#I'm a Bronze player it's where I belong

[emile-hides]

When you try you best but you don't succeed

[nightmarist]

Some Zevlor Things —

EDIT 12/2/23: Added a few more things

A fellow Tiefling Hellrider, Tilses, is with him in the caves acting as his bodyguard. He sometimes calls her Tilly.

There is one bedroll in the caves shoved off in the far corner with a book titled "The Devil You Know: An Autobiography" - not sure if it's his personal writing or if he's reading it, either way it adds to the flavor of his of his tiefling pride (and/or anguish).

It reads:

Have you ever had a god change your blood? It is a horrifying thing, even for those who may desire it. Yet few tieflings wished for Asmodeus to claim their bodies, only be given no choice in the matter. It is not as if we were well-loved before the archdevil's gambit. Our people have always struggled against the notion of 'devilkin', as if a single drop of infernal ichor inescapably corrupts. How amusing, when so many others willingly sell their souls to fiends, yet their culture as a whole escapes the blame. By what method can we redeem ourselves, when the crime is not ours? I would drive a blade into every warlock that aided Asmodeus' damned ritual, but personal vengeance cannot undo the will of a god, much less one as slippery as the Lord of Lies. When every passerby thinks you a thief and heretic, it is deeply tempting to become one. (cut off) The only thing that has stopped me is knowing Asmodeus wants nothing more than for all of us to fall from grace.

Around the his table are Invasion Plans for Elturgard, Traveler's Guide to Baldur's Gate, Traveler's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol IV: The Risen Road (which aligns when he tells you earlier there are gnolls on the road), and "Front and Center: a Thespian's Memoir" that reads:

"... in fact, the greatest joy of my life hasn't been acting, but becoming. When you choose a character to play, you don't just wear a mask - you take a little bit of their soul for your own. Whoever you are in your heart of hearts, if only by the faintest note."

Zevlor aside I think this is a sweet quote for the player and player character relationship <3

Dialogue in the Caves:

Zevlor: I Hardly need a bodyguard, Tilses. This isn't Avernus. Tilses: No sir. At least the monsters there looked like monsters.

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Tilses: Commander— Zevlor: Just Zevlor, Tilly. We're civilians now, remember? Tilses: With respect, sir — being a Hellrider is for life. They can't take — Zevlor: They can, and did. Avernus changed things — best we get used to that. Tilses: ... Yes, Zevlor

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Tilses: The Watch or the Flaming Fist? Zevlor: Pardon? Tilses: When we get to Baldur's Gate. Where are we enlisting? Zevlor: I'm done soldiering, Tilly. I'd like a clean start. But go with the Watch. You're too honest to be a mercenary.

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Zevlor: No word from the scouts, yet? Tilses: No sir. But if there's a clear path past the goblins, they'll find it. Zevlor: Yes, of course.

ITEMS —

in the Chest there is a bronze goblet, 46 gold, and a battle-worn blade. On his person he has his gloves (Hellrider's Pride), an apple, a camp supply pack, and the key to his chest.

The blade says:

A fine by well-used sword. It seemed to have once belonged to a holy order, but the indication of rank and patron deity at the hilt have recently been filed down.

The gloves' flavor text says:

A waft of sulphur emanates from this proudly-kept piece.

Celebration at the Camp:

"I should be out there, talking with them. In... Just a moment, maybe." "Is this everyone? Our numbers have grown so few..." "No more. I can't afford to lose any more of them." "No. Let them have fun. I'll be ruining it come morning anyway."

Mindfayer Colony:

Things he mumbles in the Pod:

The pod will show you his memories of Elturel:

After saving Zevlor, I forced myself to pick the "mean" options just to see how it goes.

If you tell him its his fault tieflings were imprisoned in moonrise, he says:

If you tell him "Do yo have a right to ask?" when he asks about the tieflings:

He doesn't argue with any of your remarks except one, when he says "For a moment I welcomed it" and you tell him "For a moment until you realized your reward would be a tadpole" he corrects you:

If you tell him if he wanted power he should live up to his own ideal:

If you tell him to get out of your sight:

When you tell him it's not his fault he was enthralled:

If you tell him "Fine. Good luck, Zevlor."

If you say you could use another blade in the fight to come:

At the Netherbrain:

(smiling <3)

"The journey has been brutal, but I stand here a Hellrider once more, and I would die a proud man if I died this day."

