#clown-strife

[crisp-art]

FF7 25TH STREAM SOOOONNN

EDIT: HOLY FUCKNIEJEHEODBEBDK FF7 FANS EATIN

#cant wait to either be super hyped or put my clown mask back on #anyways enjoy these cute boyes #cloud strife #zack fair #vincent valentine #genesis raphsodos #ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy 7 remake #ff7r #final fantasy vii #final fantasy #fan art #crisis core #dirge of cerberus #final fantasy 7 #clip studio paint

[dinoswordsb]

Happy clown strife rebirth day to everyone who participates

#i do not but have fun #stole clown strife from emil #btw #hal hour #ff7

[silverflqmes]

✶ ʾ ៹ 𝐒𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐊𝐔𝐑𝐀 ( 𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐎𝐑’𝐒 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 )

notes. self indulgent post, just me compiling a bunch of taylor swift songs that screamed out sephiroth and cloud a little too much to not share.. so uh don’t take this too too seriously..

disclaimer. uncomfortable or not a fan — just click off, it’s THAT easy. literally nobody is holding a knife to your throat for you to stay and read smh.

𝜗𝜚 my tears ricochet ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 this is me trying ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 illicit affairs ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 exile ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 the lakes ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 invisible string ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 mirrorball ༝ folklore.

𝜗𝜚 don’t blame me ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 look what you made me do ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 gorgeous ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 new year’s day ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 …ready for it? ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 call it what you want ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 so it goes... ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 i did something bad ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 getaway car ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 dancing with our hands tied ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 i don’t wanna live forever ༝ reputation.

𝜗𝜚 daylight ༝ lover.

𝜗𝜚 the archer ༝ lover.

𝜗𝜚 i think he knows ༝ lover.

𝜗𝜚 afterglow ༝ lover.

𝜗𝜚 death by a thousand cuts ༝ lover.

𝜗𝜚 right where you left me ༝ evermore.

𝜗𝜚 willow ༝ evermore.

𝜗𝜚 ‘tis the damn season ༝ evermore.

𝜗𝜚 gold rush ༝ evermore.

𝜗𝜚 the great war ༝ midnights.

𝜗𝜚 anti-hero ༝ midnights.

𝜗𝜚 mastermind ༝ midnights.

𝜗𝜚 labyrinth ༝ midnights.

𝜗𝜚 you’re on your own, kid ༝ midnights.

𝜗𝜚 all too well ( 10 min long ver. ) ༝ red ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 the very first night ༝ red ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 red ༝ red ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 sad beautiful tragic ༝ red ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 i can see you ༝ speak now ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 castles crumbling ༝ speak now ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 haunted ༝ speak now ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 timeless ༝ speak now ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 you belong with me ༝ fearless ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 say don’t go ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 bad blood ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 wildest dreams ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 i know places ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 out of the woods ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 suburban legends ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

𝜗𝜚 wonderland ༝ 1989 ( taylor’s version ).

notes. you can probably tell what my favorite albums are ( cough cough reputation cough cough folklore😐 ), but they literally suit them okay??? ahem anyway if you stuck around, very very slay of you sefikura and taylor swift enjoyer🫶

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#— ; 🏹 ) final fantasy vii fics. #well- not rlly a fic but yeah #JUST ME CLOWNING I GUESS #sefikura #taylor swift #sephiroth #cloud strife #sephiroth x cloud strife #sephikura #sephicloud #ffvii #ff7 #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #sephiroth x cloud #sephiroth ff7 #cloud ff7

[ratherhavehopewithyou]

Using chapter selection to crank my difficulty level to easy and finally beat the UPA musclehead colosseum challenge

#send in the clowns is right #to be fair i had also increased about 8-9 levels from when i tried to beat it the first time #but still #i was not about that life #now if they could just fix the g-bike bug for this quest that would be great #ff7 #ff7 rebirth #ff7 rebirth spoilers #ff7 spoilers #cloud strife

[tinyjellyfishy]

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY FICTIONAL BABYGIRL BIRTH DAY !!

