#i had fun answering tysm (>_<) ! -- ✩

[simplydnp]

I was there tonight and honestly can't believe how much he was talking about Phil, he just kept bringing him up 😭 they're so happy and comfortable to talk about each other now

it makes me so unwell 😭 like we really survived 5 years of not. they really survived years of not! and now they get to not shut up about each other again and it feels Different now!! they get to be louder and more obnoxious about it!! 😫

[deerspherestudios]

Hey! I hope you have a good day without any problems and worries! 💕💕💕 I recently took a test on the language of love and thought about Mychael. What is his love language? (my style of love is touching, so he wouldn't be able to escape from my embrace HAHA)

Aww I love talking about the 5 love languages!! This is such a sweet ask <3 This is assuming MC and Mychael have been friends/lovers for a while; here we go!

•┈••♡❤ Mychael's Love Language(s) ❤♡••┈•

When you're on the receiving end; Offering Gifts 🎁💖

He's never had anyone be around as long as you have; he's kinda new to the gifting thing but does so with a lot of enthusiasm!!

Whether it's something he made or found, knowing he chose it for you is what makes it soso special.

He just loves the idea of being able to give something that was a part of himself and insert it into your life if that makes sense.

He also loves doing it because he believes you deserve to have nice things with all his heart :-)!

If he's not sure what to gift you he'd rely on pretty little knickknacks he thinks you'd like but still be on the safe side; flowers, jewelry, decorations and accessories.

But if he does figure out your interests he'd do his best to accommodate! Books, toys, tools and clothes... he has his means of getting stuff he can't make himself.

The idea of you keeping his gifts as a sign of friendship/love makes him really happy!!

Lowkey if he sees you using/wearing/displaying a gift he gave in the past he'd be purring non-stop.

When he's on the receiving end; Words of Affirmation 💬💕

We know how he feels about his physical appearance so this is a no-brainer. His self-esteem isn't the best :'-)

Being alone/isolated as he is, he might confuse physical affection but nothing is more clear to him than words straight from your mouth how much you mean to him <3

At first he wonders if you truly mean what you say when you talk so positively about him, but then he slowly starts to believe it.

Do not underestimate the impact of one (1) compliment as simple as "You look good today, Mychael." He'd remember it for at least a week.

It's a bit of a guessing game to figure out what gets him the best. If you praise his skill at something his response would be, "Oh I guess I got good at it. Thanks, firefly :-)" but if you praise his looks and mannerisms you've hit the jackpot.

Blushing, stuttering, avoiding your gaze level of embarrassment.

If you're really close friends or basically dating, he will absolutely ask for your opinion on how you feel about him from time to time, just to get reassurance from you.

Overall nothing gets him better than just hearing positive remarks from a loving source aka you :-) <3

[theokusgallery]

Omori from Basil

This is how that one goes I think

[cowboyinternist]

Might I please have a List of your very favourite Sheriff Sam Moments

YES YOU CAN!!!

this is by no means an exhaustive list but definitely the moments i think of most often ^_^

i loooveee. this part. they’re rlly fun to look at in general in this arc but this bit in particular has always stood out to me? their eye shadow for sure has glitter in it (detail i decided on when i was like 13 that i still stand by). it’s just silly. they’re irritated.

and then i really love all the live shows. i think that’s like,, Peak Unfiltered Sam. this goes for every other character as well but i really like hearing from them directly as opposed to through cecil. also their VA is just fucking awesome. LOVE her. my favoriteeee live show with them rn is the haunting of night vale? but it changes occasionally.

in that same vein, their bit in episode 88! i see people say often that wtnv drops off in year four, but actually this episode is when it gets good. the song choice. they have a caffeine headache and they don’t even drink caffeine. EYE think that they just like to drink tea and don’t realize that it has caffeine in it. they’re pretty upset about it though.

also rlly rlly love this part from 228! it makes me sad that this is one of the last time they’re mentioned in this arc because i find the VERY sudden malice between them and janet really fascinating? and this is like a really big turning point. REALLY wish they were even hinted at in 230. miss them.

and i know a lot of people don’t like the frank chen arc? but EYE do. they have a lot of rlly great moments in that one. like they literally necromance someone. come on.

probably missed some things and will be annoyed about it later but yeah ^_^ live laugh love sheriff sam.

[vagabond-umlaut]

HIIII KIT <333333 you said you were okay w selfship asks so!!!!! here i am :33

first of all >:3 i’m a sucker for the falls first/falls harder dynamic, so!!! in your selfships, who fell first and who fell harder?? 🎤🎤 or did you both fall at the same time??? i need to knowwww!!! 

anddddd i also . love & adore….. sun/moon pairings……… 👉👈 so i’d love to know where your selfships fall on that scale too!!! :3 i get sun vibes from you but i could see moon too…. super curious to hear abt this one hehe

anyway!!!! ily kit <3333 i hope sukugo r treating you nicely!!!!! feral cat men smh…

AAAHHH ARIIi, TYTYTY FOR SENDING ME THESE QUESTIONS! I SERIOUSLY LOVE ANSWERING ASKS ON MY SELFSHIPS SM— i'm hugging u so very tightly rn *mwah mwah mwah* @twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat

who fell first? who fell harder?

