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"we went on i95 west for thirty minutes... past the- past the cardboard cowboy... and then you made me- you made me get rid of rogue. and i didnt want to"
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targaryenluvs · 8 months
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- NOT YOURS
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pairing: prowler!miles morales x reader, miles morales x reader
summary - miles seemingly can’t let you go, but you know your miles needs to get home. maybe if you play along you’ll be able to get back home. PART TWO!!! part 1 here
word count: 1,305 words
warnings - not much really, profanity, lil bit of violence and non-con touchy touch
notes - well i didnt expect to do a part two lmao but holy shit you lot r crazy thank u for the love - sorry if this isn’t at anyone’s standards but yeaaahh here you go 🤍
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he’s not moving.
you’d been trying to shake your miles awake ever since the other miles left the room but to no avail.
“miles please, i don’t know how long we have. you have to work with me here.” you whispered as you shook his shoulders again. he was icy to the touch, the hard floor did not help.
you didn’t know where he was but you prayed he wouldn’t come back any time soon, as unlikely it was for him not to return.
he was crazy, indefinitely.
how the hell can someone be so delusional to think that their girlfriend who passed away, infront of them, whom they buried in the ground over a year ago, is back and with them in the flesh? you had no clue, but all you cared about right now was getting miles up and awake.
you’d managed to get rid of the chains after what felt like an eternal tug of war and you were sure he’d wake with countless bruises.
“fuck it.” you sighed as you raised your fist as it is collided with his chest. you couldn’t hit his face, he was to pretty for that.
miles was struggling.
he was dreaming. he knew that.
but for some reason he felt much more comfortable with staying in his dream then facing whatever was happening around his body at the time. maybe he was already dead. this other miles killed him, took his girlfriend, his y/n.
the one who he had loved since they were kids and he was too stubborn to get off the swings since he thought he should have extra time after being away visiting relatives.
the one who was also as stubborn as he was and decided that getting a plastic shovel from the sandpit and digging it into his sides was a more effective way of getting him off rather than asking politely or asking a teacher for aid.
the one who helped him up afterwards and apologised before running to the swings and hopping on.
the one who he saw everyday afterwards, the one who sat in his spot and made friends with his. the one who he knew he should’ve been mad at but he couldn’t help but admire.
her cute pigtails, her cute dresses and smile.
the one he grew up with, his first true friend, his first crush, his first kiss, his first girlfriend.
the one who helped him through his uncles passing and to come to terms with his new abilities. the one who always gave him the strength to get back up and fight.
he couldn’t stay here.
his father was waiting for his help whether he knew it or not and his other half was waiting for him to get back up.
get up.
Get Up.
GET UP
“get up! oh my god is one punch not enough idiot?” y/n whisper-yelled in his face as his eyes shot open.
you’d never felt more relieved at seeing miles’s wide eyes. “shit are you okay? i didn’t punch you too hard right?” you interrogated him as you looked over his face with concern.
“no, no i’m okay. are you? shit i should’ve gotten up earlier i’m so sorry. he didn’t hurt you did he? i’m so sorry, so sorry i-“ you cut off his rambling with a kiss.
as you pulled back you couldn’t help but smile, he was quite literally knocked out cold and the first thing he asked was if you were okay. “i’m fine miles. i’m okay, just breathe okay? you need to have your head on straight if we’re to get the fuck outta here okay?” you murmured as you nestled your face in his neck.
“come on up, we need to get out of here before that psycho comes b-“ you were cut off as you felt something buzz in your jacket.
you saw miles’s bewildered expression as you slowly reached for it, “i swear to god if this is a bomb.” miles whispered as you groaned, “seriously?”
as your hand grazed the object your eyes lit up as you recognised it. you pulled out one of the watches you’d managed to acquire through violent methods at HQ.
“yes! oh my god you are incredible you know that?” miles grinned as he asked for it. “i totally forgot i had it, god thank you!” you joked as you clasped your hands together whilst looking upwards.
“earth 1610, i know that much.” you smiled as he worked through it.
the two of you were so engrossed within the find of the watch you forgot to focus on the door behind you two as it slowly opened. miles’s head shot up as his senses went off. he shoved the watch into your jacket as the two of you turned around.
“see you got out of the chains.” miles spoke as he walked in slowly. miles stood infront of you swiftly, fighting stance slowly crawling through as his fists balled.
“and what about it? you needa move aside. no one has to get hurt.” miles threatened as he slowly walked backwards.
other miles looked at you before smirking. “i ain’t goin nowhere. neither is she.” he pointed your way as you couldn’t help but frown.
why couldn’t he let you go?
why wouldn’t he let you go?
“i’m not staying here miles. i’m going home, you need to let her go. i’m not her.” you spoke up as you lowered miles’s extended arm in-front of you to talk to him clearly.
“i can’t let you leave ma, ion want to, and ion have to. he ain’t gonna stop me.” miles grinned as his mask came forwards to cover his face, his claws on too as he rushed forwards at miles.
“run!”
and you were off.
you couldn’t think about anything else. you couldn’t look backwards it would slow you down. you decided to run upwards, hoping that your miles would fight the prowler off long enough to make it up to you on the roof.
you pulled out the watch and jammed numbers in as you continued upwards.
how many fucking levels were there?
you saw the door come into view just as you pressed enter. you slammed through the door to see the portal open.
your chance was here.
you looked back to the door, willing him to come.
you saw a flash of black and red and the door slammed in-front of you just as you moved forwards to try and find him. and it scared the shit out of you and resulted in something slipping from your pocket.
miles hugged you straight away. “you okay mi vida?” you hugged him tightly and kissed him. “yes, yes i’m okay, you? he didn’t hurt you did he?” miles shook his head as he looked towards the portal home.
“come on let’s go before he decides he wants a round two.” you said as you grabbed his hand and jogged towards the portal just as he barrelled through.
the two of you flew through as the portal closed on miles.
“shit! fuck!” he yelled as he stood in-front of where you’d left just seconds ago. he was too slow. too fucking slow again. he let you slip through his hands once and vowed it would never happen again the second he saw you and you were taken from him again.
after spending so long working, training to be the best version of himself to keep the person and people he loved safe.
as he sat down his eye was caught by something glimmering in the moonlight. as he picked it up he couldn’t believe it.
a watch. the one he saw you shove into your jacket. the one which most likely controlled the portal. the one which had the multiverse contained within.
the luminescent letters spelling out,
EARTH 1610
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Daemon fucking his mistress in his wife’s bed after his wife upsets him.
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A chorus of short heavy breaths and whimpers of pleasure echoed in Rhea Royce’s bedchamber. Only, the sounds didn’t come from her.
‘’Let's give the bronze bitch a nice surprise when she'll get into bed later tonight,’’ Daemon laughed devilishly as he railed you from behind, face down and ass up.
When it came to her ears that her husband had taken Dragonstone with another woman at his side – a mistress –, Rhea was furious. She could handle Daemon fucking whores left and right in brothels, but claiming a castle and ruling with another woman was marital treason and would make her a laughingstock to the whole of the Seven Kingdoms.
Daemon being Daemon, he fucked you in Rhea’s bed to let her know he will keep doing whatever the fuck he wants. He would rid himself of her would her death not point all the accusatory arrows so blatantly at him.
You clutched at the sheets harshly as he gripped your hips, eyes closing in pure bliss from feeling Daemon’s cock pressing so deep in you. That cock was a gift from the gods.
Surprisingly, the silver haired prince wasn't the sole mastermind behind this little revenge. You were the one who sparked him the filthy idea.
‘’She’s probably jealous and bitter because your marriage is still not consumed. Because you fuck me instead of her,’’ you had told him after his return from Runestone.
After a couple more thrusts, Daemon pulled out and made a mess all over the bronze bitch's bedsheets, spurting thick ropes of cum on the bed and not forgetting her pillow. He laughed devilishly at his immature piece of art, then grabbed your jaw to pull you toward him for a messy kiss.
‘’What a masterpiece.’’
You looked at the mess of cum and kissed Daemon's cheek. ‘’You are a true artist, my prince.‘’ You caressed his chest, feeling the hard muscles and war scars under your fingers.
A laugh rumbled from his chest. ‘’Now let’s add your contribution of the piece of art.’’ Daemon captured your lips for another kiss, reaching between your legs so he could slide two fingers, having not forgotten about your own pleasure. He rapidly pumped them inside you, making you throw your head back at the feeling.
Your hands tugged at his silver hair, needing something to grab as whines spilled from your lips, feeling yourself clench around your the Rogue Prince’s fingers.
‘’Cum all over my fingers,’’ Daemon said, nipping at your neck and jawline with his mouth. ‘’Soak the bitch’s sheet so she knows who I fuck at night, who I fuck all the time. Who I want by my side when I get crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms.’’
His last words took you to the edge, legs trembling as you came all over Daemon’s fingers.
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samgirl98 · 5 months
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Wail of the Silent 8/?
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TW: Mention of suicide
Breaking into a mental asylum was much easier when you had someone who could turn invisible and intangible. Jason wondered if he would end up getting powers. Hell, if he were half-dead anyway, it would only be fair.
Danny had flown them to Arkham Asylum. They landed on top of the roof.
“So, we look for this bitch and then get rid of her, right,” Jason asked as he primed the ray gun. They left the bazooka behind. It was too big and unwieldy. Jason had pouted at Danny’s explanation but understood. At least he still had the ray gun. Jason had also tucked the collapsed boo-staff on his back. It was better to be prepared.
“Yep,” Danny said, taking two thermoses out of his chest. Jason had freaked out when he saw Danny put them in his body, but the other man had just joked, saying he liked to keep them ‘close to his chest.’
 Jason had not been amused.
“You think I’ll get powers,” Jason asked suddenly. Danny stopped what he was doing and looked at Jason.
“Oh, absolutely. We just have to filter out that corrupted ectoplasm. It’s stifling your core.”
Huh, good to know.
“You think you’ll be around to help me learn to control them?”
Danny paused and then turned to Jason with a blush on his face. Jason could taste his hesitance in the air.
“If you want me to,” he whispered.
“I would like that,” Jason answered. The helmet made his voice sound expressionless, but he hoped Danny could feel the truth coming from Jason’s chest.
Both men stared at each other. (Danny wished he could see Jason’s green eyes instead of the white of his helmet.)
They turned away from each other when they felt a sadistic, amused glee through their core. Both men stared at each other.
“Spectra,” Danny sneered.
“Do you think she knows we’re here?”
“Most likely,” Danny answered. He gave Jason a thermos.
“Great.”
Danny got Jason’s wrist (Jason did not blush.), and they fell through the roof into the facility. Jason tensed when he saw a guard right in front of them, but he just went through them. He felt a weird chill when the guard walked through them. He noticed the guard pausing for a moment and rubbing his arms.
Danny held on to Jason, and they started walking. Jason noticed all the patients through the glass doors. They ended up where the main rogues were kept. He saw the Riddler, King Shark, Killer Croc, and a few others. Thankfully, the Joker was nowhere in sight. He was kept in another part of the facility.
And he still managed to escape constantly.
“Where are we going,” Jason asked once they were alone in another hallway.
“I don’t know. I’m following her ectosignature. It’s easier because she’s the most powerful ghost here.”
The place was a maze. Even with Danny walking them through walls, they had a hard time navigating the asylum. After half an hour of walking around without finding Spectra, they took a rest.
“This is harder than I thought,” Danny said, “I can feel her in the facility, but I can’t pinpoint her exact location.”
“Follow me,” a wispy voice suddenly said.
Danny raised glowing green hands while Jason prepped the ray gun. In front of them stood a shadow. It was humanoid, but Jason couldn’t tell if it was male or female.
Danny relaxed when he saw the figure and let his hands lose the green, toxic glow.
“It’s a shade,” he said, “they’re harmless.”
“Follow me. I can lead you to her,” it said.
Danny nodded and started following the shade. He still hadn’t let go of Jason’s wrist. They passed through halls and walls, even through floors at a point in time, until they landed in front of a door that read Dr. P. Spectra.
“Don’t let her get away with my death,” the shade said before disappearing. Jason vowed that the bitch wouldn’t. She had fucked with the people of Gotham too much. Now, Spectra was going to pay.
They walked through the door and found Batman on his knees.
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Bruce had decided to visit Arkham. He had sent his findings to Commissioner Gordan, but his hands were full.
After some digging, Bruce pinpointed the rise in suicides with the arrival of Dr. Penelope Spectra. The suicides started the same day she did. Bruce didn’t believe in coincidences; they had to be connected.
Batman didn’t go in through the entrance. Instead, he had memorized which floor and office she was in and entered quietly through a side door. He didn’t care about the cameras, knowing that Oracle would redirect anything and the shadows would keep him hidden.
(Even though she was mad, Lady Gotham was helping the Dark Knight. She could get her petty revenge later.)
Batman picked the door’s lock and entered the office. It was empty. He entered slowly, warily. His instincts were telling him something was wrong; he wasn’t as alone as the room made it seem.
He went toward the file cabinet, still looking around. He stared at a wall; the shadows seemed thick and darker there. Batman looked through the files and found the ones on the eight patients who committed suicide.
At first glance, they looked like normal medical notes, but when he read them a second time, he noticed that the notes focused on the patients’ insecurities. More than that, though it was subtle, the notes also showed how to exploit the insecurities. Dr. Spectra was driving her patients to suicide on purpose. But to what end? What was the point?
Batman was suddenly flung to the opposite wall. He got up, groaning, and got on the defensive. He didn’t see anyone.
“It’s illegal to read medical records,” a voice echoed throughout the room, “but then again, you are a vigilante.”
“Show yourself,” Batman bit out.
A shadow on the wall started moving.
The first thing he noticed was the red eyes. Then he noticed a wispy, purplish, humanoid shadow appearing before him. It was feminine and had on purple lipstick, the only color aside from the red eyes, and had spiky black hair. She didn’t have feet. Instead, it was a tail, and he noticed fangs and sharp claws.
 “Dr. Penelope Spectra, I assume.”
“Hm, you’ve done your homework. Yes, I am her. Now, to what do I owe this visit from the Dark Knight?”
“You’ve been killing your patients. Why?”
She laughed.
“I didn’t kill them. They killed themselves. I was feeding off their misery; it’s not my fault they were too weak.”
Batman glared at the shadow woman. Did she feed off their misery? Why?
Suddenly, she was in front of Batman. He threw a punch, and it went right through her. It was like punching cold air.
“You feel of misery, too. What has you so miserable?”
Spectra touched Bruce, and every mistake, every bit of hardship, of suffering came to the forefront.
His parents’ death, Jason’s death, and his failure to bring his son home. Everything was right there for her to see. Batman felt his will to live slowly leaving him.
“You’re almost as delicious as that boy in Crime Alley. Almost.”
Batman fell to his knees just as Red Hood appeared.
Sorry it's taken so long for me to update this fic. It'll take a while because of work. I don't know when I'll be able to update again. I hope you like.
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catierambles · 5 months
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Feral Instincts Ch.24
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Pairing: The Rogue’s Gallery (Geralt, Syverson, Mike, August Walker, Walter Marshall) x Stephanie Daniels (OFC)
WC 1036
Warnings: uhhhhhhh *vague i dunno sounds*
She could hear Sy talking on his phone as she lay in bed on her side, staring at the window.
“Yeah, I’m gonna be here for a few more hours. She and Walker had a showdown and she ripped him a new one. Nah, Walt, it’s fine, I got it. No, Geralt, she’s not pissed at you, too. She’s okay with what you do, but she made some damn valid points about what August does. I’ll talk to you guys later.” He pushed into the room, but she didn’t look at him. “Doll?” She just hummed at him and he sighed. The bed dipped slightly as he sat down on it to take off his boots before he laid on it with her, wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her back against his chest. “Not sayin’ you’re wrong, because you ain’t. What the Council pulls with these “Cleaners'' is shady shit to be sure.”
“But?”
“But if he’s right about what these packs are doin’, child marriages and the like…depending on the state, the most they’d get is a slap on the wrist and a “don’t do it again, mister”.”
