Quacks In Red

louie duck and oc’s

they’re honestly my comfort ship

Domestic Bruise AU Adventures

Cole at his History Sub job.

Everyone is around the actual history teacher, Ms. Wafer, celebrating her semi-return since she's had her baby.

Problem is the baby got upset at some point and won't stop crying.

Mr. Wafer keeps trying to cradle them, coo, even excuses herself from the small party. When she comes back for a sixth time, she's ready to call it quits.

The teachers are sad to see her go, but don't blame her. Some ask for a hug before she goes, and she complies. She asks Cole to hold her baby and he agrees (since the others are too nervous to hold a crying baby, the cowards).

She's two hugs in when Wafer realizes- the crying stopped.

The group look to Cole.

He has had the baby in his massive ham hands for barely 20 seconds, and the baby is fast asleep.

She gets through the last of the hugs and asks Cole if she can have her child back. Cole looks heartbroken but complies.

The baby immediately wakes up and starts getting upset- And Ms. Wafer puts the baby back in Cole's hands and they fall back asleep.

Everyone is staring. Everyone is silent.

The party goes on another hour until Jay picks Cole up and the baby refuses to leave Cole's arms.

little bruiseshipping one-shots cover re-do,, am currently rewriting all the one-shots i wrote in middle school

and possibly adding more </3

Every other day I find myself doodling BC stuff lmao

she’s wearing her gf’s jacket 😳😳

found ty irl

guys i watched dead meat's danganronpa kill count and it honestly irks me that they considered chihiro a "they"

headcanons aren't canon!!!! chihiro is explicitly said to be male bc he was literally bullied into it to protect himself bc of japanese gender roles

if he was trans, he wouldn't have gone to mondo to be stronger- mondo was literally everything chihiro wanted to be from an outside perspective

and i don't think taichi would be the type to misgender his kid

canonically, chihiro is male. it's fine to have headcanons as long as it doesn't directly impede a character's story/arc. if you don't get that, you don't understand his character or story.

EDIT: (under the cut)

gender roles in japan are (or at least were) very strict. boys were supposed to be strong and chihiro was not, so he got bullied relentlessly for it. since he was seen as weak and feminine, he decided to pretend to be a girl to get the bullying to stop. and it worked. the only issue was that if he was ever found out, he’d be bullied even more for crossdressing.

chihiro never wanted to be a girl and only did it because he wanted the bullying to stop. he is quite literally uncomfortable at the others treating him as a girl.

chihiro looked up to mondo because he was a strong man and wanted to be trained by him- he even declined sakura’s offer because she was a woman.

the second motive made him motivated to share his secret- to be strong enough to let the truth out and finally be himself. a lot of his dialogue gives an insight on his insecurity of being weak and his desire to be a strong man. he wants to be a man.

if you headcanon him as trans, that is fine. that is your headcanon. my personal problem is that it feels like a lot of the takes i’ve seen undermine his story or it’s just people insisting he’s canonically trans. his character arc and over all characterization is very heavily centered around the topic of gender and gender roles/masculinity and i’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a critique on those topics. and it’s important to keep in mind that these topics are seen differently between somewhere like the usa and japan. this game was released in 2010 and no game after has stated that chihiro identifies as anything different. alter ego- a program that chihiro created and i doubt he intended on sharing with anyone uses he/him pronouns for him. chihiro programmed something secret and gave himself he/him pronouns. the AI of chiaki that chihiro also helped create refers to chihiro as her and monomi’s father. it’s not supposed to be anything all that deep.

can his story be seen as an allegory? yes, absolutely. if you resonate with that, then that’s your comfort space. but don’t be one of those people that project onto the character.

my issue with dead meat’s kill count is that usually they follow canon and mention canon elements. to put chihiro as a “they/them” is just incorrect, no matter how much discourse it may create. this is my complaint. i know they took the safe route, but it is explicitly said that chihiro is a boy and identifies as such. i don’t remember if this was the japanese version only, but mondo refers to him using masculine pronouns and nicknames. chihiro is canonically a cisgender male and he always has been.

if you can identify with the trans take, that’s great- but please understand his character and the journey he goes through within the game. he’s not supposed to be trans representation so don’t look at it him like he is.

tl;dr - while i personally dislike the “chihiro is trans” headcanon, i don’t care if you do. my issue is that if you’re going to cover the game’s story and it’s characters, it needs to go off of canonical elements. acknowledging outside debates is fine, but don’t let headcanons bleed into your actual coverage.

the more i learn about stars the more i can link it to mabel pines oh what a joyous day

mr cultist I think you forgot a kid