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rottenpumpkin13 · 2 months

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Imagine if Vincent woke up during Nibelheim?

I really wanted to write a crack funny answer but I couldn't bring myself to ignore this concept asdfghjkzzzzz enjoy

°:. *₊ ° . ° .•°:. *₊ Vincent knew he would inevitably be roused from his sleep. However much he wished otherwise, he understood it was merely a matter of time before someone woke him up. Whether it be curious children or overly bold explorers stumbling upon the mansion and venturing this far, Shinra operatives seizing him, or even the dreaded idea of Hojo himself, a scenario he prayed would never happen.

The point remained; he anticipated it. That being said, it did not lessen the blow of the shock when he sensed someone enter the chamber.

His eyes snapped open, fixating on the interior of the coffin lid, while his body remained motionless and silent, akin to a predator lying in wait. Then came the footsteps, tentative and deliberate, drawing nearer to the coffin.

Vincent's hand closed around Cerberus as he awaited the inevitable. Then there was shuffling, followed by hands grasping at the coffin lid. Anticipating the intruder's move, Vincent beat them to the punch⏤flinging open the door.

"Who dares disturb me?" he demanded, his voice hollow with bitter anger.

With a blur of his crimson cape, the coffin lid was cast aside. Vincent sprang up, exhibiting a swiftness not felt in years, aiming his gun directly at the intruder's head.

Two slitted green eyes widened in response. It was as good as a bucket of ice dunked over Vincent's head. He faltered, a screen of memories flooding back into his mind's eye like a highlight reel of his sins, one after the other, each a painful flash: Lucrecia—Hojo—Jenova—Sephiroth.

Sephiroth.

For a moment, Vincent failed to notice how much he had grown. The silver strands framing his face and the glassy green eyes mirrored that of the infant he had last seen so many years ago. But now he was a man, appearing utterly lost.

Vincent kept his gun leveled, and Sephiroth made no move for a weapon. He simply stood there, his hollow gaze framed by dark circles beneath his eyes.

"I'm… Sephiroth," he uttered, his voice small enough to startle Vincent into lowering the gun.

Vincent's breath came heavy, a thin sheen of sweat forming beneath his bandana. He stepped back, forcing himself to truly see Lucrecia's son. A wave of anguish gnawed at his insides, raw and undeniable, threatening to drag him under had he ever been buried.

Sephiroth bore her likeness: her chin, her lips, her cheeks. He was hers. She stood before him again… looking unwell.

Vincent rushed forward before Sephiroth could collapse. As Sephiroth sank to his knees, a quiet cry of pain escaping him, Vincent caught him, feeling the bones beneath his gloves as he grasped Sephiroth's wrist.

He was malnourished, probably burdened by a weight that had reduced him from his former strength. He needed help, and urgently. Vincent helped him to his feet, wrapping an arm around his back for support.

And for a fleeting moment, he held Sephiroth as he once saw him as a baby, and everything felt right. This time, he vowed, he would make sure of it.

Hours later, Cloud entered their shared room at the inn with Zack. His troubled expression was evidently told from the crease on his brow, which was the first thing Zack noticed when Cloud closed the door and leaned against it.

"What's wrong?" Zack asked, closing his book and sitting up.

Cloud paced further into the room, his lips a thin line. "I… didn't know Sephiroth had a father."

Zack rose, the hair on the back of his neck standing with him. "You saw Sephiroth? Where? When did he come back?"

Cloud appeared equally stunned, but he had a tale to tell. "Just now. There was another man with him… really tall, kinda looked like a vampire."

Zack's jaw dropped. "Is Sephiroth alright? Does he need us? Man, he must be a wreck after staying holed down in that library for a damn week."

Cloud shook his head. "I offered to help them up the stairs, but they managed. Sephiroth seems… lost? Confused? I showed him to Sephiroth's room, and they went there. I think he's taking care of him."

Zack collapsed onto the bed, utterly flummoxed. "Who is he? Where did he come from? Does Sephiroth know him?"

So many questions flooded Zack's speech, and Cloud had but one answer to encompass them all.

"I asked for his name, but he didn't say," Cloud admitted. "He only mentioned that he was Sephiroth's father."

#ff7 #ffvii #sephiroth #ffvii crisis core #final fantasy vii #ff7 crisis core #vincent valentine #writing #zack fair #cloud strife

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sunnyseungup · 5 months

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Hyunjin fic recs 2

stray kids | Hwang Hyunjin

masterlist | part 1

[ updated 240228 ]

5:15 am { f } @dreamyyeosang

cliche meetcutes { f } 0,9k @chvrrycola

04 sharing haring a bed series { f2l, s } @skzdarlings

Ice { mafia au, strangers2l; a, s, f } 4,5k @healinghyunjin

Sheer good looks aside though…you’d seen his face on the news. What was his name? You remembered that it was something elegant, soft on the lips - a name that didn’t seem to fit the cruel, hardened mafioso it belonged to.

It was only when those cold icy eyes locked with yours, gaze chilling even from all the way across the bar, that it finally came to mind.

Hwang Hyunjin.

kinktober day five { f2l; s } 2,5k @gimmeurtmi

uni student hyunjin but make it art

9:02 A.M { f } @forlix

Read between the lines { f } 0,5k @inkelea

Making out in a car { s } @astraystayyh

are you bored yet? { insecure y/n; a, f } @ebbaskz

“but i can’t help from asking ‘are you bored yet?’ ”

I’ll make those insecurities disappear { a, f, s } @lotus-dly

Taste { s } @moonjxsung

Sunday’s Paradigm { f2l, college; f } 2,6k @sunboki

He was a cold person. Spiteful and brash to all people too close, scared to let his walls down. Except, to him, you’re a spectacle. A classmate he realizes he can’t exactly find reason to dislike while he sketched you from his stool in the art room.

