#I LOVE MY IDIOT ROGUES SO MUCH PLS LOVE THEM WITH ME

[zombolouge]

OC First and Last Lines!

Tagged by the extremely handsome, brilliant, and alluring @miliabyntite, thank you sir.

Rules: Post the first and most recent/last line of dialogue from a couple OCs!

Since my brain is currently stewing in the Dragon Age mire, I'll go ahead and give everyone some lines from my DA OCs. Sticking with the published stuff to avoid spoilers :)

Series posted here.

Melody Cousland:

First: “Why are you telling me this?!” she grabbed her mother’s hands, holding them as tears blurred her vision.

Last: “Nothing that we can’t stop. It’s not too late. I swear to you, I won’t let her win.”

Lilly Hawke:

First: She glanced up at the sky, peering at a cloud that drifted overhead, catching the rays of the sun and exploding in a riot of neon pink. “I was feeling the wild.”

Last: "Stay safe and keep kicking ass.

Love,

H., Champion, Wildfire, and rescuer of fellow reckless redheads"

Autumn Trevelyan:

First: Barring dignity, she resorted to indignation. “Will someone please tell me what the fuck is going on?!”

Last: There was fear in the set of her shoulders, and he wished he’d enough ignorance and obliviousness to his wits to pretend it was for anything but him. “Solas?”

Tagging uhhhh @jusbeinkt and @outerspacejellyfish and @kesla. No pressure but I will longingly stroke the discord if you don't do it.

SECRET BONUS:

A few things I've penned for my Rook :) Obviously VERY rough concepts that may or may not survive encounter with the actual game, but I have. Ideas.

First: “Do you recall what you promised me, on our wedding day?” she set the cup down, freeing her hand to trace the edge of the purple stain. She didn’t look at her husband.

Last: “You don’t know me. You don’t know who I am. If you did…” She laughed through her nose, the breathy rasp draped in enough sorrow that whatever seed of mirth had birthed it was immediately drowned. “You would surely find me unpalatable.”

[severevoiddragon]

Hi!

Do you have a funny natural 1 story from your D&d campaign? :D

(Or any other story really I just love D&d)

OMG AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT MY CAMPAIGN !!!!

You get TWO stories and a background story bc I love talking bout my DnD campaign

So, to begin, the cast of PCs (all level 3 atm):

Hecate, a Tiefling Monk/Druid (she/her), the party's braincell but also notorious low roller

Nivaira, a Sun Elf Bard (they/them), deadpan and sarcastic but a prolific spellcaster

Izumi Luthien, a Half Elf Rogue (he/him), the party's angsty teen boy

Important NPCs:

Bella Banducci, human Sorcerer (she/her), joined the party at the party's request (I didn't WANT her to be a DMPC but the party insisted on her coming along-), used to live in a morally dubious circus

Ammon Luthien, Elf Wizard/Sorcerer (he/she/they), Izumi's half-sibling, childhood friend of Hecate and Nivaira (but separately), in love with Eiwin

Eiwin Tamiel, Human ? (He/they), works at an artefact store, in love with Ammon (I ship them sm <3)

Kilvar (he/him), Dwarf smith, one of two people to look after the bounties of the town they are in.

Relania (she/her), Human wizard, current antagonist for the party.

Background:

The party became a party at the request of Ammon, who mailed them a letter asking them to look for an amulet of Ammon's. He is currently hidden from an "evil presence", and the party are awaiting Ammon's next instruction. The town they are in now is Mytheas, a town by the sea. It's the kind of town where everyone knows everyone, and is just generally a pretty nice place to be. In the party's first adventure, Relania tried to be a friend, but ended up revealing herself as trying to steal the amulet, so the party tied her up and went to sleep, leaving her in a different room. She escaped and ran away. She is now trying to get the amulet.

The Bear Story:

The party, while working out what to do, decided they wanted to take up a bounty (I. Don't remember why now??? My party members on Tumblr pls help). The bounty they took was a small bounty (like. 50gp I think? I don't have my notes w me) for a big bear in the forest. The party talked with Kilvar about the bounty. The terms were to kill the bear, and bring 'proof of death'.

The party got there, killed the bear no problem. The problem came when they tried to carry the bear to Kilvar. You see, they misinterpreted proof of death not as a head or a paw or something, but. The whole. Bear. So, they all rolled Strength to try and carry it. Nivaira rolled very high, and carried most of the weight of the bear all the way from the forest to Kilvar's. Izumi rolled fairly well, so carried like. The back paw. And nothing else. Hecate rolled so badly that she tried to lift a paw of the bear and struggled so much that she walked alongside, giving motivation to the others, much to Izumi and Nivaira's disappointment. They got back, and they sent Hecate in to talk w Kilvar, since she didn't help carry. She rolled badly on the charisma check, and Kilvar responded with essentially "you idiots I just wanted the head". And Hecate just asked him to come outside to take the bear. He repeated what he said to the party, meaning Nivaira and Izumi were fuming. The players are still fuming to this day.

The Wolf Story:

Another bounty !! This time, for Aarpol, a huge wolf in the forest. He had two wolves that helped him. Nivaira, as a bard, can do poison spray, however they didn't cast many spells up until I reminded them they can cast spells. Poison spray, if you don't know, casts a 15ft cone of poison, and you take damage if you fail a constitution save. They cast the spell, and then we realised that Hecate was in the firing line. This was because Hecate had jumped on Aarpol and sat on its back, to punch it in the neck. Hecate and Aarpol had to do a con save. Aarpol failed. Yay ! Hecate....

Failed. She failed. She lost a lot of hp, and iirc she went unconscious? So there was Hecate on the back of a wolf, unconscious. Izumi (iirc?) killed the wolf, and Nivaira I THINK healed Hecate so she didn't have to death save.

Bonus story:

The party are currently on a quest in an evil mushroom place, and I do sleep rolls. 1-5 is bad sleep, barely slept. Useful if there's a goblin raid on your camp, but too many bad sleeps in a row cause exhaustion (3 in a row). 6-14 is moderate sleep. Normal sleep. Woke up if there's a goblin raid, but no exhaustion. 15-20 is amazing sleep, didn't wake up at all. Useful for no exhaustion, but slept right through the raid. Izumi has failed 2 sleep rolls in a row :>

Oh and Bella may or may not be poisoned by evil mushrooms I don't remember

[charleecat-bat]

I think I've told you I ship Big and Storm? 🤔 If I haven't before now I have LOL.

They never move in together or anything like that. Storm didn't want to leave the airship and the other Rogues and Big didn't want to leave Mystic Ruins, so they decided that's for squares and they're perfectly fine NOT doing that.

ANYWAY, the reason I bring all this up in an OC fact trade is they get a kiddo! Wave built them a robot kid named Leaf. 🥰 They told Wave not to program Leaf to be a fantastic Extreme Gear boarder, and she complied... by making Leaf a fantastic mechanic/inventor instead. But anyway, they pass Leaf back and forth between each other on a schedule.

Leaf keeps building Big inventions that either make fishing more efficient or would allow him to catch more fish at once because the poor kid hasn't quite grasped why Big fishes and they want to help their dad do it better. They mean well though, so Big always appreciates the gesture.

awwwwwwr this is cuuuuute

you did tell me they were a couple in your canon but i didn’t know they had a kid together. that’s adorable <3 <3 Leaf sounds precious.

I have been tempted to give them a fankid of my own, a tiny little thing that somewhere gets into all sorts of places like Froggy. But so far only one AU they’re in is confirmed that they get a kid.

Storms main activity as a father is FINDING HIS CHILD IN PLACES THAT HE CANNOT FATHOM

GREY-WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING-HOW DID YOU GET UP THERE-

Ummmm i’m trying to think of an oc to talk about

fffffffuck it i’ll talk about my rendition (or at least one) of Knuckles’ father His name is Lance (Short for Lancer) and he was an originally a Locke reboot but now he’s developed into something of my own character.

 He’s very intelligent and yet still a bit of an idiot. He gives very much Michael Reeves and Markiplier vibes. Being so smart yet also an idiot. He’s very much into robotics and even managed to amke his own robotic hand, he was born with disfigured that got removed so he just went fuck it imma make my own hand. And you know that while hsi creations of robotics are a wonder of science and engineering... he still has his moments. He either makes the most stupid memeist things because of boredom or the internet. Like a goddamn screaming roomba (if you know the reference i love you). He knows more memes and more about internet culture than his own son but he adores his son. He has moments where his depression will get really bad and he’ll become dead inside but he stilll tries his best to be there for his son even with his issues and will drag himself out of bed for him (AND NOT MICROWAVE HIS GODDAMN CHILD FROM A BAD DREAM GOD FUCKING DAMMIT LOCKE. LANCE GETS DUMB AND INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU ACT ON THEM FUCKING-). Most of the time you can tell when h’es in a good mood cause when he is feeling good... the gremlin comes out. Knuckles may be happy that his dad is happy but then he wishes that he wouldn’t become such a gremlin man because then he creates the weirdest shit.

Knuckles: DAD WHY DO THESE DRONES KEEP GOING AFTER ME

Lance: i’m trying to speed up the robot apocalypse and these drones go after people after scanning their faces

Knuckles: WHY

Lance: idk i thought it was funny

Knuckles: DAD PLS

He’s also neurodivergent af

[softlystarstruck]

!!! I see one of your fave drarry tropes is accidental bonding, can u pls share ur recommendations!!🤠🤠♥️♥️ I struggle sm finding fics I want on a03, I now how to use the tagging theoretically but my keywords never pop up 😭

i’m sure i’ve missed a few but here are some of my faves!! a few are arranged/forced marriage or soul bonds but i also love those so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ive found the best way to search is filtering the specific “accidental bonding” tag!! also @sitp-recs has an arranged marriage/accidental bond rec list

Aftermath of an Accidental Bond by @the-starryknight [T, 1k]

When you took the Mungo's third shift, you knew there would be weird shit. You just didn't expect to find the most recognizable face in the Wizarding world shoved into a hospital cot beside Draco Malfoy.

intertwined by @hogwartsfirebolt [M, 1.8k]

The night Draco Malfoy showed up, Harry thought it was another mind trick. Then, he realized that it broke the pattern. He’d never trusted, never loved, never even tolerated Draco Malfoy.

Bonds, Besties, and Boners: Draco Malfoy’s Guide to Getting a Boyfriend by @nv-md [E, 4.2k]

Draco and Harry are accidentally bonded while at work. Harry's thrilled, Draco's annoyed, and Pansy's doing everything she can to cause trouble. Can these two idiots figure their messy relationship out?

As Easy As That by @moonflower-rose [E, 4.8k]

Trust Potter to be the target of a rogue bonding spell from a crazed fan. Trust Draco to try and leap in front of it.

When The Party’s Over by @sweet-s0rr0w [E, 5.4k]

Parties aren't quite so much fun when you're accidentally bonded to your sworn enemy. At least, that's what Harry thinks at first...

If It Takes All Night by @tackytigerfic [M, 10k]

It's not the first time Harry's been the victim of a botched curse (that's one of the reasons he doesn't like crowds), but he feels bad that Malfoy had to get caught up in it too. So they're bonded. That's ok, they just have to make sure to be touching at all time. No problem. Because Malfoy smells so nice, and has such lovely shiny hair, and his skin is so very warm. But this isn't going to be a problem for their friendship at all.

How to Make Two Stubborn Wizards Kiss by @rubickk7 [T, 16k]

What’s a little accidental soul bond between friends? Harry and Draco can handle it like adults. Right?

seven for a secret (never) to be told by @piarelei [E, 18k]

One would think that more people would get into accidental wizarding marriages with how easy it is. Harry has seven chances to change his mind. If only he were aware of what is going on.

Lift Your Open Hand by @firethesound [M, 18k]

With Draco Malfoy as his assigned partner for the next six weeks of Auror training, Harry had been prepared for things to go poorly. But getting themselves accidentally bonded to each other in the first twenty minutes of their very first assignment seemed going above and beyond, even for them.

you’ve got the antidote for me by Kandakickass [M, 20k] (soul bond)

When Harry Potter unintentionally severs their soulbond before it can fully form, Draco Malfoy resigns himself to a slow death and decides not to burden Harry with a soulmate he's made it very clear he doesn't want. He's never been selfless before, but for Harry, he can try.

