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void-inked-pen · 3 years

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The Mandolin

ROTTMNT Fantasy Fic Collab Between: Me and @undercoverwizardfanfiction

Above art by: @imaginashon

Inspired by: @thehandleisjammed

Characters: Mikey and Donnie

Pairings: holds charmy back if you know what’s good for you, you’ll know the answer is never (or do you want this one at your throat?)

Summary: in so many ways they are still strangers to one another but if they keep a open heart to one another they might someday call each other brothers

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He is the master of focus.

Were words no one had ever spoken about Mikey ever. But right now, his eyes were focused (well, cross eyed) on a large red beetle situation on an even larger flower. He is only vaguely aware of Raph calling after him before he leaps out from his hiding spot like a chimera pouncing on its prey. His hands are only about to close around the bug when the beetle takes off in surprise (Mikey is only mildly sure he heard the bug ‘meep’ as it went) before he landed in the flower bush. After a few moments, and after a few of Infinity’s concerned coos, he pops his head back out of the bushes.

“I almost got him that time!” Mikey says with a wide grin. Raph and Leo both give him a look that’s between two degrees of confusion but Donnie, under his hood, shakes his head with a tremble to his shoulders in what was probably suppressed laughter.

“Mikey” Raph calls tiredly, “we’re almost to town, can you please keep up?”

“Yeah on it!” He jumps out of the bushes and hurries over with a skip to his step.

Donnie watched his younger brother skip up to them with mild amusement. He had only known his youngest brother for a few months now and his upbeat attitude and absolutely innocent curiosity was both endearing and only slightly envious. When was the last time I was like that? The thought came out of nowhere and almost completely wiped his decent mood. But the answer that came bothered him more than the initial question; he couldn’t remember.

Trying to return to the present and not follow that train of thought any further, Donnie rubbed his tired eyes and continued following his brothers into town. Leo and Mikey were chatting away about the differences between some sort of bird, while Raph remained vigilant like some sort of escort.

“You know,” he said walking up beside the oldest. His sudden appearance startling the larger turtle. “This trip would be more enjoyable if you relaxed a bit, big guy.” Don smirked as Raph just huffed in response.

Mikey tries his best not to to smile at Raph’s tired expression that clearly says ‘how the hell can I relax with three loose hyperactive hooligans to look after’ but is grateful when Raph doesn’t say anything (except for sighing with the exhaustion of someone three times his age and on their deathbed).

Donnie and Raph walked in comfortable silence for a while before they both realized they couldn’t hear chattering behind them anymore and turned around to see the two youngest entranced by an expensive stall of goods.

Mikey turns back to is conversation partner after watching the oldest pair ahead of them settle into a calm stride. What had he been talking about again? “The Waxing Owl!” Mikey exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air suddenly returning to his train of thought, “the Waxing Owl is totally cool! You have no idea!”

“And….it’s different from a Full Moon Owl?” Leo asks. Though his expression is confused and only borderline condescending it’s a massive improvement to just a few days ago, “I mean i just wanted to know the difference between a african swallow and a european swallow-“

“Yeah yeah! Cause Moon Owls can tell the future! And if you see one during a certain moon phase that’s the kind of luck you’re supposed to get! I’ve heard entire groups of people scouring the Mist Forest trying to see one during a Waxing Moon! Its so cool and- and if you see a Waxing Owl AND a Sun Burst flower in the same month then-“ and just as it was a moment ago, Mikey loses his train of thought as his mouth drops open. Normally it would be a weird dessert he had never seen before or an extra snuggly puppy that would get his attention. But what has him now is a large storefront, he barely notices the elaborate lettering or the shopkeeper out front shining up his new door. Mikey is already standing in front of the glass with both hands pressed against it. Through the now misting up glass he can see a wooden box with a long neck and strings , “Woooooooooooow” He says “What’s that thing?”

“Hey!” the store keeper snaps hard enough at Mikey he flinched away “Off my window cretin, I just had those refinished. “

Mikey stumbles back and bumps Donnie, who nearly loses his balance as he tries to use his bad leg to keep from falling, “So-sorry Dee.” He says quietly, shoulders hunched and sad. But he looks back towards the window , “I-I've never seen anything like that before.”

Donnie steadied himself before looking up at the store window.

“You… Mean the mandolin?” He looked back at his brother for confirmation and could have sworn he saw twinkles in his eyes. “It’s an instrument you strum with your fingers and part of the lute family. I heard a famous musician used one to serenade a rich maiden into marrying him.” Donnie left out the part about how the musician was actually the family's hired fool, mainly because the story also didn't end well.

Mikey appeared to practically be vibrating in excitement as he stared at the string instrument. “I’ve always wanted to play something like that, Todd used to tell me stories about a caravan that performed music as they traveled but he didn't have an instrument of his own to teach me.”

Donnie looked at him thoughtfully before glancing back up at the mandolin again and almost balking at the base price. He subtly looked back at the store owner who appeared to be getting more and more annoyed with the four yokai’s presence. Ever so gently, Donnie grabbed the smaller turtle by the shoulders and shifted him away from the storefront.

“I think... we’re gonna have to pass on this one Mike.” He said, observing the store with a critical eye.

The younger turtle gave off a disappointed whimper and looked away sadly before hopping back into a conversation with Leo. Don could have sworn when they were leaving the storefront, the blue turtle also seemed unhappy with the price of such a simple instrument. With one more glance back at the snooty storekeeper, Donnie made a decision.

