#make it actually feel like a big order destroying event has happened!!!
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some more ideas for the totk rewritten project (botw2);
underground general ideas
i thought about what to theme the underground after, and since its vaguely like underwater in canon i thought id push it much much further, you cant actually dive and while id love that i do want to stay within a certain possible range of it still being a sequel to botw and somewhat based on totk- so im putting the low gravity effect away from the sky and instead in the underground, the ENTIRE underground, that way it is distinctly different in the way you have to play since you gotta work around the low gravity effect, the entire plant life and enemies will also be based on deep sea creatures- anglerfish like ones that half burrow and lure you with their light, those fish (or are they worms?) that hide underground as soon as you step too close, maybe they hide initially but only to make you go closer and try and snatch at you
much more glowy things too, basically everythings got some sort of light on it, there are different creatures flying around that all feature some sort of glow, so there is stuff to see but you cant immediately know what it is, theres a unique kind of plant that when you bother it spews out a dark cloud of spores (kinda like in tp) that dims any light you had; there are some landmarks you can activate or repair with the help of zelda but there is no way to illuminate the entire map and the lil light ferns expire slowly too
i also want it to be way more wet, not full with water but maybe a thin layer of water at most places and some drops from stalactites that fall constantly
there are shadowy ghosts there as well but they CAN aggro (still working on it), either by taking a weapon from their grave or some other things; also considered them or some other enemy that stalks you for some time and the only clue you get is maybe double sound of your steps or something at the very edge of your screen but you can never catch it when looking around (i dont want to make it a horror game but do want the underground to stay as creepy as when you first get down there), something elusive and shadow based that is rarely encountered but stays creepy for longer than the miasma hands sicne it cant get stuck on anything and the only way to be safe is while in the air
maybe some miasma reanimated corpses of ancient shiekah killed when the ancient hyrulean king turned on them (only foudn in the underground in this way; there are others but unposessed in alot of the broken shrines and old laboratories so seeing one suddendly move and crawl after you is probably pretty scary, kinda like the vroken guardians sometimes being still functional)
the dongos are the main friendly animal you can discover there and tame (still working out more details) they can climb around, always emit a little bit of light and the shadow enemy wont latch onto you as long as you are near a dongo, maybe even most enemies will leave you alone if you are riding one, as they are slower than horses, with the exception of gigamas (or a similar enemy ill redesign for that) as they are the natural predator of dongos; when you get to close to one it will react to it and if a fight is initiated it burrows away (you can call it and it comes back to you if you are out of range of that enemy)
tameable animals
since i played skyward sword recently i just realized again how much fun it is to fly on a bird, sicne im already dividing the three map layers a bit more i thought it would be cool to make these layers more distinct, in some part by the tameable animals- the sky has birds (based on dinosaurs), the surface has horses, the underground dongos- neither of them can follow you to one they dont belong and the way to call them switches as you switch layers
im not sure yet if those birds should be ridable or are only able to give you a small boost upwards when you call them
magic bar
so instead of actual batteries i planned to, as i said before, to put that into links shiekah arm prosthetic, and instead of giving you literal battery symbols on the screen it would be a bar right below your health and next to the symbol of the current selected arm ability
krog seeds
a bit more to the krogs- as i said before they are no longer the way to make your pockets bigger- among an armor set i also thought about making the most expensive reward OR the end reward for finding all of them be the eponator zero- maybe it went missing during the cataclysm and maronus (engl. hestu) finds it at some point, so you get your bike back but its locked behind something bigger so you are unlikely to exploit it early on
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(forgot to mention the dragons- im putting them each in one layer of the map- eldra in the underground bc gan is there and youknow, demise coming from the ground and fire being associated with the ground etc, farodra on the surface GREEN etc, and naydra in the sky, bc wisdom and owls and gods and all that weeeeee)
(on a sidenote im also thinking about ditching the building mechanic to some extent since i dont think it fits very well as a whole and it makes it too easy to completely skip stuff- i want the main way to move things or to get around be the hookshot/grappling hook part of links arm; still working on all that though .. so far it does seem likely like it will be much more limited)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#ganondoodles rewrites totk#also since alot of the shrines are now more like bigger caves and less in number i thought about making a broken tower into a mini boss#like a mass of miasma spilling from a hole in the ground like the big one in the gerudo area that wields the tower as a weapon#some of the bigger regional changes i wanted to mix it up alot more without redoing the entire map#so gerudo dessert might be flooded#the zora are dealing with all the water in the region having gone through a crack in the earth leading their area to dry up#rito area isnt just snowed in but in an actual blizzard that coated everything in a thick layer of ice#YES ICE PHYSICS WOOHOO#and made them flee maybe into vah medoh whos unfunctional and resting somewhere else#maybe isntead of floating hyrule castle is sunk into the ground .. tho im not so sure on that yet#.... listen theres so much stuff you could do with world to have it have actual changes#what if satoris mountain was half broken and sunk into the ground but the mountain is still there at night like a spiritual footprint#you know#make it actually feel like a big order destroying event has happened!!!
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Ahsoka s1 ep6
Love how they reminded us of the fact that there are "former imperials working at every level in the new republic" ain't no way they're getting back to the normal galaxy this episode? like bro, dw I didn't forget the New Republic kinda sucks 😂
Deadass thought Ahsoka was gonna spill on her world between worlds experience 💀
Hm, Ahsoka seeing Sabine giving the enemy the map as a fault of her own shortcomings as a teacher when it shows that she really was Anakin's padawan.
Urging Sabine to do what's right and putting feelings aside, while being unable to do that herself and fearing what could happen because of it..... this coming after the episode where Anakin's legacy and Ahsoka's unease with it was explored is 😭😭
Though it is throwing me off that she's still saying the same stuff as before her epithany last episode?
I understand it would be too easy if those fears caused by Anakin's betrayal would be healed after one episode and they probably wanna save that moment for a more exciting scene than her and Huyang sitting in the mouth of a space whale. But it'd have been better if Ahsoka showed that she has progressed in this regard?
I cannot believe they did the cheesiest thing and actually had Huyang say the thing.
This show so corny I love it
Pour one out for the Wolfren people, there was a prison on board lmao
God I hope he keeps his promise, he's a more interesting dark sider if he does
Something about them being so far from civilisation is actually creeping me out....
They were in hyperspace for all of the events of last episode, probably longer, that distance between galaxies is incomprehensible.
If anyone gets stranded or hurt they'd be so far away from help, the typical "fleet arrives to the rescue" at the last second can't happen now.
I don't think it's ever sunk in for me how hopeless Ezra must've felt being stranded here
A signal?!? Really??? That was fast lol
You know, for a literal different galaxy, I'd have expected this planet to look funkier.
Even Dathomir looked more mythical than this
I guess I take back all that dreadful pondering about being stranded far from home in a deserted galaxy cause apparantly there are fucking people living here
ok sure
Poor Sabine, not Jedi enough for Huyang, too Jedi for them witches 😔
I swear to god if they show us another iteration of order 66
I don't think I've ever commented on Shin and Baylan's designs but I love how they almost have a game of thrones fantasy knight vibe about them. Makes sense as this convo suggests they seek glory from the past.
Props to Kevin Kiner, the music is stealing Thrawn's intro scene
Wild guess Im throwing out there, Enoch is Ezra but like ... brainwashed as Savage was
Either that or he is deep undercover as one of those stormtroopers, that def sounds like something he'd do
Bro why there so much familiar kind of typical star wars life on this DIFFERENT galaxy?? 💀
OH HE JUST A BIG LIL PUPPER 🥺🥺
Damn, last episode really felt like clone wars in style and this one really feels like rebels lmao
Shin self identifying as a trained Jedi? Interesting.
Her doubting what Baylan is saying?
Oh?
I cannot wait for Baylan "destroy the past" Skoll to face off against Ahsoka "recently started healing from the wounds of the past" Tano again. I can practically feel the emotional culmination of this show and Ahsoka's character concluding
Oh these creatures are gonna get fridged so bad aren't they?
Ah shucks my wild angsty guess disproven so quickly
Tho Ezra just chilling with a bunch of lil creatures is also very him
They can sense Ahsoka approaching in the whale?¿?¿? That sure is convenient for them
Lmaoooooo Morgan is so angry she's like "sOMEONE FUCKIN KILL THIS DAMN WOMAN ALREADY IVE HAD IT
👏 UP 👏 TO 👏 HERE 👏
WITH HER IMMORTAL BS"
Thrawn upon learning Ahsoka's master was Anakin: "oh, psssht, I know what buttons to push, easy"
#ahsoka#sabine wren#ezra bridger#thrawn#shin hati#baylan skoll#ahsoka series spoilers#ahsoka spoilers#ashowka#sw
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Pixie’s JJK Theories
!! SPOILERS !! (225 included) if u don’t wanna know anything then don’t read <3
Okay so, I’ll try to make these make sense and put them in some sort of order bc I have so many ideas and thoughts they r swimming in my head :):)
Gna preface the whole thing by saying I don’t think Gojo is dead/will die, just from an editing/business perspective (I did 2 years study of being an editor and 5 years of creative writing studies, not an expert or anything so just MY OPINION)
So first theory set:
Who’s gonna kill Sukuna and Kenjaku?
Maki Kills Sukuna
I think that 225 has been a signal that Sukuna CANNOT be defeated/killed by cursed energy or techniques. I don’t know how to describe it best but think of Achilles, an unbeatable hero but he had that one weakness. Now Sukuna’s whole CT/DE is based around weaponry right? There’s literally nobody more talented with weaponry than Maki - it’s been hinted that she’s even surpassed Toji in terms of physical prowess since Mai’s death and the whole heavenly restriction thing. What if, he basically can only be beaten by someone playing his game: a proper fight? Think of it, maki has no CE, no CT, no DE. But she is completely unparalleled with weapons and cursed tools. What if - she’s the antithesis and also the mirror image of him and that’s what could take him down? Also: it would be a mirror of Toji V Gojo.
Gojo & Sukuna = Gods amongst Mortals
Maki & Toji = The Mortals
Toji’s lack of cursed energy and physical abilities also with the inverted spear allowed him to kill Satoru.
What if this will be repeated history with Maki - with something from the Zen’in vault?
If Maki could then save Megumi, then they could work to rebuild the Zen’in clan in their image: modern, fair and open.
That’s one theory anyway since we’ve seen that Sukuna cherishes and admires strength and power.
Theory Two
Choso Kills Kenjaku
OKAY SO Choso’s whole character is family. His whole aim since day one has been his brothers. What if choso kills kenjaku, as his revenge? Noritoshi Kamo is the one who both created AND destroyed Choso’s family - it would be poetic justice for Choso to be the one to kill him, since he has known nothing but manipulation and violence since his ‘birth’.
Theory Three
Yuuji kills Sukuna
Sukuna took so much from yuuji it would just be JUSTICE but also remember during the exchange event arc megumi really emphasised how even without cursed energy yuuji would still destroy them all in hand to hand combat? I think that’s rly important here. This kinda follows the same logic as my maki theory but I just have this feeling that Sukuna can’t be taken down with cursed techniques or DE, it has to be raw unbridled power. Like I said Sukuna respects and covets power and maybe it’s because he knows that’s the one thing that could kill a god like him.
