#98-misty

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Misty Day | American Horror Story | Modern, Slice of Life, Horror

Misty Day is a witch with extraordinary gifts who lived alone in a swamp before being brought into Miss Robichaux’s Academy. She is a character in American Horror Story portrayed by Lily Rabe. She possesses the gift of resurgence: the magical ability to bring souls back from the dead. Misty Day is a character originally from American Horror Story: Coven and later Apocalypse.

HISTORY

Misty Day is a young witch with blonde hair and ethereal looks. She is a lonely, eccentric woman, who meanders the swamps of New Orleans, looking for a group to call her own. In tune with nature, she takes great offense to those who disrespect it and will punish them severely. This is shown when she uses her gift to bring two alligators back to life so they can kill the two poachers. Misty also seems to have a fear of abandonment, showing panic when Zoe Benson said she had to leave both times (the second time with Kyle Spencer).

"You think I’m stupid because of where I came from. Well, I’m not so easily bought, and I ain’t that easily fooled."

She spends most of her time meditating, tending to her gardens, and listening to Stevie Nicks. She may also be a Christian and a very spiritual woman, as she was seen attending a church group[5] and she was deeply focusing on the cross in Joan Ramsey’s house.[6] Before killing two poachers, she asked why they think God would let them destroy his creations.

Skills & Abilities

Misty is a powerful natural born witch who is shown to have mastered four of the Seven Wonders.

Skills

Potioncraft - Affinity for extensive knowledge of "Green Magic," including conventional herbalism as well as more sophisticated botanical science and potion brewing.

Louisiana Swamp Mud - Misty healed her wounded flesh as well as Kyle, Madison, and Myrtle after they sustained several degrees of damage to their bodies, in juncture to her primary power.

Spellcraft - Misty Day has an affinity for performing rituals.

White Spirit Light - Misty is able to surround herself with the "white spirit light" that protects her from malevolent and dark spirits.

Plant Revival Spell - A spell to make plants grow faster.

Abilities

Telekinesis - One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to move objects and persons with her mind. Misty demonstrated this power during the fight between the witches and the Axeman and during the trials in the Test of the Seven Wonders.

Concilium - One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to control other people's minds and actions, including animals. She proved this ability when she controls the minds of the dogs who are about eat Myrtle's burnt corpse, men at a cemetery, and Queenie during The Tests of the Seven Wonders.

Transmutation - One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to move instantaneously from one place to another without physically occupying the space in between.

Divination - One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to obtain information through magical intuition.

Magic Sensing - The magical ability to sense another witch's magic. Misty Day sensed Zoe's magic calling to her after Zoe Benson and Madison resurrected Kyle. She also sensed Stevie Nicks's magic through the lyrics of Rhiannon.

Evil Sensing - The magical ability to sense evil like a perfume. Misty claimed that she can sense evil ever since she was a child, smelling it like a perfume. She once told Cordelia about this ability when she came back from hell, fetched by Michael Langdon. She also mentioned earlier that she got really bad vibes from the Academy to Zoe and that it is something foul in the house, referring to the Axeman.

Descensum (incomplete) - One of the Seven Wonders, the magical ability to project into the nether worlds of the afterlife. Similarly to her power of resurgence, Misty was able to descend into the Afterlife. However, Misty was unable to distinguish reality from hellish vision, and became trapped in her personal hell.

Resurgence - The magical ability to bring the dead back to full life. Misty is able to revive the dead with a simple touch by reaching "the place between life and death and draw the soul back to life."[5] Often, the strain of this ability would cause her faint, but over time, her talent progressed to allow her to retain consciousness after resurrecting someone.

Chlorokinesis - The magical ability to control plant life. Misty used this power to speed up a plant growth, after cut it out, during her preparation to Seven Wonders Test.

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[pixelpunk98]

[disregardcanon]

ally yellowjackets really took it upon herself to be a major part of the planning of a class reunion for a class she didn’t even belong to. ally was a freshman, so her class was the class of ‘99 not the class of ‘96 with jackie shauna nat and the rest of the senior gang

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Braius Doomseed Analysis

Sam Riegel is back, and he’s brought with him—forgive us—a real beefy boy!

How many levels does Braius have in Bard vs. Paladin? What are his subclasses? Exactly how big a punch does this minotaur pack?

While we wait to learn more, there's a lot we're able to infer from Episode 98.

Braius Doomseed is a minotaur Bard/Paladin multiclass, wielding a drippy black double flail. We have not yet been made aware explicitly how his 14 levels are distributed between the two classes. We can, however, extrapolate a fair bit of information about his build from the gameplay in his debut, Episode 98: The Nox Engine.

Let’s start with the easy stuff. We know that he is at least a 3rd level College of Tragedy Bard, as Braius used the Sorrowful Fate feature to change the save Dominox had to make against Dorian’s Otto’s Irresistible Dance spell to a Charisma save (03:09:43) (confirmed by Sam to be this feature at 03:11:57).

Sorrowful Fate does the following:

When you or an ally you can see forces a creature to make a saving throw, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to change the type of saving throw to a Charisma save instead.

Sam did, however, forget to use the secondary part of that feature, which would allow him to do psychic damage equal to the value of a Bardic Inspiration die roll when a creature fails the associated save. Also, if Dominox had reached 0 hit points within 1 minute of failing the save, he would have been magically compelled to “utter darkly poetic words before succumbing to their injuries.”

Level 3 in College of Tragedy also confers the following feature, called Poetry in Misery:

Whenever you or an ally within 30 feet of you rolls a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to soliloquize and regain one expended use of your Bardic Inspiration feature.

Information on this subclass can be found on page 167 of Tal’Dorei Reborn. This particular subclass does not confer any additional spells beyond the standard Bard fare, so cannot account for any spells Braius has that fall outside of the Bard or Paladin spell lists.

That brings us to the next thing we can suss out: Braius’ possible Paladin Oaths. We know that Braius has both the Misty Step (03:12:47) and Moonbeam (03:13:07) spells. There are only two known Paladin Oaths that give access to Moonbeam: Oath of the Ancients and Oath of the Watchers. Oath of the Ancients seems like a likely option, as it also gives access to Misty Step at paladin level 5; however, that on its own cannot act as definitive proof as to Braius’ Paladin subclass, as we don’t yet know what feats Braius may have on board and—as Imogen , Chetney, and Orym know well—Misty Step can also come from the Fey Touched feat. Another point in favor of Oath of the Ancients is the fact that Braius did not make use of the Aura of the Sentinel initiative bonus conferred by Oath of the Watchers at paladin level 7. However, since this is a new character with quite a lot of features to juggle, it is entirely possible that Sam simply forgot this feature. We know, however, that he must have whatever features are associated with level 7 in his Oath because of his use of Blinding Smite (02:37:12), a 3rd level Paladin spell. Paladins do not get access to 3rd level spells until they reach level 9 in the class.

All of this points to Braius having at least three levels in Bard and at least nine levels in Paladin, which leaves two levels unaccounted for (as Braius, unlike the rest of the party, is already at level 14). This is where things get a little tricky.

Unfortunately, Sam did not give out any Inspiration during Episode 98, so we can’t use his Bardic Inspiration die as an indicator. This moves from a d6 to a d8 at Bard level 5, so if in future episodes Braius’ inspiration die is revealed to be a d8, we’ll know he is a level 5 Bard. For now, though, we’ll instead take a look at his use of Lay on Hands to inform our speculation.

Braius used this Paladin class feature twice during Episode 98: once on himself, and once on Orym. A Paladin has points in their Lay on Hands pool equal to 5 times their Paladin level. Based on our previous analysis that he is at least Paladin level 9 and Bard level 3, that means Braius has a minimum of 45 and a maximum of 55 points in his pool. Orym’s healing was stated outright to be 30 points (03:40:10), leaving Braius between 15 and 25 points to have used on himself previously. In another bit of poor luck for our analysis, however, Sam did not state the exact amount of healing Braius did to himself. Since he said that Dorian’s 24 points of Cure Wounds healing got him “halfway” (01:05:07), it seems reasonable to assume that it was more than 15 points, since calling 24 and 15 approximately equivalent halves seems like a bit of a stretch. 20 and 25, indicating Paladin levels 10 and 11, are much closer. If we were to take Braius’ comment about Dorian getting him halfway completely literally, then we could definitively call him a level 11 Paladin. However, there’s one more wrinkle.

