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[fightinggamegirlfriend]

A post about how Ridley/Hayate/Ryu express jealousy/protectiveness over their significant others being flirted with by strangers + how they react when someone tries to flirt with them :]

shout out to @cultstatus! He helped to affirm my odd idea of Ridley’s having a complicated relationship with jealousy, in that she feels the need to express it even if she herself is not feeling jealous.

no real warnings other than maybe some mentions of strangers who unfortunately don’t take “no” as an answer, or ignore it when someone/multiple people let you know that: “I’m/we're in a committed relationship”. Slight mention of possessiveness/protectiveness regarding Ryu and Hayate. It’s nothing too bad, just them being a little protective when people are flirting with their partners who are visibly uncomfortable + may threaten to use violence when advances persist even after saying “no” repeatedly.

despite all the personal growth Ridley Rosé goes through in trying to rediscover herself as person and in trying to keep her real and pro-wrestling persona separate from each other, she’s unfortunately holding onto slightly old fashioned ideas of kayfabe. Case in point, if in a public setting - where she’s easily recognised, and sees a stranger is trying to flirt with Hayate and/or Ryu (when it becomes a polyship), she feels the need to play into her wrestling persona to scare said stranger off, because she feels if she didn’t do so she wouldn’t be taken seriously as a performer. That she’d be viewed as a hack or fraud, or not ‘taking her job seriously’. Even though in many of these instances, she actually isn’t feeling jealous at all, and knows that her significant other’s can handle themselves pretty well, as it’s just outright notoriously hard to flirt with them. Anyways, in situations like this, she would either slide an arm over their furthest shoulder, sit on the lap of one of her partners and playfully give both partners a brief peck on the cheek, or walk up behind and wrap her arms around her partner's neck.

In a more quieter setting, albeit still a public one, but one where she isn’t as well recognised, gives Ridley a lot of relief in knowing she doesn’t have to put on her wrestling persona. She’s able to relax and actually be her real self. She’s doesn’t have to fake it. If a stranger in this setting tries to flirt with her significant others, she’s much more polite and less confrontational about it, she lets them know “sorry they’re taken”. She doesn’t want to humiliate the other person, more so let them down gently for thinking they had a chance with Hayate and/or Ryu. Ditto goes for when people flirt with HER, and not her partners, and in those instances she’s kinda forced to be her Pro-Wrestling persona again to make them back off. And this goes for both a quiet public setting and a loud one.

uh. Hayate is… definitely capable of expressing jealously, however it is usually pretty dependent on how the stranger is flirting with their significant others. If it’s someone who’s very polite about flirting with Ridley or Ryu - Hayate just leaves it be, as they have full faith in their partner’s handling the situation themselves. However if the stranger’s intention is more aggressive in their flirting or just their presence makes Ryu and/or Ridley uncomfortable, Hayate will step in, playfully greet Ridley and/or Ryu with a brief moment of PDA, and then turn their attention to the stranger and in a fake, oblivious tone asks them: “Oh, I’m sorry was I interrupting your conversation?” They would have a fake smile and all and basically would do anything to piss off the stranger. If it’s not enough, Hayate will be a tad bit possessive/protective of her partners by leaning much more into said PDA. When people flirt with Hayate, she does string them along/humour them for a bit but then eventually lets them down gently into thinking they had a chance with xem. She would definitely say something along the lines of “I’m sorry but I’m just not into you.”

Ryu Hayabusa is a rational man with a consistent poker face, meaning it’s very hard to get him to express any other emotion aside from his default stoicism. That said there is a TINY jealous bone in his body, but he isn't the kind to express that jealously through actions all that much. He's more direct with his words, and certainly isn't afraid to speak his mind. Despite this, he is ultimately self-disciplined enough to shrug off innocuous instances of people flirting with his partners, especially if its playful flirting that doesn't go anywhere or the stranger eventually realises that the people they're flirting with are already in a committed relationship. To him there's no need to exert his energy over something so petty. He will however step in the moment he feels a stranger's flirting attempts start to either become uncomfortable for his partners or just in general are acting/behaving in a way that raises red flags. When Ryu steps in, he does for a moment use his physique to intimidate the stranger into backing off from their attempts of flirting. Depending if the stranger is trying to flirt with just Ridley or Hayate, Ryu would interrupt and say something along the lines of: "Did your parents ever tell you to not steal from a dragon? Because right now I do not take your efforts trying to pick up my partner/girlfriend lightly." <- This is one example, just note that Ryu often weaves metaphors, hypotheticals and hyperbole into his warnings/general speech. If it was someone trying to pick up both Hayate and Ridley, Ryu would say something along the lines of: "I know you're looking for a good time, but this coterie is not open to, and is not in anyway looking for additional members." When people are flirting with him, he just outfight says “I’m in a committed and closed relationship with my partners, so no thanks, you’re wasting your time trying to flirt with me.”

