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bee-tee-rus · 2 months

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MML AU where King Pistachion is a single dad going on a T/indr date with you and Derek keeps fucking shit up:

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Your legs bounce with anticipation. You tie the 50th knot out of the paper sheath that your straw came in, now noticing how strong it-- oh! Nope, it finally tore. Broken out of your daze now, you take a look around the little sandwich shop that you sit alone in, wondering when your date will show.

Online dating isn't really your thing, due to the countless articles and stories you've sunken time into reading, giving your paranoia a whole 'nother level of paranoia. But it really can't be that bad, right? You are hyper aware or any potential danger, so it all should be fine.

Some minutes pass, and you just got back to your seat with a Pistachio latte. You laugh to yourself, remembering that the guy's screename who you are supposed to meet was... "King Pistachion". He didn't look like your typical human. In fact, dude didn't look human in the slightest. Like some hot sexy monstrous treeman. Hey, there's a first time for everything! You pat your pocket to be sure you brought tweezers-- in case of any splinters.

RING! The door opens after what seemed like an eternity and you are 99% sure that the being who came through is him. I mean, how many men made of wood really live around here... Actually, that's a great question and you'll look into that later.

The tree man swivels his head and squints his eyes as he looks around the room. I lock my eyes onto him, yet remain silent as he surveys the room. I can't help but feel a bit intimidated. Once he turns my way and meets my gaze, I flash a weak smile and wave. He straightens up, nearly missing the ceiling as a huge smile forms across his face. The man comes forward and then I realize just how much taller he is than I. If this date gets far enough... I wonder how THAT will play out? I shake those unwanted thoughts away.

"H-hi, I'm Anon. Um from the uh... The app." God, why are you nervous?

"I know, as soon as those gems glistened my way, they drew me in... Anon~" the man says with smoothness as he kneels down and grabs your hand, his large stick thumb caressing the top of your hand in a seductive way.

Oh God, he is laying it on a little too thick.

"Uh..." You pull your hand away, feeling awkward from the sudden gesture. "Here, let's sit down and maybe talk some first, kinda get to know each other?"

"Ha ha yes, my little berry. Here... Let me--"

"AH!"

Suddenly, you are light on your feet. In fact, you aren't even on your feet anymore! This man had the audacity to pick you up and carry you bridal style to your seat. Sir, this is a Jimmy John's. He pulls out your chair with one hand and gently sits you down, then goes over to his seat and plops down in it. He leans his chin on his clasped hands as he leans forward to give you his undivided attention. What is with this guy? It seems like he is wanting to get to the good part already, like slow down!

"Haha... " You chuckle nervously, not knowing how to react to his chivalrous antics. "So... Is 'King Pistachion' your real name?"

"Yes."

"Really? No really?"

"Well I suppose if I had a human identity, I would go by 'Pcarl'. The 'P' is silent."

His face looks proud of his swift answer to you. The gears in your brain start turning and churning. There's not a single 'P' in 'Carl', what is he... ? Whatever, you won't question his logic for now.

"Okay, Pcarl..." You look the strange man up and down, not really feeling the name. You get the strong feeling that he just made that up on the spot. "Can I call you KP?"

"If that's what your heart desires, little berry~" he purrs out as he flashes a wink in your general direction.

You let out a sigh and try your best to reel the tree man back to square one with you.

"Anyways, KP, tell me a little about yourself. What do you do for fun? What sorta job do you do?"

"Oh you know. Terraforming foreign lands with my bountiful seed to grow my fiersome army of Pistachion soilders so we can rule this dying planet."

A smirk forms on his face as he leans back with his arms crossed.

With a strained poker face, you can only bring yourself to respond with a repeated question.

"... And for work?"

"Terraforming foreign lands with my bountiful seed to grow my fiersome army of Pistachion soilders so we can rule this dying planet."

Hm, so he's pretty much a Line A to Line B guy. You are uncertain whether you should feel threatened or not. Your thoughts get cut off when you hear an adult male voice boom through the restaurant.

