#roadkill rambles

[hey-im-roadkill]

endlessly thankful to clover and martlet as an aro person because it is SO rare we get a purely platonic "what the FUCK do those two have going on"

like. the only route martlet lives is the one where clover dies. every route martlet dies she blames clover fully.

quiet stray and aviation are parallel songs that play in the same scene. the former has flowey's motif. but it doesnt play if martlet's with clover. she directly overrides flowey's manipulation efforts.

but she doesn't trust them enough to not blame them when flowey kills her on neutral. even though they change her mind about humans (in more pacifistic neutral runs mostly)

even in the geno route clover gives her. a WEIRD level of respect. like they give her their name (the only time they do so in geno). they let her retreat at least twice. they consider her a worthy opponent. and apparently can't find a reason to hate her. she specifically asks them for help while melting.

what the FUCK is with those two. they make me SICK.

[roadkill-punk]

Thinking about a kind-of-au thing where like. Gabriel is losing his light as per the canon storyline, but as his light disappears wounds and scars that his body previously healed using that light start reappearing, eons of battles and histories of his existence that had been previously hidden by his healing ability. Most of the scars are ancient, dating all the way back to Heaven's war with Lucifer, others are from taking out Sisyphus' armies or ravaging Minos' city, a lot of them are from defending Hell against machines.

Some of the scars coming back are physically painful or uncomfortable, others mentally. Reminders of times he was hurt or scared.

I imagine this is in some timeline where he has either one or both of the prime souls or v1 around. Very much a kind of hurt/comfort thing. Minos rubbing soothing creams into the biggest scars or v1 keeping him warm while the discomfort passes. It's kind of scary, none of them really understand why it's happening (it's happening because I want them to suffer and then be comforted), but they are just scars. Gabriel isn't being wounded. Eventually they stop appearing, and then eventually even longer they start to fade like normal scars do.

Also thinking about how he would look. It wouldn't just be messes of scarred mass, but a fascinating map of both battle injuries and banged-your-knee-on-a-table injuries alike. Being able to see where his hands were worn through carrying his weapons, where his armor protected him from harm, a spot where he jammed his finger in a door once, a scar so close to his throat that it must have nearly killed him.

I think it would be interesting, for him to have to tackle his own history like that. He's never had such prominent, lasting physical reminders of what he's been through, constantly pushing forward and onward. Not a lot of time to think about his or other' actions once he was done with them. There would be a lot of reflection, and a lot of stories to remember.

[blackbackedjackal]

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[hey-im-roadkill]

it just wasnt that good tbh

[hey-im-roadkill]

i have an exam tomorrow morning but ok charisk nation hear me out ok.

frisk getting taller over time, because you know. they're about that age where kids become like 60% leg for a little while.

chara does not process this fully because they're in the same body so like. it doesn't fully register...

...until a chara revival situation, where chara has to reckon with the fact that they are naturally very short. and frisk very much is not.

chara treats this as a betrayal. (/silly)

[hey-im-roadkill]

tenna winning isn't official until king charles dies

[hey-im-roadkill]

[shaking and crying] good chapter

[roadkill-punk]

siblings :3

Misc. headcanons below the cut

This is all post black egg and fall of Hallownest, I'm just bad at remembering to draw Hollie's scars.

The stack! Hollie does that when they're bored and want to bother Hornet, like how some dogs will rest their head on you when they want attention.

The ideal outcome to being a pest is chin scratches, riight where their mask ends and their void-body begins. That's the best spot.

Hollie is absolutely purring anytime they get affection, Hornet does too sometimes, but she's a little self conscious about it.

That vessel is a fucking menace. Their favorite activities include making Hornet's day just slightly more irritating. This ranges from moving her things just a few inches to the side of where she left them to demanding attention while she's busy to 'accidentally' knocking her into various bodies of water.

These two have been through a lot together at this point, and given how starved for security and affection the both of them were as children among other things like being born into a death and chaos and given immense responsibility that neither of them had any control over that eventually led to the downfall of everything they knew and loved- they both were quick to open up to each other and seek out comforts that they previously were denied.

That's not to say it didn't take them a damn long time to approach each other and directly ask for things, both of them have their own reasons for being unsure about that sort of thing.

Their recovery was a process but they got there in the end, and now they have each other without the constant fear of not living up to the egregious standards of royal parents or being an impure, vile, worthless stain on the world :3

Their relationship is so sweet honestly they deserve to be happy and healthy and with family that loves them

Even if sometimes Hornet wants to rip Hollie's head off.