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lunarle-old · 5 months ago

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Do you have an idea of what you're going to write next ?

Yes... And No.

The current plan is to write my dragon fic. I looove dragons, and I've always loved fics that make my favs dragons. Hoarding Humans is a good example of that ;P I really wanna do it myself! I feel a little weird directly using the concept of HH (just the idea of a dragon's hoard being humans! i've been obsessed with it ever since!!)... I know there's a whole Inspired tab thing on ao3 but remember I was brought up in the animation meme community trenches. I've seen some very vile things said to ""copycats"" (and it's usually just somebody who took inspiration off of someone elses art style or a certain part of another persons meme @_@ don't get me STARTED on the ragebait...) and I am not in the proper emotional state to handle that right now QwQ

However that doesn't mean I can't write about dragons. I have some ideas in mind-- I've properly conceptualized my go-to fantasy world for AUs like this. I know who the main cast would generally be (DICE! Kokichi rounds up some of his classmates from in game :P so people like Gonta, K1B0, Miu, Kaede, Rantaro. . . maybe Kirumi? I have lore trust me. I'm cooking.) I know the main premise of the story, and it goes into my own bullshit with dragons, because lord knows I ever follow any actual myths or tales (´ﾟωﾟ｀) (i read wings of fire that's good enough for me!!!)

I am still trying to learn how to draw dragons in a way I like though. Here's my concept for Maki and Shuichi ^^"

Overall the chances of this fic happening after HGH, as of right now, are fairly high. This is what I plan to write once I'm done with HGH.

But please, please please keep in mind that I . . . am absolutely horrible with making promises about my fics. I'm so forgetful I forget to even check my notes to see what I've forgotten. T_T my fics would be a tiny bit better than they are now if I actually kept track of wtf im doing. maybe i should make a checklist.

Point is, I don't know if this is what I'll write once HGH is done. I've done some estimating and while, for once, I do not have a concrete ending in mind, I can guess how long this'll be. I think... it might be around as long as M5? Somewhere around that 130k mark. Again!! I'm not sure!! I need to figure out what I'm gonna be doing for the non-Tsumugi half of the "recovery" arc, so who knows what the word count for this is gonna be T_T. MY POINT!! MY POINT IS THAT!!! It could change. By the time I'm done with HGH, I might write this dragon fic. I might write a differeny fic. Or I'll lose motivation to write anything for a bit. Lord I am yapping so I'll move on

Que transition, with all that being said, I do have Other ideas in mind!! Ones I've been sitting on for a while!

ONE. Saimatsu mansion :D I've mentioned it here and there, but the idea is that Shuichi and Kaede are plopped on an island and have to escape. It's one of those more out there ideas G_G and I haven't really descended into my full levels of insanity yet (wait until i start posting my crossover aus /j), but this would be bordering on it. I have some more minor ideas for this one, but I haven't rlly explored it yet :'3

TWO. remember unexpendable? yeah so i. i really really like crossover aus. almost as much as i like giving them superpowers. I was thinking of an Undertale x DR fic where I drop Shuichi into the underground. Undertale is super special to me,, it got me out of a really dark place. My favorite OC of mine (Montserrat<3) is an Undertale OC! So I think it'd be a lot of fun, especially since Danganronpa is basically the reason I'm like?? actually living now XD I got a job because posting my DR fics helped me overcome enough of my social anxiety to get employed. So!! It'd be nice. i also think shuichi and papyrus would get along do NOT @ me also undyne would scare the shit out of him. Anyways I dunno if this would be another oneshot, considering the, uh. length of the game. and how insane i could rlly go if i went into the neutral /genocide route stuff too. I dunno. It'd be fun :P i also have doodles wait

THREE. I don't know what could and couldn't be used for a plot twist so I'll keep it vague, but basically it's a fic that involves the ENTIRE CAST. A bit of a challenge for myself. Everyone's back! And all of the blackeneds revert to, like... HGH levels of despairs. So it's up to everyone whos still normal to find a way to make them also normal before, uh. things get worse. TV GIRL BLAST 💥 (oh yeah this would be a kaede-centric fic! her pov for the majority. i had a lot of fun writing her during Unexpendable and i miss her </3)

FOUR. i got really into in stars and time so now i'm even more not normal about time loops. so let's put shuichi in another one! but i wanted to shake it up a bit and really let my less canon-reliant, more creative side flow a bit. It'd also be kind of a message to myself about life... WHATEVER Thats not important. What is important is, hey! I've been watching WAY too many Minecraft ARG analysises than what could possibly be considered healthy for my anxiety, so now I want to sic a bunch of them on Shuichi. this things unfinished because i only have very vague ideas for a few of the loops... but the overarching idea is that even the smallest (but impactful!) change in a choice can lead to an entirely different loop, with an entirely different entity. and during all of the loops, shuichi gets little bits and pieces to the bigger picture, which will break him out of the loops. idk this seems like a big and tiring project so this is more of a "maybe" than the others but i still think it's cool :')

FIVE. ok this one isn't danganronpa... remember when I said I was super into In Stars and Time? I wanted to write an ISAT fic. Siffrin and Bonnie are so so special to me and i wanted to indulge in that. I haven't rlly been writing in my oneshots though so I don't really have a grip on writing anyone from ISAT,, so. :( i have to spiral into full insanity privately before i can determine what is safe to show the internet /hj

And that is all I can think of off the top of my head. :P These ideas have been brewing for quite a bit, and ones that have actual ideas to them. I dunno which one I'll write first... or even if I'll write them. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Who knows? Maybe I'll break my rules about writing two fics at a time. Just give me time ... and please be patient. I can only write so fast ＼(_ _)

#anon asks #the anxiety meds are kicking in i'm not even afraid to post this #i'm also getting tired so maybe that's why?#but yeah as you can tell. lots of ideas rattling around in this skull of mine

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mylittlesecrethaven · 1 year ago

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Yandere Malleus Headcannons

This just came into my head one day.

It might not make sense.

But I hope it does.

(Omg warning, I'm so fucking sorry. I made this so much darker than I meant to. Um... TWs I guess... Uh... general yandere stuff, nsfw stuff, mentions of scars, mentions of burning, mentions of bleeding, there's some stuff about being tied up, amputated legs, mentions of amputated arms, dick horror, and forced pregnancy. I think I covered them all. Lemme know if I missed anything)

Every day is the same, and yet always different.

You always do something with Malleus.

And you always have to keep your eyes on him.

Great Seven forbid you ever look at anyone else.

(The screams will never leave your dreams)

Yet, he always finds somewhere new.

A new garden, a new cafe, a new park.

But you're never really allowed to do anything.

You sit.

You watch.

You smile when Malleus looks at you.

(After all, this pain is better than the pain he gives)

You say you enjoyed your day.

(You regret the days you didn't. Those scars never fade)

And you go home.

You eat.

Maybe read a book as he works.

And you hope he's too tired to want anything else.

But don't worry! He always has time for his love!

He'll wait until you finish your book.

You might read slow, but that just means you're enjoying it.

And that makes him happy.

You never run out of books.

Malleus makes sure of that!

And once your done, he'll take you back to your shared room.

And he'll toss you to the bed.

He's always so careful with you.

(He's not a complete monster, after all.)

(Right?)

And he'll make love to you.

It'll be so sweet.

And then he'll keep going.

And going.

Oh, you're tired?

WELL YOU'RE LYING!

YOU JUST WANT TO LEAVE HIM!

Uh oh.

You made him mad.

Now you have new scars.

And you're still going into the morning.

Don't worry, though.

He'll give you time to clean up and get dressed.

After all, it's a new day.

That means it's time for something new.

(So, this wasn't how this was supposed to go at all..... Hmm.... I'll make some more below this then to fit what I was actually trying to make this about. Idk if this'll be in the same world as the ones above, but I don't think it really matters)

Humans are just so fragile.

He takes you on one date and you hurt yourself.

It's your fault, really.

You backed away when he tried to kiss you.

It was your fault you fell into that flame.

Really, how reckless can one be?

Of course, he made sure you knew how mad he was as well.

You had talked to that other fae.

He had to show who you belonged to.

And you backed away.

How dare you.

Not to worry though!

Now you're safe at home!

You can't hurt yourself if you're tied down, right?

Nowhere to move.

Nowhere to go.

Now Malleus can take care of you completely.

He'll feed you.

Bathe you.

Sleep with you.

Love you.

Care for you.

(Fuck you until you bleed and sob and beg for it to end)

And yet, you still try to leave.

Stupid human.

You're lucky he loves you.

(Below is split between a gn, male, and female reader. That way, you can have a personalized ending!)

You don't need your legs, right?

He already broke them, but that didn't work.

So he'll just take them.

Now he gets to carry you everywhere!

Oh, you miss walking by yourself?

No worries!

He'll hang your feet above the fireplace for you to see!

That way, you can simply remember how it felt to walk!

But if you keep being defiant, he'll take your arms next.

MALE

WHY DO YOU KEEP LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE?!

IS HE NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?!

You make him so mad sometimes.

But he loves you too much to do anything horrible to you.

Yet, when he sees you hard in the morning, he's mad.

You say it's a normal bodily function, but that can't be true.

You were thinking about someone else.

He knows it wasn't about him.

You're so unfaithful.

So, now you can't get hard.

You can't cum anymore.

You have to have help pissing.

Sure, he misses messing with your cute little dick.

But this way, you remain faithful to him.

FEMALE

Oh, you noticed the baby books Malleus keeps giving you?

He's glad.

You are aware he needs an heir, yes?

Won't you help him with that?

.......

no?

No?

NO?!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO?!

Well guess what, you don't get a choice anymore!

You're already tied down.

And even though your screams hurt him inside,

(They don't, they make him oh so hard for you),

He still wants an heir.

So he'll fuck you.

And fuck you.

Until you're pregnant.

And even then, he'll keep going.

Cause now he wants as many babies as possible.

And you'll have to care for them all with him.

He's sure you'll be an excellent mother.

(These was fucking insane. I didn't mean to make them so dark. Also, I did have a reason for putting gn, then male, then female. If I ever do this again, that order will stay the same. Idk if I'll do this again, but if someone asks, then maybe I will. But I'll need an idea for it, cause coming up with ideas is hard.)

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femnoah · 22 days ago

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TD Danganronpa au

The Ultimate Talents part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4

So uh, maybe mild spoilers for the Danganronpa games/series as I will be discussing some characters and comparisons and maybe plot points?

This is the list of the ultimate talents I decided on for each contestant, why I did so and some background information. As always, I'm always up for a discussion.

Also, this'll have the first of the different outfits. The idea is that because the eliminated contestants weren't filming the day of their abduction, they weren't wearing the specific costumes. Somehow the dorms they're staying in have exact copies of the outfit they're currently wearing.

But since I can't draw, you're gonna have to bear with me on the vague descriptions 😭

Duncan Michaud- The Ultimate Punk

Yeah, I went for simplicity here. Not even a second thought.

His family are all police officers. It's essentially his heritage and he was expected to follow in their stead. Instead, he used the insider knowledge to his advantage. Committing crimes and making it so the worst they could do was community service. His parents wouldn't want to arrest their son now, would they?

Unfortunately, his parents caught on quickly to this and made him spend time with them at the police station until he eventually got sent to Juvie. You'd expect him to be at the bottom of the food chain with his family being cops but once again Duncan used this to his advantage. Knowing who to get in the good books of and who to mercilessly put down. He climbed the ranks and learned quickly, even joining multiple gangs and getting them to work together for common goals.

He joined total drama to get away from juvie- it was too boring and he wanted to shake things up. Good thing Chris is always on the lookout for troublemakers with a long long record to cause more drama.

Courtney Gracia- The Ultimate Student Council President

I was going to have her as the ultimate debater or C.I.T but a big part of her identity is needing to be in charge and winning which I think fits as school council president. Plus her obsession with organisation. I did debate having her as the ultimate moral compass (kind of like taka as the rule enforcer) as well but she does have a thing for breaking rules when it benefits her.

Though Chris/monochris definitely calls her everything under the sun like 'ultimate pain-in-my-ass' or even calls her the ultimate debater cause she won't stop arguing with him.

Once again it's fairly simple, she's just the best at what she does whether it's organising events, keeping the school in check and maintaining the school's high grades and reputation- turning it into one of the most prestigious schools in Canada. She truly is looked up to by everyone in her community - which is why she got such a shock when this was definitely not the case on the show.

The reason she applied to TD was so she could use the money to further her career progression with university and anything else she may need to ensure success. Plus winning would look good on a CV

Owen Mackenzie- The Ultimate Competitive Food eater

I mean, it could've been a party one or something but this is Owen we're on about here. But other than that, it was pretty easy pickings.

There's not much to say here. He loves eating, ever since he was young and entered multiple competitions. It started with a restaurant's eating challenge, where he happened to become a local celebrity for, and grew from there. His parents are so proud of their happy and successful son doing what he loves!

He applied to TD purely for fun, to make new friends, have a great time and maybe even find a girlfriend!

Gwen Paquette- The Ultimate Artist

Once again, it was pretty easy to pick this one out. She is artsy after all.

Her art got noticed on accident when she left a sketchbook at school. That was also when she got her first commission.

With that came the idea to officially sell the things she makes but for cheap pricing. She isn't really in it for money, more so she can make more stuff and doesn't have to worry about storing it.

Then things took a turn when her mum got into an accident. Although she turned out fine by the end of it, the hospital couldn't do much and she had to go private for her treatment and the payment took a toll on the family.

Although her art can make a lot of money, Gwen needed a more immediate solution to help out her mum and making sure her brother can live a comfortable life. Hence applying to TD, she didn't think she'd actually get selected but well, a lot of the creative talents are performative and they needed more diversity...

Outfit- The first person that has a different outfit. More gothic with a flair, like lace and chains as well as more extreme make-up. She had to tone it down for the cameras so she takes advantage of every moment she's off screen when eliminated.

Master list

#td owen #td duncan #td courtney #td gwen #danganronpa au #td au #kiyotaka ishimaru #chris mclean #tdi

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yaboirezzy · 1 year ago

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More AmyTerry Stuff bc I am 100% normal about them

Terry: Y'know, because you're cute, doesn't mean you get to call all the shots around here!

Amy, was about to argue with him but pauses and blushes: Y-you think I'm cute?

Terry, realizing his words: Aw, dangit!

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Terry: Hey Ames?

Amy: Uh-huh?

Terry: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Amy: .... I would throw you away

Terry: WHY-

Amy: *kisses him on the cheek* -to my miniature heart shaped ecosystem~

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Terry, wearing a duck costume and holding an umbrella: Hey Amy! If I jumped off a roof with these, do you think it would complete my transformation into a duck?

Amy: *does the hands clapped together and inhale move* Remind me to never leave you alone in any rooftops 'or ever if I'm being honest'

Terry, smirking: Well, in that case. I'll be having a candlelit dinner on my roof tomorrow at 6 PM 'and I'm keeping the duck costume!'

Amy: *inhales again* Please...just ask me out like a normal person!! 'That was really smooth, idiot~'

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Amy, with her back turned: *sobbing and sniffling*

Terry, entering the room and seeing what's going on: Hey Amy, I...I wanna apologize for the prank I did earlier, I realized that it was rather meaner then what I usually do. In fact, I actually wanna apologize for all the pranks I've caused before, I was just trying to have some fun and I don't actually mean to hurt you or anyone else, including when we were bickering and arguing someti-

Amy, turns her attention to Terry revealing that she was holding some onion cuts: What was that Terry, sorry I'm helping out my mom with these onions since the kitchen is kinda crowded with stuff

Terry: ...Y'know what forget it, I don't really feel like telling you that agai-

Amy: *went over to him and hugs him* Aw, I'm just messing with you, dum dum. I understand you and accept your apology

Terry: *blushing but hugs her back*

Barbara, peering from the kitchen doorway smirking: You know, I can get those onions by myself if you'd like to, dear

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The Blairwoods Squad: *playing a card game called "Do or Die (quit the game)"*

Sidney, feeling nauseous and betrayed: I can't believe you made me eat a block of stinky cheese!

Connor, wearing a girly looking dress (the same one he had to wear before): I'm sorry Sidney, but you can't blame me, it was the game! Heck, do you think I'm happy that I have to wear this again?

Sylvia: Okay Terry, it's your turn now! Pick two cards and see what they say

Miko: And you better do it, cause this'll be a short round for you but a long one for us if you "die" so soon!

Terry: Hah! You wish, this is the great Terry you're talking about here, I can handle anything! *he picks two cards and reveal that they say "The current player should kiss ______" and "Player 3"*

Terry and Amy, who was Player 3: *blushes*

The Others: Ooooooooo!

Amy, who was starting to sweat: Heh, who care about losing this game anyway. I'm sure you can handle that, right Ter-

Terry: *grabs and kisses Amy on the lips*

The Others: *did their rendition of the Yureimoto Siblings shocked faces moment albeit a happy version*

Miko: Holy s***! Is anyone else seeing some rainbows, flowers, hearts, and a lovely video effect, or is that just me?!!

Sylvia: Nope, I see it too...

Sidney: Pretty sure I saw some tongue...

Connor: *AOL dial up internet sounds*

Erma: 🥹 'Now I know how Timon and Pumba felt!!'

Felicia, who just arrived with the other older teens and adults, smirking: Well, clearly we arrived just in time for the picnic!

Terry: *dashes outta there in the speed of light and in embarrassment*

Amy: *cosplays as Amity once more*

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Here's one for @trickrtreat2004's Werewolf! Amy AU

Terry, getting impatient: So, are you finally gonna tell me what's up, or am I gonna stand here all night or something?

Amy: Promise me you won't freak out!

Terry: Well if it make this any faster, then ye- *sees Amy new werewolf form*

Amy: Please don't run away, you're the only one that can help me at this time

Terry: ....Really?

Amy, surprised: What?

Terry: Really, this is what you were getting so worked up about?

Amy: Wha- What are you talking about?!

Terry: This *gestures to her new form*, I thought it was gonna be something seriously sick or twisted, but you being a werewolf? That's not so bad!

Amy: HOW IS THIS NOT SO BAD?!

Terry: I mean, compared to all the weird things we've experienced so far, Erma and the things she brings along, Sidney and her people, the other stuff around town, this is pretty tame and lame compared to those. *holds hands with her bigger more monstrous ones* If you're worried about how we'd react to this, don't be, we all got your back no matter what, if anything we'll happily help you in finding out whatever way to solve this werewolf problem, why? cause you're our little blonde besti-

Amy, crushing him in a bear wolf hug: OOOOOOH Thank you Terry, I love and can't thank you enough for this!!

Terry, gasping for air in pain: Amy, I can't-! I can't breath-!

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Amy: *sees Terry sleeping with his back against the tree* Woah Terry is actually asleep at this time of the day?

Terry, sleeping: ....

Amy: *looks around in case of anyone else seeing them, kisses him on the lips*

Terry, wakes up and blushing: G-huh?! A-Amy...? did you just...?!

Amy, red as an apple: OH GOD HE WOKE UP!! At least no one is- *notices the others are staring at them a few meters away* OH FU—

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And now...three of these from their adult years...

Terry: Y'know, when you said you were "magical in bed" this isn't exactly what I exp-

Amy: *pulls out an 8 poker card* Is this your card?

Terry, flabbergasted because it was: Holy smokes, IT IS—!

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Amy: Sweetie, do you think this dress makes me look fat?

Terry, jokingly: Hey, don't blame the dress now, hun! *chuckles* I'm so funny

The skies became dark

Amy: *gets so angry that she made a callback to when she was hit by his water bucket prank when they were kids*

Terry, scared for his life: Ah!? AMY HOLD ON, WAIT IT WAS A JOKE—

Meanwhile their kids are with the others (and their kids as well)

Sidney: Welp kiddos, better hope that your old man survives this one again...

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Terry: Hey everyone! Sorry if I'm late for the festival, I was busy doing stuff

Amy, behind him looking really happy/satisfied: Hi everyone! I'm stuff~

Terry: Oh my god, AMY NO-!

Everyone, putting their troll mode on: Ha ha Terry, you are definitely doing Amy/my sister/my daughter!

#erma #webcomic #amy #terry #amyterry #chocobanana #💛🤎#au #future au #quotes i got from the internet

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darkx-the-dragon-kn1ght · 7 months ago

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Chapter 43- Part 13

Seriously!? It's still doing that much damage!? Shoot shoot shoot, uuuh…the Sp. Defense boost is a problem, so if I get Glare back up…

Shoot, I need another turn to heal Glare more- sacrificing Vulcan it is!

