#(( dont worry she respawned back in

[royalreef]

Oh right! It'll be October tomorrow, which is important to landfolk, and particularly important to her companions. Spirit of the season, and all that, and with a plenty of things for her to get dragged into in turn, not that she's complaining. Should she do something special for it? She's less certain there, especially with the timing of things... Surely beforehand there'll still be plenty to get into, as it always is.

[the-s1lly-corner]

I’ve read through some of your old posts and I gotta say…I love me some angst. May I kindly, pretty please with a plastic cherry on top, ask for TADC gang with an S/O who abstracted a while back, but then they ‘respawn’ one day with a glitch affect about them, and their memory was totally wiped? Like it was their first day in the digital world? The glitch affect doesn’t hurt them or anyone like what happened to Ragetha and Pomni btw.

TADC cast x mended!reader

so funny story i was about to sit down and work on this about 4 hours ago but then my parents said they were going to watch the fnaf movie in the garage and i literally dropped everything and watched it so uh uh. the reason the grind stopped was because of fnaf movie and now im kinda tempted to pick up my fnaf fic again anyways! i did a similar post, here! jax and caines parts here will be short, really only focusing on the glitch aspect for them in this post, since the other half has already been written!

CAINE:

just got flashed with an image but you know that scene where the iron giant is trying to pick the boy up but hes like limp or something and the giant pulls back (ive never watched iron giant i just know this clip from a meme) i think it would be like that if he tried to poof your glitching away; but like. in an emotional way, if that makes sense. like its the same kind of carefulness and worry, i think... bonus if he does more damage than not

JAX:

honestly a little too scared to even touch you out of the deep seeded fear of getting all glitchy as well. like he knows it wont spread to him, but you know...

POMNI:

similar to jax i think she would instinctively avoid touching you even though she knows its fine... the whole hand thing making her overly cautious for future scenarios, you know? i think she would slip up and accidentally bring up something you and her did before you abstracted, or call you an endearing name before abruptly stopping herself and trailing off, sad stuff. grief makes her tear between wanting to find an exit faster and trying to make you remember/stay for you

RAGATHA:

poor girl :( i think she would genuinely try to make an effort to re/befriend you and try not to have her hopes too high for the two of you to get back together. if you hear about your past relationship and want to learn more about it, shell tell you what you want to know, but i doubt she would instantly start dating you again if you suggest the two of you trying to give the relationship a second shot... i think that would need some time

KINGER:

bro is gonna be going through it, first he loses his possible wife to abstraction and now he lost you.. got you back, but you dont remember anything. on top of that you look.. off.. sure it doesnt hurt you but it still looks like it would be uncomfortable, even if it isnt

stuck between longing to rekindle your old relationship and letting you go in order to allow himself to process this grief; the third option is potential abstraction for himself

ZOOBLE:

tries not to care. they want to forget everything like you did, they were finally starting to be normal after your abstraction. but now your back in a clean slate, mind wiped and memories gone. how does someone cope with that? as much as it hurts them they think it would be best for them to pretend you were a stranger again

GANGLE:

saying it again, poor girl. mix of pomni and ragatha here i think, like she keeps messing up and verbally reminiscing before realizing you cant relate to what shes saying anymore. will tell you anything you want to know about the past, but i think it would take a lot longer for her to consider getting with you again than ragatha. for both its kind of a "i dont want them to feel obligated to try because we were together once" type deal

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

Sniper losing an eye and having to suffer the consequences (a bit of lost depth perception and couple days wait until Medic gets back to base to regrow it) and maybe a bit of swordvan thrown in

Sniper Loses an Eye HC (ft. Swordvan)

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Oops, I meant to write a hc, but wrote a mini fic, oh well.

Bare with me for some of this. It's not easy to ask Google, "Would having one eye affect sniper accuracy?" I'm pretty sure it doesn't, I was reminded that OW exists and that Ana has one eye, and she does just fine.

I uh, may have ran with swordvan a bit more than expected 😮‍💨

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Oh God. He's so fucking embarrassed. He's so upset. For one, he's embarrassed that Spy managed to stab him through the eye on the one day the respawn machine was malfunctioning. For two, he's upset because now he's reminiscing on the jokes he's made at Demo's expense. He dead ass sits in the lab for a good twenty minutes, contemplating on whether or not he should hide out in his van to save himself the ribbing he knows he's going to get from both Demo and the rest of the team, minus Medic, who is more than sympathetic to Snipers predicament. But regardless of how sympathetic he might be, Medic still needs Sniper out of his lab after he's done bandaging his face. Sniper just sighs and gets off the table and walks to the doors, planning out his escape plan and calculating where all the mercs should be at this time of day.

Keyword being, should. Because he jumps when he sees Demo waiting outside the lab doors. A smug smile on his face as he leans against the wall, taking a swig from the drink he has on hand. Sniper internally groans, but from the way Demo chuckled, he assumed he might have accidentally done that out loud. Demo doesn't actually say much. He just walks over slowly, standing in front of Sniper.

"Take off the bandages." His tone is asking, but his words covey a demand. Sniper protests, citing the fact that Medic had just spent a decent amount of time patching him up, and he'd hate to see how angry the doctor would get if asked to do it again.

"Dont worry," He moves his hand behind his head, undoing the knot of his eye patch quickly, the motion being one he's done many times before. "This ain't my only one. It's far better than any bandage." Demo reaches up and carefully slips his fingers under the bandages, pausing for a second, giving Sniper a moment to tell him to stop, but he doesn't, so the bandages around his eye find themselves being unraveled, draping around his neck and shoulders as they attempt to fall to the floor. Demo only moves his hand to tap the underside of his eye and then to tap Snipers.

"Look, we match." He says with a smile. And they just stand there for a minute, looking at each other, before Demo invites him to come look for an eye patch that'll fit and that he's willing to wear while Medic regrows his eye. It should have only taken a few minutes, but Sniper finds himself being in Demo's room for hours, taking for hours about the new and old predicaments they had found themselves in.

Sniper had left to go back to his camper late that night. Clutching his gifted eye patch, thumbing over the fabric and he dragged his tired body away from the base. He found himself thinking about the Scotsman more than he normally would that night as he drifted off to sleep. He figured it would all go away by morning, along with all his new worries about his missing eye. Hell, maybe the eye would just reappear in the night. He could only hope.

His eye did not infact reappear while he slept, and his worries and thoughts didn't disappear like he had hope. With battle fast approaching, he tied the patch on and grabbed his gear. Joining the other mercs, he found himself biting his tongue at the jabs made by his teammates. Figuring this was his karma for the many jokes he found himself telling. Demo joined the group the latest, immediately finding his way up to Sniper with a grin. Reaching a hand up to fix the eye patch that was half hazardly tied on.

"It looks good on ya." Was the only thing he said before walking away, only to be seen occasionally from far away on the field. Sniper didn't like the warm feeling that gave him.

Sniper found himself frustrated with his sudden loss of skill. Cursing under his breath anytime his sights failed him. Every time he missed shot after shot. He knew well enough that he'd have issues. His depth perception changes would be something to adapt to, but he found himself completely taken out of his depth, completely removed from his skills, the one thing he prided himself with. As the match came to a close, anyone near could hear the muffled thudding of a gun hitting the ground and a

"Goddammit!" As the other team became the winners of the day's battle. He was pissed off. He had never experienced anything like this, and he hated every minute of it. He could only put his head in his hands and sit for a minute. Taking in the newfound silence. Until he heard creaking and boot fall behind him,

"Y'know, for being new to this whole one-eyed thing, you still do a decent job." Demo complimented as Sniper picked his head up, Demo held out his drink, prompting Sniper to drink, trying to help him ease his disappointments. Sniper accepted as Demo continued to talk his ear off. Sniper tried to listen, but he found his focus elsewhere, between his thoughts on his new frustrations with his skills, and the feelings that seemed to rise up with every kind word or action Demo threw his way. Sniper could only sigh as he attempted to refocus his attention. This was going to be a long week.

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Why do I get so embarrassed when I write? Who knows. Anyways, I hope you like this Anon, this fueled my love of Swordvan </3

I'm finally back. Who knew that forcing myself to write a certain fic that I don't have the inspiration for would kill any desire to write? But now that I'm changing it up, I feel more productive! Thank you, guys, for being patient with me. I love you guys 🫶🏻

Also, apologies for anything that's messed up at the end, I am exhausted rn.

[thecannibalistickiwi]

My Faction Swap AU! Behold

I got a little bit silly I'm very normal about this AU

So if you couldn't tell, Thieves Den has become Blackrock! A little bit on the characters down here

Slingshot: Head of the Biology Division. It's surprisingly stressful, especially since he has to juggle these responsibilities with mountains of guilt for a couple past incidents, two in particular being especially bad. Slingshot used to be Vine Staff's assistant, and a lot of people in Blackrock question his ability to manage an entire research Division since he traded positions with her. Other than that, he's still pretty much the same Slingshot, just a lot more stressed and has a bit more wisdom.