If the stranger flirting with Ryu or Hayate is still insistent/they become more aggressive and their precious attempts to ward off their advances are ignored, the Shinobi do resort to the last drastic measure by physically threatening to resort to violence. This ca be simple as pressing a kunai at the stranger’s neck where a vital artery might be, or worse will draw their sword (Jinramaru for Hayate, the Dragon Sword for Ryu) and also press it against the stranger’s throat with intent to cause harm. Ryu Hayabusa and Hayate when pushed does not HESITATE to take a life, and yeah sure this may be against a regular civilian but at that point the person has essentially fucked around and found out. Similar situation can be applied to if Ridley is having a hard time trying to ward off advances, and if Hayate or Ryu are in the same room, they will follow through with the same behaviours.

If Ridley is in a situation where her partners aren’t physically present in the area, she has three options: If amongst the presence of other Pro-Wrestlers, or even better FANS who respect her, she’s going to go to them immediately and mingle amongst them to protect herself. Pro-Wrestlers with a spine will indeed be enough to scare off the stranger’s pursuit of Ridley, I mean. No one wants to go up against multiple pro-wrestlers - like you have to admit defeat at that point. Fans would absolutely annoy the shit out of the stranger, mostly by either having Ridley’s full attention by asking for autographs and photos or try scaring the stranger off like they’re paparazzi. Alternatively If she doesn’t have community to surround herself with physically, does have Helena Douglas on speed dial and can inform her of the situation and she can use her privilege to threaten a hefty lawsuit. That’s usually enough to shut them up. Lastly, she has Pro-wrestling techniques which are no joke. She can absolutely put them in an extremely stressful submission hold that can make the stranger become so exhausted that they have no choice put to give up their advances. Sure Pro-Wrestling is fake, but those pro-wrestling moves ARE NO JOKE.

anyways. Sorry for this being a long post that got. out of hand so suddenly. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and well wanted to piece some small characterisation stuff for my polyselfship with Ryu and Hayate. Hope you had fun reading it as I did writing it up :3

[somethingtocallmine]

[artsymeeshee]

[wishfulsketching]

Season 1 Silco, my beloved

[dark-moonlust]

A beast with glowing eyes saying, “Don’t run. You can’t escape me.’

Monsterfuckers: ‘Who said I was trying to?’

[nonbinarymlm]

We need to bring back the term “benevolent sexism” into widespread use for real. It’s a major mechanism in how bioessentialist Girlboss Radfems can be turned into bioessentialist conservative Tradwives.

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[elizabeth-mitchells]

first two eps of s3 really said MISTYNAT RIGHTS 💯

[artharakka]

Commission for @abstracttransit

[bigidiotenergytm]

You know what ? *genderbends your penelope* Since you're so gay and like to draw men

i raise ur genderbend and give u: transmasc penelope (whose name is vasileios thank u @shinedoitsulikeabright mwah mwah <3)

yes, they were both terrified they wouldn't accept each other and who they've become and of course they fell in love with each other all over again

and yeah the "just a man" bit in their song is for both of em now

[heesimp]

SUNGHOON SPITTING IN YOUR MOUTH AND BEING ALL FILTHY ABOUT IT LIKEEEEEEE.

he’s spitting in my mouth as we speak

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“Open your mouth.”

He pauses on top of you mid-fuck with his cock fully lodged inside of your hole. The bed underneath comes at a standstill, juxtaposed to the rough shaking from Sunghoon pushing and pulling his hips from you.

Sunghoon is typically well put together and orderly. Nothing in his room is ever out of place and everything he does has a purpose. He walks with confidence with his shoulders back and chest out forward, and anybody who’s fortunate enough to know him, sees that.

