#And somehow became even more of a hero afterward

[harmcityherald]

Netflix doc on Christopher Reeve is making me cry. He was such a good good man. I identify with him having his life altered in one second and how he stood against paralysis with his bravery, strength and his inner light. I look at him on TV lying in his hospital bed and I see myself. Not that I could ever hope to compare myself to his greatness but I certainly identify with that bed and the fact he was trapped there with no hope of walking again. This is such a poignant documentary. And truth be told I've always been a fan. There is no other superman to me. Maybe that makes me sound like a boomer. But I don't care at all. I highly recommend this documentary.

[rachetmath]

 Okay, I know some people might be mad at me, but I stand by this. Volumes seven and eight were the most horrible volumes to me. Many you would say because of Ironwood and how the heroes betrayed him. And I would say, “Yes. That is absolutely the reason.” However, that is not the only reason I hate those volumes, especially with nine.

Ren and Oscar:

Ren and Oscar were the MVP s of volumes seven and eight. In volume seven, Ren was concerned with lying to James and was more worried about the people's safety. He became the most emotional in the group and started acting somewhat critical to the point he lashed out at Nora, Yang, and Jaune. This causes Nora to become somewhat distant from him and Jaune to be a little disappointed, especially after mentioning he cheated Beacon. However, after a little talk with Jaune and yelling at Harriet, Ren semblance evolves to where he can read emotions.

Oscar, who was willing to trust James when Ruby, for reasons, didn’t. Who openly told James the truth about Salem, then gets shot for it. Then gets found by his friends and immediately gets taken by Salem’s forces. He then persuades Hazel to betray Salem and gets Emerald on the side of good.

Here’s the problem, Ren didn’t do anything. Like, he didn’t try to fill James in on anything. He stood by his friends and still carried out the lie. And then his evolution really was unnecessary and wasn’t well-earned. And many of you might say, “But he earned it by standing up to Harriet. And it helped them in some way.” Okay, but hears the thing. First off, Harriet was going to hurt Ren if Winter didn’t stop her. And second, his semblance wasn’t even that useful in finding Oscar.

Now Oscar, he just overstayed his welcome. He somehow persuaded Hazel to betray Salem… Even though he is the reincarnation of the man he hates. He gave away the information to Hazel, who was ordered to collect that intel by Salem, which Hazel got mad at Oscar about afterward. But what did he offer Hazel to make him switch sides, considering Ozpin still can’t kill her? Why offer the last question to him? He already knows everything.

 And then Emerald, whom he met once and tried to kill Ruby in Heaven, Oscar managed to get her to join the hero side. Why? Why would the characters who not only met Emerald but were betrayed by her and Cinder be willing to trust her? Because Oscar says so? And what makes it worse is Ren agrees to it first because of his evolution. The reason it doesn’t make sense to me is because it’s coming from the wrong characters. Which brings me to my next problem.

Jaune and Nora:

Mainly, Jaune was my issue. However, we will talk about Nora first. Mainly on how the writers gave her the Jaune treatment. Nora was more concerned for the people of Mantle, while Ren was concerned for the entire world. This is due to Nora’s backstory where she was poor, parentless, and alone on the streets. Nora knew exactly how the people were feeling. So you would think out all the characters, she would most likely side with Robyn. Maybe even so far as to tell her what’s going on. But then it was Yang and Blake. Even though Yang was completely against lying to Ironwood and was calling Ruby out on it. (But hey, bumblebee matters.) Then what made Nora's coming out party even more hollow is she leaves Mantle to her teammates, while she goes back to Atlas with the majority of team RWBY, only to be knocked unconscious for half of volume eight. All while thinking about only Ren.

Jaune got it the worst though. Not just with the fact that he had to kill Penny even though he trained with his semblance and probably the most innocent and cool headed person on the group. But as I said before, a lot of Ren and Oscar's actions were pointless - no, didn't make sense because they fit Jaune’s character more.

Look, I said this before, but Jaune has no reasons to trust James. Not only because of Leon’s betrayal but Ozpin whose secrets came to light. Jaune had his trust broken two times. By Headmasters, no less. And you may say, “Ironwood gave Jaune and his friends their licensees early. And a place to stay.” True enough, however, Jaune knows Salem exists. James is trying to keep her a secret until Amity Arena is ready for launch. Who's to say he’s not giving them their licenses and a place to stay to keep an eye on them? (However, that’s not true. Considering Ironwood as we have seen has done nothing wrong to them.) That’s something for Jaune to consider. And even though he could feel sorry for the citizens of Mantle, that doesn’t mean he would fully trust Robyn either, due to her methods causing more harm than good. (The only reason anyone would side with Robyn is that she is a better choice than Jacque. Plus, why do we just see Yang argue about this? Why would Jaune agree to something that he almost hurt Oscar for?)

Basically, Jaune should have been the middle man from the start of volume seven, and in volume eight he brings everyone together. In volume seven, we could’ve had Jaune struggling due to having to help Atlas and Mantle as a huntsman while training to extend his aura, keeping his team together, and watching out for Tyrian, who said he had an interest in him (still don't know why.), and Salem. Jaune would’ve had a hard time, especially because his friends would have been making things worse, and he had to follow up on their actions. (More importantly, Jaune might as well learn to stand on his own two feet as huntsman and a leader. Otherwise, how is he important to the story?)

Then in volume eight, when Ren lashed out at him, Jaune would have had more to prove. Imagen Jaune negotiating with Winter on letting them go in to save Oscar. Offering the relic as leverage so they can find Penny, who mind you they were looking for. Rushing in, extending his aura, and going on his own to find Oscar while relying on his friends to do their part. Then having to fight and reason with Hazel to help him. Even to promise Hazel a future where no more people need to die due to Salem’s and Ozpin’s war, considering Jaune lost Pyrrha. Even maybe seeing Hazel ask Jaune to bring Emerald with him. Jaune learning to trust Emerald, despite everything she’s done because he may need her or sees her redeeming qualities. All this, though unintentionally, is to prove Ren wrong. That he’s capable of doing great things and making him a supposedly better leader than Ironwood. He’s based on Jeanne D'Arc, right? Who was the biggest turnaround in the war for France in 1429. A leader and influencer who managed to convince her allies to join her side. Despite being a woman and a peasant with no proof that angels told her to help in the war.

(Okay, look, many of you might say, “Jaune is not a good fighter” which I agree… but isn't a fight more like a debate using strength and knowledge. And we have seen Jaune fight just not with human opponents.Him fighting Hazel may determine how far he has come from when we met him. Also Jaune’s and Hazel's character a true opposite 

Plus the whole point of Hazel’s character is him being a broken man with nothing left to lose. A man who lost all faith in humanity and the hunting world ever since his sister and possibly his whole family were slain by it. His faith slipped the moment he met Salem and found out she was immortal and cannot be killed, making his sister's untimely death even more worth less. However, Jaune is the opposite.

Jaune lost Pyrrha. He lost the very first friend and could've been lover to the hunting world. He was betrayed by others who he thought were  his allies. To make matters worse he too learns of Salem’s immortality. Yes, he was angered by this information. Furious. Almost enough that he would have done the same things Hazel was doing out of spite. But he didn't. He still fights the good fights.

Hazel is man who feels no pain. Sees an indifference between Ozpin and Oscar. Mainly because unlike Jaune he never hanged out with Oscar. So Jaune who was already worried for Oscar, especially after he got kidnapped would be the one to oppose and object Hazel for his actions. Believing that his actions will not only not bring his sister back… but mainly dishonor her. I'm just saying these two should have fought.)

But that’s it for volumes seven and eight. Look, I don't hate Ren and Oscar. However, as some of you complain about Jaune getting too much screen time or being a self insert but when Oscar does the same thing, no one talks about it and are ready to defend other characters and not call out their levels of screen time. Or how they don't fit into the situation. There were plenty of better things Jaune and Nora could have done beside kill or nap for the volumes. Instead, they’re pushed to the side until the writers need an escape goat to advance the plot.

(Also if you are wondering why I am just talking about team JNRO then I am going to be straight forward with you. TEAM JNRO CARRIED THE WHOLE ATLAS VOLUME. And mean main character wise..They save team RWBY. They were the main one probably keeping the people of Mantle and Atlas alive. Jaune killed Penny to save Winter. Basically unlike team RWBY, team JNRO were doing their FUCKING jobs. Hate me if you want to.)

