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eternalthenas · 4 years

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what bothers me the most about tros and what i’m most unable to accept is how jj managed to destroy and disrespect EVERY single character. even the ones who technically had “happy endings”🤡

ben - i feel like this one doesn’t even need to be said, but i’ll say it anyways. after years of emotional abuse from palpatine, it’s disheartening to see that jj gave no explanation as to why palpatine wanted ben (personal vendetta against the skywalkers i guess??) when it semed like he only needed rey AND that ben never really triumphed over palpatine in any way. it hurts to know that leia straight up had a vision about her son’s death but that she still seemingly gave up on him despite knowing that he was struggling and that she sent him off to train to be jedi with a luke, when apparently she could’ve done that herself. it’s disheartening that luke who believed even vader could be turned back to the light also gave up on his nephew, when he was just a boy no less. it’s disheartening that although he was the last skywalker (a fact only palpatine acknowledged!), none of his family nor his namesake reached out to help him. instead of telling the last skywalker to rise, they ignored him (as they had apparently done his whole life) in favor of a palpatine. ok. even though as the last skywalker, he really should’ve been the one to have the final kill against palpatine since it was HIS family that palpatine destroyed, he doesn’t. he’s motionless in a pit for the whole final battle. ok. that will never not leave a bad taste in my mouth. his whole family (except for han apparently i love him) gave up on him and clearly so did the writers. as a fan of the skywalkers and their story, this isn’t the ending i wanted for them. especially when luke and leia and han had given their lives to see him turn to the light. and for what? so he could be used as a plot device to conveniently bring rey back to life and then promptly die (even though they’re a force dryad and, according to jj’s own fucking canon, supposedly one) without any fanfare, emotional reaction whatsoever, or later mention? wtf? it’s disrespectful not only to ben solo, who is easily the best character in the sequel trilogy and one of the best characters in ALL of star wars, but it’s disrespectful to the entire skywalker line!! (and to adam driver, who deserved so much better than this shit. go get that oscar)

rey - by making her a palpatine, jj completely disregarded her arc. whatever your opinions about rey nobody, once they went with it, they never should’ve retconned it and turned her into a legacy character in the final film. it felt cheap. in my theater, there was no cheering about this reveal. because jj had never properly set it up and he didn’t even bother to reveal it an impactful way. but what’s most annoying about rey suddenly being a legacy character is that it completely disregards the fact that she was powerful on her OWN, without any famous blood making her that way. furthermore, by turning her into the chosen one and giving her the entire skywalker legacy (which felt like a slap in the face to the skywalkers imo), she did turn into a mary sue, one of the biggest complaints about her since day 1. she was overpowered, morally perfect, and never faced any failure. i struggled to root for her as the “hero” because i felt everything was handed to her on a silver platter. so not only did jj turn her into a mary sue and take her power away from her by turning her into a legacy, but he also destroyed the fact that her whole arc had been “seeking belonging” and a family. rather than having her final scenes be with her new found family, she ends the movie with her canon soulmate dead and no one but a droid by her side on a desert planet of all places. to add further insult to injury, she also disregards her family name even though they supposedly loved her and sacrificed themselves for her (despite the fact that they sold her but whatever) in favor of a last name of a guy she had barely known. she had more emotional connection to han or leia, but she didn’t take their last name. she took luke’s, the guy who had refused to teach her and who she had come to view in a more negative light towards the end of tlj. in this house i will not EVER be calling her rey sky- i can’t even say it🤢

finn - in all honestly, they screwed finn’s character arc in episode 1 when jj turned him into a lovesick sidekick who served as comedic relief. as a deserted stormtrooper, he could’ve had the most interesting storylines. and he should have. but apparently the writers forgot about him. although they mention his past BRIEFLY, it’s paid no real weight or attention. instead, he spends the whole movie once again trying to (possibly) confess his feeling for rey. and for what? probably just to bait finnrey fans and prove the character’s heterosexuality bc it goes absolutely nowhere. although we find out he’s force sensitive, that too is glossed over and has no lasting effect. he’s also made co general, which okay cool, but then he does nothing?? so while finn could have and should have been a main character with an interesting storyline, they turn him into your average run of the mill action hero with an occasional quip. john boyega, sweetie, i’m so sorry (but i guess that’s kind of what he wanted since he hated tlj, the only movie where he actually had a main role with any character growth?? idk)

