#barschter000 asks...

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I'm sorry to hear you had a bad day, I hope Rhoddeni in your inbox can cheer you up a little <3

(I also sent this to your strawpage but I don't trust it to actually send and I want you to see it now, so)

JP;JIOJILJNL!!!!!!!!!!!! holding them in my hands like a baby bird..... thank you. thank you so much....

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Hello!! I saw you'd like to have some benbaro requests, so I am hereby requesting some big-nosed Barok appreciation, maybe Albert cupping his face and kissing the bridge of his nose? Alternatively, perhaps some old man yaoi benbaro? I do greatly enjoy your old man Barok design... Alternatively, use this request as an excuse to draw whatever you feel like at the moment! Have fun! :3

Hii!!

I love old man yaoi benbaro and I love big nose Barok so you get both! plus a self indulgent new romanticy gothy drawing of them thrown in for fun

dot eyes barok is funny to add when hes flustered

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I have been… Summoned…

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Good Lord, if I put every fanfic wip file in my folders here we’d be here all year. Not listing the Danganronpa, Persona, and Ace Attorney fics for the moment because I’m not actively working on them anymore (though hopefully those hyperfixations will someday return enough for me to finish what I started and make them good). So aside from those, you’re just gonna get the last ten wip docs I’ve edited/looked at in my google docs, which is all Old Book Fanfiction. Here we go!

More Wonderful Than the Love of Women

My Ukridge: or, the unpublished memoirs of James “Corky” Corcoran

giving satisfaction and all that

Improbable Truths

A Faulty Diagnosis

Bereavement; or, The Esteemed Dr. Watson’s Undying Gratitude to the Late Mary Shelley

A Perfect Model

Like Orphe-Whatsit and Eury-Gummy

Jack and Jeeves

The Rummy Affair of Weeves and Jooster

(This doesn’t count my nonfiction wip, “A Bit of Love for Ukridge: or, Morality, Friendship, and James "Corky" Corcoran (or the Ukridge Morality and the Corky Reality)” which is probably not even what I’m actually going to call it after all lmao. It also doesn’t count Discretions of Archie, because I already posted the first chapter of that even though it’s very much nowhere near done.)

Anyway! Not sure I’m gonna tag ten entire people but I’ll tag a few. These can be art wips too, I just don’t have any of those myself. No pressure my homies.

@barschter000

@mismeander

@beamkatanachronicle

@vacuumtan

@coryo

WIP tag game

Thank you for the tag @silvermoon-scrolls

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Bertie's purple coat.

Jeeves' absence L.

Bertie makes a mess.

Carpe diem, again.

Wilson's revelation.

Unintentionally married.

Canon divergence.

The one with Derek and the baby.

Dean and Stiles - Fire combo.

Werehyena.

New master.

Jumanji: Beware of the clown.

Stabby.

Hotch|Reid Long Love.

Hotch|Reid Short.

Hotch|Reid Soulmate.

Those are the ones that I've been working on, more or less, in English and that I'd not started to post anywhere. I do have works in progress that I started posting without having them finished. Also, these are only fanfic WIPs. If I started listing my original projects with the idea of properly publishing them (I'm delusional like that) then we'll be here until 2028.

No pressure tags: @deviantsugaloaf @laurfilijames @blairsanne @metztlilua @beetle-goth

Also, please take into account that WIPs can also be the piece of art you may be currently drawing.

