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Flash Flood Exchange Letter 2023
Hello, Flash Flood Exchange creator! Thank you for writing for me! I'm Mal or Mali (and ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
malachiical as well); I'll try to keep each individual section of this letter brief -- this is a flash exchange, after all -- and you should be able to skip to wherever you like with anchor links and/or just expand the parts relevant to you via cut. I hope our ids align and you have a blast writing, because I'm definitely looking forward to whatever you come up with!
General DNWs
General Likes
Porn Likes
Keroro Gunsou | Sgt. Frog - Kururu/Saburo Mutsumi
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Doctor Fugue/Robert
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Eugene Otto/Robert
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) - Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
General DNWs
General Likes
Porn Likes
Keroro Gunsou | Sgt. Frog
Kururu/Saburo Mutsumi
[Where you can find the series: Here or here!
Most Pertinent Episodes:
S1 E9A - introducing both characters
S1 E28B - Mutsumi's not in this one, but shows Kururu's personality + how he's "allergic" to cute/sweet/pure things (and people)
S1 E47A - Mutsumi's not in this one, but "Kururuko" helps the rest of the platoon make Hinamatsuri "more interesting"
S1 E49A - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu shocks everyone by not being a jerk... for a bit, maybe
S1 E51 - the Platoon "leaves forever" (only not)
S2 E82A - 623 hosts a competition to let one fan meet him face-to-face; "Kururuko" enters
S2 E83B - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu accidentally gets turned into a baby!
S2 E101 - the Garuru Platoon invades; this episode and the next two are a three-parter, plotty and actually kinda serious
S2 E102 - the Garuru Platoon invades; three-parter continued
S2 E103 - the Garuru Platoon invades; three-parter continued
S3 E112 - Kururu and Mutsumi first meet, and Mutsumi winds up with Kururu's reality pen
S3 E134B - Mutsumi's not really in this one, but Kururu and Fuyuki go to Akihabara and it has some fun stuff in it
S4 E161 - the Platoon is attacked by an outside group; Mutsumi shows up to help
S4 165A - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu is just great in it
S4 171B - Mutsumi's not in this one, but it shows a bit more of Kururu's personality and way of doing things!
S4 E199 - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururuko becomes an idol!
MOVIE 3 - Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 3: Keroro vs. Keroro Great Sky Duel - again plotty and kinda serious, some fun shippy scenes
S5 E214 - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu quits the Platoon temporarily for the dumbest reason and it's great
S5 E229 - B story focuses on them but A story sets up context; plotty and kinda serious when it gets to that point and VERY SHIPPY including the credits
MOVIE 4 - Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 4: Gekishin Dragon Warriors - again, plotty and kinda serious, has some nice scenes with both
S5 E237 - part of a story arc with the Platoon on another world; Kururu encourages the version of Mutsumi of that world
S5 E240A - this one's convoluted and dumb (complimentary) but there's a sauna sequence and the two of them working together on something... interesting
S6 E298B - Kururu's not in it; Mutsumi regularly uses the reality pen to check in on himself in alternate dimensions
S6 E307 - has some cute moments for the characters separately and shows that they'll all be together in the future
MOVIE 5 - Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 5: Creation! Ultimate Keroro, Wonder Space-Time Island - plotty and kinda serious; has a cute scene near the beginning with both of them
S7 E320A - Mutsumi's not in it; literally just the Platoon using bishounen robots to invade if you want to see Kururu as one of those (he looks like Zechs)
S7 E354B - Kururu helps Mutsumi fake being a Venusian and keep broadcasting as 623 without risking his identity
S7 E357 - fun situation where Kururu invites Mutsumi to visit Keron, things go bad, and it shows how attached all the Platoon's gotten to Earth
Watch just whichever ones you feel like, tbh!]
(I've watched most of Keroro Gunso, and I think I've seen every episode Mutsumi is in; I don't mind spoilers at all for any episodes I haven't seen, so feel free to refer to anything. I've also seen all the movies. As for the manga, I've read up through Volume 19, and I'm spoiled for stuff from later volumes! I prefer Kururu's personality in the anime and prefer anime Saburo Mutsumi to manga Hojo Mutsumi -- in personality and mostly in history as well as in name -- but feel free to incorporate details from the manga to spice things up because I do love it too! I especially love the spoilers about Mutsumi from later volumes...)
I fucking love these two assholes! I love how they don't seem like they'd click at all, except they're canonically on the same wavelength and are so obviously best friends, and care about each other in ways that are absolutely uncharacteristic for both of them. Mutsumi is friendly as hell but doesn't really get that close to anyone, keeping a mysterious distance most of the time and even not being that close to Fuyuki or Natsumi even when he gets closer to them as friends. He also seems to find a lot fairly boring, and is just so stoked by everything the aliens are doing, even (especially!) when that's invasion-of-Earth stuff; he always seems delighted to get involved in their antics! And Kururu is "the most unlikeable guy," likes to make it well known he doesn't give a shit about most things, wants to put people off, hates sweetness and light to the point that it physically injures him... and yet this upbeat, bright-eyed, adorable, kinda cool but kinda dorky teen is his BFF.
When they first meet, Mutsumi spends the whole time metaphorically pulling pigtails because he's decided he 100% wants this alien in his life; he blushes when Kururu gives him the Reality Pen! When the Keronians are all dimension hopping and they meet an alternate universe version of Mutsumi, Kururu pep talks him. Whenever Kururu's in trouble, he seems to know exactly how to get Mutsumi to come help. When Mutsumi's life is in danger in Episode 229, Kururu blows the entire budget on making him another reality pen, shows the clearest concern he's maybe shown in his entire life racing to the rescue, and puts himself right between a deadly blast and Mutsumi in order to toss him the pen. When given the opportunity to invite the humans they care about to visit Keron, Kururu immediately does, Keroro knows he has without being told, and Kururu's the one who investigates the whole invitation and sounds the alarms on it being a trap. At one point, Mutsumi and Kururu go to a sauna together and Mutsumi agrees to make a steamy video for him, because why not? Mutsumi asked Kururu to teach him how to resonate, which is something Platoons do together but can also canonically be romantic!
