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Do you have an Ao3 account and can I follow you there to?

i do and I would be so honored!!! i've plugged it here a few times, but it does get lost under the... honestly maybe excessive amount.. that i post

so! here it is: Ao3: ✨fallenStar_cygnus✨ Insta: ✨fallen.star_cygnus✨ TikTok: ✨falling.star_cygnus✨ i know, i'm sooo original

These are the fandoms I've written for✨ -> Dead Boy Detectives -> Link Click -> Dispatch -> TADC -> Gachiakuta -> Etoile -> WBK -> CRK -> KoG -> Genshin -> Hollow Knight [and by extension Silksong] -> KPDH -> Blue Period -> HTTYD -> Danny Phantom -> Haunted Hotel -> Miraculous Ladybug -> TBHX -> ZZZ -> WHA

and this list is open to expanding✨ i love interacting with all of you, and i love getting writing and hc and art requests! ↓ seriously, please don't be shy <3 i might be a bit slow, but it's purely because i want to fulfill each and every request to the absolute best of my abilities

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Hey sorry, ignore the ask about the missing Robert/poly z team post. I confused you with someone else ;-;

YEAH I FIGURED BAHA 😭 -> i kept reading it like... Z-Team kidnapping Robert? what? and then scrolled through all of MY dispatch posts looking for it, thinking maybe i'd forgotten it or something

which... is more likely than you'd think-- given how often i post at like- 3 to 5 in the morning before sleeping for 12 hours haha... ha..

anyway, you're all good, mousy!!! i hope you find what you're lookin' for!

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i know in the translation from manga to anime, a lot of things get cut or moved around-- and I understand why-- but i really wish they would've kept Tetia's initial... discomfort w/ Coco -> she was NOT rocking w/ this girl for any reason; she did not want to be around her, or help her, or really even be alone w/ her

it's sorta blink and you'll miss it, and especially overshadowed by the worry she displays over Agott's stunt, but Tetia gives Coco very short answers or hesitant ones when it's just the two of them-- it's very obvious she wants to get away -> she's never outright rude, or hostile, like Agott is-- or outright avoidant, like Richeh is-- but her normal warmth only really peeks through in group settings. At least, until after the dragon

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there's this really neat thing that Qifrey does-- as the girl's teacher, and for how he came into witch society-- that reeeally demonstrates the distance he keeps from his little family

his initial instinct, when threatened, is to be violent and subdue the percieved 'assailant' by whatever means necessary -> this is worth noting, because he's the only one in the atelier with this instinct. Olruggio and the girls' default to true-blue witchiness, and seek to use magic to help without causing too much harm

a good anime-friendly example of this: the introduction of the Knights Moralis [Richeh tackles Easthies arm, Tetia sets the pennant on fire-- just weak enough to burn out before reaching anybody. Qifrey puts a blade to Easthies throat]

even Coco, an outsider, has the witchy instinct to use magic for helping-- as seen with the dragon, where she vyes for a peaceful way to subdue it -> whereas, Qifrey makes a dragon that dwarfs it and... essentially waterboards//half drowns the thing

it's really interesting, to me, because Qifrey is their teacher-- he's the one that's supposed to be ingraining that instinct into them, rather than contradicting his own teachings

'do as I say, not as I do' indeed...

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watching ep12 a wee late, i'll admit, but i freakin' love Euini's dub VA-- they're doing a great job, i love the slight dips between shy and wee judgment -> i have an inkling on who it is, but i'm not. going to look it up. i can't do it

"Is that a spell of yours?" "..eh- no, it's the magic of the road 🤨"

also i'm going to kill Kurkrow. and Richeh's old master. i feel like them having similar hair types and sillhouettes is intentional

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100% Qifrey recognizes his qiflings in whatever form they happen to be in [forbidden magic, cloaks of borrowshade, etc. etc] and the girls canNOT figure out how he does it -> they think it's something in his glasses maybe, that let him see through disguises-- their master is rather paranoid after all-- and devise a plan to steal them to see. Coco valiently tries to stray them into anything else

they don't really get far into the plan though before Olly warns them off it. Or, more accurately, scolds them off it "Oi, I heard that. Don't go messing with your master's glasses, he needs those." "Aw, but Master Ollyyy! Not even for a second--? He can't ne-" "No, Tetia, don't go making me repeat myself." and Master Olly rarely ever sounds so genuinely cross with them, or firm, that it spooks 'em into calling the plan off

so they shift to Borrowshade, and pick different animals after tentatively approaching Olly again for advice on the seal-- which makes him wince, their nervousness, but he knows Qifrey would hate for them to see his scar -> They decide to test the absolute limits of Qifrey recognizing them instead, and decide on order and times. Agott chooses an owl kitten, Coco a brushbuddy, Richeh a myrphon, and Tetia opts for a plant instead-- to hide in his garden

every single time, Qifrey stares at them for a few seconds-- and then immediately clocks it's one of his babies

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"tumblr is the most vanilla social media site tbh"

fucking TUMBLR!?

