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akq96618 · 3 months

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[ King ohger soul eater au ]

here it is! the rough idea doodles for other kings! It's just started with giramie (you can find them here ), but i think it will be fun if i added the others too

+ some more trivia below

(warning: big spoiler for soul eater manga, and me nerding over soul eater)

for those who aren't familiar with soul eater, the series revolve around the story of meister and demon weapon (human who can transform into weapons). The students of of Shibusen, school build by 'shinigami' take on missions to collect souls and protect the city from the world's threats.

The school parted into 2 types of class, N.O.T (Normally Overcome Target, class for those who just want to control their powers, pretty much just like a normal class) and E.A.T (Especially Advantaged Talent, consist of the 10% students in shibusen, class for students/agents who use their powers to battle evil)

-this au sets years after soul eater manga ending, where human and witch can already living side by side

-Morfonia used to be in NOT class, but then she moved to EAT class after reunited in shibusen and being partners with rita (they're childhood friends)

-Suzume supposed to be gira's weapon partner, since the Hastie and Dybowski family been on some kind of..bound? relationship? for a long time. But racles don't want gira to be a meister, so he took both of the dybowski siblings as his weapon (welp, gira still finds jera anyway)

-Top 3 EAT class academical rank: Rita, Himeno, Yanma (it's quite a tie with jeramie sometimes), gira is somewhere in the middle, or below-

-Top 3 EAT class physical rank (as in like, PE class): Gira, Rita, Jeramie, (you know where yanma at right)

-yeah i use racs and himeno's p1 hair bcs i love them

-Rita can see someone's soul, while Gira can 'sense' someone's soul perfectly (like, what kind of people they are) and know kishin's soul before they turned into kishin egg (kishin egg: evil souls)

-Sebastian is not a student but he still go to shibusen to accompany himeno as her butler and demon weapon

-before met yanma, shiokara used to be Mayuta's demon weapon partners along with usuba (sniper rifle) and akka (brass knuckle ring)

-Jeramie is a child of demon weapon and witch, his mom run away from the witch realm because she possesses healing magic, which is unforgivable and hated by the witches

-and jera got his black blood from his mother, who didn't know that she was used to be medusa's (antagonist witch in SE) experiment object. Medusa thought she's a failed object, so she throw nephila out of her object list.

-before Jeramie met Gira, he wonder all over death city to find who killed and ate his parents' soul

-Gira don't really like to live in the Hastie's main mansion , so he rented apartments near shibusen together with Jera after decided to be his Meister. As a condition to allow gira living out of the Hastie household, Racles ask Duuga, the Hastie's butler, to visit gira's place from time to time

-Jeramie had this 'madness of hope' that triggered his black blood

-i'm thinking about 'madness of justice' for gira but 'justice' will suit rita more...

i don't think i'll elaborate more about this au, but who knows

here's more giramie in madness + blackblood armor bcs i like to draw them in that

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crookedkryptonitebeliever · 3 months

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Best and Worst of Both Worlds (Part 16)

tw: literally Yves watching ur every move, super suffocating stuff, Yandere shenanigans

Yeah ok u guys decided to lust for the creep, then the creep u shall receive

after this chapter i mean

Part 17

You told him your opinion on Montgomery.

"I see." He replied. Yves deadpanned at you before pulling you in for another kiss on the lips. Your face and the tips of your ears heat up, you're still not used to this yet.

He pulled away and chuckled at your bashfulness. Trying to cover your burning face with your hands is futile, as it only makes him tease you more.

"Call me if you need to go somewhere. I'm available for you any time." He slung the straps of his handbag around his shoulder, and Yves prepared his car keys in his hand.

You told him 'okay' as you're rubbing the last of his lipstick marks off using a piece of wet wipe.

He stroked your head, traced his fingertips down your jaw and finally held your chin. He tilted your head upwards and gave you a forehead kiss.

You whinged as you now have to wipe off one last print. He bid you goodbye before closing and locking the front door behind him.

Soon after, you dashed back into your room trying to escape your housemates hollering.

Days would go on like this: Yves breaks into your house using the spare key, scare the shit out of you when you open the door to see him standing there, receive adequate kisses, eat (br)lunch, talk for hours, landlord comes over to fix more stuff, eat dinner and finally, at around midnight- sometimes later, Yves would leave.

You would go to sleep almost immediately, but definitely looking forward to the next day.

He started coming in earlier and earlier, working on his things during times where you had nothing to say. You asked him about his work, he tried explaining it to you but you zoned out. It's so boring and complicated. Full of numbers, charts and graphs, you couldn't care less.

Needless to say, he cooked all your meals and did all your chores for you. You always protested, because it isn't his job and you should be responsible for taking out the trash or keeping yourself alive.

Yves would simply ignore you and do them anyway. If you're particularly worried, he assures you that it's some sort of a hobby of his to take good care of you. If you insist that he stops, he will guilt you; making you think that you're unnecessarily taking away part of his joy in this relationship when it isn't even harming you. So you just let him do what he wants, and you benefit from it greatly.

You really like him. He lets you take a nap on his lap while he types away at your desk, Yves listens to you ramble about your interests and occasionally adds his own fascinating commentary to it. You were astonished to know he has a whole database of random fandom trivia in his head. He washed your sheets and made your bed for you every morning.

He lets you hog his portable fan to yourself. But eventually, his bargaining powers lead to your landlord installing a ceiling air conditioner in your room. The best part? No rise in rent.

Yves gradually introduced you to a solid skincare routine. It started off with a simple face cleanser and moisturizer. Then he added toner to the regime. Then a weekly exfoliation and bi-weekly usage of sheet masks. It was hard for you to remember to do it or have the motivation, but Yves didn't mind maintaining your skin.

You just love the tingles you felt when he reclined you on your chair and he massages your face with the moisturizer. His fingers skillfully work to unravel you.

He made your house actually enjoyable to live in. You haven't gone out in three weeks and that didn't alarm you. You are glowing, physically fitter than ever, clean and most importantly, happy.

You have the drive to do so many things. Like learning a new language, learning to code, learning to knit or crochet, learning to draw... anything you wanted to do, Yves is always the expert to consult. He would buy the materials you need and teach you step by step. It made sense for him to be an extraordinary mentor, because you found out that he was also an exemplary lecturer at your university at one point.

You confirmed that he's currently a researcher, specifically, a research mathematician who works together with other branches of academia including but not limited to human Psychology, biology and sociology. The gist of his project has to do with predictive algorithms and probabilities. It's impressive and complicated, too bad you're not interested beyond what was described in a nutshell.

It's no secret that you look up to him, seeing that you're also a student looking to advance their education.

But it begs the question of his age. He has done so much in a short span of time. You wonder what his true age is.

But it's almost impossible to know because he would be offended whenever his age is brought up. It seems like he despised being perceived as ancient, which you understand. He probably comes from a time where youth is overly worshipped. You let it go, it isn't like his age affects you in any way.

It doesn't mean you didn't try searching him up. At first you suspected that he was lying because you couldn't find anything about him working at your university on the internet. But you sent an email to the administration asking about him. They came back with the confirmation that Yves is currently a hired researcher there. Strange that they knew who he is without knowing his last name. You guess there's only one Yves in the entirety of his faculty.

Speaking of names, you were shocked to find out that Yves didn't have a last name. After tons of relentless teasing from Yves for wanting to know his surname and a platitude of shame-induced face coverings later, you finally discovered he doesn't have one. This was bizarre to you, but Yves only told you off for being insensitive towards him, as not everyone has the privilege of a last name. It seems like a touchy subject, better not bring it up again.

Although it has been around a month since you think you first met Yves, you can safely say that you're madly in love with him. He is way more attentive and caring of you than anyone you ever met. Not even your parents or guardians can compare. Absolutely no one in your life has treated you this well.

There is that nagging feeling that something is very wrong. It wasn't a "He is going to leave you for someone better" feeling, it was more of a "what if Yves is secretly an organ harvester and he's healing you up to make a good price on the black market?"

But due to blind love, you forced yourself to brush it off as some implausible, impossible, silly thought.

...is it though? Yves does give off uncanny vibes sometimes no matter how suave and sexy he is. He has a lot of things to hide and the knowledge that you have of him is not enough to save you if he ever decides to steal a kidney or two.

Maybe this relationship isn't good for you. It keeps giving you inner turmoil to lose sleep over. This is definitely too good to be true, no one likes being a full time babysitter for their partner; this has to be a trap! You think you should quickly break it off with Yves before it gets too--

You were interrupted from your thoughts when you felt the chilly air from the air conditioner nip at your skin. The bliss of not being boiled alive by your own fluid trickles down your forehead.

You close your eyes and grin, letting the wind blow on your sweaty hair. This is lovely, you're so grateful to have Yves in your life. If you didn't have him here, you wouldn't be able to enjoy this temperate luxury.

Yves lets his focused gaze linger on your form for a few more seconds before replacing the remote back onto the holder. Yves pressed the button on his stopwatch, the beep was soft enough to go unnoticed.

He checked the temperature, the time and the humidity of your bedroom before logging them all into his computer. Yves turned his head to look at your position on the floor, you're splayed out like a rag as gusts of cold air strike your body.

He opened another file, which is the floorplan of this house. His eyes scanned the screen, noting down the exact coordinates of your precise location.

It would always be like this. You would start formulating thoughts and suspicions on Yves, spiral so much that you contemplated ending everything to protect yourself, then something interrupts your mind and eradicating the unwanted ideas entirely. Be it a change in temperature, texture, hunger or thirst. Sometimes, it's because you feel you hit your Yves-interaction/social quota for the day. So he would excuse himself and leave your house until you recovered.

He always comes back at the perfect time. Just right when you're starting to yearn for him. Yves ensures he never leaves for too long to make you think he's neglecting you. But he wouldn't come back too soon to make you go "yuck, this bitch's face again?"

Your signs could be as minuscule as a lower lip twitch, a brief, split-second movement of the eye, flaring of nostrils, positioning of your arms or even a change in the depth or rhythm of your breathing.

Or it could be an increase in heart rate, body temperature or sweat beading from your pores. Hell, it could even be the sound of you swallowing your spit or the smell of irritation.

