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#and Noelle just naturally likes her for who she is!
thatdeadaquarius · 2 months
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GREETINGS! How are you doing? I've been practically gobbling up your posts (there very tasty)
Ok so hear me out- I've seen a couple posts like this but imagine-
The almighty all powerful wise creator isss
✨️A literal child✨️
Thanks for hearing me out! For you ->->❤️
Baby you taking on the world aw
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DAMN SORRY FOR TAKING FOREVER!! i started fics before i answered my askbox :/
Aw i fucking love child reader stuff,
Lots of isekai animes/manhwa/manga do it and i eat that shit up everytime-
I also deeply appreciate when its not done creepily, like being turned 8 again, and having crushes on others who are... yknow, actually 8 yrs old or sm fucked up shit, like even if its 16 yr olds that doesnt make it any better, bc the protag will actually be like,, actually 20?!?!💀 the straights r wild man, i feel like it happens either way too, like its usually a male MC but thats just bc theyre more common tbh, like regardless of gender of protag 🥲
Sun: Child God Reader (you/they/them)
Orbit: Short Headcanons
Stars: Mondstadt ppl bc i don't show them i love them enough
Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: none known & Trigger Warnings: none known.
Please comment any I missed. /gen
Klee has recruited converted you to throwing bombs with her.
You are the only leash on that child too and the only thing standing between Jean and full head of gray hair. 💀
Kaeya doesn’t know whether he’s endlessly worried or endlessly amused that the most powerful god is currently a child
if Jean isnt freaking out over ur whereabouts, Diluc is instead, and worst case scenario, Noelle/Lisa/Albedo is in charge of you
and YES someone has to look out for you, bc ur ass will just start making a hot springs spot like ur in ur teapot or smth in dragonspine (Albedo was fascinated it stayed warm despite the weather so he let you make it/enjoy it before asking u to restore natural order lol)
(Albedo has definitely asked to study you and, unfortunately for Jean, asked u to demonstrate several powers u have)
You do work as a lucky charm for Bennett tho so he does babysit u sometimes
it mostly consists of Fischl, Benny, and Razor “adventuring” by trying to do smth like who can jump on the Anemo slimes and ride them around longest
(the answer is you btw, u managed to get a small fleet of them to bus you around, the teens were simultaneously terrified running around below u to catch you and also amazed)
Noelle is so happy making toddler you all the pancakes you can eat, Sucrose had to stop her from going overboard and not just listening completely to kids when it comes to food
She is now very concerned with making you a balanced diet, tho she will still make u an ungodly tall stack of pancakes every now and then <3
They kind of all equally provide for you, obv ur their god, and ur a literal cutie patootie child, they cant just leave you
(also u might like move a mountain or change the weather or smth if they don't watch you so most are a little paranoid of that too)
Lisa gets u all kinds of cute outfits, still stuff you'd like, but definitely snuck in some sumeru looking clothing lol
Fischl lends you all kinds of books to read, Bennett shows u all the cool views in the city and outside of it (when Jean lets him get away with taking u that far), and Razor…
Razor brings you to Andrius and the wolf pack for a wolf pack party and gives u all kinds of shiny trinkets he’d collected for you
Diluc/Jean/Noelle/Eula nearly had a heart attack when they found out
Amber lets you have all the piggyback rides you want lol
she even managed with her own crafting powers (and your probably editing the game code or smth) she somehow makes a reinforced glider with a small harness on the back for you to glide with her
(Venti has definitely helped for some fun flights by boosting the winds for you two)
SPEAKING OF BARBATOS
ur absolutely spoiled rotten by him (and Dvalin, and Andrius, and the wind sprites)
if this god had money he’d spend it on wine and you lol
takes u flying all the time, any time, would drop everything to go to Mondstadt wilds and use his archon form wings to take you wherever you wanna go
tries to bring u to Angel’s Share but Diluc nearly hits him on the head with a wine bottle and brings you back home after kicking Venti out and giving you grape juice (yes you get all you want, within a healthy amount)
anyway the most important part abt you being a god and child is that you can now fulfill your childhood dreams of riding a dragon whenever you want
(one way to quickly get Mondstadt citizens to trust Dvalin again was just constantly seeing him flying overhead, occasionally seeing a small child on his back also helped lol)
(neither you nor Venti tell Jean you ride Dvalin and keep it an active secret from her.)
srry i took so long! i hope u liked my hot mess of writing (i think its even sloppier than usual bc of all the fic writing full sentences lately)
and if not, I'm sorrryyy 😭😭
I'm focusing on getting thru a haul of asks before getting around to posting that Eldritch AU Part 2 if anyone reads this :)
hope u guys are have a great weekend, thanks for all the birthday wishes!! :D
Safe Travels Anon,
💀♒
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pixiesfz · 3 months
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winners are grinners c.f
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plot: arsenal women are asked to join the sidemen for a collaboration video and you and your girlfriend are asked to come.
warnings: none really, might come out with a harry version later for fun
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You had your arm around your girlfriends shoulder when they pressed the record button and one of the seven boys who's named you found out was JJ started yelling at the camera.
You had known about the sidemen, you did live in London after all their fans were everywhere and almost all their videos went viral.
You smiled when you felt Caitlin laugh at one of their jokes and looked at her "ya happy we came?" you whispered and she turned to you "I reckon we smash em" she smiled and you laughed at her enthusiasm.
It was early in your relationship and you hadn't made anything public yet in terms of media-wise, you tried to keep it a secret from the team but the captains clearly latched on to your closeness and beat it out of you.
When they were discussing the 'discount code' you slipped your arm off Caitlin and started playing with the soccer ball underneath your feet "What about Gunners" you said when they didn't like their first word.
"Oh yeah Gunners!" KSI said with a shrug as Josh celebrated behind him.
You all went to your spots as one named Ethan just explained the first game. "Someone throws the ball in, touch it once, and then kick for a goal," he said and you all agreed.
"I don't think we need to ask if we're partners right?" Caitlin joked, her Aussie accent popping through as you laughed "yeah but you're going first"
JJ went first, kicking a fairly easy shot but your goal keeper and friend Manu must have been day dreaming cause she watched it go through without moving.
"Manu babe!" you called out "You just watched it go in!" you called out to her which made the girls laugh "I'm warming up" she defended herself and all the girls laughed again.
You were happy you agreed to come now it seems more fun than you thought.
The boys were still celebrating as you patted Ruby "your turn Rubesicle" you told her as she and Noelle went over.
You looked at Caitlin whose competitive nature had taken over her as she started to squint around "You're going to get lines if you squint Catie" you teased and she shook her head "Shut up".
You smiled, proud of yourself as Ruby took her shot and Toby caught it, next was Harry who had an impressive kick but Manu shot up and tapped it away which left you speechless.
All the girls erupted in cheers at your friends talent and all the boys clapped whilst complimenting her save.
"Care to do that against Chelsea next time?" you called out and smiled when you saw Manu look at you with a deadpan expression.
Noelle went next and also kicked an incredible shot but Toby blocked it in the same mannerisms as Manu.
Everyone went into shambles again and Noelle went to her knees, you got so excited that you clung on to Caitlin that let out a loud gasp.
"That was the save of his lifetime!" Noelle yelled and everyone laughed.
Next was Ethen who hit the post and you and Caitlin walked up to the camera which you smiled at.
"Hi my names Caitlin Foord" Caitlin introduced herself "I should score but we'll see" she shrugged, you laughed at your girlfriend as you repeated her words to her "C'mon Caity" you encouraged before throwing the ball up and watching as she touched it with her knee and kicked it into the middle and straight into Toby's hands.
"Caitlin!" you yelled knowing that she could kick a better goal in her sleep "It is scarier than you think" she defended herself to you as you both laughed going back.
You watched Josh go next as he tried to do something cool but failed...miserably.
You couldn't hold in your laugh as he whipped his head around to see where the ball was and Simon who was next to you laughed harder from your reaction.
"We brought grandad with us today, sorry" Ethan yelled out and for a second you felt bad for the man but he was also laughing at himself so it seemed fine.
You and Caitlin walked up again as you looked into the camera.
"Hi my names y/f/n but if I miss it's Caitlin Foord" you smiled before Caitlin yelled out a 'hey' as you smiled cheekily at her.
Caitlin threw the ball as you touched it with your right foot to keep it on the ground but went back a little to smash it, it seemed like it was going to go in before Toby stretched out his leg and hit it out with his foot.
You groaned as Caitlin laughed at you and grabbed you to take you to the line.
"You almost made me do the splits!" Toby called out and you laughed "be more flexible then" you defended with a smile.
A couple more shots later and a failed trick shot the whole fourteen of you were smiling ear to ear as you all had fun. Simon got another one in and now you and Caitlin were going up "I reckon low corners he's expecting high shots" you told her as you looked at the goalie.
"hey, no team chatting!" JJ called out as you both laughed and separated, you threw the ball and Caitlin touched it before kicking back left corner which he thought would go high, just as you predicted.
You cheered for Caitlin before she opened her arms for a big hug as you ran back to the girls "on the map" you sang out to them.
It was your turn soon enough and you did the same thing as Caitlin but switched to your left boot so it would go the other way which Toby got confused by and dived the other direction.
"Oi she's strategic!" Simon yelled out towards you as you gave an innocent smile to them which they laughed at. When you were walking back Caitlin whispered in your ear "such a smart girl" she praised as you blushed.
Once it was your turn again you completely smashed it with your left foot making the ball go fast so Toby wasn't quick enough to stop it as it hit the net.
"Let's go!" Noelle yelled out from her spot on the side and Ethan clapped "beautiful!" he hyped as a smile formed on your face and Caitlin laughed.
The boys ended up hitting 5 before the girls and next was a crossbar challenge which Caitlin ended up being a gun at, scoring three of the five you and Ruby being the other two to score one.
You looked at the camera before sighing "something about the boys crying out in defeat is empowering" you shrugged and walked off, you didn't know that clip of you would become viral in a couple of days.
Penalty's were next and you put yourself up second in line, before Caitlin, you were first to get one in for the girls and Caitlin quickly behind as you both clapped hands.
"They're like a dynamic duo" JJ whispered out loud "if only you knew" you joked back and Caitlin pulled you away before you could see the look on their faces.
Your next one you ran towards the left but kicked it to the right making Toby confused and go to the left making your shot clear and easy.
"I'm quite proud of myself there" You smiled at Caitlin who smiled "You're too adorable," she told you before going up herself.