#ff7 #cloud strife #ffvii #ff7r #my art #Happy birthday cloud strife!! My baby clown boy

[consumedshadow-mysticmc]

Well, I got the Ai Generator to give me an essay by accident.

#final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #sephiroth #clowns #clown art #cloud strife #ai generated #ai artwork #essay #halloween

[thuggaloshow]

Strife on favorite little spoon

#thuggalo show #twiztid #dot strife #juggalo #thuggalo #ouija macc #chapter 17 #insane clown posse #trailer park cinderella #elixir #onsted #astronomicon #juggalo podcast #shaggy 2 dope #juggalette #violent j #hexxx #icp #thuggalo show logo #thuggalo podcast #gathering of the juggalos #gotj 2023

[fuckyeahthuggaloshow]

Trailer Park Cinderella from The Thuggalo Show

(January 6th, 2023) via YouTube

#trailer park cinderella #thuggalo #thuggalo show #thuggalo podcast #juggalo #ouija macc #chapter 17 #hexxx #scythegang 666 #dot strife #frankie goldie #juggalo podcast #insane clown posse #acetone boogie #icp #violent j #shaggy 2 dope

[nerdpoe]

The One Unaccounted For

Danny had never seen Skulker look so pleased.

Normally the ghost was always at least a little happy to duke it out with Danny, but this? The ghost was positively vibrating with excitement.

"Okay, okay, time out. What's going on, man?" Danny had to call out, launching himself above a shot and hovering there.

Skulker fucking giggled. Skulker. Giggled.

"I have been hired by the Observants to hunt down a formidable foe. Our battle-" "-Will be glorious." Danny finished, much to the confusion of the ghost who had not been around for such refined culture.

"Yes! They also insist I bring another ghost, just in case it is 'too much' for me. Walker will not leave the Zone, Ember is still angry with me, Johnny and Kitty told me to..." Skulker cleared his throat, glancing at Danny, "And the last ghost I can think of is you, and I know you'll come to at least watch."

Danny's curiosity was piqued, he wasn't going to lie to himself. He still had to act like he needed to think about it though.

"Uh-huh, and who are you going after?"

Skulker almost started vibrating as he began his description.

"It is a ghost who has continuously evaded Walker, and caused so much strife and mayhem that even the Observants seek to drag him to confinement. He hides in the mortal world, in the city that knows no day, and alters the memories of that entire city."

So Danny was actually a bit on board with hunting this dude, actually. Memory manipulation was not cool.

"This ghost loves to torture mortals and claims it is for fun. Once! Once, he altered the memory of a young boy hero, to make him think he'd been tortured, and then altered the memory of the boy's mentor to believe that the boy was dead, all so that the boy would be buried alive. For fun. Then he almost completely wiped the boys memories of his life prior to being buried."

Skulker was beginning to actually get angry just retelling the story, and Danny was right there with him. Graves were sacred, and any ghost knew that. There was a ghost that willingly desecrated them? No wonder Walker wanted him.

If anything, Danny had to think that Skulker had glossed over Walker because he was positive that the Warden was foaming at the mouth just thinking about this criminal.

There was just one thing.

"So why do the Observants want in on this?"

Unless this ghost was actively threatening the balance of Life and Death, there really was no need to go after him.

"Because he has interfered with and altered the denizens of that city so much that the majority of them, if not all of them, are becoming as your puny mortal friends. Can you imagine that? A Living, a Mortal, blessed with the powers of Death. There are reports that one twisted their own time so much, he is now forever alive."

"Okay, that's super concerning. How did he do that?"

Skulker floated closer, almost like this was a gossip session in a sleepover.

"We believe he may have hidden a portal or twelve in the city of Gotham. He wears the semblance of a deranged clown, and is obsessed with laughter."

Well. Shit. Danny knew who they were after, he just hadn't know that Joker was actually one of their own. Half of his own?

"Fuck it, let's go drag the dude into the afterlife." He swore he heard a quiet squeal from the giant robot, but elected to ignore it.

