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allzelemonz · 1 year

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Reading: Micah Bell X Male Reader

Pronouns: None Mentioned, Reader is referred to as ‘boy’ and the story portrays them as gay/mlm with mentions of legality in the time period Physical Sex: AMAB Rating: M/Near sexual encounter Warnings: Micah Bell is his own warning, I mean it this time, making out, mild grinding, teasing Summary: Mary-Beth lends you a book you can relate to, but Micah ends up getting his hands on it.

You aren’t one to stray from your usual duties around camp. There’s already enough of that from Uncle and a few others. Between everything around camp and the regular jobs from Dutch, you don’t have a lot of free time. Mary-Beth seems to have made this her problem, scouring for a book that might make you skip a fishing trip or stop cutting wood for a few minutes.

“Just give it a chance.” She begs, holding the book out.

You sigh, putting down the sack you’d hauled across camp. “What makes you think I know how to read?”

“I’ve seen you read.” She says. “And I think I finally found one you’ll like.”

Your breathing is heavy from the labor. “I don’t like that romance stuff, Miss Gaskill.”

“I know, I know.” She grins. “But I got this one from the fence in town. It’s about two men who fall in love out in the Wild West.”

You chuckle. “I don’t need some book to remind me what I’m missing out on, Miss.”

“It’s good to imagine things, Mister.” She shoves the book into your arms. “Give it a chance.”

She scurries off before you can give it back to her, leaving you standing with it. If Mary-Beth is telling the truth about the contents of the book then it’s as illegal as the regular crimes you commit. Except this one doesn’t make you money. You look down at it. The cover is plain, not even a title on the spine. It’s black and unassuming, completely innocent at a glance. You flip it open, looking over the pages. The occasional word fixes in your mind as you skim over them, confirming Mary-Beth’s summary and damning the book as contraband.

You return to your tent and set the book with your things. There’s an itch in your brain that you think the book might scratch. You resist it and go fishing instead. Pearson is grateful for the fish you bring back and takes them with a smile. In the late night you can’t resist the itch any longer. You sit down on your bedroll and open the book, reading by the lantern light.

It’s not a bad book, not that you’ve had much opportunity to read since joining the gang. It’s been a long time since you’ve read a book, let alone a good one. The story is slow and the main character is fine, the love interest seems like a nice guy. They’re both far too nice to be the gunslingers they’re painted as. They hardly shoot anyone, they don’t rob much, they’re just on the run with no explanation why. It could be because they’re homosexuals, that’s reason enough, but the author describes them as badass gunslingers with dark pasts and portrays none of it. You close the book for a minute, sighing at the annoying inability to believe what’s happening on the pages.

Your only alternative for the night is to sleep like everyone else and you just aren’t tired enough. So you open the book again and continue. Chapters lead up to the moment when they get together, hats falling off as they embrace as if they don’t have the sense to take them off beforehand. Then there’s a scene that makes your face turn red. The two cowboys, the scandal that would make the owner of this book serve time in jail. Your heart beats a bit faster when you open the book again. You’ve known how you feel, that this is the sort of reality you want, but you’ve never seen it portrayed. Your eyes scan over the words, half reading and half imagining.

“What ya readin’ there, cowpoke?”

You close the book in a hurry, unable to act inconspicuous due to the scare Micah brought on. You were so consumed in it that you didn’t hear his footsteps or anything. The action was a mistake. Micah has a broad, wicked smile on his face as he takes a step forward.

“Oh, it’s interestin’ then.” He chuckles. “It’s gotta be with a reaction like that.”

“None of your business, Micah.”

“Come on, cowpoke. I ain’t one to judge.”

“Yes you are.” You say, standing with the book in hand and a full intention to throw it into the lake.

Micah side-steps in front of you with a chuckle. “Ah, ah, ah.”

“Move, Micah.”

He tilts his head. “Ain’t ya ever heard a’ sharin’?”

Your face heats a little as he steps forward. The position he’s caught you in is more than compromising and proximity to a man you find attractive is not helping.

“I’m not doing this with you, Micah.”

You try to push past him, but he wrestles the book from your hands and takes a few steps away until he’s out of reach. He laughs at your frustration, flipping the book open. He’s opened it towards the end, around where that scene is and you wait for him to read over it. There’s not much you can do without causing a fuss for the whole camp to hear.

He chuckles. “My, my, cowpoke.”

“Shut up, Micah.”

“Mighty unrealistic if ya ask me.” He presses the book closed and lets it drop to the ground. “I’m sure you and I could do better.”

You knit your eyebrows in thought, confused for a moment before you realize what he means. He snickers as he walks back into your tent, a hand untying the closing flaps so they fall down and enclose the space. You make no move to stop him, so he takes off his hat and sets it on your small table.

You take a shaky breath. “If you’re gonna do this Micah, hurry up.”

He chuckles, taking steps towards you until he can grab at your gunbelt and pull you in for a kiss. His lips are rough and his facial hair scratches your face, sensations that make you press into him and put your hands into his somewhat greasy hair. He smirks against your lips and slowly moves his hands to undo your belt, guiding it to drop beside you when he gets it.

His leg bends to press against you and he chuckles at the feeling of your hard dick. “All hot and bothered, are we?”

When you lean in to reconnect your lips, he steps away. He has a wicked grin on his face as he reaches for his hat and places it on his head. You smile to cope with your own naivete, of course Micah pulls something like this.

“I’m gonna kill you, you asshole.”

“Ah, ah, cowpoke.” He sighs. “Just ain’t the right time.”

“Fuck you, Micah.”

He chuckles. “Oh, I know ya want to. Cowpoke.”

He backs out, leaving the tent. You take heavy and shaky breaths as you try to comprehend what exactly happened. You rush out and grab the book, meeting eyes briefly with Micah as he sits by the fire sharpening his knife. He smirks, returning his focus to the knife and shaking his head. You take the book back to your tent and throw it to the side where your gun belt rests. You can’t decide if you want to burn it or give it back to Mary-Beth just for the sake of politeness. Either way, the damn book is too much trouble.

#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #micah bell #red dead redemption x reader #red dead redemption x male reader #micah bell x reader #micah bell x male reader #x reader #x male reader

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(5th UPDATE) Estrada was convicted of one count of direct bribery and two counts of indirect bribery. He will remain free as he appeals those convictions.

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Jinggoy Estrada was acquitted of plunder, but convicted of bribery in the pork barrel scam.

The anti-graft court Sandiganbayan released this verdict to Estrada on Friday, January 19.

Estrada was convicted of one count of direct bribery and two counts of indirect bribery. Those carry a sentence of 8 to 9 years for direct bribery and 2 to 3 years for indirect bribery. He was also ordered to pay a P3-million fine.

Estrada will remain free as he appeals those convictions.

Estrada’s indirect bribery conviction carries an accessory penalty of suspension from public office. It is uncertain if this is immediately executory or if he has a chance to appeal.

Co-accused Janet Lim-Napoles, who owns most of the NGOs in the pork barrel scam, was convicted of a total of 7 counts of corruption of public officials. She was ordered to pay a fine of P262 million.

Like Estrada, Napoles was acquitted of plunder, but she remains in jail for other convictions, including plunder in relation to the Bong Revilla case where the senator was acquitted.

Estrada’s staff Pauline Therese Mary Labayen, and Napoles’ staff John Raymund de Asis remain at-large; their cases are archived, and warrants of arrest have been re-issued.

Estrada had been accused of pocketing P183 million in kickbacks from his Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF, discretionary funds for lawmakers which were corrupted by using bogus NGOs whose projects turned out to be fake.

He is the second of three senators to be acquitted of plunder in the pork barrel scam, a decade-long trial that has seen lower-ranked staff fall but lawmakers free.

Estrada, who won a senatorial comeback in 2022 with the Marcos-Duterte slate, is not completely off the hook on the graft allegations over the same controversy. Plunder has to involve an amount of P50 million and above, and has to prove earning a kickback. Graft is a lesser crime that can cover several offenses from negligence to partiality in government transactions.

Estrada has been out on bail for almost seven years now after the same court granted his bail petition in 2017. The Sandiganbayan approved the bail then using the novel principle of proving a “main plunderer,” which Estrada was not, at that point in the trial, according to the court.

Former senator Juan Ponce Enrile, who is now chief presidential legal adviser, is the only one with a pending plunder case. His case notoriously dragged on in the Sandiganbayan because of technical petitions. Revilla, the first to be acquitted, has also been cleared of his graft charges, ending his criminal trials over the pork barrel scam.

Like the others, Estrada has always maintained that he only endorsed the NGOs, and did not earn from the scam.

This is Estrada’s second plunder win. He was charged alongside his father, former president Joseph Estrada, over the accusation that they earned P4 billion from jueteng operations, among others.

Jinggoy Estrada was cleared, but his father President Estrada was convicted and pardoned later on by former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Estrada’s plunder charges from the pork barrel scam began in June 2014, when the Office of the Ombudsman, then under Conchita Carpio Morales, charged him, Revilla and Enrile – all big fish at the time. Enrile got bail on humanitarian grounds, and his chief-of-staff Gigi Reyes also recently secured a humanitarian release.

#Jinggoy Estrada #philippines #news tag

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powdermelonkeg · 3 years

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Zora's domain, tingle, fairy ocarina please

Zora's Domain

What we see of Zora's domain isn't actually the extent of their kingdom. The Silver Palace serves as their capital, but the rest of their country lies in the nearby ocean and underwater caves, and you can tell a Zora's native location based on their appearances!

The Zora that grew up in the caverns tend to have more muted colors, and the less exposure to sunlight they have, the darker their home territory. Someone like Tottika had access to sunlight or luminous stones all the time, while someone like Gaddison would have grown up in near darkness.

The Caverns Domain spans through the Lanayru region, and inexperienced divers will often get lost in even the entryways to the area. Houses are built vertically into stalagmites and stalactites in the flooded caves, with essential manufacturing like forges being built into coveted above-water zones, and farmland and fisheries taking up the lakefloors.

Red and purple Zora are the result of spontaneous mutation early on in the Zora line, similar to how blue eyes are in humans. The source of these colors can be traced back to Twilight Princess era, with the gene first showing up in Queen Rutela and Prince Ralis. You're most likely to find those kinds of colors in the capital.

Green Zora actually have a bit of River Zora heritage to them, which gives them stronger scales and, interestingly, a taste for spicy food. They're not specific to any one location anymore, but they do tend to prefer freshwater to salt.

Zora with non shark-like forms, like Muzu, Dorephan, or Ocarina's King Zora, hail from the ocean waters, where a variety of fish and other sealife encourages variations in Zora form to match. Reef Domain--the official name for that section of Zora's domain--is a lot more loose and rural than the Silver Palace, and a lot less restrained than Caverns; a kelp field for herding porgy can span for MILES, and houses are built wherever the ocean Zora fancy.

The domain ends where the ocean dropoff begins. Zora parents tell their children stories of giant morays that live down there, who would snap them up as a tasty treat.

Tingle

Tingle...oh boy.

Majora's Mask's Tingle is the only one that isn't a criminal. He's a mirror version just like everyone else in Termina, and you never see him in Ocarina because he's in jail for tax evasion.

