#goliath doll

[tribow]

Where the heck did Alice put the Goliath Doll anyway? Is there just a huge doll laying down in her backyard?

Did she repurpose the materials?

Locked away in a basement?

[elcrin-the-frogge-lover]

Touhou Sprite Mini set 12

[aardvark-123]

The Titan Wore a Skin of Hopes and Dreams

Sent from the heavens, wielding rainbows and lightning in the name of peace and justice, Hoshiro Nijinazuma is Gensokyo’s greatest warrior. Her decision-making skills, however, leave a lot to be desired. Together with new friends and amused onlookers, the Forever Champion’s legend continues!

Still carrying the regrets of her past mistakes, Hoshiro tries to patch things up with Utsuho and Satori. At the Palace of the Earth Spirits, however, a dangerous new foe emerges. All Gensokyo’s warriors must gather to face their greatest enemy yet, but in the fires of war, one girl finds her folly brought to judgment...

This chapter marks the end of Hoshiro’s character development arc, a grand all-stars chapter full of action and emotion. I spent months trying to get everything just right, and I hope it lives up to everything that’s come before. Enjoy.

~Chapter 10: The Titan Wore a Skin of Hopes and Dreams~

"I know I left on bad terms, but it's been a month, and I'm ready to talk to them again." Hoshiro looked solemn and determined next to Keine, hiking along a shady path in the Forest of Magic. "I also baked them a cake!"

"Well, Hoshiro... You know you can't force people to like you, or buy their forgiveness with cake. But if you're honest, humble and polite, the opposite of a normal Gensokyan woman, then at least you won't have reason to be ashamed," said Keine. "And besides, you only sat on one watering can! It's not as if Minoriko and Shizuha could hold that against you forever..."

Hoshiro blinked. "Keine, I was talking about Okuu and her mum!"

"I know, it was a joke!" Keine's smile faded. "If you insist on carrying the world on your shoulders, it's going to flatten you. I thought you should smile at least once today."

"Oh...!" Hoshiro giggled. It still sounded a bit like a chuckle, but after four hours practicing in front of the mirror she was satisfied. "Thanks, Keine. I'll do my best."

"I'm sure you will."

They walked on in silence for a few more minutes until the path split in two. Keine waved goodbye and took the left path, which lead past the swamp and the radio tower to Marisa's house.

"Good luck getting your books back!" shouted Hoshiro. She turned onto the right path, squared her shoulders and set off.

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Several miles went by, some more quickly than others as Hoshiro flew down through the Fantastic Blowhole. Her chest grew tight somewhere along the Deep Road, where the dark ceiling loomed overhead and damp, silty stone ran beneath her.

Hoshiro knew what her friends had taught her; to be kind to herself, try to fix her mistakes and make amends, but not hold herself in disgrace forever. She knew, and she still felt so ashamed, which made her feel more ashamed because she was ashamed when she didn't need to be ashamed, which meant she was doing it wrong, which was shameful-

All right, calm down. Breathe. Suffering shinigami, this was frustrating! She-Ra had never dealt with anything so hard. What if she blew up the sun? Well, she'd buy a new sun, or help make one! Byakuren had told her remorse was good, but self-hatred wasn't remorse...

But then Kasen said actually, self-hatred was remorse channeled the wrong way. No, Byakuren had said, self-hatred was self-indulgence! And Kasen had got angry; that sounded like an extra helping of guilt under a new coat of paint! Such fierce passion from an amazing woman...

Then Byakuren had thrown her tea in Kasen's face, and Hoshiro's first and only therapy session at Myouren Temple had turned into a food fight. Kasen had laughed all the way home. That had been a perfect day, but thinking about it, she hadn't learned anything.

Well, she had learned a bit. That heroes made mistakes, idiots got things right, trying mattered most of all, standing out was fine, being less cool than you wanted was fine- Gods above, she'd learned so much! Byakuren had even taught her how to curve a moon cake around Kasen to hit Shou!

Yet none of that stopped Hoshiro's tummy from fluttering or her heart from pounding as she trod the long pink carpet to Satori's study. She gasped when she noticed where she was; somehow she'd worried herself all the way to the Palace of the Earth Spirits.

Hoshiro stopped outside the door to catch her breath. It could go two ways, she told herself; Okuu and Satori could give her another chance, or they could tell her to stay away. And she'd still be alive in either case. But if they shunned her, that was it, she'd have to leave them alone... And if she never opened the door, never talked to them, that would never happen.

But if she never opened the door, she'd never know if they could forgive her. So Hoshiro steeled herself as if she was about to face Amaterasu in a lava-wrestling match, raised her fist and knocked.

A few seconds passed. "Come in," Satori's familiar voice said, not quite at a shout but more loudly than normal speech.

Hoshiro came in, stepping apologetically around the door. Satori was at her desk, not looking too surprised, and Utsuho was beside her, looking cheerfully confused.

"Good afternoon, Hoshiro," said Satori. "You're here to apologise for flipping out on me last time, which you view as a terrible, shameful transgression, rather than a normal transgression for most idiots in our world."

Hoshiro blinked. "I- Yes! Th-that's what I'm- What?"

"Since this is important to you, I'll let you use your own tongue rather than simply reading your mind," said Satori, trying not to smirk. "Go ahead."

"Actually, I need something clarified," Utsuho piped up. "What are you apologising for, Hoshiko? What did you do?"

Hoshiro's face reddened. "It's Hoshiro, with a ro! Don't you remember what I did?!"

Utsuho turned away, her brow creasing with confusion. "I only have vague memories. We were... Well, there was a..." She swallowed. "A pot plant? Th- this is hard!"

"N- no, it's fine! No pressure!" Hoshiro gave Utsuho a pat on the head.

"I'm sure your memories are in there somewhere. It's all about connections, Okuu. You remembered the plant, so try thinking along those lines," Satori urged Utsuho, patting her on a different part of the head.

"Pot plant... Plant pot... Plant pot... Pot pot... Plant plant... That's it!" Utsuho gasped, her face lighting up. "The plant was struck by lightning!"

"Yes! Keep going, keep going!" Satori and Hoshiro egged her on.

"The lightning came from my foot!" Utsuho pressed a hand to her forehead and remembered as hard as she could. "It was... flowing through me, I think? Because I was channeling... No, redirecting it! It came from you, Hoshiro! Because you were trying to zap Lady Satori!"

"Yes, that's exactly what happened! I knew you could do it!" Satori cheered, clapping her hands.

Utsuho and Hoshiro squealed with joy and hugged each other, then Utsuho's face darkened.

"You were trying to zap Lady Satori?!" gasped Utsuho, recoiling as if Hoshiro was a dangerous breed of mongoose. "Why would you do something like that?!"

Hoshiro screwed her eyes shut and bowed deeply. "I- I boobed terribly! I thought she was abusing you, so I attacked her to save you. I was wrong about it, Okuu, and I'm sorry! Sorry to you too, Satori!"

Hoshiro looked up hopefully. "I want to try being your friend again! I also made a cake! So... Can you forgive me?"

"Cake...?" Utsuho bit her lip. "Ooh, that is a difficult decision to make. I don't know if I can trust you after what you did! Lady Satori, you were the one Hoshiro tried to kill..."

"That is true, but I sense no bad intentions from her now. While it wouldn't exactly help us lead a quiet life, if you're willing to give her a second chance, I will too."

"Uuuuu, way not to put pressure on me!" groaned Utsuho. She turned and regarded Hoshiro with painful mistrust. "Here's the thing, Hoshiro. One of the decision-making frameworks I incorporate into my personal threat model is that people, when faced with challenging situations, tend to behave as they previously have done under similar circumstances!"

Hoshiro blinked.

"As in, what if Lady Satori doesn't want me to do a thing again and you try to kill her again?!"

"I promise I won't!"

"Promises are just words, Hoshiro! Actions are what engender tangible effects on the world," said Utsuho sadly. "But I really want the cake! Oh, help! What should I do?!"

"The cake's yours, Okuu! It isn't a bribe," said Hoshiro. She reached into her messenger bag and pulled out a chocolate cake, crumbly and brown, as wide as a barrel and as tall as a teapot, bedecked with cherries and white icing spirals. The room shook when she plonked it down on the table.

Utsuho gasped and squealed with delight. "Hoshiro, that's so sweet of you!" So saying, she picked up the cake and skipped out of the room.

Hoshiro stood and waited, sharing an awkward silence with Satori.

"I clearly judged you much too harshly!" Utsuho said, returning a couple of minutes later with a knife and some small plates. "I thought you were just a bully, but you did me such a good turn with this cake! I think we should give you a second chance."

Hoshiro's heart leapt. "R- really?!" she gasped, her hands clasped in front of her face.

"Of course!" smiled Utsuho, cutting the cake.

"Then I do believe it's settled. For my part, I am glad Utsuho has friends willing to fight for her... Even if it's severely misdirected." Satori smiled.

"Yay!" Hoshiro ran forwards and hugged Satori, leaving her gasping for breath. Then she hugged Utsuho. "This is stupendous! Now we can have adventures together!"

"About adventures," said a muffled Utsuho with her cheek squashed against Hoshiro's, "I have an important question. Do you like nuclear physics?" Hoshiro blinked. "No. That's your thing."

"To each their own. What about boiled eggs?"

"They're fine."

"And picnics?"

"Well, um-"

"What about sculpting with clay?"

"I've never tried!"

"Hmmm..." Utsuho frowned. "We don't have much in common. What are we going to be friends about, Hoshiro? What'll we do together?"

"Resolve Incidents! Fight for truth and justice! Watch anime! Bake pies! Go on double dates if you're seeing anyone!"

"None of those sound-"

The door flew open. Rin charged into the room, gasping for breath. "It's an emergency," she panted, bent double with exhaustion. "A giant! There's a giant rampaging on the surface!"

Satori dropped her fork. "Giant?!"

Utsuho gasped. "Where?! What giant things is she doing?!"

"It- it was stomping around near the vents! Doing things... and stuff!" explained Rin.

Hoshiro's face lit up. She grabbed Utsuho's hand. "Come on, Okuu, we have to stop it!"

"No, if it's near the vents, I've got to protect the reactor!" Utsuho pulled away and ran out of the room.

"Th-then I'll protect it with you!" declared Hoshiro, running after her.

"Do you have to?! It's poky in there, we'll be stepping on each other's toes!" complained Utsuho.

Hoshiro stopped in her tracks. "But... Aren't we friends now?"

"Friendship is characterised by separate individuals who share a mutual affection! It doesn't mean we have to do everything together, and you would perform better fighting aboveground, where your high-energy magic techniques won't damage anything important!" shouted Utsuho, her voice growing quiet as she drew further away.

Hoshiro's shoulders sagged. "That sounded like a no. Was that a no?"

"Hoshiro. Do you mind if we have a word?"

Hoshiro turned to see Satori standing impassively behind her. "Speak, Satori," she said, only to cringe when she realised how that had sounded. "I- I mean, of course! Let's have it. The word."

"Why is it, exactly, that you're so determined to have Okuu as a friend?"

Hoshiro opened her mouth, closed it again and pondered the question, her brow creasing. "Because it makes sense? Okuu's nice and very strong!"

"But you have hardly anything in common," Satori reasoned. "Aside from your exuberance, open nature and occasional bouts of poor decision-making, you have no shared interests or commonalities. So what is it that draws you to her?"

"What do you mean? She's nice! She's cool and friendly. I like her. In general, not romantically."

Satori sighed. "I know that, of course; I can read your mind. What you aren't considering is how well the two of you can mesh together-"

The ground shook like a sieve, dropping Hoshiro onto the carpet in a painful supine position. Satori flumped down top of her with a yelp.

"The caves! Is it safe down here?!" gasped Hoshiro, sitting up against the wall with Satori dragging along with her legs.

"It should be. There have been thousands of earthquakes; most pieces of stone precarious enough to fall off the ceiling have already done so." Satori's forehead was pressed against Hoshiro's breastbone, her chin perched on her yin-yang belt buckle. "But if the giant's vibrations are powerful enough to reach us down here, I think you'd better do something about it."

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Rin met Hoshiro at the door with a large slice of cake wrapped in newspaper. Hoshiro stuffed the squashed package inside her bag, between her wellingtons (one beef, one rubber; the second boot had stayed at home) and her lucky Roll Caskett action figure.

"Thanks, Orin. Stay safe down here!" There was no time to lose, so Hoshiro spread her arms wide and teleported out of the cavern, leaving a shower of pink sparkles behind to make Rin sneeze.

Hoshiro flashed into existence above the Forest of Magic, her toes dangling in the patchy green canopy. She searched the surrounding countryside with darting eyes and gasped at what she saw.

A vast, towering shape stood next to Youkai Mountain, dark and broad-shouldered, rising like a skyscraper through the fog. Hoshiro couldn't make out any of their details, but only a giant could be so huge.

The giant turned with a powerful, measured slowness towards the mountain. Hoshiro watched, open-mouthed in amazement, as they leaned forwards and began to climb carefully upwards.

Didn't the tengu have a village on Youkai Mountain? What if the giant stepped on something?! Hoshiro had to stop them, but how? The giant didn't deserve a Ryujo Beam in the face; no, she should talk to them first. And to make sure they heard her...

"I must buy a megaphone!" Hoshiro turned and launched herself towards Kappa Valley. Three sonic booms shook the treetops as she accelerated overhead, her ponytail streaming out behind her.

After half a minute she stopped. What was she doing? She didn't need a megaphone, she could just shout very loudly! The mass of air Hoshiro had been dragging in her wake was now free to wash past her, rustling her sleeves and hair like a hurricane.

Hoshiro adjusted her sailor hat, wheeled around and shot back towards Youkai Mountain, where the grey slopes wreathed in fog and seemed almost lonely...

Peering ahead, Hoshiro wrinkled her nose. The mountain was still there, but with no giant. That was odd. At that size, they wouldn't have a lot of hiding places to choose from.

Maybe she could follow their tracks. Hoshiro flew down until her feet were brushing the treetops and soared over the gentle foothills, scanning for footprints and flattened trees.

Flashes of colour caught her eye on the forest floor. Hoshiro crashed down through the canopy and landed in a shower of leaves outside a tiny market stall.

"Hm?" A dark-haired woman in a pink kimono turned around, holding a shell-shaped purse. "Why, Hoshiro, how nice of you to drop in!"

"Kaguya! Good to see you!" declared Hoshiro. She noticed a woman standing beside her with soft white rabbit ears and a laden shopping bag. "That means you're Reisen."

Reisen blinked. "I suppose I am!"

