So I finally got my water heater replaced after more than half a year of it leaking and nearly destroying my floor, but that's not the story. The story is of the handyman that installed it.
Dude's name is Chris, and he's your typically midwestern schlub - friendly, apologizes too much, really likes the Cardinals, maybe a little younger than my parents. Hella nice tho, gets the heater installed quickly, and even offers to fix the floorboards it warped (after nearly tripping over the hump it made in the floor twice). Overall, a stress-free experience.
Then, as he's gathering up his tools - "So, I noticed your, uh, banner. Over your bed."*
*(The closet where my water heater is is located in my bedroom because I live in a mobile home, dude wasn't just wandering creepily into my bedroom)
He's referring to a giant pride flag that's hanging over my bed, with the words "Sounds gay, I'm in"
My anxiety spikes instantaneously, thinking oh christ I'm about to get hatecrimed or at least microaggressioned.
But then he says "Yeah, my daughter is gay, and I was wondering, like...where do you guys, ya know, meet up?"
What.
"Because she met her most recent girlfriend when she was in jail, and I keep asking why she doesn't just find a nice lesbian librarian or something and she said 'dad I know they're out there, I just don't know where'. So...like...where do you?"
So I ended up confessing to this nice man who installed my water heater that I don't know of any real gay culture in our mostly Baptist Missouri town of about 18,000 that routinely freaks out over pride displays in the library (I'm sure it exists but I'm lazy and haven't gone looking for it). My girlfriend lives in an area with a rather bustling gay community (we just did a face painting booth for their pride festival a few weeks ago), so maybe have her go out there with some friends, and also a lot of queers I know play dnd so maybe find a nice group of them and network. I then apologized that I wasn't more helpful in getting his daughter settled with a nice, wholesome dyke.
On the plus side, he was not deterred at all, and seemed to be very interested in the fact dnd was so popular amongst the el gee bee tees. I told him the names of some dms I know and told him to go to town. I do not know if the names will be given to his daughter or hoarded for himself so he can join a group and play like he did when he was a teenager and not be called satanic for it.
I never see anyone talking about if they had a yautja girlfriend, so you know what I'm gonna do? That's right, I'm gonna make a post about having a yautja girlfriend
She would probably be a good cuddler, but would use you as a body pillow (personally, I wouldn't mind cause I'll be getting affection)
Big girl, more to snuggle that male yautja
Probably squishy. Would lay my head on her
She would be hard to impress, but when you do manage to impress her, she will make it known
You a small dude like me? She will either pity you OR think your small size is cute. I'm desensitized to the short jokes so being rejected by a big yautja lady won't hurt 😎 :')
Giving her handmade gifts to court her and show affection will never fail. Definitely will love them
She had a tough day running Yautja-Prime? Give her nice massage. Ya boy knows how to get those muscle knots out. Don't want her to be stiff
BIG YAUTJA LADY PURRRRRRRRRR LIKE BIG CAAAAT (I'm a big cat person)
Spoil her. She's probably already been spoiled, but I will spoiler her better
Basically considers Kiki his son, even lets the boy call him "Daddy" sometimes. Though obviously not when others are around, it would be hard to explain and kinda awkward. (Because of how the word has unfortunately been sexualized.)
One time Mu let Kiki use a computer at Saori's mansion and he read a bunch of gory MLP creepypasta fanfiction. He is not allowed to use the Internet anymore.
Has autism and doesn't like to go out in crowded places, because he easily gets overstimulated.
People also sometimes get angry at him for not understanding jokes or speaking in a monotone voice. That's when Aldebaran comes along to beat them up.
You cannot begin to imagine how many times "Did a cow name you?" Jokes have been thrown at the poor guy.
Asexual, does not like hanging around Milo or Deathmask who are constantly horny.
Mu loves cats! Wishes he could have one but he doesn't have the time. Sometimes Aldebaran will show him cute cat videos and he'll end up giggling and excitedly stimming for hours.
When someone pisses Mu off (which isn't often) he'll use his telekinesis to move around random objects when they aren't watching, just to fuck with them. Some say that Milo still believes in ghosts because of this.
Shion was a very kind and loving father figure out towards Mu, but sadly didn't get to spend much with him because of his important Pope duties. Perhaps that's why Mu has such a close relationship with Kiki, because he doesn't want him to feel unloved.
Aldebaran and Shaka don't often get along because of their opposite personalities, but have a mutual agreement that if anyone hurts Mu, they will team up to show no mercy.
Has a crush on Shaka that he thinks he's doing so good at hiding… It's very obvious. Like extremely obvious, he blushes and giggles every time the Virgo saint walks by him.
The reason he wears a scarf all the time isn't just because he looks stylish (which he does), he likes to rub the fabric as a form of sensory play.
As a child he mostly just hid behind Shion and didn't really interact with others because they would make fun of him. Aldebaran was really the first person that sat down and talked to him without Shion having to force it.
The biggest sin he has ever committed is cheating at hide and seek by teleporting.
Swap! Jestro doesn't start out having a good relationship with the other knights. They merely knew each other, similar like in the original material. Even Swap! Lance (taking Macy's place), who known him living in the castle grew kinda apart during the academy years. His only true friend was Clay, who stuck by his side across the years, but after the incident he became evil and left.
However as the days go on with Jestro being trained to fight by the knights side, they started to grow closer. They started to share and partake in each other's interests and overall as the series progresses really start to treat Jestro more than just a "clumsy no good novice knight." They treat him a lot more like family, even creating a sibling like bond with Lance and Macy.
Probably I'm gonna end up developing this au more as time progresses, there is a lot you can do with a simple role swap au.
I made a short comic set to a favorite quote of mine about anxiety by the author C. Joybell C. way back in 2019. If you like it, check out her Goodreads for more beautiful quotes!
I wanted to look up if in dogs vocal cords have a different name or anything, and I learned that there exists a surgery that removes those if your dog barks too loud??????? what kind of declawing bullshit is that why are people having animals if they don't want them to be animals