#grown Raz

[browngonzo888]

Who else would have done all his ink?

[psychonauts2000]

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[rat-king-art]

Naughty children who psychically look through your memories get sent to summer camp

[aquato-family-circus]

Happy Anniversary to Dogen and to Psychonauts also.

(Original Comic Credit)

Image Description below cut:

ID: A four panel comic of grown up Razputin Aquato and Lili Zanotto in a cake shop with an employee.

Panel 1: Raz and Lili hold hands while at the bakery counter, the employee and cake in front of them. Raz: One anniversary cake, please! Lili: It’s our anniversary.

Panel 2: Lili and Raz face each other. Lili: Have it say, “Lili and Raz”. Raz: Oh but what about Dogen? Lili: OH MY GOD I can’t believe we forgot!

Panel 3: Lili and Raz face to the right. Raz: Put “Dogen” in there too. Can you draw him too? You can take our names off if you need space! Lili: Dogen is our friend.

Panel 4: A close up on a cake with the name DOGEN! written in frosting alongside a small drawing of his face. Raz: Good. Great. Oh just perfect. Lili: We love Dogen.

End ID.

[2hoothoots]

In all honesty, the funniest thing about this trio (lili/dogen/raz) is the context— like Lili is the daughter of the HEAD of the psychonauts, a prestigious line dating back to the founders, known for their capabilities with fern and then you have dogen who’s the son of another line of prestigious psychics concerning both ACTUAL MURDER and animal telepathy

And then you have like

Some fucking circus dude

Like Raz is a fucking prodigy in itself but from the outside view he is really just “some dude— oh wait, oh shit.” These bitches go to parties and take smug satisfaction in introducing local circus man who also saved the world

yeah, pretty much

(BUT ALSO joking aside this is kind of one of the reasons i think they thematically work so well as a trio! mini-essay under cut)

because that’s exactly it, right – Lili and Dogen both grew up immersed in this world. they’re part of it, part of the community, their families are intimately linked with the founding of the Psychonauts. Lili’s dad is the Grand Head, the boss of this organisation that Raz, meanwhile, is so desperate to join. because Raz is the outsider to all of this – he so badly wants to be a part of the action, the heroism, the community. (and also, sure, we find out in PN2 he technically has that family connection too – but he also has, uh, really good reasons not to make that public knowledge lol)

so many of Lili and Raz’s interactions in PN1 turn on the fact that Lili finds camp so routine as to be entirely boring, whereas Raz is so unashamedly passionate about everything. he’s so completely starry-eyed to get a glimpse into this world, and meet the heroes from his comic books – and his enthusiasm ends up being infectious! it’s what Lili needs to break out of her own apathy, and they start conspiring and arranging midnight rendezvous and going on this whole adventure together… and the rest is history.

i just really like how that setup – Lili and Dogen having grown up with the Psychonauts, Raz being an outsider – manifests in a unique dynamic for each of the pairs, y’know? i write Lili and Dogen as childhood friends. they’ve known each other the longest of the three, they have so many shared experiences, and i think on some level they understand each other the best because of how they’ve come from such similar places. Lili and Raz have this incredible shared passion, they hype each other up and feed each others’ senses of wonder and enthusiasm. and for Dogen and Raz – Raz is one of the only people who treats Dogen as just a person, first and foremost. he’s not cowed by his family’s reputation at all, he doesn’t have any of the baggage that so many people do when they hear the name “Boole”... it’s so unexpected and refreshing for Dogen that he can’t help getting attached!

(and not to get too deep, but it’s especially compelling to me when you consider how the game’s narrative around psychic powers is one that parallels neurodivergence, mental illness, trauma, and broad themes of “otherness”... it’s a thread i like to tease at sometimes around how communities can form, and things can bring people together and individuals can find each other and be seen in their shared experiences. it’s funny but it’s also sweet! it’s really sweet to me.)

[psi-spectacular]

The Aquato Siblings, all in their grown up glory!

(All that psitanium exposure maaayyy have had a small effect on the younger kids.)

Thalia, Mirtala, and Queepie all still work at the circus, Frazie travels along but mostly does investigative journalism on the side, and Raz is an agent with the psychonauts!

[technovillain]

Sometimes I wonder what spending a lot of time in mental worlds at a young age will do to Raz. Like I feel a lot of people talk about him getting like...secondhand trauma by being forced to relive other people's traumatic and disturbing pasts but something I wonder would be a problem is the idea of him like. Struggling to separate the real world from the mental world. "Reality vs Mentality" if you will.