Vine Staff: A ticking time bomb, essentially, and she knows this. She used to be the head of the Biology Division, though she has since traded positions with Slingshot as she started to realize a few things about herself. She is still angry with him about one of his two incidents (dont worry I'll talk about this in a second), but she still trusts him more than herself. Vine Staff is missing a piece of her soul, and her curse is gradually getting worse, but it's worth it. She's a bit more manipulative and unstable than OG Vine Staff, but she cares deeply for her family nonetheless.

Shuriken: I'll cut straight to the point, he's dead as hell and he doesn't even know it. The higher-ups in the Blackrock government sent him and a few others on a mission to yoink a DNA sample from Ban Hammer. Unfortunately, the plan Slingsuot came up with went horribly wrong, and Shuriken was killed. Vine Staff managed to bring him back in a way, but the cost was heavy for both. This Shuriken is missing most of his memories, but he's still a complete idiot.

Katana: Sadly I haven't thought of much for Katana. He still has negative connections to the Broker, though. Katana first met Hyperlaser due to a bounty being on his head, though this initial confrontation ended in Hyperlaser having to return to Lost Temple unexpectedly. Katana has some contact with Slingshot, Vine Staff, and Shuriken, but he mostly keeps his distance. He's grown a dislike for Vine Staff since she respawned Shuriken. Hm, I wonder why!

All of them have some serious beef with Ban Hammer and Windforce for reasons...well, except for Shuriken, since Windforce DMs for him, Sword, and Biograft during their Dungeons and Dragons sessions (this is a whole other story in itself)

[sing-singy]

Hi!!!!! I noticed your host!Amelia doodles and i thought it was SO cool and just wanted to know if you had any more info abt it?????? sorry to bothhher

Hi ♡ thank you for finding interest in it. I dont mind asks at all so dont even worry about that either... onto the actual question. Ill be real, most of my ideas for that au arent planned because the idea of it wasnt planned either. ...it came out of me playing tomadachi life. . . I can just recount everything so it makes more sense maybe

Scenty doesn't make them do challenges she keeps them on the plane to live life like theyre bugs and basically finds joy in being able to watch them and maintain control while also craving more interaction from other people. this ultimately means that no one gets eliminated and no one is in any real danger. however, Charlotte is literally dying from the mold and ends up . yknow, dying. Freaking Scenty out because one she didn't expect it and two since she had never killed anyone during their stay in the plane she never learns the respawn command making it even more of a disaster to her mental state lol

Ok so this is where things get fuzzy im not to sure how charlotte does it BUT SHES ABLE TO NAVIGATE THE RADIO (maybe another stone is there in the waiting room idk let me have this) and ultimately is able to arrive back at earth. Parker runs into her they have a whole back and forth, Charlotte is avoiding him with her mixed feelings while Parker wants them to have some sort of communication because hes equally as worried for her as he is frustrated. Im pretty sure i planned for them to investigate the whole plane and maybe even more about Scenty (without knowing its the unknown 'deity' who trapped her and the others.) Charlotte concluded she has to stop Scenty by going back which . means she has to kill herself. Which Parker is immediately against and they have their second big fight but it ends with Charlotte dying anyway.

anyway SOMEHOW Charlotte is able to go to Scentys world and wow she finds out shes a normal person who just decided to fuck around and find out i guess. Scenty is immediately overwhelmed with joy because wow Charlottes here and shes alive! And shes. not a murderer, hah. But Charlotte is pissed so they definitely have a very funny bonding moment where Charlotte has to suppress the urge to kill this naive and too overbearing candle. While trying to figure out how to stop what she's doing with everyone else.

..and yeah, the ending is basically undecided because i had planned for either one of them to die.. OR BOTH who knows really but i still dunno either way so there's that. I hope you enjoyed my long spiel cause this might be what you get for a while lol and if none of this makes sense, then sorry, but i literally can not construct anything comprehensible in my current state LOL

[swords-of-a-soilder]

The Healing Process

Chapter 11

Pillow Talk

Phil gently pulled the mug of tea closer to himself as he sat around the table in silence, once again he had been left to his lonesome; though it hardly matter since he could clearly hear the others in the room over.

Forever had thrown an large blanket on him ages ago, during this time Cellbit also gave him a large mug of tea, it seemed to pyshical pain him to do so.

He rather not think on the recent information dug up in his head, he didn't want to focus on the feeling of his heart stopping, or the guilt that hung over his head.

He rather not but that wasn't an option, reliving the memory, a memory he Intented to forget was just as traumatizing as experiencing it the first time.

He'd have a few words for Rose if she was still alive, now that he was a Father himself he couldn't help but be judgmental. He'd ask her why she felt it fit to frequently abandon a child, where she got the nerves to Judge his diet like that.

He would ask her why she had forsaken him, if his actions were truly unforgivable.. he'd tell her he's sorry.

He'd be thrown out of his thoughts from Cellbit's verbal expression of shock in the next room, slightly he jumped at the sudden increase in the level of his voice.

Phil release a sigh as he lossen his shoulder, then did his best to listen to the conversation though the walls.

"And you're sure it killed him?" Cellbit seemed to be inquiring about the memories he was force to relive, right, he was the one who wanted him to do it in the first place.

"Cellbit I'm telling you, I felt it...he died." Forever clarify

Phil's expression shifted to exhaustion as he sloughed in the chair. He sipped his tea with tired eyes, he wanted nothing more than to sleep for at least 5 days but it seemed cruel to leave his friends with the Ender king for that long.

"Maybe he used a totem?" Cellbit debated

"When you use a totem, you feel like a pop in your chest.. " Forever recalled for his own experience. "I didn't feel that.."

"Do you know where he respawned?" Cellbit inquired

"I don't..I don't think he did..not in the moment at least." Forever continued, "I'm not sure to be fair..he woke up so quickly."

"Hm..A Demi-God..." Phil truly couldn't keep his eyes open anymore, if he could just rest for a few seconds then he wouldn't have to worry about his friends facing the consequences.

It's he just allowed himself to sleep for for few minutes, or maybe an hour.. just five hours.. surely they'd be fine.

Finally giving into the desire to doze off, melting in the warmth of the blanket. His ears rang from silence as the feeling of his lung filling with water forced him awake and back into reality.

Phil cough up a fit as he put the mug aside, then rest his head in the palm of his hands.

His head was spinning enough as it was, it didn't help how exhausted he was yet simoustainly so stressed. He was afraid of having nightmares, terrified of lossing control of his body.

Soon enough the duo enter the room, in semi whisper before they eventually acknowledge Philza. Cellbit sit across from Phil immediately noticing majority of the tea was gone, it didn't seem they left Phil that long.

"How are you feeling?" Cellbit began

"Exhausted.." Phil respond

"Oh I can imagine, that must had been incrible difficult.. I'm sorry please know that I appreciate you doing this."

Phil found himself experiencing a phenomenal he hadn't in ages, something he once threw away, something he said he was above.

He wanted someone to pity him, not in the casual way of saying they were sorry that happened, but truly pity him.

He wanted them to ask if he was ok then to double down on it, he wanted them to constantly reassured him, he want the hand on his shoulder treatment, he wanted, nay needed to hear 'it's not your fault'

He wasn't gonna get that, he knew that. It was his own fault in the end, dont treat me like a pity case, mate.' Well now he truly was.

Almost as if Forever had read his mind he rested a hand on Phil's shoulder, instantly gaining his attention. "Cellbit, go easy on him, huh? I'm sure he wants nothing more than to pass out right now."

"What, I wasn't grilling him!" Cellbit debated, "that can wait you know."

"Of course, so do Philza the favor of taking him home." Forever suggested

"No, I dont-" Phil cut himself off, realizing just how pathetic he sound. He knew the likelihood of the Ender king taunting him was at a higher in his own home, he didn't even want to consider the possibility of waking up to his kids gone.

The council wouldn't do that right, they wouldn't steal his kids as punishment for habering a criminal.. right?

The kid would be safer in N.I.N.H.O, he'd like to believe that at least, If a binary monster can't get them, then the council probably can't..right?

"Philza?" Forever threw him out his spiral of thoughts, "are you ok? You're zoning out."

Phil immediately glanced at Forever then back down as he bit his lip deep in thought, suddenly he sprung up from his chair then dragged Forever with him outside the room.

Once they were safely some distance Phil lose his grip as he meet Forever's eye contact. "Forever please don't take this the wrong way..but could I sleep with you tonight?"

Forever though deeply before he respond, truly wanting to make sure he wasn't taking Phil's question the wrong way. He supposed Phil meant it in the literal sense, but even that felt a bit intimate..

Though he supposed he could always put a pillow between them, it Phil truly only needed the company. "Sure, if you need to.. Erm, I shouldn't have said it like that, it's not a problem at all Philza."

Phil released a sigh, thankful Forever understood what he meant. "Thank you..um..if it's not too much trouble, could you help me move the kids to N.I.N.H.O?"

"Ah, right now?"

"I just don't like the idea of them being...the council could.."

"It's fine Philza, really it's not a brother at all." Phil hummed in respond, "do you want to talk about it?"

"Yes." Phil couldn't help how boldly he answered, he just didn't expect anyone to even ask, so when the offer came he didn't want to miss it. "After the kids are safe."

