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baggebythesea · 1 year

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Princess Glimmer and the Day of Many Choices: Bow gets into sexy shenanigans with two hot, bisexual pirates (19/?)

"Hey, are you coming or not?" Sea-Ra said with a little 'couldn't care less' shrug at Bow. The look she gave him, on the other hand, was intense.

Behind her Sea Hawked grinned, a huge grin promising adventure of the most interesting kind.

"We'll teach you the way of the sea, lad," he said and held out his hand.

"But Boooooow," George and Lance pleaded. "We will need someone to take the minuuuutes at the comitté meetings."

"Sorry, fathers," Bow said. "Adventure is in my soul and can't be restrained. I will go where adventure takes me."

"But Booooow, the minutes," George and Lance cried, but Bow had made up his mind. He turned to Glimmer.

"Glimmer," he said with dramatic voice. "I love you and I want a life with you, but the sea beckons" (Sea-Ra smirked) "and I, poor fool, can't but follow. I can't ask you to wait for me, all I can ask you is to one day in your heart seek to forgive me."

"Oh, I think I'll manage," Glimmer blushed, her arms around Despara and Catra. "Have fun, I'll see you when you're done adventuring."

"And no going evil," he said with stern voice.

"No promises," she said with a little glance at Despara.

"Let's siiiiiing," Sea Hawk said.

"No," Sea-Ra sighed. "Let's go."

And with Bow and Sea Hawk in tow, they left.

"Well, I think we're done here," Glimmer said with a nod to George and Lance. "I eagerly look forward to your plan for political reform, taking into account all the intricasies of the current situation and wildly oposing wishes and needs of various parties. Until then we're off to Mystacor! there's a hot spring with our name on it." She took a firm grip of Despara's arm, patted Catra on the butt and teleported the three of them away.

"And I will teach Scorpia the 'flower language'," Perfuma purred with the innuendo in her words so clear that even Scorpia understood it. Wildly blushing, she was dragged away by the princess of Plumeria.

"Ugh!" Frosta complained. "Does love always turn people into idiots or is just a princess thing."

"Pretty universal, I'm afraid," Spinnerella said and traded a smirk with Netossa. "Now, come on kiddo. Now when there isn't a war going on, you have several years of homework to catch up on."

"NO FAIR!" Frosta yelled as she was marched away. "I WANNA BE A PIRATE TOO!"

"Well, seems like we have a momentous task in front of us," George said to Lance as the crowd started to disperse.

"In order to be truly effective we would need at least a dozen sub committess," Lance mused. "But where would we ever be able to find people who could take care of all the associated administrative and diplomatic tasks?"

"Excuse me," a polite voice said. "Perhaps this would be the right opportunity for me to intrude on your conversation..."

They looked up and saw a tall clone in a stately dress.

"You see, my name is Cloney McCloneson," the clone said "and I represent several thousands of clones in need of employment and a chance for integration in the Etherian society. I wonder if we perhaps could be of mutual assistance to each other..."

[A truly bitchin' image]

- - -

"Ah, this is life," Sea Hawk commented as he stood in the stern of the Dragon's Daughter IX. "The winds in your face, the open ocean before you, the taste of salt."

I hope @freedfromthegalactichivemind won't mind that I borrowed Cloney McCloneson to play with a bit...

After this one, I'll take a break for a week or two while I do some other stuff, but then we'll be back for Pirate Shenanigans. Keep an eye on the 'Princess Glimmer and the day of many choices" tag to see when I start updating again.

Part 18 is here: https://baggebythesea.tumblr.com/post/712564032270417920/laughs-im-so-glad-were-all-on-the-same-page-on

#spop #princess glimmer and the day of many choices #chose your own adventure #sea hawk #bow #mermista

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dairy-farmer · 2 years

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Okay your soulmate ask god tier love it agree with the characterization 100%

But what if we also put TimKon on there.

Like because of clone shenanigans Kon doesn’t have a soulmate making Tim able to have someone to understand in someway being alone in a world that is made up of pairs

Anyways the ending being that by the time the bats realize they lost it’s to late Tim is gone and unreachable

IDK I like them to suffer instead of Tim

TimKon!!! they have such a great dynamic because tim is a freak and kon knows that and still loves him, he didn't even massively freak out or go all ' youbetrayed me' when he found out tim tried to clone him. they definitely have a good dynamic, it's something that tim doesn't get with bruce, dick, jason, or damian.

stability. that's the one thing they can't give him off the bat. i feel like that would contribute to severe trust issues on that front because how can tim trust or believe they won't pull the rug out from under him at any time? if they'd just said 'it's not the right time' or listened during the many, many, many times he tried to talk with them about it- things may have turned out differently.

soulmates have a level of assigned devotion but tim had never felt that from any of them. but kon, kon listens for his heartbeat, he picks up when tim calls him, responds when he texts. tim decieves kon at times, lies to him because he's a bat and if he's not sneaky or careful he'll end up a splatter on the wall. they're not perfect but they fight for each other, they try to understand and they don't just give up on one another. kon doesn't play mind games, ignore him, refuse to talk to him or give him the cold shoulder. kon was his friend and even when he was just his friend he was a better soulmate than the one he had. tim thinks of kon and the fact that he doesn't have a soulmate and he's devestated because kon deserves the world. he deserves not be alone. but they're in the same boat aren't they?

tim has a soulmate that doesn't want him and kon doesn't have a soulmate at all. tim sees how kon tries; he goes out on dates, has relationships that stretch for weeks before they ask to see his soulmark only to be disappointed and disturbed when he doesn't have one. that's what gets to kon, people being disturbed because he already has trouble coming to terms with it himself.

tim imagines his life with his soulmate versus one with kon and its...its a no brainer. no system is truly perfect. there were probably millions of people in the past who were miserable with their soulmates but they were the minority and people didn't care about their suffering.

so tim, in a rare act of selfishness, decides to choose his happiness over that of his soulmate. he chooses kon.

and kon...kon would be unsure if it were anyone but tim. he wouldn't be able to trust that he really was chosen over someone's soulmate, he couldn't trust that he could be with someone for years and then their soulmate came into the picture and he couldn't trust his partner wouldn't leave him. but this was tim.

tim has lied and deceived him before but he's never broken a promise to kon and he's promising to be kon's forever. that they'll be together forever, that he'll carve himself to be the other half of kon's soul. he deserves to be happy and so does kon and they deserve to be happy together.

so kon, in a rare act of selfishness, chooses to steal away another person's soulmate. they had their chance and blew it but kon...kon had never even had a chance he could blow and he wasn't going to ruin it now that it was in front of him.

it's months before anyone notices. it takes a long time before bruce, dick, jason, or damian realize that their soulmark has been fading. more and more until one day...its gone.

its not scarred over like how soul marks are when their match dies, it's just gone. clear, unblemished skin like that on the rest of their body. their mark is gone. they're markless.

they panic of course, they immediatly try to see how tim is, if something's wrong...but he's fine. he's in san francisco. celebrating.

they see the pictures, the videos in groupchats they're part of.

tim and kon are soul mates. kon had developed a soulmark and they see the progression of it with inquiries in the chart about whether it was possible for Kryptonians to get skin cancer followed by a picture of dark blob mole that grew bigger and bigger and slowly took a shape into a soulmark.

and then it hit them.

they lost their soulmark. lost their soulmate.

and they're...desvestatated. they can't explain it any other way. they're devastated, they had one person meant for them and now they were gone. they were alone but it's worse because its not like tim is dead, he's alive and right there with his new soulmate.

and...they're alone. forever.

#anonymous #asks #answered asks

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agentnico · 9 months

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They Cloned Tyrone (2023) Review

Taking a break from the Barbenheimer talk to discuss Netflix’s most recent cinematic outing.

