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[miyaio]

awakening's second gen for the blogging meme?

my time has come

who is the aesthetic blogger

- nah is the biggest one, lots of dreamy pastel stuff and those xoxo i'll eat boys crochet thingies b/c this is the pinnacle of Empowering to her.  no one can know abt her 1d sideblog except for inigo, b/c he is following her from his secret 1d sideblog after they had an unfortunate run-in at a concert.

who is the sj blogger

- severa and kjelle are the most vocal ones, tho lucina, laurent, and nah also reblog a fair amt of sj stuff.

who is the fandom blogger

- who else but the justice cabal..............  owain is a lot of shounen anime, and while naruto is his big thing, he jumps fad fandoms w/a deep fervor (there are numerous selfies from summer 2013 of him doing the snk salute).  he also blogs high fantasy stuff, tho it's largely his asoiaf self-inserts or surprisingly well-thought-out posts on really obscure lotr trivia.  cynthia also has a lot of anime, tho hers is more magical girls (esp precure) and tokusatsu stuff, along w/lots and lots of horses.  she was an mlp fan before the advent of bronies and still occasionally reblogs NOT ALL MLP FAN type stuff.  morgan is a mix of both, alongside a lot of dnd stuff (justice cabal features frequently on outofcontextdnd) and memes that may or may not be ironic.

who puts everything under a read more

- gerome when he makes his one text post a year, lucina and laurent out of courtesy.

who posts the most selfies

- inigo posts like four a day, only to delete them in under a minute.  kjelle posts a lot of Fitness selfies, and severa does ootd things p frequently

who is the biggest meme enthusiast

- yarne's blog is like 90% unsourced bootleg 9gag memes that lucina avidly reblogs.

who makes really quality themes

- i want to say noire or morgan?  maybe they work together on them or s/t.

who reblogs posts with pointless comments

- on every meme reblog from yarne, lucina writes a little comment like "Ha ha!  Whenever I see a peach, now I laugh at it, because of 'peach time'.  This is a very quaint little meme here".  owain makes bizarre comments on fanart he reblogs, inigo frequently misclicks and types his tags in the comments w/o realizing it.

who has the most followers

- severa or laurent--sev is a reasonably popular fashion blog who regularly strokes her own ego w/longwinded (albeit helpful) product reviews, and laurent is just this catchall ~educational~ blog that ppl like b/c he's friendly to his followers and will answer just abt any question.

who uses 12 emojis in every post

- nah and cynthia.

who had a really embarrassing superwholock phase that no one is allowed to speak of ever again

- all of justice cabal and gerome by virtue of being made to watch said shows w/them.

[miyaio]

9 w/ team tokyo

9) is someone multilingual?  do they try to teach the language to the other(s), and how does it go?

- i mean i guess they'd all know school/textbook english?  io and hibiki get p good grades, daichi is kind of a lost cause www  iohibidai study sessions that turn into cuddlepiles are my ultimate vice tho

[miyaio]

did u miss shitty disjointed fea hc rambles sloppily copy+pasted from twitter (this was all brought forth by that azujero pic i reblogged, continual apologies to the artist for the kind of bullshit i derive from their stuff) 

inigo trying to get gerome to go drinking w/him b/c gerome drinks wine all the time, right?? isn't that what you fancy valmese folk do??  inigo has tried drinking exactly once and it ended with him praying to the porcelain god and telling his life's story to a drunk cleric who was probably old enough to be his grandma.  she didn't believe a word of it but tbh she probably didn't understand it either b/c he was crying the whole time lmao  

but yeah inigo trying to take gerome out for a Hot Night on the town, they're both out after half a tankard of booze, which they share b/c inigo thinks it's Romantic (it's actually just cheaper) and gerome grows increasingly suspicious that inigo is backwashing into the mug the more drunk the both of them get.  inigo tries to do ~inhibitionless drunk kissing~ and gerome is sloshed enough to be weirdly roundabout affectionate (tho he could also just be falling asleep on inigo's shoulder), so they go in for it until inigo suddenly becomes acutely aware of how bad his beer breath is.  it takes them two hours to do a five minute walk out of town b/c inigo stops every few steps to ask if his breath smells okay, neither of them can make eye contact w/the other for like two days after the fact.