kitoru

honestly speaking, the lore of my ship w satoru changes w the seasons 🤭🤭 but acc to the information i hv as of summer 2024, i'm the one who fell first. and 'toru is the one who fell harder. i fell for him a very long time ago— back when i was in my mid teens and he was in his early twenties. but nothing romantic happened then– wtv hints i gave him either went over his head or he intentionally side-stepped them. and i js stopped giving him hints after one or two failed attempts, js staying happy with staring at him from afar, or yk, relishing wtv moments i used to get him as being one of his acquaintances... [he used to see me as a 'friend'. i nvr thought he cld see me as a 'friend', haha] but yk, when we grew up, i crossed quite some distance into my twenties and he too entered his late twenties— this is when the tectonic plates of our relationship slowly started shifting. i cld feel it, but i did not want to hope once again js to get heart-broken a second time— satoru, however, felt the shift like an earthquake. it's like, one moment he was thinking of me like he wld think of a friend, but then smthng happened, and he was like, "oh. this isn't how i think of shoko or nanami. oh. oh."— and well, let's js say, satoru was not rly in the mood for dating... he was more like, "omggg, ily! i'll take care of u! i'll make sure u hv a happy life! why don't we get married engaged, hm?" [i love my men a bit yandere 😂]

kitkuna

i think, mr. darcy's words fit sukuna and my dynamics the best 😄— “i was in the middle before i knew that i had begun.” we did not hv a very normal start to our relationship. sukuna js abducted me from my family and made me his queen. and i js became his queen and began to live in his temple or palace or fort or wtv. and yeah, we js started living together the way two ppl married as if for tax benefits start living together under the same roof. tht is it... except, tht doesn't stay tht is it for long. usually, i wld be content w some yummy food, interesting books, and nice comfy clothes— but over time, i began to notice i was feeling stuff other than js content. over time, this heavy feeling inside my chest began to grow lighter and i began to feel freer— and i realised, it was because of this freedom i was experiencing here. smthng i nvr got to experience when i was w my family— that place was rly good, yeah. i was treated rly well. but i felt more like ' a bird inside a golden cage' there. this observation changed my perception of sukuna from a housemate to smthng more amiable, perhaps smthng more affectionate, and i tried to get closer to him, inch by inch— actually millimetre by millimetre, 'cause i love to test the waters 1st then dip my toe into it— and then one fine day, when i wake up from an afternoon nap and i find sukuna sitting at the table, totally immersed in scrolls of poetry... an odd thing happens in my chest— which occurs again at dinner a few nights later... when i notice him eating as messily as ever— smthng which repeats when i catch him napping one day, akin a big cat lounging in the shade— a phenomenon which starts to happen multiple times a day very very soon... needless to say, i quickly diagnose it as a case of falling in love w my hubby 😌😌 as for sukuna... i don't rly think he feels love... he kidnapped me 'cause he was lwk intrigued by me. [idk why] he married me 'cause he grew highkey intrigued by me. [i still hv no idea why 😭😭] and he gave me space, never tried to be bad or scary to me 'cause he gave me some amt of respect as his wife, his queen [i nvr went to his court tho. i preferred drinking fruit juice and reading a good book in the shade of a tree] [were u able to guess i'm lazyyy] but then, one day, few weeks after i was able to extricate myself from my jumbled emotions and reach a definitive diagnosis— i found him snoozing under the same tree i take rest under, w a very amateurish book titled 'how do you know you are in love'— and i actually got rooted to the spot. and sukuna, heaven knows how, woke up while i was busy gaping at him. and he made an embarrassed face and dashed away— uraume later confirmed, their lord was feeling an odd thing in their chest; esp the last few weeks— roughly the same time as when i first encountered my symptom. later tht night, when i started subtly teasing him, calling us soulmates, he js put a blanket over my head to shut me up, but did not kill me— guess he loves me, huh 🤭🤭

who is the sun? who is the moon?

be it kitoru or kitkuna, i think i'm the moon, babes 😇😇 tho not a full moon. i'm more of a waxing crescent, methinks... 'cause i feel like i'm bright, but not bright enuf to light someone's path thru a forest at night... i js hv the potential, heh [i'm defo not the sun, babes 😅😅 i can be a lil grumpy and mean tbh, hahaha] satoru and sukuna, on the other hand... i think they are the sun in our dynamics. they can be both the comforting sun of chilly winter mornings, when i need them to be here for me, to hug me, to kiss me, to love me— and the scorching sun of a summer noon, ready to burn anyhting and everything which dares to bother me... [i love satoru and sukuna being a little crazy in their love for me 🥰🥰]

they're treating me pretty well so far, babes 🥰🥰🥰 and fr fr— feral cat men make me go insaneeee 😂😂😂

now i too wanna know ur answers to these same asks for ur selfships, my loveee 🤗🤗🤗 [no pressure tho!! only if u wanna ❤️❤️]

[kairos-polaris]

So I found this around, can I ask for Gojo/ Yuuji?

