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The Liberi are the most stringent about proper grooming of all the races of Terra. It's a racial trait that goes back to their connection to featherbeasts. Any other beast of the land or sea isn't going to be terribly inconvenienced by matted fur or scuffed scales, especially in the short term. A single misaligned feather could compromise a featherbeasts aerodynamics, and thus ability to fly. So preening is a deeply ingrained survival skill even though the Liberi are land bound and it no longer matters.
Just imagine no-nonsense Liberi operators running their fingers through their hair multiple times a day to make sure the feathers are properly aligned. The science owl that fell asleep at her desk at 3am but still the first thing she does before she opens her eyes in the morning is reach up to fix that feather that's been knocked askew.
You know a Liberi loves you when they're willing to reach out and help fix you up when you're a mess. You know one trusts you when they let you return the favor.
Just a fun Arknights thought.
couple of reqs I took earlier this month
We all know one of the most likely characters from Arknights to appear on Endfield is Mostima because she has the Lock and Key
But hear me out
What if the one to appear is Fiammetta
This ties in well with pre-cannon Fiammetta. It was popular fannon that as a pheonix Fiammetta could die and be reborn from the ashes and thus was probably older than she looked. While cannon now has it that she's about as old as Mostima and that fannon fizzled out, I'm still kind of hopeful that it's simply that she's never died, thus been reborn yet.
That scenario would play really well with an alter, maybe a substitution specialist, something with self sustain at least. Making Fiammetta's artilleryman, with it's self damage, the aspect of the phoenix that burns itself to ashes, and her alt the aspect that rises from it.
It would give a good reason for Fiammetta surviving till whatever time Endfield is set. Plus re-opening a whole bunch of fun directions her story could go in.
I actually was thinking that Mostima as the guardian of the Lock and Key is technically immortal a la AC: Odyssey where Platon and the protagonist are immortal as long as they have their divine staff
However, if we're being honest, Mostima is the totally the type of person who would ditch immortality
So I can see her handing Lock and Key to Fiammetta because she has no desire to live eternally and also because she considers herself as unfit to her duty on the long run
Is this cannon compliant? No
Would this inflict emotional damage on me? Yes
Fiammetta who's always been the outsider looking in with the Sankta she was raised amongst. Who probably wasn't any better off with the Lateranian Liberi for having opportunities open to her that they'll never have, thanks to the strings pulled by the Sankta gun-knights who raised her. Much like POC raised in a white household not quite fitting in with either world (I'll probably elaborate on this in a separate post). Who's so loyal to the friends she does have because of it?
To have the friend who's fall she wanted to avenge, a vengeance she placed on the back burner to follow her into effective exile to ensure she was ok in her new circumstance. To have that friend just drop immortality on her so she could fuck off and die? That would cut deep.
Fiammetta is loyal and dutiful though. Despite her grumpy disposition she cares deeply for others. Anyone she'd trust to give the Lock and Key to in turn weren't people she'd wish to curse with immortality.
Ouch! Certainly inflicts emotional damage on me.
We all know one of the most likely characters from Arknights to appear on Endfield is Mostima because she has the Lock and Key
But hear me out
What if the one to appear is Fiammetta
This ties in well with pre-cannon Fiammetta. It was popular fannon that as a pheonix Fiammetta could die and be reborn from the ashes and thus was probably older than she looked. While cannon now has it that she's about as old as Mostima and that fannon fizzled out, I'm still kind of hopeful that it's simply that she's never died, thus been reborn yet.
That scenario would play really well with an alter, maybe a substitution specialist, something with self sustain at least. Making Fiammetta's artilleryman, with it's self damage, the aspect of the phoenix that burns itself to ashes, and her alt the aspect that rises from it.
It would give a good reason for Fiammetta surviving till whatever time Endfield is set. Plus re-opening a whole bunch of fun directions her story could go in.
While it is hilarious that Kristen trap doored Saria out of her space ship like some Looney Tunes character. It obscures the point that Kristen, if not just tried to kill Saria, at the very least got her out of the way without regard to whether or not she survived. Kristen didn't drop Saria into an escape pod, she dropped her into open air somewhere between 5037 and 6152 meters above sea level. It's stated explicitly in text that Saria can't survive a fall like that, no matter how much she reinforces her body.
