On Muu for a bit: Id like to say theres a balance here of not…horrifically demonizing a teenage girl but also not acting as if she doesn't perpetuates some really shit power structures.
Muu T2 VD:
Muu: Wow, poor thing... I’ll teach you! Friends aren’t like that, you know. Rather than using each other for something, we just get along because we’re comfortable around each other. That’s all.
Es: Well, I’m sorry about that.
Muu: Haruka-kun is really nice! He accepts anything I say, he listens to anything I tell him. For me, that’s really comfortable.
Es: And that’s… “friendship”?
Muu: What do you mean? Of course we’re friends! Haruka-kun is happy with it, so it only has benefits for both of us!
Es: I, as someone who has no friends, can’t judge, of course, but isn’t that just exploitation?
Muu: Exploitation…? Um, I don’t really understand, but… I do help him pick out clothes [in return], and I recently gave him a hairpin I didn’t need anymore as a hand-me-down!
Now this isn't the greatest sign but Es and Jackalope have shown to be unreliable and while it might not be entirely Healthy, healthy relationships are like a wild unicorn in this place. I'm a 0308 friendship supporter I can't argue Just On This.
Except...
You know how Haruka's mother keeps tropical fish that showcases how her mistreatment of Haruka is even worse because she clearly has the time and money and doesn't invest it in her child? (Post found! It's this one by red-moon-at-night thanks to @/tokyogruel for informing me!)
Muu T1 Interrogation:
T1Q14: Hobbies?
A: Taking care of tropical fish.
They're small and cute.
Haruka T2 VD:
Haruka: Muu-san is my mother.
Through association we can infer that Muu probably thinks of Haruka as "small and cute, like a pet"
Here's a question: Why do abuse victims stay in abusive relationships? There's a lot of very complex answers for this because of the nature of the question but here's two possible reasons:
The victim feeling that the relationship is a mix of good times, love and hope along with the manipulation, intimidation and fear.
The victim's lack of knowledge of or access to safety and support
We already Know Haruka is Willing To Let Himself Be Hurt if it means Staying Together With Muu.
Haruka: So what if she’s using me? Isn’t it a good thing to be used? For someone to think of me as worthy enough to use me… isn’t that something to be happy about?
Es: Haruka… you…
Haruka: If you don’t forgive Muu-san, I’m going to kill you.
Es: You really have no learning ability whatsoever. You can’t kill me.
Haruka: Ah, right… Then… I’ll die.
And We already know Muu has a history of participating in these sort of structures as the perpetrator of them.
I don't think Muu would PURPOSEFULLY mistreat Haruka. I don't even think Muu is a master manipulator or anything. Muu can be as Nice and Genuinely Helpful as she wants but, that doesn't mean she Cannot harm Haruka.
I'm not going to Say she is, but it is something she did Before, and I think we gotta keep that in mind when it comes to how she and Haruka interact.
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Hii, meet Leif and Tove, my two Hilda ocs!!! I posted about them a bit ago but have onto finally made sheets and I guess properly written traits and stories. Might expect me posting about them a fair bit. They’re girlfriends. :) Witch and fairy ship dynamic (Wife (the-hilda-librarians-wife) was so right when she brought that theory up).
‘Leif’ is pronounced ‘layf’ (Xian (咸) is approximately a sharp ‘sheyen’), and ‘Tove’ is pronounced ‘toe-vah’.
Warning this is very long.
So Leif’s first and last name are both from her dad’s side, and so is her accent (and her dad has the same accent, but her mum as a thick filo accent <3) which I know what it sounds like because I’ve heard it but imagine a Swedish accent that’s a bit tonal? Maybe I’ll link it if I find a video. (Most likely will not find considering I can’t even find a macau accent video.)
They’re not exactly friends to lovers, more like they kind of immediately bond and really connect and they don’t know why because they’re young (they initially know eachother from 13-15) and also aren’t the best at understanding people, but then they get close and realise what they have isn’t like the friendship Leif sees at school or Tove sees in the Isle, so they realise maybe they like each other. It’s more ‘falling for each other without realising it’ than friends to lovers. But of course they are really good friends.