I know it's a Soldier thing to be proud to die for a cause but it still makes me worry for him given his background so far <:]

If you click on him, he has two unvoiced lines:

if you pickpocket him at this point, he'll have the same items on him as before (in this save he has a carrot instead of an apple for me).

His stats at this time: (Steeped in Bliss is from one of my items)

Post Game (Patch 5)

I don't know if there are other permutations of this letter, yet, but this is what I received:

I hope my penmanship has improved somewhat in the past months. When I first stumbled into this city, I shook so badly that I could scarcely hold the soup the priests pressed into my hands - let alone write and thank you as you deserve. It is only when the city itself began to shake that I felt my hands grow still. Along with the other veterans sheltering at the temple - discards of Elturel's 'unworthy' legions - I watched that monstrosity rise over the city. We felt no fear. Only anger. Disgust. Purpose - and with it, power. I do not know what oath we cling to now, or how long it will last - but we shall use it to ensure that this city will not suffer as Elturel did. Whether it wants us or not. It is more than thanks alone I owe. No words can make amends for what I did to my people, but that is as it should be. More come to the temple every day to aid in the relief efforts, and if I am permitted to work alongside them, then I am content. Come and see us, when you can. Zevlor

It's interesting — if not bitterswet, tragic, and inspiring — to hear that Zevlor and other Paladins regained their Oaths via pure, stubborn devotion to saving people when it began to look as bad as Elturel.

[thydungeongal]

Fantasy Adventure Games part 1

I've mentioned this in passing but like there's a genre of TTRPGs that I call the "fantasy adventure game" that is nebulously defined and that is ultimately what a lot of people look for when they look for TTRPGs. They're basically games in the same broad genre as D&D, characterized by the following:

Cooperative. Player characters are expected to form an adventuring party of some type that cooperates to overcome adversity.

Challenge-based. Ultimately the action in these games revolves around overcoming obstacles in the pursuit of some goal. These obstacles often include combat but can also be different types of adversity, such as environmental obstacles or other complex situations that must be maneuvered.

Fantasy. These games take place in fantasy settings, whatever that means. More often than not this means a medieval or early modern level of technology and aesthetics heavily informed by medieval Europe and classical antiquity.

Anyway I sometimes get asks from people who want to stay within the fantasy genre and roughly the same genre of play as D&D but who chafe at some of the expectations of D&D, so I'm compiling this list of games in order to give you a starting point. This list is not meant to be exhaustive and it will reflect my own biases when it comes to what games on the market I am aware of.

This first part will cover the Trad, or Traditional, side of the Fantasy Adventure Game genre. Trad is another nebulously defined term but ultimately what I mean by it is the sort of mainstream RPG design with a pedigree that goes all the way back to the seventies. Yes, even though games have changed a lot since 1974, I think there is a clear design lineage that can be traced from the early days of the hobby to most modern fantasy RPGs. I will keep games like Pathfinder and OSR games offa the list for now.

RuneQuest by Chaosium. The original RuneQuest was one of the first non-D&D fantasy RPGs that entered the hobby and it still remains around. Since its inception, RuneQuest has contrasted with D&D mostly in terms of its more modest character power scaling, more deadly combat, universal magic, and lack of classes and levels. Where D&D (every edition) is ultimately a game where characters will quickly grow to superheroic levels of power, RuneQuest characters are much more grounded, growing in skill and capability but always staying at a level of power where a single attack can end a would-be hero's adventuring career very quickly. RuneQuest is also heavily tied to the fantasy setting of Glorantha, a mythic bronze age fantasy setting with extremely intricate metaphysics and mythology. The current edition of RuneQuest is once again tied explicitly to Glorantha after years of the game having been detached from the Glorantha license, and in addition to adventuring in the world of Glorantha the game places a heavy emphasis on characters becoming characters of importance in the tribes and cults they belong to, and the game turns downtime between adventures into a major part of its gameplay.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay by Cubicle 7. Unbeknownst to many, the first edition of Warhammer, the miniatures wargame, actually featured full rules of playing the game as a roleplaying game instead of an army scale wargame. These rules would later act as the foundation for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, now in its fourth edition. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, or WFRP for short, is characterized by being a more ground level look at the Old World of the Warhammer fantasy wargame, and it gives a much grimmer and grittier view of the world than sometimes portrayed in the miniatures game. WFRP is not a game of larger than life heroes going to battle against the forces of Chaos: it's a game about peasants, bandits, rat catchers, and apprentice wizards taking part in small-scale skirmishes that might sometimes involve the forces of Chaos but are ultimately just drops in the ocean compared to the great tsunami of Chaos rolling towards the world. Much like RuneQuest, it is characterized by a more grounded power level, with characters starting in ultimately mundane professions and not rising meteorically in power, but compared to RuneQuest its setting is much more grimy and gritty, and far from being universally available, magic is both rare and dangerous.

