#zero (reborn)

[pokefangamebrainrot]

Could I possibly request some Zero headcanons, please?

ALWAYS he’s one of my favourites

Zero headcanons!

-he has ADHD and anxiety, it’s what kept him from performing very well at team meteor without lumi and eve

-he views lumi and eve as his family, since, like aster, he didn’t have any before joining team meteor

-him and sirius both do and don’t get along (they have history but moved in very different directions)

-he’s asexual biromantic

-he has a very small collection of things that are actually his, he keeps them very close

-he helps young kids at the new reborn city orphanage deal with mental health issues

-he’s trans (ftm) and picked the name zero because he thought it was all he was worth

-he’s reclaimed the name though: he says that it means he has zero fears

-he ends up playing synth for hardy’s band

-him, lumi and eve do sleepover nights sometimes. they’re pretty inseparable in the events after the main game

i love zero so much, thank you for the ask! i hope you enjoyed!

[lynxacratic]

The irony of 4* Dan Heng being a hunt character is so good considering that Dan Feng was feeling doubtful about the goals and the ways of the Hunt + the Xianzhou. In DHIL’s character story we can see him thinking that he wished that so many innocent lives didn’t have to be sacrificed in the Hunt’s quest to destroy the Abundance.

“The dragon heart told him that it was but a small speck of dust brushed away from the world. Wars come with a price, but life will always thrive once more — the Vidyadhara are not the only branch of Long's Scions. However, his human heart ached for those comrades who, like him, had warm flesh and blood, and for those mortals who might have lived longer but now could return home nevermore.”

I know 90% playable paths aren’t lore canon (like how Robin is the only harmony character to actually follow the path in-game LOL) but still I found this pretty funny

[jazz-kitty]

[crookedblazee]

drew the red lobster of mass destruction

also Zero's there too... I'm sure he's doing fine :)

[pickled-flowers]

I only vaguely know my Mysqueery Gang lore but Lila is honestly a mystery to me even tho I see her all da time ... What's her deal :0

So clear isn’t it

[absolutely-normal-about-x]

Fun fact in Legends Reborn au involving the guardians!

Since the Zero Era Since resources in Neo Arcadia they have to be extremely selective and Food was more prioritized for humans than reploids so they aren’t allowed to consume food. Including the guardians themselves so in their minds eating Food is basically taking a critical resource from the humans.

So never truly experienced nor enjoyed a meal in their entire lives just rations and E-Crystals.

A massive contrast to the Halcyon Era where despite the world being flooded there’s plenty of resources that come around! Especially Food!

The first guardian to ate the first time was phantom!

Since he’s the first guardian to be revived! So when he revived somewhere after the rocky first start with Volnutt, he felt a weird noise coming out from his torso

First ever meal that he ever ate was Volnutt’a half eaten baloney Sandwich…because roughly after being awakened/found by Volnutt as he experienced hunger the first time.

When he took that (Reluctant) bite on that Sandwich his mind blown from that first meal.

The rest of the guardians have quite an experience with their meals

[sneakyswag]

Healing

Legends Reborn

Jumpscaring @absolutely-normal-about-x

Beta huffed, looking over the kitchen and noticing clumps of different types of fur, hair, and feathers scattered everywhere.

It was safe to say that the constant cleaning was getting a little annoying, but he wasn’t going to complain. Come on, he lived in the Flutter now. It was already too much for his family, dealing with him and his antics, so he figured he had to do something. Beta straightens up and ties his hair in a little ponytail, before starting to sweep.

It was… a little troubling. Normally, he’d just sweep up little clumps of hair and fur, but now, thanks to Harpuia’s feathers from a game of tag gone extreme, the broom wasn’t picking up the feathers very well. With a small sigh, Beta reached down and grabbed a few feathers, only to immediately let them go with a yelp. His hand had gotten cut in about three places. Crimson spilled out from his hand quickly, alerting the snow-haired Carbon who dashed towards the sink.

With a hiss, Beta washed the cuts out, watching the blood wash away down the drain. He sighed as the cool liquid poured over his wounds, soothing them greatly.

Now that Beta was a Carbon—no longer in his Reploid body—he didn’t have his Bassnium and plasma regulator. Also meaning, he had no way of making the side effects of his powers go away. Because of this, Beta’s arms, shoulders and hands were highly sensitive due to power usage. Any pain or strain inflicted on them hurts three times more than the average person.