Plot: A pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighbourhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in his bed the next morning unharmed.

Was sold by the film’s trailer using Rockwell’s ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’ and now having seen the actual movie have discovered it’s an unofficial remake of the 2013 Edgar Wright film The World’s End. I doubt the director and cast will admit it’s a remake however there are simply too many similarities to not make comparisons. I should note that The World’s End is one of my favourite films ever. So yep, They Cloned Tyrone is my kind of entertainment! And it’s a very entertaining movie. Fitting nicely into the Blaxploitation subgenre, with having a vintage grainy filter aesthetic; characters wearing funky clothing and crazy hairdos; and an energetic soundtrack, all adding to the 1970s feel of the movie. The story itself tackles the serious subject of White supremacy and institutional overlords trying to control the Black community however without trivialising or preaching the themes as if we are in a lecture. The social commentary is there, but overall this is a funky science fiction comedy featuring a trio of heroes I never knew I needed.

I need these 3 characters solving mysteries/conspiracies from the hood on a regular basis. Have the same actors (Boyega, Parris and Foxx) playing the pimp, dope boy, and ho uncovering everything from aliens, secret experiments, and every conspiracy of this generation. These three have amazing chemistry and riff jokes off each other so well. Their constant bickering was hilarious. The balance of these personalities clashing and complimenting each other... it’s genuinely great! If nothing else that’s the takeaway from They Cloned Tyrone - these three together are a match made in heaven.

It’s fun science fiction shenanigans all around, however this movie does suffer from a shed load of plot holes. Especially at the end where our heroes infiltrate the underground base, a lot of things only worked out because they needed to, and real life they would have all been caught/stopped without any issue. But it’s a harmless comedy so I am happy to forgive these. It very much takes inspiration from various movie auteurs such as Jordan Peele, Stephen King, and Edgar Wright as well as having a Stranger Things vibe throughout. If you like the actors and enjoy old-school sci-fi, then you should go and check out why they cloned Tyrone.

Overall score: 6/10

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wantonlywindswept · 1 year

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mando liveblog 3.7 ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

i am both mad and disappointed, if ultimately entirely unsurprised

oh good, we get to watch bo-katan get the darksaber again

oh right gideon’s bullshit

still calling that they’re going to take all the storylines into other series and turn the mandalorian into a ‘din and grogu run from gideon’ thing bc that’s what worked for them before

oh god are we on coruscant again? with the imperial bitch? ughhhh not againn

he’s already got his outfit back? lame. you just got busted out of prison, suffer bad clothing choices!

oh no he actually looks MORE vader-y, what a poser

i do hate (which i understand is irrational) that the show has to be beholden to the sequels, bc. well. the sequels sucked.

PROJCET NECROMANCER ASDKLJFSG

oh so if gideon’s interest wasn’t in the clones shenanigans does that mean i can fuck around with him wanting to become the next dr demagolka? Forcibly Assigned Jedi At Experimentation

yeee bitches feel fear at thinking about mandalorians

‘the spies’ oh no

poor nevarro civvies, ‘ah shit not the empire again’

i wanna know how painting that giant mythosaur on the underside of the cruiser worked

ARE WE FINALLY GONNA SEE WHAT THE WHOLE WALKING TWO WAYS BULLSHIT WAS ABOUT? INDOCTRINATION YEA OR NAY

ahh hordes of mandalorians my beloved

din. din get on the side of the covert. din.

‘paz bout to start shit TIME TO USE THE TALKING HAMMER’

oh god the droid we all forgot about. again.

OH NOT A DROID IT’S A FUCKING JAEGER IM FUCKING CRYING ASLDKJADG

OH IT’S FOR GROGU??? IM FUCKIN

oh lord baby with a murder exoskeleton

ONIDSFJAG

LETS THE BABY SPEAK???

runaway baby so happy ‘yessss i can murder now!!’

okay i know this is supposed to be funny but clearly the baby should not have the exoskeletON ARE THEY ROASTING THE BABY BIRDS???

man they just got a home and they’re already needing to leave again?

i’m sorry GROGU AS WELL? what. what. YHOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE NEVARRO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SO THEY COULD KEEP THEIR KIDS SAFE

big spartacus vibes here

oh ho ho, the armorer too?

lmfao everyone chillin and then there’s paz with his ginormous gun, love that for him. also wonder if my hc about him never actually setting foot on mandalore before despite being a vizsla is correct?

did we. at least land somewhere significant? and not just in the middle of nowhere?

ah good on top of a city at least.

oh my heart

‘do you have food’

the first question asked

mandalorians have been here all along??

okay this hurts me but i feel like not for the reason they want it to, bo-katan DID abandon you in the end

are these the spies, this is going to Hurt Me

oh she admitted it

wait did we know about this deal before or is this new info? bo-katan cut a deal with gideon? i have not watched any of the animated series

oh thank christ finally confirmation the tribe is against Death Watch, even if descended from it

hmm does sound like a good reason for joint leadership

I SERVE YOU? WHAT?

what are these vibes my brain suddenly just sidestepped into the Mad Max universe

is the armorer gonna die to traitors

lmfao paz fucking down to fight over fucking checkers im sobbing

really ‘primitives’? i know we’re supposed to be like ‘oh assholes on both sides’ but paz is like 100000 times better than woves

BABY????

the fuck DID he learn from you then, din

oh wait

i know there’s the assumption it was din (and i mean. fuck yeah dinluke. but.)

what if all the stuff about grogu learning things

was from kelleran?

mythosaur?? pls??

no mythosaur :(

PAZ MAKING SURE THE BABY GOT OUT

what is it with mandalorians and giant lizards anyway

MY HEADCANON IS CORRECT, PAZ NEVER LIVED ON MANDALORE GO ME

nope not survivors

bigger vibes that they were led here THEYRE WEARING WHAT. FUCKIONG IMPERIALS IN BESKAR?? FLAMES! ON THE SIDES OF MY FACE!!

vanguard paz my heart

yeah this was totes a trap

OH SHIT DIN SEPARATED FROM THE BABY

wow the worst vader wannabe

...din forced down on his knees doe unf

somebody cut off this dude’s head

I WAS SO RIGHT HES THE NEXT DEMAGOLKLA PUT TOGETHER IT ALL AND YOU GET JEDI MANDO...clones? something. w/e

UH YEAH, YEAH YOU SHOULD HAVE BO

ah paz it about to die isn’t he

sigh

oh for fucks sake it wasn’t even a smart death you coulda closed it and then gone through

oh fake jedi bitches

i know this is supposed to be a badass honorable death but i’m too busy being mad about it

#mandalorian season 3 #no but seriously WERE THEY ROASTING THE BABY BIRDS #anyway casually ignoring everything i don't want to acknowledge #business as usual

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vagrantblvrd · 3 years

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I’ve seen posts where people think Sebastian Stan should be cast as Luke for future space adventures? Which believe me, are amazing and I would 100% watch the hell out of?

But also please to consider this:

Din comes across this character played by Sebastian Stan who gives Din what is obviously a fake name. Because Antilles, right? One of the most common names around and he might as well have not given Din a name at all, but it’s not like he’s going to call the guy on it or anything, right?

Din’s out hunting down Imperial remnants that have anything to do with the experiments on Grogu and finds this Antilles guy in a cell at one of the bases. He’s clearly had a rough time of it if the look he gives Din when he opens the door to his cell is any indication.

Just this...shock and surprise and something like grief before he tucks it all way behind this oddly familiar smile.

Antilles has clearly been treated to Imperial “kindness”, in that he’s bruised all to hell and can’t walk on his own - almost falls when he insists he’s fine, no really - so Din gets to play human crutch. (Might have been there a while, because he’s all scruffy too, unkempt beard and hair, and anyway, he’s not had an easy time of things.)

