Chapter 1: Essay: Team Nightsky’s Mikey and Why He Deserves Redemption.
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Date Written/Finished/Posted: June 17th.
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Essay Begin: Unintentionally or not, Mandjtv has made a tragic and wonderful character of Team Nightsky’s leader, Nikey, and set him up for a wonderful redemption/character arc. Now this could all be chalked up to character interpretation, but I think what I've gathered from his appearance so far is solid.
Nikey is one of many of himself continuing an abusive cycle in a fit of rage for what they did to themselves. Coming from the future to ruin the lives of their past selves for the sake of continuing said cycle. But why continue the cycle? Just to “help your past self”? Or was that just a ruse.
Nikey knows and remembers how he felt when he himself was defeated at the Zero Lab. How couldn't he? The devastation, the anger, the fear. He remembers it all too clearly. He’s still holding onto those same emotions from all those years ago just waiting for the right chance to release them. And what better time than to release it on his past self, under the guise of “helping” him.
Think about how it must've felt for Nikey to slowly realize and see that Mikey had succeeded in making that timeline split he failed to do so long ago. All that he went through. All the anger, pain, and fear he experienced. It could've been stopped, it all could’ve been prevented, even if it was by sheer luck. He had to see his entire world shatter before him.
He had been clinging onto desperation that it was all worth it in the end because he ended up ruling the world with an iron fist, that the suffering wasn't for nothing, and the torturous and abusive cycle needed to be continued. It had to have been worth it, or it was all for nothing.
And yet, it wasn’t worth it in the end. Because here he is now, stuck in a reality that isn’t his own, with quite literally NOTHING. Nothing but himself, his pokemon, and the clothes on his back. No way to get back to his empire he suffered so much for. Nobody knows him here, nobody knows what he’s achieved, to everyone else, he’s probably just another Mikey-look-alike. He's all alone.
Now let me take a moment to talk about why Team Sky was so successful in the first place. (at least from my interpretation. I'm not talking about this world's Team Sky, I'm talking about the Pokémon world's Team Sky.) Mikey doesn't just provide a community of people who want to help his goal of… expanding the sky, whatever that means.
He provides a community for misfits similar to him to belong to, taking them under his wing (pun intended). If you were to take a look at most any Team Sky OC, they all have their quirks that make them stand out. Of course that is par for the course of being OCs, I mean hell, one of my own came from an alternate dimension. But it only adds to my point. People join Team Sky because of Mikey’s kind soul and care he displays for his recruits, the community he provides for misfits like them to thrive in. In my eyes, Team Sky’s creation was never truly for the sake of being “evil”.
So what happens when you take that and force Mikey to put aside his kind soul for being “truly evil”? Nikey happens. A man manipulated by himself in his darkest moment for the worst.
Though, Nikey still has that kind soul in him even if he doesn't want to believe it. None of the versions of him have EVER been willing to become what they did. I really want to hammer that point in. He didn't want this to happen to him, not at any point. Let him recover that kind soul he was forced to lose so long ago, let him heal.
Unintentionally or not, Mikey and Nikey represent breaking an abusive cycle like you would with addiction or abuse that runs in the family. And I love that, so much. Like a parent having to accept that the abuse that happened to them wasn’t okay, that it wasn't the norm, Nikey will have to accept something similar.
He will have to accept that what happened to himself did not need to happen. That it could have been stopped, and he could've stopped it himself, whether when he was still Mikey, or when he was deciding to time travel. And yet he didn't, he chose not to. But he can still be redeemed, he isn't a villain in the sense most people would think, he's a victim of an abusive cycle that he hadn’t tried to break.
OF COURSE that doesn’t mean he isn’t a bad person, of course he is, but if you take everything I've said so far into context it's a lot easier to understand why someone like me might want him redeemed.
He deserves so, so, so much better. And he deserves so much better than to be cast aside as an irredeemable villain. If Michael pulls this off right he could make a great story, a great character, and I'm praying he doesn’t pass up this opportunity for having an antagonist he can use forever. For a little while longer? Of course! True redemption doesn’t happen overnight, but you can have signs show over time he's learning and growing. Show his redemption over time. Don't do it immediately, but don't keep him as an antagonist forever.
Don’t just make it so every hardship and trouble magically just didn’t happen. Redemption is about learning and growing as a person, and if you take away the experiences said person has learned from, what does that get you? It gets you a character that didn't need to be redeemed in the first place. You take away what happened to them, you take away the entire reason for their redemption. See what I mean?
Of course I'm not saying I think Michael will do that, in fact I’m confident he won’t, I'm more so just saying this in general at this point. I just really love Nikey and his character. Mandjtv has truly made a fantastic character with great potential, and I'm hoping he pulls off the equally fantastic story that Nikey deserves.
Thank you for taking time out of your day to read my silly little ramble about Nikey, my favourite tortured soul <3 It's much appreciated!
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Chapter 2: Headcanon post: 1
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Date Written/Posted: August 7th.
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Not feeling the best right now so I’ll throw out a collection of head-canons for Nightsky Mikey. (If you’re unaware I refer to him as Nikey)
- During the final battle in the Zero Lab, Nikey fought Mikey together with Turo in a two on one double battle. The reason he lost the battle was just dumb luck, due to a glitch in Turo’s system forcing him to make a not so smart move. He doesn’t know why this happened, Turo wasn’t aware either. He’s supposed to be the most sophisticated AI after all.
- Yes this does mean the pokeball lock allowing for only Turo’s Pokémon was changed. Instead of just Turo’s Pokémon, it allowed Nikey’s (and by extension Mikey’s) Pokémon to be able to come out of their pokeballs. This wasn’t a concern however, since Nikey knew Mikey wasn’t a very sophisticated battler compared to him.
- Winona did end up leaving him after he started taking things way too far for her tastes.
- Very comfortable with passive physical contact, a trait he carries over from his past self that is now amplified. As a result he’s a little too handsy (not in a sexual way though). It’s to the point he almost needs it to keep himself grounded. Finds himself squeezing his own arms when he’s alone in silence for too long to keep himself in the present.
- Cannot STAND dead air. Another trait he carries over from his past self that’s been amplified.
- Something I came up with awhile ago (aka a few months ago): His eye was cursed by an unknown source for his actions. The Curse of Arceus’s Eye. Everything Arceus has witnessed, universes ends, cosmic horrors, things Nikey couldn’t have even comprehended before, it’s all he can see in that eye. Nobody knows who cursed him. Was it one of his own followers? Was it somebody who used to be close with him? Or was it something else in its entirety? Some even go as far to say the source was Arceus itself.
- Truely believes the entire world is against him, even his own followers and colleagues. Does not believe he has friends or that people genuinely care about him unconditionally, though he is “content” with this.
