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SEA DRAGON’S GIFT

Part 76 of 83

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

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written 2007

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Captain Farrol subsided with a scowl. Sarfin however, settled the matter simply. He ordered the Masters to come before the Court. It took a few minutes for them to arrive. Master Juris frowned angrily at Master Selked who looked calmly back at him.

Using a set of locking tongs, Kurin opened the box and extracted the awl. She locked the tongs so that the awl could not drop from their grip by accident and held it out to Master Juris for examination.

“Do you recognize this awl, Master Juris?” she asked.

“Yes,” he said shortly.

“Please tell the Court the circumstances and anything that you may have deduced from them,” Kurin asked quietly.

Master Juris answered, full of certainty, “I first saw this awl on board the Dark Dragon where it had been recovered from the shirt pocket of Garfin, the sailor from the Grython, who died.”

“Did you identify the awl?” she asked him a little sad at what she was about to do.

“I did. It has Master Selked’s mark. It had to be made on board the Grandalor, in his shop, with his knowledge and consent. If he had not made it or approved it, it would not bear his mark.” Master Juris crossed his arms over his chest as if the matter were incontestable.

“Very good, Master Juris,” said Kurin briskly. “Are you sure that the presence of the Master’s mark means that the thing is made in his shop or that the Master had anything to do with it?”

“Of course,” he responded, nettled. “I mean — it is his mark after all — That’s what the mark is for, to certify — ”

”Let’s adjourn to your shop for a few moments,” said Kurin, agilely leading the way over the rails of the tied ships, down a companion ladder and directly to Master Juris’s boat-shop.

Before anybody could stop her, she had gone to the third cupboard left of the door, taken down Master Juris’s stamp of Hag beak, inked it with the mordant ink for bone marking and neatly marked the tongs that she was still holding.

She held them out for Master Juris and the Court to see. “So — these were made in your shop, with your consent? Sadly, no. Any who had some skill at tools and knew where the stamp was kept could have made this awl.

“Now, let me ask you a few questions about Master Selked. Have you ever known him to do anything illegal or even unethical?”

“Not until this,” said Master Juris, not to be deterred from his preconception.

“What is his level of skill as a tool maker?”

Master Juris’ brow wrinkled down under his bald pate and he replied, “The best one in the Naral fleet. I have bought his tools whenever possible.”

“Please look at the awl again. As a tool. Is it up to Master Selked’s usual standard?”

Confused, now, and frowning in concentration, Master Juris finally looked at the awl as a tool, rather than as evidence of guilt. Perplexed, he said, “This in not up to his usual standard at all. There are small flats in the handle that should have been smoothed out. You can see how the point is nicely enough faired to the handle but the tip is a little off center. Master Selked’s mark is off kilter and not cleanly done.”

Sourly, Master Selked remarked, “It’s about time that you noticed. That thing’s not even a second. I wish now that I had just chucked it overboard like I meant to.”

Kurin said, “Let’s go back to the Court. I want to explore this situation more fully. I am sure that Captain Farrol will have questions for you as well.”

Back on deck and seated at her table, Kurin said sympathetically, “Master Selked, please tell us what you know of the origin of the awl.”

He steepled his hands thoughtfully and, after putting his mind in order, began, “I know less than I should. Part I can speculate on but I’d rather stick to the facts that I do know.

“The night that the awl was apparently made, Mister Morgu, Captain Barad and myself were playing a game of Three Dragons. Chena, the cabin-girl, was serving snacks and tending to the cabin lamps as usual. Along about midway through the Second Night Watch, she complained of feeling tired and collapsed. She died about an hour later. We thought it to be food poisoning at the time. The galley was ransacked, trying to find the cause but nothing came of it.

“In the morning, when I opened my shop, my apprentice, Merk was dead as well. The kit of tools that you have here, was on the bench. I was angry that my mark had been placed on such slipshod work and was going to toss it out. I should have. Lives, treasure and ship time would have been saved.

“Merk did have an infected cut and we thought that he’d died of blood poisoning. No reason to look further. We never even realized until much later that Merk had brought in one of the snack trays and given it to Mister Morgu.

“In all of the uproar, the kit got put aside and wound up in stores. When Kurti, the new cabin-girl needed a kit for light fabric repairs, she took it. She’d been stores clerk as well as a diver and not only had access, she could have told at a glance that the kit was a second and that I’d prefer to never sell it. By luck alone, she never needed the awl.

“Her death was from lung parasites picked up while diving on the wrecked Princamorn. Only she, Captain Barad and Doctor Corin knew that she was dying.”

Kurin interrupted Master Juris’s narrative and gave some of the parchments from her voluminous stack to Captain Sarfin. “These are Doctor Corin’s autopsy reports for Chena, Merk and Kurti.

“The first two show reasonable symptoms of Ord poisoning, masked by the basic assumptions for the cause of death. In Kurti’s case lung parasites were confirmed in the blood from her lungs. Here also is the report on Captain Tanlin’s case, from when she was brought aboard until she awoke from her coma during the same time that Kurti was dying.

“There is an amazing physical resemblance between Tanlin and Kurti. The coincidence of timing between Tanlin awakening and Kurti dying caused me to make many inquiries to verify that they are in fact different people. There are lots of witnesses to Tanlin being brought aboard during the rescue of the Princamorn survivors. She was unconscious from a head blow and actually mistaken for Kurti, the diver.

“The matter was settled for certain by Blind Mecat. As you know, the Tenth Great Law says that if a Great Dragon states something as a fact in a legal matter, it must be accepted. She told me, and I quote, ‘the whales celebrated Kurti. She is gone.’ Blind Mecat is right over there if you wish confirm what I have just told you.”

