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Sonic 3 Spoiler Post Wheyyyyy

I’m gonna talk about literally everything so if you still haven’t seen the movie then scroll away, I will be adding images a week after this post goes up as well so yeah. This is NOT going to be well thought out at all it’s just going to be a ramble fest because why not shejsjjejejs

The fact that they made Live And Learn a song Maria wrote gives it SO much more meaning and a reason for the song to be included in the movie (besides fanservice lmao), a story line centred around the process of grief culminating with a grandiose reprise of a song made by the person one of the characters is grieving? CINEMA

The third act was incredible of course but god I wish they stopped going back and forth with the Robotnik stuff, the switch ups between the immaculate fight choreography and the slapstick bullshit really began to run its course and I was just waiting for peak to start again

Speaking of those fight scenes OH MY GOD THE FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY IS SOME OF THE BEST THIS SERIES HAS EVER HAD IT WAS ON SOME DRAGON BALL TYPE SHIT. When Super Sonic and Super Shadow were beating the everloving fuck out of each other in different countries I was stimming like crazy

Knuckles is the unsung MVP of this movie and I’m so happy they got to show his character development in a really natural way, he’s really become a big brother figure for the other two and the way he tried to talk Sonic down after Tom almost died really got to me he’s come so far 🥹

When the trailer fakeout shot came up I was LOSING IT 😭

Also I want to know what the cinematographer was smoking because some of the shots in this thing are BEAUTIFUL, especially the ones in space (when Sonic and Shadow enter their super forms and go around like blazing comets I was going crazy)

The colour grading is a huge step up from the last two movies as well, you can tell the budget went up because the models here are stunning (especially Shadow’s)

I wish Live And Learn got to play a little longer but I’m just happy they included it either way (when the vocals came in so did I)

Agent Stone continues to be one of my favourite human characters in the entire series, I honestly wouldn’t mind them adding him to the games because his dynamic with Eggman is way better than whatever Orbot and Cubot have going on

They definitely listened to the critiques for the second movie as well because the human stuff has been very toned down and I honestly think it’s for the better (and this is coming from someone who actually really likes Rachel idk man she’s just fun)

I’m pretty satisfied with how they handled Gerald outside of the usual Jim Carrey shenanigans, portraying him as a madman so consumed by grief that he’s completely willing to let Earth and himself die out of pure spite was crazy, I saw someone say that this is how he’d act if he didn’t get executed 50 years ago and I can see that pretty clearly. I loved the glimpses of humanity we get of him as well (the way he referred to both Maria AND Shadow as “kids” in the flashback made me feel like he genuinely did care for him at that point and the death of Maria just threw him off the deep end)

The scene of Shadow and Gerald finding Maria’s body was DEVASTATING, the way Shadow didn’t know if she was dead at first and all it took was to see how heartbroken Gerald was to figure it out killed me 😔

Speaking of which they actually did a rewrite for Shadow’s backstory while keeping a lot of the same elements and I’m pretty happy with it for the most part, him coming to earth in a comet is black arms foreshadowing 100% and the flashbacks of him and Maria just hanging out and having fun like normal kids was really nice (the inclusion of the biolizard being the monster in the movie they were watching was really cool too I didn’t even notice that at first until someone pointed it out)

Despite these changes he was handled SO well, Keanu did a great job voicing him and to hear that he actually wanted to play the character made me so happy, it’s almost like getting people who give a shit about the source material is a really important factor of making adaptations succeed idk

The reason why Maria’s around though is kind of weak? She isn’t ill in this version and the only reason she’s in the lab is because Gerald takes her everywhere? That’s it? Why couldn’t they have said that he adopted her or something? (Or maybe her parents had an incurable illness that Gerald tried and failed to help with so he took her in after the fact idk)

Ben Schwartz popped OFF in the third act god I love it watching whimsical characters completely losing their shit after they’ve been pushed too far

The fact that the iconic “announcement” was changed to a tragic yaoi send off is beautiful, I hope Agent Stone comes back in future movies his dynamic with Tails was really cute

Pansexual Eggman is now canon we are so back

Loved the brief snippet of E.G.G.M.A.N, it played for five seconds but I was stimming anyway

The soundtrack is also a huge step up from the first two movies as well (also Throw It All Away is one of the song titles holy shit)

The post credits scene was PEAK I love Metal Sonic and Amy’s designs so much, Im really interested to see if it’ll be a loose adaptation of Sonic CD or it’ll be its own thing (maybe Amy and Metal are originally from the games’ bad timeline and that’s how Silver shows up later? I’m not sure, I just want Silver fans to get SOMETHING they’ve been fucking starving bro I feel bad for them 😭)

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

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Just came back from Sonic 3 and holy shit people were NOT lying, that third act was incredible, it genuinely felt like a reward for hyperfixating on that fuckass hedgehog for ten years and it’s not stopping any time soon. God I love Shadow so much man, also that post credits scene was NUTS, I’m not gonna give anything away but those designs were AMAZING 🥹

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Nothing to see here fellas just silent agreement

less art of Gabriel with washboard abs and more art of Gabriel built like Gianni please

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Hadalpelagic Zone Part 14: Ellie and Lena are going for a girls night out, but they have to take the fish, things don’t go very well.

