here for it, but I hella enjoy it when it happens.

✧ ARE YOU MULTISHIP ?

Kinda? lol Airn’s poly and everything takes place in the default mainverse unless my partner has a preference otherwise. Like shipwreck verse only came about because another writer got a little twitchy about timelines between our three characters. And Cas prefers closed verses for her ships with Kenzi. I’m chill af, bros, I don’t mind at all if you need a separate verse or if it will avoid drama. I mostly keep everything together for laziness’ sake XD And also bc it gets weird having different versions of mainverse Airn. Like, I couldn’t pull shipwreck!Airn out of that verse now and stick him in any other because he’s changed so much. 

✧ WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SHIP(S) IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM ?

Lol what fandom. The Fomoire? I ship him with all of them. YES ALL THE FOMOIRE BLOGS COME SMOOCH MY CUDDLY DANGER OCTOPUS.

✧ FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU ?:

Probably helps if we���ve started writing already but I’ll accept cold opens too. XD Just talk to me on discord or skype or even tumblr IM. I love discussing character dynamics even if it doesn’t turn into a ship. But it probably will lmao.

TAGGING: If I tagged you in the body of this thing do it. TAGGED BY: @lostartfuldodger​ and then @airanddarkness later XD

[sapphirescales]

more tiny updates:

i still need to come up with tags -- i’ve come up with three sets so far and i’m not entirely happy with any of them so :/

my theme is almost complete; i only have to fix up some colours, do some graphics and add the tags to my tag page.

i’ve gone and softblocked blogs that are inactive ( less than / equal to one month inactivity ), including some old blogs of mutuals. please don’t take it the wrong way, i want to keep my following / follow circle focused mostly on people i write with. i’ve still got to go through my follow list and unfollow people i don’t interact with so that i’ll have more of a capacity to follow blogs that i want to interact with without having to worry about my dashboard’s speed.

i have one more starter to do and then my previous starter call is done. here is a list of previous drafts i’m keeping and dropping -- i’ll be getting to those when i can and potentially queueing them up unless they’re arc-focused.

i’m working on clearing my askbox -- i’ve got some recent memes i want to keep but there’s some really old ones that i might just clear out.

i’ve started working on some mainverse graphics already! i’m super excited about these.

also considering making my own icons for maggie at the very least but ... i’m not sure how much motivation i have to do this, so more to come?

[silvertonguedgod-archived]

1. WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE SMELL LIKE? Leather, smoke, and cloves mostly. Woodsmoke from the fires that keep the palace warm. And if he’s washed his hair recently, cloves and mint. Pine, if he’s been wandering in the woods. Ink, dust, and parchment if he’s been shut up in his study too long. Metal, sweat, grass, and dust if he’s been sparring. Sometimes blood -- copper and salt. But always leather, and usually smoke and spices. 

2. HOW OFTEN DOES YOUR MUSE BATH/SHOWER? ANY HABITS? He bathes daily. Bathing is a Thing on Asgard, and cleanliness is one of those Asgardian societal things that he actually cares about and agrees with. Personal hygiene is crucial to him, being the vain princeling that he has a tendency to be. When his hair’s greasy, you can bet your ass it’s because he either hasn’t had the chance to wash it recently, or has sunk into such a deep depressive episode he’s forgotten that he actually inhabits a body. Chances are, if that’s true, you should probably also try to give him some water because 10:1 he’s also forgotten to drink.

3. DOES YOUR MUSE HAVE ANY TATTOOS OR PIERCING? Mainverse: no.  Mythverse: both earlobes pierced, and depending on timeline... several holes through his lips. Does that count? Inkverse: Ink Stain tattood between his shoulderblades

4. ANY BODY MOVEMENT QUIRKS ( EX.KNEE SHAKES )? He picks at his hand when he’s nervous, or at the hem of his sleeve. Usually he picks at his left hand or left sleeve. That was true even before Jotunheim, but since then it’s intensified into an actual problem. There was a time when he was wearing a glove to keep that secret, but he and Thor have been working through that. He still picks, but it’s not as intense. 

5. WHAT DO THEY SLEEP IN? Soft tunic and leggings, or just the leggings. he gets warm easily, and using magic to regulate your body temperature is hard to do when you’re sleeping

6. WHAT’S THEIR FAVORITE PIECE OF CLOTHING? His leather armor, without all the metal adornment. The armor moves with him like a second skin, and between its enchantments and the natural toughness of the leather, protects him well. In less than the leather he feels extremely vulnerable, especially now that he’s actually thwarted death at least three times (wormhole, Hulk, Kurse). In more than leather ------ that is, lots of metal ------ he feels clunky and vulnerable in a rather different way. The protection the leather armor grants is both physical and psychological.