It was now 9 - 7 and you only needed one more goal for the girls to win the round and it was your turn.
"This is really nerve-wracking" you admitted before the boys started yelling things out about 90-minute goals and champion leagues.
You winked at Caitlin before taking your shot when it hit the net all the girls came running at you with cheers and you jumped up and down.
Next was free kicks and everybody kinda sucked at it but the boys eventually scored three, even if you accidentally hit Harry in the chest and had to apologize six times as he said 'It's fine' with a clearly winded voice.
It was two all and we decided to end it on rock paper scissors which you elected Caitlin for.
"Why me?" she asked "Cause I will end up forgiving you if you lose," you said as the others nodded Caitlin just rolled her eyes and went against Vik.
Vik went rock and Caitlin paper so we won and all the girls went into cheers and you jumped on Caitlin's back "Oh yeah!" you yelled out as she laughed at your excitement.
When she put you down she covered her microphone "Am I going to get rewarded for this miraculous win" she said with a smirk and you just smirked back at her.
"maybe".
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beidouswif3y · 6 months
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High school love
plot: relationship hcs in a high school scenario
note: it's so early in the morning when I'm writing this but I need to get my thoughts down before I forget everything
cw: shy!fem reader, fluff, some suggestive content
characters: just continue reading and you'll see
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she's the strict student council president who everyone fears yet is head over heels for. she pays no mind to these people for you are the only who's attention and love she craves. everyone is jealous of you. how could they not be. you have somehow managed to get the attention of the most sought after girl in the entire school, after all
Ningguang, keqing, sara, jean, yukong, kendo, ei
she is one of the best athletes at the school. name any sport, she's probably been the star player on the team. she's pretty popular and could be seen hanging out with the jocks but her main priority would always be you. everyone was surprised when it became known you are her girlfriend but dared not to say anything to avoid being on the receiving end of a punch to the face
Beidou, carol, kate, kendo, seele, sushang, rumi, dehya
the hot, new library assistant who everyone has been fawning over but seems to have no particular interest in anyone who tries to make any advances. that's until you came along. awkwardly asking her where a specific book is while avoiding eye contact as much as possible. something about you awoken something within her and she needed to have you right there in the library when you eventually do get together
"no will have to know as long as you keep your pretty voice down~"
lisa, wanda, bronya, momo, miko
she's what you would consider a lone wolf. she is never seen participating in any particular social circles or club activities. there's a "do not approach" vibe around her that makes people hesitant to talk to her so they just admire her from afar. you made an effort to try to get to know her better. you were initially intimidated by her at first but over time, you realised she isn't as scary as you thought. it comes to a shock to everyone when word gets out that you two were caught making out in the bathrooms during the time you were supposed to be in gym class
Natasha r, yelan, yelena, rosaria, shenhe, kafka, kaina, ei, clorinde, eula, arlecchino
literally the sweetest girl you'd ever meet. she's always so welcoming to new people and very friendly to the point people get mixed signals from her. the only person she wants is you though. she just wants to help you get over your shyness but won't push you into doing something you aren't interested in
Yoimiya, sushang, march, asta, mina, toru, momo, amber, nilou, navia, noelle
part of the "popular girls" group. the group that is seemingly untouchable. they are hot and they know it. the air of confidence she has is a stark contrast to your more laidback, shy nature. she finds it adorable how much you get flustered whenever she teases you. this little game she created for her own amusement soon led to her actually falling for you. she wasn't shy about her feelings either. she was upfront about it and you, just like everyone else, was surprised when you found out she liked you back
extra: she loves skipping class with you. you two have been caught in some interesting situations because she can't keep her hands to herself when she's with you
Miko, ningguang, himeko, nemuri, arlecchino, kafka, tingyun, yelan, signora
band/theatre kid. she was born for the stage. she is able to captivate an audience with her performances and it makes you feel proud to be able to call someone so talented your girlfriend. she offers for you to join because she wants to share the joy she feels performing with you. it's something you have to think about but you're leaning more towards joining just because of her
Yunjin, serval, xinyan, navia, nilou, ayaka, eula, fischl, lynette
nothing like falling in love over organic chemistry <3. the sweet romance in the air as you two work together during class and after school at her place to try and figure out the mol ratio of a chemical equation. your hands touching for brief moments as you two work. your thighs so close to each but neither dares to move away.
natasha, sucrose, keqing, kokomi, asta, himeko, bronya, serval, momo
"what's your sign so I can know if we're compatible or not."
Mona, mina, asta, fu xuan
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wrote this after just waking up so if there's any mistakes, that's probably why
reblogs are appreciated
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Could I please request Lisa, Noelle, and Sara with an S/O who loves spiders, and spiders also love them to the point that their house has a lot of them and they act as a defense system?
(Genshin Impact) Lisa, Noelle, Sara, and Shenhe's S/O using spiders as a defense system
To quote my my main man Gary:
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I also don't normally have to give out any warnings but: Content Warning: Spiders (obviously)
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Lisa isn't afraid of bugs, but she'd prefer not to deal with them due to the mess they leave.
And at first, she finds S/O's affection for spiders kind of cute.
They treated such small things with great care.
Until she noticed that S/O just lets them sit on their shoulder. And not just a single one either, there's always two or three at the bare minimum.
Thankfully, at her request, S/O does not let spiders make their home in Lisa's house.
But S/O's?
By the Gods, it's absolutely infested.
She's fascinated and disgusted at the same time, seeing how they make way for S/O as they all skitter out of their path.
(Lisa) "I think I'll wait for you to grab your things out here, S/O...N-No, I don't need to come in, thank you."
She once saw someone try to break into S/O's home, only for them to completely overrun by spiders.
Instead of eating them like she expected the spiders to, they dragged them all the way to a nearby Knight who was horrified, and the burglar was quickly arrested.
It makes her stomach churn, honestly.
(Lisa) "Dear, thank you for leaving your um...friends, to put it gently, home, and not bringing them to the Library."
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Noelle is about ready to exterminate them all in the name of the Knights of Favonius!
...Until she realizes S/O can speak to spiders.
(Noelle) "Are you some sort of...arachnid whisperer, S/O?"
Noelle is intrigued, yet highly disturbed.
It went against her maid nature to let the swarm be, but if they actually responded to S/O, then clearly they were friends!
...R-Right?
Noelle screamed on instinct upon first entering S/O's house.
It was completely clean, yet spiders were around every corner, and the webbing on the corners of the walls made her eye twitch.
(Noelle) "S-Steady yourself, Noelle! You can't just...c-clean S/O's house without permission!"
And seeing what they did with an intruder before, Noelle does not want to seek the enmity of spiders.
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Sara is absolutely disgusted.
It was one thing to have a rogue spider hiding in your house, but an entire other thing to have nests of the things in every single conceivable room.
Sara doesn't really care about bugs, but an entire houseful of them is where she crosses the line.
(Sara) "S/O, can't you just...tell them to live outside?"
She still can't believe that the spiders actually respond to S/O whenever they ask them to move or get something.
It was impressive they could do that, but Almighty Shogun help S/O if she found the spiders crawling around near the Tenshukaku.
(Sara) "Gah! S/O...d-don't have the spiders just sitting on your head. It makes you seem unkempt."
It deeply unsettles her as she one time watched a treasure hoarder get overrun by spiders and tossed into the nearby river.
Well, at least she didn't watch someone get eaten alive in front of her.
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(Shenhe) "...There are spiders on you, S/O."
Shenhe moves quickly to crush them, only for S/O to wave their hands to defend them.
She may not have had contact with her fellow humans in a long time, but even she knew that this was not something normal.
At first, she wonders if S/O is an Adeptus, or trained to speak to animals in such a keen way.
Nah. They just really like spiders, and they seem to like them back.
...Neat.
(Shenhe) "You allow spiders to rest in your house? May I ask why?"
Shenhe doesn't understand at all how it works, but if they treat S/O and her kindly, she has no problem with them.
She's used to the outdoors and dealing with bugs anyway, what she isn't used to is how friendly the two are.
She especially didn't expect to be working with them, as monsters tried to attack them one day, only to get absolutely mobbed by the spiders, commanded by S/O.
Shenhe makes a note in her mind to ask Cloud Retainer if there's anything special about these spiders, or if S/O is just that weird.
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lynxgriffin · 1 year
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Theories on Kris’s soul and Ralsei’s identity
Hey everyone! This is not my usual thing, but after thinking on it a whole bunch, I decided I wanted to fully write out my theory/backstory explanations based on the last two short Deltarune comics. I usually express theorizing through fanworks rather than just talking through it, but since it's still stuck in my brain even now I figured it'd be fun to also just describe it all. I hope you all find it interesting! Who knows what future chapters will bring us, and anything can (and likely will!) happen, but as of right now I'm pretty convinced this is how things are with Kris and Ralsei. It's long and there's lots of screenshots included, so check below the read more for everything. And huge thanks to DemoPhone for getting all these screenshots for me!
So, Kris is adopted by the Dreemurrs at a young age. As the only human in a town populated by monsters, they already stick out significantly. Considering Toriel checked out a book from the library on how to care for humans multiple times, the Dreemurrs were likely going through a big learning curve with Kris, too. 
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Kris is not just different physiologically from everyone, but they’re quiet and weird, often mischievous, and just don’t fit in. As a kid, they wear a headband with red devil horns to try and fit in with their adoptive family, and especially to emulate their older brother Asriel, who seems to be everything that Kris isn’t.
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He’s popular, kind, well-loved by the town, and is always willing to make friends and do the right thing. Despite how different they are, the two kids clearly care for each other, and Asriel in many ways is Kris’s anchor to this town and this life.
Growing up, the Dreemurrs are friends with the Holidays, and the four kids spend lots of time together. Dess appears to be the more bold and outgoing of the two Holiday girls, but is tempered by Asriel’s responsible nature. Everything between them is going well until one day, when out exploring in the woods south of town, they come across the hidden bunker, and something goes wrong. It’s not clear yet exactly what it is…but it resulted in Dess going missing. Of the four kids, Dess seems to be bold, Asriel responsible, Kris mischievous, and Noelle fearful…so it seems likely that Dess and Kris investigated something in the bunker that the other two stayed away from. Kris witnessed or may have even been involved in what happened to Dess. Dess currently appears to be lost in a dark place, perhaps a place between Dark Worlds, perhaps “stuck in the code” of the game itself. Whatever it is, Dess has gone missing and may even be presumed dead by her family, and Kris witnessed it and may feel directly responsible. This is why they’re still nervous around the bunker, and perhaps even why they’re apprehensive about the appearance of the dark world in the school supply closet.
