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90sloverwithinsomnia · 8 days

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Fan Fic Master List:

Repost Old Kpop Fanfics:

Discussion about Some Old K-pop Fanfics - (06/08/2024)

These are some of many archived fanfics featuring 1st and 2nd Gen K-pop acts that I've come across recently. It's all in good fun, and maybe a bit cringeworthy!

The words in red are my thoughts on the fanfic, and I'll be ranking them out of 10 just for fun.

SM Town Out To Lunch (15/15) - (hgiel) Anrui, Kyorei, and Jacqui:

Separate from the saga, but a prelude none the less. DBSG has just made their debut, but their pretty boy singer is eating everyone in SM Town! Not even Junta's love can stop cannibalism.

I would recommend that 18+ read this fanfic. Some parts i enjoyed then others.(4/10)

Part 1 - (06/08/2024)

Part 2 - (06/08/2024)

Part 3 - (13/08/2024)

Part 4 - (13/08/2024)

Part 5 - (20/08/2024)

Part 6 - (21/08/2024)

Part 7 - (21/08/2024)

Part 8 - (21/08/2024)

Part 9 - (22/08/2024)

Part 10 - (22/08/2024)

Part 11 - (22/08/2024)

Part 12 - (22/08/2024)

Part 13 - (22/08/2024)

Part 14 - (22/08/2024)

Part 15 Final - (22/08/2024)

Vol 1 - Battle of the Boy Bands (23/23)

K-Pop and DBSG just put out albums and have are on a reality show, hosted by Se7en, to promote it. It isn't fun though, because Junta is their baby sitters, and the romantic drama is as thick and annoying as 90210.

This work is suitable for teen and up audiences.

Chapter 1 - (31/08/2024)

Chapter 2 - (31/08/2024)

Chapter 3 - (31/08/2024)

Chapter 4 - (31/08/2024)

Chapter 5 - (31/08/2024)

Chapter 6 - (07/09/2024)

Chapter 7 - (10/09/2024)

Chapter 8 - (15/09/2024)

Chapter 9 - Coming Soon!

Vol 2 - Sarang Hae Nippon

The TV show is over, now its time to vacation in Japan! Who knew it was impossible to avoid join street gangs in the Godzilla's home country? TaeBin seems to steer clear of them, but he's busy, seeing as he's in a "family way".

Coming Soon!

Vol 3 - Battle of the Boy Bands Season 2

Its time for the second season, luckily, Se7en isn't the host, TaeBin is. The drama isn't any less this time, the only thing that's changed is the increased trips to the hospital.

Coming Soon!

Full Moon Entertainment (26/26) - hgiel

Moon Hee Jun has just left SM Town and is going to create his OWN boy band, one better then H.O.T ever was. Unfortunately, all he has is the already formed band K-Pop and the North Korean they hit with their car.

Inspired by Vol - Battle of the Boy Bands Season 2 that also by hgiel.

Coming Soon!

Ouija Bored (1) - hgiel

The guys celebrate Halloween by playing with occult tools.

This work is suitable for teen and up audiences. I don't know about his one, it was fun to read but wish it was a bit longer.(6/10)

Chapter 1 - Coming Soon!

Oh, You're In The Army Now (3/3) - hgiel

EVERY gasso seems to be in the army now, and the rest have gone to the dogs, or streets. North Korea takes this opening to attack, and Moon Hee Jun, UBin, Chang Ryul, Yoo Min, and Desuk have to save The Republic of Korea by themselves.

Coming Soon!

12 Steps of Christmas (12/12) - hgiel

The 12 hours of an H.O.T Christmas.

This work is suitable for all audiences. These will be scheduled to be posted on the 25th of December.

Chapter 1 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 2 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 3 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 4 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 5 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 6 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 7 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 8 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 9 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 10 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 11 - (25/12/2024)

Chapter 12 - (25/12/2024)

Last Goodbye (1) - hgiel

Woo Hyun is about to enter the army, so he and Young One meet one last time before he goes.

Coming Soon!

Armageddon The Hell Out Of Here (1) - hgiel

H.O.T face the end of the world...

This work is suitable for teens and up audiences. Again, I'm not shore about this one, but it was okay it reminds me of 'War on the world's'.(4/10)

Chapter 1 - (05/09/2024)

A secret that is kept to us (5/?) - 90s_love:

Angel White and Crystal Light are two mysterious vigilantes who is after to destroy the illegal terrorist organization, Dark Archive. With their friend spirits, they protect the world. Meanwhile, their alter-egos are famous Kpop idols who have a rivalry within their groups. Can they keep their secret identities a secret from them?

This work is suitable for all audiences. I'm not really shore about his one, probably because its not finished, but it was okay.(5/10)

Chapter 1 - (22/08/2024)

Chapter 2 - (23/08/2024)

Chapter 3 - (23/08/2024)

Chapter 4 - (23/08/2024)

Chapter 5 - (23/08/2024)

Switch Rivals (21/21) - 90s_love:

Modern version of the 90's kpop idol scene. H.O.T and Sechskies are forever rivals. But what will happen when one member from each team switch bodies?

This work is suitable for all audiences. By chapter 5, i was hooked, i really enjoyed this one. I might even read it again because of how good it was.(9/10)

Chapter 1 - (26/08/2024)

Chapter 2 - (26/08/2024)

Chapter 3 - (26/08/2024)

Chapter 4 - (26/08/2024)

Chapter 5 - (26/08/2024)

Chapter 6 - (28/08/2024)

Chapter 7 - (28/08/2024)

Chapter 8 - (28/08/2024)

Chapter 9 - (28/08/2024)

Chapter 10 - (28/08/2024)

Chapter 11 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 12 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 13 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 14 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 15 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 16 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 17 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 18 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 19 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 20 - (29/08/2024)

Chapter 21 Finale - (29/08/2024)

Project Kwangya - Alternatives Talles (10/?) - Cally_Kop:

Several tales using SM Idols as characters. Since the company decided to bring all the Idols together in the shared universe idea, where all the MV's, lyrics and all the promotional material of the company's Idols would tell a story, like Marvel and its shared universe.

Here, small stories will be posted using this same idea, that each Idol has a role and story to tell, being able to interfere in the stories of other characters. From Kangta to Aespa, to EXO, SHINee, Red Velvet, Girls Generation, NCT, all SM idols appeared.

Coming Soon!

Warrior's Descendants (6/6) - AuspiciousAutumn:

H.O.T are so close to becoming an active group again, but not everyone is keen with them doing it on their own terms.

I would recommend that 18+ read this fanfic.

Chapter 1 - (22/09/2024)

Chapter 2 - (22/09/2024)

Chapter 3 - (22/09/2024)

Chapter 4 - (22/09/2024)

Chapter 5 - (22/09/2024)

Chapter 6 Final - (22/09/2024)

12 days of Super Junior, a Christmas fic (12/12) - plincess_cho:

As Super Junior contemplate what they want for Christmas, they realize that above all, they want to be together.

This work is suitable for all audiences.

Coming Soon!

Red Velvet and the haunted dorms [Ft. Super Junior] (1) -plincess_cho:

Red Velvet move into Super Junior's old dorms. But are their dorms really haunted like everyone says?

This work is suitable for all audiences.

Chapter 1 - (15/09/2024)

2014 → 2000 (2/?) - Inodot:

Mir was and still is a big g.o.d fan. One day, after saving a child from getting hit by a car, he somehow ended up in 2000 when g.o.d were still active. He tries not to mess with time but couldn't help but to think that he can prevent their hiatus from happening.

This work is suitable for all audiences.

Chapter 1 - (21/09/2024)

Chapter 2 - (21/09/2024)

Translated Fanfics:

As these Fanfics are translated from there original language to English there might be some translation mistakes.

Masters of the Game (8/8) - maresca:

Human life is a Game. It includes both random dice rolls and multi-move strategic combinations. When human life reaches a stalemate, the Game Masters enter the Game. The Game Masters declare the beginning of the Game.

This work is suitable for teens and up audiences.

Coming Soon!

Zhou Gong also cannot interpret dreams (1) - memeflosalvo:

Chinese - Mandarin to English.

I would recommend that 18+ read this fanfic.

Coming Soon!

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warframestuff · 1 year

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Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 Ending Soon + Vol. 4 Incoming!

Hey Dreamers,

Our current Nightwave Series Nightwave: Nora’s Mix Vol. 3, is coming to an end! Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 will end on Thursday, May 11th at 2pm ET - don’t forget to spend your remaining Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 Creds before then. Any remaining Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 Creds can be sold for Credits afterwards.

Nora’s Mix Vol. 4

Nora’s Mix Vol. 4 is set to launch on May 18th at 2pm ET!

Like previous editions of Nightwave, we will include duplicate protection for rewards you have already unlocked. Identical to Nora’s Mix Vol. 3, Tenno can expect to be compensated with Nora’s Mix Vol. 4 Creds instead of the previous unlocked reward.

New & Returning Acts! Alongside our returning Acts from Nora’s Mix Vol. 3, we have a new challenge for our crystal-focused Tenno:

The newest weekly Act is...

Crystal Clear Complete 3 waves of Mirror Defense

New Rewards!

For completing Nightwave Acts, you can earn these new items:

Kaithe’s Grace Sigil A sigil reminiscent of the fabled Kaithe.

Ocucor Weapon Augment Sentient Velocity: Each target eliminated refills 30% of Ocucor ammunitions. Increase Status Chance and Critical Chance by 120% for each Tendrils active. Augment statistics listed at Max Mod Rank

Infested Claw Skin An infested skin for Claw Melee Weapons

Baruuk Doan Glyph A Glyph depicting Baruuk Doan.

Battacor Weapon Augment Sentient Blast: Discharge from Alt-Fire now has infinite Body Punch Through but no longer explodes on contact. Hitting 3 or more enemies refills the used charges and increased the Critical Change and Critical Damage of the next discharge by 500% Augment statistics listed at Max Mod Rank

Hero of Duviri Display A hero on the back of a loyal Kaithe, as described in the storybook, Tales of Duviri.

Fabled Gene-Masking Kit Euleria Entrati commissioned this unique Kubrow DNA segment to manifest a creature from the storybook, Tales of Duviri.

Drifter Keeler Suit Nora Night recovered this suit from Saturn’s Keeler Gap. The durable material lined with rebreather tubing shows it was designed with depressurization in mind. Includes Hood, Vest, Sleeves, and Pants.

Also included is a hand-picked selection of rewards from previous Nightwave Series! Plus, spend your hard-earned Nora’s Mix Vol.4 Cred in Nora’s store, which now offers Voruna’s Anukas Helmet, Citrine’s Kalite Helmet, and a collection of Sigil’s & Emblems from previous Nightwave Series!

**All rewards listed above are subject to change or removal. ______

There will be a bit of downtime after Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 ends as we prepare for her next installment with Vol. 4! Once again, remember to spend your remaining Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 Cred before May 11th at 2pm ET when Nightwave: Nora’s Mix Vol. 3 will end! Please keep in mind that everything listed above is subject to change!

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#Warframe #Warframe News #text post

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crepearchives · 7 months

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Crepe Archives Subheading: The Levels of Witch’s Castle - Vol. 1

⚙️ The progression model of Cookie Run: Witch’s Castle is based on clearing levels for Golden Star Jellies, in which levels are played, cleared, then thrown to the backrooms where they’ll probably never see the light of day again. Levels 1-4 are cleared during the scripted tutorial where you play and clear out the first floor of the castle. For the rest of them, we’ll provide as much advice for the levels as we can.

Levels 1-4 (Tutorial)

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7

Level 8

Level 9

Level 10

Bonus Levels (Appears every 10 levels)

Level 11

Level 12

Level 13

Level 14

Life Potion Tutorial (Accessible in Floor 1-3’s story after collecting Golden Star Jellies through level 14)

Level 15

Level 16

Level 17 (Unlocks Timed Events on completion)

Level 18

Level 19 (Unlocks Crystal Piggy Bank)

Level 20

#crepe archives #cookie run #cookie run witch’s castle #crepe archives subheading

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rolandrockover · 10 months

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Ezrinisms Vol. 1 - Detroit Rock City

Let's please revisit Bob Ezrin's importance in the Kiss stable of songwriting in view of Detroit Rock City. It helps immensely to listen to it's demo version beforehand, because otherwise you might be tempted to ask yourself what you could possibly criticize about such a great and perfect song. From this point at the latest, a clear difference then crystallizes in a wonderful way, with which you can excellently compare some intersections, and see exactly who you have to thank for what.

Well.

From Paul is obviously the theme, probably the most famous Kiss intro in all of Kiss history, I never tire of mentioning it, which I would easily compare to a hot V8, but unfortunately doesn't come with very many gears, and is rather only suitable for a short but brisk sprint. And Paul with his first vision of this future sonic rock icon (at least in internal circles) comes as a driver in this phase of his career more like a 14 year old who has stolen his daddy's car, has no driver's license, and on top of everything intends to take it for a spin, only to crash straight at full throttle sooner or later inevitably against the wall.

