#Codename: Iceman

[computer-pirate]

[six-demon-bag]

Top Gun Fic Recs

some of the fics i really adored on my icemav dive 🩵

if you lead, i will follow by qin_ling (7.5k, M)

Maverick and Iceman stare at each other a lot. Goose despairs. Or; Goose is the best wingman.

who cannot go by susiecarter (1.6k, T)

Maverick felt fine. Completely fine.

Bloom by thecarlysutra (1.7k, T)

Iceman Kazansky is born with chronic Hanahaki Disease. Any time he represses a feeling or hides a secret, he has symptoms. He probably needs therapy, but instead he gets flowers.

Doing It Right by simplecoffee (1k, NR)

Mav kisses Ice on a Saturday night. Two days later, he wakes up in hospital. (- Wait, he could have sworn it made a little more sense than that.)

just to see each other (feel it all) by susiecarter (35k, M)

After Goose's death during a fight with a kaiju, Maverick left the PPDC and didn't look back. But his self-destructive bender gets interrupted by Charlie Blackwood, showing up to invite him to participate in a brand-new weapons development program, codename Top Gun: the first two-pilot jaegers to ever be deployed in the fight to defend humanity. That means Maverick's going to have to get back in a piloting rig again—and he's going to have to do it while drifting with another pilot. Drift compatibility means getting each other, understanding each other, on a level nobody else can beat; so whoever his partner is, at least he's not going to get stuck with the Iceman, who pretty much hates him. Right?

A Shared Cup by susiecarter (7k, M) 

It was only a training exercise. It was only supposed to be a training exercise.

Summer Rain by TunaSupremacy (29k, T)

Mav isn’t entirely sure how he ended up dating Captain Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, but to his understanding it had something to with bad press, low recruitment numbers, and Admiral Cain.

and gamble for the sun by susiecarter (4k, M)

It's like this: Maverick and the Iceman make bets, sometimes.

Flowers for Sale by Owner by aelibia (2.5k, T)

Most people would do anything to stop the flowers from coming. Maverick is not most people.

i would love you ‘til it hurt by stardustsunflower (3k, T) 

Ice looks at Maverick like something he can’t have. He knows Maverick won’t ever look at him back. Or at least, so he thinks.

and sings the tune without the words by susiecarter (10k, M)

Four times Maverick and Iceman didn't have to talk to each other to know the score—plus the time they did.

wingspan by aelibia (4k, M)

Iceman is in love. Maverick is oblivious. And the only thing in the world that can bring them together is locked up in a bathroom.

fire in the sky tonight by susiecarter (4.5k, E)

Graduation from TOPGUN was one thing. It was great, no question, but it was just the warm-up. You hadn't made it, really made it, until you got hitched.

[theadventurerslog]

Quest For Glory 1: So You Want to Be a Hero | Part 5

The Adventurer's Log

Finale time!

I was waiting for that Dispel Potion to be finished, so I went back to town. At the bar, there was a crumpled note under one of the stools.

A meeting at noon... and one more thing for me to wait for. B for Bruno and B for...?

I made sure I knew where the archery range was. Then I kept going south which takes you to a lovely lake. Mirror Lake... and uh... there might have been an Easter egg of some sort? Maybe? A reference to something? Just something silly? There was a big snorkel like on a submarine... or something that came zooming up, smashed into the bank and sunk, I guess. I missed a screenshot because I was too startled. I also have my game speed fairly sped up so I didn't have a lot of time to do more than stare in bewilderment.

[Me to Past Me: I've been informed this was a reference to Codename: Iceman, another of Sierra's titles. And it was indeed a submarine. Thanks Such Minutiae!]

The lake in question anyway. It's quite a pretty little area.

After that confusion I was back to puttering and waiting and fighting anything I ran into. I can fight now!

Noon soon arrived and I found their meeting to eavesdrop on.

Brutus and Bruno. They were planning to take out the brigand chief and take over.

But it seems she's been getting suspicious of them. She's been leery thanks to a hero wandering around too. That's me! She thinks he'll go for the gold on her head. And the 'laughing jackass' has been eyeing Brutus. Bruno suggested that to avoid ambush they take the back route in. While she's busy with 'him', they'll take over.

