#gremlin rambles

I am back with headcanons set 2, this time, for our pretty princess baby star candy,✨Yalina✨

1. Yalina had no real concept of money until she met Hamza,and even then,she doesn't understand that not everyone can just ask their parents for money if they are strapped for cash. She understands the value of money and is a consummate bargainer, but she doesn't understand the basic premise of money:life security. She is always like "car chahiye? Khareed lo. Naya mobile chahiye? Khareed lo". It's not until she becomes the matriarch of Hamza's kabootarkhana and he leaves her in charge of running the household that she truly understands budgets and paison ki tangi, because she was too proud to ask her dad for money when she had just run away from his house.(Hamza was brave af to give all his money to her when he knew she understands pigeon-shit about finances lol)

2. Yalina is one of those "if I were a worm would you love me" type girls (because growing up no one told her they loved her, it was always acts of moneyspending service from Jameel and her mother..we will get to her). Hamza, with his silver tongue, was usually on the safe side with this, but once he got fed up of this 19 yo constantly asking him weird af questions while he scarfs down food after murdering people. So when she goes "if I were an ugly grey pigeon would you love me", he goes,"haan meri jaan, infact,I would be a pigeon too, and then we could go out on dates and shit on people's cars for funsies. Infact, when we have baby pigeons, whoever manages to shit exactly on the bald spot on Aalam chacha's head everytime he comes to clean out the jugs,gets to bunk baby sitting duties for the chicks".(She blushes and bites him)

He was close enough to death that Runa and Cyril literally thought he was dead. They probably touched him to check for signs of life (which is something that would logically be part of their training as guardians, seeing as they are usually the first responders in a lot of situations). Do you know how close to death you have to be for a first responder to not realize you're alive? Very. Not to mention that Audrian healed himself WHILE FULLY UNCONSCIOUS, and when he was 17 (he would've only had Lira for 2 years btw, and he was practicing without a mentor for that time.) Plus we also saw him un-drown Tadg in TWT.

The end of my second semester is nearing, so our teachers are obviously taking it easy. Discussing grades, playing games, watching movies, all that good stuff.

One of my teachers wasn’t a big fan of any of these things, so he suggested while he was outside telling us our grades, we could think about something we’d wanna share. It could be personal like hobbies, or just something going on in the world that interested us.

I was hesitant, but I ended up sharing some of my hobbies: arts n crafts/fursuit making, fanart, fanfic writing.

Honestly, I should’ve seen this coming a mile away. Still, I was so offended when he asked how much of my writing process I was optimizing with AI. I told him “none of it, and use of ai is looked down upon in the community.” But he kept pushing.

“Sure, but surely if it’s not used to be lazy but just as a tool, it could make things easier.”

Good day, my lovelies! How are y'all doing? Okay, so I am typing this from my phone, so the quality is gonna be ass with many mistakes. (hopefully not), but I was watching D1 (In parts, kyunki mere exams chal rahe hain and I am too much of a anxiety-bug to be able to chill and watch a movie for almost four hours in one sitting without feeling guilty later, so right now I have watched only until the mehroom scene. But mera dimaag pura analysis mode pe tha, toh I kept making headcannons as I watched it, to connect reactions and stuff.

So I was watching the hospital scene with Naieem's death right, and I kept thinking, there is more we are missing, something important. So..

I have a headcannon. What if this was not the first blood Ulfat lost to Rehman's line of work. The disappointed rage in her eyes before she slaps Rehman felt like there was history. So my take, is that, that blood is Bilal, Rehman's brother in law, and Ulfat's younger brother. You see Rehman come in bracing himself, like he has a sense of deja-vu, and that look only breaks when he sees Faizal looking absolutely devastated and small against Aalam's hold. After he hugs and consoles him, he stops briefly, probably looking at Hamza's blood-soaked appearance and steeling himself for what he will see inside. Then he gets inside like he wants to rip it like a bandaid.(Also another thing I noticed: Uzair, unlike I had initially thought, comforted Faizal immediately after Rehman let go of him. I had initially thought that Faizal immediately goes to Donga. He doesn't. Uzair pulls him towards himself once he sees that Rehman wishes to see Naieem for himself. And as he tries to hug and pat Faizal, he realizes that none of the boys will go inside the room with Rehman and his brother will be left alone to see the corpse of his eldest child(who looks the most like his brother-in-law Bilal). So Donga pulls Faizal towards himself, while Uzair hurries after Rehman. You also see him mutter 'bacche ko nahi marna chahiye tha'. I was thinking, why this phrasing? Unless Babu has already done something similar and this is somehow a step lower for him too.)

