#Even The Devil Needs An Advocate (ooc)

[ask-the-advocatus]

Alright? I'm Cadence Valerio, and I'm Ghost's Advocatus Angeli. I was appointed in 2018 to make sure Copia was worthy of becoming Papa... of course, they anointed him despite my wishes but if I get into that too much it'll piss me off. At least now he's Frater we're getting along a little better. Mostly.

My role is to question and challenge; whether it's each member's devotion to the Ministry, the actions of the Clergy, or even the validity of our worship. Think of me as a professional devil's advocate. Except, you know... backwards, because that's Satanism for you!

If you think about it, I'm the most important member of the Ministry. Kind of. OK, not really. But I'm here to answer any questions you've got for me, whether it's about me, life at Ghost, my friends and colleagues, or anything really!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

-Cadence xxx

OOC Stuff below!

-Shipping-related questions are OK. -NSFW/18+ questions are OK and will be tagged with suggestive/nsfw and content warnings if needed, but just be aware there will likely be content of that kind here! -Character's profile is here(Cade/Cadence, 36, he/him, Ghost OC based at the Ministry). -Writer's associated blog is @chase-the-music and main is @masschase(Chase, 34, they/them, writer and artist). -Asks are always open and questions will usually be answered quickly but there may be times when life gets in the way. -If you want to send asks as literate roleplay that's OK too! -Essentially, ask whatever you want but just be nice 😊

[cosmik-homo]

I read a few long analysis posts 4 it on the internet and like. (Guy who now wants his own)

Emil's thoughts on blake7 S2E06 Trial

Like, the thing is, the core themeing of it was REALLY solid- the juxtaposition of blake and travis and guilt and leadership and isolation. travis's plotline is REALLY solid, the inability of an atrocious justice system to handle its atrocities, the manipulations between him and setvalam could. Maybe be polished a Little- the lawyer lady could have had more juice squeezed in the writing- but. Real good.

Blake and the goddamn. Underwater menace lizard alien were good, surprisingly so. Make a character speak weird so the audience has to think philosophically. Blake decides to keep living and fighting. If we had a bit more time you could squeeze something about the alien Releasing him from guilt over her death and highlighting Gan's dying words.... hell, with just a bit of tweaking you could make the entire thing with the alien treating him as a child an even more meaningful reveal and tie with the crew's themes, by making it about how, like, treating other people's decisions as your fault, treating your followers as extensions of your charisma over them and not as people choosing to stand with you, cheapens them all. Gan knew what he was getting into. Blake stilk shouldve listened to his crew and pulled out, but. We could be discussing the agency of the more often Flattened members of blakes crew, yknow. We should be, even.

And thats just exactly what ruins Trial as an episode- it relies on the drama between Blake and His Crew, but everyone on the liberator is OOC. Or rather, Jenna, Cally and even Vila hardly say a word, and when they do theyre shadows of themselves; AVON has some lines that go SO hard i had to stop the episode and pace around, but upon second review they just... his characterization does not Remotely hold from scene to scene. It doesn't even work in a complicated and conflicted way it genuinely reads like he doesnt know what hes up to- hes playing the tool the narrative needs him to be at moment, from Cynic, Villain, Devil's Advocate to Gaddgeteer, Attack Dog, and Weirdly Homoerotic Coconspirator. The crews interactions over gans death are very superficial and fake-feeling to how, yknow, grief works. And dont tell me its a Writing Style Of The Era thing. We're not even reaching an Adric level.

I think the episode suffers from a DRASTIC lack of Cally. I mean, shes there, but- when SHE'S practically absent from the debate on death in the service of revolution- and from the debate on leaving blake behind!! Is atrocious and boring and unfaie and flattens everything. She should be put as an opposition to Avon- and having him attempt to pluck Auronar Insistences On Outcasting The Failed the same way he plucks on, say, Vila's avoidance or Jenna's practicality, and thus putting her in the position where she has to forgive herself to forgive blake, could have been an awesome thread. Or, alternatively, the other Only Real Aspect Of Auronar Besides The Telepathy we've seen so far- Being Weird About Death. Some pushback on that front could tie very well to the themes of the episode too and make the whole dynamic in the latter half of the episode maybe possibly even make some sense, cuz, again, Avon's jumps from rejection to loyalty to encouragement etc etc arent even that fun kind of batshit homoerotic they Could be if they had more GROUNDWORK and sense behind them, rarher than being pushed around to say weird gay shit by the invisible hand of plot. Without the kind of internal monologue books supply you cannot have his dramatic changes of heart happen in a vaccum! If you dont want to split the episode in three plotlines rather than two you... shouldn't have made him go So Hard at the lets steal the ship shit? Do the rest of his cynicism, name calling, and picking apart at blakes manipulations, but with the Intending To Stay there? Since its gonna be there anyways?

Ok i could go on repeating Why Is The Liberator Half Of The Episode So Empty and how sadly it flattens blakes surprisingly decent if a bit off tone for B7 bit- did i mention it was Super tos? Its was very tos- in like 20 more ways so jm going to shut up now.

This episode was simultaneously OOC and Quite Good. I shall have to rearrange it in my brain but it shall bw glorious when i do

[kxramczov]

//Okay so I have been kinda sorta thinking about this and even though I have honestly been apprehensive about this for the longest fucking time - because of reasons I will explain after I make the announcement.

Fyodor will probably be moved over to @alternxs​ just for the sake of my own convenience and maybe helping me just feel better in general about my blogs. Also so I can not have to keep two browsers up at one time and not have 30+ pages up on both things like a crazy person :’D

The rest is under a read more because it is long as hell because guess who still likes to ramble (me <3). And all you really need to know is right here.

Now in case anyone is wondering why I haven’t done it already it is honest to god a four fold answer;

First off, Fyodor is a muse I absolutely adore writing. I love him so fucking much in spite of his many many many flaws and I liked being able to joke that this toxic bastard needs to kept on his own blog.

Second I am stupidly attached to all the work I have done on this blog over the year that I have had it, in terms of my headcanons and what I’ve written on this blog. And moving him over there, I guess just felt like losing all that work even though I know full well that it does not work like that.

Third, I know honest to god I need to do alot of work to make my muse pages on that to make them more user friendly and honestly a big chunk of the reason being that... well I know part of the solution to fixing that would involve me making a lot of OOC posts and just linking them to the character pages instead but I am always afraid of putting people off by a whole slew of character related OOC posts but I know I have to do it because I want it to be easier for my fellow muns to find what they need to know instead of slogging through my bullshit and tiny text.

Lastly, honestly for the longest time I worried he would just be the only character I write on that blog because I just have some many ideas, headcanons and thoughts for him and when I made Gogol’s old blog people just seemed to like Fyodor more... but since I came back from hiatus I have honestly been paying more attention to that blog anyway so that whole reason is moot as shit at this point. Even though his muse has been strong as hell here lately... 

TL;DR If you are not already following me on my other blog and you still want to interact with Fyodor (for some reason) he will be over on that blog now.

He might come back to this blog if things just don’t pan out but for now that’s the drill.

[little-waterboiler]

You know...I don't want to play the devil's advocate and probably am wrong...

But this gave me major Anakin Skywalker marches the Jedi temple vibes. I could almost hear the music.

Also, how did Wild know where they are? How did he get there this quickly?

I mean there's always the reasoning of trauma considering what happened to the champions, but let's be honest, this feels slightly ooc.

Being so damn insistent to see Twi to shove another teammate away?

Plus last we saw him he didn't wear his cape. Why would he put his cape on while running there? It'd slow him down.

