#munisms.

Are you named after anyone?

nah, not my first name. my middle name is named after my mother. my dad wanted to name me after my mom. she picked my first name, he picked my middle name. 

When was the last time you cried?

lmao i cry everyday whenever i apply for jobs

Do you have kids?

nah. 

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

hell yeah. 

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

maybe hair? probably hair. don’t ask why. i just do lmao. 

What’s your eye color?

hazel green. 

Scary movie or happy ending?

i don’t really like scary movies, so i have to say happy endings! but i’m also okay with unhappy endings if they’re done well. 

Any special talents?

nah. 

Where were you born?

chi-town. 

What are your hobbies?

writing, walking my dog, reading, playing video games, watching netflix and hulu and anime, going to the movies, napping, cleaning. 

Do you have any pets?

yes! i have a dog named molly!

What sports do you play/have you played?

lmao i don’t play sports. i watch baseball though! 

How tall are you?

5'4″ 

Dream job?

screenwriter! 

Favorite subject at school?

english and history! i majored in both lmao 

the mun’s interpretation | @magixmade

♚ Do you agree with the fandom interpretation of your character?

So here’s the deal: the fandom is tiny. Practically non-existent, except for some people who spontaneously remember the show exists after finding it on Netflix and are eager to relive their childhood. Which there’s definitely nothing wrong with that !  But that just means that there isn’t a ton of interpretation and more just general commentary ? 

Anyway, here’s what I gather from the fandom: Rikki is one of the most popular characters, along with Cleo. So most people have pretty positive views of Rikki, often remarking on how mcfreakin savage she was (and she so was). A lot of people also love Rikki and Zane’s relationship and HATE when it was destroyed in season 3. And there is also a considerable amount of people who regard Rikki as a lesbian in love with Emma.

So I kinda do agree with a lot of these things. Rikki is hilarious. I do think Rikki and Zane are a great couple and their breakup was upsetting. And I also think that Rikki and Emma would make a great couple.

But I don’t write Rikki off as a lesbian. She’s bi. And I interpret Rikki using humor as a defense mechanism to bury her feelings. What people don’t talk about (and maybe not even notice) is that Rikki is angry. She has A LOT of anger. She has a lot of emotions that she just doesn’t want to deal with. And she has a lot of power, but unfortunately, the show’s writing undermines that.

The fandom accepts Rikki and all the characters at face value. I mean, yeah, it’s a kid’s show, but still. There’s MORE to Rikki than humor. And it goes for all the characters. Cleo’s kindness is not naiveté. Bella is not just some boy-crazy teenage girl. And there’s more to Emma than just shipping her with Rikki. More often than not, I find myself disagreeing with the fandom’s opinions on the other characters, not so much with Rikki. 

♧ Any part of their canon portrayal you dislike?

Hmmm…it’s hard to say. Kinda like what I was saying before, I find myself more upset with how other characters are portrayed than Rikki (like Bella and Will for example).

I wish they expanded more on Rikki’s home life. Like Rikki and Zane’s conversation on the rooftop in season 1 was nothing. It was great for progressing their relationship but I really feel like we don’t LEARN anything until The Wrong Side of the Tracks in season 2 (a classic).

I wish they expanded more on Rikki’s powers too. I feel like there was SO MUCH POTENTIAL there !  There have been numerous instances where Rikki has frightened people, including herself, with her powers and they don’t talk about it !  She’s given fire and electricity powers in the first episode of season 2 and after that it’s like…nonexistent. I get that she doesn’t necessarily need to use those powers but they could’ve explored that more. I really think it undermines her.

Also: this will FOREVER bug me. In season 1, Emma had the strength to smash a metal door to save Zane from drowning, right ? ?   Then the girls could have EASILY smashed the gate off when they were trapped in the moon pool by Dr. Denman. It’s so minor but omg I’m so annoyed by that lmao.

And I have mixed feelings about Rikki’s portrayal in M.ako M.ermaids. There are some parts I like, and some parts I don’t. Like, okay, I don’t like the part where Rikki talks about how she and her friends grew apart. I get that it could happen to anyone, even mermaids, but it just wasn’t…convincing. After EVERYTHING they’ve been through ?  And clearly the writers don’t know what to do with Bella which is frustrating af. And I just didn’t like how Rikki was undermined when Ondina, Mimmi, and Weilan confronted her for the bracelet. That whole scene felt very weak to me.