♥ Send a ship and I'll give you who:

- Gives nose/forehead kisses

- Gets jealous the most

- Picks the other up from the bar when they’re too drunk to drive

- Takes care of on sick days

- Drags the other person out into the water on beach day

- Gives unprompted massages

- Drives/rides shotgun

- Brings the other lunch at work

- Has the better parental relationship

- Tries to start role-playing in bed

- Embarrassingly drunk dancer

- Still cries watching Titanic

- Firmly believes in couples costumes

- Breaks the expensive gift rule during Christmas

- Makes the other eat breakfast

- Remembers anniversaries

- Brings up having kids

hi!! I love this so much, have been thinking about it ever since i woke up

- Gives nose/forehead kisses

Gojo has height advantage so he is the giving nose/forehead kisses randomly but when they are cuddling it's Yuuji. And Satoru just melts from hos soft and loving Yuuji is

- Gets jealous the most

Gojo 100%, he is a jealous selfish bastard man who doesn't like people being too close to his precious Yuuji. He gets ten times more openly affectionate with Yuuji if he sees someone too close to him

- Picks the other person from the bar when they're too drunk to drive

Both! Gojo when he decides to join Shoko, it doesn't take long for him to get black out drunk so Shoko is usually the one calling Yuuji so he could get his boyfriend. In the morning Satoru intentionally doesn't rct his hungover so Yuuji would take care of him

And I see Nobara dragging Yuuji and Megumi with her to go clubbing, on the rare occasions Yuuji gets too drunk Megumi (the always sober friend) calls Gojo. Gojo forces Ijichi to drive him tho because he wants to make out with Yuuji in the backseat and Yuuji is always too indulgent of him

- Takes care of on sick days

They both don't get sick easily, especially with Gojo's rct but Yuuji is 100% the caretaker, he frets over Satoru and makes sure he gets better soon

- Gives unprompted massages

Yuuji! He offers to massage Satoru's neck and shoulders whenever he is back from a time consuming mission and Gojo always accepts, Yuuji touch always makes him feel better and less annoyed with the higher ups for wasting his time

- Brings the other lunches and work

Yuuji, he wakes up early to make the best lunches for Satoru and will always bring them to him so they could have lunch together if they have no missions then

In a no curses au all of Gojo's coworkers would be so jealous watching him get handfed the most delicious lunch by his handsome boyfriend. One time Yuuji was the one who forgot his lunch and Satoru brought it to him, now making all of Yuuji's coworkers jealous and envious

- Has the better parental relationship

Probably Yuuji if you consider his grandfather as his parent. But they were both seen as tools by their parent(s). With Yuuji we do know that Jin cared for him (for as long as he was around) and so does Kenjaku to some extent. We don't know enough about Satoru's parents to say for sure but I do think they saw six eyes and limitless user before they saw their son

- Tries to start role-playing in bed

Gojo and I don't think I need to explain that, he definitely has a sensei kink

- Embarrassingly drunk dancer

Gojo in the very rare circumstances he does get drunk. Yuuji too, he would be super embarrassed in the morning but Satoru thinks it's cute (there is almost nothing that could make Satoru think Yuuji isn't cute)

- Still cries watching Titanic

As a person who never watched Titanic I'd say Yuuji because of the human earthworm stuff and how compassionate he is. Satoru wouldn't cry because he is too used to suppressing his feelings as the strongest (dw about it, Yuuji helps him with that)

- Firmly believes in couples costume

Gojo, he needs to make it clear to everyone Yuuji is taken 🥰 ("Everyone already knows, idiot," - Megumi probably)

- Breaks the expensive gift rule for Christmas

Gojo, I like the hc that Yuuji struggles with accepting gifts so Satoru, who wants to spoil his precious boyfriend, would buy things all throughout the year and then act shocked there are so many gifts for Yuuji when Christmas comes. Yuuji is flustered over the disparity in price and quantity and doesn't buy Satoru's "I just panic bought everything to make sure you like your gifts" excuse because every single thing is perfectly tailored to his taste. But eventually he gives in to Satoru's puppy eyes

- Makes the other eat breakfast

Yuuji, the habit of getting up early to cook a healthy breakfast for Satoru started during the basement arc and then carried on even when Yuuji lived in the dorms. Satoru protested a bit at first but gave in quickly because he likes being taken care of

- Remembers anniversaries

Satoru remembers every single important date and uses them as excuses to spoil Yuuji with gifts. Yuuji remembers the major stuff and spoils Satoru back

- Brings up having kids

I imagine they both would skirt around it not wanting to pressure the other but in the end it would be Yuuji, armed with lots and lots of reassurance from Megumi and Nobara

[askteamsupernova]

What was Sheena's rescue team like? Is she still in contact with them?

Sheena: I'm very glad Requiem and I moved to Treasure Town, but I will admit I miss seeing my old friends in person. Letters and photographs are excellent, but something about sitting down for tea with someone you love is so very healing.

[zenruu]

Hi, I saw the thing you reblogged with the tags and was like hell yeah an opportunity! SO

I saw that you have a Surana and was wondering what specializations you picked for Neria in DAO? Does she have any story reason for choosing them? Also if you have any Rook concepts, I'd love to hear about them! Do you know what class you want to play or background?