Wind Waker's Tingle had his name passed down from Ocarina era; he isn't actually related, he just took the name up as legacy of someone who he liked the stories of. Ankle, Knuckle, and David Jr got roped into a scheme of his early on, and when Tingle got caught on Windfall Island, they had no idea what to do with themselves.

His crime? Capitalism Rigging prices for maps that he wouldn't disclose the actual location of.

Tingle is the Ea-Nasir of Hyrule.

The Fairy Ocarina

The Fairy Ocarina is Saria's treasure, and not just in the sense that you get a fanfare when you receive it.

The Kokiri live in houses made out of fallen trees; they're a very conservative people, in the sense that nothing they use ever goes to waste. When they build their houses and hollow them out, they try to use the wood from the hollows they make however they can. For some Kokiri, that's furniture. For others, they build stepping platforms or bridges to make travel easier. There's Deku Shields, sticks, tools...you get the idea.

Saria's fairy ocarina was made out of the heart of her home, and before she gifted it to Link, she used it to make songs in thanks to the forest, to bring joy to her fellow Kokiri and fairy friends, and to ask for nature's protection. It was her most precious treasure. When she gave it to Link, she was hoping that it would make him happy and keep him safe in his travels.

So why the fuck he abandoned it for a polished timeshift stone, I'll never know.

#loz #zelda #botw #oot #mm #ww #worldbuilding #headcanon #ask bee #zora #tingle #saria

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fandomracket · 3 years

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SPOILERS Tales from the SMP | The Wild West

Warning: Cursing

Very few deaths this one. The blood lust have eased up a bit. Also, the accents/voices in this one. Oooooh boi. This is the same time as the Masquerade. So it's in the past of the Dream SMP.

Ok. Characters. Are:

Of course, our Karl. Twitch.tv/karljacobs is his full name. We got a shitton to talk about this man's character and such. I will save it for maybe the end bit.

TOWNSPEOPLE

John John (Ranboo) is a bartender. Has fingers?. Suspiciously looks like a minor that just works at a saloon and only sells beere. Hands a lot of drinks. He dies by the hands of Mason. I don't know the reason why but he did. The only one to die in the "right side." He believes the devil are usually the reason of "strange" occurrences. Held a stack of milk, pretty sure.

There's a priest Reveren? I think was the name that died and was supposed to come back in 3 days.

Percy (Tubbo) is a banker. If he had a last name, I didn't get it. Has a G R E A T S H O T. Also, had a banking bee that died because of Michael's fireworks. Plays go fish while in the middle of a blackjack match. Likes snap and to match the pictures. John owes him a lot. (They gave that skin to someone that is likely the youngest in that group)

Sheriff Sherman Thompson (Technoblade) is a Sheriff that has about a week before retirement. He is the sheriff and he saw it. Has a G R E A T S H O T. Forgets the number five. The only one who initially owns a gun. Has one Horse power.

Crops (Corpse Husband) is a cannibal prisoner. Ate the priest and the orphan. Ate the doctor last week. Deep voice. Didn't understand the terms of the duel. He was just hungry.

Ron Ronson, son of Ron, obviously son of his dad, Ron Ronson, who yet again is the son of Ron Ronson. But he is just called Michael. (Fundy ffs) Mails people things of people. Either he stutters a lot or he is some robot or both or there was a weird transition in the middle (maybe due to the injury or a nervousness thing). Eats Japanese lanterns and has a frozen (not the cold type) chicken wife. He killed it.

William Williamson (BadBoyHalo) offers muffins. Has nice pants. Has a G R E A T S H O T when drunk. You touch anything you buy it. Drinks a lot.

THE bullies BANDITS. (I love this) Democrat haters. They were never at all jailed despite their crimes and only Crops was and that's because he is a cannibal. Although the group also seem to be cannibals.

Jack Kanoff (Quackity) is the leader? of the bandits. Weak to Thorns. A "good guy" Cannibal. Killed by the hand of Crops.

Mason (Sapnap) is Jack's right hand man/best friend. Muted. Killed by Karl. He didn't have much info.

Just Connor/Flint Michigan (Connoreatspants) Fastest Thief alive. Why is he wearing a onesie in a west side town under what seems to be an extremely hot climate. Disappears. Killed by Sheriff Sherman.

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Other comments:

CHURCH OF PRIME

The map looked so awesome. They never visited the inn tho.

Also that song from and the beginning was so catchy and I literally listened to it earlier just before the stream started. It's by derivakat on youtube and the songs she made are so catchy.

Billiam used to be from this this town. He took most of the town's money.

G R E A T S H O T

Who let the cows out? Who who who who who?

Percy volunteered but was not really chosen for the duel. So did, Michael but Michael is... ehhh. I mean we already know whyy he wasn't fit for that.

Why John tho? That was just unclear to me. Is it so Karl can do his revenge thing? The man was shaking when they chose him.

I think Michael would've been hilarious choice to send in to the duel. But I chose Percy because he already volunteered.

O H N O

IT'S HIGH NOON.

Bandit Language includes LMAO, LOL, LMFAO, XD, :P, :3, OwO, and UwU

Congrats for Qucakity not dying first. He died second. New record

Jack, Crops, and Karl love triangle?

Milk drinking contest.. Also just because of the milk thing and how they both have similar jobs and actor, I think Butler and John John could be related. Billiam could have took Butler from John or smth like that.

Karl declares he's the new sheriff in town then suddenly walks away saying he wasn't even from there. I mean Yeh. But the confusion of the townspeople... it was funny to say the least. They just got dragged into a weird fight by someone they do not even know. That gives me an idea.

John was the first to meet Karl and defended him from the Sheriff due to being indebted to Karl saving him from the bandits early on. But Karl chooses John to fight the last bandit despite being "incapable" and was led to his death. I feel like there is some type of manipulation here tbh or I might just be trying to over analyze it.

Ok now about the Inbetween. It is really beautiful. And the multiple Karls. It makes sense! Since it is his safe haven on time travels and apparently he will time travel a lot more. The Inbetween has no time or dimension and I can see why there were many Karls.

Also Don't Stray Off the Path ? That has 87 pages. What's that about?

Good enough ending, lets go! I mean John John died but Lets Go!

I really love how it is a plot-following chaos. Yeh there might be an outline of what should happen but other than that it's chaos compared to the main lore where it would be a more "organized chaos."

#dream smp #mcyt #tales from the smp #tales of the smp #karl jacobs #itsfundy #corpse husband #ranboo #technoblade #badboyhalo #quackity #sapnap #tubbo #connoreatspants #why kill john squared still though #there was not enough bloodshed in my opinion lol #just y'know

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On a more possitive note, I’ve started watching Sword Art Online. It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen (and the last film I saw in cinemas was Cats to give you context for the scale i’m working on here) and I kind of adore it in much the same way I love garbage like Smallville or Twilight. It’s so stupid on so many levels. You could challenge someone to write the worst anime, and it would almost certainly be better than SAO. It’s almost hypnotic how terrible it is.

No one should watch this terrible terrible show so I therefore don’t feel at all bad that I’m about the spoil absolutely everything, but honestly if you do also hate-watch this please come talk to me about how terrible it is. I don’t know anyone else who watches it.

Highlights of Season 1 include:

everyone is trapped in an MMO, and if you die in the MMO you die IRL. but if you were a beta-tester you’re probably fine because they just let them keep all their levels and items from the testing, so they’re all massively OP and everyone just accepts this as a normal and non-game-breaking thing

it’s a fantasy MMO but there’s no races, no magic system, no weapons except swords and maces, and not even an option to dual wield - literally all you can do in this fucking game is stand in front of an enemy and mash the attack button. I’m pretty sure they’re trapped there because the devs realised no one would play this post launch-day otherwise because it’s boring as shit

when the villain traps everyone he also just changs all their avatars to look like they do IRL for absolutely no reason, like actually none, he doesn’t even say he thinks it would be funny, he just does it and no one questions it and it is literally never mentioned again because this is the worst TV show ever animated.

in the second episode the main character deliberately witholds information about how to defeat a boss, indirectly causing multiple deaths. there is absolutely no reason for him to withhold it, he was just being a jerk because he doesn’t like people

in the third episode they reset his entire personality and he’s now a selfless hero pretending to be a lower level than he really is so people will find him more relateable and be his friend because all he wants is to help people. this is not a consequence of episode 2, they just decided they didnt like the character as he’d previously been written.

he makes some new friends who are all objectively terrible people who have decided for no season that the twelve year old who doesn’t really know how to play and keeps having anxiety attacks about the very real possibility of death has to be the guild tank. the MC is high enough level to be functionally immortal in like half the levels, but doesn’t tell anyone this he just lets them go on bullying this child

none of his friends survive that episode, in the game or IRL. which is also a christmas epsiode. a child dies in battle because she’s a terrible tank and then a man commits suicide out of guilt, so then the main character murders santa to try and bring them back from the actual dead but it doesn’t work because again, this is a video game and they are dead IRL, so then he walks off into the snow alone. Christmas!

we meet the best character in the entire show in episode 4, Rosalia, who has gone evil and started just straight murdering people because she’s sick of being an attractive adult woman who can’t get a date because she’s surrounded by lolicons who are only interested in the preteen characters (not a joke, that comes up, the show is firmly on the side of the lolicons)

in the same episode we get an extended bra and panty sequence staring an actual fucking child, like canonically this character is maybe 13 at best. this is one of only 2 occaisions when they feel the need to undress a character and it’s the fucking 12 year old, it’s so gross it reads like a parody of itself

literally every single named female character aged over 8 who talks to the MC falls in love with him after like 5 minutes (and in season 2 this includes his actual sister). he shows absolutely no interest in any of them (including his sister, thank god) until...

the main character gets engaged to a girl he only knows from an MMO after a virtual single date (he doesn’t actually win her in a PVP match but only because he looses the match, he 100% canonically tries to win her in a match, which she is apparently fine with). he then doesn’t bother to ask for her real name until the final episode, he just calls her by her screen name

(that’s okay though becuase it turns out that this moron of a love interest used her real name, on a local server, in a game where your character looks like you do IRL, because apparently getting doxxed is her hobby)

they then get in-game married off screen. there’s not even like a still of a wedding photo. nothing. the main character proposes and then the show immediately jumps to the honeymoon, it’s fucking bizarre.

they find a creepy child dressed all in white with no memory alone in the woods a week into their honeymoon who starts calling them mommy and daddy literally seconds after they first meet her, and they don’t suspect anything suss is going on and adopt her

for hilarity bear in mind the main character may only be 15 at this point (he says he’s only just turned 16 in the last epsiode, but his actual birthday is never mentioned), and his virtual wifu is 16, but no one ever questions the marriage or the adoption, even though ‘hey marriage in a video game is as important and meaningful as marriage in real life’ is an actual conversation people have multiple times. also they think the child they adopt is an actual IRL 8 year old who thinks these randos she met in an MMO are her mum and dad and everyone just goes with that like it’s a totally normal thing

a character called ‘Thinker’ agrees to meet an enemy faction leader for peace talks. the “peace talks” take place in a high level dungeon and he is told to come alone with no weapons and no fast travel. he does this. no one ever comments that his name is ironic, and in fact they seem to think that being betrayed and trapped in a dungeon with a boss is a totally unexpected turn of events Thinker could never have planned for

they take their new baby into the dungeon to rescue thinker, because they went to the jean grey school of baby rearing, and she imediately reveals that she’s actually a magical maggufin with infinite power, murders the grim reaper, and then dies. In literally the second episode she’s in

after she dies the MC hacks the admin account of the game, converts her corpse into an in game item, and saves to the local storage on his console, with the intention of bringing her back to life as a robot once they’re saved from the game. I’m not joking, that’s an actual thing that happens.

