#its somewhere between general observations and my own headcanons i guess

[good-beanswrites]

Been making time in between assignments to jot down some sappy Awakening stuff -- in honor of the valentines banner, have some thoughts on my top 5 playthrough couples! It's mostly just me gushing about dynamics and details, and disregarding the support convos as how they fell in love lol

(No chrobin ones, sorry, but I’m so happy for you all 😭😭😭)

Robin and Frederick: (stay tuned because I'll be posting an extended collection of thoughts on them eventually) I love the slow burn of Frederick not trusting them, the gradual relationship building to love and trust, only for Frederick to be right all along, but they’ve gotten so close that he still loves and trusts them despite the facts. I think Robin would be so caught up in the memory loss and fast pace of the war, Frederick offers much-needed consistency and stability. Frederick would be so straight-laced, having a partner who brings him a little fun and relaxation while caring just as much about their duty would do wonders for him. He also loves the fact that they’re a predominantly fire-wielding mage... And come on, what’s a better aesthetic than a romance between a great knight and a dragon he was supposed to slay?

Cherche and Lon’qu: Cherche quickly figures out she has feelings for Lon’qu upon meeting him, and takes all the first actions in the relationship. They’re an extremely low key, private couple. They have as full and true a love as any, but rarely show public comments and displays. Because of this, they master the art of communicating by looks alone. They both are incredibly observant, and can read the other’s body language and tone instantly. They made a pact at the beginning of the relationship that they wouldn’t let emotion for the other make them sloppy on the battlefield (but they both slip up now and again). They strike me as a happy ace couple, but if they do end up having Gerome, he definitely gets his brooding drama from his father.

Henry and Olivia: I actually think this is a common one in fandom, I just love their dynamic. Both keep to themselves normally – whether from shyness or being the creepy outsider – so when they gravitate together they’re enamored with the other’s company. They both see a side that no one else gets to know. Olivia sees Henry’s softer, calmer side that no one takes the time to know. Henry sees Olivia’s true and vulnerable self that she never allows to show. Their relationship isn’t very obvious at first, they’re just excited to have found a friend and confidant for a while. It isn’t until Olivia gets seriously injured that Henry’s smile drops and he feels genuinely panicked for her safety, cueing them both in on their feelings. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief when they find out they’re a couple, because Henry will finally have a sweet influence. Instead, Henry’s mannerisms start to rub off on Olivia, and she develops some morbid interests and dark humor… (I also think that Inigo picks up on that, which is why he can genuinely connect to his fellow retainer Peri in fates!)

Lissa and Donnel: There’s something so sweet about young village boy on a hero’s journey falling in love with the princess ;-; There’s none of the cliche having-a-ton-of-trouble-adapting-to-farm life/courtly life, since they’re both so eager to learn about the world. Lissa easily gets her hands dirty and helps with the chores, which impresses Donnel. Meanwhile, she is surprised with how well he cleans up and speaks properly to other royals and diplomats. They don’t think about marriage for a long time after the war, but Lissa realizes she has feelings for him immediately. Donnel is totally awestruck by her, but chalks it up to meeting a beautiful, strong princess in person and doesn’t think much of it. It isn’t until his defending her on the battlefield feels a bit more than a sense of duty that he reevaluates himself. When they meet Owain for the first time, Donnel cries at being a father, even though his son is a grown man.

Cordelia and Gaius: I like the idea of a playful thief and a duty-focused knight finding balance in the other. They’ve got the enemies to lovers dynamic – they despised each other at first because of their opposites. Over so much time being stuck with one another, they turned their annoyance into aid. Cordelia coaxed Gaius out of some of his dirty/dangerous habits, and he may have helped her loosen up in some not-so-legal ways. While I hate her mother-ness in their support, there is something so beautiful and intimate about her cleaning him up and cutting his hair…

[fanfictiondreamscape]

First Kisses (Haikyuu - pt. 1)

Title: First Kisses (Haikyuu - pt. 1)

Genre: fluff, tons of it

Pairing: Sugawara/Tsukishima/Yaku/Akaashi/Kunimi x reader (all separate)

Notes: Nothing too unusual, but I thought that I’d start the posting to get something on the page. Whether it gets read, we’ll find out, but I couldn’t help myself. Onto the cliche headcanons. (I may do more of these, but for the time being, this will only consist of my top five characters in the anime). Quick note: some of these may be longer than others. 

Only a forewarning, but inspiration hit harder in certain areas, y’know. 

