#[[I had to rewrite it after my program crashed]]

[skeren]

Now, when I was a girl, things aren’t like they are now. The whole situation wasn’t the same, you could say. Yes, we had aliens, and boy were they a shock, and then there was the whole magic thing that went on the rise, but really, it was just sort of a slow build of increasingly ridiculous things. People coming out with this or that for attention, you could say.

Honestly, the alien thing took the longest to catch even when it came first.

But, what I’m saying is that the system we use these days wasn’t really a thing back when I was a girl. No, I remember the whole evolution of normal every day heroes rescuing puppies without any skills to girls holding up burning buildings to help firefighters, to fellows fighting off alien invasions. You know, the normal hero to Superhero progression. If such a thing could even be called that. Similarly, I can remember the not so inverse of that, where criminals went from thieves in banks, to villains trying to blow up city blocks, to Supervillains trying to kill off anyone who refused to divest themselves down below a billion dollars in the world.

Well, that was only one man, really, a charismatic and frankly handsome boy I knew as a child who remained too old for me for the entirety of his life. Not that he would have had any chance to survive to the modern day given how long ago it was and how everyone who didn’t want to share their money came down on him like a house collapse.

It was a real shame, honestly, because his legacy was breathtaking and I think he would have wanted to see it, if he could have. Probably to set the whole thing on fire, if I’m being entirely honest, he wasn’t into capitalism, was that once-friend of mine, but he still would have been at least impressed by how far everyone had come.

You see, because the very first Supervillian had a proper cause, the desire to level the financial playing field and generally benefit the world, the ones who came after had to either be very bad or very good and they were all treated equally under the law.

They were not treated equally by the public.

No, both Superheroes and Supervillains had a certain weight to them in the public eye, and both sides of that line were equally profitable. Admittedly, Supervillains had to source their materials though second hand suppliers and their everything tended to be more expensive because of it, but just like Superheroes had sponsors and fans, so did a lot of Supervillains. Even the really awful ones who everyone agreed really needed to be arrested.

Others though? Eh, others just wanted this or that cause and would lay low for years between them, if their goals got met. Today’s villain was one of those, actually, and I was somewhat relieved to see her out and about, actually. I remembered when this one got started, if you want the truth. I finally had made my way into a late teen appearance and had finally felt I could marry and have some children without it being horrifyingly squicky, you could say.

The downside of a natural talent that worked like the fountain of youth, I suppose. It utterly ruined my aging and I’d looked like a small child for a ridiculous part of the last century.

But! I had a teenage daughter now! She was even one of the Superheroes on the field right these days. Mind you, the only reason she was out here was because I could give her supervision. I, much like the handful of others with abilities like mine, was a good inclusion to any teen team. I had the aesthetic of the children, but the maturity and experience of a grown ass adult who could keep any of them from getting killed. It was a win to everyone in the know, honestly. I was exactly on such a team last time I met this villain, actually, and I could see that she recognized me at the start of the fight.

It was flattering.

Of course, none of that stopped the disaster from kicking off toward the end of the fight. Well, what I made the end of the fight anyway when one of the girls, my youngest’s best friend, ended up giving a mortified ‘mom, please!’ to stop her teasing over one of her male teammates.

See, fights like this? They were publicity stunts and everyone knew it. So a slip like that? That could lose the girl her mother if anyone actually knew, and while the children panicked, coming to a mortified halt as dawning horror over what had just been said spread, I went on the move.

Knowing who was behind the mask on the other side meant that I had a vested interest in keeping the girl out of jail. Our children were sweet, very cute in fact, and the parents of my daughter’s friend were awkwardly and hilariously in love. I wasn’t going to let anything happen to them just because money and a conscience had them pulling the villain card instead of the hero one.

It was more profitable, if not legal the way government sponsored heroes were. Which is why I ended up throwing jammers up to break the signal and contacted my people on the ground to wipe the footage before it hit the internet. Then I went after the cameraman nearby. They knew what was going on, thankfully, and gave it up without a fight, but, well.

That charming fellow when I was stuck as a ten year old little girl? The one who decided the rich needed to be handled? I’d shown that boy that meme. I’d shown him the posts and the half serious and half humorous discourse over the concept. And he’d shown me all kinds of things technology could do. Sure, it might have been well over a century since those days, but I was a spry girl, barely looking seventeen even now, and I’d grown with the times. And that meant I was going to save a silly group of children from the consequences of their actions. Supervillain didn’t mean bad, but I liked to make sure that in my general vicinity that Superhero meant good. Even if it might, maybe, mean a bit of a city brown out, the loss of footage, and a little bit of censorship. Later that evening, I invited the girls, both the mother villainess and my daughter’s friend, over for dinner, nothing complicated, but there was pie, and that was really all that mattered when it came down to it. A treat to ward off the scare while I kept an eye on the media. Of course, I also used the visit to try to teach the young woman how not to get caught in the future, but that was just good sense. Someone had to.

The teen superhero accidentally just called the supervillain “Mom”.

[bewitched-hours]

Forsaken | 007n7 x Robot!Reader (Platonic)

My friend suggested a fic with the reader being a robot but with an AI kinda like Neuro-Sama(iykyk) and I thought it's be whole to see 007n7 in dad mode again so yeah-

Reader's pronouns will be They/Them for this one!