"Okay, let me talk to Cellbit and then I'll be right with you." Forever informed.

Forever kept to his words as he explained the situation to Cellbit, to which Cellbit accepted defeat. He briefly apologize, insist he truly meant Phil no harm them make his way home.

Of course Forever believed him, the problem was Cellbit had difficultly when it came to highen emotions and Phil was in a sensitive state.

He would eventually met back with Phil whom he assisted in moving the kids to the more secure hotel room though his base warp plate.

Forever would warn him that wasn't safe, and Phil agreed to such removing it entirely. That is only after they made sure to check every inch of the rooms.

Phil sighed in relief as he entered Forever's bed room, he removed his rob then stretch his wings as sat on the edge of the bed.

He then removed his hat and pull his hair tight loss, he ran his hand through his hair as a smoothing ritual.

Eventually Forever would observe him from the door way, brushing his teeth in the process. "Are you going to sleep in that?"

"If my wings don't have the freedom to stretch my back will be in knots." Phil explained.

"That's not what I meant, that top is too tight, it'll cut your circulation when you sleep."Forever further explain

Phil took the moment to process Forever's concerned, the lack of circulation probably explain why he woke up with tightness in his chest so often.

"Um, I have a virgin killer sweater in my closet, it's made for a thicker built so, it should be oversized on you."

"Oh.. thanks."

Forever hummed in respond as he returned to the bathroom. Phil pushed himself upright, using the wall as support as he made his way to the closet.

He finally pulled the sweater from the closet, his eyebrows raise as he noted the cloud shorts, slightly longer than they usually are.

Phil quickly changed into the outfit, immediately melting into the softness of the sweater, he then collapse into the comfort of the bed.

Eventually Forever would return with a hair dryer blowing through his hair, which he then playful turned towards Phil.

"Agh, stop my hair is already dry!" Phil plead pushing the hair dryer away.

"Why are you getting my pillows wet then?" Forever teased

"If you give me split ends I'll never Forgive you!" Phil rebutted

Forever accepted defeat and switch the dryer of which he then tost in the closet. He then noticed Phil had taken, most the pillows, which he seemed to be using for back support.

Forever sighed pulling extra pillows from the closet, including a body pillow to sperate them. Once he sent up the pillows he also joined Phil in lying on his back.

Though Phil seem to have his wings spread out from each side, the pillows seem to be keeping him slightly off the bed. It was almost as if he built a nest from the pillows, perhaps that was his intention.

"So.." Forever began, recalling Phil wanted to talk about things. "I have a sense you have complicated feelings with Rose."

".. She's not a bad mother.. she's not ." Phil started

"Sure." Forever respond beneath three layers of disbelief.

"She just gets busy, she is a God afterall."

"That didn't really help you feel less lonely though, did it?"

"I mean don't get me wrong, mate I'm very upset about her frequency to leave me, but I understand she didn't do that on purpose." Phil explained

"But that didn't make you feel any less like a burden."

Phil knitted his eyebrows at the accurate description, wonder just how much of that experience Forever was forced to take with him. "I guess if you could feel me dying, you probably felt my emotions at the time."

"Ah no, no I'm guessing." Forever backtracked

"Burden isn't the correct word, I don't think so."

"Oh?"

"Everyone was always doing something big and important, I wanted to do something just as big to prove I wasn't.."

"A burden?" Forever Interupped, Phil sighed as he sunk further into the pillows, realizing his emotions were truly on display.

"But Phil, you made an amazing garden and tons of birds, that's extermly important for the environment."

"Forever, don't patronize me."

"No I'm serious, richer oxygen for example. What you did mattered even if it didn't feel like it."

Phil breath deeply, it really felt like Forever was telling him specifically the things he needed to hear, he was thankful for that of course.

Yet it felt so wrong to accept he was worth anything more than he already perceived himself to be, even if he wanted to try.

"Hm..I didn't think the Ender King was going to be so close to you." Forever quickly changed the subject.

Phil chuckled at the though, "I'm a lot more relaxed to know he wasn't so much a threat and more of an annoying Uncle.. literally."

"It's good to know he has no truly bad intentions."Forever agreed "a lot less scary now."

"You don't think the council is actually going to come, do you?" Phil inquired

Forever thought for a moment before speaking, "if they do, we'll be prepared."

Phil observed the focus look in his eyes, and thus decided to trust Forever on such. Phil then closed his eyes, allowing himself doze off once again.

"Philza?" Forever called

Phil open his eyes, slightly annoyed. "Yeah?"

"You do realize it's not your fault right?" Forever inquired, immediately silencing all the thought Phil had bouncing in his head.

Soon he heard hushed crying come from Phil, almost as if purely on instincts Forever quickly sat upright, wiping the tears from Phil's face.

Phil however gasped his hand, allowing himself to melt in the touch. "If I just listened, none of that would have happened!" He mumbled into Forever's palm.

"Phil, you were six years old, missing your mother, it's understandable." Forever debated

"I would have seen her a lot longer if I had just waited." Phil rebutted

"Would you blame Chayanne if he was in your place?" Any further agurment Phil could think of was immediately silence the minute he put Chayanne in his place.

He wouldn't blame a kid, if he had disappeared on Chayanne so frequently of course he'd want to follow him.

"You're being too hard on yourself." Forever informed, "you were a child, you didn't know any better, you can't hold that over yourself.."

"Then why did she Forsake me, if it's not my fault then why?" Phil plead

"Perhaps she just hasn't found you yet," Forever suggested, "I'm sure she cares for you, maybe it you build a beacon or something."

"Hm.." Phil noted, "A rose colored beacon."

Forever once again attempt to whip Phil's tears, this time with both hands. "Phil, you need to rest."

Phil silently nod in the embrace, thought he found himself odly cold at abstinence of Forever's touch as he laid down.

He wouldn't overthink it, he was simply to tired to think anymore, so he allow himself to fully pass out.

The comfort of the pillows, paired with the crickets bearing face, all this with Forever's not so gentle snore.

These peaceful sounds gave Phil the first undisturbed sleep he's had since purgatory.

Forever would awake the next morning to find Phil had not only completely flip over but somehow ended on top of him, nuzzled into his chest.

Only one thought could enter Forever's head at the moment, meus Deus, Ele é fofo. He would briefly Pocket that thought to ponder how Phil had even manage to get that close, then realized the pillow he had put between them some how ended up at the foot of the bed.

He could help but wonder if that was Phil's doing, If he had intentionally move the pillow or if he was just that bad a sleeper.

Forever couldn't complain much, he wouldn't complain at all, instead he ran his fingers through Phil's hair, partly to check if he was awake.

"Philza, this isn't fair you know, your making me have all these thoughts about you again.." Forever commented, "I'm supposed to be over you.."

As Phil truly was asleep their was no response, Forever attention would be stolen however as he phone buzz.

He quickly pick his phone up to see Cucurucho had sent a mass email to him requesting his presents to an scheduled meeting.

Forever rolled his eyes and put the phone back down, instead he let himself fall back asleep amongst the comfort of Phil's body weight.

[syn4k]

can we please talk about tucker's blood magic in s2? i feel like we need to talk about it because ok.

(put under a cut bc this post discusses self harm which is a huge thing with the blood magic mod)

so mianite s2 is modded minecraft right? right. it has roughly 100 mods in the pack and one of those mods is Blood Magic, a fantasy-esque magic mod in which you can exchange your own blood for things like cool armor, weapons, etc although i dont know the specifics because i don't know too much about it.

the various champions all kind of specialized into their relative mod magic specialties, although most are at least somewhat proficient in all of them- sonja went the thaumcraft route, jordan took tinker's construct, waglington got into ars magica, tucker took blood magic, and tom is basically just interested in whatever can get him the coolest armor/weapons/whatever.

however, what i'm most interested at the moment is the fact that tucker decided to get into blood magic, which is probably one of the most powerful mods on the server, but it comes at a price: the only way you can get the materials required for it is to give yourself damage to take blood, or self-harm. not only that, but you can go too far and kill yourself if you try to take blood that you don't have

i'm just thinking about the implications here both design-wise and headcanon wise. if we go with the idea that scars stick with a player even after they respawn, this means that tucker's arms and thighs etc have got to look like a battlefield by the time he gets the blood armor, and i'm not even a third of the way into the series yet! does it also morph into a coping mechanism down the line as well? how many times does he draw too much blood by accident and run back down to the room where he has everything set up, annoyed and grumbling under his breath? the less blood u have the paler your skin is in general. theres gotta be rumors in the town that tucker's a vampire by now at this point.

not only that, sonja's whole Thing this series basically is thaumcraft, specifically driving back the Taint using Ethereal Blooms, which with my very limited knowledge puts her into the role of healer. does she heal up tucker's cuts often? how much does she worry about the whole blood magic deal, if she worries at all?

theres just Implications here that im thinking about

[meetthegofer]

🫣🐕 for the ask meme!!

