Solaris/Peppermint

commission for @talesunderau!

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reason 1 million why i love zukka: how extra insane it makes hakoda's family tree

First your fave dominates an event - duh, obviously, she's the best. Then during the part of the show where the announcer is like "anybody in the audience want to challenge her for a fat stack of cash", somebody actually does. (Obviously a tourist.) It's some kid wearing like a beginner outfit from a McDojo... and he actually wins?And gets the cash! And then the event just ends!?

You're buzzing. It's clear that this is like a storyline or something. You can't wait for next week's show. Except that there isn't one, because - as you find out through the gossip mill - your fave was actually the local billionaires' daughter who was competing in secret. And also kayfabe might not exist. And now she's gone and the billionaire is blaming a demigod (who's back from the dead? I guess?) for kidnapping her.

So, how come that means no show this week or possibly ever? Well, the billionaire hired the promoter (and a random McDojo sensei) to go after the demigod to get back his daughter (your fave wrestler!) and the guy just... packed up his entire promotion and left.

Some months later the war that's been going on since your great-grandfathers days ends. You go to a peace parade. And there she is: Toph Beifong, the Blind Bandit, giving the new Fire Lord a noogie.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by that? Maybe this just confirms what you already said, but when it comes to Adrien's paranoias especially—not just about possible murder, but even, say, the possibility of Gabriel being directly incestuous one day—the point is never whether or not it is true. (That sort of ties into my philosophy surrounding writing dread a la DOLLHOUSE but that's it's own thing.) What is "serious" is that regardless of whether or not it could happen, he has been affected by his environment to believe such and the ways in which he's been affected to have these thoughts is ultimately the important thing. He is definitely an unreliable narrator, yes. Gabriel was not the one who gifted the basket, and Adrien kind of convinced himself of that immediately despite it not being true. But his environment has also deliberately worked to convince him of untrue things before...

Especially which it comes to, say, that all-too-important scarf that Marinette gifted him in canon, which in canon he still doesn't know the truth about.

Anyway, yes. Libido/Matagot. He's really fun, and since I have a habit of hearing every character's "voices" in my head while I write/read over what I've written I reaaally wish I could recreate the voice he has. It's so whispery and... fae-like, maybe. He's always twitching a little, which you could take either as symbolic of him being more attuned to the physical body (and thus nerves), or as him sort of acting as the "holding space" for all of the imperfections that the Princess Garçon despises, neurodivergent stimming included.

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.