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my-current-obsession · 1 year

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Taking a break from Rune Factory 4 Special to fantasize about a potential Rune Factory 5 Special. Which probably won’t happen, but I can dream. This is basically just a list of updates/changes/etc. that I would like to see.

- (re)incorporate a lot of the stuff found in datamining, like the ability to run a shop and the DLC love interests - Livia, Radea, & Terry. Whether those three remain DLC or are just added in as new options, I would LOVE to have them. I wouldn’t even care if I have to wait until post-game to properly romance one or both of the girls, since it would be worth it. I’d also like Misasagi to be a love interest but I just don’t think that’s feasible since she has a child already and the writers/developers won’t want to have to deal with you marrying & moving in with someone who already has a kid.

- Speaking of Hina, she and Julien ABSOLUTELY need to grow up some after you’ve had kids. Those two are like... somewhere around 7-11 initially, and there’s at least a three or four year timeskip after having a kid (plus ANOTHER timeskip after the twins). It’s REALLY jarring to see those two looking/acting barely older than your own kids when at minimum they’re seven(ish) years older. Ideally I’d like the “young adult” models/sprites (as in, all the marriage candidates basically) to get a bit older too but that’s less of an issue than the two kids who noticeably Don’t Age.

- Bring back the “reverse” proposals from RF4S. I understand giving the player the agency to choose when to propose, but having an event that ends with their love interest proposing is SO GOOD, and it’s not forcing you to accept, so you can still propose on your own terms later. And several love interests make it clear they WANTED to propose when you do it, so just... let them do it! I think ideally I’d want MOST of the guys (3-4?) and at least one or two girls to do this, while the others still leave the proposing to you. In all cases, they’d need either one more new event or tweaks/add-ons to their final event to flow more naturally into this.

- Make sure the game is actually optimized and performs well on the Switch this time. I’ve heard the PC version is much better, but I got the game when it first came out on Switch, and it’s... not great. Lots of lagging, random crashing and visual glitches... Fix all of that.

- I ASSUME this was an oversight and not intentional, but definitely fix the issue where if you date multiple people in one run and then get married the other love interest(s) still act(s) like you’re together. The pet names are dropped but the romantic dialogue is not. It was SO awkward when I talked to Martin like the day after I married Ryker and he contemplated whether Cecil would approve of “our” relationship. Well, considering I’m married now, and not to you, probably not!

- This is a little less important, but along a similar vein I’d like if the game actually noticed and slightly altered some events depending on who you were dating, or if that’s too difficult make an effort to NOT have “date” events feature multiple potential love interests. Once again, on my first date with Ryker, Martin strolled up and interrupted us which embarrassed Ryker SO MUCH he left. I was pretty embarrassed too, considering Martin then casually said “Sorry I interrupted your date, Love.” Ideally either change date events so other love interests DON’T casually appear, or go immersive and have them react DIFFERENTLY if they also happen to be dating you. There’s also a non-date event where you and a few others play the King’s Game but Ryker is rigging it to help Ludmilla flirt with you. Again, odd to see it when I’m dating him and NOT her.

- It would honestly be nice to set your sexuality/preferred love interest gender at the start of the game simply so you’re not bombarded with EVERYONE’s events and not getting hit on by everyone when you’re talking to them every day. This way you’re only given the events and flirting by the gender you want.

- Bring back dungeon seeds/field dungeons! That’s just a simple and fun way to spend a lot of your time and get random rewards.

- Include more random conversations between townspeople! Literally the only “group” conversations in 5 are between the 6 boys and 6 girls at festivals. Let two or three people meet up during the day and have conversations. I miss that from 4 so much, it really helps flesh out the town and how certain characters interact with each other.

- Newlywed Mode would be nice.

- Murakumo being the only person running the bathhouse often causes problems. Any time he’s NOT there, such as festival days or just when he’s eating lunch/dinner, you can’t take a bath even though the inn is technically open/available. He has an in-universe reason to work alone so you can’t give him a helper, but you COULD do something like leave a note at his desk that we can investigate which says how much to pay. Bado in RF4 had something like that for whenever he was slacking off. Basically, we need some way to access the bath even if Kumo isn’t doing his job.

EDIT - thought of one more! Give us a way to access the flower shop earlier. Having Ludmilla be the sole person running it when she doesn’t even join the town until halfway through the game is... A Choice. It is RIDICULOUS how late in the game this shop becomes available. I think you could have Priscilla run it initially, and just decide where Lucy works between the shop and the bakery. Then when Ludmilla joins and takes over, Priscilla takes the other open job.

#rune factory #rf5 #rune factory 5 #i've almost exhausted rf4 of content. almost. have a few more marriage events/weddings to see and then just kids #but i've entirely beaten the game otherwise so there's very little for me to do and stay invested once i've married everyone #even with my favorite bachelor/ettes it will be hard to find the motivation to continue past marriage so i can have kids #if only i could have gotten married sooner but in 3 different playthroughs i've never managed it before halfway through Rune Prana #it's much easier to get married in 5 thankfully. i just need to secure my love interest(s) in between all the other town events #but yeah. I LIKE rf5 but i think it says something about its problems/quality that i've played its entire story ONCE #while i've done it for rf4 THREE TIMES and intend to at least once more. i do need to go back to 5 though #i have SO MANY love interests i still need to romance. namely ALL the girls and some of the guys #but i need to stick to like... 2 LIs per run or else things will get a little crazy while i could harem-run easily in 4

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sincerlypadfoot · 4 years

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~During the time of the order of Umbridge and the dumbledore army, you have no problems summoning your Patronus, doing it on the daily, watching the dragon fly around your room, but once you see someone who catches your eye who has troubles, you're determined to find his happy moment

“Everyone casting a Patronus is easy, but casting a full-body one is the hardest, everyone practice, even if you don’t get it right away, it’s okay” Harry shouted walking around the room. I looked at Hermione and smiled.

I flicked my wand in the air, shooting out a dragon, I smiled looking at the dragon that crawling around, flying around and scaring people.

“That is awesome,” Hermione said chuckling, I put my wand down, the dragon disappeared in the air. “Watch,” She said hitting my shoulder, a otter flew out of her wand, landing in the air dancing around.

“That's awesome,” Harry shouted walking over to the both of us. “That's really awesome, Neville,” He shouted walking from us to Neville, the boy who jumped at the sound of Harry walking towards him. “Why don’t you try,” He suggested.

“I don’t think I can do it,” Neville nervously said. I watched him, turning my body and looking at the nervous boy who lifted up his wand. “Expecto Patronum,” Neville shouted casting everyone's attention, a little blue light came out of his wand, nothing more than a light.

“I think we’re gonna call it a day everyone!” Harry shouted tapping Neville on the shoulder. “Practice your movement during winter break, I’m proud of you all!” He shouted as everyone flooded out.

“I’ll find you later, I have something to do,” I whispered to Hermione taking off quickly walking in front. “Neville hey Neville,” I shouted catching up to the boy who walked in the wrong direction.

“Me?” Neville said turning around. “Hi Liara,” He said with a smile. “What can I do for you?” He asked stopping and just smiling.

“Do you wanna hang out this summer?” I asked smiling. “I got invited to a carnival this summer, and I have an extra ticket,” I said grabbing the tickets from my pocket.

“You're asking me?” Neville said looking around. “What about Hermione or your other friends?” He said rubbing the back of his neck

“Neville takes the ticket,” I chuckled walking over to him and placing the solid blue and gold ticket in his hand. “I’ll see you this summer okay, I’ll find you,” I smirked turning around and walking back to the common room.

“Liara,” Neville said causing me to stop in my tracks and turn around. “Thank you really, I’ll be waiting,” He chuckled turning around from me and walking around the corner, I smiled looking at the spot he stood.

“Are you coming?” George said walking out of the room. “Liara?” He said snapping me out of my thoughts.

“Yeah yeah I’m coming,” I said sighing and walking up to the twins. “Where are we going?” I asked looking at the two.

“We’re breaking into Umbridge's office, you in?” Fred chuckled pulling out a package from his pocket. “She’ll be hiccuping the rest of the day,” He giggled.

“I’ll have to rain check on this one, but good luck to you too, I’ll be looking forward to seeing Umbridge hunt you two down,” I chuckled playfully hitting their shoulders and turning the corner without them.

Winter Break came by fast, sitting on the train with Hermione who talked about what she was gonna do, Harry who was happy to be going to the Weasleys and Ron who was shoving candy after candy bar into his mouth.

“See you in a couple weeks guys,” I smiled jumping out of the train. “Have fun with the Weasleys Harry,” I yelled walking away from the group, I grabbed my stuff off the trolly and started walking away, getting ready to take the floo network home.

“Godric Hollows,” I called out dropping the pounder on my feet. I appeared in my living room, looking at my older brother who sat on the couch smiling. “Wheres, mom and dad?” I asked stepping out of the fireplace and looking around the house.

