#if ever you have wanted lore for him for Any reason. 👀 the post these questions came from is in my ask game tag

[iamjessemccartney]

1 and 35 for Carol?

YES thank you lars

1. Are they associated with a certain color? What color do they wear most?

i definitely associate him with orange and shades of orangey brown. one reason being the obvious- he's a ginger with light brown eyes, those colors come built in. but lesser-known fun fact is that his middle name is Oisin, which translates to "little deer" from irish gaelic- so! brown shades to match the colors faun fur comes in :3

as for the colors he normally wears? i do like to picture him in deep greens and blues, and.. reds and dustier purples, but he's probably got more earthy tones and generally lighter shades in his actual wardrobe. and considering he's a professional violnist, he most definitely has a couple Very Tasteful concert black™️ suits in rotation.

35. Do they ever return home?

ohhh god he Tries. in literal terms? yes. he never really strays very far from the city he was raised in, and- the way i've seen it, he winds up taking over his childhood home when the time comes. the home he was born in, for clarification- the first one he lived in. but? carol takes over this home, his first one, because his father dies and carol himself can't bear to leave it empty or put it up for sale. his fiancée breaks their engagement and leaves him in this home, a few months after the funeral. his mother died in this home when he was still just a boy. half of his childhood was spent elsewhere, in another home, with other guardians, because his father couldn't take care of him alone once she was gone.

yes, he returns home, but home isn't the same. home will never be what he'd tried to plan for himself. but all in all, it is still home.

[the-copycat-hero]

In my mind, Monoma knows how to pickpocket, do sleight of hand, roll a coin across his knuckles, all that good stuff :D I also hc him to have voluntary nystagmus. No particular reason, I just 100% think Monoma would use that skill to freak people out

Also I hc him to be friends with Hatsume Mei. Each time he visits he brings a whole packet of papers, diagrams, analytics of quirks and how they relate to their costumes, and Mei def eats it up EVERY TIME. She also has him try quirks she needs for the equipment whenever possible. They’re smart kids :>

What do you like seeing most in monoma fics/fan work and what do you want to see more of? Any relationships (romance or gen) you like? Also I’m very curious about the Monoma family 👀 Clearly they don’t seem to keep in touch. What does Monoma say when he’s asked about them? Is it something he keeps under wraps or are most of his friends aware

!!!!!!! Big Brain Takes! Massive!

sleight of hand (and other assorted part trick) Monoma is near and dear to my heart, and i could definitely see him being able to do Some Sorta Nonsense with his body like voluntarily vibrate his eyes. i could see him being double jointed, too. (he is a Bendy Boy.)

ALSO the fact that Monoma and Hatsume never interacted in any meaningful way will haunt me until i die. they are so smart, and they are such freaks (/pos). their aura would have been so powerful. maybe too powerful? i guess Hori had to nerf them somehow.

as far as fanworks go, i am a massive fan of any fic that has Monoma showcasing his quirk. (for example, Learning Curve has a fantastic scene with a training exercise/mock battle that i frequently go back to because it is So Peak to me.)

as far as things i'd like to see more of, i'd kill for more introspective pieces of Monoma learning how to adjust after the war. (let me see him talk to Bakugo, who he watched die! let me see him talk to Aizawa, who tried to protect him!!!) i'm hoping some more of that will come with time as the anime draws closer to the end, but i suppose we shall see.

romance-wise, i'm big on Monoshin and have been since season 2. the fact that it used to be a rarepair floors me. (really played the long game on that one). that being said, i could honestly read about Monoma with almost any other student, his personality is just that much fun to me. apart from Monoshin, i've been seeing quite a bit of Timebomb and Monoma/Pony on my timeline, and i find both so incredibly charming.

platonically: Kendo. Shinsou. Tokage. Mei. Honenuki. Bakugo (especially after the war). ERI. Vlad and/or Aizawa. slap Monoma in an interaction with any of them and i am Locked In.

FINALLY, the Monoma family. (man, the Monoma family.) @smallvictorianchildwhofoundwifi and i have constructed pages upon pages of lore for these human disasters, but i'll try to keep it brief:

Monoma's dad (still need a name) - only ever agreed to have a child in the first place because his side of the family was pressing for it. resents Neito for reasons that i'll probably dig into later - but as long as Neito isn't actively making a mockery of the family name, his dad really can't be bothered to think about him.

Monoma's mom (Hiromi) [PRE WAR] - had Neito when she was young (around 21 years old) because, again, her husband's side of the family was insistent. she adored him at first sight; however, she has had to make a lot of changes to appease her husband's side of the family over the years, and it has turned her into a harsher, colder person overall. every once and a while, she'll be struck with fondness for her son, but it never lasts for long before she goes back to being made of ice. maybe also unconsciously resents Neito some for marking the end of her old life.

Hiromi (cont) [Post-War] - determined to reconnect with her son after almost losing him in the final battle. has made so many mistakes that it seems impossible, but Neito got his tenacity from someone, and it certainly wasn't his father.

Monoma's class knows next to nothing about his family. even Kendo, who has known Monoma for a long while, has precious little information to go off of.

some of the girls in Monoma's class stumble across a picture of Monoma's mother from one of her last modeling shoots, but when they ask him about her, Monoma just tells them that he has his mother to thank for his dashing good looks and leaves it at that. Ittaka - Monoma's old caretaker (and pseudo-older sister) - comes to visit him once, and his classmates briefly think that his real mother must have died until Kendo corrects them (because she may not know much about the Monomas, but she knows that they are all still kicking). but that's about all they've got.

tldr; trying to wrangle a straight answer out of Monoma regarding his family is impossible.