Captain Sarfin accepted the parchments. Dryly he said, “I believe, in the absence of objections from the Dragons, that I will accept your word. These autopsies may be prejudicial to your case.”

“Your Honor, if my case cannot deal with all of the facts, it is worthless, even if it should win,” Kurin said sincerely.

“Now,” she turned back to Master Selked, “please clear something up for me. After Chena collapsed, who suggested that you search the galley?”

Master Selked thought for a moment and said, “As I recollect the evening, it was Mister Morgu.”

“Did you all go to search the galley yourselves?”

“Yes, we did. Quite a commotion it was. Remember, we’d eaten those snacks too. Didn’t find anything though. Never finished that game of Three Dragons either.”

“I have only a few more questions. Your answer to this one can be confirmed by four witnesses from the galley. Who was last of your group to arrive at the galley?”

“That was Mister Morgu. He got there several minutes after the rest of us.”

“Would his delay have been long enough to get to your shop before going on to the galley?”

“Easily. I never thought of that.”

“I believe that I am done with you, Master Selked,” said Kurin. “Thank you.”

“Now, I need to deal with the Ord itself,” Kurin announced. “For this, I need to question former Captain Barad. Before I do, though, I need to supply a character witness because I know what the Court is likely to think of anything that he says. I felt the same way before I began this.”

TO BE CONTINUED

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ask-missfinefeather · 6 years ago

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Because the original post had spoilers in the usernames heres a censored version

[redacted] i had a really fucking weird dream where homestuck was a musical. like. a Broadway musical. and i went to see it and all i really remember is that 1) the opening number was called “everybody dies” and 2) bro strider was inexplicably played by shia labeouf, who did an interpretive dance scene with a smuppet that lasted roughly seven minutes. it was uncomfortable for everyone involved mortharris what do you mean “inexplicably” that’s exactly how it would go down [redacted] I’m pretty sure snoop dogg was aimless renegade? honestly it was an experience like the stage was essentially four room in the beginning and every time John would get a notification on pesterChum the particular room of whoever was messaging him would light up and you could see Jade Dave or Rose. when the trolls did their thing (it was early on), you could just hear the disembodied yelling of Karkat. Rose had a dramatic monologue that ended with mom physically pulling her away from her empty suicide threat. bec was just some guy in a fursuit. shia laBro passionately ripped off his shirt before kicking dave’s ass. lil cal was played by Ellen Degeneres(?) mortharris do you have a medium to talk to because the more you talk about this dream the more it sounds like you’re spirit channeling andrew hussie and i’m concerned [redacted] don’t get me started about the medium bro also when the trolls were introduced the lusii were these freakish jim henson monstrosities but honestly the best part was the felt. like. the actual composition of music was beautiful, and the choreography for the dance numbers was sublime. Dave also kept trying to sing but was continually interrupted by Bro Shia, terezi’s echoing ululations, and his own self doubt. once he finally had his moment his voice soared through the theater, only to come to an abrupt end as he was drowned in hot puppet ass. now that I think about it, dadbert was definitely nic cage, which was confusing as fuck because John kept talking about how Greatly He Was Caged By Nic while his father stood by. it was uncomfortable idk man, it’s been like a reoccurring lucid nightmare for the past week, but the sb&hj sequences were performed by acrobats above the actual stage, who looked dangerously inebriated and probably needed immediate hospitalization (they were also narrated by dave and a bunch of dissonant recordings of the cast? what the fuck man. what a visionary) mortharris i honestly don’t know what to focus on here because i’m wheezing and snorting right now but Dave also kept trying to sing but was continually interrupted by Bro Shia, terezi’s echoing ululations, and his own self doubt. was dave … was dave’s self doubt an actual part in the play [redacted] shIT I thought I answered earlier but apparently not. yes, daves self conscious is just a shitty cardboard cutout of zac efron wearing sunglasses who offers sage advice like “no one loves you”. he’s voiced by zac efron. yknow I forgot to note this but vriska has a lot of really aggressive musical numbers that make everyone visibly uncomfortable, mainly bc they’re unprovoked and don’t. make sense. like its canon but only to an extent. also I’m p sure that mom and dad /almost/ share a heartfelt duet–like there’s soft piano music and they look into each other’s eyes–but then Jack noir, fursuit edition, kills them. on that note, when rose goes grimdark it sounds like the Dresden dolls met born this way era lady gaga and then murdered each other while a thirteen year old descends from the rafters, hissing like a motherfucking snake on a plane btw “sICK FIRES” is a rap off with cello featuring the talents of yo yo ma himself mortharris “#i’m tired” “#why do you keep reblogging this” because it’s amazing [redacted] that’s objective but I’m just happy that people are enjoying this. like the tags are so nice and it feels pretty rad to know people are laughing at my hideous reoccurring nightmare musical extravaganza FYI there is a track called “flight of the bifurcated asshole/rest in peixes” and y'all know EXACTLY what it’s about krakendra can…. we kickstart this? tanoraqui this is EXACTLY what a homestuck musical should be like, though. The casting and music choices and how the set works with Pesterchum, it’s all…really good. Your subconscious mind translates the comic to Broadway really well. wikis-cosplay So I am imagining the rooms that light up are in the form of a sburb logo and when the trolls would talk that little box in the corner of the upper right square lights up and shows a silhouette of the troll talking till the trolls are revealed. When they are revealed Karkat just kicks off the cover and stick his head out to call John an idiot. mortharris IMPROVED [redacted] yes this is perfect, how did I Not See This Earlier karkat’s “my hate is your lifeblood” speech is accompanied by steady percussion and what almost sounds like some good ass army battle shit, and then John is just “hi karkat!” karkat blinks and has a solid five seconds of self loathing before breaking into song about john egbert ruining his moment. it’s also a dance number and karkat dramatically collapses into the arms of troll will smith, played by will smith, about three consecutive times. (briefly we get to see daves self doubt taunting him but Why?? who Knows??) mortharris i feel like i’m one of the king’s men watching william shakespeare [redacted] so…you’re sexually confused while wearing tights? which, by the way, is equius before getting murdered mortharris i meant in the presence of greatness, but i’m not wearing tights. also i hate you. also i love you. [redacted] it’s okay. I hate me, too, but not as much as karkat hates karkat candymuse @alkalinesnowflake god the audience would probably have to return to the theatre for like 5 consecutive nights to finish the show