After some discussion, they (Raph) decided that staying in town was far too expensive on their already limited funds. Mikey wasn’t entirely sure why Raph was suddenly so eager to leave, especially since they hadn't visited the library yet. But it probably had to do with the wary look that the large turtle was giving Donnie, who had stayed silent after their run in with the shopkeep.

What Raph DID allow, however, was for Mikey to pick out some sweets at a baking booth that they could enjoy after dinner. It wasn’t long after that that the four of them left the town behind them. Not far enough to be gone from its sight but far enough for Raph to give a sigh of relief.

“Ok boys, let's get camp set up and dinner ready.”

“You know, if I was in proper attire, I probably could have talked that man into giving us his entire store and thanking us for it.” Said Leo with a stiff upper lip as he gathered the smallest branches humanly possible.

“yes, and attract every bounty hunter and well meaning lawman in town.” Donnie made a show of reaching over and pulling up Leos’ hood. The red slider pouts at him before readjusting his hood to allow him to see better. “Rude.” He scoffs.

Don smirks in turn before going over to where Mikey was pouring over a pot of vegetables.

“Here,” he hands over the herbs he had gotten earlier, “Keep it up. I’m going to go see if I can find any more in the forest.” Donnie says. He’s grateful when Mikey only gives him a beam in response before going back to his cooking.

Donnie makes sure to glance and ensure he hadn’t gotten Leo and Raph’s attention (Raph was too busy brushing Buddy to babysit him) as he stepped back in the direction of the town they had come from, and in a blink, disappeared…

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“Hey, has anyone seen Donnie?” Mikey looked up from his ministrations after hearing the slight panic from the blue turtle. Leo was looking around with a worried look, one he’d been expressing a lot more lately after they had met back up after the ‘missing ring’ incident.

“OH! He just went to gather some more herbs for me in the forest. Don’t worry, he said he’d be right back~” He said in order to calm down Leo, but somehow agitated his other brother instead.

“Wait, he said what?” Raph looked up from brushing Buddy with alarm. “Son of a- okay, here’s the deal. Leo, you stay here an watch Mikey and I’ll go after Donnie before he does something stupid!” Raph stood up quickly, dropping the brush as he spoke his orders.

“I’m sorry, but whomst are you calling stupid?” Everyone jumped as the purple turtle in question, hopped down from a tree.

“Seriously Dee, you gotta stop doing that.” Leo breathed in relief. Donnie only raised an eyebrow in confusion before walking over to Mikey.

“Okay, then explain. Where were you?” Raph crossed his arms with a knowing look.

“Gathering these,” Donnie turned around and held up a small cluster of herbs, “like I said I was.”

The two oldest glared at each other for a few seconds in silence before Raph grumbled away in defeat. Donnie, feeling victorious, turned back towards his younger brother only to see something he wasn't expecting. Mikey was looking at him with a blank expression.

“...What?” “... Why did you lie?” Mikey asked in concern. Donnie tensed up.

“I...” Don paused, looking back to where Raph had returned to his chore before putting the herbs down in Mikey's hand, “I didn’t-”

“Yes you did.” In a way, Donnie hates that Mikey can usually see right through him. And he happens to be looking through him with those eyes that still held the softness of a child far younger than Mikey. Somehow it feels harder and harder to lie to him by the day.

Donnie manages a sigh, before sitting down by the fire to give his leg, and the new stinging wound on his side, a break. “For the record, I technically didn’t lie. I did get more herbs.” Again those eyes bore into him like a truth telling light, “But, I didn’t like the way that shopkeep talked to you earlier.” He reaches into his bag and pulls out the mandolin that Mikey had been admiring.

The youngest lets out a soft gasp, hands over his mouth for a moment before he reaches out as though to take it before drawing his hands back, “W-why did you steal it thought?” Mikey asked quietly.

“I just told you, you wanted it and that shopkeep was a–”

“No-I...” Mikey pauses again, “I mean why do you steal? At all?”

Donnie felt something in his chest tighten. He had to look away in order to calm his breathing and stop the dust around him from shifting. Why do you steal? The question rang in his head so loudly it was beginning to get harder and harder to hear the crackling of the fire.

A hand gently placed itself onto his shoulder and he couldn’t stop himself from flinching and tensing up hard at the touch. But the hand didn’t move away.

“...I… I’m sorry I didn’t mean to upset you I just… I wanted to know” Mikey said softly.

It took a few more calming breaths for him to finally look back into those kind eyes.

“... You could say… it was the family business that helped me become the thief I am now,” Don sniffled, “but truthfully… It's how I managed to survive so long. Mike, not everyone has the option to follow a path of honest work. If I had tried to follow any number of opportunities towards something I was passionate about… I wouldn’t last long.” Donnie said that last line almost too quietly to hear.

“What do you mean?” Mikey’s face scrunched up in confusion.

With another deep breath Donnie prepared himself. “If i tried to follow a path academically, like I had always wanted… She would find me.” He shivered as he continued, “If I had tried to make ends meet as a crafter, I would have failed due to my magic limitations… Mike, I never had the option for much else.”

“B-but.” Mikey tries to start back up again even as he interlocks his fingers and lowers his head, “That’s not fair.”

When he looks up again he’s surprised to see Donnie giving him a soft smile. His eyes could easily be mistaken for either pity or some other emotion that Mikey doesn’t understand. But the thief reaches out and places a rough but soft hand on Mikey’s scalp, rubbing it in the same way one might ruffle someone’s hair.

“Just please enjoy it? If Raph asks where it came from you can blame me. He blames me for everything else.” Which wasn’t entirely true, but often days he felt Jupiter James’s words spoke through Raph more then Raph’s own sense of morals. And, considering Raph was one of the kindest people Donnie had ever met, made his heart ache. But as he does with everything else, Don smiles.