They are all telltale signs that you're about to do or think about something undesirable due to overwhelm or underwhelm.

It's scary. He could just detect it with his superhuman senses. But ignorance is bliss, you still didn't know that he's puppeteering your environment accordingly. He would very much like to keep it that way.

Yves must admit, he has been careless. For the past three weeks, he failed to consider that his daily presence is wearing you down. It was his own fault for disregarding his calculations, Yves was originally only supposed to see you four times a week; that was the most optimal arrangement.

But he was enamoured, as desperate and feverish as you to be together. He just hides it impeccably well. Could you blame him, though? This was the first time you acknowledged him, the first time Yves got to kiss, touch, and hug you as freely as he wanted. The first time he gets to observe past the use of cameras- he does not need to hide. He gets to put his elaborate meal plans to use, you're eating his cooking, he's washing your clothes and you're accepting his backrubs. This is the closest so far to the ideal he wanted in his life with you. Anyone would be greedy in his situation.

But he flew too close to the sun like Icarus did. The wax melted off his wings and now he has to face the consequences that would have been avoided if only he had controlled himself better.

He's starting to notice you're not as positively receptive to his kisses as before. Sometimes even outright grimacing and shuddering in disgust when you think he's not looking. You spent a couple minutes longer in the bathroom, sometimes up to an hour, claiming you had stomach issues. But you didn't have problems with your digestion, your boyfriend made sure of that. He meticulously checks everything that goes into your mouth and he knows you didn't even pull your pants down. All you did was sit in the corner and scroll on your phone.

You did it just to escape from Yves and he's fully aware of that.

It devastated him when he went through your internet history:

Yves removed his reading glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose. He checked the timestamps, and you accessed the web since three in the morning.

"Why are my boyfriend's kisses and hugs gross to me now"

"Clingy boyfriend"

"How to tell my boyfriend to stop being clingy without hurting his feelings"

"How to say no to hugs"

"How to say no to hugs and kisses"

"How to say no"

"How to stop people pleasing"

"How to tell people that i dont want to see them but not forever just for a few days"

"Social battery"

"Therapists near me"

"Therapy price"

"is University counseling free"

"university counseling wait times"

"How to break up with my boyfriend"

"Is it rude to break up over text"

"Script for breaking up"

"Nice script for breaking up"

"Kind script for breaking up"

"Breaking up without hurting his feelings script"

"ChatGPT"

"Do retired lecturers have a habit of checking for plagiarism in their day to day life"

"Is AI generated content plagiarism"

"Jobs near me"

He knows he has no one but himself to blame. He had a plan all laid out, if he followed it to a Tee, it would have conditioned you to ultimately accept his intense love without complaints. He was supposed to give you a maximum of one kiss on the lips and four others somewhere else on your face. But gave you a whopping average of 76 kisses a day, 20 of which are on the lips; 1520% of the actual daily cap on kisses.

Likewise, he hugged you too much. Yves was only supposed to give you 12 hugs, lasting 8 seconds each at most, spaced throughout the day. However, you're in his arms for a total of 6 hours a day; 2250% of the maximum.

He is the first thing you see in the morning and the last face you perceive before sleeping, From before sunrise to past beyond sundown, you would be exposed to him; from 6am to 12am the next day; he would already be in your room before you're even awake. Subconsciously, you know he's there because the brain never stops working.

Of course, you would be sick of him! It doesn't matter if you came from an affectionate family or you turned out severely touch-starved, with extreme figures like these, anyone would be nauseated with his presence by the third week!

Yves fought back the urge to run the numbers back the fifth time. The cold hard facts are there, he made a grave mistake. Painstakingly recalculating everything is just a pathetic attempt to appease his denial that he lost control over himself.

He sighed and propped his head up by an elbow, absentmindedly fiddling on his calculator. Yves's eyes flitted up to the monitor. You're curled up into a ball on your bed, scrolling on your phone. Most likely to try and catch up with your own me-time. Yves could see pixels of bags forming under your eyes.

He shook his head and decided he must rectify this. Yves got up from his seat and sauntered out of his office, switching the lights off but leaving his surveillance equipment on.

Meanwhile, you yawned, closing your eyes and letting your phone slip next to you. Finally but reluctantly drifting off to sleep.

#yandere #yandere x reader #yandere oc #yandere male #yandere concept #tw yandere #yandere x you #yandere oc x reader #male yandere oc x reader #oc yves #oc montgomery

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wordstome · 5 months

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fully a manipulation tactic on my part to (hopefully) get more of your wonderful writing BUT;

König being built like a Hozier song

“With the roar of the fire, my heart rose to its feet Like the ashes of ash I saw rise in the heat Settle soft and as pure as snow I fell in love with the fire long ago”

Like Omggg who said thattttttt 😰😰😰

anon. come here. come closer.

*grabs you by the head* listen here you little shit (affectionate). how did you know I was thinking about Would That I at the exact moment you sent this ask. how did you do that. what witchcraft is this. did you do this to me.

anyway. have some writing or whatever (I love you)

So the whole gist of Would That I is that it likens the singer's past loves to trees, and his new lover to a fire that burns them all down. And that's so in-line with the way König loves. I imagine that with König's first true love, someone he loved in his overwhelming and passionate (obsessive) way, that relationship wouldn't have ended with a bang, but with a whimper.

He's been dumped, he's been cheated on, hell, he's even had to dump a few himself. But this one was different. They were different. They saw him, understood him, loved him deeply in a way he never thought he was worthy of. He saw them as his soulmate, planned his whole life out centered around spending it with them.

And then it just...fizzled out. He had to just watch as they got more and more distant from him, and nothing he did could stop the spiral. And then one day, he realized he didn't love them anymore either. I think with this relationship, they would have still cared about each other deeply, but it wasn't really a romantic relationship anymore, just two people going through the motions. (If you really want to fuck yourself up imagining this, listen to Trivia: Seesaw by BTS and read the English lyrics translation: "If we didn't have feelings for each other, if we didn't think of each other, would we have dragged it out like this? // Now if we don't have any feelings left, it's dangerous, dangerous on this seesaw // Stop thinking about me")

König is intense, when he's in it, he's in it, and that tends to overwhelm his partners. After this really significant relationship ends, he's probably quite weary of forming new connections. It's like what I said before in my post about whether König falls in love at first sight: he's weary of people because they treat him like an other, like he's not even human anymore just because he's big and awkward and doesn't know how to function anymore without being sent out to kill people. His past relationship just feels like the universe reminding him that he isn't lovable and isn't built to have a love that shelters him from the world the way a forest's canopy shelters everything that lives in it.

And then you come along, and all of his insecurities and his loneliness and his conviction that he isn't worthy of the kind of earth-shattering love that people write poems and songs about goes away. Everything changes for him, and it's like a fire, how passionately and intensely he loves. "Though I've handled the wood, I still worship the flame" You've burned away all of his hangups, everything in his past that weighed him down, and it's breathtaking and awe-inspiring. He would saw down the whole forest just to behold your flames. And he will.

#könig #konig #könig x reader #könig x you #konig x reader #konig x you #könig cod #konig cod #now y'all are just feeding my second chance love obsession #also anon I'm sorry if this isn't what you were looking for ;;#I can totally see this being reversed #where König is so intense that he burns away every conception of love you have from previous relationships #but I kind of wanted to tie in König's past and the way he feels about himself and love in general #könig headcanons

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ask-highroller · 6 months

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GOOD MOOORNING TOONTOOOOWN!!! What'ff the tooniverffe'ff favourite ffhow without a promotional blog for the fanff! Got yourffelf a quefftion? Come on over, and affk away ffweetie pie!

[ooc: Read the info below, the ask box is open!]

[ooc: HII I was uhm,, inspired by my friend who runs a few different manager ask blogs (such as @ask-derrickman). I noticed?? Surprisingly?? There's no High Roller blog?? What's up with that...... ANYWAY,, I haven't ran an ask blog since like 2017 or so I'm very rusty.]

Just in case: High Roller's speech usually, but not always, changes "s" to "ff" which I will try and stick to.

High Roller also goes by an assortment of honorifics which you can find on the trivia section of the wiki, and I don't mind whichever you use! Go crazy!!

This entire blog is for funsies, and HR being a silly April fools manager well,,, we can do pretty much whatever with the canon I'm sure,,

I'm not directly affiliated with other blogs, I've seen you guys all chatting amongst yourselves though and I, (once I get the hang of it), WILL try and interact with others too! Manager funny times inbound.

REALLY IMPORTANT: I may be an adult running this blog but I really, REALLY would like if you didn't send EXPLICIT asks n' such. I know how much some of you yearn for High Roller, I have my eyes on you (looking in a mirror).

REALLY IMPORTANT PART 2: I'm a chronically ill, university student with way too much garbage going on. I IDEALLY want to draw something, even if it's a doodle, to go with asks but no promises. I'll do my best to keep up!!

Ok that's it, love you all.

#pinned #ooc #not an ask #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #high roller #toonblr

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heart-defendor · 1 year

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City of Nightmares Pt. 3

Part 2 Part 4

Also thank you for all the support, special shout to those that asked to be on the tag list, never thought I'd have one of those!

Warnings: some violence, and sex refs. Minors DNI

Azriel knelt on one of few roofs available of Hewn City's entertainment district. Hewn was filled with bridges, and stairs, the buildings all built on top of each other like different levels. The entertainment district was deep in the mountain, down here he found there weren't that many rooftops available, normally he found himself on a bridge or alleyway, he was lucky to find a roof the club he was watching. The fae below were participating in all kinds of revelry, drinking, dancing and flirting the occasional fight breaking out as well. An alley way wouldn't have been a good choice at this time of night anyway too many couples hiding away, he could smell their arousal from up here.

The first few days after discovering the mating bond he had spent in the mountains with Cass and Ryhs taking turns fighting them until he could no longer. Trying to take his mind of his male instincts that drove him back to Y/n. After returning to Velaris it became harder to avoid seeking her out. Even if she wanted nothing to do with him his curiosity got the better of him.