poe - it’s once again evident that they originally intended to kill off poe bc he has no arc whatsoever. he gets a little backstory as a drug smuggler now ig, which really came out of left field considering the already established canon with his past as a pilot. he’s more of the same in this movie, except more unlikable than usual (imo). he’s still stubborn, occasionally funny, but mostly he just bickers with rey, which isn’t funny, at all necessary, and doesn’t add anything to the “trio’s” dynamic. he’s at his best when he’s with finn but then, of course, jj has to remind us of how straight he is every single scene so. another character like finn who could have been great, but with the lazy writing, he has no arc, no backstory, no character growth, so he’s just mediocrity personified and just kind of there.

zorii & jannah - both could’ve been awesome. both are just there for a brief introduction and to help the heroes with maybe one thing and that’s it. both deserved better.

the skywalkers - yeah jj really said a big fuck you to luke, leia, and anakin most of all. the WORST part of tros is the fact that it basically makes the previous six episodes useless. anakin’s redemption arc? what does it matter now? he didn’t successfully bring balance to the force. he didn’t successfully kill palpatine. and now his entire bloodline is dead. ok cool😎 thank you jj!!!! what a hopeful end to the skywalker saga!!!! i love seeing that anakin failed and wasn’t REALLY the chosen one. i love that luke and leia gave their legacy to a descendant of the guy who tried to tear apart and terrorized their family. that’s really nice. i love that anakin NEVER reached out to help his grandson who struggled with the dark just like he did. but that he came in just in time to tell palp’s granddaughter to rise😍 really hopeful, lovely ending. thanks again jj! thanks for making leia seem like a bad mother who sees visions about her son but just throws in the towel and doesn’t really try to help him?? wtf??? not my princess leia. also tros luke? truly the worst luke. i really have no other words, i’m just disappointed. jj let me down in every single way possible and ones i didn’t even realize he could.

palpatine - jj also managed to ruin the best star wars villain, a feat i didn’t even think possible. palpatine had always seemed scary to me because of his inhuman qualities. but in this one, he’s back with no explanation whatsoever. he just is. he somehow managed to survive (ok🙄) and furthermore he had a kid. what in the fuck? jj clearly read harry potter and the cursed child, but he clearly also forgot to read the reviews. NOBODY LIKES IT WHEN THE PREVIOUSLY UNTOUCHABLE/SCARY VILLAIN HAS A KID OUT OF NOWHERE. NOBODY. i seriously spent the entire movie wondering who the heck would sleep with him? that’s it. he didn’t seem menacing or at all like a threat. this movie genuinely had no stakes whatsoever (that’s why ben’s death feels so out of left field bc literally for what?! but i digress) also the final “fight” where rey kills him??? very lame. he supposedly survived all those years to be taken out like that?? no thank you, i’d like a refund.

in conclusion, thank you to jj for ruining my favorite franchise by killing off every last one of my favorite characters, destroying the skywalker legacy (& killing them off), ruining seriously every character, and leaving me with despair!!! while i’ll continue to watch star wars without including episode 9, it sucks that some of my joy is zapped from my favorite series. because this is how future generations will know star wars. with this shitty ending. and any future movies will have this canon. and that really fricking sucks. thanks, i hate it.

anyways feel free to message if you’re also in the depths of despair about how this all ended!! bc the more i think about it, the sadder/angrier i get.