Plus - this ties in with ‘start by saving me, Itadori’ and megumi and Yuuji’s promises and threats to not die. Regardless of whether or not u ship them romantically, their relationship (platonic or not) has been at the forefront of the entire series - it would make sense for Itadori starting his full Sukuna free life by the first person he really saves being Megumi.
Also I like this because remember the ‘Nah, I’d win’ conversion with Gojo? Wouldn’t it be cool if it was actually Yuuji who won - saving Gojo, Megumi and everyone else?
Theory Four
Inumaki is gonna have a big part to play. Idk what, but the timing of his return lends itself to this.
Also, Nobara isn’t dead. The other person that gojo Shoko and Ijichi were talking about was Nobara and she ain’t dead but severely injured and I think she’s gonna come in with a dramatic ‘here to save ur sorry asses’ moment bc it just is very on brand for her.
Theory Five
Why Gojover isn’t happening now/ever.
But especially now.
OKAY business perspective ik it takes away from the ‘story’ part but don’t forget that Gege has editors and he needs to sell more copies of future editions and chapters so a certain amount of fan service is required, Gojo stole the show literally - they know that killing him off is a bad business choice at any point, but especially in such an anti-climactic way.
Another rly important point is every character who’s had a huge impact on the story and then subsequently fuckin died, think Geto, Nanami, Toji - they’ve all had a poignant death and Gojo has had even more of an impact on the story.
Geto: you could at least curse me a little in the end and his moment w gojo in the alley
Nanami: you’ve got it from here looking at yuuji his protege who he was so tough on and then telling him essentially he trusted and believed in him
Toji: my kid will be sold to the Zen’in’s, do what you will after pushing gojo to unlock his full potential thru fuckin stabbing him and then gojo stopping the sale of megumi
After all of these deaths they’re not gonna do:
Gojo: 3 chapters, gets slashed in the neck and fucking croaks.
That’s just bad storytelling and no matter how cruel he is Gege is a phenomenal storyteller
NEXT point is I think this is where we’re finally gonna see some real RCT. It’s interesting how Gojo said he doesn’t mind going HAM on Megumi’s body bc he looks like his dad - I don’t think that’s a coincidence that he’s fighting someone who looks so like Toji and then gets slashed in his neck? Seems a bit like repeating history, but I think even Gojo’s RCT won’t cut it - I think it’ll be Shoko who saves him.
The giveaway for this for me was ‘You were never alone’ and her reminiscing. She’s always been there for the two boys and she always will be - she’s the most powerful RCT user and she’s never left Gojo’s side, and she won’t fail him now. She will heal his neck, because he’s not alone at the top of the food chain. Pair with this if Utahime is still using her amplification technique, Shoko is almost unstoppable in terms of RCT.
We’ve seen this situation with Yuuta and Yuuji too, so there’s canon evidence of its existence and potential.
Also - I don’t think the Tojification of Gojo is accidental or just gege having a hard on for Toji. This is again a Man Vs God situation, take this and use it on Toji (man) v Gojo (god), but now it’s Gojo (man) vs Sukuna (god). Ultimately, Toji killed Gojo. He killed a God by force. Maybe that’s some foreshadowing idk idk.
Theory six
Yuuta kills Kenjaku.
Don’t fight me on this one. It’s feminine intuition. Idk why or how or where but it’s gna happen.
Theory seven
Noritoshi Kamo kills Noritoshi Kamo.
The battle of the Noritoshi’s.
Won’t happen but would be funny and I would enjoy the confusion at the both screaming each others names and it being their own names like the confusion from Shibuya.
Theory Eight
I kill Sukuna and Kenjaku.
They’re testing my patience rn, and they’re hurting my babies. Mama Pixie is unhappy. I’ll chase after them both and beat them with a frying pan until they both apologise and get me a bouquet each for being such unruly boys and then they will make ‘I’m sorry for killing your brother/I’m sorry for taking your eye out/sorry for living in ur body and taking ur heart out/sorry for killing ur sister and then taking ur body/sorry for using ur ex-bfs body as a marionette’ cards for everyone and I put them in time out (hell).
#jjk spoilers#jujutsu kaisen spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#jjk#gojo satoru#maki zenin#jujutsu kaisen yuuji
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For the ask meme: Emet-Selch
The love meme: put something in my inbox (an activity, a fictional character, a food, a time of day, anything you can think of) and i’ll tell you something i love about it
MASSIVE SHADOWBRINGERS FFXIV SPOILERS AHEAD BEEPBOOP WEEWOO okay:
Aaalrighty, for those of you who don't know, this is Emet-Selch:
He's one of the main baddies for the Shadowbringers expansion.
To sum up: There was once a wonderful world where Ascians lived in peace, experimenting with creation magic and being philosophical, and then tragedy struck and that planet was sundered into fourteen reflections of itself.
When that happened, everybody with the exception of three Ascians (Emet-Selch being one of them) was also sundered into fourteen reflections, including you. What Ascians want to do is combine the reflection planets into one big planet again, so they can have their home back.
Unfortunately, in order to do this, Ascians have to induce a rejoining on each of the reflection planets, which not only destroys that planet but also creates a calamity event on the Source planet, (which is where you're from) and since there's people (sundered people, but people) living on all of these planets, it's not exactly great for them, but the Ascians have decided they don't care: you have to crack a few eggs to make a utopia, after all.
Emet-Selch has been trying to do this for a good few eons now, and he's a little bit tired. Right now, he'd rather see what you'll do next. Maybe there's a way that his goals and your goals can coincide.
Also remember when I mentioned up there that you got sundered? It turns out the unsundered version of you is someone he knew and deeply misses. His way of dealing with this is to follow you around on your quests, being profoundly unhelpful and making snarky remarks and wistfully wishing that you'd remember your unsundered existence, because he sure does.
Incidentally, that's also what the fic series I've been working on is about: he's trying to make you remember, and it's actually sort of working.
So, all caught up? GOOD, now:
What do I like so much about Emet-Selch. There's lots of things, he's amazing fun to write! But if I were to pick one, it's that he's a bitter old drama queen who loves theater. The devs even threw in a Lauren Bacall quote for him, which implies that he sits around in his pajamas watching old black-and-white movies when he's not trying to bring about the end of several worlds.
His personality is very Theater-y, fluctuating between glorious, gleeful biting sarcasm, childish displays of prickly peevishness, and occasional moments of soppy fondness. He emotes and gestures and postures all over the place like he's performing something. This is a man who is incapable of being embarrassed. He simply does not care. He has done everything, he has seen everything, he is bitter as 90% cacao chocolate about it, and now he's going to monologue to you about your old life that you don't remember because he's feeling maudlin.
People tend to compare him to Cruella Deville a lot, because they have a similar shamelessly evil, vain, selfish energy, and also they look alike, what with the hair and the big coat and flamboyant mannerisms:
But what fandom might not know is that Cruella Deville was a caricature of my favorite silver screen era hollywood trainwreck: TALLULAH BANKHEAD! :D
There is a beautiful correlation between Emet-Selch's justification of his actions later in the game and Tallulah declaring "DON'T THINK THIS HAS TAUGHT ME A LESSON!!!" as she strolled out of the hospital after receiving an emergency hysterectomy due to gonorrhea.
Anywho, this post got long didn't it? X)
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So for anyone who doesn't know, in IDW1 Trypticon is actually a really interesting character. Earlier in the timeline, he's basically just an ancient evil monster that gets awakened and used as a fighting force by the Decepticons (covered by the events of Monstrosity and Primacy, although I'm not sure if he made an appearance earlier in terms of the comics' release order).
Later on in the IDW1 comics, Trypticon becomes a character with his own personality and desires as written by Barber in the Dinobot trilogy (not the phase 1 series but Punishment, Salvation, and Redemption). Basically, Trypticon is very aware of the fact that people see him as a violent monster, but he decides to abandon Cybertronian society entirely because he's tired of being used as a vehicle for others' violence. By the end of the trilogy, he actually has a new hotspot inside of him and is nurturing the next generation of protoforms within his own body. He's literally done a 180 from being a source of destruction and death to being a protective, nurturing, life-giving force. And this is interesting because, although Trypticon DID have a personality before Barber wrote him, Barber's take on Trypticon gave the "big scary Decepticon titan" a much more 3D personality that made him a person with his own goals, disinterested in the plots and schemes of others. And that's really cool!
So what ended up happening Trypticon in the finale of IDW1, Unicron?
He gets killed off. In the background. With no one giving a shit about it. Because Barber decided it was more important that, IN THE FINALE OF THE SERIES THAT WAS ENDING IDW1 AND WOULD BE THE LAST ISSUES HE WOULD EVER WRITE, we as the viewers be subjected to a Literally Who OC that no one cares about crying and bitching about how Optimus Prime is a tyrant and a fascist. This entire panel is almost literally shot in a comedic way, like the trope of "person monologuing while something crazy happens behind them that they're completely clueless to."
Trypticon got an interesting characterization that made him more than just a monster, but I guess it was more important to kill him off in the background of a panel so that Miss Literally Nobody can waste an entire page of the LAST SERIES OF THE CONTINUITY being a whining bitch about Optimus, which by the way is what she's been doing literally this whole time since she basically exists just to complain about Optimus.
Oh and by the way, Trypticon was carrying the next generation of protoforms inside of his body, and Cybertron (plus every other colony) got destroyed during the Unicron finale, so I guess an entire fucking generation of new Cybertronians also got slaughtered in this panel. How fun and exciting! I guess putting in that really depressing character death of "man changes his ways and gets to live happily but gets killed off for shock value" was really important to put in the ending of the series to make us readers feel satisfied about our beloved story ending! Oh but not only does he die, he dies IN THE BACKGROUND PRACTICALLY AS A FOOTNOTE so that a different character no one cares about can talk about her feelings, wasting crucial time bitching about how much she doesn't like Optimus while TRYPTICON IS LITERALLY DYING BEHIND HER BUT I GUESS SLIDE IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE CARING ABOUT.
This is what happens when you're more concerned about huffing your own farts Writing A Theme, Man than you care about creating a satisfying ending that fans will actually enjoy lmao. Who cares about Trypticon and possibly his children that we got attached to as a result of the previous comics dying? This literal nobody who no one cares about needs to have her time in the spotlight monologuing about shit that doesn't matter while everyone around her is fucking dying.