You’re his little getaway from the real world. You, his precious girlfriend, are the only person who could ever get him to completely unravel.

He’s got your legs spread wide open and you wouldn’t be surprised if your thigh burn well into the following day with how hard Sunghoon has been pushing your body. Your mixed arousal gushes and coats both your inner thighs and his the more he fucks into you and he loves hearing those cute little whimpers when he gets his hands on you.

You can’t say you don’t love it. He compliments your chaos and the only time you’re submissive is when you’re with Sunghoon. The roles switch once the bedroom door is closed and you, a loud-mouthed, opinionated person, are reduced to nothing but a toy who loves being told what to do. You love it and Sunghoon does too.

He commands when he speaks. You do as he says and open your mouth wide, sticking your tongue out until you’re able to present the surface to him so nice and smooth. Sunghoon gathers a wad of spit and aligns his head with your mouth to let it drool right onto your tongue, the warm sensation making you even more aroused than you already are.

“Messy baby.” You keep your mouth open for him instead of swallowing. Sunghoon sticks his tongue tongue out to lap up his spit and pushes his wet muscle roughly against yours and resumes his hips rocking in and out of you.

He kisses you with intense fervor and pushes inside of your mouth, neither of you really caring that spit is falling onto his chin or that the filthy, erotic sounds might echo into your neighbor’s room. It doesn’t matter when he gets like this.

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

me rambling about some character interactions (honestly its really just Hayate/Ridley/Ryu, and some additional Ayane characterisation??) that occur right after the events of DOA5. uh. DOA5 and slight Ninja Gaiden 3 spoilers, but also a VERY LONG post!

thinking about a moment that’s set immediately after the events of DOA5, where Hayate makes a quick detour to Ridley’s apartment only to find Ridley in an emotional wreck because she’s been listening/watching the news reporting of a DOATEC facility (that Hayate, Ayane, Ryu, Kasumi and others were on) that had blown up not too long ago - and that Ridley has been dreading the absolute worse case scenario that none of the Shinobi made it out alive. She was informed before hand by Helena of what was planned, and that she'd promise to ensure the Shinobi would be fine, although after that platform collapsed, she has to do DOATEC's PR/Damage control and hide/lie to the public what actually occurred on that platform facility.

(What occurred on that DOATEC facility out in the ocean is that it doubled as a facility that harbored MULTIPLE Kasumi clones, and the Mugen Tenshin Siblings + Ryu got a little more than they bargained for, as the Kasumi Clones have reached their 'final' phase as being walking shapeshifting weapons of mass destruction that can also mimic abilities off the fly. and one of the clones copied Ryu's form and tried to do a dangerous technique of his, and the real Ryu had to respond quickly by doing the same thing and uh. it leads to facility going kaboom and everything collapsing. If you don’t believe me you can just watch this video. Obligatory DOA5 spoilers.)

There would be a moment where Hayate and Ridley are just standing in the middle of her apartment, embracing each other and Hayate profusely apologising to Ridley for causing any distress. "I’m sorry for making you worried, it was never my intention to do so. It was going all according to our plan but it went south so quickly, and I was powerless to stop it."

Ayane would eventually enter the apartment herself, because she would get really antsy about getting back home after the events of the day. However the moment she lands on the apartment’s balcony and enters, she immediately regrets her actions as she almost interrupts her sibling and Ridley’s intimate moment (even though it’s literally just two people hugging). Just as she’s about to turn tail and head back outside, she’s halted in her tracks when Ridley just barely croaks out a "thank you," to her for “having Hayate’s back,” and even adding on a “I’m glad you’re okay too...”

And Ayane is in complete shock and disbelief to hear this from Ridley, a person she has resented for so long for ‘taking her sibling away from her'. Only recently she has started to soften that stance over time after witnessing first hand Hayate’s and Ridley’s affection for one another. So hearing those words do disarm arm her slightly, like just enough to leave a tiny crack in the cold exterior she has but not enough to break it entirely. That said, in this moment Ayane would be caught off guard to just see Ridley in such an emotional state, and for a brief moment she feels her heart sink a little, and she doesn't know why (it's a ‘I don’t want to see my sibling’s precious person be in such distress’, but Ayane doesn't know it yet.) To get her bearings she sits on one of the couches, and does her very best to not tear up at Ridley’s sincere words.

