#i can confirm since the only character i kin is him

[edogawautism]

hi. aroace ranpo. ok bye

[niqhtlord01]

Humans are weird: Family Drama

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To Abarxsis one’s family was something sacred and meant to be treasured. It contained those who were with you from the first moments of your age and would join you along your journey through time longer than any friend or colleague could. It was a feeling he held onto greatly and shaped the foundation of who he was. It was a trait he was glad to see shared amongst many humans as they too sought out family to such an extreme that they would pack bond with anyone or anything to obtain that sense of unity. Yet it was with some great surprise that when he inquired about his human lovers’ family they would refuse to even mention them.

 Whenever the topic of family was brought up their mood would shift like a switch had been flipped and all the joy and expression of them would bleed away and be replaced with a cold chill. Abarxsis learned that it was unwise to bring up the topic, but he still could not let it go until he knew why they were so against their own kin.

One night, Abarxsis was watching human entertainment while his lover slept and saw a strange situation unfold. The protagonist, like his lover, also was estranged from their family and refused to meet them. So the other characters surprised them by inviting their family over without telling them so the two parties could reunite and make peace once more.

This notion of restoring unity gave Abarxsis the idea that he could do the same for his lover and so he set out to track them down himself. It took several months of messages and follow ups until finally he had tracked down their family. When he mentioned that he wished for them to reunite they were thrilled at the prospect and agreed to meet them for dinner.

The day finally came and Abarxsis had taken his lover out under the pretext of a romantic dinner. When the pair arrived the rest of the family was already waiting at the table. They stood and smiled as the pair approached and extended hands of friendship, but Abarxsis noticed his lover had remained frozen at the doorway.

A myriad of emotions went across their face as their eyes focused on the family. Their hands tightened into fists as they looked slowly from the table to Abarxsis, who was still smiling, and glared at him.

“You did this?” she asked through clenched teeth.

The smile quickly fell away from Abarxsis’s face as he realized something was very much wrong.

“Abarxsis did.” He confirmed. “Abarxsis saw how talking of family upset Kelly, so Abarxsis-“

Kelly turned and left the room without hearing out the rest of his reasoning. He turned back and saw Kelly’s family looking confused and went after his lover. She stood out in front of the restaurant pulling out her communicator to summon a hover cab.

“What is wrong?” Abarxsis asked as he came up behind her. Kelly’s head turned to him to see it now awash with rage and anger….and betrayal, much to Abarxsis’s surprise.

“I told you I didn’t want to talk about my family.” Kelly began, her fists still clenched tight. “I had made it perfectly clear that I had no desire to speak with them, or speak of them, or even be near them from the moment we met.”

“Abarxsis know’s this-“  Abarxsis began but Kelly held up a hand to forestall him.

“You don’t speak,” she remarked harshly, “just stand there and listen because I am about to be as fucking direct as I can possibly be.”

Kelly only swore to Abarxsis when she was truly angry so Abarxsis remained silent as she continued.

“My family……”,she stopped and collected her thoughts for a moment as if a torrent of words wished to flow all at the same time from her mouth, “are nothing but parasites; and I have not wanted them near them since the day I left their hellhole of a home.”

“They have leached off me financially, mentally, and emotionally all my life. I was the only one to hold a stable job and they expected me to pay for them while they sat around and did nothing. I was the one they came to when they were dumped by their lovers after they found out they were cheating on them. And when I told them I wanted no more part in their problems they berated me by telling me without them I would not even be here so “it was the least you can do to be grateful”.”

Abarxsis had seen his lover angry before but this was something else. This was not just simple disdain or annoyance; this was a deep rooted hatred that ran through the core of Kelly’s being.

“I left,” she continued, “because it was the only way I could be free from their toxicity and now, despite me telling you otherwise, you have brought that toxicity back to me.”

“But..” Abarxsis spoke unsurely, “they are still Kelly’s family.”

“You were my new family.” Kelly laughed without joy and fixed him with a cold stare. “They stopped being my family the day I left them.”

A hover car slowly pulled up and the door popped open for Kelly. She started to enter when the rest of the family came out and started calling out to her.  Abarxsis watched Kelly look back at him and see her expression now one of disappointment and sorrow, before she entered the hover car and closed the door behind her.

The hover car pulled away as the family came up and began calling out Kelly’s name while shouting recent needs for money or how disappointed they were that she hadn’t spoken to them in so long. Once the hover car was out of sight the family then turned on Abarxsis making the same demands. Abarxsis looked at them with confusion as this was not what a family should be. The love and support he had felt from his was nowhere within the eyes of Kelly’s former family.

Abarxsis came to understand why Kelly did what she did and realized that despite their constant need to pack bonding and need for family, the human concept of family was something not as simple to define.  

[itslouisan]

Q!Philza headcannons:

I woke up and well, I'm feeling silly wanting to talk about Q! Philza since in my opinion he is one of the most complex characters in the QSMP, but also after the confirmation he is the same Philza as in hardcore, EarthSMP and DSMP, with the only exception being origins SMP (despite me having a headcannon about it and a whole timeline where all of it ties together) I thought, why not just show some of my headcannons since I kin this bitch way too much to point of Insanity and he is my comfort character and streamer, shall we?

Under the cut for a LOT of Q!Philza hc:

• First of all Phil has multiple scars from battles, it's confirmed he used to go to wars and with all the lore of the DSMP, QSMP and so on, I imagine he has a lot of them especially in his back and arms with occasionally 1 or 2 near his eye

• Due to said scars he never takes his kimono/samue off, the only exception being intense training where he needs more body flow and lightweight and in serious fights for the same reasons, he probably feels too exposed, vulnerable and even "dirty" showing them off, traits crows also have (avoiding vulnerability that is)

• I'm just gonna brush it slightly on a CHARACTER (NOT streamer Philza) interpretation in his sexuality and gender, if you guys want I can go deeper into it but meh: he is bi and ace, more in the gray sexuality spectrum than anything and enjoying jokes about sex without actually needing to do it, he is a transmasc (FTM) and crowgender using he/him and crow/crow self pronuns. The fact I view him as bi and not as a straight ally (which I did before the QSMP) is due to the fact Q!Missa and Q!Fit were a thing, again I could talk more in depth about this but only if you want

• In my vision character Philza (once more ONLY character Philza) shows traits of having anxiety disorder, either social or just general and some traits visible in people with both ADHD and Autism, which makes me hc him as Autism level of support 1 (tiptoing around 1 and 2) and ADHD PROBABLY combined type (both inattentive and hyperactive)

• His safe food is avocado toast and any potato related food due to Techno.

• Has sleep issues due to constantly having nightmares of the events of the DSMP

• Has back issues due to spending MONTHS sleeping in a chair to watch over the eggs

• He doesn't necessarily views Q!Cellbit as a son, but I think he definitely likes Cellbit company and gives him a ton of advice seeing how Cellbit has massive need of a father figure to guide him through

• Paints his nails with Chayanne, Tallulah, Cellbit, Pac, Mike, Roier, Fit and Jaiden and uses this time to "fofocar" as much as he can with all of them.

• Doesn't like tea but uses it to calm down and heal injuries anyway

• Definitely Cellbit top costumer in his coffee shop and actually talks with Cellbit about brewing techniques (reference to their original duo name being "coffee duo" and irl Phil loving coffee and Cellbit too)

• Has a hardcore heart and Wither rose tattoos in each of the inside of his wrists.

[slecnaztemnot]

Representatives of factions in Veilguard

Apart from our companions, it seems that each faction in the Veilguard will be represented by a pair (or more?) of main NPCs. Some of them already appeared in the trailer!

Antivan Crows

Viago de Riva and Andarateia Cantori (Teia)

Fifth and Seventh Talon of the Antivan Crows, respectively. We met them both in Tevinter Nights and in the comics (Deception, The Missing). Viago is bastard son of Antivan King and master poisoner. Teia is an elven thief and seductress. Her raise in ranks was considered controversial, since she had no connections and is not of noble blood.

They are dating (kinda sorta?)

Grey Wardens

Evka Ivo and Antoine

Evka is a formerly Orzammar dwarf who was saved by a Grey warden and joined their ranks. Antoine is an elf from Orlais, who was tainted and saved by Joining. We met them in Tevinter Nights, protecting a village from a very non-Darkspawn threat, in short stories on Bioware website and in comics The Missing.

Shot from the trailer:

They got engaged in the short story, its seriously cute!

Veil Jumpers

Irelin and Strife

Irelin is a Dalish elf from clan Morlyn. She is a shapeshifter mage. Strife is a former city elf from Starkhaven who joined Dalish as adult. He is a capable archer (and older, at least 50-60). We meet them in Tevinter Nights, short story on Bioware website and in comics The Missing.

They were both confirmed to appear in GameInformer article, which I sadly can't link due to GI being shut down. Irelin also appears in the shot of the trailer.