He had to figure out how to either outsmart or work with the Big Bat himself, and he wasn't sure which would be better.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #phanfic #the one unaccounted for #this is a rough draft #i may or may not continue it #i may or may not polish it #as it stands #this tiny bit had to get out of my head.

[froody]

If you’re a southerner and you call your dad daddy you love and respect him, maybe you love and respect him too much maybe, put too much value in his shitty opinions and let him have too much influence on your life. If you’re a southerner and you call your dad pop, you have a strained relationship with him, you love each other but you perhaps don’t respect him or you’re both working to make the relationship better. If you’re a southerner and you call your dad pops, you don’t respect him at all, you don’t hate him you just think he’s a clown. If you’re a southerner and you call your dad paw you are partners in crime, literally, you are doing evil together, he’s been teaching you to swear and raise hell and poach deer since you were in diapers. If you’re a southerner and you call your dad pap you HATE that motherfucker, Huck Finn levels of fucked up parenting going on, 1850s levels of discord and strife going on in your family.

My father was always a dad or father, indicating some level of fraying and formality in our relationship. My paternal grandfather was a poppy, which I believe to be a pops variant because my dad and uncle loved to dress him down. My maternal grandfather was a paw.

[rottenpumpkin13]

Out of Context Shit Heard on the SOLDIER floor #4

A portion of these were sent in/inspired by an ask sent by @strawberrysnortshake

Zack: Ironically this isn't the first time I've accidentally eaten chalk.

Angeal: Attention everyone we're now taking votes. Raise your hand if you would sleep with Sephi—I DIDN'T FINISH SAYING HIS NAME PUT YOUR HANDS DOWN.

Kunsel: We're all out of duct tape. Angeal used the last of it to tape Genesis to the ceiling.

Sephiroth: Are you satisfied with your fish sticks, Zackary?

Genesis: Why does it smell like mommy issues in here—oh hi, Sephiroth.

Zack: I'm officially 23% goat milk.

Genesis: Well well well if it isn't my old nemesis, Heterosexuality.

Zack: Aww! 🥰 You're the antichrist!

Cloud: Yeah you're a SOLDIER alright, a sold your ass.

Zack: Where are we supposed to put this giant clown statue?

Lazard: WHY do you have a giant clown statue?

Sephiroth walking towards Genesis's office with a flamethrower: The goddess has had it good for far too long.

Essai: If we all chip in, we can finally buy Kunsel a face.

Genesis: I guess this means that the box labeled used illegal knick-knacks is off limits?

Roche: let's all dance maniacally and pretend we're gay!

Lazard: ANGEAL THAT ELEVATOR IS COMING OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK!

Sephiroth: Are you, as the kids say, flexing on 'em?

Zack: Does anyone know what happened to my Sephiroth scented candle?

Sephiroth: I'll add murder supplies and can of whipped cream to the shopping list.

Luxiere: Let me guess, nobody cared about your light up sneakers?

Zack: 🎶 We take the pain out of paint 🎶

Roche: Have a slutty, slutty evening, director.

Angeal: Gen, can you let me have a cup of coffee before you start divulging your theories on why Cloud Strife is a time traveler?

Zack: I am going to default dance my way through hell!

Cloud: Cool trick! I'm a wizard now.

Genesis: I will start rumors about your sex life.

Lazard: Sephiroth I can't fire you, but I can mysteriously make sure you go bald.

Kunsel: This is a cave. Nothing really matters.

Sephiroth: how does one acquire a leprechaun? Can you order one online?

Roche: Commander Rhapsodos is so pretty. He reminds me of a prostitute.

Sephiroth: Genesis got me a journal for my birthday. I think I'm supposed to write down my feelings but I don't have enough pages for that.

Kunsel: when will we be free from the chains of foot pictures?

Genesis: If I find drugs in this office I'm confiscating it for my own personal use.

Lazard: Would anyone care to explain why there was a condom filled with grape jelly in the break room?

Zack(drunk): Good evening, my esteemed bastards.

Angeal: Bullying is only allowed on the SOLDIER floor if it makes Genesis cry.

