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ghostlythunderbird · 1 year

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Omegaverse ~ Task Force 141+ Alejandro, Rodolfo, König

Warnings: Mostly SFW with a dash of NSFW (MINORS BEGONE)

Author Notes: These are gonna be short and I apologize for it but YALL THE WRITING JUICE IS DRYING UP, so once again I'm sorry. These are also my own interpretations of these characters but feel free to add on top of them. I also wanna thank @l-lend and @kelpiesummer for helping me with these, your honor I love them both.

Before we begin I would like to go over some baseline stuff to this:

In Military pack dynamics there is a Lead Alpha and a Lead Beta, and if the Alpha isn't present it is the Beta’s duty to oversee the safety of the pack.

Apex Alphas do exist here but they only make up 10% of the population, and are often ridiculed due to them being able to control a vast majority of Alphas. They are also much stronger and much bigger than regular Alphas with much stronger instincts. In modern society it's often damning should one be born an Apex because they often have to wear muzzles in public because of their unpredictability.

An Apex’s muzzle is only taken off when they are alone, mated, or receive immunity by extended military service to prove they are not a danger to anyone.

To add on about an Apex, their Ruts become stronger the longer they don't relieve built up tension over time. It has even been recorded that Apexes with no outlet have often become feral and cannot be helped out of a feral state. All Apexes MUST have a physical outlet to reduce built up tension.

All dynamics are able to become Feral, and in this universe there is not enough data to help an individual out of said feral state and will have to be sent to a designated center for proper care.

Apexes, Alphas, and Omegas are able to control themselves decently should a Rut or Heat arrive. Should one help out with these times, consent must be given beforehand and with a trusted individual. Not everyone here is driven to wackiness because of hormones

In the Military, there are often teams that are used for Ruts and Heats of all calibers, they are made up of trained Betas and are the only ones allowed to handle single Apex, Alpha, and Omega dynamics who are in a Heat or Rut.

Simon “Ghost” Riley

Simon I feel like would be an Alpha, simply because of his size and his ability to lead soldiers like a well oiled machine. He didn't start feeding into his alpha nature until he joined the Royal Army after the attacks on 9/11, mostly because his father would punish him and his family should anyone try to stand up to him. Once Simon completed his training he shows his father what a true Alpha is and acts like, and ends up kicking him out of the house before assuming the role as the protector of his family.

After losing his family and “Simon Riley” being now pronounced dead he started to hide his true nature and his scent. While his scent is practically nonexistent it didn't stop him from the commanding and somewhat protective nature of his inner Alpha. In the Ghost’s mind, no scent and repressing that inner Alpha, is the best way to begin a nonexistent life; to become nothing more but a living shadow.

In a Rut:

To describe Simon in a rut would be a very self protective Alpha, not wanting anyone with a 5 mile radius near him to ensure no one discovers his identity. And in order to safeguard that fact he ends up going to a secluded safehouse far from base to ensure not a single person can find him in such a vulnerable state. During this time he does believe it's better for him to be alone as the worry of losing himself after being pent up for so long could only cause him more trouble on top of someone finding out Simon Riley isn't as dead as they claim.

But to say he's a virgin would be a complete lie, he’s been with omegas before and many were in heat so he understands a little about omegas but nothing really outside a heat. With that being said he often craves an omega during his ruts, but after becoming the Ghost he doesn't actively seek them anymore. But if he did have an omega (maybe even you) helping him out he would definitely be very dominant, constantly on lookout after having sated both his needs and whoever is helping him. If you're close with him, he begins to show a more doting characteristic that he claims isn't there such as getting you what snack you're craving or bringing in more blankets for your heat nest.

John “Soap” MacTavish

Now this Scott probably doesn't strike you as an Alpha, but I assure you he is 100% Alpha blood though and through. Johnny is definitely a more playful alpha compared to the rest of his team but that doesn't stop him from trying to get them to loosen up and have fun. He's even been told many didn't think he was an Alpha at their first introduction, with his fun and very caring personality he's been more mistaken as an Omega rather than an Alpha.

But that never once hurt his feelings, and has even offered to show he’s the real deal if you catch my drift. It also means he loves to show off to whoever might be watching whether they are Male, Female, Omega, Alpha, or even a Beta. His only hard NO would be an Apex of any gender, he may not have met any but there is definitely a stereotype amongst Apexes.

In a Rut:

Before anyone starts to make assumptions that he's pretty dominant in bed and during a rut that's only a half truth. While yes his body is telling him to dominate during that time he isn't fully into it, he is actually more of a switch and can be pretty needy during this time. He wants to cuddle about 90% of the time because the skin on skin helps bring his brain back to a safe place where hormones don't dictate his every move.

Johnny definitely isn't a virgin and has actually had many partners of all second genders besides apexes in his bed at least once. He can definitely say he knows his way around anybody that decides to help him in a rut but once he's sated it's straight pampering for his partner. Once you get to know him better he actually wants to play fight with you more after you're both satiated for a bit, Johnny claims it's to help build a bond between the two for you.

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick

Before anyone yells at me for making Gaz a Beta hear me out. In a pack like Task Force 141 there needs to be a Lead Alpha and a Lead Beta that takes up for the Lead Alpha should they not be present in a situation. But our sweet Kyle definitely is the voice of reason between the original four, should the Alpha’s hormones and instincts cloud one's judgment Kyle would help set the record straight and see both sides to the coin. He’s definitely the more laid back one of the group but he can get a little wild should he need to, I mean the guy was hanging upside down under a helicopter while going down an active highway.

While he might be the more laid back one, that doesn't exactly mean he isn't a little trickster. He likes to rile Soap up before he gets told to stop which often leads to someone getting sent to the medbay, while he does mess with Ghost and Price he doesn't take it too far because not only are they Alphas they also happen to be higher in the chain of command. Kyle has stated before that it's just easier to pick on Johnny because they are both the same rank, and that Soap is the one who actually wants to up the intensity or stakes to whatever they are doing.

I'm just gonna add this in on this part to say since Betas don’t have Heats or Ruts I won't have a Rut part for Gaz. But that doesn't mean that this man doesn't get any. To anyone who has ever met him, they can say he’s super helpful during those times and has even offered to help should they need it. But that is only to a select few, he mostly just makes sure you don't die from starvation or dehydration and will even run messages and updates back and forth on whatever you want to know or need during that time.

John Price

Our captain in tight fitting camo is not just an Alpha he's The Alpha of Task Force 141, his presence is calm yet demanding attention from anyone who crosses his path. That being said, he isn't one to outright snap at anyone who gets on his nerves, but rather lets them make a fool of themselves. He will only ever step in if his team or his own safety starts being questioned around an individual or in a certain area. He is always aware of everyone under his charge and does the best he can to ensure they all make it back home safe, although they aren't scratch less sometimes but alive nonetheless.

While John is a leader and an officer he makes sure he has an end time to the mountains of paperwork on his desk. Should he have someone at home waiting for him, he makes sure to keep them updated on his whereabouts but once he's in the security of his own four walls his top priority is only them. John has been known to go off the radar sometimes while at home, but it's mostly because when he's home he doesn't want work knocking at his door when he's got other priorities. Overall this man is sweet as he can be, in his own rough way, and all he ever really wants to do is just love and pamper his mate like it might be the last time.

In a Rut:

Right off the bat he tells you he might be a bit much during this time of the year, but it's much more different than what you'd expect from an Alpha of his standing. While most of the time he's peachy with being the dominant one in bed, if the Rut is strong and he just came home all he wants is for you to take control. He will mostly complain that it's because he's “Getting old as crap” but you set that aside and simply say it's ok to let someone else take control. John just wants to be pampered in his Ruts mostly because every other time he has to be taking care of someone else.

Now if he goes into Rut while he's on extended leave and has the energy of a young buck, better buckle up then honey cause you're just gonna have to ride it out. The easiest way to say what he is in bed would be a switch but personally it isn't that simple. Personally I do believe that John can be dominant but with his line of work and his responsibilities it takes it out of him even with a rut, he wants to be dominant but simply put the man is tired most of the time. So in order to make up for it he is very caring of his partner, he wants to provide and protect his partner. John is by far one of the sweetest Alphas out there but don't tell anyone that, he has a reputation to uphold back on base.

Alejandro Vargas

This FINE Latino man is without a doubt an Alpha, with his ability to be both cunning and devious in his line of work he can make sure the job is done. While he might be unforgiving to his enemies, anyone that is a previous lover or his mate can say that he is a hopeless romantic. He showers and pampers his lovers with anything they could ever desire, Alex wants to show that he is a perfect caregiver and provider to their needs.

