#this is not meant to be shippy but i know i can't stop people from tagging it that way /shrug

[cyborb]

that one barbie meme going around right now is just that one part from the bw anime huh

bonus additional versions ↓

same outfit as the trailer

my specific au just because the height difference is hilarious to me

[the-black-bulls]

Hi Cyroo! ⭐️

For the salty ask game what about 1, 14 and 27 (I'm curious will you be another person to say Solid 😂).

Salty Ask List

heya there! :DDD

What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

this is a tricky question because while I don't fw many ships in the fandom I can see where they're coming from but, Nozel/Vanessa? this ship confuses me and I can't wrap my head around it because neither parties have reasons to be with the other. I'm sure it has its appeal. I just can't fathom it. doesn't help that whenever I cross by this ship a voice inside my head yells "ooc alert, ooc alert, run and don't look back!" (/hj) - clearly not for me 😅

14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?

I think a good part of the fandom either has a hate bone towards the bulls or are just jealous because the number of people I've seen who blame the squad for the lack of screentime given to their faves while wishing them to stop "seeking yami" or "fighting back" or "hog all the attention this isn't about them" is concerning.

I'm not sure if this counts as an unpopular opinion, but bullshit - the bulls shouldn't be blamed for the series' fast pace when half of them are lacking in screentime, they shouldn't stop doing things when the mangaka put them in situations that require reactions. I get it, plenty of other characters are underdeveloped and done dirty - for example yuno should've much more screentime in spade kingdom and nozel's encounter with megicula as well as the silva plot line left much to be desired, but what about we stop venting off on the story's main cast when they're literally playing the roles they meant to represent?

27. Least shippable character?

naaaw, if you ask me to pick a ship for solid I'd list you three potential crackpairs for him easy peasy 😂

what is not easy is thinking of pairs that include characters my brain only sees as aroace, like Luck. yeah I fw magnaluck occasionally but only from queerplatonic perspective, with specific context, and if I'm in the right mood, but ultimately?? I just don't know how to pair luck with others and keep it shippy, he's so anti-shipping in my head and deserves all the familiar love in the world.

[darkstarofchaos]

Let's get uhh...constructicons/Prowl (for the ask thingy)

Don't ship it.

Why don’t you ship it?

The biggest reason is that nothing about the situation was healthy for Prowl. Not only did he become part of Devastator in the most traumatic way possible, but the time afterward was physically and psychologically harmful for him as well. Outside of that, there just isn't much for me to ship there? Prowl sees the Constructicons as a weapon and the Constructicons are just fanboys (up until the narrative decides Prowl needs to be utterly alone and they drop him like a hot potato). The whole situation was incredibly wasted potential.

2. What would have made you like it?

A different writer.

On its own, Prowl being forced into Devastator isn't a deal breaker for me because the Constructicons weren't the ones responsible. They did decide afterwards that they liked Prowl and wanted to hang with him, but until then, he was never even meant to be part of the team; just a disposable test subject for integrating someone new with an existing combiner. And I do honestly get the appeal of, "You were disposable to them, but not to us". Goodness knows Prowl needs someone in his corner. Heck, I can even get behind the angst of "this situation is physically hurting Prowl, but none of them - including him - want to stop".

So the setup was great. Super unhealthy, but you can do some pretty interesting things with unhealthy. But as they say, the devil's in the details.

See, I like the Constructicons. I do not like the way John Barber writes them as an interchangeable amalgam instead of letting them have some individuality. And I really don't like how he tried to resolve that conflict with earlier portrayals by saying that combining "rots away the individual". I like the idea that the Gestalt mind affects its components, not the idea that it supercedes them. I also don't like Prowl's recent instability being ascribed to the combining process and not, y'know. The traumatic events surrounding it. But we get this explanation from Galvatron, who delivers it alongside lies about Prowl killing Spike's father, so I can ignore it. I can pretend it's just another lie.

What I can't ignore is that Arcee doesn't hear this and think, oh, maybe it's not Prowl's fault he's been so erratic lately. Maybe I should see if he's okay when I get a chance. Nope. She just turns on him completely. Because the post-Dark Cybertron arc is the "let's tear away what little support Prowl still has" arc.

