#off spinoff kin

[caliginouscreature]

compilation of phone pics of tentative Zaph-self-portraits

[darishima]

What do you like about Midari? I rarely find people who love the show :D

ohh boy that's hard to answer... is it a copout if i say everything? it probably is so i'm gonna try to pin down all the reasons why. sorry it'll probably be long and a bit rambley 😭 thank you so so much for asking though i have been WAITING for the opportunity to talk about midari

*tw for discussion of self harm, suicidal thoughts, and general mental illness (obviously, cause this is midari we're talking about)*

first of all, i think a lot of it is because i heavily relate to her. the feeling of never being fulfilled or truly happy and turning to pain and suicide as the apparent answer... it really hits home, and back when i watched kakegurui for the first time (in 2019) i'd never really seen any other piece of media that talked about it so openly.

that, specifically, is one of the things i find most interesting about her- the fact that (prior to meeting kirari and losing her eye) she'd never been "truly happy." and the fact that (self-inflicted) pain (or the risk of pain/death, specifically) is what finally made her feel something is so deeply sad. i feel like a lot of people brush her off as a "crazy yandere" or whatever, which is frustrating because she's so much more than that (and even her ""yandere"" side, the way she feels about yumeko, is just because she wants yumeko to kill her; it's not the typical yandere portrayal, like yuno gasai or the like, because it's not driven by romantic interest- at least, not fully). she's clearly struggling (the bandages she wears on her arms seem much too convenient to be there for any reason other than covering self harm scars/injuries), but she still has such a confident and "gives-no-fucks" attitude that i find genuinely admirable. she's really smart (she's a amazing gambler, has good grades, and i've always gotten the impression that she could easily be the top of her class, maybe even rival sayaka, if she ever bothered to study), very perceptive (as shown when she immediately saw through yumemi's idol façade and sayaka's intelligence), and also genuinely caring, like when she saves ayame nureba from suicide in the kakegurui midari manga (granted, she does it in a distinctly midari-esque way, but she still saves her life).

a lesser seen side of her, though, is that she's actually kind of... a adorable weirdo? it's most often shown in kakkokari (a manga spinoff of kakegurui that not many people have read, because it's never gotten an official english release/translation). like, she refers to animals with the -san honorific (except giraffes, she doesn't like giraffes),

cleans up trash around the school,

knows yumemi's songs by heart,

orders cutesy dishes at a coffee shop,

and when she gets 3rd place in a "which student council member do you want to be your girlfriend" competition, she's surprised and embarrassed (i'd vote for her in a heartbeat btw)

she's just so skrunkly yknow?? and there's dozens more moments like this from kakkokari, like when she wears a kigurumi hoodie like runa's, or when she gets hiccups and convinces kirari to choke her, or when she turns out to be surprisingly worried about how other people perceive her, and asks sayaka to teach her how to fix her "vulgarity" (and then gets told by kirari that she seems "normal," and immediately holds her gun to her head lmao).

TLDR; she's someone who is struggling a lot, and has been for years, but still manages to be smart, perceptive, confident, and kind. the issues she has with her mental health are things i've struggled with too, and really relate to (i'm a midari kin, after all), and god i just want to give her a hug so bad. and she's also adorable and goofy and weird in all the best ways, and she means the world to me <3

sorry that was SO long lmao... i had to omit a lot of character analysis from kakegurui midari (a manga spin off about her pre-canon, in which she has a girlfriend) but i hope i answered your question well enough!! thank you for asking, and giving me an excuse to ramble about midari :))

[gluttonyedits]

day 1 for @llocket: a character that reminds you of one of your favourite songs Toshiro Kasukabe moodboard based off the song Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx

Okay it isn’t like one of my favourite favourites, but it was one of my favourite songs as a kid and I couldn’t think of a character for my current favourites that wasn’t directly linked to one of my kin canons. So um. Have a Toshiro! P5T needs love as a spinoff.

[whenjustdancehitsdifferent]

Need to take my mind off of some things so I'm gonna go on one of my unhinged rambles-

Followers of my fic series may remember the All I Want For Christmas Is You beta coach, of course - who "I" named Lindovica. I didn't actually name her that of course, I had to poke around on name sites trying to figure out wtf her name was when I first remembered her, because all I knew was a couple syllables and that it was unusual. "Lindovica" isn't even a real name, but I saw the similar name Ludovica and put the pieces together from there.

