The LAYERS needed in a modern/human Dreamling au. Some level of Endless family dysfunction, obviously. Hob's family can be be dead or not, it's all good. Are they old enough to have individually gained the awareness they are off-puttingly intense and should hide it a bit at first, or still in that "no, why would I need to Elsa this" stage?
Option A is both of them trying to play it cool, like "don't scare him off" except they so badly want to go from zero to sixty.
(Death and Desire have ruthlessly drilled Dream with flashcards about how to react appropriately in situations.
Desire: it's your one-month anniversary, what do you do?
Dream: [hesitantly] NOT propose?
Desire and Death, conferring, because that's technically correct but the delivery was suspect.
Death, encouragingly: Good start. And?
Dream: a nice dinner and maybe a walk?
Desire: well done!
Death: and for a three-month anniversary?
Dream: give them a key to my flat.
Desire: [airhorn] NO. RED CARD.)
Option B makes them the classic anecdotal "my grandparents got engaged within seven days of meeting each other and still are happy together".
(Death, rubbing her temples: so you met this guy--
Dream: Hob
Death: -- Hob, and within 1 day you gave notice to the Registrar's Office and figured out the best day to get married. And Hob agreed to this?
Dream: NO.
Death: oh thank go-
Dream: Hob SUGGESTED this.
Death: . . .
Dream: are you going to be a witness or not?
Death, 29 days later in the Registrar's Office, to Hob's witness: Is he sane?
Johanna Constantine, drinking heavily from a large flask: unfortunately yes, by all legal definitions.
Death: fuck
Johanna: [passing the flask over] if your brother's even a tenth as intense as Hob, they'll be fine. Probably.
Death, brightening: Is Hob that bad?
Johanna: You know how sometimes you meet somebody and think "oof, they're a bit much, best give them a wide berth"?
Death: yeah.
Johanna: Hob's like a camouflaged hole in the ground of muchness. Except he's done the hole up all nice and he knows that sometimes you just want to be left alone in the hole to sulk and rattle the spikes for a bit, and occasionally get a F&M hamper tossed in.
Death: [hmmmmmmm'ing approvingly]
Johanna, morose: the bastard.
In the background, Hob and Dream are pressing their foreheads together and basking in each other's presence)
Somedays my heart just aches to hell and back because i miss my cat. If you see this would you reply/rb with a photo of your cat if youre comfortable sharing bc i really miss seeing a cat so regularly
Domestic bowuigi thoughts, whenever Luigi either visits or in an essence 'comes home' to Bowsers Castle he naturally takes his shoes off at the door not wanting to traipse mud into his husbands house happy to trade them for the personal slippers waiting at the door for him (first time they were there for him probably nearly cried like personal slippers?? For me?? "yea of course my love you're part of the family? Are you okay?" ;~; yea just gonna cry)
However whenever he's leant over undoing his shoe laces to slip off his boots he absolutely has to contend with whichever Koopaling has heard him return running up and proceeding to smoosh and rub their face against his cap his cheek his mustache ect. They're so happy to see him they absolutely gotta smoosh their face into him! So he's there like yes yes hello I love you too I'm home as he does his boots, he's probably also started to playfully smoosh his face back against theirs. And bowser absolutely scoops him up to smoosh against him too cause gotta scent mark the hubby make him smell like home.
Basically the Koopa family are cats and this is very much based off my cat who when I'm leant over undoing my boots proceeds to rub his face against mine probably scent marking but happy to see me.
Fun fact: in Anishinaabemowin, the term for a cat purring is "nagamo gaazhagehns" / "nagamo biizhehns" / " nagamo boozhehns" (different dialects have varying words/spellings for a house cat)
But the main thing is that "nagamo" is the verb for "he/she/that one sings"
Cat purring in Anishinaabemowin is essentially called "cat singing"
After four years, I finally have video proof of Purra* making that horrible noise that is one of the three sounds she makes. The other two are "radio static" and "creaking door hinge." She does not meow. Or growl. All the noises she makes are some combination of these.
She's a freak and I love her.
*Full name Purramid Head, special thanks to @aftepes for giving us the name way back in 2020 when we were calling her "the Silent Hill kitten" because of the noises she made.
My betrothed and I are oscillating so wildly between whether or not we’re going to be able to keep Wyvern. If we need to rehome him it’ll be because it’s the right move, and we’ll leave him better off in terms of manners to help him find the right place.
He is pushing me to move more, but having him four days a week might be too much for me. We still can’t bathe him and it’s unclear whether being able the bathe him will help with our allergies.
I think he’ll come around to the cats but right now all interactions are overseen with food assists to keep him from barking. He’s improved on potty training and there hasn’t been more accidents but since he can’t communicate his need to go out it’s just Constantly Going Out to prevent accidents.
Sorry if I've missed this somewhere, but does Clanmew have words like mom, dad, or parent? If they do, are they different from the Tribemew and old Parkmew words for it?
Plugging my big beautiful family document again because 1. You sent this before I finished it and I intentionally compiled it so I could answer these questions. 2. I am proud of it and worked v hard
But to answer this about the Tribe; The Mi/Ba system is actually VERY unique to Clan Culture! I've decided that I'm going to show how Thunderstar's childhood actually lead TO its development, during BB!DOTC.
Shaded Flower may have been the first "Ba," in the way modern Clan cats use it. I think it's a good way to do the Pro-Adoption Theme I wanted to do with DOTC, while still killing Gray Wing. Of course, it also develops over time with the introduction of Kit Stealing a few generations later, but modern Clan cats honor Shade as a patron of parenthood.
So back at the Tribe, they use the words Mi and Ba, but they refer to biological parents. It isn't The Mi/Ba System.
I imagine they have a lot more words for various types of friends and platonic family, though. If Trout and I ever build out Tribemew, I'll get into their complex relationship to the Three Wards and such.
like first he's Ed's cat, he's an asshole to everyone but Ed, especially the new partner that just moved in.
and then he got 'rehomed' with Stede, and he finds he doesn't mind it. like he's sitting on Stede's shit (his desk) and barging into his quarters (especially after stede's had sex and is having a morning after moment. 10/10 cat behavior, coming in and meowing and demanding attention), and just follows him around, cause he can.
he's like a grumpy old, not quite senior but definitely getting there, tomcat (big tomcat cheeks and all) who has begrudgingly (very willingly, in his own emotionally constipated way) taken quite well to his new life.