When Braius used his Blinding Smite spell on his melee weapon attack, he rolled 4d8 (02:38:11). The base damage for a flail is 1d8, and Blinding Smite adds 3d8 radiant damage. However, a level 11 Paladin has the feature Improved Divine Smite, which means that all melee weapon attacks gain an additional 1d8 radiant damage. That means that if Braius were a level 11 Paladin, he should have rolled 5d8 damage on the attack (02:37:46), as initially stated before Matt let Sam know that Dominox would be immune to the additional poison damage granted by Braius’ weapon (02:37:59).

This leaves us with two possible options: either Braius is a level 4 Bard/level 10 Paladin and Sam rounded up when saying 24 damage got him halfway there, with Braius healing himself for 20 points of Lay on Hands, or Braius is a level 3 Bard/level 11 Paladin and Sam either misunderstood Matt’s reminder not to add Poison Pen’s extra poison damage or forgot about the level 11 Improved Divine Smite. Either mistake would make quite a bit of sense with a new character in a high stakes situation! However, because of the uncertainty here, we cannot say definitively which it may be. We also do not yet know what Braius’s Paladin Fighting Style is. We’re looking forward to seeing more of him and finding out for sure.

All told, here is what we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, barring any homebrew changes:

Braius’s race is Minotaur, which (assuming the class is drawn from its most recent iteration in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse) conveys the following racial traits and bonuses:

His walking speed is 30 feet

Using his horns to make an unarmed strike does 1d6 + 5 piercing damage

Goring Rush: After taking the Dash action and moving at least 20 feet, he can make an unarmed strike with his horns as a bonus action

Hammering Horns: After hitting a creature with an attack, he can use his bonus action to attempt to push the target 10 feet; the target must make a DC 18 strength check

Labyrinthine Recall: He always knows what direction is north, and has advantage on any Survival check he makes to navigate or track

It’s hard to imagine Sam won’t use this internal compass to poke fun at Liam for Caleb’s Keen Mind feat at least once

He is a paladin of Asmodeus, Lord of the Nine Hells

He is at least a level 3 College of Tragedy Bard, which grants him at least the following:

Two Bard cantrips and six Bard spells, with four level 1 slots and two level 2 slots

Bardic Inspiration using 1d6, with a total of 4 uses per long rest

Jack of All Trades, which adds half his proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check he makes that doesn’t already include his proficiency bonus

Song of Rest, conferring an additional 1d6 of healing to the party on a short rest

Expertise in two skill proficiencies

The Sorrowful Fate feature, which can be used once per short/long rest

The Poetry in Misery Feature, which can be used any number of times as a reaction

He is at least a level 9 Paladin, of either the Oath of the Ancients, Oath of the Watchers, or a homebrew Oath subclass, which grants him:

Divine Sense, which allows him to sense any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet of him that is not behind total cover, a total of 5 times per long rest

At least 45 points in his Lay on Hands healing pool

Divine Smite, allowing him to expend a spell slot to pump up to an additional 4d8 damage (circumstantially 5d8) into a melee attack—that is, 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 4d8 given that his highest spell slots are 3rd level. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is an undead or a fiend.

An unknown Fighting Style

Immunity to disease due to Divine Health

Two attacks per round

Aura of Protection, granting any ally within 10 feet of him a +4 bonus on saving throws

Sacred Oath features from levels 3 and 7 in either the Oath of the Ancients, Oath of the Watchers, or a custom Oath subclass

He has a Battering Shield, which confers a +3 bonus to AC (an additional +1 over the base shield bonus of +2), and has 3 charges that can be expended when a target is pushed 5 feet to push that creature an additional 10 feet, knock it prone, or both. It regains 1d3 charges at dawn (03:16:16, with details from page 266 in Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount)

His signature weapon, the dual flail “Poison Pen,” confers additional poison damage when it strikes a target (02:37:59)

He really, really wants to date somebody and he’s not real choosy about who

[wistfulwatcher]

one of the most complex and delicious choices they made with misty is that she genuinely understands what kind of attention is valuable. they crafted this character who is so desperate for love, so hungry for attention and companionship and recognition, a woman who would doom her entire team to a life in the wilds just to hear one more nice thing said about her, and then they put her in a position to grab at fame. when the team is rescued, misty would have been barraged with offers to tell her story. media appearances, interviews, book deals. people would be able to recognize her on the streets, she would have been (at the very least) a local celebrity for the rest of her life. she smiles when she sees the flash of the cameras getting off the plane; she wants to be seen, and the offer is right there in her lap.

instead, she stays silent. she stays out of the limelight, she says as little as possible, just like they all made a pact to do. can you imagine just how difficult it was for her to say no? for her to see that people would be falling over themselves just to talk to her, that she could have used what happened to make connections, make friends, be famous and lauded, sympathized with, talked to, complimented. she could have told the world how SHE was the one who saved them, who got them through the worst moments of their lives when the plane crashed.

and the price for all of that is to admit to some cannibalism? she has no shame about what happened. she eats jerky and wears heart necklaces and remembers the wilderness with open fondness. besides, she knows how to sell herself, how to spin what happened. when she pretends with jessica, she paints the perfect portrait of a victim, the perfectly sympathetic survivor wracked with guilt for what she had to do.

all of that is right there within her grasp. so why doesn't she go public? she displays absolutely zero guilt over breaking the black box, or anything else she did in the wilderness. literally the only reason she never breaks the silence is to protect her team. her friends. to honor whatever pact they made. a pact she makes in '98, when they're still together. when she thinks their lives are all so deeply entangled and their bond is so permanent and unshakeable that it would be easy to choose this family over public attention. it makes sense that she keeps quiet in the beginning.

but the team breaks up, and as far as misty knows they all go their separate ways. still, misty stays quiet. years pass and no one calls her, no one visits. so she goes on unsuccessful dates and works a job where her co-workers seem to barely tolerate her. she gives socks to gross men who still don't call and lives alone and gets a parrot who never talks to her.

she spends her adult life living with her loneliness because the people she loves asked her to, and then forgot she existed.

25 years of this deep sense of loneliness and she never wavers. never tries to tell her story or make a grab for the fame she knows she could still get when she looks at "25th anniversary" splashed over the tabloids. in a world that has grown up around her to create social media and influencers and viral posts. every single day it would have gotten easier for misty to reach out and take even a small slice of the attention she so badly wanted her whole life.

instead, she quietly follows her actual friends. she tracks weddings she's not invited to and the birth of children she'll never meet. she registers to vote for a woman who might not even know she's still alive, and decides that it's enough. that 25-year-old memories of true connection are better than acknowledgement from a million strangers. she collects all of these little details and files them neatly, an umbilical cord of connection that she is the only one supporting. like this information will be important again, relevant again. she sustains herself for twenty-five years off of the mere possibility that maybe, somehow, someday, she will be part of her team again.

and then, like finding the flashing red light of a black box while she's all alone, the universe rewards her.

[yellowjacketsfashion]

Part 4 of the Poster Series: Misty & Bar Wall Art

Yellowjackets Team Photo:

The picture was taken for the show so you can’t buy it in a poster but you should be able to get it printed on one of you want. In my first Shauna Poster post I go more into that process if you’re interested.

Misty’s Teen Magazine Clippings

In the Tiger Beat issue on the Left both the backstreet boys photo and the Leonardo Dicaprio picture have been cut out for her mirror.

In the middle picture the Jonathan Taylor Thomas picture was clipped out as well as the Leonardo Dicaprio photo.

In the right magazine the 98’ section was taken as well as the 4 celebrities on the bottom right corner.

I haven’t been able to find the others but Leonardo Dicaprio and Jonathan Taylor Thomas seem to be featured frequently on the vanity.

The Bar in 01x02 F Sharp Posters

I found these on istock (a stock image website) so they’re not available for purchase as posters. I couldn’t make out the other poster that was in this set but I’m going to assume it’s also on istock.

[star-girl69]

Ultraviolence

Natalie Scatorccio x Fem!Reader

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a/n: this is… insane. i hope you all enjoy!!

warnings: birth, blood, death, VERY graphic lol, grief, trauma, swearing, tell me if i missed anything!!