Rolemaster by Iron Crown Enterprises. Another classic fantasy RPG from the eighties, Rolemaster has experienced a recent resurgence, with many dubbing 2024 "the year of Rolemaster." Rolemaster was originally born out of the developers' frustrations in trying to run a D&D campaign set in Middle-earth and the game constantly struggling to produce fiction that would befit the late and great J.R.R. Tolkien's work. For some reason they decided to make Rolemaster. But to be serious for a moment, despite its failure to model the sort of action present in Tolkien's work, Rolemaster is on its own terms a crunchy and detailed fantasy RPG that is a good fit for those who chafe against the abstract nature of most other fantasy RPG systems. Rolemaster as a system is heavily characterized by the use of "open-ended" 1d100 rolls (rolls which explode both on high and low rolls), extremely gruesomely detailed critical hit, fumble, and spell failure tables, and gameplay that largely revolves around table lookup. It also has its own, very unique set of metaphysics that make it stand out from most fantasy RPGs.

Fantasy AGE by Green Ronin Publishing. Originally the system that powered their officially licensed Dragon Age RPG, the Fantasy AGE system is a 3d6-based system that while clearly owing heavily to D&D (in addition to obvious influences from the Dragon Age CRPG, the game is in many ways a successor to Green Ronin's earlier d20-based True20 system) aims for a more cinematic approach to play. A lot of what the game has to offer will be instantly familiar to D&D players: characters are defined via their species and class; while there are only four classes (Warrior, Rogue, Mage, and Envoy in the second edition), players get to further choose specializations for their character that will give them access to more unique abilities; characters advance in levels which unlock new abilities according to their class. Fantasy AGE tries to go for a more cinematic style, with each 3d6 roll having the possibility of producing a "stunt," where players get to spend stunt points on additional effects depending on the action in question. It thus promises to be a game where the situation is constantly changing and the action is exciting and high-flying.

Break!! by Madriñan & Tartaglia. The recent winner of the Gold Ennie Award for Best Family Game 2024, Break!! is a science fantasy adventure game firmly grounded in classic TTRPG design (with old-school D&D as one of the clearest of its many influences) but with inspirations taken from anime and classic video games. Break!! doesn't exactly bring a lot of new and exciting design to the table, but it comes with such fantastic presentation and clarity of purpose that it makes one excited at the sheer prospect of playing it. Like, just look at how nicely their website is presented! The game itself has similar presentation.

Warrior, Rogue & Mage by Stargazer Games. A rules light traditional fantasy RPG, WRM boils down character abilities to three abilities: Warrior, Rogue, and Mage. WRM is a very simple and easy to digest fantasy RPG that while far from crunchy still has a bit of bite to it. Character creation is simple and largely consist of assigning points to the three stats, choosing skills, buying equipment, and choosing spells (for characters with a Mage attribute of 1 or higher). The game is entirely free and there is a wealth of free supplements for it as well.

Next time I'll be talking about either the OSR, the "Alt" school of design, tactical combat games (basically, successors to 4e that warrant a separate look), 3e successors, or idk, who knows.

[noonmutter]

bit of a rant about Mists of Pandaria Remix below, skip this if you don't want to read what's mostly just me venting about some stupid shit the team did years ago. this involves minor spoilers about plot points that are largely irrelevant to the overall story but if you wanna be surprised you'd prolly be mad at me for mentioning

so I'm running through MOP Remix just like a huge chunk of WoW players right now, right

and this was the expac that'd come out before the expac I joined the game in, which was WoD. The Tanaan patch of WoD. I joined during an objectively awful part of WoW. People had a habit of singing MoP's praises (at least for the story) a lot in comparison to WoD, although the bar wasn't very hard to clear.

