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i see so many concepts for simon’s mutations but you wanna know a concept i haven’t seen? the idea that simon can control blood now.

like imagine how simon even figured this out. he’s trying to pull his own weight on the hail mary, when he accidentally cuts himself on some mechanism. those voices in his head, he’s almost grown used to all of them. they’re chattering and talking and telling him that he needs to go back to the ocean of blood (yeah FUCK THAT), normal stuff. for him. hell, he’d even say he’s found comfort the constant voices. now when grace sees him just nodding or shaking his head to seemingly nothing, he doesn’t bat an eye at it.

he curses and grace immediately goes over and before he can even start fussing, simon says he’s okay and it’s just a surface level wound. it wasn’t even bleeding that bad by his standards. he’ll just go disinfect and clean and bandage it, and then he’ll be right back to work. he’s walks away, closes himself in the bathroom. he’s about to patch himself up when the blood just…rises. literally rises. in small little warbled bubbles. but the gravity’s on the ship, so it can’t be the low gravity. he hears those voices getting louder and louder and he feels his breathing quicken and oh god why did it have to be blood, hasn’t he seen enough fucking blood, he doesn’t want to go back, please, he doesn’t want to go back—

enter ryland grace, coming in to check on simon when simon yelps and the blood zooms past. it nearly cuts grace but grace dodges it in time and it lands as a jagged piece in the wall. they both hear rocky yell, “IS GRACE AND SIMON OKAY, QUESTION?!” and grace yells, “yeah buddy, we’re fine! were okay!” they are NOT.

grace so clearly thinks simon NEEDS to experiment with these newfound abilities because this is everything against when he’s learned while simon doesn’t want to go near it with a ten foot pole. why would he? he’s seen enough blood in his lifetime. he doesn’t want to give that giant eel monster the satisfaction, regardless of it being apart of him now. but he can feel the ability like an itch if he doesn’t use it. annoyingly persistent and chipping away at his stubbornness and fear by the day. paired with those voices? yeah.

so when simon finally agrees, grace is ecstatic. he hasn’t had something as wonderful as this since astrophage! he makes himself a very willing test subject (since where else is simon supposed to get blood), simon scared to even do so not just because of the goddamn horror he experienced but the idea that he could kill grace if he makes one wrong move. one wrong flick of the wrist or passing thought and he could fucking explode the guy’s brain stem. so he’s says no, at first.

no—he needs to practice on himself first. he doesn’t even have a good idea of human anatomy, he just can…feel it. and hear it. like rocky can hear grace’s heartbeat, but simon can feel the blood going into grace’s heart. he can hear every breath he takes and feel his lungs expanding, and those goddamn voices in his head reminds him that he knows almost instinctively how to steal the breath out of those lungs without grace ever knowing he was holding it captive.

he starts with slow things. healing cuts or bruises, playing around with his own blood and body. then, slowing a heartbeat, slowing a pulse, calming chemicals in the brain, anatomy study. then, knocking grace out. reducing oxygen and blood flow, a painless ticket to unconsciousness. and it’s slow, but simon gets more comfortable. he gets a little more accepting of this part of him, just like the recent teeth on the side of his face or the webbed ears. just another thing he has, another thing he can do.

unfortunately, when simon gets comfortable about something, he has a tendency to start making jokes about it. which means grace will get snippy with him and simon will reply, “you realize i could just wiggle my fingers and make you piss yourself, right?”

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all this talk about slimeknight if derek managed to live with the king in yellow inside of him but does no one consider the king in yellow turning derek’s mind against him? causing him visceral auditory and visual hallucinations? temporarily taking over his body at times to make him do horrible things? derek having to constantly fight and push back for control? has no one considered the possibly of derek BEGGING avery to leave him alone and when avery refuses, derek, for the first time, honestly raises his voice at avery and says; “LISTEN TO ME, AVERY. you CAN’T be here right now. i don’t think i am making myself clear. you don’t understand, i’m afraid i’m going to hurt you!”

no? just me? oh, okay.