Chapter Twenty Nine - Visionary

Chapter Twenty Nine - Visionary

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1996-

“Misty? What do we do?”

You look towards Misty, who has been the closest thing you’ve had to a doctor out here, and she looks unsure. But, she hides it well, and kneels in front of Shauna’s parted legs.

“Someone just get it out of me!” Shauna groans.

Whatever she sees makes her look she’s going to throw up.

And Shauna screams again.

—-

“Why the fuck is this taking so long?” Shauna asks during the ebb of another contraction. You sit anxiously by her side, making sure her hair doesn’t stick to her sweaty face, watching as another contraction takes over her entire body.

“Should we, like, boil water?” Mari asks, seeming a little too happy. “That’s a thing people do, right?”

“Yeah, yeah, that’s a good idea,” Akilah says, walking over. “We need to keep everything clean.”

Shauna shouts again.

“Uh, these are contractions, right? Should we be timing them, or something?” Natalie asks from the other side of Shauna.

“The last one was just over a minute-”

But you look at Misty. At the tears falling down her face. At her apathetic look, even as she stares right in between Shauna’s thighs.

“Misty?” you ask, softly, thinking she just must be overwhelmed, but she can’t hear you.

“Misty!” Gen shouts.

“Huh?”

“Should I be timing in between or no?”

��Um… um, I, I don’t know- I just, I just need to think-”

“Aren’t there, like, stages to labor? Or something?” you ask, and Akilah nods. “Like when the contractions are more regular…?”

“Yeah. When they’re intense and close together, that means she’s, like, in labor-labor.”

“Okay. So, it should be over soon?” Tai asks, smiling at Shauna.

“Maybe,” Akilah answers before dropping her voice. “My sister’s labor was a day and a half.”

Shauna’s eyes are wide.

“No. No, I-I can’t take that,” she looks towards Tai, pleading, almost like Taissa can change this. But she can’t. None of you can. “Tai, I can’t, I can’t-”

“Shh, Shauna,” Tai soothes. “You can fucking do anything, okay?”

“Of course you can do it,” Akilah says. “And we’re right here with you. Right, Misty? What do you need from me?”

Misty doesn’t answer, and you bite back a groan.

None of you know what to do. None of you are doctors, none of you have ever delivered a baby before. You’re just teenagers. You’re not supposed to know this stuff.

But the wilderness has ripped that away from you.

You have to know. You can’t be teenagers anymore.

Lottie and Van stand abruptly, joining the circle around Shauna.

“Hands,” Lottie says, breathing heavily. All of her followers grab each others hands. “Maybe, uh, we can… we can… share our hopes with each other?”

“Wilderness,” Mari calls out, her eyes closed. “I hope Shauna doesn’t die!”

“What the fuck?!” Taissa hisses. “Why would you say die?!”

Shauna throws her head back and starts to cry more. Not just in pain, but in fear.

“No, Shauna,” you say, Taissa too busy glaring at Mari to comfort her. “Uh… r-remember that one night we stayed up late to finish our Romeo and Juliet presentation? Yeah, yeah, we stayed up all night, and then presented the next day first period.”

Shauna nods, a little shakily, smiling awkwardly.

“We got a 98,” she whispers after a moment.

“Yeah! Yeah, Shauna, we got a 98,” you smile. “If we you can do that, then you can do this.”

It’s stupid. It doesn’t make any sense. But you’re young and your desperate and you can tell she’s losing her will.

She shouts again. She mutters under her breath, her tears returning, her pain still there.

Taissa presses her hand against Shauna’s sweaty face.

“You’re not gonna die. You’re not gonna die.”

Lottie crouches down beside you and touches Shauna’s hair.

“Everything’s gonna be okay. Everything’s gonna be okay.” Shauna’s head is thrown back, but she takes a few deep breaths, and you smile to yourself. “Just let your pain open you up to this moment.”

Your smile falls.

“Lottie,” Taissa hisses, grabbing her hand off of Shauna’s head and tugging her up. “I know you’re trying to be helpful, but she could really use some space.”

Shauna let’s out another yell.

“This is hard enough already.”

Lottie sways backwards.

—-

Misty mutters to herself, sweaty, while Tai presses a cold cloth to Shauna’s pale forehead. She looks like a ghost, and it’s really freaking all of you the fuck out.

Misty looks up at Shauna.

“You can do this,” she encourages. “Just keep breathing!”

She takes some deep, exaggerated breaths, trying to get Shauna to copy her. Shauna tries and breathes through another contraction.

Misty pulls her hands away, and stares down at them.

She has that look of horror on her face that you all know too well here in the wilderness.

“Oh, God,” Akilah mutters, her eyes wide in fear, and you swallow but look down.

Her hands are slick with blood.

“What’s- what’s happening?” Shauna says, trying to sit up. “Something feels weird,” she cries.

Misty looks at her bloody hands and starts crying.

“Misty,” you say, because the blood is scary but death is scarier. “Misty. You can’t cry. Misty.”

Tai starts whispering to Shauna, and you can’t even hear her, grabbing onto Misty’s shoulder and shaking her.

“Misty, Misty, you can’t-”

She doesn’t answer you, and looks around. You, Akilah, Natalie and Taissa all gathered around Shauna.

“Snap out of it,” Akilah says. “Misty, c’mon-”

Misty shakes her head slowly.

“I can’t. I can’t do this. I’m sorry.”

She stands up, turns around, and walks away.

You stare at her retreating figure in shock for a second, before you sit back. Akilah jumps into Misty’s place as everyone shouts after her. Nat stands up and goes into Coaches room.

Akilah looks around.

And, suddenly, your heart squeezes and you remember that Akilah is only a junior. She’s still studying for her SAT’s.

You blink away the tears in your eyes.

“I’ll-I’ll help, Akilah,” you mutter, shuffling forward, and she looks up at you gratefully.

Someone hands you a stack of cloth, and you and Akilah start blotting away the blood, trying to feel like you’re doing anything, something helpful, and the Nat and Coach appear around the corner.

“I-I just play a video,” he says, but he’s the only adult here, and he has to know something-

You and Akilah stand up, bloody rags between your hands, making room for him, but he just stares in between her legs in shock. He takes a few deep breathes a closes his eyes.

“Oh. Oh, oh shit,” he curses. He staggers backwards. Shauna sits up hopefully. “Shauna…” he starts. “I’m sorry… I don’t think I can help with this.”

Natalie tries to urge him forward, but he just shakes his head. You share a glance with Akilah, before both of you get down on your knees again, blood everywhere, so much you don’t even know how she’s still alive.

“Shauna,” Natalie starts, crouching down next to her. “Women have been having babies for millions of years, you’re gonna be fine… Akilah and Y/N have got this.”

Akilah looks up with wide eyes, and your hands are shaking, but Misty is off somewhere, and right now it’s just you and her.

“N-no, no, we got this,” you say to Akilah, feeling like you might cry, and after a moment, she nods. You think back to when you and her had stitched up Van.

That was stitches. A closing. This is birth. An opening.

Akilah leans down to her open pocket and whispers something, but you’re too caught up in the blood pouring from Shauna to hear.

“What are you saying?” Shauna groans. “Where’s Misty?”

You spare a glance over to Misty, who stands by the window, pacing, staring at her bloodstained hands.

“Misty’s just getting some more rags,” Akilah says.

“Okay? Okay, we’ve got you, Shauna,” you nod.

“Everything is fine,” Akilah says. “It’s just getting a little messy, that’s all.”

You lower your voice. “I think… we have to wait. Until we see the head, right?”

Akilah can’t tear her eyes away from the blood.

She nods, shaking slightly. “I think.”

You hear someone hiss behind you, like they’ve just gotten hurt.

You turn around, wondering if someone has fainted-

Lottie and her followers are gathered around a stool, a skull on top of it, and Travis is dripping his blood onto the white bone.

It reminds you of the antlers.

You reach your hands up to your face, shocked and confused and shaking and scared, trying to breathe in and out.

You turn back around, feeling like you’re covered in Shauna’s blood, in Jackie’s blood-

You’re grateful Shauna’s eyes are screwed shut in pain.

You look between Natalie and Taissa, who’s eyes grow wide as they look at you.

That’s when you feel it.