I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK THESE... thank you mj o7 these ended up being kinda long [well. the first one was] so its going under a readmore so it doesnt absolutely demolish the dashboard of whoever comes across it

🫣 - Who stumbled the most with their feelings around the other? How much did the other person notice?

this one's fun. i think sniper definitely stumbled more with his feelings, even though for all intents and purposes he was the more confident of the two... when fossey realized her feelings she was pretty resigned to the idea that she wasnt very desirable or at the very least Not His Type, so he didnt really make any moves until she actually had reason to think he might like them back. if not for sniper returning those feelings the crush wouldve probably gone away honestly!

but sniper... though i doubt he was ever too inexperienced with romance/fossey certainly isnt his First love, i think the fact that his feelings kinda snuck up on him is what ended up getting him. usually when he finds himself having those kinds of feelings for someone, its someone hes going to kill [and then probably later be killed By, rinse, respawn, repeat], so hes able to repress it more because they're also an Opponent. but fossey is very much Not a mercenary, in fact he bruises like a peach and he walks around in fucking penny loafers, so hes really quite the opposite of who sniper usually finds... shall we say, chemistry with. because of this, he doesnt really know how to act around them, and as a result in those early days of his crush pre-relationship he probably tried to avoid them more than anything because he didnt wanna make a fool of himself [which, in the sparse interactions they Did have, he was often sure he did (even when it was something almost impossible to notice. like holding the "o" on "good morning" slightly longer than usual)].

fossey noticed the change in behavior but, seeing as they didnt think of themself as ever having a chance in the first place, they didnt register it as "oh hes being awkward because he likes me" and saw it more as "he doesnt wanna see me". they went to apologize after a couple of weeks of this, since they thought theyd Done something, and that was kinda when sniper realized he was being even more stupid by being avoidant and started just. trying to play it cool. basically it was this image [sniper pov]

🐕- Do they have any pets together? If one of them had a pet from before their relationship how well does the pet get along with their partner? Do they have the pets approval or does said pet sit in between them and their partner any time they try to make a move?

considering their living situations [sniper lives out of his camper + fossey has a little apartment for herself], i dont think they have any pets Together, but both of them do love animals very much. i can absolutely see sniper as having some old family dog back home who is miraculously still very alert despite being like 17. idk why thats just the vibes... unsure if he would ever meet fossey but i think it would be quite funny

i dont think fossey would have a pet [they worry about not being responsible enough due to mental health struggles + being so busy with work], but he loooves cats very much... i really like the idea of him feeding any strays that might hang around teufort and theres probably some near the base that have kinda become regulars + they all really like fossey... at first sniper thinks its a bit stupid [hes more of a dog person + hes sure that soldiers raccoons would have Opinions on the matter, plus maybe the cats arent the biggest fan of him] but he sees fossey petting one of the strays one day and hes just like Fuck. i get it now.......

unrelated but i love this video + this ask made me think about it so im tagging it on at the end here. please enjoy weewee as payment for how long this ended up being

[upsidedowngrass]

Charlotte post NOW (/j only if u want!!)

AHHH charlotte jumpscare!!!!!!!

im not sure what SPECIFICALLY to post abt her bc this ask is a little vague, BUT i do think abt her a lot!!! tho i DO gotta think about her more, she is a WONDERFUL character

bc idk what specifically, my interpretation of her post canon and WHY (also under a readmore because WOW!! i had apparently a lot to say abt her):

i think!!! she is a LOT more mellow after she gets home. like in one 16 after shes respawned its like. she seems to be friendlier? which. i think has to do w like... i dont think she was a bad person really, and i dont think shed been acting Maliciously, but when it came to having friends i think it was really easier for her to genuinely take things as worst as they could be. we dont actually get much of her backstory, so its up to interpretation as to WHY, but i think she genuinely struggled with being distrustful of those close to her. she likes them, that much is clear, but trusting people is a whole other thing

but i think she really DID view her friends as pitying her. as not respecting her, even when they werent Being cruel. they were concerned for her safety, and how her recklessness was affecting her. and i think that can end up walking a line between pity and not wanting your friends to do things that are pretty unambiguously dangerous, and what was very standard friendship ended up feeling a lot MORE like they didnt respect her or her choices

and i think what changes this is that. she DID die. and i think that contextualized for her that her friends werent concerned because they thought she couldnt handle herself, but because they just Generally care abt her yknow? as fucked up as her dying is, i think it did ultimately make her realize that THIS is what her friends were worried about. they didnt want THIS to happen to her, and i think in an odd way? it kinda made her. idk understand? trust? the people around her more. like in a 'oh, people around me dont only care about me for selfish reasons, or cruel reasons. they care because they CARE' way

and i think that, and the fact that she says that shed been thinking about this a lot? i feel like it kinda all forced her to slow down and WANT to talk to the people around her. because shed been pushing them all away because what was the point in talking to them? and i think once she REALLY noticed how amelia was doing, after thinking so much about all this, it kinda MADE her want to amend things. or at the very least, to talk to people more. shes isolated herself long enough, and its now more than ever that she realizes how much others meant to her in the first place.

(i think in some aspects, amelias method of coping also bothered her. amelias coping mechanisms werent necessarily BAD, theyre not good by real-world standards, but given the situation shes in, it was just... once of the few ways she COULD cope. but i think the flaws in this method of coping really came through once airy came back, because in forgetting everything about who she used to be, earth became a very daunting place, but now that airys back, any amount of feeling like home the plane may have unfortunately gained was completely undone. and i think charlotte actually SEES that, and its not the exact same as her own struggles, but i think she WANTS to help amelia, because she of all people knows how the feeling of being isolated, either on purpose or accident, can feel Extremely Awful. that, and she knew amelia before things on the plane got REALLY bad, and she SAW (since ive seen people note that she!!! was watching amelia do yoga w the others) amelia gradually give up, become comfortable, and then LOSE all of that

and i think, at least right before bryce showed up, it felt fucked up that charlotte WAS the only other person from the same world as amelia and theyd!!! never even spoken about it??? (like how she comments that they NEVER told each other their names. which only applies to her and amelia. that statement was intended very specifically towards amelia) and its like. i think it mightve made her a bit 'no WONDER shes not doing well. even if shes trying to act like she is' (which i dont even think amelia is doing to deflect so much as an attempt at 'if i pretend its ok it WILL be ok right?'))

and!!! once getting home i think this would all really lead her to be a bit more patient with others. i dont think the distrust would STOP being an issue, but i think such a terrible experience causing her to completely recontextualize the actions of those around her would actually help, at least a little . i dont actually know if i think shed stay friends w parker and that friend group, but i think theyd at the least keep in touch. parker clearly, even when they were arguing, STILL cared about her, and i think seeing her disappear probably was. a bit haunting, and so i think at the very least hed like to know shes Okay

also whenever people have the characters live together post canon, they only ever include bryce liam and amelia, and i GET why!!! charlotte didnt really interact w them for a looong time. but after charlotte is revived i actually see her as talking with them yknow? i dont think shed stop talking to them again, and i think her talking with amelia was a genuine attempt to help!! so i think theyd stick together. i dont imagine liam actually gets closer with any of the contestants while hes trying to send them home (tho i dont think it worsens substantially either. i think it just sorta. stays where it is? and if he did have notable interactions with any of them, itd PROBABLY be mainly w amelia and bryce, tho i dont think he DOESNT talk to charlotte too! he just has a diff sort of connection w those to, based on the experiences he Shared w them) so i think he isnt SUPER close w charlotte, but i think the others may become WAY closer w her!!! so i think if they all moved in together? that WOULD include charlotte!!! (that, and i think charlotte would also develop a sort of respect for liam . because he kinda DOES display exactly the type of traits she didnt really see people as having!!! going to EXTREME lengths to help people, including HER! so i think shed generally have many thoughts on him)

anyway !!! thats it the point is that as much as one would fuck charlotte up in her own way, i think, similar to how bryce tried to get his life together after he was first eliminated, shed similarly end up having a better ability to navigate social stuff in not such a pessimistic way as before!!!!!

[greasydumbfuck]

📸🩷🩵 for anyone!!!

WEEE YIPPIE OKAY SO (i might mess up the hearts order dont worry about it)

📸

So maybe this is a stupid choice for this bc like frank looks ugly as shit here (affectionate) but like i keep this and a bunch of other screenshots from the same series in my gallery bc i just think that hes being such a sweetie here. Like at one point he gets so used to being friends with her and getting food from her that he gets careless and punched in the face that one time and no matter what i think its super cute. Frank is NOT always an asshole and he likes getting cookies from his friend Joan :) idk its silly but like makes me giddy. Frank being canonically a genuinely kind person is always so good to see

🩷

like so one hc that i have about frank that i /gen believe to be true for most versions is that he is the type of person to punch holes in the drywall when angry. Not always but yk

And a selfship specific one is ig that most of the affectionate interactions between them look somewhere along the lines of meta absolutely losing her mind, him asking if shes done so he can go and her saying absolutely not and keeping him there for another five minutes to just press her cheek against his or kiss his face. Hes annoyed by it but also its sweet so he lets it happen :)

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So in the van creature au story is not entirely of that world so she has certain benefits such as in case she dies she WILL come back (LITERALLY respawn) but i imagine explaining that would be difficult which is why she stays in the car at most times. She can still get hurt and stuff and even die as mentioned its just that its not pernament (the one time she tried to help she got shot)(ouch)(but she also did shoot a guy so it evens out i guess??)