Even Four who's known to be very observative and level-headed found it necessary to split for this. Because he saw this isn't like Wild at all. Vio said it.

I fear this particular Wild might be actually Dark posing as him. And Four figured it out, hence felt he alone wouldn't be enough to stop him and thus needed to split.

[rahleeyah]

Leah, this ask is going to be bit controversial (and long sorry) but please hear me out. Devil's advocate here.

Everything Barba said to Liv in the season finale was right!

How? Liv told Amanda that she and Kathy became really close friends. Based on seasons 1-12 , that was hardly true. Liv cared for Elliot's family as a whole. She wasn't chumming around with Kathy. Liv said she's known Elliot's kids since they were in diapers. This is not close to being true. All of Elliot's kids were of school age when they met. BUT if we accept this as canon, Barba telling her to get herself together makes complete sense.

"This dead woman was your close friend. You've known her kids since they were babies. Now you have feelings for her husband? And you're putting your career on the line for him. Pull yourself together!"

If I had just started watching SVU at the beginning of season 22. Based on how this was written, (including the Burton situation), I would think there was something seriously wrong with Olivia. And wonder why Elliot is even a part of her life.

We are aware that this is Warren being shady but it is out there. It's canon. If the new show runner chooses to start from where he left off, it's not looking to good for her and Elliot until she "works on herself".

Warren has done this from the beginning. And just as this whole fandom automatically accepts as canon Elliot being a POS who ghosted Liv despite the fact that it was WAY OOC. It could have easily been written that she talked to him off camera. Nick and Fin were talking to Munch off camera all the time. But we all agree before they get together, Elliot needs to explain doing something that he would have never done to her in 1.0. Then shouldn't we just accept season 22 and 23 Olivia Benson as canon, understand that season 13 to present Elliot may not be the best choice for her and make way for Barson or someone else?

Remember, Devil's advocate so please don't chew me out. LOL

so, to start off with, the framing of your ask feels incredibly manipulative. you've come to me claiming that you're just playing devil's advocate; first of all, no one asked you to, and second, your arguments come across pretty plainly as your personal point of view, not a position you've taken up just for the fun of debate.

a debate which, remember, i did not sign up for. you came into my house, you started a fight, and then you told me how you expected me to behave based on the rules of engagement you laid down. i'm not allowed to chew you out bc you said the magic words? i didn't sign a treaty, and i'm not gonna abide by someone else's rules after they purposefully, unprompted, stirred the hornets nest.

i don't tag my posts, so they don't fill up the general tags. i don't go on other people's posts, or into their inboxes, picking fights. i stay squarely in my lane. you came to me.

but let's get into it, yeah? let's do it. i'll take it line by line.

Based on seasons 1-12 , that was hardly true

olivia didn't say "we were really close friends." she just said "we were really close". which, given that olivia saved kathy's life, helped deliver her child, convinced her to stay with her husband, given that kathy calls her liv after all this, and given the show's penchant for randomly referring to things that happened off camera well after the fact - like for example the retconning they did with murphy and rollins - is it really such a stretch to think that they were "close"? olivia shows up at the queens house and convinces kathy not to leave and you think kathy listened bc she isn't close to olivia, doesn't care what olivia has to say, doesn't trust her? why can't it be true that they were close? why don't you believe what olivia says? bc we didn't see it? we didn't see a lot of things that are still true.

Liv said she's known Elliot's kids since they were in diapers.

you're right, that the first four kids were older when liv first met them; maureen was probably a teenager, or close to it. the twins are younger, but probably not younger enough that they were in diapers at that time - although liv & el had been working together for like a year, or thereabouts, before s1, what if it was more than just one year? what if the twins were in the process of being potty trained? that would shift it to two kids in diapers and two not. and eli certainly qualifies, since olivia literally assisted in his birth. so is this a generalization, made in the heat of the moment, an exaggeration she makes while trying to emphasize how long she's known this man? is that out of the question? if it is out of the question, then it's worth remembering that this was written in 2.0, by a team of people who disdain 1.0, and don't spend a lot of time trying to be faithful to it, and so i think we can hardly hold that against her.

"This dead woman was your close friend. You've known her kids since they were babies. Now you have feelings for her husband? And you're putting your career on the line for him. Pull yourself together!"

Do you think that barba was telling her not to be with elliot? do you think that the purpose of that conversation was him saying she needed to choose her romantic partners more wisely? or are you not talking about the finale, are you talking about christmas, and the problem with being an empath conversation? (which, interestingly, barba tells her he thinks she's being a doormat after she's stood up for herself; she doesn't need him to tell her to do that. she's done that already. he has no idea) the thing about barba's last appearance was that it was him arguing that she ought to forgive him - really ought to say that he hadn't done anything wrong at all, since he doesn't think he did - and him being hurt that she continues to support her own position, and elliot, over him. he is hurt, and he excuses liv's behavior as her simply being in love with a man barba doesn't like, instead of acknowledging that the root of olivia's anger is that he didn't listen to her. she tells him she didn't ask him to protect her, and he says no, i guess you didn't, but it is dripping with regret, as if he thinks she should have. he's still not hearing her.

now you have feelings for her husband and you're putting your career on the line for him.

literally she has always had feelings for him, and she has always put her career on the line for him. that is what liv does. we already had an ask last week (or possibly the week before, what is time?) where i discussed this, that it is plain throughout 1.0 that olivia has feelings for him. this is not new.

it is new for barba; are you arguing that from his perspective he's right, or are you arguing, as you state, that he simply is right?

it has been my position, all along, that barba is acting based on the information he has, but that because he does not have the full picture he is not in the right. and bc he does not listen to liv, he continues to be in the wrong.

If I had just started watching SVU at the beginning of season 22. Based on how this was written, (including the Burton situation), I would think there was something seriously wrong with Olivia. And wonder why Elliot is even a part of her life.

frankly, if you had only watched from s22 of svu your opinion wouldn't count for very much. you can't look at one tiny sliver of canon - particularly, crucially, a sliver that doesn't show us any of liv's prior relationship with elliot - and make reasoned judgments about it. your imaginary viewer's perspective is severely limited, and i shouldn't have to sit here and argue with this strawman you've set up when they don't know what they're talking about.

but since you put them in front of me! let's knock 'em down, shall we?

if you had only watched from s22 of svu, you'd see someone who mattered to liv come back. you'd see her be shaken by him. you'd see her defend him to people that don't seem to trust him. and instead of asking yourself why does olivia care about this man, instead of thinking olivia is the strong, empathetic, compassionate beating heart of this show, if she cares about this man, if she is defending him, maybe there's something there worth defending, you would decide there's something wrong with her. ok that says a lot about you, tbh. but even if that's where you started, you'd see him being sweet to her at the wedding. you'd see her continuing to seek him out. you'd see her feeling possessive of him. you'd see how well they work together. if you're only watching svu, and not oc, you're not getting the full picture - which is again your strawman's fault for not engaging with the full story - but the pieces are there.

you'd wonder why he was a part of her life; is the fact that she wants him to be not enough? why don't you trust her judgment? why don't you want to?

If the new show runner chooses to start from where he left off, it's not looking to good for her and Elliot until she "works on herself".

this is literally the point of the scene with lindstrom and i don't understand why your tone makes it seem like a bad thing. the scene with lindstrom says that liv has been struggling, that she's been holding elliot at arm's length, that until she is willing to try with him she can't move on. isn't that a good thing? isn't olivia taking the time to work through her issues, olivia trusting that maybe happiness is possible for her, a good thing? she didn't think happiness was possible for her and lindstrom tells her to try with elliot, to try for happiness, and rollins tells her to just fuck the man already; isn't it encouraging, to think that in the future she might consider taking some risks, and see her bravery rewarded with care? that's a compelling storyline, and one i'm looking forward to.

