Some more shitty doodle things I made in a row at 2 am because some fire detector wouldn’t let me damn sleep
cw: there’s no blood or anything like that it’s just..weird I don’t even know what to say here maybe some freakyish in a way susiiehskwosisifjjroeosorirjeoodidirjkwoqo
UPDATE ON BB: Big sigh, so premiere night is very likely going to have to be pushed for this weekend! Had to both update my game and the EA app, and, well, in turn, I had to spend two days trying to fix a gallery server error, and an objects disappearing bug caused by one sneaky mod latching on and ruining my savefile 😭. Absolutely sucked, but luckily it was a mod and not an EA bug (so I was able to fix it!). However, it also caused a big delay in my flow of things. I’ve, for the most part, finished introductions for the first six houseguests (@invisiblequeen, check your dms!), and today I’m working on premiere night itself. I want to have a built-up queue by the time we begin posting so there’s no long pauses between posts and once we’re going, we’re going.
Putting that to the side, this post will be the designated questions post for Big Brother! I know a lot of you (possibly all) don’t really know much about Big Brother or I guess the ‘lingo’ that comes with the 25-year-old reality tv game show (there’s a lot of references I’ll be wanting to make), so I intend to come back here and update (or answer any questions within) this post all season long to help anybody confused! To start off, I’ll add some vocabulary often used in BB under the cut ✔️.
BIG BROTHER VOCAB/LINGO
A Pawn: A term often used by the HoH to describe a person on the nominee block that the HoH or (sometimes) the house does not truly intend to vote out. This is regularly used in line with there being a one-person target the HoH is aiming for, not two people, and is a tactic (again, sometimes) from the HoH to persuade houseguests to vote for their target, not the (sometimes very likeable or not very intimidating) pawn.
Backdoor: A gameplay strategy that involves HoH putting a ‘pawn’ up as a nominee in order to blindside their intended target. When the Power of Veto competition comes around, the HoH or their aligned allies (try) to win the PoV power and if they succeed, take their pawn off the nominee block and replace it with their target, giving that (often blindsided) target no chance to compete in the PoV and only two days to convince other houseguests to not vote for them.
Blindside: A saying used when a nominee on Eviction Night doesn’t anticipate the house, normally in a landside/majority, voting them out. The usual case of this happening is when said nominee is normally reassured (or the second nominee on the block with them is, to them, a huger threat they assume the house will obviously vote out) and therefore confident they won’t be voted out that night.
Final Four/Three/Two: Pretty self-explanatory. An alliance-type deal houseguests will sometimes make with each other that they guarantee to try their hardest to make it to the final (number) of houseguests with each other. If it’s not a Final Two deal, then it’s often insinuated that, say, once they make it to the final four together, their alliance breaks off and it’s every person for themselves.
Zing/Zingbot: Now I have no idea if I’m going to add Zingbot to the house this season (after all I’d have to write the insults), but Zingbot is a robot that appears once every season (normally mid-season) to throw out clever, mostly brutal, one-liner roasts at each houseguest’s actions throughout the game so far. After or before each insult, Zingbot says ‘Zing!’ and, outside or in the game, it’s practically become a saying people use when someone throws out a brutal insult in the Big Brother game.
Diary Room: A private room houseguests will go to to either record confessionals or walk into to cast their vote on eviction night. They can speak to producers there and what not.
hii!! i've read ur kamado siblings + giyuu stories on here and they are WOW amazing! if u can (dont feel rushed please!) could u write a little something with big brother rengoku (he lives!) and tanjiro (and nezuko if u like!) like a little aftermath of mugen train arc when they're like waking up, recovering, and dealing with like almost dying? thank u so much!!
awhh i'm so glad you like them!! and of course I can :D
cw! spoilers, mentions of suicide?? (nobody died, js the reference to Tanjiro having to die to release Enmu's hold on his dreams)
also totally didn't get carried away and included a lot of Kyojuro being big brother to Inosuke too 😭
Kyojuro had been the immediate concern when the Kakushi had arrived to find the survivors. There was, in fact, only survivors. But Kyojuro was so close to dying that there was a chance there may be one death. The others injured weren't in need of instant care except Tanjiro, though he would pull through as long as they made sure he didn't lose any more blood. But despite all of this, Kyojuro was the first to awake of the quintet—even Nezuko was still fast asleep, recharging after the amount of blood she had shed at the train. Kyojuro's mind was far from his own wounds, though he was not ignorant to them, and after undergoing Shinobu and Aoi's various tests and having another change of bandages, he requested to see the trio.