[zairene]

nobody else, katsuki bakugou x black fem reader

synopsis: after his constant thoughts surrounding his personality, bakugou begins to question why you would even choose to be with him.

warnings: bakugou actually shows some other emotion other than anger + vulnerability + cursing bc it’s bakugou, come on now.

wc: 958

a/n: this is my first EVER like comfort-ish kinda fic? if this is like corny or shitty writing i’m sorry i’ve NEVER wrote something like this before.. but the idea was cool so i just went with it.

IT WAS NO SECRET THAT BAKUGOU HAD THE TENDENCY to be a huge asshole. it was well known at this point, and everyone had seemed to get used to it. it wasn’t the talk of the class anymore, everyone grew less scared of him and more viewed him as the, hard on the outside but soft on the inside kind of guy.

knowing this, you still decided to test your changes with the hothead. looking for every opportunity to get close to him. whether it would be group projects, making both of your friend groups come close together during lunch, or even just being able to bring his things to him. just any reason to have some form of communication. and you knew bakugou was no dummy, so he treated you like the rest of him.

“fuck off.” was his usual response to you every time you came up to him. at first you probably would’ve been hurt by it, now you just find it endearing. you teased him quite often until his words toward you became normal? he used less curse words, his voice would be softer than usual, and he was nice. well as nice as bakugou can get, at least.

noticing this change, you took the opportunity to ask him out on a date.you expected his answer to be quite defensive and rude. along the words of, “no, why the fuck would i do that with you?”

yet, his real answer was, “sure, whatever.”

and after a few dates, you both had made things official. neither of you had told anyone but mineta had seen the both of you kiss outside of your dorm room before you had gone in one night and he decided to run his mouth to the rest of the class. and when things came out, you both didn’t deny it because there was no point. the news would’ve spread either way somehow because bakugou’s personality drastically changed after he asked you to be his girlfriend.

he never stopped insulting people or cussing them out, but he did it way less than he normally did. he was always more quiet than usual, staring in your direction all the time. watching you laugh with your friends and have fun. it gave him some comfort on the inside. denki kaminari swore he saw a smile creep up on bakugou’s lips one time while he looked at you.

although, behind bakugou’s face, was a mind that was overflowing with insecurities. sure, he was confident in every other aspect about himself. but his personality and how he treated others before you and even you, ate him up inside. he didn’t like that person and started to think that maybe the little shitheads had a point.

he couldn’t help but overhear jirou and ochako’s conversation about him.

“i’m shocked y/n would even wanna date a person like bakugou.” jirou said, while twirling a strand of her hair.

“maybe he’s just a different person around y/n. you shouldn’t really judge something that you don’t know anything about.” ochako came quick to his defense.

“yeah yeah, i know. but he was just an asshole who treated everyone like they were inferior to him. like he was a king or whatever. i just don’t get what she saw in him.” she continued writing down on her paper, oblivious that bakugou had heard everything she just said.

he didn’t get what you saw in him.

“why did you choose me?”

you and bakugou were currently in his dorm, it was day time and you both were just hanging out since it was the weekend. plus, hero training can take a lot out of a person so it was just natural that you both would look for comfort in each other afterwards.

you turned around, looking at him in confusion. he was looking to the side while he fiddled with his fingers. slightly embarrassed that he became so vulnerable around you.

“what do you mean?” you sat next to him.

“i just mean, like… how? how the hell did you like me? i was a dick to everyone, including you.” you sighed and thought for a second.

“because i saw you for who you were on the inside—”

“that’s fucking corny.” he deadpanned. you slapped him on softly on the leg.

“dude, let me finish.” you rolled your eyes. “anyways, i just knew that you weren’t just an asshole to be an asshole. sure, you were rude and i didn’t like it at first but i just got used to it. plus, i knew you started to like me too.” you smirked.

“oh really? how.” he found it hard to believe. he was a master of hiding his emotions.

“you see how you didn’t just flip out on me for saying that?” his eyes widened a little. “yeah, you like like me.” you laughed while you poked his chest.

“yeah yeah, whatever.”

“but seriously ‘suki, i liked you for you.” you scooted closer to him. “and trust me if i didn’t like you, i wouldn’t be here right now. i like your personality. i’m not saying continue to be rude to others, not saying you have, but i know why you do it. i understand. that’s why i ‘chose’ you.” you wrapped your arms around him and pulled him in for a hug, which he graciously returned. “and maybe you were just cute, i don’t know.”

“you don’t know?” he pulled back, slightly offended.

“i’m joking.” you pulled him close to you. “you are very cute.” you gave him a kiss on the lips. which made him look away, trying to hide the blush that grew on his face.

“better be.” he said, before pulling you into his arms to cuddle.

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[jackiequick]

—Timeline Wise For The Couples 🎞 💌🍿

-> Very similar to this post

Stevella ~ Steve Rogers & Estella Strange 🩺🇺🇸☕️

2012 — Meet Cute in NYC, bumping into each other a couple of times and eventually exchange numbers

2013 — Steve got settled into a decent rhythm, going out a bit more and living at Avengers Tower. That’s when he bumps into Stella one day at the park, yeah sure they text one another and even have some phone calls, but this was different. While chatting, Steve somehow managed to ask her out for a cup of coffee and Stella said ‘yes’ as the two went to a coffee shop afterwards.

2014 — (Captain America: The Winter Soldier Era), the two are actually going out together. Having dates, texts, calling one another and flying out to see each other. They decided to keep their relationship private. But of course, their relationship slowly comes to the surface due to their friends. Natasha spent days and weeks trying to set Steve up on a date, teasing him and everything as he kept shooting her down with each option until they were driving to New Jersey…

“Was that your first kiss since 1945?” Natasha asked him, playing with her necklace Clint bought her.

Steve was driving and answered, “That bad huh?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“Well kinda sounds like you did.”

“No, I-i didn’t, I’m just wondering how much practice you had?”

“You don’t need practice.”

“Everybody needs practice.”

“It’s not my first kiss since 1945. I’m 95, I’m not dead.”

Natasha just chuckled then asked, “Nobody special though?”

He scoffed chuckling, “Believe it or not..um, there is.”

That caused Natasha to gasp and smiled, teasing him for the rest of the time being trying to figure out who it is that Steve was seeing. She was genuinely curious and wanted tidbits on who’s the lucky lady was. Steve just rolled his eyes regretting he told her anything but honestly smiled appreciating that she actually cared about this fact.

When they got to Sam Wilson’s house for shelter, Natasha wasn’t the only one curious. Since Steve used the phone to call a certain someone, as Sam was making breakfast he heard the name ‘Stella’, as he smirked. Sam has been friends with Stella Strange since 2011, he was surprised he didn’t know about this. However he stayed quiet and pretended like he didn’t hear anything as he was more focused on helping Cap and Natasha to tease his new friend.

At the end of the film, as Steve was in the hospital recovering from the damage he suffered during the fight. He woke up to music softly playing and Sam smiling at him saying “On your left.” Steve tiredly cracked a little smile. A few seconds later, Sam said he called her. That’s when Stella walked in two fresh cups of coffee, giving them both a soft smile.

2015 — The two were now living in New York. Stella mainly worked at the hospital meanwhile Steve was being an Avenger with his teammates and Young Avengers. He often picked her up from work and took them to her apartment to rest, if not he invited her to stay at The Tower. Yes, he finally let most of his teammates and friends met his girlfriend! It was about damn time too, as a few people got more curious about things and became a little family oriented group. Hell, Steve was trying to afford a place in Brooklyn too!

The two were pretty much spotted together at restaurants, the park, Avengers Tower and other locations. Hell, according to Tony, he was surprised Captain America scored such a lovely women to keep him on his toes as Steve lightly glared at him. Stella just told her boyfriend to not mind Stark’s remarks, he’s just annoyed Pepper won’t let him buy a new car or something.

Things went on (Age Of Ultron hit), as Stella spent her time more often at Avengers Tower and even help patch up the heroes every once in a while. She was honestly pretty skilled and tech with a gun too! Which came in handy the night of The Party, things were going well of course. But Ultron struck hard, as everyone was fighting bots and protecting one another. Some got a little hurt too, mainly upset with Tony.

Later on, at Clint’s house, everyone was a little out of it. Whatever Wanda showed them had a couple of them beaten and bruised. Clint called in Stella and a few others to help everyone out. Tension was still in the air through, as Steve seemed a little off and unable to talk about it, until he found his girlfriend holding up a cup of warm tea for him on the front porch…

“What you doing up? It’s late.” Steve said, sipping the tea and wrapped an arm around her.

“I couldn’t sleep…are you okay?” She asked, rubbing her hands.

“I will be..uh, Wanda showed me something back there..”

“You wanna talk about it?”

“Only if you tell me what she showed you..”