Which is fine because Din dealt with most of the Imperials by the time he found Antilles, but! They hit an intersection while looking for the labs and a couple of stormtroopers coming from the opposite direction.

This moment where they all stare at one another in that uh, situation? kind of way but haven’t had the time to react just yet.

Thing is, Din and Antilles happened to trip over their feet just before the troopers walked up, are untangling themselves but Din’s not in a good position to draw his blasters or any of his other weapons. Is like of course this would happen now and resigned to using himself as a human shield, because Antilles is in rough shape and Din’s armor, and anyway.

Doesn’t matter in the end because he feels this tug at his hip and Antilles ducking under his arm and pew-pew-pew, down go the stormtroopers, felled by incredible aim and Din’s blaster and Antilles who gives him this little smirk that is also oddly familiar.

Antilles shrugs, says something about his dad teaching him to shoot or whatever and when Din gets them both back on their feet apologizes for grabbing his blaster. But since doing so just saved their lives, Din’s not all that bothered by it.

Anyway, they get to the labs and Din parks Antilles in a chair while he digs for anything helpful. Scrounges up some datasticks and destroys the rest and when he turns to collect Antilles on the way out -

The guy’s got this look on his face. Complicated, because angry and wistful and a whole bunch of other things Din doesn’t have the time or luxury to unpack.

They get back to Din’s ship, and Din catches the - he doesn’t even know - expression on Antilles’ face when he sees it.

Some of the grief is back, and the wistful nostalgia and weirdly enough, Antilles pats the hull of the ship as Din gets them up the ramp and he swears he hears him say something like long time no see, old girl, and anyway. Din has stuff he needs to get back to Lu - to Skywalker to see if he or his New Republic friends can make sense of it.

He gets Antilles patched up and there’s clothes for him to wear - old bounties who didn’t need it anymore or gifts from people Din helped in the past an he didn’t know what to do with them and anyway.

Antilles looks better after he’s patched up and cleaned up, wearing this mishmash of clothes but he’s not complaining. Seems more grounded, settled, too, than he had earlier, like he’s had time to sort things out for himself.

Shaved his beard, but kept the mustache and just shrugs when Din notices it, just an observation on his part and doesn’t ask because it’s not like matters and anyway.

They run into some trouble getting back to Skywalker’s school, but Antilles isn’t useless. Knows how to fly, is a damn good shot - impressive, really - and knows his way around both jungle and desert in survival situations.

Because that trouble they run into and crashing and continuing to not die after the crashing is done because Imperials or other baddies, and anyway.

Antilles is far from useless and also snarky as hell and Din actually starts to like him.

Wonders a little at how sad he seems sometimes, the two of them sitting at the fire they’re cooking that night’s dinner over and Din looks over when Antilles isn’t expecting it.

Staring at the flames and sad, the kind that runs deep.

Din doesn’t ask, though, doesn’t think it would be appreciated because there’s something...brittle about Antilles in the right conditions and anyway, he doesn’t ask.

Antilles gives him little pieces of himself here and there, though. Mentions his parents, the one who taught him how to shoot, the one who taught him how to fight. Both of them arguing about who was going to teach him to fly until his aunt and uncle had enough of the pointlessness of it and taught him themselves.

(”I learned to fly on a freighter,” he tells Din, cutting through an asteroid field to avoid Imperial TIES after them like it’s nothing. “Corellian make, fastest thing around.”)

Apparently Antilles knows a whole lot of things besides all that, knows how to cheat at sabacc well enough Din almost doesn’t catch him at it. And when he does, the man gives him this wide-eyed look of innocence like who, him? cheat? he would never that is so painfully familiar Din has to look away because there’s a reason he’s out here on his own, isn’t there.

(All these inconvenient Feelings and no chance that Skywalker would ever return them, because Jedi and also look at Din, okay, kind of a mess of a human being and Luke is Luke.)

Anyway.

Eventually they make it to Luke’s school and Din can’t help but notice how quiet Antilles gets as they come in for the landing approach. Hands whit-knuckled in his lap, and he’s trying to look like everything’s fine but his jaw in clenched and he’s got that look in his eyes again and anyway.

Luke comes out to greet them with Grogu running ahead, and both of them stop short at the sight of Antilles.

“Din,” Skywalker says slowly, in such a way that Din realizes something is going on, “who’s your friend?”

Din explains meeting Antilles in the cell of an Imperial remnant base and their many adventures getting back to the school and so on.

The entire time Skywalker (and Grogu) are staring at Antilles, and Antilles is staring back at them, and Din is just like this is Force nonsense again, isn’t it.

And then Antilles is like, So I Have Something To Tell You.

At which point he tells them that he’s from the future - because of course - thanks to some doohickey in the ruins of a Jedi temple he was investigating - because of course it’s to do with Force nonsense - and also he’s here to set the timeline right after a sith or whoever got their first and meddled with the original timeline.

Because of course he is.

There’s a whole Thing in which Antilles and Skywalker go off to talk Jedi stuff.

(Oh, yeah, apparently Antilles is Force-sensitive, probably actually a Jedi himself and Din is like, of course he is because that’s his luck, isn’t it?)

Anyway, Din goes off to check on Luke’s students with Grogu and everyone’s happy to see him, pepper him with questions about what he did while he was gone and he tells them the parts that don’t involve killing people, because wow, no.

And then later on when everyone’s asleep or supposed to be asleep Skywalker finds him and they just kind of enjoy a moment of quiet, peace, while they can.

Comfortable the way things are around one another, and Din’s traitorous heart goes all soft and squishy when Skywalker gives him this warm smile as he catches Din up on happenings at the school while he was gone.

(How many frogs Grogu’s eaten - too many to count, honestly, I’m starting to worry - and so on.)

Din feels guilty at how much he enjoys these moments with Skywalker because they’re not something he gets to have, and anyway, yes.

Shenanigans in which Antilles is clearly in league with Skywalkers students and just about everyone in shoving Din and Skywalker together until finally one of them breaks and confessions concerning Feelings are had and convenient that they’re locked in a storage area because no one else to see when Din presses his forehead against Luke’s and they both do that breathy little laugh that’s all soft and surprised and only for them, and anyway!

Then the Serious Shenanigans happen in which the sith (or whtatever) Antilles was after pops up and does an Evil Monologue in which it’s revealed they were responsible for killing Antilles’ family in that original timeline and also ushering in a new era for the Empire and oethr bad stuff.

Oh, and also, Luke and Din are his parents because those experiments on Grogu and that time both Din and Luke got caught and had blood samples and the whatnot taken and anyway.

He’s cloned from them or something equally dramatic, idk how science works, and they rescued him and raised him as their own and the mustache of his should have been a bigger clue, really, it’s been staring them all in the face (literally) the whole time, what fools they’ve been not to realize!!1!

Emotional fallout and sacrifice plays with one of them being no, bad, don’t try that again or I’ll be Disappointed and the good guys winning the day as the timeline is set right, and all that good stuff.

Din, Luke, Grogu, and Antilles go to where the Jedi ruins are with the time travel doohickey to send Antilles - he still won’t tell them what his name is.

There’s emotional goodbyes all around and then poof, off he goes back to the future where he belongs Din and Luke and Grogu like wow, that was a thing, huh?

But also.

The thing where they’ve both been captured - together and separately - by Imperial remnants and had blood samples and the whatnot taken and Antilles could exist in their timeline right now.

Realize he never told them where they found him or how, and are like oh, no, because what if they don’t find him now? What if they never find him???

So of course Artoo trundles over and plays this little holomessage of Antilles.