Now bring Glare in, use Acid Spray to get that Sp. Defense back down…

And- And- ah, who am I kidding, the team is in pieces and Clefable can one-shot with Stored Power, it's too late to do anything, we need to reset.

Can't believe the real final roadblock to getting the seventh Gym Badge is Clefable…and I can't believe it's taken me this many tries to beat this battle! And I thought Kiki's fight was nightmarish…is it just gonna be a rule of thumb that any boss battle where I have to leave Riptide in the PC is a really difficult one? We'll see, if it happens a third time…

But…I think I know how to handle that final hurdle. If I can just Screech Clefable down enough, Wulfrum should be able to kill with a single Iron Tail. Plus, with Sturdy, he won't be one-shot by Moonblast or Stored Power or anything else Clefable can throw at him. As long as he can hit that one Iron Tail…

And you know what? Now that I know Clefable isn't gonna pull any Minimize shenanigans, I can switch out Vulcan for Crater, since I think the Amnesia and Earth Power combo on Girafarig wasn't so bad.

Alright…here's the team, and hopefully this time- this time- we'll get the win. All these plans, these adaptations I've been making, refining my strategy…hopefully, after all that, this'll be the one.

Clefable first? That's fine, I need to heal Wulfrum, so I'll sacrifice Frost and Crater for this.

Calm Mind, huh? That's fine, I could use an extra turn to heal Glare too.

…and, uh…

Right as I was making my next move, my uh…my entire laptop crashed while Steam was updating in the background…at least, I think that's what caused it? Steam was updating, and then the game (and my laptop) crashed all of a sudden, and…well, I was able to get a screenshot or two of what happened, so here's my recreation of what the screen looked like:

No idea what that's all about or what Steam has to do with it, but…ugh. Needless to say, I'm not counting that as a reset, since I had no control over it. Combine that with the random crit Girafarig got again on this attempt and Cinccino’s…everything, and it's starting to look like the game itself really doesn't want me to win. But I'm going to!! If only out of spite towards technology by this point!!

(I love callbacks)

Okay, back again! Here we are! Since Glare has higher HP than before, I thought it was good to send her in first this time. Now, all she has to do is land two Screeches- that's it.

Glare, you've been pretty good with hitting Screeches before, don't start missing when it really matters…!

Okay! That's one, she has a chance to hit one more before going down, please-

Why do you miss Screech now!? Why!?

Okay, well…what if Jack softened Clefable up first with Seed Bomb? Just sacrifice Crater first to heal Jack back up…

And now- wait. Hold on. What am I doing- Jack has Destiny Bond!

Destiny Bond did not work and I wasted my Seed Bomb chance, I am so foolish. Okay, time to sacrifice Bloom to heal Glare…

This battle was so unfair to him, guys, like- this is his element, fighting in a beautiful field of flowers, he should have been allowed to do more, but all the Fire and Ice and Psychic attacks going around, he just wasn't allowed to exist…

(Future edit: In hindsight, I realize I could have swapped out Bloom for Riptide to have him be a backup Screech user, that way I wouldn't have needed to spend all these resources reviving Glare, oops-)

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excessive-vampires · 1 year ago

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Dealing With Demons Chapter 12: Not Even Scary Monsters Part 2: Cee

Masterlist with CW

Taglist: @demyxdancer @softvampirewhump @d-cs

Avi took us to a large park we often went to when the weather was nice. Specifically, they took us to the spot in the park furthest away from anyone that could hear them as they screamed in frustration.

Birds fled their nests and squirrels ran for more peaceful perches. Avi dropped to their knees and wiped tears from their eyes with the long sleeves of their undershirt. The cold night air whipped around us, bringing with it a refreshing calm and clarity. After a few moments they breathed in deep, held the smell of dirt and grass and trees in their lungs for a minute, and then exhaled as they climbed to their feet.

I'm sorry.

"Don't." They cut off my spiralling guilt. "Don't blame yourself. Our deal is way more important to me than anything else."

But—

"Even more important than having help with the Cliff thing," they reassured me.

Okay.

Satisfied that I was no longer irrationally blaming myself for the argument, they let their frustration come back.

"If I could have just explained the situation better!"

They didn't seem very willing to listen, and I doubt they'd fully believe that I chose this life. Maybe with time...

"Not likely. We need to keep the Bureau as far away from us as we can from this point on."

But what about your deal with Coleman?

"I'm pretty sure that deal's gonna be called off soon enough."

They were probably right.

It was weird, Riley was the one I was mad at, but I kept thinking about Mike. Looking back on the conversation Avi'd had with him as he rebandaged their arm.

......

"This'll sting some," Mike said.

"I know that peroxide hurts," Avi responded with an eye-roll.

"How? Have you ever been hurt enough to need it before?"

"Uh, no. No. I saw it on tv."

Mike shrugged and wiped the soaked cotton ball across the scratch. They hissed in pain.

"Told you."

Avi thought about making a snarky or rude retort, but there was a question pressing on their mind. Mine too.

"Why are you doing this?"

"So it doesn't get infected."

"No, I mean, why help me at all? I'm a highly dangerous scary monster that eats human souls."

"Well, you needed help. And I don't like to see anyone in pain, not even scary monsters."

We looked at Mike, processing this.

"You're a good person, Mike."

Mike laughed. "Not sure that means much coming from a demon. Or maybe it means more, I don't know. Ha! I just realized that if my parents knew that I was helping a demon right now it'd be all the evidence they'd need that they were right about me. Not that they need evidence."

I know what that's like.

"I almost want to tell them just to see how they'd react," Mike continued as he got out a long strip of gauze. "But I can't."

"Why not?"

"They don't know about magic or monsters or anything. I didn't either until about a decade ago and by then we were already no longer speaking."

Avi you have to ask him how he found out about magic! I'm begging you!

"What happened? Not with your parents, that's personal, I get it. I mean how'd you find out about magic?"

"Well I was on vacation in a national park with a friend of mine, and we got drunk and decided to go night-hiking because the night was so beautiful, what with the full moon and all."

"Ah."

"Yeah. We wandered off the trail and ran into what was, at the time, the scariest thing I'd ever seen. At first I thought 'Aw shit a grizzly bear' but my friend turned his flashlight on it and nope, werewolf. A werewolf that felt very threatened when I threw a beer bottle at him."

When he what!

Avi raised an eyebrow.

"I was drunk! And scared! Anyway, he decided to make sure we weren't going to tell anyone about this by turning one of us. I ran faster than my friend did. He was okay though, mostly."

Where is he now?

"Where is he now?"

"At home waiting for me to be done investigating this weird cabin. We got married a couple years after 'the incident' as we call it. Around that time I found out the Bureau existed and I decided to join to make sure everything was legit and Ian wasn't in danger."

Aw, that's sweet.

"I'm glad the Bureau turned out to be the good guys."

"Yeah, I am too." He taped the gauze down onto Avi's arm. "I honestly don't know what I would have done if they had been corrupt."

Avi laughed. My emotional state was a bit more mixed.

On the one hand, this was exactly the sort of story I was interested in hearing. On the other, it made me think of how I found out about the supernatural, and it made me want to share that story with Mike. To talk and laugh and compare experiences. But I couldn't. And Avi couldn't for me, because Mike didn't know I was here.

.....

Well, he knew I was here now, but I didn't think I was going to get to share my story.

Let's go home.

"It's not safe there."

No, but it's not safe anywhere and it's warm at home and we have chocolate.

Avi chuckled, but without any real joy behind it. "Okay. Yeah. Let's go home."

Then they teleported. We were supposed to end up back in our apartment, but we didn't.

It took us a moment to recognize where we were in the dark, and when we did Avi tried to run. But then there was a sickening cracking sound as something made of silver struck us, a stabbing pain in their head, and the feeling of the world falling away.

"I'm sorry, Cee," they managed to get out before the blackness took us.

I know.

#dwd #cee pov

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another-whump-sideblog · 1 year ago

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Jane's Pets Chapter 90: Hope

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"Is there something specific you want to talk about?" You ask. Fuck, it's been so long since she could choose what to talk about, at least that you've seen.

She just shrugs. "I don't know. I love you both. That's what I wish I could say the most. Besides that… I don't know."

You squeeze her hand. "I love you too."

Kitty nods in agreement. "Yeah, love you both…"

Puppy is silent for a bit. "You… you said I might hate you for not being politically active… why? I know you were homeless for most of your adult life, anyway… Hard to be involved in stuff like that when you're struggling to stay alive. And it's not like I was any kind of activist."

"...I don't know. It just feels like the bare minimum, y'know? I guess… I wish I'd been more involved in trying to help people back then. I was just only focused on myself. And not being politically active is an example of that… Sorry, it was a weird thing to say. I don't even really know what I meant, and I'm definitely not judging you for not being an activist, or anyone else. Just a thing I… I don't know. Sorry."

She hums thoughtfully. "Well, just know I would never hate you. Were you…? …nevermind."

You kinda want to know what she was going to say, but also this conversation is reallyyyyy awkward and you want it to be over. It's… nice, to have a problem as simple as this. An awkward conversation.

"I could never hate you either."

She nods. "I think… you're too hard on yourself. If you expect people to hate you over things like that."

You laugh in surprise. "Guess so. Add that to the list of things to talk about in therapy when this is all over."

She frowns. You hate that she doesn't believe this'll ever be over, but there's no point in trying to convince her. That'll have to wait until after Jane is dead.

"I'm… glad we can talk about anything." She finally says. "Even if we don't agree. When I'm allowed to talk, at least."

"Me too. Uh… I feel like there's so many things I've been wanting to ask you, but now that you actually can talk I can't think of anything." Besides questions about Jane you know she won't answer.

She nods. "Yeah, there's so many times that I want to say something and hold my tongue… but nothing is coming to mind now."

"We should just play a game or something, then. Kitty? What games do you think you're up for?"

They groan. "I don't know… I wanna play The Game of Life if you can talk, but… that requires a lot of focus…"

You're not really feeling up for The Game of Life either. "What about Crazy Eights?" That should be simple enough for you and Kitty and leave plenty of room for talking.

Puppy gives a thumbs up out of habit before remembering she can talk. "That sounds great."