Images from comics

Mourn Watch

From now on, this is speculation, nothing confirmed in trailer or other media. For Mourn Watch, I think the representative NPCs will be:

Audric Felhausen and Myrna

Audric is a formerly city watch member who now works for Mourn watch and guards/catalogues library. We learn something interesting about him in Tevinter Nights! Myrna is a mage who we meet in the same story he appears in.

Possibly in this shot next to door, as spotted by a friendly redditor!

Lords of Fortune

Again, no confirmation. We meet one Lord of Fortune in Absolution, though Bioware said the cartoon is its own thing and not connected to Veilguard.

In Tevinter Nights, we meet two possible candidates:

Hollix, nonbinary Lord of Fortune, who is expert at disguise. We might have already met them, but we wouldn't be able to tell! Probably human, but its unclear?

Bharv is a dwarf and experienced Lord of Fortune from Rivain.

No pics here either!

Shadow Dragons

This group is most enigmatic, as its completely new to us! It was never mentioned in any of the Dragon Age media before Veilguard. We do meet Neve in Tevinter Nights, though she isn't a member there yet (or she doesn't mention it).

Of course, one has to wonder if we weren't shown any NPC members bcs they will be some of the returning companions. Options include:

Dorian, our beloved companion from DA:I, who returned to Tevinter to fight injustice. He has the advantage of being always alive (unlike other companions, like Iron Bull).

Maevaris Tilani is a character from comics and also appeared in Tevinter Nights (and was mentioned in War Table mission). She is a Tevinter Magister, trans woman and also kin to Varric through marriage. She kicks ass and I sincerely hope we meet her!

Fenris, our beloved companion from DA2! He is a former elven slave and recently appeared in comics as someone who helps others escape slavery, which aligns with Shadow Dragons missions. He can die in DA2, but only in a very specific case - so I wonder if Bioware will pull Leliana with him and just say his lyrium tattoos saved him from death.

What do you think? Any opinions? Who are you most excited to meet?

[creepling]

i’ve had to have some time to think about this because it’s new johnny lore, whether confirmed yet or not im not too sure. haven’t been able to get to the bones of it bc of the nancy gameplay. and it is also something out my comfort zone, but i do have thoughts. ive wrote this more as headcanon, keeping to exploring the fiction so don’t take it as my personal view. i know it’s opened a can of worms in the fandom, but this is me trying to make sense of it through writing.

tags: necrophilia, death, corpses, derranged johnny shenanigans.

many serial killers have confessed to dappling in necrophilia. it’s hard not to when they are toying with death through attraction. if they target victims they also have a sexual attraction to, and they also want to committ murder, there is then a psychological nuance to how they view that person (that they already see as less than human). they will revisit the murder scene, sometimes even dig up the body. they don’t even have to physically committ necro, but the obsession is still there.

in the case of johnny, it is not too far fetched to assume he has been in situations that can have this psychological change in him becoming a necro. how far he goes with it is what is left to the imagination. someone with a philia does not have to do the physical act for it to count, just the obsession mentally accuring is enough. when it comes to necro, the obsession relies on the intrigue of bodily autonomy, to strip it completely through death. his victims have a habit of escaping him, and he is despised by family members because of this. his drive for the hunt is not only to fufill his killer instinct, but also to assure that no one will escape. he views death as a trap, an everlasting bound on their body, mind and soul. his emotions are numb to the point he doesn’t even view it as killing them. he already sees them as an object - as a canvas of flesh - and in death it makes no difference. or, he has the delusion of still seeing light in their eyes; they can speak, but choose not to. in any of these readings, he fulfills his need for control. the body is now obediant, and he doesn’t need to bare anymore shameful scars.

since i’m not a necro (thank god) i assume the obsession is kin to looking at a statue. one of those greek ones where you admire the curves and angles of the body, awing at the creation. its stillness captivating since it’s so life-like, your mind scans for a jolt or twitch. you start to imagine how they would speak, move, show emotion. the person is immortalised to be admired and have them in memory. maybe johnny views his perservation of the bodies like a work of art, they are his muses. when they’re still and unmoving, he can make them who he wants them to be. he can have his derranged thoughts contained in his head, looking at the body on the meat hook, the same way the average person looks at a statue in a museum. maybe that’s all he does, just stares, a scenario in his head, held back by a force that he cannot identify. it’s the first time he’s ever questioned something about his character; and it scares him. that voice in his head, “you sure you wanna do that?” has never tried to stop him before, so why now? is it because drayton doesn’t take kindly to him ‘playing with his food’, is it drayton’s voice? no, he’d be more harsher than that. is it his mum? can’t be, she’s never stopped him before. then who is it? to the average person, that is what you call a conscious. to johnny, it’s an unwelcomed guest, another voice to nag at him. he’s bulldozed his way through life, eating and grabbing anything he desires, and now he’s come to a hault. he thinks the voice is challenging him, and he never backs out of anything. but for the first time in his life, he’s thinking about it. not because he’s questioning the morals, but to see how it will benefit him. and when he looks at maria’s body, hanging on the meathook, and could have sworn he seen her blink. even in death, she is defiant. now, he has to take back control.

[goat-shoe]

ok, i Rant time

ive been reading this fic Knowing itd be a mess and im just... ive had it with this characterization! aimless rant below ^^;;;

tw for bullying, harassment, abuse, homophobia

so a lot of highschool AUs are just..... Bad? like LOL sorry :x but. youre taking away everything interesting about the miraculous holders, And youre trying to make Fully Grown Adults into children. ??????

n e ways, i found this highschool dropout au,,, im Sure you can guess how i feel abt dugout and tiderdrop together, but personal biases aside (its Icky to me and someday ill figure out why)..... lets read this fic.

(to prove i am Not taking things out of context, heres the whole fic)

FIRST of all, youre ognna notice that the prose is Boring, written in long and uninspired runon sentences. i dont wanna just bash on an inexperienced writer, but if youre gonna be this lazy about it.. who is it for :x

second, headcanoning mariquitas name as the Only spanish name you can think of that starts with "mari"? is just uninspired. mariquita wouldnt Choose a hero name so obviously close to her Real Name.. again im not an unmasker, but this headcanon is ridiculous....

finally, and most importantly.... "he sighs wearily". umm, No actually. he Doesnt. you dont even get an insight into dugouts thoughts other than "im nervous about school >m<"

Needless to say, this and his whiny, whimpering demeanor is incredibly infantilizing,. Furthermore in this context, all it does is plays into the ""yaoi"" trope of a big buff bad big boy x boy who says uwaaah! (i hope it goes without saying, this is Not a condemnation of boys who say uwahh, yall are doing gods work and ily)

cramming tigerdrop and dugout into this trope comes off as (and actually is) incredibly homophobic and harmful. need i remind you, these are real people. i wouldnt be surprised if this author was a fujoshi or something too :x

anyways.

im a dugout fan Because hes reserved, but in this fic, thats being watered down to him just being sad and whiny.

its just so insulting to be written shrugging every 3 sentences. dugout im so sorry theyre doing this to you ;;;

guhh. ill give them points for this cute relationship with mariquita...

but again, the prose is just.. clumsy. and again, all dugout does is whine about change. its not even a realistic portrayal of adjustment disorder :x

speaking of disorders Lol,

we Know how i feel abt tigerdrop, but i tend to actually like fanfic portrayals of him.

but this one is just... Confusing...

(also we have mandatory "describe their entire outfit in vapid detail" LOL i should have made this a bingo)

i havent really been talking about the plot, but heres what it took the author two chapters to get through:

dugout it new in town, hes nervous about the changes. (we dont even know why he misses home??? just, make it up i guess, god forbid a fanfiction Make That part up!!!!!!)

tigerdrop has lived in new york all his life, and he appears to be pretty bored with life (ex: pushes pipsqueak over just because he thought itd be funny, no doubt an allusion to the canal street incident last july)

his characterization is actually really confusing and i think its supposed to be like, Alluring??? but its just disconcerting :x

thats It. Two established characters and empty conversations with others (the mariquita mischaracterization especially drives me up the wall ever since i confirmed my kin with her)

they meet in math class when dugout unknowingly sits in tigerdrops seat..... girl, Literally no one in high school acts like this.

at this point, this fic is no better than glee and the millions of other incorrect and careless portrayals of highschoolers. tigerdrop has some weird banter with the faceless teacher (yet Another reason i hate most highschool fics)

:/ i Kinda saw it coming, but....

tigerdrop apologizing and not meaning it? In character. But, hes just acting like a greaser, and its Weird

dugout wouldnt care! he would not look like "a deer in the Headphones."

i Realize the author doesnt have a beta reader but :x that doesnt excuse pawning off lazy work btw, in case anyone was wondering....

last but probably Most important: this is setting up such a toxic dynamic. tigerdrop is actively pushing the message that dugout is taking up too much space and he doesnt belong. its alienating and shitty. and this is a fic Shipping Them :x

but i Clicked on a dropout fic, so.... should i be surprised :/

like i said. dugout is Already afraid of him.. his body is reacting just to the sound of his voice, not unlike trauma in PTSD victims!

like. guh. this is literally so toxic. also..

take a shot every time you see the word "smirks"

lips ghosting his nose And ear? Lol.....

likely The Worst way to incorporate their miraculous personas :x reading this literally made me nauseous.

anyways.... thats all of the fic thats been posted so far. so to summarize: this is just Icky. its even worse, setting this kind of relationship in their high school years :x imagine if someone treated you this way! youre Not gonna grow up and marry them.

i Cant even.

