#Diplomatic Meeting

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[copypastus]

@sjmvillainweek Day 5- The Villain Wins AU

Or what I wanted to happen during the 'revive Rhys at swordpoint' nonsense. Just winnow out. What are they gonna do?

[demaparbat-hp]

No war au: first time meeting each other at a diplomatic event. zuko, crown prince of the fire nation kisses the hand of katara chief of the southern water tribe.

Beyond diplomacy.

[sesamenom]

Gil-galad Variations, featuring all the gil galad theories i've encountered.

[heliological]

I love how aai establishes that miles edgeworth is spending all his free time like, defeating internationally wanted criminal masterminds in a battle of wits. and then he goes to court and his opponent is phoenix wright who at any given time has a handful of evidence he picked up off the ground and a concussion. and phoenix wins

[scrunchie-87]

Ya’ll fw evil Hinata instigating toxic yuri?

[jaedoesartsometimes]

I just think they should’ve given Data more kids to just hang out with for no reason.

[fischlcatgirl]

I do really love fics where it's clear that other than being skilled at combat and incredibly smart and obviously sosososo fucking good with money ningguang could also be like. Liyues next top model if she weren't the tianquan. Yelan wants her. Ganyu wants her. Keqing wants her. Yanfei wants her. All of her secretaries want her. Ningguang can't go two feet without finding a lesbian doing heart eyes. And she knows but she is also soso head over heels for known pirate king captain beidou of the crux who is admittedly very cool but also distinctly a criminal. Like women with these high-power government jobs are practically throwing themselves at her feet and she's like no. I do want the woman who killed the fucking sea monster. Only I can know how to file taxes. She has to have at least 1 million mora in government debt. And most importantly. I need someone who can save the pieces of my house that fell in the ocean.

[magicaldragons]

varadeva are totally the type to have an absolutely savage child

and when their child roasts somebody, they'd be like

deva especially would eat that up, he'd be losing his shit in the corner,

but varadha's the one who'd remember he's a Dad™ and be like "alright now, stop that"

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Omne really did traumatize the entire Enterprise crew.

[tbob-enthusiast]

So I've been playing around with the (older) Robbie design for an AU of mine

This man has killed more people than he can possibly count 😭

He's part of my AU, which I call "The Zodiac": the premise is that here, Bill's Zodiac isn't a prophecy of people meant to defeat him, but rather a Pantheon of demigods whose power came directly from Bill after he died (long story). The power they received is more like a "seed" that grows according to the person who received them, rather than a direct pass down of one of Bill's powers. For example, Ford can access a mind, but not in the same way as Bill, because his power grew with him!

The Zodiac was created because Gravity Falls became the target of a war (cough, colonization 2.0 after the government became aware of the magic surrounding the town, cough cough) and Bill (who at this point had gotten attached to the place in a "how dare you mess with my freaks" kind of way) couldn't defend it anymore, due to his body not being made to last in the third dimension. He was already dying anyway, so hell, why not give his freaks a chance of surviving on their own?

Robert Robbie Valentino is extremely powerful when it comes to the undead. He can summon hordes upon hordes of zombies that are far more resistant than the ones summoned in Scary-Oke, which obey his orders in a hivemind-like manner, as well as having an easier time summoning and handling ghosts.

The most powerful state he has is one he calls "rapid decay", which is self explanatory. He only uses it on extreme circumstances, or when he's too emotionally unstable to stop that power from activating as his body's self defense system. It causes anything in a 1 to 1000 meter radius to rapidly decay, leading to the very quick death of pretty much anything. Higher Beings (like other Zodiac, The Oracle, Time Baby, or the Axolotl and his own pantheon) and bones are unaffected, however. He still doesn't know why bones specifically survive rapid decay, but he doesn't question it when it keeps his steed (sort of) alive.

His eyes are yellow now, due to overuse of his power. He is, after all, the one holding all of the military power of the town: raising armies of undead on their foes and promptly "recruiting" the dead foes as well.