A cat-eared woman with tousled white, red and orange hair was standing behind the stall, holding a receipt. "Hi there, tall, pink and statuesque!" she declared, smiling at Hoshiro. "I'm selling modern festival supplies from the Outside World. I've got inflatable rubber lanterns, ceremonial headgear, multicoloured shimenawa and even some sacred donkey statues...!"

Hoshiro took in the balloons, party hats, bunting and pinatas on display around the woman's stall. "Wow, colourful...! I'll take two rolls of bunting! I mean Outside World shimenawa!"

"Certainly! That'll be..." Mike sniffed the air. "Is that a beef wellington I can smell?"

Hoshiro unshouldered her bag and retrieved the beef wellington. "Here you are. It's gone cold, but still delicious!" she said, handing her foil-wrapped pastry parcel to Mike.

"Thank you!" Mike sequestered the package somewhere inside her stall, then turned to the shelves at the back and took down two heavy spools of bunting. "Here you are, two rolls, and I'll throw in a free balloon since it's beef."

"You're the best!" Hoshiro stuffed the rolled-up paper triangle strings into her bag.

Kaguya cleared her throat. "So... You haven't been around for a while, Hoshiro. Not since Eirin tried to run Witch Girl Adventures." She giggled. "And you got a little bit carried away...!"

"Don't remind me," said Hoshiro, accepting a purple balloon from Mike. It wasn't inflated, so she put it in her pocket. "I was emotionally invested in the plot."

"You ate the dice!"

"Don't remind me!" Hoshiro groaned, her cheeks reddening. "I couldn't just let Mr Hardcastle put us all in detention and have the baby chimera sent off to be dissected. A- anyway, I was going to say there's a real Incident, a giant near the mountain!"

"I know, we heard her stomping around," said Kaguya nonchalantly. "But as long as she doesn't come near the Bamboo Forest, Eirin's party should be all right."

"Par... Party?" Hoshiro parroted her in confusion.

"Eirin's birthday party! She's two hundred million, five hundred and seventy-six thousand, four hundred and thirty years young today," Kaguya explained.

"That's wonderful, but we need to stop the giant! Reisen, you can control sound waves!" Hoshiro grabbed Reisen's shoulders, making her flinch. "Your power could make the giant hear us! And Kaguya, with your abilities-"

"No, Hoshiro, I don't think you understand. We can't waste time with a giant today," said Kaguya patiently. "Eirin's party is much more important! It might be the most important social event of the year, aside from Hinamatsuri."

Hoshiro released Reisen's shoulders and appealed to her friend. "But Kaguya, the giant might step on the Tengu Village or knock Youkai Mountain's point off! The point could fall on Alice's house! It'd be disastrous!"

Kaguya sighed. "You have to understand, Eirin means the world to me. She's kind, strong, wise and beautiful, and she's done so much for me and countless other Lunarian exiles..." She placed a hand over her heart and continued, her voice wavering. "Eirin is a person for whom love and loyalty are practically a religion, and I'm the one to whom she pledged her soul!"

"I know what people say about me, Hoshiro!" Kaguya continued, fighting back tears. "That I'm the ultimate pillow princess, Eirin takes care of everything for me and I don't deserve even a tenth of her... And in some ways it's true, I couldn't manage a household or a hospital the way she does, but I can sure as bloomers organise a sparking party!"

"I... I didn't know. I can only dream of being loved that way!" Hoshiro swallowed and took Kaguya's hands. "Go to her, Kaguya-Hime, Eternal Princess of the Lunarians! Give Eirin the party she deserves!"

"I will, Hoshiro-Hime. I swear to it, Forever Champion of Gensokyo!" Kaguya wiped her eyes and put on a brave smile. "Let's go, Reisen. And don't squash the caterpillar cake!"

Kaguya turned and strode away with her bunny of burden in tow. Reisen sighed heavily, waved to Hoshiro and Mike, and then they were gone.

"Love is beautiful..." whimpered Hoshiro, dabbing her eyes with her lacy handkerchief. She sniffed a deep breath and sighed. "I wish she could've come, though. Don't suppose you want to fight a giant?"

Mike laughed nervously. "Not really my jam, but, um. I can sell you a peach and a needle!"

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Once she'd finished crying, Hoshiro took to the air once again and flew towards Youkai Mountain, soaring up over the foothills the little rivers streaking through them, always with an eye out for hidden giants. She ate her peach as she went, spilling juice onto the trees below, and stuffed the stone in her bag once she'd finished.

An icicle whizzed past Hoshiro's cheek. She gasped delightedly and flew down to where Cirno was locked in combat with Kyouko, a short way down the road from a painted wooden building.

"Cirno! Yoo-hoo!" Hoshiro called out, landing with a heavy thump in the grass verge. "You must be after the giant! What did Kyouko do?"

Kyouko scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Sure, don't ask for my side of the story! I'm just here to look pretty."

Cirno ignored Kyouko. "Oh, hi, Hoshiro! She was babbling a load of nonsense about a rock concert-"

"PUNK concert!" snapped Kyouko.

"-and she was in my way, so I went for her. Anyway, good thing you got here to help slay the giant!"

"Um, we should talk and find out what they want first!"

"Suit yourself," Cirno said with a nonchalant shrug. "But don't get in my way."

"Well, I'll try not to," Hoshiro said charitably. "Kyouko, are we finished?"

Kyouko turned her back on the two friends and flounced off down the road without another word.

"She's satisfied." Hoshiro smiled and turned back to Cirno. "Right! We must find the giant before they endanger anyone else, so let's look from the mountaintop and find out-"

"The mountaintop? You want to climb the mountain?!" Cirno cut in, looking shocked. "Hoshiro, you've forgotten the key principle of giants! They're tall! She'll see us if we're up high! We need to get the drop on her, so to avoid being seen..." Cirno tapped her nose, beaming with pride. "We'll sneak round the mountain. She'll never see it coming!"

"Sneak round the...?" Hoshiro blinked. "I don't get it. If we climb the mountain, we'll be able to see everywhere-"

"Noooo, if we do that she'll be able to see us from wherever she is!" Cirno explained patiently. "Don't worry, I've thought of everything. We'll go behind the mountain, very very very supremely slowly, and take the giant by surprise!"

"But how do you know she's- er, they're- How do you know the giant's behind the mountain?"

"Where else could she be? It's the only thing big enough for a giant to hide behind! I've never heard of a disappearing giant before."

"She could be underground, lying down, shrunk or even invisible!"

Cirno smacked her head. "Kynareth's leg hair! Do I have to explain everything all over again?!" She sighed heavily. "Giants are big! Mountains are big! So one big thing must be hiding behind the other! It's the only logical explanation."

"Who's Kynareth?" Hoshiro sighed. "Doesn't matter. Let's split up. You sneak around and I'll climb the mountain!"

Cirno pouted. "You're being very childish. If you had any brains under that sailor hat, you'd know my plan makes sense!"

"I'm being childish?!" Hoshiro puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. "If you convinced me, I'd gladly sneak around, but you haven't! So rather than arguing, let's both go our way and see what happens. What's childish about that?"

"Only wanting to do what you want is childish! If you wanted to do what I want, then you'd be showing some maturity," said Cirno severely. "And you have to be mature if you want to be my sidekick!"

"Well, maybe I don't want to be your sidekick!" Hoshiro snapped. "Go jump in a lake!"

Cirno gasped affrontedly. "I-! Everyone wants to be my sidekick! It's a privilege preciously few have earned."

"Aaargh! If you weren't a local girl, you'd be such a Mary-Sue!" Hoshiro stomped her foot in anger. "I DON'T want to be your sidekick and I don't have to! End of story."

Hoshiro turned and stormed away, wearing a ferocious scowl. If being pig-headed made you a Mary-Sue, Cirno was an entire Maribel-Crepe-Suzette. They could patch things up later, but at that moment she wanted nothing more to do with-

"Don't want to be... sidekick?" Hoshiro froze, looking like she'd been struck by lightning. "Oh, gods... Amaterasu, Konohana-Sakuyahime, Susano-o, Benzaiten, Raijin and Fuujin, help me!" She fell slowly to her knees among the clovers.

"Um," said Cirno. "Are you all right there?"

"Forever Champion Hoshiro Nijinazuma thinks Okuu needs rescuing from Satori, so she beats up Satori, takes Okuu on adventures and everything's perfect." Hoshiro stared off into the horizon, her voice rising from a whisper to a panicked squeak. "And Okuu, Cirno and Kaguya want to play with Hoshiro every day because that's how it works and everything's perfect, right?!"

Hoshiro put her head in her hands. "I'm a Cirno! I mean Cirno's an idiot! No, I'm the idiot! Cirno is me! EVERYONE is the main character of their own legend... And I've had my head up my caboose for years."

"Caboose?" Cirno tittered into her hand. "That means bum! Wow, what a performance!"

There was no response. Cirno bit her lip. "Um, hey, Hoshiro? Are you all right? You're being weird..."

"You just do your thing, don't you? Be the Strongest Fairy, say what you want and fight who you want. You don't worry about it. And some people love you!" Hoshiro laughed shakily. "But I'm not a fairy... Not a child forever."

Cirno shifted nervously. "I didn't know you were a candle... Do you want a drink? You sound like you need one."

"I wouldn't mind two glasses of something violently alcoholic," sighed Hoshiro. "Then I think... I might cut my hair and spend a week in Indonesia."

"I don't know about Indonesia, but they have booze at the pub in the Tengu Village or that shady dive bar-"

A long, low creak filled the air, then a colossal metal-clad foot swung over Cirno and Hoshiro's heads. At the end of a long step it ploughed through Sannyo's bar, kicking up a wave of splintered wood and torn paper, and finally touched down in her garden.

"Oooh... Maybe not the dive bar, then," said Cirno worriedly.

"The giant! Wh- why didn't we hear them coming?!" Hoshiro scrambled to her feet, staring up at the towering being above them. She was relieved they seemed to be wearing trousers.

As slowly and inexorably as a landslide, the giant wheeled around and started to climb the mountain, placing their armoured feet with care.

Cirno let out a gasp when she realised what was happening. "Of course! It's Daidarabotchi, he wants to weigh the mountain!" she squeaked, her eyes sparkling. "We have to stop him! Charge!"

"Wait! Was anyone in the bar?!"

"Don't think so!"

"Then..." Hoshiro watched Cirno sprint off in a long arc around the foot of the mountain. She shrugged wearily. "I'm going up! Good luck down there!" Her plans for a sightseeing tour in Jakarta already forgotten, Hoshiro posed awkwardly a few times and leapt into to the air.

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"You'll have to tell me sooner or later, Suwako. I'm only going to find out some other way if you don't." Kanako was storming up and down in front of the ornate Moriya Shrine kotatsu, a dangerous look on her face. "Now for pity's sake, tell me! What did you need twenty thousand tonnes of scrap metal for?!"

"I don't know what to tell you, Kanako, it's just a fun surprise! Stop worrying, it isn't good for your blood pressure," giggled Suwako. "Why don't you have some another broccoli samosa and maybe you'll calm down?"

"Aargh!" Kanako stomped her foot, shaking the entire room and launching the plate of samosas into the air.

"Whoopsie!" Suwako dove to catch the savoury Indian pastries in her mouth as they fell. She sat back on the floor to chew them, smiling happily.

"Of all the goddesses in all the world, you truly are..." Kanako exhaled in a manner somewhere between a sigh and a growl. Rain started drumming on the roof overhead. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this, you hear me? I'm going to-"

The door slid open. "You're never gonna believe this! The monster's a giant robot!" Sanae declared, shaking herself dry over the doormat.

Kanako blinked. "Ah, welcome back, Sanae. How did your search go? What's that you say, a giant robot? I thought you'd grown out of those."

The wind seemed to drop from Sanae's sails. "Wha-? No, I... Well, a bit, but I still like them, it's just that I'm doing a lot of new things."

Wearing a sheepish grimace, Suwako scampered out of the room with frog-like tread before anyone noticed.

"But does it matter what I'm 'into' right now?! There's a giant robot! Here! In Gensokyo! And the pilot's clearly drunk!" Sanae gushed, taking Kanako's hands. "You have to see it, Lady Kanako, Lady Suwak... Where'd she go?"

Kanako glared at the patch of floor where Suwako had been sitting. "I have no idea, but we're probably going to find out before the chapter ends..."

Sanae wasn't really listening. "It's really started pouring out there," she observed, slipping into her coat. "Are you planning a climactic battle?!"

"It's more that Suwako was driving me up the wall..."

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Hoshiro soared up Youkai Mountain, cliffs and crags streaking past as she ascended. Thick grey clouds were gathering overhead, spreading out from the mountain's peak, and a light rain soon began to fall. Up ahead she could see flashes of light, hear the creaking of metal and crumbling of stone.

She soon flew close enough to see the giant in all their glory. A titanic human-shaped being stood in front of the Tengu Village, towering over the winding rows of wooden houses and well-kept gardens, clad in black and gold plate armour. Tengu soldiers and Incident-Resolvers were swarming around them like a crowd of fireflies, pelting them with bullets to little effect.

The giant had red eyes that shone through the rain, the rest of their face hidden behind a smooth metal mask topped with crescent-shaped spikes. They held a morning star bigger than a lighthouse. Wisps of steam poured off their arms every time they swung at their attackers, who could only scatter like flecks of dust from its spikes.

Hoshiro sped towards them. "Everyone! I'm here to help!" she shouted, screeching to a halt where Alice and Patchouli were floating.

Alice heard her and turned around. "Oh, good morning! Miss Nijinazuma, wasn't it?" she shouted, ducking under a beam of red fire from the giant's eyes. "How nice of you to join us!"

"Any time!" It was hard to make details out with everyone in motion, but Hoshiro counted Aya, Nitori and about thirty more tengu in the swarm. "Do we know what the giant wants?!"

"Does that matter? She'll crush the city at this rate!" said Kasen, drawing in beside them. "Nice to see you, Hoshiro."

"Kasen! Er, do we know the giant's pronouns? I've been using they/them provisionally!" said Hoshiro.

"Really? Not even a month ago you were a she/her!"

"No, not me, the giant! Provisionally!"

"Oh, right. I must've assumed she was a woman, like normal people are," said Kasen.

"What we'd really need to do is ask them," said Patchouli. "But before we can manage that, it isn't unreasonable to use whichever pronouns seem most likely."

"You think so? Just assuming from how they look feels cheap," Hoshiro pointed out.

"Hence using she/her for such a huge, masculine-looking entity is subversive!" Kasen said triumphantly.

"And I'm sure that's fascinating from a sociological perspective, but can we please concentrate?!" snapped Alice.

