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Yes!!! Hi! :D There's a lot on them but I'm proud of them all. I guess I'll just pull out a couple things I think are neat from each of them? (And I'll try to keep things understandable for you, dw!!)

Sky: I don't remember what I already went through in comments, but I know he's your favorite so I'll try to pull out something new and interesting for you. Hm... I've got him with 14 levels of Paladin (swords and a bit of holy magic, sworn to a higher power), 3 levels in Warlock (magic granted as part of a pact with an outside entity), and 3 in Barbarian (hit stuff better when you're angry). Pretty sure I already talked about the storm stuff he gets from the Barbarian side of things – he gets some storm/lightning stuff and it's great – but I've made him a Pact of the Talisman warlock with Sun: his sailcloth is a symbol of his bond with her, and apart from acting as a parachute, it also lets him add a little extra to the roll a few times each day through her power when he fails a check. He's got a bunch of stuff that makes him really good at dueling, plus a couple extra feats that make it easier for him and Sun to talk 💞

Four: Four has. so many classes. I gave him 10 levels in Artificer, for making magic tools; then each Color plus Shadow got 2 levels in another class: Wizard for Vio (learn magic through study), Druid for Red (learn magic through becoming in tune with nature), Barbarian for Blue, Paladin for Green, and Sorcerer for Shadow (obtain magic through genetic accident/tragic backstory/general lottery). Generally Druids' main ability as a class is Wildshape, which is to say animal shapeshifting, but that wasn't the vibe for Red, so he's a Wildfire Druid, which gives him a living fire friend instead. Also, one of the magic things you're allowed to say your character knows how to make when you're making an Artificer is a living robot – I've quietly had him learn that, with the expectation that that's how he got Shadow back. :3 Other than that, he's just got a bunch of elemental spells basically!

Time: Time's got a couple levels in Bard (magic through music) and Ranger, but he's primarily a Sorcerer, with a slightly modified Clockwork Soul subclass – technically the flavor there's meant to be more "the underlying order of the universe" than "messing with time," but I just traded out a couple spells on the list and it works fine for him. :3c His background and his Bard and Ranger subclasses all involve the fey, though. He gets some fun stuff with glamours and charm effects, and, just for flavor, when he casts time stands still and you can hear/see gears ticking around him.

Legend: Lej's got a ridiculous number of classes too, and he doesn't have Four's excuse. (There's not even enough room on the sheet to abbreviate them all like I did Four's, so I just filled in the "class" blank "Yes.") So he's got a bit of everything! Pulling out a few interesting bits: he gets a whole bunch of sneaky stuff as a Rogue, as well as sizable bonuses to spotting lies and hidden objects. As a College of Creation Bard, he gets little visual symbol effects that float around him when he plays, and he can create a medium-sized object out of nothing, like that cane that lets him make boxes for some reason. As opposed to the more heroic Paladins of the Chain, Lej's Paladin subclass is the Oath of Vengeance, which among other things lets him channel divine power through utter a "vow of enmity" against an enemy, making his attacks more likely to hit until it's dead. I also gave him a few feats to really round out the knowledgeable veteran thing – he's really good at dungeon delving.

Hyrule: I gave Hyrule the Circle of Dreams Druid subclass, which is fey-themed and gives him a lot of healing abilities in addition to a little bit of teleporting. (He's got levels in Rogue and Sorcerer too, but apart from "he dodges real good, gets bonus damage for surprise attacks, and can modify spell effects," I don't have much to say on those for him.) Reflecting that he carries the Triforce, I borrowed the Radiant Consumption character feature from the Aasimar – as a bonus action, he can start burning, glowing brightly for 10' and doing radiant damage to everyone (including himself) every turn for a full minute. (A combat round in DnD lasts approx 6 in-game seconds!)

Wind: Wind! 2 levels in Rogue, 18 in Sorcerer. As a Halfling, he can reroll any 1 once. He can fly after casting spells (or grant flight to others), is immune to thunder and lightning damage, and he gets a feature to control storms! He can stop rain in a sphere, control the direction of wind, and hit things with lightning. He's also got Truesight and can make ghosts visible for an hour once per week, and I gave him the Quickfingered and Silvertongued feats, so he's great at pickpocketing and sweettalking people.

Twilight: Twi's largely a Ranger, with Exactly enough levels in Druid to give him Wildshape, because Wolfie. He's a Circle of the Shepherd Druid, which seemed fitting; he gets feyspeak as a language, can talk to animals, and can summon a hawk spirit to fight for him. As for the Ranger stuff, he's a Horizon Walker Ranger – the subclass description says they "guard the world against threats that originate from other planes or that seek to ravage the mortal world with otherworldly magic." He doesn't have a lot of spells – I don't think he'd use most of the ones I gave him, honestly, but the class says he gets some so I made the most of it – but he's really good at navigating, especially in forests, and he gets bonuses to track enemies. He's Also very good at vanishing in plain sight, seeing in darkness, and teleporting up to 10' before each attack.

Warriors: Seven levels of Fighter! Seven levels of Paladin! Six levels of Cleric! This boy is So Good at whacking things with swords, and he also channels magic/holy power as a representative of the god of War. As a Battlemaster Fighter, he's got a lot of tactical maneuvers he can use to set people up around the field or grant bonuses, and although his Paladin oath is baaasically the same mechanically as Sky's, he's an Oath of Glory Paladin where Sky's Oath of Heroism. He has a Peerless Athlete feature, he can Channel Divinity to vaporize low-level undead, and he's very mobile – he isn't slowed by difficult terrain, and he literally cannot be physically restrained.

