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[xthief]

A certain bunny girl stole his seat at the bar the moment he got up.

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He gets up to take his piss on the side of this building ( thanks to some drunk hogging the toilets - maybe passed out in them ), and when he returns, a long pair of legs has taken his place. His eyes shamelessly wander up her thighs before finally getting a look at her face - he’s downed a few brews, but a woman like her is impossible to not recognize. She’s the woman that stole his kill, and his reward, and threw his words right back in his face. And out of all the places in his pub that still had options of sitting, she chooses his seat.

The liquor in his system tells him she’s fucking with him because she’s attracted to him. 

“Not enough to steal my win; gotta steal my seat too?” He isn’t dumb enough to go for his drink; even if she hadn’t sat there, there’s no telling who’d put what in your drink when you walked away. 

[alcxandros]

4 and 5 for the munday asks?

What is your favourite thing about your muse? Why did you pick them up, what do you want to explore?

Man, there’s so many things I love about Garnet that it’s hard to narrow it down. I think I related to her a lot as a kid. Someone just trying their best but their best doesn’t feel good enough to them. That self-deprecation we see morphs into self confidence as the story progresses. Despite the road blocks and people telling her ‘no’ - even when she doesn’t believe in herself, she keeps going and keeps trying anyway. What she lacks in confidence is made up in determination, and that determination carries her so fucking far. She was a role-model to me, and a reminder there are multiple ways to be strong. What makes Zidane strong is different than what makes Garnet strong, and VIvi strong, and Steiner strong, and so on.

Let’s see. I considered picking her up about four months ago due Astrid catching my eye, and I thought she captivated how I’d imagine Garnet to look like. Then I went on a four months hiatus from Tumblr entirely and really didn’t intend on coming back, but oh how writing has a way to pull me back in ~ Anyway. The fandom I was last in wasn’t great for me and it’s pretty much dead in the water anyway. I can’t say I know them very well, but @xkuja @xzidane and @zinidyne-zidane have been in the fandom for a good long while, despite not knowing them personally I knew they were likely around. When you’ve been on Tumblr since 2012 and have been in the FF for a few years, you get to know faces. IX felt like a ‘safe’ place to come back to since I felt pretty sure I could find active people to write with regardless of the tiny fandom. So far, I’ve been proven right, and I’ve really enjoyed getting to create again, especially in my favorite game of all time. It’s under-appreciated and over-looked and interacting with people who also love it is just chef kiss. 

I really don’t know what I want to explore yet, but I am enjoying what I have so far.

What is your least favourite thing about your muse? What makes them difficult to write, or interact with?

Hmmm. It’s been over a decade since I last played and to fairly criticize Garnet, I’d ideally like to have all of her information in front of me to critique. Since I’m into Disk 2, take what I say with a grain of salt and being open to change. And since you’re new here ( hi hello hi thank you for this ~ ), one of my favorite pass times is criticizing my favorite characters. I LOVE flaws; flaws make characters human. I’d have to say Garnet’s biggest one currently is how stubborn she is. Pack that with her being naïve to the world around her, it puts avoidable stress and danger to the front. This can also put other people in danger too, despite me not being able to think of examples right off the bat - likely because everyone else around her has world experience to avoid mistakes she makes. But mistakes is how someone learns.

I can’t even say that totally fairly because to give her credit, she often does try to communicate with people before making a reckless decision - she just doesn’t feel like they listen to her. To THEIR credit - sometimes they’re right, and she is the one who doesn’t want to listen. Once her mind is made up, she is sneaky enough to get the jump on professionals in the trade of being crafty, and that speaks volumes. I could say that Garnet is subject to tunnel vision - once her mind is made up, everything opposing her seems to turn into an obstacle, which makes allies turn into something to get out of her way if they aren’t going to help her in the way she wants help.

I’d say the hardest part so far about writing her is the dialogue. I’m used to writing characters that are a bit on the smartass side, and that isn’t Garnet. She’s a different kind of muse for me, but I’ll learn. Also, for anyone reading, I am open to constructive criticism. I don’t improve on my writing by smoke being blown up my ass. 

[alcxandros]

20, 21,22 for be honest meme~

Have you ever felt pressured to write something you weren’t comfortable with?

Absolutely have. And I was slow to catch on exactly what was happening that basically, an antagonist that I was writing in a mobile game called Mystic Messenger was being used among the fandom and my peers as basically a fetish play. That’s probably one of the more disgusting examples I can think of off the top of my head and when it finally clicked that was what was going on ( because these people would have triggers against what they were trying to corner me into roleplaying ) - it didn’t ruin the character for me, but it woke me up to people can be really deceptive ~ and I would end up leaving because I wasn’t playing that game anymore and owe and behold, suddenly people weren’t interested anymore.