So I played MoP's story as a character that vastly outleveled it and didn't have to gear up and grind my way through it, and I had the same general experience as most new players did, which was constantly wondering what I was missing because a few fairly significant story beats were relegated to happening in novels or just had cinematics that weren't accessible in the game anymore, shit like that

and I remember actively avoiding the main alliance v. horde plot because I really didn't care, I wanted to see what the Shaohao stuff was about, because man those cinematics were gorgeous (and at the time, unique to MoP; they hadn't gotten lazy and reused the art style for Diablo 3 where it didn't belong yet). I wanted to know what those were about and how they expanded! And gosh, that was great and rewarding! Wow!

so in Remix, I'm running ALL the storylines, because every quest rewards a buttload of bronze and stuff, and gimme gimme gimme, I wanna collect all the cool shit.

but oh. my GOD.

I can't even evaluate the story from a watsonian perspective, where I look at the actions the characters take and their political ramifications and whether X person made the right call or if Y could've stopped this other thing if they'd just found the magic doodad or whatever. I simply can't. It's all written in such a hamfisted, "we don't understand politics or what actually causes systemic hatred or bigotry or the general concept of moral nuance" way that I cannot evaluate the characters because the writing is just not good enough to stay immersed in it when big plot points hit.

I can't sit here and compare Jaina's stupid murderous kirin tor rampage with Garrosh's Anything At All because I'm too busy thinking about all the ways both of them were poorly written into their respective story beats.

The Alliance and Horde stories do not depict the same events. An Alliance player sees the Horde do things that Horde players never even hear about, and vice versa. And it's not minor stuff. Alliance players do not experience an Alliance airstrip being built in one part of the Jade Forest, where they take Pandaren slaves--including children--to do it. We don't see it, we don't hear about it, it's never referenced even as a throwaway line later on. It's just a thing that happens completely in a vacuum. When I encountered this event in the Horde storyline, it was so unknown to me as an Alliance player that I went looking for the air strip and was surprised to actually find it accessible on the map. I fully expected it to actually not exist, phased or some shit, if you weren't Horde. That's how divergent it was. And that's bad. That's not like 'ooh wow what a twist,' that's 'who the fuck directed this?'

Remix really shines a spotlight on how immature the writing in MoP got, because it shows a fundamental lack of comprehension of the basic concept of equivalence. We didn't need to see both sides take slaves in order to accept that they were both equally morally wrong for perpetuating a racially-motivated war; they've already been doing awful shit to one another for years prior to the expansion that was good enough to showcase it. We especially did not need to not see our own side take slaves in order to stir up more hate against the other faction.

If that event needed to be included in the game so bad, it absolutely should've been something Alliance players found too. We should've been faced with the idea that xenophobia, zealotry, and hatred were not relegated to The Other Guy and that the guys who looked like us and wore our colors could be monstrous bastards, too. It would've played beautifully into the general theme of Pandaria.

But that writing team failed to do that at every opportunity, and given how beautiful and poignant other chunks of the story (the parts largely divorced from AvH) were, I can't think it's because the team itself was incompetent. It stinks of executive meddling and the kind of mentality that led to shit like the "build an entire expansion just to justify this cool image I have of Sylvanas burning down Teldrassil" incident.

It's just so disappointing to go through it and see it and be able to point a big neon arrow at it and go "this right here was a dev team actively encouraging its player base to actually hate each other" which is very different from encouraging competition. Even though the overarching theme of Pandaria was learning to let things go and swallow your pride before it destroys everything you care about, the actual plot frequently made the players experiencing it hate each other as people.

and I think that might very well have been an underlying point of Remix. because man does it make me appreciate the current story team even more than I already did.

[kath-cat]

Serena

Serena is a character I created for my game that is loosely based on the concept of Pride and Greed. I'm gonna show some of my ideas for her and some concept art under the cut, as well as full renders.

Personality: Sererna is extremely dramatic and quick to anger. Her eye theme alludes to always being watching, judging, and wanting more. She lives high up in isolation with her treasures and her snakes, it is unknown how conscious they are or if they are purely an extension of Serena's own self-preservation. She is easily distracted by praise and loyal to those she thinks deserve it.

Gameplay: Serena flies faster and faster through space as the player takes his belongings. To delay it, you must hit its big eye, temporarily confusing it. Possible attacks: Long distance (from above) she hits you with feather projectiles as if they were lightning; Medium distance (sides) the snakes extend to bite you (making the player temporarily slower) and UNDECIDED Short distance 1. (circular) giving a low kick to the player 2. (from above) catching the player by the feet and throwing him away when it gets too close 3. (front) flapping its wings strongly in order to push the player back.

