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Introducing mY BABIES-

Zac, Ova, and Sylvi!

Finally resurrected from the dead! (They already created in 2018 and only existed in closed servers, but were in desperate need of a makeover first)

They are the next gen kids that I envision for Pac and Cyli, and I had so much fun coming up with their new designs! I might show and compare how their old (2018) designs looked like at a later date. Back then I had a different approach to designing fankids. With these new ones, I decided to really lean into the genetics side of things and make Pac and Cyli's three children actually look like their children, each with a good blend of both parents while still being unique enough to be their own individuals. I MIGHT return and do some tweaks to their designs (looking at Sylvi), but overall I'm very happy with how these three came out!

Now for the proper introductions and bios:

Zachary

Named after his grandfather, Zac is the firstborn and only son of Pac and Cyli. He is a Yellow One like his dad, but takes after his mom in being smart and witty - definitely to the point of being a smartass, as his sisters would tell you. His main hobby is playing pac-pong, soccer, and annoying his sisters, but he also enjoys reading a good book and going on trips with his family. He is a bit of a history nerd, a trait that has been cultivated by both Pac and Cyli since Zac was young, by reading lots of history books and learning of past wars and battles through his parents' eyes. While Zac does enjoy poking fun at his sisters, he actually sees them as his best friends and would give his life to protect them. While not a full-blooded Yellow One like his dad, Zac is still capable of using the same mainline power berries that Pac can use (Fire, Ice, Chameleon, Titanium, etc), but not for long periods of time or to the fullest extend that full-blood Yellow Ones can. Zac's appetite also rivals his father's, a Yellow One trait that comes in strong. He goes by Zac most of the time, but sometimes Cyli calls him Zaccy as a fond nickname, paying homage to when Pac was called Paccy as a child.

Appearance: Inherited Pac's yellow skin, eyebrows, nose, and smile, while he got Cyli's pink eyes and black hair, with the unique addition of Cyli's highlights gene, just in yellow.

Personality in a nutshell: A goofball and a walking encyclopedia in one package. Witty and adventurous, with a bit of a competitive streak.

Ovaline

Ovaline is Pac and Cyli's eldest daughter, who goes by Ova. Unlike her father and brother, and very atypical of Yellow Ones in general, Ova has never really had a big appetite (at least not as big as Pac or Zac's). Since Ova is also only half-Yellow, her Yellow One abilities are halved, where she can use some of the mainline power berries but has been unable to use the Titanium and Ice berries - they simply do not work, or they give her an entirely different set of powers. This does not deter her, and since the power berries have not really been needed since the end of the ghost wars, Ova is happy to live without those powers and is confident in her own skin. She loves animals and dreams of becoming a vet one day. She often buds heads with Zac and gets into fights with him, but they always have each other's backs. Ova is a lot like her mother, with a tomboyish flair and a clever mind, and she's even managed to beat Cyli in a few rounds of chess. Ova also looks up to her great-aunt, Spheria, and gets much of her spunk and sass from her. Despite this, Ova is a total daddy's girl. One perfectly sweet smile is enough to wrap Pac completely around her finger.

Appearance: Inherited Pac's yellow skin and the gene for red hair (passed down from her grandmother, Sunny), and inherited several features from Cyil: pink eyes, pink highlights in her hair, and the same facial features as Cyli.

Personality in a nutshell: Stubborn and sassy, but fiercely loyal and valiant. She is a team player through and through.

Sylvanial

Nicknamed Sylvi, she is the youngest sister and the only one out of her siblings who is pink - in fact, she is the spitting image of her mother, with the sweetest blue eyes. Soft-spoken and introverted, Sylvi is often shy around new people, but turns into a warm and optimistic force once you spend time with her. She's a bit of a goody-two-shoes, not because she's a stickler for the rules, but because she simply wants to do good by people and doesn't want to get into trouble (the latter of which gets tested when her brother and sister try roping their innocent little sister into their mischievous schemes.) She often takes the role of peacekeeper between her brother and sister when their fighting turns serious (but don't be fooled; she's been pulled into their shenanigans on more than one occasion, either tricked against her will or when she genuinely found the fun in it). Her favourite thing in the world is to cook and bake alongside her mother in the kitchen, made even better when the rest of the family joins in. While Sylvi looks so much like Cyli, she is a lot like Pac when it comes to her character: kind-hearted, gentle, optimistic, always sees the good in people, and has a child-like wonder for the world around her. Plus, she is the biggest cuddle bug her family has ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Appearance: Inherited Cyli's pink skin, black hair, hair-highlights gene, and her smile, while inheriting Pac's blue eyes. While she does have highlights in her hair, her highlights have a very faint, peach-yellow gradient rather than full pink, and it's the only visible drop of yellow that she got from Pac. Both her eyebrows and nose are triangular but rounded, a blend of Pac and Cyli's noses and eyebrows.