Their dynamic is like- they’re dedicated as hell to each other and always with each other but not attached. They could spend eternity just sitting and watching the clouds and the stars, because together they just feel like they’re really understood? It feels so calm. But they’re also very considerate of each other and are okay with being apart. But there’s also like- their own personalities which get in the way, especially at 15 and then at 17 onwards. Don’t get me wrong, they’re very healthy!!! But there’s always got to be something, you know. Idk how to explain it too well and I’m going to make art of this, so- it’s like Tove’s song for/to Leif is Graceland Too (also the folk-ness of it is very much Tove’s vibe) and Leif’s song to Tove is Rue. Since Tove leads a generally good life apart from troubles with the entity and she’s a bit of a loner because she doesn’t have any ‘proper’ friends back home, and Leif is very much that messed up complicated family life person that just hides it all until someone notices and asks and she can trust them. So Tove cares a lot for Leif and doesn’t mind, but Leif doesn’t want to be a burden and feels bad that it happens. So that complicated things sometimes, but it’s always okay. Yeah they’re not love songs, but that’s okay because their friendship is just as important.
More on that -v
So the thing about Leif and her parents is that because they’re actually present in her life (and pay for ballet class so it’s that whole ‘but they support that interest and provide for you!’ dilemma) it’s much more complicated with them not being good parents/people to her (but relatively decent or even good to everyone else). Good things have happened amongst all the bad, they’ve had those close moments, and also there’s that element of culture; she gets it from them and shares it with them, she was raised in it, she loves it, but it is forever connected to them and they are the only people she knows that accept her in that. It makes her feel like if she ever says anything about the bad, no one will believe her. So that’s why all she does is run. But in this way, her friendship with Kaisa means that little bit more because of it. Here comes this adult who immediately is nice to her and when she gets to know her actually appreciates her and becomes her friend, and she believes her and understands despite Leif’s own worries about it; it’s the first time she’s known someone like this so it means a lot to her. The Witches Tower is like her refuge. In a way it’s like Tove realises the trapped nature with the fairy entity (13 age and fae conflicts remember), but she has to stay in fairy country, she feels trapped even when she gets to leave, she’s trapped because she has to stay, and at 17 she spends almost all her time in the human world, but her parents (who are lovely, bless them) stay in the isle because it’s all they know, so she still has to go back to that place. The entity is okay with her parents because they’ve lived their lives as normal, but Tove’s just that kid who can’t help but- not do that (tism allegory lol). Tove feels trapped by the entity, and Leif feels trapped by her parents because she knows she’ll never be able to leave. Anyway, the ballet thing- there’s probably been a moment of her parents not showing up (when she’s like 16) but Kaisa does?? As it says in the photo, Kaisa and Leif are that older/younger friend who act like siblings, and also Leif is there in return for Kaisa (especially w/witch stuff)!!! As the years go on she’s (Leif) home less and less not just for witch studies (uses witch studies as an excuse to herself, lol (her parents don’t know obviously)), she’s smart as hell and excels in school but also it’s hard to cope so she kinda just does her work and passes out lol. She’s not falling and she’s more than managing, but that’s just a mask over what really happens, also autism so she’s also just lost in that sense. School doesn’t have friends, and when Tove is gone she only really has Kaisa so she really does just spend her time in the witches tower practicing the hell out of her magic + studies it super hard, and maybe she’ll do normal homework there, and she’ll wait for the library to close to say hi to Kaisa then goes home at night. Her parents don’t question it because they don’t care.
Okay, now for the fun stuff!!!
From 13-15 they are the BEST of friends. They travel to each other’s worlds and they listen to music and watch clouds together. Tove loves to play games and tell stories, and Leif loves to tour Tove around the city and show them ‘normal world’ life, showing infrastructure and transport and stores etc. Tove is a nature traveler and Leif is a city traveler. Oh, and Leif kinda rants about ballet sometimes to Tove and Tove just thinks Leif is very interested until Leif has her over while her parents are off somewhere and Tove finds a box of ballet shoes and is like ‘???’ - she is shocked in a funny way and ends up watching at least one recital (then ends up ranting to her parents about it). (<- That’s when they’re 13-15.)
