#i got like ultra super possessed to make . these ?

[marksman-ofthe-mist]

shadowy lineups fo' days

[webslingingslasher]

omg what if Peter gets trouble a gift for x-mas BUT trouble didn't bother with a gift for him bc she thought that he wouldn't care about her enough to get her a gift

'what's that?'

'oh!' peter holds out the package, when you stare at the printed santa wrapping paper, he nudges it a little. 'it's for you.'

your entire stomach dropped, you knew you should've gotten him something. you were so convinced it would be stupid, but now you're eating your words.

'c'mon, trouble. what, never got a gift before?' it's fine, you could play it off. you hesitantly reach out for the box, it's even got a bow on top.

'no! i just... haven't gotten yours in the mail yet.' it's fine, you could figure something out. you had two days before he left for home.

'you didn't have to get me anything, trouble.' you peer at the gift, 'ditto, parker.' peter waves you off, 'just open it, c'mon!' you hide your guilt with a smile.

gently tearing the paper, you're met with a gift box. it has a reindeer and a penguin hugging, you peek up at peter, he's itching for you to see what's inside. 'open it, open it!'

handing off the scraps of paper, peter crushes it into a ball, keeping an eye on your face. the gift is revealed, a gray hoodie, with a spider-man mask emblem on the left top corner.

your heart expands three sizes, your thumb runs over the raised embroidering, it's high quality. 'isn't it awesome? i saw it when i was shopping for may like, three weeks ago. i just had to get it for you.' he's so excited, he was proud to know he found something he knows you'd love. and you got him nothing in return.

'okay, okay, put it on! cause there's kind of a part two of the gift.' you feel terrible, it's hard to push back the love for the clothing over the overwhelming hurt you have over getting him nothing. you knew you shouldn’t have talked yourself out of it.

you didn't want to be in peter's spot. something to give and then receive nothing in return. a subtle hint that one cares more about the other.

your silence has peter tone down his excitement, maybe he was a little off with his gift. 'do you not like it? i can return it and you can pick... no! why are you crying? is it that bad?'

you shake your head, using the back of your hand to wipe a stray tear. 'oh, whew! for a second i thought you hated it, but nope, peter picked good. so good you're speechless and crying, look at me go.'

proud. boastful. meanwhile you're solemn and glum.

'seriously, trouble. put it on!' it's the absolute least you could do, he already went miles ahead of you. the cardboard falls to the floor when you pull the fabric up, it's a bigger size than you'd normally wear. 'that's part two. i got it a little bigger so i could wear it and get my scent on it for you.'

your heart’s about to burst open, it's fleece lined and ultra soft over your skin. 'i wore it when you weren't around, so it should smell like me.' you bring a sleeve to your nose, it does. it smells like a giant peter hug. his hands pulled the hoodie over your head, a dopey smile took over his face.

'super cute. it's your superpower.'

with that, you fall into his chest with a sob. it's not a good one either, arms wrap tight around you, his cheek resting on your head mashes the cotton further down. 'i lied!' you clutch his shirt, shame spills out.

'about what? that you like it?' your head thrashes, he couldn't be more wrong. it was your most favorite possession now that it's been added to your collection.

'i didn't get you anything!' you pull him tighter to you, terrified he’d push you away and tell you he hates you. 'i'm so sorry,' you breathe in and out deeply. 'i was going to but then i didn't think you would get me anything and that's not the point of christmas but i didn't want to make you feel weird and, and,'

'i made you feel weird?' it's not the right word. 'no! i just...' peter pushes you back, his hands cup your face to force you to look at him. 'made you feel bad?' you nod, he guessed correctly.

'i meant it, trouble. you don't have to get me anything, i just saw it and thought of you. it's not a big deal, i promise.' that made you feel worse and he can see it.

'stop it, stop. you heard me, right? i got that weeks ago. christmas was just an opportunity give it to you, but if it was april or june or whatever the fuck month, i still would've bought it.' featherlight kisses to both cheeks. 'it’s a just because gift, christmas was just an excuse to give it to you, okay? you've gotten me plenty of those before, i don't need one now.'

'i'm so sorry, peter. i promise i'm gonna get you something, i mean, it won't be a christmas gift because you're going home and i won't be able to give to you until you get back so then it just becomes-'

peter grins, like he's thinking quicker than you are. 'a just because gift? like the one you're wearing?' you were the one that fucked him over, yet he's the one making you feel better. it still works.

'yeah. i think so. but, it will have christmas wrapping paper.' a stoic nod, 'of course. i mean, that's the only stuff i had in the house. it's not like i chose that pattern on purpose.' (he did. but he'd die before he admitted that to you.)

you look down at your new hoodie, you love it. your hands run down the front, it's so, so soft. you look back up, peter loves that you love it. 'not a christmas gift?' peter shakes his head, 'psh. of course not.'

your words lower, you reach up on tippy toes for a kiss. 'just because?' hands on your hips as peter leans in has your stomach fluttering, it's been a minute since he's kissed you so soft and slow. 'just because.' 

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Fluff Headcanons - Spooky gaming with the genshin characters!

A/N: The fluff version of the Halloween special, and a bit of a new format. I hope you enjoy!

C/W: Modern AU, swearing, game-typical violence.

Alhaitham

This year, Alhaitham wanted something less conventional. Something that would really engage his mind with interesting commentary about society and the world at large, but still retain some of that spooky vibe. 

Cruelty Squad easily caught his attention with its assaulting graphics and interesting premise. It clearly begged for attention, and he was willing to humor it. 

It was precisely what he was looking for, and what an answer it was. Alhaitham had no trouble adjusting to a more corporate mindset.

Alhaitham: The super AI emerges from an extremely pornographic ultra hyper suck and fuck…

Kaveh: Um… What? What are you talking about?

Alhaitham: You don't understand, Kaveh. Everything that surrounds us? It's Gorbino's Quest. The Gorbino's Quest... of life.

Ganyu

The poor little cinnamon roll isn't that much of a horror fan. Violence and death generally unsettles her, but Ganyu still wants to feel some of that holiday spirit. 

After a lengthy deliberation, Ganyu chose Little Nightmares. The graphics are quite pleasing to the eye, it is horror, but not so horrible and violent. At least that's what she heard.

Ganyu: Oh, look! It's a Nome, right? And it's offering me food… How nice of it! Um… Oh n-no! Why would you d-do that?!

Amber

The great outdoors with a horror theme? Count her in!

Amber made sure to avoid spoilers to have the full, unprecedented The Forest experience. The landscape is so serene and peaceful… The freedom of movement, the sounds of nature and the survival elements are so fun and relaxing!

True, there are some hostile people on the island, but they seem harmless enough.

Until the night falls…

Amber: Wait… What's that? That doesn't look human… Did it just birth out… Ew… Yikes! It's coming at me! 

Suffice to say, Amber stuck around until more or less the moment when you have to chop up bodies and make effigies out of the parts.

Beidou

Alcohol, hard rock and murdering demons with big guns is how Beidou plays on Halloween, so she'll gladly hop on Doom Eternal.

There's nothing better than impaling a snake demon's head with its own broken arm, right as the beat drops. 

Beidou: Life has enough undefeatable horrors. Let's just have some fun tonight!

Ningguang

The old ones are the good ones! Ningguang doesn't play a lot of video games, but she did like a few titles back in her younger days. 

On this special occasion, Ningguang got a box of her old possessions to dig through, and found the original Dungeon Keeper on CD. 

Everything is just as she remembered it was. 

Ningguang: Oh, these imps… They are the perfect workers, aren't they? They don't eat, sleep, need vacation, have a social life, and they work harder when you slap them. Ah, if only I had them as my subordinates…

Keqing: *narrows eyes*

Kokomi

Another fan of the retro side of games, Kokomi enjoys a good tactical challenge - developing the ability to conjure small scale plans is as important as improving the grand ones.

Her pick is Myth II: Soulblighter. It’s a brutal, unforgiving RTS with a distinctively dark atmosphere - just perfect for the season at hand.

Even when Halloween comes to a close, Kokomi will find it hard to drop the game. The insanity that is Legendary is quite addictive indeed…

Kokomi: You here… You here… And now the crescendo!

Game: “Move here move there…”

Game: “Catch!”

Game: *explosion*

Game: “Casualty.”

Kokomi: Oh. Change of plans, I guess…

Yae Miko

Upon hearing of the wonderful possibilities for tormenting the other party, Miko didn't hesitate to bring out the Mora for Dead By Daylight and all of its DLC. 

Though it was quite fun at first, the ugly nature of the game soon surfaced. As none of her friends were brave enough to delve into this swamp, she was forced to join up with random people, who frequently threw the games. 

Such a combination was enough to make even such an ancient and wise kitsune lose her absolute cool.

Ei: Why are you crouching behind that tree, Miko?

Miko: The killer has caught one of my teammates, and I will release them by ambushing them with a flashlight! 

Miko: Come on… Now! You didn't expect that, did y- What?? Lightborn?! Again?! Who even plays it nowadays?! Oh, you daft, blind motherf-

Ei: Miko!

Miko: Oh… Hm. Sorry. I got a little carried away. But that's sooo unfair, isn't it? Why would they add a perk that cancels a whole mechanic? I can't believeitthegameissokillersided…

Xiangling

Xiangling absolutely didn't look forward to Halloween, especially with Hu Tao around. She just can't take horror, at all, of any kind, ever. Especially jumpscares.

She still couldn't believe that she agreed to play a horror game, let alone one suggested by the director. The one and only Five Nights At Freddy's at that.