It was almost too easy to spy on the ongoings of Hewn City, since the entire place was built under a mountain, all the light came from glowing windows or lanterns that littered the street, the city no matter the time of day was never truly bright, living in eternal night. For his purposes it made it incredibly easy for both him and his shadows to blend seamlessly into the many dark pockets the city provided. Over the past couple of weeks he had occasionally come down to watch his mate, he felt silly after their first and only encounter, he couldn’t draw himself away. They were barely above strangers now his need to protect her to know her was profound.

While he wasn’t watching her his shadows had taken up the job, they would always come back telling him of little pieces of trivia they’d discovered or just singing her praises. Azreil wanted to find them annoying but every time a shadow appeared, his heart raced hoping for news about her. So far he learned that she was not a morning person only leaving her room early if forced, loved sugar treats, read the same horrible romances as Nesta and was close with many members of her family. Azreil didn't quite believe it, until he had seen for himself that love and loyalty existed under this mountain. Yet he had seen it,his mate smiling and giggling with her younger brother as they played with little female cousins, treating them with gentleness he didn't think they’d possess. Conversing with her father about the history of the Summer Court.

Then the other day he watched as Y/n angry grew a vendor selling high quality garments, with a wave of star kissed mist to rip the garments to shreds. Azreil hadn't been able to hear the cause of the conflict.

Then there was her cousin Cole, a Darkbringer, who by now Azreil had seen get into multiple fights, the male was vicious, not hesitating to rip into his opponents. Yet Y/n was protective over him, once his shadows had informed him Cole got in trouble for sleeping with a married female, that Cole was out numbered four to one, his mate had stood in front of Cole exuding arrogance and threatened them with black mail involving feabane. Cole in return seemed just as protective over members of the Umbra family, his father on the other hand was a different sort. Cole's father, Azrel was already quite familiar with as he was on a Darkbringer General. Cyrus Umbra was a nasty male, Azreil had watched him climb the ranks happy to step on anyone to bolster his own power.

Currently as he sat on the rooftop he spied the back of her head as she waved goodbye to her two friends after a night of drinking and dancing and began walking alone towards her family's estate. The last two hours had been spent watching her dance to the music, her lithe body twirling to the music. Azriel loved to see the spark in her purple eyes as they shone with mirth, her smile was contagious and even if he wasn't ever going to be the caus, he wouldn’t give up the opportunity to see it.

Azriel's wings flapped as he followed her, using them to give him the boost he needed to jump between walkways and ledges. She had just gone up a small stairway, taking her time as she stumbled, still slightly drunk and was now walking along a bridge watching the ongoings below her. There were few fea around her now but there were two that caught Azriel's eye, he recognized them earlier Y/n had gotten into a brief argument with them before entering the club earlier that evening. He watched as they slowly drew closer to his mate.

Azriel wished she’d take notice and choose a safer root home, avoiding the darkness of the back streets for main paths still filled with other fea. Instead she had wandered almost lazily into a small alleyway on the other side of the bridge. Finally after another five minutes, that to Azreil felt like a lifetime, she finally turned around, as if just noticing them. And instead of acting scared or moving into a fighting position she looked mildly put out.

Y/n crossed her arms and gave them a haughty look, “Try and get your revenge if you’d like but I promise you will regret it.”

“The Umbras do not scare us”

“They should,” she replied.

They didn't bother with an answer, the closer one lunged for her. She shrieked and jumped backwards out of his grasp.

Azriel saw red, his need to protect Y/n becoming his only thought, he dropped down and ripped the male by the collar way from his mate, throwing him to the ground and hitting him in the face. The other male took the opportunity to try and kick Azriel in the ribs but Azriel moved too quickly and subdued the second male as well with a well aimed punch to the gut.

Y/n was cheering him on and clapping, enjoying the show in her half drunk state. Totally unconcerned about her fate had Azreil not been there.

He whirled around to face her, “Cauldron, are you out of your mind?!?’ he barely held back a growl, "You can't go around provoking males then wandering alone drunk.”

She looked up at him and smiled conspiratorially, while tucking her hair behind one pointed ear. “Thank you little bat, I was so scared.”

This time he actually did growl, “how are you so cavalier about this, they wanted to hurt you Y/n and you actually look like you are enjoying yourself.”

Y/n for her part, had to admit that she in fact was enjoying herself. Watching her massive hunk of a mate drop from above and effortlessly take on two high fea, in her honor, had been great fun. And if she was being truly honest, incredibly arousing (she was thankful that in his anger Azriel had not seemed to notice), the best part was he hadn't even bothered with his shadows, using his raw strength and skill to beat them into the ground. Y/n had never been in any danger, not really, so she decided to tell him as much.

Y/n shrugged “It's because I knew I was safe, you or at least your shadows have been around me for days, and I knew neither would let harm come to me.”

“You knew” Azriel's amber eyes widened ever so slightly.

More humor bubbled to the surface, she tried to hold it in, Y/n was pretty sure she was failing.

“Well I was never certain if you were around, but your shadows just love attention. They have become great company”, Y/n smirked, “they are kinda cute even if their master is annoying.”

Azriel had a look of utter betrayal. Cleary the shadows had left that part out when they reported back to him. Y/n was however telling the truth. The shadows had never tried to hide from her and she had grown used to the way they moved around her, she liked their cool touch.

At night two would settle around her, Y/n whispering to them as she lay in her bed. As she fell asleep she remembered thinking that seeing their master again wouldn't be so bad.

“What if you were wrong, what if I wasn't close by.”

Y/n chose to shrug again, “then they would have been stupid for hurting me, my family would have retaliated. Woulda gone after their stupid boss too. Thats who sent them you know, I wrecked all their pretty clothing to warn them against trying to pull my cousin into their shitty escort business. They are lucky it was you, my father would have had them killed for touching me.”

Azriel growled again, making it clear he wanted them dead himself. And maybe it was the alcohol, the rush from his protectiveness, or the mating bond that pulled her towards him, probably some mix but all three, she found herself asking, “Want to walk me home, there's no one around here to see us, and I have a good view of the city.”

Azriel stared at her for a beat then nodded, and before she knew it they were walking side by side, Azriels wings tucked in tight and shroud in shadows to keep them hidden despite them coming across no one else. The Illyiran hadn't acted exactly as she expected him to, she figured he’d be back, if his shadows were any indication, but thought it would go differently. At the first opportunity to get her alone, he’d take right there against a wall, strong arms holding her up the her thighs as he brutally filled her. So far he had acted like a gentleman, acted almost timid, hiding until he felt forced to act. Y/n thought there would be more snarling and growling, he hadn’t even tried to rip apart the men who had tried to touch her. Though he obviously wanted to, she hadn't known Illyrians to have such self control.

“You know, you and the General are the only full Illyrians I've ever met, actually i think you’re one of the only lesser fea I’ve actually talked to,’ she said softly though Azriel had obviously heard her, looked down prompting her to continue.

“You were not nearly as violent as I thought you would be, with those males I mean. I thought there would be more blood, you also haven’t tried to fuck me.” Azriel coughed, wings rustling restlessly before settling again. “I was told all Illying are blood thirsty and driven by their primal needs. They only know how to fly and fuck.”

“I told you, I am nothing like the other Illyrians.”

“I suppose, but it’s hard to get past your reputation.” She smiled up at him. “We tell children scary stories about you, how if you don't behave the Shadowsinger will steal you away in the night.”

Azriel chucked, a rich timber that made her stomach flip. This was the first time she’d heard him laugh,she liked the sound, liked even more that she was the one that caused it. “I'm surprised Y/n Umbra wouldn't be attracted to a violent male, seems to be a favored pastime of everyone down here.”

Y/n thought about it for a moment before replying, he wasn't entirely wrong, “It would look like that wouldn't it, but we do what we must to survive. Keir and the other council members make the rules and the rest of us must play by them.”

Azreil brows were knitted together, he fiddled with the dagger at his side contemplating her words. Finally he said, “Hewn City surprises me, you surprise me.”

The two spent the rest of the walk to her family’s home Y/n and Az enjoying eachothers company. Y/n felt the mating bond hum in ribs happy by the development. They reached her home and she pointed out her balcony. Her room wasn’t particularly high up from where they had stood but there was a large chasm that looked down onto the lower city levels.

“You can just fly over right? There's wards against winnowing, I'll just take the front- '' Y/n was cut off with a shriek as Azriel had scooped her up into his arms and with a beat of his wings shot up into the air. Her arms instinctively clutching around his neck but slowly she moved her head away from his chest to look down. She loved the view from her balcony, and had seen it many times. All the lights lit up the city’s architecture, the world below filled with life. Yet this was different; she had never felt so immersed in it before and could take her eyes away from the sight.

The flight was short and soon she was being set down on her feet. Y/n looked up as Azriel with wide eyes. He rubbed his neck and gave her a sheepish smile, “Sorry seemed like the fastest way.”

She could only nod, then watch as he turned toward the railing.

He peered down at the buildings bellow “You’re right it is a good view”

That broke the spell and she quickly joined him. They spent the next hour there, her happily pointing out her all favorite places to go and people to spy on. Telling him of some of the more juicy gossip she had picked up.

“Lady Noir is sleeping with all her son's friends and Lord Lochland seems to have a major foot fetish, you should see all the fea he brings around just to touch their feet!”

Azriel actually laughed, “Maybe we are better matched then we thought, you are quite the little spy.” .

Y/n felt her cheeks begin to heat, “Well it's important to know everything you can, secrets are a currency”. It was the first time that night one of them had acknowledged the bond. And perhaps it was silly but the small compliment coming from her mate made her feel warm inside, she wanted to impress him more.

“I think you are just nosey”

“Maybe” she laughed, he wasn’t wrong. Blackmail was useful tool but she enjoyed spying on her neighbors regardless.

Azriel wasn’t so bad, even if he was a member of the inner circle, getting to know him might prove useful she thought. He seemed open to the idea that there was more to Hewn than he knew. As for her part, she was willing to admit she had been too harsh on the Illyrian, after all, everything she knew about him originally came from the council she hated.

Azriel was looking down on her amused by her reaction, “I have to go now, but I come again."