[euporiez]

Hello beloved mutual! For the ask thingie, maybe 6, 13 and 18 for Albert or Barok or both?

hiiii!! ^_^ always lovely to see you in my inbox

6. something I have in common with this character

barok- I am british and goth :3. I also used to have an older brother, but unlike klint, mine didn't die she just transitioned so now I have a sister instead. Whenever I have a wine glass I really want to throw it at something, but it's usually full of apple juice or irn bru. also I have paternal Dutch ancestry (admittedly very little connection to it)

I also get told I look off-putting or intimidating in person, despite being either very sleepy or entirely neutral and minding my own business most of the time. I wish I had Barok's cloak, I feel like it would really seal the deal

if I could have bats in my office, then I would have so many bats in my office

albert- from what I've seen of height estimations for Albert, he's 5'7, which is my height without shoes (I usually wear very thick soled boots or heeled boots though, so that's a little different) I also have a stutter and poor volume control when I speak lmao (my voice is very different from his otherwise but Albert with a staffs accent would be fucking hilarious)

strangely I get compared to him quite a bit by some of my friends and mutuals. I don't know if it's just because I really like him or if it's because there's actually any similarities. shrug.

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

barok- I'm honestly not sure. if he was given a phone I have a feeling he wouldn't use emojis whatsoever, apart from maybe the odd heart for the few people he'd stay in contact with, probably a black one because he's like that 🖤

albert- I think he spams emojis like a 50 something year old who just got a phone upgrade. theyre like modern hieroglyphics to him. I think he'd use 🥺 a lot because he's just a little guy!!!! (33 year old grown man.)

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Hm, I'm not really sure if there's any I admire...? I'm not sure what that means in this context so I'll just say relationships that I find interesting and compelling. benbaro would be the obvious choice so I'll go with others for a change

barok- I absolutely adore his dynamic with iris. I knew about the twist of iris being his niece before I played the game (I was spoiled on most of the plot twists beforehand through my own impatience), but it still hit me so hard when he found out and was so immediately dead set on being a part of her life again. its incredibly sweet. barok is such a bleeding heart under it all, and any fan work of him and iris interacting makes me OUGHHGGGHAGAGHHHHH 😭😭😭

Sometimes I wonder how different barok would be if he had raised iris for those ten years instead of not knowing about her at all, and how different iris would be. it's been a while since I've played tgaa2 and I need to replay it so bad but iirc he immediately gets upset and says he would've raised iris if he knew the truth. I think about that a lot. even though he was torn apart with betrayal from what he thought genshin had done, and was mourning the loss of his brother and likely also Lady Baskerville, he still would've raised iris through the grief... I'm going to start gnawing on the walls. aughhghg

albert- I find his dynamic with enoch drebber utterly fascinating and I need them to either have a very visceral fight to the death or I need them to be best friends. both maybe. Albert is everything that died in drebber and it haunts him, he's like a spectre of everything that drebber wanted to be, and he fucking HATES IT. they are both so tied together by parallels, they were intelligent and hopeful people whose dreams got shot down by being taken advantage of in the wrong place at the wrong time in a scheme bigger than themselves.

I think a lot about how they were in the same university, but Albert was at least a year above him (despite drebber being older by 2 years). I'm working on a fic about them meeting in passing atm where albert congratulates him on the award he won. just a simple passing acknowledgement of respect. since drebber came from a poor background he likely had to work extremely hard to be allowed to go to university instead of taking on factory work or something similar, so I imagine acknowledgement of his intelligence would run thin, so a kind word from an upperclassman probably meant the world to him back then

and then there's the fact that even though drebber utterly fucked Albert over and potentially ruined his career forever, Albert still respects his intelligence and his opinion. for drebber, even though he hates Albert for everything he is, that probably brought him some kind of pride? satisfaction? idk I'm half asleep and bad at explaining things. long story short I have never been this insane over 2 characters interacting in a non romantic way. there's only 4 drebber & harebrayne fics on ao3 and I WILL be fixing this, even if I suck

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Hellooo there!! I saw your blog description and I am a benbaro shipper who would like to interact with you please! My benbaro obsession has gotten well fed by wonderful artworks and correct thoughts such as yours (thank you!!) recently but I fear my obsession can never be completely sated...