“Out, they’ve been out all day, welcome home,” Ryker Nolans said coming up to me and hugging me. “I missed you, I hope you know that,” He whispered in my ear as I dropped my stuff and hugged him back.

“What's wrong?” I asked looking up at my brother. “Where are mom and dad?” I asked getting frustrated.

“They joined the order, don’t freak out, okay don’t,” Ryker said looking down at me. “they’re at the ministry right now, figuring out what to do about him, so it’s just you and I for a while, and Milly,” He smiled.

“Your girlfriends here?” I asked looking at him still. “Do mom and dad know?” I asked smirking.

“Do mom and dad know you gave your last ticket away to a boy when you were supposed to give it to Hermione,” Ryker smiled letting me go. “Tell me about him,” He said sitting down on the couch.

“It’s nothing, I just wanna show him the carnival we were invited to, and he can’t cast a Patronus, so many that’ll be a happy memory and he’ll be able to cast one,” I smiled picking up my bags. “I’ll see you in a bit, tell Milly I said hello,” I chuckled walking past my brother and up the stairs to my room.

A couple days passed and Christmas was only days away, and the carnival was only a couple hours away.

“Milly I need your help,” I shouted bursting into my brother's room. “Ryker out, I need help and you’re not involved,” I said pointing to the door.

“Are you kicking me out of my own room?” Ryker said, I didn’t say anything but kept pointing at the door. “Fine, I can’t even believe this,” I said shaking his head and walking out of the room in only his boxers.

“What would you like help with?” Milly said getting out of her bed. “Let me guess, you don’t have anything to wear, I’ve heard thing a million times from you,” She chuckled putting her hands on her shoulder.

“I don’t have anything to wear,” I shouted tossing my hands up in the air. “I mean I don’t think it’s a date but like I still wanna look nice, I’m trying to make happy memories here,” I chuckled looking at Milly with a nervous smile.

“Come on, let me go see what you’ve got going on in your closet,” Milly said walking passed me, I quickly followed her into my room. “Oh come on,” Milly chuckled opening my closet and taking out a black shirt and jeans. “This is perfect, and you’ve never worn it, you just bought it,” She said turning to me.

“And see, I don’t know what I would do without you in my life, do you have a belt I can borrow?” I asked chuckling. “None of mine look good,” I said with a smile, Milly looking back in my closet pulling out a black belt. “Thank you,” I smiled walking over and pulling Milly into a hug.

“So tell me about this boy, since you won't say anything to your brother, I’ll turn around,” Milly chuckled handing me my clothes, I walked behind her and started to get changed.

“His name is Neville Longbottom, you can’t tell my parents I gave the ticket to him, it was supposed to go to Hermione,” I chuckled tossing my old clothes onto my bed. “He’s nice, very nice and quiet, he doesn’t talk much unless you start the conversion, and I think I might have a little crush on him,” I chuckled slipping on everything. “You can turn around now,” I said taking a breath and exhaling.

“You look wonderful Li,” Milly said hugging me. “Go for it, he seems nice, and I’ll be your wing-woman for the night,” SHe chuckled letting me go.

“Thank you,” I smiled. “We should get going, I have to meet Neville, he lives with his grandma,” I chuckled. “It’s sweet really, I’ll see you at the carnival okay,” I said taking another nervous breath and walking out of the room.

“Li,” Milly said making me turn around. “You're not even close to ready,” She chucked waving her hand back. “Sit down, let me do your makeup,” She chuckled using her wand to bring out the makeup from my vanity and pull out my chair.

#neville longbottom #NevilleLongbottom x #NevilleLongbottom x you #NevilleLongbottom #neville longbottom x reader

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mav-wolf · 3 years

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MAVERICK RYKER WOLF.

gon·er /ˈɡônər/

a person or thing that is doomed or cannot be saved.

BASICS.

Name: Maverick Ryker Wolf Nicknames: Mav Age: 30 years old Birthday: February 7th Zodiac: Aquarius Hometown: Detroit, Michigan Affiliation: Cortázar Cartel Occupation: Henchman Education: High School Dropout Relationship Status: Single Orientation: Pansexual / Greyromantic Children: None Pets: Shadow, bombay cat

APPEARANCE.

Tattoos: Medusa’s head with white eyes on the back of his left hand, anubis on his right shoulder (like this), moon tarot card on his right tricep. Piercings: None. Scars: Small scar on his right eyebrow from hitting his head against a glass table; A few scattered scars from skateboarding and his job; Faded track marks on his arms and legs.

PERSONALITY.

Traits: Introvert, sarcastic, cynical, anxious, careless, impulsive, loyal, can be manipulative, compassionate, too emotional or too emotionless, resourceful, addictive personality.

Habits: Tends to smoke a lot more when anxiety or cravings peak; Writes on his lighters so other people don’t steal them; Scratches his face or arms subconsciously when he’s nervous; Always finds time to go for a run.

BIOGRAPHY.

Trigger Warnings: Drug use, abuse and addiction; Murder; Mental Illness.

♡ He was born at 3:36 AM on a friday and the first feeling he knows is rejection. When most parents have a child it’s something they’ve always wanted, their baby is someone they’ve anxiously been waiting to meet; yet Maverick and his brother were both accidents: unwanted and unwelcome. Their parents are too young, too reckless and too unwilling to give up the life they could still have for the lives they’ve created.

♡ The second thing he learns is that his brother is there and that seems to be the only constant. His presence is the only thing he knows to be an absolute truth no matter what, and it’s his presence that makes things a little more bearable.

♡ Their parents were present enough to ensure they’d survive but the older the two of them got, the more absent they became. They’re not there to walk the boys to school, help them with their homework or other trivial parental duties. Maverick was six and used to being alone with his brother by then. At least until the old lady who lived next door noticed that they were always alone and started coming over; bringing the boys food and spending some time with them.

♡ Maverick was fifteen and involved with all the wrong crowds. He’s not good with people and even worse at pretending to be; he’s quiet and selective, spends too much time in his own head. But that’s okay, his newfound friends accepted him for who he was and that was a good thing, he supposed, until their influence has him opening doors he should’ve never touched.

♡ The first door: Alcohol. It was socially accepted, easy, everyone did it, it was normal. But drinking for fun wasn’t good enough, a beer or two wasn’t good enough; it wasn’t good enough until everything was funny, until all his worries faded, until he could laugh in the face of his problems, until he was passed out and too far gone to think of anything else. It wasn’t a problem, not his poison, but it was where it all started.

♡ The second door was nicotine. It wasn’t a big deal and might not be what could kill him in the end, but it was the first sign that he falls a little too easily.

♡ Maverick was sixteen when Rosa, the old lady next door, died of natural causes. A couple days after, he and his brother come to the conclusion that there was nothing left for them there so they pack their bags and run away - their parents never looked for them.

♡ At the age of twenty four, he met a guy at one of his odd jobs that introduced him to the final door: heroine. And that, unfortunately, was his poison. For a while, he was a functioning user, going on with his life apparently well with just that small dose and he couldn’t really tell where it stopped being enough; the gradual increase in amount wasn’t even conscious as dependence developed into addiction and Maverick wasn’t quite sure who he was anymore, yet blissfully ignorant to his own misery. It was easier that way than to accept that he was the only one to blame for his impending decay, better than facing the embarrassment of going through his brother or significant other’s wallets when he thought they weren’t paying attention or picking pockets on the streets; all only so he could disappear for a few days at times and come back with some poorly formulated excuse.

♡ Years later, after he punched his brother bloody, Maverick finally decided to get help and went to rehab. He relapsed a couple times but finally did it, yet every day he wonders how long it’ll last. The problem was that he still owed a lot of money and his brother and him told the Cartel they couldn’t afford to pay - but they’d work to pay it off. So they did but, once their debt was paid for, the Cartel couldn’t just let them go at the risk of letting them talk - so they’ve been members ever since, the thought of anything happening to either of them if they chose to leave always keeping them from doing so.

♡ His brother remains involved with the drugs and Maverick has become a henchman for them. Life definitely didn’t turn that great for him but, honestly, he never did have high hopes.

WANTED CONNECTIONS.

HIS BROTHER: The only constant in Mav’s life, his ride or die. The only person who knows Maverick in every aspect. They’re very, very close and would die for each other in a heartbeat. They’re best friends and whatever shit they go through, they go through together. Of course they argue at times, but they’d be nowhere without each other. Maverick, however, feels immense guilt for pulling his brother into this messy life.

HIS EX: Gender is open, but this is the first person Maverick’s ever loved (and the only one so far) but timing was terrible. They were together when Mav’s addiction was at its worst and he wasn’t even considering the possibility of getting sober. They left him because he pushed way too many limits.

CARTEL: Anything and everything??? Neither he or his brother are willing members, they got roped into it - but this has been his life for a while now and he’s just trying to do what he can do avoid even more trouble.

THE BAD INFLUENCE: Maverick’s always at the verge of relapse, talking himself out of it day after day but it’s a constant struggle. So this would be the person who keeps nudging him the wrong way and just might eventually give the final push.

