#also sorry all my hcs are based on the actors or on other roles i don't have a creative bone in my body we know this

[04tenno]

i can't believe i got beaten to shishido teice for shame (sending the ask a clean six hours after you reblogged it from me)

i'll shake it up a little though: 6, 7, 12 and 23 for tsuruno and/or arakawa :]

IT'S OKAY HOMIE thank you very much for writing in and for introducing variety to my enclosure <3 I will answer for both because I cannot pick favorites even if you put a gun to my head <3

CHARACTER ASK GAME!!! 💫

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

Tsuruno: The way it doesn't come naturally to him to really make an effort to connect with with more than one person at a time to the detriment of his other relationships, no matter how he feels about the others or what his evaluation of his standing with them is. I struggle with that a lot...

Arakawa: Uhhhhh mommy issues <3 LMAO the scene with his mother in the dressing room had me Looking Away bro the depiction hit sooo close to home...

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

Tsuruno: I've really been enjoying the way Gaiden's introduced more people to Yamaguchi's work as an actor and how much fun everyone's been having with his other roles and incorporating stuff from them into their depictions of Tsuruno! I think Yamaguchi's super underrated (and unfortunately his talent doesn't fully come through as Tsuruno due to the motion capture being done by others), so it's been nice to see people come to appreciate him.

Arakawa: I feel like you kind of have to pay close attention to Arakawa and his journey to fully enjoy him as a character, so although he's not the most popular character out there, the stuff people do make for him is almost always on-point... delicious fucking food...

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

Tsuruno: Complete and Utter Dog Person... I need one of Yamaguchi's dogs to make a cameo soooooo bad...

Arakawa: He's a Kaomoji User to me... probably doesn't use them as much as when he first discovered them but everyone's super thrown off getting texts or emails from him for the first time because of the gap moe...

23. Favorite picture of this character?

Tsuruno: You don't really get the full effect from this framing but I felt like SUCH a Victorian gentleman seeing an ankle during this scene it's not even funny... there's definitely other Tsuruno moments I love, but I think I'll love them more once I get to them in my sunglasses-less mod playthrough!

Arakawa: Literally my favorite picture period I don't caaaaaaare this is one of the sexiest shots in the franchise AND THE GAME AIN'T EVEN OUT YET

[commsroom]

sorry if u answered this before but do you hc Eiffel as any particular race? I know him being white would probably match how he sees himself as the everyman. But on the other hand he gives me light skin vibes and I can't explain why. (Also no matter what he has long hair but curly haired Eiffel just speaks to me)

mm. i know you're just asking for my opinion, but that's a complicated question. and i am not the right person to be talking about this, so please take it with a grain of salt. one of the few legitimate criticisms i have of wolf 359 is that it's a show about personal identity, resisting dehumanization, and recognizing that other people navigate the world in different ways, but it tries to be raceblind. which. it can't. particularly when something like minkowski's identity as a polish immigrant is addressed.

i think one of the reasons that wolf 359 characters feel as real as they do is how collaborative the character development process was; they are really roles that are shaped by and belong to those actors. lovelace is played by a black actress, cecilia lynn-jacobs's input determined a lot of things about her, and the audience reaction to lovelace getting shot near the end of s3 was the way it was because there was an understanding of her as a black woman. whether she was initially written to be black is kind of irrelevant in that case, i think - she still is, and she resonates with people that way.

but every other main character in wolf 359 is played by, and similarly influenced by, a white person. and that's a problem. no matter how you approach it, wolf 359 is not a diverse show: if they were written as non-white, then being played by white people would be a problem. raceblindness also enforces a default assumption of whiteness. i think if eiffel wasn't meant to be read as white, then there are aspects of his character arc, his assumption of himself as the "default" person and general ignorance of how it feels to be "other", that probably could've been explored from a different angle.

i know people who see him as white because of that, and i know people who see him as another race because of how they connect with him as a character. and i can understand both perspectives on that, but i don't think there's a right way to approach it. i think the show unfortunately, in this one specific way, kind of dug its own grave. gabriel urbina has said however you see these characters, that's correct, and i can agree with the sentiment, but it's also mired in a lot of difficult context, because these are specific people, and these things should matter to them. it can't be interchangeable, and so it can't be that ambiguous. it could be handled a lot better. and based on his more recent work + politics, i wonder if he would've approached it differently, if he had all the information then.