Kitty nods in agreement, so the three of you play crazy eights for the next few hours, and then hang out with Puppy as she does her chores. It's so similar to how it normally is, and yet so different with Puppy joining in on the teasing each other and chatting.

This is how it should always be. They can't hope for that right now, but you can, and you will hope for them with everything you have.

-~-~

"Do you wanna know something funny?"

The girl stays perfectly still as Jane does her makeup. She's only recently been let upstairs for the first time and she doesn't want to do anything that would risk sending her back to the basement.

"My powers define death differently. Like, my immortality won't let me sleep forever, because that's considered too close to death. But I can only teleport non-living things, and wouldn't you know it, a person in a coma is considered alive! I don't get to be in a coma because I'm immortal. But someone in a coma is still too alive to be teleported. Isn’t that bullshit?”

The girl doesn’t dare move or speak. Jane hasn’t banned her from speaking yet, she just doesn’t want to know what’ll happen if she ruins the makeup. She wonders if Jane can teleport viruses, there's debate about whether or not those are alive, right? And her teleporting would remove all living bacteria, could it be used to sanatize things?

But she's not going to ask. She'll sit still and look pretty like Jane wants until she has a chance to get out.

“Drives me crazy." She mutters. "Look up, if you blink I'm gonna stab you in the eye."

The girl looks up as Jane applies eyeliner.

"You're really pretty… my little dress-up doll." She giggles.

The girl keeps looking up. Keeps being good, because eventually Jane will trust her to roam the house freely without cuts on her feet or broken ankles. Eventually, she'll be able to run. Just a bit longer. Just a bit more of this, and she'll be free.

-~-~

You think the healing spells you cast on the food in the fridge are working. You're the only one that would be able to tell, the others haven't been hurt recently, so you pay close attention to the speed of your healing. You think it's going faster.

It's been a few days since Puppy was allowed to talk, and your heart aches now that you have such a recent reminder of what Jane has taken away from her, and from you and Kitty. She should be that happy every day. She should be that free every day.

You spend a lot of time thinking about different spells and how you could make or find new ones. You feel fairly confident that if there was an already existing/known spell that could kill Jane, she would be dead, by her hand or someone else's. You have to discover the way to kill her, in your own way. You have to think of something no one's tried before. Something you have that everyone she's hurt before, including herself, didn't have.

There has to be something. There has to be. You have to have something special no one else has had before because otherwise this is going to be the rest of your life.

So that's what you spend your time thinking about, while you garden, while you play games with the others, while you go on walks and gather materials. What do you have that's special? What new spell can you make or discover that no one else before could've done?

"Kitty? Do you think I'm special?"

Kitty looks up from their coloring book (the three of you try to save the coloring books for special occasions- they can only really be used once, after all- and the special occasion today is that Kitty had a worse breakdown than normal and needed a pick-me-up). "Um… I don't know. Why?"

"Just… thinking. I've been trying to think of things that are special about me."

"...why?"

"I don't know. Sorry for bothering you."

"Hmm…" they go back to coloring. "Trying to… figure out why you're here? Even if there is something special… it doesn't help to worry about it."

"I know. I'm not worried about what made Jane pick me." You know why- you're trusting, and you were alone, and she thought it would be fun to hurt you. None of that is special.

"Okay…" Kitty frowns as they go back to coloring. Probably frustrated that they can't figure out why you're asking…

Well, Jane already knows you're trying to kill her. You can say this out loud.

"I just- lots of people have tried to kill Jane, y'know? If I want to be the one to do it, I have to have something none of those people had. I have to be special. Does that make sense?"

They nod slowly. "A little. But… it doesn't just have to be something about you. Or a specific person. Right? Cause… time keeps moving on. She's more or less given up on being able to die, or at least it seems that way from how she talks… but new things are invented every day."

Oh, you were totally right to talk to Kitty about this, even if Jane can hear your scheming. "Right! It could be something only someone in this specific time could do, not something only I can do. Hmm… If only we knew what kinds of things Jane had already tried! Or how she became immortal in the first place!"

Kitty sighs. "There's so much we don't know…" They look so, so tired.

"Don't give up hope. We're close, I just know it."

"Mmmm…"

They don't have to believe you. You'll get them out of here.

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You wake up the next morning from a dream of forcing Jane to drink molten metal, a surprising but welcome break from your nightmares. You scheme even in your sleep. You doubt it would work, she's certain to have already tried that, but you do wonder… can she teleport things out of her body?

You add that to the list of things you want to test, right after if a body part got cut off, would she be able to reattach it or would she grow a new one? and can she heal if her entire body is destroyed at once?

You're scared to do things just to test them. If there's no chance of it killing her, you're just signing yourself (and the others) up to be tortured. But you'll never figure out how to kill her without more information…

So that makes the 'destroying her whole body' thing the most appealing. It's a test, but it also has a chance, however small, of actually killing her. So that's your plan for today.

You prepare a spell to do just that, not even bothering to wait for Jane to take someone else to the basement. You don't care if she's watching, so long as you can catch her off guard eventually. Your head is already starting to hurt.

Once the spell is prepared, you leave your room for breakfast, and-

Your hopes are immediately crushed. Jane is dragging Kitty by the hair to the basement.

You'd cast right now, but… you don't know if you're skilled enough to avoid hitting Kitty. So you just watch as Jane drags them and laughs while they cry.

"Good morning, Bunny! My Kitty needs a bit more training."

She throws them down the stairs and follows after, slamming the door behind her. Fuck

They're going to get tortured. You don't even know if they did anything, or if Jane was just bored. You need to kill Jane.

Puppy sits at the table, still muzzled, staring at the omelets she made. You need to kill Jane.

You sit down next to her. This… it's not ideal, but you can still get something out of this. Out of her being in the basement with Kitty. "Puppy. Do you trust me?"

Screaming starts up downstairs. Puppy nods slowly.

"Would you do anything for me?" You know you're being manipulative, but this can't go on any longer.

She looks at you suspiciously, but nods.

"Then I need you to tell me- If Jane's entire body was destroyed at once, would she die?"

Puppy shakes her head.

"If some kind of weapon was inside her body, would she be able to teleport it out?"

Puppy thinks for a moment, then shakes her head reluctantly. She's less willing to give you this information- probably because she's worried you'll do something stupid- but she did give it. She's not just telling you what she thinks will make you the least likely to get hurt, she's telling telling you the truth.

"If one of her limbs were chopped off, would another one grow in its place?"

She shakes her head.

"Would the limb reattach?"

She nods.

"So, her healing… it just reverses damage, right? It's not making new cells or anything."

Puppy nods. But… that doesn't feel right. When you slit her throat, the blood didn’t go back into her. And she told Barron (thinking about it at all sends a stab of pain through your chest, but you push it away) she once held open wounds until she should’ve bled out…

“But her blood is different. From her skin and stuff. More gets made, and more skin doesn’t get made.”

Puppy winces and nods hesitantly.

“I guess that could be true about any bodily fluids… but you’re reacting like blood is special. Is that important? For killing her? Knowing that her blood is different somehow?”

Puppy shrugs. She’s starting to look pretty upset… just a few more questions, then you can comfort her. Kitty screams and screams downstairs.

“So her blood is important to her immortality.”

Puppy nods.

“Do you know why she’s immortal?”

Puppy nods again, looking more distressed. You’re… not sure where to go from here with yes or no questions.

“Okay. I’m done. Sorry for upsetting you.” You pull her into a hug, and she practically melts. “I’m sorry. Thank you for trusting me, and helping me. I know you can’t believe me, but… I’m going to end this. We’re getting out of here.”

She doesn’t respond, of course. That’s okay- well, it’s not, but it’s going to be. “It’s going to be okay, I promise.”

A/N: Let me know if I should tag anything else, or if you want to be added to or removed from the tag list!

Tag list: @eatyourdamnpears @whump-in-the-closet @scp-1296 @thecosmicmap @quins-whump-stuff

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#whump #whump writing #whumpblr #intimate whumper #creepy whumper #nonhuman whumper #multiple whumpees #pet whump #whumpee #whumper #whump caretaker #3rd person pov #2nd person pov #torture mention tw #implied drugging tw #jane’s pets

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totaldramafan-lauri · 8 months ago

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What do you think about Golden Cheese Cookie's wings? How do they look close? Will She allow Reader to touch them? Do they need special care?

I-I've thought about her wings....a fair amount, so hopefully this'll be easy to answer....

S-so, this is irrelevant for in-game canon....honestly, I doubt this is something anyone but hardcore simps like me have given ANY thought to.....B-but, when humanized....like, in a humanized art style......I would assume her wings would be allowed to have feathers. Which, yes, means that she has to care for them. N-now, I'm not an expert at this, cuz I've never been a bird person....None of my family is, so I've never been able to have a pet bird or even be near one....but I know that birds groom themselves by "preening" their wings, which keeps them healthy. I think they can do this themselves, but there are spots they of course can't reach, so they can do it to each other, too....a-and that's all I remember right now.....F-for her it'd be different cuz she's not a full bird, but I imagine her wings would still need to be groomed in SOME way, so she tends to them and fluffs them up to keep them pretty. Kn-knowing her, she probably spends extra time on them, too.....Nothing can look anything less than p-perfect, after all......>///////>

I-I would imagine she sometimes needs servants' help for the spots she can't see....Cheesebirds can tend to her, but also cookies can do it too, sure they don't have beaks, but I'd imagine having, y'know, opposable thumbs is a good substitute. X/////D Since her wings are so big....I-I bring this up in MUOM. She will only let her most trusted servants do this, tho....Th-the ones she specifically trains for care like this....

(I-I should know....c-cuz it's tied into one of the small fic ideas I've been sitting on.....*COUGH COUGH COUGH* >//////>)

B-but, uh, e-enough overanalysis.....

Wh-when you asked if she'd let "Reader" touch them, I dunno if you mean specifically the Reader from MUOM, or ANY reader at all once they get close.....and, uh.....

Y-yeah, it's safe to say that, if she's allowed you to get close to her, close enough to touch the rest of her, then....y-yeah, you can touch them, if you're careful. They are just another part of her, after all. The same rules apply there as they do everywhere else. X//////D A-although, it's probably best to ask her first, so she can give permission....D-don't wanna be rude, after all.....