Full renders. I almost didn't do expression 5 since I was supposed to re-use poses for different expressions but I just had so much fun doing reference poses for wings I had too many photos lmao. I think it reflects well on the character to be light on her feet and always moving around

Here is her concept art and color test. I pretty much strainght away wanted her to have the colors of the greek eyes plus some bronze and gold to complement the pride and greed theme, so I just had to decide which colors go where. I did a poll on instagram todecide at the end. I designed her doing a lot of tiny drawings so it could be understood in a smaller form so I had a lot of alternatives when drawing her full size concept (which is the only time I actually looked at vulture wings, can you tell? lol)

[femininefutbol]

mascot

transferred/modified from my wattpad

prompt: your daughter eloise is a player mascot for lucy bronze

word count: 4.6k

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"Mum i'm nervous, what if I mess up or if I don't like the player I'm given or if it goes so horribly I have to quit playing football" your daughter Eloise rambles as the two of you prepare to head off for the England versus Austria game.

"Eloise" you sigh, knowing your daughter has way too much anxiety for such a young kid and on top of that she is a little bit dramatic.

"Yes mum?" Eloise asks innocently.

"Do you know how to hold someone's hand, walk across a football pitch and stand still?" you ask sincerely.

"Of course I do that stuff is easy" Eloise replies in a 'duh' tone.

"Perfect so you will not mess up. Next thing, who in the England squad do you not like?"

"No one! I love them all so much" Eloise smiles brightly.

"Okay there we go so there is no way you won't like the player you are given" you inform your child, Eloise looks deep in thought for a moment before smiling again.

"Oh okay you are right mum, I'd be happy to walk on with anyone"

"See, now last thing, even if you completely mess up, which you won't… And then for some very weird reason it means you have to quit playing football here in England... You and I will come home tonight, pack up all our belongings, move to a country where no one knows us, change our names to Bob and Steve and you can start playing again in the new country, sound good?" you ask in a completely serious tone.

Eloise just laughs at you, "that is so ridiculous mum"

"Oh i'm the one being ridiculous am i?" you ask as you tickle Eloise, picking her up and walking towards the door so you can leave.

"Mum, you don't have to carry me, I'm six, I’m a big girl, and I should be practising my walking" Eloise whines.

"Nope, wouldn't want your little legs getting tired, you might go to walk on the pitch and they'll fall off, leaving your body cut in half in the middle of the field and then everyone will get mad at you because they have to delay kick off" you joke.

"Yeah okay you can carry me forever, that's a new fear unlocked" Eloise informs you sincerely, having taken the time to consider it as a real possibility. 

"I promise you that will not happen" you kiss the top of Eloise's head placing her in the back of the car.

"If it does you are taking the blame"

"Fine if that happens I will definitely take blame for it" you laugh lightly knowing that rather than anything bad happening, your daughter is going to have the time of her life being a player mascot.

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Eloise waits nervously for the players to line up, she knows she shouldn't be nervous but she really is.

"Looks like you're stuck with me" Lucy smiles at the cute little girl waiting.

"Oh my god, my mum was right" Eloise remarks, amazed that her day has not yet fallen to pieces. 

"What was your mum right about sweetie?" Lucy asks, leaning down to be the same height as the small girl.

"Well she said I'd like whatever player I got paired with and she was right because you are my favourite player, and my mum’s too actually, she says your ‘attractivate’, but she also said that my legs will fall off and that her and I will move countries and be named Bob and Steve so i'm not sure she's right about everything you know?" Eloise rambles to Lucy.

"Your mum says I'm ‘attractivate’? do you mean attractive?" Lucy chuckles slightly, amused at the cute little girl in front of her.

"Ohhh yeah that one for sure, she says it all the time, like you aren't even attractive you are a defender, I’m not even sure what position attractive is but it's sure not the one you play" Eloise informs Lucy.

"Yeah you are right, what's your name sweetie?" Lucy asks the girl.

"My name is Eloise and my mum's name is (Y/N), I know you didn't ask but it's only polite since we have been talking about her this entire time. We shouldn't have been, I could have been spending this time telling you that I'm going to be a defender just like you one day"

"Well Eloise how about you tell your mum, that after the game I will come and talk to you two and then you can tell me all about how you are going to be a defender, sound good?" Lucy asks, standing up straight and grabbing onto the girls hand getting ready to walk onto the pitch.