He was brought into the room with them, having been pronounced at least healed enough to be moved to a different room. He watched the sleeping figures of the children from his own bed, a crease of concern furrowing his eyebrows as he noticed the amount of bandages that peeked out from their clothing and the little signs of pain in their contorted expressions. He expressed his own worry, having Shinobu confirm that all three would heal just fine.
After he was quite sure that they would be fine, Kyojuro fell back into a deep but restless slumber. The next time he woke up, Zenitsu and Inosuke had awoken as well. Tanjiro had been injected with a sedative so he wouldn't wake up and accidentally worsen his stomach wound, but the other two were fine. In fact, they were the reason Kyojuro had woken up. They were loud. Enough to wake Kyojuro up even with his worse-for-wear hearing. Instead of chastising them for this, however, he simply laughed. He supposed it was nice to see them strong enough to get up and have shouting matches with each other. And he admired their ability to be so childish despite all the circumstances; this was why he kept fighting—to give children the childhoods they deserved.
He had to assure a fretting Zenitsu that he would be fine, especially with Aoi and Shinobu's quick thinking as they patched him all up. Of course, he was in no position to be back up and fighting any time soon, but he hoped that maybe he could find something to do to help.
As it turned out, he did find a way to help. In the Mugen Train, Zenitsu had been asleep most of the time and didn't remember most of what had happened, nor had he been there when Kyojuro had been fighting Akaza. But Inosuke had been awake and was now getting all fidgety, restless and constantly glancing over at Tanjiro. Eventually, Kyojuro asked what was wrong, having confirmed it as strange behavior even for Inosuke.
Of course, Inosuke was quite reluctant to spill the beans.
"I'm fine! I'm stronger than all of you! I woke up before Monitsu and Kentaro!! Don't be an idiot!!" he would gloat, crossing his arms and grinning proudly—his mask had been set aside to wash.
Kyojuro didn't press him, but he asked Inosuke how he was from time to time. Finally, Inosuke broke while they watched Aoi tend to Tanjiro's injuries. Tanjiro was prone to wake up soon and they had wanted him to be as healed as possible so he didn't attempt to move around too much.
There was no prompting to be needed this time, however. (Kyojuro had asked how Inosuke was earlier, only to recieve a "I'M GREATER THAN EVEN MISMATCHED HAORI"—whom he assumed meant Giyuu). Inosuke was staring at Tanjiro, uncharacteristically silent, when he started: "The dream things? With the ugly eye demon."
Kyojuro tilted his head. "The... Lowermoon?" he asked curiously. He scoot over a bit to give Inosuke room on his bed.
Inosuke shrugged, perching on the bed and turning to Kyojuro. "Gompanchiro said that to get out of the dreams you had to die," he explained. Then he huffed, glaring at the ground. "He was so stupid and kept getting reality and the dreams confused, it was annoying. He almost killed himself actually several times and it made fighting harder when I had to keep stopping him. This is why I'm way stronger than him, he's a big idiot."
Kyojuro nodded slowly, seeing where this was going. "But you did stop him! He's fine! See, young Aoi there said he'll be waking up any time now!" he encouraged, offering the boy a smile.
Inosuke grumbled. "Yeah, but he almost did it a lot. Too much. I thought he did it once. He also got stabbed right before so that was also annoying," he spat, turning to shoot daggers at Tanjiro's unconscious body. "I thought he died for a moment."
"Ah." Kyojuro's expression softened. Despite what Inosuke liked to claim, he really did care a lot. "Then it's good he has you by his side. You can help each other along the way."
Inosuke thought about this for a moment. "Yeah—he better be thanking me when he wakes up, it's all because of me he's fine!!" He cackled abruptly, placing his hands on his hips and opening his mouth to shout.