OTHER: Honestly, anything else you can think of! I’m down for all the things.

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kingofthewilderwest · 5 years

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Hey :) I want to watch more httyd but sadly I've seen all the movies, are the tv series' any good? Which one should I start with?

Oh goodness, I have a post somewhere answering this very question, but I’m too lazy to find it. TIME FOR A REWRITE! XD

I find the HTTYD television materials VERY worthwhile additions to the DreamWorks Dragons franchise. I feel like we are extremely blessed to have over a hundred episodes of a show filled with fantastic moments and memories. Personally, I always encourage people to check them out. The shows won’t be for everyone, which is alright, but I feel that the television series has a lot going for it. I love the shows myself and constantly reference some points from them in my analyses because I think they’re so critical. I’ll explain pros and cons so you can make your own choice about whether or not the shows might be your thing.

I’d say the number one highlight of the television series is the increased time with the dragon riding gang - Hiccup, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Snotlout, and Astrid. Many of these characters are secondary in the movie trilogy, having little time on screen, but the television series fleshes them out. It’s because of the show that I fell in love with Snotlout’s character and saw him in three-dimensional depth; I’d say he’s the character they handle best, going into how he hides his insecurities with machismo because he wants to impress a berating father. It’s the show for why I attach to the twins; their sibling devotion and love for one another is brought out wonderfully on screen. There’s good moments with everybody, and you’ll see everyone pair up with everybody - what’s the friendship between Astrid and Tuffnut like? Now you’ll know.

I think a decent test for whether or not you’d enjoy the character dynamics is… well… did you like the character bantering that happened in THW? If so, that had a very distinct tv series feel to it - to the point that they were even referencing ongoing television series gags like Snotlout getting his ass caught on fire.

There’s other characters to meet and engage with too! We’ve got Heather, a badass young woman who connects well with Astrid. We’ve got Gustav, an obnoxious wannabe “Snotlout” who shadows the older dragon rider. We’ve got Mala, the queen of a warrior-trained society that reveres dragons. And there’s Atali, Minden, Throk, Savage, Alvin, Dagur, Mulch, Bucket, Mildew, Krogan, Johann, Viggo, Ryker, and more!

The television series is also good for laughs. Did you ever want a musical episode where Snotlout sings about how amazing he is? Did you ever want to see an entire pile of fish dunked on Hiccup’s head? How about where Hiccup painstakingly tries to talk without using the letter s? “TOOTHLEH! PLAMA BLAT!” is a moment I’ll never stop laughing at.

I also think the best DreamWorks Dragons villains are in the television series. Alvin the Treacherous is a hoot on screen, delightfully voice acted by Mark Hamill. Dagur the Deranged has his fan base for a reason. And for me? Viggo Grimborn is my number one favorite villain from the DreamWorks side of HTTYD - a manipulative, morally gray trader who is such a keen strategist he makes Hiccup appear a foolish child.

One small last point: there’s extra depth to appreciate about the films if you go through the shows. Astrid sympathizing with Hiccup in the first film makes even more sense once you realize her family name got tarnished and she felt social ostracization herself. You see Hiccup attempting to develop his flight suit and sword, leading into HTTYD 2 material. The presence of Fireworms in the third film is a reference to a dragon species introduced in the shows. A conversation point in THW about having dealt with “their kind before” (that is, dangerous people like Grimmel) is a reference to Hiccup’s adventures with Viggo Grimborn. The underground caves that become stables in HTTYD 2 were first found in the television series, explored in DOB. Stoick and Hiccup have several conversations about leadership that lend extra feels to the tragedy in HTTYD 2. Tuffnut yakking to Hiccup ridiculously in THW brings up all the memories of weird conversations they’ve had before… there’s extra context, content, and background to appreciate when you approach the movies with knowledge of the full franchise.

Now, the shows aren’t perfect, and it’s usually the same reasons why people don’t get engaged with the shows. Again: some fans love the shows and scream their way through episodes, some fans dislike the shows and refuse to touch them, and some fans are “meh” about the shows and get through them with liquor. It’s all dependent on the sorts of things you tend to attach to, and the things that tend to bother you.

One reason some people don’t engage is that the first episodes of the first series (Riders of Berk) can feel childish in tone with low stakes. It is to note that the adventures and stakes do grow from the start. The animation levels also drastically improve from start to end… it’s a wild difference to compare the first episode of Riders of Berk with the finale of Race to the Edge.

Another reason is that the shows are not about the dragon characters. There will be the introduction of many cool dragon species like the Death Song, Scauldron, or Thunderdrum, but the shows aren’t about the humans connecting with their dragon friends. They do not focus on the dragon characters. So don’t go here for Hiccup and Toothless dynamics. There’s a few feelsy moments to talk about, but not many; Toothless is mostly a background character as the stories focus on the humans instead.

Next, some people feel like the characters are “dumbed down” or written inconsistently, and while I wouldn’t phrase it exactly like that, there’s a point to be made there. Some audience members especially don’t like how Hiccstrid gets handled in the first half of RTTE, where they feel like the bumbling hesitant startings of romance is inaccurate to how the two would develop relationally. (It’s to note that another group of people fawn over the Hiccstrid dynamics). Others hate Heather, calling her a “Mary Sue” (a term I think should be retired from existence because it’s a pointless criticism word anymore, but anyway, some people feel like Heather is an Angst Child who takes too much screen time, and that’s a fair point too). Astrid sometimes feels too damsel-in-distress-y for me. As far as Hiccup? Well. Hiccup’s personality is presented a bit differently than you usually see in the movies. RTTE!Hiccup is some of my favorite Hiccup, but he is presented with a different flavor.

Next, some people say that the television series story is inconsistent, completely irreconcilable, with the events of the trilogy. I personally find the continuity blips minor at best, and similar to franchise blips that happen anywhere, but it’s your call, and it’s totally fine if you find the continuity irreconcilable. It’s your take! It’s your experience with the story! Things like Hiccstrid romantic development, whether or not Berk was at peace during the five year gap between HTTYD and HTTYD 2, whether or not Hiccup knew anything about Bewilderbeasts, and whether or not Hiccup had run into other dragon riders before Valka… well… the television series will present something different than you might have presumed from movie material alone. This HIGHLY irritates some people, as it can feel like it sabotages the efficacy of certain moments in the films. For other people like me, it’s an entire non-issue. All is all fair because we engage with media in different ways! Here’s the issue just so you know: you can make your call about whether or not continuity questions will bother you.

Last, the plot. The first two television series, the plot is straightforward and fine. For RTTE, the plot is not the best presented. I think the first two seasons start out GREAT, but then it gets increasing issues. It’s for this reason that some people like ROB and DOB but aren’t engaged with RTTE. There’s a lot of fun to be had in it, and there’s many points at which I was fully engaged. In many ways, RTTE does some things BEST of the whole series. BUT. It doesn’t take much observation to realize there are logic gaps, motivation questions, convoluted but repetitive plot twists, some eyebrow-raising unrealistic moments, and instead of showing smooth characterization, people have a tendency to suddenly jump forward or shift in spurts. If you’re someone who gets invested in a show primarily for long-term plot arcs, you might get irritated at decisions in RTTE. But if you’re someone who’s willing to go along for the ride and just have fun and take it for what it is, RTTE has an entertaining story with lots of adventure.

For me? The television series is a blessing and COMPLETELY worth the watch. But I hope this discussion of pros and cons can make your decision best for you!

So! With all that said! What order should you watch them in? The order that they were released:

Riders of Berk

Defenders of Berk

Race to the Edge

Riders and Defenders of Berk are not on Netflix and you’ll have to go elsewhere to watch them. Race to the Edge got released on Netflix and is still available there… though all the shows have been released on DVD by this point.

I highly encourage you to watch the shows start to end as they came out because of plot reasons. RTTE especially needs to be watched in episode order, but RTTE makes sense only in the context of you seeing ROB and DOB first. There are filler episodes, but there are overarching plots. If you went straight into Race to the Edge first, you’d have no idea who the Helheim Heather and Dagur are, and why it’s important to run into them.

I hope this helps you and any others considering the shows! It’s so much more dragons dragons dragons dragons dragons and I hope that, if you watch, you have just as much of a blast as I did!

#httyd #How to Train Your Dragon #DreamWorks Dragons #Riders of Berk #ROB #Defenders of Berk #DOB #RTTE #Race to the Edge #if you want to find my other answer to this question it should be buried somewhere in my faq tag #at least it BETTER be #faq #ask #ask me #analysis #my analysis #rtte #something-wicked-this-waycomes #also the tv show basically made Snotlout bisexual so WOOT

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prezaki · 6 years

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A Thousand Second Chances - The life story of Eddie Brock

from Venom (2018) Issue # 2

I just spent a week speed-reading through every single comic appearance Eddie Brock has made in the 30 years since his creation and I fell in love with his character hard and fast. In order to process all that I’ve learned myself, I feel like I need to write down his life story with thoughts and important moments. Figured I might as well make this public since it might help out other new fans who don’t have the time and madness to dig through 30 years of comic history. Any older fans reading, feel free to correct me if I’m getting my Marvel lore wrong, I am VERY new to this and hopelessly overwhelmed.