Y/n’s cheeks were still red and her knees grew weak at the thought of seeing him again, but she pulled herself up tall, she wouldn't turn to mush in front of him. “If you came again, to visit me, it wouldn’t be the worst thing,” she said, trying to sound indifferent while training her gaze on the city. Azriel smiled at her, he’d seen right through her act.

“Then I will come again, little spy” Azriel tugged on her hair than took off into the air quickly leaving the wards and disparaging into his shadows.

Y/n entered her bedroom, spying one or two of his shadows that lingered. She didn’t stop the smile that spread across her face. “I can’t wait little bat.”

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if you missed the live N7 Day 2023 cast reunion panel, the rewatch link is here.

here are some notes on trivia and other bits of particular interest from the panel, under a cut due to length –

An audition D.C. Douglas did for Legion can be listened to here. he said it's quite different to what you may expect. He also mentioned an audition for Legion where he was given a eulogy to read and the voice direction from BioWare was that they were looking for something like HAL 9000 but with a little more emotion.

D.C. said on Legion's death scene[s], "it's the innocent emotion coming through" "but with the intellectual understanding of the macro".

Alix Wilton Regan originally auditioned for EDI, didn't get it and then was called back for Sam. BioWare were like "[Sam]'s really London"; AWR was like "I'm from London, I got this, I can do London". months later she was recording for Sam, saw lines for EDI coming up and wondered "who was the woman that got the role of EDI?" when she heard EDI's voice, she was like "omg, she's so hot, yeah I totally get it, I had a real life crush on her in the booth playing Sam, who had a crush on her in the game. I was like 'ohh.. now I get it, I hear it, I see what went on in casting'".

some of the earliest stuff Mark Meer did in ME was a lot of demo stuff, like figuring out how various alien species would sound. BioWare brought him in very early on, during the concept art stages. this is what he was working on for BioWare and then they 'basically upgraded him'. He did a presentation for BioWare demoing how a typical salarian could sound, how a typical krogan would sound, etc, and during this presentation BW had him do some scratch dialogue as a salarian bartender. there was a scene where the bartender was talking to Shepard, who Mark was also voicing during the scene, so he was basically talking to himself. during this process BioWare said that they would like him to audition for the role of m Shepard. "After call backs etc, the rest is history". when BW told Mark, oh btw, f Shepard is played by Jennifer Hale, Mark was super thrilled. "It was like being told the other person in the dual role was Meryl Streep or something".

when Ali Hillis got the role of Liara, at that time she was with her first voiceover agent. Liara's voice in the games is pretty similar to the voice Ali first came up with for her for the audition. they also gave Liara a bit of a mid-Atlantic accent in the first game.

Ash Sroka auditioned for the roles of Liara, Tali and one other character. for the Tali read, she was given a long monologue about Tali's Pilgrimage. she left the booth thinking that if she didn't get the part it was okay, because she'd gotten to read this beautiful monologue and really feel that character. she felt an instant alignment with Tali.

for Grunt's audition, Steve Blum pitched his voice as deep as he could. BioWare said to him that they were going to be pitching Grunt's voice down in post-processing, so he didn't have to do that, but he couldn't help himself and did it anyway. he said that Grunt is a "half-ton child" and self-described as a half-ton child, so things worked out really well. he also mentioned that "it helped me personally, because I'm emotionally under-developed and Grunt is a baby so it was some nice free paid therapy for me, and the fact that people actually responded to it was a bonus, it's kind of amazing".

William Salyers didn't realize he was being brought in to take over the role of Mordin in ME3. he'd been sent audio references and knew that this was a species found throughout the game, and thought that the character he'd be doing was going to be like an assistant or something. the first day in the booth, BW asked him "do you think you can do the match [match the ME2 voice]?" and he was like "I don't know what you're talking about but yes". William was in ME2 as 'Incidental voices' and felt rly fortunate to 'graduate' to Mordin in ME3. when recording Mordin's death-redemption scene in ME3, he & the voice director were both in tears.

for the voice direction in ME1, BW wanted it to feel like an episode of 24 - they didn't want dialogue lines being like screamed or yelled out like they were in a lot of games from around that time. it was supposed to be much more realistic and human in feel.

when developing Kaidan's voice, BW asked Raphael Sbarge to speak to a stickie note on the wall, because they wanted it to feel like there's a sort of sense of the military, that cadence that comes from really speaking to someone else in a directed way.

Shepard and ME have a very special place in Jennifer Hale's heart

a submitted question from the community asked Mark and Jennifer how their perception of Shepard evolved throughout the trilogy. Mark said that the way it was explained to him by BW was that, as they went, they had a little more leeway in Shepard in showing the toll the war was taking on them. "We also got to watch Shepard develop these relationships with the characters in the games. These were their closest friends, their true companions through all of this." this made it possible to sort of humanize Shepard more and more as the series progressed. Shep starts out very by the books regardless of paragon/renegade etc, they're very military, an officer, they're used to giving orders and used to being under pressure. and especially by the time they got to ME3, it was now like, "now you can show a little bit more vulnerability, now you can show a crack in the shell a little bit, especially after the events of ME2 where Shepard literally dies and was resurrected, what does that do to a person?" Mark mentioned that he thinks this is common to all versions of Shepard. by the time you get to ME3 there's a real sense of getting "past the armor, emotionally and spiritually". Jennifer agreed and added that the way voice acting was done in video games also developed over the years from ME1-ME3. by ME3 it was more done in the way like how you would shoot a film, that kind of acting.

Jennifer mentioned that both she and Shep are really freakin stubborn

on Next Mass Effect:

a submitted comment from the community said "Hopefully we get to see or hear you again taking part in the continuation of the Mass Effect story in any way." Jennifer replied "yes, I vote yes to all that".

Ali talked about the moment she discovered Liara was going to be in the next ME. "I have a couple of friends who are close friends and really big ME fans. Usually they're the first ones to alert me of anything ME before I ever see it in the trades, online, on socials etc". she clicked on the link to the trailer she was sent "and I was like.. wait.. what? I think I was just looking at the link and then had to play it again, and then probably like a lot of you I tried to zoom in on it and look at it, like is that...?"

here D.C. said "Um, asking as the voice of an entire species [the geth], do you, you didn't know anything?" Ali said "No, I had no idea, do we ever? I think as we all know, seeing something like that is no guarantee of anything. I was like, is that Liara? Liara's daughter? Liara's mother? is that back in time, is that forward in time? I know as much as anyone, but it was really shocking. like when you were a kid on your birthday and there's a big wrapped present from your parents and you don't know what it is. I know as much as you guys, your guess is as good as mine."

Mark: "As far as what I'm looking forward to, there are endless possibilities. Again as Ali said we, we know about as much as you know, so it could go anywhere. past, future, who can say? Are we gonna see, is this gonna be the First Contact War? is this gonna be far in the far future? where could we go? The Codex is very big as those who have spent ingame time reading it know and that's a very well thought out and fleshed out universe, so the possibilities are endless".

Jennifer: "Just to add to that, what I always tell everybody in the community is email [BioWare] and tell them what you want. they don't know if you don't tell them. telling us doesn't, we appreciate it so much but it actually won't get anything done."

Raphael: "If you feel strongly, we would encourage you to speak up [on that]".

a submitted question from the community asked the cast what they're most excited to see in the next game. AWR: "We're most excited to to see us in the next game, right [winking theatrically]". the cast were all like 'yeah' and nodding and AWR said "emails, emails, emails".

D.C: "The poster, the teaser poster that they put out for Mass Effect 5 shows what looks to be a crater and the outline of Legion and it looks like there's a little dead geth in that poster, so all I know is, and I am the voice of all geth, so."

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ghostly-clown · 2 years

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Living with slashers (sfw, head-cannons)

:will include:

Jason Voorhees, Sinclair brothers (as a group since they all live together anyway), Thomas Hewitt, Brahms Heelshire, Michael Myers, gohst face (Billy and Stu)

I'm writing this thinking about a platonic friendship in mind so yeah, also idk if I have to specify say this or not but request are open :)

Jason Voorhees

- you would probably have your own cabin at Camp Crystal Lake but Jason would always hang around it

- he wants to be room-mates with you 👉👈

- you will have to do chores otherwise the place is gonna go to (more) ruins

- one of those chores will be making sure Jason is looking after himself

-otherwise he will go days without any proper hygiene :(

- other than that it would be like living at a school camp but instead of classmates you have a murdering zombie friend

- plenty of stuff to do, but Jason would be upset if u do stuff without him (mans just wants to be included)

The Sinclair's

- the house is surprisingly clean

- Lester is mostly doing his own thing (basicly living in his truck)

- Vincent is either working on sculptures, sleeping, or just standing around watching cause I don't think he can social well 😞

- Bo is the only one who uses the house and I can imagine he's abit of a neat freak

- family game nights will happen at random so be ready (they would also be happy that theres a 4th person so teams can be even)

- you and Bo are gonna have to cook all the meals

- would be a fun experience as all the brothers would be happy to have another person to hang out with

- and they would get upset if you spend more time with a specific brother, they all want attention but they don't wanna ask

Thomas Hewitt

- I'm sorry I can't see this being a good house to live in

- Thomas would try and make it as comforting as he can but he can only do so much

- you will have to work around the farm no matter the weather or heat

- they will continue to eat people so I hope you can stomach it

- Thomas will spend alot of time in ur room, especially if he's upset

- actuly when he's not working he will hang out with you (alot of these slashers just want some genuine positive attention)

- I mean u can't leave even if u wanted too so get comfortable

Brahms Heelshire

- u know how this goes, ur a nanny

- cooking, cleaning, tending to everything Brahms needs

- it would be a simple life and you would still have time to do ur own thing, but ur basically living for Brahms

- and he knows this, he knows he's the boss and yet the one night you forget to tuck him in he cried for the rest of the day thinking you hated him

- he tries to be all tough but in truth he won't survive without you

- and please for all that is good make sure he showers everyday

- despite the house work and looking after a grown man, it's a nice large house on the country side so like... totally worth it 👌

Michael Myers

- he would be the roomate you didn't realise you had until you woke up one night and saw him in the living room and you can't just ask him to leave so you just have to say "cool new room mate"

- he won't do any chores unless you ask him to and even then if he doesn't want to do it. He won't

- he will scare you just by always standing in the most unexpected places, be on guard

- he won't admit it but he likes having you around as a room mate

- he will stand in your room while you sleep, he like Vincent dosnt know how to social very well

- he's either gonna be doing his own thing somewhere else or he's gonna be stuck to your side

- he would be an uncomfortable room mate at first but he'll grow on u as u will him

Ghost face (Billy + Stu)

- there won't be a moment of peace if they are your roomates

- Billy is always gonna be out or in his own room, but he will go to you when he just needs a breather but dosnt want to be alone

- Stu will hunt you down to hang out with you, his own thing is you, you are now what he does

- luckily Billy knows some good places Stu dosnt know about

- movie nights, game nights, trivia nights, any kind of hang out night there is there will be

- if you are extroverted this will be the perfect set up for you, cause they (mainly Stu) will always want to be around you

- they would also try to convince you to help them kill, they would even get a mask for you

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nekosvocabdex · 11 months

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The first Pokémon to examine couldn't really be anything else except one of my favourites:

Skitty

Big disclaimer: I'm still learning myself. This blog is an attempt to learn something new for myself first. If anyone notices any kind of error in what's written here, even just a spelling typo, please let me know!