YAAAAAY! Thank you so much for the ask!

So yeah, Neria is a Spirit Healer/Blood Mage! Her mom was an herbalist so healing and helping people has always been on the radar for her. It might sound kind of surprising since she's a bit cold, kind of crass, not at all the usual sweet healer archetype, but underneath 5 miles of ice she's actually a secret sweetie. She will generally want to help people if she can. Her mom was killed trying to keep her from being taken to the Circle when Neria was 5, so she never got to pick up any herbalism from her. Neria does start to learn a bit of it on her own to complement her healing magic though.

I headcanon that she picks up blood magic from Jowan when she meets him again in Redcliffe, wanting any possible advantage to help her defeat the blight. Her curiosity (especially when it comes to magical subjects) is absolutely BOUNDLESS even to the point of recklessness, so she's not afraid of blood magic. She doesn't feel that it's inherently evil or anything, just a tool like any other. She never uses it to control anyone though, freedom and autonomy are some of her biggest core values. She really just uses her own blood, but is not opposed to using someone else's blood if she's going to kill them anyway because what difference does it make at that point?

As for Rook: I don't have any solidified concepts yet but I'm veeeeeery likely going with a Grey Warden Spellblade for my first playthrough! Not 100% locked in until I get in the character creator though.

[isleofsodora]

Your Duck design is so good wahhh-

(Ngl,,,im simping again😭)

I didn’t stop Duck in time SHIT!!!

Thank you so much though! I’m happy with his design and I’m glad you are too!

[graveys-art-blog]

HEYYY HIIII FOR THE ASK GAME:

3, 10, 31, 45 for Vitor

50, 56, 15, 4 for Sam

17, 21, 27, 42 for Uri

and if u want, some free questions u can answer w any of your ocs: 43, 46, 1!!

(feel free to skip any of these im just chewing ur guys between my teeth. always)

I started yappin real hard so here's a tdlr of the undercut: my guys are so silly.

3.How often do they show their genuine emotions to others versus just the audience knowing?

I see what you're doing.

10.What fact do they excitedly tell everyone about at every opportunity?

What doesn't he excitedly tell everyone.. Something he's particularly eager to announce is when the troupe has arrived at a new town, Vitor is so so so excited and will make sure EVERYONE knows. He's inherently a bit of a thrill seeker now and gets hyped to tell the others about something exciting happening in town. or the fun that could happen on a new adventure, ect ect.

31.When do they feel the most guilt? How do they respond to it?

This ones honestly hard! But I think he'd feel the most guilt when accidentally harming someone he was trying help. He'd feel downright awful to hurt a friend he was trying to cheer up! Vitor would scramble to try and make it better, apologizing or trying a new way to make whoever feel okay. Which could just overwhelm and make the feeling worse, but he's trying, you know?

50.What belief / moral / personality trait do they stand by that you (mun) personally don’t agree with?

Sam, unfortunately believes that certain systems aren't inherently corrupt, it's just that there's bad actors who abuse it. And if they just removed those people everything would run smoothly. But TBH. I disagree with their everything, they're just, they're kind, they'll throw themself in the face of danger to protect others, but their self sacrificial concept is ungodly toxic! Never trust a paladin to be normal!

56.If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?

They.. do not like showing fear. As a knight to show fear is to cast doubt on those who believe in you, depend on you, look to you for protection, you can't give them a reason to be afraid too. However, Sam does tend to seek comfort from positions of higher authority. In a backwards attempt at seeking comfort after being defeated for the first time in their current party, they asked their leader (Claude) if they would be kicked out for being weak. They also use prayer as a form of comfort, there is no fear with their goddess to guide them.

15.What’s the most obvious difference between their behavior at home, at work, at school, with friends, and when they’re alone?

This is really tragic but I think Sam just looks very forlorn when alone. They just.. carry themself differently. Everyone respects them as a strong unwavering figure but they're kind of mopey when left to themself compared to their headstrong and introspective presentation as a knight. They're not like.. faking it persay? But there's a different vibe.

4.What’s a hobby they used to have that they miss?

They miss sparring with the other knights in training at their old guild. They know if they were to battle old friends again, it wouldn't be for fun this time around.

17.What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them?

Uri tends to notice any physical changes w/their body right off the bat when looking in the mirror, they're very aware of their form, so they tend to pay attention to necrotic developments w/their freak body (Thrilling for them.) And most people tend to notice their height (or lack thereof) first.

21.What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?

Handshakes and not kicking up your boots on the table. Handshakes feel like they're a competition to whoever got the strongest grip, n it feels like a formality only used by people trying to not rip each others throats out. They follow it though.. out of respect (sometimes.) They're gross with the boots thing but a cowpoke don't care. Look at their shiny spurs.

27.What’s the worst gift they ever received? How did they respond?

Worst gift to their sensibilities? Christmas Day. 1922. Received a gift by the one and only Victor "Charlie" Shelley. It was the mascots, Titled Mister Georgie, suit for the underdog baseball team Underdark Spiders

(art by @/nilovalentine)

Anyway they responded by making a deal with the bbeg about 30 minutes later!