Kasen stuck out her tongue. Hoshiro's gaze lingered on the tongue for a moment, admiring its healthy sheen and vibrant reddish-pink colour, then she heard the creak of heavy metal. The Incident-Resolvers scattered moments before the mace could plough through them.

"Point taken, Alice!" Hoshiro gathered multicoloured energy into a ball between her hands and took aim at the giant. "Nijinazuma: Seven Coloured Strike!"

Hoshiro cast a blindingly bright barrage of lightning. The giant recoiled in pain when the bolts crackled over their chestplate, then they turned to face Hoshiro and ignited their eyes.

Hoshiro went pale. She swung over one red eye beam and dove beneath the other, wincing as it singed her ponytail.

"I admire your spirit, but none of our attacks work on it!" Alice said urgently. "It's as if the monster's invulnerable! Magic just glances off its armour and no amount of force is enough."

"Not even lightning...?" Hoshiro looked at the giant and despaired. Their chestplate was a little charred, but otherwise they were completely fine and also coming right at her with a flying kick. "Yikes! Dive, you two!"

Alice, Patchouli and Hoshiro dove. The giant's foot passed by overhead, buffeting their clothes with the wind of its passage, and swung down. The giant's momentum carried them forwards, into the midst of village.

A chorus of screams rose from below, followed by a tremendous crash and a roar of breaking wood. The giant's foot had gone right through Megumu's house.

"Oh, gods, what are we doing?! Lead it away from the town! Lead it away!" screamed Aya.

The tengu had been evacuating as fast as they could, but the column of evacuees was still forming in the village. Panicking, weeping tengu were carrying children, pushing wagons and printing presses, trailing behind in the town square. The giant was off-balance. Their next step was going to come down right in top of the crowd.

Hoshiro's heart froze. Without another thought she shot towards the foot, braced her arms against the giant's boat-sized ankle and pushed upwards with all her strength.

The giant creaked and groaned angrily, putting their weight on their downgoing leg. Hoshiro's muscles began to ache from the effort, her soul burned from holding several thousand tonnes in the air.

"I choose to fight... For peace, for love... And children's precious smiles..." Hoshiro groaned. "To be a force for good... Protecting people from harm wherever they need me... The Forever Champion... Hoshiro Nijinazuma!"

Although those words set a light in her heart, Hoshiro's strength wasn't limitless. Her vision was going dark. She wavered in the air, sweat pouring down her face, and slowly began to fall.

"Don't give up, lady!"

On the edge of consciousness, Hoshiro heard a voice. The immense weight bearing down on her slackened.

"It's all right! We've got it!"

"No need to worry, the Strongest Fairy is here!"

All of a sudden, the weight felt bearable. Hoshiro opened her eyes and saw Kasen, Cirno, Aya, Kaguya, Eirin and some people she didn't recognise holding up the leg alongside her. There was a tengu in a purple chess-board skirt, a tall woman with blue hair and...

"Okuu!" yelped Hoshiro, almost dropping the giant's leg in shock. "W-weren't you looking after the reactor?!"

"I was!" said Utsuho, her voice strained with effort. "Then this blue fairy fell down the vent, so I had to carry her somewhere cooler before she melted!"

"I was winning," growled Cirno, her wings flapping in a blur as she pushed. "I was."

"So you must be the dragon I keep hearing about," said the woman with blue hair. She had the confident tones of a woman who thought she was a woman who was used to getting what she wanted. "I'm Kanako, goddess of the Moriya Shrine. I'd offer to shake your hand, but..."

"Don't worry about it! Let's focus on pushing!"

"Even with all of us, it's going to take some serious effort," the tengu in the chessboard skirt gravely.

"For once in your life you're right, Hatate," growled Aya. "Let's all push at once, on the count of three! One... Two... THREE!"

Drawing on their last reserves of strength, screaming with exertion, the women gave a tremendous shove. The giant whirled their arms helplessly as their leg ascended, then toppled backwards onto the mountainside with an almighty crash.

"We... We did it..." breathed Hoshiro. She smiled through ragged breaths. "We did it!"

"Banzai!" yelled Aya, punching the air.

"Kanpai!" agreed Utsuho.

"Most of our city is saved!" squealed Hatate.

"A fine afternoon's work, if I do say so myself," said Kanako, dusting her hands. "Oof!" she added, being abruptly hugged by Sanae.

"You were amazing! Wow, I wish I was that strong!" squealed Sanae, giving Kanako a squeeze.

Before Cirno could contribute anything, Hoshiro grabbed her up. "I knew you'd come through for us!" she laughed, whirling the ice fairy around in the air. "Wheeeee!"

Cirno laughed joyfully. "Just as well you softened him up for me!"

"You're incorrigible," sighed Hoshiro, putting Cirno down. "And Kaguya... You came after all!"

Kaguya nodded. "Eirin didn't think it was right to ignore something as big as this, no pun intended."

"Reisen's looking after the party at home. But I have to say, this is the most exciting birthday I've had in years!" said Eirin, her eyes sparkling.

"Good thing you came! And Kasen, you were amazing..." Hoshiro sighed. "I've had a strange day. I don't know where to start."

Kasen nodded sympathetically. "More character development? I know it's hard, but every step through the valley is a step forwards."

"Er, valley? I don't know that metaphor."

"Oh, of course. Well, if you picture a dark, overgrown valley between you and-"

Kasen's words were lost when a deep metallic roar sounded across the mountainside. A gasp rippled through the flock of hovering ladies as they turned around in horror.

Slowly but inexorably, the giant was rising again, their armour creaking and their eyes blazing with anger. In a burst of speed they twirled their mace and snapped into a martial arts stance.

"You're joking," groaned Kanako.

"So cool!" squealed Sanae, dancing around with glee.

"Not banzai," breathed Aya, shaking her head. "Not banzai at all."

The giant surged forwards, swiping at the Incident-Resolvers with their mace. The crowd scattered from the terrible weapon like a swarm of bees.

Aya got her balance and rotated Hatate into an upright position. "This isn't working! We aren't strong enough to slay a giant," she said gravely. "If every tengu on the mountain worked together to call a mighty wind, the dragon and the mountain goddesses too..."

"The giant'll be glad she didn't wear a skirt? This is beyond what wind can solve, Aya!" said Hatate.

"Then... What can we do?!" screamed Aya.

"We might have something."

Patchouli was hovering next to Aya with a book in her hands. All eyes turned to them.

"This giant is a fierce one, it's true, but if any of you had been paying attention you might have realised it is not a living creature. It is more like a doll, brought to a semblance of life by some strange magic. And with that in mind..." Patchouli turned to Alice. "Alice? I think it's time to use That."

Alice pursed her lips. "I was hoping you wouldn't say so, Patchouli. 'That' has hardly been tested yet in combat, and there is one small detail about her which... Perhaps you should see for yourself. We have nothing yet to lose."

Alice turned to the side and shouted. "Goliath Doll!" She put her fingers in her mouth and whistled. "Fweeeyooo-fweep! Goliath Doll, I call on you to face the armoured giant!"

For a few seconds, all was quiet, then a gust of wind blew over the mountaintop. A huge doll descended from above, shaking the ground beneath her immense buckle shoes. She carried two sharp swords, wore a flowy black and white dress and a floppy red bow, and barely came up to the armoured giant's ankles.

The giant peered down at Goliath Doll for ten whole seconds, then they burst out laughing, doubled over with their gauntlets over their chest. Goliath Doll folded her arms and sulked.

"The giant can laugh?" said Kasen.

"The doll's tiny! I mean, the huge kind of tiny!" squealed Sanae, her hands over her mouth. "I love her!"

"As you can see," said Alice heavily, "Goliath Doll is in a slightly lower weight category than that monstrosity."

"Stuff and nonsense," declared Patchouli. "You, with the log attached to your arm. You have power over nuclear fusion, correct?"

Utsuho blinked. "Er, yes, it's my speciality!"

"And you, the tall dragon. I believe you're able to produce lightning."

"Of course! Lightning made of rainbows!" said Hoshiro proudly.

Patchouli smiled. "Perfect. Between you, we should have all the energy we need to power a doll the size of a mountain!"

"Of a mountain?" Alice gasped. "Patchouli, you're planning to enlarge Goliath Doll?! I only built her with somewhat-huge materials, not extremely-huge materials! The stress of growing to the giant's size would tear her apart."

"Not if we had some way to preserve her body," said Patchouli, looking at Kaguya. "Such as by blessing it with the power of eternity. And to keep her cool, perhaps some ice?"

"Now you're speaking my area of expertise! But hang on..." Cirno's brow furrowed. "Eternity isn't here! Should someone go and get her?"

"The other kind of eternity, Cirno. The other kind," sighed Kaguya. "I do think it could work, though. It'll be just like Power Rangers!"

"You mean like Super Sentai!" Hoshiro could barely contain her excitement. Her gaze darted between Kaguya, Cirno and Utsuho. "It really needs to be us four?"

"It seems that way. What's wrong?" asked Patchouli.

Hoshiro smiled and shook her head. "I suppose it's a coincidence. Let's do this!"

Sakuya was kneeling on the gravel path in front of a sedentary Meiling, who was snoring softly with her back against the wall. Sakuya poked her on the shoulder, gently at first then with a little more force, and sighed when she got no response.

"Meiling's still asleep, then?"

Sakuya looked up and saw Remilia watching her from on top of the gate. "It certainly seems that way. I don't know why, but nothing I do can wake her! I can only assume she's having a very important dream."

Remilia was about to say something when a faint glow caught her eye. She looked up and saw a multicoloured column of whirling light tearing up into the sky from Youkai Mountain. "What's happening up there?" she muttered. "Sakuya, is there a festival on the mountain today?"

"I don't believe so, Milady. Unless some of Meiling's grandiose dream is bleeding out into the real world."

The light faded and the smoke drifted away to reveal a colossal warrior, her well-muscled body stretching up into the clouds like a skyscraper. Her dress had grown with the rest of her, now white and shimmering blue, and seven colours shone in her glass eyes.

Behind Goliath Doll were Alice, Hoshiro, Cirno, Kaguya and Utsuho, each holding a long piece of string that disappeared into the back of her neck. They blinked the last of the glare out of their eyes, looked down at the massive doll they'd wrought and celebrated.

"I... I did it! She's enormous! You're a genius, Patchouli!" squeaked Alice, clapping her hands.

"I know," smiled Patchouli, hovering at a safe distance with Sanae, Kanako and the journalists. "It isn't often I get to put theoretical magic into practice, so I should thank you for giving me the chance."

"And I should thank you."

A collective gasp arose from the ladies. The immense doll was looking back over her shoulder, a smile on her lips; lips which now worked as well as any human's.

"The magic you wove by coming together has given me new life. By your spirit, your fire, your ice and your eternity, I am born: defender of hopes and dreams, Hyperliath Marionette!" The doll turned to face the armoured giant, her smile disappearing. "Creature of steam and steel, born from ancient power... Leave this mountain and never again tread on tengu infrastructure!"

"A doll is to be your saviour?" The giant spoke in a voice like a shipping container clearing its throat. "This is what Gensokyo's artisans are reduced to, after bringing me into this world of violence and chaos?! You have no weapon!"

Kanako slapped a hand over her face. "The swords! I knew we'd forgotten to enlarge something..."

"I need no weapon to face you," said Marionette calmly, sliding into a karate stance. "Tell me now, giant... What are your pronouns?"

"He/him," the giant snarled, raising their- er, no, HIS morning star. "I am Hisoutensoku, created by the whim of an irresponsible goddess, given life by the will of the universe, given purpose by my own will. Have at you, puppet! Steel shall rend through cloth and porcelain as if they were wisps of cloud!"

There was nothing more to say. Hisoutensoku launched himself at Marionette. She charged out to meet him, jerking her five creators along by their strings. The sky shook when her fist met Hisoutensoku's mace.

Marionette pressed her attack, pummeling Hisoutensoku with swift, powerful strikes. His armour clanged as he beat back her blows, then he came at her with a vicious mace strike.

Stepping swiftly back, Marionette swapped limbs. She came at Hisoutensoku with a lightning-fast kick, her boot slamming into his stomach to sent him stumbling backwards.

Hisoutensoku growled and surged back into the fray, his mace blurring through the air. Marionette stumbled back from a barrage of devastating swipes that ripped at her dress.

As she ducked beneath a high blow, Marionette saw her chance. She spun around and threw a mighty kick at her enemy.

Hisoutensoku grabbed Marionette's leg. She gasped, but it was too late, and in a second she was crashing down on top of a plum orchard.

The five were nearly yanked out of their skin, barely managing to avoid a painful crash landing as the strings pulled them down. Hisoutensoku dropped his mace, flattening some trees and redirecting a small stream, and loomed over Marionette.

"I didn't know why I was born," Hisoutensoku growled. "I didn't know who or what I was! All I wanted was to get my bearings, but when I trod on one wooden box you attacked me! Cruel, arrogant youkai! Watch now as I turn your doll into scraps of cloth!"

"You are the cruel, arrogant youkai, Hisoutensoku..." groaned Marionette, glaring up at him through bleary eyes. "You don't see it, but people live inside those wooden boxes! To destroy them without another thought shows only your ignorance- AUGH!"

Hisoutensoku withdrew his knuckles from Marionette's now broken nose and readied himself to give her a few more.

"It wasn't enough..." Sprawled among fallen plums and broken branches, Alice stared up in horror. "My poor doll! He'll kill her!"

"We can't let that happen! Isn't there anything we can do?!" wailed Sanae, grabbing Kanako's sleeve.

"I- I don't know! I never played with dolls..."

Aya and Hatate flew up in front of Hisoutensoku with their maple leaves raised. "Don't count us out because we're small! Everyone, follow us! This is for Youkai Mountain!"

As one, Hatate and Aya unleashed a double-sided tornado that made Hisoutensoku shift his weight slightly.

"They're right! Come on, we may not be giant dolls brought to life by magic but we can still fight." Eirin pulled a glowing blue arrow from the air and readied her bow. "Medicine Sign: Great Galaxy in a Jar!"

Eirin's spell-card exploded forwards. The rest of the flock rallied behind her and the photographers, pelting Hisoutensoku with their attacks.

"Insects! You were fools to attack me," Hisoutensoku bellowed, hardly flinching as the bullets burst into sparks on his armour. "I never desired any of this! But if the only choices I have are to die or to purge you from existence, which do you expect me to choose?!"

Aya gave Hatate a worried look. "What's he on about now?"

"Yeah, when did we attack him? He was gonna trample the village!" Hatate pointed an accusing finger at Hisoutensoku. "You would've ruined thousands of people's lives! You already have! Doesn't that mean anything to you?!"

