#it just kinda sucks that the few canon traits that she has are being erased just for that man

[rakkuntoast]

said this on birdapp earlier cuz I've seen it but if you're planning to redesign Tallulah for the love of god don't take away her curly hair. you can separate her from that man if you change the beanie and sweater (even so people draw more the mushroom hat and the sweater depends on the artist) but her curly hair is part of her identity <- read her admin saying that short and curly hair is canon for Tallulah

that man doesn't own curly hair, his isn't that curly to be honest. not to the extent people draw Tallulah's hair anyway, she's also like one of the few eggs that is constantly drawn with curly hair

I could go on a tangent on how curly haired people (me included btw) struggle with self image and how it always end up with permanently straightening the hair but I feel like it's a conversation for another moment

but yeah the main point is please don't take away her main traits, same goes for her being mexican and having hearing aids

[fujimaru]

merlin is blind (headcanon)

ok so i sent this to a few of my friends but i wanted to archive it here bc it is IMPORTANT to me and maybe some other people will enjoy the headcanon. please keep in mind this is Really self indulgent and not really rooted in anything canon but the “blind seer” trope is a thing that happens in media so idk. go crazy silly.

here’s some like... tidbits on how i think it’d impact him and such. enjoy! read more bc this is a bit ramble-y.

starting this off just saying - he keeps it a secret. he Does not want people knowing this. merlin is merlin so he has to be mysterious at all times or he will Die.

i think he has trouble remembering faces and thus has trouble placing Who people are bc he can't recognise their features visually... he relies on other traits in order to know who people are, but he's Notably bad with faces... most people attribute it to him not caring abt individual humans and he plays along with this as to not raise suspicion...

the one thing he's really good at seeing is movement, and it's so good that it really... erases most people's suspicions about him not being able to see, if they have any in the first place.

his staff! it's really important!! he uses it as a white cane but very subtly... people just assume he's doing normal staff wielder things with it but every time he extends it, taps it on the ground, or relies on it for support while walking it is ALL because it is helping him figure out where things are. :)

fou! is important too!!!!!! fou ofc knows... he is very insightful :) but like fou will often nudge merlin in the right direction silently (it looks like he's just doing normal creature things... but someone who is acute ex: artoria would notice the correlation)... ofc...

his abilities as a seer are a REALLY incredible coverup. he can "see" anywhere in the present ofc!! this means he can hijack his vision... he's not exactly "seeing" in a visual sense, but the knowledge of what's going on around him (or wherever) is absorbed :D

his spacial reasoning skills suck. if you asked him to fit something into a crate in a way that minmaxed space he would utterly fail, it would take him multiple tries. he can't visualise sides of objects either, so if you told him to turn something on its side, he would do the opposite/etc...

hair is always messy which is partially bc it's Long and Fluffy but people point it out to him and he's like "what? i brushed that 5 times!!! it's fine!!!" (it's not fine)

i also like to think his hearing is really sensitive to make up for his vision (this often happens!!! it happened to me ) it's important to note he's not completely blind (as in, he can't see light), but he still is Blind... :) so yes he can see, but it's very very poor!!! ^-^

in battle, he focuses his mana and such on his clairvoyance in order to make up for any shortcomings... it’s not noticeable unless you Know what to look out for. sneaky sneaky.

people who i think would catch onto merlin being blind are: fujimaru (servant-master bond yadda yadda and also fujimaru is merlin’s scrunkle), da vinci (girlboss genius powers GO), romani (he’s very insightful... and even if he won’t admit it he’s close with merlin AND HE’S A DOCTOR), artoria (but i think it would be something she doesn’t speak up about... i can see her and merlin sharing some very tender moments though irt it bc thats his child!!), fou (he’s the seeing-eye beast and knows merlin’s secrets), karna (relevant to his lore he sees things people do not want them to see AND the father of his bff/soulmate was a blind king and like even if they don’t interact majorly it just Makes Sense), amakusa&edmond (they’ve met people like that in their past lives...), gilgamesh (he’d be a bitch about it but secretly cares and makes sure merlin is Doing OK. merlin feeds off of the banter though), andersen (duh), holmes (DUH... deduction is His Freaking Thing + he’s compared to merlin in camelot... he’d kinda be a Rude Boy abt it but means well, and he does keep the info private), and lastly bedivere (sidenote: i don’t think any of the other knights of the round table would know lol. they’re too busy being Fans of merlin aka they just... don’t realise!? silly guys).

and here’s a silly re: roman being like “Merlin’s seer abilities (eyes) suck”

[xswestallen]

Iris Remembers: Chapter 2

Summary: AU Iris is the one who can "vibe" other timelines. When she “vibes” the erased timeline from 1x15 where she kissed Barry and he revealed he’s The Flash, she doesn't know how to handle it.

Iris meets Barry at Jitters and realizes she isn't the only one who may have experienced something at the waterfront yesterday.

A/N: This is when major canon divergence starts.

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Iris couldn’t fall asleep. She laid awake looking up at the ceiling and trying to block her vivid memory of being with Barry at the waterfront from her mind. Eddie was snoring by her side. She turned and look at his sleeping face. Eddie was a great man and she was happy in her relationship. Her first impression of him as an arrogant, pretty boy was dead wrong. Eddie is kind, smart, and compassionate. He didn’t become a cop to brag about arrests, he truly wanted to help people.

Iris would never want hurt Eddie. She loved him. Of course she loved Barry too, but not in a romantic way. Right? Barry was just her best friend. And her favorite person to talk to, and the person she’s shared most of her best memories with, and the person who could constantly impressed her with the depth of his mind and heart, and the person who could make her feel ok when it she thought that was impossible. That’s just platonic, best friend stuff……. Right?