These two do not seem like they would work, and yet they absolutely do, know they do, and embrace it. It's wonderful. I don't even have more to say, I just love how all-in they are on each other... not even "despite themselves," per se, because they don't seem to resist it at all after Kururu's reluctance on that first day!
Requested Tags
Canon-Specific DNWs
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Doctor Fugue/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.]
For Doctor Fugue/Robert, this takes a little bit of explaining, since their interactions are minor and not particularly significant. But the more I thought about them individually, I liked what their slight interplay does say about them and how the shapes of their arcs kinda work together.
Doctor Fugue is undead, a doctor and supernatural (mad) scientist, a Victorian-ish ghost. One who haunts the church and can't leave. He employs what he thinks of as a little group of undead children to help him graverob bodies for his raising-the-dead experiments (as well as upgrading/replacing Jangles's various bits). He's a big faker; Robert flat-out says he's not a good doctor, which is proven very correct when Mona comes back. He not only hands a ten year old a magic weapon he knows nothing about and sends her and the other "kids" out with completely incorrect information, he's apparently sent multiple "group[s] of untrained misfits to their deaths without actually nowing what was going on," to the point that Charon's chewed him out about it at least once before. Fugue shoves a magic sickle into Mona's hands and pushes her out the door with a few undead "child" chaperones during the Apocalypse so that she can go take care of it; this is a whole bunch of terrible decisions all in a clump, made worse by him not understanding the situation and actually sending them on a wild goose chase in the end. Mona has to chop up and even kill multiple monsters, nearly dying more than once and actually losing an arm to the ordeal, something she makes clear to Fugue that she'll never forgive him for (which he finds fair). His whole arc seems to involve him getting a huge dose of guilt for once in his unlife, realizing just how badly he fucked this little group up, seeming to have a change of heart about the "playing Dr. Frankenstein" thing and trying in some small ways to start to make amends.
Robert, on the other hand, is posing as an undead, a doll cursed to life by voodoo. Until he tells Mona and Shirley, literally no one in the group including Fugue knows that he's a monster, not undead at all, and is also immortal (or what they call immortal) due to killing his human several decades prior; he claims to be an undead to avoid the attention of the Phagocyte. He's around 117 years old, if not a bit older, and he's often the closest thing the group has to a straight-man; he keeps his own secrets, even when it would be really helpful to share, because he rarely feels invested in others, and he doesn't tend to personally lend much of a hand, especially not to save people. He's calm and soft-spoken, good with normal human adults, and very calmly makes threats when called for as well (and sometimes even commits violence against his undead "friends," such as sewing Ringley's mouth shut, though they don't seem to mind). He, and let me state this again, killed his own human, Gene, decades before the canon starts, and tells the story at one point about how they had been one another's dearest friends and Robert had ruined Gene's entire life thoroughly until Gene had asked Robert to kill him. He says that it was and is his nature. He shows that this may not be as true as he thought.
Robert goes along on the save-the-world quest to keep everyone on track and give them even a tiny chance, but he saves Mona's life once and then tells her he'll never do it again so she'd better learn to save herself. Mona does learn, however, despite him keeping a lot of information back and outright lying at times, and he becomes more attached and invested in the outcome of their mission. It even gets to the point that he eventually fully opens up, becomes somewhat more reassuring (and even open to affectionate touch, which was Not a thing for him at first), sort of steps into a mentor role to Mona, and promptly sacrifices his own life to give her a fighting chance. His own arc involves him actually becoming attached to the situation and its people for once, to the point of purposefully sacrificing his life to give Mona a chance to survive and succeed (on what is, unbeknownst to them, a fool's errand), even admitting his own origins and past and coming face-to-face with the fact, for the first time, that maybe his nature as a monster is something he can choose to act counter to.
...So Fugue sends Mona, Robert, and the others off on a pointless quest that gets one of them killed and nearly kills two more of them, and is having to live with that fuck-up (figuratively speaking). He's obviously hit pretty hard by Robert's death and Mona's hatred of him, and comes to regret his choices and the results they had on the others, actually swearing off using corpses to make more undead for a while as he decides to use one of the fresh corpses to save Shirley's life instead. And by the end of Book One Fugue still hasn't even been made aware that Robert was a monster the whole time and has sort of... fused with the magic sickle that's supernaturally bonded to Mona. Overall, the canon, or at least Book 1, is a very interesting set of characters and relationships who are all affected and shaken badly by the general situation but also by the lies told and secrets kept, primarily by Fugue but also arguably by Robert, and the idea of two of them together really intrigues me.
Requested Tags
Canon-Specific DNWs
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Eugene Otto/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.
The exact pages with Robert talking about his backstory with Eugene Otto are here and here, but it's well worth reading the whole thing, for more context about Robert's character and also just in general!]
Quite frankly, I love this ship, there's just so much complexity here... Unhealthiness, but not for lack of trying.
I'm fascinated by how Robert talks about their relationship, how the way he tells Mona about it makes it sound like he really did legitimately want things to work between himself and Gene, likely did not realize where his immense jealousy was leading until it happened, but his mixed feelings now about not even knowing if he regrets it or not. I love that you can tell he loved Gene in his own way then and might even be capable of different, healthier kinds of love now -- might even have been more capable then than he'd believed -- but still wound up ruining Gene's life and killing him... and how Gene asked him to kill him. I love the whole monster aspect entirely, a creature who is born when you are and whose life is tied to yours in so many inextricable ways, how it leaves you both vulnerable, and all the monsters' thoughts on that. I love how their history had them so intertwined from when Gene was a young child to when he died an adult.
Also, I love how complicated and tragic they are in basically all ways, but I'd prefer a more... wistful feel than purely tragic, despite both their canon fates, if possible. And you can feel free to give them a happier ending, too!