Personality in a nutshell: Though she may be shy and quiet, she is incredibly humble, affectionate, and has an aptitude for cooking. She's a cinnamon roll with a big heart and a gentle spirit.

Bonus Facts:

Zac, Ova, and Sylvi are tightly bonded, despite the frequent sibling rivalries. While they do have very close friends outside of family, they always choose each other as being their own best friends.

As they grew up, Pac and Cyli gave their children a set of endearing pet names that matched their growing personalities. Zachary's pet name was Dragonfly, for his boundless energy and adventurous spirit. Ovaline was called Butterfly, for her love of animals and her graceful wit. Sylvanial was called Firefly, for her tender affection despite her shyness, blooming like a firefly's gentle light in the dark.

Ova brings in rescued animals all the time. It's become a problem to the point where even nature-loving-Cyli couldn't keep up with the demand. Pac and Cyli have often needed to have talks with Ova to take the animals to the shelter rather than their house. While Ova has done her best to honour this, it still doesn't stop her from bringing home injured birds or the odd baby hedgehog to nurse them back to health before releasing them.

Pac and Cyli wanted their children to be close in age to form a close bond. They waited until Zac was 1 year old before they had Ova, then took a one-year break to handle two babies, and then had Sylvi when Zac was 3 and Ova was 2.

Zac and Ova have had a sibling rivalry since they were toddlers. They were just more cute about it when they were small. As young children, they'd sometimes fight over toys or disagreements and get into wrestling-matches, but only for about 5-minutes before they flop on the carpet together, make a truce, and all is well and they love each other again. As they grew up, their rivalry sometimes lasted longer and evolved into prank wars and sibling competitions, with less immediate-truces or forgiveness afterwards, but while their childhood cuddles melted away, their bond grew stronger in the form of always having each other's backs and forming a wickedly sneaky and powerful duo once they team up.

In their early-teens, Zac once broke another boy's jaw... in retaliation for harassing Sylvi. (In Zac's defense, the other boy did pick on her and pulled at her hair.) This was the first time Zac had become aware of his own strength, and had to learn how to use it responsibly to avoid excessive force and violence (but he makes no promises on holding back when it comes to protecting his sisters.)

Sylvi got her love for cooking from both her grandmothers - but thankfully inherited Sunny's skill and not Starchild's.

Ova has a birth mark on her left hand: half of her thumb has pink skin instead of yellow, a clash of the pink and yellow colours at conception. It’s been fondly nicknamed her lucky thumb. (Once, during a mystery murder game, Zac had to prove innocence and merely said, "I swear on Ova's lucky thumb that I am NOT the accused!" Ova's answer: "STOP SWEARING ON MY THUMB YOU FREAK.")

All three children are half Yellow, half Pink (in blood). This means that Pac's Yellow One powers are not passed down in full, but rather have been passed down in smaller degrees: Zac inherited the most (big appetite, can use mainline power berries but for a limited time), Ova inherited a bit less (no big appetite, can only use a select few mainline berries), and Sylvi inherited the least (no big appetite, can not safely use any mainline berries). Despite not having full Yellow One powers, none of the children feel lesser or inadequate, thanks to their parents' dedicated love and upbringing, and since the ghost wars were long finished by the time they were born, it became practically unnecessary to ever use any power berries or Yellow One powers.

Despite being half-Yellow and half-Pink, all three of their colours came out strongly in their pigments, rather than becoming a blend of their parents' colours (which would've given them a range of peach-coloured skins). In my headcanon, this is due to a unique nature in Pacworlder colour genetics: usually, the offspring's colours come out as a blend of their parents' colours (Red + Yellow = Orange), and sometimes this still happens even among stronger bloodlines, but depending on how pure a bloodline is over several generations, one parent's pigment may be strong enough to completely overwrite the other parents' colour, or at least offset the blending in such a way that the offspring gets a 50/50 chance of being the same colour as either one of the parents. In this case, Pac comes from a very long line of Yellow Ones, whereas Cyli comes from a long line of Pinks that sometimes mixed. Because of this, Pac's genes were strong enough to give two of his children full, solid yellow pigments in their skin, the only caveat being that their Yellow One powers are halved. In Sylvi's case, she had a 50/50 chance of being the same colour as either parent, and thus came out as pink. (Zac sometimes jokes that that was when their dad had ran out of ink.) Other than her blue eyes, the only other sign that Sylvi has a drop of her father's Yellow genes in her, is the very faint yellow gradient in the highlights of her hair, blending in with a pink shade. I'll make a more dedicated post about Pacworlder genetics in the future, as I've got a lot of ideas for it while designing these kiddos!

