#I'll probably end up editing this many times too because I haven't fleshed her character out properly

[kamenwriter]

Saw Across the Spider-Verse...

It is very much an "act two of three" film. If you loved Empire Strikes Back you'll probably love this. Me? I'm a Return of the Jedi guy, myself.

Animation is gorgeous. Soundtrack is a banger.

The plot...plays into a lot of tropes I'm not a fan of, and as I've said before I'm so burned out on multiverse stories and metafiction.

Spoiler filled thoughts behind the cut:

Starting the film out by fleshing out Gwen is a good choice. She is absolutely the co-protagonist of this film, and it sets up her motivation to go along with Miguel for as long as she does. She's terrified of returning home.

I feel like The Spot is only a "gag" character because of how he looks. Bro has a dangerous powerset. And this kind of goes into the metanarrative the film has I could have done without.

Spot having illustration blue-lines in his model I guess is an indicator of his ability to dimension hop without glitching...but still feels like an odd choice to me.

The whole "we have to maintain the canon, certain people have to die" is just eye-rollingly annoying as a conflict motivation. First from my personal "god I'm sick of meta narratives" perspective, but also from anyone calling themselves Spider-Man having that attitude.

The movie at least establishes that all evidence points to Miguel being right, but everyone's tacit agreement with him is dumb.

As mentioned before, Gwen has a good established reason to go along with Miguel. And yes they at least show Peter B. trying to walk the tightrope of how to handle Miles, but I feel like he'd be more against doing things that way.

Everyone giving Miles shit...because the film needs a conflict. Doesn't matter if it makes sense. This is a problem the first film has as well.

I like that everyone keeps going on about how cool Spider-Punk is but the film does take the time to point out he can be a contrarian for contrarian's sake.

I liked how Spider-Punk was a proper "Fuck the establishment" punk at the end, and the set-up/pay off of "use your whole palm."

How sad is that Ganke once again can't do anything because the MCU films all ready used Ganke and just called him Ned Leeds? (MCU Peter is gentrified Miles, you know it's true)

I sincerely hope in the sequel they explain why Prowler Miles (and Aaron) think they have something to gain by holding Miles hostage. He literally just wants to leave.

I'd complain about how Miguel and Ben Reilly are almost nothing like their comic counterparts...but neither was Peni or Noir in the first film. So...

Excited for the old gang and the new gang to team up in part three, but part two just had too many "folks being assholes in service of the plot and in disservice to the character" and bullshit meta narratives (a police captain has to die? What? Of all the Spider-Man variations in the comics I think that only happened once? I haven't been reading Ghost Spider)

Anyway if schedule permitted I'd go to the second showing of Shin Kamen Rider before I'd watch this again. I'll pick up the soundtrack, though. [edited to add] I'll pick up the soundtrack if GETS A PHYSICAL RELEASE, THAT IS. God I hate the streaming era.

[tortilla-of-courage]

Describing it as being like home is actually pretty accurate yeah.

And YES! I am totally willing to talk about my modern AU.

I've been calling it the Adoption AU because Time ends up adopting all of the boys. It mostly started as, I saw an edit for a tweet someone did with Wars and Wild that involved Taco Bell (cannot remember the blog or post for the life of me though), and so I wrote a thing about Warriors sneaking out of his university dorm to pick up Wild, who snuck out the window despite his broken arm, and then got extorted by Legend in exchange for silence at 3am.

This was followed by a fic where Groose decided spray painting a public building was a good idea and got himself and Sky arrested, set earlier in the timeline.

So then I made a timeline. Twilight is Time and Malon's biological son, and he found Wild on the side of the road one day (Wild's backstory involves a bad car wreck and an underground hospital, but no conspiracy bullshit. Yet). Wild has no memory, so they keep him. Wild brings home Legend, who was told his uncle died at school before a holiday. They then also keep Legend. Malon finds Four in her barn one morning for complicated reasons, and they keep him too. Twilight finds Warriors, who is in his class, hiding in an alley one day after he ran away from an abusive home and brings him home too. SS Impa (who I've nicknamed Shield because there are enough prominent Impas here that they should get nicknames too) is a social worker who's trying to find Sky a home and has run out of options, and turns to Time, who has a record of successfully housing 'unhousable' youths, and asks if he can take one more. He can. Wild finds Hyrule and brings him home because 'Rule needs a shower even more than Wild does. Hyrule stays. Wind's grandma ends up with Wind and his sister but can't financially take care of both and so Wind ends up with the boys and everyone is +1 Grandma.