Saria isn't still alive because Kristen wanted to 'save' her and wished for her to watch over the world in the Perro's stead. Saria survived because she got stupidly, 1 in a million lucky. Twice.
AU where Franka doesn't get approval for the transfer and instead has to cut and run to Rhodes Island alone. Liskarm just misses finding out and isn't able to follow. and then they reunite some years down the line for whatever reason, Franka happy at Rhodes Island but still a little lonely and Liskarm saying she's fine but being at Blacksteel for so long has made her colder and harsher and just plain miserable.
(it isn't all bad, she at least has Jessica and Vanilla, but they can't get under her skin the way Franka could. Liskarm swears that Franka would get under skin sometimes just to dig out the bad feelings.)
(and Franka has people. she's surrounded by people she cares about. operators cut from the same cloth as her, that will charge headlong into battle beside her. colleagues who will nag her about sleeping and eating and training and mission parameters. friends who will rag on her for her choice of reading material. but Liskarm was all of those things rolled into one. and she is not here)
#(for the purposes of this AU Vanilla and Jessica are with Liskarm at Blacksteel)
#Liskarm's squad ending up on the landship for whatever reason
#Liskarm seeing Franka out of the corner of her eye and just being knocked for six
#their reunion would be an all out battle in an empty training room
#other staff hearing about it and trying to intervene like ''what is this Blacksteel person doing to our beloved Franka''
#Franka and Liskarm kick the shit out of each other but aren't able to actually talk because too many people watching
#Vanilla and Jessica ''oh this is normal. this is normal! it's been 3 years but it's totally normal! don't worry!''
#(it's really that trope of ''ex you still care about is doing good and you're miserable'' for Liskarm)
#arknights tag #yeah I'll tag it #friskarm
#if you ask me if this AU has a sad or happy ending. it has whatever ending you want
#I do think Franka and Liskarm's relationship changed when they transferred to Rhodes Island together#because it was a silent admission that their partnership was no longer the result of circumstance#'we've been put together' to 'we're choosing to stick together'#so to lose that aspect of their relationship would be... interesting
#also Franka has to slow down for Liskarm. Liskarm is /meant/ to curb Franka's reckless behaviour #so I like the idea that Franka at RI alone is even more reckless because she's not being properly challenged #she gels too well with some operators and it's so easy that it's terrifying #in the sense that combat becomes tunnel vision. which is not a good thing
[Image Description: the Curious Cat phasing it's front paws into Ruby Rose's chest, causing her to cry out in agony]
Headcanon that Ruby has a pair of scars on her chest shaped like the Cat's paw prints from this. Unlike normal scars, the print's are the same colors as the Curious Cat, shifting in the light like metallic paint.
No one's seen them yet because their location means Ruby would have to be wearing a pretty deep neckline for them to show. Needless to say Ruby's in no hurry to do that for a multitude of reasons, not least of which is the worry of someone not in the know about Ever After coming up and asking her about her "cool tattoos".
Penguin Logistics Fiammetta AU
Okay so this is kind of a role swap but just in gen something I've been interested in, the basic premise of - what if Fiammetta had stayed back instead of Mostima that night? So I'm gonna be using this post for lore as I work on this AU. So if you're interested (or from a fic), check out under the cut!
And a warning as I dive into lore more, things will get updated and changed!
This sounds like a really fun AU that I haven't seen done before. Which is odd since Role Swap AU's aren't uncommon in other fandom's.
It would be really interesting to explore which parts of the characters personality stays the same and what changes. As so much of their characterization was formed from that Kazdel mission and it's consequences.
I know it’s been a running gag for the last 3 volumes or so that Ruby has been failing to notice Blake and Yang’s attraction to each other. What I really want to see when those two reveal themselves as a couple to the rest of the team is Ruby continuing to be nonplussed. Not because she’s surprised by this, but because she’s been operating under the impression that they’ve been together since Beacon.
So every time Weiss has gone “ohhh, the Bumbleby ship is sailing” Ruby is there thinking ‘what’s caught her attention? Nothing happening here other than the couple doing couple things.’