While he might not be a stereotypical Alpha, he can still effectively protect his mate and his pack should some catch the wrong side of him. He’s a protector and has even said that he “Will fight to his very last breath as long as it means you are all protected in the end.'' With that it's easy to say Alejandro is a very selfless person to those he trusts and will ensure all are properly protected and provided for should they come under his protection and care as the Lead Alpha.

In a Rut:

Imma say it now, Alejandro actually feeds into that inner Alpha during this time. He wants to release all that built up tension into the form of rough sex should anyone help him out. He only ever has someone with him if he knows it's bad and has no mate or anyone special, but if he does have a mate they are gonna be covered in bruises and love bites and probably bred after it. Also without a doubt he's bound to become more aggressive than normal, but again he is simply acting on instincts. However that aggression will never be used against you that could potentially hurt you.

Maybe after a few rounds Alejandro does feel like he's able enough to check on his partner, he goes to town should they need aftercare, snacks, or a shower. He kisses on deep bruises he's left along your skin, helps wash your hair and body, even makes sure you're properly fed even if he's the one who is in Rut.

Rodolfo Parra

Once again please no one yell at me for this decision, but I do feel like Rudy would also be a Beta as he works closely with Colonel Vargas as his second in command. After growing up with Alejandro, they both decided to stay together after their basic training and fight for justice in Las Almas. Wherever you see Alejandro, Rodolfo is never far behind updating the Lead Alpha should news come up over the radios from their team.

Rudy is also more alongside the more nurturing nature, he wants his team safe and will do anything to protect them. His team is his Pack and without them Rudy has nothing left, that being said he tries to improve whatever he can as the Lead Beta for Los Vaqueros. I can also say without a doubt Rudy is also the most loving person to whoever is his mate, but this isn't one sided as he also wants all the love and adoration from his mate just as much. He is a lover by nature but he also wants to be bathed and be told that he is doing a good job and a lover and a mate.

And while again Rudy may be a Beta and doesn't have a Rut it doesn't mean he is inexperienced, He chooses to wait and is actually very selective of potential partners that he shares such intimate moments with. But if you ask Alejandro he can tell you Rudy has had some drunken one night stands that makes the Beta beat red at just their mentioning.

König

Our lorge Austrian man here is one of the lesser known dynamics that makes up only 10% of the world's population; An Apex. Truly it's no surprise that this man right here would be anything less, but in König’s personal opinion it's nothing but a curse. Ever since he presented he was mocked and shamed for his second gender, it was much worse when the government sent his family a muzzle for him to wear in public. It was nothing short of humiliating, it even was something else for him to be bullied for. The bullying was also the reason why König has deep scars around his face from the muzzle digging in, some of them because his bullies often pulled on the straps to where it was too tight.

Over the years König became more and more anxious around others, there were very limited times the large man would go out into public because he knew people would turn him away simply for his second gender. And due to the large amount of prejudice it was hard to find both a pack and a mate that would accept him, that was until you barreled into his life (literally) that he felt like someone would love him. He's a very caring Apex that goes above and beyond for his mate, there were often times he would stay on his knees and would hardly make eye contact with you. His worst fear is you realizing you don't want an Apex as a mate and leaving, he honestly thinks his heart would stop beating if you did.

In a Rut:

Now this is where he really fears himself most of all. His ruts were strong and they only continued to grow the longer he kept denying himself release with someone else. But when he was assigned to KorTac they allowed him an alternative way to help him during ruts, by sending him on solo operations to let loose on the supposed targets. But again all this was before you showed up.

After you started to share Ruts and Heats together you realized that an Apex was really just a bigger Alpha, and one who wanted nothing more to provide for you. Now while I love König being an absolute sweetheart, that's not how he is during a Rut. König is demanding and can often be rough the first few times but it's only because he never had someone to spend it with, he does end up becoming much softer and sweeter after a while. You thought König was a big soft boi during this time for your first few couplings, nope his brain is empty besides the words Mate, Breed, and Protect for an entire week (good luck walking after that). And if anyone thinks otherwise y'all meet me in the Burger King parking lot at midnight.

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ohbo-ohno · 7 months

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You! You hunt me with your Cod writing. I can't anymore, I read too much. Now I have to get involved as well.

Imagine when Gaz and Price come over for dinner or something else happens that makes cabin reader loose her shit. She starts attacking them (or more like tries to), tries scratching their eyes out and biting at the neck, trying to rip out parts of the flesh. Just acting like a stray that is cornered. And while Ghoap knows how to handle you it's just unacceptable that you attack guest (even though they could hold you back with one hand) so they will have to clip your nails claws and, when you don't wear a muzzle, you have to wear a retainer that covers all of your teeth, so you can't bite. But at the same time you also can't really eat or talk normally anymore, so you sound and act just more animalistic.

You should learn from the consequences, because Ghost just read a very interesting article about wild kittens that get calmer after getting spayed. But they wouldn't do that... or would they?

💕 - reader (if it's not used yet 👀)

i thought i responded to this????? omg im so sorry babe

i loooved those asks. idk where they are and im not digging right now (sorry lol) but if you're new here - serial killer au reader runs away, gets caught by price and gaz thinks that they're helping her but they take her back to ghost and soap :( and she's sooooo mad at them, really rude to them when they come over for dinner a few weeks later

your brainwashing with ghost and soap means you see them as just like... affectionate predators. a danger, but not a danger to you if you behave correctly. but price and gaz? price and gaz dragged you kicking and screaming into the lion's den, your brain associates them with nothing other than betrayal and anger

so you're a little pouty and mad when they come over for dinner, but that would be the extent of it for a bit. but if soap tries to push you into interacting with them (bc ghost would let you just sulk and be miserable) i could 100% see you having a horrible reaction. like you said - scratching their eyes out and biting at the neck, trying to rip out parts of the flesh

you'd be lucky not to earn a punishment right there :/ if you hadn't been provoked by gaz and soap, ghost would have bent you over and whipped you in front of their guests. but he knows that you're a little sensitive still, so he let's you get off with a lighter punishment <3 a muzzle, like you said. all they can hear are growls and snarls as you glare up at them when they pet you

and they coo and awww over you as they do, which makes you even angrier. johnny and gaz might get you to try and play with them for a bit, but you just stare them down with so much anger that they give up. when price tries to pet you you lunge forward like you'll bite him again :( simon gives your cheek a rough tap for that one

idk if ghost would threaten you with sterilization but he would threaten you with declawing. might be easier to just take your nails if you're gonna make them clip them so often :/ he would never do it though, he likes seeing your scratches on him and johnny too much

#💕 anon #asks and answers #bo writes #serial killer ghoap x reader

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yellowvixen · 6 months

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Logo by @bunnymajo, thank you!!

Better late than never, here's a Q&A for @sonic-oc-showdown

✨ How did you come up with the OC’s name?

I wanted to use a word that meant ice that wasn't extremely obvious, and Rime ended up being perfect! To be specific it means hoar frost.

🌼 How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

Same age as Blaze! She was created ~100 years ago, but like Shadow she was frozen and didn't age until she got woken up.

🌺 Do they have any love interest(s)?

She's aro, so no romantic love interest. That said, she and Blaze do definitely end up in a relationship :3

🍕 What is their favorite food?

Surprisingly, anything spicy!

🎹 Do they have any hobbies?

Ice skating! Rime can create her own ice and propell herself pretty easily, but outside of fighting she's discovered she loves the elegance of truly dancing on ice, and challenges herself to learn difficult jumps. She also likes going for long morning walks, especially on a crisp winter morning when the ground is still covered in frost.

❤️ What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Most of their memories as a child with their brother, although a lot of them are bittersweet to look back on now.

✂️ What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

Seeing her brother die before being frozen.

🧊 Is their current design the first one?

Yup! Some of their fur colour has changed ever so slightly (her muzzle and ear/chest fluff are now pure white rather than the same off white as the rest of her fur) but that's it.

🍀 What originally inspired the OC?

@transgendershadowthehedgehog made a post about how Blaze should have an aro cryomancer rival, and I ran with the idea.

🌂 What genre do they belong in?

@mari-madas gave me the idea that the Sol dimension is centered more around fantasy in contrast with Sonic's dimension being more sci fi. Not a hard and fast rule as they both have magic and tech, but it's about the Aesthetic™. So, fantasy!

💚 What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

Aromantic nonbinary lesbian! Or as she would describe herself, girlthing.

🙌 How many sibling does your OC have?

Just the one, her adopted brother, Gertrude's grandson! Possibly also a Sol version of Biolizard, but I haven't come up with anything for that idea yet

🍎 What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

Like Shadow, Rime was made rather than born, so technically doesn't have parents. But her creator, the witch Gertrude, was basically a mother to her... In a way.