Like a fully grown psychic has had so much lived experience and entering other people's minds once in a while is just sort of part of their job. It's like that common argument about violent video games, "Can kids really separate fiction from reality and know the difference between consequence in fiction vs the real world?" We see him deal with the consequences of his actions and realize that he has the capacity to hurt real people with Hollis' mind and Sasha has a really specific conversation with him talking about this specific issue. And he seems to become a lot more mature in the second game, and while I acknowledge that he's still super young and will make more mistakes I genuinely believe that from a moral standpoint he can separate what the consequences of mental meddling are vs. doing things in the real world.

But moral standing aside, I wonder if it just generally makes him more at risk in the real world. Getting dementestrated is an unpleasant experience, but obviously one that you can experience over and over again without too much hardship ( I understand this is a game mechanic but I imagine that outside of being a mechanic it would deplete your energy and make you very tired to be dementestrated more than a few times ) Like in a mental world you can fall off a cliff and easily recover yourself. It may become harder to focus your astral projection as you lose energy within a mind but you overall remain "fine" inside the person's mind. I wonder if he is more prone to getting hurt in the real world because he's so used to an astral projection of himself being the "awake self" that is carrying out actions (granted, in other people's minds) Does he struggle to think things out before doing something reckless in the real world because he's "done stuff like this plenty of times before" when in actuality it was just his mind doing those things and not his actual body?

[mrprestto]

A small Raz HC:

Although Raz possesses a general dislike for most animals, there's a special grudge he has for seagulls in particular.

This is because he got mugged by some over a burger and fries.

He has grown to respect every animal except Seagulls in particular now.

[psitaniumpsichosis]

The Mentallis Family Mistakes [P1]

Lili was so dizzy.

Her gaze was blurry and her hearing was muffled as she started to come to. There was someone leaning over her, but she could hardly understand them for a solid few seconds.

"..Hello? Helloooo? Are you okay?" The voice was becoming clearer the more conscious Lili became. Her eyes finally wrenched open, and there was indeed someone over her.

"Oh!" The man exclaimed. "You're awake! How do--" But, her fight or flight kicked in and he was punched square in the nose, cutting off with a splutter of pain as he was knocked backwards with all of his weight.

Lili sat bolt upright as her adrenaline kicked back in. She could remember the fight, breaking into Esther's house, finding the Deluginist activity-- how did she get here?

"WHERE AM I?!" She shouted, voice sharp and nervous. In her panic, she didn't recognize her surroundings-- surroundings she had grown up in. In front of her stood a woman that she took a moment to recognize...

"... Oh."

"Yeah."

It was herself, but older. That means the Deluginists.... They actually did it. They figured out time travel. Lili's heart sank as her older self reached down and offered her a hand. Hesitantly, she accepted it.

"You feel okay?" The older Lili asked as she hoisted the teen to her feet. "Other than my hand hurting, yeah." Lili answered simply.

She adjusted her clothes as she got back to her feet, pendant falling into place as she huffed and began dusting herself off.

"So. The future, huh?"

"Seems like it... Well, kinda."

"Kinda?"

Lili looked over, visibly confused and pausing to give her older self a weird look. The woman sighed, and pointed behind them with her thumb.

"Look for yourself."

Lili's gaze travelled in the direction of the woman's pointing, and it clicked. The man she had punched was Raz, sitting up holding his nose with a dejected mutter of pain.. next to him was her own Raz, dazed and on his hands and knees, holding his aching head as he looked toward them dizzily.

They looked so different. Key features from her Raz were missing from this man, and it was.. odd.