7. WHAT DO THEY DO WHEN THEY WAKE UP? Try in vain to fall back to sleep for about 10 minutes. If it’s still dark outside, light candles; if the sun is up, open the shades. Unless his s/o is still asleep, then he’ll kiss their cheek and go into the next room to make tea and order someone to make breakfast. He does try to spend mornings with his s/o, before the day inevitably descends into chaos.

8. HOW DO THEY SLEEP? POSITION? On his back or his side, especially when he’s sleeping alone. He sleeps light as a feather and is always on high alert, and he needs to be on his back in case he needs to spring out of bed at a moment’s notice. Unfortunately he has a problem with night terrors, which are particularly acute when one sleeps on their back. He has not managed to reconcile this, and as a result his regular nightmares are sometimes replaced with sleep paralysis. 

So, I guess the short answer to ‘how does he sleep’ is BADLY.

9. WHAT DO THEIR HANDS FEEL LIKE? Soft and smooth. Cold as ice usually, unless he’s actively using magic to make them warm for someone else’s benefit. They are elegant and rather manicured and aristocratic, but as soon as you touch them you can’t help but understand how capable they are. The fleshy areas just beneath his ring fingers, just above his palms are lightly calloused ------ the result of holding metal weapon hilts bare-handed for many years ------ and that, plus the surprising strength and intensity of his grip, prove that for all of his noble affectations he is not untried. 

10. IF YOU KISSED THEM, WHAT WOULD THEY USUALLY TASTE LIKE? Depends on his mood. Blood, fire, sometimes ice (that bitter cold, metallic taste of fresh-fallen snow deep in the mountains). If he really loves you ------ if he has decided that you are as dear to him as his own flesh and blood ------ he will taste of absolutely nothing at all. Just skin, and whatever he used to clean his teeth. Or the wine he drank before you kissed him.

Tagged by: @sinnhelmingr Tagging: I do not like to tag people so do the thing if u wanna!

[eggenterprises-blog]

RULES

~BASICS~

First and foremost, if you happen any of the soon to be listed rules. Don’t sweat it! Well, don’t treat it lightly either. I don’t insta block anyone that breaks one of my rules, usually I just go into IMs and ask the rule breaker if they could stop doing that so we can both have fun. If you do happen to break my rules multiple times, sorry but I gotta block you.

This blog is multimuse, so if you ever send in an ask could you specify which muse you want to answer it? It just makes things easier for me. You’re also always allowed to send an ask meant for everyone.

Please never assume any of my muses knows yours. Unless we plot it through IMs or an ask meme says that our muses would know each other. If it’s just randomly in a thread we haven’t planned or started with an ask meme, that’s a no go for me.

Also, this is an AU blog. Massively AU, so some characters will not know other characters. Keep that in mind depending on who your muse is.

I won’t always answer every ask in my inbox, but I try to answer them as often as I can.

If you RP with “matt-and-exeitor” I will be hesitant to interact with you.

OCs are completely welcome here so long as I can get enough info on them off of your blog.

This blog is also crossover friendly with the following fandoms: Mega Man Nintendo in general Non-fandom muses Night in the Woods muses And Undertale (I’m picky though)

~SHIPPING~

This blog is multiship, which means that let’s say Maw has a ship in my mainverse you are more than welcome to also ship with him in the secondary verse. It’s there for a reason ;)

Also there won’t be any cheating unless its fine with the mun RPing my muse’s s/o.

You’re always more than welcome to come into my IMs and talk to me about maybe shipping our muses, I’m always up for more ships.

If you ever want our ship to be in its own special verse for whatever reason, talk to me about it! I’d be happy to do it.

No massive age difference ships. 20 year old with a 22-24 year old is fine. 8 year old with a 22 year old is not. In any way.

No incest ships. Like, even if this is an AU and technically my muse isn’t say, the father of your fan child. It’s still a no from me.

I also reserve the right to not accept certain ships. Usually due to sexuality.

On that note I’ll never break my muse’s sexuality just for a ship.

Platonic and familial ships are just fine! If you want my muse to be your muse’s best friend, let me know! Or if you want my muse to be your muse’s parent/sibling let me know! I’d love to do something like that! The same goes for hate ships!

~THREADS~

This blog, is highly selective/mutual only. Depending on what’s up, I may RP with some non mutual blogs but for the most part I’ll only do mutuals only.

