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Oh look! More late night writing! I didn’t get around to drawing ship stuff but I did find a poly one so I will work on that tomorrow but in the meantime have some Tomas x Hallvard head canons! I know no one really cares about my OC but I did promise y’all I would write these anyway so I did! Questions are from ask games, please feel free to ask me any you might have about well anything MK! Especially anything Lin Kuei! It’s my favorite thing to write about well them and Syzoth 🥺
Describe their first date.
Hallvard and Tomas’ first date was a very simple lunch date. It really wasn’t much of a first date as they didn’t go anywhere and do anything but they did sneak off away from Bi-Han and Kuai Liang to have lunch alone. Hallvard was the one who asked Tomas out after confiding in his closest ally, Bi-Han, and asking his advice on what to do. Bi-Han had suggested lunch together as they were all still quite young and not yet allowed in the village at the base of the temple. At first Tomas had no idea why Hallvard wanted to have lunch alone with him but after the younger boy confesses his feelings Tomas pieces things together. He doesn’t return Hallvard’s feelings right away though, Tomas doesn’t know how he feels about men, women or anyone for that matter but he was flattered his friend was so interested. He continues to have lunch with Hallvard and he too goes to Bi-Han for help sorting out his feelings, it’s rough being the oldest and most experienced of the bunch; and gradually realizes while he likes men and women but he also likes Hallvard as more than a friend.
How often do they say “I love you”?
Hallvard is more lovey dovey and more affectionate in general than Tomas is and he often tells Tomas he loves him. For Tomas it’s usually reserved for leaving on a dangerous mission and coming home from one. It’s not that Tomas doesn’t love Hallvard he’s just not as talkative as Hallvard is, Hallvard is quite boisterous and an open book so there’s no hiding anything for him. Hallvard is totally a Golden Retriever boyfriend and showers Tomas in words of affection and attention to the point it gets embarrassing for Tomas. Especially when Bi-Han parrots Hallvard in order to tease Tomas, Bi-Han might be a good older brother and might be supportive of their relationship but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to tease both of them mercilessly.
How do they keep in contact when they’re apart? Do they write letters, talk on the phone, or simply wait out the time?
Technology is not huge for the Lin Kuei in this timeline (or at least it doesn’t appear to be) so they communicate by carrier pigeons and other birds. Hallvard often sends frivolous birds with sweet little messages like “miss you”, “love you”, “thinking of you” while Tomas sends practical messages like “here are my coordinates”, “target sighted” and “target terminated”. Every so often though on long missions Tomas will give into Hallvard’s affectionate messages and send him similar ones in return. Tomas definitely does better with separation than Hallvard does.
How do they care for each other when one of them is wounded/sick?
Being professional thieves and assassins both men spend a lot of time injured and both have a very good knowledge of how to treat said injuries. Due to the nature of his powers being based largely on self inflicted wounds and being injured in general Hallvard is almost always in most need of care. Tomas has spent many a night not so happily stitching his boyfriend back up, he understands that Hallvard has to be injured to tap into his power but that doesn’t mean Tomas has to like it. He’s very tender and soft during these moments and is very meticulous when tending to Hallvard. Likewise Hallvard is just as attentive treating Tomas’ injuries but luckily Tomas doesn’t get injured very often. When Tomas got his nasty scar over his eye however he was so scared and terrified trying to treat it. He was so worried that his eye was permanently damaged and there was so much blood. Hallvard might have struggled pretty hard to hold back his panicked tears as he cleaned and dressed it and may have cries in the bathroom afterwards. He can be quite emotional for a big scary assassin.
Is their relationship a secret? If so, why?
Yes. Bi-Han and Kuai Liang know about their relationship but the rest of the Lin Kuei have no clue. People definitely have their suspicions but no one is stupid enough to start anything with the Grandmaster’s younger brother. Their relationship is primarily a secret because while homosexuality isn’t forbidden in the Lin Kuei it’s also not the normal. Tomas is also a relatively private person and would rather not announce to the world he and Hallvard are together, the people who are important to him know and that’s good enough for him. Hallvard on the other hand finds it hard not to let things slip and has almost called Tomas pet names in public hundreds of times. When he does screw up he plays it off and being a “foreign thing” he’s usually reasonably convincing but he has definitely gotten strange looks.
#mortal kombat#mk smoke#tomas vrbada#mk headcanons#hallvard breivik#tomas x hallvard#mk ocs#mk oc reaver#smoke x reaver#head canons#gay character#bi characters
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"The sound rumbled across the city like thunder, warning of the storm to come."- Sansa(AGOT IV). It's after Robert's death and crowning of Joffery. "Now the storm is coming, a storm such as these isles have never known."- AFFC. It's about Euron. Both Joffery and Euron are associated with storms. And then there is Dany who was born in storm known as Stormborn.
Storms are used in a couple different ways, I think. Often, writers insert them to have the weather mimic a character’s emotional state, or as your quotes are used, to give the reader a sense of foreboding. GoT ultimately decided to contrast Dany’s birth which was welcomed with a horrible storm to Sansa’s which was celebrated with the ringing of bells to indicate to the audience the devastation one would bring to Westeros and the endgame for the other. Martin also uses the threat of storms, particularly in the North, as a practical concern that impacts the plot.
But, you’re right, it’s a negative thing about certain characters too, and there definitely is a building momentum with the Dany / Euron storm quotes. It’s foreboding for Westeros, also seems to indicate a struggle between the two of them:
She had been born on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. They said that storm was terrible. The Targaryen fleet was smashed while it lay at anchor, and huge stone blocks were ripped from the parapets and sent hurtling into the wild waters of the narrow sea. Her mother had died birthing her, and for that her brother Viserys had never forgiven her. (AGOT, Daenerys I)
No squall could frighten Dany, though. Daenerys Stormborn, she was called, for she had come howling into the world on distant Dragonstone as the greatest storm in the memory of Westeros howled outside, a storm so fierce that it ripped gargoyles from the castle walls and smashed her father's fleet to kindling. (ASOS, Daenerys I)
Initially, the storms are about her birth but then we have the kraken thrown in there:
"We are the ones who are lost, ser. Drogon has no taste for this wet creeping, no more than I do." Bolder than the other two, her black dragon had been the first to try his wings above the water, the first to flutter from ship to ship, the first to lose himself in a passing cloud . . . and the first to kill. The flying fish no sooner broke the surface of the water than they were enveloped in a lance of flame, snatched up, and swallowed. "How big will he grow?" Dany asked curiously. "Do you know?"
"In the Seven Kingdoms, there are tales of dragons who grew so huge that they could pluck giant krakens from the seas."
Dany laughed. "That would be a wondrous sight to see."
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"There are dangers at sea as well. Corsairs and pirates hunt the southern route, and north of Valyria the Smoking Sea is demon-haunted. The next storm could sink or scatter us, a kraken could pull us under . . . or we might find ourselves becalmed again, and die of thirst as we wait for the wind to rise. A march will have different dangers, my queen, but none greater." (ASOS, Daenerys I)
and then of course, these more specifically about the danger of Euron and his ambition:
He was born a lord's son and died a king, murdered by a jealous god, Aeron thought, and now the storm is coming, a storm such as these isles have never known. (AFFC, The Prophey)
"So are the contents of my chamber pot. None is fit to sit the Seastone Chair, much less the Iron Throne. No, to make an heir that's worthy of him, I need a different woman. When the kraken weds the dragon, brother, let all the world beware." (AFFC, The Reaver)
"No. Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal." (ADWD, Daenerys II)
Here’s a great meta about “Storm x Storm” by ladyofasoiaf, and some additional foreshadowing here by istumpy.
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The New Guy | Donald Pierce x trans!m!reader
@logan-strong asked: Hello. I can't remember if I've sent an ask before so if I have please feel free to ignore it.
But I had this idea for a donald pierce x trans!male reader who is a new part of the reaver gang. Donald takes a shine to them but nobody knows they're trans. The reader is standoffish and cold. They're also a certified badass. I was thinking one day Donald for some reason sees them shirtless and sees their top surgery scars.
summary: you're new to the Reavers, but Donald trusts you not to fuck everything up when he brings you along with him. It's just a shame that being all alone together is the perfect excuse to forget about work and the job that you're tasked with - maybe even a little too perfect.
tws: use of the word Daddy, swearing, smoking, top surgery scars
You were new to the Reavers, having joined up mostly because the money was good and you needed it to help with your transition; as a trans man, it was expensive to get the things that really, truly, made you feel like yourself, the things that really and honestly made you feel like the man you were. Sure, it was hard work and you often went back home exhausted both mentally and physically, and you often wished you had turned down the job, but then you thought of your boss, the leader of the Reavers, and you realised you had more than one reason to stay. Donald. He didn't treat you like the others, he seemed to prefer you and was even a little bit softer with you; you knew he didn't know you were trans, but you did like the fact that he wasn't so cruel and cold towards you.
You drummed your fingers on the wooden breakfast bar, resting your cheek on your hand as your elbow dug into the wood and you sighed, watching Donald; he needed you around for this one, he knew that. No one could take down an idiot with two swords and a mouth that could talk for Britain like you could. Donald trusted you, and as he skulked around the kitchen, he shot you a glare.
"If you're gonna do nothing all night, maybe you should just go home."
You raised a brow, stretching a little as you dared to let out a quiet yawn. Fuck, it was getting late and you doubted the mercenary you were after would be home any time soon. Slowly, you folded your arms on the wood and sank down enough to put your chin on your wrist. "Or not. Someone has to be here in case you fuck up again."
He scoffed, doing his best not to smile as he helped himself to the cupboards and the fridge, most of them were almost entirely empty, but he managed to find a packet of cigarettes and a box of crackers; he chucked the former your way and kept the crackers for himself as he leaned against the counter and tore the box open.
"Relax, baby," he hummed, daring to grin a little but moving over slightly so that the light didn't catch the black metal of his fingers and glare directly at you. "We'll be fine."
You grumbled, not wanting the way he called you baby to fucking claw at your insides, and lit up a cigarette. Fuck, he just had to be hot, didn't he? Of all the goddamn people in the world, the one who sent shivers down your spine and made you grin like a fool, was the one who was as cruel as he was charming. "Do you have to call me baby?"
"Why, do you like it?" He beamed, putting the crackers on the counter and daring to close in on you, his hands either side of you as he leaned over slightly, tilting his head to the side and looking you up and down. "Hm? Do ya? Or would you prefer it if you got the chance to call me Daddy?"
You clenched your jaw, shaking your head a little as you took a long drag from your cigarette, hoping that he didn't see the way your hands shook and how your eyes were a little wide as you swallowed thickly. "Shut it."
"C'mon," he rounded the breakfast bar, putting his metal hand on the back of your chair so that he could spin it round enough for him to grip your chin between his forefinger and thumb with his other hand, a sick grin on his lips. "Y'know I'm a fan of your work, (y/n)... you can tell me the truth."
You rolled your eyes at the remark, blowing smoke directly in his face as you did your best not to grab his shirt and pull him closer. "Go to Hell, Donald."
"Oh, this puppy's got a bark," Donald laughed softly, shaking his head and pulling down your bottom lip with his thumb.