“Frank got blacklisted for what he did to this pack before I took over. Can’t lead a pack, can’t own territory. They could do the same thing to them when they got out of whatever sentence they received.” She said, “And weapons stockpiling isn’t technically illegal. You can own as many guns as you want. But he said that it was “some” of them, not “all” of them. Hurting the Council’s fee-fees by telling them to fuck off isn’t illegal, and it makes it sound like the Council just doesn’t like not being in control of everything having to do with wolves. They’re taking out their butthurt by sending Cleaners, like August, to kill these people. If the US Government sent out hitmen to take out everyone that criticized them, a “shit storm” wouldn’t even begin to describe it. You know who does that? Dictators. Stalin did that, Mussolini did that, and they didn’t exactly live long and full lives.”
“If these anti-wolf groups heard about what these packs are doin’--”
“It would give them ammo, yeah, but it’s not just wolves that do it. Humans do terrible things too. Wolves are wolves, but they’re also people and people suck.” She said, “He said that the Council doesn’t want a Waco incident. Waco was because of humans, that cult was run by a human. If these groups try to pull “see? Wolves are terrible” you can just list all the shit that humans have done. Hilter wasn’t a wolf, Pol Pot wasn’t a wolf, Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer weren’t wolves. Charles Manson, not a wolf. I can go on.”
“Point made, babe.” He said, “You know, I don’t think there’s a single female Alpha on the Pack Council. I think it’s all a buncha guys.”
“Maybe there should be.” Stephanie said and he picked his head up to look at her.
“Thinkin’ about goin’ into politics, doll?” He asked and she snorted.
“No, I’d be terrible at it.”
“You’d have some weight behind you. Geralt is their best Tracker, if I’m rememberin’ right and August is notorious enough as a Cleaner where he’s basically the bogeyman, apparently.” Sy said, “Get a few others on your team and you’d be a contender. I also think they’re all born wolves, not a single infected among’em, so they don’t have that human perspective. You see shit from the viewpoint of both worlds, they only see it from theirs.”
“Question for you, though.”
“Hit me.”
“You said you worked with August on a mission once when he was still with the CIA.”
“How we met, yeah.”
“Did it have anything to do with what he did with the Agency?” She asked and he sighed. “Markus.”
“Rogue Intelligence Agent was sellin’ intel and advanced arms to an insurgent faction in Iraq. We kept gettin’ blindsided, our boys ambushed on ops that were supposed to be classified.” He said, “August rocked up and gave me the rundown. I worked with him to take care of the faction, while he tracked down and got rid of the Agent. There was a lot of downtime between intel drops so we got to talkin’. We recognized each other as Alpha wolves right away and this was before the Council made the decision to go public, so it was something we bonded over. That and cards. Man’s terrible at Texas Hold’em. I think he still owes me fifty bucks, thinkin’ about it.”
“Make sure he pays up.” She said with a snort.
“Now, baby, I’m gonna need you to stop thinkin’ about another man while you’re in bed with me. Ya hear?” He asked and she laughed, rolling over onto her back partially to look up at him as he propped himself up with an elbow.
“I love you.” She said, reaching up to touch the side of his face gently.
“Love you more.”
“Not possible.”
“Babe, when Mikey was tendin’ to your arm after you first showed up, Lewis came at me tellin’ me to give you back, that you were his. You know what I told’im?”
“What?”
“Not anymore.” He said, “I wasn’t thinkin’, I just said it. You weren’t his anymore, you were mine. Geralt knew you were his Mate when you first pulled at his wolf, but I think I knew sooner than that, it just hadn’t sunk in yet.”
“I wonder when Walter knew.”
“You’d have to ask him sometime.”
“And August.”
“Nah, he probably knew the moment you told him to go fuck himself holdin’ a middle finger in his face.” He said and she snorted, “Don’t know how I didn’t declare my undyin’ love right then and there.” She didn’t say anything, tuning back onto her side and Sy settled again, his arm around her waist.
“You know what?” She asked and he hummed. “I think I would have preferred it if he had been doing porn.”
“Really?” He asked, a laugh in his voice.
“I would have sent the ladies a gift basket.” She said, “And a note saying “yeah he’s just kinda like that”.”
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the-owl-tree · 5 months
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on that note, if you were going to rewrite the sisters/write a similar group, what sort of approach would you take? ( planning on doing something like that if the motivation gods bless me)
i've made some big changes for the sisters for my beanie blog (pspspsps @askwcbean) but I think it really depends on the group you're trying to create. I wanted to keep the Sisters as a sustainable, self-growing group but keep some of the flaws (their strong sense of a gender binary). I don't want to make a utopian society out of spite, but I do want to make a society that could reasonably survive. Soooo (a combo of my ideas & stealing from others):
my collection of bullet point ramblings under the cut
The Sisters are very open to those willing to join and learn. They are a collection of loners, rogues, and kittypets. Not only does this keep our bloodlines less janked up, but it makes sense as to why the group can keep a reasonable amount of cats - they aren't closed off like the clans.
They'll often adopt abandoned kits, cats who are in bad situations, and generally anyone who is willing to learn and work with the group. This is a group that relies on diplomacy and good relations with others, they should be very open to outsiders.
Get rid of the super special bloodline thing. It's both a personal and practical thing, it doesn't work for a group like this. Have being able to see spirits be something you can be taught
I'm not giving Tree super special ghost powers. Sorry, I'm going to forever make fun of his novella it's so fucking stupid. He can see ghosts and has a heightened sensitivity to them, but it takes multiple Sisters and Brothers to be able to summon ghosts into views.
Keep the "Mother" kittypet origin story.
But how do they function? Well, the Sisters seem to operate a fairly small group, it doesn't really make sense to me for them to need a centralized structure. So, going for a decentralized system in the Sisters, power is distributed across the group and there is an emphasis on teamwork and decision making on all parts.
Choosing representatives for when meeting new groups tends to fall on reputation, charisma, and experience. Moonlight was chosen for these reasons, but she does not control the entirety of the group, though cats will lean on her words when she gives advice. She doesn't have legitimate power like a Clan leader, she relies on social influence and respect. Her word isn't law, but she does carry some weight due to her experience.
The Sisters have a fairly strong gender binary: Brothers, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers. You can be one or the other, they'll try to work around those who feel they don't fit for either role....but it doesn't always work out. I lean towards this not being decided by agab, you can shift from Brother to Sister and vice versa, it's those cats that don't exist in that binary who may feel out of place (but this is a wip idea and I want to tweak it more before i commit. i know for sure that Bean is one of those cats who doesn't want to fit this binary and is why she left to take up a "Brother" role despite not seeing herself as a Brother. I don't want them to treat them poorly, though it can happen, but that there's a lot of...reluctance to try and expand their ideas for these cats).
Toms don't get kicked out as babies. It's dumb, sorry everyone who likes that. There's no real logic to it besides a very half-assed attempt at trying to expand on the Sisters beliefs and even then, a kid with no training would get the shit kicked out of him by the wilderness lol
So, Brothers are socialized and trained on how to survive on their own. They're given information on medical herbs, hunting and gathering skills, best material to build dens and where to find a makeshift one in case of an emergency. Once again, this is not suddenly thrust upon them, they are socialized, this is something that they are believed to be as completely natural and an expectation for them.
When they are sufficiently deemed to be ready, the Brother is sent out to find a territory. They just don't just wander around (because I mean...the Sisters fill that role. They're nomadic). This is where I am yoinking a bit from others (notably bonefall's take on them), these territories act as base camps for the Sisters during their travels when they need to restock on herb supplies, have an injured or pregnant member, young kits, etc. That's why it's so important to them to have as many wide varieties of camps across their travels, and it's why Tree and Moonlight have some tension upon their meeting.
Boy picked a bad territory in their opinion, but in his defense, he didn't pick it for the Sisters. My base idea for these is Tree had a bad bad outing, but it needs work. I'll keep their strained relationship, but I'd like a little more depth to it just than the Erins beloved eeeeevvuuuulll mommmmyyyy (sooo scary!).
The Sisters believe they have a duty to help put spirits to rest, as well as help more malevolent ones find peace in the afterlife. They help with hauntings, lingering spirits, malicious spirits, etc.
They work in groups! The more malicious the spirit, the more Sisters it will take to pacify them and eventually release them from whatever is trapping them to the mortal plane.