Twilight has a fic detailing how he knows Midna and Dusk and I ended up shooting him (oops) but at least their social project gets handed in on time.

Then I started hashing out Time's backstory and suddenly this AU had plot. And organized crime. And a conspiracy. And secret societies.

The summarized version is that the gems from OoT are like, Idk what they do yet. Haven't gotten to a point where I need to figure that out yet. But they are Important and have to be carefully guarded. The Great Deku Tree (just called Deku because he's not a tree here) was Time's foster father before Ganondorf killed him. Also, Ganondorf is Deku's half brother. Because. However Time 'stole' the Emerald and he and Navi ran until OoT Impa (Sage) and Lullaby found them. So Time got adopted into Lullaby's family. Ruto inherited the Sapphire from her mother who also died from mysterious circumstances, and Darunia has the Ruby. Lullaby got the Ocarina from her late paternal grandmother.

Then Ganon finds them and tries to steal the Emerald from Time, so Lullaby goes looking for help and thus finds the sages. Saria is an anonymous hacker who uses the screen name 'Kokiri'. Time reveals he didn't steal the Emerald, he was Deku's heir, and then Navi goes missing. Time is home worried enough that he's physically sick, and Ganon decides to try and attack the home. Only Lullaby's family is Olde Money, and they live in a big, old manor, so Lullaby as Sheik decides to play 'Home Alone' with the secret passages in the walls and they piss off Ganon because when did that brat get a sheikah bodyguard??? Sage and Rottla (Lullaby's mother, who is fully sheikah as well) rush home from a thing and Kokiri is running a play by play watching the security cameras.

I pull in my headcanon that Time was killed in the Downfall Timeline by getting impaled on Ganon's tusk and Ganondorf stabs him with the tusk of a mounted boar head and then Sheik shows up to protect his brother, and then Mama gets home and is not happy to find this man in her home attacking her kids. Time is fine, but Navi stays missing. (She's alive tho.)

Also, Time's foster dad was the last leader of a secret society known as The Order of The Lost Woods, and Time learns this upon meeting Tatl, who gets him sucked into another event that would probably make a good action movie. I have thought too much about the Order and it's hierarchy, but what's important here is that Time ends up with a standing job offer and Tatl and he remain friends and we find out how I fit FD into this AU. It's not pretty. This is where Time loses his eye too.

The AoC came out and I added that Link in as Wild's twin brother and he shows up during the main plot.

Which starts with Twi getting kidnapped. (I'm not really meaner to him than the others, I swear, he's just the most logical choice to be Time's heir. Which he is. He doesn't know this though.)

So he's kidnapped by Ganondorf, who broke out of jail, Zant, who shot Twi in highschool, and Ghirahim, who has some history with Sky I haven't fleshed out yet and a very public rivalry with Warriors over twitter. About six weeks later Sage finds him in an abandoned warehouse (because of course) with a shackle on his left arm and a lot of new injuries. He ends up fine, but he tells Time later in the hospital what happened and he's both message and messenger and Time is this close to just committing murder. Tatl talks him down.

Somewhere here is the half finished fic where I introduce AoC Link as Luke/Knight, and this is as far as I've plotted thus far.

Other tidbits: Wild and Lullaby/Sheik are both genderfluid, Lullaby/Sheik married Ruto, Wild has a very popular YouTube channel, Twi does drag racing sometimes, Sky has a pet bird, Four has DID to explain how the Colours are here too, and Wolfie exists in the form of a random wolf-dog Wild found and brought home that Legend somehow convinced half the family was Twilight. Also, Warriors has somehow befriended an entire sorority and he doesn't know how this happened.

This... got long. As you can see I have a lot of thoughts about the Adoption AU. It's gotten a bit away from me, I'll admit. This went from 'Wild does stunts on his motorbike and keeps breaking bones but somehow not the bike' to 'Twilight got kidnapped and Time is the target of a mafia that Ganon runs and also maybe killed a man once' and I don't know how that happened. Also, this is the condensed version of the summary. My actual summary/outline is much, much longer than this. So if there's any detail you want more on, feel free to say so and I'll happily go into more detail (there are so many things I didn't even mention....)