The fact they’ve never been overt about it wouldn’t be points against it in Ruby’s mind. After all I doubt she expects Yang to start making out with her girlfriend in front of her little sister. Bonus points if she’s discussed it with others making the same assumption.
Ruby: So wait you weren’t a couple before now?
Yang: *blushing* No, this is new.
Ruby: Oh... I guess that inter-team dating waiver Professor Goodwitch made me fill out back a Beacon was a little premature then
6. Emiya Arturia
6. “I just need to lie down.” EMIYA/Arturia
Modern AU/ University Longish drabble thing! :> Hope you like!
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It was happening again.
This was the sixth time Emiya was going to wake up with his arms slung over no one. She’d always tried to be quiet, but he’d caught her the other day, curiously wondering what had her up so early. At the time, she thought it had been the effects of fatigue but now she was no longer sure.
Arturia clamped her hand over her mouth as their bedroom turned on its side, stumbling across the furniture into their shared bathroom. She didn’t know when she’d fallen to the floor. Her head was dizzy trying to make sense of why her body felt like it was being crushed under a hydraulic press, it was a miracle at all that she’d managed to curl herself over the porcelain throne before everything she’d eaten the day before made an ugly, acidic reappearance.
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I noticed no one is talking about that in universe Thomas Astruc made a ladybug and chat noir movie without consulting them or presumably paying them meaning that he is making money off them knowing that they can't do anything about it because they wouldn't have bank accounts for their hero identities and wouldn't be able to take him to court because they would have to stay in costume the whole time. Basically he's using their fame to make money knowing they can't do anything about it legally.
And then you have the movie in canon took three years to make, I know that’s probably a reference to the creation of the show, but in canon where they have been active for about a year (we presume); it doesn’t help that it seems like they had a different idea originally, then when LB and Chat became popular, did a quick change to the movie to make them stars and get money for it.
So for the character Thomas Astruc, that was karma coming his way for all that.
I’ve avoided this episode like the plague but this was one of my main gripes that struck me just from the discourse. Ladybug should not have had to watch the movie in order to give constructive criticism on it, it’s based on her using her image and name. She and Chat should have had veto power on the entire movie, they should have had to approve the script before any animation was started and any major change run passed them as well.
I’m just imagining how confused a viewer, who just found the show on Netflix, would be watching this episode. Someone who didn’t know Astruc beyond a name in the credits let alone the fandom drama around him. All they know is what is happening in universe. There’s suspension of disbelief and then there’s this fuckery.
I want a fanfic rewrite of Oblivio but not a fix-it fanfic I just want to read a fanfic where the episode was significantly longer and had even more crazy bullshit added in because I’m gonna be honest the ONLY reason I’m not giving Oblivio a perfect score is because it just wasn’t long enough for me. I need like three hours worth of that. This episode was otherwise BRILLIANT.
Fanfic rewrite would include
• Adrien and Marinette escaping the building before they even figure out how to transform
• Marinette trying to call Fu but her phone dies before he can even tell her what to do because,,, lmao why not
• Marinette and Adrien, despite escaping the building, knowing it’s their duty to defeat the akuma so they do their damn best without super suits to beat the shit out of the akuma
• Marinette stealing two motorcycle helmets again, pulling two ponchos out of the trash, and forcing Adrien into the trash poncho despite his reluctance (because even without memories he’s still a high fashion model like,,, that’s literal trash Marinette. I am not wearing trash.)
• Adrien and Marinette entering some “random bakery” and accidentally coming face-to-face with Marinette’s parents
• Marinette and Adrien trying to pretend as if they absolutely do have their memories under Sabine’s sharp motherly eyes and failing SPECTACULARLY.
• Them finding Plagg screaming at a billboard with Adrien’s face on it. “STOP MAKING ME FEEL GUILTY, THIS IS PSYCHOLOGICAL HARASSMENT!!!”
• Oh god,,, Tom and Sabine surprised by how lovey dovey Adrien and Marinette are acting and taking a TON of pictures for the future wedding
• At some point Adrien and Marinette realise that they were never dating but they’re clearly obsessed with each other in some stupid fucking love square and they’re actually FURIOUS that they’re going to have to go back to that stupidity after everything is over because wHAT THE FUCK??? WHAT. THE FUCK.