In Evidence of Magical Theory by @bixgirl1 [E, 43k]

When a hex meant for Draco accidentally catches Harry as well, they're forced to learn to understand each other in ways they previously might have thought impossible. In which Harry and Draco can't fight, so they fall in love instead.

That Old Black Magic by @bixgirl1 [E, 77k] (arranged marriage bond)

Centuries ago, marriage contracts were the norm — ready-made alliances between families, expected and complied with, without complaint. But norms have a way of changing, and when a long-dormant contract flares to life, Harry has to navigate an unexpected splintering of the path he'd thought would be easy after the war... with Draco Malfoy.

Grounds for Divorce by @tepre [E, 122k]

Malfoy finds a coin. Harry finds a letter. A story about histories, a story about families. A story about a lemon tree somewhere in Upper Egypt.

Bond by AnnaFugazzi [M, 173k]

Mental by sara_holmes [M, 186k]

Harry has had quite enough of sharing his mind with someone else, thankyouverymuch. A miscast Legilimecy spell says otherwise.

[wanyinchen]

(I may have accidentally deleted the ask and the post whoops sorry, anon!)  HOLY CRAP YES PLS OMG TALK TO ME MORE They literally are the best team ever? Like I am such a sucker for found family tropes you have no idea. The idea of these four people, so different from one another and are, in varying degrees, considered as outsiders found a bond with each other so strong  and I- AHHHH I CAN’T NOT LOVE THEM. I’ve always imagined them to be all orphans and then finally, they found these people who could and would always be their home, and where they could feel safe, loved and cared for, a family. I-I’m weak-*chokes back the tears* I have always had a hard time making friends in my younger years and I was a bit of a loner at childhood, and now as I am older and found friends who I could laugh with and keep secrets with, who I could be myself with and who I could always be with, I FELT THAT WITH TEAM GAI, OK? THEIR TEAMWORK AND CLOSENESS?? YEAH BABY! Sure I could relate on Nart or some other character but something clicked in me with Rock Lee and Gai. Like holy crap these are not the type of characters I usually love but there’s something about these two adorable bowl-cut, spandex wearing angels that compel me to them so much. Hardwork, effort, and dedication is something I very much value but not always “do”, they’ve become one of my inspirations to do better and be better and all around help me make good decisions with the question “would Lee and Gai be proud of me if I do this?” fuck I am such a loser but I just hecking love them so much. Rock Lee is the love of my life and I love him to bits, this kid is super precious and so sweet and so polite, like omg I want him, he literally is boyfriend material and I just super love him and whoever ended up with this sweetheart, I congratulate you, you have eyes more powerful than all the ‘-gans’ in the world and you have caught the greatest treasure. Neji is a complex character, a true genius but always considered to be inferior from the main Hyuuga family just because he was from the branch family, he was this happy kid and then was so jaded by his dad’s death, like I just want to hug him. He had such a compelling character arc and development, evolving from this bitter (and with reason!) and angry kid to this mature teen who empathizes and loves his team and cousin very much. He became somewhat more mellow, gentle, and approachable now that he found a true family with team gai. HE SHOULDN’T HAVE DIED, IT WAS A BS PLOT DESICION AND I WAS LIKE CRYING AND WHAT???? FOR WHAT?? IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE, HIASHI SHOULD’VE DIED INSTEAD FFS. And then there’s my queen Tenten, the one who aspired to be like Tsunade, the greatest medical nin and the strongest kunoichi, but along the way, with her DAD’S (Gai’s) help, she discovered that she just wanted to be a great and strong kunoichi at her own right and at her abilities(!!!). Despite her clear insecurities, hotheadedness, and not getting what she wanted at first, she still strived to be better, and perseveres to keep up with her team mates. And hello? Space time ninjutsu is super cool? Like summon a shit ton of weapons all at once out of mid air and heck?? How was this not exploited and utilized by Kishi?? Give me a solo Tenten sword fight with a powerful enemy?? She’s a weapon’s mistress FFS, how come Sasuke and Orochimaru gets sword fights when SHE, the thing she specialized on, didn’t get to have one?? Fuck what this is BS I swear AND HOLY ROCK LEE I need all of my kids to be legit taijutsu masters and is actually shown to be unparalleled at it compared to other nins and kids since its KING MAITO GAI himself teaching them taijutsu holy ass is that too much to ask for??? Wait, let me gush about Gai, he’s literally my favorite character. He’s the best dad, I want him to be my dad. I really love my father but I want Gai (and Dai) to be my dad, ya know what I mean?? He’s so supportive, loving, and he really just gives his all in caring for you. He’s forgiving and firm and crap I want a mentor like that. He’s such a excellent sensei and are one of the best adults in Naruto. He’s so unconventionally handsome and attractive?? He’s so confident?? He’s so amazing?? He’s so emotionally intelligent?? He defies the unjust expectations set by others and said “fuck you” to it?? And he’s super crazy strong? Like literally feared and famed, I bet enemy and rogue nin just tremble at the mention of his name, a peep about “The Noble Blue Beast of Konoha” would have enemies wetting their pants. He’s one of the elites and is one of the strongest in the Konoha? Heck the world?? He went from this below mediocre adorable runt to this feared and very powerful jonin?? And he did this without ninjutsu, hacks, and any kekei genkai?? Only through pure hardwork and dedication?? He developed the Strong Fist style?? Yeah break dem bones, my king!! I only stan legends. He is literally the light of my and Kakashi’s life. Whether you ship kakagai platonically or romantically, dude you better believe that Gai is one of the most precious people of Kakashi. Kakashi literally trusts no one more implicitly than Gai. Like this hella paranoid and self-sacrificing silver haired dog boi trusted Gai to watch his ex-anbu traumatized ass and be there for him at all times of trouble??? And Gai being there for Kakashi so unfailingly for all of their lives??? For all the dark times in their lives, they'll always have each other no questions?? They're each other's constant?? They love each other so much?? No one knows them like the other??? Uhh hello?? Like why do some writers write Gai as this weird ass buffoon idiot who goddamn annoys Kakashi 24/7? And then Kakashi doesn't even like him and pushes him away, super annoyed?? What. Are we talking about the same characters?? They are each other's best friend. Goddamned soulmates. Eternal rivals. They all have such untapped potential that I am breathing hard in frustration. I still stand by my claim that we should’ve had Team Gai as protagonists like fuck. This is the hill I will die on, I want them, I want to see their bond, I want their stories, I want to witness their development?? Like why nerf these beautiful characters I hate it here WHOOPS, HAHAHAHAA! That was rather ineloquent and vulgar, uuhh forgive me! I hope I could talk to you again, anon! Thank you for enabling me and helping me warm up my brain in answering my summative essays, I feel like writing again! And pls send asks, i wanna make new friends

[amjustagirl]

nikki jie!! fjsjfksj EEP i loved the first chapter of castles in the air im screaming omg reader being so easily bribed by food is a big fat mood HAHAHAAH heLp not kuroo being so irritating and kenma being so done with him HAHA I LOVE THEM aaaaa i feel so big brained seeing all the metaphors tying in to the castles theme sorry im like damn lame bUT YAH IM SUPER EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THIS IS GONNA GO

bUT NOT YOUR BRAIN TELLING YOU TO WRITE SUNA ANGST PLS FKSJFKS “for richer, for poorer (in sickness and in health)” sTOP NOT YOU ALREADY HAVING A TITLE FOR IT if youre gonna hurt us like this pls tell me its gonna have a happy ending 🥺 BUT DO TAKE A BREAK FIRST NIKKI JIE DONT OVERWORK YOURSELF OKAY!!! ~ann :>

Ann as always I'm screaming sobbing rolling around whenever I am gifted with your wonderful rb tags and asks ILYSM bb.

They are all such idiots? The reader is just...snarky and competitive but she can be soft (when food is involved) and kuroo is cocky and kinda manipulative (not too much) but he's also sentimental and sweet and kenma is just...rolling his eyes at the idiocy of his best friend. Ehehe and the metaphors oh the metaphors 😁

Wah the suna angst is gonna be intense if I do end up finishing it, but im already starting to love it. It's got...major storm chaser vibes that's all I'm gonna say.

My brain doesn't want me to take a break, it...has gone rogue. Send help.

[heleizition]

This one is probably rlly random and you dont have to answer, but if you made like, your own Robin oc (like an OC who was/is Robin) what would they be like?

OK LISTEN i dont like making characters inside a universe that already exists but i can make AUs for my ocs who already exist !!!!!!!! so pls meet (part of) my oc’s batfam/dc au i guess!!!!

let’s start with big bat noah !!!! the Mom, batman bc fuck gender norms and batwoman is a mouthful, and also most people didn’t notice she was a woman for months..... like bruce she’s the heiress of a big company that made her a billionaire after her parents died, im not rly clear on her background so like, let’s just roll with the usual turned into a furry to deal with her trauma. she is known to be a Wild Animal, parties a lot, does a lot of extreme adrenaline sports, not really a airhead but mostly never outgrew the rich kid thing . . ... OR DID SHE ?

shes a big lesbian and i actually never designed her partner in her original universe but u can assume that they’re the super of this world maybe,,,, and that they have huge unresolved sexual tension,,, u know,,, the usual

next u got the two big birds..... abel was the first robin, adopted by noah after she rescued him as batman. im not exactly sure what to do with his original background in the dc au but his family was deep in crime stuff, and she threw him out of danger and he just stuck with her. had probably some assassin training going on, not to the level of damian but still there. a flexible boy !!!!! pretty enthusiast and cheerful bc if he stops he’ll just break down and cry bc he hates himself !!!!!!!!!! man the boy has trauma!!!!!!!!!! when noah takes him in he just itches to do stuff, he’s seen a lot, he wants to help her, and at first she doesn’t want to but he keeps sneaking out and figuring our where she’ll be to help... stubborn boy.

cody is a metahuman, was part of experiments and one of the only successful ones, and the last one, since she burnt the laboratory down to ashes when she broke free !!!!! shes a rogue i guess ?? her powers involve white fire and also flight, she’s been killing and hurting mostly people involved with child trafficking as she was a victim of it, and ends up on the bats’s radar a lot bc she’s dangerous. she was 14 (and abel 13) when she broke free, and she’s been in and out arkham at some point too, and the older they grew the more these two flirted, and they’ve sat and talked abt each other a lot and they’re ennemies to lovers but also the lovers part is on and off bc they’re scared of commitment and what it’d mean between abel being a bat and cody being. an ennemy, most of the time. noah actually doesnt mind as long as she doesnt hurt her son (her kids in general) and she has seen cody fighting to protect the people of this family before so. she approves. abel is just a coward. i love them so fucking much man

THEN u got nell !!!!!!!!!! he’s the main of my oc’s story and he ANGY and EMO and listens to skillet while crying in the dark. he rly rly fits the red hood/jason’s story in general tbh... it makes me emo... anyway he’s lived in the shit part of town for all of his childhood, he was abused by his dad after his mom died, and he had to protect his lil sis and eventually he killed his dad, except his lil sister, belly, came home just to see it and he panicked and left. he’s been living on the streets since then and has gone through rly shitty stuff to survive and he’s seen belly living with who used to be their neighbor whos a really kind woman so he jst, doesnt worry, drops some money on her window sometimes but never interracts w her bc he’s scared and an idiot,,, anyway noah finds him in a stupid way similar to jason’s and he’s angy and dont trust anything or anyone or the soft bed waiting for him at the manor and no one asking for anything in return and slowly opens up,, abel is rly good with him and noah is patient and kind and doesnt want him to be robin at first, she just wants him to be her son, but he wants to be useful and he thrives on fighting and the justice, he needs it, needs justice, and noah lets him join her, and they’re so good, so so good, but then he dies. he dies and they’re devasted and thats when noah says it, no more kids out there, not on her watch, and he dies and its so sad

(but he doesn’t stay dead, and it adds to his many many issues, and he comes back, and he’s even more angry than he was before, and he knows noah has adopted another kid, and he hasn’t even looked to see if robin was out there, he’s just angry and feels replaced and he’s not even sure where this anger came from because it feels misplaced and foreign but he just gives in, and when he’s finally face to face with noah he fights and she shields herself and ends up pinning him on the floor and hugging him and crying bc she’s so happy he’s alive, and they just cry and nell realises his anger is so confusing and not his)

he does become an equivalent to the red hood, wants to toe this grey line of giving justice to those who always escape it, a definitive one, and noah accept it with time, bc he’s her son and she just wants him to be okay, and if it’s his way then she’ll accept it, bc she knows she cant save gotham alone with her own way.

