#people act like my fitness now is because of choices i made as a child but i have ALWAYS had worse reaction to exercise than my friends

[asirensrage]

Ok so this my be a really odd request. Let’s say kagaya is your distant cousin. But because your part of his family your also cursed from being a descendant to muzan. As a female it’s only natural to marry you off to someone in order to break your curse. But here’s the catch, you have to marry off to a hashira of his choosing. (Males only) every hashira wants you and have to prove themselves in order to be fit. How would they all react?

I was working on this when you sent in the one today 😂 I was like "...are they psychic???" I'm not sure how this turned out, but I hope you like it.

Being cursed is one of the worst things to happen in your life. The worst part was that it was inherited. It wasn’t so bad as a child, a lingering warning that seemed like the far-off future, but now that you were an adult, it was time to act before you were consumed. You weren’t sure how marriage was supposed to cure you, to fend off the curse, but it felt like a small solution that ultimately involved passing the curse onto your own children. That’s if the candidates your cousin chose actually wanted to fight for you. It wasn’t fair. To any of you.

Sanemi

He’s not really interested in starting a family or getting married, not when it’ll just bring more danger to your doorstep. He’s been pretty determined in keeping the people he cares about away from this life…but if it will help save you, doesn’t he have a duty to try? He doesn’t think he could watch you wither away if he didn’t step in. He’ll take his rightful place at your side, but he won’t be happy about it. At least not in any way he’ll show you. At least he might be able to convince Genya to leave the corps to help take care of you while he’s away on missions…

Gyomei

Gyomei cries when he hears of your fate. He cries for your children and the ancestors who have suffered the guilt of passing on this curse to their own children. He had no plans to marry, to bear his own children, but how could he let you suffer? If none of the others will take their place by your side, you can count on Gyomei. He will ease your pain and care for you as best as he can with the life he leads.

Muichiro

Muichiro isn’t a candidate. If not only for his age, but also with how dazed and distracted he is. You need to be saved sooner than later so you can’t wait for him. That doesn’t mean he won’t support you and your chosen husband…at least when he remembers…

Obanai

Obanai knows what it’s like to be bound by the fate given to you by your family. He also knows what it is to be freed. He dreams of a life where you’re all free, where he can live his life in peace with Mitsuri…and you. He hesitates to accept a role, to fight for the role of your husband because of his love for her. It’s not fair to either of you and he knows that. It doesn’t stop him from wanting though. It’s only at Mitsuri’s insistence though that he accepts the challenge. After all, they have enough love for more than each other and if Tengen can hold multiple spouses, why can’t he?

Giyuu

Giyuu has been in love with you since you met and spoke kindly to him, but he’s not sure he can bear the weight of more death. If marrying him does not save you, could he bear it? Could you bear it if he has to go through with the promise he made in return for Nezuko’s life? He carefully weighs the potential trauma to you both. Still, he will admit, that he will try. He wants to try. If only to be able to hold you once…

Kyojuro

Kyojuro has mourned for your fate, for the choices that your family has made to bring you to this. He’s not even sure you want any of them, but he knows how the others feel. He knows how he feels. He won’t allow the curse to claim you. Not when he can take his place at your side. The future is undetermined, but with a simple action, he can try to ensure that you get to see yours. Isn’t that worth enough?

Tengen

Tengen has been intrigued by you since you met. You’re different from his wives, more delicate, and when he is informed about your curse, he understands why. When he hears that you must be married to cure yourself from the curse, he speaks to his wives. Something like this is not merely a decision he can make on his own. When they approve, when his wives ask for your hand as well, to care for you in their fold, he approaches the challenge with relish. After all, it’s obvious he’s the best choice, is it not? He’ll prove it. Whatever it takes.

#demon slayer imagines #asks #princessmahle #meekermoo #kny headcanons #sanemi x reader #gyomei x reader #giyuu x reader #obanai x reader #tengen x reader #kyojuro x reader

[nightofnyx8]

Does spy x family/ twiyor give you fma/ royai vibes? I don't know if my brain is just addled by royai fic love, but they feel similar somehow.

Maybe it's the tragedy of war in both stories, the forbidden love (that's bound to happen between twiyor and if it doesnt I'll be mad) between two people with blood on their hands.

I've seen hilarious (sad) comparisons between Nina and Anya of cute girl and big white dog, but that's not really what gives me the vibes.

I'm now diving into the manga but I saw some spoilers for Twilight's rough past that made me go 'oh shit... things can get dark'.

I just want someone who's better at analyzing things and studying characters (love ALL your fics btw) to tell me if I'm out of my mind or point out what I'm missing.

*takes a huge breath*

OKAY SO LIKE I was totally against watching Spy x Family at first because it was "mainstream" (it was a very stressful semester of college in my defense) until I saw this fanart by @mochidoodle, twiyor paralleling that royai moment in fma. From that point on, I was a goner. So while I do mostly write twiyor fics at the moment, my love for them is largely colored by my love for royai.

First up, Loid and Roy. On the surface, very different people. One overthinks everything and plans to the tiniest detail, while the other lives off of 99% pure impulse. Loid is a very serious and private person by nature, and while Roy definitely has his solemn moments, it's kind of his whole game to act like the immature colonel playboy of the military before he brings down the entire government with his real motive ("surprise, bitches!"). The main difference I'd say is that Roy knows what he wants, and has a very clear goal how to get there. Loid doesn't. He's still torn between his mission and his family, and doesn't even know who he really is. Like we don't even know his real name lol.

Yor and Riza are also very different. Riza is the voice of reason with Roy (and he definitely needs it). Her personality is actually more aligned with Loid's in that way--quiet, serious, and reserved. Both are them are very good shots. However, she and Yor both don't very highly of themselves at all. Both of them are very compassionate and kind in their own way, and both of them have a soft spot for children. However, Riza's overwhelming guilt comes from her choices in the Ishvalan War, whereas I think Yor almost...intentionally blocks out the brutality of what she has to do to keep her brother alive.

Which brings me to the topic of war in both series (spoiler alert).

Both FMA and Spy x Family are very antiwar. Neither of them glorifies warfare. Casualties and consequences are not treated lightly. Progranda plays a huge role. Both series are trying to prevent another war from happening. For the sake of the argument, I'm going to refer to Yor as a soldier as well as Loid because she is still putting her life on the line for her country (she even says her job is comparable to that of a soldier in the manga). The biggest difference is that Roy and Riza chose to do the things they did in Ishval. Loid and Yor did as well, however it was more their circumstances that pushed them into that decision. Loid lost his mother as a child and crawled around in the streets for years before finally joining the military, only to lose everyone he ever cared about. Yor did it because it was only way to save her brother from literally starving to death. The war between Ostania and Westalis forced literal children to become soldiers (and that's kind of Endo's shtick--what war does to children). Roy and Riza...I mean, there's a reason why their fate is so tragic. They literally committed genocide. Yes, their reasonings are far more complex than this little lecture has room for, but it sufficeth to say that their burden is immensely heavy (I'm not even going to get into how Riza's burnt tattoo fits into the tragedy of their relationship and their choices because it's going to make me cry). But that is FMA's whole thing: Choice. What makes us root for Roy and Riza despite everything? Because despite impossible odds, they are working for a future where something like the Ishvalan War will never happen again, even if they end up being sentenced to death along the way.

Now going back to Spy x Family, the plot doesn't center around a global scale like FMA does. Yes, the tension between the East and West is a huge part of it, but most of the story is centered around one little family. It's important to remember that FMA isn't royai's story--it's Ed and Al's. Roy and Riza's character arcs are mostly complete even by the beginning of the manga. Loid and Yor's and Anya's are not.