For a moment Mikey feels the hand on his scalp twitch like he’s considering tapping their foreheads together but instead he hands over the earned prize that Mikey takes, unable to hide the excited smile on his face, already strumming the strings with giggles in his throat. Testing them to see what noises it’ll make. It won't be long before Mikey teaches himself how to play.

Donnie has to wait until the middle of the night before he finally sees the arrow wound in his side (It was a cheap, extremely lucky shot). But as he tends to the wound, he still smiles.

To steal for himself was just for survival.

But to steal for his brother, to make him smile was an act he’d never regret.

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Thanks for reading!

also thank you Ash for the beautiful art for this fic~ all of this was kinda spur of the moment and im glad this turned out so fun!

we had fun writing this together~ The fantasy AU is one of my personal all time fav au’s and I highly recommend reading more in the ao3 collection

- Pen

#rottmnt #riseofthetmnt #tmnt mikey #tmnt donnie #fanfic #collab #rottmnt fantasy au #the messenger the hunter the prince and the thief #fantasy au #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey

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phoenixyfriend · 3 years

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Yet Another “Deidara is Related to Naruto” Fic Concept

Okay so you know how Deidara is the only person in canon to share Naruto and Minato's highlighter yellow hair? And there's all those fics where Dei is Naruto's half brother?

So let’s flip that a bit.

(Once again with help from @firebirdeternal)

Thought being this: Minato was an Iwa infiltrator's mission baby, and Dei is Minato's ludicrously younger half-sibling who ends up in Minato's care for hand-wave reasons.

Ends up screwing the whole plot because Minato and his team have to pass on the Kannabi mission due to Infant Acquisition.

(Minato having to deal with "Explosions!" the Toddler is... really funny. Kakashi and Obito don't have a Dramatic Death-based falling out they just have to bond over babysitting the world's least safe child.)

I have two (2) ideas on how Deidara ends up in Minato's care. One is more of a shitpost than the other.

We’ll start with the Serious Drama idea.

There was an Iwa nin that went undercover in Konoha at some point, slept around a bit, got someone pregnant, and dipped before they had to take responsibility. Said Iwa nin was aware of the kid, but also like. Undercover. And also a dick. And like sixteen.

Anyway, Minato's mom never told him about his dad beyond "he was a jerk who ditched us, I don't have photos," and then died on a mission when Minato was relatively young, so Minato didn't know just WHERE his dad was from.

Fast forward a solid twenty-five years or so, and that Iwa nin has gotten married. Iwa nin is now early forties, married a somewhat younger woman (thirties), and caused a pregnancy, this time with the intent to stick around.

Unfortunately, Iwa nin is a shitty husband, and his wife only realizes this most of the way into the pregnancy, and can't just divorce him, because she's clan (the husband is not), and that sort of thing has Social Consequences. So she does something risky... and fakes her death.

And then proceeds to go to Konoha, because she knows about Minato, even saw a pic and got his name once because her husband got a little tipsy once and talked about it, and admitted that he'd gotten a buddy in infiltration to snap a photo a few years back.

And so Deidara's mom sneaks her way across the continent, and dies shortly before or after arriving in Konoha. It’s somewhere the dad won't follow if he realizes she's alive, and because what little she's heard about Minato at that point is generally not terrible. The war hasn't ramped up enough for him to pull The Bullshit, so all she has is the info that the infiltration buddies got her husband.

Definitely lives long enough to provide a name and basic info on who the relative is, but dies before Minato gets back from a mission.

Alternately, Jiraiya is the one who does the intelligence legwork necessary to figure out all the connections and then drops Baby Deidara in Minato's lap because Family is Important to orphans like them but then also does nothing to help because he is Jiraiya.

AND NOW THE CRACK OPTION

So most of the How Babies Happen backstory is technically the same, but Deidara arriving in Konoha is not an intentional situation, but rather a sealing mishap.

As one does.

Kushina just wanted to use a seal to locate other Uzumaki survivors and Minato figured he'd test it first since his chakra is less volatile and whoops.

Minato: Hey, maybe I'll find out who my dad is!

The seal was supposed to just give them a general direction and distance. Like "36.2 miles, 32.3 degrees east of north. 73.9 miles, 2.5 degrees south of west." etc

It was not supposed to reverse summon An Entire Baby.

Note, Deidara’s exploding chakra is a kekkei genkai that I'm saying he got from his mom because Minato doesn't have it, but the hands are likely the kinjutsu. That said, I want Minato to be like "Ah. Hand mouths. That's... can someone get Tsunade please?"

Kushina: I'm not an expert on babies, so I could be wrong, but is this normal??

Kushina: I deeply hope that was a thing the baby already had before we accidentally pulled it through seal-space.

Kushina: His hair is like yours? Maybe he's like a cousin or a nephew? Minato: I guess??? Should. Should we figure out how to send him back? His parents must be freaking out. Kushina: Uhhhhhhh [handwave reason to keep the baby]

The scene HAS TO boil down to Kushina going "Wait shit are we parents now?"

Minato: No! I mean, I--I want to, yes, eventually, but I wasn't planning on anything this soon and really we should get married first and also I think this is technically my brother and--

I had two ideas for why they wouldn’t immediately try to send Dei back, and Birdie offered one, but here’s the best option IMO.

Deidara's chakra blows up the seal before they can figure out how to reverse what they did. Before they can even analyze what went wrong.

They kept notes but something something spilled ink idk. They gotta start from scratch.