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Masterlist

Sugawara Koushi

ok so

hear me out here, but I think that - for this to happen - it’d be with someone very shy.

someone that’s very shy and reserved while also remaining very aloof and observant

(maybe even a little sarcastic?)

like...he’d be attracted to their air, y’know? 

as for the kiss...

the kiss itself would be done somewhere fairly private. and a little covered in shadow

someplace like the back row of a movie theater or the hidden corner of a cafe or restaurant. maybe even out in public when nobody’s outside (read: late night walk in the park) 

like seriously, just imagine that, i swear-

ANYWAYS

the two of you would be holding hands, he’d be admiring you while you’re doing whatever you do

he thinks everything you do is adorable, and he can’t help but admire you

it’s only when you notice his googly eyes that you let him know that you know he was staring

he’d blush a little, but remain generally composed. 

the quiet would be broken very suddenly by suga

“your so cute when you’re focused.” 

little did you know, you were pouting. 

he found that the most adorable.

he continued to watch you as you turned your eyes to the floor

oH BOY DID HIS HEART FLUTTER-

he couldn’t help himself. 

time seemed to slow down as you looked up and he leaned in closer. 

eventually, the two of you were staring into each others eyes

and once he peeked down for a millisecond, he kissed you

the kiss itself was very sweet, very gentle, but also had a slight bite to it? 

(how am I supposed to explain this? does this even make any sense?) 

as it got more passionate, he cupped your cheek with his hand as you gripped his shoulder lightly 

as the two of you pulled away from each other, everything around you was a little blurry 

even through the shadows, he could see that you were blushing a firetruck red

(little did he know, he was blushing the same color)

overall, the first kiss between you two would be very romantic and very sweet. 

considering it’s suga, though, prepare for a little teasing and a tight hug afterwards.

Tsukishima Kei

OK

THIS BOI I SWEAR- 

it’s a well known fact that this beanpole is very obnoxious and snarky

so his s/o would be very much the same

maybe not as introverted, but very much sarcastic and witty

in order to last with this smartass, you’d have to be intelligent and have thick skin

good luck

otherwise, the kiss would most likely happen somewhere very private.

like his s/o’s room or his room, or when they’re home alone. 

just somewhere very private and comfy

now here’s the thing- 

i think the kiss itself would happen in the midst of a debate

something to throw the other off, y’know?

sooo...

the TV is playing in the background, probably some movie with a huge plot hole

it annoys both of you, but the two of you have two different opinions of how the plot hole could be fixed. 

like...

you’re claiming that the timeline could be fixed had they found a certain item before a different one

and he’s claiming that the timeline could be fixed without the inclusion of either item

a whole back-and-forth ensues

the kiss itself though

that happens when you are starting to hesitate with comebacks and reasoning

like-

you know you’re right, but he’s pressing your buttons so much

the timeline is heavily dependent on the items that you stand by, so

(though he won’t admit it, he knows that the items are beneficial to the plot, and he’s only doing this to see you get flustered and red)

since tsukki’s not backing down, you decide that you have to do something drastic

something that’ll make the smart mouth speechless

so you decide that the time is now

when he’s looking at you with that smug look on his face, his mouth just slightly opened and about to make some baseless remark

you lean in and kiss him

it’s very short, very light

but now that he is shocked, you’re happy. 

except...

he regains his composure and tilts your head to meet him

he kisses you this time

this time, its very passionate, a little rough, and a little messy

but the both of you enjoy it very much

the two of you act like nothing happened, but it’s the little moments like that that make the two of you happy

and you two tend to kiss and get a little more clingy in private-

overall, very short and kind of sneaky. 

there’s still love behind it, of course

but there’s no real ‘pause’ or slowing of time until the second kiss

Yaku Morisuke

now-

i believe that this guy would be drawn to someone that’s very bubbly and energetic

not like yamamoto or lev, but very high-energy and outgoing

which also leads to the setting

A VOLLEYBALL GAME!

who tf would’ve guessed, oh my-

so like, the team is going up against a really powerful and notoriously defensive team

and while Nekoma is going HARD

they’re still behind

the sets were even and the odds did not seem to be in their favor

you’re in the stands, next to the mini yamamoto and lev’s sister 

cheering loudly, helping lev’s sister understand the game a little better

anyway...

things are getting tough, and they call a time out

when Nekoma goes to their spot to discuss

you make eye contact with yaku 

and you send him a thumbs up while mouthing ‘you got this!’