"You..." Hisoutensoku wavered. "They would only have done the same! Attacked as soon as they saw me without a second thought, like you did."

"We attacked you because you were stomping right towards our village, you idiot! People tend to react strongly to that kind of thing," said Aya severely.

"Well... That's too bad." Hisoutensoku sounded weary. "I'm afraid there can be no turning back now. This fight is to the end, whichever end that may be! You will flee if you have a teaspoon of common sense!"

Hisoutensoku swiped at his enemies, scattering them on the wind. Nitori screamed as the tip of a spike raked across her backpack, letting her tools and trinkets spill out in a rusty, clanking waterfall.

"You're nothing more than a bully!" Eirin spat, nocking another arrow. "I've known hundreds of people like you, Hisoutensoku. I wasn't afraid of Orochi or Tsukiyomi, and I won't run from you! Not with somebody I love behind me!"

"You probably don't understand, since you were born so recently. In a way I pity you," said Kasen, gathering pink fire between her hands. "But Incident-Resolvers fight for the ones we care about! Sitting at home, wanting not to be trodden on, or desperately recharging their giant dolls..." Her cheeks reddened. "A-anyway, Thunder Sign: Mukou's Phantasmal Shot!"

Slumped on Marionette's neck far below, Hoshiro felt a swelling in her heart. "Kasen...?" she breathed, sitting up straight. The fight up ahead looked like a fireworks display in an armour shop. "They're all fighting so bravely. We can't just give up!"

"But Marionette's spent, Hoshiro. What more can we do?" said Alice sadly. "Normally I could give one of my dolls a cup of tea, but where would we buy a big enough cup?!"

"Use this one!" Utsuho plucked a small china cup from her top pocket and forced it into Alice's hands.

"But- but we have no tea..."

"She's a doll! Just pretend!" screamed Kaguya. "I don't want this to be Eirin's last birthday."

"A- all right!" With a trembling hand and outstretched little finger, Alice held the cup to Marionette's humungous lips. "Drink up, Marionette. You're going to need your strength. We all need your strength!"

"Please," Cirno said through gritted teeth, "think of the humans! They worked so hard to build their little village!"

"Wrong village, Cirno! But please, think of the tengu!" Hoshiro corrected her. "Think of Kasen... So brave and beautiful..."

The ground shifted, then Marionette was rising to her feet, her creators tumbling down a rapidly tilting blouse. Gasping in shock, then crying out in triumph, they soared up around her hair and watched in awe.

"Not for glory. Not for power. Not for money." Her eyes aflame in all the colours of the rainbow, Marionette straightened up to stare Hisoutensoku down. "But in the name of love, I stand eternally!"

The flock of Incident-Resolvers cheered, and scrambled out of the way when they saw Marionette charge. She ploughed her shoulder into Hisoutensoku's metal stomach and threw him to the ground.

Sanae punched the air. "Way to go, Hyperliath! Knock his block off!"

Marionette aimed a kick at Hisoutensoku's head, but his arm came up in a flash and grabbed her calf. With eyes gleaming, Hisoutensoku stood up and threw her backwards.

This time Marionette spun through it, her boots dancing across the plateau. Hisoutensoku unleashed his eye rays and raked her with fire. She screamed and patted out her dress.

Hisoutensoku lunged forwards with a tremendous punch, but Marionette grabbed his fist in mid-haymaker. They struggled against each other, locked in combat, neither gaining the upper hand.

"They're evenly matched!" Utsuho stated the obvious.

Sanae gasped. "I've got it! Let's cheer Marionette on!" She took a deep breath. "Let's go, Marionette, all right! Do your best! Do your best! Don't lose, Marionette! Let's go! Let's go! Don't lose, Marionette-"

"Or!" Kanako cut in, grabbing her by the shoulders. "What if we did something practical, such as attacking Hisoutensoku? Wouldn't that be super-duper amazingly cool?!"

"That would've been my next suggestion," said Sanae sheepishly.

Kanako nodded. "Get him!" she roared, readying an onbashira.

Sanae flew around to join Hatate and Aya. They hurled a mighty wind at Hisoutensoku, blowing him sideways. Kanako and Patchouli threw fire and onbashiras at him from the other side. Tethered to Marionette, Alice and the others spell-carded him right in the face.

Under such a withering assault, no-one could come up smelling of roses, and Hisoutensoku soon wavered. Marionette threw him onto his back and immediately dove on top of him. She hoiked him up like a clothing manequinne, spun him around and slammed him into the ground with a deafening boom.

Hisoutensoku glared up at her. "Do it," he growled. "End me, you coward!"

"How's she a..." Cirno groaned, her eyes spinning. "How's she a coward?"

"I don't know!" said a dizzy Hoshiro. "I wish she'd spin less."

Marionette ignored them. She ignited a ball of light between her hands. "I am sorry it had to be this way, Hisoutensoku, but you can't be allowed to step on another village. Karakurium Beam!"

A ray of yellow plasma lanced out from her outstreched hands and splashed out over Hisoutensoku's chest. He screamed as its glow expanded into a nebula of fire, then he exploded.

Burning embers and glowing shards of metal rained down across the mountainside. When the light faded, all that was left of Hisoutensoku was a pile of blackened armour fragments.

Marionette solemnly lowered her hands. Her immense body vanished into a warm golden glow, leaving behind a familiar twelve-foot-tall doll. The strings that had tethered her disappeared into pink sparkles.

"Marionette... Are you all right?!" cried Alice, flying down to her side.

Marionette nodded. "I feel smaller, but-" She gasped, something she hadn't been able to do before. "Golly, I still have a working mouth!"

"That's wonderful!" Alice gave her a hug, barely managing to get both arms around her waist. "I never imagined that something like this could happen. And gods save me, I don't know how we did it!"

"Then perhaps I should get used to writing five Mothers' Day cards a year," giggled Marionette.

That remark seemed to open the floodgates. Cirno, Hoshiro, Kanako and everyone else came pouring down to congratulate Marionette, hug her and kiss her on the cheeks. Eirin and Kaguya shared a long embrace and agreed that it had been a birthday to remember.

It was a huge triumph, a shared triumph, and Hoshiro would normally have been on top of the world. Yet a small nagging concern called her away from the celebration, down to the smouldering pile of metal on the mountainside.

Hoshiro soon spotted a pair of booted feet sticking out from under a dented slab of metal. She lifted the metal and chucked it away, revealing a short, spiky-haired man, battered and unconscious.

"Hisoutensoku...?" Hoshiro squatted down and pressed the tip of his nose. "Are you awake? Who are you?"

The man blinked into awakeness, took one look at Hoshiro and rolled over. "What do you want? You've defeated me already!" he groaned.

"I thought it was you!" Hoshiro sat back, regarding him sympathetically. "What were you trying to do, Hisoutensoku?"

Hisoutensoku rolled back over to glower at her. "I woke up one morning and existed for no reason I could fathom. I decided to find a high vantage point to at least get the lay of the land, but you tiny people attacked me, so I fought back... Weren't you paying attention when I explained all this to your doll friend?!"

"Do you understand how much trouble you've caused? We aren't tiny, you were huge, and our normal-sized houses take weeks to build!" said Hoshiro severely. "That's why the tengu panicked when you came stomping towards their village."

Hisoutensoku sighed. "And what do you expect me to do about it?"

"Live differently! Make better choices! You're smaller now, so don't tread on mole hills or beehives," Hoshiro advised him. "If you help the villagers rebuild-"

"Help?! I ruined people's lives, apparently! What place is there for me in Gensokyo?!"

"Every vicious monster has a place in Gensokyo!" Hoshiro tenderly grasped his cheeks, making him flinch. "You made bad choices, but you can always make better ones, at any time! And I'm an expert bad choice maker, Hisoutensoku. I know what I'm talking about."

"What are you talking about?" Cirno touched down nearby, regarding Hisoutensoku with confusion. "Who's this? I've never seen her before."

"Him," Hoshiro corrected her. "He... Has a lot to answer for."

"Who has? What've you found?" asked Kasen, peering down at the stranger. She gasped. "Is that Hisoutensoku?! But he's so short!"

"Should we kill him?" said Cirno breezily.

Hoshiro shook her head. "He made huge mistakes, but he's a person. And he can have a second chance, right?"

"If he'll take it." Kasen smiled. "You should take it, Hisoutensoku. Don't turn your back on people."

Hisoutensoku shut his eyes and sighed. "Not even a week old and you expect me to reinvent myself. Where would I start?"

"Start here!" Hoshiro stood up and held out her hand. After a few seconds' thought, Hisoutensoku grasped it. Before he could change his mind, Hoshiro hoiked him onto her back and flew up to rejoin the other Incident-Resolvers.

"Everyone!" Hoshiro shouted, coming to a halt among them. "This is Hisoutensoku. He'll be joining us for drinks!"

[puppetmaster13u]

Y'know what would really increase the demon-child rumors about Damian in @phoenixcatch7 's Possessed Doll Au? His pet demon bat Goliath

[cappycapital]

Ref sheet for dingus

[doolallymagpie]

Took off Barbie Draper’s makeup and gave her a haircut, now…I look for clone trooper and Mando armor STLs and do some scaling experiments, because if I’m going the 3D printer route I’d like to only make one set of Goliath armor, and for it to be the one that fits

[unlimited-nobu-works]

i reinstalled gfl...

[munsster]

bedhead

A/N: I needed a sleepy boy on this sleepy day. and billy H needs a damn haircut >:) gif cred: @julie-thefatones

Pairings: Billy Hargrove x GN!Reader

Summary: Billy wakes with the desire to get rid of his hair eating away at him. 0.7k words

Warnings: fluff, minor angst, established relationship, implied night terrors, messy haircuts, anxiety/insomnia, scars, mentions of bullying

Everything Billy can touch is cold and dark. The sheets, the hard wood floor, the bathroom light switch, the porcelain counter. The water that pours from the faucet and the silver rings of the trimming scissors you keep in a soft plastic case in the cabinet below the sink. The only noise he can reasonably detect is the whirring of the ceiling fan. And if he listened carefully enough, paused his thundering heart for just a moment, he could hear your breath as it fans across your pillow.

But he came in here for a reason. Wielding the cold metal shears like Goliath and his sword. Marching into battle at six foot something, only to find himself in the mirror, damp with sweat and pale with insomnia. Deep purple cresting his edges and the thin crescents of skin beneath his baby blue eyes. Though the bathroom gives him a sickly green tint.

The first chunk of hair hits the floor with the faintest thud. So faint, it shouldn't be classified as a thud. But it's more the weight of the change than the handful of dark gold curls itself.

He's lopsided now. Now there's no turning back. But he couldn't proceed forward with any strength and confidence looking how he's looked for years. How he looked beating up his friends and calling girls sluts. How he looked on the verge of death.

Billy used to wear his head of sun kissed, West Coast hair like a helmet. Now it feels like a burden. You'd still fawn over him if he buzzed it all off. You'd call him stupid, sure, but he'd still be yours. And right now, that's all he's concerned with being.

Because you peer into the bathroom and coo his name like you don't see the growing pile of hair writhing around on the floor.

"Hi, baby," you whisper, cradling the scissors when he drops them into your hands, "little early for a haircut, isn't it?"

He shrugs, but he doesn't look at you. Like a child guilty of putting a piece of gum in his sister's hair. Only he's the one with the choppy locks, uneven chunks missing by his ears and the back of his head.

"Want help?"

Oh, and there are those baby blues, surrounded by soft pink sclera and nearly drooping from their sweetened places above his flushed cheeks.

Billy straddles the toilet lid backwards, arms crossed and settled on the ledge. He lets you turn his head side to side, up and down, and the pattern becomes soothing. Especially as the extra weight accumulates below his socked feet and over his sloped shoulders.

He thinks he must’ve passed out to the sound of the clippers, because he wakes with a tap on his shoulder. Your manicured pointer on his warm midnight skin rousing him from a dreamless sleep.

“Hmm?”

“All done,” you whisper, kissing his temple when he turns his head, “come look.”

Billy’s fingers feel heavy as he drops them between yours. You can hear the exhaustion in how he slumps to a stop in front of the mirror. He takes his time, a few deep breaths, and a while to admire the cropped cut. The way he hasn’t looked in years. It’s refreshing.

“You look really handsome, Billy. Was about time for a trim.” There’s a lilt in your voice that’s hard to take. It lightens his chest, straightens his shoulders, widens his tired eyes. Because there’s this sort of mischief clear on your face from where you stand behind his shoulder. He can feel it through the mirror. Intoxicating and delicious. Makes him feel beautiful as if he ever has before.

Billy whips around and twists his arms tight around you, collapsing into your embrace like a lovely paper doll. The room is cool like a nice glass of water. Even with the sun hinting at the morning and cars whizzing by down below, the light blue of five AM settles over him like a blanket.

You run your fingers up the exposed back of his neck, and he groans. The hair is short there, his neck is hot, his teeth sink into your shoulder playfully.

“Back to bed.”

He nods and does not let go, just waddles you to the bed, tucking the both of you back under the duvet with a big sigh.

masterlist

[return-of-a-space-cowboy]

🧚‍♀️ Anon

Coraline AU 🪡

Dio as Darling’s Husband

Johnathan as Darling’s Other Husband (It makes JoJo SO much scarier because he’s so sweet, kind, caring and loving that you don’t realize the predator he really is)

Johnathan is actually just lonely and hates what he has to do (So he devours villainous and evil individuals to ease his guilty mind)

JoJo’s true form wouldn’t be thin, instead he would be more muscular and bulky (Like a Goliath Bird Eater) with his even more massive height (He’s so big that he has a bit of a hard time squeezing through the ‘narrow’ *NORMAL* doors and his head will hit the Door Frame unless he lowers his head)

OR

Dio as the Other Husband

I haven’t read the book but I read somewhere that the Beldam had a Mother and she buried her in her backyard, and when she tried to crawl out, the Bedlam put her back in her grave, so I can picture Dio doing that to his father (But he grew tried of it so he killed him)

Dio is trying to Woo Darling into accepting him, but she’s too uncomfortable and feels creeped out that she doesn’t fall for his tricks

Darling doesn’t need an Other Husband when she has her beloved Johnathan (As he’s always been her sweet, gentle giant)

But what if after entering the door, she comes back every time she falls asleep? (And she can’t control it, but it started happening when she found that doll that looks exactly like her)

Because of it she thinks everything is a dream (But finds it weird and concerning that Jonathan is nowhere in sight)

Dio becomes frustrated as he’s never had prey like Darling before, as many women would swoon and fall to his feet for his affection (As he eats their lives up to sustain himself)

Darling becomes scared however when Dio tried to convince her to let him sew buttons in her eyes (And when she tried to stand up to him his appearance became more monstrous as his temper began to spike)

Darling finds the door and uses it to escape, only to her horror find out she’s been gone for days and Johnathan has been missing

She was horrified to find a doll of JoJo and figured out Dio took him so she must return to save her Husband

But here’s the twist, she thinks she sees JoJo when she returns to that world as she runs into his familiar arms and comforting smell, only to her horror to see Dio had attached his head to Johnathan’s body? (As he traps his Butterfly within his web with no chance of escape)

Sorry for the constant splurge, I’m currently haunted JJBA and it won’t leave me alone!

