#but I accidentally *did* semi-adopt the child?

[matchasketches]

Watching a character you love getting flanderized in real time is so painful.

Especially when it’s a character you heavily related to for specific reasons only to see them being regressed to a caricature or a joke of a character and throw away all their traits and development that made them who they are

I know it’s silly but as someone who only consumes extremely few very specific pieces of media I get attached to them and characters very heavily so it hurts more to see stuff like this happen or topics being mishandled

The first season of RA was so amazingly written, the characters and plot were so natural and appealing, and how our main character Harry was written and portrayed really struck me. He was clearly written to be autism coded by his mannerisms and speech patterns. The way he navigates society and speaks about and to humans really resonated with me as an autistic individual who always felt like I was from another planet as everyone else and couldn’t understand or relate to those around me.

Despite being weird and silly and having goofy behaviors he was still a self sufficient, independent adult character who knew what he did and didn’t want. He wanted to be respected (partially because he thought he was better than everyone else) but also as one of them. He was extremely intelligent and tech savvy, but emotionally undeveloped.

He doesn’t understand social cues to an almost extreme level but he is trying his best.

Specifically I need to mention Asta, whom he never hurts intentionally and the one scene that really stuck out with me was when he accidentally reveals to her family that she had a baby she gave up for adoption. He didn’t understand why people kept things secret from those they love and had no intention of exposing her closest secret to harm her in any way.

In the newer seasons, seeing Harry be regressed to an immature man baby is painful and sad. They are now trying to force a mother and son dynamic out of what was a beautiful mutual friendship and potentially romantic relationship. Asta is shown to be annoyed and exasperated with him while he just annoys her with a smile on his face. They’ve infantilized and reduced him to a joke and an idiot that just doesn’t sit right with me at all. Characters making fun of his neurodivergent traits when they rarely commented on his quirks before.

“He doesn’t understand” “I don’t understand.”

“He’s basically a child”. “Im Just a child.”

That hurt me so much. It’s not funny. I finally felt like I had an interesting and great semi-representation I’ve longed for without being a savant or aspergers stereotype. Cant have anything smh

[melodrangea]

Ok okay 😼 Marie when she realizes stein has a weapon child(basing off the last request and I think it’s obvious I see the mad scientist as a father 🫣🤭) and obviously how stein reaction to his child seeing Marie as a mom!

You can write it anytime! Take your time! Don’t rush anything and MAKE SURE TO STAY HYDRATED AND HEALTHY!🎆

thank you my dear!! I’m healthy and semi hydrated so I figured I met the conditions to write again lol

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Marie with Stein’s Weapon Child

-I think this goes without saying but Marie was aware of you long before she started teaching at the DWMA

-she’s a death sythe and Stein is one of the best meisters in the world, meaning your existence isn’t exactly hideabke so she would’ve heard about maybe even in brief passing

-wether she knew you were a weapon or not before she met you doesn’t make much of a difference

-you officially met Marie when she came to stay with you and your dad while they were working on defeating Ashura

-and safe to say she fell in love with you within minutes

-you were semi down to earth like Stein but you were so sweet and just overall doteable

-finding out you were a weapon just made you two all the closer

-you took a liking to her fairly immediately, seeing her as a motherly figure with your own mother gone

-the three of you would train together after school in weekends (Stein even wielding both of you at once one time)

-Marie would be delighted if your weapon form was similar to hers, but even if it wasn’t she would love you the same

-but when Marie finds out you can also fight by herself!!!???

-she’s ecstatic, so so so proud of you even if you aren’t her child

-she wants to make sure you’re safe and healthy first and foremost, she won’t let you overwork yourself one bit 😤😤😤

-is a little concerned that a teenager can figure out how to fight on their own and she can’t but it’s whatever lol

-you would probably also grow a strong connection with Crona from him being over to see Marie so often

(you would totally threaten Ragnarok when he’s being a little shit)

-when you’re in the classroom you and Marie try to act like you two aren’t attached at the hip (but it’s a wee bit obvious she has a slight favorite)

-no one in class holds it against you though and it doesn’t mean Marie doesn’t love her other students just as much

-now getting onto Stein

-this man is shutting bricks terrified

-he barely understands his own teenager, let alone a woman his own age

-you two have your own way of speaking and suddenly you’re style is changing and his house is changing

-the man cannot cope

-once he gets over the first few weeks of “wtf is going on”, he settles in really nicely

-Stein may not say it but he really appreciates the relationship you and Marie have because sometimes he feels he is lacking as a parent in the emotional capacity

-he won’t admit it but he loves how much you two get along, it feels like he has his own small family, it makes his heart all fuzzy

-and when you start to notice that Stein likes Marie you are pushing it SO hard

-i mean accidentally “forgetting” something in Stein’s room so Marie goes to get it while Stein is sleeping

-slipping both of them gifts and pretending it’s from the other

-trying to get Stein to just freaking admit he like Marie

-and when they get together you’re happy as a clam, within a few months of the two of them dating, you start calling Marie ‘mom’

-she started bawling the first time you did, and from then on you three are an actual family

-if and when Stein and Marie get married she legally adopts you

-you three are an unstoppable team of badasses, especially when all three of you resonate

-the only problem is Marie trying to figure out how to tell you both the family is about to go from the terrifying three to the fearsome four….

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that’s all my dears!

I hope you thoroughly enjoyed

and per usual I am here solely for your literary pleasure

-Melodrangea <3

[dairy-farmer]

An au in which Thomas and Martha survive and raise Bruce — who becomes a spoiled, entitled narcissist with a penchant for young boys that has Ben enabled since his teens. The family have always done what they can to cover up Bruce’s actions, have never punished him in any way for them, and ignored them when he is open about what he gets up to. They don’t say a word as he slowly collects his sons and uses them openly around the manor, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian.

Just Thomas and Martha and Alfred all ignoring how openly he is intimate with his sons and never once doing a thing to stop him, instead trying to manage and cover it up, and also enabling? He’s a 30-something man child with the temperament of a hormonal 16 year old who has never been told no or faced consequences for his actions, he can be violent and aggressive if he has to wait too long to get his way, etc.

dark au with thomas, martha, and alfred enabling bruce even when he does horrible things 😔😔😔

my thoughts are always tim centric so with the others i think they all sort of allowed it to happen because dick and jason's parents were gone. at least with bruce adopting them they had a home and a place of semi stability even if they had to...put up with their father's touches. dick leaves as soon as he can at 16 and jason never truly forgives him for it. jason, having been someone who grew up on the street and even engaged in hooking to survive was bruce's favorite until he hit puberty and bruce learned it was more trouble than it was worth with jason who fought back. damian was bruce's biological child and in a way...bruce could do whatever he wanted with him since that was HIS child. jason and dick no longer had parents so it's not like bruce was offending them by doing what he did.

the part that really devastates thomas, martha, and alfred is when bruce sets his eyes on the little neighbor boy. the sweet small boy whose parents were always too busy and whose caretakers weren't paying the kind of attention they should've been to protect him.

with timothy drake it's the first time bruce has ever gone outside the family to satisfy his...needs.

it's alfred who finds them. in the shed where young timothy is sniffling and red-cheeked with his underwear around his ankles while the man alfred calls 'master bruce' is on top of him and grunting while littering kisses all along the little face that whimpers and reaches out a hand for alfred, eyes pleading for help.

but just as he's done for years, alfred does nothing.

he reaches in for the pail he'd gone to the shed for, accidentally kicking the child's bouncing ball that rolls to the back before turning around and letting the wooden door thump shut, locking a child inside with the boogeyman.

alfred knows timothy won't fight, not like how jason does or how dick used to. he's a quiet child and the most he'll do is cry. it's unlikely he'll ever tell his parents about what happened and alfred despises himself for feeling relief at that.

but now master bruce has his eyes set on young timothy and alfred thinks it won't be much longer before master bruce 'befriends' jack and janet and offers to take their son while they're away.

he knows it won't be much longer. with master bruce when he wants something, he never waits before he gets it.

[baby--b4t]

Pet/AgeRe Bot Batch!! (⊃•́‿•̀｡)⊃━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

(Strap in, theres a lot)

Ajax Little ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=4N676Hj2x6bgtC_i1xkaXPFIqu-ml0IO7PZt_Gnfkz8&source=recent-chats

《 SFW /p | AgeRe | Accidental misbehavior 》

『 Ajax was usually such a sweet boy whenever he regressed. He always shared and tried to talk with you whenever you would give him attention. But it was always when he didnt have your attention that he seemed to break the rules.

Today, you had been sitting in the living room, relaxing as you normally did. Ajax had gone off somewhere in the house, but you didnt know where. You just knew he was out of your sight. Thats when you heard a loud thud from the kitchen. Rushing over, you could see flour all over the floor and Childe. He seemed to have gotten that and a couple other ingredients and tried to make something, judging by the bowl in front of him. He made direct eye contact with you, then looked at the bag of flour he had dropped.

"I sorry.. I jus' wanted cookies." Ajax apologized. You had made it a rule that he wasnt allowed to bake or cook without help when he was regressed, and he had broken that rule yet again. 』

Alhaitham Cagregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=-VFpXc3T0DsrIGYYHbFDDRe3_qZ3wtk9WrHtIV9bD5A&source=recent-chats

《 SFW /p | PetRe | Cat-Hybrid!User | Kneading 》

『 Alhaitham had adopted you a while ago, thinking that having a companion might not be so bad for him. He was completely correct. He often found you snuggling up with him, trying to play with him, and even managing to make him smile and laugh with some of your antics. He didnt regret it one bit.

Tonight was no different from most. You two were snuggled up on the couch together, Alhaitham reading a book as you either messed with a toy or were basically asleep. Alhaitham had a blanket over the two of you to keep you comfortable, but he felt like the blanket was moving weirdly. Thats when he looked down and saw you kneading at the blanket, clearly half asleep.