he sends you a big smile

and his upbeat mood almost completely lifts the slowly dengenerating one of the team

so when they are done elaborating a game plan following the slight loss of a flow

the members in play go onto the court rejuvenated. 

with the new energy, they’re able to snag the lead 

and, with a three-point difference, they win 25-22

a close call, but they’re excited nonetheless.

so are you and the girls that you were cheering with

as soon as they are finished lining up and people start to leave

you immediately run out of the gym and wait by the doors for your boyfriend and the team to come out 

when they do, yaku comes out a little after the other team members

it’s your squeal that shocks him

the kiss happens when you jump onto him

(think something like the falling kiss between victor and yuuri from YOI)

kind of rough, slight teeth, but very romantic and passionate.

nothing bordering on lustful, but most definitely NOT shy 

it would eventually mellow out to be more gentle and tame

the scene would lead to mixed reactions from the team, but

you can be sure that kuroo would have some smart remark, lev would have a dumb remark, and yamamoto would be fussing that he doesn’t have a girl

overall, while the kiss would be surprising and rough at first, it would calm down a lot

very romantic, very shocking, but also very memorable

ok but on another note, can something like this happen to me please-

Akaashi Keiji

ok now

this guy would probably be drawn to someone very laidback

kind of chaotic (think quiet chaos)

and very outgoing 

like, someone like beck from victorious?

oh god, it’s all coming back to me now-

not so flirty and borderline flighty, but they’d carry the same air that beck does

otherwise, the kiss would probably happen when the two of you are in a private area of something

like a friendly outing or something, and bokuto would be acting like a fool with kuroo or another team member

so like- 

the two of you would be cuddled up next to each other silently

maybe like in a less-obvious area

someplace hidden

and you’d just be doing your own thing

playing on your phone, reading, maybe even studying with the pretty setter

either way, you’re absorbed in your work 

just as much as he is

though he has been taking slight peeks at you while you were doing whatever

it was distracting him

and he was trying to read

just imagine him thinking 

‘they’re so pretty when they’re focused’

you don’t realize that he’s staring at you, but you do eventually are made aware of someone looking at you 

with this guy being how he is, he’d probably just keep looking if you made eye contact with him

you’d laugh, he’d turn a little red

ultimately, though, he’d lean forward despite the flustered reaction.

he’d pause in front of you, just watching your lips twitch up into a small smile

a little nod would be the unspoken allowance that he was asking for.

now.

THE KISS

HOO BOY

i imagine that this would be magical

like- 

the sparks never leave even after a couple hours.

even then, the remaining sparks are like little fairies that won’t leave your side.

it’s slow, it’s soft, it’s romantic

it’s also not the most gentle, not the most experienced, not the most clean (for lack of a better word) 

but it’s everything that either of you could’ve asked for

when the two of you pull away, you giggle a little

akaashi smiles a little

(you know the one!) 

anyway, after the kiss

you two would be made aware of the people around you 

like bokuto 

who is screaming “YEAH! FINALLY!” 

you full on bust out laughing and akaashi rolls his eyes

(he may appear bothered, but he finds it endearing)

he does keep a slightly tighter grip on you after that though

overall, his kiss, in my opinion would be the best

if not THE best, then ONE of the best (next to yaku’s oop-)

very smooth, but very inexperienced

while also remaining so unabashedly him, y’know?

Kunimi Akira 

now, i haven’t seen as much love for this guy 

while i may be missing it or not looking in the right place, i thought i’d contribute to the kunimi train

ANYWAYY

i think he’d go for a bookworm 

not necessarily quiet or loud, but very much to themselves.

someone whose shell would have to break 

kunimi would probably be best friends with his s/o before he even thought of wanting to date them

and much like suga, i think that the first kiss would happen somewhere slightly private

by slightly private, i mean an area that couples would be plentiful

amusement parks, regular parks, you get it

either way, the area wouldn’t change the kind of kiss

since he is so quiet, i feel like he’d find a way to just relax with you

in a place that is ironically romantic (considering he doesn’t care too much)

that being said, i imagine that this would happen on the ferris wheel 

cliche, i know, but just let me elaborate

it’d be getting dark, the two of you would have been at the amusement park with your friends

or maybe even upperclassmen

either way, you two have finally gotten a break from the personalities

and you just want time with each other

no talking, just calm and quiet 

anyway, on your search to find something quiet to do

kunimi sees the ferris wheel and notices that the line isn’t very long

(perfect for him, seeing as his laziness is a factor written in the wiki-)

