Oh look a 3 headed monkey!

From Catalonia. I love One Piece, TWST, Persona etc. CATALONIA IS NOT SPAIN

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Your last post gave me a vision of twst having a Wreck It Ralph event and we get to see Ruggie with vanellope themed design (ruggie dangling upside down from a tree gave me the idea :3)

Here ya go:

The base outfit and a prince one bc I really like drawing Ruggie in fancy clothes

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Do you have any fanfic recommendations?

I guess that bc I'm a Leorruggie account you want Leorruaggie fics, so ask and I shall deliver:

Swallow the sunrise by hyenasquad (werewolfsquad) (ongoing)

After a coup d'état Leona and Ruggie have to flee with Cheka and take care of him until they can get him on the throne again. It's has great worldbuilding build upon Twst's own and great chemistry between Leona, Ruggie and Cheka. Also very endearing supporting cast. It's so so good! I'm seated every week to read the next chapter.

You’re in My Head, You’re in My Blood by Rachello344 (completed)

Trein bribes Ruggie into joining the debate team and makes a new friend, whom Leona gets jealous of. Very fun, miscomunication bc Leona's a tsundere. I always like Trein and Ruggie interactions.

Coup de Grace by parade_owner578 (completed)

Leona and Ruggie kill Leona's father and hide the murder. Pretty good, clearly the interdorm was in preparation for future schemes.

One of your girls by peachy_afterdark (nuclearpeach) (completed)

Ruggie dealing with self doubt while having sex with Leona. Very sweet and lovely. It's in 2nd person and of course NSFW (tho pretty light)

Cat and Mouse by Baby_Doll_Face (completed)

Ruggie thinks how he feels about Leona while he holds the sleeping lion's hand. Funny and cute. Leona is a little shit which is always welcome

Let sleeping hyenas lie by Rachello344 (completed)

Ruggie falls asleep while the Spelldrive team is celebrating their victory. Very short and sweet. It will give you cavities.

Switching the gifts by thatsrightdollface (completed)

Floyd switches Epel's and Ruggies gifts on a whim. Pretty cute interactions between Vil with Epel and Leona with Ruggie

By the stroke of midnight by Rachello344 (completed)

Ruggie disguisses himself to attend the royal ball thrown to find Leona a partner. Very fun and Ruggie gets help from multiple characters who want Leona to owe them. Has NSFW at the very end.

A place of pride (at my side) by emeraldgaze (completed)

A series of short fics around Leona and Ruggie's developing relationship. Very sweet and cute

Territory dispute by Rachello344 (completed)

Ruggie gets territorial and denies his feelings. Short and very funny

If you're king, what does that make me? by impossiblitiesandmiracles (completed)

Leona has to do post-overblot damage control. Very sweet. The guys who hated being vulnerable and talk about feelings have to do that.

Coup of the century by Kyuubiluver342 (completed)

There's a coup while Leona and Ruggie are staying in the palace during break. Ruggie's the MVP of the fic really and we also got Leona's boasting about him

Not afraid of you by oubastet (completed)

Post-overblot tension. Acerbic Ruggie towards Leona for the interdorm fiasco, understandably. Really like this one

Chocolate donuts by Jemimimi (completed)

Leona demands Trey teach him how to make donuts. Very adorable and sweet. Trey and Yuu are very fun in this

The King I see (inside) by sodacoded (completed)

Leona fucks Ruggie during a Savannaclaw party. That's it. It's just NSFW but the vibes are immaculate

Just say you're sorry by allgoodsaiyansdeservetails (completed)

Leona finds the most convoluted way to apologize to Ruggie after Book 2. Hilarious and I feel so bad for Yuu, they deserve better than having to deal with NRC's bullshit

Ruggie Bucchi wants to eat the rich by allgoodsaiyansdeservetails (completed)

Malleus wants Leona and Ruggie in his harem so he makes a deal with Ruggie. Look I hate Maleo, but this is so well written it makes me forget about it. It really is just Malleus and Ruggie talking but the conversation is very fun to read.

A song of dreams and wishes by Merukuri (completed)

Leona hears Ruggie sing one time and wants a repeat. This one is so adorable and sweet it will give you cavities

Marked possession by WonderWells (completed)

Ruggie spends too much time with a childhood friend and Leona gets jealous and territorial. Very fun with Leona being extremely possessive and Ruggie being a little shit.