Initially, I panicked, because the song I remembered her from was non-canon...well not completely non-canon, it's in one of the kids' spinoff games, but I wasn't sure how well that'd fly if I ever wanted to put her in my fics. I was relieved beyond words when I discovered All I Want For Christmas, because even a beta routine was easier to explain than a Disney Party song.

When I played Starships on Just Dance Happy Hour for the first time, I instantly knew she looked familiar. The next day, I went to play it right away, and when I looked the coach in the eyes, I realized it was her. There was nothing about her that looked remotely like Lindovica. But when I saw her smile and her energy, it clicked..I'll never forget the baffled feeling I got when I realized "wait...is that...Lindovica?? Girl you look amazing but what the hell happened??". I later referenced this moment with Mihaly's reaction in the fic:

Everything seemed to be going fine memory-wise. It clicked for me that she was a magical girl, that's why she looked like that, and I thought that was that. I wasn't the happiest when I realized what coach was the villain she fought, but that's a story for another time.

Everything fell apart when I played D.A.N.C.E. for the first time. I'd identified that sure, she was the coach. She doesn't look THAT far off from All I Want For Christmas, so I thought everything was fine. I just for the life of me couldn't stop feeling like something was missing...

Eventually, I made a playlist on JD22 of all the songs she was in. But I still got the feeling something was missing. Maybe something more recent? I'd mostly found her in the older games. And a couple days later...I unfortunately got the answer to my question. I watched an edit of the Bring Me To Life map, and I saw that at least for a split second, Liv's hair spun around in a way that looked JUST like D.A.N.C.E....and I freaked the fuck out. That's an understatement, I genuinely cannot think of anything kin related that's given me that kind of inconsolable visceral reaction. That's when I put things together...

Her hair looks a little like What You Waiting For, and coincidentally she was in the clock at one point too. Pretty much every routine with a clock to any degree was (Tik Tok, Miss Understood, hell even Maniac's got some gear cogs of suspicious origin in the corners). D.A.N.C.E. and Bring Me To Life both have that streak in their hair, almost the exact SAME hair, just darker...

And then I realized.

Her name is LIndoVica. That's what "Liv" was short for.

It's been months now, but it still occupies such a portion of my mind because it's CRAZY! And that, mutuals, is the context of that image I posted on my main the other day...

Now, would it be a little too much at once if I also said she grew out her hair and...

[lovedtogekiss]

valve fictive/kin server

https://discord.gg/b7uxRx2VGY

are you a kin and/or fictive from a valve game? howabout a spinoff or au of a valve game, like emesis blue or hlvrai?

come join our server and spin around in a circle with us

yes i do mean any valve game or spinoff. any of them. come spin with us

doubles/endos/factives friendly exclusionists fuck off etc

[dysphoricnegan]

The tw.d. show and spinoffs are a dumpster fire, especially since writing off ca.rl, which was such a slap to the series and fans and story itself. Especially to those who are TW.D. kin. Nobody is more pissed about that than we are.

I'm still watching, but it's all just weird fanfic to me. And I have to think of it that way or it just drives me fucking mad. Especially dead city. It's all just super bizarre crackfic. There's no point in arguing about it anymore, what's done is done and the crackfic is kind of interesting

[o0mangomadness0o]

Chello! Call me Mango, but I also use Angelo, Mikey, and Larry!

I am an autistic trans man OBSESSED with the gay turtles, plus I’m a Rise Mikey kinnie~ This blog is for fictionkin things, plus anything I don’t want on my main (that’s a secret ;D). I’m also a Larry Johnson kin!

Additionally, I am a co-creator of the Moonflowercare comic, an AU/spinoff of Cometcare which features me and @dragonfruitghosts OCs. Comic can be found at @moonflowercare!

If you DO NOT SUPPORT FICTIONKIN, get off my blog please.

Thank youuuuu!

::: Mango :::

[daydreaming-memories]

[from biscord, probably will do the sin stuff l8r]

[Patch: 5 times about crow]

doing like 5 important things in my mind, this is for Crow

1. Eldritch being who can flip his shit on a dime, was created from a mad science experiment

2. He has a dead brother ghost (clark) who is practially older than him but often mistaken as his younger brother.

3. He is mainly MLM/Masc attracted, and often calls himself gay though he has had some feelings for those who weren't masc.