The back door is where the "bouncer hops around". The antwerp! There's a rock with a keyhole you need a key for. I've seen that rock. Several times. They each have a key. I'm just hoping my Open spell will cut it. There's also a word needed to make 'Fred' go away once you're inside and that word is 'Hiden Goseke.' Get it? Get it?

And that was all their information. Bruno left and I tried to talk to Brutus but he just threw a knife at me...

So I left too. And my Dispel Potion was ready!

I decided to spend the rest of the day grinding my spells some more though. I hadn't even tried my Dazzle spell yet after all the maze woes. I'm very reliant on Flame Dart...

I spent the next day doing so as well. I was actually defeating things relatively easily now! Drunk off power. I wanted to get my spell, stats and money a little more boosted for the end game. You can also carry your character over to the next game, so I wanted to be well-prepared. I was going to spend the night and eat dinner at the inn again for a change. I've done most of my sleeping and eating at Erana's Peace. Cinder's been living off of fruit and sleeping in flowers.

That was the plan... I then realized...what if I could handle a cheetaur and troll now? I still needed claws and troll beard to sell to the healer, well not need, but it was a request. I succeeded! On both counts! ...and used up all but one healing potion, but I did it! With the troll I just alternated dazzle to freeze it and flame darts and when I did get into a direct fight, I ran and started the pattern again until it went down. Tuuurns out doing the Mage's Maze for Dazzle was worth it actually. If I had to fight it directly I'm sure I'd have been wizard paste. The battle music is different for these stronger enemies. Nice touch. Makes it scarier. More dramatic.

Then I fled back to Erana's Peace to sleep, but I encountered one of these things on my way and my spells didn't seem to work, so I ran.

And ran. It was fast and persistent but I stumbled into the archery practice area which is a no-monster zone. That was scary. I may have been taking things out, but everything was still scary.

So it was off to Erana's Peace as the town gates are closed at night

I still wanted one more night at the inn before the end though. So I spent another day hanging around, selling my claws and beard to the healer and replenishing my potion stock.

She did give me two healing potions for the troll beard.

...I also had stronger monsters showing up during the day now, as I was nearly ambushed by one of those wretched flappy things. I checked and once you pass 1000XP the stronger monsters can appear during the day. Goody!

I ran into a bigger scarier red saurus!

It was fast! It just kept catching me when I tried to run. I managed a dazzle to freeze it in place and I skeddadled. Grinding monsters just got scarier now...

Finally evening came and I went to the inn and had a meal.

I tried giving Abdulla some money and got some new info too!

Hint hint, game 2, hint hint.

And then, at last, enough messing about. It was time to go after brigands and their leader, and solve this problem once and for all.

I was feeling pretty good about my stats short of the lack of MP. Sleep doesn't do a whole lot of restoration... but I had potions if necessary.

I found the location with the rock. I was able to cast Open to unlock it.

But my Open wasn't strong to move it. Turned out I could just move it physically. Sometimes simplicity is the answer.

I stepped in and got slaughtered by a troll. I forgot to say the 'word'.

You gotta say 'hiden goseke' before entering the cave and then you'll hear something move away.

Then I found the troll's room in the caves, got too close to its gross pile of yuck, and it came back and killed me. I was feeling all triumphant and heroic! Now it's back to ye olde repeated deaths--everything is back to normal.

I went through the caves and ran into a minotaur guard.

A Calm spell settled him down so I could pass, Cast Open on the gate and enter.

I'm sure that rug is perfectly safe. Nothing suspicious here.

GASP. A TRAP? NEVER.

Anyway.

I tried casting Open to see what might happen and it.. opened a Jack in the Box, which summoned the bandits. Deady dead.

The right plank drops you into the pit. The left is safe. However, on the other side I tried going up the through the middle and hit a trip wire that dropped an Antwerp on my head to my demise. Again.

I wasn't sure what to do but I tried looking at the trip wire and the message said it could be stepped over. So I typed step over trip wire and it worked. Simplicity. The answer.

Bringing me to the next room.

Then I got stuck. I needed to bar the doors or I'd get surrounded. I could close the door behind me and bar it. I could push the chair in front of the other. But then more would come out of the other doors. I realized I could push the candle over, but the brigands would come out fast, get temporarily stalled then just kill me anyway.

I finally made it through. Push the candle over so the next wave get stopped for a moment. Then get in front of the table and climb it.

Then he'll swing on the rope and knock them down like bowling pins.