Unlike Anything by ajisaihime (completed)

A collection of Leona kissing Ruggie in various situations. Very very cute and fluffy

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helloooo i just discovered you and i wanted to say that i loveeee how you interpret leoruggie and all of their interactions,, i want to read eeeeeverything you have to say about them 🦁🍩 <33

Hi! Thank you so much! I feel like I should thank the people who send asks and give me topics to talk about really.

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Haihai so... Every time I see your leoruggie art I legit squeak because of how CUTE U DRAW THEM. AUGH. The tag is so under fed n every time I see ur posts I know it's going to be FIRE!!!!!!!!! please keep feeding the leoruggie fans....

Heya! Thank you<3 <3

Here's your Leoruggie ma'am/sir!

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Do you know what started the Leoruggie hate? I saw older posts from 2020 and everyone seemed chill with it so idk what happened later.

A lot of the haters makes it impossible to ship Leona with anyone who isn’t Vil or Malleus (I don’t hate those two ships, I just really like Leona and I want to ship him with a lot of the other characters like Ruggie, Jamil, Jack, etc.)

For sure, no. My bet is the influx of "fans" (tourists really) from the pandemic.

Fandom, as a space, in general has gotten worse since the pandemic (that's not me saying that before that it was all sunshines and rainbows ofc), but there is a not so small portion of people that joined fandoms bc it is trendy and not bc they actually enjoy the thing, that's why I used the term tourists bc they aren't here for the community nor the work but to fit in with what's popular at the moment. They disregard even the most basic of fandom etiquette and want it to adapt to them.

Add to it the wave of anti-intellectualism and puritanism (you can have standards and red lines obviously, but there's been an over-policing even towards the mildest most inocuous shit, to the point were you see people (mostly kids) asking permission to like things, which I hadn't seen anything like that before), and yeah... it's not looking good...

(I'm also pretty sure that this kind of people are the ones who have always looked down upon anything that can be considered a nerdy interest/hobby but bc now it's popular they act like they discovered it and no one knows better than them. Anime in general is my example for this, before the pandemic you were considered weird for liking it and could be bullied for this, but now you see people who acted like this gushing over anime and denying how it used to be)

Let me make clear that I'm not saying that everyone who joined a fandom during or after the pandemic is like this, people who have become genuine fans after giving it a try, even those who may have thought as a weird thing before, exist and I'm not talking about them at all in this post.

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Do you have any ships with Yuu?

With mine in particular no, but I do like Malleyuu and the idea of Ace being down bad for every Yuu in existence

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What do you think the Kingscholar family thinks about Ruggie?

Are they fine with it, are they against him, happy someone even likes Leona, sceptical because he is a Hyena?

Besides Cheka who probably loves hanging out with Ruggie, I have some trouble imagine their reaction. Expelly their relationship.

Would be funny if they learn to know him & are like "Leona, if you don't marry this man we will adopt him as our son"

I think that at first they don't want him anywhere near Leona because they have a horrible image of hyenas (from the way Ruggie talks seems that Leona's unbothered attitude towards hyenas is extremely rare specially in the upper echelons), and the animosity goes both ways, Ruggie also hates them, partially bc of his dislike of the monarchy and partially for how Leona has been treated by them. Cheka is the exception of course, as much of a jerk Ruggie can be I doubt he can truly hate a kid, and Cheka loves the new uncle who knows so many fun games and is so nice to him, he had been worried at first that Ruggie would take all of Leona's time and attention but actually he now spends more time with his unca thanks to Ruggie dragging Leona along.

As time passes and they get to interact more and more the hostility starts to die down. The Kingscholars see that Ruggie and Leona truly love each other and are good for one another. They're also confronted with their perception and prejudices of spotted hyenas, specially with Leona and Ruggie's work in the slums. Ruggie on the other hand starts seeing the Kingscholars as actual people not as just state figures, and although he doesn't really lose his dislike towards monarchy as a system, he does gain a more nuanced view of it and does try to find ways to better the system (or at the very least make the royals more grounded to the actual reality of the people).

Once the mutual dislike has finally died down completely, the Kingscholars are so happy that Leona is with Ruggie, and thank the Seven and any deity in existence that Ruggie's thick-skinness, shamelessness and stuborness made him look pass Leona's prickly and unpleasant attitude, because they really are perfect for each other. Leona's been told multiple times how lucky of a man he is much to his chagrin (he is more than aware of it, thanks).