~ ty for reading <3 ~

[somin-yin]

And Light Yagami for the character asks!

Sexuality headcanon: Aroace, or perhaps homosexual aromantic, or asexual homoromantic. The only thing I'm sure is that he's NOT straight (and even reading his last name backwards confirms it ����)

OTP:

Light Yagami x Johan Liebert from Monster ❤️

Jokes aside, LAWLIGHT! They're soulmates ❤️ tho to be fair, I ship Light with everyone except Ryuk (I ship Light x Mikami, Light x Takada, Light x Naomi Misora, even Light x Misa a bit) but Lawlight is still my number one ❤️

BROTP: It's very hard for me to imagine Light having bros but perhaps Light and Ryuk? or Light and Matsuda?

NOTP: Light x Ryuk, Light x Near, Light x Mello, sorry but no 🤷‍♀️

First headcanon that pops into my head: Light and Johan teaming up to defeat everyone who opposes Kira and succeeding but when Kira's empire is in its best moment, Johan decides to destroy Kira's new world because he saw no point keeping it and he was bored. :) Not exactly a Light headcanon but it's the first thing that came to my mind 🤷‍♀️

Favorite line from this character: “Kira has become law in the world we now live. He’s the one who’s maintaining order. I have become justice. The only hope for mankind. Kill me? Is that really the right thing to do? Since Kira’s appearance six years ago, wars have stopped, and global crime rates have been reduced by over seventy percent. But it’s not enough, this world is still rotten, with too many rotten people. Somebody has to do this! And when I first got that notebook all those years ago, I knew I had to do it. No, I was the only one who could. I understood that killing people was a crime. There was no other way, the world had to be fixed! A purpose given to me! Only I could do it. Who else could have done it?! And come this far?! Would they have kept going?! The only one… who can create a new world… is me.”

One way in which I relate to this character: Nothing, I don't care what the quizzes say, I don't kin him. I think the only thing I could relate is his sense of justice but then again who wouldn't want justice?

Thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: His god complex is so cringy, it's good he got owned eventually and faced the reality that he was just a human all along.

Cinnamon roll or problematic fave? There's only one correct answer here and it's of course cinnamon roll, Light is the purest character ever created, he wanted a world full of light and virtue, even his name says it, so you can't fight against that logic, right? riiiight? Nope. OKAY, SARCASM ASIDE, his dark ass heart deserves the title of biggest problematic fave, I'm serious now 🤷‍♀️ I know I bully him (or like I call it, tough love) but he's still my favourite character in DN, he's very well-written, complex and layered, I have no choice but to like him as a character 🤷‍♀️

[cerastes]

Hit me with Hazama from Blazblue.

WELL, WELL, WELL, IF IT ISN'T A BINGO

So, several years ago, I Was Positively Obsessed With This Guy. I couldn't even play him well back then, but as you may know, I've always been Huge into Blazblue's fucking macaroni and cheese with kerosene of a lore, and my favorite character is Hazama, that's not changed, that won't likely change. Something you can ask long-time followers and friends here for confirmation is: Did Dreamer use to flip balisong/butterfly knives all day?

The answer is yes. Ever since before I even knew what a Blaz was and why it was Blue, I used to do balisong tricks. So if we were in a Skype (WOAH!) call, other people would usually hear a clink clank, and that was my knife (sometimes, knives, plural), and if it wasn't balisong, it was a little chain I kept on me, just spinning it around, all of this because I didn't know what fidget spinners were back then and lord howdy my ADHD is weapons-grade. Likewise, see you my URL? "Cerastes". That's the scientific name of a family of snakes, and specifically, I'm making a reference to the Crotalus Cerastes, aka the Sidewinder Rattlesnake, my favorite snake. My love for snakes comes from when I was a wee lad, when I used to play with my aunt's Ball Python. Moreover, mayhaps you've noticed I have a predilection to take a few swings at the hornet's nest here and there, but more commonly, I just like to play pranks or fuck with my friends, I like to stir the pot, so long as it's funny. Always been like that.

So imagine my surprise when I boot up this fighting game I bought on a whim, get to the end boss of the Arcade run, and find myself face to face with a conglomeration of all of my interests, from fashion to choice of motif to demeanor, all shoved into one single character. And then that character catches me pressing buttons and sends me to Andromeda with a Jayoku Houtenjin.

I was fucking STOKED. I didn't know what a kin was back then but if I did, Hazama would've been my one and only. I identified so much with this guy because, well, how the fuck could I not. That was the closest I ever got to making a tinfoil hat and believing conspiracy theorists because Hazama as a whole feels to me like he was made specifically by someone to tell me they can see me and know everything about me.

So this mother fucker stays dear to me forever.

[alecsalamander]

for everybody i've never inflicted it on before, the introductory scene to my world about magic and politics and family ft. the first glimpses at the two main characters catalin/cat/cj (a witch) and wednesday/wendy/wes (a witchhunter)

Traffic is bad on the Skyway. That’s why he’s almost late – a few too many cars trying to get across state lines and he nearly misses Career Night like he promised he wouldn’t. It’s seventeen minutes of stress and cursing before he slides his car into a spot that’s more than likely illegal to park in and sprints the three blocks back to the school, seventeen minutes past the time of no, I’ll be there, I promise. As it happens, the presentations don’t start before he arrives so much as immediately as soon as; he sneaks through the door at the back of the room just as the first speaker stands to introduce himself. “Good afternoon,” the man greets. Soft voice. Soft sweater. Eyes like an eagle, or an owl – some silent predator. There’s something about him that says trust me, and something else entirely that screams danger. “My name is Wednesday Bishop, and I’m a witchhunter.” It’s like, well, magic, that word. Most of the students in attendance resettle in their seats, suddenly attentive, with a ripple of whispers that range from excited disbelief to outright admiration. It’s been less than ten years since witches were outed from legend to every day life, since the stories were revealed to be true, and while most of these kids aren’t old enough to really remember what the world was like Before, they remember enough to know that it hasn’t always been like this. It hasn’t always been a quiet man with a quiet smile who introduces himself to a group of high school sophomores by the title that means a simultaneous mixture of hero and assassin. A witchhunter. A direct agent of the UN task force, a soldier in the globally operated Strike Team Thorn, a high-ranking presence in multiple governments. One of the chosen few who, when this all began, was knighted with the monumental task of protecting the people of earth from the threat of magic. It’s rare for one of them to come out for such a minor event as this. Rare, he thinks as he watches the young man in the third row go pale and pliant at the word, but suddenly within reason. He leaves immediately after the witchhunter steps off the stage to thunderous applause, following the neon of the boy’s yellow jacket as he excuses himself to the restroom. “Who is it,” he corners the boy as he exits the stall, cell phone still in hand. “Mom? Dad?” It doesn’t take much searching to find the answer, written in a shaky hand across the creases of fear at the boy’s brow. “You?” The boy swings and spins, set to run, but it’s easy enough to stop him with a firm hand at the elbow. “I’m CJ,” he offers a smile and a tiny storm cloud in the palm of his hand – the weather witches were the first wave to be eradicated, deemed too dangerous to be allowed, and among the very rarest of their kind to remain. At the first miniscule flash of lightning, the boy sags into compliancy. “Me,” he admits, unnecessarily, “but my mom says her grandpa could do it too. The visions, I mean.” CJ nods. It’s an inherited trait, magic. A taint to the entire bloodline rather than a spontaneous mutation – he got his from his mother, from her mother, from the entire deep-rooted tree of them, fifty generations back. “You get them a lot?” The boy shuffles his feet on the tiles. “Only twice. Some good it is, magic... didn’t even warn me about, y’know, the—” He doesn’t say the word. Most witches don’t. Superstition and magic are such close kin, after all. “He’s here for me, isn’t he.” “Probably.” He’s somewhere around fifteen years old, but his face falls into complete childhood with the confirmation. The screen of his cell phone flashes again: MOM. “What... what do I do?” CJ shoves a hand back along his forehead, knocking loose the knit cap that covers a shorn head, and sighs. “You can go home and hope no other witchhunter finds you.” The word falls easily from his tongue, familiar and fluent. “Or you can come with me and make sure they don’t.”