SAY HI TO BATGIRL probably the only batgirl bc none of my other characters would Fit the title >:0 !!!!!!! her parents are politicians in gotham, not exactly the best  kind of people but they’re good loving parents,,, she grew up going to galas and having to interract with the pompous people, knew noah before she knew she was batman. shes sweet and has a big sense of justice but hates the way politics affected her parents and growing up she noticed all the stuff they let slide and did just for the sake of winning and decided to just, do her things. her parents got her self defense lessons starting young and she had some notions of fighting so she just, threw herself out there, got her ass handed to her but kept going and noah got tired of seeing this little girl doing That and being Not Safe so she just (adopts emotionally). she and abel started out together and they’re tight and he helped her a lot to train and she broke through his emotional walls bc she Knows how to read people,,, they’re pretty tactile n loving together :((( she’s also a Lesbian and gets a metahuman gf later ... shes nell’s big sis and gets a bit frustrated when he’s Worse than abel with letting people in . but eventually they get rly close before he dies lmaoooo

sO there are a lot more characters i wanna get in it like, nell’s little sister finding him again and eventually becoming part of the batfam, and also the third kid noah adopts is called eden and he’s super smart and picks up on medical studies and tinker with engineering and has no desire to go out there and fight but he’s great support and he’s also angsty and comes from a rich family from gotham - yes again lmao - and also jasper who’s a meta who doesn’t know how to control his powers and whos the goodest boy,,, he does end up becoming a vigilante !!! and also titania who’s lena’s gf soon to be wife...... and eden’s siblings .... AND VIK who would . basically be roy . and nell’s bf . anyway . so much to talk about but ill just stop here fJOSEFOSEFJO

[acotartogfan]

34 nessian pls i love ur writing sm

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#34~ "Okay, okay! Fine. You win. Just give me back my diary." - "Well, that wasn't part of the deal, now was it?"

Cassian’s POV

Cassian quietly sat on the floor of Nesta’s room, lazily thumbing through her (private) diary. He had to admit; it was dry. He was expecting something a little juicer, perhaps, an entry about him. Much to his disappointment, there was nothing in the diary that particularly piqued his interest. Cassian sighed dramatically, disappointed.  He had hoped to dig up at least some dirt on the stone-faced sister of Feyre’s. 

Carelessly tossing the book across the room, it landed on the ground with a loud thud and flipped open to a random page. Glancing halfheartedly at it, he exhaled through his nose when something caught his eye. Hastily scrambling on his hands and knees to the diary, he picked it up gingerly, as if the book itself were worth thousands of gold marks. 

At the very back of the diary, a page beheld a beautiful drawing of Illyrian wings. Even Cassian himself was impressed. He lifted an eyebrow in amusement, surveying the drawing. The picture depicted the back view of an Illyrian warrior. Two magnificent wings were displayed the sheer size enough to make even Cassian hum appreciatively, although he was sure his wingspan was (slightly) bigger than this male’s, however impressive. Each wing was balanced on either side of the male in the picture’s back, every vein and talon beautifully sketched. The wings were stretched out to reveal their full glory, talons and all. The drawing ended just above the waistline, the rest of it fading off the page. Powerful arms peeked out from behind the wings on either side of the male’s torso, each hand fisting an intricate Illyrian blade. Beautiful, swirling tattoos ran down the male’s muscular arms, each slight dip and curve beautifully illustrated. Nesta really has an eye for detail, he thought. Gauntlets covered the male’s wrists while strappy leather bands holding an assortment of daggers were wrapped securely around the male’s biceps, presumably for training. Cassian raked his gaze to the top of the drawing, where the back of the (mysterious) male’s head was depicted, a mass of long, curly hair swept haphazardly in a bun. Stray tendrils had escaped, some curling at the base of the male’s neck. Cassian gently traced the picture with his fingertips. The male depicted in the picture oddly looked like him, but he quickly shook the idea off. It sounded absurd. A drawing of him? In Nesta Archeron’s diary? He scoffed, rolling his eyes. It was preposterous. Or was it? No. No! No. There was no way in hell he would even be mentioned in her diary. Not that he was anyways. The thought itself was ludicrous. Absolutely absurd. Suddenly intrigued, he flipped through the rest of the diary hurriedly, hoping to find another drawing. The door creaked loudly, and Cassian jumped, startled. Eyes wide, he was the epitome of guilt. Nesta’s diary was spread open in his hands, and he knew he looked like a deer in headlights. It was bad.

“Just what do you think you’re doing?” Nesta stood in the doorway, horrified, and attempted to swipe at her diary in Cassian’s hands.

Cassian, using his height to his advantage, flung it out of the way, dangling the book over her head. 

Nesta huffed impatiently and put her hands on her hips. Cassian smirked at her annoyance. “Not so fast, sweetheart,” he mocked.

Nesta only raised her eyebrows at him. She grabbed at it again, rising to her tip-toes, but Cassian only swung it out of her reach and Nesta nearly toppled over. Cassian chuckled, a shit-eating grin spreading across his face. Nesta scowled at him. 

“Give it back, Cassian!” he held it right above her head while she swatted at it again, dignity long gone. She crossed her arms, narrowing her eyes. Huffing away a few rogue strands that had flown in front of her face, she tapped her foot impatiently. Pursing her lips, she closed her eyes for a second, then opened them again, eyes flashing with annoyance. 

“Let’s make a deal,” Nesta said, raising a groomed brow elegantly. Cassian was certainly not expecting that.

Cassian was curious. He raised an eyebrow in return. “A deal?”

“Yes, a deal,” she huffed.

“What kind of deal?”

Nesta hummed thoughtfully. “Let’s see who can read the most books in 24 hours.”

“I don’t read.”

“How about a flying contest?” 

“I don’t have wings, you idiot,” she smacked his chest, hard.

“Ouch,” he whined, feigning hurt. Nesta only rolled her eyes.

Cassian suddenly smirked, a wicked idea springing into his head.

“How about a sparring contest? First one to yield gets to keep the diary,” the Illyrian wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.

“Stop that!” she mumbled at his eyebrows. “Fine, we’ll have a sparring contest.” 

“If I win, I get to keep it and you have to tell me who this drawing is of,” Cassian flipped through the diary and pointed to the drawing. Nesta’s cheeks blushed a rosy pink, feathers clearly ruffled. That was a first. Cassian had never seen her flustered before (not even in the slightest).

“Fine. Deal.”

Cassian reached his hand out to shake, and she took it, staring at him fiercely. Then, without warning, she lunged for the diary, catching Cassian off-guard. Luckily for him, the centuries of training he had endured were now essentially coded in his DNA. His instincts kicked in immediately, and he yanked the diary out of her reach just as her fingertips grazed the cover. 

Just to tease Nesta, Cassian waved the diary high in front of her and laughed not unkindly. Nesta made a half-assed attempt to grab it but failed. "Okay, okay! Fine. You win. Just give me back my diary." 

Cassian crossed his powerful arms, holding the diary in one hand. "Well, that wasn't part of the deal, now was it?" he asked smugly and smirked for the umpteenth time.

Nesta only scowled at him. Rising to her full height, she raised her chin and looked him squarely in the eye, her icy blue-gray eyes boring holes into his hazel ones. Something deep in Cassian’s gut twitched, but he ignored it. It happened so often when he was around her it had become routine. He never thought much of it.

“I’ll see you at 4.”

She whirled around and stalked off, head held high. The long skirts she insisted on wearing swishing loudly behind her. Cassian’s lips twitched upwards, bemused. “4 o’clock it is.” 

 I actually had a lot of fun writing this and I’m pretty happy (and surprised) with how it came out!

Word count: 1091

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part two :)

[elvencantation]

mpub ep12 liveblog

-WAIT WHERE IS KANG BAE??

-sad they’re not showing the last scene again like they usually do. but i guess they gotta fit a lot into this last episode. imma go rewatch it again real quick then come back 😂

-alright i’m back. i rly hope this is like kang bae inside his own head while the tree fucks shit up or something. cause i rly wanna see him fuck shit up!!!

-oh no honey please don’t cry!!! i cant stand it when you cry 😭

-YES ITS INTERDIMENSIONAL DAD POV I NEED HIM TO WALK IN ON BB BOY SAVING HIS MOM

-OMG BACK TO MY BADASS BOY OMGOGMOMGOMG

-made a video of my reaction to this next bit. gonna go rewatch real quick while it posts

-SECOND TIME WEOL JU GETS TO DOTE OVER HIM AS HE’S SICK IN BED. I SHOULDNT ENJOY THIS AS MUCH AS I DO

-OMG SHES REALIZED WHO HE IS HASNT SHE AAAAAAA

-OK NOW TELL DAD ALREADY PLS

-what in the world is going on is a good question

-*flashes back to lwj not telling wwx who sizhui is until the last episode*

-homeboy not only just found out he was actually a dad, then also found out the kid that they’d both been doting on and looking after is his actual kid (tho honestly, the found family trope wouldve worked just as well here)

-FUCK ME UPPP

-NO DONT CRY INTERDIMENSIONAL DAD ITS ALMOST WORSE THAN WHEN KANG BAE CRIES

-OH SHIT HE HAVING TREE FLASHBACKS OMGOMGOMG

-OH NO THEYRE TALKING TO HIM EVEN THO HES NOT TOUCHING THEM

-GO DIE IN A HOLE DICKWAD NOBODY WANTS U AROUND. STOP LURKING IN THAT ABANDONED BUILDING

-well i guess i do feel bad for his dad a little. and settling that grudge would really tie this whole thing up in a pretty bow. i mean, obviously its not gonna be that easy

-wait is kang bae asleep or did he somehow go find the tree? or wait is the tree even there anymore im not 100% sure what happened to the physical tree after what weol ju did

-oh ok hes asleep ofc that makes more sense

-NOPE THIS CANT BE GOODBYE IT CANNOT HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS TO THEM OR ANYTHING HE SAID HE WANTED TO MEET HIS MOM JUST ONCE

-wait is this what his life would’ve been like if they’d been reborn and been his proper parents???

-his room is so cute

-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

-made another little video here

-FUCK!!!!!

-srsly dude ur still lurking dramatically in that abandoned warehouse?

-I KNEW AS SOON AS HE WENT FOR THE FRIDGE THAT SHE��D HAVE LEFT HIM FOOD IN THERE I CANNOT

-oooooo pretty knife!! can she stab him (non lethally) with the pretty knife please? also i know interdimensional dad is walking into a trap or whatever but i need him to be ok. esp since that trap doesnt directly involve wonhyung but only his weird minion

-he says he wants her to feel like she’s lost everything. dude what do u think happened to her in her last life? you literally ruined her whole life but i guess that wasn’t enough because u actually had to face the consequences of ur actions

-yeah yeah we knew that wasn’t actually weol ju. but then wheres the real weol ju... is yeorin gonna find her???

-get the dad to get the kid? i’m confused why didn’t he just shift into weol ju without that? or did she have to be unconscious for that? or wait he probably thought distracting dad would give him enough time eh whatever let’s watch

-TIME FOR THE BADASS GLAIVE FUCK THEM UP DAD

-video time again!

-WAIT KANG BAE WAS HAVING A PROPHETIC DREAM IN THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE WASNT HE

- FUCK ME UPPPPPPP

-oh my GOD I LOVE HOW YOU CAN SEE HOT AIR COMING OFF THE BLADE OF THE GLAIVE?!?!

-ahhhh the glaive looks so awesome all glowing!!!

-EVEN MORE BADASS FIGHT YES OMG

-oh we using the force now!