Rime was always perfectly happy with Gertrude and never really thinks anything was wrong with how they grew up. But anyone else might think differently, as Rime was treated more like an animal than a person. Not with (much) malice, Gertrude just assumed that Rime didn't have the intelligence of a regular mobian. This allowed Rime to grow up pretty feral, which she considers a good thing! She won't look too deeply into it. She DOESN'T have mommy issues, promise (lying).

✏️ How often do you draw/write about the OC?

Definitely more since this showndown, which I'm glad of! I want to draw her more in the future too, she simply hasn't been around long enough for me to have made a lot of art for her.

💎 Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

I mean... gestures to Shadow "dying" at the end of sa2. A similar thing happens to Rime, so while she does die, it's not permanent.

💀 Does your OC have any phobias?

Large open areas, especially at night. Being in space is particularly awful for her (not that she'd show it)

🍩 Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Blaze ;)

Feel free to ask more questions about her!! Brainstorming how to answer them is pretty much how I've created her lore so far lmao

#i meant to do this ages ago but got hung up on some of the questions. which i just didn't answer djgjghdh #but yaaa here we go !!#i don't. have a name for her brother yet #i was thinking matthew but i knew a matthew and didn't like him so don't rlly want to use that name afjgjfdg #we'll see!#sth #sonic oc #sonic oc showdown #rime the cat #vixentalks

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dykepuffs · 1 month

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I come from a culture that is absolutely not a literate one, historically, and the more that I see those smug posts of "If you want to be an effective leftist/ally/queer/Good Person you have to READ!!!!! WHOLE!!!!!! BOOKS!!!!" the more that I want to give up on any kind of movement-building and live in a tent in the woods like my ancestors before me.

Long thoughts under the cut

When someone says that learning your theory by listening to what the people around you say is lesser and bad, and that only by reading the words written by far-away or dead Authors and Scholars will you ever become Useful, I wonder how much they can really believe that oral history is a real and valuable thing, or do they secretly sniff that cultures with a long tradition of centralised paper recordkeeping are better than ones which just trusted in storytellers?

I know that I use a lot of words that are very regional and concepts that are often dramatically different to Proper Theory - But they are the words that I learnt from the communities that I really live in, which were really used for decades and which all really developed from needing to name real people and real phenomena that we encountered. You could say "Oh but those words aren't universally understood so why use them" but there is nothing that stops anyone on earth from understanding them: they just have to ask "What does that mean?" And then to really listen to the answer, not to cut it off and say "Oh so ACTUALLY those are just the equivalent of (some other similar phenomena from somewhere else)"

But hey, that requires having a relationship with a person - To actually pay attention to the culture of the person who is telling you something, rather than just trying to absorb the information without the human.

Which is why I keep coming back to storytelling I think - Because the spoken story of a people contains so much more than a written version - Because the nature of HOW the story is told to you-the-audience is as much a part of the message as the words are.

Taking a totally apolitical (ha!) example: here's the story of Dog Bites Man.

If I tell the story to my friend who lives across the road from where it happened, it might be:

"Old Mr Fowler's dog got off the lead and ran down the back of Chucky's nightclub, where it bit one of the tradies"

If I tell it to someone who doesn't live nearby:

"A loose dog ran down a blind alley, and bit a guy who couldn't get away because all the fire doors were locked"

If I tell it to someone who I know really understands their dog breeds:

"This border collie was stressed and bored, so slipped the lead and tried to herd pedestrians, it ended up biting a guy who was digging up a road in the town centre because he couldn't move fast enough."

So if I was writing the story down I'd probably omit some of the information- Some of it is only important if you know about dogs (It's a sheepdog), some only matters if you live locally (Whose dog it was, the name of the club), some only needs to be told if you aren't already aware of the local area (everyone knows where Chuckys Club is, so I don't need to describe the alley) - And for that matter, I might add even more details (Maybe Mr Fowler is a bad dog owner, and I want to emphasise that to push for muzzle and leash laws. Maybe I want to have the building which closes the alley knocked down, so I'm emphasising that it was unsafe. Maybe I want to say that tradies need better training to deal with stray animals on the roadworks, or maybe I'm emphasising that they have a hard job so should be paid more). But, I'd need to be selective, and even if I didn't realise that I was being selective, I'd miss things out based on who I expected the audience to be.

(There is much discussion of this when talking about writing as a minoritised writer - why do I have to put a glossary note or italics when I say chavvi or chingering or ladged up, but not cafe or pasta or tycoon? Who is assumed to be the audience, and who is the afterthought?)

But if I'm telling the story, I will tailor it naturally to the immediate person that I'm speaking to - Which requires a relationship, even if that relationship is as superficial as "I know you know that in England there aren't many feral dogs, so I don't have to explain that this isn't a wild animal, it's a pet or a recent stray".

And why is that a worse way to learn about your culture or your politics, than reading a book about it? Why is it better to learn from someone that you usually don't have a relationship with, than someone that you do?

#literacy #oracy #writing thoughts

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sketch-guardian · 1 year

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I really like your OCs, could you tell us more about them? 🥺

(here you have all the space you heart could desire 💚💚)

Aw I'm glad you seem to like my OCs that much☺it makes me quite happy to see people interested in them,so thank you!✨I'll try my best to tell more info about them,even if it will probably take a while for me to write about each character🙈(thanks for being so considerate,you're very kind💜)

Anyway,here are some random facts about the RAD classmates:

Zuri,Azul and Domnra are fallen angels like the seven brothers,while Demya and Odon were born as demons.

Domnra was cursed some time after becoming a demon and Mobim is the result. While Mobim looks like a Little D. or a weird familiar, instead it's a curse that represents Domnra's "innocence" and it holds half of his soul. When in demon form, both Domnra and Mobim fuse together.

Azul is literally a mood ring, he changes color depending on his feelings and he can't control it(just like a human can't control blushing) so this makes him an open book. He's also a bit of a bipolar,so his colors can change quite quickly sometimes.

Zuri's demon form resembles a creature similar to a dark fae.Odon is a kind of ancient eldritch demon, which makes them the most dangerous one between the classmates. Domnra is a shadow demon. Demya seems like a succubus but that's just a sort of strategy to attract preys and then eat them (so she's a kind of gluttony demon I guess).Azul is a ghost-like demon,in fact, occasionally he can be seen passing through walls and this would also explain the wings and horns made of will-o'-the-wisp.

Demya doesn't like closed and narrow spaces,not even cages,zoos,chains or muzzles, due to her past spent as a slave in an old circus in the human world,where she was the main attraction in a freak show. She also tends to eat often out of fear of starvation (unwarranted fear now, but the habit has remained). She was released by Domnra by accident, which is why they seem to hate each other. Demya doesn't want to feel indebted to him, she wants to be free, while Domnra considers her an ungrateful brat. they are rivals who, basically, help each other only in times of need.

Zuri is a very independent demon and many of the clothes she owns are sewn by herself. She's not exactly a stylist, but every so often she receives requests for photo shoots (in which she also occasionally appears as a model)

No one has ever seen Odon's face under their bangs and it's said that whoever has actually seen it, has not lived long enough to tell about it. Because according to Odon at least, their face would be terrifying enough to cause either madness or death. Technically, however, they also have shapeshifting abilities, so if Odon wanted to, they could change their face into something bearable for the human mind.

The eye-shaped creatures that Odon possesses appear at random and seem to have a personality of their own. It also appears that Odon can see right through them, however their nature and other abilities are unknown.

Mobim cannot speak, but it appears to share a telepathic bond with Domnra and like the Little D.s, it appears to possess moderate intelligence (example: it can read and write). Mobim has a very sweet but cowardly personality and tries to keep Domnra out of trouble as much as possible. It is able to feed itself: the food, when it approaches the area where the mouth should be, seems to be swallowed by the shadow it is made of.

Azul's tattoos are quite sensitive and cover his arms and pecs. If he really doesn't want to let people know what he's feeling, he tends to close his eyes, mouth and hide his arms behind his back. Also random detail, but: to go faster, he often floats instead of walking.

In terms of magic power, from strongest to weakest: Odon, Zuri, Azul, Domnra, Demya. While in terms of physical strenght, from strongest to weakest: Odon, Demya, Domnra, Zuri, Azul.