“Uh…why is he coming with us?”

“Bentley’s still helping Valen out and he’s not doing well at the moment, I thought a change of scenery could help him out…”

The three were in Ellie’s limo, her driver was (supposedly) completely unfazed by Sebastian due to the industry he had trained in so no one was worried about him spilling the beans. Sebastian was surprised he could even fit in here (granted the thing was comically long), he was still a little squished though. Ellie and Lena were sitting on the left row, Ellie had just come back from a shoot so she was slightly exhausted and Lena had just finished business with Sebastian a few hours prior to being picked up.

“God my face feels like it’s melting…”

“I thought you stopped using concealer?”

“I did! My skin is flawless but the routine to keep it that way is BRUTAL”

“I can only imagine…”

“I can’t believe I’m actually wearing this piece though…it’s like a fever dream”

“Yeah, you look amazing, what’s the dress made of?”

“Premium. Lotus. Silk. It’s knee length AND it has pockets”

“Woah…”

Lena was wearing her white nightdress since they weren’t going to be leaving the vehicle, Sebastian huffed, god, why was everything she owned so PINK?

“Okay, how did you even meet each other anyway? No offence or anything but you don’t really seem like the kind of people who’d click with each other”

Ellie laughed, her and Lena got this question a lot and she was always happy to answer it.

“We met in university!”

“Yeah, she was…very upfront”

“Lena’s the whole reason I’m doing any of this in the first place! I owe it all to you~”

“And daddy’s money”

“Im NOT a nepo baby! I just have some good connections…”

“One day you’ll learn…”

Sebastian looked over at Lena and took notice of her arm tremors as Ellie kept on ranting about the fact that she wasn’t spoiled in any way, shape, or form. His fins drooped as he tapped her shoulder and whispered gently.

“Wrist weights”

“Hm?”

“Wrist weights can help stop the shaking, I have some in one of these pouches, I used to use them on myself years ago but you clearly need them more than I do”

He made sure Ellie wasn’t looking as he took two black wrist weights out of one of his brown patches and wrapped them around Lena as gently as he could. Lena looked up at him with a surprised expression.

“Thank you…”

“You can’t help me out when you’re shaking all the time, can you?”

“It’s not that…I think you genuinely wanted to help me, your fins go lower when you’re sad”

She could read him fairly well at this point, mostly because his body would give his feelings regarding certain people and environments away, it was a new development, something he absolutely despised (he was still closed off for the most part so the idea of him not being able to hide his emotions annoyed him greatly).

The worst one he had noticed happened only when he was alone with Lena, whenever she was discussing anything and he could notice her voice having a little more life breathed into it his tail would wag, not little flicks either, full on wagging, he wouldn’t even notice it half the time. He dropped out of doing a business major years ago, it bored him, but whenever she talked about it he was genuinely invested. Whenever he noticed the wagging he’d immediately put a stop to it.

He didn’t know his own strength at times and he didn’t want to break anything in case it made an impact so he kept quiet, and it also embarrassed him greatly, he wasn’t a dog, so he didn’t know why the hell this happened, but it did. It had been happening so often that even Lena pointed it out at times.

He still remembered the first time it happened.

He was curled up in her room when they were discussing previous Urbanshade experiments and she brought up his third arm, tilting her head and looking at it with blank eyed curiosity.

“Why is this arm always bandaged?”

“What…?”

“Your arm, it’s always bandaged, why is that?”

Sebastian glared at his arm, he explained the situation with pure disdain in his voice, the thought of such painful memories filled him with anger, but he kept it under wraps for her sake.

“The third arm didn’t respond to the chemicals well…it didn’t form properly, it’s the only part of me that’s…still human. I always gotta patch it up since the skin refuses to heal on its own…”

Lena winced a little, she could only imagine how painful that was, she then saw that the blood on the bandage looked washed out…

“How long have you been wearing that one?”

“The past two weeks, I know it’s gross, you don’t have to say anything, replacing them just…it brings up a lot of bad memories”

Lena then had an idea.

“…Do you want me to do it? I had to do first aid training at a prior job so I’ll know what I’m doing, but I know you’re still uncomfortable with being touched sometimes, so it’s your choice”

For a woman who resembled a soulless husk, her kindness never failed to catch him off guard. Throughout the whole process she was as gentle as she could be, even going as far as showing Sebastian the clear liquid in the ointment she was applying to his skin to show that it wasn’t any familiar looking chemicals that had been forced on him. He winced and hissed a few times, but Lena never scolded him for it, it was the opposite, she said she UNDERSTOOD.