Requested Tags
Canon-Specific DNWs
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
[If you don't actually own the game, you can find the following videos on YouTube:
BAI GAMING Video #1 - Pertinent parts are at 50:50-58:35 (The Razor, starting at the point where all the voices start coming in) and 2:12:52-2:56:12 (The Nightmare, with Voice of the Paranoid, and The Moment of Clarity with everyone)
BAI GAMING Video #2 - Pertinent parts are at 57:46-1:06:59 (The Apotheosis, with Voice of the Paranoid) and 1:39:37-2:53:04 (The Spectre and The Wraith, with Voice of the Cold)
Slay the Princess - The Spectre & The Wraith - Pertinent part is at 31:00-48:28 (The Wraith variation, with Voice of the Cold and Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #3 - Pertinent part is at 2:53:14-3:09:25 (The Wild, with Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #4 - Pertinent parts are at 26:22-46:40 (The Burned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), 1:30:29-1:49:54 (The Drowned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), and 1:53:08-2:41:07 (The Nightmare variations, with way more from Voice of the Paranoid)
Slay the Princess - All Endings - Pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 4 hours and 7 minutes, but you can easily knock it down to about 1 hour and 14 minutes by just watching their main routes: The Nightmare in the first video (2:12:52-2:40:21), The Spectre in the second video (1:39:37-2:28:30), and The Wraith variation with both of them (31:00-48:28). Or watch whatever bits of whatever playthroughs you like... Or play it yourself! Just go with whatever works for you. :D]
These two really, really intrigue me. They don't get to interact that much, but they're quite interesting in The Wraith route, and also have moments in some of the other routes -- and some similarities and general qualities -- that make me think that they could really catch the other's attention if given more opportunity.
For one thing, they are both very aware of and surprisingly in control of their bodies. (Well, their shared body. The protagonist's body. Let's just say "their bodies" for simplicity.) Voice of the Cold constantly talks about choosing to just stop feeling things, both emotions and any negative physical sensations; their back-and-forth of "Do we have to explain to you why pain is bad?" "You have to explain to yourself why it isn't," is VERY cool. But despite Voice of the Paranoid being obviously high-strung, he also has an immense amount of steel to him, not only manually running the body's autonomic nervous system during The Nightmare route, but also showing up specifically to keep Voice of the Broken in check during The Apotheosis route after Broken let The Tower into their mind which led to their death.
There are also little details, such as the fact that Cold usually shows up after you kill the Princess in cold blood and then yourself, and Paranoid also encourages killing yourself if you become trapped in The Nightmare route due to killing her. This actually leads to Cold showing up... And interestingly, before that, if the protagonist says to the Hero and the Paranoid that it'd be fine to be stuck in the void forever because they're the best company, Paranoid says, "Oh, you could do better than us," and that's right before Cold comes into the picture. In The Wraith route, he and Cold and Hero and the protagonist have to all work together to toss their body into the void with The Wraith in it, if they choose that route, and the "everyone on the count of three" moment Paranoid takes charge of is just neat.
And in a general sense, I really think they could... see something interesting in each other. Paranoid is nervy and definitely hasn't shut off his emotions at all, but he also has that aforementioned steel and sharp control over himself/his body/The Body, that might be even more intriguing and impressive based on how unexpected it is. And Cold is a dangerous person, yes, but is actually less dangerous to the other voices than someone like the Broken or even the Smitten, and might also be easier to predict than someone like the Opportunist or even the Hunted -- you know exactly what his danger is, if he's going to be dangerous. And at the same time, Paranoid seems to trust the other voices in a way he doesn't trust anyone "other," and Cold seems to want to help the other voices, often trying to give them advice on how to get through situations without breaking down. There's an automatic sort of rapport there that makes it more likely they'd get close to each other than if they were just ordinary people with their same personalities.
Finally, speaking of that, I do love the bodysharing and would be super into that if you want to roll with it, but I also love a theoretical post-canon situation where maybe the voices are all getting their own bodies. You don't even have to get into how and why they have different bodies if you want to do that; just handwaving it would be fine!
Requested Tags
Canon-Specific DNWs
General DNWs
General Likes
Porn Likes
Keroro Gunsou | Sgt. Frog - Kururu/Saburo Mutsumi
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Doctor Fugue/Robert
The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Eugene Otto/Robert
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) - Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
General DNWs
- dubcon (unless otherwise requested!)
- smut with characters under 16
- gore or permanent injury (unless otherwise stated)
- permanent character death (unless otherwise stated)
- infidelity
- halves of a ship feeling like they really just don't like or care about each other at all (even with more complicated stuff I am a BIG SOPPY ROMANTIC)
- a ship having sexualities that mean they aren't attracted to one another
- being ashamed of or hating one's body (even for trans stuff, if you write it; just no focus on dysphoria please)
- requested characters being permanently separated in any way, or at risk of it, by the end of the story (unless otherwise stated)
- unhappy endings
- unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- unrequested identity headcanons (mentions for OCs are fine)
- unrequested noncanon ships (background canon ships that don't break up the requested pairing are fine; mentions of OCs being in relationships with one another is fine)
- unrequested poly (mentions of OCs being in poly relationships with one another is fine)
- unnecessary use of safewords or stoplight symbols (if the characters are kinking on it that's a fine reason)
- feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (mentions of OCs being pregnant are fine; breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great!)
- scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine)
- vore, bestiality, somnophilia, mommy- or daddykink, 24/7 D/S
- canon-specific DNWs and exceptions in the fandom sections!
General Likes
- hurt/comfort!
- fics with a balance or both or ones that lean towards more comfort than hurt; feel free to get deep in the hurt but I love a sizeable focus on the comfort!
- fic rated from G through E!
- pining and culmination of pining: getting together, kissing, romantic tension/UST being resolved, mutual pining or initially one-sided pining, pining that lasts for weeks or even years
- fluff, snapshot moments of what's going on in their lives
- romantic tension, UST that eventually becomes resolved
- flirting, confident or awkward or just fuckin disastrous
- extreme loyalty
- redemption arcs, gray morality, general complexity, lighter takes on villains & villain redemption both
- hurt/comfort
- happy or at least hopeful/somewhat upbeat endings
- first times and milestones (sexual or non, doesn’t even have to be overly romantic, stuff like taking a photo for the first time together or and the like is also good!)