#squiggposting#slide is the worst character in idw1. literaly the worst#she's like the peak of barber sabotaging the readers by interrupting emotional scenes just to have someone complain#also she's a privileged colony bitch who's never lived through war in her life but still feels entitled to judge the ppl who lived through#like. i don't care about her. she's stupid. she's an idiot. she's annoying. she got way too much screentime#she existed just to shit on optimus prime who's a character that actually matters unlike her#but i guess we couldn't even cut off IDW1 in an aborted season finale#without barber having to insert his depressing 'cybertronians suck and optimus sucks' nonsense in it#bc god forbid the FINALE OF THE CONTINUITY be focused on characters that are more important or have had more development#yes this is me being petty and fan wanking but also. slide sucks#little fucking worthless brat wasting way too much screentime existing only to complain about all the other established characters#that have actually had a whole series behind them and who the readers are actually attached to#absolutely worthless character who only existed to waste my time and improved nothing with her existence#squiggle being petty
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Are there any big no-no's when it comes to time skips and/or separation in romantic arcs that span multiple entries?
I mean, if you're asking me personally, the no-no is doing it at all. I dislike time skips and separations as a general principle lol.
But as far as telling an effective story, I think it's just a case of making sure that it actually serves a necessary purpose, that it feels authentic both in that it's something the characters would actually allow to happen and in its effects on them, and that you aren't just killing all your narrative momentum by doing it. Because I think that's the main issue with a lot of separations in romance- it can totally destroy the tensions and build up that your audience is there for.
People seem to forget a lot, but romance is in many ways a kind of suspense, and to sustain that sense of anticipation without exhausting the audience is already a fairly delicate balance, so introducing a big separation can be a gamble. You risk losing the immediacy, you risk losing investment, you risk making it seem like the relationship maybe isn't that important to the characters involved or to the narrative arc.
So basically, it has to be justified. It has to feel like an obstacle put the in path of our couple which they cannot avoid but must overcome. When it's something we go through with them, we can be rooting for them and kept invested by their pov and their struggle, but when it's something like we left off at a cliffhanger and the next installment picks up two years later... That, I would say, has to be earned and it has to come at a place in the arc before any romantic resolution has been accomplished.
If you're going to do that, some big shit better have changed when you pick back up. eg: the TLJ cliffhanger is a breakdown in communication after Rey and Ben thought they were on the same page and discovered they weren't, both desperately wanting to be together and having it fall apart because of internal obstacles which manifest as an external space battle. The way to have a time skip is to radically shake up the circumstances so the internal obstacles can be approached from a different angle. We come back to discover the First Order is still using him as a figurehead, but actually Ben's gone missing, we come back to discover Hux has formed a splinter group within the ranks and there's a power struggle, etc.
You don't want character or relationship development of your pov characters to take place 'off screen', ever, because that's the thing we care about. But plot events which leave them floundering or throw them into turmoil, which triple down on their emotional state and position them to address the flaws that put them in the situation we last left them in, those are good reasons to have a time skip.
The big no-no, imo, is the classic bad kdrama time skip/separation, where you take people at the end of their romance arc, who have resolved their feelings for each other but haven't figured out the way forward yet, and are headed into their happy ending, and then randomly waste 1-3 years of their lives for absolutely no reason before then having an anticlimax final episode where they finally actually get together, but it's mid and awkward because all the urgency and momentum is gone. That's just aggravating.
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Cryptid Crawler Spiderverse info master post
Rogues Part 4 🦏🏖🛠️
VERY long post ahead!
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==[[Rhino]]==
Alexandra O’Hirn
Shared a cell with Sandlady where she shared her story that lead her to their first meeting, and likewise, Sandlady shared hers, too.
Alexandra had been accused of a crime she didn’t commit, but due to her appearance and demeanor.. life was against her. She agreed to serve, not wanting to make any big scene.
However, Alex had a track record for her reckless behavior (always out of a good place and her trying to do a good deed, but her intentions were always misconstrued), and that record caught the attention of Kingpin who bailed her out and had her brought in to his facilities to test her true strength and power and fit her with the Rhino Suit.
She didn’t like what was happening and the orders and demands of Kingpin and took off with the suit still on, destroying the research and all in her wake before she escaped. They won’t be making anymore suits for a long time.
Alex stuck in the suit as she hasn’t been able to figure out how to take it off just yet, getting around has been hectic, causing lots of unwanted trouble.
Despite her immense size and imposing presence, Alex is very kindhearted and would rather send time helping and protecting. Her suit, which she can remove if desired via the yellow diamond button on her lower sternum, makes stopping when she starts charging very difficult. She’ll do her best to try and avoid obstacles and pedestrians to spare them.. but accidents do happen.
She and Sandlady are less villains and more so anti-villain in archetype.
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==[[Sandlady]]==
Wilhelmina Baker
Refers to herself as ‘Sandlady‘ because “I am a lady.” and will get upset if being referred to as ‘Sandwoman’. She has attacked JJJ for this once before.
Wilhelmina had been a lifeguard before and it was an accident that caused a life to be lost under her care and watch.. she failed her duties and feels immense guilt and regret. She wants to make amends and atone for this.
She had been sent out for community service. Alas, her placement was to clean up a sketchy coastline beach.. a horrible accident occurred and required evacuation, but she got stuck and had to hide in the sand and muck….. and from the exposure of the incident, she was unfortunately irreversibly changed and merged with the sand.
The beach she was cleaning was owned by/near one of Kingpin’s secret facilities.. Sandlady & Rhino’s events were tied with Kingpin, be it intentional (rhino) or not (sandlady).
Wilhelmina trying to get used to her new transfigured body, figuring things out and wondering why her life has gone this way.
Along with Rhino, she has become a sort of mother figure toward Acedia, even despite their encounters and fights. As well, during some later on shenanigans she has encountered and adopted a Sandman from another universe as her son. Adoring and helping him like a mother.
Although Wilhelmina puts on a feisty and hotheaded demeanor, she is actually quite sweet and keeps to herself. Sometimes.. she’ll go back to the beach she worked, the east coast.. blend in with the sand and slip away under the water and help carry some people back to shore if they need it. A small act of kindness she performs anonymously.. her true nature is one of wanting to help.
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==[[Tinkerer]]==
Phineas Mason
Mason was once a well respected scientist in his youth, having a wonderful wife and a happy life. His work was really well received in his younger years, having books published regarding his works and such. However, his work started to take a turn and whether that was against his will or not, one thing lead to another and his wife was caught in the "crossfire" so to speak. He lost her and fell into a deep depression, but never having the time to process and mourn as he went into hiding and took on some work to force himself to never think about her.
Along with losing his wife, he later in his older age learns his son was also murdered due to family business, leaving his granddaughter to come live with him. He’s very rusty with other human interactions and raising a child, but he is honestly and genuinely trying his best.
Mason still wears his wedding ring, never having ever really recovered from the loss of her. He.. still misses her dearly. It’s affected his health and psyche.
He’s a recluse, usually stays in doors inside his unassuming home where he lives alone with his granddaughter. only occasionally does he leave when his work requires it. He does his best to stay off the grid while living so out in the open. He used to be a great scientist when he was younger, written a few books, but he popped off the grid and hid away for decades.
During one of his rare outings he encountered Beck seeking shelter from authorities and since then he’s offered to occasionally offer Beck a place to stay in the guest bedroom while Beck hops around from one living space to the next and relocating his base of operations when it’s been found.
Norman learns of Mason’s whereabouts, having his granddaughter working as a receptionist for his company building. Literally the only power he has over Mason is having power over the employment of his granddaughter. Mason knows and has put up extra safety measures around the house, rigging it for safety and having a whole security camera system and all. However, there isn’t really much Norman can do.
Reason why Norman– and even a couple other high power criminals and governments– want Mason is because he has almost any and every little piece of dirt and information and data on anyone and everything. He knows a lot more than you would think. He does anonymous commission work, crafting gadgets, tools, weapons, and experimenting on whatever he is paid to do. He does have his own moral code and restrictions he puts in place for his field of work.. however, he has become a bit desperate for security and money in recent years, he’s been having to step out of his boundaries for work a few times.
Mason uses a fake name anytime he is doing anything outside of the house, placing orders for delivery and all, it’s how he’s stayed hidden for so long. He keeps a lot of secrets, even from his own family.. He’s been trying to be more open and less secretive with his granddaughter tho after a particular incident with Acedia coming to see him for some dire info.
He’s developed a friendship with Quentin, Adrian, and even Otto. So, despite everything above, his life isn’t so bad or sad and lonely as it had been. Things have gotten better and he’s getting better, too.
Mason eventually adopted a stray cat and named it Beck. While out manually collecting data from some sourced as he needed a closer/stronger signal and while he’s in a little hiding spot, the cat came rushing over toward his area which would be seen as shelter to any animal and doesn’t even care as it crashes onto Mason’s lab and onto his laptop. Deja vu. Beck was also on his laptop and tackled him while seeking “shelter" or protection when they first met.
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#Ghostie mumbles#the rhino#The Sandman#flint marko#alex o'hirn#the tinkerer#phineas mason#spiderverse#//long post
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Idea: Crossover/AU where Chloe Bourgeois gets on the Infinity Train and joins the Apex
Idk how niche this is, but I just had a thought once a little bit of my old and slightly older brainrots came back to haunt me: Chloe Bourgeois and Infinity Train, more specifically book 3. Since I have been grasping at creative straws for 2 months, here are a few bullet points/ideas that I may work with later. Big maybe, this newfound motivation might die tomorrow lol. Either way, hope you few people who find this interesting enjoy!
Also mlb season 5 spoilers I think? I dunno I just kind of read episode summaries now I have no idea what season we're on.
Imagine if at 15, Chloe Bourgeois unknowingly escapes to the train right before she was forced to live with her mother, but instead of going on a journey of self discovery, she has the 'fortune' in bumping into the Apex instead.
(oh also while all of this is very found family like, I acknowledge that under the surface these are still three flawed extremely traumatized kids feeding into each others problems and creating/building a cult that kills denizens/destroys cars, like that's all still happening in the background of this LMAO)
When the crying teenager is brought into the mall by the few younger members of the group, it's more of the same for Grace and Simon, and the normal Apex welcomes begin.
Nobody really realizes or cares who Chloe is, due to their ages when boarding the train. It would bother her on a normal day, but given everything that has happened prior to boarding, it kind of sends her spiraling into more crying/anger.
While Simon is in no mood for it, Grace goes into full damage control mode, comforting and leaving her alone in one of the nicer areas of the mall car so she can fully calm down.
Simon is annoyed by it, but Grace plays it off as playing the long game so to speak in order to get Chloe to join. It's a half truth, as she feels empathy for Chloe after hearing a small bit of the events leading to the train picking her up. (mainly that someone left her, bringing up memories of Grace's first time meeting Simon)
Speaking of empathy, this is dialed up to an eleven when Grace gets to know her better, and finds out about her kind of similar living situation (neglectful parents) and her history of friends/conflict at school (she doesn't really go into the whole superhero thing because she feels like it would take attention off her. Besides, they don't seem to know or care much about what's going on outside anyway)
Now friends, Grace decides to take Chloe to her first car raid with just her and Simon. Chloe goes along with it to both get her anger out on something and impress her new friend. I'd expect they'd hit an 'easy' car first, like the cube car from Book 2.
