#(I mean also with how well their poses worked together I couldn't not do this)

[viperwhispered]

I am... contemplating

(thanks to twstrenders for the Jamil render!)

[obeymeshallwedateaddict]

Hiii!!!

I have a bit of a random, thought about it at 3am type request. How would MC react to the brothers (and the undateables if you have time for a pt.2) carrying around something that reminds them of MC? (ie. keychain, photo, letter, flower etc)

Thx!

Heyyyy I love your request!! I hope you enjoy this one and part 2 with the dateables is coming soon!

Author's note: I'm sorry for the recent delay of my requests and that I've been posting less but I've been busy for the past one to two weeks. I expect to be back to normal by next week.

Summary: You notice that each of the brothers is carrying something around with them that reminds them of you.

Contains: Fluff

GN!MC = reader

You can find more of my work here: Masterlist

MC reacts to the brothers carrying a reminiscent of them.

Lucifer

The first time you see him carry such an object would be either when he is doing paperwork in his study (or wherever it is) or if you're walking down the street with him.

It is a fountain pen that you gave him not so long ago. He just carries it around with him all day. He does his paperwork with it and sometimes swirls it in-between his fingers whenever he's uneasy or just casually walking around.

The pen isn't any interesting itself but to Lucifer it means the world. It's a gift from you after all. And since it's a gift from you he cherishes it like he cherishes his life.

---

Sitting in the study with Lucifer while he's doing paperwork. Suddenly you noticed the fountain pen in his hand that is so smoothly writing on the paper. There was something familiar about it but you couldn't exactly put your finger on it. It's like it was talking to you. And then it suddenly clicked. It's the pen you gave him as a gift when he mentioned that he lost his favourite fountain pen!

MC: "Hey, Lucifer. Is that.. the pen I gave you?"

Lucifer: "Indeed it is, MC. I see you noticed. I have to say... I've grown quite the liking to it. And of course I would. It's a gift from you after all."

Mammon

The first time you noticed Mammon's item could be absolutely everywhere. Why? Because he carries it with him wherever he goes.

It's a keychain you once bought together and you actually also have a matching one as well. He has attached it to his phone and walks around with him every day. Whenever he looks at it a smug expression appears on his face. He has a matching keychain with his human!

He calls it his "lucky charm". Whenever he goes to the casino or to dig up some treasure from some where he attaches it to his belt. Though whenever luck wasn't on his side he'd just blame it on the keychain saying that the "luck energy" died and it needs to "regenerate".

---

You and Mammon where hanging out together in his room. He was sitting casually on the couch, scrolling mindlessly on the phone while yo were carefully counting his money since he demanded that you should do it instead of him since you are his "servant". After a while when you lift your head and look at the second-born you notice the keychain, attached to his phone. You immediately realise where it came from and smile.

MC: "So you attached your keychain to your phone?"

Mammon: "Yea. 'course I would. It brings me luck to carry it around with me. And also it kinda suits my phonecase."

MC: "Is that the only reason though?"

Mammon: shrugs "Fine.. I also carry it around since it reminds me of ya! But don't ya go telling that to anybody! Ya hear me? Now go back to counting the Mammon money!"

Leviathan

Once a while back you and the third-born cosplayed one of his favourite animes together and in the end you ended up taking a bunch of pictures. You made a lot of different poses and different facial expressions. In the end it turns out that Levi had printed some of them out and put his favourite one inside his phonecase.

He loves walking around with it tho he doesn't make it obvious.

Sometimes during class when he is bored or doesn't understand something and had gotten rather irritated, instead of summoning Lotan which earned him a thorough scolding from the eldest, he'd just look at the picture of both of you that's in the back of his phone, which always managed to put a smile on his face.

While gaming or watching anime he'd always make sure that his phone is close so whenever he felt like it he could look at the picture to liven up his mood.

Overall he was utterly in love with it.

---

One day while gaming with Levi in his room, you noticed the picture of you and him, cosplaying in the back of his transparent phonecase. You smile and decide to point it out.

MC: "You put a picture of our cosplay in the back of your phonecase? It's adorable."

Levi: "Uh Y-Yeah. I actually r-r-really like it. T-that's why. Don't think much of it."

You didn't say anything more though you couldn't help but notice the pinkish blush that appeared on the demon's cheeks.

Satan

A while back you and Satan had gone out in a flower field and while laying among the flowers, gazing mindlessly at the sky you noticed a flower that reminded you of the fourth-born. You plucked it up and handed it to him which he happily accepted.

Since that day forward Satan couldn't make himself to throw the flower away. Instead he just carefully put it in-between the pages of one of your favourite books that he owned.

Every once in a while he'd open the book just to see how the flowers has changed and dried. Though in his eyes it never lost its beauty.

---

One day you were sitting together with Satan in the library. You were reading a book while Satan was studying cursed he could prank Lucifer with. That's until you open the book to the page where Satan had put the flower. It didn't take you long to recognise it even if it was completely dried up. You smile.

MC: "Awh, Satan. You kept the flower I gave you.."

Satan looks up from his book with a soft smile on his face.

Satan: "Of course I would. After all you gave it to me which makes it one of my most priced possessions. And where else could you keep a flower that would eventually dry?"

Asmodeus

On one regular day when you walked past Asmo he sucked in a deep breath and exhaled happily. You stopped and looked at him. His expression was relaxed yet satisfied. When you asked him what he was thinking about he said that your scent had sent him into a daze. That day you gifted him the perfume you were using and he so liked.

Asmo kept it in his room. He'd always spray himself with it before going out outside. At some point the perfume ran out but the fifth-born didn't throw out the bottle. He kept it on his vanity just because every time he looked at it it reminded him of you.

He'd often find himself daydreaming about you while looking at the bottle and sometimes he'd glance at it while doing his skincare our make up.

He was obsessed with the little perfume bottle.

---

One time you were with Asmo in his room, doing skincare together when you noticed the bottle. You immediately recognized what it was and smiled but then you saw that there was actually no perfume inside.

MC: "Asmo, why have you kept the perfume bottle when it's empty?"

Asmo: "MC, dear. It just reminds me of you so so sooo much I can't make myself throw it away! I'm even considering to fill it with another perfume so I could use it. It would be soo adorable!!!"

You smiled and shook your head.

Beelzebub

One time when Beel was going to his training you decided to make him a lunch box so he could have something to snack on if he gets hungry. You put a few of his favourite foods in it and wrote him a small letter along with it. "Enjoy your food! Love you! <3"

Ever since the sixth-born saw the small note he always carried it around with him wherever he went.

He'd either put it in his phonecase or somewhere in his bag so whenever he needed a little boost of motivation he'd read it. Though it always made him hungry since there was no food along with the note this time.

---

One day when you were eating at Hell's kitchen with Beel you noticed the note when he pulled up his phone to answer a message from Belphie. It made you smile. Knowing that he kept such a simple and meaningless note.

MC: "Beel? You kept that note? Isn't it meaningless by now? Considering how long it's been?"

Beel: "Meaningless? No it's not meaningless, MC. A letter or a note in the matter could never loose it's meaning when it's from you. Even if it does make me hungry every time I read it..."

You chuckled subtly to yourself.

Belphegor

Upon going to bed one night you noticed that your pillow was missing. You didn't think much of it and just grabbed another one from the closet and went to bed. It turns out the demon of sleep himself took it without warning.

Belphie would always carry it around the house with him.

Whenever he felt the need to nap somewhere, whether it would be the attic or the living room he'd just sleep with that pillow. It practically became his favourite.

It always soothed him and lulled him to sleep simply because the pillow still smelled like you. And Belphie along with the other six can't help but find your scent soothing.

Whenever he'd sleep with that pillow he'd always have trouble waking up afterwards and someone of the other brothers would have to either use force to wake him up or drag him like a sack of potatoes.

---

One afternoon upon walking into the living room you noticed the youngest sleeping peacefully on the couch. You smiled and sat next to him and that's when you noticed that Belphie was sleeping on your pillow that had gone missing a few days ago. You wanted to talk to him about it but didn't want to wake him so you waited patiently for the demon to wake up by himself. And when he did...

MC: "Hey, Belphie. How'd you sleep?"

Belphie: yawning "I slept okay. Though I could use some more sleep.."

You nodded you head and chuckled before speaking up.

MC: "Belphie, I couldn't help but notice... Is that my pillow you're sleeping on?"

Belphie looked down at the pillow and a smile formed on his face.

Belphie: "Yeah. It is. It helps me sleep and I love sleeping with it. It smells like you so when I cuddle it I feel like I'm cuddling you... I hope you don't mind."

A blush creeped onto your cheeks and you smiled

MC: "You can keep it."

[petew21-blog]

Teen wolf - Alpha needs his pack Part 2.

Hey, y'all already know who we are right? We're like two of the most popular guys at school. Or maybe the coolest. Or... ok forget I said that. We are just bestfriends, by day we do normal shirt together by some nights Scott is doing his wolf stuff and I try to help out as much as I can.

But recently sometihng has changed. Scott started to act more dominant. We spoke less and less. He is so focused on the pack and the dangers that might come, but that's not how Scott usually is. Also, what happened to Theo? He is always ten steps behind Scott like some sort of a servant and he even keeps looking at me. But not with his self-centered I AM BETTER THAN YOU look, but now he looks like he wants to tell me sometihng, like he is being punished. I'll try to talk to him, since Scott is distancing himself from me now. HE EVEN GOT A TATTOO. Without me! We were talking getting one and he didn't wait for me. Ok, maybe my dad would be against it, but I would resist. Maybe, for a while. Ok, I wouldn't dare, but you know. He could have said something.

I think I was getting really desperate. My best friend is not talking to me, everyone else would think the way that I do. I knew If I were in his pack he couldn't ignore me. But if my dad found out I was bitten someday, he would flip. Or maybe I would too. The first transformation must be horrible. Which is why I contacted one witch. She is not evil, but doesn't work for free. And I still didn't have an idea how to get Scott to talk to me, but she would know what to do. Wouldn't she?

We met up in the forest. She brough a box with her with all sorts of potions and equipment. She was a middle aged, very beautiful woman, nice hair, leather jacket.

"Hey. You're not the witch from Snow White I was expecting."

"Money" she said annoyed after my joke

I handed her the money. And started nervously: "Haha, sorry about that. I just get nervous handling illegal stuff in the dark with strangers. Not like I would do that, like ever. Not like drugs or anything. I don't do drugs..."

"You talk too much." She handed me a small vial of liquid. As I observed the vial, she touched my hand. "Do you even know, there's some magic in you? Are you so blind to everything around you, you don't even see whats in you?"

"I am a wizard?"

"No. You have some magic, but you're weak." she started packing her things and getting ready to leave.

"Wait, you didn't tell me what to do."

"Drink it to get close to who you want." she said mysteriously.

What does that even mean? I drank the whole vial and she just smiled at me. I hope that's a good sign. A smile from a witch. Sure

Suddenly a noise echoed through the forrest. That sounded like a howl. The witch was already running away from me.

In a minute Derek appeared behind me. "What the hell are you doing here?"

I was really surprised to see him, but also not. The wolves always protect the Beacon Hills so if there was a creature tresspassing, they would know. I tried to sound confident. "Well I could be asking you the same thing"

"Do you even know that the Dread doctors are in Beacon Hills?! Has no one told you they pose a threat, Stiles?!? They want to get to Scott and you are parading in a forrest doing god knows what."

"I was just... on a midnight walk. It's very healthy actually. You should try sometimes. But I guess you run a lot around the town during the night. Right. Anyway..."

"Stiles, shut the fuck up and let's go."

He touched my arm and then my whole world flipped. It must have happened really fast, but for us it felt like ages. I even think I saw Derek's aura? soul? I don't know. But those things switched places in our bodies. They positioned themself and after that I opened my eyes again.

I saw myself. Myself from Derek's eyes. As I looked down I saw Derek's muscles. Oh man, he's gonna kill me now.

"Stiles?!?" the expression of my face changed from my usual friendly approach to the one I might have had maybe the last time playing a video game. I didn't even know my face could do this.

"Yesss?" whoa. Did that vibrating manly voice just come out of me? That's so hot. I have to calm down before Derek notices I am not that mad about the situation as he is.

"What exactly have you been doing here? And I need you to tell me everything." haha. My body looks so funny when he's trying to look angry.

I told him how I felt about Scott, how the witch took the money and gave me the vial and how I drank it.

He laughed of frustration. "You fuckin' idiot. Don't you get it?"

"Get what?"

"The Dread Doctors were planning to swap you and Scott. You were suppose to go meet him after this, right?"

"Yeah..."

"Well of course. Our little stiles feels intimidated by Scott new ball drop and wants to be close, just to endanger the whole town in doing so. What would you do if you swapped with him? Would you manage being the Alpha? HUH? No, right. Didn't think so."

"Sorry, this wasn't the plan."

"Oh I know it wasn't. And it sure wasn't my plan to spend the evening fucking myself."

"WHAT?! WHAT do you mean?! Why should I.... YOU...WHAT?"

"Every magical thing has a twist. And maybe from every cheesy freaky friday movie you watch, you might understand, that the people that swap have to get close somehow, make up. They always have to 'learn a lesson', 'try to walk in each others shoes', but they all take the long way. The fastest way to swap is to know how the other one FEELS."

"Derek, I... I don't know if I want this."

"Well I sure as don't want this kid, but we don't have a choice now, do we? Now, get on your knees. I got places to be."

He came close to me and started unzipping my jeans.

"Hey that's my dick!"

"No, it's mine now. And if you don't want it to be like this forever, which I really don't, then SUCK IT!"

I have to say, that seeing my own body being so dominant was in some ways really hot. I lowered myself.

"I have never seen it from this angle. It looks really nice."

"Stiles. SUCK IT!"

I didn't want to bee yelled at anymore, but Derek's body seemed to react to it slightly. I liked the shaft first, grabbing the lower part of my dick and positioned my mouth over it. My beard over my lips slightly scratching the head of my dick seemed to cause sensation to him. I pushed the dick more and more. Damn, almost no gag reflex. Convenient. My dick is real nice I gotta say. Striaght, slightly hairy, nice balls. It's not one of the biggest out there, but it's not bad in the mouth.

I accelerated. He started moaning. I used my right hand to jerk the lower half and blow the top. I think I'm getting good at this. Maybe cause Derek now put his hand in my hair to hold onto something.

"So you like it huh?"

"DON'T STOP!"

I got back to it, accelerating even more until streams of cum released into my mouth. I swallowed.

"So? When do you think we're gonna swap?" I asked him

He hyperventilated from the orgasm. "I... I thought this would work actually."

"Well maybe we gotta fuck for real. Let's go to my place. My dad's on duty now.

We entered my room. I could see the post nut clarity in his eyes. Post nut clarity and desperation. Nothing I haven't seen before on my own face.

"Ok, Derek. The lube is in the drawers. There is a completely new one. I haven't had a chance to use it. Guess I still won't be the first one using it. Hahah."

"What do you mean?"