“Y/N,” Tai hisses, glancing between you and Shauna.

You can only stare at her with wide eyes.

“Shit,” Natalie mutters, leaning forward and grabbing the cloth stuffed in your hands. She grabs the cleanest side of it and wipes something off of your face. As she pulls away, you can see blood on the back of the bright white cloth.

Shauna doesn’t need to know that you’re so scared and your hands are covered in so much of her blood that you got it on your face, forgetting you hands were even that bloody.

“The wilderness recognizes your sacrifice,” you hear Lottie say. “And so do I.”

—-

After waiting for so long, listening to Shauna scream and scream, you finally let out a sigh of relief.

“I think it’s coming,” you breathe, and Akilah ducks her head down.

“Yeah,” she says, relieved, until both of you take a closer look.

Taissa smiles and mutters to Shauna about how it’s almost over, standing up and looking over Akilah’s shoulder. You watch her smile drop.

“Is-is that the head? It’s… it’s so… purple.”

“I don’t think it’s the head. I think it’s the placenta,” Akilah hurriedly whispers.

“Placenta?” Tai hisses. “Isn’t that supposed to come after?”

You lock eyes with her.

“Yes,” you whisper.

“What’s going on?” Shauna cries. “D-do I keep pushing?”

“Yes, yes, definitely keep pushing,” Akilah says. “Okay? It’s no big deal, it’s just coming out a little backwards.”

Your stomach twists and turns but Shauna is in too much pain to really comprehend what Akilah is saying.

“Don’t worry,” you find yourself saying. You share a glance with Akilah. “Akilah’s just gonna touch you again, yeah?”

She looks at you with wide eyes. You nod, listening to Shauna’s labored breaths, and Akilah shakes her head.

“Y/N…” and she’s so young and so scared, so you take a deep breath.

“No, it’s okay. I’ll… I’ll do it with you.”

“Okay,” she says slowly, and both of you reach forward.

You want to scream and shout and curse and ask why, why are you all suffering like this?

The sounds are wet and slimy, full of blood and fluids moving around between Shauna and yours and Akilah’s hands. You slowly reach forward- in- and softly press your thumb and other four fingers onto the placenta. It’s a little pliable, slick, but easy to squish, get a good grip. It slides out easily, slick with blood and fluid that coats your own hands.

You slowly start pulling back.

It’s purple and covered in blood, faint veins, an umbilical cord reaching back into Shauna.

It feels like something so real and tangible, heavy, the weight forever imprinted in your hands. And you swear if you close your eyes and the rest of the word fades out… it’s almost like it has a heartbeat.

—-

You and Akilah are a flurry of hands and rags, but just as soon as you’ve filled a rag up with blood, more comes.

Someone’s footsteps come up behind you, and as soon as you see Misty again, you fall back, Akilah dragging herself with you, both of you a little sick and a little desperate to get away from the blood and the organs and everything.

“The placenta is out,” you breathe. “But the baby still isn’t coming-”

Misty crouches down in front of Shauna.

“She’s bleeding a lot,” Akilah almost shouts.

Misty takes a breath and shuffles forward.

“Are you sure you’re good now?” Akilah asks, her face twisting into anger, moving to the other side of Misty.

She looks between the both of you, a pleasant look on her face, a little determined.

“I’m great,” she simply says, and you don’t have the strength to pull that baby out.

Shauna looks up at Misty. “Please don’t let my baby die.”

“I need you to push, Shauna. I know this is hard and I know it hurts, but you just need to focus, and you just need to push.”

And you can’t help think of the monologue Misty performed at the baby shower.

“You are so close to being on the other side. And then… then you get to meet your baby.”

Shauna takes a few deep breaths with Misty, before she settles down and Tai brushes away a few tears down Shauna’s face.

—-

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

The chanting started a few minutes ago, that same phrase, over and over again, as they gather around the skull adorned with blood and stare into the fire.

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

Misty licks her lips, muttering for more rags, less blood, she needs to see-

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

Tai wraps Shauna’s hand around something bone, joining in on the chanting.

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

“Tai, stop,” Shauna groans, trying to bat away the bone figurine, but Tai keeps it there.

“Just breathe,” she says, on the verge of tears.

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

Everyone keeps whispering for Shauna to breathe, to breathe through the pain-

“Shauna, come on,” Misty says.

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

Shauna groans and starts pushing. Shouting, screaming, all while they chant and you dab away at the blood, watching the head slowly move out, Misty’s waiting hands ready to catch-

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

“Good, good, good,” Misty smiles. She shares a glance with you and Akilah, and you find yourself smiling too, the baby slowly sliding out like the placenta did.

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

“Okay, I’m palming the head,” Misty announces. “Alright. You’re almost over this, Shauna, come on, just a little more.”

Shauna let’s out another groan, throwing her head back, until she’s just screaming.

“Good, good,” Misty keeps saying.

“We hear the wilderness and it hears us.”

And you watch the baby slide out, until you hear a sickening sound and the baby just simply… falls out into Misty’s hands.

—-

“No, no, no, what did you do? What did you do?!” Shauna says when she wakes up, everyone running their hands over her, whispering, shushing her, trying to calm her down. “Where is he? Where is he?! What did you do?! What did you do?!”

She talks like she just lived another life while she was asleep, like she knows things you don’t, and you get this sudden blinding vision of the blanket that Lottie made, covered in blood.

Your mouth suddenly tastes like blood. Like raw meat.

Taissa presses her hands on Shauna’s face.

She’s crying, everyone’s crying, and you feel another bucket of blood being poured onto your hands.

“You lost a lot of blood,” she cries. “And you lost consciousness. We thought we lost you.”

“Where is he? Where is he?” she tries to look around, shaking and crying, but Taissa keeps her bloody hands on Shauna’s face, forcing her to look only at her. “Why are you lying? Where’s my baby? Tai, where is my baby?”

“I’m sorry, Shauna,” Misty cries. “Shauna, I’m so sorry.” She sobs as she lifts the baby up, wrapped in a blanket, purple and covered in blood, handing him to Tai.

You wipe your bloody hands on the sheets hanging over the bed.

“He didn’t make it, Shauna.”

“No. No, no,” she looks around. “No, he was alive-” she grabs him from Tai, the unmoving, tiny thing, who didn’t even get a chance to breathe- “No, he was alive. He was alive- I held him! I held him, Tai,” she wraps her shaking hands around the bundle, pressing his close to her. “He was alive! He was alive! I-I tried to feed him, and then I finally fed him, and he cried. He was crying. He… I fed him. I sang to him. I fed him, I fed him-”

She slowly pulls the blankets away from his face.

And she sees what you all know to be there.

“No,” she sobs, her mouth hung open, tears rolling down her face. “He was crying. I can- I can- I can still hear him crying. He’s still crying. I can still hear him crying. He’s hungry- don’t you hear him crying?! Don’t you hear him crying?! Don’t you hear him crying?! Why can’t you hear him crying?!”

Slowly, everyone stands up and moves away from her, giving her space, and you can’t even stand, your hands need to be washed, they’re still covered in her dried blood, and you’re so weak you can’t even stand up, just dragging yourself backwards until you hit the stool with the skulls and the offering on top.

When you look up, you can see the skull hanging off the edge, that bright ivory bone, a single stream off blood tapering off, running down the end.

You gasp and look back towards Shauna, something behind her, a shadow, something fading in and out of existence, bones twisting upward, ivory in this majesty-

You listen to Shauna screaming and yelling and holding onto her dead baby as she fights and insists that he’s crying.

You press a hand over your mouth, trying not to let your own sobs fall out of your mouth.

Someone crouches down in front of you, blonde hair in your face, whispering but you can’t hear her, one of your arms wrapping around her back, the other pressed over your open mouth, and watch as Taissa let’s Shauna go.

She turns forward.

She doesn’t look at anyone or anything.

She doesn’t talk to anyone when she speaks.

“Why can’t you hear him? Why can’t you hear him crying? Why can’t you hear him? Why can’t you hear him? Why can’t you hear him crying?”

—-

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[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, September 1st

Willy: What are you gonna do with him anyway? Spike: I'm thinkin' maybe dinner and a movie. I don't want to rush into anything. I've been hurt, you know.

