#☆ HEADCANONS → these are layers to you; to your heart. let others see who you are within; let your walls down for now.

[aceparagoned]

In reference to this post I made about a couple of weeks ago, I'd like to go further into depth of how Hikaru's Crux was studied. In this headcanon, please be mindful of the following content warnings: child abuse, torture in a medical setting, and the ethics surrounding human experimentation in the name of "science."

When Hikaru was born and her Crux was discovered, scientists were intrigued on how this particular human could have developed another organ in the womb when her own mother, Katsumi, didn't have one. During Katsumi's entire pregnancy, the additional organ was discovered during routine ultrasounds, but there were discussions into the ethics of testing on an unborn fetus that could lead to Katsumi possibly miscarrying. Not just that, but Tamotsu, Hikaru's father, objected to the point of practically almost getting arrested for threatening to hurt the scientists that wanted to experiment on his wife and unborn daughter.

So, they held off until Hikaru was born so as to carry out their experiments when the Crux was fully developed.

This wasn't met without a great deal of resistance from not just Katsumi, but Hikaru's father, Tamotsu. The both of them vehemently argued to not test their daughter at all, thinking that she deserved so much more than being nothing more than something to gawk at because of being born with something else that no one else, at the time, possessed. For at least five years, Hikaru was able to grow up in a happy family until she was voluntarily given up to participate in the PIPE's training program in an attempt to turn the tides of war. They only gave her up on the promise that no experiments would be carried out on her because of her Crux.

The PIPE, desperate to continue living instead of losing the war against the Gnocem, promised they did. However, promises can be broken and it's one of the PIPE's horrible secrets that they've kept under lock and key this entire time.

See, after Hikaru had been given up by her parents, things were okay for a time. She was properly cared for, treated with respect, and told that things were going to be okay. That was, until, the same scientists who were intrigued when she was still in her mother's womb arrived and brokered a deal with the PIPE: they can test on her all they wanted if it'd produced the results they were looking for and that was to be humanity's weapon in the fight against the Gnocem. The deal was agreed upon and this is where things had taken a turn for the worst for Hikaru, who still was a child at this point.

At first, the experimentation wasn't that bad. Just a few shots and blood tests, really. But when that didn't reveal anything regarding the capabilities of Hikaru's Crux, they had to get "creative" with their testing and by being "creative", they resorted to procedures where sights like these [CW: needles in image] were unfortunately common practice with Hikaru strapped to a cold, metal surgical table and pleading for them to stop hurting her and that she was sorry for whatever she did to deserve this punishment.

Sadly, her pleas fell on deaf ears because it went so much further than just injecting her with multiple drugs. They wanted to see how she'd be able to heal and how much pain she could withstand. So, they went through with not just stabbing and lacerating her, but full on maiming by shooting her through her hands and feet. Again, her cries for mercy went ignored. However, these extreme methods of testing her endurance and pain tolerance finally paid off during her training regimen that she was still expected to go through. They ultimately made her stronger, and in their eyes fortunately able to withstand much more in terms of increased training.

Yet, no one thought about how she was still just a child. During these experiments and training, they slowly whittled away the bright and happy girl that started on this because she was promised that she was gonna be a hero and save the day! How could a child resist that? The PIPE and the scientists kept on saying that this was all in the name of making her a hero, like they promised she'd be.

Was being a hero worth all this pain and misery, though? That was one of Hikaru's many thoughts while she was in her room, quietly sobbing into her pillow at night until she finally was able to sleep, having passed out from the pain and discomfort she was in. Hikaru also learned that no matter how many times she cried or apologized, they'd still carry out the experiments on her, so eventually she'd just lie there and take it, trying to not make a single noise for fear that it'd only ramp up the experiments' intensity on her.

And the way that she was rewarded for this? They simply gave her treats, which were one of her only comforts. She couldn't contact her parents to tell them what was going on and the reports that they received told them that Hikaru was being well taken care of and was happy. Nothing was wrong in their eyes, even as they kept on forgetting the most important aspect of this whole matter: Hikaru was still a child. Yet, if it produced results such as giving them little victories here and there on the war, so be it — they would continue this extreme training regimen and keep on lying to her parents that she was being treated the way that they had promised. To this day, they still don't know what sort of hell their own daughter has been through and Hikaru doesn't want to upset them by telling them the truth, either, because of how these experiments gave them the stability that they have today.

As Hikaru grew up and became more powerful (along with being broken down and molded back into what the PIPE wanted of her), the experiments eventually ceased altogether, but this gave her a lasting fear of anything medical because of the hell she was put through. As previously mentioned, Hikaru is very critical of others tending to her injuries that she sustains in fights since she'd rather be the one to patch herself up because she doesn't trust anyone else to do it. Those in the medbay only admonish her for getting hurt for the umpteenth time and don't have any sympathy for her, no matter how grievous the injury really is. So, she'll often be by herself, dressing her own wounds while trying to stifle her sounds of discomfort however possible. This behavior of hers is still prevalent to this day because of how deep seated her own fear of anything medical is concerned — all because the PIPE saw her as nothing more than a weapon instead of a human being.

As far as anyone's concerned, the PIPE is heralded as this pillar of strength and hope, but no one publicly knows just what it took to get there. It's still classified information that only those who are higher up the food chain are privy to and have sworn to never reveal to the public the atrocities they committed to attain the semblance of peace that they have today. Anyone who tries to speak up about the human rights abuses they committed is silenced, never to be seen nor heard from again.

To Watanabe and others, the PIPE is nothing more than a shining beacon of peace and prosperity in the world and nothing shall ever taint that pristine image that they've cultivated for themselves all these years.

#☆ HEADCANONS → these are layers to you; to your heart. let others see who you are within; let your walls down for now. #☆ META → classified information on the world and the force that declared war on the Earth. #child abuse cw #human experimentation cw #human rights abuse cw #torture cw #medical cw #( ASK TO TAG. ) #*ooc: please let me know if I missed anything to tag here! I always value your comfort first and foremost #the PIPE isn't as virtuous as they try to appear as and they have PLENTY of skeletons hidden in the closet that they don't want others to #know about #and Hikaru herself is too broken by what they did to her to speak out against them — especially when she knows that people can enjoy life #now at the cost of her own childhood being robbed from her

[aceparagon]

tag dump part 2 ( out of character tags )

☆ SELF-PROMOTION → you are a beacon of hope to so many that you meet. the burden is great; yet you remain strong. ☆ HEADCANONS → these are layers to you; to your heart. let others see who you are within; let your walls down for now. ☆ META → classified information on the world and the force that declared war on the Earth. ☆ PROMOTIONS → these are my dearest friends! you all mean so much to me & help me keep going despite the insurmountable odds. ☆ A LITTLE PLACE CALLED HOME → these facets help run the city of neo-tokyo and the world overall. ☆ MEMES → downtime games for when there's a lull in this hero's busy life! ✫ MUSIC → what empowers her to fight — to keep going on despite the surmounting odds. watch her dance like a star. ☆ OUT OF UNIFORM → downtime is necessary even for a hero tasked with so much; remember to take a break for yourself. ☆ STARTER CALL → you've got a message! what does it say? ☆ DASH GAMES → what's new on the 'net? ☆ QUEUE → ''sorry I can't answer your call right now! I'm off saving the world!'' ☆ DASHBOARD COMMENTARY → even if her duty has her out on the frontlines; may these messages remind you that she is with you. ☆ PSA → hey listen! this is some important stuff here! ☆ OPEN → as a new day comes; there will always be something new to look forward to.

#☆ SELF-PROMOTION → you are a beacon of hope to so many that you meet. the burden is great; yet you remain strong. #☆ HEADCANONS → these are layers to you; to your heart. let others see who you are within; let your walls down for now. #☆ META → classified information on the world and the force that declared war on the Earth. #☆ PROMOTIONS → these are my dearest friends! you all mean so much to me & help me keep going despite the insurmountable odds. #☆ A LITTLE PLACE CALLED HOME → these facets help run the city of neo-tokyo and the world overall. #☆ MEMES → downtime games for when there's a lull in this hero's busy life! #✫ MUSIC → what empowers her to fight — to keep going on despite the surmounting odds. watch her dance like a star. #☆ OUT OF UNIFORM → downtime is necessary even for a hero tasked with so much; remember to take a break for yourself. #☆ STARTER CALL → you've got a message! what does it say? #☆ DASH GAMES → what's new on the 'net? #☆ QUEUE → ''sorry I can't answer your call right now! I'm off saving the world!'' #☆ DASHBOARD COMMENTARY → even if her duty has her out on the frontlines; may these messages remind you that she is with you. #☆ PSA → hey listen! this is some important stuff here! #☆ OPEN → as a new day comes; there will always be something new to look forward to.

[justporo]

Hey you :D

Here’s a request just to add your huge list for after vacation muahaha 💖

How do you think a slow, bickering romance with Astarion (kinda like Howl and Sophie) would go down.

Hey darling ❤️ You might’ve forgotten about this ask but I have not! I'm combining this with another one asking about where Astarion rejected Tav at first but then slowly fell for them.

Also haven't done one of this headcanon posts for a whole haven't we? Here we go:

Headcanons about Astarion slowly but surely falling in love with you (and how he pursues you)

Oh, it's all just a game for him, isn't it? At least at first. But this silly little jester didn't realise he was playing himself.

He might have rejected you at first (because he's a prick who has looked at the sun a little too long, let's be honest) but he quickly realises he can't take his mind off of you

You keep stirring the vampire's undead little heart and it scares him at first - and of course you had given up on it after that first hurtful rejection

But his crimson eyes start to never stray far from you, no matter if in battle or at camp: he can't tear his gaze from you - gods dammit, you're lovely!

It's in the way you always put others first, always have a kind word to spare, always a warm smile. How you laugh and how brave you are, how you bite your lip when you're lost deep in thought.

Quite frankly: a stake to his heart couldn't have been more effective.

But he realises another thing: he wants to be real with you, he wants to fall slowly with you - not a vicious thunderstorm but a soft, warm summer rain

And so Astarion begins to yearn in silence as you too can't keep your thoughts from turning around him often

It's painfully obvious to everyone around you how much the two of you are in love with each other; so much so that bets are being made in camp if you're gonna make it before you all reach the Gate

You notice that Astarion keeps sneaking around you like an adoring cat would: always a playful quip on the tip of his sharp tongue that you never take serious because... this Astarion we're talking about. "Oh my heart, aren't you even more blinding than the sun today" "Look who's blessing us with their grace and insight." "A copper for the thoughts in your pretty little head, darling."