"Okay I can do that, but we better talk about me because I think you already know too much about my mum and not enough about me" Eloise informs Lucy seriously.

"I think I can work with that, now let's do this" Lucy smiles at the young girl before the team makes their way onto the pitch.

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"Aww look at my precious baby" you smile as Eloise and the rest of the mascots make their way back to the section where their parents are all sitting.

"Mum stop you are embarrassing me" Eloise groans.

"No can do Ellie! I'm so proud of you for not having your limbs fall off, seriously I'm very impressed" you remark.

"Well thank you! Also Lucy said she's going to talk to us after the game" Eloise smiles at you. 

"How did you get her to agree to that?" you ask your daughter, confused.

"Well you see, I was talking to her and then I told her that you said she is ‘attractivate’ and I told her that you are obviously wrong because she's a defender and then we had to go out so I said we shouldn't have been talking about you the entire time because I am the mascot and not you and then she told me to tell you that she will come over to us after the game so that she can actually talk to me about me" Eloise explains in one breath, almost passing out at the end due to how much she is rambling.

"Okay we need you to stop rambling and Eloise I thought it went without saying that you don't tell football players that I have crushes on them" you sigh.

"But mum! I didn't tell her you have a crush, I said that you said she is ‘attractivate’, that's different" Eloise whines, not understanding your issue with what was said.

"Ellie baby, you meant to say that I think she is attractive and that-"

"Oh yeah Lucy said it was that one instead" Eloise cuts you off.

"Okay so attractive basically means beautiful and you telling Lucy I think she is beautiful is basically you telling her that I have a crush on her" you explain to your daughter.

"Ohhhh okay so I also can't tell football players that you think they are ‘attractivate’?" Eloise asks curiously.

"I'd very much prefer it if you didn't"

"Okay got it, I won't do it again I promise" Eloise says, giving you her best puppy eyes as a way of apologising.

"Thank you baby, now let's watch the game"

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"Ooo Lucy is coming over, do I look pretty?" Eloise asks while playing with her hair.

"You are six years old Ellie, why would you have to look pretty for Lucy Bronze?" you ask, wondering what the hell has gotten into your daughter.

"What's this I hear about needing to look pretty for Lucy Bronze?" Lucy asks, having made a beeline for the mother and daughter duo.

"My mum said she wanted to look pretty for you" Eloise smiles cheekily.

"Eloise!"

"Okay she didn't say that I'm sorry, she's already pretty so if you don't like her that's your bad" Eloise continues.

"That's enough of you" you cover Eloise's mouth, "sorry about her, she's a bit of an eccentric kid" you explain to Lucy.

"Yeah I worked that out already" Lucy chuckles, taking a moment to look at you properly for the first time, realising how gorgeous you are.

"Mmmm" Eloise mumbles her mouth still covered by your hand, you uncover her mouth allowing her to speak again, "mum no disrespect but Lucy said she was going to talk to me about being a defender so you need to shhh please"

You laugh at your daughter, "yes ma'am I'll be over here in the corner" you state, taking a seat and allowing Eloise and Lucy to talk football.

"Can we mum?" you hear your daughter call for you and snap out of the daze you were in.

"Can we what?"

"You never listen to me" Eloise whines, "Lucy said she wants to invite us to the Lionesses training that's happening in a few days" Eloise explains to you.

"I don't know Ellie, the Euros are still happening so I'm sure the Lionesses training is really important, we shouldn't interrupt them" you explain to Eloise.

"No it would really be fine, it’s an open training, anyone is welcome and I’d be happy to see you both again" Lucy informs you, trying to convince you to allow Eloise to attend the training session so she can have the opportunity to see you again.

"Okay well when you say it like that I'd be a horrible mum if I said no, sure Ellie we can go" you smile at the two excited footballers.

"It'll be nice to see you again, maybe I'll actually be able to talk to you next time, what's your number so I can send you the details?" Lucy asks you, making a clear effort to flirt with you.

You and Lucy exchange details and bid each other farewell, all while Eloise continually attempts to interrupt, not wanting to be left out of the conversation.

"Alright, bye Ellie, bye (Y/N/N), see you on Monday" Lucy smiles waving to the two od you.

"Mum, she called you (Y/N/N) and you didn't yell at her" Eloise informs you in a confused tone .

"It would be rude to yell at a professional footballer, Ellie, I was just being polite" you tell your daughter.