Other info like their heights, what they like to do with MC or which canon characters they like are on some of my other posts. For now, I hope this was satisfying enough☺again thank you for the ask!✨(And sorry for any mistakes, but English isn't my mother language-)

#obey me shall we date #obey me #om! shall we date #obey me rad classmates #obey me demon oc #obey me x mc #obey me x reader #obey me headcanons #obey me demya #obey me domnra #obey me mobim #obey me azul #obey me zuri #obey me odon #demon ocs #camy replies #I've never written in English so much in my life-#but it was cool #I hope everything was clear and not too cringe🙈

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geniuscomediae · 1 year

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а я снова тут и, кажется, снова живы! принесли ещё рисовательного контента :3 надо попробовать писать сюда почаще (и на английском)

I'm on board once again and somehow alive! I've brought some art, here you go :3 guess I should try to post more often (and, probably, in english)

ос из моего ориджа, Эрелл (мне было супер-лень делать фон)

OC from my original writing named Erell (I was too lazy to draw the background)

какая-то разлагающаяся лиса. горжусь скелетными частями, рисовали с референсов, морда особенно хорошо вышла имо

some kind of a rotting fox. I'm really proud of skeleton parts, used references for drawing, and imo muzzle is the best I can do

#artists on tumblr #original character #fox #skeleton #partly horror #art #арт #художник #оригинальные персонажи #лиса #что-то типа хоррора ай гесс

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feralghxuls · 10 months

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hi mal!! ty for these <3

🏅 What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).

i haven't posted it yet but there's a part in the muzzled rain fic that i am really proud of! it worked out exactly how i wanted it to :) and i am also proud of the fact that i finally got enough written for amnesia fic to start posting it, that's such a big project and i've been working on it pretty consistently for months now

🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

mist!! i love her dearly and i have rotated many scenarios with her, but i haven't actually written anything with her yet. i have a couple of things planned that i haven't started though hehe

🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.

Dew should turn around and go get someone who’s more suited to handling this, probably. Or maybe he should let her work it out herself; she, like him, often prefers time alone, away from potential collateral damage. But Dew isn’t known for his common sense, or sense of self preservation, so he taps into her thoughts and says, Wow, you smell like shit. Wake up on the wrong side of the nest or something? He should have expected the reaction. He expected some kind of reaction, but he didn’t imagine the vehemence with which she whips around with a snarl, ears pinned and teeth bared, and he's not prepared for her to launch herself down the hall at him, a blur of grey ghoul and black clothes. It’s nothing she hasn’t done a hundred times before but her scent sours so fast and so much it makes his stomach twist. Normally, he would snap right back and they’d go rolling, hissing and squalling until one of them (Stratus, usually) ends up on top, but it’s obvious now that she’s fucked up bad about something. So he braces his feet and lets her collide with him, wraps his arms tight around her even as she sinks her teeth into his shoulder with a harsh snarl. Woah, hey, okay. Come here, Dew mutters, and she bites down harder and growls again. In the next moment, she’s wrapped all her limbs around him like an angry octopus, which he takes as a sign to just start walking back towards the ghoul dorm wing. He feels a little out of his element, but a snarly, bitey Stratus is nothing new to him, so that helps. He’s still not sure how he’s supposed to help here; he has an idea, but he’ll need to make sure she’s receptive to it before he tries it, because he doesn’t actually want to get mauled. But whatever happens, it’s not happening in the fucking hallway.

💖 What do you like most about your own writing?

my imagery! i have always really enjoyed digging into imagery and describing environments and Vibes, which i did quite a bit in my first fic when aether is in the woods running from dew, and there's tons of imagery in the next chapter of amnesia fic that i am super proud of tbh

#ty!! these are fun hehe #dorito.txt #dorito answers

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theocrabalar · 11 months

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MGS4s quirkiest gun, the Race Gun

So, in Metal Gear solid 4, there's a gun dubbed the "Race Gun" also sometimes known as the "Ricochet gun"

In gameplay terms, this gun does less damage per hit than the Glock 18 - 300 dmg, whereas the Race Gun does 200 dmg. Despite using a cartridge that's rated for higher pressure. The game's way of explaining it, is that it's using reduced charged ammo. In reality, you would also need to change spring weights as well, to ensure reliable cycling. This design of a double-stack 1911 pistol with a 2 piece frame, is usually referred to as a "2011" pistol. Technically that term is owned by a another manufacturer of double-stack 1911s with 2 piece frames, but "2011" is generic enough in my opinion.

So the race gun. What kind of racing is it for? It's optimized for IPSC Standard and USPSA Limited division. Judging by the baseplate of the magazine being flat and running paralell to the slide, it mimicks guns that has to fit within the Standard division box in IPSC.

This particular looks to fit the USPSA Limited Division slightly more close. The main point behind USPSA Limited / IPSC Standard, is that you can have a very conventional gun in 9x19 or bigger, and it has to fit within a box, without that many funky additions like a ported barrel, optic, muzzle brake or really large magazine. The 2011 pistols are the current domineering guns in these divisions, but we are seeing more different guns rise up in the top levels of competitions, Nils Jonasson represented Canik with a striker-fired pistols in Limited Division at the previous United States Practical Shooting Association's (USPSA) National Championship in Limited Division.

These guns are usually chambered in .40 S&W as that's the minimum caliber to fit the require for what is called "Major" power factor. The benefit is that for hits that are outside the center, but still on target, you will get less punishment for sloppy precision. The downside however, is more recoil and less capacity. This will really bite you in the ass in shooting events with high round counts, forcing you to reload more often. The gun in the game however, is supposed to be chambered in .38 Super also known as 9x23mm.

So, what we do we gain by using this cartridge instead? If you look really close, .38 Super / 9x23 has slightly less of a taper than 9x19. The cartridge can also be roll-sized to slim down the cartridge slightly more to make sure you get more cartridges in the same magazine. So not only is 19 rounds a realistic capacity, I would argue the should have 1 or 2 more rounds, perhaps even more 3 more rounds considering how some people are tuning springs and magazine followers. IPSC Standard Division does not limit your magazine by number of bullets, but in actual length, that way, it's up to the competitors and equipment manufactures to see how hard they can squeeze.

What is the military/law enforcement application of such a pistol?

The benefits are very clear. You can use higher capacity magazines, more precise guns for more precise shots increasing the range of how far a sidearm would be useful for the soldier/operator. A better trigger as well allowing for the person pulling the trigger to be more confident in their equipment. We are also seeing more and more police agencies and law enforcement departments allowing officers to personally use 2011s and red dot equipped pistols.

For the MGS4 Race gun in particular, the base gun is obviously by the historic Streyer-Voight Infinity. Currently, as of writing, to order a gun, you must go through their consultation, which costs $1000, this is on top of their guns in general starting at $4500, so that means you are looking at $5500 before you even have picked a color.

This does give you a pistol of incredible craftsmanship which will last as long you take care of it. So yes, despite the quirkiness of it, it's a highly realistic gun and with modern machining quality only increasing and becoming more affordable, we are likely going to see even more of these pistols in the future. Images shamelessly stolen from IMFDB.org

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Puma (Tarkov story character rundown)

Yes another wild cat named character because i am sooooo original. The second main character of the book i’m attempting to write. Whoooe this one is a bit heavier so heads up if you aren’t comfortable with themes of Ptsd.

“He is in his 40s, slightly smaller with a deep scar cutting across his left cheek, clad in traditional green khakis from the days of the Union. He carried a drab plate carrier which only covered a portion of his chest which was decorated a small silver pendant with a red star encompassing the hammer and sickle. In his hands was a Sv-98, its beautiful teal furniture contrasting the cold, black steel of its barrel. Much like his squad-mate there were noticeable markings on his instrument, however they span from muzzle to receiver, with even the hand guard being covered in tallies and the name “Puma” engraved on its side. Much like Lynx he felt drawn to the city after hearing about the escalating conflict within the urban districts.”

character traits and background

-He’s incredibly scared of the sound of helicopters and jets flying overhead from his experiences fighting in Soviet-Afghan war. Though he knew they were on his side the brutality and terror of the strikes still shook him to his core. He had only turned 19 before he was conscripted to fight so these experiences had been engrained in him.

-Unlike Lynx, He kept his equipment and rifle in especially good condition. Taking apart and thoroughly cleaning his Sv-98 after every engagement which comes from his experiences fighting in the mountains where small particles of dirt and rock would often end up caught in the internals of weapons. Old habits die hard

-He speaks and tries to keep constant communication with his squad as it’s his way of telling who is still breathing. Should someone go silent he’ll know that they’re either dead or dying. Though he may still speak more frequently than Lynx he still tends to keep things emotionless as in his eyes it is just a distraction.

-Even when there isn’t any sign of opposition he is still constantly scanning the area around him, his eyes never holding still for more than half a second a time. To be blunt he is constantly on edge and is paranoid that a target could appear from anywhere at anytime.

-He also tends to jitter a lot never being able to stay still as a result of the constant feeling of tension he had to endure then and now. Usually he twirls a spent casing in his hands as a way to keep himself calm. However, when he finds a target and takes aim he enters his zone where he is truly calm and collected. His mind and body takes focus, putting him at ease as he concentrated to make his shot count.

-His chest is clad in old medals and decorations from his time in Afghanistan. He was taken so young so really these are the only accomplishments he has in life so he desperately tries to cling on to this empty sense of pride despite the horrors of what he had to endure. He had convinced himself that his sacrifice was for a greater goal when in reality the war he was fighting was pointless and for nothing, these medals help him stop thinking about what he lost.