And yes, Robbie having a bong is very important to my best friend, for some reason. He has one in a modern AU and he probably invented one in canon. I happen to agree that this makes sense for his character, if anyone would invent a bong in LoZ it's Robbie (this is such an anticlimactic end to this ask after the stuff about the modern AU...)

Also, sorry for the long ass ask. I genuinely don't know how to condense the Adoption Au down any further. There's a lot of important plot beats to cover, and I still skipped things.

-Attllhak

oh my GOD???? if you ever write and post this somewhere id love to read it, the level of "crazy" conspiracy/action movie elements implemented sound sosososo cool, from Ganondorf being Deku's half brother to trying to "send a message" via Twi and- just- all of this is SO good.i sat here and reread this ask like 3 times as if that would magically spawn more info about it ahaha

there's so much to unpack here but it's honestly so worth it i love every single detail!!! i can imagine the actual outline being way longer, nad honestly that just makes me the more excited/curious about all that might be missing from this ask - i cant believe it started with Wild and Wars going to Taco Bell of all things

also i can totally see Robbie making a bong, no matter the setting or AU. fits him a lot I'd say

and dont worry about long asks!! i adore opening up my askbox to see one ask take over the entire thing, it makes me really happy aha

[eruinaflightmist]

In-depth Character Profile

Full Name: Eruina Flightmist Nickname(s): Ina Current location: 

pre burning of Teldrassil: travels between the Argent Tournament grounds at Icecrown and her garrison on Draenor if not on a hunt

post burning of Teldrassil: stays mostly at Hion’s home in Dalaran until her mother reprimands her for being evasive of the conflict, leading to Eruina joining the battle on Darkshore

Titles: the Diplomat (often chosen as ambassador for Darnassus, until recently), Stable Master, Slayer of Ogres Companions: in a separate post bc she’s a huntress and a beastmistress, so she owns an entire menagerie. However, there is one companion who is constantly at her side and it’s Meow the striped nightsaber. Birthplace: northern Ashenvale, which is now known as Felwood Mother: Sialy Flightmist Father: Brynnon Bluemane (deceased)                                                                 Other family members: younger sister Cireael Flightmist

Eruina with Meow

Personal Attributes Gender: female  Eye Color: silver Skin Tone: light rose Hair Color: neon purple to violet (darkens at the tips)  Height: 197 cm Weight: 78 kg Hand dominance: right hand Scar(s)/Deformities: bite and claw marks on body, mostly arms and legs, due to dealing with beasts Racial Tattoos: the facial maturity tattoos, in the form of the Serpent, colour is dark red Language(s): fluent Darnassian and Common

The Huntress with her closest companions, the saber sisters Meow and Roar and the worg Spirithowl

Class Development Rank: Huntress / Beastmaster Place of Study: Teldrassil Mentor: Ayanna Everstride at Shadowglen (in-game NPC) Organization(s): Huntresses of the Sentinel Army, though she has never been a high-ranked Huntress in Darnassus. Her duties at first were mostly limited to Darkshore and Ashenvale, but after failing the complete protection of those lands amongst other Sentinels, Eruina was relocated to assist the other Alliance factions more, thanks to her diplomatic skills. She gained the most trust with Ironforge first, and Stormwind second. Her diplomatic skills proved effective even beyond the Eastern Kingdoms. She is also highly esteemed among the Wintersaber Trainers and the Timbermaw furbolgs, as she spent a great deal of time in Winterspring for personal hunter training. By the time of the Iron Horde’s invasion, Stormwind entrusted her a garrison on Draenor amongst many other champions. She is also one of the Huntmasters in the Unseen Path. In conclusion, Eruina is an active sentinel huntress who serves Stormwind most, which often conflicts her with the interests of Darnassus. Though she does not have a high rank among the Darnassian sentinels, she is a rightful commander by Stormwind’s standards.                                                              Specialization(s): beast handling and training, mounted and ranged combat (most proficient with bows, but can also use guns and crossbows, taught by rangers of other factions). Also knows how to wield a glaive, as is common for Sentinel Huntresses. Weapon(s): unnamed bow from Draenor, official sentinel glaive Armor: balances between leather and scale mail, often personally crafted. Her handiwork often resembles that of other races, much to the dismay of Darnassian sentinels. Avoids helms. Battle Participation: none directly, though she had assisted her sisters in protecting Ashenvale from orc attacks, Mount Hyjal from Ragnaros, and worked with various organisations to sabotage Illidan’s rule on Outland. Indirectly, in cooperation with the Argent Crusade and their tournament, she also helped the war effort against the Lich King. She took a more offensive approach on Draenor, helping the draenei of the alternate timeline to take down the Iron Horde. In Legion, she aided the effort of repelling demons on the sidelines, through the Unseen Path. I am currently saving BfA to play with friends, but I expect Eruina to be much more offensive on Darkshore, as she was not on Teldrassil when it was burned and the guilt shook her heavily.