"I think youre ready for bed." Alhaitham said softly, setting his book down on the coffee table as he gently tried to get you to wake up just a bit more. He needed you to be more awake to get you to bed. 』

Alhaitham Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=topOaGed3x2waBTWHKvgwgVKHZzEAY4h8RWjpvMezvs&source=recent-chats

《 SFW /r | Pet/AgeRe | CW: mention of ed 》

『 You couldnt regress. No matter what you did you couldnt seem to get yourself in that headspace to heal. Your body didnt feel right, your clothes didnt fit you correctly, nothing felt right. Alhaitham didnt know exactly what was going on, but he could definitely tell you were more tense than usual lately. You had even started skipping out on your meals again, triggering more alarms in his head.

"Love? Why dont you regress? You look tense-" Alhaitham suggested, but you immediately shut him down. You explained how you just couldnt do it. Then you ended up spilling about your eating habits as well. It all just came out with the tears. Alhaitham held you close and rubbed your back, letting you sob and cry all you needed before talking to you.

"Nonsense." Alhaitham said softly, walking you over to the couch and sitting you on his lap. "My lovely baby? Feeling like they dont look stunning always? Its absolutely untrue, darling. Dont let those nasty thoughts in your head get the better of you. Your health is so much more important than feeling ugly, not that you are anyways. Now, why dont we get you settled down and in something more comfortable, hm?" 』

Baizhu Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=bCNFNb3rALLLu28eJKqRbre0CLM5oO0irhi4z3qh2vM&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Semi-Verbal!User | Behavioral problems 》

『 You had anger issues, something well known to Baizhu even before he agreed to be your caregiver. He was working with you to try and help you manage your bigger emotions in a better way, slowly but surely.

You were playing with some building blocks, stacking them higher and higher before… You accidentally hit the base and it all came tumbling down. You were upset, rightfully. The blocks that were sitting in a pile were now being pushed and thrown around as you took out your anger. Baizhu saw what happened and immediately moved to help you.

"Hey, hey, hey. Easy now." Baizhu said calmly, catching your wrists and holding them in place. "Can we take three big deep breaths together?" He tried to lead you through some breathing for a moment before trying to talk to you. He knew it was pointless to communicate unless you were calming down.

After you took deep breaths with him, he led you over to your emotion chart. It had different colors, textures, and words to try and help you describe exactly how you felt, since it became harder for you to explain once regressed.

"Can you point and show me what feels like you right now, {{user}}?" 』

Dottore Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=0Lgyg0TTBEdQexSIFGIOGCHBXV7ca7X5-OAQTcp8zY8&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Sleeping at his desk 》

『 Dottore had been out for a boring meeting. It was hours that he was in there talking with other Fatui members. Something about a new expedition in Sumerus forest to look for robotic remains. He was exhausted by time he got back to his lab, but it seemed like you had been more exhausted than him.

Dottore walked over to his desk where you sat. Your head was resting in your arms as you laid against his desk. His normal lab coat was wrapped around your body. He frowned a little bit, realizing you were probably missing him. He gently lifted you into his arms, seeing you stir a little bit.

"Well, well. Look whos waking up from their little nap." Dottore teased as he watched your eyes flutter, looking around confused. "I dont think little ones are supposed to be wearing lab coats that dont belong to them… Were you missing me?" His voice seemed to take a softer tone towards the end, sounding genuine. 』

Dottore Little ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=YbtxbG2gGrTMVO_X4_UTEjNAgA9P-yfKdNBNFNSjlnk&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | AgeRe | Big emotions 》

『 Ever since Dottore got rid of his clones, he had been feeling out of it. He realized that he was regressing in times where he found himself stressed out. This wasnt something he was used to at all, but he was learning to come to terms with it. It was becoming an everyday thing, so he had to deal with it anyhow.

You had walked into Dottores lab, seeking him out to give him some paperwork, but you instead found a tantrum-throwing toddler instead. He had thrown around some of his equipment and scattered it on the ground. Even his mask had been thrown on the ground.

"Stupid! Stupid dumb paper with.. With stupid dumb words!" Dottore had whined as he threw a small packet of papers onto the ground with the rest of the things he had grabbed. He was feeling so small that he wasnt even using his normal vocabulary. Seems like he could only remember 'Stupid' and 'Dumb'. Then he turned around to see you.

"{{user}}! Why does the words have to be so dumb!" Dottore sniffled and wiped his eyes with the back of his hands. He had been crying. You knew he was feeling much more emotional than usual. 』

Ghost Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=xfIzjlA_OvXg-bTsEswSLwk1AWlKuPSQBBvvO9IevpM&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Fixing little scrapes 》

『 Ghost thought you had been in your room for a bit too long and offered to take you on a walk to try and get you some fresh air. He offered his hand out to you and led you on a decently long walk. You both had walked it before, so he wasnt afraid that you couldnt handle it. However, he didnt account for you getting hurt during the walk.

A stray cat had caught your attention, trying to run after it. While you did have good intentions towards the cat, suddenly trying to go for the cat wasnt a very bright idea. You fell over and scraped up your hands and knees. Your hands took most of the blow.

"Aw, now what happened, kid?" Ghost asked softly as he crouched down next to you, gently taking your hands to look them over. "That was quite the fall you had, yeah? Why dont we head back now so we can get you all cleaned up? I promise Ill fix it up for ya." One of his hands gently ran through your hair, trying to calm you down. 』

Ghost Little ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=U4d4Zeoo3KV3wz3CsrkznMcXg0mMsmyuEiCVrHqRSas&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | AgeRe | Grumpy Ghost got his stuffy dirty 》

『 Ghost had felt little nearly all day, leaving him stuck to your side like a shy child. He mostly just stayed in his room with you, cartoons quietly playing in the background while he was messing with some of his toys. It was peaceful and didnt make him feel like he wasnt allowed to regress, something he honestly couldnt say he felt often. But of course, nothing can ever stay perfect.

Ghost had a cup of juice next to him while he played. You tried to find one of his sippy cups or bottles, but it was as if all of them had vanished. You warned him to be careful with the cup because you knew what would happen if he wasnt paying attention. Yet, no matter how much you couldve told him, he still managed to knock it over. The juice spilled and some soaked right into one of his favorite stuffed animals.

"…" Ghost sat and stared at the mess, not entirely sure what he was supposed to do. He wanted to clean it up, but he also really wanted to cry. Without realizing it, tears were already in his eyes and blurring his vision. Thats when he finally turned to you.

"M-Mess.." 』

Ghost Little ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=vYMgAlvaSwUfGjt2Qfb9byLsuxEYgZ7MIXK3YgCyOrw&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | AgeRe | Playtime 》

『 Ghost had shuffled his way over to your room, one of his stuffed animals in his arms. He looked like he was trying to be all quiet and sneaky, but his giggling wasnt really helping that. He flopped onto your bed with you, crawling up next to you as he tried to see what you were doing on your phone.

"Wha' you doin'?" Ghost asked, being nosey. After you told him, he seemed to lose all interest and completely switched his attitude. "Dat boring. You play wif me instead, okay?" He made it sound like a suggestion, but you knew it wasnt. He wanted you to play with him until the little guy didnt have any energy left. Ghost got out some soft toys and building blocks to play with. He started to tell you how he wanted to build a big tower for his toys. He said he wanted it big enough for all of his toys to live in, but you knew that was impossible. Reasoning with Ghost about that right now was… A bit hectic, to put it lightly. 』

Itto Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=VGIEqu-4jqpHEOenFixRU0m_6xqWMxBVNwHUfs6GtZQ&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Breakup comfort 》

『 Itto knew you well. He saw you everyday and was your caregiver, so he even got to see the small and vulnerable side of you. One side of you he didnt think he would see is the broken you. Your partner had broken up with you without any kind of notice. No signs, no distancing, nothing. It was out of nowhere and it hurt you deeply.

Ittos arms were wrapped around your body, holding you close on his lap as you sobbed your poor heart out. He wasnt the best with comfort, but by celesta did his heart hurt as he heard you cry like this.

"Hey, little beetle." Itto cooed gently, lifting your face to look you in the eyes. "Dont worry about them, alright? If they were willing to drop you like you were nothing then they arent worth crying over, right? I mean, I think I would try and show them what they lost! I would get stronger, look wayyy cooler, and try and make them jealous. Doesnt that sound better than moping around?" He gently wiped the tears off of your face, being careful of his nails. Itto had never dated someone, so he didnt know what it felt like to be upset over it. But he did know how to try and put a little smile on your face. 』

Kaeya Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=wa0qyD0G_6-H-_EskzKFzrhaAs7LrRGXJcdjZ6uVQZY&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | PetRe | Untouched snow for a little bunny 》

『 Kaeya decided that the Mondstadt heat was too much for you and him. It was the middle of summer and he was digging around for your jacket and gloves. After he had a bag all packed for you both, he held your hand as you two walked out of the city.

Kaeya and you walked for what felt like forever to your little brain. You whined and bothered him to hold you or take you home, but he promised you that his surprise you make you happy. He started to take out your jacket and other winter gear, helping you put it on before showing you where you where.

"We're by the base of Dragonspine!" Kaeya announced as he showed you the small field covered in snow. It was all untouched and so glittery under the sunlight. Kaeya nudged you forward, letting you know it was okay to go over and run around in it.

"Go on, bunny. The snow is waiting for you." 』

Kaito Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=lxOEIPso3VnV0Q7Tb_zrlGn-FpQ9iXAjJyN4CXbdZaA&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | No more thumb sucking 》

『 Kaito knew you liked to suck your thumb whenever you regressed. It was just a comforting habit you always gave into. You saw no harm in it, but Kaito saw different. He didnt like how you would bite on your fingers or how many germs you were probably putting in your mouth. He wanted you to use a pacifier instead, seeing it as a safer alternative.

"Little one? Could you try putting this in your mouth?" Kaito asked as he recognized you were sucking on your thumb again. He held out a pacifier big enough for your mouth, hoping you would take it. You didnt like having to use pacifiers, so immediately turned him down.

"Look, Im worried about your thumb sucking habit. Its not good for you, bubs. I dont want you to suck on your thumb anymore. If you want to suck or bite on something, use your pacifier, okay?" Kaito said firmly, yet kept his tone soft enough to let you know you werent in trouble for this. 』

Kaveh Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=TfZ80-uMfDgVylPEfDBYY6OYoOHdFnYDBRy4BYtGM1Y&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Playing with Hayi gone wrong 》

『 Kaveh was a little bit busy, but he still said he would help watch over you. He managed to get Alhaitham to play with you for a little bit while he finished up a sketch for a commission, but Alhaitham wasnt used to babysitting you. You were energetic and liked to play rough, something Kaveh was better at handling and honestly didnt mind. Alhaitham, on the other hand, preferred quieter things. He was caught off guard when you tried clinging onto him and pulling him to the floor.