Simon is now annoyed and jealous now that Grace is giving more of her attention to someone else, but after the car is thoroughly destroyed Chloe gives more information on how she got onto the train. As soon as she mentions being essentially abandoned and replaced by her father, he empathizes with her immediately and actually gets pissed off for her as well (Brought to you by Samantha fueled abandonment issues). They bond over the trash talking of her dad, and they become official friends soon after.
With Chloe fully on their side (and their friendship growing fast), they finally decide to tell her about what the Apex is all about. Full theatrics, conductor and everything.
Knowing the crazy stuff that happened in Paris on a daily basis (which is only reaffirmed by the train), she doesn't doubt the existence of the Conductor, but has reservations about his godlike status among the group ("Are you serious? That thing is probably just a glorified sentimonster!"). However, she keeps these to herself, as she deep down, she doesn't want them to abandon her.
What she lacks in 'belief', she makes up for in fierce loyalty. The only thing Chloe has to her name now is her found family The Apex, and she's not just gonna lose that, no matter how many nulls have to pay. Besides, just because she doesn't believe in the Conductor's power, doesn't mean that she isn't greatly invested in beating the train...
(Oh also, a little bonus. Depending on if the headcanon/theory is true, I'd imagine Simon and Chloe would speak to each other in French on occasion to mess with Grace.)
#It was just a passing thought until I realized it would fit nicely within the suspected timelines of both shows.#Chloe Grace and Simon are all around the same age according to both wikis#Miraculous is still stuck in 2015ish while book 3 took place in/around 2020#sorry if any of the lore is off I'm rusty with Infinity train and EXTREMELY rusty with miraculous#This is kind of a exercise/idea dump to get myself writing again#mlb season 5 spoilers#idk is that a thing still? I don't even watch miraculous anymore I just read the synopsis/watch clips lolol#infinity train#miraculous ladybug#chloe bourgeois#grace monroe#simon laurent
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AU Cagematch: Doc, GiantFell, & Sprocket
[Me]: I sometimes like to picture all my guys across all AUs in a cagematch setting.
Like, for whatever reason, they’re all participating in an event where different pairs get pitted against each other. They can’t leave–or maybe they don’t feel like it if the stakes are low and nobody can die in the setting. But they can still take lasting damage. They can’t influence whatever force is administrating this, so they play along out of curiosity. None of them intend to really hurt each other anyway, treating it like sportsmanlike sparring.
There are three rules:
1) Any challenger must have an opponent, and one will be chosen at random if no one volunteers.
2) The challenger stays until they’re defeated. No one can interfere unless they’re tagged in.
3) The match doesn’t end until one or the other is defeated, which could mean getting tagged out or incapacitated or quitting.
[My friend]: omg the dbz tournament
[Me]: YES EXACTLY
Anyway, everything’s pretty chill until a very big, very mean Underfell!Papyrus arrives as a challenger.
This Papyrus is from a thing I made up called GiantFell, which is just Fell but more apocalyptically fucked up. Sans ‘n Paps have a real bad dynamic that usually ends up with them getting in a big fight and never speaking to each other again. So, that’s where this guy’s coming from.
And he looks like this:
He bares his teeth and barks and hurls insults at all the people on the bleachers, egging them on to provide him with a worthy challenge. His voice rumbles out like sharp heavy gravel. Chainmail shudders from under his gnarled armor with each step. Nobody looks eager to volunteer, but knowing that the weaker among them could be chosen instead makes them nervous.
Then, another huge lumbering Papyrus gets to his feet.
He goes by Doc. He’s a sort of perma-fusion of a Fell!Paps and an Outertale!Paps. He’s part of a settlement of survivors who had their worlds destroyed through various means, trying to carve out a living in a very expanded version of the Void on a floating chunk of land with some houses and part of the Core left on it. These two Papyruses never got along at first, but slowly grew to be best friends over time. When they developed a fatal corruption that slowly ate away at their HP and functionality, a friend stepped in to help. (It was Blinker, if you remember him.)
Blinker rewrote their code and made them one person in order to save their lives. And it worked. Largely. They’re plenty stable now–it just takes a lot of energy to keep them going. Being one was strange at first, but it allowed for an unparalleled level of introspection. He sees himself as a more complete version of the people he was before. The whole event also persuaded him to pursue physiological studies of magic and medicine, hence the name.
So, the two Papses inside this guy’s head take a look at this other guy and see the malicious insecurity and self-concerned overconfidence that used to plague them as individuals.
Doc is chosen and approaches the arena. His brothers, a Fell!Sans by blood (well, “blood”) and Mafia!Sans by circumstance, try to stop him. But he won’t listen and refuses to let either or both of them take his place. His opponent looks him up and down and smiles.
GF!Paps: What weak stock. A friendly challenge compels only a shambling amalgam to step forward as sacrifice.
Doc: Actually, it’s because I’m ashamed of you.
The challenger isn’t smiling anymore.
A bell dings.
[My friend]: SLAAAY GET HIS ASS
[Me]: The fight doesn’t last very long, however. Doc makes a few clever and surprising moves that needle the small weaknesses in his opponent’s brutal fighting style. But he gets hit, thrown, and stunned much more often. Despite being a little bigger than GiantFell, Doc just doesn’t have the constitution for this kind of seasoned predator. His brothers call forfeit before anything serious happens.
GF: You can’t do that. He has to call it.
Doc: I forfeit. I’m done. You win.
The unseen hand of the organizer pulls the victor away from his exhausted opponent. The latter grumbles as Doc’s family helps him back to the bleachers.
GiantFell stomps around the ring, calling for a real challenge. He acts unfazed, but Doc can’t help feeling satisfied with the chip he put in the ogre’s chin that must still be smarting.
Another spectator, Sprocket–
glances at the motionless crowd around them and stands up.
Sprocket: Sure, I’ll give it a shot.
Hearts sink into stomachs all around the arena. None of them know this guy, but they’ve been a really sweet and charming person in the time they’ve been here. Their matches have all been amicable, ending with handshakes. They even lost a couple by ring-out–just from getting shoved unexpectedly. The fact that they just witnessed the last match and are throwing their hat in like this is baffling.
The only thing easing the unrest is the fact that their… they must be their cousins…aren’t doing anything about it.
(Not that they could. Unbeknownst to the crowd, the twins are literally unable to FIGHT, ACT, FLEE, or do much of anything in battle. They always have been. They’re just bugged like that. And intervening now would technically count whether they like it or not.)
The two of them only raise an eyeridge and watch as Sprocket takes the stage. Sprocket’s metal exoskeletal body shines dimly in the light where it escapes the faded denim of their clothes. They must be made of very low-grade salvage. Dingy green and grey that’s been forged and folded a dozen times, and then polished to high heaven. Their plated shoes tink against the floor, like they’re made of aluminum.
GiantFell scoffs.
GF: Now what? Head of the goofball team?
Sprocket chuckles.
Sp: Hero of the Underground, actually. :)
GF: Hm. Are you sure you want to do this?
Sprocket lolls their head and shrugs.
Sp: Hey, I’m game. But you can back out, if you’d rather. No hard feelings.
GiantFell’s sour smirk grows wider. He sets his feet apart. So does Sprocket.
The fight begins. GiantFell throws some barbed bones at Sprocket, who ducks and hops around them with the flexibility of a wobble board. One of them narrowly misses their shoulder. They run half a circle around their opponent to get at an unprotected side, but he instantly clocks what they’re trying to do. He turns and rushes at Sprocket. Sprocket dashes back on their heel and tries hard to counter the savage monster that lunges with its claws over and over, closer and closer. His pinprick red eyes stare into Sprocket’s acrylic ones.
GF: I confess, I’ve never seen anything like you before. But I can guess at what’s hiding inside that ramshackle suit of armor. However much skeleton you may have in you, you’re just a paper-thin little ghost playing the brave knight.
A heavy clenching sound makes the spectating crowd jump. The two combatants stand at the edge of the ring. GiantFell towers over Sprocket with a claw wrenched down on their left arm. The same arm has its fingers wrapped around the giant’s breastplate in a desperate gesture of control. Their other arm is splayed to the side for balance. They’re leaned back past their center of gravity by over a foot, and their feet are an inch from a ring-out.
GiantFell leers for a moment.
GF: Don’t worry. I won’t let this end that easily.
He steps back to pull Sprocket in for more punishment.
Or, he tries. His legs go, but the rest of him doesn’t. He tugs harder. Sprocket doesn’t move a bit.
Still holding onto the ribcage, Sprocket takes two steps forward to straighten up. Each step lands with the full weight of Sprocket’s metal body–heavy thuds against the stone floor. Tiny pebbles leap from the vibrations. As the giant strains to retract, Sprocket pulls him closer as if to share a secret.
Sp: And ghosts… can float.
They reel up a knee and kick GiantFell to the center of the ring, letting him take the arm with him. A long attached chain simultaneously unravels from Sprocket’s shoulder. Then, it suddenly runs out, yanking GF harshly in the opposite direction. The crowd can’t help jeering a bit as the beast comes very close to falling on his face. Sprocket’s left hand lets go, pulling the chain away a little with their right. They wait for their opponent to regain his footing. He looks up with daggers where the pinpricks were. Sprocket looks back at him with a stone face and eyes laced with something all too familiar. Contempt. Ridicule. Scorn.
GiantFell snarls and raises a wave of sharpened bones from the floor that thunders toward Sprocket. Long before it can reach them, they send a signal down their chain-arm. In the blink of an eye, it expands, exposes a layer of hidden components, and reforms as a flail head. Sprocket draws it across the arena with all their might. It shatters the bones and almost catches the sender by the ankles. They throw it again. And again. They hit the giant. They miss. They hit again. It shouldn’t be this easy to hit a target this way, but Sprocket has clearly had practice. GiantFell slings a metacarpal dart whenever he can, but they all whiff. He tries to grab the chain once, but it’s electrified. The wrecking ball doesn't let up until a stray sweep lands it buried in the floor near some spectators. Everyone’s okay, though.
Sp: Oh! (Crap.) Sorry!
GiantFell has already taken his opening. He body checks Sprocket’s left side at top speed. They hit the floor with a short ear-splitting skid. Their shoulder is dented, and they’re disoriented. The chain struggles to retract. They get their wits back just in time to block a flurry of vengeful attacks. They keep it up as they slowly pull their arm back in place and get to their feet.
Combat becomes much closer quarters. They trade bones and blows with equal ferocity. Between the snapping of his jaws in Sprocket’s face, GiantFell finds time to banter.
GF: What a surprise! You’re more interesting than I thought.
He sweeps a leg at Sprocket, who springs back light as a feather.
GF: Your prowess is adequate and… creative, I’ll give you that. But what I want to know is where you got that look in your eye.
Sprocket ignores him.
The giant springs a floor trap of curled bones on them. They leap back again, less gracefully than before. The sound of joints finessing 2,000 pounds of metal rings out. Music to his ears. They’re getting tired.
Sprocket takes the defensive for a while, giving GiantFell more room to talk.
GF: You know, I think I like it here. Most of you weaklings will never know the true challenges of survival until a child with a knife comes to your door. But this at least gives you a taste of what it’s like to wonder when you’ll be thrown into the ring with death. They all cower and shiver and take their stand before me like they’ve already lost.