Iris didn’t want to admit this, not even to herself, the if Barry hadn’t been in a coma when Eddie asked her out, she probably would’ve said no. She even went to visit a comatose Barry in S.T.A.R. labs to tell him about how stupid accepting the date was and begged Barry to wake up. Iris rationalized those words as an emotional friend, terrified that she would never get to speak to her best friend again. And Eddie is the best boyfriend Iris has ever had. That’s why she can’t understand why a part of her was desperately hoping her impossible ‘dream’ was real.

Iris did her best to conceal the bag under her eyes. She already downed five cups of coffee this morning but was still planning on ordering the double shot of expresso at Jitters. As she approached the building her stomach turned nervously. Hanging out with Barry never her nervous before. He was usually a calming presence. That stupid ‘dream’ is ruining her life by making her overthink her relationships with Eddie and Barry. She decided it would be best to just pretend it never happened. It wasn’t real after all. It couldn’t be real.

Through the glass door, Iris saw Barry eagerly waiting for her with a cronut and coffee already on the table. He looked happier than Iris had seen him in a long time, maybe since he greeted her after waking up from the coma, or maybe this was the happiest Iris has ever seen him.

“Hey!” he practically gasped as she walked up and took off her coat.

“Hi.” she told him trying not to look at his lips as they’d remind of her things a girl in a happy, long term relationship shouldn’t be thinking about.

“One incredibly heavy cronut and one americano with an extra shot. Just the way you like.”

“Just the way I like it.” she said at the exact same time.

“Yeah, I know. I know you, Iris.” Barry looked proud of himself. The smile on his face was so pure. It was almost identical to the one he had in her ‘dream’. Iris picked up her coffee and was careful to not make eye contact and get sucked into the emerald abyss she remembered in her ‘dream’.

“So, what is going on with you? You’re acting like Christmas came early.” she assumed he’d nerd out and tell her all about this subatomic particle trait that was just discovered or something like that.

“Aha, ahh, yeah, I guess it did….kinda.” he said.

Iris was curious what he was going to say. Until, he reached his hands across the table to hold her. He looked into her eyes and she couldn’t force herself to not look into his.

“Iris,” and the moment she hear him say that was the moment she knew what he was going to say.

“I still think about you all the time. And I know you’ve been thinking me to. So, let’s just stop thinking and start doing!”

‘No. No no no no no no no no no no.’ was all Iris could think. He knew about the ‘dream’. Why else would he bring this up again? They had silently agreed to never acknowledge his Christmas confession of love to her again. How did he know that she’d been thinking about him? He said that he still thinks about her, just like on the waterfront when he said “I’ve never stopped thinking about you.” What if he had the same ‘dream’ she did? That was even more absurd. But it felt like the only explanation to what Barry said.

“Barry,” Iris began but he cut her off.

“I know, I know that we both have awful timing. But we were meant to be to-”

“Barry, what are you talking about?” Iris was determinedly looking at his eyebrow and not into his eyes.

Barry looked shocked at her reaction. “You and me. We like each other.”

His face dipped from overjoyed kid on Christmas to confused puppy. The only reason he would be caught off guard by her reaction was if he thought something had changed for her. Was that why he was so giddy about his breakup with Linda? Did Iris and Barry have some kind of shared hallucination yesterday? Iris closed her eyes and shook her head in disbelief.

“Barry, we’ve been over this. Ok? Nothing has changed for me.”

“No, but it has.” he said with certainty.

How could he possibly know that? Iris hadn’t told anyone about the newfound doubt she had in her relationship with Eddie. Ever since Christmas, Iris considered what it would be like to be in a relationship with Barry. How nice it would be to already know all the good stuff and all the bad stuff about each other, how his thoughtfulness as a friend would translate romantically. She found herself eyeing his hands and lips whenever they were together. She had a few secret dream she kept to herself. But nothing like what she experienced yesterday.

How could he look so confident? The last time Barry told her how he felt he did not look confident at all. He looked vulnerable. Iris was privately considering his confession for months, why did he chose today to tell her again? It had to be that he knew about what happened what happened yesterday. Iris was starting to panic.

“How do you know that?” she asked him, hoping this question wouldn’t be taken as an admission that he was right.

“I just..” Barry looked around as if he was searching for this answer too. “I just know some stuff… somehow. I don’t know maybe it’s like, ESP or something but-”

“Barry,” Iris was about to cry. He noticed and confidence faded to concern. “Were you at the waterfront yesterday?”

Barry blinked a few times. He scratched the back of his neck and once again peered around for an answer to her question.

“The waterfront? I…. I wasn’t there yesterday.”

Iris could tell he was lying. Now tears were streaming down her face.

“Barry, what happened yesterday?”

Barry bit his lip. He was keeping something from her, and she was afraid she knew what it was. When his internal battle was won, he looked her in the eye and they were gone. Iris felt a strong gust of wind and was suddenly on the waterfront with Barry.

She looked around. It was exactly the same as it had been in her ‘dream’, yet somehow different. How did they get here? Was this another ‘dream’ or was this conformation that Barry is The Flash.

Barry looked like he was going to cry too. “You know I’ve always believed in the impossible. And recently, you’ve been trying to convince people to believe in the impossible too. But even for people who believe in the impossible, what I’m going to tell you is still hard to believe.”

“Barry………”

“Yesterday afternoon, I went back in time and lived the day over again.”