(Which means, that yes, Reader from MUOM in the Ending 2 timeline can touch her wings. Th-they're usually hidden in her virtual form, but she will still occasionally shift into a version of her original look when in private with them cuz she knows it makes them happy....They're not CONSTANTLY touching her wings or anything, but occasionally, she'll see them eying her wings, and she encourages them, telling them it's OK, she doesn't mind....G-go on.....>///////<)

#people actually talking to me #muom talk #(kinda)

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pure-garbage · 11 months ago

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Two-Faced Archipelago! The Smile Of Sabaody

The town built on a cluster of ancient mangroves was bright and lively, beckoning Lana with novel sights and sounds.

"You still remember the dock number?" she triple-checked.

"For the last time, yes!" Zoro grumbled.

"Okay. Here, try this."

Zoro accepted a mug from her, sampling its contents with a discerning flair.

"Not bad. Where'd you get it?" he asked.

"That shop. It fronts a distillery."

"Wanna stop in for a while?"

"Maybe on our way back. Gimme some of your hair. I'm gonna split for a while."

He accepted the knife she offered, obliging her request even as he questioned it.

"What do you need my hair for?"

"I heard there's a stall a few streets over that make up vivre cards. I'm going to get them to make us one each," Lana explained.

"What for?"

"Just to have. The whole concept is so neat, I can't resist!"

"If you say so. What do you say we meet back here in an hour?"

"Uh..."

Lana considered the idea of Zoro intentionally trying to find his way back to one specific spot and paled a little at the thought of the chaos that would almost certainly ensue.

"Don't worry about it... I don't know how long this'll take. I'll just find you when it's done, 'kay?" she proposed instead. She didn't wait for him to accept, just ran off before he could protest, leaving him shaking his head.

"With her awful sense of direction?" he scoffed, unaware of the cruel irony. "I'll be lucky to ever see her again."

Lana left the stall with her freshly minted vivre cards much sooner than she'd anticipated.

"Now, Zoro," she muttered to herself as she stepped out into the street. "Where are you?"

She walked for about three minutes before a woman's inconsolable wailing pierced the calm of the grove.

"Yep," she sighed. "Bet my sash that's where Zoro's at."

Lana high-tailed it in the direction the screams, heading for the source of the commotion. Soon, she rounded a corner, but what she saw stopped her cold.

"Z-Zoro!"

He sat on the grass, red covering his head and dripping down off his chin.

"What did you do?! I left you alone for like, twenty minutes! Whose blood is that?" Lana demanded. Her head whipped around, but she didn't see bodies or anyone else injured. Her sole focus turned to Zoro. "Can you stand? What happened?!"

"I'm fine, it's red berry sauce," Zoro grunted, taking her hand and pulling himself up. "You're not gonna believe this, but some crazy chick just knocked me down and splashed it all over me. On purpose."

"What? That's all? I mean, that's pretty bizarre, but I thought you hurt someone. Or got hurt. Mostly hurt someone else, though."

Lana wiped a finger through the red substance and popped it into her mouth, confirming Zoro's claim.

"I almost did," Zoro admitted. "Some whacky guy in the dumbest outfit I've ever seen pointed a gun at me for literally no reason."

"Literally no reason? Come on, Zoro, just pony up and tell me what you did," Lana scoffed.

"I didn't do anything! I have no clue what this guy's problem was!"

"Right, sure. So this connects to the red berry sauce woman how?"

"She knocked me down, splashed me, told me to stay down and then did a whole bunch of caterwauling about how her 'poor brother was dead'. Hey, knock that off!"

Zoro swatted Lana's hand away as she tried to swipe another taste of the syrup.

"But it's good though," she moped. "Whatever, have it your way. That sounds like a really strange encounter, Zoro. I guess that was all the screaming I heard."

"Think that's all considered normal around these parts?" Zoro asked, glancing around surreptitiously for any sign of others being unsolicitedly doused with berry sauce.

"Who knows? Come on. Let's head back to the ship and clean up. Before anything else weird happens."

"Sure you don't want to hang around and see if you can get some berry sauce for yourself?" Zoro smirked as he caught her eying the sticky substance yearningly.

"Ha ha. Very funny. How about we get back to the Sunny and I settle for licking you clean?" she teased.

"You're right, we really should get going," he agreed at once with a wide grin.

"Oh, I almost forgot," Lana realized. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the vivre cards.

"Purple and green?" Zoro asked curiously.

"Yeah, they let you pick the colors. Nifty, huh? Here."

She tore both cards, kept half of each and gave the other halves to Zoro.

"Obviously, mine is the purple one and yours is green."

"That tracks."

"Now don't lose them, or mine won't work."

"Me? You don't lose yours."

"As if. Hey, you still remember the grove number where we docked?"

"Hey!"

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#one piece #fanfic #oc #roronoa zoro #sandbox adventures #pure garbage #zoro #sabaody archipelago

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creatively-cosmic · 1 year ago

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make a bad comic... take a bad picture of it..... the starry brain experience simulator 9000

readable(???) stuff below

ever since moving, its been hard to parse any of my thoughts and feelings.

id been wanting to draw my way thru it for a while now but never felt able to.

today why did we cross that out

uh idk

this morning we saw a comic on tumblr that DEMANDED you draw a bad comic [fully blacked out writing] oh it IS a thing my bad!!

to which i said internally

"ON GOD?"

draw bad on purpose

so i thought this would b fun 2 try!!!!

ive been tired of not being able to draw. to create. to work. to think straight. to do anything im "supposed" to. which is stupid

dont say that thats mean!! X(

given no expectations are on me now

Aren't there some expectations?

why can't we live without feeling like we need to do something?

Brother i think it's the trauma

GUYS WE'RE GETTING DERAILED

well this is about whatevers on our mind so :/

SO what im doing is grabbing random pencils or pens out of my Cowboy Bebop™ Ein™ and family Pencil Bag™ (stop writing TM its not funny (FUCK U)) and writing whatever thots we think on here n drawing about it YIPIEE!!

(this is JIMMY)

also we aren't allowed to erase anything

(wanna bet?) (THAT'S NOT THE POOOINT)

THIS IS SUCH A BAD IDEA WE LOOK SO FAKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING

idk who said that lalalala

I HATE YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE HERE

lalala im drawing u dead on the ground with a big ass and writing ur thoughts lalalala

oh i hate this pen

the chisel tip :(((

anyways i don't have anywhere im rly going with this,,,

i just hope this'll b a nice outlet 4 us after our life changed fundamentally however messy it might get

ik i had fun w this one! :3

(goD this pen sucks)

#makeaterriblecomicday2024 #brain diary #finally living up to thr diary element of my brain diary tag #i want to do more stuff like this ots like venting but not when i feel like ass just when i have too many thoughts in my brain #nyways thia was fun thank you terrible comic day for the motivation hooray!!

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clairethecutepup · 9 months ago

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Murder Drones Fanfic: A Warning of Danger-- Now and Later... (N's Pet AU)

Synopsis:

Thad has brought Uzi and N back to the bunker, after the two agree to help with the mysterious disappearances and deaths. However, are they actually prepared to face the horror that awaits inside-- and not just what the responsible thing is, but what it could mean for Uzi and her strange symbol? N's concerns won't be limited to just Uzi, unfortunately, as Claire displays some uncharacteristic behavior when confronting the cruel force...

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Thad finishes leading everyone back to the bunker. Claire looks from N's back, the riding pup taking in the full view of the entrance. Obviously, not her place of origin: this place hosts worker drones, not strange human-dog-things. Yet, why does it stir a sense of familiarity within her...?

"That's a 'bunker,' Claire," N smiles and points, "it's where the worker drones hide to avoid getting killed by us," he then winces, "Uh, but it didn't do a very good job preventing that the last time we were here..." he taps his index fingers together, looking down at Uzi, "Do you think they'll be comfortable with me being in there again...? I know I helped stop V and J, but I also helped them with wiping you guys out before all that..."

"We'll have to find out..." Uzi sighs, "If it makes you feel any better, this'll be awkward for me, too..."

Uzi knows her father will likely want to see her again, but how would that turn out...?

"Oh hey, dear daughter, I'm so happy to see you're still alive and well-- even though I apparently don't care if you actually aren't! After all, I trust my doors more than I do my own oil and metal-- even when all I had to do is just pick up your freakin' railgun and pull the trigger!"

"Oh, hey, Dad! Yeah, totally good to see you again, we're sooooo cool after you decided to just let N here kill me!"

Yeah, it's gonna be real fun... But again, there's that hypocrisy if she just turns her back on everyone else, too. Well, as long as he also doesn't abandon her to whatever's causing these deaths and disappearances...

Thad knocks on the door.

"Uh, hello...?" he asks, "I promise I'm a fellow worker drone, just bringing back the two people who saved us last time..." he looks at Claire, "... And another person, too, I guess…?"

Wait a minute, how did they know for sure that really was a fellow worker drone out there? Well, when you have doors, you also have peepholes. Khan did understand the once-fatal flaw of his doors: their opaqueness, thus you could never tell who was really standing on the other side of them... Good thing he realized that oversight; otherwise all the worker drones would've been dead by now, instead of just getting to wag their fingers and chuckle, "You almost got us that time, disassembly drones!" Not only did the door guard see that Thad was a fellow worker drone, but he also saw their previous saviors were with him.

"Yep, that seems to check out!" the guard smiles, then frowns, "Hey, wait a minute... Is that a disassembly drone?"

"Yeah, about that..." N rubs his arm, "I actually have something to give you guys..."

"Okay, just don't try anything..."

Well, if you can't trust the machines literally built to slaughter your kind, who can you? Besides, he seems like the same one that saved everyone in the end-- despite helping infiltrate and slaughter everyone originally. The guard parts the door's halves a little, resulting in the centered crack that allows him to look through. N pulls out a crudely drawn card, handing it over: the paper wasn't even folded properly, but the N stick figure-- surrounded by stick figure corpses --and his sad little tear made that badly written, "I'm sorry..." seem all the more authentic. Underneath the cover: a pebble taped within and accompanied by the poorly written, "You can also have this rock I found, I thought it was neat." With an apology card (and rock), the guard smiles again.

"Aww, go ahead and get in here, ya goober!" he fully opens the door, wagging a finger, "Just don't do it agai--" he then freezes and widens his digital eyes, as he watches them enter, "... What the heck is that supposed to be?"

Three guesses whom that once-wagging finger pointed toward, and the first two don't count. Claire's ears flatten, as she tries hiding her head behind N's.