Annnd so far that's what I've got! I have some more spirit lore over on my Bean blog, but this has been my working ideas for the Sisters themselves. Hope it helps :D
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transingthoseformers · 5 months
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I like mixing rid15 characters into TFP because some of these guys would be so fucking cool in both design and tfp context
Like, Steeljaw would play nicely against the main decepticons and autobots, especially so Starscream because I can see Starscream in her rogue era temporarily joining the Pack, especially because I think Steeljaw would be up for helping Starscream (perhaps Knockout perhaps not, in typical Knockout fashion) try to get Megatron out of the way. Though, they'd run into the issue of both wanting to be in charge of the decepticons and you get this interesting dance of them double crossing each other and wanting to take each other out. Sdfss then there's fucking Soundwave the snitch recording the girlies falling out.
Vertebreak my beloved is lurking around the corner with his cybergrafting experiments playing both Victor Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster, straight up snatching whoever he can. I see the possiblity of Verty working with MECH a couple times not gonna. I honestly wish he got more than just the typical rid creature feature of the week debut episode, he could make a good vague threat that's lurking when you don't expect it.
Plus as we just discussed we could have Zizza as an Insecticon queen and give her both the tfp typical insecticons AS WELL AS a nice amount of the rid insecticons like Saberhorn, Glowstrike, and Scorponok!
We can have the rid mercenaries and their beef, thought I think y'all would prefer if Deadlock / Drift looked more like he did in IDW (I admit a preference for his Deadlock design)
We can have Jazz
We can have Strongarm as Magnus's adopted daughter because I've seen that floated around
We can have the stunticons as again a split off faction of their own who's focused on maintaining road superiority and Breakdown as an ex-stunticon (is this made better or worse by me running SEVERAL SEVERAL plotlines based on Motormaster v Megatron?)
I'm just thinking thoughts about this because it's basically the rid15 decepticons but with the tfp plot and setting.
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ethanhuntfemmefatale · 8 months
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your personhood in DR1 post just made me realize the connection between "your story is written" Entity/Gabriel and "we all made the choice" Ethan and I'm about to start chewing on wallpaper
ok so this ask makes me so insane!!!! and i have so many thoughts about ethan and choice in general specifically in terms of the way he treats people. so if you'll indulge me kind asker i have a bit of a rant
this is the topic for another post really but i have. some difficulty reconciling the new IMF lore with the ethan we meet in MI1 (whose first in-character line is 'get rid of that scum', which doesn't exactly indicate a nuanced relationship with crime and criminality) that being said!! i think the main way that i can read ethan having a criminal past/having been given the "choice" in MI1 is in his general relationship with the idea of second chances. from the very beginning so much of ethan's character rests on the idea that he keeps giving people the option to be good. He keeps extending trust, sometimes up to the point of irrationality. even putting himself at greater personal risk to allow others the chance to be better than he thinks they are. for example, everything that happens with Claire. or for another example, his plan in the climax of MI1 hinging on kittridge being a rational man, and luther being a deeply good one. this side of ethan is so so present in DR1 in his relationship with Grace, and also in his one deeply interesting scene with the White Widow (i really need to make a post about my thoughts on that very complicated and fucked dynamic). Ethan's process of team-building, of bringing people into his orbit, is shown to be basically just...giving them The Choice, in small ways, over and over. The choice to help him, to trust him, to not betray him--the choice to be honorable, to be good, to defend people, to be radically selfless in the way that Ethan is, or to try to protect the greater good in their own way....Ethan extends those choices again and again, even when he has no reason to believe the person will do better. Even with someone (a criminal, a disavowed agent, an arms dealer) who he has reason to believe is dangerous--even someone who has betrayed him or hurt him before. As he gets older, more renowned, more powerful, more tired, he gives people those choices for longer, holds out even longer than he would have in earlier movies. this is an essential part of who ethan is.
and getting into the other side of your ask--i think the tendency of the past few movies to set Ethan against villains who embody "inevitability" or "fate/destiny" is really interesting and speaks to some intentional effort to highlight the way that ethan works as anathema to all that stuff. i've been thinking about this and i feel like one really revealing interaction is the line of "if anything happens to them, there is nowhere I will not go to kill you--that is written" because ethan has seen a lot of this fate/inevitability stuff and from what I can tell he doesn't put too much stock in it? I think he hasn't especially since rogue nation, when they defeated lane for the first time, the first "inevitable" villain. what ethan believes in, more than fate or destiny, is people--he believes in his team, he believes in himself, he believes in those around him. Not that they will win, but that they will try. Ethan isn't a force of destiny in himself, he can't promise to protect Grace the way he promises to protect Benji in Fallout (and ultimately fails). But he knows he will try, even die trying, to protect her. I'm trying to put these pieces together and I'm not sure I've figured it out entirely but I think that idea of 'your life will always matter to me more than my own' combined with 'the choice' is kind of where all of this comes together. Ethan cares more about giving the people he cares about the opportunity to be good than he does about his own safety. or even the mission. and over and over that quality of his, his capacity to keep trying and keep extending his hand and keep offering people the choice to be good, ends up really fucking helping a lot of people. and unraveling all the "fated endings" that are thrown at him.
i'm not sure i've really covered all of this or figured this out entirely. but these are some thoughts for you <33 thank you for the ask as you can see it really got me thinking!!!!
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2085, Little China
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V was leaning on her car's door when Mr. Blue Eyes' cab stopped before her and the backdoor automatically opened inviting her in. She threw away a half-empty soda can in the nearest trash bin and smoothly slided inside.
- Hello, V, - pleasantly said Mr. B, who sat opposite of her, his eyes shining blue in the dim light of car interior. The smell of his expensive cologne immediately attacked V's sensitive nose. - It's good to see you again.
- Cut the crap, - she answered coldly, annoyance that was boiling in her blood all day finally found the outlet. - I told you to transfer the gigs through Rogue. I'm not your fucking lap dog anymore, do you need me to remind you this in a more convincing way?
- This matter is too delicate to involve the fixer in it, - he stayed calm as he always did and waved at the table that was placed between the seats. - Take this shard.
V picked up the shard among the empty but clean glasses and closed champagne bottle and put it in the slot. The data began to show up before her eyes - name, picture, DOB, relatives, the list of the jobs.
- Who's the corpo cunt? - she asked scrolling through jobs. There was nothing about Night corp, the corpo's current job was Biotechnica, a senior assistant in the research and development department.
- Felicia Josten. She's been our mole in Biotechnica for several years, actually. That's why I need your personal touch here, this information is classified to pass it to someone else.
V blinked.
- Your mole?! - she barked a laugh. - And you reveal me their identity? Holy shit, you're planning to zero me when I'm done, aren't you?
- I was the one who saved you from the painful and slow death, do you think I would waste my effort like this? - Mr. B smiled somewhat mockingly and continued. - To be honest, this request isn't on the Corp's behalf but on mine. Felicia was recruited by me personally so her well-being is my responsibility in this case.
- What happened? She's been made?
- Yes, and the leak was from our side. My people are working on it but Felicia was captured by Animals that work for Biotechnica. Right now she's held at their place in Pacifica where they're probably trying to make her talk about us. I'm sure she still has some time until they decide to get rid of her since it's hard to gather information about Night Corp but I need you to pull her out as soon as possible.
- And you didn't send your people there, why? - V asked pulling out the slot after copying the data.
- I'm not going to endanger any of them to damn Animals and Biotechnica, - he answered with no trace of a smile on his face, his eyes are surprisingly raged. - But I can't leave her there too. So do your job and you'll get your money.
The car stopped right where she was picked up. The door began to open when V turned to Mr. B.
- What if she talked to them? Should I zero her too?- she challenged him with a smirk.
Mr. B raised a brow and looked at her like she didn't know a thing.
- Trust me, she didn't. Now go.
V rolled her eyes and left the car. It was time to fuck shit up.
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hello!!! starting on tumblr a bit bc I want a place where I can post just fuck all cause dats what drey ( @clusterpuppy ) is doing tee hee, also free place to infodump bc Insta has a limit 😭
this is just a little dump about the stuff I’ll mainly post just to give context of it all!! The three above are Selphie, Kip, and Cariad and they make up a party called “The Irregulars”, and the story called Under The Grave that me and Drey are working on is very centric around these three and the characters that pertain to their stories!!
