#GODS i want to draw him in Situations™

[chilei-the-hotsauce]

old hunter oc 🎉

[foxish-draws]

Started sketching a bunch of Baldur's Gate bullshit for the joys, then rode it out till I ended up with a decent sized pile. Committed to finishing them out w/ color & such even if they were just quick, silly nonsense. So behold, my character having Situations™:

Astarion early romance moment b/c I specifically wanted to draw her reaction to him pulling out the "I love yous" when Sir, We Both Know You Don't Mean That.

& bonus Astarion b/c I like the idea that she could recognize he was insincere at first (that street urchin intuition) & 100% was annoyed when he was bein a lil bitch – but damnit, he's pretty AND funny, so she indulges anyway. And Astarion is just being fussy because "endearing" just doesn't sound as cool as "alluring."

Anyway, that's Rania, she is committed to the cause, but god is she tired.

[rogueshadeaux]

Slllliiiiiides over here. Hi hello. I don't think I'll do a bad karma run (IM SORRY. IM SORRY!!) cause a) I'm a wimp and b) I need to get off videogames as soon as I'm done cause I've spent too much time playing lately lmao BUT I will be watching playthrougs cause I gotta know how fucked up he gets.... I gotta know...

To clarify i have a pre existing oc from a story that could be very easily flung into a vat of "au juice" because she's already halfway there in her own cannon LMAO we shall see, for now I have a huge list of things I want to draw for this game so I gotta finish 2 before I explode then I can unleash myself on art again. Gotta feed the discord now. I'm cooking for a crowd.

hi i've been dead for 8 days and recuperating for two lol I understand life stuff (and saw some references to it on your timeline, like the warhammer stuff and the tarot card thing??? bro that shit looks so good!!) as someone that literally shared your stuff and then got ripped away for my own life happenings lmfao. But if you get the chance in the future? Seriously, try an evil karma inF2 run. There's something about how they balanced the story that puts its predecessor AND sequel to shame. They're the same story, but different tales. They have the same goal, but different goalposts. SPP gives you a well-thought-out storyline that both is cohesive, but feels like your choices actually matter. It has none of the "I can help this old lady...or kick her fucking dog lol" of inFAMOUS 1, or the "I will fight for the tribe but literally do everything wrong. everywhere. because I'm a Bad Boy™" of inFAMOUS: Second Son. The choices feel real. They feel sound. They feel like the choices a man wronged by the world would make, if he decided to turn to his harbored resentment instead of his morality. And let's be honest, Cole also feels more morally gray in inF2 than 1 anyways, so seeing the path he takes is great because it genuinely feels like he's done with the accumulation of every shitty situation that has happened to him. And I'm sure you know how the story ends now, so...don't you wanna see what happens if he chose the other option? (pls tell me you haven't watched the playthrough yet lmfao)

Anyways yeah no I totally get life shit, it loves to pull you away from stuff, and also as someone only just now trying to do the bad options in Detroit: Become Human despite getting the game at launch because I need 6 years of preparation to be the bad guy, I understand the wimp bit too. It's hard to be mean sometimes. But with Cole's inF2 story, it doesn't feel mean. It feels like a desperate man, trying to fight for a future he's not convinced cares about him.

And yes oh my god please keep creating lmfao we all love your art so goddamn much. Don't leave this fandom you're now a very important asset. And it's always a good thing, throwing old friends into new situations! I love an OC in a wardrobe change. That's usually the best translation. Think a bit harder about forcing that OC into a new role. Shove her ass onto the stage. We'd all love her.

[flosalatus]

Alright fuckers strap up in its sinday HC time at last.

First and foremost, let's get biology out of the way. I write my Vash as trans. Be that normal human trans and he was born female or Plant Trans™ where it's more of an intersex/NB situation(will elaborate later if i remember).

Essentially, and forgive me for the crude tldr: he identifies as male but physically has the plantussy.

AND WHEN I SAY PLANTUSSY I MEAN FULL ALIEN JUNK WE'RE NOT COWARDS IN THIS HOUSE-

Okay now more into actual headcanons:

Plantussy. Personal HC is it's very much a fleshy flower, a little like if you imagined a fusion of orchids and a sundew. One day I will find a friend brave enough to draw my vision but for now you'll have to trust me and use some imagination.

It's very soft, arguable softer than skin, almost silky in texture

Produces a slick-like subtance, semi thick and a little tacky. Very sweet smelling and tasing. A mild aphrodisiac.

Clit/Stamen and petals can move independantly and will tend to cling to his partner if he's feeling really good.

Looks pretty much like normal human genitals when 'dormant' and the petals grow and unfurl with arousal

All about the Acts of Service. Not really a top or bottom(yet). His biology and trauma make him pretty scared of intimacy, at least directed to himself. He's all for pleasuring his partner but the second you try to get his clothes off he hesitates or backs away entirely because of bad reactions to the plantussy in the past. Hes actually super insecure about it.

Falls apart for worship and praise. Encourage him, tell him hes going a good job, tell him how pretty he looks.

Has a mating cycle/spring heat. Essentially a peroid of time where his biology wants to reproduce and makes him a lot more needy and horny. His libido becomes a hair trigger.

During heat the petals will tend to cling and wrap around a partner to keep them inside and breed properly.

Bitey. And he has fangs so he's gunna leave a mark no matter what. If you assure him it's okay he likes to nip just enough to draw tiny specks of blood. Also likes getting bitten/marked up. There's something soothing to him about his body being bruised in a way he can control.

Plant Markings and Feathers, especially when he cums, he lights up like a fucking glowstick, might even get full wings manifesting if you give him the good fucc.

He can and will also short out the electricity when he orgasms sometimes.

Very whimpery, lots of high ptiched punched out noises. Very easily gets sex-drunk/falls into subspace

Handsy. When he's comfortable with someone and particularly eager he cannot keep his hands to himself. He'll be tracing patterns into your skin and fiddling with your clothes(if you have them on still). He likes playing with bra straps and waistbands specifically.

Secretly a tease, likes to play coy and shy if he knows it winds his partner up in a good way, tends to drag things out a lot.

MY GOD WHEN YOU GET HIM TO RELAX BEING INTIMATE WITH YOU HE'S A BRAT THOUGH. He's such a little shit, all of the above gets dialed to 11. He will tug insistnatly at your belt to let you know he wants some, or snap your bra strap if you're alone. He'll bite at your ear just enough to sting if he wants attention and plant himself in your lap completely unprompted. Especially in heat season. I'm almost positive my brain has more but that's all I have from the top of my head for now. Come fuck him to find out more---

[icefang100]

Used @/bitegore’s character sheet template for some of my OCs!

Notes:

Some of the art’s a bit outdated, but they all work well enough.

Most responses are based on how I view them, but some (ex. “the most godawful hot takes known to mankind”) are based on how I think other people would interpret them.

I felt bad marking down "chew toy" considering Darkeye's death, but. Well. It's true

Image IDs below the cut (be warned, they’re long).

[Image ID for base: Character development sheet which is titled “OMG its BLORBO BLEEBUS”. The space to add a name is labelled “This scrungly motherfucker is:”, and there’s a box to add an image. There’s six other sections to fill in, three of which have headings; these headings are “Sub-Class”, “Evokes”, and “You Want them to have:”, and all are noted with “select all that apply”. There are severity scales for “Intense”, “Complex”, and “Fruity”, along with gradient scales for “just some guy” to “the protagonist of life”, “head empty” to “too many thoughts”, “awful company” to “ray of sunshine”, “hated by all” to “beloved by all”, “trauma x1000” to “untouched by history”, “sadistic for fun” to “helps others for fun”, “stupid as shit” to “scary-smart”, “1,000 weapons” to “1,000 tools”, “enemy of god” to “at peace with life”, and “break the rules” to “change the rules”. The Sub Class section has the options “Angst-lord”, “Enemy of the State”, “Flavor Container”, “Himbo”, “Soft and Sweet”, “Braincell Haver”, “This Is A Kink”, “Just Like You FR”, “Chew Toy”, “Friend-Shaped”, “Aspirational Character”, and “Little Meow Meow”. Under the Evokes and You Want Them to Have sections, and a third unlabeled section, are boxes to check off, which read as follows. In the unlabeled section, “Tragic backstory?”, “Orphan?”, “Frequently violent?”, “Divorced?”, “Has enemies?”, “No friends?”, “Sidekick owner?”, “Pets stray animals?”, “Chronic insomniac?”, and “Murderer?”; in the Evokes section, “spontaneous gushing”, “powerful violent urges”, “raw, unbridled affection”, “The Horny”, “late-night thoughts”, “meta-posting on main”, “creative drive”, “defensive feelings”, “distraction”, “delight”, “symptoms of projection”, “absent-minded doodles on tabletops”, and “the most godawful hot takes known to mankind”; In the You Want Them to Have section, “a better/wose time”, “more/less trauma”, “more/less/different romance”, “more friends”, “painful isolation”, “a family”, “catharsis”, “revenge”, “sympathy”, “a better/worse situation”, “more/less healing”, “more/less/different sex”, “different friends”, “freedom”, “justification”, “The Realization™”, “consequences”, and “a satisfying ending”. /End ID.]