Sprocket bashes a barbed bone club with their wrist, raining white shards and dust before their determined face.
GF: But you… You get it, don’t you? What have you lost? What have you seen that killed the part of you that cowers?
Sp: You talk like a flower I know.
The two wind up in a grapple, struggling to overcome each other’s strength. Sprocket’s rivets and coils groan.
The giant narrows his eyes.
GF: Why hold yourself back?
He glances at Sprocket’s cousins, still watching placidly from the bleachers.
GF: It only weakens you further.
Sp: The people I protect are what make me strong.
The giant nods almost imperceptibly.
GF: While your resolve lasts. But there are bigger things out there. In the dark. You’ll see sooner or later, if you haven’t already.
Sp: You disgust me.
Sprocket gives him more of that cold stare. Then, it turns into a smile. A powerful electric shock cracks between the combatants’ palms, prodding GiantFell to back away.
Sp: Ha! I got you twice!
GiantFell recalculates as Sprocket approaches. Magenta lightning leaps between their cheek and temple, chin and chest, ribs and spine, and any crack he’s managed to make in their armor. Their black synthetic hair begins to stand on end. Their ruby soul glows hot in their chest.
This is where the fight gets feral. It’s a blur of magic, bones, boots, and fangs. The aura around Sprocket grows so heavy that it looks like GiantFell is trying to tear apart a dying sun. Electricity arcs everywhere, within feet of the spectators. The combatants throw all of their remaining strength and agility at one another, pushing themselves to top each other’s moves without thinking much about the one that comes after. GiantFell isn’t unused to this kind of reactive combat, letting instinct carry him through. It isn’t until he catches Sprocket’s eyes again that a full thought forms.
He can see the magic of their soul burning through the acrylic. His other opponent’s colors were green and blue. Kindness and integrity. Weakness. Anyone where he comes from would be afraid and ashamed to show anything but red–determination, survival, power. He’s seen lots of shades of red in his time.
He’s never seen a red quite like this.
Away from his line of focus, Sprocket prepares a sucker punch with white hot knuckles. It rockets toward him with as much sureness and weight as it can carry. GiantFell then leans–or falters, hard to say–out of the way and shoves his foot upside Sprocket’s jaw instead.
Steel bends and snaps throughout their torso. The crowd cringes with sympathetic pain.
Sprocket stumbles backward, holding their neck like it needs the help to do its job. They’re fighting to stay standing. GiantFell laughs maniacally.
However, before anyone can get too worried about Sprocket, the laughter trickles away. The giant passes out and lays still on the floor of the ring. Sprocket has won. The entire arena cheers.
As the unseen hand picks the loser up off the floor, the victor manages to find enough balance to walk. Being made vertical helps GiantFell regain consciousness, though he’s still groggy.
Sprocket approaches with calm light steps and extends with their better arm to shake.
Sp: Good match.
The giant just starts laughing again, maybe misunderstanding or unbelieving that he lost. It doesn’t matter. He’s out like a light again before Sprocket can put their hand back down.
They head to the bleachers, glad that’s over. Sitting down, their overworked armature finally gets a rest. The twins, free from the spell cast by the fight, instantly start assessing damage.
Kanover: You okay?
Cronus: Happy you got that out of your system?
Sp: Yeah, yeah.
Pretty much everything is bent or dented or scratched, but that’s no big deal. Sprocket’s always been a rough-and-tumble kid.
They look deeper. Sprocket rolls their eyes patiently as their head is pushed aside to make it easier to see down their collar.
Cr: Oh, wow. Did he detach your back muscles?
Kanover reaches in and pulls out a cluster of load-bearing contraptions of greasy rough steel as thick as your wrist.
Ka: Like three of them.
Cr: Okay, better hop out so we can fix it.
He taps Sprocket’s shoulder with the flat of his hand. A pink ghost with most of a blue skeleton inside phases out of the metal suit and hovers nearby. They wait, glancing back at the ring as the unseen hand removes GiantFell from the arena. After loitering quietly for a bit, they decide to leave and disappear between the bleachers.
This is when Doc realizes he’s been staring at them since the match ended.
He goes looking for them. There are corridors behind the rows of seats in this big weird unfamiliar space they’ve all found themselves in. He heads down the one where Sprocket went, follows it around a few corners, and finds the little ghost sitting alone against the wall.
They look… sad. Curled up with their head on what would be their knees, staring at nothing. Doc considers leaving them be, but they notice him before he can back away.
Doc: Hello, there.
Sp: Uh, hi. It’s you.
Their voice is so much higher and thinner without their body. Doc can’t guess them being older than 16.
He tries to be unintimidating (hard for a guy his size). He crouches down.
Doc: That was impressive. You’re a clever fighter.
Sp: Thanks.
Doc: And a brave one.
They look away.
Sp: I know a bully when I see one.
Doc: What’s the matter? Is it that you didn’t get the final blow?
Doc can remember a time when that would’ve kept him awake fuming all night.
Sp: No, I don’t care about that. The stuff he said was just stupid, that’s all.
Doc waits, sensing that there’s more.
Sprocket weighs what to say. Maybe this one, of all people, might understand.
Sp: He’s right, though.
Doc: About what?
Sp: I like fighting. I shouldn’t, but I do.
Doc: I don’t think that’s bad, necessarily. It’s been keeping us all sane here so far.
Sp: No, I mean… violence. You know? Whatever makes humans the way they are and makes us act like they do.
Doc was hoping they didn’t mean that.
Sprocket’s soft skeleton face twists bitterly.
Sp: My home is… We’re long past where we should have had our happy ending. Things are bad, and there’s no one left to save us. I have to be what people need and help them, but the harder I try the more this… evil thing comes out of me when I get mad. And I hate it when people know how to get it out of me. That guy was spoiling for an ugly fight, and I gave him one. He wanted to mess with me, and I let him. He won.
Doc: I doubt he feels that way now.
Sp: Then we both lost.
They bury their head in their knees again.
Doc watches them for a moment, then sits next to them against the wall.
Doc: Well, if being scared and frustrated makes you evil, I guess I’ve been pretty evil too. Even the part of me that wasn’t already like that guy in there.
Sprocket refuses to be cheered by that.
Sp: I have to be better than this.
Doc: Or else what? The world will end?
Sp: Basically!
Sprocket splays their hands with exasperation.
Doc: And nobody’s trying but you?
Sp: Of course everyone’s trying, but what if it’s not enough without me? Nobody has power like I do. I have to use it for something worthwhile, don’t I? Especially with all the problems and changes and… freaking evil flowers that keep attacking my cousins.
Doc: But then using that power too much makes you “evil”.
Sprocket gets quiet again.
Sp: I just don’t want them to see me not… not the way I want them to. I want to just be good. The twins kind of already know, and I don’t even know any of the people here. But there have been a few times at home where I almost got found out.
Doc: Found out being “evil”.
Sp: Yeah.
Doc: Found out feeling frustrated and scared in a time where everything is frustrating and scary?
Sp: …
Sp: I–But what if–
Doc: Do you wanna know the secret to getting under people’s skin? How they keep getting the “evil” out when they want it?
Sprocket just looks at him.
Doc: It only works if they know you’re scared of it.
Sprocket leans back against the wall as that sinks in.
Sp: Oh.
Doc: I used to be really afraid of what people would see. If I wasn’t all determination and power. Or if I wasn’t actually filled with as much boundless confidence and brilliant strategy or whatever it was I thought I was supposed to have. But even in difficult times, trying to keep all of it up ended up making me a much worse person than just letting people know what I really am.
Sp: And what are you?
Doc: Silly.
Sprocket can’t fight a smile.
Doc: And not always very bright or brave or tough. But I do get to be me more often, and I haven’t had any complaints or apocalypses yet. And I’m sure your cousins would appreciate not having to put you back together again.
Sp: It does kind of happen a lot.
Doc: So you agree?
Sprocket lolls their head to the side again, feigning deep thought.
Sp: Fine. You win.
Doc extends a hand.
Doc: Good fight.
They shake.
Sprocket heads back to their family, gliding through the air with youthful energy. It makes Doc feel the aches and age in his bones.
As he walks back, a thought occurs to him. Was there anything to that last thing GiantFell said? About Sprocket having seen something that would make them give in to malice entirely? Something the flower would know. Something outside the world they were meant to see. Sprocket’s reaction at the time makes him uneasy. As does the fact that they kept up a facade of weakness and naivety even before any real threat emerged. Just in case.
He looks up at the absent roof of the arena, at the endless blackness of the Void.
For the sake of his own family, who now live outside of any normal world, it may be worth finding out. But he supposes now may not be the right time to ask.
Problems for later, he tells himself.
He goes to find his brothers.
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So this was a casual idea-vomiting session with a friend that got away from me real quick lmao. (My friend loved reading it, by the way. I didn't just leave them in the dust with thousands of words.)
As it turns out, I enjoy coming back to this era of au madness a whole lot. I may do it more often in the future.
Many of the characters I play with are regulars pulled from other people's aus and hcs. But Doc, GiantFell, Sprocket, the twins, and Blinker are all of my own invention (with consideration for obvious influences like regular Fell and Inktale). Feel free to play with them yourself if you want, though.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
#undertale aus#ut aus#au nexus#au cagematch#doc#giantfell#sprocket#papyrus#papyrus fusion#cronus#kanover#cronus and kanover#blinker sans#blue ink sans#ut au fics#ut au fanfiction
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Class of Villainy - Pet Peeves
If one thing’s for sure, a villain is a lot more likely to have pet peeves. These maniacs certainly have a lot of things that irk them, and their response usually involves someone getting hurt.
Marinette: If there’s one word that the fashionista absolutely loathes, it’s the word “no”. If Marinette wants something, she’s getting it, no matter what you say. She also has a “no-touch policy” on her furs. And the last way to piss her off is if you are unable to accomplish the task she gives you. Socqueline and Fei know this from past experience.
Adrien: This teenaged advisor hates the feeling of being disrespected. He’s an intelligent schemer, and demands to be treated as such. He also happens to despise his cousin Felix, looking for every opportunity to torment him. A huge peeve of his is being unable to hypnotize someone.
Alya: Having her plans fail miserably is a huge pet peeve. As a diabolical news reporter, she hates being mocked and ridiculed by reporters such as Nadja Chamack. Feeling as though she has been insulted sends her into a demented rage.
Nino: He’s a pretty chill hybrid, but there’s two things that piss him off. Not being able to swindle someone, or getting conned himself!
Nathaniel: It’s easier to say what doesn’t set the Mad King off. An abridged list of peeves include painting his roses red, being disobeyed, eating his tarts, calling someone other than Marc “fairest of them all”, and not following the rules of Wonderland.
Marc: The Poison King is incredibly vain, so not bowing down to him and declaring him to be “fairest of them all” is a big no-no. Another thing is ruining his dramatic entrances.
Max: As a total nerd for superhero, the worst thing when battling him is if you don’t live up to his expectations, or if you take part in obvious cliches. He also hates when people mess with his inventions.