[progenycursed]

Heya, love your comic! I had a question though, does your PK realise that the impure vessels were fully sentient or does he think they just weren't fully hollow but also not completely alive, for the lack of a better word? I might be wrong, but from what we've seen of him so far it feels like he wouldn't be the type to kill children if he knew they were full on children and not just undead things with a defect?

(Sorry if it came off as rude or anything, I pulled an all nighter so my wording skills died in the ditch, I ADORE your comic though! Can't wait to see more of it 👀 it's so fun)

YES! A chance to lore dump! And proof that I’ve been characterizing decently!

In this AU, I don't image him standing at the top of the abyss, judging every vessel that makes it up with a toss or a take. I’m of the mind that the climb Ghost does in the game is them getting their memories back, so many of them are blurring together and/or symbolic. It wasn’t actually raining dead siblings all the time.

I just have the Pale King waiting for ANY vessel to make it up. The abyss is harsh. I tried to show it in one of Hollow's flashbacks as well as the vessel bios, that many/most of the vessels don't even make it out of the egg. Those that do, have to deal with void pools trying to kill them and even their fallen siblings attacking them. When he isn’t at the top, waiting and compelling them to climb, most of the vessels never bother trying the perilous and pointless climb. They are just trying to survive. So very, very few of them ever make it up to him. When they do, he would just take who shows up.

He granted the ability of higher thought for all within his domain. And with his power of soul and his heightened senses, he can sense all life, movement, and sense any mind. Even fragmented ones or wild animals. So he can sense the smallest forms of life and the most primitive of minds.

With the vessels, he never sensed any of that from any of them. Not even traces or fragmets. Every single one of his senses are telling him the vessels are nothing more than walking corpses. But even corpses have essence. They don't even have that, the traces that it was once alive. The void is his opposite. It is death and darkness. His senses, all non-void beings senses, are not designed to comprehend it. Even though the vessels have minds, no one but other void beings can sense it.

Any time a vessel went wrong, he would rationalize they went rouge for any number of reasons. None of them being that they had a mind. At least not in a way he could feel confident in saying they had one. I’m not sure if I’m showing it well in the comic, but he has his doubts about the vessels being pure. Which is why he made the tests we see in chapter 3. Testing for curiosity, pateience, and pain. Why we see a guest appearance from the White Lady in chapter 5. But he has no solid proof to back up the one instinct he’s desperately trying to push down for this plan to work. Take a guess which instinct it is >:D

So yes! You are correct. By the time the hollow knight plan was started, the Pale King would never throw a living being into the abyss. In fact, he tries his damdest to ensure no one ends up there even by accident. He views the citizen of Hallownest as his children. And while a lot of the community has it where the White Lady is the caring parent and the Pale King is the uncaring/distant one, I view it more the other way around. But that’s a block of text for a different post.

He wasn’t always a good god-king. Especially in the early cycles. Where his complete lack of understanding of mortals lead to many a miserable life and early deaths. He got much better over the cycles when brave mortals were finally willing to tell the all powerful higher being he was wrong about something. He wants them to tell him, he wants to understand them, so he never gets mad when they do, but most are to scared to because he’s a god-king. So he tries to have a least one person around him who is willing to tell him he’s doing something wrong. Earning them the title of the King’s Keepers.

Even now he’s still not the best in many ways. The nuances of mortal social structure are strange and nonsensical to him. Why does it matter what color you wear to an anniversary party? So he can’t always tell what is ‘normal’ for mortals, and what is actual exploitation of others. Everyone within range is given a mind. What specious of bug they are has no effect on intelligence, and if he heard that argument he’d shut that shit down in a second. But he would have to know about it first. A dedicated enough upper class individual could easily stop those voices from ever getting to him. So there are still problems in Hallownest, but only because he doesn’t know about them.

TLDR

He can sense the mind and life force of everything. And has never sensed any mind or signs of life from any vessel, even when they went rouge. He hasn’t always been a good ruler, even now his ruling style has flaws, but he tries to keep his people happy. He would never throw a living being into the abyss, or subject anyone with a mind to containing an angry god for eternity.

And its great to hear people are enjoying my little AU. I also fear I am coming across rude with these replies. I’m always grateful and happy beyond words to get positive feedback, but I have no idea how to respond to it. Because a thank never feels good enough. But I mean it when I say, thank you!

[kaurwreck]

Regarding your post about SB misinformation 👀 I’ve seen lots of people who, after reading SB, think Chuuya originally had the ability to amplify abilities before the Arahabaki Project. I assume because they think that NPC ability user from the footage was Chuuya. I’m not sure what to think about it tbh. I love SB but reading it usually raises even more questions haha. I wonder what your take on that is!

I'm not sure which part you want my take on, so I've provided several takes based on the various options:

The Ability User in the Video

I think the ability user from the video was someone I don't know or don't recognize based on the info given who was devoured by their own ability.

I don't think the ability user in the video would have survived that, at least not meaningfully. A singularity refers to the center of a black hole; people are matter, they were gone as soon as that swelled into existence, but as the center, becoming destroyed then destroyed the force creating the black hole and it disappeared too. This all makes sense to me, insofar as it follows narrative logic as much as physics principles in sci-fi and fantasy generally do. I don't know what happens to matter when it's been torn apart by a paradox, but I know it's unlikely that person was Chuuya. In part because Chuuya would have noticed if it were him, lmao.