Aoi turned and snapped at him, telling him to sit back down and stop standing on beds.
Inosuke froze and instantly plopped down on the bed, stealing Kyojuro's blanket and covering himself with it to hide from Aoi.
"Well I'm better," came Inosuke's muffled response from below the sheets.
"You're both amazing."
"But I'm better!" Tufts of black and blue hair portruded from the blanket, followed by Inosuke's head. "I'm better than him!"
"Alright then," Kyojuro said, reaching forward and mussing Inosuke's hair.
Inosuke grinned triumphantly, batting away the hand and running off with Kyojuro's blanket to go laugh at Zenitsu. Kyojuro sighed. He would request a new blanket then.
×××
Tanjiro awoke the next day, delivering smiles brighter than the sun after he made sure everyone was okay. Kyojuro was finally up for getting up and out of his bed, though he was instructed to move slowly and deliberately. His body ached from not having moved much recently but he made do of what he could do, walking over to Tanjiro's bed to join Zenitsu, Inosuke, and Nezuko's box.
"I'm glad to see you awake!" Kyojuro said cheerfully.
Zenitsu shaded his eyes at the sunrays that seemed to emit from Tanjiro and Kyojuro's smiles.
"And it's good that you're going to be fine, I was really worried," Tanjiro fretted, fidgeting with his blanket. "I was sure you would die..."
Kyojuro chortled reassuringly. "I'm great! I'll admit that my injuries have made it a bit harder to move about freely, but I'm sure I'll be practically good as new! Except for my eye, of course," he said, waving a hand in front of his left eye, which he would no longer see from again.
Tanjiro nodded quickly. "I want to get better faster so I can fight a lot and be stronger! I could've helped you then..." he said, wilting. Apparently, it had been eating him alive even in his dreams with the fact that he had been unable to do anything in Kyojuro's fight with the Uppermoon.
"You'll get there! You persisted quite amazingly well against the Lowermoon!" Kyojuro assured him. "Not many people can do that!"
"I had a lot of help though," Tanjiro said, a frown slowly replacing his smile.
"Everyone needs help! You four helped me greatly!! By myself, it would've been endlessly harder and there would've been more casualties. But because the four of you were there and taking charge of the different parts of the train, it became endlessly easier. It also gave me the ability to save enough energy which I was able to channel later into fighting Akaza!" Kyojuro said, nodding to himself. "If it weren't for your help, I would've been more tired by the time Akaza had arrived."
"Don't say that... You still would've done really well," Tanjiro insisted.
"I'm only speaking facts, Kamado! Human beings rely on each other for help and support, it's natural! You needn't feel ashamed for something that everyone needs!" Kyojuro said, taking on a scolding tone. "You—and your sister, Agatsuma, and Hashibira—did really well!"
Tanjiro hesitated but reluctantly accepted the compliment. Inosuke, meanwhile, was off dashing through the Butterfly Estate again to say that a Hashira told him he was the best (although Kyojuro had not said anything of the sort).
Zenitsu perched himself on the edge of Tanjiro's bed. "I don't even remember doing anything, so just be glad," he huffed, flicking Tanjiro's forehead—then clutching his finger in pain.
Tanjiro laughed gently. "Well, I'm sure Nezuko can tell us how great of a job you did."
Zenitsu instantly brightened and went back to sit by Nezuko's box, murmuring to her, though no doubt she was fast asleep.
Kyojuro watched them for a moment, then turned back to Tanjiro. "I don't think I can take you three in as my Tsugoku because of my condition—Kocho says I may not be able to resume my work as a Hashira—but I certainly want to take you in as a family," he said with a pout.
Tanjiro, startled, stared at him for a moment. "Wha?-"
Kyojuro grinned. "I'll apologize to Tomioka later."
Tanjiro frowned, head spinning. "Giyuu-san? Apologize? Huh-??"
He recieved only a triumphant smile in return.
I'll be honest: I didn't know where I was going with this when I started so I'm unsure how to feel about it- anywayyss, hope it was ok tho!