about how i see eiffel: i've said many times before that i see him as a man who could be reasonably played by zach valenti, so the eiffel in my head is white. the eiffel in the art i commission, or the art where i'm like "oh!! eiffel!!" is not necessarily. the second most eiffel-like guy i can think of, who i also use as a reference sometimes, is iranian. but for me to say that eiffel was iranian is not really a claim i think it would be right for me to make, and i think it is probably not true.

the main features that i think eiffel must have are dark, wavy/curly hair, prominent nose, noticeable body hair, generally expressive. he absolutely cannot be light haired, clean shaven, or pale. and from a general standpoint, like... a wide variety of men could meet those qualifications. i don't want to reinforce an assumption of whiteness, but i'm also extremely wary about treating race as functionally cosmetic, since. again. it can't be. no show is removed from real life social contexts, and wolf 359 is about a lot of very real things.

i think if you do interpret eiffel as specifically a cis, able-bodied white guy, there's something very real and very unfortunate about the fact he initially ignores lovelace and hera, two marginalized women, and seeks reassurance from minkowski that they were overreacting. he listens eventually, but the person who gets through to him is presumably the Next Most Visibly Privileged Person, and that's... hm.

[theghostbunnie]

Since you already talked about your Harrison and Nerris hcs (which I love wholeheartedly <3), I wanted to ask if you have any specific Preston hcs?

AAAA SO SORRY I'VE LET MY ASKS IN MY INBOX COLLECT SO MUCH DUST/GEN

Also tysm I'm so happy you enjoyed them 💓

CW: death mentions, mentions of loss.

I was having a conversation with @redheadedratt when I absorbed some of their's and thought of some of these !!

They told me they HC both of Preston's parents are dead, his father before he was old enough to remember him well and his mother years after fell ill but they were deeply in love and she spoke very fondly of him.

I can't explain it but him being raised by his mother and grandma in his formative years makes alot of sense to me he has those vibes.

I was being withheld information/jjj thought this was funny asked 2 share, anyways

When his mother passes death is still an odd thing he's too young to fully grasp so he became infatuated with depictions of not only loss, but romance, reuniting ect based around his grief and love for hisown parents being gone and their love story. It was his way of coping with it all while being too young to understand. Like he had a big love for theater before this but this had an effect on his art.

He has an infatuation with death in what I perceive as almost a strictly artistic way all throughout the show, obviously with his play "Romeo and Juliet 2: Love resurrected" but also in the commercial he makes in the fundraiser episode his immediate go-to for grabbing viewer's attention is to talk about the potential death of children. Yes I know the whole point to begin with was they were trying to guilt trip an audience but he wrote and directed this project himself surrounding death as his personal go-to.

• Not much of a HC as it is an observation but I love how fluid his exspression is, he's had the most drastic and plentiful outfit changes throughout the series from the football gear, to the leather jacket and backwards cap, to the historical looking full makeup and gown.

Which kinda slips me into this next HC • I think he loves history but has no care for historical accuracy like whatsoever as that "stunts his creative flow" but simultaneously would absolutely pick and choose when to call out historical inaccuracies in other people's work. (proofreads Neil's fanfictions without permission probs lol)

I think Max, Neil, Nerris and Preston all have varying control issues but in very different ways and Preston's is more he'll accidentally overstep a boundary without realizing and try advising people, but mostly keeps his perfectism and temper around things not going as he planned to hisown plans. Like, he only has controlling issues with things agreed he had the biggest say in. It ties into his want to be a director and writer and often stuck with peers who are terrible with following said direction and being a child himself he's not gonna handle it with maturity, he's gonna throw a fit.

Again this is really only strictly tied to things he think he should be in charge of and doesn't just extend to his everyday interactions with people too much.

• Can't tell if this is more observation or HC but he'd pick being a screenwriter or director over being an actor and if he ever got an acting role in someone else's play he'd be trying left and right to make suggestions to it and his character and really overstep without realizing it.

• I don't think he can read a room or have a filter on for the life of him not only would he openly talk about any dark or uncomfortable topics it'd be in the form of out of pocket as hell comments in a really dramatic voice too

[bedindead]

HQ Pride Headcannons Fukurodani Edition!

I cant draw for shit but like designing clothes/outfits so ill do my best to describe them.

I also ended up including random hcs and relationships.