I'm guessing at the parts of the video you might want my take on, if that's what your question referred to at all, because I don't know where it's ambiguous. I've seen people argue that N isn't reliable, but I haven't arrived at any particular detail suggesting he had an incentive to falsify that footage, nor have I ever seen anyone suggest one.

(Which is also wild to me; it's not a super useful exercise to notice a character is unreliable if you don't then follow-up with why, how, when, about what, and under which circumstances. You don't have to go through the exercise publicly, but "unreliable" is net zero information on its own, so it doesn't lend itself to the conclusion that the footage was fake or that's what Chuuya's ability was.)

Chuuya's Prior Ability

Regarding Chuuya's prior ability, I don't have any thoughts. It doesn't compel me as a question. Who we are is an amalgamation of our experiences and maybe something innate. He doesn't know the details of his prior ability either, so I'm not convinced those details have any bearing on who he is now. If I'm right, those details have nothing to say about his character or the relevant themes and story, so I don't really care.

It matters that he had a prior ability but was taken and mistreated and dehumanized until that ability collapsed on itself and created a black hole that he uniquely is capable of harboring within himself without allowing it to swallow him. But exploring that doesn't require knowing the details of his prior ability, and it wasn't shaped by his prior ability beyond the requisite capacity for paradox.

Abilities aren't separate entities, nor do they inform the person. They are manifested facets of the person. The person I care to understand in Chuuya is manifested by Arahabaki and Tainted Sorrow; not whatever came before. The extent to which who he was before matters to who he is now is already demonstrated in his capacity to be a stable singularity and his childhood memory related to his graphite scar.

So, I don't know what his prior ability was, but I can't really come up with a reason to care either.

Rereading Stormbringer

I don't think Stormbringer is ambiguous or open ended.

It surfaces a lot of lore, which, of course, prompts questions that you wouldn't have had prior to learning the lore. Some of that lore is relevant as pieces to the main story's puzzle, but, like, some of it is lore that's interesting and so much fun to explore, but not relevant to understanding Stormbringer or its implications.

Not everything that is lore or implicated by lore has a knowable answer, so it requires discernment to sort through what you know, what you don't know, what you want to know, and whether what you do or don't know matters relative to what you want to know. What you want to know is not necessarily what's relevant to the story, so that needs to be filtered through discernment, too.

Regarding the broader lore hinted at or explored in Stormbringer, I like to reread Stormbringer because it helps me interrogate what I think I know after some time away, which sometimes helps me recognize where I made assumptions based on premises that aren't certain.

But also, like, I think there are multiple potential answers for questions that won't ever have a canon answer. Both because Kafka Asagiri has repeatedly said as such, and also because that is just how most things are.

So, there's a lot in Stormbringer that I don't think is certain or definitively answerable, most of which I don't think will ever be or should be. Worldbuilding is a sandbox, I don't need someone prescribing for me what to do with the sand for me to enjoy playing with it, and I enjoy playing with it in lots of different ways, none of which preclude each other.

Some of it is relevant to the main story, even if not to Stormbringer, and that's a lot of fun to explore, too. But I don't expect to fully understand what hasn't been contextualized yet, and I'm not trying to, like, compete with the main story by somehow guessing what will happen. Stories aren't timed bar trivia or fill-in-the-blank quizzes; they're conversations and commentary and expressions of our less tangible selves. So, I like to check back in with what I've already read/watched every so often to see if there's more conversation to be had now that I have more context from the main story. So, it's not an exercise in answering outstanding questions; it's about returning to something familiar to see how my perspective might have changed based on what I've since experienced from the main story.

I'm certain of the story, even if I'm not certain about all of the lore implicated. I don't think it's ambiguous; what isn't clear in the text is clarified by reading the text in the context of the story's themes and metaframework. The literal text isn't the only information you're provided, so if it's the only information you're using, then it's like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle with a fraction of the pieces and no box. You can do that if you want, but a fraction of the pieces will only construct a fraction of a picture.

I'm not saying you have to know everything about every named author and all of their works. But, if a story's plot, themes, and perspective characters all keep relating back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, then areas of ambiguity may be clarified when analogized to the plot, themes, and perspective characters in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

This is not only true for Stormbringer; any time you're engaging with any form of media that makes patterns of references, you are both allowed to and being enthusiastically encouraged to consider that media in the context of those references.

For example, the text in bsd doesn't explicitly state what confluence of circumstances caused the Great War. But if a work explicitly names an event in its timeline after one of the single most influential events to shape the timeline of its audience, that is the work providing its audience with an additional point of reference from which the audience can infer information. So, like, I wouldn't assume the assassination of Franz Ferdinand happened in bsd, but in broader terms, what really caused the Great War was imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and alliances. So then you can consider whether there is anything in the text of bsd evidencing the presence of any of those things. If you do this, you might notice that there are military police alongside civilian police in Yokohama; and that France and Britain are know for having powerful, state organized groups of gifted and gifted resources, which implies militarization, especially in the context of Mori framing the Great War as the first gifted war in Yosano's memories. There was probably also imperialism because the text confirms that the Yokohama Foreign Settlement exists and that there are foreign militaries stationed in Japan and that America exists and that Americans speak English (meaning Britain was probably colonizing in the bsd-verse too), plus there's a coffee shop so coffee is being cultivated somewhere and distributed globally. Nationalism absolutely exists because there are flags and armies and embassies and other signs that nations exist and are vying for their interests. Alliances exist because 55 Minutes confirms some of them in the Great War (such as France and Japan). In other words, it's safe to assume you're meant to use explicit references as information relevant to the text, and then specific relevant details of the story can be inferred by analogizing the reference with the text.