[Image ID for filled-out base: Character sheet for "Darkeye (He/Him; OC)". A digital drawing is displayed; he's depicted as a white, gold, and silver cat. The Intense and Fruity meters are close to center, while the Complex meter is slightly past that mark. The unlabeled check-off list is marked for tragic backstory, no friends, and chronic insomniac. The gradient scale markers are closest to "the protagonist of life", "too many thoughts", "ray of sunshine", "beloved by all", "trauma x1000", "helps others for fun", "stupid as shit", "1,000 tools", "enemy of god", and "change the rules". Of the Sub Class section, "Chew Toy" and "Friend-Shaped" are marked. The Evokes section is marked for meta-posting, creative drive, doodles. The "You want them to have:" section is marked for a better time, less trauma, more friends, catharsis, sympathy, a better situation, more healing, different friends, and "The Realization™". /End ID.]

[just-a-carrot]

What is Our Wonderland? a.k.a. the dumpster fire that is my ace-themed queer horror game or something

Our Wonderland is a visual novel / horror game / horrific dating sim??? / mangled mess of Fucked Up chars reaching their 30s but not? understanding who they are?? and twisted grisly things happen???

It stars five childhood friends with a sEcReT—they opened a Magical Wish-Granting Wonderland in their youth (as one does). Twenty years later, however, they've all turned into barely functioning adults just trying to Get By™, each with their own Traumas exacerbated by their struggles to fit in to a cis- hetero- allonormative world (as well as Pining,,, lots and lots of unrequited Pining). Cue a Return to Wonderland. What could happen now that they're all Verifiable Messes with the power to wish for anything they want??? omg,,, maybe they'll eat each other or something wouldn't that be wild omg,,,

The Woobies

Iggy: Resident Ace Bean that has no idea what he wants and spends most of his time Confused and Overwhelmed and avoiding social situations like the plague; just wants to fit in and for everyone to be Happy™

Genzou: The loud-mouthed snarky Best Friend who loves his favorite pal so much dear god do not touch a hair on his god damn head or he will fucking murder you (definitely Not Gay why would you even think that shm,,,)

Orlam: Nobody likes him he's just kinda there accumulating more and more Debilitating Trauma dear fucking lord is this guy sad and lonely somebody please l-l-love him; forlorn bisexual who longs to be the Life of the Party (may or may not be a cannibal, who can say really,,,)

Gidget: Just your average girl who wants to be Perfect™; did not ever wear boys' clothes or have issues with her body and definitely was never made fun of when trying to use the restroom; likes Iggy perhaps a little bit Too Much

Bucks: Homecoming queen and softball star; has everything she ever wanted in life—a loving husband, a beautiful baby, and a lovely house with a white picket fence; skilled with an Axe

What You Can Expect From This Atrocity:

Around 288k words of Pure Unadulterated Pain (20 to 25 hours or something idk)

A ridiculous 520 CGs because I apparently Can't Stop Drawing

Some pretty sweet cinematic ending sequences I guess

A cool soundtrack??? I did not create it but I've been told it's Good so we'll just go with that

Gore mixed with feels mixed with moments that will make you want to RIP YOUR HEART OUT

A Strange and Deplorable art style that apparently grows on you or so I've been told

Gay people kissing or something

COMPLICATED LOVE SQUARES???

Horrible ace nightmares—BUT ALSO CATHARTIC ACE JOY???

Cannibalism

P.S. in case it wasn't obvious this game is rather Dark and contains many a horrible thing such as Murder, Torture, and the Eating of People (some of the arcs also tread somewhat heavily into Sexual Themes Territory, too, given all the overarching ace stuff), so please please please check the content warnings on the itch page before playing! It's def for mature audiences only.

Where You Can Download This Horrific Abomination From Hell:

Our Wonderland on itch.io (it's free omg!!111!!!!!1)

There's also some free side games ig:

Our Cinderella on itch.io

Our <<Fantastic>> Wonderland on itch.io

Texting the Awkward Ace Guy You've Had a Crush on Since High School on itch.io

Save the Last Dance on itch.io

if you have any questions i guess i can answer them that's how it works maybe.

ok I think that's it bye.

[witche-nerd]

The fact that ANYONE thinks Jane Eyre is some cheesy old timey novel and not a book that is both METAL and HILARIOUS should be considered a crime. During her childhood Jane is constantly told she's the woOOOrst (mostly because she's inquisitive and quite plain). In fact a priest-type dude comes into her house being like "do you know what happens to terrible little girls?" and she says "yeah they go to hell" "so what must you do so you don't end up there?" and her reply? "I guess I should just not die BITCH". Jane is 10 when she says this... her power. Then when her aunt scolds her one too many times girl spits out a Shakespeare level monologue/roast about how her aunt is awful™ and is going to be haunted by Jane's father for being such a royal bitch and her aunt is so freaked out that she literally starts being nice to her for the first time (honestly I think she was legit scared she had accidentaly adopted the Devil and did not want to mess with that shit). Oh you thought it was a soft nice little romance afterwards? Jane meets Rochester🤡 who is fifty shades of batshit. He literally spends chunks of the book fucking with his rich acquaintances just cause and sideeyeing Jane like "Did you see that?? Jane did you notice that? What do you think Jane?? Tell me your thoughts Jane, WASN'T THAT FUNNY???" And the best part is she reacts to every one of his antics with perfect composure so much so that HE freaks out and ends up dressing as a fortune teller to get her to tell him what she actually thinks. This young girl who was told to shut the fuck up at every turn is suddely called again and again to give her opinion and boy does she give it. She calls him ugly TO HIS FACE and he immediately falls in love. She in turn falls for him so hard but is so sure he couldn't possibly like her that she DRAWS A PORTRAIT OF HERSELF AND THEN A PORTRAIT OF A "BEAUTIFUL" WOMAN AS A VERY PRACTICAL WAY TO REMIND HERSELF THAT SHE'S NOT PRETTY. Gurl 😭 that's so sad and also way too overdramatic, you guys deserve each other. Meanwhile the house is very obviously haunted but Jane hasn't noticed which is peak comedy for such a usually observant protagonist. I mean, a man has a chunk of his flesh bitten off and when Rochester says everything's fine she just accepts it. "Oh but Jane gives it all up for a man see??? She has no agency" When she thinks he's going to marry another woman but still intends to keep her as a governess she has my favourite dialogue in the entire book where she says: "Just because I am poor and plain it doesn't mean I'm not still a PERSON WITH FEELINGS. IF I WAS HOT AND RICH I COULD HAVE MADE YOU AS PAINFULLY IN LOVE WITH ME AS I AM WITH YOU. I DO NOT ADRESS YOU FROM THIS MORTAL FLESH BUT IT IS MY SPIRIT ADRESSING YOURS AS THOUGH WE DIED AND STOOD AS EQUALS AT GODS FEET, AS WE ARE". She's 18 in this part of the book... HER POWER. She later finds out ON HER WEDDING DAY to Rochester that he is already married to a woman he has locked up in the attic because she'll attack anything that moves (I mean she very obviously has a mental illness which has caused her to be violent but back at that time there weren't many or even any humane options for treatment so unpopular opinion but the fact that he kept her in his house and with a maid to take care of her was probably the best he could provide her with in this situation tbh) Jane runs away and wanders the moors all alone because she knows what happened wasn't right (and this is her rational reaction, i love her and also probably same) and while half dead she finds some people who turn out to be her COUSINS (GASP), she gets a job, inherits a fortune and gets another marriage proposal like a #girlboss. But then she has a "That's so Raven" vision telling her Rochester is in trouble. Turns out his house burned down and he's now scarred and blind and his wife is dead. Accurate recreation of their reunion;

Rochester: Am I mad ugly now Jane?