But you really did hit the mark when you said royai colors our love for twiyor because both couples are two people who care very deeply for one another but can never be together. Roy and Riza can never get married due to military regulations. And the fake marriage between Loid and Yor will end once Operation Strix is finished (or so Loid thinks). But it's not really the mission or the military that's keeping them apart. One of my favorite royai authors @lantur wrote such an amazing royai fic outlining the fact that Riza being Roy's subordinate isn't actually the thing keeping them apart. Those two have such a painful, shared history. (I mean, he literally burnt the tattoo off her back after using the knowledge of it to commit genocide, for which Riza feels partly responsible). And yet they are fiercely loyal to each other. They don't need to kiss or fuck to know how much these two love each other. (On screen I mean...you cannot tell me they didn't at least have one night together).

With Loid and Yor, it's not nearly as heavy. But Loid (or rather, Twilight) does carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. He feels it's his sole responsibility to bring about a world full of peace, and he will not deviate from that mission. But of course he's getting more attached (who wouldn't) and he's eventually going to have to choose between his forged little family and the rest of the world. To most, maybe that's a simple decision. But you have to remember that Twilight is one who is going to have to change the most out of the Forgers. His decision to love them changes everything. It actually brings up an interesting point if royai did have a child. Would they still choose to put themselves on trial if it meant the possibility of leaving their child an orphan?

Spy x Family is about, well, families. The strength that comes from when broken people decide to heal each other and create a future for their child that's bright and safe and warm. And that directly parallels with FMA because it doesn't always have to be blood-related families, but the bonds you choose to forge (pun intended). And though I hope for royai to have a nice, quiet life in the country somewhere, laughing and growing old together, it's left ambiguous for a reason. Twiyor on the other hand, well let's just say that my heart keeps telling me that their happy ending is coming, but they're going to have to go through a lot of pain and angst and denial of feelings to get there. It's a comedy, so I expect Endo will get them together eventually, it's the when that's the mystery.

So I guess to wrap up this very lengthy answer, while royai and twiyor are different on the surface, they are similar at their core. Fighting for a better world, creating their own families along the way, and sharing little moments of devotion through their daily lives. Because though the series is nowhere near being done, you know Loid would look at Yor like she's the moon and the stars once he finally realizes he loves her.

Thanks for letting me rant about something I feel very passionate about, and I'll probably add to it if I think of more reasons lol. I'm glad you enjoy my fics, that's very sweet of you to say! Have a wonderful weekend! <3

#spy x family #fmab #royai #twiyor #uggg these two ships will never leave my brain ever i love them so much #unhinged screaming #but seriously me too if twiyor doesn't eventually end up together i will RIOT #asks

[oars]

hiii I want to know more about appindex 👉👈

what is his relationship like with the other party members?

How easily does she trust other people?

If they are stressed or upset is there a thing/place/action that is comforting to him?

also anything else you want to share?

(I LOVE her design by the way, their appearance immediately caught my attention. Love your use of color too)

sorry this took me so long i swear when i saw this ask i started squealinf abd looking like this

gonna put it under a read more since um im gonna assume this will get really long lol

disclaimer im gonna straight spill my thoughts sorry if things stop making sense

i made a small comic just for the first question but tumblr doesnt like it for some reason and it prevents it from showing up unless you go directly to my blog :<

anyways i think overall appindex is like a mother of at least 6. companions come to them in the middle of the night like "i frew up :(" that typa thing

since family/clan n loyalty is very important to dragonborn and appindex just lost theirs before being abducted they are very quick to attach to these losers

i think while appin is not under the control of any god, lord, devil, etc they've created a personal hell of his own bc he tries to bear all responsibilities and burdens of those around him bc he's scared of failing and losing too much again. or all he has left really. that can make them kind of overbearing and it would be annoying if like the main companions didn't have issues and lowkey liked the attention.

what does get annoying is that it comes off as appindex not trusting their companions to do any heavy lifting but that improves in like act 2-3 especially since that's around the part the tav is expected to save baldurs gate. and the world like that's way too much weight for appin to carry on their own without breaking so atp they don't really have a choice but to let their companions share some of that albeit verrrry reluctantly

slightly more specific relations ---

shadowheart: shart is the first appin gets close to even if shes older i like to think she's like a little sister to appindex anyways <3 i should just show screenshots of the epilogue conversation bc it feels so fitting. probably one of the only companions to recognize appin's exhaustion and nag her

karlach: close in a years long tumblr mutual type intimacy way. "i'd let my mutuals come inside idc" type relationship. they occasionally sleep and cuddle naked. as good friends do. it's nice having someone they could rely on for literal heavy lifting and hitting bc in appin's eyes the rest of his companions are made of sticks and paper, save for lae'zel. girls who rip off heads with their bare hands and paint their nails in the blood :3

astarion: i do not know how to explain their relationship early on bc it fluctuates in my head. obviously irritated by how appin stops to help anyone and everyone especially since most of those people in act 1 are parents and children. appindex definitely laughs at his lame ass "seduction" bc it's pretty see through; it becomes less about seducing and just aiming making them laugh. appin probably said "im proud of you" at some point and it got to his head now he's vying for their attention and validation (get in line). my white hollow boned elf i'd probably give my organs to if he asked - appin

i think appindex is the more mature one, mentally and emotionally, especially since dragonborn develop and mature much earlier than elves do and i feel like dying young and being under cazador's control stunted astarions own maturity a bit. the result is appindex treating him like a child sometimes; not trusting him to do a number of things, scolding him,"dont treating me like a child" "dont act like one" etc etc. i think at some point he just does it and wears on appindex's extensive patience on purpose because he's a little freak like that :/. appin does not think its cute

ok no more of them next question

i think appindex is pretty trusting in a way. if they feel like they have no reason to feel threatened by someone they'll have their trust but that doesn't mean it can't be lost ofc. which is why they trust laezel and astarion so easily. why would they be scared of a tiny white elf who can't even get them to knife point (he failed that).

he does struggle to trust others to do things for them though, if he were ever to be out of commission or on the verge of it it would be like pulling teeth to try and get him to let someone else lead temporarily.

appin holds onto a piece of kednyr's old blanket bc it still smells like her :thumbs_up: karlach gives her a teddy bear with that piece attached to it as a gift. astarion may have helped but he will not confirm

extra notes ermm appin lived in the upper city, not a patriar or a servant, they just co-run an expensive smithy there.

as a passionate blacksmith (and someone who wants to become an artificer) appin is really intrigued by karlach's engine and wishes they could collaborate with dammon on how to fix it or make her a new one entirely

to add onto that he's extremely fascinated by the grymforge in the underdark its like a theme park to him. it is their nerdiest point in the storyline

they can stay underwater for a good period of time; an hour is their highest time

andd she has a prosthetic leg around age 40-45 sorry this got so long . this things in my head 24/7 rn i tried to omit some things to make it shorter but oh well

[adina123]

I was think that if there was a Steven stand in for the Gemcyt au it would be someone that has ties to both hermit craft and empires 

The candidates are Scott false gem and pix

but I guess since the au is mainly life smp it would be some that was in all three

If we’re only looking at people that are in all three smps then Scott or gem would be the best options because they are in all

but I think pix being the most diplomatic is the best choice if you’re looking for the most fitting personality out of the four

But it doesn’t have to be someone that is in all three @scrimblescromble made a post suggesting Hermes as the Steven figure and I think that is a good idea or at least having Hermes in the au is a good idea 

In my past post I wrote that sausage took some time to grow attached to the earth and I think that when sausage was with the crystal gems leading up to him contacting the diamonds he befriended a human kid that along with bubbles was the main reason for him finally decided to defect 

After he defected sausage moved back into the cave with gem and fwhip (the cave is were the reformed homeworld gems live like how lapis and peridot live on the farm) 

