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[vegalocity]

20 and 33 from prompt list 1 for staticbug please.

Dialogue Starters

20. “I just want to see you happy.”

33. “I love seeing you smile.”

Bruh getting random crossover ships in my askbox requests is such a pleasant surprise

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Dakota was considerably different than New York, Marinette had found out. Sure both cities were big and loud and bright, but New York was absolutely brimming with superheroes, while Dakota only had two on a permanent basis.

And the crime rates reflected that more than enough.

She was sprawled out on the couch in the Abandoned Gas Station of Solitude (what a fun name for a secret base!) catching her breath from the severe workout running about the American city while in the mask had been. Sure she got quite the workout in Paris as Ladybug, but Akumas tended to be a bit more scarce in comparison. In Dakota it seemed like there was a new crime to bust every fifteen minutes. She hadn’t been prepared for this!

“You doing okay, Mari?” Virgil slid up beside her and she gave him a weak grin.

“No wonder neither of you ever broke a sweat in Paris, this is insane.” she huffed.

“Well, you’re also on Hard mode.” He shrugged, pulling an arm around Marinette’s shoulders and she responded of course by leaning in until she was brushed up against his side. “Me and Gear can fly. You’re running and jumping and grappling hook-ing. We have powers where we don’t need to get all in a villains face if we can’t deal with it some day, the Yoyo is only kinda long range.”

“Tell me more about how unprepared I am for this place Static, I’m riveted.” She huffed, tilting her head until it brushed up against his shoulder. “I’ll build up the endurance when i get into DAU.”

She felt Virgil stiffen beneath her. “You’re planning on shooting for the Dakota Arts University?”

Marinette blinked up at him for a moment. “Yeah…? Why else would my parents let me come all the way over here if not to enroll?”

“Doesn’t Paris need its Ladybug?”

“Hawkmoth got neutralized years ago, and if there was a huge thing and I needed to get back there, I brought the horse with me.”

“Didn’t you used to talk about going to Audrey Bourgeois’ old school?” Okay this was getting weird.

“Virgil, is something wrong?”

He pulled off of her and Marinette was just about to pry a little further when he huffed. “Look, Your grades are absolutely insane, you’ve got a mountain of extra carrics, the amount of people you know personally who LIKE you is completely ridiculous and i’ve fought beside the League before and met TWO Batmans.”

“I just wanna see you happy, and I get the feeling you’re only looking at DAU at all because I’m here.”

Marinette stiffened in turn. Busted. She looked off to the side, A weird sort of humming noise building in her throat as Virgil’s actually worried expression began to soften to thin amusement.

“Well-!” She paused. “With the Metabreed still causing so many problems, and that new Anti Metahuman cult, I doubt you have any plans of leaving any time soon.” She watched Virgil rub at the back of his neck, anxiety suddenly filling his face.

“Don’t say that you think it’d be more prudent-”

“It would be more prudent if I came to Dakota! With the ways I can get back to France if need be in place, but Hawkmoth and Mayura out of the way I don’t really foresee anything that Chat Noir wouldn’t be able to handle on his own, but if he did need me I’d be there easily!”

“Mari...”

“Virgil...” Though he didn’t look swayed by her folded arms or determined eyes. So she broke out the big guns. Marinette sighed and grabbed his hand in hers, splaying her fingers against his for a moment, feeling the minute scars from electrical burns he’d end up with after overusing his powers, callouses from fighting, and the bruises along his knuckles from when electricity couldn’t cut it and he just needed to deck a villain in the face. “I love seeing you smile. Your whole face lights up and you look like a kid who was just asked about his favorite videogame.” Virgil’s mouth flattened into a thin line, he was suddenly very interested in not looking at Marinette playing with his hand. She was sure if she let him go to press a hand to his face it’d be hot to the touch. “And it’s a delight on the other side of a screen sure, but… I like the real thing better.” so she gave in to her urge and let his hand go, reaching up to cup his (very warm indeed) face in her hand. For a hero constantly getting the wind whipped in his face, fighting villains with fire powers, and just barely starting to phase out of the greasy faced era of puberty, his skin was shockingly smooth beneath a stroking thumb.

“Besides, it doesn’t matter if I went to the same fashion school as Audrey Bourgeois, or any of the greats, I designed sunglasses for Jagged Stone, I made Kitty Section’s look, before he was outed as Hawkmoth Gabriel Agreste put MY Derby Hat in his fashion show.” she shrugged. “People aren’t gonna look down on me because I decided to study at some school in the midwestern United States. And if they do then that’s their problem. MDC Designs won’t need them anyway.”