Looks nervous as hell and that sadness they knew the reason for all over him, must have recorded this before he told them who he was, and anyway.

He doesn’t know where they found him exactly, just the name of the system and his best guess at when it happened, and then he gets this look on his face like. It’s too much like the one Luke gets sometimes, like Din’s when he’s in a bad place, and anyway.

They go looking where he told them and they find this kid, tiny, adorable, scared kid who can tap into the Force and he’s got Luke’s eyes and Din’s hair and other little small things and he’s just.

“Would have been helpful if he told us what we named him,” Luke says, but he’s kind of an emotional mess the way Din is, and anyway, yes.

(Also, though. Grogu is the worst influence on their kid, but an awesome big brother.)

#star wars nonsense #dinluke #time travel shenanigans #because reasons #technically not a fic #vagrant fic #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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superhusbands4ever · 3 years

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The Chain - Chapter 4/15

Fandom: The Bad Batch (Star Wars)

Characters: Crosshair, Hunter, Howzer, Rex, Wrecker, Tech, Echo, Omega, Various Clones

Relationships: Crosshair & Howzer, Crosshair & Rex, Crosshair & The Bad Batch, Crosshair & Omega, Hunter & Rex, Hunter & Omega

Additional Tags: Redemption, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Found Family, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Graphic Violence, Eventual Happy Ending, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary: One year after the events of The Bad Batch, Crosshair struggles to reconcile his choice with the harsh truth of the world around him. He finds enlightenment in the most unlikely of places and realizes he may have made the wrong decision. But is it too late to do something about it?

Two years after the events of The Bad Batch, Rex reluctantly agrees to allow Hunter and his squad to help him rescue a man who's been captured by the Empire, an Imperial double agent who's cover has been blown. What Hunter thought to be a simple extraction ends up having far greater consequences for their squad than he could have ever anticipated.

Chapter Warnings: None

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Tryon Edwards

Rex never struck Hunter as the type to let his nerves get the best of him. That one attempted fist fight with Crosshair when rescuing Echo notwithstanding, Rex was always calm and level headed when they worked together in the past. Skako Minor, Anaxes, on Bracca - it was clear why Rex was the Captain of the famously wild Torrent Company and essentially the de facto commander of the infamous 501st Legion. His calm and steady presence along with his cool confidence made him exactly the kind of guy people naturally gravitated to, naturally turned to for leadership.

Which is why it was weird that Rex seemed fidgety in a way he’d never seen from the man before. Anyone who didn’t know him wouldn’t notice, but Hunter could see the way he kept fiddling with the buttons on the controls needlessly. He could hear the leather of Rex’s gloves squeak as he clenched and unclenched his hands periodically. And only Hunter would be able to hear the way Rex kept consciously making an effort to unclench his jaw and stop grinding his teeth.

After the fourth time in as many minutes that Rex flexed his fingers, Hunter finally spoke up.

“Are you alright, Captain?”

Rex glanced at Hunter, hands deliberately stilling in his lap as he sat up straighter.

“Yes,” he said. “Just restless, I suppose.”

Hunter nodded, staring out at the streaking blue and white light of hyperspace through the viewport of the freighter’s cockpit.

“This operative of yours,” Hunter said after a moment, “you two are close?”

Whatever response Hunter was expecting from the other man, it wasn’t for him to laugh. Even Rex seemed startled by the response, looking sheepishly over at the sergeant.

“Sorry,” Rex said, rubbing a hand over his head. “I just- I certainly never expected to be, but… yeah. Yeah. I suppose we are.”

“You don’t get along?”

“We didn’t at first,” Rex said, crossing his arms across his chestplate. “ Manda , I used to hate the guy. But… he’s a good man. The more I worked with him, the more I spoke with the people he helped, I realized that. He’s done a lot for our brothers.”

Hunter nodded slowly. “How did you two meet?”

“Oh, uh—“ Rex twitched again as he went to fiddle with the pilot controls. “We met back during the war.”

“You served together?”

“Ehh,” Rex hedged, “Only a couple of times towards the end.”

Hunter waited for Rex to elaborate but the other man was silent, continuing to mess with the controls. The ship was on autopilot, so he wasn’t actually doing anything. He listened as Rex’s heart rate slowly started gaining speed.

“So… who did he serve under? Maybe I’ve heard of—“

The navicomputer beeped and Rex’s shoulders slumped nearly imperceptively.

“Why don’t you go back and check on the others?” If Hunter didn’t know any better he’d say Rex sounded… relieved? “We should be arriving soon and we still need to rework the plan now that you all are here.”

Hunter frowned. Rex studiously avoided his eyes. He wasn’t ignorant to the fact that Rex was purposefully trying to get rid of him - the man was apparently as good at lying as Wrecker - but he wasn’t sure why.

Finally Hunter nodded. He tapped his bracer against Rex’s pauldron and made his way out of the cockpit.

Rex mumbled something under his breath as the doors slid shut, but the hydraulics were too loud over the man’s voice for Hunter to be able to make out what was said.

He found everyone in the hold, Tech, Wrecker, Boil, Echo, and Omega sitting around the floor in a circle, with Gregor on a bench in the corner cleaning his blaster. He walked in just as Echo laughed at whatever the reg had said.

“Still, I’m glad to see you,” Boil said as Echo’s laughter died down. “Cody mentioned that Rex had found you, but I didn’t get the chance to reach out before… well…”

Echo smiled sadly, resting his flesh hand on Boil’s shoulder.

“It was always entertaining to listen to Rex rant to Cody about all the shenanigans you and Fives got into.”

“Yeah,” Echo agreed, voice gruff. “Though from what I hear, you and Waxer certainly kept Cody on his toes.”

Boil laughed.

“True. Usually it was Waxer making the plans. I somehow always ended up getting dragged along.”

“Yeah, I know how that goes.” Echo sighed. “I’m sorry, by the way. I read about Umbara. I can’t even imagine--”

“Don’t be,” Boil sighed, rubbing at the red scar on the side of his shaved head. “It felt unbearable at the time, but… sometimes I… sometimes I’m almost relieved? Force, that sounds horrible but it’s true. Sometimes I’m relieved he was gone so he wasn’t forced to become monsters like we were. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if they were the lucky ones.”

“You’re not a monster, Boil,” Gregor piped up from the corner. “Whatever the chip made you do wasn’t you. You had no choice.”

Boil nodded slowly, fingers lingering on his temple.

“I still did it, though.”

“I know what you mean,” Wrecker said quietly, eyes on the ground. “When my chip activated I nearly killed my squad. If Rex hadn’t been there to stop me, I would have.”

Omega scooted closer to Wrecker and grabbed his hand, leaning her head against his shoulder. He smiled down at her.

Boil looked sympathetic. “It’s a good thing Rex was there, then. Rex was the one who picked up my ship when I left Corellia. I wish I could say I was surprised to see he’d made it out, but I don’t think I was, really. Cody always believed Rex would survive all of this.”

“Did you…” Echo trailed off, rubbing his neck awkwardly. “Did you… work with Cody while--”

“No,” Boil said firmly, shaking his head. “The GAR structure reorganized surprisingly quickly after the order went out. The 212th was recalled back to Coruscant and was divided up after that. Ghost Company went to Grand Admiral Tarkin while Cody and the other Marshal Commanders were sent to work directly under Palpatine. I haven’t seen Cody since we arrived on Coruscant after Uptapau.”

They were all quiet after that, heads bowed in remembrance of both their fallen and lost brothers. Besides Omega, everyone in the ship had worked under Cody’s command at some point and respected him for the great leader and big brother to all clones that he was. To imagine the strong willed, compassionate, selfless man under the direct control of someone like Palpatine was almost too much to bear.

