Random Headcanon: There are plenty of movies that reference or include Kur as an antagonistic force, one of which was Mike's film debut. He filled the role of 'monster child #3' in the adventure-horror Lure of the Serpent's Tomb, which did a resounding 'not bad' at the box office and was praised for its practical effects, including an animatronic rendition of Kur.
I know a lot of people headcannon Ben and Rook confessing their love for each other in like a stressful situation, or when one of them almost dies
But I headcannon the situation as like Ben getting out of some surgery (I'm thinking like wisdom teeth or appendix). And he's still loopy on anesthesia and pain meds
He then starts openly hitting on rook. Like saying how good looking rook is and saying some really raunchy stuff. And rook cannot stop blushing, he can’t believe ben in saying this type of stuff. And rook absolutely films it
rook then goes to see ben later and shows him the video and asks him if he really feels that way. Ben is super hesitant to answer, but rook tells him "I feel the same way for you." That's when they both find out they have a thing for each other
More fiction writing. Sorry for being gone so long.
He can't look at it, the wretched twisted form.
Not the lines glowing from patterned skin or the luminous eyes high up on the pitted and scaled face.
There’s no denying it. Kevin is a monster, he can't say it aloud, but it's there in the back of his mind. It's there lodged in Ben’s heart rising up like bile, sour and sharp filling his throat.
The moon isn’t full, the shard of it is like a knife through his window. Staring at it doesn’t make him feel any less sick so he bows his head and looks at the bright green light from the Omnitrix instead.
It doesn't make him feel better either.
It's only happened a dozen times or so, the ragged wings and twitching hands. But that's already too much, the oversized body plaguing his dreams. When he manages to sleep at all.
He can't help it.
It's just one more nightmare slinking down his spine leaving him awake at three am, panting and shuddering in panic and sweat.
The sheets are dark and so is his bedroom, mostly. The weather channel is playing in loops on his TV, the volume staticky and gray.
Pushing himself up in bed Ben watches the icons and patterns sweep across Bellwood and the surrounding map. It seems so much smaller on the screen.
But the message is clear.
Storms incoming.
His sock-covered feet find the carpet and Ben pushes the blankets away. The hallway is full of old sounds. The creak of boards and hum of the nightlight are overcome by the wind rattling the loose shutters of the house.
Ben patrols anyway, checking each door and window, his parents room is filled with Dad’s snores and it's almost enough to calm his heart.
There are no eyes in the darkness, no hulking forms on the deck and no strangers in the kitchen.
His hands still shake as he fills a glass with filtered water from the fridge. The cold reminds him of the frozen breath of a favored transformation.
The Omnitrix still glows silently on his wrist and Ben considers throwing it back into the closet from whence it came.
Even if he does it won't change Kevin back or stop the fear of his transformations. That's something he has to face himself.
There are dark clouds drifting, the sky is overcast and he can't see the moon anymore.
Setting the glass into the sink he moves back to his room and climbs back into bed.
The alarm clock says it's nearly four am and he can't calm down. His mind is chasing figments while his eyes make up shadows in the dark.
Squeezing them tight he counts backwards from one hundred, each number supposedly bringing him back down to baseline.
He never figured out if it works because lightning tears across the sky by the time he hits seventy four.
The thunder booms and he clenches his fists. “It's just the storm, it's just a storm.”
Ben utters the mantra over and over desperately trying to convince himself he's safe.
Rain pours down from the heavens and his breathing slows the weather channel still says ‘Storms incoming.’
I think Ben is that person that will work through sickness. Like he'll go to work with a cold.
I headcanon that Ben comes down with appendicitis, and being the stubborn hard-head he is, he works through it. And as the day goes on, he gets sicker and sicker.
Rook is very worried and is desperately trying to get Ben to stop and see a doctor, and Ben is like, "Leave me alone! I'm fine!"
They come upon some kind of baddie and Ben gets a blow to the belly, which causes his already inflamed appendix to rupture. He collapses in absolute agony, and is in really rough shape.
So I came up with an idea for an omniverse episode/fanfic/whatever:
Rook comes over to Ben's house for dinner. Rook starts asking all these questions, and it turns into a big flashback: how Ben's parents met, when Ben was born, stories of when Ben was a kid, etc.
Whenever Ben has to go under anesthesia/sedation, he acts crazy afterwards.
When Rook went to see Ben in recovery for the first time, it freaked the living hell out of Rook seeing Ben like that. Rook even told Max that he had a hard time trusting some of the Earth doctors because "they are trying to make Ben go crazy!"