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Dess’s mother, the Mayor, is not going to blame the little kids for what happened…however, she IS going to place responsibility on Asgore, who was chief of police at the time and clearly should have been watching the kids more carefully. Asgore loses his job, and as things slowly deteriorate between the Holiday and Dreemurr families, he also loses his marriage.
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The kids stop hanging out together so often, and when they do, it’s more strained. Kris will be playing with Noelle when they stop, getting hit with the memory of what happened, and wander off to the piano to try and play out their feelings.
Kris builds up years of these feelings…underlying guilt for messing up the friendships and even marriages of the monsters that adopted them. Their interests are weird, their habits are offputting, and they can often only express a desire for attention through pranks.
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Despite the fact that the monsters in the town act friendly towards them, they still feel outcast and misunderstood. Their popular and beloved brother Asriel is their one solid anchor to everything, and Kris often wonders “wouldn’t things be easier and better if I was just like him?”
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But eventually, Asriel gets old enough and leaves for college. Kris is left alone in the town with all their feelings, but no anchor. In some ways, it gets worse, as the other townsfolk continue to talk about how great Asriel is with him absent. And Kris agrees with them…but that doesn’t help at all how they feel.
To top it off, a new girl arrives in the town, who immediately presents herself as a troublemaker. She seems to have some deep problems of her own, perhaps stemming from her own rough upbringing, and takes out her aggression on Kris, the only human in the town. Despite the bullying, Kris takes it all in stride, even amusement. Susie isn’t saying anything about them that Kris doesn’t already believe about themself. If anything, Kris admires how unapologetic Susie is about her behavior, and sees a kindred spirit in her. They’re both outcasts, after all, with gross and offputting interests. And it is pretty funny how clearly Noelle is infatuated with Susie, too. 
And yet, Susie doesn’t seem interested in actually being friends now, and while Susie is admirable, she’s not helping Kris’s long-standing guilt, loneliness and depression. They start resenting how things have gone. They start looking for unconventional solutions. Perhaps they try the church, but the church doesn’t seem to have answers, so they look elsewhere. Maybe things would just be better if someone else was running their life. Maybe someone bigger than them can fix these seemingly insurmountable problems. They start looking up how to do magic online. How to summon demons, stuff like that. 
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When that doesn’t work out, they turn to the local goth girl for help. After all, they’ve done occult spells with Catti before…protection spells for Noelle; something to ease Kris’s worries so that Noelle doesn’t suffer from the same misfortune Dess did.
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One night, Kris asks Catti to perform a spell to summon a spirit. And surprisingly…something seems to happen. Kris is suddenly confronted with a strange figure who seems to be the devil. The figure says that it can bring Kris what they want: a spirit that can possess them and potentially even solve all their problems. But the figure requires something in exchange: their soul. Kris is at first reluctant, but the devil figure promises that the arrangement is only temporary: they’ll get their soul back when the spirit is no longer possessing them. So Kris agrees, and gives up their soul in exchange for another one. 
The deal supposedly goes over, but Kris finds that it doesn’t seem like anything has changed once the spell ends. They’ve gotten a new soul, but it doesn’t seem to do anything. If anything, everything becomes harder. They start operating on autopilot…saying very little, only doing what’s required of them, and sleeping for huge amounts of time. 
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The joke around town now is that they seem like a walking corpse. Sure, they’re not dead, but it often kind of looks like it.
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Maybe this spirit was just a total dud? Maybe that devil cheated them out of their own soul after all and they didn’t get anything in return. They try more than a few times to remove the new soul on their own, in the hopes that maybe taking it out by force will get them their own soul back. They find that they can remove the red soul with great effort! However, without it, they’re even slower and it’s even more difficult to move or act in any way. Removing it at least grants them a small degree of agency, and it seems to prove that their own soul is definitely around somewhere, because they’re still alive. But they can’t go for too long without putting the new red soul back in, because moving without it is such a strain.
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Meanwhile, Kris’s request for something to possess them has worked, just not in an obvious way. The player experiences the passage of time very differently than the game characters they’re playing as, after all. To the player, they’ve suddenly gotten an invitation from an unknown character that they suspect they recognize from another game they’ve played. They don’t know what the invitation is for, but they’re more than ready to find out, even if it means downloading an unknown and potentially shady “survey program.”
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Conveniently enough, this invitation and download become available on Halloween. A bit of an odd day to choose if you want a lot of people to download and play your game right away, since it’s a major holiday and most people already have plans. However…Halloween is a great time to summon a demon.
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And to Kris, they wake up one morning exactly a week before their brother is scheduled to return home for a visit, and suddenly find that something else is moving their body for them. That new soul wasn’t a dud after all.
No time to even get really used to suddenly being physically possessed, as Kris and that school bully they admire just go to pick up some missing school supplies and get swept up into a strange place that Kris feels might be distinctly familiar. Once there, they meet someone else who, strangely, already knows who they are: Ralsei.
While Kris has been shambling around town with their player soul not in use, their own soul still needs to be kept in good condition. You can’t just leave a human soul out on its own for a long period of time. It at least needs some kind of container…a vessel. And the devil figure works out a perfect vessel for it…an object close to Kris, that they have a lot of sentimental value around. Something that symbolizes their desire to fit in with their family, and be just like their brother. Kris might have given it to the figure willingly, or it might have been taken without their knowledge, but the result is the same. 
But hey…why not make things even more interesting? A dark fountain can bring objects to life in their own dark world. What happens if you were to take an object currently carrying a human soul, and bring it to life with a dark fountain? What would it look like if Kris’s soul, filtered through an object that symbolizes their desire to be just like their beloved brother, was given its own form and identity?
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You get Ralsei. A “lonely prince” who looks an awful lot like Asriel, but seems to more closely match Kris’s age and stature. He seems to be more like a remixed version of Asriel than identical to him. He already knows who Kris and Susie are, and he knows where things are located in the light world…because Kris knows all that. 
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He’s able to travel between different dark worlds without being affected by them the way other Darkners are, because he carries a Lightner’s soul. 
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While it’s unclear if he is talking directly to the player, just to Kris, or to both, he is at least aware of an entity distinct from Kris, since he names the castle town after the player. It would certainly make sense for him to be aware of the player’s presence and influence because he was a part of that whole exchange between souls in the first place. There’s even implications that Ralsei is, perhaps, communicating with Kris in ways that don’t involve speaking aloud to them. When asking Kris to pick up the items from the classroom, he uses parentheses, which typically seem to indicate a character’s thoughts rather than dialogue.
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Since the player is able to read other characters’ thoughts, Kris can even respond to them if no one is speaking.
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If parentheses for Ralsei indicate thinking rather than speaking, he is perhaps aware of how to communicate with Kris and/or the player in ways that other characters won’t hear…or perhaps is only even capable of it at all because he has Kris’s soul.
He is always deferring to Kris, even when Kris makes questionable choices. While he’s eager for friends, he seems desperate for Kris’s approval in particular, and takes great pains to not upset them…or allow other things to upset them. He seems to be confident in who Kris is, but struggles more with his own identity.
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For Kris, seeing their own wish to be like their brother come to life, and then to have the spirit possessing them keep directing them to hug him…well, it’s kind of awkward. 
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Just to speculate on the future, if it is true that Ralsei has Kris’s soul, this has the potential for some serious drama, and even setting Ralsei up as an antagonist without him being generically “evil.” Ralsei hasn’t had contact with anyone before meeting Susie and Kris. However, as they go on adventures together, he’s meeting lots of new people and gaining new perspectives. He’s steadily growing more independent from Kris, and establishing his own identity apart from them. What happens if Ralsei comes to the conclusion that Kris was right to trade him away all along…that not only does Kris not need him, but that he’s just fine without Kris? That he, perhaps, prefers being Ralsei to being Kris’s discarded soul?
Considering the player can’t keep playing the game forever, and Kris really can’t be left the rest of their life with a nonfunctional soul that leaves them on eternal autopilot, they’ll have to get their own soul back eventually. And after several chapters of the player themselves getting really attached to sweet and friendly Ralsei, that opens up the potential for some truly heartwrenching conflict. 
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Pokémon x Sagau
I've been in a real Pokémon mood lately, and I really liked how my SMT x Sagau post turned out, particularly how it set up a story while not being a prologue or first chapter so I thought I'd try that again here.
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• Today started as any other for you. You were departing Liyue to make your way to Mondstadt. While the residents were upset you were leaving, they understood it was part of your duties.
• Halfway to the city, you were greeted by the sight of knights. This wasn't out of the ordinary, but something was off. One of the knights had just arrived from a battle to aquire your aid, and apologized profusely for bothering you with something before you could even reach the city.
• You told him not to apologize and that you understood this must be an emergency for them not to report this to Jean, but rather come straight to you. After calming them down, you ask them to lead you to where this battle took place and explain on the way there, to which they respond with a firm nod.
• They explain that a strange blizzard had started in Dragonspine. Lisa and Albedo had already confirmed this blizzard to not be magical, yet it wasn't natural either, so many theories were being thrown around until Eula came barging in with Amber in her arms. The Outrider's arm was frozen from shielding Eula. In a fit of rage, the Spindrift knight attempted to attack, but everything she threw at it bounced right off. She had tried to tell the knights not to fight it, but they wouldn't listen, either being too hot-headed or too proud to believe that a beast could defeat them. Only a handful of the knights who went escaped injury and returned to base to await orders, while the others are in the infirmary.
• You reach the knights of Favonius HQ and investigate the injured, coming to the conclusion that they'd be fine, but that they would need about a week to a month of rest depending on the severity of the injury. You then demand to be taken to where the beast was spotted. While many protested, they immediately ceased when you glared at them.
• You decided to bring Venti, Noelle, Razor, and Diluc. You thought to make use of Venti's wind and Diluc's fire to protect the group from both the blizzard .and Dragonspine's environment, while Noelle could both heal and defend, and if you're dealing with a beast, it helps to have someone who understands how they behave.
• When you arrive at your destination, you find.... nothing. You look around confused before the ground beneath you starts to shake and split apart. Everyone quickly gets away from the area as the beast bursts from the ground, revealing a face you immediately recognize. Mamoswine.