Im a fukurodani hoe so ill start there

Bokuto:

I headcannon him as demiromantic/demisexual so he has a purple shirt that says “DEMI-GOD” on it. And the demi is colored in with the demi pride flag. Its probably cropped (Kuroo double dog dared him)

Kuroo also probably double dog bared him to wear jean shorts that are at least a little short, and bokuto has No Fear so he did it. Y’know the ones that are frayed at the bottom and the white little string things are everywhere? Those. His belt and socks are rainbow. In my mind, shoes dont exist but probably sneakers?

Akaashi:

I headcannon him as gay.

He definitely did some light makeup. I like the idea of him wearing black palazzo pants with a longish rainbow belt. White t-shirt that says ‘I love my dumbass boyfriend’. Hes wearing those sneakers that have little platforms that are rainbow. Bokuto was not prepared for them to be the same height.

Konoha:

Personally i headcannon him as straight but he has been going with the others since their first year. Especially once akaashi came around and he wanted akaashi to be able to have fun, so he assumes the role of taking care of everyone for the day. I think that every year, Bokuto, Saru, and Komi get him one of those shirts that says like ‘I’m a heterosexual, christian, mom who loves her gay children’ and everyone who comes with them signs the back of it.

Saru:

I base his personality 99% on his stageplay actor so if you want to understand what im talking about just look up matsunami yuuki on youtube.

He is gay and he goes all out. Hes the last single one out of the fukurodani gays and is only very upset about it. He might work as a drag queen in the future to pay his university loans.

He wears a ruffley skirt where each ruffle is a different color and they make a rainbow. He wears black bike shorts under it for comfort and ease of motion (he likes to dance) his shirt is fairly loose and light. It is a black button up but the top 2 or 3 buttons are undone. He some how managed to tuck it into the skirt without causing weird wrinkles.

Komi:

He’s pan and is dating Yaku (was just introduced to this concept and am very here for it).

He wears pink jeans and yellow sneakers. His shirt is white and there is one thin stripe about chest height that is in the colors of the pan flag.

Kaori:

Lesbian

Dunno what’s up with me and ruffles but here we go again. Basically she wears long and flow-y pants that are ruffled in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. Like as they go down they go through each of the colors. She is wearing a cropped white cami top. She also did her make up in various shades of pink and to finish it off she had yukie put on lipstick and kiss her cheek so there was a mark.

Yukie:

Lesbian

Light wash jeans. White t-shirt french tucked. Her shirt is homemade. She had Kaori panit the lesbian pride flag on her hands and then the press them against her chest. She then had Akaashi embroider one handprint with ‘girls’ and the other with ‘only’. I’m sorry.

[fr0gheart]

filming

authors notes: i kind of set this headcanon up a different way so i hope you enjoy it. it’ll be based on different aspects of like getting to know him and like being cast and stuff. this gif has nothing to do with the hc! lol sorry and as always enjoy

anonymous said:  may you pLEASE do headcanons for like, reader being a new character on ST3 and i guess somewhere during filming, reader and finn start dating.

directory

𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

so you would probs audition for a new character on season 4

i’m think will and el meet her at school 

and she has no parents and she hops from shelter to shelter

pretty much looking for a place to stay

since her parents died in a mysterious fire

which turns out to be that the hawkins lab killed them

because they threatened to go public with what they were 

doing with the human trials

ANYWAY lets get to casting

so you would find out about the role on instagram

and you were relatively a new actor

like you weren't big in the acting industry

so you thought why not

there’d be multiple interviews 

like one in l.a. and one in vancouver

but you would land the role

the duffers would describe you as 

‘ the perfect one for the role and that your a groundbreaking actress and you need to get more recognition for your talent’ 

and obviously it would make you so fucking happy

so yeah filming starts really soon

𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚

so at first the duffers would not want you to tell anyone

but they made the exception for your family

but no friends

they were literally about telling NO  friends

so netflix would post the new casting on their twitter and instagram

people would be excited for the role 

but they wouldn’t really know who you were

so when your castamates found out

they would send hellos

and looking forward to working with you texts 

so you really felt welcomed in the cast

millie would make it her personal mission

to be your new best friend

and while you would appreciate it 

it would be really intimidating

but you texted her a lot 

and she kinda told you about life on set

and she would talk about people 

especially the younger group

so you would be really excited to meet her

𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

so you would have a flight to georgia

and it would be really long and you’d

be kind of nervous

not really nervous like fucking crazy nervous

and you wouldn’t really know what to do

because auditioning wasn’t as bad as this

so you would get to set 

and like immediately go to your trailer to 

calm yourself down and prepare

so you would got to the first script reading

and the duffers would be like

‘ please welcome y/n to the family’