4. Can and will flip his switch at any time at the smallest thing, so he bfs usually hang with him to calm him down.

5. This man has like 15 boyfriends and his polycule just keeps growing.

6. Extra fact, he's one of the many ocs that have a bunch of spinoff ocs off of. and ngl I think he was originally inspired off Castiel.

[Justin: stuff about cell]

Cell was an experiment by godly beings to create the perfect ruler for his species, but was deemed faulty after various inhumane tests.

Luvin, X, Nyanxie and Gorgus were also apart of these tests though only Nyanxie and Gorgus really remember the times and also Cell.

He loves barbie movies and is shit at makeup, he taught himself. also painted his abuser's vechile BRIGHT SPARKLY barbie pink after stealing it.

if i were to give him 2 kins, Count Bleck from super paper mario and Megamind from megamind

[Justin: Limboheart info n grover insp]

FOR like absolutely no reason I got the grover inspiration, think I had recently heard more news about the new live action series based on percy jackson.

And I think it was also as a counter of his counterpart being a lion who was actually really tame/docile and limboheart was very aggressive and just violent.

but both are fucking insane ngl. Lionheart (counterpart) literally took a gunshot to the ankle and kept moving, and then basically seduced all the major crime bosses.

While limboheart is just a salty man because he hasn't confessed to his crushes.

[Patch 5 things baout clark]

1. Clark died from a deadly allergic reaction to cats, he still loves cats as a ghost and does not care

2. He looks like 10 usually, but he's actually an adult. It just feels weird to him generally to shapeshift into an adult, and when he does it's usually like his idol who has a ton of cats.

3. Clark will scare the living daylights out of anyone who hurts his family or those he considers family, but is also a prankster.

4. He loves being a trickster, and candy, even though he can't really eat he can and will steal candy.

5. He refuses to go into anyone's body, even if it's a robot or his own corpse. He doesn't like the feeling

6. If he didn't die, he would embarrass the hell out of his brother Crow around the other's crushes and probably would get oftenly in fights but in like a sibling way.

additions, Crow has a fondness for birds and is known for his pet Lucky the yellow and peach lovebird

And crow and clark 100% would adopt like any abandoned pet they find.

[Patch 5 for franmy]

1. He's gone through many changes, but he's half corruptin ; type of vaguely object species that can shapeshift into liquid and disappear in the shadows, and half ashen ; the object species of ashopia, in the original concept he was a petty man who didn't care about like anyone and was a spy, but now he blorbo

2. He has some ninetails/Kumiho inspiration, just like generally trickster fox spirit, also he has tattoos.

3. ITS not shown in the art with philip n pico but he actually has splatters/veritgo on his legs and arms plus body/face, two on his legs when looked straight on look like a heart together.

4. He has like 2 exes who are poptarts/strudels, which weren't the best. The one was with a woman who was honestly really toxic and borderline abusive to him, and the other was another poptart who had a chunk missing from her head. The two were engaged but things were broken up due to Razzy (poptart) originally using him for information on the corruptins, though they're slowly mending things.

5. He loves the shadows and collecting shells, and used to live in a cave though has upgraded to a house with the poly gang.

6. The ice powers were inspired by ninjago, and there's even an art piece inspired by the old ninjago intro, though there was no one inplace for Wu or Lloyd. But Franny was Zane which inspired his ice powers.

7. franny really hasn't had any major spinoff ocs, him and pico generally being tied in the main 5 poly gang members for having the least amount of characters that were spinoffs of these two. Also franny was the (unofficial) ashopia rep for poly gang, and Pico was the shape people rep, Retired was the l0s rep, Allie W was the Mlp ng rep (an old group).

[2018-01-20]

i feel like the anime would give me a lot of inspo because koko and inui will appear in today’s ep ncjfjckfk.

ooh a nagi kisser ohoho. idk if you know but nagi has a spinoff called episode nagi (but reo’s more like mc lmaooo). you should read it if you haven’t! bachira is so cute and he makes me really happy. rin took some time to grow on me; u20 is really his arc. he popped off.

my favorites are kunigami and reo! ok ngl fell in love with kunigami right away because of his intro and a little bit of looking like bakugo & ichigo from bleach lol. but what caught me off guard is that he’s actually a nice guy (but in the manga bllk broke him ummm that’s all i can say).