Oh boy! I've got news for you if you didn't already know. I've actually done this au before quite a few years ago. Only it was part 5 centric.

I love the idea of beldam Jonathan just being alone and clingy.

But the whole dio head on Jonathan's body at the end is just mmm... spicy.

For Jonathan I can imagine that reader isn't in a good environment, abusive even. Darling doesn't really know how to deal with their situation. That little door is their only escape and for a time that's all they need but something happens in the real world that pulls them away, something good and Jonathan noticed their distance. He tries to lul them back in but doesn't work.

So eventually Jonathan resorts to taking those who darling lives with. Perhaps there is one person he takes that wasn't abusive to darling and that leads them to try and save them.

For Dio I like the idea of darling thinking it's a dream. Darling is very distant to him despite everything he tries.

When they escape at first they think that Jonathan is at work or is out trying to look for them so they try to call him but he doesn't respond, which is strange as he usually drops everything when it has anything to do with them.

They go around asking neighbors and they tell darling he'd knocked on their door a couple of days earlier asking if they knew where darling was, they didn't and he told them he was going to go into town and file a police report. But he never ended up leaving the house after he went back in to grab the keys.

Darling goes back inside and eventually finds the doll and knows immediately what's happened.

They go back through the door and sees Jonathan standing in the kitchen (they can't see his head behind those damn archways, he'd always hit his head on them and were planning to have them removed during renovations).

They immediately run towards him and wrap their hands around him.

"Oh thank goodness you're safe" they'd say.

"Of course I'm safe, you'd think something would happen to me?" Dios voice would speak and That's when they'd look up and see what horrible form of frankensteining has happened to their husband.

[strqyr]

Hi question about a litter thing I've noticed as a reasoning for the tai has always been a terrible parent, and wanted to get your opinions on ot

People tend to use the line in v4 where tai uses the lose of braincells/arm comparison he uses towards yang within the argument he has with yang and how the comment visibly shows to hurt yang.

I myself feel a bit icky about the comment itself, but I always looked at as a spure of the moment comment something tai didn't really mean but accidentally let slip during the minor confrontation, as I have had moments myself like that with my own mother where we've been arguing and she's said something hurtful without meaning too, she alwasy apolgised for it later.

Anyway, tangent aside, what are your opinions? (You don't have to answer if you dont want too)

to me, it's just how this family speaks; not pulling any punches or speaking like they're professional therapists. it's hardly any different to yang's "yikes! meltdown already?", or qrow's "so either you're lying or you're crazy" while smirking, or ruby playfully mocking how "dumb" yang sounds in terms of sensitiveness.

i honestly don't even think the comment hurt yang bc... that's not what her face conveys—and if it had, i'd expect the writers to have addressed it in the moment as yang is not one to hide her emotions. there's just shock which then fairly quickly turns into a smile and laughter, yang playfully punching tai (like she did ruby in beyond) and calling him a jerk, tai joining her in laughter.

and when oobleck whispers "are we finally talking about the goliath in the room?", yang and tai dumbfoundedly look at each other before bursting into laughter again.

it's "breaking the ice" moment. everyone keeps talking about yang getting back to normal, but she has a new normal now; there's no going back to the old, and change like that is always scary. it's also much, much scarier when no one seems to be willing to talk about, walking on eggshells around her like, waiting for the "right" time to talk about "the goliath in the room."

there's a wall between yang and everyone else, and tai's comment breaks right through it like a sledgehammer. more importantly, it gets yang to laugh again. after who knows how many months—winter has certainly come and gone—, yang is laughing when her first scene in the volume made it seem like a thing in a far, far future.

could the topic have been approached in different way? sure. but you gotta also remember that yang doesn't like to be coddled, treated like she's some fragile thing about to break at any moment. and considering her reaction to the prosthetic arm, i doubt she would have brought it up herself; oobleck and port certainly wouldn't have, treating it as the goliath in the room.

so what you could have very easily ended up with is the situation getting nowhere; yang with a new normal that no one else is willing to acknowledge. yet, with one single comment, tai brings the old normal—as per the way this family talks to each other—to the new, and it opens the floor for further conversation.

frankly, it's one of the main things i love about this very fictional, "no real feelings were hurt" family: they're very, very blunt at times. there's no therapy speak that makes them sound like wooden dolls, they feel real; the kind that's saying the first thing that comes to mind, no filter, giving and receiving punches in same amount.

[reigningqueenofwords]

Honesty

Pairing: Steve x Reader, Bucky x daughter!Reader

Part 25 of Looking for the Captain

Your morning with Nat went so well. At first, you kept looking over your shoulder, though. She understood, and would let you slowly remember that it was over. It took a bit, but after a bit you were less jumpy. After the two of you got breakfast, you went to get a new phone (as yours had been blown up), a new phone case, and then opted for some retail therapy.

“Oh, that’s a cute store.” You pointed about ten minutes after you left the phone store. “Have you ever been there?” 

She shook her head. “No. I usually order my stuff online, or go to some upscale place when we have events.” She shrugged. “Let’s go check it out.” None of the people taking her picture seemed to be bothering her at all, and you hoped to one day reach that level of unbothered. It was beautiful. 

Opening the door, you held it open for her before stepping in behind her. “It’s even cuter inside.” You gushed. “I may have a new favorite store.” Your eyes drifted to the baby section for a split second before the two of you made your way to the women’s section. “Not that I need an excuse for new clothes, this is a good excuse to replace my clothes that I’d brought to the cabin.” You chuckled, starting to look at the shirts. “I should surprise dad by ordering the games he bought while we were there. So we can play them at the tower, too. We had a lot of fun.”

“That’s true.” She nodded. “That would be fun. I’m trying to picture him playing a board game, and it’s hard.” 

“He’s a sore loser.” You laughed. “He asked if I was a mean little shit playing Candy Land as a kid. Told him that was Chutes and Ladders.” At least you’d have those fond memories of the cabin, even if it was gone. 

Nat laughed, holding up a dress. “I think you’d look cute in this.” She noted. 

“Oh, Rogers, you are in for a treat!” Nat announced as the two of you got back to the tower and saw Steve waiting. You blushed lightly, but she just grinned. “A few little new bits that fit in a tiny bag, and a couple new dresses.” 

“Gross.” Bucky made a face from the side, where you hadn’t even noticed him. 

She snorted. “Maybe make yourself known next time, Barnes.” She shrugged, clearly unbothered. Turning to you, she gave you a side hug. “We need to do this again soon. I had a lot of fun.” 

You hugged her back easily. “Of course. I’d really like that.” There was something about her that screamed ‘older sister’ or ‘fun aunt’ that was a comfort for you. “Maybe one of these nights we can have a spa sleepover with Wanda.” 

“Yes! I’ll start planning and buying.” She gave the guys a wave before heading towards the elevator. 

“I’m glad you had fun, doll.” Steve told you, taking your bags. “How was your bagel?” 

“So good! I’m gonna have to go back tomorrow for another.” You chuckled. “Oh, I also got a new phone.” As you told him, you pulled it out to show him. “I’m so glad I had backed up my iCloud yesterday morning, so I didn’t really lose any pictures.” It would have sucked because you had some super cute ones of Steve and Goliath on there. “How was the tower?” 

“Good. Took Goliath for a walk. He’s passed out in the lab at Bruce’s feet.” He chuckled. “What sounds good for lunch? Figured we can order and eat on my floor. Maybe the three of us can watch a movie?” He glanced at Bucky, wondering how things would go once he found out the truth. 

You thought for a moment. “How does Chinese sound? We couldn’t get that at the cabin.” Which meant it had been too long since you’d had any. “That okay, dad?” You asked, looping him into the conversation. 

“Sure, kid.” He agreed easily. “We can order it after we drop your bags off in your room.” A small part of him was worried that now that the three of you were back in the tower…your bonding would slow down or stall. 

As the elevator rose, you got excited. “Oh, maybe a couple times a week we can order lunch and then watch a movie?” You looked between them, truly hoping you could do that. “We can all take turns picking the movie?”

Steve loved how excited you looked at the idea. “Of course. I can agree to that. Maybe we can show her some movies from our time, Buck.” He glanced at him, getting excited himself. 

Bucky chuckled at the looks on your faces. “Like you won’t choose movies you’ve heard Y/N mention.” He teased. “But, I would like that, too.” It would be something to always look forward to. 

“Yay!” You clapped. “This will be so much fun.” 

The guys shared an amused look. 

You, Steve, and Bucky were sitting around the table when you took a deep breath. You’d just sat down with your food and didn’t want to put it off anymore. “So…” You started. “I’m pregnant.” 

Bucky froze while Steve glanced at him. “You did look at the test?” He asked. 

Sighing, you shook your head and explained the same thing to him that you did with Steve. “I’ll be moving my things to his floor, too.” You added. 

Bucky clenched his jaw. “There’s more.” Steve told him, earning a death glare from him. 

“Of fucking coarse there is. You better not be telling you’re getting married, too!” He snapped, shocking you. 

“That hadn’t even crossed my mind…” You told him calmly, your cheeks a light pink color. 

Steve shook his head. “Nope. Not that.” He assured him. “I wanted to ask you to take over the role of Captain America.” His tone was calm, but you could tell he was nervous.

“You…what?!” He wasn’t sure that he’d heard him right. “You’re stepping down? And you want me to take over?” His eyes went between the two of you, then landed on you. “Did you suggest this?” His tone wasn’t exactly ‘angry’, but you couldn’t tell much beyond that. 

You shook your head. “No, I didn’t. Well, not entirely. He mentioned you wanting him to step down, and he thinks the world needs Captain America. I asked if he could pass on the shield, but pass it to someone less ‘perfect’ to the public eye. I asked if anyone came to mind. His first answer was you.” Would that mean a lot to him? Or would this somehow upset him?

Bucky blinked, taking your words in. Despite his past, and not even being in contact with Steve for years…he wanted him to take over as Captain America? “Why me?” He asked Steve quietly. 

Steve gave him a soft smile. “Why not you?” He countered, and you felt that spoke volumes. “If you say ‘no’, I won’t be mad. I promise.” He assured him. “But, can you think about it?” 

“Yeah, sure.” He nodded. “So, you’re stepping down for the baby?” 

“I am. I don’t know what my next step will be, though.” He said truthfully. “I think I’ll think more about that once I know who I’m passing the shield to.” It made the most sense to get that out of the way first. “I’ll look more into my options once that’s done.” It wasn’t like he would just quit being Captain America and not find some other way to support his little family. 

He let out a breath and sat back in his chair. “This will take some time for me to wrap my head around.” He told you. “I’m sorry I’m not excited or rushing to celebrate.” 

You shrugged a shoulder and gave him a sad smile. “I cried.” There was no use lying. “I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.” It was a huge deal. “I thought about all my options already, and I’m still grasping that I’ll have a tiny human.” It probably wouldn’t truly sink in until you saw it on the first ultrasound. “I’m telling the others over dinner.” 

“You don’t have to rush to tell them.” Bucky didn’t want you telling people before you felt ready. 

“Tony is planning a party for tonight. He knows me, and knows I would love to party. There’s no way to get around telling them.” You pointed out. “I have to be honest.” Picking up an egg roll, you took a bite. 

He looked down, then met Steve’s gaze. “Doll…” He started, and the tone of his voice was a sad one. “We need to be honest, too.” 

You looked between the pair of them, noting how the light in their eyes was dimmer than usual. “What’s going on?” There was no way you could begin to guess what they had to tell you. 

Bucky cleared his throat before speaking up. “Your mom didn’t make it when we attacked the base.” He told you, watching how his words hit you. “I’m sorry.” 

“D-did you kill her?” Would that make this worse? Better? 

“No. An explosion did.” He explained. “We didn’t know until we were sweeping for stragglers. I found her.” While he hadn’t seen her face to face since you were born, it had hit  him. His daughter’s mother was dead, and he had to be the one to tell you. “I asked the others not to tell you anything. I wanted to be the one to tell you.” 

Tearing up, you blinked your eyes quickly. “Uh, wow.” You sniffed. “Can you just pack my food up? I think I’d like to go be alone. I’ll see you guys at dinner.” Getting up, you patted your leg for Goliath to follow you. 

Neither man knew what to say and let you go.

Tagging:

@vicmc624 @hisredheadedgoddess28 @otterlycanadian

[comfort-clubhouse]

NEW Comfort Characters List!!!