and everyone would like get up and clap for you 

and go to hug you

joe’s hug was so warm

and you could tell that finn felt awkward

in the hug so you would end it really fast

because you didn't want anyone to be uncomfortable

but you would read the script and ultimately 

you would fucking love it and you would be so excited for shooting

𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩

so you guys would not be friends for a while

you were still so overwhelmed meeting everyone 

so you wouldn’t talk to them in the first week of shooting

but when millie invited you to get ice cream with the cast

you went because you wanted to create some strong friendships

and mostly you would just cling to caleb’s side

cause you knew him from social media

and he had reached out to you multiple times

so you guys were friends already

anyway you would get like rocky road or vanilla

or whatever no biggie

and suddenly

you would like drop your ice cream

and you would just be so sad

and finn would see

and just volunteer to buy you another one

and you’d get really like shy

and he would tell you it was no biggie

because friends do that for each other

and you would be like

‘really?’

‘ yeah of course we’re friends ‘

𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

so after finn bought your ice cream

you both got closer like instantly

you would talk to him about everything

and while you were friends

he would always make flirty jokes with you

like

‘ y/n even if there wasn’t gravity on earth, i would still fall for you’

and you would be like blushing

and flirting came even more

you would hang out after scenes

and before

he would invite you to calpurnia concerts

but it wasn’t a date unless you were comfortable

he would give you his sweater or sweatshirt or 

really whatever you want to wear from his closet

he would want you to just watch him from the side

because fans could be pretty vicious

so you would watch from the side 

and he would look so good

and after the show he would hug you 

and malcolm, jack and ayla would be like 

awwww so kyute uwu

𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬

so you and finn had been flirting the entire time filming

but there was two months left 

until all of you went your separate ways

and finn would just want to make it official

because you guys had gotten way closer after the concert

so you and finn would be acting in the same scene

and he had let the duffers know what he was doing

so you would just be saying your characters lines

and she was like acting mean

and finn would just say

‘will you go out with me’

and you’d be shocked and you’d look at the duffers

because that wasn’t his line

and the duffers would be like

‘ well? what do you say?’

and you would be like beaming 

and of course you said yes 

you would just run and hug him 

and the entire cast and crew would applause and it would be so magical

like the perfect day

so your relationship would be just like your friendship 

but with added cuddling and occasional kisses

you would be really close

okay nobody asked but i’m gonna talk about the first kiss between you guys

so you would be in his hotel room

 because he asked you to tour with him and calpurnia

and it was crazy that your parents agreed

but here you were in finns room 

watching him play with his guitar 

as you just sit there playing bitlife

on your phone

he walks up to you

and he strums along to the chords of my girl by the temptations

and he sings it to you 

and you were fucking beaming

like you were smiling so hard

but you got up and grabbed behind his head

he put his arms on your waist

and you guys kissed and it was really nice and finn was like

‘ we should do that way more often’

𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬

okay press tours so fun 

so so so fun

( also y/s/n means your ship name ok thanks )

so you would be paired with finn and noah

you mostly went on netflix and buzzfeed

and it was a lot of globetrotting

from place to place

but in particular interview with entertainment one

the interviewer was really rude

and she kept questioning noah

and asking stuff about feeling left out 

from season one

and it would be so irritating

like so so very irritating

then the interviewer would ask 

if you and finn were dating

and you would say no

and you would keep pushing

until eventually you put her in her place

‘ this interview has been so very rude, you’ve made all of us uncomfortable and we’re here to talk about the show not about our personal lives. put this in all of it, i’m sick of interviewers like you i’m done’

you walked off the set and finn and noah would stay behind like shocked

and noah would just break the silence

stream stranger things 4 on december 5

and him and finn would go to your dressing room

‘ y/n that was so badass’ noah said

and you guys just talked about the interviewer and laughed because it was 

crazy that you had made a family with the cast

[ii-thiscat-ii]

Inspired by this hc.

On Ao3

“I hate this. I hate this I hate this IhatethisIhatethis.”

Mabel was staring at the mirror in the school bathroom, leaning on the sink.

