#team radical

[mexicanvarianz]

Some goofy team radical moments

He’s immune guys! He lives in corona!!

[w3tlettuce]

DISPATCH TREND (VAT7K)

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HELLO EVERYPONY!! I uploaded my take on the Dispatch Trend onto TikTok, but most of my goats are on Tumblr so you guys get to see it too. I LOVE Dispatch, but you know what I love even more? VAT7K. So here’s a Vat7k version of that trend because I LOVE THEM!! Ramble under cut!

So I was thinking long and hard about everyone’s roles in team radical. Obviously, Varian is the leader. He basically just accidentally started a travel group when he had NO intentions of doing so, but turns out it benefits him HEAVILY in the end. (He didn’t think he’d thrive so much around people so much like him!) but he’s basically the guy with the plan. Usually. He’s the Leader, the Brains, the Spirit, the guy who has the final say in most things because everyone else trusts his judgement. (Usually)

Hugo, I wasn’t really sure at first. Obviously he’s just as much of an alchemist as Varian, but I feel like the others depend on him more as a bait. Hugo’s sneaky and everyone knows this. He’s a natural born thief, a liar, a cheater, just a really smart guy, and he knows the streets the best out of anyone in the crew. I think everyone relies on him heavily through the trials because his stats are HIGH. He’s been trained for agility stuff and they need a guy who’s able to jump out windows and climb through trees or whatever. So he’s the stealth. He’s the guy with the lock-picker, the guy with multiple knives on him, basically just prepared for everything.

Yong, I also wasn’t sure at first. Sometimes I wonder why Varian would willingly let a 12-14 year old accompany him on a journey through life threatening trials, but then I remember that Varian knows a lot, but sometimes he needs to be balanced out. Yong has such a different way of thinking than most people and I feel like this works well with the rest of the team. Yong is kind of a nut-job and I think this is important to his character. He’s chaotic, his ideas are chaotic, his explosions are chaotic—he’s just overall a natural disaster (intentionally and unintentionally) and I think it’s a good fit to have his role be the wild card. You don’t know WHATS going to happen with that kid. And I think over time he accepts that this is his nature and there’s nothing WRONG with him, like his family always used to say. He’s perfect just the way he is and we love him!!! <3

Nuru was pretty easy to make a decision for, because she already technically has a role. She’s the navigator, and she originally does this by the constellations on her dress, but I hated that idea because it’s impractical and kinda dumb, so she’s just generally looking at maps and scrolls and finding the group’s way by looking at the stars. She has hella good intuition and social awareness and a crazy good sense of direction, and this is very important because everyone else is dumb and stupid. She’s the glue. She keeps the boys in check!!

I feel like this makes the group work really well together. Everyone has their parts to play and I think each characters dynamic works SUPER well with one another. My favorite duo BY FAR is Nuru and Hugo, because they’re so so so different and they’ve been raised in completely different worlds and ways, but they were raised independent in some way, and I feel like their dynamic is very important to the narrative. I think Hugo eventually obtains character development by accepting her as a friend, and I think Nuru also gets development through being honest about her home life with him. I need a scene where they both confide in eachother, and Nuru finally opens up to someone about the meteors being heavily traumatic for her, and Hugo realizes that he’s not the only one who’s experienced hardship.

I LOVE TJEM SO MUCH. Sorry this ramble became something NOT really related to the video but I hope you enjoyed. Cheers!

[zerennn]

rkgk before bedtime 🛏️💤

[brbnf]

The vat7k fandom brings me so much joy. we all understand the characteres difrently and have different interpretations of them. It's the same thing but different and still just as good, vat7k in different fonts is what I am trying to say

[vegetabletart]

Djpon3 trend x team radical!!! Reposting my shi from Instagram again cuz im just so craaaazy like that!!