Virgil huffed but leaned into her hand. “Stop being so damn cute it makes it hard to be practical.”

“Not in your life.”

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[vegalocity]

Lord help me i’m back on my bullshit

Though this time i can’t claim FULL credit as this one was hatched between me and @a-marlene-s but I was the one who fist suggested it so i’ll take that bullet.

[vegalocity]

For the fic title meme, “Even If Everything Else Changes” for Miraculous Ladybug (perhaps even a crossover?)?

(finally someone goes for the Bonus Points)

Even If Everything Else Changes

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug/Static Shock

Rating: T

Archive Warnings: No archive warnings apply

Relationships: Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Virgil Hawkins

Additional tags: Long Distance relationship, bittersweet, DC crossover, Dakotaverse crossover, I miss static shock you guys

Summary:

Change is nature, everything exists in a state of flux. what‘s in season will be out of season soon enough. People come and people go, feelings fade and are made anew in another.

Her video calls with Virgil gave her life a sense of consistency in a changing world. It wasn’t easy of course, both from the distance between Paris and Dakota, and in the reactions of her friends when she’d told them she had a boyfriend who lives in America made it... tough.

‘Why don’t you date someone here’ ‘we went through so much to get you and Adrien together and it was all a waste of time!’ ‘’boyfriend who lives in America’ right very believable Mari’

But it was worth it to listen to Virgil’s stumbling attempts at French while Marinette would respond in her rough English, and the way he’d look at her when she’d get a little too energetic with her storytelling, and the almost childlike excitement on him when he’d do the same with his own storytelling

It was difficult, but it was stable.

[vegalocity]

if they had a kid meme for statibug? 👀

Ship Kids Meme

@bonbonni

okokokok alrightalrightalrightalright I’m p. Sure Virgil canonically has a son in the Static universe (thanks Batman Beyond crossover) so i’m giving them 2 so i can flesh one out then make one up

First the one to flesh out

Name: Louis Cheng Hawkins (Pronounced Loo-Wis by Virgil and Loo-Wee by Marinette, even he doesn’t know which way it technically should be) He prefers just Lou to avoid confusion

Gender: Male

General Appearance: dark skin, a bit paler than his father but not by much, other than coloration seems to be a male version of his maternal grandmother, dark brown straight hair thick and curly, shorn close to his head in a fade. 

Personality: A bit quiet, but hardly shy, He’s friendly and kind. He can get a bit too wrapped up in his work and projects, oftentimes ignoring people around him or even taking care of himself. Smart kid, has a real passion in engineering.

Special Talents: Is currently wielding the dragon Miraculous, his lightning form is slightly more powerful than his wind or water forms, boostered by a very weak copy of his father’s mutation. By that vein he has a very watered down form of electrokinesis, nowhere NEAR his father’s level on its own. 

Who they like better: He’s a mama’s boy. He’s an unofficial model for Lucky Charm Designs  because he wears every goddamn outfit prototype he can get his hands on

Who they take after more: Somehow??? Richie????  He and Richie are like two peas in a pod and no one is sure how this happened. 

Personal Head canon: He’s actually not too jazzed to be a hero and do hero work. He keeps the dragon Miraculous in case there’s trouble, but he’s not actually very excited about it. When Mom fights sure, things are generally okay in the end due to the Miraculous Ladybug, but when Dad comes home from solo runs he’s always riddled in injuries, even if they’re just small ones. He knows both of his parents love fighting the good fight and being heroes, but some part of him will forever wish their family could have been normal.

Face Claim: I suck at finding faceclaims~

And now for the one i can make up

Name: Jean Dupain Hawkins 

Gender: NB, They/them

General Appearance: Approx. Virgil’s skintone, textured ebony hair most often kept back in braids, they mostly take after Virgil’s side of the family, but has their mother’s light brown eyes (Marinette will not have blue eyes if i can help it) and body type, a bit on the petite side with lean muscle beneath an otherwise a bit lanky form. Mostly seen in basic or simple clothes for gender ambiguity. 

Personality: They seem to have absorbed all the loud from off of their brothers more demure form, because this kid can TALK. Anything and everything under the sun is open game when they get yammering. Likely suffer from ADHD they hyperfixate a lot of the time and can be a bit annoying to the less than patient people in the world. By that vein, despite being a friendly person they’re oftentimes alone, and don’t really have any friends that aren’t extended family or ‘our parents would die for eachother so we might as well be friends’ Likes photography, but for the most part is still figuring themself out.