It was only fair. She nodded and went on to explain the horrors Wanda showed her, how helpless and vulnerable she felt as she remained stuck in a hopeless position at the hospital after her very brutal accident. Even if she looked at her physical scars and condition, it haunts her. Steve listened providing comfort to her. He then went on to share his own thoughts and feelings onto Wanda showed him, feeling scared and anxious about it all as he was thrown out into another era, the life was gone and a part of him stayed stuck there. Stella provided him comfort as she listened.

Everything went on kinda crazy after that as The Avengers, Young Avengers, SHIELD and whatever others assets helped to fight off Ultron and his bots. To save and protect as many people as they can. They won but lost a few things along the way.

The Avengers moved their location upstate. Steve and Tony talked about their life choices before going their separate ways. Steve said that family, stability and whatnot post-war times, that man died when he went into the ice 75 years ago. Someone else came out, feeling a sense of mourning and comfort that his life has changed forever. He had The Avengers to watch out for, a girlfriend now who he cared deeply and unlikely friendships. But the idea of having a wife and children stayed stuck in the back of his mind.

2016 — Things changed for the couple once again living in a new location. Stella was starting to take up magic, having been resistant to being a magic-user, as her brothers were more into that kind of stuff. She knew magic and spells, but she wasn’t one to really used that very often. But she decided it would be helpful. Steve was becoming more of a team leader, busy with meetings, creating a new team alongside the one he already had and making sure everyone was able to handle themselves. When neither of them were working, the couple was hanging out a lot more and wanted to take a larger step into their relationship such as officially moving in together.

Steve also had big plans in mind, he knew he wanted to one day marry his girlfriend. He wanted to put a ring on her finger and have her become a bigger part of the family. Hell, he hadn’t picked out a ring yet but he knew.

One morning, he suddenly found himself popping the question. Saying ‘Marry me?’ As Stella was looking for a new set of cups, she heard the words come out of his mouth and accidentally bumped her head on the kitchen cabinet. He winced asking if she was alright as she nodded turning around wanting to clear what he said clearly, he repeated his question and she just smiled. That’s all Steve needed to see to know her answer was ‘Yes.’ That, and the fact that she pressed a kiss to his lips and nodded softly.

As we know Civil War happened, which caused a major disruption to the team and family. It caused a rift between Steve and Stella, a mixture of screams, cries, tears and anger ran through them. Despite it all, they still managed to deeply love one another. However Steve had to leave with Sam and Natasha, not having much contact with her for over a year!

2017–2018 — Just rough time in general for the couple. They had limited access to talking or texting, however still managed to communicate and spend mail to one another. But it just hurt. It wasn’t easy! Stella was heartbroken and Steve wasn’t exactly feeling happy about this either. He was devastated and hurt that he left his fiancé.

When Thanos made his appearance, it wasn’t pretty. As Stella followed Bruce and a few others to The Avengers Compound, to talk to Rhodey and that’s when Steve, Nat and the rest of the crew appeared. To say Stella had a million thoughts running through her mind the moment she saw Steve was an understatement, but it didn’t all make sense to start bickering with him.

Especially after he pulled her into a thigh embrace the moment he saw her and kissed her face apologizing for everything he did, saying how she had ready right to be upset with him. She just wrapped her arms around him and cried a little, apologizing for not calling earlier as she was fighting Thanos children in New York.

He just chuckled and nodded, knowing they had bigger things at stake.

You know what happened, Thanos kicked ass despite everything the teams gave. They still lost.

2019–2023 — Post Thanos things went quiet. But they tried to make the best of it, just luck neither one of dusted. Steve thanked the heavens he didn’t have to watch his fiancé dust away. The two just spent a couple of days making up for the lost time, catching up and apologizing for everything. When they realize they couldn’t afford to fix the damage due to Thanos destroying the damn stones. Steve and half of the team returned to earth silently. It pained everyone.

But like I said, they tried to make the best of things, try to move on. In 2022, Steve decided to not wait any longer than he should’ve and asked Stella to actually marry him. He waited so long to make her his wife and he wasn’t even going to waste any longer, as Stella grinned that morning agreeing to the idea. A private little day for the two of them, as the couple went to the court house and filed for a marriage certificate, getting married right then and there. They knew one day they would have a grand ol’ wedding but a quiet little day to themselves is all they needed.

They were married, had an apartment together and were doing their best to help others feel comfortable in the world. Hosting support groups, going to food drives, heading out on smaller projects and making sure their friends were alright. Stella often visited Pepper meanwhile Steve went to Natasha.

But in 2023, Scott Lang showed up to change things for the better. You know what happened time heist, get back the gang together and fix things. And no, Steve didn’t leave his wife, Sam or Bucky for Peggy Carter when he returned the damn stones! He returned the stones to where they belong, saw Peggy happily with her spouse and family, went back to his old apartment in Brooklyn where he found a certain item then returned back to 2023. The item you may ask was an old leather brown jacket that he lost during The Battle a few days earlier that held a ring looped around his dog tags.

Phase 4 (2023–2024) — Steve and Stella were living in a different household in a similar neighborhood, helping to rebuild The Avengers Compound after it was destroyed and supporting families with the new changes. The two even considered on finally having a family of their own, the pair already had a dog. Might as well have a kid or two!

Which they did! Having adopted two beautiful children, a young teenager who has been in their radar for a while now as they foster and develop a relationship before two years prior. And another one, being a gorgeous little girl.

And I know what you’re asking, did Steve retire? Yes, yes he did. Steve knew for a while that he did not want to be Captain America forever, wanting to stay put and start a new project in his life. Of course he gave the opportunity to Sam Wilson to become Captain America and when he saw that John Walker was holding his shield and not Sam, the man was already to to pick a bone with his friends. Hell, he was ready to try and take down Walker himself after having gone through the five stages of grief watching the news.

“Honey! Have you seen my navy blue jacket and guns? That ones with the faded red stripe around the handle. ” Steve yelled from the closet as he went searching for his things.

“I think so! In the—wait why do you need your guns?!” Stella yelled from upstairs, as she untangled her curls.

“Just asking!”

“Steve what are you planning?!”

“Don’t worry about it!”

It took Stella to hold him down and hide his stuff in the basement, getting Kendall and their youngest to keep things in order or else Steve would’ve driven to get his hands on the man.

His wife had to distract him and take his mind off things to stop him from going to find his friends and get shit done himself. Luckily with two kids, a dog, housework to be done, groceries to buy and activities to do Steve was very much occupied. Thanks to Sam and Bucky they were able to get updates on how things were going, and finally once they got The Shield back, that’s when Stella gave Steve the opportunity to help out.

However thankfully Sam, Jason, Bucky and Liz handled the situation better than expected. Hell, Steve was able to sneak off in the background in his dark navy blue stealth suit to help and support them in the fight. He was even standing in the background when Sam appeared in the Captain America suit and shield, along with a pair of sleek wings to match grinning like an idiot.

