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[bnesszai]

hii!! “[character A], why does [character B] call you babygirl?” LMAO. with any characters of your choice 👀

okay. OKAY okay. I have so many ideas for this i have decided to narrow it down and do 3. The first one (beast) is just for @osameowdazai and @squidsandthings

ask game~

"Nakahara-san?"

Chuuya scowls. "What?"

Atsushi looks conflicted, nervous. Something like embarrassment crosses over his features, but he doesn't flinch. "Why does Dazai call you baby girl?"

Chuuya freezes. There's a horrifying moment where he tries to think about how Atsushi could have happened upon this knowledge, but then he considers making Atsushi regret it, instead. A sinister smile crawls up his lips. "Well, if you really must know--"

Suffice to say, Atsushi no longer asks Chuuya any questions.

*

"Dazai-san," Atsushi asks.

Humming, Dazai doesn't look up from his book. They have roughly 67 seconds before Kunikida comes back and starts yelling at them.

"Why does Ranpo-san call you baby girl?"

Dazai blinks, glancing up. Atsushi looks genuinely confused, one eyebrow scrunched, the other raised, looking directly at Dazai with an innocence so deep, Dazai laughs.

"Because he's an idiot."

"Huh?"

"He just wants to rile people up," Dazai winks. "Don't think about it too hard."

*

"Kunikida-kun~" Dazai's sing-song voice fills the office. Kunikida feels a headache form immediately.

"What, Dazai?"

Sitting on his desk, Dazai leans in close, their eyes are filled with mischief and something Kunikida refuses to name at the office. Dazai do not, however, lower their voice when they ask, "Why do you call Chuuya, the pipsqueak mafioso, babygirl?"

The office goes silent and still. Comically so.

Kunikida glares at Dazai. Heat is crawling up the back of his neck, his collarbones, his cheeks. "You know damn well why I do, sweetcakes."

Dazai looks shocked, lips parting, just for a moment, before they throw their head back and cackle. "Using bedroom names at work? How inappropriate of you, pretty boy."

The office erupts into chaos and Kunikida has never wanted to kill someone so much in all his years.

Later, he makes sure Chuuya helps him get his revenge.

[danceswithdarkspawn]

Anonymous ask game: Did you know you are an absolute delight and your lesbians are spectacular? Cause both are true.

[neo--queen--serenity]

Lena losing her patience and furiously berating Gwen for potentially endangering the staff members of the OAIR is quite literally the opposite of how Elias ran the Archives.

Elias used the Archival staff—as well as his Archivist—as pawns that can be readily replaced as needed. His patron offered them minimal protections at best (the Archivist’s privileges notwithstanding), and even then, he would never actually intervene to save any of them if they were in danger, much less take precautions to protect them at their headquarters. They are used as bait, as sacrifices, as currency, as objects. The listener knows, eventually, how easily he could discard them if his plans called for it.

But Lena. This episode showed us that Lena keeps her entire organization running through keeping her subordinates hidden, safe, and unnoticed by the Externals. It’s quite clear through her conversation with Gwen that such a safety risk has never happened before.

As far as we know, Lena has successfully kept all of her employees alive, watched them come and go, bemoaned the turnover rate, and then got them to look the other way while they documented and dutifully filed the horrors.

But most impressive of all, she’s kept her real work hidden from her subordinates, and her subordinates hidden from her real work—a feat Elias had no interest or desire to accomplish.

[cult-of-the-eye]

lena kelley could run the magnus institute but elias bouchard couldn't run the OIAR

[ashironie]

the genres everyone thinks they are in

Alice: Office comedy

Gwen: Shitty office drama

Sam: Mystery

Celia: Fanfic

Lena: Horror

Colin: Puter Horror (mystery)

Teddy: not in something

Bonzo: It’s Bonzo Time!!!

[raiain]

THE GAMGGGGG

(left to right: sam, alice, celia, gwen)

[saragrosie]

I may have started the woke communist rpg...

Bonus feelings about Kim's design (Kim my beloved) and some close-ups under here:

[simcardiac-arrested]

digital birth, digital death

[moominmammaonheroin]

I’m sorry this is all I have please take it please

Also these are the same MAGP designs I came up with when it first came out without any fandom reference and I think it’s so funny everyone has some how drawn Gwen the same like please

[zivazivc]

What was Ish and Lena's relationship?

