#jac ask

[jacscorner]

gives u a banan

Oh cool, thanks.

[to-be-a-dreamer]

32 and javid for the ask game!

- @we-are-inevitable ✨

It is so so important to me that you guys know this is the third version of this ask that Jac sent me. The first one didn't have a ship and the second one wasn't anon so everyone point and laugh at Jac (with love <3)

Anyways, 32 is Everlasting by Sarah Charles Lewis!

So..... Javid Tuck Everlasting AU?

Javid Tuck Everlasting AU!

As always, I made this way longer than anyone wanted or asked for.

I'm thinking that this would be a prequel with Jack as Miles, David as his husband, Medda as Mae, and Race as Jesse. Charlie is functionally Angus, but he's one of the brothers and his personality is different, obviously. I guess I could just have Race and Jack but I love Charlie so much and he will always be in my AUs so yeah, he's Angus but not.

The fic would start with the Larkin family coming upon the spring, spending the night, and taking a drink in the morning.

"Do you think this water is clean? I mean, don't we have to boil it first?" "It looks fine to me. Besides, it's just water, what's it gonna do, kill us?"

Quite the opposite actually!

So then we would follow the Larkins finding a nice town to settle down in and there would probably be a few other Newsies characters in there somewhere I dunno.

The first chapter or two would be about Jack and David meeting and falling in love and all that good stuff. I think it would be just a series of short little scenes that take us through their relationship over a few years. They'd meet in town somewhere and Jack would be kinda obnoxious at first because this boy does not know how to flirt without being insufferable. David would pretend to hate him but secretly really enjoys their banter and "complains" about him to Sarah.

Eventually, Jack would get his act together and they'd start dating. The Jacobs family loves him, the Larkin family loves David, and it's just really nice and sweet and all that. We'd get a nice, small wedding with their families and friends and they'd end up adopting a kid after a year or so.

But throughout all of this, David couldn't help but feel like something was off about Jack and his family. When a harsh winter brought on a bad case of scarlet fever to the entire town, not a single member of the Larkin family got so much as a cough. One summer when Jack was helping Mr. Kloppmann do some repairs on his barn, a section of the roof collapsed right on top of him. When they finally got the giant piece of wood off of him, he was completely fine, he didn't even have a bruise. And the weirdest thing was even ten years after the Larkins moved to town, Race, the youngest, hadn't aged a day.

In fact, none of the Larkins had changed over the past ten years. It was more obvious with Race, who had been seventeen when David met him and definitely didn't look like he was in his late twenties. But once he started paying attention it was obvious that Race didn't just have a hard-luck case of baby face. Jack and Charlie should both be well into their thirties, but neither of them had so much as a smile line. When Charlie and Sarah stood side by side helping prepare Thanksgiving dinner one year, David was startled at how old his twin sister looked compared to his brother-in-law, who was supposedly only two years younger than her. And Miss Medda, who had always looked remarkable for her age, was beginning to look unsettlingly good for a woman who was in her mid-sixties.

Every morning, David looked into the mirror and found a new wrinkle around his eyes or a new strand of gray hair. Then he would go into the kitchen to be greeted by his husband who looked the exact same as the day they first met.

It was easier to ignore when he was younger. He was able to chalk it up to the Larkins aging well or his memories deceiving him. Perhaps they had changed and David just didn't realize it. But then he and Jack got married. Then they had a child. Then David had his daughter to think about. He still loved Jack with all his heart, but he couldn't lie to himself anymore.

There was something very very wrong with the Larkin family.

As much as David wanted to confront his husband and demand the truth, he wasn't sure if Jack even knew. He seemed blissfully unaware and constantly teased his brothers for acting "so immature".

David couldn't bring himself to be angry when Jack clearly didn't even notice, but he wasn't sure much longer he could do this. He married Jack because he loved him, yes. But also because he wanted to be able to love the man he would become. David had always said he would chose a partner who could grow and learn with him, who would stand by his side through all life had to throw at them and help him be better in spite of it. But Jack was exactly the same man David had known when they were twenty-four. David had loved him, but he wasn't quite sure if he would still be able to when he was fifty years old, or when their daughter grew up to look older than her father, or when they had grandchildren, or when David's parents passed away and Miss Medda would look as youthful as the day he met her.

As fate would have it, he never had to find out.

Race should have died that day. He had fallen fifty feet right on his head and David remembered holding his little girl close to his chest, not wanting her to see what should have been a horrific sight. When Race got up without a single scratch and waved off their concern, spouting some nonsense about the branches slowing down his fall, that was when David made the decision.

He spent the next week preparing in secret. He didn't think Jack would get violent if he found out, but he knew his husband would fight tooth and nail to keep their daughter and David couldn't risk it. He took half of their money and hid it away, he packed clothes and family heirlooms, and he sold any household items Jack wouldn't miss for the extra money.

Leaving was the hardest thing David had ever done. Jack slept like the dead (ironic), so it was easy to slip out of bed and dress in the light of the full moon. He had prepared the horse and the wagon before they went to bed so all he had to do was pick up his daughter and take her outside. She fell back asleep as soon as he got her settled and he should have been able to just climb in beside her and drive away.

But even though he knew he should, David couldn't bring himself to just leave, not without saying goodbye. So he went back inside and wrote Jack a letter.

David loved him. He always had and he always would, but there was something very very wrong with him, and David wouldn't let their daughter get hurt because of it. He begged Jack not to look for them, to let them go with as little heartache as possible. He told Jack that he would miss him, but he couldn't, no, wouldn't live a lie anymore. David loved Jack and he would always care about him, but he had to put his daughter first.

He left the letter on the bedside table, gave Jack one last kiss, and left without another look back.