This principle doesn't only apply where there are references to irl events and systems. This is also what themes and motifs are for—if you're unsure about something in the text, then try reconciling the various possibilities with the themes and patterns. There may not be only one definitive answer, but there will be clarity.

This also means interrogating whether you have identified the themes and patterns relevant to the story. If you can't reconcile the theme with the text, it's possible you need to workshop your articulation of the theme.

As an example from Stormbringer, I've seen people say Chuuya's humanity is ambiguous because if he were human as the text suggests, that would frustrate the theme of the story, which is that it doesn't matter whether he's human or a clone. There are two issues with this assumption: (i) requiring him to be a clone to prove it doesn't matter if he's a clone would mean it did matter whether he's a clone, and the alternative is that if it really doesn't matter, then the text indicating he's human probably means he's human but since it doesn't matter, why include those scenes at all; (ii) Stormbringer is a continuation of Fifteen, and serves to apply the definition of humanity articulated by Rimbaud in Fifteen, pursuant to which clones are also human. So, the theme can't be that it doesn't matter whether or not Chuuya's human; that dichotomy is never made by the narrative and also can't really be extrapolated and applied outside of the context of a world in which there are artificially created and organically conceived people in the way themes are supposed to be. It's a false dichotomy made only made by the characters, whose arcs in the story track their unwraveling of that false dichotomy. The actual theme is easier to pin down when you consider the Frankenstein metaframework, but even if you just pay close enough attention to Fifteen and Stormbringer on their own, you should notice that the false dichotomy flourishes in each character when they are or perceive themselves to be isolated, and is only unwraveled when they acknowledge, affirm, and reciprocate their connections to others. In other words, inhumanity is not manufactured by humans in a lab but in isolation. I know this is the theme because when applied to the text of the story, it both affirms the text and fills in gaps in the text (it also reconciles with the themes in Fifteen, the main bsd story, Frankenstein, and major works by the namesake authors). So then, now that I've identified the theme, I can revisit where I think there's ambiguity and decide what would both reconcile the ambiguity and satisfy the theme. There may not only be one right answer; that's often the point. But there should be one or more answers that resonate, and therein you've done the thing storytelling is meant to do, which is relate to and make space within yourself for others.

All of which is to say that I feel like a lot of the story-relevant ambiguity that people perceive in Stormbringer is only ambiguous if you're reading only the literal Stormbringer text as projected on a wall in Plato's cave. Which is fine if you want to do that, that's certainly a choice you can make. But when your puzzle seems to be incomplete, you can't then claim those were the only pieces you were given or that your fraction of the picture is the entire picture. (Or I suppose you can, but you'd be wrong.)

I have no idea if any of this answered your question.

[pinkyjulien]

🌈 Queerness in CyberPunk 2077

I wanted to make this post earlier this month but got caught up in modding shenanigans, as per usual~

BUT! It's still June, still pride, so here it is :>

▶ DISCLAIMER

All of this is my analyses, headcanons, of different characters, some of them not confirmed at all in anyway or form! I'm a queer man myself, but I do not claim to know everything about queerness and being queer, everyone experience the game and interpret the characters differently 🤲 This is only my opinions, based off canon game events, clues, hints, as well as developpers's tweets, streams, files datamining etc etc Please do not see this thread as an attack, or as something invalidating! I'm more than curious to heard what you think about my personal analyses, if you agree, if you don't, and why! If you think other characters also display hints of queerness I'd love to hear it too! 💙

This picture is an update I did in 2022 of lil collage I did back in 2021~

I posted the first version on Reddit back in 2021 and it created this whole "what do mean JOHNNY is GAY?" (because a rainbow behind a man automatically means he's Gay and nothing else right) and a lot of biphobia over his character in particular (gasp- THE rockerboy?! Biseggsual?? In my viddy game??)

▶ You can look at the thread here and have a lil laugh

SO, NATURALLY, after doing the 2022 collage, I went and uploaded it to reddit once again! Because triggering bigots and seeing them stumble over their own tongues trying to debunk everything is really funny ✨

However, I instantly muted the thread and let it rot in its own sauce for some days, weeks, only coming back to it later and Oh Boy 👀

I did a thread on Twitter last year exploring everything that was said on the thread and explaining why I put certain characters on it

Thought it'd be cool and fun to re-explore that and share my thoughts with y'all here SO LETS GET BACK TO IT 😌🤙

▶▶▶

I'll mainly paste screenshots of what I already said on my twitter thread, but I might add some things there and there!

Damn I was kinda pissed off back then HGHFHGF but yeah, this is also the reason I won't ever make any straight or super straight flags I do not headcanon Delamain as Asexual, as there isn't any confirmation anywhere that he's interest in that kind of interaction or not, but I'll come back to him later!