"DAAAAAD! DAAAAAD WHERE ARE YOU?"

The whiny voice feels as though it is being focused towards us. KP lets out a grumble, face palming and muttering something under his breath. You can only make out a, "Not now" due to the Ed Sheeran music drowning out miniscule sounds. King Pistachion lifts up a finger to you as though he is motioning you to hold on, stands up and turns to face the door where the voice came from. He inhales as his eyes close and brows furrow, then responds.

"What now, Derek? Daddy's busy with 'business'!" KP holds out his hands towards you. So you are a business matter now? You would feel offended, yet the curiosity of this situation keeps you quiet as you become the onlooker of whatever is about to transpire.

This "Derek" was smaller in size compared to his father, being the size of a human adult male. He kinda had a BioShock thing going on with his fashion, with the top hat and tailcoat combo. He stuck some resemblance to his dad, except for the chiseled features of his face. You would think this guy could be a model or something.

"You said you would be quick and it's been 5 hours already!" Derek says with exasperation.

"Derek, stop being so dramatic. I've only been in here for 10 minutes and was this close you getting you a mommy" KP hisses as he presses his index finger against his thumb to emphasize how close he was to--

"What? I never agreed to anything like-- Is that why you have been so flirtatious from the get-go?" You can't believe that this guy really thought that it would take a mere day of cheesy romantic antics to get someone to just marry him.

"It was going so well, I could see in your eyes that your heart began to call out to me." He turns his head to you and looks a little smug, as though he truly believed this date was going great.

"I don't want a new mom! I'm happy with the one we got at home" Derek stomps his foot to assert his belief.

"Your 'mom' is a heat lamp, that's not a mother. That's a machine that aids. We need the touch and love of a real being, especially for when I'm busy with my plans."

"Her name is 'Laura' and you would know that if you ever came home and spent time with us!"

You are assuming that the heat lamp 's name is Laura. It's a bit hard to follow this conversation, yet you try your best since it involves you in the mix. Derek begins to walk towards the table and stands in front of you, rubbing his chin as he thinks.

"How old are you?" He asks as he narrows his eyes, making sure that you do not lie to him.

"30?"

He huffs as he throws his arms up and spins around to walk away. Derek begins to become as boisterous as he was before.

"Really, Dad? They're not much older from me or your other kids! That's like you're dating my siblings or something!"

"Don't be disgusting, Derek. It's not like that at all, get over it!" King Pistachion 's tone is now becoming more impatient at how his son is publically judging him around strangers. Something flat and green grows from the bush on his head, he reaches and picks it off. Wait, is that... Did he just illegally grow cash?

"Here's $50, just-- PLEASE, go find some entertainment and let Daddy finish business."

The steamed tree man towers over his son, holding out the totally legal cash for Derek to accept. A few seconds pass and Derek silently snatches the cash and leaves. Kind Pistachion lets out a heavy sigh of relief and dusts his hands, sitting back down and his face quickly transforms from anger to... Oh he's gonna keep trying, isn't he?

"So... Anyways, have you ever lay with a man of lumber?" His eyebrow raises as he leans forward, doing his best (and failing) to woo you.

"Uhh... "

"YOU KNOW I SPRINKLED WEED KILLER ON YOU IN YOUR SLEEP SO YOU CAN'T MAKE BABIES!"

This time, you did not hear the door open but you recognize the voice. It's Derek once more, only this time he is holding a yellow dog. You hear the chair scoot and look to find King Pistachion looking horrified. Is this man afraid of dogs?

"D-Derek, put that thing away now! You don't know what you're doing!" KP shakily says as he presses his back against the wall.

Derek chuckles as he pets the blissfully unaware dog that he carries.

"Oh I do know what I am doing, father..."

He puts his hands under the dog's arms and holds it up and far from him, Lion King style. The smile of Derek fades, his head tilted down with his brows furrowed, causing dramatic shadows on his face.

"I just gave this dog a full bowl of water and cranberries... He hasn't relieved himself yet. Now if you don't piss off from this pointless date and take me home..." Derek pats the dog's belly and a swoosh of fluids can be heard. "Then I'll have no choice but to piss you out of here."