reo took some time to have him grow on me because of how he was in the beginning but i’m in love with his character development in the manga UGHHH he’s so cool. i took a kin quiz and got reo and now that i caught up with the manga i was like oh god i’m like him fr. also when he ties up his hair… losing it over the bare minimum… why am i like this.

yep, a mini series! i’m writing the synopsis as we speak. it’s taking me a day to write it all down because words are stupid lol. i can tag you if you’d like 👀👀👀.

last week i bought the manga! i went book shopping with an irl who started buying manga after lockdown. at my bookstore vol 2 wasn’t in stock so it’s only 1, 3, and 4 but they weren’t on the shelves, so i had to ask the cashier for them. she sent someone in the back to check on them and that person came back with all volumes AHHH i won that day.

i showed my irl bllk and she likes rin (her type is mean basically jgjfjgjfj).

UR RIGHT I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT TR IS BACK SJNFNF

omg if that’s so then im definitely gonna check it out 😳 i love nagi sm and the fact that u are a reo kisser WAAAHAHFBNFN I LOVE USSS !!! i definitely see what you mean w kunigami and the fact he’s so nice and gentle omfg he deserves so much love 😭 and reo character development you say? 👀👀 im loving what im hearing HEHE

PLEASE DO TAG ME ARGH I LOVE EVERYTHING U MAKE 🥹🥹 u writing blue lock rn is inspiring me to open my drafts and type out all of my brainrot LOL. ALSO THE MANGA LOOKS SO GOOD DJFMNSNF ILL GET THEM ONE DAY ᕦ⁠(⁠ò⁠_⁠ó⁠ˇ⁠)⁠ᕤ

[fictionkinfessions]

I’m not comfortable saying what my source is/who I am, but I just got a memory in the weirdest fucking way possible. I kin a robot, and I’ve always known that humans didn’t treat us very well, but didn’t remember the full nature of our relationship. I suddenly got intense kinfeelings when I heard someone talking about the idea of being owned by someone, being their property. It gave me a flashback I couldn’t really place, and a twist in my gut. I knew that wording was incredibly familiar to me. I remembered how it felt hearing myself described that way.

Do you want to know where I heard that intense quote about slavery? It was in the fucking TomSka video essay about Tugs, the Thomas the Tank Engine spinoff.

That might not be weird, if I was someone from Tugs, or from Thomas the Tank Engine. Or even something similar to that! There are a lot of children’s shows starring talking vehicles. That connection might make some sense!

BUT I’M NOT. I’M A HUMANOID ANDROID. And God, I wish I felt comfortable saying my source, so I could explain how funny this connection is!

To draw a comparison: Imagine if a video essay about Thomas the Tank Engine gave me an intense Detroit Become Human kin memory. And also, that video essay was by the guy who made ASDFmovies.

It’s just a very VERY weird connection for my subconscious to make. I mean, I’m glad to have more memories though, honestly? I have been TRYING to remember this for a while. So, thank you, Mr. TomSka, for what I am positive was never an intended or even imagined effect of your Tugs video. Pop off I guess.

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[caliginouscreature]

being fictionkin + having an extremely obscure source + also being new to accepting being alterhuman in general has been p “Weird”, it’s like... okay... I’ve realized this part of myself... now what...

It’s good that ppl no longer tout stuff like kindating and canon calls as the goals and paths you Have To Follow when you’re fictionkin, and how dumb the prevalence of “no doubles” could be, but also maaaan kin communities on tumblr now just feel so much smaller... feels like there’s fewer options for ppl around my own (physical) age to talk to and learn from, and that pool is only SMALLER with how niche-within-a-niche my source is...

lot of my feelings and issues are like... they boil down to “yay, I’m figuring myself out better! but what do I do?”  A lot of folks go to lengths to “feel closer” to their kintypes and sources, but that’s a real challenge when there’s almost nothing out there about your ’type and source, including other fictionkin... feeling thoughtful and a tad isolated I suppose

[sanjosenewshq]

The Greens To Assume The Throne?