Learning is what we are all here for after all.

First, let's start with the Japanese name

エネコ　Eneko is a pun between 狗尾草　エノコログサ　Enokorogusa, which refers to the green foxtail, the type of plant that Skitty's tail looks like, and 猫ねこ neko, cat.

Then let's look at some of the Pokedex entries:

動くものを見つけると夢中になって追いかけ回す習性を持つポケモン。

夢中(むちゅう) being absorbed in something

追いかけ回す(おいかけまわす) to chase something around

"When it sees something that moves, this Pokémon has the habit of getting immersed chasing it around"

You can attach 回す to the -masu stem of a verb to indicate that you are doing that action "all around, all over"

(Example: chasing around)

動くものをつい追ってしまう。

"It ends up chasing moving things unintentionally"

Different dex entry, same general meaning but with a slightly different nuance. I find reading these kind of dex entries useful because they offer multiple ways of saying the same thing, and are good to reinforce the same vocabulary that appears in them and grammar rules.

ーてしまう signals that you are doing the action without meaning to

つい as an adverb similarly shows that you are doing the action unintentionally, subconsciously, and it's often paired with てしまう to emphasize it.

For its abilities, they are mostly named with English words anyway even in Japanese, except for Cute Charm (which was its only ability in Gen 3, if I remember correctly, since Normalize didn't exist)

Cute Charm is called メロメロボディ, which uses the "meromero" onomatopoeia to indicate being spellbound or madly in love.

Some interesting moves it can learn:

猫騙し (ねこだまし, Nekodamashi) Fakeout

The Fakeout move has a interesting bit of trivia in its Japanese name! It has the kanji for "cat" and "to deceive" in it, and it's actually a reference to a specific sumo move!

"Nekodamashi" refers to a sumo technique where one of the athletes slaps the air with both hands right at the beginning of the match near their opponents face to stun them. That's why it can only be used in the first turn in the Pokémon games!

And since it translates pretty much to "cat's deception", it's the reason why mostly kitty Pokémon other than Fighting types like Hariyama can use it.

真似っこ (まねっこ, Manekko) Copycat

It stands for "to imitate" and I can't help but think that the reason it can learn this move is because of another cat pun in "manekko", which conveniently also works in the english version. Sadly not in other languages.

Skitty's lost signature move:

猫の手　(ねこのて, Nekonote) Assist

Another cute move with its origin stemming from a Japanese idiom!

Assist is another move that can be learned almost exclusively by cat Pokemon, and it's effect was to randomly use a move known by another Pokémon in the party. It was unique to Skitty in Gen III and is what made it maybe my favourite Pokémon ever: watching this adorable pink kitty bust out Earthquakes and Flamethrowers that the rest of my team used was hilarious. Was it effective? Usually not, but it was hilarious.

I always had a Skitty on my team during most of my Gen III playthroughs and in ORAS.

The idiom is 猫の手も借りたい ("I want to borrow even a cat's paw), which is a way of saying "I'm desperate and need any help I can get ". Even a cat's.

Cute and fitting name for a move where a kitty asks the rest of his team for "help"!

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dawndelion-winery · 2 years

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Sparks Fly

It's a dream come true to meet your favourite idol, or is it?

Idol au! Ft. Scaramouche, Kaeya, Dainsleif, Albedo

Scaramouche:

A master at the whole "bad boy" persona

Pretty privilege at its finest - no one else could possibly get away with being that much of an ass and that in itself was a feat

You had hoped he was nicer behind the scenes

Hopes: dashed, heart: broken - he was just as much of a jerk off camera

Intimidating eyes narrowed at you as you approached him with a marker and his latest album - your intentions were obvious enough - and he'd simply scoffed and turned back to his coffee

Which was ironically one of the sweetest beverages you'd seen in your life (was there even any coffee in all that milk?)

Just as you were about to turn away, he reached out for your marker and quickly scribbled on the album, barely sparing it a glance

"Go on, thank me and revel in my glory to your heart's content, peasant."

You wanted to scowl at his cockiness, but at the sight of his smirk, the most you could manage was a reluctantly awestruck expression

At which he'd "heh"ed and tapped your cheek before walking away

Kaeya:

Known for flirting with his fans, you weren't expecting him to fluster so easily at your praise

He coped fairly enough the first few compliments

But beyond that?

Boy was he a mess, his ears turning redder and redder as he struggled to maintain your gaze, refusing to look away out of courtesy

He had nowhere to turn to that didn't have someone teasing him because even his manager, Rosaria, joined in the fun

That's not to say he hates it, he quite likes being fawned over - he just had no idea how to react to it all

It doesn't help that his fans (you included) went feral over your cute idol being all flustered

Probably hides behind you if he gets overwhelmed since you look guilty about starting it

Will readily drape an arm around you for a picture if you ask, though

But not without a bashful, slight hesitance

"You make quite the charming bodyguard, don't you? I suppose I can hope to see you at future events?"

Bids you farewell with a kiss to the back of your hand

Dainsleif:

Not exactly what you'd call idol material

A little too aloof and blunt by nature, his production company was hesitant to debut him but did so anyway since he was pretty popular for a trainee

Has a very strict code of conduct for himself, and makes sure to meet a certain degree of chivalry

It's no wonder you found yourself drawn to him; he who was so much like a regal knight sworn to duty, keeping distance for the sake of professionalism

And his bluntness led to a fair share of humorous moments as well, which only served to add to his charm

You weren't quite prepared for how critical he could be, even of his own fans

"I am too understand that your knowledge of me is supposed to be flattering, but I can't help but wonder if you've nothing of greater interest to spend your time on..."

Anyone could see your smile drop

And even he had the sense to comfort you in some way, even if he was the offending party

"What I mean to say is that normally you wouldn't take such care to note these details about people who aren't in immediate proximity to your life- It'd make a lot more sense if the extent of trivia about each other was mutual-"

And that, comrade, is how you tricked your beloved idol into a coffee date - by asking if he was going to get to know you as well as you knew him

Who would've thought that the aloof idol, as seemingly flawless and untouchable as he was, was also incredibly petty

Enough so that he'd adamantly insist on proving himself right

*cue Dainsleif realising that as a fan, you have some sort of image of him and wanting to impress you so he spends a day preparing beforehand*

Albedo:

If Scara's the bad boy, he's the devil

In all of his collaborations with Kaeya, they've often stuck to the roles people expect of them - Kaeya being the flirt and Albedo being the charming and gentle, but romantically inexperienced prince

Little did they know how reversed their roles were in reality

Albedo is the worst sort of flirt in an idol, with angelic eyes and the devil's smile, it was only too easy for him to charm his fans and have them wrapped around his finger

He knows exactly what sort of effect he has on you when he responds to your gift

"That's lovely, darling."

It's perfectly in character for his persona, and yet so fitting in its duality that it shows the exact sort of person he is

It's a known fact that he's perceptive, but even a dedicated fan like yourself can't pick up on how quickly he notes your body language

It's exactly this perceptiveness that makes him such a charmer on stage, what with his knack for reading what the people want

"Oh? It seems like there's two people in me? Hm, that does sound like quite the concept. I owe you thanks for that idea, my dear. How's a complimentary pass to the performance you've inspired sound?"

There was nothing more magical than his on stage costume change, seemingly transforming one outfit into a completely different one

He stole everyone's breathe when his voice dropped an octave

"Sorry to hijack the show, everyone. But it's time for the second subject to take the stage."

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( jacob elordi . cis man . he/him ) - the new york city resident , holden newman , was seen sporting bruno cucinelli on park avenue today . the twenty six year old is a journalist in the city & has been here for eight years . since being here , they have been told to be cynical , but also compassionate , who really knows ! according to nycslam , he has been covering up certain unlawful activities that his mother's family has engaged in . anyways , guess we'll find out for ourselves !

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I. STATS

full name: holden theodore newman

gender & pronouns: cis-male, he/him

age & birthday: 26, april 13th, 1997

occupation: journalist

time in nyc: 8 years

II. BACKGROUND

born in new canaan, ct. his mother was a broke socialite (not really broke, she still was richer than the average person but ya know nowhere as rich as before) and a doctor.

back to his mom, she belongs to a very known and old family in the us (think the vanderbilts bc yes that’s the family i based this from) but holden doesn’t really talk about them and really doesn’t know that side of his family well.

his dad, au contraire, had humble beginnings and worked hard to pay his way through college and med school. they met in 1994, at the hospital he worked at and well they fell in love and holden was born 3 years later.

was the perfect mix of his parents’ personalities. he share his mom’s love for art and his father’s thirst for knowledge. overall, he was very curious and sensible kid.

not the most committed student. he was always living in his own world, dreaming of the worlds he read in books or watched in films. however, he was naturally smart and so he did good at school.

death tw: his father passed away when he was eleven years old and from that moment on it was as if something within him died as well.

holden and his mom drifted apart after that since none of them knew how to share their grief with the other.

his mom began spending a looooot of money. so much that made holden anxious and he used to go to bed thinking about the family’s finances which, ya know, no thirteen year old should be concerned about that.

matured very fast, pretty much missed his teenage years and couldn’t wait to go to college and idk being thirty, flirty and thriving.

attended university in columbia where he majored in literature.

holden always loved writing and researching. he started in high school and later decided to study literature and journalism in college. after graduating, he tried to get a job with the new york times but didn't succeed.

struggling to become an on-air reporter, holden asked a friend for help, and they made a fake press pass. he sneaked into important events, recorded news reports, and sent them to networks in the hope of getting a break. this led to an internship at cnn. in the last three years, he moved up quickly and is now a reporter and writes a column for the new york times.