Goro being canonly Queer is often missed, and this surprises me, considering he's one of the popular character! He is interested (or not) equally in both Fem and Masc V, giving he's replying to them the exact same ways! This isn't something done randomly by the devs :)

As said in the tweet, there isn't any direct and clear evidence of Mitch and Scorpion being a couple! Their relationship is heavily queer coded and queer people are more easily picking up on it than non-queer peoeple (and that's normal) Gay men have called their male partner Friend, Best friend and Brother through history maaaany many time, and that's part of my interpretation of their relationship too, especially giving they're both veterans who fought in the same war. The poem Mitch wrotes during "I'll Fly Away" (heavily implied) is romantic and gay coded, the gay novel in Mitch's tent (confirmed to be on purpose) is what we call environnemental story telling, it's subtle but adds to a character's backstory and lore! As for the datamining, I found a Mitch awkwardly explaining to V that no, Saul doesn't have any say in whatever he's doing with Scorpion stuff "because.... because... eh, that's just family stuff"

Note on Delamain here because I've heard it even caused some drama here on Tumblr that I said that? He uses He/Him to describe himself, the Main Entity, but multiples of his splites entities uses She/Her, meaning he's literally Non-Binary in how his entity is formed (I find it really cool for an AI ngl ngl) However if my headcanon offended anyone, I apologize! and I'd love to hear others interpretation :3

There isn't any open and visible MLM gay couple in Cyberpunk 2077! Bouncing off ElvenBeard's amazing analyses and thoughts on Kerry's sexuality, he can be seen as Bisexual (confirmed by RTAL themselves) and Homosexual (confirmed by the devs before and after the game released) he can be Both and Both are correct depending on how you view his character and how he grew from his past relationship (Bisexual with a masc preference, Bisexual who have to heal from his marriage, Gay man who realized his sexuality later after a wonky marriage, etc)

The whole "Responsability=Wife" Takemura take angers me to no end, taking its roots in heteronormativity- We see Goro care for his job above all else, to me that's what his "responsability" is and always was; his job

Nothing more to add here- Jackie's only relationship we see in game is with Misty, this doesn't confirm nor deny anything! (However with how he react to V pushing him, lip-bitting and all regardless of gender, I can totally see him as being queer)

AND That's about it!

It was interesting to dig into that thread last year and thought I'd share that here, as a refresher that Johnny is Bi, Takemura too, and smaller characters like Mitch and Evelynn still have clear hints of queerness to them ✨

I really like how CP77 touches on queerness, it feels realistic, it doesn't feel forced; which, sadly, create this problem of "UH?? This is pure LIES" if a character's sexuality is not splattered in your face, which then create the "Ugh why does it have to be forced down our throat" complains

Something something, lesson here is that people will always complain about queerness, be it loud, be it subtle, so fuck it! Scream it, go apeshit over small details, over-analyse everything cause chances are: this is intentional!

More Characters

I later noticed that Regina have a naked lady tattooed on her forearm, and since we know nothing is done randomly in CDPR's video games, makes me think that she might be sapphic in some way ✨

Mateo is also one of my fav "potential queer", how he could be a trans man, but there isn't anything really to support that other than that one interaction with V

▶ Link to the updated collage Reddit Thread

▶ Link to my Twitter breakdown

[feral-mouse]

May we get! Some Eugene lore please!

Ough, my guy Eugene 👁👁. Ngl, I created him like 2 years ago or so. I've been trying to keep him under wraps because I wanted to do something with him. But also I WANNA TALK ABOUT HIM SO BAD 😭😭😭 PAKFNFKA. So I'm gonna talk about him, especially if people are showing interest in him 😤. If you have any more specific questions, you can send some more asks. I'll try to cover some things about him, but I don't wanna put everything onto a single post 👀💦

So starting off with the basics lol. He's 24, 5'8, and is currently working towards getting a computer science degree. He's not particularly passionate about it, but the jobs pay well, so he figures it's a safer option. He's pretty decent at coding too, so that helps lol

He lives on campus with a roommate (who I STILL DON'T HAVE A FUCKING NAME FOR 😭😭😭). This guy is really his only friend. Eugene is super shy and awkward, and has a lot of confidence issues. His friend was the one who introduced himself first. He saw Eugene hanging out all by himself off to the side, like a wet sad dog 😔, so he approached him! He didn't want Eugene to feel lonely and wanted to try to get him out of his shell a bit. Eugene slowly began to grow more comfortable around him, and now they're really good friends 😌

So the thing about Eugene is that... he's kinda a bit unsettling? Pwjfjkskkw. I think he's more awkward than anything though lol. He never really learned how to interact with people and is super conscious about how he presents himself. He's always worried that he'll say the wrong thing, or will act too weird and everyone will hate him. He just wants someone who he can be close to, and who likes him back. As he grows older, he's started to become more desperate for that sort of affection. He's worried if he doesn't find someone soon, then he's going to end up all alone 😔

This is where he gets into his more stalkerish tendencies. (It's. It's not stalkerish. It's definitely just full on stalker tendencies paofhks.) It is very easy for him to swoon over someone. There doesn't have to be a particular reason for it sometimes. It can be someone as simple as just being nice to him that day. Or accidentally bumping into him on the street. Once you catch his eye, he becomes obsessed. He wants you to like him back, he wants you to like him as much as he likes you. But no one's ever really liked him for who he is. So what better way is there to get someone to like you than just becoming everything that they like?