• You order almost everyone to attack but not to kill the creature. They were confused but obliged, Razor sitting back by a lit torch as you explained Mamoswine are immune to lightning.
• When the battle ended, the Mamoswine was struggling to stand. You began to approach, everyone calling out to you telling you not to get close, but you didn't listen. When you got close enough, you could finally see them well enough to recognize them as female, but you also saw that she was trembling and had a pink ribbon on her tusk. The poor girl was not only scared and confused in a new world but was also separated from her trainer.
• You reached out your hand and rubbed her head. This caused her to relax, allowing herself to collapse and breathe gently before she began to whine. You speak to her gently, telling her it's okay and other things to make her feel better.
• You tell the others to keep an eye on her while you make a quick call. They are confused about who you're calling, but do as they are told. Razor can't help but smile at how well you understand animals.
• In a matter of minutes, a golden figure appeared and after a while made a motion towards the Mamoswine, causing her to disappear. The golden figure apologized to the Teyvat residents and explained how this happened. After the fiend Cyrus gained control of Palkia and Dialga, space-time distortions began forming all over the world. The being who introduced himself as Arceus then explained how this occurrence may be far from the last, to which you respond with asking him to bring a being named Uxie here. Arceus grants your wish, and knowing what you plan to do, leaves a piece of himself behind. Before he leaves he states that any Pokémon caught may be kept, but you state any trainer owned Pokémon must be returned to their home world, explaining that said Pokémon can't be caught in pokéballs.
• Thus begins the mission of this world's trainers, capture Pokémon, complete the pokédex, and subdue and return any and all lost Pokémon.
• You were capable enough to teach everyone the basics of catching and battling, but Uxie was the one who taught the art of crafting pokéballs to those dexterous enough to handle all those tiny parts.
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This got much longer than I intended and I still didn't write everything I wanted to, so there will definitely be a part two to this, mostly pertaining to the roles everyone would play, but also with how teaching everyone goes
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The Beef Stroganoff Song! (arbitrary subtitle discourse edition)
So, you may have noticed here that the subtitles in this clip (from Symphogear GX episode 3) are fairly different from what you're used to seeing when people post this video, and the phrasing in the subtitles is fairly different from what the associated memes often say
For those who don't know, Symphogear got itself released on blu-ray by Discotek, and with that came with a new translation authored by Noelle (@ulsairi on twitter ) who is notable for being the only trans lesbian anime translator I know of off the top of my head.
Her translation appears, in my opinion, really rather polished and very good, and I strongly appreciate the way it's written and how much character it adds to the dialogue by giving everyone distinct voices and adapting things into more natural English. It's also a fair bit gayer. I haven't encountered many people who've seen these subs, but I think most fans of the series would consider these a net positive change. There are some people who are mad about these subtitles, and they can die mad.
Anyway, let's talk about the different phrasing of the beef stroganoff song. I'm mostly going to compare to Crunchyroll's subtitles for reference since that seems to be what most others go off of. Here's a link to that version.
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So right off the bat we can see here that while CR's translation appears to be a lot more, for lack of a better word, functional, Noelle's translation tries to apply more dialectal force "it's beef stroganoff/Yes! It's THAT beef stroganoff!" And generally communicate through the tone how excited the girls are to get started. Additionally you'll see throughout that the latter is a fair bit more lyrical, there's a lot more punctuation and verbal tics and filler phrases written into the dialogue to express that they are singing, which makes sense since Japanese tends to omit a lot of the sorts of prepositions that Noelle threw in here,
Like, Yumi (yes I went and looked up her name on the wiki) just says "beef stroganoffu" because it's obvious from context that it is beef stroganoff, she doesn't need to spell it out, at least, not in Japanese
(We know like maybe ten hiragana and 1 kanji do not trust us on Japanese this is all just basic shit we learned from online guides)
So this probably leads to a rushed translator from Crunchyroll (they are notoriously crunched for time) who's just trying to Get It Done probably not really bothering to throw in extra additional connecting letters to express the tone of the character, only doing so when it's required to make basic grammatical sense in the target language. So they likely didn't think to make the subtitles have flourishes like this that aren't explicitly in the original Japanese. Noelle meanwhile had the time to consider things like this and take such liberties in order to attempt to convey the same tone that was arguably implied by the Japanese, even if not explicitly put forth
And that's about all the things I should not repeat I guess, TL;DR, these subtitles are more fun to read because the translator had more time to think about the best way to make them more fun while still being accurate to the spirit of the original dialogue, who'd have thought!
(In case you're wondering, the Commie subtitles say kind of the same thing here, and y'know, it doesn't seem like a wrong translation, but also I really dislike this subtitle styling, orange on pink with that font and that drop shadow is just kinda bad. I appreciate the effort but like. Come on. Please fansubbers, please think about if the font and colors you chose actually work with the image you're putting them on)
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Moving on!
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horizontal and middle rhyme with each other so you can almost actually sing this, actually let me take a moment to try it right now- never mind, I can't sing. Hahaha. I don't actually think it lines up that well with the melody But I thought it did! Didn't I? That's significant, that this actually reads like plausible lyrics to a silly song someone made up instead of a literal translation of a Japanese song
Anyway, here comes the first major difference!
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So in the Crunchyroll subtitles, Yumi says "it doesn't have to be beef" which in English (in my estimation) sounds a tad scatterbrained, like, "oh yeah sure beef but whatever really it doesn't actually matter," while Noelle's subtitles rather say "Got no beef? Don't you worry!" Which implies something different.
"It is recommended to use beef, but you may substitute something else if you are sorely lacking in beef" as opposed to "Oh the beef doesn't actually matter, zoinks lol!" CR's translation is kind of a bit funnier in how it sorta comes from nowhere without this qualification, which probably lead to this phrase's memeticness, but Noelle's translation seems more reasonable to me so yeah again, tada, yay for sensicalness.
Now here's another interesting change:
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Again, the flat manner in which the CR subtitles say "finish with salt" with rendezvous only being included because that's literally what they said, is sort of absent any stronger emotional implication,
Noelle's translation meanwhile going with "don't forget them, they need it" imparts personhood upon the salt and pepper. The implication being that the girls are saying, "the salt and pepper are in love, please reunite them, they must be in gay love together." Or maybe you think the salt and pepper cannot be forgotten and must be reunited because they are Only Friends.
Whether you choose to believe that this is the salt and pepper getting married, or merely subtext, or an interpretation, or salt and pepper shipping bait, this is a deeply important tonal indicator because it reminds you that these girls are ultimately playing with their food!
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"And there, now you're in for a treat!" I don't think I need to explain this one.
Now, here's an interesting one!
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In the Crunchyroll subtitles, it just says the memetic "boys don't know this." With no context, no elaboration, no clarity, no qualifiers. Boys don't know. Did the boys magically get their brains wiped? Are the boys biologically incapable? Who knows. Nothing is said but that.
Noelle's subtitles, on the other hand, qualify this statement by saying "Boys aren't taught to cook, so they may not know" (And note again how, it says "kno-ow" to emphasize, once more, that they're singing, and also this lines up with the long "ooooo" sound they make at the end of this lyric, so cool)
There is now context! Boys aren't taught to cook! Anime and Japan's culture in general still pigeonholes people into gender roles! And an anime translator just wrote you a hidden translation note about it! You might be a boy, you might know how to cook, but certain boys in another part of the world aren't traditionally taught cooking, so they may not know
They may not, but they could!
Trust a trans person to express gender facts with subtle nuances like this in anime translations.
And with that lovely bit of good translation and good writing and good localization of a thing to make it make sense to people
Mew!
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Worm Arc 17 thoughts:
Travelers backstory!!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!
HOLY SHIT THEY ARE FROM EARTH ALEPH! That really explains the mysterious nature of their backstory up to now.
Would have loved to get some PoV's from some people who aren't Trickster but I'll live.
He's just such an asshole! Like I already knew he was but god DAMN did this arc remove any doubt.
Just the worst type of asshole that can be found in MOBA games (I say this as someone who played MOBA games for years). And then given superpowers. Ugh.
THE SIMURGH FUCKING HELL OH MY GOD I LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!
SHE IS MY FAVORITE ENDBRINGER AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS EVEN IF SHE IS SUPER DUPER EVIL AND TERRIBLE! BUT SHE JUST SINGS IN EVERYONE'S HEADS AND THEY SEE THINGS THAT SHE WANTS THEM TO SEE AND SHE SEES THE FUTURE AND CREATES A CAUSE AND EFFECT PLAGUE BASICALLY AND I LOVE HER!!
Just the level of planning ahead she does, the number of moves ahead Simmy is playing. After the first few times she shows up they start quarantining where she attacks. Which ends up being exactly the right situation needed to push the Travelers to the choices she wanted them to make. Like, is quarantining even a counter to the Smurph or is it exactly what she wanted?
Sure precogs mess with precogs. That makes sense. But I don't know that it is as clear cut as Coil presented to Trickster. He implies two precogs just cancel each other out, but I assume it's more of a strength thing - a strong precog will cancel out a weak precog, but a weak precog will only make things a little fuzzier for a strong precog. So having Dinah would have helped against the Simurgh but I don't think it would be enough to just cancel out the Simurgh's power. Coil and Tattletale would probably also help. But I'm not convinced the last few months in Brockton Bay hasn't been more or less what Simmy wanted to happen.
Cody is the only person here that is probably more of an asshole than Krouse. Just could not get over the fact that Noelle didn't want to date him. Unbearably entitled dick. Possibly dead now, if Accord got his way. But very possibly not. Won't be surprised if he shows up again.
Cody's power is fun. I think it's the first "time travel" power I've seen. I mean Clockblocker does time freezing which is basically the same category but still, curious to see if we get any more level of time travel than this.
Marissa needs someone to make her some cookies and give her a place to hang out that isn't the house her mom lives in. I mean, I guess the current situation handles that but not how I meant.
I already liked Jess and now I like her even more. She's a cape geek! Wonderful.
Luke is interesting cause he was the only person besides Noelle who was close to Krouse at the start, but he's the first (well, aside from Cody I guess) to leave him. Really went through a character arc. Also Krouse lists Luke's "individual tragedy" as "not getting to fly" which is hysterical.
Oliver is a trans girl. Headcanon 100% established. It just fits so well. She just needs to find herself! And once she does and realizes what she actually wants to look like her power will get her there and won't need to keep adjusting! Right now Oliver's power is doing performative masculinity for them.