III. PERSONALITY

if you are into personality tests and all that stuff here’s the tea: intj, type 6 (enneagram), type a, phlematic (temperament), lawful good, aries, ravenclaw.

cynical idealist, skeptical by nature, covertly hopeless romantic, walking paradox, inadvertently tactless.

has a very quixotic personality and even if he tries to conceal it, he still daydreams a lot.

he is still very sensible not even life can take that away from him so please no one cries in front him or he will leave so he doesn’t cry and start a vicious cycle of crying. no one wants that.

a worrier. he worries about everyyything and he just can’t help it which makes him a bit uptight.

very organized, i guess some could say, he’s a bit neurotic.

competitive so don’t invite him to trivia night

wouldn’t say he’s shy but he is indeed very reserved and rarely talks about himself.

extremely critical and most of his criticism is directed at himself but he can be a bit judgmental but never with malice.

dry, dark and sarcastic sense of humor that sometimes is not welcomed. especially because he’s very tactless so he doesn’t have that comedic timing so it comes across as questionable. the type that makes him go like “it’s a joke btw” and people just awkwardly laugh and walk away.

actually fun to be around when he feels comfortable or stress free aka once a year.

IV. PLOTS IDEAS

they’re closing the bar and they want us to leave: holden doesn’t even know how he became ‘friends’ with this person as they don’t have many interests in common. somehow, when this person gets too drunk to drive calls holden to help them and since he can’t really say no, he always complies. with nico

i’ll tell you the truth, but never goodbye: he struggles to keep close relationships as he is the kind of friend who will leave you on read for weeks or decline plans every weekend. however this person has always been there, even when it seems he’s trying to push them away. maybe they haven’t said it out loud but actions speak louder than words and these two are best friends. with grey

do you have the time to listen to me whine?: i guess his mom gave him that name because somehow she knew he would like to complain about many things. so this person could be the one who is there to tolerate all his rambling and at the end give him some advice. holden considers them good friends as he usually is not this chatty unless he feels comfortable around someone.

we locked eyes from a distance, so close but i missed it: i wouldn’t say holden has a crush on this person but he’s definitely intrigued by them. they run into each other often but either holden avoids the conversation or he keeps it short even when he’d rather do the opposite.

they’ve been sayin’ you’re sophisticated: he has tried to keep this as a secret, to the extent of lying about where he grew up. maybe this person met holden back when he lived in the us or their family knew holden’s mom. idk the details but hopefully you get the idea. with yesenia

school yard conversations taken to heart: he grew up mostly in connecticut but after his father passed away he and his mother moved back for a couple of years to new york. maybe they went to the same school and idk connection from the past pretty much.

do you know what it means when you think on a screen?: pretty much they matched on a dating app and they’ve been talking for some time but they haven’t really met in person yet. it’s not really romantic but they have a connection (could become romantic tho depends on chemistry) with yildiz

the devil’s in the details, but you got a friend in me: while he’s not a social butterfly, in the past year he has formed a small group of friends and he feels comfortable around them to let them see more of his personality.

i wanted to believe in all the words that i was speaking as we moved together in the dark: maybe it all started as a hook up and it evolved to a friends with benefits sort of situation. maybe the other person started to get feelings but to holden is was purely physical. he tried to force feelings for this person but it simply wasn’t there and now they ended up in bad terms.

i know your heart belongs to someone you’ve yet to meet: maybe they dated a few years ago (we can work out the logistics) and he was very into this person and thought it would become a serious thing but then he moved to london and the distance made him realize that his feelings were not as strong.

right where you left me: the opposite of the previous idea. pretty much the roles reversed and it’s them who left holden with really no explanation.

everybody wonders what it would be like to love you: holden had a massive crush on this person. sometimes they talked but he never told them anything. he might still have some feelings for them but it’s nothing but the leftovers of an unresolved crush. with eloise

you wouldn’t be the first renegade to need somebody: this could be a friendship that could turn into something more kinda connection. it could be angsty idk. but pretty much this is someone that wants to get to know holden or at least become friends but he keeps putting these walls between them even if he really enjoys their company.

friends don’t get chills with every accidental touch: they’ve been very good friends for some time and they are comfortable with each other, so comfortable that it seems there’s something else there. with moira

#richfm:intro #( holden newman ) / * general .#wanted to make a graphic but photoshop makes my laptop slow #death tw

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awellboiledicicle · 8 months

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Hawke and Anders are gonna keep fucking up the races in Faerun for a bit because like. Why are the elves tall. What do you mean being on the surface isn't that big a deal for dwarves here but being underground is. why are some of them purple. whats a githyanki and what do you mean they lay eggs. Lae'zel you hatched from an egg?? huh.

There's dragon people??

They're going to be quietly confused when Shadowheart makes the "half elf" comment to Lae'zel because they just assumed she was an elf too. Half elves with mostly elven features are rare and yeah they met one, but he was a mage and they kinda figured that's why the elven genes were so obvious.

They don't even mean to be insensitive or anything, they're just deeply in the space of having known about like four kinds of people in their lives and suddenly theres like 10 minimum.

Its mostly a problem for Anders, because he wants to be able to heal everyone that needs it. So he's just like frantically looking through books they find for info and while they didn't like the apothacary's shop for being a secret necromancer thing, it did have recipies and books on anatomy. Which would actually throw him-- since autopsy and detailed anatomical knowledge was a highly controlled thing in Thedas, or at least in the south. Anywhere the Chantry could insist it was blood magic, anyway.

Hawke meanwhile is just treating it as an ever evolving game of trivia. Oh, there's crow people. And cat people, somewhere? And snake people? huh. Neat. Magical creatures not out for blood? cool cool.

Anders is also deeply curious why Lae'zel, from an oviparous race, has breasts. He debates asking before deciding he likes not being stabbed with swords.

#handers gate au

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frayed-symphony · 9 months

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Since Twitter might not be a thing for much longer I wanted to move the trivia threads for my picture books to tumblr.

OC lore dump and sketches for my first self-published picture book Hurricane Lane under the cut;

The number one thing I'm worried about is people thinking my book is related to the hurricane of the same name. I wrote this in 2010-2011 which predates it and the title is meant to convey Amelia's life in her suburban town and how she views it more dramatically then it is.

The name was also inspired by this beautiful song by The Hush Sound which I was listening to a lot whilst concepting and really influenced aesthetics (more subdued colour, the inclusion of the piano being an important story point etc).

I started getting interested in children's illustration when I saw the Penguin Design Competition advertised at my uni in 2010. I didn't make the cut but figured I'd go ahead and finish my book anyway because at that point I was invested in my story and wanted to complete it.

The contest called for an ebook with interactive pages so I made Hurricane Lane have seven special pages of 'wonders' Amelia finds throughout her story. Unfortunately with flash player gone the interactions don't play but they're still found online here;

I based Amelia's design on a Mii I had made which was supposed to represent a human Pikachu. You can see the Mii on the bottom left here. I really liked how it looked and she gradually evolved into what she is today.

Initially the dinosaur suit that her brother has was going to be worn by Amelia but I preferred her without it and thus Bailey was born. The dinosaur itself was based on a purple stegosaurus keyring I had when I was younger and loved even though I had no keys at the time.

Here are some more initial outfit designs for Amelia but in the end I went with the one on the right, inspired by Miku Hatsune's 'Out and About' module from Project Diva.

The family's father Rupert was partly based on my own dad (definitely the dress sense) but in 2010 I was also really obsessed with the BBC show Merlin and may have tried to age up Colin Morgan a bit to make this character.

The mother's design was a little based on my own Mother's and a little the title character of the film Amelié (she evolved beyond this quite early so there's not too striking a resemblence). I was also obsessed with the music in that film which inspired this book a lot.

I kept it vague whether she worked at the hospital or was staying there as a patient because at the time I had an idea for an overarching narrative where the families of Hurricane Lane and 256 Postcards Ago meet. This didn't pan out so feel free to have your own interpretation.

Here's some initial concepts of the logo which I was mostly scribbling during my Uni classes.

One more random tidbit is that I based the background of their journey home from the Toad's Turnpike track in Mario Kart 64. I really loved that game and it holds a lot of childhood memories for me so the nostalgia felt fitting. Maybe that's too weird to mention!

Towards the end I was concepting the protagonists of Hurricane Lane and 256 Postcards Ago meeting in a connecting rpgmaker game but sadly that never came to be. I'll talk about it more in my thread for the next book though!

I also made a little soundtrack for my book here

1) Kiara 2) Cornflake Girl 3) Indaco 4) La Valse D'Amelie 5) 春よ、来い (kites) 6) The Heart Asks Pleasure First 7) Lotus (dragon hunters) 8) Nightbook 9) Reverie 10) Hurricane

I listened to these songs a lot while reading and the final track inspired the title.

And final last tidbit- Hurricane Lane takes place in my childhood hometown. It doesn't have too many standout locations but I took photos for background references and anyone who lives there may recognize the small nods to it.

(Almost forgot links to where you can read my book) Amazon paperback; https://amazon.com/dp/1475009097 eBook; https://frayedsymphony.gumroad.com/l/LuNug

Thanks for reading!

#myart #childrens book #picture book #hurricane lane #indie authors #kid lit #ocs #lore dump #i know no one cares #but i really dont want to lose these threads

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You know what I think? I think we haven't given enough time to considering Reynie's backstory. I know it isn't expanded upon much, and since he's the main perspective character it's easy to brush past because he doesn't consider it an issue, but the kid lived in an orphanage for basically his whole life before the series.