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cupkayke · 8 years ago

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Cupkayke Rewatches/Liveblogs Boueibu!

Season 1, Episode 6

I have no explanation for the stupidly long wait for this one other than the fact that I am a lazy motherfucker. BUT. CHALLENGE TIME- I’m in the midst of a mini vacation from work so when I’m not working on cosplay I WILL BE WRITING. Er, analyzing. Er, plotting. Er, SOMETHING.

Anyway! Onto the episode where Io pissed me the fuck off but still managed to be a loveable asshole in the end, anyway! Also LOTS OF UNDER THE SURFACE SHIT! YAYYYYY.

I also apologize if I miss responding to some comments on these; with as sporadic as my time on tumblr is these days (90% is on mobile) I can’t fucking remember what replies I’ve reblogged or not OTL

Firstly I haven’t really thought much about it but what’s up with the title for this episode? “Love is something you wear on your back?” Is that a reference to the “so generous he’d give you the shirt off his back” phrase? If that’s meant to apply to Io in this episode for his “loyalty” I think they missed the mark there...

Yumoto eats a lot apparently- damn son stop growing!

Was that a sex joke?

THAT WAS DEFINITELY A SEX JOKE BOUEIBU NOT 2 MINUTES IN I AM SURPRISED AT YOU alsolololololololololololololforever

FANCY STUDENT COUNCIL IS FANCY omg they’re so fucking rich why do they even have this setup it’s so ridiculous

I sometimes get the feeling that this is a wealthy private school, similar to Ouran academy, with scholarships for low-income students (IE Yumoto). The parallels are there- but as established later in the episode, why the fuck would Yumoto be given a scholarship because it’s definitely not academics.

Maybe the Hakone family is actually wealthy but they just live modestly because their parents are gone and Gora wants to make the fortune last?

I MADE MYSELF SAD.

Finger bowls????

Apparently I’m an unultured swine because I had to look it up. You dip your fingers in the bowl to clean your hands between courses really???

Can’t we just... y’know... use hand santizier? This is like... 2015 for you guys right?

However it’s hilarious that Kinshiro decides that FINGER BOWLS of all things are important enough to have for the three of them at lunch so he wants to see if they can afford it.

ALSO I JUST REALIZED THE FORESHADOWING HERE WITH IO HOLY SHIT-

I SMELL RIVALRY

Kinshiro is a grumpy butt. Look at his face. Eat a snickers, Kinchan. You get micro-managey when you’re hungry.

So we’re halfway through the season and Wombat is seemingly trying to point our boys in a particular direction. HMMMMMM.

Seriously I would love to know just how much of this is Wombat talking out his ass for the sake of the reality show and how much of it is shit he actually believes and he actually wants the boys to do a good job and ‘protect the earth’

I for one am on Wombat’s side because he’s fucking adorable but I do love the conspiracy/manipulation theory~

Ryuu and foreshadowing in 3...2...1.. WRITERS I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

Dat dead body smell

Even disgusted Akoya STILL manages to be gorgeous like whoah

Someone get this boy a modeling contract

PINKS THROWIN’ SHADE

I feel like this is the most lines that Akoya has had the entire show

I also realized during his little speech here that EVEN COVERING HIS NOSE his VOICE is still GORGEOUS.

Modeling contract AND record deal, PLZ

So smug

Who knew pretty could be so evil~

I mostly just laughed at the cap of the DC all like ‘SHIT HE’S ONTO US’

So smug x2

Also this is where I started PINKSHIPPING

Like seriously I will go down with this ship even tho IoRyuu is OTP PINKSHIPPING MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

Just the rivalry and the pettiness sign me the fuck up for some angsty, angry making out in the SC bathroom

Whoops I just wrote a mini fanfic

Anyway this is why Cupkayke can’t decide on OTPs for this series because multishipping is fun

Wombat looks fluffier this episode

Too many Yumoto cuddles?

Pink kohai and dad-senapis!

Seriously I love the idea of these three hanging out together it’s adorable

And En is apparently really fucking smart

The entire conversation about Yumoto’s academic abilities is really interesting-

Apparently he has very good spatial awareness (child show me your ways I cannot directions for the life of me) but poor language skills

I don’t know if I am qualified to speculate about his cognitive state but perhaps it wouldn’t be so far-fetched to say that from that tidbit, Yumoto perhaps has a learning disability?

But then again, here it’s played for laughs/Yumoto’s just lazy and doesn’t see the value in school

Perhaps though he’s not motivated because he’s never really been able to get an instruction style that jives with him? So on certain subjects he’s over being discouraged and just accepts that typical academic instruction just isn’t for him?