Sephiroth: Mental healthn't.

Kunsel: is anyone here familiar with the concept of witchcraft? we're hexing Commander Rhapsodos at dawn.

Luxiere: Here kitty kitt—Oh that is a huuuge cat—OH IT'S GENERAL SEPHIROTH.

Angeal: Why did you spell salmonella as Sal Minella???? Who's Sal???

Sephiroth, while walking towards his office with an entire pie and a fork: Do not presume to question my actions.

Lazard: If we suffer any more budget cuts we're going to use Zack's hair as a broom.

Sephiroth: Which one of you locked Director Lazard in the Janitor's closet?

Cloud, watching Genesis recite LOVELESS: The evil gay red man is at it again.

#ffvii #ff7 #final fantasy 7 #genesis rhapsodos #sephiroth #ffvii crisis core #ff7r #angeal hewley #final fantasy #zack fair #cloud strife #ff #final fantasy vii #final fantasy vii crisis core #ffviir #ffvii remake #ff7 remake

[layziidakkii]

Kaufmo: "You're gonna do great, Pomni. I'll watch over you as long as I can..." "Just...don't tell the others I'm still around. I won't be for long."

Kaufmo is one of the greatest Chosen who had ever fought for Caine. His infinite positivity and patience with the ones he trained, as well as his uncanny ability to brighten up any room he walked into was one of the Clown's greatest traits.

Kaufmo was the one who trained Jax, Ragatha, and Saturday. Out of the three of them, Jax was the closest to him. Unfortunately, Kaufmo perished in battle a long while ago...and no one has really gotten over it yet.

Kaufmo and Pomni share a connection, as they are a part of the Fool's Lineage, a series of Mimes, Clowns, and Jester themed Chosen who have appeared in The Crossroads, and were able to bring great fortune to Caine and his other Chosen. Fools are believed to be a good omen, and appear during times of strife.

Because of this connection, Kaufmo can appear to Pomni in the form of a spirit avatar that only she can see, or Kaufmo can temporarily take over Pomni's body if things are getting rough and she needs a bit of a push, though this is only for emergencies.

He only has a limited amount of time before his code merges with Pomni's forever and he disappears, so Pomni has to become more powerful than him before that happens.

Kaufmo teaches Pomni everything he knows, and because of Pomni's capacity to think on the fly, she picks up her new abilities fairly quickly.

Pomni: "What…is this? A-Am I doing this?"

Kaufmo: "That my friend, is the Fool's Fantasia. It's an infinite source of Chayotic energy that all members of the Fool's Lineage can draw from. We use it to power our abilities and protect ourselves."

P: "Infinite? Wow…I really have access to all of that?"

K: "Well, as much as your body can convert into raw power. An ocean is vast - but you can only drink so much at a time. It takes stamina to not only maintain the connection, but also utilize it."

P: "That's so cool."

K: "My friend, you have seen NOTHING yet! A powerful and skilled Fool can use the Fantasia to their heart's desire. You are only limited by your imagination!"

P: "Th-Then we'd better get started!~"

K: "Post-haste, Pomni!"

#the amazing digital circus #pomni #tadc #tadc fanart #the amazing digital circus fanart #the amazing digital shonen #hare & harlequin au #tadc shonen au #tadc kaufmo #kaufmo

[dustykneed]

raise your hand if youve ever typecast yourself as your genre of comfort scrunkly by accident. Boy i sure am glad this has never happened to me !! (i am lying through my teeth) (my comically large clown shoes honk loudly as i walk away in shame)

if i had a nickel for every time this has happened i would have a bunch of nickels. nothing wrong with that but the fact that it keeps happening is mildly interesting.

anyways char analysis as promised ｡⁠.ﾟ⁠+⁠ ⁠⟵⁠(⁠｡⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠) (stained glass mcspirk soldier poet king)

soldier (spock):

as a half-vulcan, spock's burden in life has, to a remarkable extent, been predetermined for him; society holds him to impossible standards and he will never be vulcan nor human enough to meet them. he fights not wars but for his place in the world. spock is a soldier because he has carried the weight of strife since the day he was born and he will carry it for the rest of his life-- one day, it will no longer be his burden but his anchor and his most treasured asset. he was fated to fight-- but it appears that he is perfectly capable of fighting fate itself, too.