[victoria1676]

For some reason I really want reader to forgive Xiao u-u

Considering my fic is gonna have slow burn soon but romance will come later as my main fic is not gonna have romance until finish the prologues and the arc of where we can finally see how DSMP/SBI reader struggled or fought her way to find answers of why is she deemed as an imposter or why she is also deemed as the creator when all her life was living in a world where they build, fight and never ending deaths where they can respawn if they die alot.

So I can say its a 50/50 chance reader can forgive Xiao considering he did stab her back in Prologue one 😅

So dont worry so long i can finish the prologues and arcs which is a goddamn pain im the neck knowing im not a fast typer as my build up stories tend to go with 13k words TwT

[yejiroh]

Hello!

Heya! So i really really really like your works, so id like to request Tamaki x Reader, where his S/O is very good at like gaming?

She usually plays minecraft and fps games and shes extremely good at it. I’d really like a scenario where they play Valorant, a tactical shooting game just like overwatch and csgo, like usually tamaki plays with like mirio and some of his friends and one of them was busy so mirio decided to invite her to play and ends up carrying the team with an ace or two.      (P.s I dont usually request because i fear that i dont follow the rules properly, but i love love ur works :)  Happy New Year ! )

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Authors note:

@plutostones​ Hi, how are ya? I just found this, so sorry for the wait. Also, I tagged you because you put this in as a submission, not an ask, so I didn’t know whether or not you’d get the memo. Anyways, thank you for requesting, and thank you for being a fan of my work-it means a lot.  I don’t play Valorant but from what your describing it sounds like Blitzbergade- which i do play. Sorry in adavance if this is not how the game goes, but i did do some research.

And to everyone wanting to request, the requests are open; just read the rules!

Because this was so late, I made it long.  

Suns Out Guns Out!

-PLATONIC- (kinda)

Word count: 2000+

Staring Tamaki Amajiki, Mirio Togata, Nejire Hado, and of course, the lovely Y/n L/n!

***

Three monitors glared at Tamaki, the LED screens too bright for his poorly lit room. Discord, Twitch, and Valorant displayed, his fingers smashing the keyboard loudly, the familiar “clack, clack,clack” ringing in his ears.

It was routine, everyday after school, the five of them: Tamaki, Mirio, Nejire, Yuuyu, and Kirishima would open Valorant, Discord, and Twitch.

“Ah, dammit! Not again!”

“Mirio, calm down; it’s just a game.”

“I just can’t help but to get riled up- sorry.”

“Why are you so mad anyway?”

“This guy- Flippy2252- he keeps killing me every time I get back! And the worst part is, they never run! They just walk in and shoot everyone!”

Tamaki took off his headset, throwing it to the side. Mirio was never one to whine about losing, but having a 22-0  losing streak was pretty rough on anyone’s ego.  Looking at the left monitor, Twitch was going crazy. The live chat was full of onlookers and the 10 players were all at war, angry at Flippy2252 for not letting anyone else get a kill, or Flippy2252 killing people every time with no hesitation.

It was always Flippy2252.

All it took to beat Flippy was an upgrade of armour, right? But neither he, Mirio, Kirshima, nor Nejire had enough credits or was willing to get such an upgrade. They were fine as is. Yuuyu was fine to. Kind of. 

Sighing, Tamaki put the headset back on, holding the attached mic. “Mirio, where’d you go? I knew this game was  hard...let's just call it a night- we have a test tomorrow and the event.”

“Guys, about that, I can’t play tomorrow- I have a cousin coming over .”

Whining, Nejire’s voice piped through the headphones. “Really Kirishima? But tomorrow is what counts!” 

“I know, it’s not manly of me, and I’m sorry guys! But Bakubro said-”

“Bakugou? You’re leaving for your boyfriend, not your family!”

“What? No, He’s NOT my boyfriend! And my cousin IS coming over!”

“Wooow Kiri, I expect this from everyone but you!”

Tamaki looked at the screen, tuning his friends out. The match was over. They had lost.

Again.

***

Rushing up the stairs of the U.A. building, Tamaki and Mirio panted, having overslept and missing the train.

“Wooh! That was a good way to wake yourself up, right, Tamaki?”

“I-I guess. I’m tired now. We should have just not come since we’re this late.”

“Nonsense! We made it on time- hey there’s Y/n!”

Mirio waved a hand out to the person in question, calling out to her.

‘Hey, Y/n! You ready for the test?”

Y/n turned over, making quick eye contact with Tamaki before he covered his face. 

Looking back to Mirio, she gave a sweet smile, putting a fist in the air.

“I actually studied for this one, so heck yeah!” “Good to hear! Hopefully we all get good marks this time, yeah?”

Y/n nodded, looking at her phone-

“Is that a Valorant background?”

“Hm? Oh, yeah! I love that game!”

Mirio smiled. “What a coincidence-”he nudged Tamaki-”We do to! Say, are you any good?”

Y/n chuckled, waving her phone around.”I’d like to say I’m pre-tay good. What about you guys?”

“Well, we’re amazing, don’t get me wrong, there’s just always this one guy who just comes in, kills everyone, and leaves. You can’t even respawn in peace!”

Y/n’s chuckles turned into hollers, knowing exactly who they were talking about.  “Oh god- you mean that Flippy dude? They’re awseome!”

“Yeah, but they don’t give mercy for anything!”

“You’re not supposed to, it’s a gun game. Tell you what, give me your discords and I’ll help you guys. I’ve gotten a couple kills against the dude.”

Was this a blessing? They were just looking for someone! Mirio tooked Y/n’s hand, bowing down, and pretended to wipe a tear away. “M’lady, it would be an honor, for our time in war-”

“We were just looking for another player cause one of ours bailed.” Tamaki muttered, interuppting the poetic Mirio.

Clapping her hands, Y/n smiled again. “Great! Just put your tags in my phone and we can do the event today! Also, good luck on the tests!”

***

Y/n sat down, her computer moniters clocks all set to count the second. Hand on the mouse, she breathed in, watching, waiting.

5...4...3...2...1- She slammed the keys, logging into everything at once. A beep form one; a Discord call. 

“Hey Y/n! You ready?”

“Yeah. Who else is on the team, other then you and Tamaki?”

“Nejire and Yuuyuu.”

She looked at the moiters, nodding. Okay. There’s 10 seconds into the game, okay? We have 3 hours, 45 minutes, and now...37 seconds until the event is done. We split the prize between who got the most kills or who did the most.”

“Okay.”

Just before she ended the call, Y/n quickly added. 

“And I’m Flippy2252.”

***

Tamaki spit his drink. Y/n was Flippy? No way! Slamming the keys, his avatar ran around the map. Now that he didn’t have to worry about Flippy killing him, he could actuallydo something! 

But the event was Capture The Flag, and he wasn’t too good at that. Running up a ramp, he spotted a red name, quickly shooting. But his sniper was no good.  Flippy-no, Y/n- ran up behind him, gunning down the red in her path. Soon she had the flag, and was running away.

“WOOOAHHH!” Mirio hollered through the headset. “I suddenly feel useless in a good way!”

What the heck?

“Mirio, that doesn’t make sense.”

“Weirdo.”

“This  game is as good as ours!”

Tamaki looked at the Twitch Moniter, smiling.

‘Since when was Flippy on team blue?’

‘Who cares? They’re still kicking ass!’

‘If they’re not on red it’s not even worth watching.’

‘Shut yo bitch ass up, like the fuck you gon do? Its a game the fuck?’

‘Really? Language guys. they can read everything.’

‘they too  focused on the game’

‘FLIPPY IS SO HOT WOOF WOOF BARK BARK AWWOOOGA’

‘Bro chilll you just lke their avatar’

People are weird. Walking into a building, he layed his avatar down. Just one more kill and they’d win the first round, and an Ace at that. 

***

1 minute left in the event, and Y/n still had the flag.

Tamaki followed, gunning down everyone chassing them and shooting at them. 

Capture the flag had never been so chaotic.

10 seconds in, they just had to get to their home base.

“Run Flippy run!”

5

4

3

2

1

A large VICTORY was displayed on theor teams screens, Y/n shreiking with laughter.

“That was so insane!”

“We actually won an event? FINALLY!”

Everyone was sreaming through the headsets, and once again Tamaki took it off, throwing it to the side.

Laying on his bed, he opened his phone, lookjng at a picture of Y/n.

She carried the team, and it was amazing to have won something again. 

[tksfandomhellhole]

totally didn't just give up on the tumblr app and boot up my laptop just to post this

Fandom: Apex Legends (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mirage | Elliott Witt Summary: 

Mirage is his own biggest fan, because he knows no one else will be.

Mostly an introspective/character piece I did a few weeks back for Mirage and lowkey a plea for buff (which is finally happening!!) Caustic is technically there as well.

Mirage would be elated if you told him that you'd find his picture if you looked up "Self-absorbed" in the dictionary. The idea of negative press doesn't exist to him.