Everyone and their mothers were watching on television when Sam Wilson made his flying debut in the Stars and Stripes, and they couldn’t be more prouder. Stella remembered how she was crying happy tears as she sat on the couch with her friends and family to watch everything go down. It was freaking amazing.

~~~~~

Ahhh! That was a lot, anyway I hope you guys like it. Pls let me know what you guys think 💭

Keep the chain going! Which couple is next? 💘

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[l0cal-catb0y]

Hero!Ghoap x God!Reader brainrot

this is mainly about ghoap cuz i didnt focus on them in the first post and they deserve love too!! and i wanna add backstory :33 based off this post i made and i think i want them to be childhood friends!! (its one of my favorite tropes im sorry </3)

once again this is just word vomit !! not my best but it must be shared :DD but also!! let me know if you have any ideas for what reader should be the god of cuz i really have no ideas and i wanna add more details to them!!

definingly have the vibe they would've meet by running into each other playing in a field when they were very young and just ended up sticking together. simon found comfort in johnny's presence and just sort of started following him everywhere he went with johnny just completely okay with dragging this boy around cuz!! he gets to have fun with his friend!! :DD sadly though they have to have reason to become fighters for plot reasons </33 their village gets destroyed, burnt and looted with few survivors left. theyre both distraught and angry with johnny openly wanting to track down the people behind the attack and fuck them up (simon too but hes silent about it) maybe johnny starts getting ready to start that hunt without telling anyone but simon can just read him perfectly and just pulls him aside to tell him that he's coming too.

I feel like along their hunt they would stop and take care of anyone that were causing issues, probably with just small trouble makers but as they become stronger and more experienced they deal with whole gangs of people (they end up getting the names ghost and soap along the way somehow) they become more renowned for their strength and victories that even cities far off know them!! im thinking the group that destroyed their village became an army and overconfident to the point of disrespecting the gods (probably not all but definitely some big ones) so when ghost and soap become bigger names they are given the upperhand with the backing of the gods who wish to put the group back into place. they basically get to the level of demigods !!

romance wise though,,, giggles,,, somewhere along their journey after a hard fight they would confess while patching each other up, the concern for each other far outweighing the fear of rejection <33 the gentle touch of making sure theyre still there and the whispers of love would be so soft after they know its a mutual love omg. their routines change a little afterwards too!! like simon giving johnny little trinkets to have in his pockets (probably something handmade when he cant sleep) and johnny braiding part of simon's hair before a fight (maybe he braids a piece of simon's hair into his own braid and his hair into simon's?)

I don't think they would actively worship one particular god? they would give offerings every so often as thanks for the blessing or in hope of getting some luck with something (finding info or just having good weather) but they are mainly on their own for the most part. yes they are favored more than others but it doesnt mean the gods really care about them yknow? they both know theyre just a means to an end for some of them :((

so when you start looking out for them theyre both just :OO you actually care about them outside of what they can do!! you help them with small things!! your watching eyes comfort simon when he cant sleep!! you guide johnny to peaceful areas for him to relax and draw at!! you send your associated animal to keep watch if they ever both crash after a fight!! they start to add stuff to their routines that relate to you in some way :33 making crafts of your symbols and having one with them for "good luck" or making a small spot for you at every camp they make or talking to you (aka the open air of your spot) about their plans and what they wanna do next!!

idk man brainrot and lack of sleep are getting to me!! im going to rotate these two in this au in my head for the next month ^-^

[cyclone-rachel]

MERRY CHRISTMAS PESKY

For once, Querl couldn’t think.

Inside of his mindscape, with Brainiac having taken over his body, he knew only pain- unable to move, or speak. He’d never meant for it to be this way… all he’d wanted was to find a way to save Kandor, to make up for the deeds of his ancestor in Superman’s eyes, and if he had to obtain some of said ancestor’s knowledge by accessing his code to do that, then so be it.

But it had not been that easy, and here he was, forced to watch what Brainiac was doing while using his image, his voice.

He would understand if Superman turned his back on him after what he’d done.

Which is why it surprised him so much when he didn’t.

~

Superman was here- him and Kell-El, somehow.

(If they got out of this, he would have to ask.)

Brainiac was speaking to them, attacking them. Of course.

But… then they became one being, and they- he- was up again, still fighting. The best of both Supermen, still defending him against Brainiac.

“Humanity?” he heard Brainiac ask. “He was a robot, Kryptonian.”

“Brainy may not have been human.” Superman said. “But he had the biggest heart I’ve ever seen. He was a hero- my hero!”

That stirred a spark of recognition in Querl- he knew those words. He’d programmed them into his simulation, scripted the encounter between him and Superman after he sacrificed himself defending the Kryptonian, with nearly that exact phrase being the last words he heard from him before passing away.

Did Superman know? Had he seen?

Or…

Did he just know Superman better than he thought possible?

Those thoughts spurred Querl on- he now had to regain himself.

And in ways he had not even thought possible, he did.

~

Querl still wasn’t truly able to be among the other Legionnaires yet- he had too much to answer for, there were too many questions and stares whenever he entered a room, too many possibilities for where conversations could go that could end uncomfortably. Ever since some of them had found out what the first Brainiac did, he thought they had looked at him differently, but that was nothing compared to this.

However, there was still one Legionnaire he wanted to see, and luckily enough said person was also willing to be around him, and would hopefully answer his question.

“Superman?” he asked, knocking on the door of his quarters- and grateful yet again that Clark had chosen to stay a little longer after Brainiac’s defeat. “Can we talk?”

As an answer, the door opened, and Querl stepped in.

“Brainy! What’s up?” Clark asked, rising from where he’d been sitting on his bed. “You feeling alright?”

“Yes, but… I did want to talk about what happened.” Querl said. “While we were inside my mind.”

Clark scowled, an uncharacteristic expression on what was usually such a kind face. “Brainiac…”

He placed a hand on Brainy’s shoulder, gaze now protective.

“I’m so sorry he hurt you.” He said.

“Yes.” He said again. “But I was more referring to what you said to him. About…”

His face flushed, and Clark squeezed his shoulder.

“About me being your hero.” He finished. “What made you say that?”

“It’s true.” Clark answered, and Querl could only stare up at him. “Seeing what he did to you… standing up to him must have taken a ton of strength. I respect you so much- and I have since we met. You’re the one who taught me to be a hero in the first place.”

“You mean you didn’t hear those words before?” Querl asked, deciding to be direct about it. “Somewhere else?”

“No.” Clark said. “They just… felt right. And they were, given what happened afterward.”

“I agree.”

“Wait.” He said. “Had you heard them before? How was that possible?”

Querl smiled, and offered his hand to Clark, which of course he took.

“I need to show you something.” He said. “Follow me.”

So Clark did, and on they went to the simulation room, where Querl loaded up the program he’d spent so much time refining, the scene he’d practically lived in following Clark’s departure to the 21st century. He told Computo to play it, and together they watched as simulated versions of them fought off the Dominators, at first having the upper hand until one of them took aim at Clark. Watched as the hologram of Querl dove in front of him, and upon getting fatally wounded, told Clark to finish the job- and when he did, rushing to his side, swooping down and immediately taking his hand, comforting him in his last moments.

And Querl watched, as Clark’s eyes widened, seeing a simulated version of himself virtually repeat what he’d said in real life.

(it had sounded even better coming from him in reality)

~

As the music faded and the simulation cut out, though, Clark didn’t seem happy.

“Why?” he asked. “What made you think you’d have to do that? Sacrifice yourself for me?”

“You would do the same for me.” Brainy said. “And you nearly did, going into my mind without any thought to your safety, attempting to save me from Brainiac.”

“But you saved me instead.” Clark finished. “You really are my hero.”

Querl smiled, but Clark still didn’t.

“But… I think we can make a better simulation.” He said, expression finally softening. “One that doesn’t end in you dying. Don’t you think?”

“I have the perfect idea.”

~

When Garth looked at the active simulation from outside, he expected Brainy to be in the room- he knew how much time he’d spent in there while Superman was gone, and it still made sense for him to be taking some alone time in that same room… even if the last time he was controlling things, it had been Brainiac pulling the strings in his head.

What he didn’t expect was for the simulation to have nothing to do with fighting at all- instead, Brainy and Superman were sitting at a table in the middle of the room, having dinner.

As he continued to watch, they finished dinner- and then they were dancing, Superman leading the way, taking Brainy through the steps.

And in no time at all, they’d stopped, and then they were kissing. Clark held Brainy in his arms, and Brainy’s arms were thrown around Clark’s neck.

Garth turned away, smirking. It had been obvious to most of the team- at least those who went on assignment with them together, anyway- that Brainy had had the biggest crush on Superman since he’d come to their time. The other simulations had only added to that, and he and several of his teammates had even taken bets on when exactly they were going to just kiss already and get it over with.

