Palm Trees Are Not Trees

like the apocrypha event really kicked it into overdrive, since a good chunk of the event cutscenes are ritsuka and jack interacting and its all just really sweet? like after she joins the group they all look at her in shock and you have the opportunity to comfort her in the most gentle, parental voice possible and i can only image that thats the sort of thing ritsuka does with jack normally

but also could you fucking imagine working at chaldea and seeing that? youre some new worker and you see this little girl running around calling ristsuka “mommy” and after checking with the staff that she is a heroic spirit and she is meant to be here you find out that shes jack the ripper? and now you have to work out how the little girl asking humanities last master if she can stay up late to have a movie night with santa lily, abigail and nursery rhyme is meant to be the legendary and mysterious serial killer and all the other staff members can tell you is to not worry about it

Odasaku immediately adopted Q as one of his own, before he had even met them. He found out about the kid from Dazai and decided that he had to do something. It took a huge amount of prodding for Dazai to even let him meet them, and he refused to let Oda talk to them. Instead, Oda usually snuck down to visit them again.

He started slow, just sitting across the bars from them in silence. They watched him for a while, clutching their doll to their chest as if waiting for him to come close enough for them to use their ability against him.

Q was the first one to breach the silence, voice wobbly as they asked Oda why he was there. When he didn’t answer, they took a step back until he asked them to stop and tried to explain why he there, that he cared about them and wanted to help them. They didn’t believe him the first time, or the second, or the third, or the fourth. It took months of consistent visits before they opened up to him, and even longer before they fully trusted him.

Oda snuck down to visit them whenever he could. He would bring Q toys or books when he could, trying to give them a fighting chance at a normal childhood. The mafia is no place for a kid, so Odasaku tried to balance things out as much as he could.

Q, in turn, looked forward to Oda’s visits more than anything, not just because of the things he brings with him, but because he’s kind to them. The other members of the mafia are afraid of them or treat them like a weapon, but Oda treated them like the child they were.

The other members of the mafia were confused when, the day after being sent out on a mission, Q was covered in rainbow band-aids. It soon became a pattern, Q’s injuries taken care of the way a parent would handle their kid’s. It became so habitual that Dazai got hurt on a mission and Odasaku had to stop himself from offering him a bright purple bandage.

Oda never told his kids about Q, but he told Q about his kids. The stories made them a little bit sad, but how happy Oda looked was more than enough to make up for it. They asked questions through his stories, and he recounted the adventures of Kousuke, Katsumi, Yuu, Shinji, and Sakura upon request.

He taught them the games and songs he played with the kids. They loved playing them, and he smiled as they enthusiastically tried to beat him at rock-paper-scissors.

You know, this ask seems incredibly good and stuff.

But I actually haven’t seen Fate Zero so I wouldn’t actually know!

Sorry... (I do love your AU asks though, they’re so interesting)

A List of Anti-Racist Books

Category One: Anti-Racist Lit Starter Kit

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Category Two: Intermediate Kit

The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Category Three: Biographies, Non-Fiction Novels, Personal Narratives

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Category Four: Topic Specifics

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (poverty, housing)

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill (police violence, mass incarceration)

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong by James Loewen (education, colonialism, ahistoricism)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum (education, discrimination, bias)

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (segregation, housing, dicrimination, redlining)

Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses by Lawrence Ross (voter suppression, black voting)

Category Five: Black Centered Fiction

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Native Son by Richard Wright

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Category Six: Black LGBTQ+

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson

Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. Moore

The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Category Seven: Black Feminism

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Collins Hill

Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

In Search of Our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis