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kooktrash · 8 months

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may i have a drabble of electra heart where oc is in a very bad mood and started crying bc she had a fight w her dad and tae just coax her in the most affectionate way possible 💞💞😩😩

okokok i kinda did more of a sad oc with daddy issues 💀who just needs someone to hold her bc in the original fic tae was always very aware that she kinda skimmed over her problems with her dad

ELECTRA HEART

LOVING BOYF | KIM TAEHYUNG

anywho. warnings: none. 1.1k. just Tae being a boyf

When he first got involved with you it was only on a whim. He had been going through a break up where he was cheated on and he held a lot of resentment toward his ex for that. He let it get the best of him at the time and when he met you, he wasn’t necessarily in a place to meet anyone romantically and when you came along… he didn’t plan to fall for you, it just happened.

At first he never truly understood the hype around you or why you seemed to have even one of his closest friends as an admirer [once again, sorry Jimin], but once he got to know you, he understood. On the surface you seem like the average rich daddy’s girl that his ex painted you as, someone mean and spoiled but once one gets to know you, they know you’re not entirely like that.

Yes, you can be a bit spoiled at times but that’s because of the nature you grew up in. You’re actually a sweetheart no matter how many times you try to paint yourself as anything but. Your dad does get you everything you want but you’re far from a daddy’s girl. He belittles you and treats you like property, hell he couldn’t even respect that you wanted to be with Taehyung. That is why Taehyung has been so worried and distracted today.

“So where’s Y/n?” Namjoon asked as he walked into the lunch room with his two friends. It was the middle of the day and they’ve finished all of their morning classes but you had left your last one in a hurry just before lunch. Jungkook and Mira were sitting with them despite being your besties and not Taehyung’s but at this point in your relationship, your friend groups have combined into one big one.

Taehyung stood in line with his friends, “Having a lunch meeting with her dad.”

“A meeting?” Jimin asked with furrowed brows, “… With her dad?”

He nodded his head, not interested in talking about it anymore because then he would have to explain the relationship you have with your father and despite being your boyfriend he doesn’t feel like he has the right to talk about your personal familial issues.

A few hours had been added before you reached out to him and that’s how he knew something had happened. Usually, you respond to him immediately, even when you’re busy you always make time for him the way he makes time for you. He decided not to bother you on your lunch today but he had hoped you would let him know when you weren’t busy anymore so he could see you but you haven’t talked to him. Now he worries that something possibly happened on the lunch that had made you go quiet.

Once he finished with his last lecture and had yet to get any sign of life from you, he rushed over to your place to see what had happened. The two of you are so connected nowadays that all he needs is one small change in your mood or routine for him to know something was up. He’s just that in tune with you and he’s always been.

At this point there’s no need to hide when he gets to your apartment, the receptionist knows him well by now and made no fuss in letting him up to see you. He even brought out his key card and put in the code to let himself in only to be immediately blasted with loud sad music. He looked around your large and vacant apartment, “Y/n?!”

He didn’t get a response right away which sent her m into a small fit of worry that had him going straight to your bedroom wondering where you might be, “Babe?”

“Tae?” Your voice was slightly groggy as you spoke from under a mountain of blankets on your large king sized bed and Taehyung didn’t need much of an explanation to know the lunch didn’t go well. He could hear it in your voice as you said that single word to him and from the way you were hiding from him he had a feeling you weren’t feeling well now. With a small sigh of worry, he dropped his book bag on the floor and went to you, crawling up the large bed and over you hearing your groan at the sudden weight. He began to peel layer after layer of blanket off of you, “Where are you? Stop hiding.”

“No,” you said with a small sniffle, “I’m sad.”

Taehyung made a small pout once he finally found you with a red puffy nose and teary eyes, “What’s wrong? Tell me what happened.”

You hid your face in your pillow, “Nothing, just the usual. I’m not good enough or smart enough to do things on my own. All I’ll ever be good for is using my looks, spending his money and dating people like you. I’m sorry he’s still a piece of shit toward you.”

Taehyung shook his head as he finally got the blankets off of you so he could snuggle up to you, “I don’t care what he says about me, I care about what he says about you. I know he’s your dad, baby, but he’s so mean to you and I hate that. You deserve so much better after everything he’s done to you and it kills me to see you cry because of him.”

You sniffled, moving to lay on your back and look up at your boyfriend who took the new change in position to wipe away some stray tears. He sat up lifting an arm of yours to motion for you to get up as well and instantly, he was pulling you onto his lap, arms around your waist as you buried your face in his neck. He was practically cradling you in his arms as you hugged him, “He’s not a… y’know he’s not a bad dad. He’s not as mean or—“

“I know, but not being as bad as other dads doesn’t make him a good one. It’s okay to acknowledge that he’s done things to hurt you in the past even if you don’t think they’re as big of a deal. Telling your child that they’ll never be good enough and trying to control them in every way they can isn’t okay,” Taehyung said, running a gentle hand over your back, “I hope someday he takes the time to realize that he’s hurt you and see that you’re an amazing person who deserves all the love and support a parent should give. Until then I want you to know that I will always be here for you.”

You nodded your head unable to find the right words to say to him but he just looked at you with stars in his eyes and a loving smile on his face.

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lorata · 4 months

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I just reread all of your Sloane stuff and I love it and her so much??? The Sloane Lives AU is so fascinating and her attitude towards the Peacekeepers is so cathartic and understandable to me. I don't even know where I was going with this she's just one of the Characters of All Time to me

honestly SAME, i love Sloane so much and that AU mini-chapter was so satisfying to write (when I finished that bit i was like, the rest of the rebellion? i don't care, i got what i wanted out of it)

the thing with Sloane and the PKs is that she's RIGHT! she was always right! there are no good PKs because if there are they either get murdered (by the Capitol via other PKs) or they join the rebellion. and if they don't they get so crushed by the weight of what they're doing that they become bad PKs who rationalize that they're not as bad as the worst PKs and look away from the atrocities.

the thing of course is that when she's young she absolutely cannot even fathom the concept of the kind who would get murdered / leave so when she does meet the ones who make that choice it's baffling, but ultimately good for her too -- what happened to her becomes not, like, an inevitable force caused by mythical evil beings but a choice made by people. they could have chosen differently. these people did. we all get a choice. it's a sliver of agency back into her world, you know?

(Electra's ACAB arc is slightly different in that when she makes PK friends as an adult she thinks like, oh man, they're people trapped in a horrible system trying to do their best the same as I am, the real problem is up the chain (which like ... okay not wrong), but then she realizes that the ones she's friends with are also very much trying to dismantle the system in secret so her sample size was, ah, flawed)

in canon Sloane is the one i feel the worst about killing so that AU is very important to me

#lorata answers #transrevolutions #oc: sloane #we must be killers: tales from district 2

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hollowsart · 2 months

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I’d love to know more about your Electra, sandwoman, and lady Octopus spidersonas. They’re all so cool I can barely limit myself to three!

yes!!! okay!! lemme relay what I have:

(long post incoming!!)

All names given by The Daily Bugle, JJJ.

Lady Octopus:

There was some kind of testing for technical aids for people who have acrophobia and other issues like that that can cause problems, it was free testing, and Acedia was like.. one of the volunteers for one such device that looked more fun and enticing. and something obviously went wrong.

Actuators aren't fused to her, but they refuse to release her. there's a little special pad thingy that sticks to the back of her neck just at the base of her head, a neural reader that isn't invasive (aka, like a needle jabbed & directly tapping into her brain), and that little pad sends little signals to and from her so she can control the arms how Otto instructed when he hooked her up for a volunteer demonstration. (it went fine for a while, but then something went wrong with the actuators. Otto panicked and tried turning it off, shutting the whole thing down, but it was too late)

Luckily Spider-Hero!Beck was there to help her.

unfortunately, due to the fact the neural reading can send signals TO and from her.. the actuators latched on and can use that to hack into and control her for themselves. temporarily, but they can find power sources to keep their control going for a bit longer.

Acedia is puppeteered against her will and completely unaware of what the actuators are making her do. eventually they learn to speak through her and that becomes one heck of an experience for Otto, the creator of the actuators. on one hand he's amazed by how the coding and """"ai"""" has managed to do this remarkable feat of learning and evolving-- but on the other he is absolutely horrified by what this entails for the future and he needs to reprogram them, remove these features and prevent them from learning further and causing harm to others and especially harm to Acedia whom he is having to take care of and watch over.

Beck, the resident superhero, is helping care for her, too and bonding with Otto via helping Acedia be eventually freed from the actuators. They're all learning a lot, about each other, and about the actuators themselves. and through this learning, Acedia eventually gets the hang of it and learns to control the actuators herself.

the actuators still have control over her, but the battle is slowly becoming a losing one for the arms. Otto & Beck are slowly winning by working together!

if Otto tries to use force to remove the actuators from Acedia, like using drills or whatever to cut through the device.. it could hurt her and cause worse harm. which is why the harness with the arms stays on.

eventually, when full control over the actuators has been regained.. they can safely remove the actuators from Acedia. Finally free from the waking nightmare

Electra:

Me as Electro but my origin story is I touched a plasma ball while it was active inside a lab during a cool free tour and in my panic I instinctively and reflexively yanked my arm back, but I smashed into something else and ended up getting zapped unconscious. the plasma ball exploded in the process and didn't help with the electricity.

Can you blame me tho when it looked like this?

most realistic origin story: I did something dumb

she has "powered up" and "powered down" forms. powered down is just her looking completely normal, the neck piece to the full-body (minus the head) suit is also latched/clicked together. it helps keep her powered down and contained.

Sandwoman:

I don't actually have anything for Sand!Acedia.. (forgot to list her on the post oops) I just really liked the green sand. but I think Sand!Acedia would probably have been in the wrong place at the wrong time as a few of these sinistersona designs are in how they became what they are.

Lol I'm just really unlucky

green sand is real and very beautiful:

#//long post #spidersona #tagging for my blog.