- I really do love age gaps tbh; especially I find older characters hot & also love when the other characters do
- descriptions of making out tbh
- trans headcanons where it’s not A Thing in the fic, no coming out or explanations necessary, or it's just accepted and not super dwelled on unless the prompt is about self-exploration. no Having To Deal With Bigotry or issuefic or anything, just character(s) happen(s) to be trans (both same gender/pronouns as in canon and different gender/pronouns are fine)
- canon divergent AUs, change one thing about a canon and maybe other things happen differently
- I like longfic if you want to write it!
- more canon-specific likes in the fandom sections!
- fic and art treats are both more than welcome!
Porn Likes
- first times and milestones
- frot, scissoring, intercrural, grinding against ass, basically all that stuff
- handjobs, fingering, oral
- romantic smut, lots of touching, focus on touching/wanting to touch and sensations and body parts, loving descriptions of partner's body (description of both stereotypically attractive and not stereotypically attractive features welcome so long as they're INTO it!), kissing during sex, hand-holding during sex, eye contact during sex, all that stuff!
- clothed sex, partially clothed sex, and clothing kink!
- inexperience, awkward, clumsy but eager and enjoyable sex
- XENO. xeno xeno xeno I am so into xeno, play around with alien genitalia and I am here for it, tentacles, cloacas, characters having both sets of genitalia, ovipositors, genitals resembling flowers or wet pinecone dick, Mouths Down There, legit whatever you can think of just g o f o r i t
- BDSM tones, mild or more formal
- praise kink and instructions/requests/begging flavors of dirty talk
- breeding kink is welcome when pregnancy is outright impossible, even if it's handwaved impossible (PIV but they know it can't happen is fine; neither has a womb and obviously it can't happen is fine; this type of sex can't even result in pregnancy but we'll talk about it anyway is fine; species are incompatible is fine)
- even without breeding kink, kinking on coming inside is also hot, but so is kinking on come/cum-play and messier sex like that
- mutually enjoyed/kinked-on breeding kink dirty talk when actual pregnancy is outright impossible and does not happen
- manhandling, hair pulling, love bites and scratches, rough but not outright painful (or only pleasantly painful) sex
- orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- alternately, multiple orgasms, "forced" orgasms that are still enjoyable
- e n t h u s i a s m and detailed descriptions of sex, just go for it
- in general, prefer the terms: penis, cock, dick, length; nipples, ass, and testicles/balls can just be called those things; vagina, vulva, cunt, or pussy if that comes up; come or cum are both fine spellings (just no "cumming")
- piv in trans smut is fine; oral and pia sex super welcome; alternatives are also loved; prefer for vagina to be called vagina, cunt, or pussy, or to be referred to vaguely, not "hole"; prefer for ass NOT to be called a vagina/cunt/pussy, but referred to vaguely & implied to be one is fine, or just called ass; fine with clit being called clit or penis/cock/dick, fine with penis being called penis/cock/dick or hen or clit
- porn is always welcome!
Keroro Gunsou | Sgt. Frog
Kururu/Saburo Mutsumi
[Where you can find the series: Here or here!
Most Pertinent Episodes:
S1 E9A - introducing both characters
S1 E28B - Mutsumi's not in this one, but shows Kururu's personality + how he's "allergic" to cute/sweet/pure things (and people)
S1 E47A - Mutsumi's not in this one, but "Kururuko" helps the rest of the platoon make Hinamatsuri "more interesting"
S1 E49A - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu shocks everyone by not being a jerk... for a bit, maybe
S1 E51 - the Platoon "leaves forever" (only not)
S2 E82A - 623 hosts a competition to let one fan meet him face-to-face; "Kururuko" enters
S2 E83B - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu accidentally gets turned into a baby!
S2 E101 - the Garuru Platoon invades; this episode and the next two are a three-parter, plotty and actually kinda serious
S2 E102 - the Garuru Platoon invades; three-parter continued
S2 E103 - the Garuru Platoon invades; three-parter continued
S3 E112 - Kururu and Mutsumi first meet, and Mutsumi winds up with Kururu's reality pen
S3 E134B - Mutsumi's not really in this one, but Kururu and Fuyuki go to Akihabara and it has some fun stuff in it
S4 E161 - the Platoon is attacked by an outside group; Mutsumi shows up to help
S4 165A - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu is just great in it
S4 171B - Mutsumi's not in this one, but it shows a bit more of Kururu's personality and way of doing things!
S4 E199 - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururuko becomes an idol!
MOVIE 3 - Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 3: Keroro vs. Keroro Great Sky Duel - again plotty and kinda serious, some fun shippy scenes
S5 E214 - Mutsumi's not in this one, but Kururu quits the Platoon temporarily for the dumbest reason and it's great
S5 E229 - B story focuses on them but A story sets up context; plotty and kinda serious when it gets to that point and VERY SHIPPY including the credits
MOVIE 4 - Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 4: Gekishin Dragon Warriors - again, plotty and kinda serious, has some nice scenes with both
S5 E237 - part of a story arc with the Platoon on another world; Kururu encourages the version of Mutsumi of that world
S5 E240A - this one's convoluted and dumb (complimentary) but there's a sauna sequence and the two of them working together on something... interesting
S6 E298B - Kururu's not in it; Mutsumi regularly uses the reality pen to check in on himself in alternate dimensions
S6 E307 - has some cute moments for the characters separately and shows that they'll all be together in the future
MOVIE 5 - Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 5: Creation! Ultimate Keroro, Wonder Space-Time Island - plotty and kinda serious; has a cute scene near the beginning with both of them
S7 E320A - Mutsumi's not in it; literally just the Platoon using bishounen robots to invade if you want to see Kururu as one of those (he looks like Zechs)
S7 E354B - Kururu helps Mutsumi fake being a Venusian and keep broadcasting as 623 without risking his identity
S7 E357 - fun situation where Kururu invites Mutsumi to visit Keron, things go bad, and it shows how attached all the Platoon's gotten to Earth
Watch just whichever ones you feel like, tbh!]
(I've watched most of Keroro Gunso, and I think I've seen every episode Mutsumi is in; I don't mind spoilers at all for any episodes I haven't seen, so feel free to refer to anything. I've also seen all the movies. As for the manga, I've read up through Volume 19, and I'm spoiled for stuff from later volumes! I prefer Kururu's personality in the anime and prefer anime Saburo Mutsumi to manga Hojo Mutsumi -- in personality and mostly in history as well as in name -- but feel free to incorporate details from the manga to spice things up because I do love it too! I especially love the spoilers about Mutsumi from later volumes...)