"That's 'Claire'!" N grins and points a thumb, "Don't worry, she's a good girl and won't cause any trouble."

"I'm not so sure about that..." Uzi sighs, examining the humanish thing on N's back, "Everyone's pretty much used to being hunted by whatever isn't a worker drone, and now we actually have something taking everyone out. Maybe it'd be better to have her wait outside, before she causes some mass freakout?"

"Aw, come on, they don't seem to mind."

All the remaining door guards have surrounded N's back, to eye and poke the weird hybrid hanging there-- just as one does with any strange new thing. Claire winces but remains still, even as her tail is being repeatedly stretched. That particular drone then switches from holding the large and long cloud of fluff within his hands, to hugging it.

"So soft..."

"See?" N looks back at Uzi, "They're getting along just fine."

"Fine," Uzi rolls her eyes, "just remember that part about making sure she doesn't kill anyone or cause trouble some other way."

They're soon taken to a crime scene: the remains of a drone lay strewn about on the ground, oil still seeping out of the severed parts. They didn't have any police tape available, so toilet paper blocks off access for anyone not permitted to investigate. Not like it's been much use otherwise, ever since the humans here died... Uzi examines the remains while kneeling, but she can't deny a standard disassembly drone seems like the actual culprit: torn apart, damaged beyond repair, nothing that seems different from the usual results of blades or other weaponry.

Uzi asks, "You're sure you were the only ones sent here?"

"Yep, just me, V and J," N nods, "and we all left after that whole fight," he then thinks a moment, "... But maybe I didn't take all of J with us...?" his eyes widen and he gasps, "If that's true, maybe it was enough of her to regenerate and start attacking everyone?"

"I don't know if she'd be the 'creepy killer staying quiet in the shadows' type..." Uzi stands again, "She seemed like the type who'd kill everyone in sight and brag while doing it..."

"Yeah, she always did take pride in her work... Maybe almost getting completely killed off made her want to be careful this time?"

"But we wouldn't be here anymore, not even my railgun would... So, if it is her, why would she feel like she has to stay out of sight?" Uzi then looks at Claire, "I still have my suspicions about possibility 'B' here, though..."

"Come on, Uzi, look at her..."

If it wasn't the toilet paper keeping unpermitted drones from entering the scene, it was Claire. Their own kind dying and with the corpse visible? Mehhh... Now, some weird looking human-puppy-thingy? Time to literally poke and prod in curiosity! Or, squeeze those soft little hand-paws or make those big ol' wolf ears flop about. Still, the poor kid maintains her docility and doesn't do more than wince anxiously.

"See?" N gestures, "Well-behaved, so how could anything like her be responsible?"

"Yeah, because V and J were just as friendly as you are..." Uzi rolls her eyes, "I'm telling you: if it's not another disassembly drone, then finding her was a sign that things are about to get worse..."

N frowns at Claire. He didn't like the idea of his new pet secretly being a member of some "creepy shadow-lurking hunter" species... How could anything like Claire be that way, though? She seemed far too terrified to be anything terrifying-- actually, maybe N should stop being kind enough to let everyone see her...? Poor thing looks overwhelmed and ready to cry...

"Wow, just look at those teeth!" one drone stretches her mouth open, "They sure look deadly..."

"Whoa, check out the claws she's got!" Another drone holds her paws up, "They seem sharp!”

"Hey, you're right! You could probably tear us apart easily with these..."

"The best part is, they seem like the kind of claws and teeth to only be visible when she's acting deadlier than cuter."

Uzi comes over and takes a closer look: stretching Claire's mouth as wide as possible to see those fang-y whites, then getting a closer look at those only-sometimes-visible claws on her paws. N didn't like how Uzi furrowed her digital brow...

"Uh, hold on a minute...!" he quickly stands in between the two, holding his arms out, "Sure, those look concerning, but we still have to remember that she was with us the whole time and even if something like her is responsible," N lifts Claire into an arm, his eyes turning into digital shades, "Claire could also be an 'angsty rebel' that's gone against her fellow... uh... friends and refuses to follow any mission orders," he lifts Claire up by her armpits, "Yay, rebellion and totally being on our side...!"

"... What if it's not following orders...?" Uzi finally asks, though more to herself, "What if it's something that could be acting on its own...? The sooner we get to the bottom of this, the better," she then glares at Claire, "Okay, you can't really speak, so we'll keep it simple: you answer, 'Yes' or 'No,' but it better be the truth..."

Was Claire alone out there? The pup nods to confirm. Did someone give her orders to exterminate the drones here? The pup shakes her head in denial. Does she remember how she got here? Another shaking of her head. Uzi didn't sense any attempts to hide things, but she didn't like the pauses Claire took to think and how she shifted her eyes in that thought. Luckily for her, it was easily identifiable as more of a struggling recollection than a fibber's planned fabrication.

"... Do you know anything?"

Claire shakes her head fiercely, her blonde tuft and blue ears flopping with enough force to almost throw them off herself. She hoped to high Heaven that Uzi believed her, it'd be terrible to suffer without any possible information to save her... Or, any information to at least satisfy herself. N would normally be relieved that his pet won't be answering to the railgun instead, but he'd be lying if he claimed there wasn’t personal concern about Claire's clear inability for a proper answer-- whether they were being denied whatever helpful information Claire could provide, or regarding the pup herself. The "amnesia cliche," or so it seemed to currently be, was never a result of something good... It was admittedly empathetic for him, even: all he could recall himself were the orders from JCJenson to hunt down their "rogue AI," yet he felt like there was always something more to it.

"Well, if you do remember something," Uzi points at Claire, "you better tell us...!" she turns away, "In the meantime, we'll try figuring this out the old fashioned way..."

Armed worker drone, disassembly drone and... canid-sapien-thing then set off to find whatever's responsible. Of course, their search just had to bring them to the spookier and darker part of this stupid bunker. Even better, it was under some repairs, so that was some extra bit of danger: wires, holes, toilet paper "tape" that would've been easy to get tangled up in-- especially in the aforementioned spooky darkness. As if N and Uzi weren't on edge already, they heard a sound from Claire they never expected: a growl.

Wait, she could actually show an emotion other than fear...? Wait, Uzi probably should focus less on that and more on what’s causing those growls... N also focuses on where Claire narrows her eyes and bares the sharp fangs that are ready to rip out the throat of whatever it is. Not even Claire understood her odd 180 in behavior, she only knew something drove her to tear apart whatever stood a few feet away... The very same thing that finally opened and revealed its yellow humanistic eyes, and the yellow grin of incisors and canines once hidden underneath the oral corners that stretched a couple feet from each other. N's own eyes widened, as he instantly aimed his arm and readied missile. Uzi's face replicates his horror, as she also prepares her own weapon-- but not without a, "Yeah, totally NOT another disassembly drone...!"

"No, I am not..." it spoke without emotion and even more robotically than the actual robots, "I am... something more..."

N fires his missile, the explosion resulting in small surrounding fires that illuminated the area-- WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FRICK IS THAT?! The wide grin and eyes belong to some fleshy mass serving as some "head," stretched into the air by the elongated metallic vertebrae that extended from the other fleshy mass: a quadrupedal form that stood atop pole legs, all bent outward like a beast of only hind legs, with each one's weird hand-feet being a human's source of digits with a disassembly drone's claws. The creature technically seemed to be J...? That fleshy cranium had her pigtails and the body had her syringe tail-- er, harpoon tail.

"Do not mind me," that thing continued, "I am simply trying to sustain myself on the flesh and blood of the innocent... Or, oil and metal, in this case..."

N reaches out, "Claire, NO!"

The smaller (and definitely less terrifying) freak of nature charges toward the larger one, assuming her own quadrupedal stance. Claire's small size made for faster agility and evasiveness, letting her dodge the quick harpoon that skewered the ground. Uzi couldn't tell which she was in more disbelief of: the freaky J-thing that stood before them, or Claire having the guts and aggression to just go in like that? N's own surprise gave way to panic: how the heck does he help fight that thing if Claire's in the line of fire?! After aiming his arm in various directions, he decides he'll lessen the risk of harming Claire instead through closer combat-- even if it may increase risk of his own harm.

"Uzi, cover me!"

"Just make sure to give me a clean shot!"

Uzi aims her railgun in preparation, knowing it's all she can do-- but by Robo-God, she was going to make it count! She'd better, or the weapon’s recharging duration could cost them dearly... Claire ran around, jumping from wall to floor, floor to beast-- hopping and speeding about however she could to swipe and bite the monstrosity. She’d destroy that freaky abomination's body, and most certainly what gave it life originally... Unfortunately, no matter how much flesh she cut through, no matter how many wires and pieces her teeth ripped out; the pup couldn't fully bring the beast down. A harsh smack from the harpoon's side sent her into the wall, before one of those horrid claw-hands squeezed her in its fleshy blades. Claire didn't whimper as she was threatened with death by both crushing and slicing, as the fingers tighten around her, she only growled and bared her teeth. The J-monster then brings her closer to its yellow grin and eyes.

"Now, be a good whatever-you-are and play dead, just like the rest of them..."

N flies by, his arm’s blade cutting off the creature's limb, before he grabs the dropped Claire and hurries away with her.

"UZI, NOW...!!"

"Get back here," the creature charges, "it's very rude to leave, before I get a chance to properly kill you..."

N flies past Uzi, doing his best to keep hold of the squirming Claire; while Uzi braced herself, narrowing her digital eyes. Not yet... Not yet...

"Uzi!" N stops and turns around, "What're you doing?!"

"Trust me!"

"Oh, I'm sorry," the creature focuses on her, "I can see you wish to die first..."

"Uzi, shoot already!!"

N drops Claire-- commanding a quick, “Stay!” --and rushes back. The grinning face lurches forward, ready to smash Uzi within its stretched jaw.

"Yeah, that's right," Uzi smirks, "BITE ME!"

Of course, she wouldn't give this thing the chance to make her catch phrase literal: her railgun's green beam pierces through the beast's mouth and past the back of its skull. With the head and "brainstem" entirely destroyed, the neck and rest of the abomination falls atop the ground. It decomposed like any corpse, despite it not being of a purely organic nature. The bloody and oily bubbling mass melts away, reducing to just the basic components: bits of a metallic skeleton, sparking wires... and, of course, the remains of J's head. N lands behind Uzi, scanning the scene with her. He's relieved, but...