He would visit Hermes still and Hermes was unofficially adopted by crystal gems specifically sausage and joel and Lizzie 

Pix was a wreck making sure the three gems knew how to properly keep a human child alive also he was the one that ended up home schooling Hermes and teaching morals and being responsible

pix is the Greg of the au but he is more involved in gem problems and in Hermes education

In beginning jimmy was really jealous of Hermes because he’s used to being the youngest 

Like amethyst after Steven came along 

He acted like a jealous only child that got a new baby sibling only here he is a brother to the parents and not Hermes so an he’s an uncle figure 

so his situation is similar to yuri from spy x family only without the incesty vibes and he has nothing against the husband 

Lizzie was his diamond and big sister figure for the longest Time and still is but now that things are changing he has a hard time adjusting 

But just like amethyst he learns

inspired by @playername-player-of-games and @scrimblescromble

#gemcyt #solidaritygaming #jimmy solidarity #mythical sausage #joel smallishbeans #ldshadowlady #smallishbeans #empires smp #steven universe au #gem au #esmp hermes #geminitay #fwhip

[dontkickmyshin]

i've been rereading weak hero season 2 since the latest chapter dropped and i have some things to say about donald

spoilers under the cut

okay first of all i am so fucking pissed at seopass😭😭i can't really say much about the storytelling aspect of choosing to allow donald to die but honestly it does feel very sudden and just unfair to his character. perhaps the suddenness is my reaction because all this time it seemed like he just couldn't die, then he had had the whole arc in the final battle where we finally see a vulnerable side of him and get his full backstory, then all of a sudden he dies?? it just feels so incomplete, like the build up was for nothing🙁🙁🙁.

second of all, i'm only realising just how sad his backstory is now that i'm rereading it.

it's not just about his mother being ill, his father being abusive, and being bullied in school but also the loss of innocence in young donald. at first he was so sweet and cute, but by the time he's thirteen, he's also got a whole baby gang going, beating people up and even doing breaking and entering in one instance, taking his step father's money. then he exposes the dirt on his ex teacher and had myles joo and his boys beat him up, and smash his car outside of the school.

it also reminds me of how much donald has grown- now he would never b&e or smash an adult's car so recklessly (though ofc he did it originally knowing he couldn't get the police called on him). though still heavily involved with delinquents, violence and crime, his methods have refined as he grew, and you can see him become more calculated and less uncouth. despite the maturity of his actions at 13, in a way they're still childish, and it's a reminder that even if he's acting tough he's still a baby🙁🙁

while i was glad to watch those people get their comeuppance, i honestly felt so heartbroken watching their callous and flippant nature to crime. like, he literally has a baby face!!! he's like 5'0!!! and he's here stomping people in alleyways and committing burglary?!!! it reminded me of kaz brekker from SOC for some reason, who was innocent and naive till he had to grow up at 12 or 13 and started hustling people in gambling dens and getting in trouble with the law.

it hurts to watch how cruelly he was treated by his teachers and his schoolmates because of his poverty, and how no one did anything about it because it was just normal to them that in a school full of rich kids, it was just a given that donald was considered less than trash. then at night he was kicked out by his step father so he could cheat and drink and he had to wander around yeongdeungpo all on his own in the cold, hungry, and huddle under an apartment block?? ARE YOU JOKING😭😭

he changed so much due to the circumstances of his situation and he grew into something no one should ever have to. he isn't just strong and smart and always five steps ahead becaude of his natural talent (though that definitely helped), but because he had to be. doing badly has never been a choice for him. he needs it to survive. i've always liked donald, and i've always suspected this about his character, but hearing it be confirmed just makes me like him more.

it's so sad realising how everything about him was manufactured to fit his image- his piercings, his hair, his clothes, his tattoos, his image, the way he talks- he didn't even LIKE any of them, but they just became a part of who he was nevertheless. thinking about the way he found his tattoos repulsive when they were all over his body, and were the first things he saw whenever he looked in the mirror must've been so painful to him. but he probably thought being affected by it made him weak so🙁.

and finally, the end where it shows his attachment and love for his inner child who was never loved or taken care by anybody and had to fend for his own. the image of the older donald, covered in tattoos taking care of his small, crying younger self is so powerful😭😭like look at this i wanna kms

i wonder in another life how donald na would turn out if none of these things happened to him🙁🙁he wanted to be a NASA engineer you know🙁🙁🙁😭😭😭he had his own dreams

other things that i noted were that donald actually changes in public a lot. like seriously a lot....first on the rooftop then in the library, like this guy was just stripping at every opportunity.

and also that him not inviting gilshin and jimmy bae into the union was done on purpose as a technique to make them more willing to join? what?? that's so smart😭😭

i also found out this way that myles was a member of the union before it was even called the union?? like they rode together for three years and donald still beat his ass like damn! he is unsentimental.

i'm going to write something about the funeral chapter but that deserves its own post

#weak hero #donald na #gray yeon #union #weak hero webtoon #na baekjin #kingsley kwan

[ariainstars]

The Genius of Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer, an Englishwoman who lived from 1902 to 1974, is one of my favourite novelists, and I often reread her books or at least some parts of her books just to retire into an agreeable world. She wrote historical novels and thrillers, but I must admit I don’t like these very much. To me, Heyer’s genius was giving a breath of fresh air to the overworn genre of romance novels set in the English Regency era. (Although some of these Heyer novels like These Old Shades or The Convenient Marriage are set during High Rococo.)

In my opinion Heyer is highly underrated, standing in the shade of the more known Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters, books women most relate to when they want to read historical romance novels; Barbara Cartland is also more known, an author whose works are too saccharine for my taste.

Austen’s or the Brontë sister’s novels are not actually romances although they are often described as such; they are accurate portrayals of the society the authors lived in, romantic attachments playing a major role of course, but the focus is on the importance of family and society framing them and influencing them, for good or for bad.

I always found myself drawn to Heyer’s stories, long before I fell in love for the first time myself; the average romance novels get on my nerves. Now, and after having experienced love more than once, I can say that I wholly share Heyer’s approach that no matter how much in love you are has no influence on whether you and the object of your interest fit together.

The common trope in romances is “love conquers all”, which I personally dislike because it strips the protagonists of having their own mind and their own agenda. “Love” makes the choice for them; they don’t consciously choose to be with this person or other. Alternatively, the protagonists are “meant for each other” but “star-crossed”, i.e. circumstances or their own folly (or both) prevent them from being together, in which case the novel is framed as a tragedy and we are expected to cry buckets over it.

This is fortunately not the case in Heyer’s romance novels. Like Cartland, she writes of an England that was long gone before she was born, of course in a romanticized way. A lot of her stories mirror how the do’s and don’ts of those times, in particular in the upper class, influenced their lives and made it very difficult to navigate society.

Georgette Heyer’s genius is her capacity to imbue old tropes with new elements, and most importantly, to detach herself from the adage “love is all you need”. Without being sarcastic, she is at her best (in my opinion) when she weaves stories about people who realize that being in “love” is not that important at all. Her romances do end well, yet not due to the influence of a higher power but because the couples involved had the chance to realize who is the right partner for them to spend the rest of their lives with. Her heroines are usually headstrong, independent and reasonable; they may act on a whim or following their heart, but it is when they listen to reason - or are pushed to do so - that they finally get their happy ending.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

The Cinderella Trope

Arabella, and also Friday’s Child and The Convenient Marriage deal with the subject of a poor, or at least modest-living, female from a good family being launched into London’s high society by a strike of good fortune. In the latter two novels, this includes for them the chance to buy a heap of beautiful new clothes, strongly reminding of the Cinderella trope.