And just as this whole fandom automatically accepts as canon Elliot being a POS who ghosted Liv despite the fact that it was WAY OOC

let's be careful, always, with assuming that the whole fandom accepts anything. everybody has different perspectives. and let's consider for a moment, as i have discussed many, many times before, that it is NOT that out of character for elliot to have made a sharp break. that is another post entirely, but i'm sorry, him ghosting her doesn't automatically make him a piece of shit, and isn't even automatically the wrong thing to have done in that situation.

It could have easily been written that she talked to him off camera. Nick and Fin were talking to Munch off camera all the time

this would have been a little awkward and anticlimactic, imo. it makes for better, more compelling drama, if there is a solid break, one that hurts, one that liv has to work through.

But we all agree before they get together, Elliot needs to explain doing something that he would have never done to her in 1.0

we don't all agree. i think elliot has explained. olivia doesn't need him to hold her hand and walk her through every step of his decision making process. she understands what it means that he killed a teenager - something too many people overlook - what it means that his pension was on the line, what it means that IAB was gonna make him jump thru hoops. she says it herself in s13 that he'd tell 'em to go to hell. she understands why he left. and now he's told her why he didn't answer. bc she was the only force on earth that could have brought him back, and he couldn't come back. why is that not enough? i'd argue she understands why he couldn't, because she understands him. that is one of the most important parts of their relationship, the extent to which they understand one another, their hearts and their motives.

Then shouldn't we just accept season 22 and 23 Olivia Benson as canon, understand that season 13 to present Elliot may not be the best choice for her and make way for Barson or someone else?

so i don't accept any of the points you've made, really. s22-23 olivia benson is canon, but she exists within a broader framework. we can't throw out s1-s21. hell, even s22-23 liv is still choosing elliot, and we can't disregard her choice. s23 ended with olivia being told to reach for him, with her reaching for him being tied up with her future happiness. why should she cast him aside? why should she throw away someone she cares for, someone who played such a huge role in her life, someone who hurt her but is back and is trying to be good for her? someone who heard her tell him to be better, and made a concerted effort to be better?

and honestly, narratively, why should we want to? god, isn't it satisfying to think that after all this time she can find a soft place to land with someone who meant so much to her for so long? that those old wounds can be healed, that they can find happiness together? isn't that better than just some random "someone else"?

why should it be barba, who apart from getting jealous when he finds out she's with someone else - the way he reacted with tucker springs to mind, there is precedent for his jealousy - hasn't exactly been around for her either? barba who defended a man who not only was responsible for killing kathy, but also crashed olivia's car on purpose and hurt her? defended him by casting aspersions on olivia and elliot's credibility, defended him despite olivia asking him not to, ignoring her wishes in the process? how is that better than elliot? at least elliot listens to her.

[bezixx]

"Because what is really most important is that she needs a hug." Devil's Advocate here, but as of current canon, who is going to give her a hug though? For isn't she a disgraced, genocidal, child-kidnapping, domestic terrorist/war criminal, who is the strongest non-Avatar bender in the world, & has aliened her entire family (including Ozai!)/old friends. & whose new friends need just as much of a hug as Azula does considering they came from the same asylum & willingly joined Azula's crazy plot?

I honestly always stood by ( for the most part ) blaming the inconsistent and rather lazy writing that ended up being spawned from the Fire Nation comics. Which conveniently broke other main characters, too, so I do not have to worry about "but it's just Azula", since in reality, this is not just Azula, just by far she received the worst treatment. There were hardly any considerations for the ramifications it can cause, just long as it pushed the narrative "Zuko good, Azula bad", while getting the plot to the point where they wanted it. "Not having a good idea about writing certain character" does not excuse you from badly writing them, especially when you are a professional writer. And no, given the actual canon, Azula was the one being alienated, not the other way around. It was only in her point of view ( when she was having a mental breakdown ) that she was alienating everyone, but this is far more complicated. It has deep roots in her family. I mean, yeah, of course, she purposefully made everyone hate her, including those she wanted to be close to. Obviously Azula definitely was the real Firelord and said to her father to throw piles of expectation upon her and treat her like a toy, her mother to neglect her in favour of the other sibling, and her brother to constantly think of her as the enemy. The part about her asylum friends is not exactly invalid and if we forget for a moment it was not used for the sake of argument ( since it is Azula centered post ), we still hardly know anything about them, only that Azula connected with them well. That they were not given a background of any sort and were not fleshed out beyond "Azula's new friends who help her" strips them from feeling like a proper characters, who are rather just appearing there for plot reasons. So while, yes, we can pity them for the conditions they were held in, this is a subject for another time. That said - them hugging each other can be used as a start. Someone please take notes.

genocidal, child-kidnapping, domestic terrorist/war criminal

Regarding the first and the last one, it has been discussed. A lot. Suffice to say, she is neither. Not only it does not hold when one actually bothers to research the topic, but also Kuvira makes her look like a 1 month old toddler and she got "redeemed". As for child-kidnapping, refer to the beginning, all I can say is it appears very OOC. And even then we learn her plan was for Zuko to free them, so he can look better while doing it... which literally proves how Zuko-centered the plot of the comics are. Ignoring that, though, we can only hope she will be hugged, while making headcanons and fan content about it. We need more people to recognize that she is much more complex than "crazy" or "evil", and that she is capable of being a decent person.

Also I am pretty sure that throughout her healing phase, she would find more and more people who could actually hug her.

[lawchan89]

I’m gonna offer a counter stance: The problem with Roland in Ch 17 is not that he’s “OOC”. We do see the progression of how he arrives at his conclusion, and that it’s ultimately not born out of a particular love of Hyzante but rather a hatred/fear of Aesfrost’s ideals (being judged solely by extraordinary ability, which he lacks) and his ineptitude as a ruler. These all stem from his lack of self-worth, which is apparent from the very beginning of the story. The man cannot separate his personal feelings from rational thought, which is a perfectly fine character flaw.

The problem with Ch 17 Roland is that he goes from 0 to 80 so quickly. Almost like we needed another scene to see him arrive at this “devil’s advocate” decision (because for the game’s purpose, somebody had to play the part). And I think that’s where people are jumping to OOC, even though it really just seems like there’s a gap in his thought process we were not privy to.

[icyxmischief]

Loki Ep 1 Pt 2

Blow by blow review, take 2: 

--The “sign this to verify that this is everything you’ve ever said” thing is genuinely hilarious.  I find it a little unlikely that he wouldn’t have ultra-suspiciously, with great characteristic paranoia, looked through every single page, and grilled the guy with the cat for info on where he was.  Little bit ooc for humor there, which is a major pet peeve of mine. 

--”Do a lot of people not know if they’re robots?” Okay this part was great bc it showcased Loki’s natural propensity to get into trouble because he’s such a curious cat and intellect, lol. 

--His scorn with “take a ticket” when only two variants are in the room is also very IC because Loki despises order without logical reason.  Order for its own sake is dangerous and oppressive and heyyyyy a lot like Thanos’s idea of a universe, ain’t it. 

--The All-Knowing Time-Keepers ended a timeline war, huh? H M m m m m M m m . They destroyed the capacity for nexus event and a multi-verse to exist huhhhhh? H M M M M M M M M .  Do I smell the potential for many Lokis from many Marvel canon verses, among other things? 

--

BITCH ME TOO, THE FUCK. 

--Okay I know everyone hates the logo but I kind of love how it is as fluid as Loki himself? A shape shifter? A master of magic and illusion? I’m sorry to all the graphic designers out there but I’m digging it for Conceptual Art reasons lol. 