Oggy and Olivia (Oggy and The Cockroaches)

Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Shy, Little Miss Tiny, Little Miss Splendid, Little Miss Dotty and Little Miss Hug (Little Miss)

Mr Happy, Mr Nonsense and Mr Impossible (Mr Men)

Mr Quiet, Mr Scatterbrain, Mr Funny and Little Miss Giggles (Mr Men Show)

Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, Keroppi, Chococat, Gudetama, Fifi, Mimmy White, Mama White, Papa White, Grandma White, Grandpa White, and Julianna Scott (Sanrio)

My Melody, Kuromi and My Sweet Piano (Sanrio and Onegai My Melody)

Pusheen (Pusheen the Cat)

Shirousa, Kurousa, Strawberryusa, Blueberryusa, Momousa, Vanilla, Aousa, Pandausa, Balletusa and Primausa (Sugarbunnies)

Miffy (Miffy)

ENA (ENA Season 1 and Dream BBQ)

Moony, Hourglass Dogs and Shepherd (ENA)

Humf, Humf's Parents, Uncle Hairy and Flora (Humf)

SCP-049 SCP-999, SCP-131 and SCP-053 (SCP)

Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Tabi, Carol, Sunday, Hex, QT, Nikusa, Solazar, Annie, Garcello, Rascal, Chris, Sarvente, Ruv, Selever, Rasazy, Pom Pom, Ash, Cassette Girl, Dr Springheel and Nikku (Friday Night Funkin)

Boy and Girl (Friday Night Funkin - Twinsomnia)

Tankman (Tankmen)

Soft Boyfriend and Soft Mouse (Friday Night Funkin - Soft)

Shinto (Friday Night Funkin - Lullaby)

Skid, Pump, Lila, Jaune, Robert, John, Streber and Bob Velseb (Spooky Month)

Hat Kid and Snatcher (A Hat In Time)

Taki (Friday Night Fever)

Charlie Dompler and Pim Pimling (Smiling Friends)

Lazlo, Edward and Gretchen (Camp Lazlo)

SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks, Gary, Plankton, Mindy, Mr Krabs and Karen Plankton (SpongeBob)

Mario (Mario and DIC Cartoon)

Luigi (Mario, DIC Cartoon and Super Mario Movie)

Yoshi (Mario and Super Mario World Cartoon)

Peach, Daisy, Wario, Bowser Jr, Boo, King Boo, Rosalina and Luma (Mario)

Bowser (Mario and Super Mario Movie)

Count Bleck and Tippi (Super Paper Mario)

Lumalee and Giuseppe (Super Mario Movie)

Bow and Watt (Paper Mario)

Koops (Paper Mario and The Thousand Year Door)

Polterpup (Luigi's Mansion)

Hellen Gravelly and Morty (Luigi's Mansion 3)

Rabbid Rosalina (Mario + Rabbids)

King Koopa (Mario DIC Cartoon)

Oogtar (Super Mario World Cartoon)

Sonic and Tails (Sonic, Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic Movie)

Amy Rose, Dr Eggman, Cream, Cheese, Chao, Orbot, Cubot, Vanilla, Vector and Chip (Sonic)

Sage (Sonic Forces)

Zazz and Zavok (Sonic Lost World)

Tails Doll (Sonic R)

Knuckles, Tom Wachowski, Maddie Wachowski and Dr Robotnik (Sonic Movie)

Wes Weasley (Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog)

Po and Laa-Laa (Teletubbies)

Snorky and Fleegle (Banana Splits)

Rilakkuma (Rilakkuma)

Donutella (Donutella)

Captain N and Simon Belmont (Captain N the Game Master)

Rayman (Rayman and Animated Series)

Rayman/Ramon (Captain Laserhawk)

Globox, Grand Minimus and Ales Mansay (Rayman)

Betina and Flips (Rayman the Animated Series)

Red Guy, Duck Guy, Sketchbook, Colin, Lesley, Electracey and Bread Mother (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)

Postman Pat and Jess (Postman Pat)

Fifi Forget-Me-Not (Fifi and the Flowertots)

Spud and Lofty (Bob The Builder)

Numbuh 3, Numbuh 5, Father, Monty Uno, Mushi Sanban, Maurice, Delightful Children from Down the Lane and Interesting Twins from Beneath the Mountain (Kids Next Door)

Bambi, Thumper and Faline (Disney's Bambi)

505, White Hat, Demencia and Black Hat (Villainous)

Goliath (Gargoyles)

Chudd Chudders, The Earl, T-Bone and DangerGrid Of Doom (Skatoony)

Kirby, Meta Knight, Ribbon and Elflin (Kirby)

Tootie and Plex (Yo Gabba Gabba)

Mio and Mao (Mio Mao)

Luz Noceda, Eda Clawthorne, Willow Park, King, Raine Whispers, Collector, Emperor Belos and Lilith Clawthorne (Owl House)

Anne Boonchuy, Marcy Wu/Darcy, Sasha Waybright, Sprig Plantar, King Andrias, Lady Olivia and Hop Pop Plantar (Amphibia)

Grim Reaper and Jack O Lantern (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Ortensia the Cat (Disney)

Mugman, Devil, Baroness Von Bon Bon, Sally Stageplay, Ms Chalice and King Dice (Cuphead Show)

MX (Mario 85 and Mario's Madness)

Lucas (Mario 85 and Mario's Monday Night Massacre)

Mario.EXE, Coronation Day Peach and GB (Mario's Madness)

Pac-Man and Inky (Pac-Man)

Gingerbread Man/Gingy (Shrek)

Matt, Tord, Edd, Tom, Eduardo, Zanta Claws and Ringo (Eddsworld)

Matilda (Ellsworld)

Pocoyo and Nina (Pocoyo)

Lord X, Curse of X, Hog, NormalCD and Majin Sonic (VS Sonic.EXE)

Mao Mao, Adorabat and Badgerclops (Mao Mao - Heroes of Pure Heart)

Edd/Double D and Nazz (Ed, Edd n Eddy)

Dawko, CookieSwirlC, Jaiden Animations, RRcherrypie, RME Music Channel, Kristers Viļums, Janet HQ, FrozenPhantom, Blazeplayz/All mighty hobo, king of creepypasta, NashiroThePenguin, 🌸..POKE_TV..🌸, []Kiara cutie❤️[], Fluffle Puff, Añćä, SMG4, Xx_Amanda_xX, SSGSS Marioftw, WiiLikeToPlay, Kitty Ashley, Marciplier, .anormalhuman, Jay productions, °•[PDC_FOREVER]•°, °Just_an_autistic_idiot°, DAGAMES, CG5, CK9C, PR!NC3 P!lLL, VanossGaming, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, jacknjellify, AnimationEpic, Katie Ryan, Welp I'm Spooky, Rosanna Pansino, Or30, WolfyChu, SweetoToons, atsuover, Nicky Tate, Sr Pelo, VanillaHamHam, PedramDoesStuff, mashed, Ashley Nichols Art, Emirichu, GinjaNinjaOwO, ☆ShadowsFluffyChestFur☆, So Yummy, ThAt1!FnFfan, .ImSea, Knight, Sonrio the Hedgehog and king_dice3245 the hedgehog (YouTubers)

Robert Englund, Charles Martinet, Wendie Malick, Frank Welker, Keith David, Makiko Ohmoto, Kevin Michael Richardson, Clancy Brown, Jeffrey Combs, Tara Strong, Grey DeLisle, Michael Rosen Marty Grabstein, Jason Alexander, Mark Hamill, Greg Eagles, Mel Winkler, Tom Kenny, Joey D'Auria, Richard Horvitz, Lex Lang, Elsie Lovelock, Harry Hill, Susan Sheridan, Paul Schoeffler, Bill Nye, Justin Fletcher, Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Marc Thompson, Brandon Rogers, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried and Brendan Blaber (Celebrities)

Wanda and Dark Laser (Fairly Oddparents)

Penny Ling (Littlest Pet Shop Series)

Sayori and Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Gabriel (Ultrakill)

Raiden (Metal Gear Rising)

Garfield and Odie (Garfield)

Sam and Max (Sam & Max)

Spot (Spot The Dog)

Woolly and Tig (Woolly and Tig)

Raiden, Sub Zero and Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)

Francis (Felidae)

Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Katz, Courage, Le Quack, Freaky Fred, Muriel Bagge, Computer, Bunny, Kitty and Black Puddle Queen (Courage The Cowardly Dog)

Bubbles and HIM (Powerpuff Girls)

Share Bear and Wish Bear (Care Bears)

Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

Zim (Invader Zim)

Komi Shouko, Najimi Osana, Komi Shuuko and Tadano Hitohito (Komi Can't Communicate)

Emily and Percy (Thomas the Tank Engine - Model)

Sunflower (Plants Vs Zombies)

Slappy (Goosebumps)

Lost Silver and Strangled Red (Friday Night Funkin - Lullaby)

Misfortune (Little Misfortune)

Hypno (Pokémon and Friday Night Funkin - Lullaby)

Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Darkrai, Mew, Buneary, Celebi, Jirachi, Riolu, Lucario, Manaphy, Latios, Latias, Piplup, Dwebble, Diancie, Wynaut, Togepi, Zorua, Minccino, Cinccino, Pawmi, Axew, Emolga, Chikorita, Torchic, Cosmog, Pachirisu, Komala, Ralts, Mudkip, Eevee, Sylveon, Altaria, Swablu, Quaxly, Misdreavus, Gengar, Audino, Iris, Alice, Alicia and Bianca (Pokémon)

Wall-E, EVE and M-O (Wall-E)

Six (Little Nightmares)

Maleficent (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)

Jaq and Gus (Disney's Cinderella - 1990s)

Pomni, Ragatha, Gangle, Jax and Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)

The Cat (Coraline)

Optimus Prime (Transformers)

N and Cyn (Murder Drones)

Gizmo (Gremlins)

Charlie Morningstar, Angel Dust, Alastor, Nifty, Lucifer Morningstar, Rosie, Fat Nuggets, Husk, Keekee, Emily, Zestial and Velvette (Hazbin Hotel)

Blitzø, Moxxie, Millie, Stolas, Asmodeus, Fizzarolli, Paimon, Collin, Queen Bee-Zlebub, Vortex, Octavia, Oliver and Loona (Helluva Boss)

Frost Queen Cookie, Clover Cookie and Espresso Cookie, Onion Cookie, Squid Ink Cookie, Cream Puff Cookie and Parfait Cookie, Strawberry Crepe Cookie and Cherry Blossom Cookie (Cookie Run - Kingdom)

Scar and Lex Woods (Alien Vs Predator)

Giulia Marcovaldo and Luca Paguro (Luca)

Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado and Zenitsu Agatsuma (Demon Slayer)

XR, NOS-4-A2, Zurg, and Ty Parsec (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)

Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Mr Potato Head and Mrs Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Buttercup, Dolly, Trixie, Bonnie Anderson, Bunny and Ducky (Toy Story)

Little Green Men (Toy Story and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)

Peep (Peep and the Big Wide World)

Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro)

Goku, Chichi, Vegeta, Krillin, Beerus and Whis (Dragon Ball Z)

Master Crane and Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda)

Scarecrow (Arkhamverse, The New Batman Adventures, Batman The Animated Series, Nolanverse, Fear State, Brave and The Bold, Injustice 2, Happy Halloween Scooby Doo, Harley Quinn Series and Tomorrow-Verse)

Mad Hatter, Baby Doll, The Ventriloquist, Scarface, and Alice (Batman The Animated Series)

The Joker (Batman The Animated Series and The Batman 2004 Series)

Ragdoll, Catwoman, Penguin and Riddler (The Batman 2004 Series)

Harley Quinn (Harley Quinn Series, Injustice 2 and MultiVersus)

Ghoul (Batman Beyond)

Question and Huntress (Justice League Unlimited)

Scream Queen (Batman - Brave and The Bold)

Red Hood and Green Arrow (Injustice 2)

Starfire (Teen Titans)

King Shark (Harley Quinn Series)

Jake, Mee Mow and Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time)

Chikn Nuggit, Cheezborger, Slushi, Bezel and Cofi (Chikn Nuggit)

Dr Drakken (Kim Possible)

Elvira (Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark and Happy Halloween Scooby Doo)

Narrator (The Stanley Parable)

Medic and Sniper (Team Fortress 2)

Wheatley (Portal)

Peppino Spaghetti, The Noise, Vigilante and Fake Peppino (Pizza Tower)

Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash, Flurry Heart, Princess Celestia, Apple Bloom, Granny Smith, Thorax, Discord, Ocellus and Silverstream (My Little Pony)

Apple Blossom, Strawberry Kiss, Kooky Cookie, Spilt Milk, Milk Bud, Dum Mee Mee, Sippy Sips, Choc and Chip, Buncho Bananas, Jessicake, Donatina and Peppa Mint (Shopkins)

Mr Stitchy and Clowny (PIGGY)

Screech and Seek (DOORS)

Orange (RAINBOW FRIENDS)

Agatha (Dark Deception)

Lambie (Doc McStuffins)

Fink, Shannon, Darrell, Professor Venomous, Lord Boxman and Red Action (O.K KO)

Pipsqueak and Grammy Norma (The Lorax)

Freddy Krueger (Nightmare On Elm Street - Original)

Jason Voorhess and Pamela Voorhess (Friday The 13th - Original)

Michael Myers (Halloween - Original)

Leatherface/Bubba Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original)

Chop Top Sawyer (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)

Needlem0use/Sarah Henderson and Luther (Needlem0use)

Anton (ANTONBLAST)

Filburt Shellbach, Rocko Rama and Spunky (Rocko's Modern Life)

Pops, Eileen and Hi-Five Ghost (Regular Show)

Mirabel Madrigal, Pepa Madrigal, Antonio Madrigal and Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

Meilin Lee (Turning Red)

Abby Park (Turning Red)

Bluey Heeler, Bingo Heeler, Chilli Heeler, Bandit Heeler, Muffin Heeler, Socks Heeler, Brandy Heeler, Radley Heeler, Frisky, Calypso, Rusty, Lila and Pom Pom (Bluey)

Lilo Pelekai, Stitch, Angel and Pleakley (Lilo and Stitch)

Rebecca Rabbit, Emily Elephant, Zuzu Zebra, Zaza Zebra and Edmond Elephant (Peppa Pig)

Brandy and Mr Whiskers (Brandy and Mr Whiskers)

Big and Small (Big and Small)

Holly Thistle and Nanny Plum (Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom)

Mort, Gia, Melman, Stefano and Alex (Madagascar)

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private (Madagascar and Penguins of Madagascar)

Corporal (Penguins of Madagascar)

Scratch, Molly McGee and Libby Stein-Torres (Ghost and Molly McGee)

Spawn (Image Comics)

Cyan Fitzgerald (Todd McFarlane's Spawn)

Hades (Disney's Hercules)

Jafar, Iago and Genie (Disney's Aladdin)

Nasira (Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge)

Horned King (The Black Cauldron)

Kissy Missy, Boogie Bot, Bunzo Bunny, Candy Cat, Hoppy Hopscotch and Dogday (Poppy Playtime)

Moon Knight and Mr Knight (Moon Knight)

Peni Parker (Spider Man - Into the Spider Verse)

Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Electro, Shocker, Tinkerer and Aunt May (Spectacular Spider Man)

Eddie Brock/Venom (Venom)

Baby Groot and Rocket Raccoon (MCU's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Jeffrey the Land Shark (It's Jeff)

Karen McCormick (South Park)

Butters Scotch (South Park)

Penny Proud, Oscar Proud and Suga Mama (The Proud Family)

Mike/Svetlana/Manitoba Smith/Mal, Zoey Izzy, Cameron, Jasmine and Chris McLean (Total Drama)

Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Peridot, Rainbow Quartz, Greg and Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe)

Chiaki Nanami, Korekiyo Shinguji, Monokuma and Monomi/Usami (Danganronpa)

Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Artemis, Luna and Diana (Sailor Moon)

Secret History Tails and Secret History Mario (Mashed)

Roy O'brien (ROY)

Loid Forger, Yor Forger, Anya Forger and Bond Forger (Spy X Family)

Pixie, Brutus, Lola and Hugo (Pixie and Brutus)

Felix and King Candy/Turbo (Wreck It Ralph)

Isabelle, Timmy Nook, Tommy Nook and Rover (Animal Crossing)