poet (mccoy):

at the core of his being, mccoy is a bleeding heart and a stubborn humanist and an unrepentant, defiant idealist. he could never bring himself not to care-- he is a sensualist because life is the most beautiful thing he could ever imagine, and life manifests in the darkest of places, in the smallest of ways, and all of them are beautiful to him-- and that is the fundament of a poet. he is a poet as much as he is a doctor, and his ode to life is scrawled across the continued existence of every person he has ever healed. he is a poet, and life is his art.

king (jim):

as a captain, jim is moral, and empathetic, and so genuinely noble in the highest sense of the word that it radiates from him like an aura of purification, drawing the worthy to him like a beacon, and this makes him a good king, certainly, but what truly serves him the makings of kinghood is his keen sense of strategy. he is a strategist by nature-- in the midst of a sea of dust and debris, he is capable of a preternatural clarity of judgement, and his instinct is uncanny. tactics to him are second nature. jim is so formidable because his judgement is very rarely clouded. if he aims, he misses only by choice-- and it is fortunate indeed that he has chosen to be so kind.

#star trek #star trek tos #tos #star trek fanart #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #jim kirk #jim t kirk #mcspirk #mcspirk fanart #mcspirk headcanons #dust trek hcs #sometimes u shake the artist and prose comes out #star trek analysis #its ship art if you squint #look at the king and his boyfriends !!! theyre so gay wdym #star trek meme #spirk #spones #mckirk #either way its so interesting and so adorable #YOU KNOW WHAT. i should make a literal soldier poet king au #im absolutely deranged over the space gays yall are welcome to come along for the ride #dust writes #oh i feel like the sheer amount of run on lines in this bad boy should be an instant adhd diagnosis if i didnt have one already /jokingly #fuck it we ball #well theyre not run on lines technically because i love punctuation too much but u get what i mean

[imhereformysciencefriends]

Thinking about how in the myth, Narcissus was the cause of Echo's strife and inevitable death. Thinking about how Ringmaster is absolutely 100% a narcissist with a cult-like belief in his own superiority and genius.

Thinking about how, given her actions, we can reasonably assume that Ringmaster is the one who sewed Echo's mouth shut. Thinking about how Echo was damned by the gods to only ever repeat the last thing anyone said due to her devotion to Narcissus. Thinking about how Echo was damned by Ringmaster to never speak, only copy the actions and routines of those around her--thinking Echo might have let the Ringmaster mutilate her, in her devotion to him.

Thinking about how Echo had a natural talent that was honed into a skill that was used by a man who never loved her and would never love anyone but himself.

Thinking about how Echo wasted away next to the lake and died from her starvation. Thinking about how Echo's first words were asking for something to eat that wasn't liquid.

Thinking about how all the clowns have bright, shapey, distinctive makeup. Thinking about how Echo is a blank mask onto which the Ringmaster can (and does) project any emotion or thought that suits his own desires, carelessly and callously ignoring anything that might be Echo's actual wants.

Thinking about how Narcissus died due to his own egoism and pride. Thinking about how Ringmaster got his jaw ripped off due to his own egoism and pride. Thinking about how Echo, the nymph, died with her Narcissus, and how Echo, the girl, did the killing. Thinking about Clown Corps I am thinking about Clown Corps.

#clown corps #cc #NO im not done being emo about Echo #shes my second favorite character and of all the designs in the comic hers fucks the most severely #i will NOT be done being emo about Echo ANYTIME soon and if it werent for my two holiday exchanges the zine i signed up for and the #the character exchange thats due next week it would be OVER for you hoes #one day i WILL write McBell getting more puussy than god and THEN im gonna write a slowburn otp rivals to lovers fic #of McBecho tenderly kissing with their hands squeezing each others throats #went off on a tangent in the tags anyway clowncorps good.

