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(these touch prompts give me LIFE good god ur writing is T O P T I E R)
After so many near-death experiences over the past few years, you’d think Mike would have gotten used to it now. But when the Upside Down vines grab him by the ankles and drag him straight through the gate, Will close behind him, he still manages to be taken aback.
They land hard on the ground on the other side of the Lover’s Lake gate, both gasping frantically for air after being suddenly yanked through the water. Mike sits up, blinking and staring out at the desolate sky surrounding them. He hasn’t been through a gate yet, and he immediately wishes he could have kept that streak up - he feels sort of nauseated, and also vaguely like the world is ending, probably because it is.
Nonetheless, Will is here, so things can’t be all bad. He glances over at his friend- no, his boyfriend now, as of two weeks ago, he reminds himself, and happiness cuts through his fear and adrenaline. Will is sprawled out on the ground, coughing as he lifts himself up onto his elbows and glances around. He looks dazed, like he’s not sure where he is, or maybe that’s just the trauma response talking.
“Will,” Mike says quietly, and Will’s eyes snap to him with no small amount of relief.
“Mike,” he chokes out, and he crawls his way over to him, grabbing Mike’s shoulder tightly, and Mike hurriedly reaches out to wrap an arm around him as he scoots closer. “We shouldn’t- God, the bats, we need to get out of here.”
Mike glances around, frowning. There don’t seem to be any bats around, he notes, nor are there any demodogs or new beasts lurking in the corners. Maybe they’re still distracted by Eddie’s corpse, lying somewhere near a trailer park forever abandoned, Mike thinks bitterly, and quickly shoots down that thought before he can think too hard about it. Now is not the time.
“I think we’re okay for now,” he murmurs to Will, who nods blankly, still staring around and looking incredibly shaken. “Are you okay?”
“I- yeah,” Will says, not believable in the slightest, and he continues to cling to Mike’s shoulders as Mike pulls him closer, halfway into his lap. “It’s just- I haven’t been here like this before. Through a gate. It feels more real.”
Mike hums sympathetically, arms wrapping carefully around Will’s back, and Will takes a shaky breath, head dropping to rest against Mike’s shoulder. “It’s gonna be okay,” Mike says, with as much conviction as he can muster, reaching up to brush gentle fingers through Will’s hair. “We just have to get back, and we’ll be fine.”
Will doesn’t respond, instead squirming closer to Mike and tucking his face away against his neck, face hidden and breath warm against Mike’s neck. Mike lets it happen for a beat, kissing the top of Will’s head and keeping one hand resting gently against the back of his neck as he feels Will’s breathing even out a little. Then he pulls back, gently lifting Will’s face off his shoulder with two fingers under his chin. “Talk to me,” Mike murmurs, as Will reluctantly blinks up at him, and he leans forward to press his forehead against Will’s, fingers gently brushing back and forth over Will’s jawline.
“It’s, like,” Will starts haltingly, licking his lips, “When we’re in Hawkins I can only feel him when he’s near, but here he’s- everywhere. I don’t like it.”
Mike shivers a little at the words, and not for the first time he wonders at what it must be like to be Will Byers, sweet, shy, sarcastic Will who has never done anything but be himself, and the world has thrown obstacle after obstacle at him for it. It’s not fair, not even a little, and Mike wants to take some of his pain, wants to transfer it onto himself just so that Will can be a little lighter. “We’re going to get him,” he says quietly, as Will continues to cling to him, “I want him dead, okay? We’re gonna do it.”
Will huffs something resembling a laugh, eyes falling shut as he leans further into Mike. “Yeah, I’m sure Vecna’s super intimidated by the scrawny fifteen-year-old with pent-up anger issues.”
“Who, me?” Mike asks in mock offense, and relief courses through him as Will laughs again. “I am not scrawny.” The other stuff, however, is right on the nose, but he chooses not to share this particular information.
“You are,” Will says, opening one eye and smiling at him, “But it’s okay. I still like you.”
“You love me,” Mike corrects, just because he can, and he tilts forward to press a kiss to Will’s lower lip. “You love me so bad.”
Will smiles, and he’s not shaking at all anymore when he responds, “Yeah, I do.”
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do you have any hcs for barnacles and dashi ? I'm rewatching it and many episodes start with the two of them in the main area , oftentimes there's a third person involved but it's always the two of them so they must spend alot of time around each other :O 10 / 10 bonding
Had to think hard about this since Dashi's role in the main series is so small—but you're actually so right 👀 10/10 buddies 👍
You'll get my headcanons I promise but first you gotta listen to me infodump, okay? Deal:
I personally headcanon that Dashi was one of the first Octonauts, she hasn't been around a super long time- but at least long enough that she was probably around for the first Octopod, and that would give her and Barnacles (and the other OGs) plenty of time to get close.