"Uzi, don't scare me like that!" he scolds, "I was worried you froze up there!"

"Hey, it's not like this thing can do multiple shots in a row! ... Yet. With how it is, I needed to make sure it'd actually do something to it. What better way than right in its big, stupid, horrifying face?"

"Alright, I guess it did work, but try to be more careful, okay?" N then looks over at Claire, "And Claire, bad girl, no running toward dangerous and scary monsters!"

Claire winces and lowers her head, looking ready to cry at N's disapproval. Then, another 180 happens: Claire growls and charges forward, as something small climbs from the monster's remains... Uzi steps aside to dodge, while N fails to grab the speedy pup.

"Oh, come on! What did I just say…?"

"Uh, I think there's a bigger concern here..."

Both watch Claire catch something in her clawed paws and try tearing it with her teeth. It was some kind of core: small and with little bladelike limbs, but no amount of poking nor pushing could save it.

"Ow... Ow..." it responds to the gnawing, "At least eat a breath minute before eating me..."

Whatever that thing was, it seemed incapable of committing further harm; so N and Uzi shared a glance, before approaching and kneeling for a closer look.

"What is that...?" Uzi asks, "It looks like a drone core, but when are they so... weird?"

In all honesty, she didn't know how to describe it as "freaky," "scary," and so on didn't seem to cut it. N tries to pull it from Claire, but she clenches her teeth and pulls back with a growl.

"No, drop it, drop it..." N wags his finger, still pulling back, "We need to--"

Uzi rolls her eyes, before slamming the top of her fist into Claire's throat. The natural gag reflex ensues, forcing Claire to wince and open her mouth, tongue hanging out.

"You can eat whatever it is, when we're done with it..."

"What's gotten into you, Claire...?" N furrows his brow, but returns to examining the weird thing in hand, "And why's this causing it, whatever it is...?" he had to press his other palm onto Claire's lunging face, "Hey, no, down…!"

"Here, I'll take it..." Uzi offers a hand, “You just worry about making things easier…”

While she took it, N trapped Claire in a tight embrace. The pup kept struggling, until N managed to lie her onto his crossed lap and calmed her with a petting hand.

"It's okay, girl, it's okay..."

As usual, Claire goes from puppy to putty, finally stopping her assault. Uzi constantly rotates and tilts the limp core, occasionally holding up one of the legs' bladed feet and then looking into the glitching digital iris centered in the flesh. It seemed like they managed to save it just in time: the sparking and bitten thing was close to death, unable to properly sense all around it any longer nor simply move. Then, the yellow screen locked its singular eye with the opposing purple pupils, displaying that familiar symbol... Then, Uzi's right pupil mirrored it.

"Hello, fellow program..."

What did it just say...? Wait, is this why Uzi has it, is she also--?!! In her panic, she throws the core onto the ground.

"What're you waiting for?! Sic it!!"

N releases Claire, and the pup instantly tears it apart. N turns toward Uzi, standing up and putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Uzi, is everything alright...?"

"I'm fine," she smacks his hand away, "I just..."

How is she supposed to finish that: "I just think I might also turn into some freaky, fleshy monster-thing because it shared this weird symbol of mine and said we're alike!"? ... That wouldn't be true, right...?

"Look, let's... let's not worry about that right now, okay?" Uzi sighs, "We got our answer and fixed things, and that's all that matters..."

N knows she is bothered by something, beyond recently facing some eldritch horror... However, it may not be wise to prod her when she's uncomfortable.

"Okay, just know that you can tell me anything," he offers a smile, "We're friends, Uzi, and I'll always be happy to help with whatever might be bothering you."

"Yeah, I'll... I'll keep that in mind..."

Part of her does want to tell him, just to get it off her chest and make an answer easier from possible help. Still, it's not easy to confess, not even to just yourself, that there may be a connection between you and some horrifying abomination. A "program," huh? Is that what might be wrong with her, why this symbol was appearing...? Please, don't let her actually become such a thing-- especially not worse...!

"Anyway, we should probably tell everyone..." Uzi leads the way, "I'm sure they'll be happy to hear it..."

N continues to watch Uzi in concern, before watching Claire finish the mutated core and... eat it? Well, that's one way to get rid of some freaky source of terror... He whistles and has her walk alongside him, though bipedally this time and entirely back to her docile persona. N worried about what could be going on with his friend and pet: why was Uzi suddenly so panicked, why was Claire suddenly acting like a fellow disassembly drone? He needed to find some answer, to help poor Uzi and to prevent Claire's seeming aggression from inviting possible trouble... In the meantime, he'll just keep an eye on them both.

As if the poor worker drone didn't have enough on her mind, Uzi found herself before, not just other drones, but also Khan. This wasn't an easy experience for himself, either, as it took a while to find the gall to face his daughter again; however, he needed to speak to her again, he didn't get to simply hide in shame after abandoning her to the disassembly drones... Needless to say, everyone else-- N and Claire included --just shift their eyes between the two as they awkwardly stand on the sidelines. Khan rubs the back of his head; while Uzi isn't certain about just glaring at him and acting all (rightfully) bitter, or going from "edgy and hormonal" teen to mature adult. She had some time to think, during her (self-appointed) banishment, and the J-abomination's threat of seeing either killed off before such a moment could happen... No, neither could just let things stay as awkward and awful when it came to each other-- especially when the loss of a mother and wife made them their only remaining family. They share the expected and synchronized, "Uzi..." and "Dad..." before Uzi was allowed the first sentance.

"Look Dad, I admit that I'm still pretty mad at you for just closing the door on me, instead of trusting me... But, if you did manage to kill off N with my gun, we might not have been able to save everyone else here from V and J. I have to give you that... Just, next time, don't leave me for dead, okay? It's pretty messed up!"

Khan hugs his child tighter than he ever has.

"Oh, Uzi... I may have a duty to help protect everyone here, but that's no excuse to forget about the person I should focus on protecting the most. No good father should ever forget that... I promise, I'll never do something like that again."

"... Yeah, you better not..."

When Uzi returns the hug, everyone else responds appropriately: wiping their digital tears (which wouldn't actually be affected by the tissues...), clapping or cheering. N couldn't help but sniffle and wipe away his own (unaffectable) tears.

"I love happy endings..."

Claire wasn't familiar with the whole story, but she agreed it was a nice moment. Of course, there were Uzi's fellow school peers, too...

"Jeez..." Lizzy rolls her eyes, "Get a room..."

Thad asks, "You know that's her dad, right...?"

"Ugh, you know what I mean, Thad..."

"<It's truly a blessing to still have your loved ones to hold...>" Doll furrowed her brow, speaking in her usual Russian, "<It would be a shame if the next time they separated, it was permanent...>"

Doll then noticed Claire staring at her. Claire wasn't growling nor baring her teeth, but her stare was abnormal: a neutrality that didn't display standard docility nor the triggered aggression of before, just unblinking blues that stared past their goggle-like glasses... Doll raised an eyebrow at first, before glaring back at the pup; she knew there was something of concern with her, just as Claire felt there could be with Doll... For right now, though, N would take Claire back to the landing pod with him. After all, they couldn't just leave V all alone and chained up... or presumably so.

When N relayed the story to her, she couldn't quite fathom such a creature existing nor a drone's core-- "worker" or "disassembly" --being in such a state. Then again, if this weird "pet" of his existed, then what was really off the table? Better question, what is on the table or simply in store: whether V's personal plans, Uzi's concerns about herself, or Claire's concerns about Doll and vice versa?

… Well, Uzi had one more concern on her mind, namely something that made her seem less like a “rogue badass”...

“Wait, you told everyone I was grounded instead?!”

[End Chapter]

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To Keep Easier Track of the Series:

As you can see, this AU isn't just "Word-for-Word Murder Drones, just with a new character": I knew I should also take some liberties to make things a tad more interesting, like new dialogue and recreated events. So yeah, hence J's "abomination form," or whatever YOU might want to call it, has taken the form of something else. As such, Claire will be inviting a new aspect into the overall story, like her soon-to-be-revealed backstory on where exactly a weird... thing like her would even come from-- and why it'd become so aggressively insane when confronted by a certain program. For now, let's just say: the remaining Earth humans were forced to work with whatever they could as a final defense-- WHATEVER. THEY. COULD.

#murder drones #N #Uzi Doorman #my fanfiction #alternate reality #alternate universe #AU #horror #comedy #my writing #original and canon characters #mild reimagining

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joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · 10 months ago

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To think I hated the first season of this series so much and here I am willingly having finished the season after the KyoAni stuff, something I didn't even need to watch but just did for the fun of it. Having said that though I'm stuck with scoring this one as well, although it'll likely be a 6 or 7.

Before any of that though, episodes 9 through 12. Invisible Victory pretty cleanly divides itself into three 4-episode arcs and I suppose you'd call this arc the one where Mithril comes back together and we attempt a grand assault on Leonard's base to potentially rescue Kaname. And it's pretty good! Tessa gets a lot of good moments in particular - the fake psyche ward play to get closer to Amalgam followed by her quite violently cursing the guy out, it feels like she's come so far. Kalinin traitor stuff happens here, which I'm iffy on - they've technically foreshadowed it but I'm not really all that convinced, and I suppose he's not really a character we've explored enough for me to get why he specifically isn't as unflinchingly loyal as everyone else is. Kaname finally starts existing here, and honestly like. I was actually pretty dead set on 6 as my score for this season, but Kaname steeling her resolve at the end and telling Sousuke to save her no matter how many people he has to kill, and even threatening murder and suicide herself? That shit's why I'm considering the 7. Really can't believe how far I've come around on Kaname. Although there definitely are weaknesses in this arc, Al's return in a fancy new AS body is fuckin functionally a deus ex machina, like they've been showcasing the progress towards that in the background the entire series that's all well and good but it's still very very huh. You are also just watching a lot of like fine action setpieces here but I don't think any of those were really impressing me quite like a lot of the character moments were, so that was runtime where I was just like "I'm a little bored". And it does sort of end on a cliffhanger as well. I can say with full confidence if they make more I'd watch it, although 6 years removed from this airing, who can say. Granted IV was 13 years removed from Second Raid but yk.