But there was also always something pulling Brainy back- that Clark had to go back to his time, to his own life and his own relationships. He had to grow up into the Superman they mythologized in museums, the greatest hero of all time, the one their team was built on the legacy of. Their relationship couldn’t last- easier for Brainy to just suffer in silence, create holograms and program scenarios of what could have been.

Besides, it was easier to tease Brainy about it this way.

“So, guess you and Superman skipped past saving the day this time, and got right to the fun stuff?” he asked as Brainy left the room. “I would too.”

“Something like that.” Brainy said, smiling, as he walked past Garth.

A moment later, the door opened again, and Superman stepped out.

The real Superman.

“You were- that was- you’re really-“

“His idea.” Brainy and Clark said in unison, and Clark held Brainy’s hand again as they left the simulation room behind.

[lucyav13]

Pixels

They were created by a powerful wizard from the tribe of the ancients, 3,000 years ago before the events of Spm. To create them he transferred a spirit into a vessel (the soul of his daughter, whose game was ended). It is said that he thus created 12 Pixels like this before he passed away. But his apprentices kept researching Pixls after his game ended... They learned to create many more Pixls based on his original 12.

These Pixls became widely used as 'thinking tools' for the grateful Ancients. Through the work of many Pixls, the Ancients prospered as they never had before.

But, that old technology has been lost and the remaining pixels have been scattered (until Mario manages to gather the original 11 pixels).

The truth is that they are more useful than any tool. They can think for themselves, and that's not always a good thing. The ancients feared that they would end up not obeying their creators. They say that the personality of the pixelites was created for that reason. There were some pixls that were very, very intelligent. But something terrible happened and the personality of the Pixls changed.

                                                                                        Pixl Queen 

Despite the Pixl Queen being the first Pixl ever created, she seemed to stay largely quiet for what is thought to be 1,000 years after the creation of the Pixels. However, seemingly long after the passing of her creator (the powerful magician who invented the process of Pixl-making), the Pixl Queen (then of an unknown name) finally rose into power, renaming herself with her only known name of "Pixl Queen." She then began to use her powers of mind control to manipulate all Pixls, causing them to eventually enslave most of the Tribe of Ancients (who were ironically once their masters) in her name. However, the owners of the magician's twelve original Pixl creations managed to somehow escape this Pixl Uprising and started to fight against the rebellious Pixls, containing them within Catch Cards and healing them. In the end, only one of these heroic Ancients survived, and he traveled with only his Pixl friends to the Pixl Queen's castle.

Once he arrived at the stronghold, he confronted the dark Pixl Queen herself, who immediately hid from the hero and shot a barrage of disturbing images to his mind telepathically. Although this greatly weakened the Ancient hero, one of his Pixls helped him through the tragedy and ended up  defeating the Pixl Queen itself, although it was destroyed in the process of doing so. Afterwards, it was shockingly revealed to the hero who owned the Pixl that the Pixl Queen was the first created of the Pixls (perhaps created even earlier than the magician's so-called "original" twelve Pixls) and that the magician's motives for creating her involved the study of the Dark Prognosticus. The Ancient survivor, attempting to stop such a tragedy as the Pixl Uprising from ever happening again, then took the Dark Prognosticus with himself to unknown parts, likely founding the Tribe of Darkness known to once have possessed the dark book. Afterwards, the Pixl Queen's mutinous efforts led to the fall of the Tribe of Ancients and the outlawing of Pixl creation.

Though these are the only known actions of the seemingly late Pixl Queen, more is indeed known about the Pixl herself. Although the spirit united with the Pixl vessel that formed the Pixl Queen had previously been described as "demonic", Carson later stated that a certain one of the magician's apprentices books revealed that the Pixl Queen's spirit was actually derived from a human rather than a demon. It was on this principle that Carson theorized that the Pixl Queen's spirit may have been that of the magician's own daughter (who did indeed get a Game Over during her father's life due to a deathly illness), although he later seemed to have not been sure about this theory in his statement that the author disavowed it. It is also unknown if the Pixl Queen had any helpful ability, although she was indeed able to control all Pixls and used the power of telepathy in her battle against the Ancient survivor, making these possible ability candidates.

My theory: The Pixl Quenn is Shadoo. The Pixl Queen was created by an Ancient, and after developing a grudge against her people due to how they used the Pixls, she attempted to overthrow the Ancients by taking control of the Pixls. The Pixl Queen was also said to have "powers of illusion", which she used to hide from sight. Shadoo similarly despises the Ancients and wished to use the Heroes' Pixl companions to exact its revenge, and is capable of hiding itself, the Warp Pipe leading to it, and the various clones. The details of the Pixl Queen's fate is not revealed, with Carson only stating that she was "defeated" and the Dark Prognosticus "taken from her" after her defeat; this makes it possible that she survived the battle. (Yes, i made that fanart, do you like it?)

Trivia: In a pre-release version of Super Paper Mario, a ladder-like Pixl that did not make it into the final game can be found. This Pixl would have been used to flip Mario to 3D, as revealed by unused Pixl data within the game's files.

(A/N): Tell me what you think of my theories. I would like to read them!

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for lying to my field trip partner and ruining his dreams?

Alright so, for context - I was in this field trip to a village to learn about the local legend for my assignment and I partnered up with a boy from another school that grew up in the village (Let's call him K).

He was awfully shy, but he seemed very nice, and it was really, really obvious that he adores the legend... though he was self-conscious talking about it since he was a big fan of the ogre that everyone was afraid of instead of the heroes of the story the townsfolk adored. But I didn't see anything wrong with having an opinion and I liked how happy he was talking about it and wanting to be its friend so I thought we were off to a good start of a friendship.

Now, here's where it all starts; At the local festival, I somehow ran into the actual ogre from the legend with K's older sister (let's call her C). The ogre dropped her mask and ran off scared. And the first thing C said after we realized who we just met was that she wanted to lie about encountering K's literal childhood idol because she was worried he'd act recklessly like chase after it in the mountains during the middle of the night.

I thought that was unfair but... guys, C has some serious anger management issues, she freaked me out too much to try risking it. Even if she wasn't actually planning to shove a ball of poison gas in my mouth, I was scared she'd get a stroke or something with how often she shakes in rage.

Not only that, but when we brought the mask to their grandpa, he came to tell us a whole bombshell about how everything we know about the legend is a complete lie... and then proceeded to ALSO tell us not to tell K the truth.

At this point, this felt more like a family matter that I wasn't sure I had the right to intervene on. So when he came up to me afterwards and asked me what I was up to... I went ahead and ended up lying to him.

He... really didn't take it very well.

He thought we were maliciously leaving him out on things and making fun of him behind his back... Which wasn't true - the ogre just dropped her mask and we wanted to have it fixed and return it to her - but considering how harshly C speaks to him, I can't blame him that much?

I apologized when the cat eventually was out of the bag, but then the ogre was intimidated about meeting someone new and hid behind me when K tried to give her mask back... He didn't take that very well either...

He challenged me to battle a couple of times but each time, he didn't take the losses very well. It wasn't like it was from a lack of trying because his team was genuinely getting better from every challenge. K was getting so upset about things that it was starting to make C worried.

A looooot of things happened throughout but it'd take too long to cover it all. But long story short, we all came to set things right for the ogre, clear her name, and went to return her home. But it turned out, she actually wanted to stay with me and have me become her new owner. K.... REALLY didn't take that very well.

K believed that the ogre would've acknowledged him and be his friend if he became stronger. So he wanted to battle me for the right to have the ogre as her new owner. C tried to talk him down about it since it was the ogre's choice but he really wanted to prove himself.

I thought it would've been much more worse if I held back since he was taking this very seriously, so I had my team hit his with all we got on that battle.

Well... he accepted the loss. But he was very obviously upset about it, and the next day he refused to come out of his room or even say goodbye when he and C had to go back to their boarding school. So it's been kind of a lot to take in these past few days...

So uhm... guys, AITA?

[linkedkeysau-official]

I'm obsessed with Hyrule right now and you've written so much for him lately! Please tell me about the boi <3

Aaaaa another one I've been excited to talk about!!!

-Hyrule is half fairy. His mother was a Great Fairy. He has not seen her in a very long time, though. All of the Great Fairy fountains have been sealed off for their own protection, as Ganon's followers attacked and attempted to kill the Great Fairies for aiding the hero. The smaller fairies, Hyrule's half-sisters and cousins, are still around, however, and still willing to help.

-Hyrule is trans, ftm. I thought it made sense, given that nearly all fairies are girls (plus I wanted more queer bois). Though strangely, presenting himself as a boy began as simply a disguise for his own safety, as it was especially dangerous for a young girl to be running around on her own. It's just that over time, he began to realize that was his true self and he was much happier that way, so he went on living his life as a boy named Link, a name chosen after the many heroes before him.

