#co-ruler

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Thinking abt the air nomads:

What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.

Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.

So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.

At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.

So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.

Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.

The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.

Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...

Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...

All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.

#oops it became a taang au how did that happen #i just think it wld be neat if the air nomads worked more like irl monks/nuns #not necessarily celibate but still made up of people who choose to follow the way of life #instead of the iffy implications of all monks/nuns having no choice because they were born airbenders #i dunno it's iffy to me #taang #my posts #atla #atla headcanon #do we need to rewatch Ice Age 2 ppl?? #repopulation is not a good reason for two people to be together! #avatar: the last airbender #i do also think that given them being nomads the fire nation probably want able to wipe the air nomads out completely #bu they just had to survive in hiding/ in a very diluted form #maybe like the sun warriors do #airbender!Ty Lee my beloved #also wld reflect the themes of unity vs division well if there were more than just airbenders among the air nomads #like how a waterbender can be a ruler of the Fire Nation or a Firebender can run a tea shop in the Earth Kingdom #toph x aang #edited cos someone got upset at my introduction and while i reckon they were willfully misreading i didnt want anyone to misconstrue #to clarify -> any child of aang's wld be an air nomad but there's no guarantee they wld be an airbender #esp if he had a child with an earth or waterbender #and we see how this had a negative effect in canon #hope that clears things up xx

[anxious-helianthus]

as insane of a quote as this is- does anyone know where it's from?

#alexander the great #hephaestion #hephaistion #alexander x hephaestion #he was framed EVERYWHERE as alexander's queen/co-ruler the fics are practically writing themselves

[hlozt]

Something something swear fealty in the lawful manner

#morally dubious couple/co-rulers #and me trying to find some way to do inks that doesn't feel like pulling teeth #tyranny game #tunon the adjudicator #i like him a lot ok #doodles

[hms-incorrect-quotes]

Mind: [shoves his hand in the slot of a toaster]

Heart: …

Mind: …I get confused sometimes.

Heart: Me too.

#mechanical hands amirite? #get it #cos its #its mind #like the ruler of everything #im so funny #its 3am help me #chonny jash #cj mind #cj heart

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

So wait, Frank helped Julie out in the fantasy AU? What or who was Julie running from? If its a spoiler, you don't need to mention it.

oh yeah i imagine that they were friends while Julie was still ~Princess Juliette~ and when Julie decided to run away from her royal life & home, she went to Frank on her way out in the hopes that he'd help her

#she broke in through his window in the middle of the night with a big sword <3 nearly giving him a heart attack <3 #frank did indeed smuggle her out of the city! #i think she lived on the outskirts for a while with frank smuggling her food and stuff #while he hemmed and hawed over leaving #bc he didnt like his life but also. the terror of breaking routine & the dread of change etc etc #wh fantasy au #rambles from the bog #but yea Julie full on ran away from home #and stole a sword from the castle armory while she was at it! #she and her siblings co-ruled and julie hatedddd it #it was so stuffy and boring and UGH. no fun at all. also supremely irritating and restricting #plus Four rulers is overkill. three is perfectly sensible they dont need her <3 #but yeah so there's a recurring side plot in the au of julie avoiding getting Recognized #she rips down a missing poster while the neighbors backs are turned #frank shoves her into a canal when some royal soldiers pass by #etc etc!

[gotalignments]

the dance of dragons really isn’t as complex or grey as yall make it out to be. simply, rhaenyra was named heir, and despite having a son, multiple opportunities, and over two decades to change that, viserys never did. 

what opposition is there beyond misogyny? 

now, you can argue that the actual war and actions by both sides make this a grey situation with no good guys by the end, but at the beginning there is no reason aegon would be king over rhaenyra. 

having bastards doesn’t put your ascension into question (maybe your heirs but not yours). 

angry lords and smallfolk would’ve either been placated by daemon sitting beside her and presumably, to them, pulling the strings or would’ve been dealt with easily seeing as a united targ house could never be stood against. 