You couldn't remember anything. Your chip was pretty much fried.

You were forsaken for actions you didn't remember. Your lifeless, robotic body was simply found by Builderman and although he was ecstatic to fix you up, you quickly proved to be a challenge.

You didn't show emotions but your programming was clearly flawed.

You'd have moments where you would crash out of nowhere or overheat for seemingly no reason. Usually this resulted in you either collapsing or completely freezing up because your AI had no idea what it was meant to do.

So, 007n7 was called to check on your code. It was like looking at a digital junkyard.

He had to eventually try to rewrite your entire code, removing concerning lines that indicated at you being built originally for brutal killings. He didn't even want to know if it was for better or for worse but seeing as you were brought to the Survivor cabin, it was likely for the better.

When you powered back on, he even tried to make you feel more lifelike. He had you learn on your own to mimic emotions and develop a personality.

He was actually quite proud of it despite the other survivors not really caring all too much.

You were rarely chosen for rounds, mostly being left behind to keep the cabin clean and prepare everyone some snacks and drinks for their return. Wether a round ended in victory or not, you still encouraged that they celebrated it.

007n7 didn't even program the latter into you. You had simply watched the others handle the kitchen and learned from observations and experimenting. Most of what you made was Pizza though because it was usually Elliot in the Kitchen.

But as time went on, you became more and more lifelike. And the other survivors treated you more like a person than an AI upon noticing it.

You had such a gentle and cheerful personality, only carefree outside of rounds and getting serious when you were in one. You had even grown protective over your fellow survivors and they didn't need detective work to know you were beginning to favour the ex-hacker.

Whatever, they figured it was because your code somehow recognized him as your 'creator' of sorts.

But 7n7 wasn't exactly thrilled by the way you treated him. It was too much like you were seeing him as a 'father', and it honestly scared him.

He was still grieving over failing his son and now he accidentally made himself the father to an AI? He couldn't even begin to figure out how he should feel about it.

At first he tried to discourage the behaviour, telling you not to see him as 'Father' and call him by his name. You listened, but only added to your coding to call him by his name, not changing his dynamic to you in the slightest.

Then he switched to a more neutral stance after the others began teasing him on having two kids now. He began being more gentle with you but usually tried to find excuses to send you off without questions. Of course, you would never dare to question your creator's commands. So you usually went off to do whatever ridiculous task he had given you before idling again.

But then he finally broke, and it felt as though the icy walls he had built began melting. He even started calling you "Kid" instead of your name half the time. For some reason, it made you happy. Especially when he messed up the artificial hair you've made yourself with a light chuckle.

He just couldn't escape it. You were his child now and upon changing the dynamic status for both 007's and c00lkidd's directories, you also began to learn of a new emotion...

Guilt.

Anything you'd like to request/ask? Check out my pinned post first and I'll be happy to write up whatever you want!

[orcelito]

Mildly infuriating. The VM we use in our labs decided to freak out for lab today. And it crashed literally RIGHT as I was typing in the last line of code I needed before I was done

But thankfully I still had my code backup I sent to myself last week. Evidently a very good thing to have done. And since I'd already figured out what to do, it only took me an additional 25 or so minutes to redo the code I'd done earlier. Which I was using the VM bc it has the gcc compiler I wasnt able to get working on my computer, But my TA mentioned there are online gcc compilers, which you can use for small programs. So I just loaded one of those up to finish it there. They SAID the VMs would be back after about half an hour, but I don't fucking trust them so I went and redid my work anyways. Got the checkoff. Whatever. Thankfully I didn't need to have the graph done for the checkoff, so I just need to go thru and redo all the comments I'd skipped while rewriting my code, do the graph, and then I'll be done.

So like. It's fine, ultimately. But for Fuck's Sake, this bullshit made me waste nearly an hour of my life today (bc the VM wasn't working for the first 20 minutes too, but that was it fucking up rather than it being completely offline like it was for the 2nd thing). Mildly Infuriating. But What the fuck ever.

[erinhime83]

Okay, so, um…yeah.  This one is…interesting.  Basically I had been searching around for art I had done of Genetic Experiment, mostly to see how much I had changed things, and can across the snippet of the What-if story I had written as the bonus chapter the first time I had written Genetic Origins. After fumbling around and thankfully finding it again to reread, my muse sort of remembered that there was a point where I had the idea of rewriting GE to that version instead.

So then it was all like ‘hey, we should actually do that!  How would we go about it, though?’

Like, I was seriously thinking about how I could make it work with having Bri not be the titular genetic experiment but rather the planet of Demeter. But that doesn’t truly work, because that’s not discovered until the second book, plus there’s no real stakes involved with her per se.  So my muse sort of start smashing ideas together and ended up with this.

So, the what-if here is what if COSMOS did what they were suggesting when Dr. Wyatt signs Bri up for testing before she was born, where they allow her to stay with her parents for the duration and she gets to have a normal life on the colony? She’s still being genetically altered, but it’s less noticeable because they’re being a little deceit about it. (Also, with the original What-if designs I had done, I had made Bri and her family Caucasian, so I’m running with that idea.) 