This entire scene is fascinating from the lens of a future educator (albeit I haven’t taken any development or learning courses yet) but as someone who likes school Yumoto is the type of person (if he doesn’t have a learning disability, that is) who would confuse me IRL lolololol

“What? You don’t like the rigorous structure and inherent validation system of grading that even though it causes me undue anxiety and stress it gives me a sense of self-worth and purpose and without people giving me deadlines I cannot function?”

Well that got too deep oops I apologize for the too much in-depth taste of Cupkayke’s psyche

Someone more qualified than I am feel free to analyze this scene

Now back to your regularly scheduled magical boy blogging

Lolololol Gora wanting better for Yumoto - such a good big brother

“DON’T BE USELESS LIKE ME” - wait a second

IS THIS A LOWKEY REFERENCE TO GORA’S MAGICAL BOY PAST? Considering Maximum Gorar’s weapon is an axe and he has lots of chopping attacks.... hmmmmmmm did I just discover another layer?

Obviously Gora doesn’t know about the Battle Lovers just yet (or does he?) but still- interesting.

En trying to make them feel better haha such a sweetiepie

Atsushi get out of here with your logic

SWEATS NERVOUSLY

SCREW MONSTER FORESHADOWING

En and his ragging on Yumoto. I wonder when he goes from finding Yumoto annoying/exasperating to actually being that caring senpai? I mean, he could just be trying to be playful, but with his face here especially it comes across as he’s annoyed

Idk it’s kind of fascinating tho how he did not care for Yumoto at first

YUMOTO I HAVE NO WORDS

T________T

Revelation; Io is popular

Somehow I didn’t get that until this point in the series, but then again Io isn’t the type to care about his popularity unless it makes him money

So I guess he’s just admired from afar like this lololol

Io has a stalker- complete with creepy monologuing!

More screw foreshadowing!

Yellow phone for Io! They’re actually really heavy-handed with the color coding but most of the time it’s in ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moments. It’s like a fun game of I spy!

I can see where the headcanon that Akoya has a crush on Io started- the fact he goes out of his way to compliment Io is a bit telling.

Buuuut I still ship the Pinks over IoAko; but with the caveat of the Pinks both pining over Io and having their feelings unrequited! Oooooh the angst!

The cute evil is scheming

IO HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT SO EASILY

THEY WEREN’T EXPECTING YOU TO SAY YES EITHER LOOK AT THEIR FACES

...maybe you do get along with the SC Io you seem just about as evil and scheming as Akoya here-

WAIT WHAT AM I SAYING

WOMBAT IS SO CUTE IN HIS TITLE CARD AWW

I love how Ryuu is trying so hard look at him

Io what’s with that face! How can you betray them all so easily???

It makes no sense!

Creepy glowing Hedgehog

I still don’t know how Yumoto can get a ZERO in Japanese. Is it his grammar? Conjugation? Is Japanese like English is in the US where they go over literature and like Atsushi said he makes logic leaps that no one else does so he misinterprets the text? I AM CONFUSED. Wouldn’t he at least get some points?

Look at this adorable fucker thanking his boyfriend friend in English!

En is really fucking smart, though I doubt he guesses ‘everything’

This could play into En’s self-consciousness on how he’s percieved (see his panic about looking ‘old’) and perhaps he also only wants to be percieved as ‘lazily intelligent’.

It wouldn’t surprise me though if En did study a little bit, just to brush up on some things, or took school seriously but didn’t need to study because he’s really good at regurgitating info on tests

Either way, it seems like he doesn’t want people to know whether he actually cares about school or not so he just says he ‘guesses’ and gets 100s

Idk maybe I’m looking at the wrong angle but that’s not that far fetched I guess?

….Io… I am a very disappoint

Like this entire episode is out of character for him or at least my understanding of his character

Like, it’s not like he’s particularly very close to any of the DC except for Ryuu, but he doesn’t seem like the type to just up and ‘fuck you guys and everything we’ve been through’

Like it’s no secret he finds the Battle Lover thing bothersome but it’s likely he’s well aware of the fact that if he quits the DC he’s not going to stop having to wear the loveracelet and he’s still going to have to do all the embarrassing superhero things until he stops getting shocked by the thing

And like even if he’s really only in the DC because their ‘meetings’ give him enough downtime to invest in his business ventures I find it highly unlikely that the Student Council would pay him enough to make up for the loss he’d suffer because of his free time getting cut. And Io probably knew that outright.

Unless he is actually a teenage boy liable to acting without thinking! GASP.

Look, Io, you pissed off the Pink.

Really pissed him off! Ryuu sees through your bullshit.

Okay. Unpacking here- Io’s face in that cap says to me that he is well aware of how he’s being percieved. He’s well aware that he’s betraying the DC and the person who he would consider his best friend is calling him out on it. That look screams guilt.

However, what he says here- and here is where I am pissed the writers didn’t give us more context- he says ‘money is important/money doesn’t betray’.

Which if you take him saying this to its most logical conclusion, he’s saying that he feels the DC will betray him at some point. Being involved with the DC, which doesn’t directly make him any money, will hurt him in the long run to the point where he would feel betrayed.

He’s said this before; money doesn’t betray. I can’t remember which episode (which is sad because I just did a write up on it) but I know the context of the conversation was when they were talking about the concept of ‘Love’ with Wombat. Everything Io does is for money. Relationships seem to do jack shit for him.