The deal. @hyunedew

the one where you accidentally summon the king of hell in your pursuit to pass your class.

Pendulum { f, a, s } 1,2k @1-800-shedevil

You visit Hyunjin on the night of his big art exhibit intent on closing this chapter of your life but he's not willing to let go that easily.

Say yes to me { f } @astraystayyh

after your seven minutes in heaven, hyunjin wants to plan out how he'll finally confess to you. except you come knocking on the door of his rented cabin unannounced. at 10:53 pm. the perfect time for love, he comes to learn.

Bound to You { Cerberus, Goddess, Greek Mythology; f, s } 4,3k @winter-dayz

“What are we?” { f } @jinhyun

Drunken with a sense of love { drunken confessions, fake dating } 7,1k @hanibalistic

you and hyunjin got drunk at different times, and you two took care of each other similarly.

Thinking about how attentive hyunjin would be when you’re sick { f } @seungminhour

Christmas Eve with Hwang Hyunjin { f } @agi-ppangx

Eight days of Christmas carols - day 4 { f } @rachalixie

Pussy agenda with Hyunjin { s } @fluffylino

Sigma kappa zeta’s olympic level beer pong team { + Innie x reader; s } 7,2k @/skzms

it's the last frat party before winter break and you, hyunjin and jeongin have a title to defend. who knows where it might lead (we do, it leads to the three of you smoking weed and fucking in jeongin's room)

9mitm { s } @straykeedz

Babysitter.com { single dad Hyune; s, f } @mnwrld

hyunjin's whole life changed when his daughter was born--it was the single best day of his life. but parenting was harder than he thought it would be, especially when he also needed to work to be able to provide for the light of his life. maybe a little help wouldn't hurt? where else could he look but the notorious 'babysitter.com' ?

Series

devil by the window { DemonxAngel; s } 3k @berryjoong

you’re an angel, hyunjin’s a demon, and you’re both after the same soul. you hate each other, but you just can’t stay away from him.

part two { f, a ,s } 6,4k

the strange man of monterrey manor ( series ) { vampire au; f, s, a } @quokkacore

chapter one: a marriage most foul

chapter two: voices that wail in the night

chapter three: a solution to the issue at hand (m) [final]

Make Love, Not Porn { s } @charmercharm3r

You crave a life of normalcy, he craves you. And he'd do anything to keep you, even if you're for the world to see.

Play Time 3,8k

Heat Signature 5,9k

Puppeteer 4,3k

Hi, My Name Is 7,7k

Sunday 6,7k

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Boyfriend texts @like-a-diamondinthesky

Boyfriend texts @gyuworm

Note: please let me know if the links are not working ! I’ll try to fix them as soon as possible ^^

#stray kids #stray kids masterlist #stray kids fluff #stray kids smut #stray kids angst #hwang hyunjin #hyunjin angst #hyunjin smut #hyunjin fluff #stray kids recs

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bagog · 5 months

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N7 Month, 2023 - Day 21: Omni-tool

Continuing Mshenko drabbles in the Shepard museum.

More people were milling about in the Shepard Exhibit. The Reaper War wing was the reason most people came to visit the Alliance Military History Museum, and the museum knew it. The architecture of the place basically bent the crowds toward the popular wing, and the exhibits themselves were designed to facilitate those crowds and still offer each visitor an experience that felt personal.

“Do you suppose when this exhibit travels, every museum it goes too is gonna be this big?” Kaidan whispered.

“…this exhibit travels?” Shepard turned his head, eyes wide but brow heavy, looking at Kaidan overtop his sunglasses.

“Yes,” Kaidan snorted. “It’s been in the Smithsonian, Pathanaxx Provincial, the British Museum…”

“I thought it lived here,” Shepard’s expression was growing stony. “It at least makes sense here. What’s my armor doing hanging in a salarian natural history museum?”

“Attracting visitors by the millions,” Kaidan hissed conspiratorially, turning Shepard by the shoulders to show him how many people were now, at this very moment, gawking at his armor.

“This couldn’t feel any stranger.”

“I’ll take that bet, look over here,” Kaidan took his hand and led him to a wall of alcoves. Before Shepard could read the plaque, his audio-tour began to speak.

“Essential to every soldier, the omni-tool has seen use on the frontier and the front-lines for almost a decade. Commander Shepard’s omni-tool would have not only have been by his side day-to-day (from sending and logging comm signals, to processing messages, to reminding the Commander his schedule), but also on the battle field modifying his arsenal.

In these alcoves, you can access a copy of Commander Shepard’s authentic omni-tool. Fee free to scroll through the battle data taken during every battle of the Reaper War in which Commander Shepard took part. Listen to the famous comms recordings that signaled the turn of the tide in real time! ‘Spectre Access Granted’ to read the messages from the Council during the Citadel Coup! See what mods Shepard used to win the war!

Due to high traffic, we ask that you please keep your experience with the Commander Shepard Omni-Tool installation to a maximum of ten minutes.”

Shepard didn’t even respond, casting a side-eye towards Kaidan, who may or may not have noticed it before dragging Shepard toward one of the alcoves. Still ahead of the morning’s traffic, it wasn’t hard for them to find an unoccupied alcove. There was a cylindrical, rigid sleeve mounted tastefully on a pedestal within the enclosure, a sign indicating you should put your arm through the sleeve.

“Well?” Kaidan said, smiling/

“’Well’ what?” Shepard scoffed. “You’re the one who wanted to come in here.”