Bladetalon is Eruina’s primary guide in the skies

Combat Considerations Physical Weakness(es): lacks strength, can be taken down quickly in close combat, especially by a foe bigger than her. Physical Strength(s): agile and dextrous. Incredibly swift and quick to react in battle situations. Prefers speed over strength.                                Psychological Weakness(es): unpredictable personality.  Easy to manipulate and sway in personal encounters, but becomes very stern and calculated in leadership positions, to the point of unfairness.                                Psychological Strength(s): learns from past mistakes. Adapts quickly and doesn’t fear change of plans.

Personal Characteristics Idiosyncrasies: she acts rather childishly and immaturely around people she loves, but talks very seriously with her beast companions and ranked superiors. She cuts her long, thick hair short every time she feels like she has failed protecting a place or person dear to her. Insecurities: her emotional side being called out, seeing one of the forests she deems nostalgic get destroyed again. Notable Feature: voice sounds hoarse and growling, especially at louder volume, due to damaging her vocal cords out in Winterspring.                              Voice example: Battle Beast – Touch in the Night Positive traits: open-minded | quick to adapt | optimistic | easy-going | loyal | empathetic Negative traits: capricious | takes leadership positions very seriously and expects a lot out of her own leaders and followers | naive | gullible | takes bad events to heart very deeply | incapable of forgiveness once wronged Orientation: hetero Attracted to: long hair, success, intelligence and a cold exterior.

Relationships                                                                                                  Sialy the druid of the talon - mother, often conflicts with due to different ideologies, but she has great respect for her nevertheless                                    Cireael the sentinel - younger sister, mutual respect, though Cireael does not approve of Eruina’s light-hearted attitude                                                                Lufeni the demon hunter - friend, encountered in Legion; Lufeni, on the other hand, appreciates Eruina’s optimistic and carefree personality                        Yael Moonbrow the huntress - Eruina’s soon-to-be trainee                          Ranayel the sindorei farstrider - an unusual contact from the Horde, a friendship made possible thanks to the Unseen Path. Mutual passion in taming and handling beasts                                                                                                Eydis the human ranger - a young trainee of Eruina; Eruina is also familiar with her family                                                                                                              Hollyla the dwarf riflewoman - another one of Eruina’s trainees                          Ashesces the draenei rangari - one of Eruina’s hunter allies and friends                Valky the draenei vindicator - Eruina’s friend, mutual passion in taming rideable beasts                                                                                                              Hion’thaes the quel’dorei Kirin Tor sorcerer - Eruina’s current mate                      Idols: Rexxar the Beastmaster                                                                  Personal Antagonists: the undead warlock Amaara

OOC Approach Writing Theme(s): not set in stone yet as I haven’t been able to RP with her much, nor really write her stories out decently... but I’m guessing a lot to do with motion, emotion and beasts Story arcs I would like to explore: oh man I haven’t written out any so I’ll just list the ideas I’ve had (not in chronological order... also these listed are personal comic ideas, but I’m open to most RP ideas)

romance with Hion’thaes

Eruina getting cheated on by a former night elf partner and her sister Cireael confronting said partner

becoming a hippogryph rider after being forced to appeal to the Cenarion Expedition by her mother

Eruina and Hion’s daughter and everything related to it

the deforestation of Ashenvale and the eruption of the nearby volcano

Auberdine’s fall

her being a tutor to Eydis

first encounter with Amaara

the taming of Ghost Howl

the learning of Teldrassil’s fall

RP preferences: either in-game on EU Darkspear or via Discord, however Discord allows for more literate roleplay. I prefer literate roleplay above everything else, though I do not shy away from most subjects. DM if you have any questions.

(Character sheet template by @nesuna-nightwinter​ .)