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Last song: Adrift, Dance with the Dead. I’ve got all my DwtD songs set up in a playlist for when I wash dishes and that just happened to be the last one that came up :D

Currently reading: Any fic I can get my hands on, basically. Right now I’ve got updates sitting in my inbox for a Trigun canon-fusion reincarnation fic (I am not actually into Trigun) and an OC-incarnated-into-(presumably??)-canon-character Naruto fic (I have never seen Naruto).

Current obsession: ...prooobably Legend of Zelda. Which I have never played and have no intention of playing, because I’m not really into the games so much as the Linked Universe, which I have never actually read and have no intention of reading because I’m mostly just interested in a bunch of Links running around doing things and comparing narrative parallels...

enemies to lovers or friends to lovers // coffee shop au or flower shop au // hurt/comfort or there was only one bed // found family or partners in crime (a good partners in crime Is a found family, whereas many found family stories simply say so without walking the walk, I think) // canon compliant or canon divergent // domesticity or pwp (either?? neither?? I'll read what's good) // fluff or angst with a happy ending // 1st person pov or 3rd person pov (picking 1st just to be contrary. But give me a Good 1st person fic and I will cry on you) // soulmates or forbidden love (they're both gruesomely allo on the whole but I just have no investment in forbidden love scenarios) // roommates or fake dating (I guess?? The ~inevitability~ of well Of Course they'd fall in love after being that close bugs me but the "I can't tell the guy I'm dating that I want to date them" is toptier) // slow burn or meet-cute //  love triangle or polyamorous relationship // secret relationship or unrequited love // royalty au or magic au // high school/college au or neighbours au // mutual pining or idiots to lovers (gimme that yearning!)

Hello!! So happy to see you've hitched a ride here. :D Thank you for asking so many great questions!

It's true that the twins are very bound up in one another, but I'm not sure I'd call them codependent. That's a word that implies a lot of choice – that, rather than seeking out other people, they've chosen to turn away from the world and care only about each other. I think it's more accurate to say that they're each other's supports – it's less that they both showed up to a party, made a beeline for each other, and refused to talk to anyone else and more that they both happened to carpool to the same party, failed to find conversation with anyone else, and retreated to the kitchen together to bond over petting the host's cat Purrloin.

(If it's a League or a Battle Facility party, I do think they could, and would, mingle and have fun talking to other top trainers. But talking with other people takes effort and is exhausting in a way that hanging out with each other isn't.)

Doubt this comes as much of a surprise, but I don't think Emmet would have an easy time readjusting to having Ingo back. Whether Emmet's been going through the motions at Gear Station or throwing himself into researching historical Sinnoh, he's operating under the assumption that once Ingo is Back things will go Back To Normal, even if he knows intellectually that they've both changed a little with the absence. He's clingy and over-fawning, especially if he forgets for a second that Ingo is back and does something on his new autopilot that excludes Ingo somehow, and he desperately tries to make up for lost time and memories with Brotherly Bonding.

At the same time, he's harsh and a little dismissive when he catches Ingo behaving differently than he (was) used to, and when he isn't desperately relating what happened during every minute that Ingo was gone, he isolates himself and coldly snips at him. He knows Ingo didn't mean to leave, but Emmet doesn't like change, and if Ingo had just been there then none of this would be a problem. Both of them have lost some of their intuitive understanding of each other, too, which means there's probably some miscommunications and bitter arguments. But I think their Pokémon do a lot to mitigate that. They don't like to see their trainers fighting, and they're able to play intermediary when a twin goes too far or just needs to talk to someone who gets it but isn't as complicated. Ingo spends a lot of time hugging Eelektross while Emmet vents at Chandelure and vice versa.

I am, currently, in the process of writing him for a Sentinels/Guides au, which basically does just mean hitting him with an autism beam ™️, but I don't think he has autism in canon. On the other hand, he was raised (using that term loosely) as the odd one out in a life he ran away from immediately to enter a new life where he didn't grok base assumptions, his childhood trauma has left him unable to relate to others or to understand that people can truly care about him, he avoids participating in social norms, people immediately dislike him cause he's weird, he has a hard time caring for himself and others and struggles to handle emotion...

I Have read Murderbot! And thought it was very good but more of a good story than anything I feel the need to participate in fandom for. So I won't say I'm super familiar with characters and setting beyond a bare character profile, but let's see what I can come up with...

Realistic: ART and Murderbot get into loud and obnoxious disagreements over how they interpret their favorite media...

Not necessarily realistic, but hilarious: ...like how they'd classpect the main characters.

Awful, but fun: ART isn't the only advanced research unit the university intended, but rules got in the way/something happened and the units that could have been its siblings were scrapped. Its crew feels awful about this and the guilt lingers under their interactions with ART, who notices and is upset that something's hurting its crew but doesn't have the context to get it.

Screw canon: I want ART to come into position as leader/parent to a bunch of low-intelligence research bots it can send out for the hands-on stuff. I would like it to go something like this:

ART, beleaguered: Children, this is dirt.

Bots: Dirt!! Dirt! Dirt? Dirt!!!

enemies to lovers or friends to lovers // coffee shop au or flower shop au // hurt/comfort or there was only one bed // found family or partners in crime // canon compliant or canon divergent (secret third option: AU but it keeps and reinterprets canon in a cool new way) // domesticity or pwp // fluff or angst with a happy ending // 1st person pov or 3rd person pov // soulmates or forbidden love (though it’s hard to find good aro-friendly examples of either) // roommates or fake dating // slow burn or meet-cute //  love triangle or polyamorous relationship // secret relationship or unrequited love // royalty au or magic au // high school/college au or neighbours au (thinking of @glassesmcfancyhair‘s Ironqrow fic here!) // mutual pining or idiots to lovers