Or at least that's what he tries to make it seem like.

So it would come as a surprise to most that perhaps the most egotistical and self-absorbed of the Legends does not check the ratings or read the comments on any forums about the games.

In fact, aside from hanging fanart on the walls, he keeps any fan letters in a box under his bed only for days where he's at his worst.

(He tends to have a lot of those)

Because the reality is, Mirage is his own biggest fan.

If he wasn't, who else would be? He's certain it's no one.

Growing up the youngest of four boys, it was easy for Elliott to internalize a lot of things that his brothers didn't really mean.

One of those things was that being the youngest made him the weakest.

When his brothers went off to fight in the Frontier War they told him he had the very important job of staying here and watching over their mom. He knew it was just a way to make him feel better about not being able to fight the good fight. That once again he was being excluded because he was the youngest.

It didn't really make him feel that much better when the war was still going on and he was sitting at home feeling useless.

And it definitely didn't make him feel any better when they were reported MIA once the war ended. That now he'd never get the chance to prove himself. That he had stayed at home, useless, while his brothers had fought and lost their lives.

Elliott hates being useless.

Unfortunate that his curse of uselessness seems to have followed him into the games, the one place where he thought he could finally prove himself.

Most of his teammates wouldn't guess it, but Mirage actually brings his 110% to every game.

Problem is, his 110% is not even 70% of some of his more skilled teammates.

And when everyone besides you brings something valuable to the table, you have to hide your inadequacies behind self-deprecation and humor.

Today he's the jump master and the pressure to not make a shit landing might already be getting to him a little. "Just a thought, we could land here." He throws out, trying to gauge his teammates' reactions to the spot. Annnnd dead silence. Great. He takes their silence as confirmation and launches anyways.

"Follow the leader! Or don't- do whatever, as long as we win."

Of course, suddenly his teammates find some other spot far more interesting than the one he pinged, and take that as invitation to silently break off.

He lands on his own and loots as quickly as possible. By some stroke of luck, it's not an active spot, and he gets the drop on an enemy Lifeline.

"Nobody had your back, huh? Hate when that happens." He tells her, irony not lost on him.

He loots her stuff as quickly as possible and drops out, hoping to avoid any smoke from her teammates.

"I'm down!" He hears Wraith say over the comm lines. He takes a look at his map and finds she's none too close to him.

But what is Mirage, if not at least a good teammate, even at the cost of biting off way more than he can chew?

"Uhhh, okay, don't panic, I'm coming to save you." he says with what feels like is becoming his trademark uncertainty.

He makes it all of thirty yards before the squad from earlier runs up on him, and two of them against two of him doesn't work out in his favor. "Bad news, I'm down!" He says over the comm line, using the few extra seconds his knockdown cloak buys him to inch his way into a corner out of sight. Another squad joins the fray, and the first squad ignores him in favor of not dying. He watches the firefight go down suddenly regretting his choice of words earlier. He'd much rather his team all be in one place right now.

To his relief, he can see on the map that Caustic seems to have made his way towards Wraith's now banner and recovers it.

He's not too optimistic about his own outlook though. Caustic is not the fastest legend and there's still a sizeable distance between them.

There's also the fact that Caustic has no real reason to come recover him anyways.

Mirage isn't the worst shooter in the game, but he's no Bangalore. And he's no Pathfinder, no Crypto, no Gibraltar- hell even Revenant at least deploys a death totem that he doesn't care who uses.

No he doesn't do any of the things that everyone else does. He's just another- or well several- pretty faces for people to shoot at.

And he tries, he really does. He keeps an eye on everyone's shields and weapons, keeps an eye out for useful equipment, revives and respawns teammates as soon as possible, but deep down he knows it isn't good enough. There's no advantage to teaming with him. And if there's no advantage, it means anyone stuck with him is at a disadvantage.

When he first joined the Apex Games, the last thing he was worried about was the other people. He was used to looking out for himself- he had already learned the hard way that he was the only person who'd care about what happened to him outside of his mother. So he outfitted himself with his holo-tech and did his best to make a name for himself in the games. He didn't realize at the time how integral teamwork would become, and how lacking that in turn made him.

No matter which way you flip it, all he is good for is eating bullets.

He wants to improve his holograms in some way, but he's no Wattson, and he didn't inherit any of his mother's genius. So instead he tinkers with an old holo-suit every weekend trying to figure out a way to make the modifications he wants a reality. Instead he jokes about how bad he is at this while putting in extra hours at the range whenever possible. Instead he enters combat with the confidence of a seasoned pro and none of the skill to back it up.

Self-absorbed, self-serving, and insufficient. Well aren't I just the greatest person to have on the team? Mirage thinks loathingly.

Maybe it's more fitting if he dies here alone, nothing but fakes to back him- the biggest fake of them all- up. Maybe he was wrong to think he could really be a Legend, much less a champion.

As his eyes begin to cloud over, he's ready for death's cold embrace yet again.

Instead, someone's shoes are in front of him now, and a muffled sigh of discontent is heard as a hand on his shoulder pushes him backwards gently and he's suddenly jabbed.

He really doesn't know when Caustic got here, but he expresses his thanks as Caustic pulls him to his feet.

"Your gratitude is acknowledged, let us move now before the ring comes in." The remnants of the earlier fight are still here in the form of half looted deathboxes, and he has to scour through some of those for some heals and ammo before they move on.

It's looking like the respawn beacon they were heading for won't be in the next ring, unfortunately for Wraith, so they cut their losses and head to the center.

They encounter another two or three squads, and one rambunctious Octane along the way, Mirage continuously finding himself downed in increasingly ludicrous ways.

"I've been observing... I hate to be the first person to break it to you, but I dont think you were really made for these kinds of games, Witt." Caustic confesses, while reviving Mirage for the 4th time.

He just sighs. "Yeah... yea, I know."

"So then why do you do it? Why the masochistic endeavor of placing yourself in an environment where you are the weakest link?"

"Wow, ok, little harsh there." He says, pride hurting more than the injection site of the syringe. "I just... want someone to remember me. And I guess I thought, 'What better way to be remembered than dying in the most glorious bloodsport of our generation?"

"A foolish sentiment. Life is insignificant; why not accept your fate?"

"Listen, I don't have to explain myself to you." Mirage says, a little defensive, and more than a little annoyed.

"Have it your way. Your incredible knack for narrowly defying death has provided me an insurmountable amount of data. So much to notate..."

"Glad to be of service." Mirage mutters bitterly.

Mirage does feel a little stupid when he compares his reasoning to other people's. It's not noble or some part of a larger plan. He isn't searching for answers. He isn't doing it because he has to. He isn't even being straight about it and just acting out of boredom like Octane or Revenant.

He's just worried that once everyone has forgotten him it'll be like he never existed at all.

His mom has already started forgetting... who will be left when she's gone?

It's the one thing that truly terrifies him.

So he keeps going on, even though he's the weakest link.

He keeps going on even if he's the biggest joke amongst the legends.

He keeps going on, even if everyone else is laughing at him and not with him.

Because as long as they're laughing he knows they see him.

Really, he's more concerned about what's gonna happen once they stop finding him funny.

No respawn beacon will ever be able to save him then. 

---

They don't win the game.

He wakes up alone in the med ward, common procedure for the squads upon elimination from the game.

He heads back to his room, not bothering to check the results, congratulate the champions, or talk to any of the other legends.

No one stops him.

He sits on the floor next to his bed and pulls out the box from underneath, taking out a letter at random.

The words start to blur about a paragraph in, and he puts it back once he realizes his tears are just drenching it entirely at this point.

He's ready to go home.

But there's nothing left for him to go back too.

[seanthedracunyan]

Smash bros ultimate story 2

Lucina stares out at sea. She sighs hoping that the next island has Makoto on it. She's been sailing for hours and still no luck. She hears Linebeck yell "land is close we'll be there in 35 minutes or less"

"I can't wait any longer, Makoto must be found." She says.

She jumps out of her seat and runs up to the rail. Lucina stares at the island Paper Mario comes to her and says "don'ta worry I'ma sure this isa the righta island "

"If it isn't I'm gonna be very annoyed." She replies.

The land comes into view and it looks promising. It has a beautiful beach with clear blue water. Bandana Waddle Dee wakes up and says "oh were here i get the anchor ready"

They get it in the water and they sail right into the beach. They drop the anchor and they all get off the boat.

"I'ma go scouta ahead, staya here" says Paper Mario. Lucina starts to running along shores "MAKOTO!" She yells but her voice doesn't seem to be heard. Lucina falls to the sand crying. A thick fog covers the island now.

The fog spreads out and starts swallowing her up. Mario is the last one to enter it. By now the fog is all around him.

Lucina stares at the fog and says "Guys GUYS! Ugh this fog is so thick. I can't see anything "

"We need to get her out of here, we'll have to fight our way through." Bandana Waddle Dee says. Lucina looks scared and she says trembling"What do you mean. Fight wha-" a loud roar comes from the island. Linebeck yells "everyone to the ship NOW!" and they all start running back to the boat.