Kim: Kim has an ego the size of Jupiter, so he hates rejection and feels entitled to people’s affection. He’s also obsessed with winning, and is an incredibly sore loser.
Alix: The Queen of the Jungle demands respect and fear from her heroic classmates. If you diss her, expect a good scratch to the face.
Juleka: Not being invited to an event. It doesn’t matter if she likes you, or actually wants to go. To not invite her is a show of disrespect and a lack of fear.
Rose: If you are a heroic student, then you are not allowed to beat her in a race, not accept her candy, or bring up her past as Pigella.
Ivan: The boogie man hates it if a heroic or neutral student isn’t scared of him. He also hates people pulling at his skin or destroying his bugs.
Mylene: Trying to weasel out of her deals is a huge pet peeve. She also hates anyone hurting her beloved “poopsies” (her electric eels and other underwater minions).
Sabrina: There are two things that Madame Sabrina hates. Mice and plebians. Either one gives her a feeling of disgust.
Chloe: This aristocrat hates people who do not do as she commands, as well as fairy godmothers. Hates not feeling in control.
Kagami: She hates losing to an inferior opponent, and being talked down to like a child.
Aurore: She hates order and normalcy. She also absolutely hates sunshine and kindness, as well as cheating (if she isn’t the one doing it.)
Mireille: Can’t stand people putting her fiery hair out, which happens a lot of the time when she’s rooming with Mylene. If you interrupt her while she’s speaking, prepare for a fiery show of rage.
Zoe: Due to being neglected by her siblings and parents, Zoe hates when people aren’t paying attention to her.
Jean: Taking his shiny things! It doesn’t matter if he stole it from you, now it’s his “fair and square”! Also ruining his dramatic musical songs is another thing that angers him.
Cosette: Being treated like a weak little thing, and anything that could damage it and Zoe’s campaign to be School President and Vice President.
Denise: People questioning their skills and capabilties, make that mistake and you’re getting turned into a frog.
Simon: It would take ages to list it all. But generally peeves include acting “sinful”, saying the lord’s name in vain, and atheists.
Ismael: Being taunted or people acting like they are better than him in any way. Be prepared for a mauling if that happens.
Reshma: Hates the sound of ticking clocks, because they remind her of Tick-Tock the Crocodile. Also hates anyone stealing from her, despite being a pirate.
Lacey: She hates wrinkles and people contradicting her. Some of her villainous friends pranked her in the past by using dye to make her think her hair was going grey. They stopped when she threatened them at knife point.
And that’s all the pet peeves! As always, thanks to @artzychic27 and @msweebyness. Weeby helped to provide some of the pet peeves, so special thanks to her. If you like what you saw, make sure to reply, reblog and ask to let us know what you think.
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The Dark Beginnings ~ Origins of the Ink Demon Chapter 0 (5/6) ~
[Scenario : Courage - Fumie Kumatani, Warsaw Philharmonic]
*Rumbling+Perfect Chaos Roar*
Eruka Frog : I don't like the sound of it! If she combines the anger and Sadness to unleash the power of Shattered Resonance, we're history and so does PSO! We can't let that happened!
Ashley : Right! Which is why need to find a way to calm Kimial down before Shattered Resonance will be unleashed and this entire place inside of an MMO will be cleaned out! I gotta find a way to calm Kimial Down! [thinking] What to do? What to do?
Eruka Frog : Hurry! There isn't much time left! We need thinking thoughts straight and get ourselves in the game! Rupika, do you know how can you find a place to calm herself down?
Rupika : I know just a place!
[scene later transits]
[Rose Confession - Hideaki Kobayashi, Yutaka Minobe]
Ashley : Huh? This place? It feels familiar. So this is...where the Humarl was at. Rico was it? An NPC who went missing after being possessed by the big bad himself, Dark Falz. I heard that she was one of the first known HUmarls that wanted to be a part of the Hunter class, but Sonic Team denied when Sonic himself reported Rico was the missing Humarl that fans of Sonic really need. But thanks to Dark Falz's shenanigans, Sega love to have the nerves to make female characters dead. That's why equality is the thing we needed before the law.
Rupika : Uhh, that's referring to the state of Nebraska.
Ashley : Right, which is necessarily not in order. So, here we are. This is where we need to calm our nerves down. I mean, Kimial's nerves down. Hopefully calmness will help her lower her Shattered Resonance. This might help her do some therapy. I heard that one secpter that has the power to control the four vibes. The Vibe Secpter.
"Long before the Ohkuboverse was created, outside of Real World AU, there was a powerful Sorcerer that offered Angel vibe to give him the powerful staff that control's one vibe and he call it the Vibe Secpter, it is a powerful weapon that has granted it's own wishes by uniting the four vibes into one great warrior. So with the Vibe of Light's aid, Vibe secpter became a great success as it is the most powerful to control anyone's powerful vibes that are the emotions of hearts; Burning Rage, Sorrowful Sadness, Joyful Glee, and Calmness. These vibes can bring such power that will ultimately unleash into a powerful warrior that is a princess. However, despite it's creation on it's failed attempt of destroying the old world, Shinra foiled demon vibe plans and gave Soul World it's very foundation with the Kusakabe Legacy, that was simply a family tree of his own. Then the Time Eater arrived as it begins to destroy his world that he created was a facade and started an extermination event, but the last one survived and went insane. The witch that started it all was Inca, the first of the Kasugatani and true mother of Witchkind.
"As before the Ohkuboverse's destruction was being erased in half, Inca used the vibes of Rage and Gloom to combine a deadly force that has the power to shatter things and including the hearts of all, the one she calls it Shattered Resonance. And thus, the Shattered Meister was created and as well for the Shattered Soldiers. And they are forever remained in secrecy by the Men of Shinra's influence."
Ashley : Now what I really understand that the rumbling and that roar of a god of destruction, Shattered Meisters are actually people who gone into the despair and causes nothing but destruction. Maka, that girl and self-proclaim hero of Soul World, was the one that started the explosion on four-fifths of Japan's population, and the second explosion that started in Tokyo which is my partner. That's where the vibration and that roar is coming from.
Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre : True. Because the Kusakabe thinks that Inca's or her people were leeches, but that doesn't mean a single thing. Shinra and his people were killed by the hands of the Time Eater, and I was not the one that is a tool to the devil's will. I used to be a fire soldier in his old world, but then the Time Eater removed me from the Ohkuboverse and brought me into the real world, where I became the member of the Phantoms of Society! Shattered Meisters are very equivalent to the Shattered Soldiers, and Kimial is one of the Shattered Meisters as well. The Great Phantom knew that the Shattered Meister I found in Vermont are linked with each others, by connecting one's heart or one's soul. With them following on their path to destruction, Shattered Meisters will break us free from the will of Kusakabe, relcaim the Kasugatani name and her position! That is what we were ordered by the Phantom to look after the Shattered Meisters and we must protect them from ever bringing destruction on the planet. I wanted her smile to be protected and we are the only ones who can protect her smile.
Kimial Diehl : (in Joyful Glee) Jacqueline, promise me that you'll finally be what I wanted for our future. The sky is peaceful, the birds are singing, and I'm in a field of beautiful flowers! My only wish that I would be together to start a future for the ones that I loved, to cherish and protect. And you would protect me from of all bad things that will ever happen to me. You certainly who you really are, Jacqueline. I consider you to be my hero.
Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre : (blushes) Oh, ummm...It is my duty to protect you as a hero, I won't let you cry and neither you'll be angry, You stay perfectly as a good girl that I would proclaim you as a my future bride. You knew the place that where we first met...on that day in the Green Hills of Vermont, You and I, the tree where we made our love at first sight. Desperate to be forbidden that is a forever a secret.
Kimial Diehl : (Joyful Glee) You finally knew our secret honeymoon! I want a perfect person that I wanted to be my type, and you Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre, is the person that is the love of my life! (holds Jacqueline hand) So hear me out! In our futures, in our dreams, we could start a life! We would be groom and bride, you and I! But if you still hadn't figured it out that I was one of the Shattered Meisters, I'd still be the one you loved dearly.
Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre : ....Kimial. (comforts) I'm glad that you finally answered. When we do something for our marriage, I will do an Equivalent exchange, I'll give you half of my life, and you give me half of yours. That is what Edward predicted our marriage.
Kimial Diehl : (giggles) Jacqueline...
Eruka Frog : So much romance and drama, I might be better to get going then. *heartbeat echoing* Hmm?
[The Nearest Place to the Heaven (Quiet) - Hideaki Kobayashi]
Eruka Frog : That's strange. I don't remember that heartbeat echoing through the sound. Is that another resonance, or I wonder if there's a person inside?
(Kimial and Jacqueling laughing togther)
Ashley : (looks at Eruka) Wait, what are you doing now? That monument...!
Eruka Frog : Hey, guys. Since Kimial and her "hero" is a having romantic conversation, I'm just gonna sit over here on this nice...
Ashley & Rupika : DON'T GO NEAR ANYTHING, YOU TWIT!
Eruka Frog : What, guys? Go near what? Relax, fellas. It's not like that I'm not gonna do anything...(touches monument which changes the flora into a field of faces) stupid?
Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre : That doesn't look good.
[The Nearest Place to the Heaven (Attack) - Hideaki Kobayashi]
Kimial Diehl : Eruka! What did you do!?
Eruka Frog : I don't know, man! I was trying to go over here to have a seat at the monument! It-It's not like that I triggered something anything to rise an attack!
Kimial Diehl : You idiot! You did not go near the monument to take a seat, you triggered Dark Falz's defenses! And now he's going to wake up to find out that we're here! Any idea how are we supposed to deal with this mess!? We need some fire power to take these spinning things out of the field! This entire place has become one deadly booby trap!
Ashley : Of course, partner! If only that froggy idiot would never go near the monument and awaken the Final Boss of this MMO, we would've left here before she completely blew it off! Now we're gonna be in deep sh*t! Now help us out and get rid of these spinning spiky things that are Dark Falz's Defenses! I'm gonna need to cast a fiery spell on this!
Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre : Leave this one to me! I've always prepared to fight with the power of the flames! So here I go! I'm gonna make this game to the next level! Feel the power of flames, evil must be perished!
~ Prologue 24 : Falz's Land Stand Pt.1 ~
#super mario bros#super smash bros#warioware#phantasy star#phantasy star online#soul eater#fire force#nintendo#sega#sonic team#square enix#crossover#drama#dark comedy#horror#mystery#thriller#supernatural#fantasy#dark fantasy#science fiction#action#adventure#romance#yuri#psychological
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Total Drama Changes: Island and TDI Special/Between Island and Action
Since at least one person was interested, I decided to do a little list of things I’m planning to/will change in “my version” of Total Drama, going from Island to All-Stars (Pahkitew is going to be an...interesting case). Keep in mind that this isn’t going to necessarily cover everything in detail, just stuff that I remember really feeling like a turn-off for me as a viewer, or just things I feel would be an interesting enough change. I’ll also include stuff that happens between seasons, since my eventual stories would cover that stuff, at least somewhat. This will also likely be a fairly long post, and I’m going to split it into a post per season, plus the specials when applicable and transition period.