If it hadn't been for Bob Ezrin, who had taken over the wheel with as much confidence and strength as skill, not only to prevent the worst, but also as co-driver, co-designer and mechanic to make the sprint model suitable for long distances and beyond to win a race that is taking place alongside. And that's all there is to say about it today (1), except that despite all the measures taken, the previously feared car accident still happens in the final, because drama is a must.

Bob knew exactly what he was doing.

(1) Maybe we'll talk about the Flamenco another time.

Detroit Rock City (Demo, 1975)

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Detroit Rock City (1976)

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Ezrinisms Vol. 2 Part 1 & Part 2. Ezrinisms Vol. 3 & Ezrinisms Vol. 4 Part 1 & Part 2.

#Kiss #Detroit Rock City #Paul Stanley #Bob Ezrin #Destroyer #Demo #1975 #1976 #V8 #Bolero #Roland Rockover #Youtube

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hustlenlow · 2 years

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Playboy August 1988 Vol 35 Vintage Magazine Kimberly Conrad (NM +) Bag & Board.

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thehalfbloodedwitch · 3 years

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Crystal Clear Vol. 3 (D.m x reader)

Pairing- Draco x Femreader

Summary- Y/n, is a girl who usually stays alone, she knows that she cannot be liked by anyone…. what if all of that changed?| Angsty fluff

House- Gryffindor (even though it’s not mentioned anywhere in the story)

Warnings- Problems with stress, mentions of panic attacks, and Cursing that’s all I guess, if any more please do inform me.

Words- 2,000 words

Crystal Clear Masterlist Navigation

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“Do you live on Mars? Cause you look out of this world” he said and laughed at his own attempt on using a pickup line, she too then laughed but then Y/n heard a rustle in the nearby bush…. then something unexpected happened…..

The bush that was near Y/n started rustling and something black hiding under it came out and slowly made its way out but Y/n saw this and excused herself from Draco and went towards where this thing was heading.

The black-cloaked thing then ran towards one of the shops and nearby and as soon as Y/n caught up to it, there was a person standing there, with black hair, black eyes, and a black dress, can you guess who? Severus Snape emerged from the black cloak and Y/n just shook her head “Snape, what are you doing here, that too where exactly I was with Draco?” she said to which Snape replied sternly “I thought Mr. Malfoy was troubling you or something but turns out it’s a date isn’t it?” he asked to which she widened her eyes, she had totally forgotten to mention about Draco to Snape. “I am so sorry, I totally forgot about telling you this.. it just kind of slipped out of my mind, and then Saturda-” she was cut off by Snape “No need for explanation Y/n, I have found out about this from Ms. Lovegood and Ms. Weasley, indeed Mr. Malfoy or Draco is very… very bad at pick lines..” he said as he tried to suppress a laugh by clearing his throat, “Now that’s something he has to improve on,” she said and laughed.

By now Draco was confused, he saw her run behind something he didn’t get a chance to look at and it had been what? 10 or 20 minutes by now? She hadn’t returned still, so he decided to search for her. He went the way in which she had run and soon found her talking to… Snape? Oh, wait! He had forgotten that before even dating her he needed approval from Snape which he was sure he wouldn’t get at all. He then sighed and went in her direction.

“Okay Snape, I need to go Draco might be waiting for m-” she was yet again cut off by Snape “Mr. Malfoy, Do you plan on having detention? Because you look like you would be getting one soon.” Draco looked at him and just widened his eyes as Snape had heard his pathetic attempt at using a pickup line. “Umm, Professor, I wanted to talk to Y/n..” he asked hesitantly at first, and looking at him Y/n spoke “Yeah, Snape I am now going with Draco, can we talk about this later?” she asked and Snape nodded and glared at Draco as he went towards the castle.

“I am so sorry Draco, Snape just came and.. well you know the rest..” she said and to which Draco nodded and said “I know, well then shall we continue our umm, meeting?” he asked and she immediately nodded and went with him to again the same bench and the pair talked and laughed at the incident with Snape. While going back to the castle, Draco asked her if she was willing to talk to him tomorrow at night again in the seventh-floor corridor. She happily agreed and then they went back to the castle and Y/n went straight towards Snape’s office as she knew if she didn’t go then Snape wouldn’t talk to her, and she didn’t want the silent treatment from him.

Without knocking she entered and closed the door behind her, “Finally decided to tell me what is going on with Draco?” he asked as he folded the Daily Prophet he was reading, she sighed and sat beside him and said “Snape.. I am sorry I forgot about it okay? Now shall I tell you or should I go back to my dorm?” she asked and Snape simply looked at her with a stern look on his face, “Okay, okay, so remember when I had the panic attack in the girls bathroom? That’s when all this started..” she went on and on about her meetings with Draco, about the topics they talked about, Snape was the other person she talked to freely and Snape didn’t at all judge her, neither did he interject her in the middle, instead he just silently listened as he saw her eyes gleaming and he had a small smile on his lips as Y/n finished her story of how she and Draco started talking, he cleared his throat and said “Done? That’s all? I thought you had more to say, well, you don’t want to sleep now do you?” he said in a sarcastic tone and to which Y/n rolled her eyes, “Well, what do you say? Harry, George, Fred, Neville and Ron were saying things like they would break his jaw if he ever broke my heart and all, let’s see what do you have to say about this?” she asked to which now Snape came into a serious tone and a serious face and said “Y/n, now don’t take this lightly, you know what has happened to you in the past… so it’s better to first see him and know how he is and then take any decision you want, but I wouldn’t mind them breaking not only his jaw but use the Sectumsempra spell too, I wouldn’t mind” to which she laughed and said “Snape, for now I haven’t thought about this but let’s see in the future..” to which Snape just scoffed “Y/n, you might fool the others, but not me” and motioned her to leave “Go and sleep for now” he said and she waved a bye and left his office.

As she lay on her bed she thought about what Snape had said “Y/n, you might fool the others, but not me” she was confident she didn’t have feelings for him, at least not yet, but deep within her, she knew that she had a little spark of love lighting inside her. But she couldn’t help it, no one had since the last time at least, cared for her, at least not like this. She was not used to so much affection at first so it was bound to happen, but she hid it well, didn’t let it ignite into a huge flame which she couldn’t extinguish, she didn’t want history to repeat itself again and wouldn’t want to face this again. She then closed her eyes and slept.

Fast forward to a few months later, 7 or 8 months to be exact. She was in close proximity with Draco Malfoy, her friends (especially Luna, Ginny, and Hermione) shipped her with Draco, Neville even said once that he kind of liked the idea of both of them dating, Ron said he liked Malfoy to speak to him respectfully and Harry agreed to him. George and Fred had made it their mission to prank him once every week to which in response, Draco pranked them every once a week too. Draco was hanging along with her friends too, just for her. She couldn’t even believe it herself that she had finally come out of her introverted self and started being a little extrovert too, just for him. Well you see, Draco was a very extroverted person and he had to talk to many people and have a bit of fame too, hanging out with him ensured her a bit of fame too, to which she didn’t slip out or do anything to get away from there. Instead, she tried her best to talk to them, to which Draco smiled at her with the widest grin he could get. He was sure he was falling for her even more than ever, and she too now was falling for him.

Soon enough Draco was planning on asking her out on a date, he was pretty nervous (very to be exact). He had asked her to visit her again in the seventh-floor corridor and told her to wear something nice, she too agreed on coming as he had told her he wanted to tell her something very important. And she was excited on knowing what it was

As Draco waited, leaning against the railing he saw as the moon shone beautifully and it was as if the rays only touched him and illuminated his face alone, the stars looked as if small accents on the dark blue sky as they shone brightly as ever. The scene was beautiful and when he turned his head to his left he saw Y/n, the moon in his life, the girl wearing an extravagant dark blue dress with small sparkle accents in it. She looked breathtaking, for a moment he forgot how to breathe. The moon’s rays touched her face and illuminated it and this just added to his view. “Draco?” she asked in her angelic voice, it was as if he had been summoned to heaven, or had he actually reached heaven? It looked just like heaven, and even if it wasn’t he wanted to savor the moment to himself and never let it end.

(Your dress)

“Draco! Are you even listening?” she asked as she too now leaned against the railing, just like the first time they met. “I was listening to you from the first darling,” he said and he just couldn’t take his eyes off this beauty in front of him. Her hair was in a beautifully messy bun, “Okay then, tell me why have you asked me to come here?” she asked and he replied, taking a deep breath “Y/n, I have always, and I mean always liked you from the start, I wanted to talk to you but I just couldn’t. I was too much of a coward-” in the middle she giggled and he smiled at her and continued “I have been waiting for this moment from the moment we first talked right here. Y/n Y/l/n, will you go out on a date with me?” he asked in a questioning tone to which Y/n smiled brightly, but as soon as she was opening her mouth to reply some flashes came in her mind…

“You know what Y/n! You are such a big asshole! You are the most disgusting person I have ever met, and you know what she was way better than you anyways. You are a clingy ass bitch and I literally despise you, do you hear me?” her tears were spilling down her face as she saw...

She shook those thoughts away from her mind but Draco could sense her discomfort, “Oh, I am so sorry Y/n, I....I thought… nevermind.. forget this ever happened, I should have known… such a pathetic idea…. Y/n..I am … sorry” he said as his gaze was down on the floor, “No no, Draco I am… it's just...” she stammered as she remembered that horrible night. “Y/n, are you alright? It’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it...” he said as he kept his hands on her shoulder and comforted her as she spoke, she had decided on telling him, she loved him she knew it and had decided on telling him her secrets, this time she had a chance of getting comfort rather than giving comfort for the first time in her life and she wasn’t going to stay silent like she had stayed for practically her whole life.

“Draco, I am going to tell you something I haven’t told anyone except for my friends and Snape…

A/n- We are almost reaching the end of Crystal Clear! The last chapter will come soon but will try to write it as fast as possible as I have my exams going on so might take a while. Anyways have a nice day today and Byeee!

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abimess · 3 years

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Wanda Maximoff Oneshots Masterlist Vol. 1

Masterlist | Be notified of my stories | Requesting guidelines

You do NOT have permission to repost or translate my work on any platforms (even with credit)

A memorable camping night - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: none. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: after your best friend opens up about her past, you decide to do something nice for her and it ends up changing the whole dynamic between you two.

A kitchen disaster - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: none. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: when your girlfriend comes back from her mission you decide to do something nice, but things don’t go as planned.

Recklessly in love - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: a bit of angst with happy ending. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: your stupid actions almost end up in a broken heart.

Sometimes jealousy is the key - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: alcohol. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: You’ve been in love with your best friend for a long time, but were too sure she didn’t feel the same way. A party on the compound ends up bringing a lot of revelations for both of you.

The Passionate Vigilante - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: minor homophobia. [pronouns: she/her]

Summary: When something threatens to hurt you, the person Wanda loves the most, the scarlet witch gets into overprotective mode.

The annoying jumper - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: none. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: After you gained new powers you decide to use them on the best way possible: to scare your best friend.

She was golden, you were plastic - Wattpad || AO3 (AU) [Special Part]

Warnings: insinuation of sex (not smut); angst. [pronouns: she/her]

Summary: After Wanda, the most popular girl at school, falls in love with the “nobody”, she has to choose between her reputation or her clumsy lover.

When secrets are revealed - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: none. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: When Wanda finds out you’re ticklish, she turns your life into a little hell. But you are not letting her go without revenge.

The Oblivious Lover - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: alcohol. [pronouns: she/her]

Summary: Confessing your feeling to your best friend turns out to be full of surprises.

What happens on missions (doesn’t always) stays on missions - Wattpad || AO3 (AU)

Warnings: death; alcohol.[pronouns: not used]

Summary: An undercover mission ends up bringing you the courage to confess your feelings.

The Lady Next Door - Wattpad || AO3 (AU)

Warnings: smut (+18 only!). [pronouns: she/her]

Summary: Maybe it was just your imagination, however it really looked like that mesmerizing redhead living next door felt a thing or two for you.

Devil in disguise - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: smut (+18 only!). [pronouns: not used]

Summary: When you don’t do what your girlfriend wants, she finds a way to convince you.

No words are necessary - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: none. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: On a mission, you meet a woman that turns your mind upside down with thoughts of her. Little did you know that she was well aware of what those thoughts were.

Electrical love - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: none. [pronouns: she/her]

Summary: It’s crystal clear that you and Wanda hate each other. But you hate even more anyone who tries to hurt her. Little do you know that she feels the same way.

Your touch just feels right - Wattpad || AO3

Warnings: angst with happy ending. [pronouns: not used]

Summary: Events from your past caused you to develop a complete aversion to touch. Until a certain witch shows up.

Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5

#wanda maximoff x reader #oneshot #masterlist

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dialovers-translations · 3 years

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DIABOLIK LOVERS MORE,BLOOD Vol.07 Sakamaki Laito [Track 3+4]

Original title: ちゃんと見て & ここに閉じこもっていたい

Source: Diabolik Lovers More, Blood Vol. 7: Sakamaki Laito [CD not owned by me]

Audio: Here & here

Seiyuu: Hirakawa Daisuke

Translator’s note: More slurping and sucking noises, oh joy! I do find it funny how both Kanato and Shuu were low-key annoyed by their sitation (the former more than the latter, obviously) but Laito is just thoroughly enjoying it. :p I feel like trying to mess with Laito would be one of the hardest things ever because he finds a way to get a kick out of almost every situation.

Track 1+2 ll Track 3+4 ll Track 5+6 ll Track 7+8 ll Track 9+10

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Track 3: Get a Good Look

“...Come on, you should take a look as well, Bitch-chan. This is a House of Mirrors, so you can see your own reflection crystal clear, no? ...Look, you can see yourself left and right. Make sure to get a good look at how I swirl my tongue around the bite marks covering your body, okay?”

You get flustered.

“Nfu~ You must be dying from embarrassment. What do you think of your own expression? Come on, take a proper look at how shameful you are.”

You turn your head away.

“...Ahn~ Don’t avert your gaze~ You can’t close your eyes either! You just have no other choice but to accept that this is who you are.”

*Sluuuurp*

“Mmh...Come on...Watch closely at the faces you make when I lick or suck you...”

*Rustle*

“Come on...Take a look!”

*Rustle*

“...Nfu~ How’s that? You’ve got that dreamy look in your eyes...”

*Sluuuurp*

“...As I lick you. Haah~ Do you really think you can call this the face of someone having a bad time? Say? Let’s analyze what exactly it means to ‘dislike’ something? What is it I do which you don’t like? For example...”

*Rustle rustle*

*RIIIIIIP*

“When I rip open your clothes like this? But look! In none of the mirrors around us - nor in the large one in the back - you look as if you’re having a bad time, do you?”

*Rustle*

“Ah! But I guess there’s just a slight hint of disgust~?”

*RIIIIIIP*

“Nfu~ ...Let’s rip these to shreds more and more. ...I love it when you scrunch up your nose in displeasure, you see? ...Come on, you have to get a proper look of those faces too.”

*RIIIIIIP*

*Sluuuurp*

“...Look! Your clothes are getting more and more torn up!”

*Sluuuurp*

“Ah...For some reason, seeing you reflected like this in countless of mirrors...It has made me feel somewhat odd as well~ Aah...~ It’s almost as if we’ve become pieces of a kaleidoscope, turning round and round ー showing a different side each time. Just like our type of love. It can take on various forms....Haah~ Say, Bitch-chan? Let’s feel even better? I’m sure you’re feeling it ache inside (1) as well by seeing ourselves reflected in the mirror like this? Nfu~ I’ll give it to you ーー the greatest pleasure and ultimate corruption. ...Nfu~ Regardless, you remain stubborn, refusing to take the plunge. (2) Noーー I guess that’s not quite it. You’re simply making yourself believe you can remain forever pure like Maria, when in reality, you’ve long been tainted.”

*Rustle*

“Fufu~ You poor little thing...However, I love that horribly miserable and sad nature of you. Nobody will blame you, you see? The only thing you should resent your humanity, and its foolish ethics, that’s all. You want to remain a little toy, forever kept in its pretty package, don’t you? I’m well aware. Of everything. ーー Well then, I think we’ve talked enough. Mmh...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Nn...Aah...I’m nearing my limit as well...Rather than sticking to just licking, I suppose it is about time I thrust my fangs inside? Nfu~ For some reason, I’m much more thirsty than usual today. I wonder if it’s because of the drug?”

*Rustle*

“In this flawless, beautiful world...I’ll expose you. ーー God does not exist, Bitch-chan. ...Nfu~"

Track 4: I Wish to Remain Locked in Here

“...Haah~ I wonder where I should start eating you from today. I’ve already taste tested you plenty with my tongue and for some reason, your back seems especially scrumptious today~ Haah...”

*Rustle rustle*

“...There we go!”

*Rustle rustle*

*RIIIIIIP*

“...Haah~ This is nothing new to me, but your back really is stunning. This straight spine...and these shoulder blades running from your shoulder to the base of your arm. Haah~”

*Rustle*

“I find myself wondering every time if white flowers will sprout from them...Nfu~ If they did...I’ll pluck them and tear them apart for you, okay? Haah...A shackled bird cannot fly after all. You don’t have the courage to leave your cage, do you? Nfu...~ Fufu...Fufufufu...”

*Rustle rustle*

Laito bites you.

“Mmh...Nn...”

*Gulp gulp*

“Hahn...Mmh...”

*Gulp*

“Haah...~ Hahn...Mmh...

*Gulp*

“Hah...”

*Gulp*

“...Haah~ Nice~ It’s so delicious...Mmh...Nfu~”

*Smooch*

“I’m just so horribly parched, I can’t help it...Bitch-chan...Hah...I can’t get enough...Hahn...”

*Gulp*

*Sluuuurp*

“Mmh...Ah~ Nfu~ Haahn...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Hah...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Nnh...Haah...Hah...The thing I enjoy the most, you see ーー is the exact moment when the light of hope in a human’s eyes shifts to despair. Haah~ Hahn...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Mmh...Nn...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Hah...Aah~ Take a look...Your face...It’s dyed with pleasure from my fangs. I can tell...See? It’s crystal clear. Even if you try and hide it...You simply can’t in here~”

*Rustle*

“Come on, don’t turn your head away. Open your eyes wide and look at yourself...”

*Rustle*

“Nfu~ You look very cute, Bitch-chan~ Make more and more nice expressions...”

He bites you once more.

“Mmh...Hah~ Haahn...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Hah...How nice...Amazing...I’m not quite sure who...”

*Sluuuurp*

“...tossed me inside of this room but...They’re got excellent taste~ Mmh...”

*Gulp*

“It almost feels as if...Haahn...Mmh...”

*Sluuuurp*

*Gulp*

“Hahn...I’m having a meeting with a bunch of different people who look just like me...Hahn...”

*Sluuuurp*

“...Fufu~ It’s so strange! Haah...~ Your blood is sweet as ever...Mmh...”

*Sluuuurp*

“Ah...For some reason, my body feels different from usual today. I’m beyond parched and no matter how much I drink...It’s never enough...Haahn...”

*Gulp*

*Sluuuurp*

“Hah...”

*Sluuuurp*

*Gulp gulp*

“ーーAh!”

*Rustle*

“Haah~ ...Haah...Say, Bitch-chan? You’re more worked up than usual? Nfu~ I’m sure the person who locked us up in this mirror world intended for it to be a pentalty but...Nfu~ Too bad. I suppose this person did not know me very well. Nfu~ I don’t mind being imprisoned as long as you’re here with me. It’s just the two of us after all. Nobody can come and interfere, and the idea of an inescapble world is extremely tempting to me. Nfu...~”

*Rustle*

“Besides...I get to enjoy myself to the fullest with the many reflections of you in the various mirrors. I want to stay locked up in here...Forever...and ever...Nfu~”

ーー TO BE CONTINUED ーー

Translation notes

(1) Literally he asks whether she is feeling ‘weird’.

(2) Laito uses one of his favorite terms being 落ちる or ‘ochiru’ here. This verb literally means ‘to fall’, but it is used to refer to someone being tainted or corrupted as well.

#diabolik lovers #dialovers #laito sakamaki #diabolik lovers more blood #diabolik lovers drama cd #diabolik lovers translation #drama cd

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hadesisqueer · 4 years

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I'm bored and I don't care and you most probably don't care too but I don't care about that either, so here it comes: my Blake analysis.

People tend to think Yang is my favorite character. And, although they're not entirely wrong, because she's the character I relate the most to, my actual favorite character is Blake. I just find her so inspiring, and such an interesting character yet flawed character. CRWBY did a great job showing her traits as both the Beauty and the Beast, and I just love it.

Leaving the White Fang and Beacon times

Honestly, one of the things I admire the most about Blake is just how freaking brave she is. Because it takes an incredible amount of courage to be able to realize about your mistakes and seek a way to redeem yourself by learning to help people. And it takes a lot of strength to be able to leave your abuser behind.

Blake leaves the White Fang and gets into Beacon hoping for two things: redemption and a new life. She starts off as the typical quiet, kind of cynical (yet still idealistic), emo and mysterious girl who we knew basically nothing about her. We had basic information about the other three, but nothing from her except that she wore a bow and liked books.

I really liked how she seemed to not want to get close to anyone, but then the interactions with Ruby and Yang came. She, although kind of annoyed because they wouldn't let her read (mood), seemed amused by them, and even awkwardly tried to tell them that it was a pleasure to meet them as they fought and before Weiss came and she gave up reading (mood).

Which is one of the reasons I think she chose Yang as her partner. She was probably looking for a partner who she knew she could work well with. And having being partners with Adam, who was just as much of an offensive fighter as Yang, she knew she could work with that. That and the fact that she also seemed to like her and Ruby the night before, so Blake probably recognised her and followed her around to check if Yang could fight too (also because she was hot okay this is just me shipping). And when she saw she could, she was probably like “Okay, I'm keeping this one”. Which is fun, because Blake was the quiet girl and then she went and chose the most extrovert partner (besides Nora) there was. And actually liked having her around, as anyone could see when she smiled when Yang said something.

And that's the thing: she didn't want to get really close to anyone, but she was really eager to start a new life. Even though she wasn't really sure about Weiss, she had good teammates and genuinely liked them. She joined Ruby and Yang in their idiocy (love those two) from the start and showed to be as much as a dork as them if she wanted. She was relaxed with them and liked team JNPR too (we never really saw her having conversations with them alone but if she sat with Pyrrha in class it meant she was cool with them too) and, if you read the books, she was really good friends with team CFVY as well.

Still, she was afraid to open up about her past, or even tell them about being a faunus to the point that when she slipped and told them when she was mad at Weiss being an ignorant, she ran away. Because after all, she doesn't think they would like her true self. I mean, we're talking about a girl who ran away from the White Fang because she realized it had turned into basically a terrorist organisation -one she took part of, and left her family behind for. A girl who's suffered from abuse, making her feel like she doesn't deserve anything good. It's crystal clear in the comics (though they're vol 4 content), Blake thinks she is poison and ruins everything good around her. And she felt like she'd just ruined it again. Which is why when she sees that they don't care, and that Weiss has decided she doesn't care either (and to me, that's the beginning of her arc of being an ignorant and daddy's girl to “when I see a racist a floor him and fucky you, dad), Blake almost cries.

Then in vol 2 she is literally obsessed with Torchwick and the White Fang. It's understandable: she used to be part of that organisation (goddammit, her own father created it) and she's had to see how it went from believing in peace and equality to becoming more violent to start working with human crime lords in a way that doesn't seem to benefit the faunus at all? She knew there was something big going on, and even if she had to fight her own past, she was willing to if that's what it took to find out what it was. It's funny because I felt like she was the main protagonist in that volume instead of Ruby and it's true: she was the one calling the shots.

The thing is that she took it too far and led her to basically become obsessed with the White Fang, as I said. To the point that Yang had to almost literally slap some sense into her and tell her to chill and go to sleep. And well, it worked. She took Yang's advice and didn't forget her goals, but took her time instead of destroying herself in the process.

In vol 3, she seems more relaxed than we'd ever seen. She doesn't have to hide who she is to the people she cares about, because she's slowly opening up more and they are understanding. They succesfully stopped a Grimm attack in Vale and got Torchwick in jail, so she felt more confident and hopeful. And they were killing it at the Vytal Festival. So yeah, she deserved to chill a little, enjoy herself, to be a little goofy and eat some tuna with her friends. The girl had earned it.

... but it's volume 3, and if it fucked everyone up, it wasn't going to be any different with Blake. Like, for fuck's sake, give the poor girl a break.

It starts with Yang breaking Mercury's leg and Blake not knowing what to think. Because as she said, the whole situation was so familiar. She'd had a passionate and aggressive yet “kind” partner before, one she thought she loved and trusted, and he slowly became more and more violent, and more abusive, and for a long time, she was blind to it. And then Yang does that. Her passionate and kind of aggressive yet sweet new partner, who she may already had romantic feelings for (even if she hadn't realized yet), who even had the same semblance as Adam. Was it all happening again?

Yang and Adam are, after all, foils of each other in a way. They're really similar. The main difference is how they deal with their suffering: Adam used it as an excuse for hurting others and never really got over it, and Yang took meaning from it instead and found the way to move on. Her heart was never driven by hate; she used her pain to become a better, stronger person. After all, just as Blake said, Adam was Spite, and Yang was Strength.

Blake's reaction was understandable. She was a victim of abuse and the situation reminded her of it. And as I said, it didn't help that Adam and Yang were so similar. But deep down, she knew that Yang wasn't Adam, that there was an explanation, which is why she gave Yang that chance to tell her. And she knew Yang wasn't lying.