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cielowrites · 7 years

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FFXV Scenarios - Ignis/Retainer!Reader (pt. iii)

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Welcome to the long awaited (???) pt. 3 of this really well-liked scenario series! It’s been a pretty busy week for me, classes starting and trying to get into the swing of things. Bit of bad timing when I started this blog but better now than never. I’d like to thank those who gave this a read and liked/reblogged it, I really appreciate it c:

This covers Chapters 7 to 8 and have ‘filler’ content that somewhat focuses on the progressing relation between Ignis and the reader.

That’s.. pretty much all I have to say right now, so without further ado, here’s the third part of your adventure!

What the fuck, Gladio? Where do you need to go so badly that you don’t want us to go with you?

You’re clearly miffed by the man’s request when he went up to Noctis about it, but you remained quiet as he let him go. Ignis immediately noticed how irritated you seem with the group’s shield going off to Six knows where and became curious as to why you’d act like that.

... Did you like Gladio?

He tried to stop himself from going further into that thought. You weren’t the type of person to let feelings like that get in the way of your duty. It was clear from the day Noct introduced him to you that you weren’t interested in distractions like that.

... It doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen every now and then though, and THAT is what made Ignis somewhat moody while you were all on your way to Vesperpool for mythril. When Noctis and Prompto asked you what was going on with him, you shrugged and told them to ask him themselves.

Yeah, suuuuure. That’s totally the best idea in the world. NOT.

It wasn’t until you tried talking strategy with him that you started to notice what the two meant when you and Ignis argued for a bit on how to compensate for Gladio’s absence one late afternoon while Noctis and Prompto went to take some pictures. “Why do you look so mad when I bring him up? He’s not here and we need to rework how we fight and-!” “You appear to be somewhat agitated with him not being here, (Y/N). Could it be that you miss him?”

The confused look on your face has the strategist internally screaming to himself. He hadn’t meant to let that question slip but now that it’s out there, he’s going to have to go with it until you’re willing to put it down to rest. Your reply surprised him though. “Miss him? I’m FURIOUS at him. I-I’m going to kick his ass when he comes back!”

You proceeded to rant to Ignis your thoughts about how the shield of the group not being there makes it difficult to watch out for Noct, put you all in at a disadvantage when you want a hunt done quickly, and so on and so forth.

Specs watched you with wide eyes, at a loss for words and feeling silly for even having entertained the thought of you being distracted from your duty.

Once you finished your rather passionate rant, you realized just how quiet it was and how Noct’s advisor looked at you like you’ve spilled his Ebony into a river. “... For the record, I don’t like him that way. He and I were supposed to be protecting Noctis and he just.. up and goes out of nowhere and-”

The soft and slow ascension of Ignis’ laugh struck you like lightning from Noct throwing them magics errywhere pls stop the sky and you can feel your face catch fire. You didn’t know exactly what you did or said, but it seemed to make him more relaxed and in turn it made you feel the same.

It took a few minutes until Ignis was able to speak without hiccuping and the first thing he did was apologize to you and explained that he thought you were angry that Gladio for leaving because you liked him. He was clearly wrong what with your choice words about the matter. The two of you decide to hold off on the strategy and just... talk.

It was rather odd for the two of you, Ignis always being busy that it left him with little social time and you were used to only talking with the three other guys more about things other than work. “Gladio’s too overwhelming for me. Plus, I don’t really like his ‘tough love’ shtick with Noctis, no matter how well he means it.”

You and Ignis slipped into talk on the matter of significant others, as the topic seemed appropriate for the moment, but both of you realize that the thought of that NEVER really came up over the years. He was raised to be the royal advisor and you were a royal retainer whose top priorities were to serve and support the prince with your lives. Life beyond that was difficult to imagine with how much the two of you dedicated yourselves to the same person.

Ignis knew why he seemed like he’d never have such a person in his life, but was shocked when you said you felt the same way with yourself. You may have been the prince’s retainer, but you still had more freedom than he did.

You explained to him that although you may have been interested in other people like that, they either flat-out rejected you because of your incompetence as a retainer or they viewed you as a way in to the royals’ good graces. Not to mention your family pushed arranged marriages your way constantly until you begged Noctis to let you live in his home and away from them.

