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melishade · 5 months

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Hello, has anyone requested 49 yet?

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War Timeline. Eren and the Kids bonding.

(BTW's I'm so sorry! I meant to save this as a draft and work on it!)

Eren was alerted to the sound of the door rattling, causing him to wake up from bed. He got up from said bed and leaned against the bars blocking him from the door to his room. Honestly this felt more like a prison cell. After he had discovered his powers in Trost, and was handed over to the Survey Corps, he's been treated like an animal, and caged like one.

But he didn't find it fair! Those other titans! Those metal titans from beyond the stars weren't kept in prisons like this. They were allowed to be outside freely! Well, it's not like the Walls had any means of containing them. He still found it stupid and demeaning.

"Got it!" someone proclaimed in a hushed whispered before Eren heard the sound of a click. The door to his room opened, and Eren was surprised to see those three humans that were with those titans. The humans with the odd hairstyle and strange close. Seriously, why was her hair pink?! And how did the boy's hair stick up like that!

The girl, Miko, was surprised to see the bars blocking them from Eren and deadpanned. "Okay, this is fragging overkill."

"We tried. We're probably going to get in trouble for it," The older teen, Jack, proclaimed.

"What, you've never snuck out before?" Miko challenged, "We'll be back with the Bots before anyone realizes what's happening! Besides, no one saw us come in here!"

"Keep your voice down and shut the door," the younger teen, Rafael, told them.

"Yeah, yeah," Miko groaned as Jack shut the door while Miko tucked her bobby pins away.

"What...what are you guys doing here?" Eren couldn't help but ask.

"Us and the Bots wanted to check in on you," Jack explained as the three of them sat down in front of the bars, "And it looks like you could use the company."

"Won't you guys get in trouble?" Eren asked.

"Only if we're caught," Miko smirked.

"Why does it sound like you've done this before?" Eren asked with concern.

"Don't worry about it," Miko brushed off, "Point is, we're having a sleep over and keeping you company for the night!"

Eren couldn't help but be flattered and shocked. They...wanted to spend time with him? Even though he could turn into a man eating monster?

"I'm not the safest to be around," Eren reminded.

"Neither are the Bots," Jack shrugged as Rafael took his backpack off his back and rummaged through it, "We've been in way too many life and death situations that we've been desensitized. Besides, you don't seem like a monster. Like everyone is making you out to be."

"I'm behind bars." Eren tapped the back of his fingers against the metal.

"I've been detained by security." Miko raised her hand.

"For what?" Eren was baffled.

"Trying to steal Cybertronian technology from a museum," Rafael answered. Eren didn't know what half of those words meant, but it didn't matter. The boy smiled as he pulled out four wrapped bars of...something. They looked smaller than the ration bars.

"The last bits of Earth that we'll have for a while," Rafael lamented as he threw two of the bars to Jack and Miko, who easily caught it.

"Scrap," Miko groaned, "I'm gonna miss junk food. All they have here is bread!"

"They have potatoes," Jack reminded, "We could make potato chips. Or fries."

"I thought you hated your job," Rafael recalled.

"I do, but fries are fries," Jack proclaimed as he opened the wrapper.

"Here." Eren was surprised when Rafael handed him a bar for himself. Eren hesitantly took it from him and stared at it. He noticed the way everyone else was ripping the wrapper and mimicked them. When he did, he stared at the snack in confusion. It looked like granola, with something dark wedged between it. It also looked sticky, and it smelled sweet. He noticed the way that everyone took a bite without a care as they continued talking, so he decided that it must be safe.

Eren opened his mouth, took a small bite of the treat, and was bombarded with the sweetness of honey and something new on his tongue. It was from those dark pieces. It was both bitter and sweet. Without thinking, Eren scarfed the rest of it down, stunning the rest of the teens.

"Look at him go." Miko grinned.

Once Eren finished, he realized how that must have looked due to the way the teens were staring at him. "Sorry. Supplies are scarce. We don't get stuff like this often."

"Well," Jack began as he broke off a piece of his granola and handed it to him, "Looks like you need this more than me."

"Wait, I can't-!" Jack took his hand, forcing Eren to stop protesting and placed the granola in his hand. Miko and Rafael ended up following suite, breaking off their pieces and handing it to Eren.

"...why would you do this for me?" Eren asked them, "You barely know me."

"...Well, we think you deserve better than this," Rafael answered honestly.

Eren could only stare at the treat in his hand before smiling. Maybe he couldn't trust those titans, but...the humans were pretty nice. "Thanks...um...what's the dark stuff in this thing."

"Oh that's chocolate," Jack answered.

"Does all food on your world have chocolate?" Eren asked.

"Desserts usually," Rafael explained, "Chocolate isn't even meant to be sweet. It's bitter. They just add sugar."

"Really?" Eren asked as he took a bite out of the granola offered to him.

"The more sugar the sweeter it is, although, some do like it bitter," Rafael explained.

"They're weird," Miko commented, "Although because you guys have potatoes, we can introduce you to fries."

"Fries are what?" Eren asked.

"Fried potatoes," Jack explained, "Although, we'll need oil for that. You guys have oil right?"

"Mainly for the people in the inner walls," Eren answered.

"Welp, looks like we're gonna steal from the rich," Miko proclaimed, rubbing her hands together and grinning.

"Miko," Jack chastized.

"C'mon, they suck! They tried to take Raf and demonize the Bots!" Miko exclaimed.

"She has a point," Rafael agreed.

"Okay, fair, but I don't think it's a good idea to do something stupid when we don't have much protecting us," Jack reasoned.

Jack turned to Eren. "When we get access to our world, we'll show you more foods."

"Really?" Eren asked.

"So much food that it'll break your brain," Miko grinned.

"There's no way there's that much food," Eren proclaimed.

"There's sushi," Miko said.

"Burgers," Jack added.

"Tamales," Rafael offered.

"...what?" Eren was confused, and his confusion caused all of them to laugh.

Levi merely stood by the door to Eren's room, listening to the conversation to be had. He was alerted to the sounds of walking and whispering, and saw those children sneak down to the basement. He was originally going to knock them out and task them back to those titans, but he couldn't help but listen in, and be amazed at how much civility they were giving Eren. They were treating him, someone they didn't really know well, with compassion. It was so kind of them. He wasn't sure if there was an incentive. He couldn't help but listen in to how they were explaining the foods on their world. He was intrigued by the thought of it. This world did sound nice. He hoped he got to see it one day.

(Again! Sorry! That was my mistake! Number 3 is on the draft! Everything else is free game!)

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chuckwon · 1 year

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Concept: Jack Kline was turned into an Ostium

And looking at how the Ostium was used in the season finale further underscores what will be needed in the future for the story to move forward, and for Jack and his family to heal.

Let's go through it:

LATA: Our box has a name. They call it the Ostium.

CARLOS: Oh. Latin for "an opening in the body." What, didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday School? ...So is that thing organic? Is it a mouth or... [chuckles] any other kind of hole?

LATA: Let's just stick with a mouth, please.

ADA: So this box eats monsters?

–SPNWIN 1x07, "Reflections"

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ADAM: It's one of my ribs, dude. Everything can contain the spark of the divine, but this puppy? It's packing enough punch to create life. Or, in your case, destroy God.

SERAFINA: Jack, making your vessel strong, reclaiming your human soul, it was... it was all preparing you for this.

JACK: What'll it do to me?

ADAM: Start an elemental chain reaction. It fuses your soul and your grace into a... Like a...

SERAFINA: Metaphysical supernova.

DEAN: Meaning what?

ADAM: You'll collapse into a living black hole for divine energy. One nothing can escape—not the darkness, not God himself. But once it starts... you can't stop it. So, don't use 'til game time. You dig?

–SPN 15x17, "Unity"

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Dean: All that prep work we did to turn Jack here into a cosmic bomb? Oh. Well, it turned him into sort of a power vacuum. He's been sucking up bits of power all over the place.

–SPN 15x19, "Inherit the Earth"

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"A living black hole for divine energy" / "a power vacuum" is akin to how the Ostium functions. (And remember that Chuck orchestrated this outcome.)

The final step of Jack's transformation in 15x17 and the way the Ostium is activated are also similar:

Adam's rib, containing extra "spark of the divine," was placed in Jack's palm and he absorbed its power. After his initial explosion outward, Jack was then turned into a vessel that acted as a vacuum for divine power.

When an item was placed on the Ostium–like a rock from the Akrida's world–it absorbed the item, which determines what powerful beings the box "eats" and where it sends those beings when activated.

Both Jack and the Ostium were also wielded as weapons.

Which, of course, this show condemns explicitly:

LATA: So you had a friend stuck in a cycle of violence, and instead of helping him, you wielded him like some kind of weapon?

–SPNWIN 1x06, "Art of Dying"

And, with Joan / the Akrida Queen, we saw what happened to a hunter who absorbed monster essence: she became corrupted.

JOAN: What I decided was that the monsters weren't the problem, kid. Mankind is the problem. They always need saving. And Hunters are the ones who end up paying the price with our lives. And then what do these rescued humans do with their precious second chance at life? They waste it… kill each other, beat each other down, destroy our planet. Monsters have it right. Humans are nothing more than food.

LATA: Is that you talking? Or is it the monster essence that's powering you?

MARY: The monster essence drove her mad. She became so obsessed with making sure that Hunters were protected, and she believed the only way to do that was to wipe out everyone who needed saving.

–SPNWIN 1x13, "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"

(Joan is also a dark mirror for Dean, but that's a separate meta topic entirely.)

With how Jack is acting in 15x19 and the SPNWIN finale (and as part of Chuck Won as a concept), something seems to be wrong with him along those lines.

So in regards to the Ostium, what was the solution the team used in the season finale? What did they need to defeat the Akrida Queen?

ADA: The Queen is about to sing her swan song. We can't rewind this tape here.

CARLOS: Wait. What if we could rewind the tape? Metaphysically speaking, if you know what I mean.

–SPNWIN 1x13, "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"

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CARLOS: Well, whatever you feed it creates a portal connected to that object. So we fed it the rock, and it was able to shoot the Akrida back to their world.

MILLIE: So, if we feed it the journal and trace the sigils in reverse, the Ostium can bring here whatever was tied to the journal... the Mystery Man, if he's even alive.

–SPNWIN 1x13, "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"

They reversed the polarity of the Ostium to try to summon Dean, which required using the journal–something “personal” and “clearly connected” to him, as Mary said at one point.

Now, of course, the result when they used it on the Ostium was that it gave the team the Impala rather than Dean for plot reasons. However, the point holds: Dean's journal was the key to metaphysically rewinding the tape and getting the Ostium to release / return what it had absorbed.

That journal was filled with Dean's thoughts, which we got throughout the show in the form of the story he's telling / narrating. They're the healing lessons repeatedly demonstrated by the 1972 gang that Dean has to use in his own life to free himself from the trap he's in, break the cycle of violence, and get his own happy ending.

So, follow the through-line:

The Ostium and Jack are seemingly similar. Just like Dean's journal was used to reverse the Ostium and get it to release/return what it absorbed... The lessons inside of Dean's journal are what’s needed to reverse the polarity of Jack’s transformation, getting Jack to release the God power he absorbed too.

And what are those lessons in Dean's journal? Ah, well, that's what The Winchesters (the story Dean is telling) is dedicated to showing and telling us. That's the function of the entire show.

To highlight a few mirroring moments relevant to the topic at hand:

TONY: You're scared of your own son?

ADA: I'm not scared of you. I... you are my son, and I love you.

TONY: If you love me, you would've told me the truth.

[...]

ADA: I... was wrong to lie to you about who you are, and I was even more wrong for not believing in you. I know you're not your father. You're not the worst parts of him. You're not the worst parts of me. You're just... you're my... You're Tony.

–SPNWIN 1x05, "Legend of a Mind"

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MAC (possessing John): Why did you give up on me?

TRACY: I didn't know how to help you. I was scared.

MAC: I was scared too. I needed my family by my side.

TRACY: I know it's about ten years too late... but I'm here now, and I am so sorry.

LATA: It's not too late, Mac. You can still break the cycle.

–SPNWIN 1x06, "Art of Dying"

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MARY: Because I still want to get out of hunting. I really do. But it's not gonna be at your expense.

–SPNWIN 1x06, "Art of Dying"

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Mutual honesty, apologies, and forgiveness between Dean and Jack are the vital place where they must start. After all... Jack went through with his transformation and later with the corrupting absorption of God power simply because he was desperately trying to earn Dean's forgiveness, something that was repeatedly emphasized throughout season 15. The cycle remained intact instead of broken, and that's why they lost.

So saying that they need to reverse the polarity... What does that mean? It means that their family needs to have emotional release for there to then be the cosmic release of God power, so that that power can be put back out into the universe and no longer have personhood.

Only then will they break the cycle of violence and be able to be free of Chuck's influence once and for all.

You don't need Jack and Ostium parallels to understand and know this about the story. But I do think it's neat, further enhances the overall themes, and once again supports the fact that a Chuck won plot / what happened to Jack was deliberately being centralized! :)

#the winchesters #spnwin meta #the winchesters meta #chuck won meta #chuck won theory #jack kline #spnwin finale #spnwin 1x13 #the ostium #chuck won truthing #me actually posting meta??? it's a fucking miracle #hi everyone I've been learning video editing so I haven't been writing all the meta pieces I still want to do about this show smh #my meta

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rhersimp · 1 year

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Rating Every Monster in the first Fear and Hunger on how Hard they Fuck:

For the sake of simplicity, I'm specifically using this list only to talk about Fear and Hunger's Monsters. Gods both new and old won't be included, but humanoid or formerly human beings like the cavedwellers or Pocket Cat will be. Got it? Cool. I’m only making a part two if Miro sees this and demands it of me.