Equally likely: They kept notes but they're basically grad students and those notes were all done in a caffeine-fueled 36-hour Coding Binge and literally not even Master-Sealer-Master-Codebreaker Jiraiya can decipher what the fuck they were doing, let alone them.

Frankly they just can't unscramble this egg so they have to just Do Their Best

They have to get a blood test done by Tsunade or Oro to figure out who this kid even is. The hair helps but??? Whomst are you, child?

And then Jiraiya's like 'Yeah, I know those hands. Kid's from Iwa.'

And the war’s already underway so they can’t admit to accidentally stealing an Iwa child.

There's not really a way to say "Hey we accidentally kidnapped this baby" and still save political face because nobody is going to believe it was an accident anyways so? I guess we just have this baby now.

Probably there’s a name tag on his shirt or something so he’s still Deidara.

Kushina: Minato, seriously, you're old enough to be the baby's dad, just have him call you tou-chan. Minato: But!!! Kushina: We can make Uzumaki babies later, take care of your technically-brother baby now.

Naruto is born and Kushina's just like "How strong are your family's hair genes???"

Technically-uncle Deidara who is like Naruto's older brother is going to be the worst influence on the Chaos baby.

Never let Obito babysit.

Naruto: I want to do pranks. Deidara: I want to explosions. Obito: Seems reasonable. Let's do it!

Anyway, Obito and Deidara never know what kind of ‘friendship’ they had in the other timeline.

Meanwhile, Rin is so ready to help, like she’s not exactly a huge fan of babies or kids, not like Obito is, but she is determined to help and keeps looking up child growth charts and stuff.

Kakashi is terrified that he’s going to break a baby.

Kakashi does not want to hold the baby.

Kakashi does not want to be in the same room as the baby.

Kakashi is going to sit on the outside wall with a sword and make sure nobody hurts the baby, but he will not go near the baby.

Deidara’s like four years older than Naruto and probably Kushina has him hang out with Itachi since Kushina visits Mikoto so often and Mikoto’s already had her first.

Deidara does not like Itachi.

It’s fine.

Being a 'new dad' doesn't excuse Minato from being involved in the war effort but it does change his schedule up enough to miss Kannabi and I stand by this.

#Deidara #Namikaze Minato #Uzumaki Kushina #Jiraiya #MinaKushi #Naruto #adoption #sealing accidents #accidental baby acquisition #Uchiha Obito #Hatake Kakashi #Nohara Rin #Phoenix Posts

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pearl-blue-musings · 3 years

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Y’all I can’t get over the fact that in the middle of a panorama I got a masters degree like??????? WHOMST

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naberiie · 3 years

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dissertation whatever master’s degree blah blah blah published work whomst my most impressive skill is actually mario kart and getting 3 stars on every grand prix on my friends’ copies to help them get that sweet sweet 100%

#personal #i've trained for years and now it's finally paying off LMFAOO

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sugarchains · 3 years

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theres a whole open schools hashtag on twitter bc people suck and it constantly takes everything within me to not be like yall got me and all the other teachers fucked up

they keep going “the kids need to go back to school” like

my guy

what the fuck do you think we are DOING im so tired of them

like every time teachers go “hey we dont wanna teach in person because literally we dont wanna die” they go “then quit”

theres already a teacher shortage in literally every state, WHOMST is gone teach your kids

and for real they have me all the way fucked up, because like. i have a masters degree??? i can literally go work anywhere

fuck it i could go work in private school, and know that i wouldn’t have to buy my own ppe and worry about my students having internet because private/catholic schools have that covered

but NOOOO im here for these niggas and people who have no teaching experience or certifications have so much to say, but are not putting any money or work in

ANYWAY-

“you all get off 8 weeks in the summer, and you dont do anything so i dont know why youre complaining”

last summer i got 3 different certifications and attended like 3 seminars, one i paid for out of pocket. like i have to CONSTANTLY be working on this certification. i need a hundred hours of professional development every 3-5 years, or else they take my license HELLO?

Im on break, and im gonna spend tomorrow grading and then working on a personal statement for at least 1 summer program, like i really need niggas to like

comprehend that it’s A LOT of work. put up or shut up ok

“you knew the job was hard when you got into it” AHT AHT i didnt sign up to teach through a pandemic bitchass, with no ppe or barely any technology like suck my whole entire dick

#work things #im FINE IM JUST YELLING #about ppl who want to open schools #like

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nikccs · 4 years

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*+ .˚ₓ hello new friends ! i’m mini from the 6ix . i’m here to cause trouble 😈 , with my new kid nikoo , neeks , neekeekee , nikoochu . i would’ve been here earlier but #theweedhittoostrong sOoOoOoOO . . . like this ( i’ll come love u ) and let’s brainstorm , send each other muse posts , make each other scream and discuss what we’re gonna do to S P I C E 🔥 things up around here ! let me know if u prefer discord ! [ 𝕚𝕥'𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 !#0644 ]

do my eyes deceive me , or did i just see ( NIKOO MARTINEZ ) getting out of the car in hunnington ? i guess ( SHE’S ) living around ( DENALI HILL ) , which i could've guessed . hopefully they can keep their ( - SELFISH & - CYNICAL ) shit to theirselves , and focus on being ( + AMBITIOUS & + CONNECTED ) to avoid any problems . and for the love of god , lets hope they don't talk about the ( HIDDEN ) thing .

BASICS !