- Eyebags and dark circles galore. This man needs some actual rest for Arceus’s sake.
- The first night he was in the past he was in such shock that he couldn’t really physically do anything. He ended up just passing out on some cliff’s edge alone after staring at the stars for hours.
- Boy you fucking bet he’s disassociating. You can’t tell me he wouldn’t be and you couldn’t tell me he wasn’t already for the past several YEARS.
I love this wet soggy newspaper of a man so much <3 I’ll probably post more later today if I’m up for it! Like I said I’m not doing too good so we’ll see.
Chapter 3: Headcanon Post: 2
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Date Written/Posted: August 7th.
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MORE NIGHTSKY MIKEY HEADCANONS AND ALSO (MAINLY) WINONA HEADCANONS (and other related things LMAO. Mostly under the cut. And also mostly about before Nikey lost.)
- Winona is the main leader in the rebellion against Nightsky. She’s seen as a symbol of hope and light by most anyone. She hates her ex husband with all fibers of her being and wishes he would return to how he was before Paldea.
- She is very lonely and sorrowful but will not show it for the sake of the others who need hope and guidance from her.
- She’s pretty much carrying the weight of the world on her back.
- She had black hair with gold highlights <3 that was before she left though, she ended up dying her hair white with blue highlights instead. She’s so so so so so so pretty. (More under the cut, ALOT MORE)
- Does not want pity from anyone, something she shares in common with Nikey
- Would often say Nikey was the sun in her sky back before Nightsky as a form of endearment
- Nikey in the past tended to wear his heart on his sleeve to his detriment. After Paldea he had to learn how to effectively hide his emotions which was very hard for him after so long of just, not even trying to mask anything.
- Autism galore. BY THE WAY.
- (Joke) after the divorce Winona got together with me instead <3
- Winona is very great with children and is concerned about them growing up in the smog covered Earth instead of how they should be.
- Food shortages are common and constant due to crops not getting the sun they need. Plants and crops are commonly grown in hidden underground facilities, as ordered by Winona. They’re grown with heat lamps.
- As you can imagine oxygen is also low due to trees not getting sun they need, though it’s not as low as it could be since ALOT of oxygen comes from the oceans plants.
- Speaking of water, Nikey hoards most of the worlds clean drinking water for his members.
- A lot of people resort to joining Nightsky as a desperate resort to trying to live normally again. It’s kind of like one of those war tactics to starve the enemy into giving up. But Winona and her followers are resilient
- Also it’s basically a 50/50 of you evolve your eevee into Umbreon or Espeon because you literally CANNOT tell if it’s night or day. This applies to all time sensitive evolutions.
- The world is very similar to how the Ultra Megaopolis is (Necrozma’s world, if you’re unaware.), with only artificial light.
- The people who still live on the Earth’s surface are called The Sun’s Children. But it might as well be the name of the rebellion. You’re either a child of the sun or you’re with Nikey.
- Winona has many of The Sun’s Children’s scientists working for her to help purify undrinkable waters, to help grow sustainable amounts of crops, and to help feed livestock with the plants they need. Anything to build sustainable life on Earth again. (Yes she is working with Archie and Maxie)
- Zyguarde fucking hates Nikey, Xerneas hates Nikey, Solgaleo hates him, Lunala hates him, Zacian hates him, Zamazenta hates him, Calyrex hates him, Zarude hates him. The legendary birds hate him (not the galarian ones. Except for Zapdos. Zapdos hates him too.), Mewtwo hates him. Ho-oh and Lugia hate him, Celebi hates him, Groudon and Kyogre hate him but are scared of Rayquaza, Jirachi hates him, Deoxys doesn’t care, Palkia and Dialga are in their own dimensions and are indifferent, same for Arceus and Giratina, the Shaymin hate him, Reshiram hates him, Victini hates him, and Diancie hates him. Most all legendaries fucking hate him LMAO.
- Winona may or may not have a woman she has a crush on. It’s one of her colleagues. She’s v pretty and so much better for Winona than Nikey. The woman also kind of has a crush on her too. Did I mention how pretty Winona is?
- Winona refuses to wear anything to due with Team Sky (old team sky) even if it was from before the corruption of her ex-husband. Such an intense heartache for what she’s lost, she has a hard time dealing with it. She craves that freedom with all of her heart. She won’t let herself get too into feeling her feelings about it, since she feels she’ll be worse as a leader if she does. People are counting on her. There’s a lot of pressure on her.
- She desperately wants to love and to be loved again romantically. It took her awhile to crack open again and allow herself to love people even platonically.
- Tossed (fucking threw) her old wedding ring into the ocean. Doesn’t know where it is, doesn’t want to. Also HATES gold and black together on clothes
Also just realized a plot hole in the original Nightsky story. How the fuck did Skydios become shiny. Did Nikey just fuck up the time travel so bad he just went to an alternate reality? Might just add that to the list. This is getting very long so I might make another post for headcanons later!
Chapter 4: Headcanon Post: 3
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Date Written/Posted: August 9th.
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MORE HEADCANNONS FOR NIKEY AND WINONA (AND OTHER RELATED THINGS)
(This posts a little shorter than the last two!)
- Nikey has patrols all over the world to make sure nobody is trying to secretly clear up the thick smog in areas he doesn’t have eyes on 24/7
- Winona managed to acquire a decent sample of the dark smog for studying, though it was quite the risky heist! (It might as well been a heist at least.)
- She, and the scientists she’s hired, are trying to figure out ways to dispel the small sample of the smog in hopes they’ll find a solution capable of doing so. Once they do that, they hope to produce the solution en masse, hopefully it’s not too resource-heavy to create it.
- Ex-Team Sky members do not only use flying types anymore. In fact only-flying-type-teams are seen as a symbol of Nightsky and are highly frowned upon by The Sun’s Children.
- Winona has an Umbreon and Espeon <3
- Pokemon with night vision are highly sought after and owned by The Sun’s Children. It’s a lot of cat-Pokémon, cave dwelling Pokémon, and also Pokémon who don’t have eyes and rely on other senses (I.E. Zubat, deino, zweilous)
- Lizard Pokémon and other reptilian Pokémon have difficulty keeping their blood warm due to lack of sun and as a result lack of places to bask in the sunlight. The same can be said for grass type Pokémon, and also fairy type Pokémon aswell.
- Ground, rock, poison, ghost, and dark type Pokémon are thriving under the smog, since most of them can live decent lives without sunlight.
- Winona has put out orders and parties of people to search for Pokémon in need of help and bring them to one of the places she or her colleagues can help them from.
- As you can imagine most ecosystems who don’t rely on sunlight have been mostly uneffected by the smog. Of course like I mentioned in my last headcanon post, the same cannot be said for ecosystems such as forests, rainforests, oceans, deserts, ect.