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two most important details from Shirahama's episode 11 commentary:

the snugstone's first anime design looked a lot more rock-like, so Shirahama sent the crew a picture of a blue agate slice to use as a reference for corrections

Richeh's secret lair chair is a walnut shell that was enlarged with magic

ooh YES, i love it when people send me Shirahama's commentary on the episodes, stars BLESS you mousy!!! :D

i'm going to need to see a SERIOUS influx in describing Qifrey's eyes as blue agate [because LOOK at that color match]. and also! fun fact! blue agate is a symbol of smooth communication, and peace

yeah, the stone that matches Qifrey's eyes? The spell that Olly made? it's inscribed on a precious stone used to promote inner tranquility

Richeh's chair being a walnut shell is ADORABLE btw, i bet it's so snug in there -> also, firmly believe that Qifrey is VERY aware of her secret lair, and had one himself when he was her age

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starstruck fic that takes AFTER Fall Guy, in a no-astrophage universe, where Tom has just gotten out of prison [no dying in a fiery explosion, but perchance some scarring] and settled down in San Francisco -> he gets a job at a coffee shop, bitching and moaning about his lost acting career and 'being poor now' [he's not, none of his wealth was laundered or obtained illegally so it was still. yk available to him], but he gets stir-crazy by himself and he got clean in prison, so...

not by choice, obviously, but the only thing his muscles are good for are cameras and getting laid

and-- as it turns out-- catching cute nerds that trip outta their morning booths -> Ryland Grace comes to this same cafe every monday-through-friday, an hour after it opens, and sits in the same corner, and orders the very same coffee. Tom's never looked at him too closely-- he refuses to wake up that early, frankly-- BUT he's working on being a better person damnit!

one of his coworkers that he's... begrudgingly.. gotten close too asks him to cover, and. well. he kinda owes her for swaying the owner to hire him

he's not the only one working opening that day, so-- still they never brush too closely, until Grace is rushing to pay and book it to work -> in his naturally oh-so-graceful fashion, he trips over his ankle, and the slight rise of the booth, and prepares himself for a painful reacquaintance with the floor. Only-- a very strong arm catches him by the cardigan covered waist before that happens-- slinging him into a dip before bringing him back up to his feet

"Wooah there, foxy... don't go falling for me, n- SEAVERS!?"

and then. Ryder fumbling the bag for a bit, Coltland twins repairing their relationship, HARDCORE PINING, and maybe a kiss or two idk. -> Definitely wanna include Ortiz!Rocky in some way, with Adrian, who know about. Tom's record. and are nOOOT happy he's so interested in their Grace. Colt's not happy either, in fact-- he socks Tom in the jaw for it.

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Can you feed a starved follower some headcanin about bby mothfrey and beldadruit?

I ABSOLUTELY CAN >:3c -> y'all i SWEAR i am working on ch3 it's just sloooow. and that's partially why i set up the ask blog!!! {@ask-mothfrey -- where there's a chance of answer details making it into the fic!!!}

Beldy specially modified Qifrey's apprentice robes//shirt so that his middle arms wouldn't be squashed against his stomach-- though, until Qifrey starts feeling safer around Beldaruit, that's where they stay anyway [protecting his shrunken vital organs]

Qifrey isn't allowed to have his door closed for the first several months of his healing, because Beldaruit needs to be able to get to him fast if something's wrong [after a scare, when something fell in front of the door and Beldaruit couldn't get in while Qifrey was making little squeaks of pain]

They don't dive into magic lessons right away, because the little moth is still soo so wary of it, so one of their first lessons is on hair types [Qifrey asks if his hair will look like Beldaruit's, if he grows it out, and Beldaruit says most likely not-- due to its thickness and curl]

initially, Olruggio thinks Qifrey is growing his hair out to hide his antennae-- and Qifrey kinda wants to slap himself for not thinking of that sooner -> it gets pretty long, though, lovely lengths of pale curl that frame his shoulders. Something happens that ruins it though, and he's forced to cut it back to his nape

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attracted to it like moth to flame

Moth to flame

Moth qifrey

I saw what you did

i remember i wrote that, but i don't remember WHERE i wrote that and it's driving me insane bc i know it wasn't in the mothfrey files.... -> it was a mothfrey reference though, i will admit

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What do you would happen if Beldaruit found out about Qifrey’s curse? How and when did he found and what he’d do with information. Because there is literally no way he’d just stand idly by.

poor old man would probably have a very complex mix of emotions

on one hand-- crushing relief that Qifrey doesn't hate him, that he didn't royally fuck up this child that he took under his wing ↓ That his distance was out of necessity and not because Qifrey simply wanted nothing to do with him

on the other hand-- crushing guilt AT that relief and horror that his boy was doomed to suffer so, that he told Coco Qifrey was desperate for vengeance and not simply trying to understand himself ↓ Guilt that he just wrote off Qifrey's snappiness and outbursts and sneaking off as teenage rebellion instead of prying any further