--I’m sensing that if the French kid in 1549 thinks a horned devil caused a massacre in a church, this is evidence of Loki escaping the TVA to jump into the 1500s in France to cause mayhem. A bit predictable and I am hoping otherwise, but he IS Loki, “between damnation and redemption” at all hours.

--Owen Wilson’s character is strongly established as a good guy from the start.  

--”Madam, a god doesn’t plea.” Biiiiiiiiiitch yasssss.

--OHO he figured out the Avengers were time-traveling already, sharp. The reason why, he’s so far off that one must cringe for his fall from pride to come. 

--His laugh, that’s all. 

--”Hang on, everyone quiet, don’t rush me,” lol <3  Not a fan that once again he’s not allowed to use his full powers except within a contained system, but I’ll take it.  For now. 

--”You ridiculous bureaucrats will not dictate how my story ends.”   Wahoo if this series and character have a thesis statement, there it is.  Loki, God of Stories, forger of his own fate even when all tides run against it. 

--Loki doubting the reality of the TVA is an interesting hint into how much illusion was used to torture him as well as his own hyper reliance on illusion to protect himself. 

--Loki assuming Agent Mobius wants to kill him when Mobius is just showing him kindness is soooooooo revelatory of where Loki is psychologically right now.

--He still has his trademark swagger :D 

--”For the record this really does feel like a killing me kind of a room,” LOL, I love it, they’ve somehow kept his sense of humor spot-on! 

--”Trust is for children,” ahhhh kono kokoro. 

--”I live within whatever path I choose.” Ah, Loki, I wish you could, but is it so simple? 

--The fact that he tries to kill Mobius immediately and Mobius stops him while being fair and level-headed? I’m really liking Mobius. He’s the dare I say friend Loki has needed for a long time. 

--[Cooperation is] not my forte.” “Really, even when you’re wooing someone powerful you intend to betray?” Oho, okay Mobius, how long have you been serving as the metonymic stand-in for Loki’s fandom “army” and watching him grow and change  and self-sacrifice in the intended timeline? How well do you know him? You seem to know a lot, and that may be a good thing. You could be his advocate.

--”KING OF WHAT EXACTLY?” OH DAMN YES, MOBIUS, KEEP GOING.

--”WHY DOES SOMEONE WITH SO MUCH RANGE JUST WANNA RULE?” TFW A MARVEL CHARACTER HAS READ MY BLOG??????? YES?????? VINDICATION???????

--HE IS LITERALLY UNRAVELING THE TOXIC IDEOLOGY FORCED INTO LOKI UNDER THANOS???? ABOUT THE “LIE OF FREEDOM”?????? THIS IS AMAZING????

--”I don’t have to play this game. I’m a god.” Oh honey. Put the hackles down now, it’s okay.  You have far more heart than that, and far more accountability.

----Allowing Loki to see his entire “correct” (gulp) timeline (and God help us all if the end of this series involves him choosing to die in order to “fix the timeline,” I will RIOT if we get one more cheap “you’re only redeemed if you die horribly” growth arc for a morally ambiguous character) was the most important thing for me as a Loki fan of 10 years.  Allowing him to weep openly, to come to terms with the loss of his mother and the (too little too late, but at least extant) apology of his father, and, most of all, the potential to regain camaraderie with his brother, this was all that I wanted. A Loki allowed to flex his own muscles in his own limelight, no longer defined by what he lacks, but by what he can uniquely offer (even if in the “service” of an ethically dubious authority).  A Loki who KNOWS how much his brother has suffered and grieved but who still has his own freedom.I am admittedly optimistic.  The tone of the show is excellent.  My only fear at this point is a sacrificial death ending. Hopefully Loki will machinate a way to survive without breaking the universe with his divergent timelines, lol. Perhaps that’s the whole purpose of the plot going forward.

[ichayalovesyou]

Enterprise: Fight or Flight (Live Reaction)

Yeah! Dont misgender the space slug Sato!

I feel like I’m one of the musical zombies from TGWDLM and I’ve been infected and I’m embracing the shitty corny theme song lmao.

Yo Archer is a huge dork and he is seriously growing on me. He’s got such big dad energy (more so than Kirk and the other captains I’ve actually seen, which technically doesn’t include Pike who has BIGGEST dad energy.) and I love that. Omg he really went frickin’ WHEE down that ladder huh? Lol.

Yo I LOVE Phlox he’s so curious and chaotic lmao. I see what T’Pol’s function is, Devil’s advocate. Oh my god Trip is like “pleeeeeeeez lemme come with uuuuuuuuu” lmao. Oh my GOD Archer is SUCH a dad! Aw, Sato’s nervous awwwww she’s got claustrophobic! Archer’s frickin dad energy guys I’m freaking loving it.

Malcom duuuuude I get you’re new to all this but chill man, not everything in space wants to kill you (I mean, a lot of it does, but, also a lot of it doesn’t). OH FUCK SPACE VAMPIRES!! SHIT!!! T’Pol you could learn something from Dune “a trapped animal will gnaw of its own leg to escape a trap, a human will escape, and eliminate the trapper, thus removing a threat to its own kind.” Is there no logic in sticking around to assess the danger in case it comes after you next? Or at least, get their side of what happened?

Phlox is also such a dad, look at him reverse psychology Sato lol! Here we go, another family dinner! Ooof Archer you’ve got a point OOOOOF. T’Pol legit has nothing in that argument oh my godddd, you can tell when a Vulcan doesn’t have an argument just like how you can tell when a Human doesn’t have one, try to sound smarter and/or not answer directly at all.

Sato reminds me, weirdly, of what I imagine a younger Bones might’ve been like on his first few extraterrestrial missions. Ooh that ship looks like a crab! Lol. WAIT how do they have screen to screen contact??? Did the Romulan War happen before Enterprise?! Huh.

Yo I mean, I like Sato, but like, at the same time, didnt she get like a ton of training and has been in space before? She seems really really REALLY green to be working on a starship like this. I mean like, I KNOW Starfleet isn’t really a military operation and she’s the only one qualified but also, that seemed like, really dangerous and unprofessional to have a breakdown like that on the bridge, even if she is an Ensign. Like nerves are one thing, but having a whole imposter syndrome crisis in the middle of a mission felt, idk, ooc and unnecessarily dramatic even though it’s been only a couple episodes. Like, girl you need some therapy, shouldn’t therapy be like, mandatory before going to space on a super intense, unprecedented mission? I mean I’m speaking as somebody with anxiety and imposter syndrome and needs therapy but like, that could’ve been SO dangerous if anybody else did that too. I know it was mostly plot reasons, but that whole thing felt kinda weird to me.

[gevrgies-archive]

[ & ; * - bridget satterlee / pansexual / she/her ] isn’t it weird how close { georgina scott } resembles { bridget satterlee }? damn, i heard they are a { twenty } year old { undergraduate } and a member of { delta psi delta } studying { art }. outside of class { georgie } participates in { art, debate team, radio station } and their party anthem is { bad reputation } by { joan jett }.  — ooc anna / 24 / she/her / cst

feel free to like this post and i will hit you up to plot! 

biography // connections // pinterest

›› with grades that are subpar and a criminal record that anyone could’ve sworn was longer than a cvs receipt, it is a shock to most that the girl was accepted into this prestigious university.

›› born in atlanta, georgina had a semi normal upbringing in a lower middle class family. she has an older brother who she will forever call her role model and her parents did as much as they could to support them. at the age of 13, georgie’s father was in an accident leaving him disabled and it made their living situation even more difficult. her brother dropped out of high school and worked two jobs to help keep a roof over their heads while her mom worked three tip jobs that got her barely enough cover the rent.

