Howdy

500 MILES - Riddle Rosehearts AMV 🌹

you're going to do incredible things

thanks! :> though I'm not sure how much more havoc the tsums could wreak that isn't already happening at Ramshackle. they'd try, bless 'em, but this would still just be a normal Tuesday for Yuu.

(inevitable fire included)

thanks (and also congrats again to Eng on 7.5 🎉)!! I do think the question of what their dreams would be is pretty interesting; Swing's in particular because it's extremely textual (as in, the characters literally say it while essentially staring down the camera) that he doesn't actually care about Halloween, he's just obsessed with Skully, and also neither of them have figured this out. Swing is too emotionally out-of-touch to understand that he's projecting and Skully simply cannot fathom that someone would not be thinking about Halloween 24/7. now how does this translate to magic dreamtimes...

so it gets a bit more headcanon-y here, but I got the impression Swing really just...had a lot of fun chasing Skully around and messing with him, and that's what he actually wants back. Halloween(/Day of Desire) has always just been an excuse. so I feel like his dream is to go back to having their back-and-forth, except this time Skully is 1) still alive and 2) y'know, into it and willing to play along with the whole ~*~epic eternal anime rivalz~*~ thing instead of constantly running away and/or insisting that "holidays are abstract concepts that belong to everyone" and "this doesn't even make sense". maybe they trade off or do, like, a yearly thing where they decide who gets Halloween this time? the important thing is that it's about Skully paying attention to him instead of talking about a stupid holiday or some dumb skeleton man who nobody cares about. >:(

meanwhile Skully's dream is easier because you just gotta remember that he is, after all, still a Night Raven. which is to say, extremely petty.

Imagine Yuu explaining the concept of tooth fairies and someone is like “oh like Sebek’s mom”. And Sebek is like, “My mom doesn’t break into people’s houses to steal teeth!”

"...anymore!"

thank you! :> I love the Zigvolts a ridiculous amount for characters who have never actually shown up (...yet). I do think Sebek's siblings got a lot more of their dad's personality than he did; everything we hear about them makes them sound waaaay more chill, plus I think they say at some point that Sebek was the only one who had any interest in soldier training. so presumably they've got their own things they're off doing!

anyway, my 100% headcanon bits for them are that 1) they're a lot closer in age to each other than to Sebek (and it's kind of a big gap between them and him), and 2) they both inherited the scales and/or pointy ears. so Sebek is both the baby and also the most human-looking, and he is VERY prickly about both those things. 😔

oh no, I don't think I got it, thank you for resending!! 💚 it is always kinda hard to talk about where ideas come from so I'm not sure how helpful this'll be, but one of my favorite things to do -- and bonus, is always a good fallback for when you're feeling the urge to do something but can't think of what -- is to start out with like...adapting a particular scene or moment or whatever that sticks out to me. just thinking about how I would draw the characters and what they'd be doing, and any extra little jokes or acting I can add, that kinda stuff! I'm not an especially original person so having a kind of jumping-off point actually works a lot better for my brain. :B and half the time it spirals into being something totally removed from the original point anyway (and also twice as long and with more characters and, well, I can't complain when I do this to myself I guess).

although it also helps to just be. incapable of not constantly thinking about The Characters and connecting them to literally everything. so when someone says 'driving' while I'm busy thinking about Diasomnia (which is any given moment) and my brain goes 'ha ha diasomnia. driving. what if' and the next thing I know I've done this (sorry)

bear with me here, because this actually ties into something else I've been thinking about: between the Knight, Leia, and Henrik, Silver is basically the last remaining heir to all the land the Silver Owls stole, yes? but what with all the global territory disputes and treaties and general drama, it'd probably just be a huge mess that would get tied up in red tape for centuries if he, you know, tried to just give it back. however, for times like this, there is the traditional solution...

what I'm saying is, 99% of Briar Valley's political issues could be instantly solved if Silver marries Maleficia.

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out of all of them? I am of course extremely biased towards Malleus' card story, in which he very proudly shows off to his tsum that he knows how to use this arcane tool the humans call a (each syllable carefully pronounced) "mi-cro-wave", almost drops it in the washing machine, and then throws it a big special party where everyone fights over who gets to dance with Malletsum. I still don't know how exactly they were dancing with a six-inch blob. it's magical.

however, it's hard to top "Jadetsum helps Jade hide a body except the twist is that it was actually setting him up to take the fall". watch out, you little bean, Jade'll get you back someday...