All in all, anything within that department left a horrible taste in your mouth, but... “It’d be nice though, to have something like that, I guess. Noct’s lucky that he and Luna know and love each other before the engagement. I’m a little... jealous of him to be honest.”

You laughed it off with a shake of your head and saw Ignis giving you this look that made you want to melt on the spot. You can spot some sympathy in those green eyes of his and something else you can’t put your finger on... “I... hope you have something like that as well in the future, (Y/N). You deserve it.”

The two of you watched each other, the arpeggio of your surroundings filled the silence, the sun sunk in the background with sky painted with ripples of faded orange that ebbed into darker hues, and a soft breeze tickled your skin... You swear that you’ve fallen asleep in the middle of talking and you’re dreaming.

You see Ignis about to say something when an echoing roar and the cracking sound of a gun sliced the atmosphere and caused the two of you to get up your feet, weapons at the ready once you reached where the sounds came from.

Prompto and Noctis had run into a few Magnanirs and were relieved to see you and Ignis come in to help them out. Specs took care of the scolding while you attended to their wounds. When you made a comment on how the daemons seem to become bolder these days to Ignis, which he agreed to, Noctis gave the two of you a confused look. “What are you two talking about? It’s dark out here.”

You didn’t even notice how late it had gotten until you finally looked up to see that the stars were out and- Oh wow... The stars out here shined brighter than in Insomnia and you were completely entranced by the sight of it. You heard a few clicks and proceeded to chase Prompto back to camp for taking candid pictures of you.

Your expression of pure amazement from the stars was adorable, but the sunshine boy was actually taking pictures of the adoring look Ignis sent your way without even knowing

Focus back on gathering mythril, the subject of your talk with Ignis doesn’t come up for a while but it does linger in your mind as well as his.

You stayed in front of Noctis the entire time when you all ran into Ardyn. Again. You were not taking any chances, especially when the boys told you that he was the Chancellor of Niflheim after you reunited with them after the Disc.

The man commented on how different you seem from when he first saw you and even complimented you on your dedication to the prince. “Well, if were not to count your lacking presence in Cauthess that is.”

You have never wanted to shoot anybody so badly in your life but held your tongue for Noctis’ sake. The help Ardyn gave you was... necessary for the situation you were in, but you absolutely HATED it. It was as if he just knew what the group needed. Could he see into the future or something?

Despite the fact that she was a high ranked officer in Niflheim’s army, Aranea was the type of person you wanted to watch your back in a fight. You weren’t sure who would win in a fight between her and Gladio, but there was no doubt in your mind that the shield would have his hands full.

You were on high alert the entire time you were in the ruins. With the lack of a shield, so you decided to take up the mantle on this one. The extra hand you had in the group looked more than capable to compensate for the missing member of the group.

You have a newfound respect for Gladio once you all finally get the mythril you needed. His job was difficult and you were beyond exhausted. It was no wonder that the eldest Amicitia took his training so seriously. Even with this new appreciation though, you still planned on kicking his ass for leaving.

On your way to Lestallum power plant in the Imperial ship, you give Prompto a weird look when he asked if you thought what Ignis said to Aranea when he helped her out was smooth. The strategist who sat beside you looked annoyed and told him that what he implied was not what he intended to come across as. This did not help.

You didn’t have a clue about what they talked about. You had been too busy protecting Noctis to even pay attention to anything else besides your help being needed. So Noct decided to tell you what Prompto meant.

Ignis does NOT like this at all. He tried to stop the two from telling you but there was no use. It didn’t help that Prompto over exaggerated the story some and he wanted to throw them out of the ship immediately. The timing of this and the conversation on significant others went together too well, and the strategist thought you’d pick up on the supposed connection of the two.

It... hurt when you laughed and gave him a good-natured nudge, like a good friend would.The word didn’t feel right, it felt lacking in a sense. “Odd place to be interested but if there’s anyone here who could charm a woman like her, these boys don’t stand a chance against you.”