She then wrapped a new, clean bandage around the arm, the look of the bloody, rotten fusion of human flesh and blubber didn’t phase her at all, she looked quite sad at the sight, she could only imagine what had happened to his fourth arm if the third one had gotten this bad. After she finished she looked up at him, hoping that he was feeling alright after such a vulnerable display.

“How does it feel…?”

He moved around a little, it felt a lot less sticky, whatever ointment she used did wonders for it.

“Better…I…”

He was struggling with his words, he wasn’t used to this, her curious eyes constantly gazing at him didn’t help matters.

“Thanks for uh…doing all this”

“It’s okay, I don’t like seeing you in pain”

And that’s when his tail began to wag, Lena took notice of it almost immediately, finding it a little endearing.

“Your tail is wagging”

“What?”

“It’s going back and forth”

“Lena I’m not a dog there’s no way it- WHAT?!”

He was freaking out, whenever this happened he immediately became aware of it, being stuck in this body was bad enough but now it was acting without his knowledge? When will it all end?

“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!”

“Has it…never done that before…?”

“I DON’T KNOW-“

“Calm down”

“I CAN’T CALM DOWN IT KEEPS-“

Lena then put her hand up to one of his cheeks and pinched it gently, she was always weary regarding how she touched him but she noticed that he’d calm down whenever she’d do THIS in particular.

“Calm. Down. It’s not killing you, don’t be worried”

“…Fine”

Which brings us back to present day, he kept a close eye on Lena as the wrist weights worked their magic, he could’ve sworn she had sat closer to him but she was that small compared to him that he couldn’t tell. Ellie noticed that they were going the wrong way and she crossed her arms.

“Hey, we’re supposed to be going THAT way? What’s the big idea?”

“Miss Price, you may pay me greatly, but the bounty for the beast in the backseat? That is far greater than anything you could conjure up”

My god, a double agent. Thankfully it was one guy with a measly little pistol so Sebastian wasn’t really worried, he could easily take him out, before he could however…

“ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TRYING TO SAY MY MONEY ISN’T WORTH ANYTHING?!”

Ellie shrieked, he hissed at the sound, her voice was shrill enough as it is she didn’t need to make it worse. She dashed to the front and put the forced breaks on as she dragged the traitor out and loudly chastised him as she viciously slapped him in a back alley. Oh he HAD to watch this, he ducked as much as he could and watched through one of the windows.

“…Has she always been this violent?”

“Yeah, back in uni she split people’s skulls open whenever they made fun of the way I walked and she’d pin it on people she didn’t like so she could keep a clean record for when she put job applications out”

Wow, for someone who came off as ditz who’s unaware of her surroundings, Ellie was actually really calculated when she wanted to be…

Ellie stormed back into the limo and took the front seat, strapping herself in as she took the unknowingly amatorious duo in the back for the most unstable ride of their lives. Ellie didn’t know where the hell they were, but she wasn’t going to wait to find out.

“I don’t have a licence but I don’t care! We’re getting out of here!”

Lena was practically being thrown around like a ragdoll as Ellie was making a mad dash to somewhere a little closer to town, Sebastian quickly held Lena in his arms to prevent her brain from being more scrambled than it already was.

“ALL THAT MONEY AND YOU CAN’T AFFORD A SINGLE DRIVING LESSON?!”

“I HAVE OTHER PRIORITIES!”

“LIKE WHAT?! BEING PAID TO SIT AROUND AND LOOK PRETTY ALL DAY?!”

“YES?!”

“GOD EVER SINCE I WAS A KID I COULDN’T STAND PEOPLE LIKE YOU-!”

“Rock”

“WHAT?!”

“There’s a rock in front of us”

Bentley and Valen were just walking down the street when they noticed something in the distance…

“Oh my god…it’s…it’s…”

“Oh hey a rock”

“That things huge, need help carrying it?”

“Don’t worry Ley I’ll be fine”

Valen’s strength was something the group rarely talked about, but it was quite the sight to behold, Bentley was so caught up in watching his friend that he completely failed to notice the limo that was parked haphazardly in their drive. The two immediately walked over to see what the deal was.

“Who parks like that…?”

“I don’t know but they’ve got to be a real nutjob to- ahhhh that explains it”

The moment they saw Ellie stumble outside with frazzled hair and shaky arms everything just clicked.

“Okay…maybe I should get a license…”

“OH REALLY?! YOU NEARLY KILL US AND ITS A “MAYBE”?! IF THOSE TWO ARE IDIOTS I CAN’T THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE!”

“OH COME ON YOU WOULD’VE BEEN DEAD IF I DIDN’T KILL THAT GUY!”