the fact that the main character can just access the main admin account and make massive game-breaking changes isn’t used again in that game and he never thinks to try and use it to force log people out or give himself infinite life so he can just rush the game and free everyone. nope, convert a corpse into an item and then never think about it again.

there’s an entire episode where all they do is go fishing. its the only filler episode in the season, and it immediately follows the death of a small child. it’s the most tone-deaf beach episode in writing history

it turns out this game, this game where they didn’t bother coding in any difference races, weapons, or any kind of magic system, was intended to have fully sentient AI therapists, because why the fuck not at this point honestly

oh also the game has PVP and you can trick the game into thinking a sleeping player is in PVP with you in order to actually murder a real person without it flagging in-game as a murder making the crime impossible for the real life legal system to investigate even though you just murdered a person. and they expect us to believe this game had actual beta testers. at least cyberpunk wasn’t played on microwaves you connected straight to your brain (also not a joke, the VR consoles canonically work by sending microwave radiation into your brain, no wonder VR never caught on)

the set up for the show is that they have to reach level 100 of a dungeon in order to win. At level 75, the writers got bored and the show just ends.

it turns out the power of love allows you to just break the fucking game and the main villain literally has a line about how ‘love allows you to remove debuffs, huh, we didn’t think to plan for that’ because again, there’s no metaphors in this show, everything is 100% literal including the fact that falling in love with another player means you’re immune to the paralysis status effect

power of love also allows you to very briefly become a poltergeist after being killed, but only for like 2 seconds. again not a joke or a metaphor, main character is killed but then gets to hang around as a ghost for a little bit to enable him to defeat the boss. he also doesn’t die in real life despite that being the entire fucking premise of the show, again because power of love.

the bad guy literally has no plan, he’s just doing shit for the sake of having something to do. His actions directly cause the deaths of more than 4,000 people, and it’s not even in aid of anything. they ask him why he trapped 10,000 people in an MMO and allowed them to slowly die, and he’s just like ‘huh, i forgot i did that, random’ and then just fucking peaces out

the fact that he committed one of the largest mass killings outside of war never really comes up again, as far as we know he doesn’t even go to jail. i think the show actually kind of thinks he’s a good guy, which is a fucking WILD moral stance to take on the deaths of 4000 completely innocent people for absolutely no reason

If this sounds hilari-bad but you don’t want to invest the time to watch a show which is objectively garbage, it has an abridged series which is famously better than the show it’s parodying (i’m dead serious, people have character arcs, the getting married after one date thing is properly addressed, the mc has to deal with PTSD because of all his friends dying in epsidode 3, they don’t immediately follow the death of a child with an extended fishing montage, the villain has an actual plan). It’s mostly actually pretty good, but this is the internet and it’s an abridged series, so while there are a lot fewer yikes moments than most it still has enough that I’m not comfortable recommending it without the caveat. that said I still enjoyed it a lot, although possibly not at much as pointing and laughing at the garbage that is the actual show.

#sao bashing #kirito bashing #sao abridged #good bad shows #i love this garbage show so much #it's one of the funniest things i've watched all year #and none of that is intentional #sword art online bashing #if you also love hate this show please come talk to me about how terrible it is

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jackywroteabook · 3 years

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World Building: How to Create a Fictional Small Town in 10 Steps

Small towns are a classic literary setting, making appearances in all types of genres and forms. Maycomb County from To Kill a Mockingbird, Bedford Falls from It’s a Wonderful Life, Stars Hollow in Gilmore Girls – all dreamy little towns that have become staples of the American image. You could even argue that fantasy has its share of small towns – the Shire from Lord of the Rings immediately comes to mind.

In my first published novel, The Last Summer, I chose to set my story in a small Southern town called Valia Springs. Here is how you can create your own small town setting that is charming and magical, while at the same time realistic and universal.

Psst! Grab your small town world-building checklist/brainstorming worksheet here. It’s in my free resource library.

1. Pick a region.

If you’re focusing on mainly a setting within the United States, you’ll want to choose a region as the foundation for your town’s culture. Is it in the South? New England? The Midwest? The Southwest? Each part of the country carries with it its own specialized problems, cultural norms, ethics, and colloquialisms. If your goal is to be less specific (meaning it isn’t necessarily set in the US), you should choose a geographic feature or biome to construct your town around. Is it on the prairie? In the mountains? Lakeside or coastal? In the desert? Surrounded by wheat fields, or corn, or vineyards, or cattle?

2. What created the town?

Now that you know the region or environment, consider what your town’s main industry would be. What brought people to live there in the first place? What is sustaining the town? Why is it so small? Is it part of a dying industry? Common small town industries include mining, oil rigging, fishing, farming or ranching, tourism, or one main factory. Or it could have been a common stop on a route towards a popular destination. Maybe it was the only place with water for hundreds of miles, due to a natural spring. These are all common reasons a small town would crop up and remain small for its duration.

3. What are the town’s problems – both overt and underlying?

Consider what obvious problems your small town is struggling with. Typically, this would be finance-related and replacement-rate related. Besides this, what not-so-obvious problems might the town have? Is the town government or police force corrupt? Are there underlying prejudices that run deep in the community? These problems will typically be part of your story’s conflict: sometimes the central conflict, sometimes the cause of or backdrop for the conflict, sometimes a secondary conflict. It’s a great way to connect with universal problems that almost any reader can relate to, because they’ve seen or experienced it in their own community.

4. What is the social structure?

Who in the town holds power, influence, or authority? Is it an individual, or a group? Who lives on the fringes of the society, or are outcast? How do the various social classes behave? What mannerisms or customs do they adhere to? What factors differentiate those in power from those not in power?

5. What are the town’s hidden gems?

Is there a special place or event within or around the town that evokes wonder or magic? It could be a hidden pond/lake, a scenic overlook, a cave or old mineshaft, an old abandoned house, a fair or festival, a broken down factory, an old railroad bridge – anything that can be made magical through its mystery or reputation.

6. The townsfolk characters should be archetypes.

Even though it may sound stereotypical or cliché, part of creating a universal small town is filling it with characters that reflect the people we encounter every day in real life. These include characters such as the trickster, the mother-figure, the control freak, the underdog, the athletic hero, the good citizen, and so on. (For a solid list of 12 archetypes, click here.)

7. What are the customs, behaviors, and mannerisms all the townspeople adhere to?

Are there certain societal norms that are accepted by all the townies? For example, is there a certain way they greet one another? Do all the ladies gather for coffee and Euchre at a different house each Friday afternoon? Does everybody attend a religious service each week? Are there any legends or stories that all the townies are familiar with? Is there a word, phrase, or accent that everyone uses (that isn’t common to the rest of us readers?) Is there a parade or festival that they host every year? If so, is it related to the town’s main industry or history? Is there a sports team that the whole community rallies behind?

8. I think it’s best to have a town that is, for the most part, considered very safe.

The sense of security not only adds to the magic (because many readers associate security with the safety and comfort of childhood), but when that sense of security is violated, it rocks the town and adds to the conflict, causing fear, suspicion, and mob mentality.

9. When considering the conflict, it’s best to account for how it will either divide or bring together a small, tight-knit community.

I grew up in a small tourist town on the coast of a major lake, so I know first-hand what shakes a community and what brings it together. A local middle-school girl who got terminal cancer caused the town to rally, hosting fundraiser spaghetti dinners and 5K walks for the cure. When she passed away, the memorial service was huge (practically the whole town attended), and I think a scholarship was created in her honor.

On the other hand, a local high school boy who was murdered while working alone at a pizzeria chilled my town to the bone. People pointed fingers at many of the usual high school troublemakers in the town, and some kids were jailed though innocent of the crime. No one felt safe anymore. Suspicion raged, lawsuits followed, and everyone was left in shock that something so cold-blooded could happen in such a tight-knit community.

10. Keep the town a typically uneventful place where nothing out of the ordinary seems to happen, but then capitalize on the one or two dramatic things that do happen.

How might they have affected the town? What was their lasting impact? How did people react? Were the incidents covered up, or were they made public to set an example?

This is my recipe for creating an unforgettable small town that readers will fall in love with. I personally think stories set in small towns have the ability to relate to the most readers and lay the groundwork for the most impactful storylines. To quote Gregory Peck, who played Atticus in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird:

“The Southern town…reminds me of the California town I grew up in. The characters of the novel are like the people I knew as a boy. I think perhaps the great appeal of the novel is that it reminds readers everywhere of a person or a town they have known. It is to me a universal story – moving, passionate and told with great humor and tenderness.”

I believe the same could be said of any literary small town. I consider this one of the highest compliments an author can receive.

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hellshire-harlot · 4 years

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Hazbin Hotel Theory

I had an Idea to cover how all of the Hazbins died. I won’t be covering Angel Dust, as it’s been confirmed that he died from a PCP overdose.

Edits: Added some theories by other people and fixed the OC information.

Katie Killjoy: It’s been stated that she was a failed newscaster in the 1990s. Judging by the weird way her neck can crack and twist, I think what happened is she tried to salvage her job as a newscaster, failed, and committed suicide by hanging herself.

Tom Trench: It’s pretty obvious. He likely died as a soldier in the trenches of WWI, likely due to the new gasses that were being deployed, and now wears a gas mask in hell.

Alastor: Vivzie has confirmed that while he was fleeing from the authorities, he ran into the woods and was shot smack in the middle of his forehead by a group of hunters who thought he was a deer.

Vaggie: I feel that Vaggie might have been a sex worker in life. One of her jobs might have gone wrong, resulting in her death. I also think that her eye was severely damaged or even removed entirely during her death.

Husk: It’s been stated by Vivzie that Husk was a veteran from the Vietnam war. I theorize that he became a heavy drinker after the war ended because of the things he had to do and see, and eventually his drinking habits killed him.

Niffty: I think she was some sort of maid or cleaner in life who was obsessed with making everything perfectly clean. In an attempt to get the place she was working at to meet her standards, she overworked herself to the point that she died of exhaustion.

Cherri Bomb: We know that she’s an anarchist and was Australian in life. My theory is that she either worked at or frequented a club which eventually got shot up. She either died in the shooting, used some sort of explosive device to kill the shooter (And later had her house searched. Upon finding her home filled with explosives, the authorities privately killed her, thinking she was a terrorist), or was one of the shooters and used the explosives to help kill people and died in one of her own explosions.

Sir Pentious: I’m not really sure. My working theory is that he died in some sort of huge malfunction/accident regarding one of his inventions or experiments.

Crymini: I hardly know anything about her, so forgive me if my theory is a little wonky. She seems like a rebel type, though. I feel like her death was accidental, maybe related to parkour?

Baxter: I think it’s pretty obvious. His fish design, his time of death, his clothing? Yeah, he died in the Titanic.