What the hell is going on? Without a peep, King Pistachion stands up and heads towards the door. He seems cautious as he passes the airborne pup, squeezing his large frame by his son and through the exit. Derek has a prideful grin, puts the dog down and goes to follow his dad into the parking lot.

You are now out of your seat and rush to the window. You want to see what sort of vehicle these two travelled in. What exactly are these beings? Are they aliens? A science experiment gone wrong? Surely, something like them wouldn't be driving something so basic, right?

Wrong.

Why are you surprised? KP and his son enter a dual colored PT Cruiser, the top half being a pale green while the bottom half is a pale yellow. Ha, it's a PisTachio Cruiser. From here, you can vaguely make out both of their expressions from the car. King Pistachion wears a look of irked defeat and Derek has the smile of someone who got their way. The car drives off and now you are just sitting alone in the shop, not wanting to even finish your pistachio coffee.

"I don't think I like pistachios anymore."

#my writing #one shot #this was really dumb #i just imagined it and decided to write it out #milo murphy's law #king pistachion #derek #mml #mml fanfic #the drawing is crappy since I sketched it on my phone #my art

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kousin-itt · 2 years

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King Pistachion Appreciation Post - Because Some Villains are Better than Others

I’ve been rewatching “Milo Murphy’s Law” just for the fun of it (also I’m scribbling out some more fanfictions and I wanted inspiration), and I got to “Missing Milo”, and I was reminded of how much I liked King Pistachion as the antagonist, and I decided I wanted to list out the reasons why, and I thought I would share it on Tumblr just because.

Look, this is going to be a long-ish read, but I included screenshots from the episode so it’s not just a wall of text. If you’re bored or you’re interested in villain analyses, read on. Have a lovely day!

First of all, can we acknowledge what an efficient villain is King Pistachion? Sure, it took him some time to mutate, grow, gain sentience, and uproot himself. But it didn’t seem like much time passed before he overthrew all of humanity. Or, at least, overthrew the Tri-State Area and began remaking it in his own image. He made quick work out of taking control of the capital building (the symbol of the government he wants to overthrow) and the Bureau of Time Travel (home to the few people who could feasibly stop him). This here is a villain who truly understands the phrase “Many hands make light work” as he storms the world with his Pistachion army.

Speaking of Pistachion army, how cute is it when King Pistachion acts so fatherly to his children? His opening speech for “We’re taking over the world” included telling his kids how proud he was of them and taking family selfies to celebrate. I mean, he has pictures of his kids on their birthdays and causing general destruction and mayhem. What a supportive dad!

But, seriously, the two things that make King Pistachion a compelling and formidable foe are his powers and his intelligence. Let me explain.

It can be assumed that King Pistachion has the same powers as the other Pistachions: vines that shoot from the wrist, making flowers with knockout gas, etc. etc. etc. Now take a look at the other stuff he did during the fight in the courtyard. He could manipulate the earth and use it to his advantage. In theory, he could cause stuff to just spontaneously grow, or he could change the earth at his feet to whatever he needs. It’s already daunting to face down a plant monster that’s (I’m assuming) 15+ feet tall but now you want to fight him on his home turf? Your odds would be much better on the ocean or in the sky or in a place devoid of plants.

Beyond those powers, he is durable and strong. He got hit by the time limo (or parts of it) at least three times, with nary a scratch nor a splinter out of place. Also, he got hit by a sink. A legit sink launched by a catapult by Cavendish and Dakota, but did that stop him? No. The SINK shattered, NOT King Pistachion. Most sinks are made of porcelain, as I’m sure we all know, and I’m fairly certain that you could throw a sink at a normal person and kill them. So, yeah. No wonder it was so hard to defeat him.

As for the intelligence, I have three key bits of evidence that show his strategizing and thinking-ahead skills.