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i--antimony · 2 months

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BIG tuesday

i skipped last tuesday because i was working on a take-home exam and simply did not have the time nor the inclination, so: beefy tuesdaypost today!

listening: my brother recommended 'dead magic' by anna von hausswolff and boy what an album. gothic, punchy, very vibey. the kind of album you let wash over you like an ocean wave.

pulled 'mostly kosher' from my to-listen list. fun, funky, very jewish, good vibes. ikh hob dikh tsufil lib

i've continued to mainline borodin symphonies 1 & 2. idk they're just hitting right.

and the new pieces for the orchestra i'm in - very french this time round: debussy's fêtes: kinda spooky and ominous and also fluid in a fun way! lots of buildup that seems to resolve into nothingness. horn parts for this are pretty good, not too difficult but are definitely Heard. chabrier's españa: really bumpin horn parts. fun bouncy motifs. what's not to like.

pocasting-wise, i'm up to partizan 38. 10 episodes left!!! the home stretch!!!!! it's so good but things are definitely amping up in the end-of-fatt-season way.

i've also listened to my friend b's gotham tv show podcast 'jim gordon must die'. very good and funny. i laughed out loud at some of the episode 3 descriptions.

reading: i was stuck in Bad Airport Times this past saturday (flight delayed 3 hours, then sat for an hour on the tarmac, arrived at 10pm when i was originally supposed to arrive at like 630) so i blasted through all ~150k words of 'freefall' by Kunoichi21 and xoTsundoku. bog-standard mafia au, but with a fun little circus arts twist; fun background fengqing; i do not like that they made beefleaf wholesome. give me my toxic beefleaf god damn it. but otherwise it was a fun read, sappy romcom-style. the fic itself isn't quite done but it's in endgame. the author notes have peak fanfic culture energy of "hey guys! sorry i didn't update, i started nursing school and my dad died" bro .... ;___; goddamn. please take care of urselves

watching: we are almost done with kill la kill! last two eps!!! so tonight we're doing that and also watching last week's dunmeshi together.

friend and i finished comrade detective. incredible. no notes. so funny. we started 'endeavour' which is a detective morse prequel thing and goddd the british-isms, and also started serial experiments lain. i don't know what i was expecting but god it was not this. i literally thought this was a cute fun hacker mystery show in the energy of cowboy bebop. it is Not That. not even close. it's good though i'm enjoying it. currently staggering through life going uhhhhh like lain does in the first few eps.

playing: fallow. i am re-installing disco elysium on my computer though. ive been wondering if i should try to keep going on the save file from last year or if i should just start over because i barely got in there at all.

making: many things. pottery!! some good some not as good.

so this design came out SO nice but the underglaze is so gd streaky! i hate it !!! i don't think it's really fixable either, i tried the hairspray trick to put new solid glaze over top the inside so at least that would look less like shit but i could not get it to work. maybe sanding it down? idk. it's ugly. it was supposed to be a bright teal but the woman who runs the studio mixed the batch up wrong so it's like. a really drab gray and not in a fun or intentional way. idk.

some new bisque:

teacups came out! still mismatched but cute nonetheless! gonna do them in a sort of celadon-type color with white flowers to match the teapot that my SO has :)

i don't feel like adding more photos for these lol they're very boring. the pot for my mom came out fine i think. gonna go in with normal white glaze over top to paint in some trees or other botanical designs. i sponged the underglaze on so hopefully the final result won't be streaky. sponged red on my seder plate to hopefully accomplish the same thing. mugs came through the bisque with no issues but i didn't do anything fun with underglaze on one of them so no new pics of that, but the other i did this tree thing again:

i KNOW it'll be streaky as hell. i just know. so i'm considering how i want to do it. perhaps putting some slightly transparent green over the top of it all to meld it together? unsure.

some new stuff: made a citrus juicer, this was attempt number 2 and just barely got it to work, attempt 1 was a total disaster. also made another mug type object, hopefully it'll still be wet enough this weekend to slap a handle on.

two mugs with red clay, i really loved the lascaux mugs that jessica bartram put up for sale last year but i didnt snag one in time so i was like. fuck it. i will make my own. gonna let them dry to leather hard before going in with black underglaze.

i've been trying to draw again but. idk. i just feel very uninspired. i start drawing and it's like :| :| :|

eating: i was on my own food-wise for much of the last week because my roommate was babysitting for the rabbi, so i did not eat nearly as extravagantly as i normally do, LOL. i made a lo mein recipe that was kinda just a stir fry. this could have been my fault because i added a bunch of extra shit like bok choy and mushrooms. i also didn't use the correct type of noodle, and i didnt have oyster sauce so i used worcestershire, etc. many substitutions so it's probably not fair for me to say it was Just Fine. will have to try again at some later date actually following the recipe. herb and radish salad with feta and walnuts: delicious. 10/10. i tossed in some extra arugula and that was also good. and i made the tofu brussel sprouts tahini/hoisin sauce thing again because it's easy and tasty.

misc: visiting my grandma right now ...... entrenched in the ennui .............. spring break ........................

#tuesdayposting #Spotify

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softsadsassysweet · 2 years

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Oh no not another Spike and Faye analysis.

I drove myself insane for months trying to figure out Spike’s ridiculously cryptic speech about his eyes to Faye in RFB. Why the hell of all things was this the thing he needed to so desperately tell her? My partner who loves the show and who is less emotionally involved than me completely deciphered it in a matter of seconds.

Essentially what they said:

“Spike isn’t a straight forward person who can admit his feelings. What a better way to indirectly compare these two women than to have one be the present and one be the past. Julia is his left eye, Faye is his right eye. Julia is the dream, and Faye is reality. The dream is over, Faye is who he has now.”

That hit me like a fucking truck when they said that.

I also realized that the only two people that Spike talks to about his eyes in the show, are Julia and Faye. He tells Julia in a voice over flash back during JJ and then Faye in RFB. They’re the only two people he tells about his eyes. BOOM, symbolism.

The next thing I banged my head against a wall over was his two speeches about the woman he loves to Jet and Electra.

Jet: When you and I first met, you told me something. You told me that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can’t you just let it go? Forget the past.

Spike: There was a woman. First time I found someone who was truly alive, or at least that’s what I thought. She was the part of me I’d lost somewhere along the way. The part that I was missing, the part I had been longing for…. She’s back.

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Spike: When I was younger, I wasn’t afraid of anything. I didn’t have the slightest fear of dying, no reason for it. I thought that if I die that’s fine with me anytime at all, but then I met a certain woman and it changed. I started to think that I wanted to survive. For the first time the fear of death began to scare me. It was on my mind. I never felt that kind of feeling almost, paralyzed.

Electra: And? Where is she now?

Spike: She… faded off somewhere. Strange you’re the first person I said this to.

Spike never says Julia’s name and it fucking haunts me. He says “I met a certain woman” or “There was a woman”. It felt on purpose that he’s being vague. Why not just say her name? Come on dude you spent a two parter episode arc looking for her. You were very open about what she means to you. Jet of all people knows who you’re talking about!! Why don’t yah just, SAY THAT IT WAS JULIA????

It’s because it wouldn’t be the whole truth.

I’ve read some very convincing essays about how these speeches are about Faye, but that doesn’t feel quite right either.

This is where I connected the symbolism of the eyes, to what he has to say about the woman he loves.

If Spikes eyes are showing him patches of reality, then his speeches are mixed parts of the truth of what he’s feeling. He feels for both women. They both affect him deeply in this way. They are both a part of him. Just like his eyeballs.

Another hang up I had, was how the descriptions of the woman’s actions and past tense language did seem to fit Julia. Why do the speeches seem to outwardly point to Julia and inwardly point to Faye?

Why throw us off like that?

I believe it’s because he doesn’t have to face reality with Julia. What’s done, is done. It’s the past. If he outwardly admits his affections for Faye then that indicates he’s going to begin to do some thing about it. He’s not there yet. The past is easier to control and therefor easier to talk about. The present and future are the unknowns. (Which is why he is dumb ass kid on the play ground level mean to her and keeps her at a distance. He doesn’t know how to handle Faye.) He’s not quite sure he even has a future. And yet, by being vague he gets the satisfaction of catharsis. He can finally say out loud how he feels about Faye. It’s all so tragically high school.

I’m probably going to revise this essay later, but for now I needed to brain dump it into the world. In the meantime I need a glass of wine and a life.

#faye valentine #spikespiegel #cowboy bebop #see you space cowboy #spike x faye #evenmytherapisttoldmeineedanewhyperfixation

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faintingheroine · 1 year

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Some Parallels Possibly In Favor of the Electra Complex Readings (Don’t Boo Me)

Nihal and her father: She no longer went into her father’s room in the morning to get him up out of bed. These morning frolics were completely at an end. Once, Nihal would wake, and while Bülent was still sleeping, quietly slip her bare feet into her slippers, enter her father’s room, and generally find him in his bed. As he persisted in demurring to get up, Nihal would invent some mischief.”

(Chapter 5) (italics mine)

Bihter and Behlül: One night, after everyone was asleep, she would slide off her bed, slip her bare feet into her slippers, throw something over her shoulders, and without so much as breathing, open her door… Ah! That moment of anxiety!.. As she heard the beating of her heart, she would suspect footsteps, an iron hand would grasp her wrist, a choked voice say in her ear, ‘where are you going?’ Then she would confess all. ‘There! To his room!’ she would say. She would admit to running away from this nuptial chamber into which no drop of comfort ever fell, to the room of that other, to that nest of her sinful passion, and after she had admitted this, she would be crushed under who knew what vengeful blow, her whole life would be ruined, leaving before her only an awful whirlpool for a future; but she would still be happy, happy to have lost everything, even happy to die, and she would run to her love…”

(Chapter 12) (italics mine)

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Firdevs and Behlül: “She was saying, ‘one day I will force you, you will tell me all of it. One by one, do you understand? In all detail… Who knows what beautiful stories, what strange romances you have, is that not so? You will tell me all. One day, in my room, sitting at my knees as you are now, like a child confessing his faults to his mother, and I a mother who listens to the child’s faults, who finds it delicious to listen…’

Behlül laughed. ‘Oh! A mother,’ he was saying, ‘where did you come up with that? Shall I tell you something? But no, I won’t tell you…’”

(…)

Peyker and Firdevs and Behlül: Behlül Bey, grapes please, give me some grapes.’