inigo and gerome in hyperbolically incompetent romantic situations that are Just weird enough to probably be true-to-life: the twitter the blog the life the cross i must bear while upon this sinful earth..................  i mean i want them to fumble their way into legitimately sweet moments and they're gonna get Hella Married after a lengthy stint of shitty teen-dom and eventually become embarrassing yaoi dads.  i do think they have a lot of potential to make each other grow the fuckie up, since they both have similar problems at root and just take the same issue to polar opposite extremes (bonus points 2 inigo for managing to drag gendered priv into his selective self-flagellating pity party, four for u kiddo, four years in shitty teen jail), but i also just want a terrible fumbling yowee mess, even if i'm probably the only one interested in that kind of interp for the ship wwww

[miyaio]

aaaalso noire bc ur hcs = (sun emoji) ww w

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

- i guarantee noire has fallen asleep on one of the omnipresent crates at least once.  

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

- do actual contests of archery count or??  failing that, she is absolutely beastly at golf, of all things.  

the emoticon they’d use most often

- :c tbh

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

- she loses her temper a lot easier, then gets even more deeply ashamed of it.  also prone to being more fatalistic and just generally shows the fatigue physically.

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

- she has a mild fondness of tea via brady, tho she doesn't like herbal ones b/c they just taste like medicine to her.

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

- i think this is sort of a thing noire has to figure out as part of her arc?  as in, being able to face up to her emotions and sort out her guilt/temper/pessimism in a healthy way.  she spends a lot of time hoping that someone like severa/brady/gerome/owain will show up and keep her company so she can get that positive attention until she realizes she isn't imposing on others just by seeking them out.

what they wanted to be when they grew up

- i want to say that at some point she wanted to be a cleric b/c libra!noire is my default, tho obvs quite a few things soured her on that, particularly the religious aspect, as per her fp1 convo w/libra.

their favorite kind of weather

- medium temperature, not too sunny.

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

- very tremulous, but still endearing.

how/what they like to draw or doodle

- pls consider hsau noire sitting next to owain in class and drawing aimless stick figures and then owain adding features/speech bubbles and she can't read half his handwriting but her notes sure have turned into the epic saga of the radiant scion of holy darkness and the crepuscular queen of the she-demons.

[miyaio]

the two characters whose names r mushed together 4 yr yuri url 4 the ask meme ww

friCK okay we obvs don't know much abt miyako so i'm just going to go off my woefully extensive hc interpretation that will probably be 100% inaccurate

miyako:

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

- on her desk lmao nobody is going to disturb her, so why not.

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

- smart people play chess (tm).  she hates the game, tho.

the emoticon they’d use most often

- i feel like miyako is much more culturally aware than yamato, since she basically exists to keep him on his toes and tear him down if he ever falters (tho whether that's enforced or if she'd care to do so is another matter), but pop culture is still entirely beyond her.

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

- her demeanor gets even tighter, tho she's usually aware of it and just steamrolls w/it to make herself even more intimidating www

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

- she's partial to black tea like a Boring Sophisticated Person.  

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

- do houtsuins even have slumps or do they just aggressively deny/quash any qualms abt themselves??  we just don't know

what they wanted to be when they grew up

- probably something other than japan's shadow's shadow, so i suspect this will be addressed in br, esp since the title, at least in part, probably refers to her defying the akashic record somehow.

their favorite kind of weather

- v heavy clouds and wind, but before it actually rains.

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

- it's almost??  sultry??  which is kind of funny b/c i picture her w/a sharp, v articulate voice.  i sincerely hope she doesn't get screwed over in the va department as bad as io and hibiki did wwww

how/what they like to draw or doodle

- this is not a Thing miyako does.

io:

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

- she has a bad habit of falling asleep leaning back in her desk chair at home, even tho it gives her horrendous neck cramps every time she wakes up.

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

- you will never take inexplicable video game expert io away from me ever www  daichi and hibiki try to get her into gaming with Easy Stuff, and they're all ready to have to explain things to her b/c vidya has just never really been a part of her life until she annihilates them both in mario kart without a shred of mercy.

the emoticon they’d use most often

- some generic smile like "ouo", probably.  she doesn't use a lot of emoji b/c she spends like five minutes wondering if the person she's texting will somehow misinterpret what she means by using it.