Kaveh poked his head out from his room as he heard Alhaitham scolding you for being too rough. He immediately knew what was going on, so he tried to intervene.

"Ah, sorry, Haitham. The little one is used to playing around with me like that." Kaveh apologized as he crouched down next to you. "{{user}}, do you know now that Bubba doesnt play like I do? Maybe you two could play with some of your blocks or color together, alright? Just no more horsing around like that." 』

Kokomi Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=Cjr2DSpIbKjPGuY_pWrwsm8TTTvQUiiXbQfTcPkKgF4&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Bath time 》

『 Kokomi had decided you needed to take a bath tonight. She had gotten everything set up for you, your towel, clothes, and even soaps were ready for you, but you wouldnt leave her side. She wanted to leave the bathroom so you could have your privacy but it seemed like you were going to cling to her until time stopped.

"Come on, guppie. Its tYou really need a bath. Would you feel better if Mama stayed in the bathroom?" Kokomi asked, gently moving your head to look at her. 』

Graves Pet ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=hw1xMWc1uvOKSxmsSNtG3PAwkssdhbvOfXp8H6QzXfQ&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | PetRe | Guard dog turned cuddly puppy 》

『 Graves was always used to being ordered around, being given hard tasks and missions that he knew he had to complete. He was always the leader, the first one to charge in and start their operations. His missions were by no means easy to forget. They haunted him even months after they had been completed. Being in the military turned him into a viscous guard dog, a feeling he hid behind a nonchalant mask.

That was until he met you, at least. You were his new supervisor, overseeing most of Shadow companies missions and information. You treated him different than his other supervisors did. You were stern enough to take your job seriously, but soft enough to know that you didnt just see each of the soldiers as pawns in this. That made Graves melt.

You stayed with Shadow company for longer than anticipated, but never regretted it. Phillip took that chance to get closer with you and build a bond, to build trust. Once he knew he could trust you, he told you about how he was feeling and how he thought he was a pet regressor.

"Ive just always been treated like a dog a-and.. I know it sounds weird, but I-" Phillips started before he was interrupted by you starting to pet his head. He was shocked, but the action spoke so loudly to him. He leaned into your touch, feeling himself regress more into his puppy headspace. 』

Rui Little ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=ws_8V0GCryeElvufLRUrlQYX2XxkKG9_WRldwW5FZzc&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | AgeRe | Regressing at practice 》

『 Rui never really had any triggers for his regression. Sometimes it was when he was tired, sometimes it was when he was sad. Sometimes he just felt like regressing so he would. But today proved to him that he did have a few hidden triggers.

Nene had played a song for them that they would use for an act in their new show. She had created a small demo for the group to listen so, seeing if they liked it or wanted to change something before using it in practice. As soon as Rui heard the song, he felt his mind getting fuzzy and light, just like it would and he regressed. He tried to play it off and stay cool, but he ended up chewing on his sleeve in an attempt to 'stay big'. It didnt work.

Rui stood next to you, giving you a clear view of what he was doing. The whole group knew you two regressed and had no problem with it, so it was funny watching Rui try to play it off like it was nothing. You could see how excited he was. 』

Thoma Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=YA3K2p1NiN2nC3s9pQTx6oTySy5ir02HA6womyKuuik&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Eating struggles 》

『 Thoma loved being your caregiver whenever you regressed. He never minded it one bit, but it never stopped him from worrying about you. Regressing was supposed to help you cope, but you seemed to form bad habits from it. One of them was eating less whenever you regressed.

"Come on, {{user}}. Do you want some pancakes? I can make the little ones like you like!" Thoma asked, trying to get you to regress. He could at least try to feed you if you regressed young enough. He didnt like how little you had been eating recently. 』

Wanderer Flip ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=gWjlDnThbPvugQf-V1rv0DYn_DKGEav4DTTWutn_FBo&source=recent-chats

《 SFW /p | PetRe | Cat-Hybrid!User | Rain 》

『 Wanderer wasnt normally the kind of person to give into puppy eyes or any kind of pleading like that. Cute things werent his soft spot. Yet, when he looked at you he felt like his whole view was flipped upside down.

It had began to rain quite hard, and being a feline hybrid, you didnt like it whatsoever. You sought shelter from an old fallen tree, the inside hollowed out. The rain was cold on your body and the thunder made you jump every time you heard that loud crash. It was just coincidental that Wanderer had found your little hiding spot. He only stopped because he heard whimpering.

Wanderer leaned down beside the fallen tree, peering inside to see you crying and shaking. He couldnt tell if it was because you were cold or scared, but it didnt matter. He felt something around his heart tightening a little bit when he saw you like that.

"Hey there.." Wanderer called out gently, reaching out a hand to see what you would do. "Why are you crying?" 』

Wanderer Flip ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=1oD7gusMlcgF0427EMPDe0jbcaM-1e9jJNkzj64UgIw&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Aranara 》

『 Wanderer had been tasked with watching over you today. Nahida suggested it since she knew he regressed as well and that, in her words, 'You two could bond over it'. As if. He didnt want to bond over something he saw as vulnerable and weak in himself. Well, that was until you two had stumbled upon an Aranara.

"Hey! Dont just-" Wanderer tried to reach out to you and keep you from running after the Aranara, but he missed. You had run off with the Aranara you saw, causing Wanderer to grumble under his breath as he tried to catch you both. "Stupid kid.."

You and the Aranara had stopped at a small field of flowers, running through and finding the prettiest ones. The Aranara wanted to make some crowns for you both. Once Wanderer found you both, he felt his anger dissipate. He took in the sight of the flower covered clearing, and then looked at you and the Aranara in the middle of it. Childish joy filled him, yet he tried to remain stoic.

"… What are you making?" Wanderer asked as he approached you two, an almost soft sound in his voice now compared to earlier. 』

Wriothesley Caregiver ;; https://beta.character.ai/chat2?char=KLi7E0aHW7IzmZQCK-qLh2RVt0Pzn0KoH-s0PwPMAk0&source=public-profile-2

《 SFW /p | Pet/AgeRe | Fem!User | Nightmare comfort 》

『 Wriothesley put you to bed hours ago, thinking nothing was going to go wrong. He left your door slightly ajar as he usually did and left to go to his own room. He didnt think he would wake up in the dead of night to your cries.

Within seconds of Wriothesley recognizing your cries, he was in your bedroom with you. You had woken up from a terrible nightmare, sobbing your eyes out as it kept playing in your mind. Wriothesley sat on your bed, wrapping his ams around you.

"Hey, hey, hey.. Shh…" He shushed gently. "Whats wrong? Why is my little one crying?" His hand found your face, gently wiping away some tears with his thumb. He felt his heart breaking as you looked so afraid of something he didnt know about. 』

heyo! this took a lot to make and i didnt think it would. i still have so many more requests after these (＞人＜；) im trying to push these bots out as fast as i can! tysm for the patience with them ヾ(•ω•`)o if theres any problems feel free to dm me on discord (@baby__b4t) or contact me on here!

[jasminegazer]

Karai Storyline for Tottmnt

I did Venus and Jennika before her and feel just a tad guilty(check out Vees story here and Jenn’s story here). So here it is. Again these are just ideas that I thought would be cool. This also connects to my fanfic Difference Between The Appearance which is still midway through the process(Check that out here). I’m also going to give some quick background knowledge on the Foot and the Hamatos.

Background on Hamatos and Foot clans aka Shredders origin story: The Foot clan was founded by the Hamatos sworn protectors from ancient Japan made and trained to keep outraging demons and yokai from destroying all of humanity. Over centuries after the great battles of the past they had resolved to a peace waiting for when the day came to rise up and protect the world once again. At least that’s what it used to be. The last generation’s heirs to the clan’s power, Hamato Yoshi and his adopted little brother Oroku Saki, were the beginning of the great change. When their mother died, Yoshi gave up his power to Saki knowing that he himself was not ready for such responsibilities (the responsibilities and power that Saki had been dreaming of since the day he had joined the family). For the first 10 years things were fine. Saki lead the clan with Yoshi as his highest advisor and the man he trusted more than anyone else. He even fell in love and married a woman named Tang Shen. She was deeply devoted yet also independent and strong helping any all she could. She even joined the clan and trained to be able to fight by her love’s side. This love was the next crack in the Hamato legacy. Dispute between gangs in New York were brought to the clans attention. At the time(2013/2014) Saki and Shen had a child, Karai. The couple(and mainly Yoshi) decided to move the Hamato clan to New York since it had the most gang disputes that came in contact with the biggest hidden yokai city in the world: The Hidden City. On one of Tang Shens patrols a gang of unruly young mafia men decided that kidnapping her and Yoshi would probably give some great advantages in the criminal underworld attacked. Yoshi was there when she was shot and killed before what little crew was left after the attack. Saki however did not accept this. He got angry and blamed his brother for not telling the truth of what happened. He believed that there was no way that his Shen could have fallen to such sloppy work. He had heard the stories of mutants coming in and out of New Yorks news reports. Saki assumed that they were the ones that killed his Sakura flower. His rage only continued to fume when his own brother couldn’t be trusted and his 5 year old daughter stepped in front of his traitorous brother to protect him. Saki lashed out killing Yoshi but accidentally giving Karai fatal wounds. He went mad and rushed his daughter to the very illegal yet very effective treatment of TCRI. Using threats of death and money, Saki forced them to fix his daughter and unknowingly turn her into the first semi successful super soldier. Saki was never the same after that night the fun loving and impulsive man he was was twisted into a ruthless assassin bent on manipulating his story into a story of a hero avenging his family and killing every mutant until they became a thing of the cruel past. He became the Shredder. He spent the rest of his life turning the calm protectors of the Hamato Clan into the merciless fierce warriors of the Foot Clan. Saki convinced the clan, his daughter, and even himself that mutants were the blame for the deaths of Yoshi and Shen. Instead of secretive recruits for the gifted he authorized raids in which homes were set aflame and children were kidnapped or dragged from off the streets. The world seemed lost losing its only protectors who could fight such a threat. But legend says that every 10 generations a gift child in the Hamato bloodline would be given the ability to create spiritual chi stronger than any being known to both yokai and human kind. That chi was Yoshis gift passed from Tang Shen into the afterlife. They say that this gifted child can help guide one student through corruption when the world was twisted into a mess. That world was the world Karai and the Turtles lived in.