As Behlül handed Peyker the grapes on a little plate, he was looking at her with a glance that said, we are reconciled now, aren’t we? Then he was adding to himself, ‘without a doubt, we are reconciled. But it must be admitted that today I was more inept than a schoolboy following the neighbour’s daughter. Here, where we could be seen by anyone!… Then women, the women of this world, do not wish to be taken like a common plaything. This should be such a thing, such an unexpected, sudden affair, that above all it should look like an accident.

‘Wouldn’t you like some grapes too?’ he was asking Firdevs Hanım.

Nihal and her father: Adnan Bey and Nihal had happened to sit side by side. For the past year, father and daughter had not sat so close to each other. Now there was something between them, peculiar to those who have not seen each other for a very long time; as if to fully feel the pleasure of being this close, they were always busying themselves with one another, forgetting their surroundings, and speaking with soft voices, they were alone in the crowd. Nihal was at first hesitant, but one word, one look from her father was enough for her to forget all of her resentment. Within five minutes she had returned, with her father, to a year ago.

‘Won’t you give me a grape, Nihal?’

Nihal, laughing, was showing the bunch in her hand. ‘Eat from here.’

Adnan Bey enjoyed this idea. In him too, the need had arisen once again for the childish ways he had with his daughter, as before.

‘Let me be your child,’ he was saying. ‘A giant baby! And you are my mother, an itty bitty mother…’

Then he was reaching out his hand with the timidity of a child, and picking a grape from Nihal’s bunch. This simple game that arose out of nothing seemed so pleasing to them, that they both laughed each time.”

(Chapter 7) (italics mine)

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu #electra complex #nihal #behlül #bihter

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coderedblood · 9 months

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Rune Factory English Voice Actors/Actresses:

I’m a huge fan of Rune Factory. It seems sort of niche bc when I ask other gamers (I’m a casual gamer, don’t ask me to be on any teams 😂) about it they don’t really know what it is. One of the things I love about is is how they get these huge voice actors for the games, which seem so small (but I know it isn’t, it’s sold hundreds of thousands of copies)

WARNING: ONLY ENGLISH VOICES ARE COUNTED HERE. I’M DOING THIS FOR MYSELF AND WHAT I KNOW. I MAY DO A JAPANESE VERSION.

Raguna (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Vash the Stampede, Ichigo from Bleach, Sabo from One Piece, and Nero from Devil May Cry

Mist (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Haru from Persona 5

Bianca (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Saya from Blood+ (I didn’t see that one coming)

Tabatha (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Mima from Perfect Blue and Rem from Trigun

Iris (both of them, RFF) is Rukia from Bleach and Yuki from Haruhi Suzumiya

Anette (RFF) is Starfire (and Blackfire!) from Teen Titans and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time

Raven (RF3) is Amy Rose from Sonic Boom

Electra (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) is Annie from Attack on Titan (didn’t see this one coming either)

Bacchus (RFTOD) is Vampire Hunter D (and D’s left hand!) (loved this one)

Vishnal (Rune Factory 4) is Leonardo from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon and Kappa Mikey

Clorica (RF4) is Shiki from The World Ends With You

Xiao Pai (RF4) is Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot

Doug (RF4) is Sasuke from Naruto

Margaret (RF4) is Hinata from Naruto, Kyrie from Devil May Cry and Orihime from Bleach

Forte (RF4) is Abbey Bominable from the first Monster High cartoon

Amber (RF4) is Morgana from Persona 5

Dolce (RF4) is Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist (this one actually makes sense), Maka Albarn from Soul Eater and the female protagonist of Persona 3

Frey (RF4) is Gaz from Invader ZIM

Ares (Rune Factory 5) is SwaySway from The Breadwinners

Scarlett (RF5) is Retsuko from Aggretsuko, Akko from Little Witch Academia and Ryuko from Kill La Kill

Lucy (RF5) is Loona from Helluva Boss and Emira Blight from The Owl House

Martin (RF5) is Louis from Beastars

Cecil (RF5) is Hunter from The Owl House and Remy from Big City Greens

Ryker (RF5) is Trebol from One Piece (also, also did not see this coming)

Livia (RF5) is Rebecca from One Piece

Misasagi (RF5) is Tatsuki from Bleach

Rudolph (RF5) is Mugman from The Cuphead Show!

Yuki (RF5) is Beauty from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo

Darroch (RF5) is Jelly Jiggler from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo (which brings back memories and makes actually a lot of sense)

Radea (RF5) is Reiju from One Piece (also makes sense)

Gideon (RF5) is Griffon from Devil May Cry and Scratchmen Apoo from One Piece

SHARED VOICE ACTORS/ACTRESSES

Lara (RF1 and Rune Factory: Frontier), Eunice (RFF) and Maerwen (from Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress (and are Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombats 9 and X)

Melody (RF and RFF) and Sonja (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress

Carmen and Shara (both Rune Factory 3) have the same voice actress and is Triela from Gunslinger Girl

Rosetta (RF and RFF) and Beatrice (Rune Factory 5) have the same voice actress

Nancy (from RF4) and Hina (from RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Kikimora from The Owl House

Ventuswill and Lin Fa (both RF4) and Selphy (RFF) have the same voice actress who’s also Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop

Micah (Rune Factory 3) and Bismarck (RFTOD) have the same voice actor who is also Ling Yao from Fullmetal Alchemist and Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail

Violet (RFTOD) and Priscilla (RF5) have the same voice actress

Lily and Sierra (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

Pandora and Quinn (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

James (RFTOD) and Leon (RF4) have the same voice actor who’s also Law from One Piece and Levi from Attack on Titan

Dylas and Bado (both RF4) have the same voice actor

Arthur and Jones (both RF4) have the same voice actor who is also Donatello from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

Father Gerard (RFF) and Heinz (RF5) have the same voice actor who’s also adult Gohan from Dragon Ball Z and Kiba from Naruto

Cinnamon (RFF) and Fuuka (RF5) have the same voice actress who is also Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug and Verosika Mayday from Helluva Boss

Simone and Julian (both RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Ash from Pokémon and April from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

#long post #just for fun #rune factory #rune factory 2 #rune factory frontier #rune factory: tides of destiny #rune factory 3 #rune factory 4 #rune factory 5 #voice acting

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sweet-dining-car · 10 months

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do you have anyone race engine headcanons? (Greaseball, Rusty and Electra)

YES! WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK ABT MY HCs!

So sorry for getting back so late but I had to get EVERYTHING down

Rusty

Rusty probably joined Boy Scouts tbh, he just has that Boy Scout vibe abt him

Rusty is the son of Poppa and Belle but spent most of his young years with Poppa which is why when he was first introduced to Belle he didn’t have a great view of her (More abt the Poppa and Belle situation if ppl wanna here abt it)

Rusty tends to get crushes quickly with like any coach that would pay attention to him but he really fell HARD for Pearl. Like he was actually in love then, not just a crush

Rusty has rust because of really bad eczema(rust), like from a young age

He is about 1.5 years younger than Pearl but like 3 years older than the Rockies

The Rockies are his half siblings via Poppa (still part of my Poppa-Belle lore)

Once he is with Pearl, he doesn’t feel the same strive to race. He still competes in the upcoming Championships because he has to defend his Championship as part of the rules but he chooses to lose because he doesn’t really want to be a racer anymore and prefers to be a shunter

Rusty and Pearl live pretty content lives in the yard

Rusty has tried to become friends with Electra and Greaseball. He sort of has with Electra but they don’t really hang out much, but they are on pretty good terms. With Greaseball however, Greaseball seems to be rather cold to him. Rusty doesn’t actively avoid him but he does choose to not spend time with Greaseball

Later on Rusty and Pearl end up having 2 trainlets, Rosie and Will.

Rosie is a pink steam train who acts like Pearl and Will looks just like Rusty

In a high school AU Rusty is in band and is on the water polo team

Electra

Electra was adopted and greatly loves his moms, they are one of the few people that can tell him to do something

While Electra has that whole Electronics thing going on, the first person he had ever been involved with was Volta and they know each other very well

Electra likes to experiment with their hair and they like to try different hair styles and colors

Electra did go try to find his birth parents (because he was abandoned) but it all came up empty

He wants everyone to love him just to ensure that he won’t be abandoned again

One if the reasons why he chose to race in the first place was to get people to notice him and just in case his biological parents saw that he won and would try to find him or see how successful he was without them

He generally feels mixed feelings towards his parents

I don’t think it’s really a hc cuz it was confirmed but Electra is Gender Fluid and Bi

Electra doesn’t really like the freight but he is ok with the Rockies because they sometimes braid his hair for free

Electra didn’t like Greaseball because he naturally got attention and Greaseball getting attention was Electra not getting attention which made him feel more abandoned

In “No Comeback” Electra just went back to his parents house, hand a good long cry, stayed the weekend to talk about his need for attention then went back to the year feeling better

Completely random but in a high school AU Electra drives Greaseball to school, cuz I say so. They aren’t even really friends, their parents are. (Taken from a line in the rap and I just couldn’t stop thing abt how funny it was)

In high school AU, Electra would have been in the fashion club and the swim team

Greaseball

Ahh yes Greaseball 🥰💕

Greaseball is dyslexic (coming from a dyslexic)

He first met Dinah when they were young cuz they just so happened to cross paths

Greaseball’s father was a pretty bad dude who got Greaseball to think that diesel were better than any other rolling stock. Eventually in his teen years Greaseball realized that everything that his father said wasn’t true but some of it he still believed unconsciously

When Greaseball first started to date Dinah he didn’t really know how to handle a real steady relationship and a big growth step for him was when he told Dinah this instead of just telling her that instead of just being quiet to her

He had many flings before Dinah but he never felt like anything would be quick with her, she just felt different

Greaseball wanted to be just like his dad when he was young but in his teen years he realized that his dad wasn’t the best like he though he was and came to find that his father was quite terrible especially to his mother

Now Greaseball love(d)s his mommy to pieces

His mother died right after he won his first championship. He was so torn up about it that he became very depressed and thought about quitting racing. Dinah was there to comfort him and it just so happens that around this same general time Greaseball made it official with Dinah

Greaseball tried for years to fix the way that he thinks to be less narcissistic but he greatly struggled with it and often ended up not thinking of others

He never really meant to uncouple Dinah, he just thought about how he wanted to get back at Electra

Greaseball has a very hard time sleeping without Dinah next to him

Greaseball and Dinah would have gotten married about a year after the race

They had between 5-8 trainlets (they were pretty busy…)

Once Dinah was pregnant the first time , Greased said that it would be his last season of racing

He then became a racing instructor

In a high school AU he would be on the football team and the wrestling team as well as being part of the weightlifting club

He can in fact whistle and he does for Dinah only

That’s all I think!

