#miriam is probably their rival?

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Disclaimer: the images in this post are arranged in a way so that the Scarlet images are all on the left and the Violet images are all on the right. Obviously I only took on the Academy Ace Tournament in one version at a time

Took on the Academy Ace Tournament in both versions and here were my opponents in the order battled (apart from the fact the Scarlet images are all on the left and the Violet images are all on the right). I’ve learned two things from this - 1 is that Miriam can be the first opponent (like in Scarlet) or the 3rd opponent (like in Violet). She has the same lines in both positions. The second is that Nemona can actually be battled in this tournament (genuinely she’s never appeared to me in this in Violet and I haven’t had the chance for her to appear in this in Scarlet up until now). Also her Pokémon don’t have an order they’re sent out apart from her starter being her final Pokémon and probably her leading with Lycanroc (I remember Orthworm being her penultimate Pokémon in Scarlet because Luna was struggling and nearly cried so I swapped it out for Blueberry only to bring Luna back against her ugly croc (I had every wish to send out Quax or keep Blueberry out instead but I had plans involving Terastalising every single one of my aces and I’d already used Quax against Tyme and Blueberry against Penny. I also kinda wanted Clavell to be my last opponent in Violet so I could beat the shit out of that ugly croc twice in one day but I got Nemona with her fabulous gay duck instead) but she sent Orthworm out really early on against me in Violet. Also Dudunsparce I think was her 2nd Pokémon in Scarlet but her penultimate Pokémon in Violet). Oh yeah the third thing I learnt (or possibly fourth) is that Dark-types can cry. Both Luna and Spriggie nearly cried at some point (I returned Luna to its ball and took out Blueberry to deal with Orthworm and also use a full heal on Luna while Spriggie has a Shell Bell on him so he just gradually healed up as the battle continued and he kept taking out Raifort’s Pokémon)

My aces Terastalising for no reason other than it’s pretty. It’s hard to tell what’s going on in half these images so in order Fire Tera type Char (Armarouge), Fire Tera type Char (Ceruledge), Water Tera type Quax (Quaquaval), Grass Tera type Spriggie (Meowscarada), Water Tera type Blueberry (Walking Wake), Psychic Tera type Cherry (Iron Leaves), Dragon Tera type Luna (Roaring Moon) and Fighting Tera type Knight (Iron Valiant). Roaring Moon are honestly kinda ugly but somehow Luna got out-uglied by Nemona’s Skeledirge (okay that’s enough Skeledirge slander for one post)

Blueberry and Cherry making entrances in the third battles, the ones where they were the ones Terastalising

And of course my aces shouting after defeating their final opponents

As you can see, Liko’s Sprigatito and Dot’s Quaxly in both games have evolved into Liko’s Floragato and Dot’s Quaxwell. As much as I prefer their fully-evolved forms I want to wait a bit and use their middle stages so I haven’t allowed them to fully-evolve just yet

Still, because I chose Quax/Quaxly/Quaquaval in Scarlet and Spriggie/Sprigatito/Meowscarada in Violet I now have the Pokédex entries for Floragato in Scarlet and Quaxwell in Violet

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Heyyy! I know you're probably very busy but I just have these sudden wonders n such-

Anyway! How do you think HLC students and professors would react to M!MC that's a transfer from Durmstrang and knows only little English since he's Russian?

(I may or may not have a Russian MC and just want silly funny HC's so it's even more fun to play :).)

A/N: your MC sounds so cool!

HLC REACT TO RUSSIAN M!MC

SEBASTIAN SALLOW: He's not going to let some tall, dark and handsome silent newcomer intimidate him. He challenges MC to a duel every chance he gets. Leander who? MC is his rival now.

OMINIS GAUNT: He's never heard spoken Russian before. He's intrigued. Disappointed that MC can't communicate with him very well, but he still tries. MC seems to understand and at least answer yes or no questions. He's never enjoyed playing 20 questions so much.

ANNE SALLOW: Sebastian greatly undersold MC when he wrote to her. MC wasn't just some new kid. He was exotic. When he comes over with Sebastian, she asks so many questions. She wants to know every detail there is to know about him.

IMELDA REYES: She doesn't give a damn what language MC speaks, brooms are universal. Stop jabbering and race her already!

NATSAI ONAI: She knows exactly how MC feels. Moving to a new country with a new culture and language can be scary. Don't worry, she'll help in every way she can. (Honestly, hearing the two of them try to speak english to each other with their thick accents is cute AF)

GARRETH WEASLEY: DO NOT put MC next to him in potions. If MC doesn't understand the difference between wormbile and nightshade, things could get explosive. He gets too wrapped up in what he's doing to double check what MC handed him.

LEANDER PREWETT: He finds MC intimidating and tries to just stay out of the way. Even if MC is the nicest guy and just wants to ask for directions, he scampers off like MC will kill him with a look.

AMIT THAKKAR: He knows a little russian! He butchers the hell out of it, but he tries. He does get a bit embarrassed when MC tells him that he understands his english better.

EVERETT CLOPTON: He wants to hear stories about Durmstrang. The school is so secretive, surely MC can tell him a little? He won't tell anyone, promise.

POPPY SWEETING: What kind of beasts are common where MC's from? That's her main question. What's the wildlife like? Does Durmstrang have a beast class? Does MC have a pet? What are the poaching laws there? MC may have to hide from her.

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ELEAZAR FIG: He speaks a little Russian from his travels with Miriam. Not enough to be conversational, but enough key words to understand what MC is saying if he speaks slow enough. He's at MC's beck and call, whatever he needs to help him improve his studies, he is available.

MATILDA WEASLEY: She goes out of her way to make sure MC has all the tools available to him to help him understand Hogwarts curriculum. The fieldguide she gives him is in Russian but can change to English to help him study.

AESOP SHARP: He speaks fluent Russian. He repeats any complicated instruction in Russian for MC. Aside from Fig, he's in the best position to help MC adjust to Hogwarts.

Everyone else would treat MC the same as any other student.

[miriam--weinbaum]

Name: Miriam Weinbaum Age / D.O.B.: 44 /August 2, 1979 Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: Cis woman, she/her, homosexual Hometown: New York Affiliation: Government Job position: Medical examiner Education: High school diploma, BA in nursing, pre-med, MD (forensics) Children: None Positive traits: intelligent, focused, hard-working, reliable, rational  Negative traits: aloof, stubborn, arrogant, egocentric, materialistic

BIOGRAPY (tw: homophobia) (also there might be some small changes made to this still because of connections with other characters, but the basic gist is here)

Miriam was born in the orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, the middle of seven children. Though the apartment was cramped and fights common, her childhood (and you will struggle to get her to admit that) was not all terrible: There was a sense of belonging in her community, and the expectation that women had to get a decent education to support their families catered well to Miriam’s curious and hardworking nature. Her interest in wearing jeans and make-up and exploring the city could still be put down to simple teenage rebellion, though the more she realized she was interested in other girls in ways that were more than platonic, Miriam also understood she would have to put some distance between herself and her family.

At the back of her mind, a dream had formed: When she thought of the candidates for marriage her sisters had been presented with, the ones that had always made the biggest impression and received the most respect were doctors, though she knew there was no way her family would support this dream. Strategically, she enrolled for a BA in nursing and moved into a small room in a shared apartment while continuing to be supported by her family.

It all came crashing down when she, now living in her new world in which all was possible, kissed her then-girlfriend at a farmers’ market. Somehow, word made its way back to her family, and their support for her ended, their ties breaking entirely. From that day on, Miriam worked two jobs to finance her nursing degree, then worked hospital night shifts to finance her way through pre-med. By the time she entered medical school, she was five years older than everyone else and bone tired. From these days originate her obsession with beauty treatments and flawless make-up.

Medical school brought another reality check: Miriam was here, she acknowledged, to make money and gain respect, though her co-students usually stated “helping people” as motivation. Miriam discovered she did not have enough tact to share cancer diagnoses, nor did she care enough to take pity on diabetics who had spent their lives overconsuming soda. No, things were much easier when your patients were dead. And thus, a specialization in forensics was born.

Miriam was 35 when she finally graduated with an MD and became a medical examiner at the local police department. She did not mind night shifts or early mornings, did not mind wounds or the smell of the long-deceased. Finally, she had respect, expertise and a life on her own terms. On the topic of the conflict between the gangs, Miriam is most likely to be silent, and if pressed for an answer, you probably won't find her talking about morals. So far, Miriam's only source of her statements at work has been science, but Miriam's main goal in life is to get ahead and stay ahead. Anything that helps her achieve that aim is at best tempting and at worst her downfall. She may be religious to this day, but Mammon is definitely her second God.

Wanted & filled connections:

Partner in against crime: Someone in law enforcement Miriam gets along with well and someone she has maybe worked on cases with. Will have to put up with sarcasm and an utter lack of humor, but will be rewarded with reliability and top-notch knowledge of forensics. Can also be an overlap with friends & acquaintances in that they could also hang out outside work.

Rival: Basically the opposite of the above: A person who very much dislikes her and that Miriam dislikes in return. Whether this is an open feud or just something that lingers over their work relationship can still be plotted out.

Temptation: So far, Miriam is not corrupt, but let's be real, that is mostly because she has not been tempted enough. Maybe an offer comes along that has the potential to change that? Her expert testimony can change court cases, as Miriam will proudly tell you.

