Mountains & Earth

ngl that was just a numbers thing, i realized brutus obviously wouldn't be mentoring if they'd just had a baby

at the time i hadn't developed any of the other mentors OR devon so i was like eh and gave the kid to lyme, because why not

obviously the reason why not is they are nothing alike lol but by the time i figured that out TOO LATE!!!!!!!! and it was too much work to go back and change it, butterfly-effect style

it's mostly a joke on brutus' part because he finds misha so baffling. like he wouldn't put up with half her shit but lyme indulges her nonsense, you know? and then claudius, sweet snow on a cracker that boy

she never coddles, she doesn't sugarcoat or keep her kids from reality or shelter them from what they need to do. they understand their duty and reality and all that. it's just -- sometimes, the kids, they do things, or say things. and it's not his business, and he'll never say a word, but in brutus' heart of hearts he thinks she should rein them in a bit

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Ambrosia actually hits her three times: wrist, then knee, then hip.

all three of them bother her post-recovery but the wrist is the least complicated to heal because it isn't load-bearing

final fight scene below the cut, with some parts omitted and relevant bits bolded for emphasis

no he's tall! like 6'2 ish

adopted AU claudius would be shorter, i think, because he doesn't get picked up until 12 and that's a long time for him to be in that situation (not the homelessness but gloria doesn't feed him properly)

in the normal one he has those years of being underfed plus half a year of living on the streets BUT THEN at 7 he's taken in by the program. childhood malnutrition is fairly standard i feel like so they start him on an accelerated catch-up. by the time he's living there full time as a kiddo he's essentially on bb macros with protein and supplements

he's never going to be BIG, like that's not in his genes no matter how much they try to bulk him up so eventually they quit that on that front, leave him lean and focus on speed & agility. they do get his height back up though bc his parents were both tall so it's not as much of a struggle once those early years are counteracted nutritionally

not dumb! i only specify the knee and even then exactly once (i think).

both injuries are on the right side. Amber and Petra are lefties

I haven't changed anything on LJ, are you getting locked out of the xanify entries maybe?

GO BACK TO BED

SINCERELY AN ANONYMOUS ANON YES IT'S ME THIS TIME

BRO I GOT WORK

OH RIGHT YEAH, it was in a prompt meme here

i eagerly wait for my access

p.s.: i first discovered your fanfics the week before winter exams started, it was like uncovering a gold mine! i attempted to read responsibly with pomodoro sessions but i ended up binging, no regrets :P

Oh you're right!

I go by comment notifications on the masterpost but this one slipped through. You're in now :)