"Happy Birthday, Jaune"
1 Year Old
Mama Arc: We love you. (Walks out)
Jaune: (Asleep in crib)
Brother of Light: (Takes blanket) The first of many very happy birthdays, Little Jaune.
Jaune: WWAAAAAAAAAAA
Mama Arc: What is it, honey?
Papa Arc: Where'd his blanket go? He literally just had it FIVE MINUTES ago.
Mama Arc: I don't know!
5 Years Old
Jaune: Mama, can I stop having birthdays? The monster won't come if it's not my birthday.
Mama Arc: Jaune, there is no monster. Your father is going to be here with your sisters and the cake, and you're all going to have fun and-
CRUNCH!
Mama Arc: What was that?
Mama Arc: (Sees crushed vehicle) NOOOOOO!
Jaune: THE MONSTER! THE MONSTER DID IT!
16 Years Old
Jaune: (Stirs)
Scroll: Happy birthday, baby~! Can't wait to see you~! XOXO~!
Jaune: (Reaches, Gets up) AGH!
Brother of Light: Am I still surprising you, Jaune? You have a girlfriend.
Jaune: Please, why are you doing this? Nobody believes me-
Brother of Light: Silence. (Taps on scroll, Tosses) There's no way you're coming back after THAT comment. What a horrid boyfriend you are.
Jaune: I didn't-
Scroll: WHAT THE FUCK, JAUNE?! We are so over! DROP DEAD, YOU ASSHOLE!
Jaune: Please, why-
Brother of Light: Happy birthday.
21 Years Old
Jaune: (Surrounded by dead bodies, Holding cup)
Brother of Light: Don't drink that. Happy birthday.
25 Years Old
Jaune: (Standing in front of burning Beacon)
Brother of Light: Was this the academy you were going to? Happy birthday.
27 Years Old
Brother of Light: Happy birthday, Jaune.
Jaune: You got me fired?!
Brother of Light: No, this was just bad luck.
Jaune: Then-
Brother of Light: Your cat is dead.
30 Years Old
Jaune: ...He has to tell me. He has to tell me why. He won't stop. I know that. But if I can just get him to say why-
Jaune: It's already midnight... He... He missed it? But-
TV: Breaking news! The Brother of Light has been banished by Remnant's greatest huntress team!.
Jaune: (Smiles) He missed my birthday.
31 Years Old
Jaune: YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY~! DUNNA NUNNA NAH NAH NA NAH~!! WELL IT'S-
Brother of Light: Well, it's my birthday, too~. Yeah~!
Jaune: NO.
Brother of Light: No, you're right. It's not. I'm so sorry I missed you last year, Jaune. I promise it will NEVER happen again.
Jaune: Why?! Why?! PLEASE, WHY DO YOU DO THIS?!
Brother of Light: I love these meetings. There is nothing more important to me. Do you understand that? Let me make up for missing last year. (Snaps!)
Brother of Light: (Creates black hole under home) Happy birthday.
45 Years Old
Brother of Light: Jaune. Happy birthday. Ugh. Not a lot to work with anymore, is there?
Jaune: Light.
Jaune: You've tormented me for every year of my life, and for a long time, all I wanted to know was why.
Brother of Light: Mhm.
Jaune: But lately, I've started thinking. Why do YOU think I'll keep sticking around for all of this? Why don't I just kill myself, right? That's why. You want to see how far you can push a person. I know what you do the rest of the year. You're gone, either threatening Remnant or some other world yet unknown. You KILL huntsmen and huntresses! But every year, you come back to me. So I'm going to tell you why I hang on, why I keep living despite everything you've done to me. To the people I love.
Jaune: I wake up every day and-
Brother of Light: (Creates hole in ceiling)
Brother of Light: (Creates flood in Jaune's home)
Brother of Light: (Walks out) No, Jaune. I don't care. See you next year.
THE END
Requested by @cheeseeater2
psychic kiddies having lunch!
I have had strong visions of the need for a specifically geriatric care orientated fast response team for evictions,.
Ruby: (Grabs Sienna) YOU'VE BEEN A VERY BAD KITTY! SPIN, YOU DUMB ANIMAL! (Uses Semblance) SPIN UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD! (Throws her at a wall)
Sienna: (Smashes through wall)
Ruby: (Adjusts hood) It's time to switch condiments, because that weak sauce ain't helping. (Crying) I killed a tiger!
Adam: I'll show you weak sauce. HIYAAAH-
Ruby: (Backhands him)
If you are trans I need you to stay alive.
Stay alive for every other trans person fighting, stay alive for every trans person who is no longer here, and most importantly stay alive for yourself.
They don’t get to erase us! They don’t get to take away our rights, and treat us as less than human. Don’t let them erase us, and don’t let them make you a statistic. Don’t let them win.
Stay alive
If you won’t do it for yourself, then do it for others. Do it out of spite.
A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.
Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.
Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.
And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.