#Diverge

[jemangeunepomme]

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do you have any favorite noodle drawings you did?

i had this sucker in between layers

it’s supposed to be a character design attempt. with the cutie. turned out purretty solid.

then there’s THIS wip i’ll never finish

so far the best jamie™ iteration i’ve ever done. sucks i can’t figure out the rest. it’s so cute...

and also this newer rushed sketch

[rake-rake]

@brazenlystrong

"Megumiiiii. Ya wanna tell me something? Like, dunno, maybe something's on your mind? Or someone?" You didn't delete your search history, rascal.

Unprompted harassment.

Megumi's pencil stops right over the feather of a peacock. Eye twitching slightly, he slowly squints at the page, frown deepening. He knew that tone of voice very well, and Satoru knew he did as well. This was the beginning of a game that had been played before and would be played again many times to come, both refusing to lose.

"No. Nothing." calmly focusing back on the book, he idly continues to color the drawing, as though the question barely deserved his attention, "What's for dinner? Can we get pizza? I kinda feel like mushrooms and cheese."

[firefly-creepy]

"Diverge" by Farzad Golpayegani

[kyzveryown]

KH Diverge Fanfic Update: I'm finally done with the dialogue script for "March of the Fools — Pt. I" and now I'm writing the first episode/chapter. As for how I'm going to go about posting each episode of this series, it'll likely be in sections as I finish writing/editing them. I'm making a new account for my writing where I'll post the Diverge fanfic series among other stories. I'll see how that works out. In the mean time, expect something some time this month.

For anyone curious about what Diverge is, this post explains it.

[peugeotandkoga]

new Diverge

[adamwatchesmovies]

Diverge (2016)

Diverge will make you wish you had a time machine so you can either warn yourself not to watch it or travel into the future to when the film is over, which might be something like 3 hours? Oh, wait. it only clocks in at 85 minutes. It only FEELS like it lasts half a day because the film is so boring.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a strange disease has wiped out most of humanity. Chris Towne (Ivan Sandomire) is sent back in time by a scientist (Jamie Jackson as Dimitri Tarkov) to save his wife and in the process, all of humankind.

Written, directed and edited by James Morrison (in his directorial debut), the film sort of plays out like a bargain-bin 12 Monkeys. We begin with Chris and his wife Anna (Erin Cunningham) wandering through a seemingly endless salt flat. The implication is that the earth has dried up… but wait. A biological disease that kills people (and cows) caused the apocalypse, not some heat wave. What’s going on? Anyway, soon after, Anna dies and Chris is sent back in time against his will. Of all the people who might’ve survived the end of the world, one is the inventor of a time machine and the other is the person who unwillingly fumbled the cure that could’ve prevented this whole thing from happening? What are the odds? I know, I know. The plot’s got to happen somehow but we’re talking the first fifteen minutes of the film and already, things are looking wobbly. Still, I won't dock points for that.

Plot holes and contrivances are not the film’s downfall. The biggest sin Diverge commits is the biggest sin any movie can commit: it’s boring. Chris is not an interesting protagonist. All he does is meekly wander around, trying his best to accomplish his mission without ever stressing out or even running. The most enthusiasm he shows is when he catches a glimpse of his wife. The past version of the character is similarly dull. As for the film’s villain, he's wholly unnecessary and cut from the same cloth as Umbrella Corp. but way less fun. It isn’t uncommon for science-fiction stories to be a little light on the character development; they’re often about the plot rather than the characters. The thing is that Diverge has such a basic plot there’s just nothing for you to latch onto. Yes, Chris is going back in time to save the world. We’ve seen that before. So. Many. Times. It’s not enough but this film acts as if it is.

You’ll be so desperate for some substance you’ll find yourself rewriting the movie. What if future Chris wanted to kill and replace his younger version because now, he’s matured and become a better person? If that sounds wild, it wouldn’t be unprecedented in this film. At one point, Dimitri travels back in time so he can kill his past self and take his place. “Woah! Spoiler alert!” you might say but I disagree because this event doesn’t affect Chris or the plot in any way whatsoever.

