May 30, 2025
Meeting Canon the third
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Meeting Canon the third
need to get this ranpoe psychic/nonbeliever au out of my head and posted before i implode
Ranpo: Poe, what if there are monsters? Poe: Don’t worry, we’re top of the food chain. Much later… Ranpo, lying awake at night: I am the monster.
Alone Together
interpreting Poe is probably going to be my downfall greatest challenge as an english major
Edgar’s playlist 🍭
- drown by seafret
- pull me deep by logan henderson
- Neptune by sleeping at last
- hurricane by amber run
- way down we go by kaelo
-it’s you by ali gatie
I feel like Hotch would put everyone into his phone with full government names and notes on who they are/how he met them and is super organized and doesn’t have any emojis EXCEPT for his girl. She’d get a nickname or emoji and deff gets a photo
You’re peering over Aaron’s shoulder for no reason other than pure nosiness when a text from Jess comes through. He has her saved as ‘Jessica Brooks (Haley)’.
“Is that really her contact?” you ask quietly. You’re not trying to embarrass him, and the jet is full to bursting with your team and coworkers.
“What’s wrong with that?”
“You’ve known her for twenty years.”
“It’s efficient,” he says, side-eyeing you with an admittedly fond smile. “If anyone needs to contact her for me, I just have to say it’s Jessica Brooks. There’s no confusion.”
“Do you have many Jessica’s on there?”
He moves away from you to give you a judgemental look. “Are you being hurtful?”
“Who else do you have on there? When Jack gets a phone, what will you save him as? Jack Hotchner, bracket, son?”
“Don’t be silly.”
Your face fills with heat, and curiosity. “Wait, wait. What am I saved as? Don’t tell me it’s my full name, oh, please, Aaron,” you tease. “No, it’s Special Supervisory L/N, isn’t it?”
He’s saved in your phone as an indulgent, perhaps embarrassing Sweetheart Aaron, though you change it when the mood suits you. It’s funny. Baby, sweetheart, angel, it all felt saccharine before you fell in love. You still remember the night after your first kiss when you’d changed his contact name to Aaron with three hearts.
“It’s not,” he promises. “Have a look, if you like.”
You take his phone and click into his contacts. You scroll for your initial and frown when you miss it. There’s a John Edgar (Plumber) and a Kacey (Gardening assistant). He has four separate school teachers and three different Mia’s, one of which is marked without a profession. You’ll circle back to her later. But you can’t find your own face.
“No way you don’t have my number saved,” you say.
His laugh is boyish by your ear. “Back up.”
You scroll all the way to the top.
Your contact name is bracketed in hearts at the very top. It’s pinned. ♥️My sweet girl ♥️. The contact photo is one of you sleeping all smushed into his shoulder, not unlike the way you’d been sitting with him a few moments ago.
The shock of it has you biting down on your bottom lip. Aaron winces as you let the skin pull between your teeth, murmuring, “Honey,” apprehensively.
“Sweet girl?” you murmur back.
“You are, aren’t you?”
You cover your face with your hands, pleased beyond words, and fiercely shocked. “Aaron.”
“Would you prefer something else?”
“I like mine as it is, if that’s agreeable, sir.”
He slips his phone from your hand with another laugh. “Let’s see what Jessica Brooks has to say about my boy.”
“Jack Hotchner, son, you mean?”
He grumbles something under his breath about being ridiculed, while you open your phone up to change his contact to include a few more hearts, in way of apology.
More Simon / Iron Lung Language, Handwriting Worldbuilding Ideas, Bloodymary Dynamics
This is not an exclusively bloodymary post, I just like using Grace as a fallback character for comparing to modern human standardization. THAT BEING SAID please feel free to use this for cool crossover and/or bloodymary ideas. I also know I'm diverging from movie canon because they do actively write and speak in modern English. But I just have a thing for making my sci-fi worlds more alien!
Simon in my extended universe project speaks verbal shorthand (aka, an evolved form of far-future English, with direct influence from extended space living). This was inspired by time period differences I discussed earlier between Grace and Simon, and how Grace would have sounded entirely archaic to Simon.
They can understand each other if they try hard enough. Grace would be using an incredibly inefficient and slower version of English from Simon's perspective, so he'd really have to pick out the meaning through a lot of filler words that were cut out a hundred years ago.
Meanwhile Simon is very confidently speaking like he had a stroke from Grace's perspective. It's almost English, but there's word salad happening, plus a LOT of contractions / omissions that have been standardized, and Grace would have to extrapolate a lot.
To Simon, it is English; it's a Martian creole of it that got twisted around an Eden localization, though. Simon also writes exclusively in shorthand, which I also think has ended up becoming it's own localized thing on Eden, meanwhile the COI has adopted a much flatter visual version of it.
I came to this conclusion from the prospect of paper being a nigh-impossible resource, and screens/typing being much more of a common thing. Handwriting is a dying art entirely, and I think that they would have reverted back to cross-writing to save space on whatever paper they had left. It's a finite resource so they would have had to get creative right quick.
They could possibly also synthesize fresh paper from scrap papers, but you cannot produce more than what you already have, so it would be an endless cycle of paper slowly reducing in quality with each re-use. They'd also need mesh screens to do it and it would take up water.
This is also why I believe Eden specifically started reverting back to old letters like the thorn (the COI has not caught up to doing this yet). They adopted any character that could shorten the amount of letters they'd need to use total.
Standard Latin letters (the kind we use today in order to write and read) are still very common digitally, it's just dead in handwriting form, IMO. They still use standard keyboards inputs, and still type in a way that looks closer to 2000s English. They don't have to worry about saving space on a screen.
Example dialogue:
Grace: Can you understand me? Do you speak English? Simon: Uh, yeah, oi dock ȝu, spæk Anglis... ƿy r'ȝu talk? (Uh, yeah, I understand you and speak English... why are you talking like that?) Grace: 'Why am I talk'? Simon: ȝu spæk as'n old? D'fuck? (Your speech is old. What the fuck?) Grace: Oh, 'why do I speak Old English'? Is that right? Simon: Oi serious grave, r'ȝu ill? Sick-tu? (I'm really serious, are you ill? You sick?) Grace, realizing: This is going to sound really weird, but can you do a silly accent? Simon: Huh? Grace: Like a poetry reading. Like Edgar Allan Poe. Simon: ƿu is þat? Moi N.O. poetry ƿel grave. (Who is that? I don't know poetry very well.) Grace: Just try. . . . Simon, in a mocking tone: Oh, look at me walk-ing on dirt-ground! I drive a 'car' on a 'road' on my way to the 'grocery store'. Boy, I can't wait to use my 'credit score' to buy a 'house'! Grace, excited: See, that's perfect. That works! Simon, who was clearly referencing things that no longer exist to spite him: I hate you.