You pulled from his grasp, growling softly as you turned yourself back around, leaning on the breakfast bar again as you took a drag from your cigarette, finishing it and flicking it over the bar. Sure, Donald was incredibly attractive, and you did like him a lot, but you didn't want things to get messy between you two; you were new to the Reavers, you didn't want anyone to think that you only got the job because of some sort of attraction between you and Donald - even if you had the credentials to prove otherwise.
He wasn't about to give up, though, turning you around again and standing between your legs, his hands on your thighs as he licked his lips and dared to drop his gaze down to your mouth for a second too long. "Do you bite, too?"
Unable to stop yourself, you put your hands on his shoulders for a second, but when you noticed where his eyes were, you let one hand drift to the back of his neck, the other buried in the hair at the back of his head. Donald leaned in a little, ghosting his lips over yours before you whimpered softly and tugged at his hair, a pleading look in your eyes that he couldn't help but to fucking grin at; he couldn't hold back, tugging you close enough so that he could finally claim you. His kiss was rough, and harsh, more teeth and tongue and harsh breaths than anything else, but he made you moan as you took your hand from his neck and started to tug at your shirt; still, Donald beat you to it, using his metal hand to rip your shirt so that he didn't have to break the kiss, making you laugh softly until he was forced to pull away.
Catching his breath, Donald looked at the scars on your chest, and he hummed. "Shit."
"What?" You hissed. "You suddenly think I'm fucking ugly because I have top surgery scars?"
"No," he growled. "Why the fuck would I think that?"
His chest was heaving, breath heavy as he dared to use his metal hand to trace the scars, making you shiver with how cold it was, but you couldn't help but to smile; even if you really, really didn't want to.
"So, you can smile," Donald teased, splaying his fingers out as he licked his lips slowly, admiring your body as he nodded slowly. "What else can you do, baby?"
"Fuck you," you groaned, returning your hand to the back of his neck as you bit down at your bottom lip.
He all but laughed, pressing into you a little more as he dared to let a soft growl escape the back of his throat. "You'll have to wait for that, y'know."
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OC Kiss Week Day 7: Sloppy
WIP: WASTE
Pairing: Guetry x Oren
Timeline: before shit went down, obviously
CW: drug use, drug mention, sexual situations
Rating: M
Words: 845
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Playing a show while zooted to oblivion on reaver rock has always been one of my favorite things to do.
Alec hated it, of course, but she always preferred me to be high under her supervision rather than to do it alone, or, worse yet, with Oren. However, despite spending the majority of my high times around her—on show nights, anyway—I still had to go back home to Oren.
And sometimes that was even worse than the drug.
One night in particular, I dragged myself through the front door of my Node apartment to find him sitting on the couch, a pipe already prepped for me and outstretched in my direction.
"Man, I dunno," I muttered, propping my beat guitar against the wall. "I'm coming down hard."
"This'll help," he said. "You'll sleep better."
I sighed and rubbed my hands over my face...my soft face, my pillow face that always puffed up when I was coming down. Sticky with dried sweat and warm, and gross. "Yeah, I feel like shit."
He handed me the pipe as I dropped onto the couch beside him and lit up.
"You didn't come to the show?"
"Nah," Oren said, wrapping an arm around me. He loved it when I was at my lowest, loved it when I didn't have the energy to be anything but pathetic. "I was tired. I'll be there next time, garçon."
He never was.
The smoke in my lungs numbed my skin and once the air started to feel like fur, I climbed onto Oren's lap and drowned him in lazy kisses, peeled his shirt from his body, and marked his shoulders with my teeth.
I'm taller than him, but not by much, yet it always surprised me when he could maneuver me by carrying me or laying me over the coffee table, or even the times he would fuck me against the wall or...whatever. Truly, the sex was nothing special. As it was happening the rock made it seem mind-blowing, which I think was part of the reason Oren would make sure I was high when we did it half the time.
Another reason was that he liked to test his products on me, too, but that's neither here nor there.
I left my room as common morning broke and started to put the rock away, head pounding and the rest of me sore from being a bit too rough with Oren. He came out sometime later to find me still trying to tidy up, which was slow going due to having just been body-checked by a passing lenayan dreadnought.
"No, no," he said, taking the box of rock from me and setting it back on the coffee table before I could stuff it into my stash safe. "This is the one I'm selling later."
"Oh, shut the fuck up," I groaned.
He grinned. "I could make you breakfast. How's that sound?"
"I guess." I grabbed a beer from the fridge and sat at the island in the kitchen. "How much is this haul gonna net you?"
"Twenty-five easy," Oren said, bare chest puffed with pride as he baconed my eggs and sausaged my toast. I don't know what that means, either. "How much you need for that new drum set you wanted to give Alec?"
I waved the thought away, nursing the cold bottle and relieved the headache was on its way out. "I've got enough. I just got my deposit from the vineyard the other day."
"Right, right." Oren glanced at me from the stove. "That reminds me...how's Gisella been, d'you know?"
At the mention of my mom, my hand tightened around the beer and I turned a lethal glare onto him. "And why the hell do you want to know that?"
"I'm just curious."
"I told you to stay away from her. She's actually trying to get clean for once."
He shrugged. "Okay, relax. I just..." He grimaced and took the pan off the heat. "Well, this is, what, attempt five? You don't really believe it'll stick after so long, do you?"
The smell of food and the physical hell racking my bones were the only things keeping me from vaulting over the island counter and braining my boyfriend with the frying pan. That was a startling realization, but I didn't feed the intrusive thought too much. "You see why it's extremely fucked that her former drug dealer is pretending to be concerned about her trying to get clean, yes?"
Oren, sensing that I had cleared the pathetic stage and was no longer in the headspace to take his shit, nodded. "You're right. I'm sorry, garçon."
I rolled my eyes and took the plate of food from him. "Come eat with me."
We shared breakfast, which helped return some of my strength to me. I showered and lit up again, which returned the rest of it, and then I left the Node altogether for an assignment I was given to take down an allegiant base on Voka.
And if you were wondering, yeah, my mom relapsed the next week. Wonder why.
#ockiss23#WASTE#pair: Permanent Geometry#going out with a bang I guess pfft#as much as we like to pretend they weren't y'all#Guetry and Oren were together at some point lmao
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what’s up doc?
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i’ve seen people in the fandom talk about a fable 4 set in the 1920s if it were to continue the current timeline, thus I drew our favorite dark wizard and passionate rogue
#fable#fable 2#fable ii#fable au#fable reaver#fable garth#garth#reaver#could be#garth x reaver#?#art#fanart#fable fanart#1920s fashion#1920s#historical dress#fashion history#tanta’s fashion history love affair#smoking cw#gun cw#cigar cw#video games
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X-Men Abridged: 1981 - the Body-Swap
The X-Men, those body-swapping mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. We’ve been untangling that history for a while, but sometimes, you really want a more in-depth look. Interested? Then read the (un)Abridged X-Men!
(Uncanny X-Men 151 - 152) - by Chris Claremont and Josef Rubinstein
Emma Frost and her frenemy Ororo Munroe have not been getting along! One fateful evening, as the two quibble away, they mysteriously switch bodies and minds. Talk about your Freaky Friday! What lessons will they learn, walking a mile in one another’s shoes? And will they be able to switch back, or will they stay in each other’s bodies forever?
Mutant Monday, coming soon to a cinema near you.
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Angela Bassett and Elliot Page. (PG-13)
For a moment, we’re in a proper period drama: a letter delivers ill tidings!
I love that Kitty’s parents are so self-involved that it took them A WHOLE YEAR to realize that it’s weird that Kitty is the only non-adult attending the Xavier Institute.
I can only assume the mailman interrupted a pool party of some kind? Or a communal shower? I get why Kurt would not swim a lot - all that fur - but did Scott wear that while they were splashing around? Was it a beach volleyball competition where one half got to wear swimsuits and the other half superhero costumes? Most importantly, was Scott’s costume always this tight?
Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
The awful thing is that Kitty’s parents are transferring her to the Massachusetts Academy, not realizing that headmistress Emma Frost is, in fact, a terrible human being. Charles, uncharacteristically, says that changing their minds telepathically is a line he does not cross (any more) and half the viewing audience bursts out in laughter. More importantly, last they saw Emma, she was kind of dead-by-Phoenix, so it might be better there this time? Kitty does a Classic Teenage Stomp-Off and Storm comes to comfort her. Kitty cries that life is unfair (“My parents are only doing this because they’re splitting up”) and Ororo tells her that yes, life is unfair. You just gotta roll with the punches as best you can.
To be fair, bald men are technically all cheek, so it doesn’t matter where you kiss them.
While I enjoy the relationship Kitty has with the other X-Men (Scott gave her a compliment! Logan told her his name!), especially the mother-daughter-bond she shares with Ororo, the whole Piotr-thing always gives me pause. Even if we’re being very generous with age, Kitty is, what? 14 going on 15? And Piotr is… 19? At best? I get why Kitty would have a crush on him: he’s a gentle hunky giant: at fifteen, my teenage ass would have felt the exact same viz-a-viz Colossus’ upper arms. The fact that Piotr reciprocates feels skeevy, though, especially because they’re always treated like star-crossed idiots these days.
Skee-vy.
Ororo drives Kitty to Massachusetts, where her young ward is greeted by someone named Muffy and whisked away for orientation. All seems well. Ororo stands in a parlour, surveying the grounds and considering that they should have fought harder for Kitty. Still, nothing seems too wrong just yet: this Academy just seems very preppy.
Not-at-all-dead Emma takes her cue and jumps out, saying (essentially): “Surprise motherfucker.”
There’s a flash of light, and then...
I’m willing to bet that Emma’s EVIL journal has the following to-do-list:
- Steal Storm’s body.
- Experiment with her powers.
- See how good Storm looks in white. (Leather? Fur?! Both!??)
- REWARD: Smoke break.
I wonder if Emma’s plan hinged on being able to body-swap with Storm, or whether any X-Man would have sufficed. Was her original target Xavier? Cyclops? What if one of Kitty’s parents had brought her to Massachusetts, would she have taken Kitty instead?
In a locked cell, Storm wakes up in Emma’s body and is horrified. I wonder why Emma didn’t take any more precautions. Couldn’t the guy who made the freaky friday-gizmo also make a power dampener to nullify not!Emma’s telepathic abilities? Or did Emma count on her victim being so utterly incapacitated by her mind-powers that they’d be driven mad? (This would actually tie in with some of Emma’s later-revealed history: when her powers first emerged, she also got locked away in a padded room because of her madness.)
Emma is not wrong, by the way: Storm can’t get a handle on Emma’s powers. What follows is possibly the sweetest moment in an arc filled with sweet moments:
This arc isn’t drawn by any of the regulars - not Byrne, not Cockrum - but Josef Rubinstein brings his own kind of panache to the pages. I love the way he draws women’s faces: in a story that’s all about women, their faces are actually distinguishable. Kudoz.
Emma, meanwhile, coordinates with Sebastian Shaw to execute the second part of their two-pronged attack on the X-Men. They both laugh evilly in their phones while the mansion is attacked by Sentinels! These androids take out Cyclops and Xavier with some sleeping gas and knock out Nightcrawler, but the rest of the X-Men manage to trounce these robots. Then ‘Storm’ appears! She zaps the rest of the X-Men (and Amanda Sefton), successfully finishing their master-plan.
It’s not entirely clear what the Hellfire Club wants with the X-Men this time, but I’m assuming it’s more experimentation to improve the sentinels? Eh, doesn’t matter! Nefarious Hellfire Club is nefarious.