I’ll go into a lot more detail below!! More info about Under The Grave and the characters—
Under The Grave was an ongoing DND campaign that me and my boyfriend are turning into a running story, and hopefully want to work on making it a playable campaign for others to enjoy too! But a lot of the stuff you guys will see me post is more along the lines of the story stuff. The story centers around a party of three characters, their party being known as “The Irregulars”!
Selphie Leoxidor (she/they)— a Neutral Good Sea Elf Bard; the main character of the party, and the main person that the BBEG is targeting! They’re a chosen one of the BBEG, Tharizan, in the journey of wiping himself from existence with the help of mortal prowess to undergo a battle that will rid of him in entirety. she’s super optimistic, outgoing, and hopeful, and tends to be the light at the end of the tunnel in most case scenarios! she’s disabled in a wheelchair with her legs being paralyzed from the hips down from a terrorist attack against her, but a close party friend artifices her a pair of working legs that she struggles with at first, but is slowly learning their usage through the story! they’ve got a good head on their shoulders and is personable, as loyal as they can get when it comes to helping her friends.
Cariad Heulwin (he/they)— a True Neutral Aasimar Paladin; a military runaway, as his best friend acted out a kamikaze attack on the military base he was zoned to, and now resides in a cottage much further out and away from society. they’re a much more introverted person, but have a good soul, they’re just slow to trust when it comes to the party coming into his life, ESPECIALLY with the Tharizan issues tagging along. this flares up a lot of the PTSD and trauma that they have in regards to the shit they struggled with in the military, but eventually he finds a newfound trust within Selphie and Kip, and they become the best of friends. He’s a pretty rational and logical thinker, stoic in his nature but to those they really care for, he would lay down his life for them.
Kip Cobblestone (any pronouns)— a Chaotic Neutral Halfling Rogue; the anti-hero of this little group who was a homeless urchin in the capital for as long as he could remember. once getting together with the party to adventure, she considered Selphie and Cariad (well… cariad took a little longer but that’s besides the point) quick friends! As the stuff with Tharizan commenced, a lot of the guilt that he held and buried in his past was dug up and picked at like a fresh wound, so they’re very paranoid throughout the story. Still trying to remain whimsy and charismatic, she holds on close to the connections that he’s made in hopes that they’ll work through it all together and help each other through the darkest hours. he’s always bouncing off the walls, and will always be causing some form of trouble if you take your eyes away from them for one second…
Each of these characters get their backstories uncovered through a series of events that are split into tarot cards! Lots of characters from different backgrounds show up, lots of scenes, lots of action, lots of emotion, the whole shebang! Now, to go into a little more about the BBEG…
Ityx Tharizan is the founder of the country of Artror, the place where all of this occurs. He is also the embodiment of selfishness, fizzing out of his physical form and into an energy that bleeds into the veins of society. He’s always thought himself to be the stain of the world, and was actively seeking out those who he thought were strong enough to kill him so that the world could suffer a lot less. Now, with Artror, the society is falling apart at the seems. It’s an active dystopia, a world where monsters and aberrations reign above all, and the celestials and fey are the scum of the earth; the rest fall within the middle. Artror is a massive hyperbole on what would reflect the real world in the state that it is, touching up on a lot of subjects that would make most people very uncomfortable… so that puts into perspective just how miserable this universe is. Tharizan feels as if his presence dissipated that the messed up world would seek balance and return to a utopia that he has sought out in his head. Tharizan chooses a group of four people, one of these people being Selphie, to carry out the job of killing him.
All in all, the Irregulars find that Tharizan had been planted in each of their individual lives planning up to the point where they’d all be together. Lots of things get revealed to the three of them that they didn’t even really stop to consider. I’m keeping this pretty vague because I have yet to know what I AM gonna post about, but it’s just a basic summary of what the story is about!
But yeah that’s pretty much it for the most part!! If there are any questions about anything there’s an ask box open I think and I would absolutely enjoy going into more detail about anything that pertains to this story. Me and Drey work on it a lot, especially the characters and their relationships and I look forward to having this account to just. dump about it all!!
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IM asking you to ramble about bg3 au and autism blast everywhere. and makeout and how sexy and funny you are.
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I love you both so much our wedding is coming soon
Anyway OK listen. Listen to me okay Bg3 refers to baldurs gate 3 and for all you need to know it's a dnd video game where the characters get infected with literal brain worms which should have turned them into murderous cultists, but somehow they got spared that fate, and come together to get rid of their brain worms
The party is made of
Grian: a gnome druid whose preferred wild shape is a bird and who might have some hidden aasimar origins because Grian HAS to be God's favorite princess all the time
Scar: an elf ranger who was torn away from his family when he was kidnapped by illithids, and whose closest bro Cub (a warlock who's made a pact with archfaes) was also infected but sadly was turned into a cultist. Scar is desperately looking for him.
Scott: a tiefling bard/sorcerer who does most of the group's talking with npcs both due to his travels making him the more knowledgeable of the group about the region but also because as a bard you can do wild shit like just convince really powerful entities to just kill themselves for fun and that's a very Scott thing to do
Mumbo: a half drow artificer who tbh is the most normal of the group (as far as everyone knows anyway)
Jimmy: half aarakocra (bird :D) vampire cringefail rogue who. Well yeah he's a stand in for astarion me and my friend just wanted a cringefail vampire with negative charisma ok
Joel: A half elf barbarian who has a little secret. The secret is that he's a murderous bastard. But like in the most literal sense of the word
Joel's role specifically has me so mentally ill. Okay. So like. You need a teensy bit of lore for this ok and this will include spoilers for baldy gate 3 if the 2.5 people who read this far intend to play the viddy game well stop reading but still kiss me on the mouth.
So the Lore has many gods and the gods are just real tangible all powerful beings. Much like with Greek mythos, you following a specific god isn't because you only believe in that God, but because you're most devoted to them. Well that's how I see it anyway. And there are three gods associated with death and evil (it's more complicated than that in my hc but we don't have time). One of them is Bhaal. And Bhaal, get this, is the most metal fucking fictional god I've seen because he's the god of MURDER.
Something something he had to give birth to people called Bhaalspawn for some reason who are his direct children and carry a piece of him within them or something (Bg/dnd superfans don't come at me) and it's all part of his grand plan to take over the world. WHATEVER
But Joel IS a bhaalspawn. And he was Bhaal's specialest most favorite bhaalspawn. And now, okay, the thing about bhaalspawns is that they're not actually inherently evil, but they do carry that part of Bhaal within them - his will, and his potential for power. Some Bhaalspawn are raised specifically to be daddy's best little murderers and of course that's how Joel was brought up.
He was examplary because he was trained to be. He was capable of some of the most rancid bloodshed because it was what he was taught, and rewarded for. He was created to be murder incarnate, so any other emotions (love, empathy, etc) were shunned until Joel was either incapable of it, or refused to show it.
Except something happened. He got betrayed, usurped, and infected with the aforementioned brainworms which led to his memory loss. What did remain, even as he escaped the ship keeping him captive, even as he joined up with other infected survivors, was... A primal need. Like it was coded in his DNA, like it was in his blood itself: he had a need to kill. Not just kill, but spread misery, spread pain, and acquire power at any cost. He mostly unleashes those urges onto his enemies, but it never feels like enough. Like a scratch he can't quite itch. Of course, that's all Bhaal trying to reel him back in, Bhaal trying to reclaim him.
But like clockwork - because such ingrained training doesn't go away no matter how much one thinks they forgot - he finds himself relishing in it. In the violence of it all. The only time he feels truly alive is when he's covered in blood and gut.
... That is, until he finds himself growing closer and closer to Jimmy. After a night where Jimmy, desperately trying to hide his very obvious identity as a vampire but also desperately hungry, tries to feed off of Joel, and reveals his secret... Well, Joel had all rights to kill him right then and there. He reasons that there's no fun in killing someone so helpless but in truth there's something a bit charming about Jimmy. He's earnest, and he's just so... Not exactly innocent, but also sort of? He gives Joel to urge to protect him. To hold him so tight and close as to choke him. But in a sweet way. Probably.