Astarion doesn't know how to live the teasing out of his tone, maybe out of fear you might actually start taking him seriously; but if you would peel back the generous layer of faked sarcasm you'd find he's actually being serious

This man is downright smitten by you and you don't realise it as he achingly yearns for you - so much the others can barely take it

Sometimes you find little gifts on your pillow when you wake up: a sweet treat, snuck away from the others, a single blossom, a mysterious line of poetry - you are at a loss at where this comes from or if someone is playing with you

Meanwhile Astarion swallows his pride to regularly go to Wyll and ask his advice who... does help him but not without a haughty grin whenever he sees the lovesick vampire stroll over in his seemingly hopeless endeavour

Meanwhile you keep doing your utmost best to be at Astarion's side because you truly only want to help him and be happy and safe

Again: have mercy with the poor tortured soul, sometimes Astarion almost feels like he could combust on the spot if you give him one of your adorable lopsided smiles

When Moonrise and unpleasant people happen something in Astarion breaks, it all bursts out of him at once, overpowering even his terrible fear of rejection

The hug and tender first kiss you share that night tears both if your walls down.

You have not defeated the big bad enemy but something in your heart lightens knowing you have someone who will travel the road to whatever end with you

From there on out the two of you become even more unbearable in your pining for each other - meanwhile not trivial amounts of gold are passed between the other companions with quite some grumbling - but be assured: all of your friends are rooting for the two of you.

There we go, I love idiots in love with each other, hope you enjoyed!

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 spoilers #fanfiction #astarion x tav #bg3 #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate #astarion x you #poro headcanons #bg3 companions #astarion x reader

[kugokizs]

KISSES WITH BAKUGO!

❥ pairing: bakugo x gn!reader ❥ genre: fluff; headcanons ❥ word count: 1.1k ❥ warnings: none

finally a little smth for my favorite boy !!

001. YOUR FIRST KISS

Your hands were shoved in the pockets of your jacket in hopes to shield them from the biting cold, and your hood was secured by a thick woolen scarf courtesy of Bakugo’s mom. Snowflakes dropped down from above, making the city and the park you were in look like a mini winter wonderland. The cold was no match to the warmth in your chest and the darkness no match to the blinding light of your smile. Bakugo was in front of you, running around swinging on the street lights. You felt so warm, on a date with the boy of your dreams and having the time of your life. It felt like you were the star of a romance film.

You're not sure who started it, but you feel a ball of snow hit your back and you're turning around in faux rage throwing one right back, your giggles filling the air with Bakugo’s own. You can't help the smile that makes a home on your face, and no matter how much your cheeks hurt you can't help it.

Bakugo catches your eye, and throws a snowball at your face. You squeal, throwing your hands up before chasing after him. "Oh, you little-!" You curse as vou chase Bakugo around the park, slipping sometimes over icy snow or losing track of each other with the mask of snow falling over your eyes. Your hands throb now that they're no longer warm in your pockets and instead holding snow ready to be catapulted at your... friend? your boyfriend?

Right as you reach Bakugo you trip on a rock disguised by a thick layer of snow and your hands reach forward to break your fall.

Bakugo, as clumsy as he usually is not, falls backwards and brings you down with him. The force of your fall causes snow to lift around you and fall back down like rain, but you pay no attention. Now that all the giggles have died off and you're up close, the tension between you two that was undetectable before is very apparent now. You're so close you can see the reddish gold in Bakugo’s eye. You can see the ghost of his breath in the cold air, and the way his eyes darken under your gaze.

You can't imagine you look much different, and before you know what you're doing you're leaning closer, slowly, as if you move too quickly you'll be burned. You sort of feel like you are being burned if the way the flames licking at your chest are any indication. Your heart is thrumming, beating against your ribcage as if it's attempting to fight its way out.

You've been waiting for this, longer than Bakugo knows, even longer than you think. Since the day you met him and saw those plump lips curve up in a sly smile, you've wanted to know how they would feel against your own- and now you've finally got the chance.

Bakugo's heartbeat matches your own, and if you weren't covered by the heavy padding of your jacket you'd be able to feel it against your chest. He can barely believe he's managed to take you on this date let alone kiss you. It's the perfect setting, laying in the snow while the moon shines it's light down on you, and it feels like a perfect romance— something he was worried he wouldn't be able to do.

Your lips hover inches from him before they just barely brush. It's only a soft press but you feel like electricity has surged through your entire body. You can't help the shy smile that quirks at your lips, and when Bakugo leans up to kiss you again, you let him.

002. MORNING KISSES

You can't deny the man before you anything when he's smiling at you like that.

You've never been the type to indulge in morning kisses, too caught up in wondering if your partner would judge you. Maybe your breath stank too bad or your drool rubbed off on them. It was pure self consciousness that stopped you from kissing Bakugo when you two first started to wake up together, the sun peeking from behind soft curtains and casting a honey glow over your sleeping bodies. Your duvet would a ways be wrapped tightly around you and you would feel Bakugo's arms caging you in as his hair tickled your cheek and you nuzzled into his shoulder, pulling him as close as possible as he murmured sweet nothings from above you.

Bakugo has always wanted to be the couple that can wake up together and kiss lazily until they either manage to get up or fall back asleep. He's always found you beautiful, no matter what state of being you were in. He's considered this the purest form of intimacy, and he's always been grateful that you've allowed him to be the one to see it.

It's because of Bakugo that you no longer care about those negative thoughts. He makes you feel loved and cared for in a way no one else has, and when he looks just as disheveled as you, his hair mussed and knotted with a spot of drool on his pillow, you can do nothing but smile- too fond of the boy in front of you to do much else. When he smiles lazily, puckering his lips for a good morning kiss, you simply can’t deny him anything when he looks at you like that.

003. COMFORTING KISSES

When you feel like nothing can cheer you up, not even your favorite show or your favorite meal and it feels like nothing's going right in your life, Bakugo will walk in to see you staring at nothing in particular and reach out for you, wrapping you up in a hug, something that feels overwhelmingly safe and like nothing can ever hurt you as long as he's there. He'll hold your face in his hands and leave sweet pecks all over your face- your cheeks, your nose, your chin, your forehead, and then move on to litter them over the rest of your body. Your palm, your knuckles, your lips, before he's telling you that everything will be okay. Whispering "You're alright" and "I'm here" between every peck he leaves on your lips.

004. HEATED KISSES

The passionate but rushed pace always brings a heat to your gut, Bakugo’s breaths mingling with your own as you pull each other impossibly closer. Your hands grip his clothes, your arms wrap around his neck, your fingers run through his hair, and Bakugo does the same. His fingers running along your waistband and his lips trailing dangerously closer to the edge of your shirt, leaving love bites and marks that bloom across your skin like you're his favorite canvas.

His fingers dig into your hips, and his kisses send you spiraling, until they turn into simple brushes of your lips between shaking breaths and then into a series of short pecks so you can get air back into your lungs.

HIS FAVORITE KISSES TO GIVE YOU

surprise kisses: he loves seeing the look on your face

stomach kisses: the way you giggle makes him smile

forehead kisses: when he needs to feel you close to him

HIS FAVORITE KISSES FROM YOU

cheek kisses: it makes him smile

slow kisses: he loves to feel your lips linger on his

playful kisses: he loves feeling you smile against his lips

#katsuki bakugo x reader #bakugou x reader #bnha bakugo katsuki #bnha x reader #bnha fanfiction #bakugo x reader #bakugo fluff #bakugou fluff #headcanon #bnha headcannons #bakugou headcanons #bnha fluff

[yanderelinkeduniverse]

Yandere Sky Headcanons

Sky is, without a doubt, a hopeless romantic when he’s in love. We’ve seen him swoon and sigh dreamily when thinking about his loved one, he’s THAT kind of lover boy. Naturally, when adding a layer of insanity tinged love sickness to that adoration, he’s prone to becoming very affectionate.

Unless you are as dense as a rock, it will be no secret that the Hero of the Skies is head over heels in love with you. He basically has heart shaped pupils whenever he looks at you, cartoon heart bubbles magically appear around his head when in your vicinity and his face turns so red you’d think he had a high fever.

Sky is a devout yandere, obsessive in every way, shape and form, and protective to a fault. Even when not around you, you occupy his thoughts and daydreams to the point where it seems like he’s never not thinking about you.

He’s got a masters degree in yearning from Pining University.

And while he hasn’t lost that many people like some of the other mentally unstable chosen ones in the Chain(namely Wild and Legend), the fear of losing them is very real to him. He’s known the blood chilling terror of being a few steps too slow and a few minutes too late with the only thought in his head being “what did I do wrong?”

Following the conclusion of his first and only journey, Sky has come to accept that he made his mistakes and that he must move on in order to grow, but that doesn’t stop him from taking those lessons to heart when falling in love with you.

We’ve seen multiple times throughout the various installments that one of Sky’s favorite hobbies is playing his lyre. It’s a simple pleasure he indulges in whenever they have a moment of peace and the sound never fails to remind him of his home. But he’s found another reason to love it and that is the attention you end up giving him whenever he plays a song.

He isn’t the best musician in the group, but there’s no denying that the simple melodies he strings together are pleasing to the ears, so it’s no wonder you’d take the time to sit down, listen, and compliment him.

Sky doesn’t see it like that, though.

In his deluded, love hazy mind, all that registers is that you’re there giving him your attention and your praise; two things worth more than gold in his eyes. He’s like a drug addict who just got hit with another dosage. If he had a tail he’d be wagging it so hard it would thump against the log he’s sitting on, so he better consider himself lucky that Twilight is the dog of the group.

Though, if would please you, he’d willingly let you collar and leash him. Tell him to sit and roll over, he’ll do it on command without any shame whatsoever. He’ll even walk around on all fours if you want!-

Anyways-

THIS! 👏 MF! 👏 STEALS! 👏 FROM! 👏 YOU! 👏

I mean, technically it isn’t for long, he won’t permanently take something that belongs to you without ever giving it back(in secret so you never find out it was him), but he WILL swipe something of yours from time to time. Most commonly he’ll take a tunic or shirt from you, something you won’t immediately notice is gone.

When he has a moment of privacy, he’ll take out his little treasure and press it against his face, taking in a deeeeeep breath, and sighing lovingly. He’s got it bad for you and he knows it. If he could he’d use your tunic as a pillowcase whenever he went to sleep, but there’s no way he wouldn’t get caught.

Despite all this sugary sweetness, Sky isn’t solely a soft and gentle boy. If he is provoked, or if you’re being bothered, Sky doesn’t hesitate to step up and glare down the nuisance, all the while keeping a calm smile stretched across his face. This is where his surprisingly deep voice comes in handy, people aren’t expecting a voice like his to come from such a soft face.

Out of all the members of the Chain, I actually think that Sky would be one of the most patient when it comes to people trying to mess with them or you respectively; he’s dealt with Groose’s bullying for a few years, I think he’s a natural at letting nasty comment slide right off him like water off a duck’s back.

However, even then his patience is dangerously thin regarding people. If provoked he won’t hesitate to begin plotting the fool’s demise, whether it be a swift cut to the jugular or a slow, agonizing demise is up to the person in question.