-Hyrule is also AroAce. Not interested in romance (or anything more) in the slightest. All he wants is a friend.

-He is completely unfazed by blood, unless it's his own. Having to look at a really deep, bad, bleeding wound in order to heal it? Perfectly fine. Accidentally cuts his finger while sharpening his sword? He's lucky if he doesn't faint.

-Hyrule has severe anxiety (totally not projecting here wdym). He is constantly worried about everything. Constantly on edge. So high-strung, you'd think he was about to explode. This served him well in the years where he was on the run, as it kept him out of danger. But it became a great concern once he had the rest of the Chain to protect him, especially when it was causing his self esteem to go through the floor. He's... Working on it.

-He can't handle spice. Like at all. He can hardly handle regular pepper in his food. Goron Spice? Forget about it. Of course he'd eat it no matter what, because he's learned to never waste food growing up in a barren wasteland where edible things were fairly hard to come by. But excessive amounts of spice will make him sick, and his mouth will not stop burning for hours afterward.

-He can't swim, read, or cook. Given that his father died when he was young, and he literally lived in a cave for most of his childhood before spending years on the run, he never bothered to learn any of that. Not that it was that badly needed on his quests, where all he had to do was fight monsters, help people, and navigate dungeons. But it definitely made things a bit more difficult later on...

-Hyrule still holds the entire Triforce, and he is the only one of the Links who does.

-Despite everything he's been through, Hyrule is somehow the most innocent of the Links. Of course this also comes with childish behavior and absolutely no social skills, but he refused to let bad experiences corrupt his mind, and finds beauty in everything.

-He needs to eat extra sugary foods in order to keep his magic replenished. His fairy heritage makes him much more gifted with magic than the other heroes, but at the cost of needing additional nourishment, specifically that for fairies, in order to maintain his full magical potential. Honey does make for a suitable substitute, however.

-in addition to his extensive spell list and ability to use magic, he is also able to sense magic of various types, and even track it to its source. This makes it easier for him to find his way back to the others if (when) he gets lost... But also good for getting him into trouble, as he often feels compelled to follow trails of dark magic as well for investigation purposes.

-He cries. A lot. Very emotional, soft boi.

-He does not like to fight. He's a healer. He's always wanted to be a healer. Of course he will fight if he has no choice, but usually he will try to talk things out first (rarely works, as again, he has no social skills) and if the opportunity presents itself, he will run. However, if one of his friends is threatened, he will absolutely obliterate the threat.

-since meeting the Chain, he can no longer sleep without cuddling someone. Usually it's either Sky or Legend. He is also the only person Legend can tolerate unsolicited hugs from.

-despite his extremely sweet disposition, he can be quite strict when it comes to his teammates' health. He is the only one who can overpower the stubbornness of even Legend, Four, and Time. Even if he'd never hurt any of the other heroes in his sometimes-forceful caretaking, when he says you need to sit down and rest, you better fucking do that.

And finally,

-his Link dolls (the extra lives you can get in AoL) double as anxiety plushies. He only had one left at the time of Linked Keys, and that one got used up during the adventure, however. BUT because of this, Legend actually made a new one for him. It doesn't have the same revival magic as the old one, but it still works perfectly fine to hug when he's nervous.

[pico-digital-studios]

Into, Across and Beyond! Cast: ChaosIIUniverse Sonic and Sonia

Replaces: Peter B. Parker / Webb-verse Spidey (CU!Sonic) and Mayday Parker (CU!Sonia) Created by: ToonsiteComics

"Here's the one you've been waiting for!" - CU!Sonic

"The name is Sonia Rose, and I'm here to kick your asses straight to jail!" - CU!Sonia

A Sonic in the Blur Gang who's actually started a family? Who'd have thought it?

ChaosIIUniverse Sonic is the lead hero of his dimension, and after marrying his Amy Rose, they had a daughter together, affectionately named Sonia Rose, who takes after both her father and mother.

However, due to some unknown circumstances, Amy passed away, leaving Sonic a single father as he raised Sonia on his own. He taught her about swimming (which involved giving her LOTS of floaties), was there for her when choosing the right preschool (taking offense to any that didn't have chilli dogs on the lunch menu), comforting her when she had been bullied in school, scolding her when she accidentally breaks some stuff, and even teaching her stuff like how to tie her shoelaces.

This checking, of course, goes both ways, with Sonia herself keeping tabs on her dad to ensure he's not trying to get another spouse without her permission, even confiscating a chilli dog when he's caught texting Elise. Seems like that controlling side of Amy rubbed off on her daughter.

When some thieves started wreaking havoc around Sonic's home city, however, he had to be away from home a lot more, which inspired Sonia to try and help to make her dad proud. For instance, she showed up and intruded on a bank robbery, somehow stealing the robbers' weapons AND their bomb when their guards were dropped. Granted, she didn't know how to disarm the bomb afterwards, but Sonic arrived in good time to send it straight to the nearest desert.

Unfortunately, the thieves escaped with the cash, and Sonic felt upset with his daughter for jeopardising that mission and getting herself into danger. Once he realised her motivations for doing so, however, he calmed down and felt sorry himself for his upset, considering she's one of the few reasons why he's still going, especially after the loss of his wife. The two hugged it out and made up, with Sonic promising to spend more time with her if she doesn't try to save the day alone again.

Which brings us to the point of More than One Universe, when the duo are the second ones brought in when OMT!Tails ran off alone. When they found him, he's the second one to chime in about his loss, assuring the kid he wasn't alone in losing someone close to him.

With CU!Sonia still wanting to learn how to be a hero without getting herself in danger, Nitro offered to share his knowledge with her in a special training course, whilst CU!Sonic actively got involved in curing the rogue villains.

“I can relate to what [Nitro] just said. I lost Amy a while back when we had Sonia as a daughter. She was my Mina… It took me a while to move on from then and cope as a single father. Ever since, I kept trying to be the carefree hero she saw me as, but it became tough as time went on. Sonia was all I had left to call family. You shouldn’t have to experience that same darkness.”

During that time, he was even there for Errorverse Sonic, who was also carrying the burden of almost losing everyone he loved to Toxinfect, an event that scarred that version of the Blue Blur for life. The poor guy wasn't afraid to sob in CU!Sonic's arms after venting about it.

After all of that, CU!Sonic and CU!Sonia became the ninth and tenth official members of the Blur Gang, with Sonia tagging along with her father to ensure he's safe, and vice versa.

A temporary point in the Quill Society had them goofing around with Lost Memory Sonic a bit. As you can tell, the hedgehog is not that amused at the father and daughter's silly antics, but still tolerates it.

[anghraine]

Hi! I was curious how you got into GW1?

Hello!

My family has always been super into both gaming and SF/F (leaning more towards fantasy on my end). I grew up with games like Secret of Mana, Might and Magic VII, Alpha Centauri, etc. A friend of the family recommended Guild Wars (later Prophecies) to my parents not long after it first came out.

We were like ... well, okay, we'll try it out since there's no subscription (a big deal at the time!), and were blown away by pre-Searing Ascalon—the scenery, the Jeremy Soule score ("Autumn in Ascalon" <3333), most of the mechanics of the game. Somehow, I missed all the broad hints that doom was coming and was just happily tripping along with my beautiful mesmer when the Searing started. I was deeply horrified, and even more horrified at what Ascalon became afterwards—RIP, sunflowers and trees and rivers :((((—and then didn't realize that all the efforts to fight back against the conquest while surviving amidst dust and ash were hopelessly doomed.

It doesn't feel grimdark or fundamentally dystopic, but I'd never played a game before where you're trying to avert a catastrophe and fail, and then trying to stand against a conquest and gradually realize you're not going to be able to and the story is going somewhere else altogether. That was really different for me, and then after two cool but largely unrelated expansions, returning to that arc in EOTN was all the more engaging for me.

So that mixture of the (to me) compelling bones of the story and world building + enjoyment of the primary-secondary class and skillbar mechanics (esp as a mesmer primary) + the beautiful art and music made it one of my favorite games. Even little things were so much fun, like building up hero companions after Nightfall and mixing dyes to try and get exactly the right colors. I do still play sometimes, but as much as I love GW2, I do miss the GW1 heyday!

[bulgariansumo]

Still doing the Space Channel 5 AU. Here’s Space Channel 7 Part 2!

It comes with more bios!

Oh yeah, I should probably link to Part 1.

Edit: Here’s a link for Kinda Funky News Flash.

E-Clipse - 22. Struggling newbie reporter at Space Channel 7. Him saving the universe was seen as a lucky break + the news cycle moves so fast that it became irrelevant quickly. Still, he reports with a wink, a smile, and smooth moves.

Big Ben - E-Clipse’s former supervisor and current CEO of Space Channel 7. Still tries to help him out when he can. (Unfortunately, I couldn’t fit him in.

Mr. KK - 34. E-Clipse’s current supervisor, selected by Big Ben himself. A supportive though cautious man, he retains a professional demeanor in all situations, which he may’ve acquired during his time as technical difficulty staff. 