Noelle has had a bad time. God damn. She was having a bad time before everything happened and now she's having a very bad time. Damn. I had some guesses about her correct. Figured she was like, monstrous bottom half and normal top half. And figured touching her was bad. But I didn't foresee "touching her creates mutated evil clones". I'm sure that won't be a major problem in the next arc or two. I'm sure there won't be evil mutated clones of a bunch of capes to deal with . . .
I had long figured Travelers had Cauldron powers. It just fit with their power levels and such. I had also figured whatever Noelle's condition was, it was related to having a Cauldron power. I had a lot of guesses. None of them were "only drinks half a vial". For some reason I thought everyone would be too smart to do THAT! (I have no idea why I thought that.)
Current guess is Noelle is sort of in a never ending "trigger" event. Her power is constantly in the "building and gathering" phase and is not reaching the "lock things down" phase that normally happens (Bonesaw talked about this). Definitely a lot of other things it could be, this is just the best fit I've found so far.
This goes for Oliver too, which is why their power keeps changing how they look. Oliver just got lucky and has much less significant troubles compared to Noelle.
Got to see lots of new Case 53's. That was fun.
I expect to see more of Accord in the future. Just cause like, he gets smarter the more complex the problem. And the world is supposedly going to end due to (I think) the actions of higher dimensional entities. That is a very complex problem. And at the same time, he seems like the kind of person that might see "billions die" as a good way to reduce chaos. To simplify the world. Not saying that is what he will do, just that it seems a shame to not bring him up again.
I knew 40 people had died due to actions of the Travelers. I did not know Noelle had eaten them all! Because she tried to starve herself. I can see why it's important to keep her well fed. And why it's going to be an issue that there is no longer someone providing her with thousands of dollars of meat a week. No waste though, she has a very efficient digestive system.
The ending, with Trickster just staring at the bloodstain left behind by Coil's body while Genesis stares out at the ocean ... very good. I mean, really sucks for them, but it was a very evocative arc ending.
I wonder who won the Ransack tournament? One team disconnected because the building they were in disappeared into a space hole. I wonder what the rules are for that?
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Hiii can I ask for some fluffy (headcannons or fic your wish) with fuegoleon and nozel comforting an s/o who feels insecure about her body after giving birth?
Oh this is the kind of fluff I needed today, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I liked writing it! ^^
Pairing: Fuegoleon x f!reader, Nozel x f!reader Genre: hurt-comfort/fluff (?) Fanfic type: Headcanons Total length: ~1.4k Warnings: theme of self-esteem and body image issues, mentions of pregnancy and giving birth, the guys comfort the reader
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Fuegoleon
All throughout your pregnancy, your body had been changing, and it was self-evident to him. And never did the changes mean that he would have grown to think that you were any less beautiful or desirable to him.
You were, always were, his beautiful wife.
And… you had given the gift of life to your kids.
Honestly, he was amazed about how… how could you do it. Of course because you’re strong, there was no doubt about that but it was just… so amazing that he couldn’t believe it.
He had no words, for how beautiful it was; you giving birth to your child.
The next few weeks went in a haze, because the baby required all your attention. And your stomach would grow smaller little by little, closer to the size that it was originally.
But… as the weeks went by, it became evident that some of the changes in your body were here to stay. Stretchmarks, saggy boobs… The mum tum.
Of course you weren’t supposed to ‘just look sexy for your husband’, or feel ashamed that you weren’t, in your own opinion, looking sexy for him. But it was a confidence thing. If you didn’t think that you looked good, or desirable, why would he think that you looked like either of those things.
He noticed that something was wrong. Of course he did. Because you spent a while longer next to the mirror regularly while getting dressed, but your weren’t smiling. It wasn’t the same kind of look you had in your eyes as before. But the moment you heard the baby cry you’d awake from the daze as if nothing had happened.
So, when the moment was good, he sat down and asked you about it. He asked you about the look, the way you looked at yourself, the way you held your head a little less high than before.
And you told him. Of course you told him. After all, he was your husband, your rock, and he had seen it. There was no point in lying and telling him that you were alright.
He held his arm around your shoulder and let you speak, let out all the emotions that you had born inside of you as his thumb rubbed up and down against your skin.
When the tears started rolling down, he pulled you into his embrace with both arms and pressed your head against his chest.
“You are beautiful”, was the first thing he said to you to assure your feelings of insecurity. “And I love you, my beloved.” He continued, feeling like it was the next thing he needed to tell you. “We knew that changes would happen in your body, which are only natural. And I promise to be there for you and assure you about how lovely and gorgeous you are with those changes.”
You loved the fact that he said ‘we’. Because you were in it together. But never did he forget to say that he’d be there to love and support you no matter what.
You supposed it was along the ‘grow old together’, which would also include changes in the both of you.
Throughout the moment he continued to hold you; embrace you. He placed a kiss onto your temple and told you that it’d be alright.
He really did love you. And that was what you wished for, to be cherished, desirable on all aspects, but mostly as who you really were.
And he did.
Nozel
Nozel had know that there would be different changed into your body as your pregnancy would progress. Afterall, he still remembered to an extent how it was with his mom when she was expecting Noelle.
But still there was something quite unexpected to how much your body changed. It wasn’t a bad change by any means, and for the most part, he both did and didn’t notice them. Of course he noticed your belly growing and your body becoming more plump so that it could nurture the baby growing inside of you, but he was too immersed in the actual idea of you two having a child soon.
When you went into labour, and were in the middle of the delivery, all he could think about was you being alright and well after the delivery. It worried him to the point of nausea, because he didn’t want to lose either of you.
 And… when the baby was born, it was one of the happiest days in his life. The happiest day in his life. He considered having been more happy the day he married you, because it made this day possible too, but he wasn’t sure.
His mind was everywhere else except on the changes in your body. Not even when your stomach started getting smaller and your body started settling down to what it’d be for the next period of your life, granted that breastfeeding would also have an impact. He didn’t bare mind to the changes.
But you did… Especially now that you were starting to get well enough to appear in public. The events that you were expected to attend because people wanted to see the royal baby.
The clothes you owned didn’t seem to fit anymore. Not as nicely at least. And it made you painfully aware again about the doubts you held in your mind for him, for Nozel, finding you attractive still.
Of course it was unreasonable to think that you’d have the same body as you did back in the day, but … you wanted to look nice. And not just look nice for your husband. The point was to feel confident and attractive for yourself. But also it’d be nice if your husband found you attractive too…
When the day came that you were supposed to attend an event as a new mother, you spent hours upon hours in front of the mirror trying on different outfits, but nothing did the part anymore. Nothing suited you anymore and all the self-doubt and frustration begun boiling up inside of you up to the point where you had just tossed all of the garments onto the floor and sat onto the bed, burying your face into your hands while fighting back tears.
And… when Nozel walked into the room, in the middle of the sea of fabric, his first thought was if he had failed to perform his part. If he had failed to do something, say something… be something…
But still, he sat onto the bed, next to you, and asked what was wrong. The question was clumsy and stiff, but it was genuine.
However, when you started talking your body image and how everything, even in your own body, seemed to change so quickly and how nothing seemed to fit you anymore and… quite frankly, how you didn’t feel attractive anymore, or that he’d desire you anymore.
Which… seemed … unbelievable to him. Surely there had been changes happening in your body, but he, if anyone, knew that a woman’s life doesn’t end when she has kids. Acier was more than fit for battle after 3 children, and would have been just as fit after 4 if not… the curse.
The issue of self-image was different from being battle ready though… but it… But to him, it was all tied to you not being any… ‘worse’ than before having children. You were just as wonderful and attractive to him.
“You’re not…” he begun but swallowed the words. “I don’t… know how you do it… Our child is… healthy and you brought them to us…and… You think you’re not… attractive, anymore?” You could hear the disbelief in his tone, in his very being.
You could only nod as a reply, and he pulled you closer. Wrapped his arms around you and swallowed again.
“I’m… sorry for… not making sure that you feel just as beautiful as you are,” he whispered against your ear. Because that was how he felt. “You are as beautiful as the day we married,” he continued. “And you will be, always.”
And the way he held you, full of adoration and affection, up until the baby started fussing.
Because he was a good father, and spouse, who wanted nothing but the best for his lovely, beautiful family.
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Kaeya Alberich:
-lives in a place where some of the things he HAS to do both as a protector of his nation and a literal adult (setting boundaries around his work and life, having to use more force than usual, swallowing his feelings to carry out certain missions, bruising someone's ego, etc) are considered "mean" and unfathomable by far too many of the people, including those in influential positions
-people love casually throwing around how much they think he lies and cheats even when he's literally right there (tbh this was why the Venti branch of Kaeya's hangout was the most difficult for me to get through even if I did end up enjoying it), and the only times I've seen anyone directly defend him when it happens was while talking to Noelle and Adelinde (while Jean has a lot of nice moments telling the Traveler how much of a diligent knight Kaeya is, she hasn't really been in the room whenever people actually talk shit about him - which is more of a writing issue than a character one)
-doesn't want a prize for being kind even beyond basic decency in a place where "good people" get placed on some super high pedestal (which is not only a terrible idea IFKYK, but there's many examples of Mondstadt characters doing that with negative consequences involved so...)
-the main character and their companion, who are treated as the pinnacle of goodness and morals (TM), not only get away with some really crappy behavior that most adults irl will get angrier than Kaeya over (seriously he’s actually incredibly patient and nice for what he has to deal with) but more or less get the entire town to trust them almost overnight while it takes much longer for Kaeya to build any rapport with them (and for good reason - his heart isn’t made of ice to be melted, it’s a locked safe because of past trauma and someone who's had a history of being weird about him isn't just going to be handed the key)
-Is the only person in Mondstadt who regularly gets criticized by just about everyone, including those he loves (which isn't a bad thing in of itself - the problem is when everyone does this and then turns around and treats people other than Kaeya like they can do no wrong - and Kaeya's not dumb, he'll notice the discrepancies and they'll affect the way he thinks) and doesn't have a guaranteed adult friend or yes-man like every other character does (even Eula has Amber and later expands her social circle, Diluc has the winery staff and the knights' response to his dismissive attitude is to try and win his favor back by working even harder [Jean's quotes about him], and Benny has people who notice his humanity beyond his bad luck, like Razor). The local kids have a lot of nice things to say about Kaeya, but he purposefully hides parts of himself from them to avoid ruining their childhoods. And the rest of the town admires him, but again, it's accompanied by how they think he's some mysterious force of nature and not necessarily someone with feelings. Speaking of...
