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[something-tofightfor]

alright, heard you needed some asks sooooo spare me a few headcanons? maybe some word or phrase association? let’s do...

Logan / music

Billy / guilty pleasure

Benjamin G. / sentimental

Din / water

Ezra / secret

this was harder than i thought to think of for me, so i hope you’ve got something? maybe i can share some i have if you wanna reply with some words or phrases for me in the comments or something

Logan and music:

Logan doesn’t spend a ton of time listening to music. He likes it, don’t get me wrong, but he’d much rather have a conversation while driving than just put on music and zone out. When he’s getting driven somewhere, he usually has to spend the time taking care of business calls, so when he’s behind the wheel, he likes to focus. If he’s alone in the car, the radio will be on, but not loud.

Billy’s guilty pleasure:

He’s Not Here Billy Russo’s guilty pleasure is dark chocolate. He likes that it’s not overly sweet and tends to choose it over milk chocolate - and definitely over white chocolate. Maria always used to buy him dark chocolate for holidays, especially Christmas and Easter when he was home and around the Castle family.

Benjamin Greene and being sentimental:

Since there’s plenty of his childhood that Benjamin would love to forget, the only things he’s really sentimental about (before meeting you) are his own personal accomplishments. He doesn’t like others taking credit for the things he’s able to do, so he’s always very VERY certain to make sure that when he does something, people are aware that he accomplished it. He’ll credit people when they deserve it, but not otherwise.

Benjamin is very sentimental about the ticket stubs from both baseball games you went to - and about the shirt he bought to keep dry.

Din Djarin and water:

This is a really good one! One of Din’s biggest sources of disappointment is that as an adult, he hasn’t had the opportunity to swim much. There have been a few times when he’s been able to take the armor off and cool down, but he was taught to swim with the other Foundlings... but he had a helmet on then, and didn’t get the opportunity to feel the water on his face.

So to truly enjoy it, he’d need to at the very least strip off all of the armor (except the helmet) and the flight suit - and he’s not comfortable leaving so much beskar unattended.

A secret of Ezra’s?

Hmm. This eventually comes out, but ... Ezra being stranded on the Green wasn’t 100% unavoidable. He could have come home before the last trip, and maybe it was greed, maybe it was just him for once wanting to ensure himself (and you) some measure of comfort in the future, but he chose to go back with an unfamiliar crew ... and we all know how that turned out.

Thank you for asking! Thinking of random words for HCs is always difficult! Who do you want me to ask you about?!?

[dogxfiend]

@blackhatted

He couldn’t honestly say he didn’t like to tear through a room full of people with violent, reckless abandon, but at the least, it was something Syde usually tried to avoid. Doing things diplomatically was often less complicated. And where he normally enjoyed cleaning up the bodies because it meant a good meal, with vampires, it was a little different. Syde really didn’t care for the taste of vampires... so eating them was just a chore. He was more prone to leaving the whole mess behind.

And in this case, it seemed the violence couldn’t be avoided. Vampires could be terribly stubborn, old-fashioned things, so where diplomacy had failed, Syde resolved to just put down the whole room and let that be a lesson to whatever coven heard about it.

Canine snarls, sharp hisses, short cries made with dying breath carried all over the warehouse as the hound and the vampires clashed, both darting across the room to try to catch each other. But Syde was at the clear advantage. Body after body dropped, throats shredded and bleeding, as the vampires’ numbers dwindled. Finally just two remained and came to a standstill, probably considering retreat but reluctant to take their eyes off the black dog in the middle of them. Teeth bared and drooling blood, eyes aglow, Syde stood at the ready, not the least bit worn out but instead itching for more carnage. 

A hunger in him that was never truly sated.

[something-tofightfor]

HCtS Logan + snow annnnnnnd HNH or SC (you choose, or both?) + quarantine, maybe?

Wow, these were fun.

HCtS Logan and snow ... aren’t something that are together very often, because he prefers tropical vacations. BUT, he does remember one trip that he took with his parents and Juliet as a kid, and it sticks out to him, because he and Juliet got to go sledding for the first time.  They took a trip to upstate New York for a business meeting, and while Jim was busy meeting with clients, the kids - and their mom - spent the day outside in the snow. Not only was  there plenty of it on the ground, but it was coming down, too. And Logan can still remember the way the flakes looked as they landed on Juliet’s hair, or the way it felt on his mom’s gloves when she put her hands on the sides of his face to slow him down and tell him that he needed to take a couple minutes of rest. 