The way I write for my threads is always in third person. And I always start a new paragraph after a line of my muse talking. Just the way I write, even I don’t know why.

I don’t have the best of grammar when it comes to certain things. Often times I can use certain phrases wrong or even use the wrong way of spelling certain words. My hope though is that whenever I do it I get my point across and maybe even keep the way you pronounce the word the same.

I hold the right to not RP with certain people and have the right to drop threads. If I do have to drop a thread I promise to tell you before I do.

The length of my threads varies depending on what’s up. Usually they’re rather medium sized. Like, two paragraphs. But sometimes I call pull of three, usually those take time to do though.

With that in mind I try to get to as many threads as I possibly can, so if I haven’t replied to a thread in a while and haven’t said anything to you about it, don’t worry, I’m just too nervous about talking to you about it because I’m usually sitting in front of the drafts screen just trying to will my fingers into writing.

~MEMES~

If I ever reblog an ask meme, please, send it/something from it in if you’re gonna reblog the meme. If you don’t want to, which is just fine and understandable, go to the source. If the source is deactivated, then go ahead and reblog from me I’ll understand.

~OOC~

Please, call me Burning!

I am a male mun. If that is a turn off for you, I hope you can work through it and maybe get back to me later on. If not, well bye I guess.

I am also Bisexual. So much like the previous rule hope you work through any ill will towards Bi people and get back to me, if not bye.

Almost, but not always, time I don’t interact with a new mutual is because I’m an anxious nerd. So if you want to interact with me, please approach first. If you’re just as anxious, I’ll wiggle my way into interacting with you.

I have no triggers myself, but if there’s something that you need me to tag so you can blacklist it please let me know.

I want this blog to stay as apolitical as possible. Which means I want politics that aren’t fictional or mentioned in a joking way away from this blog. I have no ill will towards anyone that talks about politics on their blog though, I just don’t wanna post/reblog anything about politics on my blog cuz this is the place I want to escape from reality. Why would I want to bring that stress here?

I’m never, ever, going to reveal my age to anyone online. If we meet in person one day far off in the future, then I’ll tell you if it comes up. But as of right now, I’m not telling anyone. Same thing goes about my true name.

I often shitpost memes. It’s fun and I like it, if that’s not your sort of thing, I often tag them as {Dump Shit} so you can blacklist that tag if you want.

~NSFW~

So without going into detail, I just wanna say that smut can happen here. All of my muses are of age. If you want more detail on what can and cannot happen in a smut thread check out this link.

Anything overly graphic (smut or intense gore) will go under a read more.

Gore of almost any kind, raunchy jokes/actions, and other things are also welcome here. Depending on how graphic each one of these things are, they’ll either be tagged as “NSFW” or “NSFW-Ish”.

You can ask me any NSFW question OOC through the inbox or IMs, I’m no prude.

You’ve reached the bottom of this rabbit hole! Thanks! Now that you’ve read my rules go ahead and send me a “Ready for Enlistment.” through my inbox to let me know! I’d appreciate it.

[xiaolindude]

VILLAIN AU.

PART 1. very young-15 years old. EARLY LIFE AND THE ‘INCITING INCIDENT’.

  ( I’m gonna finally be posting the main overview of what happens in Rai’s villain verse! It’ll be split into three parts (1, 2, 3) and there WILL be triggers in here. His life involves a lot of death and violence. All the posts will be tagged but if you need more stuff tagged please just send me a dm! c: )

Raimundo Pedrosa grew up poor with a large family in Rio, surrounded by violence, lost his father to gang violence when he was 8, discovered he had these strange powers he didn’t know how to control, doesn’t know what they mean or why he has them, what he IS… it bursts out of him and it worries him – but then he’s contacted by the temple. His initial life, up until he joins the temple, is just the same as mainverse.

He’s at the temple for around a year, a little impatient with the lifestyle and feeling constantly like he’s not up to scratch but he’s trying his best anyway. He’s intrigued by the Heylin side but surrounded by everyone telling him it’s Bad, Bad, Nothing but Bad

He KEEPS trying until one day, he hears that his family has been killed (i’m still working this out but i’m leaning towards police militia OR indirectly through a localised, small-scale terrorist incident). I always figured Dojo keeps tabs on everyone’s families, just in case. He’s kinda... protective and caring like that? 

