#maplejay

[theminecraftbee]

minecraft bee. starign at you. you mentioned nosey neighbors. hello they're my favorite guys do you have anything to share , /nf

so the thing is you may have noticed I have a thing for writing guys who are trying their best in a broken system and like, ALL of one piece is that to some extent, but then I went “what if I make bigb and pearl marines” and they are now ESPECIALLY that. because like—

okay the thing is that in one piece the world government SUCKS. like every arc we learn more and more reasons the world government is the WORST INSTITUTION EVER. and as such, their military force, the marines, generally serve as antagonists and suck, but. MANY individual marines do not suck. because the thing is that ridiculously powerful pirates also exist and they DO hurt civilians and many marines DO want to protect those civilians! we even have people like smoker who is like, javert levels of determined to hunt the straw hat pirates, but ALSO willing to put that aside for the greater good and work with them temporarily (see: alabasta). we have people like garp, who mostly at this point wants to train the next generation and is constantly torn between duty and family. we have koby, my beloved, who was tormented by pirates for so long and joined the marines to get stronger and protect people and stands up to the admirals to try to get them to stop the fighting at marineford after the marines had already effectively won! and yeah MANY of the marines we meet are assholes who use their power over people to get what they want but ALSO they’re often complex people or even good people who have been placed within an evil system.

(side note: being a civilian in the one piece world sucks and is terrifying, for the record, and while one piece is a lighthearted comedy most of the time, oftentimes it does remind us of that anyway. which is definitely part of “why the world government”; if YOU lived in the one piece world, YOU’D probably want the guys who constantly feed you propaganda about protecting you from the pirates who will kill you to be in charge because like. you do not want the pirates to kill you. which many of them will. for fun. JUST BECAUSE THE GOOD GUYS IN ONE PIECE ARE PIRATES DOESN’T MEAN THE BAD GUYS AREN’T ALSO PIRATES WHEN THE BAD GUYS AREN’T THE EVILS OF A CORRUPT SYSTEM THAT SEEKS TO MAINTAIN ITS OWN POWER ABOVE ALL ELSE.)

anyway the POINT is.

so then I made the nosy neighbors marines, and also gave them a cool dynamic where pearl is newer to being a marine on the grand line and while not NAIVE (her village was destroyed by pirates) she has a strong image in her head of protecting people while bigb has been worn down by the system over the years and is more used to the bullshit the world government would have him do and is resigned to it. and bigb teaches pearl a bit about the way the world actually is on these oceans but pearl teaches bigb a bit about how they don’t have to GIVE UP in protecting people just because there’s government bullshit in their way. and ALSO they get to relentlessly pursue Cleo’s pirates AND have a fun dynamic of people going “oh there’s a devil fruit user between the two of them, surely it’s the scary one with the axe” (it is not its bigb bigb just knows how to be subtle, unlike some people).

and that’s why this au has me staring at the nosy neighbors like “OH. THEM.”

[domifucker]

it’s 3:30am and i’m thinking about my warrior cats ocs whose names and stories i will never forget

[ilexdiapason]

if someone is trying to make you suffer by sending targeted trauma asks then I will kill them for you nodnod

ur also gonna have to kill them for whimsy because whimsy got More and Worse asks and just. it's a very laser focused thing to do, i think the one that got sent to maplejay was an attempt to throw us off the fact that it's just us, because maplejay didn't get any of the followup asks, and it did force them to out themselves in an attempt to make it stop and that didn't actually stop it so at best it's negligence causing harm and at worst it's intentional abuse, and when somebody says stop you need to stop, is my ultimate conclusion

[anendoandfriendo]

Pluralityclan Allegiances As We Know Them Last We Updated Y'all

The problem now is that it's hard to consistently update and track this stuff.

LEADER - Redstar

DEPUTY - Curlflake

MEDICINE CATS - Moonrock, Grousewarm

MEDICINE CAT APPRENTICES -

MEDIATORS - Porsche, Ospreysilk and Lightfoot

MEDIATOR APPRENTICES -

WARRIORS - Plumfeather, Rosemarychomp, Maplejay, Butterflyspeckle, Robinburr, Veldoratempest, Rimurutempest, Streamspeckle, Dartfalcon, Aniseshimmer, Beechfreckle, Quiverlamb, Rattlefeather, Cloverrock, Flitlamb, Rosemarygleam, Beechtimber, Milkweedmeadow

WARRIOR APPRENTICES -

KITS - Violakit, Stumpykit, Peanutkit, Hornetkit, Woolykit, Charmkit

ELDERS -

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OUTSIDERS -

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STARCLAN - Mudstar, Hoppatch, Chirpzoom, Gravelpaw

DARK FOREST -

ELSEWHERE -

[ask-maplejay]

Aww! Look at Jay with his cute little haircut!

I don’t want to hear that from YOU.

M!A: bowl cut 2/3

[ask-maplejay]

..is that really a bright side, anon? 

M!A: bowl cut 1/3

[ask-maplejay]

Hello! I’m Jay…While Kinesis is away, I figured it’d be nice to answer some questions. Ask me anything, I’ll try my best to answer (￣ ³￣)

(These blogs looked so fun and I’ve wanted to make a maple one for so long =w= Jay’s become one of my fave characters so why not hehe… hopefully he’s in character :P )