Jane: Oh for sure. But you know, same as always.

Rochester with tears in his eyes: I missed that woman so much

Jane starts the story underappreciated, poor, belittled and unequal to Rochester (in terms of power). She ends the book appreciated, loaded, loved and a true equal to the man she loves. And that's the most metal thing of all.

[lost-between-letters]

Irritating People, The Family Business

Pairing: Crowley X Reader (he/him)

Requested by: anon

Written for: my 300 follower celebration (open)

Warnings: canon typical levels of violence, blood, injury, talk of stitches, reader being Bad At Feelings™

Word Count: 1,308

Summary: Y/N got hurt on a hunt. Crowley seemed to take it not as cool as anyone else thought. Arguments, some shouting and a confession here and there ensues.

"Oh for God's sake, moose! The blood won't stop flowing just because you stare at it!"

His mouth was awfully dry. Ironically, that was the first thing Y/N noticed upon waking up.

Or coming back to consciousness. The next thing he noticed was his pounding headache. Oh, and his side feeling like someone was pushing a candle inside his ribcage.

It didn't help that Crowley and Sam were arguing loudly right now.

"I'm not staring, I'm trying to figure out if he needs stitches or a hospital!" Sam was past pissed, Y/N didn't even need to open his eyes to see that. Where were they again? Last thing he remembered was fighting off the ghouls and one of them drawing a knife on him.

Suddenly there was a lot of pressure on his side. Y/N groaned weakly and attempted to roll away from the pain. It did not work. While one pair of hands was seemingly disposing a nice little car on top of him, another was holding his body in place.

"Maybe if you'd heal it, we wouldn't need to have this damn fight!" That was Dean. It solved the riddle of who was pushing him through the ground as well. His voice was coming from right over him so Y/N took a wild guess and said that the older Winchester was currently practicing his patchin-up-skills on him while cussing out Crowley.

Who huffed from somewhere behind his head. "I'm a demon. We destroy things, not put them back together. If I would put my magic hands on your boy, I'd do more damage than good."

"Then leave and let us work dammit!" Sam was speaking quietly by now which was always a sign for whoever he was talking to to run.

This time around, the room was quieter when he woke up. It was less painful too. To wake up - not the room. Luckily, it was his own room back at the bunker which meant that they travelled a great deal while Y/N had been sleeping. Or unconscious.

And Crowley was a smart demon apparently. The last thing Y/N heard before he felt the cold needle pierce his skin was Crowley taking off. Then, the world became black once again.

But it wasn't silent. People were taking outside, Sam's deep rumble against Dean's agitated exclamations.

Crowley had been working together with them on the job as they had suspected Lucifer-allied demons rather than the bunch of ghouls they got instead. Well, jokes on them, the ghouls were working with Lucifer as well and took great fun in using them as punching bags.

What was surprising about the situation was that Crowley actually kept being helpful. Sure, he'd never outright pushed them into the danger zone but that didn't mean that he hurried to save them.

Okay, apparently he did do that. Y/N had the distinct memory of someone smaller, someone more his size taking his weight before he hit the ground. He knew how it felt being carried around by the Winchesters and Y/N was pretty sure that it had been neither of them who stopped him from kissing the ground.

Which left Y/N with the questionable knowledge that it was entirely possible that the demon had carried him out of the lair. The feelings somewhere in his chest area that bloomed at that realisation were a whole old new cans of worms Y/N firmly pushed to the side.

"Feeling better, Love?" Crowley asked and pushed himself off the wall.

Y/N startled and immediately cursed himself for it. Movement irritated the stab wound. He really needed to remember that.

It didn't go unnoticed by Crowley either. He was next to him in a heartbeat, hands pushing him back down into the mattress. It was a surprisingly gentle touch. "Hey, easy Y/N. Don't want you pulling the stitches right after Sam invested so much energy into them, would you?"

The dry statement had Y/N snorting which of course only led to more pain. "Shit, stop making me laugh."

"Well what should I rather be making you do?" Crowley stepped back, sarcasm deeply laced into the words. Y/N wasn't entirely sure if that wasn't just the way he spoke.

But his body language didn't match the tone. He was stepping back already, his fingers troubling his sleeve and his eyes jumping between Y/N's ribs and his face.

Almost like -

No, Crowley surely wasn't nervous.

But-

"Are you worried for me, Crowley?" Y/N asked incredulously.

Crowley scoffed and momentarily was able to look him in the eyes. "What do ya think, love?"

Two times in a row. Two times Crowley now had used that endearment - no that nickname, endearments were for people that were, y'know dear to him - for him.

That didn't stop Y/N's palms from getting sweaty and his mind from producing rosy day dreams. Who knew, maybe Crowley actually did mean it like he hoped he was.

That thought process alone threw him enough off balance to blurt out what ran through his mind. "Wait, you do?"

"I think I'm in love with you, Y/N, of course I care about you," Crowley stated as if that was the most normal thing in the world. The only clue for his supposed inner turmoil was the fact that he still wasn't looking at Y/N's face and rather a point over his shoulder, "Now would you do me a favour and stop fidgeting around so your stitches stay where they are?"

Out of sheer self preservation he did. Or maybe that was just the shock. Y/N was pretty sure that his jaw might have met his blanket intimately now.

Nope. He was hallucinating. That had to be it. Dean gave him some of the good pain medication, that was for sure.

"You're not looking very smart right now," Crowley pointed out though Y/N didn't know how he could tell as he was still not looking at him.

For some reason that sold it for him. This was real and Y/N would be chopping his head off if Crowley was playing power games right now. "Did you just say that you're in love with me?!"

"Based on your reaction that's not what you wanted to hear so no, I said that I think," Crowley emphasised the word especially which was just ridiculous, "that I'm in love with you."

And because Y/N was just about as emotionally constipated as the hunters he was living with, he didn't confess his own undying (and embarrassing) love and instead huffed annoyed. "And how am I supposed to understand that?"

"My God can you be irritating," Crowley groaned and drew his hand over his face.

Oh yeah? Well how about that?

With a force Crowley didn't expect and Y/N bitterly regretted, he yanked the demon down by his tie and into a kiss. His stitches were burning up from the strain he put them through but the squeak Crowley let out was worth it.

Y/N pushed just about every ounce of hope and anger into the kiss and worked his way to Crowley actually returning it. It was a moment of struggle and the dawning feeling that Y/N just made a horrible horrible mistake but eventually his lips relaxed and he started moving them against Y/N's. A heartbeat later, there was a hand on his neck, gently tilting his head for better access.

"I think I'm in love with you too," Y/N said once they broke the kiss for some air.

Crowley raised his eyebrows. "Oh, do you now?"

"Don't be smart with me mister, I saw how nervous you were." Y/N grinned confidently leaned back into the pillows.

Y/N was pretty sure that Crowley would have slapped his shoulder now if he hadn't been injured. But he was so Crowley had to resort to exasperated glaring.

This was going to be fun.