-Following up on that, he tends to use the same equipment he used back then nowadays. More so because that was what he was trained with but also he feels a strange sense of familiarity with these objects.

-He tends to be rough on the younger members of his squad but he’s only like this because he doesn’t want them to make the same mistakes he did in the past and end up hurt or worse. It’s just that he doesn’t know how to communicate this advice well as he was treated the same by his elders back then as well.

-Lastly, he personified his rifle as it has been with him for years at this point. He is very gentle with it making sure to take great care of it as he is very sentimental of all the things the two have gone through. It’s also partly because it is the only thing he can truly trust here. It won’t let him down as others had and he knows that it dies with him so he doesn’t have to feel any guilt leaving it behind should he be killed

that’s pretty much it for Puma. Thanks for reading up to this point :D have a good one!

#tarkov #eft #escape from tarkov #oc

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sandrayln · 2 years

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600 other things I could (should?) be doing, and I’m gonna write @kedreeva a post about horse colors, because I did the patterns and it’s like a nagging itch that I didn’t finish.

Behold, the wild and wonderful world of horse color.

Term 1: Dominant. A dominant gene is one where if the gene is turned on and you have one or two copies, you’re going to get the same result. This is (usually) represented by an uppercase letter in simple notation (ie, the stuff those of us who aren’t geneticists and don’t need to know what the hell gene this stuff is really on use). So if we have a color notated by Q and it’s dominant, qQ, Qq, and QQ will all be the same color, but qq will not.

Term 2: Recessive. A recessive gene is... well... the opposite of dominant. It requires two copies of the gene to be turned off to show, and anything that’s dominant will cover it right on up.

Term 3: Incomplete Dominant. Usually, this is a dominant gene where one copy turned on does one thing, and two copies turned on does something a little different. It’s like LP from the pattern post - there’s on and there’s very on. There’s one wonky example that I don’t know if this is the right term, but we’ll... we’ll get to that.

Terms stated, so let’s start at the beginning: extension and agouti. Or, to make them more accessible... chestnut, black, and bay.

Chestnut and black both come from the extension gene. Chestnut is the recessive version, black the dominant version (so ee is chestnut, Ee/eE/EE are all black).

Chestnuts can come in all kinds of shades and colors, from light to dark (called liver chestnut), and they can come with a darker mane and tail, a same-colored mane and tail, or a much lighter mane and tail (called flaxen). Some chestnuts are referred to as “mealy” or “pangare” because they have a light area on their muzzles and underparts (stomach, armpits, flanks, etc). You’ll hear “sorrel” in some Western disciplines to describe chestnuts, particularly darker chestnuts, but it’s still a chestnut horse.

No one’s really sure what causes flaxen. By the same token, nobody’s sure what causes shades of horse color. We just got a partial explanation for some darkening of the coat, but it only explains what’s called countershading (more on that below). Horses with particularly dark coats may be called “sooty [color].”

Black, you’d think would be just... black. But it seems like there’s a fading version of black and a non-fading version of black. If you take nutrition out of the equation, because that can quite affect color, some black horses just... fade to look brown in the sun, particularly places where they sweat. Others stay true black (like Friesians). Nobody’s sure why that happens either.

These two are really the underlying basis for every other horse coat color.

Most people will treat bay as the third base color; it’s technically modifying black, but many of the other coat colors have a specific version based on bay, so we’re just gonna do as the rest of the world and treat bay as its own base color.

Bay comes from a gene called “agouti”, which... I have no idea why it’s called that, but I know it’s also the name of a gene in mice? Anyway, it never shows on a chestnut horse; a chestnut can have no copies of the gene or 2 copies and they’re still gonna be chestnut. On a black horse, though... on a black horse, agouti turns the body red, leaving black legs (sometimes higher, sometimes lower), a black mane and tail, and typically a black muzzle and dark ears (called the “points”). Bay is dominant, so if you’ve got a black base and the bay gene is turned on... guess what you’ve got.

Bay shades from a light, reddish tan through a very red (called blood bay) to what’s often referred to as brown or seal brown. Seal brown is a weird enough color that it got its own name, and it’s only recently that they’ve discovered what probably causes it in the genes. A seal brown horse has a very dark body - sometimes nearly black, and often close enough to a fading black to give everyone a headache - but will have a reddish-tan muzzle, reddish-tan armpits, and a reddish-tan flank (the flank is the part right in front of the back legs on the body).

The other modifier that most people will recognize is called cream.

Cream is what produces palominos (left) and buckskins (right) - chestnuts with cream and bays with cream. There is also smoky black, but you almost never find pictures of them because they just look like black horses for the most part. Cream takes red and cranks the dial to yellow instead of red... but it also turns a chestnut’s mane and tail cream-to-white for some reason.

Cream is incompletely dominant. Two copies of cream produces pale-colored horses known as cremellos (chesnut-based), perlinos (bay-based), and smoky creams (black-based).

Most folks will call these horses all “cremello”, because it’s hard to tell the difference if you don’t know the testing results (that one on the right is an outlier in color and I think might have something more going on).

This cremello color is interesting, though, because cream is also incompletely dominant with a different gene, a recessive gene called pearl.

Two copies of pearl does weird things to coat colors. The horse pictured here is genetically a chestnut pearl. And it’s... taupe. As with any other color we talk about, it can have shades, but in general, pearl screws with red, making it much paler and shinier (they’ll have a weird sheen to them), like the horse has been pearlized. Bays will have a darker mane and tail still; blacks, depending on who you listen to, either are unaffected or end up going a bit bronze.

One copy of pearl does nothing... unless it’s on a horse with cream. Horses can only have two cream genes, two pearl genes, one of each, or neither; when you get a horse that has one cream and one pearl... they look a lot like cremellos, but their babies don’t reflect that. Instead of having all palominos, buckskins, and smoky blacks, they’ll have a mix of those and standard chestnut, bay, and black foals - only those foals carry pearl. This page has some cool stallions with pearl.

Pearl is sometimes called the Barlink factor; you’ll primarily see it in AQHA/Paint horses from Barlink lines and in the Spanish horses (Lusitano, PRE, Andalusian, etc), or in horses with ancestry from one of those sources.

There are two other newly-discovered genes that interact with cream the same way pearl does - sunshine and snowdrop. Both act very much like pearl; they’re recessive, affect red coats, and when paired with cream they turn off-white. Not a whole lot out there in the way of photos of them at this point - individual horses were identified in the last 5 years or so, and it takes a little time for people to test their animals and post pictures.

Then there’s mushroom (no, really).

Mushroom also only affects red, and it’s purely recessive - no playing silly buggers with cream. It turns chestnuts a weird mousy color with a lighter mane and tail, as in these two pictures. It turns bays a similar weird mousy color, but the mane and tail stay dark. Originally mushroom was identified in Shetland ponies in the UK, but it looks like they’ve found it in Icelandics and a few other breeds as well now.

Let’s talk about something that only affect black next!

This gene is called silver (or “taffy,” which I am not fond of as a term). Silver won’t show on chestnut horses, but on blacks and bays, it turns the mane and tail pale - anywhere from “this horse looks like a flaxen chestnut,” as is the case with the silver bay horse on the left, to white. On black horses, the body tends to lighten to a brownish color; sometimes this color is called “silver dapple.” Silvers tend to darken over time, particularly in their manes and tails.

As an aside, I’ve been seeing some chatter recently about vision issues associated with silver. Haven’t dug into that much to see what’s going on there.

The next two genes affect all three base colors instead of picking on black or red specifically.

Dun is a bit of an odd duck. It actually has three options for the same gene - called non-dun 1, non-dun 2, and dun. Non-dun 2 is actually “no dun.” Non-dun 1 is what was called countershading for years; the horse will have darker shoulders and upper legs and a darker area down the back, but it’s vague, like smearing a finger along a charcoal line to blend it. And there’s no color change on the body, just a darker area along the spine.

Dun, on the other hand, does include lightening the horse’s color. A true dun will have a lighter body, darker mane and tail, a dark stripe down the spine and into the tail, a dark stripe crossing the shoulders (making a T with the back stripe), and “zebra stripes” on the legs - darker stripes just above where the darker legs start merging into the lighter body color.

The order of operations seems to be that if you have D, that wins - so you can be D/D, D/nd1, D/nd2, etc, and the horse will be dun. If you have nd1, that wins over nd2 - so a horse that’s nd1/nd2 is going to show countershading. And then nd2 is no dun and no countershading at all.

Last but not least is champagne. Champagne dilutes color; it also comes with light eyes (sometimes greenish!) and pumpkin-colored and sometimes speckled skin.