“It’s gotta be you, c’mon!”

Shepard rolled his eyes, but put his arm through the cylinder. A familiar orange haptic interface of an omni-tool glittered to life around his forearm. It was tastefully dim inside the alcove, and Kaidan removed his dark glasses to huddle closer to the interface.

“Well, it looks like my old home screen…” Shepard tapped interface and called up the menu.

“Look,” Kaidan pointed gingerly. There was writing on the home screen, dimmer orange than the rest, nestled in one corner.

Commander Shepard’s omni-tool was destroyed in the Crucible explosion, this recreation is an imprint of that omni-tool from several days before the battle of London.

“How about that?” Kaidan grinned. “What imprint are they talking about, I wonder?”

“Cronos Station? EDI would have backed up all ship networks before the battle with the Cerberus Fleet.” Shepard scrolled through the data logs. There was a log of all comms he’d received in the last six months of the war, there was telemetry data on various battlefields, maps coded in from planets where Shepard’s war effort had taken him. An idea struck him, “I think I have something to show you, actually.”

“Oh?”

Shepard quickly navigated to his notes page, finding the way surprisingly familiar, given he hadn’t touched the interface in years.

His notes page was blank.

“Hmm,” Shepard frowned. “I… I guess they didn’t transfer everything.”

“You gotta figure they’d go through and at least remove all the top-secret and personal stuff, huh?”

“I guess so…”

“What is it you were hoping to find?”

“A letter I wrote to you. I could’ve sworn I typed it out on my omni-tool before Cronos Station.” He looked up at Kaidan, “I thought I lost my chance to give it to you when the Crucible went off. Was just me talking about how I feel about you.”

Kaidan smiled, a warmth in his eyes. His voice was rich and deep when he finally spoke. “That’s… that’s really sweet, Shepard.” He leaned forward and they kissed above the orange glow. “Guess they couldn’t leave a love note in a museum exhibit.”

“I didn’t ever think I’d see that letter again and now that I can’t get it back, I’m upset.” He slipped his arm out of the haptic display and it disappeared. Before he could exit the alcove, Kaidan took his elbow. Kaidan put his own arm into the sleeve and the interface reappeared.

“Here’s how I know how you feel about me,” Kaidan said softly. It took him seconds to get the hang of Shepard’s home screen and quickly find the data he was looking for. “Look,”

“What is that?” Shepard stared, numbers, names…

“Hardsuit data from your fire team, based on mission. Look:” Kaidan let the screen scroll. ‘K. Alenko’ was at the top of the hardsuit data list for every encounter of the late war. “I was with you the whole time. Look, I’m all over, here!” He used both hands to gently take Shepard’s face inside his raised hood, with the haptic interface dimmed, he stared at Shepard. “And I will always be here. With you. I knew how you felt about me then, and I know now.”

Shepard didn’t know what to say, so he let Kaidan kiss him deeply.

“ExCUSE me!” Came the trilling alto of a young salarian voice. Kaidan and Shepard leapt apart and fumbled for their dark glasses. “If you’re just going to use the kiosks to make-out, please try not to stay past the time limit, hmmmmmm?”

They made hasty apologies and slinked out of the alcove.

#n7 month #n7month #mass effect #fanfic #mshenko

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fbj723 · 8 months

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certified delulu post about nocti

a.n. this'll be a compilation of thoughts from my initial reactions to sands of wrath to his voicelines to literally everything about him. THIS WILL HEAVILY BE A NOCTI X SKK!READER KIND OF THING because i'm all in for a lil self insert to feed my delulu visions. also as a heads up i did read the story using google translate so if i quote anything it's basically what google translate told me but i edited it to make some grammatical sense. and yes there will be spoilers

a lot of context will be left out so if you don't wanna be confused by names check out this lore doc that gives a summary of er-5 or pgr lore in general, this post just talks about er-5 lol

EXHIBIT A: TRIGUN AU

have you seen trigun (ESPECIALLY trimax) cause if you have this makes so much more sense

noctis is vash and nigel is knives

both are brothers and have almost opposite ideologies

i did think of wolfwood and livio as another option but nigel does fit a bit closer to resembling knives

VASHWOOD (where nocti is vash and skk is ww (or the other way round, honestly either still works)

nocti: but you must promise me that you won’t die before i come back! no…. you’re not allowed to die even after i come back! i will definitely find a way to save you!

skk: of course, partner…..

this had me in TEARS I WAS NOT READY

nocti fist bumping you just made me think of this scene with vash and meryl

HE ALSO CALLS YOU PARTNER AS HE FIST BUMPS YOU the way i had this realization so late into writing all this

sands of wrath setting literally looks like a place you’d find in no man’s land

nocti’s voiceline telling you to smile more, similar to ww telling vash to smile more (and i mean their genuine smile, not the fake one they use in front of people)

EXHIBIT B: NOCTI AND SKK ARE MARRIED

they are married and own a bar together hear me out—

you two enter a town in which neither of you are welcome because you’re both from babylonia, the mayor decides to put you two in a hotel room till the harvest festival is over

you two are in separate beds, but neither of you can sleep, so you two do what any pair of roommates would do—