Sylvi's name was inspired by a very good fantasy book I was reading as a teen, where the story had a princess with the name Sylviianel in it. I wanted something soft yet playful for Pac and Cyli's pink daughter, but couldn't come up with anything fitting. Eventually, I came up with Sylvanial, derived from princess Sylviianel from the book, which enabled her nickname to be Sylvi, and it fit perfectly into place for how I imagined Sylvi to be. This was in 2018 though, and while I was recently redesigning the kids, I was tempted to change her name to something that fits more into the Pacworld universe - but alas, I cannot come up with anything better or more suitable than Sylvanial. I might come back and change her name if I DO get a better name in the future, but she's also been 'Sylvi' for so long that changing it feels wrong. I'll just self-impose my inspirations onto Cyli and make a headcanon that Cyli named her youngest daughter after her favourite fairy tale character or something lol.

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House of the Dragon — 2x02 "Rhaenyra the Cruel" x 2x08 "The Queen Who Never Was"

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Writing and Directing Choices of HoTD Season 2 and How They Harmed Storylines and Characters.

Hotd is a cinematic marvel...that much cannot be denied. However, I can't help but wonder had they just directed scenes better, if we could've gotten MORE from the characters as a result?

To me, what is off about season 2 compared to season 1 is this feeling that we're shoved outside as the audience. We're not in the characters' heads and experiencing what they're experiencing in the moment, therefore we wound up feeling like their actions in season 2 are ooc.

Think of Aemond in s1 vs s2. In season 1 we had time alone with him as a kid, when he went hunting for a dragon TWICE. The camera lingered on his face during tense moments to convey his feelings like when his eye was slashed out and he was boiling with anger and vengeance at Viserys' dismissal of his pain. Additionally, we had a lot of screen time with Aemond in s1, whereas in s2 he barely has any.

It's hard enough having a season slashed down to 8 episodes from 10, now we have more new characters thrown into the mix that need focusing on. So the writers had to be smart and the directors super efficient.

A scene of Aemond walking through the Streets of Silk, despondent about the B&C incident before he stops to go inside the brothel to be with Sylvi and vent out his frustrations and hurt would've done WONDERS for Aemond. Just that one scene would put us in his headspace and take us through this new development he has taken up over the 10 days since Alicent pushed him away, his shame, his guilt and resentments. With this one Aemond centered scene we would have perfect set up and context for why Aemond does what he does in RR to Aegon, why he clips Alicent's wings at the small council and tries to force Helaena out of her comfort zone.

Instead, the brothel scene started off with the pleasure house and we followed whores around before being thrust with the shocking scene of Aemond there without any explanation or justification.

Helaena also suffered a bit from poor visual direction. Instead of following her around the Keep before the B&C attack, we're forced to hang around with the criminals and at some point attempts are made to make them seem FUNNY and relatable (Cheese and his dog).

In all that confusion, we are somehow thrust into Jaehaerys' bedchamber where Cheese is holding Helaena captive. So random. Why did we not see HOW that happened?

Would it not have been better to cut from Blood and Cheese approaching to HELAENA preparing to retire to bed and suddenly seeing Cheese in the doorway??? Would it not have been better to be in the room with Helaena as she spends her final moments with her peacefully sleeping children before horror strikes?

Wouldn't it have been better for Helaena to remain in the chamber with her dead child in her arms as his head is carried away, unable to scream...instead of distracting us with her walking into Alicent having sex?

This moment was supposed to be about Helaena and her mental trauma, her grief, her pain. If anything her stumbling into Aegon as she tries to escape would've made more creative sense. And we end with Aegon screaming.

I feel like so much story potential and character potential was wasted in efforts to forcefully remind us that House of the Dragon is Alicent and Rhaenyra's show. In fact if you carefully observe the season, you can notice easily how focus is put on pointless and repetitive scenes featuring them while other characters remain underutilized and unexplored, even just by visual direction.