[p5x-theories]

(Sorry for sending so many asks dhdjd)

While we dont know yet if they will be plot relevant, something tells me that either Leo or Kii are gonna be the "Akechi" of the game, since it seems to mirror a lot the original game

Leo, well, his costume and persona looks so much like a power ranger/super hero, just like Princekechi. Maybe instead of a detective he is more of an actor working in some fetherman-like show.

Kii, we dont know a lot about him, but from his nickname (im pretty sure it means gold) and from the sticker he is dressed like some rich boy i feel like he will be a pain in the ass. Plus his persona has a lot of tree immaginery going on, thing that is usually connected with viking myths.

Also if someone can correct me: from what i know in asia, expecially China, freckles are a symbol of bad luck

(No worries!! I love getting asks, it's fun to have other people to talk to about this game and get ideas going!)

I think I might've pointed out something similar about Leo's superhero vibe reminding me of Crow back when we first saw him? That was months ago, so I might never actually have gotten it into a post, haha. But I absolutely agree! One of his datamined voice lines from the first beta mentions it being like a tokusatsu drama, so that's absolutely the vibe he's trying to go for, too. Admittedly, I do think he's more likely another Phantom Idol than a story character- I think he would've gotten as much focus as Soy in the trailer and promo info released, otherwise- but I suppose there's still hope for at least another few hours, haha!

If he is a Phantom Idol, I suspect he's not intended to parallel a P5 character, but he may still end up having similarities even if he isn't. I kind of got the vibe (again, from the teeny handful of voice lines we got in the first beta's data) that he might be a bit more outwardly nerdy/excitable than Akechi? Maybe "earnest" is the word I'm looking for? I'd totally believe that out of the mask/the real Leo at least has dreams of being an actor or something along those lines, especially in that kind of production.

For Kii, I think you're thinking of 金 (kin) for gold? Which doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't be tied to that, but as I'm sorta suspecting he'll also be a Phantom Idol (just with a story counterpart, like Tomoko), I'm similarly suspecting his Merope-given codename'll just be a shortening of, or joke on, his real name, much like all the confirmed Phantom Idols have been.

(For the record, my Japanese dictionary returns the following definitions for Kii (different words based on different kanji that "kii" could be written with): "odd; strange; queer; peculiar", "displeasure; offense; offence; disliking", "your will; your wishes; your request", "position of aircraft", and "Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)".)

I had originally only really noticed the top of his Persona was kinda like fire (kind of like Yosuke's Takehaya Susano-o in P4), but looking at it again, you are so right about the tree imagery going on! Maybe you're right about the viking thing, too (admittedly I've never gone too deep into Norse mythology, haha).

From his glasses + expression in the sticker (and disappearance of glasses in his All Out Attack cut-in), and how he seems more serious/cold as a Phantom Thief, my take on him had sort of been, up to this point, that he'd be more of a nerd that's perhaps trying very hard as a Thief/trying to look cool/trying to be taken seriously, or something along that line, and his real-world counterpart is the Mishima parallel (going by a guess from there that maybe Kii's a Phantom Idol, so it's like Kotomo). But I do agree that what we can see of his sock and shoe in the image does sort of have a "rich kid" vibe to it, haha. It could just be related to whatever his thief theme is?

I did a really quick search about freckles in China, and while I'm not sure if they're bad luck (again, quick search, maybe I missed something/didn't go deep enough) it seems like they do tend to be considered unattractive/ugly, which I believe was also the case even here in the US in the past. But that's a good angle to come at this from- personally I think the freckles are cute, but the developers probably had a different intention...

[amora-ledezma]

Obey Me! Characters meeting Twisted Wonderland Characters

Request commented and made by @r4yyyyy

Hope it’s up to your standard<(^-^<)

May contain spelling errors. Maybe a bit OOC but eh.

Ace and Mammon

Riddle, Trey, and Lucifer already feel an headache coming-

At first they didn’t like each other all too much because both of them were glaring at each other every time the other interacted with Yuu or Yuki.

After confirming that no, the other isn’t trying to flirt with your best friend/human, they started to talk while Yuu and Yuki had to do something

And soon enough, Mammon was already asking Ace if he wanted to rob a bank.

And Ace being, well, Ace

Actually agreed to it, despite Deuce telling him that no, he shouldn’t do that unless they want both of their heads taken off by Riddle.

But Mammon persuaded Ace by telling him he, a demon, can easily defend both of them from Riddle, “just a human with magic” in his words.

Well, uh…

Not only did they fail to even get inside the bank, turns out Riddle’s collars affected demons way worst than humans.

Since demons don’t have a medium where magic flows out(ex. the magical pens NRC and probably RSA have) I’m going to take a guess that their magic circulates all over their body.

I’d compare their magic to like blood circulation or mana, so collaring Mammon would stop the magic from flowing into his head like blood would, making him light headed.

Now poor Ace has to deal with Riddle and Yuu’s anger.

In conclusion; chaos duo.

(Can be “chaos trio” but Deuce would probably refrain from interacting with those menaces)

Lucifer and Malleus

I’ve never heard silence quite this loud…

But once one of them decide to break the silence(probably by Malleus asking a question about something in Devildom that interested him) they’d probably exchange knowledge about their respective worlds.

“Overblots?” Lucifer would ask.

“Ah yes, I can see why someone would take interest in that, but first I should probably explain what exactly is ‘blot’.”

(Satan was interested too, he was probably eavesdropping)

The next time Yuu and Yuki see them both they’d be talking animatedly.

“Ohmygoshmyheart— why are they so handsome when they smile?!?!” Yuu and Yuki would collectively gush.

Sebek and Belphie

“Do you hate humans too?”

“Very much.”

And that sums up pretty much all their interactions.

But that’s because it’s the only thing they have in common.

If Sebek shouts and wakes up Belphie from his nap, hope to whatever deity they believe in the Valley of Thorns that Sebek gets back to Twisted Wonderland alive-

Someone get Beel and Silver to keep their brothers’ at bay.

Trey meeting Barbatos&Luke

Trey and Luke would get along immediately because of their interests in baking.

Barbatos was introduced to modern kitchen equipment and is absolutely fascinated.

Like Trey would show him a mixer and he’d be like “Dear Diavolo! You’re telling me I have been mixing things by hand when this contraption exists?!” and yes his eyes are indeed sparkling.

The fact that Devildom is actually behind modern technology is so hilarious to me-

All of them would exchange recipes.

Trey may or may not unofficially adopt/take Luke under his wing to teach him more about the recipes;)

Satan and Deuce

You’re just a little bit too much like me~

They both have a side to themselves that they want to hide from other people.

And the fact that both are related to their tempers is just— they pretty much kin each other ig.

Since Satan doesn’t really have a reason to dislike Deuce, he tolerates him.

Satan thought he and Deuce wouldn’t be that close.

*Satan’s older brother mode activated*

But he pretty much treats Deuce as if he’s his little brother.

Probably teaches and helps Deuce with his grades.

Would give Deuce books he has read and liked.

Satan probably teaches Deuce metaphors and euphemisms he had picked up over the years.

“Wait so washing feet can mean…?!”

“Hahaha, that would be the case.”

And by extension, Asmo would probably treat Deuce as if he’s his brother.

Asmo and Vil

Ahahaha, *Yuki and Epel nervously sweating*

Gosh if Vil even tries to point out something he thinks is “wrong” about Asmo’s skin or outfit?

He’d get it back 10 fold.

“Now that’s not how you wear a scarf you potato-”

“That should not be coming from someone whose colored hair tips look absolutely fried.”

“They look so damaged that it might even rival the way you part your hair and that ridiculous crown accessory you have.”

So Vil would either explode from anger or actually cry.

And Epel is just amazed. Like sparkles in his eyes amazed.

Rook is now walking eggshells around the both of them.

Asmo would probably call out Vil for his unnecessarily harsh insults/“advice” he gives to his dorm mates.

Asmo can and will annoy Vil by hypnotizing Rook and make him do whatever he wants to annoy Vil.