"... Lili?"

~~~

If you made it through that, great! Welcome to the Psychonauts MFM storyline! This is a semi-collaborative crossover with @doodle17, who owns the Future AU! I own the TTT au, which are the teenagers seen here :)!

Raz and Lili were investigating the Deluginist resurgence when they suddenly wound up fighting some strange masked psychics. Now, they're here-- not sure how to get home, and still recovering from their fight.

Watch as shenanigans ensue as two different timelines clash!

[doodle17]

oooh, I wanna ask about your future au... I wanna ask about your future au so bad....

When Lili and Raz meet again, is it easy for them to fall into the same routine and banter, while holding back their love? Or is it something very awkward because of how much they've grown and changed?

Yeah they kind of fall back into their flirty teasing/banter! Surprisingly enough, haha. I like to think when the meet again one of the first things they do is tease eachother about how they look, now that they're older.

Of course, if you remember in the first game, despite Lili having like- a huge crush on Raz she was always teasing him? Well, I think thats kind of her way of showing she has a crush on them, despite her denying it or being completely oblivious to it in the first place.

It just kinda happens

[browngonzo888]

Raz & Dogen dump

You can find the 3400x4400 sized one here on dA for a closer look, since it’s too big for tumblr machine. vvvv

https://www.deviantart.com/demondog888/art/Raz-Dogen-dump-946474333

[r4zberrygirl]

I don't want you like a best friend

hinata shoyo x gn reader, post timeskip/brazil arc, fluff, 1k+ words

cw: suggestive but no explicit sex, bars/drinking, reader wears a dress and is shorter than hinata

an: this might be my fav one so far! brazil!hinata just does smth to me man he's so ! i definitely wrote this with she/her pronouns in mind but still no pronouns and no physical description of reader :) -raz

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Dress

ᴠᴏʟᴜᴍᴇ : ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯

From his broad build to his tanned, freckled skin, it was clear to you that it had been a while since you last saw Hinata Shoyo. Shoyo had been a close friend of yours since you met in your second year of highschool at Karasuno. However his enthusiasm to play beach volleyball in Brazil swept him away from you like fallen leaves to a harsh wind. You could never resent him for leaving Japan to follow his dream, but it was hard not being able to keep in touch due to your busy schedules, yours with school and his with sports. But here you are, two years since graduating and finally in the same room as the one you missed the absolute most. 

Daichi and the other previous third years had planned a team reunion as soon as they heard everyone would be back in town. And you, being the manager that Kiyoko trained to work alongside Yachi, were of course invited as well. Daichi and Suga had gone out of their way to rent out a room in that bar in the middle of town. You had been before, but the men inside were never able to leave you as breathless as the one you were looking at now. You hadn’t yet gone up to speak to Shoyo but even from a distance you could notice how his career shaped him, physically I mean. His shoulders were wide and you could tell his back was toned through the white tee he was wearing, you think that you could spend all day ogling his arms but alas you’d have to speak to him at some point. 

You stand behind him as he finishes up a conversation with Tanaka, itching to reach out and tap him for his attention. Your hands clam up when he spins around to greet you. “_____,” Shoyo breathed out. You're certain everything around you went silent when your name left his lips. Not one for handshakes, he pulls you into a hug as soon as your mouth opens to say hello. You can't complain about his move though because it gives you the excuse to feel his hard chest. “Oh my god it’s been forever! How are you? How’s school going?” Shoyo casually interrogates you. 

“Hi Sho! I’ve been doing okay and school is boring but it’s going well! And it really has been a while, I mean look at you! You look like a totally new person. Well aside from your hair, just as ginger as always,” a short laugh escapes you as you think of his hair when you first met. A long fluffy mess, it worked when he was young but when he reached his third year of highschool, he switched to a shaggy undercut and never looked back. 

“Me? Look at you! You look beautiful and so grown up! I finally got taller than you though. But this dress! It looks incredible on you,” Shoyo flatters you and your cheeks heat up as you push his arm. You would be lying if you said you hadn't picked it out with him in mind. You purposefully chose one you thought he would like, and the sweet purple mini that adorned your body seemed to do the trick. Shoyo and yourself had been eyeing each other the whole night and the tension between your stares was thick enough to cut, but somehow the rest of the team stayed completely oblivious. His eyes were blazing and you decided in that moment that you would tell him how you felt by tomorrow.

It didn't take much convincing for him to agree on spending the night at your apartment. In fact he was eager to leave the second you suggested it. You both went home slightly more than tipsy, kissing and messy, and you both clambered off to your bedroom the second the door was unlocked. 