After the viewing and all, when Ulfat arrives, I have seen many comment that Rehman drops the cigarette out of respect. I raise you a different perspective.

That Dawood, through Jameel, had employed Arshad to kill Bilal after Rehman killed Noora, as retaliation and tit-for-tat.(remember, Donga's phrasing while showing Hamza his room, makes it seem like the brother in law was dead). And then too, Ulfat had lost her last family member to Rehman's gangster life. I expect that it had affected their relationship pretty badly, with Rehman vowing that Ulfat would never lose more of her blood to his identity as a mafia boss. So with Naieem, Rehman had broken his promise in the most powerless way possible. After losing Bilal, Ulfat had lost Naieem, who was the most like her brother, a budding poet with a penchant for the movies, in a similar manner.

So until those doors open, Rehman, imo, hasn't really thought about that part of the tragedy yet, he is still wrapped up in his own grief and rage, losing a son, another family member to babu dakait after having to live with being his bastard son while being powerless to do anything. And then Ulfat steps in and it suddenly hits him that he has missed a crucial side to all this. Ulfat's loss. And so, this realisation cuts through his indignant anger (which was what the chain smoking showed. That's another thing I noticed. Rehman smokes when he is mad. Hamza smokes when he finally gets his way, like a celebration or a 'aage aage dekho hota hai kya' typa thing, its celebration to Humza, and a way to burn something—anything, for Rehman) and the guilt comes back. So when she slaps him, its not just anger at failing to protect their son, its disappointed rage at Rehman for breaking his promise. Ulfat had again lost her loved one to Rehman's little throne. And out of acceptance of his culpability, he too remains motionless, because he too accepts, that he had failed. And once they have both acknowledged the part he played, her —by punishing him and him—by accepting that punishment, they both grieve together, as parents of a dead son and for that moment, all is forgiven and forgotten, because there is only one other person in that room that understands what they are feeling.(feels like tu hain toh—female version was made for the aftermath of this scene, maybe after Rehman killed Babu and Ulfat finally decides to open the tightly stoppered wound that is her grief, instead of running on the fuel of her need for vengeance.)

Yep. that's it. I always felt there was more to the scene. I also have theories about how Jameel retained power despite not being the powerful one in any dynamic, until Hamza came and fucked it all up. But that's for another day. Today was about Rehmat(and how, often, it is women, who are forced to pay the price for the ambitions of the men in their lives, in ways that seems almost cruel to them). Also, secondary headcanon for irl, that the real reason we didn't see AK shooting Noora in D2 is because irl Dawood was very much active and controlling bollywood during Akshay's time. Probably remembers Gulshan Kumar being killed. Sure, he isn't as powerful and doesn't have as much of a say as he used to, but you need to remember that Dawood's criminal history was being hidden by bollywood out of fear until as recently as 2013( Shootout at Wadala), when his character was given a fake name. This was a legitimate risk to his life,cus jo jameel ne kiya, jo Hamza ne kiya, all that is speculative, but it's one thing to show a crippled mob boss, it's another to show a feared don begging and pleading while being at his peak power. As much as it pains me to say this, good decision.

Okay, that was y conspiracy theory/headcannon/shitpost. Imma go back to studying, had to put this out before it got lost in whatever bermuda triangle my brain is slowly becoming. G'day to ya, folks!

Cheerios!

Dude.

Dogpound is fucking huge. I don’t remember him being the size of a high school vending machine or him having biceps big enough to crush a normal human’s skull!

WTF did Shredder feed him other than mutagen?!