Full Name: nikoo [ knee - coo ] martinez

Nickname(s): neeks , keeks , neekeekee , nikoochu , kiko ,

Age: 22

Height: 5′2 ft

Date of Birth: january 25th 1997

Zodiac sign: aquarius

Hogwarts house: slytherin

Ethnicity: mexican

Nationality: american

Gender: cis female

Pronouns: she/her

Orientation: bisexual

Religion: agnostic-catholic

Tattoos: a cross on her wrist , latin saying down her spine saying ‘ex nihilo nihil fit . camino largo, paso corto.’ ( nothing comes nothing . long road , short road )

Language(s) Spoken: english + spanish

Accent: american

A LITTLE HISTORY ! [ tw * abandonment , violence , sexual abuse ]

nikoo doesn’t know who her parents were . her memory of them becoming a blur with each passing day. from what she could remember , was being left at a random sidewalk at the AGE OF FOUR with the clothes on her back , under pouring rain in miami , florida . luckily she was standing in front of a home with nice people who said nikoo kept repeating she was waiting for their parents . . . well , her parents never showed up and CPS showed up to put nikoo into the system .

you would expect she would end up with a family that loved her bc she was a baby still - - - WRONG ! every family she was placed with found some kind of fault , or their homes would be raided for maltreatment [ think of those horrible ppl that take in kids just for the paycheck ] , nikoo could tell you the many horrible stories from the homes she’s been in . AT SIXTEEN nikoo was at her last foster home , months before . she was left home alone with her fosterr dad , and her usually technique of ignoring him didn’t work . . . and well , things happen

DAYS LATER , neeks packed a bag in the middle of the night and left her foster home . she never went back . as in , she became a runaway from the state . living on streets , the couches of strangers . the streets became her home , and eventually at EIGHTEEN , she was living in an apartment with some other people who had nowhere to be . throughout the years , neeks met a guy when she decided to do a CO - OP program through high school in a car garage . so the man treated nikoo like his own . teaching her about parts - - - even involving her in his side business - - - stealing car parts from cars and selling them , specifically high end sports cars . that hustle was covered through the garage .

the garage eventually was raided but before that could even happen nikoo discovered a different way to make money . she is hell of resourceful , believing in survival of the fittest and the idea of looking out for yourself . she abandoned the man that helped her out , letting him go down along with his business - - - and nikoo started scamming the people she’s met through dating apps . whether it’s them giving her money , clothes , or paying for something . basically she’s a SUGAR BABY without really giving much sugar . that , and she works as a cam girl to earn even more money ( her savings are WILDD )

the good thing about her past is that she actually excelled in school ! nikoo got her degree in mechanical engineering , along with a songwriting and record diploma . random i know , but she got it , what can i tell you . though she keeps that a secret . technically her whole presence in north carolina is a secret . she lives with her ‘sugar daddy’ in DENALI HILL , whomst she claims is her uncle - - - twice removed bc they look nothing alike . she’s been iin north carolina only for a few years and tells herself it’s just a stepping stone .

PERSONALITY !

if you’re rich , or somewhat profitable , nikoo will find some way to use you . she’s a kiss ass without coming out to be a kiss ass . you know , she’s just slick about it . she loves to be tested mentally . like if you’re willing to tango , she’s all about it . settling for less is not in her mentality , she wants more , and the best of things because she’s never had it growing up .

she’s a straight up hustler ok , if there’s anything she can do for money , she’ll do it . she doesn’t like talking much about herself , and if she does , most things she’ll say about herself are lies . she lives a manageable double ( triple ) life , along with working on her masters online , she currently interns at TESLA . and ofc , she loves cars . one day she plans to put together her own custom car . she writes songs on the sides , not for herself , but for other artists and she’s pretty notable . she’s signed with a publishing house so she gets paid to do that too KDFJGHDFKJGH

to the rest of the world she’s just a mr stewart’s neice from texas , who is staying with him until she gets her feet on the ground with her ‘ modelling gig ‘ . it’s funny because she prefers people to think she was stupid than to actually figure out she’s smart , and also hella promiscuous . unless you’re one of her clients , or paying her for something , she has no interest in you . neeks prefers to be alone . choosing to stay to herself . she’s still the life of the party though , cos you know . . . she can take money out yo pockets , steal that louis wallet , probably hack your account if she wanted too . bitch is smart with computers .

if she’s friends with someone , again , they know what she chooses to tell them . but neeks is pretty laid back , chill . kinda hanging personality , though she dresses like she’s about to hit the club every night , rolling up in a nice ass tesla that’s probably paid for by her ‘ favourite uncle ‘ . she’s flightly af . bc of her clients , she doesn’t do relationships , she doesn’t even like to be touched unless she’s aware it’s coming . if you touch her without her knowing , like hugs , or even trying to scare her , she will. . . . maybe , cut you .

CONNECTIONS ?

I WANT THEM ALL !!!

PLATONIC , ROMANTIC , ENEMIES , BROTP’S , SEND ME SOME MUSE POSTS AND WE CAN DO THOSE TOO

LET ME KNOW YOU WANNA PLOT AND I WILL BRAINSTORM WITH YOU . I LOVE MAKING PLOTS AND TALKING AND BEING A HOT MESSS

#cancelled:intro #this might be . . . long #im #sORRY #LET ME LOVE U THO OK #there's trigger warnings inside this ok

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themadvigilantist · 3 years

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just a thought...