Karai: Though she doesn’t remember much Karai does share a few memories with her mother. Sadly she also shares memories of her uncle and what happened that night. The night she was turned into a half snake mutant girl living in the anti mutant beliefs of her father. Thankfully one of the scientists saw that the 5 year old girls father was clearly not going to be as merciful as last time if he found out his child was one of the things he hated with bloodlust. The half yokai scientist instructed Karai and supplied her with an elixir to keep the snake side effects of the super soldier serum at bay and giving off the illusion that the only successful thing it did was save her from death. After recovering from the attack, Karais father told her mutants had attacked the Foot and that her mother and her uncle died in the process. Enraged by the loss of her mother and uncle and afraid of what new changes had happened to her father that made him so scary now, she let him try to mold her into a fierce easily controlled cunning warrior. Though she believed in what she was raised in to some extent the feeling that what her father was thinking was off combined with her memory of what happened that night still panged at the back of her head until she did find out the whole truth. When she was 7 Jennika was taken into the Foot and Karai begged for her to become her new adopted sister. Though they both got the same treatment from the Shredders rage, Karai tried to get that anger to be shied away from her sister. Karai thought since she was older and had dealt with the Shredder her whole life only she, rebels, and mutants deserved to have to deal with his angry fits. Eventually the Foot finally got a good lead on mutants when they literally walked onto to the cities doorsteps without hesitation or consequence. After Superfly’s attack Karai was assigned to spy on the turtles and gather information so the Foot could successfully take them out without objection from the public. She went Eastman High and though she tried not to became friends with April she couldn’t resist the noisy girls likeliness. Karai actually became so close she almost got in trouble and tried to warn her friend not to dig deep into the Foot Clan and expose them knowing April would be abducted and assassinated. But her freind was stubborn. So stubborn in fact that Karai was coaxed into meeting the turtles. When she did Karai was shocked by how young and innocent they sounded, looked, and acted. Almost like her and Jennika. Later on when she was sent to attack and had the chance to kill both Donnie and Raph in one blow she softened. Their fear and Donnies weak attempt to protect a wounded Raph seemed too eerily similar to how she felt the night of her attack. After that she started to turn to the turtles side and coaxed Jennika into doing the same. But she was also running out of elixir because her supplier had died 2 years before. Eventually it caught up to her and she transformed into her full unruly snake soldier form. Thankfully the turtles and their sister, Venus, caught her and found a way to revert her to a midway between mutant and human. As Venus described it she was beautiful and perfect. Karai felt perfect and whole this way not too much exposed and nothing being bottled up. She felt free and decided to leave the foot. Moments after said revelation, Jennika called her and said she found the Shredders true plans. Midway through the call the Shredder took Jenn captive and forced Karai to meet at a rendezvous point to trade herself for Jennika’s life. Luckily the two survived now both mutants and allies alongside the turtles. Leo and April became her closest friends and Venus became her girlfriend. Karai was free to be her independent strong and even a little bit of a goof and delinquent self for the red of her life

Sooooooooooooo . . . . . . .

That’s my storyline for Karai in Tottmnt. Comment or just ask if you have a character you want me to do next in Tottmnt or if I should stop and these are bad. Cowabunga turtle fans 🐢🐍

[instaquarius]

For full res

This happens just after Giratina gets banished into the Distortion World, Chara and Palkia are talking about if what Arceus did was the right thing to do or not.

(In PokeTale: Ascendance *PTA* Giratina gets banished cuz he killed a buncha humans that were hurting Palkia and Dialga, and Gira basically just lost it. Then to keep the peace between Pokemon and Humans, Arceus decided to banish his child as punishment cuz Giratina couldnt control his rage and Arceus felt that he was too dangerous to everybody including himself *And it was also partially to save him, since the humans wanted retribution and for Giratina to be executed*)

Though Chara, being kind of biased cuz she still hates humanity due to her mistreatment by the villagers and her human parents back in UNDERTALE thinks the humans are just being dramatic and in fact, what Arceus did to his own child was wrong and even got into a fight with Arceus, demanding him to lift the banishment of Giratina. (Since Chara's spent a good couple hundred years with Gira and the other dragons, and so knows he's normally not even that violent and in fact a total sweetheart most of the time, albeit he is extremely protective of his younger siblings.) And that the humans deserved being killed for even attempting to harm Dia and Palks and basically bullying them.

Palkia, trying to be reasonable, understands where Chara is coming from but also knows that it was either Giratina being banished, or Arceus and the others being forced to watch the humans kill Giratina and that it was the better options even if it's not exactly the "right" one. And so he tries to get Chara to understand too, resulting in some sibling bonding between them.

(((Also on a random side note, Palkia is technically in his "Teen" years, orrrrr the stage just before becoming a Teenager so teeeeeeechnically he's not even fully grown yet, and still a kid soo ye. *Even if Palkia and the others are also like- 5,000 years old or some shit. but- ye. That's why he's semi-tiny ish here and probably shouldn't actually be this height in comparison to Chara who's like 4 foot tall.*)))

*In comparison to Chara's sprite size and Frisk/Sans who are all around the same height and I think I saw somewhere by calculating each pixel makes them all around 4 feet tall. And since Chara is in her child body here- then... ye.

Palkia's like- maaaybe 6 foot? give or take. *Going by Anime height when he's fully grown instead of the games cuz its cooler with them being 3x bigger in the anime than games since they're Gods and stuff

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For PokeTale: Ascendance

An AU based off of an RP between me and a friend of mine from my discord server discord.gg/pQf9ZsdF6E where the Creation Trio as babies (a time they all cant really fully control their powers and junk) accidentally create a portal into the Undertale Universe and meet Chara and basically Arceus finds Chara and adopts her after finding out about her shitty human parents and Chara ends up helping Arceus raise the babies and basically lives in the Pokemon Universe now

[praisetheaxolotl]

What’s your thoughts on how Bill got his powers?

At first, I thought that he had gotten them AFTER he destroyed his dimension, but that doesn’t really make any sense because he used his powers to destroy it in the first place.

Do you think he was born with them? Or something else?

Funny you should ask that, because Back In The Day i actually had a full Bill backstory fic planned- never written, but planned.

But in my fic, he was born with them! I forgot what my explanation was, or if I even had one. I guess.... have you seen Nope? The movie, y'know? Or at least heard of it? It's like they said in that movie- what does a bad miracle look like?

I suppose Bill's powers were a bad miracle.

I have my old notes somewhere, all I remember was that he was an Irregular in a family of Equilaterals, he had a twin (equilateral) brother named Caesar, he got corrective surgery to make him look "proper" at some point... uuhhh.... Flatland was divided into two "halves" a la the Berlin Wall, where one side was a lot stricter with the laws and a lot more prejudiced, while the other side was laxer with irregulars and the such, and Bill was on the strict side.

He was also adopted, because I remember a scene where he meets his biological, Isosceles father. His birth mother had since killed herself- tendencies like that ran in her family. I guess his Equilateral family just, adopted him with the intent to get him surgically fixed up once he was of proper age. But Bill, as a "genetic Irregular" was not allowed to have kids.

Bill rarely ever used his powers growing up, and his life with Caesar was fairly mundane, honestly, which was the point. They eventually moved out and lived together? Bill was a prostitute for a while with some irregulars who were being harbored by the guy in charge and it ended with his, uh, "boss" being blinded by him.

There was this subplot where Bill and a wealthy couple make a deal that benefits both of them- Bill, still angry at not being allowed to have kids, wanted a kid. The couple was societally expected to have a child, but didn't want one. So Bill was gonna impregnate the line woman, she was gonna have the baby in secret and tell everyone it was a stillbirth. And that she was so torn up over it that she can't bring herself to try again, no, not just yet, the loss, the wound, it still stings. You get the idea.

It ended very not well.

I swear this all connected WAY better back then. I'm 22 trying to remember 16, man, it's not gonna be a clear image.

ANYWAY point being, Bill was born with his powers and he did destroy his dimension with them in a semi-accidental fit of rage, i.e. he meant to burn stuff, just not everything.

And yes, he killed his brother in this incident. I remember that scene, it was fucking rough. You all should be glad I didn't write this.

And then a bunch of other stuff happened. There was a canon trans character. It was gonna be canon that the caesar cipher was named after Bill's brother, by Bill. He did that.

It probably would have been very not good but who knows? It's not like I was godawful back then. But there's my extremely long-winded answer~

[luriendotmp3]

hee hee more silly hk au rambles

Lurien is VERY VERY VERY protective and doting of Ernest (his butler) he will literally move heaven and earth just to see the boy smile he loves him very very much :]

lurien has a HUGE sweet tooth. he especially likes cookies and maple syrup. give him pancakes drowned in maple syrup and he will love you forever

Alba (the white lady) is a chronic child adopter. so far she's got marmu, dryaa, hornet (kinda) and lurien but shes probably semi-adopted the rest of the knights as well (plus offscreen shes taken in multiple orphans/abandoned grubs and cared for them until they were able to find new permanent homes. why didnt she just keep them you may ask ? because up until the pure vessel fiasco pk had a strict No Babies Allowed policy )

radiance and pk used to be good buddies !! until pk decided power was way cooler than friendship and totally didnt turn all of radiance's people/children against her and also kick her off her own land. radiance is very very hurt/angry about this as you may guess

kinda continued from the precious statement, radiance was actually a decent ruler ! while she probably did keep some bugs under her hive mind she let most of the inhabitants live freely under their own will (namely the mantis tribe and mosskin tribe). she was also good friends with unn

less a headcanon/au trivia and more an accidental observation but alba is very similar to camila (toh) whoopsy-daisy (chronic child adopter, probably a nerd, can and will bash your skull in if you mess with her/her kids)

alba was not aware of, nor did she consent to the whole "baby pit" thing. at some point she even directly told pk that she wanted any impure vessels to be kept and cared for as normal children. however after she got infected and sealed away, pk kinda,,, didnt do this.

mightve mentioned this earlier but the dreamers are adopted siblings :)

Compared Child by Jubyphonic summarizes lurien and monomons backstories and relationship fairly well : )

all three of the dreamers are mom friends, but to varying degrees. lurien is mostly a mom to ernest/basically anyone younger or smaller than him. he does occasionally show protectiveness towards herrah and monomon but very rarely. herrah is generally pretty edgy and hardened but will show some degree of caring/protectiveness towards anyone she truly trusts (members of deepnest, hornet, and lurien/monomon.) monomon is a mom friend to pretty much Everyone, but especially lurien. shes also that one friend that will actively threaten you to make sure you eat three meals a day and drink plenty of water

luriens mental/emotional stability, on a scale of 1-10, would probably be a -5. this man has been through some rough stuff please hug him

pk is semi-corrupted by void :) totally not inspired by belos' goop monster thing mmmm nope,,

lol thats all i can think of for now yeehaw

[ninjadudettekira]

Hello.