We know Inkling canonically founded the Octonauts, but I imagine that it was actually Barnacles who picked out the crew—over various fateful encounters (Kwazii, Peso), or already knowing them (Tweak)—with the two exceptions of Dashi and Shellington.
Shellington heard about them through the kelp vine by pure chance, and got himself a job via determination. Then, at some point—he recommended Dashi to Barnacles or Inkling, and got her a position as an intern. (He knew her through her photography; she took pictures for him once or something like that.)
I also headcanon they weren't called The Octonauts yet at that point. I headcanon that Dashi came up with the "Octonauts" name during her first few days, and they kept it. (Coincidentally, the first Octopod crashed during those first few days. T'was completely unrelated, I promise 😅)
Fast forward: I've been thinking about Dashi in AnB a lot lately, and the one question that keeps coming up is: "Why did Barnacles make her the Captain of the Octoray?"
They haven't addressed it in the show yet, and it felt a little bit like the writers just wanted her to Do Something, y'know? So I went back to rewatch some of her main series episodes, and this scene from The Surfing Snails stuck out:
This scene shows how much he trusts her. He trusts her to make the right calls, and to be careful. He shows this trust in her again in the Wild Windstorms:
"...I'm ready for this!"
"I know you are, Dashi."
I REALLY wish they had spent more time giving her some kind of arc, showing this trust being built. She absolutely deserved an arc like Peso's, where we could've seen her growth and her bond with Barnacles getting stronger. It would've made the Octoray thing make much more sense, and I would've loved to actually SEE her evolution from "getting stuck in a whale shark" to "inventing stuff with Tweak" to the level of respect that Barnacles clearly has for her in S4 and Beyond, but instead it feels like all that stuff happened off-screen.
I also wanna point out real quick; that Dashi is one of the select few characters to ever call Barnacles by his first name only. This is something that the writers frequently use to emphasize closeness between Barnacles and someone else (Kwazii, Natquik, etc), and Dashi has done it twice. I'll admit I thought it was an error the first time, but then I caught her doing it again in Sac Actun. SO CLEARLY THEY ARE CLOSE. YES? WE AGREE. YES.
ok I'm done. pleasure doing business with you 🤝
*slams hands down on table* MISC. HEADCANON TIME ‼️ (which technically, could all totally be canon until the writers finally decide to give us real information ✨)
She has 100% read ALL of his books and journals, at least twice. Sometimes he gives them to her so she can beta read them, and she's also helped edit a few.
She has written her own journals, mostly in the form of scrapbooks, that she shares with him too. He has a first edition signed copy of one of them.
She made friendship bracelets for everyone on the ship after the Octopod was rebuilt, and he keeps his on his desk. It's still in mint condition.
I feel like at least ONE of the cameras in her collection was a gift from him.
She is trained on how to steer the Octopod manually. Considering the only two on board at the time who knew how to do it were Barnacles and Tweak—her showing slight interest was the only convincing he needed to teach her.
Sadly, she's never needed to use this skill. Yet.
She learned how to play harmonica when he decided to learn accordion, so they could duet together, but she got the hang of it much faster than he did.
They work out together sometimes. She's much stronger than she looks—and has won an arm wrestling match against him at LEAST once. She's also beat him in a foot race; it was almost a very close tie, and she needed to lay down for an hour after—but she did it. He will never live either of these down.
They definitely gossip in HQ sometimes, when it's just the two of them.
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It was hard to research for terms that I forgot....
there were a lot of different terms that I wanted to request but I completely forgot any info about them and can't find them lol. i just know there is more than i remember. maybe any help? i need list of existing liom tems. what i mean is umbrella(?) terms like aldernic, omninoun, chronosian (that's all i remember) also look at this cool emoji 🧫
- 72V
saw this and went 'yeah i can make a list like that' so here's all that i know of:
Aptnoun
Omninoun
Aldernic
Chronosian
Perspesque
Gender Nature / In Nature
Neo AGAB
Objectum / Conceptum / Objectix
Personalius
Vior
Allion
Hearthic
Attraceive
Codintent / Xenointent ( unreality tw )
Animaive
Somadex
radiomogai's tag list of nonhuman / alterhuman types (link)
radiomogai's tag list of misc identities (link)
radiomogai's tag list of neurodivergent terms (link)
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