....technically, my hot takes

i could rant about doctor who head writer(s) choices and call it out all day long about why [insert action by # doctor here] is just half done or has an allegory to what's happening now but, the doctor would be absolved from said thing because 'it was to save the world/current time period/person here' excuse.

like i could tell you that:

'the silence vs the doctor arch' is actually just an allegory of police brutality towards pocs in history due to systematic racism that's looked away/forgotten about and how the public/the government uses the whole 'but yall killing each other too excuse' or as the silence put it 'you should kill us all on sight' to shift blame of the non-poc's choice to do the same to pocs but, to a horrifying degree ie what 11 doctor does to the silence AND THE RAMIFICATIONS IT CONTINUES TO HAVE EVEN NOW I AM. which makes the doctor a villain especially because he's known as the man in the blue police box or as a 'hero'. And the abuse towards river song in show and by rose stans?? Oh the disrespect?? Her entire arch with the silence is an allegory of black woman being the most disrespected despite going above and beyond and hiding the pain because 'the doctor doesnt like endings'. And both the silence and her are just brushed aside like..... the water parallel. i just - oof but its too early for that moffat drag

or like the constant disrespect to pocs in rtd's era. which made 12 cringe later on with the first doctor but that him cringing on what he did in his tenth incarnation - yeah rtd aint safe either. he allowed girl in the fireplace to be on our screens.

how the doctor treat river the same as jack and donna combined is something that need to be talked about right now. and how even river in her audios with tenth doctor shows that ten really wanted donna back. like his whole vibe was ‘fuck everybody else tho but, donna’ and i just I HAVE QUESTIONS (both as a romantically platonic ship but more importantly, like ten where are you set at? time lord victorious wise with river? where r u? because you and river talking like ‘time lord victorious’-era and i really need that cleared up.

or how when 9 says he the last of the time lords but both iris wildthyme and him were on earth at those times and that he would’ve felt them LIES. SHE WAS THERE! HER TARDIS WAS THERE TOO IN THE FIRST EP OF ROSE! WACK! ‘im the last of my kind weh’ no tf ur not. ‘i would’ve sensed them *taps his temple* in here* APPARENTLY NOT DUMBASS

the whole master/doctor on the eiffel tower - i can drag BOTH DOCTOR AND THE MASTER FOR THIS BABE - yeah chibnall aint safe just because he got ~diversity~ nah i can drag him too.

i could also offer an addition of sorts to dhawan!master's reveal of what hes done to gallifrey by showing her that what he had done was the final act but what tecteun had done before hand was destroy her true home - her forgotten home, pre-tecteun. Just show her the world that she never had the chance to know - the chance to discover - to learn about and of and where she really came from and destroy it. Just to justify further on why he destroyed Gallifrey like that and how the previous thing would just play further into the fact that tecteun and gallifreyans were actually using gentrification on the doctor the entire time and by destroying her home would be stripping her of her culture and then try to pass it off as ~cute~ or a ~style~ so im glad he just chose to straight up kill the colonizers i mean gallifreyans by turning them into the one thing that made them feel the very consequences of their actions and choices on what they done to the doctor. (With the cybermen tech).

i can even drag iris wildthyme by her roots for how she treated panda. idgaf he’s a sentient stuffed panda I WOULD KILL HER ON SIGHT. ‘oh i made sure in every timeline of your existence that you would die just to keep you from being stuck in a painting even though every single version of you would be financially doing well without me and would kill themselves because of me manipulating the situation so you would do that over and over and over BUT HEY YOU’RE NOT STUCK IN A PAINTING!’ i couldn’t be panda, she would be dead. there would be no more iris wildthyme adventures. i rather be stuck in a painting than travel with her ever again or i would just kill her. on sight. no hesitation. sorry katy manning but, you just gonna have to be jo grant forever.

I mean i could go on, i could but, im sleepy while typing this and yes i've been sitting on all that to myself for years but ... i still watch it and it does small steps to address things but, as far as im concerned - [skips several pages] my ending would just be us having a martha audio with ten (because consistancy) and martha series separate from torchwood ok? like rose got one, jackie got one, lady christina got one, fucking jenny got one, every river audio sound like iris wildthyme (and the newer ones with ten is him thirsting and missing DONNA. like rose whomst? apparently in big finish 10 only knows rose tyler when her name misspelled and smudged on his hand) and donna's audios clearly superior amongst all them, so its martha's time to shine. Give her three audios with him.

Because the timelord victorious audios clearly just skipped martha in the trailer and i cant stand here with him having that much thirst for donna and him in the same breath not say martha's name.

Give her some audios with him. Give her standalone audios too and for once, not let her talk about the doctor. I miss noel too, put him in there too.

#ooc #mv: long post #bbc doctor who #doctor who #{its very easy to drag every single doctor}#{i can drag every single timelord. even my own.}#{i'll go further on these things but yeah}

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i really hope you get to have a brilliant graduation, julia! i'm in my last semester of a (much shorter, haha) master's degree and i swear last year nearly killed me and i was so excited to be on that stage in front of my friends and family this may :( in the grand scheme of things it's really silly i know but i was proud of myself for getting a handle on my depression and finishing a dope thesis and now... idk. (also job prospects whomst urgh.)

thank you so much anon. i hope the same for you too! and i definitely don’t think it’s silly to be upset at our graduation ceremonies being cancelled--it’s a valid reaction and we have every right to feel upset. just as long as we’re not blaming that emotion on anything or anyone, and can recognize the benefit of cancelling the ceremony (ie. to stop the spread of covid and save lives!)

and i’m so proud of you anon, for overcoming all those challenges and rising to achieve your dreams. and i know your friends and family are super proud of you as well!!

we’ll go through this together. you, me, and all our fellow 2020 grads. we worked hard, dammit, and ain’t no microscopic virus is gonna take away our accomplishments, ceremony or no ceremony!!

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mauridianhallow · 4 years

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“Why the Jedi Temple Guards’ Lightsaber Pikes are Yellow; a Theory”

In the New Canon, we have been told that the colour of ones lightsaber is directly related to the Force Attunenment of the Force User who originally powered the Kyber Crystal which powers it.