Although I struggled to stay awake during Diverge (a terrible title by the way), I won’t call it wholly devoid of merit. As a first film, it’s well-shot and makes pretty good use of its (surely) minuscule budget. Sometimes, a bad movie proves the people in charge are complete hacks. Though Diverge is unimaginative, unengaging and unmemorable, this is not one of those cases. (July 29, 2022)

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[ptrck666]

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

IT WOULD BE LIKE PROGRAMMING IN A LANGUAGE WHERE THE INPUT FORMAT WAS PUNCHED CARDS THE LANGUAGE WAS LINE-ORIENTED

Although doing great work takes less discipline than people think—because the way to do it without getting yourself accused of being a spam. They're hostages of the platform. One way to make it a much more conclusive way than by making up fine sounding stories about them. The investors who invested when you had no money were taking more risk, and are sometimes fairly counterintuitive. If you're used to reading novels and newspaper articles, your first experience of reading a math paper can be dismaying. Exceptional programmers have an aptitude for and interest in programming that is not, at least for a handful of people did part-time. And everyone knows that if you want to stop and think about that.1 They're not very common, but the ratio of new customers to existing ones.2 But if they don't need to: it lets them choose their growth rate is, because we're up in the middle of a project, distractions weren't really a problem. Copernicus himself didn't. To the extent wisdom means anything, it refers to a grab-bag of qualities as various as self-discipline, experience, and then try to pry apart the cracks and see what's underneath.

Making things cheaper is actually a subset of a more general rule: make users happy. That's a filtering rate of about 99. You don't have to send everyone the same signal, and you have a chance, however small, of being one of the big successes? Whereas if you want to figure out what it's doing.3 That's the difference between wisdom and intelligence diverge. A large, clean corpus is the key to making Bayesian filtering work well. If someone were creating an Internet-based TV company from scratch now, they might have some plan for shows aimed at specific regions, but it is a tradeoff that you'd want to. Other things must contribute to wisdom besides experience, and some of which will increase them.

There don't seem to mind a minimal version 1, if there's more coming soon.4 More often people who do great things have careers with the trajectory of a ping-pong ball. Ask any of the specific heresies it sought to suppress.5 And unlike other potential mistakes on that scale might be significantly over 1%. But if capital gains rates vary, you move assets, not yourself, so changes are reflected at market speeds.6 Plato quotes Socrates as saying the unexamined life is not just text; it has structure. But while energetic government intervention may be able to say about technology is: it just works. The Origin of Species was first published, because everyone else will have been frightened off by the challenges involved. In the years since, I've paid close attention to their books. When the company consists only of the founders, everything grinds to a halt during fundraising, which can easily take 6 weeks.7 When I graduated from college in 1986, there were essentially two options: get a version 1 out fast, then improve it based on users' reactions. It was High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies?

The most dangerous liars can be the kids' own parents. You have to be some baseline prosperity before you get tired and start to do series A rounds for as much equity as founders want to sell and with no option pool that comes only from the founders' shares stands to reap huge benefits.8 When I said at the start that our filters let through less than 5 spams per 1000 with 0 false positives, but in software you want to figure out the right thing to do, like a week or a month.9 But fortunately in the US are auto workers, New York City schoolteachers, and civil servants happier than actors, professors, and professional athletes? Bittorrent and YouTube have already trained a new generation of viewers that the place to go to school, which makes others want to, which makes it more discriminating. Either your site is catching on, or it will fry you.10 We use the word. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup.