"You just came. My body isn't used to cum two times a in an hour, So if you can't do the math, I'll do it for you."

"We'll wait until your body's dick gets hard." he said indifferently

A wave of anger swept over me

"Listen here, Derek. You suggested this and I followed. Now it's your turn to obey and do what I tell you. You don't want to be stuck like this and these are your methods. So we're gonna fuck. And I will be on top. Understand?"

He just nodded. I could see the fear in his eyes. But also excitement. And what I really didn't expect a tent formed in his jeans. That little fucker likes to be dominated. He's just hiding it behind this facade.

I was horny, hell yeah I was. And I also wanted to enjoy being this buff for just a few minutes. I did some pull ups. It went so easily. His body is so amazing. Maybe I should hit the gym after we go back.

Derek just sat shirtless on the bed, watching me lift myself up and down.

I got near him. The sweat drops rolling over my muscles. I took his hand and positioned it on my belt. He unbuckled it. SHIIIT this dick is huge. No wonder when Derek is such a masculine man.

"SUCK IT!" I said just as he said before. Only now, my voice was more manlier than his. He obeyed me, he wanted me to feel good and ge was doing such a great job. I thrusted my hips into his mouth as he was sucking. He choked many time. My body's gag reflex made it worse for him. Take that, that's for before

I took off my pants and he took off his. He turned around and got in position for me to enter him. I took the lube, put some on my hand, then his ass. Then on my new dick. Fuck, it's my first time jerking his dick. And it feels so good. I don't think I want to swap. But if I get my hands on the vial, I could swap with anyone. It would be cool to know what it's like to be Theo. He has a beautiful body.

My mind got back from daydreaming to fucking again. My hard pulsating dick in my hand ready over my hairy ass. I pushed, slowly, gently. I waited for him to get used to it. He moaned like a little bitch. While I waited for him to enjoy the pain I grabbed his dick. He was just as hard as I was. I took my other hand and grabbed him under his neck and took him close to me. My other hand still on his dick, jerking him, my own dick thrusting into him. He moaned. I kissed his neck and bit him a bit. I could feel my wolf teeth come out. But no, not the time

I accelerated. Thrusting more into him and jerking him twice as before. He wasn't moaninf, he was screaming out of pleasure now. And then it hit. Both of us. Be came at the same time. I came into him and ha came all over my bed. We panted, my dick still inside of him slowly getting flacid.

I pulled out. Laying myself down and he did so next to me on the bed.

"Well, that didn't work."

We just looked at each other, both wondering what we were gonna do.

But hey, atleast I get to be part of the pack with Scott now.

A story from inbox that skipped a few others: Maybe a second part of the new alpha where stiles hires some witch to make him and derek swap bodies in order to improve the pack. Maybe even derek had a kink with being smaller and loves the new reality.

Sorry for taking so long, but don't worry. Your story is coming

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[i9messi]

Hi love ❤💃 could you maybe write something with charles leclerc x girlfriend reader, maybe shes a actor and does a movie with harry styles maybe like don't worry darling and charles is jelous because every where are scenes of them kissing and having ,,sex" from the movie

Acting — Charles Leclerc

Word count: 720

a/n: fluff

charles' masterlist

"Charles, baby, are you alright?"

You and your boyfriend had just arrived from the premiere of your new movie. Charles had been there to hold your trembling hands, to remind you that you were doing great, and also to bring you calm in all that commotion. It was your first starring role, a very important moment for your acting career and you didn’t want to ruin it.

Everything had gone very well, you had posed for the cameras and then in the cinema room you had sat next to your other co-workers and of course, next to your boyfriend. The film was applauded and you were happy with the result of your performance. It was a film that you had put a lot of time and effort into, and now that the movie had come out, you were proud of your work.

However, your boyfriend has been acting a little weird since he finished watching the movie. At first, he kept smiling, but once you finished watching the film, Charles had driven home quietly. Something was wrong, you could tell by the way his brow was furrowed and he didn’t say anything. Now that you were in the comfort of your home, your boyfriend went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of water.

You took off the heels that hurt your feet and waited for his answer. Charles finally spoke.

"Did you have to kiss so much?"

"Excuse me?"

"You and that guy. In every scene you were practically doing it, well, in a lot of scenes you were doing it."

You finally understood what was happening to him. Some scenes had been quite intimate between you and your co-star, that was true, but everything was fake and for the sake of the movie.

"It’s called acting. It wasn’t real, Charles."

"It seemed quite real to me."

"Are you jealous?"

"No."

Your boyfriend was a bad liar. You looked at him for a moment, his face showing how much he had bothered to see you kiss another man. He was serious, just like when during a bad race. It was a face you knew a lot, because whenever things went wrong, he would come to your side to find comfort.

"No way.... You’re actually jealous."

"Maybe I am a little bit jealous. But who wouldn’t be? You were kissing him!"

"Nothing was real, is just my job, Charles. It’s a movie, I’ve acted before and I can swear I never developed any feelings for my other teammates."

Even the scenes of sexual intercourse had been completely taken care of, you and your co-star had shared nothing but fake kisses. Charles remained upset about what had happened and you had the amazing idea to start laughing. It was funny because he didn’t have a real reason to be jealous, you couldn't care less about the other actor, not at least in the way he was concerned about.

"What are you laughing at? I don’t see anything funny..."

"You’re cute."

You narrowed the distance between you and him and decided to kiss your boyfriend. Charles seemed a little calmer once your lips came together, maybe all the questions and doubts disappeared once he knew you were there with him. The kiss you shared was true, his lips made you tremble and feel something in your heart. However, the kisses in the film had no meaning, you had felt nothing. You were in love with him.

"I love you, Charles. I choose you, I always choose you. It was just a movie and I was just acting, you don’t have to be jealous of anyone because I’m yours."

Charles finally opened his eyes and looked at you through his eyelashes.

"You’re mine?"

"Yes, I’m yours."

"Good."

This time, he kissed you. His lips joined in a warm kiss and his hands approached your face and your hair, in a desperate grip to draw you even closer to him. His hands then went down to your waist, leaving soft caresses on your skin, above your dress. You took your time to be able to breathe again, Charles had a unique way of making you feel loved.

"Sorry for everything. I just didn't like that too much, alright?"

"It's fine, love."

"I love you."

"And I love you."

"Kiss me again."

"But- mmph"

[milksuu]

I’ve been on the Ezreal brainrot ever since I discovered Heartsteel. And my little brain has been scheming

How would a relationship with him work out if his partner is an idol too and they have to sneak out to have fun together??👀

(Btw, unrelated, but I love how you write, it’s super fun and easy to read)

Dirty Little Secret | (O1)

❥ prompt: Let's face it. You and Ezreal hardly have time for anything with your busy idol lives. Unfortunately, things get a bit messy after you first meet. Luckily, both of you share a secret hobby nobody knows about. And boy, does it come in handy. ❥ content/warnings: ecchi, drama bomb, forbidden romance ❥ characters/pairings: Heartsteel!ezreal x idol!f!reader , Heartsteel gang an: omggg tysvm anon! honestly, im so sorry but looks like your ask is getting a part two lmfao! guess i went overboard with my idea, and so, your actual req. will be fulfilled in the next part. i also blame all american rejects for my non-original title. thanks for understanding.

No one knew about Ezreal's secret hobby. When anyone asked where he was going with a black gym duffle bag, he gave everyone the same answer. "J-Just heading to the main studio to warm-up before you guys get there. Nothing else." Little did they know, that's not where he was going. Instead, he was heading to a photoshoot. A very specific kind: a cosplay photoshoot.

I mean, who wouldn't want to dress up as their favorite anime/manga character, superhero, or original fantasy creation? Even better, who wouldn't want to be photographed while doing it? Ezreal felt he could be anyone and anything. Adored with attention in more ways than one. Best part was, with so many cosplays to shift through, no one ever knew it was him. Except you did.

And that all happened because you went to that same photoshoot. It was a group event held in a public park, surrounded by retail shops. It was perfect for both slice of slice or nature-esque shots. It was by coincidence your character and Ezreal's character were canon together in the anime lore you were cosplaying. Which sparked you two being asked to pose romantically with one another, and pretend to be going in for a kiss.

You gave your consent and Ezreal tipped your chin up, his face mere inches away from yours. You squinted your eyes against his features and whispered. "You look kind of familiar." As if you had seen him walking around your workplace just the other day. Maybe somewhere else you frequented? You couldn't quite place a finger on it. Ezreal couldn't shake off the feeling either. He tilted your face another way for a different angle. He laughed nervously, whispering back. "That's funny. I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've met. Maybe we're at the same cosplay shoots a lot. And now we've just noticed each other."

You accepted the rational. Either way, you didn't want to press it, in case he flipped the coin around and started asking you personal questions. Cosplay and anonymity were one in the same for certain individuals—especially in your case.

After a couple more pictures, you parted ways. Ezreal felt his phone buzz. He checked his messages:

[Yone:] Where are you? You're late. I believe you said earlier you would be here before us to 'get in some extra practice'. [Yone:] Care to explain?

OH CRAP! Ezreal didn't realize how late the hour was. He'd been so distracted, he forgot to set his reminder. And now he was officially going to be late— or, well, late-er. Sweating bullets, Ezreal quickly let his fingers type:

[Ezreal:] i'm there! just in the bathroom. might be a while. lunch is kicking my butt. 😳🚽💩💩💩

[Yone:] Thank you for the TMI. Hurry up then.

Ezreal wiped at his brow. He was running on borrowed time. Yone was sure to find out if he wasn't back within the next fifteen minutes. Snatching his bag from the public lockers, he ran to the public restroom. To his utter surprise, there was a line for the men's restroom. Seriously!? That never happened. And it's not like he could waltz into the women's restroom (which, not surprisingly, also had a line). He went around, and found a private unisex bathroom.

VACANT

He flung himself inside, locked it, and striped away his cosplay. Something shifted in the corner of his eyes—it was you. And there you both were, standing in awkward positions down to your undergarments. You pointed at each other accusingly, and shouted at the same time; "I do know you!" You both recognized each other as idols; him being with Heartsteel, and you as a solo-artist. Even though brief, you two bumped into each other more than once at the company building.

"G-get out! I was here first." You blushed, taking your moon-wand and smacking him with it. "Ouch—it said vacant!" He cried out, trying to block your magical melee attacks. "It was your fault for not locking it. How was I supposed to know?"

"I really don't have time for this. Do whatever you want." You tossed your wand into your bag, fetching your skirt. You shot a narrowed look. "Just don't look over here, or else."

"Fine." Ezreal huffed, rubbing at his sore collar bone. "Don't look over here either."

With grumbles and protests, the two of you changed back to back. All the while, still bickering. He heard you struggling, turned over his shoulder, and found you trying to reach your back zipper. He sighed, helping you raise it to the back of your neck. You turned sharply. "I told you not to look but...thank you." You peeked down and noticed his pants weren't zipped up. You reached and returned the favor. He blushed, suddenly feeling self-conscious. He gulped. "Don't sweat it. Thanks for catching that for me."

A silent truce settled between the two of you as you finished dressing, and shared the mirror to freshen up. Ezreal realized you were also in a rush to get ot the studio as well. He called an Uber for the both of you. His phone buzzed and buzzed, blowing up with messages. He opened his group chat:

[Aphelios:] yone is pissed btw. rip ez. ☠️

[Kayn:] YEAAAA YONE'S GONNA GROUND YOU. 😈😈😈

[Sett:] Sorry, Ez. We tried to cover for ya'h. Hope you're alright. 😓

[K'Sante:] I'm sure he's fine. For now. Once Yone finds him, we may not see him again in one piece. hehe.

[Kayn:] HAHAHA HE'S SO SCREWED HAHAHAAAAA

[Sett:] Watch it, Kayn. Else im tellin' Yone you snuck out on the motorcycle last night.

[Apehlios:] i have footage from the house cam. 😏

[Kayn:] YOU GUYS BETTER NOT ISTFG 🤬🤬🤬

Ezreal sank down into the back seat. Kayn was right—he was so screwed. You watched his whirlwind of expressions from the side of your lashes. You couldn't help but feel bad for him. You were right on time for your schedule. And it was all too apparent he wasn't. You stared out the car window. It really was tough to balance certain things as an idol, and some were better at it than others.

When you both arrived at the Riot building, and walked passed the double swinging doors, there was definitely Hell to be paid. A bead of sweat ran Ezreal's temple. Finding Yone standing with his arms crossed, and looking down with a razor-sharp gaze.

"Is this why you were late?" Yone directed the comment towards you. Ezreal bit his bottom lip. Yone tapped his foot against the ground. "You have exactly five seconds, or I'm addressing your conduct with Alune. And if that happens, I promise, you won't like the result of our conversation."

He stumbled to get the proper words out. "No—I—it has nothing to do with her—I was just—"

"Ezreal did nothing wrong. I'm the one responsible for making him late." You stepped forward, garnering Yone's interrogative attention. "You see. I'm absolutely crazy in love with him." The whole lobby fell to dumbstruck silence. "I blackmailed him into going out with me today. I even went as far as to give him this hickey," you pulled down the top his shirt, revealing the bluish bruise against his clavicle from when you smacked him. "I took a picture of it. And told him if he didn't finish our date, I would tell all his precious fans he was taken. So...." you trailed off, unsure of what else to say. Ezreal's eyes were as wide as saucers from the blatant forgery of your lie.

Yone narrowed his gaze against you, as if trying to siphon the real truth. You only stared harder in return, solidifying your stance. Yone breathed out a tensive puff of air. "I'll be speaking to your manager then. Whoever it is, they'll be responsible for reprimanding you. In any case, don't you ever come near him again. Or else you won't have a career in this business—I'll make sure of that. Do you understand?" You paused, then gave a veiled smile. "Of course."

Before Ezreal could speak up again, Yone snapped a finger, pointing for Ezreal to head in the direction of the recording studio. He took a breath, as if wanting to say something—anything to you. But Yone spoke with a silent bite. "Don't make the rest of your team wait for you any longer." Ezreal nodded, bit the inside of his cheek, and walked away. About to turn into a hallway, he gave one last glance over his shoulder. Catching his stare, you placed a finger against your lips, before disappearing with Yone into an elevator.

And all Ezreal could think was: he really needed to see you again.

to be continued...

[l-in-the-light]

Chapter 1134 & 1135 commentary

I know, I know, I'm late to the party, but it's alright, I never aim to be early. LOL. I mean, I prefer to give my thoughts some time to rot flourish, I'm not one of the impulsive reactionists, I guess (can't be one even if tried lol, I roll on nitpicky analysis). With that out of the way... Poll time!!!

You know what to do, looking forward to all the answers :D

My bet is on the clone. It makes sense narrative-wise, right after Egghead and revelation about Vegapunk's clone in same chapter. and It explains also why they look so identical despite, you know, not living together (seperated twins would not sport the same looks, even their beard and hairstyle is the same). And there's a bonus hilarious moment when you realize clone!Shanks went to Five Elders to warn them about a certain pirate... you think of Luffy? Blackbeard? NAH. It's gotta be Buggy.