As Ellie and Sebastian continued arguing Bentley rolled his eyes in amusement while Valen took notice of the scene inside the limo since Lena and Sebastian were still in there. Wait, was he HOLDING her? He knew Sebastian was close with her considering he let her stay in his room almost every night due to her paranoia, but he also knew how much he hated physical touch…

Actually, looking back, he’s never been bothered by Lena touching him, even on nights when she dropped the professional airhead persona and got angry, she vented and laid her head on his side, tail, arm, anywhere really, and he never minded. And the fact that they had been disappearing almost every night wasn’t lost on him either…something was going on. Even now when he was practically screaming at Ellie with raw anger his hold on Lena was surprisingly gentle, and she looked quite comfortable despite it all…wait are those wrist weights-?

“Hm…”

“You alright?”

“Yeah, I just…don’t you think something’s going on between those two?”

Sebastian waited until the coast was clear for him to get out of the limo, it was a hassle considering his size but he managed to leave somewhat unscathed, he took Lena back into his arms and removed the wrist weights.

“How are they now…?”

“Huh, the tremors are gone, thank you”

“It’s fine, besides, they’re useful, you wouldn’t want to lose them”

“I can’t count the numbers without them so you have a point…”

Bentley watched on in hidden shock while Valen was in awe, who was this guy and what had he done to Sebastian?

“Did you see that…?!”

“Yeah, I wouldn’t go digging though, if he catches onto you bein’ suspicious he might get a little weird”

Bentley then turned to Ellie.

“And as for you, get that license asap because if you ended up killing them two I never would’ve forgiven you”

“I know…look, I’m sorry okay? It’s just, the driver my dad hired was actually a double agent who worked at that dumb place that kept the freak of nature all holed up-“

“Wait, what? An Urbanshade double agent almost drove you lot to your deaths?”

“I’m not a complete dummy Bentley I checked the ENTIRE limo to see if there were any tracking devices and other weird stuff but we were in the clear, and he’d be freaking out way more if we were actually in danger…”

“Yeah you’ve got a point…”

Valen looked panicked.

“Val it’s fine alright? They weren’t followed, and even if they did it’s a bunch of humans versus a massive sea monster they’d get stomped out”

“Okay, sorry, the thought of them showing up just…keeps me up at night sometimes”

“Yeah I know, you’ve been doing really well though mate”

“Yeah, you never would’ve come outside at night a few weeks ago, you should be really proud of yourself!”

“Thanks Elle…but can you try and re-park the limo the wonkiness is killing me”

“I’ll do it tomorrow I need to wash my hair…”

Valen sighed and helped Ellie inside since her coordination was almost as bad as Lena’s. Everyone came back into the house and Sebastian finally put Lena down onto the sofa.

“Thank you, sorry tonight was so hectic…”

“Don’t be, you’re the one who wanted to go out, I was just dragged along…”

Bentley observed them from afar and thought more about what Valen said earlier about them constantly going out at night, was he taking Lena to his trades? Maybe, but knowing him he would be boasting about it…hm…

This was something he needed to think long and hard about.

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Really feeling this rn 😔

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Hadalpelagic Zone Part 13: Sebastian contemplates while Lena is working in the living room, his relationship with sleep both saddens and fascinates me so I wanted to explore that more here :3

Night was both his favourite and least favourite time of the day, he didn’t have to deal with constant eye strain so that was good (he was still getting used to the sunlight), but there was something he couldn’t avoid no matter how hard he tried…sleep. He would never admit it to the others, but trying to sleep was incredibly hard for him, because every time he could feel himself slipping, he’d just be reminded of when he was put to sleep for the experiments. He remembered every change made to his body in excruciating detail.

It was small at first, a few scales here, the gills starting to form, it freaked him out, but hey, it was nothing too noticeable…but then he slowly became something he could barely comprehend, he still remembered the screams he let out on the operating table, the first time he looked in a mirror was one Sebastian couldn’t forget, what was looking back at him was disgusting in his eyes, he could hardly bare it, what they turned him into, Valen often asked him how he managed to remain calm down there for so long considering how him and Lena cracked within a single week, but that wasn’t the case at all.

It wasn’t until the seventh year that he found a coping mechanism, the moment he realised they were sending down people who weaker and smaller than him he took it all out on them, he was a monster now, the only visage of his humanity that remained was his hair, might as well play it up right? His humanity is gone, he’s never going home (despite how desperately he wants to), making connections were meaningless in his eyes, granted there were…some he grew close to, but his buried desperation far outweighed the compassion that had been utterly shattered due to years of being treated like an animal.

But then those three idiots came into his life, and he saw his family again, the sunlight, actual food, the ocean, small talk that didn’t have an ulterior motive…all things that had become foreign to him after years of isolation and distrust had finally returned to him, little by little, his humanity was crawling back in small doses…and he was terrified.

There were only two ways he could sleep without problems, whenever he stayed at his moms house she’d hum him a lullaby and stroke his hair so he could drift off without fear, age be damned, he was still her little boy and his comfort after years apart was her top priority. This was something he felt no shame in, it was normal, he’ll take any opportunity to talk about his mom…however…the second way he could fall asleep was something that greatly embarrassed him, even if he would never admit it out loud.