Throwing caution to the wind, they get on the boat and start sailing away from the fog. Bandana Waddle Dee says "wait wheres Paper Mario" Linebeck says "forget him lets leave " then Lucina snaps back "we can't leave him behind" Bandana Waddle Dee nods his head and says "friends are friends no matter what"

Suddenly a roar is heard from the fog and a dark shadow appears and it's huge. Paper Mario runs on the ship. " what Is that" suddenly red eyes glow from the shadowy figure. Lucina begins to feel a chill down her spine. Then Lucina says "we need leave. Linebeck go take the wheel"

Linebeck obeys and starts steering the ship. Lucina says "we'll talk about this later, go "

Lucina and Bandana Waddle Dee follow Paper Mario into the bottom deck The shadow fades and she feels dread, pain and misery loom over herself. She says "what is this feeling." She falls to her knees and hands. "I feel so cold...is that plastic oh no no no" She stares at her hand in utter fear. She starts to hear Master Hands Voice "Lucina you shall be my amiibo. I shall be your master"

Paper Mario runs up to her with a panicked look on his face. He say's "Lucina what happened did you hear that shadow voice"

"Lucina no not you." Bandana Waddle Dee says with tears he continues "you can fight it." "I will Not JOIN YOU" Lucina says gritting her teeth. "Im am no ones Master. Your not controlling my mind that easily " she says trying to fight for her freedom .

"No more arguing or you're going to end up like Makoto and Shulk. Now I'll control your mind, so no more rebellious decisions please." The Master Hand says. Lucina Grabs her sword and yells "the only way for me to fight is for me to respawn. I'll come back i promise " she says "no... NOOO! Don't we need you please Lucina dont " Bandana Waddle Dee pleads with tears flowing down " Im sorry when i respawn. I'll come back as soon. Master Hand you WILL NOT CONTROL ME!" she stabs her own chest and explodes into a sparkling light. "LUCINA!" Bandana Waddle Dee screams and runs away sobbing. Bandana Waddle Dee hugs Linebeck "she willa be aback. " Paper Mario comforting him says "I'll take the wheel, get some rest, we have a long night ahead of us "

They all go into the bottom deck and a bunch of hammocks are placed. They all go to sleep. Soon as the sun starts to rise they find a port town and they dock. Bandana Waddle Dee walks off and heads to the town. He walks into a cafe named the roost "Give me your strongest coffee bartender...Lucina i miss so much already " he starts to sniff and sob quietly. "Uuuuh hey look up" Bandana Waddle Dee looks up and the bar tender is Lucina. Shes alive and perfectly healthy. Bandana Waddle Dee jumps on her hugging her tightly he says in overwhelming joy "i missed you so much." "I told you i came back. Anyways i found where Makoto and Shulk are. There in some temple deep in the jungle lets find Linebeck and Paper Mario and tell them the good news" Lucina and Bandana Waddle Dee eventually meet up with the rest and they head to the jungle in the center of the island .

As they walk through the jungle, Lucina looks back at the town "I miss home..." She says. Linebeck says "dont we all. When i get home im gonna be rich after i get paid for this" Bandana Waddle Dee says "im gonna eat so much cake and ice cream when i get back home" everyone laughs. They find the temple in a couple hours and they start searching. Then they hear Makoto and Shulk behind them "you will be with Master Hand. You will feel his power " they say hypnotized by Master Hand. Paper Mario says "alrighta all we gota do isa fighta them then theya will bea normal again " Lucina nods "fight shulk and Makoto and then there'll be normal got it"

The fight is hard, but the party wins. They are happy to see their friends again as they wake up freed from Master Hands horrible curse When everyone goes back home Lucina sees a message from Her father. She reads "dear Lucina thank you for saving Shulk. His friend Riki would not shut up about it. Thank you sweetheart. Love your father chrom" She smiles. She walks in her home knowing her work is done for awhile

[lilietsblog]

I beat Starbound yesterday night

like, okay, this is not a game you just 'win' and that's it. The main quest is just one thing you get to do alongside tech tree progression, and there is a thousand things to do that open up alongside this progression, and with the latest update there is a whole new tech tree for the mechs to pursue

I did not expect much from finishing the 'main quest' it was just kinda the next thing to do and then get on with all the other goals I had in mind (upgrading my mech, the bunch of stuff for my colony, making a cool interior for my ship)

like seriously, I thought, what is this quest even building up to? There's no way it won't be silly and underwhelming

I'm not spoiling I'm just saying I was wrong it wasn't

okay maybe if the mc was allowed to have personality + relationships beyond like, the way they stand and the pre-programmed people deciding fully on their own to join the mission regardless of what you actually do, it could have been even more poignant and fantastic

but like wow I almost don't feel like going back to the rest of my stuff to do now cause I've... won. I'm done, that's it, there is nothing I can do in this game that will top what just happened

it feels like gameplay should change more after what happened. Not just a 'special reward' with a lot of money and other sweet stuff (bitch I have this much money saved up already and the only reason it's not more is because I keep spending it). There should be a fundamental change somewhere, the world opening up in some way, getting to do something you didn't get to do before

there should be specifically 'postgame' content and not just 'lategame' content you could enjoy in the same way forever without actually ever finishing the main quest

this HOLY SHIT WHAT JUST HAPPENED thing must have some effect on the rest of the universe

like, I knew it wouldn't and I didn't expect it to... and now I feel like it should have coz. holy fuck. that was EPIC

okay i want to not spoil coz EXPERIENCE IT FOR YOURSELVES GUYS but i just want to gush about it so much so im just? going to put this under the cut?

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR STARBOUND MAIN QUEST. IF YOU THINK IT'S NOT SPOILER WORTHY YOU ARE WRONG GO BEAT IT YOURSELF AND THEN COME BACK ONCE YOU HAVE

okay so first of all why don't Novakid have a key? this feels like it should be more of a big deal, like what if my protagonist were a Novakid? they should have at least mentioned that oh yeah there's also Novakid but they weren't around back then or something

second of all holy shit from the beginning of the quest I was wondering, like okay we're going to unlock the gate and??? what then??? you go in to fistfight the fucking Ruin??? the tentacle monster that even the god creator could only lock away and that started out with destroying Earth???

like, okay, we get the keys. yeah. AND THEN WHAT

I thought the game would underplay the size of the Ruin, make it kinda underwhelming and make me question how this thing managed to destroy Earth and be so epic if one person can actually fight it

like okay I've also fought an avatar of Kluex but 1) it MIGHT have just been an automaton and 2) it's an AVATAR. avatars are beatable. its a different class of thing altogether

boy was I wrong. boy did I fucking UNDERESTIMATE the size of the Ruin (and also the developers of the game. holy shit. all the kudos)

it'S A FUCKING PLANET

like you just go through the gate and find yourself on this??? planet??? with instructions to 'destroy the Ruin' and your matter manipulator working unexpectedly unlike all the other missions

just. fistfight the planet. somehow. good luck

it was actually pretty intuitive what to do next? like. it just felt obvious that I would get nothing done on the surface and that the most likely thing to do is dig in. I've got the matter manipulator, it's my magic tool that the Protector left to humanity, LET'S GO FUCK UP A BITCH

and it kind of makes sense that one person can succeed where a deity couldn't. precisely because you're so fucking tiny you're basically beneath notice and you can fuck this thing up from the inside without it being able to do shit about it

also, it's not awake yet. it destroyed Earth by just kinda jerking in its sleep

when something's on that scale, it's pretty understandable that a human-sized person with an environment backpack that lets them survive ANYWHERE short of actual fucking lava would actually be a pretty appropriate opponent

and let's be honest, this was a suicide mission from the beginning. like I don't know what Esther expected to happen when you successfully beat the Ruin but it was kinda obvious that the microbe that caused it would be the first casualty