Footsteps echoed across the flutter, catching the snow-haired Carbon’s attention. He glanced at the source out of the corner of his eye, tensing up as he saw his Uncle X and Cousin Volnutt approaching.

“Lighting, are you okay? We heard you scream”, Volnutt says, concerned.

Beta chuckles nervously and shrugs. “Well, I wouldn’t say I screamed, but…”

Volnutt’s gaze drops to Beta’s hand, where he notices the cuts, and his expression changes to one of worry. X follows his son’s gaze and is the first to speak. “My… how did that happen?” X asks softly as he walks over, gently taking Beta’s hand and turning off the water.

Beta whimpers and pulls away. “It hurts…” he mumbles.

X’s eyes widen slightly. His neutral but kind expression shifted into a concerned frown. Volnutt moves to a nearby cabinet where he pulls out a med kit. X notices and guides Beta to the dining table. They sit across from each other as X carefully begins to patch up his wounds.

Beta averts his gaze, a faint blush creeping on his cheeks.

“You don’t have to do this, you know…?” Beta muttered, his cheeks painted a noticeable shade of crimson.

X sighed, a small smile forming on his face. Beta was smart, but in times like these, he was stubborn. It reminded X of himself years ago, back when Dr. Cain was alive. Whenever X suffered small injuries, he refused to let Dr. Cain patch him up even though he knew that all the old man wanted to do was help.

Beta let out a shaky sigh, followed by a quiet whine.

“Does that hurt, Beta?” Volnutt asked gently, sitting next to him.

Beta nodded, clearly embarrassed. X’s expression softened even further. “You’re sensitive? Is that why?”

The snow-haired Carbon shrugs. “I mean… you know about the dilemma with my powers, right? Well, when I woke up in my Carbon body, my regulator was gone, and… well… the pain is back.”

X pursed his lips, he knew this was probably another reason why Beta would just try to avoid using his powers in general. I mean, come on, Volnutt hasn’t even seen Beta’s powers other than that one time, and… well, Volnutt is a child. It makes sense that he’s curious and wants to see them again, but Beta refuses. His powers can be dangerous now that he doesn’t have his power regulator and isn’t a Reploid anymore, deeming him weaker.

“How bad is it?” X asks, his tone firm. “And do *not* downplay it. I don’t like being lied to.”

Beta swallows nervously, averting his eyes. “Not the worst it’s ever been, but… it really hurts.”

X nodded finishing the bandaging. He pulled away slightly, studying Beta’s expression. Everything suddenly made sense—Beta flinching at the slightest touch to his shoulder, the shaky hands, all of it. X tried to understand Beta’s reasoning behind hiding his injuries, but if he hid something as simple as this, what else would he be capable of hiding from them?

X sighed. “Why didn’t you tell us?”

“I didn’t wanna bother you,” Beta murmured.

“Horseshit.”

“Dad!” Volnutt exclaimed, his voice a mix of annoyance and slight shock. His father didn’t swear often, but he had his moments.

Beta shifted uncomfortably, glancing at Volnutt, who was shaking his head at his father’s swear.

X huffed and turned to Beta. His piercing emerald-green eyes met with the snow-haired Carbon’s, sending a chill through him. X’s intense stare had always been intimidating to Beta and now was no exception.

“I’m not mad, kid. I’m worried. Do you not trust us?” X asked softly.

Beta shook his head frantically. “Of course I trust you—”

“So why lie?” Volnutt interrupted.

Both pairs of eyes land on him. Beta purses his lips and averts his eyes. “My powers cause nothing but problems. Meaning I don’t cause anything but problems and—”

Volnutt grabs Beta’s shoulders, making the snow-haired Carbon gasp. “You are NOT a problem! Don’t say things like that! Why can’t you love yourself? You do so much already! Why can’t you see yourself how we see you?!” Volnutt exclaims.

X gently pried Volnutt’s hands off of Beta.

Beta sighs and runs his hands through his hair, before remembering his cuts and pulling away with a wince. “I do love myself I—”

“Then stop being an idiot, okay?” Volnutt said, his voice softening slightly.

Beta nodded, pressing his lips together. “I’m sorry. I’ll try to be better, okay?”

X sighed and nodded, letting Beta go. Volnutt watched him leave and turned to his father. “Just like that? You’re letting him go?”

X sighed again, rubbing the bridge of his nose. “It’ll take way more than one conversation to get it into his head that he’s worth it. Just… take it slow, okay? He’s still getting used to everything.”

