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[fishdogma]

Out of pure curiosity, where would you place Loid in terms of strength?

Loid is definitely strong but I think a lot of that comes from his training and intelligence rather than raw power. He fights very defensively (so we've seen) and tends to attack weak spots rather than brute in.

I actually started doing strength training and have gone on a strength diet (which sucks) so I understand more now how hard it is to make and maintain muscle, so I thought about it a lot here.

Part of muscling up — as my trainer keeps telling me — is you need adequate sleep for your body to repair and rebuild that muscle and Loid, according to canon, only sleeps an average of two hours. So he's kneecapping his bodies' ability to grow muscle adequately.

I've been finding it hard to build muscle on my unsteady sleep schedule so I don't know how he does it... Just pure grit and time in the game.

Though, he's more lean than meaty.

He has enough strength to block Yor or counter her. I never see it talked about but when Fiona challenges Yor to a tennis match, early on, Loid tries to warn Fiona that it's not a good idea.

Yet he'd been training with Yor. So he knew Fiona could not hold a light to Yor's strength but he himself had been training with Yor so could, to some extent, counter her at that point.

I use Yor because I think she's the physically strongest character revealed so far.

On a pure one on one, she would decimate him. And I think he knows, acknowledges and likes how strong she is.

When he saw her boot one of his "patients" after their second meeting, he laughs and genuinely smiles.

However, I also think Endo has been drawing him meatier and bulkier. I think him living a family life might force him to sleep a little more and eat much more so he may be stronger now than he was, but we haven't seen that expressed.

(though that ulcer is more of an issue as ,realistically, to heal his diet and habits will need to change.)

Sorry, that was probably a bit of a crap answer. 🥲

[fishdogma]

Read right to left.

Part 1 <- Part 2 <- Part 3 <- Part 4

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[cosmicdraghon]

[justanamartins]

𝐘𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐔𝐑𝐎 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 🖤💜

ᴅᴀʏ 3: ᴡʀᴏɴɢ ᴀꜱꜱɪɢɴᴍᴇɴᴛ 🔦

"Encosta na parede, bonita! Encosta na parede! Abre as pernas e bota a mão na parede! Eu sou policial disfarçadah!"

@thesssvault

[riiisinghooope]

Endo show us all the new moon days

[cantareincminor]

Fic idea: WISE-Garden cultural exchange

My dad told me that in the old days in China when you wanted to train up your son in your trade, you would send him to apprentice under a friend in the same trade instead of training him up yourself to avoid bias and ingrained habits within the family. And your friend would send his son to apprentice under you.

Imagine a post reveal scenario where WISE and Garden are allies, and Handler and Shopkeeper get along great as work spouses. And at one of their regular coffee chats the topic of their most difficult employees comes up.

“There’s this young man I’m afraid I’ve been too lenient with, mostly out of pity. Insists on living like a hermit and refuses to get a phone, which makes contacting him for assignments quite a hassle. He’s prone to fits of rage and even attacks other Garden members without provocation.”

“Ah, sounds like one of my rogue agents. Very talented, but single-minded and stubborn to a fault. It’s a crapshoot whether she obeys orders or throws them to the wind. She’s antagonized many fellow agents but also your Thorn Princess, and surprisingly hasn’t yet learned her lesson.”

“Hmm. Ms. Sherwood, might I propose a potential path forward for our unruly subordinates? An employee exchange of sorts?”

“What a novel idea. Tell me more, Shopkeeper.”

Days later, “Mr. Jones” shows up at WISE all ornery and annoyed that he has to learn from Westalian spies, only for the Fullmetal Lady to cut him off mid-rant and lay down the law as she did on rookie Twilight.

Agent Nightfall walks into Garden HQ for tea with her new boss, only to take a sip and become literally paralyzed as he lays out the draconian rules for her apprenticeship.

(I just want to see Sylvia straightening out Hemlock! Fic idea free to take as always)

[bleppytea]

The idea is awesome and I imagine :

The same thing but pre-reveal, like somehow the two organisations came into contact, or knew eachother prior but never mentioned it and after weighing eachother's agenda and realising they didn't clash.

Crazy shenanigans ensues, like if nightfall's the first to be transferred and to know of thorn Princess and Hemlock of Twilight.

Or even crazier scenarios where the best of each organisations are sent to the other as some sort of "seminary learning x and y" (twilight would of course go into garden with a fake identity and face but it would be funny if he noticed Yor at some point and started sweating profusely)

Of course It'd be weird to justify as a pre reveal thing (not for long at least) but the shenanigans (like maybe they did a truce and decided never to attack eachother's agents for the knowledge of each's forte and how to get better at their respective jobs) and weird situations it could result in would be gold

I'll leave on this little paragraph (edit : this became a bit bigger than a single paragraph 🙏) of what the idea I envision could be like:

/

"I'd recommend more training, as soon as possible, all weak, all frail, more than the average civilian but still far from strong, I have nothing to learn from those 'play pretend' peoples and their toys." Hemlock began his report in a stern tone to Shopkeeper after his first week.

Shopkeeper, lifted his hand, gestured for him to stop, then waited a few seconds before speaking "Hemlock, I ask of you to be patient with them, you weren't sent in their care to get better at slicing your opponents or to get physically stronger, I've sent you there to improve your coordination skills with others, someone other than yourself, As of today, I am still unable to give you an assignment that requires any amount of cooperation, what I request of you with this mission is to take one of your biggest weakness and to hone it until it becomes a strength, only then will i reconsider reintroducing you to new assignments."