Much to Hu Tao's amusement, she didn't even make it past Night 1. Xiangling was thoroughly spooked, and after being jumpscared once she completely refused to keep playing. 

Seeing Xiangling so terrified made Guoba very upset, and Hu Tao quickly apologized to avoid being roasted by the angry god. 

Hu Tao: So he killed the kids, but then! Their souls escaped their robot prisons and made an old spring lock suit crush him to death! WoOoo~

Xiangling: Ah! Hu Tao! No more! 

Guoba: Nane na! Grr…

Hu Tao: Oh, don't fret little Guoba! I'm just joking!

Zhongli

Morax always had trouble catching up with the latest cultural and technological trends of the humans. Sure, he can use a computer more than well enough, but he finds third and first person video games confusing. The gameplay is most often too fast and rapidly changing for him to be up to speed with it, let alone enjoy it. 

Throughout all of his exponentially long life, nobody was as persistent in including him in the festivities as Hu Tao. She tried to convince Zhongli to play something horror-related, but he was assertive. So, the director decided to find a game that would suit his liking - an indie title. 

Her pick fell on Water Womb World - it's simple mechanically, is quite disturbing and has an interesting concept. 

Much to her surprise, Zhongli thoroughly enjoyed his fifteen minutes with the game, even if he didn't find it very scary.

Zhongli: Ah, I agree with the message of this title. The blind belief in deities can lead to fanaticism, which breeds regress rather than progress. I do think that a more healthy and critical approach to Rex Lapis' rule would be beneficial to our current day society. Especially that the age of gods draws to an end…

Hu Tao: Aiya! Do you have to turn everything into a lecture, Zhongli? You're not my grandpa, are you?

Hu Tao

An avid enjoyer of the spookfest, Hu Tao decided to pick something hitting closer to home this year - Mortuary Assistant.

The gameplay loop feels great! Just like in her line of work, just without the smell. She's having the time of her life preparing the corpse for burial. And hunting the demon. That's also quite cool!

Hu Tao: *hums while wheeling the corpse into the crematory* 

Game: "Are you sure?"

Hu Tao: Yup! I know your tricks more than well. Aiyaya, you could try something more interesting next round! Furnace time~

Game: *sounds of fire and demonic screaming*

Hu Tao: Toodle-oo~

Bennet, Noelle, Fischl, Razor

A few weeks before Halloween, Bennett mentioned a game night, since he couldn't be there in person. Noelle, diligent as ever, picked this up as a cue to start looking for something. 

Luckily for her, Phasmophobia was on a large and affordable discount, so after proposing the idea and organizing a money pool, they all got to proving the existence of ghosts.

Lisa lent Razor her personal computer for the night, on condition that she could take a little peek every now and then at their session without interrupting - and what an amusement it was, as none of them are especially acquainted with horror.

Noelle: "The ghost responds only to people who are alone." Somebody has to go in to talk to it… 

Razor: Razor won't go! Ghost scary!

Bennett: I would go, but with my luck, the ghost will eat me right away…

Fischl: Hmph! Although yes, I, Fischl, The Prinzessin Der Verurteilung and the founder of The Immernatchreich possess the courage to face demons and spawns of darkness alike, I…

Everyone: So you'll go then?

Amy: Um… N-no! You m-misunderstood!

Furina

The Great-And-Grand Archon of Fontaine played and saw every horror game and movie, and never once got scared. Or that's what she claims, at least.

That's why Focalors decided to prove her excellence with a true, dark challenge she could easily overcome, thus proving her gaming capabilities for all to see!

In hindsight, Darkest Dungeon wasn't the best of choices she could have made… It did amuse Monsieur Neuvilette, however. 

Neuvillette: I think you should retreat. Your heroes are close to dying. 

Furina: I appreciate your advice, my dear Iudex, but your worries are misplaced! My Crusader will deal a critical hit, thus ending the pig-man's miserable opposition, and granting us treasure galore! Watch and marvel at my skill!

Game: "A singular strike!"

Furina: Ahaha, see? I told you it would be fine~ Wait… It's not dead yet…?

Game: "Mortality - clarified in a single strike!"

Furina: Um…

Game: "There can be no hope in this hell, no hope at all…"

Game: "And now the true test - hold fast, or expire."

Game: "Those who cover injury find it in no short supply."

Game: "As life ebbs, terrible vistas of emptiness reveal themselves."

Furina: Ret- T-tactical withdrawal! 

Game: "Cornered, trapped, forced to fight on!"

Game: "This is no place for the weak, or the foolhardy."

Game: "More blood soaks the soil, feeding the evil therein."

Game: "Perched at the very precipice of oblivion."

Game: "More dust, more ashes, more disappointment."

Game: "Another life wasted in the pursuit of glory and gold."

Game: "Wounds to be tended. Lessons to be learned."

Neuvillette: Lady Furina, if only you had-

Furina: Silence.

Shenhe

Shenhe never gets scared. The most terrible of monsters or existential terrors are no match for her training and resolve, no matter how unexpected they might be. She might not get scared, but she can get startled, right?

Who else would pose that question but Hu Tao, the mistress of horrors herself? It was always her objective to get some sort of reaction out of the adepti disciple, no matter how insignificant and small it might be. Many things were attempted - scary movies, troubling situations, body horror, cosmic horror, existential horror… But none of them ever worked. Shenhe remained stalwart.

Out of desperation, Hu Tao was forced to reach for the ultimate weapon. The bane of those unprepared. The myth. The legend. The game.

The Scary Maze Game. 

After plugging in an old spare monitor, she invited Shenhe to “test her precision”, and stepped a few safe meters back. 

The monitor ended up skewered with her polearm, but Shenhe did yelp - much to her delight. 

Not all was fun and games though, as Hu Tao got the mother of all lectures from Cloud Retainer. Something about Shenhe’s red ropes breaking, but the director didn’t pay much attention, and just nodded along.

Hu Tao: Heya, Shenhe… You don’t mind the little scare I gave you back on Halloween night, do you…?

Shenhe: Oh? Well, as much as I was upset during the moment, I must admit it was quite… cathartic. I never experienced anything like that. I do not hold any grudge towards you. Actually… Thank you for that, director Hu Tao.

Hu Tao: Phew! And I was here thinking I’ll share the fate of that display!

🎃Happy Halloween!🎃

[bugeyedfreaks]

1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 12 for HIM please

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

He’s fun! He’s evil! He’s fabulous! Who can’t like Him? It’s cool that, as a villain of Townsville, he’s the most serious kind that you can get, and it’s neat that the girls have a villain that’s dedicated to basically just screwing with their brains instead of pulling heists for material possessions like the rest usually do… but I do appreciate when he’s less, like… ~dark and edgy~ evil and more just messing around with the girls’ minds in ultra kooky, goofy ways for his own amusement (like making them take the SATs or conducting choo-choo trains or threatening to drop their teacher into a vat of boiling sharks, all while smiling… you can tell that my fave episode with Him is Him Diddle Riddle, haha).

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

I really like how mysterious and foreboding he is, specifically in the earliest episodes. The show used to air late at night, so sometimes when I rewatch episodes like Octi Evil and Tough Love (and it’s not a Him episode but I feel this BIG TIME with Abracadaver) I can remember being in the family room with all the lights off, sitting in front of the TV, watching them for the first time, and the whole nighttime ambiance made the episodes (and Him in particular) just all the more creepy and evil in my kid mind. He’s got a special unsettling feeling to him that feels lost later on in the last two seasons that aired (they also got rid of his obscure pink house/lair/hell realm that I always held a fondness for… the Dadaesque dimension they designed later kind of sucks and isn’t nearly as creepy).

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

He brought back the Rowdyruff Boys… why? Couldn’t he think of anything original? People think he’s so evil for resurrecting them (and in a way… true, because they’re not great characters) but I think he was just lazy. 🥱 He should have opened a mirror nightmare portal to unleash the Powerpunk Girls instead!

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

His hellish theme music!

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

There have been loooooooooots of super cool fanart and cosplays of Him! It’s always fun to see how people interpret him in different styles, and when I see a Him at a convention it’s always magical. 🔥✨

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

Hmm… well, I have my headcanon that he and Sedusa and Mojo are all best frenemies that like to go have self care days and chill out at the mall with each other, if that counts? 😆

[desultory-novice]

I'd gotten a shocking number of asks in over the past few days so it was inevitable I'd hold another... Lightning Round!!

Featuring: King D-Mind, Magolor, Adeleine + Noir, Dark Meta Knight, Sectonia, Dedede, Dark Taranza, Leongar and...

...SPECIAL NECRODEUS THEORY INSIDE!

Edit: OOPS! I meant to set this post up for tonight instead of unleashing it at some ungodly hour of the morning. Amateur mistake. Don't mind if you see me reblog it later when people are awake.

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Considering regular Dark Mind has some strong callbacks to Nightmare in his design (being a visual melange of Nightmare + Zero) you could believe they were partners/allies/frenemies at one point. It's possible that it was Parallel Dark Mind (because it pretty much as to be the Parallel of Dark Mind, right?) who decided, after possessing Parallel Dedede, that they had surpassed their fellow long-faced wizard rival-friend and stopped answering his calls.

Speaking of friends, I wonder if Parallel Nightmare had any underlings of his own akin to Dark Taranza and Pres. Parallel Susie. Ones that maybe wouldn't stab him in the back? ...Hmm, I wonder where Parallel Magolor and Parallel Marx are right now?

(If they're still vicious trouble makers, I wonder if it was one of them who was like "Oh, you TOTALLY ought to reach out to this guy if you get in trouble." "For sure! The results will be a real spectacle, I bet!")