It was thanks to Cody that Hunter and the others had even been allowed off Kamino. He’d been able to pull rank and convince Nala Se and the other Kaminoan scientists and trainers that the Unit 99s, of which Hunter, Crosshair, Tech, and Wrecker had been the last of, could be useful in the war. If it weren’t for Cody, they would have spent the rest of their days toiling around in Tipoca City, completing test after test until they were finally deemed too “defective” and decommissioned like the others in their unit, or put on janitorial duty like 99.

“What about you guys?” Boil’s quiet voice sounded overly loud in the solemn silence of the ship's hold. “How did you survive the order? Did the Commander get you guys out too?”

“No,” Tech said, adjusting his goggles. “Our chips were never activated. They malfunctioned due to our deviant nature from the other, regular clones.”

Boil cast Wrecker a sidelong look.

“But I thought—“

“His activated later as an effect of repeated head trauma to the chip’s implantation site.”

“Well, I’m glad you guys didn’t have to experience that. Though, I imagine it must have been a very difficult situation for you surrounded by everyone else.”

“Heh, you could say that again,” Wrecker grumbled under his breath.

“We’ve essentially been on the run from the Empire for the last three years,” Echo said. “The vod’e pretty much attack us on sight.”

“You said the Commander helped you escape recently?” Omega piped up from under Wrecker’s arm.

Boil nodded slowly, gaze trained on the ground.

“I’ve only been on Yavin for about a day and a half,” Boil said. “The Commander got me out just a few days ago”

“And then he was discovered,” Tech said succinctly. Echo smacked his arm.

“Yeah,” Boil said quietly, running his hand over his hair. “Extracting me was a risk, from what Howzer said.”

“It was a different op than the usual extractions,” Gregor said from the corner. “Typically he just gave us foot soldiers that he could say were killed in action on missions. Two or three at a time, buried under flimsiwork and red tape. He’d splice the system and mark them as KIA. Apparently the Empire doesn’t care much if they lose one or two rank and file clones.”

“I was higher up in the command structure, though,” Boil added. “I was a lieutenant on Grand Admiral Tarkin’s security team. He was attending some diplomatic event in Corellia and I was assigned a protection squad. The Commander caught me as I was coming off my shift and took me to some tiny infirmary in the hotel. Stunned me and took my chip out. I barely knew what was going on when he told me that he was getting me out of the Empire and we needed to hurry.”

“A natborn Imperial officer helping clones?”

“No,” Boil shook his head, “he is a clone.”

Everyone was silent and Hunter frowned. A clone commander working from within the Empire?

Gregor paused his cleaning and looked up at the group, eyes flickering from them to Hunter, who still lingered in the doorway.

“A clone spy within the Empire?” Tech asked skeptically. “Without his chip?”

Boil nodded. “I wasn’t sure at first, either. He never took his helmet off and he didn’t sound like any clone I’d ever met. But he understood what it was like when I woke up freaking out, asking questions, getting angry. He talked me down, told me that he knew it was disorienting to wake up suddenly in control of your own body after so long but we didn’t have time for an existential crisis so I needed to get myself together.

“So what has he been doing?” Echo questioned. “Just… pretending his chip is active?”

“I guess so. Howzer confirmed it later. They’re pretty close, I guess - I thought Howzer was going to lose it when the distress signal went off.”

“How did the Commander get his out?”

Boil shrugged. “I didn’t ask.”

The room fell silent at that.

Something about the situation prickled at the back of Hunter’s mind. Maybe it was just the similarities to their own brother. Crosshair had chosen to stay with the Empire as well, even when out from under the chip’s influence - though there was no denying that Crosshair’s motivations and this Commander’s motivations were extremely different.

Crosshair chose to stay, to leave the team, their family, behind for selfish reasons - ego and power and a place in the new galactic order. This Commander chose to stay not for himself, but to help those who couldn’t help themselves.

The knowledge burned something inside him, but Hunter buried it down.

This is who I am. .

“We all thought he was crazy when he reached out to Rex,” Gregor piped up, his blaster discarded on the bench next to him. “The whole thing was his idea. We warned him it was suicide, but he didn’t care. Rex thought he’d be dead within a month, but he’s been helping clones get out for nearly two years now. Howzer kept telling him it was time to get out before he got caught, but he wouldn’t listen. Now here we are.”

“I tried to get him to come with me. Told him if they found out what he’d done, they’d kill him.” Boil snorted. “You know what he said to me? He said ‘ stop being a noble di’kut and get in the ship before I stun you and put the chip back in. ’”

They all frowned at the threat, Gregor giggling from his place in the corner.

“I’m glad to be going back for the Commander,” Boil said. “Obviously I wish it were in better circumstances. I know it was his decision to stay behind, but it still felt wrong leaving him there, you know? Colt always said we never leave a man behind.”

“Yeah,” Echo said quietly, eyes meeting Hunter’s across the room. “I know the feeling.”

Hunter held Echo’s gaze, same as he always did when the topic came up over the last two years. And same as every other time, in the face of Echo’s admonishment, Hunter said nothing in return. There was nothing to say that hadn’t already been discussed at length.

Repeatedly.

Loudly.

Wrecker and Tech glanced at each other over Echo’s head while Omega averted her eyes to the ground.

The ship shook as it dropped out of hyperspace and Hunter took that as his que to get moving.

“Rex said we’ll be touching down soon,” he said, stepping fully into the room. “We should start getting ready.”

As the others moved over to Gregor to begin gearing up, Echo stood and held Hunter’s gaze a moment longer. Hunter shook his head and Echo sighed before moving to join the others.

He had a feeling they’d be having that discussion once again once this mission was over.

Hunter felt a hand in his and he looked down to meet Omega’s eyes. She smiled sadly at him, squeezing his hand. He squeezed back, but couldn’t quite drudge up the willpower to smile in return.

“C’mon,” he said instead, “let’s gear up.”

She nodded and walked over to the group, helping Echo loop his pack over his scomp arm. Hunter watched them all and tried not to think about the weird feeling lingering in the back of his mind.

“Alright,” Rex said as the ramp to the ship lowered. They’d landed in the forest, hidden at the bottom of the mountain the same as they had last time. Gregor helped Tech and Rex navigate the ship to an area below the mountain where there was a hidden entry point similar to the vents they had escaped through last time.

“Echo, Hunter, Tech, Boil, and Gregor - you’re with me. Wrecker, stay with the ship.”

“Wha- oh, come on!” Wrecker said, slipping his helmet up to stare at Rex with wide eyes. “I can help!”

“You will help,” Rex held his hands up placatingly, “we need someone to stay with the ship that can meet us at the exit. I get a feeling we’re going to need to make a quick get away.”

“Aww, why can’t Tech do it?”

“We need Tech to help Gregor and Echo hack the systems,” Rex explained calmly. “This is a stealth mission, Wrecker, and those aren’t your, uh… strong suit.”

Wrecker groaned, pulling his helmet off and slunking off to sit on a crate. Omega patted his hand.

“Sorry, Wrecker. But I just can’t take any risks with this.”

“Nah, I understand,” and to Wrecker’s credit, he did sound like he meant it.

Rex nodded and gestured for the others to follow him off the ship.

Before Omega could get far, Hunter grabbed her elbow.

“Omega.... I want you to stay on the ship with Wrecker.”

Omega frowned.

“Why? I can help!”

Hunter sighed. She stood with arms crossed as she leveled a glare at Hunter and her eyes filled with that stubborn indignation she’d been showing more and more since she’d reached her teenage years.

As she got older, every time she glared at him like that she looked more and more like--

“We’re walking straight into an Imperial base,” Hunter said, trying to keep his tone as even as possible. “You remember what happened last time.”

“It was my idea to help on this mission.”