#starlight express #stex #greaseball the diesel #electra the electric engine #rusty the steam engine #greasedinah #prusty #voltlectra #Volta x Electra #stex hcs

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falasta · 11 months

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I hope you don't mind me asking, but what were your thoughts on the Atlanta Cats production?

I am so glad you asked! The Atlanta production was a lot of fun and also very unique.

The choreographer (Baayork Lee) made the decision to leave a great part of the choreography "as is" and Jacob Brent was brought on to teach the Opening and the Jellicle Ball. This meant that elements that are no longer seen on stage were added back in - the Munk/Victoria lift in the opening, "British airways" and the Minuet section in the Jellicle Ball. It was pretty much "98 on stage" and the cast did a *fantastic* job with the dancing. "Macavity" was left as is, as well. Most of the new choreography flowed nicely and was fun to watch.

Plato/Macavity and Pounce/Tumble traditional tracks were split up between Plato/Macavity who did the Tumble flips AND flips during the Macavity fight, which was *great*, and Pounce who did the White Cat Lift. Macavity didn't get any henchcats - he had to drag Old D away on his own.

Munkustrap gives Tugger a big nuzzle during the Deut Duet which made me very happy. Tugger was spectacular - AND I might add looked *straight* at Void and mouthed "Love you" 😊😅

Grizabella had a phenomenal voice - very well trained, very powerful. She was so tiny and Munk was so tall!

Caitlin was a stunningly beautiful Victoria. And very fluffy! Munkustrap was also excellent - more scrungly, but just as fluffy (a Munkustrap should be Soft)

Harry Francis threw himself into the show 300% and made it his own. The Misto solo was basically kept intact - with added flourishes from Harry. He really lit up the stage, both during his solo and after. Just such a fun Misto to watch! We were able to catch him for a short conversation after the show - just letting him know how much we loved seeing him on stage and the original Gillian Broadway choreography.

There were also Actual Babies! A few students came out in the audience prior to the show to be Cats, and to hang out with the bigger cats during the first Act. They got to join in "Jellicle Songs" and the Ball as well!

ALSO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: BOTH Tugger AND Munk got to Dance Princess Louise during the Ball!!!

(And Munk got to do a lift during the Honkytonk 😌)

There was no Electra for this production but there *was* an Etcetera and she was absolutely adorable.

I'm sure there are so many things I could add - I don't know if anyone else has seen the show, but please add any thoughts!

We had a wonderful time (Also found some truly amazing Sticky Toffee pudding just steps from the theater) and were so glad were able to make it.

Thank you for asking! ❤️❤️❤️

Link to the curtain call and @cryptidvoidwritings post.

#Byers Theater Cats #Show Report #Harry Francis #Caitlin Bond #Non Replica Cats

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cartoonfanaticmonsterrobotalien · 5 months

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Solar Opposites in Ultra Opposites Episode #7: New Allies Part #1 (for @avaveevo and @crazychanuwu77)

On a regular typical school day, Miss Frankie is busy waiting for Yumyulack and Jesse as she growls impatiently.

Miss Frankie: Where the fuck are they?!

Meanwhile, the Ultra Opposites were busy fighting Ophelia’s minions.

Terry/Solar Flare: Honey! On your left! throws a fireball at three of the minions

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: On it! Solar Flare! breathes ice before transforming into his Super Shlorpian form

Yumyulack/Psylock: Taste brain wave! uses his mind reading powers to create a sonic boom with his mind as it blows away the minions

Jesse/Electra: Eat electricity motherfuckers! growls furiously as she releases her electric wrecking ball that wipes out the minions You just got Electra’d!

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Time to freeze! flies up and blast out some the guard with his breath Now honey!

Terry/Solar Flare: On it! uses a huge fire blast that wipes out some of the minions

The town cheer after some of the minions retreated and most of the people cheer for the Ultra Opposites as they wave at the crowd.

Terry/Solar Flare: Man, I had no idea we gained so many support!

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Me neither but let’s head back!

Randall: appearing in front of the crowd Ph my God! I love you Ultra Opposites! talking to someone I know these guys! They’re amazing!

The Ultra Opposites then fly away as color beam streams appear. Later, Yumyulack and Jesse made it to class on the ground as debris fell on their classmates, which got made Miss Frankie and their classmates shock.

Yumyulack: laughs nervously Uh, heh-heh. What’s up class?

Jesse: How’s it going? What did we miss?

Daryl shook his head as he smiles at his boyfriend and his sister. Two hours later,

Miss Frankie was muttering over the mess Jesse and Yumyulack accidentally made today at school, when suddenly she came across a news commercial.

Miss Frankie: muttering What the fuck?

News Reporter: on tv We interrupt this program to bring you some breaking news! The Ultra Opposites have save the day once again from teenage criminal Kitty! Police have apprehended the criminal as people praise the heroes for saving their beloved city! For we hear as the new station say, thank you Ultra Opposites once again!

But then, Miss Frankie looks closely at the Ultra Opposites on TV and gasp. Miss Frankie then ran to her class right after she takes picture on her IPhone on the Ultra Opposites’ identities. She heads in and looks at a family picture of the Solar Opposites and the Ultra Opposites on her phone back n forth as she gasp.

Miss Frankie: The fuck! It can’t be! Jesse?! Yumyulack?!

Miss Frankie gasp. She then growls in fury.

Miss Frankie: Those filthy fucking aliens are the Ultra Opposites?! Ugh! I knew there was another reason to hate this so-called heroes!

Miss Frankie then mutters what to do ever since she now knows the Ultra Opposites’ identities. She then gets an idea upon seeing a group of people hanging out.

Miss Frankie: smirks Bingo.

Meanwhile, Korvo and Terry started walk back n forth, concern that this whole thing is getting out of hand, because their alien forms might be easy to recognize for the Ultra Opposites form while the Replicants and Pupa sit on the couch.

Yumyulack: Uh, as for the incident today in the classroom? Jesse and I would like to say, our bad.

Jesse: Sorry guys.

Terry: It’s okay guys. I think this is getting out of hand. We need to just figure out a way people won’t easily recognize us. I don’t think we should walk around earth as aliens anymore. suddenly notices his finger tips turning shadow black Huh?

Korvo: Terry is right. We need new civilian disguises, but how?

Janiz: offscreen Ahem?

The family then turns towards Janiz, who smirks cleverly.

Janiz: I have the perfect solution.

Terry: hides his finger tips Oh really? That’s nice.

Janiz: Yep. You all are gonna love it! It’s the solution to our problems right now!

Korvo: Bravo Janiz! You heard that family?! Our problems are officially solved!

Yumyulack and Jesse: Yay!

Pupa: Yay!

Terry: nervously smiling Yay….

Korvo: Come here Terry, I’m gonna give you a big…

Once Korvo got Terry, he gave him a big kiss on the cheek, which cause Terry to grow nervous if Korvo sees his fingertips. But at the moment, Korvo stopped kissing, the fingertips are back to normal, much to Terry’s relief, which made Korvo concern.

Korvo: Um, are you okay?

Terry: Uh yep? Definitely!

Terry then began to grow extremely nervous. Later, in the ship, Janiz finished working on something as the Solars came in.

Korvo: Janiz, what are you working on?

Janiz: A watch that can turn us into humans.

Solar Opposites: Really?!

Yumyulack: Do we need that?

Korvo: I’m afraid so. Now that we’re super heroes, things have gotten really dangerous.

Terry: I agree with Korvo here. So Janiz, can you tell if the watch can turn us into our old human forms?

Janiz: Yep, first you let it scan you. watch scans Janiz and let the transformation do it works.

Janiz then pushes the button on the watch and it turns into a female woman.

Solar Opposites: Oooh.

Yumyulack: Damn, you look hot.

Human Janiz: I know right. But hey, I’m sure it’ll do the same for you guys’ too. gives each watch to her family Now see if it works for you guys.

The Solar Opposites pushes the button and it turns them back into their human forms.

Solar Opposites: Whoa!

Human Terry: Hey look, no missing teeth and bald spot. Awesome!

Human Korvo: I always do a I still look so hot! flings his hair

Human Terry: Korvo, honey. You look so faboo in this form.

Human Korvo: D’aw, thanks darling. kiss Terry

Human Yumyulack: Aw man, how come I’m not the same hair color as Korvo?!

Human Korvo: Because, I look hot.

Human Jesse: turns her blond hair back and forth Sure is great to have these girlies features back.

The Solar Opposites and Janiz then presses the buttons on their watches and turns back to normal.

Janiz: Okay fam, let’s these forms for safety reasons. Who know’s what would happen if someone recognize you four as the Ultra Opposites.

Korvo: The darling big sis of mine is right. We must use their forms for good for civilian identities! You sure we can handle this?