This fully ignores ‘Venom: Dark Origin’ because it frankly just contradicts every other mention of backstory. It also thus ignores Mary Brock, the sister who was invented to justify the Nova crossover issues and who doesn’t appear outside of these two things, because she frankly doesn’t fit the rest of the lore either.

Content warning for suicide applies everywhere here, it’s a topic that comes up time and time again in Eddie’s life.

This got... long.

Eddie is born as the son of Carl and Jamie Brock. Unfortunately, Jamie passed away during Eddie’s birth, leaving his father emotionally cold towards him. The family is wealthy so Eddie is always well-provided for, but he never receives any affection. In order to win praise, Eddie studies hard (top grades) and gets into sports (beginning his lifelong passion towards muscle training), but nothing is successful. His dad did apparently make some worrisome statements though. (from: Lethal Protector, except for the panel which is from the Maximum Carnage arc)

At some point in his childhood Eddie gets into a car accident that cost Carl a lot of his fortune. Nothing is specified about this as of yet, but it looks like the current arc might go into detail. (from: Venom 2018)

Eddie gets into college and when the Watergate scandal happens, he is inspired to change his career to journalism. This places his birth year around 1950, I suppose? (from: Lethal Protector)

After college, Eddie gets a job at the Daily Globe, where he works as a successful investigative journalist.

At some point here, he meets Anne Weying and they begin a relationship. She describes him as ‘smart, witty and boyish’ (though he’d never show it in front of his father). He used to love taking her to fairs and amusement parks. The two get married. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

During his work for the daily globe he encounters a creature named Krooba. This is some weird bonus story and I only mention it because this panel is honestly hilarious. (from: Marvel Flashback series)

Then the Sin-Eater murders shake New York and Eddie interviews a source who claims to be the culprit - but just as Eddie reveals their identity, Spider-Man catches the real Sin-Eater. Eddie is disgraced as a journalist because he fell for a compulsive confessor. He loses his job with the Globe due to this incident. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

This also fully destroys his relationship with his father whom he now doesn’t have contact to anymore. Anne says he lost his boy-ish charm here and started seeming a little mad. Their marriage falls apart. (from: Lethal Protector)

To make a living, Eddie now has to write made-up stories for gossip magazines. He describes these as ‘venomous’ and that descriptor is the reason for his later pseudonym ‘Venom’. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

He starts body-building excessively during this time in hopes to relieve the tension. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Through all this he blames Spider-Man for his downfall - this is not logical, but hey, blaming others makes things easier. Eddie is a person with an astounding one-track-mind and a tendency for splitting.

Eddie can’t handle the misery of his current life and grows strongly suicidal. However, he is also a practicing catholic and struggles with the fact that suicide is considered a sin. Thus he goes to the Our Lady of Saints church to pray for forgiveness before ending his life. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

In front of the church he hesitates and is encouraged to go inside by Deadpool, who is totally oblivious to Eddie’s actual intentions. Yes, really. (from: Deadpool: Back in Black)

In the church, Eddie encounters the symbiote that Spider-Man brought back to earth as his suit and which he then subsequently rejected after finding out it is a living creature. Both Eddie and the symbiote hate Spider-Man, so they take this as basis to bond together.

Important here is that it is literally canon that Spider-Man inadvertendly taught the symbiote how to love (from: Web of Spider-Man) and that the symbiote wants to try and make their relationship with Eddie more mutual than the one with Spider-Man (from: First Kill). So take THAT as you want.

In the first day of being together with the symbiote, Eddie takes down some criminals who murdered his neighbour and establishes his vigilante killing style through it. (from: First Kill)

Eddie makes first attempts to kill Spider-Man (whose civilian identity he knows thanks to the symbiote’s memories) by pushing him in front of a train and trying to throw him off a roof. (from: Web of Spider-Man)

There’s some weird special story set in this timeframe about how he gets the advice of some veteran he interviewed on the job once to do this. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Then he attacks Spidey directly and they fight in the church.... and well, Eddie dons a priest costume for a while, just... because aesthetic. He does have a flair for the dramatic.

This is probably the appropriate time to mention that from here on Eddie is always naked. Every time you see Eddie Brock wearing clothes, it is the symbiote assuming the shape of clothes. Eddie wears underwear at best and even that is often not present.

Eddie loses this battle with Spidey and is sent to The Vault, a super high security prison. Escaping from there, he kills a guard who happens to be an influential person’s son and well, it bites him in the ass later. Important here is also that Eddie absolutely always laments it when he ‘has’ to kill innocents. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

In trying to get to Peter after this, Eddie visits Aunt May a few times pretending to be Peter’s friend. It is hilarious. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

The next attempt at besting Spider-Man is ended by Spidey pretending to accept the symbiote back, which the symbiote is actually excited about, much to Eddie’s dismay. However, the bond with Eddie is too strong for the symbiote to simply sever it and both symbiote and Eddie pass out from the strain of trying. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

This is a good time to mention that in the 2003 Spectacular Spider-Man run it is revealed that actually Eddie had terminal cancer All Along and knew he’d die without the symbiote, so part of him wanting to kill Spider-Man is a wish to eliminate host body competition and thus survive. I personally absolutely think this is an asspull that undermines a lot of the first 20 years of characterization, but eh.

Eddie goes back to The Vault and has not one but two run-ins with the Avengers when attempting to break out. Neither attempt is successful and in the end he uses the symbiote’s abilities to fake his own death in order to successfully escape.

A huge battle over who gets to kill Spider-Man happens and Styx touches Venom... the symbiote takes the brunt of this attack to protect Eddie - and thus they seemingly die for him. And this is like written in 1990. Eddie literally cries about it. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Now a normal human, Eddie is sent to the normal human prison Ryker’s Island where he is cellmates with the serial killer Cletus Kasady. Eddie works out a lot in the cell and it drives Cletus crazy - he brings that up again more than once. Big mad about the muscle gains. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Though Eddie also just plain beats Cletus up during this time because Eddie hates people who kill innocents. This might have contributed to Cletus hating his muscles. (from: Carnage 2016)

The symbiote isn’t dead and returns for Eddie! They break out! Also the symbiote literally gives birth during this process, no biggie. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Venom and Spider-Man fight again. Venom actually gets Spidey unconscious in this battle but instead of killing him then, he... kidnaps Spidey to an abandoned island to have another fight. Eddie just gotta be that extra. During this fight Spidey fakes his death and escapes. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Eddie decides to live happily ever after with the symbiote and just stay on the island. They’re very happy together. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Sometime here, Darkhawk gets stranded on the island, fights Venom, gets spared by Venom. Life’s like that. (from: Darkhawk)

Then he meets Wolverine inside of Wolverine’s nightmare because sometimes Marvel is ???? like that ??? (from: Marvel Presents)

Eddie’d probably have happily stayed on this island forever, had the child the symbiote gave birth to not bonded to Cletus Kasady, creating Carnage. Spider-Man realizes that Eddie, knowing symbiotes, is probably a big help in fighting a symbiote-bonded killer so he reveals himself to Eddie again and gets him off the island to fight Carnage. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Once Carnage is defeated, Eddie just gets sent back to The Vault.

There is some weird episode here where Matt Murdock is his attorney and he tries to get free by pleading insanity and pretending the symbiote died. That fails of course. (from: Trial of Venom)

Then an even weirder episode happens where Venom encounters a bunch of villains and then just ends back up in jail anyway.

Which he then breaks out of and hears Spider-Man’s parents are still alive. This really gets to Eddie because in his mindset (which the symbiote only enhances - they influence each other mutually for the worse at this point) Spidey is a corrupting force and thus he needs to protect... his parents from him.... so he kidnaps the Parkers..... (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Spidey had ENOUGH of Venom at this point and tries to think of new ways to get him to stop already. Thus he contacts Anne and gets Anne to talk to Eddie. Eddie still very much loves Anne. It still takes Spidey saving Anne from falling debris and Anne’s subsequent explanation that Spidey IS saving innocents to make Eddie back off. But hey, he backs off!

And moves back to his birth city, San Francisco. Here a lot of things start happening very rapidly. Eddie encounters an underground city of social outcasts. A family member of the guard he murdered put together The Jury to kill him in retaliation. Life Foundation wants his symbiote. Spider-Man is there. Lethal Protector is a ride and I truly recommend it.

Life Foundation extracts symbiotes from Eddie’s symbiote to try and weaponize them, Spidey and Venom battle them together.

In the end, Eddie also saves the underground city from Life Foundation and moves in there as their protector, much to the joy of local resident Elizabeth who wanted him down there all along.