I fucking love these two assholes! I love how they don't seem like they'd click at all, except they're canonically on the same wavelength and are so obviously best friends, and care about each other in ways that are absolutely uncharacteristic for both of them. Mutsumi is friendly as hell but doesn't really get that close to anyone, keeping a mysterious distance most of the time and even not being that close to Fuyuki or Natsumi even when he gets closer to them as friends. He also seems to find a lot fairly boring, and is just so stoked by everything the aliens are doing, even (especially!) when that's invasion-of-Earth stuff; he always seems delighted to get involved in their antics! And Kururu is "the most unlikeable guy," likes to make it well known he doesn't give a shit about most things, wants to put people off, hates sweetness and light to the point that it physically injures him... and yet this upbeat, bright-eyed, adorable, kinda cool but kinda dorky teen is his BFF.
When they first meet, Mutsumi spends the whole time metaphorically pulling pigtails because he's decided he 100% wants this alien in his life; he blushes when Kururu gives him the Reality Pen! When the Keronians are all dimension hopping and they meet an alternate universe version of Mutsumi, Kururu pep talks him. Whenever Kururu's in trouble, he seems to know exactly how to get Mutsumi to come help. When Mutsumi's life is in danger in Episode 229, Kururu blows the entire budget on making him another reality pen, shows the clearest concern he's maybe shown in his entire life racing to the rescue, and puts himself right between a deadly blast and Mutsumi in order to toss him the pen. When given the opportunity to invite the humans they care about to visit Keron, Kururu immediately does, Keroro knows he has without being told, and Kururu's the one who investigates the whole invitation and sounds the alarms on it being a trap. At one point, Mutsumi and Kururu go to a sauna together and Mutsumi agrees to make a steamy video for him, because why not? Mutsumi asked Kururu to teach him how to resonate, which is something Platoons do together but can also canonically be romantic!
These two do not seem like they would work, and yet they absolutely do, know they do, and embrace it. It's wonderful. I don't even have more to say, I just love how all-in they are on each other... not even "despite themselves," per se, because they don't seem to resist it at all after Kururu's reluctance on that first day!
Requested Tags
- Alien Come Has Aphrodisiac Qualities
- Character Transformed Into Form That Produces Different Bodily Fluids Than What They're Used To
- Character very verbal about desperation
- Come as Lube
- Making Them Come and Then Using Their Come as Lube
- Sex Toy Penetration after Coming Inside
- Ejaculating Around a Urethral Sound
- Ejaculating from Urethral Stimulation
- enthusiastically sloppy blow job
- enthusiastically sloppy cunnilingus
- A Masturbates B to Ejaculation
- Sex Pollen Makes Character Ejaculate Much More Copiously Than Usual
- tentacle slime as lube
- Trans Character Explores Ejaculating with New Genitals
Canon-Specific DNWs
- N/A, really!
- non-canon background pairings I'm good with are Koyuki/Natsumi, Fuyuki/Momoka, Alisa/Fuyuki, Chiruyo/Momoka, Asami/Mois, Garuru/Pururu, Tororo/Zoruru, and/or Mekeke/Putata, if any of them show up
- I'm also into Dororo/Kururu/Mutsumi, either as a full OT3 or poly with either Kururu or Mutsumi in the center, but it's obviously not necessary!
- I'm also equally happy with the Platoon in their usual Keronian bodies, or in human bodies due to one of Kururu's inventions or something! or in human-looking robots, or even Mutsumi in a Keronian body! any would be good...
- the way these two seem so different but just Vibe, with that whole "on the same wavelength" thing
- how effortlessly Mutsumi seems to be able to make Kururu act uncharacteristically...
- including how easily Kururu just gave Mutsumi an uber-powerful, uber-rare reality pen, TWICE
- and tbh, also vice-versa? Mutsumi is distant and secretive and mysterious to literally everyone except, it seems, Kururu!
- how into the alien and alien-invasion (and maybe alien-experimentation?) stuff Mutsumi is; he wants excitement!!
- all those alternate universe versions of him!
- THAT MANGA REVEAL THAT HE WAS RAISED BY ALIENS... could it possibly even mean he's not fully human anymore somehow, maybe due to being raised by N326ans or growing up on another planet?
- those stupid haikus and his dorky fashion sense
- Kururu's dorky taste in music and his love of curry everything (and the fact that he's yellow because of bathing in curry...)
- how Kururu blatantly does care about his teammates and being liked more than he lets on
- the idea of Mutsumi learning how to resonate with Kururu's help, just because (especially since it can be, like, a relationship thing as well as a team bonding/agreement thing)
- listen, I like that they just call each other by name (and that Mutsumi calls him by "Kururuko" while Kururu's in the robot), but I feel like either of them might potentially give sickeningly sweet pet names in public to troll the other if the chance came up but that they might like it despite it also being painfully ridiculous tbh
- if you're interested, I could like trans headcanons for either/both of these characters! trans boy, trans girl, or nonbinary all work for Saburo; I have a slight preference for either nonbinary, demigirl, or trans woman Kururu. trans headcanons for any other characters that show up are also 100% good (though I'd prefer you leave Pururu, Koyuki, and Natsumi as girls, whether cis or trans!). and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Doctor Fugue/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.]
For Doctor Fugue/Robert, this takes a little bit of explaining, since their interactions are minor and not particularly significant. But the more I thought about them individually, I liked what their slight interplay does say about them and how the shapes of their arcs kinda work together.