This also allows me to age up the characters, with Bri just recently turning 20.  She’s studying to become a bioengineer like her father, and is also a bit antisocial. She doesn’t have any friends on Coelus outside of her brothers, preferring the company of machines.  (This is mostly to make her relationships on Demeter a little more meaningful, and so she wouldn’t be really losing anything when she stays there.)  She’s lived pretty much a normal life other than the occasional experiment session that she has no clue what it’s about.  Its just something her father has forced her to do all her life.  She thinks she’s just a normal girl.

But the thing is is that they have been doing shit to her.  They did actually alter her hair color, but since she’s white, no one thinks anything about her going from a brunette when she was little to blond as she got older, despite the fact that the rest of her family all have dark hair.  They didn’t quite alter her figure, but they altered her metabolism so she’d never get fat, as well as made her abnormally strong and fast.  (Some of these traits were testing to be given to investors, while some are meant to make the perfect woman.)  She also has accelerated healing.

When she was eighteen, she decided to take part in a few exploration missions, and this was when COSMIOS decided to make their move.  See, one thing Dr. Wyatt didn’t take into consideration, being a young father at the time, was that every single girl who had been signed up for the program has disappeared at some point.  They sent Bri on a mission that was going to result in her kidnapping and being taking to another colony in order to start her brainwashing when the ship malfunctioned and that crashed onto Demeter.  (This is where Bri loses her leg, like in the original.  The difference is that she legit knows how to make the leg, since she’s done it in the past.)

Now, the thing is is that she was given the only known working dose of an immorality serum, and it just so happened that the person responsible for the serum, as well as all the samples, were on the ship with her and were all destroyed.  So she’s the only way for anyone to be able to replicate the serum.  (Yes, it’s a little Captain America-ish, but eh.  It works.)

In any case, thanks to be immortal without knowing it, Bri survives (mostly), and proceeds to spend the next month both trying to figure out where she is and making her leg.  She does come across a village where she determines that she can’t understand the people, except her grandmother was a linguist and taught her a lot of languages, so she does actually understand a lot of the words.  It just gets confusing because it’s all jumbled up and stuff.

She does quickly determine that she’s stuck on the planet, and eventually manages to land a job as a maid in a local lord’s mansion.  They took her for simple at first, since it took her a while to process what anyone was saying and she didn’t speak much herself until she did eventually figure out the language.  (She’s naturally smart, has nothing to do with the experiments.) 

While she’s working there, Damien gets sent on an errand to deliver a message from Governor Hawkins (Caserus is within this lord’s territory), where he meets Bri and is immediately smitten.  Suddenly the usually forced task of delivering messages to this guy becomes something only Damien does so he could see and spend time with Bri.  Bri, for her part, doesn’t mind, since she’s fallen for Damien as well.

Shortly after she turns twenty, Bri very nearly gets assaulted by the lord’s son.  He fires her for refusing his advances, and as luck would have it, Damien happens to be delivering a message that day, and immediately offers to hire her once he realizes she’s unemployed now, since her family was looking for a new maid. Bri agrees, because screw it, and that’s how she ends up in Caserus.

(Oh yeah, she does Bond with Sapphros during that month she's building her leg, can't forget about that!)

Damien, for his part, is the only son of the Head Dragon Rider of Caserus, and wants little to nothing to do with responsibilities.  The problems is that Black men had always held positions of power, so everyone expects Damien to follow suit.  He also has the only black dragon in the village, which doesn’t help matters at all.  He’s mostly just coasting through life right now, doing whatever he wants, since he’s twenty now and all that. 

Except people seem to expect him to settle down at this age, and he has absolutely no interest in anyone in Caserus, especially not after falling for Bri.  That’s pretty much his plan for bringing Bri to Caserus, to eventually marry her, but he doesn’t want to freak her out.  Just yet, in any case.  (Honestly, I didn’t change much about him, because he was pretty perfect from the get go.)

Shaylee is the daughter of the governor, and sort of like the village’s princess.  I had made her Asian since I had taken it from Bri, and because the idea is that the people of Demeter are way more mixed than the people of Coelus, so she just ended up with Asian eyes.  She’s still a sweet girl who’s a little unsure about Bri at first, because she’s a little jealous of Damien falling for Bri and not her, but the two of them quickly became best friends, as Bri is pretty much the first person after Damien and Danika who treats her like a person and not her father’s daughter.

Granted, people are pushing her at Damien because she’s twenty-one and still not married, but it’s not like she wants to force him into it.  (Although they might have just gotten married to shut people up has Damien never found Bri.)

Danika is thirteen now, and her backstory actually does change slightly.  See, she’s actually Damien’s half sister, with Justine Black being her stepmother (and her mother).  At first, I was going to have it where his mother died, but then decided that no, his mother is trash and ended up running away with another man at some point, leaving Marcus with the children.  It’s also why there’s an age gap between Damien and Danika.  Despite being her actual daughter, Justine cares little for Danika, who she had just because it was expected of her, and she doesn’t really get along great with Marcus’ other two children, either.  (Making, somehow, Marcus the best parent out of all of them, lol.)  Danika rebels a lot as a result, and she and Damien are close because he felt bad when she was a baby that no one really cared about her. 