The real Storm, meanwhile, comes to claim Kitty, forgetting that she looks like the one and only Emma Frost. Kitty spooks and Storm accidentally reaches out, knocking her out telepathically. Whoops! Storm takes Kitty and flees in a car, while Emma gives chase. (How dare Ororo run off with her body, which is absolutely the kind of hypocritical hilariousness we all love Emma for.)
Kitty awakens and jumps from the car, causing Storm to swerve and...
JETSTREAM!? Speaking of which, where are the Hellions in all of this?
Kitty sees that an unconscious ‘Emma’ is about to burn to a tender and moist little crisp and she is faced with the hero’s dilemma: would you save a villain that would never save you?
Emma, meanwhile, has realized the downside to body-swapping: somebody else gets to run around with your body too. Shaw, of all people, talks her down from her anger.
You can’t just introduce a persona exchange gun to the plot WITHOUT EXPLAINING WHERE THE FUCK YOU GOT IT FROM.
My favorite detail is that Emma keeps calling Kitty brat, like she’s some sort of Pokémon-villain.
Kitty, meanwhile, has saved ‘Emma’ and tied her up with a special knot. Storm tries to convince Kitty, going for the “ask me something only Storm would know”, but Kitty’s all: “Duh, you’re a telepath.” Ororo insists, but the thing that clinches it is when she breaks free of her ties without breaking a sweat. That knot was taught to Kitty by Ororo and she’d be the only one who knew how to break out of it.
Storm and Kitty recruit Stevie Hunter to come pick them up and during the ride, Storm-being-angry-mother!Storm convinces Kitty more than anything else:
After all, Storm was voted most likely to say: “If you don’t stop this nonsense immediately, I will turn this Blackbird around, so help me God!”
Ororo and Kitty sneak inside. Ororo even uses Emma’s telepathy to help her pick a lock after phasing through a door. (Kind of funny: Kitty’s still such a neophyte that she can’t even phase with anyone else yet.) Emma, meanwhile, taunts the captured X-Men, presenting herself as the new white queen:
Anybody feel the inclination to point out that the Hellfire Club did this exact same thing last year, except then they tried it with a redhead?
I secretly suspect that the Hellfire Club’s plots always revolve around seducing X-Men to their side and dressing them up in sexy lingerie. (Which: fair.) There’s also a subplot where the guys Wolverine cut apart last year want to exact revenge on him for being made bionic, but eh. We’ll start paying attention to them when they become actual Reavers.
Kitty phases through the locks of the X-Men, freeing them, and a kerfuffle ensues. Emma starts using Storm’s powers, but they grow out of control. Colossus tosses Shaw out of the window - which should just be company policy, really: all Shaws should be defenestrated - where he’s promptly hit by a rogue thunderbolt.
When he doesn’t get up, Emma starts to lose it. The weather goes wild. Storm intervenes, using her telepathic power to help calm down Emma (and the raging storm), but she also manages to get a hold of the swap-gun. There’s a zap, and with a satisfied sigh, the status-quo is restored again.
My favorite implication is that, apparently, Emma decides which school Kitty attends and not her parents.
While this little arc is neither the most iconic nor the most profound of 1981 -- those would be Days of Future Past and I, Magneto, respectively -- I still love this for a couple of reasons.
As a lover of Freaky Friday, 17 Again and the new Jumanji-film, I just have a soft spot for body swap plots. (Hi Psylocke!)
It focuses on the Xavier Institute as a school, planting seeds for the upcoming New Mutants.
It is very female-driven without beating you over the head with it. (Looking at you, Birds of Prey.)
It has three definitive main characters, who all get fleshed out in fun and interesting ways. It starts the trend of robbing Ororo of some of her powers and tossing her into against-the-odds circumstances, only for her to come out on top.
It solidifies the Storm/Kitty mother/daughter (or older/younger sibling) dynamic. Kitty is a believable teenager when it comes to Storm - clever and kind, but also looking for answers and prone to rash decisions - and I love how much they care for each other.
Jean/Storm-friendship-callback, yay!
Emma gets fleshed out as a villain. Resourceful and petty, powerful and vain. It’s no wonder she’s one of the break-out antagonists of the X-Men, because, like Magneto, Claremont is not afraid of giving her depth. Arguably, she is the most three-dimensional of the Hellfire Club at this point.
Yay! And fuck completely sensible plots, if you don’t know what to do with your plot, just introduce a random persona exchange gun. Let’s use it on Xavier and Legion in Way of X next!
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Dream: Jaime and Jon
I used to post this post before, but now it's improved and more aesthetic :)
Jaime’s dream:
I will not rewrite Jaime's entire dream, it is in ASOS, Jaime VI.
A lot of people think it's Casterly Rock because that's what it says at the beginning, but..., Jaime says it's Casterly Rock, just because it's surrounded by stone walls, it's in a stone castle, we still have it went to a cave with shallow water, but he did not know it, and it is rather unlikely that the potential heir of Casterly Rock, who grew up in it, would not completely know the cave that was part of it, especially as he himself states:
There’s no place like that beneath the Rock.
so in my opinion, this is not Casterly Rock, but a different place. Some say that this is probably the Red Keep, but Jaime also knows the Red Keep and knows the tunnels beneath them, not to mention that the Red Keep is made of "red stone", brick, not plain gray stone... That's why in my opinion it's about Dragonstone, Dragonstone fits perfectly, especially if Jaime is a descendant of Aerys. Dark figures with golden hair, not the Lannisters, but the Targaryens, they also had golden hair, not only white, and most often their hair was golden with silver highlights.
Beware of the water, he told himself. There may be various creatures in the depths…
This is of course a prelude to the fight between Jaime and Euron, if Euron gets Rheagal:
And there came a second crack, loud and sharp as thunder, and the smoke stirred and whirled around her and the pyre shifted, the logs exploding as the fire touched their secret hearts. She heard the screams of frightened horses, and the voices of the Dothraki raised in shouts of fear and terror. (AGOT, Daenerys X)
Who could frighten the fearless Dothraki themselves more than Euron?
And whoever rides Rheagal must have something to do with the thunder, the storm:
”I am the storm, my lord. The first storm, and the last.” (AFFC, The Reaver)
The torches along the walls were burning bright, and so was he, blue lips, blue eye, and all. (AFFC, The Reaver)
Vicatrion describes Euron above, whether it is a announcement that Euron will die burned by dragon fire..., Jaime/Viserion - Euron/Rhaegal - Daenerys/Drogon fight, which the performer will win Daenerys and Drogon:
From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of lies (ACOK, Daenerys IV)
This tower is the Hightower in the Oldtown that will be attacked by Euron.
And Euron will burn, Rhaegal will get into Theon? Through the horn he will be bound to the blood of the Greyjoy:
What had she been thinking, that he would whistle up a winged horse and fly her out of here, like some hero in the stories she and Sansa used to love? (ADWD, The Prince of Winterfell)
“Unless you have a horse with wings like a raven. Do you?”
“No.” Jon felt like a fool. (AGOT, Jon IX)
Horses and wings are a theme in asoiaf:
The silver horse leapt the flames as if she had wings. (AGOT, Daenerys II)
"If we were eagles we might fly," said Jojen sharply, "but we have no wings, no more than we have horses." (ASOS, Bran I)
ghosts and ghouls, mermaids, rock goblins, winged horses, winged pigs … winged lions." (ADWD, Tyrion III)
While probably many people will take the above quote as proof/hint that Tyrion will ride a dragon, for me it's a red herring though, like many of them in asoiaf, a lion will ride a dragon but not this lion.
Of course in the dream we see Tywin, Cersei and Joffrey, at first Joffrey (his death) leaves, then Tywin gives the sword to Jaime (Tywin gives Oathkeeper to Jaime), then Tywin leaves (dies), then to Jaime is joined by Brienne, who says "sword", the same word she utters to confirm to Lady Stoneheart that he will do her will and bring Jaime (confirmed by George himself in an interview).
“The flames will burn so long as you live,” he heard Cersei call. “When they die, so must you.”
As long as Jaime lives, the swords will burn, with his death, the swords will die, both. Then Cersei leaves, and so dies, killed by Jaime, Jaime is already with Brienne by then.
“Do they keep a bear down here?” Brienne was moving, slow and wary, sword to hand; step, turn, and listen. Each step made a little splash. “A cave lion? Direwolves? Some bear? Tell me, Jaime. What lives here? What lives in the darkness?”
“Doom.” No bear, he knew. No lion. “Only doom.”
Here Brienne asks if they are keeping a bear, a cave lion, a direwolf, a bear here. The bear is repeated twice, which is Brienne's announcement in the bear pit. But Jaime replies that it is doom, not a bear, not a lion, just doom. Importantly, Jaime does not mention the direwolf, which shows that the direwolf, i.e. Bran, is the doom, he lurks in the dark.
And now Jon's dream:
He dreamt he was back in Winterfell, limping past the stone kings on their thrones. Their grey granite eyes turned to follow him as he passed, and their grey granite fingers tightened on the hilts of the rusted swords upon their laps. You are no Stark, he could hear them mutter, in heavy granite voices. There is no place for you here. Go away. He walked deeper into the darkness. “Father?” he called. “Bran? Rickon?” No one answered. A chill wind was blowing on his neck. “Uncle?” he called. “Uncle Benjen? Father? Please, Father, help me.” Up above he heard drums. They are feasting in the Great Hall, but I am not welcome there. I am no Stark, and this is not my place. His crutch slipped and he fell to his knees. The crypts were growing darker. A light has gone out somewhere. “Ygritte?” he whispered. “Forgive me. Please.” But it was only a direwolf, grey and ghastly, spotted with blood, his golden eyes shining sadly through the dark... (ASOS, Jon VIII)
So step by step:
Jon dreamed he came back to Winterfell and it was actually Winterfell. = In Jaime's dream, Jaime thinks he came back to Casterly Rock, but Casterly Rock wasn't.
In Jon's dream, the old kings, the ghosts of the past, the ghosts of the Stark, tell him that this is not his place because he is not Stark (and that is a fact of course, because he is Targaryen). = In Jaime's dream, his ghosts told him, that this is his place (Confirmation/hint that Jaime is a Targaryen).
Both Jaime and Jon were going deeper and deeper into the darkness, except that in Jaime's dream, Jaime realized he should go up, not down, and he was going down, or rather running away, just because of soldiers who pursue him, while in Jon's dream, we do not have such thoughts, Jon himself voluntarily ventures further and further into the darkness.
In his dream, Jon calls his father (Ned), Bran, Rickon, Uncle Benjen twice and his father twice and asks for his help (i.nterestingly, Jon calls neither Robb nor Arya nor Sansa ...) but no one appears and he calls out for help from his father, but does not get it. = In Jaime's dream, we have Joffrey, Tywin and Cersei, Jaime doesn't have to call them because they are already there, but they walk away from him and he asks them not to leave him, finally asks for a sword and Tywin gives it to him.
Jon in his dream is crippled here, it's all about crutches and even falls, to emphasize this. = In Jaime's dream, Jaime has both hands, he is not crippled, he is alive and well.