Mimzy: I heard a theory that she was placed in jail but had her sentence prolonged because she was a woman, and that her name was a mix of the words Miserable and Flimsy (How she felt at this time). I think she was one of Al’s accomplices and was captured by authorities. This was probably a few years before his death. She was given a choice: Tell the cops where Al was and receive a more lenient sentence for her own crimes, or be tried and executed. Out of loyalty to Alastor, she refused to talk, and was sentenced to death as a result.

Rosie: I have no idea. I have a feeling it was related to clothing, though. If anyone knows her time of death, tell me, because I’m wondering if she died in the Triangle Factory Fire. Edit: I heard that Rosie is part of the cannibal Village and thus is probably hellborn.

Valentino: Again, no fucking clue. I feel like he also might have died of a drug overdose, like Angel.

Vox: I think he hurt many people in order to climb the ranks of TV tycoons in life, allowing him to live a cushy life and die peacefully of old age, only to wind up in Hell.

Velvet: Error 404: Theory not found Edit: I heard a theory that she killed herself out of peer pressure over social media.

And, because no-one asked, I’ll be listing how my Hazbin OCs died and when.

Hepsie: Was killed very violently by the older brother of a child she accidentally caused the death of in a car accident three weeks earlier. he hunted her down and found her in her home and tortured her for a long time before she succumbed to her wounds and died. She died in 1988, a month after Delilah.

Silvie: Was conceived on Earth by Hepsie during a one night stand one day before her death, and was born in Hell.

Honeybee: Committed suicide three days after the death of her sister. She found a gun in the kitchen that belonged to her father and used it to shoot herself in the head. She died in 2008.

Delilah: Was walking to her and her baby brother’s makeshift shack in an alleyway when she was pushed against the wall behind her by her father’s mafiosos. She had run away from her mafia-oriented home so that her brother wouldn’t have to live the way she had, leading her parents to think she and her brother had been kidnapped. In the dark, the mafiosos thought that she was the kidnapped and demanded to know where she was keeping the children of their bosses. She refused to talk, so they killed her by bashing her head into the wall behind her. She died in 1988.

Eden: Was shot after her partner discovered that she was Aromantic and took it the wrong way, thinking she was only using him for sex. She tried to reason with him, but he eventually gave in and shot her clean through the forehead. She died in 2016.

Poppet: Willingly allowed a group of police officers to shoot her dead on top of a building in a forest in rural New York during a standoff. She knew she couldn’t overpower all of them, and didn’t want to. She had outrun death for long enough. She died in 1937 after 2 years on the run, experimenting with her powers and murdering people as she went.

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superman86to99 · 4 years

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Superman #83 (November 1993)

Funeral for a Friend: uh, that one Green Lantern supporting character who died when Coast City got blown up (Joe? Gary?). In this issue DC’s superheroes pay tribute to the tragedy of Coast City while also deciding what the hell to do with the giant engine that’s now in its place. Weird early ‘90s Hawkman! Dr. Fate with boobs! Already-slightly-psychotic Hal Jordan! EVERYONE IS HERE.

(Nice one, Guy.)

Meanwhile, Lex Luthor Jr. is also sneaking around Engine City, supposedly to prevent it from falling into the ocean and killing some of Aquaman’s friends, but in reality he just wants to look into the Cyborg Superman’s computer to see if he can find a recipe for making kryptonite. As the heroes argue about what to do with Engine City (Hal says drop it into the water, screw the fish), some leftover Warworld aliens start attacking them, like the holdout Japanese soldiers who never found out WWII was over.

The attack precipitates the city’s fall into the water and the heroes have to think fast to prevent a fish holocaust. Their solution is for all the Green Lantern-related characters (Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Alan Scott, Alan’s daughter Jade) to “detoxify” the debris with their powers before it falls into the ocean. And it works! These guys should totally open a carpet cleaning business.

As for Lex Jr., he does find the recipe for kryptonite inside the crumbling city, but just as he’s about to write it down (he wasn’t carrying any floppy disks, apparently), Supergirl yanks him out of there to prevent him from burning alive. What an unsupportive girlfriend. Anyway, Superman then takes some of the debris and builds a giant memorial for Coast City’s 6,999,999 anonymous lost souls, and Gary. Sweet Gary. You will be missed.

Creator-Watch:

If the art looks different that’s because this is the first issue inked by Joe Rubinstein, ending Brett Breeding’s classic two and a half year run as Dan Jurgens’ main inker (so classic that it feels a lot longer than that). Breeding will be back for Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey and other stuff, though. As for Rubinstein, Don says: “At the time, I had trouble with the transition, being soused to Brett Breeding’s finishes over Jurgens’ pencils, but looking at it now, the art looks great. It doesn’t look as smooth or blocky as Breeding’s finishes, but Rubinstein’s hatchier style serves Jurgens pretty well, even if it takes some getting used to.”

Plotline-Watch:

At the start of the issue, Superman goes to pick up Batman to take him to Coast City, only to find him wearing a different costume, acting differently, and sounding like a different guy. That’s because that’s not really Bruce Wayne in the suit anymore, but the replacement he got after Bane broke his back. That’s right: freakin’ Psi-Phon and Dreadnaught.

Superman gives a speech about how superheroes must work together to prevent another tragedy like Coast City from happening, but when Guy asks him if that means he’s going back to the Justice League, he’s like “uh, not yet.” Wisely, he’s gonna wait for Grant Morrison to get there first.

Hal Jordan’s characterization in this issue is interesting. In Green Lantern #47 (which came out the same month), he’s bummed about Coast City but still hopeful and serene, while here he’s already going Parallax on us. Wonder if Dan Jurgens knew more about what DC was planning for Hal than the other comic’s writer.

There’s a cute scene where Superman is flying by Kansas on his way to Coast City and quickly drops some flowers for Ma Kent. (That, or Flash picked this moment to hit on a random older woman.)

Former TV exec/crime boss Morgan Edge has released an autobiography where he trashes the Daily Planet’s Cat Grant for using her sexiness (and, you know, sex) to get dirt on him and send him to jail. He also accuses Cat of being a crappy mother to her son Adam. He kind of has a point there, because what kind of mom would let her kid play with an Atari in the early ‘90s?! The SNES and the Genesis were already out!

Believe it or not, Morgan Edge’s pervy dad in that screenshot above isn’t the creepiest thing in that scene. Don: “Very spooky how the guy dangling outside of Cat’s apartment goes without mention. An ominous foreshadow of one of the very few missteps of Jurgens’ run.”

But the most ominous part of the issue is at the end, when Clark Kent accepts Jimmy Olsen’s offer to become roomies, since Clark lost his apartment on account of being dead and all. Don wants you to know that “Jimmy is still in that towel by the way” in the scene below. I hope.

Patreon-Watch:

Shout out to our patrons Aaron, Murray Qualie, Chris “Ace” Hendrix, britneyspearsatemyshorts, Patrick D. Ryall, and a warm welcome to Samuel Doran! Last month our patrons got to read an article about Superman’s bizarre first Elseworlds appearance ever, the Kamandi: At Earth’s End miniseries, and got a veeeeeery early look at this post you’re reading right now (since Don finished his part way before I did mine). Right now I’m preparing this month’s Patreon-only article, which involves Superman wearing pointy ears and Luthor wearing make up. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/superman86to99

Oh, and in case you missed it, we’ve been posting Don’s new commentary for older issues on the Patreon as free posts (click above and scroll down to see them). EVEN MORE from Don after the jump!

Art-Watch (by @donsparrow):

Another classic issue, and such a nice wrap-up to the "Death and Return" storyline (as well as being a much-needed check-In on the DC Universe at large). We start with the cover, and it’s a very good one, letting the reader know right away that it’s a big team-up issue. (It also is a real showcase for 90s costume design, and how weird the JLA lineup was at this point).

The opening splash is a neat image of a rarely seen pairing, Superman and Commissioner Gordon. Jurgens draws James Gordon a little heavier and more Pa-Kent like than I’m used to seeing him, but it’s still neat to see him interacting with Superman. A page later, we get another rare pairing—the returned Superman with the imposter Batman, Jean-Paul Valley. The tension in the interaction between “AzBats” and Superman comes across well in their exchange, as does Superman’s doubts about who he was really speaking to.

It’s a dreamy looking Superman crossing the country from Metropolis to Coast City, and I daresay that they’re trying to channel Dean Cain a little as he approaches Kansas.

The best panel of the issue though is the two page spread of all the heroes gathering at the wreckage of Coast City, and there’s so much to love here. The body language, and facial expressions speak volumes about each of the characters: Superman looking swashbuckling and upbeat, Green Lantern brooding like a man barely holding on, Green Arrow all attitude and shadow. Just a great spread.

Another cool image is Aquaman showing up late, and emerging very royally in protection of his ocean (undercut masterfully by a legitimately funny couple of lines from Guy Gardner). Page 14’s Hal Jordan is a great drawing, and this whole storyline seems like a table setter for the "Emerald Twilight" story coming up.

The sequence of a firelit Luthor at the computer is a good look at his madness, but it does beg the question of just how little Supergirl seems to take in. He was JUST talking aloud about Kryptonite, and she emerges seeming not to hear. The image of Supergirl flying Lex away as he struggles against her psychic grab is a good one, even if her uniform is depicted as a little clingier than I imagine it to really be.

Superman floating above his obelisk with his arm in front of his face like Dracula is a cool look, even if it is a little dramatic.

Lastly, the image of Clark turning up the stereo is a good one, even if his hair length is wildly shorter here than in Coast City (and I usually dislike it when they mention real world bands, as it comes off trying too hard to be hip).

STRAY OBSERVATIONS:

I have to love how meta it is to have Superman outright saying that Batman is dressing more “threatening” these days, on page 2. I guess he couldn’t come right out and say “you have an extreme new look, and it’s totally badass! Batman the next generation!”

Last we saw of Supergirl she was storming out of the party on Lex’s Zeppelin after Lex II was getting all horned up at the sight of Lois Lane, but it appears here they’ve mostly patched things up as they fly to Coast City.

More meta-stuff: Jimmy clunkily complimenting Lois on her new hair by saying she “oughta be on TV or something!”. This whole exchange is very expository, really, “Clark must be pretty mad… though he’s busy worrying about where he’s going to bunk…” Anything else to get in there, Jimmy?

The harshness some of the heroes have for Lex Junior seems a little out of place, especially since he’s still known to most of the heroes as an ally from "Panic in the Sky", and the "Doomsday" storyline. Superman’s comment was borderline, but where is all this anger Flash is showing coming from?

Being as familiar as we are with these writers, there are certain phrases or ideas that a certain writer will go to way, way too often. Byrne had a number of stories where Superman would “ionize” something with his heat vision, and it occurred to me that maybe he just liked that word. I would submit that Dan Jurgens likes the word “atomize”. It was used by the Cyborg Superman when talking about Doomsday, and is used a bunch just in this issue.

I find it hilarious that Hawkman appears so prominently in this issue, but doesn’t get any lines. This issue is an interesting time capsule—I had almost forgotten about the de-aged Starheart powered Alan Scott era.

Speaking of lines, they don’t give Captain Marvel much to do in this issue, but I always like seeing him, even if his only contribution is the odd “Holy Moley!”

Colouring error on page 12, where Hal’s ring has a red centre (maybe the colourist had Alan Scott’s red and green look on the brain?)