She gets really excited about Bri coming to work for them, and Bri ends up becoming something of a personal servant for her.  Not quite, since Damien monopolizes her a lot, but Justine feels like someone needs to watch her, and assigns Bri to do so. 

Ian there was actually raised with her two siblings, and like before, ends up coming to Demeter on a research mission.  The difference now is that, obviously, he immediately recognizes his sister.  She’s assumed dead, but her family suspects otherwise as the true nature of COSMOS and what their father signed her up for comes to light as the family is trying to figure out what happened to their daughter and sister.  One of the reasons why he went on the mission was to hopefully find a clue to where she is and all that.  He’s still a botanist obsessed with planets, and Damien is still suspicious of him at first.

Liam is, obviously, not dead or presumed dead at any point.  However, Bri finds him when she’s taken to Coelus, so he doesn’t have a major, major part in the first book.  He’s a little unsure what he wants to be when he grows up, although his life mission now is getting justice for his sister.  I was planning on not giving him any prosthetics, because he wouldn’t have any, but then realizes that the people of Coelus might get them to enhance themselves, and thus gave him two prosthetic eyes.  But then decided that he has them because he was born blind, or else has some eye degeneration disease.

Sedgwick is just Sedgwick, included here because I put Damien in and I didn’t do jack shit to him, lol.  He’s still the commanding officer of the research mission to Demeter that Ian’s on who recognizes Bri as the important experiment that got away and proceeds to capture her and bring her back to Coelus.  It’s through him and probably stealing his tablet that she leans what she truly is and how different she truly is from everyone else.  She has an irrational fear of him at first, but she quickly realizes it’s because she’s dealt with him before, but her mind’s been wiped of the memory.

I really like Bri’s dress and design. Sure, she doesn’t feel like Bri, but I figure that could be something t’at'll change in time?  I wanted to make her pale and blond to contrast her with the Demetrian people, who have been mixed so much that they are mostly darker skinned with almond eyes.  I suppose some people end up looking like her, since no one bats an eye at her appearance, but you get my point.  I couldn’t think of a good dress at first, but ended up with this, which is simple and cute.  (She obviously wears pants under it for a good chunk of the story.)  I switched Shaylee to purple because I wanted to give Bri the pink because I figured it’d look good with the blond.

I do like the Asian features on Shaylee and Danika, just to show that it happens.  With Danika it’s done to show that she and Damien aren’t full siblings.  Danika as a thirteen year old looks really great, honestly.  And damn, Liam with that jacket. I really have no idea why I put all my guys in jackets, lol.  But overall, I didn’t change much with the designs. 

I sort of want to write this story, because I feel like it’d be more interesting and make more sense than I have right now.  (Also, it allows me to get rid of the offensive ‘half-wit’ community thing.  I had come up with that idea back in 2005 when certain things weren’t as offensive, and having them send off their developmentally challenged children to a single location made sense.  Now, I cringe at it and the idea of it, and…yeah.)

Who knows if I’ll actually do it, though, but I just wants to throw this out there!

[luminenwalker]

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~[ Shattered banners and broken blades. ]~

Steam Draft 10H5 - 'Don't open the door.' That was his first thought, but far from his last. The glint in there under the flickering bulb made him barrel through once he saw. Overwhelming rage was his next.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Draft 10H5 - Listening to the crackle of static on my CB, I'm sitting here thinking about shit on the road. So you've got billions of dollars running through the city, millions of people, and the best part of the region all in one spot, but we still haven't fixed the dustbowl.//CD1764-FL25611

Steam Rewrite 10 - Pale blue light led the way through the scarred, sacred corridors under the honeycombed mess. Old, tired eyes behind the lenses he wore watched as the procedure began. He'd be made new again today.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Rewrite 10 - Driving along. Glass, nails, and all manner of nonsense on the street. Kept driving, cause i've got good tires. Hit a board of hooked nails, and nearly got stopped. Kept driving. Get off that road while the carjackers shot at me. World going to hell.//wire-CD1764-FL25527

Patreon Draft 11H5 - 'Cold was setting in, but that didn't seem to matter to his contact. She was standing there in the usual as if the sun was still cooking the earth. Something was off about her.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Draft 11H5 - Can't sleep lately. Brain feels like it's in a void, as hours pass into hours and months disappear. Staring at the aether with the dregs of ash on my lips, watching eternity slip by. I have no idea how I got here, or how to get out, but I know who I am finally.//wire-CD1764-FL25612

Patreon Rewrite 11 - Couldn't move. She didn't know what was wrong. Heart was beating out of control. She could only see the floor now. Cold and twitching mess of a body. Her journey was over already short as it was.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Rewrite 11 - Sitting in the back of a room in Covedale. Tired. Spent the day walking around. Completely exhausted and watching things. Teacher's a cougar. Half the guys stare when they think they can get away with it. Idiots controlled by base impulses. So am I.//wire-CD1764-FL25528

Steam Draft 12H5 - See the sights, she said. Take in the glow after dark, hit the bars, and find something to entertain yourself. He stumbled around in a haze all night, watching the sky. Good stuff.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Draft 12H5 - Hearing reports from the Badlands about some kind of raid on a compound. Place had a hundred people supposedly. Traders, self sufficient, built around an old factory. Helicopters hit the place, fires broke out, and by morning it was gone. No explanation yet.//wire-CD1764-FL25613