Yumyulack: Fuck yeah!

Jesse: You bet!

Terry: Absolutely! thumbs up

Suddenly, they notice Miss Frankie coming to a group of people at a cafe with posters saying, “Down With The Ultra Opposites”

Yumyulack: Oh my God. Miss Frankie, have you lost your mind?!

Jesse: Oh no! She must’ve figure out our secret identities!

Korvo: Don’t worry, I’m on it!

Korvo transforms into Legendary Super Shlorpian as he transforms into his Super Shlorpian Form and flies to the cafe to stop Miss Frankie as Terry kept blushing and sighing lovingly at his husband as he smiles. Later, Miss Frankie got the cafe and she got out a megaphone and it beeps.

Miss Frankie: Citizens! Stay away from the Ultra Opposites! They are monsters! I knew who they are! They are nothing but super frauds! Don’t go anywhere near them again!

Citizens: Huh? What? But why? They’re heroes?!

Randall: Wh-what?

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: offscreen Stop!

Citizens: looks up Huh?

Legendary Super Shlorpian flies down and lands as he turns back into his normal Shlorpian self.

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Don’t listen to her! She’s lying! It’s okay! You can trust us! We’re heroes, remember?!

Miss Frankie: Don’t listen to this Super Fraud! He’s the one who’s lying! It’s time you all learn!

Legendary Super Shlorpian gives a death stare at Miss Frankie as a song starts.

Miss Frankie: Let this be a warning. Your safety is at stake. Better protect your families. Ancient enemies awake. The monsters are among us. Ya never know who you can trust. If you only knew what's coming. I think you'd be on the run!

Dark Chorus: You should be afraid, look out for yourself. You should be afraid, look out for yourself

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: When we believe we are stronger. We can come out of the shadows. Hate only fuels the fire. We come up, rise high. You don't know what you don't know

Chorus: (oh-wha-oh-oh-oh-wha-oh). You don't know what you don't know. (oh-wha-oh-oh-oh-wha-oh). You don't know what you don't know

Miss Frankie: I've got scars to prove it. They don't know what they're doing. This magic, they abuse it. And we're all gonna end up losing

Miss Frankie: You should be afraid, look out for yourself. You should be afraid, look out for yourself!

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: When we believe we are stronger. We can come out of the shadows. Hate only fuels the fire. We come up, rise high. You don't know what you don't know!

Chorus: (oh-wha-oh-oh-oh-wha-oh). You don't know what you don't know. (oh-wha-oh-oh-oh-wha-oh). You don't know what you don't know

Miss Frankie: You should be afraid when you sleep at night. You should be afraid of the deadly cry. You should be afraid, yeah ya know I'm right. Never safe, never safe, never safe here

Miss Frankie: You should be afraid, better run and hide

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: (Wait, you don't need to hide)

Miss Frankie: You should be afraid here of the Ultra Opposites

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: (You are safe with the Ultra Opposites)

Miss Frankie: You should be afraid, yeah ya know I'm right

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: (You don't have to be afraid)

Miss Frankie: Never safe, never safe, never safe here!

As the song ends, Randall stands up and walks towards Miss Frankie.

Miss Frankie: Well?

Randall: No.

Miss Frankie: No what?!

Randall: No! The Ultra Opposites are heroes! They have saved so many lives! They saved the city from Ophelia! They even rescued a teenage boy! They are good guys!

Sonya: I agree! These Ultra Opposites are heroes! Electra is my favorite!

Woman Citizen #1: I agree! These Ultra Opposites are amazing!

Daryl’s Dad: These guys saved my son! They are amazing!

Woman Citizen #2: These alien heroes are the real deal!

Man Citizen: Praise the Ultra Opposites!

The citizens started cheering as Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian smiles and Miss Frankie growls.

Miss Frankie: ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING RIGHT NOW?! You are gonna take one second to think of these monsters as heroes?! You’ve all gone fucking crazy! Head my warning all of you! You will regret this one day!

Miss Frankie walks off as the citizens watch.

Randall: Don’t listen to him L.S.S., you and your family are real her-

But then, Legendary Super Shlorpian is gone.

Randall: -Oes? Huh? There he goes again.

Legendary Super Shlorpian, in his Super Shlorpian form flies back to his house as his family runs up to him.

Terry: Did it work?!

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Yep!

The family cheered. Suddenly, Terry started feel a headache and notices his eyes flashing orange, so he put on sunglasses. He looks back up in worry. His family wasn’t paying attention because they are overjoyed.

Janiz: This is wonderful news! We must get going. But first, something for Pupa.

Pupa gasp in joy. Later, Randall and the citizens were busy, until they notice Miss Frankie walking by, much to their annoyance as they groan in annoyance.

Randall: Now what do you want?!

Miss Frankie: I want to show you proof, proof that-

Human Terry: offscreen The Ultra Opposites would never hurt anyone.

The citizens turned and then see the human Solar Opposites, now with an human Pupa, and human Janiz walking by. A dumbfounded Miss Frankie froze in shock as she gasp in horror.

Human Janiz: Is there anything wrong, sir?

Randall look closely and grow surprised by the Solar Opposites’ human forms as he grow shock yet amazed.

Randall: whispering No way, Korvo? Guys? Why are you?

Human Korvo: whispering Long story. talks normally Is there anything wrong?

Daryl’s Mom: Hell yeah there is! Miss Frankie is making our favorite heroes look like fools!

Miss Frankie: Are you kidding? Those fucking humans over here are the Ultra Opposites!

Human Solar Opposites: gasp

Randall: figuring out what is happening here No they aren’t. These must be new neighbors.

Citizens: Huh? Whuh? What?! Really?! I had no idea we got new neighbors.

Human Terry: Oh yeah. The Solars moved. Must want to have a new home on another planet.

Citizens: Aw. Sure gonna miss them. Yeah. They have been great neighbors. They made be sci-fi assholes, but they will always be our sci-fi assholes, wherever they are. Yeah. Goodbye Solars.

Randall: Yeah, sure gonna miss them. winks at the human Solar Opposites

Miss Frankie: What?! You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Daryl walks and then see the human Solar Opposites and human Janiz. He grow surprised and then notices Yumyulack’s boots and easily recognizes his boyfriend and his family in their human forms. Human Yumyulack waves at his boyfriend as Daryl smiles back.

Human Korvo: Seriously? Do we look like your old alien neighbors?

Citizens: No. Uh-Uh. No way man. How could she say that? That is very sick! Fuck you, Frankie!

Miss Frankie: Oh come on. That’s not fair! groans in annoyance; towards human Korvo You! Been! Warned!

Miss Frankie walks off in a huff as the human Solar Opposites watched her.

Kevin: Sorry about Miss Frankie. She’s just being a total paranoid dick. Why don’t we show you around?

Human Korvo: I think that would be wonderful. notices Terry with sunglasses Um, Terry? Y’know it’s sunset, right?

Human Terry: Oh uh… you see… Korvo takes off Terry’s glasses, but his eyes are normal Don’t look at me! I’m hideous.

Human Korvo: D’aw! I think you still look beautiful to me. kisses his husband

Terry looks at his eyes through a mirror’s reflection and sighs in relief.

Human Jesse: Yep. That’s our dad. Being his usual normal self.

Human Yumyulack: Uh-huh?

Kevin’s Wife: That’s strange. You have the same names as our alien neighbors.

Ms. Perez: D’aw all names are the same. to human Korvo What’s your name, by the way?

Human Korvo: Uh, um… looks at an ad of a LGBTQ+ fashion model named Korey Liamsane Korey! Korey Opposites.

Human Terry, Human Yumyulack, Human Jesse and Human Janiz: Yep. Uh-huh. That’s his name. That’s my husband for you.

Ms. Perez: What a lovely name. Are these your family right there?

Human Korvo: Yep. This is my husband Terry, our son “Baxter Cool”, our sweet daughter Jesse, my sister Janice…

Janice: Hmm? Really? Another Janice? Hooray!

Human Korvo: And our baby… uh… Pepsi!

The human citizens then sees human Pupa, who strangely took the form a human toddler girl with pigtails that has beady hair bows on it and a pair of toddler-clothes which consist a toddler-size t-shirt with a rainbow with a pony on it and a pair of toddler shots on him.

Human Terry: whispering; to Janiz Why is the Pupa’s human form a girl?

Janiz: whispering; to Terry Beats me.

Sonya: Your hair looks loose Mr. Opposites. Here, let me type it up, to make you feel better.

Sonya ties up Korvo’s long blond hair into a ponytail as Korvo grows surprise by he began to like it because it has an emerald on the bow.

Human Korvo: Why thank you young lady.

Sonya: giggles You’re welcome.

Randall: Come on, let’s show go our new neighbors around. And tell them about our heroes!

Human Yumyulack: whispering Nice going big guy. pats human Korvo on the back

Human Jesse: whispering You did it Korvo! Now the whole town loves us more than ever

Human Janiz: whispering Nice going little brother.

Human Terry: whispering Looks like my hero earned himself something. fiddles his fingers on Korvo’s stomach as Korvo chuckles after being smitten Be sure to bring your super Shlorpian form.

Human Korvo: whispering Sure will, darling.

Human Korvo and Human Terry kiss. Then, Human Janice hands Human Pupa over to human Korvo as she and the rest of the family walk with the human citizens.

Human Pupa: giggling

Human Korvo: We did it Pupa! This is really it! From this day forward, this should be a safe city. A city of truth.

Human Pupa smiles at human Korvo. However, unknown to everyone, Ophelia watched the whole thing from her crystal ball and she was given a great idea as she grins evilly.

Ophelia: Interesting. Looks like the Ultra Opposites have met their match! Luckily, I already have a plan. looks at the glowing black orb piece in her hand as she laughs evilly

Back with Miss Frankie, she walked into her house as she rips apart a top article on a newspaper about the Ultra Opposites as she sighs on a couch.