Think of it, Buggy after encountering a clone of Shanks would know IMMEDIATELY he's not actually Shanks (he grew up with the original one, come on) and also Shanks's clone would feel weirdly unable to do anything to Buggy (because the original Shanks is so fond of him, right? That's how it worked with Seraphim!Boa, she couldn't tell why, but she was so fond of Luffy, listened to his requests and didn't want to harm him). Of course clone!Shanks wouldn't understand the reason and interpret it as "something is really weird about this Buggy pirate, he must be really strong or used some sort of trick, I couldn't do anything to him!" like LOL. Perfection 👍

This shot reminds me somehow of Emet :D The size between robo Franky here and Emet might be really close! Does this make Franky their ship in this scenario? LOL. Was Emet Joyboy's ship?!

Luffy's speech here is quite peculiar. He uses phrases like "ohikaenasutte" and "gozansu" and despite denying it, he DID learn it from someone, but not because he asked to be taught, he's trying to mimic Jimbei's speech! Luffy is even making the exact same pose Jimbei did when he officially asked to join the crew in Wano, with his palm extended like this. Quoting after this helpful tumblr: "it’s a very formal and now-obsolete greeting once used by yakuza and gamblers. you do indeed say it with your palm facing up like this, too, to show deference/inferiority." And this post explains the gozansu, also used by Jimbei.

Even Luffy's answer to "who taught you?" is a reference to Jimbei's answer in Wano.

In the original Jimbei answers with "dareka-san mo" instead of "well met", showing his modesty, perhaps. It literally means just "someone" and it's not really formal. It can also mean "you know who" when spoken about someone else. It also reminds me a little of "daremo" ("no one") form, it just uses "dareka-san" (literally mr. someone) instead of "dare" (who).

The main difference between those two scenes is that Jimbei speaks about himself when using "dareka-san", while Luffy doesn't, he speaks about Jimbei. And when "dareka-san" is used about third person (not yourself) it's often meant sarcastically, as in: "a certain someone got late" or "you-know-who got late" (without naming them, but everyone knows who you're talking about anyway). Of course, I would say Luffy is 100% unaware that it can come out this way, lol. I wonder if Jimbei is aware though or would it become a misunderstanding between them. Anyway, all things considered, I would actually choose to translate "dareka-san mo" as "no one important", which preserves both meanings (Jimbei being modest and Luffy's blunder just because he thought the phrase sounds so cool). When you don't know how to speak politely but try to do it anyway, you can cause more harm than you intended ;)

Does it mean Luffy thinks the way Jimbei speaks is cool and formal, and considers him a good rolemodel? Luffy clearly wishes he could learn some manners, he should just ask Jimbei directly to teach him, aww.

On top of that, this really cracked me up: Luffy refers to Saul per ossan (literally uncle, but can be said to any older person and is often derogatory and/or used for comedy relief), so Luffy is trying to be polite, but ruins the vibe by addressing Saul like a brat would, lol. Saul doesn't seem to mind though and just laughs (does that mean Saul thinks of himself as ossan??). This whole scene really feels like a parallel to Ace trying to learn manners and Makino laughing at him, because he thinks he's more polite with each try, but actually he's only getting worse and worse.

Interesting that Jimbei doesn't have a reaction to this. Is he that aloof that he didn't realize that Luffy is using words he heard him use before? Come on, he must have realized, none of the Strawhats talks in similar fashion. Or is he actually confused and thinks Luffy is mocking him?! Or did he teach Luffy all of that so he's not surprised? But if it was the latter then Luffy would be lying here when saying specifically that no one taught him. And we all know Luffy sucks at lying. Taking into account Luffy's ongoing pattern of imitating people (especially his crewmates), I would say he did it indeed on his very own and poor Jimbei is exposed to it for the first time. For once Luffy didn't do it for laughs, but it might have come out the wrong way, lol.

Take it with grain of salt though, I'm not a translator, just an anthropologist with a basic gist of Japanese language :) but this is how I understand this interaction given the context and Japanese sensitivity to how things are said more than what is said exactly.

Two things here. First, the way Robin speaks of herself, using phrase "watashi nanka". Nanka in Japanese grammar means usually one of three things:

give examples; things like… (basically naming few things in a sentence)

show modesty

make light of; belittling something (if you want to say something like "I don't like karaoke" and communicate your poor opinion of that activity without being direct about it, you can say it like this: "karaoke nanka")

In this particular case, we're left with either option 2 or 3. "They [Strawhats] protect someone like me". I will leave it to your own imagination whether she's belittling herself here or is just being modest, as I think both are possible. Also, often when you're trying to be modest, you downplay your own achievements or value, so you know, it lines up together.

Second thing to notice, is how Robin calls Strawhats her "cherished crewmates" (taisetsu na nakama). It's the third time already she called them this way (first one was in Zou, then Wano, and now here) ever since she initially left the crew all the way back in Water 7. Not even in Enies Lobby she declared herself one of them, just begged them to take her back to the sea again. Still, because this is the third time already, it might mean it's also the last time we hear it... the rule of three.

Seeing how modestly she talks about herself here, she might have thought that she doesn't deserve this second chance she got. Will we finally explore a bit more of Robin's feelings or is that all we'll ever get? I wouldn't mind either option, as this tiny moment is already very satisfying imo.

Yet another clone of Vegapunk? Should we be even surprised at this point? I had a feeling his plan couldn't have been just his sattelites surviving if he claimed confidently "I won't die". I guess if Lilith can connect him to Punk Records (the brain) it will be indeed like he never died? Huh. What is death in OP world indeed... not only that, he will be 20 years younger now ffs!!! Science is nice... when it actually works lol.

So, Lilith aims to build a new lab on Elbaf and Bonney wants to stay behind as well, and they will try to fix Kuma. Do I hear the dreams of Lilith and Bonney becoming new crewmates shatter right now? ;) I'm sorry but I warned you before, they're not the next Strawhats!

Wholesome moment btw, I really hope they will restore Kuma, even if they won't be able to get back his memories (though I would want them to). I don't care how many people complain they don't want this perfect happy ending. I think Kuma deserves happiness, not to die and sacrifice himself after a life full of misery. His whole life was about sacrificing himself like a tragic martyr, allow the guy to finally live a little instead of killing him off, because you think it closes his narrative purpose! (so what, now characters are just devices for plot, not having their own agency?) Think of what kind of message this gives, especially to the kids? And yeah, I know, not many fans actually care that OP is directed to kids as well, heh. But you generally don't want the kids to think life is miserable and everything you do is futile and inevitable, except your own self-sacrifice for your child. That shouldn't be the final message of Kuma's story, simply because it's supporting unhealthy mentality (your self-worth should not be dependant solely on your usefulness towards others). Overcoming that mindset though - now that is definitely a worthy message for the next generations.

And please, I'm tired of people calling Kuma just another Bellemere choosing love over themselves. Tell me at least ONE decision in Kuma's life that didn't inevitably lead to his tragic end, ONE decision that wasn't the result of his internalized martyrship (him thinking he doesn't deserve any better, but at least Bonney does), ONE time he actually did something selfish, only for himself. Triple no? Then no, Kuma didn't live his life, it was instead led by forces beyond his control. Which for me is way too dark of a message for One Piece and that means Kuma's story isn't done yet. We need to overcome that doomed narrative and he needs to find his happiness, the selfish kind, no matter how small that would be. And sure, I might be wrong, we all have been wrong many times about OP before. But that's my opinion, right there.

Walrus School! Or rather library and school, because seems library takes the most space here. The school is actually located in a treehouse like constructions? Pretty awesome! Way to make school look super duper appealing. And so close to the lake where kids can go to on breaks to just let out some steam, play or take a breather. So close to nature. This is like too good, too good, I say.

I wonder if the school has any deeper ties to the Walrus, was he maybe once a teacher here, a founder perhaps?! Not a stretch, considering the owl Bibelot managed the library for centuries?? I said it before I think, but fandom's attitude of not paying any attention to all those animals will bite us all in the ass. They're everywhere, as gods (here and in Wano and Skypiea), as servants in bathhouse (octopuses in Wano), means of transportation (also Wano), and the Zunesha, the special Duck Troops in Alabasta... not to mention, the snails! And Neptunians!

Now, I put all the relevant scenes with Saul together to answer the mystery: did he flee to Elbaf right after Ohara happened? And the answer is apparently: yes. He mentions he fleed here immediately, met Hajrudin, went with him to retrieve the books, then they returned to Elbaf, later Vegapunk visited (leaving his clone in Egghead). And that's how Vegapunk met Saul. He knew that Saul is alive for 20 years!! Plenty of time to tell people about it... for example, Kuzan.

Remember what I said about shaded eyes and it being a visual hint that characters are not telling the truth? It's true that Saul was Kuzan's friend. The lie here is the past tense. He still *is* Kuzan's friend, because he's still alive and Kuzan knows about it. That's why the last words he says to Robin is "Ohara still lives on" (anime has more direct translation of this scene than the manga. which is why I use the screenshot).

While we don't get to hear the reason as to why Saul didn't try to find Robin for all those years, we can already exclude some options from the previous survey. Also, Saul says in chapter 1134 (quote above) "I never thought I would have the privileage of showing you this [the library]". From these words and the fact we have it confirmed now that he stayed all this time on Elbaf and left only to fetch the books, we can conclude that Saul never intended to meet Robin again. Or at least never thought he will meet her. Interesting.

Also thanks everyone for the votes, but also special thanks for those who voted on "he thawed from ice only recently", I thought it would get a zero. Every time I saw a new vote there, I laughed :Dv

Shout out to this lady for knowing how to have fun and play along. You gotta appreciate the good vibe when you see one :D we all deserve this sort of friend in our lives ❤

Brook misses school? I guess at age of 90, you start to miss the weirdest things, huh XD

A friendly reminder that Zoro doesn't know how to play with kids, lol, and perhaps he's also a tad bit too serious. No wonder, as a kid he was almost exclusively doing training. Usopp on the other hand played a lot with kids from his village, or well, at least with the three of his followers.

Apparently, there was a shift in Elbaf's politics. They're no longer a warrior country, they yearn for peace, and they educate kids to be smart and considerate of others, instead of strong and unyielding. The shift seems to be rather recent, thanks to King Harold, the father of Hajrudin and Loki. Seems Hajrudin and his crew didn't get the chance to experience this "peaceful" education themselves, which is why they're the new Giant Pirates, and the last ones, unless something will change.

I bet you anything Loki wants Elbaf to still be a warrior country. Just look at his attitude. "I will beat up any pirate crew you want", "I would get rid of all of them if I were you". I would assume Hajrudin is also fond of the old warrior ways, since he made his own pirate crew, right? But he also apparently helped Saul fetch the books from Ohara, so maybe he was always a bit divided between the two sides of this schism?

I saw many people judge Elbaf really hard. "How could they work together with the villains (the World Government)!!!" Did fans already forget that Iceberg had to cooperate with World Government as well (which means whole Water 7 is allied with Government, because mayor's ties to Government dictate affiliation for the whole town). Iceberg had to do that to guarantee safety and it was a purely political decision, meanwhile Giants are strong and don't have to ally themselves to survive, right? There's probably something more to it.

Btw Ripley has this stripe-like tattoo pattern going all the way from head to her ankles, that looks a lot similar to Kratos's mark from God of War (yeah, that video game). Tekking pointed it out I think, and I thought it's a very interesting observation :D

It's always endearing to see Luffy so happy whenever he's talking about his Gear 5. "It's when I'm the most free!". He always smiles then like his biggest dream has come true.

This is the first time Luffy clearly hears that this is the form of fabled Elbaf warrior, I think. He's even paying attention and seems to like what he hears :)

I gotta say, this is one cool looking library. What's with the cute shrine-like roofs on the top right?? And that little chair next to Bibelot, who is that for?? Looks kinda human-sized! Bibelot doesn't talk with anyone, but was there once a human they talked with, that used to visit them?

Robin's reaction to the library. I love her expression here. "There's no need to despair". Wait, that's not part of Robin's flashback... but damn, it fits here so well.

I'm so glad Robin could meet Saul and hear how proud he's of her. For once I agree with Randy, he lately said in his vid that he thinks Saul's fake-out death was done right and his reunion with Robin is narratively strong (not weak, like many in the fandom seem to think), because it actually adds to the weight of her story instead of taking away from it. For her story to feel closed, we need someone who can connect with her and validate her efforts. I thought about it and concluded that the same applies to Brook and Law, doesn't it? Laboon can't tell Brook how good it is that he survived, but if Yorki survived he could do it for him instead. As for Law, there's still a possibility at least someone from his flashback actually survived. His story for now is so side-tracked and irrelevant to the main storyline that it needs to be connected back to it somehow, and a reunion could be a good opportunity for that. Also, Law simply deserves it too, you know. (they all actually do, but I can understand that not every reunion is needed for the narrative)

Time to go back to Loki for a moment and his mysterious penpal friend. I can't solve the mystery for you (or myself) yet, but I can share my observations (I reread this conversation way too many times in way too many translations and bits of it in original Japanese too lol).

Neither Loki or his friend call each other by actual names (that's right, Mosa never calls him Loki either). Seems despite knowing each other for a while, they might not know each other's names. They both seem to be somewhat immobile or stuck somewhere or at least with looots of free time on their hands and nothing better to do than to call each other often. First thought I had is Doflamingo, he is an immobilized prisoner and his biggest activity is reading newspaper (and perhaps using den den mushi if Magellan left him with one), but he doesn't quite fit this Mosa-kou personality-wise either. Or does he?

They know each other for a long time but could never meet for some reason. That suggests this friend is most likely not located on Elbaf or the thing they talked about, which happened to Mosa-kou's place, would have taken place on Elbaf as well.

His friend seems polite and despite going through some bad experience and being in position that could excuse revenge, he actually doesn't want violent solutions or thinks it would be "going too far". He leaves his enemies alive, but also wants some justice.

Even though this den den mushi seems to be special type and doesn't really reflect the looks of the person on the other side of the call, it's worth noting it has long eyelashes. Most likely suggesting that Mosa-kou could be a female. Might be something or might be nothing, lol.

Mosa-kou, translated officially as Shaggy, can be broken down into two things: kou being the way of addressing someone (nowadays can be used sarcastically, the unofficial translation uses the outdated meaning of "someone noble" which is also worth noting), and mosa is most likely coming from mosa-mosa onomatopeia which fandom claims it means "hairy". But there's a second meaning too: Japanese onomatopoeia "mosamosa", which is the sound effect of plants growing at a rapid pace. If Loki never saw his friend before and only ever called him through den den mushi, it's likely he would give him a nickname based on some sound he heard, right? Just to be able to address him somehow (though we should keep in mind Loki seems to have terrible memory with names). You know who can grow plants (at a rapid pace) just by walking around? Aramaki, the user of mori mori no mi. I'm not sure where this leads, because it's somewhat hilarious to imagine Aramaki speaking so politely, lol. But enjoy the mental image xD

Summing it up: Mosa-kou might be actually a female (maybe kept captive or a runaway from her own destroyed kingdom/home), long time friend of Loki but she might not know he's Loki from Elbaf, really polite and not fond of drastic measures, rather soft-hearted but with a grudge, but also kinda scared. And she has something to do with the mosa-mosa onomatopeia. Those are the possible hints, but not every single one might be correct (especially the female part, I mean, those are literally JUST eyelashes on a den den mushi). No one really from known characters comes to my mind as of now though. If you have any ideas please share :D or wait... it can't be Vivi, right? But she is polite and I'm pretty sure she is bored to tears on Morgans ship, and she went through a tragedy recently, but Vivi is not one to want bloody revenge (despite wanting justice). It could also explain why their identity is anonymous too (princess of Alabasta has to watch out who she reveals herself to, even before the whole Imu business). Just how is the nickname of mosa-kou fitting the picture?!