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1) Maneba - Something something tentacle sex monster joke yada yada. But for real tho, you'd probably get the same amount of sexual satisfaction jacking off into a plastic grocery bag in my opinion. Plus, talking to them reveals that they aren't very passionate creatures overall, so foreplay would probably suck. 4/10

2) The Guards - Probably some of the most intense dick game you're ever going to get in your life, provided that you survive it of course. Otherwise, they're pretty graceless, they can't dirty talk you, and you might lose one or more limbs. Not a great package deal for most. 5/10

3) Ghouls - Probably your most sympathetic option. The fact that they were once normal humans can abate some of the horrors if you're into fucking corpses. Not to mention that showing them love through marriage to become a more powerful being entirely. Truly a romance endorsed by Sylvian. Just keep in mind the corpse smell is there forever. 7/10

4) Lizardman – A beast for the scalies out there. These guys fight hard and fuck hard, but it's probably a little crude and simplistic. If you're a human, they're probably going to skin you alive at some point, though preferably after the sex? Don't overestimate the lizard tongue thing tho, it's not worth the hype. 5/10

5) The Night Lurch – There are just a lot of rapists in the dungeon aren't there? Like it's not just me? The dungeon must just be primo real estate to these guys I guess. Anyway, their spiny cock is probably a masochist's dream, and the extra prehensile cocks are def a nice touch, but unless you're a biastophile, they might come off a little too pushy in the long run. It would probably be a one-and-done and he wouldn't kiss you goodnight. 6/10

6) Cavedwellers - Despite the weird, semi-racist implications of their origin, I think these guys are real gentlemen underneath it all. They're likely very practiced from having nothing to do but fuck all day to stay busy, and they'd make sure that you got off before they finished. They've also got some incredible endurance, so they can wait out the long game if you need to. So long as you never attempt to have a conversation with them they'll probably love you long time. 6 or 7/10

7) Miner Spectre and Other Spectres– Something tells me that the combination of existing only as ethereal beings plus the downside of being in a constant state of bitterness and agony isn't a recipe for good head. 0/10

8) Mumbler – This is a case of 'don't judge a book by its cover'. It's sad too, cause they're constantly erect and they've definitely got the goods, but even without the explosion hazard they're pretty unwieldy and hard to smash, plus fucking them is just an increased chance of brain-eating syphilis. Also, they're just terrible kissers. 2/10

9) Greater Mumbler – Now this is a creature of charisma, of elegance and joie de vivre! Unlike their counterparts, they've really got everything going for themselves: supple bodies, sexual versatility, free will from the god of the depths. I really don't think you get much sexier than that. Yes, there's still the explosion risk and the brain illness to consider, but also consider the depthussy. High 7 to 8/10

10) Scarab – I mean, if you can talk to them it might be down to clown. They're pretty reasonable manners wise, so they'd probably try to make sure you were having a good time. There's just no real way to do anything other than hands and mouth stuff, and you can't even get them off as a thank you so the whole affair just feels one-sided and awkward (unless maybe they cum acid?) Don't get me wrong, it's okay if you do tap it, but if I were you I wouldn't brag about having done it, you know what I mean? 4/10

11) Moonless Guard – Considering that the reason this thing exists at all is because a guard convinced a moonless wolf to a marriage is probably a sign of what you're getting into here. Trying to fuck this thing looks like it comes with more downsides then up ones though, mostly thanks to a giant mouth that cannot suck or smooch you. Is the half-animal half-guard dick good enough to risk the endless track marks and the very possible limb loss? Eh. 4/10

12) Body Snatcher – This thing knows the human body inside and out for sure, and it can use its multiple arms to tickle your ass into willing submission. Additionally, as a follower of the depths, it can probably hit your prostate/g-spot pretty fast and hard. If anything, this guy is probably a show-off with how much skill its got. The only turn-off comes from the fact that it's more insect than it is a doll/humanoid puppet figure, and that's more of a matter of perspective than anything else wouldn't you say? 8/10

13) Lord of the Flies - They've good a lot of strong qualities for sure. Big and burly, fluffy, Gordon Ramsey's face, ect. They could also manhandle your ass real good to be really domineering if that's your thing. It's too bad that they're insanely smelly tho, cause unless you get hot for the smell of wet dog rot, you're probably gonna puke all over him and that might kill the mood. Still, if you can stomach the smell, they might be worth it, provided he doesn't just kill you on sight or whatever. 7/10

14) Uterus – You know, I thought these things were called mannequins before looking more into their origins. That was a simpler, kinder time of ignorance. These things were created by a very bad person for extremely niche sexual reasons. Yes, you can sex it up, but know that if you do fuck it, you've earned every bit of judgment and revulsion that comes your way babe. 5/10

15) White Angel – Now this is hunk, pure and simple. Not exactly everyone's first choice what with the lack of genitalia and their dopey-looking arms, but just look at the fucking build of this thing! This guy's prime material for rutting up against on a cold night for sure, and who says hand stuff is off the table completely? He looks like he's got a couple of malformed fingers he could stick up your holes. The whole 'him being born out of your grudges' thing is also incredibly sexy all by itself like c'mon. 7 or 8/10

16) Lizardmage – With the proficiency of the yellow mages and the lizardmen's strength you've got something special on your hands if you manage to swing one of them. It'd be an interesting challenge to make out for sure, but this is probably the closest chance you're going to get to suck and fuck a magic dinosaur. Don't you dare tell me that you'd pass that up just because 'you can't get into a comfortable position' or 'the whole affair feels a little too close to having sex with a horse' or whatever. Pussy excuses! I will actively mock you if you turn down this incredible opportunity. 7/10

17) Cavemother – If you tell me that all you want in life is to smash your frothy sex organs up against the Cavemother, my only response to that will be 'Good, about time'. This poor creature lives for the sole purpose of getting laid and if you make it your mission in life to help them fulfill that goal I think that says a lot about your good and moral character. However, this is definitely a charity project, cause I get the impression smashing this creature probably just feels like rubbing yourself down with beef jerky before you get crushed under their weight anyway. They do have nice tits that can be milked, however. 5/10

18) Crow Mauler – Easily everyone's first choice, and how could you blame them? This dude's got train engine hips that can body you in a minute and abs like a garage door. The fact that he stalks you through the dungeon determined to decapitate you in a single blow is just the cherry on top of it all really. Honestly, your chances of getting laid before he kills your ass are fairly low, but it really comes down to the kinda bets you're willing to take. If you manage to pull it off and still have a pulse you're a goddamned sigma chad beast. 10/10

19) Molded – If you've got a thing for fucking raw meat I guess these are your guys. The whole thing does vibe on like an ero guro type level or whatever. I just feel like you'd also have to be aroused by misery too though, cause these things are sad to just look at for fuck's sake. No hands, arms, dicks, or even a decent fighting strategy, they're truly pathetic. I mean idk dude, feels a little mean-spirited to entertain the thought even. 3/10

20) Blights – They're literal god dinosaurs that can fly around and eat your face off. You could probably manage a much more viscerally graphic and sensual 'magic carpet ride' scene if you were seeking romance beforehand. I'm not seeing much in the way of 'fun stuff to stuff your genitals in' however, and what's more, they kind've have a similar texture to the molded which is kinda ehhh. A unique choice and it'll give you an interesting story, but I don't see it developing into romance or much else after the deed's been done. 6/10

21) Cavegnomes - The cavemother's kids, but lord are they hella dumb. They seem so unenthusiastic about doing basic shit like even just engaging with you that I have a difficult time understanding where the apple fell in relation to the tree. If you manage to track one down and put your hot bod anywhere near them it's probably not going to last longer than a few minutes and you'll have nothing to show for the wasted effort. Good job genius, you basically just tried to fuck a bird. 2/10

22) Butterfly – Honestly fuck the cockroach king, what a fucking loser. The butterfly is sweet and has an earnest goal they're working toward. If the prospect of becoming their final form came through the two of you fucking they'd likely be down, but I somehow doubt the God of the Depths is that good-natured. If you're anything like me you'll probably want to baby him and make the whole affair very sweet, especially rubbing his lil wing nubs a bunch as you kiss his proboscis. If you are anything but gentle and sweet to the butterfly I will hunt you down myself. 7 or 8/10

23) Human Hydra – Now I know what you're thinking, 'Isn't this thing basically already just a big orgy ball of people as is? What will adding my weight actually do in the long run?' The answer is nothing! It's virtually useless! You'd have a better time losing yourself to the Sylvian bunny cult, cause at least they're not going to taunt you with COD lobby-level insults about your mom or whatever. 1/10

24) Black Witch – Just your average working-class gal living it up in the dungeon. Probably into some freaky pain-play magic stuff thanks to Gro-goroth so if that's up your alley then you're definitely in for a good time for sure. Not gonna lie tho, her lips look hella chapped and while I can completely sympathize (chapped-lipped girl gang for life), it does raise the question of how much bodily maintenance she's up kept to this point. Then again, you're fucking monsters in a dungeon so like…why am I even bringing this up? Whatever, she's got a mad sexy laugh. 7 or 8/10

25) Iron Shakespeare – The Statue of Liberty's sexy serial killer cousin. While kissing is probably off the table unless you like the taste of rusty coins, it looks like it'd be a lot of fun to spank his iron butt armor just to hear the 'PTUUUUUUUNG' sound that would come out of doing so. The fire is a bit of a hazard, and maybe you don't want to get too serious in the throes of passion as a result, but grinding up on some semi-warm metal probably isn't too different from your average night alone amirite y'all? 7/10

26) Trotur – This guy was definitely banned from most BDSM munches and it really shows. The dude does not have a safe word and does not care about whether or not you get off or not. Just a really horrible dom all around and I would not recommend giving him your Fetlife account. Like yeah, I get that there's someone for everyone out there, but I promise you that endurance is a finite resource and eventually this dude's 'I'm going to torture you past your human limits' act is going to get old. 3/10

27) Skin Granny – I'm just thinking that if that's what it'll do to your face imagine what it'll do to your foreskin amirite? 1/10

28) Salmonsnake – It's got good voring potential, and I imagine that its skin is probably very self-lubricating which gives it some points. The tongue also has some interesting capabilities, but truthfully, it comes across as a monster you'd have more fun eating seasoned than eating out. Then again, there's no rule saying that you can't do both, just make sure you tell people you fucked something closer to a dragon than an axolotl so that people will be more impressed. 6/10

29) Double-Headed Crow Mauler – I wish I could say that there's never too much of a good thing, but in this case I feel like you're not going to get a double dose of all the good stuff if you know what I mean. Still, it might be nice to have a partner coax one of the heads into some heavy petting while you go nuts on it from the other end. He'll definitely murder you both once you're done so it's absolutely worth the effort imo. 9.5/10

30) Red Man – Poor little guy, fuck Ronn Chambara's sadistic ass. This dude just needs some kisses and loving whispers and he'll be super sweet on you. It'll probably be the first pleasurable experience he's had in a long time, so don't take it too personally if he tries to smash you with his big fists at first. It might be kind've brutal foreplay, but patience and care will turn this angy boy into a gentle pile of salami. 7/10

31) Nameless – This guy is very much about quality control, so he's not going to let just anyone slob his knob. I like to imagine that he holds the exact same trials to bone him as he does to pass through the Golden Temple. Suffice to say the man (golem?) has high standards, very much so for what ultimately boils down to fucking a giant rock. Also, unless you're really into the taste of grit, this might be a make-out session worth skipping. 4 or 5/10

32) Old Guardian – A big ol' Alll-Mer simp, he's definitely going to play hard to get. Still, I don't see why that should restrict the guy from getting some game on in the meantime. Aside from his amazing fashion sense, I imagine that he and the Nameless are probably alike in many ways, the biggest of which being that they're both sentient rock people who probably fuck like rocks and have very high standards. The main difference between them is the patience of the Guardian, so chances are you can stand to fuck up a little more moves-wise around this guy and he'll be less judgemental. Well, you know, hopefully. 5/10

33) Harvestman – ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 10/10

34) Lady of the Moon – Normally I'd just chalk this up to being a Maneba on classy mode, but there's genuinely some sexual provenance here. She's got three very kissable faces and I imagine it would probably feel really nice to run your fingers through her tentacles. Sure, she might ask you to commit some child trafficking, but that's just the sort of trade-off you have to decide is worth your while or not! How far are you willing to go to get sloppy toppy off one of Rher's finest minions? And is anyone really gonna blame you for falling into the temptation? Probably, but fuck 'em. 8 or 9/10

35) Pocket Cat – Speaking of Rher's finest minions and all, I'd be remiss not to include the man, the myth, the legend himself. He's a gentleman, a man of consent and good standing and good breeding! It's too bad that you're probably too old for him in this go around, but again, I'm sure that for the small price of child abuse he'd be willing to give you a little peck on the cheek. Is it worth it? Yes. 10/10

#fear and hunger #fear & hunger #funger

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happyk44 · 3 months

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BotL but before she fades away, Bianca's ghost tells Percy that her death is not his fault and he needs to stop hurting himself over it. Grover takes a moment then asks if that's why Percy asked him how to dull an empathy link. Percy tries to insist it's not! It really is because of the whole holding the world on his shoulders and how Grover felt that to an extent and he didn't wanna risk something like that happening again.

And it's true. Sort of. It's part of the reason. One part was the mutual awkwardness of jacking off, knowing your best friend would know even miles away.

But the biggest part of asking was because of how he sat on the toilet, shower running, holding Riptide and thinking for a moment how good it would be to bleed. Then remembering the empathy link. Remembering how his mom shook him awake to ask if he was okay after a godawful nightmare that woke Grover up and had him IMing Sally to check on Percy.

How he lied through his teeth that it was just a standard nightmare - tentacle monsters, zombies everywhere. Not him powerless to stop the destruction of his friends. Not him held down by powers unseen while they all died in his name.