The death messages were giving hints like seeing the light, and I knew the candelabra and very conspicuous rope were important, but I just had trouble actually making use of said hints in the right way.

That was irritating but I made it to the next room with Me.

He speaks in many rhymes and puns and general bad wordplay. I love him.

I talked to him and asked him about several things including himself and most importantly Elsa.

His actual name is Yorick and he had been the court jester. When Elsa went missing ten years ago he swore to find her. It took him two years to find her with the brigands and he's been posing as her warlock since. Someone has to protect her. He and Toro (the minotaur) are his only friends. When Elsa was enchanted she lost her memory. He has a Magic Mirror he hoped would work but it only works for spells cast at you--it reflects them. I'd need a Dispel Potion, so it's a good thing I have one of those.

When I tried to move he said Elsa was right next door and he'd go set up the secret exit for me. Then he popped through a flippy exit in the wall.

This room is a maze and it's easy to get dropped into the pit where you'll then be rolled, literally, out the top right door and just keep rolling into the pit and back through the door and into the pit, until you tell it to stop or you die. With a fair amount of trial and error...and much falling I made it to the blue upside down fake door. Opening it causes it to fall on you, but if you step aside in time you can avoid temporary flattening and then get through the real door.

Leading to the bandit leader at last!

There she is! I used the wrong phrasing to use the dispel potion and got killed. Second time was the charm.

She remembered who she was again and Yorick came to fetch her. He also mentioned the magic mirror again if I decided to counter the curser. "So tip the canoe and toodleloo! Elsa if you do the honors I'll honor your due." And she had an amulet to teleport them both out and back to the castle where she promised to make sure I'd be rewarded, tell her father what happened so the brigands could be taken care of and the stolen goods returned.

I had to take my own way out where Yorick came in, but first I searched her desk for two healing potions and the magic mirror. Then I got out of there.

I do kind of wish there'd been more I could do in there with spells. Once you're inside the bandit lair it feels like it doesn't much matter what your class/skills are. Everything seems like it's dealt with the same way.

Anyhoo, it was time for one last task. To break the curse! And so it was time to return to Baba Yaga.

I used the mirror, so when she tried to turn me into frog, she got frogged instead.

She was "hopping mad!"

She cast a spell to warp me out of there then fly away in her house.

Bye-bye Baba Yaga. Those little wings look so silly.

The land is free!

I got moved to the castle for celebrations and my glory!

He looks way too confident for my bumbling Cinder.

But the journey doesn't end there.

It was time to leave and head for Shapeir with the Kattas and Abdulla from the inn, to more adventures! And Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire.

A hero's journey never ends...

My final stats heading into the next game, taken just before I sent Baba Yaga packing as that was my last chance to check. So I'll be a little richer from reward money for saving Elsa.

I earned 489/500 points. Not bad at all for a first time but I do wonder about those missing eleven points...

So ends Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero.

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Final Thoughts

I had a rough, slow, tangled start both in and out of game, unfortunately, but once I really got rolling I quite enjoyed myself.

It's neat that there are three classes each with different solutions to puzzles. I enjoy being able to ask NPCs all the things. Gimme that dialogue. Give me plenty of things to look at, and barring that, silly messages when there's nothing to see--thank you game. It has goofy puns and jokes which I always appreciate.

The story is pretty simple but kind of sweet with the Elsa situation and Yorick spending all that time looking out for her. I'm a sucker for loyalty, okay. And there are plenty of hints if you talk and ask the right things between Abdullah, the centaur and Erasmus.

It also feels friendlier in some ways than King's Quest. So far anyway. It is possible to hit a dead end but there aren't many ways to do it and aside from missing the magic acorn, the other methods you'd have to deliberately do them.

I'm not a big fan of the combat and I'm glad I played a wizard so I could rely more on spells. I also wish it was easier to rest and pass time, but that's something I know QFG2 fixes.

Overall I had a good time and I'm glad I've finally started this series, much later than I originally intended.

[starkraivennemad]

The Weight of Things

Mycroft Holmes played the heavy, the cold man-

He knew the reason some call him Iceman was earned. There are documents which will never see the light of day until his bones have long turned to dust before others will know of the actions of the person codenamed Antarctica. The mega-genius was calculating, and exacting; willing to make, and execute, the hard decisions.

Mycroft played the heavy, the manipulating man-

Once he was able to prove he was of better service in the office, than in the field, he eschewed all outward appearances of ever having done so. He worked hard at his perfectly curated his sharply honed brain over blunt instrument brawn image.

Played the heavy, the secretive man-

He kept the secrets of Crown and Country.

He kept the family secrets, knowing them for the ticking bombs they were.

Not telling his parents believe his sister was alive.  

Letting John believe the man he loved was dead.

Mycroft bore the weight of the damage that should not have been his to take on when time ran out.

For when they inevitably blew? It was bad.

The heavy, the bad man-

It came with a price…

While Mycroft honestly enjoyed the work, it cost him the trust of people in general and his personal happiness overall and a life of isolation.

He told himself it was a minor thing. That it was the balance needed in the scale of things. And for far too many years he not only believed it, but willingly paid it.

But then the scales tipped.

They tipped with a weight Mycroft never imagined bearing.

They tipped with a weight that could not be seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched.

Except in his heart.

Tipped by the all-encompassing weight called love in the form of one Gregory Lestrade.  

The oh so heavy weight that lightened everything else around him.

And once tipped, it outweighed everything else.

Make no bones about it, Mycroft Holmes is who he is– cold, manipulating, secretive, the heavy the bad man.

But it’s the heavy weight of Greg’s love that lightens his heart to also make Mycroft Holmes-Lestrade a good man.

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@mettleborn (@ Adelia)

It was, Mycroft supposed, quite the cliché to meet on a park bench - but then, many clichés existed for a reason, did they not? If it worked, it worked, and history was very clear on how the British espionage methods were highly successful.

Still, he wasn't particularly happy about being sat in the park. Of course, this had less to do with the cliché element, and more to do with how he would rather be sat in his usual seat at the Diogenes Club. Under other circumstances, the club made for a delightful location for meetings (albeit, restricted to the Stranger's Room). Here, though, it wasn't suitable. As disagreeable as it was, the park was a far safer option.

Mycroft didn't instantly react as his contact sat down next to him. Other than a brief glance to his side (to confirm who it was, but also because the natural reaction would be to look and thus he wanted to mimic that), to an outside eye, it looked as though he kept his focus on the newspaper he was reading. In reality, he was paying complete attention - he was simply using more of his senses than sight alone.

Ruinmaker was a rather dramatic codename. Mind you, Mycroft couldn't really speak, considering that he had been 'Iceman' during his youth. His current codename, Antarctica, was a lot tamer, though did admittedly still retain the underlying theatrics. There was presumably something psychological to be said about the Secret Service's tendency towards histrionic codenames - something that he didn't particularly care to mull over in any detail.

"Lovely weather today, don't you agree?" Mycroft eventually said, his eyes still not moving from the newspaper. He was expecting a code phrase in response. Though he had read the agent's file and therefore was aware that he was speaking with the correct individual, it was still procedure to confirm it. Plus, if there was something wrong - such as her cover having been blown - it gave her a chance to use one of the alternate code phrases to subtly reveal this.

[redfurrycat]

🏆🚀🦎🤖TG/TG:M - Pacific Rim AU - Fic Recs List 🤖🦎🚀🏆

Check the Top Gun Masterlist post for the latest updated version. 💕

This is my official list of fic recs, but here is a post where I dump everything I can find on a TG/M & PR fusion. I'll keep it updated as well.

You should go watch Pacific Rim (2013) too. *chef's kiss*

Ao3 Authors: EliasHirsch, ReformedTsundere, Susiecarter, TunaSupremacy.

Tidal Wave by TunaSupremacy {T}

Hangster

For years, the Jaegers have been the last line of defense for humanity. But with the kaiju adapting and evolving the PPDC is desperately searching for new ways to fight them. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw has been a Naval Aviator for the past five years, risking his life to supply the Jaeger pilots with air support. Now he’s been recommended for the Jaeger program himself. Too bad that the officer in charge of training the new recruits is his estranged uncle, former Jaeger pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

Crossing the Drift by ReformedTsundere {T}

Hangster

How do you rationalize that the end of the world has been canceled? Bradley manages one breath at a time. (+ Podfic by ReformedTsunderePodfics)