Ruggie, now in good terms with Leona's family, does still sometimes think how weird it is for someone from the slums to be where he is now. Leona tells him to stop worrying about it.

Oh, yeah because Zazu and the hyenas hate each other in the movie, I do headcanon (and please let this be canon someday), that Kifaji and Ruggie loathe each other, it's hate at first sight. They do try to keep their enmity underwraps, specially when Leona's around (tehy do love him too much to do this to him), but their conversations are poison barb after poison barb in the most polite way possible (it's kinda fascinating to watch). And yes, the fact that Leona's two favourite people hate each other so much does break his heart.

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Hyena doodles

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What’s your take about Leoruggie fake dating/marriage AU where Leona pretends to be with Ruggie to avoid an arranged marriage?

I just read so many fanfics of it on pixiv, and I can never get tired of this trope <3. Especially awkward family dinners that Ruggie and Leona has to suffer.

Fake dating/marriage is always such a fun trope!

Leona asks Ruggie to do him this favour because one: Ruggie will do almost anything for money (and Leona tbh); two: he trusts him and feels comfortable with him; (and three: he may be harboring some feelings). Ruggie despite being thick skinned and shameless, takes a great deal of convincing, a lot of money and the option to bail out at anytime.

They fake date in school and let themselves be seen by the press to sell it better. They don't really change much how they act with each other, they just add a bit of PDA. The added affection is pretty nice, even though they would prefer if it wasn't in public but they gotta sell the lie.

Leona's family is not happy at all with this so they demand Leona to come home to talk and of course to bring Ruggie with him. The conversation is so so tense, nobody wants to be there. After talking about it for a long time, Leona and Ruggie are able to convince the Kingscholars to null the arranged marriage but because one of their points was that this will help the image of the hyenas in the eyes of the general population as well as the royal family's in the eyes of the downtrodden now they gotta marry instead, which they aren't really opposed to to their surprise.

The fake dating has helped their feelings develop and settle, so they end up dating for real this time without ever revealing their plot to anybody (everybody thought they were dating for real the entire time, except Rook (and maybe the prefect) who knew the truth but said nothing).

And because of this, they gotta drop by the palace every once and again because the Kingscholars want to get to know the guy who got Leona out of his shell. The dinners are very akward but they do get better in time. (Ruggie does have to wrestle with his hatred of monarchy)

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Let's Go Go!

(I don't know which palette I like better so I'm uploading both)

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I was thinking how would leona's dream change if dream ruggie was an enabler (based on the 1st post) I do like him not being one cause it works better for the rewrite but I am just looking for an excuse to see how you would picture dream leoruggie if ruggie was an enabler cause I fw them enabling each other

He would be like Ruggie in book 2 but like 10 times worse. Both dream Ruggies take the "turn the world on its head" to heart, but while the other one wants a positive change in general, this one doesn't care much if the change is bad for others if it benefits Leona and him in the end.

Obviously he still cares a lot about Leona and wants him to be happy (he acts closer to the other blot in this way), but doesn't care about seeing Leona improve so he lets him fall into his worse habits and indulge in them. He will make sure Leona gets his way one way or another.

If the other dream Ruggie takes more of the critical and constructive part of Ruggie, this one takes after his more apathetic and jaded part, they're kinda the angel and devil on Leona's shoulders, lmao

Of course this one will not aid Yu and co, on the contrary it's gonna be a huge obstacle, not much bc of his strength but because he's tricky and underhanded. But thankfully they also got a Ruggie on their side, the real one (which should give them a bit of an advantage? maybe?) The plan ends up being which Ruggie has the most dishonorable schemes and can go the lowest. The others are amazed and disgusted at the display. Azul is the only one who's impressed by it and not disgusted.

It does work and they get dream Ruggie backed into a corner, who now desperate, gets Leona to go deeper into the dream.

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Hey!

I don't know if someone already asked that but what are your thoughts about Grandma Buchi?

Do you have any Head cannon?

And what do you think her thoughts are about Leoruggie and expelly Leona, the second prince?

I can just imagine that she would not be that happy for Ruggie to date someone from the Royal family, expelly after what happened in book 2!

Leona almost killed her grandson!!

Maybe she would come around it eventually

With still scepticism

Hi! I wanna meet her and see her canon design already!