All these time jumps are lastly paying off as followers are on the sting of the official starting of the ‘Dance of the Dragons.’ The final episode noticed Princess, Rhaenyra returning to Dragon stone after see-off her sons. She promised Alicent to return to the King’s Touchdown quickly on the dragon’s again. However with Alicent misunderstanding King’s dying phrases, issues is not going to be the identical when she arrives. So, name on to your bannermen and fortify your castles, as we’re about to debate Home Of The Dragon Episode 9. Home Of The Dragon Episode 9: Preview And Plot Particulars With simply two episodes remaining within the season, issues are certain to get extra intense within the penultimate episode. The ninth episode is titled The Inexperienced Council. HBO has shared a promo for the episode, which confirms that the ailing King Viserys will ultimately die within the subsequent episode, formally marking the beginning of ‘Dance of the Dragons.  The promo reveals that Alicent and Otto will attempt to conceal the information of Viserys’ loss of life from Rhaenyra. In her absence, The Greens will attempt to reap the benefits of the state of affairs and try to ascend Aegon II to the Iron Throne. The promo hints at a whole lot of chaos unfolding in King’s Touchdown after the demise of Viserys.  What Occurred In Home Of The Dragon Episode 8? The eighth episode of Home of the Dragon was titled ‘Lord Of The Tides’. The title refers back to the lord of Driftmark fort. At first, we study that the Sea Snake has been severely injured throughout the battle on the StepStone. There are probabilities that he might not survive. Consequently, his brother, Vaemond Velaryon, makes his declare for the Driftmark as he believes that Rhaenyra’s sons are illegitimate.  Vaemond makes the plea for his declare on the Driftmark earlier than the crown. After studying that her son’s declare to Drfitmark has been challenged, Daemon and Rhaenyra head to the Capital. In King’s Touchdown, followers see King Viserys’ well being has gone worse. He’s unable to conduct the courtroom. Thus, Otto Hightower is making selections on his behalf. Vaemond proposed his allegiance to the Greens in trade for him getting Driftmark, and Otto appeared fairly satisfied concerning the commerce. Nevertheless, to the shock of everybody, an ailing King Viserys, makes his solution to the courtroom to settle the matter for himself. In the meantime, Corlys Velaryon’s spouse, Rhaenys, sides with the Rhaenyra, and Driftmark fort is given to Lucerys Velaryon. Consequently, Vaemond loses his mood and calls Princess’ sons bastards leading to Daemon beheading him.  Later On, Viserys manage a supper for his total household as a final try to fix their variations. On the feast, issues appeared to be going effectively till Aemon made a snarky remark concerning the ‘Robust’ boys breaking out a battle among the many kin. In the meantime, the episode ended with a jaw-dropping twist as Alicent misunderstood Viseyrs whereas he was speaking about Aegon the conquerer.  Home Of The Dragon Episode 9: Launch Date & The place To Watch The best episode of the Recreation Of Thrones spinoff sequence Home of The Dragon premiered on HBO on October 9, 2022. In the meantime, because the present follows a weekly episode format, the ninth episode of the present is scheduled to premiere on October 16, 2022. Followers can catch the printed of Home Of The Dragon Episode 9 at 9 Pm Est on HBO. Furthermore, the most recent episode will even be out there to stream on HBO MAX.   Additionally Learn Home of the Dragon: Recreation of Thrones Prequel Begins Casting, All Particulars! Originally published at San Jose News HQ

[nokki]

i’m going fucking feral we’ve got:

1. an spn prequel spinoff produced by jensen “i hate the finale/rightfully bitter dean kin” ackles and resident casgirl danneel (ft. j2 public breakup)

2. misha doing wonderfully clinically insane things, such as canonizing deancas in so many different ways it feels like the mystery box segment of masterchef.

3. misha releasing poetry.

4. deancas ao3 100k landmark how tf-

5. good omens s2 (never put neil gaiman and misha in one room the chaotic energy might just collapse the earth’s gravitational field)

6. doctor who? yes.

7. sherlock season 5 (mhmm this queerbait gonna be fuckignh deliciousz)

and to top it all off:

the teen wolf movie.

haha FUCK?

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[anoriathdunadan]

Where the Stars are F***ing Strange

Pairing: Aragorn-Estel-Strider / OC Rating: Explicit Genre: Modern OC in Middle-earth, reader insert, gender of OC not specified, 25th Gray Companion, copious references to The Princess Bride (because why not?) Warnings: so much swearing, character death, canon levels of xenophobia and violence, feral chickens Summary: Plucked like a fish out of water, you try to make the best out of a bad situation in Bree. Then, one day, this Hozier-looking dude showed up at The Pony.

Chapter Five - Before Now But After Then

In which our fish tells a tall tale.