-he has a side of himself that might be life-threatening if he reveals it to anyone (and the four or so people who do know have said that they're skeptical of him right in front of him). Here's something else that screws with that: everyone in Mondstadt isn't honest about something, and it's usually something like "I don't actually know what to do right now", "I don't always like my job", “Noelle isn’t ready to become a knight until she takes it easy” or other things on that level. I want to ask this: if things like those, things that should be communicated as soon as possible to avoid actual conflict, aren't said by everyone around Kaeya because they might “disturb the peace”...how the hell do you expect someone carrying heavier secrets to feel normal or okay about his burdens? And not feel ridiculous about telling them, especially after what happened the last time he did tell someone?
Also Kaeya: *doesn't believe any of the people involved in the above when they call him a good person*
...yeah. I wonder why. And to top it all off, Kaeya spent a lot of time in such an environment, a huge part of it completely alone starting from his late teens. This part of Kaeya gets treated as the butt of a lot of memes and segues into dark lore, but as someone who's been there...it’s pretty understandable stuff. And it makes me feel for Kaeya a lot.
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facelessoldgargoyle · 8 months
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ok so I started reading worm this week and it blows my mind that apparently wildbow is a fuckin lib, because this seems like such a screed against centralized authority. For context, I have read through arc 20, through the end of arc with the Echidna fight.
So much of the story is driven by the abusive nature of state power, starting small and getting bigger. Taylor is bullied by a group of girls, and the school chooses to not take it seriously. She’s imprisoned and her injuries ignored by an emergency room because they view her as a legal liability. High-ranking members of the Protectorate allows class-s threats to flourish in an attempt to either gain glory or kill Taylor and her friends, trusting that their legitimacy will means that their version of events will be believed. The triumvirate has been in control of a company running human trials that have destroyed lives in order to consolidate their power.
Instead, the people who are outside of the system are the ones who make the general public’s lives safer and happier. It feels like an out-and-out endorsement of anarchism’s position against state authority and for general and freely given cooperation. The Undersiders frequently operate by consensus, not agreeing to make a move until everyone’s on board, or at least satisfied. Taylor’s territory is far from anarchism, especially with her hard stance against drugs. But she operates by making allies and accruing loyalty, and she allows people to move in or move out as they please. It all feels like it’s gesturing towards a different, more egalitarian system than the protectorate and the government has in place.
And then at the end of the Noelle arc, Alexandria makes this speech about how everyone there who has learned of this massive betrayal has to keep it secret in order to preserve the protectorate’s power. She argues that (a) the protectorate allows normals to tolerate parahumans, (b) that it allows supplies to be distributed, (c) that teams would dissolve without it, (d) it would bring greater scrutiny on parahumans and (e) that it provides unity when fighting the endbringers. And Taylor steps forward and agrees with her!
It’s such a naked power grab on Alexandria’s part and such a failure of imagination on wildbow’s part. (e) The leviathan attack showed that everyone with powers will spontaneously unite to fight together. (a) Legend pointed out during the prep for the fight that the endbringers are the reason parahumans are embraced in society. (c) The teams employed by the protectorate might dissolve, but parahumans feel compelled to use their powers and would reform teams. (d) Based on all of the evidence, it seems like the protectorate needs scrutiny like the catholic church need scrutiny. That is, desperately. (b) ok sure. supplies is always easier to distribute with a centralized organization. that’s not an argument for maintaining the PRT as it exists though. get superhero UPS together.
In the speech, Alexandria is appealing to the crowds fear of losing their legitimacy, and that’s powerful. I get why wildbow believes this. I just think he’s wrong, and I think the world he wrote could have supported a different choice.
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Lulu
December 15, 2023
Some people said that Lulu was going to be late and be born on the 24th like the Christmas present she was. And because there was a bet that her middle name would be Noelle if it was. Charlie said that she'd be a good swiftie like her Mama and come on the 13th to share a birthday with the queen herself. But Blake was the one who came closest, saying she'd ruin everyone's bets on one column of the "Dan and Em are having a baby" betting pool by coming whenever she wanted. And in true Ricciardo fashion, Luna Grace appeared the one day that nobody had bet on.
It was the same as every night since Dan had gotten back from Abu Dhabi, Em cuddling against her husband while he rubbed her sore lower back. They knew they were into the last few nights as just two of them instead of three and they took advantage of it. Everything seemed as normal as Em thought it was, a low ache coming and going in her back. Her body was sore and out of room. Lulu needed to get ready to leave because her mum felt like she was about to burst before her due date arrived in five days.
But even with her discomfort things were good. They were really good. Charlie and Blake were in their own little engaged couple world after Blake's proposal on their anniversary. Their family was healthy and Dan could close his little finger fully now. He was happy and excited about going back to work in January with Red Bull and being back in the senior team. And Em was happier than she thought she could be.
Her head was in a good place, Mildred helping her prepare to be a mother and have her daughter. Mentally she was better than she'd been in most of her life. And she'd never admit it to Dan, probably never to anyone, but finding out that Michael wasn't going to be in the paddock next year gave her an extra peace of mind. So of course, just as she was starting to drift off to sleep, Lulu decided she was making her appearance.
Dan knew that people thought he was insane for not being scared to drive some of the fastest cars in the world for a living, or go dirt biking or mountain biking along forest trails. He was an adrenaline lover who enjoyed getting scared at least once a month. Even when Em asked him to not scare her. But the moment she looked up at him with big eyes and said she was in labour Dan could feel the panic creeping in.
He'd thought that Blake and Charlie staying with them until Em gave birth was insane. That they didn't need them there, as appreciative as they were. But Blake had insisted that Dan would freak the fuck out when it happened and he didn't want Dan driving Em to hospital alone. He'd insisted he was fine and didn't need it. But then when it happened he was so grateful that they were there. He just helped Em out, holding her hand as contractions happened and did whatever she needed to feel safe until they made it to the hospital.
From the first time he'd met her Dan knew Emmy was a force of nature. He'd known about the inner strength she had, but seeing her that early morning as she gritted her teeth and pushed was something he could never describe. He couldn't find the words to explain how it felt to watch her bringing their daughter into the world. After everything they'd been through together and on their own, after the year before putting herself together following her breakdown and making herself get better. She went through hell and crawled her way back and stopped Dan from drowning in his own emotions. She did all of that. She carried their daughter and kept her safe even when their plans for the year got turned upside down and they went back to travelling the world. Emmy did it with grace and poise and beauty, making it look easy when Dan knew it wasn't.
She said she was fine when he knew she was sore and wanted to take a deep breath and not need to pee every two minutes. Dan knew better than anyone how terrified she was. Her fear about not being a good mum. In the dark of night curled up against him admitting her fears about not being physically able to push their daughter out of her body and into the world. Admitting that yeah, she was scared about how it would hurt and she wasn't afraid to admit that she wanted an epidural as soon as it was possible. And even during all of that, she made it look easy, filling Dan with pride for his wife. He held out his hand for her to push and she forced him around the other side of the bed because she was afraid to hurt his left hand. Because even when she was in labour she looked after him instead of it being the other way round.
That entire night felt like watching a video at double speed. It was intense and he was holding Em's hand and pulling her hair back from her face, but the second he heard their daughter cry it was like everything just stopped. In full Ricciardo spirit Lulu entered the word with a loud cry to announce herself. It echoed around the room, bouncing around his ears and landing into his heart because that was his daughter and she was right there.
There was a list of things that Dan would never forget even if he tried. The first two were the most important moments of his relationship with Em. Seeing his Emmy for the first time was number one, arriving at Blake's with a shy smile and a bottle of wine in her hand, sitting next to him in her little black dress with long brown hair running down her back. Secondly was arriving home in Monaco to see her sandwiched between his parents. How she was too skinny and too pale and had clearly been crying but she was there and even with all the changes to both of them she still fit into his arms. The way he held onto her like she'd disintegrate and she grabbed him too.
After that were smaller moments that were no less important. When he saw her on their wedding days, her gorgeous dresses and shy smiles and the way she said "I do" without hesitation or fear. The first time he saw her holding Isaac or Isabella. They day on the couch in Perth when she fell asleep in his arms with Isaac against her chest and his head screamed love her love her love her love her. The look on her face when the pregnancy test came back positive in LA, that she really was pregnant.
The list could have gone on forever, but now sliding in straight at number one was the first time he laid eyes on his daughter. The night had felt like minutes instead of hours, but in the early dawn light Luna was born and time slowed down. His Emmy was a mum and everyone could know. The world could know that she was one and he was so fucking happy about it. After all the tears and pain and sadness and worry it was replaced by pure peace. His Emmy was a mum.
It was surreal to watch Em sit up in the bed with the help of pillows and take her daughter in her arms. It was like they were meant to be there and he was just the lucky man who got to love both of them as hard as he could. He was the one they chose because he was completely and utterly theirs. It was magical. Everything he'd done before wasn't as important because now she was there and he got to spend his life loving the two girls sitting on the bed in front of him. The tiny human in the lavender blanket and hat that her Mama had made for her over the last few weeks was going to grow up in front of him and he couldn't wait to see who she became.
One of the other bets that almost everyone put money on was Lulu's weight and height. Everyone expected her to be small and take after Em, but they were all entirely wrong. She was beautiful and healthy with dark hair already peeking out from her tiny hat, but the nurse confirmed she was four and a bit kilos which made Dan smile, already longer than average. He didn't know how he loved her so much already but he did.
"Ready to hold her, Dad?" Em asked, his jaw dropping as he looked at his wife and his daughter.
"I'm her dad. Holy fuck I'm her dad and you're her mum." Emmy giggled at his words, holding her arms out for him to take that precious bundle into his own. She fit there perfectly and his world turned upside down in seconds as the gravity hit him. His daughter.
"Hey Lulu. I'm your dad. And we are so excited that you're here. Thanks for waiting for me to get home, Sweetheart."
In that moment he felt exactly the same way he did when he got to hold Em in his arms for the first time. He didn't want to let her go ever again. Something in him told him that this moment would change his life and it was exactly the same now.
"I love you so much, baby girl. So, so much. Welcome to the world." He pushed a kiss to her so soft cheek, cursing the tears that were welling up for blurring his view of her face. It was forever carved into his memory, tiny lips pursed.