-HE LITERALLY GRABBED THE PIPE THAT WAS FLYING TOWARDS HIM LIKE CATCHING AN ARROW MID FLIGHT AND THREW IT BACK I CANNOT

-yeah u deserve to get stabbed idiot

-AND VIDEO TIME AGAIN BECAUSE I DONT LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING

-WHAT ELSE DO U CALL SACRIFICING URSELF FOR SOMEONE? YOU LITERALLY PROTECTED HER FROM BEING IMPALED

-also if i was watching this at night, instead of 2pm with the sunlight streaming in through the window, i would be bawling like a baby

-WHY U JUST GOTTA KEEP MAKING MOM AND DAD CRY

-AND THEN HE DISAPPEARS LIKE BEN WHY U TRYING TO HURT ME LIKE THIS

-ok so mom is so badass with her snap of freezing time or whatever. ahhh i love it

-DONT LIKE THIS HE MOVED A FINGER!!!

-I DONT LIKE THIS WEI WUXIAN MOMENT JUST USE HIS HELP TO GET BACK UP GODDAMNIT OTHERWISE WHO WILL SETTLE THE SCORE AND HELP HIM CLOSE HIS SPIRITUAL VISION

-wait is she settling her own grudge? I DONT LIKE THIS

-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

-i fuckIN KNEW IT I KNEW SHE WASNT GONE

-OMG SHES STILL FUCKING PEOPLE UP YES THIS IS AMAZING

-awww samsin and death talking about weol ju i cant

-OH MY GOD WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO ME AGAIN THATS MEAN TO MAKE ME THINK THAT KANG BAE STILL HAD THE SPIRITUAL VISION PROBLEM WHEN ALL HE HAD WAS SOMETHING ON HIS EYE. no srsly they already did that once with weol ju i feel like this is overdoing it

-weol ju looks horrible oh honey im sorry. well, she did just lose the love of her life and thinks she failed her son as well

-I FUCKING KNEW IT DAD IS BACK TOO WHO ELSE WOULDVE RESCUED HER FROM THE DARKNESS YET AGAIN

-thank the gods. nobody has been as cruel to me as guardian. except perhaps rogue one

-AAAAAAAAAAAA I CANT WAIT TO SEE KANG BAE’S FACE

-AAAAAAAAA?!?!?!!?!?!

[secret-engima]

Spoiler Snippet of Worlds Unseen (Calling You and Me) Chap 10

(I have literally no self control. Then again I’ve been sitting on this for literal months so maybe I have a little but it’s gone now so here we go. MAJOR SPOILERS for Worlds Unseen verse so pls, if you read, come screech at me, if you don’t want spoilers, then don’t click the read more. Assuming the read more works this time. Also this is ... LONG. Long snippet. Very spoilery snippet. You have been warned.)

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     Luna walked slowly toward Drautos, the Ring of the Lucii pinched between two fingers while her other hand hovered near it. Nyx was hissing at her to run, to not be an idiot, but Bast could already see her plan in her grave, sorrowful eyes. She was going to put herself between them and the biggest threat —Drautos— and then she was going to put on the Ring.

     She was going to die for them.

     No.

     Not again. He’d already lost a mother, he’d already lost a father. He wasn’t losing Luna too.

     Bast waited until she was passing by, less than three steps away from him and less than ten from Drautos’s outstretched hand. Then he lunged, snatching her wrist with one hand and ripping the Ring from her fingers with the other. He could hear the guns coming to bear and the crack of bullets leaving chambers, could see Drautos’s sword coming up and over to cleave Bast in two. He didn’t care.

     He put on the Ring and the world turned blue.

     Everything slowed to less than a crawl. He spun in place, drinking in the surreal experience of seeing bullets inch through the air, slower than worms in a spring frost. He could see Drautos’s sword coming for his head, so slow he could have probably run a lap around the entire city before it came close to the ground. He could see Luna’s face twisting into terrified, heartbroken realization, so slow her expression was still mostly shock. Nyx was reaching for him, hand only a few inches from his side and splinted leg pushing him forward mere centimeters. Libertus was pulling Crowe toward the ground, one crutch hovering in the air as gravity took its sweet time dragging it earthward.

     Bast took a deep breath and looked back at Luna. Even though she probably couldn’t hear —maybe especially because she couldn’t hear— he whispered, “I love you, Luna, and I’m so sorry.”

     Then he straightened, a ward-prince before an audience and a glaive at attention, “Kings and Queens of Lucis, grant me audience.”

     The world around him vanished save the pavement directly beneath his feet. Luna, Nyx, Libertus, Crowe, everyone else disappeared from his sight. The air rippled with power-time-judgement, so strong he felt like he would drown in it. Then, like towering, burning silhouettes of ancient memory and timeless magic, they appeared. He could only see thirteen of them, arrayed around him like enormous pillars of judgement-power-who-dares. But he could feel the rest lurking in the darkness. A hundred generations of Ring-bearing rulers, all of them watching. Waiting.

     Judging.

     “You call upon the Wardens of this world’s future Mortal,” rumbled the first of them —Mystic, Founder King, oldest of the Ring—, “and if you come lusting for our power, you must first stand in our judgement.”

     Bast wanted to fold beneath the weight of magic pressing in on all sides, he wanted to scream and cry, crumble to dust if it meant escaping the painful, searing weight of power that was waiting for the slightest excuse to burn him alive. But he didn’t. He forced his knees to lock and his back to stay straight, made his voice remain steady as he looked up into their helmeted faces and made his plea, “It is true that I come for your magic, but not for my sake. Hear me, Kings and Queens of the Lucii! The Oracle stands in mortal peril and the Ring is inches from the enemy’s grasp! The Chosen King wanders the world unknowing of the danger and at risk of losing she who is to guide him and forge the Covenants in his name!” The magic curled closer, squeezed his lungs and Bast shuddered, fought for air and kept going, “Please. Please, I ask not for my sake. I ask for Luna, for Noctis, for Regis, for the world. Summon your Old Wall! Grant me the strength to see Luna to safety beyond Insomnia’s borders before it is too late!”

     The weight doubled, then tripled, and Bast collapsed to his hands and knees with a helpless wheeze under the weight of ancient contempt, “You presume to judge what time is ripe for our power? To presume our favor? Yours is not even royal blood. Your soul is not even of our star.” Not of … what?

     Magic like forests and old stones emerged from the ocean around him, cutting off his spinning thoughts as it curled around him like gentle hands on his shoulders. Bast’s head snapped around to face one helmet in particular as another king spoke, “Wait,” said Regis-not-Regis-but-his-memory-and-that-was-close-enough, “I know this soul. I watched him as he grew and taught him as he matured. I have seen what he is capable of. He too, seeks to safeguard the future. He too has sworn an oath to see the Chosen’s destiny through.”

     “Father,” wheezed Bast past the spinning pressure in his head.

     Regis —not Regis, memories of his magic preserved and given form as a warrior king, as the Father— did not respond, said nothing to Bast as the Mystic rumbled, “Very well, young king. We will weigh your ward-son’s worth.” The Mystic’s attention fell on Bast again, “But our boon does not come cheap. The cost … is a life.” The blackness around them curled away, revealing Nyx reaching for him, three bullets aimed for his heart and getting slowly but steadily closer. Behind him were Libertus and Crowe, Crowe almost to the relative safety of the ground, Libertus above her like a living shield against the hail of bullets coming for them, the hail that might miss, or might instead tear Libertus apart. The choice being offered was clear. Nyx or Libertus? Who would Bast sacrifice for the greater good? Who would he sentence to death in exchange for power?

     “Choose, Mortal,” intoned one of the other kings —the Fierce? It looked like the Fierce’s statue— “who’s life will you sacrifice for our power?”

     Perhaps if Bast had truly been royal blood, he could have chosen between them. Perhaps if he had been a real prince, he would have been able to swallow his guilt and make the sacrifice —like Regis had done to him, like Regis had done to all of Insomnia—. But Bast was not, and anger dragged air into his lungs and forced his back straight even though he was still on his knees, “No. No.”

     “You desire our power but refuse to pay our price?” Growled the Conqueror scathingly.

     Fury gave him strength to bare his teeth, “I will not bargain with that which I do not possess! You ask me what price I will pay for your power and then you command me to sell the life of a comrade? How is that just?”

     The magic around him rippled with disapproval, “A good king,” thundered the Mystic, “knows that sacrifice is necessary for the greater good.”

     “Oh, go throw yourself on Ifrit’s pyre!” Bast worked one leg underneath him in the startled silence that fell at his words, “I will not force others to bear my price when I am the one that seeks your boon!” He worked his other leg into place, shook like a leaf under the strain as he forced himself to stand. Wheezing and shivering, he tilted his chin in defiance, flicked his hand to banish the images of Nyx and Libertus and Crowe, “I … swore an oath … to protect Noctis, no matter what. But that … does not entail sacrificing others so that I might survive. That does not mean I will sacrifice Luna, or Nyx, or anyone else who has no part of my oath and whose lives are not mine to give.”

     Bast flexed his hands into fists to keep from falling as the magic around him grew even heavier somehow, “You’re right,” he choked out in a whisper, “I’m not royal blood, and I would not make a good king. A good king knows the value of sacrifice, of choosing who dies so that victory might be won. But,” Bast forced his voice to steady, pushed it out of his chest until it was strong again, “a true king protects his people above all. Even at the cost of himself. Like Regis, who held the Wall for years even as the strain killed him. Who held back the enemy long enough for Luna and Nyx to make their initial escape. Maybe he was a good king because he sacrificed Insomnia, sacrificed me, to save the Chosen King. But he … was a true king every time he sacrificed himself for the people he ruled.”

     Bast forced his head higher, made himself look into the glowing slits of the Mystic’s helmet, “I am Bast, ward-son of Queen-Oracle Sylva Nox Fleuret and King Regis Lucis Caelum. I am not of royal blood. I have no armies to command, nor magic to call my own. I have no kingdom or soldiers or wisdom or power to give you. But if a life is what you require for your aid, then I offer mine. Do with it as you please, just ensure the safety of my companions … of Luna. They are of dutiful heart, I know they will see your Ring to safety.”

     The silence lasted an eternity, and Bast closed his eyes as he waited for his fate. Then, from amid the circle of the Lucii nearest him, someone barked a laugh, “Well,” rumbled the Rogue —it had to be the Rogue, the voice was female—, “it would seem the Fulgarian chose wisely after all.” The … Fulgarian? Ramuh? What does she mean?

     “Agreed,” said another female voice, much lower in pitch, but also softer, “there is a spark in this one that even some of royal blood have struggled to match.” Magic curled around Bast, nudging aside the smothering weight, pushing it away like a shield and letting him breathe properly at last, “The Just supports his claim.”

     The shadows rippled, almost like a feminine laughter, and magic settled like cold steel in one hand, “Too long has it been since a mortal willing to give of himself before others has come to us for aid. The Rogue supports his claim.”

     The magic of the Father, still draped on his shoulders like hands, shifted, like fingers giving a comforting squeeze, “He is my ward-son, and I have seen the lengths to which he will go to fulfill an oath. The Father supports his claim.”

     From the left, a shivering ring of steel and a soft male voice that sounded more like a bard’s than a king’s, “He shows intelligence beyond his years, to know the differences between kings. The Clever supports his claim.”

     “The Fulgarian has never been mistaken in such matters before,” declared another from the right, “The Pious supports his claim.”

     One by one, in bits and pieces and the shifting of magic so that it buoyed him up rather than tried to crush him down, the Lucii granted favor. The Warrior, the Fierce, the Wanderer, the Oracle. Kings and queens in the shadows behind them that Bast could not see and gave titles he had never heard in history —the Vigilant, the Scholar,  the Silent, the Bard, the Seer, so many titles lost to time well before he was born—. Finally, silence fell, and Bast’s eyes drifted to the Mystic, the only one who had not yet cast his vote.

     The Mystic seemed to stare into him and not just at him, old magic like storm clouds and oceans seething with some kind of anger and sadness and old memory before it settled, “You are far too much like my brother,” and though that was clearly a complaint, the ancient king almost sounded fond —brother? What brother? The history books said nothing of the Mystic having a brother—, “but you have earned the favor of the others. Very well ward-son of the Father. The Mystic will support your claim.”