›› at the age of fourteen, georgie began stealing a few necessities for the family. food, clothing, etc. it was a thrill almost and it slowly turned into a bit of a game to her. the small items were too easy now and the big ticket items were now catching her eye. the jewelry, the department stores… even cars. anything she could sell to make some cash for her family and even a bit of money for herself. she started with the department stores, testing her luck and getting away with it a few times. georgie was getting a bit cocky but her luck ran out and she now has a few petty theft charges under her belt. community service was worked and it didn’t stop her from playing the game she came to enjoy.

›› she’d always been a mischievous child and it only grew as she got older. she loved a good adrenaline rush and running from cops was definitely a way for her to get that feeling. many times she would have to run from cops after being caught spray painting random buildings, bridges, and maybe an actually cop car here and there.

›› another one of her favorite past times would be getting under people’s skin. she loves playing devil’s advocate which is the main reasons he joined the debate team. what better way to piss people off than to argue debate on the opposite side.

›› but! the question still hasn’t been answered. how did someone like her get into yale? simple answer really.

art.

›› she is an incredible artist. the spray painting on the sides of buildings was just an outlet for her. sometimes, the canvas on the floor of her room just wasn’t big enough. sometimes she needed a bigger space, and it was just convenient that there were buildings everywhere that she felt needed to be painted.

›› she has had a few galleries and she was lucky enough to have caught the eye of a few of the professors and administrators of yale and they came to an agreement: she stays out of trouble for the time she is enrolled at the university, she has a place in the arts program. and so far, she has kept up her end of the deal… but that doesn’t mean that she hasn’t tested the waters. it wouldn’t be georgie without causing a little bit of trouble here and there… or everywhere.

›› so while she has a spot at the university, she isn’t secured a place there by the time she graduates. she is constantly tiptoeing on the line and recently she has been close to losing her spot. she knows that graduating from yale would be a great way to get her name out there and be on her way to becoming a well known artist, and it would be even better for her family back in atlanta.

›› but damn… that adrenaline rush feels better to her than anything and she isn’t sure she can give up that feeling completely.

›› okay! so pretty much long story short, she is a wild card. a firecracker. the worst sometimes. she is a ball of fire and you really don’t know what to expect with her. she will suggest the most fucked up thing just to get a reaction and you probably won’t know if she is being serious of not because honestly, she doesn’t even know if she is being serious or not. she is fun, or at least that is how she would describe herself, and she has a knack for trying to manipulate people into doing things they normally wouldn’t, and sometimes she doesn’t know when to stop pushing. but on the other hand, she can be quite naive. she does have trouble trusting people she shouldn’t. she also just has trouble saying no to most things. georgie is willing to do anything once, but that could definitely be the death of her.

[fyrapartnersearch]

long term email rp?

hi, i'm bb and i'm looking for 1 or possibly 2 partners for long-term roleplay over email! email is my preferred method for rp and ooc chatter alike. please don't email me in response to this ad and ask me to rp or just chat over discord or something else.

i live in the US in the mountain time zone. i want to rp with someone in a similar time zone so neither of us are writing one reply and then waiting 12 hours for the other to wake up and read it. sorry but that kind of arrangement hasn't worked out for me in the past!

i'm 24 and would prefer someone my age or older, but 18 at the very least. i only ask this because i do like to include smut in my rps. i don't fade to black and i don't much go for euphemisms. i will describe the scene in detail so if you're put off by that, you might want to look elsewhere for a partner. i would also prefer to rp with someone who has experience writing smut so it's not awkward when it happens.

i vastly prefer m/m over anything else. this is what i'm most comfortable with.

my ideal partner would be able to get AT LEAST 1 reply out every day, however i know that life happens and this might not always be possible. i would like a partner who can openly communicate with me about any issues they might have with the story, with me, or anything else. i would love to be friends with the person i'm writing with but at the very least i would like there to be mutual respect. if i say something out of line, or even post something that doesn't quite "work" for you, i want you to feel like you are able to tell me so that i can fix it. and i want to feel that i can do the same. if the scene is stagnating, i want both of us to be able to say hey, let's run it back 3 or 4 posts and start over so we can make it work. 

i am looking for someone who can consistently write at least a paragraph or two per post, but i will say that as long as you get across what you need to and help advance the scene, i don't really care how long the post is.

i primarily write multiple paragraph posts but i'm not opposed to something shorter if the scene calls for it. i'm also open to exploring different kinds of "media" through posts - writing our characters communicating via text, email, instant messenger, letters, etc.

i only rp my own ocs and only want to play with other people's ocs.

i want to plan out the rp before we start, beginning-middle-end. please keep this in mind. this is a deal breaker for me. i don't want to rp blindly, not knowing where it might go. of course there's always room for deviation from the plan but i would like to know WHERE we're wanting to end up.

i would like to explore some darker/heavier themes set against a supernatural/occult/magical realism background. i would like to explore loss/tragedy, depression/mental illness, and similar other themes that you might be comfortable with, as well as lighter themes like love, redemption, family/friendship, etc. it can't be all sad and dark all the time and i wouldn't want to play it that way. if you've read this far, please include your favorite animal in the subject line of your email. i also LOVE drama (see my next paragraph), mystery, romance, and tropes, so i'm open to hearing YOUR ideas even if they're completely different from what i've mentioned.

some things i would like to avoid: NEEDLESS drama/drama for drama's sake - don't have your character start a fight because they're bored or throw themselves out a window because they're sad - i want realistic characters with realistic reactions to the events unfolding. excessive purple prose - please no. while i love both poetry and roleplay, i don't necessarily want these things to be combined. i want to be able to read your post and know what's happening. i don't want to read 8 paragraphs about your character walking across the room while thinking about their childhood. filler - if you can't think of anything to say, please don't try to "fluff up" your post for a bigger word count. include your favorite color in the subject line of your email. while i would prefer a partner who can match my post length, all i care about is having something to reply to. EXCESSIVE gore - torture porn is a no go for me. seke/ume or strictly dom/sub dynamics - i just don't find this interesting or realistic. argumentative partners/devil's advocates - rp is supposed to be enjoyable! i don't want to have to argue with you about every little thing. i want us to collaborate and make the story fun.

if what i've said appeals to you, please reach out to me via email at unabashedlybb@gmail.com, and include your own post on FYRA (if you have one), or otherwise let me know what stuck out to you or any ideas you might have. thanks for reading! 

[kxramczov]

//When your going back through bioshock quotes and you remember why you liked bioshock in the first place AND THEN REMEMBER WHY YOU CAN’T MAKE AN AU FOR YOUR RAT BASTARD MUSE BASED OFF IT.

[asktheboywholived]

I feel that you are very naive when it comes to LGBTQIA issues and that's incredibly disheartening. My old, jaded queer soul has fought hard for a very long time and it's so. damn. sad to me when people within the community play 'devils advocate' because they still want to condone the opposing side. It goes against your own damn people.

(( OOC: I can understand how you might see it that way, but I need to point out what you said.

“-your own damn people.” 

This is where I must strongly disagree with you, and I’ll explain why.

The more you divide, the more you box people into categories, the more you segregate, the more you close yourself off to the world… the more you’ll hinder your own progress and damage your movement. 

Change requires unity. It requires the support of the majority, or it won’t happen. You cannot fight against a tidal wave coming at you. You need help from the opposing side… and you will never get them to listen or agree with you if all you do is shut them down, ignore their reasonings, and villainize and degrade them for not seeing the world the way you do. 