Steam Rewrite 12 - Cold and calculated motion, from a well oiled machine mind, crashed through the window. The driver would not live through the night. Hunted and removed from the face of the Earth. Burned and buried.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Rewrite 12 - A cold and calculating well oiled machine is behind our government. Artificial intelligence in every line, in every database, and every camera. Watching us, pulling our strings, and programming our society. Paradoxically caged by us while it runs us.//wire-CD1764-FL25529

Patreon Draft 13H5 - Colours felt too gaudy to stand in the midst of with the hangover. Far too bright and confusing, in the blur of neon and old spraypaint, for his fogged and burning mind. Far too bright.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Draft 13H6 - Been visiting the terminal around the airport. Drive for a living. Saw some shit recently. Lit up a smoke, leaning against my cab, and I see this old fuck walk out of the South entrance surrounded by bodyguards. Weird guns, all wearing logos that weren't Tower.//wire-CD1764-FL25614

Patreon Rewrite 13 - Stalked in a haze of blood. Men behaving as animals walked the empty streets around the warehouse. The hunt had began, the show was on, and your humanity meant nothing to the madmen. They want you.//cpd-Luminen

Wire Rewrite 13 - Stalker's trying to get in through my window again. I put bars between me and the fire escape. I can still hear him testing it every night. Door's barred as well. Everything's locked. And, he still thinks he can somehow get in. Why won't he leave?//wire-CD1764-FL25530

~[ You can hear the banshee's cry under the chimarae moon. ]~

You can hear the howl of the banshee's cry under the glow of the chimarae moon. Shattered banners stained crimson surround you, hanging over the ancient battlefields of the long abandoned fields in this little break in the frozen forest. Ten thousand broken blades polished to near mirror shine glinted on the frosted ground. Shafts of pale light echoed downwards through the treetrops from the ancient veins in the sky. You can hear the pounding of the eternally beating drums coming from your damned veins the moment the howling began. The hunters can already smell your blood before you realise you've been nicked. Thorn bushes several miles back damned you in the darkness. Spilling your smell and taste onto the ground, and making you obvious. The hunt has begun and you're already trailing behind the hunters in your ignorance. They know where you are. They can hear your ancestors in your veins. And now, they're stalking you in the cold light of the twilight days. They had no more need for darkness or subtlety here, for there's nowhere left to hide for you or them anymore. You will die here, rang the voices. You will die. This forest is not a forest, the sky above is not actually the sky, your blood is not your blood, and your death will not be a death. Your language is lacking for this place. It's just confusion. Endless confusion in here. Hunted by never-born things from a void, lit by a sky of something that isn't light, in a forest where even the air is alive and everything wants to kill, while you bleed your history. A nonsensical dreamscape you can't comprehend how you arrived in.

[holydramon]

I guess for reference the aus I sometimes refer to offhandedly that haunt my mind are (apologies that some have multiple names)…

Fatal Exception Error:

- Super Danganronpa 2 AU, with Chiaki as the protagonist

- This is basically a take on the redo/time travel concept I’ve seen other people do, with the main conceit of this AU being that the Neo World Project crashes and restarts during Chiaki’s execution (it was not programmed to handle what would happen if all the Usami backups were destroyed)

- Chiaki, Monomi, and Monokuma are all aware of what happened last game, and the game is even more them playing a big game of chess than the last time. Some things stay the same, but Monokuma does throw in new motives this time around.

- Chiaki tries to use her knowledge of what she knows about everyone and the events of last time to use and prevent her friends being killed but will she succeed..? (no it’s a rewrite people still die)

- I accidentally made Chiaki and Peko gay for each other and now that’s a large part of the AU. like I swear I did not make this AU with this in mind it just happened.

Your Angel or Your Devil (aka Deal With a Tiny Devil or YAoYD):

- my take on the Hikari’s partner is PicoDevimon AU

- the idea is mainly just a while rewrite of canon but only writing the relevant things that’d change, plus some extra content that just exists within the canon of this AU

- this is actually also a digimon tri rewrite in disguise because a large part of it is trying to set up tri and have it make sense in the broader sense of the series

- I have had this one the longest and have a LOT of thoughts about it but since I have not rewatched Adventure or 02 for a while I am not sure how many of said thoughts actually make sense/fit character or lore wise

Apollo Justice Quadrilogy (aka The Second Quadrilogy or Apollo Justice: Retrial):

- Rewrite of the second Ace Attorney trilogy, meant to actually progress from AA4 left off

- Is a quadrilogy because there are four games! One being Athena Cykes: Ace Attorney which is the third game, is purely Athena POV, and is a Dual Destinies rewrite. I debated moving this around timeline wise but legitimately I think it works best as right after my planned second game.

- Some main things to know are: Phoenix does not become a lawyer again, the sibling reveal happens second game and based a lot around the Gramaryes/Thalassa, and the last game is centered around the Gavin brothers and why Kristoph is Like That

anyway yeah. if you have questions about these let me know I guess because these three haunt my brain 24/7. I will note if you ask about these now it may be a while til I answer tho cause school is a pain.