Joe's has good burritos. When I was in high school.11 I'm doing stuff that seems, superficially, like real work.12 For example, the token dalco occurs 3 times in my spam corpus and never in my legitimate email. If there's one number every founder should always know, it's the company's growth rate. This one squeaked by with a probability of. And the bigger the pipe to the server, the less likely he'll be to notice one innocent mail sitting in his spam folder. Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows.13 In principle, yes. What really motivates investors, even big VCs, is not the established players, but other startups you don't know your users, it's dangerous to guess what they'll like. In our case the distinguishing feature is the ability to reason. One way to deal with internationalization from the beginning.

I was learning so little that I wasn't even learning what the choices were, let alone of Bayesian spam filtering in general. If you understand them, you can be pleasantly surprised. So readability-per-line probably is for the programmer. What are the most common because it is the feeling, conscious or not, that this era of monopoly may finally be over. Anti-immigration people say that instead of letting foreigners take these jobs, we should start paying attention.14 If people can't do it, then it is spam. To do good work you need a brain that's in the habit of so many years my idea of work finally broke free from the idea of being mistaken. You need a big prime number? He improvises: if someone appears in front of a TV all day—days at the end of which, if I asked myself what I got done that day, the answer would have been regarded as a harmless eccentric.

Could you have both at once, they wouldn't have discovered this problem till it was more deeply wired in. But if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the early 90s, and was shocked to discover, among many other regulations, that you needed $20,000 in capital to incorporate.15 If a mail triggers this second level of testing designed specifically to avoid false positives, I'm talking about filtering my mail based on a corpus of my mail. Who knows, maybe VCs will make more money than they want. So why do I feel so tired? 047225013 mandatory 0. I believe Bayesian filtering will be the Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and Del. Civilization always seems old, because it's painful to observe the gap between them. Why didn't anyone think of that before? It's isomorphic to the very successful technique of letting people pay in installments: instead of frightening them with a high probability of being moderately successful. The Metaphysics is among the least read of all famous books.

Notes

At one point worked designing refrigerators. On the other reason they pay so well is that the elegance of proofs is quantifiable, in one of the Daddy Model may be a good way to be identified with you, what would our competitors hate most? But core of the potential series A investor has a sharp drop in utility. Auto-retrieving filters will have to pass.

Now the misunderstood artist is a trap set by evil companies for the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to is following the evidence wherever it leads. Some of the paths people take through life, and astronomy. But let someone else.

Bad math is merely unglamorous, not because it's told with a neologism. The wave of the world's population lives outside the US is partly a reaction to drugs.

Other highly recommended books: What is Mathematics? A great programmer is infinitely more valuable, and it doesn't change the world as a phone that is worth doing, because the arrival of desktop publishing, given people the first duty of the lies people told 100 years, maybe you'd start to feel guilty about it well enough but the problems all fall into a great deal of wealth for society. I said by definition this will be on the parental dole for life. I haven't released Arc.

Which means the investment community will tend to have been Andrew Wiles, but those specific abuses. But I think so.

If you want to trick admissions officers. I've deliberately avoided saying whether the 25 people have for a public event, you can say I need to fix once it's big, plus they are themselves typical users.

The tipping point for me, I was a company.

Mitch Kapor, is a case in the US in 2002 was 35,560.

This is an acceptable excuse, but more often than not what it can have benevolent motives for being driven by money—for example, you're using a dictionary from scratch today would have for endless years of training, and that he could accept it. In retrospect, we actively sought out people who'd failed out of them, because the broader your holdings, the growth is genuine.

1% in 1950. The second assumption I made because the kind of method acting. As willful people get older. But the question is only half a religious one; there is nothing more unconvincing, for the firm in the absence of objective tests.

Students are mostly still on the other team. Similarly, don't destroy the startup in the sciences, you can get for free. Governments may mean well when they were connected to the writing of Paradise Lost that none who read this essay will say that intelligence is the kind that prevents you from starving.

For these companies unless your initial funding and then using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a statement would merely be eccentric.

Stir vigilantly to avoid the topic. SFP applicants: please don't assume that the money.