Special Talents: Inherited more of their father’s mutation than their brother did. Still not as POWERFUL as their father, but nothing to sneeze at. They jokingly claim to be the next in line for the Ladybug Miraculous when Mom finally retires. Currently is in possession of the Ox Miraculous, just in case.

Who they like better: Dad, they snuck along on SO MANY Justice League meetups when they were a kid they were practically taken in by the Teen Titans the second they started getting more of a grips on their power.

Who they take after more: Marinette, definitely. they’re like weird twinsies when they both get jazzed about the same thing. Virgil thinks this is absolutely adorable when it happens.

Personal Head canon: Both kids grew up hearing stories about their parents earlier adventures, things they held dear, but Jean was always enraptured by their father’s stories the best. Especially the one where he went back in time and met his mother before she’d died. He only told that story once or twice over their lifetimes, and after trying to glean more stories out of their grandfather, Jean decided that their paternal grandmother was their role model. Hence their chosen name. Virgil plays it cool during this announcement, Marinette cries over having such a sweet kid; Then that night after the kids have gone to bed it’s the other way around.

Face Claim: Still suck at finding faceclaims~

[vegalocity]

What inspired you to make Staticbug?

I've been pondering how to answer this for awhile, do i go for brutal honesty or do i go for the more 'on brand' answer?

the on brand answer is 'I miss Static Shock like crazy and making a crossover with a modern cartoon would get people interested'

but the honest answer is 'i don't like any of the popular crossover ships and the one i made with Tokyo Mew Mew wasn't getting anywhere so i made my own'

[vegalocity]

You did not specify only one with each ask so you shall suffer. 6 for BakuMomo and 1 for StaticBug :D

6. Coffee shop AU

THIS IS NO BLIGHT UPON ME AIMEE I LOVE GETTING TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT MY BABIES

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You meet some interesting characters at 24 hour coffee houses. A fact Momoko had grown very much accustomed to. Mostly the office slaves who were worked to the bone and needed to both leave the office for a minute and get some decent coffee, the college students halfway through nervous breakdowns and needing energy to finish their all nighters, and Heroes at the ends of their shifts whom have long days of paperwork or PR initiatives ahead of them. That third category was actually the most common sight in Cafe Mew Mew, Momoko had met a fair few top ranking heroes through their coffee orders alone.

The Hero Chargebolt liked whipped cream monstrosities that brought energy more through sugar than caffeine, Present Mic takes his coffee black with a single caramel pump in place of either cream or sugar, She'd even had Endeavor in here breifly, though he hadn't ordered anything, he'd simply waited in the corner booth to meet up with his son Polarity (whom had ordered a caramel macciato with four shots of espresso)  

And today was just another one of those days. Or... nights? It didn't matter. It was maybe four in the morning, There was only one other staff member in the cafe, a fellow Magi-Ahem Perfectly normal human, a girl named Ayumi a couple years her junior.

When she looked up from sweeping up behind the espresso machine to clear the floor of coffee grounds Ayumi made a thin noise of distress.

“Senpai...?” Ayumi adjusted her horn rimmed glasses and turned her gaze to Momoko. “I think the Milk Delivery is here.”

“Oh goddammit. They're early!” They usually waited until six or so, making it officially the morning shift's problem, but of course, it would be the Graveyard Shift's problem for no good reason.

She glanced over at Ayumi, her quirk was malleability, her bones had the malleability of clay, including its sensitivity to temperature, and its brittleness once hardened.

And sure Momoko's healing factor wasn't exactly the best out of the other love angels, in fact hers was rather jankey, but she at least HAD a healing factor.

“Hold the line, I'll take care of this.” Ayumi nodded gratefully and slid behind the counter as Momoko put away the broom.

The damn milk delivery. Fuck deliveries, fuck milk deliveries. She grumbled and signed off on the delivery register and the delivery guy slid open the refigerator in the back of the truck, the just below freezing quantities of milk sloshing about as he unloaded far too many crates for one woman to unload and carry through the cafe and into storage.

Momoko sighed and stretched her arms. Internally apologizing to her bruised body what she was about to put it through.

The first crate was always the worst. Which was what she told herself unsuccessfully as she began to lug the cold heavy crate inside and slide it onto a table. She'd return it to the backroom once she got all of its brothers inside as well.