Someone her testimony has helped or harmed: For muses that have been accused of a crime - maybe Miriam was summoned to give expert testimony, and that either saved your muse or contributed to their punishment. Do they now want to get back at her or thank her?

Friends & acquaintances: Could be from them exercising together (Miriam loves running and the gym) or from general socializing (more likely for characters in the more upper echelons of New York society). Another option would be from synagogue - Nowadays Miriam is a member of a reform Judaism synagogue, but she still is very much connected to her religion.

Exes (maybe even one that got away/one that she got away from?): Someone Miriam dated anywhere between eight and twenty-four years ago. Bonus points if one of them is still kind of pining after the other.

[coolpointsetta]

do you want to hear more of my hannibal!ted lasso au?

TOO BAD IM SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY ABOUT IT ANYWAY

(hannibal spoilers ahead lmao)

- REBECCA IS THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI!!!

- ofc Mannion is the Dolarhyde narrative equivalent. Rebecca got promoted because she was the one who hunted him down bc she knew who he was and that’s part of the reason they divorced. everyone thought she was crazy. she wasnt.

- nate and roy as psychiatric rivals. ROY GETS CONTACTED BY TED ABOUT JAMIE AKA THE MOST SAUGHT AFTER PATIENT EVER INSTEAD OF NATE AND NATE THINKS ITS THE ULTIMATE “WE ARE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE” AFTER NATE LEFT THE FBI AND TED TO RUN THE BSHCI

- ZAVA IS MASON VERGER. ZAVA IS MASON VERGER.

- Jamie teaches at the FBI academy only bc the government wont let him be employed privately. he acc wanted to retire and work at a pre-school or smn.

- Jamie is Ted’s Most Special BAU Baby. Ted wholeheartedly believes that his love and acceptance and support is enough to keep Jamie from falling off the deep end in spite of every other professional saying “please. please stop. LOOK AT HIM HE’S GOT ANXIETY.”

- what about. WHAT ABOUT. WHAT ABOUT HENRY AS MIRIAM LASS. WHAT ABOUT THAT. WHAT IF THAT’S THE REASON TED PUSHES JAMIE TO FIND THE RIPPER BUT ALSO TRIES TO SUFFOCATE HIM WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION AND PROTECT HIM FROM THE WORLD WHILE EXPOSING HIM TO ONLY THE WORST PARTS OF IT.

- royjamie version of the ladder scene. thats. thats it thats the fic.

- roy killing james tartt sr after the man insults his practice. and feeds him to jamie. lovingly. either pre- or post-s1 finale. i think pre then he tells him afterwards, like in the late s2 era

- Roy and Roy’s sister were separated when the Lecter family was attacked and their other siblings were yk fed to them, and Roy, years later, didn’t realise that Phoebe was acc his niece until after he framed Jamie by “killing” her and they were living together.

- just jamie with will’s sass and all of his self confidence. “some lazy psychiarty there dr kent.” and “i dont want to kill you any more, dr kent. not now that i finally find you interesting.”

- roy as hannibal is so. HE’S SO. “long pig.” and “nothing here is vegetarian.” and “abigail hobbs is dead / long live abigail hobbs”

this is all semi-incoherent nonsense. i will be back with actual Plot and Legible Notes. probably.

oh my

oh my god

OH MY GOD

YOURE SUCH A GENIUS!!!!

roy and nate as rivals??? royjamie ladder scene?? TED TRYING TO HELP JAMIE AAAAAHHHHH

goddddddd ITS TOO GOOD

Thank you for sharing your thoughts i absolutely adore them i’m so normal about it (lies)

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headcanon rapid fire because. i wanna post stuff about different muses and don't wanna spam your dash with multiple headcanon posts

under a read more bc. theres a lot.

itto, despite having coped well with how his life has been for the most part, has abandonment issues he won't even admit to. thankfully, the people he cares about aren't planning on leaving him any time soon, but there have been times when one of his gang members had to go off somewhere without telling him and he panicked more than you'd expect. he tried to play it off as him worrying about their safety, but that didn't exactly fly when it was shinobu who was gone.

collei is in a rough situation of being both touch starved and also being triggered by physical contact. this is where stuffed toys, especially cullein-anbar come in. even if she's not using her toy for attacks, she's using it for comfort, often holding it in her arms and cuddling it when she has the chance to.

blue has seen pretty much every canon (at least main-game) region at one point. why? well, he and red have been on a world tour at one point to see everywhere they could. this happened not long after he made up with his rival.

bede has a major sweet tooth, but he also likes caffeine far too much for someone of his age. whether he's drinking energy drinks or soda or overly-sweetened tea or coffee, he's usually drinking SOMETHING sweet and caffeine-laden. possibly is self-medicating for issues rose never got him checked out for.

avery could potentially develop his psychic powers more, and is actually working on it, but his powers are more accurately specialized differently than most of his family. while his family has flashy powers like teleportation and super strong telekinesis and creating illusions, avery's naturally better at more subdued stuff like understanding pokemon's thoughts (as well as generally being empathic in the psychic sense) and occasionally getting precognitive dreams. this does not help his self loathing about not being good enough.

brassius often likes taking long walks to get inspiration, sometimes in very odd places. if you find him in some far-reaching part of paldea where hardly anyone is, or just anywhere he logically wouldn't be normally? he's probably just trying to get ideas for his next work of art.

iono has major empathy issues, specifically in the sense of not being able to feel what others are feeling in an emotional sense. still, she's trying! one thing that's personally helped her is relying more on cognitive empathy than the typical emotional empathy that most have. while she's still not the best at it, and often has to take a step back to think through what her and others are feeling, it's at least helped her from being TOO much of a jerk.

grusha has osteoarthritis in quite a few joints from his accident, as well as some nerve issues that come from those joints being damaged. it's worst in his knees and his right shoulder. some of his fellow gym leaders have tried convincing him to move his gym operations elsewhere for the sake of his chronic pain, but unfortunately, grusha is nothing if not stubborn.

dendra didn't actually plan on going into teaching in classes! she had initially planned on becoming more of a personal battle tutor, teaching more one-on-one lessons. but hearing miriam talk so enthusiastically about teaching classes made her realize she could create more of a change by teaching an entire class at once. she's still struggling to stay on a time schedule with her classes, though, as she always figured she could fit in more time if need be. but the academy ain't having that!

jotaro has always struggled with opening up to people, but it only got worse after the incident in egypt. he'll often close up all emotions from others until it gets to a tipping point and he breaks down. he'll try to hide these breakdowns from others, but if you're close enough to him, he'll often hold them back until he can be in private with you. hardly anyone has this trust from him, though.

mikitaka has VERY poor coordination. stumbling, struggling with fine movements, and running face-first into things aren't uncommon for him. if asked to explain himself on this, if you're in on his little secret, he'll admit it's because he's still not used to his human form. and regularly transforming into other things means he has fewer chances to practice his motor control.

fugo often has bad depression bouts after his worst anger outbursts. he'll often blame himself for whatever he did, even if it was justified or if he managed to reign himself in, and there's a lot of negative self-talk, including calling himself a monster. team bucciarati often helped him with these. in times after he left them? he really doesn't know what to do on his own.

melone's sleep schedule is WAY off-kilter. between drug use and general unmedicated mental health conditions, he sometimes stays up for multiple days at a time before sleeping for 12 or more hours multiple days in a row. he claims he doesn't see any issue with it since he's so productive on his sleepless nights, but he does wish he knew ways to get out of that loop.

doppio is actually very physically affectionate if you're close to him and have his permission! the question though, is who, if anyone, is close enough for him to do that? the answer is, as of now, nobody. so usually he'll just cuddle pillows at night to compensate for wanting that physical affection.

diavolo has only felt love once. he hasn't even felt it for his own family, whether his father or his daughter. but donatella was the one person he regretted having to turn on. the one person he regretted losing. this is the only reason he abandoned her instead of killing her. he couldn't take away the one good thing from the world, in his mind, even if he still felt he couldn't let her into his inner world.

[curedeity]

For the oc ask!!! #31, for whoever you are eager to talk about :)c

Hey sadie!!!!

31. Who are they most glad to have met?

Well for Kagami and Tsukiko its clearly each other. I think both are really thankful for the role the other plays in thier life, and how theyve grown together. I think Tsukiko especially would put Kagami there the easiest, as she tends to get heavily attached to the people around her at the time. Kagami likely has a few old friends that have influenced her life a lot that I might introduce, but she genuinely really appreciates Tsukiko. And not just for how theyve improved each other, but for just who they are.

Alright sappy time over

Avery would have the most difficulty answering this question. She would probably be stuck between Ren, Trey, and Miriam. Theyve all served really important roles in her life after shed met them (anya doesnt count theyre siblings) but i think that Ren is the one shed say shes most happy to have met because Ren really helped her come into herself. Ren really comes to Avery in this time when Avery is struggling with her place on this team, and finally having to define herself as a leader, and Ren helps her figure out how to do that.

For Anya I'd similarly say Maru. Shes really thankful to Trey too, whos sorta her older brother, but Maru is the person who Anya like, realized would help define her future.

