#...and probably more teeth lol

[redbean-nom]

Designs for adult versions of the clone cadets in bad batch as Rebellion leaders

The first weird thing I noticed was that they kept specifying that tbb are "defective CTs", whereas iirc most other clones leave out the "ct" part. additionally, "special training" must have been a reasonably expected occurrence for them, since it was used as the Hemlock-jungle-lab excuse. they're also, oddly enough, the only three survivors from a base full of both cadets and adult clones. and finally, all three of them have noticeably different face shapes.

so my guess for their origins is that they're the results of the kaminoans trying to replicate tbb's mutations in a commando template, making them all specialized CC command cadets. From what we've seen of them, they don't seem to have quite as prominent abilities as say, wrecker or hunter, but are definitely above average to have survived that long.

Anyways the mini-backstory for them here is that they end up joining the rebellion around 5 years later (assuming that they're 6/12 and 8/16 in tbb s3, they would be 11/22 and 13/26 here) as the lead squad for the clone rebel cell after rex, wolffe, and gregor retire (and echo and cody are presumably dead).

Bonus: I originally had Deke's hair as dyed blond, but then he started looking too much like Rex (esp with the jaig eyes and partial arc armor) so I changed it back

edit: sorry i forgot to tag spoilers at first! it has since been fixed

[eulaliasims]

Veridia: Introductions III (Surprise Return of the Introduction Posts)

Sooooo, about this ROS: I did roll a D6, and then I ignored it. Some of Veridia's newcomers will become townies and some of them will be playables. Because that's what I want and it's my game.

Many words below explaining backstory/plot/bullshit I made up on the fly. Most of it's just restating what characters were talking about in the last post. You can scroll past it and look at the pictures, I won't complain:

As has been mentioned once or twice, Veridia isn't a kingdom in itself but a village/town within a larger area (Abona) held by an overking. Abona is on the coast and is bordered in a few directions by several other kingdoms. The whole thing is basically a mess of different kingdoms on a large island.

(As an aside, theoretically Veridia tithes to the overking, and I'm gonna start taxing sims in the summer/fall to represent that. Also because some households are getting TOO wealthy already.)

Evervale (a port/Enna's home/the closest thing to a city) and Drossburh (has a lot of shitty caves, is probably where Elmet got werewolf'd) are also within Abona. Another town in Abona is Wyll, known for being home to several large covens of magical families. It's probably located on some magical locus or something like that. The covens are fairly powerful entities. Each family specializes in a specific type of magic, and the coven elders frequently arrange marriages within and between families in hopes of birthing more powerful witches. (Arturo will definitely laugh at and make fun of them for this if he ever learns about it.)

Unfortunately for Wyll, it's a border town and has been affected by a feud between two neighboring kingdoms. Thus far Abona has stayed out of the not-quite-war, but skirmishes within Wyll's borders and the fact that Abona is aligned with one of the participating kingdoms means it may enter the war soon.

With the threat of more soldiers at their doorstep, a few of Wyll's coven elders decided to send away representatives of their families as a precaution, ensuring that the magic lines (and all their hard work) won't go extinct if worst comes to worst in Wyll. An insurance policy, if you will. An offer to leave with them was extended to the "mundane" townsfolk as well, and accepted by a handful of sims. I suspect Veridia may see more people fleeing Wyll if the feud continues.

Now onto the actual introductions:

Orla is a young witch best described as 'happy-go-lucky'. She grew up in a very large family that specializes in healing magic; Orla herself has a fair hand for the spells but not for the herbal side of things; she doesn't have any luck with plants at all, for that matter. Don't ask for her help at planting time.

(Family/Knowledge, 4/8/4/7/7)

Maddan carries the blood of another of Wyll's witch lines, but has no capacity for magic himself. He became a soldier as a young man and over time has earned respect for his capability, even if he is a rather brusque person off the field as well as on. While he was healing at home from an injury, his family arranged his marriage to Orla. This and his bloodline are why the coven elders chose him to lead one of the groups from Wyll. In his free time, Maddan likes to whittle tiny ducks out of scrap wood.

(Fortune, 3/6/8/3/3)

River Farseer is descended from a line of soothsayers—fortune tellers, augurs, omen readers, whatever you want to call it. (They do dabble in augury from time to time, but hydromancy is their preferred method.) They prefer solitude and keep to themself a lot of the time, which made it easy enough to agree when the covens asked them to leave Wyll, so long as they don't have to stay with everyone else once they settle in Veridia. They recently became friends with Orla, though, thanks to Orla's sheer force of personality.

(Knowledge/Pleasure, 3/2/7/4/9)

Chewy is Orla's pet goat. You're never gonna guess how she got that name.