- I can’t help but draw slight parallels between Winona and Nikey, and Toriel and Asgore. It’s only slight! But the parallels are still kind of there.
- It would be incorrect of me to say Nikey does not miss Winona, but the difference in how they miss eachother is that, like I said in my last headcanon post, Winona misses how Nikey was before Paldea, Nikey, though, just misses her in general.
- I also think Winona also is kind of like Asgore in the sense he just wants to keep the underground hopeful and wants them to have some sort of future to look forward to. Winona holds sort of the same position
- A lot of buildings and regions across the world have fallen to ruin due to most people flocking to places that have the limited (but not small) amount of places Winona and her colleagues/supporters can help support and create sustainable life to the best of their abilities.
- A lot of people have taken for granted the joys of the world before. Amusement parks, sweets shops, tourist attractions, travelling the world, going on big grand adventures with your Pokémon, and especially being out and connecting with the world/nature.
- Winona and her team/supporters have been able to slowly start to bring simpler things that aren’t exactly necessary for survival. Tv stations have finally been able to broadcast more lighthearted and easily consumed content instead of constant news nonstop, restaurants have begun to reopen across the areas Winona has reach in, and there have been parks commissioned all across those areas aswell.
- She is absolutely putting effort into keeping children educated and entertained. Most young kids don’t really understand what’s happening, though some children are getting very cynical about these things. She understands where they’re coming from, and it’s difficult to try to atleast keep them a little happy and give them something to look forward to, but by Arceus is she going to try with all her heart and soul.
- She is trying her damn hardest to keep people happy, hopeful, and fulfilled in any way she can all while running an entire rebellion. Of course she still has help, a lot of it, and she’s so, so grateful for it. It’s really admirable.
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Chapter 5: Headcanon Post: 4
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Date Written/Posted: August 17th.
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heishsidn MORE HEADCANNONS FOR WINONA AND NIKEY HELLO sorry for the delay
- Due to dying vegetation and lack of plants to keep soil in place, sandstorms are quite common under the smog. There are special rescue teams put together to, well, rescue, people from these situations and keep them safe until it clears up.
- These teams often consist of people who specialise in ground types. Claydol is a very useful Pokémon in these rescues as it’s psychic typing can create protective barriers around their trainers and people in danger. They’re the most common Pokémon used on these rescue teams.
- Flygon is close second due to their natural goggle-like features over their eyes
- You might think Gliscor would be a popular Pokémon for these rescues aswell, but it’s quite the opposite. Gliscor are avoided unless absolutely necessary to use, as Gliscor is a popular Pokémon among Team Nightsky’s members. To avoid scaring the people in danger to think they’re under attack, Gliscor is either not used at all, or has obvious visual indicators of working under the rescue team.
- Tornadoes also tend to kick up often aswell, but these mostly aren’t natural. Members of Nightsky who especially do not like The Sun’s Children will often order their Pokémon to make these tornadoes to terrorise the people below the smog. Nikey does not exactly approve of this, but he does not try to stop these things from happening.
- As you might be able to guess, Volcarona is a very popular and respected Pokémon to The Sun’s Children, as it’s commonly regarded to be a second Sun due to its warmth and light.
- Once more used-to-be-common positive events started taking place more often to boost peoples happiness, parties themed around glow in the dark materials became very very popular. It gave The Sun’s Children one reason to be happy about the darkness and gloom they had been living in
- Winona almost always has a cup of tea with her just to have something she enjoys with her at all times, even if the tea gets cold. Her colleague (the one she kind of has a giant crush on) will always bring her tea in the morning and at night, prepared just how she likes it. Winona didn’t even tell her how she likes her tea, the colleague just asked the others until she got a consistent answer.
- Winona appreciates it very much and it gives her something to look forward to each morning :) <3
- Nikey often finds himself having nightmares of his past self tormenting him, asking why he did what he did, why did he become the one thing he didn’t want to be, why didnt he do more to stop it, why didn’t he take the many chances he had to kill his future self instead of following through with his wishes. (These happened even before he got trapped in Past-Paldea).
- His past self appears as many different beings with many different dialects/ways of acting. Most of the time he would be very antagonistic towards Nikey to the point of causing him panic attacks in the waking world. But that’s nothing a boiling hot shower and a hefty dose of ignorance can’t fix.
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Chapter 6: Headcanon Post: 5
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Date Written/Posted: August 27th.
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This post was in respond to an ask. The ask being:
“ Would Nikey recruit some of the other Pokèmon villains to his cause or would they be on the side of the resistance?
I feel like Team Aqua and Magma would be against them for obvious reasons.
Team Skull is just there and Team Rocket is doing things in their own dark corner.
Team Plasma, Galatic, and Flare could join them as admins with their whole “Taking Over the World” stick.
The Aether Foundation/Lusimine would have mixed feelings. She probably would not like the sky destroying the world made for her beautiful Ultra Beasts, but that would give her motivation to work for Nikey so she can still have sunlight for her enclosure.”
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QUICK WARNING I might’ve gotten a few of these out of character for the leaders. Specifically Ghetsis and Lysander, those are toughies and enigmas to me, but I tried my best! (I’m so sorry Ghetsis enjoyers)
In one of my previous headcanons posts I did state that Winona is working with Archie and Maxie to help create sustainable life on Earth again.
Team Skull would be just as they are before, just a bunch of hooligans making things way harder than they need to be for The Sun’s Children. Plumeria doesn’t want them messing around with Winona or any of her colleagues though, they’re dealing with enough already.
Team Rocket is of course up to no good stealing peoples Pokémon and money. They’re still operating without a leader though, as Giovanni never came back to Team Rocket, so they’re just treated like regular ol’ criminals. Speaking of Jail, it’s actually a pretty decent place to be since Winona began her leadership.
Team Plasma… Oh Team Plasma. It’s always been a thing with me that Mikey had always hated Team Plasma with all his heart, ESPECIALLY and almost specifically Ghetsis. So when Ghetsis came walking into Nikey’s office all those years later, he nearly had a goddamn heart attack. I mean hey, the dude nearly killed him, and WAS going to kill him if N didn’t step in. (Events of BW2).
Nikey is very uncomfortable with Ghetsis and still thinks he’s a goddamn creep. Ghetsis kept getting way too close for comfort in his visit to Nikey, so much so that Nikey himself started to not be as handsy with people as he normally is even months after he visited. (again, hes not handsy in a sexual way).