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[drewlover]

what we could’ve gotten if hoo had been set at least 5-6 years after pjo (basically the seven + reyna minus percabeth are still the same age, except for hazel i made her the same age as the rest of them)

a very long post because it kinda irks me that rick didn’t really give the new characters much opportunity with how the whole thing was timed

mentor percabeth

^^in this scenario it’s not percy being replaced, it’s nico (who would be around 17)

the prophecy is a bit different, it’s to earth and fire, nico, hazel or leo, because it isn’t jason being replaced here it’ll be reyna

drew would’ve probably matured a bit (and gotten therapy because of her trust issues after silena had betrayed them) and would’ve been the big sister™ and made piper at least embrace being an aphrodite kid and helped her train

reyna and thalia !! meeting each other !! reyna telling her about jason and generally being intrigued about the hunt, thalia feeling happy because jason is alive and well

mentor percabeth

camp would’ve had so much more children, so much more people who could be affected with that war and i think that would’ve changed a lot about the overall atmosphere of the book

leo not having to shoulder all the responsibilities of building the ship because percy is not going to let him miss meals and training and campfires just bc he’s so focused on the ship

piper being taught by both drew and annabeth to use her dagger and her powers properly, and how to use it to her advantage. her charmspeak is much better and she knows when or when not to use it, and she’s much better at wielding katoptris

the gods still being useless as fuck and percy and annabeth getting so frustrated

nico getting more easily accepted into camp jupiter bc (1) jason isn’t wary of him (2) there’s already a child of pluto and he is generally more respected than neptune (3) he’s fought a war and is kinda camp half-blood’s unofficial leader since percy and annabeth are ‘retired’

he also only remembers will.

nico frank and hazel as a trio !!!! hazel and nico having sibling bonding and nico giving frank the talk and trying not to laugh bc frank looks so scared

(no one tries to find the doors of death via tartarus nope)

nico defeating the shades with all his king of the ghosts thing and having all his memory come back because of that

malcolm being a part of the 7 bc we need a child of athena and i want him to have character development (he’s 17 here)

the whole eidolon situation is changed because it’s jason who’s in control, and he’s handling the situation a bit differently from reyna

them going to rome and malcolm setting off to find the athena parthenos and everyone looking out for him

it’s different without the daedalus laptop, and a bit longer, but malcolm still remembers it, and he’s always been more resourceful than most of his siblings, and draws the design carefully on the wall, successfully tricking arachne

it’s reyna who catches malcolm, and they both fall because reyna isn’t about to let him conquer tartarus on his own no

nico doing his absolute best trying to guide everybody towards the other side of the doors praying to whatever god will lisen that reyna and malcolm are ok

and he remembers bob- and he’s not sure if bob will listen but he whispers his prayers to the wind anyway, and bob dives into tartarus because nico asked him to. 

they go through tartarus and they go past akhlys in a much different way- they are, after all, children of goddesses of war, they can think of strategies to worm them out of such a situation

‘say hello to the stars for me’

boo happens and there’s the war

the war is so much worse- the titan war looks like child’s play compared to this. the gods are at last there, because they made a promise and they do not intend to break it

everyone working together but there is still bloodshed and the older campers, the war veterans blood goes cold because there are children on the battlefield and what are they doing there they aren’t supposed to be here

clarisse, katie, percy, annabeth, the stolls, chris, and everyone who fought in the titan war fighting as a group, destroying every monster they see

jason leading the romans with octavian, and the eagle demolishing monsters as the legion destroys anything that comes their way leaving destruction at their wake

will and nico being a power duo, eyes glinting with power

reyna piper and hazel working together as a trio as they fight side by side, fighting as if they’ve done this for years

frank using his powers as one of his arms transform into a bear claw while growing a scorpion tail, being his own personal army

leo burning hundreds of monsters and giving swords to those who have been disarmed

malcolm using strategies long forgotten and tactics so confusing the monsters just keep getting more and more surprised

apollo and artemis bringing down wave after wave of monsters with their silver and gold arrows, apollo’s children and artemis’ hunters by their side

hades poseidon and zeus working together

the seven being the ones to first reach gaea and go fuck what the prophecy says, we’re all going to take her down

and they win, but there’s far too many funerals

it’s more impactful, with the amount of children and mortal’s lost, and the gods realise grimly that they need to change. and not just fickle promises - this is real. they need to.

character development all around!

i could expand more but this is all i can think about at the moment but can i just say that this is what we deserved

[ouyangzizhensdad]

I saw a few posts recently about how in XuanWu Cave LWJ biting WWX is supposed to be LWJ getting possessive/jealous/marking WWX and one of MXTX’s weird kinks. I wanted to know how you interpret that scene? I honestly think the scene is not meant to be interpreted as “hot” at all. I think it was LWJ’s last resort in the moment, after an Extremely Stressful Time™, to get WWX to just leave him alone. Obviously biting someone is not okay lmao but LWJ is very clearly having major emotional dysregulation based on how he snaps at WWX. I feel like saying this whole scene is only based on how he is jealous really ignores the uhhhh fucking war plot??? And how they got to this situation in the first place??? (The only thing I can think of the biting scene being intended as “romantic” is as a play on the phrase 啮臂之盟, lit. bite an arm to make an oath, usually used as a promise to get married, via BaiDu. But this is more tongue-in-cheek than actual subtext IMO)

(Part 2 to the Cave/Biting ask, salty edition) Also if antis say this scene is OOC for LWJ I will lose my mind. It’s not my favorite scene in the book nor is it particularly notable but it’s not OOC. In WWX’s first life LWJ is shown since their first meeting to be unable to control his emotions and actions as well as he wants to!!! Their first interaction is literally a sword fight. And then this happens again in the Library Pavillion, the XuanWu Cave, etc. LWJ’s knee jerk reaction (after trying to ignore his issues, which is also not healthy might I add) when super frustrated seems to be drawing his sword which obviously directly goes against everyone’s view of him as perfect and regulated etc. LWJ reacts with violence where it’s inappropriate and better to communicate multiple times! Which leads to WWX thinking LWJ doesn’t like him! Of course LWJ gets better at controlling his reactions as he gets older but damn. And some of these fight scenes were kept in for CQL??? I don’t understand the disconnect TBH. God forbid HanGuang-Jun has a Character Flaw that ties into the plot and themes of the story.

Hi anon,

While the novel does show that lwj can get bite-y during kisses and sex, I think it is a tenuous argument to suggest that the scene in the Tulu Xuanwu cave is meant to be read as having sexual undertones or to understand it as the mere expression of a character’s ‘kink’ or preferences.The context of it, as well as the headspace of the characters--particularly lwj--simply do not allow for that reading to be well-supported. It feels a little bit like, I don’t know, trying to argue that, in any context, if lwj ties a rope or a bit of fabric, it has got to be sexual, even if it is tying his own forehead ribbon in the morning.

As you mention, some people have pointed out that a potential reading of the scene relates to “ 啮臂之盟” and works as a declaration. This was never confirmed by mxtx, but mxtx famously prefers to let readers interpret the text and rarely confirms these sorts of interpretations so it might be what she intended. 

That being said, while this interpretation might still partly be true, if we look at the scene in context, to me it really seems as if lwj means to mark wwx for the sake of marking his memory.

Prior and after being locked in the cave, lwj sees wwx acting ‘frivolously’ towards both him and MianMianm, including wwx trying to shock him by stripping. This leads lwj to grow somewhat resentful. Based on what he says to wwx, it is clear that lwj finds himself in turmoil when he is on the receiving end of wwx’s teasing and attentions, having to remind remind himself that he is not ‘special’, that wwx does not have these intentions, that this is just how wwx acts (which 😥 no hgj you were special you were the most specialest, he was really flirting with you he just didn’t realise that’s what he was doing). I think, to anyone who has had (or thought they had) an unrequited love, that feeling of frustration is easy to understand; how hard it can be to keep your hopes in check when the person you like seems to treat you in a special way when that’s actually just the way they personally are towards many if not most people.

“Lan Zhan, you really are so strange today,” Wei Wuxian began, once more. “You’re so rude. And you are not talking like yourself either.”

“If you do not have those intentions, then do not flirt with others. You are doing as you please yet others will end up in turmoil.”

The conversation is also preceded by to the topic of “brands”; that having something remain on your body can work as a representation, a reminder. In this case, it becomes clear that wwx having a mark on his body will remind him of having saved a guniang, and will ensure that the guniang herself never forgets him. This leads lwj, who has been shouldering with a stiff lip quite a lot of emotional turmoil since the wen attacked the cr, to lash out and get angry at wwx for this very fact, to the point of physically shoving him.

Lan Wangji’s face was dark. A moment later, he replied, “If you know it hurts, do not be so rash next time.”

“It’s not like I had any other choice, did I? Do you think I enjoy being burned? Who would’ve known that Wang Lingjiao is that heartless? She almost pressed the iron into her eye. MianMian is a girl, and quite a pretty one, at that. If she were blind in an eye or her face scarred, she would have to bear it for the rest of her life. How bad would that be?”