So I don't like how the Constructicons were written, I don't like the in-universe explanation for how they were written, and I hate the way everyone saw Prowl falling apart (including people who dared to call him a friend, Optimus), and just went, eh, I don't really care. He's just bad. And then, just to make sure Prowl loses everyone, the Constructicons turn on him too. Because apparently they can spend time in his head and like what they see, but it's still somehow a surprise that the mech who tolerated them because they were useful might not actually want them the way they want him.

Get these mechs a different writer.

3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

As I mentioned above, the setup is great. It had a lot of potential, not just in terms of the relationship, but for character development, worldbuilding, and even the introduction of something like chronic illness with Prowl's physical health being affected by combining (again, he was introduced to the team as an experiment in adding bots to a combiner. It would make perfect sense if it wasn't an entirely successful experiment).

I also like a lot of the art and fics I've seen for them, even if most people seem to ignore the inherent angst in favor of sweet, funny, and fluffy pieces. I just wish more people dived into the physical and psychological impacts, whether in a shippy way or not.

[olderthannetfic]

you're probably tired of getting so many asks about this but i genuinely don't understand the / vs & discourse. obviously there's situations where the waters are muddied, but to me, it's always a case of what am I writing it as? if I'm writing it from a shippy standpoint, I'll tag as such. If I'm writing it from a non-shippy standpoint, I'll tag as such. easy as that lol. some people will probably still say "oh but it's ambiguous!!!" no it's not. you know exactly what you wrote it as, stop lying.

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I mean... you don't think some people don't know what they meant it as?

I have a strong aversion to queerplatonic fic, so I haven't read much and don't know how I would categorize the content, but that's a case where writers do say they find it hard to categorize, either because they have trouble describing the nature of the relationship at all or because they know exactly what they mean, but it doesn't map well onto the / vs. & notation.

There used to be a loathsome trend (and probably still is in places I can't see) for writing fics that could be repurposed to any ship and then crossposting them to multiple mailing lists admitting this. Surely, there are people who intentionally write fic that can be either shippy or not and they genuinely mean it both ways.

It's generally the case that I don't want to read a fic tagged with both, but I don't think it's surprising some people feel they legitimately need both.

[teaveetamer]

I am curious, I've been watching the discourse going on for a bit without getting involved and at this point I feel like I have to ask.

What is the desired result here? Why are you engaging in the discourse at all? Clearly this is not a discussion, so what do you gain from interacting at all?

(I will send this to several people, just out of curiosity)

Alright anon allow me to explain what's been going on with me on my end.

The year is 2019 (yes, we're doing this). FE3H has just come out. I play it and rather enjoy it actually. I've got a couple of ships that I'm into, some fanfic I want to write, etc.

I go onto Reddit to chat with people about the game. Now I don't really like Edelgard, but I'm chill, I'm open to discussing the game and getting alternate viewpoints. Initially it's more or less fine.

Then some posts start coming up. People start getting really aggressive about this. I'm trying to have a conversation, but it feels like their goal is just to shout me down. I get in arguments, I get in fights, I get misgendered, I get called a bigot, I get frustrated, I get ablest rhetoric spewed at me, and I waste my life.

Stop. Take a look at myself. I'm literally sitting here arguing about Edelgard von fucking Hresvelg for hours of my day. I'm annoyed, I'm irritated, I'm always in a bad mood. Ugh.

Now it's 2020, early times I think. I resolve to stop looking at Reddit so much with regard to this game. It's not worth the hassle and the frustration. I should be, like, out doing things and having fun not wasting my time arguing with a bunch of weirdos on the internet. I want to have fun again, not be angry. I delete the Reddit app from my phone and install a blocker on my web browsers, even.

Start using Tumblr for more than just shippy stuff, and find people who agree with me, who are saying the things I've been saying. I stop feeling crazy for liking the game the way I like it. I make a few posts on my main blog but you know what, I don't really want my main blog embroiled in this shit, though I want to add my voice to the conversation. So I make this side blog.

Make some posts. I get flooded with asks from other people about the game, saying they agree with me and they're thankful that they aren't the only ones who think the way I do. I think within like a month of existing this blog had double the posts of my main blog (which has existed since 2016, so for four years at that point), most of them from asks.