Myr can see how the winds are blowing in Wyll and decided to get out while the going's good, bringing her young brother, Acca, and their grandmother, Ælfwyn, with her. She is interested in the opportunities Veridia's growing market presents. Maybe a lady can build a business here without the covens breathing down her neck.

(Fortune/Romance, 3/6/7/5/4 | Grow Up, 4/7/8/3/3 | Family/Fortune, 6/5/8/3/3 )

After Wulfraed's marriage dissolved, he spent a lot of time drinking too much and having ill-advised encounters in taverns to cope. One morning he woke to find an infant in a basket on his doorstep. Now he's decided to take his daughter to Veridia, where they will be safer from stray soldiers and where people will stop asking who Kara's mother is, or why Kara's ears are so pointy… or her teeth, for that matter.

(Romance/Family, 5/3/5/8/4 | Grow Up, 2/4/6/4/9)

[puppppppppy]

i also have unaddressed therian feelings… sometimes i feel like a creature looking out from a human’s body yk

i get what u mean..!! im still trying to understand it too, but im happy to finally have a word that describes the feeling. i cant say for sure what will help u come to terms with your feelings, but i think its good to find people who will listen and take it seriously ^_^

[amtrak12]

When you know the fic will turn out so good, the writing, the characters, the humor, all of it -- but then you remember the effort that goes into writing epic-length 50k word fics

[dipplinduo]

DIP I need you to find me someone to draw this pic rn PLZ!!

NAH I GOTCHU HOLD UP-

#COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN for $1,000,000,0000/second I work tirelessly on these visions of exquisite art (this one took me two years of blood, sweat, and tears). I know I'm soooo talented thank me later. Congrats on being the first to publicly receive one of my many masterpieces B)

[nenoname]

a slightly thought out ep tier list 🙌🙌🙌

[birdricks]

doing my anatomy study is fucking torturous bc every time i read some shit like “birds dont have a diaphragm” my brains like ���hmmmm…… birdperson…..” and then i end up thinking abt him instead of studying

[mad-hunts]

did i ever tell you all how barton's kids fully found out that he fears being left alone / abandoned? because i feel like they definitely had suspicions that that was something he really didn't want to happen before for a while, but barton never expressed it in a very overt way, if that makes any sense. that is, until he had somewhat of a delirium-based breakdown when he was REALLY sick with pancreatitis. which i estimate was around whenever matilda and louis were around fifteen years old.

because there is a chance that whenever you have a fever around the 103-106 mark that you will experience hallucinations and delirium + some people just seem to be more suspectible to it than others in general. and in the worst of the fever, barton had this super vivid dream about his kids leaving him, and he just woke up SOBBING from it. i mean, he was ugly crying because of it and begged them not to leave him. which is actually really kind of sad whenever i think about it. i honestly was thinking about writing a drabble about it because he didn't only just beg them for that — he said some things that, although it might not seem like barton would ever say them, sounded genuine.

and one of these things was apologizing to them, which... matilda + jack in particular, remember, and it's possible that it kept them up for a few nights. and i don't mean in a disturbed way or anything. i mean, in a ' wow, i can't remember the last time i saw dad be that vulnerable with us before. and if he did mean that he was sorry, then what does that mean whenever he may (or may not) eventually repeat doing what he apologized for? '

so it's honestly something that they still think about sometimes, and barton DOES remember saying them but kind of with a 'haziness' undertone to the memory, if that makes any sense. so yeah... barton's relationship with his children has a LOT of layers to it, and overall, it is very unstable. but he does ultimately seem to be attached to them in his own ' barton-like ' way, which is the best way i could put it because the man's mind is kind of like a labyrinth.

it's hard to navigate his feelings even for barton himself, but he is capable of being at least a semi-decent dad sometimes... but other times? yeah, he can be really cruel and uncaring. and i may sound like a broken record here, BUT the bad overshadows the good, and so he is not someone to look up to in regards to how a guardian should treat their children. however, i just think it's interesting how barton has just completely turned his dynamic with them on it's head before like this.

[storfulsten]

eaouuugh

[heartbreakfeelsogood]

anxiety will have me wishing i could google search things like “how to ask my manager if i can put her as a reference on my resume while i try to find a second job so i don’t have to move back halfway across the country to live with my mom and feel like i’m starting over again”

[sysig]

Blusters in, flusters out (Patreon)

[her-canine-teeth]

paper doll by flower face

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[douubles]

im having a bad stressful week. i would fucking destroy a bag of cheddar & sour cream ruffles right now

[doctorwhoisadhd]

there's a certain quality the harmonies of like... early to mid 2000s alt rock has. which i am obsessed with... like i wanna do that. i NEED to figure out how to write harmonies that sound like that

[reikunrei]

people who reblog a post and go off on a very confident rant in response, having entirely misinterpreted the body of the original post my fucking beloathed

[phagodyke]

once again saved by elden ring 🙏