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DUDE. DUDE I HAVE A SLIMEKNIGHT AU IDEA. A YOUR NAME AU BUT HEAR ME OUT.

what if i said instead of bodies, they’re switching minecraft worlds/accounts? avery is the first who makes a youtube video about it (similar to how he made a video about the book he found) but instead, he’s on his own computer but in someone else’s account and world and thinks it’s some kind of glitch.

just imagine both of them exploring each other’s worlds, remnants of the other left behind, but never knowing the other’s name. they’re both trying to figure out how the hell this happened (and maybe even communicating via picket signs), and solving it together—even when they seem entire timelines apart.

AND let’s throw the king in yellow into this. what if he caused the switch? what if something is coming and d3rlord3 can prevent it? but—he can’t figure it out on his own, as much as he tries to. (pride has always been his fatal flaw.) he NEEDS to solve this with avery, or they’re both as good as dead. they need to figure out why they’re switching accounts, what’s going on, what’s coming—

and, they need to figure out who the hell is the other person that seems so far away, on the other side of the computer screen?

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Okay, HEAR ME OUT on something real quick.

Maybe I’m remembering the books wrong but I always used to think it was the weirdest thing on the planet that most of the demigods had body problems before going to the camps.

Leo was underweight, Percy got sick easily (if I can remember?), whatever Nico had going on, etc etc. And I thought it was the weirdest thing ever but now I actually have an idea for it.

What if it’s actually NOT that uncommon for demigods to have issues with their health and bodies before coming to their camps? And this is because most of the time demigods aren’t found is because they’re unconsciously suppressing their abilities? It’s like letting water build up in a pipe, eventually, that pipe is going to slowly break down.

It’s why demigods any older than teenagers/adults are rarely found. By then, the pressure from constantly repressing their abilities have already killed them. Compared to other demigods, using their abilities their parents gave them makes them happier, healthier, etc. (Percy who had an horrible immune system before Camp Halfblood vs damn near rarely getting sick EVER.)

And yes, this all circles back to Leo. Leo who is scrawny and underweight. Leo who I think gets constant migraines, hands that shake easily, gets hot or cold flashes, etc. Who has constant fatigue and appetite issues. Hear me out. Most of that can be traced back to his time in foster care BUT what if it’s also because he was actively suppressing his ability to control fire? And it was LITERALLY weighing him down?

So when Leo FINALLY accepts his fire as apart of him? When he finally accepts that his mother dying was NOT his fault? When he FINALLY learns to love himself and apologizes to himself for constantly keeping himself in pain, all of the sudden, he’s…lighter. Happier. He’s using his power and it’s fucking great. His muscles stop aching all of the time, he sleeps deeper, his hands stop shaking, and all of the food he’s eating actually tastes wonderful.

He finally FEELS like himself again. And it’s been a long time since he’s felt like this.

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“Wylan Van Eck has an avoidant attachment disorder and Jesper Fahey has an anxious attachment disorder and if this was shown in the show, along with the slow burn in the books and the idea of both of them having a really shaky foundation of what intimacy truly is — the ship would’ve been much more compelling and interesting and I think that’s how the writer intended it to be.” I say into the microphone before the crowd, my slideshow ready to explain.

I don’t get the chance. The crow boos, someone throws a tomato, another throws a waffle (where did waffles come from? it’s cold at that), I duck my head to avoid the endless assault of edible items and began to walk off the stage in shame.

“No, he’s right.” I perk my head up and I turn around to the front row, to see who the voice was. It’s none other than Leigh Bardugo.

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“Hmmm! What an interesting black character that I can relate to! I wonder where I’ve seen this exact character archetype before—“

“Oh.”