It gets darker in Jon's crypts, and Jon thinks to himself, "The light's gone somewhere." and then she whispers to Ygritte, "Forgive me. Please. ". = Jaime's dream does not get any darker, though they are surrounded by darkness, Jaime's and Brienne's swords protect them from that darkness." He burned with a silver-blue glow that scattered the shadow. " “Brienne's sword also glowed with silver-blue fire. The darkness has receded a little further. ” = Jon calls Ygritte and the same light, she is gone, as is the light gone, while Jaime has Brienne and she has the light.
In Jon's dream, a gray, golden-eyed direwolf appears, probably Bran's direwolf, his eyes glowing with a sad glow, and he himself looks terrible and covered in blood. = In Jaime's dream, Brienne asks what lurks in the dark and how I "showed" above, it is a direwolf, a direwolf that is doom, which is just Bran.
Jaime and Jon's dream is one and the same (apart from some details, Jaime's dream is longer, and we have additional things there, e.g. watch out for creatures in the depths, or a prophecy about Tywin's death, etc.), with that, that inverted.
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RE8 Masterlist
[Last update : 01/04/2023]
Fanarts
- 2022 -
Come with me (Karl Heisenberg)
Hot in here (Karl Heisenberg)
First anniversary (Heisenberg, Dimitrescu, Moreau, Beneviento)
- 2021 -
Christmas 2021 (Karl Heisenberg)
Jack-O Challenge (Karl Heisenberg)
The man and the machine (Karl Heisenberg)
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Crossover DMC x RE
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Happy new year 2022
- 2021 -
AU : Viking (Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
More than buddies (Karl Heisenberg x Dante Sparda)
Two saviors (Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
Arm wrestling (color - Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
Arm wrestling (Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
The lords and the demons (RE8 x DMC)
Cute manthing (Dimitrescu Daugthers & Nero Sparda)
Taking care (Donna Beneviento & Vergil Sparda)
Galant encounter (Lady Dimitrescu & V)
That big ! (Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
Best buddies (Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
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Haven Frost aka Fenrir (Original Character)
A kiss in the night (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Moonrust kiss (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Sweet kiss (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Watch him sleep... (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
By the river... (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Fun time (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Under the tree (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Over the desk (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Having fun (NSFW - Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Steamy session (NSFW - Karl Heisenberg x OC)
The man within (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Going for a smoke (Chris Redfield & OC)
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The snake's whispers (Karl Heisenberg & Mother Miranda)
The prodigy son (Karl Heisenberg & Mother Miranda)
WintersBerg (Karl Heisenberg & Ethan Winters)
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Battle without honor or humanity (Karl Heisenberg & Dante Sparda)
A smoke (Karl Heisenberg)
Come little children (Mother Miranda)
Cavern (Karl Heisenberg)
Touch (Chris Redfield)
Night smoke (Karl Heisenberg)
We meet again (Karl Heisenberg)
Smoke and cigar (Karl Heisenberg)
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DAY 1 : Dom/Sub (Dante x OC)
DAY 2 : Masturbation (Heisenberg)
DAY 3 : Teasing (Dante x OC)
DAY 4 : Blowjob (Heisenberg x Winters
DAY 5 : Blindfold (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 6 : Orgasm Denial (Dante x OC)
DAY 7 : 69 (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 8 : Shower Sex (Dante x OC)
DAY 9 : Shibari (OC)
DAY 10 : Size Difference (Dante & Heisenberg)
DAY 11: Biting (Dante x OC)
DAY 12 : Tied Up (Heisenberg)
DAY 13 : Collar (Heisenberg)
DAY 14 : Threesome (Vergil x OC x Dante)
DAY 15 : Thigh F*ck (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 16 : Public Sex (Dante x OC)
DAY 17 : Cage (Heisenberg)
DAY 18 : Rain Kiss (Dante x OC)
DAY 19 : Cunniling*s (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 20 : Phone S*x (Dante)
DAY 21 : Mirror (Heisenberg)
DAY 22 : Lingerie (Dante)
DAY 23 : Feral (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 24 : Demon (Dante x OC)
DAY 25 : Wax Play (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 26 : Dirty Talk (Dante x OC)
DAY 27 : Choking (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 28 : Caught (Dante x OC)
DAY 29 : S*xtoy (Heisenberg x OC)
DAY 30 : Lap Dance (Dante x OC)
DAY 31 : Foursome (Dante x Heisenberg x OCs)
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Anime Screenshots
Valentine's Day 2022 (Dante, Heisenberg, Reaver)
Terror as a name... (Karl Heisenberg x OC)
Come here (Karl Heisenberg)
A little cold ? (Karl Heisenberg)
Werewolf (Karl Heisenberg)
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Die... manthing (Alcina Dimitrescu)
Little secret (Karl Heisenberg)
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let's have some fun (this beat is sick) [1]
summary: donald finds himself attracted to the [smoking hot, yes u r] reader and when she realizes this, she decides to play the game of seduction. part 1 of 2
pairing: donald pierce x reader
word count: 1672
warnings: vulgar language, eventual smut
The infamous Alkali-Transigen Reavers rarely had time off and this time was no different. Howbeit, that did not stop them from deciding on celebrating their latest catch, and so at five o'clock they brazenly took to a bar downtown. Donald Pierce had not necessarily expected to "get some" as it would appear his fellow Reavers did, but the night takes a drastic turn when his eyes land on a certain little someone.
The night was passing slowly, and to be quite true, Donald was not feeling it. Not the cheerful atmosphere, not the drinks, certainly not the music. When an elegant figure waltzed its way through the crowd, now that was something he would like to feel.
Your sultry mien quickly rubbed off on him, even from the unbearable distance separating you from his grasp, and it was wickedly wrong how hard he grew a just that sight.
Bare legs balancing on impossibly tall heels, tight dress - stopping just beneath your enticing ass and fuck, he could not tell if that red dress sculpted you or the other way around - held in place with spaghetti-straps. A single delicate, golden necklace laced tightly around your neck and when you moved to take a sip from your drink, he noticed your alluring, plump, peach-colored lips. Everything around you disappeared and all sound had ceased to exist as he watched you with intense lust. He watched your tongue dart out swiftly, and then he caught your nails. He could not make out the color from the booth he sat in, but they caught a glimpse of bright light and reflected right back at him. He never had been attracted to someone so dolled up, but you were simply irresistible.
A shove in the arm brought him back to his drunken group.
"What?" grumbled he, looking confused to his mate.
"At work," hinted the Reaver. "The three new field-policies. Aren't they the fuckin' same?"
"I discern no difference," shrugged Donald off, reaching for his glass and drank the remaining half of his beer, piercing eyes looking for you. But you had disappeared. "And Pretty Boy, if you're still talking work, you haven't had enough to drink. Next round's on me."
Donald's coworkers cheered and hollered at him, banging on the table as Pierce stole toward the bar.
You were nowhere to be seen.
Donald sighed and brushed his blonde locks back in place, placing his order.
The night continued and many beers later, you finally revealed yourself. But you were no longer alone. You sat in a man's lap, playing with his hair, and Pierce's body tensed at the sight. How the man with jet-black hair held you in place with his hands, frustrated him exceedingly. This was around the time - meaning a dozen drinks past ten – where he usually would have gotten up from his seat and made his move, but he did not want to embarrass himself in front of all your friends.
Besides, Mohawk had already whistled a couple of fine-looking ladies to the table, so Pierce settled.
But it was not the same. As the woman on his left flirted with him, traced the heel of her stiletto teasingly up his calf, he could not help himself but close his eyes and imagine it was you. Your fingertips playing with his hair, your lips brushing against his cheek, your teeth teasing his earlobe, your nails drawing blood from his back as he ruthlessly—
"What's the matter wit' you, boss?"
"The pretty lady gettin' your worked up?" grinned Angelo and the woman who had now crawled halfway up Donald's lap giggled, preening in the thought, but Pierce knew. Only you.
He cleared his throat and tore his eyes off of your grinding body. Tapping the woman's thigh, he shifted. "Actually, I just need to take a piss."
She hummed, confused, and stood awkwardly as the man with the bionic hand marched away from the table.
Donald slowed down his pace as he walked past your booth, watching you intently. As you pulled your lips from the guy you ground your ass against, your eyes shot up, catching the man passing. A rush went through your body. The man beneath you sucked on your neck, but your attention was focused on Pierce. You could not help but smirk and shoot a wink his way. You would have to be blind not to have noticed his ceaseless eye-fucking throughout the evening. Any fool could tell you looked sublime, and you were all for the game, so when a stranger came around and blatantly flirted with you, you had to put on a show for the cyborg.
A part of you had hoped he simply would grab you by the neck and show you how a real man did it because to be quite honest, the one kissing you now was ignorant.
Pierce suppressed his lust and did his business, making sure to go the same way around when returning to his booth. Again, you locked eyes for a split-second and he knew it; he knew what you were doing.
Running a hand down his stern face he cursed, for he knew you were way out of his league, and his game had seen better days, so he saw no opportunity with you.
That changed later when you showed up at his table. And fuck me thought he because you looked even hotter up-close. Beautiful, even.
Leaning against the wall shielding the booth from the rest, you earned a few sultry comments from the men as they saw you. You paid no attention to his friends, however, merely biting the inside of your cheek and looking Donald suggestively up and down.
You put on a coy smirk, "hey there hot-stuff."
His eyes shot up from his drink, feeling a bag of TNT explode in the pit of his stomach. Your voice went straight to his cock.
"I've seen you staring all night. Wanna come over?"
All eyes expectantly landed on Donald, and as a smirk pulled at the corner of his lip, his mates could not keep their encouraging comments to themselves.
Donald did not utter a word, instead, he stood to his feet, grasping your outstretched hand, feeling the tingle of your manicure.
As you led the way to an empty table, you cast a seductive look over your shoulder and found him looking you up and down, licking his lips.
Yeah, this was going to be a fun night.
Sitting on one side, you patted the spot beside you.
"Thought we were going to sit with your friends," wondered he, taking a seat.
"Figured I'd get to know the man I'll soon have beggin'." You nodded toward your girlfriends and shrugged as if it truly did not mean much to you. "I mean unless of course, you'd rather sit with them."
Donald smirked at your words, admiring your confidence. He rested his arm behind you and leaned closer.
"I got everything I need right here, baby."
"Don't think I've never met a man with a gold tooth."
"Wanna feel it?"
Laughing, you shook your head at his boldness. "You're quite gutsy, aren't you?"
"Well, you've been teasing me all night, baby. I have to make a move before you move on to the next. I gotta admit, though, I ain't the beggin' type."
Challenge accepted.
"You don't think I can make you beg. . ." asked you while you teasingly drew a finger up and down his thigh, waiting for him to fill you in on his name.
"Donald."
You moved closer, taking advantage of how focused he was on your lips. Tilting your head to the side, you parted your lips teasing your teeth with your tongue. "Well, Donnie, I'll have you know men ain't nothing like themselves when I get on my knees. I'm Y/N, by the way. So you know whose name to mention in your prayer."
The images those words sparked. Fuck—
Donald took your hand from his thigh and placed it directly on the bulge in his jeans, pulling you close with the aid of his bionic hand. Keeping you mere inches from his face, his hand had a rough grip around your neck, and you could feel yourself get hotter by the second.
"You sure you could handle me, little girl?"
Licking your lips, you smirked up at him, his grip tightening just enough to elicit a gasp.
You subtly massaged his length through his pants, watching him breathe heavily through your long lashes.
"Funny you should ask that."