—have a 6 hr "light conversation" :D

first actual convo with nocti, you both take turns to ask questions about why they’re here, what’s going on, etc

nocti asks why you trust him so easily, you respond with “it’s intuition” which is a response nocti seemed to like

you also state how you hope he returns to cerberus and fall asleep. nocti in a way states he also wishes to go back to cerberus and sleeps as well

at some point nocti leaves the hotel room to find demont, who is the reason you two ended up working together in the first place, but there was an attack by hetero creatures and nocti swiftly got rid of them

after talking to the mayor, max, about wanting to be just a resident in town, he takes you to a bar, in which that’s where you find nocti

ya know he could’ve talked about ANYTHING and his drunk ass decided to talk about HOW HE PROTECTED YOU??? COINCIDENCE??? I THINK NOT

you find nocti and he offers his hand out to you to dance with him, you reluctantly agreed and you two end up break dancing together

this was him proposing to you i’m just sayin—

the night passes and you two begin living your lives as residents of new oakley

when he first calls you partner, it was originally solely because temporarily they’re no longer considered members of babylonia, and so to fit in with the whole wild west type style, nocti refers to you as “partner” and you agree to do the same to him

first time it’s used outside your interaction with him was when nocti has small talk with vann

vann: you’ll only obey orders from that commandant, right? these are the rules of the sky garden

nocti: i don’t listen to anyone’s orders, but if it’s a request from my partner, that’s a different matter

NOCTI WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT LIKE WE’RE ROMANTICALLY PARTNERS?????

this isn’t the first time he does something like that he’s very consistent about it

truly a devoted man

also “MY partner” ????? he also pretty much refers to you as his partner throughout the whole story i got whiplashed when we were back to being called skk in his affection story

after you and nocti find demont there’s a small good cop bad cop scene (which i found hilarious), but at the end demont couldn’t reveal much vital information due to dying from poison

nocti realizes this poison is something only nigel can control, and stormed out into the center of town in a fit of rage trying to find nigel

calming him down and telling him to retreat to not make a big scene was practically impossible, that is till you shout “trust me— partner!!” and nocti finally calms down and retreats

HELLO??? CALLING HIS NAME HE DIDN'T BAT AN EYE BUT BEING CALLED PARTNER MADE HIM ACTUALLY LISTEN??

i'm absolutely speechless

you two cook up a plan to find out what’s really going on +bonus hand holding at the end

your part was to just do your job as a bartender while nocti handles the investigating, and eventually nigel shows up

nigel asks what’s the difference between a human and a construct, you respond in a way a bartender would explain it, but nigel wants an answer from you as a commandant rather than a bartender

he ends up poisoning you and leaves, nocti arrives a little while later after discovering what the plan is for this town in the next few days

i remembered that before we split up i told him not to be reckless, but in the end i was the one that was careless and ended up in this miserable condition. i no longer had the strength to stand, so i could only slide down to the edge of the bar. at the beginning, i said big words that would make nocti return to cerberus in an honored manner… i didn’t expect to be the one to make him sad for his companions

skk: i'm sorry…. nocti….

nocti: HEY! don’t say such depressing things to me so quickly

nocti then enters a panicked state of not knowing what to do cause skk is poisoned and there's no known cure for it

nocti gritted his teeth. he didn't even know how to give first aid. he regretted not learning more about first aid from vera before

GOT ME SOBBING, EMOTIONALLY DAMAGED, SHATTERED INTO PIECES

you tell nocti to go help the mayor cause if the mayor dies the town will fall

nocti is in pure disbelief that at a time like this you're more worried about someone else and he refused to leave you here

after some reassuring nocti goes ahead and takes care of what's going on in town and immediately after checks if you’re still ok

he hears a painful scream in his communication device and he SPRINTS back to where you are and finds both vera and 21 there attempting to take care of you

21 comments on how nocti is a lot more powerful ITS BECAUSE HIS LOVER IS DYING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE WANTS TO SAVE THEM BUT DOESN'T KNOW HOW

there’s an encounter with the purifying force, wanting nocti dead since they believe he’s the cause of their aircraft crashing

you tell them that it isn’t his fault and after essentially a stare down between the purifying force and cerberus, the purifying force leaves you all alone since they trust you (thank the overlords for you working with them before and gaining a good work relationship)

you, cerberus, max, and vann think of a plan on what to do next now that you all know where nigel might be located

nocti will go and fight nigel alone since it’s the reason he even came here in the first place while the rest defend the town

you establish a m.i.n.d. connection with nocti, which in turn gives him the poison as well since you’re basically almost a walking corpse at this point

the fact that nocti, with NO hesitation, established a connection with you makes it LOUD AND CLEAR that he will stick with you no matter what even if it leads to his death

cue another hand holding scene, and nocti leaves

vera and 21 get very VERY concerned over your health, yet you’re still adamant about keeping the connection with nocti

21: they want to keep a deep m.i.n.d connection w nocti

vera: DO YOU WANT TO DIE?! if you're deeply connected, your consciousness will be completely bound to him…. if he dies, you also die

skk: he… needs….. me…..

this is LITERALLY a moment where one cares more about their partner THAN THEIR OWN WELL-BEING ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

transitioning over to nocti’s side, he finally confronts nigel

nigel mentions that in order to cure the commandant he needs to be killed, but just HEARING that name come out of his mouth made nocti more full of rage than he’s ever had

this part alone SCREAMED nocti being like "you do NOT have the right to say my partner's name after what you did to them, i am no longer doing this for myself, i'm doing this FOR THEM"

so anyways nocti gets his ass beat 💀💀, nigel lecturing him that he’s still confused and is only driven by anger

the cutscene if you wanna watch it

"commandant… you must be disappointed with me…. damn it… are you mad at me? haha.. me too…. leave everything to me from now on. let’s make that bastard taste our true wrath, partner..."