He is on a mission to know everything about his crush. The more he knows about them, the more he'll know how to act, how to please them, how to make them happy. He will be breaking into your house when you're not there lol. He is memorizing your daily routines, taking note of your favorite foods, what soap you use. Absolutely everything. He wants to mold himself into the perfect boyfriend and is willing to do anything to become that. You don't like facial hair? He's shaving. You don't like guys with glasses? He's buying contacts. He's willing to change his fashion sense and even his personality. One of his favorite things to do is to dye his hair to his crush's favorite color. He also has a golden locket he wears with a little token inside to remind him of his crush. He typically puts a lock of hair in there, but if they also have something that's small enough to fit, he'll use that too

Interests include wood carving and berries 😊. His favorite is raspberries

[candycrypt1d]

Please share the beef between Kyouya and Yaalon again. It's one of my favorite dynamics of your ocs. Like I can see them fighting in my head constantly. They're awful /aff <3. What is up with these two lmao

ohhhh my god them. the guys ever. yeah they sure do have A Thing huh

for those unaware yaalon is my beyblade oc. this fella

he’s very angsty and emo if you couldn’t immediately tell and he has a lot of lore that I won’t get into for this post (tho pls ask if you want to Know 👀)

anyways the actual answer to the question is under the cut!

To make a long story short, Yaalon is a sub member for Team Starbreaker, though he’s not really a part of Hades Inc. He’s trying to stop Ziggurat’s plans from within basically, but he’s not an undercover agent or anything either. Like I said before it’s a whole thing. Anyways Yaalon has a very abrasive and loud personality when you get him riled up. Otherwise he seems very reclusive and quiet, mostly keeping to himself.

Yaalon and Kyouya meet each other during Metal Masters. Wild Fang is leaving for Japan and Starbreaker happens to have a match in the same city. Yaalon and Kyouya are walking down the same street and they run into each other, Yaalon mumbles an apology and starts to walk away.

Though Kyouya’s interest is piqued because, in all of the battles so far though, Yaalon hasn’t fought in any of them. His other teammates clean up the competition so quickly they don’t need him, so his abilities and skills are all secret. Which means Kyouya is like “if I fight him then I will give myself a tactical advantage and this isn’t an excuse to battle someone new, what do you mean?” so being the person is he challenges Yaalon, half expecting to be ignored. But to his surprise, Yaalon accepts.

They have their battle but it ends up being unfinished for some reason, haven’t worked out those specifics. Kyouya doesn’t like having unfinished battles so that ticks him off, but also the two of them just…have very similar personalities so they don’t play off each other well at first lmao.

I can see them actually getting along when they do sort out their differences, but when you have two very anger-prone people in the same room it’s only a matter of time before they get pissed off. Yaalon’s attitude in general just makes Kyouya mad because he acts so aloof and uncaring and Kyouya can’t stand not getting a reaction out of him.

And Yaalon doesn’t like being bothered in that way so when Kyouya pushes his buttons, he *really* pushes them. I think they’d get into useless arguments or just be like “ugh I can’t STAND him” while actually not minding each other’s company all that much. They’d just have to sit in silence for things to work fjfnsng

They have a begrudging respect for each other but that doesn’t mean they like it. I can absolutely see them riling each other up and picking at each other’s nerves like siblings LMAO. theyre so dumb i love them.

thanks for the ask and thanks for letting me ramble about my oc <3 and thank you if you read this far lmao

[cyncerity]

Hi, I absolutely love your store shifter au and it gave me so much brainrot!! I’m borrowing a friend’s account for the moment because I can’t have a tumblr. Anyhow, I just wanted you to say that even if I can’t interact, I absolutely love all your ideas!!! If I understood the lore right, I would assume George is Sapnap’s younger brother and whatever traumatizing experience caused Sapnap to shift also took George away from Dream when they were young. Will Dream and George ever meet in person and if they met as tinies, would George realize it was Dream and what would he think of Dream having the pendant/braid? How would Tommy learn Dream was a shifter, and if one of them was tiny when that happened how would they deal with/would there be a language barrier? And how does Dream learn to shift back? This is much longer than intended, sorry. Feel free to answer parts of it or none of it, I just wanted you to know you’re wonderful!! And if this ask isn’t long enough, then here’s some writing prompts -a friendly admirer

“I can’t believe it.”

“What?”

“My clothes. They just look so, so…”

“Yeah. Hard to believe we even fit that size, right?”

“It’s crazy.”

xxxxxx

"Wow"

"What?"

"Nothing... I'm just not used to

seeing you from this angle.”

"Yeah, I guess it's usually the

other way around.”

This is literally one of the most personal asks I’ve ever gotten solely for the fact that how you described being on tumblr is exactly how I was

I wasn’t allowed on tumblr, so i’d wait till everyone in my house was asleep and then pull out my middle school ipod as a burner device, look at g/t posts for an hour or so, then delete the google tabs i’d pulled them up on and fully shut down the ipod and hide it.

I lurked in this specific community for about a year, then lurked with an account so i could send asks for about another half year until i caved and got the app without parental permission lol (my dad had seen how tumblr was before the bad bots started to get banned so he honest to god thought this was one of those kinda sites but hes chill now)

suffice to say i completely know where you’re coming from and I love you for it 💖

Even if you can’t like my posts or have an account, just coming on here and saying you like my content is so awesome and it absolutely means the world to me 💕✨💖

As for you’re thoughts on the lore (and thank you for sending so many questions I love when this happens):

You’re getting close >:)

Sapnap doesn’t have any siblings, but as I’ve mentioned before (i think), Quackity does! And the event that sparked Sapnap’s shifting was similar to what got George taken in the first place (which could definitely be a reason that it was distressing enough to cause him to shift 👀), just on a larger scale and at different times. George was gone well before Sapnap became a shifter.

As for more on George, i’ll limit myself to what I can say cause there’s so much I want to write for him. At some point it’s my goal to write a story for him as a sort of interlude of the “dream shifted for the first time” story (there will be more parts! I’m working on them! Ngl this ask kinda made me realize how much I wanted to finish the second part of that) and have him fully explained there.

