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If the shane gang (plus tad, twist, and junjie) had childern in the future, what kinda dad's (and or mom) would they be like?

I have actually thought about this.

A lot.

Believe it or not.

Eli: He's a good dad. Eli has more or less decided that he's staying in Slugterra, he doesn't have to do what his dad did, in leaving the Caverns for periods of time to spend with his kid. but it dose raise some concerns. I see Eli being very protective. And he is really trying to be present in his kids life more often then his own dad was in his own. Then there's the Shane Secrets, I think Eli would be open with them as the kid gets older, he keeps the 'no slinging till 15 rule', there are a few things Eli will let the kid figure out themselves, but I don't think he'll say a thing about the 'Burning World' unless absolutely necessary, after all why tell when heading Top Side isn't really important? And I see that causing problems down the line. over all he is trying his best, and is a lot more present.

Trixie: best mom! she is a little strict but someone has to make sure the kid has some common cense. Trixie is going to document every moment of that kids life. she is going to be exited if her kid shares a love of film making, and would tech them everything she knows. See her encou raging the kid to try new things, and finding their own path outside of Trixie's own heroics.

Kord: top tier wish he was my dad. Kord is the dad. much like Trixie he's a little strict but, again, kid's gotta have some rules to live by. he will teach them everything he knows about engineering, especially how to make a Jetpack out of a Mecha Beast. 'you never know!'. Kord has also been shown to be real perceptive so I don't think the kid's are going to have an easy time hiding things from him.

Pronto: He is surprisingly okay at being a father. he's got the tails to tell at bedtime, the dad jokes locked in. and can and will stab someone if they mess with his kid. and, I guess, this dose mean the kid is like, the prince/princess/heir of Molemound? so their probably going to get spoiled lol. and I bet Pronto is going to make it a whole deal of them following in his foot steps as a tracker, maybe feign a little jealousy is the kid turns out to be a better tracker be Pronto is like, super proud. he will constantly bring up having navigated the Cavern of Time to the time it gets to be that one story the kid and their friend's dread hearing and sigh/roll their eyes when Pronto starts to monolog. all in all, Pronto loves his kid, they may get on his nerves but he wouldn't have it any other way.

Junjie: GIRL DAD GIRL DAD GIRL DA- *Cough - Cough* sorry, just had to get that out. Nervous wreck of a man. but he's doing his best damn it. I keep going back to it, but the Goon messed him up man. he is afraid, even after all this time he's going to mess this kid up, and hurt them. He dose not want what happened to him to happen to his kid, so Junjie is protecting them by having them learn and master Slug-Fu or so help him.

assuming they get redeemed

Twist: Congratulations Twist and his rat self is raising a expert survivalist and con artist. Once a street rat always a street rat. While the 'home situation' may be stable atm, Twist preps his kid for whatever he can think of. Twist 2.0 one might say. over all Twist care's, and dose not what his kid to go through what he did. oh and, depending on the context, a rivalry with Eli's kid is encouraged lol. the embodiment of;

"Sir, your child got into a fight at lunch"

"... Okay, but did they win?"

kids real good at acting as well :)

Tad: has had time to reflect, and after everything, he's trying to brake by cycle. He has his moments, Tad isn't always sure what he's doing, he is constantly asking the others(if able to) about what he should do. Tad dose try to hide most of the Blakk legacy from the kid, but it ends up crashing down on the kid sooner or later, and at that point... best to deal with each revelation as it happens.

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over all, they would make sure their kids where ready for whatever there world threw at them, but hope that they never had to deal with anything on the level of what they did.

History must not repeat itself. They all worked too hard for that to happen.

Slugterra: a cautionary tale on why queer people need to stay friends with their ex's

I started working today, then got an idea for a slugterra gay time travel fic, and spent an hour rough-drafting the plot...wtf is wrong with meeeee

my notes app is deranged, and long, and in so many ways I am doomed

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Flute shows up one time in Slugterra and I wanted to learn it lmao

and yes, pronto has the wrong fingerings and is using too much teeth. BUT, he only has 4 fingers so the instrument might just have different fingerings; it probably feels more like a baroque/medieval flute to play, which I admire from this character I otherwise am lukewarm to, since baroque flute takes alot more air and embrochure trickery than the modern metal flute I play here.

YALL

I'm rewatching slug fu showdown.

and I realized - the flute part pronto plays during master shanai's funeral? It's actually played twice in the show.

the second time? THE FIRST SCENE OF JUN TEACHING ELI.

BRIAN CARSON I LOVE YOU IM CRYING THATS BEAUTIFUL.

It transforms from a sound of loss; for life, and for Eli's education and knowledge of the world...into wonder and hope, because he's found a new teacher, and a new friend. That's BEAUTIFUL.

the shadow clan keep to themselves mostly, but get involved when a)they hate someone and b) when they harm slugs. Tad fired on them in their first meeting, so a was checked off, and then started ghouling in mass droves, so...yeah, after amity cavern they were hella spying

Do you think that the shadow clan would you tries to watch tad?

Pre Deep Cavern banishing?

Totally.

Its been shown in Cannon the Shadow Clan do keep tabs on what's going on in the 99 Caverns. But because of their aversion to light/bright areas can't necessarily do much without risking harm to themselves in some way.

Though they do mainly stick to their territory, I'm not above thinking that a few members of the Clan lurk in the shadows and watch what potential threats do to keep tabs on them.

So yeah, I can totally believe the Shadow Clan watch Tad, but can't do much unless they absolutely have too.

What's TEAL? : 0

oh! "To End A Legacy," on ao3. I started it a while back. And I shorten it to "TEAL" constantly in my authors notes so I got used to just writing it like TEAL so my bad

it's actually confuzzling me rn, what that average slugterran knows.

Eli knew the deep caverns, but not dark bane specifically, or that dark water exists. Kord talks about dark water like it's something trolls have stories about, but not much experience with. and the Shane's have a drop for the chasm that leads to the portal from what lies beneath, which feels overkill in terms of hiding their stuff. Unless:

maybe they know of the deep caverns, but it's more of a legend that's considered probably true to people, like dark water. Like they know there's a hell down there, but till...recent history...no one went down there, so who knows what was down there? And the Shane's were fine with that very shallow understanding.

this assumption is also helped by the common misconception of the shadow clan. Slugterra society's view of them is based on legend, even though they are easier to see, and definitely believed to be real. Maybe slugterrans know it very basically as "the evil ppl in hell and the evil shadow clan fought like a trillion years ago, ooo scary", and only a few experts know the truth (blakk reading the sacred texts possibly depicting this history comes to mind).

...I'm sure I'm missing a line in some early episode that clears things up, but the show actually does a decent job of giving us the smallest possible clues ever and keeping this fandom alive on 40% "WAIT I JUST REALIZED" moments, so I'd love to hear any scenes you all remember that can help this discussion

Why did it take 4 rewatches of s1 to realize Eli says "if blakk has buisness w the deep caverns we don't know what else can can do" at the end of the deadweed episode?

meaning, will ACTUALLY told him about the deep caverns?!?!? And knew the whole time?!?