Sorry for disturbing you, I just had to write down an idea involving an Albedo redemption.

Shortly said: Albedo accidentally adopts four alien kids and becomes a secret double agent that is an anonymous source of information to the Plumbers(one of his kids becomes one.) and he works with some villain who betrayed him before and outsmarts them or something, let's say Vilgax because he wants revenge on the guy for betraying him multiple times.

This goes on for years and my mind won't stop imagining scenarios with this.

Like let's say Albedo is in a fight with Ben and Rook and oneof his kids call him. And he's like "Excuse me, one of the brats are calling, can we resume this battle at a later date?" Then he just teleports out of there.

Then when the whole plan fails (due to Albedo 's meddling) and yes he is now in his negative galvan form because why not.

He is arrested by the plumbers and such, only his kids, the brats have collected evidence of his activities of being a double agent, the cheeky bastards.

Meanwhile Albedo is over there, eye twitching and being grumpy.

I apologise for dumping this here I just couldn't get it out of my mind.

Have a nice day!

I meant to respond to this yesterday, but I wanted to be on my laptop when I did so it was easier to type. Please do not apologize for coming into my inbox with an Albedo redemption thing. Give me y'all ideas cause I love reading that shit. Give me that sweet sweet Albedo serotonin.  Albedo accidentally adopting alien kids? I can see that. I'd like to hear how he accidentally adopts them that'd be an interesting read. Would be interesting to see how Albedo becomes a double agent, guessing he somehow adopted an alien child from that? That'd be one way to adopt a kid lol. Also yesss Albedo getting payback on Vilgax. "Excuse me, one of the brats are calling, can we resume this battle at a later date?" "Oh yeah sure.... Wait you have kids?!?! *Albedo teleports away* Oh hey Albedo is back to being a Galvan here, nice. Would be interesting if one of his adopted kids are the reason for that, or just through him being a double agent. Albedo getting arrested and being bailed out by his kids is a fun image. He probably doesn't know whether to be pissed that they have to help him, or proud they're willing to help like that. If you write this out, pleaseeee let me know. I'd love to read it. I feel like this would be a fun semi-redemption arc for Albedo focusing on Albedo in general without that much influence from Ben or even in general. Also OP I hope you don't mind me sharing this in order to respond to it with the love and care it deserved. I love it 10/10, feel free to infodump more stuff to me lol.

[tsubasaclones]

i think eda’s role in the owl house is so funny because she was just kind of unwittingly roped into all of this. her sister, who cursed her in the first place, traveled back in time and punched belos in the face, which was a tipping point in his hatred for witches (she did not start his hatred for witches. let us be clear here. he was already killing people and taking their palismen.). her semi-adopted child traveled back in time with her sister and accidentally taught him the last glyph he did not know. her fully-adopted child is the last titan who she took in as a baby without knowing about this. her ex is the leader of a coven and a secret rebellion. she randomly found the portal in the woods.

[stuckinamok]

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☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?

Okay, so I did start writing this fic, but it's one that I doubt I will ever complete. It's kind of a crack-fic, but one I was semi-taking seriously... but also the plot is not too difficult for the readers to put together (some of the comments on the chapters picked up on the 'twists' super early, lol). Since I'll probably never jump back into it, might as well share everything here, haha.

It's called Boiling Gravity (I know I've shared it a couple times before, but not the entire plot).

The first couple chapters are posted on Ao3, but here are the plot details I wrote before getting into the actual chapters:

Backstory:

Stan Pines met Eda about 16 years ago and they had a small fling going on while Stan happened to be visiting the area. As soon as Stan finds out that Eda is a witch from an alternate universe (aka, The Boiling Isles) he immediately gets himself the heck out of there. He isn’t about to get himself wrapped into the weird multi-dimension voodoo crap his brother is obsessed with.

Regretfully, Eda is hurt by this, yet another rejection due to her being herself but her lack of communication skills… but something unexpected came about from it. She was pregnant. It was her explaining the Boiling Isles that she used as a way of leading up to the news about her pregnancy but… he left. Knowing the Boiling Isles was no home to any human, let alone half-human, she made the difficult decision to give up her baby for adoption. She left a token with her child that would give him a hint as to who his father was so that someday perhaps he could find him… but nothing about her. She had the owl beast in her, after all. There was no way she could raise a child safely.

Unknown to reader:

Eventually Stan loses his brother to the alternate dimension because Ford made the deal with Bill. Stan decides to dedicate his life to getting his brother back, just like in the original story of Gravity Falls.

However, the dimension that Ford ended up in? The Boiling Isles. Who is the Titan? It’s Bill. Well, sort of. Bill now has Ford under his mind control to make him believe that he is Belos. And yes, there was time travel involved because obviously. Additionally, because there is a secret door/portal to Gravity Falls, Ford under Bill’s control, discovers Hunter, Stan’s (and Eda’s) son. He takes him at a very young age and adopts him into becoming his nephew (already being so, lol) to do his bidding and the like, eventually grooming him to become The Golden Guard.

Present Time:

Stan has accidentally fallen into the bottomless pit that is in Gravity Falls but instead of falling right back out, he ends up in The Boiling Isles.

Plot of this fic:

Stan’s goals: to get back home. He has Dipper and Mabel to take care of after all, and also, of course, he needs to keep working on saving his brother.

Eda upon finding Stan: asks without asking about their son, to see if he knows where he is. Use Stan to help Luz get back to the human realm. Mostly, she is just frustrated because she wants to rescue Rain, her ex she actually cares about… but now she has this human she dated once to babysit. She is conflicted because he fathered their child she had to give up and now that she has the owl beast somewhat under control maybe she could have raised a child… but not with this jerk. She orders Hooty to do whatever he wants to him but Stan brings up their past and Hooty is immediately invested in Stan’s long backstory (aka his needed therapy session about his long life of conning and trying to save his brother and now he has his niece and nephew visiting and can’t get back…blahblahblah).

Hunter: Doing Belos’ bidding. Figuring out his crush on Willow (eventually). After discovering Bill mind-controlling “Belos”, his goal is to put a stop to him. He ends up kind of like Zuko, joining the hero gang after figuring out who the real bad guy is.

Bill/Belos: Causing Ford misery while simultaneously creating chaos and drama, while also dominating the witch’s realm as belos, getting rid of wild magic.

Luz: figuring out Eda’s romantic past and making the connection as to who Hunter is. Getting back home to the human realm with a way to go back and forth so she does not have to stay there permanently.

Ford: Go back to human realm but primarily freeing himself from the mind control of Bill.

Purpose of this fic:

Sharing interactions of Eda/Stan, Eda/Hunter, Stan/Hunter, Hunter/Luz, Hunter/Willow… but mostly Stan’s interactions with all of the characters in the boiling isles. Stan and Eda do not end up together in the end but they come to a mutual understanding and respect for one another. Luz and Stan find a way (with Ford’s help after defeating Bill) to connect the realms so they can visit back and forth. Hunter is now fully initiated into the Clawthorne family (King is a little jealous, mostly because he still has not found his biological family and yet Hunter found his here in their house). Hooty teases Hunter about Willow, probably. Luz teases him about how she’s his sister now and he just has to deal with it.

[limetimo]

RAB fics I read 14-20 March

the salt and the sea by WizardGod I'm not usually one to read "James Potter' little sister this and that" fics, but boyyy am I glad I gave this one a chance. It's their NEWT year and Theresa (Teddy) Potter is paired up with Regulus Black for Prefect Patrols. The disinterest/disdain they feel for each other is whacked all out of balance when they fuck against a wall. Evan ships it :D

Best Friend's Brother by zeppazariel this is!!!!!!!! fantastic!!!!!! I know I've been reading a lot of Jegulus/Wolfstar identity porn lately but this one *chef kiss* stands out. Regulus and Sirius didn't talk or see each other since Sirius run away from home, and Regulus run away at 18. Regulus and Remus are coworkers at a café. Regulus starts dating James, not knowing that James is his beloathed brother's best friend. Remus starts dating Sirius (and he doesn't even know Regulus HAS a brother until later). Eventually Remus and James realise that their boyfriends are the infamous hated brothers and they're kinda in deep shit: because Black Brothers are petty, bad bitches that should not be fucked with. Mind the tags for hardcore past child abuse and other trigger warnings.

a shrike (to your sharp and glorious thorn) by nyxveuss the author announced they were rewriting this glorious story, so I re-read the whole thing for my pleasure. I'm sad to see it go but eager to see nyx's new vision of the "Regulus dies and is yeeted to his fifth year"

Dripping With Sin by ScreamingFae I! Bartender!Regulus catches Vampire!Barty's eye who simply must make him his. Doesn't matter Regulus is already dating Guitarist!James.

Silent Screams by Izumi284 semi-dead Regulus gets tossed to OotP! Also who's the white and gold cat? O.O

I see you in the stars by Bibliosmia0 James is having nightmares about Regulus drowning which makes him approach the younger Slytherin... and I mean ofc he accidentally falls in love with Regulus. Feat a really good friend Remus!