Miriam would not give an answer. Its probably like some rival at the WBBA though. Maybe like a spy who didnt immediately do what Miriam said and Miriam has turned that into a war. Miriam is also pretty glad to have met Toby. I think they get along very well and Toby is the one who challenged her in the most meaningful ways (questioning her decisions) while supporting her the most based on who she was (i think the other members of team dungeon would really struggle to define miriam as a person)

Trey is most glad to have met Avery and Shui. No he will not choose between them.

Shui is most glad to have met Trey. They will never say this aloud.

[lonelier-version-of-you]

Young Dylan and dr Christie fighting over zsa zsa’s affection

Lol! I feel like this is where their backstory will probably end up if they're not exes (or maybe even if they are) - they were both mentored by the same person and rivalling for their attention (either Zsa Zsa, or Jemima - I think Miriam mentored Dylan when he was a junior doctor rather than in med school, so it couldn't be her). It would fit with my theory of Cristie having childhood trauma too (as Dylan's bonds with his mentors have often seemed to be in part about him seeking out parental figures, so maybe Cristie had similar reasons).

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(   +6   )   two   wanted   connections   have   been   added   !

*       ♡ .      ꒰   barbara  palvin  +  platonic  ꒱  a  little  birdie  told  me  april  winslow  is  looking  for  their  high  school  best  friend who  went  to  new  york  first  !  according  to  them,  they  kinda  look  like  any  fc, twenty  six  or  older  and  are  about  twenty  six  or  older    ╱   they  were  thick  as  thieves  in  high  school  and  briefly  lost  touch  when  april  drove  down  to  los  angeles  right  after  graduation.  they'd  likely  be  the  reason  april  went  out  to  new  york,  probably   crashed  on  their  couch  or  still  maybe  live  together.  you  can   contact  this  player  @  ohaprils

*       ♡ .      ꒰   barbara  palvin  +  romantic  ꒱  a  little  birdie  told  me  april  winslow  is  looking  for  their  late  night  radio  crush !  according  to  them,  they  kinda  look  like  tommy  martinez,  oliver  jackson  cohen,  rege  jean  page,  manny  jacinto,  jonah  hauer  king,  aaron  taylor  johnson,  yahya  abdul  mateen  ii,  ask  for  more  and  are  about  twenty  eight  or  older    ╱   april  hosts  a  late  night  radio  show  in  brooklyn,  and  this  muse  likes  to  call  in  to  almost  every  show.  they've  developed  an  on  air  flirtation,  and  it's  very  cute  and  playful.  we  can  definitely  plot  out  more!  you  can   contact  this  player  @  ohaprils

*       ♡ .      ꒰   oscar  isaac  +  platonic  /  romantic   ꒱  a  little  birdie  told  me  balthazar  cordovés  is  looking  for  their  ex-spouse !  according  to  them,  they  kinda  look  like  jessica  chastain,  pedro  pascal,  dhanush,  katrina  kaif,  lee pace,  contact  for  alts  and  are  about  thirty-five  to  forty-five  years  old.   ╱   balthazar,  during  his  travels  here  and  there,  woke  up  in  las  vegas  suddenly  married  to  this  muse.  despite  the  fact  that  they  had  every  opportunity to,  they  never  really  bothered  getting  a  divorce,  both  of  them  claiming  they  were  simply  too  busy  to  deal  with  all  the  paperwork  that  comes  with  undoing  their  las  vegas  wedding.  they  do  possess  a  certain  fondness  for  each  other  —  and  now  that  they  found  the  both  of  themselves  stationed  in  new  york,  they’ve  been  hanging  out  more  and  more  often.  there’s  a lot  we  can  go  with  this,    and  i  don’t  wanna  ramble  on  for  too  long  so  please  contact  me  for  more  info!  you  do  contact  this  player  @gazedivine.

*       ♡ .      ꒰   sobhita  dhulipala  +  occupational  /  romantic   ꒱  a  little  birdie  told  me  devarakonda  radhika  is  looking  for  their  workplace  rival !  according  to  them,  they  kinda  look  like  brenda  song,  shay  mitchell,  ayça  ayşin  turan,  any  woman(-aligned)  of  colour  and  are  about  thirty  or  so  years  old.   ╱   radha  has  a  coworker  she  has  a  ‘rivalry'  with,    but  basically  the  whole  floor  has  a  betting  pool  abt  how  long  it  would  take  for  the  two  of  them  to  end  up  together  for  the  longest  time  now.   they’re  both  feisty  and  accomplished  and  always  butting  heads  against  each  other,    verbally  sparring  every  time  they  cross  one  another  in  the hallways.   yet,    at  least  on  radha’s  end,    there’s  no  denying  that  there’s  some  thing  brewing.  only  time  will  tell  if  the  pot  will  just  keep  on  getting  bigger  and  bigger  with  no  end  in  sight  or  if  someone  would  eventually  cash  out!  you  can  contact  this  player  @gazedivine.

*       ♡ .      ꒰   oscar  isaac  +  familial   ꒱  a  little  birdie  told  me  balthazar  cordovés  is  looking  for  their  siblings !  according  to  them,  they  kinda  look  like  jade  eshete,  gong  yoo,  jesse  williams,  khadijha  red  thunder,  can  yaman,  any  person  of  colour  and  are  about  twenty-five  to  forty  years  old.   ╱   fernando  and  miriam  cordovés  always  wanted  to  have  several  children  and  so  turned  to  adoption  after  having  balthazar.    with  fernando  being  an  astronaut  and  miriam  being  a  movie  star,    the  large  cordovés  family  snagged  headlines  wherever  they  went  for  their  highly  glamorous  lifestyle    —    not  helped  by  the  fact  that  both  fernando  and  miriam  seemed  to  overindulge  their  children’s  every  whims.    aside  from  that,    literally  everything  else  about  balthazar’s  siblings    —    their  personalities,    occupations,    fcs,    etc    —    is  utp.  you  do  not  contact  this  player  @gazedivine.

*       ♡ .      ꒰   seo  yeji  +  familial   ꒱  a  little  birdie  told  me  michelle  hwang  is  looking  for  their  younger  sibling !  according  to  them,  they  kinda  look  like  any  korean  fc  and  are  about  twenty-three  -  twenty-eight  years  old.   ╱   the  hwang  siblings  were  originally  born  in  atlanta,  georgia,  but  tragically  lost  their  parents  shortly  after  the  birth  of  michelle's  younger  sibling.  the  pair  was  quickly  sent  off  to  live  in  new  york  with  their  maternal  aunt  &  uncle  who  took  them  in.  the  family  was  very  influential,  so  they  never  wanted  for  anything  from  an  outsider  perspective,  but  were  expected  to  live  accordingly  so  as  not  to  “shame"  or  “embarrass"  the  family.  most  details  are  completely  up  for  discussion  because  i'd  like  to  give  as  much  creative  freedom  as  possible,  but  i  definitely  picture  a  them  vs.  the  world  type  beat  because  they've  really  only  ever  had  each  other  you  can  contact  this  player  @solandiz.

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Pokemon Scarlet Livblog! Part 8!

We sort of have my e key functional again. Sort of. sort of.

ah yes we are just outside Alfornada, time to catch some pokemon! like Peach the Klefki. And Zotini the Sinistea. hmmmm are there Gothita here or will I have to breed one of a Gothorita? ...OH WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT???? ESPATHRA?? oops i killd it. Dos it volv from Flittle???

aaaaaa i got attackd by a lokix in a wall...but hy Faxly is evolving! can swap out for Ralts

a quick google tells me I will have much better luck catching a gothorita and breeding a gothita. name her Chitekki.

I think we're ready for the town now. damn the music here is great.

One girl mentions cute pokemon mosaics on the observatory that look like old video games. we're gonna see some old sprites? YES OH MY GOD. AND PRE-GEN 3, AT THAT! MY CHILDHOOD!

ok gym time! Nemona is here ofc. oh we battle this time?

I am very overleveled! Wham wham wham.

seriously why does Nemona always look like she can barely control her tera orb???

Palermo has evolved into Gardevoir, and if Gooble also...yep, so we can use a stone and knock Gallade out of the dex, too! So next we grab Drowzee and....Haunter we need to trade for. Pichu I can do tho!

Okay, Gym Test time! ...exercise? Emotional Spectrum Practice? is this gonna be some kind of mindfulness manifesting thing.....

!!! DENDRA?! ohhhh so I got it wrong before, Dendra and Miriam aren't a couple. They're a polycule with Tulip, is that it? ....oh Dendra honey you had a type disadvantage.

how the fuck did I miss that that shortens to ESP. oh well, that was neat. i guess. Oh! And a battle! ohhhh there is more. and probably another battle. Jupe is overlveled and knows Bite so he's legit just chewing through every psychic.

yah time to chew through Tulip too....damn she's working two phones at once. a very busy lady. hm....i feel weird? something feels odd.

also a bunch of these gym leaders seem like...being GL is almost more Inconvenient assigned burden than anything? really feeling it between Larry and Tulip, somthing's odd about this league.

a slight miscalculation. No matter, Pebbles has things well in hand.

TULIP SAID MY BEAUTY RIVALS HERS???? oh and she does want to poach me. hm.

! RIKA....who is this sassy lost child. who let a child into the e4, i am deeply concerned.

climbs the mountain....hey I can see my house from here! wow what a stunning viw of the region.... eyyyy Hosenose is evolving, I can get this awful thing out of my party. mmkay I don't have a Slakoth so Bounsweet is up next. OOH THRE IS A DRATINI. fuck I accidentally killed it! oh there's another. fuck i killed that on too.

accidentally drowns

hy another dratini! oh thank god i didn't kill it this time. GOT IT name you a Snoo.