Let's rewind to mosakou again. I feel like we all got derailed, EVEN the native speakers that contribute to youtube. First, let's try to gather ALL possible meanings. The onomatopeia meaning: 1. hairy, 2. the sound of rapidly growing vegetation, 3. Mosa mosa - dry – dry food like overcooked chicken. 3. a dull person. Wait, one of those is definitely NOT an onomatopeia. Let's dig deeper. Look, someone asked about it on HiNative and this is their answer:

The Japanese phrase 'モサ公' (mosa kou) is a slang term used to describe someone who is perceived as being uncool, nerdy, or socially awkward. It is often used in a light-hearted or teasing manner to poke fun at someone's lack of social skills or fashion sense. Example 1: A group of friends sees a classmate wearing outdated clothes and glasses. They might jokingly say, "Look, it's モサ公!" to tease him about his appearance. Example 2: During a school event, a student gives a long and overly detailed presentation about a topic that no one else is interested in. Afterwards, his classmates might whisper to each other, "He's such a モサ公," to comment on his lack of social awareness. Overall, 'モサ公' is a playful term used to describe someone who is seen as uncool or socially awkward. It is important to note that this term is not meant to be taken seriously and is typically used in a light-hearted and teasing manner among friends or peers.

Now that explains the dull person. It's the type of person who always tries to be proper, acting slightly nobler than thou despite not neccessarily meaning to, which kinda means they have no sense of fun, don't fit into teen trends and are a bit dull, because too serious and old-fashioned in a way. Okay, don't kill me now, but this sounds more and more like Vivi to me. She is serious, she always worried and needed Strawhats to tell her to have some fun, because they can't teleport to Alabasta any faster anyway. Makes sense to me. Which means this possibility can't be just dismissed... LOKI AND VIVI ARE FREAKING BUDDIES??????

It's been pointed out to death, but I will also say it. Loki indeed seems kind, he listened to his friend, got mad for their sake and related to their struggles, even saying (indirectly) that he would definitely help settle the matter for them, and scolds Mosa when he thinks they should be less soft or people will stomp all over them (in Japanese he calls them amai which is naive, pushover). And seems his friend saw right through and thanked him for his kidness and concern, clearly touched a little. They might not be best buddies, but close enough now that Loki's friend knows already what type of person he actually is and that he has a caring heart. That heart, though, seems to be hurt, which is why he gets angry and lashes out when called kind. He doesn't want to be perceived this way, he probably *doesn't want to* act this way, but it's stronger than him, which is why he gets angry. Someone betrayed him or used his kindness against him, and ever since he tries to put up a harsh front. He's very determined with that too, as seen from his last line "just wait and see when I break free from those chains". This isn't a threat to Mosa, no, this is a promise: Loki will show the world he can also be cruel and not kind, in other words: he will get back on whoever betrayed him.

I don't remember who said it (Tekking perhaps?), but I saw the suggestion somewhere that this is all about Lola betraying Loki by not marrying him, but eh, I wonder. Lola doesn't seem to be the kind of person to use someone's kindness like this, unless all of this was just a misunderstanding. Or am I getting Lola's character all wrong? Though I could imagine her leaving Loki in the dust without as much as a direct goodbye (she kinda did the same to Big Mom lol) or only a forwarded message through a third party. I assumed she would only treat Big Mom this way, but it's possible she is just wired this way, a true carefree soul.

Also, who left that den den mushi for Loki? Again, my bet is Hajrudin. Loki is his brother after all, no matter what happened in Elbaf or between them.

Few random observations grouped together here. It's indeed very handy that there's an owl that can gigantify objects in Elbaf, lol. Very convenient, Oda, very convenient indeed. I know he probably has some story reason (he almost never doesn't have one), but it's still quite hilarious right now. I hope we will see Chopper attempting to talk to the owl. Damn, you want my wild guess? I bet no one was able to speak with that owl for centuries and the last person who did was maybe... Joyboy himself? :D that's a very easy way to make me excited: just mention Joyboy, lol.

Why Joyboy in particular? Well, he seems to be connected somehow to minks and Zunesha, right? That suggests some affinity towards animals. Also hints from Wano: 1. the person who talks to Zunesha will lead the world to the dawn (presumed to be Momo. It's based on his conversation with Yamato "Momonosuke, you can talk to the elephant? Then Oden was right, you will be the one to lead the world to the dawn.") 2. Various people waiting for Joyboy (Kozuki Sukiyaki, King, Yamato, presumably Kaido as well). This all kinda suggests that world waits for the return of Joyboy. The whole narrative around it is kinda convoluted though, because story suggests at first that Yamato thinks it's Momo, but later they find out Joyboy is instead Luffy, despite Momo being the one who talks to Zunesha etc. Anyway, I'm getting offtopic, just wanted to explain why animals make me think of Joyboy lol.

That comment from Chopper and Bonney is interesting. "The letters are too big, it's too hard to make out". Some people pointed out those letters might be readable and it's one of the rare moments we see proper writing in OP world. They kinda do look like stylized english letters (I can definitely see the E and O). But you know what I'm thinking? Letters on poneglyphs are also big which can make them... too hard to make out. Hm?! Are you seeing my vision here?? What, you think it's too simple and someone would figure it out already?? Nah, people like to overcomplicate things (and I'm not immune to that either). They don't expect child-like answers. Anyway, I might share in separate post (this here is not the place) me reading two words from poneglyphs (no, not the infamous pandaman in katakana from Alabasta's poneglyph lol), it will not be what you expect though. No ancient languages, no mingled syllabes of Japanese alphabets, no runes. No codes or ciphers. You will actually probably laugh.

Anyway, that book Robin is sitting on. Curious about the title? History of... we can actually make it out, I think. Yep yep. It's most likely four-letter word. Second letter looks very distinct and it can only be a G (look at the rounded shape, no other letters does that this way on the lower half of the letter). The third letter is most likely R. Last letter is most likely A, though we see the least of it so this one and the first one are the most debetable. First letter can also be an A.

Which gives us AGRA. History of AGRA. That's the name of a town where the famous Taj Mahal is located (a heritage that didn't yet inspire any OP location so far). Is it a hint or is it just an easter egg of some kind? (but why would THIS be an easter egg lol) I dunno, but it was funny to guess around just by looking at keyboard letters, LOL. Keep in mind I'm only convinced 100% for the letter G and like 80% for letter R, hahaha. Not sold on A's, we see way too little of them to be sure, and if there's more letters than four, then only GR stays likely.

Also look at the cover of the Archeology book Robin was holding. What's that sign on it? :D looks a lot like the sun symbol we see in so many places in One Piece, like on this collage I made before for my Red Line-All Blue half-baked theory. Pasting the image below for the convenience:

Right? It's even made up of two shapes on the book cover. One looks like crossbones or crossed blades, and the other looks like a cross. And together they look a bit like a compass :D compass would be more fitting for a geographical book than archeology, but oh well. Is that the symbol of the world? Some kind of ancient religion? Symbol of ancient civilisation consisting of two fractions joined together? Did they go separate ways and fought each other in Void Century?

It kinda reminds me of some historical archeology book covers like this one: The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology, the subject in this one is searching for common roots and connecting the vision of the pre-colonial to post-colonial native culture. Like pre-void century state of the world to post-void century's one? :D I remember King Cobra mentioning the difference between pre-void century and post-void century world was huge, so it makes sense some books would exist that try to explain or fill the gaps. Would be definitely one of the books from Ohara's collection. Damn, this all sounds more and more like our anthropology, archeology and history, trying to paint a picture of the past world based on some old preserved documents only 😭 this is too real, Oda.

What, you think I'm crazy making so many assumptions based on one image of book cover Robin was holding? Why not, sometimes you need to be daring not only in OP theories, but also in scientific world, or you might never get any answers or even directions which way to go to get anywhere. The time and other researchers will definitely confirm or deny your hypothesis or even take it further. That is, when the science actually works like it should...

Luffy is really disappointed with Elbaf and you can feel his frustration. This isn't the Elbaf from his dreams lol. I bet a lot of the fandom also feels this way. I kinda like the unexpected twist, it adds to the bigger picture of the world which is indeed changing. Less and less warriors and more businessmen, peace-seekers and political alliances. It's almost like OP world shifts from post-war state towards capitalism.

And we learn that Giants and humans marrying each other is actually possible (we suspected that ever since Lola and Loki, right?). They also can have children. Which makes you think, other races mixing with each other is *also* a possibility. Fishmen and humans, minks and humans, for example. I think we should stop shying away from this thought anymore. It's pretty much confirmed at this point.

Also whoever Ripley's husband is, he sounds like a sulky brat xD that excuse is so lame! What did she like in him?! I guess he really has to be a great warrior if she excuses him lol. Who's your bet on her husband? Chances are, we know him, especially since Ripley calls him young. Is it someone from Shanks crew? Is it Yorki? Many want him to be Scooper Gaban. I don't get the hype about Scooper Gaban tbh. We know literally nothing about that guy, where's all that hype coming from?! Is it just because he was part of Roger's crew? LOL. Anyway, sorry if you expected analysis on who Ripley's mysterious husband-not-husband is, but I think this requires mathematical skills I don't have. We just know he's kinda young and a really strong ex-pirate who can take on Giants in the fight. Maths is my Achilles feet. To narrow down your candidates you need to consider things like age of Ripley, age of Roger Pirates, age of Collin, possible age of Yorki, ages of Shanks crewmates and other candidates, my head is already spinning from simply imagining all the numbers LOL.

I can say this though: they're clearly still not OLD, because the phrase is "they will be the only one to grow old" which suggests they're not yet at that stage, they're just foreseeing it. And I think that actually excludes Roger Pirates, bye bye Scooper Gaban. Shanks crew is definitely a possibility, hypothetically, but it would mean they're not a current crewmate anymore?

Aaaand the rest of the crew has now Elbaf outfits as well :D half of it thanks to Rodo, half of it thanks to Gerd. So it seems Gerd has the same hobby that Rodo has, which is sewing clothes for humans. Match made in hell, those two, lol. She's in seventh heaven here btw and Rodo was as well when we saw him sewing the clothes and doing his roleplaying game. She can claim all she wants how much she despises him, but imagining them on a sewing date is just too perfect.

This page got so much hype, because woooo mysterious ability. Yeah, I get it, I heard it a hundred times already how it must be something related to bandages or tying things (even though we see no knots). I like the idea of calling it mira mira no mi (has a nice ring to it) which is mummy mummy fruit :D

If I should add something from myself here, it's that those bandages are in very specific spots. Are they tightening up on the veins, inspired by this pumping measuring device for blood pressure (you usually do it on the arm like this, and thigh might be because some of the most important arteries are there)? I can imagine how squeezing arm and thigh strongly enough could make someone pass out tbh. I also hate the pumping sensation sooo much of these blood pressure measuring devices lol. Anyway, taken from the mighty internet, like always: Anything that increases pressure on the artery walls can lead to elevated blood pressure. Look at the giant's face, it's so dark, like it's red, which means blood is flowing to his face! When you faint you usually go pale instead. But, your face can go red from increased blood pressure, apparently! And when the brain senses that, it sends an impulse for the body to relax (which is why the Giant falls down, like suddenly weakened) and eventually this can lead to fainting. Hm, but using the bandages like that suggests some kind of medical knowledge from the girl.

For example, I would have not guessed any of that, without googling stuff and you know, I like to google all sorts of things (the more you know :D), like "what condition leads to blood flowing to the face" (high blood pressure) and then "symptoms of high blood pressure" (you get shit tons of results for that, but some list things like "weakening the body" and "even fainting"), then ask "what can cause high blood pressure" (among your results you can get the line i found about artery walls), now time for a bit of imagination and then you feel like you have a "gotcha!" moment. Add some hit-and-miss google asks in-between as well, for the good measure, haha.

The girl also has her face hidden with bandages. She seems kinda impatient and down-to-earth, if not to say, a bit bossy, right? And very serious. That's as far as my first impressions go, lol.

Typo warning. Anyway, hi Stansen! It's so nice he could find a moment to talk and bond with Luffy :D this reminds me how much Oda cares for all of his characters, no matter how insiginifcant they might feel to us, right? I learned to really appreciate it after Oda delivered us the Bartolomeo-Shanks confrontation, which I thought would be ignored for the sake of more important plot.

Just a cute shot of the Strawhats that are on the feast currently. Special call out to Zoro there, drinking on his own instead of socializing, with hs back turned, lol. That reminds me he isn't the most social out of the Strawhats, actually, he's one of the least social crewmates.

Franky, Robin and Chopper stayed at the library with Saul. And we know that trouble is brewing in the castle not far from here (interesting that no one seems to have noticed it with observation haki). Now here's the question: will the God Knights just waltz inside the tavern and ask people politely where Loki is? Lol, if so, that will be a sight. Or will they go straight into battle-mode, noticing the Strawhats? :D oooor... will they join the feast? The girl seems down to earth, but what if she's secretly a glutton too? But can she eat with those bandages on? xD

So this is one of the Elders. I admit I forgot we saw them already in Big Mom's flashback, my bad! He indeed looks like a big mountain, haha. It's interesting he's over 400 years old. That means he's the second generation after the Void Century, right? He must have heard stories... but seriously, what's with that sword in the head?! I admit it's kinda hilarious and fits the Elbaf's vibe, but eh, he didn't have that in Big Mom's flashback yet. Is it related to whatever happened to King Harold, perhaps? Or is it unrelated whatsoever.

Last thoughts. We see the throne's room in the castle. It's empty, but there are some interesting details. The throne itself seems to have been cut at the right shoulder's height. Was this Loki's ax? Or...

Look, isn't it a bit suspicious that God Knights are here? They could have appeared like that before in Elbaf and assassinated King Harold without anyone knowing, and blamed it on Loki. With no witnesses and God Knights pinning the blame on him, he would be in serious disadvantage, especially if people also believe him to be cursed since birth and about to bring the end of the world, you know? Loki would be the perfect scapegoat to pin the murder on. Meanwhile, Government has a long history of betraying their supposed allies as soon as they don't need them anymore or they simply think it's safer this way, or whatever really. And look, the guards don't even know who those God Knights are or how they got into the castle, this is clearly NOT pre-arranged arrival or a common occurence!