He continued "Besides, I'm sure you haven't seen everything they've had to offer yet, this is still the first week and I've heard that an interesting agent will likely make his appearance in the following days, someone that could probably still surprise you." He stayed patient with Hemlock, his expression exuded of calmness and a tinge of warmth, though he stayed mostly neutral.

---

Hemlock has always been one of the more closed garden members and he knew it, he didn't spare anyone a glance more than necessary, he would never get human relationships, they were a loss of time, money, energy but especially mental fortitude, deep inside he still knew Yor was growing weak because of her doing the 'lovey dovey' with her husband (he gagged a little at the thought), he just still wasn't strong enough to prove it yet.

Except Gimpy, Gimpy was nice, he's to the point, never asks more questions than necessary, never overstays his welcome too, and also he's cool, Hemlock likes gimpy.

---

The Wise handler gave him the creeps, he never felt weird like that before but he still refrained from mentioning it to his superior, he wondered why everyone called her by her title only, but she definitely was the one that left the biggest impression on him during his short week, and after he was given an earful on the third day for his behaviour, (unsheathing his sword and provoking an employee in duel for being annoying during his tea break apparently considered out of line) he recognised that she knew how to fend for herself and her peoples, he had to give her that, even if he himself considered the weak as dead weight, his respect for her slightly grew because of it, though he lost sword privileges in the building.

He pondered about the familiarities between her and his leader as he watched an interaction between her and one of the newbies spies from afar, how despite their cold and stern facades, despite all these talks about staying at an arm's length and not getting attached, there always was this small but distinguishable, impossible to hide, deep care for their peoples, no matter what they said.

There are smiles you simply can't fake.

Hemlock felt a tinge of warmth at the thought...he scoffed, scolding himself for it.

\

Yeah, "scolding himself" just before realising he was doing the same thing, you dumass

I've thought about it and after reconsideration it kinda became "what if hemlock was sent into Wise's care instead of town hall"

I also write hemlock as a sort of Blend between Nightfall's succinct and Yuri's petty(though more of the latter) with a bit of lying to himself about how much he really hates connecting to peoples sprinkled on top.

This was just a little mockup of what Hemlock's POV would look like in a bigger story that'd also include the ideas mentioned in the beginning and then some.

As I said earlier, the reveal wouldn't be far into the story else it'd be hard to justify just how is no one making connections between thorn princess and twilight and the redundancy of people around them in their daily lives (but that'd be funny too so who knows)

Lots of things been bubbling in my mind regarding this idea but I'll stop myself here else this post will be way too long, keeping a bit for myself for now

Also, yes, if he's nice Sylvia might let him carry a knife inside the building.

(all criticisms welcomed, recommended, even.)

[cosmicdraghon]

[chimeraxf]

For chloeyuri week on twitter Day 2: «Birthdays»

Better late than never

[cantareincminor]

Was inching along on my Yuri Loid crack fic and drew inspiration from this classic moment in DBZ Abridged...

Vegeta: I need you to---and follow me on this one---almost kill me.

Krillin: Almost kill you.

Vegeta: Yeah.

Krillin: And there's no repercussion for this?

Vegeta: I will not punch you.

Krillin: Oddly specific.

---

Sums up Twilight v. Yuri in the sewers lol. Twilight trying to "almost" kill Yuri the entire time.

Also in some future crack fic I will not write, I can imagine Hemlock demanding this of Franky. Out of some misplaced belief that he possesses the Saiyan healing factor and will get exponentially stronger every time he gets beaten half to death. Franky shoots him through the chest with one of his accidentally lethal gadgets.

[cosmicdraghon]

[martiankitty]

my brain is haunting me with a parallel scene to Yor rescuing Melinda from falling down the stairs, but it's Donovan rescuing Loid… (you know, given the state Loid's in and the fact he's crawling down the hall)

[starlight-wakuwaku]

Such a great idea! I just had to draw this! It was so much fun

[aerequets]

oh geez

This is both extremely dramatic and also not canon-esque at all, like i dont see anything remotely like this happening, but it was fun. I do want to see them argue. Not only fight knives-and-guns-blazing, but like an ideological crossroads. In this case: their approaches to their life views. Aside from the obvious ideologies they've adopted from garden and wise, Twilight is very self-sacrificial, seeming not to care about the impact his death would have on those depending on him, putting everything in for the mission. On the other hand, Yor knows the importance of life, she had to live in order for her brother to live, she takes lives up-close so she knows their weight and how easily they can be snuffed out. Therefore, she's more careful about being able to make it home so that she can be there for her family.

with this most recent arc, even though she isn't getting a full view of how much harm he puts himself in, that last panel in the last chapter of him dragging himself in the hospital (although it was funny) kinda got me thinking. What if yor got an inkling of how little he cared for himself? and what if, when confronted about it, he refused to stand down?

also ideally they wouldn't be snogging right away after their first argument but. needs be

[riiisinghooope]

It's been six months in canon so far which means there have been approximately six new moons. I want to see what happened on those days

[riiisinghooope]

I know it would be narratively unsatisfying if it actually happened but I always think a reveal like this would be so funny

[chambre-grenouille]

Chapter 139 prediction (no spoil)

[lady-pendragon-9]

Loid at the hospital, a compilation of my recent drawings 😆😆😆

[o0kawaii0o]

For the Good Times

[unhappy-sometimes]

mhm.

(clean version under the cut)

while ur here u should check out the song i found by amber run. it’s pretty good, the first half anyway.