You awoke hours later in bed next to a sleeping Shoyo who wore nothing but a pair of boxers at this moment. You watched him breathe, his tanned back rose and fell calmly, freckled from all the hours he spent in the sun. Even with the events that happened only a few hours prior, your anxiety spiked the same way it did when you first saw him in that room. What if he woke up and didn’t remember anything? What if he planned on going back to Brazil and you were just a distraction during his days off? You decided you didn't care when his eyes fluttered awake and over to your form, glancing down enough to see you in just his white tee from the night before. “Hi,” he whispered, eyes closing again and smiling. You laugh softly and whisper back, “Hey,” while smiling as well. You thought about what you were going to say until he breaks the silence again. “Should we… talk about all this. Or are we just gonna go back to how things were and keep this between us?” You think you saw a glimmer of sadness flash in his eyes when he said that last part.

“I’ve liked you since highschool,” you admit with one hand holding his face. There was no going back now, “I was so excited you were coming back. You know I picked that dress out just for you. I figured you would like it,” you giggle slightly embarrassed. You sigh, “I don’t want to be just friends anymore Shoyo. I missed you so much when you went away I can’t take it if you leave again.” Your confession was sudden but you figured the worst outcome was rejection, but even then the pain would have been dulled after your bliss from last night. Your hands begin to shake and you retract them to yourself. 

“____…” Shoyo trailed off. Once again your name caused a ripple of silence to come through your mind, but your heart began to beat harder in your chest as you prepared to hear the worst. 

“Please don’t feel pressured to say something it’s really okay if you don’t feel the same way-” You were cut off suddenly by his lips smashing against yours. Your hands went to his hair as his found a spot on your waist. You groaned into the kiss a little as he went to pull away. His bare chest was now leaned against your body and he held his weight with his arms at your sides. The eye contact you shared was intense. “Do you remember when we first met? You had just switched schools after moving and you needed help finding your classroom. You had that silly haircut that you always hated but I secretly thought was pretty cute.” You looked down, flushed. He continued, “We were only second years, but since then I always knew you were what I wanted. I never could see the girls in Brazil the way I saw you. You were just.. I don't know. Magnetic? Even when you got homesick and missed your old school. You kept lying and saying you were okay but I could see right through you. It upset me seeing you upset. And now we’re here, laying together, and you're telling me the feelings I felt for years are actually reciprocated.” He laughs after that last bit, slightly embarrassed. You kept quiet, not sure what to say. Good thing he always knew what you needed. “_____, can I take you on a date tomorrow? I know we've sort of fucked up the order of this stuff, but I’d love to catch up from these past two years.” He asks while rolling back onto his side of your bed, still looking at you. You snuggled closer to him, “I’d love that.” He wrapped his arms around you and neither of you made an effort to move. He notices a reddish mark under your jawline and smirks, he must've put it there in his haze last night. “So… about this dress…” he teased as you groaned and put your head into his chest, you knew you should've left that bit out. 

[aquato-family-circus]

i think cassie and norma have potential to be a situation of norma being like "omg its the author of mindswarm finally someone organized and professional who i can talk to like an adult and also isnt my teacher" only to come to find that cassie is in fact Cassie, kooky old lady extraordinaire

maybe cassie can even help norma loosen up a bit and have more confidence in herself (because to me norma is very much an insecure teen overcompensating by trying to look very Grown Up lmao)

oh norma's overcompensating so so much i can feel it

that reminds me of one fic i dont remember atm where Cassie and Compton were gossiping over tea and Cassie mentioned Norma trying to be a suck up to her i think, that feels so natural so organic. Cassie's waiting for when Norma will talk to her like a normal person. any day now

and I really love the idea of Norma having a specific impression of Cassie as this elegant, worldly woman instead of a living cryptid who makes awful bee puns

Norma learns Raz actually got that signed copy of mindswarm for the scavanger hunt and shes like oh wow good for you i dont care. i dont even care (she cares so much) (shes clutching her extremely post it noted copy) (she's seething) (she doesnt realize cassie would happily sign her copy bc you cant just ASK PEOPLE for THINGS (you have to EARN THEM))

[2hoothoots]

So happy I finally found you! Your art has been lurking in my Pinterest feed for forever and I kept forgetting to check out your Tumblr pffff

Your art is so cool your grown-up versions of both Raz and Lili and very gender to me specifically ❤️❤️❤️

AW thank you!! it's always so wild to me to think about my stuff popping up on other sites, haha. perhaps this too will some day reach the distant shores of pinterest...

and i'm glad! (raz doesn't keep up with the On-Line Lingo but he'd still be flattered i'm sure)

[psi-spectacular]

Everyone is WRONG ab future raz and lili's dynamic in the future (/lh). Raz becomes goofy as hell and doesn't seem to take shit seriously until the shit gets serious (because, cmon, you need to have a sense of humor working in the same job for 10+ years) and Lili's more levelheaded and has calmed down a bit as shes grown up and keeps Raz from accidentally starving himself when he becomes hyperfixated on a case, but is still rough and tumble as always and is probably the more "shoot first, ask questions later" of the two.

[smug-wolf]

Grown Raz