my hot take is that most ninja have some sort of competency kink, but female shinobi get held to such high and often contradicting standards that people rarely get universally obsessed with them the way they do for men. like she can fight, sure, but don't you know kunoichi are supposed to be conventionally attractive? oh, yeah, she's hot, but she's only a B-rank, bet she relied on her good looks and can barely fight.... this is why people get obsessed with kakashi even if he covers 3/4 of his face and giggles over porn in public, or with itachi even though his face is unfortunate and he doesn't know how to hold a conversation.
tsunade is the rare complete package kunoichi that people get obsessed over, but also a shocking number of mediocre men think they could land a hit in a fight with her, the way some people think they could score a point against serena williams.
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Okay but, IMAGINE THIS -
The Dimitrescu daughters, but they're MOTHS. Blood-sucking, lamp loving, manthing-killing moths. Just, I love this idea.
Imagine they're getting all overexcited and violent so Lady D just whips out a lamp and that just absolutely mesmerises them....like, they live in an old fashioned castle with only oil lamps and classic fireplaces, so any electrical lamp or flashlight would just blow their minds.
Speaking of fireplaces! I headcanon that Lady D had to install like a metal mesh covering so her beloved children wouldn't just swarm into the fire
I know they have quite a bit of intelligence but we see in game that it kinda devolves when faced with the thrill of the hunt (like, they literally seem to lose the capacity to stop attacking even when getting closer and closer to death), and if they were moths I think the same thing would happen as soon as light is involved. a literal moth to flame situation
Like imagine they're chasing prey and they're so close to catching them, so close they can practically taste the blood already and - ooh lämp
Also of they were moths, hypothetically the cold would only paralyse them, like butterflies and moths irl.
And lastly! I think they'd all be different types of moths!
Bela, I think, would be a Luna moth! I know it doesn't match her choker colour, but I just feel like it fits. Idk, I just sort of equate a nice vivid green with intelligence and she's the most level-headed of the sisters? Also that would make her bigger than her sisters, as Luna moths reach an avarage wingspan of 3 - 4.5 inches (according to Google).
But if I were to match with her colour I think she'd be a cinnabar moth. The black and red just suits her perfectly
Now, Cassandra would be a Death's head hawkmoth. No, you cannot convince me otherwise. It has a SKULL on its back, its a widely recognised symbol of death and it even matches her choker! It also makes this hella cool clicking/chirping/gargling sound to ward of predators and I just LOVE it imagine you're being chased by this bloodthirsty lady that's actually a moth swarm and that's all you can hear-
Dani would either be a common emerald moth (to match her choker), or a common clothes moth. She would 100% hold some form of resentment for bearing the title of 'common', and meybe would feel a little insecure if she wasn't as unique or brightly coloured as her sisters. She would also be the sister to frequently have a good munch on her mother's clothes and curtains, much to Alcina's dismay :(
(But lemme tell ya, I've raised enough moths to know that they are ALL flappy fluttery little sweethearts regardless of colouration. They're all perfect in my damaged eyes)
The moths, for reference -
(Please note that these are just images I've pulled from Google for the purposes of this post they don't actually belong to me at all)
Cinnabar moth (Bela)
Luna moth (Bela)
Death's head Hawkmoth (Cassandra)
Common Emerald Moth (Daniela)
Common clothes moth (Daniela)
I also fully believe that Hesienberg would install moth traps to lure and kill them if ever they went to the factory 😥
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Last Line Challenge
Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).
Tagged, once again, by the lovely and horrible @shootingstarpilot (on April 15, haha, o o p s—)
So, ah, when I was tagged, I was super close to finishing the next chapter of It Takes a Village and so I may have got really really hyperfixated on that—
So, as an apology and to actually respond to this—
Have a bit of something I literally just jotted down while procrastinating homework that isn’t part of the main story, but is set in the same universe and also before the main story (and a link at the end of the post for chapter 4 of itav):
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Bad days are normal. He’s used to the bad days.
It’s the quiet days, the unremarkable days, that make him nervous. They’re so few and far between that he can never predict them. There’s nothing that precedes them either—no change in behavior or event on the calendar.
At least the awful days, the truly horrendous ones, have some warning.
Today is quiet. Unremarkable. Uneventful.
It sets his teeth on edge and chases the words even farther away than they normally are.
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Tagged: lmao I’m still really fucking bad at this part so I’m just gonna do what I want (which means tagging who probably already got tagged but I have no shame anymore so fuck it—) throwing shootingstarpilot here too because I can, @themonopolyhat @bumbledees @blakbonnet and anyone else who’d like to participate
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