So if you like, feel free to use this ask to express whatever is currently on your mind! Just ramblings or a headcanon or something about benbaro or Barok or Albert separately or TGAA in general that you have thoughts about; this is a free pass to let it out! I'm always curious about how my blorbos look in other people's eyes

OMG HI I have read all of your benbaro fics and they make me fucking AJDJFHWIJFKTOEMTK (a good thing) . I need to get hit by a car. I love them so much

prepare for a whole lot of fucking yap because I am insane about them so much. and I have no job so I kinda just stew them in my brain all day at the moment, among other tgaa pairings and characters

(i honestly very rarely fixate on ships within fandoms. but tgaa gave me 3 pairings I would die for. asoryuu, homumiko, and benbaro. they all make me insane I'm going to eat drywall)

I think about them a lot. I don't even know where to start.

so I'll go w some dumb headcanons. sprinkling in some pretty bad drawings.tbh (please ignore how inconsistent my art style is)

I think some time after tgaa2 he moves back to England and lives with barok, who obviously has more than enough money to spend on him, so Albert grows his hair out again (he has a very stupid hat/helmet thing he wears to protect his hair if he's working on something potentially dangerous)

First off I think Albert had long hair in university. most of the time when people draw him in uni he looks almost identical to his 2-3 design WHICH IS FAIR AND NOT BAD! but I have some thoughts of my own

pray forgive the discourtesy of this looking shit I drew it quite quickly. but. I think he had long hair in university and was a little more particular about his appearance. however i do think he had pretty bad acne in his late teens. the acne was just a hormonal teenager thing and cleared up by his 20s.

After moving abroad I think he cut his hair short because he had less time to look after it, and wanted to put any money he had towards funding his inventions, so he did pretty much the bare minimum when it came to looking after himself (I must clarify I do think that Albert is attractive, this is not me trying to "yassify" him. I have a soft spot for cute nerdy guys I'm dating one but he likes Elden ring instead of science)

because he's pretty much been alone for like. a decade. and basically just spoke in Law Words for half of that. I think barok is very direct and literal with how he speaks so he worries about not seeming "romantic" enough, so to compensate he's very physically affectionate and likes spoiling albert with nice food, gadgets and supplies for his inventions, and new clothes.

I think barok is extremely clingy once he gets used to having Albert around again. he's like a cat he'll just kind of bonk his head into him sometimes and sadly gaze at him until he gets attention. very cuddly and a bit melodramatic. I love characterisations of barok where he's really pathetic tbh. also him being shy is fun I enjoy it greatly

albert on the other hand I actually think he's the more bold/confident one (I hate when barok is portrayed as a dominant bad boy or whatever its so stupid he literally gets shy when his 10 year old niece invites him to dinner). albert talks baroks ear off about anything and everything, humours his clingyness, and drags him outside to have a life beyond his job and engage in whimsy and fun . he's also very verbally affectionate I think. he makes sure to try and help barok feel less alone, because I think he has lingering guilt for not being there during the professor bullshit and klints death. it may have been after he left England for Germany, and he didn't even know when it was happening, but i think he has a lingering, irrational guilt for not being there for barok at his worst hour

ALSO a lot of the time I see people drawing Albert talking a lot about science shit w barok listening happily, but I also think it goes the other way too! I think barok will rant about wine pairings and different types of grapes n shit. Albert stares at him lovestruck and adoringly the whole time. he has no idea what a pinot noir is (neither do I, I don't drink)

final thing or I will be here all fucking day: my boyfriend and I came up with a headcanon that barok has a really pathetic looking Italian greyhound named petunia, he likes dressing her up in little outfits. I think when albert starts living with him he starts calling petunia their daughter, and has the ability to make the exact same sad and pathetic expression as the dog

jk tiny bonus: I have a very dumb "100 years on" au stewing in my brain where everything is set in the 1980s and 1990s instead of 1880s and 1890s. in the 80s section, when barok and Albert are in university together, barok is a sulky and mopey trad goth and they listen to The Cure together. albert dresses normal and listens to talking heads i think. this is stupidly self indulgent because I like 80s fashion and clothing. I have not even thought about the 90s section because I don't want to 😊 (I HATE 90S FASHION.)