The blog was initially for me to vent and throw in my two cents here and there, but I figure I'll keep it around in regular use because people seem to be benefiting from it.

Early on I tried to establish a rule for myself that 1) I wasn't going to go looking in any main tags (e.g. the Edelgard or Edelgard Positive tags) for stuff to reblog or talk about, and 2) I wasn't going to go into any Edelgard specific spaces looking for stuff to talk about (e.g. r/Edelgard or even Dimitri-critical tags). However, anything maintagged that was looking for a fight (e.g. a Dimitri-critical post in the main Dimitri tag) was fair game.

I'm not perfect, but I did try to stick to that rule. I talked about things that happened on the main FE Sub or FEH sub. I did my best to encourage my anons to not go seeking out stuff to bring back to me from Edelgard spaces. After all, this blog was meant for venting and having my own personal space where I could talk about my views without getting accosted. I thought it would be petty for me to go bring back stuff from other places.

Moving into 2021, I was kind of done with 3H. I was still getting like dozens of asks a day about 3H discourse. I'd answer one and five more would pop up in their place. By now we're like, well beyond 3x or 4x the amount of posts I have on my main blog. I'm getting kind of tired of it. It's a lot of the same points over and over and over. We're in pandemic times, so I can't even walk away from it and do something else IRL for a while before coming back to it. I feel like I'm wasting my life again. I feel like I've said anything and everything I could have possibly said about the subject. I ask people to stop talking to me about Edelgard. Eventually, everyone mostly obliges.

I still chat about it here and there, but I'm chatting about other stuff too. This blog is still about venting just about venting about more than 3H. A lot more petty fandom shit in general.

Now we're in, like, 2022. I don't remember exactly, Pandemic Time makes some of this a bit of a blur. I notice a new kid on the block, doing basically what I'd noticed happening on Reddit. Going into the wrong tags. Picking fights. Posting things in the wrong tags. Picking fights.

I'm over it, I'm done, I don't want to deal with this shit anymore. I block the dude. Most people I know block the dude or ignore him. We figure he's new here, he just hasn't learned the etiquette.

He gets increasingly hostile. I'm not really paying that much attention, just getting info about it from the fringes. Again, we figure eventually he'll just go away if we ignore him.

Then Nilsh gets harassed off the platform.

My mutuals are getting increasingly hostile anons and combative reblogs.

At this point I'm relatively unaffected. I guess because I don't tag anything, so he didn't find it.

And you know what? I'm still like "he'll get bored. He'll leave eventually." We were all like "just ignore him, he'll leave eventually."

People try to explain tags to him. Try to help him curate his experience so he quits arguing with people who don't want to talk to him all the time.

Then Moonlitboar gets harassed off of the platform. They take the URL. He's bragging about having done it. He's spreading this vitriol to other platforms and convincing others to join in on the harassment.

And I'm like. Okay. This dude isn't leaving. This is what he wants. His goal isn't to talk about this game—his goal is to hurt us.

I unblock him and respond. We go back and forth. He stops... for a time.

Here's the thing. I didn't re-block him after that, and I didn't do that for a couple of reasons. First, because at this point I'm still hopeful that he's just unaware of what he's doing, and that he'll acknowledge how messed up it was and apologize. I'm all for second chances. The second, because he's dangerous and I'm worried that if I don't keep tabs on him, he's going to try to hurt me.

It's not long until he's doing the same shit again. He tries harassing BWIIDT, he tries harassing FantasyInvader, he tries harassing Ezra, he tries harassing RandomNameless, he tries harassing Emblemxeno, he tries harassing Gascon, he tries harassing people I've literally never even heard of. I keep calling him out, and he tries harassing me. He calls me hysterical, accuses me of acting like a victim. Tries to make me feel stupid and small by saying I don't have anything worth his attention to respond to.

(By the way dude, my point about that was that you were being misogynistic but treating discourse like it was only worth responding to if it came from a man. See, I noticed that you only liked to attack people you thought were cishet white men like yourself, even if we were saying basically the same things at times. The fact that you continue not "debunking" any of my posts doesn't upset me; it proves my point)

He blocks me. I can't say for certain why, but my bet is that he realized people were actually listening to what I had to say, and having a queer woman question the actions he purported to be for the benefit of queer women wasn't a great look for him.