No! It’s not like that! Please! is all he wanted to say, to scream, but when he saw how happy you were for him Ignis murmured a quiet “Thank you” added with one last refute of his supposed interest. He’s never wanted to deny anything so much nor cared much about anyone else’s thoughts aside from Noctis. Why was is that you- ... Oh. ... Oooooh.

In the meantime, you were genuinely glad that someone caught Ignis’ eye, regardless if something came out of it or not. The two of you may have dedicated your lives to Noctis, but his was at a level you could only hope to reach. Someone like Aranea would be perfect for him. She could take care of herself, protect her allies, command an army, be free to who she wanted to be... She’s.... everything you’re not.

Your insecurities suddenly hit you full-force just hours away from the power plant and it left you so confused that you excused yourself to the restroom as quickly as possible. Ironically enough, the woman of the hour caught you in this moment and took you to a secluded area to help you out.

You expected a slap on the face since that seemed to be the one thing you remembered her doing in the ruins but she surprised you by asking if you were all right with the nicest tone anyone has ever given you.

Oh Six... She really was perfect.

You manage a somewhat coherent reply, that you simply weren’t feeling well and that flying wasn’t your thing. Aranea knew that this was bullshit, but remained patient with you. This wasn’t a battle, this was a person going through their problems. She sat down beside you and started to ask you about yourself. The conversation started rather slow at first, but you eventually relaxed enough to finally crack a small smile. “Four-eyes gave you a hard time back then? Huh, who would’ve thought.” “Not as much as Noctis though. He sleeps like the dead.”

She called you a badass for sticking up for yourself when your family tried to force arranged marriages on you and for not giving up on your duty to the prince no matter how difficult it seemed. You tried to deny it, but she wasn’t having any of that. “You’re tough no matter what you say. The world could always use more people like you, (Y/N).”

The ship finally landed and you feel like you could take on the world after talking with Aranea. You felt more grounded, calmer even, after her reassuring words that your accomplishments were something to be proud of.

While waiting for Noctis and this mystery hunter to come back from the plant, Ignis quietly asked you how you were feeling since he noticed that you didn’t look well and didn’t join the group until the ship landed. You’ve seen all kinds of concerned faces he’s given Noctis and you, but this one felt... different. It was like your talk in camp all over again. “I’m feeling great. Thanks for asking, Ignis.” “Happy to hear that, (Y/N). I’m here for you if you ever need me.”

Your chest warmed at that and you couldn’t help and smile back at him. From here on out, it should be smooth sailing to Altissia where you can finally watch one of your best friends finally get married.

But not without giving Gladio a piece of your mind first. New scars or not, you were ready to kick his ass at camp.

Cor is a little surprised to see Gladio with more bruises than when he last saw him. One look at you with Ignis standing between you and the shield was more than enough to give him an idea of what happened on their way back to Caem.

Whew! This feel really long but I’m actually not too sure about that.. owo

Really sorry for the long wait on this but classes first, y’know? I hope this keeps you interested in this scenario. I promise that I’ll get it back into the main part of the story line on the next part.

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nvzblgrrl · 7 years

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I saw a thing where you’re supposed to post a WIP when you see it from @vraik (I’m not reposting it / doing one of those because I know that a lot of my followers probably wouldn’t want to) but here’s a little something from a fanfic series I’m doing (this one is probably going to be a one-short or very short story compared to some of the other stuff)

There exists a place –

Oh, you might say, most places exist. In fact, the place where my butt is situated is existing right now. Places existing is not a particularly noteworthy observation.

Well then, Captain Sassypants McSmarterthanyou, shut up and let me finish setting the stage.

There’s a place, one that one could consider a world in that a person could live out an entire life without leaving its borders. It – as you might have guessed – exists, despite the various seeming impossibilities incorporated into its very being.

It’s called the Infinicon.

Nobody is sure how it started. Maybe it began as a government bunker in the style of Fallout, massive enough to house over five hundred thousand souls. Maybe it was a massive cave system that some Howard Hughes-type decided to turn into an underground city. Maybe it just started out as the basement of the next Mall of America and they just couldn’t stop digging, even when they started getting far enough down that things started getting weird.