Haha! I wonder if I could start alternatively calling DMK x DMK (Shadow Dedede vers) DMKx2 or DMKsquared? But now that I think about duplicates and parallel selves (thanks to Crash's ask above) isn't it a little worriesome (/lh) that there are probably MANY "parallel" versions out there? Because again, D-Mind is probably possessing a Parallel Dedede but NOT the Parallel Dedede from Star Allies. And there may also be yet a third Dedede in the Clash verse who isn't possessed by anyone?! I mean, when it comes down to it, "parallel" just means "a universe that turned out differently!"

There could be dozens of "same character" down the line...

I certainly think the potential for this idea is HUGE!

I myself am a fan of Magolor having to confront versions of himself that turned out wrong but the idea that he'd run across a version that was "wrong" but also did HARM to his friends...

Yeah, the "pay for one's sins" guy would definitely step in.

And I agree that is probably how he learned so much about events he wouldn't otherwise be around for. Dark Matter Clone? Susie's Father? Although I feel there's a chance he knew about Joronia from earlier all on his own. After all, he includes an accurate description of her in his weapon's catalogue in his shoppe! (And again, we've got the portraits on the abandoned TDX castle to suggest Magolor and Taranza communicated on some level in the past.)

As for the equipment, it's possible that those were in a way his "redemption" to Kirby - the only Kirby he had access to until he was able to "return to Dream Land" - and so keeping them didn't make sense. They were gifts. I also get the feeling that he doesn't have a huge interesting in physical fighting, and at least half of the gear is swords and axes. (The way he uses his version of the Ultra Sword is very particular and indicates no proficiency in swordsmanship on his part.) But if he really is dimension hopping on a semi-regular basis, he may also just need to keep it in stock at the shop!

Awwww...! Dess will never admit this ask actually got Dess to draw a super quick sketch of Noir as an angel watching over Adeleine from heaven(What even is "heaven" in the Kirby-verse anyway?) right after reading it! Oh fudge, I just admitted to that very thing didn't I?! Nooo! What have I done?! It's so DeviantArt-tier sappy though that I don't want to post it. It's so cliche it would utterly ruin my rep! Definitely don't politely ask me to post it because then I might give in...!!

...A-ahem. But yes, Adeleine will be okay!

As to whether poor, poor Noir will ever learn that for himself, all I can say is... hold out hope for the final two parts of the story!

I feel so embarrassed because I had to go back and look at the pic to realize they were even there. It was completely subconscious on my part. I guess that's the thing about being a novice artist. Sometimes you stumble upon something really cool without even noticing!

But now that you've pointed it out, it's something I think I'd like to keep doing. DMK as a sort of chipping crystal ball is neat~

Despite all that I wrote in my initial post about this...

...I kinda want her to come back too! She was a great tragic villain! And the possibility of a Triple Deluxe remake... it could still happen!

(I mean, we just got Amazing Mirror with modern online multiplayer! It feels like they went the extra mile for that and so I think the Kirby series is still in a good place for receiving (good) fan service!)

Yesss! It is SO good! Big, muscle-guy Dedede being tech-oriented?! It's out of type in the best way! I love that Dedede continually unlocks his potential, both in the changes to his personality but what he's capable of in skill sets too! It is, to me, the reason WHY he is Kirby's rival rather than Meta Knight or another character.

And if Meta Knight pilots a ship anything like he does a car in Dreamy Gear, it's a good thing he isn't the pilot. I wonder if there's a disconnect for him between flying and piloting? Like going from playing a 2D side-scrolling/overhead shooter where "up" is up versus playing one in first-person with reverse camera controls?

Poor Vul must put up with so much...!

It could just be me (I think multiple interpretations are best) but I've always taken Dark Taranza's garb to not as a sign he took over Sectonia's role but as...a form of mourning for her?

Like he dresses and styles himself that way as tribute? So I suppose in that sense, I don't think Mirror Sectonia got corrupted.

Oh boy, I suppose my brief theory there works REALLY well for the people who think main world Sectonia got swapped with her Mirror World self if Dark Taranza "lost" her and then took up her "style."

(Although I also adore your "Mirror Sectonia started crazy and became good" theory too! It's wild in the best of ways!/genuine And just because I saw Dark Taranza as dressing that way doesn't mean Evil King Taranza isn't also an amazing idea!)

Y-You know, my family often catches me on my accidentally using phrases that are maybe a little more coded and/or have different and deeper meanings than I probably intended. ^^;

So :cough: to clarify, I wouldn't necessarily say Leon's worthy of a full on diagnosis, but in his short pre-fight monologue (11 text boxes long) two of those contain a variation on the phrase "left behind."

And two more talk about long-held dreams and years of planning.

It suggests to me that Leon thinks about the animals being left behind by humanity a lot. Which is really interesting when you realize that as the literal King of the Beasts with a pack, nay a whole planet full of animals at his call and the entire run of the natural landscape to their own... he should really WANT for nothing??

Having Humanity ditch would be ideal for an animal-led society. And Leon doesn't specify what he wants the miraculous power for but...I get the feeling he wouldn't mind a chance to sink his teeth into AHEM "talk" to the ex-Forgotten Landers.

Now, whether Leon has felt their being ditched happened enough for it to become a reoccurring condition, uh... I guess Elfilis did shatter his soul and leave him for dead?  But the truth is I probably just exaggerated a wee bit. (But it got me this ask and a chance to talk about Leongar and I love the Beast Pack so it's all good!)

Also, you know, I'm just generally pretty notorious (?!) for reading a LOT (...too much?) characterization into very little! 

Heh. I just know some of you are out there patiently trying to persuade me to become a Necrodeus fan~! XD

That said, I think the idea of him being a "...for the cost of your soul" Devil is very neat. It's a role the Kirby-verse doesn't have currently and could surely benefit from, at least when it comes to interesting interactions with the cast as a whole!

But, heh, you see, I think it's MORE interesting if he's not...!

...BecauseI pored back over the Skull Lord's wiki page for this (I wanted to see if he had some kind of title that would support the "devil" interpretation) and I spotted something that was of EXTREME interest to me given my obsession with the theory that :cough: 

All Ancient Artifacts Corrupt Absolutely!!!

Because Daroach says that the Skullys as a whole "changed" noticeably AFTER Necrodeus got ahold of shiny new Magic Staff...

Gosh! What's this?! Sudden personality changes associated with the acquisition of a magical artifact?! You don't say!!

And look at the dang thing! I point specifically to the clawed talons clutching the center jewel. Like the talons of a certain crown...?

Also, how else could someone like Necrodeus (no offense to Necrodeus fans) split OUR nearly invincible Kirby into ten weaker copies? ...Sounds like an Ancient Artifact at work to me!

(Necrodeus another victim?! Uh oh, I may become a fan after all!)

Edit: ...Actually, I just got a weird sense of deja vu. Did I write about Necrodeus' staff being a Master Crown-tier object before??

That'd be embarrassing! (I've crested 1k posts though, so it wouldn't be too surprising if I start repeating myself at some point. ^^; )

[sephirthoughts]

Weirdo/Villain/Wet Possum Character Ask Game

I made a character headcanon ask game of my own, because I like these a lot, but I wanted something for people whose blorbos are weirdos/ villains/ ridiculous edgelords/ wet possums/ enemy agents/ necromancers/ career criminals/ ancient demons/ yandere siblings/ sullen loners/ tentacle horrors/ /juvenile delinquents/ serial killers/ vampires/ cyborg war criminals/ people who like cilantro etc. 

Respond in the ask box with the number(s) and character you’d like headcanons for!

NOTE: Wherever I’ve used “you” in here, it’s the general sense, just referring to whoever they’re close to/into/shipped with/etc. 

NOTE 2: All questions are meant to be open-ended and the examples given are just prompts to get you thinking!

What ‘normal’ thing do they love, that no one would ever guess?

What seemingly innocuous thing do they absolutely hate?

If applicable, do they realize they’re one of the baddies? If so, how do they feel about it? Are they proud/indifferent/ashamed/amused/delusional/other?

Assuming they can consume human food/drink, what is their favorite?

What is their living space like? Austere and impersonal? Elegant? Ultra hip? Full of self expression or devoid of it? Super weirdly cheerful? Covered with pizza boxes and empty beer cans? A howling abyss which no mortal may enter unscathed?

What is their attachment style? I hate everyone but you? I eat everyone but you? I must possess your body and soul to the exclusion of all others? You’ll see me when I feel like it or need food (stray cat style)? I quietly watch you from the shadows? You’re one of my many toys? You’re the only thing that stops me from [certain behavior]? You’re the reason I [certain behavior]?

They got a cell phone (if they’re a tentacle horror or other nonhuman creature, just imagine it’s a magical communication device that they can use). How often do they make calls? Do they actually answer their phone? Do they text often? What kind of messages are they (lovey, silly, jealous, purely practical, cryptic)? Do they use emojis?

Do they enjoy the spotlight? Or would they rather go unnoticed? Or are they indifferent to such matters?

What super annoying little habits do they have?

Do they pet the dog?

Are they social? Popular? Relentlessly solitary?

How do they feel about family? Want one of their own? Hate the very idea? Would grudgingly accept one? Want a spouse and (number) children? Produce thousands of offspring and can’t be bothered to know their names?

Are they loyal to a specific person/organization/clan or family/ideology? Intentionally antagonistic to the idea of belonging to someone/something? Do they just not care about anyone/anything that much?