It's stated that he's bullied for not fitting in. I'm lucky that I've never been in that kind of position before (homeschooled, etc.) because I haven't been around lots of people, but this is worse than normal schools because he lived with them. He couldn't get away from the kids who thought he was weird and made fun of him for doing things like reading because they were around each other all of the time.

If someone teases me even slightly and good-naturedly about using big words or being excited about some "obscure" trivia, I still want to clam up and never talk about it again. It's only due to Miss Perumal that Reynie doesn't give up the things he enjoys doing, like reading the newspaper, because of the other kids. There had to be some times after he meets everyone else that he'll be speaking and then suddenly stutters to a stop for seemingly no reason and when the others check on him it's because some dumb bully harassed him for, like, using the word "ubiquitous" or knowing about the history of the printing press or something and he's still scared that if he lets himself ramble without censoring himself everyone will hate him.

It's a joke that he initially wears mismatched clothes in the first book, but the reason is that he dressed in the dark, not because he's kindhearted and was trying to be nice (Though he'd probably try and do it anyway), but because his orphanage roommates yell at him for even reading with a penlight under a blanket at night. Thankfully, Miss Perumal knows him and tells him to please go change with the lights on regardless, but the way he was too prepared to do it says that this has happened before (Possibly a lot).

The orphanage director knows that Reynie is gifted and is in no way challenged by the general curriculum offered (He expects the eleven year old to write up a ten-page report by the day after he's taken the test, and is confident he'll be able to do it), but he keeps Reynie there so that he'll get paid for providing him an "education". Technically, this is why Miss Perumal is hired, which proved to be great, but they could have just as easily hired a terrible person who didn't care about Reynie either. Mr. Benedict has to bribe the man to get him to let them take Reynie, which is also concerning because he never seems to care about Reynie and apparently forgets about him after getting paid.

I've seen people who are genuinely brilliant humans but consistently believe that they're stupid or average because no one has told them how smart they are. He probably takes a long time to shake off the fear that the other shoe will drop at some point and Mr. Benedict will realise he's not as smart as they thought he was and they'll send him back. Even though Miss Perumal keeps telling him he's gifted, he has to ask her if she thinks he'd even qualify for Mr. Benedict's tests in the beginning.

#i will have more thoughts about this later #but i needed to release at least a few of the bees so i could think properly #he is such an interesting character because while he had a fairly standard childhood compared to the others #(which isn't saying much considering)#he still has some Stuff and he consistently acts like everything is fine even when it really is kinda not #the mysterious benedict society #mbs #reynie muldoon

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kay-elle-cee · 4 months

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Hello there! I just finished And The Roar Will Rise and I'm speechless (okay maybe not really speechless because I have a lot to say about it) but anyway, I'd love a director's cut of this fic. What drew you to it, why and how you changed some things, et cetera...

Also, while I'm on the subject, I left a comment on AO3 but totally forgot to mention how incredible the kiss and the moment at the pub later on (including Sirius' perfect reaction) were, so please please tell me more about that too.

Much love ❤️

🙈 A director's cut for And The Roar Will Rise? Prepare yourself, Leda, because I have a LOT to say! (also thank you so much for asking, I'm so happy you enjoyed this fic!!!!)

Alright, let's go point by point:

What drew you to it?

I LOVE Newsies. Like, as someone who listens to musicals on Spotify on a daily basis, as someone whose top genre on Spotify Wrapped is Musicals/Showtunes every year, Newsies is one of my favorite musicals. (The others being Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, and Hadestown, if you're interested in that tidbit of trivia). I love the music, I love the choreography, and I love the push-and-pull of Jack and Katherine.

While watching the pro-shot on Disney+ for the umpteenth time (because yes it's available to watch whenever you want and features Jeremy Jordan with a comical NY accent but the face and singing voice of an ANGEL) I was deep into a particular wave of Jily Brainrot and maybe it's because Katherine has red hair and that helped spur me on, but I just thought "oh my god it's Jily." Not to mention the whole fighting-against injustice plot and the ragtag crew Jack is so embedded in.

Fun fact, I worked so hard on including nods to the lyrics and lines from the actual script without just, like, dropping them in clunkily. It was my first time doing something like this and I really enjoyed the challenge of at least trying to make these things seem natural. I didn't want them to feel out of place, but noticeable to people who are familiar with it (like James telling Lily to "Give 'em hell, Evans" in place of Jack telling Katherine to "Write it good." or James shouting to the newsies "All for one and one for all, we newsies are on strike!" in place of the lyrics "No one can make us quit before we're done/one for all and all for one" followed by chants of "strike!") I actually color-coded and annotated my doc last night and you can see that here.

Why and how you changed things.

*cracks knuckles* alright SO. A few things happened during the planning process that brought it all together:

The World

I knew off the bat that I didn't want them to be in New York, so I needed to move them to London. But with this came the complication of the entire plot—namely, the history of labor unions in England. I looked at that and thought "I don't really want to do that research and get something wrong" so I needed to find the new crux of the Newsies issue.

Sometimes I regret not adding magic into the world of my other AU, restless waves rise and fall, so for this fic, I was like hmmmm what if there is still magic, and there's no statute of secrecy. How would that work? (I went through a few different iterations of this, if they still went to Hogwarts or not, if they all lived and schooled across England but came to London for the summer, etc) This also helped firmly establish a fictional world instead of it being more historical.

The Characters

And honestly first and foremost, I quickly identified the direct ties to the Newsies characters. I have been so adamant from the start (you can ask @alittlebitofeverything23) that Sirius was my Crutchie, even though Remus was probably the obvious choice. And Remus still would've been a good choice! But Remus is so Davey to me, and Crutchie being caught and sent to the Refuge very much felt like Sirius being caught and sent back to live with his parents for whatever reason (which I then changed to Azkaban, for ease and also canon-related reasons).

Picking my Pulitzer was hard for me.* I waffled endlessly on if it'd be Petunia or Vernon, but knowing it was them meant that there was kind of a clear canon-adjacent issue for the Newsies to face. It also made the reveal tricky, because if you know Newsies, you know Katherine's father runs the paper, but when you see it for the first time and she's in the office during that confrontation with Jack, it's a complete surprise. To kind of draw out that suspense a bit in Roar, I name dropped Mr. Mason as the owner (who the Dursleys have over for dinner in CoS), then you get Vernon, and THEN you get Petunia barging in with Lily at her heels. I'm calling it "the slow release reveal" 😂.

*On the subject of Pulitzer, I did briefly consider having it be an old wizarding family, or someone like Umbridge or Voldemort trying to sow division but that was too complicated to pull off so we just kept it simple.

The Plot

Now as for the plot (oh god this is getting so long, I'm sorry!), not only did I have a different central premise for the strike (which meant I had to find a new solution), I also had the fallout of Lily's article happen before the act break/chapter break, so that left a lot of questions for me while writing the second chapter. I had to adjust a bit, and I think finagling that is why it took me longer than expected to update. So I brought in a ringer, and that ringer was a nod to Katherine Plumber from Newies, and once I introduced her and other publications, the ending solution seemed a little more clear to me.

I didn't intend to get too in-the-weeds with press and prejudice but that's what I get for not wanting to do research on labor unions, haha. But it was really nice to write something just hopeful about everything, and I really loved writing how the Muggle newsies stood their ground and supported the wixen newsies.

The kiss and the pub.

Listen, the kiss scene in Newsies makes me absolutely FERAL. The anger to kiss speed does something to my brain, and I was SO EXCITED to write it! I've had the line "God you're so infuriating! I’m about three seconds from hexing you, you know.” written since like last summer, lol. James grabbing her wrist to place her wand under his chin, feeling like he deserves it, to have her GRAB his FACE and kISS HIM?!?!?!?! I'm unwell.

And I'm so happy you enjoyed the end scene at the pub and Sirius' little quips. I missed him in this chapter and wanted to give him some of those lighter moments after I rudely put him in jail. The end was a little tricky, I won't lie, because as I had the Newsies script up, I realize Jack's decision not to go to Santa Fe is pretty....abrupt? Like his friends are just like 😔 and Pulitzer offers him a job that he doesn't even seem excited about and he's like ALRIGHT NEWSIES HIT THE STREETS! So I really wanted to make James' decision a little more fleshed out....he's still getting out of London, just not leaving everyone halfway around the world, which seemed like a pretty good compromise to me.

Additionally, in Newsies, Katherine is very much a "wherever you go, I'll go, too" type of person in the finale, and while Lily has her own plans, I wanted her to have that same sort of encouragement for him. She encourages him to go to Australia if he really wants to, because she wants him to be happy. She listens as he talks through his thoughts, even gently offers her own thoughts on it all. It's been a whirlwind week for them, but she helps offer him clarity for his next big step.

*breathes* Wow I'm....so sorry. This got SO long. I hope you at least enjoyed my ramblings? Could honestly talk about this fic for hours probably. Thank you again so much for the ask and I'm so happy you liked this fic!

#asked and answered #pennyrigby #And The Roar Will Rise #newsies au #director's cut

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randombook4idk · 9 months

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What do you like about 03 Royai compared to what you dislike about BH Royai? I'm curious :3

Hi, thank you for the question!! And I'm sorry for the long wait!

Before I answer I do want to make some things clear - I haven't re-read FMA for a time now and the same goes for re-watching FMA 03, so do take my answers with a bit of grain of salt. Also opinions about pairings can change as the time goes so be aware of that as well.

I know you're asking about canon!Royai as in BH version, but I will refer to them as manga!Royai, since that's what I'm talking about.

My problems with manga!Royai will be put in 2 categories - The Petty Reasons (aka fandom) & The Writing Reasons. After that I will list what like about 03!Royai.

I will (attempt to) answer your question, so, let's get started and lets hope my rambling makes sense :D

What do I dislike about manga!Royai:

The Petty Reasons (aka mostly fandom focused):

• The hype - Before I got into FMA, I had come across some Royai stuff and heard how many loved the ship, making me invested in them as well, despite not being part of the fandom as well.

I even read their ship wiki (juts the trivia section, because didn't want to get spoiled like I did about the tunnels scene), which made me like the ship, but I also got the feeling that many of their huge moments only happened during the other half of the story/near the end, but I brushed it off.

