when the piece of media explores themes of humanity versus monstrosity. on one hand, it’s “how far can I go before I am just as monstrous as those I deem my enemies? the further i go the more certain i am that i’ve crossed a line. am I even human anymore?” and on the other hand it’s “was the monster always a monster? what makes it evil, what makes it inhuman? what has it done that i fear it?”
in both cases it is “i am looking at the creature I am fighting and i see a mirror of myself. was i always this way? was it always this way?”
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The LAYERS needed in a modern/human Dreamling au. Some level of Endless family dysfunction, obviously. Hob's family can be be dead or not, it's all good. Are they old enough to have individually gained the awareness they are off-puttingly intense and should hide it a bit at first, or still in that "no, why would I need to Elsa this" stage?
Option A is both of them trying to play it cool, like "don't scare him off" except they so badly want to go from zero to sixty.
(Death and Desire have ruthlessly drilled Dream with flashcards about how to react appropriately in situations.
Desire: it's your one-month anniversary, what do you do?
Dream: [hesitantly] NOT propose?
Desire and Death, conferring, because that's technically correct but the delivery was suspect.
Death, encouragingly: Good start. And?
Dream: a nice dinner and maybe a walk?
Desire: well done!
Death: and for a three-month anniversary?
Dream: give them a key to my flat.
Desire: [airhorn] NO. RED CARD.)
Option B makes them the classic anecdotal "my grandparents got engaged within seven days of meeting each other and still are happy together".
(Death, rubbing her temples: so you met this guy--
Dream: Hob
Death: -- Hob, and within 1 day you gave notice to the Registrar's Office and figured out the best day to get married. And Hob agreed to this?
Dream: NO.
Death: oh thank go-
Dream: Hob SUGGESTED this.
Death: . . .
Dream: are you going to be a witness or not?
Death, 29 days later in the Registrar's Office, to Hob's witness: Is he sane?
Johanna Constantine, drinking heavily from a large flask: unfortunately yes, by all legal definitions.
Death: fuck
Johanna: [passing the flask over] if your brother's even a tenth as intense as Hob, they'll be fine. Probably.
Death, brightening: Is Hob that bad?
Johanna: You know how sometimes you meet somebody and think "oof, they're a bit much, best give them a wide berth"?
Death: yeah.
Johanna: Hob's like a camouflaged hole in the ground of muchness. Except he's done the hole up all nice and he knows that sometimes you just want to be left alone in the hole to sulk and rattle the spikes for a bit, and occasionally get a F&M hamper tossed in.
Death: [hmmmmmmm'ing approvingly]
Johanna, morose: the bastard.
In the background, Hob and Dream are pressing their foreheads together and basking in each other's presence)
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I read this and completely forgot they were in the 80s because older ppl still act like this-
Also the fear on each of their respective faces is hilarious. Like the horror on Ibe and Max's??? The surprise on Ash's and Eijis??? Incredible.
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Since apparently this guy is the easiest to draw for my brain, I present more Shinomori for @fractiflos' Middle May
Practice sketches and things Ive done with him in it under the cut
i also wanted to put some of my headcanons for him or stuff that just made sense to me
Hikage
birthday is in September, if I had to pick a day, I'd say the third.
Huge history buff, he strikes me as the type of guy that just knows so many strangely specific dates.
Also, you can kind of see it in the expressions practice but I HC his hair color was like light brown as a kid and just got lighter as he grew up. then he got OFA which rapid aged him and it didn't stop getting lighter until his hair was white. :/
Orphaned, I imagine his parents were killed in a protest which led to him joining Bruce and Kudou's resistance group.
because he used to work with Bruce I genuinely believe this man knows how to handle even the most bizarre of weaponry. like someone's confused on how to load a rocket launcher or throw a dagger and he's just ready to help. <-this for sure freaked out Banjo the first time he complained about not knowing how to use a gun and Hikage just pulled one out and did an impromptu lesson.
He knows, and is good at Widdling.
Cats v. Dogs argument comes up this man replies with squirrels or crows.
This may just be me projecting but, he's AroAce for sure. Man lives in the forest doesn't want to have to talk to anyone or have any romantic relationships? Be less relatable my guy.
bro has like a bunch of craft magazines that he just goes through. he has a dealer for this so he doesn't have to leave the forest.
He strikes me as an action movie fan
love languages would be words of affirmation, and gifts.
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I remember what solidified the frusan ship for me and when i got completely sucked in is when i watched island's awhile ago and like??? susan??? you lovable big squishy orchid,,,
gurl...U JUST HAVE A FRAME OF UR BESTIE NEXT TO U AT ALL TIMES#??$?$?$
ITS NOT EVEN LIKE,,,SUSAN AND HER LIKE "haha this was a amazing day let's take a pic together :]" NO????
GURL TOOK A PHOTO OF HER BESTIE, PRINTED THAY SHIT OUT, FRAMED IT, AND LAYS NEXT TO IT ALL THE TIME FOR ID ASSUME COMFORT EVEN WHEN SHE'S GONE,,,,
a girl in LOVE. NO EXPECTATIONS!!!!
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could you write something about choso? anything, im just a sucker for him 😭
Hihii lovely, I've written some stuff for Choso n' you can find them in my masterlist right here <33 Dw tho I deffo will be writing more for him in the future 🤗
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Guys I wanna visit Mexico so BAD like I've never been and it'd be such an expensive trip and I don't even know what I'd do but like. I wanna go to Teotihuacan
But also I think Anonymous J would kill me if I went anywhere other than Chile tbh so maybe I should just stay in the states lol
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