Write what you want; I honestly don’t care. But I do not write villains and antagonists personally for fetish, romanization and sexualization. If I’m writing a villain, I want to make people feel ( consensually ) uncomfortable - such as when you go to watch a horror movie, you watch it to be scared, disturbed, and thirlled, and what have you. Usually not to get  your rocks off. I’ve since put up firmer boundaries and step away if you start smelling like bullshit. 

Have you ever followed someone because you felt like you had to, not because you wanted to?

Hmmm, yeah, I’d say I have been guilty of this, as silly as it is. No one should follow anyone they don’t want to. I can’t say I can think of examples of where this has come up though - just that I know it’s happened. Usually this results in me unfollowing or black-listing their URL and forgetting they’re there. 

What would make you block someone?

The number one thing is comparing real life trauma as being ‘just as bad’ as fiction. Full stop, fuck off, no it’s not. This tends to be a dramatic trigger for me to the point I am actually legitmently worried of being sent to the hospital on account of how badly my heart starts acting up and my body starts shaking. I’m sure these people have the best of intentions, but I also find they don’t actually listen to survivors who’s narratives don’t fit their own. If you’re a danger to my health, mental or physical, you have to go.

Content policing. No one owes a reason why they want to write something and it isn’t your blog to determine if someone should or shouldn’t. You’re allowed to not like something, even hate it; trying to act like an authoritarian over freedom of expression isn’t it. Also purity culture is extremely gross and cult like and eeh - keep it over there. I honestly feel bad for people in those circles. 

Public humiliation. I don’t see it often anymore ( I’m sure it’s still a thing ), but Tumblr used to be really bad about someone making a mistake, and pulling them on full blast for their dashboard to humiliate and ridicule and harass. As someone with a processing disorder, this is nightmare fuel because I do not retain memory very well and I probably will make mistakes. I just see it as needlessly cruel and bullying. And yeah, fuck being a bully. If you can’t talk to someone like a human being, don’t talk to them at all - block and bedone. 

Sometimes I may block people who’ve unfollowed / soft blocked me, not out of ill will but just so I don’t end up refollowing them at a later time and potentially making them uncomfortable. 

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bubble bath: do you have any routines before bedtime? like skin care, etc. what are they?

Main Verse it’d be showering or taking a long nice relaxing bath with relaxing bath additives. Brushing teeth etc too of course. But most routines he does in the morning to wake up.

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bubble bath

bubble bath: do you have any routines before bedtime? like skin care, etc. what are they?

If Shaun builds the water purification shower etc in our verse... showering. He prefers to shower in the evening over showering in the morning. 

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champagne: what topic could you talk about for hours?

Science. Philosophy… he actually can talk or listen to about anything as long as the opposite side is interested in the topic.

[hvmanmachine-archive-blog]

sheet mask, perfume, bubble bath, champagne, silver

sheet mask: what’s their favorite lazy activity?

When he is really, really lazy? Binging TV Shows on Netflix.

perfume: if they could make their own signature fragrance, what would it smell like?

Uuugh, I’m so bad at this cause figuring out smells in English is hard for me. But smells I always connect to him is the smell of old and new books and roses, also autumn and sun.So surrounded by books in a late blooming rose garden on a sunny day in early autumn.

bubble bath: do they have any routines before bedtime? like skin care, etc. what are they?

Modern Verse | Before he took over he did a lot of skin care, hair care etc. After all, he pretty much used his body to get on the good side of people and showed up in magazines a lot. He’d not do any of that when sleeping over somewhere. He always cleans up intensely most evenings/nights. That he does even when he sleeps over somewhere, so he might sneak into a bathroom for an hour after the other person fell asleep. Sometimes it is less (when he likes the person) , but he isn’t exactly happy with his way of living. He does not only hate his whoring, he hates his fake smiles, he hates the world he was born into. He hates being forced to be the bad guy, he excels at it, and in a way enjoys it.That becomes less the older he gets. After taking over and him being able to make the rules and make his own excuses he gets better.

champagne: what topic could they talk about for hours?

Especially with Jesus Shaun will probably hold back talking about his “favorite” topic. He can rant 24/7 about Republicans. Shaun is a very left leaning mob boss. Pro-Choice, Pro-Equal-Rights, Feminist, etc ID

silver: do you have any obscure hobbies? what are they?

In all his verses he is a secret nerd, here too. He enjoys doing Origami or building small models of all kind of objects. It roots him and brings him into a near meditative state.