✍ Has new canon material ever forced you to adjust your headcanons?

A LITTLE, but not really. So I’ve been writing Rikki for a long time, even before she appeared on Ma.ko Mer.maids, so when she appeared on the show, I didn’t really adjust my headcanons. I just made it an au because I was already comfortable with how I was writing her. But as I started watching the spin-off in its entirety, I started developing headcanons to expand on its lore (because it’s a mess).

As I sorta talked about in my previous post, when I first started writing Rikki, I ignored season 3 because I didn’t like it. But then I watched it again, liked it, and incorporated it into my portrayal. And kinda going back to what I was saying before about how there’s more to Rikki than just humor: we see that in season 3. Season 3 helped me explore Rikki’s emotions, especially when she crossed over to “the dark side” for a time and when she and Zane fought.

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ONE  ( NAME / ALIAS )  :     emily. TWO  ( BIRTHDAY )  :     july 30th THREE  ( STAR  SIGN  )  :     leo. FOUR  ( HEIGHT )  :   5′4″  FIVE  ( HOBBIES )  :  reading, writing, online shopping, buzzfeed, petting my dog, watching netflix & hulu, playing my ps4 !! SIX  ( FAVOURITE  COLOUR(S) )  :      i really love all colors!! i prefer to wear dark colors (blues, greens, and black), and i prefer to decorate with light/pastel/soft colors !! SEVEN  ( FAVOURITE  BOOKS )  :   “the perks of being a wallflower” by stephen chbosky, percy jackson and the olympians by rick riordan, and does “gmoring, gnight” by lin-manual miranda count ? EIGHT  ( LAST  SONG  YOU  LISTENED  TO )  :   uhh truth hurts by lizzo ? NINE  ( LAST  FILM  WATCHED  )  :     detective pikachu !!  i loved it.  TEN  ( INSPIRATION  FOR  MUSE )  :   i tend to draw inspiration for rikki from the show, from mermaid mythology, and from other mystical mythology !!  she lives in two worlds and i want to explore them both and her relationship to both of them.  ELEVEN  ( MEANING  BEHIND  YOUR  URL )  :     mako island is the island that turned rikki, cleo, and emma into mermaids!! and in the series finale, cleo, rikki, and bella talk about their destinies, so i pretty much took it from there. rikki (and the others) was chosen by mako to become a mermaid. it wasn’t an accident; it was fate !!

TAGGED BY   :     @devilthighs ( thank u <3 )

zikki - zane x rikki!! my otp since i was like 9 tbh

✧ WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO RP WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING ?

pretty much everything? the only thing i really need to talk to my partners about is smut before getting into it. aside from that, i’m all for aus, crossovers, angst, fluff, ALL OF IT.

✧ HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE ?

it’s a huge no if it’s a minor and an adult, for starters.

if they’re both adults, my sorta rule of thumb for me is that if its double the younger’s age, then it’s uncomfortable. but aside from that, i’m fairly okay with age gaps. 

✧ ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING ?:

kinda not really. usually, when i ship, i talk about it with the mun beforehand, and we go into detail. if we’re able to talk about it thoroughly, then i’m game. but if we haven’t really talked about it before, and our muses haven’t much of a relationship at all, then that’s when it gets harder for me to get into the ship, you know??

✧ WHO ARE OTHER MUSES YOU SHIP YOUR MUSE WITH ?

canon muses - cleo, emma, and lewis 

crossover ships - b.arry all.en, ol.iver quee.n, caitli.n s.now, maxwe.ll lor.d (a lot of dctv rip), dann.y fen.ton, misty (pokemon), d.iana p.rince

AND THEN 

i have a handful of ocs i ship with too!! @worldvisitor & @softsided and a few others

AND I KNOW I’M FORGETTING MORE SHIPS RIP 

✧ DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU ?

yes please!!!

✧ HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP ?:

clearly, often.

but i only like to ship if there’s chemistry between the muses.

✧ ARE YOU SHIP OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS ?

i’m a lil obsessed. i just am such a sucker for romance and all that, you know??? but it’s not something that drives this blog or anything. shipping is just another layer, another aspect i love to explore with our muses.