And finally, just a hint, do not try to run from him, it won’t work.

If Fi’s ability to dowse objects and seek them out is based on Sky’s own desire to find them, then if you were to try and run away, he’d be able to track you right down to the exact spot you’re standing in. Because there is nothing and no one alive that Sky wants and needs more than you.

Hide in the woods, in a cave, in a dungeon, in a mountain, it doesn’t matter. He will hunt you down, find you, and drag you back home in his loving, suffocating embrace.

#linked universe #yandere linked universe #yandere linked universe x reader #linked universe x reader #lu sky #acrylic writes

[hero-deserves-to-be-happy]

Let Kel Be Sad: An Analysis on Kel’s struggles to express his negative emotions

Like Hero, Kel is also a “fixer”—he would bend over backwards to solve his friends' problems and stop the world if it would make them happy again, and both him and his brother are such big hearted and generous people who would much rather be the emotional support for others rather than talk about their own problems and make a situation about themselves and their feelings. For Hero, this often involves burying his own feelings and faking happiness, but I don’t think it necessarily means this for Kel, even if he struggles to express his negative emotions.

To me, Kel’s happiness and positivity is genuine, but he dismisses, discounts, and often runs from his sadness when he does experience it.

Let's discuss under the cut.

[Mod Sprinkles made the joke that in another universe I (mod Acacia) would also run a blog called "Let Kel Be Sad" so here are some Kel thoughts. Thanks for indulging my ramblings! 🧡]

Disclaimer: These are just my personal opinions, perceptions, and headcanons about Kel (and Hero). There are a lot of ways his character can be interpreted, and one of the great things about fandom is getting to see different points of view and differing interpretations of characters we all know and love. I know I speak for both Sprinkles and myself when I say we have a lot of respect for that, and for that reason, I want to be upfront that, while I do genuinely believe Kel struggles expressing negative emotions (thus the "Let Kel Be Sad" title), I don't personally view Kel as someone whose happiness is "fake" in the same way as Hero's. I can see the appeal of this interpretation and can understand why people interpret his character in this way, but it personally does not vibe with my personal interpretations, perceptions, and headcanons of Kel and his character, so if you perceive/headcanon Kel in that way, this post probably won't be your cup of tea. Please keep that in mind.

Warnings: OMORI Spoilers and discussion of game-relevant heavier topics such death, trauma, and grief.

Kel wears his heart on his sleeve, but this doesn't mean that he is shallow. He is a big-hearted, deeply empathetic, and incredibly loyal friend, and it cannot be stated enough that one of Kel’s biggest strengths is his ability to use his natural positivity and resilience to lift up those around him. He’s really the hero of the game because none of the healing would have been possible if he hadn’t continued to believe in his friends even after all of this time, hadn’t encouraged them, and hadn’t built them up just by being Kel.

And while I do think Kel does struggle to express vulnerabilities and negative emotions, I don't personally think of Kel's unwavering optimism as a mask. In my mind, Kel is not an emotional repressor or burier in the same way as Hero. In fact, because he wears his heart on his sleeve, he would probably really struggle to fake an emotion he wasn’t feeling (even if it was something positive like happiness). If Kel doesn’t want to express an emotion, I imagine he runs from it and avoids it, since it’s not natural or easy for him to “replace” or “bury” it with a fake one. Whereas Hero is much more reserved and private about his feelings, no matter what they are, so it’s much easier for him to convincingly mask pain and suffering under layers and layers of fake happiness. I just don’t think Kel would be able to hold back those emotions for very long. His negative feelings would eventually just kind of explode out of him without thinking and/or they’d become so apparent from his expressions and/or actions (since he does wear his heart on his sleeve) and everyone (including the player of the game) would know that he had so much negativity under the surface.

This isn't to say that Kel is perfectly fine. He isn't. He has suffered a terrible loss just like everyone else, but I think the game makes it clear that Kel has the most acceptance surrounding Mari's death and that he has made peace with what happened more so than the other main characters. Please keep in mind that this is only relative to the other main cast. Kel may seem "well-adjusted" in comparison to his brother and his friends who are, quite frankly, barely keeping it together, but he would not necessarily be considered well-adjusted in comparison to the non-traumatized townies. I genuinely believe that Kel is still in the process of healing, but relative to the other main cast members, he is farther along in that journey than they are.

And in that way, the game doesn't really give us a moment where Kel is overwhelmed by grief in the same way as the rest of the characters. Yes, there is the scene (one of my personal favorites) where Kel shares about his fight with Hero, and it is incredibly vulnerable and gives a lot of subtly and nuance to his character, but I don't think it's necessarily evidence that the player can't accept Kel as he presents himself to us at face value in the way that we can't accept Hero as he presents himself to us at face value. As I recently discussed in this post, the scene where Sunny finds Hero crying alone at Mari’s piano on the night of "Two Days Left" tells the player that Hero's attempts to appear well-adjusted and "fine" are, at least to a certain extent, all for show. There isn’t a Kel equivalent of this scene which, I personally think, is meant to tell the player of the game that Kel is the most well-adjusted member of his friend group (key words here being "of his friend group") and the one who has the most acceptance surrounding Mari’s death. Additionally, Mod Sprinkles actually made the point that Sunny is extremely perceptive and sensitive to his friends’ feelings and emotions. If Kel was still harboring a lot of negativity surrounding Mari’s death, Sunny likely would have picked up on that and been more hesitant to go outside with him in the first place.

This isn’t to say that Kel doesn’t ever have any negative feelings and that he doesn’t struggle to express those sometimes, but I think this struggle to express “the bad stuff” doesn’t stem from a pressure he feels to be happy all the time. That said, I do wonder sometimes if he is a little scared of feeling sad. He wants to be happy and wants everyone around him to be happy, and I think there is this certain helplessness that he feels when he can’t cheer other people up. We see a little glimpse of that in his account of his & Hero’s fight after Mari’s death. I think watching someone he loved so much go through such a deep and debilitating depression at such a young age probably permanently affected him, and he might have some worries about getting “stuck” like his brother, wallowing in that sadness and grief if he allows himself to feel it.

However, this is an unwarranted fear because Kel and Hero are very different. Even though Kel might feel sad, and his feelings are absolutely valid, I don’t think he’s prone to that level of despair and depression that we see in Hero. Understanding that his experiences and emotional responses are different than his brother’s is a big part of growing up so it might take him a while to realize this, and in the meantime, I could see it possibly manifesting itself as a sort of avoidance of sadness.

Everyone grieves differently. This is a difficult concept for even adults to understand, so I can't imagine how hard it would be for a 12-year-old like Kel. Because Kel didn't grieve Mari in the same way as Hero or his friends and didn’t spiral into the same level of despair and depression as the others, I think he struggles with invalidating his own feelings to himself sometimes--writing them off as shallow and dismissing them to himself as "just not deep enough." Again, I think this goes back to the one (1) fight that Kel and Hero had. We don’t know exactly what they said to each other in that fight, but it’s my personal headcanon that Hero lashed out at Kel for “not understanding” for he felt. From then on, I think Kel really does struggle with this fear that he just doesn’t understand emotions and because of that, any attempts to help his hurting loved ones will only make everything worse.

I’d really like to see him reach a place in which he can accept that even if his feelings and his grief are different and perhaps not as lingeringly overwhelming as the others', that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have them and that doesn’t mean he didn’t care about Mari or his friends. In my mind, Kel’s hesitation and worry at expressing his negative feelings and his happy-go-lucky personality can both exist at the same time. I don't think they are mutually exclusive, and I tend to think of Kel as someone who naturally looks on the bright side of things and is genuinely optimistic and uplifting. To deny this feels like a disservice to (my personal perception of) Kel, but I think it is also a disservice to pretend he never feels sadness or any negative feelings at all. There has to be a balance.

Let Kel feel sad when he needs to but recognize that he doesn’t actually need to feel sad all that often.

#kel omori #omori kel #omori hero #hero omori #omori #omori meta #omori analysis #kel character analysis #hero character analysis #(at least a little bit) #omori spoilers #thanks for reading #hero loves his brother so we can talk about him here too i think

[cebwrites]

since you wanted some uncommon character requests; could i request some sfw and nsfw relationship headcanons for penguin x reader and shachi x reader? If they're not too out of the way for you (～￣▽￣)～ I rarely see those two requested for, so I'd love to see you're take on them! [I'd ask off anon but i can't ask from a non-primary blog - I'll be reblogging to @remisloves if you wanted an identity (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)b ]

a/n: surprisingly they aren't around these parts, I've gotten quite a few requests for the boys lol - but since you asked nicely, sure <3 [thank you so much for including your blog too, it feels nice to actually put usernames to people （；´д｀）ゞ]

Relationship Headcanons (Penguin, Shachi)

gn reader, trans penguin, nsfw under the cut self-indulgence unrelated to pen and shach at the end cw; blood, funky OP-verse sex toys word count: 1.1k

Penguin

Penguin was the oldest of the original Heart Pirates quartet, he's always been the oldest even when it was just him and Shachi, before and after the tsunami that left them with Shachi's horrible, horrible relatives

It's made him protective over the people he holds dear, incredibly worrisome even if he tries to hide it, but also surprisingly nurturing for someone who seemingly goofs off as much as his counterpart does

He makes snacks, he checks up on the crew, and has a bad habit of taking too much onto himself, although not nearly as badly as the notorious Heart captain, Penguin still struggles with that "eldest sibling" mentality even if most of the crew is quite a bit older than him; he vehemently denies any teasing you or the crew give him about passing on those traits to Law

When it comes to you, Pen likes to keep a close eye on you even when things are calm and everyone's having fun, not that he doesn't trust you to take care of yourself, but he'd just like to make sure no one's getting hurt or too carried away when his crew mates' usual brand of shenanigans kick into high gear

There's a cute kind of shyness when he opens up to you for the first time; yeah agreeing to being in a relationship is one thing but it's another to actually know the person you love and with Penguin, it's tentative, almost scared, but genuine

He's hesitant to let you come too close at first, become too physical, an insecurity that you do your best to quell but it isn't easy, Pen's become used to protecting himself and his own so much that vulnerability is alien

Being topless with the guys on the Tang's deck, whacking each other on the ass with freshly laundered towels is one thing, but being intimate with his partner in a private room is another entirely

Still, you're patient with him, you don't react poorly when he gets overwhelmed at the protective layers of clothes hitting the floor, you allow him space, and eventually, maybe even agonizingly slowly, he lets you in - starting with a held pinky while Penguin catches his breath with his shirt off, his nerves getting the best of him after getting a little more handsy than usual that day

When the dam finally breaks, when he's comfortable showing himself to you in his entirety, you're surprised at how ravenous Penguin actually is - he's insatiable, betraying the composure he carries himself with throughout the day