     Bast gasped, then screamed as the magic all around turned and burrowed into his body, carving out new channels inside him for it to flow-burn-rage-heal. It coated every nerve and filled every available gap, then carved out more room when that did not prove enough. Over the agony of what felt like being burned alive from the inside, Bast heard the Lucii chorus, “Rise, Bast, ward-son of the Oracle-Queen and the Father. We name you Oathkeeper, guardian of the Chosen King and his Oracle. Our power is yours to wield and gift as you please until the time when the Chosen’s destiny is fulfilled. Your life is forfeit to this cause, and for this cause will you remain until such a time as dawn purifies the world.”

     The other Lucii fell silent as the power in Bast’s skin-blood-bones-soul began to settle, and the Mystic slammed his sword against the ground like an earthquake, “But know this, Oathkeeper. You are not welcome on this star, and when your oath has been fulfilled, your soul will no longer be allowed to linger here. You and any who share your blood will be cast out from the sight of our star to return whence you came.”

     Cast … cast out? Not welcome on this star? Did they mean … his soul would be destroyed once Noctis fulfilled his destiny? Or did they mean something else? He didn’t understand. Anymore than he had understood the Mystic’s earlier comment about Bast’s soul not being “of their star”. It was a terrifying prospect. That he would only live until Noctis fulfilled his destiny and then be … something. Cast out or destroyed or thrown away into some void as the price for power.

     But having this power meant Luna would live. It meant that he would be able to save Nyx and Libertus and Crowe, he would be able to help Noctis and keep him safe —keep his promise—. It meant he would have the power to help what was left of the only people he knew as family.

     “You drive a hard bargain,” Bast muttered sarcastically as he wrapped mental fingers tight around the heartbeat of power coiled inside him. He raised his head and grinned, bright and bold and wild like he had been taught —like Nyx did when he was fully intent of showing up some idiot that managed to make him angry, like Gladio when he was going to show up a rookie with too big an ego—, “where do I sign?”

[vaguely-concerned]

I am reading the Rogue One visual guide and I’m going to ramble at you about it

Starting with Baze and Chirrut facts because nothing is more important than Baze and Chirrut

- The Guardians of the Whills believe very deeply in the Force but their cosmology doesn’t center any fight between light and dark and they believe mortal minds can ‘encompass the totality of the Force’ with the right training (seemingly even for non-Force sensitives). *thinks of a little green baby who’s going to need some help with his place in the universe one day and how reductive the light/dark side dichotomy can be* good to know good to know. yes everything eventually comes down to baby yoda and his poor stressed out dad. protect them

- “Opposites in balance. Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus share a homeworld and a history, although they strike a compelling contrast. Baze is a hardened pragmatist, while Chirrut’s faith flourishes even in trying times. They both claim to act as the protector of the other.” 

in every way they are #goals. bffs/partners to lovers is Everything. ‘They both claim to act as the protector of the other’ is very funny and very sweet and very true; my favourite thing

- this book describes chirrut as baze’s ‘best friend and moral compass’, which is a funny way of spelling ‘husband of 30 years’ but who am I to criticize 

- baze is just. he’s so good. they say here pragmatism is his biggest trait but you can tell how much love has been at the center of him (and probably continues to be under it all) from the totality of his rage. I don’t think you can be this deeply hurt without loving just as deeply first. (like chirrut says, he used to believe more than anyone and now he’s thrown aside literally everything about the guardians except chirrut) it’s like he’s suffered a moral wound just seeing what’s happened to his home and it won’t heal and it never does, he just loses chirrut too and then at least it’s over. jesus christ it’s so soul crushingly sad in a quiet undramatic way 

- “Though both are Guardians of the Whills, Baze and Chirrut could not be more different in their approach to combat. Traditionalist Chirrut still carries weapons associated with the ancient order, while Baze adopts an implement of modern warfare. Their methods suit them individually, and both are effective extensions of their distinctive personalities. Though Baze may chide Chirrut for his antiques, and Chirrut may decry Baze’s reliance on soulless tools, they trust each other’s defences to such weapons.”

THEY TRUST EACH OTHER’S DEFENCES TO SUCH WEAPONS. YOU HAD TO WORD IT LIKE THAT HUH. YOU HAD TO GO AND MAKE IT CLEAR THEY’RE EACH OTHER’S MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD. WHAT. THE FUCK

- it’s implied baze’s hair used to be shorter when he was a Guardian! he’s just let it grow past what’s customary for them (and an excellent choice too his hair is wonderful)

- his repeating blaster is described as ‘modified and highly illegal’ hahaha

it also weighs 30 kg and is meant to be mounted on a tank

baze is the best

- chirrut built his own lightbow! apparently used to be a thing the guardians did to symbolize the end of their training. I wonder if baze used to have one too? even more I wonder if they’ve always been part of the same uh ‘divisions’ or what have you within the guardians, because I think there are some implications that baze has been more of an assassin/focused on violent conflicts even before the empire came and chirrut hasn’t

- this book does not adequately capture chirrut’s trickster/funny side, making me wonder how much of that was an addition by the actor and how much was planned out

- honestly... more baze & chirrut (well baze/chirrut let’s not play here) prequel books WHEN. what does their living room look like (because we do know they live together) how did they meet, when exactly did baze lose his faith and chirrut his sight, what was their first kiss like 

inquiring minds want to know (it’s me I want to know) 

- unless the wording is deliberately misleading here chirrut was not born blind (though he won’t discuss how he ended up this way) and he’s learned his current fighting technique over a prolonged period of time 

- bodhi is a bit of a gambling addict! and specifically one who’s pretty good at it; even after the empire knows he’s a defector he gets past their restrictions because he’s saved up all the credits/favours/even id-vouchers he’s owed by other imperial grunts fsdhfksdjf precious I love him 

- saw gerrera’s medical droid a) has been modified so its programming won’t stop it from being able to dispense drugs at dangerous intervals, b) professes sheer bafflement that saw is still alive and c) is ‘frequently deactivated to prevent it from building an ethical case to discontinue treatment’. I find the whole thing darkly hilarious.  

- there are literally whole subplots going on in the crowd scenes on Jedha about a mad evil surgeon who ‘decraniates’ people (essentially turning them into mindless servile husks with all of their head above the nose cut off, somehow), a masked cop from the Milvayne Authority who’s gone rogue to do the right thing and hunt him down against orders, a death cult, a bunch of different religious sects, a translation droid who has befriended a group of local orphans and shares his credits with them so they can eat and he’s SAVING UP FOR A PROCESSOR UPGRADE SO HE CAN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF SPIRITUALITY ;_____; what the fuck I want a tv-series about this droid IMMEDIATELY 

- this book shows you just how crucial K-2 is as an asset and what a masterstroke cassian’s reprogramming of him is... and it says some very, very sweet things about cassian as a person under all the trauma and spy stuff that he essentially treats him as his best friend instead of a tool. cASSIAN he deserved to survive and have SO much therapy ;_____; ah well at least we’re getting a prequel series about him right? pls be good

- oh cassian was a proper separatist during the clone wars! he probably has some very interesting points of view about the republic pre- and post empire huh (this is what I love about the clone wars era; they have built SUCH a believable and interesting political world here, all shades of grey. there were separatists with very valid points even thought they were lead by a guy named COUNT DOOKU played by CHRISTOPHER LEE, the first sign that you should look inwards and ask yourself... wait are we the bad guys)

- it’s so much more understandable to me now who in the rebel leadership is for following jyn’s plan and who is not. (namely: the ministers of finance and industry are both Not Into challenging the empire directly, kind of understandably)

in depth description of weapons technology... I sleep. deep dives into the political structure of the alliance leadership and their backgrounds and motivations? I have never been happier

(this. sort of should have been in the actual movie tho things would have made more sense)

- BAIL ORGANA Leia’s actual dad out there lookin’ fiiine, being righteous and good, almost making me forget he’s going to die SO SOON oh fuck :( 

- orson krennic is, presumably straight faced, described as ‘a cruel but brilliant man’ which is PATENTLY LUDICROUS because krennic is by literally every indication a fucking idiot, he needs galen to do all the real work for him, he mouths off to DARTH VADER and then tarkin just effortlessly swoops in and fucks him over in the end, easily outmaneuvering him... orson krennic is a fucking loser I don’t care if he’s the one who introduced brutalist architecture to coruscant

lol lol lol *arrow pointing towards krennic’s head* ‘Keen mind dissects architectural puzzles and conspiratorial plots’ okay I see what happened here orson krennic wrote this book 

- oh galen erso is kind of one of the most interesting and heartbreaking characters in all of star wars. (and I do not say this just because of mads mikkelsen’s cheek bones) he’s incredibly intelligent but from a really poor family and wanted to eliminate the difference between rich and poor and invent a new form of infinitely renewable energy... and technically he did achieve that, except his old college buddy orson krennic immediately found a way to use his technology for genocide and he didn’t realize until it was too late :’) there is something so comforting in the fact that in the end galen still got the last laugh in the most epic but unsung way. he’s the sort of quiet Magnificent Bastard who doesn’t even care he’ll never get the credit as long as it worked. u did good on that one jyn

also several of the scientists galen is leading on eadu are in the same category as him -- captured and forced to work for the empire. so that’s great and not at all upsetting 

- galen and lyra’s falling in love story is kind of sweet (though naturally it pales against baze and chirrut’s whole deal but then who could compare) and the sheer effort and detail that’s gone into building the farmstead in the beginning we end up seeing for 5 minutes... dude (it feels very convincingly like somewhere a family would live though) 

- *sees that ‘databook’ is a concept that exists apparently; groans in fic research I thought ‘holodisc’ might do the job but maybe this is a better fit*

- I will say that my largest gripe with this movie is how glaringly unnecessarily male it is. there’s literally no reason for most of the rebels and ESPECIALLY all of the scientists to be male but here we are. 

well the stormtroopers could all canonically be any gender behind the armor so uh that’s. something lol

- despite being all desert-y jedha is apparently quite cool! temperature-wise I mean though the huge ancient statues lying everywhere are pretty awesome too

- wow stormtrooper armor really does just suck huh. it’s like ‘well it might protect you from a blaster bolt if you stand upwind and angle yourself just right, who knows’. I guess this is why everyone and their grandmothers are drooling over mando’s beskar lol

- star wars’ insistence on sticking to single-biome planets is so silly and I love it. stick to that incomprehensible world building decision lucasfilm I respect you

- mon mothma! basically the most important character in the star wars universe who most people won’t know about lol she’s like the anti-palps. for the most part she is one of the most Big Goods in all of star wars (along with bail) but also she’s played by the actress who voices moira in overwatch so I do instinctively distrust her whenever I hear her talk haha. called palpatine a ‘lying executioner’ to his face which is both admirably bold and remarkably restrained, considering all the things palpatine is.

- oof the two people mentioned the most on anakin/vader’s pages are palpatine and obi wan. that’s. hurtful and bad and awful. the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making me watch ‘clone wars’ because watching ‘clone wars’ actually made me care about anakin skywalker :(

-ah shit this is a lot of pages about pasty empire dudes i’ll uh come back to these lol

[tobythewise]

108 and 110, jimon again pls, it's like crack to me 👀

Hope you enjoy my wonderful soulbatai

“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” Jace groans as he takes off running, chasing after the rogue warlock. He throws an orb of orange magic over his shoulder which Jace dodges with ease. 

“Shit,” Simon yelps as he jumps just in time, leaping over the orb. 

“Incoming,” Jace says over his shoulder, making sure Simon sees his grin. 

“Yeah. Thanks for that, asshole.”

Jace keeps running, his adrenaline pumping through his veins. He loves this, loves the chase, loves the hunt. “Keep up, Simon!”

“I’m a vampire, you idiot! I’m running slow for you.”

“Prove it by stopping the warlock then!”

Simon rolls his eyes before using his superspeed to catch the warlock. He tackles him to the ground, pinning him in place by straddling him. Before he can get his hands around the warlock’s wrists, the warlock is flicking his hand towards Jace, a ball of orange hitting him right in the chest. 

Jace staggers back, his ass hitting the pavement as he lets out a grunt. Simon is quick to cuff the warlock using the special cuffs Magnus gave them. Jace lays on the ground, looking up at the night’s sky before closing his eyes. His body has a weird tingle to it for a moment before it slowly fades and he feels more like himself again. 