Oh, and more dynamic stuff that is yeah 13-15 but much more so when they’re 17. - They are also very comedy with eachother. Tove literally has no strength in her arms whatsoever so Leif (who I should probably point out wears knee braces (will show in a future post) and alternates between using forearm crutches and not) has to carry most things that have weight to them. If she’s just around witches or they’re by themselves she’ll magic/levitate whatever it is instead though. Leif has great leg and arm strength (she does ballet come on), but they’re also flexible to a fault. Also Tove disliking fighting and combat isn’t an angsty thing, it just becomes kinda funny when she’s there when Leif has some witch thing or is fighting something, she’s hiding in the back not fearing for her life but scared and feels like a dog with a vacuum cleaner.
Also I cannot stress enough how yeah Leif is a nerd and yeah she’s a dedicated witch, but SHE’S LITERALLY A TRAINING BALLERINA. Yeah she’s wanted to be a witch for ages because she’s known about it because of her mum’s relative and her mum knows basic stuff, BUT SHE’S ALSO SUPER HARDWORKING WITH HER BALLET LIKE PLEASE GUYS SHE IS GOOD I PROMISE, I KNOW SHE DRESSES LIKE A 1900S MALE BUT SHE IS GOOD AND SHE LOVES IT.
But yeah, Leif and Tove. A complete overloaded nerd and her nature loving weirdly good at horticulture girlfriend.
Okay so notes on where I got some inspo from:
-Only the most minor stuff is based off things about me which is part of Leif’s heritage, her weird music taste, and her being physically disabled :) (the first and last thing I was HEAVILY debating on not putting in because I was kinda scared to, but I having a character that had these little pieces felt really important.). (I mean there’s their autism but that was not a choice when I was creating them, that just happened.)
-Leif’s friendship with Kaisa!!! Their dynamic (which includes the friendly teasing but also unafraid realness/honesty) is inspired by my friendship with someone and I kinda cherish that sort of friendship and I thought Leif would need someone like that, and who knows, Kaisa could too.
-Everything else is pretty much random.
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So the whole ‘they reunite after s3’ thing is basically me taking my ‘why the hell could Phinium and Lydia not leave when the bargain was changed AND THEY WERE MEANT TO LEAVE?’ and in that wanting them to get to be there for Hilda and Johanna, and hence making up some door portal thing based off of whatever Astrid and Phinium were talking about, in which Hilda basically is talking about it (the separation) with the crew at the library and of course Kaisa hears because she hears kriffing everything, and she’s like ‘I think I have an answer to this.’ but instead of giving them a book she presents them with Leif who is then filled in on stuff and is liek ‘Okay, yeah, I think I can make another portal. And for this purpose I’ll do it/I’ll try because family.’, but she makes Hilda ask her mum because does Johanna want this or does Hilda think she does and Johanna doesn’t really know but she agrees and so somewhere in the library in the hidden rooms BEFORE it reaches the witches tower, everyone kinda gathers and Leif has a hell of a lot of spell books and also fairy magic books with her and she essentially with her wand + the fairy magic in Hilda and Johanna, magics a door that’slike etched into the wall and has inscriptions and stuff, and mushrooms kinda grow at the bottom to show that it’s active/can work because kinda like the mounds I guess. (I have a design for this by the way lol.) (also for my fellow sketchbook shippers, Kaisa is just staring at Johanna the whole time like ‘:0 damn, this woman’ (also maybe she’s kinda helps to convince Johanna to dot his very reassuringly idk)) Yeah Hilda + Johanna + Leif go into fairy country and Leif is just there to make sure everything works, and really this is all me I guess doing a ‘fix-it’ so Johanna’s parents can still visit and be there for her and make up for lost time etc. Literally this whole door thing was just for that. But then I realised I could use it to my own advantage and have Leif and Tove happily reunite lol.
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