I truly hope that season 3 will apply better directing and writing that adds depth to characters in the minimal screen time that they have because this season just wasn't it.

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Sylvi got the maki makeover

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Madame trying to put her hand on his.

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In general, the brothel scene was brilliantly film. I especially liked the shooting angle from above, because Aemond looks like death there.

I really like how they did it. Although for me this whole scene was, as it's said, too much, a bit thick. Well, I don't know, but it was hard for me, I felt uncomfortable watching the brothel scene from the beginning to the end. And yet milk. Oh, Christ.

But then I thought maybe it should be uncomfortable.

We had grown accustomed to watching someone being killed, tortured, maimed in TV series. Game of Thrones has rape scenes. Outlander has rape scenes, and they are filmed in remarkable way. Several women were raped there, at least one child, – on top of that then his hand was cut off after some time, – and one man. And the scene with the male character, oddly enough, is the worst of all: he was in prison at that time, he was tortured, abused and raped. The scene is truly monstrous, awful and nightmarish, but I watched it, and you know what, it didn't really scratch me. I mean, I was like: well, ahh, that was terrifyingly, what next? let's continue to watch next. And my gut tells me that I wasn't the only one who thought so.

That is, now, for some reason, we – humanity – take a calmly view of very scary things. Or very indecent ones. In TV series, there are explicit scenes of torture, explicit scenes of sexual content, which are also generally inappropriate to show, yes, some other 'too much' moments... and that passes for normal. However, as soon as one shows a scene where a character is just lying on someone's soft lap, trying to abstract their mind, and all this is so vulnerable, tender and fragile, that people say: we feel uncomfortable!

So, watching someone being raped or murdered, or how captain Flint struck Singleton across the face with a cannonball and beat him to a bloody mess – this is normal for us, but watching a person who is vulnerable, open and seeks solace – is no.

We, the audience, are so unprepared to face our own vulnerability that we feel uncomfortable seeing it in someone else.

We are ready to meet with any expressions of violence against other people, against ourselves, because life is dark and full of terrors. One reads the news items every morning, there is an endless chain of murders, explosions, riots, arson attacks, terroristic acts, and some other villainies happen all the time. It has even start to wear thin! We have become so accustomed to it that at some point one sits and says: ah, someone was blown up here again, something fell there, something was burned out, someone was shot, those built a trebuchet and bomb their neighbors across the border, someone was flayed alive. In general, nothing new. You just sit and think: okay, things are getting worse every minute, but overall, it's possible to live, just live on, we are constantly faced with all this, so, darling, just keep yourself alive, please...

And then they show us Aemond in a brothel, and we are not ready for it. We feel uncomfortable, because we begin to feel vulnerable ourselves.

In Black Sails, in Season 3, John Silver says an absolutely wonderful phrase: I cannot look weak, I cannot feel weak, I cannot be weak.

I totally agree.

We are all obsessed with... well, not all of us, but many of us, I know people like that, I am that person myself... with not being weak, not looking or feeling weak, with being strong in any situation. I'm obsessed with self-control as well. Maybe that is why Aemond is so like-minded for me, not only because of fierce embitterment contained in both of us, but also because of the idea of controlling our own feelings.

I used to be very wishy-washy in my previous life. Now I'm a kind of reasonable person, but before... I'm very ashamed of who I had once been, because I complained about my life, I was spineless, weak, neither fish nor fowl. It really pissed me off, I hated and despised myself for it. At some point, I realized: I must to grab myself by the balls (figuratively speaking), clench my fists and jaw, stand out the cords of my neck and become a strong person or do something of that kind to stop despising myself. So yes, I'm obsessed with the idea of ​​self-control, with being someone who solves problems, neither creates ones nor suffers from them.

And maybe for me, and maybe for many others, it was uncomfortable to watch the scene with Aemond and Sylvi for this very reason, because all of that is such an exposure of the human soul that you just unable to bear it.

I really like the House of the Dragon screenwriter's innovation in this regard. The brothel scene hit us where it hurts the most. Well done. I'm delighted. They did this scene so great. I love it showed Aemond from his vulnerable side, from the side of a person who is also worried, being emotional over, but is trying to somehow solve all this in other ways. It doesn't mean Aemond does nothing. He does what no one else does – he thinks. He takes a break and reflects.

That's an excerpt from the new episode of the Tea & Rum podcast about Aemond's first brothel scene.

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