“i can’t die here yet…. my partner is still waiting for me to come back.”

similar to 21's comment earlier, nigel notices how nocti's steps aren't noisy and chaotic anymore, but steady, firm, and powerful now BECAUSE HIS PARTNER IS ROOTING FOR HIM TO WIN AND HE NEEDED THAT BOOST OF ENCOURAGEMENT... THAT'S WHY YOU WERE SO ADAMANT WITH KEEPING A M.I.N.D. CONNECTION WITH NOCTI

this whole fight scene had me SCREAMING

“my partner and i will use all our strength… to beat you to pieces”

if you still haven’t gotten it DO YOU SEE IT NOW??? HIS MAN IS FULLY DRIVEN TO HIS FULL POTENTIAL BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU AND WANTS TO.. NO... NEEDS TO COME BACK TO YOU

nocti wins and nigel essentially retreats but with a new found respect for his brother

but before he retreats he asks nocti the same question he asked you: what’s the difference between humans and constructs

he gives his own answer and guesses yours (since he was rather confident enough with knowing a lot on how you think) and it boils down to them having the same answer but different font

the place nocti and nigel were fighting in collapses, forcing nocti to leave and never see nigel again

you and nocti are back in the hotel room recovering, and a few locals come in to beg nocti to stay and not go back to babylonia

“but i made a promise with my partner, i want to return to cerberus in a dignified manner…”

after more silly banter everyone leaves you and nocti alone to rest, but neither of you can sleep

nocti brings up the question nigel asked him, and you gave him your actual answer, which is pretty close to what he guessed

nocti: haha… just as i thought, i know you better

skk: but maybe i know you better. for example, what you look like when you’re drunk

nocti: WHAT?! DID I DO ANYTHING WEIRD WHEN I WAS DRUNK???

skk: forget it, stop talking, i’m sleepy

nocti: HEY!! TELL ME NOW!!!!

he’s a literal blushing mess after you told him you saw him drunk

your honor this is literally a newly wed couple

gotta of course mention his affection story so read here for a summary of that as well

the way he ONLY uses the best quality and probably most expensive ingredients to make your food

nocti giving a damn about this whole pancake thing only because YOU care

LIKE HE'S PUTTING HIS PREFERENCES ASIDE TO MAKE YOU HAPPY

MORE HAND HOLDINGGG this time in the form of you helping him mold the pancake shape +bonus nocti blushing

both literally wanting to do the whole working at a bar thing together again in the future that is like PEAK ENDGAME for their marriage

+bonus boss being supportive and naming the new drink and dish that was made after you and nocti

the whole affection story just very clearly and vividly plays out nocti and skk working together flawlessly at the bar like their chemistry was SO GOOD !!!!

very sorry for any grammar errors i'm very hyperfixated on him rn and i needed to scream about it somewhere

anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk i will now think of nocti in a wedding dress /hj

#fbj rambles #punishing gray raven #pgr noctis #pgr commandant #pgr noctis x reader #i was NOT expecting to write this much omg #im very sane abt him can you tell #this was like 2k words wtf #most sane nocti simp LOL

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thewarinourstarwars · 2 months

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"WIse men know the dark is right / but because their words had forked no lightning / they do not go gentle into that good night." -Dylan Thomas

A Date With Death MC: Autumn Augustine

This version of the MC of A Date With Death is a mortician!

Her clients might be dead, but her social life certainly isn't! There's nothing Autumn doesn't like more than going out to a slam poetry night at the local coffeehouse or the opening of a museum exhibit or a concert downtown.

She has plenty of friends and business associates she enjoys being around, and unlike my other OC, Lila Faust, Autumn has dated before, many times

Autumn is somewhat of a pretentious snob, and she'd tell you so herself. She enjoyed college and academia and almost ended up a professor, but felt a calling to work with the dead. . .

Her dog is named Cerberus and he is spotted :)

Autumn I play more as a tsundere to equal Grimmy, as opposed to Lila's very open and sincere nature.

Autumn prefers tea to coffee, but is a snob conessieur of both

#a date with death #ocs #a date with death mc #autumn #my original characters

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12pt-times-new-roman · 1 year

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the one time I can't catch a stream is when we get the biggest lore drop about the fucking moon, I swear to god---

There are Judicators patrolling around the Yios Seminary, accompanying a representative from Vasselheim. Presumably, their presence -- or the presence of whoever they're guarding -- has to do with the texts stolen by the Grim Verity.

The Judicators are humanoid creatures formed from once-mortal souls transformed by the rituals of the gods to become weapons for them. In peacetime, they are wardens, bodyguards, and hunters in and for Vasselheim's high temples; in wartime, they are fearsome and near-immortal warriors.

Dr. Baryn Vestisho, who specializes in Exandrian history from the times of the Founding and the Schism, was one of the people who stole the documents from Vasselheim. She had discovered a "trail" of information leading to the texts, and assumes that the Judicators are there because of her.

She and Professor Kai are friends with Planerider Ryn, and they -- along with the Hells -- took a teleportation circle to Ryn's place of study in the elemental plane of fire.

"Exaltants" are Ruidus-born people who exhibit a particularly strong connection to the moon, and begin to develop certain capabilities related to it. Imogen's markings are similar to others', including her mother. The Grim Verity was spearheading the development and expansion of the Omen Archive before the Paragon's Call interrupted their funding and shut the project down.

I get the feeling that Ryn would've gotten along great with the Mighty Nein.

Her primary area of study is with the planes and their movements, both within Exandria's cosmology and outside of it. She has discovered inconsistencies in the way the leylines have been moving -- the movement seemed to correlate with bursts of energy that coincided with Ruidus' flares. She also discovered abnormalities in Exandria's parallel planes, the Feywild and the Shadowfell, specifically with things being built and tested there.