What Was Three Has Become One by EliasHirsch {M}

Icemav

Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell was there when the first Kaiju made land. And he was still there, years later, fighting a never-ending war of chaos and destruction. Only this time, he’s in a Jaeger. When an accident puts a rift between him and his co-pilot, Goose, the Marshal decides to fix their problem by throwing a new person into the equation. Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky, is ice cold, no mistakes. He’s as competent as them, and he’s not afraid to let his displeasure known. It grinds Maverick’s gears to no end. But Iceman ends up being there for him when Goose was ripped out of their Jaeger and hurled into the dark seas. Dead. Can Maverick ever stop blaming himself for letting it happen? And can he let Iceman in, knowing the two of them together are only going to end in heartbreak?

just to see each other (feel it all) by susiecarter {M}

Icemav

After Goose's death during a fight with a kaiju, Maverick left the PPDC and didn't look back. But his self-destructive bender gets interrupted by Charlie Blackwood, showing up to invite him to participate in a brand-new weapons development program, codename Top Gun: the first two-pilot jaegers to ever be deployed in the fight to defend humanity. That means Maverick's going to have to get back in a piloting rig again—and he's going to have to do it while drifting with another pilot. Drift compatibility means getting each other, understanding each other, on a level nobody else can beat; so whoever his partner is, at least he's not going to get stuck with the Iceman, who pretty much hates him. Right?

[invisible-goats]

My ice cream maker broke, so it's time for

[kawaoneechan]

SCI title menus

Okay I've done my research. I've checked 32 different SCI 0 to 1.1 games and took note of what their title menus are like.

For this, I ignore the Sierra logo which may be un-skippable in some games, copy protection screens, and cutscenes that last just seconds before control is given like Sonny Bonds parking his car or Roger Wilco jumping out of his pod.

A. Just press a key to skip the title/intro (5)

No screenshots because there's no title menu to show for these.

Leisure Suit Larry 2 (SCI0)

Police Quest 2 (SCI0)

Space Quest 3 (SCI0) — you can enter commands and activate the menu at any time during the intro, so you can restore at any time.

Leisure Suit Larry 1 and 3 (SCI10, SCI0), after a fairly long age check.

Codename ICEMAN (SCI0) — there's some opening narration before control is given.

B. Is this your first time playing X? (4)

First thing the game does when the title appears is ask if you want to watch the intro (no) or skip it (yes). This is done with a regular old dialog window and DButtons.

King's Quest 4 (SCI0)

King's Quest 5 (SCI10)

The Colonel's Bequest (SCI0)

Conquests of the Longbow (SCI10) — a variation that lets you pick between the intro, restoring, or starting a new game.

C. Interruptible intro (5)

At any point during the introduction and title credits, you can press a key to skip ahead to the game or restore. This is done with a regular old dialog window and DButtons.

Space Quest 1 (SCI10)

Space Quest 4 (SCI10)

Castle of Dr. Brain (SCI10)

Police Quest 3 (SCI10)

EcoQuest 1 (SCI0)

D. Options running along the bottom of the screen (2)

King's Quest 1 (SCI0)

King's Quest 6 (SCI11)

The Dating Pool

E. The same, but they're DButtons in a dialog window (2)

Freddy Pharkas (SCI11)

Leisure Suit Larry 6 (SCI11)

Eric Oakford's SCI 1.1 template

F. Options going down the screen (4)

Quest for Glory 1 (SCI0, SCI11)

Quest for Glory 2 (SCI01)

The Dagger of Amon-Ra (SCI11)

EcoQuest 2 (SCI11)

G. The same, but again as DButtons in a window (6)

Conquests of Camelot (SCI0) — the window is on the bottom but the buttons run down.

Police Quest 1 (SCI11)

Quest for Glory 3 (SCI11) — Technically that's an icon bar but they have the look.

Island of Dr. Brain (SCI11)

Space Quest 5 (SCI11) — DColorButtons are a kind of DButton.

Pepper's Adventures in Time (SCI11)

Phil Fortier's SCI 1.1 template, because it's based on SQ5.

H. Something more unique and novel (3)

Mixed-Up Mother Goose (SCI0)

Mixed-Up Fairy Tales (SCI10?)

Leisure Suit Larry 5 — fast forward twice (SCI10)

... personally I'd go with Police Quest 1 style for a template game. I like interruptible intros but the template wouldn't have such a thing. Leave it as a tutorial perhaps. And that's why C is missing in the poll.