DIVES DOWN A SEVERAL HUNDRED FOOT WATERFALL WHEEEEEEE

where the fuck am i

okay w flew back to school but man i am Sleepy i am putting it down for now

Tomorrow we classes, bonding, and ideally beat up a titan and ortega. that will b in this post se you in a line break or two.

otay! I slept good and have nowhere to be for about seven hours.

School! ...I think there's one E4 we havn't met yet? or I just don't remember. Anyway classes

oh god we have finals

fani crying into a sandwich at 3 am as she tries to study

oh hey we're finally learning about the terastal phenomenon

ohhhh so Professor Sada invented Tera Orbs to bring Terastallization both out of Area Zero and into mainstream use. ...Clavell was on the team??? And didn't Clavell used to work with Jaqc?

i smell fodder for some creative work

FUCK first time I've ever got a class question wrong because competitive confuses the fuck out of me. dammit. I wanted a perfect grade in Pokemon, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

OH YEAH I CAN RETAKE A CLASS we'll just pretend that never happened!. All better!

i am renewing my declaration to protect Mr. Saguaro at all costs

let's do some friendship before finals, shall we? awww Miriam. Oh! And I have a Pokedex updat for Jaqc! oh shit next he wants me to complete the dex. Well that was a goal anyway. We're working on it.

that is all of the friendship we hav for now. but now finals.

I apparently got something wrong on th biology finnal??? what??? can i retake? apparently not because I still passed. But thy won't tell me what I got wrong. oooooh that's infuriating.

well i aced everything else

NOW. FRIENDSHIP.

i love how all th teachers are kind of batshit insane. Riafort especially. I'm going after the ruinous pokemon, fuck yeah.

it's totally fine and normal to send a small child to remove the ancient seals on magic beasts of ruin

Grasswither, Firescourge, Groundblight, and Icerend...

oh my god Dendra really IS dating Miriam I am so glad.

you tell 'em, Hassel!

awww pawmi

......wait. wait oh no did he

NOOOO IT'S GALARIAN MEOWTH I HATE IT SO MUCH OH GOD. WHY DOES IT JIGGLE.

oh...so there was no special reason Tyme quit? ...wait. that was a year and a half ago. the same tim Team Star's flashbacks go to. I smell a deeper meaning.

oooh okay so I need sweet herba mistica to bond more with Saguaro.

ANYWAY! to the desert titan! and getting Lizamae the Hippopotas.

uuhhhhh sure is a giant spiky donphan over there. Whatevr, w have Cabrande th Sandile! okay now w ar in the donphan's turf, surely this is fine.

the donphan thing is the titan isn't it. oh boy.

SADA?! Great Tusk....came from the crater.....ohhhh boy so this ISN"T the titan?! Suuupr... Subdu it, huh. How about I catchit?

also onc again how the fuck does Sada always knw where I am and what I'm up to.

oh wait this IS the Titan

this Titan's quest is a bit less dangerous than anticipated.

buuut the titan was tougher than anticipated! woohoo! And Milady is evolving! So is Glimmer! SO I can slap a stone on Glimmer and move on with the dex. after th cutscne

Arven isn't sure Great Tusk is actually a Pokemon, but fls lik h's sen it. You dingus it's in the Scarlet Book. You showd it to me.

anyway time for Feelings. aaaa Mabostiff is healing!

HOLY SHIT I GT GLIDING NOW? oh and Koraidon is "that fellow" not "that brute" now, huh?

mental block....oh no. Oh no. Koraidon's the one who hurt Mabostiff, huh, and is traumatized into not taking battle form, as a result, is that it?

not every herba mistica has to have a huge effect or be effective right away. that's right. surely this isn't a sign that all our drams won't come true...

im gonna mak an ncounter: fire sammich in hops of special tauros...oh i haven't reloaded on ingredients since last gym

whaddaya know it worked right away, wlcom to the family Sombairas. ....if it will stay in the damn ball. FINALLY. Oh and tim to grab a Bonsly from the box.

okay! Ortega is next on my list of shit to do! so, time to fly to Glaceado's Grasp and get lost for a whil. Maybe fall off some cliffs.

excllent, another shot at Frigibax. ...I don't think I hav anything that can ffectivly weaken this thing so just gonna....pray to my ultra balls.

GOT IT you're Bururui.....i see the base. Right down there. Fastest way down is to JUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuummmmp......

I think Pebbles is my best member against fairies?

okay wish me happy landing

??? I took a wrong turn and ended up in Montenevra?

and now Brahti volves into Sudowoodo, I can swap out for something else. Rockruff is up next! I know I've seen midnight Lycanroc around so im gonna assume I need to level this pup up at night.

oh yeah bass need three Pokemon....so what can deal with fairis? Pebbles, of course.... I might need to pull some friends out of the box, though. I need poison and steel. Thankfully Milady has evolved so we can swap her out. For Duchae, so we're still working on the dex! And...hm, maybe grab my Cufant if its level is decent, when Coppel evolves. Which is happening right now! Even though it's daytime! oooh mayb the Lycanrocs aren't version exclusive this time...

okay so w're grabbing Peach to tackle the base with. Not ideal but h.

where the fuck am i??? oops i drowned again....and if you close your yes~ does it almost feel lik nothing changed at all? and if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like I'VE FUCKING BEEN HERE BEFORE'

finally. hi clive. no cassiopeia doesn't seem to have any resentment or animosity toward Team Star.

honestly interesting geography, with this tucked away meadow...

oooh it's as I thought, Ortega is a Rich Kid huh.... Mr. Harrington is his privat tutor. H's so polite....

He's Clavell's predecessor?! Ortega is the mechanic...so he probably souped up the cars. He's the youngest? Oh...

Gommliah the Dedenne joins us.

These Star Barrags aren't gonna get any hardr ever, are they? sigh.

oh man Ortega definitely sounds like a spoiled rich kid.

silly little man. If you're such a Fairy expert, why were you so unprepared for a little pink menac with a great big hammer?

tim for some feelings!

A major incident avoided, but a hitherto unprecedentd scandal, with no records thereof...

Oh....the big boss took responsibility, and disappeared, to protect the others....nooooooo

....eighteen months of study abroad...and those eighteen months are almost up... Studying in Galar. Aaaaaa. And the Deputy deleted all traces of everything...to. Protect himself. Hm.

oh jesus that's kind of extreme....

So the old bullies all bolted and dropped out, and Team Star are the villains of the story? According to Cassiopeia.... What the hell is the truth, here?

Penny is pretty jaded, huh? And she really thiinks the Big Boss was stupid...

FOMANTIS. Purlui. Oh right I can chang out klefki. For Rolycoly! Which near immediatly evolvs into Carkol. Alomomola! Seenach. Ooh, a cave. Not an interesting one.

Gonna try a line break here to see if tumblr stops giving me grief.

Anyway my next goal is...the ice gym. Once again I think Pebbles takes center, steel is going to b a useful type, and Sotero will make great backup. Okay~ W fly to Zapapico! Aftr a quick run to school to do frieendship at Clavell. I'm gonna tell him long locks are cool because I like guys with long hair.

lol

Anyway! Zapapico! Becaus I have been told trying to get to the eighth gym from Montenevra is Annoying. Huh....buncha Pyroar....hav I ever seen a wild Litleo?

OOH this tunnel has a branchd off cave, I wanna see what's over here!

oh shit the lighting here is terrible for making a sandwich

oh snap there's a platforming puzzle. I hav to be at work in an hour.

oh there's MOR cave! where am i going???

found a pokmon center so i should stop and get ready for work.

actually i still have a nnoteworthy amount of time, so more exploring this second Good Cave!

goddamn where am i

oh okay

wait no

AAAAA CLIFF

oh shit it's black back there

okay that's the way i eventually Want To Go so w are back on track

AAAAA THE BLACK PASSAGE LED TO IMMEDIATE CLIFF

help

okay i figurd it out. and now I hav Fomoriel the Litleo. And Nenelii the Snom.

w leave off with me in a battle with an Espathra, our faces about two inches apart because we fell onto the same teeny tiny ledge. My battling Pokmon released somewhere behind me and promptly fell off a cliff.

Surely this will end well.

[ianthedisastrous]

Task 30 -- SWYNRP Character Wishlist: A list of 10+ characters you’d like to see in the RP (for you to play or someone else!)

Patricia “Trixie” Schaal

So, here's the thing. This is a newer skeleton, yes, but also? The want I have for this character to exist is fully selfish and I already have such a strong plot idea here. Just the skeleton alone! Do I absolutely need a mysterious rival/friend to Hiro who he has interacted with online for so long and is absolutely probably a crush, actually showing up and busting him on his sneaky illegal online activities? Yes! Do I need this person to be someone with a crush on him from his online persona? Yes! Do they share the same 'i am so much cooler online' people anxiety? Absolutely! Could it potentially be even funnier if she's a uni student and Hiro had talked about his own college exploits with her, outing himself as lying about basically everything in his life now? Also yes. 

Please someone bring me some weirdness and awkwardness because I truly need more tech characters around with Hiro and this one caught my eye the minute it was posted.

