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servingcocoa · 3 years

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🥧 last updated: nov 17th, 2023

Hello! I’m mod Servant, but you may call me Servant! My pronouns are he/she/bun/moon/fae (in order of preference), and I’m a young adult! I’m bisexual, non-binary, and I’m also autistic (amongst other unlisted mental silliness).

I label this as a kinhelp blog, but I am glad to do requests for anyone.

Open this post for my rules, DNI, sources, request types, whitelist and blacklist!

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Please respect my DNI, sources and blacklist. This includes not using my edits if you’re on my DNI, either.

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If you are a Nazi, pedo, bigot, truscum / transmed / ‘enby skeptic’, or a pro-shipper

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I also block freely! Please do not ask why you are blocked, if you are. You probably made me uncomfortable somehow. It’s nothing personal!

⛓ Sources

Main sources: Danganronpa (1, 2 and 3), Professor Layton, Pokemon, Doki Doki Literature Club, The Owl House, LEGO Monkie Kid

Minor/selective sources: Luca 2021, Scratchin’ Melodii, Splatoon, MILGRAM, Bug Fables, Animal Crossing, She Ra (reboot), Smile For Me, Helltaker, Bad End Theater

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Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Mondo Oowada, Chihiro Fujisaki, Gundham Tanaka, Kazuichi Souda, Izuru Kamukura / Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)

Pearl, Agent 3 and Agent 8 (Splatoon)

Raymond and Isabelle (Animal Crossing)

Angela Ledore, Henry Ledore, Randall Ascot, Hershel Layton, Emmy Altava and Luke Triton (Professor Layton)

Bede (only if you don’t kin him), Gladion, Lillie, Hop, and Hau (Pokemon)

Leif, Kabbu, and Mothiva (Bug Fables)

Hunter, all of the Blight siblings, and Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

Red Son, Macaque, Mei, Sun Wukong and MK (LEGO Monkie Kid)

Lovecore, softcore, cozycore, plushies / soft things, domestic love, pink and/or brown-heavy aesthetics

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(Please trust that all of the things here have a good reason behind them! I do not owe you an explanation.)

Pedophilia, abuse, incest or rape (themes of recovery from said things is okay!)

Toxic or otherwise abusive ships (again, themes of recovery is okay!)

Lusamine or Chairman Rose (Pokemon)

Shadow Weaver, Hordak or Horde Prime (She-Ra)

Teruteru Hanamura, and Nagito Komaeda paired romantically with women (Danganronpa)

Belos or Odalia Blight (The Owl House)

Yanderecore

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tumblunni · 5 years

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OH FUCK I THINK I FINALLY CRACKED THE CODE OF WHY I ALWAYS LIKE THE VILLAINS BETTER

Like man it always makes me so confused cos i mean im a soft AF person and i always end up having sympathetic redemption headcanons for them so its not like i like VILLAINY ITSELF but what else do all these characters have in common?

Thats it. Thats it, ursula helped me crack it.

I just WANT THOSE TRAITS ON THE HEROES

I really want a nice confident sassy funny chubby trans auntie who promotes body positivity to our young hero and always gets to say the coolest lines and get the best moments and BE LOVED FOR WHO SHE IS

And like usually whenever you get anywhere close to seeing those "villain traits" on a hero they like.. Remove all the good parts. If you have a supportive hero aunt she's always boring and generically supportive instead, and has to look like the most stereotypical boring mess ans have a super small plot role and uuuugh thats IF SHES EVEN THERE i mean seriously aunties and grandmas are weirdly less represented as mentors than grandpas who are already REALLY HARD TO FIND and again OFTEN GENERIC AND UNFUN WHENEVER THEY GET TO APPEAR

And how damn often are we allowed to have a chubby gay aunt!! WHERE IS MY CHUBBY GAY AUNT!! ive met SO MANY chubby gay aunts in real life like 90% of all my psychologists have been either that or like.. The exact same but a straight lgbt ally instead. Sassy plus size aunties are THE BACKBONE OF OUR SOCIETY DAMMIT! I've had so much help thanks to sassy gay aunts!! And like even just looking at any damn crowd scene in a normal city centre youre gonna see so many chubby aunts and long nosed uncles and all those sorts of bullshit "ugly people" that mass media pretends are ugly and relegates to One Minor Role In The Entire Cast despite them being infinately more common than supermodels and NOT UGLY AT ALL GEEZ IT PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH

I cant believe im a fuckin disney villain fan cos of body positivity

Tfw u suck so bad at making hateable people that the fandom universally hugs all your villains and ignores your boring protagonists like fuckin TAKE THAT DIDNEY

God i wanna hug hades sooo bad he just needs a friend aaaaaa

And i mean its not just disney, every damn time ive obsessed over a villain its been because they have some trait thats supposed to be "bad" but its actually good and we dont get to see it on the heroes

Like my thing with science villains in particular is that when i first played ff7 i really liked the idea of an evil minion who's a bad sidekick not just because he's "dumb" or "bumbling" but because he's actually not interested in any of the evil stuff and he works against his own boss and is like.. Friendly to the heroes, i have no particular grudge against you and i wont stop you if im off duty and all. I liked the Turks for the same reason but in the origibal ff7 translation they were kind of stoic and serious and i didnt really become as much of a fan of them til i saw them being more goofy and comic relief in some optional sidequests and then their movie adaptation. But hojo was always being all "lol my boss's plan is so stupid amirite" and had that very memorable scene where he's just sunbathing and tells you everything you need to know to get to the next thing to ruin his boss's plan cos i mean fuck it who even cares im just here to soak up some sun while fully dressed in a turtleneck and labcoat. It sucked so much that he was such a reprehensible bastard with creepy sexual assault vibes and murder and child abuse and experimenting on people and basically just NOT A LOVEABLE VILLAIN but his CONCEPT held so much potential to be filled by a sympathetic character instead...

So yeah then cos of him i kept being obsessed with finding SOME CHARACTER SOMEWHERE that actually lived up tp that potential, and thats why i was instantly interested in charon from pokemon and totally on edge waiting for the slightest chance for him to become That Perfect Sass Gramps Of Legend. And then he was indeed sassy!! And had so little screenyime that there was potential for interpretation of him as potentially redeemable cos i mean the game never said he wasnt, the game barely said anything about him at all, lol. And he was so old and small and frail looking and i just wanted to protect him!! And then that one wifi event that actually hinted at synpatheticness!! Aaaa its a recipe for a Forever Fave~

And i guess maybe it all started with my grandma being awesome and me really missing her? Cos i had shitty abusive parents and she was my ONLY good family member who showed me what love was like. And she was also basically a supervillain. Like every damn supervillain trait except being evil! She was bombastic and confident and sassy and mischievious and loud and passionate about stuff and always had something funny to say and never gave up no matter how many times she failed. And she also used all that great power for the forces of good!

So yeh thats why i love sassy good guys and i hate that often even when a sassy villain gets redeemed they seem to lose all their edge and become more generic now theyre a good guy. Or they get totally sidelined with no screentime anymore, or they ONLY get to be comic relief and dont get the full and complex redemption they deserve. Or just a lot of bads!! Its never the simplest answer of just fuckin.. Keep the character the character. Thats kinda why i didnt feel too much for the maleficent movie even though the concept itself sounded like everything i ever wanted. The character in that movie is a very different person to origibal maleficent, she's more just a stoic tsundere mumsy figure than a hammy badass iconicness. Still a nice villain redemption but it felt like it would have been better as an original story instead of an attempted maleficent. Also i wish they handled it better with the whole "true love's kiss could be from your mum instead" thing cos i get sooooo grossed out whenever i see people shipping movie maleficent and aurora! Like yes sleeping beauty with lesbians would be great but not when one of them is old enough to be her mum and raised her like a mum and changed her goddamn diapers! Also why did they have to ruin the three good fairies just to make maleficent have the mum opportunity? Like just remove them from the story if you wanted maleficent to raise the kid instead. No need to rewrite them into incompetant assholes when they were everyone's fave part of the original! Dont sacrifice the rare and elusive Good Sassy Gay Aunts!! THEYRE LIKE THE ONLY ONES IN DIDNEY!!! (Incodentally merlin is the equivelant of this to hades as the fairies are to ursula)

Also also villains tend to have ACTUAL FLAWS in stories that have a more boring bland protagonist. I wanna see the story behind charon's neuroses and how he struggles with overcoming his temptation to be bad because of greed but ultimately manages to conquer his own negative side because power of friendship and such. Thats a great character arc that provides so much more than he does as a villain where they just wasted him entirely :(

SO BASICALLY IN SUMMARY

* villains are often more complex and well developed characters with flaws while the same wroter might make shitty heroes due to the illogical fear that nobody would root for them if they werent 100% perfect and successful at everything ever

* villains are also often made as negative stereotypes of minorities and other rarely seen traits, which means its easy to reach out to them and reclaim them as a more positive version when theres literally no other options for you to cling to

* the quite common accidental sympathy factor where a villain will seem to be hated more than they deserve for their actions, ir unjustly punished so much that they feel like an underdog, since the writer assumes you'll think theyre "more evil" for being a stereotype and if you dont agree that this thing is bad then it seems like they have way less sins than the story claims they do

* also sass. Sass is good.