Lunar - 22. Worked on a spaceship E-Clipse rescued during the previous invasion and has been a fan ever since. Most of the ship crew got laid off afterwards, which led him to apply for a job at Space Channel 7. Due to budget cuts, E-Clipse’s automated recording set up got replaced with a manual one, with Lunar as a one-man show. Despite it all, E-Clipse is glad to have someone along for the ride. What Lunar lacks in rhythm, he makes up for in sheer heart. Somehow he remains starstruck even when E-Clipse puts on his clothes inside-out.

Maiomai - 19. Prodigy pianist with a plot to make the universe dance to her music and hers alone. Has an army of robots do her bidding. They’re also programmed to praise her every action.

Hirokage - Maiomai’s field operative, meaning he does all the dirty work for her. Sleek and mysterious, he’s a fearsome foe with fiercer moves. Can a robot really have that much style?

Valala and Leileoi - Mysterious beings with some kind of influence on Maiomai, and not for the better.

The Kosmics - 31, 27, 25. Trio of superstar siblings who once saved the universe with singing, music, and dance moxie. Maiomai is kidnapping them to eliminate the competition. Unfortunately for her, rarely are they all in the same place. (I wasn’t able to fit all of them in either)

L-Capitan - 23. He got laid off from his spaceship piloting job and now works as a traffic officer. VERY passionate about traffic laws. He doesn’t understand why he can’t just arrest people when they break the law, but he takes his drum battles seriously.

Jaywalker 1 - 30. Real name Killa. Prisoner and backup drummer for L-Capitan. Despite the name, he’s not a killer, but a thief. His last heist came to an unexpected end when he tried to escape through traffic. He seems to have plans to make a run for it. 

Jaywalker 2 - 19. Real name Jell-O. Prisoner and backup drummer for L-Capitan. An unfortunate soul who thought he could cross an empty part of the street with no crosswalk. Not on L-Capitan’s watch!

Rox - Not much new to say about her other than that she has a guitar. She also has a new camerawoman, not because Space Channel 22 had budget cuts, but because she was jealous that E-Clipse had a little camera buddy. Like before, she’s willing to put aside competition to defeat a greater foe. 

Hero - 23. Went on a special solo mission a while ago. According to the other Space Sentai, he hasn’t been heard from since.

[reheheeheeeeeeeeereee]

Since you were a child, you were comedic relief. Always telling the right jokes at the right times, making everyone laugh. You were bouncing off the walls with bubbly joy and hilarity.

When you got to high school, your humor only grew. You were quieter, less bubbly, but still hilarious. From one-liners to elaborate pranks, no one could stop laughing when you were with them. If they were down, they went to you-and somehow, you never failed them.

You realized what this meant. You realized that your dreams of being a comedian, dreams of being able to stand onstage and land those jokes perfectly with your name in posters and people buying out the stands, that was possible. Maybe even inevitable.

When you started out, basically no one noticed you. You were some teenage nobody making TikToks to land a gig before college. Someone who could make people smile at their phones, chuckle a little-but you weren’t big.

Not until Ivy found you.

At first she just DMed you on Insta. She said you were funny; that she was a scout for one of the Hero’s associations. Looking to bring in some new talent. She told you that this wasn’t normal, that the jokes popping into your head and scribbled in the margins of your tests was a power.

You shrugged. That was all you could do. It didn’t matter, really; in a world of people who could bend steel and read minds and change shapes, the ability to make the perfect joke meant next to nothing. You’d even begun to suspect it was a power-just wished it was a better one.

Ivy had smiled, told you that even if it seemed useless-even if you couldn’t join the Young Minor Hero’s Association, the YMHA would love to have you on a stage.

You protested at first. In a room with people like that, they’d just make fun of you. You wouldn’t mean anything. But Ivy’s smile reached her friendly eyes and what else did you have, so you said yes.

It went better than even you thought it would. Some scrawny high school senior on a stage surrounded by heroes? But they laughed. They did. And a few of the mentors, the older heroes-they even shook your hand afterward.

So begun your career as a superpowered comedian.

They spread the news-news of a bright young student. Hilarious kid, they said. Show next week-you should go. And soon enough theaters were inviting you, contacting you. Saying, “hey, we heard you’re pretty funny. Magic, even.”

When Cal State reached out to you, you were stunned. This power that started out as just some inside jokes with your friends actually got you somewhere. You were still landing gigs, doing shows- making enough money to rent a little apartment near Henry Beach. Start your own little life.

College was okay. Yeah, you were doing great-making money, cozy place, good grades-but there were whispers. Sometimes even blatant insults.

“You shouldn’t be here,” they said. “You don’t even have an actual power. It’s a hobby. It won’t get you anywhere.” And it only got worse and worse the more famous you became.

“World’s Best Comedian,” the headlines said, but they also said “making people laugh: a real power? Experts say no.” They also said, “college kid thinks power will win them life.” They also said “flimsy ‘power’ questioned more and more.”

The first time you did it you were at lunch. Surrounded by your laughing childhood friends, a goofy grin on your face as you crammed potato chips down your throat before your test. And someone had come up to you.

“It’s you?” She sneered. “That’s it? Some hero. Not even a suit. Oh, wait-that’s probably because your ‘powers’ don’t matter, huh?”

Her gang of buck toothed girlfriends let out agonizing cackles and she threw me a cold, icy smile. You wanted, so badly, to snatch that laughter away as easily as you caused it. To reverse your powers. So you did.

Suddenly there was no laughter. No cackle. Eyes wide, the girls scrabbled at their throats, letting out murmured “what?”s.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOP IT!” their leader shrieked. You only smirked. Serves them right.

But it only got worse. You were still running shows, but the more famous you became the more haters. The more people showing up with signs that said ‘not real powers’ and ‘you don’t matter’.

When you graduated college it was the worst. Everyone in the corridors and streets flying and using superpowers and telekinesis and whatever other crazy power they had. You did nothing. They saw you, and some gave you sympathetic looks, some patronizing. Some rolled their eyes or blatantly whispered, not bothering to look anywhere other than you.

Your teachers gave you encouraging smiles and you got this, honeys, but you knew. Your powers meant next to nothing.

They were growing, though. Without even trying you could strike laughter into people and take it away from others. You started experimenting, doing it to larger and larger groups at a time, then causing your roommate to burst into uncontrollable laughter from two rooms down. And yet, no one truly cared. Believed in you. Saw anything other than the teenage comedian.

Until you broke.

Until the laughter and the teasing got too much. Until they all hated you for little to no reason and told you you didn’t matter, and you’d amount to nothing. That your powers were meaningless.

They were only meaningful when you couldn’t bear it anymore. Only meaningful when you decided to show them-when you snatched up the teasing laughter and you didn’t let it go and in a horrified moment the world lost it all.

No one was laughing then.

You have a completely useless superpower in a world full of amazing superpowers. You have been a laughing-stock for years, until you started using your powers for evil… nobody is laughing now.

[denisezd0]

Academic Blog #5

I will be choosing one of my favourite sad romance movie posters as a media object to analyse.

The film is ONE DAY Below are the posters I found about each country's choices.

United Kingdom

South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Hong Kong, China

Georgia

Thailand

United States of America

I still think the male lead is handsome, even though I'm a little numb after seeing so many posters in similar and different sizes. Please forgive me for being a nymphomaniac.

Production began on 15 July 2010, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by author David Nicholls. It tells the story of two people who have graduated from the same university, at the beginning of a graduation ceremony prepared for them by the university. Taking advantage of this frenzy, Dexter searches for someone special to spend his last night of revelry and romance with. He sets his sights on Emma. However, after a brief exchange, nothing happens between them. For the next 20 years, they met on this day every year just to meet and talk about each other's lives. Dexter went through the ups and downs of his career and marriage, while Emma savoured the sadness of life at the bottom. They are soulmates with hearts of gold, hearts of gold but furthest apart. The theme of the film seemed to tell me a love story for one day of the year.

One of the things that surprised me was that this poster was different from other such rich film posters. I have looked for many photos and almost all of them have this one of the male and female protagonists kissing on the street as the background, so I can venture a guess that, firstly, the place where this kiss took place must have been a special place that made it memorable for the male and female protagonists. According to the plot of the film, it proves that this is the street where they kissed for the first time after graduation that day. Secondly, its hazy architectural backdrop and ambiguous texture made me speculate if their relationship wasn't that established yet, could it be a chance encounter? Then the film shows that the heroine is seen as having a crush on a guy in college, and I'm indicating that she's seeing as being a little nervous by the body language of the poster where she gently grips as she embraces the kiss.

Thirdly, and most importantly, the male and female protagonists walk in opposite directions, with a sense of brushing shoulders and kissing goodbye, echoing the slightly sad ending of the film - i.e., approaching from afar, then meeting, falling In love, and ultimately somehow leaving. The course of the film indicates that for a year afterwards, Emma worked as a waitress in a London restaurant and wrote her own literature. Dexter, on the other hand, is a presenter of a programme and becomes successful and wealthy. The next year, Dexter and his wife Selvie, whom he married through pregnancy, had a daughter, whom he began to care for as Selvie fornicated with an old friend of hers, Clem. A divorce eventually ensued. In the meantime, Emma broke up with Ian and became a writer. Emma had a new boyfriend and Dexter was devastated and ready to leave when Emma chased after him in time to kiss him deeply and passionately by the river. One afternoon, while cycling out of an alleyway, Emma is violently sideswiped by a lorry and is put to sleep for eternity.