But it appears here that this move is premptive. You have to do some inferring but it’s not so far fetched to say that Io has found himself caring for the DC (and potentially the Battle Lover thing) a lot more than he originally thought he would. And perhaps, based on previous experiences (what, we don’t know) he is afraid that they will betray him. Whether in terms of finances, emotions, or both, isn’t clear.

I feel like in the snow episode of s2 there’s a throwaway line about Io making Igloos that might have had some more under the surface about his past- for some reason I inferred he was often lonely as a child. I can’t remember why, though.

But I guess what I’m trying to say here is that this scene would be a whole lot more poignant if we had the entire narrative. Io is making this move, on the surface, because of money. But that’s foolish, especially for someone as smart as him, for the reasons I mentioned above. Even as rich as the SC are collectively, they probably wouldn’t be able to pay Io enough for his treasurer services to make it more lucrative than investing in his downtime with the DC.

So it seems like he is trading his relationship with the DC- a personal relationship with feelings involved- for a relationship with the SC, one that is primarily business-focused. From their outer appearances, Io definitely knows that ‘rich kids’ like himself don’t tend to focus on friendship, so he’d be relatively safe to keep things strictly business.

Which means Io finds the idea of a business-only relationship more appealing/safer than a relationship based on friendship.

And supposedly, by extension, even if he did have to keep being a Battle Lover, he could keep that relationship strictly business too, by simply showing up and helping fight monsters without actually spending any time with the DC.

But without the context, this is speculation. Is there anything in the novels/comics/games that add to this???

Ryuu is rightfully pissed off! But the look Io gives here says again ‘I know what I am doing is hurtful, but I made my decision in my/everyone’s best interests’. Supposedly.

GAHH I NEED MORE CONTEXT.

Supporting my theory that Io is simply being a stupid teenager! Which I suppose could also play into the slightly deeper motivations I speculated about. Buuuuut still... a bit of a cop out.

Monster that makes its own sound effects! Or one that’s attempting to be a Pokemon!

I love when the boys other than Yumoto get into the fight! Yay!

I guess they have time for full transformations since they’re missing one! (or they need to pad the episode runtime, MAGICAL BOY STYLE)

Such an empty yellow spot

Ryuu… you ran right into it... it’s like you weren’t even trying.

Well that sounds suggestive

THIS MONSTER IS RIDICULOUS I LOVE IT

EVEN THE OTHERS REALIZE IT

Poor Ryuu- I’d cry if I was tickled that much, too. I probably would have also pissed myself.

Io jfc you can’t just stop being ticklish because an enemy decides to tickle you!

Nonetheless, boyfriend is pissed

Oh wait- Io transformation by himself. More screentime padding!

In other words- “GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY MAN”

DAYUM IO- punch the monster through a fucking WALL. Somebody’s been working out.

Also idk why the color is so off in this action scene- it’s so daaaaark

“I’m so humilated and my pants are probably ruined”

“It’s about time you got your head out of your ass and saved my ass or I was gonna kick your ass!”

Yayyyyyy they made up!

Why is the monster adorable?

Sassing Yumoto, a DC pastime

PFFFT YUMOTO MY SMOL PRECIOUS CHILD NEVER CHANGE

Seriously why is a screw monster so cute

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but it so looks like the CA’s pants are actually leeggings

Maybe that’s why Kinshiro wears a cape he’s self conscious about showing off his ass ffffft

DUN DUN DUN SPOTTED

Pssssssssssh you all are cosplayers at heart

Oh… is this why Yumoto’s bad at Japanese???

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN (x2)

I love this conversation- even without the underlying context it basically supports my theorizing (except for the implication that the SC would have potentially been more profitable)

Ryuu is right; he knows Io should have been able to calculate which was financially a better deal in three seconds. He probably knows that Io was struggling with something emotionally.

Io’s ‘I can’t tell you that’ is cheeky but I can take it 2 ways actually. Potentially, the SC was more profitable money wise, but the DC is more profitable for Io emotionally. So it could mean both of those things. Or like I thought earlier, the DC could be both emotionally and financially profitable and Io is just being a little shit because he second-guessed everything but doesn’t want to admit why.

Buhhhhh these boys.

Pshhhh En YOU DID NOTHING AND YOU’RE TIRED

OHHHH YOU GUYS AGAIN - interesting implications fufufufufufufufufu

You look like a cat Kinosaki

And lastly.. Dat face

Kinshiro has the evil villain glare/’stare into the camera like you’re on the office’ look down PAT

Well then! I don’t know if my ramblings about Io’s motivations made much sense but that’s like, the ONLY thing I can think of that justifies his willingness to leave other than he was just being a little shit and following the yen for no reason. Again, if there’s any other canonical evidence from other media that explains this episode please point me in that direction because I am confused! This explanation makes sense but... I don’t understand how the writers wanted the audience to take this episode. Reminds me of Tokyo Mew Mew where Zakuro repeatedly threatened to leave/actually almost did leave the Mew Mews, sometimes because of her own insecurities and sometimes because Mint was being a little shit and Zakuro wanted to kick her ass into gear. I don’t get that Io was playing with the DC to make them realize anything- this was he was working through something that we just weren’t privy to.

#cupkayke rewatches boueibu #cupkaykey rewatches boueibu #boueibu #binan koukou chikyuu bouei bu love!#binan kōkō chikyū bōei bu love!#binan high school earth defense club love!#Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!#Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!#boueibu meta

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Happy Cosplay Friday!