Doctor Fugue is undead, a doctor and supernatural (mad) scientist, a Victorian-ish ghost. One who haunts the church and can't leave. He employs what he thinks of as a little group of undead children to help him graverob bodies for his raising-the-dead experiments (as well as upgrading/replacing Jangles's various bits). He's a big faker; Robert flat-out says he's not a good doctor, which is proven very correct when Mona comes back. He not only hands a ten year old a magic weapon he knows nothing about and sends her and the other "kids" out with completely incorrect information, he's apparently sent multiple "group[s] of untrained misfits to their deaths without actually nowing what was going on," to the point that Charon's chewed him out about it at least once before. Fugue shoves a magic sickle into Mona's hands and pushes her out the door with a few undead "child" chaperones during the Apocalypse so that she can go take care of it; this is a whole bunch of terrible decisions all in a clump, made worse by him not understanding the situation and actually sending them on a wild goose chase in the end. Mona has to chop up and even kill multiple monsters, nearly dying more than once and actually losing an arm to the ordeal, something she makes clear to Fugue that she'll never forgive him for (which he finds fair). His whole arc seems to involve him getting a huge dose of guilt for once in his unlife, realizing just how badly he fucked this little group up, seeming to have a change of heart about the "playing Dr. Frankenstein" thing and trying in some small ways to start to make amends.
Robert, on the other hand, is posing as an undead, a doll cursed to life by voodoo. Until he tells Mona and Shirley, literally no one in the group including Fugue knows that he's a monster, not undead at all, and is also immortal (or what they call immortal) due to killing his human several decades prior; he claims to be an undead to avoid the attention of the Phagocyte. He's around 117 years old, if not a bit older, and he's often the closest thing the group has to a straight-man; he keeps his own secrets, even when it would be really helpful to share, because he rarely feels invested in others, and he doesn't tend to personally lend much of a hand, especially not to save people. He's calm and soft-spoken, good with normal human adults, and very calmly makes threats when called for as well (and sometimes even commits violence against his undead "friends," such as sewing Ringley's mouth shut, though they don't seem to mind). He, and let me state this again, killed his own human, Gene, decades before the canon starts, and tells the story at one point about how they had been one another's dearest friends and Robert had ruined Gene's entire life thoroughly until Gene had asked Robert to kill him. He says that it was and is his nature. He shows that this may not be as true as he thought.
Robert goes along on the save-the-world quest to keep everyone on track and give them even a tiny chance, but he saves Mona's life once and then tells her he'll never do it again so she'd better learn to save herself. Mona does learn, however, despite him keeping a lot of information back and outright lying at times, and he becomes more attached and invested in the outcome of their mission. It even gets to the point that he eventually fully opens up, becomes somewhat more reassuring (and even open to affectionate touch, which was Not a thing for him at first), sort of steps into a mentor role to Mona, and promptly sacrifices his own life to give her a fighting chance. His own arc involves him actually becoming attached to the situation and its people for once, to the point of purposefully sacrificing his life to give Mona a chance to survive and succeed (on what is, unbeknownst to them, a fool's errand), even admitting his own origins and past and coming face-to-face with the fact, for the first time, that maybe his nature as a monster is something he can choose to act counter to.
...So Fugue sends Mona, Robert, and the others off on a pointless quest that gets one of them killed and nearly kills two more of them, and is having to live with that fuck-up (figuratively speaking). He's obviously hit pretty hard by Robert's death and Mona's hatred of him, and comes to regret his choices and the results they had on the others, actually swearing off using corpses to make more undead for a while as he decides to use one of the fresh corpses to save Shirley's life instead. And by the end of Book One Fugue still hasn't even been made aware that Robert was a monster the whole time and has sort of... fused with the magic sickle that's supernaturally bonded to Mona. Overall, the canon, or at least Book 1, is a very interesting set of characters and relationships who are all affected and shaken badly by the general situation but also by the lies told and secrets kept, primarily by Fugue but also arguably by Robert, and the idea of two of them together really intrigues me.
Requested Tags
- Character Transformed Into Form That Produces Different Bodily Fluids Than What They're Used To
- Character very verbal about desperation
- Coming In Pants
- Making Them Come and Then Using Their Come as Lube
- A Masturbates B to Ejaculation
- Crying During Highly Emotional/Cathartic Sex
- A getting off on seeing B crying
- Knifeplay + bloodplay
- Touching Character All Over with Hands Covered in Blood
- Ritual Bloodletting
- ritual requires a lot of come
Canon-Specific DNWs
- a strong focus on Fugue's sexism (I'd prefer for him to be capable of at least a bit of growth there; bringing it up somewhat in the context of internalized homophobia is fine)
- Fugue being entirely unrepentant post Book 1, actually
- Mona easily and completely forgiving Fugue unless otherwise requested
- implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene, if that character comes up
- Halloween, spooky, and outright horror stuff works especially well for this canon!
- Ringley's dad/Mona's parent as a background ship is super cool; feel free to give them names (and/or surnames) or not
- Fugue helping Mona resurrect Robert (probably partly out of guilt)
- AU where Robert didn't die against Ba'al
- forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow
- post-canon (or post-Book 1) fic in general
- Robert still being alive in Mona's sickle and being able to be brought back and/or show up as a ghost that way
- the sickle thing, if that idea is used, meaning that Mona is now immortal and also not aging (oops)
- Fugue finding out super belatedly that Robert is a monster, like possibly even 1-3 years after Book 1 (but less time than that is also good)
- protectiveness of any of the requested characters towards any of the others
- Fugue eventually being forgiven, at least mostly, at least by most of the characters
- Mona softening a bit on Fugue but still not forgiving him (like, noticing he's trying hard and maybe feeling sorry for him, maybe he makes her feel more tired than angry now)
- nonhuman characters, particularly monsters, being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender
- trans headcanons in general! like I said, I like to imagine especially monster (rather than undead) characters being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender, so an interpretation of Robert not actually having anything like human gender would be cool; I can imagine him having absolutely no preferred pronouns and just going with whatever anybody calls him, but feel free to go with whatever! Fugue figuring out some odd gender stuff himself could also be interesting (nonbinary?), but maybe he was also a trans man all the way back when he was alive and mad scienced himself a transition, or his ghost shows up as the way he sees himself? (just not a trans woman for him, please!) other characters being trans if they're included could also be fun and I encourage it. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- nicknames! pet names! names in general! Fugue just calls Robert by name, and I don't think he would accept a nickname (from anyone but Gene) frankly, and he calls Fugue "Doctor Fugue" pretty constantly. what might make him shorten that to Fugue? or does Fugue have a first name (or can he not recall)? and of course Mona and Shirley are just called Mona and Shirley; under what circumstances might a nickname be used on them? (or come from them? would Robert be fine with Mona calling him a nickname?) and if you could sell me on an endearment being used by either Fugue or Robert I would LOVE it!