I made so much for this ask, don't look at me 🫣

The two trolls had a short summer romance at a "no boarders" music festival called Fusion Fest. Back then it was a pretty new and small thing, and the point of the festival is for trolls from all genres to come together and enjoy each other's music and company; celebrating togetherness and acceptance.

(Yes, I made a logo. 😅 This festival is a major annual event for the mixed trolls in my AU.)

Ish and his friend group went to check it out because they're already a colorful ensemble of different genres, and they were curious to see what it was about.

Lena and her friends somehow caught wind of the festival in their backwater village where nothing new or exciting ever happens, and they decided to go to rebel against their closed-minded, racist parents and community, but mostly because they were bored teenagers who'd never seen any trolls other than Rock Trolls before. Despite them wanting to experience something new, their reason for going was very much NOT the point of the festival; They were treating it more like a freakshow to stare at, and them rebelling against their parents was more just to anger them and not because they were any better...

In my mind Lena is very attractive (in a trashy, grunge kind of way), and a 16-year-old Ish immediately got a crush on her from across the room.

He put his Funk moves on her and left her completely flustered from how forward he was. I imagine he was really charming and smooth, but also I can't stop cringing and comparing it to bird mating dances lmao.

(The song Ish is singing to Lena. It makes it feel extra perfect because I just happened to learn the singer was also a 16-year-old when recording it!)

Lena didn't fall for him as hard as he fell for her at first, but she's one of those girls who will go for any bad boy that looks intimidating, and she thought funk trolls were scary and intimidating, because she was subconsciously racist herself too. 🧍 She did really start to like him after they hooked up though, and started liking him for him (so at least she was learning...)

But then they were faced with an unexpected surprise one morning after waking up from a night of concerts and partying (and mixing of substances that shouldn't be mixed)...

Ish panicked hard, he even tried getting rid of the egg, claiming it had to be a dud given the circumstances, but Lena stopped him saying she felt it move. Thank god, because Leslie hatched only minutes later.

Ish was so freaked out that he abruptly left and headed back to Funk Kingdom in the same day, and just abandoned Lena with the baby.

Lena was also very scared but she immediately warmed up to little Leslie and had no intention of dropping him off at an orphanage or doing something similar, despite her friends' encouragement to do just that, claiming her parents were going to kick her out if she showed up back home with a mixed baby.

I'm thinking Ish did try to reach out to Lena by sending her a letter a few weeks later (he got her address before the egg thing happened), but the letter never reached her because she really was disowned and kicked out of her parents' house when she came home and refused to give her baby up...

So Lena never heard from Ish again, and the next time Ish heard about Lena was about 9 years later when Leslie turned up looking for him with his baby brother, and he learned that she was gone...

(Ish having a weird day where he went out after Kymani poorly relayed a confusing phone call from the police station, and later came back home as the sole caretaker of two neglected kids.)

[starsandwriting]

So i think season 1 has made it clear that Alice is the only one in the oiar who would survive a classic horror movie. If we weren't in the doomed by the narrative genre Alice would've been winning this shit EASY

Gwen's trying her hardest to put herself in direct line of the horrors. So is Sam

Colin can't look away and has beef with computer ghosts

Lena was already in too deep before the story even started

Celia.

Alice queen of denial queen of minding her own business queen of going Oh Hell No and standing by it would have thrived in hollywood

[jiyaneru]

finally, here's my contribution for supercorp zine volume 5!

@supercorpzine

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

Sapphic Disco Week, Day 6: "But What If It Was Yuri?"

Lena and Mireille, lesbians in their 70s exploring the vanishingly rare marvels of the world together, excuse me im cri

[hubba1892]

"Oh my god - how much I enjoyed that. At half time I said if we can turn this it is something we can tell our grandkids. I see mine in 10 days so I can tell them."

[buildoblivion]

there is something so essentially ‘jonny sims’ about the consequences of mag200 being not just the dissemination of eldritch fear entities but also those very same entities being farmed by a soulless civil service department that runs on caffeine and vitamin d deprivation

[iris-of-the-eye]

When a dangerous entity infiltrated the Magnus Institute, Jonah intentionally held back on pushing the fire alarm and called one his employees being killed and replaced as a result of it a "pleasant bonus".

When a dangerous entity infiltrated the OIAR, Lena yelled at the woman who let them in, stressing that introducing them to her coworkers was a danger to their lives as well, and demanded for a clear line to be kept between the horrors and the employees.

Even if Lena does turn out to be an evil mastermind, this interaction alone makes her kinder than Jonah ever was.