We are back this week talking with the Cosplay Parents, Steven and Millie! Steven and Millie are a retired and wonderfully charming couple who spend their free time cosplaying and Disney bounding. Their wonderful cosplay photos have gone viral several times and they are very much the darlings of the Southern California cosplay community. Always cheery, happy and willing to stop for photos, they are some of the nicest cosplayers I’ve had the pleasure to know. It’s been a lot of fun getting to know them on a personal level and to be able to catch up with them and find out what’s been going on since they became internet stars.

You are very well known from all the viral photos of the two of you at conventions, what has all this attention been like for you guys?

https://twitter.com/KatieBePhoto/status/904394171284197376

We take it in stride and it really doesn’t affect our day-to-day lives. We don’t cosplay for the “likes” or “fame” or selling calendars or prints; we just cosplay for fun. When Katie’s WW photo went viral we got so many requests for interviews that it did get overwhelming, but we just had to pick and choose who we wanted to feature us. Then we granted an interview with NBC Asian America and that started up more requests for interviews that we mostly turned down. We hate to disappoint people, but we were getting requests from foreign countries, video bloggers, etc. We found a lot of news/fandom sites that just reblogged or stole interviews that we had granted approval to. But the attention we receive at the conventions or at Disneyland is the BEST part. Meeting our fans/followers is always fun! We never imagined that people would actually fangirl/fanboy us! Some are so shy to ask us for a photo/selfie, that it’s endearing and a compliment! We love that very much!

You did a really unique take on a cosplay recently. You took inspiration from the movie “Up” and the movie “La La Land” and created cosplays around it. How did you come up with that mash up and that photo shoot inspiration? ( I can get the photos from Katie for this portion )

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We had already planned to do Carl & Ellie for Dapper Day’s Fall Outing. We saw the movie poster for La La Land with Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) in their famous dance pose. Since Mia & Ellie wore a yellow dress, we thought we could do a UP/La La Land mashup during Dapper Day on Saturday. Of course Katie York (@KatieBePhoto), was the perfect choice for the photographer, and even though we couldn’t recreate the exact pose, Katie came up with her take and our dance pose at the nearly empty walkway by Ghirardelli in DCA. That photo became one of our favorites. At that time this photo also had the most likes and comments on our Instagram page too!

We recently got to spend time together at Gallifrey One. It was your first time attending, what did you think of this convention? Was there anything or any one in particular that you wanted to see at Gallifrey One? Any favorite moments from the weekend?

We would have liked to see more of the big name Doctors (Tennant, Smith and Capaldi) but realize they’re either too busy or too expensive to book. Wouldn’t mind also seeing some of our favorite companions such as Karen Gillan, Jenna Coleman, Catherine Tate and Alex Kingston as well. Too bad Pearl Mackie couldn’t make it this year. Favorite moments were seeing you (Monica), Katie and all the cosplayers.

Although not ‘Doctor Who’ related, it was especially nice when Millie presented Katie with her father’s vintage cameras. Millie’s father had once used the cameras, but Millie didn’t want to just donate it to a stranger, so Katie was the perfect recipient! We were all touched by that moment and we could tell that Katie appreciated the gift too.

Among the photoshoots and fun panels, one of the highlights of my trip to #Gally1 was getting to see the @cosplayparents! This particular photo is extra special as this was the exact moment Millie handed me 2 of her father's vintage cameras from the 50's. These cameras are absolutely beautiful and I am forever touched that Millie reached out and offered them to me. I'm looking so forward to breathing life into them. More photos of the actual cameras to come very soon. ❤ #katiebesphotographerlife #photographerlife 📸: @cosplayparents

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Did you cosplay as your favorite Doctors?

Yes, when we started to binge watch the show in 2017, Millie liked David Tennant. Luckily we found a brown pinstripe blazer at a thrift store so it was perfect for her to gender-bend the 10th Doctor. Steven cosplayed Matt Smith’s 11th Doctor because while dressed as Carl Fredricksen from “Up” at a Lego Land Halloween Party a kid came running up to me and said “I love Doctor Who!” Steven said to himself “Who the heck is Doctor Who?! I’m Carl from UP!” It wasn’t until we got home and goggled “Doctor Who” and we saw a picture of Matt Smith that we realize the kid saw a brown tweed jacket and bow tie and got confused! LOL! So since Steven already had the tweed jacket it played perfectly for his cosplay as the 11th Doctor.

How do you decide which cosplays to bring out for a particular convention?

We only have 8 cosplay outfits and 6 Disney bounding outfits so we try to rotate our costumes so the fans don’t see the same thing 2/3 conventions in a row We need to start making new cosplay outfits but we’re running out of characters that we really like to portray, so we might start doing mashups or alternate versions of the same cosplays.

Our first meeting with #zootopia #nickwilde #judyhopps #dca #disneycaliforniaadventure #zootopiacosplay #disneybound #tbt #throwbackthursday #disneystyle at 2016 Food and Wine Festival

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Our second time cosplaying #disneyland 2015 #fbf # flashbackfriday #marypoppins #bertandmary #bertandmarypoppins #chimmneysweep we'll be in the parks tomorrow July 1st in our patriotic hawaiian shirts

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Missing #D23expo so much, 2019 can't come soon enough. #waybackwednesday #frozencosplay #princessanna #frozenkristoff #cosplaycouples #disneyanimation @disneyanimation #olafsfrozenadventure #disneyfrozen #d23expo2017 #d23expo . Thank to Alex H. for the photo.

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Do you have any favorite stories from your different cosplay adventures?