[olderthannetfic]

I've read up about sensitivity readers as a service but something about it still feels off pouring to me? I get the concept and I guess on paper it's a noble cause, but idk if stories should be striving for "sensitivity" on the basis of a single reader/editor. Do you have any particular feelings or insight on the practice?

--

Sensitivity readers have been around for a while. When operating as intended, the practice is both good and not a big deal. They're just a cultural knowledge beta with a more inflammatory title.

The version that exists within a thousand miles of YA twitter and its ilk is a hot mess.

--

See, in the ideal circumstance, what these people should be is a paid editor who does a read for specific cultural gaffes.

They'd be working alongside the main editor who'd hopefully have time for developmental notes (okay, they never do this now, but ideally), copy editors, etc. A bunch of people are taking a look at this book before it goes out into the world. The sensitivity reader is merely more familiar with some particular area, probably their own cultural background, so they can spot things the rest of the editors and the author might miss.

It's just the more professional version of some dude writer being like "Hey, female friend, would you mind reading my manuscript and telling me what you think of the female characters?"

--

Now, near the cesspit of groupthink and intellectual incuriousity that is YA twitter and in other places like that, people have come to behave as though one sensitivity reader can read for everything, not just their own personal background. They talk as though there is one objective standard for whether something is offensive and as though causing offense is the worst crime in the world.

This attitude is poison, and it's how you get assholes passing themselves off as authorities on all ethnic strife ever, then writing cartoonish villains the minute they include a setting outside of the US.

(As a sidebar, it is deeply unsurprising to find that this jackass complained about women profiting off of m/m. Beware the people who think they personally are the unique arbiter of everything. It always devolves somehow into "Buy my book, not theirs".)

A lot of loudmouths desperately wish to do this work, always talking about it as though it's a beautiful opportunity to browbeat others for a lack of wokeness. It's always the biggest clowns too. (Mardoll, for example, while whining about the attack helicopter story.)

--

And yet, sensitivity readers exist outside of the toxic waste dump that is book twitter. I can see why the idea puts your back up, but it's time to unclench.

Yeah, one member of a minority is not the ultimate arbiter of what is Objectively Offensive Forever, but that's not actually a sensitivity reader's job. They're one set of feedback among various. There's no guarantee a copy editor will catch absolutely every typo either. If you had time for 5 sensitivity readers, maybe that would be useful, but it's probably more useful to pick someone you trust. Evaluating and paring down all the feedback you get is one of the major jobs of an author after all.

It's really no different than having a cop read over your crime procedural for silly Hollywood nonsense you didn't realize was false and a cliche.

We do this kind of double-checking over less fraught topics all the time without a problem. Writers just get very tense when they hear the term 'sensitivity reader' because it makes them think of mobs of wokescolds and of their book being secretly irredeemably racist. In reality, a good quality sensitivity reader might tell you that a joke doesn't land because of some cultural detail you missed. They're not there to harass you. They're a professional you hired to help with your book.

Sensitivity readers are fine as long as we treat them as what they are—cultural betas—and not as an official guarantee of Not Problematic And Can Never Offend Anyone.

[dirtytransmasc]

Ok but how do you think that alicole would react to getting a phone call from the school that says “yeah your kid got in a fight”?

Likeeeee it’s rotting my dumb little alicole brain

first they're worried. there kids wellbeing comes before any anger or strife or worry/thought of consequences. they just want to know they're safe and ok. they're also quite worried cause their kids are mostly bark and/or well behaved (Aegon is a bit of a class clown, but not all that of s fighter unless provoked. Aemond is easier to sway into a fight, but again, he's not one to throw the first fist. Helaena is a sweetheart and rather's her tongue over a fight. Daeron is a sweet boy and the most behaved of the brothers, even if young and rowdy) so they're worried someone has poked fun at either them or their families many oddities.

