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The Last of Us

Updated headcanons list since I haven't done one in a while

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-After the series is over Zoe gets Krel a job at Hex Tech and unofficially takes him on as her own apprentice

-Nana and Toby helped Barbara and Strickler get all of the Changeling babies adopted. Ophelia and Javier end up adopting 1 or 2 of them to be Not/Enrique's and Claire's siblings

-Ophelia probably has some really weird hobbies that she passed on to her daughter. So while the gang was in Camelot, Claire agreed to spend a little bit of her free time helping Steve practice swordfighting when Lancelot wasn't around

-Rise of the Titans was just a weird fever dream that Steve had after coming back to the present time. Douxie killed Bellroc and Skrael, Nari and everyone else lives happily ever after, The End.

-Jim, Claire, and Toby all go to college together!! Claire and Toby graduated high school, and Jim takes the year after Wizards to readjust to human life and gets his GED

-After Wizards, Jim now can transform between his human and troll form at will. Most of the time he chooses to stay as a human

-After canon Nari spends a lot of time with the group, but especially Jim. I think she would curl up on his chest and fall asleep. It doesn't really work out in his human form, but if he's in his troll form and stressed out she'll climb on him and start 'purring.' (Imagine a really big cat with antlers)

-The amulet stays broken at the end, but it's fine because Jim remembers that he's the Trollhunter with or without it. Even if the Akiridion one gets made later on, he recognizes that it's not necessary

-Jim walks his mom down the aisle at her wedding, and Blinky officiates it (he's not licensed)

-They have to explain to Blinky what a human proposal/engagement/wedding is. The concept intrigues him a LOT, so with Claire's help he manages to put his own spin on a proposal to AAARRRGGHH :)

-There's some universe out there where Morgana redeemed herself+lived after Wizards and becomes the cool wine aunt

-After the summer that the Tarrons came to Earth, a lot of students became more open about their identity. Shannon & Connie become a couple, Darci experiments with being NB, and Mary is unlabeled but loudly proclaims that "she likes girls"

-Douxie and Zoe got married one time like 300 years ago partly for shits & giggles and partly for tax reasons (America is expensive). They never talk about it (tbh the certificate is a couple hundred years past being valid) but she still wears a ring to prevent people from hitting on her

- ⬆️ I don't think they would be in a super exclusive relationship with each other, mainly bc sometimes they fight and will go their separate ways for a couple years. But they do care about each other and even if one has pissed the other off, they'll still have each other's backs

-At some point they all go on a trip around the world together for different reasons. Jim wants to learn more about different culture's foods, Claire and Steve are into the fine arts and history of different regions, Toby's interested in seeing geography that's not in California (his life goal is to have a rock off of Mt Everest), and Douxie's in it to see how things have changed since the last time he visited wherever

-The main thing that started it was Eli wanting to take the Tarrons to a different country. Varvatos didn't want to let the twins go without him, Steve didn't want Eli or Aja to go without him, eventually it turned into everyone coming along

-Don't worry about how they pay for all of that

-ToA takes place in the same universe as HTTYD and Rise of the Guardians

-In my heart Jim is the real Hiccstrid descendant, because 1. Barbara kind of looks like Valka, and 2. fuck The Nine Realms

-I hate the ending to The Hidden World, but even if the dragons didn't leave in the end they are not as common a sight in modern times, especially in urban/suburban places like Arcadia. But there is enough historical art and enough information in museums about dragons that Jim has an interest in them. Hence the Night Fury background on the computer

-Douxie and Jack have 1000% crossed paths at some point. I think he was the first person to believe in and see Jack, and the reason Jack ever learned that he could be seen if people believed in him. But I don't think Douxie ever told him he was immortal and now they're far apart and haven't seen each other in 300 years 💔 someone set up a reunion event for them

-Nana and Douxie have tea together 2 times a month. He tells her stories about his adventures and she tells him about her experiences during the war. Her real age is a secret to everyone but him :)

Not to me. Not if it’s you.

we are infinite

wip!!

very excited about how this is turning out so far

College AU dumps!

I always liked the idea that they both work at NASA post true pacifist

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

I would 100% pay you money to have another picture just like this but it's Joel 20 years later with Ellie in Jackson instead and she also has cowboy boots!

I had this exact conversation with my dad when I got my first pair of boots

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This is just for science but, if you had a dsmp phase at some point, reblog this, i wanna see how many of us there was that is currently here :3