rhaenyra has never shown animosity towards her younger siblings, especially in a way where you’d assume she’s threatened by them. if anything she’s too cavalier about the expectation that she will be queen with little quarrel from the fam. they’d have all been safe had the greens not started a battle to see their blood and a penis on the throne. 

all team green arguments for them starting a war disintegrate with a smidge of context

#house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #team black #ahh but her sons are bastards... ok and?? #ahh but the smallfolk would never like a woman ruler... enough to try and fight dragons? #ahhh but rhaenyra wouldve killed aegon nd co to strengthen her claim... rhaenyra fears nothing more than being a kinslayer targaryan? no.

[fulcrum-art-fox]

If the Armourer knows Din just wants to raise Grogu in peace her picking Bo-Katan to be the one who can unite us can kinda be read as her going “Sorry Bo but you’ve got to be the main character because otherwise my son has to be the main character and he hates that”

#star wars #the mandalorian #bo katan kryze #the armourer #the armorer #the mandalorian spoilers #she softens the blow by being like don’t worry we’ll be co rulers wink wink

[supertyphoon-kai]

Hmm...

The Court of Fontaine. The City of Tears. The Palais Mermonia. The White Palace. The Fountain of Lucine. The Hollow Knight statue.

The Prophecy. The Infection

Neuvillette and Furina. The White Lady and The Pale King

Focalors and Furina. The Pale King and The Pure Vessel

I'm probably reaching with the Fontaine and Hollow Knight connections but I can't NOT see it.

#hollow knight #fontaine #genshin impact #the neuvifuri x wyrmroot might be a stretch but they're both co-rulers of different natures. with furina and PK as figureheads #going by hk fanon. furina/focalors have similar story to PK. but is the socialite like WL #meanwhile neuvi is generally the less popular one like WL. but his role in the government is similar to PK. heck they're both dragons even #also celestia is the radiance. and the primordial sea is the void

[armandjolras]

said she took the poison; she did, never said that she died

#nobody look at the terrible perspective I don’t believe in rulers #imagine if lucy hadn’t gone to the judge’s house and Mrs Lovett were a decent person they could have co-parented 🥲 #sweeney todd

[agathazinha2009]

Bruh just now that I realized Revvit is actually Ty co-ruler

...

Why I'm so slow?

#dinotrux #Bruh #I'm so slow #😔 #It's cute actually #first I thought the whole team are actually rulers #But Ty and Revvit are always describe has being the full Leadership #Just like Skrap-it becoming D-structs co-ruler in the end #Cute

[qserasera]

'they say there is another, with whom the Conquering King shares his crown' || yjh/kdj absolute throne au

{ with fic here; original post here }

#co-rulers? yes sure #king and consort?? oh yeah #i have a fanmix incoming later in the evening once i fully put the post for the song list together #yoo joonghyuk #kim dokja #joongdok #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #absolute throne au #my art #when i figure out how to rotate text!! it will be better #but yea if someone wants to use this concept to write a beautiful 10k whatever fic i have no objections a link back to the original post #would be greatly appreciated!! hehe #ok so technique wise yes there are points to improve but conceptually #i think this got to my mind theater vision it is satisfied :)))) #my stuff

[sneeb-canons]

mind is constantly very cold, not just emotionally, but he walks around the house with a blanket cape because he's actually freezing.

Headcanon #68

#chonny jash #submission #cj mind #he wears it around his shoulders and uses it to leave a room dramatically #like he does the wooshy thing when turning around #cos its 1. its funny 2. he's petty like that and 3. it looks like a kings/rulers cloak #get this man a blanket tho he cold

[worstloki]

Brodinsons would be a royal power couple bc normally people might try to predispose of the king so the queen handles diplomatic affairs worse with less experience than he would but with them Thor shows up with the exact same qualifications and education and he’s got all the tea bc there’s no rivalling faction from a political marriage

#like not even romantically just as co-rulers you’d look at the bros and be like. welp #no use trying wordplay or charisma they’ve got everyone beat #you look at them and reconsider if you want to have a war against them fr #and since they’re brothers court meetings feel too casual probably #which would be really awkward for court officials expecting super formal conditions

[thestalkerbunny]

Broke: hates on Yona for being Sidon’s fiancee

Woke: Link helping Sidon pick out Yona a few years back ala The princess diaries 2 where they’re just in a home theater eating popcorn shrimp and viewing a slide show Muzu put together of potential bridal/groom candidates so according to archaic Zora Customs, Sidon can properly ascend the throne with a co-ruler.