Fourthly, what is amazing is the movement of the hero and heroine, as at the moment just before the climax in the picture, the folds on the clothes move as if the wind is fluttering. The costumes are also fresh, young and slim-looking, like the youthful flavour of first love.

As we know, film posters are mainly used for film publicity, and the symbols are mainly created artistically using painting, writing and photography. It can predict and indicate the plot of the film more accurately, and convey its artistic influence and the central idea of the film review. One day the slogan "twenty years two people" deepens the mystery of the film given by the poster, two people twenty years, what kind of two people how to twenty years? What kind of two people?

The compositions representing visual culture in ONE DAY are visual images taken by the cinematographer reflecting visual culture, the main background is a man and a woman kissing on the street, and the ideology covers the purpose and concept of the design. The film revolves around the love story of two men. The beautifully crafted images are used as a marketing and promotional tool to capture the viewer's attention.

I also saw another layer of meaning that posters bring to the table in an article written by Gary Don of Roz. The article writes that the general function of a film poster is not to advertise individual films or genres but to herald the simple fact that a film is being shown in a particular venue. I think this is the commercial purpose of the poster as a media object.

The experimental method of classifying film posters into multi-labelled genres through the Gram layer makes film posters less mysterious and summarises the different types of posters. For the action genre, weapons such as guns and knives received attention. For the adventure genre, characters were mainly focused on the animation genre, with an emphasis on showing animated characters or titles. The fantasy genre also showed a focus on characters. The comedy and drama genres generally focus on characters and atmosphere. The horror, suspense, and thriller genres emphasise a sense of gloom throughout the poster, depicting an atmosphere of terror. Romantic films show a focus on characters with many posters featuring a man and a woman. The sci-fi genre focuses on the background and characters, reflecting the atmosphere of the poster.

References

Yang, S. (2023) ‘Analysis of top box office film poster marketing scheme based on data mining and deep learning in the context of film marketing’, PloS one, 18(1), pp. e0280848–e0280848.

Rhodes, G.D. (2007) ‘The Origin and Development of the American Moving Picture Poster’, Film history (New York, N.Y.), 19(3), pp. 228–246.

WI, J.A., Jang, S. and KIM, Y.B. (2020) ‘Poster-based Multiple Movie Genre Classification Using Inter-Channel Features’, IEEE access, 8, pp. 1–1.

Mahlknecht, J. (2015) ‘Three words to tell a story: The movie poster tagline’, Word & image (London. 1985), 31(4), pp. 414–424.

[ericmhe]

Probably the last of these. Originally it was just going to be four, but this one was actually asked for. Anyway, there's only the one main design for Biollante and while there are some others from video games or toys they're usually pretty slight variations on a theme.

Hero - 'Cartoon series' redesign

Since the conceit is that the friendlier designs come from a fictional cartoon series that managed to license most of the Toho kaiju the idea is that Biollante was such a victim of executive meddling, insistence on making female kaiju distinct even though the artists pointed out it's not obvious is most reptiles and not really relevant in giant monsters. As such it resulted in her design heavily relying on Biollante's initial flower form to feminize the creature's appearance. It had the unfortunate side effect that she wasn't used very often mostly out of protest. Early concept art was much cooler looking and when it leaked online the assorted takes became the default for fanart over what was used in the show.

Biollante might not have gotten to do that much, but a lot of it was fairly memorable when she was allowed to get in on the action and a writer managed to sneak in a Biollante & Mothra focused episode. Said episode is rather divisive with some loving it and others hating it but that does make it one that's remembered.

Horror Setting -

This one's a pretty easy call, Biollante's an unholy mishmash of heavily unrelated creatures so just play it up. A reliable horror thing is to distort humanity into something barely or even entirely unrecognizable, so putting a bit more human into Biollante's look felt like an obvious way to make her more disturbing. I had considered kind of making the vines out of hands but I knew I'd never draw that and dropped it quickly. The consistent fear reaction the hand enemies from Legend of Zelda get did kind of push me into keeping the vines ending in hands though, the most recent as of making this are the Gloom Hands, so we can consider them an inspiration here.

The creation of Biollante is one of the weirder kaiju origin stories, but when the creature changed from seemingly peaceful to another violent giant few were surprised. The tendency for many kaiju to resurrect somehow after apparent death meant few were shocked when Biollante reformed after her first battle. What was shocking was the creature's apparent reclaimed human component, seemingly Biollante had become benign to humans. It wasn't the case however, eventually it was discovered that small populations had been wiped out after inhaling Biollante spores and sprouting vines that joined with the main body. The monster found itself in battle with another kaiju shortly afterwards and towards the end became less coordinated and more animalistic as her power was drained. This became a cycle and in spite of seriously skeptical individuals it became impossible to deny that Biollante paradoxically gains a level of intelligence and compassion for humans after feeding on them. Nearly all psychics refuse to be anywhere near Biollante for long and have come to serve as something of an early warning system for the plant monster's respawning, but few believe them when they claim Biollante is a soul-eater, some kind of mass delusion caused by the foulness of contact with an alien monster mind tinted with human consciousness.

Shame I didn't pull of finishing this yesterday, would have been a fun coincidence. Oh well.

[enchantedbrew]

۞ Kaoru Rindo Info ۞

Name: Kaoru Rindo

Age: 42

Gender/Pronouns: M | He/him/his

Orientation: Biromantic bisexual

Height: 5'10 (180 cm)

Notable Physical Features: N/A

Trigger Warnings: Violent content, anxiety/depression, dark themes, nsfw/nsft

Likes: Enchante’s coffee, sentai hero action films, non-humans (secretly), cooking, entertaining guests, driving in his car

Dislikes: Overtime, threats of non-humans, the GPM higher ups, instant coffee, unnecessary risk

Appearance:

TLDR: Kaoru Rindo is a friendly but distant individual that staunchly protects those he cares about. While he keeps his friends at arm’s length, he will care for and guide them whenever he is needed. He tends to work long nights for his employer, GPM, which often includes gathering information or combating non-human threats.

Background: Kaoru Rindo was the eldest child of two siblings who found his responsibility early in looking after his younger sister. This became more so after his parents passed away and Shizuku was left in his care. Kaoru lived his life much like any normal human would all up until he discovered non-humans and became curious about them. Thus, he enlisted into the Government Paranormalism Measures organization and began to study the creatures. Shortly after, his sister Shizuku would follow him into the organization, though in a slightly different field. Brother and sister worked side by side, in intelligence and research and development respectively, until his sister befell a tragedy that stripped her human self away and turned her into a non-human. Unable to land the killing blow on his own family, Rindo left Shizuku in her partner’s care and continued to serve GPM beside him, choosing not to speak of his sister or the incident again afterwards.

Abilities: As a member of the Intelligence Division of GPM, Rindo possesses a number of combat skills, such as hand-to-hand combat. He primarily uses a gun and a knife in battle, though not always at the same time. Rindo also has extended knowledge with use concerning the databases of GPM, non-human expertise, and technological information. While his knowledge in these areas by far doesn’t surpass his friend and co-worker Mikado, he is at least knowledgeable enough to be useful on the field. Additionally, being part of the Intelligence Division of GPM means Rindo also possessive extensive skill in surveillance, collections of data and information, and reconnaissance.

Personality: Rindo is a mature and kind individual, often putting others well ahead of himself and giving his all to protect those people from harm or information which might put them in harms way. He is a chivalrous and caring individual, even if he does sometimes enjoy picking on his friends. Rindo is also a hard-worker, often spending long nights with his work at GPM or simply sleeping over in the office. Though he will do everything he can to help those people he cares about, Rindo also often does his best to hide his true feelings in any given situation and wears a mask of collected composure. He is a friendly but distant individual.

Relationships: Rindo has a fairly friendly disposition, and he can make friends with anyone that gives him the space to do so, even non-humans. That being said, Rindo doesn’t go out of his way to make deep connections, and he’s satisfied with casual, surface-level friendships. He tries to keep most people at a distance to avoid getting them involved with the non-human world and whatever GPM happens to be up to. Somehow this doesn’t make him seem like a cold or distant person, as he still works hard to help and protect his friends, even distant ones.

Hobbies: Rindo has given up almost all of his hobbies to dedicate himself to the work GPM has issued him and to protecting humans from non-human incidents, but in what little off-time Rindo does have he enjoys joyrides in his car most of all. Aside from that, while it is a hobby that he’s put aside for his work, Rindo also deeply enjoys cooking and partaking in delicious food.