They were alone there. She had run out in the middle of class, after one too many comments, one too many sympathetic looks.

Dipper hardly remembered what had been said. That was irrelevant.

Mabel squeezed her eyes shut and kept the words going, flowing together into a single meaningless stream. Her emotions stood out to his eyes like wounds in the air. Painful flashes of panic growing rapidly, small bubbles of pitch, blue-sharp hurt rising and bursting with nasty pops, all accenting a thickening haze of muddled anger and sadness and pain.

Just a few months into high school. It was not supposed to be like this.

“I hate this I want it to stop I wish it would stop,” she continued.

He had no idea what to do, so he hugged her from behind, burying his face in her shoulder and holding her close with his arms around her chest and his wings around her waist. It was all he knew how to do.

“I wish I didn’t have to, I wish you could do it,” she said, and that…

That…

Tugged at him.

A wish like that?

This sincere?

Voiced out loud?

That

Felt

Like

Permission.

“Gaahhhh!”

TOUCH!

The next breath he drew burned like it was seared into his lungs. The sharp light from the ceiling lamp branded itself into his eyes, all sharp contrast and hard realness. The echoes of his own shout were too loud and not loud enough.

He was drowning in senses.

Everything was too much, and yet he wanted it so desperately he tried to take it all in at once, and was overwhelmed by the realness of it all, from the pain of his fingers being clenched against the sink to the comforting scratchy feeling of his sweater against his…

Wait a second.

He was hyperventilating. Adrenaline rushed through his veins.

He calmed that down in an instant. He just had to think about it, and his body obeyed. It was easy.

He took a couple deep breaths, and slowly adjusted to the world very abruptly being real again.

Eyes opened. Mirror in front of him.

Mabel stared back, eyes glowing yellow and slit-pupiled.

Oh fuck.

The real Mabel was floating up above his (her?) right shoulder, looking just as flabbergasted as he felt.

“Whoa,” she said.

“I had no idea I could do that,” he said, in a single, whooshing breath. “I didn’t mean to! I’m sorry, I think I can undo it…”

“No, wait,” Mabel said, reaching out to put an insubstantial hand on his (her?) shoulder. “Just wait a second, bro.”

Dipper grabbed her hand instinctually, and apparently he could do that, and he also knew that he could choose not to, could choose to pass straight through her like everything else would in this state, as it had with him when Bill had done the same to…

“Mabel?” he asked, voice wavering with more distraught confusion than he would have liked.

She put her other hand on top of his (hers?) again, and this was such a strange reversal of roles, her floating and insubstantial and him standing on the floor like a person…

“You don’t have to undo it right away, right?” she said. Then she looked away for a second, almost embarrassed, before she looked back. “I mean, you’re kinda, uh, possessing me now, right? And that’s actually perfect! ‘Cause I didn’t want to go back to class, and now I don’t have to, ‘cause I’m a ghost!”

“Mabel,” he said again, disbelief tinging the word. “Are you really okay with staying like that? It’s… I- I know it’s not… pleasant.”

“Pssh,” Mabel said, waving the sentiment away. “Hey, no more panic attack.”

“I… suppose that’s true.” Dipper almost smiled. It was. The colours of her emotions had followed her out of her body, and were now settled on a vague haze, still tinged towards negativity, but no longer boiling into painful bursts.

“Of course! It’s me!” Mabel said proudly, putting her hands on her hips and curling her floating legs up behind her like a proper little ghost. “I’m always right. But enough about me, for now, how are you doing, bro?”

(Things were real, he could feel things again, it was all real, it was all good, oh god this was just like Bill, it was real, he could touch things, he could feel things, touch was good, sound was good, sight was good, pain was good, no it wasn’t, yes it was.)

“I’m… okay. I’m doing okay,” he said. “Had some minor sensory overload. I’m good now.”

“You don’t mind being a girl for, like, half a school day?” she asked.

Dipper blinked, then blurted out, “That was literally the last thing on my mind.”

“Okay, great!” Mabel grinned, then she got very close to his (her?) face and furrowed her brows. “But if you’re gonna pretend to be me, you gotta do something about those glowing eyes. Think you could do that?”

The answer sprung to his mind like it had been waiting for the question. Small perception-based illusion centred on the face. Simple enough at full power, should be impossible in a form this limited, but limits no longer exist for you-

“Yeah, I can,” he said. “Shouldn’t be too hard. I’ll just…”

He stared into the glowing eyes in the mirror and bit (her? His, for now?) his lip, concentrating.