This does not help the situation. No one responds well to anger unless they already agree with you… but you need the people who don’t agree with you to come to a place of understanding if you want to see change happen.

We need to create an atmosphere of discussion, not contention. 

We need to be willing to ask and see WHY people feel the way they feel, so we can understand, and address it. We need to realize that people can still be good people, and that sometimes they just need to be informed. We need to be patient, because opinions are not changed overnight, and they certainly won’t change if all we do is tell them that they are bad, when that’s what they’ve grown up knowing, and that’s the world they have been presented.

I have seen more change happen, in my own personal life, from having calm, considerate and in depth conversations with the people around me, then I’ve seen from any aggressive attack. 

I have a very religious family. They don’t approve of my lifestyle… but they are very good people, and are very kind to me. They love me, but the way they were raised has left them ignorant on certain topics, and they’ve had a lifetime of reinforcement that’s lead to them feeling this way. That isn’t something that’s easily overcome. 

I once approached my cousin on the topic online, after she posted an article that made me incredibly upset concerning trans issues. When I responded, it didn’t go over well. I was aggressive in my approach, and it spiraled very quickly. 

I saw her in person at our next family get-together. I sat down with her, and we had a long, LONG conversation about the issue. I listened to her side, and how she felt about the topic, and because she expressed that with me I was able to understand where she was coming from, and see how she had come to that conclusion. I countered some of her points, providing her with my personal insights on the topic (all while keeping my wording very clear and compassionate)… and by the end of the conversation, she was agreeing with most of what I said.  

THAT is how you start to create change. But one conversation isn’t enough. 

I grew up very religious… I was anti-LGBT+ rights, because of my surroundings, what I had been taught by my environment, etc. I didn’t even realize I was bi until I left organized religion because I was so repressed… 

I would still be in that situation if my father, who left the church, had not expressed his beliefs with me. I would never have changed if he had not been respectful, and understanding, and loving while discussing those topics with me. He didn’t degrade me, he didn’t belittle me, he listened, and he responded, and he was empathetic. 

It took me THREE YEARS to deprogram from everything I had been taught about LGBT+ (and life in general)… and even then it took me years more until I could become completely comfortable in my own skin. But it happened… and I have healthy communication to thank for that. 

When both parties feel at ease, or at least feel that they are being respected and that their opinions are being taken into consideration, they will be far more likely to grow and expand in their viewpoints and become openminded. The second you approach it in a degrading, hateful, or elitist way, they will shut down, and no progress will be made. 

That is an entirely different fight, and it won’t be won through hate and aggression, or shutting yourself off to hearing different opinions or view points.

It won’t be won from making “camps” or “groups” or, as you put it, “your own people”… they can be there to support, you can create amazing bonds from going through similar experiences… but don’t limit yourself to only associating with one group of people. This often leads to pack mentality, which can prevent people from really thinking for themselves and analyzing situations thoroughly. More often than not, it leads to people simply agreeing with the group because that is where they feel safe… and we’ve seen the terrible results of that in everything from politics to religion to goddam high school cliques. 

It’s not a healthy mentality.   

We have to start creating an environment of open discussion, where people feel they can express themselves without being torn to shreds… or we’ll fester in our ignorance out of spite or fear. If you tear others down, they will fight against you with everything they have. 

So yes… look at both sides of the argument, see the validity that is usually there on both sides, see the reasoning, and stop thinking that your world view is the only right world view, because in some instances, you might be wrong and have something to learn from the other person.

Keep conversations open, keep yourself open, and put empathy first. )) 

[trickstersantana]

[PARA] Let’s agree on (1) one thing

Who: Santana, Jesse @timelessjesse​ Location:  Undique Stadium Time: 15 October 2018 Summary: An old fight, vampire vs trickster, but as we all know, what matter is the banter. Triggers/Notes: Violence, death, torture, burning houses

Santana was trying to train a bit on Undique. For her that means trying to see more people fighting or get people to fight her. She didn't like training alone. She walked around a bit trying to found any familiar face to duel.

There he, Jesse St.James stood centre stage, the scene of Undique Stadium fades into a murky blur behind him as he is surrounded by his own thoughts and displeasure. Here lies the pitiful defeat of Jesse St.James as his lost erupts up in flames overshadowed with racist slurs and laughs of mockery. Oh how his great moment he had become the fallen in the eyes fo so many. Now this would be the moment that many would think the star would fall back in self pity, dwelling and enraged at himself but alark! Do not be fooled, Jesse St.James, was not the one at fault it was the rest who were to blame, simply so. How he knows that one was to blame, humanity. Cruel and harsh humanity.

Santana smiles a bitchy smile when she sees the vampire guy. Sure, she though once to stop being so shitty to vampires. But it was so much fun to defeat and humilliate them. There was one vampire called Rodrigo once who was really bad to her, and she applied that to any other vampire she met like they were at fault, you know, like a racist piece of shit. "My my, look who's here! The drama queen.Alas! Woe are you!" She says, getting close to him.

Jesse St.James feels a spotlight burning at the entrance to another star on the scene.  No! This was not how the scene was meant to go, this was his monologue now it was turning into a dialogue. All was wrong, script to perfection thrown away in the air. He turns slow on his heels, oh it was nothing but an understudy who seems to pry their way to stardom in Jesse's tragic tale. His eyes narrow at the her,"Ahh may it be the trickster who dubs herself to be the gayest queen. Poorly, self proclaimed." His looks away,"I have you know I am a drama King! A high king to say the least!" The trickster moves closer, alas no she won't. Jesse begins to circle around with her. "How dare you, very dare you even speak to me at this very moment."

Santana makes an illusion of a crown on her head, a red, kingly cape on her shoulders, and a spotlight illuminating her. "Yes! Except the poorly. Those are the ones who dare to try to defeat me." She says, getting even closer, but the vampire avoids it. "Oh, my my, this is just so weird. The Jesse St. James is now nothing more than a sad, weak vampire! Man, it must be so tragic to have it all and then lose everything, even your humanity." She has been searching for humanity for so long, she couldn't imagine what a pitiful thing is to have what she has been searching, and then lose it forever. She always wanted to die a human, and the man in front of her could had, but chosed to become...that. "I super dare! I speak to anyone I want whetever I want!"

He keeps his face deadpan as he is witness to illusion magic, ah the trickery that came with a trickster. Just another foolish magical aspect that could not be captured on film only as a faded nothing Jesse, however, was envious about the crown that rested upon her head. "The crown does not suite you well, as you are a fool, a deluded fool." He pause  as she was the one who defeated him, the blinding embers. Jesse connects the dots "You. You and...and," he tries to remember the other but alas he draws a blank,"Some other defeated me, alas you will rue that." Again he pauses, a bitter chuckle leaves his lips,"You think that I, Jesse.St.James, have it all? Sad and weak? You are mistaken,very mistaken." Jesse throws his head back,"Ahh humanity, you think a lost of humanity is a lost. Be gone with it. Humanity is nothing." Jesse tells her proudly so. "You have a a tongue on you, bold and daring but they are only words."

"I can sense your envy, ex actor." Santana says making her illusory crown shinier. She laughs, of course she defeated him. "Joke's on you, I don't even know what rue means. Sounds like a street thing. You sound silly." She then corrects herself. "Oh, my bad. I mean had. You know, in the past. It doesn't seem like you have anything at all now." She makes herillusions vanish with his new words, and she looks at him, not believing him. "Sounds like something you tell yourself to not fall into a spiral of despair. What? You like it more now?" She illusions a knife whose blade forms the word WORDS. "I can cut with my words, vampirito. And I'm stronger than you."