Ichabod Crane

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is, in fact, my favorite old horror story. I absolutely have devoted so much time learning about that story and the history to it and I love it very much. So I need, not want, need, some to pick up the character for three reasons; I have some very big plot ideas with Zero here, Ichabod is just absolutely amazing and making him a writer is such a good choice, and lastly…someone needs to pick him up so I won't. Because I shouldn't, but I want to, very badly, and I want very badly to see what the very creative people here would do with him. There can never be enough spooky characters; I stand by this. 

Miriam Mendelsohn

Again, this is another potential tech kid I want to see for reasons. (if I can't have BH6 characters around I will steal connections with any tech character from any franchise, yes) But even beyond how much I love 'the living a life online, having to adapt to a real social life' vibe (obviously given Hiro), I also love the possibility for diversity! Miriam was easily my favorite character in Turning Red and I can fully see some room for gender diversity here!

James “Zurg” Zetterburg

I loved Lightyear, it's right up there with my favorites now and Zurg's skeleton just brings me such intense pain, in the best ways. I think he would be an excellent addition to the older demographic of town and I love a good sympathetic 'villain' story so I'm so wanting to see him around. Just the desperation of spending your life trying to find the one thing you think will fix everything but the world moved on without caring about what you were trying to do? It's especially poignant with an older character who feels their voice is going unheard. We get that dynamic with some of our teens because it's a very common teenage issue, but it's overlooked that that sort of dismissal can haunt people in any frame of life.  Honestly, I can see so much potential with this character and need to see it play out, so badly. 

Declan Twaddell

This skeleton fascinates me and I love the take on this character! Although it's pretty open-ended as to what sort of Fae he is exactly, since we do have Changelings that are Seelie or Unseelie, the skeleton leans more to the Unseelie side and I'd like to see how that plays out. Or, what I would really like to see is something beyond our High Fey and a totally different sort of Unseelie. There are so many that could be referenced or adapted to the idea and the Fae are so broad; someone please pick up this outstandingly good skeleton before I do because my brain is already working out the possibilities. Help. 

For real tho, this is my favorite recent skeleton and this character needs to exist! Someone! (Also Declan is a great name so there's also that.)

Sigh. I want this one so bad. 

Reginald “Rex” Barnum

I very much feel this guy is just made to be buddies with Isaac. Their Magick and Mundus inclusive classrooms? The vibes with that are just too good. Rex is too good. Someone please bring me this adorable dragon and give Isaac a work buddy he can be a total nerd about how excited he is over his job. This is fully a pitch because I want more Swynlake Primary folks around, yes, so I can have more work friends for Isaac, but come on, really? Rex is great! We need more sunshine around town! Pls? Someone? Plus, he's a dragon!

Marin MacGill

Yet another someone get this character before I do because this concept is just so good. Mirror world? That just sounds like such a great idea and so much fun to play with. Genius. I love strange magic and this is one that strikes me as particularly unique; I would love to see it fleshed out! Also, as always, I love to see more gender diversity and I could see some real potential here to like the idea of mirror world to some of our existing lore relating to non-human Magicks. I could probably ramble on about this too long so I will leave it at someone really should get Martin, it feels like a travesty that they aren't around yet! (Yanno, before I do because I really don't need to be thinking about it.) 

[mothwingedmyths]

FJDHGLJKASDHGLHFDGL

WHY

I DO NOT NEED MORE AUS

I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN I USED TO DRAW OCS AND STUFF AS POKEMON GYM LEADERS AND THEN MY BRAIN JUST. THREW A WANDERSONG POKEMON AU AT ME

HELP

[samedmunds]

My litany thoughts on 1999 cult classic strategy video game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri is a game of the early Civilization variety from the EA golden age and ranks very highly in my top ten. While you probably heard of it if you were playing video games around the turn of the century, I've found members of my age cohort to be tragically unfamiliar with this masterpiece.

Alpha Centauri is an unofficial sequel to Civilization II, a game where the only way to way to win is either completely eliminate all competitors to the last city or, rather more easily, send a spaceship loaded with colonists to the title star system. Shortly after leaving home, the ship loses contact with Earth, which would make sense to a player of Civilization II where the bonuses to science and trade from democracies evaporate when technology ends, upon which point all the AIs revolt and become militant fundamentalist theocracies and climate change rapidly destroys the planet, leaving the player with an endgame that is literally 1984. Either way, when the already strained ship arrives at the Alpha Centauri system an unknown partisan assassinates the captain of the UNS Unity and the population fractures into seven opposing factions before firing the colony pods and exploring an inconveniently hostile planet.

The player starts here, in typical Civ fashion: a scout, settler, and absolutely no technology to speak of. That isn't to say you are a bunch of primitives, all your units start out with some approximation to modern guns and judging by the amazing quotes and wonder videos your society is well beyond the 21st century--more on the story later. The gameplay is incredibly well-balanced in spite of its age and quirks (with the exception of the freight-train progression of Yang). Rapid early expansion as the bountiful Peacekeepers may leave you at serious risk to the relentlessly martial Spartans, who are in turn threatened by the uber-specialized technocratic University--but be careful to underestimate the backwards Lord's Believers, their probe teams will just as quickly rob you of your gains. The Morganites can afford to sparsely defend their home if they're willing to pay off their aggressors, but they'll struggle expand over great swaths of territory without irking civil unrest drone riots from corruption. Meanwhile the Gaian Acolytes can harness the permanently-dangerous mindworms to great effect from the beginning of the game. Yang just... builds. And keeps building, and next thing you know he's conquered the Peacekeepers and turned Miriam into nothing more than a puppet and where are all these cruise missiles are coming from?

In short, the strategic design of this game is nothing less than a work of art, but that isn't to say it doesn't have its anachronisms. The User Interface has taken its inspiration from early versions of Microsoft Word and it rapidly pays off to know the hotkeys. The wonder videos are resolution locked and can sometimes cause problems depending on your display configuration. The unit creation system is simultaneously wonderful and horrendous. It allows me to create special long-range nerve gas bombers that eradicate cities shortly before orbitally-dropping specially-trained garrisons to quash all resistance. On the other hand, if you do not accept the cumbersome slew of computer-generated options, keeping your new weapons systems up to date with your latest technology (especially when playing as Zakharov) rapidly becomes a chore.

That said, there are a variety of features in the game that I think deserve to make a reappearance in the Civ Games. The pick-your-government system is incredibly balanced and fun to roleplay. You can't get away with crimes against humanity when solar storms hit in Civilization VI, nor can you weaponise climate change to flood your rivals cities, or strategically terraform to alter weather patterns and deny your neighbors arable land. At the bare minimum, we should be given the option to nerve staple rebelling cities when our control runs out!

All that said, there is also the story to contend with. One is at first tempted to think that a 4x strategy game with a marked emphasis on replayability would necessarily have a tacked-on story, if one at all. After all, the point is for the player to create it through their actions, not have it spoonfed to them. The majority of what you learn about your world that isn't printed in numbers and small pictures on the mapscreen is through blurbs that accompany each discovered technology or new building. The aforementioned wonders even have their adorable early-CG renderings, sometimes mixed in with some experimental film footage. There are occasional interludes that describe the mindworms and machinations of Planet, but the bulk of the wordage comes from epigrams of the faction leaders and the occasional bit of Nietzsche or Plato. It's so good that I can't help but stop and listen to CEO Nbwadibuke Morgan ramble on about supply chain economics or Sister Miriam's apocalyptic warnings every single time. Take some examples.

Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort. Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present. Men and women work harder knowing their children are safe and close at hand, and never forget that, with children present, parents will defend their home to the death!

--Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"

Or perhaps, a more on the nose one:

"The Academician's private residences shall remain off-limits to the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability, we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this ridiculous witch hunt!

--Fedor Petrov, Vice Provost for University Affairs Accompanies the Retroviral Engineering technology

The game often doesn't directly tell you what Retroviral engineering is, nor does it labor to explain just what having someone nerve stapled means, or the precise function of the Recycling Tanks, but through its quotation it beautifully circumlocutes the world you are shaping--and being shaped by. It really never pulls any of its punches, even if its just on Organic Superlube--great stuff--and I still catch muself quoting it regularly.

Ursula LeGuin once wrote

"Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. 'If this goes on, this is what will happen.' [...] This may explain why many people who read science fiction describe it as 'escapist,' but when questioned further, admit they do not read it because 'it's so depressing.'"

Alpha Centauri is absolutely extrapolative fiction and very firmly rooted in the 1990s and I love it. It was released in the Aaron Sorkin TV, pre-9/11 days where the word Internet was more often than not followed by the words, "is like an information superhighway" and it absolutely no efforts are made to cover it up. The main factions are a cross-section of the New Millenium's hopes and anxieties. A New Russia that went a very different path before Putin took over, a cheerful clan of ruthless Western capitalists hellbent on putting Morganvision on every network set, a group of vaguely Scottish free-love peaceniks hellbent on defending the most-of-the-time incredibly hostile environment. There's the Second-Amendment preaching Spartans or the optimistically-influential UN which, judging by its naming scheme for its bases, seems to dedicate entire cities to bureaucratic agencies. The All-American Christian fundamentalists don't entirely butt heads with the frighteningly powerful Human-Hive (if your country calls their cities names like "Huddling of the People" and "Paradise Swarming" you might not be the good guys). The expansion also brings in more dynamic characters like the Information Wants to be Free! data angels Brian Reynolds very clearly came up with after watching Swordfish and Hackers back to back or the Nautilus Pirates who have no right to be as fun as they are.