- for horror stuff specifically, if you go that route, feel free to kill off OCs but not any canon characters that didn't die in canon; psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters, isolated horror, and characters just telling scary stories, and I'm fine for gore and injury for this particular canon, though not exactly perma-death (obviously Dr. Fugue is perma-dead, but like, also a ghost about it, and ghosts don't count for me)
- ...I am also open to unusual takes on smut, since Robert is a living doll and Fugue is a ghost; how might either of them sexually interact with a human or with each other? can Fugue still get aroused and/or orgasm? how/why? does Robert not have genitalia but have some other erogenous places, and/or not get aroused or orgasm like humans but still have something sort of analagous, or does he pick up on others' feelings and emotions in a sort of psychic-ish stimulation? or feel free to go full unusual xeno; I do not mind and would be into it!
- ...finally I also just want to note that I love invisible people (or, well... ghosts, as Robert points out, but Fugue's still invisible besides his clothes and bandages!). and also Fugue's all leg. legs for days. I like these things.
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Eugene Otto/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.
The exact pages with Robert talking about his backstory with Eugene Otto are here and here, but it's well worth reading the whole thing, for more context about Robert's character and also just in general!]
Quite frankly, I love this ship, there's just so much complexity here... Unhealthiness, but not for lack of trying.
I'm fascinated by how Robert talks about their relationship, how the way he tells Mona about it makes it sound like he really did legitimately want things to work between himself and Gene, likely did not realize where his immense jealousy was leading until it happened, but his mixed feelings now about not even knowing if he regrets it or not. I love that you can tell he loved Gene in his own way then and might even be capable of different, healthier kinds of love now -- might even have been more capable then than he'd believed -- but still wound up ruining Gene's life and killing him... and how Gene asked him to kill him. I love the whole monster aspect entirely, a creature who is born when you are and whose life is tied to yours in so many inextricable ways, how it leaves you both vulnerable, and all the monsters' thoughts on that. I love how their history had them so intertwined from when Gene was a young child to when he died an adult.
Also, I love how complicated and tragic they are in basically all ways, but I'd prefer a more... wistful feel than purely tragic, despite both their canon fates, if possible. And you can feel free to give them a happier ending, too!
Requested Tags
- Character Transformed Into Form That Produces Different Bodily Fluids Than What They're Used To
- Character very verbal about desperation
- Coming In Pants
- Making Them Come and Then Using Their Come as Lube
- A Masturbates B to Ejaculation
- Crying During Highly Emotional/Cathartic Sex
- A getting off on seeing B crying
- Knifeplay + bloodplay
- Touching Character All Over with Hands Covered in Blood
- Ritual Bloodletting
- ritual requires a lot of come
Canon-Specific DNWs
- implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene
- shutting the door completely on the idea of a)Robert ever getting an afterlife b)these Robert and Gene ever making up (it not happening in the fic is fine, ofc, just no "this is impossible/will never happen/could never happen")
- trans headcanons of any kind for Gene specifically
- Halloween, spooky, and outright horror stuff works especially well for this canon!
- Ringley's dad/Mona's parent as a background ship is super cool; feel free to give them names (and/or surnames) or not
- Robert and Gene meeting again in the afterlife
- resurrections and ghosts when it comes to either/both of those two
- AU where Robert never killed Gene
- AU where Gene shows up to haunt Robert as a ghost
- AU where Gene is a kid during the canon time period and he and Robert meet then (or where the monster apocalypse happened back when Gene was alive)
- really complicated relationship between those two
- forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow
- anything set during Robert and Gene's long relationship
- possessiveness/protectiveness of either towards the other tbh
- monster desire to take their human's life sublimating into desire to have all of their human's attention and affection and maybe also sublimating into attraction/sexual desire
- "Certain humans look certain ways to us -- appetizing, you could say. Or perhaps appealing or attractive." UM YES PLEASE??
- nonhuman characters being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender! an interpretation of Robert not actually having anything like human gender would be cool; I can imagine him having absolutely no preferred pronouns and just going with whatever anybody calls him, but feel free to go with whatever! other characters being trans if they're included could also be fun and I encourage it. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- nicknames! pet names! names in general! Robert seems to call Eugene Otto "Gene," and Gene not only calls him Robert but gave him his first name (his full name was Robert Eugene Otto but after Robert came into the picture he insisted the doll was Robert now and he would be Gene from then on)... what might make Robert call Gene "Eugene"? would he accept "Rob" or any other nickname from Gene, maybe, but from no one else? and if you could sell me on an endearment/pet name being used by either I would love it!
- for horror stuff specifically, if you go that route, feel free to kill off OCs but not any canon characters that didn't die in canon; psychological and cosmic horror, but body horror can be great, as can ghosts and other monsters, isolated horror, and characters just telling scary stories, and I'm fine for gore and injury for this particular canon, and even perma-death if it involves an afterlife situation for Robert and Gene or Gene haunting Robert as a ghost...
- ...I am also open to unusual takes on smut, since Robert is a living doll that is also really a monster rather than an actual doll; how might he actually sexually interact with Gene, and especially vice-versa? does Robert not have genitalia but have some other erogenous places, and/or not get aroused or orgasm like humans but still have something sort of analagous, or does he pick up on others' feelings and emotions in a sort of psychic-ish stimulation? or feel free to go full unusual xeno; I do not mind and would be into it!