“What the fuck was that?” Simon hisses down at the warlock who’s now defenseless, the cuffs keeping their magic locked away. 

“Nothing that will hurt him,” the warlock says with a smirk. 

Jace shrugs it off, pretending he’s not worried about what the hell he could have hit him with. He takes one elbow as Simon grabs the other, shoving the warlock forward towards the Institute. 

Once they’ve delivered the warlock to the Institute, Jace finds Magnus, needing someone he trusts to look him over. 

“What do you mean he hit you with his magic?” Alec asks, looking over Jace with worried eyes. 

“I mean, he threw magic my way and I was too slow to avoid it. Even though I look all tough right now and playing it off, I’m actually really scared of what he might have hit me with,” he blurts out, his eyes widening in shock. 

“You’re scared right now?” Magnus asks softly. 

Jace opens his mouth to say ‘no’ but what comes out instead is, “yeah.” 

Magnus snaps his fingers, blue magic flickering around his fingers before he’s pushing it towards Jace. It flickers over his skin, Magnus’ brows furrowing as he scans Jace. “You’ll be fine,” he finally says, giving Jace a comforting smile. 

“So you know what he hit Jace with?” Simon asks, joining the group. 

“Yes. Jace is under a truth spell,” Magnus says and Jace’s stomach sinks. 

“Oh god,” he groans out. When he finally pulls his hands away from his face, he finds Simon grinning from ear to ear. Jace points at Simon and practically screams, “no!” before running off towards his room. 

After slamming the door shut behind him like a dramatic teenage girl, Jace slumps against the door, sitting on his butt with the door against his back. 

“You know,” Simon says through the door, making Jace grit his teeth. “I let you make it here before me. Because I’m a vampire.”

“I know you’re a vampire, moron. A little hard to miss with the fangs.”

He hears Simon sit down as well, only the door between them. “Do you want me to leave?” Simon whispers. 

Jace sighs. “No.”

“God,” Simon says and Jace can hear the smile in his voice. It makes his heart flutter  in the most embarrassing way. “There’s so many things I wanna ask you right now.”

“Please don’t,” Jace says back, his head knocking back against the door. 

“Oh, come on. It could be fun.”

“Yeah, for you.”

“Exactly,” Simon says with a laugh. 

“You’re such a dick sometimes,” Jace says before freezing, a wide smile spreading across his face. “Ha! That’s the god to honest truth!”

“It’s the truth that you believe at least,” Simon murmurs. “Although what you believe doesn’t necessarily make it the truth. Just your truth.”

Jace groans as his head hits the door. “Could you just shut up?”

“Make me,” Simon says and Jace swears he can hear the smile stretched across his face. 

“I would but there’s a door between us.”

“And if there wasn’t,” Simon says slowly. “How would you shut me up?”

Jace makes the mistake of answering. Instead of the snarky insult he’d been planning, what comes out is, “I’ve always thought about kissing you into silence.”

Well, apparently that shuts Simon up because Jace is met with silence. Stretched out, heart-pounding, stomach clenching silence. Fuck. 

Jace opens his mouth, ready to make a joke or apologize or something just to get back to their easy banter when Simon speaks. “Open the door, Jace.”

“No,” Jace whispers. “I don’t need to see your face when you reject me. I don’t think I’d be able to take it.” God, he hates the truth so much right now. He doesn’t wanna face this. He’s done so well pushing these feelings away, keeping them locked up. And now they’re bubbling to the surface, forcing him to deal with them. 

“Come on,” Simon says gently. “You have no idea what I plan on saying. So open up.”

“Nope. Let’s just keep being assholes to each other while ignoring the fact that for some reason I’m attracted to you. Jesus Christ,” Jace moans, rubbing his eyes. “I should just shut up now.”

“Or,” Simon says, stretching the word out. “You can open the door and I can finally kiss you. Like I’ve been thinking about since I met you and compared you to Captain America.”

Jace’s heart speeds up, disbelief flooding his belly. “You thought about kissing me?”

“Yeah. Thinking about it right now, too. So could you please just open the door and lay one on me? Or do I need to keep rambling until the impulse is back so strong you won’t be able to stop yourself-” Simon stops rambling as the door slowly creeps open. They stand, staring at each other. 

Jace isn’t sure who moves first but between one blink and another, their hands are gripping each other, their lips meeting. Everytime Jace has imagined this, he’s pictured forceful lips pressing together in the heat of the moment. But this? This is so much better. Instead of harsh hands and brutal kisses, Jace is met with tender touches and chaste presses of lips. Simon holds him like Jace means something and Jace tries to do the same. It feels so good. 

When they pull apart, they stay glued together, their foreheads barely touching. “That was so much better than I imagined,” Jace whispers, his cheeks flushing. 

Simon smiles and it’s one of his wide, unabashed smiles that makes Jace’s stomach do a little flip. “At least I know you’re not bullshitting me,” he says with a chuckle. 

Jace pulls back enough to take Simon’s hand, pulling him into his room and shutting the door behind him. He opens his mouth to say something witty but what comes out is, “I have no idea what I’m doing.”

Simon smiles at Jace’s cringe. “We could, ya know,” Simon murmurs, nodding towards the bed. 

“I don’t wanna do that yet. I don’t wanna ruin this with sex before it’s even started. Oh god,” he groans, covering his face. “Could you please ignore all of this and remember me as the smart-mouthed asshole? Please?”

“Absolutely not,” Simon murmurs, pushing into Jace’s space. “I’ll never forget this. And I’m never letting you forget it either. You like me,” he sing songs like a little kid. “You wanna hold me and kiss me and save our virtue.”

“Damn it, Simon,” Jace says, not able to take it anymore, he grabs Simon by the back of the neck, pulling him into another kiss. This time he opens his mouth, groaning as Simon’s tongue touches his own. This kiss screams of their passion for each other, their true feelings, their desires. Yet, when they finally pull back, there’s no expectations to take things further. Simon knows Jace and as terrifying as that is, it’s also thrilling. 

“Come on, asshole,” Simon murmurs, pulling Jace towards the bed. “Let’s sleep this whole ‘truth spell’ off so you can go back to being the broody asshole we all know and love.”

“You like how broody I am,” Jace says with a wide smile, getting into bed beside Simon. 

“Yeah,” Simon whispers, “I really do.”

“Good. Cause I like you, too.”

“So,” Simon says, a wide mischievous grin spreading across his face. “Big spoon or little spoon.”

Jace opens his mouth and then closes it again. “You’re such an ass,” he mutters but turns his back to Simon. 

“Knew it,” Simon whispers, crowding against Jace’s back. He kisses the back of Jace’s neck before snuggling in. 

Jace falls asleep feeling more content than he has in a long time. 

[magic-owl]

i wish these had numbers to not take up room but alas: what is your absolute favorite ship? what’s a ship you like that most people don’t? what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion? (choose any of your fave pairings for the following bc I'm curious about all your faves) rate [pairing] from 1-10 and explain why. what’s your favorite headcanon of [pairing]? what’s your favorite canon moment of [pairing]? favorite AU ideas for [pairing]? what song(s) remind you of [pairing]?

Thank you my dear! You are my Star Wars Friend so I’ll keep it SW focused (if you wanted to ask this to solely find out what else I liked BESIDES SW sorry lol just let me know and I can redo it). This got long because turns out I have a lot to say about my ships so answers under the cut!!! xD

Absolute favorite ship: This one’s kinda hard but I’m gonna have to go with Obi Wan/Anakin! I also like them a lot as a trio with Padmé, but overall I gotta say these two are just my faves? Why? Because they are such a M E S S and gosh I just love them so much. Ppl say they don’t like each other very much but come on, have you watched the TCW, have you watched RotS, they’re the greatest team there ever was, they’re constantly fretting and worrying about each other, they’re always teasing (the constant banter omg boys pls) at each other and hyping the other up and believing in each other and Ahsoka literally calls them her adoptive guardians in the Ahsoka novel, that’s how much of a family they were and ugh they’re just so married. And they’re such a TRAGEDY and it breaks my heart and it’s delicious to watch because in the final fight it’s just heartbreaking betrayal because through it all they love each other so much and that’s WHY they’re so furious with each other because to them it feels like the ultimate betrayal. Even after (when after everything, Obi Wan still loved Anakin too much to kill him himself) they’re constantly on the other’s mind, and ugh the pain hurts but in such a good way, and how in the end Anakin did the right thing and Obi Wan was RIGHT THERE to help guide him back to the light in spirit and now they can rest happily together for eternity (with some spare stressing about, ya know, Kylo Ren and the impending return of Sidious, but never mind all that). and on top of that, it’s my fave because I also absolutely love their relationship platonically as well, as much as I LIKE to see them together, it’s not necessary for me because they have such an enjoyable dynamic. *coughs* Sorry, so yea, they’re my disaster faves! 😅

A ship I like that most people don’t: See above lol. I get aspects of the Obikin ship can be problematic in the whole power dynamic and age difference thing, but I’ve only ever shipped it after Anakin was knighted as an adult when there’s literally not a problem with it (it was weird for me because I watched the prequels totally out of order. I actually saw the TCW cartoon FIRST and then I saw RotS and then I didn’t watch the first two for a while after that because I was a fool and listened to prequel bashers who said the first two weren’t good, so when I started shipping them as adults that was all I saw them as). To be honest, for the most part the PT fandom is done with the drama since ya know, like a good half of the SW general fandom still hates us, so no one’s really vocal about not liking it and our shipping community is mostly left to ourselves, but every once in a while I’ll come across a joke post/fanart of the two and OP will be all snarky in the notes like “tag as a ship and I’ll come after you with my spiked bat” (someone’s exact words btw) and it’s like ok jeez, do not interact then, was minding my own business dude...

My most underrated ship: Hmmmm....... Gonna have to go between Luke/Ezra and Satine/Padmé. Skybridger I understand since they’ve literally never met in canon, but come ON, they’d get along like a house on fire and argh they should have met, it would be great. I honestly don’t get why Pads and Satine aren’t more of a thing (THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE AN OFFICIAL SHIPNAME ;_; ) cuz c’mon they’re the subtler explosive yin to Obi and Ani’s wildfire yang. They get along great and work together really well, and they both seem to have a type. I am doing them a little better in my new OT4 fic, and I hope ppl like it!!! Ya know what, I’m also gonna add Kaeden (cute girl from the Ahsoka novel!) and Ahsoka because even if a lot of ppl actually ship them, they hardly have any content and neED MORE DANGIT THEY WERE SO CUTE!!!!!!!

Gonna go with Obikin for all the following ones cuz I haven’t had the chance to gush about my boys in a while and you’ve opened Pandora’s box

Rate them from 1-10: 10, plus a hundred more points because I love them, then subtract that hundred again cuz Anakin is an gotdang idiot who ruined it and now they both make me cry. My scoring reasons are that they make me feel all the emotions and I love them Ever So Much and argh.

Fave headcanon: Oh boy, I’ve got a couple actually!

Whenever they’re talking/arguing over the phone, they’re always subconsciously mirroring each other’s actions even when they can’t see what the other is doing. It’s kinda creepy because you’ll hear yelling and it’ll look like one of them’s talking to an invisible person in front of them when it’s actually each other.

There has been multiple instances of them both getting injured in battle because they were distracted watching the other be a total badass (not that either will admit it)

Neither of them are morning people. AT ALL. Obi Wan actually has self-discipline and is able to get up with an alarm and crankily drag them both up, but both are almost impossible to deal with until they’ve had caffeine in them, and it’s been established that unless you want to risk murder, neither of them talks in the morning until caffeine has been provided.

There has been many, many cases of accidentally taking the other’s robe and not realizing it but thinking to themselves that said robe feels more comforting than usual today.

A mutually drunken arm wrestling match absolutely turned into a mutually drunken makeout once. Neither can remember it, and they wonder why some of the clones have been acting funny all week.

Half of the Temple thinks they’re already dating.

