I have to say I didn't expect Nahla to be more or less the Batman but I'm so glad they went in that direction because Batman is cool and all but giving a woman (who ALSO happens to be a manic pixie dream old lady) the traits of:
Angsty and brooding over her mistakes
Providing for a bunch of kids both as atonement for things she could't fix and people she couldn't save and to raise the next generation of heroes right
Can't be with the love interest she yearns for long-term because "dick(s) so good I forgot to fight crime"
Having a crazy psychosexual relationship with a dude whose life basically revolves around her and causing her the maximum amount of suffering possible; participating in this because she lowkey feels it's deserved
Is like 5000% cooler. She's truly one of the characters of all time.
Nus is very much a pirate/biker/dandy/deranged swashbuckler and someone I’ve always thought would be friends with Karl Lagerfeld if they were alive at the same time, on the same planet. As Nus’ arrogance grows so does his jewelry, hence the gauntlets continuing from his rings. I normally have a phobia of pyramid studs when it comes to the future but I loved the idea of metal growing through his shoulders which also disguised the commonality of them.
I became enamoured by some images I came across of leather and textiles that looked mossy and moldy. bon.bonstyle our textile arts key experimented with puff screen printing on top of different textures to get the look I wanted. How do you make an alien look moldy, mossy and ostentatious? Turns out screen printing over metallic copper…
My stance on Nahla/Braka can basically be summed up like this:
does he want to fuck her? yes, but actually no (1)
does she want to fuck him? no, but actually sort of yes, maybe (2)
does he want to kill her? yes, but actually no (3)
does she want to kill him? yes, 100% yes (4)
(1) the idea appeals to him, but he hates women too much to have sex with them, also he has erectile dysfunction he's insecure about; (2) she's game for anything and anyone under the right circumstances; (3) he says he does, but would chicken out at the last minute; (4) she won't, cause ethics and laws and shit, but she dreams about killing him quite often
"in the land of gods and monsters" for Anisha/Nahla/Braka
"bury me before you eat me" for nahbel
ooohohohohohohoohohoho
*immediately forgets the entire english language*
writing's under the cut cuz shit got longggg (like my metaphorical cock 😎🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓)
"if you love me"
jett/lura
my thoughts: this could go two very different ways. either unseen moments very early on in their relationship featuring jett being cagey and uncertain due to her past losses, OR silly domestic pranking and competitiveness set sometime within caleb & co's time at the academy. i'll expand a little on both of these.
option one summary: actually i could make this fit my first meeting theory for them, in which discovery helps out a random damaged starfleet ship by letting them borrow jett to aid in their much-needed repairs. discovery then leaves to go poke around in a nebula or smth.
lura's the first officer on the damaged ship, but jett pretty much winds up in the jeffries tubes the whole time...... UNTIL the ship is ATTACKED!!! alien boarders come in and start capturing crew members.
jett jumps into action and steals a phaser rifle before returning to the jeffries tubes to snipe the boarders, but they're unfortunately smart enough to figure out who's shooting them and jett gets captured... alsmost!
this is when lura happens to come by, having evaded capture, and casually beats up all the people trying to capture jett. the two of them team up to free more of lura's crewmates and get to the bridge to take back the ship.
later on, lura & some of her crewmates have to stay aboard discovery, which is towing their ship due to all the damage their ship sustained. jett lets lura stay in her quarters because she "owes her one after that save", but also because of the headcanon i picked up a little bit ago that jett hates being alone and rarely actually sleeps in her quarters.
lura starts buddying up with some members of the discovery crew, but jett's avoiding her bc she's having an "OH NO SHE'S HOT" moment and desperately trying everything in her power to avoid catching feelings.
jett completely and utterly fails at not catching feelings <3
she's eventually convinced to fess up, and lura reveals... she feels the same after seeing jett being badass & also a fucking awesome engineer!!!! >:-3 yuri forever yippee hooray happy happy happy ending
option two summary: backstory for jett casually wearing lura's clothes in that one nahla/jett/lura fic of mine, also featuring the both of them being chaotically in love.
honestly this could branch even further off, i could stay silly and have it be a simple series of silly domestic pranks that the two of them exchange... would probably work the lura/obel fight into that version, for the sake of having some smut. and background nahbel. as a treat.
OR i could do a big twist and have shit get serious. this would be much easier to work the "if you love me" line into, as we would have jett angsting over lura's safety. my favorite!
