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eh, kinda? nothing against the ship, but in vswap felix is nooot ready for any type of romantic relationship, especially during the empress era. i will be ranting about luka now, thank you.

luka swaps with kagami in this au, but he's actually raised somewhat decently because anarka had the good sense to dip with her kids when jagged showed up with a clone of their other kid! (luka is the clone btw, they say juleka and him are twins because that's a lot simpler than saying you're a dupe of your twin and also technically a year younger than her lol)

Tomoe, a woman who values her lineage and perfection, has really high standards for whoever will contribute to her family line by fathering a daughter for her.

Eventually, she meets a guy that seems adequate, and they have a daughter together. But something happens to the father—maybe he died, or maybe he left—symbolized by the leafless bonsai tree when she's discussing men. Either way, Tomoe's perfectionism leads her to write off the whole relationship, and the daughter it led to, as a failure because of this.

(It could potentially be the cause of her high standards for romantic relationships, or just reinforce in her mind that nobody will be good enough.)

So then Gabriel comes in with "Just use dark magic to will the perfect child into existence. It worked for me!" And since it's a solution that doesn't require a relationship, and doesn't include mixing her lineage with anyone else, she takes him up on it.

So, using the Peacock Miraculous, Tomoe creates a daughter. She has no father; the only DNA she's made with is her mother's. What more could she have ever wanted than a child just like her? No surprises, surely her daughter will do whatever she wants because she'll be the exact same sort of person, and want the same things. Tomoe gives her a name meaning "mirror" because whenever she looks at her, she just sees herself staring back at her.

How fitting then, that the price to create this child was her eyesight.

Meanwhile, her elder daughter, having been old enough to understand the rejection, develops mother issues. She tries changing the relationship multiple times. Would things work with this mother? What if I was a different person? How about this mom instead? Maybe the separate mothers are all related to The Kingdom, maybe they're just people she's conned, but it's not fulfilling enough for her. Especially not when she can see her mother giving all her attention to her other daughter—her favorite.

Of course, it's because Tomoe keeps tight control over every part of Kagami's life, but all Lila sees is Tomoe actually caring what happens to Kagami, but not Lila. She didn't care to tell Kagami she has a sister, or invite Lila to the Diamond Dance, or anything.

FINALLY CSC FANART

Lore here

how much more proof do you need that he really thought this was goodbye than that look. but okay, say you don't believe me. let's just look at the manga panels here

here we have five consecutive panels of his expression not being visible. three of those he's completely black - could not be hiding any more than that. he can't put on his usual mask but he's still making sure that you don't see his true emotions. up until...

first of all the emotion this panel brings out of me holy shit. now look at his eyes. let's just remember real quick, what did harukawa say about eyes?

“This is a decision I’ve come to myself, but in my drawings, I draw bigger pupils for crazy people. I try to show how tainted a person is by reducing the whites and darkening the eyes. People on the side of the Mafia probably have larger pupils. In the character settings, if the character hasn’t gone too far and can return to the good side, I try to draw their eyes brighter. (…) I won’t tell you whom, but there is a character whose eyes cloud over whenever they show their true self. I think it would be a more interesting experience if you re-read the manga using each character’s eyes as a measure of their psychological states.”

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

It is not necessary for every feminist statement to include a 'not all men do this' disclaimer. The criticism itself already expresses the possibility that men could choose not to behave in this way.

Unless someone states that men's behavior can't change or that there is inherent evil in being a man, accusing a feminist of 'manhating' because she criticizes men is usually nothing but an attempt to distract from the content of the criticism itself.