The worst gift they received for their personal growth as a human being? A pistol as a child. And let's just say they're no dull marksman.

42.If invited to a TED Talk, what topic would they present on? What would the title of their presentation be?

"Just because you "DIED" it doesn't make me reviving you "UNHOLY": Why Necromancy is Modern Medicine."

43.What do they commonly misinterpret because of their own upbringing / environment / biases? How do they respond when realizing the misunderstanding?

More of a positive misinterpretation, bc of Uri's cowboy life, they follow the code of payback. If you scratch their back, they'll scratch yours. People don't do favors often in the underdark, and when they do, you don't want to be in debt to em. So They don't take kindness for granted or understand people being nice for the sake of being nice. It takes them awhile to understand. That people do favors without wanting things in return! It makes them feel very odd when realizing, but it's nice, isn't it? To be able to expend energy without cost?

46.Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?

Sammy is definitely more of a listener, while they'll insert their opinion when they feel necessary, outside of life or death discussions they tend to be more quiet n prefer listening to their friends talk. A pretty easy way to get them to talk though is asking about, well, morals, even if they don't know whats wrong from right anymore it is something they think about a lot. They also like talking about the art of weaponry and armor c:

1.What’s the lie your character says most often? One they say to themself quite often is that they're not scared.

54.What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation? (Requested in another ask)

Sam's Fight, Uri's Fight/Flight (complicated), and Vitor's Fawn, maybe Freeze sometimes.?

[conivolos]

oh. oh hey look. it's an ask box. and it's me in your ask box.

what's your favourite type of tea? and your favourite colour. and song. and car. and plant. and favourite minecraft wood type

heheheh heya alex!!!! :D

ive frankly never had tea so i dunno! think id maybe like something with cinnamon :)

favourite colour hmmm... is all of them a valid answer? jksfdsadf theyre all gorgeous in their own right, i couldnt pick just one :D

for song i think id go with 'cecile (marcus mamourian)' by joy again :D i really like how it kinda builds as the song goes on!!

i know shit all about cars, but i have an immediate soft spot for anything thats not silver, white, or black ksdhfsd

the only plant i really know the name of is golden pothos so ima go with that one :D ooo wait maybe star jasmine, we had a bunch of them by we were during lunch and recess in like kindy or something and people kept eating them ksdfsd

either mangrove, birch or spruce!!!!

[advertisesouls]

@xluciifer ; If your muse was a gameshow, which would they be and why?

out of the office: hmm, this is a bit of a tricky one since my immediate answer would be "let's make a deal" due to how she, too, has and continues to make deals with her fellow demons to keep gaining more influence and power in hell. that, and she always presents tempting offers for her deals to make them especially enticing and hard to turn down.

(that, and i think xifeng would find the idea of her contractees picking zonks to be hilarious since they're the ones who did that and she was just being a gracious dealer.)

but then i started to really think about it and also can see "the price is right" being one, too, given how the mere idea of seeing people lose on an extravagant prize (i.e. a car, a trip to another country, etc) all because they got the answer wrong or fate didn't favor them that day. then, to see people compete for a chance with the big wheel to get on to the showcase would also amuse her with the varied reactions that people would give her.

then, you get to the showcase, and in the case where it's a double overbid and both contestants don't win their respective showcases? oh, that would provide endless entertainment for her!

[churro-on-a-unicycle]

Kazemaru and Max ‼️‼️

🫂📓💝👽

omg i get to talk about Kazemaru for once!! (and Max, again)

Kazemaru Ichirouta

🫂 A friendship headcanon

I think Kazemaru would be pretty good friends with Midorikawa. We've seen them hang out outside of practice before and I think personality wise they'd mesh pretty well? They're both also known to be pretty fast so I think it'd be fun if they sometimes race against each other or something!

📓 A headcanon about their hobbies

Outside of sprinting, which I'm convinced he still does in his spare time he wasn't in the track club if he didn't at least enjoy it, I think he'd be into rollerblading as well. I personally love rollerblading and I also love projecting onto characters but I think it would suit him really well! It allows him to go even faster than he can just running. I think he'd initially try it out under the guise of it being "soccer practice" (endou syndrome is strong in this team) but then he eventually just really starts to enjoy himself and get into learning how to do more tricks with it. It eventually just becomes something he just likes doing for fun and he gets REALLY good at it too.

💝 A headcanon about their love language

Ooh this one was kinda hard! I think Kazemaru would be the type of person to do gestures instead of physical contact. He doesn't strike me as particularly touchy but he'd do things like make breakfast in the morning or buy gifts for the people he loves just because. I don't really know what people do in relationships lol I'm aroace..

👽 A headcanon about a weird quirk of theirs

He HAS to run 3 laps around 5he field before the start of every match. Yes it slightly decreases his staminahe doesn't care. He's convinced it gives the team good luck (the one time he didn't was their first matcg against gemini storm, we all know how that went)

Matsuno (Max) Kuusuke

🫂 A friendship headcanon

I already very existensively talked about how I think he'd be one of the first players in inajapan who'd be able to warm up to Fudou. Other than that I think Max is generally just close to most og raimon members, particularly Jin and Handa. He's usually seen hanging out with Handa but I also think he's been friends with Jin even before joining the soccer club. They were classmates before joining the soccer club and they both joined at the same time. Coincidence? I think not! I imagine he ended up mentioning Endou running around with his big sign to Jin and they decided to both join the team afterwards.

📓 A headcanon about their hobbies

I saw @marmolao 's hc that Max sew his sleeping hat from I think it was a bedsheet, I 100% agree with that. To add to that I also think sewing is something he does to destress. Probably one of the few hobbies he's tried that he didn't immediately drop, maybe the hat he wears could be the first thing he's ever sewn? Idk just spitting ideas. I really like the idea that he does a lot of diy-ing when it comes to the clothes he wears, he tries to be so cool with spiked bracelets made of ripped up jeans and covers his clothes in pins and patches. And then he wears that cat hat and all of the coolness wears away instantly.

💝 A headcanon about their love language

I headcanon him as aroace, bc again I really like projecting on characters. That being said he still has a platonic love language. I think he enjoys making little things for his friends. Like little trinkets, things that they can keep on hand. That'd be so cutee

👽 A headcanon about a weird quirk of theirs

I. I don't think he's capable of parting with his hat, it's definitely a comfort item, but I also just think he hates having his head exposed like that. Like it feels Wrong not having anything on his head, which is why he has one specifically for going to bed.

[ashton-ryder]

🔥🍑 📙

𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 ; 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 … ( 𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 ) (x)

🔥 — everything’s all aflame! a headcanon about a time in my muses life that felt incredibly chaotic or out of control around them.

tw: dissociation 

Ashton comes from a quieter part of Minnesota and never really lived in a huge city with him more attuned with being in nature. So to have been accepted into NYU for doctorate program and moving there had him facing the urban jungle and he didn’t expect it to feel that overwhelming. The day he arrived, every sudden loud burst of sounds had him on edge and flinching, especially just leaving the marines and the mishaps of his final mission. He remember trying to walk through the crowded streets to get groceries; people shoving, fast walkers glaring, cars honking, ambulances blaring, and Ashton remembered his mind shutting down as if to protect and disconnect him from the bombardment to his mind, dissociating and watching himself try to keep up with the notions of New York life, blurring the noises away, numbing himself from the overstimulation of life, one step forward, and then the next, just get to somewhere quieter, somewhere to think without the chaos. He didn’t know how long had passed. And before he knew it, he stopped dead in the middle of the street, an oncoming car blaring loudly at him and a kind stranger yanking him out of the streets and out of the self preserving state he was in that unknowing could’ve led to his death. It took him a long time to get accustomed to New York, starting with a constant use of headphones and music yet slowly but surely, the city life would grow on him.

🍑 — you’re a peach! a headcanon specifically about a physical aspect of a person they are attracted to.

Physical and sexual attraction was something less familiar to Ashton compared to emotional attraction, he had a hard time grasping for an understanding of it when his friends or bunkmates talk about it. He thought back then that maybe something was broken in him that he couldn't relate, but it rarely bothered him. He had other things to do in life. He had his whole life ahead of him to come back and figure it out again, maybe if he just waited a little more it'll hit him. It never did but Ashton never felt like he was losing out. But if he had to choose a physical aspect that he at least admired, it would be people's eyes, as the saying goes, the eyes are the windows to the soul, you can see one's joy, sadness, fear, unfiltered. What a beautiful aspect of humanity's silent communication.

📙 — in the orange book! for a book, poem or piece of literature that my muse really loves, and why.

The Voyager Record: A Transmission by Anthony Michael Morena

You are getting so far away now. Does your distance mean your irrelevance? How the further away you hurtle from Earth, the less you become about us. You will be about another people, not who we are. Faerie elves exist only to supply meaning to words like "flit" and "folk." This is you to us. A boogeyman encased with stellar dirt with a golden eye that, in ideal conditions, sings.

Ashton remembers finding this fascinating book when it first launched, encapsulating the beauty of The Voyager's Golden Record mission back in the 1970s. He has always been a man of science, of numbers, hard cold facts and calculations of space. He lost a bit of the spark of wonder over the years and his professor recommended to him to reconnect with the human and philosophical aspects of space. We look to space because we are human. We can't forget that.

The Voyagers carry a message from Earth, a phonograph record plated with gold containing 27 songs, 118 images, and greetings in 55 languages meant to summarize all life on our planet for the extraterrestrials who might one day encounter the crafts. This book is the record of that record: a history in fragments exploring how legendary astronomer Carl Sagan and his team attempted to press the entire human race into a single groove.

Often, the book focuses on what’s not on the record. No photo of a naked man and a naked woman. No hip hop. No gay couples. No Grandmaster Flash. Many of the book’s pages contain only one paragraph, or a single word, with each snippet floating in a white space that invites further rumination. Zooming the lens way, way out, the book asks us to consider humanity’s need to nail down our context in the universe.

In effect, it elegantly and soulfully reaches to grasp the vastness of space, human experience, and manifestations of our attempts to matter.