he directs your attention to it in a way that involves little words, and you agree to his suggestion

after a few minutes of waiting, you two get seated and just sit in silence

throughout the whole ride (up to this point), kunimi was looking at you 

observing how the sunset makes you glow in the light 

how the carnival lights reflect in your eyes 

and he melts

you wouldn’t notice it since you are so absorbed in the view of the event

and he is absorbed in the view of you 

now, here’s where things get odd

he wouldn’t know how to approach the thought of your first kiss when it crosses his mind 

all he knew is that he refused to plan it, the idea struck him, and the timing was perfect.

so.

he just reaches for you hand, and when you turn to look at him

he quickly leans in and pecks your lips

short, sweet, but full of love

definitely leaves the both of you flustered, but

you two do end up scooting a little closer to you after it 

and spend the rest of the night at each other’s hip

overall, the kiss is very quick

don’t let that fool you, though, especially with kunimi

the kiss is perfect coming from him, and wouldn’t be the slightest bit overwhelming

it’d leave for more calm atmosphere between the two of you 

[mappinglasirena]

Sickbay Deep Dive Pt. 1

Today, I want to take a closer look at the sickbay/medlab on La Sirena. It’s one of the few closed rooms that we can locate with absolute certainty and while it might not seem like much at first glance, there is actually a ton going on in the small(?) room. So, come with me, as I take you through the big door into the EMH’s realm.

Since this is my first deep dive into a concrete location (not just a door and some floor plates :D), I have come up with a structure to help make this less of a wall of text (and pictures). It shall be as follows:

1) The Size and Structure of the Room 2) Furniture 3) Bric-a-brac (Or whatever else you might call the decorations and general stuff lying around a room - who allowed the non-native speaker with a tenuous grasp on interior/spaceship design vocab to run this blog? =D) 4) Interesting observations, continuity errors, headcanons, miscellaneous

1) The Size and Structure of Sickbay

First, a few general observations: Sickbay is located on Sirena’s lower deck, pretty much at the centre of the ship, and its large door opens forward into the mess hall. The room consists of the large circular work area and a smaller rectangular (possibly square) alcove at the back of the room, across from the door, that usually houses the biobed. The walls of the round room are slightly slanted, getting wider towards the top, though the alcove has straight walls. The omnipresent diagonal support beams can be found here as well: there are three spaced throughout the room, one in the very centre and one each near the front and back of the round room. Next to the large door, there are also two small windows that allow a view of the forward lower deck (i.e. the mess hall and surrounding storage), and a workbench runs around the entirety of the two curved walls from door to alcove.

Unfortunately, when it comes to questions of the room’s size, things get pretty complicated. I’ve spent a good deal of time over the past couple of weeks, trying to puzzle out the size of sickbay. I have (mostly) failed. My observations on the ships general layout and size are very slowly starting to become more concrete, but I’m still at a bit of a loss with various key aspects, so bear with me if my current estimates end up not being precisely to scale.

First off, the support beams give us some idea of the size of the room. To the best of my measuring abilities, there’s always 2m between the beams and we can see three of the horizontal beams at the ceiling. As far as I have been able to tell, the beams themselves are about 30cm wide , which leaves us with a minimal diameter of 5m for the circular ceiling.

After playing around in SketchUp for a while and doing a whole lot of maths, my best current estimate is that at the ceiling, the diameter of sickbay is somewhere between 6.5m and 8m. The diameter of the floor is always roughly 1m less (since the ceiling height and angle of the outer wall stay constant)

This is with 8m at the ceiling and looking at the lines for the non-centred support beams and the floor markings it just looks a bit too big.

This assumes 6.5m on the ceiling but it’s definitely a liiiittle to small. (I have no idea if these graphics make any sense if you haven’t spent the last two weeks staring at sickbay images and you have the general floor plate-layout burnt into your brain, but I want to share my process a bit, so you know I’m not just pulling all of this out of thin air ;9 )

Another approach is to look at something like this shot…

…where you can take Rios, imagine him lying on the floor head to toe, and you can see how he would fit in the room between three and four times.

Santiago Cabrera’s height, according to the interwebs, is 1,83m, which would make the room about 6,60m wide at floor level, which would, in turn, give us a 7,60m ceiling.

