oh boy. sadism and praise kink. he likes to feel powerful, and in control, and smart, and strong, and capable (and useful, and desired, and-)

since akechi's outfits follow his personas' design philosophy (robin hood gets a gallant-looking outfit, loki gets a... slinky-looking outfit), the new outfit should also reflect the core of hereward's design. so, urban armor? my mind also goes to biker fits with textured leather...

not really a proper fic for #bottomjokerweek2025, but the idea hit me just now as i was looking at today’s prompts and wouldn’t let me go until i wrote it down

1) exhibitionism. he doesn't prefer the spotlight all the time, when he has it, he HAS IT, and thrives on giving a good performance

fksfjkhgkslk hi it's me, mx gecko, and this feels true to how i pretty much always end up feeling alienated in fandom

If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.

the only thing more difficult about japanese than maintaining your kanji is being able to reliably tell シ and ツ apart