The visions of the future are at once both anachronistic and prophetic; while elements may come off as cheese, I see it as a sort of window to the past, a way to examine what was once (and sometimes still is) on our mind. All in all, I give Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 4 out of 5 stars and a definite all-time favorite, warts and all. You can pick it and its expansion up for $6 on Gog.com and play it through a built-in emulator that works for most systems. If you're willing to brave a dated interface and an older-fashioned gameplay style, I would definitely recommend it.

[dammitadolfnomorecake]

Once Bitten, Twice Stupid

Pairing: Klance: Keith Kogane/Lance Mcclain

Tags: Vamp Lance | Klutz Lance | Idiot Keith | Shiro & Keith are adopted brothers | Enemies to idiots( ...I mean) | Enemies to idiots | Mentioned mpreg | Lance isn’t a full vampire( but keith is a full idiot) | Idiot Lance | Paranormal Investigators Pidge & Hunk | Hunk is a scaredy cat | Lance has a black cat name Blue | Fluffy bits | Lance is 44 | Hunk is 24 | Pidge is 22 | Keith is 26 | Shiro is 30 | Bottom Lance! | Vampire dynamics are a bit whack | Smutty bits | Mentions of men making babies | Lance might be a vamp but it turns out he’s useless | Lance’s mum’s name is Miriam | Papi Jorge | Keith is a special flower | Comin’ at ya in bite sized pieces | Fluffy dumbarsery with some tears | Slow build because they’re stupid heads | BOM are hunters | Shiro & Lance are lowkey bros | Keith’s got issues( but he’s got trauma to work through...that’s why he’s repetitive) | Updating tags to include mgreg themes | Not beta-ed | If pining was an Olympic sport these fools would share gold | Langst | Klangst | Hurt and comfort | 

Summary: Lance has lived a pretty simple life since being turned into a vampire. He’s got his house, his cat, and his two besties that have no idea he’s a vampire thanks to his awesome acting skills... He thought he was happy, that things were fine, that he wasn’t drawing too much attention to himself... and then he met Keith.Big, dumb, hot, emo, stupid Keith. Keith that went and flipped his life upside down, because, seriously, Keith really was a special kind of stupid.Vampire Lance x Vampire Hunter Keith

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People sucked. People truly, madly, unequivocally, completely and totally sucked. That’s why Lance had brought his farmhouse outside a the tiny speck of a town barely found on most maps. He hadn’t lead a particularly long life, at least not when compared to others suffering from the same condition as he had, yet in his short time, he’d come to hate people. Don’t get him wrong, he didn’t hate everyone. He had two best friends that meant the world to him, Pidge and Hunk. Both paranormal investigators, and both blind to his unusualness. No. What Lance held issue with was the continued hunting of his kind by the Vatican. His “ancestors” may have bathed in blood, and sacrificed virgins, all that kind of hooky-huha that one reads in scary stories, but before he’d been made a vampire, he liked to think he’d been a happy enough well liked kid, and he liked to think that even these days he still carried an air of that charm whenever he was forced from his home.

Garrison was a tiny town 50kms away from Platt City, founded during the Third World War, the city held plenty of ghostly secrets which had drawn both Hunk and Pidge to the area. Boasting a single Main Street, the highlights of the town were limited to tourist traps and three pubs on the Main Street. It was while studying at Platt University that he’d met both his best friends, twenty years his juniors, yet thanks to his unwanted immortality his body had stopped maturing roughly around the age of 18, making it easy to join the crowded university with a few falsified papers. His intention was to refresh his legal skills in order to keep up with the time’s. With the help of his Mami, he’d moved somewhere small and private, to a dead beat town that accepted weirdness as an everyday occurrence thanks to the tourists that came to see the ghosts of soldiers passed. When he’d been a kid, he’d always dreamed of being an astronaut, yet had chosen law to help those less fortunate in some kind of redemption for his condition. Being immortal meant keeping up with the times, though his house retained much of its old “Victorian” charm. Plus, with Platt being so close, it made for an easy drive up there every three weeks to pick up new blood bags. He was in no way a stereotypical vampire other than his need for blood. He wore glasses, because his eyesight was so good his mind couldn’t process everything he was seeing. This came with the unfortunate side effect of being clumsy as hell. He’d come from a Catholic family, meaning he believed in the presence of God. He’d also never drunk from a human, and never taken a human as pet or a lover like some did. When he wasn’t tagging along with Pidge and Hunk to ensure they didn’t accidentally summon something nasty, most of his time was devoted to providing low cost family legal advise.

Perhaps because he hadn’t been born a vampire, he’d retained many of his human ways. Sunlight didn’t turn him to ashes. Garlic gave him pretty bad stomach cramps and indigestion, which could be fobbed off with the excuse of an allergy. Silver gave him hives, again, something that could be passed off as an allergic reaction. He refused to harm animals for blood. He refused to bite another human, despite the fact a bite wouldn’t turn one anyway. They needed to be drinking his blood for that to happen, and after how he’d been turned, there was no way he’d ever do that to a mortal. He showed up in photographs, though his eyes always came out red instead of their usual bright blue. Mirrors weren’t exactly his friend, but not because he couldn’t see himself, instead because he hated seeing himself. They didn’t magically show his “vampire face”, instead they reminded him he’d never grow old. At the ripe age of 44 he looked 18. Even when he turned 100, he’d still look 18. It was thoroughly depressing. Unlike some vampires he didn’t have a coven, or a pack. His house only held him and his cat Blue, who he’d found as a tiny kitten under the steps leading up to the porch. She’s was black, fluffy, and an absolute princess in his eyes. Other than the general upkeep of his house, blood costs and the very occasional splurge on new clothes, most of the money he made went to spoiling his little princess. He wasn’t sure if Blue was part vampire, her teeth had always been sharp, as kitten he’d dug her out by the scruff of the neck, her tiny little teeth were far too cute as they buried themselves into his hand. She’d never acted like she was, but she also preferred to stay inside and had a personality that rivalled some of the most twisted “Queen” vamps he’d met. Then again, everyone knew cats were temperamental arseholes, so maybe Blue was simply being the snobby cow she was born to be.

All in all, Lance had nothing to complain about in his life. He was happy, content, safe in the knowledge no one about to ruin that anytime soon.

*

Pulling into the parking lot of their usual dive, Sal’s burgers wasn’t the most popular place in town, making it the perfect place to hang out. Located 10kms out of town on the road to Platt City, seemingly an inconvenience the locals, most of Sal’s customers came from tourists needing to stop because their kids needed the toilet. A few of the older locals had dedicated seats at the service bar, and maybe one or twice a week people spiced it up from their usual coffee shops on Main Street, but all in all, the lack of customers is what Lance loved about it. The whole place looked as if the 50’s had left it behind, from its pastel pink exterior to the cheesy green and silver breakfast stools at the c go heck board service bar. From his parking space he could already see Pidge and Hunk waiting for him in their usual booth. Hunk’s head thrown back as he laughed at something, probably at Pidge’s expense.

Cutting the engine, Lance grabbed up his wallet, phone, and gloves. He wasn’t exactly the warmest of people to begin with, but this freezing weather was likely to turn him into an undead popsicle. Already dressed in his favourite khaki jacket, Lance did a quick double check pat down before climbing out his battered blue four wheel drive. She was old, had one too many rust spots and didn’t like starting on days like today, but he’d had her since he’d graduated college the first time around. His Mami was always nagging at him to get rid of her, to use some of his money to buy something better, something that didn’t have roll down windows and a dodgy CD player. His first car was his first real taste of freedom after being turned. They’d been through a lot together, leaving him unable to say goodbye to her. That’d be like cutting him own arm off.

Sal gave him a wave as Lance walked in, the man was a teddy bear under his perpetual 5 o’clock shadow and greasy apron. His policy seemed to be that if someone couldn’t respect him like this, they weren’t worth his respect in return

“Hey’a there, Lance. Pull up a seat and I’ll bring your usual over”

“Thanks, Sal. You’re the best!”

Sal grumbled, Lance pretending he didn’t hear every low word about him. Bringing up that Sal secretly liked him well enough would only leave the old man flustered. For the sake of their “friendship”, he played along with Sal’s mumbling translating into how much of a pain he was. With a bounce in his step, Lance headed over to Pidge and Hunk, throwing himself into the booth as he wrapped his arms around Hunk

“Lance!”

“It’s soooo cold! Warm me up!”

Hunk hugged him back

“I’ve got you, bro! You’re freezing...”

“And you’re late. You were supposed to be here half an hour ago”

Lance sighed dramatically as he rolled his eyes at his favourite tech gremlin

“You know how she gets in cold weather”

“Who? There better not be anything and wrong with my Princess”

“Pidge, you should know by now that when Lance talks like that, he’s talking about his car... right?”

