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I am rounding up what I posted just in case, maybe some of it will bring people joy. I played by the rules, mostly, except for the Whirl fill where I couldn't stop myself.

Mtmte, Whirl/Tailgate/Cyclonus, I didn't need to be fixed, I needed to be helped

"I tried to get replacements once, back when I was out fucking up shit with the Wreckers, but before they decided to ditch me because I had 'no sense of morals' and 'committed war crimes'." Whirl scoffed, made some truly disdainful air quotes - quite the achievement with his rigid pincers - before turning back to the current project, a quarks chrono-piece with a hidden cyber-canary that was going to pop-out every chord and sing "The Power of Love". It was going to be epic.

Tailgate took a noise slurp through his curly straw before he asked: "So how did that go? Getting new hands?"

It would've been funny a few years back, ol' Panic Eyes just innocently asking him about his traumas, haha, funny enough to beat him up for it. But it was now, so it wasn't funny and really Whirl was busy finicking all the little quarks into the right place. "Oh, absolute fucking shit show, really. Couldn't do any of the proper mechanics with it. I smashed like ten modules before I ripped them off and demanded the claws back. Those, at least, felt like me.

"That's when it first started to sink in, I think. I didn't need to be fixed, I needed to be helped, but fuck Primus on a spaceshuttle if I wanted that. I repressed those self-insights really quick and went back to killing cons by the squadron."

"Oh, mh. That doesn't sound very healthy, actually."

Whirl let out a cackle. "Of course not! I never gave a flying frack about healthy. At least until the Lost Light."

"Until you met us?"

"Sure, short stack, until I met you."

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Mtmte, Minimus Ambus, cheesy pop music
Title: Karaoke

"I thought perhaps you would like to hear another timeless song from Earth." Minimus nervously cleared his vocalizer, crossing his fingers that nothing would go wrong and that Swerve would use the right song this time. As the music set in, he started singing as well: "You are - my fire; The one - desire; Believe - when I say..."

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Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi, Laios & Senshi, nerding out about cooking

Eating monsters is dream come true to Laios, which is why he will be forever grateful that Senshi agreed to join their guild, yet at the same time travelling with him is humbling. Before, Laios only thought about how good fried basilisk glazed with caramellised teriyaki sauce would taste or if he could get properly smashed on fermented fruits from maneating plants; never did he consider the exhausting work of cleaning carcasses, learning cooking skills and techniques, conserving food, ensuring a sustainable ecosystem or nutrition underlying his fantasy of eating.

Now, as Senshi cooks, he teaches the party his knowledge meal by meal - even if Marcille is grossed out, Laios keeps listening and learning, hoping to someday cook a dish all by himself.

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Overwatch, Genji Shimada, kintsugi

When the therapist they make you see brings up kintsugi one day, trying to liken your hideous new machine parts to it with the grace and subtility of those fucking motivational quote framed by an oversaturated, meaningless nature photograph that infest the web, you already learned not to laugh at him in spite (because last time that got you one-on-one time with a fretting Dr. Ziegler inquiring if you plan to hurt yourself and if you do it again, this time around your acting physician is Moira O'Deorain), instead you look serious and nod like you are paying attention, a skill learned through a life time of faking being an obedient son in your last life.

The worst thing is, the therapist isn't wrong; only instead of the fancy images of delicate lacquerware with cracks filled with gold you find in the English self-help books, you were literally stapled back together with large clamps in the most obvious way, the way they used to repair ceramics in China before some Japanese craftsmen changed it; and yeah, it's uglier this way but at least it's real.

However, if the fucking therapist tries to talk with you about wabi-sabi or mono-no-aware next session, you are going to lose it and no-one could blame you.

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Atla, Uncle Iroh, tea made of flowers - how odd

This year, the newest fad among tea sellers was tea leaves tied together with flowers in such a way that, when hot water was poured onto the ball of dried plantmatter, the ball rehydrated and seemed to be 'blooming'.

Uncle Iroh was, frankly, not impressed - none of his guests would see the blooms anyway, because their teapots were ceramics, he considered the whole thing a waste of good tea and the price per jīn was an insult. Despite this, blooming teas still ended up on his menu, thanks to a generous gift from his nephew, the Fire Lord: a personalized stock made from high quality leaves nestled around a single white lotus blossom each.

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Pokemon SwSh, Kabu, the real reason it's customary to stick to one type

It's a minor miracle no reporter has ever asked Kabu why he insists on using fire types, a question that might sound preposterous to anyone not keeping up with Pokemon fights in general and the Galar league in particular, but is actually warranted given that, for example, Raihan fields a gigalith and a sandaconda.

If he was ever asked, Kabu would answer: In the end, it comes down to discipline, after all his life, he has pushed and challenged himself, so taking the easy route by abandoning the fire type is something he never considered. The best way to grow, he has found, is through adversity as there are no types without weaknesses, no pokemon without flaws or every trainer would use the same team, instead Kabu takes some small pride in the skill needed to hone your strategy around the pokemon you chose and the fire of ambition burning inside him.

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Jeeves and Wooster, add One fuck to the canon dialogue or scene of your choice

"Jeeves, I'm engaged."

"I hope you will be very happy, sir."

"Don't be an ass. I'm fucking engaged to Miss Bassett."

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