Holding you by the back of your neck, he kept you in place as he hungrily kissed into you. Squeezing your thigh, he moved his hands to your waist to lift you to sit on top of him. At the chill feel of his right hand, you gasped into his mouth, moaning out as you could not do a thing but imagine those cyborg fingers deep in your cunt.
Moving up in his lap, you sat just like you had with the guy from earlier. You had purposely put on a show for you admirer then, and now you sat grinding your hips against said man. He was rock-hard against you and you moaned into his mouth, biting on his lip as you pulled away.
Donald worked on your throat, licking and sucking until he found a sore spot, where he generously lapped. Your dress was too tight to sit with your legs on either side of him, but that did not stop him from sliding his hand between your leg and tease your inner thigh. What did stop him, however, was when he found that you did not wear any panties.
Halting his actions, he looked almost stupefied up to you, cocking an eyebrow.
"You little—"
You looked knowingly in his eyes and grinned at his reaction.
"This place is too. . . crowdy–why don't we go somewhere peaceful?"
"Baby, you're reading my mind. But there won't be no peace where we're going."
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When the Land is Cursed - Catastrophe and Magical Pollution in “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Part 1: Valyria
One of the really pleasureable aspects of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is the rich world-building that infuses his story. GRRM’s story is typical of what Tolkien called a secondary world fantasy, which refers to a consistent, fictionary world that is in contrast to reality (x). His books contain a myriad of “historical” details that give the story an immersive depth. The recent companion book The World of Ice and Fire elaborates on this fictional world and is a must for any fan of the series. The companion book allowed for an elaboration of his fictional world as there are many aspects that he hasn’t found room for in the novels.
However, there is one piece of history that often is mentioned in the novels but that isn’t really elaborated on - yet. I am speaking of the Valyrian Freehold, or more specifically its Doom. Martin has promised that the exact cause of the Doom will be revealed in future novels but the companion book offers a number of interesting details.
The Doom of Valyria plays upon a popular trope: that of a fabled (often advanced) civilization that is destroyed through a cataclysm, often brought on by human decadence or hubris.
A story setting or legendary place doesn't necessarily have to be Atlantis per se to tap into the myth fabric, but it can be any sort of lost civilization that had great achievements and then were mysteriously lost. (TVTropes)
It has its roots in the myth of Atlantis but there are countless variations, such as Mu, Lemuria and Númenor, which is Tolkien’s version of the Atlantis myth. The Doom of Valyria is, in many respects, Martin’s version of this pervasive myth - one that may turn out to have a narrative importance for the his main story.
There’s one aspect that I find particularly fascinating about the Doom. While the exact cause of the Doom is unknown, the sad remains of the Valyrian peninsula appears to have become a place that is haunted, a dangerous place where travellers are lost and where the land is permanently blighted.
It seems as though the land itself is cursed. Therefore, I think it could be interesting to frame the Doom of Valyria and its effects in terms of a magical pollution of the land itself.
THE VALYRIAN FREEHOLD
One of the things that is so interesting about the Valyrian Freehold is that it was the home of the dragonlords; a people of almost inhuman beauty that had managed to tame and weaponize dragons. According to the companion book, Valyria rose to prominence after the Long Night and its origins is somewhat mysterious - as is the origins of the dragons. The Valyrians used their dragons to conquer much of Essos but the centre of their culture was the city of Valyria that was situated on the Valyrian peninsula among the volcanoes called the Fourteen Flames.
At its apex Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Within its shining walls, twoscore rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle, oft savage struggle for dominance. (AWoIaF, The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest)
Like all the lost civilizations of the Atlantis Trope, Valyria was not only a great power but also an incredible city of beautiful architecture as well as a centre of learning - especially when it came to the magical arts.
(Valyrian Freehold. Art by HBO)
(Valyria. Art by tommyscottart)
(Valyria. The Fourteen Flames. Art by Ted Nasmith)
However, the might and wealth of Valyria was built upon slavery and conquest. The dragonlords of the Freehold laid waste to the Old Empire of Ghis and it brought destruction to the city states of the Rhoynar.
None can say how many perished, toiling in the Valyrian mines, but the number was so large as to surely defy comprehension. As Valyria grew, its need for ore increased, which led to ever more conquests to keep the mines stocked with slaves. The Valyrians expanded in all directions, stretching out east beyond the Ghiscari cities and west to the very shores of Essos, where even the Ghiscari had not made inroads. It was this first bursting forth of the new empire that was of paramount importance to Westeros and the future Seven Kingdoms. As Valyria sought to conquer more and more lands and peoples, some fled for safety, retreating before the Valyrian tide. (AWoIaF, Ancient History: Valyria’s Children)
(The Fall of Old Ghis. Art by Marc Simonetti)
The Valyrians used slaves cruelly in the mines of the Fourteen Flames, digging for precious ore:
"Burnt and blackened corpses were oft found in shafts where the rocks were cracked or full of holes. Yet still the mines drove deeper. Slaves perished by the score, but their masters did not care. Red gold and yellow gold and silver were reckoned to be more precious than the lives of slaves, for slaves were cheap in the old Freehold. During war, the Valyrians took them by the thousands. In times of peace they bred them, though only the worst were sent down to die in the red darkness." (AFfC, Arya II)
In the colony of Gogossos they even performed magical experiments on slaves, breeding women with animals to create strange creatures:
By any name, it was an evil place. The dragonlords sent their worst criminals to the Isle of Tears to live out their lives in hard labor. In the dungeons of Gogossos, torturers devised new torments. In the flesh pits, blood sorcery of the darkest sort was practiced, as beasts were mated to slave women to bring forth twisted half-human children. The infamy of Gogossos outlived even the Doom. (TWoIaF, Beyond the Free Cities: The Basilisk Isles)
The reach of the Valyrian Freehold encompassed most of Essos and extended even to distant colonies on the Basilisk Isles and the sountern continent of Sothorys. One of the effects of this empire built on the might of dragons and the blood of slaves was the migrations of the Andals and the Ten Thousand Ships of Nymeria of the Rhoynar to Westeros. The city state of Braavos was founded by escaped slaves and remained secret for centuries.
THE DOOM
Old Valyria existed for millenia - until it was destroyed in a catalysm of immense proportions. An empire was destroyed in a day by fire and by water.
Valyria. It was written that on the day of Doom every hill for five hundred miles had split asunder to fill the air with ash and smoke and fire, blazes so hot and hungry that even the dragons in the sky were engulfed and consumed. Great rents had opened in the earth, swallowing palaces, temples, entire towns. Lakes boiled or turned to acid, mountains burst, fiery fountains spewed molten rock a thousand feet into the air, red clouds rained down dragonglass and the black blood of demons, and to the north the ground splintered and collapsed and fell in on itself and an angry sea came rushing in. The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted. An empire built on blood and fire. The Valyrians reaped the seed they had sown. (ADwD, Tyrion VIII)
The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, the fabled empire vanished in a day. (TWoIaF, Ancient History: The Doom of Valyria)
On the day the Doom came to Valyria, it was said, a wall of water three hundred feet high had descended on the island, drowning hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children, leaving none to tell the tale but some fisherfolk who had been at sea and a handful of Velosi spearmen posted in a stout stone tower on the island's highest hill, who had seen the hills and valleys beneath them turn into a raging sea. Fair Velos with its palaces of cedar and pink marble had vanished in a heartbeat. On the north end of the island, the ancient brick walls and stepped pyramids of the slaver port Ghozai had suffered the same fate. (ADwD, The Iron Suitor)
This description of the Doom shares some similarities with the stories of the destruction of Atlantis. Like Atlantis, Valyria was devastated by earth quakes and partially drowned by the sea - and this extraordinary civilization disapperared in a single day. However, Martin has added the the element of fire through volcanic eruption.
To this day, no one knows what caused the Doom. Most say that it was a natural cataclysm—a catastrophic explosion caused by the eruption of all Fourteen Flames together. (AWoIaF, Ancient History: The Doom of Valyria)
Like Atlantis, the Doom of Valyria is framed by the text as a result of hubris: “An empire built on blood and fire. The Valyrians reaped the seed they had sown.“ (ADwD, Tyrion VIII) - but I’ll return to that later.
CURSED LANDS = MAGICAL POLLUTION?
The Doom devastated the Valyrian Peninsula, which was rent asunder into a smattering of islands surrounded by a new sea. This body of water is called the Smoking Sea - named so because of the existence of volcanoes and smoking stacks of rock. It is even said that the waters boil in places.
“...north of Valyria the Smoking Sea is demon-haunted.” (Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen - ASoS, Daenerys I)
Every man there knew that the Doom still ruled Valyria. The very sea there boiled and smoked, and the land was overrun with demons. It was said that any sailor who so much as glimpsed the fiery mountains of Valyria rising above the waves would soon die a dreadful death... (AFfC, The Reaver)
The Smoking Sea is a dangerous place to sail and the landscape takes on a foreboding, even unnatural appearance:
Only the brightest stars were visible, all to the west. A dull red glow lit the sky to the northeast, the color of a blood bruise. Tyrion had never seen a bigger moon. Monstrous, swollen, it looked as if it had swallowed the sun and woken with a fever. Its twin, floating on the sea beyond the ship, shimmered red with every wave. "What hour is this?" he asked Moqorro. "That cannot be sunrise unless the east has moved. Why is the sky red?" "The sky is always red above Valyria, Hugor Hill. "A cold chill went down his back. "Are we close?" (ADwD, Tyrion VIII)
(The Doom of Valyria. Art by HBO)
"Storms," Ralf the Limper had muttered when he came crawling to Victarion. "Three big storms, and foul winds between. Red winds out of Valyria that smelled of ash and brimstone, and black winds that drove us toward that blighted shore. This voyage was cursed from the first. The Crow's Eye fears you, my lord, why else send you so far away? He does not mean for us to return." (ADwD, The Iron Suitor)
A red sky and red winds, accompanied by the smell of brimstone - it sounds like something of a hellscape.
There are strange stories about demons haunting the Smoking Sea. In the show, those “demons” are stone men, people afflicted with greyscale. However, that part seems to have been lifted from Tyrion’s journey on the Rhoyne in A Dance with Dragons where he encounters such stone men in the Sorrows near the ruined city of Chroyane. In fact, the show’s visualization of the ruins of Old Valyria is strangely similar to artwork depicting the Sorrows.
(In the Sorrows. Art by Marc Simonetti)
More interesting is the indication that the blight that plagues Valyria’s shores of seems to affect the few inhabited cities that are closest to the heart of Old Valyria, specifically the city of Mantarys, which lie at northern tip of the Sea of Sighs with its red waters. Though Mantarys is the closest inhabited city to Old Valyria, it is still situated quite a way away from the heart of the shattered peninsula so the blight has spread rather far.