[epifaniax07]

Qué puedo decir? 🤣 he estado leyendo fanfic omegaverse sobre mystrade y me he imaginado mi propia versión y tenía que dibujarlo.

Me puedo imaginar una historia tipo greg no va por los alfas, mycroft cree que no tiene oportunidad con él, pero por x motivo se terminan juntando y tienen dos hijos. Me gusta el nombre de Enola y la personalidad del personaje, sin embargo la imagino como la hija mayor de ambos ( greg estaba súper emocionado cuando se enteró que solo los primogénitos Holmes son pelirrojos porque su hija sería pelirroja como Mycroft), ya que no me gusta el personaje de Eurus, no la considero como existente 🤣, adapte su nombre a Aurus para su hijo menor (se llena a por dos años con Enola porque Mycroft quería que hija tuviera la desgracia de experimentar lo que es tener un hermano y greg no vio problemas en ello).

Gregory Lestrade

Secondary sex: Alpha

Nickname: Greg

Codename: The Silver Fox

Children: Enola, Aurus

Personality: outgoing

He likes football, beer, being nice, he loves his husband very much, he has more gray since he meet Sherlock.

Aurus Holmes Lestrade

Secundary sex: omega

Nickname: ruru (dad), the fool (Enola)

Sister: Enola Holmes

Father: Gregory Lestrade

Mother: Mycroft Holmes

Personality: introvert

He likes music, not attrating attention, anatomy and being perfectionist

Mycroft Holmes

Secundary sex: Alfa (sumiso)

Nickname: the iceman

Code name: antartic

Children: Enola, Aurus

Partner: Gregory Lestrade

Personality: introvert

It is the british government, older brother of Sherlock Holmes.

Enola Holmes Lestrade

Secundary sex: Alpha

Nickname: little carrot (dad), the crazy one (Aurus)

Brother: Aurus (younger)

Father: Gregory Lestrade

Mother: Mycroft Holmes

Personality: outgoing

She likes football, ballet, being rebellious, fooling people and teasing Aurus

[lovecatsys]

okay since everything except for Uncanny Spider-Man is out now I'm gonna go ahead and give my reviews of Fall of X so far

First off, Immortal and Red continue to be masterpieces, no surprises there, both books however are clearly taking a turn in a different direction and I'm loving it for both of them.

Jean Grey is not what I expected it to be at all, but still an amazing character study of Jean, I expected nothing less from Simonson of course.

Invincible Iron Man and X Men are decent, not a fan of exactly whats going on with Kate, the Emma stuff is great though. Kamala should not be in this book. I hate the avengers by default but I don't exactly hate whats going on between Emma and Tony, though that might change. The "wedding" is going to be exactly what I expected it would be of course. Overall not Duggan's worst writing but I don't love it.

Uncanny Avengers is... meh, so far, Pietro is super OOC which is :/ but maybe he'll get some more focus later on, god I hope he does. But it's frustrating how little effort is going into portraying him as a visible person of color when a much greater effort is going into his sister. Monet used her telepathy which gives me hope for her! I'm down for more of her teaming up with Kwannon tbh, they make a good team.

Astonishing Iceman is a bit of an anomoly to me. It's very good writing so far, I'm loving how Orlando writes Bobby, but I'm really pissed that they've chosen to stick with Romeo as his love interest after he got aged up just to come back and fuck Bobby and for them to throw Christian to the side. No mention of Christian at all at the hellfire gala, Emma is not concerned with where he is like she is with the Cuckoos which :/. I'm honestly afraid he's being dropped as a character which fucking sucks. The thing I hate the most about how Romeo is there is that Christian could literally be in his place and it would be perfect to me. He has a power set that could absolutely work for this situation just how Romeo's is working! Who knows, maybe this relationship will grow on me. We'll see.

Alpha Flight is really good, I haven't delved into the world of AF comics yet but from everything I know it seems perfect. My man was only there for two seconds in the first issue but we'll see if he gets any panel time as it goes on. Even if he doesn't though, yeah I'll be a little pissed but it'll still probably be a good read, and at least he'll have made any appearance at all since Marauders. Oh and Puck making fun of his new codename was funny. Fang really is a dumb name.

