#it's something.

[mymarifae]

Scratches head. i think a lot of deltarune fans would do well to realize that a parent can love their child very very very much and still fail them in many aspects and the story can showcase both of these things equally, and pointing out said parent's failures isn't demonizing them... it's recognizing the simple reality that they are not perfect, and that their inability to face the truly difficult things can in fact produce a negative effect and thus we can now properly empathize with the struggles the child faces as a result

also, i wouldn't really take everyone in town talking endlessly about how amazing toriel is and how much she loves kris as proof that she's a perfect mother. like do you not think that hearing those sorts of things 24/7 even from people who barely know them or their family would perhaps make kris extremely reluctant to open up to her and let their unmet needs be known. why burden such a wonderful woman with such selfishness. she does too much for them as it is

[dafpork]

god Porky x Gabby is the funniest thing ever to think about because it would not work at all. 1 because Porky would have absolutely no interest in being in a relationship with Gabby. he's fond of Gabby but absolutely not like that. 2 there's barely even a good bone in Gabby's body much less a romantic one and Porky's most certainly not gonna compensate. 3 it's like putting two magnets together. they have their differences and opposites but it doesn't really compliment each other so much as just. bounce off. immovable object vs immovable object. 4 i literally cannot even conceive it like trying to use my imagination i can't. recipe for disaster it would suck so bad

HOWEVER that does not stop me from jokingly thinking that Gabby has Some sort of thing for Porky. but he's even more repressed and tightly wound than Porky ever is so he'd never know it. there's no point to any of this but i just cannot stop making myself laugh thinking about despite it all Gabby having Some thing for Porky but i don't know what that is. i just think he would get extremely mad about Daffy's existence if they met

[clown-femme]

i do not like this but i am going to post it

[osoreruna]

i'm cookin' somethin' up please hold —

[harryinramshackle]

There is SOMETHING that I have that is definetly undiagnosed I just do not know what yet

[positivelybeastly]

(i had to and i'm not sorry)

"...Hank? Lose my number."

. . . Hmmm.

This bingo card is a problem.

Hank's eyes flick up to meet Tony's.

This bingo card is their problem.

Good thing there's a good old fashioned chemical reaction to take care of it! Flipping on a bunsen burner, Hank holds the card over it and lets it burn. There must be no evidence.

"It's for the best, really. No other man would compare after me, and I don't think I could do that to you."

[new-eyes-extra-colors]

Is Shaun Nora's child? If so, does she view X6 as family due to his closeness to Father, or just as a friend?

shaun is nora's biological child, yep, and post-institute when asked she says she has two sons (referring to shaun and synth!shaun--but a minor plot point in my fic is that she doesn't tell anyone about synth!shaun being a synth. if pressed for details, she just says her eldest passed away recently and that typically shuts down any further questions).

oh, edited to add bc i don't think i was clear: she treats synth!shaun as a son too. she takes to him straightaway. he's still a child who views her as his mother, and she still wants to be a parent. they have a good relationship.

she does view x6 as family, but in a found-family sort of way that doesn't have anything to do with them sharing dna. she thinks shaun calling himself "father" is extremely--i think paternalistic is the right word, and she emphatically does not approve. she feels family is a lot more than genetic material, and so is parenthood, which relates back to her family situation mentioned here.

she and x6 grow close as they work together and kind of outside the bounds of father's knowledge. x6 is a smart guy and figures out nora's still working for the railroad, and for his own reasons keeps it to himself, and nora's aware that if she actually reported how snarky and independent x6 is, he'd be sent to reconditioning. so their relationship is tense for a while, but eventually grows genuine and very close.

i think outside of nick, x6 is the companion she's closest with by the end of things.