The immense power that had been at the back of his mind for months, constantly threatening to overwhelm him, was distant now. The solid realness of the world around him felt like a barrier between him and it, preventing him from reaching it as easily.

A trickle still came through when he pushed, tingling pleasantly through his body and leaving a wonderful burn on the inside of his skin.

Weaving it into the necessary shape around his eyes was easy, instinctive, and then his eyes looked normal again. Exactly like Mabel’s eyes usually did.

“Like that,” he said.

Mabel ooh-ed and clapped her hands. “Awesome,” she said. “Now no one is going to suspect anything, no matter how long we stay like this!”

Dipper’s objections died on his tongue as Mabel grinned at him. Instead, he nodded and tried to smile back.

He had no idea how to handle this.

Possession?

That was wrong. That was capital-b Bad, and Demonic, and Evil, and every horrible thing he ever remembered Bill doing, and it was too much like him in ways that turned Dipper’s stomach. (Metaphorically. Literally, this was not his body, and he had an iron grip on it. No one’s stomachs were being turned here.)

On the other hand, he was not about to stab himself (even if that would probably feel wonderful), and Mabel was okay with it (even if this had to be terrifying for her), and he would give her body back the second she wanted it (despite how much he wanted to keep it forever, and how easy it would be to keep it from her.)

The world around him was still too crisp, every miniscule crack in the tiling of the walls and speck of dust on the floor stood out too clearly. Even the sound of his own breath felt too loud, and the feeling of breathing was disturbingly unfamiliar.

And he loved every second of it.

If he was drowning now, that was only because he had been dying of thirst. The world was still too much, but he wanted it that way, he wanted the way it bordered on pain, filling needs in his mind he had not even been aware of.

He had not realized how much he missed such simple things as breathing, as feeling the air against his skin as he moved. There was a wonderful taste in his mouth.

Slowly, slowly, he settled into his own (Mabel’s) senses and could let go of the sink without the changing sensory input overwhelming him. Balancing was a little harder than he remembered it, but he got the hang of it quickly.

Then he heard approaching footsteps, stopping in front of the door.

“Mabel?” said the voice of Mabel’s teacher, whose name Dipper had never cared to remember. “Are you in there?”

His heart tried to start racing again, but he kept it down and quickly cleared his throat.

“Yeah,” he said. “Coming!”

He almost stumbled over his feet when he turned towards the door, but he caught himself before he fell, and then he opened it.

The teacher stood outside, bluish grey clouds of concern hanging around him. “Are you feeling all right?” he asked.

“Yeah,” Dipper said, a little louder than he had meant to, so he adjusted down. “Yeah, I’m fine. I just… I needed a bit of air. I’m good now.”

The teacher stepped back and studied his face for a second. “You’re bleeding,” he said.

“What?” Dipper said, lifting a hand to his lips, and yes, that was blood.

At least that explained the taste. It was a lot nicer than he remembered blood to be. He must have bitten through his lip earlier.

No, no, not his lip. Mabel’s lip. He had to keep that straight. He was borrowing. Only borrowing. None of this was his.

He ran her tongue quickly over the wound on her lip to check it out.

“Oh, right,” he said. “I don’t think it’s very deep. It’ll probably heal up in a few minutes. Um, I’m sorry about running off; should we go back to class now?”

The teacher’s concern roiled around his head as he glanced between Mabel’s red-rimmed eyes and bloody lip, and the classroom down the hall. Small bubbles of green-tinted pink worry shot through it, likely as he thought about the class he had left to their own devices.

Coming to a decision, he looked Dipper in the eyes. “You know you can always come to me if you want to talk about something, right?”

Dipper nodded, and tried to look as un-troubled as possible. He was not quite sure if it worked. He had never been a great actor, and he was not sure if wearing someone else’s body was helping or making it worse.

Either way, the teacher seemed to accept it, because he nodded and started walking back towards the classroom.

Dipper took a deep breath, revelling in the feeling of air filling his lungs, and glanced at Mabel, floating beside him. She gave an encouraging nod, and he smiled back and followed the teacher.

The sounds of the classroom ahead flowed through his ears in a wonderful buzz of voices, as strong and as strange as every other sense touching him, promising hours more of the most bizarre experience he had been through since, well, since that summer.

He could get used to this.