[archived-kin]

simeon with a himbo boyfriend

note from kin: once again i am writing for the boys because this fandom doesn’t have nearly enough content for them, especially for Big and Beefy Men. let them be in dating sim fandoms too!!!!!! give them more content!!!!!

anyway i’ve made you an angel since i don’t want to have to think about the deeper repercussions of what simeon dating a human would be (i mean we all know what happened to lilith when she tried it)

fandom: obey me!

character(s): male!reader, simeon, luke, belphegor, beelzebub, asmodeus, satan, leviathan, mammon, lucifer, barbatos, diavolo, solomon

pairing(s): simeon/reader but it accidentally becomes everyone/simeon’s boyfriend at some point whoops (this ended up as a pretty big block of text as a result so please let me know if you have difficulty reading it so that i can try to format it better!)

warning(s): nope!

genre: fluff!!!! fluff everywhere!!!!!!!!!

simeon thinks you’re the cutest goddamn thing in all three realms

you may be six foot four inches of muscle but to him that is six foot four inches of ADORABLE

you’re very strong so he likes to just run and jump up at you from behind and wrap his arms around your neck because he knows you won’t be fazed by it (physically anyways, emotionally is another story)

the other angels always gasp when he does this in public because it’s so far from his usual ‘poised and elegant’ thing but how is simeon NOT supposed to climb all over you like a koala when you’re so big and huggable???

simeon just really loves jumping at you like that okay

because every time he does you’ll just pause for a second and look very confused as to why your back has suddenly gotten heavier, and then you’ll turn your head, and your smile and excited little ‘simeon!!’ is to DIE for

he has to be incredibly upfront with you about what he wants because otherwise you will not understand

he has to say, word for word, “i want to sleep in the same bed as you every day” before you actually realise that that’s what he meant

the whole exchange kind of went like this:

simeon, being sappy at like seven in the morning: “i want to wake up like this all the time from now on”

you: “??? do you want me to come lie down next to you before you wake up tomorrow morning?”

simeon: “no, for the whole night”

you: “you want to wake up like this for the whole night??”

simeon: [sighs]

he also often has to be the one taking charge when it comes to physical affection  

like you’re always willing to give him hugs and carry him around and let him sleep sprawled out on your chest like a starfish and give him kisses but half the time simeon has to ask you because for some reason you just won’t do it on your own???

at one point simeon starts getting a little insecure that you don’t actually really like physical affection and are just going along with it for him

because he’s a sensible angel, he brings this up with you before jumping to conclusions

he was not prepared for you to reply that you always wait for him to confirm that he wants affection because you’re afraid that you’ll accidentally hurt him with your strength if you go for it by yourself

simeon doesn’t cry a lot but dear god did he come close that day

after that it’s just hand holding and hugs and forehead kisses galore from you and simeon couldn’t be happier

now, it’s time for a bit of backstory

you were created purely to fight during the big celestial war, which is why you are so Beefy and Stupid

the beefy is because they needed you to be both strong and intimidating, while the stupid is because they didn’t create you with anything but fist fighting in mind

during the war you were a force to be reckoned with because you could just run at and headbutt a demon and they’d immediately be flung straight out of the skies and back into the devildom

and, even better, this meant that you didn’t have to kill anyone! you could just punt them so hard that they’d be flung out of the realm where the battle’s taking place entirely

once the war was over though they didn’t really know what to do with you

you were basically just this giant baby who didn’t know how to do anything but war

so they just dumped you in a garden and told you to take care of the flowers

which was how simeon originally met you! he was taking a walk around the gardens and saw you crying over a tree that you accidentally snapped in half with your big clumsy hands

now, simeon wasn’t one to believe in love at first sight, but HOLY FUCK

if he hadn’t already been an angel in the celestial realm he’d have thought you were some divine being from the heavens

anyway long story short simeon consoled you and started helping you take care of the garden, taught you how to live a life in times of peace, spent entire nights just lying awake and thinking about your smile and your laugh and how warm your hands look to hold and how it would feel to hug you, and finally managed to confess to you without you misconstruing it as just a Friendly Act of Kindness, and now you two are the proud holders of the title Cutest Couple in The Universe

granted only asmo calls you two that but you’ll take it

speaking of asmo allow me to segue this to the rad exchange programme era

you get so sad when simeon tells you he’ll have to leave for a year

your face falls when he breaks the news and your voice is all lost and quiet when you ask, ‘does that mean i can’t see you?’

simeon is absolutely devastated

it’s like a thousand puppies and kittens are being murdered right in front of him

he nearly cries (when i say nearly i mean he does)

but he can’t back out of the exchange program now, and one year isn’t THAT much for beings that live for possibly forever, so in the end, giving you a giant hug and about a million kisses to make up for the ones you’ll miss over the coming year, simeon leaves for the devildom

he makes it about a month and a half without you before he starts getting all mopey

and you’re not doing much better up in the celestial realm

michael actually has to message simeon and ask him how to deal with you because you spend every day dejectedly shuffling around the gardens that you take care of and it’s making everyone sad just looking at you

simeon reads that message and immediately decides that either he’s going back to the celestial realm or you’re coming down to the devildom

the authorities are a little cautious about it because you’re one of the purest angels they have and they really don’t want you getting corrupted by demons

but simeon assures them that the few demons that you’ll actually be having contact with wouldn’t do that, and you’ll be under both his and lord diavolo’s protection

so you end up being allowed to join simeon in the devildom for his exchange year!!!

honestly with the way the two of you react when you see each other again you’d think you hadn’t seen each other in years

simeon runs up to you and jumps straight into your arms and you spin him around in a big hug and ahhhhhhhh it’s like a teen romance movie but with an actually compelling relationship

and so you move into his bedroom (because of course you’re still going to share one down here) and take up a temporary position as a gardener to take up time since you can’t really do school

pros: simeon now gets to see you every day again and you look very cute bustling around the devildom’s fancy gardens with a watering can and wheelbarrow. also he gets to watch you lift an entire shed and it’s the best thing he’s ever seen

cons: the others are all basically in love with you now as well

simeon’s torn between ‘why wouldn’t they be, he’s literally the most perfect being ever’ and ‘what the fuck, that’s MY boyfriend’

belphie likes you because you are similar to beel and you’re also warm and big and strong so he can take naps on you and you won’t be bothered in the slightest

one day simeon sees belphie just jump onto your back and start sleeping there while you’re crouched in the garden doing some weeding and he’s so stunned by the sheer audacity that he forgets to be mad about it

honestly you don’t really notice that belphie is sleeping on you until you go to get up and feel something move on your back

and then, being the dumb precious idiot you are, you just lie face first there on the lawn so that he can carry on sleeping without being disturbed

consequence: simeon nearly cries at your sweetness but is also incredibly jealous and belphie is now having Feelings that he didn’t sign up for

beel meanwhile isn’t sure how to feel about you at first because he kind of feels like you’re stealing his twin all the time, but then you make him your special candied fruits (from produce that you grew yourself) and he loves you from that point forward

also PLEASE share your workout routine with him he wants to know your secret

it turns out that you don’t really have a workout routine?? you were just made like that

though the constant exercise and heavy lifting and stuff you do as part of your daily garden-care routine (you take care of basically all of the gardens back in the celestial realm) helps as well

he’s a bit disappointed but he does like that you can pick him up without any effort

one time he asked if you were capable of it and without missing a beat you went ‘let’s find out!’ and straight up swept him off his feet

beel was fucking screaming on the inside but no can’t feel feelings that’s simeon’s boyfriend

meanwhile asmo… okay we all know the way asmo is

boy took one look at you and immediately started drooling (figuratively anyway. physically his jaw just dropped)

kudos to him though, he backs off with the flirting as soon as simeon informs everyone that you’re his partner

asmo may be the avatar of lust but he is no home wrecker (he still finds an excuse to hug you every time he sees you though because awooga, muscles)

(he does know his boundaries so simeon doesn’t mind too much)

asmo also very likes the fact that you have such a green thumb because it means you can grow the prettiest flowers and you’re always willing to trim him a few to use as accessories

at some point simeon accidentally eavesdrops in on a conversation between the two of you where you’re just gushing about what kind of flowers he likes and how you’re going to plant them everywhere in the devildom because you like it when he smiles when he sees them

CRITICAL HIT!!!!!

simeon is pretty sure he combusts on the spot, while asmo is just squealing

thus was the origin of the title ‘Cutest Couple in the Universe’

satan on the other hand is mostly disinterested in you at first

the two of you live in pretty different worlds even if you live within the a five minutes’ walk of each other. he prefers to stay locked up in his room or the library and just curl up with a good book or ten for hours on end, while you’re always outside, digging flower beds and pruning bushes and cleaning fences and walls and basically doing every other little bit of manual labour that none of the brothers could be bothered to do before

he does note that you’re pretty good at what you do but that’s about it

until one day

you’re just pottering about in the garden outside the house of lamentation doing your angelic gardener thing when the stray cat that satan’s secretly been feeding for the past month or so comes by for its usual afternoon meal

satan has the window overlooking the garden so he quickly spots its ginger fur as well as you staring directly at it, and he immediately panics because what if you scare it away with your intimidating stature???