But basically the whole root of it is that its stupid and cruel and doesnt goddamn work when you make villains bigoted stereotypes. It just makes me love them! The only person i hate when i see a stereotypical villain is the writer who thought that was a good idea, lol. Just imagine that meme of the samurai holding the cat but its me holding all disney villains!

Also even if a villain isnt outright intentionally meant to be "this minority is bad", it can still make me symoathetic to them if theyre still something thats rare amoung the hero side in the same series. Like charon being the "most unredeemable" villain despite being the most harmless and funny and his plan being so much less world destroying than cyrus, and also he's the only grandpa villain in like.. The whole of all. And he's drawn very much in that way thays supposed to be "ugly" i.e normal grandpa, vs that weird sort of younger than he looks grandpa that hero ones tend to be because blablabla beauty ewuals goodness anti body positivity whatever. Tho actually sinnoh was good with that, they had the best grandpa professor in my opinion cos he got to be sassy too! Rowan always reminds me of auron from ff10. Sinnoh was a good game where i liked a lot of both the heroes and villains even if i still had more villain faves cos i mean pokemon is always biased towards that for me since every game has a voiceless perosnalityless main character and often theyre the one doing most of the heroing with the supporting hero characters having surprisingly little proper screen time. Thats a big part of why i loved hau gladion and lillie in sun and moon! They felt more like a real friend group than any other ones before.

ANYWAY now im just going offtopic into more "i love lots of stuff about every pokemon game" so ill stop typing now

But just basically VILLAINS ARE GOOD COS THEYRE GOOD CHARACTERS and if those stories gavethe same character a good guy role then id still love them just as much, if not more. I dont specifically like villainy, its just that my definition of a good character is often considered a bad character by lazy writers, apparantly?

Also WHERE IS MY SUPPORTIVE GOOD GRAMPS CHARON GAME AND GAY AUNTIE URSULA GIVES YOU FASHION TIPS SMARTPHONE MMO

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balsamina · 7 years

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✂ — a vivid memory

The rain beats down hard and unforgiving on her skin, her painstakingly applied makeup, her pristine and expensive dress. Within moments, her hair is damp and plastered to her face. She’d left so quickly and with such a sense of overwhelming urgency that grabbing an umbrella hadn’t even crossed her mind.

She brushes her hair out of her eyes so she can scan the courtyard and– sure enough, there’s her daughter, her beautiful and delicate Lillie, prancing about through the sheets of rain. A part of Lusamine had hoped she’d just been seeing things. Perhaps her vision has gotten spotty on account of the hours she’s spent staring at computer screens and squinting at hardly legible research notes, she’d thought (it feels surreal being outside now, like she doesn’t belong here, like someone is subtly pulling her back toward her desk).

But no, Lillie is indeed twirling and stomping through the puddles in her darling Mary Jane shoes, humming an offbeat tune to herself as she swings around an imaginary wand, and she’s moments from slipping and falling, Lusamine thinks, or at least sure to contract an illness. Her heart leaps up into her throat.

“Lillie!”

Lillie whirls and fixes her with a startled look, then a vaguely frightened one. Oblivious to it, Lusamine rushes to close the distance between them and, kneeling (paying no attention to the fact that she’s just dragged the edge of her dress right through the standing water), takes the girl’s face in her hands.

“Lillie… Oh, Lillie, what are you doing out here in this weather?”

She sweeps back Lillie’s bangs and finds wide green eyes staring back at her underneath. She thinks nothing of the bewilderment she sees in them. Lillie’s hair is limp and drenched between her fingers, and her skin cool to the touch.

“Look at you, you’re soaking wet…” Lusamine chides, voice wavering with concern. “You’re going to catch your death of cold…! Where is Wicke? She was supposed to–”

“Don’t be mad,” Lillie mumbles.

Lusamine pauses. “What was that, sweetheart?”

“Don’t be mad,” Lillie says again, just a bit louder, twisting the material of her dripping white skirt in her tiny fists. “Please. Miss Wicke… Miss Wicke didn’t know.”