Yeah, I also gave him a dead unicorn to ride to battle. Her name is unironically Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Neigh, and she's just as edgy as you'd expect her to be BWAHAH

He and Wendy grew apart after the loss of all of their mutual friends. He reacted to it like a perpetually open wound, raw and ugly and painful. A bleeding heart, one could say. She, however, chose the opposite direction: to freeze her heart away and numb herself from the pain. Such is fitting of Ice, after all.

These guys are immortal, and aren't on very friendly terms. Robbie thinks he lost Wendy, too, on the day their last mutual friend died.

Pacifica and Gideon, however, are a solid reason for him to still fight for the town. There's a lot of mutual respect and friendship going on between the three of them, and I think that's super neat, man!

[mushroomcrepe]

Some royalty dutp outfits

One graces her land with her mighty light ☀️

The other embrace her people with occult wisdom 🌌

[jessicas-pi]

hear me out on this ok. ROTS AU where Anakin still turns to the dark side but that's Palpatine's problem.

So, Palpatine decides last minute that ehhhh maybe dooku could come in handy later and he doesn't encourage Anakin to kill him, and Dooku gets arrested and imprisoned in the Jedi Temple awaiting trial. (Also he didn't get his hands cut off because of uhh plot reasons?)

Fast forward.

Palpatine is encouraging Anakin towards the Dark side, tells him about Plagueis the Wise, etc. etc. But see, the thing is, Anakin is at the end of his tether, probably hasn't slept more than three hours over the past week, and has no remaining impulse control or inhibitions, and upon hearing that the Dark Side can save people from death, his first thought is, "wait a sec, we've got a Sith Lord in-house at the moment!" and he sprints out of the space opera and books it back to the temple.

Now, Dooku has been calmly waiting in Temple custody, confident that Darth Sidious will arrange his escape. But THEN Anakin barges into the cell like OMG THE CHANCELLOR TOLD ME THE SITH KNOW HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING AND I'M HAVING DREAMS ABOUT SOMEONE DYING AND I NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THEM

At which point, Dooku realizes Palpatine's plan. He's going to tempt Skywalker to the Dark side and REPLACE DOOKU. this is totally uncool.

So he's like "...who are you dreaming about, exactly?"

Anakin freezes. He can't admit it's Padme because their relationship is top-secret and he can't admit how important she is to him so he tries to think of a good fib and goes "uhhhh OBI-WAN! Obi-Wan, it's Obi-Wan, I'm dreaming about Obi-Wan dying-" and he just throws himself into the drama because now he IS imagining obi-wan dying because Obi-Wan is fighting grievous at the moment and he MIGHT ACTUALLY DIE and that's in addition to Padme dying and he's totally spiraling at this point- "pleasepleaseplease you gotta help me he's like the only father i've ever known I don't know what i'll do without obi-wan I have to save him YOU GOTTA TELL ME WHAT TO DO I'LL DO ANYTHING--"

Dooku begins to smile.

(Would stealing Skywalker out from under his Master's nose be petty? Oh, yeah.)

(But it would also be very, very satisfying.)

---

Obi-Wan calls in to a council meeting to report his defeat of Grievous, but before he can say so, Mace announces that Dooku has escaped and the Sith Master has been killed.

Silence falls between the eleven councilmembers (eleven, not twelve, because their newest one is conspicuously absent. Obi-Wan wonders just what Anakin's up to now. Honestly, that boy will be the death of him.)

Obi-Wan clears his throat.

"...indeed," he says, trying to handle the shocking news with composure. "Well... at least we're down to one Sith, now."

Another awkward pause.

"Yeah, about that--" Mace begins.

[happyk44]

Jason and Percy attending a godly party with Nico and Percy is sulking in the background while Jason is somehow the life of the party and he's just like "how do you get along with them so well?" And Jason just shrugs and goes "idk. I literally black the fuck out the moment I open my mouth. I have no idea what I'm saying. Lupa told me it's something about inherent diplomacy through my dad being king when I asked her once, but I don't understand what it means at all" and then some god flutters by and Jason is suddenly the most charismatic person ever, chattering nonsense while Percy stares at him, baffled by the sudden shift to brightest boy ever, and when the god leaves, he turns back to Percy like, "no clue what the fuck I just said, but gonna go get some punch, you want some?"