(yes, part of the reason satan doesn’t acknowledge you before this is because he was kind of scared of you and your muscles that he heard could punt beings out of entire realms back in your hey-day)

so he quickly dumps his book (though not without carefully bookmarking his place first) and rushes down to the garden in hopes of salvaging the situation, only to find you lying face first on the grass once again, though this time it’s not his little brother on your back

it’s the cat, who is purring like a little motor and aggressively kneading its paws against your back

satan can’t even see your face in this moment but he still basically gets cupid-shot in the heart because this is the cutest thing he’s ever seen

he has to force himself to calm down for a bit before he approaches lest he get overexcited and accidentally incur simeon’s wrath in the process

anyway after that satan makes a beeline for you every time he sees you and learns that you are an Absolute Idiot, but it just makes him like you even more

if satan was intimidated by you at first though, levi is downright terrified

you look like you could snap him in half with a single punch

he doesn’t try to talk to you at all for the first few weeks because how could he possibly find common ground to talk to you about?? you probably hunt dragons and eat rocks or something in your spare time

it isn’t until satan brings you up one day and mentions that you are incredibly dumb of the ass and probably couldn’t hurt a fly even if you tried that levi even entertains the idea of befriending you

he’s still not making the first move though

but it turns out that he doesn’t have to! one day you just show up at his bedroom door holding a giant crate of his latest akuzon haul

turns it got dropped off at the local post office after traffic problems and you volunteered to go pick it up and bring it back

anyway levi thanks you and starts unpacking his stuff, expecting you to leave in silence, but then he looks over and sees you just standing in front of his tv and staring at it

he’d been playing some battle platformer to pass the time before you showed up, and while levi himself doesn’t consider it particularly remarkable, you’re absolutely fascinated

being a gardener in the celestial realm you’ve never really had experience with this kind of thing, and you’re even more tech-illiterate than simeon, so what you’re seeing is basically like magic to you

so levi takes it upon himself to teach you as much about the art of gaming as he can in the short span of the next four hours before simeon gets home from a meeting of some kind and you inevitably immediately run off to greet him

you learn the basics relatively quickly but you’re still pretty awful at it

levi loses count of the amount of times you’ve accidentally run right off the end of the platform and fallen to your death once it reaches thirty two

it’s pretty much the most he’s laughed in, like, forever

congratulations! you have gained a new member in your party! levi will now follow you to the ends of the earth because you are the first person he feels like he can just be totally at ease around without being judged at all and just have fun with

(once, after you leave another gaming session to go cuddle with your boyfriend in the garden, levi catches himself thinking that ‘it isn’t fair that simeon gets to date him’ and has to do some serious self assessment)

mammon meanwhile has none of the reverence for you that his brother does

the amount of times he’s tried to rope you into his money-making schemes (which never work because he fails to realise that you are incapable of doing anything malicious in the slightest) is honestly just embarrassing at this point

simeon has to step in more than a couple of times because honestly mammon could ask you for your wallet and you’d probably just give it to him without another thought

that being said your wallet wouldn’t be much use because you never have any money

you just don’t understand the concept of exchanging money for goods and/or services so you never see any need for it

that being said, simeon does give you some money every time you go out into town on your own because something will inevitably catch your eye and you’ll suddenly realise that you just cannot live without it

the thing is simeon spoils you ridiculously so he always gives you way more money than would be considered a reasonable allowance

which means all mammon has to do is tag along and ask you nicely and you’ll probably buy him anything he wants

he does this a couple of times but then stops because he actually starts feeling bad about it

something just doesn’t sit right with him when he’s walking around with a bunch of shiny new things you’ve bought him with money that was meant to be spent on you while the only thing you’ve bought of your own volition is a pack of chocolate lollipops shaped like rabbits to share with simeon and luke

he may be the demonic avatar of greed but even he has a line that he won’t cross

he makes up for it by buying you things instead

nothing too expensive (he’s still mammon after all), just little things like sweets or bulbs for flowers you haven’t tried planting yet or food colouring for you to use for your candied fruits

speaking of those candied fruits, guess who loves and would probably kill a man for them?

lucifer

man may not seem like it but he has a hell of a sweet tooth

there was a bit of tension between the two of you when you first met (well there was tension from lucifer anyway) because he’d never met you like he had simeon and luke and had no idea what you were like

plus he’d heard about how you’re everyone’s favourite now back in the celestial realm and the little piece of him that still misses his life as an angel is a little petty about it

but then he interacts with you more and he realises that that favouritism is absolutely deserved

he will not admit it but he has wondered what being carried by you would feel like on multiple occasions

figures out how to read you really well which isn’t much of an achievement when you wear every single feeling you have on your sleeve but it still brings him a bit of satisfaction when he notices something that simeon doesn’t

he may be a pridey mcprideface but he is willing to give up a bit of that pride by pretending he can’t carry something heavy so that he can watch you do it

simeon acts like he doesn’t notice this but he absolutely does and he doesn’t know if he should tease lucifer about it or whack him over the head with a newspaper for it

all that aside though, much like simeon,  lucifer also thinks you’re just the cutest

he comes across you building a pillow fortress in the middle of the house of lamentation’s living room one day and is understandably like “what are you doing in my house and what are you doing with those pillows”

you explain very seriously that satan asked you for help in an apparently pre-arranged pillow fight with mammon and that every warrior needs a well-protected base of operations and offer to show him all the optimised battle features somehow recreated from nothing but cushions and blankets and chairs 

lucifer’s heart goes d o k i  d o k i

he also has experience with Big and Dumb men from dealing with both beel and diavolo (when the three of you are together it’s just himbo3) so the stupid doesn’t bother him much

speaking of diavolo (wow i am nailing all of these transitions from character to character look at me go)

this man is basically just a grown up golden retriever boy and you are a big gentle st. bernard so the two of you get along like a house on fire

you’ve seen how much this man gushes about lucifer. now imagine that times a thousand

that is how he talks about you

honestly sometimes you’d think HE’S the one dating you

simeon would probably get defensive if he didn’t get so much whiplash from their conversations about you

diavolo: “i must say, i never would have pinned [name] as being your type”

simeon, ready to Fucking Brawl: “excuse me?”

diavolo: “though i don’t blame you, have you seen his page in that book about the celestial war? the illustration does his true beauty no justice, of course, but it’s enchanting in and of itself. to be honest i’d have loved to have seen him in action during the war, i imagine it would have been quite breath-taking to see”

simeon: “…what”

barbatos is usually just there in the background during half of these exchanges and he has to seriously stiffen up his poker face to resist just bursting into laughter

the other half of the time the conversation is just simeon and diavolo going back and forth gushing about you

barbatos honestly dislikes you a bit at first

not for any personal faults of your own! it’s just that all your garden work + your very forgetful mind means that you’re often tracking dirt everywhere

it doesn’t help that diavolo keeps inviting you over to the castle for tea and a chat and half the time you leave these big footprints on the floor and he wants to cry because he just spent four hours mopping that

he mentions it to diavolo in passing at one point, who then passes the message on to simeon

barbatos kind of gets concerned for himself because he knows simeon does not take well to you being insulted (one time a demon at the r.a.d. called you an ‘unintelligent buffoon’ and he was ready to start a fist fight right then and there)

not that it was an insult, but you never know how love can blind you to reason

but simeon just assures him not to worry and tells you to remember to clean your shoes as well as changing clothes after doing some gardening

normally you’d forget being told these things within a few hours but simeon offers to give you a kiss every time you remember to do this so now you remember every single time you’re about to enter a building after doing some gardening

after that barbatos holds no ill will to you at all

he teaches you how to bake and is honestly so endeared by how clumsy you get in the kitchen

you knock an entire container of salt into the cake mix by accident because your hands are too big and you moved too fast and barbatos is just like 🥺

he low-key babies you even though he’s like an entire two heads shorter than you

you don’t mind though because getting babied by barbatos means you get given all sorts of cakes and sweets all the time

simeon isn’t sure how to feel about it but it doesn’t seem to be the patronising kind of babying (it’s more of an affectionate doting) so he lets it happen

what he doesn’t let happen is solomon’s relentless attempts to feed you his food

you are both too dumb and too nice to realise just how bad his cooking is, but simeon knows you have a sensitive stomach and are actually a pretty fussy eater - you just tend to stay quiet when something isn’t to your liking because you don’t want to complain

having had a sample of solomon’s food himself in the past, he knows that you’ll probably get sick eating it, and he doesn’t want you to be uncomfy so he refuses to let you try even a bite

it’s like he has a radar in his head that goes off every time solomon approaches you will a bowl of ‘noodle soup’ that looks more like something he’s fished out of a nuclear waste tank

solomon, when he’s not trying to indirectly poison you, is probably the guy you spend the most time with apart from simeon and luke

he’ll just hang around nearby with a spell book while you do your gardening and show you some neat little magic tricks every now and then

he tries to help with the gardening but he’s not exactly physically strong and he nearly breaks his back trying to lift a giant bag of compost

so he decides it’s probably better for him to just watch from afar

kind of wants to conduct an experiment to see just how much weight you can lift before you start getting tired

one time he sees you cut down a whole tree with one hard swat of your hand and just walk off carrying it over your shoulder and he has to take several deep breaths

luke knew you already, so not much changes while you’re in the devildom

he really wants to learn to make candied fruits the same way you do but he can never get the hang of boiling the sugar mixture to the right heat and consistency (plus he’s kind of scared of how hot it gets)

you like to just carry him around on your shoulders and while luke would normally bristle at being treated like a child, you act like this with nearly everyone

