#repy

When can we get really drunk haitham too 😔 (altho I can’t see him willingly getting so drunk but still, I want a scenario that makes it happen so i can see what kinda changes happen to his voice/his mannerisms....)

heard him at least in cn/en dub when i did it last year and yea, considering hthm takes care of his bills most of the time and them living together, he witnesses it often enough

(i dont have to explain how alcoholism is a srs thing and ppl should drink in consideration. bringing it up anw as a reminder to yall)

Hello there! Sorry for the late reply. I think I have mentioned it already but I am not the one who is recording the lives without comments. Keiko's lives typically happen during my work hours so I have no way of getting to my private PC to record them. A kind follower usually does it and sends me a link.

Of course, that happens in a lot of fandoms that it's hard to do research about the character that canonically have minimum information , even if you do research on sites lie tvtrpe and wikia. That's also why you also do research on THEMES AND TOPIC regarding them. research on symbolism of apples regarding Epel. Research about asian parenting cultures about Riddle and Malleus' issues (also turning red just come out and it's a good example to compare with those two, with the whole generational role thing), research about the disney classic movies that based them on, or the original fairy tales they are based on even. Anything small is fine, you can make some hcs with smallest info or symbolism. besides we live in information era where you just need to type on google and voila

"The chaotic human with no self-preservation whatsoever and the supernatural creature desperately trying to keep them alive"

Oh lord alright it is very hard to decide which of them has the stronger reckless bastard energy, but Slash by far has a more supernatural vibe and also you wrote their names in that order so that's what we're going to go with!

Duff McKagan has a 28% chance of surviving past the age of 30.  Slash would know, because he's Duff's guardian angel.

Or at least, he was.  For... ahem, unrelated reasons, Slash fell from Heaven when Duff was about 17.

(His first strike was when he directly intervened when Duff almost drowned as a child – "Whoa, kid, you almost died! Let's not do that again, huh? Seriously, tempting fate is not a good idea for you, buddy." Luckily, Duff was in shock at the time and afterwards he didn't remember getting dragged to the surface of the lake by a glowing figure with a literally blinding smile and fluffy white wings.  His second strike was getting caught disguising himself as a human so he could mess around on Earth, and his third strike was messing with the boundary between species in the afterlife causing an incident that ended with a dozen angels trying to restrain the spirit of a T. rex.)

So, no big deal, right?  Earth is way more fun anyway.  Slash messes around for a while, trying to figure out both his new powers and human culture, and then it occurs to him – he doesn't have to follow Heavenly rules anymore, there's nothing to stop him from keeping Duff alive any way he can.  Slash is a fallen angel with superpowerful magic, and he is not one to back down from a challenge: Duff is going to live to 100 if it kills him! Which it probably won't, since he's immortal.

Well, their first (technically second) meeting doesn't go so smoothly.  Slash is Bad at disguising himself as a human, and when a slightly demonic-looking stranger suddenly appears in Duff's bedroom and leads with, "Hey, Duff, how's it going? Still alive, I see!" Duff kinda freaks out.

Which is understandable! Slash knows that humans aren't supposed to know anything about angels and demons and all the rest, but... He was kinda hoping that the human he spent 17 years lovingly watching over would greet him in some way that didn't involve swinging a baseball bat at his face.

Oh well. Water under the bridge, it's not like Duff can actually hurt him, anyway!  Things calm down a bit and Slash explains himself.  Duff is very skeptical... right up until he realizes that having a friend with supernatural powers means that he can get away with just about anything he wants.

So Slash tags along on Duff's teenage exploits, saving him from everything from the Seattle PD to his own clumsiness.  Duff learns to take Slash's magical weirdness in stride, and they become close friends.

Thing is, the older Duff gets, the harder he is to look out for.  Slash tries to protect him from heroin by convincing him to move to L.A. (on of Slash's favorite Earth cities), but now there's a whole new world of threats to Duff's safety and well-being.

See, Slash's first mistake was telling Duff that he had slim chances of living through adulthood.  He didn't really mean to, humans aren't supposed to know the details of their own mortality, but he got drunk, it slipped out, and he later realized that Duff took it completely the wrong way.  If he's not going to live past 30, then he better make the most of it while he can, right?!

No!  For fuck's sake Duff, you could at least try to make Slash's job a little easier

("It's not your job anymore," Duff tells him on one of the rare occasions they get into an argument.  Slash is being overbearing, why doesn't he just give up on this stupid obsession and let Duff live the way he wants? It stings to hear.  Duff knows that it's not just a job, that Slash acts the way he does because he cares.  He's the one to reach out to Slash when they make up.)