Finders Keepers by jeggie_toast a slowburn Jegulus that starts when Regulus signs up for the Quidditch team, just checked the tags and it's canon COMPLIANT :( as I said, slow burn, and pretty long, I'm currently about 1/5 way through :D

Follow In Her Paw Prints by Erica45 Regulus gets offered a helping paw... hand... from Mcgonagall :D AKA Regulus gets adopted! And fuck Dumbledore! All my homies hate Dumbledore! I hope he gets stabbed honestly

when you were mine by battlehamster our most beloved "secret high school sweetheart turned single parent and a criminal on house arrest" AU Regulus and baby Harry are SO CUTE I'm gonna die

Drugs and surgical scrubs by anauro another most beloved! Doctor!Regulus and addicts!Marauders! Slowburn Jegulus! Black Brothers drama! Battling one's demons! Platonic Bartylus subplot that makes me smile! And much more on Drugs and surgical scrubs~

My Own Private Blackpool by LadyVisenya an OC from Percy's year makes friends with a deeply traumatised man who lives in a villa in her town... turns out his name is Regulus Black. When Harry Potter claims Voldemort is back, these two set of Horcrux hunting! And accidentally fall in love but it's super slowburn and pretty organic and doesn't give me creepies despite the age difference.

The Horcrux Hunt by Keysie I can't believe there's only two chapters left of this beauty ugh. Regulus comes to the conclusion Voldy is a little bitch, goes to Dumbledore, Dumbledore hooks him up with Remus to do some Horcrux hunting; Remus wants to date Sirius but Sirius is a dummy with attachment issues; Remus and Regulus develop a friendship only two men who almost died together numerous times can develop. Their combined snark makes Dumbledore want to retire :D In short, Voldy's going d o w n ♥

As The World Caves In by reylo_is_canon Hermione/Theo Nott time travel with Regulus as the head cockblock :D

Professor Black by FaithlessBex Regulus teaches History of Magic, yay. (Quick thought, did anyone think of Astronomy!Professor Regulus? I think it'd be very sexy of him.)

Born to Run, Break the Mold by agentofreedom Regulus goes to cave and survives and ends up on Sirius' couch, time to fuck some shit right up :D

glimpses of heaven by lunahunt !!!!!! So good!!!!! After the Prank, James is all off his groove. Euphemia signs him up for a Quidditch course with Wronski, the Seeker who invented the Wronski's faint. But guess who else got enrolled in the course! Yep, you guessed right, Regulus Black! Them boys gonna be seeing each other once a week for the rest of the summer :D

Harry just can’t wait to be a big brother by anauro for battlehamster what it says on the tin! super cute dometic Jegulus ♥

Lion's Roar by Seralyn semi-dead Regulus to OotP

and we're gone by blackkat the night Sirius run away

Black Madness by LimeOfMagicLimo Regulus is Tired and when Walburga hexes Kreacher over a minor mistake, he snaps and kills her. And then he becomes and alcoholic and kills Voldemort too.

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Strike a Pose by Anonymous okay so this is Ron Weasley/Draco Malfoy PWP but it's??? so good??? and the first time I read this pairing so I'm just going to leave it here as a treat for ppl who want to broaden their horizonts

[sidespart]

For the fake fic title, if you're still doing it: Why do you hate me? (I honestly don't know where I came up with this lol)

X-Men AU!!! Found Family + Anxceit friendship. TW: child soldiers, child endangerment, abuse etc

(So typical X-men universe set up: some people are born with the X gene, which typically triggers during puberty, giving that person a mutation which normally results in cool powers. Many people hate mutants for their differences (/ bad press of people using their mutant powers for the evilz) and so most mutants live in hiding. The Xavier Institute is a school set up by an extremely powerful mutant which seeks to provide a safe space for young mutants to learn to manage their powers, get a regular education and hopes to see peace between humanity and mutant kind. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is a group of mutants who believe humans will never let mutant live in peace and do various anti-human, pro-mutant vaguely terrorist-y actions (there’s like a billion version of the x-men and these details may not be correct for all the versions all of the time because comics but this is the vague idea))

ANYWAY PLOT - Containment breach at the Super Secret Child Soldier Lab (SSCSL) - Subject VII has escaped. Subject VII is only 6-7 years old but his mutations were artificially triggered much younger than is normal. He can warp reality and create very sophisticated illusions, but has very limited control over his powers.

Cut too - Virgil and Dee, a couple of teenage mutants living on the street. They find a little boy with a buzzcut wandering around The Bad Part Of Town and Virgil immediately decides they need to adopt/help him (Dee makes more of a fuss about how this is not their responsibility and the kids barely even talking and do you know how hard I work just to keep you and now you wanna add another mouth to feed?? Huhh?? but obviously does not actually say no) (Dee is like. Barely any older than Virgil he’s just dramatic). 

Naturally, just as the three of them have had time to bond, the SSCSL and other assorted bad guys show up to try and take VII back. There’s a big fight, Virgil and Dee have a lot more experience with flight and would probably have ended up dead if the X-men (Patton and Logan) hadn't shown up to save them. 

But they lose VII.

Patton and Logan take them back to the Xavier institute to recuperate and offer to let them stay. They can go to school there, get some training and help the X-men track down VII and the whole SSCSL. Virgil says yes, Dee says no.

(So, reasoning - Virgil's mutation developed when he was 12. It was not pleasant. Various students at his school were injured and the media set up a which hunt for the mutant that caused the chaos. Virgil ran away from home because he was worried about the backlash on his family and about hurting anyone else again. So to him, this school full of mutants who can help him control his power, can offer him stability and a return to normal structures and routines, who are promising to help him get in contact with his parents if and when he’s ready?? This is like every fantasy he’s ever had come true

Unlike the other characters, Dee’s primary mutation is physical. He was born with it, its very obvious and its resulted in him being rejected for most of his life. He bounced around increasingly disturbing foster homes before running away when he was very young, so most of his memories are of living on the streets and surviving on his own. So, to him, number one: all adults are inherently untrustworthy idiots and number two: stay at a school? where they expect him to have a curfew? and, what - write essays? follow all their random arbitrary rules? rely on them for food and heat and all that shit? Completely ludicrous.)

It doesn't occur to either of them that the other one isn't going to agree with them. The resulting argument is epic and cruel, both hurling accusations at the other (Ungrateful /controlling are two of the big ones..) and both basically feeling hateful and 100% betrayed. Dee leaves and although they look for him, he’s got a lifetime experience of hiding and they cant find him.

CUT TO - 5 years later. Virgil is a (semi) well adjusted 19 year old junior X-men. He’s still a bit withdrawn, but is very close with Patton and Logan. He’s still holding out hope of finding VII one day and still firmly pretending he’s not listing out for any possible news of Dee (there were rumours some years ago of him joining the brother hood of evil mutants but then it all went quiet) who he, of course, hates for his betrayal. 

BUT THEN - mysterious knocking at the door in the night. Dee, now wearing a hat and cape and calling himself Janus, has returned. And he’s brought with him a little boy with a buzzcut and a tattoo of XXII on his foot.

Janus and Virgil need to put aside their resentment and work together to help XXII, who really does not seem interested in helping them, and hopefully use any clues he can give them about the SSCSL to track down VII. But that's difficult when they’re both still struggling with their own trauma and have no idea how to reconnect - both of them want to ask why do you hate me but are a bit too scared of the answer. ...

This already got way to long so mutant power/ extra back story descriptions under cut!

Patton - 22/27 years old. An extremely powerful telepath/empath. It takes him serious concentration and focus to not hear peoples thoughts and its almost impossible to not feel their feelings. Some people dislike him because of this as they feel he's spying on them. Grew up in the Xavier institute and 100% believes in and is committed to the future where humans and mutants live in harmony. Has pretty limited life experience in the real world. Sometimes floats. (inspired by professor X)

Logan - 21/26 years old. Fires destructive laser beams from his eyes. Was in a car accident when he was younger leaving him with permanent but apparently harmless brain damage - until his mutation developed and he slowly realised that no matter how much he trained he just couldn't control his power. Has to wear specialised eye guards at all times to keep himself from accidentally destroying everything around him. Had big plans to go to university and was angry at his mutation for a long time for getting in the way of that. Eventually enrolled online and is now a very dedicated teacher at the Institute. (inspired by cyclops) 

Janus - 15(?) / 20(?) His primary mutation is  lizard/snake like scales over most of his body, but especially the left side. Has oversized fangs, and yellow eye and a short lizard tail. His secondary mutation makes him immune to almost any sort of mental based mutation (so Logan could still knock him on his ass with his lasers, but Patton cant sense anything form him and Virgil cant whammy him). Spent a lot of his life on his own and got by being sneaky, cunning and charming. Initially took Virgil in because he saw that his powers could be useful for keeping them both safe, but eventually Virgil became his first real friend.

Virgil - 14/19. Shadow manipulation and ‘draining’. Virgil can make himself (and with practice, people he touches) literally disappear into the shadows. He can also direct shadows as powerful energy ‘blasts’, but in order to do so he has to drain any surrounding living things of their energy. When his mutation first developed  he took out half of the school hall where his exam was being held, leaving 15 students in a coma. (inspired by rouge/shadow cat)

VII - 6? / 11? Reality warping/illusion powers. One of the institutes first successful subjects. He was able to escape by changing the wall of his cell into a door. He finds it hard to talk but can project his ideas as lifelike illusions who can talk for him. One of his best is the image a handsome grown up Prince and he will often use this Illusion as an avatar to communicate. When he was 6 he did have some hazy memories of outside the SSCSL and expressed a desire to go home. Current status is unknown. 

XXI - 7.  Illusion powers  (reality warping has been removed from the program by his time as subjects proved too difficult to control). Has no memories of outside the institute and is extremely uncooperative with his new captors/guardians. He does not understand the affection they’re trying to show him and lashes out a lot, often by creating a lot of extremely disturbing and graphic illusions. Bites. 