Lastly Ryu enters the apartment, and I think a little before hand, Ryu would recognise that what has occurred in the last few hours have been exhausting, so he's open to Hayate's suggestion of a detour to Ridley's apartment for a brief rest stop. He would also acknowledge that there's no way that Helena Douglas and DOATEC in general can just hand wave away what's happened, and that there's absolutely a high chance the news would cover this incident, albeit they news would never know the true story. Ryu would reason that just telling Ridley in person that he's okay is a genuinely overall, good idea.

Winding down would also allow the Shinobi to fully process and comprehend the events of what happened at the facility, and relay more accurate (and critical) personal accounts of what occurred at the facility to their respective clans.

When Ridley finally pulls herself together, she does her best to make the Shinobi trio at home.

Uh during this down time, Ridley actually sees Ryu’s face for the first time and the interaction itself is highlighted in this post! There would be a lot more exchanges between these characters, although I'm not super sure how they would unfold right now, but there is a follow up exchange between Ryu and Ridley again, where he takes her aside and privately thanks her for being there for Hayate, when Ryu himself couldn’t (be it preoccupied with clan duties, the occasional demon fiend troubles or artificial gods etc.). Additionally I think in this moment Ryu, in a semi-tired state does confess to Ridley his feelings for her (albeit in vague terms) + mentions that since she's Hayate's special person, that by proxy, she's also special to him. He’s had these feelings lingering around for a while (since DOA4/Ninja Gaiden II) but he never really fully accepted them until the events of Ninja Gaiden 3, where Ridley makes a surprise appearance and punches the daylight out of a mutated Cliff.

Again, as previously mentioned, these feelings for the pro-wrestler is partly due to how genuinely supportive she's been to Hayate and Ryu holds those in high regard who are willing to lend a shoulder for others to lean on. I am aware its not exactly a sound justification for what will eventually turn into a polyship, but within the lore of DOA and Ninja Gaiden there's only so much I can work with, so cut me a little bit of slack. (also the connected timeline is kind of a mess... i have no clue when NG3 takes place tbh.)

I guess I should stress that Ryu does not envy Hayate and Ridley's relationship or closeness, I feel like Ryu is more rational in his emotions and doesn't let petty things bother him. like you'd have to try VERY hard to get him to be jealous.

ANYWAYS, back to the confession, I’m not sure if Hayate should walk in on the conversation or happen to overhear or, or have Ayane snitch on Ryu (would be an insanely funny idea, but it would be OOC as she deeply respects and holds Ryu in high regard). Whatever choice I go with, Hayate would be hurt to know that her relationship with Ryu wasn’t 'strong enough' for her life partner to feel comfortable in telling her that he had romantic feelings for her girlfriend. Ryu would justify the decision to not divulge these feelings to them as: “I wanted to prioritise your well-being first,” and that “I wanted to ensure that I could provide cover for you if any Mugen Tenshin Clan Elder asked me where you’ve gone. I don’t want you to be exiled or hunted down all your life like your sister, all because you’re seeing a person who isn’t from a Ninja Clan.” Hayate would feel very tired and defeated by that last justification, and even as Clan Leader, she knows she’ll have to answer a lot of questions if she dared tried to change that policy/rule (traditional can suck sometimes).

A few hours before the Shinobi trio leave Ridley’s apartment, Hayate would present the question to Ridley if it was alright to open up the relationship to include Ryu. Ridley doesn’t mind this, although she’s very confused on how Ryu has gained feelings for her. She literally says: “I’m not that special.” It would take a bit for her come around to develop her own feelings for Ryu, she IS attracted to him after seeing what’s under that mask, it’s just the development of romance between the two will take some time, but she’s open to trying :3

uuhhhhhh god this post is so long so I'll end it off here. there's nothing more to add atm other than Ayane being the obligatory fourth wheel to all of this unfolding before her eyes (much to her annoyance).

[somethingtocallmine]

[artsymeeshee]

Random idea I got this morning thinking about how small little things (mostly about missing important moments of the past) make the boys emotional and sorrowful.

[attramind]

if you feel like you are losing everything

[spockvarietyhour]

Well, it's just, for some guys - not me - uh, but for some guys, you know, when they make it move, it gets all big and hard like a pimple and then it pops. And they say it can happen to anybody but it's still, it's, it's gross.

Fallout "The Trap"

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