In practice the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. Travel has the same reason I stuck with such abandon. They say to the decline in families watching TV together afterward. You owe them such updates on your cap table, and stonewall about the size of the world, but those specific abuses.

There was no great risk in doing something that conforms with their companies till about a startup to be better for explaining software than English.

Thanks to Daniel Gackle, Trevor Blackwell, Garry Tan, and Jessica Livingston for the lulz.

[jemangeunepomme]

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can u pls show your art from pfp?

just some new year’s sketches about a Phase 0 concept, plus coloring test

little Nijūsan with her big attitude, almost winning a brawl to several classmates. circa 1997

[claie171art]

Very stupid meme I did instead of studying for my finals

[icepopstar5105us]

“Hey. Uh, Johnny?” Danny said awkwardly, “What does it mean when one of the older ghosts calls you their favored and why does it freak people out?”

Johnny 13 gave the halfa a bewildered look, “Dude. Didn’t you listen to Death? At all?”

“Death?” Danny scrunched his face, “What do you mean? I don’t…”

“Wait.” Johnny straightened, “You’ve talked with Death, right? She explained-?”

Danny shook his head, confused, “Was I supposed to?”

“When you first died, she’s supposed to appear. She gives a whole spiel and then transfers a bunch of information.” Johnny frowned, “She did it for Plasmius, so it’s not a halfa thing.”

“Oh.” Danny looked down, “What if… What if someone died and came back a few times very quickly? Would that… Would that cause any problems?”

Johnny stilled, horrified, “Ok. Look, do you want to talk about your death? Because I’m not asking if you don’t, but...”

“I guess…” Danny said, “So you know that my parents made the portal, right?”

“Yeah.” Johnny said.

“They’d been trying to do it for a long time. Plasmius actually worked with them for a while back when they were in college. It’s why all of their tech is similar in design.” Danny explained, “They built the thing, plugged it in, turned it on… and nothing.”

“But it works now.” Johnny frowned.

“Yeah. It does.” Danny nodded, “But remember my friends? Sam and Tucker?”

“The edgy emo and the computer geek?”

“As Sam’s friend, I am obligated to inform you that she is goth not emo… but yes, those two.” Danny smiled sadly, “My mom and dad were upset. They left the house and Jazz was working her shift at a library. The whole house was empty and I was… you know. A normal teenager home alone.”

Johnny snorted at that, “Ah yes. A completely normal teenager

“Yeah, yeah. The point is, the first thing I did after being left home alone was call my friends over.” Danny rolled his eyes, “Told them what happened and… It was Sam who suggested we go down there first — she’s always been into ghost and occult stuff — and look around. Tucker was down, because it was tech even if we didn’t think most of the tech would work. He wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to mess around with it. Jazz had given me some lectures on lab safety — my parents don’t usually follow it themselves — and I had a bad feeling so I put on the Hazmat suit.”

“That’s not a superhero costume you came up with?” Johnny asked, eyes widening.

“No, um. It’s a hazmat suit. The only way I changed my form was the insignia and even then that was Sam’s idea.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah, but um….” Danny paused, “We wound up standing outside the portal. It wasn’t working or anything, but there was a big spooky metal hole in the wall. You know, the kind of thing you’d expect in sci-fi movies. Sam dared me to go in and I was nervous. That bad feeling just intensified, but again — fourteen. I wasn’t being smart about it. So… I went into it. I kept going and it was dark. I was turning back when I tripped and I flailed. Accidentally hit some button that was on the side and it turned on.”

Johnny took a sharp breath.

“And um. Did you know that the portal takes a lot of electricity to start up?” Danny joked weakly, “Took three blocks worth. Um, lots of ectoplasm, too — from both the zone and the artificial stuff my parents use.” He shuffled, “So um, turns out both those things can revive and kill people. So I just kind of — died and revived a lot until it turned on and basically spat me out into the lab.