Other than the UP/Doctor Who story I previously mentioned above, we guess it would be how we became known from a tweet from a fan at Wonder Con in 2016. We were dressed as Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter waiting for the Agents of Shield panel to start. But we had to sit through 4 other panels, and our knees and back were hurting, so we stood up to stretch and turned around to face the crowd. We were sitting near the front, not to show off, but we were looking for a friend who was trying to get into the Shield panel. A few rows behind us, this fan took a photo of us and tweeted it and it went viral on his phone! That one tweet started this whole “fame” part of our cosplays. As it turned out, Ron Aspiras, became our first fan, follower, and friend. Through Ron’s discovery of us, subsequent interviews with justJenn at Nerdist and Jon Hernandez at the Marvel Report followed, which started the ball rolling. We later met you at Wonder Con in 2017, and then you introduced us to Katie at Long Beach Comic Con in 2017. That’s when Katie’s Wonder Woman photo of us went viral. Months later we did the UP-LaLaLand photo shoot, and our interview with NBC Asian America, sent things through the roof!

Thank you to our men and women military members for their patriotic service in support of our country on #nationalarmedforcesday #armedforcesday #captainamerica #steverogers #peggycarter #agentcarter #supportourtroops #armedforcesday2017

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Do you have a cosplay bucket list of cosplay you want to eventually do?

We would like to do the Kingsman, an armor build around Thor’s characters, and Steven’s dream is to do Chirrut Imwe. We would also like to do more Han & Leia versions.

@D23Expo Our favorite photo from day 3. #starwarscosplay #hansolocosplay #generalorganacosplay #princessleiacosplay #d23expo2017 #d23expo #starwars #theforceawakens

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What kind of stuff are you interested in outside of cosplay?

Steven likes auto racing, car shows, building and collecting model kits. Millie likes to do arts and crafts, sew, and create things with whatever we have in the house. Together we like to go to Disneyland/Disney California Adventure, Broadway musicals, movies, dining out, and discovering new places and meeting new people.

What is your favorite thing about cosplaying?

At first, it was having people taking photos of us; now it’s mostly just meeting our fans and followers, and our fellow cosplayers and photographers. When we know our friends and fans are attending a Con, we try to meet everyone, it’s like a treasure hunt. We’re both socially shy but because of our internet popularity it’s given us more confidence to meet other famous cosplayers because now they seem to know who we are.

Here ate Temple Of Geek, we really want to thank Steven and Millie for taking the time to answer some of our questions and pose for photos with us. It has been really fun working with them.

If you guys want to find out more about Millie and Steven you can follow along with them on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/cosplayparents/

https://www.facebook.com/CosplayParents/

https://twitter.com/cosplayparents

Catching Up With the Cosplay Parents Happy Cosplay Friday!

#Cosplay #cosplay friday #cosplay parents #Cosplayer #disney bounding #gallifrey one #steven and millie #Wondercon

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SEA DRAGON’S GIFT

Part 16 of 83

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

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A few days later, Barad laid aside the three ephemerids that Kurti had used to calculate their position. She sketched their position lightly on the chart. Barad marked boldly over her mark. Kurti had done the entire sighting and calculation on her own, with Barad watching closely, and taking his own observations separately.

“That was excellent, Kurti. I need you to prepare for an entertainment this evening.”

She listened in dread as he explained what he wanted of her.

I must have failed at something. Why else would he do this to me? “Sir,” she asked in a small voice, “I had thought that I was pleasing you. What did I do wrong?”

He looked at her in genuine puzzlement. “You have pleased me, Kurti. Nobody has ever pleased me as much. This is not a punishment. It is a matter of fairness. Morgu won a night with Chena fair and square. She died before he could claim his prize.

“I am only giving Morgu and Selked a fair chance at the prize again. You can also be of help to me in two other ways.” At once, she perked up and listened closely. “By doing this, I am tying two of my best men tighter to me. Besides, you can listen to what they have to say for clues to their true feelings and anything else that they may mention that I can profit from.”

“I think that I see. I was afraid that you were punishing me, I admit. So, this isn’t about anything that I’ve done, is it?”

“No, Kurti, it isn’t. If I ever seek to punish you, I will be direct and you will know what you are being punished for. That is my way.”

“So, by doing this, if one of them wins me, I will be serving you.”

“True, now fix up this cabin and get yourself ready for dinner. You will dine at the officer’s table with me tonight.”

Surprise must have shown on her face because he laughed out loud. “You should see yourself! I kept the other cabin girls locked up because it was necessary. They would have talked without thinking and betrayed my secrets. Even when there was nowhere to go, they kept trying to escape. You are so different from them that you deserve better treatment. Besides, there are a few officers who are getting too full of their place on this ship. You will be the perfect foil for that as well.”

Now it was her turn to laugh. “First Officer Timms is probably the only one that won’t be furious at you. Shall I dress demure or risque?”

“I hadn’t thought of that!” Barad had the delighted grin of a small boy getting away with a goodie that was not his. “Let’s not push them too far at once. Dress just a little on the risque side of good taste. I leave it to you.”

Dinner aboard the Grandalor was rarely a cause for interest or any but the most vicious of gossip. Tonight, some had noticed that an extra place had been set at the officer’s table.

“What’s that about? Any idea?”

“Not even. I asked the mess-boys about it and they don’t have any clue. Just say it’s Capt’n’s orders.”

“Gonna set up some new officer maybe?”

“Here he comes! Maybe now we’ll know …”

Captain Barad strode imperiously into the dingily lit mess. Nobody had seated themselves yet, not being so foolish.