This makes perfect sense, in fact, and allows for a thought exercise on the specific reason for any particular lightsaber colour.

Now, first of all, to get it out of the way, anyone can use a lightsaber. Anyone can pick it up and swing it about. And anyone can use anyone else’s lightsaber, no problem at all. It will not effect the kyber inside whatsoever. But, akin to the relationship that Wands in the Harry Potter series have with their OWNER as opposed to the person who POSSESSES it, a lightsaber will be more comfortable in the possession of one whomst the Kyber Crystal within has a personal relationship with, more often than not the person who found and used it for the first time, but can be passed down and have its respect earned by another individual (see example: The Skywalker Saber; the Dark Saber; Jaro Tapol’s Saber). Kyber Crystals in the New Canon are alive to an extent, and have exhibited independent reasoning.

Returning to my previous point, when a Force User channels the Force through their newly acquired Kyber Crystal, that Crystal begins to change its colour based on the alignment in the Force of the person in question.

From New Canon, we know that a Green Lightsaber signifies that the Crystal within belonged to someone who has an incredibly high degree of understanding of the Light Side of the Force at the time of creating their lightsaber. That the individual works in tandem with the Force, that they are allies and that the person is focused more on developing their relationship with the Force. It can also be applied to someone who is also incredibly powerful with the Force, see Luke Skywalker, Yoda, and Qui-Gon Jinn.

A Blue Lightsaber in comparison is simply a Force User who is focussed more on the martial aspects of the Force. That they are interested in the meditative state of the martial arts that most Force Users employ in some way or another. A Force User who is focussed on mastering combat with the Lightsaber, and honing their abilities whilst using the Force all the while to increase their martial prowess will most likely have, at the point of lightsaber creation, have a Blue Lightsaber. See Plo Koon, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and of course Anakin Skywalker. Interestingly, a Young Ben Solo’s lightsaber produced a blue blade.

Side Note: Mace Windu’s Lightsaber gave off a Purple Blade because he was accustomed to channelling the Dark Side in tandem with his martial prowess. Blue + Red = Purple.

This of course, leads us to the question of the infamous Red Lightsaber. This is entirely unique to the Dark Side in the New Canon, as no Light Side Force User is seen willingly wielding a Red Lightsaber, and for one reason: the Kyber Crystal within is bleeding. Not blood, of course, but it’s own Force energy. The Sith ritualised this process as part of their initation, whereby it became ritual to gain possession of the lightsaber of a Jedi and corrupt it, forcing the Crystal within to serve the Sith in question. By pouring the Dark Side into the living Crystal, it is forced to serve the Dark Side itself and is known to give off a sort of “pain” that the Jedi can pick up on. The Sith, and Dark Side Users, have Red Lightsabers because they corrupt their crystals willingly.

It is known however that the crystals in question can, and in fact HAVE, called out to nearby Jedi in an attempt to save themselves from continued control by the Dark Side. A prime example of such an event is when the Jedi Padawan Ashoka Tano fought, killed, and subsequently “restored” or “purified” the Kyber Crystals of an Imperial Inquisitor, they no longer bled Red, but produced a White Blade.

Possibly this could signify the alignment of Tano herself, who had at that point accepted her position as NOT a traditional Jedi, but someone who followed the Force itself, simply using Jedi Training to achieve her goals, or it could simply be the natural state of a “purified” Kyber Crystal which has been liberated from the hands of a Dark Side User, most likely a Sith.

Now, this leads itself to a new point. The Lightsaber Pikes of the Jedi Temple Guards are NOT the Lightsabers of the Jedi who use them. They belong to the Temple Guard as a whole, and it is known in New Canon that every Jedi Knight must at some point or another serve time in the Temple Guard, temporally giving up their identity and their Lightsaber to fall into the silent ranks of the Guard. It is also known that during times of War with the Sith, the Temple Guard acted as elite troops for the Jedi Order.

I propose a theory, that the Lightsaber Pikes are Yellow because the Kyber Crystal within, in a mirroring of the Sith Ritual, has been liberated from a dead Sith and mixed with a Green Kyber Crystal, which is symbolic of a pure Light Side User, to create the iconic Double Yellow Blades.

It would make sense to me, ideologically, that the Jedi would in a fashion want to threaten the Sith with Lightsabers which use the Crystals of their fallen Brothers. To show that no matter what, the Light Side will always win and that the Jedi will always be victorious. In a way, to say that whatever happened to these Crystals, they will always belong to the Jedi, and the Sith are nothing but temporary distractions.

If nothing else, my theory is fun to consider! And allows us to imagine what colour blade our own Kyber Crystals would produce.

New Point: it is now interesting to note when characters noticeably changed Lightsaber colour as their character developed. Ashoka began with a purely Green Blade, but as the War went on, and she created a second Lightsaber, her new Crystal gave off a much duller Green/Yellow blade suggesting that over the course of the War, her alignment in the Force has changed, as the Dark Side began to seap into all of the Jedi. Same with Ezra, who’s original blade was Blue, as he wasn’t really interested in the Force, only it’s martial implementation, but in the later seasons his new Saber is Green, suggesting he became more open and accepting of how powerful he was in the Force.

#Star Wars #Jedi Order #Jedi Temple #Lightsaber #Rise of Skywalker #Jedi: Fallen Order #Kyber Crystal

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The Sword of R’lyeh - Chapter 5, Page 71 - “An Unexpected Spark of Passion At The Robotic Bear”

Here’s an exclusive section of my novel ((DO NOT STEAL! IT’S ON MY BLOG AND THAT’S BASICALLY COPYRIGHT!)) wherein R’lyeh meets their love interest, Tobias (I’m not married to that name yet, it’s just a stand-in) at the tavern where he works.