If Dan thought that letting Em go when she was going back to Perth and he had to go to Australia was hard, he was wrong compared to giving his daughter to the midwife. She was still in the room, they could see and hear her, but she needed to be checked over by the nurse. It broke his heart for the few minutes, but instead he focused on Em and wiped away the happy tears she'd let out at seeing them. Her hair got re-braided to keep it out of her face and he told her just how proud he was of her. She was the strongest, most badass human he'd ever known and he couldn't believe how lucky he was to get to share a life with her. He kissed her face and thanked her, repeating words of love as his wife said them right back until their daughter was safely in their arms again.
He knew he needed to go tell his parents that Em and Lulu were safe and healthy but he couldn't leave them. It wasn't until they'd been brought back to the comfort of their little room that he was ok with leaving Em for a moment. It was a nod to the nurse on guard duty to stop strangers getting into the maternity ward as he went out to the waiting room. Blake and Charlie were sitting waiting beside his parents as the four stood up for news. Congratulations, hugs and tears met Dan as he told them that Luna Ricciardo was there safe and well, and Emmy was fine. Sore and she'd be tired, but fine.
Grace and Joe went down to get coffee for everyone in the early morning, promising to come back with whatever cheesy goodness they could find for Em. While they were gone Dan took uncle Blake and auntie Charlie to meet their baby niece. It was as quiet as possible entering the room to not disturb either a sleeping newborn or new mother, but Em smiled and said hi as they entered. The new adults came to give Em a hug and congratulations while Dan picked his daughter up from the bedside crib she'd been placed in. He supported her head in the crook of his elbow as he walked slowly over to their friends, introducing the newest member of their family.
"Ok Lu, these are some pretty important people so best behaviour, yeah? This is your auntie Charlie and your uncle Blake. They're two of the people you can rely on the most in the world, it's why we picked them to be your godparents. They're pretty special like you."
"Oh my God look at her. Guys, she's beautiful," Blake whispered as he held his arms out to take the baby. Lulu grasped his finger with her tiny hand while he settled her down. "Thank God she looks like you, Timmy. Pretty like her mum."
"Hey Lulu, you're so - wait. Repeat what you just said?" Charlie's gazze went straight from Lulu to Dan and Em as she took in what Dan had said. They hadn't told her she was going to be Lulu's godmother. Godfather was an easy choice, it was always going to be Blake and he'd known since he knew about the pregnancy, but it took months to decide who would be godmother. And in the end it was an easy decision. They'd only known her a year but Charlie had been a rock. They knew if anything happened she'd be there, and even if she didn't need to raise Lulu she'd be a friend and comfort and support. If anything happened to the two of them the papers were all written out, Blake and Charlie knew they'd raise Lulu. It was the perfect decision.
"I know you've a bunch of nieces and nephews and you're godmother to some of them, so I figured another one wouldn't be a problem?" Em forced herself to shrug, acting like it wasn't a big deal when in reality it meant everything to every single person in that room.
"Wanna hold her when your fiance stops hogging the baby?" Dan asked, looking straight at Charlie. His wife's best friend was wiping tears away while she stared at Lulu.
"Are you sure?" The unasked second part of "about making me her godmother" hung in the air.
"Hundred percent."
Dan watched his friends hold the newest love of her life while he put an arm around his wife's shoulders and waited for his parents to come back in. For the first time in almost three years things felt right.
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Kris and their Soul
Something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen discussed when analyzing Kris’ behavior in deltarune is that, when Kris removes their soul from their body, they gain full control of their body yes, but it might be at the expense of their compassion
What if, when Kris is soulless, we assume that they are similar to Flowey in Undertale. They are incapable of feeling (or find it extremely difficult to feel) compassion for others. The rules might work differently, but the soul is still referred to as “the font of our compassion” in Deltarune’s world (although in context this is just speculation, not a hard fact)
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That’s not to say Kris is a bad person, I think it’s the exact opposite. I think Kris is inherently good natured, but I think a lot of their more out there behavior might make more sense if you consider the idea that some of those decisions might have been made when they lacked their soul.
I think a good example is the intermission between Chapters 1 and 2
In between Chapters 1 and 2, Kris remorselessly eats the entire pie that Toriel left out to cool for them to share
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But then, not even ten seconds later, if you make Kris take five dollars out of Asriel’s dresser drawer, five dollars that have probably been sitting there for months and clearly doesn’t mean all that much, Kris feels so bad about it that the language makes explicit that they are reluctant to do this and intend to pay Asriel back
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But then, Kris later slashes the tires on Toriel’s car.
The key difference between these 3 actions though, is whether or not Kris is in possession of their soul
We don’t know why or how Kris knows what to do when they remove their soul, but a common theme is that the actions they take are actions that require a lack of compassion. Kris is not the kind of person who would slash their mother’s tires under normal circumstances, but if they are incapable of caring, that changes.
And I think this logic can apply to other strange things about Kris’ behavior.
My personal belief at current is that Kris, for some reason, has been living without a soul for a very long time. Maybe their entire life prior to Deltarune.
Noelle, despite being so close to Kris that they know each other better than anybody, repeatedly comments that she doesn’t even know if she and Kris are even friends.
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Kris has apparently never even said it out LOUD before
Without a soul, maybe Kris was just unable to understand why that would be important to mention. Maybe because of their lack of a soul, despite how close the two became, Kris could never truly connect with Noelle on an emotional level. They couldn’t FEEL for her, no matter how much they tried.
Kris is also repeatedly surprised whenever Susie assumes that they don’t like her.
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Kris is never scared of Susie’s threats, and might have just assumed they were playing around.
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Kris might have not even realized that Susie was trying to hurt them. If they’re the kind of person who has trouble feeling or understanding empathy (without their soul, I mean) Susie’s words might not have had any impact on them. They just. Didn’t understand. They COULDN’T understand.
At the end of chapter 2’s weird route, the thing that Noelle distinctly points out as the most abnormal thing about Kris’ behavior is that they keep visiting her dad in the hospital. Rudy himself is surprised that Kris came to visit him in the hospital.
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It’s not as if Kris never visits the hospital, they do, very often in fact, to play the shitty piano
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It is specifically going out of their way to see Rudy that’s strange. And I think it could be inferred that it’s strange for Kris to do this because that is an act of pure compassion.
Kris might just not have been able to understand why it would be important to visit Rudy in the hospital.
Before chapter 1, Kris seemingly doesn’t talk to anybody other than their mom, they don’t do much of anything except go to school and come back home, they don’t really have any friends, their side of the room is completely empty, not from neglect by their family but because Kris seemingly didn’t care to have anything at all.
A lot of people have wondered why Kris’ actions at the end of a normal and weird route are the same despite Kris clearly being horrified and afraid of the player’s actions, and I think the explanation is right there. They remove their soul before they take those actions. They have removed the part of themself that feels these things.
And I think Kris is slowly realizing that they don’t want to live this way anymore.
In Chapter 1, Kris is repeatedly described as looking bored, or like they don’t care. Their dialogue options are incredibly basic at best and distinctly annoyed sounding at worst. They give off the impression that they want all of this to be over as soon as possible.
But in Chapter 2, their responses are starting to become more playful, they’re becoming more personally expressive, they’re enjoying the time they’re spending with their friends.
And I don’t think Kris wants to have to choose between their compassion and their autonomy.
I think it’s important to remember that Flowey was initially so depressed from his inability to love or care about anybody that he tried to erase himself from the world.
I think this is one of the things that’s so scary for Kris. It’s not just about control, it’s about becoming whole again.
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Noelle and Chara Parallels
TW: Abuse, manipulation, murder, genocide, bad romance.
Noelle and Chara are interesting characters in similar situations of being manipulated into mass murder / thinking murder is okay. Quite a chilling concept! here are a few subtle parallels between them, plus bonus sections that gets a bit more speculative. Let's get right into it.
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1: Coming When Their Name Is Called
Chara states, after you do two genocide runs, that they are "the demon that comes when people call its name." That would suit their role in Undertale (endorsing the Narrachara theory) where they begin narrating for us shortly after we name the fallen human. And Noelle seems to come when she's called as well. In the Spamton Neo fight, we call for help from Ralsei and Susie, to no avail. (The game specifically says, "You called for help...but nobody came.") Then we whisper Noelle's name and Spamton is frozen by Noelle's Ice Shock.
Bonus: We don't see Noelle do this, just like how we don't see Chara come at the beginning of the game either. Interestingly, we're able to see Noelle as soon as we meet up with her and only at the end is she out of our vision. Meanwhile in Undertale, we don't see Chara at all until the end, when we finally meet them face to face. Additionally, we meet up with Noelle fairly soon after beginning the game, but she isn't there right away. Neither is Chara, who begins narrating for us only after the first Flowey fight.
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2: Being Angels
It's no secret about Noelle that she's surrounded by angelic themes. Spamton calls her "angel," she states on the Ferris wheel that she'd like to chuck herself off the Ferris wheel and "grow angel wings and fly away," and her outfit in the Dark World resembles an angel. Many have suggested she will be the Angel whose Heaven we, according to Ralsei's prophecy, have to banish. Meanwhile, Chara was one of the candidates for the role of "Angel" in Undertale's prophecy. Since they came from the Surface, many monsters would probably have expected Chara to be the angel who would free them. The Underground, as a storyteller states, was full of hope. Of course Chara failed at freeing monsterkind, and the prophecy angel turned out to be either Asriel or Frisk, depending on who you ask, or maybe it's the both of them. (That's a topic for another post.)
Bonus: What's really, really interesting is that there is so much evidence that Noelle will be the Angel, which makes me wonder if she really will be the Angel, or if the game will pull a 1'80 and it'll be Kris or Susie or something. Or maybe the role of Angel will be shared between a couple people, like it may or may not have been in Undertale--again it's not entirely clear on who the Angel is in Undertale. If she doesn't turn out to the Angel after all, then it would line up really nicely with Chara being someone that everybody thought was the angel but turned out to not be.
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3: Twisted Romance
This one is a bit more debatable based on how you interpret Chara's lines in Undertale.
In Deltarune, our language and actions suggest Noelle as a romantic partner. We buy her a ring and convince her to "get" a ring. We pressure her into riding the Ferris wheel with us. And when asked if she and Kris are friends, we refer to her as "something else." This adds a theme of twisted romance to an already horrifying dynamic.