~~What's My Line? Part 2~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Never Too Safe by veronyxk84 (Spike & Dawn, PG-13)

Late Night in the Lab by Anonymous (Fred & Wesley, G)

Creature Comforts by evesock (Darla/Drusilla, E)

ya got a way about ya by Skyson (Buffy/Giles, T)

Reasons to be Respectful by spikesgirl58 (Spike, Doctor Who crossover, G)

Teenagers by TheMarti (OC & Willow, T, in Italian)

Scarborough, 1897 by esskay123 (Fanged Four, T)

Surrendering To Desire by badly_knitted (Buffy/Angel, E)

Curses by MadeInGold (Angel/Spike, E)

Podfic: The Mayor by ChokolatteJedi, read by pieces0fstars (Buffy& Giles, T)

[Chaptered Fiction]

get under my skin (i'll fall to pieces), Chapter 1 by ameliakepner (Buffy/Faith, M)

Stab in the back, Chapter 25 by MelG_2005 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Love Lives Here, Chapter 98 by Passion4Spike (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Lost in Desolation, Chapter 6 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Great Escape from Oz, Chapter 5 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Tumble in Time, Chapter 4 by thedoppleganger (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Stupid Thing, Chapter 4 by Misti (Buffy/Spike, R)

The Magic of Sunnydale, Chapter 10 by Buffyworldbuilder (Ensemble, Harry Potter crossover, FR15)

The Watcher, Chapter 28 by In Mortal (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Viral, Chapter 1 by Harlow Turner (Buffy/Spike, R)

Getaway Gang, Chapter 1 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Next to me, Chapter 1 by Lilacsandorangeblossoms (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Enchanted Dawn, Chapter 1 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

The Reaping, Chapter 1 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, R)

[Images, Audio & Video]

🎨 Banner Art #20 — For “Legend Has it” event [2 banners] by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Manip: The Jersey Devil by Harmony99 (Buffy & Spike, worksafe)

Manip: Sleeping Beauty by Harmony99 (Buffy & Spike, worksafe)

Manip: Lords of the Dragons by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Manip: A Fairy Tale by Claire (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy in Helpless by isevery0nehereverystoned (worksafe)

Artwork: Spike by snottiesnot (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy and Willow pixel art by v-thinks (worksafe)

Sketches: episode screenshot redraws so far by bugscribbles (Buffy, Darla, Jenny, Willow, Xander, Teacher's Pet praying mantis, worksafe)

Collage: Buffy and Willow by sunflower1109 (worksafe)

Collage: Buffy and Giles by sunflower1109 (worksafe)

Gifset: 1880's outfits by clarkgriffon (Drusilla, Cecily, William, Anne Pratt, worksafe)

Gifset: Willow/Tara by lovebvffys (worksafe)

Merchandise: barq’s 1999 btvs cans by justsomeguycore (worksafe)

Cosplay: Spike (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) by Leon QueerAF

Video: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lookbook (goth/alt/punk) by Rattus Rattus

Fanvid: Buffy & Angel - I'll still love you the same by Dacy Toxic

Fanvid: Buffy the vampire slayer BOYS 12!!! by MelonTango

Fanvid: SPUFFY in 2 minutes or less (part 2) by Love Bites

Fanvid: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 Opening Credits (Charmed Style) by Rotten Lemonade

Fanvid: Buffy & Spike - Destiny of Souls | The Full Story by Buffy & Spike Channel

Fanvid: Enchanted [Spike] by True Hunter

Fanvid: like a prayer [btvs season finales] by Aurora Edits

Fanvid: my tears ricochet [buffy and giles] by Aurora Edits

Fanvid: Illicit Affairs [spike + buffy] by Aurora Edits

Fanvid: Buffy vs Faith - All My H8 by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy the Vampire slayer - Bend by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy Summers - What's Up by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: [Buffy, set to teenage dream by Olivia Rodrigo] by Danica

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - I Luv This Shit By August Alsina by Naki-a Littlejohn

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - We Not Humpin By Flo Milli by Naki-a Littlejohn

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - Crazy In Love by Naki-a Littlejohn

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - War of Hearts by Naki-a Littlejohn

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - Hit The Road Jack by Naki-a Littlejohn

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - Just that Girl By Drew Seeley by Naki-a Littlejohn

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike - Haunted By Beyoncé by Naki-a Littlejohn

Resource: Buffy The Vampire Slayer | Buffy and Angel ~ Scene Pack by DeanxSalv (also posted several other scenepacks)

[Reviews & Recaps]

hannahlibbie's BtVS rewatch: S01E01 Welcome to the Hellmouth​ by hannahlibbie

Video: Up The Buff! Ep 1 'What is your childhood trauma?!' 90s Nostalgia Alert: Belfast Boys Buffy Binge by BigBadLlama

Video: Him-Slayer Sunday by Jane Talks Buffy

Video: Buffy the Unaired (and for good reason) Pilot : Toxic Rewatch by Lord Toxic

Video: We finished Season 3, let's talk about it! Buffy the Vampire Slayer by The Buff Summer

Video: S4E02: Living Conditions by One Girl in All the World

Video: Buffy 2.13 & 2.14 Surprise and Innocence by Jan Katz and Ryan Something

Podcast: If The Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me - TRAILER by The Final Pod TV

Podcast: Buffy the Vampire Slayer [movie] and What We Do In the Shadows with Angel Krause by Creepy and Geeky Presents

Podcast: BwB 102 - Arazmadus the Vampire by Beer with Buffy (also posted several other reviews)

Podcast: Bring on the Night S7 E10 (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) by Lisa M. Lilly

[Recs]

Fic rec: The Closing Distance by fluffernutter8 (buffy/Angel, T) recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon

[Fandom Discussions]

Nightmares Fashion Part One by theoverlookedoneedits1997

You ever stop to think about the fact that B is Faith's nickname for Buffy, like exclusively? by annieofhearts

Vampire Xander was just some guy by aphony-cree

Xander Harris Was The Worst Part Of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' by trealtox

Actually the craziest thing about buffy angel cordelia and spike is that they all choose the mission over each other every single time by watchriverdale

Spike a little gay ? continued by multiple posters

Rewatch thoughts and questions [Unleashed, Hellbound] continued by multiple posters

So let's talk about Rack.... continued by StateOfSiege97

Why Stakes? continued by multiple posters

"The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" invitation by gimmesomespace

Angel and Cordelia's Love by Samravenclaw21

In 7X4 "Help" Buffy mocks the jock cult & misnames Blue ��yster Cult but in 7X6 "Him" she has their album Fire of Unknown Origin on the CD pile in her house by KneeHighMischief

Tara is top 5 characters in Buffy to this day by Senior-Leave779

Did you guys read Buffy as Bi in the show? by Valuable-Judgment602

Favourite character who suits this [bad guy / not bad guy] by Lady_borg

[Dark] Willow appreciation post by lexifer999

The new Bronze sign by BudHaven10

What was Buffy referring to? ["Killing people changes you"] by brwitch

spike could have saved dawn in 'the gift' if dawn hadn't wrecked it by Prestigious-Ear-3337

Jonathan by anthonycaruana

Did the Monk's implanted memories help humanize soulless Spike? by Flyestgit

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[astralfandoms]

GIVE ME THE HCS I WANNA HEAR EVERYTHANGG

okay so

*cracks open google doc*

i'll just go through the areas because my brain formats better talking about the different cogs like that

also i'm not going to include the factory managers, the satellite investors, C.O.O, or Chairman because i have yet to develop their full mental image in my brain (but it will eventually happen asdfiopj)

also this is going to be long as hell so warning you

Toontown Central

Derrick Man (William Boar)

30

Transmasc Bisexual (He/Oil/Drum)

Autistic

Grew up in a family that was extremely focused on how they looked to the public, and was "match-made" with Misty at an early age, but they ended up just seeing each other as annoying siblings. Both sees Misty as an annoyance and as a friend, but doesn't like to admit that second part, especially to Misty herself.