Do they have a nemesis/rival/someone who they absolutely despise? Who is that? Do they really despise them, or is it a love-hate thing? Do they have sexual tension with them?

Do they have some sentimental item that they care about deeply and would flip out if they lost? What is it?

[Person of interest] shows up at their door (or equivalent) late at night, covered in blood. What do they do? Do they let them in? Do they help? Do they take advantage of the situation?

How intelligent are they? Smarter than most people? Average? Kinda dumb? Possessed of the eternal and unknowable secrets of the universe, incomprehensible to mortal minds?

What diagnosable mental health issues/chronic conditions/disabilities do they have, if any? How does that affect them?

What’s their sexual orientation (in your headcanon)? Also, are they asexual? Hypersexual? Demi? Where do they fall on that spectrum?

How experienced are they with romantic/sexual stuff? Never touched another being in that way and it would never occur to them to do so? Awkward virgin? Monogamous but intense? Enthusiastic slut?

What’s their most toxic trait?

How do they feel about children? Indifferent? Annoying? Precious? Delicious? 

Do they have parents? Are they living? What is their relationship with them like?

They make [person of interest] dinner. What is it?

Do they remember anniversaries/traditional holidays/sentimental occasions? What is their favorite holiday, if they have one? How do they observe it?

Name five items that they always have with them (if any).

[wyrddogs]

Zaku training update:

Finally introduced sit and down at 15 weeks old. XD He's picking it up fast. I was originally going to train a tuck-sit but then I remembered that I don't do competitive obedience so I don't care.

Working on stacking and failing. He is Mr. Wiggle Worm and bites my fingers extremely hard when baiting. It is painful. My friend gave me a stacking webinar so I'll watch that.

He loooooves being groomed. No complaints there.

Decent at yielding to collar pressure but it's hard to train in the backyard. After next week I'll be able to take him out into the world (YAAAAAAAAY) so we can do more then.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of recall practice, in the yard and on offleash walks. He's doing super great. I have recalled him off squirrels, birds, and a rabbit (it was standing still and Zaku was juuust getting to the point of going "huh. what's that?" when I called him and ran like hell in the other direction get him to chase me). We're going to specifically work on greyhound friends hopefully this week.

He has been experimenting with ignoring recalls on walks, so a mysterious magnetic force (the dragline) magically transports him to me anyway and he gets lots of cookies and pets because he did come to me when I called. As of this week he is recalling better.

One of my offleash rules is my dog must give me eye contact before I release them. I just wait them out, so we do a lot of boring standing. This morning we appear to have had a breakthrough because Zaku was consistently offering eye contact within 10 seconds every time I asked. Hopefully that sticks!

More tug switching. I have gotten him to switch from a high value tug to a mid value one and back. It is very hard, so I'm not overdoing it. I also got my ultra super duper tug in the mail so hopefully he likes it. I think I need to try Shade Whitesel's toy skills course again. I've bounced off it twice but now I have an actual malinois.

He got to watch some chickens the other day. We just hung out for like twenty minutes so he got bored of them and started chewing on sticks. We're also working on watching dogs doing agility and being calm about it. I am extremely happy with how he's doing considering he's an infant puppy with low impulse control. Like holy crap boy.

Both dogs training update:

The Goal is to teach both dogs how to fetch, since neither of them offer it naturally (Zaku is extremely possessive of toys and Kermit just does not have the programming). I've been using one of those little plastic planters since it is a neutral object. As of yesterday Zaku is picking it up and bringing it in my direction when I throw it a short distance. Kermit had a major breakthrough and got frustrated enough to bite it when I was not rewarding his offered down and I jackpotted him. I had him bite it twice more to make sure it stuck then ended the session. Excited to see if it carries over; he's very clever and patterns quickly once he understands.

[maybetomoko]

Satoru Gojo (q&a official fanbook)

"Don't worry. I am the strongest!"

Age: 28 years old 

Birthday: 7 december

Level: special level sorcerer 

Enrolment modalities: family lineage 

Technique: spell of the infinite minimum 

Ability: reversal of “Red Glow” technique, continuation of “Blue Glow” technique, imaginary expression “Purple Glow”. Domain expansion: Incommensurable Void. Reversal technique, can throw “black lightning”.

Hobby/special skills: none (because he is approximately good at everything)

Favourite food: sweets 

Food he does not like: alcohol

Source of stress: interaction with higher-ups

q&a about Gojo Satoru

Q: How did your character come into being? 

A: I wanted an ultra-strong person who was easy to understand. 

Q: What do you focus on most when you draw him? 

A: Around the middle of the story I started to draw him as beautiful way possible. 

Q: What was Gojo's first impression when he first met Geto? 

A: But what is that quiff?

Q: When he was a student he used to say that it was a real chore to take care of the weak, whereas now what does he think? 

A: I suppose he actually still thinks it is a chore. 

Q: Once he got into such a state of mind that he said in front of the Religious Sect members, "Why don't we kill them all? In the state I'm in now, I wouldn't even feel anything." However now he no longer has this mentality. Is it because he has matured? 

A: At that time Gojo tended to say what was on his mind and rely on Geto's moral judgement as an indicator to decide what was right and what was wrong. 

Q: Did he become despondent after Geto became a dark sorcerer? 

A: No, he worked even harder as a sorcerer. 

Q: Were his grades in normal school subjects good? 

A: In science subjects I think so... My school grades were what they were...

Q: Are the Gojo family members alive and well? 

A: Maybe.  

Q: Can he teach anything other than occult subjects? 

A: In a way yes, but I don't think he has any kind of licence to teach. Normal subjects are taken care of by assistant directors and “windows”. 

Q: How much does he sleep? 

A: Not much.  

Q: He seems aware that he is super handsome. Wouldn't he like to have a girlfriend? 

A: I can't imagine Gojo being faithful to any particular woman. 

Q: He usually wears a blindfold, but can he see? 

A: The six eyes are essentially “eyes that see evil energy extremely clearly”. Even covering himself with the blindfold, it is as if he has high-definition infrared vision. He can even detect objects that do not possess evil energy, such as buildings, thanks to the residual energy around them or from the flow of energy around them. So if he doesn't cover his eyes it's a bit tiring for him, even though he constantly uses the inversion technique to keep his mind fresh. If a normal person wore Gojo's sunglasses he would see everything black. 

Q: Why did he go to meet Megumi Fushiguro after hearing about him from Toji?

A: To recruit a talented person.

Q: Why did he offer to help troubled boys like Okkotsu and Itadori?

A: Because they are strong, so he doesn't care much about other details.

Q: Why did he teach Itadori how to defeat shikigami users? 

A: Because as Sukuna once said, there are many shikigami users. 

Q: Why does he address his students by name? 

A: He doesn't make such problems. Those who agonise over such details like me wonder what it means when someone calls you by your name, whereas Gojo doesn't think that way. 

[five-or-so-missing-children]

//Pokemon AU Rambling Post

//Wow, this post is long.

Obviously, almost every kid wants to be a trainer. It's cool, like being a pro athlete. I think that also applies to most of these kids, too.

Derek, Chelsea, arguably Ron, and Jack would be the only ones to have actual "battle-ready" Pokemon given their age group, even if they wouldn't be anywhere above Lv15 at the very best.

That said, the only one of them I could imagine with a "proper" starter Pokemon is Derek, and that would be Rowlett. Back when TPC were teasing Gen7, I remember seeing Dartrix and immediately thinking of him, to the point I named my own Rowlett in Ultra Moon after him.

Chelsea would have a Ponyta - from Kanto, because Galar is too new-school. Lowkey Lass energy, probably might also have a Fairy-type that may or may not have been retyped yet, or some kind of Pika-clone. Something just to be cute on top of the more composed and competitive horsey.

Ron and Jack are surprisingly difficult to vibe check Pokemon-wise, but they also overlap a bit... Their Pokemon would be less flashy and impressive. I think Ron would have a baby Pokemon that he's super proud of, even if he is on the less brawny side as his friends at the present. Maybe a Pichu or Togepi. His dad worked very hard to get it for him. I am also inexplicably drawn to Wooloo but that may be my sheep bias talking so I will not say anything for certain.

Jack would probably get something extra from his older brother, Jeff, but nothing impressive. I'm drawn to a lot of Unova Pokemon for him, too... To give it some lore, let's say he picked an elemental monkey, and Jeff went, "You know what, I know how to make your team better," and got him something to cover a weakness. Maybe Blitzle if he picked Pansear, or Drillbur if he picked Panpour/Pansage.

He also feels like he'd have a Ralts. Somehow. But also, I feel that's a bit much/brawny for him.

Jeff is probably old enough to have probably caught a cute little Stufful and raised it long enough for it to evolve into Bewear, and it freaks Jack out sometimes with how destructive it can be.

Luke has Youngster energy. He scrounged together enough money to buy a ball and catch his own Patrat or Lillipup or a bug or something. He probably got a little injured in the process but he's fine, that's just how kids are. He also probably has a family dog Pokemon of some sort at home already.

Will would be the kind of kid though to have befriended something wild at a young age, and also have that thing have stupidly high potential. That said, he also has Espurr energy.

Maybe he'd also "share" something with Derek. Something his older brother caught him and is helping him raise until he's old enough. A bird or bug, perhaps. Natu?

Assigning every kid a Pokemon based on their animatronic would be too easy. :P Besides, there aren't any chicken Pokemon besides Torchic...

Though if I had to assign each kid a proper starter in some kind of "Nobody Dies AU", let's sayyy: Derek = Rowlett, Chelsea = Tepig, Ron = Chikorita, Luke = Charmander, Will = Squirtle, Jack = Piplup.