In the bedroom, against the wall, in the communal bathroom and over the Tang's railing when everyone's asleep, hell, even in an alleyway once when the both of you had time to kill on a random island while everyone else was getting wasted, he can't keep his hands off you

Penguin loves watching you eat him out, one hand in your hair while the other shakily props himself up, but what he loves more is the view he gets when you're sucking him off

The Grand Line is.... an anomaly, neither you or Pen are here to dispute that - weird as it is, however, it's often resourceful once you can get past the initial recoil; all that to say—Penguin got his hands on seeds that, once "planted" between his vulva, allowed him to temporarily grow a fully functioning phallus

By god, Pen loves the way you look bouncing on it

He digs his nails into your waist, laps up the sweat on your skin, his grip is hard enough to bruise but you're no better, egging him on to take you after you've done such good work prepping his cock, prepping yourself for him

And really how could he say no after all that

Shachi

The MOST live in your hoodies mf to ever; he's clingy, he's affectionate, he mock-whines if you've been apart from him for too long like a pup with separation anxiety

To some degree you both know it's an act he puts on to vie for your attention, but there's also a real part of him that worries if he lets his hold on you slip a little too much, you'll disappear

I like to think Shachi's part fishman too, so there's a quiet part of him that worries his partner would leave if they found out, or couldn't handle the treatment you'd get by proxy of being so close to a fishman, even if he wasn't full-blooded - yet every day you find ways to reassure him that'll never happen

In return, he'll climb to the top of the Tang's mast to yell about how much he loves you and how perfect you are, he's a little obnoxious in the Maes Hughes "look at my adorable family" kind of way but you can forgive the mild embarrassment when he flashes his award-winning smile full of razor-sharp chompers

Shachi takes incredible pride in being the one who takes care of the Heart Pirates' hair, his little summer job on Swallow Island for the few years that he spent as a stylist really did turn into a passion for him, even if his occupation on paper is "pirate", but hey, who's keeping track anyways?

Despite his enthusiasm about most everything else, he's incredibly delicate with you initially, constantly checking in to see if you're alright, making sure boundaries aren't crossed, confirming that you are, in fact, enjoying yourself like the big shell-conchus dweeb he is, Shachi just wants to make sure you're alright

Not that he doesn't still check up on you now, he absolutely does, but now with a decent amount of shared time between you two, he's a lot less jumpy about things, more confident in his stride - or rather stroke, I should say

He's loud, peppers you in kisses all over, hell if other people can hear, Shachi needs you to know that he adores every part of you - it does result in an addition of both of your chores (takes two to tango), so whenever the sub drops anchor the both of you try to sneak off to a love hotel given the option of free roam at least once if possible

Shachi answers to you completely, he marks you up at your command and eases whenever you show the slightest discomfort; still, when you do manage to convince him to let loose, he definitely takes the phrase leaving his mark literally - with those exact teeth

He laps at the wounds he leaves as he makes love to you, smearing crimson and words of praise against your body like hymns of devotion, pulling you impossibly close and sharing your taste when you pull him in for a kiss, still trying to hold back that animal desire

The aftercare is just as tender, just as sweet, but maybe a little awkward the first time around when he has to explain to Law why he's sneaking medical supplies away while you sit in the middle of blood stained sheets like you're the victim of a murder

And a bonus for me since writing this had me thinking about it-

I know Law goes down on their man like a champ; inexperienced initially? Yes, but they learn quickly and spite from being teased is a good motivator as any, plus, pleasing their partner, of course

Kirin's got his dick out? Not a problem, they're making him beg for it, the E, As, and T on their fingers might not see the light for hours, not until they're satisfied with edging Kirin until he cries

The only one who beats them at that is Zoro but realistically, no one's topping the King of Cock, not unless Zoro finds it in his heart to not power-bottom Sanji for the night

#cebafterdark #one piece #penguin x reader #penguin one piece #one piece penguin #penguin x y/n #shachi #shachi x reader #one piece shachi #shachi one piece #lawrin #minor zosan mention #one piece smut

[gatorbites-imagines]

I really loved the recent request you did for me. If it's not too much, since you just opened your requests not to long ago, could you do a Hal Jordan (Green lantern) slight hurt/ comfort smut? I feel like Hal has the biggest problem of down playing his emotions with humor, the worse is with his negative emotions. The reader finally has enough of Hal constantly making fun of himself and decides to do something about it. So they end up having mirror sex while he has Hal look at himself in the mirror, praising Hal's body and anything else Hal is insecure about.

I feel like you could do this request between the many Turo, ones you have, so you don't get burned out or get writer's blocked as fast.

Hal Jordan x Male reader

Headcanons

Hal Jordan my beloved. If this sucks its cuz I was extremely sleep deprived when I wrote it, hehe.

Hal has always been the type of person to cover for his insecurity and self-hate using humor, though most of the time it becomes the type of humor that puts himself down.

Like calling himself stupid, ugly, saying he’s bad at what he does and is just a clumsy idiot that gets in everyone’s way.

You can tell he’s in reality very bothered by these thoughts, But Hal being who he is just buries these feelings under layers of charisma and jokes. He does his best to ignore them, but they come to the surface regularly.

No matter how much you try to affirm how much you love him and that none of these thoughts are true, you can tell he doesn’t really believe you deep down under the surface, as if his self-hate is deeply engrained on his soul.

One day you have enough to Hal making fun of himself, so you decide to do something about it. You will make him see what you see one way or another.

So, you do some research when Hal is away on Lantern business. You end up buying a large full-length mirror and placing it against the wall across from the bed you sleep in at night. You had to work up your nerves to do it as well, and when Hal walked in the door looking like he had been through hell and back you almost changed your mind.

That was until you asked him what happened, and he just laughed a little to himself and said he was just being an idiot like always. That made you angry, not at Hal, but just at the fact that he felt like he had to say those things about himself.

Hal must have been too tired to notice the expression on your face, because he just stumbled to the kitchen to get something to eat or drink.

As he was preparing his food you decide to put your plan into action. Sliding up behind him you wrap your arms around his waist and start kissing his neck, your hands exploring his front and sliding up his shirt.

Having been separated for so long Hal is quick to respond to your advances, his food forgotten as he leans back against you to gasp and moan as you suck hickeys across his neck and jaw.

When you ask to try something new in the bedroom Hal is almost too turned on to really care what it is you want to try, so he agrees without really asking much about it.

Soon you found yourselves in the bedroom, the bed creaking loudly in complaint as you both throw yourself down on it. Gasps and other noises leave the both of you as Hal winds his arms around your neck to draw you closer.

Your hands quickly return to under his shirt, pushing it up his torso until you have to disconnect the kiss to get it off him, your lips quickly meeting again in a desperate kiss.

You were both hard as you grind against one another, hands groping and touching all over each other’s torsos until your clothes are somewhere on the floor, leaving you both naked as the day you were born.

The sight of Hal beneath you, naked, flushed and panting, never grew old. The deep lust mixed with love in his eyes made you throb and your heart warm. To see this beautiful man right there with you always made you feel like the luckiest man in the world.

Hal let out a groan as he pulled you back down, placing your lips on yours and soon your tongue was in his mouth, your tongues curling around each other and getting spit all over the place.

You were quick to find the lube, slick up your fingers, and got to opening up your lover. You knew just where to press your fingers to have Hal keening, his back arching and hips jolting as he grasped at your shoulders.

To Hals surprise you he soon found your positions changed, he was sat in your lap with his back to your chest, your arms around him as you ground your cock between his cheeks.

He let out a choked nose as he saw himself in the mirror you had bought, his mouth opening to ask where you had got it from, but at that moment the head of your length caught on his stretched hole, and you slowly pushed inside.

Hal grasped onto your arms as he was slowly lowered onto your length, his jaw dropping as he released a long rough sound. He couldn’t take looking at himself, so he turned his head away, only for you to reach up to grab hold of his jaw and turn it towards the reflective surface.

That’s when you started talking. Praise and compliments pouring from you like a waterfall as you bottomed, rubbing soothing circles on Hal’s hip as you waited for him to adjust.

When Hal finally got to stutter out a question, asking why you were doing this and what it was about, you told him how seeing him put himself down so much hurt you and you wanted him to see just how great he was.

Hal scoffed at that, as if him being great was some kind of lie you had made up to make him feel better. That’s when you grabbed his hips and started moving.

Hal couldn’t focus too much on his own reflection as he bounced in your lap, the grip you had on his hips moving him up and down your length. He placed his hands over yours, as if giving you his blessing to be in control.

When you kept praising and complimenting him Hal couldn’t help but fluster, his hard length twitching at all the positive attention you were giving him. At some point you stopped moving, using the grip on Hals hips to keep him still. At the frustrated moan Hal let out, you told him you would only continue if he complimented himself.

He let out a confused noise, but when you ground up against his prostate he turned to his reflection. It felt impossible to compliment himself, but the reminder of your cock against his prostate finally made him spill.

As the first compliments spilled from his lips, you started to thrust into him again, making sure to pull out slowly to let him feel your entire length before thrusting inside again. Soon the sounds of Hals gasped attempts at compliments and the sound of your hips meeting filled your shared bedroom.

There was no warning that Hal was near the edge, suddenly he tightened around you and let out a loud wail, spurts of white shooting from him and staining the carpet. But even as he came Hal didn’t stop riding you, not until you too came, pressing into Hal deeply before finishing, painting his insides white.

You both sat there gasping, your arms around Hal and cuddling him close. He was panting and shivering, at some point he turned his head and cuddled it against your own.

Falling back on the bed you took Hal with you, pulling out in the process much to Hal’s disappointment. Wriggling up the bed took some work for your still shaky limbs, but the two of you soon found yourselves with your heads on your pillows, Hal buried deep in your arms as you muttered soft compliments to the man.

Hal’s self-hate and jokes at his own expense wouldn’t stop from just one night together, but the knowledge that you loved him so much helped him somewhat. If he couldn’t love himself, maybe all he needed was for you to love him.