Then Eddie temporarily goes back to New York because Carnage is back. After getting badly beat up, Eddie comes to Spidey for help and... just goes to sleep on his couch. He changes into pajamas and all.

To stop Carnage, Spidey, Venom and the Black Cat form an alliance but Spidey remains strongly opposed to Venom’s muuuch more pragmatic view on life and death. He isn’t called lethal protector for nothing. Much moral debate is had. Maximum Carnage is a fun arc.

Then Eddie goes back home to his underground city and demonstrates his one-track mind in his solo series Funeral Pyre, where he tries very hard to help an undercover journalist trapped in a gang and still fails, creating Pyre in the process....

During some Daredevil issues, Eddie tries to steal a serum to erase Venom’s weaknesses but in the end doesn’t get it.

During some Silver Sable issues he... exists and helps her gang, I guess.

Then he appears in some Darkhawk issues where they rematch.

Back to solo-series; in The Madness, Eddie gets infected with a sentient virus, making it three people in his body. The virus is pretty crazy and assaults and frightens Eddie’s almost-girlfriend Beck, who is overall already convinced that the symbiote makes Eddie more mad. She states she can’t date him due to this and the two remain simply friends. Eddie gets rid of the virus in the end and returns it to where it came from.

The Enemy Within comes next and it’s just... goblins in San Fransico. Eddie teams up with Morbius against those goblins. Many goblins.

Then Venom fights Hulk because why not. (from: Venom vs Hulk)

Soon after, Venom appears in a few Iron Man issues because he believes Tony Stark’s business practices to be corrupt and tries to kill him for it.

In The Mace, conflict arises in the underground city and causes Mace and Venom to fight one another. Namely, people from the underground city attack others, who attack in retaliation - once Eddie learns that some of his people started this mess, he kills the offending underground city residents (and keeps it secret from Beck who asked him to spare them).

Venom then teams up with Nightwatch for a short appearance in the Nightwatch series.

During Nights of Vengeance both Elizabeth and Beck get kidnapped, inviting other characters to speculate on Eddie’s love life. Eddie states he won’t date either woman as he is too dangerous to date anyone. There’s also aliens who take over minds in this comic. That’s the actual main plot of these issues.

Now it’s time for Eddie’s next return to New York! Carlton Drake and his Life Foundation are working on something called The Arachnis Project (which is also the name of this arc) to create spider humans - hearing of this, Eddie travels to New York to get revenge against Life Foundation for the events of Lethal Protector.

The Jury has started working for Life Foundation in the meantime, though the events of these comics cause that connection to sever. However, they’re still in the same facility, so they do run into Venom there. Jury and Venom try to kill each other while Spider-Man desperately tries to stop any death on either end from happening.

Also Life Foundation gets defeated, obviously. Eddie returns to San Francisco.

Only to come back to NY shortly after due to news about the prison Carnage is held in.

Here, Eddie runs into Peter’s clone, the Scarlet Spider. In battle with him, Eddie gets separated from his symbiote and both of them get taken into custody to be studied, setting up the events of the Separation Anxiety mini-series.

Separation Anxiety marks the first time the reader ever gets to hear the symbiote’s thoughts and the majority of these thoughts are “Eddie” as the symbiote is desperate to return to him.

During this period of extended separation from the symbiote and with nobody to talk to, Eddie begins to reflect on his actions as Venom and starts second-guessing all the murders they committed. For the first time, Eddie is plagued by feelings of guilt.

Eddie gets broken out of this facility by the surviving symbiote-host-combos created by Life Foundation who seek Eddie’s help on how to communicate with their symbiotes. All of them are struggling to not get overtaken, making Eddie’s mutual relationship with the symbiote seem extraordinary.

Meanwhile the symbiote also breaks out and rushes to find Eddie, bond with him again and, in their worlds, ‘become whole, become Venom’. The symbiote does find Eddie in time to save him from Scream, one of their symbiote ‘daughters’.

But after being reuinited, Eddie tells the symbiote that he needs some time to think on his own to really figure out what of their actions was his choice and what was the symbiote’s. (the cap is from Planet of the Symbiotes which picks this back up.)

Before this storyline goes to its conclusion, Carnage briefly returns and travels over the internet, an ability which the Venom symbiote learns as well in the fight against Carnage. He returns back from San Fran to New York again for this. During this arc Eddie also makes a big mistake and almost kills an innocent man named Clive because he mistook him for being a malicious junkie. (from: Carnage Unleashed)

Then in Planet of the Symbiotes we then return to the break-up story. Eddie’s doubts about his own choices continue on strongly and get reinforced by Spider-Man to a point where Eddie rejects the symbiote. The symbiote, in emotional pain after this temporary break-up begins wailing. This wailing can be heard so far in the galaxy that it actually alerts the other symbiotes to the existence of earth, causing them to begin an invasion.

During this invasion, Eddie’s symbiote returns to him and reveals that for their species, they are considered abnormal because they seek to have a relationship with a host rather than dominate them.

The solution to the invasion is to let out an even more powerful mental scream to overwhelm the symbiotes with despair - Eddie and his symbiote fully bond again to achieve this and thus save earth. This is the arc that the movie presumably took Venom betraying his species for Eddie from.

Then during Sinner Takes All, we meet Anne again! There is a new Sin Eater around and she is being targeted - obviously, Eddie can’t let that happen and sets out to protect her. To heal her injuries, he lets the symbiote bond with her but doing so unleashes violent urges in Anne. She temporarily turns into She-Venom and murders a group of men who were attacking her. Once returning to her senses, Anne is horrified and gets away from Eddie - only to be taken hostage by an assassin who came to take revenge on Eddie for Clive, the person he almost killed during Carnage Unleashed. In the end, Clive himself calls off the manhunt on him, claiming vengeance wouldn’t make him feel any better.

Here continuity gets a little confusing because the next comic, Along Came A Spider, takes place soon after Planet of the Symbiotes and makes reference to Eddie not having talked to Anne since. This is why most continuities place Sinner Takes All before Planet of the Symbiotes, but that doesn’t quite make sense either due to the progression of Eddie’s and the symbiote’s relationship. Ah well, it is a mystery.

Anne is now under police protective custody, but the police also want her help to capture Venom. When Eddie calls, the symbiote travels over the phone-line and partially merges with Anne, which ends up also merging Eddie’s and Anne’s minds. Eddie immediately sets out to find her and retrieve her from the police.

On the way out, Venom gets into a fight with Spider-Man, which gives the police time to arrive and arrest Anne. When Anne calls Eddie from custody, she begs him not to come and bust her out, which he agrees to... but sends the symbiote through the phonelines instead, turning Anne into She-Venom once more.

Once the symbiote is back to Eddie (after some more fighting), Anne announces she wants nothing to do with him anymore because she never wants to get close to the symbiote again. She tells Eddie that only if he resists the symbiote and stops his vengeance quest, she’ll talk to him again.

Then Anne gets tangled up again anyway, as Rune frames Venom for murder and Venom has to save her once more. (from: Rune vs Venom)

Next there is a serial killer on the loose in New York! The police strongly suspect Venom to be the culprit, but it turns out to be Xenophage, eating everyone who has a symbiote inside them. (from: The Hunted)

While running from the police, Eddie temporarily assumes the identity of a skater and joins a group of skater kids under the name Rad Eddie. (from: The Hunted)

Eddie defeats the Xenophage. (still from: The Hunted)

Then comes The Hunger, one of the gayest comics from the 90s for sure. It starts out with Eddie and the symbiote holding hands at the movies. But Eddie once again has reason to suspect that the symbiote is making him more violent.

When Venom winds up actually eating someone’s brain instead of just using this threat as a catchphrase, Eddie is horrified. Seeing that Eddie will refuse any further brain-eating, the symbiote leaves Eddie. Eddie gets captured by Dr. Paine and experimented on.

Eddie finds out that the symbiote needs a chemical that is in brains but can also be supplied in other ways. Before he and the symbiote can fully bond again, Dr. Paine kidnaps the symbiote to also experiment on.

Of course, Eddie saves the symbiote and also finds out that chocolate nourishes his symbiote just as well, so he buys them heartshaped chocolate. (all from: The Hunger)

Then Venom gets pulled into some other dimension along with Wolverine, Scream and the skater kids from before. (from: Tooth and Claw!)

Next, Eddie gets finally captured by the police after all and put on trial. Matt Murdock takes over his defense again. When the prosecution calls Carnage for a witness, Carnage breaks loose and Venom, Daredevil and Spidey have to subdue him. In the end, no verdict ever comes as Eddie is secretly recruited by the Overreach Committee. (from: Venom on Trial)

Eddie is pretty delighted with his new James Bond gig. In License to Kill, we get to see him on a mission in great detail. Important here is that the Committee planted a bomb in Eddie’s chest as an emergency insurance to keep him in check.