The God Knights want to find Loki. Somehow, him being chained is saving his ass for now and other giants not giving out his location "in case you want to free him", are helpful in protecting him, whether it's intentional or not. Yeah, I wonder... do they want to get rid of the last witness of what they did to King Harold? Is that related to Loki's blindfold and special bounty somehow? He didn't actually *see* who did it? Does it make any sense?! I dunno, but I totally dig this option for now. Simply because it seems *fun*. More fun than to imagine God Knights collaborating with Loki to end the world together (why would they even do that? Especially when the Giants are officially Government's allies and consider Loki the enemy of the state?).

As for the magic circle, someone pointed out (I'm so sorry I don't remember who it was anymore) that the letters look a bit like bolded poneglyphs. Yeah, sure, why not. I like how the smoke looks like white flames. I really want to know more about black magic in One Piece. Did they use to have wizards?! Did they once summon a devil?! Gimme some sort of spell, please :D

I hope I entertained those of you who reached the end of this post :3 I can't wait for the spoilers for the new chapter ngl.

[slyvieselkie]

Since the Beginning - Midoriya Izuku

Warning: body shaming, insecurity about looks, family issues, suggestive

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Having a prohero boyfriend is really a double edged sword, especially when he's the successor of the Symbol of Peace. Deku, the greatest hero, Midoriya Izuku, is a man larger than life. And to stand next to him, to be loved by him, is an honour and a stain in itself.

You're known as 'His Girlfriend'. The luckiest girl on Earth, a position that many covert for you sit on a pile of riches that he so graciously gifted you. Not only that, Izuku is the ideal man. Compassionate, brave, powerful, smart, a little goofy and nerdy, he's the man every parent wants their daughter to bring home. And that honour belongs to you.

But having Deku as your boyfriend, means that you must also meet the world's standard. A girl that's equally as friendly, sweet, beautiful, successful, an ideal woman for the best man out there. And every day you look in the mirror with the thought, 'Gosh, why does he even like me?', so does everyone else.

Every time the two of you are out in public and get photographed, there'll always be a comment about your weight, your pimples, how it's always Izuku pulling his card out, how you don't treat his fans with respect. And your boyfriend does his best to fight back in the ways he can. In the rare interviews he'll always mention the love of his life, the woman supporting him from behind, who puts up with the 24/7 limelight and harsh critics of those who know nothing. He even enlists the help of his old classmates who try their best to change society's mind. But it only makes you feel more pathetic, that Izuku does so much for you and you can't even present yourself better.

It takes a long, burning, tearful shower for you to finally resolve to change. With a bright smile, you talk to Izuku about wanting to be more healthy and start volunteering.

He cups your cheeks, "Sweetheart, if it's about-", "Izuku, please...just let me have this", and your eyes swirl with so much desperation he can only say yes.

But the green haired man makes a strict schedule for you to follow, he refuses to watch you please the world and drop dead. He asks Ochako to exercise with you, where you start on light cardio and Pilates. Bakugo reluctantly sends you a few tips on healthier eating and even spends a day at your house meal prepping. Izuku doesn't know about this because the villain-like hero would burn your house down. He even asks his old teacher, Thirteen, to help you find volunteer work.

The world's opinion of you change when photos of you helping out at homeless shelters and after villain attacks. You also change as well, he notices. You've become more social, going out more and posing for the cameras rather than hiding from it. He sees your regular posts and stories at the gym, making healthy snacks, promoting charities, going out for brunch with the U.A. Class 1 girls. Izuku couldn't be more relieved. So many nights he has had nightmares of you taking dieting too far or working until you end up in the hospital, trying to become the perfect woman and breaking yourself in the process.

But change takes a long time and no matter what you do, the world will always bring up your past. And you've learnt to live with it, to understand that what you're doing is more than enough. However, that doesn't mean those comments don't hurt. Especially when it comes from the people whose words mean the most.

....

Izuku has met your parents many times. For the three years you two have been together, the hero has always made an effort to know your parents and get along with them. Your family also loves him, your mother is dreaming about the day she sees you in a wedding dress to him. The atmosphere is always warm, comforting, peaceful.

Until the small comments start to sneak in.

"Oh look at how skinny and pretty you are now!"

"Now my son in law will have no problem picking you up!"

"You should've seen her in high school, she would've weighed more than you right now!"

"If only she started dieting earlier! I kept telling her to, but she never listened and now look at her!"

Dieting, exercise, skinnier, prettier, smaller.

Of course you fire back at her. It's all jokes, but Izuku can see how much those words hurt. And every time, the ride back home is silent and you deep in thoughts. And every time after you come out of the shower, he sees you observe yourself in the mirror. Your eyes scan like society once did, looking for the imperfections. Wondering how you can erase the past, so that the world only remembers the pretty and perfect version of you.

His heart breaks, because why are your efforts never enough? He walks in and makes himself known, you jump before giving a soft smile. Izuku tries to return it and quickly digs his face into the crook of your neck. His large and scarred hands quickly hoist you up while you squeak.

As he carries you to the bed, Izuku has so many thoughts going through his head. You've always been pretty, ever since the moment he met you. He's always been able to pick you up, a hero like him should have no problem picking up boulder let alone a person. And he has seen you in high school pictures where you look so cute, he wished he met you earlier. And no, you shouldn't have started dieting earlier. Knowing the situation you were in, you would've only gained an eating disorder.

Dieting, exercise, skinnier, prettier, smaller. He didn't do any of this just to hear that from the people who should've supported you. As he laid you down, Izuku takes you in with trembling eyes. You give a smile back and beckon him closer.

Izuku has always been careful with you. His rough hands ghost your body knowing the damage they could cause, his lips only leave light hickies because he never wants to see you in bruises even if they're from love, he's always wary about the weight he puts on you and your stamina compared to his. But the nights you return from your parents are gentle as a feather. Your body becomes his temple, and he'll never stop worshipping. He oozes love and forces you to soak it up, the love that they should've had for you.

It's ironic when Izuku wants to be so gentle and loving, because it sometimes leads to him become more rough. He has so much to give that he can't see that you're overstimulated. He wants you to see that he loves you unconditionally, resulting in deep hand marks and love bites. Izuku wants you to understand that he's always on your side, so he'll hold you down and do his best to leave you quivering and blank.

....

But regardless of how he feels about your parents, Izuku knows he can't do anything about them. Because he knows that blocking your family isn't easy as it sounds.

"They're...it's just when it comes to this, they can become...off", you whisper trying to calm Izuku down, "Other than that, they're really good."

He knows, he can see it. How you're always sticking to your mother and how she always has your favourite food and snacks at home. How you melt in your father's arms and the way he monitored Izuku when they first met. Izuku sees the photographs hanging on the walls filled with parental love, the injury stories where it sounds like they were just in as much pain as you, the fights when they became a pair of bears.

Izuku also knows that in its own fucked up sense, they say that for your own good. Because he's heard you and your mother on the phone, how hateful she sounds of the media that talked about your weight and looks. Your father used to hate him for bringing you into a world that you never suited, until he finally saw Izuku as a man who loved you.

So Izuku will respect them and be civil. Because they raised you into the person you are today, the most loveliest person that he is honoured to be with forever. Because in their own ways, they also poured love and care into the soul to form it this way.

But that doesn't mean he'll take it lying down. You're his woman, and he'll protect you the way he did when society attacked you. He'll make sure they understand that their words have weight to them, and crush those words until they disintegrate to dust.

He'll do anything to show that you've always been beautiful since the beginning.

Hi Lovelies, meet Izuku the greenest flag ever~!

I hope you guys felt all of the emotions poured into this fic and how much Izuku loves you! I really wanted to portray the struggle of loving your parents and understanding how much they love you, but just having that one issue that always breaks the peace. For the girlies out there living with body shaming, hold your head up high because you have been beautiful since the beginning!

I'll see you another time ♡(˃͈ દ ˂͈ ༶ )♡

[judysxnd]

Hola me encanta como escribes!! No puedo quitarme a Pedro de la cabeza durante la entrevista con el presentador de los Oscar, llamándolo galán. ¿Puedes crear uno donde T/N y Pedro, como actores del año, estén en la alfombra roja de los Oscar y el entrevistador coquetea con él. Ella se pone celosa y se pone a la defensiva, pero Pedro se da cuenta y la calma dándole un beso en la mejilla frente a la cámara :) Gracias, espero que mi deseo se haga realidad.

Holaaaaa mucho gracias! No puedo hablar mas que eso en español, lo siento. My level is very very low, unfortunately. Also, I hope I understood correctly what you wanted!

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You were currently in the car, sitting next to Pedro. You were a few minutes away from the red carpet of the Oscars. You were getting a bit nervous, you couldn't help but shake your leg. You felt like it was getting hot in the car, and the tag of your dress was itching in your back, striking on your nerves. Thank god your hairstylist convinced you to tie your hair. Pedro quickly noticed your anxiety.

"Are you okay?" He said putting his hand on your thigh, making you stop moving your leg.

"Just a bit nervous" you said, taking a deep breath, smiling at him.

"It's going to go great"

"Says the guy who has as much anxiety as me" you joked

"true" he paused "but you're with me tonight and I'm not feeling any stress" you put your hand on his cheek

"I love you" you got close and kissed him

"We're together so it's going to fine" he added

"yeah but it's the first time we go out to an event as a couple" you looked outside behind Pedro, seeing lots of people, meaning you were almost there.

"even better" he kissed you again. Then the car stopped, sending a knot in your stomach. You looked at him then nodded

"okay let's do this" The door opened on your side, so you went out first. People started to scream when they saw you, making you feel more confident. You stepped on the side, letting Pedro get out of the car too. People were screaming even more. You were both smiling. Pedro immediately held your hand.

You started to walk on the red carpet, posing for the photos. You obviously took some individuals pictures and some with Pedro. You stayed a bit longer on the carpet, while Pedro went to do his first interview. But you were fast to join him. You arrived next to him, holding his arm.

The lady who was interviewing Pedro barely looked at you. She stayed focused on Pedro.

"So how does it feel to be one of the best actor of the year?" Her eyes were shining, eyeing Pedro. "best actor of all time if I might add" she added tilting her head a bit. Your muscles tighten a bit, anger starting to rise. You held Pedro tighter.

You were trying to go past it. Of course all ladies would try to flirt with him. It's how it works. Some guys were doing it with you too and Pedro has to put up with it too. But it suddenly got a bit too much. You were seeing it a lot, it was getting overwhelming.

"oh you're flattering me" he said with a big smile

"Is it working?" she asks

"It's totally working" he looked at you "It's great, I love the attention" you all laughed

"What about you?" She finally talks to you, and you were surprised. You didn't say anything but Pedro saw it. "What do you think about all the attention Pedro gets?" you were a little offended. You were also one of the best actors of the year, but she only had eyes for him.

"Well" you cleared your throat "We're both actors of the year, so" you dryly said "we're used to the attention, we're able to manage it for now, even if some people can be disrespectful" you said staring at the lady "but it comes with it" you smiled a little, grabbing Pedro's hand. She looked at your hands intertwined together.

"Yeah we have to chance to deal with all of this at the same time so it is easier to support each other" Pedro added, trying to lower the tension.

"Yes it's easier when you both know how it feels" she said nodding, looking at Pedro. You saw her eyes wandering on Pedro from time to time, but what you hated the most was how she bit her lips and how she touched Pedro's arm every time she laughed, which was lot.

Your eyes were slowly showing your anger, your smile was fading more and more. Pedro let go of your arm, and put his behind your back, squeezing your waist a little, trying to calm you down the best he could. He kissed your cheek, making you blush a bit. You were not used to this physical touch in public, but it felt great. The lady quickly lost her smile too, but you got your's back.

"Okay I think we need to move forward, more people are coming" Pedro said looking on your left. "This was great thank you" he started to leave, grabbing your right hand to follow him.

"Oh yes thank you" she said "you look cute together" she added, watching you leave with him.

The night was going to be tough, but manageable. You both have to learn to handle this. When you were finally seated together, Pedro reassured you.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes I am now" you said getting as close as you could to him. "But that lady got on my nerves"

"I saw that" he smiled

"Sorry"

"Don't be" you looked at him "I do have to put up with it too with you"

"oh yes like it happens a lot"

"huh yeah" you frowned "the last guy, you didn't see how he flirted with you?"

"he so did not"

"Should I be concerned that you don't even see it?" you both laughed

"oh yeah I see it now" you said thinking

"stop thinking about it" he playfully hit your thigh

"you made me to!" you grabbed his hand "but I see your point"

"We're both working on it"

"Yeah" you smiled, quickly kissed each other, before returning your attention around you, as everyone was there and the ceremony was about to start.

[shrimpsalot]

Oh gawd I dreamt of quite a weird AU(?) last night so yapping ahead!!

So for whatever reason instead of getting a full ss3, we just get random episodes here and there about their 11th-12th year? Randy and Howard's relationship r still ride or die but they managed to form a bigger friend circle with Theresa, Debbie, Julian, Bucky and Rachel and often have lunch together in a more darker gloomier version of the cafeteria (think it's just my irl school cafeteria that got projected into my dreams 😭 but for shits and giggles let's say Slimovitz ran out of budget to fix it completely after another monster attack). Unfortunately there was an assignment in class that put Howard and Debbie in the same group, idk about everyone else, and they have to research about stuff like Ninja's Japan origins, tactics, fighting techniques, types of weapons he used etc. Ofc no one knows it better than randy (and kinda howard) so when they were fighting about it during lunch, Randy just casually went "no actually because if you maneuver your body like that you wouldn't ensure a safe landing and might twist your ankle, also the chain sickle is used more as a defensive weapon such as blocking a sword, locking the opponent's weapon in place and potentially yanking it towards you, and did you know smoke bombs are crafted wit-" accidentally yapping about things Nomicon taught him until Howard cuts in to save his butt "see Debbie, even Cunningham's more knowledgeable about the ninja you sure you've been studying him properly for your reports?" which re-enabled their argument and divert the attention away from randy(which he's gonna thank Howard for later). A bit of time later an attack happen in town while they were working on the assignment in the cafeteria after school, Randy ofc had to leave but it'd be suspicious so he made an excuse maybe smth along the lines of they can learn more by watching the ninja fight and everyon agreed. Again he separated from them mid-walk to do some ninja-ing, which worried theresa that he's nowhere to be seen while Howard and Debbie is still fighting about their research. Howard couldn't take it anymore as well as lowkey bothered by Theresa so he called randy to prove that he's safe, AND to call for backup on his ninja knowledge. The phone call was the same vibe as ones in the show and while Howard was too engrossed on the convo, Ninja!Randy holding the phone answering while fighting got launched backwards to the front of the alleyway where the group was but randy didn't see them so he was unaware that they heard the phone convo. When he was finished and transformed back, he immediately ran into them after turning a corner and the first thing he said is "heeyyyy uh so I got a lil lost where were you guys? Ahaha" all for Debbie to respond with a shocked expression "YOU'RE the ninja?!?"