A raging Hal standing by Green Arrow is a sad foreshadowing of their confrontation to come in Zero Hour.

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yoOOO New Tumblr™ didn’t notify me of this ask for some reason, so sorry.... anyWAY--

Animated character that was your gay awakening? Does Undyne count even though she’s from a game...?

Grilled cheese or PB&J? I’ve had neither, but grilled cheese sounds much tastier, so I’ll go with that

What show/YouTube video(s) do you put on in the background when you when you don’t have anything to watch but you want something on? Creepypasta-narrations

Your go-to bar order, if you drink? I don’t really drink but I MIGHT if the drink barely tastes of alcohol. So...smth sweet. Or a Mojito... Those are okay

What’s your favorite pair of shoes that you own? My Dr. Martens-shoes that I haven’t taken proper care of so now the leather is cracked.. :I

Top three cuisines? - Fried noodles and such things - My mom’s chicken pie - Lövbiff

What was your first word as a child (that wasn’t a variation of “Mom” or “Dad”)? I don’t think I’ve ever asked my parents about that, actually, so idk. But I DO have a funny story from when I was really small (but still able to form words), and the grown-ups were watching TV or smth and one of them asked me “hey Amanda, what’s the name of the prime minister?” to jokingly test my skills, and i actually answered “göran persson” in my toddler-voice (AND it was the right answer!)

What’s a job that you’ve had that people might be surprised to find out you’ve had? I’ve barely had any actual employment, but I suppose that me working at a tech company last year (I illustrated stuff and other things) would be kinda surprising, considering how I’m not a fan of new tech?

Look up. What’s directly across from you? An empty cookie jar

Do you own any signed books/memorabilia in general? I have managed to gather up some autographs on paper, but one signed BOOK I have is from when I was little, and our family apparently met with Ilon Wikland (an illustrator, mostly famous for her illustrations in Astrid Lindgren-books). me and my brother got a different book each (ones that she had both illustrated) and she signed them for us. I used to love just looking at her illustrations and take in the atmosphere of them. Her art was prolly my first major source of inspiration, even.

Preferred way to spend a rainy day? Stay inside and enjoy the fact that it’s raining. But I also love to take walks when it rains

What do you get on your bagels? What WOULD you get if you had access to anything you wanted? Ummm-- melted cheese, if you’re thinking of the same kinda bagels I’m thinking of

Brunch or midnight snacks? Brunch

Favorite mug you own One that has little drawings of tea-related puns on it

What coffee drink would you describe yourself as? I don’t drink coffee so I rly couldn’t tell you, omf

Pick a song lyric to describe your current mood (and drop the name and artist!) Not sure what my mood is, but Bob Dylan’s “The times they are a-changin’” is stuck in my head, so

Fruity or herbal teas? Herbal

What’s that one TV show that you’re a little bit embarrassed to watch but you still like nonetheless? I don’t watch it anymore, but it Vampire Diaries used to be one of those guilty pleasure-shows, lol

That book you were forced to read for class but actually ended up enjoying? Of Mice and Men. And then we watched the movie too, AS IF I HADN’T ALREADY CRIED ENOUGH?!

Do you match your socks? yeUs

Have you ever been horseback riding? yEus

What was your “phase” when you were younger? (i.e., Mythology Nerd, Horse Girl, Space Geek, etc) Most of my phases haven’t really been phases at all, because I’m still into most of those things. I guess my true crime-thing was KINDA a phase, in that I don’t really have the hots for you know.....any of those guys >-->

Have you ever been to jail? Nah

What’s your opinion on Lazy Susan’s (the spinning tray in the middle of tables)? They’re nice furniture to have when playing ACNL

Puzzles? If they’re on easy-mode, lmao

You can only have one juice for the rest of your life, what is it? Bravo’s orange juice

What section do you immediately head for when you walk into a bookstore? The horror section, if the store has one

What’s one thing you’re trying to learn/relearn in your downtime right now? Trying to relearn anatomy, and I’m also trying to learn how to draw Rutger Hauer (still) and play a song on the harmonica

Who’s your go-to musical artist when you’re feeling upbeat? Anything I like goes tbh? But I must say, there’s nothing like dancing it off to some E-Type

Where could someone find you in a museum? At a miniature-display or smth

What’s that one outfit in your closet you never get the chance to wear but want to? My thigh-high socks....

Rainbows, stars, or sunset colored clouds? hMMMMM-- the sunset-colored clouds

If you could own any non-traditional pet (dogs, cats, fish, rodents, etc), what would it be? I’m happy with my rabbits, but idk- maybe a chinchilla too?

Do you have more art on your walls or more photographs? Neither. I’m kinda bad at wall-decorating..

You have to get one meme tattooed on your body, what meme is it and where does it go? “Vem vare som kasta?” tattooed on my chest

Pick a superhero sidekick to hang out with Wolverine, idk

Lakes, rivers, or oceans? All bodies of water are Noice but dat ocean tho

Favorite mid-2000s song? (we’re still IN the same century js) “Temperature” by Sean Paul, I guess??

How do you dress when you’re home alone? Like I normally would tbh

Where do you sit in the living room (we all have a preferred spot, and you know it)? Either on the couch or by the table IN the living room

Knives or swords? hmmmmM.... Swords

A song you didn’t think you’d enjoy but ended up loving “You Make Me” - Avicii

Pick an old-school Disney Channel Original Movie I haven’t seen any of those, but uh... Northern Lights?

Are you a “Quote that relates to the photos” caption-er, an “explanation of where I took the photos” caption-er, or a no caption kinda person when you post pictures online? I prefer captions, yes

Name a classic Vine I’M ABOVE SUCH THINGS (idk if this was a vine video but you’re welcome anyway)

What’s the freezer food that you stock up on when you go to the grocery store? Ice cream...

How do you top your ice cream? I don’t really do that a lot, unless it’s plain vanilla ice cream. In that case: CHOCOLATE SAUCE MFS

Do you like Jello? I might? I don’t think we have it in Sweden tho

What’s something that you don’t have a picture of that you wish you did? Me meeting Rutger Hauer IRL. (if I actually DID meet him, that is)

How are you at climbing trees? Pretty good until I get tOO high up

#thanks for the ask ;)#sein-zum-tod

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What are your favorite small details that you’ve noticed in your favorite shows? Things that the people working on the show really didn’t *need* to include, but did anyway in a way you appreciate. Body language, visuals, callbacks, remembering a random trait of a character and referencing it or bringing it up again, etc. Any random detail about a show that makes you happy to remember. Go wild!

I love how expressive Mikey Munroe is with his hands. Hands are my favorite body part when it comes to body language. If I feel sad or get stuck writing a scene, I like to flip on a random episode and just watch his hands.

I love that episode in “ChalkZone” when Rudy’s baby cousin Sophie starts doodling and all she can make is scribbles. Rudy thinks her art is meaningless and is personally offended when the ChalkZoners adore and praise her work. The Zoners don’t judge you for your art skill- they appreciate all art equally.

I love the extras in “WordGirl” and how they become fleshed out over time. I love how you can see their stories progress in the background and watch them become friends even though there aren’t episodes focused on those friendships.

I love how Kid Math doesn’t leave Earth after his debut episode and he can still be seen trying to integrate himself in Earth society (both as a superhero and a regular kid). Also I love how his regular kid disguise is literally just a shirt and shorts he threw on top of his costume. And I love WordGirl pretending to examine her nails when she’s putting on a confident persona even when she’s wearing gloves.

I love the little details in “T.U.F.F. Puppy” about animal people world, like the bathrooms for all different species.

I love the way their culture treats insects. It’s legal to wear flea collars and use bug spray, but if an insect gets hurt and someone calls an ambulance, the doctors will be there. Same deal when it comes to mouse traps and fishing. It’s a good take on how to balance nature in a predator/prey culture.

I love the weird host/parasite relationship Keswick and the Chief seem to have going on. I love how when someone says something like “Look what the cat dragged in!” or “You dirty rat!” there’s just… this two seconds of awkward silence and no one has to say it but it’s clear that was Not Politically Correct.

I love that one scene where peaceful music plays and Kitty is cooing over the deer eating out of her hand and the camera pans out and reveals the deer is an anthro and that is just A Thing anthro deer do. The whole show gives Far Side vibes and I love it. That’s absolutely my sense of humor.

I love how Timmy takes care of Cosmo and Wanda when they’re hungover on candy and soda in “Power Pals.” He doesn’t ask what they need, he just does it… implying this happens often. There’s also an episode where she and Cosmo have a probation hearing, meaning they got in BIG trouble for something… and since Jorgen flips out when he finds Wanda scarfing down chocolate, it was probably their tendency to get drunk on the job.

I love how Timmy kept heat vision for four seasons (“Escape From Unwish Island”) because he never unwished it after the Season 1 episode “Father Time.” The fact he still has it wasn’t even relevant to the plot, it was just acknowledged that he still has it.

Cosmo and Anti-Cosmo generally use the same body language, but for opposite emotions:

Timmy’s Mom boards a bus labeled Tibecuador in Season 6, confirming an entire continent between North and South America wasn’t erased after its first appearance in Season 5.

In the Season 10 episode “Fairy Con,” a lot of the tents from the Season 3 episode “Cosmo Con” can be seen in the background.

Cat memes and motivational posters in Fairy World are replaced with pixies.

Schnozmo instantly rescues his brother and nephew when they’re falling to their doom, but actively chooses not to catch Timmy and Wanda. “Hmm… Nah!”

The Burger World employee from Season 7 returns in Season 10, still hanging around Dimmsdale after Foop blew up his old restaurant.

Multiple episodes imply Happy Peppy Gary and Betty were aware of magic and working with the Pixies the whole time.

Timmy is sensitive to foul language, even snapping at Vicky for saying “Moron” on public radio. In contrast, sweet little Chloe Carmichael swears but keeps getting censored onscreen.

There are at least two other godkids in Timmy’s class…

… and both were absent in “No Substitute For Crazy” when Doombringer searched each kid for fairy dust.

Kevin can’t walk as fast as his uncle. When Crocker walks, Kevin falls farther and farther behind.

In “When Nerds Collide,” there’s a brief moment where the Anti-Fairies come flying out of a portal. Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda are holding hands.

When Foop is forced to work together with Vicky in “Scary Godcouple,” his magic changes color the more she torments him. At first he has brightly colored magic and has a good attitude, but his magic slowly changes to green the more miserable he gets. Of the possible colors of magic, green and red are the rarest in the series. If I recall correctly, the only other occurrence of green magic was when Cosmo and Wanda got in a huge fight back in “Apartnership.”

Foop is a Kelly Clarkson fanboy and if you look at her songs from his point of view, a lot of them could relate to his dissociative identity disorder.

In “Who’s Your Daddy,” a van comes barreling down a Fairy World road and it has no wheels… it doesn’t need any because it just flies.

After the Season 3 episode “Engine Blocked,” Vicky can be seen driving the Striker Z, still damaged from falling off a cliff (Here it is in Season 5).