#male reader #top reader #dc #green lantern #hal jordan #justice league #dc imagine #dc headcanon #dc x male reader #dc x reader #hal jordan x reader #hal jordan x male reader #hal jordan headcanon #hal jordan imagine #green lantern x reader #green lantern x male reader #green lantern imagine #green lantern headcanon #justice league headcanon #justice league au #justice league x male reader #justice league x reader

[illubean]

headcanons about spending Christmas with kny characters (the masterlist ones) please❤️

Spending Christmas With Them

Characters: Tanjiro Kamado, Inosuke Hashibara, Zenitsu Atsugama, Giyuu Tomioka, Kyojuro Rengoku, Shinobu Kocho, Tengen Uzui, Tokito Muichiro, Mitsuri Kanroji, Obanai Iguro, Sanemi Shinazugawa

Type: Fluff, Headcanons, Gn!reader

I don't really celebrate christmas to the same extent as a lot of people so bear with me >_<

Warnings: none

Tanjiro Kamado

he invited you to spend christmas with him and Nezuko

he doesn't have much family left so he wants to cherish the time he has with other loved ones :((

to him it's less about gifts and more about being close to each other

that doesn't mean he didn't get you something though!

he gets you something more sentimental or handmade, he wants it to be special <3

Inosuke Hashibara

bro had no clue what you were talking about 💀

when you explain it to him though he kind of understands it

he made it a competition to see who could decorate the fastest

100% makes you a gift with things he found outside, declaring it the best gift you'll ever receive

if you bake christmas cookies with him expect a mess 😭

Zenitsu Atsugama

he probably cried when you mentioned wanting to spend christmas with him tbh

he made it his mission to find you the perfect gift, even if he couldn't afford something super fancy

when you mention getting him a gift he goes off about how you didn't need to and being around you is enough <3

would cry genuine tears of joy at any gift you give him, even if it's a stick you found on the ground

Giyuu Tomioka

he invited you to spend christmas with him when no one else was around to hear

poor guy has no one to spend it with and actually trusts you enough to ask D:

he doesn't express it very well but he's really happy when you say yes!

he takes you to walk around the city, wrapped up warmly in scarves and layers

you guys had a very lowkey christmas together

if you point out something at a shop he'd remember to get it for you later ^__^

Kyojuro Rengoku

very loud and proud when inviting you to spend time with him and his family

and if you're the one who invited him to spend christmas with YOUR family? his answer is yes with no hesitation

he is a family man so I think it would mean a lot to him

especially if you get gifts for Senjuro

it warms his heart (dare i say...sets it ablaze) seeing two of the most important people in his life get along

Shinobu Kocho

I don't think she puts too much thought into celebrating christmas

but if you express wanting to spend it with her she wouldn't say no

let's you decorate the butterfly estate as much as you want

i think christmas with shinobu is just her watching you enjoy yourself

Tengen Uzui

he showers you and the wives with different luxurious items

chrisrmas parties at the estate are flashy just like everything else this man does

first he likes to have a large party for all of the hashira with lots of food and drinking

then he settles down to have quality time with you and the wives later

Tokito Muichiro

probably forgot it was christmas until you brought him a gift

questions why you even put effort into getting him something

even if he doesn't remember things it's ok, he deserves to be cared for and thought of anyways <3

Mitsuri Kanroji

very excited about spending christmas with you, especially if you're the one who asks first

bakes and decorates lots of christmas sweets with you!

you guys end up making too much for just the two of you so she goes around with you delivering some to the other hashira

Obanai Iguro

another one I don't think is big on christmas but doesn't mind celebrating if you ask

he would do christmasy crafts with you if you insist on teaching him

you guys end up making things for each other, kaburamaru even got a little snake sized christmas hat ^__^

Sanemi Shinazugawa

tbh i have no clue how to write for him but i will do it anyways

I think Sanemi has better things to think about than celebrating christmas

but if you bring him a gift and offer to spend time with him?

he wouldn't let anyone see it but he's flustered about it

no matter how hard he tries denying it he has a soft spot for you

he takes the gift with a small "tsk..thanks"

later on you find a box on your porch with nothing but a small note on top that says "merry christmas" in rugged handwriting

there's no name on it but you know who its from <3

#kny mitsuri #kny x reader #kny giyuu #kny #kny fanfic #demon slayer x reader #demon slayer #tanjiro kamado #zenitsu agatsuma #zenitsu x reader #tanjiro x reader #inosuke hashibira #inosuke x reader #giyuu x reader #giyuu tomioka #sanemi shinazugawa #sanemi x reader #tengen uzui #tengen x reader #mitsuri x reader #mitsuri kanroji #obanai x reader #obanai iguro #rengoku kyojuro #rengoku x reader #muichiro tokito #shinobu kocho #shinobu x reader

[angelkissiies]

headcanons or a drabble for abby/reader/ellie as their child grows up? just read “we fell in love in october” and i neeeeed to know how these girls would deal with a rowdy teen lol

the terrible twos.. or was it teens?

raising a child with ellie and abby headcanons / scenarios

(thank you anon for the request!)

three times ellie and abby learned how hard parenting is

one

a tiny toddler ran past ellie’s legs as she reached out to grab her, only missing her by about an inch before the little ball of energy was gone, making the woman let out a sigh. she had been trying for half an hour to tire your daughter out, doing everything she could think of to no avail. at this point abby had all but given up as well, being the main target of the child’s never ending supply of energy as she saw the woman as a jungle gym. they were both beyond tired, yet not willing to ask you for help seeing as you’d been up through the night with her. 

“oh man, baby’s suck.” ellie huffed, rubbing her temples as she bent down to pick up a random couple of toys the little one had strewn out. 

abby laughed, nodding quickly as she looked at the tiny baby bruises she’d begun collecting over the past few months. “how do they have so much energy? it’s unnatural.” 

two

abby gasped as the child showed her what she’d been up to for the past hour. she didn’t even know how to react, seeing the paint smeared over almost every surface in ellie’s art room. on one hand, she was grateful it was only the art room. on the other, she was dreading ellie’s return home from patrol. 

“baby.” she called out, watching as you appeared from around the corner in record time- practically sensing something was wrong. 

your eyes followed the woman’s from your beautifully painted child to the horror scene that was now the art room. old drawings of ellie’s were coated in a thick layer of paint, all except for the ones on the walls that her little arms couldn’t reach. 

“oh hell.”

three

your teen daughter slammed her bedroom door, loud enough to startle the neighbors, as she avoided your parenting. she wanted nothing more than to sneak out after dark with some person from her class, but much to the trios dismay, the only person in her class she could be interested in was the spawn of dina and jesse. 

“absolutely not. not happening.” were the words that set her off, coming almost immediately from ellie’s mouth as she glowered down at the girl. 

abby watched, stressed, as you attempted to follow your daughter. hoping to talk some sense into her. “christ. were we this bad?” she whispered to the brunette as she allowed her to rest her head on her chest. 

ellie nodded, biting back a laugh as she thought about the hell the three of you raised at your daughters age. “worse, i think.” 

and

three times they wished they could stop time

one

abby was on her knees, hands outstretched towards the toddler now standing in ellie’s hold. “c’mon, bug. you can do it.” she whispered, attempting to get you to take your first steps. 

you watched from her side, heart thrumming in anticipation as she lifted her tiny leg and placed it firmly back down on the floor. before you’d even realized, ellie’s hands were gone and she attempted to take another step- completely on her own this time. 

ellie stifled an excited noise as she watched the little girl raise her leg again, wobbling slightly this time, before placing it back down a little further. “she’s doing it!” 

abby glanced over at you momentarily before coming back to settle on the girl who was now just another tiny step away from her hands. “you’re so close, bug, so so close.” she murmured in support, fingers wiggling slightly to keep the little ladies attention. 

she braved the next step, stumbling a tad before landing directly in abby’s outstretched hands. a tiny giggle escaping her lips at the expression that now lived on abby’s face. 

two

“momma, come on!” the little girl grunted, attempting to pull ellie along faster. 

the four of you were headed to joel and jerry’s shared home, all for a little holiday celebration that your daughter hadn’t stopped talking about. 

she’d learned all about hanukkah (from dina and joel) and christmas (from jesse and abby) and hadn’t been able to live without experiencing it this year. so that led you trekking through Jackson’s half plowed roads to her grandpas place. 

abby had her arm around you, trying to Lee your both warm as you watched the pair in front of you. ellie had always been (arguably so) your daughters best friend, giving into her every whim when she asked. “she might rip her arm off.” the woman spoke quietly, looking over to you for a second. 

“oh she definitely will.” you chuckled in response, watching as your daughter ripped away from ellie’s grasp and took off in the direction of her grandpas house, causing ellie to yell something unintelligible before taking off after her. 

three

you stood in front of your daughter, pinning a curl into place as she waited for you to finish. it was the night of the snow ball, an annual dance in Jackson for the kids (and adults) to dress up and have fun. 

“okay, i think im done.” you smiled, crows feet crinkling at the edges of your eyes as you looked down at the little girl who was not to little anymore. “you wanna show your moms?” 

abby and ellie had been waiting patiently for the past half hour after your first initial ‘were almost done!’ call- but as the two of you rounded the corner, they couldn’t even find the words to complain. 

your daughter was dressed in the dress you wore to your first snowball in Jackson, that event being the one you first met the duo you now called wives at. her hair was curled and she looked towards the two with hopeful eyes, sparking them to comment. 

“oh wow.” ellie breathed, eyes becoming glossy in about half a second as she stood to move over to the two of you. “you look so beautiful.” 

abby had stood the moment she heard the two of you coming, and as she peered down at the girl she had grown with for so many years- she felt her cheeks become wet. “bug, you look so much like your mom.” she hummed, moving to wipe the tears from her face.

#abby anderson x reader x ellie williams #abby x ellie x reader #abby x reader x ellie #abby tlou #ellie tlou #ellie williams x reader #ellie williams x you #abby anderson x you #abby anderson x reader #the last of us #the last of us part two #abby anderson #ellie williams #joel miller #jerry anderson #dina tlou #jesse tlou #poly tlou #tlou #tlou ff

[aceparagoned]

SLEEP MEME

Type of bed: You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a non-AI generated image of what I envision her room/bed to look like.

Anyway, I can easily see her room looking like this! She has a king-sized bed that's on the softer side to give her tired body some comfort after a long day. Although, it's not as tidy as the image is. There's clothes strewn around that Hikaru's too tired to pick up and sometimes she has a pile of laundry on the other side of her bed. That, and it's not like she has visitors over other than her dads or Joshua, so she doesn't really see a need to keep her room or her penthouse itself tidy.

Number of blankets: Usually no more than two, which is a sheet and a comforter. She can't afford to get tangled up in her sheets when it's time to save the day once again. Those, these are rather comfortable and do provide her a great deal of warmth.

Number of pillows: Two underneath her head so that she has some support during the night. The other pillows she has are normally on the floor, usually from when she wakes up with a start for a variety of reasons. These are firmer, though, for her comfort.

Type of clothing: For Hikaru, it doesn't really matter what kind of clothing she's wearing to bed. Sometimes, she likes to wear a t-shirt and a pair of pajama pants, and other times, she'll fall asleep wearing her full uniform if she's too tired to change out of it. It'll at least make it easier to get ready for the next day if she's already in her uniform, in her opinion.

Does it matter where they sleep? Ideally, Hikaru would like to sleep in her own room, but on the occasions that Watanabe buries her in paperwork or she just has to get a little nap in, she has a cot in her office that can be brought out with the press of a button. She's slept in her room, her office and the barracks that the PIPE has. So, she's not really all that picky about it, but does have a solid preference otherwise.