I do have some headcanons. Like Ruggie takes a lot after her both in personality and appearance, although she tends to take a more direct approach and when she was younger used to get into fights more often than Ruggie does. Also unlike Ruggie, she doesn't hide her mouth behind her hand when she laughs. She was a huge troublemaker when she was young (and she never hides this fact), so she doesn't mind when Ruggie gets into trouble himself, she only minds it if he can't get out of it himself (she's the kind of guardian who doesn't care if you get into a fistfight, she cares if you have won or not).

She brought up Ruggie to be as independent and self-reliant as possible, which is the norm in the Graveyard, so she mostly taught him the basics and gave Ruggie a long leash for him to try things out, think by himself and find solutions for the problems he encounters and of course fail and succeed, while he knows that he can always come to her for tips and advice. In a few things she was more hands on with teaching, like cooking and magic. I headcanon that neither of Ruggie's parents were mages, but Grandma is so she was her magic teacher, mostly bc magic is more dangerous so she wanted to drill into his head proper safety with it.

Both she and Ruggie are very protective of each other, while they know that the other can take care of themselves, that doesn't mean that they don't worry, they're the only blood-realted family they got left after all.

And my last headcanon I have is that she uses a lot of pet names and nicknames.

As for how she would react to Leona and Ruggie dating him, well I highly doubt that she has anything positive to say about the monarchy, but Leona's probably one of the members of the royal fmily she hates the least (bc he's young and not in power), but after hearing Ruggie talk about him, she sees Leona in a more positive light and gets curious about him and kinda wants to meet the prince who gained the trust her untrusting and wary grandson. She still doesn't like the Kingscholars as a whole, she just dislikes Leona way less than the others.

When she's told about book 2 (probably by the NRC, bc Ruggie for sure was meaning to take this to his grave, he doesn't want to make his granny worry), all the good faith she had for Leona dissipates, but then why the fuck is her grandson dating the guy who almost killed him?? After she takes a few to calm down, she figures that there must be something more to the story, because it doesn't make sense for her grandson who's so untrusting and uninterested in romance to date his almost-killer, so she calls him and asks (demands) for him to come home the next free day with Leona in tow. Ruggie is kinda scared for Leona so he tells him (orders) to be in his best behaviour and be completely honest with his grandma. Leona knows how much Ruggie cares for his grandma so he does as he's told, for once.

When they arrive at the Bucchi's home, after she has hugged her grandson, Grandma Bucchi sends Ruggie to do errands bc she wants to talk to Leona alone. For the next hour or so, she basically interrogates Leona mostly about the fiasco of book 2 and what he thinks about Ruggie, to which Leona answers as honestly as he can per Ruggie's instructions. This talk does bring down the hostility she had for Leona as she sees that he's actually remorseful. She still hates him, but not as much. (Ruggie gets to eavesdrop in the last third of the conversation). Afterwards she sent Leona to mingle with the rest of the hyenas, so she can talk with Ruggie and get his side of the story. After listening to him, she sees where he's coming from and while she still doesn't trust Leona she's willing to him him a chance. She also reminds Ruggie that she's got his back and that if Leona ever does something she's gonna take care of it. Ruggie promises her that she'll never have to do it because he knows that the interdorm fiasco was the exception, not the norm.

She will come around eventually, with time (in years time), and accept fully Leona to their family. She knows that as respectful as Leona is towards her, he's still deepdown a bit terrified of her, so she likes to scare him from time to time, it's funny.

And here's my fan design while we're waiting for the canon one:

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Hey, how you doing ?

love your Leoruggie art

You know the new Character from book 8 that came out,Minajael Tealrajah.

Yeah, so I have seen some

Ruggie x Minajael work inspired by the royal x thief dynamic from Aladdin

Wich makes me wonder

Would Leona be jealous if Minajael would show any interest in Ruggie?

Just imagine the second prince from Sunset Sevanna getting jealous because the first prince from the Scalding Sands flirt with his Boyfriend.

Is just such a fun image

What do you think?

Heya! I'm doing fine thanks <3 Also thank you.

Yeah, Leona would probably get jealous, he's very territorial and possessive so of course he wouldn't like anybody flirting with Ruggie. It probably adds salt to injury that it's an heir to a throne who's trying to steal Ruggie away.

(Ruggie's feeling flattered with all the attention but he knows Leona won't react well to it and he really doesn't want to deal with the incomming mess. He hopes it doesn't become a political conflict...)