The Freehold of Valyria and its empire were destroyed by the Doom, but the shattered peninsula remains. Strange tales are told of it today, and of the demons that haunt the Smoking Sea where the Fourteen Flames once stood. In fact, the road that joins Volantis to Slaver's Bay has become known as the "demon road," and is best avoided by all sensible travelers. And men who have dared the Smoking Sea do not return, as Volantis learned during the Century of Blood when a fleet it sent to claim the peninsula vanished. There are queer rumors of men living still among the ruins of Valyria and its neighboring cities of Oros and Tyria. Yet others dispute this, saying that the Doom still holds Valyria in its grip. A few of the cities away from the heart of Valyria remain inhabited, however—places founded by the Freehold or subject to it. The most sinister of these is Mantarys, a place where the men are said to be born twisted and monstrous; some attribute this to the city's presence on the demon road. (AWoIaF, Ancient History: The Doom of Valyria)
The stories of twisted and monstrous children sound strange but they seem to be legit as Tyrion sees a two-headed girl out of Mantarys on his travels in Essos (ADwD, Tyrion X). It sounds like Mantarys is a place where children are born deformed on a scale much larger than what is normal. It sounds eerily like the occurrence of birth defects in children born from parents that have been exposed to nuclear radiation. Interestingly enough, the Doom left the Lands of the Long Summer sterile:
The Lands of the Long Summer—once the most fertile in all the world—were scorched and drowned and blighted, and the toll in blood would not be fully realized for a century to come. (TWoIaF, Ancient History: The Doom of Valyria)
One of the most fertile parts of the world was left permanently blighted. Thus, more than 400 years after the Doom of Valyria, the Lands of the Long Summer still suffer the effects of that cataclysm - a cataclysm that has left the land permanently sterile and which leaves even distant inhabitants with severe fertility problems.
If the Doom of Valyria was just an entirely natural catastrophe then why do its effects have such serious repercussions on the health of the land and its remaining population? Volcanic eruptions do present a health hazard because of noxious gases and volcanic ash but those effects are nowhere nearly as severe as what we see in the Lands of the Long Summer in Essos - or as long-lasting. If this was an entirely natural catastrophe then why is the sky above Valyria permanently red and why are the inhabitants of nearby Mantarys effected in a way that is eerily reminiscent of nuclear fallout, even centuries later?
The effects of the Doom of Valyria are not natural and that is why I’d like to propose a theory that the Doom left the land magically polluted to a very severe degree.
THE CAUSE OF THE DOOM?
If the Doom of Valyria left the Lands of the Long Summer magically polluted, then we should ask what caused the Doom itself and if magic played a part in it.
To this day, no one knows what caused the Doom. Most say that it was a natural cataclysm—a catastrophic explosion caused by the eruption of all Fourteen Flames together. Some septons, less wise, claim that the Valyrians brought the disaster on themselves for their promiscuous belief in a hundred gods and more, and in their godlessness they delved too deep and unleashed the fires of the Seven hells on the Freehold. A handful of maesters, influenced by fragments of the work of Septon Barth, hold that Valyria had used spells to tame the Fourteen Flames for thousands of years, that their ceaseless hunger for slaves and wealth was as much to sustain these spells as to expand their power, and that when at last those spells faltered, the cataclysm became inevitable. [...] Some, wedding the fanciful notion of Valyrian magic to the reality of the ambitious great houses of Valyria, have argued that it was the constant whirl of conflict and deception amongst the great houses that might have led to the assassinations of too many of the reputed mages who renewed and maintained the rituals that banked the fires of the Fourteen Flames. (AWoIaF, Ancient History: The Doom of Valyria)
I have argued elsewhere that there are Doylist reasons for thinking that Septon Barth was correct in many of his theories about magical interference in the natural world. Furthermore, the fact that Sam Tarly has in his possession a copy of Barth’s work is a Chekov’s Gun that is just waiting to go off.
Is it possible that magic was involved in the Doom? I’d say that there’s a distinct possibility that this was indeed the case. The Valyrians had a tendency to mess with nature as we have seen with their experiments in magical cross-breeding in Gogossos. They also worked stone with magic:
Davos had often heard it said that the wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel as common masons did, but worked stone with fire and magic as a potter might work clay. But now he wondered. (ASoS, Davos V)
This lends a certain credence to the theory that the Valyrians used magic to work the volcanoes that eventually erupted.
"Most mines are dank and chilly places, cut from cold dead stone, but the Fourteen Flames were living mountains with veins of molten rock and hearts of fire. So the mines of old Valyria were always hot, and they grew hotter as the shafts were driven deeper, ever deeper. The slaves toiled in an oven. The rocks around them were too hot to touch. The air stank of brimstone and would sear their lungs as they breathed it. The soles of their feet would burn and blister, even through the thickest sandals. Sometimes, when they broke through a wall in search of gold, they would find steam instead, or boiling water, or molten rock. Certain shafts were cut so low that the slaves could not stand upright, but had to crawl or bend. And there were wyrms in that red darkness too." (AFfC, Arya II)
How do you work a mine in an active volcano? That doesn’t really sound like a feasible project - unless you can use magic to control flame and stone, and if you’re ruthless and heartless enough to spend human lives indiscriminately, which is exactly what the Valyrians did.
I’ve mentioned earlier that the text frames the Doom as a result of hubris. Greed and magical meddling with nature did the Valyrians in. They were arrogant in their overconfidence because you mess with nature at your own peril.
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Character Chart
Character’s full name: Hallvard Breivik
Reason or meaning of name: guardian of the rocky broad cove
Character’s nickname: Reaver
Reason for nickname: his savage nature in battle earned him the nickname
Birth date: October 20th, 1996
Physical appearance
Age: 27
How old does he/she appear: 22
Weight: 240
Height: 6’4”
Body build: twunk
Shape of face: face shaped
Eye color: gold
Glasses or contacts: neither
Skin tone: tan
Distinguishing marks: scar across cheek
Predominant features: striking eyes and strong nose and jaw line
Hair color: black
Type of hair: coarse and straight
Hairstyle: dreadlocks
Voice: deep with a Norwegian accent
Overall attractiveness: above average
Physical disabilities: slight hearing loss in left ear
Usual fashion of dress: light gray Lin Kuei uniform with lots of fur
Favorite outfit: doesn’t have one
Jewelry or accessories: a necklace passed down by his ancestors and a brass crown
Personality
Good personality traits: he’s out going and confident as well as loyal and helpful
Bad personality traits: boisterous and argumentative, can be very stubborn and difficult to deal with easily enraged
Mood character is most often in: happy go lucky
Sense of humor: dark and snarky
Character’s greatest joy in life: drinking and Tomas
Character’s greatest fear: losing Tomas
Why? He can’t stand the thought of losing the man he loves.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? Bi-Han or Tomas dying
Character is most at ease when: he’s letting Tomas braid his hair.
Most ill at ease when: when Tomas is away on a mission
Enraged when: Tomas is injured
Depressed or sad when: whenever Tomas is hurt or upset
Priorities: Tomas, Bi-Han the Lin Kuei in that order
Life philosophy: For Honor and Glory!
If granted one wish, it would be: to bring Tomas with him to Valhalla
Why? Because he wants to spend forever with his love
Character’s soft spot: Tomas
Is this soft spot obvious to others? Painfully
Greatest strength: his ability to get stronger and stronger the more injured he gets
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: he becomes useless and passes out from blood loss if he over does his power
Biggest regret: not being able to save his family from the house fire that killed them
Minor regret: not confessing to Tomas sooner
Biggest accomplishment: becoming one of the Grandmaster’s inner circle
Minor accomplishment: any successful mission
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: that he couldn’t save his family
Why? He doesn’t want his friends to know he was once weak
Character’s darkest secret: he started the fire that killed his family, it was an accident but got too out of hand
Does anyone else know? Tomas does
Goals
Drives and motivations: his motivation is to serve and protect the Lin Kuei
Immediate goals: protect Tomas
Long term goals: marrying Tomas and retire
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Hallvard is convinced Bi-Han will eventually let him retire from active duty and move to teaching so he can continue serving the clan but won’t be in danger anymore.
How other characters will be affected: Tomas will most likely also retire and become a teacher. Bi-Han will continue to be Grandmaster and Scorpion will continue to play second fiddle.
Past
Hometown: Henningsvær
Type of childhood: a very active fun childhood full of fishing trips with his father
Pets: two big wolf dogs Vali and Balder (they survived the fire too)
First memory: the first time he held his baby brother
Most important childhood memory: the fire
Why: it was terrifying and burned into his mind forever, Hallvard was stoking the fire as his father instructed him too but in the middle of the night a coal sparked out of the fireplace and ignited the carpeting and spread out of control. Hallvard managed to grab the dogs and make it outside but the front half of the house collapsed with his family trapped inside as they had been asleep up until Hallvard’s screaming awoke them but his Mother tried to get his baby brother out of the nursery and his Father wouldn’t leave without them and it took too long.
Childhood hero: his father and grandfather
Dream job: fisherman
Education: elementary and whatever schooling the Lin Kuei provides
Religion: pagan
Finances: a small allowance
Present
Current location: Arctika
Currently living with: Tomas, the Lin Kuei
Pets: Vali and Balder (they’re magic wolf dogs and don’t die because I said so)
Religion: pagan
Occupation: Assassin and Theif
Finances: fixed income from Lin Kuei
Family
Mother: Maja
Relationship with her: good
Father: Magnus
Relationship with him: good
Siblings: Geir
Relationship with them: protective older brother
Favorites
Color: grey
Least favorite color: red
Music: Norwegian death metal
Food: Fårikål – Mutton and Cabbage
Literature: he doesn’t really read must outside of military strategy
Form of entertainment: sex and sparring
Expressions: “knulle meg” “tull” “dø” (“fuck me” “bullshit” “die”)
Mode of transportation: horseback
Most prized possession: an onyx band he plans to propose to Tomas with
Habits
Hobbies: training, sparring, honing his blood magic
Plays a musical instrument? No, unless clapping cheeks counts?
Plays a sport? No
How he/she would spend a rainy day: cuddling with Tomas
Spending habits: basically nonexistent as the Lin Kuei provides everything
Smokes: no
Drinks: yes
Other drugs: no
What does he/she do too much of? Drink
What does he/she do too little of? Takes care of himself
Extremely skilled at: working himself into a blood frenzy
Extremely unskilled at: being couth
Nervous tics: cutting himself with his nails or knives
Usual body posture: hunched over
Mannerisms: commanding presence, boisterous laugh, confident stance, expressive gestures, loud roaring voice
Peculiarities: he has basically no off switch until Tomas intervenes, then he’s very calm and reserved
Traits
Optimist or pessimist? Optimist
Introvert or extrovert? Extrovert
Daredevil or cautious? Daredevil
Logical or emotional? Emotional
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Disorderly and messy
Prefers working or relaxing? Relaxing
Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Very confident
Animal lover? Yes
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: he’s hard on himself for not being able to safe his family
One word the character would use to describe self: survivor
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? Confident cheerful demeanor
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? Easily enraged
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? Pecs
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? Big boney feet
How does the character think others perceive him/her: positivity
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: nothing
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: people do bad things and deserve to be punished
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? No
Person character most hates: Scorpion (he’s jealous of how close he and Smoke are), he doesn’t really hate anyone he’s just a jealous person
Best friend(s): Bi-Han, Sektor
Love interest(s): Tomas
Person character goes to for advice: Scorpion
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Tomas
Person character feels shy or awkward around: Tomas
Person character openly admires: Bi-Han
Person character secretly admires: Tomas
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Tomas
After story starts: Tomas
Hallvard was orphaned at a young age and was forced to survive in the harsh wilds of Norway with the help of his dogs Vali and Balder but was taken in by a young Lin Kuei operative (Hydro) who was in the area at the time of his personal tragedy. He was taken back to Arctika and raised alongside his fellow Lin Kuei and trained to be a reaver. A reaver gains their powers from damage either self inflicted or received during battle, the more damage Hallvard takes the more damage he’s able to inflict. It’s a double edge sword however and he can easily get too injured and collapse in battle, his attack style is very aggressive and reckless, his goal is to get injured and it drives Tomas crazy who usually patches Hallvard up after missions. Hallvard is a verse, he’s just as happy to let Tomas take the lead as he is to take the lead himself. He’s very sweet and doting and very much a Golden Retriever Boyfriend, he’s good friends with everyone in the Lin Kuei but he’s particularly close to Bi-Han and Sektor, despite being horribly jealous of Scorpion they’re actually very good friends. He knows Tomas would never be unfaithful but sometimes he’s worries he’s not good enough for Tomas and that he deserves someone better and more refined like Scorpion. Hallvard is very loyal to the Lin Kuei as they took him in and raised him after he lost his family in the tragic fire, he looks up to and respects Bi-Han as Grandmaster immensely but also loves having drinking contests with him, usually ending in a tie when they both pass out from stubbornness. He loves spending his down time with Tomas and tinkering with his grenades and other weapons in his arsenal, he’s gotta make sure his baby is well stocked up. He’s very go with the flow and doesn’t have a lot of strong opinions and usually defaults to Bi-Han’s judgment.