It was Lena.

There would be nights where he couldn’t sleep in his room, and upstairs was Lena, working on gathering evidence for their plan, to be fair to her, Lena was probably the best person he had ever worked with, she never messed around, never insulted him or his intelligence, and her curiosity surrounding what he was…it wasn’t out of a need to poke, prod, and see how much he can take, it was out of genuine interest.

On the nights where Lena worked upstairs she’d hum to herself, like she did back at the Blacksite, she was such a mystery to him. He knew why now (and it explained a lot) but even then he still felt like he had to figure out her deal, she was like a robot that was capable of rage and laughter, the way she showed emotion confounded him, her and Bentley had knows each other for years, he had no problems with finding ways to make her laugh and smile.

Sebastian would sometimes wonder what he could do to make her smile like that…

He didn’t know how, but her humming always worked, he slept like a baby every time she did it and he’d wake up in a haze. He became reliant on it, every night he would quietly hope that she would work in the living room and hear her humming, hell, there had been several nights where he was tempted to ask her to stay, but he always chickened out, every time she wasn’t there, he felt his heart ache…and it sickened him. Whenever this happened he resorted to chastising himself in the mirror before smashing it into god knows how many pieces.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOU WENT FOR YEARS WITHOUT IT! STOP BEING WEAK!”

Every mirror in his room he had broken and replaced, over and over again, his room was built from materials harder than most stone, but his punches were the equivalent to bullets, and on those nights where he was alone in the house, he would trash the place when his anger consumed him, he would clean up afterwards (he had convinced himself that the last thing he needed was their pity) so none of them would question him but it was so hard.

Whenever him and Lena went out to export data it became less about the mission at hand and more like a mission to understand what makes her tick…and why her humming made him so weak, sending an internally paranoid, wreck of a creature into the pits of sleep with minimal effort.

God, he was so gullible, he was becoming obsessed, he had found an anchor to cling onto for the sake of what little humanity he had left, and he didn’t even know he was holding on…

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If you follow me for fandom rambles you are also legally required to read my original shit or else I’ll rob your spleen when you’re sleeping :)

To this day, deciding to make that…thing was the biggest mistake I could’ve made, when I first made him sprout from the clouds above I thought he would inject fun into their world, something that I would never be able to give, it was fine at first, he did his duty well, and in turn I made two more beings for the sake of keeping him company, one of love, and one of death, it was through them that I felt what it was like to care about something other than myself.

But then he grew curious, he wanted to go down there more often, to witness their lives and how he could enhance them through his craft, I forbade him from doing so, none of us go down there, it’s not in our nature to do so, but he did something, something that no other being dared to do to me…

He turned against my wishes, it sickened me, yet I kept on letting him do it, I’m not sure why, but I did.

He changed the more I let him do it, one that was once so joyous, slowly turned into a pit, a husk in a stasis of boredom, scratching at the chance of making something new, doing something new, anything new and unexpected excited him.

It really, really, excited him.

I knew of his antics, his trickery, but I made him to be in the nature of chaos, so I saw no faults, he was one of the only things I made that had no faults…

But that’s when I decided to look at what he was doing, I somehow had no idea, but behind my back he created the one thing that should never reach mortal hands.

The apple.

The moment I saw it I knew what it meant, how could he be so foolish? The moment he returned I confronted him, still believing that he was naive to the horrors that he was creating…but then he heard a bite from below, I heard it too.

We looked down, it was a woman, no older looking than I, she was terrified, confused, running rampant, screaming, begging for the pain to stop, and then she made it stop, she shouldn’t have known how do to something so heinous to herself but she did.

I turned to my creation in a state of horror, only to see the hunger in his eyes, he wanted more, yearned for more. It was in that moment I realised that any hope I had for him being unaware was gone, this whole time, he knew of the pain he was causing.

I finally took a glance to see what else he had done…I was horrified, what had he seen or encountered that made him like this?

I stripped him of his ever changing form and cast him down, his disobedience sickened me as did my own reluctance in doing the act.

He made me care, that THING made me care, how could he.

The form I forced onto him is deceiving, yet fitting, if he would rather toil and become perverted by the world below and its lower life forms then so be it.

Become one.

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I’m going to talk about Sanrio characters that don’t get that much attention from the main brand because I love them sjsjsjsjsj-

Lloromannic (2007)

Lloromannic (Berry and Cherry) were created to be the Kuromi equivalents to Cinnamoroll, they’re little demons who cause trouble for no reason and they probably have my favourite designs out of any Sanrio characters, they appeal to me specifically and I love them for that. Berry actually created Cherry to be his friend because he was lonely and he accidentally added salt instead of sugar into the recipe which made her sassy as a result. The mansion they both live in actually used to belong to one of Espresso’s (Cinnamoroll’s friend and Cherry’s unrequited crush) ancestor Espriana. They aren’t completely forgotten characters (merch of them still gets made and they’re used in collaborations quite often) but I don’t get why they’re not utilised more? They’re a mix of Cinnamoroll and Kuromi, some of the brands most popular characters, if they were used/more I can guarantee that they’d be a lot more popular but eh, I can dream. Another fun fact is that they’ve actually appeared in an episode of Onegai My Melody but Cinnamoroll doesn’t show up once, I just found that really funny.