But Heyer would not be who she is if the novels would not be original in their own way: Arabella, far from being a modest, kind girl, pretends to be a rich heiress in order to “show his place” to a man who believed she wanted to ensnare him due to his wealth; Hero from Friday’s Child and Horatia from The Convenient Marriage both do not end but begin the story through marriage, and the plot unfolds as they slowly realize (and their respective spouses, too) that they have married the right person after all.

Finding Love in an Unexpected Place

In The Convenient Marriage, the Earl of Rule is ready to marry a certain girl to make a match, arranged years earlier, with a poor but very aristocratic family; it is on meeting her younger sister that he realizes “he does want to ally himself with the family”, to put it in his words.

In The Quiet Gentleman, as he has to deal with conspiracies and attempted murder, the protagonist Gervase Frant learns to put his trust in a female he first found dull, and who is not aristocratic the way he is.

In Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle, the Duke of Salford is at first disappointed by Phoebe, the girl his mother and her friend had chosen for him, and she doesn’t like him any better; they have to live through a number of adventures, together with friends and family, until they realize that they fit together perfectly.

In Sprig Muslin, Sir Gareth Ludlow overcomes his grief over his lost fiancé due to being responsible for Amanda, a girl of similar temper, and getting the chance to compare her to Lady Hester, a shy, unremarkable woman whom he liked but did not appreciate enough before. A beloved theme of Heyer’s romances is brought up here, too: having the same sense of humour shows to be indicative for two people fitting together.

In Charity Girl, notorious bachelor Viscount Desford gets involved both with a very beautiful girl named Lucasta and another, quite helpless damsel named Cherry, but none of them turn out to be right; instead, he finally realizes that Henrietta, an old friend of his, whom he had not wanted to marry years earlier, is the right mate for him after all.

In Faro’s Daughter, Mr Ravenscar gets interested in Deborah, a girl who works in a gaming house, which makes her free game to all men who visit it although she is a decent girl and only wants to earn a living for herself and the aunt who owns to place. A parallel is made through the protagonist’s niece Arabella, forever being in love with one guy or another but then refraining at the last moment. Finally, her uncle gives her a sound advice: that only if she will meet a man whom she will be ready to introduce to her family, she will know that he is the right man.

In False Colours, twin brothers Kit and Evelyn literally switch their places, one of them finding the right girl in the process by getting to know his brother’s prospected bride.

In The Foundling, the Duke of Sale is all but pushed to make an offer for Harriet, a girl he likes but is not in love with; but as he lives through some adventures and meets Belinda, who is very beautiful but also superficial, he learns to appreciate his future bride better and to realize that he would not want to be married to anyone else.

The Wrong Match

In An Infamous Army, Lady Worth wants to match up Colonel Charles Audley with Lucy, but then has to find out that the sweet, innocent-looking damsel is already secretly married, and that the temperamental Lady Barbara whom she had not liked for him is exactly what he needs since she has courage and straightforwardness.

Not Falling in Love at All

In A Civil Contract, Viscount Lynton, heir of an impoverished family, marries the shy and average-looking Jenny, the daughter of a rich, vulgar merchant to keep his family out of debt; she loves him but is aware of the fact that he does not requite her feelings, since he secretly loves Julia, a beautiful woman who does not have much money of her own. It is only as the plot thickens, the woman he loves marries another man and his wife gives him a son that he realizes “his Jenny” is the best wife he could have found.

Falling Out of Love

In Friday’s Child, Lord Sheringham believes to be in love with Isabella, an acclaimed beauty, until he has lived for a while with Hero, the young woman he had married on a whim. “Bella with her airs and graces, her moods and her sharp tongue! No, thank you!”

Isabella on the other hand was about to contrive a brilliant match, but good sense makes her refuse it after all. “When I thought how my life would be, that I would have to spend the rest of my life with him… oh, I could not!”

In The Grand Sophy, Cecilia is besotted with Augustus, a very romantic but unreliable young man. After a trying period spent nursing her small sister, who was critically ill, she finally realizes that the less romantic but more worthy Lord Charlbury who had offered for her in the first place is a much better partner for her.

In Cotillon, Kitty enters a fake engagement to teach a lesson to Jack, the man she is in love with; but when she comes to London for a while and learns more about him and the world, she slowly realizes that she was in love with a figment of her imagination, and that Freddy, the man she is engaged to, is a much better person.

“He seemed like all the heroes in the book, but I soon found that he is not like them at all.” “No. I’m afraid I ain’t either.” “Of course not! No one is.”

Heyer’s chief oeuvre in this respect is in my opinion Bath Tangle, where Serena and Lord Rotherham, both hot-tempered protagonists get engaged to someone much gentler than them, only for them to realize that they would not be happy with them. The heroine’s fiancé Hector gives her up amicably, having also found a much better life partner.

“You are a grander creature than I even imagined.” “And you are the kindest and best of men, but not my love!”

The “Pride and Prejudice” Trope

The themes of Jane Austen’s famous novel is upended in Faro’s Daughter, where it is the man who has a strong prejudice against the girl, whom he inevitably believes to be a scheming, money-grabbing minx because she earns her living in a gaming house. The girl on the other hand has strong personal pride and would never accept money from anyone, or accept marrying or becoming the mistress of a man for whom she doesn’t care. Far from declaring his devotion to her, the man insults the woman repeatedly, before he finally realizes his mistake and also that she is the right mate for him.

The Beauty and the Beast Trope

In Black Sheep, the protagonists Abby and Fanny are aunt and niece, both at the same time in love with two members of the Calverleigh family who both have a bad reputation; but while Beauty (the niece) has to realize that the man she had fallen for was only after her fortune, non-Beauty (the not quite so pretty, but intelligent aunt) realizes that the uncommon Miles who gives nothing on society’s standards does care for people, and that he is the broad-minded, worldly-wise partner she exactly needs.

In Venetia, the person falling out of love is a Edward Yardley, a sidekick, who really ends up being disillusioned; but the story had made it abundantly clear that he had been a fool all along to believe that he and the protagonist would suit. Venetia, the Beauty, has to find out that she cannot tame the Beast Lord Damerel, and that she wouldn’t want to do it additionally. The Beast is not a bad man but someone who does not fit in with society; which makes him ideal for her since she does not, either.

This trope is brought to a climax in Lady of Quality, where the protagonist Annis, who never felt the slightest interest in the gentlemen she met, on getting to know the rude but protective and straightforward Oliver finally gets to fall in love, despite the fact that they argue frequently. At one time she muses that “Surely kindred spirits did not quarrel?” only to then add mentally, with a little self-irony, “How mawkish!”

If you are tired of Jane Austens’ prim heroines and the Brontë sister’s drama, I invite you: give Georgette Heyer a try. Her novels are entertaining but neither flat nor sentimental, and I always find new layers and aspects in them when I reread them after a few years. Her heroes of course live in an idealized world, but it’s just what you might need after a hard day’s work. 😊

#historical romance #literature #georgette heyer #jane austen #bronte sisters #english literature #critical reading #romance #reading #entertainment

[spicesweet]

how do you feel about other fat people? i've seen a lot of discourse accusing ed girls of being fatphobic and i struggle with it because i don't think i'm fatphobic towards other people but at the same time i can't find fat people beautiful and i don't want to be fat. do you feel this way too? how to deal with that? -v ♥

hi v! thanks for trusting me with this issue because, oof, it's a delicate one.

I do feel like you when it comes to how other people discuss or feel about fatphobia. there are a lot of people out there who will think that the simple fact I'm working towards weight loss is fatphobic in itself; there are people who believe fatphobia is something you can't apply to yourself; there are people who argue that fatphobia is not about aesthetics but rather about discriminatory behavior towards fat people in our society, etc.

fatphobia is the sort of discussion that, at least as far as I'm aware, doesn't have an established consensus, even among fat people themselves, so it's the kind of social issue that, regardless of how you act or think, someone out there will always say you're awful and wrong.