Fun fact: the American Cream Draft Horse is gold champagne. The actual cream gene is undesirable, at least in some quarters.

Champagne on chestnut - called gold champagne - can masquerade as palomino pretty easily, as you can see there. Champagne on bay - called amber champagne - is a little like a buckskin, but all the stuff that should be black is instead a dark reddish-brown. Champagne on black - classic champagne - turns the horse kind of a greyish color; it used to be called lilac dun, though I haven’t seen one in person yet to confirm if that’s because it’s kind of purple-y or if that’s just... someone being weird.

Champagne is dominant, so one copy and two copies both do the same thing.

And that’s horse color!

#horse color #horse genetics

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whump-softie · 3 years

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Restrained/Pet Whump

Collars; shock collars, spiked collars, leather collars that dig into the skin and leave bruises. Tracking collars that let the whumper know where their pet is at all times

Handcuffs; cold metal cuffs, leather cuffs, locked cuffs attached to leashes that let the whumper lead their pet anywhere they please

Mouth gags/Muzzles; metal cages over the mouth, a ball gag keeping their jaw open, a simple piece of duct tape that keeps the whumper’s pet quiet and obedient and waiting for instructions

Blindfolds; fabric over their eyes keeping the pet completely reliant on their whumper to lead them to where they need to go (maybe for a walk, like a good pet should?)

Harnesses; ropes strung around the pet to offer easy locations to grab onto, a harness around their chest like a true working pet. The whumper can even attach leashes to it, or tighten it to leave marks on their back, chest, and neck

#whump #whump prompts #restrained #whump list #just some late night ideas #I really do love a good muzzle #I really should write muzzles more often #pet whump

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zoeykallus · 2 years

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Arcane - Little Flower Part 4 – Before You Killed Me

Silco x female!reader

Warning: 18+

Violence/Blood/Near Death Experience/Drowning/Hurt/Strangulation/Pain/Drama/Brutality/Cursing

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Author's Comment:

Heads up, reader is going through hell in this chapter. Buckle up if you are ready or skip it if you are faint of heart.

A shitload of Drama ahead.

I don't know why, I just blame the music again, if it's making sense or not. On repeat while writing: Too Many Tears

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What Happened Before:

Little Flower

Little Flower Part 2 - Safe And Sound

Little Flower Part 3 - Cupidos

Part 4 - Before You Killed Me

The time you spent with Silco was almost always determined by languid tenderness. Still, your heart raced every time his hand touched you, his gaze crossed yours, or he entered the room you were in. But by now you had seen more of him, more of things you perhaps should not have seen. Things you couldn't forget. The underlying skepticism and fear that had always been there was still present, not severe because you didn't have to fear his wrath, but unyielding.

By now you spent most nights with him, though often alone in his bed as he worked late into the night. Sometimes, though, you would wake up in the morning and he would be lying next to you, sometimes awake, one arm wrapped around you, watching you sleep. Sometimes asleep, lying across the bed any one or more of his limbs tangled somewhere in the covers with you.

You had even made friends with Sevika by now. Well, more or less. Somehow she liked you much more now than at the beginning. You didn't exactly have the same interests, but in a certain sense you respected each other. You admired her loyalty, her courage and her strength. You witnessed the latter from time to time, Silco rarely got his own hands dirty. There were only a few exceptions.

The small syndicate that produced Cupidos, he took into his own hands, personally. He even took you with him. You remembered the day very vividly... Silco had given you a mask, a filter mask, he was wearing one himself when he walked into the building and threw a grenade created by Jinx into the room. Poisonous gas had spread to every little corner of the room. People had gone down gasping, bloody foam coming out of their mouths as they died in great agony, eyes wide open. The images still haunted you sometimes in your sleep.

Yes, you had wanted Silco to take the matter in hand and put an end to Cupidos, but it was more than just an ugly thing to witnes it. He had taken you with him because he wanted to show you that he kept his promise. But seeing those people die had been terrible. You had watched everything, not daring to look away because he was watching you. A part of you was still afraid of him. Even if you loved him by now, and sometimes you doubted yourself because of that.

You were sitting with Jinx in her cave working on a plan for a fancy revolver you were going to give to Silco. The gun looked elegant and fierce. A long muzzle, a big barrel with 12 chambers, an elegant grip with filigree engravings. Anyway, when the weapon was finished, it was supposed to look awesome.

Silco's daughter and you had become close, were almost like sisters by now. Jinx had experienced one or more traumas at some point in her life that she had never been able to come to terms with, something had broken inside her and led to her strongly fluctuating behavior. But by now you had figured out how to deal with it. She often sought your closeness, your comfort and she let you calm her down when she had one of her outbursts again. Basically, Jinx just needed a lot of attention and someone who listened to her, responded to her and gave her the feeling that she was not alone with everything that was going on inside her. Silco loved her, but he manipulated her much more than he helped her. But you didn't think he really realized how much of the damage she had done over the years came from him. Their relationship was an emotional dependency that had unhealthy traits. But you'd be careful not to say a word along those lines to Silco.

"Here look," Jinx said delightedly, holding out the drawing to you.

She had completed the pattern on the handle, it looked like angel wings swinging around a skull.

"That's really impressive, Jinx," you admitted honestly.

Around the skull were delicate rose vines you had drawn.

With a proud grin, the girl said, "I'm sure he'll like that, it was a great idea, Y/N."

Yes it had been your idea. Silco didn't talk about his birthday, so you decided without further ado that you would just give him something anyway and let Jinx in on your plan. The girl had immediately been on fire for your idea with the revolver and you had gone straight to work, discussed how the dimensions should be, which ammunition you wanted to have made for it, which blacksmith you wanted to commission with the individual parts and so on. You had been with her since morning and by now it was almost evening.

"I should probably get back to Silco now, he'll probably be annoyed that I've been gone so long, he doesn't like it when he can't see me for too long," you sighed in surrender.

"Man, he shouldn't make such a fuss!" said Jinx, rolling her eyes.

You laughed softly.

"I might even get him out of that habit someday, who knows".

On the way back, you were already a little nervous. Silco tended to pepper you with questions when you were gone too long, he was a sceptical and jealous man with serious trust issues and you weren't sure how good you were at hiding the fact that you and Jinx had been working on a gift for him. You weren't very good at lying, it was basically uncomfortable for you, so you were pretty bad at it and Silco had a talent for seeing through people, you in particular.

However, when you walked into his office, he was sitting behind his desk, elbows on the table, hands folded and resting against his forehead.

"Hey, I'm back."

Silco looked up at you very slowly. Something he actually did a lot when he was angry or wanted to intimidate someone, slow predatory movements. You blinked nervously, sensing immediately that there was something lurking behind his behavior.

"You've been gone a long time," he said simply in his smooth way.

"Yes, Jinx and I have been working out plans."

After a few seconds he said, "I see."

Unsure of what to say or do, you decided to do what you had planned anyway.

"Is it okay if I take a bath?"

He nodded and finally stared into emptiness again. Something was up, but usually he was coming on to you and he didn't like being probed or pushed. He liked to be in control of everything- how things were handled and when he shared what information with whom, was part of it. You had never seen him angry with you before and you weren't going to, so you shut up and silently made your way to the bathroom.

You poured yourself some water, made yourself a bubble bath and lay down in the tub. With a relaxed sigh you closed your eyes, let the warmth creep into your muscles and bones and felt how you gradually felt more and more weightless.

When you heard footsteps, you opened your eyes and saw Silco approaching the tub. His facial expression seemed strangely stony. Worried, you looked up at him, frowning.

"Is everything all right?" you asked cautiously.

Wordlessly, Silco sat down on the side of the tub. He reached out an arm to you and his hand gently rested on your sternum, just below your neck, and let it rest there, bent over you. The touch was gentle, yet it sent a chill down your spine, despite the hot bath water.

The expression on his face, it wasn't just stony, there was more, but you didn't know how to describe it. Something dark, angry and at the same time sad, was hiding behind his sea green eye.

"What plans have you worked out with Jinx today?" he asked quietly.

You blinked nervously, again, and knew immediately that he realized you were about to lie. What he didn't know was that you were just trying to hide a birthday gift.

"You weren't with, Jinx, were you?"

His voice had taken on a rough undertone and his chest heaved up and down heavily with each breath.

"What? Yes I was!" you protested.

"DON'T LIE TO ME!" he suddenly exploded, making you wince.

"I'm not lying," you said very quietly.

He gritted his teeth and the next moment you found yourself underwater. Startled, you tried to come back up, but his hand on your sternum held you down. Panic rose in you. What had happened, why was he doing this to you!!! You swallowed water, your hands tried to pull yourself up at the edge of the tub, without success, Silco was stronger. Your fingers clawed at his arm, you managed to wriggle out from under the arm in the water and for a moment your head came above water.