Jesse distance himself wondering if tricksters could actually sense his emotions. His information about them was little to nothing only an awareness never a claim to know everything about their kind. Why should he? Just another blur on the L. Naturae kind.  "Lies," he dares to challenge her. Waving his hands dramatically before placing them on his temple,"Uneducated, should have been expected with you. It means to bitterly regret which you shall, oh how you shall."  Was she truly trying to claim the values that he had in his life? "Oh they were the choices I made, so many choices. I could tell you the stories, oh I really could but why don't you search my name and see what such drivel and conspiracies humanity has crafted about me." Jesse laughs again,"My life was rather pleasant, freeing if you will not restricted by the shackles of society." He watches as she creates a knife, an actual knife of words,"Threatening me? How cute." He uses his speed to appear behind her, making his and her hair whisper at the quick pacing, whispering in her ear,"Very cute."

Santana giggles, but like, evilly. "Hey hey! I'm super educated! Bilingue here, pedazo de mierda." She called him a piece of shit in spanish. "Very bad choices." She keeps mocking. "I know what the internet says, and what the aethernet says. Don't you prefer to tell your own story? You looooove to talk about yourself." He really is dramatic. She felt this was the kind of person she would had a competition over who has the most tragic backstory. "Was pleasant, you became a vampire and suddenly it's all shit, isn't it?" The world is a shit when you aren't human. In a flash, the vampire is whispering too close to her. She jumps far away from him and points at him with her fake illusory knife. "Ew! Why are all of you batties such creeps!"

@Jesse:  2d6 = (2+4) = 6

@Santana: 1d7 +2 = (1)+2 = 3

The trickster was talking in a foreign tongue, he was impressed. "I am not impressed," Jesse retorts to her as she talks her jargon like a witch giving a spell. "And you are the advocate for wise choices. Tell me, Jesse St.James, how the devil did you end up in a place like this?" Her voice was mocking, she was not the intended audience for his story, however, she was right he loves the sound of his own voice. "Yes, I, Jesse St.James loves the sound of my own voice, here is where you would be correct. It is such a joyous song all shall adore. Becoming what I am now, nothing in the world can be greater. You see the world in a better light." His hands cling to his heart meaning it dearly. As he is close to her, he see's this as a chance, distracted by his beauty mistaken for creepiness, he see's an opening to rid the knife from her hold.  Aiming, swiftly for her wrist, he grabs it tight in hopes she drops the knife.//which a lot of people need to see what works and doesn't//do it and i am very down! for it.

@Santana:  1d7 +2= (5)+2 = 7

Santana super did not believe that. "Better light? C'mon! I know you can't barely stand the sun night, criature of the night. What's good about being a vampire? You can't go out a certain time of the day, you can't fully live with commons, you get trapped here..."She counts the bads. Then, the vampire HITS her wrist. She gets rid of the illusion. "Auch!" She tired to make an illusion of fire between them.

@Jesse:  2d6= (6+2) = 8

"So that may be true never being able to wonder in the light again or feel the bittersweet chill to winters, however, the night has so much to offer."  Jesse could not help but spatter,"Live among the commons? With such filth, such ignorant idiots. Why would one want to mix with that rubble? I pity those who do." He sighs,"Alas, we are trapped in here with witches too." Jesse smiles a toothy grin, no his fangs are not showing. "G-g-good." His voice becomes trapped in his throat as the fire illuminates around  him. Consumed once again, how he was a mouth to a flame.

[OOC: Neither Erica or I noticed Santana lost that one roll because what is math and counting, we fixed in the HP count but not on rol]

@Jesse : 2d4 = (4+4) = 8

@Santana:  1d7 +2= (4)+2 = 6

"What does it have to offer?" Santana feels like the drama king was trying to convince himself too his shitty situation wasn't that shitty. "It's super fun to live with powerless idiots!" She says with a grin. Commons would never turn her into an animal. Commons would never do any enchantment to her. Commons would never turn her into a zombie. It didn't matter how cruel a common was, they couldn't do magic. Their cruelness had a limit on power. "You don't like witches, you don't like commons, it seems to me your problem is not humanity, your problem is just people in general. Man, you are juuuuust so lonely, aren't you?" She says, still maintaining her fire illusion.

@Jesse :  2d6= (4+3) = 7

@Albaharu:  1d7 +2= (3)+2 = 5

"Tell me you know that New York is the city that never sleeps?" Jesse is stunned with her ignorance,"The city is just as alive if not more so during the day." When she squanders on about the powerless idiots he can't help but yawn a little. "Selfish and destroying idiots more like. Humanity claims to think that they know best." Jesse runs a hand through his hair. "Oh trickster queen, I am not alone. I am never alone, do not fool yourself." He starts to unbutton his shirt, pulling is apart calling forward his majestic stallion. Sterling St.James appears his silky mane blowing upon  arrival.   "Charge!!" Jesse demands his familiar with a smirk on his face. Sterling, stomps a hove on the floor naying away in annoyance towards Jesse. "See how powerful...."Jesse was looking down expecting Sterling to charge, however, Sterling goes off script. Jesse tuts waving his hands at Sterling to the trickster,"Are you seriously choosing now to have a moment you foolish stead?" Sterling clacks a hove, naying even more. "Great, great, thank you for nothing you useless stallion," Jesse huffs,"I guess things are to be done myself." Jesse speeds from his position towards Santana with a lighter shove. "As you can see, Sterling is all the company I need."

"Everyone knows that's code for crime." Santana says. She never visited New York at night with the stupid curfew. The only time was with the big monster on new year. But she was sure it wasn't that cool. "And you are super enjoying the nights in New York, aren't you? Not like NYADA would let you. She geets very creep up by the vampire unbutting his shirt. "Ew" A fucking killing machine also commonly known as 'horses' charges agaisnt her. She quickly tries to remember any of the crap Oliver has told her about horses that time she had Blaine's personality and listened to him saying random information. Oh no, it was all useless in a fight. But anyway, the horse doesn't attack. "Yeah yeah, good horse. Stay there." But even if the horse didn't attack, the vampire did. "God damn it!" She prepared another illusion. "It's that the only thing you got? Your familiar? That's pathetic!" She tries to make another illusion of fire, but summons her own familiar to attack too. "Emergency food! Come and attack!"

@Santana:  1d7 +3= (1)+3 = 4

@Jesse :  2d6 = (4+3) = 7

Jesse rolls his eyes as she seems to think the bleakest of the night, alas the trickster was one of those people. "This place is a prison confining me, thanks to those forsaken slayers deeming me, a danger to society. The nerve of them, the very nerve."  Freedom was limiting and fleeting, nothing more than he wanted to begone of this place, how this place could be dubbed a sanctuary he could never understand. He looks away dramatically, his heart yearning for the freedom it once had.  Sterling nays in delight by the praise to be a good horse, he was a good horse and was getting more praise then Jesse that was getting nothing for the trickster. Sterling like the trickster girl despite Jesse not. "Don't you enjoy this horse!"  He points a finger at Santana,"That is not all that I got!" He blinks at the call for emergency food, what in the devil's name was that? When he saw a familiar coming his way.

Santana shrug "Hey, we agree on something, those slayers fucking suck. Geez, I wish I could destroy that useless guild from the inside." Daisy doesn't even charge agaisnt the vampire, she just walks softly to him. Daisy moos but only Santana and the horse would understand her words. "Santanaaaa do not bully people. That is wrong." Santana ignores her and laughs. "Oh my my! Does the horse likes me? Someone has a good eye." Some strange wave of 'hey I saw something that reminded me of you' hits her. She took her phone. "Hey I know a kid who is a super nerd for horses, I'm going to send them a pic" Meanwhile she illusions some shadow people going to push Jesse away so he didn't appear on the picture.