He's still trying to harass me. He's taking screenshots, he's using my name, he's @ ing me. He's casually lying about me. He's using sexist rhetoric implying that I shouldn't be listened to because I'm just too ~in my feelings~ and he's the true victim of my hysterical victimized martyr complex (geez, you sure a a feminist ally for that one, aren't you?)

You know, I did actual research when one of my anons accused him of being a trump supporter and tried to lie about him? I burned an entire evening on that, because I didn't want to be spreading lies about people. Meanwhile he lets his anons casually and repeatedly misgender me without so much as a passing correction, and he hangs out with people who spread lies and slander accusing others of heinous crimes.

And you know what? If I knew it was going to be like this? I'd still waste that evening and correct that anon. It's not about getting a petty win or convincing people he's a bad person for me. It's about being respected.

So to get back to your question. Why am I doing this? Because I have to. Because I know that if I don't he's going to hurt someone else, just like how he hurt Nilsh and Moonlitboar. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, after all. We ignored him and he didn't leave, so now we have to say something.

What's the desired result? I want to be respected, like I've tried to respect them for almost the entirety of this blog's existence. I want my boundaries acknowledged. I want him to stop hurting people for no other reason than to hurt them, because they don't agree with him.

When will I stop? When he stops.

[gideongrovel]

I love when others acknowledge my F/Os being my guys, or just hearing others talk about them just makes me 🥰🥰🥰 no tw,,, im just adding a readmore cuz i don't know how long imma ramble lmao,,

so my brother's been visiting for a couple weeks, and normally we (me, my brother, and sister) watch or rewatch a bunch of shit while he's here,,,, so last night we were doing that but my sister wanted to go to bed after a couple movies, but me and my brother wanted to stay up and still watch something still,,,, so we wanted to pick something our sister wouldn't care if we watched without her,,,, so we decided on C.astlevania,,,,, my brother didn't wanna watch any eps from the third season, i said "we have to watch episodes from the fourth season because V.arney is in it" im pretty sure he just thinks I like V.arney as a character he doesn't know how i ship with him tho I'm not good at hiding my affections, so he probably knows it's more then platonic love of a character *rip*,,,, but my sister who does know that I ship with V.arney or at least know vaguely that i do, from down the hall overheard my suggestion, and was like "I heard he stinks, you can't watch that" (she wasn't being mean she was doing a bit, since we will roast characters eachother like for sillies,,, tho he canonically does smell bad lol)

when i was pulling up the episodes my brother started laughing cause he realized the timestamps are all at random points of each of the episodes,,, and he was like "You have them all stopped in the middle of the episodes, on the V.arneys scenes don't you?" and I just laughed and agreed cause he was spot on 😂 I told him "earlier I mentioned how I had "''episodes recorded"'' I really just meant the V.arney scenes" idk what he was thinking when I said that cause he just laughed and was like "Oh my gosh" 💀 Anyways,,, when V.arney first shows up I'm like "There he is! my boy!" and the next scene when they show him my brother immediately was like "There's your boy" 🥰 and then later on when G.ermain (one of my brothers faves in the show) is going through it, I made a joke saying "Your boys looking rough" he just responds saying "It's your boys fault" 😂 calling V.arney just "my boy" feels very much so like an understatement,,,, since he is in fact my husband, not just "my boy" that sounds more casual,,,,Idc if my brother knows I ship with V.arney,,,, but at the same time idk if I would feel comfortable if he knew I see V.arney as a husband,,,, 😅

But being able to gush throughout the episodes at his scenes, and pointing out details about him has me feeling all 🥰💞💞💖💞💞💞 I don't get to gush about V.arney enough to other people,,, since not all of you know his source, so id feel bad just info dumping, and fandomwise there's hardly any post for him to reblog,,, so I can't do it much as I want to,,,, so it's nice to be able to do for a change with to someone who actually know him,,,, and it's always fun to see others acknowledge my affections for a f/o UwU 💕 Still doing our rewatch so I will mention if anything else noteworthy is said (or if i just wanna post about for myself so I don't forget, like mostly how this post is meant to be)