"what?? Nooooo I I am definitely not the Ninja psshh what makes you say that? I'm just a lil ol me Randy that's right there's no ninja here-", Theresa then explained they overheard his phone call and Randy gave in, only to be slightly offended to see Bucky looking defeated and handing Rachel $5. Cartoon scene cut and we see randy on his hands and knees in front of debbie(nothing too serious its like those comedy anime gags type of pose)

"What a sight. An 800 year old ninja vs the power of journalism." Bucky tries to lighten up the mood. Randy is begging Debbie not to write about this (for the second time) and she's having a hard time accepting (again) so she asked "what if I do write it? What would you do?" making randy look up at her with a serious face without saying anything, causing slight misunderstanding

"y-you're gonna erase me?!"

"what?? No ofc not I was just gonna mind wipe you!!!"

"mind wipe?"

"uh I mean-"

"what, by using that book that you sometimes drool on while being unconscious?"

"W-what book?-"

"is that like an 800 year old ancient ninja book of wisdom?"

"HOW ARE YOU STILL GOOD AT THIS???"

"wait 'still'?"

"CUNNINGHAM WILL YOU STOP TALKING SHE FEEDS ON YOUR ANSWERS" Howard shouted from the side

"do you mean you've mind wiped me before??"

"huh is it that time in 9th grade where you broadcasted to the whole town that he's the ninja which turned out to be false?" Rachel questioned

"I did what in 9th grade?????"

"... Debbie please" Randy pleaded

"Randy this is ridiculous" Debbie pinched her nose bridge "then why don't you just mind wipe us this time?"

"um..."

"because you can't or because the book will get mad at you?"

"enough with the mind wipe how did YOU know he was the ninja Rachel?" Howard saving randy once again

"well that time I got turned into a monster and the Ninja made me an apology song, it sounded awfully familiar to randy during music class so I just guessed, plus whenever we hang out and there's an emergency he's always the first one to disappear on us"

"and you gotta admit Randy's jokes are as bad as the ninja's " Bucky chimed in

The mood between them improved so debbie eventually agreed because they're friends for the past year or so, and that's when I started to wake up :') one more weird thing is the ninja in my dream didn't have a red scarf around his neck, it's more like black-blue color and idk maybe he looks cooler that way? At least it is in my dream

Thank u for reading I'll think about whether to make this into a real AU or not 😭😭 Edit: i just realized i dreamt of Julian but the entire time he was standing behind theresa, also worrying about randy but idk why he didnt do anything else :')

[hit-tab]

Guess who's back! Yep, it's @insufficientchill's Conall and @ritens' Lane! I took a few too many screenshots, so brace yourself. <3

Yeah, bud, that's the whole point of this party comp. I thought it'd be fun. Don't you worry about it! It'll be fiiine.

I'm sure Conall and Lane only have the best of opinions after seeing me fail this levitation-jump five times in a row because I refused to waste a harpy snare beacon. I mean, it's a jump over the brine so I can try as many times as I want without consequence...except for the rapidly dwindling respect of my pawn's friends.

Speaking of, check out this cool underwater shot I got while getting eaten by the brine. Neat, huh?

Here's a shot of Conall being awesome. Fire suits him so well! Mage vocations have such a cool aesthetic, I swear.

And here's Lane kidnapping a knacker(?) that knocked me down. It always tickles me when pawns do that.

"Lane, was that your arrow?" "'Twas not me." "..."

Guys I know you're very excited to pal around but please look out for monsters.

I think René misses being a warrior...

I managed to get a cool shot of Lane, finally. Look at him! He's so ready to wreck face!

My new favourite hobby...equipping a bow specifically so that I can kick rocky saurians. And maybe also other saurian-type monsters. I'm really not too picky.

The whole team is working together! Look how cool everyone is! It's so rare to get them all in one shot that doesn't look like they're all doing their own, random thing.

Conall helping me out after I got wasted by a goreminotaur...thanks, man. Sorry it wasn't the monster you were after. Where's Lane and René? Just over there? They're high-fiving and/or fist-bumping? Oh... ;-;

I was trying to capture a bunch of little victory poses and Lane was having none of it haha.

I don't think Conall knows how to deal with René's shenanigans, the poor guy. (Also check out Lane hiding in the tall grass like a wild pokemon pft.)

Look at these two and their lining up perfectly and their matchy bows. I forget what they were aiming at...probably a bat.

René, buddy, I'm not sure that's going to work. Max rank and he still isn't quite sure how to be an archer smh. Glitches are fun.

Er...Conall? I'm not sure we needed this spell for one teeny little minotaur that had a sliver of its health left, but at least we completed your quest.

René is way too happy about the meteors.

Camping: miserable and wet edition. The poor pawns sitting in the rain...

I had so much fun with Conall and Lane this past couple of sessions! We all got a little dinged up (no tank no real healer) but that might have also been because I went wandering around the volcano area and everyone kept stepping in lava rip. Nothing a little more resting couldn't solve. Sorry in advance if they complain about their burned feet when I send them back.

I actually did Lane's quest first, but sadly didn't get any pictures of us fighting the golem...s? I think we fought two of them. Yeah, one on the volcanic island and another in mainland Battahl, I'm pretty sure. Something about golems makes me forget to take pics I swear.

Anyway, this party comp is surprisingly viable. I only switched to my magick bow for things like spooky ghosts and dragonkin. Everything else was three bow one sorc baybee! SO much fun.

(I haven't sent them back yet! Will do soon.)

Bonus victory pose I have never seen:

Behold. René's applauding. And because there's an enemy in the distance, he's applauding angrily!

I love it so much?? He just-- looks SO mad haha.

[billwasnot]

Asseylum and Lemrina ponyfications

Some notes under the cut (very disorganized), as well as the transparents of the designs

Asseylum Vers Allusia

Alicorn name: Princess of Peace, Golden Dream, aka "Goldie"

Changeling name:  Changeling Princess Labellum, aka "Bell"

Yeah so making her role Peace was a pretty easy decision. In fact, I think that it's kind of funny (in a sad way) that her methods would have worked so much better in the MLP:FiM universe. Girl was born in the wrong world fr

Dove with an olive branch for a cutie mark. I think that's an easily readable symbol of peace. Had to make it gold only bc it would've blended in with her fur coat too much otherwise.

Its eye is closed because Seylum's peacekeeping efforts are too naive to be functional. She brings forth peace but she's blind to what she's doing

Having a "new" changeling design on a "queen" bodytype looks a bit weird to me, personally, but I wasn't going to make her look like a drone so we work with what we have

Also yes, I did turn her necklace into a part of her body on the changeling design, lol

Did I name her "idealistic"? Yes I did. Well, it's more liek a combination of her appearance (her golden hair), her naivete and how, in the beginning of the story, she just kind of represents comforting escapism in how kind and sheltered she is. Very comforting, very impractical. Cloth mom friend.

Originally I was going to name her Elysian Fields (not just idyllic, but literally heavenly. And also for nearly kicking the bucket two times. Girl is literally chilling on the edge of the afterlife for a good portion of the story lmao), but I couldn't find a good nickname for it so I scrapped the idea

Labellum is a mouthpart of mosquitoes and flies and such. I don't have anything smart to say here, I mostly picked that name bc it sounds similar to her human name. Also because it's easy to shorten to Bell, which can easily work as (part of) a pony name for her disguise <3

Lemrina Vers Envers

Alicorn name: Princess of Mimesis, Mirrorveil

Changeling name: Changeling Princess Elytra

So. Mimesis is primarily an art term, meaning a reflection of reality in art. This is about her being an impostor and a copycat, both for political and personal reasons. And also about her trying to create a facsimile of a found family on the Moon Base. Playing house, creating a narrative that doesn't exist. It's also a little bit informed by the Mimetic Desire theory (but only a little bit), specifically in terms of how the formation of Martian community in heneral, and Moon Base community in particular could be related to the concept. There's something to be said that Lemrina is not the one who mirrors other people's desires most. Slaine is. In fact, it's Lemrina (along with Harklight and the others) kind of imposing their desires onto Slaine through S2

I think (for both iterations) all four of her legs, as well as her wings, are too weak to support her body in normal gravity. She can sit upright, though her front legs get tired relatively quickly. But what's more troubling, switching beteen sitting and laying down puts a huge strain on her leg muscles. She could pull that off without external help by levitating herself a little bit while changing her pose, but in general, it's more comfortable for her to stay laying down. As such, I imagine her wheelchair design ought to be more sofa-shaped instead of a traditional wheelchair

As an alicorn, she is a blank flank. I imagine spending her entire life on the moon base, barely interacting with other people aside from a handful of servants, and having no way to experiment with what interests her, I imagine she'd have a hard time figuring out her special talent. She's good at mimicry, yes, but that's not who SHE is, you know?

Mirrorveil is literally two words smashed together. Mirror for her impersonating Asseylum AND trying to connect with Slaine through shared ostracization. Veil is an obscurant. Both for the lie that she perpetuates by stealing Asseylum's identity, and for the lie that she believed while Slaine was leading her on. Girl both confuses other people and is herself blinded. Also, bride's veil, for her failed engagement </3 But mostly I just liked the sound of these two words smashed together

Elytra is the hard-shelled outer wings of an insect. I wanted to name her after a part that's supposed to keep an insect's wings safe, but hers are in tatters. Just as how she wants to protect her home but is helpless to do so

Anyway, RIP Lemrina, you would have loved both Princess Luna and Queen Chrysalis. Moon girl jealous little sister? Impersonating a princess and trying to take the love that she gets for herself through a fake marriage? It's prefect. Also what made me think of this concept in the 1st place

Miscellaneous notes:

I could have given them both full dresses, ponies wear those, BUT I didn't want to. I like ponies better when theyre largely unclothed but accessorized

I think I like the alicorn designs more, but I like the idea of them as changelings better

In terms if other characters, Inaho would be a unicorn, while Slaine would, of course, be a bat pony. Maybe I'll draw them and a bunch of other characters at some point. No promises

Don't ask about the lore implications. If I had to make it make sense I'd explode

And here are the transparent designs

[dearweirdme]

I can't stop thinking about something the last few days. I was watching BTS content:

the RUN episode where they have to name the celebrities from their pics

the video where jk is following Tae around the waiting room to take his pic

the video where Tae hugs Jk to ask for forgiveness because he gifted him the Tae fans

(I mention them just as an example) and couldn't help but notice HOW MANY people were there! Like, more than 20 staff, 4-5 cameras minimum and some of them IN their faces. I know that the members have grown up and got used to it by now, but really, how can we expect them to act all natural and behave like no one is watching? I am not saying they are fake, but come on, this is a tiny - posed part of who they really are. To be honest if I had a secret affair with someone I would barely interact with them in a situation like this. The slip ups we have all these years are a miracle imo.

Hi anon!

I do think it is important to think about what BTS's perspective on these situations is. We tend to use our own lives and ideas about 'normalcy' as a point of reference, but our lives are nothing like that of BTS. What's normal to them is outlandish to us. BTS have most likely actually trained for different types of social settings (mediatraining). They have trained how to behave and how to answer and interact. So part of what they do is learned behavior. The way they evade certain questions for example, as well as playing up some things (as a means to excite people) and playing down some things (emotions, opinions). Being BTS is their job. Entertaining us is their job, so a certain amount of exageration and toning down is to be expected. Whenever they are having an off day, they will try not to show that to the full extent.

However, within those boundaries.. they can still be themselves. It's just a different version of themselves adjusted to the specific social setting they are in. I see it more as not showing the extremities of their characters.

I actually feel that we see a lot of how they really are. I'm fully aware that there's a lot that we don't see and know, but to me their characters and honest interactions have always shone through. I think for me it's mostly that I feel they hide the specifics of their lives (factual stuff like relationships, friendships, events and outings, etc). I think the more subjective stuff (like emotions, reactions, interactions) is often very real.

The way BTS has made RUN, ITS, BV, and all sorts of interviews really to me shows how genuine they are amongst each other. Because they don't miss a beat while reacting to each other. I think that is also why so many of us see what's between Tae and Jk as real. They don't miss a beat during interactions. They might pull back and hesitate after processing something, but their initial responses to each other speak of huge intimacy. Tae and Jk did not have to hide that they are close. A lot of people around them have only ever known them to be close, even from before they presumably got together. So while performing, or taping footage, or getting ready they don't have to hide being close. They can still hug, they can still touch, they can still talk and joke and whatever. They can't kiss, or talk about their relationship, and there's possibly some other aspects of their relationship that they would have to tone down, but then again it's normal to do that while you're working anyways.

They have basically grown into adulthood with having a huge team around. They are able to sleep in a room full of people. They are at their most vulnarable (sleeping, undressed, emotional) in rooms full of people. When you go through that on an almost daily basis.. your perspective on situations like that changes.

[p5x-theories]

P5 Collab Chapter 5 Summary

(last updated 11/4/24!)

Usual disclaimer: Please keep in mind this game still has no official English translation, so this summary uses a mix of what happens visually, what I understand of the Japanese dialogue, and Google translate for the Chinese text, in order to get the broader picture here. This will be focused on summing up everything that happens overall, without getting into a line-by-line translation.

Contrary to this blog’s name, this post is going to have as little speculation as possible, and stick to confirmed facts.

This post will cover the fifth chapter of the P5 Collab, also called the “Spaceship Chapter”.

Part 5-1

This chapter picks up almost immediately after the end of the Pyramid chapter. Mona says he understands (implying the group started to explain what happened in the Pyramid to Mona and Noir, in the brief time between chapters), and Closer tells them they were in a place that looked like Oracle's Palace. Cattle determines that, because Noir and Mona are here, it's now obvious that their next course of action is to steal the Core from this place as well.

Closer asks what Mona meant when he said they were waiting for them, and he explains that if they hadn't waited here for the rest of the team, everyone else wouldn't have been able to proceed from here, since Noir's the key to the big door they're standing by. Soy asks what that means, and Noir just confirms this is true, thinking it was nice of Mona to suggest they wait for everyone. She then introduces herself again as Noir, saying it's nice to meet everyone.

You can watch some of this part fan-translated to English here.