Pierrot (1984)

Pierrot was created as a part of the Fancy Friends brand (characters that existed throughout the late 70’s and the early 90’s to appeal more to adults due to their calmer and less “childish” designs). No merch has been made of him and he’s a retired character, which is such a shame because I genuinely ADORE his design! He’s so cute and simple, I would love to have a plush of this guy. And he’s actually quite popular from what I’ve seen since there’s a lot of fanart of him so I’d love for him to be brought back in some way.

Magical Twin Comets (2007)

The Magical Twin Comets (Lili and Lulu) are witches and the Kuromi equivalent to the Little Twin Stars, but unlike Kuromi and Lloromannic who are antagonistic towards their counterparts, Lili and Lulu are actually the childhood friends of Kiki and Lala and aren’t rivals with them. I actually thought they were fanmade for a while until I realised they were official and that’s because almost no merch of them exists, trust me, I’ve looked, but I couldn’t find anything. Which really sucks because I’d love a plush of their mouse friend Mimi.

Coro Chan (1973)

Coro Chan is the cousin of Hello Kitty’s bear friend Thomas and his cheeks are apparently croquettes that he sometimes eats on occasion. He predates Hello Kitty, making him Sanrio’s first ever published character, I have no strong feelings about him but it’s a cool part of the company’s history, I get why Hello Kitty’s the mascot now, I wouldn’t want a filthy cannibal fronting my brand either.

Hummingmint (2014)

Hummingmint is a deer character who looks really unique compared to everyone else, I love how soft her palette is and the one plush I’ve seen of her is actually really cute, it sucks that her popularity died out in recent years because I’d really like to see more merch of her she’s adorable.

Pop N’ Berry (2003)

Pop N’ Berry (Berrina, Banyanyan, and Melorina) are a trio of animal themed fruit fairies and they were created in collaboration with Bandai (to this day they’re the only characters Sanrio and Bandai have made through collaboration). I don’t have strong feelings about them but I think their designs are cute and there IS still merch of them it’s just few and far between (I’ve seen some stuff on EBay but idk about other places).

Darkgrapeman (2012)

Darkgrapeman is the sidekick to the superhero Ichigoman (which is Hello Kitty’s alter ego that she transforms into once she wields a strawberry shaped smartphone). Darkgrapeman is another character that I feel like would fit into alt subcultures really well since his design is quite striking (I think the cherry symbol on his face is meant to be glasses since all of the plushies I’ve seen of him have it made from more see through material).

I’ll probably make more of these but idk 🤷‍♀️

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Hadalpelagic Zone Part 12: Bentley and Sebastian have a long overdue conversation about trust and acting metaphors.

Sebastian was sitting by the pool outside while Lena and Valen were having a very important discussion in the living room, he was having a smoke, taking in the rare peace…that was until Bentley waltzed up to him and queried.

“Aren’t those supposed to be worse for you? With the gills and everything?”

Sebastian stared at him for ten seconds straight and looked back at the horizon as he took a drag, his eyes narrowed as Bentley leaned against the balcony.

“Eh, fair enough, still can’t get enough of this view, we really hit the jackpot with this place, it’s a beauty”

“You’re actually right for once…”

“Once? Oh come on I’ve been right plenty of times! I was right when I made a plan to free you wasn’t I?”

“Okay cut the bullshit what do you want?”

“Hm?”

“Whenever you approach me without a beacon you need something”

“Ah, perceptive as always”

Bentley sat down as Sebastian towered over him, and like always, Bentley wasn’t intimidated, he was never intimidated by him, but unlike Lena where he found her lack of fear comforting, he found Bentley’s incredibly annoying.

“Look, I like living with you, the last two months have been great…but-“

“But what?”

“We need to talk about that little eavesdropping habit of yours”

He immediately stopped smoking, what? How did he know about that?

“I don’t know what you’re talking about”

Bentley rolled his eyes at his denial, relaxing in the chair as he listed off everything he knew.

“I’m not as stupid as you think I am Seb, I know it was you who defused the bombs strapped to us back at the Blacksite, I know it’s you who’s been leaving them migraine tablets around for Lena, weird, I start seeing them the day after she had that leg casualty. You’re not the heartless twat you make yourself out to be”

Oh great, he was trying to analyse him? God knows he needed that after years worth of prodding, poking, and having chemicals and other unwanted shit pumped into him, constant questioning, the taunts, the tasers. He lowered his voice and bore his teeth, any normal person would’ve pissed themselves by now, but Bentley wasn’t a normal person…not by a long shot.