Grover is not persuaded by Percy's roving eyes. His stumbled laughter. "It's not!" he tries for the fifth time but Annabeth's gaze is piercing, and Grover's faced is pinched and worried, and Nico is... He falters. His mouth is dry. "It's not just because of her."

His whispered admission is hoarse and covered in self-deprecation and misplaced humor.

Grover shakes and Percy hates himself. His hands tremble and Percy wants to bleed. Knows the moment he's alone, Riptide will be slicing sharp and precise across his inner thighs, across his upper belly. Places people won't see. Won't question.

"Percy-" Annabeth starts and he stiffens up quick.

"No," he barks and they all flinch. He rolls his shoulders. "I'm not talking about it right now. We have more important things to do."

"This feels important," Tyson says.

Percy wonders if he even knows what they're talking about. What Bianca's vague words spilled to the others.

"Tyson's right," Annabeth says. "This is important too, Percy. You can't just -"

"I can," he snaps. Her jaw clicks shut. Tyson's confused frown deepens. Percy turns away from both of them, from Grover slowly stepping closer. "And I am."

His retreat from the earnest expressions lands his gaze on Nico. His pale face is downturned, brows narrowed. His jacket hangs off his skinny frame. His fingertips barely peek past the sleeves. His shirt is loose and wrinkled. It settles mid-thigh. Even his sword is holstered around his belly instead of his waist.

He's too small, drowning in things bigger than him.

Percy thins his lips and says nothing. "Lets head back to the cabin. We need to rest."

He stalks off before they can say anything else, already plotting the next wound and stifling the empathy link. Grover will never feel how bad it gets, how deep Percy can truly go when it's only his life on the line. And Grover will never know of the consuming nightmares and the boiling thoughts, or how when this is all over, when Kronos is back in his box far underground and the war is over, when Nico safe and his promise to the fates fulfilled, Percy is going to walk to the edge of Olympus, breathing in the sweet taste of victory, and jump straight into the underworld, never to breathe again.

#happy talks pjo #percy jackson #self harm mention #suicide mention

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The Love from a Skeleton [Jack Skeleton X Reader]

Plot: Halloween... The time of year you absolutely hate. Not because of the ghouls and monsters, you enjoyed that kind of thing, it's because of trick or treaters. They get free candy and whine and complain to their parents if they didn't get what they expected, which is the whole bowl of candy. Anyways, since you don't celebrate that holiday, you decide to go for a late stroll through the woods on the hiking trail. While walking, your whole life changes. And I mean that literally... Everything started to change drastically until you find trees with holiday symbols on it. One of them being a Jack-o-lantern. Being curious, you enter through the door and discover a world that would represent a children's book written by Stephen King. But the leader of this place was a king. Not just any king... A pumpkin king. His name is Jack Skellington. He's a very tall and slender skeleton with a pinstripe suit, a black cat bow tie and ghost dog named Zero. He discovers you and welcomes you to Halloween town until he can figure out how to send you home. But this place is perfect! No taxes to pay No drama And no more loneliness Jack believes that your hideous. But don't worry, hideous in the Halloween town definition means... Beautiful. Enjoy! *I do not own the Nightmare before Christmas. All rights belong to Tim Burton and Disney™*

Chapter 3

Previous ~ Next

Jack was a very polite and caring person, or should I say, skeleton to be with. He had this nature about him that you enjoyed. He spoke about Halloween Town and the people who inhabit the town. There was the mayor who apparently had two faces. One was joy and the other was both sad and scared. Then a certain doctor named 'Dr. Finklestein'.

The name was a little hilarious, but you didn't want to be rude. Jack also talked about the clown on the unicycle and said his name was literally 'Clown'. The others that were mentioned were the vampires, the werewolf, and the zombies. You didn't want to tell Jack that you were basically spying on them when they were singing because it would be a little bit weird.

"Where are we" you asked. Jack looked around and looked confused. "It's someplace new" said Jack. Upon closer inspection, it was the trees again. The ones with the symbols on them. You both continued to go towards them and Jack looked at you. "Are these the doors you were talking about"?

"Yeah, but I still don't know what they are". You and Jack were now in the middle of the tree circle observing the symbols on them. They were the same ones you saw put the pumpkin door was missing. "(Y/n)... look".

You looked to the tree Jack was looking at and saw a small Christmas tree. It looked better than all the other trees. You looked at Jack and saw that he was fascinated by it and began walking towards it. When he reached it there was a golden doorknob and he twisted and the door opened to reveal nothing. It was the same thing you saw when you opened the pumpkin door.

Jack looked at you and you both shrugged. But just like before a powerful gush of wind pulled you into the tree and Jack quickly took a hold of your hand to catch you but the wind was pulling him as well. He tried fighting it but he lost balance and you both fell down the dark hole, leaving Zero alone. You and Jack were screaming as you both fell down the dark void and Jack refused to let you go.

Finally, after some time you both landed on a snow hill and were holding onto each other. Once you both realized that, you both let go and awed at the scene before you both. There were bright light's all over and snow covering every flat surface. There was a massive Christmas tree in the center of the place and small houses decorated with Christmas themes all over. It reminded you of the inside of a snow globe. 'Why do people decorate their houses so early when it comes to Christmas'?

Jack got down on one hand and used the other to see from a distance what was up ahead. His bony hand collapsed in the foot of snow and when he pulled it out, he had snow on the palm of his hand. He looked at it curiously before taking a small bite out of it. You smiled a little, remembering when you were younger that you would mostly eat the snow rather then play in it.

Jack tried looking closer at the place but lost balance and went barreling down the snow hill and landing in a snow pile. You fell with him and when you stood up he broke out in song.

What's this? x2

There's color everywhere.

A snow flake fell and Jack took a hold if it, somehow, and inspected closely but ran into the snowman that was next to him.

What's this?

There's white things in the air.

What's this?

I can't believe my eyes

I must be dreaming.

Wake up Jack, this isn't fair!

What's this?

You and Jack then heard noises coming towards you and Jack got into the snowman to blend in with his surroundings but he then pulled you behind you. There were several elves on a sleigh singing but it honestly sounded strange. Like a squeaky duck.

What's this? x2

There's something very wrong

What's this?

There's people singing songs

There were then some elves on a polar bear going past you two and Jack hoped after them.

What's this?

The streets are lined with little creatures laughing

Everybody seems so happy

Have I possibly gone daffy?

What is this?

What's this?

Jack hopped out of the snowman and quickly took your hand just in time before the elves on the bear saw you. Jack led you to a lamp post and while he stood on top of it, you stood at the bottom, looking where he was looking to see elves having a snowball fight.

There's children throwing snowballs

instead of throwing heads

There busy building toys

and absolutely no one is dead

Jack stepped down from the lamp post and took the umbrella that you just noticed he had and he pulled a string of lights down to his face with two of them in front of his eye sockets.

There's frost in every window

Oh, I cant believe my eyes

He released the string of lights and his tone changed from excited to sincere happiness.

And in my bones

I feel the warmth that's coming from inside

You smiled that he was happy to discover Christmas but he quickly went back to being excited and pulled you close to him to look in a small window on a door that was behind you both.

Oh look

What's this?

Inside was two elves standing underneath the mistletoe. The girl elf leaned in and kissed the boy elf making him blush a bit. It was cute. You always loved the mistletoe tradition.

They're hanging mistletoe

They kiss?

Why, that looks so unique

Inspired!

Jack took your hand and led you to another window. Inside was three elves. One looked to be a grandma elf with two smaller elves. There were chestnuts being roasted on the fire while the two small elves were on the lap of the grandma elf.

They're gathering around

And hearing a story, roasting chestnuts on a fire

What's this?

Jack looked over and saw two elves decorating a small Christmas tree with lights. The girl elf was making the light's go on while the boy elf was spinning the tree in a perfect matter for the lights.

What's this?

In here, they've got a little tree

How queer!

And who would ever think,

And why?

They're covering it with little things

Jack stood up and with surprising strength, he took your hand and pulled you up with him on the roof of the house next door.

They've got electric lights on strings

And as a smile on everyone

So now, correct me if I'm wrong

This looks like fun x2

Oh, could it be I got my wish?

What's this?

Jack pulled you in with him as you both climbed into the open window of a large bedroom with a lot of sleeping elves. Most likely children. But Jack continued his singing but he was a bit more quieter to not awake the elves.

Oh my

What now?

The children are asleep

Jack lifted the covers underneath the bottom bunk bed and saw nothing to prove his point with his lyrics.

But look,

There's nothing underneath

Jack put the cover down and silently moved across the floor on his knees to go to a bed five sleeping elves.

No ghouls

No witches here to scream and scare them or ensnare them

Jack went to the last elf and sang softly considering how close he was to it and sighed in comfort.

Only little cozy things secure inside their dream land.

Jack then saw something that caught his eye again and said the same two words again but he was a little bit loud and instantly woke up the elf. Jack quickly took your hand but you swore you saw the elf get a glimpse of you as you were pulled out the window.

Jack pulled you to what you assumed to be the toy factory. There were shadows of the elves making toys and being put on the conveyor belt. Jack still had his umbrella and you were afraid of falling so Jack held you close to him.

The monsters are all missing

And the nightmares can't be found

And in their place, there seems to be good feeling all around

Instead of screams

I swear

I can hear music in the air

Jack took the umbrella and used the end to hook on the light strings and you both swinged towards a small window with cakes and pies. The smell was mouth watering and they looked delicious. Jack's tone went from excited to sincere again.

The smell of cakes and pies are absolutey everywhere

Jack's tone changed from sincere to excited again and he let go of the umbrella and you both plunged down on a carousel. You somehow didn't get hurt and started to get a bit dizzy from spinning.

The sights

The sounds

There everywhere and all around

I've never felt so good

Jack leaped off the carousel and on a train making it's 'choo choo' sounds. You got off the carousel and admired him as you tried to catch up to him.

This empty place inside of me is filling up

I simply cannot get enough

I want it,

Oh, I want it

Jack then jumped off the train and landed on a sled going down hill to meet you at a tall sign.

I want it for my own

I've got to know x2

What is this place that I have found?

What is this?

Jack was walking towards you but face planted into the tall sign and fell in the snow. You cringed and were about to lend a hand but he sat up and read what the sign said. "Christmas Town"? He seemed to enjoy the name and you wanted to say something to him but a door opened and you both gasped at what you heard.

It was Santa Claus!

You couldn't believe this since you were told that he doesn't exist but after everything you've seen so far, you had to believe it. You looked at Jack and he quickly got up to pull you behind as he tried hiding behind the tall 'Christmas Town' sign. He was thinking about something, but whatever it was got you thinking as well. "(Y/n), we've got to tell the people of Halloween Town what we've discovered"! You didn't say anything but got a bad feeling in your chest that this wasn't going anywhere pleasant to tell the other monsters.

"Ok, but how are you going to tell them"? Jack thought about your question and a light bulb went off in his head. "We'll need proof. I'll go around and gather some things. I want you to go back up the hill and wait for me". It was a good thing you wore thick clothes, otherwise you would've been frozen solid halfway during his song.

"Ok, but please don't take long".

"I won't, I promise. Now hurry, before someone sees us"! You followed Jack's simple instruction and ran to the top of the hill. It was the same one where you both landed after going through that Christmas tree door. Those doors had to have been there for who knows how long. Has someone else found them before?

Who created them?

And why?

All these questions need answers and it put a lot of theories in your head. You pushed it all aside and sat down to admire the beauty of Christmas Town.

#will add more tags later

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Chapter 72! @gyubby99

When everyone went to sit back down, Elsa and Jack approached Ms. Carla and her husband. "Oh hello dear!" Carla exclaimed as she hugged Elsa. "This must be the lucky groom! Hello Jackson," Carla stated as she shook Jack's hand. "Hello Ms. Carla. Are you enjoying the wedding?" Jack asked. "Very much so! Thank you for inviting us!" Carla replied. As they finished their conversation, Elsa and Jack went to go sit down to enjoy the rest of their wedding reception.

People began going home or to wherever they had been staying, well.. those people being Carla and her husband. They were the only people there who weren't magical, or related.

"Do you have a place to go?" Elsa asked her parents. "I'm afraid not..." iduna stated. "You can come home with us! We have the living room! Or you could sleep in olafs room," Jack offered. "That's a great idea Jack!" Elsa exclaimed. "What about Anna?" Agnarr asked. "Oh don't worry papa, after we have that talk, Kristoff and I are going to stay with rapunzel," Anna reassured. "Right.. the talk..." Agnarr replied, a little scared for what might be in store.

