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star princess nuru headcannons<3

i think you mean nuru my QUEEN. she’d probably be my favorite disney princess if i actually got to see her story/read a really good fic of her pov. as it stands, movie-rapunzel has the top spot and nuru is a close second because of… just everything about her.

-she likes nighttime better than daytime, not just because she’s an astronomer, but because it feels like the weight of responsibility is lighter once people aren’t constantly demanding things of her.

-mildly dysgraphic. (the math-dyslexia thing i also have.) nobody’s figured it out, and she just thinks she’s very bad at math, so she doesn’t tell anyone. the second some sort of number-involving problem is introduced, she’s already using any of her mental tricks to find the solution before anyone can even turn to her.

-the curse upon her kingdom guaranteed that the royals would stay alive to watch their subjects suffer, so nuru has survivor’s guilt.

-extremely good at all things medical due to caring for her citizens from a far-too-young age.

-did not ship varigo until she began to trust and like hugo. she wants only the best for varian.

-became friends with hugo by spitefully buying something because it made him uncomfortable to have money spent on him, only for him to retaliate by stealing a very extravagant necklace for her, until they were both holding armfuls of stuff they didn’t need and aggressively pushing them at each other. they ended up returning them, then glanced at each other and mutually decided that they’d tolerate each other now.

-asexual lesbian. (i’m so sorry guys. i don’t ship her with amber. we don’t know anything about amber, and donella is already in love with ulla, so we’ve got so much of people pining for varian and his family members. plus i think it’s cruel for varian to have a cousin named amber in the first place. whose idea was that. ((not hating on anyone who ships them; i just personally don’t see the appeal.)))

-she’s very good at scathing remarks disguised by politeness. she’d be great on bbc sherlock.

-she started out very reserved and stoic, but gradually came out of her shell around the boys, getting to the point where varian accidentally said “my balls” instead of “my chemical formulas/my orbs/literally anything else” and nuru laughed hysterically for three minutes straight. varian gave her the silent treatment for a while after this.

-she makes her own star maps. like, dotting out where each one is in the sky, then tracing her own constellations depending on her mood. it’s her own form of art.

Farewell online privacy

something something hugo letting his hair down and allowing his vision to be partially obscured, trusting others to keep watch, not being on guard, letting himself rest for once

something something varian revealing what he’s kept hidden and protected despite the risk of being hurt in the process, and he ends up being held

i don't know if you've gotten an ask like this before but i just love hugo so much. do you have any headcanons for him that you must share with the public (TELL ME TELL ME NOW I BEG)

Yayyy Hugo headcanon time!!

He’s a bottle blonde, whether it’s cuz his natural hair is brunette or another shade of blonde

Hugo cannot swim at all. Like, my guy was PANICKING during the water trial

He sees Donnie as his mother

Doesn’t like sweet things because he doesn’t have a sugar tolerance after spending so much of his life in poverty (got this from the silent opera)

Unlabeled in terms of sexuality. I feel like he either wouldn’t care or wouldn’t have time to figure out a label for himself and settles for “I’m attracted to the person, not the gender”

Him wearing his hair down around the others is some kind of metaphor for letting his guard down (will die on this hill)

Knew about Varian being the Alchemist before Varian told everyone

This ^^ being said, he also freaked out once he found out/realized because he idolized the Alchemist the way Varian did Flynn Ryder

Sees Nuru as his sister (I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP)

Nuru is his maid of honor at his and Varian’s wedding

Yong is his best man ^^

Dropped a piano on Eugene’s head when they were on a thieving job years ago 😼

Born to wear his heart on his sleeve, forced to keep it locked away. He’s such a lover boy at heart

Almost left Corona after the trials were over because he thought it would be “better for everyone” but Varian convinced him to stay

Took him years to get used to living in the castle

Forged his and Varian’s wedding rings because I think it’s the sweetest thing ever (got this from dasketcherz)

Tells Yong stories until he falls asleep (at first he did it to brag about his adventures as a thief, but he grew to genuinely enjoy it)

Constantly incorporating magic into his engineering

There’s a lot more but these are just what I could think of on the spot 🫡

Thank you for the ask <333

“actually, despite all their actions that prove who they are, Lying Liar McFalsehoods said this to Gullible von Naïveté, and Gullible von Naïveté believed them, so your take is bad” is a statement i read way too often on here.

me a while ago, seeing fanart of POC varian: that’s a neat concept!

me, getting back into this fandom: …HOLY SHIT WAIT that would add so much to s1. the persecution he faces from the king and his village. the way he’s vilified. even the s3 stuff, like how he has a fawn response around the mains and how hard he has to work for them in order to be treated like he belongs, though he’s apparently only paid for his efforts when he becomes the royal engineer-instead-of-alchemist… people who depict POC varian, you geniuses.

fanartists, i’m curious. did you factor in everything that canonically happens when you reimagined varian in that way, or did you make the drawings first?

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today, my sister did jazz hands in my direction, but only used one hand. she half-jazzed it.

With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

i feel strongly about this

^^^^^ precisely. also whoa, I can’t believe you’re on good terms with Hugo.

Varian gets tanner and more freckly in the sun and Hugo just burns. There is no cure. Aloe vera & whatever concoctions Varian can whip up are helpful, but they just reduce him to his pale self again. He is doomed to either be pink/red or pasty. Varian desperately tries not to find it funny.

someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"