After isolating himself and sitting staring at nothing for like a full day with a million emotions rushing through him, rai leaves to go and find those responsible. He breaks in, sees red and kills them - this is when he either realises he can drag the air out of people’s lungs OR that he can manipulate the air pressure to crush people. When he goes back to the temple, he’s visibly shaken (of course) but does not regret it. He doesn’t feel sorry. They deserved it. He did the world a favour. He does, however, think he should leave. It’s not the Xiaolin way, he knows that. Even if he didn’t choose to leave, he knows he’ll be kicked out for deliberate murder, that much is clear.

After losing his family, he’s in a VERY bad headspace. he probably lashes out at someone who tells him ‘everything happens for a reason’. How DARE they? Before he knows it, there’s a localised raging hurricane around them and the air pressure gets crazy high. The other ends up seriously hurt. What worries him (at first) is how little regret he has for it. They also deserved it. Again, how dare they say something like that to him? How dare they insinuate his family died for some kind of reason? He’d like to meet that reason and rip it apart. With at least one murder, perhaps more, and this attack under his belt, he’s starting to feel more and more isolated and confused. There’s one thing he knows, though - none of this would’ve happened if his family was still here. And he’ll stop at nothing to get them back.

NOTE: i know this might seem kinda like on of those ott Tragic Backstories™ but honestly, it would take the loss of his family to prompt him to murder in the first place, and it would take a combination of the first taste of his dark side and the trauma he’s been through to encourage the rest of his ‘darkness’ out. This is basically the backstory that’s necessary to bring about villain rai.

[reaverxrichard]

LAYER ONE: THE OUTSIDE.

Name:   Richard D. Parker Eye Color:   Brown Hair style/color: Short, brown hair, that always ends up looking kinda messy by the end of the day. Height:   6′ Clothing Style:  Dark colors, nothing too elaborate. Easy to put on, comfortable to pass out in, but holds up during the job. 

LAYER TWO: THE INSIDE

Your Fears:  Death / dying. Abandonment. Commitment. Non-humans whom he isn’t accustomed to, and aren’t contained. Thunder.  Your Guilty Pleasure:  Movies like Titanic Your Biggest Pet Peeve:  People who point out things like ‘drinking like that’ll kill ya’ and ‘cigarettes are bad for you’ Your Ambitions for the Future:  Figure out what the god damned hell he’s doing next, cuz he’s honestly not sure. 

LAYER THREE: THOUGHTS

Your First Thoughts Waking Up:  "Fuck I’m awake” followed by “Loud” followed by “Ow” - He’s always hungover, my dude.  What You Think About Most:  Regrets, life, work. his boss What You Think About Before Bed:  On a good day? Nothing. He aims to be too drunk to think by the time bedtime rolls around.  You Think Your Best Quality is:   His ability to see the good in people, no matter what.

LAYER FOUR: WHAT’S BETTER?

Single or Group Dates: Single dates - if we’re being honest, Richie is far more likely to get wasted in a group date situation. To be Loved or Respected: Loved - Richard hasn’t been respected a day in his life, and he ain’t gonna start now.  Beauty or Brains: Both in different ways, but brains are the more important thing here. You can be pretty and still be pretty dumb.  Dogs or Cats: Dogs, but he’s an ‘either or’ type of person. 

LAYER FIVE: DO YOU…

Lie:  Yeah, when he needs to - he doesn’t mind doing so, either.  Believe in Yourself:   Not at all, honestly - that’s why he’s such a follower.  Believe in Love:  As a concept, sure, but he doesn’t really think it exists in the same space he does, ya know?  Want Someone: Yes, despite his feelings about love he craves companionship - which he substitutes with booze. 

LAYER SIX: EVER…

Been on Stage:  Nope. Done Drugs:  He’s tried quite a few. He doesn’t do them frequently at all, but he’s quite the fan of Weed and Adderal, though for different reasons.  Changed Who You Were to Fit in: He’s tried, but it never sticks. He has a very specific personality, and he always shifts back to it.

LAYER SEVEN: FAVORITES

Favorite Color:   A salmon-y pink-y color (#ff7353) Favorite Animal:   Dogs. Favorite Movie: Titanic but that’s a secret   Favorite Game:  This neat game called ‘Fortnite’ but he doesn’t play often, so he kind of sucks.

LAYER EIGHT: AGE

Day Your Next Birthday Will Be:   March 18 How Old Will You Be:  Verse Dependent, but going off Mainverse? 33. Age You Lost Your Virginity:  As a teenager, in high school. Does Age Matter:  Absolutely. Legality aside (cuz if it’s illegal, this is the one thing he’s not about) there’s a significant mental maturity gap between people of different ages The youngest he’d go is probably 21, and that’s pushing it. 