“Forgive me, Hala,” says Estel from where he has eased himself into a comfortable position on the cot and wrapped the blanket about his hips, “but was not Buttercup a citizen of the land of Florin, and should Lord Rugen have authority over her and her kin, would not he and his wife also be of the same?”

You backtrack a bit.  Wait, what had you said?  Which was it?  Guildenstern or Florin.  Wait, was it “Guildenstern,” or was that from that Hamlet spinoff movie What’s His Name and His Friend Are Dead?  Was it “Guilder?”

Fuck.  Who knows.  You don’t remember.

What the fuck ever.  Not like Estel can go looking it up.

Oh, god, yeah.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.  It was Guilder wasn’t it.

Yeah, you may have started telling Estel the story of The Princess Bride out of desperation just to shut him up.

Every day since Estel woke up it was some new refrain of “I do not understand.  Who is this ‘Jesus!’ that you call on?” “What people call on their god to damn a pot that you dropped simply because it was too hot when you picked it up?” “’Twas kind of you to mend my shirt and other clothing, but I have not seen stitches like this afore. Where may you have learned of them?” “Have you any kin? They must be a fair distance from Bree. When last were you amongst them?”  “What mother does not teach her child how to store foodstuffs for the winter?  Where do you come from that you would not know this?” or “So strange that we have so much speech in common, yet of what origin is this word ‘oh-k?’”

God!  He was a pitbull with a chew toy.  Would. Not. Let. It. Drop!

You finally just stopped answering his questions with some vague non-answer and substituted your own.  “And where are you from, Estel?” “What family do you have?” “‘If’, Estel, ‘if,’ the word is ‘if.’ Why do you use three words when you could just use that one? How do you not have ‘if’ in your vocabulary?” “You don’t exactly speak like you’re from Bree, either.  What could that possibly mean, I wonder,” “What kind of money is in drifting from town to town and across the Wild?  Asking for a friend,” and then, finally, “All right, Mr. Mysterio, what’s got up your butt about needing to know everything about me?”

He gave you a terribly puzzled look after this last one.

“What have my buttocks to do -“ he began, but you wave him off.

“Not the point,” you said, and handed him the bowl.  Swiping up some ash from the fire pit with the bundle of grass, you went back to scrubbing the grease out of the pot.

He dunked the bowl into the bucket and swished it around in the water. Oh, he was attempting to appear pleasantly confused, but you caught that flash of a mix of impatience, and, well, strangely enough, grave concern before he regained control over himself.

Yeah, you may have sighed a little overly loudly at that.

“Very well, Hala,” he said.  “You must forgive me.  ’Tis not oft we encounter things that are new to us.  I was but curious.  Should you not wish to speak of your past or the people from whom you come, I shall trouble you no more with my questions.”

And that was that… for a little while.  You washed and he rinsed and dried, cradling his hurt arm against his chest in a sling but managing the task easily with the other.  He didn’t ask you anything.  You didn’t say anything.  Not that washing up usually takes very long.  It just felt like it did.

“But should we have naught to speak of between us, the hours in each others’ company threaten to be very dull, indeed.”

You may have slammed down the pot a little harder than usual after that.

Fucker.  Just. Could. Not. Let. It. Go.

Fine.  Okay, the hours when the light was too dim for much fine work but too bright for sleep were their own form of torture.  Fair enough.  And yeah, maybe he’d find your own story far too outlandish to be believable.  It’s not like you’ve ever heard of anyone else here appearing out of nowhere and being threatened with a very confused farmer and his hayfork because some stranger refused to come out from behind a stall in their barn due to how very naked they were.  At best, he’d just think you were not quite right in the head and write you off. Who wouldn’t?  And that’s the best case scenario.

And so you yanked the towel from his fingers and pointed at the bed.  “Fine, you want a diversion?  Sit!” you commanded, and he shrugged and eased himself from the bench to the cot.  There he stretched out and watched as you sat on the rushes and stirred in the chamomile flowers you had picked earlier in the day and a pinch of dried ginger root from a drawer on the high shelf above the bench into a pot of simmering water.

What the fuck are you even doing?

And what the fuck are you going to come up with?  You could sing -

No.

Yeah, no.  Not doing that again.

Okay okay okay. Okay.  Sure.  What the fuck.  Why not?