*Inhales*

In “T.U.F.F. Puppy” the series starts with all these villains who call to alert the secret agents about their evil plans and this is generally regarded as a bad move to the point that one villain’s henchmen defects from the criminal organization to found a new one that solely revolves around revealing your evil plans after you’ve already committed a crime and not before, but halfway through Season 2 you learn it’s a long-forgotten law that it’s legal to break out of jail in Petropolis as long as you call in about your next scheme and this hints at a long history of evil parents teaching their evil offspring that This Is Proper Criminal Etiquette so you just get “Monologue to the heroes” scenes that are silly yet have this complex backstory behind them and it really drives home the fact that the Fiendish League of Potential Perpetrators are outsiders in this society who are copying what they see the big-name villains doing but don’t actually know their rights because they’re basically big little kids who just want to be cool and I am HERE FOR THIS. Also Snaptrap once chose to spend 3-5 years in jail instead of breaking out and then revealed his next scheme ANYWAY and it’s just a really layered joke that makes me laugh. That’s my sense of humor.

#asks #Anon #screenshots #FAIRIES!#Spy dog show #Red babysitter #Long post #Cosma family

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Okay, so earlier today, my sister came in and said she had been feeding the chickens half a plum, with the other half in her pocket. And then she felt something in her pocket, and looked over, and one of the chickens was taking the plum from her pocket and immediately ran away with it. She basically got pickpocketed by a chicken.

He can't seem to stop laughing at this point. "Oh my gosh - Chicken thief, send her to jail for her crimes!" At this, he pushes his mask all the way up, revealing his splotchy red face and crinkled green eyes. "Imprisoned for plum related misdeeds. That is very funny, thank you."

He scrubs at his face and stretches himself out, relaxing slightly after he has done so. "Well, I have never recovered from panic so quickly because of a fish and chickens, so you guys did it very well. Once again, thank you for being patient. You are... very kind, actually."

He goes quiet again, thinking and staring at his knees with unfocused eyes. "I still remember his memories. And I... I don't believe they're just his. Aodh- Anti, I mean. There are others, too. I am not sure of whose memories these are now."

#Character 5.

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mizukiko-kun · 5 years

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The Untold Story of the Founding of the Detective Agency: a Detailed Summary

I hadn't been in this fandom for so long (to avoid spoilers because I was sure Dead Apple would get licensed in my country), then I came back to learn from @soukokucchi‘s post that the English-speaking side of the fandom still don't know what happened in this book. BUT LOOK:

It got translated into Thai back in January. I've read it, and I'm here to tell you everything!

Since there are so many pieces of important information in this book, I decided to forget the original order and break it into topics as follows:

Fukuzawa's background

Ranpo's background

Murder in a company president's office: how they met

Murder at the theatre: how they became a team

Fukuzawa's lies: the origin of Ranpo's (non-)ability

How the agency was founded

Bonus: that one time Kunikida tried (and failed and succeeded) to get revenge on Dazai

Disclaimer: this story came to you from Japanese to Thai to English so if you notice an error, please feel free to tell me.

Warning: very long blocks of spoilers for the whole book, under the cut!

Fukuzawa's background

At the start of the book, Fukuzawa, 30-ish, was working as a bodyguard. With excellent martial arts skills and a calm manner, he was considered the best bodyguard one could have. His only flaw was that he wouldn't team up with anyone, so he was always by himself. Remember how he’s called “Silver Wolf”? That's where it came from.

But it's not that he had been a bodyguard his whole life. In this book, Fukuzawa told Ranpo to try and see what he could deduce about him, so he did. At the teahouse, Fukuzawa's choice to sit with the wall on his right side meant he used to fight with a sword (because having the wall on his left would prevent him from quickly drawing it). At the theatre, his footsteps could barely be heard, and he closed one eye while entering a dark room so his sight could be adjusted quickly, something essential only for a surprise attack in a dark place. But he wasn't cautious with the police officers, so he couldn't have been involved with crime. Finally, Fukuzawa was definitely ashamed of his previous job because he didn't use his sword, his specialty, in his current job.

So, a job involving surprise sword attack that Fukuzawa was ashamed of despite not being related to crime, what job was it? Ranpo also made a deduction about this, and Fukuzawa himself confirmed everything later in the book, when he decided that the best way to deal with Ranpo's problem was to be honest (then proceeded to tell him the biggest lie in his life, lol).

Fukuzawa confessed that he went to a martial arts school under the government when he was young, then he became part of a group of top swordsmen who worked for the government, killing people who posed a threat to the peace of the country. He believed that his sword was meant to be used for the sake of the country, but soon enough found himself looking forward to the next mission. Afraid that he might have become thirsty for blood, Fukuzawa swore off his sword. He then changed his job and kept his past sealed away, until he met Ranpo.

Ranpo's background

As for Ranpo, his parents were apparently great detectives who recently died in an accident. His father was retired, but he used to be a highly respected police detective (even Fukuzawa recognised his name immediately), but Ranpo said that his mother, although only a housewife, always beat his father at his own job.

With both parents being geniuses, Ranpo didn't know that what he could do was special. His parents meant to keep it from him (and also keep him from the world outside) for his own safety until the right time, but they didn't live long enough, and Ranpo was left as a boy who didn't understand a thing about the world outside.

So Ranpo, 14 and already alone, started looking around for a job. He basically tried everything. His father once told him to go to the police academy in Yokohama if something happened, so he went there (and got fired because the rules were too much, and he dug out his dorm head's bad history with women after having a fight with him), then he went to the military school (got fired after uncovering a commander's misappropriation), a construction site (left because the structure of the company was too troublesome), and a post office (got fired for throwing away letters he knew were not important/wouldn't make the receivers happy). The next job he was going to get an interview for was where he met Fukuzawa.

Murder in a company president's office: how they met

Well, Fukuzawa's client was the president of the company where Ranpo was going to get a job. And she was killed. By who? Fukuzawa caught a skilled assassin at the crime scene, and that's about it.

Actually no, it was her secretary who killed her. The assassin was called there by the secretary (perhaps by saying he was going to hire him) so he could frame him and get away with the murder. Ranpo, who had nothing to do now that the president was dead, solved this.

As soon as the truth was revealed, the betrayed assassin got his revenge by killing the secretary. Fukuzawa realised that he was the rumoured red-haired assassin, said to always have an emotionless face and never miss with his guns as if he could see the future. A nightmare for a bodyguard like Fukuzawa.

You guessed it, that was Odasaku.

So the case was solved, the secretary was dead, Odasaku got sent to the police, now what? Fukuzawa was about to go his way when Ranpo reminded him that Fukuzawa promised him a meal after finishing the case, and Ranpo basically became Dazai's Atsushi to Fukuzawa. They went to a teahouse so Ranpo could have 9 bowls of zenzai (red bean soup with mochi), except Ranpo didn't eat the mochi, which deeply confused Fukuzawa.

There, Ranpo told Fukuzawa about himself and how he's now left alone. Fukuzawa realised that this boy was special yet unaware of the fact. But there was nothing a lone wolf like him could do, so he prepared to leave. Ranpo expected more, so Fukuzawa gave him his name card and offered to help for free if he got into danger, then left. Ranpo went to use a public phone in the tea house, and Fukuzawa's cell phone rang.

"Bodyguard-san, please help me. I have no job and I don't even know where to rest my head tonight. I'm about to die."

"...then I'll recommend a place to stay."

"Can't find a new job. I'm about to die."

"Then...follow me to my next client. I can't hire you, but my client is looking for new employees. I'll introduce you, alright?"

So while regretting this and drafting about 50 plans to leave Ranpo in his head, Fukuzawa took him to his next job, which is the main case in this novel.

Murder at the theatre: how they became a team

A theatre received a warning that an actor would be killed during a play, so Fukuzawa was hired to make sure it wouldn't happen. Although Fukuzawa kept an eye on everything, the lead actor, Murakami Tokio, got stabbed onstage with a sword that disappeared in a blink of an eye. A gentleman in the audience, wearing a business suit with a round hat and a cane, whom Fukuzawa noticed to have a gaze too sharp for a normal viewer, also disappeared immediately after. Ranpo, with a little help from the owner of the theatre, solved the case right on the stage with lights on and everything.

Cutting straight to the point, Murakami was his own murderer, his own fake murderer, to be exact. He set everything up so it looked like he got stabbed and died. For what? For the ultimate performance, because the guy believed that death was the only thing actors had never been able to truthfully portray. You know, an artist's spirit gone too far.

But that's not the end yet. Through the owner of the theatre, Ranpo told Fukuzawa that this case was made up of a bad crime and a great crime, which he compared to a shrimp and a tai fish: you could be satisfied with the shrimp, but in order to catch the fish, you had to use the shrimp. Ranpo went with a policeman called Mitamura, who offered to drive him to the police station, to catch the tai fish alone. Fukuzawa, having realised that Ranpo was going to become a famous detective for sure but that still wouldn't have anything to do with him, let him go, only to later find his own name card left to him with some bad handwriting on the back: Mitamura was the real culprit, and go get the cane.

Now remember the gentleman with the cane? It turned out that he was actually the main target in this case. Murakami wasn't the only one behind his own murder, there was also a scriptwriter who helped him, and this was his part of the plan that even Murakami didn’t know of. The gentleman was originally to be framed for killing Murakami then taken by Mitamura. But since Ranpo ruined that by showing the audience the gentleman unconscious and hidden on the inner part of the stage, Mitamura took Ranpo instead.

Mitamura introduced himself as part of an organisation called “V”, the same name signed on the warning that was sent to the theatre. Their goal was to annihilate all the ability users in Yokohama, even if they had to use the ability users themselves. And the gentleman, an ability user said to be extremely hard to catch, would somehow be very useful in this plan.

On the other side, Fukuzawa went to find the cane. There was a small space in the cane that could hide a document, which had already been taken by Mitamura (who later complained to Ranpo that it was a fake), but he noticed a second hiding spot. Kept in there was an electronic storage device, a special kind that was used by important ability users under the Witness Protection Program to exchange information.

Fukuzawa took it to the jail where Odasaku was held, to find out if he knew where Ranpo might have been taken. Odasaku recognised the name "V" immediately, but he didn't want to answer. His reason apparently hit Fukuzawa hard, and I think it's something worth mentioning, since this was even before Odasaku gave up killing.

"It's understandable to kill for money or because of hatred, but they kill for righteousness. I don't want to be involved, because once you use that as an excuse for killing, you'll end up being able to kill just anyone."

But Ranpo's safety came first at the moment. Fukuzawa offered to tell the police that the secretary's death was accidental, so Odasaku would only be held guilty of trespassing. Odasaku replied that he had never thought Fukuzawa would negotiate with a criminal, and Fukuzawa himself was surprised too. He also commented on how Ranpo was very lucky because Fukuzawa was willing to disregard his own policy for him. Having finally told Fukuzawa what he knew, Odasaku declined his help because honestly, he could have gotten out by himself if he wanted. His only request was for Fukuzawa to pressure the police into doing something with the terrible food there. When asked what he wanted to eat, he replied, "Curry."

So Fukuzawa went searching, and Ranpo would have been shot to death if he arrived even a slightest bit later. Fukuzawa literally slapped and shouted at Ranpo for risking his own life even though he was just a child. But after getting patted on the head because Fukuzawa couldn't think of anything else, Ranpo just clung onto him, crying and repeating over and over that he was sorry.

And the case ended there. With the scriptwriter, and then Mitamura in police custody, found killed in the same manner as Murakami’s fake murder (most likely to keep their mouths shut), all connections to V were cut. There was nothing they or the police could do, and only Murakami’s fake murder was in the newspapers the next morning.