(once he sees you running around the garden with diavolo of all people perched on your shoulders, arms raised in the air like he’s on a rollercoaster ride, and he nearly passes out on the spot)

he seriously adores you and acts like a guard dog whenever he feels like any of the others are trying to take advantage of your dim-witted naïveté because NO demons are allowed to harm his big brother like that

he will also chase them off with a stick if he has to if they get too close because no being is allowed to even remotely try to disrupt your relationship with simeon 

simeon himself is no fool, and he’s well aware of the effect you have on pretty much everyone you come across, but he trusts them because they’re his friends

besides (and he isn’t being cocky or anything), it’s not like the relationship you have with them even holds a candle to what you have with him

they’ve all known you for less than a year, he’s loved you for nearly two millennia

they might be allowed take naps on your back while you work or be carried about on your shoulders, but do they get to spend every night snuggled up in your arms, feeling your chest rise and fall with every breath you take? no, he doesn’t think so

in conclusion: one day himbos like you will probably take over the world with their big muscles and unwavering loyalty and clueless grins that could make anyone’s heart skip a beat, and simeon’s pretty sure he’d be okay with it

[eddtollett]

why i think Nettles isn't a dragonseed

alright so Nettles is one of my favorite characters from Fire & Blood, so i spend a lot of time just thinking about her. i've concluded that thematically, it's a lot more powerful for Nettles to NOT be a secret targaryen bastard, and have either very little or no targaryen blood at all.

to start, the targaryens for a long time have pushed this idea that THEY are the only ones able to become dragonriders. this influence is basically what makes them. they conquered with dragons, they're referred to as dragons, and their blood-purity complex is largely founded on the idea that only those with large amounts of targaryen or valyrian blood can become dragonriders. in fire and blood, they rationalize Nettles' dragonrider status by implying that she is a targaryen bastard of unknown origin, keeping what i believe is a myth alive that only those with strong targaryen blood can ride dragons.

from the get-go, Nettles' approach is different than any other. while those with targaryen blood undoubtedly have quicker and easier bonds with dragons, evidenced by the fact that those who aren't closely related get toasted pretty fast, all of these people had very blunt, aggressive approaches. they attempt to trick the dragon, or simply approach them with a whip (sorry quentyn). Nettles does not do this. Nettles slowly earns Sheepstealer's trust by bringing him sheep, and gradually he lets her closer, and then forms the dragonrider bond and lets her fly. up until this point, nobody had tried a strategy like that before.

there's also the accessibility of the dragons. for centuries, valyrian dragonriders have restricted the access to dragons to only themselves and their kin. nobody outside the family became dragonriders, but no people outside of the family had a chance to. eggs and dragons were closely guarded in the dragonpit, and wild dragons were, well, wild. even the targaryens could not claim dragons such as the cannibal. if i were to say, "only people with blond hair can eat toffee", and then never let anyone without blond hair near toffee, obviously the result would be that only blond people ate toffee.

now in fire and blood, though it's never confirmed, everyone rationalizes Nettles' success through her unknown paternal parentage, assuming she must have targaryen blood since she's able to ride a dragon. this rhetoric makes total sense from a political standpoint, we see how fast the targaryen empire crumbles without their dragons. if the rest of westeros were to learn that people who put some effort and persistence in can claim dragons regardless of heritage, how would they ever hold onto their exceptionalism? the truth is, there is nothing about the targaryens that inherently makes them the only ones able to ride dragons. they're not superhuman, they get sick and have incest-related genetic issues like the rest of the damn population. sure, they've got a nice head start when it comes to bonding with dragons, but this doesn't make them gods, or superior to the rest of humankind.

additionally, if you do the math, the targaryens have been in westeros and intermarried so much in recent times that their amount of pure valyrian blood is actually very low, hovering around the 6-10% mark, so obviously the blood quantum argument has some flaws considering dany is literally more dornish than valyrian

Nettles, if not a dragonseed, singlehandedly disproves the whole idea of targaryen exceptionalism, and their blood purity. and i LOVE that for her.

[meridaism]

Honest, In-Depth Bravely Review: Confirming Merida’s Lesbianism & WLW Undertones (Spoilers)

Merida’s Comphet & Explicit Lack of Attraction To Men

Firstly, I’d like to talk about how in general Merida harbors no physical nor romantic attraction towards any man throughout the entirety of this book, much like in Brave. There was exactly one miniature paragraph where it is mentioned that Merida was aesthetically attracted to the build and body of a young boy her age when she was a young girl, but the more he spoke the more she realized she didn't even like him whatsoever. This, with the addition of the book stating that along the way Merida never entertained the idea of being with a man nor going out of her way to “find the right one” for herself because she knew they'd all bore her, anger her, and fail to please her needs eventually was SUCH an on the nail representation of a lesbian learning to grow out of comphet whilst growing up in a strictly heteronormative society which a lot of lesbians, myself included, can relate to whether it was intentional or not.

Also, when she said this in front of all of those men who'd been aggressively demanding Merida be married off into their opposing clan: “At the end of these journies, I'll choose one of the kingdoms to join. Not as a wife, mind you, but as family. As kin.” MY QUEEN MY LESBIAN QUEEN.

Merida’s wlw Undertones with Leezie

Now, I'd like to talk about all the times Merida was such an explicit lesbian, because goodness there are a LOT of sapphic undertones with Merida and Leezie. 

While the story itself is told in third person, it is still entirely from Merida’s perspective. She describes Leezie, Leezie’s movements, Leezie’s pouting, Leezie’s mouth and her smile, as “pretty” and “prettily” so constantly in the book to the point where it was basically a character description for Leezie nearly every single time she was mentioned. I’m not kidding. Merida calls Leezie “pretty” SO MUCH. She even said Leezie had an “attractively messy fashion.” Merida is physically attracted to Leezie.

Also, this paragraph, “Take. Leezie’s. Place. Merida felt an actual burst of physical pain at this phrase–a squeeze, right in her stomach, like her insides were being gripped. She felt betrayed by her own mind. It had tried to convince her she was upset about her filthy dress or the unready fire or even the dueling gods, when really the only thing stopping her in her tracks was the knowledge that today was Leezie’s wedding today. Leezie! Getting married! Leezie! To the Cabbage! It had been four years since Elinor had invited Leezie to be the Castle's housekeeper. Four years since Leezie had completely failed at anything like housekeeping and had completely succeed in weaseling her way into the Clan Dunbroch’s hearts instead. Now, she was like a sister to Merida. An aggravating, vague, silly sister, but a sister nonetheless. Her best friend. She was only moving as far as the blackhouse village, barely a mile away, but when the rest of your family lived in a castle, it wasn't physical distance that mattered.” You know what I thought about as soon as I read that paragraph? “One Sister I Have In Our House” By Emily Dickinson. The parallels between EmiSue and Merida x Leezie are a bit insane.

Not only based on the fact that I am pretty sure the author's intent with calling Leezie Merida’s “sister” then calling her Merida’s “best friend” immediately afterwards shows that to Merida, Leezie is one of those best friends whom you feel so close to that you basically family-zone them. But, ALSO, um Merida a god just threatened you and your entire family the night prior and all you can think about is your best friend getting married and how upset and hurt you are by this?? When she realized Leezie called off the wedding last minute, she stormed off to ultilize her archery as a means to calm down.

And sometime after this, there was this paragraph, “Ridiculous that even in moments like this she also noticed that Leezie had drenched herself in some sort of perfume, so strong that it felt like the scent alone should be loud enough to give away their hiding place. Ridiculous that even in this moment, Merida was glad Leezie hadn't gotten married and that they were together, over the edge of the balcony at these usurpers, shoulders pressed together.” Like, I'm sorry but no there's no heterosexual, let alone “sisterly,” explanation for that. Yes, they’re hiding in a tight spot, but “sisters” don’t take the time to pause and SMELL the other sister, no matter how strong her perfume is, then follow that up with an internal thought of ‘I’m so happy she’s not getting married and I’m so happy we’re here together, pressed against each other.’ Like, I’m sorry... WHAT?? Merida is so gay, jealous and lowkey territorial of Leezie; it’s ridiculous how someone could read that and genuinely think “ah, yes, platonic sisterly love.” ???

Also, this paragraph that was a few lines AFTER that, “Merida put a firm arm around Leezie’s waist. ‘This is Leezie Muireall, daughter of Jonet. She's been with us four years, since her mum died, but she's my sister. Not by blood, but in every other way. My heart near to broke when I found out she was getting married, because we're that close. I'd live and die for her same as any of my brothers.’ ” Like yeah sure, she's your “sister,” that's why your heart nearly broke when you found out she was getting married?? Not to mention, even if she were to get married, she would literally only live barely a mile away?? Yet you were so heartbroken about that that you blocked out the fact that an immortal god threatened to destroy you, your family, and your entire kingdom the night prior?? That’s why you just smelled her and her perfume, then thought to yourself about how happy you were that she wasn’t getting married and was instead here together with you, pressed against each other and now you hold her by the waist firmly?? Like yeah I get it you're introducing her as a member of your family to a bunch of warlords whom want to forcefully foster you or your brothers, but Merida please stop lying to yourself you stupid lesbian you're embarrassing me.