What do they do if they cannot fall asleep?

It depends on her mood. If she's feeling pretty okay, she'll tend to start plotting her star charts to see if there's any alterations needed in her calculations for her spells so that she has those ready for when the next attack happens. Other times, she'll get up and work on the paperwork that she brought home with her to try to get caught up on things.

Very rarely will she go into her living room and put something on so that she can fall asleep since she'll need to infuse her magic into her spine to make that even possible, which is unfortunately finite to begin with and if her reservoirs are running low, she doesn't want to risk what she's going to replenish by resting for a few hours.

Frequent dreams, nightmares:

Oh, boy, does Hikaru ever suffer from plenty of nightmares. Due to everything that she's either seen, participated in, etc — it's pretty frequent for her to wake up from a nightmare in a sweat, depending on how vivid they are. Normally, the nightmares are centered around the time that she lost her ability to walk normally since that event was very traumatic for a child to go through or when she was physically restrained by the Gnocem and had her Crux brutally torn out of her and was left to die both times.

She'll usually check to see if the wounds reopened when she was sleeping, and when they clearly haven't, she knows that it's going to be another rough night and tends to curl up with her pillows. Then, she'll usually end up crying herself to sleep with her hoping that she'll at least have a dreamless sleep this time around.

Deep slumber or naps?

Deep slumber is only possible when she's either completely drained of her energy or under her dads' care due to the frequency of her nightmares, so she tends to doze more than anything. Naps aren't a luxury that she can take with the nature of her job, unfortunately.

When do they sleep?

Whenever she can, honestly. As chaotic as her job is, it's pretty impossible to have a normal sleep schedule, so she tends to sleep at random times during the day.

What could wake them up? It'd be easier to say what doesn't wake Hikaru up, honestly. Because of how long she's been fighting in this war, there's one sound that she's grown so used to hearing that it pretty much acts as an alarm clock for her and that's the air raid sirens that sound when there's another invasion on the horizon. This is guaranteed to cause her to bolt out of bed and do what she can to get ready and join her fellow soldiers out on the front lines.

However, on the rare opportunities that an invasion doesn't happen, there's a lot of things that can wake her up — her alarm, the slightest creak in her penthouse due to temperature changes or weather, the sound of a hovercar speeding past her penthouse, etc. She always feels like she needs to be vigilant and ready at a moment's notice due to the nature of her job. Rest can happen later when there's lives on the line as well as the peace and prosperity that humankind has fought and bled so much for. It's due to this vigilance that she tends to sleep with at least one of her pistols by her nightstand just in case along with her badge positioned on her nightstand to be able to easily grab them.

tagged by: @more-than-a-princess ( tysm for the tag! ) tagging: you!!

#☆ DASH GAMES → what's new on the 'net? #☆ HEADCANONS → these are layers to you; to your heart. let others see who you are within; let your walls down for now. #( ASK TO TAG. ) #long post cw #long post for ts #long post tw

[d1ana-m0nd]

╭─► ❝A sucker for you❞

Nicholas D. Wolfwood × GN! Reader || Written by Diana (d1ana-m0nd) || Inspired by @spinningwebsandtales

➢ Comedy && Not Proofread , Drabble && Word Count 561

➢ You just wanted some alone time with your thoughts and cigarette but a certain undertaker would not let you have that.

➢ NOTE : I'll be basing the fanfic on the original anime (TRIGUN) and I will mix my headcanon of Nicholas quiting smoking by using lollipop as a substitute.

"Hello, darling. Are you alone out here?" A familiar voice asked, you turned to see the lollipop-addict undertaker.

"We literally came here together." You retorded then went back to staring at the starry night sky. You didn’t want to tell him you had a hard time sleeping or else he would make a big fuss about it.

“And you shouldn’t have come here…”

“Oh please, you and I both know that this was inevitable.” Nicholas said with a knowing smile. You didn’t bother fighting him back. After all, he’s right, he would follow you everywhere you go just because you are his significant other. To Wolfwood, it felt like it was his obligation to be by your side 24/7 even though you didn’t hire for his services as your bodyguard.

With nothing else to say, you rummaged through your pocket and took out your secret stash of cigarettes, took a cigar then lit up the butt of it.

"I didn't take you for a smoker."

You merely let the smoke flared out of your mouth yet, no words were uttered.

The male who leaned against the wall, sighed in response to the silent treatment he received. “I have a feeling you’re not planning on telling me about what’s going on.”

“Oh, that isn’t a feeling.” You said followed by an empty laugh and small smile. You didn’t want to tell him that you wanted to give up on helping Vash, because you knew that would only break his heart, needle noggin’ and wolfwood are practically two peas and a pod. If one of them were to leave the other, the other person would be forced to embrace loneliness again.

Getting the memo, the man beside you decided he would just silently accompany you in star gazing. As he skimmed through the black canvas above him that had white specks of dots; he was looking for star alignments he was familiar with but had difficulty concentrating because of the smoke emanating from you. Wanting to get rid of the smoke, he thought he’d give you one of his lollies.

"Here, I got a sucker for you."

“Thanks.” You discarded the cigarette then took the lollipop from him and plopped it into your mouth. As your tongue plays with the orb of sweetness in your mouth, you realize something odd. The lollipop already had bitemarks and it had a layer of saliva on it, you momentarily took it out then faced him with an unamused look.

Nicholas feigned ignorance to your unamused gaze, even though he could see from his peripheral vision that you were silently seeking for his attention. He will admit, you looked adorable, though he will keep pretending he is busy enjoying the night sky. To grab his attention, you “lightly” punched his side ignoring how he grunted in pain.

“Was this the same one you were sucking on earlier?”

The undertaker wore a huge smile on his face. “To be fair, that was the last one, and it’s not like you haven’t sucked something that isn’t mine-” Before he could finish that sentence, you interrupted him with a punch to the jaw.

➢ TAGLIST : @attackontitansimper (If you're wondering why I tagged you in this one shot, here's my reason.)

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[lsleofthelost]

Do you have any descendants headcanons? I’m new to your blog.

ugh like so many….

if u want me to do something about a certain character or relationship just send me another ask but since it’s like a general question i’m gonna take it as an opportunity to talk about the Isle of the Lost because i genuinely spend so much time thinking about what it’s like, i think it’s such a cool setting

it’s actually pretty big, you know, to be able to house all the villains, their supporters and other criminals from all these different kingdoms + it’s big enough that Maleficent can effectively banish someone

i began trying to describe where i think everything is but i realised it would be easier to draw a map, so here’s hoping i’ll actually do it, but the important point here is that there’s a residential area that clusters around the bridge and the dock where the barges come in and then deeper into the island, it’s a dark forest

and on the other side of that forest is where the Evil Queen was banished to

i always thought it was weird that EQ is banished but Cruella is her neighbour, so i hc that Cruella was also banished for a time and that’s why she also lives on that side of the island

she probably tried to saw off Maleficents horns, or pluck her wings or something like that

(but Carlos can move freely because he isn’t included in the banishment)

i think there’s a layer of Isle population that doesn’t lean into villainy, like they weren’t anyone famous or didn’t commit huge crimes, so they just try to stay under the radar and live as well as the conditions allow it, it’s easier and safer to affiliate with a gang but they try not to get too involved

the Isle was not just bare when they started sending criminals over, Auradon built the bridge are, the docks for their barges, a few roads and those two story buildings we see, with the intention that they would be like apartments for the incarcerated

what they didn’t account for was that there would be more people than apartments and that the big villains would take more territory than what was assigned to them

so that’s how we get people who’s beds are behind their stalls at the market, or those who sleep in a row of beds in one room

there’s no set currency on the Isle, it’s barter or contracted labour (but mostly it’s stealing)

when the Isle was first established, the barrier was focused on not letting things out, not so much on not letting things in

so far a while, the barrier would let magic in, but if they tried to cast a spell on someone outside the barrier it would just fizzle out

but doing magic under the barrier was extremely difficult and slow going, felt like trying to run in your sleep

the big magic users were able to transform their residences, which is why, for example, Maleficent’s place is reminiscent of her old keep

they could also summon some smaller objects from their old lives, like EQ’s mirror shard

those who couldn’t do magic, like Cruella, made contracts with the magic users, and they were able to transform an apartment into Hell Hall to the Isle and she was able to bring some of her fur coats over

it was pretty short lived, when Auradon realised what’s been happening, they tightened the barrier to be impenetrable, allowing the absolute minimum of magic in

this minimum is how we get Mal’s glowing eyes, or poisons being able to work

there’s a crazy mixture of accents in that place, since it’s people from all these different kingdoms now forced to live on one island

Isle slang is just a hodgepodge of different languages’ slang and borrowed words

each big faction probably has their own way of speaking, since that’s who they interact with daily, like those who surround the Queen of Hearts and her Cards all speak with a slight british accent and use Wonderland nonsense words

#i’m gonna rb some of my old hc posts after answering this!! #asks #anonymous #sorry if it’s a little all over the place lol i just have so many different thoughts #i also think this mostly covers the big general canon compliant things about the Isle #laila.txt

[beautifulterriblequeen]

TDP autistic-coded characters: Runaan

Inspired by this post, which gave me the kick I needed to create my own for Runaan. I’ve always kinda pictured Runaan as “Zuko but instead of befriending Aang he grew up and married Ethari.” 

I’m not going to go into how precious this headcanon is to me. You have headcanons that are near and dear to your heart. This one is near and dear to mine. Let’s go:

Physical traits

Sensory dampening

Autistic people often have sensory issues that result in them feeling overwhelmed, overloaded, or hypersensitive. It can result from a combination of mental and physical input, and autistic people develop a variety of coping mechanisms to deal with it.

One way to dampen an overload of physical sensation is with clothing. Loose and baggy works for some, tight and gently constricting works for others. It can turn overwhelming nerve input into a kind of white noise background so it’s easier to focus on other information.

Runaan wears a lot of clothes on missions, leaving only his face and upper arms exposed. I’m not talking about layers so much as skin coverage. While there’s a variety of coverage among the assassins, Runaan is the only one with long hair covering his neck, long pants, high boots, and gloves.

Though Rayla’s dressed very similarly to him, her hands are bare, giving her a more approachable and vulnerable look, as befitting a character trying to find out who she is. 

With all his layers of insulation, Runaan appears as if he’s trying to separate himself from, or protect himself from, the world around him.

About those gloves and leather gauntlets. It seemed a little odd (read: foreshadowingly important) that those gauntlets would get a mention in Callum’s Spellbook as part of Runaan’s look, but they’re in there. Runaan’s gloves are black, a nice dark undistracting color. When he moves his hands around in front of him, he won’t be visually distracted by the light hue of his own gloves. And he does use his hands a lot, as a major form of his communication with others, so keeping that contact to a comfortable level, both visually and tactilely, lets him touch and move as much as he needs to without overwhelming himself in the process.