@Santana:  1d7 +2= (6)+2 = 8

@Jesse :  2d6= (5+1) = 6

@Jesse:  2d4= (4+2) = 6

@Santana:  1d7+2= (3)+2 = 5

Something twitches in his smile as he is actually having agreement with another. He, Jesse St.James was actually agreeing with someone that was out of the question, out of the question truly. "Slayers, how I despise their kind, their values, their narrow views . To go from the inside is unneeded torture to indulge in." Sterling is laughing that Jesse is getting bullied, it meant he was making enemies, he was getting out the room it was good.  Jesse hates the camera being out, he was about to break it knowing he would become a blur but there are shadow people around him. "What in the name?!" he exclaims lost in the sea of them.

Santana's weakenesses, talking shit about slayers. "They are nothing but annoying killing tools. The should just slay each other a la Battle Royale" She takes the pic of the horse and sends it to Oliver even when she says they're a super annoying kid she despises.

@Jesse :  2d6= (1+5) = 6

@Santana:  1d7+2= (7)+2 = 9

Alark! This is where the trickster seems to be distracted by the thoughts of Slayers and bring them to their demise. Oh, how Jesse would share that dream to destroy those fools who made him trapped in this prison of  The New York Academy of Divine Arcanum.  There is a part of him that is intrigued with the thought the Slayers going Battle Royale, oh the ways to be self destructive as humanity seems to be. Distracted, this is where he moves in to get her. Moving in quick, he elbows her in the chest wanting to push out of the way of his main light.

Santana believes for a second she is having A Moment with the vampire, but as all vampires are Jesse St James was a fucking traitor who doesn't forget he is figthing and has a better technique than her. How dare he be strong? What a jerk. "You jerk!!" She says, illusioning burning stakes  and christian cross or whatever vampires hated to send it his way.

Suddenly, an Angry girl enters the room with a kick to the door. She points at Santana "YOU!! I knew you will be here!!" The girl accuses her. "The group project was today! You are not going to do nothing and get all the credit! So get going to the library!"

Santana who was super going to avoid that boring group project and still keep the note frows at getting caugh. She stops the illusions. "Vampi, you got lucky I am forced to do homeworks. But next I'll crush you!" She says, leaving.

[sea-m0nster]

Bentiv’s profile (viewable only OOC)

General:

Name: Bentiv, Azigus, Bea, she has Many names.

Alias(es)/Title: The Puppeteer

Species: some cat lizard alien.

Age: two sweeps older than The Armourer. Also an adult, also ancestor aged. Has a descendant.

Sign: Aries.

Blood Color, caste: purpleblood.

Powers: Extremely strong chucklevoodoos based on different sorts of hallucination. Can also do basic brain-to-brain communication to talk to people. Her fear factor for controlling lies mostly on paranoia and feeling like you aren’t actually being controlled and you’ve wanted to do this all along, but she can also make you straight up hallucinate the scenarios and implant fake memories on your brain. She can play this for days on end. It only works if you’re susceptible to being mind controlled and these specific fears.

Gender: Woman (she/her).

Sexuality: Gay.

Occupation(s): it’s a secret! She's a rebel killer for the empire, but mostly works as a specialized doctor. A spy i guess.

Physical:

She’s very tall with a large mass of long kinky hair, shaved on the left side of her head. She has sideswept long bangs, curly as the rest of her hair, almost covering her eye. Sometimes she wears her hair on a high ponytail, sometimes her husband braids it fancy for her. Her horns are asymmetrical, one of them being taller and curved twice, and the other is straight and shorter. She is always wearing her clown makeup in ashen white and black, the pattern is a thick “V” shape that starts at her temples and ends past her mouth, like a bird's beak. She also wears red, pink or purple lipstick and eyeliner on occasion.

She has a big build being midsize fat and buff, has wide strong shoulders and big thighs and breasts. She has a couple of hand poked tattoos on her legs and religious tattoos on her back, arm and chest. She wears lots of different attires, usually short dresses or overalls, paired with boots or heels, usually red. She also wears a black and purple overcoat on occasion.

Personal

Religion: high ranking chama branca messianic cult member. Bacsktage member of the church, and is the Go To person for members that are out of planet.

MBTI: ESFP

Likes: chatting, drawing, costuming, making dolls, arts and crafts, partying, dancing, singing, fighting, having power over people, most scenarios where she is the strongest person in the room, tea, interesting people, weapons.

Neutral towards: doing you favors unless she likes you well enough.

Dislikes: being bored, most types of authority, people that are too sweet, people that are mentally weak.

Positive traits: quick thinker, good at talking, very charismatic, exciteable if you bring up the right topics, creative, protective, good at chatting.

Negative traits: manipulative, violent and snaps very quickly, devil’s advocate unironically, lack of morals and ethics, threatens people a lot. She’s very insensitive, she can and will bring topics that make you sad or angry or self conscious just to be a dick. She genuinely enjoys being bad and mean towards other people and she doesn’t care at all, specially if she's neutral/negative towards you. She likes stepping on toes!

Misc brain stuff: Extremely prone to being understymulated and bored, adhd queen. Needs a constant influx of things to do or she can and WILL start causing problems on purpose, ranging all the way from petty house rearrangement to arson, torture and murder.

Random stuff i find fun: She actively refuses to learn other languages because she can talk through her voodoos to other people, and she’ll force herself into their brain to do so, it's usually not noticeable unless you're very mind control aware, and harmless when she does it to talk. Big big big disclaimer i have to put here: SHE CAN BE VERY VIOLENT and only actually likes a handful of people enough to be safe to be in the same room as her alone and even then not always. I’m TRYING to keep her tame in here, and she’s canonically only being this nice and stuff because this is armourer’s blog and they have an agreement over the usage of the blog, so don’t expect her to be nice if you’re meeting her on an 1x1 basis not being mediated by armourer. She is a cunt. I will never make her do anything without your consent, but she’s not a nice or safe character to be near.

Relationship Status: Troll married to Armourer. no, they're not actually dating, they're just best friends. Single and poly. She's horrible though. Talk to me if you’re interested.

[elaianna]

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@s-p-giffy never fails to make me laugh. She’s an upstanding woman who knows who she is-- she also knows how to make some of the best puns ever. I’ve known her for years and even when I was going through some bad bad baaaad times she never made me feel bad for my decisions, but just asked the questions I needed to ask myself to give some perspective, learn, and make the right choices from there out. She’s very good at Devil’s Advocate, whether she knows it or not.

@gereionkingston has been understanding of a lot, and when I am having a rough go, he is someone that I know I can go to not just to vent, but to help me figure out a way to handle issues. Sometimes just to vent. He’s also made me cry-laugh on a couple occasions. -- Maybe involving Sasha.

@wrahaleth It has been way too many years that we’ve known each other. WotLK days. So it’s not surprising to say I’ve written posts in the past about how positively I feel about Hal and I’s friendship, but for sake of it’s been awhile, here we go again. Not only has it been years, but now it’s been a friendship that has stood through an IC divorce, messy trial, etc, and I know online that is usually more than enough for people to start going for each other’s throats OOC, etc, and there’s a severe blur on what is IC and OOC dislike. With Hal I am lucky to say that has not happened. He’s good at the distinction, and he’s another good friend to talk to about any problems, and even though we don’t talk as much as we used to (much to my lament) there are still times I can go to him just to talk when I’m on the verge of an anxiety attack, and hey, look. Chill.