#codename-adler

Ahhh I actually read the first one a while back!! I was super hyped for it, but didn't end up liking it as much as I thought I would. :(

I read it last July, so my tiny lil pea brain doesn't remember WHY I didn't vibe with it. Like I liked the idea! And it was enjoyable enough to finish book 1 but I didn't care enough about the story to keep going into the next one? Which sucked since I was real excited about the series. :(

okay okay Jude Reyes lore incoming

little breakdown first:

26 years old

he/him, pansexual, cis

played for the Trojans for 5 years

graduated with a degree in sports journalism

has adhd and depression (in the rambling bit tw right now for mentions of self harm and suicidal thoughts tying into this)

only child and still upset about it

does the most out of all my ocs to work with college players, spends a lot of his free time flying out to different colleges to work with coaches and teams cause he likes and he enjoys it (gets a lot of teasing about becoming a coach in the future)

knows english and spanish

and oh yeah he's a dealer who will play as an extra backliner if needed

blonde, 6'3, big brown eyes

got his ears pierced cause Mara said he'd chicken out

So yeah Jude graduated from USC at the age of 23 and he was recruited for olympic court when he was 25. He considers the Trojan's his family and still keeps in touch with all the upper classmen who he used to play with. He's very much taken the Trojan attitude into his professional career. He's known as a team player on the court and also a huge activist off the court. He's now involved in presenting the Day Spirit Award every year and he's incredibly proud to have been apart of the team consistently winning it. While Ilya falls into the Just Some Guy category, Jude really takes it up like 10 levels into Golden Child territory. He's the favored one for press duty and is most involved with his teams social media. He's usually the one to sit down for the little games or the ask me anything's or the interviews everyone else deems pointless.

tw for self harm and suicide mentions, you can skip to the next bolded line if you need to

Jude was diagnosed with depression when he was 19 after he came to Rhemann confessing that he had been self harming for a few months after the workload with his class got more difficult for him to manage and he started thinking about committing suicide. He was diagnosed with adhd a few years later when he was 22 and now he now manages both with a mixture of therapy and medication. He's not perfect and obviously that didn't get rid of his depression but he has always had a safe space to talk about it and to get the help he needs. He advocates a lot for mental health in general but especially where athletes where it tends to get ignored with all the pressure put on them and he brings that into all of his relationships with his teammates trying to create a safe space for them. He is a huge factor in actually getting Em, Mara, and Florian to see therapists and he's who Florian calls after his 5th attempt and takes him to the hospital.

okay heavy bit over

I need y'all to know that Jude popped into my head literally today. He was named like 3 hours ago. So this is all just kind of developing as I yap about him. He's big on team inclusion. Doesn't want anyone to feel left out. At first Ilya really butted heads with Mara and Florian cause they were Raven's and Jude was basically the one to get sick of that and tell them they needed to shut the fuck up and put on their get along t-shirt

He's generally pretty outgoing and he loves a good party. And by party he means hosting his team and having some food and drinks and visiting with every one. Though he does go a little crazy after a win and he will probably not get home till like 6 in the morning and then will sleep for a full 24 hours

He comes off as very loud and flirtatious to most people, most people will think he is flirting even when he isn't and he has accidentally agreed to multiple dates before realizing they were dates and having to awkwardly let people down. He doesn't really date much, not seriously, largely because of how involved he is with the media portion of his job. If he does end up dating (and I don't have anyone set up for him yet) it'd most likely be another exy player who is also super involved with the media and interacting with the press

oh my god... @codename-adler??? ADLER????? THEE socmed GIRLIE????? I love your work!!!!

*shaking so hard the link nearly falls out of my hands* here she is, Blind Landing, my emo little pride and joy.

But fr fr it's a Thea centric story and I'm having a great time writing it so I get it if you're not into it given how the fandom feels about her. I however am a black bitch who likes to enjoy myself so some of my headcanons for her in this story are:

Thea's never actually broken a bone. She's sprained her ankle a few times and her elbow gets hinky in the winter but she was so meticulous that getting seriously injured was never the problem.

She's the kind of person that cries silently during conditioning but never complains because her coaches, as loud and judgy as they are, have never led her astray when it comes to getting stronger for her next level.

One of her earliest memories of wanting to be a gymnast is when she was around 5, watching Dominique Dawes compete and win bronze in the 1996 olympics with her floor routine. She remembers being enamored with the way the bronze glinted on her leo and how all that lighting made her skin glow. She'd turned to her mom asking if she could do that too. Her mom smiled softly and pulled her into a hug. "Of course you can Tee, you can do anything."

She wishes some of the girls she competed against would come up with more interesting insults slurs. This is def something from my own experience. Competitive white girls can only call you the n-word so many times before it loses its impact, I don't make the rules. 🤷🏾‍♀️

fire 🔥 Andreil

Happy birthday to Adler @codename-adler! Have a wonderful birthday my dear! 🧡🤍🧡🤍

Don’t forget to wish her a happy birthday!

not sure which of the monster babies you meant so here you go!

Ingredients

1 ½ cup all-purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup butter or margarine

½ sugar

1 lightly beaten egg yolk

3 tablespoons milk (i don't know how dairy alternatives would turn out)

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Preheat oven at 350F

Mix dry ingredients and put aside

Cream butter (beat?)

Add sugar gradually and mix well after each addition

Incorporate lightly beaten egg yolk

Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk, then with the vanilla extract

Put resulting dough in refrigerator until firm

Flatten cold dough with rolling pin until about ¼ in./5 mm, on a board lightly dusted with flour

Cut out shapes with cookie-cutters

Cook in oven, medium heat/350F, on greased pan or parchment paper covered pan, until cookie edges are golden brown

Cool down on flat surface

Decorate to your liking :)

here's a photo of the original, i tried translating with google image but it wasn't so good, but just in case i'll leave it for you! if there's anything unclear i can always ask my mom, just let me know :)