Meditation

Meditation is another way to calm an overload of input, or to psych oneself up for something that will require a lot of focus.The first time we meet Runaan, he’s meditating while the others set up camp. 

Rayla’s been gone a while and he’s probably worried. It’s her first mission, and he vouched for her skills, so he can’t just go traipsing off to find her. He has to wait and trust her, so he spends his time calming and focusing. 

We also see him meditating in the dungeon, several times.

Even though the room was dark and quiet, all that sensory input from his injuries must’ve been intensely stressful. Falling back on his meditative coping mechanism was the only tool he had to handle the stress and pain of his environment and situation. But all his years of using this technique means that he’s pretty good at it. Every time Viren came in to pester him, Runaan was always able to keep his wits about him.

Stimming

Autistic people stim as a self-soothing technique when they’re hit with intense emotions--good and bad alike. They’re basically a way to anchor during a storm of feels until it passes, by doing something familiar and repetitive.

Runaan’s stim is clenching his hands. His hands are very clenchy when he’s stressed. With those dark gloves on, it’s not terribly noticeable, but they’re opening and shutting constantly when he’s worried over Rayla and how she’s endangering herself/messing up his mission.

Runaan is an elf of action. His skill set is entirely physical. When Rayla acts insubordinate on the mission, he knows he should punish her--a harsh physical tactic--but he quietly refuses to do so. Instead, he talks to her. And though he keeps his voice calm for the most part, he’s upset, nervous, off book. It takes him a while to be able to make eye contact with her (more on that later). And his hands start twitching, possibly because he’d be far more comfortable with a  physical fix to the situation, a tactic he’s far more familiar with but in this case he’s deliberately choosing not to employ.

Long hair

Devon Giehl confirmed way back when that Ethari braids Runaan’s hair for him (awww), and he’s really good at it. It’s possible that Runaan had a very different hairstyle, or not much of a style at all, before he fell for Ethari. Autistic people sometimes struggle with haircuts or complicated personal hygiene routines. Some very much enjoy the asmr of having their hair brushed, or the comforting weight of long hair. A warrior needs to see what he’s doing in battle. A Moonshadow needs to look stylish. Enter Ethari, who probably still cannot believe he gets to play with all this long glorious braidable hair every day. 

Maybe this beautiful hairstyle that we all love and adore and draw over and over in our art is Ethari’s creation, tactically designed to bother Runaan as little as possible. It’s not hanging in his eyes or tickling his neck or bugging his ears. He has a clear line of sight in all directions. No dangling fringe, unlike almost every other Moonshadow we’ve seen.

Those hair cuffs Ethari made keep Runaan’s side tails out of his way when he’s spinning in battle, too. There’s basically nothing that will get Runaan’s hair in his face.

And he hasn’t cut it in a very long time.

Interaction Issues

Processing time

Runaan comes across as a stoic and calculating character. He uses silence and stillness on the regular. These techniques can be used deliberately to give an autistic person time to process new information. Autistic people can have processing issues, hearing issues, and comprehension issues, and our first instinct upon hearing new information can be to blurt, “What?” because we don’t collect all the details on the first pass. Letting the mind continue to process for a few extra seconds can help to fill in the gaps, though. Remember this iconic moment? 

Runaan takes 17 seconds to make his way from “Give me the egg” to “Don’t do this.” He stands dramatically, the clouds part, it’s all very epic. But he could’ve acted the second that Rayla defied him. He didn’t. Looks like he genuinely needs a minute to process what Rayla is doing and how to handle it. It’s very unlike her. He wasn’t expecting it. He has no plan for this. He has to stop everything and think. So he holds still and keeps his reactions under wraps, until he has formulated a plan. Runaan lives by plans and rules. More on that later, too.

The Kiss

 Autistic people can be sensitive to being approached and touched. And martial arts training does wild things to your personal space. You have none and all at the same time. It’s vastly more comfortable to keep everyone at arm’s length because there are so many options to choose from if they get close enough to touch.

An autistic person and their loving spouse can easily create little rituals--social and verbal cues--to be recognizable indicators of desired behavior. Ethari’s line, “My heart goes out with this one,” acts as a code that Runaan has heard over and over. Ethari’s worried, and he’s seeking comfort. So he prompts Runaan and patiently waits for Runaan to respond and initiate the kiss in his own time. And Runaan does so, with the smoothness of long practice. He reaches out, he steps forward, and then he also steps back, breaking the kiss. 

Ethari chases the kiss as long as he can, but he does let it go when it’s clear Runaan is backing up. It’s clear that Ethari is an enthusiastic lover, and Runaan knows it. Though the kiss is complete, Runaan takes time to reassure his husband that he loves and trusts him, and he does that by ensuring a long moment of close eye contact and physical touch--both things that can take extra focus for an autistic person to offer. But for Ethari, it’s definitely worth doing.

Eye contact

Eye contact can be stressful for autistic people, and we often avoid it when we’re already uncomfortable. When Runaan takes Rayla into the woods to tell her she’s off the mission for being too soft, he can’t look her in the eye for the first part of their conversation.

He keeps looking in her general direction from the corner of his eye, but he can’t look her in the eye and tell her she failed him. It’s too uncomfortable for him. He has to work up to it for a couple of minutes. And though he does manage to meet her eyes for a short while, he ends the conversation by walking away while he’s still talking. As far as his plans extend at that moment, he’s never going to see her again. He believes he’s marching off to die, and he can’t look at her then, either. .

This look is Runaan’s emotional lockdown. Everything is tense and no feels are getting in or out. Hands totally fisted up.

Time Out

Autistic people can get so overwhelmed that we lose our temper, go nonverbal, or otherwise shut down, and we need to step away from the environment that’s caused the overload. Runaan lost his cool and yelled at Rayla when he learned that she’d lied to him about Marcos.

Losing his temper wasn’t good because he yelled at his daughter. But it was also bad because he lost his professional cool in front of his team. He had a little domestic right there in front of them. When you’re supposed to be in charge, especially in a culture that prides itself on cooperation and perfection, falling apart in public has got to be humiliating. 

The next time we see Runaan, he’s taking a break in a tree with his second while the other assassins chill, clearly waiting on him. He might have been here five minutes. He might have been here for an hour or more.

My favorite part about this is how Runaan isn’t alone. His friend has come to sit with him, but silently. He doesn’t ask any questions, he doesn’t try to touch Runaan, he just waits. And eventually, Runaan gets his focus back and talks about the mission. 

This moment is also an instance where Runaan needs time to silently calculate until he creates a whole new plan out of nothing. In this case, he’s deciding to set Rayla off the mission for being too childish to complete it properly, rather than executing her or otherwise punishing her as a full-fledged assassin. But first, he needs the time out, because he can’t make that plan until he’s emotionally calm again.

“Enough Brooding, Elf.”

When Viren dumped the coins out and Runaan saw that they were cursed objects that somehow contained his dearest friends, Lain and Tiadrin, he was so overwhelmed, shocked, and upset that he had his only eyeshake of the whole series, and he ended up going nonverbal. 

Everything that Runaan had done with regard to Rayla over the last several months turned out to be for nothing. She didn’t need to avenge her parents’ honor because they never ran away. Runaan didn’t need to fight with his husband and go into emotional lockdown. And he, his husband, and Rayla never needed to ghost Lain and Tiadrin in the first place. All that stress and emotional suffering was for nothing. And on top of that, the man who’d taken him prisoner had cursed his friends and imprisoned them this whole time. Runaan just can’t catch a single break. His voice drops into a stressed whisper as he says, “You’re a monster.” And then, judging by the next words Viren says a whole scene later, Runaan doesn’t speak again. 

Viren leaves him alone after the coin threat backfires, because he realizes he’s not going to get anything out of Runaan in his condition (and he could recognize this state because Soren is autistic-coded as well!). When Viren returns, he calls what Runaan was doing “brooding.” 

Brooding is generally defined as being two things: quiet, and thoughtful. No one broods out loud. But a nonverbal shutdown while chained to a wall is going to look pretty similar. Runaan can’t do anything to physically escape Viren, so his brain just switches off his mouth for a while. He has a lot of bad things to process and he has no room for responding to Viren in his state of extreme emotional distress.

Courtship Rules and Replies

From interviews with Devon and Iain, we’ve learned that Runaan fell in love first, but that he also needed Lain’s prompting to confess his true feelings to Ethari. One way to describe the difference between autistic and allistic people’s thinking patterns is to call one oft them Microsoft and the other Apple. They can generally do the same things, but the ways they get there are always a little different. Because allistic people outnumber autistic people, they have generally framed the society we live in, and we often feel like we must rote-memorize the rules of the world around us instead of using our own system. This does create a strong reliance on rules, and specifically on knowing the rules before proceeding. 

If Runaan had never courted anyone before--or if he’d tried to and it had gone poorly because Runaan didn’t fully understand the rules--he would be very, very hesitant to make the first move with Ethari. 

Additionally, Runaan was making all his good-faith efforts to show interest in Ethari via the proper channels, but meanwhile, Ethari was skirting the rules. He was interested in Runaan, but he’s a playful elf and was teasing his suitor by pretending not to be interested That Way. This might sound cute, but to an autistic person, such a lack of hoped-for feedback would be intensely exasperating. Runaan was trying to communicate in what possibly felt like a foreign language, and he didn’t feel like he was doing a good job of it. He was probably doubting his metaphorical grammar and accent constantly. Autistic people aren’t always good with reading facial expressions or unfamiliar moods, so he didn’t pick up that Ethari was genuinely interested and just teasing him. He was too uncertain and vulnerable to take the matter to Ethari straight out, but there was an elf he trusted fully: Lain. 

Lain could probably see Ethari’s interest when Runaan couldn’t. (And if I had to guess, I’d say Lain’s clue was Ethari’s intense eye contact, which Runaan wouldn’t notice if he was avoiding eye contact due to anxiety!) If Runaan was really so uptight and protective about his feelings, Lain wouldn’t have encouraged him to share them unless he was confident that Ethari would reciprocate. And because Runaan did trust Lain so much, he took that next step, confessed his feelings, and sure enough, Lain was right! Ethari loved him, too.

Free Time

Runaan’s birthday post for 2020 told us that he would prefer to spend the day reading alone, but he considers Rayla’s wishes and lets her decide otherwise. Runaan is more introverted than most and he’s perfectly fine entertaining himself, but Rayla drags him to the adoraburr meadow to spend time together, and because he loves her, Runaan lets her do it. If he were truly uncomfortable, he could put a stop to the whole thing. But he understands that this is how Rayla shows love, and so he lets her show her love through shared companionship, instead of shutting her out and keeping to himself.