I also expected it to not be a big deal cause you die and you respawn? the one escort mission I managed to fail (protip: never agree to an escort mission across volcanic lava-filled terrain. or if you do, fill in the lava with earth. dont trust the NPC's ability to not fall in it and burn to death) right the one escort mission I managed to fail told me to not worry cause they probably respawned somewhere safe

and the ship crew gives comments like 'what was I doing before I died?' and 'I feel like I didn't respawn properly' and you just get the impression that respawning after death is a Thing in this unvierse and the only cause to worry is if the mechanism that was supposed to respawn you was destroyed (which is exactly what happened on Earth. like it was supposed to be a... safe place. that's the horror of it)

seriously you beat the Ruin and Esther is like... oh nO... WHAT IS HAPPENING.. iT Is.. unSTABLE??? I dunno bitch what did you think we were trying to do

the odds of it not exploding after being killed from the inside (or imploding, or flooding everything with deadly poison, or burning up, or getting flushed into Death Dismension, or any of the other number of thing that might happen wnen you're in the middle of the body of an eldritch abomination and have just killed it) were like... 1 in a 1 000 000

what did you EXPECT

when you're going down it's so fucking... eerie. there are those things living INSIDE the Ruin. they are freaky and are they alive? do they count as part of its organism or as independent beings? is there even a meaningful distinction on this scale or is it like the white cells in your blood

and then there is the pit, and the AI helpfully warns you to not fall into it and just. oh my fuck. thanks dude I would never have thought of this on my own. the Unhelpful AI is the best thing about this game honestly

and you keep going down and down and its genuinely creepy like whats down there? what are you going down towards? FUCK KNOWS

and then the environment changes and there is this brain matter stuff? and you can't break it like you just can't break it, the matter manipulator doesn't work like that it's not the matter manipulator block from everywhere that has a visual clue of small squares, it starts breaking the brain and it just. can't. whatever it is you're going to try to do with this thing's brain, destroying it with the matter manipulator is not it. it's just not strong enough

and then you get a path inside it and there are standard gate-and-radar mechanisms of boss fight and it's just so silly that those would be inside there but on the other hand reality doesn't really hold up in the face of this thing anyway so might as well

and then you face the Cultists Boss and its honestly so. anticlimactic after all the buildup she had. maybe its just extensive preparation with many buffs i had going (bitch i just fought your entire army and a dragon) but i beat her in like. three cycles. the mechanics and weaknesses were the same as in the first fight in the library and it didnt even feel like i had to try hard

and it was kinda appropriate? like bitch what do you think you're doing. get out of the way i'm trying to save the universe there. THIS THING'S FIRST ACTION WAS DESTROYING EARTH HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU GET THE IDEA IT FAVORED HUMANS

(true to life. racial supremacists aren't known for their firm grip on reality)

and then it's this thing's... heart? inside its brain? well it's just a convenient term anyway. either way it's the spark of un-life that drives the entire thing and GOOD LUCK YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN

and I just... look. I had freaked out about the army and the dragon because the first time I fought them I quickly ran out of my 13 nanobandages and died

so for the second time I crafted 160 of them

(also I had a Damage III augment on my EPP and really, really cool weapons newly bought in Glitch settlements, so I mowed down mooks by just pistol-machine-gunning-them for a couple of seconds, it was actually kinda freaky how effective I was at damage dealing)

I also died against the Ruin once because augghhhh having the nanobandages on the left click and the medicine kits that heal you slowly over time AND BLOCK NANOBANDAGES FROM WORKING IMMEDIATELY on the right click WAS A BAD IDEA

after respawning i just straight up removed the medicine kits from the quick access. not gonna trip myself up like that the second time

and it was? really freaky but not that hard once I figured it out? like okay actually pretty fucking hard but not like. COMPLICATED. just counterintuitive

like, if the boss always hits the same area with an EYE LASER attack, the logical thing to do is stay out of there, right?

but no. out of there are the tentacles, and they sometimes move without warning and hurt you. while the eye laser attack comes with pretty obvious buildup

and more importantly: the eye laser attack takes like half of your HP. but it KILLS DEAD all the smaller creatures that were harassing you

like oh god this is so appropriate? this un-creature summons living things both from its own body and from across the universe to attack you, but then when it goes on the offensive itself it just destroys them all

it's self-destructive. you can goad it into solving your problems for you because it's NOT SENTIENT. it's a thing more than it is a creature. its goal is to destroy life but its semi-living so it destroys itself

so you just. stay in the eye laser zone, jump, hit it with your swords, ignore the swarm of minions attacking you (well more like hit them with the swords along the way. thats why I prefer weapons with lower damage but quicker attack), and keep an eye on your HP. once its around half, 6 + left click several times until it works + 1 to go back to the swords

also during the eye laser attack it's also a good idea to do the same thing. then you can come out of it with full HP... and no creatures attacking you like bitch thanks for solving my problems

you just have to... keep doing it. its scary. your life is going down really fast and there is no way to kill all the creatures attacking you because it keeps spawning them and there's no safe zone because tentacles

but you just keep going, keep healing yourself, keep tanking the eye laser attack and using it as just another opportunity to jump up and deal damage

and it'll... break. it's not going to regenerate itself the way Big Ape does. it'll just die and that will be it. you'll have won. well okay you're going to die too but THE VICTORY WILL BE YOURS

(and then there's that scene. that scene. that one. it's so good you guys. even my bewilderment at sudden story gameplay separation didn't make it any less freaking epic)

really, the only letdown is that there should have been SOMETHING changing at the Outpost. Maybe this would be a better moment for the Treasured Trophies to appear. Maybe some other shop opening. Maybe a portal to a new peaceful/trading zone entirely.

there should be SOMETHING there

[spooksinpie]

A PSA for all y’all OW Players

Hello there. Mercy main here. First of all, how are you? Are you having a good day? Yes? No? Thats great/No worries. Today, I’d love to talk about something I’ve noticed recently. Now, I like to think that I mostly stay neutral on matters. I try my best to do my job and not to swerve into lanes that aren’t mine. I don’t generally jump into voice when people are being ‘toxic’, I don’t generally not heal people for any one reason. The only rage and salt is that which only I will hear. But please. For the love of everything. HELP YOUR TEAM.  I have been in several Quickplay matches in the last few days that I’ve gleaned a pattern from. Someone will either throw, or hide.(I understand and appreciate the non-comp feel of Quickplay! Its great that we can have fun. I want that. This is more for those of us that want to do comp in the future, or just don’t want one person spoiling the fun, kay?)

Honestly, very proud I’ve not seen many throwers. Considering the time I ran into it, that person had absolutely no reason to do so, but did, makes it noteworthy however. My example is: We had a Mei, on point. Which was fine, I thought. The strike team was killin’ it that day, and we totally had it! (Or so I thought). Suddenly, the points being attacked! Now, Mei was alone, but hadn’t died, so a couple of us raced back, and I, being the only healer, wanted to jump back for a sec to help out (Battle Mercy go~). Mei was ‘Hello’-ing the enemy on point. And running about trying not to get hit. And repeating. We did end up losing the point soon after, but I hadn’t voted to personally blame Mei. Its never one person! But on the next point, the same issue arose. So I spoke out, in respawn, after Mei had let me get ganked in front of her by a Genji she was ‘Hello’-ing. “Hey. I’m on the point babo” was the response. So, I ignored Mei from that point on, outside of healing her when she was low/in a bad spot. The only time I saw her fire was in the last few seconds, and thats considering that I was having to run from Genji and Soldier while my team went back and forth from respawn due to the horrors before us. My healing was not enough (only healer, as I mentioned). 

Bottom line: Please play nice. Don’t throw. It’s not comp, its not necessarily important to a lot of people, but. Its very possible others are trying to get better, and improve so that they CAN do comp. And feigning a point defense when in actuality you’ve opted to greet the demons as they rise from the abyss and converge upon thee, is rude. 

Again, just once did this happen, but still something I needed to mention.

The real problem, as it were, is the many players I’ve seen hiding. Now, I bet the first thought is ‘But if you hide, then you can sit and wait for your team to push, and you’re good!’. Welp. Sure. If that were the thought process. But let me paint the scene:

Our team was on defense. It was Hanamura, and the first point had yet to be taken. I had Mercy, as is the usual. I don’t remember our team comp very well, but I do happen to remember the Reaper. Now, again, let me stress, I don’t play the game to boss. If you wanna play Reaper on Defense, alright then. Maybe you are pro Reaps, and got us. Its fine. (MY real issue is the amount of Attack Widows who either won’t listen to reason when the entire team has asked nicely, or flat out ignores pleas of defense from their teammates...you know who you are. IF you Widow on Attack, get good.) But what you should not do, is hide when your team is making a frantic attempt at guardign the point, and you are literally watching them fall like flies. 

Reaper is an Offense character, specialing in moving in on the enemy when they dont expect it, blasting their faces off, and eating souls. (Not after the patch, I guess). He is NOT a ‘I guess my whole team got this 5 v 6, I can stand here and get some nachos bruh’.  Communication is key. I’ve run into many different scenarios like this, which are much vaguer in memory aside from the fact that I’ve had D.Va’s fly off and leave me stranded with the enemy when they were at half health and I had pocketed them. Or the countless Pharahs who believe I can fly like them. 

What I’m trying to convey here, is that, contrary to popular belief, teamwork is important. Healers need Tanks or Attack characters to guard them. Defense characters often need scenarios or enviornments to best suit them. Team composition is so very important. I’ve gone from maining Mercy and Tracer/Sombra, to filling in because more often than not, NO ONE wants to be Healer. And thats alright. I don’t mind being Healer for you, if you will work with me. If my D.Va’s and Reins stay beside me, if my Pharahs watch the cliffs for me, then I’ll die a Support Main. But please. Do not hide, when your team is all on point, you are not the leader, you are not our best player or secret weapon. You’re our comrade. We need you. Get in there! You may die, but chances are, I have my rez, and we’ll create an undead army for which to slaughter the infidels.  Don’t throw. Peoples choices are their own. IF you don’t agree, then agree to disagree. If you dont like someone, then don’t talk to them. Deciding that your feelings are more important than your teams when playing such a game as this, won’t get you or anyone else anywhere.  Play nice everyone. Please. 

(PS. I’ve recently heard about Sombra pseudo-healing and will more than likely test out the Master-race of Hack-Healer. Get rekt.)