#ricky blank

[faeandfolks]

i wish that the blanks werent just comedic relief, they had a lot potential to become a sort of parental figure to aja and krel. like they really couldve bonded 💔

[kreluug]

agent tarron i love u 

[valentimmy]

is that a mib reference I see

[ewritesfanfics]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 61

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“Well … you’ll hear us call her ‘Aunt Lucy’,” Krel says, leading them inside. “But, since you’re getting the explanation today, I’ll go ahead and tell you that’s she’s actually a robot, a type called a ‘blank’, and her code is LU-C, where we get the name ‘Lucy’. Mother programmed her using the data we have yet received from Earth on what a typical human woman is like to make her into a mother figure. Since your frequencies travel at sub-lightspeed, Mother’s data is a bit behind your current culture, which is why Lucy is a 1950s housewife.”

Robot?

‘Received from Earth’?

Sub-lightspeed?

Oh, there’s just no freaking way …

[quintiriss]

One of my absolute favorite scenes of the movie is Ricky, Lucy and Krel barging in with their agent outfits and Krel listing probably every government agency on earth then ending it with "your mom."

I'm sorry but that will never not be funny to me

[amicus-muggle]

I just think the robots from the mitchells vs the machines are very similar to the blank from 3below

[sergeantsporks]

[Me vibing intensely with the idea of Vex adopting Douxie]

- Douxie writing a song with a bunch of chess metaphors/imagery in it for Vex. Vex plays it on loop when he goes to the park to play the other geezers. Jerry absolutely despises it. Nana is “ohhh that sounds like the sort of music my toby-pie plays :)”

- ADP is invited to dinner family. They all go occasionally, Douxie goes a lot.

- The blanks, as seen in the DeAja Vu episode, will parent anyone who walks through the doors. Like Toby, Douxie is Very Much a Fan of This. Why yes, he WILL play catch with Ricky. Is there a rule against the ball being made of fire?

- There is not, although an exasperated Krel makes one after having to fix a few fried wires (And Vex has to apply first aid for some burns)

- Improv music battles in the living room. Douxie wins one day after managing a Wizardese word that rhymes with “Staja.” Krel maintains that this is cheating. Douxie counters that if Krel can be “DJ Kleb,” he can use wizard words.

- Vex is disappointed that the “music battles” never involve hitting each other with guitars

- Steve steals Douxie’s spellcaster one night and Vibe Checks Krel with it. While Varvaatos approves of the use of the guitar for a real music battle, he still suplexes Steve through the wall for harming the King in Waiting

- Aja and Vex invite Douxie to a warrior training session. He goes! And then never ever does it ever again!

- Douxie accidentally plays Vex’s logs one day. Vex says that he is very proud of Douxie for how well he is doing in his concerts :). He says he doesn’t understand wizard things, but Douxie is Quite Good at them, and Vex is happy he is part of the family :). Douxie spends the rest of the day crying, and no one is sure why.

- Lucy just. Shows up in his apartment one night, scaring the living daylights out of him. She gives the “It’s 10 PM, do you know where your children are?” line and then tucks him into bed. He is very confused, and somewhat terrified, but appreciates the sentiment.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

Had this idea late last night so I’m not sure how much sense it makes but:

Akiridion!Bodyguard!Douxie AU

Douxie was raised by the military and is a bit of a prodigy. Between this and the fact that he’s so close in age to the Tarron twins, he ends up being assigned guard duty to them. This started several keltons ago in an attempt to dissuade Aja from running away so much. It helped a little, but Aja still ran from the coup.

Douxie and Krel have been slowly falling in love together for years (well, more slowly on Krel’s end than on Douxie’s) but they haven’t done anything about their feelings because their love is forgiven and they’re both too loyal to the crown

When they gain their human transductions, Douxie is delighted by how much of his height he’s retained (even though he still gets a little shorter when he becomes human), as opposed to how short Aja, Krel, and Varvatos are as humans.

Douxie’s cover story is that his family are friends of the Tarrons, and that during the coup he was forced to leave them behind when he was running for his life. Uhl interprets this as “oh shit I shouldn’t have demanded that these kids each bring both of their parents; this one doesn’t even have parents anymore”

Aja: I’m afraid that Mama and Papa might not approve of my relationship with Steve. I mean, we’re so different, could we make it work when I go back to Akiridion-V? Krel and Douxie, trying not to look at each other: Wow. I wouldn’t know what that’s like at all, having a forbidden romance with someone outside your caste.

Aja knew that Krel and Douxie were really close but she didn’t realize that they were in love until after they went to Earth. She was a little jealous of their closeness when they were younger since her brother had a close friend who wasn’t her and she wasn’t that close to anyone other than Krel.

Steve: So, are Douxie and Krel dating or...? Aja: Do not let Varvatos and Zadra here you ask that, and the answer is sort of. They’re in love with each other, but they can’t actually be together, and they think they’re being subtle as they flirt when they’re really just being infuriating.

Varvatos and Zadra eventually realize that Douxie and Krel have feelings for each other and (somewhat-sympathetically) try to lecture Douxie about how, as a non-royal, he is forbidden by the laws of Akiridion-V from ever having a romantic relationship with the King-in-Waiting... and that those laws are ones that, even when Krel finally becomes King as opposed to King-in-Wating, he and Aja alone would not have the power to change that. (They do not give this lecture to Steve since they don’t think his relationship with Aja will last long.)

Douxie and Krel go to the Deep together, and they have their first kiss after Krel breaks them both out of their fears by defeating Morando.

The two of them stay on Earth, realizing that Aja can take care of Akiridion-V and they can finally have the life they want together if they stay here. However, they need to go to Hex Tech to see if there’s any parts they can use to fix Ricky’s decapitation problem. Right as they finally get to the help desk, Zoe cuts in line in front of them to demand that Shannon provide shelter to herself, her master, her familiar, and the remaining Guardians of Arcadia.