Qifrey gets the seed removed and the second thing he does-- after jumping Olly's bones-- is collapse into Beldaruit's open arms and cry, at long last afforded his dad's ready affection

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You know, that really begs the question as to how many fights Qifrey has been in. Because you don't get that good at sword fighting or battle magic without some real practice. Now I'm just imagining all the nondiscript brimhats Qifrey has probably beaten the stuffing out of when he went on that solo trip (truly gives 'Diluc went to Snezhnaya- no one there was safe' vibes lmaoooo)

OH MY STARS, I FORGOT ABOUT THE DILUC IN SNEZHNAYA MEMES -> i used to be HEAVY into ragbros, y'all, it's not even funny-- that was my SHIT during quarantine

no but it is really funny to imagine Qifrey, with his sword dripping blood, leaving a trail of twitching brimhats in his wake. The sword might only be 'for self-defense' but some say offense is the best version of that...

he sees one sniffing around some outsider kids, or baby witchlets, selling out those picture books and suddenly boss music starts playing -> it lowkey becomes a hazing ritual for the new members: fight Qifrey the witch. Oh, no don't worry, he only has one eye! BAM

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following this post ↓

i'm still ironing out Beldy's team, but little baby!Qifrey tells Beldaruit he met a pokemon that looked liked him-- just idly, just trying to feel out if it's 'okay' to like dragon pokemon or if Beldaruit will get mad at him -> There is very little he could do to make Beldy mad at him, but babyfrey doesn't quite know that just yet

Beldaruit is simply thrilled his ward is confiding in him, AND-- having definitely picked up on Qifrey's repressed awed undertones-- touched at having proof that Qifrey thinks of him, at least semi-fondly

he disappears to grab a huge, physical rendition of a world pokedex-- encouraging Qifrey to flip through it and show him -> He's not really sure if he should be flattered or wilted that his darling apprentice is comparing him to a pokemon that looks so old, but.. then he sees that Qifrey is practically vibrating with bitten down glee and he melts

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now that you’re getting into wha this is vitally important: So far, what Ace Pokemon would you give the main cast?

finally... finally i can answer this like i wanted to... muehehe.. ↓ i'm so sorry for the delay, but i do so live to give thorough responses to every ask i recieve. my tag pertains to ramblings for... a reason..

now that i'm caught up, and rife with free time, let's get on with it!

Agott: Purrloin, known as the devious pokemon and occasionally accused of being quite the copycat. There's no basis for these accusations, aside from perhaps the skill of its moveset -> They've been bonded since babies, and it's hardly ever in it's Luxury Ball

Tetia: Audino, known as the hearing pokemon, it's incredibly in tune with people's heartbeats! Tetia's affinity for mega evolution allows for them both to spread happiness -> They bonded over their shared 'twin tails' and pretty pink hair//coat

Richeh: shiny!Carbink, known as the jewel pokemon, it uses his shiny imbedded jewels to defend itself. Occasionally, if a pack without a queen is in danger, a Carbink will transform into a Diance -> They bonded when Rili went away for his apprenticeship, missing the boy that introduced them

Coco: Sewaddle, known as the sewing pokemon, it's a popular companion for designers! Especially with the fashionable leafy clothes their Leavanny mothers dress them in -> They bonded being in worlds they don't understand, as Sewaddle was domesticated before its owner dumped it in the first test's training grounds

Olruggio: Centiskorch, known as the radiator pokemon, this pokemon is said to be excessively hostile-- though new research reveals that may only be because of their excessive intake of Max Particles -> They bonded fully in the aftermath of... the Ghodrey incident.. it was Sizzlipede then, and too small to keep the frozen bodies warm.

Qifrey: shiny!Trevenant, known as the elder tree pokemon, it's fiercely protective over the sanctity of its forest-- believed to devour those that harm any of its trees. However, it's incredibly kind to those that dwell in its midst -> Their bond is something wholly unique to them, and it's been that way since Trevenant was just a Phantump, and Qifrey was freshly unearthed

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with the current arc that's being animated, i think it's important to bring up that nobody trained Qifrey in combat magic

Olruggio taught him theory that would keep him prepared, and Beldaruit taught him spells for diversion and the natural duty of witchfolk-- that is, kind magic for helping ↓ Qifrey just went out and did that. Took off to who knows where and came back with sword skills and the ability to fuck you up

Beldaruit, seeing the Boilfire Dragon straight up eating the Valance Leech: hm.... well, I certainly didn't teach him that..

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Rocky: Erid and humans in think machine shipping Grace Simon!

Grace, gripping Rocky's carapace: I ca n't go to space again-