“The thing on your body right now will remain for the rest of your life as well,” Lan Wangji spoke in a thin voice.

“That’s different. It’s not on my face. And I’m a man—what am I scared of? In a man’s life, how could he not get a few wounds and earn a few scars?”

His upper body bare, he was squatting on the ground as he picked up a branch and poked at the flames. “And, if you consider it from another perspective, even though this will never disappear from my body, it represents the fact that I protected a guniang. And the guniang will definitely remember me after this. She won’t be able to forget me for the rest of her life. Now that I think about it, it’s actually quite—”

Suddenly, Lan Wangji shoved him hard, raging.

“So you also know that she will not be able to forget you for the rest of her life!”

Then, just before lwj starts biting wwx, we get the following line that is actually an idiom in chinese ( 好了伤疤忘了痛 ).

Somehow, Wei Wuxian had moved beside him again and sat down, speaking without a care for the consequences [...] Lan Wangji glanced at him, a person who seemed to forget all past pain as soon as the wounds had healed. Just as Wei Wuxian was about to give him a large grin, he suddenly saw Lan Wangji lower his head [...] Lan Wangji was buried into the crescent of his elbow, biting firmly into his arm.

While in this case, it can be taken very literally: that, indeed, as soon as wwx stops feeling the pain of lwj’s earlier shove, he already starts moving back near him. However the idiom also has a more metaphorical sense of forgetting past difficulties once the situation improves which--isn’t this coincidentally quite a good illustration of wwx?

That being said, if we remain in a more literal interpretation, and we think back to the discussion regarding the brands and remembering, the bite can be interpreted as lwj trying to force wwx to remember him--to leave him with a brand of his own, although it is one that will fade away. Perhaps, to a degree, to force wwx to think about lwj just as much as lwj is incapable of escaping thoughts about wwx, if only for a short while.

I think, through this reading, lwj’s ensuing “thank you”s make sense; having relieved this frustration in his heart, these stifled hopes of his, that the quick-forgotten shove had not managed to truly put to rest. That this is enough to defuse some of his more recent frustration. So that’s the interpretation I lean more toward, although of course there is nothing that makes it impossible to have both 啮臂之盟 and 好了伤疤忘了痛 coexist--characters’ actions can have more than a single motivation! And there are potentially other interpretations possible that I simply have not personally thought of.

Now, does that mean that lwj is jealous? Kinda, yeah? It’s not a secret that lwj experiences jealousy during the novel. Big fucking whoop! Some people really took ‘jealousy is not love’ and ‘your lover’s jealousy should never be used as an excuse to control you’ and went ‘if anyone ever feels any jealousy and, god-forbid, ever have any negative feelings or impulsive reactions due to this, they are irredeemable and their love is toxic’. Although we know lwj is jealous at different point in the narrative (rip that poor rock), we only see him act in childish but short-lived ways when he’s very drunk or, in this case, when he is emotionally very fragile, having nearly died after weeks of mistreatment and humiliation, all the while his brother is on the run, his father is dying and his home has been burned down. It’s fine to not like these choices, as part of a romance or otherwise, to question whether they truly bring something to the narrative, the characterisation or the relationship between the characters, but to act like these are big red flags of toxic and problématique behaviour is like... Sure I guess there is no sliding scale between healthy/sainthood and toxic/problématique, and all these people writing these takes must be living examples of the “I have never done anything wrong in my life, ever” meme.

[jennycalendar]

as i continue to rewatch btvs, things jump out at me. thus far, buffy and angel’s relationship is a big one.

so there’s what i remember from when i was fourteen -- a kind of lingering delight and warmth at the very real and adorable chemistry that buffy and angel have -- and there’s what i’m seeing now, which incorporates that but also notices in a really big way that this is a story about a young girl dating a much older man. like, this is not a high school romance. angel is not emotionally mature, but there is a serious power difference. my dusty half-a-decade-old memories of buffy/angel involved them being a much more obvious, serious, and committed couple, but i just finished watching them in “halloween” and “lie to me” is starting to come back to me as well and i’m just like ????? my god ????? there is SO MUCH GOING ON HERE and choosing to sanitize this makes it SO MUCH LESS INTERESTING. i am at this point coming out as staunchly against the reading of buffy & angel as True Love™ and it is out of love for their dynamic that i do this.

tracking their relationship: their tentative “this can’t happen” begins to dissolve in “some assembly required,” when it’s established that 1) buffy danced with xander to make angel jealous, and 2) it very clearly worked. the show draws deliberate attention to angel labeling xander as a “kid,” treating xander LIKE a “kid” in multiple places, and simultaneously pursuing a relationship with buffy. buffy herself comments on this! there’s never any actual justification provided because there really isn’t any argument that can be made on angel’s part. if he sees xander as a kid, there is some part of him that sees buffy as a kid. point-blank.

and this continues into “reptile boy,” shows up as well even as early as “angel” -- angel himself is constantly trying to remind buffy that he’s Older than her By A Lot and that therefore this can’t ever be anything. there’s something particularly condescending about the way he addresses her in “reptile boy” when she asks him out for coffee.

the power difference in this exchange alone is crystal clear! i want to dissect it further, because i really don’t want to imply that i think angel doesn’t love buffy. i think angel and buffy indisputably love each other, but the waters are muddied by the fact that angel is constantly removing buffy’s autonomy.

in some cases this is explicit. angel refuses to let buffy ask him out at the beginning of “reptile boy” -- the scene i selected leads into this refusal. buffy herself comments on the way that he handles these situations!

the episode’s joyful conclusion -- angel asking buffy out for coffee -- has some weighty implications: the relationship can only continue when angel has decided that it will. obviously on some levels that’s how relationships work, but the particularly insidious part of this whole affair is the fact that angel’s reticence also incorporates an attempt to minimize any romantic overtures on buffy’s part. he treats her like a child. he asserts that she doesn’t know what she wants, and that it’s his responsibility as The Adult to set boundaries, but he fails to actually do so. 

the problem here is the fact that IF angel is inhabiting this role of Adult, it’s his responsibility to fully step back from a romantic relationship with buffy. but he instead decides to pursue this connection, setting up this incredibly fucked dynamic where any kind of progress that they make has to be on His Terms.

"halloween” and “lie to me” both share a really important theme: angel’s past, and buffy’s reticence when it comes to asking about it. “reptile boy” already established that her direct approach doesn’t work: she asked him for coffee -- a comparatively small request for him to meet him on her turf -- and he responded by calling her a conflicted little girl. so in “halloween” she turns to theft, and in “lie to me” she turns to spying, and in both of these situations she really only gets fragmented little pieces of truth. we see her trying to make herself into the girl that she thinks angel wants her to be in “halloween,” only to later be informed that the girl that she IS is more special than any other girl in angel’s age group. we see her witness a meeting between angel and his “crazy ex,” who he subsequently informs buffy that he “broke” back before he grew into the good, loving person that only wants a happy relationship with her.

there is a message in this text, and it’s one that’s worth interrogating, particularly considering where the story goes. everyone and their mother has talked about the implications of angel “changing” after he slept with buffy, but the first half of the season -- at least from what i’ve seen thus far -- seems to suggest that there were a hell of a lot of warning signs. 