A lot of people are just so freaked out by Chara's unnerving encounter to analyze the lines much, which is...definitely understandable to be honest. But you'll notice that Chara refers to us as their "partner," stating that you'll be together forever. Both Frisk (who we are/are possessing, which is, again, a subject for another post) and Chara are referred to with gender-neutral terms and pronouns. "Partner" is often used gender neutrally to describe a romantic partner. Chara also has pink cheeks, which could be interpreted as either blushing or just natural color to their cheeks. Frisk and Chara both also share a (potential, in Frisk's case) mother figure and father figure, plus they are literal children. If that's not twisted romance, I don't know what is.
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4: Getting Stronger
Chara states that together, you eradicated the enemy and became strong. This is how they refer to killing monsters. Meanwhile, Noelle refers to freezing Darkners as "getting stronger." Even the narration of this game states "Noelle became stronger."
In conclusion, both Chara and Noelle are manipulated into thinking murder is okay, have links to angelicism, may or may not be in a bad romance with the player character, and view killing as gaining strength, by the time we're done with them. Some of these are a bit shaky, but I'd say at least the first one is pretty definite.
Or at least that's my undertake, reverse salutations and have a nice day.
P.S. this is my first ever theory/analysis post so try to be gentle in constructive criticism, thank you T-T
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Hello Aine!~ I hope you're doing well for the past few days and weeks. Can I request for the BC boys (Nozel, Fuegoleon, Yami or maybe Julius) reacting to finding out that their daughter have a boyfriend? Just the thought of them finding out makes me laugh and giggle🤭 I really do hope you're doing well for the past few days and weeks. I love you and take care!~💖
AHA! the dreaded boyfriend! I love this request because YAY dad! requests!! Also bby I'm doing well, thank you!
awww ilysm too sweetie, I hope you're well and healthy and that you're still here to read this fic! ❤
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Characters: DAD! Nozel, Fuegoleon, Yami x f! reader d/n = daughter's name Bf/n = boyfriend’s name TW: Aged up characters, unchecked work
Nozel Silva
You thought about it before you decided whether you should break the news to your husband or to let your daughter tell him herself.
You decided not to break the sister's code with your daughter, so you waited until your daughter told her dad herself. Thankfully she chose a family dinner night where aunt Nebra and Noelle joined.
"soooo, I wanted to tell you guys a piece of news."
"Is it good news of bad news?" Nozel glanced at her daughter, while putting a piece of duck on her plate.
"Depends on how you look at it," she answered simply. You daughter was always smart since young, if you didn't know what she was about to announce, you would be anxious too.
"come on now, tell us!" Nebra teased.
"I'm seeing someone at the moment. It's been about half a year.."
Nozel chocked on the duck he was eating as Nebra and Noelle squealed in excitement. You stroked your husband on his back.
"are you ok, dad?" d/n pursed her lips.
"Who is he? How old is he?" Nozel had too many questions to ask.
Well, he was a pretty good boy, you saw him once or twice when he sent d/n home. D/n answered everything truthfully and calmly while her dad just sat there like a shocked statue.
"Calm down brother!" Nebra chided her brother, "
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"are you ok, love?" you giggled at him when you were both alone behind closed doors.
"Do you think she's too young for a boyfriend, honey?"
"Baby, she's 18. It's common for their age."
"did you date when you were 18?" your husband wouldn't give up without a fight.
"yes. I did. I dated many boys, by the way." You laughed at your husbands appalled expression. He huffed in defeat.
"He's a really nice boy, honey." you tried to console your husband.
"you've met him? why don't I know about this??" he stared at you.
"I met him once or twice when he sent d/n home," you rolled your eyes at him, earning a tch from your husband, "she wanted to break the news to you herself."
"she's been dating him 6 months!!"
"Love, calm down and just let nature take it's course~" you sauntered to your husband, "ahhh, young love, reminds me of us back in the days~"
Your giggles bounced off the walls of your shared room as you glanced at your husband with a sheepish grin on your face.
He couldn't help but smile back with a slight blush on his face.
Fuegoleon Vermillion
"dad. I got something I wanna tell you." The young lion cub told her dad one day while sparring with him.
"what is it, cupcake?" Although he was in his forties now, Fuego continued to look spry and fit.
"I'm dating someone."
"WHAT?" Fuego nearly missed the spear that was coming his way and he tumbled onto the ground.
"DAD!"
"Who is it?" his expression was sombre.
"Someone from the Silver Eagles! He's a really nice guy! I'll bring him for dinner one day?"
Throughout the training, the head of the Vermillion household could not concentrate. He ended up concluding the training session early and headed home.
D/n went to have dinner with her date, much to her father's dismay and the sulky Lion dragged his feet back home.
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"Hubby, what's wrong, you look like you've been through hell. I though you were training with d/n? She gave you a hard time?" you came over and stroked your husband's beautiful vermillion hair.
"honey, did you know that our daughter has a...." he found it hard to say it out loud, so he spat out the next word quickly and quietly, "b-boyfriend?"
"Oh the young handsome guy from the Silver Eagles?"
"so you do know," Fuego felt betrayed.
"He's a good catch," you hummed as you turned around towards the dining room, "come, dinner's ready."
"Why didn't any one tell me sooner?" your husband continued to press on with his questions, "he had better treat d/n right, or else."
"Or else what, love?" you chuckled, "this is the bitter sweet phase of a young puppy love, let them be, will you."
"am I the last to know?" he said with a sad pout.
"oh honey.." you bit your bottom lip, a sign to tell him it was indeed the truth. You went over to sit in his lap, "your daughter knows her dad well, she knew you were gonna be dramatic over this."
"Me? Dramatic?" your husband's pride was really hurt now, you could see the wrinkles in the corner of his eyes and the slight crinkles on his forehead, nevertheless, he was still handsome, like a nicely aged wine.
"Give him a chance, he's a pretty good catch." you said as you put a piece of asparagus into your mouth.
"I'm going to ask Nozel if he knows about this guy..."
"You're a total drama queen." you gave him a quirked eyebrow, "anyway, I'm inviting him to dinner coming friday, are you free?"
"Okay, I'll talk to Nozel tomorrow.." he mumbled to himself.
You sighed and shook your head at your beloved husband. It was going to be a long dinner on Friday.
Yami Sukehiro
"YOU WHAT?" Yami yelled and you swore you could hear some birds flying off from the fright.
"er. Boyfriend, dad."
Yami sat down in his chair, pulling you onto his lap, "baby, hold me, my old fragile heart cannot take this."
You and your daughter rolled your eyes at your husband and Yami chuckled at how you two looked exactly the same.
“Alright, call him in for a friendly dinner here, coming Friday night, 7pm.” Yami gave his daughter a mischievous smile with a glint in his eye.
You daughter might have missed it, but you were absolutely sure your husband was planning for something.
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The day came and the bell rang at 7pm sharp. D/n skipped to the doors and opened them.
“Hello Mr and Mrs Sukehiro, thank you for inviting me to dinner,” bf/n passed you a bottle of wine.
"Oh, you shouldn't have sweetie," you smiled warmly at him, "come, let's have dinner!"
"Hi bf/n!!!!" the bulls greeted him with enthusiastically.
Yami simply grunted and headed for the table. You glared at your man prompting him to behave himself and be nice, just as you warned him last night.
"ahem," Yami got your signal and tried his best to behave, "so whaddya do, bra- kiddo?"
"I work in the wizard king's office, sir. Like an assistant."
There were some ohhhs and ahhhs and wahhhh from the bulls.
"So you're just an errand boy- *cough cough*" You stepped on Yami's foot from underneath the table and gave him another killer glare.
"That's nice, bf/n," you smiled at him, "you must get to meet lots of people everyday."
The dinner went on with get to know each other and the bulls happily chatting with bf/n. Yami continued to grill him but he didn't go too far since you were there to give him menacing glares. But bf/n was patient and answered every questions politely nonetheless.
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"He's a boring chap, baby." Yami was sprawled on your shared bed later that night, as you were doing your night routine, "How can he protect d/n from dangers?"
"He makes her happy, that's all that is important. Besides, he can protect her in many other ways, just give him a chance and have some trust in your daughter, alright?"
Yami gave a little pout and sighed, "our little princess is not so little anymore is she? She's gonna leave us some day.. Let's make more kids baby~" he looked at you with a little smirk.
"And go through this dramatic little shit with you when all of them get into relationships? hell no."
"Baby! You're breaking my old fragile heart."
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kurooblossom · 2 years
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Who Confessed First?
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He/She confessed first, but it was 100% an accident. Whether they were talking about their feelings with someone else or he/she just blurted it out, their confession was not planned at all. They are an blushing mess. 
↳ Asta, Charmy, GREY, Magna, Sekke
He/She confessed first. It was done with a lot of thought and care to your interest and overall comfort. He/She is nervous when he/she asks you out and it’s noticeable, but you don’t say anything because it’s honestly really adorable.
↳ FINRAL, FUEGOLEON, Julius, Kahono, Kiato, Licht, Marx, Solid, William
He/She confessed first. He/she realized their feelings for you and told you soon after. The confession was nothing fancy. He/She probably done it one day while you two were just doing something casual. 
↳ Dorothy, FANA, Gordon, Henry, Ladros, Sally
You confessed first to him/her as he/she had no intention of ever mentioning their feelings for you until you made your feelings clear.
↳ Jack the Ripper, KLAUS, Langris, Luck, Nozel, Raia, YUNO
You confessed first, but they were getting ready to confess. You just happen to get the confession out first. They were visibly frustrated at first, but their mood quickly shifted when they fully came to terms with what had happened. They’re very happy afterwards.
↳ Leopold, RILL, Sol
You confessed first and he/she acted nonchalant about it, but was internally freaking out over it and was overall super happy that his/her feelings are returned.
↳ CHARLOTTE, Gauche, Mimosa, Nobra, NOELLE, PATRY, Vanessa, Zora
No one confessed. Your relationship just sort of naturally evolved into a romantic one and neither of you really ever bothered to discuss it. There was never really a need to, your relationship was mutually understood, and that’s all that matters. 
↳ En, MARS, Nacht, YAMI
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♡ A/N: I wanted to try something like this out and I’m not too sure how I feel about it. 😅 I do apologize if some of the characters are incorrect. For the most part, I’ve been introduced to every character on this list, aside from Nacht. I’m on episode 112. Hopefully this isn’t too far off.  😅 😅
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