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My legacy
Donald Pierce x Reader
Masterlist
Request: Yes
Summary: You have dated Donald for a while, you also work with him, but you keep a secret from him
Warning: blood...
A/N: I’m done with six requests, I scheduled them, so they will be posted every other day.
It was still dark when you heard Donald’s voice calling your name. You saw him putting his shirt on.
˝ We have a location. ˝
˝Now? ˝ Lazily you moved covers from your tired body, gazing at Donald. He was enthusiastic and you just wanted to go back to sleep.
You met him four years ago during your time in Afghanistan. After you were discharged, he offered you a job to work with him, you gladly took it. At that time you didn't really know what the job was, but when you found out it was too late for you to leave. After some time, you tried to numb pain that you feel from hunting those people. You applied to the army to serve, to protect and now you were practically hunting children, something that your former self would be disgusted by. The only bright thing that kept you going was Donald Pierce. He was the man you loved. You still don't clearly know, how did you two started your relationship. It was always mutual teasing and joking. When he was with you he was a different man than from what he was showing other people,
You quickly put your clothes on and you took the metal case with your sniper and you put three guns in the holsters, two on your hips and one on your thigh.
˝Baby, you ready? ˝
You nodded and he closed the distance between you two kissing you softly on your lips.
You drove in a van that had a mutant in the cage. It was Caliban, you knew about him. He wasn't really powerful mutant, but his powers were really useful. You sat next to the cage fixing the rifle from one of the Reavers. Donald was sitting with his back turned to yours. Caliban sat on the metal bench inside the cage, close to the bars on your side. He kept staring at you and it creeped you out. He wasn't scary or anything, but you knew what he knew. You couldn't wait for the van to stop. Caliban kept looking at you, it started to bother you. You looked up from the rifle glancing at him.
˝What? ˝ You asked, annoyed, Donald turned around hearing your voice.
˝It's sad.... ˝ The albino started.
˝Shut up! ˝ Donald said, Caliban didn't move his eyes from you. Suddenly the van stopped and Donald got up from his place. ˝Stay here, x-24 will take care of things. ˝ After kissing your lips, he left leaving you alone with Caliban.
˝What are you going to do to them? ˝ Caliban asked. You didn't give him an answer you just took two daggers with a long blade and you put them next to your guns. After a while, Caliban moved away from the bars when he realised that Charles Xavier was dead.
˝How can you live with yourself? ˝ You were about to answer when the doors opened and Donald walked in. He grabbed one of the guns, looking for something else. You were so engrossed in what was Donald doing that you didn't spot when Caliban took two grenades.
˝It's so sad... ˝Caliban grabbed your attention. Your eyes grow wider, but not because he was holding grenades , but because of the words he spoke after you looked at him. ˝.... being betrayed by your own kind. ˝ You didn't dare to turn around to see the look on Donald's face, but as Caliban let the grenades to fall you quickly turned around, pushing yourself and Donald out of the van.
When the smoke settled down, Donald got up from the floor, the words that Caliban said stuck in his mind. He couldn't understand it... Was he really talking about you? He heard you coughing out the smoke and he hurried to your side helping you get up. As you straighten your back you looked at him.
˝What are you? ˝He asked, stepping back. He let himself to be weak near you, but he couldn't do that anymore. He was the leader of the Reavers, he wasn't a blind man in love, at least he told himself that.
˝What? What am I? Not who I am, but what? Am I a fucking thing? ˝
˝Don't play a victim. You lied to me. You are one of them! ˝ You and Donald were totally oblivious to the fight between Wolverine and weapon X-24. You keept yelling and screaming at each other.
˝And who are they? You killed them all and I helped you. ˝ You took a shaky breath, realizing that he was right. You were a monster. ˝I can't do this anymore. ˝
˝You think that you have a choice? ˝ He kept going through his hair with his left hand messing it up. ˝I won't let you leave. ˝
˝And you think that you are the one making the decisions around here? Think again. ˝ You smoothed your shirt covered with dirt and you walked past him. You heard the safety on the gun and you turned around seeing his gun raised between your eyes.
˝Don't make me do it. ˝ Donald's voice was softer than before and his hand was shaking slightly. He would never imagine that he would have to threaten the woman he loves.
˝I'm not the one holding a gun. ˝ You smiled slightly. You never actually thought that your secret will get out. You never told anyone about who you were. Caliban was right, you did betray your own kind, you even betrayed your own family, but after your father was killed by his attempts to free mutants you knew that you need to take another path. Maybe you chose wrong? You lied, deceived and killed maybe is your time to repent.
˝Boss we have a problem with X-24 ˝You heard Cagge over the earpiece. Donald throwed his away staring at you. He changed the hand with which he hold the gun.
˝I'm sorry Don, I really am. ˝
˝I can forget about it. ˝ He said. He tried to lower his gun, but his hand didn't want to move.
˝But I can't. ˝
The gunshot echoed through the now peaceful night. At the moment when the bullet met your skull Donald threw the gun on the ground. You died immediately, no words came from your mouth as your body hit the ground. Donald was closely holding your body, tears ran down his cheeks. He couldn't let you go. He would never hurt you, but you decided instead of him. You saw your death as the only thing you could do in that moment. You cheated death a countless time. You should have died next to your father with your family, but they sacrificed themself for you. Now you are finally free. You were finally coming home to your family.
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Also Known As: GoW2
Genre: Shooter, First-Person Shooter
Developer: Microsoft
Publisher: Epic Games
ESRB Rating: Mature
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Hints
Kung Fu Back Flip
You get in cover then you press A, then up + A, then wait and then press down + A on (any mode).
Day One Get Ammo Quick!
When above the arcade and you need to get ammo quick, or need to get off the balcony quick, set a shield on the edge of the balcony and climb (jump)over the shield. You will land on the ground below the balcony.
Sniper Practice
In act 2. When you find carmin, the is a bunch of grubs running. Get your sniper rifle and shoot them. Do this 5 times and he will say : Thats 5 Mother f***ker.
Skorge Superjump
When your on any map, and on the locust team, pick Skorge. When you start the game you have a smoke grenade, throw that smoke grenade at your feet, and right when its about to blow up, roll (A button). You should be flying in the air. But if your not scared of heights, check this out, you can keep taping the A button to go higher but the thing is when you go a certain height you’ll die. It sounds stupid but its fun try it. It may take a few tries to get it right and it mostly works on avalanche near the wrecked trucks.
Chainsaw Laws
On your chainswa gun, you can usually cut threwregular locus, but diffrent types of locus can’t be cut threw. I’ve tried this many times, and you can only cut threw regular locus solders, and what I like to call, the locus Jr. (grunts) So if you’re going up aganst a boomer or somthing like that, eather A, shoot till’ he drops, or B, bash him with your shotgun.
Teamwork
If you want to survive horde’s 50 waves, try this:
1. Teamwork/reviving. Every life is sacred and you can’t go alone on high levels.
2. Camping. You’ll need to camp and shoot locust down in HIGH levels or be shot down. Boomshields are recommended to be planted, and any grenades.
3. Full teams – Try a private match with friends that are guaranteed to play for a few hours of horde. Also, hosts in public matches might start leaving, idle people aren’t helping out as well.
Try to beat horde! Dangerous, dangerous horde.
Friends And Explosions
In gears 2 in horde/campaign, try to keep tickers and flamethrowers away from down friends. If you shoot a ticker or flamer, flame boomer, and your friend is nearby, he will die along with the enemy, and it counts as you killing him, which gets people (me) mad. Flamethrowers on fire are the worst for a friend.
A Wheezing Butcher
Take a boltok pistol, and shoot a boomer 2 times, the first time in the shoulder, and with shot number 2, you need to knock his helmet off. Now until you kill him, when he inhales he wheezes. This can be heard better when you are too far away from him to hear the footsteps. Pathetic, but funny.
Killing Locust
When killing locust make sure that if they have a sniper keep your head down till after they fire. If the have a shotgun blindfire them and if it’s the big guys like maulers, boomers, and grinders you might want to find some cover fast but if its a butcher, don’t be afraid go at them hit wait till after he swings then repeats 3-4 times then nail him with your shotgun. If it’s wretches just melee (B)them but for tickers melee them then shoot them. (Note:when meleeing tickers if you hit them twice they blow up right away.
Better Hord Wins
Go to main menu and go to hord. Then pick Palivion as the map you are playing in. Then when you start in Palivion, there would be a big hole and an ammo box near the hole and a shield inside the hole. Get the ammo and get inside the hole and get the shield. Then place the shield near the hole and no one can go inside (unless if the little guys kick it down. ) And then when the Locust appear, hide inside the hole with the shield placed and no one or the big guys can come in. Just kill the little guys before they kick it down. And if you run out of ammo, there’s an ammo box outside the hole. But make sure the area is safe before you go out. TIP: If you die, the shield will not be inside the hole on the round you just died. You’ll have to wait on the next round to get it back. So don’t get yourself killed a lot or you’ll end up dying a bunch of times. Have fun and tell you’re friends or cousins about this, it’s fun.
Executions
If you are playing a mode like wingman, when you down an enemy grab him instead of executing him unless he is the last enemy, if that’s the case curb stomp him, pummel him, or my personal favorite the torque bows “can opener”.
Keeping Your Xp After Quiting
After the fourth update, when you quit a online matchmaking game you normally lose xp, but I realized if you play hoard online or a private match, you don’t lose xp. You may no get a lot of xp since you only get 150 xp, but play the full 50 rounds you get a whopping 7,500 xp.
Shotgun N’ Shield
When picking up a shield you will normally switch to the handgun by default but if you switch to the handgun before picking it up, press B, direction of shotgun on the weapons list, X to pick up shield. Do it fast though. If done correctly you will pull out your shotgun instead of the handgun when picking up the shield.
Using the Shotgun Against Locusts
Always shoot locusts from close range to blow them to pieces.
Thanks For The Ride!
