Yes I know he's hot yes I know it's nice to imagine him being a beast in bed but...I just can't stop thinking about how vulnerable a relationship with Thomas Hewitt would be...
Like my man's got seven flavours of trauma, to even get him to the point of actually feeling safe enough to touch let alone be with you is a long journey. And I'm convinced once you get him to this point, realistically, soft is all he'd want to be with you.
His entire life he's been seen as the strong guy, as an animal, and he's worked in a slaughterhouse long enough for him to actually view other people as animals. Not to mention that he's surrounded by people (especially Hoyt) who indulge this behavior. Who praise him for it. (Also yes praise is not a kink with this man, it's a requirement.)
With you he'd want to just be...human. To kiss and be kissed, to experience gentle touches and to actually believe the positive words said about him. And maybe he doesn't yet but he so, so wants to. (God, that scene where he gets out of the basement with the mask and luda tries to touch his face and he just...turns away)
Another thing I've been thinking about that's been pulling on my heartstrings is that because of his trauma, if he ever did get rougher with you and you were to actually scream in bed, this man would be horrified
Because at some point the screams of humans and the screaming of animals stop sounding all that different and never ever wants to think of you this way. Not you. Never you.
Just ugh.
I know not eeeveryone who's into TCM loved The Beginning, but it's my favorite movie of the franchise and I could go on about it for hours
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Hello! Can you share your Alucard headcanons please?
Thank you 💞
AN EAGER YES- (I have quite a lot so I brought it down to my top 3)
Vlad's human form maintains its human scars. It bears the visual weight of age and time. Within Alucard, Vlad is akin to an open wound. An infected wound bleeding memories of his humanity and tales of his damnation.
2. Hellsing's seals don't reach Vlad. Where Alucard's waking moments are amidst a dream, Vlad is the dreamer. Alucard's a monster sculpted from anger, betrayal, and vengeance. The seals are to control the monster. The dream that only works to destroy its self and all those in its way. They have no say over the human Alucard buries away and hides like an ugly wound.
3. Alucard is a bird person.
3 is the most important.
(edit: explained HC 1&2 in more depth with anon if anyone wants further insight to why)
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is stridercest canon-compliant
Hi. I'm not sure how to answer this question, but like hell am I going to let that stop me from rambling on about it for far longer than anyone would consider reasonable.
What does it mean for a ship to be canon-compliant?
My first difficulty is this: what does it mean for a ship to be "canon-compliant"?
I tend to be of the opinion that you can come up with a justification for nearly any ship that, at the very least, doesn't contradict canon. Whether that ship is probable or not is a different story.
To give an example of a ship that's technically possible but canonically unlikely… let's say I were to posit that Nepeta had red feelings for Aradia. Well, we get fairly direct evidence of Nepeta's romantic interests throughout the comic, and Aradia never features in her self-pairing fantasies. Not to mention that if she had such feelings, you'd think it would cause conflict in her relationship with Equius, who does canonically have feelings for Aradia. But Nepeta never says she doesn't like Aradia that way, so for all we know they could have had a torrid romance offscreen that is never once hinted at in the comic. Highly improbable within canon, but not strictly impossible.
A level above that, there are ships where there's basically nothing to go on. Nothing to contradict it, but nothing to really support it either. For example, how would Dirk and John get along? Well, they only ever meet once in the comic and it's when Game Over!Dirk is giving himself over to the glitchy void, so who fuckin' knows. You'll have to base their interactions on a general knowledge of their characters. And hey, you can probably come up with a pretty convincing argument that they'd be great for each other! You can equally come up with an argument that they couldn't stand one another. There's really no canon basis to say either way.
That said, I think Stridercest is on a rung above that. These characters have had significant canonical interactions that revolve around one another, giving a richer basis to draw from. Or at least… Dave and Dirk have. Which leads me to my second difficulty.
What is Stridercest?
"Stridercest" can refer to quite a few possible ships.
For example, Guardiancest. Do I think Guardiancest has a basis in canon? No. Alpha Dave and Beta Dirk lived in different versions of the universe and both died well before the end of the game. They almost certainly never even knew that each other existed.
That said, Homestuck is a pretty wild canon as far as possible character interactions go, what with all the various ways characters can hop between universes, time travel, get resurrected, meet up in dream bubbles, etc. Trans-universal communication is canonically possible (see for example Jade and Jake's letters to each other), so who knows -- maybe Alpha Dave and Beta Dirk could have met each other somehow. Does it seem likely? Absolutely not. But it's not impossible.
Now, if you were asking about the original Stridercest, Bro/Dave, that's a ship that clearly is logistically possible, at least. They spent 13 years in the same apartment. Something could have happened. Did it? I don't know. I don't consider myself a Bro/Dave scholar, so I'll leave that as a question for the reader.
But one pairing I have significantly more to say about is Dave/Dirk.
Here are some things that are canon:
Dave has had, at the very least, passing attractions to a minimum of two of his ectobiological relatives -- namely, Rose and Roxy
Dave has evinced attraction to both men and women
Dave used to idolize his bro, but later came to have more complicated feelings about him
Dirk has had a lifelong obsession with his own long-dead bro. He studied all the minutiae of Alpha Dave's life and patterned his own life after what he's gleaned from that
Dirk is definitely attracted to men
Dave and Dirk had a long heart-to-heart during which they hugged each other
Here are some questions that cannot be directly answered by canon:
Do Dave's incestuous inclinations extend to Dirk and/or Bro?
Is there a homoerotic dimension to Dirk's obsession with Dave?
Now, you could plausibly answer these questions with "no". Maybe Dave's upbringing with Bro made it impossible for him to see Dirk in a romantic light. Or hell, maybe he only likes blond hair on chicks, not on dudes. And for all we know, maybe Dirk's interest in Alpha Dave is strictly platonic. (…ha, that one's hard to type with a straight face. But it's possible.)
Of course, I'm asking these questions because I think you can easily answer them with "yes". There's significant canonical basis to suggest that these suppositions at least could be true. At the very least, conditions are ripe for these two to have some very weird, complicated feelings about each other that are laced with incestuous and homoerotic undertones.
So is Stridercest canon-compliant? For Dave/Dirk, at the very least, I'd argue that it is.
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