The I finally read FMA and to be honest, I was a bit let down as the hype didn't pay of to me, since they didn't have much moments at the start and even with the moments they had, Royai simply didn't stick to me as a ship as the story went on.

For example, when the scene of Riza shooting Lust happened and Riza cried, believing that Roy was dead, I felt pretty much what I felt during Nina's Arc and maybe Hughes's death as well - nothing much really, because outside of those tiny moments between Riza and Roy and Riza standing next to Roy while he talked to Edward, there wasn't much that made me care for them that would make this scene emotional for me.

Sure, I will admit that near the end (mostly during the time in the tunnels) they stuck to me, I like them and even made a playlist for them (ended up deleting it later, but whatever).

Still, they ended up slipping out of my interest, with times me liking them and while my feelings whether of not I like them is complicated, I will say they're the ship you don't mind and even like in some aspect, but at the same time wish the fandom would shut up about for 5 minutes, because they're not the only ship here and you wish the fandom would stop acting like it's the best, perfect ship in existence that everybody loves, which ironically makes you dislike the ship.

• Fandoms OTP - This problem is present in almost every fandom, it would be foolish to deny that. Anyway with Royai being this fandoms OTP, I get this feeling like I should love Royai too and not just love, but also have them to be my number one FMA ship.

And as someone who's liking towards a ship can change even with ships I really adore and hates giving these huge ship labels as "OTP" even to my own ships that I really like myself, it only annoyed me and sort of pushed away from the big, popular ship.

I'm aware the way I ship differs from how another person ships and that's okay. Everyone ships differently, but this whole thing which is present in almost every fandom, of that one ship being everyones main ship does get on my nerves a bit.

Yes, it would suck if I met someone who didn't like some of the FMA ships that I like, but at least the person can say their opinion of the ship without worrying they might offend half of the fandom. Even if my ships would get spotlight, I wouldn't like if they got the spotlight by the fandom hammering it as the main ship that you should love.

(I know this complain isn't really Royai centric, but mostly a complain about shipping in fandoms)

I know this is a bit off topic, but once I read this lovely Gracia x Roy fanfic and I saw on the author's notes being like: "Oh, don't worry Royai is still my OTP, I still love them. I just wanted to write these two" or something like that.

And like the author didn't have to reassure the readers they still ship Royai, because, who was doubting the author's love for Royai in the first place? No one was gonna take away the author's shipping badge, because they wrote a fanfic for a different ship which has Roy be with a (female) character who isn't Riza.

This doesn't mean Royai shippers have to feel guilty about their shipper being popular, btw. Like hell no, go be happy and enjoy your ship.

I just have a problem with how unintentionally there's this whole expectation (?) of loving Royai, because of the ships popularity. (again this problem isn't present only in FMA fandom)

• "But I did chose my wife on my own"- Ok, this will be the most petty reason, but you can correct me if I make a mistake here.

I will admit that I don't know if people do in fact take this line by King Bradley and view it though Royai lenses and if they do, they mostly view it as a Royai moment, ignoring King Bradley & Mrs Bradley focus.

(I don't want to like put every Royai shipper into this one box and claim everyone view his line as Royai moment, ok?)

And I will admit that I also did view it also as Royai proof, when I first heard about the line and I am also guily of viewing Bradley's last words he said to Lan Fan through Lingfan lenses as well (while also viewing it as Bradley x Mrs Bradley thing).

But yeah, when did get to that part where he said it...I honestly didn't see much connection to Royai, in fact to me the line was 100% about Bradley.

Does it mean Royai shippers aren't allowed to make connection to their ship with this line?

No, they're allowed to do it, but if in fact people do view the line as 100% Royai moment and believe Bradley only brought up his wife, so he could rub it in Riza's face that she can't be with Roy, because everyone in the story, even the villains, can see how these two are deeply in love...then yeah, I am feeling annoyed.

I am annoyed that a moment, for a ship like Mrs Bradley and Bradley, a ship with a little screen time already and not much fanbase, gets taken and turned into a moment for a popular ship with a big fanbase.

• Fanon seemingly being treated as canon - Another petty reason and you can correct me on this one as well, but as I said, I had heard some things about Royai, before I read FMA and one of the things I heard was that Roy and Riza were childhood friends. Again, I didn't know much about them and assumed it was canon.

But when I finally got to the flashback of their past...I didn't get the vibes they were childhood friends, much less even friends.

I don't know if Arakawa confirmed somewhere that Roy lived with Berthold and Riza, when he studied Flame Alchemy, but with how he and Riza interacted they honestly felt like strangers, who might have (?) known each others existence, but never really have spoken to the other.

So, I wouldn't have much problem with Childhood Friends!Royai if it was treated as fanon and I don't know if it's treated like canon among the Royai community and again don't want to place all Royai shippers in one box.

But yeah, my dislike towards this being treated as canon (?) is that it feels like it feeds into this whole thing about how they "they only love each other", "how they've been in love since forever", "they're each others one true love" and all that vibe I get in this fandom.

Y'know like, it feels like people just push Roy and Riza together in almost everything, because idk they have to be together.

• Berthold & Ao3 - Can I please have Riza & Berthold centric fics without Royai and Roy? The same with Roy. Thank you.

Now with my pettiness aside, lets get to the Writing Reasons :D

The Writing Reasons:

• Riza's character - This is my main and biggest issue with manga!Royai, so Anon if you're a huge Riza fan, please don't take this as an attack towards the character or the ship.

Riza character feels mostly tied to Roy and in a way she can feel like a plot device/point for Roy's character.

And to me this flaw is more present, when Riza tells Edward about her POV in Ishval, but we end up following Roy's POV, with Riza having to come in her own supposed story to say what she thinks, saw or is doing, which honestly didn't leave much impact on me and didn't help me to connect to her character.

We're not shown her reaction to getting sent to Ishval. We're not shown her reaction and feelings towards her becoming a war criminal. We're not shown her belief in Roy's dream breaking. We're not shown how she felt seeing Roy using Flame Alchemy for war. We're not shown her finding the dead Ishval kid and deciding to give the child a burial. We're not shown how all that she witnessed in the war building up to her wanting for Roy to burn the Flame tattoo her father burdened with.

With all the things that happen in the Ishval arc, we barely actually get Riza's POV, because that time is spend on Roy's POV. When Riza gets screen time in this arc, it's mostly through Roy finding/coming across her. And then she tells Roy/us the audience what she saw/thinks. That's what happens. She just says things and that's it.

While this isn't a criticism aimed at Royai exactly, the way one of the/or both characters are written can affect how I feel towards the ship involving the two.

And with how Arakawa wrote Riza and Roy, my criticism towards the character (Riza) affects the way I feel towards Royai.

And I want to make it clear, despite this, it doesn't mean Royai is ultimately a trash ship.

One of a ships from a different fandom, that I like/ship is Sasusaku and that ship isn't well liked if we're being nice here. Despite me shipping Sasusaku, I am aware there are flaws in the ship and the character/s involved in the ship.

But unlike with Sasusaku, with Royai people mostly say praises about the ship (which isn't a bad thing, don't get me wrong), but by holding Royai up as this perfect ship, people can make it hard for others to voice their criticism to the ship or say they don't ship as they can become worried they will anger the fandom (or for some other reasons)

(Then again, I'm haven't been in FMA fandom for a very long time, so I don't know how criticism is viewed here).

Also, I just wanted for Riza to interact with other characters and whenever it happened I found myself liking her character more. (I feel neutral towards her most of the time)

• That Scene At the Tunnels - When I first read FMA I didn't pay attention much to it, but upon thinking about again, it made me sort of uncomfortable how Riza told Roy she'll kill herself after killing him, as she no will to live on and will erase the secrets of Flame Alchemy as well...I hope you see my problem with this.

Not only did it felt like Roy got guilt tripped into not killing Envy, I also had a problem with how in chapter 107, when Riza thinks back to what she said to him about having no desire to live on alone, she thinks how Roy, despite becoming blind, still hasn't given and how could she been so foolish.

(toxic positivity vibes in FMA? It's more likely than you think)

Which is just huge uuuugghhhhhh.....why? for me. The scene at the tunnels, including Riza saying she'll kill herself, at the start was just an angsty Royai moment, but now it's just that part of the story I wish had either handled way better or just not included at all.

(also, I don't think that Riza's...suicidal thinking - giving up when believing Lust killed Roy, the Tunnel scene - really got resolved in the story, at all) (and when I think about it, her wanting to be dead, if Roy is dead as well...I'm sorry, no offence to unhealthy codependency enjoyers, but this one is no for me)

What I like about 03!Royai (aka the shortest list known to man):

• No hype, no expectations (sort of petty) - Outside of the ending of 03 and CoS, I didn't hear much about Royai and watching the 03 anime I could understand why. They didn't have huge screen time, but from the moments they shared together, I came to like the ship.

• Their dynamic - This is mostly a preference, I personally prefer 03!Royai dynamic as it feels more lively (not that manga!Royai dynamic is bad, btw)

While I don't have the best memory, the moments between Roy and Riza in 03 stuck to me more. For example, one is that of Roy leaving Bradley's office, with Riza looking surprised/relieved and the next second being like "maybe you should get you hands slapped once in a while >:[" while Roy looks at her smugly.

Even of the scenes that is in the manga stuck to me better in the 03 anime - Hughes funeral. Riza is shown awkwardly telling others who are leaving that she and Roy will catch up and instead of her being confused by what Roy meant saying that it's raining, in 03 she understands it and goes along by agreeing with him.

The main point is - their dynamic in 03 speaks more to me and even with there not being a flashback to show us their history, I still get the feeling they have been by each others side for many years.

But I would have liked if we were given some hints about their past which would have given us more context to the moments like Riza's speech to Winry in train, the look in Riza's eyes as she stops Winry when she shouts at him about her parents.

• CoS movie - Is the fact that despite Roy being away, in the mountains, Riza continues her life at the military.

Whelp, these have been my answers. Sorry for the long wait to read this. I also have trouble putting my thoughts out on paper, so I hope my answers were good enough :]

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