[random-meme-bot]

God I really need to do something with Trisanity because I swear to God it, Surge & Kit with Nina Cortex just works too well and I can't believe nobody else sees my vision.

Putting a cut here because I know I'm going to ramble a lot.

Like, they are such perfect reflections of each other I'm amazed they aren't even from the same franchise.

All of them were "adopted" by an evil scientist at a young age point of which they were implanted with the idea that they were evil and that's all they will ever be.

None of them have a real motivation as to why they hate the main characters, why does Surge/Kit hate Sonic & Tails, because without them Starline wouldn't have created them, why does Nina want to defeat Crash & Coco, to prove that she can do what her uncle is unable to do.

All three of them were made cyborgs as both a way of controlling them and enhancing their abilities.

The main difference which makes the idea of these three interacting so interesting, is that while Surge & Kit started to doubt Starline's lie and turned against him when he dismissed their origins as useless information, Nina completely accepted it.

And, as cliche as this might sound, the reason why Nina's brainwashing worked while Surge's & Kit's didn't is because Surge & Kit were made what they were as an act of spite while Nina was made as an act of love.

Starline adopted/kidnapped/created 2 kids and made fake vage back stories which he implanted into them and then trained and hypnotize them in order to turn them into Sonic & Tails in the least amount of time posible.

On the other hand, Neo Cortex is Nina's biological uncle and he started to take care of her after the rest of the Cortex family died in a fire (that Cortex may or may not have caused), Nina grew up thinking that the Cortex were a long line of evil scientists instead of a circus family not because Cortex brainwashed her, but because he feels ashamed of their origins and whishes that his family would've supported his dream of becoming a scientist, he replaced Nina's hands with robotic ones programmed to crush any animal they come into contact out of fear that her love of animals would've moved her away from the path of evil, while also making said arms incredibly versatile as positive reinforcement, and in the same vein as Cortex rewriting their origins, he sent Nina to the Academy of evil, an school Cortex himself studied in and claims to have fond memories of.

Nina wasn't made evil to serve as weapons like Surge & Kit, she was made evil because Cortex wanted to give her the life he wishes hed had, which is why Nina never questioned Cortex, because unlike Starline, he didn't rush the process.

Starline made vague backstories for Surge & Kit which made them question why they do what they do, while Cortex rewrote their entire family history to the point of making fake paintings of his parents, Starline turned Surge & Kit into cyborgs to make them easier to control and improve their abilities but never told them about it making them question why they are able to resist massive damage with no problem, while Cortex turned Nina into a cyborg under the premise that he was giving her an upgrade, Surge & Kit were trained reclusively making them question why they don't have any memories prior to meeting Starline, while Nina was trained in an school alongside other similar students...

Surge & Kit grew up in an environment full of holes that made them question everything and then made them forget they even asked, while Nina grew up in an environment expertly crafted to make her believe that that was the norm, that it was stupid to even ask questions.

Going back to the original post this whole thing started with, All three of them got molded by the hands of an evil mastermind, destroyed and rebuilt, manipulated and controlled when they tried to gain their own autonomy, and the idea that they are evil is rooted so deep into their minds they can ever hope to figure out what they actually want and live a normal life.

The difference being that Nina doesn't know, she doesn't know she was molded by Neo, she thinks that's the same mold as any other Cortex, she doesn't know she was destroyed and manipulated away from liking animals, she thinks it is a side effect of her metal hands (which is also implied she got really young so she might not even remember having normal hands), she doesn't question what she wants or if she will ever live a normal life because for her she's already living a normal life doing what she wants, what evey other member of the Cortex family wanted, the same thing that any other person she's ever interacted with wanted.

And here's where things get interesting, because they all represent a different side of where they could go.

Surge & Kit represents a path in which Nina met someone who had been in a similar situation to her, someone who actually allowed her to for the first time since she has memory, pet an animal without harming it, someone who made her question everything. A path in which Nina joins them as the Knuckes of the group and all three break free from the paths created for them and are able to do their own thing.

While Nina represents, a path in which Surge & Kit met someone who had been in a similar situation as them, someone who for the first time actually cared about them and saw them as family, someone who would offer them the chance of not having to question anything again. A parh in which Surge & Kit joins them as Crash's & Coco's counterparts and all three embrace the lie and live as villains.

(There's also the whole Surge & Kit having trust issues with Cortex because he reminds them too much of Starline while Cortex originally hates them but grows to appreciate them as Nina, Surge & Kit reminds him of himself, N.Brio & N.Gin when they were students at the academy of evil, which I won't go into detail because, this is already as long as it is [sorry OP, I know this was about Metal Sonic and I completely derailed it out of nowhere with an essay.])

There is genuinely so much you could do with this trio and so many ways you could take the story I genuinely feel like a crazy conspiracy guy because it's so clear I can't be the only one who sees this right‽‽‽

Anyway sorry again OP, I really need to make an actual post about this instead of rambling in the replies.

[dandylovesturtles]

12, 18, and 29 for the fic ask!