Venom’s next mission is to protect a formerly corrupt government leader at a speech in a church. For this, Eddie goes undercover as a nun but instead of using the symbiote’s full shapeshifting abilities, he just takes his normal looks, puts on a nun costume and calls himself Sister Edwina. Iconic. (from: Sign of the Boss)

The next mission is... a pretty big misunderstanding. Eddie’s superiors use convoluted language to tell Eddie to scare Jonah J Jameson a little but Eddie thinks he is meant to kill him. In the subsequent clash with Spidey, Eddie hits his head hard and forgets Spiderman’s civilian identity and also the exact reasons for hating him. (from: The Venom Agenda)

The committee now decides that Eddie is way too much of a loose cannon for their taste and they want to get rid of him. While everyone takes too long to decide who should press the killing button, Eddie escapes the committee, but in the subsequent fighting the symbiote is seemingly killed. (from: The Finale)

Eddie without the symbiote is absolutely miserable and once more pretty suicidal. This is the beginning of an era, however, which makes the symbiote out to largely abuse Eddie. So when the symbiote returns, Eddie initially tries to get away from them to avoid more pain, only to be forcibly united with them again anyway. Venom then goes to visit Carnage and... eats his symbiote. Yeah. (from: Peter Parker: Spider-Man)

Venom then joins and subsequently turns on the Sinister Six. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Eddie finds himself missing Anne and wants to start over with her again. When he visits Anne, she is a paranoid wreck. As Spidey, now in a black Venom-esque costume again, swings by her window, she falls into panic. Eddie misinterprets that Spidey is what scares Anne and goes to fight him, but while he does that, Anne commits suicide. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

As Eddie grieves at Anne’s grave, Senator Ward shows up and steals his symbiote. Eddie gets arrested and sent to prison. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Now we’re entering territory of Venom (2003), the worst Venom comic. I don’t know what the hell is going on here, but the majority of it is about another symbiote anyway. At some point during this Eddie gets his symbiote back and fights the other symbiote.

Proving further that 2003 is the worst Venom year, we go on with a comic where the symbiote eats the adrenaline off people (not even what they ate before) and also with the reveal that Eddie has cancer and his cancer made his adrenaline amounts more appealing to the symbiote. To save Eddie’s life, Peter makes him rebond to the symbiote against either of their will. (from: Spectacular Spider-Man)

Then Carnage has another child which he wants to kill while Venom has other plans for it. (from: Venom/Carnage)

The symbiote gets stolen again during Spider-Man/Red Sonja, but it’s overall not that consequential.

What IS consequential is that Eddie is now back to having moral qualms with the symbiote... so he... decides to auction the symbiote off to super-villains and give the money gained to charity. Without the symbiote, his cancer will advance and he’ll die. (from: Marvel Knights: Spider-Man)

Finding out that the person he sold the suit to kills innocents indiscriminately, Eddie attempts suicide once more. He is taken to the hospital and narrowly survives cutting his wrists open. After that, he is kept in the hospital due to his cancer. (from: Marvel Knights: Spider-Man)

In the hospital, Eddie has reoccuring visions of the symbiote urging him to kill. When he finds out May Parker is in the same hospital, the symbiote tells him to kill her. Eddie does comply with killing a nurse, but stops himself before killing May. He tries to commit suicide once more, only to be saved by Spider-Man. (from: Sensational Spider-Man)

Eddie starts working Martin Li’s homeless shelter, where May Parker also works. A touch by Martin Li, who is actually Mr Negative, heals Eddie’s cancer completely. This also turns Eddie into Anti-Venom - the literal opposite of Venom, a hero who’s touch cures and is harmful to the Venom symbiote. Though Eddie tries to kill his old symbiote, now bonded to Gargan, the symbiote refuses to kill Eddie when Gargan wants it to. Love is a word that is used again. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

Eddie now starts over as a hero as Anti-Venom, healing people and busting drug cartels. (from: Anti-Venom: New Ways to Live)

Eddie is the first one to find out Martin Li is Mr Negative and tries to fight him. He is also the one to reveal Mr Negative’s civilian identity to Spider-Man, temporarily teaming up with him and Wraith to take the crime lord down. (from: Amazing Spider-Man)

At some point here, Eddie offers miracle healings with the Our Lady of Saints church as his headquarters.

When everyone in New York starts developing Spider powers, Eddie heals people from them. In the end, his Anti-Venom powers are all used up in order to large-scale cure the crisis. (from: Spider Island)

Meanwhile the symbiote is bonded to Flash Thompson and the two work as government agents.

Having had enough of symbiotes alltogether, Eddie sets out to kill symbiotes and hosts that are still around. (from: Venom 2011)

Against his will, Eddie is forced to fuse with the Toxin symbiote. (from: Venom 2011)

The FBI recruits Eddie to help them against Carnage. This is the comic that I like to summarize as ‘Let’s Go Lesbians Let’s Go’. In it, Eddie, two latinx lesbians, two black women and some other dude stop Carnage and an elder God. It’s a really good run.

For the first time, a comic makes Eddie accept culpability for his actions as Venom!! Also during this story, he loses the Toxin symbiote. (from: Carnage 2016)

When Flash Thompson and the Venom symbiote are separated, Eddie helps contain the symbiote (which had been going around with a criminal named Lee Price) and then breaks into containment to re-unite with it. Here is where he starts calling the symbiote ‘love’ and ‘darling’ all the time. Sadly there is no real explanation for his change-of-mind on the symbiote. (from: Venom 2016)

The symbiote and Eddie now actively negotiate trust and such in their relationship, it’s very good. When Eddie finds a dinosaur in the sewers, he brings it back to Alchemax which created it. In exchange for bringing the rest of the dinosaurs back, Alchemax chairwoman Liz Allan agrees to study the symbiote to see what is wrong with it, since it appears sick.

During this dinosaur quest Eddie meets and bonds with Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!

Meanwhile at Alchemax, medicine for the symbiote is created. It turns out that remnants of Anti-Venom in Eddie’s body are making the symbiote sick. (from: Venom 2016)

Theeeeeen Eddie gets pulled into a parallel universe to battle an alien species called Poisons which kills hosts and permanently bonds with symbiotes. (from: Venomverse)

Back on earth, Flash comes to collect the symbiote, which struggles to choose between Flash and Eddie. In the resulting struggle, Flash turns into Anti-Venom instead. Venom, Anti-Venom and Spider-Man team up against Lee Price, who broke out of jail. (from: Venom Inc.)

Then the Poisons return and Eddie has to join the X-Men on a space journey to fight them. (from: Venomized)

At some point in between here, Eddie gets a job at The Facts Channel under the name ‘Mr. Sym’. Later Jonah J Jameson calls him out on how dumb that alias is.

The symbiote is about to spawn again and the FBI wants to interfere with it. Through trickery by Alchemax, Eddie and the symbiote manage to keep their baby. (from: Venom 2016)

The symbiote’s first host returns to earth and wants the symbiote back, who refuses and wants to stay with Eddie. By threatening their child, the first host manages to take the symbiote away anyway. Eddie bonds with the child symbiote, Sleeper, to go get his symbiote back. In the end, Sleeper lobotomizes the first host and uses his body to travel the universe. (from: First Host)

Due to causing way too much trouble, Eddie is now refused entrance to Alechemax. (from: First Host)

Jonah J. Jameson calls Eddie to protect Mary-Jane while Spider-Man faces a crisis with another arch nemesis. To defeat this nemesis, Eddie even lends the symbiote to Spidey. Flash dies in this big fight and Eddie afterwards attends his funeral. (from: Amazing Spider-Man #800)

The symbiote once more acts overtly violent and the resulting struggle in life results in Eddie losing his job at the Facts Channel. (from: Venom 2018)

Eddie Brock kills a god. (from: Venom 2018)

I don’t want to sum that run up any better than that, it is heartbreaking and should simply be read and personally experienced.

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ACCEPTED // TELLE FISCHER

capitol (born district 3) → gamemaker → hannah john-kamen fc

positive traits: tactical, brilliant, dedicated negative traits: antisocial, offbeat, cynical

tw: neglect, suicide, prostitution, mental illness

biography:

Magnette Fischer was known as many things – offbeat, unstable, erratic, insane – and a good mother was certainly not something associated with her. She’d been thirteen years old when her twin brother Flux was killed in the Hunger Games, and all you’re ever told is that his death was particularly gruesome. People say that your mother was a different person before Flux’s untimely demise, that she was kind and warm and brave and adventurous. You’ve never been one to believe anything without proof, though, and to you, Magnette Fischer was none of the above.

After the death of her brother, she became locked in a permanent state of mourning. There are whispers of madness about the Fischer girl, and she never set out to prove them wrong. She never finished school, she never held down a job, and she became a shell of what she once was. As she grew older, she tried to fill the void left by losing her twin; with men, with drugs, with alcohol. That’s how she meets your father, when she’s only nineteen, Magnette Fischer meets Titus Ryker, a peacekeeper, during a Victory tour, and their affair is over as quickly as it began. Titus is twice her age, married, with a family, but Magnette is just delusional enough to believe that maybe it’s the real thing. She claims to love him, and he tells her the same thing because she gives him what she wants.