An hour or so later, Everyone was back at Elsa and Jack's apartment. Elsa, Anna, and their parents all sat in the small kitchen silently, while Jack stayed in Elsas room so he could give the family their privacy. "Why did you guys make elsa keep her powers hidden from me?" Anna asked. "We didn't know how to handle them... you had already been hurt... in all honesty, when we got back from Attohallan we were going to tell you.. but then...." Iduna answered as she recalled she and her husband's deaths. "But I just... wouldn't it have been safer? To tell me my sister had powers she physically couldn't control so I could be aware? I could've helped her so much back then if I'd have known..." Anna replied. "We realize that now, Sunshine... we should have told you," Agnarr stated. "Its so strange having you here again... after all Anna and I have been through...." Elsa muttered. "What have you been through?" Iduna asked. Elsa looked at Anna, who nodded with a small smile. "From my point if view, I hurt my sister... then I felt I had to lock myself away because I was a monster... then... then I lose my best friend... then my parents.... then I gain my boyfriend.. then I lose my sister... then she comes back to life... life is amazing for days... I get pregnant... I lose my baby...." elsa told. Her parents eyes widened at the last part. "You... you lost a baby?" Iduna asked. Elsa looked up, a bit numbly. "Yes... then Jack and I broke up... then I died.... came back to life... then I lost kristoff... then anna, again.. thought Jack was dead... lost 2 of my friends... my niece and nephew.... and that's not even the full story.. I'm just naming off how many people I watched die," Elsa explained. "And Anna's point of view?" Agnarr asked. Anna sighed. "My sister shuts me out for no reason... I live in isolation my whole life until Elsa's coronation. I meet a guy... we get engaged... Elsa runs away after her powers get revealed to the whole kingdom. I go after her.. I meet kristoff... my fiancé turns out to be a douche bag.... kristoff, elsa, Jack, our entire found family live in peace... then Elsa hears... your voice calling to her," Anna explained before looking to her mother. "Mine?" Iduna asked. Anna nodded. "We set out to find the voice, Elsa breaks her promise that we would find the voice together... I thought Kristoff left me.. then Elsa left me... then... then Elsa died... I figured our that our grandfather had killed the northuldra leader without reason, and that he did so because he was afraid their magic would overrule him... then Olaf died... then I had to break the dam," Anna explained. "You what?!" Agnarr scolded. "That dam protected Arendelle!" He stated. "Yes, and it's also the reason that the forest was hidden!" Elsa replied. "Arendelle was safe! Elsa came back as the fifth spirit and saved it. Then we lived on happily, I became queen, had two kids... I had to watch my husband die. Then I died... then I'm back and well... you know the rest," Anna finished. Their parents sat there silently. "You kept... so many secrets from us..." Anna muttered. "You hid Elsa away... kept me in the dark for 13 years.... god.. we love you.. but... all the secrets..." Anna stated. "No more secrets. Not anymore. We promise," Iduna stated. Elsa and Anna looked at each other before smiling.

#jelsa #frozen #elsa #frozen 2 #rotg #jack frost #rise of the guardians #snowtp #disney #royalfrost

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💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡 🌺Wincesties/Adjacents Please Interact Here🌺 💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡

It has been said that we don’t talk enough about Sam and Dean’s codependency (or enmeshment, ymmv). Sad, but true😔. So, let’s talk about Sam-Dean and sacrificing some more.

In 2x22, Dean did initially try for more years of togetherness but ultimately had to settle with only one year. At this point, as those that had watched s1 would know, Dean didn’t believe in heaven/god/angels. So, Dean’s deal here was about togetherness.

In 4x09, Sam is shown at an all-time low. Drunk, mourning and probably still thinks he deserves death for being a monster/other instead of life/good, doubly so if it means the cost of his brother-wife. So, he calls up a crossroads demon to demand/barter/exchange himself for Dean. In this instance, the goal is not them being together. Honestly, we all know that is the preferred option given how they’ve interacted with each other the full run of the show. (Personal space, doors, and separation are the real big bad.) But, Sam will give that up if it means his bro-for-life is safe. Safe, not necessarily happy.

This leads us to 5x22. Sam’s sacrifice for the world and ultimately his brother. The episode for all those people asking where was Sam’s happy memories of his brother in heaven if he loved Dean so much. And they were right there in that flashback. Memories so powerful/good/loving/happy/together-ful that Sam overtook the devil and dragged both archangels in the cage, along with Adam 💀. Anyways, Sam yet again gave up being together for his brother to be safe. He already knew from experience his brother would be upset. But, He hoped Dean could find a way to move on and be at peace with Lisa. (Though, 6x01′s domestic mourning montage and Dean telling soulless that he rather his brother be alive tells us that was not the case. Poor Lisa and Ben. Glad, they didn’t hear that.💀)

In 8x23, Sam was about to make a new sacrifice for the world/his brother, locking all the demons up in hell via the trials. And when he found out he was going to die he still didn’t want to stop. But, Dean gave him his own puppy eyes and said something like, “No, Sammy, babe. 🥺We/Us. Sam!exception. Together!chesters.” And Sam was like, “😐... You’re so totally right. Bros-forever.💕” Then they get bro-married and hug it out. So, they decided they’re safer together and that’s what matters. They’ll get all the demons locked in hell later. The world’s safety was pretty much sacrificed here.

In 10x23, another sacrifice was set up. But it started out the opposite of the other times. Dean wasn’t going to sacrifice himself this time, but Sam and their togetherness for the safety of the world. Except Sam gave MoC!Dean puppy eyes and family pictures and told Dean how good he was, and Dean was like, “I’m so sorry I have such good taste that the world has to suffer, Sammy 😐,” and stabs Death. So, the bros stay together and the world gets the Darkness.

Then 11x17 happens next season. Dean decides to sacrifice himself thinking Sam kicked the bucket due to his injuries and not the incognito werewolf victim choking his brother-partner behind his back. He wanted Sammy to be alive rather than them being together. Probably doubly fueled by one of Dean’s greatest fear that was established again in the episode before, Sam dead but Dean still alive (📣11x16, #Soulmates). And, probably Dean being down about being connected to the Darkness a little too.

After that I believe was the 13x23 sacrifice. Dean took on Micheal to save Sam, and Jack too, from Lucifer. No one supposedly was going to die from this deal if everybody kept their word. So, this sacrifice was so Sam and Dean could technically still be together in the end and also technically for the world to be safer with Lucifer dead. But, optimism aside, if all else failed Sam (and Jack) were safe from Lucifer at least.

In the next sacrifice, 15x17 Dean was going to sacrifice Jack for both Sam and Dean. (Rip to the Dean&Jack relationship tag in 15x17 though. Ouch.💀) But then, Sam stopped him with puppy dog eyes and referenced Dean’s Sam!exception. Sam wasn’t against together!chesters because he was like we’ll figure it out together. But, Sam was sus of Billie, with good reason, and didn’t think sacrificing Jack was worth whatever they got as consequence, good or bad.

In 15x19, Dean brings up sacrificing Sam&Dean’s life for humanity, birds, and Cas. It doesn’t technically go against together!chesters, because they would be going out together. No telling what Chuck would do with them afterward, but, Chuck didn’t want the Cain and Abel thing anymore, so we’ll never know.

And lastly, 15x20, the last sacrifice, which I like to think of as Sam not bringing back Dean for together!chesters, because it was Dean’s wish to not do so and because it always messes up the balance of the world. And, I like to see it as both Sam and Dean knowing they’ll be together for all eternity in the end anyways. What’s (however long Sam’s montage was) more years? So, like it’s against short term together!chesters but it is thinking for long term together!chesters.

So, yeah, together!chesters isn’t always the main-main theme each and every time, but it is a big part of it and a very close contender for the other brother being “safe”.

#gencest #wincest #wincesties please interact #wincest adjacents please interact #wincest meta #or #gencest meta #ymmv #various episodes #we/us #together!chesters #sam!exception #dean!exception #psychotically irrationally erotically codependent on each other #there are tons more sacrifices we could get into #but this is already really long #i'll leave that to others to cover if they want

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195: Run the Jewels // Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2013, Fool's Gold

Even as someone who was very hyped for this monster mash album to drop back in 2013, I could’ve used El-P and Killer Mike’s chances at becoming mainstream music stars as a creative simile for extreme remoteness. Run the Jewels started life as a Watch the Throne joke—e.g. while you pay obeisance to the supposed kings, we’re behind them jacking their shit. The name seemed right: any time you put Mike on a pop-adjacent track, he sounded too brash, too angry to fit the scheme, whereas El-P probably scanned to most listeners as like, Comic-Con Bubba Sparxxx or something. It remains bizarre to contemplate that El-P’s original crew, Company Flow, released their groundbreaking Funcrusher EP a year before Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt, and Mike had been OutKast’s war dog since the turn of the century. In other words, these were two rapper’s rappers who made a living on rhymes but didn’t seem likely to have say great prospects of retiring comfortably.

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It just goes to show what a creative release strategy (Run the Jewels dropped for free at a time when that concept still had some novelty) and an absolute banger record can do for ya. After years of ambitious, CD-stuffing projects by both men, Run the Jewels is a trim 33-minute object lesson in the power of elite shit-talking. Ten years on their particular chemistry is fixed enough to be fondly roasted, but at the time I’d never heard either man rap as freely, or hilariously, as they did here. Some particularly treasured bars:

Woo, they done let that fuckin' Mike out It's like Tyson in the '80s Nigga snap and punch your lights out, yeah It's like Tyson in the '90s, if I'm losing, take a bite out I'm so motherfuckin' grimy, so motherfuckin' greedy, gritty Mama said she couldn't breastfeed 'cause I was bitin' at the titty — Mike

Yo, Killer Mike and El-P, fuck boys, think about it Fuck you gonna sell me? You don't know a thing about us Women dosed with ayahuasca drum circle and sing about us Dolphins prone to rape'll hear the tape and stop to think about it Monks will immolate themselves until the record hits the shelves Yetis walk right out the woods to cop it without thinkin' bout it Workers at the sweatshop kill they boss to how the vets drop Worker ants surround their queen and chew the bitch's head off Drug dogs bark at the tour bus when it park Priests take the cock out of their mouths To hum along when the chorus drop — El-P

It's time for Skywalker talkers t’meet the true Darth Vader I hit your mom in '03, but a G ain't ate her So baby boy, you should tighten up and show some respect Before I Melvin on you, Jody, put my arm on your neck Or worse yet, be the reason your girl want a divorce Be at her crib with your kids saying ‘Fuck your fort, lil' nigga!’ — Mike

Born to the next-gen system Slow water drip to the temple to live in a prison When the walls don't appear to your vision One floor down from that mall's that prison Where shower stalls'll get all y'all missin' Pardon me, I got half-wit vision But fuck I know? I just crawled here, cap'n — El-P

I'm fat but I dress nice, and bitches finesse Mike They suck the dick and squeeze on my belly like bagpipes — Mike

I'ma smoke 'til the planet erases Build a white flag out of Zig Zags, wave it — El-P

And so on. Alongside El-P’s signature production, limber and consistently knocking, it is the sheer “What will they say next?” pleasure of two elite battle rappers trading the mic back and forth (something that doesn’t happen on Watch the Throne as often as you might remember) that scratched the deep itch of boom-bap-bro nation. Over three more excellent LPs to date, they’ve expanded their sound and skewed ever more topical, but RTJ have never abandoned the template that made them unlikely stars. And for my money at least, it’s this first one that best stands the test of time.

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#run the jewels #halloweek #killer mike #el p #music review #'10s music #vinyl record #hip hop #indie rap

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From TV Guide (26/10/1999):

<<<<A funny thing happened on South Park's way to the pop-culture scrap heap.

Two years after the gleefully sophomoric show about bratty, foulmouthed

Colorado third graders debuted on Comedy Central to record-setting ratings,

and a year after the season frequent reruns and a slumping viewer ship, there

seems to be new life for Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and the whole proudly

obnoxious little crew.

It started perhaps, with last summer’s "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut,"

a feature film version of the show that turned out to be smarter slyer and

funnier than it’s critics had expected, earning to date more than $71 million

worldwide. It may have been minute-for-minute the most obscenity-ridden movie

ever made, but it was also sharply satiric, and a pretty good musical to boot.

The movie provided a measure of vindication for the two overworked Colorado

malcontents who write, produce and voice South Park - which has 17 new

episodes coming up, starting this week. In the past two years, Trey Parker,

who turned 30 this month, and Matt Stone, 28, have helped put Comedy Central

on the map, offended parents and moral watchdogs, alienated a long list of

Hollywood luminaries and watched their stock rise and fall. The two talked

about their strange career in the spacious office they share in South Park’s

West Los Angeles headquarters, a wharehouselike building whose two prime

parking spots out front are labeled Mao Tsetung and Patrick Duffy. (The late

Chinese Communist leader apparently now drives a silver Lexus SC400, while

the former Dallas star gets around in a dented blue Geo Metro.) Pinned to the

door of their office is a scene-by-scene rundown of an upcoming episode, one

that features actress Sally Struthers (no doubt without her cooperation or

permission), the character Starvin’ Marvin, and lots of space travel.

Outspoken, casual and blatant in their disregard for the usual showbiz

niceties, Parker and Stone are also as profane as you’d expect for the guys who put the words in Cartman’s mouth. This is a PG version; the unedited

transcript would merit at least a hard R.

TV GUIDE: Since you started working on South Park Two years ago you’ve made a

couple of albums, finished the movie "Orgazmo," starred in BASEketball" and

made the "South Park" feature film. But now you’re back working on the TV show

full time.

Trey Parker: Well, we promised ourselves that we were going to come back and

just do the show for a year. Because in July, I started getting grey hairs.

And I know it’s from the movie.

Matt Stone: The "Chef Aid" album [a faux benefit album spoofing the Live Aid

concert] was a lot of work, but the movie was the king monster of them all.

Trey Parker: We felt like, this better be good, or we’re in trouble.

TV GUIDE: Why so much pressure?

Matt Stone: We just felt that people were thinking. South Park isn’t new

anymore, the honeymoon is over, it’s passé. All the summer movie previews

were saying stuff like Austin Powers: It’s shagadelic!, Starwars: Here comes the force, South Park: It may be passé. So we knew the movie had to be good.

But also we felt that the movie was a swan song. We just felt like, we’re gonna

go out in a big blaze of flame. And somehow that backfired, and it was a

critical success and an economic success.

Trey Parker: And people treat us differently now. After BASEketball and

Orgazmo they were starting to go "Oh, those guys are over" But now things are

different. I got a letter from Stephen Sondheim saying that he thought South

Park was the best musical of the last five years.

Matt Stone: So all of a sudden we got a little bit of credibility back. Be we

exchanged it for years off our life.

TV Guide: You went whole hog with the movie. You offended the ratings board,

really annoyed the MPAA president Jack Valenti, fought with Paramount

Trey Parker: Oh, yeah. What I’m most proud of us for, we always said "If we’re

gonna get kicked out of this down, we’re gonna get kicked out flipping everyone

off" And what’s cool is that we haven’t gotten kicked out yet.

TV Guide: Not that some executives probably haven’t tried.