Lance grinned

“Of course I’m talking about my girl. And my Princess is perfectly happy. Blue was curled up under my blankets when I left”

Pidge pouted at him

“You could have brought her with you. I miss my Blue cuddles”

“You could try coming by the house. She was in a mood when I left”

Lance had a backpack carrier for her, but Blue would have frozen her perfect little toe beans out in the weather today. He’d left the heated blanket on a timer for her, unable to keep from spoiling his princess. Pidge’s hand left her laptop keyboard to grab her mug of coffee

“But your house is soooo far away. Anyway, we’re here to talk about work. I was on this forum last night, and someone swore they met a werewolf. Can you imagine? Hunk told me to stop scaring him”

Hunk... Hunk was the biggest ray of sunshine Lance had ever met. The poor man got every single form of motion sickness know, but that never once stopped him. He was terrified of ghost stories, not the best constitution to have when one is a ghost hunter... No, paranormal investigator. He’d been told there was a difference, but honestly it all sounded the same. People loved to think of the unknown, that world existing just out of their everyday mundane lives. Having been in that world for as long as he had been, Lance would happily pay for a boring mundane life

“I wasn’t scared... I’m... cautious”

Pidge clucked at Hunk, Hunk flipping her off. Laughing at him, Pidge wasn’t easily swayed

“You’re a chicken. What about you, Lance? Do you believe in werewolves?”

Werewolves were dicks. He’d bumped into a few over the years, and they’d done nothing to persuade him that they weren’t. The only thing they had going for them was their commitment to their mates and family, other than that, they were testosterone filled morons with claws.

“I don’t know... I feel like they’d all be too stupid to hide their existence”

“Wolves are incredibly smart... Fine, let’s put that one the back burner. Now, about work, there’s a group of tourists that want to come through the old hospital. The visitors centre in town gave me a call about it. Apparently they pay reeeeeeally well”

They’d have to. The old hospital was “cursed”. It’d been converted into a professional centre, but three years after the renovations they closed the building down thanks to the high number of injuries. If there were ghosts there, it was doubtful they’d care to bother with the employees. They all had their own issues. Lance held the opinion it was more a spate of psychosomatic symptoms resulting from the first accident. The building had been handed back over to the town, where it’d sat empty until it reopened as a military museum. With a bored sigh, Lance resigned himself to the fact that Pidge had already gone ahead and decided this was happening. Patting Hunk on the arm, the big man let him go

“When is this all supposed to be happening?”

Pidge’s eyes twinkled with mischief. Lance loved that about her. The top of her head barely came to his chin, but her pint sized stature didn’t stop her. She was always up for a laugh, and frightfully adapt with all things technology based. One of their first conversations came about because Lance had dropped his phone down the stairwell, smashing the screen as it bounced. Seeing her notice pinned up at the campuses cafe, he’d reached out to her with no idea they’d still be besties so many years later. From memory she had an older brother who was as much of a nerd as she was, while her mother and her father both worked in some private sector. He’d met them once over a family dinner Pidge dragged him to, seen them half a dozen times on their front steps as Pidge fled from their parental yelling, and finally been stuck in a very awkward conversation with Pidge’s father, Sam, when he’d found Bae-Bae, the missing family dog who Pidge had brought along on one of their ghost hunts

“Tonight. We’ve got permission to start once the museum shuts for the day. The tour starts at 8, so we’ll go in, set up, have something to eat, then scare the shit out of them at 8”

“You didn’t tell me it’s tonight!”

Poor Hunk. His poor heart had no time to come to terms with this. His worrying only made Pidge smile wider

“Relax, it’ll be fiiiine. Lance is coming with us. He’ll protect you from anything spooky”

“Why do I have to protect you? What are you going to do? Sue the ghosts for giving you the heebie-jeebies? Sorry, that’s not my specialty”

Pidge slid her glasses down to the tip of her nose as she puffed her chest out

“Ha, he, ho, I’m Lance and I have a fancy law degree! Those ghosts better think twice before looking at me”

Lance laughed way too hard, tears leaking out the corners of his eyes, his black frame glasses nearly falling off. Pidge pushing her glasses back into place as Sal brought over Lance’s pancakes and coffee. The man simply placing them down before backing away without a word

“Oh my god, Pidge. That was awful”

“It wasn’t that awful. So, Hunk, you’re in snacks for the night. Lance is in charge of driving, and I’m in charge of the tech. What are we forgetting?”

“That we value our lives and don’t really want to do this?”

Pidge sank lower in her seat, a soft thud coming as Hunk gasped in pain

“What was that for?!”

“Being a chicken”

“I’m not a chicken”

“Are too...”

Picking up his fork, Lance calmly cut in on their fight

“Children, don’t make me seperate the pair of you. Hunk, you’re big, brave, and very manly. Pidge, you’re so fucking short you couldn’t even covertly kick him under the table. If we’re going out, I need to stop by home on the way. Blue needs her wet food for the night, and no, she’s not coming tonight. It’s going to storm as it is”

Crossing her arms, Pidge slumped back in her seat

“You just want to keep my Princess all to yourself. Hunk can leave his car here and we’ll take yours”

“I thought my house was too far away to visit?”

“It’s not when you’re the one driving. Hurry up and finish your pancakes, I wanna go already”

Lance looked down at the forkful he’d been about to load in his mouth, purposely cutting the stack in half to annoy Pidge. Scoffing down Sal’s pancakes was an insult to the man who’d made cigarette ash in pancakes edible. The lack of hygiene may have been another reason why the locals stayed away, but when you’re immortal, standards kind of went out the window

“Laaaaance. Nooo. What are you doing?”

“Enjoying my breakfast. Order another coffee... actually, order some warm milk, I can see you practically vibrating from the amount of caffeine in our bloodstream”

“I’ll have you know that the level of blood in my caffeine stream is just fine. Plus, you’re like the only person in the world who enjoys Sal’s pancakes!”

“Oi! I heard that, Katie Holt!”

Pidge ducked down further in her seat at Sal’s voice. A couple of regulars laughing at her embarrassment, as Pidge blushed

“Now look what you’ve done”

“Not my problem, Pidgeroonie”

“Watch your back, I’m going to get you tonight, then steal away Blue”

Lance shrugged, unfazed by her threat. Tonight would be another lame arse tour under the belt, the most exciting thing they could expect was some jump scare.

[nothingeverlost]

I’m sick with the flu and all I want now that I’ve finished season 3 of Mrs. Maisel is more of your Lenny/Midge headcanons. Would you mind sharing if you have more?

Oh no!  I’m sorry.  Make sure you’re keeping hydrated, darling.

Lenny and Midge (and assorted family members.) Some random history blended in probably regarding Lenny.

Lenny is more of a ‘kid’ person than Midge. I honestly like the fact that Midge is not a mom, that part of her journey is finding out that it’s okay.  She makes sure the kids are taken care of. She loves the kids but she doesn’t really know how to relate to them.  She’ll do better then they’re older, I think.  But Lenny gets them.  He finds them amusing and likes that they’re a lot more honest than most adults.  One time Midge comes home (home being her parent’s new place) and Lenny’s on the floor playing erector set with Ethan and they’re talking about if there should be an elevator inside the building they’re making or if everyone just has to take the stairs.  But in between their play he’s asking questions about school.  And it’s the sort of thing Joel does but nothing that even occurs to her.

Lenny bounced around relatives’ homes when he was a kid, after his parents divorced.  Sometimes he thinks it’s funny, how similar it is; his mom performed on stage too.  He takes Midge to meet her a few times. The first time he doesn’t tell Midge, just introduces her as Sally, the one that gave him a break into comedy.  She’s not nervous at all, like she might be if she knew who Sally was, and they connect first as female entertainers and second as friends of Lenny’s.  It’s not until they’re in the car after that Lenny says “so what did you think?” and midge says she’s fabulous and I’d love to see her again” and Lenny does his little head weave ‘yeah’ thing and says ‘I’ll tell my mother you said so.’ Considering Lenny’s called her his wife and his sister she’s pretty sure it’s a joke and she laughs until he shrugs and says “not quite the nuclear family but it could have been worse.  My father was a shoe clerk, and I could have taken after him.”

The kids spend most of their time with Joel or one of the grandparents.  Once when they have a week of shows in LA they decide to take the kids and spend a couple of days in Disneyland.  Ethan loves the Tomorrowland boats and Autopia.  Esther is scared of the people in costumes and hides behind Lenny’s legs.  He stands next to her on the carousel because she’s scared she’ll fall and he promises to catch her.  Midge whispers that he can catch her anytime.

The first times they have sex it’s erotic and sometimes frantic.  Lenny’s the one that slows it down the first time it’s what you would call making love vs sex.  But they don’t actually talk about it for ages.  

Abe and Lenny love to debate things, but end up on the most side about the issues even when Abe disagrees about content.  Abe will never like the more crude language, but Lenny doesn’t use it in Abe and Rose’s house, out of respect.

Rose always sends Lenny (Leonard) home with food (he’s too skinny Miriam) and fusses about if he has a place to celebrate Passover Seder (tell him to bring the bitter herbs, she says without irony.)  The first time Rose hears him make the joke about not being buried in a Jewish cemetery because his tattoo it makes her cry.  (He’s a good boy and it’s a silly law.)

Now I’m picturing him going to temple with the family and it’s funny.

Also picturing him showing up in the Catskills a week into their summer because he misses Midge.  And misses Abe and Rose, not that he actually says it.  He fails ‘Simon Says’ very deliberately and makes sure to fowl up Midge’s biggest rival.  The next day he’s come up with a version of ‘Lenny says.’  The camp director is not happy.  It’s a hit on his next show, though.  And speaking of shows he and Midge do that midnight ‘blue’ stand up routine together at the club where Abe first saw Midge.