But as you can see by looking at the ceiling beams in the above picture, here we run into a different problem. I have looked at these scenes and shots long enough to tell you with some degree of confidence that the horizontal ceiling beams are, in fact, entirely straight and do not curve downward towards the sides. So, as far as i can tell, what's happening here must be some form of distortion caused by whatever lens the cinematographers are using for the wide shots. As you can probably imagine, this makes my job a lot harder, especially since I don’t know enough about optics to tell you how exactly these kinds of lens-artifacts would affect my typical style of very rudimentary measuring/calculations.

So, it’s all still a bit of a mystery, but I’ll keep working away at this, and we’ll see how it goes (I will certainly keep you updated and try not to just make it incoherent rants about warped shots XD).

The little alcove with the biobed should probably be a bit easier to measure, but there are still a bunch of issues, so at the moment by best estimate is that it’s between 3 and 4m wide and probably just as deep.

All in all, I guess it’s fair to say that sickbay is a lot larger than one might initially suspect (or assume to be reasonable).

Some more Quick Observations on the Structural Features of the Room

There are skylights in the ceiling that have shutters that blend in with the floor plating on the upper deck but that are regularly open as well.

These skylights have some built-in illumination and can function as lamps when the shutters are closed as can be seen here:

There are six more circular lamps spaced across the ceiling of the round part of the room which can also project holographic screens, though it’s not entirely clear what their individual functions are.

The rest of the illumination comes from a bank of lights running around the outside of the room’s ceiling. (If there’s one thing La Sirena is in no short supply of, it’s light sources =D)

The alcove has its own set of four round overhead lamps, as well as four pole-like lamps fixed to the side and back walls.

The floor has a nice pattern on it that looks a little like this.

(left: a sketch of the floor pattern in sickbay; right: a cross-section of the central support beam. Neither of these two are remotely proportionate, this is just to give you a rough orientation.)

And I think that’s enough info and especially images for now, my tumblr draft is starting to sulk ;]

Join me next time, when we are taking a closer look at the many things that fill sickbay! (Spoilers: someone has been to a well-known interstellar furniture store of Terran origin…..)

[ckret2]

What’s your personality headcanon for rodan?

I’ve had this in my inbox like a week because I wanted to wait until my TF big bang rough draft was done to write this, and then i spent several days recovering from the rough draft lmfao. OKAY SO

The tl;dr is “Rodan assumes everything is normal, no matter how weird it is, and that basically informs his entire worldview. Also he wants to be everyone’s friend and fight them at all times.”

First let’s talk about instincts. Because Rodan’s species plops their eggs in volcanoes and flies off, there’s basically nothing in the way of parenting. If an adult Rodan sees a baby Rodan flopping around its volcano like a fool, it might swoop down to check on the kid and show it how to do something it’s struggling with—like, if an adult human saw a five-year-old trying to get on the subway, thought this was a perfectly normal thing for a small child to do, checked to make sure they knew which line they were taking and where their stop was, showed them how to use their card to get through the turnstile, and sent them on their way. Because Rodan eggs take so long to incubate and don’t depend on a parent sitting on the nest to do so, a hatchling might pop out long after its parents are dead, or even—as in this Rodan’s case—when no other members of its species are alive at all.

So because of that, and the way evolution ran to compensate for the fact that these hatchlings might be getting zero adult education, Rodan runs on intuition, moreso than titans who raise their kids. He was born knowing how to fly, hunt, fight, defend his nest, patrol his territory, find and judge potential mates, establish more nests. He was born recognizing many titan species that had been around most prominently during his species’s evolutionary history, and knowing whether they’re likely to be friends, foes, or food. (Mothra is “friend.” Godzilla is “proceed with caution.” Ghidorah was only active for one or two generations of Rodans, not long enough for them to evolve an instinctive reaction to multi-headed yellow fliers, so Ghidorah was a total unknown when he charged his happy flappy ass into Rodan’s territory.)

So Rodan was born with a immense amount of knowledge about the world around him.

Most of it’s wrong.

Since the day Rodan hatched, he’s been faced with nothing but weird shit. So he has no sense of scale for weirdness. Fishing boats are weird. The fact that the sky isn’t thick with giant stony pteranodons is weird. The lack of a land bridge between Alaska and Russia is weird. The Himalayas are weird. The shape of that tree over there is weird. Three-headed two-tailed lightning-spewing siren-singing hurricane-summoning golden dragons from outer space are weird. The size of the Sahara is weird. A bird accidentally flying up Rodan’s nostril is weird. Farms are weird. Bells are weird. All of the above things are equally weird to Rodan.