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
[If you don't actually own the game, you can find the following videos on YouTube:
BAI GAMING Video #1 - Pertinent parts are at 50:50-58:35 (The Razor, starting at the point where all the voices start coming in) and 2:12:52-2:56:12 (The Nightmare, with Voice of the Paranoid, and The Moment of Clarity with everyone)
BAI GAMING Video #2 - Pertinent parts are at 57:46-1:06:59 (The Apotheosis, with Voice of the Paranoid) and 1:39:37-2:53:04 (The Spectre and The Wraith, with Voice of the Cold)
Slay the Princess - The Spectre & The Wraith - Pertinent part is at 31:00-48:28 (The Wraith variation, with Voice of the Cold and Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #3 - Pertinent part is at 2:53:14-3:09:25 (The Wild, with Voice of the Paranoid)
BAI GAMING Video #4 - Pertinent parts are at 26:22-46:40 (The Burned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), 1:30:29-1:49:54 (The Drowned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), and 1:53:08-2:41:07 (The Nightmare variations, with way more from Voice of the Paranoid)
Slay the Princess - All Endings - Pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 4 hours and 7 minutes, but you can easily knock it down to about 1 hour and 14 minutes by just watching their main routes: The Nightmare in the first video (2:12:52-2:40:21), The Spectre in the second video (1:39:37-2:28:30), and The Wraith variation with both of them (31:00-48:28). Or watch whatever bits of whatever playthroughs you like... Or play it yourself! Just go with whatever works for you. :D]
These two really, really intrigue me. They don't get to interact that much, but they're quite interesting in The Wraith route, and also have moments in some of the other routes -- and some similarities and general qualities -- that make me think that they could really catch the other's attention if given more opportunity.
For one thing, they are both very aware of and surprisingly in control of their bodies. (Well, their shared body. The protagonist's body. Let's just say "their bodies" for simplicity.) Voice of the Cold constantly talks about choosing to just stop feeling things, both emotions and any negative physical sensations; their back-and-forth of "Do we have to explain to you why pain is bad?" "You have to explain to yourself why it isn't," is VERY cool. But despite Voice of the Paranoid being obviously high-strung, he also has an immense amount of steel to him, not only manually running the body's autonomic nervous system during The Nightmare route, but also showing up specifically to keep Voice of the Broken in check during The Apotheosis route after Broken let The Tower into their mind which led to their death.
There are also little details, such as the fact that Cold usually shows up after you kill the Princess in cold blood and then yourself, and Paranoid also encourages killing yourself if you become trapped in The Nightmare route due to killing her. This actually leads to Cold showing up... And interestingly, before that, if the protagonist says to the Hero and the Paranoid that it'd be fine to be stuck in the void forever because they're the best company, Paranoid says, "Oh, you could do better than us," and that's right before Cold comes into the picture. In The Wraith route, he and Cold and Hero and the protagonist have to all work together to toss their body into the void with The Wraith in it, if they choose that route, and the "everyone on the count of three" moment Paranoid takes charge of is just neat.
And in a general sense, I really think they could... see something interesting in each other. Paranoid is nervy and definitely hasn't shut off his emotions at all, but he also has that aforementioned steel and sharp control over himself/his body/The Body, that might be even more intriguing and impressive based on how unexpected it is. And Cold is a dangerous person, yes, but is actually less dangerous to the other voices than someone like the Broken or even the Smitten, and might also be easier to predict than someone like the Opportunist or even the Hunted -- you know exactly what his danger is, if he's going to be dangerous. And at the same time, Paranoid seems to trust the other voices in a way he doesn't trust anyone "other," and Cold seems to want to help the other voices, often trying to give them advice on how to get through situations without breaking down. There's an automatic sort of rapport there that makes it more likely they'd get close to each other than if they were just ordinary people with their same personalities.
Finally, speaking of that, I do love the bodysharing and would be super into that if you want to roll with it, but I also love a theoretical post-canon situation where maybe the voices are all getting their own bodies. You don't even have to get into how and why they have different bodies if you want to do that; just handwaving it would be fine!
Requested Tags
- Begging partner(s) to come inside
- Character very verbal about desperation
- Blood As Lube
- Blood Kink
- Blood of others as lube
- Knifeplay + bloodplay
- licking blood off partner
- Touching Character All Over with Hands Covered in Blood
- Crying During Highly Emotional/Cathartic Sex
- A getting off on seeing B crying
- Licking character’s tears
- A getting off on seeing B’s hole leaking their cum
- licking come off fingers
- Making Them Come and Then Using Their Come as Lube
- A Masturbates B to Ejaculation
- Mutual Masturbation to Mutual Ejaculation
- Snowballing Leads to Ravenous Kissing Until the Taste is Completely Gone
- Sucking Blood from a Wound unexpectedly a Turn-on for either Character or Both
Canon-Specific DNWs
- fully human forms for any of the Voices, the Narrator, or the protagonist
- any implication that the characters will cease existing after the end of the game/any time soon
- either character bodysharing with the protagonist or any of the other Voices (except each other!) by the time porn is happening
- non-canon background pairings I'm good with are Voice of the Broken/Voice of the Cheated, Voice of the Contrarian/Voice of the Hero, and/or Voice of the Hunted/Voice of the Opportunist, if any of them show up
- I'm happy with the Voices being varying degrees of bird-person, with or without beaks, straightforwardly bird-y or more like Mothman given the Protagonist's reflection
- I'm also equally happy with every single Voice having their own separate body, or with some of them still bodysharing while they sort out the whole "getting their own bodies" thing, just so long as Cold and Paranoid aren't sharing bodies with any characters other than each other when the smut starts
- the sheer amount of control these two both seem to have over themselves...
- and, alternately, the idea that each might actually be able to make the other come apart. maybe more than anyone else could manage. maybe in part because they might just let it happen.
- the "And? What happens next?" ending and the strong hints that the Voices will continue to exist and find one another again even after the protagonist and the Princess leave
- come to that, the strong hints that the Voices are actually developing beyond their named traits and becoming their own more rounded individual people: Contrarian in The Stranger version of the "And? What happens next?" ending, Hero protesting being just "a shard of broken glass," all of them wanting to avoid individual death and continue existing
- NAME STUFF. names in general! nicknames and pet names if you can make it work for them! none of the voices really refer to one another by name or even by description in canon; do they still think of each other as "Voice of the Cold," or just "the Paranoid," or just "Cold," or something like "the paranoid one"? how might they come to refer to one another, think about one another?
- if you're interested, I could like trans headcanons for either/both of these characters! I have a slight preference for trans woman or nonbinary Paranoid, and can easily imagine "any pronouns" nonbinary Cold, but anything works for either of them! trans headcanons for any other characters that show up are also 100% good. and of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!