You also get long rambling about the PGs also because they are my favorite employees. As for my night guards, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry.

Porfirio is the kind of guy who doesn't stop until he gets what he wants, so the second he learned what shinies are, he would've thrown away hours of his life to get his hands on the perfect one, even as someone too young to have a Pokemon. So he has a Shiny Gourgeist he calls Dyniusia ("Little Pumpkin") almost as old as he is, and it's Super size for good measure. A tall purple Pokemon that kills people and loves to sing - just like its trainer! It's his prized possession and it totally gets him, so that's why it's the only living thing he treats with any genuine sort of affection and comradery. (I don't wanna make anyone mean to Pokemon, that's going too far.) Maybe he would've been a decent competitive trainer if he wasn't such an awful person...

Alexander, on the other hand, is the kind of guy who doesn't have the constitution to be a sporty trainer, but plenty of non-trainers have domestic Pokemon, and he would be no different! He'd have a Chatot. It always comes back to Chatot. He gets talkative when he's anxious, so having a chatty friend to bounce off of feels appropriate! Plus, my perception of Chatot being an organized managerial type has been heavily influenced by PMD... Unfortunately, it works as an emotional support Pokemon as frequently as it doesn't. He might complain to it about a certain person... and then it'll say those things right back to their face. It makes him die a little inside every time, but what can you do?

There would be a lot of Shuppet hanging around the pizzeria (since they're attracted to "vengeful emotions", such as those a group of murdered spirits would have), which… doesn't help its reputation.

Something something Lavender Town.

Something something Phantump.

I think someone should set a Drampa loose in Porfirio's house. I think only good things could come from that.

[giggly-argent]

ok Zero relationship rambling under the cut-

(again in order of least to most reasonable)

Jana

Obviously not gonna happen but these two bonded so quickly over having to keep Gattina in check 💀

plus they're both big, strong n hot so my brain just did the math automatically-

But they're both very busy on opposite sides of the kingdom so they don't really keep in touch often :(

Maybe Jana could teach Zero a sport or two...

Hades

Also not gonna happen but they're kinda cute tho!

They're the two strongest (known) and highest ranking demons in the kingdom, but they can't talk to each other like normal ppl at first 😭😭

Hades has to work on getting Zero to be less subservient (while he unlearns tht trait himself), and they do end up as pretty good friends~

no matter what, Hades still throws some shady verbal teases at Zero when they're alone (lee to lee communication)

Gattina

this is my #1 guilty pleasure oc ship I think!

Gattina's the first person in Zero's life to ever beat him in a fight (even if it wasn't Totally fair) and honestly? that's kinda hot to him!

he's not gonna let it happen again thooo

And in Gatti's case, she just likes hearing him raise his voice whenever she does smth stupid

Like with Jana, he's usually holding her back from an Actual Fight, but w/ Zero she'll deliberately do something outta pocket just to have him grab her by the arm and give her a stern look-

He knows what she's doin 👀

Shura

oughhg the pains the angst,,,

These two were the best of friends as kids, and they already dated thru their teenage years before Shura got possessed left the village </3

I haven't decided whether I wanna let Shura Survive the plot yet but even if he does, I might not put him back with Zero fully bc of the bad stuff he did 😳

Zero still has light feelings for Shura in Any continuity tho :')

Izzy

this one came outta fuckin nowhere tbh!

These two are the definition of hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby (radiation dog vs banjo wielding puppy idk)

the shawl that Izzy wears is the one Zero used to wear when he still lived in Asayesa, and Izzy wouldn't let a single thing happen to it 💖

Izzy's the first one of the Asayesa gang to actually go visit Zero at the castle! (minus Shura but that wasn't a good visit 💀)

Zero usually has to scoop Izzy up out of some kind of peril, but he doesn't mind bc his lil country boy is just too goofy n cute!!

In return, he gets plenty of teasing and kisses an-[Removed for 'Too Affectionate' Crimes]

oh also they play music together anytime they get the chance to :)

Meri

getting into the Intended Relationships now :)

Traumabonding 3.0

Another Stoic/Silly ship, but the silly is mostly hidden on Meri's side

These two are both sooo used to forcing themselves to act super professional. They're always in the public eye, being scrutinized over every little detail...

They finally get to meet in private when Zero accidentally ends up in Zidenna's garden, and that becomes their secret meeting place whenever they both have spare time on their schedule 🖤

Aries

already muchotexto'd about these two in the last one-

Zidenna

childhood friends to lovers trope my beloved 💚 (+size diff my Ultra Beloved)

Super Gigantic Traumabonding 4.0

It takes Zero a pretty long time to warm up to his other coworkers, but the day he sees Zidenna again he's acting like they weren't even separated for 15 years~

Zinny's always hovering around Zero, playing with his hair or pinching his cheeks and ears just to idle, and he lets it happen (you can even catch his tail wagging if it goes on long enough :) )

Zidenna's clownery kinda rubs off on him sometimes! They've convinced him to play lil pranks on Noel or Aries every once in a while

Anytime they walk past Zero, they have to make sure they're not Too close or he's gonna scoop them up in a big hug and Not let go for a bit :'D

(they both think Meri is fine as hell-)

I could go on about these goofies for centuries but I shouldn't 💔

Zin & Meri

This one is Zero's definite endgame for sure,, it makes the most sense!

Zinny joins in on the little meetings once they figure out Zero and Meri are using their garden for em, and it just blooms from there!

[spurgie-cousin]

I wanted to work at JoAnn's in college SO BAD. I was in a sorority and the amount of money I spent in that store is actually unreal. We kept JoAnn coupons on the sorority house fridge. I knew the employee discount would save me hundreds. But alas, I never heard back after applying and worked at Macy's instead. Now I can't even step foot in a JoAnn's because I get flashbacks to burning my fingertips off with a hot glue gun by making hair bows en masse for rush at 3am.

It was a decent part-time gig for a recent grad! And dude the coupons...............PSA of the day, all of the big craft stores like that actually bump up prices significantly so they can *always* be advertising coupons (and then make big money off the people who don't bother to use them), so the coupons are like gold lol, after working there I don't even step *foot* in a JoAnns or Michaels without a whole arsenal of coupons (I'm assuming this doesn't apply to Hobby Lobby since they believe bar codes will possess you with demons).

So I got the discount on top of coupons and it was great, I still have so many Halloween and Christmas decorations from my time there 😂 and 99% of my job was stocking fabric with a bunch of ultra-religious gals who sewed everythiiiiinnnnngggg so they were also there for the discounts (the Mennonites I worked with were either old order or just very conservative, bc they were the kind that people often mix up with Amish, they made aaaaallllllllll of their dresses and clothes). It was super interesting talking to them really, they were just as fascinated by me, a 23 y/o who came in with hangovers all the time, as I was about them lol.

[avenger-hawk]

(submission by some idiot who had nothing better to do I guess)

Gotta put my reply first because your submission is too long. Also because I don’t like you.

First of all did you think I’d read this long ass shit and reply to all of it for real?

Cause I read the beginning and the end and it’s enough to see you’re an idiot, and your little brain wouldn’t be a problem if you didn’t come to shit in my blog.

You see, I write in my blog and I don’t come into yours to tell you you’re a delusional dumbass with little understanding…I do it in mine. I discussed N*ruto stuff when I started this blog. Then I got tired because it’s useless, no one’s gonna change their mind and the majority of ppl are too stupid to even think properly.

In my blog my word is the law. Not to mention I always say it’s my opinion, anyway.

My opinion is based on canon though. Ofc I like to stretch canon and write extreme headcanons…but certain things are canon.

Like yin and yang. Yin, Sasuke, passive/receptive element. Yang, N*ruto, assertive/dominant element. This is what kishi wrote.

N*ruto always chased after Sasuke, Sasuke either escaped or let N*ruto do whatever with him. N*ruto acted possessive and dominant with Sasuke, to an extreme point. He always imposed his will on Sasuke.

But you know what, I wrote about all this many times and you read my posts anyway since, I guess, all this submission is a confutation of my opinion.

Dude you sound like an idiot N*ruto stan who should use their brain before engaging in a discussion with someone else. Try to do this next time. But not with me cause I’m gonna block you.

Sns

You don’t seem like the type to engage in discussions that oppose your opinions but I’m gonna send this anyway, I was going through your sns tag and some of your points are confusing to me. How is naruto losing his shit over orochimaru talking about Sasuke like he’s an object proof that’s he’s like, super possessive of Sasuke? I do agree that naruto is assertive but how is Sasuke passive? They both have dominant personalities, if they didn’t they wouldn’t have fought as much as they did. If sasuke was as passive as you like to say shippuden wouldn’t exist. Both sn and ns are written ooc in that regard as well. I agree that genin Sasuke was selfless but shippuden Sasuke who didn’t care who he hurt in order to achieve his goals? Where’s the selflessness..? Naruto can also be selfish but saying he’s not selfless at all is the actual ooc take there. Not only is being selfless your average mc trait but the naruto who let himself get beat up rather than rat out his international criminal friend and constantly puts himself in danger so his loved ones dont get hurt, isnt selfless at all? Also the whole naruto chasing and Sasuke escaping therefore Sasuke is the bottom..?? And that one point about the war arc, I’m pretty sure they were both leading and following the other, not too much offense but you kinda sound like an articulate version of “Sasuke is the bottom because his name is sasUke" 

Yes naruto told Sasuke he’d break every bone in his body but like..Sasuke was willingly walking into the lair of some creepy guy who everyone knew wanted to possess his body?And Sasuke was willing to risk it purely for the power to kill itachi. This was also after Sasuke was putting serious effort into killing naruto so the kid gloves were def off 💀 naruto was also running on demon fox chakra which we know makes him more violent? And naruto saying that they’d both die if they fought all out was just facts they literally blew eachother’s arms off,Idk you don’t have to like naruto which I think you don’t but a lot of your points seem to ignore context and take it simply as this or that which is weird with how many deep analysis posts you have. 