And then everything gets REALLY fucked up for everyone. The situation couldn't be worse. Penny has died, Ruby is at Amity Arena, Yang is still at the dorms. Blake and Weiss are fighting together at Beacon against the White Fang and Grimm- and also the robots. And getting separated was honestly the worst thing they could have done, but Blake went after that Beowolf. And then she found Adam.

I don't think I have to even explain how I think she felt at that moment, when she saw her abuser right there in front of her eyes, for the first time since she left him. I think the look in her eyes are enough to express how terrified and conflicted she was. And yet, she is brave enough to fight him. And she loses. And then the guy uses “summon love interest” card and Yang appears, and he sees right through Blake. And the thing she feared the most happens. She's ruined it. She's really ruined it.

Vol 4 & 5 or the Belladonnas, Sun and Ilia.

Volume 4 is, without any doubt, Blake's lowest point, and again, thank God for having her parents and Sun around, because the girl was almost suicidal (most of all, when you read the comics). As I said, she feels like she's poison who ruins everything good around her, and this once, the universe has proved her right. Yang, her lovable partner who had been nothing but sweet, funny and understanding since she'd met her, had lost an arm trying to save her. And she knew that Adam wasn't kidding when he said that he'd kill her. So she left because she'd rather have Yang, Ruby and Weiss hating her than risking their lives. And because she couldn't stand the guilt she felt. The poor girl hated herself for what happened.

It took her while to decide to go back to Menagerie, but she did, and I was honestly thrilled to find out about her family. Like, we knew about Ruby and Yang being sisters and later we also find out more about their family life. We knew about Weiss being the heiress of the SDC, that she came from an important family, and later we know that she has siblings and it's implied that her father is a dickhead. But we didn't know anything about Blake's family life. We didn't know if she had any family at all or if she was an orphan, or if she had been abandoned, or if she was poor or rich. I think a lot of people had those headcannons before vol 4. But nope. Those ideas were obliterated.

Her father had created the White Fang, which explained why Blake always took the whole matter so personal: it was her legacy, and it had been taken from her and became corrupted. Not only wasn't she poor: she was some sort of fucking princess and owned a mansion. And not only wasn't she an orphan or an abandoned kid: out of team RWBY, she was the only one with two functional, loving parents. She clearly felt guilty about leaving them as well but both of her parents forgave her without any doubts, and showed her unconditional love. Kali and Ghira were two understanding and forgiving people who loved their daughter more than anything, and really, it was such a relief.

And I have my issues with the whole Sun thing, most of all after reading Before the Dawn. He followed her without permission, didn't respect her boundaries and she got too aggressive with him sometimes because of that (first slap I get it, the other two no). And I don't think he was completely necessary for the whole Battle of Haven thing. But at the same time, I really think having him around actually helped Blake a lot. Because yes, he didn't understand her many times, but I do think that having him around helped her as much as her parents. He had a big crush on her, and Blake did like him back, but never at the same level. After the time-skip, he still liked her but her crush on him had faded. And he took his time, but he realized. Blake didn't need a boyfriend, she needed a partner, a good friend who opened her eyes and made her understand that not everything that happens is her fault. That pushing people away with the excuse of protecting them wasn't helping anyone: she was just hurting herself and others more. And that's what he became. And I love the fact that he never for a second thought that she owed him anything: he helped her because he wanted, not because he expected anything from Blake. He would literally be disgusted with people who think she did owe him. Sun has his issues but he is an amazing friend and a perfect example of a guy without one bit of toxic masculinity, and his friendship with Blake is just great (can't wait to see more of them. Brotp).

Blake got love, forgiveness, support and friendship from her parents and Sun, but honestly, I think that what finally pushed her to stop running away and put an end to this whole bullshit was Ilia's appearance. Her former best friend up until she left the White Fang (who was, by the way, the person who indirectly gave her the idea of using a bow to pass for human).

She had already seen someone she cared about lose his way and turn into a monster. Blake herself had lost her way for a good while, found it back and then lost it again, and was working to find it once more. Seeing Ilia in that situation too made her brain go like “Okay, there's no way I'm letting you end up like Adam”. Blake knew Ilia wasn't like Adam, she knew it wasn't too late for Ilia yet, just like it hadn't been too late for Blake herself. So she gave Ilia the same things her parents and Sun had given her, the same things team RWBY gave her once too: love, forgiveness and friendship. And by helping Ilia, Blake also helped herself. I've done this before in another post, but I'll do it again; as uncle Iroh said once: sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

(I'm not going to get too deep about the White Fang; most of all, because I'd need an entire post just about it. I'll just say that even though I thought I liked most of it, I still have a lot of issues with the White Fang thing and I found the end to be a bit disappointing and rushed).

Back with team RWBY, rebuilding relationships and Adam's end.

I'll never stop thinking that the fact that she didn't know what the fuck was going on at Haven but still joined the fight was hilarious, but still, it really made sense. She's done running away from her fears and her past, and one of her fears was that: confronting her team (mostly, Yang, because of the whole Adam thing) after leaving them. And then they all appear right in front of her eyes.

Past Blake would run away again to avoid the consequences. But she'd grown from that. Instead, she dealt with her own problems with Adam and the White Fang, and as soon as she was done, she went right back into the building and start fighting by Weiss and Ruby's side. And after the fight, while she was talking to her family and Ilia, Sun gave her the final push: he encouraged her to go and actually talk to the team, and she did. She went and told them that if they gave her a second chance, she wouldn't leave them again. Because she knows that leaving them had been one of the biggest mistakes of her life, if not the biggest one. She didn't know if they'd forgive her (a part of her probably still thought they wouldn't, and that she probably didn't deserve it anyway) but she still tried. And Ruby and Weiss accept her without questions. And honestly, the face Blake makes when she sees that Yang is also accepting her back and then they all invite her to the group hug still gets me every time.

She was obviously really happy that they'd forgiven her and that they gave her another chance that it's clear she was really trying to make the most of it. She clearly wanted to make up for lost time, and really make up for leaving, showing Ruby a bunch of times that she was always ready to follow her lead, reassuring Weiss after finding the bodies and... the whole thing with Yang. Because she felt guilty. But don't think Blake was feeling guilty because of the arm thing; at least, not anymore. She had reached a point where she understood that Adam's actions weren't her fault. No, she felt guilty because she left.

Yang had told her about Raven, and Blake knew that the poor girl had some serious abandonment issues (actually, Blake and Raven are kind of similar as well but with many differences, like the fact that they both tend to run away when they're scared, but for different reasons; one leaves by putting people in harm's way to protect herself, and the other because she wants to protect people in the wrong way. Eventually both get called out on that behaviour, and one responds with running away again, and the other with learning to not to run and face her fears. Both are foils of each other in Yang's eyes just like Yang and Adam in Blake's. Okay I'll continue). And Blake knew that when she left Yang, she most likely made said issues worse. Which is why she was trying so hard to make sure that Yang knew she wasn't leaving her again. She even actually tells her over and over again. “I'm not leaving”, “I'll hurry back”, “I'm not gonna break my promise, I swear”. Even during the Bees vs Adam fight, she says “I have people who actually care about me and I promised I'd never leave them again, so I'm not dying now”. That states two things:

1) She wants to fucking live, of course.

2) Blake is telling Yang that she is not going to die, not only because, as I said, she is a normal person who wants to live. But because she knows that, even if she would totally do it given the case, Yang doesn't want her to sacrifice herself for her, because then, she'd be leaving her again. She is telling Yang that she's not going to do that, and that they'd leave that place together.

But the thing is, Blake was trying SO hard to be there for her that she made things awkward, making Yang think Blake believed she was fragile and needed protection, which wasn't the case (I already talked about all this and Yang hating people taking care of her she thinks it makes her weak in the Yang analysis). And which is why Blake corrected herself and said “protecting each other”, as equals.

(Before people complain about how I'm talking too much about Yang in here, let's be clear: you can't make an Yang analysis without talking about Blake. Just like you can't make a Jaune analysis without talking about Pyrrha. You can't make a Salem analysis without talking a lot about Ozma. Or a Weiss one and not mention her entire family. Because that's what happens when you write a complex character with varied relationships with different characters - the relationships shape the character into what they are-. And Blake and Yang's arcs is so intertwined with the others' since the Fall of Beacon that you can't make an analysis of one without talking a lot about the other. Thus, I'm analyzing their relationship too, just like I'm talking about Sun, Adam and more. And yes, I'm doing this from the romantic perspective. Because, in case you hadn't noticed, the relationship stopped being platonic since Heroes and Monsters, and has been showing to be more and more romantic as the show goes on. It's been even confirmed to be romantic. So please, anon, I'm talking to you: if you don't like it stop reading lmao).

Now for the Adam part. Man, I can't even talk about this.

People complain that it didn't make sense that Blake seemed full of confidence at Haven when facing him, and then at Argus, she was terrified. Well, let me clear one thing up: the situation was totally different, dude.

At Haven, she was surrounded by people she knew they would help her: Sun, her parents, damn, even team RWBY. She had a whole army supporting her (and even with Sun's help, she wasn't dumb and she knew better than trying to follow him, because she knew him and knew that that's what he wanted). So of course she was going to feel safer then than being totally alone with that guy who had been stalking her across the world like a total creep. Like, thank God Yang appeared and helped her.

Once again, these three are all together again since the Fall of Beacon. This guy, who maimed and traumatized Yang in a way she will most likely never completely get over (as a person with PTSD, I know it gets better, but it will never entirely go away). Blake's ex boyfriend. A person she trusted and loved, and turned out to be completely different than he made her believe.

Blake's done with running away from him. And she's done with being afraid, because she is. But even though she's afraid, I love how during the entire fight, he tried to get in her head but Blake didn't let him. Because she was done with that. He had abused her, tried to kill her and the people she loved, took her innocence and confidence, even stole her own legacy. And she's not letting him do that again. Not now, and nevermore.

Sorry, I had to.

Blake and Yang give him multiple opportunities to leave. He didn't. We know how that ended for him. And even after that, Blake feels terrible about having to take his life, and feels guilty about it, or felt like she'd ruined the whole “let's steal an airship” plan. But luckily, she had all of her friends reassuring her and being completely understanding and loving, and honestly, I'll say it a million times: that scene between Ruby, Blake and Yang is one of my favorites.

Volume 7

We don't see much Blake during volume 7, to be honest. Yes, we get that great moment with Weiss and Jacques (fuck you). We get to see how she really hasn't forgotten about the whole Adam thing, and how killing him was haunting her in a way. We got to see her and Yang being the ones who reached out for Robyn (people with brains who don't try to take her out and try to make her and the HH allies instead. THANK YOU). We got to see her and Yang kicking some ass in the RWBY vs Ace Ops fight. And of course, we get confirmation (we already knew, but some people are blind and needed more. Some people won't understand until they kiss) of Bumbleby going the romantic way. And I liked that.

But neither Blake nor Yang had much of an individual arc or important stuff to do last volume (and I really hope that changes in volume 8). That annoyed me. But at the same time, I remember that they hadn't had a break since vol 3; Blake had never had one, actually, because every volume found the way to emotionally fuck her up in some way. And after losing limbs, being stabbed, having to deal with terrorists, with bandits, with terrible moms, with abandonment issues, with PTSD and depression, with an abusive exboyfriend they even had to end up killing to survive... I was kind of fine with both of them getting an “easy” volume where they didn't have to deal with big emotional arcs like that, and were just chilling and enjoying themselves for a little while. Still, I want them to be more important, both as a couple and individually, next volume.

Conclussion

As I said, Blake is my favorite character. She is a very flawed person who learns about her flaws and works hard to be better. She is incredibly brave, by far, the bravest character in the series, who overcomes her fears and her abuse and moves forward. Blake's arc, besides taking back her legacy and fighting for equality, is about her finally understanding that she's not to blame for others' actions, that she isn't poison. She learns to finally stop running from her fears and her guilt, to stop pushing others away, and realize that she deserves a second chance, that deserves forgiveness and love and friendship, and to be happy. Blake's entire personal journey is about her finding her path, about overcoming her abuse and trauma, and about learning to love herself. And I love it. I love her.

#rwby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #weiss schnee #ruby rose #bumbleby #sun wukong #kali belladonna #ghira belladonna #damn this is long #i just love blake so much #rwby analysis #blake analysis

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northoftheroad · 4 years

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The crystal, the tooth, or just plain luck?

Nightwing vol 4 # 76. (By Dan Jurgens, art Travis Moore and Ronan Cliquet.)

I know, comic book science and all that, but please bear with me... How could Dick get all his memories and abilities and personality back? He did get part of his brain blown out, after all.

Dick suffered extensive brain damage. Nightwing vol 4 # 50. (By Benjamin Percy, art Travis Moore.)

Tom King, the writer who had the – in my opinion – bad idea to have Dick shot to add to Bruce's pain and misery, intended to get the magician Zatanna to fix Dick, so we know that was supposed to be a viable solution. But DC, for some reason, thought it was a fantastic idea to have Dick amnesiac and with no connection to the rest of the bat-fam for two years. (Me, bitter – whatever makes you say that?!)