Ok I’ll stop it here

Fave Canon Moment: Ughhh, this is HARD. I really like the “any closer and you’d be kissing it” line in TCW, basically any moment in TCW when one of them refers to Ahsoka as “OUR padawan”, the extra long stares and unnecessary touches they give each other in TCW, the elevator scene in RotS movie (THE NOVEL MAKES IT A MILLION TIMES BETTER), also in RotS the way Anakin is half-ready to straight up fight Palpatine when he suggests leaving Obi Wan behind to die, the RotS “No loose wire jokes” bit, the RotS “Roger. Roger.” bit (OKAY JUST THE WHOLE FIRST HALF OF THIS RIDICULOUS MOVIE), the way Vader built his big stupid castle where they had their breakup, the way he’s constantly mentioning Obi Wan when the convo wasn’t even about him, seeing them together again at the end of RotJ (whoops you asked for one, you get MANY SCENES)

Fave AU ideas: Again, there’s a couple!

Superpower AU: Can’t decide whether I’d put this in canon or modern. Most powers in this AU are stolen from inspired by X-Men, DC, and other popular media, so I’m torn between Anakin having Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix style powers while Obi Wan had a variation on Rogue’s with additional energy manipulation. OR it would be a thing where Anakin could commune with the dead a la Klaus from Umbrella Academy while Obes had sort of Avatar-style wind/flight powers. (Both are relevant for different plots).

Sith AU: I know these are far from unpopular in the SW fandom, but the way I’d do it would be to try and write two stories at once, update one every other week so one update a week total. The stories would what would happen if either of them became the Sith Apprentice after the events of Episode 1, and how their dynamic would be during Ep 2 and The Clone Wars with one of them on the other side. It’s funny because the way I’ve plotted it, the Sith!Ani fic would have very big Good Omens vibes, while the Sith!Obi one would have very strong Under the Red Hood vibes, so two VERY different dynamics going on xD

WWII Spies: This is one I 100% plan to write someday, even tho it is a very long time from now. It’s basically following Anakin as an American naval pilot who got injured in a crash and discharged. He still wants to serve and eventually his talent gets him into the intelligence end of the war and sent to Europe where he meets Ben, who’s been working with British intelligence since it broke out, and sparks fly. I’m kind of cheating here cuz as of now this is an Obianidala story, not just Obikin, but it’s one I’m very excited for

Phantom of the Opera AU: This idea I had when I realized that Anakin as Vader is kinda a Lot like the Phantom, but he’s also a Lot like Christine too. So it turned into Anakin as a talented ballet dancer getting preyed on by Palpatine!Phantom (there is NO romance there, Palpy is a total creep and will be treated as such) with Obi Wan as a combination of Raoul and Madame Gery and I have a bunch of ideas and idk if it’s gonna be an actual thing, but I want it to.

Shapeshifter AU: Canon, not very complicated but they can all shift into animals. Obi Wan is a kind of cougar panther cat with a fluffy ginger tail, and Anakin is a big grumpy black Krayt Dragon with a stump for a front leg.

Not A Jedi!AU: One in canon in which set like the Sith!AU, two different stories exploring how their dynamic would be if one of them wasn’t found by the Order. As of now, I’ve got Anakin as the warrior pirate prince of Tatooine, after having grown up and staged a slave rebellion, then promptly put his mother on the throne, and Obi Wan’s there to negotiate something during TCW and things happen. For the Obi Wan one, he’s a political journalist and war correspondent who keeps on running into Anakin’s assignments and popping up where he’s stationed and Anakin has to keep this idiot from getting himself killed/stop asking me annoying questions that criticize the Jedi and the government.

Dark!AU: A kind of morbid canon divergent fic where Padmé dies early and unexpectedly (Palps didn’t plan it). Anakin goes off the rails and Obi Wan agrees to go with him on a murder vengeance roadtrip to try and keep him from Falling or the Sith from getting to him. He kinda fails and they both Fall in a way and it ends with them hunting down Sidious’ players one by one. I’m not entirely sure I want to continue with this tho because it plays strongly on the Fridged Woman trope, which I can’t stand. I’d have to figure out how to give Padmé some sort of active role after her death...

Songs to describe them: There’s a couple (I could have very well gone cranky but I decided to do (mostly) serious))(also my music taste kinda stinks)

Icarus— Bastille

Anna Sun— WALK THE MOON

Animal I Have Become— Acoustic cover by Vitamin String Quartet (original by Three Days Grace) (seriously y’all listen it’s sooooo gooooood)

Warriors— Imagine Dragons

My Demons— STARSET

Ignorance— Paramore

Set Fire to the Rain— Adele

Stubborn Love— The Lumineers

How to Save A Life— The Fray (yes i am aware it is stereotypical angst song leave me Alone it FITS)

Viva la Vida— Coldplay (tbh this fits like the entire PT but I liked it)

Raised by Wolves— U2 (another more PT-centric, but this one works dangit)

Bonus Broadway Song! : Confrontation from Les Miserables (now that ya think of it, that would be a pretty good AU too.....)

Bonus Broadway Song! : The Tango Maureen from Rent (I always imagined this one as Obi Wan and Padmé about Anakin, but it would be about something other than cheating cuz canon has established Anakin views cheating as a worse crime than murder, so yea)

Bonus Broadway Song! : Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better (aight this one’s mostly a joke but come ON don’t tell me that’s not completely them xD)

[mulderitsme]

Vienen / Alone recap, and then it’s on to the season finale! i can barely wrap my head around it, how have i watched 8 seasons of this show already. anyway, here we go

lmao i don’t know what’s funnier, mulder’s face or scully’s. this idiot. it’s like he enjoys being a thorn in the side of the powers that be, and lbr, scully loves him for it, but it doesn’t make her life any easier. “hey scully, remember when we used to piss our bosses off constantly? surprise!”

listen, i love watching scully autopsy people. it’s badass. and here she’s doing it while being well into her third trimester. even more badass. let the waddling forensic pathologist through, people! she’s got places to go!

again, this comforts me in my reading of Empedocles: they did have The Talk. he knows. the baby’s paternity is no more in question. this is a father talking about his unborn child. he’d have no reason to say this otherwise. 

i really like this duo anytime they’re working together. skinner is the one person scully knows she can turn to when mulder isn’t around. they’re so protective of each other, and even if skinner doesn’t understand, he trusts scully’s judgment. he takes the blame for his people when kersh asks who shut down the rig. scully flinches when kersh threatens not only her, but skinner too - she made the choice to follow mulder until the end, but she doesn’t want skinner to suffer the consequences of their actions. there really is a lot of respect and care between these two, and i like that we got some scenes that echoed how they worked together when mulder was missing. i wouldn’t be surprised if she asked him to be her child’s godfather (pls tell me he is)

oh the bittersweet ending. their relationship has been a rocky one - distrust, anger, jealousy - and i’m glad they’re parting on this note. they’re not friends, but they’ve come to respect each other. doggett finally saw that mulder’s wacky theories weren’t all that wacky, and what the pursuit of the truth can cost. mulder knows now that doggett is a man of principles, which is all the x files have really ever needed. as long as they are carried by people with integrity, they will live on. as personal as the x files started for him, they’ve now become his legacy, and they will outlast him. he can let go knowing it’s in good hands. 

THEY’VE COME SO FAR YOU GUYS i love their relationship so much. i love that s8 has made both mulder and scully expand their relationship outside of each other and form deep, meaningful bonds with other people. doggett cares for her so much, it’s written all over his face. she’s come to truly appreciate him, for both his integrity and his deep respect for her. the keychain she gives him has no value, it’s the meaning she chose to apply that makes it such a touching gift. it’s a symbolic representation of true partnership, a thank you for having her back, for being there for her when no one else could or would. for carrying on the burden of the x files with respect. 

height difference. gah. 

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN is this scully’s goodbye to the x files as well? did she and mulder decide to focus on the little bun she’s cooking now that mulder is out of the Bureau? do they trust doggett to carry on their legacy? this is some mona lisa mystery smile lemme tell you 

exhibit 5 in why i believe mulder knows who the baby’s father is (it’s him) and they are definitely co-parenting that child: this scene. he’s accompanying her to a Lamaze class. he’s watched Oprah to prepare himself. this is an expectant father ready to father all over the place. adorable.

scully told him about the baby but she’s keeping this one close to her heart. i don’t even know if she knows. i like to think she wants to be surprised, and she wants mulder to be, too. not every mystery needs to be answered. let it be a mystery a little while longer. 

pregnant rogue forensic pathologist is at it again, dissecting a body she has no business poking into. how does it feel to get busted by your partner, agent scully? 

he’s so excited and happy for them. i love doggett the nugget. and their respective reactions are hilarious. scully is like “dear god no i still got time for that, i’m NOT pushing this baby out of me yet”. mulder’s just plain excited. it’s very clear to me that scully’s pregnancy isn’t just her pregnancy anymore. mulder is 100% in on it. he wants to be there. he’s the father. 

BICKERING LIKE AN OLD COUPLE. because they are. a couple that is. best banter between these two so far. 

[jameshcricket-blog]

Your Father Would Be Proud by Michael Giacchino

On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss by David R. Holsinger

Locke’d Out Again by Michael Giacchino

Macbeth by Jed Kurzel

The Way by Zack Hemsey 

Histoire Sans Nom by Ludovixo Einaudi

The Threat of War by Alexandre Desplat

Goodbye by Apparat

It’s Not Forever by Javier Navarette

Mr. Reese by Ramin Djawadi

My Mother’s Funeral by Fernando Velázquez

Trigger Warnings: Death, Suicide.

I went for a soundtrack for the journey through hell? Even though I have not...been around.....a lot....for this event and probably won’t be able to write anything for them for it because I’m how do you say...trash. But I would like to think or will probably head canon that James went down there for the reason that he has been all over the world and wouldn’t miss an opportunity to be in Hell. He can add it to the list with all the countries he’s ventured to you know. 

Anyways, let’s all laugh as I try to give an explanation to these choices in songs. I believe the only one that has words in it is the one from Breaking Bad, Goodbye, but I kept to all score/soundtracks because that’s usually what Jiminy listens to and it was fun to try and find stuff that would fit into his walk. BEWARE: This got out of hand because I know I won’t be able to partake in the challenges or anything so I just dump a lot of ideas into this to try and compensate. 

Another warning: I don’t know music. I don’t know anything. Whatever I say here is, lbh, ramblings. So, like I said, let’s all laugh as I try to figure out instruments and how to describe music with words. 

1. Your Father Would be Proud: Start with an ender aye. So this is the song that plays in Rogue One when (Spoiler Warning, kids it’s on Netflix pls watch Star Wars and love yourselves) Jynn and Cassian go out on the beach to hug it out and wait for death. But for me I thought it was a nice tune for James to go walking into the forest with and then venture down the stairs. Towards the end when the brass comes in it gets really full in sound with the trumpet (??) letting loose for a second, that’s him making it down to the bottom and looking around like, “Oh wow.” And like the very end is probably him looking around like, this is so dope, but the sadness and the impending doom at the endend when the Death Star finally ends everything is it being like, yeah, this is HELL, so good luck on your journey you idiot. It gets kinda big and I like that because even if Hell isn’t all that in CGI, I think he would still feel an overwhelming force from the scenery of it because his muse is a cricket and to him, everything is HUGE, so I put that into Jame by him knowing he’s just a spec in the vastness of the universe, so yeah, looking around Hell is kinda a big deal for him. 

2. On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss: This song would be playing after he decided which path to take. And it’s kind of grand in the beginning and then it gets small again for a while, and then ooooooOOO it starts getting bigger. And then get them drums in there, and it slows down and seems to finish with that only to get quiet again, like a soft hum, until that melody starts again, and the lil triangle, until it ends. T h a t is what I imagine the first part to be like for him. Ebbing and flowing with his awe until he finally calms down enough to continue on his walk. The big parts are probably him seeing those who live in that area, seeing the kinds of scenes Hell puts forth, and then finally chilling out enough to continue on his walk. 