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Frank Zhang who is always angry. Frank Zhang who is fucking furious about everything, even if he won’t show it. About the gods, about his life, about his grief, about his friends and what happened to them. Frank Zhang who hides his anger behind an easy-going and almost laidback approach. Frank Zhang who is constantly trying to forgive, to heal, but can’t bring himself to. Frank Zhang who can’t possibly bring himself to express this rage so he bottles it up until it eats him from the inside out. Frank Zhang who sees his anger as a dark hole that takes the life out of everything. Frank Zhang who once casted a stone in this hole, expecting for it to hit bottom and he’d finally stop feeling this rage. Instead it just kept falling.

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I need everyone who likes Iruka Umino or KKIRU to hear me out for a second here, alright?

We know that Iruka is someone who holds back so he doesn’t have to become a ninja, right? And we know (or at least I know) that he was probably adjusting very poorly to ninja life before he decided to become a teacher. And this is all building up to a headcanon I just came up with.

What if during that time as a ninja, he actually spent a lot of time with medical ninjas? One took some kind of pity on him and decided to take him under their wing. Iruka may not be fast or strong, but he is way too clever for his own good. He’s brilliant, crafty and very creative. He watched them heal people from using their own chakra to clear pathways and repair internal bleeding from the inside without the use of surgery, and he figured out that if you could heal someone from the inside without laying a hand on them — you could break from the inside without laying a hand on them.

Which is how he learned how to manipulate internal organs without touching someone. Usually, he would go for the heart or lungs but he has ruptured someone’s spleen before.

And with it, he has the power to:

- Slow or accelerate a heartbeat.

- Force lungs to fill or empty too fast.

- Cause blood vessels to constrict or rupture.

- Control muscles and tendons like a puppeteer.

- Paralyze nerve clusters.

- Cause very serious internal damage.

- Or, if he’s focused and careful enough — he can heal the damage he just caused.

But this power does come with its limitations too.

To create this pathway, it has to be almost like an emphatic connection between chakras. So not only is Iruka at his most powerful when this happens, spiritually and physically, he’s at his most vulnerable. Not to mention with this connection, if the damage is great enough, although he may not have the damage, he’ll be able to feel whatever the hell he just put someone else through. And using it constantly will cause him extreme amounts of pain. So he’s just as much at the mercy of himself as his opponent.

He can control multiple people at a time, but that can often cause fatigue. Especially because after his last mission as a ninja, he stopped using it often. (I have an entire headcanon for THAT too.) The stronger the chakra, the harder it is for Iruka to get a hold over it. But with weak defenses and some quick hand signals, just about anyone can become his puppet in as little as 30 seconds. But, this also has certain conditions that have to be met:

- Weak defenses or Iruka has to unleash at least HALF of his own chakra potential to overpower someone else’s and force their will upon them.

- His abilities rely a few things; his surroundings, his emotions and his senses. If he’s in an area where he’s intimately familiar with it, it makes using his ability easier. I am personally of the headcanon that his chakra does get stronger if he’s pissed or hellbent on something. AND, if you can trigger at least one of his five senses, he can control you.

- For instance, I’m of the HC that Iruka is way more sensitive to other people’s chakras than most. What was once a huge liability actually helps him with this certain jutsu he created. It’s easier and stronger if someone is in his line of sight. But if he can feel your chakra, he can likely pinpoint where you are and control you. So if he can feel you or see you, your ass is grass.

- And his hands have to touch at some point. He can do this if his hands are forcibly apart, his palms have to touch each other at least once.

Not only is this jutsu wrong on so many moral levels and a few ethnical ones, it takes a LOT of Iruka’s mental strength and health to do it. He has to overpower someone’s energy and force his will onto theirs, that has got to take a mental toll on someone like him.

Which would make kkiru in this situation very interesting. Because you have two very powerful men who likely bent and broke several moral and ethnical laws to get where they are today, who probably understand the guilt of having that kind of power better than anyone else.

Now imagining them both learning from each other and being able to understand the other. Iruka teaching Kakashi that he shouldn’t be so powerful that he forgets to be kind, and Kakashi teaching Iruka that he shouldn’t be so kind that he forgets he that he’s powerful.