Now, I'm not saying they couldn't have got a decent storyline out of Dick getting vertigo (another failed pitch from Tom King) or even amnesia. Too bad they didn't deliver, and I'm sure most of us just want to forget this overlong arc ever happened, but whatever. The fact is that after two years, minus eleven days, Dick got all his personal memories and traits back in Nightwing vol 4 # 74. (Including not wanting to be like Batman, but failing all too often...)

Nightwing vol 4 # 76. (By Dan Jurgens, art Travis Moore and Ronan Cliquet.)

For some reason, even though "Ric" supposedly only remembered his life until his parents were killed, he got all his abilities as a vigilante and adult male back pretty early – like driving a car, cooking a meal, fighting, speaking several languages, having a sexual relationship... Hardly something the average shot-in-the-brain guy should be able to do after a couple of months, right? Anyway. Finally, he got all his memories back and is Dick Grayson again. (Well, since he hasn't made much of an effort to find Damian so far, I would argue he's not entirely back on track, but he's getting there.) So. How come?

The identity crystal. Nightwing vol 4 # 69. (By Dan Jurgens, art Ronan Cliquet.)

Hypothesis one: The "identity crystal" that Doctor Haas, the Court and the Joker used to brainwash and control Dick had magical properties and has helped cure him, even as it gave him false memories.

The Talon's tooth. Batman vol 2 # 7 (by Scott Snyder, art Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion) and Nightwing vol 3 # 7 (by Kyle Higgins, art Eddy Barrows, Geraldo Borges, Eber Ferreira, Paulo Siqueira).

Hypothesis two: The false tooth the Court of Owls put in his mouth to mark Dick as a future talon has properties that helped him heal faster. We know that talons are infused with the compound "electrum" that can reanimate dead tissue and heal living tissue. It comes from a deposit embedded in the tooth. (In real life, electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with small amounts of other metals. The first coins in the world were made of electrum.) Maybe the electrum that must have seeped out in Dick's body during the years was enough to boost his healing.

(Let's for the moment ignore the fact that at the start of New 52, Dick was 15 when his parents were killed, by which time one could expect him to have all his adult teeth. While in Rebirth, it's clear that Dick was much younger. In Nightwing vol 4 # 51, he thinks to himself in one of those endless recapitulations, that he has forgotten fifteen years – ever since he came to Bruce. I'm no dentist, but perhaps that should mean that he was a bit too young to have a false adult tooth implanted?)

Dick has spent about fifteen years with Bruce. Nightwing vol 4 # 51. (By Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza, art Travis Moore and Garry Brown.)

Anyway. Thoughts?

#Dick Grayson #Nightwing #Robin #Batman #comic book science #cured amnesia

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Drama CD Vol.3 [Tales of Symphonia] ~A Long Time Ago~ Track #4: Windy Hill

Summary: Seles reminisces about Zelos.

Script below.

Seles: Sorry to keep you waiting. Lloyd: Seles. Seles: It has been a while, Lloyd, Colette. Lloyd: Sorry for coming here unannounced. Seles: I do not mind. Lloyd: Ah, err, I... Seles. It's a bit hard to ask now, but... Actually, we– Kyrie: Did your brother gave you something to keep for him? Colette: Kyrie! Kyrie: He said he entrusted the evidence to someone who would never betray him. Are you that person? Seles: I... have what you speak of. Lloyd: We're looking for Zelos' killers. I know it must be hard for you, but could you help us, Seles? Seles: When the Chosen came to visit this abbey, the sky was always... Yes, every single time. The sky was always pleasantly clear. On that day too. That never-ending, disagreeable rain had stopped, and a soothing wind was blowing in the evening sky. We climbed those hills surrounding the area... We climbed the hill together...

Zelos: I like coming here. The air is really clean. It's completely different from Meltokio. *laugh* Sorry for always dropping in without warning. Seles: You should feel sorry indeed. I am busy, you know. Not as busy as you, though... Zelos: Oh, you can't even imagine how busy I am! Seles: You liar. You're only busy going from one woman to another. Zelos: *laugh* Feels good to be trusted. Seles: Have you ever done anything to gain my trust? Zelos: How harsh! Poor me... Seles: Chosen One. Zelos: Yeah? Seles: What have you come here for? Zelos: Oh, right. Let's sit here. Seles: So? Zelos: What? Seles: What do you want? Zelos: Ah, right, what I want, huh? Wait a min... Zelos: There. Seles: Is that a jewel box? Zelos: Could you hold on to it for a while? Seles: First your Cruxis Crystal, now this... You really treat me like your junk keeper. Zelos: Junk? Heh. You never hold back, do you? Seles: Fine. I shall keep it. If you are done with me, let me go back to the abbey. I hope that you are not planning to stay long in this remote place... Chosen One? Zelos: Let's talk a bit. I'm sorry. Seles: It is all right. I do not remember you doing anything that would require an apology. Zelos: I'm sorry. Sorry. Can you see that star? Seles: Yes. Zelos: Derris Kharlan. The angels' star. Our destiny... The Chosen system and all that stuff... It all began with that star. Seles: We are so small... Just humans... Star... Chosen... Destiny... It is so strange. Zelos: Yeah, it is. Seles: Why are you getting involved now? Zelos: Heh, I'm the first to wonder. Seles: Now that the world has become one, you should be released from your unpleasant role as the Chosen, and enjoy a carefree life. And yet... Why are you getting deeply involved in politics and creating enemies? Zelos: Yes, why? Even I don't know... Wait, I get it! Seles: Huh? Zelos: I would always get drunk, have fun with my hunnies, just do whatever the hell I wanted, but... But everything was fake. My life was shit. I hated my destiny as the Chosen and that stupid world that bound me to it with a passion. Do you understand? Seles: Yes, I do. Zelos: But... But, you know, I kind of like it now. Seles: Huh? Zelos: The sky, the wind, the passing time. The grass, the bugs, the light, the sounds... All those drunks in the tavern. All the people around me. I love them all. Seles: You are so strong, Chosen. I wish I could be like you. Zelos: Say, Seles. When I'm done with this job, and when I've become a better person... When I've accomplished something, not as the Chosen or anything, but as myself, Zelos Wilder, the man... I may be asking too much, but... Can I come and pick you up? I want to show you that this world is not just dark and repulsive. What am I saying? *nervous laugh* Man, that was so cheesy, I– Seles: I shall be waiting. I will be waiting for you, big brother. Zelos: Thanks.

Seles: It is already this dark... You could spend the night here. Lloyd: Nah, we want to be quick. I want to go to Mizuho and get this box opened to check its contents as soon as possible. Seles: I see. Colette: Leave the rest to us, Seles. Lloyd: Zelos was your brother, but he was also our friend. I swear we'll avenge him. Then we'll finish what he was trying to do. Seles: Thank you very much. It is probably thanks to you both that the Chosen... that my brother changed. Lloyd: Huh? Seles: When I heard of his death, I thought that the world was really dark and repulsive after all. Colette: Seles... Seles: But there were probably plenty of times during your journey when you thought that and lost hope. But then you would realize that this world was not just dark and repulsive after all. Lloyd: Yeah. Yes, you're right! Seles: That is why I have decided to believe it as well. I want to become strong like my brother. Colette: The world is not just dark and repulsive. Seles: The world is not just dark and repulsive. Kyrie: Lloyd, the carriage is ready. Lloyd: Okay! Let's go, Colette. Colette: Yes, Lloyd.

Man: Evidence? This is bad... Man: I didn't think there would be any. Man: If it were to reach the king's ears, not only would we lose control over Sylvarant, but our positions as well... Man: Lord Boise... Boise: Relax. Everything will go smoothly. I made sure of that. Man: As expected from our Prime Minister. Heh heh heh. Boise: We should just bide our time. A few days. Perhaps even less. The war that will wipe out the declining world and bring eternal prosperity to our Tethe'alla is about to start. Man: The war will start. Boise: Indeed. Why do we have to give handouts to those inferior Sylvarantis? The superior ones are meant to reign, and the inferior ones are meant to be reigned over. Isn't that the law of the world? Man: The law of the world! Boise: In that case, striking down the ignorants who don't know the law of the world is... justice! Men: Justice! Boise: *evil laugh*

#tales of symphonia #symphonia drama #lloyd irving #colette brunel #zelos wilder #seles wilder #op: yume

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a rokka no yuusha/braves of the six flowers whump summary

hey all, i didn’t know there was such a thing as whumplr until recently. my excitement is immeasurable and my day is made, and i thought it’d be fun to join the community with this offering~

i see that y’all know about rokka and gif the boy a lot, but it seems like most don’t even know about anything that came after the anime. i was so obsessed with the characters and the story that i purchased the light novels and was not disappointed — at least on the whump front. the books are kinda pricey since barnes and noble was the only retailer i found that had it and the author never continued after volume 6, so if you happened to want to know the whumpy details, i’ve got them for you right c’here.

be warned though! there’s major spoilers from this, not limited to the identity of the seventh and the climax to the first (lol only...) main conflict since context, at least for me, adds everything to the moment. i also don’t have the books with me, so the descriptions here are just off the top of my head. small plot details might be wrong. once i get my books out of storage, i’m happy to post excerpts if anyone’s interested in that :)

alrighty so vol 2 picks up right after the end of the anime. the braves make it into the howling vilelands (book translation, i can’t remember what they called it in the anime), but they’re soon accosted by tgurneu. adlet has this spike thing with crystallized saint blood on the tip. after some desperate fighting and help from hans and mora, he manages to get close enough to stab tgurneu with it. the beautiful dumbass just stands there though, watching, waiting for that sweet sweet vengeance. tgurneu looks up at him and says, “are you seriously trying to kill me?” then, lightning fast and with inhuman strength, he punches adlet square in the face. the hit fractures his skull, knocking him out instantly, and sends him flying into the woods. he rolls and hits a tree i think. fremy screams for him :’c

mora gets to him first. i definitely remember that she feels his neck for breaks. it might have been my imaginings, but i’m pretty sure she pulls his arm across her shoulder and carries him in a semicircle around tgurneu who hasn’t died yet. hans comes up and takes adlet from her, saying he’ll get everyone to the next checkpoint which is a cave that has a special protective barrier the saint of the single flower made however long ago it was. he runs with both adlet and chamo (who’s been poisoned) on his shoulders all the way there. tough kitty. the others catch up eventually ‘cause they were dealing with more fiends attacking them and having trust arguments with each other, fremy and mora specifically with fremy ending it by outright saying that she’s worried about adlet. at the cave, they’ve laid him down by the spring, and mora heals him with the power of the mountain since bones aren’t rolonia’s forte. he’s still unconscious for a few more hours, until evening i think. she notes his resilience when he wakes up.

this volume also introduced me to the joys of hans whump..he gets my absolute favorite kind here. it’s revealed that tgurneu got to mora some years before, threatening to murder her young daughter if she doesn’t kill “at least one brave.” but she’s smart and dedicated, so she recruited rolonia, trained her to be both a strong enough fighter to be chosen as a brave, but also to be an insanely powerful healer too, because mora’s plan is to kill a brave to free the daughter but then immediately have rolonia resurrect them. she’d decided to use adlet since he was both healthy (had the best chances of being revived) and the easiest for her to deal with (lol), but there’s a hiccup in her attempt to separate him from the group. she ends up with hans instead because he sensed something was fishy, wanted to scope the situation out himself. it’s too late to fix it, so she fights her little heart out with him, finally managing to get a solid, heavy punch to his chest, stopping his own heart. she collapses from the licks he got on her and has to drag herself to his body. she pricks his jugular, all the while rolonia’s freaking out cause she wasn’t in on the plan, and the rest of the team swarms them. mora just yells at rolonia to pump hans’ spilled blood until his heart starts up again even as the others are yelling at her, believing she’s the seventh. i think adlet gathers the situation a bit and kneels by hans’ side across from rolonia, asks her if she needs him to do anything. i don’t remember the dialogue exchange, i just know that he’s holding hans as he comes back to life, and the poor guy, this hardened, i-ain’t-scare-of-no-things assassin, touches his neck where he was pricked, then starts screaming from the realization that he was dead. i love it. i’m so unbelievably salty we didn’t at least get the second season for this scene alone.

oh i also remember a flashback scene from when adlet met rolonia on atro’s mountain, it might’ve been in this book. it was one night, after a long day of struggling just to get nowhere with his training, he lamented that he was born a man, meaning he could never be a saint and have the power he needed to get revenge for his village. rolonia had her own issues at the time too, mainly that she didn’t want to be a saint, so the two ended up sobbing together all night.

vol 3 didn’t have a whole lot of…anything really. it was mostly goldov’s backstory (he takes a beating, i think, with nashe by his side for a little bit while he’s recovering) and the braves running around in circles like idiots trying to find nashetania. she loses her arm *shrug*. i guess i can say this one was important since it was showing the first signs of adlet’s strong man veneer cracking. boy’s getting stressed out by this whole leadership thing.