Ophelia: Rejections hurt, Miss Frankie! Miss Frankie turns to face herYour talents deserve to be recognized! The Ultra Opposites' reign has gone on long enough. It's time for Earth to have a new hero, and the hero on my chessboard is you.

Miss Frankie: Fuck you! You’re a supervillain! If I had super power I'd-

Ophelia: puts up her hand and interrupts You're right, but I did it for one reason only. So that you would finally realize that the Ultra Opposites have always been the real enemies. I, however, always keep my promises. shows her the glowing black orb piece in her hand

Miss Frankie: This isn't real! How do you have it?

Ophelia: Try it and see for yourself. You hate the Ultra Opposites and so do I, you've hated their fucked up guts, and what has these people have done for you in return?

Miss Frankie: gets angry Nothing! They couldn't care less about me! I'm done with these heroes making a fool out of me. It’s time these filthy fucking superhero aliens go down once and for all! reaches out to grab the black orb piece, then stops I want you to make sure my boyfriend doesn’t see me first.

Ophelia: Whatever you say… Shadow Lady.

Miss Frankie: takes the orb as it chooses her and fuses with her body Your loss, Ultra Opposites. laughs evilly

Principal Cooke came and in gasp upon seeing Ophelia and runs into Miss Frankie’s house.

Principal Cooke: Miss Frankie! What’s going on?!

Ophelia: Silence! Heathen!

Ophelia creates a net trap and traps Principal Cooke in it as he screams.

Principal Cooke: Help! Someone help me! Heeeellllpppp!

Later, Miss Frankie appears and the people sees her and runs up to her. Randall, Sonya, Kevin and his family, Daryl and his parents, Janice and Ms. Perez sees them and wonders what’s going on.

Randall: What the?

Miss Frankie: Everyone! It’s time I tell you the truth about the Ultra Opposites! To prove who they really are! They are really monsters! They killed the Solar Opposites! crowd gasp

Randall: What?! No they are not!

Sonya: Yeah. They’re our heroes! Miss Frankie is lying!

Kevin: Leave our heroes alone!

Miss Frankie: See, these people have been hypnotized by them! Psylock brainwashed them!

Crowd: gasp What?! I can’t believe this! I trusted them! How could they?! Yeah.

Daryl’s Mom: That is not true! Miss Frankie is lying! What is the hell is wrong with you?!

Daryl’s Dad: Why are you doing this?!

Daryl: silently gasp; whispers Yumyulack!

Janice: Why are you doing this?!

Ms. Perez: Yeah! They’re a family!

Miss Frankie: They are lying! They are nothing but monsters!

Randall: No they aren’t. They’re not monsters, Frankie! You are!

Crowd: gasp

Miss Frankie: groans in annoyance See these fools are crazy! Just like the Ultra Opposites! They must be destroyed!

Randall, Kevin and his family, Sonya and her parents, Daryl and his family, Janice and Ms. Perez gasp in horror once Miss Frankie starts singing:

Miss Frankie: The heroes will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night!

Randall: No!

Miss Frankie: We're not safe 'til his head is mounted on my wall! I say we kill the Opposites!

Mob: Kill them!

Man 1: We're not safe until they’re dead

Man 2: They’ll come stalking us at night

Woman: Set to sacrifice our children to his monstrous appetite!

Man 3: They’ll wreak havoc on our village if we let them wander free

Miss Frankie: So it's time to take some action, boys It's time to follow me! Through the mist, through the woods Through the darkness and the shadows It's a nightmare, but it's one exciting ride Say a prayer, then we're there At the drawbridge of a castle And there's something truly terrible inside It's a beast! He’s got fangs, razor sharp ones! Massive wings, killer claws for the feast Hear him roar! See him foam! But we're not coming home 'til he and his family are dead Good and dead! Kill the Opposites!

Realizing their beloved heroes are in trouble, Daryl’s parents turn to Daryl.

Daryl’s Mom: Daryl! Quick! Go warn the Ultra Opposites! They’re in big trouble!

Daryl: I will! quietly Hang in there Yumyulack, I’m coming

As Daryl runs off to warn his boyfriend and his family, the mob grabs the people who support the Ultra Opposites as they screamed.

Randall: No! I won't let you do this!

Miss Frankie: If you're not with us, you're against us. Bring these people!

Ms. Perez: Get your hands off me!

Miss Frankie: We can't have them running off to warn the aliens! traps Ms. Perez, Sonya and her parents, Randall, Kevin and his family and Daryl’s parents

Sonya: Let us out!

Miss Frankie: We'll rid the town of the Ultra Opposites! Who's with me?

Male Mob Member #1: I am!

Female Mob Member #1: I am!

Male Mob Member #2: I am!

Mob: Light your torch! Launch your arrows!

Miss Frankie: Screw your courage to the sticking place!

Mob: We're counting on her to lead the way! Through a mist, through a wood Where within a haunted castle Something's lurking that you don't see every day! Those are monsters! One as tall as a mountain We won't rest 'til they’re good and deceased Sally forth! Tally ho! Grab your sword! Grab your bow! Praise the Lord and here we go!

Miss Frankie: We'll lay siege to the house and bring back their heads!

As the mob, the people who support the Ultra Opposites began to worry about their heroes. But, Randall is determined to get out of here.

Randall: I have to warn the Ultra Opposites. They’re in trouble

Sonya: Oh, guys, what are we going to do

Kevin: Now, now, we'll think of something

Back with the mob, they began to charge towards the Opposites house.

Mob: We don't like What we don't understand In fact it scares us And this monster is mysterious at least Bring your guns! Bring your knives! Save your children and your wives We'll save our village and our lives We'll kill the Beast! Back at the Solar Opposites’ house, Yumyulack and Jesse were playing UNO.

Jesse: I knew Korvo would think of something. I knew it was worth it!

Yumyulack: Maybe it would have been better if we just talk to Miss Frankie first, don’t you think. [people shouting]

Jesse: What is that?

Yumyulack: What’s going on?

Jesse: Oh no! An angry mob!

Yumyulack: Invaders!

Jesse: And they Miss Frankie is leading them!

Yumyulack: Warn Terry and Korvo! If it's a fight they want, we'll be ready for them. Who's with me? Jesse transforms into Electra Hey! transforms into Psylock Back outside

Miss Frankie: Take whatever booty you can find. But remember, the heroes are mine! Castleware: Hearts ablaze Banners high We go marching into battle Unafraid although the danger just increased Mob: Raise your flag! Sing the song! Here we come, we're fifty strong And fifty Frenchmen can't be wrong Let's kill the Beast!

Jesse/Electra: Pardon me, Aunt Janiz.

Janiz: Leave me in peace.

Jesse/Electra: But sir, our house is under attack!

Mob: Kill the Aliens! Kill the aliens! Mob: Kill the aliens! Kill the aliens!

Jesse/Electra: What shall we do, Aunt Janiz?

Janiz: It doesn't matter now. Just go warn your dads.

Mob: Kill the aliens! Kill the aliens! Kill the aliens!

Back with the two aliens husbands, Terry and Korvo, in his super Shlorpian form, are having sex in their bedroom.

Super Shlorpian Korvo: You have been very very naughty! You bad boy!

Terry: Oh, please! Punish me you slut! Oooh!

Super Shlorpian Korvo: Oh yeah. You damn dirty bitch! How does it make you feel?

Terry: So good! Yeah oh ho! Korvy, call me names! Call me a slutty mailman!

Super Shlorpian Korvo: Dirty man! Bad boy whore! Sexy Hulu Bitch! Ooooohhhh yyyeaaahh!

Korvo then fells on Terry as they two began to cuddle, but then, they heard the mob coming towards their house. Korvo turns back into his normal self as he and Terry grow alarmed.

Korvo: What the hell is going on?

Terry: I dunno but it ruined sexy time...

Suddenly, Terry began to held his head as he started to groan in pain. Korvo looks at Terry in concern.

Korvo: Terry! Oh my God! Are you okay?

Terry: Yeah. I'm fine

Korvo: A-Are you sure-

Terry: voice suddenly gets distorted; snapping I SAID I'M FINE!

Korvo gasp and starts to shed tears. Terry then becomes terrified as he realizes what he just said to his husband.

Terry: I-I’m sorry I didn’t mean- ugh! puts his hands on his head in frustration

Korvo: Hey hey hey. It’s okay. I should’ve never ask that, I’m so sorry.

Korvo rubs Terry’s head softly. But then…

Jesse: knocking on the door; offscreen Guys! You two better transform and help us!

Korvo and Terry gasp, look at each other and nod in determination as they transformed into Legendary Super Shlorpian and Solar Flare. The two alien husbands head downstairs as they see Yumyulack and Jesse, who have transformed already transform into Psylock and Electra, trying to block the door.

Yumyulack/Psylock: Jesus! What is happening today?!

Jesse: I don't know but I DON'T WANNA DIE!

Then; Janiz, who is holding Pupa, Aisha and Eva came down as they grow shock and horrified by the angry mob arriving at their house.

Janiz: Guys! What the fuck is happening?!

EVA: Is that an angry mob?!

AISHA: What the fuck did you guys do now?!

Terry/Solar Flare: Nothing! We didn’t even hurt these people! Why the fuck are they attacking us?!

Solar Flare then held his head again as he started to scream and cry out. The family gasp as Legendary Super Shlorpian rushes over to his husband in concern.

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Holy shit! Terry, I think we have to get to the Hospital!

Terry/Solar Flare: breathing in and out But but, I’ll be fine!

Yumyulack/Pslylock: I’m sorry Terry, but Korvo so right! You might be sick or something!

Jesse/Electra: Yeah! I think it’s best if Janiz scan you first!

Janiz: I’m on it!

Janiz gets out the body scanner and starts to get some details on what is happening to Terry, but then an arrow came and destroy the scanner before Janiz could see anything as the family screams in horror.

Janiz: Oh fuck! The scanner’s destroyed!

Terry/Solar Flare: Guys, it’s gonna be okay. groans

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: No! It’s not okay! Terry, you’re in trouble! We must get you to the hospital!