I used to be overweight and I've been fatshamed in the past, I've had disordered eating patterns since I was a child and right now a lot of my life is structured around losing weight, and my point of view on the subject is this: as long as you don't mistreat fat people, as long as you don't discriminate against them, as long as you don't meddle in their health and body image, as long as you don't contribute to the social stigma around fat people, how you perceive fatness (as beautiful or ugly) is irrelevant.

your personal aesthetic preferences are irrelevant unless they are what guides your behavior. if you mistreat someone because they don't fit into your aesthetic preferences, then yeah, you're a cunt, but if you don't, then why would it matter? that's how I see it at least.

I for instance think blond men are hideous, but I wouldn't mistreat a blond man solely for that fact. I just don't feel attracted to them, and I think that doesn't qualify as discrimination.

personally, I think fatphobia is a much bigger issue than just personal preference, aesthetic or sexual attraction, and I think it's unfair to think that individual choices we make about ourselves are automatically connected to the choices we make in our handling of others. I honestly don't think I've ever mistreated someone for being fat other than myself, so I'd feel really bothered if someone felt like my eating disorder, for instance, is offensive to them because they're fat, even when my actions don't affect them at all. I think it goes beyond that.

I don't know if I've made myself totally clear but this is how I feel about it. ⁠♡

#loveletters

[soulsxng]

GUYS, I CAN NEVER TELL WHAT MORAL ALIGNMENT THIS LIL' SHIT (Eluvias, my lovely little problem child) IS. I'm putting the rest under a read more because I know it's gonna end up super ramble-y.

So first, the way I look at the alignments is loosely this: - Good = Would save someone in trouble without promise of reward. - Neutral = Would leave someone in trouble to their fate. Might intervene for reward. - Evil = Would harm/kill/otherwise detriment person in trouble. and then: - Lawful = For principle - Neutral = For necessity - Chaotic = For impulse

And I can never tell if he fits best as true neutral, chaotic neutral, or neutral evil. Which...look, I know that technically no character should fit perfectly into an alignment. Different situations, and pressures, and whatever else could always make a character act outside of that alignment after all-- if they didn't, it would make the character kinda flat and predictable. (Plus, examining what would make them act out of that "norm", how they would do it, and how they would react to it afterwards is one of the most interesting parts of writing a muse imo)

But with Luvi, it always just feels like he decides how he's going to react to everything on a whim. Which...immediately points me toward chaotic. But good and evil don't really fell like they completely fit him, so I always sway towards chaotic neutral.

Except that he has done and will do some really fucked up shit. Sometimes just because he felt like it. Other times because he felt it was what he had to do, or even because it was what he should do in that situation.

And sometimes it's a little frustrating when I write him, because I feel like he can come off so all over the place at times that I worry that he doesn't come across as a consistent muse...like he does whatever, because...well, whatever. Which wasn't the case when he was still in Elyki.

Noticing that is what made me realize that it's because of that, that Luvi is so unpredictable now, though. Even if Zahine spoiled the hell out of him when he was young, he still grew up under very strict rules. Pretty much everything he did was heavily regulated. (With Zahine, it was for Luvi's health and wellbeing at a time when he was very frail and weak. With Mattias later on, it was just because Luvi was a tool that was potentially very dangerous to everyone in Elyki as well if he wasn't...essentially "holstered properly")

Now that he's away from that, he's suddenly bombarded with choices that he's never had to make before. He wants to be nice, and good-- partly because that's what he views his older brother and Zahine as being, and partly because he wants to make friends. (and then not have to worry about feeling like he has to or wants to hurt them)

His upbringing with Zahine taught him more that he needs to watch out for himself, and that-- while he should be cautious of others, he shouldn't hurt them unless he actually has to. That, as long as it won't detriment him, he should help people in dire need, but to generally let those in lesser need take care of their problems on their own. Kind of a good/neutral bordering.

But his upbringing with Mattias also taught him that...essentially, the lives of others that he doesn't know shouldn't ultimately matter to him. And that if he wants or needs something, he should just take it, regardless of how he has to get it. That if someone slights you even a little bit, or even if you just don't really care for someone. They annoy you? You can get rid of them.

And so really, he's just caught in this really confusing limbo where...kind of like a child that's just trying whatever comes to mind, seeing what happens from there, and deciding "Wow, that worked out pretty well!" or "That went really poorly..." from there.

Io and Zai try to help him with all of this, because they know he's overwhelmed, but neither of them can (or should, since that was a bit of an issue in and of itself; Luvi's obsessive nature definitely didn't help any of this) be there to hold his hand all the time.

Anyway, all of this is pretty much to say that I don't think I can put Luvi in any alignment, at the moment. He's got too much learning to do.

It also makes me wonder if Io was ever that way too, but I honestly don't really think he was. Not only was he old enough when Zahine went missing that he remembered a lot of the things that Zai stood for, but he was always especially defiant with Mattias. So while there might have been a little bit of figuring things out in that manner when he was taken under Pythius and Rhezar's wings, it wasn't anywhere near what it currently is with Luvi.

#[Eluvias -headcanons-] #My gosh this got so long I'm sorry #but the more I thought about it #the more I wanted to get it down #if not for everyone here to read and get a better idea of the reasoning behind some of Luvi's behavior #(I can already feel Suzu for example going ' :c ' or ' ;n; ' at all of this because Luvi is her /baby/) #then because I want to be able to look at it later on and see if anything has changed and all that

[genshinconfessions]

About the patterns in vision holders: Hydro could also be some "doesn't really want to do what they're doing, if given a choice, but they don't have a choice"

Kokomi doesn't like being the head priestess, Xingqiu doesn't wanna be a part of the commerce guild, Candace has expressed she'd travel the world if she wasn't tied to Aaru Village, Ayato has expressed he wishes he had more time for Ayaka and Thoma but has to look out for other people first, Mona doesn't like just giving out readings because she doesn't like when people get disappointed or mad over their fate.

I'm not sure about Barbara, Yelan, Childe and Nilou tbh.

Despite this "theory" being made way before Fontaine, Furina was stuck for 500 years acting as the archon. Lucky for her, she did get the chance to be more what she wanted!

Not sure if Neuvilette fits this either.

Please do tell me about the remaining Hydros I couldn't fit in!

spoilers for various character stories

hmmmm this is quite interesting!!

i think out of everyone else, childe probably fits your theory best. he was originally quite a shy and careful kid, but after falling into the abyss, he completely changed personalities. in a way, you can say that everything he's done since has been against his (original) will!

i'm not sure about the others, but let's see:

barbara: possibly only works so hard because she wants to become/surpass jean in some way or another; in other words, she may not want to be the 'shining idol' that she actually is

yelan: her character stories mention that she's actually quite a frail and delicate person (due to inherited illnesses) and doesn't like to take life super seriously, yet her job is highly dangerous and she necessarily has to take every mission seriously

nilou: i genuinely couldn't find anything that points to her doing anything against her will :( her parents allowed her to do whatever she was happy doing, she's happy doing what she's doing, and everyone likes her

neuvi: it can be argued that he didn't actually want to be the iudex but felt obligated to do so because of focalors' invitation; also, he's made it very clear that he thinks some of his judgments are objectively cruel--fair, but cruel--which means that he made those decisions against his will

honestly, my previous theory about the hydro vision holders 'hiding a darker side to them' doesn't really hold for nilou, either.

if i were to answer that question now (with more thought), i might say that hydro vision users are people who take their professions/what they do very seriously and are able to detach work from life. it fits into what we've both said in that they have a different side to them professionally and casually, but it just encompasses a bit more either way.