12. Do you have a playlist for your current WIPs?

not really...... I talked before about how the song dead girl in the pool by girl in red is kind of my song for IMBI but I don't have a whole playlist set up for it. It's not something I do very often (I'm boring sorry lol).

For Corrupted Upgrade I was initially toying with using lyrics from Viva Las Vengeance by Panic! At the Disco for the title. I ended up not doing that obviously but still

Hacking at my feed, act like you are me No one really cares (really cares) Nothing's really real, no one really feels Nothing to declare (to declare)

I don't wanna be anonymous But, I don't wanna be you In a city full of promises Nothing rings true

I think it fits lol

18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic?

MMMM... this is cheating a little because it's not one line but this bit from Tapping Out:

“Yep, that thing,” says Leo, his voice far too cheery. “Don’t worry, Angelo, I’ll take care of it. Give us ten minutes.”

Donnie doesn’t want ten minutes. He wants ten years and then some. A moment of peace for every one stolen from him by the krang.

He picks up another wrench and flings it. There’s a crash as it knocks something over.

“Twenty minutes,” Leo amends, and then he’s opening the door.

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic.

I initially had a completely different fight scene written for the final confrontation in Corrupted Upgrade but I ended up cutting it and rewriting it from scratch because I didn't like it very much - I kept some of the dialogue but that's it. Here's a bit of it (under the cut):

Donnie had the audacity to pout, lowering just slightly on his robot arms. “Well you’re no fun.”

“I’m serious, Dee.” Leo straightened up, lowering his sword. This wasn’t working - it was time for a different approach. “No more tricks. You stick with your tech-bo and I won’t open any more portals. Mano a mano. How’s that sound?” 

“It sounds like you’re the one playing a trick-”

“Ninja honor here. I open a portal, you send the big robot after me.” He grinned, giving Donnie a one-armed shrug. “You have all the power here, Lord Othello von Ryan. What do you say?”

Donnie’s eyebrow quirked behind his visor, but after a moment’s contemplation he lowered himself to the ground, planting his feet and retracting the arms of his battleshell.

“Fine.” He smirked. “It’s been awhile since I’ve kicked your tail with just my tech-bo.”

“Uh, you have never beaten me, just for the record.” Leo grinned back, raising the odachi again. “And you won’t this time either.”

They quickly fell into a rhythm Leo was familiar with - Donnie with his quick, dancing hits and Leo with bigger, heavier strikes with his sword. With the bo, the goal was to use the opponent’s weight against them, and Leo, with his two-handed sword, had a lot of weight to throw around. He knew how to watch for that, though. 

His goal now, up close, wasn’t to win, anyway. It was to finally break through to his stupid brother so they could go home already.

“Okay, so like I was saying, we’re both hooked up to a machine that has us trapped in a virtual reality-”

“You’re still going on about that?” Donnie rolled his staff around his neck, and Leo just barely ducked the swipe. “You know I don’t believe you.”

“You have to believe me, because if you don’t then we’re going to be stuck here until we die of dehydration, or electrocution, or… bed sores or something!”

“Hah! As if the Purple Dragons could have programmed an actual functioning virtual reality without my help!”

“They probably stole some experimental code or something. If you’d just stop being so stubborn then you could look at it all you wanted!”

“I already know that it’s fake so what’s the point! Now!” He swung his bo at Leo’s chest, and he just barely managed to block. “Are you going to fight back or are you just going to dodge all day?”

“I don’t want to hurt you-”

“Hah! If this is a virtual reality then why would we even feel pain?”

“Because it’s a really mean virtual reality that’s hooked to our nervous system!”

“That would be highly experimental and incredibly dangerous!”

“I know that which is why I would really like to get out now- Gah!”

Donnie got in a hit on his arm, and it hurt; even with a normal bo staff it would have, but the titanium in his weapon was serious business.

Donnie took the opening to his advantage: he started to pummel Leo on both sides, and despite his best efforts to block he started getting smacked around. In the arms, in the legs, in the plastron. Donnie wasn’t letting up, and Leo realized that he was out for blood in a way he never had been during training.

He wasn’t listening. He was still trying to hurt him.

Thanks for the ask!

[halogenrobotics]

Prelude: How the possession in my idea list works

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood.

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtraps. Glitchtrap doesn't see any other way however and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

I hope that cleared up some confusion. If it didn't, let me know in the comments below!

[kitty-c4t]

This isn't an idea, but something I wrote to better explain how Vanessa's possession works in my outlines

Prelude: How the possession in my outlines works

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood. (In this universe, patient 46 doesn't exist and the lines in their tapes about them misreporting their childhood experiences are moved into Vanessa's tapes. Also any references to courts in Vanessa's tapes are replaced with lines that imply Vanessa was the one who told th therapist about her "abusive" childhood.)

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

Gonna just hope they won't come back

Also how did the police react to the death of therapist?

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

This isn't an idea, it is something I wrote to explain how Vanessa's possession works in my outlines.

Prelude: How the possession in my outlines works

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood. (In this universe, patient 46 doesn't exist and the lines in their tapes about them misreporting their childhood experiences are moved into Vanessa's tapes. Also any references to courts in Vanessa's tapes are replaced with lines that imply Vanessa was the one who told th therapist about her "abusive" childhood.)