THAT SAID. i do think that there is a very real connection between angel and buffy. i think that reading can coexist with the fact that there is this incredibly fucked power dynamic between angel and buffy. i think that in some ways buffy’s connection with angel is hugely informed by her trauma re: being the slayer -- we’ve seen with owen and with xander that “normal” boys don’t seem to fully understand her or allow her the kind of judgment-free support that angel definitely does. angel’s status as an Older Man with Supernatural Strength who repeatedly asserts that his first priority is always buffy is pretty much buffy’s dream scenario. she wants someone that she feels like she can rely on, and so obviously it’s going to be an older guy! a teenage boy isn’t going to provide stability when she’s facing death pretty much every day, and angel Has Literally Died Already so she doesn’t have to worry about the notion of him getting vamped.

the chemistry is palpable, the connection they have with each other is clearly very deep and true, and the comfort they share is something that i think both of them really need at that point in their lives. i just feel like there is this really fucked up and interesting part of their relationship that’s getting completely excised when it’s asserted that angel and buffy were a Healthy Connection, because the show itself is not actually framing it as such. the only person who thinks that angel and buffy are True Love is buffy, and it’s underlined multiple times within canon that this is one of the biggest problems with their relationship in early season two. buffy is so caught up in her high school fantasy that she really isn’t paying attention to the reality of who angel is, which makes SENSE! because she is SIXTEEN YEARS OLD! she’s having her first big love!

angel, however, is NOT having his first big love, and his assertions that this is the case need to be placed next to the ghost of darla and the very real presence of drusilla. the fact that angel is adamant about buffy being Special, buffy being Different, when we are shown that this is how he once saw drusilla before utterly breaking her ... the fact that buffy and drusilla are shown in the same dress in buffy’s vision, right before all the angelus stuff kicks off ... the fact that angelus very clearly treats buffy AS his next drusilla. there is so much to unpack there.

[blackberry-gingham]

Rating my Marvel blorbos on combat prowess, least to best, bc I'm bored and I can

Time to post my unsolicited opinions 😌👍🏻

Nightcrawler - 4/10

This pains me greatly, but it's true. Kurt is literally just a normal guy, except he can also teleport and like do backflips. His power is too situational to be considered useful and he has nothing else to fall back on. Literally, unironically, I have more muscle mass than this man, can lift™ more then him, plus I feel like he's a little more inclined to use his "run away" power then to stick around and actually do much to hurt anyone anyway.

If this is Kurt with his sword, I'd bump him up another point. If this was Kurt who was like, harboring a secretly ruthless and feral nature in the defense of his beloved or something, he could be a 7.

Toad - 6/10

Toad doesn't get nearly enough credit or use, especially considering how extremely overpowered his mutation is in a 1v1 setting lol, which unfortunately also means his powers too are kind of situational in order to be properly utilized. I rank him the same as the punisher only bc what toad lacks in firearms, he makes up for in physical strength/durability, but they both have about the same tacticality, just different skills. It's just toad's come naturally, while the punisher has equipment.

Not much else to say here, except that if his neurotoxin worked only by coming in contact with people, instead of requiring them to ingest/be infected by it to like go into shock and die and all, he would easily shoot up to like a 9 thanks to having a literal death touch. If only.

The Punisher - 6/10

This guy is basically like any and every player character from the call of duty franchise. Unstoppable. God tier aim. Never ending bullets/guns/tactical equipment/ect. He's like Batman in that his true super power is prep time, in which case if he has enough, he can do pretty much anything and I trust him to hold off some crazy shit if it came down to it.

He's higher than Kurt and Toad bc he has such vastly superior offensive skills, but lower than the rest bc everyone else here is just too versatile. Don't get me wrong tho, if this was a 1v1 type ranking, I firmly stand by that ol frank could easily take out like half these guys with just a clean and sneaky snipe or something

Doc Ock - 7/10

Even tho the doc is technically also "just a guy" like nightcrawler and punisher, the fact that his tentacles are numerous, basically indestructible, and also insanely strong, in addition to his intelligence, are what makes him a threat. He can come up with clever plans on the fly, and has the cyborg powers to execute them effectively.

Bc he can wipe out many people at once and would also be extremely difficult to surround/overwhelm, he's higher up. And anyway, not that you'd really even want to do that previous stuff, considering he can slice just about anyone/anything to ribbons or else crush/bludgeon them to a pulp

Sabretooth - 8

The only reason he's lower then wolverine is bc, in a battle of true attrition, I don't think he'd be able to last as long in a fight. Like... A super long, like DAYS long fight, but still. Considering both of their healing factors are metabolic based, since Sabre is both bigger and also tends to waste energy more recklessly then Logan (leaping, running on all fours, blah blah blah), his healing factor would probably go pfth faster with no energy stores to draw from anymore.

So basically: the more injured he gets (which wouldn't be hard bc he's usually pretty reckless), the more tired he'll be from healing, and also the more tired he gets, the less effectively he'll be able to heal.

Wolverine - 8.5/10

Let's be honest, Logan and Vic are almost literally the same character on paper. Everything I said about Sabre applies here too, except that, again, I feel like wolverine is a little more conservative with his energy output and not letting himself get injured as bad under the pretense of "I can just heal from anything"

He's slightly higher, but only bc he could stay in a battle of attrition just a little longer.

Human Torch - 9/10

I don't really talk about him much, but I do rather like ol torchy. He's higher up then Sabre and wolverine solely bc his powers are not metabolic based. Yeah, really. ie, he can burn and burn and burn, basically until he just gets naturally tired, rather then as a result of using his powers.

Then there's the whole flying and shooting fire left and right stuff, and you get the idea. I mean, he's basically a walking sun, and anyone who could get even close to him and live, would probably just end up burning out their healing factor before doing any actual damage. So.

Magneto - 10/10

Oh boy. Ok, so basically, he's kind of like if you took the punisher's tactical genius and then he was also a force wielding Jedi with the power of a god and then also had the ability to fly, just as like a little fun bonus. Yeah.

I feel like I don't have to explain this tbh but in brief: considering everything all around can instantly be turned into a weapon of reduculous destruction, certainly also including anything on an opponent's person, he is literally unbeatable and unstoppable by like 98% of all means possible. Good luck.

Ghost Rider - 10/10

Another one who's just insanely powerful and unstoppable, except that unlike Magneto, he is also pretty much unkillable and incapable of being fatigued. Which at that last point, there's just nothing you can do lol. Admittedly, his powers aren't really for fighting mass amounts of people at once, but between his chain hook and his smaller scale sampling of torch's fire blasting powers, I think he certainly could if he needed to

Once again, not much else to say, except that unlike Kurt and even Kurt's dad, ghosty is a literal, actual demon with all the destructive powers and threat levels you'd expect from a being who isn't even "just" a demon, but an actual force of nature on top of it.

[animebw]

Binge-Reading: Fate/Stay Night VN, Heaven’s Feel Day 9

In which Rin stops by for a chat with the devil, Shinji remains a piece of shit, and Sakura’s complex is laid bare.

Stopping Point: Investigating Ryuudou Temple

Rin’s Confrontation

Today in Your Daily Reminder That Rin Tohsaka is the Baddest Bitch What Ever Lived: no sooner have she and Shirou begun processing the magnitude of their nightmarish encounter last night than she decides to go straight for the Matou mansion to investigate. Not even a day to decompress and she’s already charging straight into the heart of enemy territory, breaking her father’s guidance in the process. Her initial investigation doesn’t reveal much, but we do get some more chilling exposition about the nature of the Makiri family’s, erm, “talents.” The pit of worms is described as “a magic that is taught not to the mind, but to the body.” Instead of requiring an aspiring magus to undergo intense mental study and preparation, the Makiris’ training process has their heir undergo excruciating physical trauma to build up their fortitude. It’s not a torture pit, it’s literally their training regimen. If you’re a successor to the Matou legacy, you job is to basically let these worms violate you until you’re so traumatized that literally nothing phases you anymore. Just... Christ. Everything we learn about this family just drives home how inescapably fucked the whole situation is. Thank god Rin’s actually got enough of a conscience to be repulsed at this knowledge. Perhaps it’s marinating in this recognition of the foulness of these mages that gets her pissed enough to draw Shinji out of hiding. Or perhaps she’d just take any excuse to rip Shinji a new one. Hey, if you’re the kind of person who enjoys verbally tormenting other people, you might as well put that skill to good use.