✧ ARE YOU MULTISHIP ?

yee

✧ WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SHIP(S) IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM ?

honestly???? ALL OF THEM

i ship everything under the sun with h.2o. rikki x zane, emma x ash, cleo x lewis, bella x will but also rikki x emma, rikki x cleo, rikki x emma x cleo, rikki x lewis, rikki x will, emma x cleo, honestly they’re all good and wholesome. i’m not picky. 

✧ FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU ?:

just ask!!!

Tagged by: @hearstheearth (thank you!!)

nickname/s :  em ,  emi ,  egg  .

height :  5′4″  /  five  foot ,  four  inches .

nationality :  american !

favourite fruit :  banana .      

favourite season :  fall .

favourite scents :  coffee ,  chlorine ,  gardenias ,  fresh rain ,  freshly cut grass ,  pumpkin ,  fresh linen ,  bath n body works candles .

favourite animal : canines .

tea, coffee, hot cocoa :  coffee .

average hours of sleep :  nine .

random fact : i  can lucid dream !

favourite food :  sweets ,  esp. chocolate chip pancakes !

favourite t.v. shows :  parks and rec ,  brooklyn nine-nine ,  atla ,  sailor moon , the great british baking show .

favourite movie : too many !

favourite vine :   too many !

sexuality :  :/

pronouns :  she  /  her  .

favourite book series :  pjo ( original ) ,  harry potter   

favourite video game/s : uncharted  series ,  okami ,  kingdom hearts series .

favorite band/s :   too many !

favourite subject :  history .     

guys or girls :  :/

last time i cried :  today !  i got frustrated with my lousy job search . 

what i should be doing :  my job search .

favourite fandoms :  it’s not really my thing . 

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to role play as, have role played as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!

CURRENTLY PLAYING:

Rikki Chadwick (primary)

a bunch others on a multi i’m barely on 

WANT TO/WOULD PLAY:

none ?  all the muses i wanna play are on my multi now !

HAVE PLAYED:

Rikki Chadwick

Nozomi Yumehara 

Nagisa Furukawa

Sailor Galaxia 

h2o multimuse 

Mizuki (canon-oc)

WILL/WOULD PLAY AGAIN:

i brought most of them back on my multi, but it’s so slow-moving and i’m really eager to write them again ! ! 

tagged by: @noblcbrother (ages ago i’m so sorry)

the mun's interpretation | @allnostalgic

✦ Has your own interpretation changed from when you first began playing the character? 

Hmmm….it’s hard to say !  You’re better off asking my writing partners tbh, since I’m really bad at noticing differences with my own writing haha.

I just recently went through my headcanons tag all the way to the very beginning (well, as early as I could get on this blog), and I noticed some things that definitely were no longer canon to my Rikki. For example, I wrote a post on Rikki’s telekinesis abilities demonstrated in M.ako Merma.ids. And I think it’s pretty widely accepted that Rikki used telekinesis in her appearance, but I don’t agree with that anymore. Or another example is my headcanons about Rikki’s parents, especially her mother. I initially just accepted that one throwaway line in season 1 about Rikki’s mother. But now I threw away that throwaway line and made her mother into something else. So I’ve noticed little changes like that.

I would say that when I first started writing Rikki, I pretty much excluded season 3. Admittedly, I focused HEAVILY on Rikki and Zane’s relationship, maybe because I just loved them so much ? ?   And I hated how Zane was written in season 3, so I was primarily season 2-based.

But I eventually got over it !  I got away from focusing so much on Rikki and Zane’s relationship because there is clearly so much more to her character than some boy. And I guess I just was nowhere near as in-depth as I am now with her. Because I initially avoided season 3, I avoided A LOT of crucial character development.

So I guess I just started getting into writing her more. She was always one of my primary blogs, and I have been writing Rikki for about four years now. I started paying attention to her in the canon more—the details, the inconsistencies, etc.—and I started deciding what I did and didn’t agree with as I wrote her. 

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CURRENTLY PLAYING:  only the lovely rikki chadwick !

WANT TO PLAY:  oh boy lots of characters. uhh aqua from kh, caro.l da.nvers, serena from p.okemon, sak.ura k.inomoto !

HAVE PLAYED:  nozomi yumehara, nagisa furukawa, leslie burke, galaxia, and i had an h.2o mumu !

WILL / WOULD LIKE TO PLAY AGAIN:  nozomi is always and forever my girl.