“I could kill you. Right now. I could blow your brains out, rip you in half, DON’T even TRY to pick me apart, you don’t know me as well as you think you do, we’re not friends, so try your best to get that through your head…”

Bentley’s response to that was something he could hardly believe, first he snickered…and then it exploded into laughter! What the hell?! He just THREATENED his life! He was slamming the table and everything! He looked beyond insulted.

“Are you fucking serious?! I threatened to KILL you! How are you laughing!?”

Bentley tried to catch his breath but he was failing miserably.

“I’m sorry I’m sorry-! It’s just-! Holy fuck your acting’s incredible!”

He continued laughing and his expression turned sour.

“Answer me!!”

Bentley eventually managed to catch his breath and shook his head.

“God you’ve played the part of the monster for so long you’ve even managed to fool yourself”

“I’m not acting”

“Oh yeah? Well if you’re sooo desperate to have us dead then why didn’t you do it when we first entered your shop all those months ago?”

Oh god, no, he actually had a point, he looked hesitant as Bentley continued talking, he sounded so calm, so collected, like he had been planning to say this for a very long time.

“I mean I could’ve gotten away, got the legs for it, but those two?”

Bentley pointed to Lena and Valen as they were practicing with his new hand puppets, Valen was acting out a scene while Lena was laughing. Bentley then clenched his fist.

“Easy prey right there, you know what? kill them, right now”

He couldn’t BELIEVE what he was hearing, was he actually asking him to kill their- HIS friends?! Bentley got up and paced around the garden.

“Lena’s as hard as glass, her legs’ll stop working, she’d be easy wouldn’t she?”

He had never felt like this before…why did the thought of him killing her make him feel sick? He clutched at his chest, he felt his anxiety heighten

“And Valen? You saw him back there, he was a jumpy little fucker, could’ve ripped him a new one, even drawing the tiniest amount of blood could make him faint”

He felt sicker

“Come on. You’re a monster right? A blood fiend, a killer! Hell! I can be your first course if you want! Call me shark bait if you so wish!”

Bentley laid himself across the table, looking as bold as ever, he was putting himself in an extremely vulnerable position but he didn’t care, he had to make this convincing.

“I’m waiting “Saboteur”, do your worst~!”

What the hell did he think this was one of his acting classes?! What the hell was he doing?! Why was he hesitating?! He was the most annoying one! Surely he could live without him! Right?! RIGHT?!

Why was he still hesitating?! These people aren’t your-…!

Bentley could tell that this was putting Sebastian through genuine distress so he immediately got off the table and sat back down, he wanted to prove a point, not make him upset.

“Look, all I’m saying is, even though it’ll take you a while to admit it, you care, so…I decided to eavesdrop back as revenge”

“YOU WHAT-?”

“Don’t worry nothing personal, where else do you think those steel buckets for your snake venom drainage came from?”

Oh…that explained a lot actually, he looked at him with genuine surprise.

“It’s a shame ‘cause I don’t like doing it! But it’s one of the only ways I can get what you want!”

He sighed and leaned over the balcony

“Not everyone’s out to get you Seb, we opened our doors for you, I’m just saying that you should trust us a little, you’re not trapped there anymore, stop acting like a prisoner”

He reminded silent as he crossed his arms, Bentley sighed and smiled weakly.

“Well…if you’re not gonna trust me, might as well show my trust in you…a few years back some batshit arsonists set fire to my family home, it was a shitshow, I don’t remember much, but what I do remember is burning my left arm when I escaped through the window…when I woke up I had so many people around me, and I was told that I was the only one who made it out alive…I couldn’t handle being in England anymore, too many memories got tarnished, so I took my dads inheritance and moved out here…”

“…Why are you telling me this?”

“I mean you already knew so you might as well hear it from me face to face right?”

Wow. He really WAS aware of the eavesdropping, Bentley look uncharacteristically solemn as he looked down at the floor beyond the balcony

“You could’ve brought it up in any of our morning rows, but you didn’t, I appreciate that, especially since that’s an easy target to aim for”

Sebastian’s glare softened a little.

“You’re annoying, not evil, I have standards Bentley I’m not gonna bring that up, it’s beneath me”

Bentley smiled widely and his glare came right back.

“Now what?”

“You called me by my name! You never do that!”

“I’m going back inside-“

“Wait! There’s one more thing I need to talk to you about”

“Este bastardo va a ser mi muerte- What?”

Bentley rested his head against the bannister

“About your file…what you’re made up of ain’t the only thing that shocked me…everything you sold to us belonged to previous expendables yeah? Some you killed and some you didn’t?”

He knew this was going to be brought up eventually, did he regret what he did? Not really, but if the others had an unclouded view of right and wrong that little tidbit could risk his security.

