#meulin.pdf

When did kurloz sexually assault meulin?I cannot find the source for it on my own.

I’m also a little skeptical since:

1.kurloz feels some form of guilt for deafening meulin.Not as much guilt as he shows,considering how he technically breaks his oath of silence by using his purpleblood magic

2.he isn’t openly sexual other than getting the codpiece,which I view as him following any orders from gamzee and/or lord English.And also his game sprite may have a bulge to it?im not sure about my second point

3.i don’t know why he would do that because he doesn’t abuse meulin that way.In openbound 2,he treats meulin more as an easy pawn to assist him in his malicious plans to help lord english & gamzee rather than sexually assaulting her to ruin her and then manipulating her.

I’m really curious to know when this happened,since it would reframe his already atrocious actions as even worse

Also I have a bias since I have a weird attachment to kurloz for no canon compliant reason.

Hopefully this isn’t too long…it probably is but I hope 8]

I applaud the thoroughness, actually, and thank you for reaching out. I love when people ask me to Cite My Sources, so to speak.

It's in one of the Signing portions of their interactions, so I do not necessarily blame you for missing it.

This is clearly non-consensual touching that is being framed as Upsetting on Meulin's end and Deliberately Creepy on Kurloz's.

I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Well, I feel bad about it, obviously, assault is literally always bad, but I really cannot decipher Kurloz as a character. Not fully, really, 'cuz he doesn't have much of one. To me, this reads as a pure, unadulterated Makara Moment, and I'm frankly just kind of tired of it. Kurloz's character is just a nebulous haze of Plot Instigation and Racism. Gamzee's character is also just a nebulous haze of Plot Instigation and Racism. These are both characters who are coded as Black, who are portrayed as being very dominating, abusive, and physically + sexually violent - especially Gamzee. Kurloz doing this is weird, but it's not... Shocking, I guess.

His relationship with Meulin is absolutely, uh... Troubled... To put it nicely... What, with him manipulating her into a cult and mind controlling her into doing his bidding all the time, on top of this assault, the Bullshit Clown Magic having the side effects of Confusion, Brain Fog, and Memory Loss, and her still seeming to have some kind of suppressed attraction to him... It's complicated. I think it could be genuinely very fascinating to explore, if one has the stomach for it. And a deft enough hand... And is capable of handling it all with maximum sensitivity. It's verging on something really good... But it falls kind of flat, and it's fucking exhausting that we're having this same damn conversation with another fucking Makara.

This could be done extremely well. There's some genuinely solid grounds here for exploring a very complex, very visceral abusive relationship, kind of like what was going on with Gamzee and Terezi, but... There was both just not enough time to set that up fully, and also I am so tired of Makaras being Like That.

Canonically? Yeah, absolutely. Perhaps "was" is a better term to use... But he definitely still has his moments, constantly. Such as his really disturbingly aggressive Hemoloyalty. But he's not really outwardly "angry and aggressive" in the traditional sense... Anymore, and for now. I might've mentioned this earlier, but Horuss's smiley demeanor is actually a facade forced upon him by Meulin.

This whole "Smiley Horuss" deal is a very recent change, in text. Very, very recent. It occurred in the advent of Horuss and Meulin becoming Moirails, which occurred in the advent of them meeting Equius and Nepeta. They saw their Moirallegience, and wanted what they had, basically.

Anyway, this Moirallegience meant that, in true Meowrails fashion, Meulin was the one keeping Horuss in check. But... Meulin has a rather unfortunate problem with Toxic Positivity, actually, which was a very common issue amongst Tumblr users for a while, especially people heavier into the fandom side of things... And this is what lead to Meulin forcing the facade of constant happiness onto Horuss... Essentially as "treatment" for his anger issues. She seems to be under the impression that it is somehow healthier to force yourself to never experience any negative emotion, ever, than it is to be able to confront and healthily engage with your negative feelings. Which... Again, is just what Toxic Positivity is, and again, was a huge problem on Tumblr for a while. It's a unique form of the Anti-Recovery mindset.