Joel won't be able to put it into words for a long while yet, half because he refuses to let himself feel such things because he's so horrifically repressed. He was the only one at camp who didn't even guess Jimmy was a vampire before the big reveal because he's got negative int and wis (his strategy in battle is just hit things hard before they can hit you and honestly it works most of the time) so he'd just never noticed the obvious signs. Anyway. Because his blood is the tastiest and somehow he's one of the companions who acts the least weird about it, which really says a lot, Jimmy ends up mostly feeding off of him. And, well, something about letting your homie regularly suck blood out of your neck is bound to lead to something more. Joel becomes a bit possessive of his little birdie.
When Joel learns that he's Bhaal's special little princess, in truth he's fucking elated, because he spends weeks torturing himself in an attempt to remember who he is, what he's doing, what's wrong with him - and he's finally afforded answers. He leans fully into it. He's so happy to serve his God with bloodshed.
Until he's faced with him. With Bhaal. And after Joel committed countless atrocities (which the rest of their group didn't mind that much as lokgi as they stayed in the clear. They're all bad people) bhaal asks him to shed one last bit of blood before receiving his blessing, before becoming his chosen, he who will enact the murder God's plans. He needs to get rid of his pesky earthly desires and affections. They have no place within murder incarnate. He asks Joel to flat out kill Jimmy or die right here and then.
You'd think Joel would hesitate with how intensely pro-Bhaal he is. You'd think it would be a difficult decision. Jimmy would have thought too. Except that Joel's response is instant and intense. He tells Bhaal to go literally fuck himself, that he'd rather kill every last Bhaalspawn and make sure his bloodline ends with him, rather than lay a finger on Jimmy. Jimmy, whose helped his heavy heart feel so light and free. Jimmy, who makes him feel true warmth. Jimmy, who makes Joel want to appreciate every sunset, every breeze, every breath of fresh air. Jimmy, who treats Joel as so much more than a bloodthirsty beast.
Joel never thought he would want to be anything more than a bloodthirsty beast.
So of course Bhaal kills him because he's literally a god. Right in front of Jimmy. (there's plot and dnd magic that brings him back but it's definitely the culmination of his arc; that Joel, groomed to become murder incarnate, was given an opportunity to find another meaning to his life)
Also they have CRAZY sex
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At this point I'm just convinced that most Star Wars fans are simply not used to thinking of their characters as nuanced, and the sequels and the disney+ stuff before andor didn't really help our case lol.
The fact that the writers retconned Luke-fucking-skywalker, the dude who gave a big F You to all Jedi traditions in the original trilogy, and also used him at Bait for the mandalorian is a true indictment of the current scenario lol.
At this point, I'm just trusting Tony and Diego more than the execs at Disney- it's clear that they want to create a specific story, and don't really give much of a fuck about the fandom which involves guys with 4+ million subscribers who have such AMAZING takes like "star wars doesn't have bricks"
jessie gender has a good video essay on youtube about andor and while i don't necessarily agree with all of it, i think the parts about how disney depoliticized star wars and made the first order almost exclusively reminiscent of nazi germany (to the exclusion of a lot of the references the empire had to us empire) as well as through use of intertextuality (almost exclusively referring to other star wars things instead of referencing to real world things like the original trilogy, the prequels and rogue one did) are 1000000% on point.
as a result fans expect cameos and easter eggs out the ass (easter eggs and cameos are fine imo as long as they make narrative sense - ie: rogue one has good cameos - mothma, saw*, bail, leia, tarkin and vader ALL make sense in the context of the story- and bad cameos - artoo and threepio are just distracting imo and don't really add anything of value except to get audience members to say HEY OMG I KNOW THOSE GUYS) and for everything to directly connect.
which... sometimes again it makes sense (the prequels being about anakin and obi-wan makes total sense, it's the point of the prequels to explain how we got to the point where luke has to fight the empire and anakin has to redeem himself and destroy the emperor) and sometimes it's just absurd and cheap. "somehow palpatine returned" auihiuahduash oh my god it's funny because it's not even like it doesn't make sense for sheev to be so obsessed with living forever and having absolute control over the galaxy, plus legends also had a story about palpatine cloning himself... but it feels absurd because the sequels weren't leading to that, we all know lucasfilm didn't have any plan whatsoever, largely bc disney wanted a fast return on their investment, but rey being a palpatine is... just insulting. rey being a skywalker is less so because of we know the main trilogies are about the skywalkers.
i don't know that i'd call any of what happened with luke in the sequels a retcon unless we're talking about how disney got rid of the entire expanded universe and now it's called legends. i mean i consider it more of a reset (especially because george lucas wasn't really involved directly with legends stories and didn't really care about any of it - not that i care what he cares about, give me my mara jade back lmfao).
but im gonna push back on luke giving the jedi order a middle finger in the OG trilogy. first off, from an out-of-universe perspective, while i'm sure lucas had some idea of what the jedi were about, i doubt he really had the order's practices worked out because lol this is the guy who didn't know that he was going to make luke and leia twins before rotj. sometimes he had his shit worked out, other times he was just figuring stuff out as he went along - and hey i get it, but lol fandom can be a bit too referential about him.
i don't know as much about how he developed the jedi so please correct me if im wrong, but there's no way that luke was intended to be a refutation of jedi practices since... luke was written decades before the prequels came out. before the prequels came out, no one in the fandom even conceived of the jedi having rules against romantic relationships and/or attachments - that's why you've got so many jedi falling in love and being married in the legends 'verse, including and especially luke.
i know my generation is much more okay with the jedi order's practices because we grew up with it and understand it more, but there was a big pushback at the time of aotc because no one had thought of the jedi being celibate or not having attachments or being raised by the order as children. but that wasn't a retcon so much as george lucas going in a direction pro fanfic writers hadn't known he was going to go in. and while he did have a final say over what legends writers could do, those weren't his stories. now i don't care lol the thrawn trilogy is great and losing mara jade as thrawn's foil makes his story less compelling (and frankly it reeks of misogyny to bring him back and not the most important character of that story but whatever). but a lot of fans were annoyed about the direction the jedi took in canon because it didn't jive with decades of pro fic.
i'm sympathetic to that. and of course add into it that the prequels were poorly executed, good intentions and ideas aside.
i don't agree that the jedi were told to fuck off by luke (obi-wan and yoda perhaps to some extent but by then their religious group had been killed off in a genocide. and only because obi-wan and yoda withhold information from luke about his father, not because they are believers in jedi teachings). in universe, remember that luke doesn't know any jedi, he isn't brought up in the order, he doesn't have that cultural context. he doesn't know about them like that. he doesn't even really get into the jedi teachings besides the sparknotes version yoda gives him in empire (and a little bit with obi-wan). he knows very, very little - so he's a new kind of jedi because the jedi were killed off by the sith.
in the time between the originals and the sequels i guess luke does try to rebuild the order but lol idk i cannot even with the story he gets in the sequels because it doesn't work with what i grew up with, it's not the luke i knew and loved as a kid. i mean im not sure how anyone can make the argument that he makes choices that are consistent with who he is at his core but whatever. that's not a retcon though (unless we consider the retconning of legends but i mean that's kind of complicated since legends was pretty inconsistent itself) since it doesn't erase his story. even if he is out of character in the sequels.
god i cannot believe im defending the sequels but yeah they didn't retcon luke's story in the original trilogy. they did retcon legends but i mean again legends was never really as canon as the films or anything that george lucas worked on.
as far as his appearance in the mandalorian, imo it is an example of a cameo done right. it was consistent with who luke is, it made some narrative sense (no reason why luke wouldn't sense grogu reaching out to him, and since he is trying to rebuild the order why not bring in someone who had some experience with the old order?) and it helped establish scale of power (similar to vader massacring the rebels at the end of rogue one) in a story mostly about a character who is an extraordinary ordinary guy (like rogue one). it doesn't take away from the core of the show - the relationship between din and grogu, and din's relationship with his identity as a mandalorian - and helps propel the story forward. similar to how ahsoka is used in mando, there's a point to it. is it fan-service? yes! absolutely, and i would argue it was sorely needed given luke's treatment in the sequels was so polarizing and hurtful to so many fans, myself included. bo-katan also makes sense since she is a literal mandalorian lmfao like it works and helps build on the differences between sects of mandalorians.