Anyway, Invisible Victory as a whole. I'm past the point of calling it a pleasant surprise - me liking Second Raid enough did that for me - but my friend warned me about a lot of things I'd probably not like in this season only for me to come away thinking that, actually, they really weren't problems at all. So in that regard it was a surprise, although he also watched it a while ago so I'll call him out when we next vc. It was worse than Second Raid, but I still think I was mostly enjoying myself. Really just wish it was slightly longer, the three arcs comprising this show do linearly follow on from one another but they feel very disconnected, and there are entire swathes of this show with huge amounts of the cast missing. It's very globetrotting nearer the end but the characters might as well be teleporting across the planet. Sousuke doesn't have much of an arc, he's really just seeing the plot out, but his developing relationship with Kaname is great, and her arc itself is really good. Tessa's at her most likeable as well. Kurama I already said is the least bad "main" villain, and yeah I'd say Leonard as well doesn't really bother me, he's fine. Wish we explored his and Tessa's relationship a little more, I don't feel like them being siblings has mattered yet at all. New characters are all solid although we are throwing in a lot more militaries randomly and having them be major supporting players just because. Visuals were a step down but not bad at all. I think I'm running out of little trivia for myself to talk about. No intention to check out the source material whatsoever so I'll just hope to see this story concluded in anime format one day.

Don't know if I have anything else, so uh, this'll probably be my secondlast Full Metal Panic post, with the last one being whatever score I settle on for this. All unless it gets more anime anyway. What a groupwatch this was. Farewell, gamers.

#full metal panic #4.9.24

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okokok first some pictures from the program cause the creature's costume was SO COOL (he looks naked except for the coat but his crotch is covered by some sort of skin-colored fabric don't worry)

uh this'll be long i should probably make it like expandable

ballet is a really interesting form of storytelling because there are no words or anything it's all just dance so pretty much everything you see happening is sort of an abstract representation of what's actually going on in the story (for story ballets—not all ballet is three acts long with a plot, some of it is abstract and often very avant-garde and usually part of a triple feature) and it's very good at communicating emotions and not great with facts. in fact if you don't read the plot summary in the program beforehand you will probably be very confused. i made this meme about it once

the main reason i bring this up right now is that i've gotten the impression from your posts (which i'll confess i don't usually read very thoroughly if at all cause yknow. i haven't read the book) that victor and elizabeth's relationship is kinda whack in the book? but the ballet had me sold on it. they have actual children dancing the young versions of the characters at the beginning and it starts out with little elizabeth being all sad and cold and sick outside and the frankensteins taking her in and mostly it's the dad (whose name i forgot) being like come in child but everyone else comes out to see and then as they're all going inside victor takes off his coat and gives it to her. which was cute. and then inside the kids do a little dance of like victor chasing her as she keeps a book away from him and then they run out of the room (and thus offstage) and the adult versions come on and do pretty much the same choreography? so like very succinct elegant depiction of the two of them growing up together. and then some other characters show up for a bit and communicate some plot points and leave and then victor and elizabeth have a nice romantic duet

and that's where what i was saying about ballet comes in right? cause in a movie for example you can't just show two characters performing some tropes of Being In Love and have the audience buy their relationship, you have to explain their characters and their dynamic and why they care so much about each other. but ballet is abstract. when two characters dance together, it doesn't just mean they're dancing. the nature and substance of their characters and their relationship is implied by the choreography and the music. and i can't say i remember exactly what the music sounded like but the choreography in victor and elizabeth's duet is very light and cheerful, with lots of spins and big lifts (except the part where they freeze hand-in-hand as the kid dancers come back on and dance around them which yknow. i think the meaning there is pretty obvious). then he proposes and they kiss, and then they tell the parents and everyone is happy, and then the mom collapses and instantly all the innocent joy is gone.

mom gets shepherded off the stage and victor and elizabeth sit down on the little sofa that's there and then they just wait. no dancing just them sitting on the sofa, waiting, for a solid thirty seconds at least. then everyone else comes back and it's sad and then one of the like sub-curtains goes down and out in front of it victor and elizabeth stand in front of like a tombstone thingy paying their respects and then he leaves to go to university, and she tries to like dance with him and he's very withdrawn and sort of avoiding her, but he like looks over his shoulder a bit yknow? (forgive me, my memory of all this is not perfect and it's not like i can rewatch)

then at university henry shows up and gets bullied and he and victor have a little meet-cute and professor guy shows up and is mean to the students and victor is the only one not freaked out by the electrifying the corpse to make the muscles jerk. he tries to ask the professor about some stuff and the professor's like NO and it's ballet so we don't know what he asked but i can imagine. then after class they go to a tavern and henry's getting like bullied and hazed and assaulted while victor just ignores him and sits at a table writing in his notebook and then leaves. henry continues to have a bad time.

hm yknow i guess i don't really need to do a play-by-play of the plot. i'm just organizing my thoughts in chronological order. anyways victor does some very enthusiastic almost joyous dancing as he's sewing body parts together, and then after electrifying the creature's body he like checks for a pulse and doesn't feel anything and he sits down in front of the table and everything's still for a moment and the music is the same quiet but eerie motif from the overture but you know that thing is going to start moving. doesn't make it any less unsettling when it does. then the creature gets up, victor freaks out, creature takes his coat and leaves, henry shows up and victor like grabs him all haunted-like and that's where act 1 ends

instead of a play-by-play for act 2 here's a highlight reel:

the creature watches william and justine doing like lessons or whatever outside. she teaches william how to bow and curtsies in response. remember this, it'll be important later

(oh by the way the dancer for william was also an actual child and unlike young elizabeth and victor and justine he had quite a bit to do and he did so well)

the creature also watches victor and elizabeth outside dancing together. what's happening is that elizabeth is trying to reach out and get victor to like open up and trust her and it sort of works? but it's all in dance so it's like her literally trying to get him to dance with her, and he does, he spins and lifts her a little bit, but the tone is somber and he periodically sort of runs away and she has to like go after him

the creature does some gut-wrenching dancing upon finding and reading victor's notebook and then more after seeing victor freak out and tear it up and the way he moves is really interesting. it's weird and jerky and really feels like he doesn't quite get how to act like a human yet

at william's birthday party someone (i think the dad but i'm not sure) gives him a book as a present and then victor shows up and like tears it out of his hands and looks at it for a moment before being like ok. no yeah i'm ok. then he gives it back and gives william his mom's locket

when william gets lost during the blindfold game and runs into the creature they dance together. he like sorta copies the way william dances, and they might bow at each other i don't remember, and it's kinda sweet and heartwarming but also unsettling because you know the second william takes off that blindfold it's all going to fall apart

the creature confronting victor is heartbreaking obviously. i don’t know what to say about it really but it hurt

at the very end of the act they show justine being hung and her mom screams. and like usually there's no talking in ballet so it was jarring to hear the dancer scream like that

also note on the second act in general: henry's a kinda funny character in this ballet (i mean for one he's literally supposed to be kinda slapsticky comic relief but that's not what i mean) cause like. he doesn't really do anything story-wise? he's just kinda there being friendly and supportive and it feels like victor and elizabeth are both lowkey in love with him

the third act consists entirely of victor and elizabeth's wedding and it is the most dark depressing wedding scene i've ever seen in a ballet. like i'm not even talking about the actual events that transpire just like. the backdrop is dark and stormy and the costumes (of the background dancers at least) are all in dark muted colors and the music sounds like nobody's really having any fun

a good portion of the third act consists of victor and elizabeth trying to have a nice wedding dance while the creature keeps showing up among the background dancers and then disappearing (this only just occurred to me while i was writing this but i think he might be wearing the red coat victor wore before his mom died?) and it keeps escalating to the point where victor is like crashing into his wedding guests trying to chase after him. also i'm fairly certain the creature wasn't actually there cause when he actually shows up later he's wearing the black coat again

then the dad shows up dead and there's like a panic and everyone leaves the stage except henry and elizabeth. victor gave henry a gun i believe? and when the creature finally shows henry points the gun at him but he disarms henry and kills him pretty quick although elizabeth points the gun at him but doesn't shoot

then he makes elizabeth dance with him for a while and throughout the whole thing it's very clear that he just wants love and acceptance and human connection but the most. the. the part that i still can't get over. he fucking. at one point he bows at her. all fancy, just the way he saw justine teach william to. he bows at elizabeth and obviously she's just terrified and he bows again. more emphatically this time like hey! i just bowed at you? and again she doesn't respond. and he gets all frustrated because he doesn't understand why she won't engage with him! and i'm pretty sure then he goes and like physically forces her to curtsy

i'll be honest i don't remember if he kills her before or after victor gets back but i'm pretty sure it's after. but then he and victor have a duet. and it's SO angsty and victor lifts the creature a few times but the best/worst part is when he keeps mirroring victor's movements. like they do the same moves. cause i didn't really mention but the way the creature moves has evolved like at this point he's dancing just like everyone else. and now specifically he's dancing like victor. and then eventually victor picks up the gun and he points it at the creature and like a bit of angst happens yknow and then victor walks over to henry and elizabeth's bodies and looks down and it goes dead silent. no music. he and the audience are both just still as the gravity of everything sinks in. and then you can't see what victor's doing with the gun but you hear a BANG and then he falls to the ground.

and then the creature is like no! and he dances a bit and the curtain goes down on him CRADLING VICTOR IN HIS ARMS

before the main round of bows victor elizabeth and the creature came out and bowed and before even that was over damn near everyone was standing. also during the main bows generally there are like louder and louder cheers when the more and more important roles come out and usually it's a pretty steady increase but there was like a spike for little william which was sweet (none of the other kids came out and bowed cause like they were only in the first or second act so they like went home)

anyways this is gonna seem like a wild comparison but if you've ever seen napoleon dynamite you know that it's a very strange movie but the last scene makes the whole thing come together (technically it's not the last scene but if you've seen it you know the one i mean) and that's kinda how i felt about this. not that it's as strange as napoleon dynamite but for the first like two and a half acts it's kinda like ok, this is a very angsty ballet, these people are very talented, sure, and then that final part hits and you understand the whole thing. not even in like a logical sense you just. you feel it. fucking OUCH

i kinda feel bad just like telling you how cool this thing you couldn't watch was but like there's really not much i can do like you are VERY not allowed to take any photos or videos of the performance. hopefully you enjoy reading my account of it at least

hey frankenstein mutual i was just in san francisco and saw the frankenstein ballet and it was fucking incredible do you wanna hear about it (note that i haven't read the book)

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Yeah I would love to hear about it!! :) :)

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