Volnutt pouted. “But—”

“Vol, please. I get how you feel, but rushing things isn’t the way,” X said firmly but gently. “I know that well.”

Volnutt nodded and pressed his lips to form a thin line before retreating to his room. X watched him leave with a frown.

Trying to live semi-domestic lives was hard for most of them, but especially Beta. Beta never knew his purpose. On top of being woken up and getting sick due to a long hibernation, one side effect was memory loss, which unfortunately affected the snow-haired Carbon.

X fidgeted with his braid for a moment before standing up and heading to the kitchen, already expecting a mess. He doesn’t know whether to be worried, or frustrated, or both.

Instead, the kitchen was spotless, as if no one had even gotten injured in the first place. X sighs and inspects the sink. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Not to be confused with the fact that he’s glad he doesn’t have to clean something else up, even though he’d do so with no problem, but the simple fact that Beta tried to lie and play off his injuries, even though they’re light, as nothing, is extremely concerning. Even so, Beta cleaned up the kitchen. Sure, his issue may seem minor, but that’s how all major problems start.

X was going to have a talk with this boy. Maybe not at this moment exactly, but soon.

[garou-art]

Patiently waiting for this year’s Yearly Takeshi

I actually already made a super early 2024 Yearly Yam in January! (here) 🙌

But there's nothing stopping me from aNOTHER YAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

[meshumo]

been in a reborn mood lately...... happy holidays!!

[timegears]

actually gonna be a hater about reborn again but on a game design standpoint: literally just walking around in this game is agonizing. in all of the major areas there's too much going on. too many buildings, too much clutter in the way, and the actually walkable areas are usually way too narrow. and the clutter is good for the atmosphere to show how wrecked reborn city is but god is it awkward as hell and painful to navigate.

images under the cut for post length.

compare to this to rejuvenation which is clear in where you're supposed to go and easy to make your way around, even in the cluttered and destroyed areas.

[pokefangamebrainrot]

corey molinar is and forever will be an incredibly meaningful character to me and i’m tired of pretending he isn’t 💔

[pale-opal]

I’m so sorry to spam epic x Mmx Stuff But again if you think about Anither song (So many songs I swear) It’s that…Just a Man Fits him so well…

Okay i vanish 💥

There's no need to apologize! I don't think you're spamming at all! And I took a look at the lyrics, and I completely agree! There's so much to say about these lines alone:

"Will these actions haunt my days? Every man I've slain Is the price I pay, endless pain Close your eyes And spare yourself the view How could I hurt you?"

X was not built for fighting. He was meant to bring peace, and he spent the first thirty years of his stasis undergoing ethics testing to ensure that. But at the same time, he also knows he can't sit by and do nothing whenever someone threatens the innocent or someone he cares about. He has to fight. And sometimes, he has to kill. But having to do something doesn't necessarily mean you like it.

Not only that, but "Close your eyes/And spare yourself the view" could be him talking to a younger Hunter he has to mentor - or heck, let's just be blunt and say Axl. He didn't want Axl to become a Hunter at the end of X7 because he didn't want him to have to do the same things he and Zero did. He didn't want him to have to kill to find his place in the world. He already had to take out Red and his former friends to be allowed to exist as himself - X was probably trying to spare him from anymore trauma (I know that his dialogue in X7 implies something more cynical, specifically that he was against the idea of Axl fighting anymore completely, and that X himself only came back to the Hunters out of obligation, but if I go too far into that I'll end up going on a rant).

"How could I hurt you?" Might fit a scenario where he has to fight someone who was innocent before being infected with the Maverick Virus, or the fight he has with Zero towards the end of X5 (specifically in the route where Zero's gone maverick). X knows that the person he has to harm doesn't truly want this. But he has no choice but to hurt them - if he doesn't, then they could attack other innocent people. And nobody wants that.

"I'm just a man Who's fighting for his life"

This part really shows off one of the more simple reasons for why X does what he does: self-defense. X may not like fighting, but he isn't the type lie there and get killed by some random dude in the name of being a pacifist. He has dreams and ambitions just like everybody else. And he can't achieve any of them if he's dead. Not only that, but if he dies, who will protect his loved ones? Sure, they can fight for themselves. But part of X's logic behind Elysium + the original vision for Neo-Arcadia was to create a world where they wouldn't have to. Why would he let those close to him risk their lives to protect themselves when he could make it so that they wouldn't have to by fighting to live another day?

"But when does a comet become a meteor? When does a candle become a blaze? When does a man become a monster?