vol 4 also didn’t have much physical whump, but the emotional is pretty nice. it’s actually my fave in the series because it made me cry ;-;

the braves push deeper into the vilelands and come across the ruins of human villages. now, there’s a fiend with the special ability to implant parasites into the brain stem of humans and control them. they can still be ‘alive’ even after they should be dead, like this small army of zombies have long since starved to death, but their minds are sort of still there. and one of them just so happens to be adlet’s childhood friend rainer, the kid that he thought died with his sister. rainer heard information from the fiends that he knows the braves need, so most of the book is him trying find a way to tell them. he’s not able to until the very end as he’s lying in the woods, dying for real and singing a song from their village because it’s the last thing he can think of. he sort of recognizes adlet, saying, “you look like someone i know,” just before he’s gone. hans tells adlet it’s okay to cry if he needs to, and he’s all, ‘no i’m fine, we need to go.’ he takes a few steps away then stops and says, “actually, hold on,” then “presses his face to a tree trunk and weeps.”

vol 5…i gotta admit, i honestly don’t remember this one very well. adlet gets “beat to a bloody pulp,” but i can’t visualize it since some of the plot was hard to follow, and he’s honestly had worse already so i was barely registering it. the braves suspect him again of being the seventh, and real evidence comes forth showing that he likely is, and fremy tries to kill herself to protect the braves? like it’s just a big dramatic thing. so it’s kinda half revealed that tgurneu, who ~somehow~ still isn’t dead, has some kind of control over adlet involving ~the power of looove~, and it’s starting to be more clear that he has an unnatural compulsion to protect fremy. so like, yeah, he’s having to do a bunch of shit to stop her from killing herself, stop the braves from trying to help her with that, and stop them from suspecting him. i think fremy shoots him in the leg? i legitimately cannot recall. i do remember that he finally manages to craft a lie that convinces them that hans is the seventh and that fremy doesn’t have to kill herself, that her death might actually hurt them. she’s kneeling on the ground for some reason, he runs over to her, just stands there again looking at her, asks if she’s okay. she feels bad about him being injured and gently places her hands on his torso to keep him steady. it’s a super sweet image to me, yeet. he drinks some potion thing goldov uses to keep pain at bay with the warning that he’ll “be in hell once it wears off.” that’s all i got for this one, sorry >.<

and finally vol 6. it’s fully revealed that yeah, tgurneu is mind controlling him to love fremy so that she can fulfill her engineered purpose (she wasn’t aware of it. she’s such a brilliant, sweet girl, i love her so much), which is to drain the magic from the braves’ crests while they’re in the vilelands. of course, this will kill them as soon as the protection from the land’s poison is gone. so adlet’s for sure the seventh but he never knew it until now (or he didn’t accept it, i think he did realize it back in 5). his entire life was manipulated for this scenario. most of his POV in the book is his mental breakdown dealing with all of this. like he tries to force himself to stop loving fremy and being willing to betray his friends and destroy the world for her, but he just can’t shake the control, making him cry again from the stress.

at some point, he and hans are cornered by tgurneu’s special forces. they’d reverted to enemies after the previous book’s shenanigans but when hans realizes what’s going on in adlet’s head, he feels bad for him. adlet doesn’t do much fighting, leaving hans to deal with it. “not an inch of his skin is clean of blood” as this fight goes on. later, to keep adlet from causing any problems, tgurneu has one of the big fiends swallow him. he’s stuck in there a good while with its weird prehensile organ cinched around his throat and the potion wearing off.

finally towards the end with the rest of the braves coming to the rescue, he finds the will to escape and attack tgurneu, thanks to some clever situation-manipulation by mora once again.

a good slash to hans’ gut takes him out. adlet holds him again for a minute before chamo has one of her swamp fiends also swallow him for safe keeping lol.

oh i should probably mention that the prologue for this one showed a younger adlet still in training with atro. he’s told to ‘surprise me or gtfo’ because up to this point, he’s shown zero promise or skill, relying only on his need for vengeance. this is when he’s first given the saint blood spike, and it’s also shown that this was when the love spell took effect - a dream about a girl he doesn’t know but wants to protect at all costs. he has to figure out how to use the weapon in a way that no fiend would see coming. so he holds it up and stabs his own chest.

now back to his final battle with tgurneu. he conveniently had two spikes only, used one already that didn’t work because tgurneu is actually a fig-tree thing that controls any fiend that like..vores him, so the saint blood only killed his meatsuit before (he’s now in a large bird-like one). adlet knows he won’t get another lucky stab in, so he lets tgurneu rip his stomach open. he slips the crystal from the second spike into the wound, then grabs tgurneu by the face. his now toxic non-saint blood bubbles up into his throat. tgurneu, ridiculous fool that he is, can only watch dumbfounded as adlet pries his beak open and spits a mouthful of that blood into him. it reaches the fig portion of his body, killing the new meatsuit and forcing him to retreat. he’s helpless like this. adlet only has to go pick him up, tear the fruit-body apart to reach the fiend’s core. adlet stands there, holding the core in his palm. it’s occurring to him that everything he’s become is about to be gone because the love spell was the only reason he became the strongest man in the world. then he crushes the core and collapses, half dead.

fremy goes to him and tries to treat his wounds, but his blood burns her hands. the fiend army is still bearing down on them, so she wraps him in her cloak and carries him on her back herself to the next safe zone. at some point, he wakes up a little bit while they’re still running. his mind is so scrambled, and he feels an indescribable terror that knocks him back out. five hours pass, and when he wakes up to the others arguing about what they should do with him, he finds that he doesn’t feel anything for fremy anymore. he looks at her sitting next to him, says her name like three times, but he can’t summon back that love he felt so strongly.

hans is just in the background sleeping off the second healing session he must’ve had with rolonia. everyone’s pretty worn to the bone.

and that’s basically it. there’s cliffhanger plot stuff that i’m sad i’ll probably never see developed further. oof not to mention the destruction of adlet’s character and his romance with fremy. i can only assume yamagata-sensei intended to rebuild it in the next arc considering tgurneu truly believed that adlet’s capable of achieving the impossible. but yeah, i’ll compile some excerpts for y’all when i can xx

#rokka no yuusha #whumplr #anime whump #temporary death #evil influence #concussion #emotional whump #self sacrifice #stabbed #otp #&#brotp #worry

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sweetkale · 4 years

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all evidence that points towards Magneto being Jewish before it was first explicitly established in 1991

!!None of this is my writing!! It’s a useful but outdated source that I merely revised to replace the G slur. It was written by Rivka Jacobs and the original can be found at http://www.alara.net/opeople/xbooks/magjew.html

The Magneto Is Jewish FAQ (revised 11/9/98)

Rivka Jacobs

(1) In Uncanny #113 (Classic X-Men #19), the added material has Magneto on Asteroid M, talking about the deaths of Magda, Anya, and he mentions Auschwitz for the first time. "I endured one death camp ... in Auschwitz ... I will not see another people fear what they do not understand and destroy what they fear." Uncanny #113 is from 1978. The additional scenes were included in 1988's Classic X-Men #19. So, we know Magnus was at Auschwitz, a death camp, not just a concentration camp. (Many fans [and writers] seem to get the two types of camps confused). There could have been a number of reasons he was at Auschwitz: he was a Polish political prisoner, a Russian prisoner of war, a member of the French underground, a homosexual from Germany, Roma, or, with a high probability, a Jew. (Out of 1.5 million victims of Auschwitz, between 1.1 and 1.2 million were Jews).

(2) In Uncanny #150 (one of my favorites) Magneto mentions, in a fight with Cyclops, "I know something of grief. Search throughout my homeland, you will find NONE who bear my name. Mine was a large family, and it was slaughtered ... without mercy, without remorse." So that eliminates German homosexual and French partisan, because the entire familes of such prisoners were not slaughtered throughout an entire "homeland." After Magneto thinks he has killed Kitty, he says: "I remember my own childhood ... the gas chambers at Auschwitz, the guards joking as they herded my family to their death. As our lives were nothing to them, so human lives became nothing to me." Storm is about to blast him for "killing" Kitty, and she says, "If you have a diety, butcher, pray to it!" Magneto answers, "As a boy, I believed. As a boy, I turned my back on god forever." So now we know that Magnus is not a political prisoner (German political prisoners were sent to camps on German soil, like Dachau, or Bergen-Belsen), he is not Polish, since whole Polish families were not herded to the gas chambers. The Poles were not the target of pre-meditated Nazi genocide. While the Russian people were the target of genocide, only Russian POWs were in Auschwitz, not whole families. So, we are now left with only two groups of people that Magnus could be from, the Roma and the Jews. Uncanny #150 is from Oct. 1981; already Magnus says something very interesting here. He says he "remembers" the gas chambers of Auschwitz, "remembers" his family being herded, he "remembers" the guards joking. Fact: no one remembers the gas chambers of Auschwitz except in two ways (or three if you believe the dead can speak to the living), either you were a Nazi SS guard or doctor or official, or you were a member of the Sonderkommando. The Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Nazis -- in all the death camps -- to do the dirty work of killing. It was Nazi official policy. The Jews, the lowest of the low to the Nazis, in Auschwitz hierarchy, followed by the Russians, and then the Roma, the Jews would be the ones to lead the victims to the gas chamber, to haul the bodies from the gas chambers to the ovens, to burn and bury the dead. The Jews would pull the teeth of the corpses, cut the hair, pile the bodies three at a time on the retorts of the ovens in just the right way. The Sonderkommando had a few kapos (overseers) who were German and Polish prisoners, criminals from civil prisons in Germany and Poland. During the summer of 1944, 19 Russian POWs from Mauthausen were sent to augment the Auschwitz Sonderkommando. Totally documented, on paper and by eye witness accounts. All other members of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando were Jews.

(3) In Uncanny #161, Sept. 1982, we have the story of Xavier's trip to Israel. There he meets Magnus for the first time. However, it should be noted that the entire story is a Charlie-dream, while he is with Lilandra. In Uncanny #161 we see for the first and last time Magnus' tattoo from Auschwitz. His number is #214782. Xavier says, "That tattoo, Magnus, were you ...?" Magnus answers, "Auschwitz. I grew up there." So now we know that Magneto was first in Auschwitz as a very young person, but we can't pinpoint the age yet. Also, his number is high for someone who was there from the beginning of the camp. The first Polish prisoners, like author Wieslaw Kielar, had very low numbers, like in the 200s. Sonderkommando survivor Filip Muller's number was in the 20,000s. He arrived in early 1942. Magnus' number is a standard number, however, without the A of the 1944 arrivals, or the Z of the Roma, or the other special classification symbols. Of course the penciller didn't know these details. So a standard Auschwitz number, which is too big, but it doesn't tell us anything.

4) Vision and the Scarlet Witch, Vol. 1, #4. Magneto has just found out Wanda and Pietro are his children. (This is from Feb. 1983). He is on the moon, in the Inhuman city of Attilan, telling VIsion about his youth. "I was born into a time and place ... Android ... where both man and mutant were persecuted for being ... different." Picture of the Auschwitz camp, guards tormenting emaciated prisoners, one of whom displays a very prominent and exaggerated Star of David on his clothing. Remember Jews and Roma were kept apart in the camp. In the next panel, however, Magneto sort-of goes into a fantasy. He says, "But unlike the other victims, I possessed the power to fight back." He imagines he's hurling Nazi tanks away with magnetic energy. What's this? In 1983, the reader doesn't know what to make of this. Keep in mind, he's meeting with Wanda, Pietro, Vision, and Crystal, and has held Luna for the first time. Is he exaggerating? Showing off for them?

(5) Now for the second most important comic proving Magneto is Jewish, Uncanny #199, Nov. 1985. Magneto with Lee Forrester and Kitty Pryde arrive at the National Holocaust Memorial in Washington, DC. (It's not really Lee, but Mystique, trying to capture Magneto). Magneto has been having an affair with Lee, he loves her. He brings her to the Holocaust Memorial? Why? Fun date, huh? Why, because he has no other family. These people are his family. Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. (The Roma have their own name for the genocide, and their own gatherings, with their own rituals and customs. Magneto has no reason to go to a Jewish gathering if he isn't Jewish). Lee/Mystique says: "Man's inhumanity to man ... how easily the race kills." Magneto answers: "Then, Lee, it was the Jews. My nightmare has ever been that tomorrow it will be Mutants." Why would he say that, why wouldn't he mention another ethnic group, if he weren't Jewish? Next, Magneto tells Kitty EXACTLY how to address the gathering in order to get information about dead or missing family members. How does Magneto know how to do this? Isn't it obvious that he's done this before? Why would he address a Jewish Holocaust gathering looking for information about his family if his family weren't Jewish? (And it is a Jewish gathering, besides the use of the word Holocaust, a speaker says in the background: "... the systematic institutionalized extermination of one people by another."). Kitty asks about her great-aunt Chava, who died at Auschwitz, and Magneto is recognized by two survivors, Ruth and David Shulman, two Jewish survivors. (Shul is another name for synagogue -- Shulman means man of the temple, or man of the synagogue). They remember Magneto as a youth in Auschwitz, and say he helped them survive. And witness him as having been there. (No implanted memories, please). They testify that he " ... Had been at that accursed place from the very start..."