"in the land of gods and monsters"
anisha/nahla/braka
my thoughts: there's so much to unpack there and it's completely batshit insane. none of them are okay with what's happening here. oh my god.
long-winded summary: nahla and anisha have some weird shit going on (like in my main fic series!) when the athena is attacked and they're both captured (alongside probably other people who don't matter rn) and get thrown in a jail cell with none other than braka who busted out of one jail and then was snatched up into another. he's weak & lethargic, having gone far too long without adequate supplies of food and water. these kidnappers do nOt feed their hostages. braka is also very ill due to the severely unhygienic conditions in their cell. however, in a brief moment of lucidity, he reveals that he knows the three of them could escape, and even free their comrades...
but he's too ill to even explain, much less guide them along, this escape route without exhausting himself, leaving nahla and anisha with a difficult choice: let him suffer & possibly die, while they risk losing their own lives in the pursuit of their own escape route... or nurse him back to health to the best of their ability, so he can guide them out? (for the sake of this being a shipping fic, the latter option is chosen.)
nahla & anisha take care of him, making sure he gets extra food & water (when there's any available) and tending to his sickness as much as they can. this whole situation is framed as both deeply uncomfortable for all parties involved and arguably quite intimate, even erotic when braka's fever is at it's worst and both nahla & anisha are trying to save his life.
eventually they (somehow) get him healthy enough to draw a map and show them how to bust open a vent without alerting the guards. however, there's really not room at any point in this ventilation system for two people to travel together - it's maze-like, full of sharp turns and branching paths. so nahla takes the plunge and goes in alone, with only braka's map and a hope.
somewhat surprisingly to nahla, he was telling the truth, and nahla is able to free the other prisoners and get a message back to the athena... but first, she has a decision to make: does she go back for anisha and braka? (again, shipping, so yes)
she saves them and runs the risk of bringing braka back to the athena. she even decides to confine him to normal quarters instead of immediately throwing him into the brig, both as a sign of good faith and an act of mercy (he's still half-starved, dehydrated, and ravaged by disease. i said healthy enough to draw a map, not healthy.)
the "main" fic ends with the athena rushing home, but there'd be an epilogue chapter with a slight timeskip. braka's received medication, gotten patched up, & is awkwardly being treated as a normal guest. anisha and nahla are both shaken by the experience, but neither of them are too fucked up.
epilogue begins on the note of nahla happening to visit braka at the same time anisha is also visiting him. turns out those two were scheming to ah. thank nahla for coming back to get them out of prison when she could've full well left them to rot (and deffo considered it)
fic ends on the note of nahla getting railed by both of them lmao. she wasn't expecting it, but she's into it and thoroughly enjoying being strapped and double-dicked down until she fully cannot walk. the end 😊
"bury me before you eat me"
nahbel
my thoughts: this is gonna be some soul-shattering angst i'm sorry. probably involving one or both of them struggling with their difference in lifespan, may or may not throw in one of em being pregnant just to make everything more tragic. deffo would be best with multiple chapters.
rambling summary: starting off on the light, happy note of them both just going about their days & looking forwards to seeing one another. split pov, silly chitchat with coworkers, going back to their respective offices and then obel popping into nahla's for some much-needed cuddles.
if we're going the one of them is pregnant route, then it's pointed out that whichever it is has already been pregnant for a little bit, cuz i'm not going full-force babyfic w/ pregnancy reveal junk for this. anywho the lovebirds decide to do a movie night so they cuddle up to eat junk food and accidentally pick the worst fucking movie they could've possibly watched. not necessarily a bad movie, just a sad one with a plotline for the main characters that parallels nahbel's story and ends in tragedy. hence terrible decision.
after that they're both pretty upset, so they just get ready for bed and then settle down to lay awake angsting and feeling horrible. they eventually both notice the other is still awake and try to talk it out with one another, but that turns into a lot of crying, so some quiet cuddles are in order. however, after a little while they both calm down enough to actually talk, and are able to soothe one another enough that they can actually get some damn sleep
timeskip to morning, when nahla's had a weird dream, so more comfort cuddles with her bigass teddy bear (obel) are in order. the cute fluffy cuddles turn into just-as-fluffy sleepy morning sex, it's very tender and gentle and comforting and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa they make me insane i'm obsessed with them forever
hope you enjoyed this insight into the bullshit i come up with when i'm spitballing fic ideas! no really this is honestly very tidy outlining for me. normally, i'd've referenced so many more memes!
They're gonna start accusing me of insider trading with the way my "shipping the powerful Holly Hunter manic pixie dream old lady with the most reprehensible, backstabbing, yet undeniably alluring old man in her orbit" stocks are going up up UP to levels not seen since 2019 💹🤑