When does a ripple become a tidal wave? When does the reason become the blame? When does a man become a monster?"

That last question is probably one X would ask himself a lot. He'd definitely wonder about if or when he crosses the line whenever he has to deal with a maverick. And maybe one day, he determines that the answer is "Yes. I've gone too far." Or maybe he even thinks "I'm just as bad as my enemies are." What if that was the reason he temporarily quit the Hunters? Or perhaps questioning himself so much + having to do something he hated for so long tired him out. Or it could have been a mix of all of that (instead of him seemingly waking up one day and deciding to call it quits, leaving his homies and some random child his bestie found in the street one day to pick up the slack).

"Forgive me" is definitely a line X would use. Guilt would absolutely be something he struggled with as a Hunter, and even more so as a cyber elf. His efforts to protect everyone failed, and now he can't do anything for them directly. All he can do is advise others and hope that Zero, one of the people he was fighting for, can do what he can't. That would be a lot of burden for anyone to carry. Combine that with how he had to watch countless others die in the time leading up to this, many of which were no doubt people he knew personally, and that burden would only double. How he manages to deal with it is anyone's guess. He might have gotten used to it, after a while.

Also, if you don't mind me talking about your Legends Reborn/To be Legendary AU: I think this song fits your version of X almost perfectly. It could totally be seen as his rationale for why he doesn't want to risk Volnutt following in his footsteps by becoming a digger. Take the very first verse for instance:

"I look into your eyes and I Think back to the son of mine You're as old as he was When I left for war"

Replace "son" with anybody X left behind to become the leader of Neo Arcadia or to fight in the Elf Wars (Axl might work here again - he was around Volnutt's age when he became a Hunter...), and then everything comes together. Volnutt is innocent, just like the people X wanted to keep safe. He's a kid with his whole life ahead of him. Why should he put his future in danger when he could do something that wouldn't require him to put his life on the line? And besides - X knows all too well where a working a job based in violence would lead. But since when has destiny cared about the feelings of a parent?

[ngfics]

Intuitive Conclusions (sharp teeth of truth) - 13 - Future, Decimo Era

It takes more than half a year for anyone to realize that Iemitsu won't be coming back.

Part of this is the orders Tsuna gave him, long term missions with little contact - part of it was the man's own nature, extra detours, extra digging - trying to prove himself - he was always late, by at least a week.

It made people pity him for having his own son for a  Boss. Having made a bad ploy and only reaping misfortunes instead of benefits form it.

"Are you sure he's missing?" is all Tsuna asks when it reaches him. He doesn't even stop writing - granted this has happened before - in fact, Tsuna made sure of it, sending Iemitsu on progressively longer and longer missions.

Disguised as him being fed up with Iemitsu, it wasn't even a lie - so it was the best kind of deception.

There have been a bunch of false alarms and when there's a lot of false alarms...people stop reacting.

Hayato looks harried. "As far as we can tell." Irritation colours his tone, not with Tsuna's question -for Hayato could never be irritated with Tsuna- but with Iemitsu. Time under Tsuna's rule has shown off Iemitsu's professional inadequacies - if simply because Tsuna would not overlook a single mistake - and if Tsuna wouldn't than Hayato would go over everything with a microscope for good measure.

You spent all your life working here, you better have some actual skill to show for it - is what Tsuna had told him the first time Iemitsu tried to write off mistakes that stood out glaringly to Tsuna's intuition. I will always hold you to a higher standard - is what he said to feed the man's ego, an insult - not that Iemitsu noticed.

Tsuna hums as the places his signature on another piece of paperwork.

He glances up to Hayato and Basil, who looks drained to the bone. Tsuna puts his pen down and asks for details.

Tsuna doesn't know the details. He didn't ask for more than confirmation of a mission being finished and Mukuro didn't volunteer. Somehow Tsuna is distantly...excited to find out what sorts of horrors Iemitsu was subjected to - though it's probably better that Iemitsu never be found again.

Then again...a lack of a body may have it's own problems.

Never mind. It will be dealt with however it turns out.

[flopbftheo]

this MIGHT be controversial but i am both a cherry and vanilla coke enjoyer ... it has to be coke zero tho

[jazz-kitty]

zel doodles

[nommyzommy]

Art requests are closed for the month of October! Thanks, everyone, for all the requests! I had a blast drawing them! Headcanon asks are always open, and comments and messages are welcome anytime! Thanks again!