To start with Island
All of the contestants are aged up by 2 years, so the average age for all of them is about 18, though some are just shy of their birthdays when they come to the Island (though in those cases, they have their birthdays shortly after arriving) and DJ had actually just turned 19 when the first season begins.
“Who Can You Trust?” takes place between “Phobia Factor” and “Up the Creek”, with Gwen and Trent reconciling there instead of in “No Pain, No Game”. Sadie is still eliminated in this episode, since she basically did nothing after Katie left, and I can’t deny not being able to think of anything for her to do.
Duncan and Courtney’s elimination order is switched, with Harold still rigging the votes, but this time to get rid of Duncan since he was the actual person Harold had issues with.
As I’ve mentioned before, Gwen is more...consistent with whether she thinks certain people are “okay” or not, and in her ending speech, she does include Geoff and Trent as among the “sane” campers, though she does admit that she took time to start seeing Geoff as a friend.
During the events of “Search and Do Not Destroy”, Trent does try to confront Gwen about what Heather told him, but Heather and her alliance (somewhat unintentionally on Izzy’s part) keep them apart until after the votes had been cast, so even though Gwen and Trent make up and solidify their relationship before the ceremony, Trent still ends up eliminated because the votes couldn’t be changed and nobody knew the truth until too late.
In the finale, both Trent and LeShawna help Gwen, not because either of them has anything to prove to her, but just because neither thought it was fair that so many people were helping Owen simply because they wanted to go to his party (especially when Gwen had already said she was going to split the winnings if she won, and Owen still could have thrown a big party with 50K) and they wanted to help even the odds.
Now for the changes regarding the special and some stuff between the events of Island and Action:
First off, Owen doesn’t actually give up his 100K to compete in the “challenge” for the special. If World Tour can still happen despite Beth/Duncan being implied to have gotten their million and used it, Action can still happen with Owen (or Gwen if she wins) keeping the 100K won from Island
Harold and LeShawna don’t break up here, though they do agree to try and take the relationship slower now that they can actually spend more time together
Courtney isn’t quite as “ruthless” about winning the million here, since in this version of Island, she was voted off not only fair and square, but much later into the competition
Most of the people who make it onto Island are the same, but Tyler and Cody also get pulled in, since they were still attached to Owen and DJ when they fell into the water. Courtney is also in the next season from the start.
The time between the end of Island and the start of Action is about 2 months, with Owen’s party taking place a week after the events of the “special”.
Not too much happens during that time besides the campers going home to prepare for the next season, and keeping in touch with their friends from the show (and handling various degrees of long distance relationships in the case of the couples).
The biggest thing that happens that relates to the next season is that, while they’re spending time together, Trent actually tells Gwen the story about how the number nine is his “lucky number” and how when he was stressed, he’d sometimes do little actions that many times or just count to nine to help himself calm down. So, when Action starts, Gwen already knows about why the number is important to Trent.
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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E6: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
This entire episode is just you watching my sanity dissolve in 4K. Disclaimers: Show owned by LEGO. This is not a professional review/critique - it’s mainly intended for comedy.
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- This episode f*cking exists ❌
- Intro ✅
- Why is Nya carrying a whole-a*s watermelon into the training room? ❌
- “If I had focused more when I was little I would’ve seen that coming.” Buddy chill, you’re like 11 now ❌
- “We cannot change the past, but we can improve for the future.” Get it? Cuz it’s about time? And this is a time travel episode? GET IT???? ❌
- Wasn’t the City of Ouroboros destroyed? ❌
- “We’ll head straight for them.” Golly, this episode sure is moving fast! Surely this means we’ll have more time to flesh out and explain later events that happen, right?….. r-right…? ❌
- Wait, why did Nya come to the fight without her suit? I know she can fight without it but it’d still give them better chances ❌
- Garmadon reacts way too casually to seeing his son double in height in just a few days ❌
- “If only [the ninja] never existed!” If Garmadon was really smart, he’d go back to before they were born and kick Ray in the n- ❌
- “Now, to finish the ninja once and for all, so that my son never becomes the Green Ninja!” Or so that he never lives past age 8 but go off, king ❌
- “Garmadon’s gone back in time to make it so Lloyd never turns into the Green Ninja!” Well that was a quick conclusion based off of limited evidence… ❌
- “Remind me to pack a helmet next time we time travel…” No one reminds him. ❌
- “But we can’t let the old Kai or Nya see that we talked to [Wu],” The ninja get that Kai and Nya can’t see them, which means in order for them to not come to same conclusion for Wu, they have to all consider him some separate, omnipotent being instead of an actual person. Realistically, this wouldn’t be Wu’s fault and would be the result of the ninja just being idiots, but I’m gonna blame Wu anyway ❌
- “I believe a big uh-oh is in order.” Little late for that, Snowflake ❌
- Wu sympathizer I am not, but even I have to admit that Wu is going through it this episode. My guy has NO idea what’s happening and I don’t blame him ❌
- “I’m wise…” Let’s agree to disagree ❌
- Why do Jay and Zane’s poses in the photo remain the exact same even when Lloyd (who they have their arms around) fades completely out? Also, wouldn’t Kai not be in the pic? In this reality he never joined them, right? ❌
- Wait, if, back in the pilots, Garmadon baited Kai into grabbing the Sword of Fire, which ultimately led to Wu (and the golden weapons) being taken to the Underworld, which led to him escaping it, and now in the reality he’s trying to create, Kai wouldn’t join the team… does that mean he never escapes the Underworld? Has he thought this plan through? ❌
- “You have to convince Kai to go with you.” “Why?” Jay either forgets why they’re here, or just hates Kai. ❌
- I know the Skulkin are morons but how do none of them recognize Garm’s helmet? ❌
- Past Kai reacts way too casually to being sh*t talked by his own reflection ❌
- Also, Infinity Train’s “Chrome Car” episode looks different here (pls someone get this reference)
- Cool fight scene and all, but it directly implies that Jay, Cole and Zane’s fighting abilities haven’t improved at ALL in all this time ❌
- The only good thing in this entire episode is getting to see Kai deck his pilot-self in the face. Instant relief let me tell ya ✅
- In the pilots it takes about a week to get to this point. The ninja have been here for a week. The skulkin haven’t returned home in a WEEK. ❌
- “I don’t understand… I have 4 arms…” WHY IS THAT ALWAYS THE PART PEOPLE FIXATE ON?!?!?! ❌
- “Great😦 Scott😥” GREAT SCOTT?!?!? With each second of this episode I can feel my brain deteriorate more and more! ❌
- “Why are we still here?” Where tf are you planning to go?!?!? YOU HAVE NO PLAN TO GET BACK TO THE FUTURE!!! ❌
- “I don’t stand a chance against Garmadon’s 4 arms!” Past Kai has been a ninja for a couple weeks. Garmadon has been training to fight for actual CENTURIES. Yet, our biggest f*cking concern right now IS HIS GODD*MN ARMS?!?!?!?!? ❌
- “2 Kais?” “Yeah!” WHY IS PAST KAI ACTING SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS???? ❌
- “It could be possible to erase the events that have transpired so far by destroying the Mega Weapon that brought us here in the first place.” WHAT. ❌
- the Garmadons are doing this handshake for nearly HALF. A f*cking. Minute. I timed it ❌
- “No time to find out how you got [the golden weapons]!” WHAT? WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?!?! ❌
- “Return to the future?” I’m not dealing with another godd*mn voice mix-up after this sh*t ❌
- “My father has a mega weapon???” *very, very long sigh* If the mega weapon doesn’t exist, Why. Is. Lloyd. Not. 8. ❌
- I have no idea how Lloyd makes a dragon out of this watermelon slice but I also don’t have the energy to come up with a joke for it ❌
- “I think some things are best left in the past. Come on, let’s just prepare for the future!” “I don’t get it.” Me either, Green Bean… me either ❌
- Foreshadowing. Because of course, this is going to be the one episode that is brought up again in the future ❌
- Let’s be honest here: this episode was just an excuse to get rid of the mega weapon because it was too OP, and now that we’re getting into the actual plot of the season, the writers had no clue what to do with it ❌
Sentence: I’m gonna go lay down
#ninjago#lego ninjago#ninjago lloyd#ninjago jay#ninjago kai#ninjago nya#ninjago cole#ninjago zane#ninjago sins/wins
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Falling for the Freak - Eddie Munson Fix-It Fic - Chapter 23
Hi hi! OH my gosh today was grand. I started moving into my apartment today. I did it all on my own so I could see it by myself for the first time. It is gorgeous. It’s literally nothing special but it is mine and I love it so much. I don’t even have a bed yet in there but every part of me wanted to just stay there tonight. I was walking through the bedrooms trying to decide which one I wanted to claim as my own and I went into one and the energy in this room felt so good. I didn’t think I would care that much about a bedroom, but ooh boy this room felt so special. It felt like a room where good things happen. And it has a window that looks out at the cutest little street and a bathroom straight up connected to it which is amazing. I am so excited to start living there full time. It just feels so right. Also, this is really weird but a year ago on this day my ex asked me to be his girlfriend and now I’m moving into my first apartment. Maybe August 5th is meant to be a big day in my life. Weird.
CHAPTER SUMMARY: We’re going to do a little time jump. Nothing crazy, but at least enough to the point where Eddie and the reader are mostly healed from their Upside Down wounds. After getting freed and caught up on school work, Eddie and the reader spend some much deserved down time. It’s fairly short but today was real long for me so I’m gonna keep it brief tonight. It’s a simple fluffy chapter. I hope you enjoy!
WARNINGS: FLUFF - literally just all the fluff.
Chapter 23
It had been a few weeks since we had stopped Vecna from literally destroying Hawkins. The story about Jason went over without too many eyebrows getting raised. It was known to the town that Jason had gone a little haywire that week of spring break and most people bought it. The biggest disbelievers were his parents - of course - because they couldn’t fathom how their son could have been so cruel. However, most people seemed to roll with it and soon enough people were saying things like “I always knew there was something off about him,” and “He seemed like such a normal kids. Shows you can never really know what someone is thinking,”
Unfortunately it didn’t make things much easier for Eddie. People were still wary around him, even though he had been declared innocent. It probably didn’t help that this declaration was made by the recently returned from the dead police chief. Hopper had told the town some story about how he wasn’t dead, but none of that really matttered to me.
All that mattered was getting Eddie freed and healthy again. In the weeks after spring break, he had been taking his school work at home. His uncle would pick up assignments for him at the high school and bring them to him. In order to ensure that Eddie actually did his work, I spent most of my evenings at his trailer. I had to take time off work because after being nearly torn to shreds by demobats, standing on my feet all day renting movies didn’t seem like a great way to spend my time. I took the free time that I now had to help Eddie. And to catch up on my own school work.
It was difficult to maintain my focus on my work when I had been traumatized by the events of spring break. I felt my dedication to school slipping and fought to keep it up. Luckily my professors were understanding and cut me some slack on due dates and things of that nature.