The texts -- some of the oldest books in Exandria -- spoke of two deities that have been forgotten by history: Ethedok, the Endless Shadow, and Vordo, the Fate Shaper. The former oversaw the domains of darkness and winter, while the latter was the god of fate and order. They were destroyed before the Schism, but Ethedok was more of the evil-aligned type, while Vordo was more neutral.

The text also spoke of the creation of Ruidus. It was created by the gods during the Founding because they were afraid of something from beyond the stars. They called it Predathos, which resisted their miracles and hunted them, spawning its own twisted life as it did. It devoured the two forgotten gods, and afterwards, the gods struck a deal with the primal elementals to seal away Predathos and send it far into the dark, but it clung to Exandria and became Ruidus; they thought that spinning tales about Ruidus would keep attention away from it, which did work for a very long time, until the flares started happening. This tracks with the information about the "otherworldly influence" that started leaking into the world that was mentioned in Call of the Netherdeep.

Otohan was once an extremely devout follower of the Matron of Ravens, but when the war ended, she lost that faith. She's also an exaltant, a "scion."

Droves of Ruidus-born people are being drawn to Marquet, to the Hellcatch Valley specifically. Kai thinks that, through the Ruidus-born, Predathos is amassing anchors to Exandria, which could allow it to break free.

Liliana was extremely powerful, and the first true exaltant the Grim Verity was able to study and work with; she volunteered to be experimented on and with, but grew frustrated with the Verity's inability to provide answers. Otohan found her, as did the Cerberus Assembly, and her personal need for answers overrode her better judgement.

As Predathos went about its "hunting," it left forms of twisted life in its wake -- Kai theorizes that it has continued to do so within its prison, and life has evolved on Ruidus concurrently with life on Exandria, hence the city.

The Cerberus Assembly and Otohan have been building identical devices in both the Feywild and the Shadowfell, in the exact same place: where both planes overlap with the Hellcatch Valley and Ira's device (the same place the Ruidus-born are flocking to).

That same site is an excavation site that was commandeered and bought by the Cerberus Assembly three months ago (before that, it was a dig led by the Seminary). Underneath it is a pre-Calamity ruin, the site of a ritual during a solstice many centuries ago. The thing was constructed to be a lightning rod of sorts, a channeling point for this solstice energy; it appears to have ties to the Tishtan culture, who were once a nomadic, magic-obsessed, Founding-era society who went around building ritual sites. Not much is known about them because they mysteriously vanished with little record.

Using this information, Ryn has proved that leylines move in a very slow cyclical pattern, rather than randomly.

There are leylines traversing all three of the Prime Material echoes. The Hellcatch Valley is the only place during this particular solstice where a nexus point will overlap in the same place on all three planes. The Exandrian site seems to be the central focus of the Assembly and Otohan, while the site on the Shadowfell is the least guarded of the three (likely because the plane is dangerous enough as it is).

Ryn has heard of Morri. She's a guardian of one of the fanes of the Feywild, a keeper of "one of the hearts of the land." Fearne was left with Morri because the Unseelie Court was looking for her parents, so it's unlikely Morri is working with the Unseelie. However, Ryn notes that Morri is powerful enough to manipulate the time dilation of the Feywild, so if the Hells wanted to go that route it could take them a very short time on the Prime Material Plane.

There are two ways to avoid the time dilation effects of the Feywild: have an archfey grant passage back to the Prime Material Plane (like Vox Machina did with Artagan), or get the help of someone with a "strong enough life-tether to the realm" to facilitate an exit. Morri would be more of the latter.

Sending to Morri: "Hello, Fate-Stitcher. Here with Fearnie bear-cub-banana. She wants to come visit, desperately. On a time crunch. Can you get us back without the wibble-wobbles?" "Oh, well it's nice to hear you, whoever you are. Please tell my little bear-banana baby to come visit. I can help, always." She has a raspy Scottish accent, and a tone very much like Isharnai's.

So essentially, the Bells Hells have three options. They could go back to the Hellcatch Valley and try to figure out what's going on there with Imogen's mother as their "person on the inside" -- the Exandrian site is the most well-guarded, though, and there's the possibility of running into Otohan again (or, worse, Ludinus). They could go to the Shadowfell, and while that's the most lightly guarded site, it's also the most dangerous plane to go to, and they have no way to really get there. Lastly, they could go to the Feywild, where they'd have Morrigan's help to avoid the time dilation and the Unseelie but still run the risk of encountering Otohan, the Cerberus Assembly, or Yu's people.

#critical role #critical role liveblog #critical role spoilers #note watches c3 #critical role campaign 3 #critical role c3 #ruidus #planerider ryn

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nyahkmenrah · 4 months

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Things I have overheard the other alters say about my source:

“You’re from that gay ass museum movie?”

“Ok Jedediah brokeback mountain kinnie smith”

“There ain’t a hetero in that entire museum”

“So he’s a himbo?” (About Lancelot)

“Those jackals that guard your exhibit are like… Egyptian Cerberus”

“PUPPY!” (About the jackals)

“I wonder if Octavius had lead poisoning”

“Step on them like a bug if they misbehave” (about the minis)

“Rexy is basically the museum therapy dog expect he launches you across the room”

“I would fistfight Dexter” “Dexter would win”

“Autism stare” (about me, they’re right btw)

“They’re all wax figures or statues right? So none of them are wearing underwear” “WHAT made you think of that?”

Followed by:

“Ahk did they mummify you with whatever the ancient version of panties are?” (It’s a loincloth and yes they did I’m a pharaoh damnit I was dressed like one)

“Rip to Larry Daley but I’m different I’d have roared back at Rexy to assert my dominance not ran away”

“Do y’all have organs?” (I mean I don’t they’re in jars. Can’t speak for the others though)

#endo safe #fictive blog #introject blog #introject #fictive #natm fictive #ahkmenrah fictive #ahkmenrah introject #night at the museum #natm

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svturn-exe · 10 months

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woah a beast

some info under the cut vv (a lil long btw)

🖤 In a resting state, geists appear identical to a mundane human. The geist has a primarily omnivorous diet, which it supplements with human blood. A geist can survive without ingesting human blood, but it is not recommended.