Noir apparently heard about them, and the alliance formed between their two groups the previous times this happened, from Mona and Joker. Closer reassures her that they'll work together again, and says it's nice to meet her. Noir, somewhat hesitantly, agrees. Queen notices this and asks what's wrong, and Noir reveals she's nervous, since she just joined the Phantom Thieves. Wind says *she's* new, too, so she understands how Noir feels, but she should just try to relax. Closer enthusiastically adds they're already like friends, and then realizes Joker isn't here and asks about him. Noir, also confused, says he was just here, where'd he go...? A voice comes from somewhere, announcing "I'm here!", and Wonder, recognizing the voice, asks where Joker is. Cattle calls out, spotting Joker above them on top of one of the shelves lining the wall. Panther wonders what he's doing up there, and Soy greets him, suggesting he join them. Joker says nothing, and Wind, meeting him for the first time, double-checks that that's *really* Joker, asking why he isn't speaking. Joker chuckles, then announces right now he's not Joker, he's Beauty Thief! (Doing the pose Haru did when *she* first introduced herself as such.) Noir is shocked, and Closer wonders in disbelief if Joker's really a girl (Beauty Thief in Japanese is "Bishoujo Kaitou", or "Beautiful Girl Thief"). Skull explains he's referencing Noir's entrance, and Oracle berates him for explaining the joke because that's embarrassing, while Soy, also shocked, says Joker seemed so serious he almost couldn't tell it *was* a joke. Queen somewhat awkwardly says he's probably trying to make Noir feel less nervous by making a joke. Fox, hearing this, wonders if he should also be Beauty Thief, then? Wonder thinks something similar, and they stand together, both doing the pose. Oracle, unamused, tells them this isn't a competition. Joker finally jumps down, and says it's good to see Wonder again. The player can double-down on the Beauty Thief joke, to which Joker exclaims "You're also one...!" They both do the pose again, pointing at each other, and Skull behind them grumbles that neither of them really are. Noir, slightly annoyed, complains about all this talk of Beauty Thief this and Beauty Thief that... *she's* the real one!!

Cattle declares that everyone's here now. Mona comments there's strength in numbers, but even though they have two navigators, they'll have to be careful to avoid attracting attention. The group nods, and Panther adds that everyone will have to stop shouting about being Beauty Thief. Joker looks away and says "... okay...", and Skull mutters that he sounds so unwilling. Noir, smiling, thanks Joker, because now she doesn't feel so nervous. Mona announces they'll all steal the core together! They proceed through the big door.

They explore the outer areas of this place, familiar from the original Okumura's Palace, and find Noir's enough to unlock most doors for them out here. Eventually, they reach an elevator to take them further.

Part 5-2

Cattle senses the Core from the center building in this area, and Fox comments it doesn't actually seem that far away. They proceed in that direction, occasionally running into guards along the way.

Part 5-3

Still heading towards the center building, they manage to reach it in this part, Soy noting that they made it. Cattle says the Core already feels close, and Fox suggests they head in, then.

Part 5-4

Inside the building, Fox frames the view with his fingers, while Soy comments that this looks like a factory. Fox agrees, and says they should keep going.

After a bit of exploring, they encounter a door that can't just be opened by Noir; it must be locked some other way. They run into a Corporobo (it appears to be a MDL-CH, but then becomes a MDL-WKR in battle) which attacks them for "being lazy" and not working. When they beat it, it drops a Staff ID keycard.

After the fight, they look out the window down at the factory, and Closer notes that a lot of robots are being produced here, and she saw a lot of broken ones as well. Soy adds that even though they're machines, the slave-like treatment of them is uncomfortable. Wind, alarmed, asks if these robots represent real people in the real world. Noir, downcast, explains that they're all employees of her family's company, as the owner of the real version of this Palace is her father.

Wonder and his team react with surprise, and Cattle speculates that this means the careless way robots are treated here represents Noir's father's attitude towards his staff. Soy says it's rough that she has to change her own father's heart. Noir, still looking a bit down, says it's fine, as she's made up her mind. Her father used to be respectable as the head of the company, but now he only thinks about the company's interests, money, and politics, rather than the employees and customers themselves. Even his own daughter is just a tool to further his own distorted desires.

Wind seems to react to this. Noir continues that she used to think being the daughter her father wants was the right thing to do, but after befriending the Phantom Thieves her mind changed. Wind thinks for a moment, then speaks up that she's had a similar experience, though she says it wasn't as painful as Noir's situation. Both at home and at school, she only thought about fulfilling her responsibilities for the sake of others, and forgot about herself. She can somewhat understand Noir's feelings, because especially when you're alone, it's easy to get lost. Wonder adds that they're here for Noir, too. Panther agrees; Noir's not alone anymore, and she can talk to them about anything! Fox assures her it's not bad to rely on others. Noir thanks everyone, saying she's happier now.

Off to the side, Closer and Soy turn to Wind, and Closer reminds her that all of that goes for her, too. Wind shouldn't try to take on everything by herself. Soy agrees; if she has any problems, she should talk to them, especially since they're always meddling in stuff anyway. Wind thanks them both.

Mona, addressing the others, says they're the Phantom Thieves of Hearts! Besides being good at stealing, they need to cherish the bonds between them, too. Closer hears this, and turns back to the group, surprised that they have a whole name for their team. Soy clarifies that they also call themselves the Phantom Thieves, but never specific what kind of phantom thieves they actually are. Cattle suggests the "Phantom Thieves of Desires", since it sounds like it's "plated with gold", but Wind awkwardly warns him that could give the impression of excessive desires, with a negative connotation. Cattle is alarmed by this, while Wonder thinks to himself about what they should be called.

Queen mentions that there's no point in discussing this here (presumably because they're all going to forget), and suggests they move on. Before they do, Wind clarifies if the other group is currently undertaking the Palace this place is based on, and Noir nods, warning them that there may be dangers here that they don't know about yet. Fox adds that they don't know where the real Palace's Treasure is yet, either, so they can't use that to guess where the Core here is.

Mona points out that they have both Oracle and Wind here, plus his amazing nose, so finding the Core should be a piece of cake anyway! Cattle, annoyed, says his sensory abilities are way better than just Mona's nose, so he shouldn't overlook them! Noir cuts off the argument, reminding them they're all working together here, so they should get along. Both mascots are frustrated, but begrudgingly agree. Fox notes that this makes another excellent composition- framing it with his fingers- and calling it "Brotherhood and Self-Discipline". Mona tells him not to give it a weird name, and Cattle says he's had enough, and they should move on.

Using the keycard to unlock the door, they head out onto the factory floor. Similar to the canon Okumura Palace, they discover they can overclock the mechanical arms on the assembly line to break then, then use them as bridges.

They reach another locked door at the other end of the assembly line, this one requiring a much higher-clearance keycard to open. Noticing a commotion with some Corporobos down on the stopped assembly line, they ambush them, looking for a better keycard.

After the fight, however, Closer and Skull are dismayed to discover that these Corporobos had the same kind of keycard they already got from the first one. Wind theorizes they'll need to find and defeat a more powerful enemy to get a higher-clearance card.

Closer then notices that the end of the conveyor belt has a portal, which Wind guesses takes whatever passes through it to another area. Cattle realizes a new area could have stronger enemies, and suggests they try heading through.

Part 5-5

As expected, the portal takes them to a completely new area. Skull asks how they're supposed to find stronger enemies, and Oracle says she detects several special robots around here. Tapping the air in front of her (with an effect similar to when she uses Necronomicon's skills, so likely utilizing it here as well), she shows the others what appears to be a security camera feed from two different rooms: one contains a MDL-AM with some MDL-CHs, while the other has a MDL-AM and a MDL-DM. Her guess is that one of them will have what they need.

On their way there, they also find an Intermediate Staff ID keycard, which helps them proceed further. They discover after fighting the robots Oracle detected, however, that finding the Intermediate Staff ID keycard made fighting these robots a waste of time, as all they had were Intermediate keycards as well. Luckily, a group of Corporobos marching through the facility opens a door they weren't able to get through earlier, and they can still sneak deeper in.

Part 5-6

Noir stops, and comments that although it's a space station factory, the whole building does feel in line with her father's sense of style. However, she hopes she can make him more aware of what he's been doing to Okumura Foods. Wind notes that that sounds like Noir's father runs a food company, and Skull confirms with a grin that he owns the famous Big Bang Burger chain. Closer repeats "Big Bang Burger...?", and all of Wonder's team looks confused. Skull, now confused as well, asks if they seriously haven't heard of it, and Panther mentions there's a Big Bang Burger in Shibuya. Noir clarifies it's a burger restaurant with a space theme.

Wind, still sounding a bit thrown-off, says that her father also runs a food business, but she's never heard of Big Bang Burger. It occurs to Closer that they do have a Boom Bang Burger, but Panther says she's never heard of that. Noir proposes that maybe, in Wonder's world, Big Bang Burger doesn't exist? Wonder nods.

Hearing this, Cattle speculates that maybe, although similar, the world that they're from is an entirely separate world from the one Joker's team is from. Queen repeats "another world", clearly thinking, as Cattle continues to say that, although they supposedly live in the same city of the same country, the details seem different. "This is commonly known as a parallel world... A world that branches off due to a certain choice." Queen mutters that that might be why details like a store name would change. Oracle says she understands the idea logically, but it almost seems too unbelievable to even be possible. Closer wonders if that means her school doesn't even exist in their world. Soy says that this topic is so crazy it's making his head hurt, and Skull agrees.

Queen points out that, if they really are from different worlds, that raises the question of why they were brought here together. Cattle's less sure about this part, and adds that the parallel worlds theory is just his own speculation.

Wonder notices that everyone seems confused, and can either ask everyone to calm down, or say it doesn't matter if they're from parallel worlds. Joker agrees; even if they're from separate worlds, they've still been working together and trusting each other. Similarly, Panther smiles and says it's not a big problem anyway, while Fox mentions that it's because of these meetings that they were all able to bond, and Queen decides there's no point in continuing to discuss it, thanking Joker for bringing that up. Closer adds that she doesn't really get this complicated stuff, but she's really glad she got to meet all of them, and Soy expresses an appreciation for their help and the chance to meet so many unique people.

With that, Wind suggests they continue on, since their goal right now is still to steal this area's Core. Wonder nods, and Noir says they'll do it together!

As they continue to explore, they start finding some of the remote-controllable robots from Katayama's Palace, and use them to help navigate the area. They eventually reach and defeat a MDL-GM, which drops a Senior Staff ID keycard.

Fox comments that they'll be able to open the door in the factory now, and Oracle manages to use one of the consoles in the room they're in to shut off the security blocking their portal back.

Part 5-7

They head through the portal and return to the conveyor belt, which is still stopped (though the Corporobos are gone). Closer complains that she's starting to get tired from all this walking around, and Skull agrees, suggesting they take a break here since they've still got a ways to go. Oracle seems to be lost in thought, so Wonder asks her about it.

Oracle turns the group, and admits she's still been thinking about their conversation earlier (about being from parallel worlds). She points out that they weren't just taken to each other's worlds, but to a place that isn't part of either of their worlds. While the overall areas resemble Palaces she's seen, there are sometimes shadows she doesn't recognize (ones from Katayama's Palace), so it feels like elements from both worlds' Palaces are mixed together in these places. Queen realizes that's true, and matches up with the place they were stuck in last time this happened as well.

Insisting this couldn't happen on its own, Oracle says she's started wondering about who's behind all this. At Panther's confusion, Cattle clarifies that that would mean they were brought here for a particular motive, though he admits that while he had the same thought, he felt it was a bit ridiculous. However, Oracle asserts that if the reason for all this was just to make them meet, it'd be much easier to simply bring one group to the other world. Instead, they've been specifically brought to an entirely different place, and once they leave, they're forced to forget about it. So she's sure there's a reason, but she's having trouble figuring out what that reason could be.

Wind considers this, and she's not sure how it connects exactly, but mentions that there was also something in the pyramid that neither of their groups had seen before: those murals. Could that be a hint? Everyone else reacts with surprise, and Queen agrees that if these places are supposed to combine both worlds, then anything entirely new to all them must have a meaning. Oracle adds that if it really was referencing the three kleshas, then those might be their lead.

Fox draws a connection between those negative emotions, and desires, and asks if he recalls correctly that desires are being stolen away in Wonder's world. Wonder confirms this is the case, and Mona points out that their own world is full of desires. Skull grumbles in agreement that it's all horrible adults with selfish desires. Closer, taking the thought a step further, wonders what it means if they're mixing one world that's lacking desires, and another that's full of them. Noir suggests that maybe it becomes "complete" somehow, and Wind wonders who it becomes "complete" for. Oracle summarizes: is the situation here that someone who's able to benefit from this wants to combine both their worlds?

She then shakes her head, becoming a bit sheepish, and says that feels like fantasy, because that's not something humans can do. Fox agrees that you'd need power akin to a god to do something like that.

The group drifts off into discussion, and Joker asks Wonder what he thinks about all this. The player can choose either "Could it be that...?" or "That's impossible...". At least upon picking the former, Joker hums, and turns slightly away.

Panther, looking slightly surprised (or motivated?), says they've been chatting for way too long, and they need to keep going. They get off the conveyor belt, and explore the rest of the factory area before finally unlocking the door using the Senior Staff ID keycard.

Part 5-8

The portal takes them to an airlock, where Closer is shocked to see outer space, wondering if the Palace really contains outer space within it, and then if they're really going to have to go out there. Oracle tells her it'll be fine if it's just for a few seconds, but reminds her to hold her breath. Noir immediately does so, and Mona awkwardly says there's no point in holding her breath right now. Releasing the breath, Noir realizes he's right, and says that was kind of stupid of her, but Wind laughs lightly, and says they'll head out when everyone's ready.

With that, the group proceeds through the areas connected by airlocks. Before long, they reach an elevator.

Part 5-9

Mona and Cattle sense the Core, not too much further ahead now.

However, as they proceed, and fight some shadows, a red light begins to flash, and there's an announcement that security measures are being activated. The group watches as the door in front of them (the one the camera is looking through in the above screenshot; the light blue lines are on the edges of the door) shuts, and Cattle grumbles that they'll have to find another way in there.

They do so, reaching the lift up to the spacecraft with the Core. Soy is shocked, while Oracle excitedly asks if that's a real UFO. Cattle ushers them onward.

Part 5-10

You can watch the entirety of this part roughly fan-translated to English here.

The group walks into the room, and sees a humanoid figure sitting in a floating chair. While the body resembles Shadow Okumura, the head inside the helmet is just a black void with a yellow/white smiley face. It mutters (distorted like a Shadow's voice) that it wasn't easy, but "we" finally got the power to create this place, and the foolish humans coming to interfere are just digging their own graves. Skull, grinning, says this must be the boss, and Soy wonders what it just muttered. The figure mutters about being ignorant, then points at Wonder, calling him a bastard, saying it's all his fault and asking if he knows what'll happen if he takes the Core (the camera pans to show the Core is a model UFO kit). Wind wonders if it's talking to Wonder, while Closer is confused why this one's acting differently from the others. Wonder can reply either "I have no idea", "I don't want to know at all", or "I'm going to steal the Core!". (Notably, the figure's text box seems to be labeled as "Moha" as well, like the sphinx? I suppose I'll call it Moha as well for the sake of having a name to refer to it by, but I'm not sure if one of them will be named differently in the official English release.) Moha shouts about ignorant humans being unforgivable, and Wind warns them something's coming as the boss fight begins. It continues to shout insults before doing anything, then summons Corporobos to defend it, similar to Shadow Okumura. After they fight through the initial stock of Corporobos, Moha angrily reveals its true face (a boarlike head, very similar to the sphinx Moha), and summons more, including a MDL-ED. Once this wave is taken care of, they can attack Moha directly, and it only takes one hit before it's down. After the fight, Moha slumps in its chair in disbelief, but then weakly reaches forward for the Core, saying it can't let them extinguish "the light of salvation". Cattle repeats this, wondering what it means, but then everything shakes, and Oracle shouts that it looks like the ceiling is going to fall. Wind calls for Wonder to grab the Core, and he does, but then lingers as the others run off, looking at Moha. Wonder's thought bubble says "Rescue...? You want to save us...?" As the ceiling crumbles, Moha starts to be sucked out into space, and Wonder, closer to it than the others, starts to feel the pull as well, running towards the group. Moha shouts at him to not even think about it- Wonder's coming with it! Then it fires a grappling hook (/arm? It loosely resembles Shadow Akashi's mechanical arm/tentacles) at Wonder's back, pulling Wonder towards it. Joker shouts back that he won't let it, and throws his own grappling hook to catch onto Wonder's front. The two struggle for a moment, each trying to pull Wonder towards themselves, before Joker pulls out his gun, shooting at Moha's hand/that end of its grappling hook. It releases Wonder, but Joker's grappling hook falls as well, and Wonder starts to be pulled upward by the vacuum of space itself, before he tosses his own grappling hook past Joker and pulls himself back. Joker helps him up, and asks if he can run. Wonder nods, and the entire group flees the room.