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Been so focused on my wife lately,,, so haven't been watching the husbands stuff as much or not as focused when i do,,,,, and coming back after a while,,, gots me in a shippy mood,,,,, I need to draw more ship art of us 👁️👁️ other then the 2year anniversary art the majority of my stuff is from before most of y'all followed me,,,, 😭 i need to finish up an trade I'm working on,,,, after that I can work on something for myself hehe >:3c

[ichinoue]

To this day I still can't believe there are people who watch/read the SS arc, saw Renji's flashback and how obviously smitten/whipped he was for Rukia, and didn't think that RenRuki is going to be one of the end pairings. I was sure about RenRuki's pairing much earlier than I was for IchiHime LMAO

Same. Especially because a lot of the "shippy" stuff in the SS arc went to renruki (and ichihime) instead of ichiruki.

I know the SS arc is purported to be IR heavy, but reading it back, the SS arc had some definite misfires in terms of romantic hints or development between Ichigo and Rukia. There was so much potential that either wasn’t used, or was given to IH/RR instead. They spend practically the entire arc separated, their interactions were minimal, and they had to share a lot of the spotlight with RR.

i.e. Renji's the one who gets emotional when he begs Ichigo to save Rukia, has flashbacks about their childhood together and her "gentle aura." Lamenting how he let her go, how he "barks at the star but doesn't have the courage to jump and grab it." Renji's the one who is willing to leave his lieutenant badge behind, throw away his rank, fight his own friends and take on the very captain he serves under to save her. And when he falls, he once again has another flashback to the moment he let her go, staring at the very hand that she touched as she walked away.

Which is immediately followed by Rukia panicking and screaming out his name when she feels his spiritual pressure disappear. Then when Ichigo rescues Rukia he throws her into Renji’s arms, tells Renji it’s his job to protect her—and he does this knowing how strongly Renji feels about Rukia! That was supposed to be ichiruki’s big shining moment and yet it’s intercepted by renruki at Ichigo’s insistence.

Then Ichigo battles Byakuya, and Rukia isn't even there for any of it. It isn’t Rukia who’s watching from the forest or having to stop herself from running to his side, it’s Orihime. It's Orihime whose feelings for Ichigo are given focus via Ishida's monologue, where he talks about how badly she wants to help Ichigo and is depending on him. It isn’t Rukia who tries to catch Ichigo’s fall after that battle ends, kneels down at his side and cries tears of joy that he’s alright while Ichigo gives her puppy-dog eyes—that’s all Orihime.

Meanwhile, Rukia is on the other side of SS, being cradled in Renji’s arms, and crying into Renji’s chest. This is supposed to be the Rukia rescue arc, it's supposedly all about IR, right? And yet all of these cute, intimate, “shippy” moments I've listed are given to IH/RR while Ichigo and Rukia are still separated. It’s supposed to be all about Ichigo saving Rukia, and yet at the very end, it’s Renji - not Ichigo - but Renji who keeps cradling Rukia in his arms, looks Aizen right in the eyes and says “I’ll never let her go” along with, once again, ANOTHER flashback of the time he let her go. Because he's vowing that that will never happen again. He's never going to let her go.

I mean, shouldn’t at least some of these moments have gone to Ichigo instead if IR was the romantic one or meant to be romantic in the future? How did people not clue in to where things were heading by this point?

[heartsxandxkisses]

Kokichi x Female Reader

Songfic part 1/?

A Guy That'd I Kinda Be Into

Say there's this person you pass in the hall everyday, you've known him since 7th grade

There he was, running walking down the hallway teasing Kiibo about "if robots have dicks"

"Stop this discrimination! You're being very robophobic!" I hear Kiibo yell. I couldn't help but giggle a little at that. It sounds like he deals with Kokichi's "Robophobic" remarks every morning.

You're used to thinking about him in a certain way, from the persona that he displays

I can't seem to stop thinking about him. His childish nature, his hair, his eyes, his clothes, litterally everything about him. And out of everyone, why him? Why not Kaito? Or Shuichi? But deep down you knew you couldn't fall for them. I mean c'mon, you had friends who liked them already, plus you've already gotten teased by Miu and Angie plenty of times because of who you like. How'd they even find out? Maybe Atua had something to do with it?

And then something changes, and he changes...