But I can tell you that Dream and George will meet in person! I can’t tell you if Dream will be tiny when they meet, cause you don’t even know for sure what species George is yet, but i promise the boys will meet! Will George know it’s Dream when they meet and vice versa? Who knows! That’s for me to know and you all to find out later >:)

Tommy won’t learn Dream is a shifter for a while, since Dream is stuck at the store. It also takes a bit of time for a new shifter to shift back to their normal size, since they’ve been repressing their capabilities for so long, their body has to stay at the opposite size to get used to it initially. Dream will be able to shift back at some point, but not without some help :)

And now that you mention it, there definitely could be a language barrier, and that could make things really interesting 👀 (im imagining Tommy seeing Dream tiny for the first time at a loss for words and Dream frantically trying to explain what he is but obviously Tommy already knows, so Tommy starts talking about being a shifter himself and he can’t hear Dream’s absolute shock and confusion at this information and can answer none of his questions)

And the writing prompts, YES, i am IN LOVE WITH THEM

If i don’t write specific things for them, they will be put into the next few stories for this au because they are such good ideas oh my word

and as a treat because i loved answering your questions and it made me really happy to get an ask that hit so close to my own experience here’s some miscellaneous Store Shifter drawings from my chorus class, just for you bestie 💖

i have so many of these for so many aus you don’t even know the half of it

[sanchoyo]

ooo for the ask game 4 and 16 for tmm!

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?

1.YES kish/ichigo! the thing is. I GET it, and I don't really care if other people ship it obv (esp since ppl are adults these days in the fandom at large and shipped it as kids, I get that its a nostalgia thing for a lot of ppl, or has an interesting post-canon dynamic?)

what I do hate is that kishigo shippers tend to throw my fav best boy masaya under the bus, or make him wildly ooc, or just generally hate on him. :( thankfully I see that a lot less these days as again a lot of ppl are adults and more mature abt it (and I am generous with the block button for ppl who arent, lmao) but back in the day it was painful and everywhere. like, even if im a masago fan, I LIKE kisshu as a character and find him interesting, and even if I DIDNT u wouldnt see me putting chara hate for him in the main tag! thats tacky! some ppl need to learn character analysis fr because how are they looking at the same characters I am!!!

kishigo just isnt For Me, its a lil icky even putting all of that aside but the way the fans of it acted years ago made it my association with the ship even worse. I dont think ill ever be able to look at it w/out cringing bc of that lol 🤷‍♂️

2....its not exactly a NoTP, but I dont really care for any pai ships I've seen either, but thats just bc I dont super love him as a character (I am so sorry to my sister if she ever sees this, he is her fav tmm boy x_x)

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

OHHH this is a hard one. the question specifies 'show' but I'm gonna actually answer for the series as a whole (manga, old show, new show)

I'd probably change the new series to keep the old series' lore about the mew aqua rod being an ancient alien artifact instead of being a masha form (...because this lines up with my fanfiction, no other reason, actually, lol)

2. For the old series, no panty/bust shots. those are awkward and bad, and the new show did better w that, at least imo.

3. make the new show longer. we know its at least getting a season 2, but cmon. give me like 7 seasons. stretch it out, add brand new filler eps with focus on each chara, no need to rush, give us lots of new mew content, don't be shy about merch, either... 👀 and add berry and ringo, too... (in a perfect world, season 3 will be made and feature berry, and ringo would get an OVA or movie situation.)

4. more alien lore!!!! anything. give us crumbs we deserve them (I also really wanted alien redesigns like the girls got tbh! even if I kinda like the old mew designs better, I still wouldve liked to see smth new for the aliens anyway)

5. MORE OUTFITS. always want more Fashione for the gals

Thank u for asking!! ^^

[akajustmerry]

hello fellow hater here 👀 wondering your reasons for disliking jodie’s doctor 👁

hello! my bestie deah and i have a whole podcast ep where we discuss this in-depth for an hour and 40 minutes. it was recorded last year but my critiques remain the same so pls go listen to that here at this link for more detail other than the angry dot points i am about to smash out:

Jodie admitted on David Tennant's podcast that she doesn't watch doctor who, has never watched it and doesn't intend to. that lack of knowledge shows in the way 13 has zero personality beyond surface-level reactions. you can tell jodie has no specific grasp on who the character she's playing is and isn't even familiar with her character's history enough to have meaningful interactions with characters (see: jack harkness). its unprofessional and disrespectful to take on a role with almost 60 years of canon and refuse to engage with any of it.

but really if you want a concrete unforgivably repugnant reason to join the prayer circle for this era to end, look no further than jodie's 2nd season where chibnall wrote a scene where the Doctor used her white privilege to hand the master, who was brown at the time, over to the fucking nazis and jodie played it as a gotchya heroic moment. lord knows, rtd and moffat were racist and littered this show with their racism and anti-blackness but at least neither of them ever wrote a scene where the Doctor became willingly complicit in one of history's most brutal white supremacist regimes to one-up a person of colour and frame it as a win.

chris chibnall doesn't give a shit about the mythology, lore or history of this series, and even if he did he's not a consistent or clever enough writer to do anything worthwhile with it. chibnall's prior work on dw was filler eps. unlike moffat, who at least had written beloved iconic episodes with ongoing archs, chibnall's work was all childish filler because the dude may like this show but he doesn't have the ambition or vision to write it and it shows. chibnall rewrote the Doctor's entire personal history just because he didn't want to meaningfully engage with the Doctor's gender-fluidity, and still hasn't even delivered on how the Doctor being the timeless child actually means anything significant for her other than so he can be like "actually the doctor has been a woman before so i don't have to write anything about this character struggling in a marginalised body/dealing with dysphoria except for as a joke occasionally haha".