🖤 The geist’s main strength is the ability to manifest a physical representation of its spirit. The physical manifestation partially engulfs sections of the geist’s body and functions as both armor and a weapon.

🖤 The spirit coat is wispy, flame-like, and varies in color, but will typically be blue, ranging from sky blue to cyan to indigo. Appearance of the physical manifestation also varies more substantially with the “type”. They are as follows:

> Tiger/Mantle | Area: primarily upper-body | Appearance is similar to a mantle of sorts, with a spiritual manifestation of an animal head - usually feline-like - as a “hood”. The “mantle” itself extends to cover the shoulders, shoulder blades, and encases the arms completely. Each arm ends in five large claws that are capable of inflicting considerable damage. Occasionally, the mantle will extend further down the back, ending in a long cat-like tail. > Cerberus/Boxer | Area: primarily the arms | The spirit coat covers the arms, each ending in a ghostly animal head, typically canine in appearance. The spirit typically doesn’t extend much further than the arms, spreading to the neck and above the shoulder blades at most. Boxer-type geists are quick, and have an acute sense of smell. > Dragon/Winged | Area: primarily the torso | Dragon geists’ coats exhibit a large pair of spectral wings and a tail, appearing dragon-like in nature. The geist is capable of using the wings to fly, though sustained long-distance flight may prove difficult. Winged geists are noted to be very agile.

🖤 Geists that do not ingest enough blood or that don’t consume blood at all are often sickly. The affected geist becomes pale and lethargic, and will find itself unable to manifest its spirit. In the case of the geist, blood fuels the spirit, not the body, but neglect of the spirit still has adverse effects on the physical body.

🖤 Geists that consume blood regularly experience harsher “starvation” consequences than geists that are used to going without. The affected geist becomes weak and sickly quickly, and finds itself unable to manifest its spirit a lot sooner. Binge feeders may find themselves experiencing additional “withdrawal” symptoms as well, such as migraines, insomnia, and tooth aches.

#svturn's art #svturn's ocs #ocverse: love and revenge #oc: l&r cain #not 100% on their design so i'm not showing wht they look like under the mantle fjknlkjNVKLJSD #but! this is cain #peep my gay ass worldbuilding bro

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hellguarded-moved · 11 months

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// some gays for june ft. @hellhunted

#my art.#exhibits. ( “CERBERUS” );#relations. ( “CERBERUS” );#excerpts. ( “NAOTO” ); I will be your gravity / I will stay and never leave.#// i've reached a point where i'm confident in my art again so that's all i've been doing #// gjkdjkgfkd #// but i love they....... i care them sm #// also look i drew hands.✨

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mildsevenprime · 1 year

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ファミカセ展　2022　ケルベロ神社 My Fami-case Exhibition 2022 ：　Cerberus Shirne

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tentamissilebrat · 2 years

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So I don’t know the canon on this, but I like to think that Cerberus in the Obey Me universe is definitely Lucifer’s dog, but he’s also sort of the family dog.

At least, according to Lucifer.

Now, Cerberus is definitely, 100%, Lucifer’s dog. So, on the weekly chore calendar, I’m sure Lucifer has already signed himself up for most of that feeding. Cerberus is his dog, his responsibility, he will feed the dog.

But it’s such an obvious punishment to make his brother’s do it. Especially Mammon. Bro gambles away some antique desk Lucifer liked and set that boy up for a month of feeding the dog. Mammon swears that’s how he got that tiny sliver of a scar near his wrist. He’s like “that dog is nasty. That dog is ugly. MC stay away from that dog”

(You will not, in fact, stay away from the dog.)

So yeah definitely, but I also thought how Lucifer maybe hoped that it would endear his brothers to Cerberus too? Like that Dad thing where they make you do a chore you hate in the hopes that you’ll see how important it is that you learned how to do it when you’re an adult? Not sure how often that one works, but I find it rarely does. Exhibit A: the boys.

But I’d like to think Cerberus knows them by smell fairly well. All of them really, not one boy can keep himself out of trouble. Not one boy can go three days without starting, causing, or saying shit. So they’ve all been on dog feeding duty

And I imagine any dog loving MCs or MCs who specifically have cool headcanons about MC having a new big, three headed doggo to adore, will definitely want time on the chore wheel for feeding the dog.

Which surprises Lucifer!! He’s like “MC, Cerberus is under my care, thus it is imperative that I feed him.”

And MC is like “Yeah yeah, whoppedy do, you let the other boys do it”

“They seem to think it’s some kind of punishment to have to feed him—“

“Cool, so it’s a punishment then?”

MC just walks over to the nearest table and knocks a vase to floor

Looks at Lucifer

“Alright, there. Punish me daddy”

Lucifer of course let’s them feed Cerberus if they’re that interested, far be it from him to stop them.

(He does punish them for breaking the vase by reimbursing him for it. “What? Or it’s not that expensive. Something like 2,736 Grimm give or take? Oh no, don’t worry, I don’t expect you to have it today….but I’ll give you a month because you’re family.”)

And MC bonds with doggo! Because of course MC bonds with doggo! Playing fetch! Tummy rubs! Sicing him on their enemies! The works!!

And the rest of the boys are horrified!!! “No! MC! You don’t know what you’re doing!! It’s a monster!!”