In a hallway elsewhere, the group stops, Wonder (and Oracle in the background) catching his breath as Wind checks on him and the others watch. Skull comments that was close, and Fox agrees, as Wonder thanks Joker. Joker says he was just returning the favor from last time, but he's glad Wonder's okay. Wonder promises to return the favor again next time, and Joker chuckles, saying he'll look forward to it. Wonder and Wind stand up, and Wind says she's also glad Wonder's okay, but they're not safe yet. Behind them, Oracle warns them they'll all get sucked out into space if they stay here. Cattle and Mona take their cue, switching to vehicle form. Before getting in, Panther laments that their goodbyes have to be rushed this time, but she hopes they'll meet again! Closer says they absolutely will. Noir says she thanks "The Phantom Thieves From Another World" from the bottom of her heart, and bids them farewell, as everyone else waves to each other. Now in the cars, Queen accidentally incites Mona's competitive spirit by urging him to go faster, and Mona gleefully zips past Cattle. Closer exclaims about how fast Mona is, and Cattle announces he's determined not to lose, zooming after him. The camera cuts to the inside of the Cattle car, where Closer wishes they weren't saying goodbye here, since she still wanted to talk more with Panther and the others. Soy replies that it can't be helped, since they'd get sucked into space otherwise. Wind wonders what's going on with these places, and Closer says it still isn't clear, but it was refreshing to see everyone in the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Soy agrees that their positive desires feel like they ignite him. Wind feels that it gives her courage to know there are other phantom thieves out there resisting, too. Cattle asks Wonder what he thinks, and either way Wonder expresses hope towards meeting them again. Soy declares that as long as they're still phantom thieves they will, and Closer says they should come up with a name like "the Phantom Thieves of Hearts" before next time! Cattle repeats "'the Phantom Thieves of Hearts', huh...", and then Closer exclaims that she sees the exit. Now standing back in front of Shibuya station (where they started at the beginning of the Pyramid Chapter), Riko and Motoha are disoriented, and Shun wonders what they were just talking about. Ruferu's head also feels fuzzy, but he recalls they were going to take Riko to Mementos. Riko realizes he's right, and apologizes for forgetting. Shun recalls this as well, but says he feels like he's forgetting something, and Motoha adds that there's a sense of loneliness, but warmth in her heart, too. Wonder thinks to himself that he feels like he's just been to the Metaverse with everyone, then notices something, and pulls it out of his pocket. As he looks at it, he thinks he feels like he owes someone a favor, though he doesn't remember the details. Shun asks what he has in his hand, but Wonder just shakes his head, and Shun thinks it's getting weirder and weirder if *none* of them know what's going on. Riko reminds them they should be going, and Motoha excitedly asks Wonder to activate the MetaNav.

Though it's not shown in a close-up during the cutscene, the item description for the real-world Core describes it as a "UFO model box with a dam pattern".

[mimjandoodlesstuff]

April Fusions haha

They kept rotting my brain for a hot second so I started writing up concepts myself, but then this ask properly sprung me into action. @bluepeachstudios you've done it again with the hinting!

I suppose the only really interesting things about these takes are how I named them. I already have a fusion storyline planned for my own TMNT iteration, and the Turtles fuse with April in it so I combined their names there. I didn't want to do that again here, so instead I took a more unique approach. I named them after each of the Turtles' VAs' birthday months (because, you know, April). I mean, why not utilise canon/meta/out-of-universe facts for a project like this? I can't do this for my own characters. I did have two rules in place in case any of them overlapped, of which I was forced to use one.

May

May is probably my least favourite out of the bunch. There's really nothing about her that screams Leo besides like- a shell, blue eyes, injuries... It's probably therefore not surprising I drew her first, so I really didn't know what I wanted to emphasise and so on. I should probably have had her face the camera more to get a better sense of her jawline. Make sure to make it nice and boxy lol

The plastron pride flags are demigirl, aroace and lesbian. While I do in my heart of hearts believe Leo has a not insignificant crush on Captain Ryan, I still wanted our gal to be a flaming lesbian despite that lol.

March

March was incredibly fun to draw, and not just because @bluecookiesabi is an absolute joy to hang out with (thank the heavens for Discord streams!). I just really like drawing more feminine characters. I had most likely already sketched both May and March before I found the ask so I didn't know March is agender, but I don't think that's a problem at all. Agender people are allowed to be feminine, after all. And I don't consider Donnie to be some pinnacle of masculinity to begin with.

I figured, since the fic tags state that Donnie's autistic here, I'd give March just fluffy socks and slippers to keep dust and dirt from their feet for sensory reasons. That is definitely not projection on my part.

They're kind of giving 2003 April vibes with their hair in a bun. That was a happy accident which I'm really glad I kept to.

January

January is just green April. Hers and Mikey's designs are already so incredibly similar in-canon I'm convinced she'd look pretty much exactly like him had she been mutated into a turtle. I didn't even feel the need to open January's eyes since they'd just be the same shade of blue more or less.

I don't have much to say about him other than she was fun to draw. Gymnastics poses are honestly kind of therapeutic to draw. But also, how are they able to make that pose? The answer is simple: January is just built different.

I also labelled xir as only aroace since I don't know what you have planned for Mikey.

September

I'm really happy with how he turned out. While sketching I couldn't get the pose really working but once I did she really came together. I'd say September is the only Fusion (besides maybe March) that actually looks like the people he's made up of merged. Raph's stocky build fits April surprisingly well. And the choice to give her April's kunoichi getup but tattered was a really good idea in my opinion, and I'd like to give @pechtothevoid the credit they are so deservedly owed for that idea.

While not fic accurate at all, I had such a difficult time coming up with a good weapon for September. Who knew combining sai with tessen would be difficult? So instead I gave her a boomerang, which reminded me of Sokka, so I just straight up gave him Sokka's boomerang. I like the idea of her, upon fusing, just snagging Sokka's boomerang from the Mae Whitman-verse and using it as a blunt force weapon. I wanted to in a similar vein give him the One Ring from the Sean Astin-verse, but I couldn't get that to look good no matter how I placed it.

I like the name rules I came up with. Basically, since I didn't know in which months any of their actors were born in I had to come up with a replacement idea for naming in case any of them happen to overlap. The first rule was that if Rob and Greg happened to share a month with anyone else, the Donnie and Mikey Fusions would automatically get assigned December and May respectively. If Seth or Sean were to have overlapped with anyone, Leo's and Raph's Fusions would get the/a month whose first letter is the closest to either character's first name. March and January checked out, but since Seth and Sean are both born in February, I was forced to assign Leo and Raph May and September each. Small price to pay, honestly.

Tcest DNI and NO REPOSTING. Both groups can go die UwU

[ro-botany]

Bonus Content & Bloopers for the fake marlear screencaps

(I love behind the scenes stuff ok can you really blame me)

Ripping animations to help with some basic expression work was..... it was an adventure.

The first image above is an attempt to blend Marth's "surprise" and "smile" faces together but I uh...... Hit the wrong setting in the dropdown. I nearly died from laughing too hard pff.

The Alears there are what happens when you import the characters face rigs with different settings (still screaming at myself for that one) and then try to use a facial expression from one of them on the other one of them. That was supposed to be an :0 face.

The FEH players among you may have recognized the setting of that piece as the scenery for S supports in FEH! Figured if I'm setting the scene in Askr anyway I may as well go for the cheekiest spot. :P

While it probably would've looked great if I'd modelled all that out, after the effort that went into getting the character models looking good I really just did Not have it in me to do that, so this scenery is... A complete and utter lie made of layered image planes.

This was part of why I opted to crank the depth of field so much in the final piece. Helps hide that everything aside from the guys themselves are crusty PNGs. :P It does a half-decent job of looking like a 3D scene even in motion though, so long as you don't rotate the camera TOO far.

I REALLY liked how these close shots of Marth and Alear for the first pose turned out, but in the end I didn't think they fit with the other two poses. There was a timeline where I modified the expressions a bit and made fake dialogue boxes where they're talking about how surprised and happy they are they can actually touch each other in Askr, but I didn't feel confident enough to write in their voices for that.. So in the final shots that story just gets to be implied in their poses and expressions instead.

For the hug shot, I feel it is important to reveal that Alear's head is clipping halfway into Marth's shoulder and armour there. It's fine though. Animate for the camera, professionals always say! If it isn't gonna be viewed from every angle it doesn't have to look good from every angle. :P

Engage renders their characters' eyelashes and eyebrows ABOVE their hair, no matter what, in order to help the readability of facial expressions. I wanted to stay true to that look, so I had to render their eyebrows and eyelashes separately and then combine them in post. Enjoy eyelash-free Marth and Alear. :P

You can also see some areas there where I had to manually fix some shading and outlines in post, too. Blender has a bug with rigging right now that was affecting the face shading in odd ways, so I painted over that; and the inverse hull method I've been using for most of the outlines is very much imperfect and needed touching up in some areas, lips especially.

Since these character rigs were.......... We'll say not intended for use in Blender, they were fairly tedious to get posed right. No rotation or location constraints. These were joint-only rigs with no connections between bones so you couldn't use the auto-IK feature to, say move the whole arm at once. (Which made hand posing the WORST THING EVER AAAA EVERY FINGER JOINT MOVES INDIVIDUALLY why did i pick TWO poses where hands were a critical component)

Part of my process ended up being doing rough sketches of what the final shots were going to be first, so I could keep in my head what sort of poses and expressions and camera angles I was going for. And by rough I mean ROUGH. I kept laughing looking at these little egg head guys for reference as I worked.

Engage's models also come with some "extraneous" bones; "piv" bones that I can't figure out what they do, spots where weapons and shields can snap to, "vol" bones for changing the thickness of specific body parts as defined in the big XML file of character proportions buried in the game. Unfortunately these bones overlap the actual posing joints in many cases, so until you get fed up enough to find and hide them all, you'll try to move the character around and end up doing shit like this by accident

(Me too Marth, idk what the hell his skeleton is doing either)

And as you may have noticed - no particle effects in these behind the scenes shots so far! That's because I both A) couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do that smoke effect, and B) couldn't render a particle system with anywhere NEAR the number of objects I would need to get a similar look to the game. So, I drew those in post! Shoutouts to the random sparkle and smoke brushes in my collection, you're the real ones.

[gorygirl1996]

"THE 47TH INFECTION"-(AKA "THE 47TH TURNED").

MY FIRST IMAGE POST ON A TUMBLER GROUP! ALSO IF U WANNA KNOW WHY I TYPE LIKE THIS, PLEASE READ MY BVIO. BEEN PLAYING' THE HEL OUT OF THE HITMAN WOA TRILOGY LATLEY AND ITS FREAKING AWESOME! I WISH I COULD'VE KNOWN OF/GOT TO PLAY THE OLDER GAMES WHEN THEY CAME OUT THOUGH.

ANYWAY: I KNOW THIS IS "OUT OF CHARACTER" GIVEN THAT VAMPS DON'T EXIST IN THIS UNIVERSE, AND I THINK 47'S IMMUNE TO MOST ILLNESSES/INFECTIONS...SO IDK IF IT WOULD WORK ON HIM, IF TI WERE ONE, THEN AGAIN THE VIRUS IN THAT ONE LEVEL KILLS HIM IF HE GETS SICK RIGHT?

ANYWAYS. LONG STORY-SHORT ISH. I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE OUTFIT, AND I THOUGHT "WHAT IF?... I MEAN HE'S ALREADY A STRONGLY ENHANCED CLONE. SO...MAYBE BEING A VAMPIRE WOULD...PROBABLY MAKE HIM MUCH MORE TERRIFYING!" (NOT THAT HE ISN'T ALREADY DANGEROUS AND YET AWESOME ON HIS OWN, OF COURSE. JUST SAYING).

THEN I HEARD THIS ONE RANDOM GUARD WHILE WATCHING SOMEONE PLAY THE MISSON SAY SOMETHING LIKE: "YEA HA-HA! VERY FUNNY BUDDY, VAMPIRES DON'T EXIST!" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT...SO AGAIN WHAT IF THEY DID? THAT ONLYL FULED MYDESIREE TO DO THIS EVEN MORE. WELL...TBH I CAN'T HELP IT, BUT I LOVE TURNING CHARACTERS I LIKE INTO THEM...IDK WHY TBH. MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE (SOMETIMES) SO BADASS AND COOL IN MY OPINION LOL!

ALSO, I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHICH TAG TO GIVE THIS TBH, SO IF THIS IS THE WRONG ONE, OR IF THERE'S A BETTER FITTING ONE PLEASE TELL ME I KIND OF WISH WE NOT ONLY HAD AN ARTWORK TAG SECTION BUT ALSO THE ABILITY TO PUT MUTLBALE TAGS ON THESE THINGS.

I OWN NOTHING ABOUT THE HITMAN SERIES...ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO IO INTERACTIVE. I PUT THE IMAGES/TEXT TOGETHER IN A SORT OF "MEME" STYLE USING GIMP, AND I POSED 47 IN GMOD-(TO THE BEST OF MY LIMITED ABILITIES, GIVEN HOW MY GMOD HAS MESSED UP ATM WHEN IT COMES TO UPCLOSE POSES). SO I'M SORRY IF THE PIC DOESN'T LOOK THE BEST, I'M STILL ALSO A NOOB AT GMOD POSING MIND U.

BUT I ALSO ADDED HIS SCARY EYES/FANGS WITH GIMP. THE VAMPIRE CUSTOM IMAGE, IS FROM THE HITMAN WIKI, I ALSO DON'T OWN IT EITHER LOL. IF YOU ALL DON'T WANT ME USING IT, I WILL TAKE IT OUT OF THE PICTURE AND JUST USE THE TEXT OR SOMETHING.

THANKS FOR READING, PLEASE FORGIVE THE LONG-ISH ESSAY OF TEXT AND ALSO FORGIVE ANY GRAMMAR OR SPELLING MISTAKES IF ANY ARE PRESENT.