“When Buttercup was born, the title of the most beautiful woman in the world was held by none other than a servant of the royal house.  Every morning, it was her job to set her clock and climb down out of the hayloft before any of the royal house had awakened.  This was in the days after royal families, haylofts, mantelpiece clocks, and trains, but before steam engines.  It is a little known fact that express trains were invented before what you and I would call engines or, actually, even before railroads -“

“I know for a fact the dwarves of Erebor and the toymakers of Dale together make mechanisms of a delicate -”

“No!” You point the stick with which you had been poking at the coals at Estel, and his brows lift nearly to his hairline. “You said you wanted to be entertained.  You are going to be entertained,” you say, and then falter, waving the stick about. “Just, you know, go with it.”

At that, he lifted his hands in surrender and resettled, beating on the pillow to fluff it up so he could rest his head and watch you as he listened.

And so you proceeded, Estel reclining on the cot and you poking around at the fire as if that had anything to do with anything other than keeping you from thinking too hard and getting all self-conscious.

You’ve gotten through much of the introduction and on to Westley’s departure, when, during a pause when you pour out the tea into cups for both you and Estel, he asks, “And so this Farm Boy, Westley, he does naught but serve Buttercup with great reverence.  There would seem to be somewhat of love there, but I do not understand why he does not declare it.”

“Are you sure he doesn’t?”

“I do not recall him doing so.”

“Hmm.”  You take a drink.  “Let’s see.  ‘Farm Boy, fetch me that pail.’ ‘As you wish.’ ‘Farm Boy, milk the cows.’ ‘As you wish.’ ‘Farm Boy, beat up these boys who are harassing me.’ ‘As you wish,’” you say, deepening your voice and infusing Westley’s responses with as much unresolved sexual tension as you can.

He frowns, which, though you’re not sure what you were expecting, was really not quite the reaction you thought you were going to get.

“Is that the custom among your folk, then, to declare your love through acts of service?”

Fucker. Could. Not. Let. It. Go.

“Ai!  A plague on your stiff neck, Hala!  I meant naught by it!”  Estel downs the last of his tea and, with a lurch, leans across the bed and sets the cup on the bench with a sharp clank.

It seems that he has read enough of the irritation on your face that you need not sacrifice your dignity and begin singing a certain Disney song with a very repetitive but pointed refrain that just might rhyme with “Get bit bro.”

You know it.  How could you not?  Your little brother had played it over and over and over when you visited.  Out of self-defense you may have made up your own lyrics and sung them back to him.  After he stopped whaling on you he’d joined in, giggling and adding fart noises, the goofy little shit.

God, there was this one time, when that little shit was four -

No.

Just… no.

Estel grunts as he slowly, and very awkwardly, attempts to lay back down.  He’s a little hampered by the fact he has only one arm he can use and that slice across his hip and into his side makes bending an unnaturally painful act. You would help him but he is being decidedly pissy and you’re having a hard time coming up with much empathy.

“No matter.  ’Tis a poor choice.  Better for the regard to not be returned than to lose the love you hoped to gain only for lack of courage.” He’s finally made it. He lets loose a loud breath.

You snort.  Geez.  Everybody’s a critic.

“I speak but the truth.”  He strains to grasp the edge of the blanket, which has become entangled around his feet.

You watch him struggle. You are not going to offer help.  Nope.  Not when he’s being such a dick.

“Are you done?” you ask after the blanket slips from the tips of his fingers for the third time and he collapses to the pillow and, closing his eyes, pants at the rafters.

“Aye, I yield,” he says.

All the smug vindication you feel drains from you when you catch a glimpse of his face before he lays his good arm over his eyes and, with some effort, slows his breathing.  There’s something frightened and resigned in his face.  Something about being this helpless is absolutely fucking him up.

You sigh and get up.  The big idiot.

He strains to sit up and lift his leg when you tug at the blanket.

“Stop, don’t irritate it further,” you command lightly and nod at his hip.  He lets his leg go limp and allows you to pick his foot up by his heel and release the blanket.

“Even you have limits, you big lug,” you say as you shake out the blanket.  “And you’re a pretty big guy and used to being on your own and taking care of yourself.  Give poor Westley a break, yeah?  I mean, he has nothing and lives in a hovel like this,” you say and gesture at the walls about you, “and Buttercup was the daughter of his master and, well, who was he compared to her?  What do you think his chances would have been?”