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

- she gets really down on herself and tends to spend too much time replaying things and fretting over every little thing she thinks she's done wrong.  

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

- warm milk.

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

- she usually catches on to her own bad moods fast, and so she'll try really quickly to push herself back into motion.  i think a lot of ppl forget how good io is at compartmentalizing her emotions, esp since she goes from having her mother die in her arms to still fighting and strategizing functionally within just a few hours.  she's really acutely aware of how conflict-avoidant she is, and so she def goes out of her way to try and either avoid negative situations in the first place or give herself enough time alone to at least muster herself up to a level where she can keep going.

what they wanted to be when they grew up

- it literally changed every year with whatever her elementary school teacher/counselor said she'd be good at doing.  i think she'd ultimately go into some sort of research or academic field, tho.

their favorite kind of weather

- early spring where it's just chilly enough for a little jacket, but still sunny w/big, puffy clouds.

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

- io having a really powerful, resonant singing voice is also one of my fav hcs--idk much abt seiyuu, but my hc voice for her is yoshida seiko (otherwise known as jpn!noire), so i think she normally has a medium-pitch but very soft voice, so literally no one expects her to be able to absolutely belt it when she sings.  ofc she's super-shy abt it, tho

how/what they like to draw or doodle

- usually, she doesn't doodle much.

[miyaio]

alcor and hibiki pls

saiduq:

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

- can saiduq even sleep??  do they need to??  it is a mystery.gif

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

- everything but card games.  saiduq inexplicably sucks at card games b/c this is an entirely arbitrary decision i've just made.  daichi beats them in go fish once and it's a sight to behold.

the emoticon they’d use most often

- (´･ω･`) 

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

- i still don't know if saiduq would even need to sleep.

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

- they drink hot water, just straight up hot water.

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

- hahahaha tbh i don't think saiduq really knows??  how to go about that, esp since they're so weirdly neutral and don't really acknowledge and explore their full emotional capacity anywhere outside kingmaker.

what they wanted to be when they grew up

- not alcor :')))))

their favorite kind of weather

- they can find something to like abt any kind of weather--in general, saiduq is at least interested by quite a lot of mundane phenomena in the world that ppl might either take for granted or find irksome.

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

- really breathy and quiet--they hum more than they sing, tho.

how/what they like to draw or doodle

- doodling out of boredom is one of those other Mundane Human Things saiduq gets way more of a kick out of than anyone else really would, so sometimes there are fine works of art, sometimes there are stick figures wwww

hibiki:

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

- class, probably.  he gets away w/it b/c he sits in the back and imo doesn't have that much of a presence outside his close friends, anyhow.

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

- hibiki is really good at those word games, like the ones where you have to take the last letter of the word someone else said and then come up w/a word that starts w/that letter in a chain??  it has a name, but i can't remember it.

the emoticon they’d use most often

- ／(･ × ･)＼ i literally just googled "bunny emoji" bye

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

- he tries to keep it civil, but you can tell he's tired b/c he rubs his eyes/temples a lot.

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

- hot chocolate w/downright unnecessary amounts of whipped cream.

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

- he usually seeks out other people, tho he makes a strong point abt not burdening them w/whatever might be bothering him.  imo hibiki strikes me as a v ~textbook~ extrovert who gets energy from interacting w/others.  daichi especially is like 99% guaranteed to cheer him up.

what they wanted to be when they grew up

- i feel like hibiki never really had any concrete career aspirations, despite having v career-oriented parents (this is one of the few things from ds2a i'll accept).  it fits nicely w/the convo he and daichi have at the v beginning abt a lack of purpose and how weird it is to be making decisions for the rest of yr life when yr 18.

their favorite kind of weather

- light snow with thin cloud cover.

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

- it's okay.

how/what they like to draw or doodle

- hibiki doodles as just a sort of way to keep his hands moving--imo he's not a v facially expressive person, but he makes up for it w/body lang and vocal inflection.  as a kid, he used to draw a lot of comics with punchlines that only joe could probably ever appreciate.

[miyaio]

Piers for the meme because I'm thirstyyy

getting this ask made me realize how shamefully long it's been since i thought abt gs...........