Silco jumped into the tub, fully clothed, sat over you so that you could not escape from him again. Anger burned under his skin, anger and a deep sadness that caused him physical pain.

You coughed, clinging to his arms whose hands were around your neck. He didn't squeeze yet, didn't push you under either, just looked at you for the moment as you lay under him in the water your eyes widening, your lower lip quivering before a sob comes out of your mouth.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"You betrayed me," he growled.

"What are you talking about?" you asked, crying.

"You weren't with Jinx, you were at the docks! You were seen there, with the Firelights sabotaging one of my shipments!", his voice growled hoarsley.

You didn't have the faintest idea what he was talking about, before you could react, your head was under water again and Silco's hands were squeezing. Absolute panic flooded your mind, your fingers clawed into his dress shirt and tore the fabric apart.

There was only one thing that kept flashing through your mind, aside from the panic, the bottomless fear. Why? You had always known who he was, but still, fatally and naively, you had never expected him to do such a thing to you. You had done nothing wrong. Yet your head was under water, above you an angry Silco, with wet clothes, his hands around your neck, wet strands hanging down his forehead, a wild look on his face. For the first time you actually saw it, the monster.

The water that came through despite his stranglehold burned in your nose, your throat, your lungs, like liquid fire. The senseless fight for survival that your body waged without your conscious intervention lasted for what felt like eternities. Eternities full of fear and pain. At a certain point you wanted it to be over, it should stop, you couldn't bear it anymore. Suddenly your thoughts became fuzzy, your vision blurred, it no longer burned. You knew your eyes were open and yet it went dark. Finally.

"Everyone betrays me, everyone does at some point and now you did too..." he pressed out between clenched teeth.

A single tear rolled down his cheek. The pain was unbearable. He had trusted you, Silco had loved you, the more violent had been the shock when his informant told him what you had done. It ate him up inside within seconds, his reason dissolved into nothing.

Your resistance weakened. Your eyes were open, staring at him, blank yet reproachful. His arms and shoulders shook with tension and pain, there were scratches from your fingernails all over his arms, some were pretty deep and bleeding.

"What are you doing?!" he heard Sevika ask in horror.

He hadn't even noticed how she had come in. She had never dared to enter his private chambers before. Presumably she had heard something and had come to look and found this scene.

"She betrayed me..."

Sevika had never interfered or contradicted her boss before, but here and now, she grabbed his shoulder and hastily pulled him away from your motionless body.

She lifted you out of the tub with ease, as if you were just a doll.

"Fuck!" she cursed "Why did you do that?"

"She was at the docks this afternoon, with the Firelights, when our Shimmer delivery was sabotaged, Ronon saw her," he explained in a breaking voice, watching Sevika check for your pulse.

"Have you lost your mind!!! She was with Jinx all day, I was keeping an eye on both of them like you told me to! Why didn't you talk to me first!!!"

Silco felt the world suddenly spin around him faster, he felt sick and his chest seemed to tighten.

"That can't be... he saw her... he was sure of it," he muttered, staring at your motionless body.

Sevika began to perform CPR and mouth to mouth resuscitation like she had seen on the docks before.

"Come on girl," she pressed out between ventilations "Breathe!"

Silco climbed out of the tub on wobbly legs and slumped down next to you and Sevika, leaving a trail of water, everything was wet.

"What have I done...?"

"You've lost it," Sevika grumbled "You snapped and acted without reason, that's what happened"

You just lay there and didn't move, didn't breathe, your eyes stared into eternal nothingness and ice-cold fear seized Silco, dragging him with it into an abyss without light.

"I didn't mean to do it..."

Sevika shot him a somber look, "Then why did you? I thought you loved her"

"...I do"

The next moment your body reared up, coughing. Sevika hastily turned you on your side so you could cough the water out of your lungs. She reached for a towel and placed it over your naked body.

Silco was still sitting there, slumped over, not daring to touch you. He stared at his hands then back at you. Those hands had killed you, the woman he loved, in blind rage, how could he ever let those hands touch you again?

Your body was trembling, but your eyes were closed, you were not quite yourself yet.

Sevika carefully wrapped you in the towel, lifted you up and carried you into the bedroom, where she laid you on the bed and covered you with a blanket.

"I don't know if she'll wake up again, but she's alive," she said to Silco who had silently followed her.

He suddenly felt very helpless for the first time in a long time and it scared him.

"Bring me Ronon," he said somberly.

When Sevika went to get Ronon, that snake, Silco changed into dry clothes. Just as he was closing the last button of his vest with trembling fingers, he heard a groan from you.

"Y/N? Little Flower, are you awake?" he asked softly and quietly, climbing onto the bed with you.

Another moan, finally your eyes opened fluttering open. When you saw his face above you, your eyes went wide. You wanted to scream, but from your throat came only a hoarse croak.

"I'm sorry, it's okay, don't panic...", he spoke to you.

You crawled away from him in panic, your heart running marathons.

Wrapping the covers around you, you struggled out of bed to get as far away from him as possible. You felt dizzy and almost fell, but managed to grab a bedpost. Silco got off the bed and approached you, wanting to help you, but when your head jerked in his direction and you looked at him with a look that resembled a cornered, injured animal, he stopped.

"I'm so sorry," he spoke softly.

"I don't care," you said, your voice hoarse and almost unintelligible.

Your hand went to your neck, feeling over the now dark marks where his hands had choked you. You wished so much for all of this not to be real, just a bad dream, but you knew it was real.

He lowered his head and looked at you like a beaten dog.

Very quietly he said, "That's not true."

"Yes it is, I want to get out of here!"

He gritted his teeth. It was understandable that you were scared and angry, you had every right to be, but this knowledge did not make the situation any easier for him.

Gently he asked you, "Where do you want to go? You don't have anywhere else to stay?"

"I don't care, I just want to get away from you!" you pressed out between quivering lips while tears streamed down your face.

It was not only your throat that hurt, it was everything, your whole existence hurt.

There was a long pause of silence in which you looked at each other, both full of pain and fear. But finally Silco took the floor again.

"Please don't go, little flower," he spoke in an husked voice.

"Where are my clothes?" you asked bitterly, ignoring his request.

"In the... In the bathroom, I think"

The next steps happened as if by themselves, your perception was still fuzzy and your overwhelmed mind blanked out a lot, among other things any sense of time and also some of the words Silco addressed to you. But you got the overall tenor. He was afraid to lose you, he didn't want you to leave.

"You should have thought about that before you killed me," you said flatly as you finally got dressed and walked past him out of the bedroom.

Only a moment later, he heard the door to his office open and slam back into the lock.

You didn't know where to go, first of all you wanted to get away from Silco. You had to sort yourself out, think, come to rest, plan next steps. But as soon as you reached a calm place, you sank wearily to your knees, breathing heavily and fighting another crying fit. Everything in you seemed to be on fire, your chest, your throat, your eyes, everything. You forced yourself to breathe deeply to calm down, but the next moment you were shaken by sobs again.

Sevika showed up at Silco's shortly after you left, with Ronon. Handcuffed, the stocky man with the red curls knelt in front of Silco. There was an icy silence, only Ronon's nervous breathing could be heard.

"You lied to me. I don't know why, but honestly I don't care. Y/N wasn't at the docks like you said," Silco finally addressed the man kneeling on the ground.

Ronon said nothing, he knew it didn't matter, he knew he was dead, now he could only hope it would be quick. But Silco would not do him that favor.

Silco walked up and down, Sevika as well as Ronon were silent, no one dared to say anything.

He was thinking about all sorts of things. He had never been a particularly accessible or loving person. The life he had lived up to that point had simply never allowed it. He himself had never experienced affection until you came into his life. Even if it had been rather bumpy in the beginning and he expressed his affection mainly physically, it was still there. It was something special, something he deeply appreciated. Today that had almost been taken away from him.

In his mind's eye he saw you under him in the water, his hands closed around your neck. How could he ever forget that image? How could he ever make you forgive him? How could he ever forgive himself? Quite abruptly, he threw a punch, hitting Ronon in the head and knocking him over. The man remained lying, not daring to get up.

Hot anger burned in Silco, consuming his every thought. He thought of what Vander had done back then, and the irony was biting. He had done to the only person he really cared about, aside from Jinx, what Vander had done to him.

Silco kicked, hitting Ronon square in the face with the heel of his boot, hearing his nose break and the man groan in pain.

Again and again images of you flared up in his mind, with each image he kicked. Teeth broke, cheekbones.

Ronon choked on his own blood, coughing and whimpering through broken jaw and teeth, "Please, have mercy."

"Sorry, all out of mercy," Silco growled, stomping on his face again and again and again.