Trey Parker: It’s funny, because everyone was saying "You guys are ticking

off Paramount. You really better be careful. Don’t you worry about your

careers?" And we were like "No". All that matters is that the movie does well.

If the movie does well, we’re fine. If it doesn’t, we’re out. And if we’re

out, we wanna go out with our heads up high.

TV Guide: Do you think the quality of the show suffered when you were off

doing movies?

Trey Parker: No, quite the contrary. I know how we work. I won’t be creative

unless I’ve got a deadline. So it’s not like, wow, if I don’t do this, I could

write a book. It would never happen. I’d sit there and play video games. I can

be the biggest loser in the world, unless I have a very solid deadline: You’ve

got to hand this in or your going to get sued for $6 million. Then I can be creative.

Matt Stone: If we didn’t do the movie we could have done more shows. But I

don’t think they would have been and better. It’s stupid the way we work.

Trey Parker: We suck. We have no work ethic. No self-discipline. We’re just

total losers at heart, that’s the problem.

TV Guide: So why not delegate some of the responsibility

Trey Parker: The easiest thing to do would be to get a writing staff. Hire five

people and have them do it. Matt and I could be executive producers and do the

voices and watch the shows and make notes.

Matt Stone: And we’d get paid the same.

Trey Parker: We’d get paid the same and we’d add years to our lives. But once

the show took off we promised we’d never do that. We’ve done really bizarre

stuff this year in these new shows because as we said from the beginning we

would rather have the show completely inaccessible than just sort of peter out.

We did a show about Jew Scouts, and it was insane. It made no sense. But we loved it.

TV Guide: So even after offending much of Hollywood, you have no plans to

calm down?

Trey Parker: We’re gonna get older just like anyone else, and our values are

probably going to change, but when that happens, I want us to not be doing

this anymore. I just hate watching people in music or whatever, going through

that phase, becoming tame, sitting there on a stool playing "Tears in Heaven".

I feel like, just shut up. You did your thing now go away.>>

#trey parker #matt stone #south park #interview #alt tv southpark

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Loser Ranger is my new obsession

I did not expect to be particularly into Loser Ranger when the first episode aired. Sure, the prospect of an edgy super sentai show by the same author as The Quintessential Quintuplets is very funny to me and every time someone says “this is the X story of X media”, in this case the “The Boys of Anime” I instinctively remember all the dozens of times someone in the internet called anything “the Game of Thrones of whatever” or “the Dark Souls of insert video game genre here” and I roll my eyes. So I watched the first episode and then the second one and I kept going. My take on it at the time was that it was just an okay show. I liked the idea of an anime that harkens back to my childhood days watching Power Rangers on brazilian television, though I was never particularly a fan of super sentai and I entirely left it behind during adolescence, I was still a kid that watched kid’s shows. I liked the corny action and the stupid arguing when it came to deciding who gets to be which ranger when playing with other kids.

Subverting a structure where conventionally the good guys are fighting the monsters to make the monster be the good guys could just as well be nothing more than a gimmick. I mean, it is something, but it is not groundbreaking by any means. The anime also doesn’t look particularly good, though the OP is pretty fun. Was I surprised to see that the studio who created Arknights, the only actually good gacha game, was animating it? Sure. Does that mean jack-shit about the quality? No. Why am I even talking about this? Hey shut up it's my script.

All of this to say that things changed once I reached episode five, in the process thinking that the blonde girl called Hisui looks kinda cool and I wanted to see how the ongoing fight concluded so I read the manga, only to be immediately hit by that pathological girlfure looking cooler by the chapter, then proceeded to find out that after an okay introduction it has a good first arc then there is a HUGE quality spike with the School Life Arc and it doesn’t drop the ball after that (except for one little thing but we don’t talk about that), PLUS, now Hisui lives rent-free in my head.

Let’s start from the beginning.

Thirteen years ago a giant fortress appeared over Milky Way City in Japan. The residents of that fortress started invading the surface and humanity fought back, forming the Rangers and retaliating. Every Sunday they come to the ground and are fought by the Keepers — the five main Rangers — in a stadium, with an audience in a televised event. If it sounds dumb and artificial that’s because it is. The Invaders are shapeshifters who were forced by the Rangers to take on this acting role after their overlords, the Executives, were all defeated in the very first year of the war, thus making them slaves to a bunch of sociopathic celebrities.

Enter Footsoldier D, an invader who is fed up with their situation and decides he is going to take matters into his own hands and get revenge on all the Keepers. Things start spiraling out of control almost immediately though D doesn’t know it yet, as he meets two rangers called Suzukiri and Hibiki. One who offers to help him take down the big five by stealing their weapons and another who wants to change the Ranger association from the inside out as he believes humans and Invaders can coexist. One of the reasons why this manga eventually becomes so entertaining has its beginning here, as this is one of those stories where there are plots within plots, lies within lies and everyone has something in particular they want to protect or achieve even if that means coming into conflict with both sides of the war. After some shenanigans Footsoldier D takes Hibiki’s place to infiltrate the Ranger Association with both of them vying to do their best to achieve their goals first, having just exchanged places.

This is where it starts going from decent to good as the mysteries begin piling on pretty thick. What are the so-called Divine Artifacts — the Keeper’s weapons — and why do they not look like something that was constructed but organic? Why does Suzukuri want to collect them? Why is there another invader living inside Hibiki’s closet? Why do the Rangers have such a lackadaisical approach to their leader being a murderer? How is D ever going to have any shot at killing these monsters when we see so clearly how much more powerful they are and his training is so basic? You might be thinking that I’m dumb and that the answer is powerscaling, but this is actually the action manga with the least amount of powerscaling I have seen yet. Character’s stay at roughly the same power level they are introduced in for several arcs and only manage to get things done by being smart about it and working together. Every conflict going forward is going to be multiple chapters long and feature a dozen different characters that all bounce off of each other. Essentially everyone in this story would be dead by the end of the second arc if they didn’t fight in groups 90% of the time.

What I have been calling the good first arc is basically the chunin exam of this manga. When you join the Rangers you do so as a filthy colorless and have to train until you are eligible for a test. Judging the results of said test you will be assigned a squadron based on each Keeper’s color or remain a lowly colorless fuck.

The circumstances under which this plays out are actually very engaging. D is posing as Hibiki taking the test, which means there is a lot about the Rangers he doesn’t know and he has to be careful about not getting hurt as it would immediately expose him as an Invader. He has to take care of XX despite that not actually being his responsibility, except that he also has a big sister now which is the Pink Keeper herself. Under these circumstances he has to compete against people who have totally genuine reasons for wanting to become Rangers, such as Shion who wants to get revenge on the Invaders for killing his brother who was himself a Ranger, but since both of them want to join the Red Squadron and they are in the same test only one of them can pass despite both having perfectly understandable reasons for wanting it. All of this further escalates as characters who are all easily distinguishable betray each other for their own gain, giving a hint as to why this organization is so fucked to begin with when they advocate for so much competition between their new members, who then get involved in a real battle with one of the Executives who was supposed to be dead and before you know it one of the big bad raidbosses is dead by the end of the first arc — which ends in CHAPTER FIFTY ONE — and even manages to be kind of a badass while doing it?

Every issue the characters have to face feel like a massive undertaking that, if you get into the story like how I did, will really surprise you because you were likely expecting something different when the first few chapters establish a conflict that is entirely artificial and unchanging with a main character that is literally immortal as long as he doesn’t go against a Keeper face to face specifically while they are wielding a Divine Tool. The actual mechanics of the fight might seem underwhelming, with most of the cast only having access to a basic-ass weapon for a good while, but the dynamics of each step along the way not only keeps it entertaining in a moment-to-moment basis, but also quickly builds so much of it there is enough foreshadowing, unresolved beefs and characters to cycle through for a story of near epic proportions. There is some sort of twist happening every other chapter, there are always characters making unexpected decisions, convincing one another to form truces or just committing mistakes, sometimes doing nothing more than being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

As the story goes forward it does a honestly very above average job of building on what came before. Though D is too dense to notice half of it and too prideful to admit the other half, he already gets everything he needs to start questioning his own goals and worldviews from this first arc, this is then brought to the forefront as the story pulls another twist, placing D not in the Red Battalion but in the Green one, bringing Kanon Hisui, the coolest motherfucker alive to the forefront. She is also my daughter. Look it up. It’s real.

I am infatuated by this character, everything she does for the story, her design and her personality. Through her, D is presented the harsh reality of a Battalion that is dedicated to dealing with the powerful Executives, which means that they are often being killed and replaced and the heroism necessary to walk through that to the other side, as well as the emotional damage and ruthlessness such an environment will instill. First we as the audience — but later D through his interactions with Hisui — get to understand that there is nothing inherently good or bad about any of these groups. That they are both made up of tyrants and their victims, people who were met with untimely tragedy, lost loved ones and parts of them along the way.

This arc takes place inside a school as an analogy to the lost youth and opportunities of everyone involved. Of the lives they were denied and will never get to live. Hisui is always wearing a middle-schooler uniform despite having no need for one as a way to maintain in the audience’s mind the fact that she doesn’t fit, that she is unwilling to let go of the concept of living the life she deserved despite that not being the material reality in front of her. D was quite literally bred for war and like the people who hate Invaders for the damage they caused them and their people, also hates the Rangers because of what the Keepers did to his peers which although fair, doesn’t take into account that he doesn’t know them. The Keepers aren’t the Rangers and the Rangers aren't humanity. They are both fighting in a makeshift war they were thrusted upon without their consent, are thematically brought closer by sharing in what was taken from them under the guise of a school life which is literally an in-universe dream; to then having to come to terms with the realization that they are one and the same; victims of a game played by rulers who are equally as vile, both of which should be dealt with. Geez, I wonder if the giant fucking chain casting its shadow over the city is meant to symbolize something.

Of course, they still hold slightly different allegiances, as D doesn’t let go of his plans to kill the Keepers but instead achieves a fuller understanding of his situation, and a lot of this is only going to get its payoff by the end of the next big arc, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Building upon the reaction of “Hey this guy wasn’t so bad after all” of the Blue Keeper’s conclusion, the manga now first gets you used to a character before revealing their identity as a Keeper, instilling in you the question of whether or not we should even be rooting for D to kill this guy. Sure, he still played a part in the oppressing of the Footsoldiers, but we don’t even know exactly what led to that to begin with. Also, we did actually kill Blue Keeper, but they just went ahead and substituted him. Gotta kill the fucker again.

Remember what I said about the constant escalating of circumstances? This is what I’m talking about. This structure makes it so that the next question the characters have to deal with both feel like the natural next thing to happen while also being just unpredictable enough to have all the twists it wants, and the answer to that question is laid upon so many conflicts with potential ramification that it manages to be, I kid you not, morally gray. Yes, the edgy manga from the author of the quintuplets harem is genuinely morally gray to an impressive extent. Fucking bananas am I right? This is going to sound absurd, but I don’t think I have seen a more organically built-up shounen since Hunter x Hunter.

Something else that the School Life arc has over the previous one is that this time the actual mechanics of the conflict are a lot more interesting, likely as a result of having the benefit of working with previously established powers and characters. The premise of a job that constantly kills its workers and the existence of an alternate reality inside a building that breaks physical laws also feels very Chainsaw Man, which I appreciate as that is one of my favorites.

Just like the Footsoldiers back in the fortress, these characters now have a set of rules they have to obey, this time in order to keep the school world from constantly resetting. A premise that is particularly interesting once you consider that these are all people who didn’t get to lead a normal life and that their reaction isn’t to simply accept them but to find ways to work around those rules, their obedience being just a facade. In a literalization of the metaphor, fully giving in to the dream world signifies a character’s loss, which appeals to them precisely because it promises to right the wrongdoings of their past.

The story recognizes this with the students that criticize them after being released from the illusion because that was their way to cope with their own injustices. It is sensible enough to not treat these people as simply stupid, after all we spent a whole arc seeing the reasons that a dream like that could be appealing through Hisui’s perspective, but the arc concludes with the recognition that while the path they are choosing is the harder one, it is also the only one that gives them a chance of standing up for themselves, as the illusion was always a seductive lie. The antagonist is also an Executive with the body of a Ranger to approximate the two and remind you that they can be one and the same. As Hisui put’s it, “I’m sorry that your perfect world couldn’t exist”; as I’ve said before, there are tyrants on both sides; and as Steven Erikson once said, “The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.”

Narrative arcs that deal with the lost youth and what-could-have-been scenarios tend to get me because I relate to that shit hard. I didn’t get a chance to live my adolescence the way I wanted because I hadn’t even come into my own identity as a woman, and that disconnect kept me from acting the way I wanted while also making me feel that the things I actually did were fake because I was simply going along with the preconceived notion that we are we and that they are they. Just like the students in this arc, I have had to accept that while there is solace to be found in basking in the idealized youth I could have had, I can’t refuse the material reality that that simply isn’t going to happen and any amount of time I spend longing for it is stopping me from actually getting shit done in the life I do have. The blending of themes and technicality of this arc is simply marvelous.

I am particularly fond of Hisui’s message that there are no requirements for heroism, you simply have to take that first step. Not because I believe in the idea of a hero we were taught about when we were kids, but because no matter what happens, nothing will ever change if you don’t take that first step to begin with.

I have briefly talked about how a lot of anime and manga focus their themes in an attitude the story is advocating for in my Sonny Boy analysis and it is actually kind of funny how many similar things I got from these two wildly different stories. If you don’t remember or haven’t watched it, the first episode of that show also takes place in a school that defies physics, has laws that can be enforced by the people living in it, ends with a character taking that first step and the rest of the story is, in a gross oversimplification of it, about everyone else trying to catch up to her.

Also, the fuck do you mean this arc is only 18 chapters long? Each of them is so dense I was under the impression it lasted for about 30.