3. Locke’d Out Again: I was so sold on Lost when I saw the first season. I thought it was so good, and then I never watched any of the other seasons. So. Rip me. But this song still sticks out to me when I think about that show. And what’s even better, I could add it to this playlist. It’s so beautiful with all the instruments going back and forth and then the piano takes over everything and my god. This, my friends, is where James’s background comes out to play. This is when someone would come out onto the path he chose to greet him and it would be a reunion of the sad variety. I don’t want to go into detail because his past is still a secret! Stay tuned to find out! If any of you are even reading this far, lmao I doubt, but anyways. The song went with John Locke’s discovery that he could walk again, and it would fit into James seeing that person and reaching out tentatively towards them only to find them as a solid entity in front of him once more. Tears and hugs and all that mushy stuff would take place. But the thing that sold me on this song for this part of Hell was the ending. The last few seconds that make such a sweet/sad/moving song end on a sinister note. Because Hell pulled the carpet out from under James and lets him fall on his ass as he meets the first challenge. 

4. MacBeth: This song is slow and gives me such desolate vibes. There’s that pitched sound that comes and goes and idk the name of it, but I love it in this piece with the low string coming in later to give it a partner. The first challenge would be set to this because the first challenge would be Death. That person(s????) from the scene before would die in front of him. And that part would be silent from any music because it would probably have to happen several times over until Jiminy finally gave into Hell and realized that he can’t save them and therefore lets them die, but the part afterwards. When he’s probably just holding their body and just sitting trying to recover. That’s when this song would play. Putting more emphasis on the effect that had on him. Don’t wanna get spoilery, not that anyone is still reading, but. 

5. The Way: The Way kind of reminds me of the Inception soundtrack with the piano playing that one note, but it also has a darker thing going on which is what I wanted for the next part. The Judgement Door would come and go and James would be in the dark, walking along until he got to the muddy bit, but this would accompany the little montage of him walking in the dark, trying to light a light only for the wind to whisk it away, and then having to move forwards. He isn’t excited about this adventure anymore. After the first challenge he’s sad and regrets his choices in coming down the stairs, but knows he can’t go back. This song will probably get him to the Marshes. It starts doing that clapping bit indicating something is coming. And that would be wrong. Because something is waiting for him. His second Challenge. The second part of the song gets kinda fighty to me, so we would but the monster of Scylla here, as he tried to get into a boat and she just won’t let him and tries to drown him, too. I don’t?? Know if that’s viable, but I needed a monster who he was able to speak too because that’s all he has really. His voice. So in the midst of him trying to fight her at one point, when she’s probs got the upper hand on him, he would say something that would make her stop. Leading us to...

6.  Histoire Sans Nom: Gosh, what a song. It’s got so much to it, I really enjoyed it. I put it on the playlist because it would be a good background to the tail end of Jiminy and Scylla’s conversation. He would listen to her woes, give her advice, and she would hopefully allow him safe passage. Again, idk if that’s an option here, but for the sake of Jiminy’s lack of knowledge in fighting I’m going to hope it is. This song would be the end to her sad story she tells him and Jiminy’s advice to her, and then the departure. The tone is kinda sad to fit with the sad things going on, Scylla’s story and the continuation of James’s journey on the Marshes. The end dies off so that’s him waving to her and watching as she gets back into the water near the boats to continue her life as a monster in Hell because that’s all she’s got left to do. Which would be sad for him to see that he couldn’t change her mind at all. This, I think, would be his third challenge. Seeing someone he thought he had helped, that he had put effort into listening to their problems, only to find out that he hadn’t even helped them at all. This is his Sorrows. Because that’s the worst thing in the world to him. So the ending to this song would be him floating in the boat for a long ass time crying and crying until he fell asleep. Only to wake up in the middle of the water. Surround on all sides by it.The song would end on him falling asleep. When he wakes up he wouldn’t be fine, per say, but it would take him a while to get passed Scylla. 

7. The Threat of War: Starts of kinda slow, but it has that background tick to it, which I thought would be a good representation of him rowing the boat, over and over like the ticking sound across the water. Like The Way it would act for the boat montage across the water. Stopping every so often because he’s WEAK and doesn’t exercise, though he might start after this tbh, and looking down at the souls under the water. And when it gets kinda spooooky with a more...idk how to describe it but when the strings start making things feel rushed and like you gotta get outta there, probably at like 2:30, he would start running into the other boats with the Gluttonous souls. And when it gets kinda panicky that’s James trying to get out of the way of a war between two boats that are threatening to crash his. But manages to get out of there and moves on to land not soon after. It will also play into trying to get through the monsters at the end of the Mashes.

8. Goodbye: This has a heartbeat type thing going through it at the beginning. I figured after getting out of the marshes there would be no music for a while until he through The Wall (???somehow) and into the City of Dis. So the heart beat part is to his own, getting louder and louder. And then the I don’t even know what it is but like western-y guitar coming in every so often would be like in the Western movies when the hero comes into the town and looks around like. Where is everybody? And this would just be following him around as he walked throughout the city. There are words in this song because I also wanted to play on the fact that he isn’t alone here. He was never alone on his path really, but here he can’t seem to find anyone, but they’re there. And the words are there to show that. Even though he can’t find them right now, they’re there. The song ends when he sees someone, indicating he is no longer ‘alone’, on top of a building and watches them jump off. It scares the lights out of him, but when he closes his eyes against it, waiting for the impact sound to happen, it never comes. So he opens his eyes and walks up to the top of the roof where several other people are. There he inquires what the FUCK is going on as one of them jumps and he couldn’t run to the edge in time to pull them back and there isn’t a body down below. One of the people tells him that’s the way outta this place. To jump. One by one they all leave, and then, after a lot of pacing and a lot of talking himself up, he does too. 

9. It’s Not Forever: Mmm, the Suicide Forest. This song is just him walking through it. Just another James H. Cricket montage. 

10. Mr. Reese: I guess I must divulge some secrecy, /shift eyes/, not that I expect anyone to get this far, so lmao hi if you are, but THIS SONG. I love Person of Interest you guys, fml. This song is so beautiful. And I wanted to include it when James got here because the song would be when he heard the voice of an old friend there. Another therapist he went to school with. They were good mates, studied together, talked to one another all the time when they got out of uni. Then, one day he woke up to the news that he had committed suicide. AND LIKE THIS WOULD BE, I’m treating this like a movie and don’t care, WHEN IT WENT INTO FLASH BACK MODE OF THEIR LIVES TOGETHER. And him just kinda breaking a bit as he hears him talking again. But then peacing out real quick when other voices reach out and try to get him to join them.

10. My Mother’s Funeral: The End. This is a lil bit of music for his last little walk through the forest, and makes eyes with gift shop where I think the sudden drop off fits. James is like really weirded out by it but super charmed, too. I laughed so much when I read the post and Calcifer’s Family runs the joint. That is ADORABLE. So Jiminy would hang out here. Buy himself a regular shirt and other stuff because?? Fuck it dude this is HELL’S GIFT SHOP he’ll never get a chance like this again. And he has plenty of memories of his adventures around the world, so he’s literally set. He’s walking outta there with two bags on each hand. 

The End. 

[robininthelabyrinth]

Legends - Camelot Liveblog

New Legends Episode – Everyone but Mick reads the intro in their best monotone. Not sure why.

We start in a lab in Detroit. The man is named Charles. He is attempting to cure violence through dystopia. Rip goes in for dissection. I remain uninterested. They seem not to be able to decide if the Legion is dark and gory and scary or campy and silly, and they’re not really striking a good balance.

Mick Rory: Booze Tour Through the Ages. To be fair, this is not a bad use for time travel...

They find dead body. They figure out Rip did it. They’re figuring things out faster, at least? Last mystery took them half a season.

Sara: We’re not killers. Stein: Except for the fact that you totally are. Did you just forget your own backstory? Amaya: I think you suck. My friend is literally dead because you let a known killer go kill more people when you could’ve just shot him in the leg. WTF, man. Sara: I think I’m a hero! Amaya: Yep. You totally suck.

Gideon goes with 507 as the era for King Arthur.

Nate, a historian: At last, a WELL-DOCUMENTED part of history! Which has barely any surviving history and is a place shrouded by legend primarily because of the lack of recorded history from the era, given the prevalence of oral forms of record-keeping and the difficulty of preserving records in the environment there!

Seriously, show??

Ray has a knight boner. Amazing how many things Ray was obsessed with as a kid. So many. Literally every other episode it was another thing that made his childhood complete. Did his childhood end at 40?

Mick IDs Stein’s issues at once, then sniffs out the theft. He says “thieves have a certain smell.” MORE evidence for dragon!Mick! (though that’s more of a griffin trait. Someone write me truth-compelling!noble-beast-with-wings!Mick, pls.)

Nate tries to be a historian and goes on about the collapse of Rome, which historians debate, but have placed at anywhere between 376 and 476 – but certainly not 507. Which I know because I double-checked wikipedia. Unlike the writers.

I’m actively pained by Ray right now. The embarrassment-by-proxy is too much.

Raymond of the Palms. Also, the dragon and cross is kind of a weird shield. Was Christianity even that prevalent in Britain in this era?

Warrior!Gwen, girl!Merlin…see, I’d believe it, except it’s the most Renfaire of Renfaire. Oh, and Stargirl literally created Camelot without any regard for history. Complete with bad British accents. Okay. Sounds like just the sort of thing a Time Master like Rip would recommend doing…at least, last season’s version and not this one which thinks the timeline is "sacred" when he's not evil... 

Sara gets her flirt on with Gwen. I notice that Excalibur doesn’t seem to be actually carried by Arthur, which seems dumb.

Ray also gets his flirt on with Galahad. Bet he’s gonna die.

Arthur is mindcontrolled. I guess they’ll read that as enchanted in the stories. And there we go, one Galahad down! And no Grail, either. Sucky ending.

 Stargirl: I blame you for not having time-travelled fast enough! Amaya: ???

Stein: the first rule of thieving is telling everyone about it! Mick: …no, but you’re so cute.

Stein: I think I have a great brain. (“Someone who’s mind is pliable” Jax says, looking at the man who defeated brainwashing twice - WTF Jax????)

Mick is a wonderful troll.

Did they steal Gwen’s speech directly from LOTR? No – but they wish they were. (I wish they were.) This is so PAINFUL. It’s just…badly written? Badly acted? It feels cheap. Everything about this episode feels incredibly cheap.

Stargirl is in love with the (married) King Arthur? Really? Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

Ray fights with a lightsaber. Cute. Wish they used the CGI/background money for better writers.

Nate: You’re gonna die! Ray: Since I missed my chance at the Oculus, this will do!

Legends bicker. Mick is, as usual, the best person on the cast. Just like last season, the criminals keep carrying the moral weight of the show.

Jax: Mick’s more intense than you. Stein’s ego is bruised. Mick is amused. “Finally, I get to fulfil my destiny”...by controlling an evil army? I agree! That's definitely your destiny! Go lead the Rogues with Len!

What a badly choreographed scene. It’s VERY LOTR-movies-esque, except like a very bad copy.

Flash: I do not kill! Legends: *stabstabstab* (Do you think they understood the irony of having these on the same night?)

Stein: overload the system by being angry and brutish at them. Mick: Poor babies.. Army: immediately destroyed. Audience: POOR MICK BABY!

Damien ditches Rip. Ray decides to go after Damien. Sara decides to rescue Rip. Man, the Legion couldn’t have planted Rip on the Legends’ ship even better if they’d TRIED (if the writers had wanted to, this COULD be a deliberate plant. Wouldn't be hard to read it that way). If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s the stupidity of heroes.

Ray and Damien lightsaber-duel. Ray does not seem to understand that only Sara will be able to kill Damien because of narrative arc.

Damien cheats, surprising only Ray, apparently, who seems to think that being in Camelot makes everyone play fair or something.

The show pretends that Ray is dead for like two solid minutes despite no one ever believing it for a second.

Stargirl: you found a new home! Me: Oh god, NO. Amaya's nice, but she needs to go home, she has a descendant. DON’T imply that she’s sticking around.

Also me: …why is Gwen wearing weird unrealistic steel-boobs and shoulder guards and nothing else of metal???

Stein still trying to make himself feel better. Mick is just amused.

Okay. I’m confused. Nate says “Let’s talk about how you go down in history!” except it’s clearly a picture of someone with dark hair being made king – crown, scepter and all. Ray was not made king; Arthur is king. Arthuriana ends with the death of Arthur most of the time. So…what’s going on??

Jax is not good at threats. Also, somehow nobody thought about Rip (the guy with all the secret passwords last season) being on the Waverider was a bad idea.

It's like they're idiots or something.