Both of them are at the school in an instant, rushing to their child, checking them over. Alicent's definitely not keeping her worry checked, to the point her kid is trying to shove her off (gently) and complaining that they're fine. then it's Cole's turn to check them over, he's just as worried, but he's putting on a strong face.

while they do want to just plead their kids innocence and go home, they do want the full story so they sit as calmly as they can, their kiddo cuddled between them (overprotective parents who? not them, no, no not at all). since Alicent and Cole got married (it was a civil union) later in their lives (I don't think they would have gone for it till Aegon was almost out of highschool and daeron was in middle school) Cole would typically have to argue his position as their father before they could even start their meeting with staff/the principal.

they do let their kids take blame where it's due, but they don't let their I'll treatment from others go unchecked either. they'll make sure their kid wasn't at all provoked and that they're ok mentally/emotionally cause kids can be assholes.

they have a "protect your own" and "don't start a fight but finish it" rules in their household so typically their kids can get off with a scolding from them so long as they had reason. typically their parents praise them once they get in the car, Cole advising them on how they could have done better for next time.

a few scenario's:

Aegon picking a fight with someone picking on his younger siblings, willing to let it remain words until someone tried to touch Hel, and he just wasn't fucking having it. he really only scared the other kid, but it got his point across, don't fuck with his siblings. Cole was proud of him, checking over his injuries with one of those proud dad laughs. Alicent was worried, but conceded when he promised he was fine. they didn't leave that office till the other kid apologized for messing with their kids and forcing their big brother to handle it. they did settle and made Aegon apologize for hitting him instead of getting a teacher.

Hel getting overwhelmed because a group of kids weren't leaving her alone when she was having a sensory overload and hitting anyone who tried to touch her including her teacher (her brothers and dad taught her well and her little punches hurt). Criston nearly blows a fuse when they call it 'fight' when it was nothing close, he'll defend his baby girl with his life on this front. Alicent's threatening to report the school board for the lack of accommodation and understanding. they don't even sit down for the meeting, Criston with Hel on his hip, flanking a very pissed off Alicent, making it clear they won't be staying long. they don't.

Criston had to go to Daeron's daycare to listen to a conflict resolution conversation between the staff and two sniffly 4 year olds. they'd been fighting over a toy. he doesn't know what else he's supposed to do, so he struggles through a "sharing is caring" conversation, trying not to laugh, until they're out the door and in the car. he does tell Daeron he needs to be nice, but knows it won't do much considering how little he is.

Aemond's been in a few situations cause of his eye, and every time he's got his parents support. they worry cause they know his self esteem is a bit shot, but also cause he's disadvantaged in a fight, so they do talk it out more with him, just to be safe. they don't want to be too hard on him, but they don't want to feed the habit of fighting being an outlet, so they double down on him continuing fencing (he was a fencing kid in my mind) to help with it all.

there have been more verbal incidents where the kids were picked on because of their messy family. all 4 kids are very protective over how people view Criston. he's their dad and anyone who says any different is wrong. Daeron's gotten into the most fights about this, especially cause little kids are brutally honest and say things about how daeron looks nothing like him, which makes him upset. older kids may know who the Targaryen family is (who they are and their equivalence of being a royal family in my modern AU I don't know, I just know they're important and wealthy that's just sorta there, a place for alicent and come to run from.) and taunt them for their mom leaving a life of wealth and power or having a dad like Viserys. those fights the kids get complete slack on, cause neither Alicent nor Criston can blame them for protecting their family.

#they're more often than not proud of their kids #snd they'd rather fix the problem than punish the result when it comes to their kids #cause this is a family of healing #plus Cristons no bettet than any dad #he gives pats on the shoulder if his kid does good in a fight #all they have to say after a fight is “you shoulda seen the other guy” and he's to proud to be mad #Alicent's tired and won't actively support it but she's proud to #hiding her laughs snd smiles #step dad criston cole #dad who stepped up Criston Cole #alicent hightower #shes a good mum #aegon ii targaryen #aegon targaryen #helaena targaryen #aemond targaryen #daeron targaryen #criston cole #pro criston cole #pro alicent hightower #pro team green #hotd #house of the dragon #hope you liked this <3<3<3 #alicole #platonic alicole