He either: 1. Very reluctantly decided to work with him and distance himself as much as possible from Ghetsis, or 2. Threw him into the worst jail cell he had on hand and kept him there for god knows how long. (Can you blame him? Like I said the man nearly killed him.) That or he banned him to live under the gloom. God knows Winona wouldn’t accept him into The Sun’s Children. Maybe Ghetsis starts to cook up his own plans… :)
Team Galactic was reformed after the events of Spear Pillar as we saw in DPPT (and BDSP if you want to count those) under the command of Saturn. As it’s new form was (and I believe I’m remembering correctly) an energy company as they once masqueraded as, Winona would absolutely be working with them as to keep the abundance of artificial lights under the smog lit and working properly. Can’t have a total black out now can we?
As for Cyrus, his whole ideal world was one without spirit or emotion as he was unhealthily dealing with his own mental health issues and took it to the extreme. I don’t think he’d want anything to do with Team Nightsky, especially after the events of Spear Pillar.
As for Team Flare, I don’t really have a good gauge on what the team as a whole acts like, much less their admins. I don’t even really remember their names. But Lysander, if I remember correctly, was similar to Cyrus in a way that he took his own issues with the world and decided to deal with it in an extreme way. He’s a philanthropist who genuinely wanted to believe in the good of people, but it just kept backfiring as he realized just how awful people could be. So he took it to the extreme, trying to end the world and make it more beautiful by be-ridding it of awful people (if I remember correctly). Considering how awful Nikey is, I don’t think Lysander would have any desire to work with him, especially after his loss in Kalos.
And last but not least, The Aether Foundation. I’d always avoided Lusamine’s game counterpart as I believe that her anime counterpart is much more how she actually is, my own personal opinion. As a result I don’t have a good gauge of her in SM/USUM, despite being my first Pokémon games. But I do know that her desires did not stem into most of the rest of the Aether Foundation’s, especially Wicke’s, so I will be speaking on that instead.
The Aether Foundation as we know is made to help endangered Pokémon recover and release them back into the wild. As I’ve went into detail into how the world was effected by the smog in my headcanon posts, we know that wild Pokémon are struggling immensely. This is something Aether has dealt with a lot in terms of natural disasters effecting many Pokémon at once, so they have quite a bit of experience with this. Winona would absolutely work with them to help and rescue wild Pokémon and help them recover. Building more paradises across the world in places Winona does not have reach. If I remember correctly, at the end of SM/USUM, Lusamine does start on a better path, so I have my doubts she’d work with Nikey, and as an extension Team Nightsky, at all. If she decided to stray off that better path for whatever reason, I think she might if she burns through her other options first.
Faba, however, is an enigma to me.
Really quickly I would like to point out that since Nikey had gotten stuck in the past, he would have an opportunity to defeat all of these evil teams himself, which I actually believe is what happened with Team Flare kudos to a reddit comment I received two months ago. So I thought for a moment it’d be interesting for Lysander to originally think Nikey was a good man before his rule, but then I realized that would break my reality of Nikey having accidentally traversed realities instead of just time traveling. I might change Nikey having saved Kalos, I might not. Who knows! I think it’d be interesting for Mikey to see his future self on the news held as a hero for saving the world. Maybe that’s when Mikey realizes Nikey might be having a change of heart. :)
ANYWAYS there is absolutely a gang of assassins out for Nikey’s blood, have fun with that! He’s very cautious of new recruits/people he doesn’t trust being near him. He already has 15 attempts to his name. He rarely lets people come into his office for meetings, unless it’s someone he trusts. Even then he doesn’t really fully trust anyone. Unless it’s- *COGHCOUGHCOUGH* sorry what was I gonna say? Don’t remember ;) Anyways you can imagine why he was so shaken up about Ghetsis being in his office. He got a lot more strict with who he lets into his office after that.
WHOO BOY THAT WAS A LONG ONE. This was really fun to write! Though I might’ve written some peoples actions out of character for them. Honest mistake! Hope you enjoyed reading this!
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Chapter 7: Headcanon Post: 6
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Date Written/Posted: September 21st.
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Hi I’m fucking Zcrying right now
UNHINGED TEAM SKY/NIGHTSKY RAMBLE BLAST!!! GO!!!
When Mikey came back to hoenn from Paldea, Winona was the first person he told about what happened, and all she could do was comfort him the best she could. Syaing things like “We’ll get through this together, it’s going to be okay.” “I’ll be by your side no matter what.” And then she fucking had to divorce him 5 years later because everything was too much for her to handle. Do you know how PAINFUL that was for the both of them. Winona knew that the Mikey she fell in love with all those years ago was still in there somewhere and she had to leave him behind whether she wanted to or not. And Mikey lost the one beam of support he felt he could truly rely on, why do you think he’s so emotionally distant and aloof until provoked, he doesn’t fucking trust anybody else. AND HE STILL WEARS HIS WEDDING BAND. EVERY DAY. EVEN THOUGH ITS A REMINDER HE LOST THE ONE HE LOVED. aimnfucking CRYING. They loved each other SO MUCH. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME. DO YOU UNDERTAND HOW KUCH THEY LOVED EACHOTHER. NO!!!!! YOU DONT!!!!!!!! WINONA STILL HAS A FRAMED PICTURE OF THEIR WEDDING DAY IN HER WORK OFFICE AND SHE FUJUST FUCKING LOOKS AT IT ALL THE TIME SHES SO SAD ABOUT IT. SHE WANTS HIS TURE SELF TO BE FREE AGAIN.
ALSO not to mention Mikey almost DIED to his future self THREE TIMES IN THE SAME HOUR. Once when they were battling, again when Nikey threatened to hyper beam him to ashes if he didn’t surrender to him, and AGAIN when he said something Nikey didn’t like and threatened to hyper beam him again if he didn’t take it back. The only reason he surrendered was to protect Arven, Nemona, and Penny, who were promptly kicked out of the Time Machine room shortly after they were threatened to leave or else “I’ll hyper beam you to dust and send your ashes directly to your parents doorstep.” Yeah fucking Jesus Christ Nikey what the fuck
They both started to fall in love after their first gym battle against eachother but everything really started to kick off after Mikey became champion (No, Winona didn’t fall more in love just because he became champion that’s weird.) (I mean that genuinely btw) and they just fucking love eachother so much I can’t fphandle this WHYYYYYYYYYYYY
Anyways they’re both blanket hogs <3 and also they keep Airbud as a pet. Airbuds getting pretty old btw, like he’s over 10 years old. He got really sick one day and had to spend the night at a Pokémon center, neither of them could really get any sleep.
Also if Nikey came back to his time after being redeemed, him, Winona, and the colleague she has a crush on (they get together btw)? Polycule maybe
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Chapter 8: Headcanon Post: 7.
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Includes a one shot fic. I’m not too proud of it but I’m not here to change anything I’ve written in the past.
Date Written/Posted: September 23rd.