I’ll get to what I mean by ‘weird’ later.

At some point, either during the ‘making of’ Infinity City or the vague haze between that and it becoming the Infinicon we know, love, and abhor, they started getting creative.

It’s a (mostly) underground city, you might say, how creative can you get?

To that, I ask you another question, seemingly unrelated and out of nowhere. That question is this – you ever see The Truman Show? 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey, who won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor for his part and then somehow didn’t get nominated for the Oscars?

No, we are not living in a reality show, being watched by the million billions as we go about the drama of life in nerd hell.

I think.

Well, I might be. But that’s not my point.

My point is that The Truman Show is all about Jim Carrey’s artificial life in an artificial world. Infinity City is almost exactly that. It’s a man-made world almost entirely situated beneath the skin of the real deal. A self-contained city, complete with air scrubbers, hospitals, fire departments, restaurants, and even weather and effects all tailored to the ideal ambiance of each and every sector… or at least the ones that bother with it. Artificial skies with artificial stars, clouds, rain, snow…

Okay, it’s probably not quite on the level of the movie, to be honest. Whoever made this place probably wasn’t that crazy.

…now that I’ve thrown the thought out there, I’m not quite so sure.

But anyway! No-one is an actor unless it’s their day job and, trust me, we get plenty of those visiting at the various panels. The only cameras watching you are the standard security type in the standard security places. Most of the trees in the appropriate sectors are artificial, the precipitation is cleaner than anything available on the surface, and there is definitely no ocean that can get whipped up to hurricane levels at the whim of an asshole director. There’s just enough there to ‘improve the immersion of the experience’ without risking setting off people’s allergies.

If you’re here long enough and keep an eye out, you might end up catching the odd glitch; clouds passing over the screens that make up the ‘sky’ lagging between the first and the next, rain coming down while the ‘sun’ is most definitely up and out. That sort of thing. Sometimes, it’s because some clever clogs with some hacking experience decided to pull a little prank, sometimes it’s just an internal mix-up. It happens.

So you have an underground city with futuristic technology that is basically a year-round convention. How do you figure out which parts are for what?

Well, that’s what the Sectors are for.

There are seven, even if there are officially only five. Each caters to a certain ‘genre’, with certain subsections of each sector dealing with subsections of the first.

Little Tokyo is built for the anime nuts and general weebs. While the name is a bit of a misnomer – they cover all sort of East Asian exports, not just those that come from Japan –, it’s a nice enough place, I suppose, but I mostly stick around somewhere between the Akihabara-styled arcade street and the hybrid-classical-definitely-based-on-a-certain-ninja-anime Leaf district rather than the back alleys where red paper lanterns mean a lot more than Chinese New Year.

Metropolis is for the True Believers, the Batmaniacs, the spandex set. In short, this is for comic book readers, though the western animation set pops up around here when they don’t fit in the other sectors. The most ‘iconic’ part is stylized after its legendary namesake, but you can find the odd slice of Gotham interspersed with more ‘realistic’ geography. If the sky is a clear wholesome blue, chances are you’re probably here.

Unlike the other areas, Grimdark Forest isn’t really… ‘developed’, not beyond the hobo-villages, post-apocalyptic styled encampments, and the odd castle ruin. The name is a bit of a misnomer as well, seeing as maybe a third of it is actually forest. There’s a tiny slice of desert, a bit of damaged highway, and an uncomplicated little stretch of cave. It’s a good place to sit and vibe for a while, especially when you want to get a bit of ‘fresh’ air, but I’ve had too many pointy sticks waved at me to do it regularly.

Neckbeard Alley isn’t as immediately awful as the name might indicate, but more than a few take the ‘medieval’ theme to a natural and faintly disgusting conclusion, even if the con security are pretty clear about not ‘unsheathing your dagger’ and ‘draining ye olde newt’ in public. Fantasy works and tabletop games are the rule of the day here, and I’ve caught more than a few good campaigns here. You just have to watch out for ‘those guys’, but that’s the rule for the entire con.