LAYER NINE: IN A PERSON

Best Personality:  Confidence, but also a sense of humor and an idea of when to relax - you can be totally kick ass, but if you work yourself to death, does it matter? Best Eye Color:  He isn’t picky, but he really likes blue eyes. Best Hair Color: He isn’t picky, but he has a slight preference for darker hair. Best Thing To Do With a Partner:  Road trips. Watching movies. Having a drink under the stars, or on the beach. Relaxing in one another’s presence, and just not worrying about shit.

LAYER TEN: FINISH THE SENTENCE

I Love: Booze I Feel: Exhausted and confused, and a little lost. I Hide: My feelings about most things.  I Miss: When things were simple.  I Wish: I knew how to change the present. 

Tagged By:  @pierced-morals Tagging:  @nattjeger (if I haven’t tagged you yet) & anyone who wants to steal it!

[unaugmentedmonkeyscantfly]

HOW DO YOU RUN YOUR BLOG?

Speed: My speed is kind of dependent on my Internet capability.  The majority of the time, I’m either at home after work on an LTE tether, or at a wifi hotspot for no more than two hours on my lunch break.  I try to get to the oldest ones first (generally), and my ideal is to get ten to twenty replies a day, but realistically on most weekdays I can get about five or six, less if they’re paras.  I really wish Tumblr had a second queue that I could just boop, easy queue a reply without having to manually schedule or else clear out my other queue...

Tracking threads / dropping threads: I have a tracker, but I’m quite awful at adding, partly because it doesn’t have a redundancy check (I’ve had the same thread tracked three times), and partly because in order to add it, I have to add three web pages that I wouldn’t normally have to load.  When your connection is only rarely above 1mbps, navigating the graphics-heavy world of Tumblr can be problematic.

I do my absolute best never to drop a thread.  If it gets dropped, it’s probably because I didn’t see a notification or because it got lost in my likes.  (I use likes instead of drafts so if someone realizes they need to make an edit between the time I see it and the time I reply to it, it’s no biggie.  Unfortunately, this means things sometimes get lost amid “ooh I’ll use that GIFset later” and various starter calls...)

Replies / starters:   Generally, if we’re doing a one-liner, I prefer it to be an icon + text, since just a line of text provides me with very little to respond to.  No body language, no facial expressions, whatever.  But longer paragraphs don’t need icons.  Sometimes I’ll use them at the start as a “this is the rough way Fitz looks at the moment” but typically if it’s going to be more than about three sentences, I don’t find the need for icons.

I also prefer to cut my replies to leave at least my last reply there.  The time between replies means that if you do the little “remove caption” x, I will almost certainly not remember what was going on, and that thread will be back-burnered until I can get to a better connection that lets me load your reply on your blog, look for a “reblogged from” link, and find it.

You can also tag me in all kinds of things on any of my muses.  I follow all their tags as well as check their notifications daily (well, not so much Sherlock muses or Paul since those are on different accounts) and am well up for throwing as many of my muses at things as possible.  I’ll probably consider it to be part of the same unified timeline, so like...if your muse says something that sets Fitz off, my Daisy will know that Fitz was acting weird, or something.  Most of my AUs are also universal to my muses, with a few exceptions (inhuman Fitz and inhuman Simmons are in different worlds, I don’t have a 616 for Daisy or Tony since I don’t know their comics stuff that well, etc)

Inbox: They tend to get priority since I often will forget otherwise.  However, those “5 favorite roleplayers” type things, I hoard those for unhappy days.  So if you’ve sent one, it’s not been ignored, just put in a happy stash.  :3

Selectivity: I try not to be selective, and I’m definitely not mutuals-only.  There are people whose debbie downer attitudes have gotten to me, so I’ve unfollowed them, but still want to RP with them.  There are people I’ve never met before in my life that I am totally up for people throwing things at me.  There are people who are new to the RP community and RP via anon messages, I’m up for them too (as long as there’s some identifying thingy to let me know which anon threads go together). 

Sometimes, I might be initially selective about verse (for instance, I do generally prefer 616 muses to go with my 616 AU, or if I have a crossover AU that takes place in your fandom, I prefer there), but after getting to know you or you going “hey I was wondering, I saw you have a ‘verse that takes place in Tolkien’s world?  It’s not my mainverse but I have an AU there, too, my muse is an Elf from Mirkwood/Gondorian/one of the Rohirrim/etc, you wanna do a thing?” then chances are I will definitely want to do a thing.