So Slash spends the next decade keeping Duff alive.  When Duff isn't making enough money to feed himself, Slash manages to get whatever he needs.  When Duff joins a band, Slash is his biggest cheerleader.  When the audience throws trash at the stage, Slash deflects it.  When Duff orders that last drink that's going to push him over the edge, Slash grabs it from him and drinks it instead.

On Duff's 30th birthday, Slash was pretty fucking proud of himself and of Duff for beating the odds!  But then a few months later... Fuck.  Things get bad.

It takes a lot of time and effort on both their parts to get Duff back to a stable, healthy place.  Slash didn't realize how hard it would be to take care of Duff when all he can think is that his help might not be enough this time.  But slowly, things get better, even better than they were before.

Somewhere along the way, Slash catches feelings.  He loves Duff more than anything, and he knows Duff well enough to tell that his feelings are returned.

My post about the together breakfast was mainly poking fun at how people had an existencial crisis over Steven not liking things that he used to like as if it made him a completely different person. In reality out of the three things they suggested that he supposedly used to like only one of them was something he was ever actually into beyond like one episode, if at all. He was never into Pupcopter during SU, he was into Dogcopter. Pupcopter is basically the version meant for extremely young children, and would be like asking a 16 year old to watch Paw Patrol with you. And he didn't even want to eat the Together Breakfast by the end of its titular episode. It only showed up one other time during one brief scene during the wedding as a call back, vanished before the ceremony started, and was otherwise never seen again as far as I can remember. Only the cheeseburger backpack was something he liked and used that he stopped using in Future, but he'd still kept it and still used a hot dog duffle bag, so it wasn't like he hated it or didn't still use food themed bags, he just didn't want to use a bag that was 4 years old, possibly because it's actually really annoying to use a bag with too many pockets when you're using it for something important like school. So I always felt like it was a bit of an overreaction. I don't mean the jokes and stuff people made, I'm sure many of them weren't serious and were just joking around about our little boy growing up, but I remember there were plenty of people taking it way too seriously. I specifically recall one person literally stating that Steven had become a "husk of his former self" after that episode which is patently ridiculous, and I got a bit peeved about it back then. I noticed the ending of Together Breakfast during a rewatch so I thought I'd make a sassy post about it. But I do want to address something you mentioned in this ask seriously, as well as some other things related to it that are on my mind regarding Future.

Edit: I’m putting the rest of this under a cut because I didn’t realize how long this got when I wrote it on my phone. TL;DR: I believe Snow Day is more about Steven’s imposter syndrome than about the gems taking too long to reciprocate his desire to spend time with them. Below is a bunch of my thoughts about Steven’s shift from seeing gem missions as adventures and a way to hang out with the gems to seeing them as a responsibility and something he was obligated to do for the greater good whether he wanted to or not.

Let’s break it down by Alternate Universes!

Movie Verse:

Beetlejuice and Lydia hardly have any interaction. It’s safe to say that their early relationship is filled with arguments and misunderstandings. Beej isn’t a good guy. Lydia is still so very human and a kind soul. We don’t know that much about her in this universe like we do in the other two but we know she loves horror yet is adverse to dissecting a frog. It’s easy to project different types of backstories on this beautiful canvas. 

As for a fight, It’s safe to say their biggest would be something to do with trust and fidelity. BJ would have had to keep a gnarly secret that festers and festers like they do in all romantic comedies. Then it all blows up when Lydia gets a blunt truth thrown at her. She would be heartbroken.

Toon Verse:

Beetlejuice and Lydia have had some pretty good fights but their biggest ones usually involved Lydia’s family. BJ is a selfish ass. No way around it. In this universe, she would be angry over him overreaching and being cruel to their family. She defends Donny, Bea, and Gnat the same way as she defends Jaques, Ginger, and Monster. Mildly but If BJ betrayed her trust and did something that got her father hurt. That would be nasty. 

Musical Verse:

Beetlejuice and Lydia Well… you would think they already had their biggest fight but no. Those two are like anxiety volcanoes. Serious trust issues and they have a bad habit of conning each other. Sometimes it’s fun. But other times, it goes too far. Both of them would pull a con on each other at the same time. Then, they both get burned. Neither is willing to apologize and it takes Lydia’s family to intervene.