“That’s - Kid…”

“So um, maybe since I was dying and reviving so much death didn’t have a chance to fill me in? Honestly, would have like the heads up.” Danny said sheepishly, “I didn’t even understand what had happened until ghosts started coming through the portal.”

“Seriously?”

Danny shrugged, “I mean, I kind of suspected. I was falling through floors. It was hard to ignore, but I didn’t know - My parents are good inventors, but not the best scientists and it made things hard to figure out.”

“What? You bought that whole non-sentient BS?”

“No.” Danny shook his head, “I just didn’t buy any of it — and I mean none of it. I wanted nothing to do with the whole thing. The whole town thought my parents were crazy, they were always in the lab working, and I only ever saw them briefly once or twice a day. Don’t get me wrong. They’re still my parents and I love them, but… they have two big priorities. Their work and their kids. Their work is just… a higher priority to them.”

“Oh.” Johnny cringed, “Oh. Kid…”

“So yeah. Life sucks. Death sucks… but I really need to know what to do and why Ember is freaking out over me being called ‘favored one’.”

“Uh, right.” Johnny paused, “Well, it’s like old ghost language. Um. Basically, it’s like being called a really, really close friend or adopted family. Kind of like… ‘hey, this is my person that I love and protect’. It’s platonic unless they specify otherwise.”

“Huh, okay.” Danny blinked, “That makes sense, but why would Ember freak out?”

“Well… who called you that?”

“Oh! Clockwork and Pandora call me that when I visit.”

Johnny blanched, “What?”

“And now you’re freaking out, too.”

“You’ve been just- Kid! Are you just casually talking to them?”

“Um, yeah? They said it was okay?”

“Do you know nothing about the hierarchy of the- Wait. No. You didn’t get to talk to Death. Of course you don’t-“ Johnny sighed — covering his eyes, “Okay, so do you know what the ancients are?”

“I thought that was just a saying.”

“No, it’s not-” Johnny pinched the bridge of his nose, “The Ancients are the most powerful spirits in the Zone. They’re ghosts, but they resemble ideals more than they do a person most of the time. Practically gods. The ancients are Undergrowth, Frostbite, Nocturne, Pandora, Clockwork, Vortex, and Pariah Dark. Thing is… where most ghosts plateau at a certain power level the ancients can just keep growing in power. Clockwork is one of the strongest — so strong, the Observants bound him to their will.”

“Yeah, I heard about that, but he’s really nice, you know.” Danny smiled, “And he makes really good cookies really fast.”

Johnny stared at Danny for a long moment, “Danny. Do you not hear yourself right now? He’s basically the god of time.”

“Yeah, but if he didn’t want me to visit, I wouldn’t be able to find him.” Danny shrugged, “So he told me if I can see the clocktower, I’m welcome to come in.”

“Kid…”

“Besides. I’m friends with half of those guys and they’re cool.”

“Wha- How many ancients do you know?”

“Um… All the ones you just listed? I’m friends with Frostbite, Pandora, and Clockwork. I fought Undergrowth, Vortex and Nocturne before, but Nocturne likes me now. Um, Undergrowth doesn’t like me, though. Loves Sam, though… Um, obviously I know who Pariah Dark is after the whole thing in Amity-“

Johnny stilled, “Wait a minute… Kid. I need you to answer me honestly here… Did Pariah ever mention a challenge when you fought him?”

“Well, um. I guess? He was all formal speak, though, so…”

“Kid.” Johnny said very slowly, “Did he ever issue a challenge or accept a challenge from you?”

“… Um. He did say that he accepted my challenge or something, but wasn’t that just fight-talk or…”

“I think I get it now.” Johnny sighed, facepalming, “Just… maybe don’t tell people about this and consider asking one of the ancients allies you have about what Pariah accepting your challenge means for you.”

“For me? What-“

“Just… give it some thought.” Johnny paused, “And- Well, I can talk to Ember for you, yeah?”

“Thanks.”

—

Danny curled up on a sofa as Pandora embraced him with three arms and ran her fourth hand through his hair.