David Jacobs never saw Jack Larkin again. He and his daughter were on the road for a week before they found a new town they could settle in. The townsfolk bought his "newly-widowed single father" lie and he found a new job without trouble. His little girl was young enough that she didn't ask too many questions beyond his initial explanation that Daddy had to go away and it would just be the two of them from now on.

As she grew older he couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth so he let her believe Jack was dead, even if the exact opposite was true. She grew up and David grew old. She lived her life and David did his best to forget, to convince himself that his lie was true. Jack Larkin was dead. He might as well have been, anyways, and David would never let his daughter learn any different if he could help it.

David Jacobs died with his daughter on one side and his little brother on the other. Sarah had passed the year before and his grandchildren were waiting in the other room. David Jacobs died happily and peacefully after a good long life, with only a few regrets that his family would never need to know about.

And somewhere in the world, Jack Larkin lived on, heartbroken and lonely and not a day over twenty-four.

[jacscorner]

You have made your love of the classic Thundercats series quite obvious. But how do you feel about the 2011 series?

To be honest, I actually really like Thundercats 2011.

2011 was a rough year for me, but I remember that the day this show premiered was a highlight for me that I actively 'fought' to see. And, frankly, there's so much I love about it.

I love the anime aesthetic. I love the reinterpretation of Lion-O. I love the backstory and the explanation of all the animal species. Every episode felt like a new adventure, almost like showing me a new aspect of fantasy I never thought of.

I'll admit, there are some aspects about the show I didn't like; the soap opera like "love triangle" between Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara and the resulting bounce back with Pumyra, the latter's eventual betrayal, Tygra in general.

But, overall, I'd still say the show was good and will never forgive Cartoon Network for dropping this show for a literal LEGO knockoff.

I'd probably recommend the 2011 series over the 1985 series; I personally prefer the original series, but not everyone has a taste for that era of animation. Hell, most Thundercat OCs are based off of the 2011 series, so I think it's safe to say which series is more popular these days.

But, I digress.

[jacscorner]

Coward. You go back into those tags and call them 'Daddies'! >:(

Don't make me take my belt off, you brat. >:P

[jacscorner]

I just read a post you made about how Code Lyoko was such a dark show, and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve actually done an analysis on the killer music episode on how devastating it actually was, and I’m so glad you brought it up

Nice to see that post still making the rounds, lol. XD

And yes, thank you for talking about the Killer Music episode, cause it's such a horrifying concept!

[jacscorner]

Who is your favorite Code Lyoko character? Mine is easily Aelita! Her whole AI-Human hybrid arc thing is super interesting, also pink hair is fucking cool.

Hell yeah pink hair is cool!

Anyway, as a kid, my favorite was Odd. I love characters that joke around a lot. One could argue he loses a lot, but he also fights a lot. Like, is it just me, or do a lot of episodes in Season 1 has him being the one going to Lyoko most of the time even though arguably, Ulrich is the best fighter in the group? That's so...odd, lol. I wonder if Odd was the creator's favorite...

But while I'm rewatching it, Odd's still holding that mantle. I'm trying to rewatch the show and properly finish it now. (With my luck, this'll only take me until 2022.) Though now as an adult, I quite like Jeremie. I always liked his relationship with Aelita cause I also always love smart characters and smarty + smarty is my favorite ship dynamic, but I'm really starting to appreciate Jeremie more than I did as a kid. As a kid, I don't think I appreciated him cause he wasn't going into Lyoko, but he's actually kinda neat.

Or, you know, maybe that's my love for smart characters shining through.

So, uh, I guess for now, my final answer is Odd with Jeremie vying for second place. If you can't tell, I'm kinda fickle, so that could change as I get further into the seasons.

[jacscorner]

Princess Peach as a Druid legit terrifies me. Cause that means she can learn Heat Metal.

I mean, why would that terrify you?

Have you done something wrong?

Have you done something to give Peach a reason to have you roasting within your own platemail as she smiles ever-so-sweetly at you, her blue-eyes no longer a comforting ocean, but now a curtain to hold back a tranquil fury as she watches you burn for your sins?

>:3

[jacscorner]

What's a trope in fiction that you ABSOLUTELY hate? And what's a trope that's a HUGE guilty please hehe~?

I feel the latter for me would be 'harems', but I'm not too guilty about that at this point. I've brought this up with Jango, but, like, I LOVE harem anime and harem fics. If I find a good harem fic, I'm all over that. Speaking of which, I need to seriously hunt myself a good harem fic to read...

Though, I suppose another guilty pleasure trope of mine is...I guess the "Smart Guy" trope? Like, characters that are really smart in universe. I can't explain it, but I've always liked characters that used their wits to get out of stuff or are the technical backbone of their group. I love a character that's strong, but a character that's smart and wins through being clever? That's some good shit. And fuck do I love it when both wins the day. Ooh, I especially have a weakness for characters being smarter than everyone thinks they are, or for their niche knowledge to come into play when nobody expects it.

I guess these answers are pretty lame. XD

Tropes that I absolutely hate? Picking one is surprisingly hard. Love Triangles are one, and it might be why I like Harems so much. I also hate "Enemies To Lovers"; at least, I hate it nowadays, cause whenever I see it now, it always feels like there's this lingering air of abuse that just never got resolved.

In that same vein, I also hate how redemption arcs are done nowadays. Either they make the person being redeemed be so fucking awful that they can't be redeemed, or they make it so obvious that they will be redeemed that it's not a twist and we're just waiting for it to happen. And God help us if its both, that's just the worst.

And I guess to continue off of this; woobies, or characters that are intended to be sad. Like, 'oh, poor them, feel bad for them'. It just rubs me the wrong way. Like, I don't mean having a sad backstory is bad. I mean the writers continuously tries to make the character so sad that you can't criticize them because they're SO SAD, as if it's an excuse for all their actions.