Terry/Solar Flare: But guys… screams in pain as his eyes starts flashing orange

Jesse/Electra: Please Terry!

The mob began to break in the Ultra Opposites screamed.

AISHA: Oh shit! A new hell hole!

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Ultra Opposites! Scatter!

The Ultra Opposites manage to ran to the backyard as they split off into different directions. Legendary Super Shlorpian transforms into his super Shlorpian as he carries Terry. He suddenly hears Principal Cooke calling for help with his super sonic hearing.

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Holy shit! Principal Cooke! He’s in trouble! We must go save him!

Terry/Solar Flare: Bring us down honey! screams as his head continues to feel the sharp pain

The two husbands fly down to go save Principal Cooke. Meanwhile, unknown to them, two of the orb pieces that is glowing flies up from the ground as it split off. The first one (tan) flies to where Legendary Super Shlorpian and Solar Flare are heading the second and last one (blue-green) flies to the right. Meanwhile, Electra is running as she stops to catch her breath.

Jesse/Electra: Why?! Why is everyone trying to hurt us?! What did we do wrong?!

Suddenly, someone approached her as she turns around and gasp. It’s Ophelia!

Ophelia: Got you now you little fucking brat! ties up Electra

Jesse/Electra: screams Yummybear! Korvo! Terry help!

Ophelia teleports with Electra in her grasp. Back with the two superhero husbands, they turn to see Principal Cooke in a net with a blindfold on his head as he struggles to break free.

Principal Cooke: Huh? What’s that? Who is that?! Show yourself?!

Terry/Solar Flare: Principal Cooke! turns back to his normal self along with Korvo It’s us! Terry and Korvo! Let us get you out! feels the sharp pain again as he groans in pain; he then notices his finger turning shadow black as he screams in pain

Korvo: Okay, Terry just sit there and breath. Hang in there.

Terry whimpers as he nods his head in pain. He kept groaning as he began to breath in and out.

Principal Cooke: Aw man, do I have to get rescue by you guys?!

Korvo: deadpan Yes.

Principal Cooke: God damn it!

Korvo cuts the net’s rope with a knife as Principal Cooke as he screams and falls on the floor. Korvo helps him up as Terry finally calms down and the black tips on his fingers dissapear.

Principal Cooke: Uh, is your husband like okay? Or-

Terry: distorted voice; snapping We can’t fucking talk right now! There’s an angry mob that is gonna kill us all! voice turns normal again Sorry.

Korvo: growing concern Terry…

Principal Cooke: Why?! Why are they after you guys?! Where’s Miss Frankie?!

The two alien husbands look at each other sadly and then finally know they have to come clean. It’s they told Principal Cooke.

Terry: Because it’s us. Solar Flare and Legendary Super Shlorpian.

The two aliens transforms into their Ultra Opposites form as Principal Cooke gasp in shock.

Principal Cooke: What?! I-I don’t believe it! You guys are the Ultra Opposites?!

Terry/Solar Flare: … Yes.

Principal Cooke: I don’t believe it. After I’ve been treating you like shit, you still saved me and a lot of people. Why do all this?

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Because, it’s the right thing to do. We save people, even the ones who hate us.

Principal Cooke: But I-I…

Terry/Solar Flare: Look Cooke, I know your life sucked as a child.

Principal Cooke: B-but how…

Terry/Solar Flare: The Replicants told us everything. I am so sorry you got a life you didn’t want. But, it’s not too late. You can trust us. We would never hurt anyone. That’s the truth. We’re in big trouble! We really need your help! You’re the only who trusted us since you first saw me Cooke. I know we had our differences but right now, it’s time we trust each other. And work together to save ourselves. Please Cooke, do you trust us?

Principal Cooke stood in shock and silence and then looks down on his glasses’ reflection, remembering how the Replicants helped him with his childhood issues at the board meeting. He looks then and closes his eyes as he makes a noble decision for the first time in his life.

Principal Cooke: Ultra Opposites… I trust you guys.

Terry/Solar Flare: Thank you.

Suddenly, the tan orb piece appears and it crashes through the window as it fuses with Principal Cooke as he screams. The two alien husbands grow shock as they hadn’t see an orb piece in awhile since they first got their powers.

Terry/Solar Flare: Holy shit! What was that an orb piece?!

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: It must have been here to choose someone. But how?

Principal Cooke: groans as he hold his eyes Ugh… what the hell was that and-

Suddenly, Principal Cooke’s eyes shoot laser eyes as he screams as the laser shoot through the roof.

Terry/Solar Flare: Holy shit! Principal Cooke has laser eyes?!

Principal Cooke: How do you shut these things off?!

With quick thinking, Legendary Super Shlorpian grabs a pair of glasses and puts them on Principal Cooke’s face. As he stopped screaming, Principal Cooke looks down in shock.

Principal Cooke: Laser eyes?! But how, I don’t have any-

Principal Cooke then starts flying as he grow amazed by his new super abilities.

Principal Cooke: Hey look! I’m flying! This is awesome! But oh shit. I can’t tell Miss Frankie. She’ll flip the fuck out.

Terry/Solar Flare: Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll understand once we-

Solar Flare then feels the pain in his head again as he began to kneel down.

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Oh no Terry! Cooke! We have to hurry! Solar Flare might be in sick or something! We have to get to my sister before-

Suddenly, Ophelia appears laughing evilly as the three men gasp in horror.

Ophelia: Going somewhere?!

Principal Cooke: Uh, who are you?!

Ophelia: Ophelia! Empress Ophelia! And it’s too late now! You three are trapped!

Ophelia uses her powers to create an emerald cage around Solar Flare, Legendary Super Shlorpian and Principal Cooke as they gasp in horror.

Principal Cooke: You bastard! What have you done to my girlfriend?!

Terry/Solar Flare: Uh Cooke, there’s something you should know-

Ophelia: Oh don’t worry. grabs his face She has been taken care off!

Principal Cooke: Stay away from her, you fucking bitch!

Ophelia punches Cooke to the ground as Legendary Super Shlorpian helps him up and transforms into his super shlorpian form.

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: You won’t get away with this Ophelia! We have get out of here! There is a mob-

Ophelia: Oh I know! Which is why I created it!

Terry/Solar Flare: What?! It was you?! You did this?! You’re a fucking psycho! feels the sharp pain in his head again as he starts to breath in and out

Ophelia: Oh, what’s the matter Solar Flare? Super power headaches?

Solar Flare growls as his eyes began to turn orange and he slashed Ophelia’s face as he gasp once his eyes turn back to normal. Ophelia chuckles evilly.

Ophelia: Well, that didn’t scare me. So long.

Ophelia teleports away and Solar Flare began to have a panic attack.

Principal Cooke: Oh shit! He doesn’t look good to me!

Terry/Solar Flare: screams in pain as he starts crying and tears burst from his eyes

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: runs to his husband and puts his arms around him as he soothes him by the back and kiss him on the cheek Shh, It’s okay sweetheart, I’m here.

Solar Flare cries into Legendary Super Shlorpian’s chest as Principal Cooke looks sadly at them.

Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Don’t worry Terry, we’ll find Janiz and figure out this condition. I promise.

Legendary Super Shlorpian kiss Solar Flare’s forehead as he continues to cry. Back with Psylock, he tries to look for Daryl and then he sees Daryl running towards him.

Daryl: Babe!

Yumyulack/Psylock: Daryl! flies up to him and kisses him Are you hurt?! Did they get you?!

Daryl: No, but listen! I need to tell you something, I-

Yumyulack/Psylock: Don’t worry, we can talk about this later-

Daryl: Babe, no don’t! It’s dangerous! You don’t understand-

Yumyulack/Psylock: I got this! flies to Frankie and the mob

Daryl: Babe!

Psylock appears as the mob gasp.

Yumyulack/Psylock: Miss Frankie! Stop this! Stop this right now!

Miss Frankie: Got you now!

Yumyulack/Psylock: Have you lost your mind?! Your hatred of us has gone too far! Why are you doing this!

Miss Frankie: Well, you don’t know how much I’ve been through. You have no idea what my life is like! To the treated like shit and left alone!

Yumyulack/Psylock: Wh-what?!

Miss Frankie: It’s too late now! Mob!

Daryl: running up to Psylock No! Don’t!

The mob grabs Psylock and Daryl and throws them in a cage as the two boyfriends scream. They then got up and gasp as the mob drives the cart.

Miss Frankie: Now follow me! To find the other Ultra Opposites!

As the Mob carries the cart Psylock and Daryl are in, Psylock looks hopelessly at the mob.

Yumyulack/Psylock: No….

TO BE CONTINUED

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menelaiad · 2 years

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"that follows the Cassandra was not claimed by agamemnon for sexual purposes, but leople don't seem to like that narrative" - can you explain this one a bit further? I kinda get what you're saying but its not something I've really heard before. Sorry if it's actually something obvious and I'm asking a basic question. Thank you for your time

sure sure! i spoke about this in my lectures and it made said when i verbalised it, but if it comes across all warped and muddled in word-form than please just ask me to clarify ASDFGHJKL

OKAY SO. we know that cly wanted to kill aga. it was planned. aeschylus (and to an extent the other tragedians) give us the whole watch-tower-carpet-walking scene that shows that. she WANTED to know when he was coming home to put her plan into action. homer is not so explicit BUT he, again, mentions that it was cly and aeg that killed him implying Some preparation. the two had a plan to execute.

it was not something she planned to do upon seeing aga arrive at mycenea with kassandra.

SO WE HAVE TWO THINGS - it was iphi. pretty black and white. aga had sacrificed their daughter ten years earlier and she spent ten years plotting his murder. did it. credits roll, that's that.

at least that's what the tragedians say. Homer doesn't say WHY. and this is where hyginus comes in and says:

§ 117 CLYTEMNESTRA: Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon, heard from Oiax, brother of Palamedes, that Cassandra was being brought as a concubine to her house, a false statement Oiax made in order to avenge the wrong done to his brother. Then Clytemnestra, together with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, planned to kill Agamemnon and Cassandra. They killed him with an axe as he was sacrificing, and Cassandra, too. But Electra, Agamemnon's daughter, rescued her brother, the infant Orestes, and sent him to Strophius in Phocis. Strophius had married Agamemnon's sister, Astyoche.