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Small amount of Team Nightsky headcanons and a one shot fanfic I spent like 4 hours on
Just before Nikey was about to travel back in time (and before he fucked it up so badly he went to another reality altogether) Winona came to visit above the smog (She is one of the only people from The Sun’s Children allowed up there) to sort of see him off.
Of course, she had other intentions as well. She wanted to at least attempt to try and change his mind last minute. And it almost worked, she was starting to break through to him, but Nikey was feeling too vulnerable for his own comfort and just— left without saying goodbye.
Neither of them knew it would be the last time they ever saw eachother.
So this was just supposed to be a headcanon post but then I ended up spending 4 hours writing out a one shot fanfic :)
Summary: Winona and Mikey have a little chat before he time travels back to this past and everything is perfectly totally fine (it is not)
(For the sake of writing I will not be using the nickname “Nikey” for Nightsky Mikey in this.)
It’s decently long, tumblr won’t let me easily copy the entire thing so I am not aware what the word count adds up to. Also I didn’t really read back on it either sooooo
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Mikey stared up at the black mechanical arms sprawling out high above the Time Machine. It was almost time. His heart raced with a sickening feeling. The crystal walls glistened and glimmered as he stood in silence, the only noise was a mechanic making last minute preparations.
The doors behind him produces mechanical whirring as they slid open and close.
A higher ranking employee nervously walked into the room. “Mikey, sir, you appear to have a last minute visitor.”
Mikey sighed, frustrated. “Tell them I don’t have time for visits right now.” He spoke sternly.
“But- sir I think you’d want to see this person.” The employee spoke, careful with their words.
“…Really now.” He quirked an eyebrow and turned around to face the employee.
The employee nodded , not making eye contact with him, and instead looking at the floor.
“Well then. Why don’t you bring them in.” He spoke, expression unchanged.
“Yes sir.” They turned around and made their way to the doors out of the room.
Mikey turned around to look at the lower ranking employee tinkering with the Time Machine. “You. Are you almost done?” He called out to them
They perked up their head from their work “Ah, uh, there’s just one last thing I need to do!”
“Is it that important?”
They thought for a second. “I-I’m not sure, but when it comes to ti—“
“Then leave.” Mikey cut them off, clearly stating his disinterest in what they had to say.
“But-!”
Mikey glared at them intensely, and suddenly the lower ranking employee never had anything else to say. They swiftly got up and headed towards the door, along with the higher ranking employee, the doors closing behind them.
Mikey tapped his foot on the floor impatiently and stared at the wall while he waited for the visitor to come in. The doors slid open again, the higher ranking employee guiding somebody in the room before leaving.
Out of the corner of Mikey’s eye, he caught a glimpse of some familiar, white, long hair. His eyes widened as he quickly looked at who walked into the room. “Winona—“ Mikey stared for a minute, he couldn’t deny that his heart simultaneously soared and shattered at the sight of her.
Winona continued walking into the crystal walled room, arms crossed close to her chest, not even looking at him.
Mikey quickly attempted to regain his composure before speaking. He closed his eyes and sighed, struggling to think of anything he could say.
“Why have you come to see me.” He looked at at her with the best blank expression he could, repeating the same question he’d ask any old visitor.
“You don’t need to have your guard up around me. Even if I do hate what you've become.” She had a hard time even meeting his gaze, after all, it’d been at least two years since they’d even spoken indirectly.
Mikey looked away from her. He’d known she had to have hated him by now, there was no way she didn’t, but hearing it from her directly just did something to him.
He sighed, and paused for a second “Please, answer my question.”
“Why do you think. I came to… see you off.” The tension in her body loosened a little as she was finally able to meet his eyes. A soreness in her heart had began to surface.
He furrowed his brow. “… That can’t be the only reason you’re here. Be honest with me, ‘nona”
“Don't—“ She tensed up yet again hearing the old nickname she’d use to be called so endearingly. “…call me that.”
“Ah- right. I’m sorry.” He looked away from her again out of embarrassment.
She sighed. “You should be. But if honesty is what you want, then I will give it to you.”
Winona’s arms tightened around themselves. “I remember, the day you came back from Paldea all those years ago. You told me what happened in Area Zero, I couldn’t imagine what you were feeling.” Mikey’s blood ran cold at even the small mention of that day.
“All I could do was be there for you, promise to be by your side through whatever was thrown your way. I’d been so hopeful you’d find a way to defy him. But as the years passed by I’d realized you’d become him.” The words were harsh on Winona’s tongue. She swallowed her nerves and began to walk towards him.
“You said you were fine with it, you said it was for the better, but I knew you were hurting. And I couldn’t do anything to help. And in the end, I had to leave you in your most vulnerable moments. I still regret not trying hard enough to save you. But I know, there is still something to be saved. If you would just listen to me for a moment, please.”
Mikey just stared at her, unresponsive. Winona walked even closer to him, causing his body to become almost entirely stiff. She closed the gap between them to only a foot. She took his hand and looked at him with pleading eyes.
“Do you really want to do this to yourself. I know you don’t really want to inflict that pain and suffering onto yourself again, you can’t want to. I know the person I fell in love with is still in there somewhere, if you’d just let yourself free from this cycle. We can fix everything, all that you’ve done. There’s still time.”
Mikey stared into her eyes, his body started to tremble slightly. He couldn’t find any words to say. Winona was looking at him so sweetly… they hadn’t even been this physically close in years. Winona closed the gap between then with a swift hug, burying her head into his shoulder. Mikey almost couldn’t comprehend what was happening. What was she doing to him..? He hadn’t felt so vulnerable in ages.
“Please. If not for your own sake, then for mine.” She whispered shakily.
The strings tugging at his heart were too much to bear. She was being completely genuine about everything she had said. After all this time, after all the things he had caused, she was still willing to give him a second chance if he’d just try.
He couldn’t handle this sudden surge of emotional vulnerability that had taken over him.
“Winona…” He could feel tears sting his eyes. “I’m so sorry…”
He pulled away from her embrace and took a few steps backward, as painful as it was for him to do. Winona looked at up at him confused, arms still held in the same position from when the hug was broken.
Mikey stared at her for a moment with heartbroken eyes. Was he really about to do this? Throw away his one chance to fix everything? He better not think about it too much. He needs to do this, no matter what. He took a deep breath, and turned towards the Time Machine, that sickening feeling of adrenaline pumping through his heart resurfacing.
Winona’s eyes widened. “No, no wait, please—“ She called out to him.
Mikey turned around one last time sorrowfully before walking towards the Time Machine.
Mechanical whirring sounded as the floor around the machine began to rise up into the air. Mechanical arms began to spin above the raised floors, and a blindingly bright white light began to form in the center of the machine.