#Tsb talks #totk #sidon #link #Tfw you and the royal consort pick out who’s gonna be co-ruler of the zora

[jessicas-pi]

Ok what’s ‘*weird Al intensifies*’ about that sounds bonkers

I feel like i have to forewarn you that weird al makes no appearances whatsoever in this WIP. This is a short and surprisingly emotional AU where various members of the Ghost crew get thrown back in time and basically adopt their past selves while pretending to be long lost family members.

"wait jess, why is it called weird al intensifies-" cause there's a lyric that goes "there's always two of me just a-hangin' around" in weird al's 'i think i'm a clone now', which i had stuck in my head at the time i was writing this fic, and there IS two of everyone in this AU, and it was 2AM, and I didn't have a better title. that's why.

heheh um annnnyway, snippet?

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Sabine woke up feeling warm, dry, and not in pain, so the only logical conclusion to draw was that she was dead.

“You’re not dead, kid.”

She opened her eyes with a short gasp and tried to sit up, but a gentle hand caught her shoulder and pushed her back down.

Sabine looked up.

There was a Mandalorian woman standing over her, in brightly painted armor that reminded Sabine of her own.

They were in some kind of ship; Sabine was lying on a bunk. Her mud-spattered armor had been stripped off and set aside, and she could feel bandages wrapped around her stomach.

“Who are you?”

The woman stared at her for a second, and then turned away. “You can call me Tatia.”

“Are you a bounty hunter?”

Tatia shook her head, stepping across the room to some shelves and collecting a few items. “I tried that, once. Didn’t work out.”

“I’m a bounty hunter,” Sabine said, slowly raising herself to sit, propped against the back of the bunk.

“I suspected that.” Tatia came back. “Did the bounty shoot you, or did your buddies decide there would be more profits to go around without you there?”

Sabine tried not to flinch, but Tatia must have seen. She sat down carefully on the edge of the bunk, setting aside the supplies with a sigh.

“I get it, kid. Betrayal sucks. There was a time when everyone I knew and trusted turned their backs on me. I had no one left. Felt like I hit rock bottom.”

“I don’t have anyone left, either,” Sabine said, and was about to add that she didn’t need anyone when Tatia spoke up.

“That’s not quite true,” she said, and then she reached up and took off her helmet, and Sabine gaped in astonishment as a face just like hers smiled back at her.

Tatia’s eyes sparkled. “You’ve got me, little cousin.”

#thank you for the ask!! #and apologies for the disappointing lack of weird al in this au XD #the two of me AU #(working title) #sabine wren #fic snippet #fun fact in this AU everyone has significant names #for example #'Tatia' was the name of the daughter of the historical-ish figure Titus Tatius #and according to roman myth(?) Titus Tatius was the co-ruler of Rome but more importantly he was the king of the Sabines #(the historical people who Sabine is named after!) #i did so much research for the names in this AU you wouldn't even believe--

[artisticcrow]

Damn Rendog really said: And they were co-rulers!

#Oh my god they were co-rulers #Hermitcraft x Empires 2 #Can't wait for the fanart of them #Also of Rendog mournfully giving a tour of a dusty old castle he hold dear to his heart #Rendog #Mythical Sausage #Pixlriffs #HC9!Rendog #E2!Sausage #E2!Pix #Hc9XE2 #textpost #HcE2 Shitposting #hc shitposting #e2 shitposting #shitposting