Fukuzawa's lies: the origin of Ranpo's (non-)ability

This happened during Murakami's case, just before his fake murder. Take a look at the talk below:

"Why? I don't understand anything, I don't understand anyone! Why are adults like this, why is the society is like this?! No one has ever explained to me!"

"Enough! I'll tell you. I'll give you an answer you can accept, so just stop."

You see, Ranpo's problem was that he's a job that hadn't been finished. His parents had a careful plan to raise him up properly, but it was interrupted by their death. It's everywhere in the novel, and now he's yelling about it during the play, which was also about an ability user.

So what Fukuzawa was dealing with right here was simply a boy who didn't know what he needed in order to survive. He had to tell him something, anything that would help Ranpo acknowledge his own intelligence and understand the world. Struggling with his communication skills, Fukuzawa's glance fell on the play script Ranpo had in his hand, and he just went

"You are...an ability user."

"...what?"

Basically, Ranpo's strong belief about his ability came from a story this awkward uncle made up on the spot, and I can only tell you how hilarious this is when you're reading it.

"That ability allows you to see the truth with just one glance. It's in the play too, isn't it? There are people who possess special abilities, and those abilities don't always make them happy. The reason you have to suffer and see everyone else as monsters is because of your ability."

"...???"

"You have to control it. You are special because you have a special ability, and in order to prove that, I'll teach you how to control that ability. If you borrow power from an object, you'll be able to use your ability freely, and you'll have a way to control the ability that might make you suffer."

"...?? An object...which is...?"

"This"

"...What's that, glasses...?"

"It's an ornament I received from a descendant of a noble family in Kyoto. When you wear this, your ability will be free, and you'll see the truth in no time. On the other hand, you'll overlook everyone's ignorance when you're not wearing it. And I'll...give it to you."

"...Ah...but on matter how you look at it, it's a normal pair of glasses."

"For you who have just learned of special abilities, it's not unusual to think so."

(But that's just a pair of glasses that wouldn't sell, Fukuzawa got them from a shop near his house lol.)

Then he used some long-distance mental attack technique on Ranpo to make sure it's convincing as he was about to wear the glasses. Ranpo saw white and went unconscious for a while. When he woke up, Fukuzawa literally told him that the glasses had accepted him, like some freaking wise sage on a mountain. A bit more of "the best detective in the world" and "everyone's just stupid", and we have the genius detective Edogawa Ranpo, extremely happy and laughing, ready to solve a case.

"Since they're ignorant infants—I'll have to protect them!"

How the agency was founded

After that day (yep, everything above happened within a day), Ranpo became attached to Fukuzawa, like very attached. Fukuzawa didn't have the heart to make him leave, so he hired him to do miscellaneous work in exchange for clothes, food, and education. With Ranpo's deduction, they were able to prevent any harm that the clients needed to be protected from, and as a result, Fukuzawa came close to losing his job as a bodyguard.

But another kind of job also appeared. Ranpo started to get requests as a detective. And since Fukuzawa was the only person Ranpo ever listened to, the clients all offered to double the money for Fukuzawa to be with him. This went on for a year, and they became famous as the undefeatable duo.

And that's where the idea of the agency came from. After working with Ranpo, Fukuzawa realised that he still wanted to fight for justice in this world, and he wanted the fight to go on even after their deaths, so they needed to be more than just a duo, there needed to be more people.

So, where to start? Remember Dark Era, one needs to have the Abilities Business Permit before they can start any ability-related business, and Fukuzawa knew just who could help him get it. He took the cane to see the gentleman, now revealed to be Natsume Souseki.

Upon meeting him, Ranpo realised that Natsume had knew of the plan to capture him all along and asked why he still went with it. Natsume replied that it was because he owed Ranpo’s father a small favour, and Ranpo learned that his success was partly because of Natsume’s help.

Natsume-sensei asked Fukuzawa if he was sure about this decision, and the agency was founded.

Bonus: that one time Kunikida tried (and failed and succeeded) to get revenge on Dazai

Because honestly, any victory anyone ever has over Dazai deserves recognition.

(Like that time in 55 minutes when Atsushi managed to catch Dazai off-guard because the boy literally came from the freaking future lol.)

This story is actually the one that precedes Fukuzawa and Ranpo’s in the book, and took place just before chapter 2 in the manga (episode 2 in the anime), when Atsushi’s entrance exam was being planned out. Fed up with Dazai’s shit after working with him for 2 years, Kunikida came up with a big project to teach the trash some lesson.

The plan was to make Dazai take the biggest part in the preparation of the exam, so he could suffer what Kunikida had to all the time. Kunikida and the Tanizaki siblings, whom he had dragged into the plan, decided to achieve that by having everyone draw lots, and cheating at that.

They brought up an idea of using pieces from a newspaper from 2 months ago, each piece would show both the page numbers (there would be 2 numbers since they were on both sides) and the date (to prove that they were all from the same newspaper), and whoever got the lowest page numbers had to do the biggest part in the exam.

What everyone else didn't know was that they had also prepared a double-layered envelope. The combinations 5–6 and over would go in one layer, and the secret layer would contain 20 pre-made pieces with only the combinations 1–2 and 3–4 especially for Dazai, all from the same date as they had went out to get 11 copies of the same newspaper in advance. Tanizaki would pretend to ask for something to put the pieces in, and Naomi would suggest they use this envelope, saying she got it from her school.

Kunikida forced Dazai to draw first because he couldn't be trusted, and since Tanizaki was the one to (pretend to) make the pieces, he had to draw last. After everyone had drawn but before they started opening the pieces, Dazai proposed to use the fake time bomb he received from a woman as a prop so they could pretend there was a bomber in the office, with the least fortunate person taking the role of the bomber.

The result looked like this: Dazai got 3–4, Kunikida got 7–8, Yosano got 27–28, and Kenji got 33–34. Tanizaki, being the last one, was sure he wouldn’t lose.

But just before Tanizaki opened his piece, Dazai suggested the bomber have a hostage with him and asked Naomi to take the role. She looked over to her brother, then agreed. Tanizaki learned of his fate.

He got 1–2.

But how? Dazai got 3–4, which was according to the plan. Everyone after that got higher numbers, so anything couldn’t have gone wrong. Kunikida definitely wouldn’t ruin his own plan, and Tanizaki didn’t let it slip either. The answer was simple:

“Well, I just want to be the hostage...for big brother to tie up and threaten~.”

Tanizaki then found at the reception desk a drawing explaining where the bomber should hide. It was done by Ranpo, who had already left Yokohama and wouldn’t be back until after the day of the exam. Considering the situation, the drawing was definitely done before everyone drew lots. Tanizaki also suspected that Ranpo had already seen through everything beforehand and set his schedule this way to avoid it. He then wondered how Ranpo came to believe that his intelligence was a special ability.

Kunikida, Tanizaki, and Dazai went out to a pub later that night, with Kunikida offering to treat Tanizaki as a way make up for his suffering. They talked about the mystery of how the agency was founded (again, this topic had already been brought up earlier before the meeting).

When the waitress came to serve a dish, Dazai noted how it was unusual for the dish to be covered, then noticed a familiar face. He opened the lid to find a motion-sensor bomb with a note saying "I want you to look at only me", the same message he got with the fake time bomb from earlier.

Dazai turned to his sides for help, but Kunikida and Tanizaki were already gone.

And that’s it! That’s all that happened.

Congratulations if you have just finished the whole thing because damn, that was much longer than I expected.

If you guys still have questions about the stories in this book, you can send me an ask or leave them in the comment. I’ll be happy to answer!

And I’m once again back to the mess that is the university entrance season, urg.

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd novels #bsd light novels #look i did a thing

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sweettoothshipperrotg · 5 years

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okay I know I said last one but,,,,,, i couldn’t help myself- SO how about Superhero AU? With FrostedNature? (loveuthankubye)

Oh you and your promises of not sending more prompts. LIKE.YOU.COULD.HOLD.OUT (don’t you worry baby it’s fine, your prompts always make me happy :3)

Sorry this took so long, but I’ve finlly completed it.

Based on: ‘You’re my arch nemesis but our best friends are dating…I guess I’ll play nice in civvies, for now’ AU

Hope you enjoy!

SECRET IDENTITITES, MY FOOT

Jackson Overland Frost couldn’t believe his eyes when Bunnymund introduced his girlfriend’s best friend.

This was supposed to be a nice evening. He had cleared up his schedule specifically for tonight (if he kept on canceling every time something “came up”, Bunny would probably have strangled him) and was more than ready to enjoy his first free night in three years.

Luckily, he had been spared his friend’s backlash since Tooth’s friend also had to unexpectedly rain check their outing several times.

It wasn’t like Jack didn’t like the idea of his friend now being engaged (albeit, it had shaken him a little). Toothiana was a lovely woman, a bubbly behavior that balanced Bunny´s down to earth personality. The aussie had never been in such a long relationship before, but on the four year mark he decided to pop the question.

Jack, as the newly designated best man, was having a hard time handling his responsibilities for his friend’s wedding, his job at North’s store, and his “extracurricular activities”.

The couple had declared that their two friends had to meet in order for their nuptials to smoothly continue.

Toothiana had told him a little about the future bridesmaid. Emily Jane was a no-nonsense successful botanic researcher who Tooth had met at college and become friends with.

To anyone else such a friendship would have seemed rather odd, but considering that he had and Bunny had become friends when the blue-eyed boy was getting his ass handed to him during a bar fight, he understood. His opponent had managed to throw him over the table when Jack had tried to be a knight in shining armor and save one of his friends from a rather insistent ex-boyfriend. Aster had knocked the douchebag with a mean right hook and helped Jack up from the floor.

They had been besties ever since.

Now he was at a fancy restaurant in a five-star hotel, surrounded by his two friends and sitting in front of a stunning woman in a black dress who was sending intense glances his way.

Not in the sexy sense, more like “I want to murder you with this very steak knife I have in my hand” kinda way.

Although his presence had never warranted such a reaction from anyone he had met, there was a little problem.

He knew this woman.

And judging by the recognition in her eyes when they shook hands for the first time, she knew him as well.

Despite his best effort to keep his night job and his personal life separate, it seems it had come back to bite him.

The woes that betides a superhero.

Yes, he had superpowers. And yes he spent most of his free time as a vigilante making the streets of Burgess City a little safer to tread.

By now, Jack Frost had become more than just a fable among people.

It had been quite a decision when his ice powers manifested for the same time after his close call with death at the local pond he used to skate at with his little sister.

He remembered the cold and the dark water that surrounded him. He can even recall his sister screaming out his name from the surface. But then he woke up in a hospital bed after being unconscious for days and with his mother and sister asleep by his bedside.

His powers took two weeks to show themselves.

A glisten and a flurry of ice shot out of his hand into the tree next to him and covered it with an intricate and budding frost pattern. And the rest was history.

Had it not been for the present tense atmosphere, he would have chuckled at his memory of his first years as a superhero, running around with a mask and in an old blue hoodie. What a reckless kid he had been.

Thankfully his current supersuit was now more outfitted for combat and to handle his powers. North had been very helpful after Jack had busted into his shop to stop a large robbery.

