Scott waits until Doc is safely far, far out of earshot, and then waits a little longer just to make doubly sure he's as far out of range as possible before turning to the other emperors, heart hammering in his chest.
"Jimmy, your friends are insane," Scott says.
"Why are you blaming me?" Jimmy says incredulously.
"I mean, I don't know! You and Fwhip are the ones who said we should try to keep them in our world! But look at what they've done! We lost track of the green one and now he's shown up here with two dragons."
"Well, that's hardly my fault, is it?"
"I mean," Fwhip says. "I mean. You are one of the ones they recognized -"
"Don't you - excuse you, if we're going off of recognition, then we should be yelling about Gem, or False, or Sausage or something! Not me! It's not my fault one of them is like, my sleep paralysis demon -"
"Your what?" interjects Oli.
"It's not important," Jimmy says.
"I mean, I don't know, King, that sounds maybe a little important -"
"Toy boy gets nightmares," Joel says.
"You said you'd -"
There's a roar overhead. It pierces straight through Scott's chest, filling his lungs with horrible vibrations. Everyone goes deathly silent. Scott's hands shake. Oli goes sheet white. Jimmy visibly swallows hard, hands twitching for the pistol he doesn't have here. Fwhip hisses and gestures under an outcropping. It doesn't take a genius to follow him.
They stuff themselves into the rock. They don't all fit. Shelby has to practically sit on top of Scott, in fact, who puts up with it far more than he should, given how much Shelby gleams to his magic eye.
It is, of course, not nearly as bad as the dragon.
The wingflaps never get too close. They can hear them, though.
"Are - what are you doing?" Scott hears Fwhip hiss to Sausage.
Scott turns. The man has a rosary.
"I'm just making sure that if these are my last words Santa Pearla hears them," Sausage says, "and understands why they're while sandwiched between such beautiful people."
Scott takes a moment to process that. "Haha. Nice," he says.
"I know, isn't it?" Sausage says, giggling.
"I think Scott's right," Shelby says. "Jimmy, your friends here are -"
There's a sound like thunder.
"They're dangerous," Shelby says quietly. "They're dangerous. Why did we follow them?"
Jimmy is very quiet before he says: "I mean, isn't it better they're dangerous where we can see it? Where, er, we can control it?"
Outside, a dragon circles spawn. Scott snorts.
"Don't you think it's too late?" he says. "There's no controlling that."
Everyone is very quiet.
"Maybe we should go home," Fwhip says.
No one moves, though. They stay huddled where they are until they're certain the dragon is nowhere near, and then they slowly spread out into the winter village they're building again. Scott supposes he understands. He never knew when to quit, either.
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So... I've been gone for a while.... and I'm gonna be gone a bit longer.
For those of you who don't know I'm a university student and exam season is approaching at an incredibly ALARMING rate and I'm just not finding the time to update my WIPs anywhere near as much as I'd like.
I'm gonna be gone for around the next 2 months whilst exam season hits, but rest assured I'm NOT leaving and I WILL be back
Sorry about this, but thank you guys for all the support so far and I'll be back with some *surprises* in the summer :)
Good luck for everyone else in the same boat as me! and for those of you who aren't, enjoy it because you're so lucky
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a theory on the ava shorts s2 teaser
ok so. obviously this will contain spoilers for the teaser so please go watch it before reading!!
so. y'all know this shot of chosen being drawn at the beginning, interspersed by a bunch of scenes from ava5?
^^ this one. (apologies for the bad screenshot)
well. that's not chosen.
pictured above, chosen as they appear at the beginning of ava2. note their pose (with arms and legs sorta curved inward) and their thicker lineart.
and pictured below, victim in ava1, in the exact same pose as the trailer (notably, the arm on the left is curved while all other limbs are straight).
so!!! this is about to have some very interesting implications for the new season huh (i.e. victim's not actually dead and we were right)
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I know everyone on Tumblr and Twitter regards people who are 25+ or god-forbid 30+ to be in fandom for nefarious purposes only and should be doing adult things like having a shitty 9-5 office job and then getting home and staring at a beige wall.
I'm here to tell you that my experience being 30 is largely unchanged from being 20, except I now have better communication and empathy skills from years of therapy and also from gazing into the void. Also I have more bills and stress, which means I value my time being able to enjoy a hobby like playing with metaphorical Barbie dolls.
Also, I can offer you such gems of lived-experience advice like "you may have a quarter-life crisis in your twenties as adulthood comes stampeding over you, it will suck absolute ass but you are not alone and you can do this."
Anyways shout-out to the age range who are not-elders-but-regarded-as-such-online-for-some-reason. I met a 60+ person playing my cool new gardening sim game and he's legit af. I am baby compared to that guy and he's still vibing. You're allowed to be part of online communities at any age as long as you respect the people around you.
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