“You… snuck out?” Deliberately disobeyed. It isn’t at all like her. Lillie gives a hesitant nod and, baffled and exasperated, Lusamine gestures to the pouring rain with a sharp motion of her hand. “To be out here? In this?”

Reluctantly, Lillie nods again.

Lusamine furrows her brow. She deflates, and her voice comes out soft and puzzled. “Why, Lillie? What were you doing?”

“D– Dancing…”

“… What?”

“Dancing!” A hint of excitement creeps into Lillie’s tone, and timidly she smiles. “In the rain! Like… Like in the movie.”

The movie?

The movie… Suddenly, the imaginary wand makes much more sense; it was not a wand at all, but Don Lockwood’s umbrella. Lusamine pinches the bridge of her nose.

“Lillie…” she begins as she straightens, Lillie’s hand clasped in her own. “Just because you see the people in movies do these things doesn’t mean you should do them yourself.”

“I– I know,” Lillie stammers. “I just… Well, I thought it looked like fun, and–”

“And you know how busy I am,” Lusamine continues. “Don’t you?”

Lillie quiets. Taking the silence as compliance, Lusamine begins to usher her back toward the main building.

“Come along, now. It won’t do for you to catch a cold.”

“… Yes, Mother. I’m sorry.”

Lillie’s voice is small and pitiful, equal parts guilt and disappointment. It worms its way deep into Lusamine’s heart and eats its way back out again. She gets only a few steps toward the intended destination before she thinks to look back, and immediately regrets it. The look on Lillie’s face is positively heartbreaking.

Lusamine gives her hand a gentle squeeze, and Lillie responds by squeezing back with both of her own. The sensation is startlingly clear and real– more clear and real than anything. How long has it been since she last held Lillie’s hand like this? How long has it been since she fixed Lillie’s hair, or seen Lillie at all?

Weeks. A month, maybe. The days have started to blend together for Lusamine, with night after night spent sleepless in one laboratory or another and time structured in deadlines and business meetings.

It’s no wonder Lillie had looked so surprised to see her.

“Oh, how does that tune go again…?”

Lillie peers up at her, confused, as she suddenly stops and– begins to hum. Lillie’s eyes light up with recognition; it’s the opening notes to “Singing in the Rain”. It starts quiet, uncertain, as Lusamine fumbles for her memory of the film, but grows louder and more confident once Lillie, apparently unable to resist, joins in.

Together, they make it through the introduction. It’s punctuated by a small giggle from Lillie. Lusamine is smiling as she leans down to take Lillie’s hands into her own.

“Do you remember the words?” she asks.

“Mm,” replies Lillie, unsure and still baffled by this turn of events. “Maybe…”

“It’s alright. I’ll sing them for you if you don’t remember.” She straightens, hands still clasping Lillie’s. “Now… Dance with me?”

Soon, they’re both sashaying through the puddles, twirling and singing together over the din of the storm. Uncertainty forgotten, Lillie quickly regains that same confidence Lusamine had glimpsed from the window of her study– and Lusamine laughs, for the first time in a long time. There is a pure giddiness about them that would put that iconic scene to shame.

I’m singing in the rainJust singing in the rainWhat a glorious feelingI’m happy again…

The lyrics get clumsier and clumsier, their duet interrupted by occasional, barely stifled giggles, before finally devolving into unrestrained laughter. Still shaking with mirth and growing uncoordinated with exhaustion, Lillie stumbles; Lusamine is quick to kneel and catch her in an embrace. They both take a moment to catch their breath before Lusamine speaks.

“All danced out?”

Lillie doesn’t say anything, but relaxes in her mother’s arms. Lusamine feels thin arms fit themselves around her neck.

“Alright… Let’s get you back inside, little lady.”

It’s harder to scoop Lillie up than she remembers it being, but she does so anyway. Once they get back indoors, Wicke and Gladion (bless his heart) are already waiting for them with warm towels in hand.

She of course comes down with a bad cold, as does Lillie. It’s obnoxious to deal with (she has so much work to do, she doesn’t have time for this), but somehow she can’t find it in herself to be angry– nor can she fault Lillie for repeatedly interrupting her much needed sleep just to make sure the entire event wasn’t a dream. But of course it couldn’t be; Lusamine never remembers her dreams so clearly.

#gxldenstreak #drabble #there are a bunch of memories that probably qualified better for this prompt buT I JUST WANTED TO WRITE THIS ONE OKAY........#Pokemon made 'Singing in the Rain' incredibly depressing to me with like one line of dialogue from Lillie. thanks SM for ruining my life

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