MC, scratching the back of one of six floppy ears, “this is my dog and I love him and you’re just a bunch of weenies”

So, after such insults, they have to go near Cerberus to prove themselves to MC. And when Cerberus starts growling, the boys freezing in place, MC rubs the head of the one who’s growling like “shhhh, shhhh, you’re okay, it’s okay.”

And helps gently guide Cerberus into familiarizing the boys’ scent more, showing the boys that Cerberus does know them!! But the brothers get twitchy and nervous, because this is a big dog that they have not integrated well with in the past.

And Cerberus’s instincts don’t take well to skittish, erratic behavior!!! Cerberus can smell that they’re afraid and animals can attack first in fear that they need to strike and get away. The boys make him just as nervous

But like MC guiding them into it, and Lucifer watches it and takes notes of how MC does it, how MC shows them how to read Cerberus and tell when he’s getting agitated and why.

And Lucifer knocks on their door and is like “I need to know how to do that”

“I’ve seen you with Cerberus, you obviously can read him”

“I don’t know how to explain that to my brothers.”

And MC ponders this and starts suggesting things they’ve noticed about the boys. If you have an MC that focuses on learning styles, they can tell him what they know on how to talk and tutor the boys based on how they’ve studied with each of them. Maybe you have an MC who is generally observant and has tips on how they think he could set up dog and brother interactions that could work for everyone involved.

Maybe they even schedule times MC could come in and do defense in case things go wrong (a Bad combination of Satan, Lucifer, and Cerberus doggo time could end catastrophically if that fire isn’t extinguished fast.)

And Lucifer starts really having Cerberus….be the family dog. And everyone is a little easier around this dog that they feel more comfortably hanging around and spoiling and petting. And Cerberus is a lot calmer and generally more loving and protective of the whole family. And he’s still a monster of uncontrollable nightmares, but now he can get tummy rubs from everyone when it’s their turn to feed Cerberus.

Because its no longer a punishment, it’s a reward.

“If, and only if, you all behave, you don’t have to lose the rights to feed Cerberus for a month. Do I make myself clear?”

#obey me swd #obey me #shall we date: obey me #cerberus #family bonding time #thinking about how Cerberus could be a good teachable moment #could really emphasize how much MC helps this family #while not forgetting that it’s not because MC is perfect #but that the family tries to be better for each other #that everyone cares about each other and sometimes #a family is lost and broken but at one point #it’s was built on love #and sometimes you need someone to just help you build the love back up #genuinely love Lucifer the most when he listens to other people and loves his family #it’s a good look for him and you know it’s because he’s trying #UGH ANYWAY SO YEAH I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS

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the-rogue-mockingjay · 11 months

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Oddly enough my biggest struggle as a writer whether I'm operating in fanfic or original works is simply.....that I'm afraid people will judge my characters the same way they judge me in day-to-day life.

I'm not a person who feels emotions by halves. Everything I feel - happiness, anger, fear, hurt, despair, apathy, love - I feel deeply, intensely, and for a long time. I find value and meaning and joy in small simple things most people overlook or disregard (like a particularly pretty flower growing by a sidewalk, or the way a person smiled when I complimented their tattoo or shirt or whatever). And I've been told I'm overreacting to things my whole life- my brother is the worst about it and at least subconsciously looks down on me for being so delighted or so angered by things he (and society in general) deems inconsequential, but I've also been told this by friends, parents, councilors.... On the flip side, I am often unbothered by things that others lose their minds about such as traffic, someone driving slow, or some stranger/cashier/clerk/whatever being less than nice but not outright rude.

In other words, I have no frigging clue what's a "normal" emotional response to something. My ability to gauge it is absolutely busted, if I was ever able to accurately gauge such things to begin with.

When I make a character, more often than not they inherit my intense emotions (e.g., Marian Shepard, Brynja Ryder, and O'ravi Soltholia, among others). And there are some non-OC characters, such as Jaal, Nero from Devil May Cry, Haurchefant, and G'raha Tia, that canonically exhibit this trait as well.

And the nature of stories is that Bad Things Happen. More often than not in these stories the bad things are apocalyptic or otherwise deeply traumatizing, such as Ryder's heart stopping, finding the corpses of people who were vivisected, Shepard dying and waking up in a Cerberus base, the Warrior of Light watching their best friend (and possible lover) die to save them out of nowhere or having to fight an enemy that's possessed one of their dearest friends. More often than not, the fate of the whole damn world rests on the protagonists; if Shepard and WoL were to fail in their respective missions, all life in their galaxies would be wiped out, and if Ryder fails theirs, then that's (to their knowledge) all that remains of the Milky Way civilizations gone and exterminated along with the angara in one fell swoop.

As bad as these things are, as justifiable as it would be for someone to lose their minds about it....when I write about these things and the characters' responses to them, I am consumed by the fear of coming across as melodramatic. I am terrified that people will think my characters (or the characters I'm writing) are WAY overreacting, being overemotional, and for the life of me, I just can't shake this fear. Even if it's irrational, even if it's stupid. I just......good lord.

#it is 100% because of the autism #but this is such a niche problem to have as a writer there is 0 advice about it to be found #in fact i really don't think i've seen anyone else talking about this kind of problem. it's just so darn niche #and it's been years and i still don't have the slightest clue how to handle it. when i ask for help #or ask someone if my works are melodramatic nobody knows how to respond #my best friend just reads my works and tells me 'yeah i think this is a perfectly reasonable way to respond to this situation' and yet #i can never believe him for long.#i just....gosh i really wish i knew how to navigate this. i would share my writing so much more if i wasn't held back by this really odd #and likely unreasonable fear

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