Everything I just talked about proceeds to permeate the next big arc, that of the Invaders Rights Association, or IRA for short. A long arc that simultaneously feels like a bunch of shounen bullshit and a natural development going forward. We spent the whole series with a wronged Footsoldier, having met Hibiki all the way in the beginning who thinks they can coexist, so it stands to reason that that could eventually take a front seat in one of the story’s arcs. This arc is going to complete the change in worldview D has been going through all along, because as it expectedly turns out, the IRA is a villainous association born out of a genuine desire that was then bastardized.

D’s World Domination plot isn’t exactly a world domination, he’s thinking about it more in the lines of freedom. World domination is simply the ideal that was instilled into him from the moment he was born. Prideful though he may be, this man spent the first section of the story having to learn that he can’t get shit done alone, then using other people to achieve those things, and now he is going to learn that there are people willing to help him even if they find out who he really is. We know for a fact he didn’t fight just for his own sake back in the school.

There has always been a meta element to Loser Ranger as it deals with the existence of heroes from super sentai, has a super sentai show in-universe and the Keepers are just celebrities. In the IRA arc that then becomes part of the core conflict, building to some revelations that evidently will be properly explored in the next big arc as it has been doing so far. It isn’t as if the meta aspects are mindblowingly awesome, but they serve as an interesting way to frame this section of the story that keeps it fresh. I am particularly fond of the “This has been foreshadowed” gag.

I find that all of the big arcs so far are memorable because of this combination of framing and setting: starting with a classic exam arc in an underground base where the protagonist has to survive to reach the surface of the human world, to a more intimate character exploration in a school environment and now arriving at a meta narrative in a big castle, filled with cameras, TV broadcasts, YouTube livestreams and a VHS tape or two. Every arc has a distinct look and feel to it while still being brought together by the same narrative conflicts.

Shaking up the narrative structure by taking advantage of the fact D had to work from the shadows and rely on subterfuge all this time, the IRA arc introduces a group that actually has enough power to expose the Keepers as the liars they are and go face to face against them following that. It seems to me that this author is very smart about when to bring things into focus. Usukubo, for instance, was introduced all the way in the beginning, but did pretty much nothing in the second arc while Hisui became a main character. That is then balanced by having their positions switched in the IRA arc as Usukubo’s character is fully unveiled and Hisui spends half the arc bidding her time. Having someone we know serve as a stand-in for the audience inside the IRA eases the friction of suddenly introducing so many new characters. There are plenty of secondary and tertiary characters from past arcs who are weaved into the story again, these not requiring that much page time to have a role to play as we already know them and a flashback here and there is all that is necessary to give us more context into their backgrounds. Pink Ranger’s in particular is the stand-out as it gives us a reason to care, has that one panel in particular of her body falling back in a splash of blood that hits when you turn the page and sets Hibiki in an unexpected path.

Since you have read it this far I am assuming you care about what I have to say, so allow me to go on a brief tangent to give you some writing advice: if you come up with a structure, don’t overuse it, and if you have to, then come up with ways to keep it fresh. There are a lot of flashback sequences in Loser Ranger, but they come in different kinds. Some are interrupted by D saying he doesn’t care, some are kept very short, some are broken up in more than one part and the bigger ones are reserved for moments where they provide much needed specific information and only when they directly relate to what is going on. The immediate outcome isn’t always the same either, these flashbacks don’t always happen right in the last moment of a fight nor are they all preceded by the central character of those scenes dying. In essence, there are reasons why structures used in a bunch of different stories work, but don’t just throw a sad backstory in at the precise moment a character is going to be defeated every single time. It will get boring fast.

Thematically, I don’t have that much to say about the IRA arc, and frankly I don’t think the arc was shooting for that. The most emotionally interesting the series has been to me so far was with the School Life arc and I would argue that is very much by design. That does not mean that the IRA arc is lacking, as it is the most action-filled and violent arc so far and rescues a lot of scenes from previous chapters, making it feel as if we have really come a long way.

Just like it has been the case for the past arcs, a lot is established around this arc that we are yet to see the ramifications of. There is for sure more to be said about the Suzukiri Clan, the Neo-Rangers weren’t created just for the sake of it, the horrifying inventions of the Yellow Battalion haven’t been fully explained yet and the new position the Red Keeper is in is the “storm” the narration said D had unleashed — which unfortunately is something I don’t like, the first big narrative gripe I have with the story so far is this, as I don’t buy it at all that the Ranger Association wouldn’t have checked for his body, but hey, a single big issue in 139 chapters is a great relation.

So as to not end on a low note, let me conclude. Negi Haruba wrote a harem manga about quintuplets, made a ton of money (conjecture), then decided it was about time to cook up a killer action series. I am not nearly as much of a manga reader as I am an anime watcher, so I can’t say much on how it relates to the overall state of shounen manga, but I would bet that Loser Ranger is going to feel like a breath of fresh air to most people, whether or not you like it as much as I did notwithstanding. The very beginning is kinda mid, I know, but if anything of what I said sounds interesting to you, then hang in there, give it a couple more chapters. The artwork is sleek, it’s super bingeable, it’s slowly getting more violent with each arc (I hope it gets way more), the plot can be a case study with how organic it is and I need to get a Hisui tattoo.

#anime #manga #writing #art #review #analysis #loser ranger #super sentai #negi haruba #amy warrel

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Danny: You're not afraid?

Punch: Huh? Why?

Danny: I'm.......a monster.....I'm really a murderer.

Punch: Hmm......no big deal.

Danny: Huh?! Why?! I mean....don't you--

Punch: Because I was a murderer, too.

Danny: Huh????!!!!! YOU ARE?!

Punch: I did kill someone in the past. Because to protect them, my friends. I became a murderer who hunt the soulless or heartless in human form. I wanna feel that I'm actually alive. I killed someone for no reason.

Danny: Did you have friends once? Like your first friend.

Punch: Peter.

Danny: Hmm?

Punch: It's Peter. He's the only my friend.

Danny: Th......then go see him and dump all your worries on him!

Punch: He's gone far away.

Danny: Oh.......

Punch: .......................

Danny: So....uh.....

Punch: Heh! Peter was a selfish alien who was very much like humans! He'd come here only as he pleased! He's sick with his trauma life for many years! I don't know why I let it bother me! I hate humans!

Danny: Er.........(If you hate him then why do you tell me so much about him, Punch.)I guess I can't help you then.

Punch: *Stare Face* Did you say something?!

Danny: Woah! Nothing! Nothing at all!

Punch: ................I guess.....I just enjoy killing people.

Danny: Nonsense! You're not like that at all! You're not like me! I killed my family and my friends with my own hands!!

Punch: Wait...what about Jazz, Mr Jack and Ms Maddie?

Danny: They're not my real family. That family belong to "Daniel Fenton", not me!

Punch: We're the same, Danny.

Danny: But...you're more kind and care--

Punch: Just today then, we finish talking.

Danny: Okay.........

Punch: Danny. Why do you have to worry about me? Aren't you worried about Sam?

Danny: Huh?! Why?! I don't want you to be in harm's way. I'm doing this because you're my friend.

Punch: You already have a best friend. I'm asking you "why".

Danny: Because I'm........I.....I...... I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU!!

Punch: What?! Seriously?! Pfffff ha ha ha! Oh my god! There's NO WAY you're in love with me!! Hahahahahahahaha!

Danny: Hey! That's not funny! I'm serious about this! I love you as your friend not....um...Lover.....*Face turning red*

Punch: I see.......*Smile*Then.......*Creepy Smile*

*Sound of backflip*

Danny: Hey! What's a big deal?! Why are you doing that?!

Punch: Will you die for me?

Danny: Sure. I will die for you. After all......I am who was born and exists in this world but because I am not a real human. I was rejected by this world even by people around me. That's why I want to be tough or act to be tough! I want to curse and irony for a life that was born unfairly! That unreasonable muddling Clockwork wanted to seal me! Ha...ha....did you know? I saw my own eyes....human organs...I ripped them...even ate them...

Punch: But the action you did in the past....doesn't mean you're evil.

Danny: BUT THAT DOESN'T CHANGE MANY SINS THAT I DONE IN THE PAST!! DO I DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE IN MY LIFE AFTER EVERYTHING I'VE DONE??!!

Punch: You deserved it, Danny. You wound up choosing a harder path. That's why I said you and me are the same.

Danny: ......what....?

Punch: You were hopeless and empty and tried to be suicidal like now.

Danny: I could get the death penalty. I'd rather die for you. It's more meaningful.

Punch: ......................No, thanks. I don't want to kill you.

*Thump Thump*

Punch: Danny, you should've protected your everyday life. Even your memories of when you were a human still have not come back yet. You shouldn't decide that you will die. If you don't right to exist in this world then I will be the one who reminds you that you exist.

Danny: ............!!

Punch: I keep watching you then.....the love you felt for me.

*Sonic rushed to hug Danny.*

Sonic: You're not stupid! You're not a failure! I know what you're feeling now "Danny"! I felt the same way. I was once like you! You wanted to kill me right? I understand! I also once tried to kill Punch and Peter with my own power! That time I couldn't control myself my curse was far too strong! I felt like I was torn apart and don't want to live anymore! You have value! Value no one else has! I declare it here and now. In the world, I have two partners right here and now! So that value will never change, for all eternity!

Danny: Sonic...you.....

Sonic: I had enough of this.....I won't give up anymore even if you change...I will save you....even "Punch"...no...I will save King Gilgamesh....no matter how arrogant he is.

Danny: ............*Sob*...............*Sob*

Danny: ............*Sob* I really did have a place to exist.....

Sonic: I'm sorry. I know you ill fortune, but I have no words I can offer you. But if you say you have nothing left, what's most important for you now is yourself and the ordinary you are supposed to be.

*Flashback*

*End of Flashback*

Danny: Heh...ha.....You and Punch really are the same person, aren't you? I'm surrounded by weird people. But being weird is the best thing, isn't it? Alright. I'll fight for my own sake like I always have done in the past long ago.

Sonic: I knew you'd say that.

Danny: I'll fight for my own sake like I always have done in the past long ago. I "love" Punch and Sonic, my precious partners! And I love you, Homura! From now on, I will continue to be a hero for the sake of this world! I know that I am no longer human but I own a passion, my courage, my desire, my wish and my feelings are still human! I am still me!

#Tsofph Season 8(Story of Daily Life)#Tsofph Season 7 #Punch Whalen #Tsofph Danny Phantom #sakuraswordly #tsofph season 11 #tsubasa of phantasia 11 #tsofph Season 11(Chapter2 Shadow Path(Butterfly Effect))

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How would Ruggie, Malleus, Jade, and Deuce react to their s/o sleeping with a plushie that they gifted them?

{Aww! This is so cute!! I love it omg. I sleep with my boba squish mallow and have no shame. I kind of wanna give each character a specific plushie to comment on....okay. I'm gonna. I have the power here lol}

Prompt: What if they caught s/o sleeping with a plushie? (Pre-Relationship)

Characters: Ruggie Bucci, Malleus Draconia, Jade Leech, and Deuce Spade Part (1/3): Next ; pt.3

A/N: I forgot the 'they gifted you,' part. I'm sorry! I hope it's okay

Ruggie Bucci

Plush Bunny

Sometimes Leona sends Ruggie on 'quests,' as you would often call them. Ruggie just calls them chores

Things like getting him lunch, cleaning his room, delivering papers, and recently he's been tasked with keeping an eye on you.

Word on the proverbial grapevine is that you haven't been doing so great. Falling asleep in random places, spending long hours in the library, working extra shifts at the monster lounge, and most importantly- you haven't visited Savanaclaw in over two weeks

Now Ruggie would get shanked if he ever said it out loud, but Leona has a soft spot for ya. Just like he does for Jack Howl and the other nosy freshmen

When Ruggie hears, "make sure those idiots aren't causing me extra work," it translates to "make sure those idiots aren't in any trouble. go help them,"

Think good-cop and bad-cop. Leona lays bad-cop, and marionettes Ruggie as good-cop

He's sent Ruggie to do a bit spying on you a few times, not that the errand boy complained. He has personal motives for these little 'quests'. Like sometimes finding you in the most interesting positions

"Aye Aye...geez, can't you do it on your own for once?" - "Care to repeat that" -"Nothing! Nothing..."

He never sees anything horrible. Just funny situations, like when you're in a sneezing fit or rambling about the 'oh-so-generous' Crowley to yourself when you think you're alone. Ruggie always gets a good laugh at your antics when you think no one is watching

But this- okay, this scenario is a new one for him.

"You really have no sense of decency...do you, prefect" he says, looking down at you napping under a tree in the courtyard

It wouldn't be so bad, if you weren't curled around a small stuffed rabbit. He just-

Pulls out his phone and takes a picture. No hesitation. Just quickly snaps it and then crouches over you

And stares. Anyone walking by would think him a creeper, with his ears twitching and face scrunched up in concentration

You...shit. He can't keep doing this for Leona if this is what he'll find. His shriveled little heart can't handle it

He definitely plans to rub the picture in your face later, but for now he'll lay down next to you and watch the clouds. To the onlooker it looks like your both chilling, but for Ruggie it feels more intimate. He's guarding you from anyone that might disturb your rest or trying to peak at the cute sight only he gets to see

Malleus Draconia

Plush dragon

So, this all began when Malleus asked about University life from your world. He wanted to know more about human culture and how dormitories in TW are different from what you know

Your world is definitely less exciting than Twisted Wonderland. You have to walk everywhere and don't have mirror travel? Dorms contain hundreds of students at once? No prefects? No set schedule? Who controls the chaos? That...sounds tiring

He wants to know more about the dorm culture. So you tell him about staying up late to study, coffee addiction, mutual understanding of finals stress among peers, how prefects are essentially called RAs, fraternities/sororities/etc, extra curricular clubs, bad cafeteria food, and most importantly- crashing in other dorms to escape your own.