From a guy that you'd never be into

Into a guy that you'd kinda be into

From a guy that I'd never be into

Into a guy that I'd kinda be into

"C'mon (Name)! Atua has spoken and said that you need to confess to him right away!" Angie told me as we were walking to school.

"I can't, he'll think I'm crazy and then he'll probably just tease me in front of everyone." I reply, sighing a little as we went to our lockers. My locker was in the middle of Angie's and of course, Kokichi's. He wasn't here yet, though.

Is he worth it? Kokichi~ is he?

"I doubt he's even worth it, he probably likes someone else." I told Angie, receiving a little annoyed glare from her.

"Nyahaha! You mustn't define the will of Atua, (Name)!" she said, smiling and running to her first class, leaving me wondering what the hell she meant by that.

Say there's this person that you never knew that well

Truth be told, me and him haven't really talked that much. I remember the first time I have, though. I was walking to Miu's invention club thingy and there he was. We all three began to talk about her lastest invention until Miu had to leave, saying that "her time was too precious for us shitheads" leaving me and him alone. I remember him asking me to walk with him to our next class we had together, though not many words were said on my part. I listened to him talking about how Maki and him have a little rivalry going on. It wouldn't be surprising since Maki can be defensive over her friends, especially Kaito.

You thought that you had him pegged, but know you can tell he's gone from a guy that you'd never be into

into a guy that you'd kinda be into

from a guy that I'd never be into

Into a guy that I'd kinda be into

Waking into class, I see Tsumugi smirking at me, her eyes telling me to look to her left. There was a seat between her and... Kokichi. Of course she'd do something shippy like this. Me and her usually sit next to each other so we can talk about cosplays, but it appears that she also found out my little secret. As I sat down in the seat, i scooted closer to Tsumugi,

"Are you crazy?! How am I supposed to not get distracted when he's right there!" I whisper-yelled to her.

"Lighten up (Name)! Y'know, if this were an anime, You'd probably accidently fall right in front of him but then he'd probably catch you! It would be like love at first sight!" She replied back excitedly. I swear this girl watches too many animes. With a little annoyed huff, I scooted back and closed my eyes from irritation. It's not like I didn't want to sit by him, I just can't help but get a insecure of myself when I'm around him.

Is he worth it? Kokichi~ is he?

Glancing to him, I saw that he was already looking at me. We both quickly widened our eyes a little due to shock and looked the other way. Why are my cheeks getting warm? Something like this shouldn't be doing this much to me. Maybe he is worth it..

I Don't always relate to other people my age, except when I'm on the stage. There are so many changes that I'm going through, and why am I telling this to you?

Finally school is over. I need to go find Angie and talk to her about our homework. Rounding the corner of the hall, I wasn't expecting to bump into something short.

"Ah- I'm sorry about that! Are you ok?" I asked, leaning down to pick up the book I dropped.

"Nishishi! I wasn't expecting someone like you to pack that hard of a push!" I heard a teasing voice say.

You can't be serious- That's Kokichi's voice, right-? I looked up and.. yep, I was correct, there he was, a smile on his face with his hands behind his head.

"But that was a lie! Since y'know, I'm a lier." He said, putting a finger to his lips.

"R-right.." I replied in a daze.

"I-I should get going now, or else I'll keep Angie waiting, bye!" I quicky yelled, running around him and covering my blushing face with my book.

I Guess there's a part of me wants to, who knew?

I guess a part of me likes to talk to you

After that day, I've been talking to him more, only because we sit next to each other in class still. Tsumugi says that this was her chance for her "otp" to come true. Since when did she ship us together? Who knows with her. Kokichi even invited me to sit with him at lunch, which despite being a little shy about it, I agreed. Who would turn that offer down? I guess I do really like talking to him.

I guess a part of me likes to, who knew?

I guess a part of me likes to sit with you

"Hey kokichi." I said smiling at him, getting into my seat.

"Heyy (Name)" He replied back, also smiling at me. Who knew that sitting next to him would be this nice, his smile was the like highlight of my morning. Maybe sitting by him isn't so bad after all..

I guess a part of me likes to, who knew?

I guess a part of me likes to hang with you

"For this homework sheet you'll work with the person to your left." The teacher announced. The person to my left so happens to be.. Kokichi. Not that I'm complaining though.