“Better than he had should he have kept his silence,” comes the quiet response.  You halt in spreading the blanket over Estel.  His lips are tightly thinned, as though there was something he very much was feeling but was very much going to keep it tightly held behind them.

Well.  Shit.  Yeah.  What can you say?  He has a point, and one that sounds like it was hard-earned.  And it’s not like you ever shut up and kept it to yourself when you fell for someone.

He takes the edge of the blanket from you and eases himself about, getting comfortable again.

You back up and scratch at the nape of your neck.  “Do you, uh, want me to continue?”

“Nay,” he says sharply, “not tonight.”

You shrug.  Okay.  Well, so much for that, then.  You had thought it might amuse him.  But, apparently not.

You pick your cup up from where you had set it on one of the hearth stones.  The fire is pretty much burned out and you’ve already set the latch on the door - little help that would be keeping anyone out if they were determined to get in, but, you know, it’s a latch, and you lock it cuz that’s what latches do.  There isn’t much to take care of before you go to sleep.

It’s quiet. There’s a lone cricket chirping someplace close to the door.  Probably made its own nest beneath the chest where you keep your dry food.  As long as it doesn’t eat the rye and potatoes and other roots you’ve got stored in there it’s welcome to stay.

You pull your pillow and blanket from the basket and make yourself a nest by the fire.  You ignore Estel’s watching you.  He’s got that bland look on his face that is almost certainly hiding something behind it.  Who knows what the fuck it is.

Whatever.

When you lay down and roll yourself in the blanket, you close your eyes and rub about the edges of the hard rectangle tucked in your pocket at your breast out of habit.  A couple more weeks.  You can make it.

It’s not until you’ve really settled in and are vaguely wondering if you should be worried about what crickets eat that Estel speaks again.

“Hala?”

You make a noise you’re not sure really communicates anything other than the fact you were half asleep.

“I beg you forgive me my poor mood,” he says.  “Mayhap, upon the morrow, you shall continue your story, aye?”

You yawn and pull your pillow in close.

Okay then.

“Sure.”

“Sleep well,” Estel says to the dark.

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fuck you. every single question in the ask game. choose your favorite hyperfixation GO

hello??? dkfjkskf ok i'll do blazblue since im in a talking about blazblue mood

📃 what is the plot of your hyperfixation? and is it a movie, game, show, etc?

the plot of blazblue is that ragna is having a really weird day for a few months, and it is a video game :)

📌 how did you find your hyperfixation?

my friend showed chronophantasma to me and tbh i wasn't that interested but then i bought it at gamestop bc i wanted Friendship Approval or whatever and then i started the story mode bc i was bored and the rest is history

✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it?

i like the characters! i also like convoluted stories with lots of characters it gives my brain something to gnaw on for extended periods of time

🎶 if your hyperfixation has songs/an ost, what is your favorite song from it?

counting spinoffs here i have the illusion world stuck in my head rn. my favorite blazblue song rotates every so often

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

I'm gonna talk abt someone else besides my usual faves lately i've been getting a big soft spot for mai. it's probably the fact that remix and variable heart are the two most easily accessible blazblue things to me rn so i keep rereading them but also idk she's cute and fun and i keep forgetting she likes reptiles and weird creatures. my hashtag weirdgirl

💔 tell us about one of your LEAST favorite characters and why you dislike them.

i'll also stray away from what i usually say here bc me actually disliking characters is rare tbh i don't DISLIKE him but overtime i just have begun to find hibiki kinda boring. idk maybe in the hypothetical future blazblue they will make him a bit more interesting but idk i just don't find him that interesting anymore once u get through the whole kind of wanting to kill kagura thing it's just ehh

🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you?

nobody in blazblue is cishet except jubei bc i think him being the only cishet would be funny. also i think taro being cishet would be funny but also lgbt taro is good.

🍀 do you have any kins or comfort characters from your hyperfixation?

i am a kinnie and i think a lot of people would be able to guess most of my kinlist just by me admitting that

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share?

bbdw has been under maintenance for 3 whole days! i am going insane :)

(they're planned to go off maintenance in about an hour though. fingers crossed.)

💢 what do you NOT like about your hyperfixation? is there something you would want to change about it?

tbh i think a lot of the gross jokes could 100% be removed and very little about the story would be changed. like im hardly even bothered by the fanservice (of the adult characters) at this point i just want platinum to exist on screen for 10 seconds with no dumb lolicon jokes.