“It was,” Hunter conceded. “Though, you didn’t exactly talk it through with us before offering.”

She had the grace to look a little chastised at that.

“This is dangerous, Omega. High level stuff, not what we usually do. I don’t want you to get hurt.”

He trailed off and the fire seemed to go out from under Omega with her disappointed sigh.

“Fine,” she said. “But I don’t like it. If you get caught again, we will be having words.”

Hunter chuckled. “Noted.”

Her eyes searched his face a moment longer before she flung her arms around his waist, burying her face in his chest.

“Be careful.”

“I will,” he rested his chin on top of her curls. “I promise.”

Hunter’s commlink beeped and Rex’s voice filled the room.

“Hunter, let’s move out.”

Omega pulled back and crossed her arms as Hunter pulled on his helmet. She waved to him as he walked down the ramp, her and Wrecker both watching as the group started making their way toward the base of the mountain.

Hunter stared up at the mountain as they worked their way through the forest, his mind jumping back to the last time they had been on this planet, attempting a rescue from this exact base. Hopefully this time went better than the last. Hopefully no one was captured again. Hopefully they could get in and out without alerting anyone, though his squad was never that lucky.

Hopefully Crosshair isn’t here, Hunter thought as they climbed into the vent shaft. They hadn’t seen nor heard from Crosshair since the day they left Tipoca City. The Empire was large and the Galaxy even larger, so the chances were slim. He hoped. He really wasn’t in the mood to deal with a family reunion today.

#cady writes #the bad batch #tbb #star wars the bad batch #star wars tbb #tbb crosshair #crosshair #tbb hunter #tbb wrecker #tbb tech #tbb omega #tbb echo #the bad batch fanfiction

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bubby-the-clown · 4 years

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Sword and Shield are failed clones of Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

I don’t know if anyone has criticized the game on this particular front yet (probably, but call me Captain Overkill, I’m here to do exactly that.) I am just a salty bitter fan who recently had the displeasure of dealing with Isle of Armor. Being a life long Pokémon fan, I am willing to put up with a lot! I love literally every single generation EXCEPT Gen 8, so please, bear with me through this wild ride.

So... what do I mean when I say “Failed Clone?” Well, what I mean is that there are many similarities and... things so blatantly recycled from SMUSUM, at least, in the story department. Let’s look at individual characters, and what makes them similar/clones in my opinion. So, let’s start off with our lovable neighborly rival: Hauop. I mean Hopau. I mean... okay, so that’s the thing... Hop and Hau are both giddy trainers who are motivated in no small part by wanting to live up to a family member they admire, who happens to give them their Pokémon. In the case of Hau, this is his grandfather, Kahuna Hala. In Hop, this is his brother, Champion Leon. These two kiddos are our first friend, a neighborly sort who chooses the Pokémon weaker to our own. They both have sunny dispositions and clash with one of our other rivals, who I will umbrella as Mean Rival.

Next is our non-combatant investigative friend who desperately wishes to unlock the secrets of the legendary Pokémon of the region. Lillie and her Tethered Counterpart, Sonia. Yeah, no, look. They both have the same goal and are both nerds who don’t fight (unless ya wanna talk about USUM’s after story, but...)

For bonus points, both live with and are the proteges of their regions’ respective professors.

Now... mean rival time. Gladion the tormented enforcer, and Bede the brash enforcer. Okay, so these two actually have a fair few differences, but I’ll cover the similarities first. Both are the mean rival who don’t have a starter Pokémon. Both work for an evil organization, and both can be pretty abrasive, especially towards each games’ neighbor. They are also both betrayed by their respective organizations, and by their parental figures.

Okay, so maybe they just copied some of the main rivals and friends? That wouldn’t be a huge issue, right? Well, uh... yeah. That’d’ve been fine, really. But strap in, cause this is only the beginning (oh dear god help me.)

So... the overarching story... in a region with a strange phenomenon that allows Pokémon to dish out extremely powerful moves, a new trainer aspires to be champion, their plucky neighbor boy alongside them. They are eventually accompanied by a girl, aid to the professor, who wishes to unlock the secrets of the legendary Pokémon of the region. This quest is very important to her, though she doesn’t take part in battle.

Eventually the future-champion confronts the evil team of the region; a ruffian group of punks out to just plain cause trouble for those trying to participate in the region’s Challenge. All the while, a benevolent corporation of do-gooders looms over the region, providing much needed aid where they can. This fanciful group is led by a dashing and well dressed corporate leader who is accompanied by their rather abrasive assistant.

Now, you eventually decide to confront a leader of sorts... one who resides in a dark and dreary, run down, enclosed town (seriously, what an odd and specific thing to copy). You work your way in, confronting evil team grunts, until you face off against the leader of that evil team! Of course, you win. (And eventually the evil team leader fights alongside you against a greater threat!)

As you venture through the region, you perform the shenanigans typical of the Pokémon series, battling people and earning tokens that will take you to the very top! However... a dark turn of events will occur that causes great calamity within the region. (This is where things kiiiinda shift over into Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon territory. So remember that when I talk about the big bad evil villain and the monster they cannot stop).

As it turns out, the do-gooders of the region’s benefactor group are actually DO-BADDERS! Because, ho boy, they are actually attempting to stop an ancient evil from attacking the region and shrouding it in darkness! Which on its own wouldn’t be evil, but through their twisted methods, they take things too far. However, they aren’t enough to stop the alien beast that shrouds the region in darkness! So you and the legendary Pokémon of the region face off against this monster and save the day! Woo hoo! And you can even catch it right before you face off in the championship battle. And then you make history by winning said battle, and then you can go off and do... other things. The end.

So uh... yeah. There are a lot of blatant similarities. Team Skull and Team Yell. The Aether Foundation and Macro Cosmos. The mega evil beast that CAUSES DARKNESS TO OVERTAKE THE LAND! There’s... so much.

I could probably make a list of the things I do actually like at some point, maybe. Y’know, if I am not executed publicly for this.

#longpost #rant #pokemon #Pokémon #Sword and Shield #SS #Sun and Moon #Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon #SuMo #USUM #Galar #Alola #fuck #I love Pokémon #Please do better next time Gamefreak #and don’t ask $90 for a full game experience please #ESPECIALLY for /THIS/

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1358456 · 4 years

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Pokemon Crystal Joy Run

For some reason, I really wanted to try this and devoted time that I should’ve used on the DE update into this instead.

Let’s dance. Joy run rules! ... The only restrictions I place upon myself is my own sense of restraint!

Now, I’m doing this run because I really wanted to test out TWO specific things. And so we shall see!

Huzzah! Finally, after “Sapph” the Sapphire and “Platina” the Platinum, I can actually use the full name! YAAAY!

Okay. ID number is 23017, which in hexadecimal would be 59E9. And in the world of Pokemon RGBYGSC, 59 is the hexadecimal code for Earthquake, and E9 is Vital Throw. ... What does this mean? ... Well, remember my Gold version joy run whose ID corresponded to Smog and Fire Spin? Hehehe... ... IF this works as I think it does, anyways.

Name: Crystal, thus starter: Grass. It won’t hurt me despite the fact that Grass is the worst typing here.

... Okay, Tackle missing a third of the time will though. Accuracy 95. Missed 10 times out of the 33 PP used. Worthless ass piece of sh*t.

What kind of name is... ... I mean... well, if that’s your name... who am I to argue.

I mean, he said that was his name, so...

Huh, Crystal version gets you a Hoppip a lot earlier than in GS. So I can prepare the shenanigans much earlier! Splash in third slot?!

Soon, shrine guardian... soon... perhaps.

Whitney’s dreaded Miltank vs. my standard issue early GSC staple dude.