The Captain’s imposingly solid bulk was dressed as though for a formal occasion. He was wearing snug dark trousers tucked into flared topped ankle boots of dark dyed, pebble-scaled Wing Ray. A white sash-belt set off and complemented a loose shirt of brown satin with moving black highlights. He stepped aside from the entryway and Kurti stepped into the room beside him, casually taking his arm.

She was dressed in a snugly fitting blouse of the same satin as Barad’s shirt, also throwing dark highlights. A narrow belt of white, matching Barad’s, contrasted with her snug dark pants and dark slippers of polished, glittering, small scaled Lesser Dragon hide. They made a striking couple and both knew it.

With inner amusement but a straight face, Captain Barad thought, there’s two officers — — four men and — — five women of the crew that have made an obvious effort to dress up. Setting an example does appear to be working. Look at them all stare! I think that they’re in shock, I really do! He led Kurti to the chair next to his on the left, pulled it out and seated her as though she were a lady of consequence. He seated himself, and the rest of the crew finally sat on their benches.

The officers looked on in barely concealed anger and confusion at the cabin-girl who was usurping a place at their privileged table. Kurti smiled back at them like a Wolf Eel seeing lunch swimming by. The rest of the crew looked on with varying degrees of amusement and puzzlement.

Kurti was one of their own but they had written her off. A cabin-girl was as good as dead. Everyone knew that. Barad’s cabin-girls had never lasted long, once chosen. None were ever seen again before this. Now there she was at the officer’s table, on the Captain’s left hand, a place of high favor. What was going on?

Gossip began to rage like a fire in the rigging. It was well known among the crew that Barad was always quick to criticize poor work, nearly as quick to say a good word for work done well, and to ignore almost entirely work that was merely adequate. The principal guess was that Kurti was doing — whatever her work was — extremely well.

Dinner itself was unremarkable. Just the usual fish-cakes, seaweed salad and water. Kurti smiled inside as she watched it being served by a confused Jaret. He was a galley worker that she knew. They had never gotten along. When the meal was done, she left on the Captain’s arm.

They stopped by the sick-bay to see if Tanlin was any better. An empty bunk greeted them. Doctor Corin apologetically proffered a tallow-slate.

“I am sorry, Sir. She slipped away last night. I have prepared her particulars and other papers for the Log. When you have done, I will sign the papers and entries.”

The Captain wrinkled his brow in thought and looked about the small sick-bay, at the eight curtained bunks, arrayed in a row of four, two deep, the Doctor’s desk with it’s tall apothecary cabinet and the examination / operating table, centered in the only clear space in the room.

“Thank you, Doctor Corin,” said Barad quietly. He took the tallow-slate.

Kurti looked sadly at the bunk where the cousin that she had never got the chance to meet had lingered four and a half Wohans. She spoke softly, “We appreciate all that you have done, Doctor Corin. We visited her early last night. When did she die?”

“I found her gone at the second drum of the third night watch,” he answered her. Turning to the Captain he added, “I put her body in the corpse locker until you should order her funeral or embalming for transport back to her fleet.”

“Who knows of her death?” asked Barad, suddenly intense, struck by a thought.

“Only we three.”

“For now, keep it that way. Curtain her bunk and let none see that she is gone,” he ordered.

“Not even my assistant?” queried Doctor Corin.

“Especially not Mikka,” said Barad decisively. “Give her other work that keeps her out of the sickbay for now.”

“Yes, Sir.”

Barad and Kurti initialed the sick-bay casual visit list and left. They were sobered by Tanlin’s passing but they had never truly known her. The two had other and more pressing things to think about. By the time that they had got to Barad’s cabin door, they were feeling once again the effects of their prank at dinner.

Once in his cabin, she laughed and the Captain chimed in.

“Did you see their faces?” he hooted.

“Which ones?” she replied, delighted by the response that she’d seen. “The officers or the crew? The ones that I used to know just about fell off their benches! That was even better than the officers for me. After you chose me, they wrote me off and wouldn’t even talk to me when they did have the chance.”

Barad looked at her, seeing her anew, yet again. “You have changed, Kurti. I was sure that going before the whole crew like that would at least embarrass you. You show no sign of it. May I ask why?”

She sobered and considered carefully before answering. “Truly, Sir, it is survival. Your cabin-girls have a short life usually, and an unpleasant one, if rumor be true at all.

“From what I have seen, they did not even try to please you. That was their job. You have always had a short way with people who don’t do their jobs. Most folks have some point where they will say something like, I would rather die than — whatever.

“I’ve decided to live. That means doing my job as well as possible. With what has passed between us, I could not marry to get off the ship now. You would never feel safe, and rightly so. One slip of a tongue and we both would be convicted of violating the Marriage Laws. Command me if necessary or just tell me what is needed and give me the chance to do what you want as well as I can. For however long I live, Sir, I am yours.”

Barad beamed. “I was right. You think deeply. This goes far beyond the present task. You have clearly told me why I can trust you, in terms of your own self interest.

“Now, I have that game of Three Dragons to play tonight. You are the stakes. I leave the whole set-up and refreshments to you.” He pulled her to him and kissed her. She responded with the appearance of enthusiasm. Then he released her and playfully patted her behind. “Get to it.”

As she was about to leave, Barad impulsively handed her a six-inch dagger of Strong Skin fang, honed to a razor edge. Startled, she was about to refuse it when he spoke. “Kurti, There are only two people on this ship that I trust enough to allow them to be armed in my presence. One is Selked, whom I’ve known from childhood, and the other is you. Carry this to defend yourself, if any of the crew should get ideas.”

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