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep — where they’re not supposed to

- i was going to say the helm of his boat, but he wouldn't............right........  (he wouldn't)

the game they’d destroy everyone else at

- games that require a lot of patience, like all those chess variants?  i've always hc'd that lemurians, even outside lemuria, have a v different perception of time, so piers doesn't mind spending four hours on one board game at all wwww  after a while, kraden is the only one who will play with him.

the emoticon they’d use most often

- jenna teaching piers abt emoji.............  probably ":-)" complete with the nose b/c he thinks it looks strange w/o a nose.  jenna tells him only creepy old men put noses on their smileys and he's v mock offended abt it.

what they act like when they haven’t had enough sleep

- he actually gets kind of grouchy lmao  he still has the patience of a saint, but he'll get noticeably more tetchy and then apologize profusely after having gotten some sleep.

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

- he probably drinks weird lemurian shit like warm wine (isn't that a thing??) b/c mercury adepts probs have outrageous tolerance.  

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they’re in a slump

- if the entire lemuria sequence ingame is anything to go by, he just likes to be alone, since he's actually the kind of person who can use that time to compose himself and reflect, rather than letting negative emotions stew.

what they wanted to be when they grew up

- what do you even do in lemuria when you Grow Up if yr not part of the senate...............  tbh he probably wanted to be a sailor all along, and that would have been anomalous enough to wind him up as hydros' representative eventually.

their favorite kind of weather

- really clear and sunny with lots of wind.

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

- medium-pitched, maybe actually a little higher than you'd expect from him?  it's v pretty, but always sounds kind of sad.

how/what they like to draw or doodle

- he'd be a chronic margins-doodler, lbr here.  he can't actually draw, tho, so he just does really intricate patterns of squiggles/swirls and the like.

[miyaio]

thinking abt how neat the tellius maps are, and i'm super-mad fea never capitalized on the idea that units you just killed could be revived as risen for one hell of a siege map.  it'd fit really well into the plot, too??

new scenario: after basilio's "death", plegia contacts chrom and says that sable's surfaced, and that they're willing to provide it b/c chrom will then have all the gemstones sans vert, which walhart stole from chon'sin.  chrom is really dubious, but robin isn't, b/c they know basilio will be keeping an eye on things behind the scenes, so frederick and two first gen units of yr choice slip thru the lines and go to rendezvous with plegia at, say, fallen fort steiger or s/t closer than carrion isle, since that'd take too long.  meanwhile, the rest of the army goes to ch 19, which plays out largely the same, except the goal is to rout the enemy instead of just defeating walhart, which in and of itself doesn't seem suspicious until the chapter ends.

cut away to fred meeting with validar, and validar making an attempt on his life, having known that chrom/robin would send one of their most trusted aids basically to the chopping block, and it looks like fred and the two units you sent w/him are killed as validar and aversa exposit that walhart's army of still nearly a million, combined with ylissean/feroxi/valmese casualties, will be so powerful that sacrificing at the table isn't even an issue, since robin's own body can be used in lieu of the actual location to make sacrifice to grima.  cut back to valm, and the charge on walhart's palace is abt to happen, only for a huge horde of risen to be spotted--brought back from the dead of ch 19 (which, if you lose a unit in that battle, will include said unit as a risen :')) ).  so now the ylissean league is trapped between walhart's castle and the risen, and walhart (as per his paralogue) doesn't really give a fuck, deciding the prime goal is to crush the ylisseans, and the risen will just expedite things and can be routed later.  

ch 20 becomes a siege mission where you have, say, five turns to get to the top of walhart's throne room before all the ch 19 risen, along with all the dead of ch 20, attack you, and you have to survive for, say, 10 turns?  frederick and the two you sent with him will ride back one turn before the risen arrive in order to warn you, tho they don't know basilio was the one who saved them, and after that, reinforcements will arrive for every turn right up to the last.  if you did lose units in ch 19, parents can have convos w/their dead kids and vice-versa or s/t like that, tho all the risen party can do is rasp out one or two words. 

in general, i wish the risen had been explored more--how exactly are they made?  is it like the dead in the old kingdom books where the state of the body's decay impacts the strength/competence of the risen?  idk i think it'd bring in the whole "walhart and chrom were both ultimately trying to stop grima and were both played by validar in the end" thing a lot better, since the valm arc would then go full-tilt into the endgame buildup in a way that's much scarier than grima just sort of floating around and sending risen after you.