What If, Because Robin Was His Only "network" After However Long In Silence, Al-An Subconsciously Becomes

feeling happy now, angst lovers?

Do you have any spicynoodleshipping hcs?

Oh for sure! Probably nothing super original because I absorb headcanon from stuff I see all around the fandom and then promptly forget where i got it from 😓

But here’s a few of my favorites:

Both Red Son and MK are not super comfortable with public displays of affection. Red Son thinks himself too proper for it and MK gets easily embarrassed around people, so they keep it pretty low key when anyone else is around. The second they think they’re alone though it’s like a switch flips and they’re all over each other.. like, sitting on laps, walking with hands in each other’s pockets, running fingers (theoretical fingers, since they’re Legos lol) through hair.. it’s mushy and adorable and they both get embarrassed if someone happens to see them like that but they do it anyway~

Canonically, MK’s clones can get out of control if they exist too long, so I think one of the things that they tend to do is forget that it’s embarrassing to snuggle Red Son in public, and will just go for it. It’s one of the ways Red can tell MK’s clones apart from the original. Also, MK definitely gets jealous of his own clones sometimes if he sees this happening.. something Red Son uses to playfully annoy him at times.

Speaking of, both the boys tend to get jealous when someone else flirts with their boyfriend. MK tends to get all flustered and pouty if someone hits on Red Son and will just kinda glare at the perpetrator. Red Son is less subtle and will light them on fire if they don’t step away from the noodle boy.

Oh, Red also definitely still calls MK Noodle Boy but in like an affectionate way. Maybe he calls MK his Noodle Boy~

Also Red Son definitely catches fire when he gets overly flustered. It’s something he has to work on so he doesn’t burn his very much non flame-proof boyfriend.

I did a quick comic about it yesterday, but Red Son is much neater than MK and cares a lot more about his appearance. So I estimate he takes waaay longer to get ready in the morning. MK just kinda rolls out of bed and Red hates it lol

On that same vein, MK’s apartment is super messy and when Red Son comes over (or moves in) he always cleans the place. Sometimes he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it. He’ll be clearing off clothes from a chair to sit down and suddenly finds himself doing a load of MK’s laundry like Wait. How did this happen...? MK loves it because he hates cleaning.

MK canonically likes to draw since he illustrated a Monkey King biography, so he definitely likes to draw Red Son. He will sometimes doodle pictures of him on napkins and stuff when he’s sitting in the shop waiting for orders to take out. Maybe even silly doodles like of the two of them kissing or something cute like that~ He tries not to leave any drawings like that lying around that someone will find (because that’s embarrassing) but inevitably he misses one or two. If Red were to find one he wouldn’t say anything and would just keep it. Anyone else who found it.. Mei or Pigsy or Tang, they would probably tease him relentlessly lol

Red Son didn’t have to be introduced to video games by MK, being an inventor and engineer, he’s familiar with the concept and had tried them a bit before, but he never really got the appeal until he started playing multiplayer games with MK and Mei. MK is not very good, so Red has a fun time trouncing him, but Mei is an amazing gamer and he loves playing her because if he wins he knows he really earned it and it feels amazing! MK loves watching those two play because they get super competitive and it’s adorable watching Red Son get so invested.

When they’re out together Red will sometimes just commit crimes, not through malice or forethought, he just forgets that they’re crimes and he felt like doing them. Like... Oh that thing in this store looks neat. Yoink. Or hey that guy was rude? Well his shirt is on fire now. MK is always horrified and runs around fixing whatever has been done and apologizing on his behalf. Red never really feels bad about doing bad things, but he does feel bad about MK having to fix them. So he kinda becomes a better person after awhile not because he changes how he thinks, but just because he works to alter his behavior by stopping himself from acting on his first instincts in order to not make things hard on MK.

I’m sure there are more, but this is all i can think of for now.. I loved answering this though. If anyone has more questions about any of these answers or even some other spicynoodles ideas i’d love to hear them, send me an ask ❤️🧡

here's the rest of the gang just as promised

it is also my duty to draw something with mama bozo now

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:

the peak of character design

Scorptra > Catradora

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Never thought I’d ship a monkey and a beetle

sketch cleaning my beloved

noodle boy i love uuuu

yay a whole bunch of mk again  !!1!.. .,,,

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SJKBFKJSSFJKHFSKJHFSHJKFHS I SQUEAKED SO HARD READING THIS THANK YOUUUUUUUUU my face is so red rn jesus christ I LIKE THEM A LOT!! they're super funny to explore and i absolutely love "i cant decide whether i wanna beat the shit out of you or kiss you" dynamics there's also this shit i decided not to include in the post because it's cringe and honestly speaks certain volumes about me NONETHELESS, THANK YOU AGAIN!! i will stare at this post every night before bed bb