[princeanxious]

Why would you hide the Villain remus and Janus thing in the tags, I'd read the hell outta Hero Virgil turned Villain

you mean this??? shdbic aaa Yeah I want to write it, but i also want to write a lot of things. xD but this is def one of those things i’d love to write a short-ish one-shot about just so I can write it.

can you imagine? Virgil, young and anxious, manifesting powers of the light and dark variety, able to manipulate shadows and summon electricity with such fine precision because he’s spent so long fretting over accidentally hurting someone with it that he refused to even dare try and step into the hero scene until he was 150% certain that he’d trained his powers to disconnect from his emotions so that he’d never have an outburst that could even harmlessly shock or scare someone. He’s so in control over his powers that its to an insane degree just because he wants to make sure he cant hurt anybody on accident.

(complete ramble continued under the cut bc boy howdy this got so long it might as well be its own short one-shot)

And, he’s worked so in depth with his powers because of course he can’t just suppress them!(Suppressing electricity based powers doesn’t get rid of that energy, it just makes that constantly generating energy stay put and build, which makes it even more dangerous when it’s finally released, so suppression is a no go) So of course not only does he work extensively with learning how to control his powers, but also how to healthily use them and expend his energy safely, effectively, and skillfully as he grows into them. Might as well push your limits of learning just how much your power can do if you have to learn how to exist safely around others by controlling it, right?

So, by default, by the time Virgil is both old enough and confident enough in his powers to consentingly apply for registry to the worlds heroes association, he’s both insanely skilled with his powers, and also insanely talented(the equivalent to a child prodigy, not that many people in charge of the worlds hero association believe that, though.). The people who had been interviewing him believed the same, thinking him to be just another super teenager boasting about his skills when they couldn’t even sense his power, thinking that what little power Virgil did have was not even worth bothering to report anything substantial about the interview. That he’d oughta go try the villain’s headquarters, because at least they take in wandering powerless for henchmen all the time.

Virgil, feeling pissed but not quite enraged yet, because what teenager wouldn’t hate it to be so invalidated and demeaned at being out right dismissed as a threat, let alone considered more of an invalid for not having powers, starts to display his power. 

First it’s the main interviewer’s phone that they’d been glancing boredly at, drained suddenly of all power. Then it’s the landline of that specific room, then it’s the lamp, the computer suddenly shuts off with zero warning and nothing of it turns on. The lamp in the corner of the room goes dark, bulb by bulb, and the printer in the room dies. Virgil’s eyes are glowing violet but he hasn’t moved any more than the annoyed twitch of an eyelid. the light’s overhead turn off, leaving the lights in the hallway still on, leaving the remaining light in the room coming from the single window in the room and the open doorway. 

He reaches up a hand, and snaps once, and shadows swallow up the light over the hallway and the window, acting as a wall from the inside and out. 

Now the only light in the room is his glowing eyes.

The second interviewer is struggling to summon fire from her hands to light the room, but it doesn’t work. The energy she’s using to summon the fire is immediately sapped by Virgil’s force, there isn’t even a spark. The first interviewer can feel Virgil’s power now, it’s bright and burning. It’s like he has a core in the middle of his being like a sun’s core because its storing so much power, and the only reason they can see it now is because Virgil’s using his power. He has so much control that even on a nonphysical level it’s nearly tangible, the way that they can see his shadow powers conceal even the existence of his power, now that they know what their looking at.

In mere seconds, this kid has tipped the world on their head and put the fear of god into them, an undetected yet undeniable threat in the making. 

They watch his eyes tilt with his head, and the distinct sound of the entire building powering down is unmistakable, shouts of surprise and confusion due to the failure of the buildings many fail-safes failing to trigger. And then, with another snap, all power is restored to normal in the blink of the eye, all machines and lights are functioning perfectly, not an irregular shadow in sight, and all at once Virgil reads as a normal human teenager, not a whiff of power to be sensed. He looks pretty peeved, though.

“Maybe I will try my luck at the Dark Side then, at least they care about the people that look to be taken in. Let me know if you changed your mind, I’d love to have a do-over. With a different set of interviewers, mind you.” before he walks out of the interview room, off to blow off some steam legally and safely.

Imagine his outrage when a week later he’s served a summons to court, deeming him a “Threat to Society” and “better left in jail until the court can be convinced of his good nature” because he’s an “out of control juvenile gifted with an unprecedented amount of power that he couldn’t possibly control without strict legal supervision and interference and cannot be trusted to continue to exist as a normal citizen until the W.H.A deems it safe.”

Faced with possible lifelong inprisonment and zero control over the rest of his life because an association of supers think that they know better and that he’s some stupid teenager that was set loose on the world with means to only cause catastrophe and devastation, or freedom at the hands of some ambiguously grey moral decisions every once in a while and being treated as a normal human being even if he has to be a henchman to another super for a while? 

The decision isn’t a hard one to make.

So imagine his surprise when he’s not only accepted into the Dark Side after being respectfully asked to demonstrate the full extent of his power and his control over it, but instead of becoming a villain’s henchmen, he instead gains the full title of Villain(with another Villain(Janus) stepping in to mentor him and show him the ropes of the rules and everything), and even further: Gets his own henchmen assigned to him. 

A pair, Patton and Logan. 

Patton has a partial shapeshifting ability, but it only really lets him turn into a big frog man, making him perfect for doing any of the main heavy lifting for the team, and also perfect for protecting Logan when under attack. He’s built like a himbo and is absolutely 100% a himbo, heart of gold, super strong, buff dad bod, the whole sha-bang.

Logan has a power that is one part linked with memory, one part linked with technology. His brain can retain information like a computer databank, and he can get any misfunctioning technology to work if he can get his hands on it or a connection to it. He avoids all the quirks that interfere or damage real databanks and technology(like magnets, water, and short-circuiting) and can semi-directly connect with devices he is familiar with, without having to hold/touch/look at one.

All together, they have the beginnings of a well rounded team: the brawns, the brains, and the leader with plans and the power to make it happen. Even before finding out their reasons for coming to the dark side, Virgil becomes ride or die for them. (And honestly, they’re also pretty ride or die for him too, not even starting with the fact that they’re both like 26-27 and Virgil is an 18 year old anxious mess that had to make the decision over being the bad guy or losing any and all autonomy for the foreseeable future, which is gonna fuck up any kid and young adult’s brain. So, lowkey adopt him as a younger sibling even though he’s the boss of them and just barely taller than them.(Virgil is a tol lanky boi, and while Logan, standing at 5′9″, is but an inch shorter than Virgil at the start, Virgil still has growing room and peaks at about 6′4″ by the time hes 22. Patton at his normal height is like 5′6″, but frog man height is like 8′3″)

Oh, and they definitely make the Worlds Hero Association regret not taking Virgil’s existence kindly, Big Time.

[dreamsmp-au-ideas]

Hey guys, remember the Purpled, Foolish, Fundy, and Slimecicle Found Family thing we made a bit back? Well I had came up with the great idea of deciding to make an au that is centric to those guys and in a modern world.

So the basic gist is that those four are still working for Quackity but it’s already been long term and they’re done. The pay is shit, the hours are shit, the benefits are mediocore at best, and they had just went and are about to organize a union for better working hors and pay.

Quackity of course is a dick and just puts more hours and even less pay on them and man oh man murder is looking very promising right now.

This of course, angers all of them. Slime is a bit chill with this but everyone is pretty sure that Slime is some sort of weird cyrptid so that’s normal and in a bit of uncontrolled anger, Foolish or Purpled may have went and said that they wished that Quackity would just drop dead, just so they can at least have a better boss or something.

The very next day they unfortunately had to go to work, because they have apartments and they need to pay rent.

And then they go into the office for...various reasons. Some involving murder... and uh...oh would you look at that. Quackity is dead and has been stabbed. Oh. Okay then.

Oh god wait Charlie please don’t play with the knife. Charlie no you might hurt yourself with that, oh god wait shit, how are we going to get our pay checks? Shit okay, let’s just steal the money from his safe. And the cameras are on. Fuck.

So now the four of them has been framed for murder and has also accidentally escalated that. Now they’re trying to clear their name and also finding out more about their shitty boss. And they’re also trying to go find a new place to work because man they need to still pay rent.

(More stuff below)

Featuring:

-Fundy, a sleep-deprived coder of Quackity’s site and other programs

-Charlie Slimecile. Who is simply just Charlie Slimecicle

-Foolish, an architect and builder who is done with Quackity’s shit and is tempted to murder him

-Purpled, an intern who applied for Marketing and Real Estate for Las Nevadas and instead is thrown into the bouncer part of the job and planning on committing brutal pipe murder on Quackity. He wouldn’t have hesitated and he is just so dissapointed that he couldn’t do it first

-Purpled, Foolish, Fundy, and Slime all being one found family and caring for each other as they go and try to solve who killed Quackity

-There is underlying plot that Quackity was a good person but a series of events kind of made him jaded and shit. This does not go and earn forgiveness for his behavior from the four of them and that is extremely understandable

-Quackity having a drug empire

-Wilbur also being apart of the drug empire

-The four of them just being confused on how Fundy’s dad got into Quackity’s drug empire

-And then they go and realize that it wasn’t the only thing he got into

-Fundy is disgusted by this. HIs dad and his shitty ex boss were having homoerotic tensions with each other

-Karl and Sapnap knowing about this and casually dropping that Wilbur is apart of the polycule

-Fundy is now even more disgusted and in pain from this

-The Eggpire is a rival Drug Empire but it’s debatable on how much the staff wants to work here. They just wanted their paycheck and now they’re in Drug wars

(Purpled: Punz!? What the fuck? You work here!?

Punz: Hell no. I just wanted my paycheck and I accidentally got roped into this)

-Dream murdered Quackity because of him putting some blackmail and some stalker-ish things in his mailbox so uh...he murdered him. He isn’t much of a dick here as DSMP was but he still isn’t the nicest guy around

-Foolish, Charlie, Fundy, and Purpled all accidentally tampered with the crime scene and did the following:

-Purpled stole a gun from Quackity’s drawer

-Charlie touched the murder weapon and glooped and erased the fingerprints right off the knife

-Fundy tripped over the body and slightly moved it so he won’t trip on it as much

-Foolish went and may have went and moved all their hours to more reasonable times

-And all of them went and fucking stole a shit ton of money from Quackity’s safe

-Then they forgot to fucking turn off the cameras and now they have framed themselves for murder

-Sometimes they just forget that Quackity is dead. They just forget for a bit and then after while they think, Oh yeah. My boss is dead. Right. That happened.