"Nishishi! Looks like your stuck with me for a while, huh?" He said teasingly.

"I suppose I am" I said teasingly back, smirking. Hanging out with him isn't so bad.

back to play rehearsal, I know that it's weird but it's totally true..

The guy that I'd kinda be into... isss Kokichi.

"There's no way I love him, right?" I asked myself while getting ready for bed.

"I trust him, and he seems to like hanging out with me. The guy that I'd kinda be into can't be him, it's just not possible." I say to myself. Deep down, I know these feelings won't go away. I know I love him. I know he's a guy that I'm seriously into, I just can't bring myself to admit it yet. Then again, what's the point of worrying right now? I'll just fix this problem tomorrow.

Do I know what the next parts gonna be about? Nope. Did I still wanna post this even though it's terrible? Yep.

[theres-an-impulstor-among-us]

More Hermong Us requests! I have a lot, feel free to ignore the ones that don't inspire you if the spam gets to be too much

The round from the latest stream where Brody and Tango are lovers, and Brody kills in front of Tango and he has to go through all the stages of realization/freaking out/trying to calm down/deciding to cover for him, just in time to speak up at the meeting...I can't even remember if they won or not, but I love the whole sneaky pact dynamic of an impostor-crewmate lovers team so much and I know you'd write it so well :)

i feel like i need to clarify that even though it’s called the “lovers” role, this is not shippy in any way :) it’s not meant to be read as ship so please dont tag as ship

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At the end of the first meeting of the round, when Skizz and Impulse’s bodies were reported and nobody was ejected, Tango trots after Brody and catches up with him in storage, linking arms with him. “Heeeyyy,” he says in a singsong voice.

“Hey,” Brody responds warmly. What’s up?”

“I think you know what’s up,” says Tango, making an exaggerated kissy face.

Brody snickers and pushes his friend’s face away. “Don’t do that, man. We’re not supposed to let people know we’re the lovers, remember.”

“What, are you embarrassed for our friends to find out about our looooooove?”

“Ooookay, I’m going now.”

Tango grins as he watches Brody pick up speed and round the corner, before heading into communications to do his task. He loves teasing his lover partners. Considering the lovers role is quite high-risk, it can be tense at times. So Tango likes to mess around a bit more.

He completes this task and has just finished the shields task when another body is reported.

Tango stays silent throughout the subsequent meeting, letting his thoughts drift away. There’s only six people left; a double kill would end the game. And it’s not like Tango’s seen anything that would be of use.

“If nobody can stand up for you, I’m voting you out,” Brody is saying. “Tango?”

Tango blinks, glancing up at his friend. “Hm?”

“Can you vouch for Etho?”

Tango’s gaze flickers to Etho, who’s watching him pleadingly. “Sorry,” he says quietly. “I haven’t seen him.”

“Then I’m voting Etho,” Brody says. “I suggest you all do the same.”

Even though he hasn’t paid much attention to the meeting, Tango decides to trust his lover and votes for Etho, who votes for Brody. But it’s not enough to save him.

After Etho’s been ejected, Tango quickly heads for security to finish his penultimate task: the final wiring task. Now he only has one more: a task in electrical that he’s been putting off for as long as possible. Once that one is finished, he decides he’ll go find Brody and stick with him. He trusts Brody implicitly.

As Tango rounds the corner outside of lower engine, he spots Brody himself coming out of electrical. His lover doesn’t stop, but he does give a friendly smile and wave.

Smiling back, Tango starts to head into electrical but stops dead as the strong scent of blood hits him like a brick wall.

Then his eyes land on Evil’s dead body lying in front of the lightbox.

His stomach drops and he hurriedly dashes out of the room, running back the way he came. He darts into security and sits down heavily against the wall, hardly able to breathe as he digests what he just saw.

Brody JUST came out of electrical. There’s no way he’s not the killer.

“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god-!” Tango gasps out over and over. He’s freaking out and he has no idea what to do.

Brody got Etho ejected. He’s killed at least one person, likely more. Tango is the person who reported Impulse’s body during the first part of the game… What if Brody is the one who put it there?

Unfortunately, he doesn’t get long to calm himself down, as Evil’s body is reported a few seconds later.