Is crushing hard on both Alton and Rain and is being tsundere about it

Duck Shuffler (Buck Ruffler, Card Shark, Blackjack)

29

Transmasc Demiromantic Homosexual (He/They/Quack/Slot/Luck/Seven/7/🦆/🎰/⚙️/🍒 [Buck], They/It [Card Shark], It/Its [Blackjack])

Bipolar, DID (Buck [Host], Card Shark [Emotion Dampener], Blackjack [Nonverbal Trauma Holder])

Grew up in Toontown Central surrounded by Toons and later moved into Suitopia as an adult, working as a day trader and gambling on the weekends to help relax. At a casino night, Chris spotted him and offered him a position at C.O.G.S under him. And Buck accepted mostly because he realized he had nothing to lose if he applied.

Dating Dave and has a crush on Brian as well as Eerie Descent

Prethinker (Brian Wiseman)

35

He/It/Study/Thought/Brain/King/♟️/🧠/📖/💭

Trans Gay

Paranoid Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder

Grew up in a family where his parents were usually not home a lot of time and thought that if he got to the top of his class and graduated with honors, then his parents would actually acknowledge him. But that...never happened. So, after college, he drifted around, not knowing what to do before he applied to C.O.G.S in desperation, so ended up overcompensating to make sure that his place in the company was secured leading to...a lot of mess ups. Also transitioned after entering college, renaming himself, but doesn't like mentioning his last name because he's embarrassed that he picked that for himself.

Is dating Benjamin and is crushing heavily on Mac and Buck

Barnacle Boatyard

Land Acquisition Architect (Alton S. Crow)

40

Cis Bisexual (He/They/Hazard)

Anxiety, Paranoid Personality Disorder

Country boys make do. That's like. Pretty much it. Grew up in a large family, had to start working at a young age to help support the family, and now has trouble knowing when to stop working.

Crushing on William real bad due to them being hired around the same time

Deep Diver (Mary Anna)

32

Intersex Bigender Bisexual

He/She/Ocean/Wave/Dive/Sea/Marine/🌊/🪸/🤿/🛟/⚓/🪝

Autistic

Grew up with two moms who encouraged his love of marine life, to the point of her deciding that was going to be oceans career. Immediately was rivals with Holly due to both of them thinking they knew more about the others' specialty.

Dating Misty and keeps denying waves crush on Holly

Rainmaker (Misty Monsoon)

30

Trans Lesbian (She/Rain/Cloud/Storm/Fog/☔/☁️/🌧️/⛈️/🌦️)

Depression, Anxiety, Autism

Similarly to William, grew up in a family focused on how they look in the public eye, and became hyper attached to William because he was the first person who ever treated her nicely and was the one who she first told that she was trans and a lesbian to. Is hurt about the fact that he won't really talk to her anymore but thinks that it's because they're working in opposing departments.

Is dating Mary and Holly and wishes that the two would just get admit that they like each other already

Ye Ol' Toontown Time

Public Relations Representative (Winston Byrd)

98

Genderfluid Biromantic Homosexual (All Pronouns)

Anxiety, Autism, PTSD, Depression, Paranoid Personality Disorder

Was a close friend of Tawney's before everything went down. Was eventually snuck out of the dungeons by a blue and white cat toon before getting smuggled to Daffodil Gardens where he got restored to his previous state.

Currently isn't seeing anyone but is yearning to have a partner again

Gatekeeper (Holly Grayelle)

35

Holypaladin (Xenogender) Bisexual Lesbian (She/Holy/Gold/Knight/Shield)

Autism, ADHD

Grew up being told that she was extremely good at being a leader and so holy has it engrained in gold that knight can’t be any position other than a leadership one and so tends to clash with anyone who challenges that view. And/or fall in love with them. Luck of the draw.

Dating Misty and keeps denying knights crush on Mary. Used to have a crush on Prester until shield found out that he was gay.

Witch Hunter (Prester Virgil)

35

Transmasc Gay (He/Him)

Depression, PTSD

Grew up in an extremely strict, religious house with a doormat of a father and extremely religious mother, which caused him to have a lot of internalized homophobia, even after he transitioned, and takes it out on people who are extremely secure in their sexualities (ex. Diane, Holly). Also has both a fear and affinity for fire due to being shamed growing up as draconic-descended cog.

Dating Cosmo and sorta kinda dating the Satellite Investors. Also Diane's cousin.

Daffodil Gardens

Vice President (Allan Bravecog)

65

Cis Polyamorous Bisexual (He/Bulb/Radio/Static)

Narcissistic Personality Disorder, PTSD

Grew up having people constantly trying to befriend him because he was extremely good at making connections, so tends to have people who he doesn't trust at arms length but pretends that they're closer. Married his college sweetheart Norman Bravecog (OC) and had Cathal around when they founded C.O.G.S along the other Chief Officers after they graduated college. Dotes on Cathal heavily because Cathal was the only child of theirs that survived through infancy.

Married to Norman and has an on-and-off-again thing with both Craig and Chris.

Bellringer (Benjamin Biggs)

38

Transmasc Salmacian Bisexual Gay (He/Ring/Bell/🔔/🛎️)

Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Autism

Grew up being praised for his healing ability but shamed for rings need to feed on oil, so has an energy of “I am perfect and if anyone argues that I am going to kill them and then myself”. Oh yeah, Benjamin is a vampire (sorta kinda) due to having vague leech-based programing and needing more oil than the average cog to allow for bells healing ability (has two oil tanks for that very reason).

Dating Brian and is a bit jealous of Mac and Winn (also is low-key crushing on them but shh).

Multislacker (Cathal Ray Toby Bravecog)

32

Genderapathetic Aroflux Cassexual (He/They/Tech/TV/📺)

Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Autism, ADHD

Grew up extremely coddled by his father for reasons mentioned above and quickly realized that it didn’t matter how hard they worked because everyone would assume that techs work was just tvs fathers, so became very tired and just decided to roll with it.

Has a friends with benefits relationship with High Roller and ends up developing feelings for Chip and Graham.

Mezzo Merryland

Chief Financial Officer (Chris P. Dollair)

66

Trans Bisexual Man (He/It/Cash/Coin/Bank/💸/💵/💰/🪙)

Paranoid Personality Disorder, OCD

Grew up extremely poor so has a lot of trust issues and money insecurity (will swing from penny pinching to splurging).

Is heavily crushing on Allan and Craig, while hooking up with Craig sometimes.

Mouthpiece (Belle Dama)

85

Transfemme Bisexual (She/Chatter)

Autistic

Has had a relatively boring life and works to help her husband, who is too disabled to work, and keep them afloat with help from their children. Visits her husband on the weekend but lives in Mezzo Merryland during the weeks. Is confused by her son's taste in men but is very supportive.

Has a husband named Peter and two kids: Tartarus (huh i wonder who that could be /sillly) and Emily (OC), as well as several grandchildren, with her favourite being Cassidy “Cassie” Dama, one of Emily’s children.

Major Player (Dave Brubot)

27

Melodyboy (Xenogender) Pan (He/Melody/Hymn)

ADHD, Autism

Grew up in a very large, musically inclined family so naturally drifted towards music as his main aspiration. Extremely extroverted and is the one who usually gets his friends to socialize.

Is dating Buck and is trying to encourage Buck to talk with Brian and Eerie.

The Brrgh

Chief Legal Officer (Diane Morsecode)

34

Cis Bi Lesbian (She/Legal/Law)

ADHD, Autism

Grew up similarly to Prester, but was the "star" child, but because of that, whenever she fails to do something, it hits extremely hard. Is both extremely annoyed at and extremely worried about Prester.

Is currently single, but isn't looking for anyone. As mentioned, is Prester's cousin.

Firestarter (Flint Bonpyre)

He/Fire/Flame/🔥/🧯

27

Transmasc Gay (He/Fire/Flame/🔥/🧯)

Anxiety, Depression, Scoliosis

Had a pretty normal childhood, growing from a weird girl into a weird boy. Met Graham first in high school and dated pre-transition and then met again in sophmore year in college post-transition and started dating (had a nice laugh about the fact that fate kept bringing them together).

Is dating Graham and used to date Chip in college (but still has lingering feelings about him)

Plutocrat (Cosmo Kuiper)

68

Cis Bisexual (He/Star/Constellation/Meteor/Planet/🌟/⭐/🌠/✨/💫/🪐)

ADHD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Grew up in a mob family and would have stayed only attached to it if C.O.G.S didn’t take over the town that he was the head of, leading to star reluctantly joining C.O.G.S. Took one look at Prester and went "oh i NEED to date that man".