Sns is also already toxic without your added layer of naruto dominant controlling possessive imposing ultra alpha toxic male and Sasuke the poor passive submissive docile victim who does whatever naruto says. Naruto was weirdly obsessed with Sasuke and Sasuke tried to kill naruto several times for the sake of solitude and power. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone portray their bond as the healthiest thing ever then again I kinda just watched naruto so I haven’t been exposed to the fandom for long. 

Idek if im remembering these correctly but sns first meeting after the timeskip naruto was just saying what about our bond, orochimaru wants your body etc etc and the only time they met up after that was at the bridge where naruto was like i get it now and not to attack the village but fight him instead cause he’s the only one who can handle all that hate, and finally after the war where it was just “let me cut you down” “no” and sasuke seeing into naruto’s memories and something else about what it means to be hokage. which sasuke was very obviously wrong about so the whole imposing beliefs is just..?

The Sasuke that wanted justice and revolution didn’t need to be saved but the Sasuke who was willing to and did hurt anyone and anything to achieve his goals and thought being hokage meant being hated for the sake of peace, absolutely did. The problem with the story was that they put those two together cause I find it hard to believe all the Sasuke was right crowd genuinely believe he was making God honest sense there at the end. Whatever “imposing of beliefs” done by naruto was most def to the sasuke who wanted to run into the arms of a dangerous enemy wanting to use his body, trying to kill his best friend for trying to stop him and get the ms, trying to kill his team again for idk, shits and giggles after their first encounter post time skip, running to attack a bunch of kages, joining but not really joining the akatsuki and trying to take out killer bee, an innocent jinchuriki, trying to destroy a whole village, nearly sacrificing a teammate he recruited himself to kill danzo by shooting a lightning blade through her, trying to kill kakashi? for some reason.. then trying to kill naruto( again) and the tailed beasts because he thought that was the path of #power and #peace 

You trying to pass Sasuke off as this super selfless submissive victim who can’t think or stand up for himself and gets pushed around easily by everyone and never did anything wrong in his life he was just desperate or whatever else is in your bio is probably the most confusing part of the posts I’ve seen and I’m a naruto stan who really only cares about him, as it relates to naruto you sound just like every other Sasuke stan who cries about his mischaracterization then turns around and mischaraterizes naruto, like you can pull for canon material all you want but still misinterpret it or just…choose to see it in your own negative way and run with it, saying this because you always emphasize canon in your posts as if what you say is the real and only truth and everyone else is delusional 

[cyber-specter]

its disappointing that i just 100% Spiderman 2 and my only thought is like "i really should not have spent 70 bucks on this." the more i play the game the more i see a 9/10 but am left with a 7/10 at its best and a bad 6 at its worst.

Like the random glitches, i didn't really care about, or the annoying dialogue, or even the absolute brain-dead bosses. I kept saying "oh just enjoy these cool new features and this fun little plot" but that only lasted so long. during the game I had a pretty good time but with this little feeling of waiting for the moment when the game "REALLY OPENS UP" but then the game ends.

the plot is done and it didn't really do or say anything. idk change is important? second chances? uhh don't be a jerk when you're possessed idk? MJ's part kinda came out of nowhere but hey im happy she has SOMETHING do to.

OK BUT WHO CARES ABOUT ALL THAT I'M HERE FOR THE REAL GAME. Swinging around, stopping crimes, doing cool races and challenges, and doing a couple fun side stories that lead to a fight with some b lister, all mixed in with sillier stuff.

but nothing. okay maybe after i do the "go here and do an ok puzzle to fill out your collectibles" quest they'll open up over time haha

Nope! The only challenge thing in the game is a Miles only fight thing. and thats it. I'm stuck in an empty city with nothing to do. there are 6 app requests total, they're cute! but pretty much all boils down to moving from point A to point B and if you're lucky a fight with some hunters.

so here i am with an empty app, random crimes, and a bunch of costumes and upgrades with no real use. but what really got me was all i wanted to do was swing around in my cool black suit at night then just play the story again in the new game Plus. Neither are in the game.

I'll cut myself off here but like kinda of super disappointing and honestly i wish didn't spend the little cash I use for fun on a 70-dollar DLC that has better swinging and more city with nothing to do in it. I should of just played Miles Morales again and waited for the "ULTRA ADDITION" with all the costumes and more substance to make this game full

[tihgnari]

๑ [ 06 ] you're thinking of groot, aren't you?

word count: 990 / tw: cursing, violence (?)

the arts and sciences building's study hall used to be your favorite place in the whole university. its windows are always open to let the cool breeze inside during the summer, and you adore the silver christmas lights the staff sets up every winter.

you especially loved how eating in the study hall wasn't prohibited. you recall a certain memory from last year when you and xiao got banned from the library for the rest of the school year for eating instant ramen during an all-nighter's study date session.

you sighed.

"what's gotten you sighing and looking out the window like you're a second lead in a romance movie?"

your glare doesn't exactly work on hu tao, who thinks you're as threatening as the cute pet she has back home with her parents.

she dumps her bag on the table before staring at you with narrowed eyes. "if i know any better… you're thinking of groot, aren't you?"

a few students turned their heads in a totally not judging way at your table. you blink, flustered, not because of the embarrassment of feeling other people's stare, but because "groot" is merely a pseudonym and you know perfectly well she's not talking about the plant-like character from guardian's of the galaxy.

your cheeks heat up and you avert your eyes back to the window. "am not! i'm just thinking about how izumi and i are gonna work things out when we clearly dislike each other."

"dislike is an understatement. that leech absolutely hates you."

and just like that you fell into your usual banter with hu tao. there's 30 minutes more until xingqiu and xiangling are done with their AM classes, so you and your best friend busy yourselves with some readings before the daily lunch date with the shade throwers (and xingqiu).

it wasn't until the clock struck 12pm that hu tao shut off her laptop and cleared her throat, pinning her eyes on you, praying xingqiu and xiangling doesn't arrive until after she's had this talk with you.

"so," she starts, getting your attention. "what really happened earlier?"

you stiffen, the cool exterior shattering for a nanosecond until you're composing yourself again.

if hu tao didn't have years of being your best friend under her belt, she never would've noticed the discomfort in your eyes. you mask your emotions well, she'll give you that, but hu tao knows you like the back of her hand. it was one of the things xiao lacked when you were still dating. unlike hu tao, xiao can never read you no matter how hard he tried, and maybe that's one of the reasons why he left you.

"i already told you what happened –"

"and i want the truth."

you and the brunette fell into a staring contest. a battle of stubbornness as you stare each other down, willing the other person to give up. but alas, being stubborn is a talent hu tao has possessed since you were little kids.

you narrowed your eyes. leaning back against the chair with your arms crossed over your chest. "what gave you the illusion that i didn't tell you the truth?"

"a little birdy."

"what's their name?"

"big bird."

"that doesn't even make sense!"

you groan, burying your face in your hands as hu tao smiles innocently.

"alright! fine…" your voice drops to a whisper. "xiao shoved me into one of the tables and – wait, why don't you look surprised? you already know didn't you?"

hu tao shrugged. "i don't know… do i?"

you almost flipped the table.

"are you mad?" you ask, packing your laptop inside your bag.

"more like insulted because you actually thought you can get away with lying to me. me – you're ultra mega super duper best friend!" she sighed, pinning you with a stare. "don't sweat it. if anything, i'm more angry at xiao for laying a hand on you."

"he didn't –"

"nasty bruise you got on your arm there, where'd you get it?"

you huff, looking away as you tug the sleeves of your hoodie down.

you see a flash of blue hair and you nod towards the entrance, signaling hu tao as you sling your bag over your shoulder. "come on, the rest of the gang's here."

you return the eager wave xiangling gives you with a fond smile before looking back at hu tao, who's chucking the rest of her things into her bag.

"promise me you won't do anything rash? if you get suspended again, i swear to god –"

"i won't. i promise."

she sighs, putting up her pinky.

you stare at her suspiciously before tangling your pinky with hers. you weave through chairs and tables, making your way to the duo standing by the entrance.

"for the record, i don't believe you."

"oh, please! when have i ever let you down?"

you roll your eyes, muttering about that one time she ditched you in the convenience store back in your home town and was forced to pay for whatever she took off the racks.

too immersed in your story-telling, you fail to notice hu tao has stopped walking in the middle of the study hall. by the time you spun around to see her reaction, she was half-way across the room, walking towards–

"no, hu tao wait –!"

"xiao, you fucking moron!"

crash!

the study hall went silent.

you open your mouth to reprimand hu tao, still half-stunned over the stunt she pulled but a certain cherry-haired girl had beaten you to it.

"HOW DARE YOU PUNCH MY BOYFRIEND!"

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๑ summary — lesson learned! never challenge hu tao when you're drunk bc you'll just lose and now you have to post a thread of all your exes as songs from olivia rodrigo's hit debut album sour … or: "yn desperate much!" "yn still loves xiao? yikes! doesn't he already have someone new?" "stop ruining my relationship u bitch!"