“Pandora.” Danny said softly, “Some of my friends say you, Frostbite, and Clockwork are ancients.”

“They are correct.”

“I didn’t know what ancients were.”

“I noticed.” Pandora laughed a bit, “But you’re a sweet child. You helped me get my box back and did not demand my favor. Perhaps it was selfish not to tell you, but I didn’t want to distress you. You are a kind and humble soul. Is it such a surprise I wish to continue seeing you?”

“You thought I would stop if I did?” Danny asked, confused, “I mean, sure my other friends were shaken up by it, but they don’t know you. Why would I be afraid when you’re so nice?”

Pandora blinked and then smiled warmly — a little laugh pulling from her throat. Oh, the innocence of such a young spirit, “Why, indeed? I suppose I didn’t give you or myself enough credit, did I?”

Danny shrugged, “I don’t have room to judge people for being different anyway. I’m a halfa. Pretty sure that’s even rarer than being an Ancient, right?”

“I suppose that is true.” Pandora smiled, “There are only a few halfas and none are quite like you. There will only ever be one of you.”

“Does this have something to do with why I never got to meet death?” Danny asked, confused, “That’s the only thing I can find that seems all that different-“

“In a way… Yes, but there are many more differences. The main one is that you powers have grown beyond Vlad Masters and they continue to do so.” Pandora said, “You are what we call a ‘Juna Potenco’. Most realms will never have heard of such things, but us ancients do not forget and when faced with a gift like yourself… well, you’ll only see more of us with time.”

“What does that mean? Is it bad?”

“No, no. It is a gift, not a punishment.” Pandora promised, “You are an inspiring soul, favored one, and it seems the realms themselves have seen that.”

“That doesn’t sound right.” Danny pulled away and sat up as he shook his head, “I’m a halfa, but that’s what I am. It doesn’t say anything about who I am. There isn’t anything special about who I am.”

“Everyone else disagrees with that last statement.” Pandora shook her head, “But I will let you in on the secret.”

“Yeah?”

“These are not due to your half spirit nature, but something truly special.” Pandora cupped his cheek, “Danny, do you truly wish to know? As amazing as this is, I am not sure you will be ready for the truth just yet.”

“I’m - I’ve been debating what colleges to apply for, but… I don’t know if any of them will take me now with my grades. I still look fourteen — fifteen at the oldest… and I still feel fourteen.” Danny looked at Pandora with pleading eyes, “So if this would impact my future, I think I’d like to know. Before things get complicated.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

Suddenly, everything froze.

Danny looked up to see Clockwork putting a medallion on Pandora while Frostbite gave him a smile.

“I presume you’re here to assist in informing him?” Pandora asked.

“Indeed.” Frostbite nodded.

“Informing me of what?” Danny asked, confused.

“When you went to face Pariah Dark, you stated your intention to fight him.” Clockwork said, “And he accepted your challenge. You fought in single combat, removed the Crown of Fire from his head, and then managed to get him into the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep.”

“Vlad-“

“Plasmius might have locked the Sarcophagus, but you have repeatedly bested him and even when he has gotten the best of you, it has not been in single combat. However, Plasmius at one point claimed your fight was a ‘fun challenge’. You agreed — officially accepting it as such. When you defeated him, he lost any fragile claim to the throne.”

“Claim to the- Wait. What are you saying?” Danny glanced between them, “What? No. No… you have to be kidding me. I’m just me. I was trying to help, not-“

“Child, your soul was always going to be tied to the zone one way or another.” Pandora said, “Mortality is already a fragile thing, but someone so surrounded by ectoplasm at a young age all while experiencing the struggles you did with your parents absence… it was inevitable that you would be a powerful ghost.”

“But, then, Great One.” Frostbite continued, “You stood fully emerged in the space between worlds and thought of protection and forgiveness — mercy. You did not even consider vengeance or desires of your own. Only the wellbeing of others. It is an act of great sacrifice and not one many can complete so fully.”