1. Not only did King Pistachion take over the Bureau of Time Travel, oh no, he made himself a time machine! He also knew exactly where to find the fuel and made sure to round up all the 2175 clocks, taking away that resource from his enemies. (and potentially reserving that fuel source for himself). He didn’t just destroy the weapons his enemy had. He used the tools of his opponents to further his own agenda!

2. He knew about Cavendish and Dakota, and he made a strategy for capturing them. My theory is that King Pistachion checked the records at B.O.T.T. and found all the time travelers and their vehicles. Ergo, he would know that some of them (Cavendish, Dakota, maybe he even knew about Savannah and Brick) were not there during his takeover. So, to ensure his success, he organized his troops to capture the remaining time travelers and their time machines.

As we see in Part 2 of the “Missing Milo” special episode, one of the Pistachions (correctly) assumes the humans they caught were Cavendish and Dakota the missing time travelers; and he declares that, since they have captured the time travelers and their time vehicle, “no one can go back in time and alter the king’s existence.” (I’m pretty sure that’s close to a direct quote. I’m weird like that. I remember random lines from stuff I like to watch.)

3. King Pistachion fights smarter, not harder. He spends a good chunk of the fight in the courtyard protecting his past plant persona. Even when some attempts to draw him away work, he is quick to go back when he sees something or someone threatening it. When his soldiers are defeated and he is the only Pistachion left to fight, he doesn’t use brute force. No. He uses a dirty trick and threatens the lives of Milo’s friends to get him to surrender.

Yes, I’m sure some of us saw this scene and were like “Oh, come on! That is such a cliché! And super rude. Like, why you gotta be that way?” Predictable? Yeah, maybe. Effective? Absolutely. King Pistachion didn’t know about Milo at first; but he deduced pretty quickly that Milo was the type of person who would never call King Pistachion’s bluff in a situation like that. Either King Pistachion would drop Milo’s friends before he could destroy the plant, or Milo would succeed in killing the King Pistachion sapling at the cost of not having time to save his friends after the future King Pistachion vanished.

It was a 2-3 story drop. Even by cartoon logic, they weren’t going to survive that.

This is actually a great segue into the beauty of King Pistachion’s defeat.

Woodpeckers. Surprisingly reasonable weakness. There were episodes leading up to this one that woodpeckers are attracted to pistacia vera. So a whole flock, drawn by a woodpecker whistle, poking holes into King Pistachion’s bark and weakening him, makes total sense.

On a side note, did anyone notice that King Pistachion actually lost his legs? I think there’s some continuity gaps, but when you re-watch this scene in the episode, you can clearly see that his legs have broken off at the knee. But they were intact when he fell off the roof, so it can be assumed that the holes drilled by the woodpeckers weakened his bark so much that his legs just snapped off when he hit the ground. Way to embrace the dark moments, Disney cartoons!

But what really destroys King Pistachion was Diogee……peeing on the original plant. Yes, that’s gross. Yes, that’s a bit childish. But, hey, we’re talking about a kids’ show here. Besides, we had some foreshadowing earlier on when we found out Diogee’s middle name is “ex machina,” as in the stage theatre term for “the conflict is magically resolved with something no one expected, and it was probably a deity of some kind who caused it.” Ergo, a reasonable resolution to the problem of defeat-the-plant-monster.

As a final note, it was great that King Pistachion’s final words of “You haven’t seen the last of me!” rang true when Derek appeared and sort of brought the whole first season arc to a satisfying conclusion. That being said, I would have loved to see King Pistachion return. Like with a clone or something? But actual King Pistachion and not just one of his kids trying to live his dream. Because, as much as Derek succeeded in taking over the world, his plan wasn’t as well-executed compared to his father’s.

How did he go from "I'll make a popular TV show and use the proceeds to fund my scheme!" (great plan!) to "I'll just spend the next fifty years making realistic human disguises in some hidden factory somewhere." (not a great plan)? But, I digress.

Much love, King Pistachion! You were an awesome villain who occasionally popped into my nightmares!

#milo murphy's law #king pistachion #villain #analysis #milo murphy #balthazar cavendish #vinnie dakota #pistachio

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