Dating Prester and constellations investors, often showering them in gifts to let them know that meteor loves them.

Acorn Acres

Chief Executive Officer (Craig Edgar Oilcan)

69

Transmasc Genderfaun (He/It/They [Collective], He/Oil/One/Fore [Craig], It/Its [Justice], Edgar [He/They/Golf])

Narcissistic Personality Disorder, DID (Host: N/A, Headmates: Craig [Persecutor, Protector], Justice [Emotional Funnel], Edgar [Guilt Holder, Trauma Holder])

Grew up in an extremely cut throat family where it was essentially "succeed or get scrapped" which caused his system to form at an extremely young age. Applies that motto to a lot of its life, which is why they turned a blind eye to everything involving Chip.

Is deep in denial about the fact that he cares about Allan and Chris (doesn't want to admit that he's attached) and "rationalizes" it by hooking up with Chris and having a good business relationship with Allan.

Treekiller (Spruce Campbell)

46

Cis Gay Man (He/Wood/Gnaw/Log/Chop)

ADHD

Grew up in a large, relaxed family who were the types to encourage friends stay for dinner before they headed back home (especially when it came to Chip and his family). Is so worried about Chip, especially with how little he tells him about work nowadays.

Is single.

Chainsaw Consultant (Chip Revvington)

54

Boyflux (Chip) Agender (Override) Demi Bisexual Gay (Chip) Pan (Override) (He/Rev/Chainsaw/Saw [Chip], It/Its [Override])

Autism, DID (Headmates: Chip [Host], Override [Protector, Persecutor, Prosecutor, Emotional Funnel])

As mentioned in this post, grew up in a very oppressive, strict household that punished him for any sort of autistic behavior, leading towards Override to form to help mask revs autistic traits.

Chip is still not over Flint while Override is head over heels for Cathal, with their difference in romance causing a bit of a struggle in the system.

Drowsy Dreamland

Featherbedder (Tawney C. Esta)

98

Cis Gay (He/Sleep/Snore/Nap/Rest/Bed/Dream/💭/💤/🛏️)

Cis Gay

Insomnia, Depression

Grew up pretty ordinarily, but got depressed after his husband passed, but is now slowly healing from that.

Had a husband, and has grandchildren as well. Also has a bit of a “are they dating or just good friends” thing going on with Doppel (OC)

Pacesetter (Graham Ness Payser)

27

Transmasc Genderfast (Xenogender) Gay (He/Speed/Fast)

Transmasc Genderfast Gay

ADHD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Literally does not remember his childhood other than the fact that he had dated Flint in highschool. Only remembers his life post-transition, which is pretty ordinary and standard.

Is dating Flint and has a rivalry/crush thing going on with Multislacker.

So there you go!! That took. way too long but I hope you like!! Also if you have any questions please ask 'em!! This is a lot of fun to do :3

[zedpercyfan]

Pokeshipping Week '23 - Day 4 - Ash's Hat

For Someone Special

ASH KETCHUM sighed as he opened the door.  “Spring cleaning…” he grumbled.  He’d been busy helping Professor Oak with research when Tracey reminded the Professor that it was time for spring cleaning.  It was most unfortunate that his Mom heard and instantly demanded that he clean out his closet.

Ash found several things he no longer had any use for or had replacements for, it seemed his Mom was right on the whole spring cleaning thing in his room.  “Huh, the old Voltorb alarm clock…”  He held the device in his hands and chuckled.  The old seams were still there from when his Mom had repaired the broken device for when he and his friends returned after their journey.  Now at his bedside was a more sophisticated version of it.  The animatronic Pidgey now more refined.

He had a spare of the same device too, he figured it’d be best to junk it.

He found some old tin lunch boxes from the League.  Didn’t need them…but he figured they could be sold…maybe keep one or two.

He paused when he pulled out a hat, the hat from the Pokémon Indigo League that he’d worn during his first few years journeying.  Now it was old, dirty, and while it still fit, Ash couldn’t help but feel it had seen its day. “Hmm, I wonder…”

He checked a site that Brock had told him all about and gaped at the prices for the hat.  “Damn, that’s a lot.  This could earn me a lot of yen.”

“I wouldn’t really recommend selling,” said Tracey.

“You’re sure?” quizzed Ash.

“Yeah.  The problem is the simplicity of the design.  The Pokémon League’s symbols have gotten a lot more complicated since this and even though a collector will pay plenty for these, all those used ones online have been there for months and months.”

“Man…” grumbled Ash.  The door opened and Professor Sammuel Oak wandered in.

“Oh, hello, what’s all this about?”  The two boys greeted him.  “Oh, your old hat, Ash?  Looking to sell it?”

“I thought about it, but Tracey just told me it’s impossible with the market right now.”

“Hmm…there is one buyer I know who’d be interested.”

“Really?  Who, Professor?”

“Your old friend Misty.”  Ash blinked in response but before he could say anything…

— BRINGRING-RING – Tracey’s phone went off.

“Oh, speak of the Giratina…”  He hit the answer button.  “Hello?  Still haven’t found the right price for that edition… Not too surprising given the state of the market… Yes, well people have to make their yen somehow.  By the way, Misty, you just happen to be in luck, Ash wants to sell his.  He’s here right now, you can bargain with him directly.  Here.”  He turned the speaker on and handed it over to Ash.

“…Hey, wait!  Tracey, DON’T—”

“Hello?”  He heard a gasp and what sounded like words getting caught in her throat.

“Ash…heya.”

“Tracey tells me you’re looking to buy the ‘98 edition of the Indigo League caps.”

“…yeah…”

“Well, as Tracey said I want to sell mine.  So…how much do you want to buy for?”

“What’s your price for it?”

“I dunno, really.  I’ll give it to you for less than the current price they’re going for.”

“Er… I’ll give you 11,500 yen for it.”

“Wha?  I just told ya, Mist, I’m letting you have it for less than what the lowest price is on the secondhand market.”

Ash was left to stare at the wall for a bit as Misty seemed to go silent but soon she spoke again.  “Are you sure you want to sell it…?” she asked quietly.

“Well, yeah, that’s…that’s what I’ve been saying.”

“Yes, but you sent in 100 postcards for it, right?”

“I did and I know I got really worked up about it that one time but I’ve moved on from that.  I got plenty of hats to sell, actually.  Look, I thought you wanted to buy it.”

“Well, yeah, but… Can I call you on your phone?”

“Er – sure.  But why?”  Ash did a doubletake as Misty disconnected.  He sighed and gave it back to Tracey.  Then his phone rang, this time for a video call.  He grumbled as he answered.

“Hey, you can see me, right?”

“Well, yeah,” replied Ash.

“Good, here’s…”  Misty trailed off as she saw Professor Oak and Tracey talking to each other in the background.  She fidgeted onscreen a bit.  “…can I show you this privately…?”

“Ugh…”  Ash stood up and began walking toward the corral.  “Right, we’re alone now.”

“Good.  Take a look.”  Misty rolled on her chair in what seemed to be her bedroom and revealed a bookshelf with dozens of hats displayed on it.

“Whoa Mist, those’re…”  Ash slowly stopped himself and took a closer look.  The cogs in his brain began to go off.  “Hey Mist, a lot of those look like the hats I’ve been wearing.”

Misty froze up for a second before sighing.  “Y-yeah…I’spose they are…well…heh heh…what can I say?  They normally look good on ya.  Perhaps seeing them on you inspired me…”

Ash Ketchum thought that to be one of the weirdest explanations for something he’d ever heard of!  He was about to retort when her words finally processed in his brain.  His hats…she’s collecting them and a few others that he’d never gotten…looking for the hat he originally wore when they first met…immediately was willing to offer him the amount it goes for at current market price…also seems nervous and uneasy.

It's also true that Misty never really wears hats beyond sometimes a sun hat.  Ash wasn’t exactly bright but he wasn’t stupid either.  Cilan and Clemont had both made it their mission to cram his brain with as much information about life as possible – if there was one thing about girls they had both been very upfront about…

…he decided to play it safe.  “Misty…” he ventured, “this hat was my first ever League cap.  If I let you buy it, will you keep it safe?”

“Yes, of course.”

“It’s something that I really treasured, like…my heart.”  He noticed a slight redness growing on her cheeks.  “Can I trust you with it?”