It was a profound book that is still a favorite of Ashton's, and still sits on his book shelf. He takes it out to read every once in a while, every time he feels like he's slipping too far away from humanity.

[universestreasures]

@tophatz Sent: A Ship That Includes At Least One Of My Muses To Rate (Accepting)

Rivalshipping ( Yugi & Kaiba ) ! Yusei & Kiryu 👀

Rivalshipping ( Yugi & Kaiba ) !

vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell

This is a ship I feel has as much romantic as it does platonic appeal, and it's one I've been thinking about due to all the fanart (which a lot of it is cute and funny) I've seen while looking for Yugi things for my queue. Kaiba and Yugi did not get to interact as much after a certain point due to Atem taking that spotlight and becoming Kaiba's rival, but from what we know about their dynamic, they both would (especially post canon / post dsod) get along pretty well.

The biggest things they both have in common is a love of games and a hardworking attitude. They both are such nerds about gaming I cannot help but see them just essentially talking in their own language no one can understand. I also think they respect each other a lot, and we know Yugi has expressed interest in wanting to play games with Kaiba and getting to be his friend. He's also shown concern for Kaiba such as during Duelist Kingdom and has been pretty quick to forget the bad stuff he did too (but that merciful / forgiving nature of Yugi is such a key part of his character).

I think they have the potential to either be an adorable short king and tall king couple (with no doubt notes of co-worker romantic stuff due to at least manga wise them collaborating like in Takahashi's art he drew for a post DSOD idea) or gaming besties with enough time and development (mainly because any dynamic with Kaiba is gonna be developed slowly cause well it's Kaiba LOL).

I'd love to explore the dynamic either way with my Yugi, honestly. Curious how my Yugi's dynamic with Ani's Kaiba ( @shacchou ) will develop.

Yusei & Kiryu 👀

vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell

I feel the same way about this pairing that I do with Yusei with Jack or Crow. My interpretation is that Yusei sees all three members of Team Satisfaction as his brothers, and those, he has a strong familial bond with all three of them. That's why I think he is willing to give himself up for Kiryu by turning himself in aside from his selfless nature.

I 100% get the appeal as to why people would and do ship this pairing, especially due to the angsty nature and childhood friends parts of their dynamic,it just is not for me!

[drainbangle]

absolutely shaking you /pos about your persona fit designs for the oct2path cast, I gotta know if you have any persona thoughts about them

Aw thank you!! Right now, I don't have any set ideas for all the gang's specific Personas; I think initially, I was gonna have the progression be OT1 travelers for everyone's initial Personas -> gods for ultimate Personas, but I felt like I could do something more with it, so that didn't stick.

I do have detailed ideas for the healers' Personas at least, along with approximations for how long everyone's had their powers.

Since I went into this not wanting to have a specific wild card since everyone's a protagonist, everyone can use multiple personas and access the Velvet Room. However, due to the *gestures* natures of some of Temenos and Castti's storylines, they get some unique stuff w/ their ultimate personas.

...Specifically to do with Temenos 3 SH and Hunter & Apothecary 2.

— Temenos

Regarding canon divergence

I mentioned it on Twitter (albeit, not here) that Crick does not die in this AU. This tends to go for anything I write involving Temenos' storyline, since I generally do not agree with Crick's death as a writing decision; mostly for Temenos' writing's sake than anything.

He works best when interacting with another character (e.g. Crick, Throné) so when you kill off the one character he has a real rapport with, a lot of his scenes in Temenos 4 suffer as a result. Not to mention, it does read like Crick got killed off to give Temenos a personal reason to pursue Kaldena as if she didn't already kill his adoptive father.

Note: I love Kaldena though. Crick is a friend but his murderer is an oomf to me. I've been cooking up a fic for her and I like her a lot.

It's not an uncommon occurrence to kill off a detective's ally when they get too close to the truth. But in this instance, I can't say I like how it's pulled off. NTM Temenos already gets to deal with a pretty significant loss, discussed below.

(The joke answer here is that I need one of every element covered in the team, so Crick lives to see another day.)

Roi

Remember that snippet I wrote about Ochette killing a shadowy monster? That was Roi. He was experimented on by the MO (most comparable to Strega here) in an attempt to fuse Shadows with living humans, and it didn't go well. It resulted in him becoming a monster like he did in canon.

Temenos learns of this a bit before when SH takes place —which is around mid-October here— and he and Ochette are both horrified. He doesn't blame her for having to defend herself, especially when it's clear Roi was beyond saving at that point, but he's still upset over the circumstances regardless; and it's opened up a wound he's been trying to ignore.

So at this point in the story when SH takes place, Temenos' mental state isn't doing too great. And it'll only get worse for a bit longer!

Stormail

During when SH happens here, it happens pretty similar to canon: Temenos and Crick realize that Vados is dead, Crick begins to doubt the institution he's working for, and is attacked by Kaldena— who, here is probably like. Chief Prosecutor or something.

Crick is attacked near the local courthouse while investigating on his own during the Dark Night (our Dark Hour equivalent). He's bleeding out, and can't heal himself. Lucky for him though, only being able to operate for an hour means Temenos and co. are active around that time, and the team finds him losing consciousness fast.