Shinji’s Envy

Either way, good lord is her verbal evisceration of Shinji satisfying to watch. She basically just stares him in the face and reads out his entire damn character bio, one damning piece of evidence at a time. Shinji’s a spineless coward clinging to the Matou name because he thinks it gives him power. He loves himself so much that he believes everyone else is below him, even when they exceed him in every way. He wants to hide his powerlessness- both from others and himself- by insisting that he’s still the heir to a great legacy, despite the fact that the Matou’s crest is basically bled dry at this point. He’s a failure who can never be someone special, and he seeks the holy grail to make him a proper mage so he can hide from his own inadequacy. I recall Kirei mentioning something a while back about how the grail basically just gives you a shortcut to bypass all the hard work necessary to achieving your dreams, and Shinji takes that concept to its furthest extreme. He is the personification of toxic envy itself, seeking to destroy anyone and anything that threatens his delusion of being Special and Important(tm) simply by virtue of being better than him. But Rin gives it to him straight: to be a magus is to be someone who thinks of others before themselves. It’s to be someone who hates themselves more than anyone. In that sense, Shirou is ten thousand times the mage Shinji will ever be. Because for all the boy’s faults, he’s fighting for something far greater than personal interest. he knows that he himself isn’t the most important thing in the world. Shinji, on the other hand, is so self-centered that even when Rin lays all this out for him, all he can think is that if he just killed Shirou, the boy who’s apparently so much better than him, then nothing with exist to stop him from calling himself worthy anymore. Shinji Matou can think of nothing but the good of Shinji Matou, and it’s only a matter of time before that leads to something really, really bad.

Sakura’s Guilt

Meanwhile, on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Saber has just discovered that Sakura’s flaw is the direct inverse of her brother’s: she cares too little about herself. Her first instinct is to blame herself for everything that goes wrong and take all the responsibility on her shoulders, never once thinking for her own well-being. Saber puts it in a really evocative way: ”She brands herself with dishonor rather than trying to recover her honor.” That’s such a powerful way to phrase it, and it gets at the heart of the complex so many characters in this VN struggle with: an inability to move past their failures. Shirou, Saber, and now Sakura, all defined by regrets from their past, trying to fix what they feel they’ve broke or repent for sins by driving themselves into the ground through overwork. Sakura even sees scolding herself as a requirement, or else she’ll get “carried away,” presumably meaning she’ll think she actually deserves to worry about herself for a damn change. But what Sakura needs to learn, what Shirou and Saber have already learned in previous routes, is that there’s a difference between punishing yourself and actually making up for your mistakes. Simply denying or hurting yourself isn’t actually going to fix the damage: you have to actually try to be better. You have to look forward instead of backward, focusing on improving yourself in the future instead of tying yourself to your past. Only then can you truly start to move on from the times you’ve fallen short. If Sakura wants to be a better person than whatever crimes she feels she’s committed, she has to look out for herself. She has to accept that she deserves the same basic human dignity as everyone else. And as Shirou rightly recognizes, she has to be able to feel okay by herself, not just when she’s with him. Shirou’s a great support system, but if Sakura can’t feel liberated from her guilty conscience unless she’s with him, that isn’t healthy for either of them. Ultimately, her own strength and self-love is going to the only thing capable of saving her. I just hope she’s brave enough to accept that.

Odds and Ends

-”You will try to do something even if I refuse.” Is she being passive aggressive? Saber, you cad.

-”It feels like there’s a train we both have to get on, but I’m waving bye from the train and you’re still on the platform.” That’s... specific.

-Oh geez, even Fuji-nee’s gonna be tied up away from us now? We’re losing everyone.

-”That’s unexpected. Sakura’s the first one that comes to mind when I mention the girl living in your house?” sdkjfhsdkjfsd fucking gotem

-”I’ll stay here and laugh a little longer.” QUEEN.

-Wait, what did they notice? What are they choosing to ignore? UM?

-”Yes, I do want to act like a burglar now.” Oh, she’s pissed.

-”Why do I always use rock as my first move?” sdkfjhsdkfj rip

-”These simple, trivial things are important to me.” Aaaaaaww.

Onward ho. See you next time!

[adhdo5]

This had to happen

ETSY PEA + HOTELEENAYE MEEAHMYE AU 

Okay, to be more specific, this follows Mikell as he begins his career as the Hand Sinister

This is super disorganized and diverges from both SCP and HLM canon but do I care? No. I invoke no canon rule it’s my city now 

No gods no kings just Swarm

Anyway

O5/the Foundation are 50B/the People Leaving Messages on Jacket/Mikell’s answering machine. Like in HLM, Mikell doesn’t know this, chalking up the messages to either the Serpent’s Hand or the Chaos Insurgency, both of which (especially the first) act as the Russian Mafia in HLM. There’s a scene where Mikell brings this to his superiors. They say to play along with the messages for a while – if the Insurgency and the Hand are giving out each other’s locations, why not? 

It starts off with Mikell living essentially out of hotel rooms etc. but in the earlyish game the level equivalent to Decadence is called Homecoming or smth and it’s about clearing out the area eventually implied to be the Bright Family Home™ 

Girlfriend is thus not Girlfriend – the role is played by, alternately, Jack, Claire, or TJ (especially the latter as the game wears on). There’s also more dialogue – that is to say, there is dialogue

Jack is mostly shown around the house studying etc. as this is before Jack was working for the Foundation and shit 

Both parents are shown ambiguously, and stand in for Beard at times (see finale) 

And of course, the judges: 

Don Juan – “do you really want me to reveal who you are? Knowing oneself means acknowledging one’s actions” – is replaced by graying, post-retirement O5-12 trying sympathetically to move Mikell from this path, but it’s too little, too late 

Rasmus – “You make me sick!... I see that my opinion of you doesn’t matter” – is replaced by a featureless black spindly humanoid mass, shifting size and build but always a humanoid dressed in a lab coat and wearing a ruby amulet, always icy anger and hatred (spite. Betrayal.)

And, of course, Richard – “You’ll never see the full picture” – ever-impassive, meta, and highkey terrifying, is Joey Tamlin 

There is heavy divergence 

Biker is the defected guy mentioned in R.I.P. and also much less important, though he still discovers the 50B/Foundation shit (however, this is depicted as before his death instead of the thing HLM did where it’s unclear who killed who)

What’s important is: 

Basically the death scene in R.I.P. happens and Mikell checks in with the Foundation through the Approved Phone Number (not the one they’re using to leave messages ofc) to inform them of the defector and that he must have been important before defecting, and must have done it recently 

There’s also a second meet-superiors scene where he’s told “hey, off the record: we heard your family situation was. Complicated. You can call us for help with anomalous management whenever if you need~” 

The scene in the convenience store is similarly surreal but it’s replaced by a scene with The Family™ 

To be specific, it’s replaced by a very surrealized version of events where TJ attempted to heal Sarah etc. and the ensuing panic and a phone call where he takes the Foundation up on the offer and right after there’s another message on his machine, another Insurgent hideout to clear, and he does and he returns and 

The house is empty 

Siblings gone 

Mikell assumes Serpent’s Hand. They must have lured him out with the Insurgent hideout and taken his siblings meanwhile (similarly to how Jacket assumed Russian Mafia with Girlfriend’s death). He finds a note from Claire and Evelyn about their defection. He feels betrayed. He feels his assumption’s been confirmed. 

However if you’ll remember in HLM it was 50B who sent Richter after Girlfriend 

And the same happens here 

Mikell tipped the Foundation off earlier and they got themselves two shiny new anomalies and this promising researcher all in one go 

And they left a gift 

The agent on the couch, who shoots Mikell before he can react, but he doesn’t shoot Mikell and Mikell gets up and draws his gun and 

It’s Tamlin 

Cue “What you do from now on won’t serve any purpose... Now it’s time for you to leave. There’s a warm bed across the hall from here,” and Mikell notices his own corpse on the floor shot in the head and he feels himself bleed as Tamlin continues, “and you look as if you could use some rest.” 

CUE “TRAUMA” 

This one’s level summary: Waking Up In A Foundation Hospital 

’’This one ends with him stumbling home... only to find it guarded by Foundation agents who take him right back to the facility 

Between redactions and Mikell’s own swimming consciousness nothing is very clear but one thing is 

Mikell now knows who has been leaving messages on his answering machine. 

(I told you the divergence was heavy) 

Anyway Mikell recovers and is sent immediately to clear out one last target 

Mikell does not resist 

Cue Showdown where Mikell kills his way through a Serpent’s Hand cell HQ 

Except instead of the mafia boss commits suicide to deny Jacket catharsis shit 

The SH cell leader hands Mikell some documents 

For some very important SCPs 

And he knows who really took his siblings and he knows why his mother and sister defected and he does not say anything and he shoots the SH leader in the face and continues until every last Hand member in the house is dead and so is Mikell Bright 

No, nothing he could have done could have served any purpose 

And Mikell Bright never saw the full picture 

The Hand Sinister, O5′s perfect killing machine, lights a cigarette on the balcony as he waits for his evac 

[icefang100]

Used @/bitegore’s character sheet template for some of my OCs!