Later, Mystique reveals herself, and arrests Magneto in front of all these people. Magneto says that he recognizes no authority. "My land ...all the countries of the world ... turned their back on me and mine when we were condemned to Hitler's death camps. Therefore, in return, I have sworn to deny them." So let's clear this up ... the Roma were not persecuted in Greece, the Greek Jewish community was decimated. A small number of Roma and Jews in Rumania were exiled to a new border country called "Transnistria" but the remainder of the Roma were left alone. Several hundred thousand of them. 350,000 Rumanian Jews were savagely murdered throughout the country. In Slovakia, the Roma were left alone, the Slovakian Jews were among the first sent to Auschwitz. After the Slovakian uprising was crushed in 1944, several hundred Roma who had courageously helped in the rebellion were murdered, along with the remainder of the Jews of Slovakia. Bulgaria did not persecute its Romani people. Bulgaria, although resisting deportations of its Jews, persecuted them locally. In the Netherlands, only the "wandering" Roma who were captured in camps and wagons were deported, about 500. The remaining who had bought homes or found shelter with neighbors, were left alone. The Netherlands is where Gabrielle Haller comes from -- in under two years 100,000 Dutch Jews were deported, most were killed. I could go on. There is no other people who were hunted everywhere the Nazis went or had influence but the Jews. There is no other people who had the gates of escape cut off after the war started, but the European Jews. Magneto's reasoning is based on this most extreme situation.

(6) Uncanny #211, Nov. 1986. The Mutant Massacre. Page 9 -- Betsy Braddock has just come in from discovering what happened to a wounded Morlock, who has just died. Magneto, Storm, and Wolverine are standing there in Xavier's infirmary. Betsy says, "... I saw a cadre of super-beings ... massacring every living thing in the Morlock tunnels." Magneto reacts immediately, out of pure emotion. "NO! The horrors of my childhood, born again...only this time, Mutants are the victims, instead of Jews." What else does this mean? He's talking about HIS childhood, he's making a parallel. If he weren't Jewish, he wouldn't have said Jews, he would have said Roma. The two groups of people are not interchangeable.

(7) New Mutants #49, March 1987. Magneto is dreaming. It is an entire page representation of the massacre of his family. Here we see for the first time, his family -- father, mother, sister -- as they were gunned down in front of open graves. The family members are dressed in middle class urban clothes. No peasant dress, no Roma clothing. (And it is not a cliche. Roma women always wore, at this time, their flowing skirts and distinctive scarves and clothing, similar to the Bosnian women of today). Being massacred with Magnus' family is a mixed group of people. Men in bowler hats and suits, one old woman in a long skirt. One man in a bowler hat has the side-locks of the devout Jew, but the other people could be anyone. Poles or Jews or Roma. It's Magnus and his family who are out of place. They are well-dressed, Magnus's sister in a proper school uniform with the prim collar. Every picture I've seen of the German Rom show: a people of color, having left India and Armenia five- to six-hundred years ago, the men wearing Fedoras (favorite style of hat) and normal suits and ties, and the women and girls always dressed in the long skirts and distinctive flowered scarves. The boys wear a mixture of urban short pants but scarf belts, some have socks, some don't. New Mutants #49, page 17, could show some Roma in the crowd, but Magnus' family members are definitely not Romani in this picture.

(8) X-Men Classics #12, back-up story, Aug. 1987. The actual scenes of Magneto's escape from Auschwitz. "And with World War II ending... the Third Reich defeated...it's guards wanted no witnesses left...to tell the tale of this horror..." Picture of an SS soldier about to shoot a fallen and stricken Madga. "He had been there from the start ..." Magnus has just slammed a wooden beam into the head of the SS soldier. "Grown to manhood within its electrified barbed wire fence. If he was to die, it would not be in this abattoir ... and not without a fight!" Magnus grabs a terrified Magda by the hand and drags her with him in his escape. (a) The war is almost over, it is winter, it is the winter of 1944-1945. The Roma were gone by 1945. All the Roma women were gone. Only 4 clerks, high-status friends of Nazi officials in Camp I, were left. The Romani camp was murdered in the gas chambers in August 1944. (b) This scene, by Claremont and Bolton, is completely accurate. It takes place on Jan. 20, 1945, two days after thecamp was evacuated and the Death marches began. Some 70 of the Sonderkommando were kept to help destroy the evidence of the death factory, before they were to be killed. Some 200 women from the woman's camp, Jews, were chosen to fill in the huge pits where bodies were burned. They had to haul ashes, break up human bones, all in the coldest part of winter. The SS soldiers sent back on Jan. 20th were sent to kill the women. That is exactly what you see in this comic book, because Claremont and Bolton took the time and cared enough, to do their research. Magneto was saving Magda becasue at that point, he wasn't the target, yet. If they were out by the burial pits to the northwest of the camp, that is a point close to the forest. It just makes sense.

(9) New Mutants #61, March 1988. On page 22, Magneto is alone, kneeling over the dead body of Doug Ramsey, thinking thoughts only the reader can see. This is one moment he would not misrepresent anything, to himself especially. He says, "An ill wind is coming ... they are registering mutants ... like they once registered my people in Poland ...! Who knows what horrors await us." Only the Jews were registered, and forced to wear armbands with the Star of David on them, in Poland (at the end of 1939). Efforts to murder the Polska Roma (the Polish Roma) began in 1942, but they weren't registered first. Young Magnus wouldn't have known about any of that in any case-- he was already at Auschwitz by 1942. He would only have known that "my people" the Jewish people in Poland, including the German Jews who had already been deported there in the first months of the War, were registered.

(10) Classic X-Men #19, March 1988, back-up story. Magneto is apparently working for the CIA hunting Nazis. He is about to be betrayed by them, and his lady love of that time, Isabelle, is about to be murdered. But as he is apprehending a Nazi war criminal he gets one of his massive headaches. "Pain," he thinks, "again indescribable." "Worse than the bite of the kapo's whip. The murder of parents and family, the death of a child ... the loss of a beloved wife!" So here we see that Magneto was the victim of kapos. He could not have been a kapo. He was too young anyway, as we've seen. He grew up in Auschwitz. Here he says the murder of parents, and family. The parents separate, gunned down. The remainder of his family, no doubt sent to the gas chambers later, while he was in the Sonderkommando. Remember what he said in UX #150, his entire family wiped out. So as a Jew in the Sonderkommando he not only watched his family die, he helped kill them. How can any other comic book character ever come close to Magneto for dramatic intensity, but only if he is a Jew.

(11) X-Factor Annual #4, 1989. Doom challenges Magneto to a duel of wills, with a helmet that pulls out unpleasant memories and torments the wearer. Who will crack first? Magneto takes his turn -- Doom describes what he sees, "...after the ignoble defeat of the Nazis in Germany, you and the woman Magda you rescued, fled the prison camp Auschwitz, in Poland."

"Auschwitz, where your family had perished --living skeletons -- and you had grown to manhood amid horrors most men could not conceive." First, Doom confirms that Magnus and Magda "fled" or escaped Auschwitz before liberation and after the Roma camp was murdered. Then he describes some of Magneto's family perishing, as living skeletons, at Auschwitz. They could either have been kept as prisoners, or brought in, starving, from ghettoes in Poland and gassed. They could have been either Roma or Jews. But then it's Doom's turn to wear the helmet. Doom's Romani heritage is discussed at great length. Doom is proud to be a Rom, he knows he is a Rom. Why would he not acknowledge that Magneto is also a Rom? Why did he say your family, implying your people, to Magneto? Not "our" people?

(12) And now the most important evidence, and just about my favorite X-Men comic, Uncanny #274, from March 1991. In the Savage Land, the entire comic is told from the point of view of Magneto. It is a first person narrative, he is talking directly to us, the readers. He is not exaggerating, he is not showing off. The writing is elegant and wonderful ... "My life's ambition has been to safeguard my fellow mutants," Magneto says. "Zaladane has no such compunction. And I hear the echo of Der Fuhrer's voice in the radio of memory, smell the awful stench of the sick and dying as the cattle cars brought the comdemned to Auschwitz. I wear red, the color of blood, in tribute to their lost lives. And the harder I try to cast it aside, to find a gentler path ... the more irresistibly I'm drawn back. I should have died myself with those I loved. Instead, I carted the bodies by the hundreds, by the thousands ... from the death house to the crematorium ... and the ashes to the burial ground. Asking now what I could not then ... why was I spared?!" So there it is. He describes his job at Auschwitz. That is it. This is no vague job description, this is what the Sonderkommando did. This is fundamental to the history of the Holocaust, to the history of Nazi Germany. Making the Jews the ones who had to do all the dirty work in the death camps.

Marvel cannot say they have their own version of Holocaust history. What kind of reasoning is that? Where do the editors and writers of Marvel get off making up their own history of the Holocaust? Where do they draw the line? Has any reader out there ever seen any major publisher or entertainment outfit, outside Neo-Nazi groups and the Militias or Far Right Splinter groups, who just took it upon themselves to change a Jew into a Romany and change Holocaust and Auschwitz history to make it fit? Magneto says it here, he was a member of the Sonderkommando. He was not a kapo. He was not a Russian POW. He was a Jew! On page 14 of UXM #274, Magneto is dreaming again. He again sees his family being gunned down. He again feels what it was like to be buried alive. Rogue wakes him up.

(13) Uncanny X-Men #275, April 1991, which concludes the Savage Land story from UXM #274, referred to above, also contains confirmation as to what happened to young Magnus. Magneto says, directly to the reader, in diary-like narration, as he uses the last strength of his emaciated body to push away his captors, "They think me beaten, finished. A mistake many have made in the past. As I found the strength, as a boy, to survive being machine-gunned and buried alive, and later the unimaginable horror of Auschwitz ... so do I find it in me, here and now, to break free."

(14) X-Men Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov. 1991. The beginning of the end for Magneto. But on page 24 he says to Moira MacTaggart, who has seemingly betrayed him, and enraged him, "Of course not. You worked for the betterment of the world and the race. I heard those same rationales as a boy, in the Auschwitz Death Camp. From Dr. Joseph Mengele himself!" Mengele's first victims were the Roma, he liked the Roma. He brought the children candy and extra food. And in August of 1944, after trying unsuccessfully to save the Romani Family Camp (also for his own experimental purposes) Mengele obeyed his orders and vigorously hunted down and helped exterminate all remaining Roma. He then dissected those of most interest to him, and sent body parts to Berlin. Then he turned his attention to the Jews of Auschwitz. Only his Jewish victims have survived. His Romani victims, those transfered out of the camp in the spring and summer of 1944, have rarely come forward. If Magneto is alive in Auschwitz after the start of 1945, and he personally heard Dr. Mengele, he is a Jew.

Magneto is a Jew especially since Mengele would have been one of his supervisors in the Sonderkommando.

(15) X-Men, Vol. 2, No. 3, Dec. 1991 -- Magneto to Xavier, "You speak to the best in humanity. I have endured the worst. You imagine the reality of the Holocaust, of the Nazi Death Camps. I grew up in one." Magneto says The Holocaust. This is the translation of SHOAH, and was first used after the war, and popularized by Eli Wiesel. It means the Jewish Holocaust. One can say the Romani genocide, and today sometimes you'll hear the Romani holocaust, or the Russian holocaust, or the holocaust perpetrated against the mentally ill and the handicapped. (Nazi pre-meditated genocide was really only carried to the fullest extreme against three groups, the first were the mentally ill and the handicapped, who were the first victims of genocide. The second and third groups were the Jews and the Roma). But the Holocaust is what Jewish people say when they refer to the calculated campaign of Nazi Germany to kill every Jew in the world. (They actually made lists of every country in the Western world, and all the Jewish populations. They made no such list for any other people). Nazi Germany succeeded in killing almost 6 million of their foremost victims, until the Third Reich was defeated.

(16) X-Factor #92, July, 1993. Havok and X-Factor are battling Cortez and the Acolytes, in this opening chapter of Fatal Attractions. Cortez is ranting about the "flatscans" and how mutants have to subjugate them. Havok says, "Out to destroy the "inferior" race ... in Magneto's name? Don't you know what an insult that is to the memory of the very man you claim to worship? Fifty years ago, Magnus barely survived a Holocaust that destroyed almost all of his people: all because some lunatic took it upon himself to decide who deserved to live ... and who didn't. Where's the sense in resurrecting that kind of evil ... in the name of one of its victims?!" Cortez answers, "You've seen this place Havok! You've seen the sentinels! You tell me ... where's the sense in letting the flatscans do to the mutants what Hitler did to the Jews? ..." Cortez has done research on Magneto, he says the Jews, as a parallel metaphor. Why say that, if Magneto isn't Jewish?