#genshin #genshin impact #genshin confessions #vision lore #theories

[tiedsh0es]

I’m not here to debate whether the 98 version or stampede is better but what I will claim FULL HEARTEDLY!!! Is that Stampede Knives is written so SO MUCH BETTER than 98. I WILL DEFEND HIM WITH MY LIFFEEE

Spoilers for Stampede and 98 Trigun below obviously For starters the way he acts as a child is completely different in both iterations. 98 Knives is brought up around a group of people, not just Rem. While Stampede Knives only ever knew Rem for his childhood. In Stampede He’s taught that he needs to be human, that if he ever meets one he’ll need to pretend to be one. Has to do things he doesn’t have to do as a plant like eat, because he NEEDS to fit in. Which makes Tesla’s reveal SO MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL. Because up until now he never really knows why he needs to hide his plant side, just that this is what Rem has taught him his entire life. Tesla on her own is terrifying, but it is only made worse that now he gets an idea of why Rem might want them both to hide. But in 98 there is no Tesla, which already kind of messes with his backstory. But instead of fearing humans because of what they do to plants… he’s rather just resentful because he’s bullied? Not that he has an easy life, but it’s not nearly as impactful as stampede. 98 Knives is just shown time and time again to be angry and remorseless, he never feels any guilt in his actions. Because 98 Knives is rather just angry, angry for himself and shown to show no remorse when he finally does something. Stampede actually shows more emotion. And yea Stampede Knives is so much more brutal in his fighting style, we actually get to see him kill people for a change but think about episode 9, when he’s a teen and he finds the dying plants. Before he kills those plant engineers he tells them (or Conrad to in the sub) to heal it, but of course they can't. They overused it, fully aware that they were killing it, fully aware that they wouldn’t be able to heal it. They had no choice, they would have died without it sure, but if no one else is going to do anything Knives will.

And kid stampede Knives was just scared. Scared of humanity. When 98 Knives lands the pod he is is just shown to be mean, he even hits Vash- which messes with something I also want to talk about a little later. But Stampede Knives, yes he also laughs at the burning wreckage but it feels so much more… emotional? Stampede Knives knows that no one is ever going to choose saving Plants over humanity, that’s just not possible. He was shown that when Rem decides to stay back and help humanity then go in the escape pod with the two of them. Goin on a bit of a tangent, but I think he wanted Rem to come, maybe even expected her to come with them. She was meant to be their guardian, their mother- but when given the choice she chose to stay with the ship instead of them. And I can only imagine how much that hurt him. So when he looks at the wreckage he’s finally done something. No one else was ever going to help them, the plants, so he’ll do it himself. SUCH A DIFFERENT MOOD THAN 98 JUST LAUGHING LIKE haha that’ll show my bullies! And not even to mention that it was just one guy.

Anyways going back to Knives hitting Vash in 98 ugh because. At least in my eyes the bond Vash and Knives have is SO important to the narrative. But in 98 Knives is kind of absent? He’s reserved till the very end, we only ever see him in flashbacks till we get the big final battle. But in Stampede Knives is there since the beginning. He even appears as an adult by the third episode. It’s gonna make however stampede ends so much better, because we see how desperately the two of them just want to get along again. But they just can’t. They have completely different ideals, and both of them are too stubborn to ever give up on it. Oh yea my final point, the real kicker. Stampede Knives actually uses Knives. 

#neos daily i need to talk abt trigun RIGHT NOW time #um i will note i did not rewatch anything for this besides that screenshot i am going completely off what i remember in my head #so well if i got something wrong. ummm no i didnt. because in my head it is right #😊 #not serious if i got something wrong tell me so i can think abt it even harder LMAO #trigun #talking #trigun stampede #trigun 98

[gayredmage]

Genesis makes no f---ing sense as a character.

I know, shocking coming from the guy whose comfort character is the redheaded asshole from Banora, but I can fully acknowledge bad and stereotyped writing. So I'm going to say it:

Genesis is an inconsistent and poorly written villain.

Fandom really has to work overdrive to get him to make sense. But hey, at least he cute. It's funny though because HCs of him tend to be more consistent than in game.

As a child of adoptive parents myself, his whole adoption arc is a harmful stereotype + doesn't make sense. Why would he kill his parents and then the game tell us he loved them and they loved him? It reeks of the stupid belief that blood relations are the only ones worth having.

And then you have the very weird friendship/rivalry which doesn't get explained in any way so people just assume he's a narcissistic jealous prick, but I wouldn't be surprised if actually it's because he's set up to always be in Sephiroth's shadow no matter what he accomplishes. So we're left with this weird friendship that doesn't make sense and why on Earth would Genesis and Sephiroth even consider each other friends when we don't have anything to demonstrate that?

There could have been a really good political story there about the popularity contest that SOLDIER is (which is mentioned in game), but no it's just classic Disney-style queer coded villain who acts in ways that don't make sense and that's why he's a 'bad guy'.

But then we get turned around again because people in SOLDIER did actually respect him and like him. We get told he's actually a really great guy and everyone is confused by his actions, and we the audience are too because SURPRISE the motive is thin at best

Then they say that Genesis comes back as a good guy after Dirge? And what were we meant to take with the whole G-Files nonsense? Are we lead to believe that Genesis is meant to lead the WRO? What the fuck is going on with this character? How? I thought he was a murderous asshat?

The only way I can make sense of it all is to have several HCs that are somewhat able to glue this all together. And the biggest one is that CC is told through Zack's eyes - an unreliable narrator.

We don't ever see Genesis murder his family or Banora, we are told that he did so. We don't see that he is jealous, we are told that his desire to be seen as Sephiroth's equal is 'petty' so we just assumed he hasn't got what it takes - that somehow he is inferior (although Apocalypse is the most OP limit break) and again, we aren't shown why. We're made to assume a lot about his character and the poor writing just gets poorer to try to reinforce something that doesn't make sense.

Huge missed opportunity to have any discourse on the corruption of the Shinra corporation and how they saw them as pawns in some game (lol), and instead we get this very weird lone-wolf villain who actually turned out to be right about wanting to destroy Shinra. It's weird.

Also Genesis' new VA isn't a great fit and reduces him down to being an arrogant Disney villain. The original VA gave him a lot more nuance, softness and humanity, now he's just a bit of a um, grating caricature? I don't know, it was a CHOICE that really contributed to his incongruent character.

So the headcanons I need to maintain in order to make sense of him (and so it doesn't just sound like people in a room just threw crap on the drawing board to make him sound villainy when they realised he didn't come across as 'evil' enough which contradicts the whole- you get my point by now I think):

Zack is an unreliable narrator who doesn't know Genesis at all, and because of that we have someone who can only utilise propaganda and very limited info that he has learned of him. He has no first-hand experience of Genesis at all, and when he does, Genesis doesn't feel the need to show any side of him except what Zack wants to see.

Genesis is not considered popular by Shinra standards (perhaps a scandal?) or potentially threatens the image they created of Sephiroth, so they attribute many of his achievements to Sephiroth.

Sephiroth is tired of Genesis being mad at him for not getting recognition for his work, and Sephiroth doesn't help much by poking the fire here and there.

If Angeal is considered to be somewhat Lawful Good, he wouldn't join Genesis if the guy was the maniac we were led to believe.

Genesis did not murder his parents. I know someone will say that some murderers do show love towards their victims, but nothing about Genesis suggests he would behave in such a way. This is the weirdest outlier in his behaviour.

The people who joined him did so willingly, and not out of a sense of duty to SOLDIER, but a sense of duty to him.