[reidsnose]

doodles

overview: reader doodles on her hands a lot and spencer has to give into the temptation of coloring it in

genre: flufffffff

a/n: sorry ive havent posted a fic in like a week, ive been in quite a slump but i had this idea well after midnight but i just had to write it so lmk what u guys think of this one :)

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doodling on your hands: a once nervous habit that had seeped into your everyday life and now is just a regular habit. nearly everyday you would come to work with clean hands and get home with a mini art gallery on your non dominant one.

Spencer admired this from the moment he noticed it. at first he thought you had a tattoo but when you came back the next day with it completely gone, he was a tad confused, only to catch you doodling on that very same hand a couple hours later on the jet. he thought maybe it was an occasional thing, a habit you'd quit once you got better situated into the team, but after nearly a year you still left work almost everyday with some cutesy sketches drawn on your hand.

Spencer found himself looking forward to your doodles, imagining in his head what you might draw each day, and thinking of all the colors you would add if you had the time. being the great profiler that he is, he noticed a pattern: you subconsciously correlated your doodles with your mood.

after especially hard cases or just bad days you always drew roses.

when you were very happy you drew all sorts of fruits.

anxiousness bore little swampy creatures and lily pads.

tired days filled your hands with random, intricate designs that you didn't even have to try hard to make.

and content was anything else.

he was so impressed and absolutely adored your little coping mechanism. watching you concentrate on making those teeny pieces of art simply for your own pleasure was definitely a sight to see. the way your eyebrows furrowed and tongue poked out a bit was absolutely positively adorable. and soon he had noticed that he was looking forward less to the doodles and more to watching you draw them. and after that he began looking forward to just you.

you were sat on the jet with your back to the corner of the last seat on the plane, creating a pattern of roses on the back of your hand. Spencer plopped down in the seat next to you, growing tired of watching from so far away.

"that bad, huh?" he asked, noticing the type of flower you were gracing your hand with.

"hm?" you looked up, confused.

"you only doodle roses on bad days." he explained, pointing to your hand.

"what? no i don't!" you defended, " i just think roses are neat."

to be fair, you were having a bad day but he could've profiled that without the doodle. he cant be right, can he? there was no way you had a mood system for your doodles! unless there was.

"repetitive strokes are therapeutic, so roses being rough days make sense. the spiral in the middle followed by however many layered petals you want is a perfectly repetitive while still interesting enough to doodle."

"if i didn't know any better i'd say you've been spying on me, Dr. Reid," you teased, enjoying the slight rouge that appeared on his cheeks.

"what! no! i'm- i'm a profiler i notice patterns! i just- spying sounds creepy." he stammered.

"ok. how about admiring." you jabbed, turning a little red yourself.

"fine. but you know coloring helps too." he flipped back to the old topic of conversation.

"unfortunately i only have the standard blue, black and red ink."

"roses are red." he chuckled.

"interesting point," you bent down and reached into your bag, pulling out a red pen and handing it to him, "knock yourself out."

"what?" he looked at you slightly bewildered.

"coloring is therapeutic, you said it yourself. and you and i both know that you need something to relax you after a case like that. we all do." you explained, trying to be as nonchalant as you could knowing his skin would touch yours.

he grabbed the pen and clicked it open, coloring smoothly and slowly inside the lines you had already made in black, careful not to go over them and smudge the ink. you and him both tried your best to ignore the warmth shooting through your bodies from every place your hands touched. his fingertips lightly grazing your knuckles as he worked.you worked your way up your arm, giving you both space to work and by the time you landed, you had a half sleeve garden of surprisingly well colored (and somehow shaded) red roses.

you went home that night and bought a pack of colorful (washable) pens, hoping this little rose garden with him wasn't a one time thing. and even if it was, you would want to add your own pop of color to your doodles.

thankfully it wasn't.

you and Spencer found yourselves drawing and coloring on your hand a lot. he would catch you doing it and pop in over your shoulder just to add a touch of color where he thought it fit. and you began to feel sad washing off what the two of you had created that day, feeling nostalgic for time that has hardly passed.

and sometimes on the jet you would get tired of your own skin, so you would draw little doodles on his hand, often times leaving a little heart at the base of his thumb. these little hearts he avoided washing off for as long as he possibly could because they felt like a part of you was always with him. he started doing the same thing to your hand, a sort of signature the two of you shared.

most days, the doodles on your hands were pretty much fully colored in.

but now Spencer began to worry. what if you get ink poisoning because of his coloring? sure, the risk was statistically low, improbable even; but never zero. so one night after work he went out and bought a little sketchbook and on the front he scrawled,

"y/n's super duper special sketchbook"

upon receiving it, after giving him a hug he never wanted to let go of, you took a sharpie and started editing the title he had given it. so it now read:

"y/n and Spencer's super duper special sketchbook"

the two of you used up a whole page that day, front and back filled with all types of fruits. Spencer smiled to himself, knowing this had made you very happy. you took a second to take a step back and admire him doing the very thing he admired you for. and you understood why; he just looked so precious and you suddenly realized you craved the feeling of his hand touching yours. so you leaned over and drew a little black heart at the base of his thumb. he looked up at you, smiling widely before returning a red heart to the base of your thumb.

and you guys tore through that book, using a page a day and filling it cover to cover in no time. your own personal handmade coloring book. it turned out to be both of your most prized possessions, a pang of sadness filling your chests as you finished the last page.

you felt bad taking it home with you that night, wondering if maybe Spencer wanted to keep it. maybe you should keep it at work so you can both have it. thats the fair thing to do. you looked down, smiling sadly at the little red heart on your hand.

he did want to keep it. but he had a better idea in mind. he looked down, smiling excitedly at the little black heart on his hand.

the next day when you arrived to work all your worries were solved. on your desk laid a new sketch book entitled:

"y/n and Spencer's super duper special sketchbook: volume ii"

you laughed as you read a small lilac post it note that said, "i want to keep this one please" signed with a little red heart in the corner.

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[pikahlua]

Wait wait I think I got it this time: Yes it’s another Second’s quirk theory (but this one’s correct)

Third time’s the charm.

So there I was scrolling Tumblr in bed this morning, and I came across a classic panel from chapter 322, which I proceeded to stare at in my sleep-addled haze, and it gave me an idea which I threw out there on Discord, and we talked about it, and then, slowly...I figured it out. I wasn’t even trying to figure it out. I was gushing over how much I love chapter 322 and then I accidentally the answer. Pretty much like this:

I know what the Second’s quirk is.

Theory (not in the colloquial “guess” sense but, like, in the scientific model sense): The Second’s quirk is...under the cut, because holy shit you should really consider if you want this spoiled for you, fair warning, I’m fucking right

Table of Contents I. Accelerated Learning: Izuku’s Runaway Arc II. Holding hands gives you cooties III. How did Yoichi Shigaraki discover he had a quirk? IV. I Am Here V. Plus Ultra Possession Theory VI. tl;dr

I. Accelerated Learning: Izuku’s Runaway Arc

I don’t want to start with what I think the quirk is. I think it’s more important to explain a few key story elements first, which will lead us naturally into the quirk’s nature.

In chapter 349, we got our most recent hint at what the Second’s quirk is.

“Faster!”

(Before you ask: no, I’m not gonna mention time travel.)

Izuku writes off Blackwhip and Faux 100% because he has nothing to swing from and the Gs from the speed would destroy his equipment. He starts to brainstorm ways to get to UA faster, but Second warns Izuku not to panic and make bad decisions.

It turns out, Izuku’s solution is to try using the Second’s mystery quirk. Somehow, this quirk is supposed to get him where he needs to go quickly.

This isn’t the only time speed has been mentioned in relation to the Second’s quirk. The last page of chapter 310 includes this panel:

Perhaps the semantics of the English translation are up for debate, because you could translate the Japanese version of this as “things will speed up” or “things will accelerate” among other options. But regardless, acceleration seems to be the theme.

So that’s it then! It’s Super Speed! Everyone go home!

...

Oh come on, that’s way too simple! And practically redundant given OFA and Fa Jin.

And so, I was reading Izuku’s solo arc as I mentioned earlier, and I found there is another instance of “speed” made in reference to the Second.

“Those who can match his pace and keep running alongside him.”

But wait, there’s more! In chapter 322:

“Everyone has always been way ahead of me...”

“I said you all couldn’t keep up with me.”

Do you find it interesting how quickly Katsuki rushes forward to catch Izuku? His leg is stylistically drawn to be practically invisible here.

Izuku’s solo arc is about his hurry to master OFA, but we see him demonstrate all the OFA quirks this arc except the Second’s. The implication is that it’s the only quirk he doesn’t have access to, that there’s something he needs to accomplish in order to unlock it.

We’re also told class 1-A all know what the OFA quirks are.

I believe the Second’s quirk is unlocked in the above page.

We have the Second’s narration of what Izuku needs to bolster himself superimposed over Iida rushing to Izuku’s side--superimposed over Iida holding Izuku’s hand.

Izuku then appears distressed and asks Iida to let go, but Iida refuses...while crying.

That last panel at bottom left? That’s the Second’s quirk.

I’m not saying it was activated though. I’m saying its activation conditions were met.

II. Holding hands gives you cooties

Katsuki knows what the Second’s quirk is, which is why he caught Izuku rather than took his hand. Izuku was shouting for Iida to let go of his hand because that’s how the activation conditions are met.

That’s why Izuku was on this solo journey searching for victims and villains to save. He was looking for people to clasp hands with, which would ultimately lead him to AFO and Shigaraki (you’ll understand how soon).

Now, is it as simple as holding hands? Just physical contact is enough, or the classic all-five-fingers-must-touch quirk factor type? I’m not sure. There could be one or two more conditions required. The first possibility? A connection of the heart.