The second crate is always the worst one, she told herself again as the second crate was lugged in. her arms already felt sore and she could feel her joints weakening. She had like two more crates still.

Okay, third one is always the worst. She took a breath and grabbed at the corner of the box when-

“Here, you look like your arms are about to fucking fall off.” the weight was gone as someone else took the weight from off of her, she looked up and met eyes with the scarlet red of the hero Dynamight.

Momoko yelped and backed up, but the hero did little more than huff and properly stand with the crate of milk and walk it inside.

Momoko scrambled to get the last crate, telling herself that the last crate was always the worst.

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1. Soulmate AU

Now see This is fun because Secret Identities

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He didn't have many memories of his mother. Jean Hawkins was such a far off face and voice it was hard to think on her much beyond wonder just how different his life may have gone if she were still around to be in it. But he did remember one thing. He remembered when he'd turned five, the itchyness that bordered on pain. He'd scratched at it, and scratched, and it didn't stop. Soon the itchyness turned to proper pain and he'd sought out his mother for help.

She'd taken one look at his watery face, and his gripped wrist, and smiled in that way that all grownups do when they're about to impart wisdom. She'd crouched down to his eye level and taken his hand in her own. And she'd rubbed a cream on his wrist until it had stopped hurting and explained to him what heartnames were. Why people wear cuffs on their wrists. She'd taken her own off so Virgil could see 'Robert Hawkins' written in Pop's neat clinical script in a pale color that reminded him of those burn scars he'd see on some of the people she'd helped who found her again to thank her, and explained that Pop had her own name scrawled out in her chickenscratch writing under his own cuff.

“Somewhere out there Sweetie, there's a little one probably about your age, and they're gonna love you like no one else could. You might marry them, like your daddy and me, but you could be their best friend till the end of days, What matters is that you'll meet them whoever they are. And you'll love them.”

And he'd been staring at his wrist for the rest of the night, waiting for letters to come out. Sharon had made fun of him for watching a pot boil, but this wasn't a pot this was serious business! He was waiting for news on who his bestest friend forever would be! Romance was gross to him at the time, but the idea of having an instant inherent best friend made him so giddy he simply HAD to see who it was.

It wasn't until the next day that in meticulous, careful handwriting, a 'Marinette Dupain-Cheng' appeared on his wrist. He was so excited he immediately ran to the little 'address book' they give parents at the start of the school year and carefully scanned through every name, desperate to find a 'Dupain-Cheng' somewhere in there. He'd shown Sharon, whom had in a stunning turn of events, actually seemed excited before she unclasped her wristband and showed him her own 'Adam Evans' written along her wrist before ruffling his hair and telling him to go tell Pop so he'll help him 'cover that thing up'

He didn't remember just when his fantasies with this mythic 'Marinette' went from friendship adventures to more romantic overtures, maybe around the time he and Ritchie became best buds and he couldn't see himself being better friends with anyone. Therefore if this 'Marinette' couldn't be his best friend for life (as, again, Ritchie) then naturally she'd then eventually be his wife.

Some part of him thought that maybe he'd get lucky when Batman had arranged for things to send himself and Gear to Paris as some much needed backup for the heroes stationed there, that while he'd be fighting an akuma or stopping a bank robbery or something he'd swoop some girl off her feet and ask her name in his stumbling, jilted french and she'd respond with the same name he'd been staring at almost every night for the past nine years.

He should have known better than to think himself lucky. Sure he and Ladybug got along like, surprisingly well once the awkwardness of 'Two American heroes showed up to help them out' faded, but despite the name 'Marinette' being french in origin he had no payoff to the hope.

He'd kept in contact with Ladybug, she was kind and brave, and just as he struggled to learn french to better communicate with her, she too tried to improve her english. And... it was nice. He enjoyed the time they could spend together, even If they were just talking on the other side of the Shock Boxes.

He supposed he might just be a hopeless romantic for how many times he'd find himself pulling up his sleeve to glance at his wrist cuff and wonder idly just what Ladybug's real name was.

[vegalocity]

💘 for StaticBug?

💘: who developed a crush on the other first?

oh Virgil, definitely. They first meet as Static and Ladybug, and, look, for most people when other heroes show up, it means more help, when ‘other heroes’ show up in Paris 95% of the time they’re Akumas. 

Of course neither of them actually DEVELOP any crushes until that’s cleared up but still, Static falls first. I mean how could you NOT?

Chat: what does he have that i don’t have? 

Carapace: the ability to focus during fights and save the flirting for after the danger’s passed- HEYO