But my favorite part of Infinity City – also where I live – is Neo-Infinity, the Sci-Fi and tech district. My digs are on the line between Cyberpunk, Neo-Noir, and Retro-Futura, but the main street has a shiny chrome appeal with enough neon to make an artificial sun. Everything is smooth and shiny, unless you want it to be tough and gritty. Me, I like to ride the line and decorate my ‘future’ like a kid gone hog wild at the sundae bar, and the Retro-Futura is like that, full on Zeerust.

All in all, the Infinicon is awesome.

But I said there were seven districts, didn’t I?

The other two, the ones that aren’t on the map and definitely are not on the official tours, are dangerous. Not just because they’re part of the background, not just because you aren’t supposed to be there.

No. It’s because of who – and what – else is hiding back there.

The industrial district is the least dangerous of the two and most of that is because the worst you’re liable to run into is con security and the idiots who think they’re parkour masters but really, really aren’t. Sure, if you get caught while up to something suspect by important stuff like the water filtration plant or power lines, the guards might get a little frisky with the beating sticks, but you’ll survive the experience, so long as nobody is visiting from the other place.

It’s the Undercon – the other place – where things get bad.

Remember when I said that if you went deep enough, things started to get ‘weird’? That’s the Undercon. I don’t know if it’s because people start going crazy from how quiet and empty it can get back there or if there’s some real magic at work, but when people went down past the basements into the service tunnels and the sewers below that, they didn’t always come back right… if they came back at all.

Oh yeah, I have it from good sources that there are dead people. Legitimate corpses that nobody bothers to go after or clean up, some of them distinct enough to use as landmarks. That’s how bad it gets down there, apparently. I’ve never been down there myself, not any further than beyond that first unassuming door, but I’ve seen the sort of things that lurk down there in that forgotten place peaking around the corners.

Take some good advice from someone who knows; you really don’t want to go anywhere where there are furries fully convinced that they can maul you to death, because there’s a good chance that they’ll manage it even without the use of a mechanical jaw.

Just don’t.

So, as I was saying –

There exists a place where what you know and what you dream cross over with the stories of over a hundred years and a hundred thousand texts. A place where every single thing you ever loved can be found and explored with likeminded fellows and those who would argue against your interpretation of the text with a rehearsed speech and diagram chart. A place where reality blends with fantasy so long as you believe hard enough and ignore things like common sense, rationality, and social mores.

With that in mind, take care to watch your step, mind the gap, remember your room number, and keep your registration card on you at all times.

Welcome… to Infinicon.

Now that we’ve established the setting, let’s introduce you to your first character; me.

Jaime Valens. Twenty-three years old. Writer, artist, general geek. Currently not starving to death, but not exactly the pinnacle of healthy living either. I keep the sleep schedule of the damned and haven’t touched celery since I was sixteen.

Alright, maybe I’m not much to look at. The starving artist barely pulling off the beanpole look with an explosion of hair that some cosmic colorist apparently thought would look best in a shade comparable to copper sulfate with a few varying shades that could be tangentially related to the color blue thrown in for shiggles, you might have even forgot that I was wearing glasses – if the rims weren’t centimeter thick grey cellulose acetate with fucking chrome detailing.

The hair, at least, was an accident, one that I would be blaming a certain someone with a predilection for homemade experimental dyes for, –

“I said I was sorry!” my roommate yelled from the bathroom, probably while testing the colors on their latest concoction.

– but the fact that I dress like I just crawled out of a thrift store dumpster… well, between the cost of living and an artist’s wage, I should be glad that I started out with a ‘traesthetic’ before I even moved to Infinity City. One of the few advantages of growing up poor; your expectations were already low.

It’s probably not the best interpretation of the Infinicon setting, but that’s kind of the image that sprang to mind.

#my writing #wip

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