And yes, of course North knew of his double life (the ex Russian scientist was his go to tech guy, after all). A superhero couldn’t keep down a stable job as easily as the comics made it look, and he had rent to pay.

In his many comings and goings he had faced many different foes: the low life criminals that preyed on the streets, the low level grunts of the mafia families, even a few corrupt leaders of the crime syndicates that sat atop of the city.

But none had been such a challenge like his arch nemesis. Persephone.With such a taste for dramatics, no wonder the universe had decided to search for someone to meet her match.

Her phytokinetic powers had him gawking at her when they first met at a bank robbery – that she orchestrated!

With a graceful swoop she and her plants had descended upon him and confronted him in one of the most engaging combats he had had in ages.

He was quick and nimble, but her defense and her strikes knocked the wind out of him.

Luckily, he had entertained her enough for the police back up to arrive.

She had left him fighting off thorny vines and unable to follow her and end the dance they had started.

Jack Frost had encountered the mysterious woman several other times.

She seemed to dabble in several types of crimes, but was quite adept to burglary. The high-class type. Although those pompous fishes could do with having a little less money, the upper class victims were outraged at the inability of the police to catch the masked villainess.

The mystery that was Persephone had kept him awake many nights. Unfortunately, it wasn’t all from a sleuth-related nature.

Her sly smile was ever present when he closed his eyes, so was her taught yet lithe body he had felt during close quarters combat and her alluring and taunting voice.

In other words, his imagination was playing against him. And he was losing, part of him wanted to put her behind bars so he would stop thinking of her so damn much.In another universe, these two characters would have never recognized the other; oblivious of their double life until some convoluted hand of destiny revealed their identities at a more inconvenient time.

But it seemed that fate had other plans.

His mind was brought back from his machinations all of a sudden.

“I’m sorry, I have to take this call.” Emily’s voice apologized profusely to her friend. “I’ll be right back. I promise.”

She sauntered out of view, almost as if she knew that his eyes would follow her.

“I…uh…I gotta use the restroom” He spluttered and excused himself away from the couple.

Jack passed the restrooms, and made his way to the open courtyard the hotel had.It looked quite pretty with the lights that illuminated the ornate fountain.

She was there, with her back to him and appearing to admire the abundant yet harmonic greenery that surrounded them.

Oh how freaking convenient.

He approached, carefully as you would to a deadly animal. The frost was starting to surge on his palm but yet he didn’t attack. The place was secluded but not enough for a full on battle to go unnoticed.

“Of all the places in this city, I find you here.” She still did not turn to face him. “How odd, isn’t it?”

Jack didn’t answer, sizing her up. He felt relief that she hadn’t take the steak knife with her, but that feeling burst when he realized she was far more deadly without it.

“And here I was planning such a show for when we met again.” Persephone said in her usual tone; the type of confident voice that came from always holding all the cards.

“Eager to see me, sweetheart?” The word escaped his mouth before he could help it.

They had slipped into well-known roles; their war of wits just as accelerating to him as their physical warfare.

“Flirt all you want, Frost.” Her head turned to glance at him, a smirk blooming in her lips. “But you’re not handing me over to the police just yet.”

The plants around them swooshed, but not because of the wind.

“Really?” Jack clenched his jaw, his muscles tensing. “And why is that?”

She now fully turned around and stepped forward, but he held his ground.

“Because you wouldn’t want to break your dear friend’s heart, would you?”

That sent a rush of fear through his blood. Instantly, a sharp spike of ice was forming onto his hand and was inches away from her neck. She didn’t even flinch. “If you dare harm Bunny or Tooth-”

“Spare me the theatrics, Frost.” She said calmly, as if she didn’t have an ice blade to her neck ready to run her through. “I’m not going to hurt any of them.”

Ok, that had him baffled.

“What?”

“I happen to truly care for Toothiana, and I even like Bunnymund enough to entrust him the safety and happiness of the only true friend I’ve ever had.” She firmly explained in all seriousness. “I would walk through burning coals for her and make anyone who hurts her wish they were dead.”

“What I meant to say is that we happen to be their best man and bridesmaid, quite crucial to their wedding if memory serves me right.” Emily continued to explain. “And I think it would put a damper on their wedding if I were to get rid of you or, in the most unlikely case, for you to send me to prison. That’s why I’ve decided we should reach a compromise.”

“What exactly did you have in mind?”

“A truce.” She replied with a confident smile. “I don’t go around on my nightly activities and you don’t try to throw me in jail while our friends are planning their wedding. Heck, we might have to work together to make it happen so it would be useful to not be at each other’s throats.”

Jack Frost had not expected this at all. Was she truly going to just play nice with him until their friends were married?

It felt like he was missing something. Once more, she had pulled the rug from under his feet.

Jack shook his head to clear out the fog, as the wheels spun inside his head. “How can I trust Burgess City’s top criminal to keep her word?”

“I guess it’s all about a leap of faith” She stepped closer and gently placed a hand on his chest, the ice dagger now pressing firmly against her skin but she paid it no mind since she was finding him far more interesting. The conflict that battled within those blue eyes of his was positively delicious, and so was his accelerated heartbeat. “Aren’t you heroes all about that, anyways?”

Silence stretched over them, both enemies sizing each other up for the others next move. But, in the end, it was him who spoke.

To be honest, he was probably making the biggest mistake of his life.

“Fine.” He warily acquiesced. “We play nice until Bunny and Tooth get married, but if I find out that you’re at it again then the deal is off.”

“Sounds good to me” She grinned, trying to suppress the mix of anticipation and adrenaline that had her self-control in such shaky grounds. “Now would you kindly put the icicle away? I need to get back to our table before Tooth gets worried.”

The spike vanished, and he retreated back so her influence would stop messing with his head.

She made her way out of the garden, but turned around to end their encounter with one last warning. “Don’t worry, once we cart them off to their honeymoon we can go back to destroying each other like always”

He didn’t grace her with an answer as the sharp click of her stilettos faded away in the distance.

Jack combed a hand through his hair and sighed.

There were definitely going to be some interesting months ahead of him.

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Each roll of the ocean rocked the floundering vessel. Tipping the deck to the rhythm of the restless sea, and on their knees at Edith’s feet the captives subtly swayed.

Smoke billowed from stacks at the stern, staining the oceanic air. Perfuming it with the odor of the boilers death. With mast and wings broken, the ship had run its last course.

“You won’t get away with this.” Twisting at the rope binding her hands, the woman spat the words with all the venom of a cobra.

Edith pulled her eyes from her own ship, bobbing serenely off the port side of the broken craft. Fingers resting on the hilt of her sword, she pinned the woman with a stare.

“The Commodore is just behind us.” Raven hair dominated the woman’s head, the sea breeze stirring the unwashed strands. Brushing greasily against alabaster skin that had taken on a grayish pallor.

“His fleet will see you to the ocean floor.” Had her glare been a dagger, it might have cut the pirate to ribbons.

A smile quirked up one corner of Edith’s mouth. “I’m sure he’ll try.” Of that, she had no doubt. She had thwarted enough of his operations to warrant his attention.

But a glance upward deepened her suspicion; where the Baron’s colors should have flown, there was nothing. It was the absence of a flag that had drawn her to them. Even pirates flew a banner.

Thuds and clangs echoed from below deck, where half her crew searched the hull for valuables.

Scanning the line of prisoners, she weighed the appearance of each. Thin and haggard, only a handful had made a stand against her. The fallen had sunk swiftly beneath the hungry waves. And those that had surrendered made for a sorry sight.

“Which of you ranks here?”

The uniforms were near universal, and in similar states of disarray. None hinted at any hierarchy that she recognized.

The question was met with silence, not a one of them stirring. Heaving a sigh, Edith kicked hard at the nearest captive. A whimper rose from him as he was sent sprawling, a pathetic noise that did nothing to ease her mounting ire.

“Captain’s dead.” A woman - no, girl, for she could not have been more than fourteen at most - supplied. Her cheeks flushed when Edith set eyes on her. “Died three days ago,” she continued timidly.

“And your first mate?”

“We don’t have one.”

“Than who’s in charge here?” What sort of ragtag crew was manning this ship? It was no wonder Edith’s people had overtaken it with such ease.

“Shall I appointment someone for you?” Taking up a tighter grip on her sword, she drew the blade and let its point rest against the wooden deck. “Or will severing a few digits loosen your tongues?”

Mouth gaping like a fish snatched from the sea, the girl tried for a reply but found none. Several of the crew paled. A few heads turned, each eying their neighbor in dismay.

“Captain.” From the bowels of the ship, Imari emerged. Ebony skinned, handsomely built, Edith might have courted her first mate had she not had a preference for woman.

Trailing behind him were several more of her own, carrying armfuls of fabrics and spices. Of actual food, there seemed to be none.

Three more survivors had been rounded up; shepherded into the sunlight, they blinked at the chaos of the ruined vessel. One of them broke out in a smile when he spotted her, though it did not reach his eyes.

“Edith,” he greeted. And grunted when her first mate set a boot to the back of his leg, dropping him to his knees.

“It’s Captain, to you,” Imari growled.

Grimacing as he landed, the grin returned in short order. “My apologies, Captain.”

Imari made to loose his sword, but Edith waved him off.

“Martin.” Sauntering across the deck she stood before him, rather enjoying their respective positions. A far cry from their roles when last they met. “Strange of you not to fly your father’s colors,” she said, indicating the barren pole with a dip of her head.

The smile faltered. “They were hard on the eyes. Had to take it down before it struck us blind.”

“Oh, I agree.” Touching the tip of her sword to his thigh, she delighted in his discomfort at the gesture. “I never much liked his flag.”

“Edith,“ - behind him, Imari stirred but did not strike him - “I’m no longer with the navy.”

“You expect me to believe that?” Fingers tapping against the cutlass, she cocked her head.

“It doesn’t matter what you believe.” Martin’s attention drifted from her to appraise his shipmates. “I’ve been dishonorably discharged, I think.”

“You don’t know?”

A smile ghosted over his lips as he returned his eyes to hers. “Son of the Baron or not, I imagine being caught freeing people from jail is a cause for employment termination.”

“And them?” she asked, sweeping a hand toward the prisoners.

“Innocent people, who’s only crime,” - he spat the word - “is being related to members of the underground. They were going to be hung.”

“Seems I’ve missed a lot, since last I was in your port.” Edith scratched thoughtfully at her chin, casting the sickly woman a dubious look. Indeed the Commodore might be behind them, though not for support.

Redirecting her attention to Imari, she asked, “Have you taken everything useful?”

“Aye.”

“Then let’s be gone.” Sheathing her sword, she studied the passengers of the dying ship. “Bring them.”

Martin surged to his feet. The step he made to take toward her was arrested by Imari, grabbing his arm in a rough grip. “What are you going to do with them?”

“Criminals, bound for the noose? Might be they’ll fetch a good price back home.” She had no intention of returning them to the Baron. But the lie was worth witnessing Martin’s distress. Lord knew he had caused her enough, over the years.

A few words of protest kicked up from the prisoners as the pirates hauled them to their feet, but most went meekly as they were led to her ship.

“And me?” Martin asked, anger coloring his expression.

“Don’t worry,” she said, patting his cheek. “I’m sure we’ll find a use for you.”

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