• Adrien: I literally have a million photos of Ladybug on my phone. I have poems on it serenading you. I have at least 3 pictures as far as I’ve seen of Ladybug’s butt. Marinette: We’re in my room right now and it’s pretty obvious that I have the biggest stalkerish crush on you. Is this your schedule? What the fuck why are you so busy, okay I could understand having a schedule if it’s honestly this hard to find free time with you— Adrien: I HAVE A PURCHASE FOR A LADYBUG BODY PILLOW??? JESUS CHRIST Marinette: Wait is that a picture of my class? ADRIEN ARE WE CLASSMATES? I SIT BEHIND YOU IN CHEMISTRY. Adrien: This is so messed up. We’re in love with each other but we DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IT? Also how the hell did I not previously notice that you and Ladybug are the same person? You literally look exactly the same. I could put a picture of the two of you side by side and I wouldn’t see a difference. This so isn’t fair.
• Adrien, deciding he needs to break this dumbass love square up, but hopefully WITHOUT compromising their identities, writes a big, block lettered note on his phone “GO OUT WITH MARINETTE. DATE HER. ASK HER OUT ALREADY!!! KISS HER!!! STOP DENYING YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON HER LIKE C’MON ALREADY!!! I AM LITERALLY YOU, I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!!!!” He takes a screenshot and sets it as his lock and home screen. Then he takes a million more screenshots to fill up pages of his camera roll. Just to make a point. (And for another point, he opens up the camera, takes a picture of Marinette while she’s not looking, she’s got the Determined face on and looking out on the balcony towards Oblivio’s big memory ball, thinking up a plan. It’s captioned “How did you not fall in love with her. Are you insane?” And then, on one last note, he writes “btw, she’s a good kisser. Just so you know.”)
• Fu eventually finds them and tells them how to transform, and things go a lot more smoothly from there.
• Adrien and Marinette leave Nino and Alya before they make out because I’m gonna be honest making out in front of two strangers is awkward. So they go back into the building, kiss one last time, THEN they cast the Miraculous cure and everything’s back to normal again.
• Adrien, after having his original memory returned, is SCREAMING at the shit on his phone like wHAT THE HELL HAPPENED???
• Marinette didn’t try anything like Adrien did because she didn’t want to mess around with her original memories and her regular life, because she assumed hey, maybe things are like this for a specific reason? So in any case it ends with her COMPLETELY oblivious as to why Adrien’s acting like a natural disaster whenever he’s within a 50-foot radius of her now.
• Adrien: Hey,,, Marinette,,, uh, just wondering, do you remember anything during Oblivio?? Marinette: Oh, no actually! I guess I got hit? My parents said that I had a really good friend over though! I don’t actually remember who… Adrien: HAHA OKAY THAT’S ALL I WANTED TO KNOW, BYE
Alternate ending: after seeing how distressed Ladybug is about the picture, Chat grabs Alya’s phone and deletes it
@zoe-oneesama proposing other satisfying alternatives
Decisions Decisions...
So what does everyone think about a love akuma? One that hits people and makes them fall in love with the first person they see. Adrien gets hit and the first person he sees is Marinette.
How should this continue?
Go the angst route where Marinette is hurt that it took a love spell from an akuma to get Adrien to even notice her.
Go the funny route where Adrien wakes up after it’s over to find Paris buzzing because Ladybug just laid a beatdown on an akuma shouting “You change him back! YOU CHANGE HIM BACK RIGHT NOW!!!” (Everyone likely assumes she’s talking about Chat Noir.)
Go the more interesting route where Adrien is locked in a closet and only wakes up after it’s over to find Paris going nuts because Marinette Dupain-Cheng just curb-stomped an akuma by herself for reasons Adrien doesn’t quite understand.
Or even a darker route where Felix is also affected and having to simultaneously protect Marinette while fending off his own increasing obsession towards her.
Thoughts?
Have #1 be the reason #3 happens. You never go wrong with BAMF Marinette Dupain-Cheng