[littlemissnellie]

and finally for the forgotten hollow townies, we have my very own family of vampires: the golgothas! if you’ve been around for a while (and i do mean a while, like 2017/2018 a while) then you might remember/recognise these guys from the story i planned out in 44 pages of detail (yes, i care about them that much), started posting, and then completely abandoned. i might revisit these guys one day if inspiration ever strikes, but for now they can exist as one of my townie makeover households. 

so, as always, if you’d like to have these guys in your game then check out the download link below, and if not then i hope that you enjoy reading their little fact files! 

and if you fancy reading the start of their story, or a more in-depth introduction to them, then i’ll link their page on my blog, because even though it was ages ago, i’m still proud of how much effort i put into creating these guys. 

btw, this will probably be another really long post, because not only do i care about these characters greatly, there’s 6 of them, so that’s a lot of fact files to write. you’ve been warned haha!

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i hope you’re well! <3

victor golgotha:

totally embodies that stoic, ‘man of the house’ attitude - he’s very protective over his family and often feels it’s his responsibility to be the rock that keeps them all grounded (even though that’s really morwenna’s realm of expertise, but knowing that would do nothing for his ego...)

lowkey broke up his entire family by arguing with, and eventually disowning, his brother (mortimer goth), something which his mother never forgave him for, even on her deathbed - his father, walter, stays around so that victor can keep an eye on him, but really walter knows that it’s victor who needs the help

was once quite the romantic; after all, he was willing to give up everything he had to be with morwenna: his love of garlic, his vanity, not to mention his mortality...

morwenna golgotha:

grew up as the third eldest of six children in a large, illustrious family of vampires - she had it all: the pressure to live up to her parents’ ridiculously high expectations, the stuffy older brothers, spoilt younger sisters and even a force engagement in order to grow the family’s status

eventually cracked under all the pressure her family piled on her and broke away from tradition to elope with the unapproved love of her life, leaving her arranged fiancé, vladislaus straud, in the dust - it took a lot of bravery to cut off all the security that came with her family’s reputation and wealth, but now that she has a family and a fortune of her own she’s never looked back

after years of travelling for business, she finally feels that it’s time for the family to return to their roots and find a sense of permanence instead of flitting from hotel suite to hotel suite - their manor has all the gothic glamour she could dream of, but staying in one place makes it all the more likely that her old flame and the family’s largest rival will track them down...

sterling golgotha: 

the eldest golgotha child by all of eight minutes and highly favoured, especially out of him and his twin sister, november, much to her dismay - he does feel guilty about the blatant favouritism sometimes, but he feels the pressure his parents put on him as the eldest, and only male, sibling is punishment enough

has one of those super magnetic personalities - everyone he meets is just drawn to him and that charming smile of his can win over even the toughest of critics - and that’s before his buckets of charisma are brought into the equation

helplessly romantic, like one look and he’ll be head-over-heels, practically drooling at your feet - he’s very trusting of his instincts and is not afraid to act on his impulses, regardless of consequences or the opinions of others - so really, if he feels a spark he’s more than willing to drop everything and propose on the spot

november golgotha:

sterling must have sucked up all the charisma in the womb, because if there’s anything that november struggles with then it’s connecting with others - after a lifetime of living in her brother’s shadow she’s never been able to have her voice be heard over his, so after a while she gave up trying and hasn’t opened up to a single soul since

forever bitter about being the ‘forgotten middle child’ and has practically resigned herself to a life of resentment and jealousy - her melancholy attitude isn’t exactly helping to change anyone’s mind either; her disposition is anything but sunny, so more often than not she sits stewing in her own misery instead of, you know, actually talking to anyone

and before you ask, no, her birthday is not in november - her name is just one more thing for her to sulk about - her parents clearly had their favourites picked from the start: one a type of precious metal, one a symbol for angels... and then there’s gloomy little november...

halo golgotha:

baby of the household and is spoilt to no end by her parents - they weren’t sure they’d have any more children after they had the twins, so when halo came along to be the daughter they never felt they had after neglecting november for so many years, little halo was a blessing (hence the name)

as much as she likes the attention from her parents, it can get a little much sometimes, which is why she often finds herself gravitating towards her grandfather, walter - she absolutely adores him and all his stories, but she loves his cheerful spirit more than anything else; he always knows how to cheer her up or make her laugh with his jokes and stories, not to mention the pranks they set up for the other members of the household...

being showered with love and affection from the moment she took her first breath has meant that she’s lived a rather sheltered life - her hand has been held every step of the way, so she’s never learned to make mistakes, or how to grow from them - come to think of it, halo’s never really had the opportunity to learn who she is in her own right...but she can’t just stay her parents’ little angel forever, that has to change eventually

walter golgotha:

the only mortal in the household - although it was quite the shock when his son broke the news that he’d eloped and was undergoing the transformation process of becoming a vampire, walter has always been extremely level-headed and wasn’t about to let that change, especially with such fragile family dynamic already

more often than not, he’s the only voice of reason too - everyone else has such strong personalities and intense emotions that it doesn’t take much for situations to get out of hand, so his calming presence is vital for ensuring that the chaos levels stay relatively low - maybe that’s why he’s stuck around with them for so long

very young at heart - he’s a total goofball and is always joking around with halo, something his much more sombre son would never consider - he and his late wife, miriam, were always so free-spirited and cheerful, it’s hard to understand how attitudes could shift so dramatically from one generation to the next - but, then again, he’s not a vampire, so what does he know?

[miriamhqs-old]

 hi  hello, i  am  sooo excited for this group !!  im  lauryn and  i  kinda  suck  at  introductions  so  try  not  to  judge .  i’ll be using my muse miriam,  and  if  you  want  to  get  to  know  her  better,  keep  on  reading  .  and,  if  you  want  to  plot  just  heart  this  .

i. beginning.

full  name  : miriam vesper santos .

nicknames  : mir . 

age  :  twenty  two  .

gender  /  pronouns  : she  and  her  .

sexuality  :  bisexual.

hometown  :  beverly  hills,  california  .

faceclaim  : madison  beer  .

fun  facts   ::   has  a  two  year  old pomeranian  /  maltese  mix named cub .  always  has  her  toes  painted  .  hates  the  gym  more  than  anything,  the  only  way  she  stays  in  shape  is  through  the  help  of  a  personal  trainer  .  constantly  changing  her  hair  to  the  point  where  her  hairdresser  probably  hates  her .  refuses  to  let  her  food  touch  .   the  ultimate  flake,  and  if  she  even  arrives,  expect  it  to  be  at  least  fifteen  minutes  wait .  has  an  obsession  with  luxury  handbags  .   has  a  TERRIBLE  sailor’s  mouth  .

ii . family life .

miriam  was  born  into  a wealthy and  affluent  family, her  privilege  apparent  from  the  start .  her  father,  a distinguished  director,  and  her  mother,  a  heiress  a  chain  of  luxury  hotels  across  the  world. the  brunette  was  born  into  an   almost   picture  perfect  life. 

tragedy  struck  before  the  young  girl  could  even  know  the  woman  that  was  her  mother . a  fatal  accident  that  costed  miriam’s  mother  her  life  and  was  the  start  of  the problems  that  the santos  family  would  face .  

after  the   accident,  the  relationship  between  the  father  and  daughter  was  strained  beyond repair  .   her  father  would  be  gone  for  days  at  a  time ,  leaving  a  young  miriam  under  the  supervision  of  countless  nanny’s  .  as  the  brunette  grew  up  ,  the  attention she  hadn’t  received  from  her  father  was sought  for  in  other  people.

it  wasn’t  until  two  lines  changed  the  brunette’s  entire  world  .  positive  .  miriam  was  pregnant  at  twenty  one,  barely  able  to  take  care  of  herself,  let  alone  a  child  of  her  own  .  the  brunette  contemplated  on  the  options  she  had  when  it  came  to  the  predicament  she  was  in,  but  a  knowing  feeling  inside  of  the  girl  told  her  that  being  a  mother  was  what  she  needed  .  somebody  to  give  the  love  and  affection  she  was  deprived  of  as  a  child.

iii . personality .

a  chatter  bug  that  hides  vulnerability  with  high spirits  and  teasing  .   impulsiveness  that  jumps  out  at  the  worst  times  ,  and  her carelessness  mixed  with  pettiness  that  can  bring  out  the  worst  in the  brunette  . constantly  feels replaceable  and  easily  disposable  , makes  her  fear  letting  anyone  get  too  close to her  .   silly  and sometimes  ditzy  .  has  a  bad  habit  of  letting  people  back  in, when they  don’t  deserve  it  or  her  .   has  a  softness  inside  of  her  that’s desperate  to  escape  from  within  .   will  save  you  before   she  ever  saves  herself  .  holds  on  to  people  a  little  too  tight  , because  she  hates  going  through  the  process  of  letting  people  in all  over  again  .  has  a  hard  time  letting  go  of  the  past  .  always  just  wants  to  feel  like  she’s  worth  making  sacrifices  for  .

iv . connections .

the  childhood  friend, . . . 

the  best  friend  /  platonic  soulmate, . . .

the  drinking  buddy, . . .

the  on  and  off  fling, . . .

other  things  i  want  to  include  :  enemies  to  friends,  friends  to  enemies,  friends  to  lovers,  ex  best  friend,  rivals  (  whether  just  in  the  media  or  not  ), etc  . . .