One fun thing to note about Persona is that a living person can become a Persona for a specific user through a strong desire to protect their loved ones after death.

So, when Temenos finds Crick bleeding out with wounds too deep to heal normally... he thinks of all his loved ones screwed over by the law, how Crick may very well join that number, and thinks only that he cannot —he will not— allow that to happen.

This, combined with Roi in canon thinking of protecting Temenos despite everything, repeating only snippets of his last conversation warning him to protect him... Roi becomes Temenos' ultimate Persona, and the surge in magical strength is enough to keep Crick alive long enough to get serious medical treatment.

— Castti

Eir's Apothecaries

Like in canon, all of Eir's Apothecaries have died prior to the travelers finding Castti. While IDK if all of them were Persona users (Malaya, Castti, and Trousseau definitely were tho), rn I think all of them were aware of Persona stuff and tried to use their resources to heal people affected by Shadow attack.

Claude, as part of the MO trying to bring Vide into the world, tried to recruit them for their medical and scientific knowledge, but they refused.

Trousseau, however, was swayed and soon enough, tried to kill the rest of the team as part of his desire for humanity's end. The rest of the group, aside from Malaya and Castti, died trying to get the two as far away from him as possible; and even then, the two were on their last legs due to his Persona's debilitating attacks.

Malaya, realizing that they both couldn't survive, instead used all of her power to fully heal Castti. This causes whatever Persona she had to, not fuse with Castti's (not yet), but just transfer over to Castti p much.

Castti doesn't remember this. When the travelers (the team atm being Temenos, Osvald, Ochette, and Throné) find her, she starts off with two personas.

Castti's memories

When Castti recovers her memories and fights Trousseau, she and Malaya's Personas fuse to become a completely new and stronger one. It combines their Personas' designs, and carries some elements of Malaya's physical appearance too— representative of her loss, albeit, with the knowledge that she will always be loved and watched over by her departed loved ones.

However, her character development (and unique Persona stuff) doesn't stop there.

Hunter & Apothecary 2

In this Persona AU, Personas are formed from the knowledge of limited time and that life is given value through the existence of death. This is the contract that binds Personas and their users, thus making it possible to go against that.

When Hunter & Apothecary 2 rolls around, I imagine that it happens real late into the year— like, mid-December as everyone's preparing to face Vide. I imagine the tone here is... honestly a lot like P3's fourth movie, where because of the sudden time limit (and feeling of responsibility) everyone's really stressed out.

Like canon, Vide's main target to get rid of is Castti due to her vast medical knowledge, battle prowess, and her being a source of emotional strength for her allies. He plays on her feelings of powerlessness as a medical professional, along with exacerbating her guilt that comes with being Trousseau's mentor.

At first, the group notices she's less social and starts to skip meals. But for a day or two, chooses to not leave her room. While the rest of the group aren't doing... fantastic, this is especially alarming.

Because Persona contracts are formed around valuing limited time... if a user becomes apathetic towards death, what do you think it means for them when they break that contract, even briefly?

They can go berserk— at least, in the movie adaptation. Warning for depictions of strangulation in the video linked.

So, Castti gets attacked by her Persona. It isn't Malaya like Temenos' is Roi, but is a separate entity summoned through her love and grief. Becoming apathetic towards life and death goes against her contract, thus making it go berserk.

Ochette finds her and like canon, has to fight it to get it under control before it kills Castti; but afterwards, she has to rest and recover from that.

How long everyone's had their Personas

Ochette, Agnea, and Partitio's are awakened mid-story.

Hikari's was forcibly awakened as a child, and underwent experiments growing up. He wasn't born with the ability to summon a Persona, he was forced to learn how.

Throné's in a similar situation. For the sake of adaptation, the main part I'll focus on when adapting Claude is his desire to find the best candidate for a Vide vessel. Throné is an artifical Persona user created for the MO's experiments, but does not need suppressants where her former colleagues did.

Because I follow the theory that Temenos is a claudelet, the same also applies to him. He's adopted by Jörg at age 6, and was found after one of the MO's experiments went terribly wrong during a full moon — during an early (failed) attempt to bring Vide into the world. He was about to die due to injuries from an explosion, right when the Velvet Room (likely run by like. the OT1 cast taking shifts basically. probably) realized it needed outside power to combat Vide's descent. It reached out to Temenos, having him sign a contract to accept a limited amount of time, and to value what time people have left alive.

Temenos does not remember any of this, and in this specific adaptation, did not originally have white hair. He has the Velvet Room's white hair as a result of his contract... which is renewed prior to the beginning of the story when he and Osvald began their investigations. It's how the team is able to find the Velvet Room in the first place (but can all use it), as Temenos pretty much got the key sealed inside him as a kid. This is how I'm adapting him being chosen by Aelfric for now, but could be subject to change.

Temenos will be fine. He'll die for like 5 minutes though.

Castti's was awakened before the story with no issues. She has some later though, as you can see.

Osvald awakened his when he realized Harvey framed his family, but couldn't train it until Temenos got him out on parole.