In horde mode, go on the Day One map (or any map of your choice that has a set of stairs). If you’re at wave 10 of horde there should be those bloodmounts and beastriders on them. Get a boomsheild then go on a set of stairs and set the boomsheild down in the middle of the staircase (A button). When a bloodmount comes up to the sheild, kill the beastrider, then jump over the sheild and there’s your free ride! But remember this, its hard to shoot when your on the bloodmount because it moves pretty fast and the only two ways to get off a bloodmount is if a friend kills it or if a locust kills you.
Help with Act 5 Chapter 1
While Riding the Reaver when Skorges King(Queen) Reaver grabs you shoot its arm to make it release you. Note: This is when your above ground. Do this 3-4 times and it will eventually die.
Yee-haw
Beat the game once to unlock insane. On insane, goto act 1,chapter 3, Rolling Thunder. At thebeginning, there will be 3 cowboy hats for you toshoot. Switch your weapon to the pistol. Dizzywould start talking. Press back to shut him up.The first hat is on the wall of a building next tothe barbwire (on the left side). If you hit it,Marcus would say “that’s one. Move to the leftside and stand on the ramp. The second is inbetween the two wheels of the center you pass by.Shoot it and you would hear “that’s two”. Rememberto press back when Baird starts to talk. The thirdone is on the right side of the second fuel tankin front of the center with the earlier cowboyhat. Shoot it and wait 5 seconds and Marcus willbend over and say “Yee Haw!” and everybody wouldimmediately equip cowboy hat and it would staylike that for the rest of the chapter.
Boomshild Glich
When you get a boomshield drop it and take out your pistol and press B left (on your d-pad or direction of weapon you wish to use) and press X but you have to do it fast.
Dead Puppy
Shoot a locust until he tries to crawl to be revived. What you do is if you have the high-powered revolver shoot him in the head and his head will explode. Then you are free to say “Puppy”.
Infinite Sprint
During gameplay, you hold the sprint and after 5 seconds roll. Now you will not have to stop sprinting for a while and run through the whole game.
Cowboy Madness
Beat the game once to unlock insane. On insane, go to act 1,chapter 3, Rolling Thunder. At the beginning, there will be 3 cowboy hats for you to shoot. Switch your weapon to the pistol. Dizzy would start talking. Press back to shut hi up. The first hat is on the wall of a building behind the rig(on the right side). If you hit it, Marcus would say “that’s one. Move to the left side and stand on the ramp. The second is in between the two wheels of the tank you pass by. Shoot it and you would hear “that’s two”. Remember to press back when Baird starts to talk. The third on is on the right side of the second fuel tank in front of the tank with the earlier cowboy hat. Shoot it and you would hear “Yee Haw!” and everybody would immediately equip cowboy hat and it would stay like that for the rest of the chapter.
Toast Anyone
Make toast for the Delta Squad! After you pick up the “Trinity of Worms” in chapter 5, The best laid plans, encounter 6, proceed to the balcony where there are 2 ammo boxes. At the center edge overlooking the molten pit, there is a box on a pillar. Shoot the box and find a toaster inside. Press X to make toast for the squad!
Battling Skorge
Skorge, no matter how intimidating, isn’t hard to battle at all. When the battle starts, Skorge will saw down what looks like a light. Then he will have a chainsaw duel with you. Rapidly press B. You will beat him at that easily. Skorge will jump up behind the pillars and shoot at you. Don’t do anything except for take cover. After a few rounds of bullets, Skorge will rev up his chainsaw and saw at a pillar. Run to the end of the room opposite the end where he’s sawing or else you will get crushed by a pillar. Repeat a few times and eventually you’ll finish him off with the chainsaw and he’ll jump on his Reaver and then that’s it for that part of the battle.
Wretches
If you ever get swarmed by wretches, DON’T shoot them. Just pull out your pistol and hit them. It saves you ammunition and its a lot easier.
Executions
When an enemy is down (not dead) you can use execution moves. All you have to do is stand on or near an enemy that is crawling. They are listed below.
X= curb stomp (smashes head with foot)B= quick kill (depends on what weapon you use)Y= extended kill (punching to death)
Chainsawing
If you want to chainsaw a person, make sure you aren’t getting shot ,because if you are, the chainsaw will lower and your guy will move back. Also remember that you can chainsaw certain locusts
Killing Flamers
To kill flamers or flame boomers, shoot the tanks on their backs. But when you do, get away from them because they blow up.
Shooting Tickers
Keep your distance if there are more than 1, they will make a big explosion.
Cheats
Currently we have no cheats or codes for Gears of War 2 yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.
Unlockables
Seriously 2.0
Get 100,000 kills online.
Unlock Anthony Carmine As An Unlockable LIVE Character
To unlock Anthony Carmine as an unlockable LIVE multiplayer character you must complete ACT 1 on gears of war 1.
Crossed Swords
Win 10 chainsaw duels (any mode).
Unlock Insane Level
Beat the game on any difficulty.
Party Like Its 1999
To unlock the achievement Party like its 1999 play 1999 matches. (It doesn’t matter whether your on xbox live matches or custom matches. ) HINT:If you do custom matches put it on 1 min or the lowest you can go for the time limit, Then just keep playing 1 minute matches until you get the achievement.
Pound Of Flesh Achievement
Shot an enemy until he falls down walk over to him. (you need a frag grenade) stick him with it and real quick take him as a meatshield. He will blow up and it wont kill you. Do it 10xs and you will get the achievement.
Unlock General RAAM As Playable LIVE Character
To use RAAM as a LIVE multiplayer character you must have the “Dish Best Served Cold” achievement from Gears of War 1 (to earn this achievement you must defeat RAAM on Hardcore difficulty)
The Around The World, Again Achievement
Win a match at all multiplayer maps shipped with the game in any mode, online or off.
Friends With Benefits
Complete all missions on co-op campaign.
Organ Grinder
Get 30 kills with the Mulcher Minigun (must bemounted on cover)
PhotoJournalist
Submit a spectator photo.
Pound Of Flesh
Use a meatsheild to save your life 10 times (any mode).
A Parting Gift
Kill 10 enemies with a grenade while down but not out (any mode).
Easter eggs
Currently we have no easter eggs for Gears of War 2 yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.
Glitches
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Guides
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Achievements
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I feel like l’ve been neglecting Hallvard and Smoke ever since I decided to self ship with Syzoth too. Bad Sol. Bad! I will try and write something for them next, maybe headcanons? Maybe smut? I’m not sure. I just don’t want Smonk to feel like I don’t love him too because I do! I just felt he was too close to Bi-Han to do anything with personally what with them being adopted brothers now. I swear everyone in this game is too hot now lol I need a harem instead of poly shipping. I’m also thinking of getting a commission of me and Syzoth too well honestly I’d love me, Bi-Han and Syzoth but I don’t know that I can afford a three character commission. Maybe I should get one of Hallvard and Smoke instead? I really don’t know I’m kind of all over the place right now aren’t I? What I’d really love is a family portrait but fuck me lol I definitely can’t afford three adults and four kids lol maybe I can do some shitty stick figures myself? I can draw but I can’t color lol I also can’t draw without a reference so I would have to find kids that I would think are what my kids with Bi-Han look like and go from there. Oh hey look! I’m rambling! What a shock! I did take my nails off because one broke so I can type and doodle and stuff again so I guess that’s a plus at least?
If you don’t like any of those options my asks are open and you’re free to send in stuff for any of the kharacters I write for.
#mortal kombat#fandom polls#bi han#sub zero#mk reptile#syzoth#mk smoke#tomas vrbada#hallvard breivik#tomas x hallvard#mk oc#mk oc reaver#writing ideas#fun polls#art ideas#self shipping#solizard bear#bi han x syzoth x sol
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Okay so I'm a suckered for self torment regarding food flavors that are spicy (due to some slight traditions i've picked up in recent years), so this got me thinking.
Is Bi Han tolerant to such flavors? Are his brothers? (Kuai Liang, Hallvard and Tomas), your kiddos and other Lin Kuei? I understand the Lin Kuei would be the type to have a strict diet to follow, but on that off chance they got to eat food outside this restriction, who's likely to have the better tolerance?
I like to think Bi-Han handles spicy very well, but that’s just a personal headcanon? There are a lot of spicy cuisines in China so I don’t think the brothers are strangers to spice. I tend to think Bi-Han and Kuai Liang are part Teochew, a Chinese minority; based on one of Noob’s shadow gears in MK11 so a lot of the food they ate growing up was Teochew Cuisine. It’s known mainly for their braised dishes but there are also spicy noodle dishes, so Bi-Han and Kuai Liang would be used to the spice from an early age on. The Lin Kuei diet I imagine is primarily protein heavy and vegetable heavy for nutrients and probably isn’t Teochew since the Lin Kuei is most likely in Heilongjiang and is mostly known for stews and spicy, rich, salty dishes, so there’s still the element of spice in the local cuisine, but please take what I say with a grain of salt. I’m going off of food blogs about Heilongjiang province and Teochew cuisines, I’m not very familiar with them myself, but we do have Sweet and Sour Pork here which is a very famous Heilongjiang speciality! I love asks like this by the way, it makes me research and look up fun and interesting new facts and I get to learn new things!
Tomas and Hallvard eat what the others eat, but Hallvard is kind of a wuss when it comes to spice, us Norwegians are not exactly known for spicy food, we just have shitty fermented shark that smells and tastes like piss. I personally haven’t eaten it since it’s against my morales to eat shark, but it’s common amongst my peoples and since Hallvard is like a boy me, he’d be familiar with it, especially since he was raised in a fishing village. Tomas is a little better with spicy, but nothing like the Sub-Zero brothers are who handle it without problem. Tomas and Hallvard always complain when the four of them go out for hot pot and Bi-Han and Kuai Liang want to get the mala base and Hallvard and Tomas want the chicken base, thankfully most hot pots allow for two different flavors and all the boys are happy. Out of the four it probably goes Kuai Liang, Bi-Han, Tomas and Hallvard, due to his pyromancy Kuai Liang tolerates all things hot a little bit better than his brother does, including spice, but they are fairly evenly matched. They’re both excellent at eating hot temperature foods, Bi-Han’s breath cools it off and the burning food just doesn’t bother Kuai Liang in the slightest because he often runs warmer than the food he’s eating.
When it comes to my kiddos, they have a good tolerance for spice thanks to their father introducing them to his native cuisine from what he remembers from his Mother’s cooking and dishes he had in the Lin Kuei, but they have a far more Cantonese style diet since a lot of the foods I love are traditionally Cantonese. They also get some Scandinavian fare from me, like my excellent Swedish Meatballs, but those aren’t spicy in the slightest. I would say the boys have a better spice tolerance than I do, but Bingbing doesn’t really at spicy yet as she’s not even three yet.
#mortal kombat#bi han#sub zero#kuai liang#sub zero bros#mk smoke#tomas vrbada#mk oc reaver#hallvard breivik#mk headcanons#food#chinese food#fun asks#thank you lovely#tw kids#self shipping#solarbear#bi han x sol
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Some crappy Hallvard sketches no one asked for, lots of Viking references used, and a cute little Smonk 🥺
I’ve decided his hair changes at Tomas’ whim because Tomas does his hair for him, it’s often braided in some fashion but it changes depending on how much down time they have. Sometimes it’s more shaved than other times but usually Hallvard’s head is partially shaved. Braids are hard to draw though so sorry it’s sucky. I also am having a hard time deciding what his mask should look like but one or my besties suggested an animal skull with horns and I loved that idea. So please imagine that! More hairstyles ideas after the cut!
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