What a boring ass fight. 2 turns, lost 1 HP (Miltank missed Rollout once). Male Graveler gets f*cked by Attract. Female Graveler does not. Easy ass whupping.

And now, even though I did not need to curb stomp Whitney before this, the sorcery can begin! ... Turns out, getting a bad cloned in Crystal version is SO MUCH HARDER than in GS!

But sorcery! Muhuhahahaha! So, my ID’s hex values was for Earthquake and Vital Throw. And...

The sorcery hatched with Earthquake and Vital Throw. IT WOOOOORRRRKEED! ... And a random TM 43 since the Hoppip’s 4th move corresponded to that hex value. ... I actually wanted the ID that gives me Thunderbolt and Ice Beam. But... that would be too UNFAIR. Come on. Show restraint.

... Huh. An unintentional byproduct of sorcery. A Hoppip that lost 4 characters to its name suddenly decided to break its shell and become more powerful than it could possibly have imagined. ... With Pokerus, of course. ... I’ll use this to just spread the virus and then ditch it in the box. Level 100 Mewtwo? Now that’s just too UNFAIR. Come on. Show some restraint.

Now, to test the OTHER thing that I wanted to test with this run (the first being the IDs corresponding to the two moves the glitch hatched Pokemon have). If the Pokemon that would originally have come out of that egg was to have Reflect in its 4th slot... then... after the shenanigans, the Pokemon should have the hold item of...

An event item. ... Now, this thing doesn’t seem to be triggering anything. It’s in the Key Items slot, but nothing’s going on with Kurt. Maybe I have to beat the Elite Four or get all 16 Gym Badges? Hmm...

Well, I got Rock Smash TM, so... sorcery continues!

Another byproduct of the sorcery. This... was a Rattata that ascended, and... what? Earthquake got PP Up’d once, and... random ass Pay Day with 2 PP Ups. ... ??? ... No, not the “rival”. ... Anyways. This byproduct also goes into the box and nothing else. A regular level 3 Lugia with Vital Throw, Earthquake, and Aeroblast is fine, thank you.

I know, right? They never put up a fight. ... Oh, were you not referring to yourself? You f*cking scrub.

... Er... Leaving now, and I will never come back.

Oh yeah, this guy was a thing. Ehn. Whatever. Keep chasing that blue... wind...water dog thingy. I have no use of it.

The asshead rival came by and took this guy’s prized Pokemon, SHUCKLE! ... This IS the Shuckle guy, right? ... But wait, the rival never had a Shuckle...

I don’t think he’ll be back to take your other Shuckle since he’s not using the first one. And besides, have you seen my team? Does it look like I need a Shuckle?

... Who the f*ck is this guy? ... Oh right. The asshead who thinks he’s invincible despite a literal 0% win rate against me.

Of whose soul? ... And pure? ... Are you sure? Because here I am, literally doing the dark arts of Pokemon!

Man, this free Earthquake is really handy!

... Meh. I have no use of it. Let Eusine have it... after reviving it. In Crystal version, you need Raikou, Entei, and Suicune in order to get Ho-oh, if I recall. But... I already have Ho-oh... the BETTER Ho-oh since mine has Sacred Fire, so... I have no need for Suicune.

Man, I sure do appreciate the fact that Sneasel is found so much earlier in Crystal than in GS. With duplicated Rare Candy, I can get a male and female Sneasel and raise them to level 57 so much earlier and so...

Sorcery. Celebi with Earthquake! ... Imagine if Celebi had Thunderbolt and Ice Beam. Now that would be too UNFAIR. Well then, time to level it up a few times with Rare Candy so I can choose to NOT get certain moves that it gets at level 1 so that it retains Earthquake.

And... wait, what’s happening? ... Q from Yellow version?? Or is the asshead “rival” evolving?!

Well, that happened like 5 times. Moving on!

Man, this free Earthquake is really handy! And now that beat the Elite Four, I have access to move tutors. Ohoho! And I have SO MUCH MONEY since I never spent it (other than some daycare f*ckery)...

Getting up to 9999 coins is so much easier in GSC than it is in RGBY... Ah... still a waste since I only need coins in increments of 4000, but hey. I have the cash... and the duplicated Nuggets. Too bad Celebi doesn’t get any of these. Would’ve been nice if the ID cooperated, but then again, maybe that would be too UNFAIR.

... But this move tutor teaches one move a day, and is only available in two days in the week? Bullsh*t. Time to f*ck with the game clock. Record the money I have, change the date to 11:59 pm of the day before the tutor guy appears, let the minute pass, and move tutor and repeat. Bolt-Beam for Mewtwo and Lugia, and Thunderbolt for Ho-oh!

... Grimer and Muk can swim? ... Or is that “water” just ALL Grimer? ... Eww... ... Moon might like it here, I guess, but... blech. ... Anyways. Grimer = Acid Armor, so... my last team member appears. Mew! And to “immediately” dump 12000 coins to give it all three move tutor moves...

And... um... well, this is happening. The bad clones that were supposed to disappear or transform during the process... remained. The one on the left was leftover from the Celebi shenanigans, and the one on the right is from Mew. ... I can’t get rid of these, since they don’t show up in the box. I can’t have them in the party in order to utilize this glitch again, so... ... well, looks like I can’t do the shenanigans ever again. Well, fine. I don’t need to do it one more time anyways. That would be too UNFAIR.

Here we are again. Leftovers duplicate spam. Constant HP regeneration! Because of this, I opted to NOT keep/get Recover for the 4 Pokemon that do get them. Because that would be too UNFAIR.

... Who in the what now? You are me and I am you and I am confused!

Er... why does the teacher class trainer have... is that a whacking stick? Oho, haven’t been hit by one of those since the 90s for my fingernails being too long.

... Swimmer WHAT?! No. Unacceptable. There can only be ONE! And who the f*ck has green hair?!

Well, all 16 Gym Badges obtained. Leveled up my 5 Pokemon team to level 50 each because any higher is too UNFAIR. If I recall, in my Gold version joy run, I went up to level 55, and that was completely unnecessary. So... level 50 it is.

And still Pikachu remains ever so pitiful. Worthless ass piece of sh*t.

So, counting the times during the level grinding phase, Celebi was hit by Body Slam 8 times, and got paralyzed 8 times (33% chance, by the way). And now Celebi has literally done nothing for 7 turns straight. Fully paralyzed, fully paralyzed, fully paralyzed, flinched to Snore, fully paralyzed, fully paralyzed, flinched to Snore. Good thing Snorlax has such a huge HP that Leech Seed helps out so much, along with Leftovers. Or this worthless ass piece of sh*t would’ve been the first and only Pokemon downed.

Aeroblast the sh*t out of Venusaur... nope, missed. ... Aeroblast the sh*t out of Venusaur, and there. Easy win against Red with a bunch of level 50 Pokemon without losing anyone and without using any healing items. Yay. I originally thought about raising to level 60, but... good thing I didn’t. That would’ve been too UNFAIR.

So. Now that I beat the Elite Four, got all 16 Gym Badges, and whupped Red... does THAT item work now?

... Still nothing from this guy. If I recall, he was supposed to take the GS Ball and keep it for a day. And then hear commotion from the forest and... out pops an onion fairy from the shrine.

Damn. So I can spawn the event item, but not the event. Aww... Although... meh. It’s not like I need a random ass level 30 Celebi anyways. I have a better one with Earthquake!

So with this, I’ve done... Yellow, Gold, Crystal, Sapphire, and Platinum. So maybe one day, I can move on to Generation V?

#gsrun

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numberoneheroallmight · 5 years

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Some of my favorite TAZ:B foreshadowing moments

- Lucas: What if this thing reproduces asexually and-and… y’know, pops out a kid that makes us forget its own existence?