“Yes,” she replied quickly.

“Good.  I trust you with it as a good and the bested of friends.”  He chuckled.  “Who knows, maybe it’ll be a sort of good luck charm for the both of us.”

“Ha ha!  Yeah!  True,” laughed Misty.  “Kind of like my fishing lure for ya.”

“Mm.  Hey Mist.  I really do trust it with ya.”  And before he hung up, Ash gave her a small wink.

“Ash dear, did you find a buyer?” asked Mrs. Ketchum when she noticed Ash boxing the cap in the living room.

“Yeah, I did, Mom.”

“Oh good.  I hope the lucky stranger will enjoy it.”

“It’s someone we know,” replied Ash vaguely.  “Someone special…”

As he taped the box up, a thought came to him.  “Hey Mom?  What can you tell me about a first date…?”

***

Author’s Note: Hm…not gonna lie, thought I had a better idea for what to do here but it wasn’t as solid as I thought.  I don’t know.  I struggled with this one.

[offshoreoilrig]

remember reblogging digital camera photos of thai buddhist temples in the misty jungle alongside chibi pixel art and windows 98 error windows edited to say "you have depression". i need to see them for real someday. the temples i mean im good on windows 98

[viper-motorsports]

Heading into the misty autumn twilight, the N°98 Porsche 911 GT3 R (991.2) leads the GT contingent through the rescheduled 2020 Spa 24 Hours towards victory for the Rowe Racing squad.

[kozachenko]

Big Touhou Anime idea that has been marinating in my brain for a while

Alright, so I just wanted to compile my ideas for a potential Touhou anime I had here because I just needed to get them out. This is also going to be a very long post, so get comfortable

So I would like to call this hypothetical Touhou anime "Touhou Project Definitive Edition." So what I mean by a definitive edition is that it goes through all of the Touhou games from 1-19 as well as some of the side material (this part is optional) and polishes them up. This would be fixing some plot holes, establishing parts of Gensokyo's world earlier on (mainly in the form of foreshadowing until the story actually gets to those places), and re-writing pre-existing material if there are any glaring problems or inconsistencies that are present in the original material. This also can help tie together the PC-98 games and windows era games together in a nicer way and can further solidify Gensokyos world and cosmology. This option is also pretty newcomer friendly if handled correctly. This option could also help expand on Reimu and Marisa's personalities, the plot potentially following them as they grow up together, the PC-98 games following them throughout their childhood a potential in between arc to more smoothly transition into the Windows era as well as adapting the Vampire Incident before EoSD, and from then on they would probably be in their mid to late teens.

Now of course this idea is very unrealistic and could go very wrong pacing-wise if not handled correctly, but I do think it could work. In regards to the pacing problem, some arcs could be lengthened or cut down depending on how long the events of the games are, with some taking longer than others. Of course, there's also the issue of the anime falling into the same traps that Memories of Phantasm, where the episodes become very formulaic very quick. Now this relates to an issue with the translation between mediums. If you were to directly, one-for-one, adapt the games, it would end up formulaic because the actual games all follow the same 6 stage format with an extra stage. The pacing of the plots in these games work best in their original 6-7 stage format because that's what they were designed for in the first place, not TV-Anime episodes. I feel like a better way of adapting the Touhou games would be to treat the events of the games as the latter half of a larger arc out depending on the game's story.

I'll use EoSD as an example of how you could do this, but remember, I'm not a professional writer so there will be flaws in this approach.

So, this potential EoSD arc would probably start out more as a mystery, with a mysterious red mist going from a weird, once in a blue moon weather phenomenon to a daily occurrence. We also see it go from just light tints of red on a misty day to a blinding scarlet. Reimu and Marisa take notice of this and start asking around the human village and witnessing the effects the mist is having on some of the humans. Normal people are starting to become lifeless husks depending on how much of the mist they've been exposed to. Reimu and Marisa have been lucky enough to not live in places where the mist is most prevalent as well as not being normal people (Reimu has the benefits of being a Hakurei shrine maiden and Marisa is just used to weird shit like this in general due to living in the forest of magic, so she's basically developed a strong immunity to it. The village nurse, Rin Satsuki, has been trying her best to help the villagers as much as she can. As the mist gets worse and worse, some people just start disappearing, eye witnesses saying that they last saw the victims walk towards the strange lake by the Youkai mountain. Some grizzly murders even begin to pop up. When asked, the villagers state that they could never hear any sign of a struggle. Rin, who is also handling the autopsies, notices that the bodies of the victims have been precisely dismembered and disemboweled, the organs producing the most amount of blood being suspiciously missing. At this point, Reimu and Marisa have been slowly connecting the dots between this and the vampire incident, now finally getting the last piece they need to connect the two together. This is when we finally get to the events of EoSD and learn that the villagers killed ended up being made into food for Remillia and Flandre. Of course, we also learn that Sakuya was the one doing the killings.

The set-up phase (as I'm calling it for now), would of course be different depending on the games and it can take as long as it needs to, even overlapping with other arcs as it slowly builds up overtime. This is how I imagine the Moriya Shrine conspiracy arc plays out, we slowly start to hear about some things in passing (i.e. background characters mentioning some stuff casually) and then once the anime can get to those games it can actually expand on some of that stuff, you get the gist it's kinda hard for me to explain. Now of course, this can still get very formulaic if handled incorrectly, but this can be avoided by shortening the length of this setup phase depending on the game the anime gets to as some games in the series don't really need it to be super long (i.e. Imperishable Night, Mountain of Faith, and Unconnected Marketeers). You could also tackle this issue by having some anime original episodes in between arcs, and by this I don't mean filler episodes like Naruto or One Piece, but more of what Hunter X Hunter 1999 did in it's adaptation. Taking some more time to expand on the characters personalities and setting up some individual character arcs as well that can be later resolved within certain games. Individual arcs for the actual games themselves can also differ in length depending on the game too.

Overall, this idea for a Touhou adaptation would probably not have a big overarching plot, but be more like a long form anthology series, where we just get glimpses into the strange world of Gensokyo. However, if it were to have an overarching plot or theme, it would probably be about the importance of connection and relationships, and by that I mean any kind of relationship whether it be romantic, platonic, or in some cases antagonistic. If you wanted to have all of this build up to something, I have another very long post about a scenario where Marisa becomes a Youkai that could very well work as an ending to this hypothetical Touhou anime.

As I mentioned before, this idea is very very unrealistic and would take a heck of a long time to make, not even accounting the other hurdles this would have to face in order for this to happen, but let me know what you guys think of this idea because I often play around with this potential adaptation in my brain. Again, don't think this could ever really happen and if it does it would probably be very different from what I described, so please tell me what you think, if there are any potential problems that could happen or any alternative ways a Touhou anime could happen.

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[ask-will-and-nico]

Nico knew, logically, that was true. But it was hard to believe right now. He hummed a little, trying to distract himself from the depressing state of his body. "... You're warm." He muttered.

-

Nico closed his eyes against Will, soaking in the warmth and contact of Will's skin. Will smiled, nudging him gently. "Y'know something?" He whispered. "What?" Will smiled a little wider, his eyes wet and misty. "You're back up to 98. Your... Your temperature, I mean. You're right where you should be." His voice cracked a little, and Nico hugged him tight, unsure what to say.

-/-/-

“See? You’re getting better. It’s just going to take time,” Will said softly, kissing the top of Nico’s head. This was good news. Great news. If Nico’s internal temperature was back up, his blood oxygen level was probably doing better too. Will could recheck in a little bit. Nico probably wanted to go back to sleep now anyway. “You can nap again if you want. Dinner should be here pretty soon,” Will said softly. Nico hummed and nuzzled against Will, which made Will smile.

Nico slept for nearly the rest of the day, which is fine by Will. He could watch as many movies as he wanted while Nico slept. The infirmary was quiet other than the sounds of the occasional camper coming in for minor cuts or scrapes. Will wondered who was tending, if it was one of his siblings or someone else. He was sure they would let him know if a major case came in, but he was silently thankful when they didn’t. He appreciated the time to rest and heal with his boyfriend.

[misty-caligula]

98% solid prediction: if they DO drink the kool-aid, Misty drinks Nats.

Or otherwise stops Nat from drinking hers.