Wishlist items: I have two tags for wishlists.  I have #wishlist, and I have #au wishlist.  The former is for plots, little moments, or things like that that I’d like to do, generally over all AUs I think (I’ve been sporadic), the latter is for AUs that I kinda want to do but am not sure if anyone would be interested in them enough to 

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tagged by @secondchaircellist

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Mainverse Update

As I mentioned earlier, I am updating my Mainverse with three distinct arcs to break out my threads. I’m going to try to work backwards and tag my threads but that’s gonna be... work. So, it’s not my highest priority. They will be tagged moving forward

arc: this room’s gonna be my grave ( red room ) Mid-2000s – 2016

Scouted by a Red Room* recruiter masquerading as a social worker, Faina Sannikova was abducted from her school under the guise of being sent for psychiatric care after getting into numerous fights with other children. Selected primarily for her technological prowess, her training in the program was supplemented with additional training for cyber espionage.

While she was intelligent, a quick learner with a vast capacity for memorization and detail, and an agile fighter—she was slower to pick up the more social aspects of the program, often leading to conflict with her trainers. As she grew older, she found herself navigating a very thin line – at what point did she become a liability as opposed to an asset?

*Headcanon regarding Red Room: After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the KGB, Red Room continued operation as a privately owned enterprise as opposed to one run by the Russian Government. They would, however, work by contract with both the Russian Government and HYDRA.

arc: hold on tight and don’t look back ( on the run )

Thwarted in her most recent mission in Turkey, Faina was facing a steep punishment for her failure. The rest is unclear to her. She remembers waking up to find her handlers unconscious with their blood on her hands, she gathered what supplies she could and ran. She made it to Istanbul before her handlers caught up to her. After a very public fight which left her handlers dead, several local police injured, and many civilians frightened, she fled.

Faina is on the run - alone, paranoid, and desperately trying to figure out how to survive. She does not know how exactly she overcame the conditioning that prevents assets from harming their handlers, nor does she fully understand why she did it.

Part of her knows she needs to eventually find Natalia Romanova – Red Room’s most successful traitor—if she stands any chance of survival.

arc: i’m meaner than my demons ( nyc )

After some months on the run, with only a backpack of dwindling supplies, Faina ultimately stole a laptop, smart phone, and a few other gadgets from an electronics store. Getting back into her element, she crafted a new digital footprint for herself – under the alias Felicity Song – birth record, school records, driver’s license, passport, bank accounts, etc…

After populating that bank account with money siphoned from known human traffickers, arms dealers, and other people she felt deserved it, she purchased a foreclosed studio apartment in Manhattan under her new alias.

As far as she is concerned, Felicity Song exists only for the bank, deed to her apartment, and identification documents. In her interpersonal interactions, she will use her Russian name.

In some ways, continuing to use her name is an act of defiance – she still exists after everything that was done to her.

Three versions of this verse exist and can be interacted with in any permutation. Each has begun the same way but may evolve in different ways as this blog continues:

616 (Waid/Samnee Compliant) – In this version of the world, Faina is affiliated with Dark Room, as opposed to Red Room. 616 (Waid/Samnee Non-Compliant) – Ignores the events of their run. Faina is affiliated with Red Room MCU – Post-CA:CW. Faina is affiliated with Red Room.

Variations on the Mainverse

v: change you like a remix then i’ll raise you like a phoenix

created for @lethallittlespiderx – Ready to divest themselves of their troubled asset, Red Room sent Faina on what they were certain would be a suicide mission – the assassination of Black Widow. Replaces “hold on tight and don’t look back.”

And these verses existed previously but I will just mention them quickly again

v: alternative revenue stream ( future verse ) Future Verse, under construction. Faina works as a hacker for a Leverage-style team as a Modern Day Robin Hood. Looking for Hitter, Thief, Grifter, and Mastermind for this team. FC: Stephanie Jacobsen

v: remember me for centuries (red room shifted timeline) Historical verse. Shifts the years in which Faina trained in Red Room to interact with characters that pre-date the early 2000s.

v: all this has happened before & all this will happen again private, continuing storylines from the redroomdropout account. After being captured rescued from Red Room by Natasha Romanoff, Faina was placed under surveillance by SHIELD as she attempted to acclimate to a normal teenage life. At the encouragement of Romanoff and Agent Barton, Faina befriended Kate Bishop (katesgotabow), and over time earned herself a place on the team as a Young Avenger. After several years of freedom, she began to kindle a romantic relationship with America Chavez (interdimensional-kickerofbutt.)