AFO must know what the activation conditions are, so he’s built in fail-safes to guard against them. Three things happen in this scene that could all be the triggering event for AFO’s booby-trap, and all three could be necessary activation conditions. First: Izuku holds Nagant’s hand. Second: Izuku reaches out emotionally to Nagant, and she responds in-kind; Izuku reaches her heroic heart.

Third: Nagant says Izuku’s name.

The other potential activation factor is that both people who hold hands say each other’s names. Maybe only one person needs to say the other’s name. Maybe they both need to for it to work. I don’t know. What I do know is: Izuku had not yet spoken Nagant’s name before she exploded.

If this is indeed an activation requirement, it explains why AFO has gone to such lengths to hide his real name, why he gave Tomura a new name, and why he’s muddled his own identity such that even New Order wouldn’t work on him.

Remember how class 1-A were supposed to spend this day training to help Izuku master OFA? Katsuki’s moment of revelation in the above page is him noticing that Izuku intends to activate the Second’s quirk with Aoyama: Izuku reaches out his hand and says Aoyama’s name. And they’re both crying. It could be that crying is an artistic representation that their hearts have connected, or it could be that “connecting hearts” just requires them both to feel the same emotion at the same time; Iida and Izuku were both crying when they held hands in chapter 321.

And this means Aoyama probably was rigged by AFO.

Tsukauchi forbade Aoyama from taking Izuku’s hand and gagged him--so Aoyama would be unable to say Izuku’s name in response. They are preventing too many activation conditions from being met because they don’t know how many or which ones it takes to trigger AFO’s traps.

In chapter 321, Iida didn’t speak Izuku’s name, but he did say his own name (Ingenium) and referred to Izuku as a lost child. That may be enough to fulfill the requirement, or it may mean that all Izuku has to do is say Iida’s name now. Katsuki did say Izuku’s name, but does it count if it’s not “Deku?” Does it have to do with what that person’s name is to the speaker deep down? Did that requirement get met, and that’s why Katsuki didn’t take Izuku’s hand? Or did that not meet the requirement, but Katsuki catching Izuku met the hand-holding requirement? Perhaps that requirement is really just a physical touch requirement.

The super-fine details are muddled, obviously, but these elements are all clearly at play here, and that’s all we need for this theory’s purposes.

III. How did Yoichi Shigaraki discover he had a quirk?

Excluding how Izuku ate a strand of All Might’s hair, all artistic representations we’ve seen of the passing of OFA have been through hand-holding. I’m not saying each user activated the Second’s quirk at these times...unless that’s actually what they did.

What I am saying is that Yoichi didn’t know he had a quirk at first, and we all wanna know how he discovered his quirk seemingly by accident. Barring someone using a scanning quirk on him that tells them what his quirk is, there’s only one, plausible, non-convoluted explanation.

Someone else had a quirk that let them use Yoichi’s.

“What? Copy? You’re saying the Second’s quirk is Copy???”

No, it’s much worse than that.

Again, to preface, the finer details of exactly how this quirk works are still unclear, but I’m going to tentatively name this quirk based on the elements it must have.

The Second’s quirk at its most fundamental is...

Switch.

Swap. Trade. Exchange. Substitute. Whatever it’s called, it’s the power to (likely temporarily) switch one similar thing for another.

I say “likely temporarily” because if the Second used this quirk to trade quirks, he could only do it once if there’s no time limit to it. Their original state would have to revert and give him his real quirk back eventually in order for him to be able to use it more than once.

And as Monoma’s existence demonstrates, such a quirk would likely give the Second some intuitive knowledge of how to activate whatever quirk he ends up with. That’s how they learned what Yoichi’s true quirk was.

Maybe this switch quirk only works on other quirks. Maybe it works on something else. I can only say it must work on similar things, like an equal exchange of value, and actually I think it really is just that. It can swap any two things, so long as they are like-things.

This means there is potential that:

People could swap places

People could swap quirks

People could swap body parts???

Did you notice Second’s gauntlets hide his hands, maybe even prevent him from holding hands at all if he even has hands? I genuinely cannot confirm from the panels that he has hands anymore now that he wears two gauntlets. He only wore one when he reached out to Yoichi. Did he lose (give away?) his hand since then?

But gosh, AFO wouldn’t be able to steal a quirk that keeps hopping from person-to-person whenever Second used it, now would he? Or would he even be able to lay a finger on Second if Second could just swap his location with another person’s?

And I have to return to the DOES HE HAVE HANDS??? question because look at this series. Look at the state of Izuku’s arms. Look at how Chisaki now lacks hands (probably to keep Izuku from using the Overhaul quirk and become super OP for the final arc). Look at the noumu. Did the Second’s quirk inspire AFO to get into splicing? Is that why Shigaraki is growing so many hands--to use them as extras for the swap when he finally takes OFA and uses Second’s quirk?

And I want you to know that, in the above page, the Second speaks about making his allies into stepping stones.

This is just a guess, but I’m willing to bet that if one of the swapped items--let’s say a person--is destroyed (killed), the swap cannot revert.

If Second swapped himself for another person and then AFO killed the person who was swapped in, Second would be safe. He wouldn’t switch back to his old spot when the quirk reached its time limit--hence the panel of bloody spatters and implied human toll above.

The Second was in the position of choosing who would live and who would die.

What a nightmare AFO must have had trying to track this sucker down.

Reigning World Champions of Hot Potato.

IV. I Am Here

With the ninth generation of One For All, Switch has become something weirder.

One For All has been stocking up quirks, which means Izuku has multiple quirks to switch.

To tie it all together, I believe in chapter 349 Izuku is considering one of two things: swapping Blackwhip for Iida’s Turbo (which would leave Iida with Blackwhip and no communication to prepare him for the change), or swapping himself for another person to get closer to UA (but that’s a hard choice to make since Izuku’s currently over the ocean).

I think it’s about time I revive my old pet theory about the future of One For All.

“I am here.” All Might says it. But All For One says it, too. Except, in Japanese, they’re each saying something a little different:

All Might says “watashi ga kita,” meaning “I have arrived.” All For One says “boku ga iru,” meaning “I am here/I exist.” Izuku also says “boku ga iru.”

But...that last one can also technically mean something a little stranger: “[you] have me.”

We’ve seen how One For All’s stored quirks have been highlighted as inspired by and used in similar ways as others’ quirks, particularly those of his classmates. Izuku’s quirk analysis and synthesis skills over the series were always leading up to this point: the strategic exchanges of his classmates’ quirks.

But that’s dangerous, because he has no idea what’s happening where each of his classmates are. He doesn’t know if he’ll be able to wield any of their quirks with any degree of mastery. He doesn’t know if the quirks will mix together and make something even weirder.

He also has no idea if he’ll screw up using the quirk (see: the Second’s facial scar and the nebulous state of his hands).

Most importantly, he doesn’t know if he’ll swap for what he intends.

V. Plus Ultra Possession Theory

I said that one of Switch’s activation conditions could be a connection of the heart. I said that could mean the subjects must be in a similar emotional state.

I’m never gonna not bring up how AFO is interested in Izuku’s rage.

AFO explicitly plans to use Shigaraki’s hatred to steal OFA somehow. I’ve made so many, too many possession predictions to count at this point. Suffice to say, I’m convinced Shigaraki’s hatred’s gonna eat someone, and that someone may as well be Izuku, who has been warned time and again to control his damn emotions or else.

There’s a tiny special little section here in this meta about the relationship between quirks and personalities (which may be “hearts” for the purposes of this quirk theory, who knows). The point is, the canon has done its job to establish that quirks and personalities are related.

So, if Izuku starts swapping a bunch of unfamiliar quirks into himself, what will happen to his personality? His heart? His emotions?

Why have so many of the story’s themes centered around the notions of imitating those one admires or loves?

If Izuku loses control of his heart while overusing Switch, he’s gonna go fucking berserk. He could come to feel or know things others know. He could be torn apart by their feelings.

If Izuku loses himself to hatred, he could end up in an accidental swap with Shigaraki. Or, maybe it won’t be accidental. Maybe it’s a self-sacrificing gambit to save Tenko.

Maybe at some point Izuku Switches the quirks from OFA into AFO or Shigaraki, and that lets the vestiges fight AFO just as Star(s) & Stripe(s) did.

All Might’s vestige out here to haunt AFO’s ass forever.

Maybe Izuku is the one who ends up possessed through all of this, and we get a scenario similar to the ending of my Katsuki possession theory, only this way Katsuki is the one who has to connect with a lost Izuku.

I mean, who has a short fuse and explosive nature bombastic enough to overpower Shigaraki’s hatred?

Go get ‘em, Tiger.

VI. tl;dr

I believe the Second’s quirk is Switch.

The finer details of how it works or activates are murky, but at the very least it will allow Izuku to (probably temporarily) swap quirks with whoever meets the activation conditions. At best, it will allow Izuku to swap similar things for each other, which could even allow him to trade places with another person (hence he would become “faster”).

The activation conditions include some or all of the following: holding hands or physical contact, names spoken aloud, and an emotional connection/meeting of the minds/connection between two hearts.

The quirk can do batshit crazy things now that OFA is in its ninth generation, like swapping so many quirks around and utilizing Izuku’s amazing quirk analysis and synthesis skills foreshadowed since chapter 1. Some of these batshit crazy things could result in utter disaster, like, idk, facial scars and potentially missing hands.

Possession theory still strong, friends! Predictions galore!

Enjoy the hot potato game of the century: One For All.