even the way chibnall brings back monsters/characters from the show's past, its never in a significant or interesting way, but almost like he wants brownie points for making a basic reference without considering the implication of what he's doing.

please also see this post where i discuss how Chibnall constantly making 13 uninformed not only makes him terrible at writing a mystery show but also is a blatant display of his unconscious misogyny.

also, the homophobia/misogyny of chibnall completely desexualising the Doctor now she's presenting as a woman is fucking gross but its also so fucking boring. let the Doctor be horny. its weird they're not given their horny history

chris chibnall has no idea how to write companions. none of them even pass the lamp test most of the time i.e. if you replace these characters with a lamp, how much would change? we don't get to see how these ppl form a significant relationship with the Doctor because it apparently happens off-screen so there's zero character building. their characterisations are inconsistent if they're remembered at all. yaz is a brown Muslim woman yet her race/religion has only been significant maybe twice in 3 seasons as if a time-travelling brown (likely queer) Muslim woman would only experience marginalisation in very specific contexts and not constantly. this goes for ryan and the Doctor too.

this whole flux concept is so fucking nauseating it's like a hallucinogenic nightmare of everything i can't stand about chibnall's "style" if you can call directionless reference mongering a "style"

genuinely don't think any of these hoes can act or have chemistry!! in the past even when i maybe wasn't a fan of the writing/direction of doctor who, i would still enjoy the performances of incredible talents like David tenant, alex Kingston, Michelle gomez, matt smith, etc. but the casting now is shithouse in the way that u can tell chibs is just hiring his mates. with the exception of sacha's master, there isn't a single moment of memorable performance from anyone on this show for the whole time chibs has been in charge. fucking tragic

but yeah in case its unambiguous. i can't stand this racist, toothless, misogynistic, soulless era of doctor who. it literally breaks my heart to see an era characterised by so much historic diversity on the surface be so offensively meaningless. i mean its so bad that rtd, who famously never wanted to run this show ever again, is literally coming back voluntarily.

[emmys-grimoire]

I don’t know if you have this one card but I found it rather interesting as it manages to give Solomon more depth. So I wanted to share it with you.

This is the Devilgram story by the way.

Anyways it basically goes that Solomon wants to create a box where anyone who is in it can only get out if they tell the truth. He enlists MC’s help to draw it, but lo and behold as always, both manage to get trapped inside of it. So they try to tell the truth about something they’ve previously lied about.

Solomon says he lied just the other day by giving Asmo a vague answer when He asked for his fortune to be read.

MC’s prompt are between having previously lied about a test that wasn’t easy or complimenting someone’s cooking they didn’t like. Let me tell you, the second was funny because finally we get to tell Solomon his cooking is bad. But I felt so bad choosing it since Solomon responds as such…

Yet this isn’t enough to get them out because MC helped, so the spell ended up changing. Now Solomon and Mc need to reveal a secret about themselves in order to escape the box. Leading us to be able to choose out of 3 prompts to ask Solomon.

• Does Solomon have a partner?

• When is Solomon’s birthday? December 9.

• What is something he hasn’t told anyone?

But let’s backtrack a bit.

All the way to Solomon’s profile.

It clearly states Solomon dislikes the ocean. I forget if it was on your blog or on Tumblr, but I remember someone posted once that the reason Solomon could hate the ocean is due to having one of his rings thrown into it. And so he had to search for it in order to find it.

But despite that possibly being the reason, or having such a bad experience with the ocean, this great magician still took the time to research the ocean. Enough to publish a book about fish habitats.

That’s dedication right there.

I wonder if this will be brought up again in the main story, since the only instance was Solomon trying to make a pact with Lucifer. And did Solomon ever find this ring?

Obviously I don’t expect that to happen this season as it’s meant to revolve around the 3 new transfer students….unless Thirteen has it 👀???

Anyways! I apologize this got so long and if you did already read this Devilgram story. But I found this to be interesting and kind of wholesome. Thank you for taking the time to read this if/when you did~

Take care and have a good day/evening.

I have this devil gram in my collection, but I appreciate you giving me your thoughts. It is a good Solomon lore dive.

There's a point back in season 3 when a drunken Asmodeus tells Solomon his cooking is not just terrible but it also comes with negative magical properties, and Solomon seems genuinely hurt by the comment. He asks Simeon to teach him but the lessons don't seem to stick. He's back to trying to cook in the cafe a few lessons later. It seems he's sincere in his desire to share his cooking with everyone, but he's not apt to get any better at it.

Solomon still has his ring (the Ring of Wisdom). He uses its animal-speaking powers in multiple devilgrams and in a couple events. We don't know if the OM canon is 100% identical to the biblical story (My guess? Probably not. Asmo revealed he and Solomon met when the former was drunk and sobbing at being rejected).

His contradictory relationship with the ocean seems to be a personality quirk more than anything: Solomon is fascinated by the ocean, but the ocean doesn't always treat Solomon nicely.

He's an interesting oddball, to be sure. I just wish we actually got more of a peek into his background in S3, particularly because a good portion of it was dedicated to us getting into the Sorcerer's Society -- which he founded and has a history with.