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What do you think of ruggie being partially based on zira but still mainly based on the hyenas

I can see it. All of them are twisted from a character, a set of characters or an object/concept but they also have parallels and similarities with disney characters (be it from the same movie or not), so it wouldn't surprise me if Zira fell into this category for Ruggie.

I mean they share the unrelenting devotion, the pushiness, the scheming, the bitterness and the resentment (they both also have raspy voices, but that feels more of a coincidence that anything).

Like Zira feels like the worst version of Ruggie, how he could end up if consumed by rage and grief.

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Related to leona's dream how does ruggie feel that leona dreamed about marrying him? Does he tease him for it or decide to not talk about it after book 7 ended?

For most of the dream, Ruggie's pretty flustered, I mean learning that the guy you like fantasizes about marrying you it's very flattering but learning it while surrounded by your peers makes things weird and embarrassing (specially when you know one of them is gonna use this as blackmail)

After all the Malleus overblot thing has been resolved, Leona is expecting Ruggie to make fun of him but to his surprise Ruggie doesn't, he doesn't even mention it off handedly.

The reason is because Ruggie's freaking a bit about it. He's thinking how he feels about the idea of being married to Leona and he doesn't hate it, actually he likes it very much but the implications are making him spiral a little. Thankfully, when he's talking on the phone with his grandma, she immediately knows there's something bothering him and makes him spill (I doubt Ruggie can keep anything secret from his grandma), so he does and talking about it with her does help him make sense of what he's feeling and put his thoughts in order. (She does ask him to bring Leona home sometime, she's curious about the prince who's captured her grandkid's heart)

Now that Ruggie has resolved the issue, yes he'll proceed to make fun of Leona for dreaming about being married, as much as he can. Maybe even calls himself Leona's husband as a joke. Leona doesn't understand why it took a while for Ruggie to make fun of him for it and he kinda misses his peace of mind (tho he secretly loves hearing Ruggie call himself his husband)

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Idk what my brain was thinking but...Do you think that people can assume that Ruggie is a female and not a male?

And another silly question...if Ruggie had a child that was cryinh non stop,do tou think he will use his unique spell/Signature Spell to shut the child?

Silly thoughts that I normally make at 2 a.m 🤣🤣

Well, irl zoos and sanctuaries do often gender incorrectly spotted hyenas specially when they're cubs, so I do have the headcanon that spotted hyena beastfolk tend to be androgynous and therefore get mistaken often specially when they are kids. Also female spotted hyenas are bigger than males, so probably it happens the same with beastfolk. So, it's possible that Ruggie may have been mistaken for a girl at least once (he also could pass as a girl with very minimal work, so...)

For the other question, I highly doubt it. First Ruggie canonically takes care of children and is very good with them; second in his PortFest vignette he's very respectful with kids' boundaries and autonomy; so yeah I cannot see Ruggie using his UM for this when he probably can get kids to quiet down with relative ease.

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Going to look for Leoruggie on Twitter is tiring since I see so much hate on it. I know I should probably just stick to the JP side, but it’ll be nice to see more fans on EN.

Thank you for being of one few Leoruggie artists on the western side, gives me a peace of mind after seeing too many hate it on EN. BTW, Is there any JP Leoruggie artists that you recommend?

Yes, it can be exhausting. I think that there are more of us in tumblr (?), but I'm not sure bc I stick to JP accounts on twitter so my view may be a bit skewed.

Also, you're welcome <3. For japanese artists that I like, these are:

@bibibi_no_tarou Probably my fave Leoruggie artist, their art is very fun and super cute, specially Ruggie and their Leona is super handsome too. Overall a very enjoyable artstyle <3

@kazusaamane Very pretty art and I specially like their use of colours. Their illustrations tend to be very soft

@Cotttnwata Doesn't upload often but they've a beautiful artstyle, a little old-fashioned which adds to the charm of it

@miziro_1073 Very cute and soft artstyle. They sometimes draw Leona and Ruggie as animals, mostly lounging or sleeping and they're adorable

@sustaina_blue Very cute artstyle, their Ruggie is very moe

@hoshiimo_sukiii This one is Ruggie focused with other TWST charas thrown into the mix, but their art is so so beautiful. Their rendering is so good, I had to add them

Hope you have a better time on twitter now <3