Mikey closed his eyes and began to walk into the light
“Please—!” Winona yelled as she ran closer to the raised floors, reaching an arm out in vain.
But he had already left.
The light dissipated as the spinning mechanical arms closed in on each other in a flower bud formation. The mechanical whirring began to slow to a stop. All Winona could do was just watch.
She stared where Mikey once stood in the room just a moment ago, arm still reaching out for him.
“—I love you…” She whispered to nobody.
Mikey felt his body become light and almost weightless as he was carried across time, though only for a brief moment before he reached his destination.
His body was once again weighted as he was anchored to the time he’d arrived in. He stepped onto the black crystal floors and collapsed onto them, covering his mouth with his hand, just staring at nothing through the tears clouding his vision.
He had his chance and he took it for granted. All because of his stupid ego.
If he was going to have one regret though, it was going to be that he didn’t even hug her back.
< ><><>
FUCKING OW.
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Chapter 9: Headcanon Post: 8
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Date Written/Posted: September 24th.
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More Team Sky/Nightsky Headcanons including two new ideas :)
Also I wanted to note, if you ever have questions about the world Team Nightsky exists in, please don’t be afraid to ask! I love getting questions about this so much, it actually means the world to me
- During one of the fifteen assassination attempts on Nikey, the attempt was a faulty one, only planning to push him off the highest sky island they could get him on. But as Nikey was falling to his doom, he felt almost in complete serenity for the first time in years, that along with the sickening rush he got from the possibility he could die right then and there.
- He ended up making a habit of just diving off of the sky islands with no equipment whatsoever and waiting until the last second to receive help from any of his pokemon. The longest he’s fallen would be about 10 minutes, and he’d never felt anything like it before.
- Wings are used as metaphor for being free from any and all troubles from life. They’re often seen on graffiti in the ruined regions along with messages like “Just a glimmer of light is all we need.” “May the light of the sun shine upon you.” “The light will set us free.” “May the man of the dark be punished by Arceus itself.”
- Nikey has earned himself the nicknames “The Man of the Dark” and “The Shadow”
- After Nikey hadn’t returned in months, the world above the smog began to fall into shambles. The admins of Nightsky tried their hardest to keep everything in order, but half of the team wouldn’t even listen to them, they wanted Nikey. But they would never see Nikey again. After Winona heard he hadn’t come back, she began to become even more worried sick than she already was. She was tempted to use the Time Machine and go find him herself, but she would be leaving behind the people who need her
- Thinking about a BANGER ASS BATTLE between Winona and Nikey to decide the fate of the world. Maybe they made a deal that whoever won would have control over the world forever. Winona knew she was foolish to accept that but she couldn’t let this opportunity go to waste. BUT WITH THE POWER OF DETERMINATION. She fucking wins and it’s BEAUTIFUL. Anyways yes I am listening to Hopes and Dreams as I’m typing this how’d you know?
- Winona has had several dreams where the smog had cleared and everything had gone back to normal. She could physically feel in these dreams and see like she was seeing with her actual eyes. It was so… disorienting. And when she wakes up from these dreams, she has to kind of sit there and process that, no, everything is still the same. And it really just takes a toll on her. She almost prefers being asleep if it means she can have those dreams.
- Winona has epilepsy BY THE WAY because I said so. If nobody else is around her she has her Pokémon help her through her seizures. If she’s at work it’s usually the colleague she has a giant crush on who helps her
- I don’t even really need to outright say it, but yes Nikey and Winona both have depression. Nikey has pretty severe anxiety as well and probably ptsd?? Yeah there’s no way he doesn’t.
- Nikey and Winona both have hard times sleeping without somebody else next to them, since they were so used to sleeping in the same bed. Winona has like a cocoon of pillows and blankets around her. Nikey is too afraid to have anything that could even resemble the feeling of human touch on his bed as he’s afraid it’ll remind him too much of Winona. (They were married for like… 18 years?) oh yeah btw Mikey was like 38 before Nightsky. He was 43 when they got divorced. He’s old LMAO
- I don’t know if I already mentioned this but it is VERY cold under the smog, like, freezing cold. Most people’s clothes are very warm and thick, either that or windbreakers if they can handle the cold. It’s very rare to see anyone in even just a regular long sleeved shirt without something else over it.
- Also, I always love to think of Mikey/Nikey and Winona as more than just human, thinking of them with bird wings is always fun and it provides for even more interesting story elements. Like, it’d be fun if Mikey didn’t even know he was more than human and just discovered it one day and had an entire crisis over it. He just becomes a Harpy out of nowhere and he’s having so much trouble with it and his newfound bird-like instincts and he’s so afraid for Winona to find out that he locks himself up in their room for hours before Winona convinces him to unlock the door. She’s shocked at first, but she’s nothing but supportive. She sits on their bed with him, him having his knees to his chest, not even being able to look at her, and she just sits there petting his wings, comforting him. And it’s just so sweet and I’m totally not crying you are :’)
- His wings are very soft/smooth and Winona very much enjoys petting them, they’re pretty massive wings too. If he were to wrap them around himself you wouldn’t be able to see him. It makes for very nice and warm hugs :)
- ALSO I think it’d be fun if Winona did time travel, but also fucked it up so badly she got sent to another world. A world where instead of Mikey being the leader of Team Sky, it was her, and she had traveled to past Paldea. Perhaps when she travelled in time and realities she had broken the machine and could not go home, and would need to enlist the help of her past self to get back home. And the whole time she’s just looking at the past version of herself from another reality and is like… “You don’t know how lucky you are.” But not in a malicious way, more in a yearning for what she’s lost kind of way.
Past Winona ends up telling her about Mikey and ends up going on like a 30 minute ramble on everything she loves about him and Nightsky Winona is just smiling looking at her like <:) AND IT SJUST AUGH. And she tell her “Make sure you hold him close to your heart forever. He’s irreplaceable after all. Give him all the love in the world you can muster, okay?” And she’s just so so so sad. Nightsky Winona ends up getting the chance to tell past Winona about where she came from and past Winona is just like “Oh my god?? Are you okay???” And Nightsky Winona just smiles and looks at her like “No <:) but I had people I loved that were helping me get through things I wouldn’t be able to even fathom going through on my own. They were the lights in my life, and were there for me no matter what. They’d do anything they could to help me, and I couldn’t be more grateful for that.” And it’s just AGAISGDISHEIEHGHGH.
and Past Winona asks her if she ever misses her ex-husband, and she just nods silently and doesn’t say anything for a minute. Past Winona feels a little awkward for bringing it up, but then Nightsky Winona ends up going on a whole rant about everything, far longer than she would’ve liked to, but she’s been holding it all in for so long for the sake of the other people in her life that it’s difficult not to go on and on and on about everything. She misses her husband, so dearly, and just so badly wants things to go back to normal with him, but she doesn’t know she’ll never see him again literally ever and it’s just so heartbreaking to listen to her talk about this.