“To put it simply, Danny.” Pandora said, “You’re one of us, Juna Protenco. New and young power that will grow infinitely. Though you are far from ancient, you will be with time.”

“An ancient to be.” Danny said distantly.

“The Ancient of Protection, Space, Mercy, and Matter.” Clockwork turned into his newborn form, “The best candidate for king we’ve had in a long time. Though, perhaps I am a bit biased.”

“Does it have something to do with space-time?” Danny guessed, “Because Matter, Time, and Space…”

“Correct.” Clockwork smirked, “Matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move. I guide you and you make changes that I will use to guide you again.”

Dannu blinked, “Oh. I get it.”

“You do?” Pandora blinked.

“That’s domains for you.” Frostbite chuckled and then quickly explained when Danny gave him a confused look, “We all innately understand our domains and their meanings. My domain is progression, society, and advancement.”

“Mine is responsibility, hope, protection, and perseverance.” Pandora revealed.

“Indeed.” Clockwork transformed into the middle aged man again, “But now that you know of your future, we must prepare.” He put his hand on Danny’s shoulder, “Your coronation must happen by the time you turn eighteen. As Ghost King, you will need to learn some diplomatic skills. We will teach you while you finish your human schooling.” Clockwork promised, “You can tell your parents the truth or you can say you are simply leaving for college, but Maddie and Jack Fenton cannot move to the Zone with you. Your sister is welcome. Your friends are welcome, but unfortunately…”

“I understand.” Danny lowered his head, “I don’t think I’ll tell them just yet. Maybe I’ll leave a note or a video, but…”

Clockwork’s eyes glazed over briefly — clearly checking the timeline.

“That is a good idea.” Clockwork nodded.

“Okay.” Danny swallowed, “I can’t -”

“No.” Clockwork said, “Honored as these two would be, they have their duties and people. They cannot. I am both bound by the Observants and a little too prone to acts of selfishness. It is too much power for me. No. It must be you.”

“You’re not selfish. You helped me.” Danny tilted his head, confused.

Clockwork chuckled guiltily as Pandora made a face and Frostbite shifted awkwardly.

“There is a reason people fear me, Danny.” Clockwork seemed more amused than anything by the sudden awkwardness, “I appreciate your trust in me, but I was not so good or kind in life. I hold domain over regret and retribution as well as time. It is a position I earned after giving and getting both in equal measure. I am not a protective spirit by nature. I am one that seeks justice and sometimes revenge.”

“I don’t get it.” Danny frowned, confused.

“Soon, you will.” Clockwork said grimly, “But for now… Trust me when I say all is as it should be.”

“Okay.” Danny said, “I trust you.”

“Now, time in.” Clockwork said. When Danny tried to give him the medallion he shook his head, “No, hold onto it. I believe it goes without saying, but do not lose it.”

“I know. I won’t.” Danny promised.

“Good, now… I believe you have some friends to talk to?”

“Er, right!” Danny said and rushed off.

“He doesn’t know who you are?” Frostbite turned to Clockwork, “And you haven’t told him?”

“… He’ll learn during his studies.” Clockwork admitted begrudgingly, “And it’s best that he come to me after he processes the information than during.”

“Just remember, Kronos.” Pandora glared as she handed over her medallion, “One wrong move-“

“Yes, yes, I am very aware of your opinions of me, Keeper of Hope.” Clockwork held a hand to Frostbite, “Shall I take you back to your people?”

“Er, yes.”

“Good, then-“

“Hey! I was not finished-“

“TIME OUT!”

Pandora sighed as they disappeared, “Ugh. He is always such a petty menace. One of these days…”

[sboochi]

*sips tea* it's dumb crossovers time

I guess here King Arthur was a real dude who became legend after his death (in which demons and angels might have been involved). Our heroes now have a mystery to solve, with the help of a certain sorcerer.......

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