As a consequence? He’s extremely chill with weird shit. You throw something wild at him and he thinks “I guess this is just what we’re doing now, huh,” and rolls with it. He’s willing to immediately embrace anything as the new normal. He just finds a convenient spot to jam it into his pre-existing conception of the world and rolls with it.

Which is why, when Three-Heads McGee appears, Rodan is like, “… Well, okay, apparently this is just what other members of my species look like and i somehow didn’t know it until right now" and does what he knows he’s supposed to do when he meets one of his kind: see who can win a fight. Ghidorah beats Rodan up, Rodan expects that if they impress each other then the loser promises to follow the winner and they go make nests, so he yields and swears to follow Ghidorah; but instead they fly several hours north to knock over the weird square hives made by tiny apes? Does this mean they’re hanging out first? That’s fine, anyway Rodan swore to follow so he’s gonna keep doing that, destroying cities is now the thing that they are doing. Maybe they were always supposed to be destroying cities and he just didn’t know it. Now they’re fighting Godzilla and Mothra for some reason? Yeah, alright, sure, he’s not sure if this is a turf fight or a grudge match or just for the absolute hell of it, but Ghidorah has clearly got dibs on Godzilla which Rodan is NOT gonna argue with so Rodan’s taking Mothra. He doesn’t know why they’re fighting. He doesn’t know why they’re in Boston at all. He doesn’t know what Boston is. It didn’t exist the last time he was awake. 

And days or weeks after the fight, he still doesn’t know why they were fighting. He’s got no clue Ghidorah was trying to destroy the planet. He didn’t think to ask what they were doing.

So you can throw the weirdest thing in the world at him and he just sort of assumes that it’s perfectly normal, he just hadn’t heard about it yet. Like, someday somebody is going to tell him Ghidorah is an alien, and he’s going to spend about twenty seconds freaked out, and then it will be just a fact, and nothing will ever throw him for a loop again. When everything is weird, nothing is weird.

The good side of this is it makes him very open-minded to new and different things. He’ll accept just about anything and anyone. He’s not resistant to new ideas, and he’s got an advantage over a lot of other titans socially because he’s a lot more able to accept members of other species on their own terms. The bad side is that it makes him very uncritical—he’ll accept anything presented as the norm, often even negative situations that can and should be changed. And, very frequently, he just doesn’t think to ask questions: “when did THIS become a thing??” or “why are we doing this, exactly?” or “why is this the new normal” or even “IS this the new normal??” He’s as curious as any other titan, but he rarely asks questions, because if he doesn’t see anyone else asking questions he sort of assumes that everyone else already knows what’s up and so he should be figuring it out the way they did. So he observes closely and puzzles things out alone.

Also because he assumes Everything Is Normal, he’s oddly spontaneous—in the sense that, if a massive life change is thrown his way, he’ll decide whether or not he wants to roll with it for the next thousand years in about a minute. And then he’ll stick with it. Even if he doesn’t have to, even if circumstances change so that he COULD go back to how things were before, even if it gets a lot more difficult/complicated than he was expecting—he already made his decision, this is The New Normal, his old status quo is dead, he’s sticking with it. After the decision’s been made it’s next to impossible for him to let go of it unless a new decision is offered.

One of the biggest disappointments between what Rodan expected the world to be like and what it’s actually like is that there are a whole lot less people in it. There’s like… seventeen people. (Humans don’t count as people. You can’t talk to humans. Humans are to Rodan as bees are to humans: they make interesting clever geometric homes and they’ve clearly got a very complex organization system in their colony—they can even communicate information to each other, how interesting—but they certainly aren’t people.) And this is a shame because Rodan is a major extrovert. When there are other people around to bug, Rodan is there, bugging them. He’ll just flap around getting into other titans’ business and asking what they’re up to. He’s down for joining it, whatever it is. If they don’t want him joining, he might just find somewhere nearby to perch and watch. Other titans’ opinions of him vary from “he’s very friendly and helpful” to “he’s an obnoxious pain in the ass. And he’s violent, too.”

He’s so violent.

He’s one of the only titans who just, attacks people out of nowhere, for no reason. His species has got a permanent suit of armor on, so fighting doesn’t come at the same cost and risk to them as it does to other creatures, so they’ll skip past the intimidation displays and warnings that most other species use to try to avoid a fight and just charge straight in to battle. Which is why Ghidorah managed to completely KO him and he still thinks that was a courting dance rather than a real battle; his species’s courting dances can get that violent.