She feels so bad for just dumping all this on her past self, but she can’t help herself. Luckily both of them are great listeners so neither of them really mind these long rambles. By the time she’s done she feels like she’s lifted the weight of the world off her back a little bit. Her eyes are sore and red and her body is shaky, but she hasn’t felt so relieved in years.
Past Winona just gives her the best hug she can and says “I know you can get through this, you’ve done amazing in the years so far, it’ll be back to normal soon, I can tell. I know you’ll see Mikey again one day, and maybe by then he’ll have a change of heart? I can’t promise that, but I can promise everything will be okay. I know I don’t know the half of what you’ve been living through back at your home, but what I do know is myself, and by extension you. You’re resilient, and as long as you have the people by your side, you’ll be okay.” And Nightsky Winona is just like <:’) and it’s SO SWEET.
When it comes time for her to leave Past Paldea, Winona gives her past self one last hug and says “Thank you for listening to me, it means the world. I know you’ll continue to be the amazing team leader you are, and I wish you the best in that regard.”
and Past Winona is just like “Of course. Just, remember what I told you okay? Even if it’s just one thing. It’s going to be okay.”
And Nightsky Winona just nods and smiles. “Thank you.” She says. “I think it’s time for me to go back home, it was a pleasure to meet you.”
And she just walks towards the Time Machine and looks back at her past alternate reality self one last time, and waves goodbye. Her past self does the same, and Nightsky Winona walks into the light of the Time Machine, sending her back into the future, and her own reality.
ANYWAYS that’s all canon now by the way :)
- Also I realised just how much the song Isle of Flightless Birds fits with the entire world of Nightsky and The Sun’s Children. Like, it’s amazing, PLEASE go listen to that song if you can!
- I will not deny that Nikey has very much sadistic traits to him and his habits. It’s scares him sometimes, but he brushes it off most of to time. I won’t go too into detail because those words are being saved for someone much more deserving of those. Someone that I hate with all my heart :)
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Chapter 10: Headcanon Post: 9
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Date Written/Posted: September 28th.
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More Team Sky/Nightsky Headcanons! Warning for Nikey being a little bit of an ass for the stuff under the cut.
Nikey had to end the life of a close friend he held dear to his heart as they started to make plans to overthrow Nikey and take over Nightsky. Nikey found out right before the planned day of being overthrown, and had no choice but to take their life in order to save his own.
Winona and Nikey both have Pokémon that they rescued personally due to Nikeys actions. Winona rescued a sillicobra she found dying in the cold dessert sands, she took it in, nurtured it, and ended up adopting it. It ended up evolving into a Sandaconda which she always keeps with her, along with her Umbreon and Espeon. All three make a great pairing in case of sudden emergency rescues while Winona is out and about.
Nikey had rescued a Purrloin from certain death of falling off one of the sky islands after getting into a tussle with other wild Pokémon. After Nikey had dropped nearly everything to go rescue this Pokémon, on the flight back up to the sky island it’d fallen off of, Nikey noticed the poor kittens left eye had been scratched out and was causing it great pain. Nikey took the Pokémon to one of his personal Pokemon doctors out of sympathy, and ended up checking on it every day as it recovered. He ended up adopting the kitten and using it as his own pokemon. Anyone who questions him having a land Pokémon on his team gets docked pay.
The purrloin would often also have nightmares due to its traumatic experiences in its life, so this only boosted Nikey’s sympathy for it even more. This purrloin ended up becoming a representation of recovery for him, but he didn’t really take it to heart as much as he could have.
Winona and Mikey’s wedding ring both had a heart with wings engraved on the inner parts of them.
Winona and her colleague’s ship name is Teatimeshipping (I PROMISE the colleague will get a name soon.)
Winona had to hold a pretty much worldwide funeral for Nikey after everyone realized he was never coming back, and everyone accepted he probably had died. During this funeral, it is told the world was united once again under Winona. There wasn’t any bickering amongst the hundreds of thousands of people attending, everyone sat there and listened to Winona’s speech. All her woes and sorrows. Her regrets and mistakes. And everything she went through during the course of Nightsky. Half of the speech was almost entirely about her husband and how much she missed him, and now she’d never get the chance to fix things with him again, which she blamed herself for. The attendees sat in silence and listened until she got everything off of her chest, in which then, the world had begun to see a new light.
After Nightsky was disbanded and the smog was starting to be cleared, there were still some stragglers who didn’t want Nightsky to be disbanded. These stragglers started Neo Nightsky, who’s goals are pretty much more of the same as regular Nightsky’s, but they’re having more difficulties now that the world is finally mostly at peace.
World restoration efforts begin, but they would not be done for atleast an entire century, long after Winona is gone. She has to pass on her legacy to somebody, but I’m not quite sure who yet. Could she have adopted children? It’s very likely.
Winona got the opportunity to see Nikey’s office after he dissapeared and she just ended up sitting in there for hours silently crying, just looking at all that was left of him. Nikey ended up leaving his Purrloin behind, which had been roaming around the abandoned HQ. Winona ends up coming across the kitten and learns about its past with Nikey through a journal of sorts Nikey kept in his office. It wasn’t a diary, however he did have one back at his home. Which Winona couldn’t stand to go to, as she wouldn’t think she’d be able to pry herself away and leave.
Nikey’s purrloin ended up hanging around Winona for her entire visit. Her colleague ended up having to bring her out of the office after a few hours, Winona didn’t protest, but she did take awhile to actually leave, which she did in silence. As she was preparing to leave the island Nightsky’s HQ was on, she noticed the purrloin lurking about near her. She crouched down to its level and held out a hand to it, which it responded by skittering up to her and pressing its head into her palm, purring. Winona was overwhelmed by emotions, and ended up taking it home, along with the rest of Nikey’s Pokémon he had left behind. (Which does not include Rayquaza.)
Winona is the embodiment of the song When You’re Gone by The Cranberries, also Once More to See You by Mitski. Also I Bet on Losing Dogs by Mitski.
a little bit of a massive mood change under the cut
Also fun fact Nikey had a certain someone he was close with, and was one of the only people he trusted. Her name? Maddie. Maddie is the owner of an actually magic magic hat that she found when she was a child. Unbeknownst to her at the time, this hat would be the cause of her losing her friends, everyone she loved, and being taken in by her aunt, Why? Well, you see, this hat has the ability to summon any legendary Pokémon the wearer desires, except, the only person allowed to wear this hat is Maddie. As if anyone else touched the hat or steals it, they end up in a catatonic state.