“You’re going to be exhausted, Logan.” She spoke calmly, but he could see the smile in her eyes. “You’ve been dragging that sled up and down the hill all day, let your sister have a turn.”  

The damp material was cold on his cheeks, but he didn’t care - and he knew that she was right, because he could feel the muscles in his legs aching already, but for a kid that had everything, the unexpected - and unpredictable - day was really important to him. 

HNH Billy quarantining wouldn’t be a good time for him. I think it would remind him too much of being on house arrest after getting out of the hospital while he waited for Matt and Foggy and Karen to help build his case. It wouldn’t be quite the same, because he wouldn’t be living in a state of constant apprehension about what happens next to him and what the outcome would be, but the whole “not being able to go wherever he wanted whenever he wanted would be really difficult for him. I think he’d try to take a lot of jobs just to get him out of the house, or spend extra time at the Anvil II facility, just because since they employ security, they’d bee deemed “essential”, but if he actually had to quarantine in an apartment or the Brownstone, it would be really different. 

Because Billy doesn’t like being idle ... so even though you would be working from home (on whatever jobs and events you were planning...if any) ... he’d be interrupting you a lot ... for reasons. 

Steel City Billy in quarantine wouldn’t be awful. He’s used to working long hours with few other people around, on spending days collecting intel and just observing. He doesn’t mind being alone and away from people - he doesn’t associate it with really anything but being in the Marines, so it’s doable. If he was in New York when it happened, he’d probably try to quarantine with Frank and Karen, just because he wouldn’t want to go weeks without seeing them in person - or knowing that they were OK. And since he and Frank are already used to being in close quarters for long periods of time, it would be simple. 

In no circumstances, though, would either of them want to quarantine away from Reader. They’d both enjoy the time with you all to themselves (or with a VERY small circle) but asking them to stay away from you for weeks? Nope. 

[something-tofightfor]

Queen of the Slow Burn, in my humble opinion. I’ve always hated slow burn, but you make it work so well for me. I’ve got a new appreciation for it and have become more patient for scraps and crumbs of romantic moments until it blooms or bursts completely and it’s just so satisfying.

That’s pretty impressive, then, that I’ve been able to change your mind about slow burns. I’m actually not a huge fan of them (or, at least I wasn’t before I started writing) in that ... when it’s obvious that there’s an attraction between two people, I want things to happen NOW.  I know that it can’t - because that’s not always realistic. And for me, as someone that loves adding in hints and world building like CRAZY, it’s so much easier to do this when you’re not rushing things and have time to sprinkle everything in. I think there’s something really gratifying about setting everything come together over time - all of the hints and moments and nuances coming together when they’re supposed to and not a moment before.  Writing Benjamin that way in Tipping Point was super, super satisfying for me. And Seasons to Cycles - the payoff in that is going to be SPECTACULAR. You know that they just want to throw themselves into bed there, but they both know that that’s not an option right now.  But I think that the biggest - and most exciting slow burn for me so far has been with Din in Magnetic. It’s still happening faster (in terms of normal people time) than I’d usually write for a sllow burn... but in Mandalorian time, this is ... forever.  Thank you so much for writing this and for reading my work and for reaching out to say hi sometimes. I hope you have an amazing afternoon! 

[something-tofightfor]

(from your 30 questions post) Which Argos/Delos world?

Well we know a bunch of the parks:

Westworld

The Raj

Warworld

Shogunworld

Fantasy World (idk if they ever named it but it would have been where Drogon was going and it’s still super pixelated on the Delos Destinations site)

Whatever that park was called in S3 where they took Caleb to train and he met Dolores

I think I’d have the most fun in Warworld or Westworld, just because I like the way they LOOK the most. But The Raj looked gorgeous too, and I feel like food there would be incredible.

Fantasyworld would be neat to see the mythical creatures, but I feel like it would be so dirty and so tiresome to slog my way through it, that I just wouldn’t want to do it.

[something-tofightfor]

your favorite number, 65, 67, annnnnd 48

Two favorite numbers - 7/13.

7. Nice to Meet Ya - Niall Horan

13. Waiting - 10 Years

48. Bend the Rules - Niall Horan

65. So Long, Goodbye - 10 Years

67. Closure - Chevelle

[archetypxl]

I don't owe you my soul for that money I borrowed, do I?

Monster Starters!

“Now that you mention it, we never did set terms,” he said, fingers pressed in consideration over parted pink lips.  He might almost come across as genuine, if not for the overly-exaggerated innocence of his wide eyes, the hint of a playful upturn to his smile.  “Gosh -- are you offering?”