Tango takes a deep breath as he realises Brody must’ve returned to self-report. Astro and Joker are the only two left. He knows Astro is safe, so the other imposter must be Joker.

Joker and Brody. His lover.

Tango knows it’s just a game. But the lovers role has created a bond between Tango and Brody that feels so raw and real, as if they really are soulmates. And to find out now that his lover is the killer…

“I found Evil in electrical,” Brody reports. “I saw no-one around.”

Tango’s brain is scrambled.

“I was in reactor doing my last task,” says Joker. “The counting one.”

WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I DO-

“I was all the way over in weapons,” Astro says. “I was looking around for dead bodies.”

I know what I have to do.

“I-I was with Brody when we discovered the body,” Tango blurts out before he can stop himself. “I can vouch for him.”

He briefly makes eye contact with Brody, who gives him the smallest of frowns.

“In that case, it must be Joker,” Astro says. “Right?”

Tango momentarily stops breathing. This is it. Brody has a choice to make right now; will he choose his imposter partner or his lover?

Finally, Brody responds, “Yeah, it’s gotta be Joker.”

“What? No!” Joker glares pointedly at him. “What are you doing? We’ve been together so much this game.”

“Sorry, but Astro’s story checks out and I was with Tango. Nobody else it can be.”

Joker furiously opens his mouth to reply but he happens to glance over at Tango, who steadily meets his gaze, and stops dead, clearly realising what’s going on. Realising too late that he doesn’t have a chance.

“I hate you both,” he snaps. “Astro, you’ve been totally duped and I feel sorry for you. Mmn, actually, no, I don’t.”

Confident in the knowledge that everyone else has already voted, Tango sidles closer to Brody and links arms with him. He knows that Brody is a killer, but he still feels the urge to be close to Brody, to seek comfort from him. Maybe it’s their many years of friendship, maybe it’s their platonic bond made stronger by the lovers role. Either way, he knows they’ve won this round.

Astro spots this and sighs. “Ah. I should’ve known.”

“Yeah, you should have,” snaps Joker.

Astro shoots him a scowl. “You’ve been in this situation before, Joker. You know that if you’re the fourth person in this scenario, you have zero chance of winning. And frankly, I’d like at least ONE crewmate to win.”

Joker scowls back at him for a moment before sighing. “Fair enough.”

He votes for himself, creating a unanimous decision.

Back in the lobby, Tango glances over and happens to meet Brody’s gaze. He can feel that the lovers bond has disappeared.

“Nice job staying alive,” Brody chuckles.

Tango opens his mouth to reply but Joker interrupts, “Dude, you’ve no idea how close you were to getting killed, there. The only thing that saved you was Brody going “mm mm, mm mm” at me.”

“Like “bad idea, bad idea”, yeah,” laughs Brody. “Sorry, Joker.”

Joker grins back. “No worries.”

“Honestly, I was undecided about which one of you to betray until that final meeting, when Tango said we were together even though we weren’t. You must’ve been aware that I was the imposter at that point, right?”

“I only realised it JUST then,” responds Tango. “When I stumbled onto Evil’s body in electrical just seconds after I saw you come out of there. I realised you had to be the killer.”

“And you still decided to cover for me?”

“It was my only chance of winning, really. I couldn’t risk you getting ejected cuz then I’d die too.”

Brody grins and nudges him. “And that’s the only reason, hm?”

Tango frowns at him. “Huh?”

“It wasn’t cuz you didn’t want your beloved lover to die?”

After a moment, Tango rolls his eyes amusedly. “Okay, maybe it was a little bit that. A tiny bit.”

Brody’s grin widens. “Uh huh. Anyway, when you covered for me, that’s when I decided I was gonna stick with you.”

“For better or for worse,” teases Tango.

Joker rolls his eyes and makes a disgusted noise. “Bleh. Guys, you’re not "lovers" anymore. No need to act like it.”

“I think Joker’s just jealous,” Brody responds, grinning.

“Jealous? Of having a fake lover who murders people in cold blood? Thanks, but no thanks.”

“Oh, I cannot WAIT for the round you get to be lovers with someone,” Tango laughs.

Brody gives Joker a light punch on the shoulder. “I’d feel sorry for his partner, honestly.”

“I hate you both.”