“What about it?”

“You would’ve done the same to us if we died yeah?”

“Yeah…”

“Well…thank god we didn’t!”

“…Are you telling me NOTHING I did back then bothers you? At all?”

“Look mate if my melanin was taken away from me I’d kill some bastards too…funny…I never realised you had the same haircut as me back then, good to know some things haven’t died out during the time you were gone eh?”

“I’ll never understand you”

Bentley shrugged his shoulders

“Okay, stop trying then!”

Bentley then walked back inside to join the others as they continued laughing over the ridiculous things Valen was making the puppets say…maybe he was right? It’s been two months and none of them have backstabbed him. He put his cig out and joined them inside, watching quietly as Bentley and Valen made the puppets do ridiculously raunchy things as Lena laughed her ass off, maybe this wasn’t so bad.

Maybe things will be okay.

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One thing I’ve noticed throughout my time lurking in the Hellaverse fandoms is that every Mammon simp I’ve come across is chill and real as fuck, like I get it you’ve convinced me he’s fine af I can’t fix him but I don’t care

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Is the Corn Kidz 64 fandom dead or not because this guy is the epitome of peak character design and I’m tired of pretending he’s not

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I need him sjsnsnsnan

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OH MY GOD???

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Details on the other human characters that have already shown up or WILL show up later down the line.

Elizabeth “Ellie” Price

•Age: 24

•Her voice claim is Tiffany Tatreau

•She met Lena in uni and the two have been close friends ever since

•Her hair is naturally brown but she dyes it strawberry blonde (do not call it ginger unless you want to hear her scream at you)

•McBling fashion fanatic, even if she has to go out to do the bare minimum she is ALWAYS fashion forward

•Became a model for an agency that definitely isn’t run by her family (poor woman isn’t escaping the nepo baby allegations)

•Throughout her career she has MASTERED the craft of becoming a wolf in sheep’s clothing, if she senses that you could become a threat to her friends she will snuff you out without remorse

•Due to having an easy life compared to the others she’s very air-headed and easygoing

•Blunt to a comical degree, she genuinely doesn’t see the things she calls Sebastian as insults at all she just can’t read a room to save her life

•Sweet talks her way into everything

•Has begged Lena to do a photoshoot with her multiple times and she always refuses

•”LENA COME ON OUR FACE CARDS ARE LETHAL JUST THIS ONCE PLEASE!”

•”No”

•”WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO?!”

Damien Volkov

•Age: 24

•His voice claim is Harry Lloyd (specifically the voice he does for Viktor in Arcane)

•Lena’s coworker and head of risk analysis (has a little workplace crush on her)

•Trad goth, his work outfits are always top notch, him and Lena like matching together

•Easily frightened despite his sharp appearance, pretend to shoot a gun at him and watch him get a heart attack in real time!

•He’s actually quite cheerful despite everything, he really likes flowers

•Russian

•Eventually learns about Sebastian thanks to a chance encounter by the pier (not yet though)

•Cheap as fuck, his money’s important to him

Alfred Draxler

•Age: 59

•His voice claim is Matthew Rhys

•Lena’s fuckass dad (we hate him here)

•He’s where she gets the British from

•Urbanshade employee

•Helped create the Hadal Division as a way to scratch the itch he has regarding biological advancements

•Genuinely sees what he’s doing to other people as good and all for the sake of progress

•Got severely injured by a subject during experimentation and now walks with a permanent limp as a result (serves him right)

•He’s still looking for Lena but he’s had no results regarding her whereabouts

•His wife left him, he doesn’t care lmao

•A chill enough guy outside of work, but his occupation has consumed him to the point where that’s all he is now

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Hadalpelagic Zone Masterlist

I was bored one day so I started writing a fanfic about a “what if?” Scenario. What if the fuckass Roblox fish actually escaped the Hadal Blacksite as the sole survivor thanks to a bunch of hapless emotionally immature 20-somethings and now has to live with them to make sure his family isn’t investigated? This is what the result of that would look like. Yes this is an oc x canon fic because I love that shit it’s silly.

The Main Fic

Part 1 - Basic Introductions

Part 2 - The Trials And Tribulations Of Being Stuck In An Underwater Facility

Part 3 - Solemn Promises

Part 4 - Great! Now what?

Part 5 - We’re Bringing The Band Back Together

Part 6 - Where Are They Now?

Part 7 - Unexpected Snitching

Part 8 - Piece Of Mind

Part 9 - Falling Into Place

Part 10 - A Beautiful Partnership

Part 11 - Common Ground

Part 12 - Method Acting

Part 13 - Do Monsters Dream Of A Simple Hum?

Part 14 - Get A License Kids

Miscellaneous Stuff

Appearance Notes For The Human Characters

Fic Playlist (This Applies To The Characters And The Basic Plot Idk I Like Making Playlists For Things I Make)

Information On The Other Human Characters