HOWEVER. juxtapose that with the book of boba fett. you've got a show about a beloved legacy character who has been a fan-favorite for decades (despite me not really caring about him before his appearance in mando lol i can't deny his popularity) and finally he's getting his story fleshed out in a way that so many fans have wanted for ages.
and not only is the story arc poorly received (imo the best parts are the stuff with the tusken raiders but even that is handled terribly because they just kill them off off-screen) but in the middle of the show, we cut away to... the mandalorian season 2.5 which then goes on to resolve the conflict set up at the end of s2 far too quickly to be as effective as it should have been.
and then as a result of the writers using 2 episodes of an 7 episode season, boba fett's story is not only structured poorly but feels rushed. he gets sidelined. in his own show. as much as din djarin gives pure 'im trying to be a secondary character in my own show' energy, he is still the core of mando. he is centered even if he isn't always the hero or the most powerful guy on screen. with boba, he feels many times to be an afterthought in the show. about him.
and that's because these cameos are really poorly used. luke could easily show up in boba fett's show because it's set on tatooine. luke could be poking around his childhood home. they have history, it's not like it wouldn't be interesting - even if i'm like meh on the idea myself. but luke doesn't show up to further boba's story. he shows up for GROGU, for the mandalorian's story arc. same with ahsoka who has no business being in bobf imo. din i can see because boba showed up in mando and they have ties to each other, but as a CAMEO. as a secondary character. poor guy can't even be the side character in a show about someone else lmfao.
this stuff is not just fan-service done poorly to me, it feels like studio meddling, like the studio was nervous about splitting up din from their cash cow baby yoda. why couldn't that have been part of mando s3? idk there's really no good explanation for it.
cameos, fan-service, even retcons and resets can be used effectively. but it depends on how they are used and why. andor handles its cameos really well because they make sense in the story. rogue one mostly does too. mando does too imo but i get why people would be frustrated with how s2 seems to overemphasize cameos... but again imo they make sense. bobf's cameos are ridiculous and insulting.
*saw gerrera isn't handled as well as the others but i'd say it isn't out of the bounds of reason for saw to be jyn's adoptive father. i think we should have seen jyn as a teenager with him.
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girlwholovesturtles · 3 months
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Opening with Nikola immediately, I see. Why do this? Oh god.
"Needs to be near us." Breekon and Hope need the coffin near? That's interesting. Also worrying that the coffin is there at all.
Nikola makes me uncomfortable. I kinda love them... They've said "Can I call you Elias?" twice now. I'm not convinced they entirely know what's going on.
Did Jon just try to say "Fuck you?" I'm smiling way too much from this episode already.
Oh god, are they gonna- oh god, they are gonna skin him.
"Can I call you Elias?" Number three.
"Do you have a preferred brand of lotion." Oh my god. This should not be making me laugh so much.
Wait, is this the episode? It is! This where the animatic came from that got me into the show to begin with! Yes!
This one!
Jon, why do you sound more annoyed then you do afraid of this man saying he's gonna kill you? I guess when so many people are saying the exact same threat, it stops being scary after a while.
Okay, Michael or I suppose the Spiral is lies and deception. He has nothing to do with the Unknowing but he wants it to fail. Jon, fuck why he's here, ask what the Unknowing is. He doesn't want the Circus or the Archive to win?
Okay, I think I get it.
Theory before it's all said: Michael was Gertrude's assistant, he some how got taken by the Spiral, and the part of him that is still Michael resents the Archive he what happened to him. The Spiral doesn't want to be Michael anymore because it has made it's nature complicated but I suspect it can't get rid of him, for whatever reason. Okay, starting the video again.
Sure, Michael, give up a statement. I'm sure this will be very coherent and not at all filled with me going "WTF?!" constantly.
Michael Shelly... Oh, Michael here implying Gertrude is deceptive, that's interesting... what? She FEED him to the Spiral? Oh... Michael really cared about Gertrude and she used him for this.
"Is a thing evil when it simply obeys it's own nature?" That is an interesting question. A polar bear isn't evil just because it willing to hunt humans, it's just hungry. And near as I can tell, the Spiral and all these other entities, they also are just hungry in their own ways. So, maybe they aren't evil. Though that certainly doesn't make them good.
"He believed everything she told him..." Alright, me and Gertrude aren't friends anymore. But what is the Becoming, exactly?
"Okay." Jon is just giving up? I mean, I know he lives because there's like 200 episodes but...
What do you mean "It's loc-
Uh... is Michael dead? Oh, hi Helen... Yeah, I guess Michael is dead? If it could kill Michael whenever it wanted, why didn't it before? Or did it need someone to replace him? Which I guess it what Helen is for?
You're options are the door or being skinned, my guy. Make good choices.
Wait, is the Spiral cool? It's just... taking Jon home? That's pretty chill of it, given the Archive's history with it but alright.
Okay, hold up. It's entirely possibly I'm reading this all wrong but were these entities at some point just kinda vibing and Gertrude decided they all needed to be destroyed? Because that's what it sounds like to me. Like, I don't know what the Becoming is yet but it sounds like the Spiral was attempting to transition from being a thing that could never be into something that was and perhaps could even be defined. At it's very core, it sounds like these things simply wish to exist but they're so volatile that it's difficult to do so. Gertrude even wanted to destroy the Archive, the focal point of the Eye. Even though, as far as I can tell, it's only interest is to collect knowledge.
So did she just decide to go rogue and destroy all these monsters and that's why they're mobilizing like they are?
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ship asks: can i double-dip? because i'm curious about bodhi/luke (i have a hunch that yes, you DO ship it, can't put my finger on why), but i'm also curious about bodhi/cassian, because i don't know your opinion on that at all.
lolllll sure XD
bodhi/luke: Ship It (lol) What made you ship it?
Welllll according to my notes from 2016, I was really delighted to discover that in the novelization, Bodhi has memories of a first kiss and a crush and in neither case is a gender specified, which obviously doesn't mean anything when it comes to fanon but sure does make some things easier for shipping XD
And then Bodhi and Luke parallel and contrast each other in really interesting ways: children of desert worlds looking to escape and fly away, who both ultimately come home to try to set something right. And with Bodhi being so Baseline Human and Luke, y'know, not, plus getting to mess around with ideas about heroism and what it means to have confidence in yourself, it just seemed like an interesting avenue to pursue. What are your favorite things about the ship?
They're each my favorite character of their movie(s), so there's that? :D But also THEY'RE THE SAME HEIGHT and massive dorks about things, plus all of the stuff I said above about contrasting each other (although I never did quite go the sun/moon route even though it would have made a TON of sense given that Jedha is, you know, a moon!)
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
Huh. I don't know if I would know if my opinions are popular or unpopular?? I guess An Opinion I have is that it's really fucking annoying when Bodhi/Luke is tagged and literally you can do a Ctrl+F in the fic and Bodhi's name shows up less than a dozen times in the body of the text. That's not really about the ship though XD
cassian/bodhi: Don’t Ship It Why don’t you ship it?
Because Jyn matters SO GODDAMN MUCH to Cassian in Rogue One that if she's not there it can feel like the bad old days of "get rid of the girl" to me. I think that while Bodhi has his fired-up moments Cassian needs the constant fire Jyn always matches him with (and doesn't actually see a more spirited version of Bodhi very often in the movie).
What would have made you like it?
I don't know! I obviously do not rely on canon reasons to ship a thing, hahahahahaha, but I guess if I felt more like Cassian wasn't always going to be Protective of Bodhi and they were put on more equal footing I'd be more interested.
Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?
I mean, the Riz & Diego stuff from the red carpet and various bits of the press junkets make their friendship look incredibly adorable and sweet?? I do feel like there are fics that do Cassian/Bodhi well, I just haven't adopted this into my fandom life and lean more towards Cassian/Jyn/Bodhi.
send me an ask about what I ship! doesn't have to be Star Wars, lol
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good omens season two finale SPOILERS AHEAD !!! --- vague ramble-y ideas
- okay so first of all i'd like to talk about the trial of gabriel, specifically the mention of an institutional issue. that scene, to me, confirms that crowley was a BIG DEAL in heaven (see also "they haven't changed their passwords), and was cast down for defying them (much like gabriel) and could be used to explain the half n half miracle ("how do you know it wasn't me", as he said while speaking to shax)....... BUT!