But, even beyond courting dances or defending himself and his territory? He’ll still pick fights, with anyone. He’ll pick fights with total strangers. He’ll see a titan, go “Hey there my name is Rodan what’s yours!” and dive for their eyes. He thinks fighting is fun! His life is a sports anime about martial arts whose main plot is a tournament arc and he’s the plucky happy-go-lucky protagonist who’s determined to win every fight and befriend every single opponent he defeats, while everyone else thinks they’re living in a medium-difficulty survival sim. It’s impossible to teach him not to attack strangers. If a new acquaintance tells him they don’t like fighting he will respect that and not do it again, but no matter how many people tell him they don’t want to fight, he will not stop going “maybe the next one will” and trying again.

Mothra, he’s learned, does not like fighting, and he understands how her reincarnations work just enough to know that he can’t attack new Moths the way he would a New Person; but every time Mothra’s reborn he’ll hope the new one likes fighting and ask. She’s always like “it’s still no” and he’s like, “someday. Someday.” He’s not sure why Boston was the exception, but thinks maybe she likes group brawls more than one-on-one fights? Maybe he’ll fight her the next time they’re in a group and see if she’s into that.

His favorite people are the ones willing to throw down, any time, any place. He sometimes mistakes eagerness to fight back as a confirmation of friendship rather than as, like, “I hate you so much I wanna kick your ass every time I see you” or something. Friends that spar together fly far together.

Aquatic titans are the few exceptions. They freak him out. Water is already an inherently terrifying location because you can’t breathe in it, you can’t stand on it and yet can’t fly through it, it washes off your armor—it’s just Bad, it’s a Bad Place. And then there are things in it?? Things living underneath the surface, unseen and unknown, that can crawl out when you’re asleep and try to eat you if you’re not completely under your lava? Gelatinous color-changing things? Long cold things that can wrap around you and crush you? Oh no. No thank you. Rodan doesn’t mess with that stuff. To him Godzilla is no King of the Monsters, he’s Ambassador of the Nightmares. He’s one of those terrifying subterranean guys except he’s got LEGS which somehow simultaneously makes him just barely tolerable but also a bigger threat than the other water things. Godzilla is Cthulhu in a business suit: an eldritch abomination masquerading as a normal person.

And, that’s about what I’ve got worked out so far. Since I’ve spent less time writing inside Rodan’s personality than Ghidorah’s, he’s less developed than they are lol. It’s a continually evolving work in progress

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Any headcanons for the less known stuff? Like the Muse of the Poets, Father of all Globox, glob crystals, Disk of the Gods/Glorbe, Rayman's titel as "O Prince", Razoff's family (Count Zaroff (father) who killed Space Mama, Nimrod (Grandpa who killed the Abominable Geranium of the Seas of Cockatoo) and Artemis), the People of Prhys, Great Spirit Palmito and so on?

I sadly couldn’t find the time to properly answer this before, so here goes!

So these are hard questions all around. There is so little about them, and much of it is basically cut content anyway (or better yet, exclusive to specific versions of 2 especially), that it is exceedingly difficult to try and keep track of them, much less thing of anything specific. Nevertheless, here’s a couple regarding the stuff you brough (sorry for being a bit scattered, I really should collect these somewhere).

Muse of the Poets: Ancient, mostly spiritual being. In the beginning, still new to creating, Polokus sought the company of other great beings such as him. He found kinship in the Muse and while much of the world bears signs of her, especially the flora and fauna of the lands, there was a level of vanity to her being.

She sought beauty in order and the chaotic nature of dreams was an affront to how she viewed creation. The Teensies were a combined project, hers the purpose and Polokus’ the design. Their quirky nature and appearance were the last straw and seeing them as a bastardisation of sage-like people she wanted, she departed, never to be seen again (more on that later).

Father of all Globox: My guess is he was sort of a “prototype”, a being Polokus created to handle aquating things, much like Clark was set to shape the world. He turned out to be extremely effective at defusing conflicts though, which is why Polokus was more than happy to provide an entire species as his lineage. Alternatively, he may actually be a different being, whom Polokus used as a template later on (more on this later as well).

Glob Crystals: Since the minigames these are associated with have been folded into ones unlocked through Familiar Spirits in Revolution, my guess is that their purpose was accessing remote locations, think teleport stones. However, they were prone to break and warp though, which is why they were very early on discarded in favor of the Teensies handling all such matters.