And the most important headcanon of all:

7. He's gay and has a daddy kink.

#genesis rhapsodos #crisis core #headcanons #vent post

[lenievi]

because SNW is allowing me this reading and because it’s something I’ve always headcanoned (way before SNW and Kirk/La’an), I’m just gonna ramble and muse a bit

spoilers for snw2 episode 9

(if you wanna read more Kirk/La’an thoughts related to the episode, here. I’m probably going to muse about this a lot in the upcoming days, and make more coherent posts)

Kirk isn’t in love with Carol. He likes her, but he isn’t in love with her. His and Carol’s relationship was always casual; if the Farragut was close to Starbase 1, they were on, if they were away for a longer period of time, they were off. 

And now Carol is pregnant, which was unplanned, and caught both of them off guard. But Kirk’s loyal and serious, so he wants to be there for her and their child. Even though it complicates a lot of things. He might even think it will complicate his career, unless he wants to become his father and take his child through the galaxy, never having time for him.

TOS tells us that Kirk and Carol weren’t together by 2261. TWOK tells us that David met James Kirk and that Carol asked Kirk to stay away and never told David who his father was.

So there are two options. Carol tells Kirk to stay away quite soon after David is born, and he does, but years later, they reunite, but also they don’t get romantically back: “Were we together? Were we going to be?” and Kirk doesn’t really try to befriend David

OR they simply break up, but Kirk is allowed contact until a certain age. And after that Carol tells him to stay away. “You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father.” That could literally be after the 5ym, even. Or shortly before, but David remembers “that overgrown Boy Scout Carol used to hang around with”, so after seems more plausible. (but again, they don’t get back together) (which is something I did mention in this post some time ago)

[most of the stuff above is just my original HC tweaked a bit to fit new info from SNW]

Before SNW seriously introduced a potential of Kirk/La’an, I expected SNW to give us Kirk/Carol story. But last week, I was thinking and realized that SNW isn’t a Kirk story - he isn’t a main character (I know people tend to see it that way, but he’s not). We won’t see Kirk centric episodes (or at least we shouldn’t for a pretty long while imho or at all tbh) - his every appearance should be tied to the main cast. That doesn’t mean - as we’ve already seen - that we won’t get his backstory, but it might mean that a lot of Kirk’s life will just happen off screen.

(I’m not saying we won’t see Carol. They cleverly put her on Starbase 1 where the Enterprise returns to often. There’ll probably be an episode where the Enterprise will need to do something with the scientists at Starbase 1. Spock will probably meet Carol there as well, so they can also tick off another “canon” point. But it won’t be a Kirk story.)

I do tend to see Kirk/La’an from Kirk’s POV a lot because that’s just what I do (and because in the long run, it’s heartbreaking), but the story is written from La’an’s POV. She already lost Kirk once, she lost him twice. From the storytelling POV, the story should eventually lead toward something more positive when it comes to Kirk and La’an as a relationship. Not having them eventually get together (even if they part after or La’an dies) would just feel hollow and ??? Especially since Kirk confirmed that he had feelings for La’an, but he can’t act on them because he has a gf and a baby on the way. (and as viewers, we know that Kirk/Carol just won’t last even though the characters don’t know that)

(But also like, Kirk, pls, you have a gf and you’ve still kind of led La’an on.)

From Kirk’s POV, I can see the “it was a lost potential that never happened”. If Kirk was the main character (and not La’an), I’d probably even expect that. Kirk made his choice and La’an moved on. But not from La’an’s POV tbh Not giving La’an her chance at being vulnerable and happy with Kirk would be too bleak. But I’m also known for liking the “wrong couples” lol 

Using her experience with Kirk to find that elsewhere would of course work in RL, but as a story, it’d be disappointing.

Well, I might change my thoughts after I see the finale and what they do with Pike/Batel and Spock/Chapel lol I don’t believe Kirk is in the finale but maybe I’m wrong.

in any case, if Kirk doesn’t appear in the finale, I’m totally using this when I figure out what kind of Kirk/La’an fic I’d like to write. I just want to give both of them happiness. Even if it’s temporary. 

anyway SNW still giving me everything I want. when will it end? when will they disappoint me? lol (probably with McCoy LMAO)

#i guess i'm gonna post this today and not tomorrow #i don't care if i project too much of my kirk headcanon on snw. snw makes it easy #snw nonsense #headcanon times #jim kirk

[moonlayl]

ask game: 7 + 16

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Sam Winchester from spn (even when he irritated me in canon it wasn't enough to truly dislike his character but fans acting like he was a 6 year old child who can do no wrong and can't be held accountable for his own screw ups seriously started to make me dislike his character. Not as much though now lol)

Loki. Even his worst actions never bothered me because he was always a villain and he was interesting on screen, but his fans trying to make him the victim of every situation and that popular 'he's actually a teenager in Asgard years' headcanon annoyed me so much. He's not a helpless little misguided angel. He deliberately hurt people as a grown, powerful, adult and killed hundreds. His character having depth and nuance doesn't change that.

(a lot of characters from aos would technically fit but canon is usually the reason I started disliking those characters at first and fandom just made my dislike stronger. ex: ward, Fitz, deke, Simmons but not as much)

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Fitzsimmons. My God, I tried so hard to like them and ship them in the beginning. I don't understand how they're considered the greatest couple like, where??? (but then codependency, slow burn, and jealous male trope is very popular in every fandom for some reason so it checks out I guess)

also, when fans take great found families and then infantilize the younger characters. weirds me out every time. Sorry, but daisy isn't a little baby who needs daddy Coulson and mama May to hold her hand and treat her like a child. She can view them as surrogate parents (she only really does this with Coulson in canon though, and even then because they met as adults one moment their relationship is a certain way and the next its another, which makes sense. don't think canon Daisy would ever call Coulson "dad" or May "mom" unless as a joke)while still treating them like friends/mentors and with them still treating her like a capable adult who can make her own life choices. She's literally 25 when she meets them.

cruel boy with a bad past + good girl romance.

enemies to lovers and childhood friends to lovers (except for very few scenarios

there's probably. a lot of other tropes but my mind is blank rn.

Thank you very much for sending in this ask! sorry if some of these responses sounded...harsh? I'm half asleep so I wrote it the way I'd say it, which I know doesn't always translate well through writing lol

choose violence ask game

#ask game #agents of shield #nymph-of-books #layl.text

[descendants-headcanons]

Uma Headcanons

- My fabulous queen

- There will be no Uma slander here she is absolutely one of my favourite characters and she was just doing the best she could under the circumstances OK

- Like at least she was consistent with her goals, Mal I love you but you were one hot flighty mess goddamm

- You know what you get when you sign up with Uma. Stability

- Also China Anne McClain was perfect casting for this bc her voice is just chefs kiss

On The Isle

- I really don't think Mal's Shrimpy taunt got to Uma like she thought it did. Uma seems to be over that quite well in the second film (yknow for someone who hasn't read the books). I mean obviously there's some resentment but I think it's less over the taunt itself and more over the blow to her reputation if that makes sense

- That being said, Uma does not take ANYONE'S shit. That much is apparent

- Uma wouldn't rely on her parents name for power like Mal and others did too. Ursula is proven to not give a damn about what Uma does so while it definitely gives her some freedom to do nice things, I can also see it causing some major issues while Uma was still a child.