Maddie cannot leave the hat behind anywhere, as it will always find her one way or another. As you can imagine this took a large toll on her as a person. One day, she heard about Nightsky, and about Nikey as well. She thought, “HMMMMMMM. Yeah I’ll try my luck with it, sounds like a fun time.” She ended up becoming the teams “magician” (though that’s only a cover for why she’s actually there.) and would often put on performances to boost the moods of Nightsky’s members, beloved by all. Nikey, knowing the magic hats true capabilities, ordered some of his own bodyguards to guard Maddie herself as well.
This ended up with them often spending time together when neither of them had to do anything else. And unfortunately for Maddie, she started to catch a little bit of a crush (a fucking massive one.). This ended up becoming a very unhealthy thing for her as she would do almost anything for him. (Which is what made her so trustworthy to him.). Nikey knew about the crush, it was pretty obvious to him, but he didn’t do anything to try and stop the crush. It was out of his hands either way, and he didn’t want to make Maddie feel bad for something she couldn’t control. What’s this? Is he developing a soft spot for her? Uh oh. Nikey didn’t end up developing any feelings for her back, but would often find himself playing with her own feelings for him. He hated himself for it, but it just became an unhealthy habit, unhealthy for both of them. Nikey ended up leaving before anything could escalate too much, but Maddie still has very complicated and unresolved feelings for him. (DISCLAIMER. They did not end up every doing anything sexual with eachother because NO. BAD.)
IT ENDS UP BEING A WHOLE THING AND GIANT MESS AFTER WINONA FINDS OUT ABOUT IT FROM MADDIE AND SHES LIKE “…??.??.?.?. Huh???” And it’s like she’s upset at first but then she remembers she sort of did the same thing with her colleague except it wasn’t the same thing at all, because they had genuinely fallen for eachother while Nikey was making questionable decisions and it’s just a whole thing.
Maybe Maddie, Winona, and her colleague get together in a polycule after a while. :) I love Maddie she is the woman ever
I’ll post an image of her some time in the future
For now, just know that she is the embodiment of the song Magic Hat by The Scary Jokes
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Chapter 11: Headcanon post: 10
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Date Written/Posted: October 29th.
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More Nightsky Headcanons :) Mostly About Winona, Mikey, and Nikey.
(Got some whump in this one.) (is it whump?) (I think so idk)
Winona likes to call Mikey Sky-Boy in a taunt kind of way, but a “I love you, idiot” kind of way
Mikey is not good at hiding his emotions as I’ve discussed, so sometimes he’ll just look at Winona in like any formal-wear and he just “Uhhhh, uhhhh einwidheiwneieneie hi” and his face is like red as a tomato and Winona’s just like LMAO Arceus I fucking love you
FOREHEAD KISSES all the time, hand kisses, they’re very comfortable with moderate PDA, but they’re like all over eachother when they’re mostly alone. Constantly hugging, holding hands, you know the drill. They’re so fucking adorable
Mikey is pretty decent at flirting, but Winona is always on top of her game. Flirting between the two almost always starts with Mikey saying something pretty good, and then Winona just knocking him to the ground metaphorically with something he could’ve never even guessed, something that leaves him absolutely stunned in the best way possible. He wants to someday find something he can say that will make Winona feel the same way.
Also, the outside of Team Sky’s base is decked the fuck out with wind chimes of all kinds. The area it’s in gets a shit ton of wind, which has also resorted in the base being partly wind powered.
anyways back to the Nightsky
Nikey often finds himself holding his own hand when he’s alone just to have some sense of what he used to have with Winona
Despite him very much being cursed, people outside his close proximity only know it to be a rumour. He prefers to keep it that way and will very much dock the pay of anyone who is too persistent to know.
The skin around the cursed eye is like… really gross. Like Marvel’s Spider Man 2 Symbiote Suit gross. The green dot below the eye has the texture and material of marble. The red iris can burn through almost any fabrics aside from one, which is exactly what his eyepatch is made of. He is EXTREMELY insecure about how the skin around his eye is and if anybody brings it up, he will either A. Threaten to kill them. B. Hurt them physically. Or C. Just leave and then hide away from everything and everyone. Depends on his mood.
There was a point in time where he got deadly sick for like a week, almost died, and nobody knew because everyone assumed he was just self isolating again. He didn’t think of his sickness as much at first, just a small cold, he’ll just wait it out. But as it went on, and he began to feel worse, he began having intense physical symptoms, began to be unable to stand even with a cane. He began to rely on dry snacks in his house as he couldn’t do anything to cook for himself, which only worsened his condition as it was mostly unhealthy food. He was lucky he even had any water in his room in the first place, otherwise he surely would’ve been dead long before anyone found him.
He couldn’t call for help either. His voice was too quiet and hoarse to call out for the bodyguards standing guard right outside his house. He began to experience extreme delirium and even when he was breaking things inside his house in an attempt to call attention to someone, anyone- to help him. The guards just assumed he was having another episode. Constant burning inside his body, jolts of pain coarse go through his body like lightning any time he moved. He couldn’t sleep either, which only worsened his delirium and caused more intense hallucinations. Hallucinations of people he loved, people he lost, whether by death or otherwise. Hallucinations of people he killed.
It wasn’t until he crawled to his front door, scratching and clawing, unable to stand up to reach all the locks he had brandished on the entrance to his house, that someone finally opened the door and saw the horrible state he was in. His hair was a mess, his skin was dirty, he was barely clothed, and his eyepatch was missing. He began to be treated on sight by his personal doctor, who was called for an emergency to his house. But his condition was far too severe for that to suffice. He was taken to the nearest hospital and put into emergency treatment.
Turns out, the reason he had fallen so deathly ill was due to a deadly poison known as “Parasect G” which is known to kill any recipient within the next 24 hours after consumption. The doctors said it was a miracle Nikey had even survived for as long as he did, especially with how he was handling it. The doctors also found that his body had been suffering from long term and deadly amounts of intense stress. They ended up keeping him in the hospital for months to get his body to be even remotely healthy.
Nikey hadn’t realised just how exhausted and in pain he’d been for the past 5 years. And when he found himself alone in his hospital room, all he could do was cry. He’d been so… tired. All this time he was so tired- and now he was feeling it, all at once. He just wanted to curl into a ball and dissipate into pure light. All he could do now… was make the most of his hospital-ridden state, and just take the time to just… rest. Weeks after recovery, Nikey found himself vaguely wishing that it had taken him out. Or that he could atleast be that close to the brink again, because atleast then, he could be taken to the hospital again, and have time to breathe again. He has a purpose, he’s the ruler of the world, and yet… he feels so lost. Like he’s waiting for something that’ll never come, that he doesn’t even know what it is. But he’s holding out for something.
And he will get that something. Whatever it may be.
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