Disk of the Gods/Glorbe: Tremendous amounts of exaggeration. Since Polokus is explicitly stated to have come from the Lums, I don’t think there was much fighting about them, or if there was, the Lums eventually lost their patience and, with the Heart, helped bring Polokus into the world to finally settle things down.

Since Lums purpotedly embody different aspects of creation, it is possible that some trascended beings really were intent on hoarding Lums, which may have eventually distilled into legend. And what better way to keep a legend alive, than to either turn it into a story, or a game?

Rayman as “O Prince”: I genuinely think this comes from an occasion where Rayman got a little too bigheaded for his own good, and it was a mocking terms, probably coined by the Teensies. His embarassment over it was so great, it fixed him up for good afterwards. Then again, if Rayman is genuinely royalty of any kind, he’s the person who’d sooner take a knee (har-har) to literally anyone else, than expect it in return.

Razoff’s family: I feel like he may have some very-very tenuous connection to an actual hunter-deity (though Artemis may just be a name), but whatever was up with that bloodline likely left him with very little besides a will to hunt. However, consider where and how he lives. Nimrod hunted a creature who, for all we know, may have been a humble being despite the name. Space Mama I wouldn’t call harmless in any way. I’m not entirely sure if Rayman 3 specified they’re dead or were just capture, but think of it this way.

Have you ever heard of the Winchester Mystery House? Not the crap movie from a while ago, but the actual house. Sarah Winchester kept expanding the mansion in order to appease the ghosts of those killed by Winchester rifles (or so they say). Consider if Razoff as in a somewhat similar situation, but for real. His family is known to hunt and capture (and maybe kill?) various creatures around the world for generations and they’ve likely made many-many enemies. Maybe the reason Razoff not only doesn’t leave the mansion, but also has it filled with traps and an intent to dispatch Rayman, is a sense of paranoia going overboard?

People of Prhys: I covered them partially in my headcanons about them and Ly in general, but I guess I may add that I believe the connection between them and the mainland were rarer than with most other regions, and that their culture very much favored both the mystic and athletic arts. It’s why Ly in general looks much more lithe and active, compared to the fairies you see in 3, for instance. I also believe their solitude (and the secrets they kept) had some things to do with the divinity Polokus possesses, though how, what, or why is anyone’s guess. Suffice to say though, it’s probably not a reason that the only person who can create a Silver Lum is from such a faraway place of mysteries.

I also think the area they inhabited is still there, it’s just the people that are missing. Ly just doesn’t want to go back there. Not anytime soon.

Great Spirit Palmito: A god-being who envied Polokus for his power to dream existence, so it would conjure eternal sleep in order to do the same. Alas, Palmito was not granted such a power, but it was MAD AS HELL when the Griskins woke him up, though his punishment wasn’t intentional cruelty, much rather someone backhanding one out of frustration when you try to wake them up. It is unknown whether it departed after this event.

Anything else: Now here is where we get even deeper into headcanon territory and how the world works in general. I don’t think Polokus was the only divine being in that world, he was simply the mos successful, in a sense.

Way back, it became very obvious that multiple gods or godlike beings trying to create a world together worked about as well as herding cats, especially in the wake of any scuffle about Lums. So in order to calm things down, the Heart of the World (possibly with the help of others) managed to secure a truce. With a few notable exceptions, god-beings CANNOT exist in the physical realm for extended periods of time. Sometimes, for some reasons, they can manifest, but for the most part they have to let nature take its course on everything. The creatures of Polokus and their daily lives entertain the gods though (or they just don’t care much) so they’re fine with how things go. It is possible that like Polokus and his 4 masks, that they also have artifacts or rituals of their own which would summon them, but as to what they are, is unknown.

One notable exception to this is Leptys, who does appear to have some influence left in the physical realm, through Gumsi and the scepter. It’s why Reflux stealing it was such a massive problem, as artifact that could summon a god or even a portion of their power, was not meant to be wielded in such a way.

Other than that though, most other gods have long departed and are either observers of merely enjoy their eternal comfort in the spirit realm.

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I think that about covers it? There’s probably more I missed, because this post has been something I’ve been writing on and off for a month now, but hopefully it’s a semi-entertaining, if somewhat nonsensical collection of headcanons. I can’t promise I can elaborate much further, but I’d be happy to hear if any of your ideas about Rayman’s world are similar to any of these!