He leaves without even a goodbye, though Magnette is left with a permanent reminder of his influence over her.

You.

You’re born into a world of chaos, your mother’s mind so addled by grief and by morphling that she forgets to name you until she tries to leave the hospital with you. Telle,she calls you, with a T for Titus. You learn to raise yourself fairly quickly, your mother never seemed concerned with doing it herself. You’re soon acclimatised to the never ending stream of men that parade through your house, trudging up to your mother’s bedroom with the same look of wild lust, barely sparing you a second glance.

It’s not until later that you learn these men are what fund your food, your home, your life. Your mother earns herself a reputation, but every time they leave her eyes are hollow, and the mascara stains on her cheeks become permanent. Every time, she hopes that they’ll find something more than just sex, that maybe, maybe she’ll be able to recapture what she thought she had with your father. That she’ll find love, something worth living for. Every time, she’s proven wrong.

Despite your upbringing, you’re exceedingly smart, even by District Three standards. You’ve always had trouble communicating, but you work well with your hands, the languages of math and science coming to you easily. Your teachers even suggest that you’re gifted, though your mother has no intention of doing anything about it. You seek out as much enrichment as you can at school, staying back to work on projects long after the final bell has rung. It brings you comfort, to have control over something, even if they are numbers and machines, and your home life is far too miserable to be rushing back to. You find you fit in at school, even if some of the other students find you odd and off-putting, even if your mother’s reputation casts a shadow over you, whispers of the whore’s daughter clouding your achievements.

You’re fifteen when your mother kills herself. You’re the one that finds the body, but not soon enough to do anything. You don’t know how to react, what to say, what to do. All you can manage is panic, silent tears tracking down your cheeks as they cover her with a sheet. You fumble your way through a speech at the funeral, though you’re speaking to a room of strangers, nobody there really knew your mother, she had nobody left. Except you. The mix of emotions that follow her death seem wrong – you mourn and you cry but you can’t reconcile the way she treated you. She wasn’t a mother figure, not really, but that’s what you have to pretend now that she’s six feet under.

You haven’t got any other relatives in Three. It’s only five days after you find the body that you’re on a train to District Two, to your father, to the custody of a man you’ve never even met. He’s married, with three children, the youngest of whom is still five years older than you are. They didn’t know you existed, and you can tell immediately that they resent your very existence. If possible, his wife hates you more. Titus – not dad, never dad – is ashamed of you. You hear him tell his colleagues that you’re his niece, but you doubt they believe him. You can tell your mother was far from his only transgression.

You focus on school to distract from the worthlessness you feel. You drove your mother to suicide, and now you’re tearing apart your father’s family. It’s all too complicated, you don’t understand where you’ve gone wrong – only that you have, and so you focus on numbers and you focus on machines. Machines, you decide, make far more sense than people ever could. The parts fit together in a way you don’t seem to, and any mistakes can be recoded, they can be fixed, they don’t need to fester away for fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years, infecting the lives of everybody around you. Though the schools in District Two are pitiful compared to Three, the students more focused on brute power rather than that of the mind, you make it work. You have to.

You’re surrounded by Academy kids, hopped up on delusions of grandeur and control. They know they can win, but you watch them die, every year. They don’t have control, none of you do. They don’t dictate the Games, that’s up to the Captiol, it’s up to the people pushing the buttons behind the scenes. Maybe that’s what draws you towards becoming a Gamemaker, the power, the control that your life has always so desperately lacked. You don’t understand people, but you understand machines, and that’s what the Gamemakers work with. That’s what you will work with.

Titus is more than happy to ship you off to one of the fancy universities in the Capitol when you tell him of your plan. More than happy to rid himself of the filthy little mistake, once and for all. The rest of the family – that word, it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth – don’t even bid you a goodbye as you board the train to the Capitol, your meagre possessions fitting into just one bag. You study hard, you work furiously, and eventually it pays off, with you being granted a position as Gamemaker by the time you hit twenty two.

You work with the machines, the grunt work, and you enjoy getting your hands dirty, but you soon discover your mind is a much darker place than you thought. You have ideas for the Games, they’re brutal, they’re bloody, but they’re brilliant, and people start to catch on. You still work on the mechanical aspects of the arena, but maybe, just maybe, you have what it takes to move through the ranks. After all, that’s where the power’s really at.

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Chapter One-Hundred Fourteen: Calix

Against a background of murky black sky and mottled trees stripped bare by the howling winter wind, Calix stepped from the portal onto Appletower Row. The houses of his street, conscious of the magical lives that lived within them, gazed from the the gods at the prodigal cuckoo with stone-brown, disparaging faces, lit only by the soft, orange glow of the street lights.

When the short days of winter came to Ireland, dusk arrived before the wizards and witches had settled down for dinner, the smell of thick smoke and warm wood falling densely onto the cobble street. Calix took a deep breath, his lungs unaccustomed to the Irish air that swirled and rippled in biting currents closer to the ground, intensifying into wild roarings above his head, and smiled happily at the night sky.

He was home.

Savouring the familiar sounds and sensations of his hometown, he softly pulled his wand from the waistband of his trousers and circled it above his suitcase, which levitated off the ground to hip-height before following Calix down the road towards his house.

Two young men came in his direction as he walked, one of them bringing a whimsical tale to an abrupt close as they eyed the unknown intruder, their hands moving to their wands. It took a minute for the two of them to recognise the older Galen boy, the one that had attended Hogwarts with them, before pleasantries and empty-words were exchanged, Calix raising his wand in simple greeting as they lowered theirs.

I’m gonna be the talk of the Row by bedtime.

He chuckled to himself, quickening his step before the men could stop him in his tracks. Ireland was a country of gossip and story, and his return every Christmas always did the rounds, shared by the peanut-crunching crowd over tea and coffee, each rendition more spectacular than the last to explain the mysterious comings-and-goings of the young healer.

His family home was the penultimate house on the Row, an old, brick giant obscured by wild evergreens that bent towards the southern gable. Calix caught his lower lip nervously between his chattering teeth, excitement and anticipation bubbling in his chest as the rusted gate, choked with adventitious ivy, swung open when he approached, the old, iron guardian welcoming him home.

He climbed the steps towards the red door, his eager heart hammering against his breast bone, and knocked three times on the wooden panel with his wand.

First, silence.

Then, thunderous footfall.

Then, the door burst open, the hinges screeching loudly as the wooden barrier was thrown aside. Calix did not get a moment to think before his brother, screaming at the top of his lungs, the sound echoing like gunshot in the small garden, jumped across the threshold and threw himself wholehearted towards Calix.

“Cal!” Ryker shouted in delight, “I’ve missed you so much.”

Calix wrapped his arms around his younger brother, laughter full of high whistlings that involved the full frozen machinery of his chest erupting forth uncontrollably, the floodgates of emotion broken and all inhibitions lost to the chilling breeze.

“I missed you too, Ry,” Calix said, ruffling his brother’s hair, “Let’s get inside, it’s bloody Baltic out here. How long has it been like this?”

“It’s been like this since October,” Ryker answered, jumping back into the house and dragging Calix after him, the younger boy’s hand tightly bundled around Calix’s wrist. “Come on, Cassandra’s been cooking all day for you.”

Calix, pulled towards the kitchen by his babbling brother, shut the door with a wave of his wand, sealing the glorious warmth and seasonal smells of pine cone and firewood and his sister’s cooking inside, ordering his suitcase up the stairs towards his bedroom.

“Cass, he’s home! Come on! How up!”

Calix’s sister, festive apron spotted with dots of white flour and golden batter, appeared at the kitchen door, brown curls of hair framing her tear-dotted eyes. “I’m coming, I’m coming, don’t get your knickers in a twist,” she joked warmly, walking towards Calix with her powder-white hands held out in front of her, “Welcome home, Calix. Do you mind all the flour?”

“I couldn’t care less,” Calix laughed, hugging his sister tightly. “How’s mom?”

“It’s great to have you home, Cal,” she whispered back, a sadness coating her voice, “And, she’s okay. She’ll be back tomorrow from St. Sorenson’s.”

“Don’t forget me!”

Calix and Cassandra chuckled brightly, hiding the tightness that gripped at their hearts behind a veil of laughter, and opened one side of the family huddle to allow Ryker, bouncing on the balls of his feet, to leap into the group and crush the air from their lungs.

They stayed like that for some time, just the three of them, without any need for words. The silence and the beating of their hearts said more than they ever could. Eventually, Cassandra pulled away slowly, wiping the glistening tears from her eyes with the back of her hands, snowy lines left on the sallow skin of her cheeks. “Are you hungry? I have dinner made, it’s just keeping warm in the oven.”

“I would love some,” Calix moaned, following his siblings into the kitchen and taking a seat at the table, draped in white linen, elegantly trimmed with white lace and set with white plates, white candles burning brightly in the centre. Just as he remembered. His sister adored the colour white.