As the above screenshot says, Horuss finds this mask to be putting him in constant agony. It's really not helping him, and he's still an asshole. He just happens to feel more like garbage constantly for it. He isn't addressing a single one of his issues or bigoted views, he's just smiling while expressing them. For once, Meenah is the Voice of Reason regarding this:

Looking everyone in the eyes here. Meulin Leijon would be into the MCU. She would have loved Steven Universe. Voltron? You bet. Game of Thrones? Sure, probably! She’s a Leijon, she can have violence. You just know that back in the day she had those Hipster/Punk Disney Edits saved. If someone told me they think Meulin likes K-pop, I’d nod in understanding. She’d have been into Yuri on Ice, Black Butler, fucking Hetalia, probably.

You just know she was into that one horny, overly fanservice-y water anime. Free!!!, was it? Also, Ouran High School Host Club was her jam when she was younger.

Meulin can only like Vocaloid if you agree that she credits Vocaloid songs by the Voice Synth used in it, rather than the actual Producer’s name. As in, “[Song] by Hatsune Miku.”

Also, she thinks UTAUs and SynthVs and such are Vocaloids. Any Voice Synth capable of singing is a Vocaloid to her. Abhorrent, lol.

MITUNA CAPTOR

Sexuality HC: Not much of a hot take here, but I see him as bisexual!

Favorite Ship(s): In the context of canon? MITULA. ALL THE WAY. That man DESERVES it. In the context of Sovereignstuck? Unreal Heir. That one’s between him and Retris Morage, my fantroll. I have got to post about it sometime!

BROTP: Hot take! I think he’s very close friends with Rufioh and Meulin! Bonus: In Sovereignstuck, his moirail is Latula! Do not separate them.

NOTP: CroTuna. In any quadrant at all. Yes, including Black Just... No. Absolutely fucking not. That wasn’t Blackrom, that was abuse. Huge difference.

Happy HC: I like to think that when he’s happy, he makes a buzzing sound. Like a bee! You can’t go wrong with a good ol’ trolls purring headcanon. Also, whenever he’s feeling particularly affectionate, his psionics spark a little and make heart shapes. He has no control over that. He is incredibly bad at hiding his feelings.

Angsty HC: Abandonment issues. Really, really bad abandonment issues. Like, breakdown level. He gets nightmares about it sometimes, but his grasp of reality isn’t all that great, especially when he’s freaked out or emotional, and he tends to think it actually happened.

Random HC: His favorite book in Sovereignstuck is Neuromancer! HUGE Cyberpunk fan.

General Opinion: He’s my favorite! I love my weirdo Cassandra parallel dearly. I think he’s got a lot of potential to be a nuanced, intricate character if you simply work to understand him. Which I have done for the fanventure. Thoroughly. I’m in charge of writing him. >:)

MEULIN LEIJON

Sexuality HC: Now, this one’s a doozy. I, personally, see Meulin as functionally AroAce, or at least somewhere on that spectrum. I think she likes the idea of relationships a lot, but isn’t very compatible with them in practice.

Favorite Ship(s): Romantically? None, really!

BROTP: [In the same time as Shrimp Heaven Now] Damara! Friendship! Now!!!

NOTP: I’m sorry but whatever her and Kurloz had going on was not healthy. I find it interesting narratively, don’t get me wrong! But I cannot in good faith say I ship them.

Happy HC: Her so-called overexcitement is because she has autism! She’s got a lot of love in her heart for her interests, and she’s extremely passionate about them. She writes a lot of fanfics for the media she consumes, and her fanfiction accounts for them are actually really popular! She’s a very good writer!!

Angsty HC: The fact that several of her fellow session members- people she calls friends- didn’t even try to learn Sign to help accommodate to her Deafness actually really makes her upset. The fact that she still has to communicate mostly verbally really frustrates her. It makes her get a little snappy sometimes, and she often winds up saying things she regrets later. A friendship or two was broken because of it. (She is fully in the right for snapping, though.)

Random HC: Secretly into horror and thrillers! She doesn’t only consume popular media and romances!! She loves to have some variety in her diet with the content she indulges in. It keeps her from getting bored! I will say, though, she is SUPER into Hannibal.