X-Force is still garbage, but this weird plot twist with Quentin (whatever it is??) has me gritting my teeth. fucking get your hands off my boy Percy he does not deserve this. Curious to see whats going on with the Colossus plotline, just wish it was happening in a better book.

Children of the Vault is amazing, never cared for Bishop and haven't read much Cable yet but I'm still all in on it. One of those books where you don't have to care much for the characters to recognize its quality. also fun fact: its written by the comic writing mentor of my comic writing mentor. lol

Dark X-Men wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be, but its still good. Though it kinda feels like it has too many characters in it so far, I'm loving the Maddie content and it had some great dark humor in it. LOVED the children of the atom bits, im so curious whats going to go down with Carmen and I'm just glad her friends and her relationship with Buddy got some panel time tbh.

last and the actual best: Realm of X was SO FUCKING GOOD. I've had a little soft spot in my heart for Curse since her story started in X-Men Green, and it seems like she's going to be a huge part of this arc rather than just tagging along as a little kid which is great. Sooraya fucking stole the show, this new take on her power signature is amazing. In general love all these women (Typhoid Mary is growing on me, I'm going to call the awful things she's done that made me want to hate her poor writing choices, especially since shes a survivor of such acts in the first place.) SO curious with what's going on with Yana, and I love how devoted she is to keeping Curse safe. DID NOT expect Saturnyne to be the main villain but im down for it tbh. This book is my favorite already and i just cant wait for hte next issue!

[calciumcryptid]

DC OC | Crystal Yukimura

Crystal Yukimura, codename Iceglider, is a metahuman who serves as an antagonist for the first iteration of the Teen Titans. She was a primary enemy of Wally West and Garth, due to her flirtatious and cold nature.

Crystal Yukimura has cyrokinesis, ice manipulation. Her alias comes from her using her powers to make ice walkways for her to glide on (similarly to Frozone and Iceman). She is a thief, wanting to obtain objects as pretty as her and to fund her extravagant lifestyle.

She is paired with a personal adaptation of See-More (from the 2000s Teen Titans series). After being rejected by Jinx, See-More left the Fearsome Five and hit the same museum as Crystal. While the two met before due to past team ups, the two developed romantic feelings while escaping the museum.

@insomniac-jay

[creoterative]

Marlon: "Okayyy, okay, you all wanna have codenames? Fine, Willy, what do you wanna be called?"

Willy: "Iceman! Because I'm a coldblooded killer!"

Marlon: "Cool, like that guy from Top Gun?"

Willy: "What is Top Gun?"

Marlon: "...."

Marlon: "Did he just ask me what Top Gun is? Alright, your ass is on my list."

Louis: "...Buddy, we're playing lasertag, calm down."

Violet: "Nonono, let him finish, I kinda wanna see this."

[oidhchespiorads]

everyday i think about that one time bobby had his lil anime villain moment against a big bad that decided that fighting on a frozen planet against a dude with the codename 'iceman' was a good idea. i love it when that traumatized lil fruit gets to let loose with his powers because someone was stupid and didn't think their decisions through

[positivelybeastly]

# for cullen, cain, or anyone of your choosing!

[✉️]: Doctor Cain Glass? Professor Henry McCoy, Harvard.

[✉️]: I was given this number by a mutual friend of ours - Professor Jennifer Nyles, a member of the Biomedical Engineering faculty at Columbia?

[✉️]: I'll be quite frank with you - I've made a bit of a hash of my personal finances, and my regular accountant/business minded friend and I are on the outs at current.

[✉️]: One might say he froze me out.

[✉️]: Apologies, that was a stupid joke, you have absolutely no context for why that's funny.

[✉️]: (It's because his codename is Iceman, but that's very much incidental.)

[✉️]: Anyway, would you be willing to provide some assistance? I'd be happy to reimburse you in any way you see fit, especially once I find out where all of my patents have gone. Jen assures me you're astonishingly clever, and I would hope less self-interested than most accountants.

[livio-the-doublefang]

Anonymous asked: Is Geten your villain name or your real name

   “Geten is my alias. My Codename in battle however is Iceman...Villain name? How absurd. It’s a mockery to categorize a man as a good or bad person or whatever. That’s just what the government dogs want you to believe. Hmpf.”

“My real name does not concern you. Only one man knows my actual name besides myself and you aren’t them so back off.”

[invisible-goats]

It's time for some Codename: Iceman https://www.twitch.tv/theblakery