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One particularly Friday nice afternoon, I had stopped by the grocery store after class and picked up supplies for grilled cheese and some canned tomato soup. Spring seemed to have sprung in Hawkins within the last week and suddenly everyone was wearing shorts and T-shirts. It wasn’t that warm, but after months of the could, a little sun felt like a drop of heaven.
I biked over to Forrest Hill and climbed the wooden steps to Eddie’s trailer. I knocked and Wayne opened the door. He greeted me with a smile and let me in. I had gotten to know Wayne quite well in the last few weeks. He was incredibly kind and hard working. He also truly loved Eddie.
“I thought I would make us all some dinner,” I said, holding up the bags of food.
“Oh that’s sweet of you,” Wayne said. “But I’m getting ready to be on my way to work. I’m sure my nephew would appreciate the food though,”
“That’s too bad,” I said. “It’s always nice when you can join us for a little while,”
“You’re too kind, Miss Y/LN,” Wayne said. He had never called me by my first name. It seemed old fashioned but I thought it was cute.
Eddie stepped out of his bedroom then. He was wearing black cotton sleep pants and his new Hellfire shirt. He had to make a new one after the one he wore into the Upside Down got ruined. Eddie smiled when he saw me and planted a kiss on my cheek.
“Hey there,” he said, “I thought I heard you out here,”
“Ok Ed, I’m off to work, but you better be on your best behavior. This young lady just brought you dinner,” Wayne said.
“Will do, sir,” Eddie said saluting his uncle.
Wayne smirked and stepped out the front door. Eddie turned to me with a soft smile on his face. “You brought me dinner?” he asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
“Yeah,” I said. “I was going to make us grilled cheese and tomato soup,”
Eddie smiled and gave me a kiss. “Thank you,” he said.
“You’re welcome,” I said.
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I got to work cooking the sandwiches while Eddie put some music on his stereo. I stood at the stove watching the sandwiches cook when Eddie wrapped his arms around my waist from behind and rested his chin on my shoulder.
“Those look amazing,” he said.
“Thank you,” I said, “I try my best,”
“Well your best is amazing,” Eddie said. “You’re amazing,”
“Oh my gosh shut up,” I chuckled. “Where is all this coming from?”
“You’ve done so much for me in these last few weeks,” Eddie said, kissing my cheek. “I just want you to know how much I appreciate it,”
“I know you appreciate it,” I said.
“Good,” Eddie said. “Because I really don’t want you to think I’m taking advantage of you,”
“Never,” I said. “I like taking care of you,”
“Yeah?” Eddie asked, a small laugh rumbling through his ribs.
“Yes,” I said. “How very domestic of me,” I laughed.
Eddie kissed my cheek again and then started trailing kisses down my neck. It made my toes curl but I had to keep my wits about me.
“Whoa, hey,” I said. “I have an open flame in front of me and sandwiches to cook. You hold back on all that funny business for now,”
Eddie moaned and dropped his head onto my shoulder. “Sandwiches can wait,” he said. “Can’t they?”
“Not when they’re already cooking, baby,” I laughed. “Eat your food and we’ll see what comes next, ok?”
“We’ll see what comes next?” Eddie asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “We’ll see how I decide to take care of you after we eat.”
“Or I could take care of you for a while,” Eddie said, kissing my neck again.
“Oh wow you have to not do that while I’m cooking,” I said. “Unless you want to burn down your uncle’s house,”
“Might be worth it,” Eddie said pressing another wet kiss on my neck.
“Seriously,” I said. One of the sandwiches was done and I loaded it up on plate for him. “Here’s your sandwich, take some soup and eat,”
We sat and ate our food in eager silence. Then Eddie looked up at me with a curious expression on his face.
“What?” I asked.
“Nothing,” he said.
“What?” I asked. again.
“Seriously, it’s nothing,” Eddie replied.
“Eddie,” I said. “I saved the world with you, you have to tell me why you just looked at me like that,”
Eddie stared at me for another moment as if he was trying to size me up. He sighed. “What’re your thoughts on prom?”
“What?” I asked.
“You know, prom, the big dance,” Eddie said. “Totally lame or like something fun?”
“I don’t know, I guess it depends on who you’re with,” I said.
“What if you were with me?” he asked.
“I would have fun anywhere if I was with you,” I said. “You know, except for an eternally dark alternate universe.”
“So you’re saying you’d go to prom if it was with me,” Eddie said.
“Eddie, are you asking me to prom?” I asked.
“Possibly?” he said, uncertainly.
“You want to go to prom?” I asked.
“Maybe,” he said. “I haven’t for the last two years, and I don’t know, I thought it might be fun if we went together. We could get all dressed up and go dance to shitty music with a bunch of people younger than us that all kind of think I murdered three of our classmates. Now that I think about it, it’s probably not a good idea,”
I took his hand in mine. “Eddie, if you want to take me to your senior prom then there’s nothing else I’d rather do. I’d be honored to be your date. And who cares what the others think? We’ll have fun with each other. And I won’t lie, I would love to see you all dressed up,”
“Oh yeah?” Eddie asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “Can’t beat a man in a good suit,”
“You’d really go to prom with me?” he asked.
“Absolutely,” I said.
“Cool,” Eddie said. “Because I already asked my uncle to buy the tickets,”
I couldn’t help but smile at him. He was perfect. He was literally just perfect.
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Favourite ship to write?
Dmitri/Anastasia (Dmitry/Anastasia depending on how you spell his name, it's confusing and I will rant about it if you ask me anyway-)
I know I haven't posted too much about them lately, but they are my favourite ship, especially to write.
Number 1: they're historical. Bonus points already. I can put them in WHATEVER fun historical events are happening at the time (eheheh world war 2) and explore how that impacts their relationship.
Number 2: I feel like they have such an equal relationship. They both provide a family, home and love for each other, they understand a lot of what the other has gone through and they complete each other really nicely. They're similar enough in their personalities to be close, but not so similar that they clash.
Number 3: I love to write the fight they had in the actual film and musical. I once saw a comment saying that Dmitri/y is abusive and that their relationship is toxic, but I beg to disagree. While yes, there is a lot of miscommunication (and a bit of manipulation at the beginning,) it's important to understand that 1) Dmitri/y's character arc is incredibly big and by the end he is not selfish or manipulating anyone and 2) have you considered a thing called trauma? Lemme explain.
Imagine that you have spent your entire life impoverished and working in horrible, dangerous factories or in other poor working conditions, you never gained an education, your parents died tragically when you were young (if we're going via the musical, your dad was arrested and taken to a labour camp to die), you've probably been betrayed, abused and beaten several times, you have to steal in order to survive, and somehow after the revolution you were praying would happen, the country you've been stuck in your entire life is somehow worse than before. Oh how glorious your life is, hmm. Now, if I told you that you could run away from this horrible country and your life and start afresh, you could live by the seaside in a nice, warm house owned completely by you, you could have hot water and a bed and enough food to fill you always and you could be rich, BUT you have to convince a girl who could possibly by the missing grand Duchess that she's Anastasia, would you?
OF COURSE YOU WOULD THIS IS YOUR ONLY TICKET OUT OF THIS HELLHOLE! And that's exactly what Dmitri/y did AND HE HAS PERFECTLY VALID REASONS! His motives were good, his actions were not. And he realises this after Anya blows up at him about how hurt she is and he realises that not only did he come to finally trust someone again, that person trusted him back and he just destroyed it. He recognises what he did wrong and (in the movie) he apologises! In his own way of almost getting killed for her, which if you compare with Dmitri/y at the beginning he would NOT have done that so clearly he's trying to make it up for his mistakes, but anyway, in short he's a traumatised boy who trying to relearn how to actually care for people and trust them after he's been absolutely shattered by people. (Add my own personal headcanon that he's Jewish into that and OH BOY DOES THAT HURT MORE-)
Number 4: I love writing them with children. I feel like they're absolutely amazing parents who care for each other and their children and it's so cute to me
Anyway this ended up becoming longer than I anticipated whoops-
Sorry about that rant-
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So I'm finally getting to reading all the valentines stuff (for the chocos), and one of the new ones I got is Freezie. It has Tomoi and Freezie, and I thought it'd be really cute! I was very wrong. It was so sad and I thought there was a really sad angsty story to it, so I went to read it again but accidentally clicked the first one... wow the whiplash I got. Like, wow...
oh my gOD LMAOOOOO
see "i feel like i just read a fanfic with an amnesia tag that i didn't see" is actually exactly what happened and i'm not even kidding.
Clearing stuff out of the way first, no, Tomoi and Freezie aren't related at all. Similar designs, yeah, but not related.
Anyway you literally did miss a tag and it's this one:
Freezie's unit isn't a canon unit.
See, one thing that defines the Lowain Bros (ie, Lowain, Tomoi and Elsam), is that they have a really, really big imagination. There are a couple events as well as a couple units that are completely, and i really mean COMPLETELY, them making shit up for a laugh.
They make themselves the heroes of some crazy stories that absolutely make no sense whatsoever, and they roll with it, and some units push it as to make their fantasy playable.
(another similar unit completely based on their fantasy is Lady Katapillar and Vira, a Water unit where Lowain imagines Vira going completely Mad Scientist by creating a robot of Katalina to destroy the world. It is how it is).
you'll find some events of the Lowain Bros doing this shit in the side stories, it's the event "Let's Hang!" "Table for Six" and "Walk on the Wild Side".
And it's worth noting that Tomoi has a massive crush on Freesia, who's one of the main antagonist of the Main Plot Storyline. Freesia is a no nonsense allowed woman who is ruthless and would destroy anything and anyone on her path. Tomoi has big heart eyes for her.
They also, never, canonically met.
Freezie's unit is based on Tomoi having an elaborate fantasy in his brain where Freesia, or rather, Freezie, as to distinguish her from the real Freesia, gets a redemption by hopelessly falling in love with hom. And as is , i do think to recall that in the fantasy, in order to offer her this redemption, there is an amnesia storyline.
So the storyline of the vday lines is that Tomoi is sharing with the Lowain Bros what he would imagine his imaginary relationship with Freezie would be like during vday, which includes her being lovey dovey, her being caught back by her past, her trying to leave him behind.
It's really nothing too serious in general, Tomoi is just like that.
.... but that is probably the wildest possible way for you to be introduced to the concept of the Lowain Bros's stupid AU, and in general the Fantasy tag on gbf.
The more you know?
#A lot of Fantasy chara aren't made up about the Lowain bros just to be clear#ex: Fantasy Sandalphon is just 'Sandalphon but before his redemption arc'#Fantasy Aoidos is 'Aoidos before he got Amnesia'#but then we have like Fantasy Lunalu which is 'Lunalu's self insert OC for her fanfic of this story she loves'#or Bowman who is huh. Ayer's alter. who ended up getting an unit of his own.#so! yknow! Fantasy! always beware the Fantasy tag and esp when the Lowain bros are around#the more you know!#ichareply#ichafantalks gbf#pandapillow
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