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Shinso Hitoshi: Victim of Discrimination? Part 1

Shinso Hitoshi. The most popular teen character in MHA who isn’t part of 1-A or the League of Villains. There are numerous fics and stories that have him as a main character or as a major supporting character, especially considering how little he’s actually in MHA itself. Of the 347 chapters of My Hero Academia published at the time of writing, Shinso directly appears (not counting flashbacks, mentions, etc.) in only thirty-one chapters. That is 8.9% of the MHA manga. Furthermore, he is only really important to two arcs, the Sports Festival Arc and the Joint Training Arc. He is, for all intents and purposes, a minor character.

Despite his lack of appearances, though he is quite popular. In the official Japanese popularity polls, he ranked, respectively: 12th, 14th, 10th, 23rd, 17th, 24th, 10th. On Archive of Our Own, one of the largest fanfiction archives in western fandom, especially English-language fandom, Shinso’s tag, as of March 15, 2022, has been used on 31,154 fics, making it the ninth most popular character tag.

Given the popularity of the character, combined with a lack of material in MHA about him, it is no surprise that a whole spate of fanon has grown up around Shinso. However, a lot of this fanon is not based on what we actually see in MHA itself. There is one specific point I wish to focus on in this post, that of Shinso being bullied by his peers and discriminated against by wider quirk society. I especially wish to focus on this given how often Shinso’s bullying is compared with Izuku’s treatment, either saying Izuku is the same as Shinso or was not treated as badly as Shinso was for the sake of woobification of Shinso. I intend to show that this is far from the case. There is another common fanon trope I would like to look at, that Shinso was raised in foster care, but I shall save that for another post. This one is going to be long enough as it is.

Before we begin, I should note a few things. First, I want to make it expressly clear that I am not shaming people for their writing choices. I love a lot of fics with these tropes for Shinso. They’re fun and provide great drama. There is nothing wrong with using these tropes. I’m just explaining how I interpret what we see in canon in contrast to the common fanon tropes, nothing more. If you go and send this post to writers, screaming about how they are terrible for writing Shinso in a way different from how this post interprets him, you are a terrible person and I want nothing to do with you. Do not use this to harass authors just trying to have a good time.

Furthermore, I will be relying exclusively on the manga’s version of events here. I have not seen the anime myself, so I cannot judge how it changes things with regards to Shinso. I will also be relying exclusively on the official VIZ Media localization of the manga, not on any fan translations.

Finally, I must give a huge shout-out and thank you to Samcalibur, my co-author on Little Owl. I had let fanon Shinso completely eclipse canon Shinso in my mind until she pointed it out when discussing how to write him in Little Owl. This post would not exist without her. Thanks for this, Sam! With all that said, let’s get started.

The most common fanon trope for Shinso, in my experience, has been to highlight him as an outcast from his peers. This includes him having zero friends before UA, him being specifically bullied for his quirk being “villainous,” teachers refusing to talk to him because of his quirk, and, in some fics, even having his middle school put a muzzle or gag on him during class to keep him from speaking and using his quirk.

A lot of fics that go to these extremes with Shinso often will paint an equivalence between how he was treated and how Izuku was treated by his classmates and society for being quirkless. However, when we actually see flashbacks to Shinso’s past during the Sports Festival, when he is explaining himself to Izuku during their match in true battle shonen fashion, how does Horikoshi depict him?

Shinso and Izuku fight in chapters 32 through 34 of the manga, during the Sports Festival Arc. These two chapters are where the bulk of the fanon that Shinso was bullied and discriminated against come from. Do the chapters bear this out? In a word, no.

So, in chapter 33, Shinso is goading Izuku to try and get him to respond again after Izuku breaks the brainwashing. He says that Izuku is lucky to have a quirk that lets him “enter the Golden Gates” that Shinso is not allowed through.

However, nowhere in Chapter 33 does he bring up the idea of him being bullied for his quirk, just that Izuku, due to having a physical quirk, has a leg up with regard to the hero course that lets him follow his dreams (the second panel comes from chapter 34, but is part of the same conversation).

So, he does not talk about his supposed bullying here. Instead, his bitterness is about how those with physical quirks are able to “follow all their dreams.” Shinso's resentment is about how the UA entrance exam is structured, not over how society is treating him or how his peers treated him. That begs the question, where did the bullying aspect come from? Given how prevalent it is in fandom, the answer is quite underwhelming. It’s a single page in Chapter 34:

It is worth noting that, by all indications, this is an entirely internal flashback. Izuku himself is never actually told about this. Only Shinso and the audience are privy to this information.

This page is at the heart of the entire fanon about Shinso’s bullying, and it is incredibly underwhelming. To me, this does not read as someone who was horrifically bullied. This is standard First Day of School talk. I can see how Shinso would find this being constantly brought up annoying, but it is not bullying. This is the equivalent of having a odd name and having every joke about it memorized by fourth grade. Speaking from experience, yes, that is annoying, but it was not bullying. Hell, one of the students even flat out says they are jealous of Shinso’s quirk.

There is also a common point in fanon where Shinso is an outcast in 1-C for his quirk. However, this point is not just unsupported by canon, it is actively contradicted by it. We see some members of 1-C after Shinso’s loss to Izuku. Here’s what they have to say to him:

Far from viewing him as an outcast, they’re proud of him! They call him the “shining star” of General Education. They think he is “awesome!” and they’re elated that he went so far. This is not what you say to an outcast you are afraid of, this is what you say to a classmate you respect and think highly of! Quite simply, there is little to no evidence that Shinso was bullied for his quirk, and certainly not for the fanon concepts of him being a complete outcast due to it. There is no chance that the Shinso of canon was muzzled to keep other students safe from him as some fics claim. By all indications, Shinso was accepted by his peers, both in middle school and in Gen Ed at UA.

For contrast, let us look at Izuku’s experiences, to which Shinso is often compared.

We see Izuku’s middle school days mainly in two places, Chapter 1 of MHA and the bonus two-part story Deku and Bakugo Rising, which is included in Volume 2 of My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions. Let’s first look at Chapter 1 of MHA itself.

So, when does Izuku being bullied for being quirkless start? Page 1.

Let’s make note of two specific things on this page. First, what Bakugo says to Izuku. “So Deku, the quirkless wonder, thinks he can play hero, huh?” Let me draw your attention to two pieces of information here. First, even at this early stage, Bakugo has already coined the nickname of Deku, likening him to a wooden doll that cannot do anything. He is already calling Izuku useless, worthless, and incapable of doing anything. Second, he is calling out Izuku’s quirklessness and him for “playing hero.” This shows that the bullying is both because of Izuku being quirkless and for him having the try to stand up to people with quirks, to "play hero," against his betters, those with quirks. Then he punches Izuku in the face while his long haired friend holds Izuku's head in place, both of them using their quirks. The use of their quirks is likely intentional, highlighting what they have that Izuku lacks. However, that’s just Bakugo and his cronies. Bakugo Katsuki, as shown throughout MHA but especially in recent, has a specific complex vis a vis Izuku. What about Izuku's other classmates later on? Did they also lightly tease him the way Shinso’s classmates did?

Well, here’s how they responded to the idea of Izuku applying for UA’s heroics program:

The entire class laughs at him, mocking him for the entire idea of someone like him, someone quirkless, could be a hero. It gets even worse a couple panels later:

There’s a lot to go into here with this panel, because there is some very striking visual storytelling going on here. First, the entire class is framed as a single mass, distinguishable only by their various quirks. This contrasts them specifically with the quirkless Izuku, whom they menacingly loom over. Izuku is on the ground beneath them, showing how he feels below them, framing them as villainous and him as small and weak. The only light spots in their silhouettes is the repeated word “heh,” showing they are still laughing at him. Finally, the word balloon. It is not tied to any specific person, not even Bakugo. Instead, it’s presented as the unanimous words of the entire class. They’re specifically asking him, mocking him, “what can you even do?!” with the word “do” specifically bolded. They are telling Izuku that he is completely useless, that he can’t do anything. This is bullying and discrimination. This is not the light teasing Shinso received.

We see this bullying on an individual level in Deku and Bakugo Rising with Bakugo’s two unnamed friends. In that story, set in Izuku and Bakugo’s second year of middle school, the two friends of Bakugo steal Izuku’s hero magazine and mock him for reading it (thanks to Ernand for the proper scans):

They specifically mock him for wanting to be a hero when he is quirkless. Bakugo himself underlines this point a panel later, saying “since he’s quirkless, dreams’re all he’s got.”

I have reached the image post limit for Tumblr, so I will have to split this post here. Next time, we will deal with how society treated Izuku and Shinso and close out this very long meta!

Until then, ἐρρῶσθαι!

#my hero academia #mha meta #shinsou hitoshi #midoriya izuku #bnha #mha #quirk discrimination #fanon vs canon

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