He took the small, wooden chair closest to the door, the blue cushion well-worn. That was always his seat. The blue chair. Ryker jumped into the green-cushioned one beside him, physically shaking with excitement.

“I can’t believe your home,” Ryker said, “I’ve missed you so much. How long are you staying? I have a whole list of things we need to do, starting with…”

“Ryker,” Cassandra chided softly, the back of her hand wiping another stray tear away, “Give your brother some time to think. He’s until just in the door.”

Ryker slouched in his chair, folding his arms across his chest and huffing loudly: “I suppose. Do you need long?”

“Ryker!”

Calix laughed, winking at his brother: “Nah, I think quick. But, I should probably tell you something important first, before you go making any plans…”

“What? Is there something wrong?” Ryker whispered meekly, his eyes clouding with a storm of fear.

“No, no, no,” Calix retorted, shaking his head wildly, “Ry, there’s nothing wrong. It’s good news, I promise. It’s just… well, I need to go away in two days time for a day or two… I kinda met a girl and…”

“You met a girl!” Ryker roared, his eyes glowing with an inquisitive vitality, remnants of the storm swept away. “What do you mean, like, a girlfriend?”

“Yeah,” Calix said, looking back and forth between Cassandra and Ryker, who stared in utter shock. If they were expecting any revelation, a girlfriend was must certainly the last of them.

“So you’re going to see her?” Ryker asked, punching his brother in the shoulder, “Why didn’t you just invite her to come visit?”

“He did invite her, Ry,” Cassandra chuffed, immediately aware of Calix’s red guilt, his cheeks burning brightly, “Is she coming for Christmas?”

“She’s coming for Christmas!” Ryker shouted, but bit his tongue when Cassandra shot him a glare.

“Yeah, she is,” Calix admitted, “I need to go to Samoa for a few days first, though. Someone in her family passed away recently and she’s asked me to be there, but she’ll be coming home with me afterwards. You don’t mind do you, Cass?”

Cassandra, turning her attention from one brother to the other, smiled softly: “She’s more than welcome, Calix.”

“Is she hot?”

“Ryker!” Cassandra roared, throwing a tea towel at his head. “I swear, if you say anything like that to that poor girl when she arrives, I’ll kill you. Do you hear me, mister!”

Ryker held up his hands apologetically, ducking under the tea towel: “Sorry, sorry. I won’t say anything, I promise.” He slumped back, admonished and scolded, and glanced with raised eyebrows at his brother.

Calix, winking when Cassandra wasn’t looking, nodded his head and beckoned his brother closer. “Stunning,” he whispered quietly, “Like, drop dead fucking gorge… ow!”

“I can hear you, Calix,” Cassandra snapped, a devilish smirk on her lips as she brought the tea towel down across Calix’s shoulders once more.

The sound of laughter filled the kitchen and Calix settled back into his chair, a massive smile on his lips and a warm feeling in the pit of his stomach.

He was home.

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Chapter Five: Calix

“Do you have to go… again?”

Ryker’s meek and resigned whisper, full of realisation that the warm, summer days were over but undercut with a begging plea to the changing seasons, triggered a heart-flutter that left his older brother feeling broken.

Calix sighed softly, letting his head rest against the doorframe as he absentmindedly traced the outline of the golden owl pinned above his heart. The portal to Idorna was only open for a miniscule moment, but Calix always found saying goodbye to his brother the hardest thing to do in the world; it cut deeper than any knife could, hurt more than any curse could, left scars like nothing else could.

“Do St. Mungo’s really need to send you away again? Like, they’ve been sending you away ever since you got there,” Ryker protested innocently, “Can’t they just leave you on the second floor?”

“You know it doesn’t work like that, Ry,” Calix consoled, pushing himself away from the door and crossing the small bedroom to sit beside his brother. “I have to travel. Besides, I’ll be home for Christmas, won’t I?”

“Yeah. I suppose. You’ll be gone again when spring arrives, though.”

Ryker turned away, falling backwards onto the bed with an irritated sigh. He could never stomach the thought of Calix leaving - their last few days together would always make him sicker than he already was, though Calix did his best to make it easier.

It hurt Calix even more to lie to Ryker. Ryker knew all about Hogwarts. Ryker knew about St. Mungo’s. But, Ryker could never - would never - know about Idorna.

“Hey,” Calix said gently, flopping down beside his brother, “hey, I will be home again before you know it. I promise - I will be back.”

“Yeah, but you’re gonna be gone for so long. And, you can’t even contact me!” Ryker jumped up off the bed, his clenched fists bone-white around one of his pillow. “I won’t hear a word from you until Christmas! Christmas, Cal! Christmas!”

“I know,” Calix said apologetically, catching the pillow-missile his brother threw at him, “I know. I’m gonna miss you as much as you miss me!”

“Then don’t go… please….”

Calix, perched in the little reading nook by his bedside, filled with green and bronze cushions, ran his fingers over the carved feathers of his house’s pin, feeling the furrows and divots in the aureate metal.

He traced the features of the golden owl, memories of the morning crashing over his psyche like waves on rocks, his thoughts focused solely on his misty-eyed brother. ‘I’ll be back. I promise,’ Calix said over and over in his mind, until the sound of his roommate’s voice broke through his reverie.

Calix’s eyes drifted from the pin to Sam, who was staring at him while unpacking his clothes and books and belongings. The look in Sam’s eyes, a concerned scrutiny, told Calix that he’d missed something.

“I’m sorry, Sam,” Calix said, shaking his head from side to side, “I was miles away. What did you ask me?”

“It’s okay. I know who’s on your mind. I was just asking you about your summer,” Sam said with a signature cheeky grin, taking a small potted-plant, covered with what looked like boils and warts rather than spines, from a silver box. “You said you were going to be working at St. Mong’s or Mung’s or something-or-other?”

Calix clucked his tongue as he watched his roommate carefully and delicately position the colourful Mimbulus mimbletonia - Sam’s pride and joy, which he happily boasted about for hours and hours - on his bedside locker.

Calix was more concerned with Sam’s caution around Mimbulus than the rarity of the species - it was a harmless plant, and heaven knows they had worked with far more vicious and fatal vegetation, but when prodded or poked stinksap was released from those pustules. Calix didn’t want his room smelling of rancid stinksap. Not on the first day. It was guaranteed to happen eventually though, even deliberately done to piss Calix off.

“St. Mungo’s, you tosser,” Calix said with a hearty laugh, bringing his knees close to his chest, “But, yeah, I was working there during the week, like every year. I was on the second floor, you know, working with magical bugs and diseases. It was pretty cool, really.”

Calix glanced back towards the window and watched the light slowly fade, casting a gorgeous glow over Old Aroon as the sun began to set below the horizon. “You know, I’m actually really happy to be back. Even though it was so hard saying goodbye to my brother. He started crying this time…”

“I know, dude, I know,” Sam said, joining Calix by the window, “But, it’s not forever. And, he knows you’re off doing good in the world, like…”

“Putting you back together whenever your hexes backfire?” Calix questioned playfully, raising an inquisitive eyebrow, “Or perhaps when you get bitten by an herb?”

“That only happened once and you know it wasn’t my fault!”

Calix cackled in delight at his friend’s outcry, rocking slightly as Sam pushed his shoulder in protest.

When Sam made contact, Calix could feel his roommate’s heartbeat; he could feel the sudden blush, the flush of heat brought on by the memory; sense the sudden burst of adrenaline; taste the embarrassment and the anger coursing through his veins.

“You know damn well that wasn’t my fault! That was some stupid fresher’s fault. She shouldn’t have been anywhere near those tentacula plants - she could’ve gotten herself killed!”

“Didn’t she make it up to you?” Calix exclaimed, “In my bed if I remember correctly! You were too caught up in the moment to realise whose sheets you were getting your rocks off in!”

Sam shrugged his shoulders, his face a bright red: “I washed them afterwards, what are you complaining about? But, seriously, talking about the freshers…”

“What hex backfired this time?”

“Nothing backfired…”

“What hex backfired?”

“You say that with such contempt, like it’s a regular thing!”

“It is a regular thing.”

“Shut up! Are you gonna help or not, dude?”

Calix chuckled, throwing his head back: “You know, I always will.”

Sammy, smiling cheekily, lifted the corner of his shirt, pulling it up over his hip. The fabric slide across his skin revealing a ring of dark and painful bruises below his ribcage. “See, not that bad. It was just a stinging hex that went terribly wrong. I’d like them gone before I go chasing tail.”

Calix gave him an owl-eyed stare, full of knowing and understanding. Those marks were the ones that remained after the summer months, the haemorrhages and haematomas disappearing to leave only the tender reminders of past wrong-doings.

His caring nature took over though, and to the sound of Sammy’s summer escapades and his attempts to explain what his tie on the dormroom door meant, Calix patiently made ever mark disappear, ridding the first of many hex-related injuries this semester.

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