-i don't think that's it. i think an angel and demon on their own side doing miracles together make them incredibly powerful. that might not have been an issue for the Great Plan, but the angel and demon in question are quite enamoured with earth and each other.
-they have, indeed, already thwarted one apocalypse. they would not be keen, heaven would assume, to allow all non-faithful humans to be discarded. (also! earth becoming Christ's kingdom certainly would get rid of all the lovely little human things they love so much.)
-that shit would be terrifying for heaven! a rogue set of celestial beings with humanity's best interests at heart and the capacity for crazy amounts of power??? one of them a former CREATOR OF STARS!!! nooo thank you.
-and so, they needed to be separated. too powerful together, but inextricably linked by the idea of 'their side'.
-shouldn't be too hard, right?? WRONG. they are so in love, and want to stay by the others' side.
-and THAT!!! was used to separate them!!! in my opinion, neither crowley nor aziraphale were fully in the right or the wrong.
-aziraphale is an eternal optimist. he sees the best in everyone, going against his strong allegiance to heaven because he sees kindness in a demon. with that said- he doesn't understand how much heaven dislikes him. crowley has always proposed their ideas in a way that makes it so aziraphale doesn't feel like he's directly opposing heaven, merely side stepping them in the name of thwarting crowley.
-additionally, he has been starved for love from everyone except crowley for his entire existence. of COURSE he would jump at the opportunity to work towards the continued survival of heaven if told crowley would accompany him. to aziraphale, that could be their happy ending; crowley would get to see the stars again.
-crowley, though? he is entirely disillusioned with both heaven and hell. his only allegiance is aziraphale. but but but also also also! he saw gabriel's trial! he knows why he was cast down! aziraphale does not. he only knows that he's finally getting love from, allegorically, his estranged and neglectful parents.
-OW!!! IDK WHAT ELSE TO SAY!!!
-lol nvm COFFEE. the fucking coffee! i still believe his actions were in character. the choices made complete sense on both sides. but i don't think aziraphale had the capacity to truly consider other choices. wasn't convinced on this theory at all but then i watched the scene for the 5th time and that bitch seriously pulled a miracle down into the coffee!!!
-that said. still a choice aziraphale made. still in character. still brilliant writing.
-next seasonnnnn predictions-
theory one!
-crowley is sooo sad. but fights against the second coming from earth. aziraphale is either brainwashed further or imprisoned.
-muriel notices! they see crowley at the bookshop and aziraphale in heaven and then tell crowley. crowley rescues aziraphale once more. 700,000 apology dances follow.
theory two!
-aziraphale is fighting tooth and nail in heaven to subtly prevent the second coming or change the way it happens. he gazes forlornly at crowley from the globe in heaven. so sad.
-one day! he sees that crowley is upset or something went down on earth OR! something happens in heaven that breaks his stupor.
-oh nooooo everything is bad he fucked up soooo badddddd time to go fix everything for everyone again
theory three! (correct)
-secret third thing that i did not discuss
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ok i havent been able to get the idea of an dnd-styled rpg inscryption/the hex au out of my head and it's physically paining me at this point (/j). So, I'm making you fuckers deal with my ramblings bc tumblr's just become a place for my to spit out ideas so they'll stop taking up space in my brain. So! Ramble under the cut since I'll be main tagging this bitch for organization purposes
So main character would be Inscryption's Challenger, and I'm thinking maybe the entire party of em is just. Different versions of the Challenger designs in Inscryption? Either that, or the Challenger is accompanied by Luke, Kaycee, and Lionel. Not Carla tho, I got villain plans with her. Tempted to go with the several Challenger designs idea, but then I'd need to come up with names, so. Y'know.
I dont know how im gonna have the world set up, but I'm thinkin the Scrybes now have land they rule over? Maybe not kingdoms for all of em, but yknow. Only issue with that is that I'd need to figure out how to fit the hex characters in, so what I'll probably do is just having them having authority in smaller areas. So like, taking inspo from Leshy's ties to Slavic mythology, he'd be king of the forest. Grimora might be an infamous necromancer, I havent fully figured these guys out yet.
But i DO have six other characters figured out so ohoHO buckle down, everyone.
Because I refuse to change Rocky's general appearance if I dont have to, Rocky was kidnapped from a young age and experimented on. By who? I'll figure that out eventually. Anyways, so in those few years, Rust was searching for him day and night, and eventually found the people that took Rocky. I have him planned to be a rogue in the rpg au, so yknow. Breaks in, kills some people, has a very heartfelt reunion with his kid, while also. Internally being very fucking angry that these assholes experimented so goddamn much on a child. He got Rocky out safe, and they're now travelling the lands for a place to call home, while Rust is. Also looking for the people who were running the operation, since they weren't there. I am. Considering making Reggie and Jeremiah full on villains for this. So. We'll see what happens. Other idea is Irving and the Gameworks/Gamefuna. I'll figure that out later. Rust and Rocky will aid the players in exchange for helping Rust find the people who hurt his kid. Rocky's completely unaware of how much his pops wants revenge, and really just wants to find somewhere safe to call home. Too bad years of separation affected Rust so poorly
Next up, ex-sorceress Chandrelle, who now claims to be a warlock. She's a lone traveller, and doesn't answer when asked what god she draws her power from. I'm still trying to work out how she got stuck with Vallamir, so that'll be a future ramble. But yeah, she's stuck with him. Her questline would probably have something to do with getting rid of Vallamir, but another idea would be her looking for Lazarus. I'll figure out the separation lore when I have the Vallamir lore figured out, but they got separated, and Chandrelle hasn't been able to find him. Actually I could probably make these work as one big questline tbh. We'll see. I'm thinking maybe Chandrelle got into a dangerous battle, and in order to ensure she'd be safe, made a deal with Vallamir for more power in exchange for being possessed and used at will? Anyways, yeah ok im running with this idea, big battle happens, but even tho Chandrelle's safe, Lazarus! Is not. He ends up getting taken, and now Chandrelle's just looking for closure, wanting to know what happened to him.
Next up, Lazarus! So yeah, he got taken, and I'm thinkin it's gonna be Gamefuna for this one (Gonna rename it tho so it doesnt have game in it. Name's a work in progress). Anyways, they forced him to train to be a ranger instead of a paladin, and im thinkin the organization thingy does have smth similar to guns? I'll work out the details for the weapon later. So, eventually, Lazarus manages to just barely escape, and is. Kinda on the run. Moving as far as he reasonably could from where he was, he finds an abandoned temple, and fixes it up a little, now teaching swordfighting to aspiring paladins, or just anyone who wants to use a sword.
And lastly for those I have figured out, Pike! An ex-cleric, Pike served under the wizard Magnificus, having been one of his pupils. Not sure if I'm keeping the torture trials or not, but Mags still treated his students like shit, and Pike's interest in magic started dying down when she saw some knights in passing. Deciding she wanted to be a swordfighter instead, she ran away from Mag's lands, and started training to be a swordfighter, residing in a somewhat nearby village. And one day, while picking up some food from the market, Lazarus saw her training in a nearby field. And. Well. She was doing horribly. He had walked over and gave some pointers, and it eventually just led to her being one of his students at the temple. Pike having Lazarus as a mentor is completely self indulgent on my part bc I think it's cool and funky. Go funky sword people go!!
So, jotting down some ideas for Sado and Carla, im thinking Carla's an artificer, and one of her experiments eventually led to creating Sado (censoring it bc tumblr's a bitch and i aint typing dark clown you-know-who every time). Dunno the specifics, but she does have a huge fucking grudge against Lionel for smth, and just kinda. Wants him fucking dead, whether she kills him or Sado does. So yeah, she created Sado, basically making a chaos incarnate. Sado's a mix of a rogue and a wizard, running purely on magic, so she's able to bend reality quite a bit. While Carla spends most of her time in her workshop, Sado is constantly causing issues. So yeah, those two are, like, the big bads.
I'll make more posts with more ideas later, and add in any doodles I make, but thats what I got rn
Edit: Sado's safe to mention, just cant tag her, so i fixed every mention of her <3
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