Gidget, Chloe and Daisy (Secret Life Of Pets)

Ember Lumen (Elemental)

Sun, Moon and Eclipse (Five Nights At Freddy's - Security Breach)

Foxy (Five Nights At Freddy's)

Funtime Freddy and Circus Baby (Five Nights At Freddy's - Sister Location)

Bill Cipher, Mabel Pines, Wendy Corduroy, Stan Pines and Ford Pines (Gravity Falls)

Eric Duckman and Cornfed Pig (Duckman)

Slender Man, Splendor Man, Trenderman, Jeff The Killer, Laughing Jack, Sally and Lulu (Creepypasta)

Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird and Julia (Sesame Street)

Ms Piggy, Swedish Chef and Gonzo (Muppets)

Bubble and Ice Cube (Battle For Dream Island)

Four, X, Six, Lollipop and Cake (Battle For BFB)

Winner, Price Tag, PDA and Conch Shell (The Power Of Two)

Lightbulb, Paintbrush, MePad, Bow/Bot, Paper, Test Tube, Silver Spoon, Clover, Goo and Candle (Inanimate Insanity)

Tune (Object Mayhem)

Shelly (Brawl Of The Objects)

Brownie (Battle For Isle Of Sleep)

Orbulon, Ashley, Kat, Ana, 9-Volt and Penny Crygor (Warioware)

Wallace, Gromit and Feathers McGraw (Wallace and Gromit)

Wendolene Ramsbottom (Wallace and Gromit - A Close Shave)

Lady Tottington and Hutch (Wallace and Gromit - Curse of The Were-Rabbit)

Penny Fitzgerald (The Amazing World of Gumball)

Sans, Papyrus, Toriel, Mettaton, Napstablook, Asriel and Alphys (Undertale)

Ralsei and Jevil (Deltarune)

Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear and Ice Bear (We Bare Bears and We Baby Bears)

Chloe Park (We Bare Bears)

Agent Trout (We Bare Bears Movie)

Jared (We Baby Bears)

Flaky, Flippy, Sniffles, Lammy and Cub (Happy Tree Friends)

Neo Cortex, Aku Aku, Dingodile, Pasadena O'Possum, N-Gin, Lani-Loli, Kapuna-Wa and Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)

Ochaco Uraraka, Momo Yaoyorozu, Eijirou Kirishima, Tsuyu Asui, Hawks, Mirio Togata, Present Mic, Shota Aizawa, Ms Joke, Eri, Kota Izumi, Tomura Shigaraki, Toga Himiko, Dabi, Inko Midoriya, Ordinary Woman, Spinner and Tenya Ida (My Hero Academia)

Claire Foley (Professor Layton)

Sam (Trick R Treat)

Hanazuki, Kiyoshi, Yellow Hemka, Pink Hemka, Light Blue Hemka, Blue Hemka and Raspberry Hemka (Hanazuki)

Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird and Marvin the Martian (Looney Tunes)

Zardy (Zardy's Maze)

Flapjack (Misadventures of Flapjack)

Charles Calvin, Right Hand Man, Reginald Copperbottom, Dmitri Petrov and Ellie Rose (Henry Stickmin)

Mr Shark, Mrs Tarantula, Diane Foxington and Wolf (The Bad Guys)

Miraitowa and Someity (Tokyo 2020 Mascots)

Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon (Beijing 2022 Mascots)

Meggy Spletzer, Tari, Melony, Karen, Axol and Mr Puzzles (SMG4)

Blackie (Nightmare Cafe)

Dr Nefarious (Ratchet and Clank)

EteleD/Henry Morris and Corrupted Mii/Austin Sanders (Wii Deleted You)

Connor and Hank Anderson (Detroit - Become Human)

Poppet, Luvli, Jeepers, Shishi, Sleepypaws, Baby Rox, Roxy, Holga, Suey, Tomba, Kissy, Fifi, Marsha and Dr Strangeglove (Moshi Monsters)

PukeyHurlC (Grossery Gang)

Mama, Nastasia and Ichigo (Cooking Mama)

Yuto (Babysitting Mama)

Moomintroll, Snorkmaiden, Snork, Moominmamma, Moominpappa, Snufkin and Joxter (Moomin)

Komasan, Komajiro and Whisper (Yo-Kai Watch)

Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto and Kagamine Rin (Vocaloid and UTAU)

Tuffy and Tyke (Tom and Jerry)

Misty (Tom and Jerry Show - 2014)

Shaggy Rogers, Scooby Doo and Fred Jones (Scooby Doo)

Madelyn Dinkley (Scooby Doo! Abracadabra)

F, Y and P (Alphabet Lore)

Sammy Lawrence, Boris, Tom and Allison Angel (Bendy and The Ink Machine)

Bendy (Bendy and The Dark Revival)

Sulley, Mike Wazowski and Boo (Monsters Inc)

Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws and Perrito (Puss in Boots)

Three Diablos (Puss In Boots - The Three Diablos)

Jack Horner and Death Wolf (Puss In Boots - The Last Wish)

Toothless, Ruffnut Thornston, Tuffnut Thornston, Valka Haddock, Cloudjumper, Gobber, Hiccup Haddock III and Astrid Hofferson (How to Train Your Dragon)

Bender (Futurama)

Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair (Wednesday)

Molly Horren, Milly Mandara and Chloe Ventura (Milly, Molly)

Major Dr Ghastly and General Skarr (Evil Con Carne)

Unikitty and Puppycorn (Unikitty)

Viridi (Kid Icarus - Uprising)

Scrooge McDuck (Ducktales)

Della Duck, Dewey Duck, Manny The Gargoyle and Lena Sabrewing (Ducktales – 2017)

David Jones, Zoe Kusama, Cathy Turner, Samuel King, Eduardo Ramirez, Amy Young, Maddie O'Malley, Charles Dupont, Sunny and Margaret Littlewood (Criminal Case)

Tutter (Bear in the Big Blue House)

Chowder and Mung Daal (Chowder)

Shaun (Shaun The Sheep)

Timmy (Shaun The Sheep and Timmy Time)

Mittens, Otus and Apricot (Timmy Time)

Jack Skellington, Sally, Zero and Oogie Boogie (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Emily (Corpse Bride)

Jack Sparrow, Hector Barbossa and Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Hank J Wimbleton, Tricky, Sanford, Deimos and Jebus (Madness Combat)

Happiness Hank (Happiness Apotheosis)

Kedamono and Popee (Popee the Perfomer)

Mama Imelda (Coco)

Frankie Stein, Dracalaura, Catty Noir, Abbey Bominable and Twyla (Monster High)

Madeline Hatter, Kitty Cheshire, Crystal Winter, Bunny Blanc and Lizzie Hearts (Ever After High)

Tessa, Mags, Eye Brawl, Dr Krankcase, Flynn and Hugo (Skylanders)

Bart Simpson, Maggie Simpson, June Bellamy, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Sideshow Bob and Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)

Sebastian and Ursula (Disney's Little Mermaid)

Melody (Disney's Little Mermaid II - Return to the Sea)

Cruella De Vil and Lucky (Disney's 101 Dalmatians)

Mrs Brown (Mrs Brown's Boys)

Joe Swanson and Jasper (Family Guy)

Cleveland Brown (Family Guy and The Cleveland Show)

Tunip (Octonauts)

Chuck and Matilda (Angry Birds)

Leonard Mudbeard, Courtney, Zeta and Debbie (Angry Birds Movie)

Nikki, Max, Nerris, Ered and Gwen (Camp Camp)

Victor Creel and Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things)

Skeletor and Orko (He-Man)

Margaret the Mole and Felix the Fish (Andy's Apple Farm)

Mushu (Disney's Mulan)

Iroh, Suki, Momo and Toph (Avatar The Last Airbender)

Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Alya Cesaire, Gabriel Agreste and Nathalie Sancoeur (Miraculous Ladybug)

Evil Queen/Grimhilde, Dopey and Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Bjorn, Splork and Kat Tut (Peggle Deluxe)

Nigel Thornberry (Wild Thornberrys)

Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, Hugo, Victor and Laverne (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Lumiere, Fifi and Chip (Disney's Beauty & The Beast)

Klaus (American Dad)

Pinocchio, Figaro, Honest John, Gideon and Geppetto (Disney's Pinocchio – 1940)

Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore (Winnie The Pooh)

Mog and Owl (Meg & Mog)

Captain Hook and Smee (Disney's Peter Pan)

Kronk, Yzma and Kuzco (Emperor's New Groove)

Trixie and Captain Cuddlepuss (Creature Comforts)

Wally Darling, Julie Joyful and Barnaby B Beagle (Welcome Home)

Rocky, Babs and Mrs Tweedy (Chicken Run)

Konata Izumi (Lucky Star)

Lucy Loud, Lynn Loud and Luan Loud (Loud House)

Rita and Spike (Flushed Away)

Nugget (Super Meat Boy Forever)

Om Nom, Om Nelle and Nibble Nom (Cut The Rope and Om Nom Stories)

Swampy and Allie (Where's My Water and Swampy's Underground Adventures)

Linus van Pelt and Woodstock (Peanuts)

Dory and Deb (Finding Nemo)

Destiny (Finding Dory)

Billy Bear, Bonnie Bear and Mr Pumpkin (Butlins Mascots)

Grogu and Din Djarin (The Mandalorian)

Wally/Waldo (Where's Wally - 1991 Series)

Mr Tumble and Granddad Tumble (Something Special)

Sackboy (Little Big Planet)

Vex (Sackboy - A Big Adventure)

Parappa and Sunny (Parappa The Rapper)

Danger Mouse and Penfold (Danger Mouse)

Baymax (Big Hero 6)

Otto, Antauri and Circus of Ooze Crew (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go)

Sid, Manny, Granny and Peaches (Ice Age)

Arnold (Hey Arnold)

Yumeko Jabami (Kakegurui)

Lucas (Lucas The Spider)

Marisa Kirisame (Touhou)

Noddy, Fuse, Naughticorns(Bling, Hoof and Cloppycorn), Pat Pat and Dinah Doll (Noddy)

Toto (Dr Panda)

Wander and Lord Dominator (Wander Over Yonder)

Alice Green, Tilly Green, Cricket Green and Bill Green (Big City Greens)

Ty The Tasmanian Tiger and Maurie (Ty the Tasmanian Tiger)

Larry the Cucumber (Veggitales)

Lady Dimitrescu and Karl Heisenberg (Resident Evil - Village)

Norrie and Peggee (Hey Duggee)

Kratos (God Of War)

Tiana, Charlotte La Bouff and Dr Facilier (Princess and The Frog)

Berry, Dreamy, Lily, Petite and Daisy (Palace Pets)

Ms Featherbon (Palace Pets - Whisker Haven)

Simon and Fionna (Fionna and Cake)

Gordi and Maria (Unicorn Wars)

Zippy and Bungle (Rainbow)

Dougal (Magic Roundabout – 1970)

Benrey, Dr Coomer and Tommy (Half Life VR)

Shellsea (Fish Hooks)

Jude (6teen)

Susie and Kimi (Rugrats – 1991)

Jenny Wakeman (My Life as a Teenage Robot)

Skulker and Walker (Danny Phantom)

Zippy (TUFF Puppy)

Rango and Beans (Rango)

Calvin McMurray/Freckle and Mordecai Heller (Lackadaisy)

Dee Dee (Dexter's Laboratory)

Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

Pugsley and Norma Khan (Dead End - Paranormal Park)

Stocking Anarchy (Panty and Stocking)

Ongo (Jelly Jamm)

Bubble (Fundamental Paper Education)

Darkwing Duck and Quackerjack (Darkwing Duck)

Snorky and Fleegle (The Banana Splits)

Fear, Anger and Sadness (Inside Out)

Anxiety and Embarrassment (Inside Out 2)

Naven Nuknuk and Zora Salazar (Epithet Erased)

Captain (Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists)

Astral (Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal)

Benrey and Tommy (Half Life VR)

Felix the Cat (Felix the Cat)

Kiff Timberlay (Kiff)

Vanity Smurf (The Smurfs)

Glendale (Centaurworld)

Bernie (Zig and Sharko)

Varian (Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure)

Wubbzy and Daizy (Wow! Wow! Wubbzy)

Fender Pinwheeler (Robots)

Joe Dalton (The Daltons)

Toaster (The Brave Little Toaster)

Hilda (Hilda)

Gizmo (Gremlins)

Cheshire (Alice In Wonderland - 2010)

Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service)

Dick Dastardly and Muttley (Wacky Races & Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines)

[tawus]

Hi Tawus!!!! The way you write Gojo is so spot on, it's hard to not think that you're getting all his dialogue and mannerisms from Gege himself!!

If you were free, I was wondering if I could hear your opinions on student!gojo and how he would react if his classmate had a crush on him. I feel like he would be the type to intentionally try to fluster them, just to see their reaction. Gojo doesn't seem like the type to lead them on, however. I don't know, I just feel like it would be terrible to have a crush on him, lol.

Thank you so much!!! 🩷🩷🩷

If I may be so daring, allow me to recommend my two fics that focus on Gojo in his student times:

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Mister Fahrenheit

And so sorry for my late response! I have this anal thing where I put all of myself into each ask response... 😅

Right so, I'm not perfect with headcanons but please peep my student!Gojo take:

1 --- 1

Nothing escapes student!Gojo’s six-eyed scrutiny. He catches all of your lingering gazes. He notices when you inch into his personal space by a mere centimetre whenever you stand together at the front of the class. He notes how you stand back with a lowered head with your tray in your hands in the short lunch line, allowing him to take his food first.

Gojo’s techniques are based on mathematical formulae, in fact - using mathematical formulae was he able to decode, understand and master his own techniques. Which is another way of saying that he was plenty good at putting 2 and 2 together.

So, at some point, when you stared at him across the classroom desks, he began turning to you and meeting your gaze.

When you were in front of the class together, he began taking a single sideways step enough to intrude into your personal space.

And in the lunch line…oh no, his feet were rotating around…

“What do you want?” he suddenly turned around, addressing you.

Tongue-tied, nape sweating, you stammered out a meek “Wha–?”

“Besides me, I mean,” he enunciated the ‘me’ and flashed you a shining Cheshire.

Your cheeks had fires lit behind them, not sure what the fuck to do or how the fuck to act.

“Satoru,” Suguru’s milky voice gently reprimanded him as he passed by the two of you with his own tray. “Don’t be mean to our classmate.”

You saw the blue globes rotate in his friend’s direction, “I was just being hospitable.”

The globes rotated back to you, unfolding their oceans to expose their magma core.

“By offering her all that’s on the menu...”