(disclaimer: hyginus is roman. however. we cannot say for certain he made this up lmfao. there may be something lost that he got this from. a play. a fragment. something from the epic cycle. We Don't Know. so dont come at me with 'UHHH THATS A ROMAN' - i know. but romans lived closer to the greeks than we do. they may have had access to stuff that we have now lost. okay? good.)

this does kinda hold up though. cause palamedes was wronged by his fellow greeks and aga is the leader of said greeks. so this statement does have legs.

SO LET'S SAY homer is right. there is just iphianassa, laodike and chyrso as his daughters. all alive and no iphi (like in the iliad) - why the plot to kill aga? in this timeline of events (that we know of) there is no iphi sacrifice.

THEREFORE. the spreading of a rumour that cly becomes aware of that she THEN concocts a plan to kill aga for makes sense. someone has told her about kassandra (falsely) and she's made her plan with aegisthus. THUS showing that kassandra being taken by aga for sexual purposes as a falsehood.

EXTENDING FROM THAT in Aeschylus, aga tries to get kassandra to acknowledge cly has her mistress or like cly to acknowledge she's now kass' mistress - which means she's there for cly. and that's a theme in TW too. that these trojan women are going back with greek men to serve their wives (like hecuba and penelope). ALSO. the ONLY reference made to kassandra being in aga's bed/sleeping with him etc. comes from cly. she's the only one who seems to be on that wavelength. nobody else is. aga never says it. kass never says it. only cly - she's the only one privy to the rumour. that's why.

ALSO in homer aga is killed at a feast. not in the bath. also also. kass is not killed with aga IN the bath if you wanna do the bath stuff. she is killed separately and then thrown on top of his body. they are Not bathing together. that is a modern sexualisation of the story (cause we love this shit to be sexual for some fuckin reason lmfaooo welp)

elephant in the room - euripides has kassandra make a big show of being a sexual slave to agamemnon when she leaves with him in trojan women. i've said it before, i'll say it again - euripides needs a LOT of context to be understood. he is ..... i dont wanna say projecting but i legit cant think of a better word ... about the war he is currently in.

NOW - am i saying 'aga doesnt suck cause he didn't wanna sleep with kassandra' NO. taking a poor girl from her home. killing her family. u know the spiel. is AWFUL. whether you sleep with her or not ... doesn't matter tbh. BUT it seems to be like concrete that that is what aga wanted and it's not .... that concrete, there is .... explanation for the contrary i suppose. also, people, stop making everything regarding the epic cycle about sex and sexual violence, like who are you? pat fucking barker?

#long post for ts ///#hope this made sense!!! <3333 #i always sound so fucking mean lmfao but i just cant #express myself cause im stupid #and when i say 'people dont really like it' i mean like.#people just love to make aga unnecessarily more awful than he is???#and its always sexual???#like how they just gloss over the part were he SAYS he's never slept with briseis????#that just didnt happen apparently????

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lorata · 2 years

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As prompted by your recent answer to a Devon and Misha ask, I was wondering if you know much about different kinds of relationship sparring. I feel like you've written about mentor/victor and friend sparring, but I remember you mentioning Two culture has more types like sparring between romantic partners, flirt-sparring, and parent/child sparring (especially interested in how that would work?). Do you have any ideas on that or is it more "I know it exists and that's as far as I've got"?

(TUMBLR CRASHED AND ATE MY RESPONSE AGAIN >:( >:( >:( )

the gist is that yes, I have actually been asked this before in previous asks that are still in my inbox and good heavens yes, I know so much about sparring, but the problem is that sitting down to write an ethnographic paper about it is an absolute nightmare! but yeah if you were to sit down and examine the full corpus that is the D2 universe you would find examples of every kind of sparring that is in your ask. it’s just that, you know, it’s over 10 years and (checks) almost 3 million words of writing. even I don’t want to comb through it all and I wrote the dang stuff

offhand, here are the examples I can pull out from memory:

romantic partners: Selene & Dash (& Petra), Devon & Misha, Claudius & Selene, Blake & Rowan, Mason & Levi, Rowan & Alec (Avengers AU: Rowan & Clint, Alec & Clint, Frigga & Lyme IT’S COMPLICATED I DON’T HAVE TIME TO GET INTO IT IN A LIST, Frigga & Brutus, Cato & Loki)

flirt-sparring: Claudius & Selene, Rowan & Alec, Frigga & Lyme (again, complicated), Brutus & Frigga, Cato & Loki

parent/child sparring: Joseph & Electra (just posted), Adora & Creed (Injured Creed Part IV, will be posted when I finish that chapter), Frigga & Loki, Rowan & his parents

parent/child sparring is similar to mentor/victor sparring in that the parent should never let the kid win (also kinda like irl intensely competitive kids will get super mad if they ‘beat’ you at a race, they aren’t stupid, and they want it to mean something) and is a sort of mix of reassuring affirmation of structure and roles, but is less intense about it. you’re obviously not going to pin your six-year-old to the wall and make them repeat affirmation mantras before you let go (WELL I MEAN NORMALLY, Joseph probably did a bit of ‘do you deserve it’ before letting them up that meant Alec usually went more rounds than he should because saying yes felt like quitting). it’s also just way more like … fun bonding time activity, like the D2 equivalent of going outside to throw the ball around, or whatever. kid gets home from school / parent gets home from work, run outside and throw down for half an hour before dinner. it’s tactile, parent teaches kid a new joint lock, they release endorphins, everyone comes back inside happy.

Joseph incidentally while he is occasionally physical with Alec does NOT do it during sparring, that is not what sparring is for. when he realizes Alec is not backing down when he should have he will end it. any physical abuse takes place outside that context in a specifically designated punishment zone, which is … I mean, it’s not better, he’s hitting his kid, but I just mean that even for a dad who has hit his kid and does spar with him regularly, crossing those streams is a big no-no

(obviously there are abusive parents who use ‘sparring’ as an excuse to beat the tar out of their kids, but I feel like that is mega-taboo in Career circles. I know I keep going back to sports but if you have a bunch of baseball-loving dads who have happy memories of sharing it with THEIR dads and are really glad to pass this on to their kids, and then it turns out one of them was beating their kid with a bat or throwing the balls directly at the kid’s face, it would be like …… extra personal? in addition to the baseline ‘child abuse is bad’ I mean, you’re taking a cultural thing and twisting it. no bueno. on the other hand there probably IS a cycle of abuse thing where some people only did experience sparring as a punitive thing, and so that’s the way they do it, and it takes someone else to be like, what, what the fuck, what are you doing, who taught you that! see Misha not getting sparring for ages because she kept waiting for Lyme to deck her)

flirt-sparring is much more fun, it’s an easy way to test compatibility, really? is there the proper give-and-take, are you both fighting for dominance (or the reverse lmao) or are you able to find a balance, is one of you an asshole, is there a spark, all those things are going to get answered in a hand-to-hand fight real quick. Katie and I jokingly call it “cup of sparring” bc sooner or later ex-Careers who are interested in one another will ask for a match, and if it goes well, it’s on. sometimes it’s slow (Claudius and Selene in the Victor Lene AU have a sliding realization that happens over several months of sparring), sometimes it’s … not, lol (Rowan and Alec in the OG AU go from first date to I-never-do-this banging in the locker room because the sparring is just that good). on the flip side, sometimes you spar and it’s just not there! in which case hey, no hard feelings! let’s grab a coffee we can still hang out

couple-sparring I’ve written a lot of fic about, both when it’s good and bad, but essentially it’s a check-in to make sure things are okay. if you haven’t sparred in a while, something’s off. it doesn’t have to be a huge intense thing, it can just be play-wrestling on the sofa over the remote or whatever, but it should be a regular thing to see where each other’s heads are at. if there’s a problem in the relationship, the sparring is also going to feel weird, and it’s hard to pretend it isn’t. I feel like “they don’t want to spar with me anymore!” is an early Career barometer and/or bff paranoia check for cheating, likewise telling your bff that the sparring hasn’t felt the same recently would come up in conversations about why you feel like it’s not working anymore.

sparring bruises are a thing I mention a lot, where in the Program it started out as a way for the kids to show the others that They’re Taken and not to make sparring weird (and because, let’s be real, teenagers love hickies lol). in adults it’s less Lol We’re Necking and more like, this is a visible sign that sparring is ongoing and things are okay (whether it’s true or the bruises are made in desperation to appear normal is a whole other Thing but that can be fun, if you’re doing like … a relationship drama kind of thing). the bruises absolutely do not have to be visible to everyone, it’s not like a weird Stepford thing where people are Checking To See Whose Bruises Are Fading (though I’m sure young nosy couples who are like, newly in love and Know Everything absolutely do this), but if you do notice that all your bruises have faded it is kind of like ah crap, we should pay attention to this and probably fix it, ASAP.

there’s also definitely hate-sparring which I think is usually a Centre-phenomenon but happens, like, so much. Selene and Petra were obviously a comical example but every year there’s aggression and competition so it definitely happened, and it’s a good way to like … bleed some of that off so you don’t get gangs of bullies at 3am or whatever. I think it probably does happen even as adults where, like, sometimes two people really, really get on each other’s nerves and they just need to go pound the shit out of each other! if you and that annoying dude at work have a lot of aggro tension people are gonna start telling the two of you to go out back and fight it out. this may or may not be paired with hate-sex, in that it often is but – like Selene and Petra as teenagers – it absolutely does not have to. sometimes two people really do not like each other and regularly meet out back behind the dumpsters to bash each other’s faces in and then go back to work. i know the rituals are intricate I know it i know they’re intricate

anyway tl;dr I love my ridiculous punchy jocks

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