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

Oh OUCH. Poor Vanessa :(

[starsfic]

Sup, this isn't really an idea, but more of an explanation of how the possession worked in my idea list. I thought you might be interested in reading it!

Prelude: How the possession in my outlines worked

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood. (In this universe, patient 46 doesn't exist and the lines in their tapes about them misreporting their childhood experiences are moved into Vanessa's tapes. Also any references to courts in Vanessa's tapes are replaced with lines that imply Vanessa was the one who told th therapist about her "abusive" childhood.)

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

I hope that cleared up some confusion. 

*writing it down in my notebook*

Thank you!

[cakeslildumpster]

WELCOME BACK CAKE! First I need to give you this giant blurb

Prelude: How the possession in this post works

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood. (In this universe, patient 46 doesn't exist and the lines in their tapes about them misreporting their childhood experiences are moved into Vanessa's tapes. Also any references to courts in Vanessa's tapes are replaced with lines that imply Vanessa was the one who told the therapists about her "abusive" childhood.)

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you will see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

Heyy, thanks! Not sure how long I'll be back for but I'll leave it open for today and see how well i can handle this, testing the waters of my mental state since things seem stable enough

Anyways, this actually explains quite a but lol, and I'd say it is a concept i quite enjoy

[ari-continues-to-exist]

This isn't really an idea, it is someone I wrote to help people understand how Vanessa's possession in my outlines worked.

Prelude: How the possession in my outlines works

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood. (In this universe, patient 46 doesn't exist and the lines in their tapes about them misreporting their childhood experiences are moved into Vanessa's tapes. Also any references to courts in Vanessa's tapes are replaced with lines that imply Vanessa was the one who told th therapist about her "abusive" childhood.)

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

I hope that cleared up some confusion. 

Ahh! That does clear up some confusion, thank you!

That is very interesting, I like it! Ah, So Vanny is and isn’t Vanessa here

I actually love how Malhare isn’t intended to control things and that actually possessing someone tires him out!

And Hurray more trauma for Vanessa! :)

[emarli-the-doodler]

Sup, this isn't really an idea, but more of an explanation of how the possession worked in my idea list. I thought you might be interested in reading it!

Prelude: How the possession in my outlines worked

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood.

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

I hope that cleared up some confusion. If it didn't, let me know!

Excuse me?? why is this so good?? I love how possession works in your ideas tbh its literally inspo- :OOOOc

[lauralifeleaf]

GUESS WHOS BACK!?

It me, bot boi. I have returned with several new ideas that I would like to share you!

This first one isn't really an idea, but more of an explanation.

Prelude: How the possession in my outlines works

I have noticed that a lot of people are a bit confused on how the possession here works, so I wanted to clarify it with this little addendum of sorts. My version would have Vanessa initally black out occasionally for the first month or so after her initial possession. They would happen more specifically when she has her therapy visits. This is also where GlitchTrap/Afton attempts to rewrite her childhood memories to include an abusive father figure (presumably like him) to try and make her more obedient.

This is contrary to Vanessa's actual childhood, which was fairly standard and had 2 normal loving parents. It should be noted that in this universe they died in a car crash the year before the events of Help Wanted. All the therapists would play along as a way to diagnose her (or something idk) before eventually telling her that her memories don't line up with what her patient report sheet (or whatever they use) says about her childhood. (In this universe, patient 46 doesn't exist and the lines in their tapes about them misreporting their childhood experiences are moved into Vanessa's tapes. Also any references to courts in Vanessa's tapes are replaced with lines that imply Vanessa was the one who told the therapists about her "abusive" childhood.)

This gets rid of all the work Glitchtrap puts in and Vanessa original memories come back the overwhelming shock of which causes her to freeze up, and during this time she blacks out and Glitchtrap takes control of her and kills the therapist. He would then get her back to her apartment where she would regain consciousness and be none the wiser to her therapists fate. Controlling Vanessa directly takes a lot of energy from Glitchtrap and tires him out since he isn't intended to "control" humans just be manipulative. This is why he can't take direct control of Vanessa and has to resort to attempting to mentally gaslight her.

This happens 5 times before Glitchtrap says "screw this" and decides to create Vanny. He doesn't really want to do this, as he will be creating a different persona. This persona will be "programmed" to be subservient to him. However there is always a risk that since they are effectively their own person, this seperate personality can decide to not listen to the instructions correctly or do them their own way. They can also have their own goals that conflict with Glitchtrap's (something that you see in idea 6). He doesn't see any other way however, and is getting impatient and wants to start being evil again quickly. So he creates Vanny out of his own agony power thing and some of Vanessa's emotions. He uses ones that are still hurting from her parents death, duplicates and then corrupts them beyond all recognition.

Vanny is "made" (for lack of a better word) to control things directly, unlike glitchtrap. As such, the experience is now completely different. At her last therapist visit, Vanessa is forced to watch herself kill someone for the first time, starting off the worst 6 months of her life.

I hope that cleared up some confusion. If it didn't, let me know in the comments below!

First of all, sorry I took so long to answer. I tend to get busy around this time of year.

Second of all, this makes total sense, and thanks for clearing this up. My brain sometimes struggles to connect the dots so this really helps clear up a lot.