Special Interest Sharing

Runaan tells Rayla that there’s an instinct to being an assassin. He has it, and he’s realizing now--only now--that Rayla doesn’t.

Callum’s Spellbook tells us that he began training Rayla to fight when she was just a toddler.

Autistic people often have special interests that appeal far above everything else, and can last a lifetime. For some it’s coding, photography, marathon running, or collecting something. Could be anything, really. Runaan’s special interest is combat. He’s a deeply physical elf who feels very present in his world, and sometimes too present (hence the gloves and the meditation). It’s only natural that he takes the body he’s got and trains it as hard as he can. Being ready for battle is a form of freedom for him. He can run anywhere and fight anything. His intense dedication to his training contributed to his promotions through whatever ranks assassins have, allowing him to contribute meaningfully to his community and his society through his service. Runaan’s special interest has made him uniquely qualified to lead the assassins.

When we meet someone we like, we tend to use our special interest as a form of communication and bonding with them: “I like you, so I will share this thing I love with you.”

Lain and Tiadrin had a precious baby girl, and Runaan and Ethari helped them raise and care for her. And the moment Rayla could move around, Runaan was right there, showing her all his favorite little tricks and techniques, steadying her, patiently demonstrating and explaining every little thing. Stances, physics, trajectory, angle of attack, center of balance, weak spots. All the physical things he knows and loves, he shared with his tiny new friend.

Having a full-grown adult pay her the respect of assuming she could learn all these things, even as a little child, must’ve been so important to Rayla and her self-image. No wonder they bonded so tightly. He truly believed she could do everything he taught her--and he was right.

Mental Effects

Hyperfocus

Autistic people can experience hyperfocus on a new and interesting person or thing. The more ways a person, like say, Ethari, appeals to someone like Runaan, the stronger his focus will be on them. All free time--and time that isn’t free--will immediately be diverted to thinking about and experiencing this delightful new phenomenon.

Runaan is described as putting his duty first, and he takes his job very seriously. But this is also the elf who deliberately damaged his weapons in order to have an excuse to see Ethari and ask him to fix them. To Runaan, the one thing he and Ethari had in common was weapons, so that’s where he started. Runaan gave himself a crash course in Ethari and his interests and ways of expressing himself, and found a way to speak the same language in order to ensure they’d connect. He literally hampered his own ability to do his job in order to find a way to connect with the craftsman.

Once they were a couple, he threw himself into learning How To Boyfriend so he could continue to communicate his feelings to Ethari in an understandable way. It was of the utmost importance to Runaan that he be able to speak a language Ethari could understand, so that he could tell him how much he loved him, and so that Ethari would believe it and trust it.

Small Talk

Runaan learned Ethari as a language, and he learned Rayla’s language as she learned his. He probably speaks Lain and Tiadrin fluently. But everyone has slightly different tics and cues in their speech, and they can all seem like separate languages sometimes. It takes true effort to connect with someone, to truly get to know them and all their little quirks. Runaan simply doesn’t have time to learn every single elf in the Silvergrove as a separate language. He’s learned how to connect with those he values most, and that’s all he feels he needs. Everything else is just small talk--a jumble of things Runaan doesn’t have room to care about beyond his special interest, his duty, and the few elves he’s taken such pains to learn so well.

[unfinished tdp meta]

#tdp headcanons #tdp #runaan #autism #autistic characters #autistic-coded #release the drafts #this is a big one #you can see how many of my headcanons came from this draft #anyway enjoy darlings

[bi-hop]

spider-byte headcanons

while this blends her singular intro comic, elements of the movie, and my own thoughts, this shouldn't really have any spoilers. still, if you haven't watched across the spiderverse, read with caution

anyway Earth-22191 in my personal content is basically The Matrix. Hear me out.

Essentially, if you crossed over into Earth-22191, every person you would encounter is either a person hooked up to what I am tentatively calling the World Computer or a simulation so perfectly constructed that it is impossible to tell the difference. Unlike the Matrix however, everyone knows this and it is distressing. You ever heard of philosophical zombies? It's a whole thing, but for these people, an uncertain number of people around them - even their own parents - used to seem like behavioral zombies to them:

Endless paranoia ensued about this and being a cog in a giant machine for centuries, so scientists worked hard to find a solution. They settled on virtual reality. More specifically, they settled on an extra layer of virtual reality. The aim was to continually give people access to various forms of virtual reality that were fantastical and abstract so paranoia would die down and socialization would flourish. Once this was successful, society was reconfigured to incorporate this technology as much as possible. It allowed this world of expendable tech parts to escape into worlds that soothed their minds.

Enter Margo Kess, a... let's say fifth generation teen post the advent of this VR tech. To us, her attachment to her headset would be seen as unhealthy. She uses it as much as the current legal limit allows, only stopping when absolutely necessary (sleeping, bathing, walking to class). But, in her world, her avoidance is normal. Why have that boring family discussion in your dining room when you can all meet up on a simulated beach and have it in paradise?

Earth-22191's reality is one where socialization and education mostly occur by necessity in cyberspace. Unfortunately, so does crime.

Flesh crimes, as they're called, are on a steep decline. This is mainly because they bore people. Stabbing someone in PERSON? Ew. Who does that? It's so gauche. Hacking into your worst enemy's locked server and carefully drowning them with mods you managed to find and downloaded? Now that's fun and compelling. It's a new age of catfishing, thievery, and murder. As the one and only Spider-Byte, Margo tries her best to address complex crimes of passion and fraud. She's a vigilante, so she doesn't exactly work with the Cybercrimes Division. Instead, it's more like a game where the best of you can adapt on the fly, split yourself in two, and code like no one else has ever seen.

Other random details:

The Databank is a structure located inexplicably both in the true reality, the not true reality, and the modified false reality. It displays ever changing text and code. Some worship it as a god and spend years trying to translate its ‘wisdom’. Pilgrimages occur

Miguel worked with Margo to be able to project her digital self across dimensional lines, not really out of the goodness of his heart, but because she would be a liability otherwise

the Databank is strange. No matter what filter you put over it in the modified reality it never changes. It’s tall. Sleek. Shiny. Almost slimy. All black and jutting out of any landscape without a clear reason

its lights pulse like a heart

Margo HAS friends, we see them in her comic debut. But she’s not very good at socializing in person. This spider rescue team delights her only because she gets to do that! Except… her body is in another dimension-

all non-humans you can think of (mutants, Inhumans, etc) are called Bugs. This isn’t that bad of a term. It’s just because they display code deviations that weren’t intended by God, in the eyes of Databank worshippers anyway. Margo's a Bug

her Green Goblin is Normie Osborn trying endlessly to impress his grandfather and failing, it's kinda sad. said grandfather is now preparing to be the first person to enter this VR space full time… hm

that's all for now

#spider byte #margo kess #earth 22191 #across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse

[soursvgar]

Can you please make zodiac headcanon for dia? 🥺

ZODIAC SERIES ━ ♏︎ Diavolo

a/n: i honestly didn't think anyone is reading this series so i kinda stopped updating 😅 i was so happy to get this request, thank you so much for it! I hope you like it, and of course if there are any questions i'm here to answer them ^^

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

ෆ━ personality

Scorpio is a fixed water sign; it's natives are feared and dreaded by many because they're, more often than not, terribly misunderstood. As a fixed sign, scorpio abides by no one but themselves, they are not quick to take the advice of others as their intuition and wisdom usually directs them towards their goals. With the element of water ruling this sign, it mostly manifests in their emotions as they tend to follow their heart's desires. We can detect that same fiery passion in Diavolo through his grand plans for the three realms, not letting even the slightest external doubt stop him from pursuing his sacred cause.

Scorpions are very unique, being the only sign ruled by two planets - while Mars grant them their determination along with a threatening aura, Pluto strikes them with the need for constant regeneration and transformation. You will often find that scorpions are very different than the way they initially present themselves, they have layers upon layers of inner thoughts and dialogues, struggles, and will often be found brooding over their choices. Diavolo shares a bit of both, being the most powerful creature in hell - the devil himself, yet, possessing a fun-loving, cheerful personality. However, behind closed doors, Diavolo tends to worry over his eligibility to hold this much power and responsibilities.

ෆ━ dating headcanons

There is much to unpack in this area, scorpios are intense lovers; they are extremely loyal and committed, and as a result are very possessive as well. Their feelings run deep but their insecurities run even deeper, be prepared for full transparency and constant testing of boundaries.

Intensity - Is the best word to describe a relationship with a scorpio. As fun, flirtatious and free spirited they may seem at first, the moment they have you under their spell they are never letting go, they expect a body and soul, all or nothing type of connection. They become invested in their partner to a point it can be painful for them to deal with, so if you want to love a scorpio - you better fully commit to it, and think closely if it's something you can handle, because dealing with a hurt scorpio is not a position you want to find yourself in. And more than so, especially not when they rule over hell.

Ownership - Scorpios are the embodiment of dominance, they want to feel in control, almost as if they own you. It doesn't necessarily mean you have to completely submit yourself, but if you're someone who can relinquish the reins and let them set the pace, they will pull you into, perhaps, one of the most unique and intense experiences of your life. With time, you will learn to maneuver your way with them - but at least in the beginning, let them reel you in and work their magic on you to help them feel secured and trusting in the relationship.

Darkness - Fitting to the devil, darkness is a repeated theme in these natives, and could be expressed in many ways. Scorpio's pull to the darkness stems from the darkness within them, the sides they never reveal to anyone, so they require to be dealt with tenderness and patience. Be kind and understanding to your scorpio, as their emotional world might tilt from one extreme to another - seeing Diavolo going from his usual effervescent self to a distant, withdrawn state is a sight you may attest to often if you choose to spend your days by his side. Make sure to offer a shoulder to lean on, even if he denies it with a smile and a promise that he's okay - he still needs your support.

ෆ━ nsfw headcanons

If there's one thing scorpios excel in (among many others, of course.) it would be pleasing their partners. Scorpios rarely engage in anything without having an emotional connection, but whether they do or not, results are almost always marvelous.

Dominance - You are sure to be in good hands with the young prince. It is pointless to attempt having the upper hand in this situation (you can try though! he will find it fun and endearing.) as this department is his expertise, so sit back and relax and let him take care of you. Feel very free to tell him about all of your fantasies and he'll happily fulfil each and every deep, impure desire you have ever had.

Unpredictability - As mentioned before, Scorpios can be extreme and unstable; depending on his emotions, Diavolo might range from treating you with utmost care and having a vanilla, sensual type of love making to being rough, vigorous and show no mercy within matter of seconds. Although, even in his most ferocious state he will always put you first and make sure that you are okay and having a good time. If you're into it, though, he might be open to engage in things like light s&m, but as you are still human, he will most likely restrict himself pretty often.

#obey me #obey me zodiac series #obey me shall we date #omswd #obey me diavolo #obey me headcanons #obey me scenarios