Important thing to remember: I write all these in long-hand on my various notebooks, and this is a direct transcription, so there’ll be some mistakes and strikethroughs, I just ask you to not read those parts.

Without further adieu, enjoy this brief extract from chapter five.

Another day of hardcore demon slaying has concluded, meaning R’lyeh needed to get themselves a well-earned drink and snack from the local tarvern in their home township of Tallahassia: Ye Olde Pizza Pizzazz-O Pizza Pizzazzia Pizzaronia? The Robotic Bear. For not only did The Robotic Bear, a fine establishment that had been in Tallahassia for as long as R’lyeh had remembered, serve the finest circular bread with prodigious cheeses and even smaller discs of pure meat on top, they also provide novelty in the form of games, with tests of knightly skill like firing arrows and skee ball.

HOWEVER, on this night, R’lyeh would find another kind of feast than the one that would satisfy their stomach - this time, they found a feast for their eyes - that, by the way, were normal size and not weird and starey.

The tavern was strolled into by R’lyeh, whomst stood perfectly upright, their spine a beautiful obelisk to the concept of being at a ninety degree angle from the ground rather than curved at the top. Also they had very thick biceps, and a toned torso with really shredded abs and defined pecs that leant them a kind of alluring yet androgynous look, and their armer fit them perfectly and while They walked among the crowd in the tavern the people in the tarvern looked at them and could barely comprehend how cool and amazing they areAlso their hair was straight too and neatly syled and I know while I’ve said this in previous chapters I think its important to just emphasise this again just in case.

However, before Riley R’lyeh could order their circular cheese circular meat bread, and before they could experience sensory overload from the numerous very loud children who were running all over and creating these big lines at the games and just don’t you think it’s kind of fucked up how there are like no restaurants with games where it’s socially acceptable for adults to show up and play the games without everyone looking at you like some kind of creep? Like I don’t wanna kidnap your shitty little kid, Karen, he’d probably just tastebad anyway like that one in the play area in McDonalds before they removed the play area because of the fact I

R’lyeh saw Tobias, the tavern waiter man, across one of the tables, as he cleaned the table with a rag and some Pledge Pledgia. He was on the tall side, like really tall, like he was going on for days, and he was skinny but that was okay, he had a kind-looking face with round, soft cheeks and hair that looked like it’d be fun to run your claws through. The way he leaned over to clean the desk I R’lyeh could see down his shirt and saw some of his chest hair and they just kept looking and standing in the same place and it was weird but Riley could feel their heart beating so, even though they were are a master iof theur own mind and heart, this was a new an d exciing experience and soft face and R’lyehjust stood there and stared for what they later realised was two full minutes.

Eventually, Tobias, wgo was as vigilant as he was handsome, noticed that R’lyehwas staring anf so approached R’lyeh, flattered to have received the curious gaze of such a dashing and erudite and famished knight.

“Can I help you, Mx?” he said and he even used the gender-neutral term and wow that was impressive becuse even though R’lyeh is CLEARLY non-binary they get constanrly misgendered by people but no, Tobias was special. “Have you ordered?”

R’lyeh, who was typically extraodinarily articulate and socially adept, was at a loss for words. They continued to be silent and kept steely eye contact with their eyes that are not too big and starey despite of what some people have said.

“Mx?” Tobias repeated, his voice cracked a little but like in an adorable way, like when you can tell someone is nervous because they like you too? Anyway-- “Are you okay? Do you want me to call someone?”

However, R’lyeh, deciding that, at the time, it was the most clever tactical decision, made a loud, almost piercing shreking shrieking noise that made everyone in the restaurant shudder in surprise and some dropepd what they were holding. While everyone there was confounded by the Warrior Screech emitted by R’lyeh, R’lyeh quickly fled the establishment and stole away into the night, without so much as a single session of skee ball or some pizza bread circules.

R’lyeh decided to then just eat a dead fox rhey found that night, but they could barelt swallow, because the waiter that they would later learn was named Tobias ((for now like I said I’m not married to it, the character, like all characters in The Sword of R’lyeh, bears no resemblance to anyone real, dead, or undead in real life/my life)) was twisting their green guts into passionate knots.

Little did they know of the size of the grrat blaze’s size that would come from that little spark of passion at The Robotic Bear.

#writing #Literature #Fantasy #It's not autobiographical

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edibledragons · 5 years

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𝐶 𝐻 𝐴 𝑅 𝐴 𝐶 𝑇 𝐸 𝑅 𝑆 𝑇 𝑈 𝐷 𝑌

𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑇𝑆 & 𝐶𝐻𝐴𝑅𝐴𝐶𝑇𝐸𝑅𝐼𝑆𝑇𝐼𝐶𝑆

repost & tag away !

BOLD all that applies to your muse. italicized - applicable in some way.

TAGGED BY: whomst TAGGING: whomst

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constable-crystal · 6 years

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🔮 Character Study Traits & Characteristics

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BOLD all that applies to your muse. italicized - applicable in certain verses.

Continued from: [x]

tagging: YOU!! That’s right YOU whomst is READING THIS I tag YOU!! GO HAVE FUN!!

#about crystal #tag memes #((ALSO GONNA TAG SOME POTENTIAL TRIGGERS IN HERE lmk if you want me to add any!!))#tw self harm #tw abuse #tw drugs #tw eating disorder #tw mental health #tw violence #tw death

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