Aisha Laborn - Tumblr Posts
I'm fricken stupid as hell having these kinds of revelations days after the fact, but I read a character analysis on Alec that tapped into the reason his power is the way it is; that it takes 15 min to an hour to act, can only control a max of 4 at a time and that his nerve map memory imprint thing or whatever that lets him resume control instantly is basically permanent, and how all of that was because he's the kind of Master who only needs a small group to stand up for him and protect him (the other members of his family/HB's cult) vs someone like Taylor's Master power where she needed minions that could be found everywhere, which could watch everything and attack from every direction. Alec needing members of his family to physically act in his defense (rather than feel emotions for him or have his mind take over theirs) but getting an ability to force them to do so. <- All of this covered by the post, just bringing it up to give context to my thought;
DOESN'T THIS RECONTEXTUALIZE AISHA WILLINGLY GIVING HERSELF OVER TO HIM?!
All his minions during his warlord arc are probably paid for, or weren't aware that being around him 24/7 meant he could hijack their nerves.
But here comes Aisha and she's like "I want you to take over my body." and I was initially thinking ooh it's just a parahuman version of sexual experimentation, teenagers do that, I get it, I won't pretend it doesn't happen but DOESNT THIS MEAN SHE BASICALLY ASKED HIM TO GIVE HER HIS TRUST? Like, all he needed to not trigger was probably someone in his family or the tight knit cult standing up to Heartbreaker (not going to happen) but still? And Aisha is coming along and saying "I'm that someone. I trust you. You can trust me. You're not your father, you won't abuse this, I'm giving you consent under the jokey teenager, not serious guise of fooling around with you wearing my skin."
Maybe that plays into why Aisha goes after Heartbreaker, why she adopts the Heartbroken and why she makes that her mission. To continue his legacy after his death, to be the kind of person the Heartbroken needed the way Alec needed someone. She does kinda do that with Taylor too, fucking up Nero later on, though beyond those two examples I kinda struggle to nail down where she's continued a loved one's legacy. Oh, except maybe where she helps Taylor in Brian's place during GM. That could work too.
I'm still figuring out how to Tumblr but if I find that post again I'll link it here in the replies.
alecs first time possessing aisha. it was probably weird to feel something other than anger in someone else for him.
you're gonna go far kid undersiders animatic send post
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melancholic imp : (
she so .
"@megamuscle885-blog already seen these particular posts but the thought of me is very appreciated"
AAAGH LOOK AGAIN! I think everyone on Wormblr deserves to see and remember Imp as much as possible. Canonically photographs of her disappear and fade out her image, but would in-universe fanart disappear? Paintings? Could artistic expression be enough to create enough degrees of separation from her actual image that her power can't wipe her away? You know what my next question is, of course.
Regent, with his canon artistic skills, should've drawn or painted something of her everyone could remember her by.
melancholic imp : (
she so .
wormblr as a collective should show aisha amélie specifically the part where amélie is fucking with the grocer you know that sequence. decreasing the sizes of his shoes so he thinks his feet are growing. changing his speed-dial for his mom with the mental health hotline. swapping doorknobs, his toothpaste for foot cream, his lightbulbs to make the room seem dimmer, like his vision is dying. bits of metal in the cord for his lamp so it sparks when he plugs it in and makes him scream. all of these things for enrichment to inspire her to greater heights of gangstalking someone.
The furry undersiders trend was half a year ago BUT I believe in coydog Rachel
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the undersiders are really funny because every single teenager on that team is fucked up in a unique and extraordinarily weird way and yet all of them are convinced that they're the single normal person on the team. every undersider team meeting involves all of them thinking "what freaks....i'm the only normal one here" simultaneously
undersiders doodles that im having fun with while chilling, very low effort. might post more ms paint doodles that i've done/am doing cus its satisfying to see them here
The furry undersiders trend was half a year ago BUT I believe in coydog Rachel
@lakesbian
the undersiders are really funny because every single teenager on that team is fucked up in a unique and extraordinarily weird way and yet all of them are convinced that they're the single normal person on the team. every undersider team meeting involves all of them thinking "what freaks....i'm the only normal one here" simultaneously
undersiders doodles that im having fun with while chilling, very low effort. might post more ms paint doodles that i've done/am doing cus its satisfying to see them here
>be me, pizza guy in shittiest port town on Earth Bet
>terrible tips and get robbed for pizza so often I have honest to god decoy pizzas
>get called to deliver to this weird old warehouse like three times a week and have to roll the dice on how it's gonna go
>there's this whole Burger King Kid's Club worth of diverse teenagers that live there and I never know who I'm gonna get
>worst kid there is the one that answers the door 90% of the time. I hate this little fucking shit
>black haired boy. Dainty little prince pretty boy type. Always the one who calls the orders in, and always gives some stupid ass fake name like he's fucking Bart Simpson. "I.C. Weiner" and "I.P. Freely." That kind of shit.
>like half the time I think I'm delivering a depression-meal since he's dressed like he just woke up, and I'd feel bad except he makes some smartass remark every time, and since I see him every other goddamn day, it's almost always the same joke. Also tries to get free pizza by saying it's 30 minutes or free, except no one has done that program since like 1993, so he's pulling shit from tv. I don't need a fucking comedy routine from a kid in cookie monster pajama pants. Bad tipper. Whatever cash he has in his pocket.
>he's on the shitlist because, and I don't know how the fuck he does this, but every time the pizza is "late", this fucking kid trips me somehow. Or I drop my phone or the pizza bag or keys. Swear to god this kid has Home Alone tripwires or something.
>and every time it happens. Every fucking time. This little bastard says "have a nice trip."
>would say he's a cape, but every cape I've ever met has had some kind of presence, and I'm not giving that much credit to someone with a four-hair teenage mustache
>hate this smug little fucker and I'd have him blacklisted if this fucking building and its weird teenage polycule didn't make up like 50% of our orders for the neighborhood. 0/10, I hope you die
>be me, Brockton Bay pizza man. Deliver to welding building. Name on order is "Dick Hardly." Little prince opens the door. He has a sidekick. Black girl counterpart. They give me matching shit-eating grins. I hate my fucking job.
And who's to say the power doesn't stay in effect after you die? If Aisha falls down the stairs or gets killed in the heat of battle, who's to say her power won't make her friends permanently forgot her? What must it be like, living with that fear hanging over you.
Damn, doesn't it kind of suck the impermanence of Aisha? Doesn't it kind of suck to be forced to stay out of pictures with friends so they don't just slowly disappear over time. Isn't it awful that in order to ever keep memories that last, you can never be in them? Do you think it hurt to watch as every picture of you and your dead brother slowly turned to static? To see every video of you two together disappear? Some people worry their entire lives over the idea that after they die they'll be forgotten, but what must it feel like to live it? To be forgotten and see others forget you. To see everything that could have proven your existence fade away forever.