(17) Then comes the infamous Unlimited #2. This is a long and involved FAQ I've got going here, so I won't go into detail at the moment. But the bottom line is, everything that Gabrielle Haller says about Magneto's history is false. I don't want to go line by line over it now. Everything! Danzig was not annexed. It was a Free City, under League of Nations protection, that voted itself a Nazi government and welcomed the Nazi troops in like liberators. Gauleiter Forster, the extremely anti-Semitic Nazi leader of Danzig ordered all 10,000 Jews of Danzig to be kicked out of the city in 1939, not the Roma. The Jews. Auschwitz wasn't opened as a Polish political prisoner camp until the summer of 1940, not 1939. The Roma were sent to German municipal camps, in Germany and the Greater Reich, as early as 1933. But they were not sent to Auschwitz from Germany until 1943. The only people who were in a work camp in Auschwitz before it opened were 300 Jews from the town of Auschwitz who were forced to transform a collection of horse stables and army barracks into the Polish prisoner camp. "Genocide, extermination ..." of Poles? No. The Polish people suffered terribly, and were considered "sub-human" by the Nazis. Millions of Polish citizens were killed throughout the course of the war, as soldiers, as slave laborers, as underground fighters, as members of the intelligentsia. But this was Nazi suppression of a conquered country, not planned genocide. Roma, Yes. The homosexuals, no. Not genocide. Persecution and imprisonment. Treated terribly. But people weren't sent to the gas chambers just because they were homosexuals. And "intellectuals" ? (How could Nicieza have written this?) Intellectuals were targets of genocide? Well, I hardly think so, since Goebbels, and Albert Speer, and even Mengele were considered intellectuals.

No one was sent to the gas chambers, or was shot in an open grave, or was tortured and murdered JUST because they happened to be an intellectual. Thousands of Polish citizens who were members of the intelligentsia (the educated class, the vanguard or elite of the educated class), were murdered in the first months of the war. But there was no planned campaign to hunt down every intellectual in Europe and exterminate them. The mentally ill and handicapped, the Jews, and the Roma were the primary targets of Nazi genocide. The Russians came next. Everything Haller says about Magneto in Unlimited #2 contradicts most of Magneto's history as presented in 15 years worth of comics.

(18) Until recently, when, in Road to Onslaught, Marvel once again published that outrageous Gabrielle Haller speech about Magneto like they were proud of it (??) the next references in the Age of Apocalypse comics portrayed Magneto once again as Jewish. In X-Men Vol. 2, No. 40, where David Haller, Legion, pulls Magneto's memories out, you see young Magnus with the men, standing behind and below a high, barred window. This is an accurate portrayal of the quarters of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz I. At Auschwitz I, only the Sonderkommando (other than prisoners awaiting execution) were kept in isolated basement cells, the windows of which were high, barred, and as seen from the outside, half-below ground level.

And why is Magneto in Israel anyway? How could he have come there? Well, why would a Romany go to Israel when at least 30,000 Roma lived in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s? And many more Rom formed a thriving community in Paris. Why not just go home to his own clan and tribe? Roma have a complex system of extended familes, clans, and tribes. Why go to Israel to "find himself" or find his "soul"? A German Jew had no place to go but somewhere else. A Polish Jew definitely had no place to go back to, since some Polish fanatics continued to murder returning Holocaust survivors well into the late 1940s. Any Jew can emigrate to Israel, under the Law of Return. All Magneto had to do was show them the tattoo on his arm. And he was home. (And in case some of you were wondering, as some of us have discussed, with the exception of the Muslim Bosnians, only the Jews of Europe practiced circumcision. It was a religious rite, not a medical procedure. Only Jewish men and boys were circumcised among the prisoners at Auschwitz. The Nazis already knew what Magneto was. He was chosen for the Sonderkommando, he was Jewish. He was not pretending to be a Jew. He wasn't misidentified as a Jew. He was a circumcised, young Jewish man). Furthermore, Magnus at this time had forged papers, that identified him as "Erik Magnus Lehnsherr." He could have immigrated to any country in the world, including the United States! If he were Roma, and didn't want to self-identify as such, why not go to America? Why go to the one country that represents enormous pain for modern Roma -- i.e., the Rom today deeply resent the focus on Israel, and the support Israel enjoys among nations of the Western world, while the Roma continue to be persecuted and ignored.

(19) In Astonishing X-Men #3, formerly Uncanny, from May 1995, we have the most clear reference to Magneto's being Jewish, written by Scott Lobdell. Magneto has just hit Bishop, and is helping him to his feet. He says, "Long before Xavier died ... before this point of divergence ... I stood by helplessly as millions of my people were led to slaughter in the name of 'genetic purity." Now the AOA is not a what-if story. It is a divergent timeline. Magneto says, before the timeline diverged. What other people were lead by the millions, led to the slaughter, in the name of genetic purity? Many people suffered and died in World War II. 250,000 to 500,000 Roma were murdered. Millions of Russians and Poles during the course of the invasions, and in political violence, and in acts of pure murder, were exterminated. But only the European Jews were "led to the slaughter" in the millions because of one man's racial beliefs. Only the Jews of Europe Persecutionand incarceration are not the same as genocide and extermination.

20) X-Men #72, cover date February 1998, published in mid-December 1997. This comic book makes a significant contribution to Magneto's history. Basically, the book reveals that the name *Erik Lehnsherr* which was revealed by Gabrielle Haller in Unlimited #2 to be Magneto's real name, is fake, and so Haller's assertion that Magneto is a *Sinte* Rom was based on false and forged identity papers.

The scenario begins with Gabrielle Haller, lying on her bed, working on a lap- top computer, writing the American Sen. Kelly, begging him to help find and secure the release of Charles Xavier. Sabra, the Israeli super-hero, a mutant and Mossad agent, suddenly appears floating in the air outside Haller's balcony doors. Haller has just pushed open the doors, saying, "You're too important to lose, Charles. I will see you ... FREE?" And Sabra says, "Sometimes, Ambassador Haller ... freedom, like the truth, is little more than an illusion. Don't you think?"

Sabra has come to Haller with information. She says to Gabrielle Haller: "I"m sure you recall shocking the world when you announced that you had UNDENIABLE proof ofMagneto's identity as Erik Lehnsherr. The undeniable has just been DENIED." Sabra then goes on to show Haller, and the readers, the file on a master forger named George Odekirk. In this file, apparently, is a computer analysis of the identity papers of Erik Lehnsherr, which shows that Odekirk forged those documents. Haller says, "He created Erik Lehnsherr? If this is true ... you must take me to him! He could be our only link to Magneto's true identity ... our last chance to stop him once and for all!"

But just as Sabra is flying Haller to the Transylvanian Alps, to meet with Odekirk, the scene switches to Odekirk, who is working on another forged passport, sitting in bed while his wife sleeps beside him. Suddenly, Odekirk looks up -- he has a visitor. It's Magneto, in full costume.

Magneto is floating in the air. He surrounds Odekirk's bed with his magnetic energy, and uses his power to keep Odekirk's wife unconscious. He says, "You failed me." Odekirk responds, "Please ... please, my wife ..." Magneto answers, "She will sleep the sleep of the innocent. She has done nothing ... but you ... YOU, my friend, have BETRAYED me." Odekirk protests his innocence, and then Magneto makes this remarkable speech: "Do you remember what you promised me the night I came to you, torn and filthy, nearly a quarter century ago? I was searching for my beloved MAGDA, determined not to lose her as I had lost so many others in the fire that engulfed all of Europe during my childhood. The authorities were in pursuit of me for the "crime" of avenging my daughter's murder. I was willing to deny who I was ... everything that my family died for ... so that I could find one woman ... so that I would not be caged AGAIN. The Erik Lehnsherr fabrication was a convenient means of ensuring that. You swore that the forged papers were FLAWLESS, that your skills were unsurpassed... but now, you have proven to be a liability. Your work has been called into queston by my enemies, and they will trace Erik Lehnsherr the Sinte BACK to you." Odekirk protests, "That is impossible! That forgery was impeccable! My work is ... " Magneto answers: "It was not ENOUGH! You gave birth to Erik Lehnsherr, Odekirk. And tonight, you have killed him. My secrets shall die with him. All that remains now ... is MAGNUS."

This scene says, subtly but clearly, that Magnus denied who he was, gave up everything his famly died for, to take the false identity of a Sinte Rom named Erik Lehnsherr. Since this entire FAQ has gone into great detail showing exactly how and why Magnus was born Jewish, it seems there is no doubt now, that Magneto's family and he himself, were Jews. Magnus would not say he denied *everything* his family died for, by taking a Romani identity, if his family were indeed Roma. As I pointed out above, only the Jews and Roms were targeted as entire peoples, and killed for no reason other than they were Jews and Roms. Magnus was either one, or the other. Since in XM #72, it is revealed that he is NOT a Rom, we must conclude he was born a Jew.

There are several continuity problems that arise from the revelations of XM #72. Several unanswered questions:

1) How much of Haller's speech (Unlimited #2) was based information contained in Odekirk's forgery, how much was based on what she personally knew, and how much did she "fabricate" herself? She makes a large number of mistakes, about nearly every aspect of Magneto's history and life. She also gets her Holocaust history and dates wrong. Did she perhaps add her own *facts* to what she found in those old identity papers? Was she perhaps trying to make the story coherent? As in, trying to make what she knew about Magnus and his history fit what she learned about *Erik Lehnsherr*? For example, where she says, on page 19 of Unlimited #2, "...Lehnsherr had taken to calling himself MAGNUS ... as if by choosing his MIDDLE name, he could bring some semblance of BALANCE and SIMPLICITY to his haunted life." This is Haller's supposition -- the reason he was calling himself MAGNUS in Israel. She knew him as Magnus back then, she had just found out, his full name was supposedly *Erik Lehnsherr.* Did she try to splice together the information?

2) While XM #72 makes it clear why Magnus cloaked himself in this false identity and ethnic background initially, what is not so understandable is why he continued to maintain that false identity after his search for Magda was over, and he immigrated to Israel. Did he use the forged *Erik Lehnsherr* passport to enter Israel? Why would he use a false identity and ethnic background to enter Israel, when he was a Jew?

3) Why would Magnus continue to use the Erik Lehnsherr identity during the Age of Apocalypse, especially since he publicly identified with being a Jew? (Astonishing X-Men #3, quoted above.)

4) Magnus worked for at least one intelligence agency, most likely the CIA (Classic X-Men #19). He then hunted dangerous mutants, for his own mysterious purposes, as shown in a brief cameo in Generation X #10 -- which was a memory belonging to Sean Cassidy, telepathically accessed by Emma Frost. During the time he was working for the CIA, his code-name was Magneto. In Classic X-Men #19, he is called only Magneto. In Generaton X #10, Interpol agent Sean Cassidy doesn't know who the man is who is helping him track down Arcady (the future Omega Red). Emma Frost, commenting from the present as a psionic guide to Cassidy's memories, calls the man *Erik Lehnsherr.* But the question is, after he left Israel, did Magnus use the false identity Erik Lehnsherr?

5) During the time that Magneto tried to follow Xavier's path, roughly from UXM #196 through UXM #253, and New Mutants issues #35 through #75, including UXM #188, NM #21, #23, #24, #26, #28, and #29, he referred to himself as Magnus, and others like Storm and Kitty Pryde called him Magnus. Even though he was disguised as Michael Xavier for the outside world, the X-Men and their associates all knew Magneto as Magnus. During this time, Magnus also identified strongly with his Jewish and Jewish Holocaust history. The question now is, what happened to the *Erik Lehnsherr the SInte* identity during this time?

6) Why, now, after so many years, did Magneto find it necessary to kill George Odekirk in order to protect his identity? We know why he took the false name and ethnic background to begin with. But we have no evidence that he continued to use *Erik Lehnhserr*, during each stage of his pre-Magneto career. After he became Magneto, after all the battles with the X-Men, after the events of Fatal Attractions, after the mind-wipe and the appearance of Joseph, after Onslaught, why would Magnus be so concerned with protecting his true identity? Was he trying to protect the memory of his family? Has he maintained contact with pre-Holocaust family grave sites, or places where he once lived? Is he worried that the very bones of his ancestors might be violated by those looking for his genetic material? Then there's Anya, his beloved daughter -- she was never Anya *Lehnsherr*. Her last name is now unknown -- is Magneto trying to protect something concerning her? George Odekirk wouldn't be the only witness to Magneto's true identity, either. What about those Carpathian villagers, who accepted Auschwitz escapees Magnus and Magda in 1945? Did anyone in Vinnitsa who knew Magnus' true last name survive his burst of electromagnetic radiation? What about Ruth and David Shulman, who knew him at Auschwitz, and recognized him, in UXM #199?

These, and other unanswered questions, remain.

By removing the *Erik Lehnsherr the Sinte* identity, fixing that particular retcon from Unlimited #2, and leaving the rest of Magneto's history intact, writer Joe Kelly and editor Bob Harras have not officially stated that Magneto was born Jewish, and was a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz. But, as was the case during the years Chris Claremont wrote the character, the references to Magneto's Jewish identity are there, subtle and at the same time, obvious.

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