[gilmorenights]

Thinking about how throughout the journey, team radical has always slept in close proximity to each other, whether it be sharing bedrooms at inns or sharing tents or at least putting their individual tents close enough to each other that they can be comforted by the sounds of their friends being safe and asleep

Thinking about how the night they get to Corona, Rapunzel offers to host them in the castle and gives them all lavish bedrooms in the guest wing like any good host would

And they’re grateful for it, Nuru especially, who jokes that it’s better than the cheap places they’ve stayed at before and that they might actually be able to get a good night’s sleep with the soft pillows and warm blankets

But then nighttime actually hits and none of them are able to fall asleep. The bedrooms are too big. The shadows that fall upon the furniture make it feel like there are creatures lurking in the dark. The beds are too soft after sleeping on the ground for so long. The vastness of their spaces only make it feel like they’re further than each other than they should be, despite their bedrooms being right next to each other. It’s awful. So naturally, they turn to Varian.

Yong is the first, gently knocking on Varian’s door with a whispered “can I sleep in your room tonight?” And Varian only smiles because despite how much Yong has grown, there will always be moments like this where he sees that nervous kid who helped him through the fire trial.

Nuru comes next, standing awkwardly in the door and fidgeting with her hands because she too is uncomfortable feeling so far from her friends and wants to stay with Varian and Yong, but she doesn’t know how to ask such a thing. “It’s uh, too hot in there,” she mutters, and Yong stretches out his arms in an invitation that Nuru quickly accepts.

Then the three of them wait a long time, watching the door and expecting Hugo to come through. If they were in a state of discomfort by their sleeping arrangements, Hugo couldn’t possibly be comfortable. They wait for him to show up, but he doesn’t. They fall asleep.

Well, Yong and Nuru do, anyway. Varian is the one who quietly slips out of his bedroom to wander down the hall and knock on Hugo’s door. It opens to reveal a restless Hugo who clearly hasn’t slept a wink. His hair is still in his ponytail and his eyes carry the look of somebody who’s thinking too much for sleep to come.

“Bed’s too soft.”

“Bed’s too soft?”

They speak at the same time, cutting themselves off with tired laughs.

Varian offers his hand. “Come to my room,” he offers. “The others are in there now. None of us could sleep.”

Hugo looks like he wants to accept the offer, even lifts his hand a bit like he wants to hold Varian’s. He blinks and shakes his head. “I’ll be fine,” he says, glancing at the cold floor. “I had some stuff I wanted to work on anyway, I’ll just work until I get tired.”

Varian wants to argue, but then Hugo is murmuring a soft goodnight and closing the door and leaving him standing there, hand still outstretched. He flexes his hand once, twice, before lowering it and returning to his room, muttering about Hugo’s stupid pride.

Nuru and Yong are curled up close to him on his left, and he tries to ignore the bitter cold on his right side, where he can’t help but think Hugo should be. He lays awake a little longer, hoping, but eventually his eyes grow too heavy and sleep comes.

When he wakes up the next morning, it’s due to the feeling of something soft tickling his nose. He glances down, met with the sight of a familiar blond tucked into his side and clutching tight to his torso like he’s afraid, even in sleep, that Varian might disappear. Varian smiles at how right it feels.

Nuru wakes up next, then Yong, and then the three of them are marveling at just how peaceful and open and unguarded and soft Hugo looks when he’s asleep.

When Hugo’s eyes flutter open, he’s immediately mortified by the realization that everybody’s attention is on him. He opens his mouth to say something, but then Nuru and Yong are wordlessly clambering over Varian (ow) to pull him into their embrace and he’s so stunned that he just lays there, blinking at Varian, who laughs at the reaction. And then somebody’s hand is pulling Varian into the hug, and he thinks that he’s never felt more surrounded by love than he is now

[valenciags]

I had an idea to assign team radical musical songs :P

Is it clear Nuru and Hugo were my favourites during this?

[mimisversee]

Silly little drawing of Team Radical I made a while ago I never posted :)

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