He has never shared a dorm with another person, or a room. There were times he snuck into Lilia's room as a child after a nightmare, but he doesn't mention that to you

The 'dorm crashing,' you talk about- he wants to experience it. He wants to spend an entire evening with "friends" and enjoy a wild adventure

He nearly invites himself to spend the night in your dorm, but trails off since that would be indecent considering his...emotions

"Might I impose upon....ah. Pardon my boldness, I retract my previous suggestion,"

He wants to interject when you insist on his idea. It's improper but how can he say no when you are so excited?

And this is how Malleus ends up sharing your dorm for the night. You both set up sleeping arrangements on the floor of your room, which Grimm loves since the bed is now all his. After all, it is not a proper sleepover unless you both wake with backaches (from the floor, not what you're thinking of -_-)

You both go for a late-night walk, play a board game with the resident ghosts and Grimm, enjoy a warm beverage by the fireplace, and end the night discussing whatever thoughts come to mind.

It's the most fun Malleus has ever had. He's never experienced such a relaxed evening. Not once was there a moment of discomfort

Until you both settled in for the night, and you bring in that plush dragon. He's uncomfortable but not in a bad way

He says nothing at first and instead focuses on the crackling fire. He doesn't need as much sleep as a human, so he merely pretends until your steady breathing can be heard

He turns to look your way, watching how you snuggle into it's fur. The fire illuminating your peaceful face and blankets drawn up to your shoulders

You look so serene. No one has ever looked so calm in his presence or allowed themselves to be vulnerable. Then again- he's never dropped his guard this much around anyone other than his close dormmates. His family.

"Oh, if you only recognized these feelings I carry. Would you still allow me to witness this sight?"

He cannot help himself, and reaches over to tuck you in further and pat the dragon on it's head.

You're too precious. Welcoming a demon into your den and taunting him so...

Jade Leech

toast

Similar to how Leona has a soft spot for you, so does Azul

You are the only person allowed back in the VIP lounge without permission. No contracts, no deals, no nothing. The space was offered in case you ever felt overwhelmed and needed somewhere to cool off

More specifically, when you first saw Azul's octopot you had mentioned missing having a safe-place, and that there was nowhere truly quiet in NRC for you to go. Azul immediately offered the lounge and instructed the tweels to let you in whenever (so long as a transaction wasn't being made. Then you could go to one of their dorm rooms)

You surprisingly took him up on the offer, and on occasion Jade would escort you to the VIP lounge for some quiet time. You'd normally do your homework in the corner as Azul worked, or fell asleep on one of the couches

Today was one of the times when Azul needed the room for work, but seeing your defeated expression convinced Jade to loan out his room

Floyd offered his as well, but it was rarely in a state to host company. So you agreed to rest in Jade's until his shift was over and he could escort you back to Ramshackle

"Please don't touch anything other than the desk and available seating. I have many dangerous specimens in here and cannot guarantee your safety. Rest well~"

It is not necessary, but he greatly dislikes you walking alone at night after closing. He will not take no for an answer, and will dismiss any rebuttal with a smile. Before you know it, you're half-way to your dorm while he is guiding you with a hand on the small of your back

After his shift, night had long fallen. He mentally prepared to once again swindle his way into walking you home as he approached his room. Though after opening the door? His plans changed

Laid on his bed, you have clearly fallen asleep while reading a light novel. In one hand is the book and in the other...a plush piece of toast?

What?

He has seen you asleep many times in the VIP lounge, but never like this. Not in his room, completely relaxed, and entirely unaware of the danger you were in. His prior warning did not pertain only to mushrooms

"Aha...my dearest, it seems you are not as conscious of me as I thought. You are fortunate that I am merciful,"

He runs his index finger along your cheek and down your neck, stopping when his hand meets the plush toy clutched in your hands. He is showing you mercy, but at the cost of more self control than his twin could ever muster

"I adore you..." He doesn't need to walk you home, because he does not bother waking you up. He instead tends to his fungi, and spends the night sparing occasional glances your way until morning

Deuce Spade

Puppy Plushie

He may -or may not!- have been booted from his Dorm for a few days

He definitely did not shatter nearly half of Heartslabyul's fine china in a petty argument with one of his upperclassmen

...

.....

Okay, but they were trying to ditch their duties and push all the work onto him! He's just trying to live an honest life here and they had the gull to pull the 'I'm your superior now do as I say,' bullshit

He sent a cauldron their way...and well, you get the rest. He's honestly lucky that Riddle did not collar him and instead Trey sent him away for a few days. Just until tensions cool off

Which is why he's here now. At your doorstep, in the middle of the night, with his pajamas on and nothing but a backpack. He doesn't even have proper shoes on! Just slippers

Annnd he's begging you to help him out. He's stayed over many times anyways. What's the harm in a few nights? It's just that this time Ace wouldn't be around

....lock the doors. He may have followed and Deuce is not in the mood for a second argument of the day. He just wants to do his homework and get some rest

"Please! I promise you won't even know that I'm here. I'll be super quiet,"

Say yes already and tell him to stop bowing. It's pathetic

Normally when Ace and Deuce sleep over, you have the living room set up for them. Since this is last minute he'll have to bunk in your room. You don't have fresh linens and it's too late to warm the living area with a fire.

Que you both fighting over who takes the bed. You're fine with him taking it, but Grimm refuses to sleep with him. Deuce also isn't happy kicking you out of your bed.

Egads his mother would have him hung for taking his host's bed. Especially your bed - the thought sends him overboard

In the end, Grimm ends up making himself comfy on one of the recliners in the room. Which leaves Deuce to share the bed with you after finishing his homework (that you begrudgingly help with)

He's already near a heart attack when you both get into the bed. Then he watches you lean over to grab a large plush dog...and snuggle it

He has never invaded your room when sleeping over. This is the first time he's seen you so...adorable. Utterly. Adorable.

He promptly turns so your backs are facing each other, and buries his face in his pillow.. Before he realizes it, an hour has passed and the grandfather-clock down the hall is chiming. Slowly, he peers over his shoulder to see that you've turned to face his back.

" Forgive me...I don't think I can do this-"

You wake up to find him in a blanket cocoon on the floor. He was not going to get any sleep staying in that bed

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astermacguffin · 3 years

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What if the Mark of Cain manifests differently when it's imprisoning God and not the Darkness? If the Darkness makes the Mark bearer go insane with unbridled want for destruction, then what does sealing God make you do?

An obsessive desire for creation? Creation to the point of corruption? (Think of the Shimmer from the film Annihilation. Continuous reproduction to the point of begetting alien, cancer-like entities. A refracted, distorted notion of creation.)

Okay, so canon divergence from The Trap. They successfully seal away Chuck, then Castiel bears the Mark. (Jack won't be back until later episodes, so he's not here yet.)

At first, they think he's fine. Cas says he's not feeling any bloodlust just yet. (He does feel a certain itch under his skin. Not a desire to murder, but a desire to do...something. He doesn't tell this to anyone.)

His grace is getting stronger, almost archangel-like (if not more). It's incredibly helpful for hunts, and Cas is happy to feel his wings healthy again after a long time. Sam is happy for him, but Dean is suspicious of things (especially since he's a previous Mark bearer).

After a while, Cas starts feeling...burdened, almost bloated by grace. (After all, he does have access to an infinite supply of it.) He needs to have an outlet for it.

Cas tells them so and Sam suggests healing people. Dean gives the green light on the condition that he remains invisible and he doesn't go Godstiel on them again.

It's a great outlet, and for the first few weeks they start feeling normal again. But unfortunately, healing stops being enough to relieve Cas of his excess grace anymore. The mass healings start to pile up all across the globe and it catches everyone's attention. Some think it's a blessed miracle, some think it's a sign of the end times. They make him slow down on the healings after that.

Without an outlet, however, Cas starts feeling antsy and pained. They brainstorm on possible alternatives. Cas suggests going to Heaven and saving it from collapse by healing his brethren's wings and creating more angels out of consenting souls in Heaven.

He explains Heaven's endangered and dwindling numbers. Sam agrees that it would hit two birds in one stone: relieve Cas from excess grace and prevent the extinction of angels. Dean doesn't like the idea of more winged dicks so he shoots down the idea. Eileen says that since Cas is the one in pain, he should be the one to decide.

Ultimately, Cas defers to Dean's judgment (as always). Sam protests, arguing that he can't just shoulder that pain. Cas replies: "I've suffered worse, Sam."

Cas doesn't complain about the pain for about a week, so for a while, everyone believes him when he said he can shoulder the pain. One day, Dean finds him outside the bunker, groaning in pain as he bleeds himself out, his grace pouring into the ground and sprouting plants. Dean sees this and is finally convinced to allow Cas to make more angels.

What follows then is a series of escalating events:

While Sam and Eileen are practicing their witchcraft for spell they need in a hunt, Cas suggests to enhance Sam's physical and magical abilities using his grace. "It will make the process faster and safer," he reasons. He agrees, but Dean eyes this suspiciously.

During one of their hunts, they encounter a young and freshly-turned vampire. The boy begs them not to kill him, and Cas gives him a proposal. "Promise not to feed on humans ever again and I shall cure you of your hungers and your pains. Pledge your allegiance to me and you shall never be afraid of yourself ever again." The boy agrees, and before Dean could even protest, Cas slices his palm and feeds the vampire his grace.

They argue about the grace-feeding in the Impala. Dean notices Sam's pointed lack of complaints and figures it out. "You're in on this, aren't you? How long has Cas been doing this? He's going Michael behind our backs and you're letting him?"

Sam argues that it's different because Cas isn't making super monsters; he's making them less "monstrous" (whatever that means). Sam's obsession with his own "purity" is key to understanding him here.

One time, Dean catches Cas in his "garden" ("forest" seems more apt with how lush the greens already are) creating butterflies and bees out of thin air using his grace alone.

Reports of the miraculously healed people suddenly gaining new abilities like increased strength, heightened senses, and prophecy start popping up. Some are experiencing phantom limbs, talking about their sprouting "wings."

Sam is becoming addicted to Cas' grace to the point that he willingly lets himself be hurt in hunts just so Cas can cure him. Dean confronts him about this, but Sam just argues that he's "never felt this pure before." Eileenn shares the same concern as Dean.

Hunts are becoming less frequent the more monsters are being "cleansed" by Cas. The world is becoming disconcertingly quiet.

Cas' "garden" is starting to emit this strange aura. The plants and creatures growing inside it are starting to look more...alien.

One of the original angels goes to Dean and tells him of Heaven's affairs. The Host is stable again, but the angels he created are...not exactly angels. They're graced up and they sustain Heaven, but their true forms are "horrifying and incomprehensible, even to an angel." The angel adds that more than 60% of Earth's creatures have already been touched by Cas' grace.

The final nail in the coffin is when Dean catches Cas in the garden fiddling with his angel blade. It's emitting a strange glow, vibrating a subtle hum and looking as if it's liquid, flowing and distorting here and there.

Dean asks him what he's holding. "Oh, this?" Cas responds. "This is the Last Blade. Last, not in terms of time but in concept, for no other blade shall ever compare to it. The spark of creation. Fiat lux."

Dean's heart sinks. Of course. The First and the Last, Alpha and Omega. "Cas...the Mark, I think i-it's scrambling your brain, man."

"I know," he replies, eyes wet and apologetic. It's a small moment of lucidity amidst weeks and months of...whatever that was.

"Okay, okay, so you're still you, that's... that's good. Okay." Dean doesn't know how to approach this. Give him a fight and he'll know what to do, but this? Watching his best friend, the love of his life, be distorted into something incomprehensible? Yeah, this is totally beyond him.

"You know, I used to hate Chuck," Cas says. "How could the Father of All Creation be this angry, petulant child? But," he continues, "knowing what I know now, it's either regressing into a petty child or being reduced to insanity."

"Cas...what are you talking about, man?"

"No mind should bear this burden, Dean. No matter how infinite they are," he says, voice trembling in exhaustion.

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He continues. "The awareness of everything is the awareness of nothing at all. Imagine perceiving every possible piece of information about the world all at once. Seeing light in all its forms all at once: ultraviolet, infrared, etc. Sensing all the neutrinos zip by, sensing gravitational waves, sensing the slighest bit of seismic activity."

Dean doesn't know how to respond, so he lets him go on.

"Knowledge can only ever be a slice of the Totality of Truth. Truth is absolute chaos, and Knowledge is the partial ordering of this chaos. One can sanely approach Truth only through organized paritions of Totality. Why do you think Chuck is so obsessed with stories? Stories are linear and finite; they're sensible snippets of the endless sea of possible worlds."

"So, what? Are you trying to—"

"I'm not trying to justify Chuck's actions, Dean," he interrupts. "I just want to contextualize them. Chuck's simplistic and repetitive narratives are what they are: manifestations of a chaotic Totality, gone insane trying to understand itself. Looking for simple things to hold on to."

Cas takes a deep breath. He speaks with a shaky voice. "I'm barely holding myself together, Dean. I can feel the universe beneath my skin."

He doesn't know what possesses him to ask, but he does it anyway. "What are you holding on to?"

Cas smiles at that. "You."

They stare at each other for a while, frozen where they stand. Cas, with unrestrained affection in his face. Dean, struck by shock and indecision. It's Cas who first breaks the silence.

"I think we both know what needs to be done, while I'm still lucid enough." Cas slices his palm and lets his blood drip down the soil. He then thrusts the Last Blade into the ground, lifting it when the soil glows.

Dean stared in awe as the ground erupts and a familiar shape rises from the hollow. "Is that.."

"The Ma'Lak box, yes. I also enhanced it with the Blade to be able to house things as powerful as me."

"Cas, wait, maybe we can think of another way to—"

"Dean," he says, calmly. "You know there's no other way. I wouldn't ask this of you if there was."