Also, this little interaction a few chapters later that's just insane with the amount of gay undertones it's giving after everything else:

Leezie persisted. “Do you think I'll ever fall in love? And get married?”

Merida put a blanket over her eyes and pressed it hard enough that she saw little sparks of light. “Leezie, you were just about to get married.”

“I'd really like to be married.”

Opening her eyes, Merida stared sightlessly into the dark. “Why do you want to be married?”

“ ‘Ms. Leezie, good morning, are you ready for your cup of warm milk?’ ” Leezie said, her voice dreamy. “That's what he would say when we woke up. And I would call him Mr. Whatever his name was. ‘Yes, that would be very nice, Mr.– ’ ”

“Cabbage.” Merida interrupted. “Mr. Cabbage.”

Leezie giggled in her messy, pretty way.

“Good night, Ms. Leezie.” Merida whispered, after a few minutes.

“Good night, Ms. Merida.” Leezie whispered back.

• The fact that Merida is so aggressively BOTHERED every time Leezie brings up herself getting married someday. It is super cute and super gay how the Cabbage, a man whom Leezie was about to marry and whom Merida was heartbroken and upset at the thought of Leezie marrying, becomes an inside joke between the two of them later on, whom refer to each other as wives every time they go to sleep throughout the rest of the book. Merida initiated referring to each other as wives as their little nightly routine, by the way. And you expect me to believe this is a purely platonic relationship?? That they're just “a couple of besties that just so happen to be so close that they routinely refer to one another as a wife whenever they go to sleep, have dreams about one needing the other, one of them quite literally smells the other and then thinks to themselves about how happy they are that the other isn’t getting married and is thankful at the fact that they’re together pressed up against each other, and one gets so upset and jealous at the fact that the other is marrying a man that they completely forget about an uncanny supernatural being that declared death unto her and her entire family literally the night before but NO IT'S STRICTLY PLANTONIC” ?? Maggie, I see what you're doing and I applaud your bravery in giving such strong sapphic undertones to the stereotypical “straight” best friends who call each other wives trope.

Honestly, even calling Leezie Merida’s “sister” feels wrong and icky because of how explicitly homoromantic and homoerotic the undertones are with them.

Merida Seeking Comfort In The Company of Women

This part is both so soft seeing as how she prefers to be near women as a means for comfort yet so sad seeing as how men intimidate her:

“There was something both thrilling and intimidating by the sight. It was exciting because it was nothing like Dunbroch, reminding Merida that she was on an adventure again, but also intimidating because it reminded her of the soldiers she'd encountered on those adventures. Sometimes they were brash and boisterous, just men with swords, but other times there was a glinting intensity to them, a savage surety of purpose that Merida wasn't sure she agreed with or trusted.”

“ Merida asked, ‘Where are the women?’ ”

My poor little lesbian, she essentially said, “Men discomfort and unnerve me. I want to be near women.”

Also, when she visited Eilean Glan, and she was so enamored and blown away by the fact that there were so many girls in one place, so many self-sufficient, self-taught, self-made girls. She was quite literally swooning:

“Merida had never seen so many girls in one place,”

“Here was a building where more girls with neat hair and neat simple dresses watched a woman carefully as she tugged and pressed bread dough. Here, a building where a group of girls picked very slowly at elaborate patterns in embroidery. Here, a building where girls played a song on mandolins together. Here, girls learning to handle ponies, here, girls learning to speak clearly, here, girls praying, here girls braiding other girls’ hair, here, girls doing laundry, here, girls, girls, girls, all of them learning something new with diligence.”

Sweetie, I get it; there is nothing more beautiful than independent, self-made women, but please RELAX. It is also important to note that, after Feradach broke her heart in order for her to eventually heal from it and become a better version of herself, Eilean Glan was the first place Merida went to for healing and for learning how to heal.

Merida Being Canonically NBLW; Solidifying Merida’s Lesbianism

My utmost favorite part, though, was Merida describing to Feradach how he looked like “someone girls would fancy” but then telling him his physical body wasn't what made him Feradach to her. What made him Feradach, for Merida, was his kindness, no matter what physical form he took. Merida explains that she could essentially care less about how Feradach looks physically, that his essence is really all she cares about; whom he is outside of his physical forms: an entity barely made of air, no body, no mouth, no eyes, no gender, just pure feelings and love for the earth around it. Present everywhere, at all places and at all times.  “You look like someone girls would fancy. But, that's just the body, isn't it? The face you're wearing. The kindness is you, though, no matter if you're in that body or out of it. That's Feradach.” This right here is canon confirmation of Merida’s lesbianism, precisely canon confirmation of her being nblw with no attraction to men whatsoever, which is, by literal definition, a lesbian.

This becomes even more evident in the way she responded to Feradach kissing her. The physical kiss wasn't what mattered to Merida, it was the made-of-barely-air entity within whom was only wearing the body for now that mattered to her. That's who was kissing her. That's who she loved. She didn't care what Feradach looked like externally, she cared for who he was internally. Which is so fitting for the themes of external change vs internal change throughout the book.

In conclusion, Merida is, by definition and by canon confirmation, a lesbian.

[outofangband]

Not quite sure! Something post-angband maybe? (For the 3-5 Maedhros ask)

send a character and a topic and I'll post 3-5 headcanons about it! (Still accepting these!)

thank you @scribblebee-ink

so obligatory disclaimer I have WAY too many post Angband ideas and they can be found in the post Angband tag

1. Maedhros has been approached by a dozen or so elves who ask if he has information on captured or missing loved ones. Often, he does not as prisoners in Angband are kept within strict hierarchy and those kept in the mines or other areas the majority of slaves are kept, Maedhros had little contact with. There have been a couple of times he has had to confirm to the questioner that their loved one was indeed a captive and on one occasion he was forced to impart news of a death he had seen himself

2. Maedhros was able to give information about Morgoth’s current form that many of his kin had not known, having not seen their enemy since well before the Silmarils burned Morgoth and prevented him from changing forms.

3. Maedhros is never quite sure whether he is more unsettled by the outlandish and accusatory rumors regarding his captivity that are false and often insulting or those that are, often by chance, closer to the truth

4. It takes Maedhros nearly a year to find the best position for sleeping in to minimize exacerbating pain upon waking. He deals with chronic pain from both various tortures he endured as well as the extended periods of enforced immobility

5. Maedhros post Angband is the only one of his brothers who doesn’t for awhile sleep with a weapon by the bed, instead keeping it just a bit further out of reach in the room. He had one next to his bed for a bit but he nearly stabbed someone more than once upon waking from nightmares and instinctively reaching for his blade (though as I go into somewhere, it does actually take Maedhros quite some time before he can even hold a blade for both physical and psychological reasons). When he is forced back from Himring he usually does have his blade right beside him. There are dangers but it’s a necessary risk at this point

[vilmublue]

I'm still reading River and haven't got to the whole Flamepaw-becomes-Nightheart point yet that I already know of, but it's weird how he keeps talking about how being related to Firestar is a thing everyone makes a really big deal out of when I don't remember anyone ever caring about that minus the time when there was a prophecy about the Three + back when him being Cloudkit's kin was relevant. Like nobody is ever even bringing up the fact that his descendants have kittypet blood to tease them (just saying, since the Clans still have kittypet prejudice...even the said descendants have talked crap about kittypets and like they can never contribute anything to the Clans.) Also, I noticed that just like with Twigbranch during one earlier book, they made Lilyheart out-of-character harsh for the sake of the other character's angst. If you wanna talk about a character becoming ooc mean to further other's angst and feeling of isolation, don't let me get started on what they did to my girl Mothwing...

And I understand RiverClan may have issues with a medicine cat who doesn't have a strong connection to StarClan, but the way they were complaining to Mothwing as if Mistystar can't reach StarClan safely without a medicine cat helping with that and Frostpaw needing to connect and apparently actually connecting with Mistystar's spirit or believing she did...I don't think a ritual like that has ever been part of the Clan life? Like if they wish the spirit safe travel to StarClan or something it's a symbolic thing to say. A spirit from StarClan will guide the dead to join them. The medicine cat doesn't need to make sure and confirm they got there. Yet when Mistystar died one of the RiverClan warriors was like "hey, Mothwing, did our leader get to cat heaven or did that go wrong because of you, you atheist f*ck?" Like normally cats would only be worried about that if the cat did something bad in their life and might go to cat hell, but it wasn't about that...