Notes:

Some of the art’s a bit outdated, but they all work well enough.

Most responses are based on how I view them, but some (ex. “the most godawful hot takes known to mankind”) are based on how I think other people would interpret them.

Image IDs below the cut (be warned, they’re long).

[Image ID for base: Character development sheet which is titled “OMG its BLORBO BLEEBUS”. The space to add a name is labelled “This scrungly motherfucker is:”, and there’s a box to add an image. There’s six other sections to fill in, three of which have headings; these headings are “Sub-Class”, “Evokes”, and “You Want them to have:”, and all are noted with “select all that apply”. There are severity scales for “Intense”, “Complex”, and “Fruity”, along with gradient scales for “just some guy” to “the protagonist of life”, “head empty” to “too many thoughts”, “awful company” to “ray of sunshine”, “hated by all” to “beloved by all”, “trauma x1000” to “untouched by history”, “sadistic for fun” to “helps others for fun”, “stupid as shit” to “scary-smart”, “1,000 weapons” to “1,000 tools”, “enemy of god” to “at peace with life”, and “break the rules” to “change the rules”. The Sub Class section has the options “Angst-lord”, “Enemy of the State”, “Flavor Container”, “Himbo”, “Soft and Sweet”, “Braincell Haver”, “This Is A Kink”, “Just Like You FR”, “Chew Toy”, “Friend-Shaped”, “Aspirational Character”, and “Little Meow Meow”. Under the Evokes and You Want Them to Have sections, and a third unlabeled section, are boxes to check off, which read as follows. In the unlabeled section, “Tragic backstory?”, “Orphan?”, “Frequently violent?”, “Divorced?”, “Has enemies?”, “No friends?”, “Sidekick owner?”, “Pets stray animals?”, “Chronic insomniac?”, and “Murderer?”; in the Evokes section, “spontaneous gushing”, “powerful violent urges”, “raw, unbridled affection”, “The Horny”, “late-night thoughts”, “meta-posting on main”, “creative drive”, “defensive feelings”, “distraction”, “delight”, “symptoms of projection”, “absent-minded doodles on tabletops”, and “the most godawful hot takes known to mankind”; In the You Want Them to Have section, “a better/wose time”, “more/less trauma”, “more/less/different romance”, “more friends”, “painful isolation”, “a family”, “catharsis”, “revenge”, “sympathy”, “a better/worse situation”, “more/less healing”, “more/less/different sex”, “different friends”, “freedom”, “justification”, “The Realization™”, “consequences”, and “a satisfying ending”. /End ID.]

[Image ID for filled-out sheet: Character sheet for "Epimetheus Holzmann (He/Him; OC)". A digital drawing is displayed; he's depicted as an anthropomorphic horned reptile. The Intense and Complex meters are slightly below center, while the Fruity meter is full. The unlabeled check-off list is marked for no friends. The gradient scale markers are closest to "just some guy", "head empty", "ray of sunshine", "hated by all", "sadistic for fun", "scary-smart", "1,000 tools", and "break the rules", with the "trauma x1000" to "untouched by history" and "enemy of god" to "at peace with life" gradients marked in their middles. Of the Sub Class section, "Flavor Container", "Braincell Haver", and "Chew Toy" are marked. The Evokes section is marked for creative drive, distraction, delight, and doodles. The "You want them to have:" section is marked for a worse time, more friends, and consequences. /End ID.]

[icefang100]

Used @/bitegore’s character sheet template for some of my OCs!

Notes:

Some of the art’s a bit outdated, but they all work well enough.

Most responses are based on how I view them, but some (ex. “the most godawful hot takes known to mankind”) are based on how I think other people would interpret them.

Roscoe is only a "sidekick owner" because Vincent hangs around all the time

Roscoe adopts Vincent :]

Image IDs below the cut (be warned, they’re long).

[Image set ID: Two filled-out character development sheets, all using the same base, which is titled “OMG its BLORBO BLEEBUS”. The space to add a name is labelled “This scrungly motherfucker is:”, and there’s a box to add an image. There’s six other sections to fill in, three of which have headings; these headings are “Sub-Class”, “Evokes”, and “You Want them to have:”, and all are noted with “select all that apply”. There are severity scales for “Intense”, “Complex”, and “Fruity”, along with gradient scales for “just some guy” to “the protagonist of life”, “head empty” to “too many thoughts”, “awful company” to “ray of sunshine”, “hated by all” to “beloved by all”, “trauma x1000” to “untouched by history”, “sadistic for fun” to “helps others for fun”, “stupid as shit” to “scary-smart”, “1,000 weapons” to “1,000 tools”, “enemy of god” to “at peace with life”, and “break the rules” to “change the rules”. The Sub Class section has the options “Angst-lord”, “Enemy of the State”, “Flavor Container”, “Himbo”, “Soft and Sweet”, “Braincell Haver”, “This Is A Kink”, “Just Like You FR”, “Chew Toy”, “Friend-Shaped”, “Aspirational Character”, and “Little Meow Meow”. Under the Evokes and You Want Them to Have sections, and a third unlabeled section, are boxes to check off, which read as follows. In the unlabeled section, “Tragic backstory?”, “Orphan?”, “Frequently violent?”, “Divorced?”, “Has enemies?”, “No friends?”, “Sidekick owner?”, “Pets stray animals?”, “Chronic insomniac?”, and “Murderer?”; in the Evokes section, “spontaneous gushing”, “powerful violent urges”, “raw, unbridled affection”, “The Horny”, “late-night thoughts”, “meta-posting on main”, “creative drive”, “defensive feelings”, “distraction”, “delight”, “symptoms of projection”, “absent-minded doodles on tabletops”, and “the most godawful hot takes known to mankind”; In the You Want Them to Have section, “a better/wose time”, “more/less trauma”, “more/less/different romance”, “more friends”, “painful isolation”, “a family”, “catharsis”, “revenge”, “sympathy”, “a better/worse situation”, “more/less healing”, “more/less/different sex”, “different friends”, “freedom”, “justification”, “The Realization™”, “consequences”, and “a satisfying ending”. /End ID.]

[Image 1 ID: Character sheet for "Roscoe Cardoso (He/Him; OC)". A digital drawing is displayed; he's depicted as an anthropomorphic jaguar/cheetah. The Complex and Fruity meters are a bit over the center line, while the Intense meter is low. The unlabeled check-off list is marked for tragic backstory, orphan, sidekick owner, pets stray animals, and chronic insomniac. The gradient scale markers are closest to "just some guy", "too many thoughts", "ray of sunshine", "beloved by all", "trauma x1000", "helps others for fun", "1,000 tools", "at peace with life", "change the rules", with the "stupid as shit" to "scary smart" gradient marked in its middle. Of the Sub Class section, "Soft and Sweet", "Friend-Shaped", and "Aspirational Character" are marked. The Evokes section is marked for spontaneous gushing, unbridled affection, late-night thoughts, creative drive, and doodles. The "You want them to have:" section is marked for a better time, less trauma, more friends, a family, sympathy, a better situation, and more healing. /End ID.]

[Image 2 ID: Character sheet for "Vincent Cardoso (He/Him; OC)". A digital drawing is displayed; he's depicted as a young anthropomorphic lion. The Intense, Complex, and Fruity meters are all close to center. The unlabeled check-off list is marked for tragic back story, pets stray animals, and chronic insomniac. The gradient scale markers are closest to "just some guy", "too many thoughts", "beloved by all", "trauma x1000", "helps others for fun", "1,000 tools", "enemy of god", and "change the rules", with the "awful company" to "ray of sunshine" and "stupid as shit" to "scary smart" gradients marked in their middles. Of the Sub Class section, "Angst Lord" and "Friend Shaped" are marked. The Evokes section is marked for violent urges, unbridled affection, and creative drive. The "You want them to have:" section is marked for a better time, less trauma, more friends, a family, catharsis, sympathy, a better situation, more healing, and a satisfying ending. /End ID.]