2 --- 2

When your ankle is injured during one of your group missions and Geto cordially lifts you up in his arms to carry you to the pickup point, Gojo comes up to his friend and takes you from his arms as if you were a doll.

“No, Suguru, she wants me to carry her.”

Which, obviously, makes you scramble to your feet, however injured, and hobble in the direction of the pickup point on your own...

3 --- 3

Or when you were separate from the group, facing a Grade 1 cursed spirit on your own, coming to your resolve and finally allowing for your technique to fully release to face this strong enemy. Glad for the fact that none of your classmates were around to see just how bloodthirsty your technique really is.

It began seeping out of you and the curse was right there, zeroing in on you as its solitary target.

Good.

You sensed Gojo's and Geto’s goliath cursed energies many miles away.

Fucking good.

With the fluid rotation of your hand, you summoned your cursed technique as the Grade 1 curse summoned its own on pure instinct. Clouds of premonition gathered above you two and thick, dirty auras permeated the air.

“Cursed technique, Arr–” you mouthed.

FWACK!

You observed in shock as your enemy – the cursed spirit – got lifted up in the air and smacked into the nearby bluff side - its essence trickling down as no more than liquid blood and putrefied remains. Your budding cursed technique got paused. Your chanting stopped mid-air. Your killing instinct got robbed of its target.

“Yo! Didn’t think you’d struggle against a bug like that, but I guess you do…”

The voice you’d recognise anywhere. Too full of itself. Too fucking cocky.

The cursed technique that was budding within the fluid rotation of your wrist fired in the direction of that voice – only to be stopped by his Infinity barrier.

By the time it collided with it, though, you were already there, standing before Gojo motherfucking Satoru, with your vice grip aiming for his windpipe but held back by his annoying barrier once again.

“Baby girl, don’t channel the fact that you pine for me into personal vendettas within our missions,” he mouthed down to you with an easy smile and sympathetic white brows.

Causing you to fume. Causing your cursed technique to reactivate, and his – to power up and thicken in instinctual response. You were staring up and he was smirking down, while your cursed energies were flaring out of normal eyesight and battling, sparking, colliding, fizzling and incandescing against each other.

4 --- 4

Another colleague fallen. Not even a colleague yet – a classmate. No longer smiling. Cold. Stupefied in rigor mortis.

As you stood staring at their face, Gojo came to stand beside you in deafening silence. It lasted as long as a droplet takes to swell and finally fall.

“Maybe you should seek a temp job downtown. Leave all this jujutsu stuff behind,” he said out of the blue.

You swallowed down your offence while memorising, despite yourself, every single morbid line of your colleague’s face. Envisioning how yours would look soon enough in this same occupation.

“You think I’m not cut out for this job…” you said to Gojo with only a trace of appropriate indignation. You didn’t have it in you in this moment to be snarky.

The air was heavy with the stench of decomposing flesh, as his blue gaze sliced you obliquely from aside. After a long pause, with you not returning his blue intensity, Gojo threw his head back and spoke to the ceiling with a wistful smile.

“It’s me who’s not cut out for…this.”

The raw emotion in his last word made you finally look at him, at his tall stature, at his oddly shrivelled shoulders. But he turned away from you soon, his towering back propped up and facing you, denying you the answer as to what exactly he meant by ‘this’.

“You're all so weak. Just….don’t die on me, ok?” he said and walked off.

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Sammy the Kind Sun and Mark-Mark the Sleepy Moon My NEW MSA X Dark Deception OCS

1.- Sammy the Kind Sun/Harrison ___

Full Name: Sammy the Kind Sun, Harrison ___ (in the past)

First Name: Harrison

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Other Family Members Relatives: Mark-Mark the Sleepy Moon/Willie ___ (his brother)

Species: Human, later Animatronic Sun

Friends: Sabella the Ballerina Butterfly/Lewana ___, Angelisa the Angel/Fairy Doll Hybrid, Sally the Princess Cat Hybrid, Farkle the Prince Fox, Billie the farmer bunny and Alastair the new mascot bear/demon hybrid, Gary the Goat/Raccoon Hybrid (normal-self), Doug Houser, Tammy Houser, Bierce, Mystery Teams, Girls' Clue Club, Stella the Cat, Aurora Woodson, Stanley Woodson, Greg Woodson and Lonnie Woodson, Maisy Pepper and her friends,

Enemies: Malak, The Black Charro, Agatha, Jerry, Murder Dolls, Murder Monkeys, Possessed Statues, Gold Watchers, Plant Piranhas, Dread Duckies, Goliath Clowns, Killer Twins, Reaper Nurses, Reaper Professors, Joy Joy Gang, Dracula the Ghost Vampire, Mama Bear, Trigger Teddies, Mannequins, The Puppeteers, Mr. Giggles, Gary the Goat/Raccoon Hybrid (mind-control), Dennis the Gopher, Wilbert the psycho Wolf, Beverly the Bee/Vanessa ___

Alignment: Good

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Mr Giggles' Portal: ___

Sammy the Kind Sun's Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeasT3qcqVc

@sfcabanasstarcgs and @mysteryideasgroup

This one sounds like Sundrop (from FNAF SB) and Mickey Mouse (from Epic Mickey)

2.- Mark-Mark the Sleepy Moon/Willie ___

Full Name: Mark-Mark the Sleepy Moon, Willie ___ (in the past)

First Name: Willie

Last Name:

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Gender: Male

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Age: 7 (deceased)

Blood Type:

Occupation:

Actual or Past Occupation:

Favourite Shows/Games: ___/___/___

(___,___,___)

Favourite Food:

Instrument:

Favourite Animal:

Family Members Relatives:

Other Family Members Relatives: Sammy the Kind Sun/Harrison ___ (his brother)

Species: Human, later Animatronic Moon

Friends: Sabella the Ballerina Butterfly/Lewana ___, Angelisa the Angel/Fairy Doll Hybrid, Sally the Princess Cat Hybrid, Farkle the Prince Fox, Billie the farmer bunny and Alastair the new mascot bear/demon hybrid, Gary the Goat/Raccoon Hybrid (normal-self), Doug Houser, Tammy Houser, Bierce, Mystery Teams, Girls' Clue Club, Stella the Cat, Aurora Woodson, Stanley Woodson, Greg Woodson and Lonnie Woodson, Maisy Pepper and her friends,

Enemies: Malak, The Black Charro, Agatha, Jerry, Murder Dolls, Murder Monkeys, Possessed Statues, Gold Watchers, Plant Piranhas, Dread Duckies, Goliath Clowns, Killer Twins, Reaper Nurses, Reaper Professors, Joy Joy Gang, Dracula the Ghost Vampire, Mama Bear, Trigger Teddies, Mannequins, The Puppeteers, Mr. Giggles, Gary the Goat/Raccoon Hybrid (mind-control), Dennis the Gopher, Wilbert the psycho Wolf, Beverly the Bee/Vanessa ___

Alignment: Good

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Weapons: Magic Staff

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Mr Giggles' Portal: ___

Mark-Mark the Sleepy Moon's Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLlSQoDjw8

@sfcabanasstarcgs and @mysteryideasgroup

This one sounds like Moondrop (from FNAF SB) and Oswald (from Epic Mickey)

[lafcadiosadventures]

Madame Putiphar Groupread. Book Two, Chapter XXXIII

The Parc-aux-Cerfs makes a stage entrance via our disgusting main libertines's secret schemeing meeting (as always, sensitive content is discussed within)

{check my friends and fellow readers's posts as well-> @sainteverge and @counterwiddershins }{pro tip: sainteverge is translating this lexical goliath here, Even if you can read it in french, their verson usually has very interesting footnotes and research you cannot find in the online french versions}

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Not to be redundant but formaly speaking this is one of the theatrical dialogue chapters. Borel makes his dolls talk with each other, the narrator makes zero interventions.

We have the rare pleasure of an intimate glimpse into Villepastour's and Putiphar's secret reunion...

Our two friends (like Saint-Ange and Dolmancé, or Valmont and Merteuil, but even less likeable somehow) are together because Villepastour wants to be paid back for the help he has given Putiphar in the Patrick affair.

Our borelesian libertines are hypocrites. If the sadian duo had their own mansion and boudoir to speak as freely as they wanted and rip as many social conformity masks as they wished, Villepastour and Putiphar do the contrary. Even in private they feign offended morality, especially Putiphar.

She intends to make Villepastour believe Patrick has dishonoured her “up to the waist”. (the “woman pretends to be raped by the guy who rejected her” trope is pretty disgusting, do better Borel) Villepastour humours her and goes off in a rant full of mock puritan indignation. Interesting concepts in his speech are: “contagious” people, who spread their noxious mores among the Court and the City... who are these contagious people? Foreigners? Not really, but Villepastour is keen on demonizing foreigners during this whole chapter. It's Readers of Philosophy, apparently. The Philosophers (aka the french Enlightnement gang, most of whom had been in jail or in exhile) had corrupted France irreparably, causing according to Villepastour, children to need wet nurses out of their own sheer perversion, among other things. The philosophers had gone too far in their attempt to shake off prejudices, they have shaken virtue as well.

(I will always remark how much influence the french enlightenment, CERTAIN TEXTS of the French Enlightenment have had to many romantic authors. Within the petit cénacle, Nerval was a huge admirer of Diderot's Jacques le fataliste, of Rétif de la Bretonne's Parisian Nights, Borel has some Diderotian turns of phrase in Passereau, and names "Jacques" in Medianoche, seems to be in a constant dialogue with some of Rousseaus works in Passereau and in Madame Putiphar... Gautier was an admirer of Diderot's Salons, and followed his conversational and passionate school of art criticism, beging to go against artistic and moral conventions. The Enlightenment is of course, what the Romantics were reacting against, but. Hastag notalllumières. The secret, posthumously published fictions of Diderot, those transgressive texts he didn't dare to publish for fear of being incarcerated a second time, seem like a crucial key to undertsand where some of the interests of the young Romantics came from. He is even part of the inspiration behind Schiller's Rauber, and with it, the Romantic Outlaw trope. Don't sleep on Diderot is what i'm saying, his influence is vast and his secret texts are not what his more divulged writings would lead you to think he is)

That last paragraph about Virtue is interesting because, on the one hand, OH THE HYPOCRISY. You can totally imagine the ironic tones in which these two speak of Virtue, how disgustingly they accuse mere children of being perverse. On the other, it's always interesting to see how the elites will seek for a scapegoat: philosophers in this case. And I also like how Putiphar, who is shown to be a fan of the enlightenmet in previous chapters (owns a Rousseau volume that Patrick uses against her) likes the Philosophes only when they are useful to her (once they go too far in their challenges to her class, she cracks a whip and it's off to jail/exhile for them) Remember how Borel spoke of her being a benefactress to the Philosophes because it gave her power, it provided her with intelligent people who were indebted to her/therefore in her service.

So these two delightful fellas continue their tête-à-tête, the marquis complains about Deborah to Putiphar, he wants her arrested. Why, asks madame Putiphar, when raping her would be so much simpler -she is now alone- and less of a boureaucratic hassle, surely. (men she says, can always triumph over women, “courage, marquis!”, noone is un-rapeable, even if she pretends to be so)(the marquis knows that the fact that Patrick is away is almost irrelevant since Deborah has been more than capable of defending herself, but he conveniently keeps silent.)

So, given that Debby is an “impenetrable” fortress, Madame Putiphar reasures him “don't worry, we will form her” (Putiphar, like the marquis before her and like many Sade characters, insists that sex is a discipline one has to be enlightened on, by force if necesary...)

The marquis does a description of Debby's "English hipocrisy" that is so appealing to frenchmen who are too accustumed to their women's shamelessness, (very hitchcock to truffault's definition of english vs latin beauties core)(but we don't need to go back to the 60's... this stereotype is alive and well)

So Putiphar claims that her Punishment for Deborah will be Educating her, forming her... the Marquis should know by now what she means, but he cannot tell..

Putiphar explains she is worried her enemies are pushing a new favorite to turn the King against Pompadour. She is certain she is not as witty to hold his attention for long, as she has. And the Parc-aux-Cerfs is pretty barren at the moment, only a couple of young girls are being trained in it (and when Borel writes young, he means it, after the first period in which the parc was mostly populated by soldier's widows forced to sexually satisfy the king, the royal person became fearful of syphilis, so he started demanding children, girls aged between 12 and 14 years)(this is all real, Borel has been accused of demonizing Pompadour but she was actually involved in this, at least during the initial period of the Parc, and she was well aware of what happened in it, since it was strategically beneficial for her to be the author of the king's pleasures even if it was by proxy. It is important to recognize that many Romantic novels, while melodramatic and exagerated if you will, root their fantasies in facts and have the intention of denouncing real forgotten horrors from a ruling class that had managed to return to power like reventants, after the french revolution, with no long lasting punishment for their crimes...)

Villepastour is delighted by the perverse perfection of the idea. Pompadour is weary Deborah, being so beautiful and intelligent, will grow ambitious and become a threat.

Villepastour says this is out of the question, since she is a prude and a peniless foreigner (it doesn't follow but ok) her pride is more of a potential threat, but there is no one The Madame cannot break in, Pompadour reasures him. She has tamed the most rebellious of them...

Pomp commands some henchman to kidnap deborah, in the meantime she makes out with Villepastour and invites him to dine with her. Cruelty is the ultimate aphrodisiac, but more importantly, a tool of government.

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annex:

first hand source on the children of the parc aux cerfs. even this person who intends to rescue the king from very partial anti-royalist historians (Michelet), considers this a reliable, dispassionate source (a source brought to light by Michelet himself)(Michelet accuses the king of being sadistic, wilfully harming the children. The fact that this man thinks it's all good since the children were "not virgins, but sluts" and there are no historical accounts depicting the king hitting them makes it all ok.... is beyond me)

20 février 1756 … …Le roi se livre à la nature, et cherche à se ragoûter par de petites filles très-neuves qu' on lui fait venir de Paris. Il se pique d' emporter des p... de quinze ans. On lui amena, il y a quelques jours, une petite fille de cet âge qui était à peine vêtue ; il s' enrhuma à la poursuivre dans le lit et hors du lit. Cependant, il fait du bien à ces petites créatures, et, s' il se comporte en paillard, il ne fait rien en ceci contre l' honnête homme. L' on dit que le Sieur Lebel, son grand pourvoyeur, est sur le côté, et l' on ne sait qui a procuré sa disgrâce….

Journal et mémoires du marquis d'Argenson Vol. 9. 1755-1757. [2]  publ... pour la Société de l'histoire de France par E.-J.-B. Rathery

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alice needs to make another goliath doll, i miss her. does it have any practical use? probably not but it's Big and it's Cool.