- Cint: Is our immunity to this selective? Like, if we wanted to forget something, could we ask the Voidfish to do it

Griffin: Nope. Nah, you’ve been inoculated....If you cloned the Voidfish— if you cloned that Voidfish, and then fed it the name Boyland, you might be able to get out of the way.

- Griffin: How do Taako, Merle, and Magnus, like, feel? Because we’re having a lot of fun here with our Groundhogs Day shenanigans, but now they’ve died three times, and it probably hasn’t been great.

Travis: You know, Griffin, I’m glad you asked. I think for Magnus it’s a matter of like, this is how he would live his life anyways. And so I will say he feels emboldened. By being able to rush in, fuck up, and then rush in again.

.....

Travis: How does Taako feel? I very much want to know.

Taako: Uh, just another day at the office, baby.

- Travis: Magnus steps into the place that [the red robe] is, and kind of blends in with him and goes “Oh, Ho Ho, I’m in a red robe!”

- Magnus: Do you possibly know a figure in a red robe, Isaak

Isaak: You're talking about the Visitor that came and brought Jack ‘n’ June to this town, right?

Magnus: Yeah.

Isaak: I never met him personally, no.

Magnus: Well that visitor and us, we share a similar purpose.

- Noelle: I had my scanner on before, from before when I scanned that crystal monster. It’s uh, I’m picking up- it says it’s. One of you guys isn’t a lich are you?

.....

Merle: No, but, but - I have a couple of liches that are friends.

Magnus: Yeah, oh yeah, I got lich friends.

Merle: They’re cool, they’re really - they’re good, good people.

#taz blogging

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calliecat93 · 3 years

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ST: TNG Watchthrough Episodes 13-16

Angel One: So... sadly one holdover from TOS at least so far is sexism. Not as badly, but it’s still VERY much present. The three leading ladies have all been put in s*xual/romantic relations at least once (though tbf they ALL are still very capable of their jobs so they got that right), off-handed remarks that rub me the wrong way, and then we have this episode. Now this COULD have been good such as going into the dangers of radical feminism (it exists, don’t pretend that it doesn’t) and showing what true feminism/equality should be against a sexist matriarchy that demeans/sexualizes men. Allow the women to show what feminism truly should be and maybe even open the men’s eyes to how demeaned and humiliated women can be treated when they are subjected to the same treatment. But we don’t. Crusher is allowed to be an awesome doctor which yes good, but Troi and Yar while competent are no more important than usual nor do any of the women (Crusher aside) truly drive the plot. Any demeaning treatment that men get especially equate to nothing (admittedly Riker just owning it is kind of nice, but still). The pieces were there, but not properly connected and thus all the pieces are scattered and confused. We also have Riker being FAR too much of a Kirk clone here. It has some bright spots with Geordi being a competent leader and again, Crusher is an awesome doctor who was just fantastic here. But otherwise had this done things properly, ot could have been bold for the time and imo the message of radical femenism is needed more than ever. The episode Equal Fighte from The Powerpuff Girls is an excellent wpisode showing the dangers and having strong women who are also positive role models lead the plot and deliver the message. But they failed here and I am FAR less forgiving of this than I am with TOS because we knew better by this point. 2/5.

11001001: More Holodeck shenanigans, yippee! It was... okay. Nothing great, but nothing terrible. I was excited about Holodeck enhancements... but all it did was create a woman to distract Riker and Picard. Which they go on and on about how more advanced she is to the other times but not only did we only have one other Holodeck episode, but she’s REALLY not that different from the holograms in that episode aside form her learning faster. The Binars manner of speech also got old VERY quickly. But otherwise there’s nothing particularly bad. Wesley is able to be smart without making the adults look like idiots, I liked Picard and Riker’s interactions and they felt like a genuine Captain and First Officer standing together, and the Binars actual motivation and reasons for taking the Enterprise instead of being another evil alien species was nice. Also the musicals core was really good, which can be said for every episode thus far. It’s a decent episode with some nice points, but otherwise unremarkable with not enough moments to justify a higher rating than what I’m giving the initial watchthrough. 2.5/5.

Too Short a Season: Ah aging, it happens to all of us one way or another. Apparently this episode got mixed reviews because of the make-up and overacting... but I actually liked this one quite a bit. Maybe Jameson got too much focus over the cast, but I don’t think that either the story or the theme were bad at all. This could just be because I’ve recently seen someone who is getting older express distress over becoming old, but I did feel empathetic towards Jameson. He was old, fragile, and deteriorating, and such a state is gut-wrenching to both the individual and the one caring for them forced to watch it, helpless to do anything. In some ways it’s tragic especially when Jameson dies in a manner much more brutal than a natural one from old age. But he also did all this without thinking of his wife and her thoughts, grew more arrogant the younger that he got, and brought his ultimate fate onto himself because of his irrationality. There’s a theme of age and youth here, and shows how de-aging/trying to cheat death will end badly for you. It makes me think a lot about events like my grandmother dying while just deteriorating and my grandfather having a hard time dealing with it. Maybe that’s why this hit me so much, IDK. But that made me feel especially bad for Annie who is helpless as her husband dies and her final moments with him made me teary eyed. It’s not a perfect episode with some of the acting being a little off, but otherwise I really liked this one! Also I couldn’t help but think of McCoy, who is still kicking in his 130’s as the pilot demonstrated, getting an offer for de-aging... and him just giving them all two middle fingers, delivering a MAJOR tirade/rant about all the medical and ethical violations such a treatment would cause in the wrong hands (and BOY does he know that it would be too easily abused), and the mental image just made me smile so big XD. 4/5.

When the Bough Breaks: Child kidnapping! Ho boy! So we have a society kidnap children, including Wesley, in hopes of saving their dying society. Needless to say, this is a HORRIBLE thing to do. I was fully expecting to be annoyed at this episode since... well an episode with mostly kids int his kind of show is VERY easy to do wrong. TOS’ And The Children Shall lead, while I admit I was probably too harsh and it does have some merits that I’ll try to give whenever I do a full review, is still my least favorite episode at least in part due to the kids. Fortunately, this one is fairly tolerable. Whatever I feel about how Wesley is often portrayed, he is intelligent and Wil Wheaton is a good actor. In a situation like this, Wesley can be competent and intelligent especially since he’s trying to both save himself and younger children. It helps make him look noble and brave despite being a naive kid who can grow into a capable Starfleet officer one day without making the actual adults look incompetent in comparison. Also major props to Dr. Crusher for keeping her head and still being a competent officer and badass doctor despite having every reason to go ballistic/panicked after her son’s kidnapping. God I love her~! I feel bad for the people who clealry want children to love as their own... but it sitlld oens’tjustify their God awful actions and they got off super easy . While not as bad as I was expecting, the episode overall was just okay. Nothing great, nothing bad, and nothing remarkable enough to justify the final ranking. But it was otherwise fine and helped me like Wesley more, so that was nice. Oh and Picard being awkward with children was hilarious and cute especially at the end, haha! 3/5.

Sorry I put this on hold until the weekend again. Half was due to other stuff, the other half was due to... well, my mom was a TNG fan. She works at home, but her days are very busy aside from the weekends. So I have been trying to hold it off so that we can both watch it together. My way of making up for the 20+ years of refusing to do so until now, haha. I’ll try to speed it up with the upcoming week since we’re nearing the end of the season. While the season is still meh, the cast is really growing on me and there are some bright spots still that help with character and wanting to keep watching despite the story quality. Which since I know it gets real good int he later seasons, is encouraging. Easter is tomorrow and we are expecting company (just two people, no risks of virus or anything) so IDK if I’ll make it to TNG tomorrow, but I’ll try my best. If not, I will force myself to resume Monday.

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