In any other scenario, Dean would've kept arguing, but even he knows that they're running out of time. Sam's grace addiction is getting worse and all the creatures touched by Cas' grace are slowly mutating into eldritch horrors. Dean offers a shaky nod. "Okay."

Tension visibly releases from Cas' body. "Thank you, Dean." He opens the box and enters it with ease. "When you lock this, bury me with the garden's graced soil. Once I'm under, my influence over the world should dampen."

Dean gives a wordless nod. For a while, they just stared at each other, Cas lying down and Dean trying to memorize every inch of his face while he can.

Cas presses his hand into Dean's left shoulder where his mark used to dwell. "My untainted grace," he whisper gently. "Some of it is still inside you. That's probably why you're not as affected by me."

Dean wants to say, I'll always be affected by you, but he holds himself back.

He takes his hand back, a bloody handprint now on Dean's jacket. "I love you, Dean," he says, breathless.

"Cas..."

"I probably would've built up to that if we had more time but," he makes a surprised laugh, "I am, as you would say, already 'losing my marbles', so."

The air quotes would've been funny and endearing in any other scenario, but it just makes Dean's vision blur up with tears.

"Thank you for everything, Dean. I know we've done nothing but repeatedly hurt each other these past few years, but I don't want to spend a deathless eternity with that as my memory of you. I forgive you, even for the things you haven't forgiven yourself for yet. And I'm sorry for everything, especially for ending things like this."

He should probably wipe away his tears to clear his vision, but Dean can do nothing but stare at Cas in awe, in fear, in grief, in reverence. They're both fully crying now.

"Goodbye, Dean."

"Wait, Cas."

Cas looks at him, waiting.

"Can you...can you say it again?"

He doesn't need to clarify what 'it' means. They both know.

With one last mournful smile, Cas says: "I love you, Dean."

And with that, Dean finally gathers all the strength he needs to shut the lid and lock the box. He stares at it for a while, unblinking. He forgot to ask, Can you hear my prayers down there? But it's too late now to ask.

The box automatically lowers itself into the hole it arose from. Now all that's left to do is to cover it again with soil.

Dean doesn't bother with a shovel. He gently buries the box with his hands deep in the soil, some of it getting trapped under his nails. He continues the mindless task, whispering a tireless series of I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I hope you're okay I'm sorry, over and over between his quiet sobs. Cas is quiet inside the box. No screaming or crying. Dean doesn't know if that's better or worse.

When the final clump of soil is pressed into the mound, he suddenly feels it: a visceral shift that echoes throughout the world. The alien glimmer of the garden dims, and the world corrects its axis. Dean screams his agony into the air.

That's how Sam finds him: sprawled over a mound of soil, crying his heart out. Dean doesn't need to say anything: he knows what happened. He pulls his brother off the ground and brings him inside the bunker.

For the first two weeks, Dean cycles through drinking and passing out in various places in the bunker. If he's not wearing the jacket, he's holding it with close to him. Sam gives him a considerable space to grieve while he monitors the world grace problem with Eileen. The grace mutations have significantly dropped since then and everyone's going back to normal.

Unfortunately, that means monsters are getting hungry again. Sam doesn't want to leave his brother alone after going nonverbal with grief and dysfunctional due to alcohol. Eileen assures him that she can handle hunts on their own and that the hunter network that they're building will lessen the workload.

Sam's attempts to sober Dean up finally work, mostly due to the latter having very little strength to protest. Dean remains sober an entire day for the first time in weeks, and all he can think about is: I haven't prayed to Cas in a while. The longing might have reached him, but never a coherent prayer.

The first time he goes out of the bunker in a while, he heads straight to Cas' garden. Sam's glad that he's finally going out because "the sun is good for you" or something, but he's really only here for Cas. He kneels in front of the burial mound (where a patch of an unknown species of flowers is already growing).

The first prayer he says to him in a while is: I love you, Cas. I should've said it while you were still here. Not saying it out loud and just strongly thinking about the words somehow bolsters him to get the words through.

He's crying again, and he knows he's losing coherency. In his mind, he's explaining about his hangups and his regrets and his continuous denial of his own joy, but one constant remains: he's beaming all his love and affection into this prayer.

He's halfway through explaining all the traits that he finds endearing in Cas when suddenly, he feels it like a snap. If the glimmer dimmed when he buried Cas, now it's as if it was never there in the first place. With an unsettling amount of certainty, Dean just knows that Cas is gone. For real, this time.

"C-cas...?" It's the first thing he's said in a while and it sounds rough in his long unused voice.

"CAS! CAS!!! " He's now screaming, ripping away the flowerbed with his bare hands and scratching the soil away. Tears are obstructing his vision, but he has no time to wipe them away. He needs to make sure that is really gone. His hands are bleeding and he doesn't give a damn.

Eventually, Sam comes running towards him. "Dean! Dean, stop!"

He tries to hold his brother back, but Dean just keeps on clawing away soil. "Sammy, Sammy he's gone, he's not there anymore, Sammy I have to see, please, let me see Cas again, I need—" he breaks into sobs again, and like a puppet with its strings cut off, he slumps into Sam.

"Dean, it's okay, it's okay..." he says softly to his shaking brother.

Eventually, when Dean calms down, he looks at the carnage he's done and starts sobbing again. The flowers, his last evidence of Cas being here, are all destroyed. Now Cas truly is gone.

. . .

When Cas first heard Dean's confession prayer, he was overcome with joy. When he realized what that means, however, his stomach suddenly sinks.

He hears before he sees the Empty arrive, slithering like black goo.

"Wow, were you excited enough for eternal slumber that you wanted a preview?" The Shadow teases in Meg's voice.

At first, he was dreading the Empty, but now that he thinks of it, it's actually the perfect prison for him: a vast, endless nothingness for him to fill with his creations.

And if Jack wasn't in Heaven, that only means that he's in the Empty, and he can't wait to see his son again. Even when blinded by the madness of the universe, he can never forget the joy of being a father.

"Yes," he replies, "I'm actually glad you're here now."

. . .

Somewhere around the globe, Billie drops Jack back.

"Don't worry, kid. You'l reunite with your father very soon."

(to be continued)

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icefire149 · 3 years

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Certain parts of season 14 and 15 just rub me the wrong way. Everything about the shift when Mary dies again to set up conflict between Dean and Cas just doesn’t hit right. So here’s a new way I’d do it:

Jack still accidentally murders Mary, but after zipping around the Earth in a panic, he goes to Castiel. He has no fear that he’ll lose Cas over this. It’s Sam and Dean that he’s worried about. Especially Dean since he was horrible when he was born. Dean only more recently seemed like he really cared about him. He can’t mess this up. Jack brings Cas back to the house and explains what happened.

We know Cas is a strategist and his mind would be in overdrive, because of course the Winchesters weren’t going to be okay with any of this. Hell, he’s barely keeping it together. Mary was his friend. But, Jack is his child and responsibility. And he loves him too much to let him suffer. So he devises a plan: Nick was trying to summon Lucifer from the Empty. He was succeeding. Jack and Mary were trying to stop him and Lucifer obliterated Mary. Jack wasn’t quick enough but he was able to send Lucifer back into the Empty and in a rage killed Nick. Now Jack is panicking because it’s still his fault, but not his fault. It’s Nick and Lucifer’s. And Jack while being mostly soulless is still a bit hesitant to weave such a lie to their family, but he agrees. Cas reassures him that the Winchesters will be devastated, but they’ll understand better this way. As a family, all of them will be able to grieve and move on eventually. Because: Nick shouldn’t have done what he did. It was high tension and everyone was upset, and it was inevitable an accident happened. It was just a terrible accident.

Distraught, Jack asks if there’s anything they can do to fix things? If they can bring Mary back? If they had a body....maybe. This leads Jack to want to see Rowena to see if she could just bring Mary back. They decide to try, but stick to the story. Cas gets zapped back to his truck and Jack goes to Rowena. So we have the similar situation where Jack in a panic tries to force Rowena to fix things and she tries, but also still tips off the Winchesters. Still the magic doesn’t work and Jack is scared. Sam and Dean get to the house and are a mess trying to make heads or tails of the mess. Automatically the blame is on Jack. They’ve been worried about his soul. He must have gone completely dark side. And we’ll note that Dean is the one crawling out of his skin pacing and ranting. Sam is more withdrawn. Jack flies into Cas’ truck when he’s almost there. Cas goes into the house first. He tells Jack to wait in the truck. Cas bars the doorway with his body while he tries to explain the ‘tale’ Jack told him in the car and how devastated he is over Mary and terrified of what they, Sam & Dean, will do next.

Dean believes Cas. It’s Cas. His anger rolls into grief & tears. His mom died. How did he get here where he has to bury her again. Cas comforts Dean with soft touch and words. He’s sorry. He’s so sorry. Cas gives into his own grief a bit. It’s Sam that continues to stand there in quiet rage. It’s like his whole lifetime of trauma is torn open again. And now there’s this new angry wound that’s only festered since Amara brought Mary back. Yes, he should be grateful that he’s gotten to know her at all, but.....it was never right. She never stayed long enough to really know him. Emotionally her bond with Dean was always stronger. He was always just a fly on the wall. She was his mom too. And now...even Cas is crying more than him. When the hell was she ever anything to him? Sam’s anger spirals, but he’s trying to keep it down. He keeps going over the house there. Something about everything isn’t sitting right with him. There’s something off. He knows it.

So with the funeral and going home to the bunker, things feel flipped. Jack and Cas were most worried about Dean, but it’s Sam they should be worried about. Dean is angry and upset, but he’s not blaming Jack. He’s actually trying to be there for Jack. This development has Cas over the moon, because this is all he ever wanted. For them to be a family. While Dean fell into the cycle of his father’s anger when Cas died s12/13....this time he’s being what he/John should have been. And Sam is the one sinking into John’s cycle of anger. Sam’s the one drinking a bit more. He’s quiet, but there’s an anger that’s clearly there. He’s distancing himself from Jack and Cas. Eventually he blows up and admits that he blames Jack and his soullessness. For all they know he hurt her / let her get hurt purposely. Which gets Cas angry and Sam flat out admits that he doesn’t trust Cas’ word. Something feels off to him, and this isn’t the first time Cas has tried to go behind their backs. He has quite the history of it.

This causes Sam, Dean, and Cas to go at it yelling. Jack overhears some and blames himself for ruining everything again. He’s been nothing but trouble for their family. Maybe it would be better if he just left. So he does. This ties us back to Jack being manipulated by Heaven. Dean and Cas are out trying to find him. All ties back in to Jack goes home and finds Sam alone in the bunker. And it’s easy to fall back into the trust Jack has always had with Sam. He’s always had Jack’s back. And he manipulates Jack, telling him that they’ve worked out a spell to bring Mary back. They altered the malak box spell work to harness and focus Jack’s powers. It should be enough. Dean and Cas will be back any minute with Rowena. Jack eagerly believes him and does as he’s told. Jack gets in the box and he stares up at Sam nervous. Sam tells him that there’s nothing to worry about anymore. Cas told them everything. They can fix things now. And Jack looks at him confused, everything? Sam presses that yes, Cas explained how it was an accident. Jack breathes a sigh of relief and then crumbles into tears, how he didn’t mean to. He asked her to stop, but she wouldn’t give him a moment to breathe and then..it was an accident. He didn’t mean to hurt her. And cold as ice Sam goes, I know, and closes the lid. Locking the box.

It’s a while before Dean and Cas make it back. Jack has enough time to completely unravel in his grief, and anger, and realization that Sam lied and tricked him. Everyone keeps manipulating him and lying. Dean and Cas get back and start arguing with Sam. Just like in the show, Jack breaks out and leaves. Sam still goes into it explaining the truth he got from Jack. Cas LIED. He covered up Mary’s death. He’s known the truth all along. Dean refuses to believe Sam. He’s mistaken.

Things roll into Moriah and Jack makes it so no one can lie. And because of that the truth finally comes out of Cas’ mouth. And Dean breaks. He tells Cas that he’s dead to him. Cas leaves to look for Jack on his own. Dean’s fury goes in on Jack. He never should have gotten attached. Jack was always a monster. All of this rolls into Chuck’s return and manipulation. He pushes Dean to kill Jack. And the puzzle pieces click into place for Sam. He realizes how much this is all a game to Chuck. Chuck pulled the strings to make every bad thing that’s happened in his life happen just for his own entertainment: Mom, their childhood, dad’s shitty parenting, Jess, demon deals, demon blood, Dean going to Hell, Ruby, the apocalypse, visions, unanswered prayers, EVERYTHING..... Chuck’s newest episode of entertainment was causing Jack to accidentally kill Mary and have to live with the consequences of losing his only family over it. Sam’s anger goes directly into Chuck.

He needs to get to Dean. Meanwhile Dean finds Cas and Jack in the cemetery. Cas gets between them and tries to talk Dean down. Dean is shaking with fury. He’s never been this mad before. He hated Jack for being born and getting Cas killed, and then he grew to love the kid as family, and he hates him for making him feel this much. He killed his mom, and lied about it. Cas tries to explain that he was trying to protect all of them. He was trying to maintain their family. Dean coldly goes, there’s no family here to maintain. I’m a hunter. Saving people and hunting monsters is the family business, and....I see two monsters in front of me. And he holds the equalizer up, shakily. Jack sends Cas flying so he can approach Dean. He understands what Dean has to do. He accepts it and he’s sorry. Jack gets on his knees and waits. Dean can’t quite do it. He’s trying.

Sam and Chuck get there. Sam starts yelling how Chuck set this whole thing up. Chuck is trying to make Dean do this...for his own entertainment. And everything rolls back into what the actual show did. Dean can’t kill Jack and Sam shoots Chuck. Everything continues to roll similarly as s15 did, but the divorce arc is leaning heavily on Dean is angry about Cas betraying him.

#spn #save #i hope this makes sense because i haven't reread it yet. i'm just seeing these ideas tie together in a painful vision

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