- Ursula's abuse would probably mostly be neglect. When she could be bothered to get physical with Uma there'd obviously be strangulation and crushing because tentacles but overall I feel like she gets away with a lot more

- I like the idea of the Lost Revenge, while clearly being their ship and where Uma, Harry, Gil and the crew live, being a sort of sanctuary for kids escaping certain death

- Like if you're certain you're going to die or get violated or beaten they'll let you aboard and give you protection and shelter for as long as you need. And I absolutely headcanon that the Core 4 have had to take them up on that offer of protection and shelter at least once apiece. And it kills them to admit it

- Uma's only request for the people she offers sanctuary to is that they help with ship maintenence and use their skills after they go home to offer assistance when needed

- It may not be evil, but she's gained crew members from their sanctuary program and now each of the Core 4 owes her a favour so she's not exactly going to stop

- Uma guarantees her crew a meal a day because a fed crew is a happy crew. She can't guarantee more than that, because Ursula won't let her give away a tonne of free food obviously, but she tries to make sure at least Gil and Harry manage to get two solid meals in a day to keep them strong (and well fed because hungry boys are distracted boys and also she's weak for them)

- MUM FRIEND MUM FRIEND MUM FRIEND

- She is always checking to see if her crew needs something, requires assistance, has seen anyone who could be a good fit for the crew, has blackmail material to assist the crew etc etc

- I also like to headcanon that Uma doesn't pretend to not care about her crew. She may not advertise the fact that she does, but she won't deny it.

- The issue is that, if you openly state that you care for someone on the Isle, it is viewed as a sign of weakness. Uma is a pirate captain, and sea witch. Uma is not weak.

- However, whenever someone new is brought into the crew, she takes them to her quarters. There, she explains that the crew is basically family. You may not like each other, you may fall out with each other, but at the end of the day you stick together. We fight together, we party together, we eat, sleep, breathe together. She explains that they must always portray a united front.

- She has a system where if she makes a decision in the heat of the moment, it is followed no questions asked because she has evaluated the situation and made the best call. However, for general decisions, it is 100% a democracy. The crew will vote. Uma will act accordingly.

- She will never admit it aloud, but she is very thankful that she managed to earn the respect and loyalty of her crew. Not many people on the Isle can say that their gang members are there by choice. Uma is one of them

- Speaking of her crew, I really like to imagine that very few of them are born to major villains

- Everyone would be fighting over them to get those names in a gang because their parents could offer some form of protection or at least a backup plan

- No, I like to believe that Uma took in anyone. Orphans, children of sidekicks, small waifs no one thought would ever be strong enough to hold their own. I like the idea that Uma saw that they had potential, and took them on. Offered her protection, offered a guaranteed meal a day, offered a safe place to sleep - and that the stability helped these underdogs to thrive and become highly sought after members but they stick with Uma because goddammit she showed them how to live when no one else would.

- In my head Uma is basically a humanitarian but she'd never admit it.

- Again the idea of Uma and Harry somehow becoming the default mum and dad figures for the Isle kids just makes me laugh because absolutely no one expects it like it just happens

- Will fight anyone at anytime. She has squared off against Gaston before. And won. She's mental and everyone knows it.

- Asks Harry to teach her sea shanties for one reason and one reason only

- And that reason is so that they can hoist up the gangplank and sing them at absurb hours in the morning to piss off Hook's crew

- Harriet's crew sometimes joins in

- She usually only does it after Harry receives a nasty beating because Uma is nothing if not petty

- "HEAVE UP HAUL AND HEAVE AWAY, WAY HAY ROLL AND GO, THE ANCHORS ON BOARD AND THE CABLES ARE STORED AND WE'RE ROLLICKING, RANDY DANDY-O"

- "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU RAT BASTARD SCUNNERS, WHEN I GET ON THERE I'LL HOOK YOU ALL"

- Slightly off topic but the shanties I imagine them singing are ones like these (all of these I heard from a group called The Longest Johns if you want to check them out): Randy Dandy-O, Santiana, The Drunken Sailor, Lowlands and Leave Her Johnny.

- I actually like to believe that her transformation magic isn't blocked by the barrier because its related to her physical form as opposed to directing it to do something. She just chose to be in human form more often because its more convenient.

Off The Isle

- Uma seems to adjust quite well at first, but don't let her fool you. She is just as confused as Harry and Gil, she's just better at hiding it.

- Luckily she and the others abide by the Pirate Code, so they don't really get in too much trouble. In fact, Uma is quite proud that her crew blends in quite easily from the getgo.

- However she did throw one massive pirate hissy-fit over was very upset with not being allowed to share a room with Harry and Gil because goddammit those are her boys

- It took 3 weeks of Uma, Harry and Gil sleeping in a tree outside before Fairy Godmother gave in and gave them a room to share altogether (with some spells to prevent sexual misconduct)

- After that Uma was fine. In fact, she quickly became a favourite VK for most people because she didn't really stick out all that much

- Also, like Harry, Uma tended to attract small children who wanted to talk and play with her and its really hard to be scared of someone when there's a gaggle of 7 year old following them around

- The first thing she learned to do in Auradon was to heal with water so that if anything happened she could reverse the damage

- The second thing she learned to do, believe it or not, was knit

- Yes it was because of Harry and Mrs Potts meetups

- Uma joined the knitting club that Mrs Potts and all the other old ladies had because goddammit it was kinda fun

- Mal tried to mock her for it and Uma stabbed her with her knitting needles with a sweet smile the entire time

- Mal was then presented with the most godawful purple and green sweater. She wears it every Christmas. Out of spite.

- Uma definitely has a talent for knitting and crocheting. And she definitely doesn't knit hats and gloves and other accessories for Auradon hospital to give to premature babies

- She also definitely doesn't knit anything to put in the Isle of the Lost donation boxes, if you saw her there you were tripping on acid bro

- Also this is very random but I really feel like Uma would have a slight obsession with cinnamon

- And for once its not because Harry seems to really struggle saying that word she genuinely loves the flavour

- Although hearing Harry say simanim everytime makes her straight up cackle

- Speaking of cackles good lord this girl does have one hell of a cackle

- Like if she's laughing softly or giggling it sounds very normal but if something hilarious happens the floodgates just open and good LORD

- Tis a proper cackle

- Also she adopts a cat and calls her Captain because I said so.

- Listen she found her outside the school wet and miserable and homeless OK what else was she supposed to do

- Also, Harry's dog Teddy loves Captain. Captain doesn't mind Teddy but sometimes paps him just because.

- She is always checking up on her crew members, just to make sure they're doing OK in Auradon because it is a difference from their previous life

- Is also basically a walking medication timer for Harry and is constantly leaving her classes to make sure the forgetful dumbass actually takes his medicine

- Teachers hate her because even though she's on top of everything if one of her crew bursts in saying they need her (from things as minor as one of the kids scraped their knee to things as important as Harry forgetting his medication and getting lost in his head) she's out of her seat and heading to help

- Uma has had to explain her actions to Fairy Godmother several times and will refuse to accept that other people can help her crew

- "I am their captain and they are my priority. They have always been my priority, and will always remain my priority. That's not going to change. And if you want that to change then you'll have to expel me."

General Headcanons

- I really feel like Uma would be a fiction lover. Like she loves the Percy Jackson books, and can sometimes be found with a bunch of kids just reading to them. Harry will often join in because he is an amazing storyteller and sometimes she tells him to because if her reputation is taking a blow so shall his

- I also feel like she and Harry end up babysitting together a lot. Like the little kids love them and they're both so good with children that eventually they just become a default. Uma doesn't really mind

- Uma is also definitely a teacher by nature. She can always be found with her crew, teaching Harry how to count, teaching Gil how to read... She picks things up so easily and it genuinely pleases her to see that she's helping the people she's claimed.

- Also Uma is incredibly territorial. Even in Auradon she has no trouble staking her claims on her people, ESPECIALLY her boys. Some of these princesses can get real handsy with a hot lad, and when Harry and Gil are uncomfortable, Uma will step in with a malicious grin that doesn't reach her eyes.

- Uma basically adopts people into her friend group. There is no point where you state 'we're friends now'. If you have no one - you don't. You're crew now. Join the table and make sure you get a balanced meal otherwise Uma is grabbing your food for you in the future. Also you're learning sea shanties whether you like it or not.

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