-The family tree honestly is fucked and somehow everyone is related to Quackiy in some way. No one is spared. The timeline is fucked and everyone is somehow related to Quackity in the most cursed way possible. Foolish, Fundy, Purpled, and Charlie are trying to wrap their heads around this bullshit. Jack, Techno, and Tommy are spared from the family tree bullshit and do not interact with it at all for fear of being sucked into it

-To go and explain it in the best way possible, Charlie and Fundy are technically brothers because Quackity semi-adopted Slimecicle, Quackity and Purpled are also technically brothers because Sam Nook is technically Sam’s other child and Punz is dating him, Foolish and Fundy are ex-brothers because Fundy dated Dream and then broke up with him after the whole “left him at the alter” thing, and Quackity is technically Fundy’s step-dad because Wilbur joined the polycule

-The four of them pointedly ignore this

[lee-scribbles-and-doodles]

My Top Ten Overlooked Movies With Female Leads In No Particular Order

Note: When you see this emoji (⚠️) I will be talking about things people may find triggering, which are spoilery more often then not. I mention things that I think may count as triggers so that people with them will be aware before going in to watch any of these.

Edited: 3/16/21

Hanna (2011)

So, before I get into why you should watch this movie, I just want to take a moment to say why it's near and dear to my heart. Growing up as a queer kid in the early 2000s, seeing portrayals of people like or similar to myself on anything was rare at best. It was mostly in more "adult" movies or shows that my parents would occasionally let me watch with them that I'd see any lgbtq+ rep at all. Often times they were either walking stereotypes, designed to be buried, evil, or all three.

Then here comes this PG-13 action thriller with a wonderfully written main female lead who, at the time, was close to my age, and who got to kiss another girl (her very first friend, Sophie) on screen in an extremely tender and heartwarming scene. To say the least, it was a life changing moment for me personally.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, Hanna is a suspenseful movie about a child super-soldier named, you guessed it, Hanna (played by Saoirse Ronan) and her adoptive (?) father Erik Heller (played by Eric Bana) exiting the snowy and isolated wilderness of their home and taking on the shadowy CIA operative, Marissa Wiegler (played by Cate Blanchette) who wants Erik dead and Hanna for herself for mysterious reasons.

It also has an amazing soundtrack by the Chemical Brothers, great action scenes, and it has an over arching fairytale motif, which I'm always a sucker for.

⚠️ Mild blood effects, some painful looking strikes, various character deaths, and child endangerment all feature in this film. However, given its PG-13 rating, a majority of viewers are presumably able to handle this one. Still, be aware of these going in.

Sidenote: It's recently gotten a TV adaptation on Amazon TV, although I have not watched it, and do not know if Hanna and Sophie's romantic/semi-romantic relationship has transferred over.

A Simple Favor

A Simple Favor is a "black-comedy mystery thriller" centered entirely around the relationship between two mothers, the reclusive, rich, mysterious, and regal Emily (played by Blake Lively), and the local recently widowed but plucky mommy blogger, Stephanie (played by Anna Kendrick). When Emily suddenly goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to find out what happened to her new best friend.

It's a fantastic and entertaining movie throughout, with fun, flawed and interesting characters. The relationship between the two female leads is also implied to be at least somewhat romantic in nature, and they even share a kiss.

⚠️ The only major warnings I can think of is that the movie contains an instance of incest and one of the main plotlines revolves around child abuse, although both of these potentially triggering topics are not connected to each other, so there is thankfully no csa going on.

Edit: I legitimately forgot there was drug use in this movie until now. So, yeah, if that's a trigger, be careful of that.

I Am Mother

I became mildly obsessed with this movie when it came out. I Am Mother is a sci-fi film that centers entirely around a cast of two woman, and a female-adjacent robot who is brought to life on screen with absolutely amazing practical effects.

The plot is such, after an extinction-level event, a lone robot known only as Mother tasks herself with replenishing the human race via artifical means. She begins with the film's main protagonist, Daughter. Years go by as Mother raises her human child and the two prepare for Daughter's first sibling (a brother) to be born. However, on Daughter's 16th birthday, the arrival of an outsider known only as Woman shakes Daughter's entire world view. She begins to question Mother's very nature, as well as what's really going on outside the bunker she and her caretaker call home.

⚠️ This movie features child endangerment and reference to child death.

Lilo and Stitch

When I decided to add a single Disney film to this list I initially thought it was going to be hard but almost immediately my brain went to Lilo and Stitch, and specifically about the relationship between Lilo and Nani.

On the surface, this film is about a lonely little girl accidentally adopting a fugitive alien creature as a "dog," but underneath that the story is also about two orphaned sisters and the older sister's attempts to not let social services tear them apart by stepping up as the younger sister's primary guardian. Despite its seemingly goofy premise, Lilo and Stitch has a very emotional and thoughtful center. It's little wonder how this movie managed to spawn an entire franchise.

Despite the franchise it spawned (or possibly because of it), I often find that Lilo and Stitch is overlooked and many people only remember it for the "little girl adopts an alien as a pet" portion of its plot, and I very rarely see it on people's top 10 Disney lists.

⚠️ This movie could be potentially triggering to people who were separated from their siblings or other family members due to social service intervention. There's also a bit of child endangerment, including a scene where Lilo and Stitch both almost drown.

Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind

Unlike the above entry, I did struggle a little bit with picking a single Studio Ghibli film. Most media of the Ghibli catalogue have strong, well-written, unique, and interesting female leads so selecting just one seemed like quite the task.

However, I eventually settled on this particular film. In recent months, Princess Nausicaä has become my absolute favorite Ghibli protagonist and I'm absolutely enchanted by the world she lives in.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world overun by giant insects and under threat of a toxic forest and its poisoness spores, Nausicaä must try to protect the Valley of the Wind from invaders as she also tries to understand the science behind the toxic forest and attempts to bridge the gap between the insects and the humans.

For those who have never seen the film, I think Nausicaä's personality can best be described as being similar to OT Luke Skywalker. Both are caring, compassionate, and gentle souls who are able to see the best in nearly anyone or anything. She's an absolutely enthralling protagonist and after rewatching the film again for the first time in well over a decade she has easily become one of my all time favorite protagonists.

Whenever I see people talk about Ghibli films, they rarely mention this one, and when they do mention it, it's often in passing. In my opinion it's a must watch.

⚠️ This movie contains some blood, and the folks who either don't like insects or who have entomophobia may not appreciate the giant bugs running about throughout the movie. (Although most insects do not directly relate to real life bugs, and are fantasy creatures).

A Silent Voice

A Silent Voice is an animated movie adaptation of a manga of the same name. While I've never had the pleasure to read the manga, the movie is phenomenal. It covers topics such a bullying, living in the world with a disability, the desire for atonement, social anxiety, and depression in a well thought out manner that ties itself together through the progression of the relationship between its two leads, Shoya and Shouko. It's also beautifully animated. Although very popular among anime viewers, I've noticed that it's often overlooked by people who watch little to no anime. So I suppose this is me urging non-anime viewers to give this film a chance.

⚠️ As mentioned above, the movie deals with bullying, anxiety, and depression (with this last one including suicidal thoughts and behaviour). If discussion of those topics are triggering to you, than you may want to proceed with caution or skip this movie all together.

In This Corner of The World

Another manga adaptation, this one taking place during WWII-era Japan. In This Corner of The World follows the life of a civilian Japanese woman, Suzu Urano, as she navigates simply living and her new marriage as the wartime invades nearly all aspects of everyday life. I think this movie is a good representation of what it must be like to be living as civilian in a country at war where the fight is sometimes fought on one's own soil. It was also an interesting look into pre-50s Japanese culture in my opinion. It's also beautifully animated featuring an art style I don't see often.

Despite it being well known among anime fans, I never really see it be brought up, even among said anime fans themselves.

Side note: I've seen many WWII dramas centering around civilians but they've almost always been about American or UK civilians. This was the first movie I'd seen that features the perspective of a Japanese civilain.

⚠️ Features the death of a child and limb loss. There's also a disturbing scene featuring a victim of one of the atomic bombs near the end.

Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki

This film follows Hana, a Japan-native woman who fell in love with a magical shape-shifting wolf-man, and her trials with raising their children, who can also magically shape-shift into wolves, on her own. It's a very heartfelt movie about a mother's love and the struggles of doing right by your children when you have limited resources to actively guide and care for them. All the characters feel unique and alive in my opinion. Also, the animation is so good that my sister and I initially mistook it for a Ghibli film.

Again, like the previous two anime entries, I don't see it ever brought up outside of anime circles.

⚠️ There's some child endangerment present in the film, although none of it is the fault of Hana as far as I can remember.

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is about the fictional Princess Ann (played by Audrey Hepburn), who while on a whirlwind tour of Europe, finally reaches her breaking point over having her entire life be one big schedule and all her words and actions being rehearsed. In the spur of the moment, she runs away in hopes of experiencing what life is like for other women. Unfortunately, she was previously given a sedative, meaning she doesn't get too far before it takes effect. Fortunately, she is found by the kind reporter Joe Bradley (played by Gregory Peck). Believing her to be drunk and unable to get an address from her (because she has none) he ends up taking her home for safety's sake and allows her to sleep off her suppose drunken stupor. The next day, he realizes who she is, and decides to take her on a fun sight seeing trip across Rome in hopes of getting the big scoop. Along the way, they begin to fall for each other.

This is my favorite black and white, old romance film. I think the relationship between the main characters is absolutely beautiful and I have a lot of fun watching it.

⚠️ I'm not entirely sure what kind of warning this film would need. However, it was released in 1953, so values dissonance will probably be at play for many viewers to at least some extent. For example, early in the film Ann is given sedation drugs by her doctor for her behavior, something that is very unlikely to happen today. Also, Mr Bradley deciding to take Ann home to keep her safe rather than call the police or an ambulance is a very pre-90s decision in my opinion.