"I don't believe you, you let her do it because you like her" Eloise giggles, skipping out of the stadium.

"Whatever you say Ellie" you roll her eyes, following closely behind your daughter, not wanting the small girl to get lost.

-

"Mum I'm nervous again" Eloise informs you as you are driving to St George Park, the training ground of the Lionesses.

"You are always nervous Eloise, but don't be because we are here now so we don't have time to indulge in your ideas about how you are going to accidentally trip and bite someone" you laugh a little, knowing it is not out of the realm of possibility for your daughter to create a scenario like that in her head.

"Well I wasn't imagining that but now I am so thanks" Eloise sighs dramatically.

"Come on you, wouldn't want to be late" you state as you open the car door for Eloise, leading the way to the entrance of the training facility.

"Are you sure we are going the right way? what if we get lost" Eloise asks.

"Well if we are going the wrong way then so is Lucy" you point out Lucy who is a it the front of the entrance greeting the young footballers as they walk in.

Eloise looks up, spotting Lucy, she immediately drops your hand and sprints towards Lucy, excited to see the defender again.

"Lucy!" Eloise yells excitedly, hugging Lucy tightly before you are able to catch up and inform her that she shouldn't initiate physical contact without asking first.

"Ellie, hey!" Lucy replies to the small child in the same tone, "and hey (Y/N), it's great that you could make it" Lucy smiles at you.

"Hey Lucy, thank you again for inviting us, we'll just head in and see you in there?" you ask Lucy.

"Ahh actually I was waiting out here for you guys, I wanted to make a good impression" Lucy informs you, a nervous laugh escaping her lips.

"Aww that's very sweet and extremely helpful since Ellie didn't trust me with the directions even though I promised her that you told me where to go" Lucy laughs and Eloise whines slightly, embarrassed that you called her out infront of her idol.

"Well let's head in, I'm sure this training will be super exciting" Lucy smiles at Eloise, taking her hand and leading her into the training centre.

-

"Wasn’t it so cool to watch the girls train?" you ask your daughter, ruffling her hair as the training session has just ended.

"Mum stop you are embarrassing me" Eloise whines.

"I'm too cool to be embarrassing"

"Yeah Ellie your mum is too cool to be embarrassing" Lucy chuckles, having made her way over to the mother-daughter duo.

"Lucy you are supposed to be on my side, we have worked together and now you are taking my mum’s side, not cool" Eloise informs the defender dramatically before walking off to talk to some of the friends she made.

"Sorry about her" you apologise for your daughters sassy behaviour.

"No don't apologise, she's a great kid, definitely a lot of personality"

"Yeah personality" you roll your eyes.

"So I actually wanted to ask you something" Lucy states, suddenly fidgeting.

"Yeah of course, ask away" you smile sweetly.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go get coffee with me? Like ahh as a date" Lucy asks.

"Yeah I'd love to, although I have to inform you that I'll probably be required to bring the demon child along. It's just her and I so unless we tie her up outside like a dog she'll have to sit with us" you joke, your sarcasm making lucy smile.

"Well I could bring along my dog Narla's leash but I'd be more than happy for her to sit with us, she's a cool kid" Lucy jokes back.

"Sounds good, text me Bronze, we'll work something out" you state while walking away to find where Eloise had gotten to, leaving Lucy standing alone smiling.

"What's got you standing here smiling like a creep?" Jordan comes up behind Lucy.

"You see the woman over there with the little girl?" Lucy asks her best friend.

"Yeah I've got eyes" Jordan informs Lucy.

"Well I asked her on a date and she agreed" the smile makes its way back onto Lucy's face.

"Oooo you're gonna be a stepmum" Jordan states loudly, making a few heads turn, luckily not yours as you are out of earshot already.

"God could that mouth be any bigger?" Lucy covers Jordan's mouth, walking with her back towards the rest of the Lionesses, "also I don't know about becoming a stepmum I only asked her on a date, not for her hand in marriage, so let's slow down"

"But you do know that if things become serious then you will have to become some sort of parent right?" Jordan asks seriously.

"Yeah I know, I mean I think I'd be happy to, I met her daughter before I met her and she seems like a super great kid" Lucy ponders becoming a parental figure in Eloise's life, it's definitely something she'd be happy to do if it comes to it.

"Awww that's so cute mummy Lucy" Jordan laughs.

-

"Hey you" you smile taking a seat across from Lucy.

"Hey yourself, where's your mini-me?" Lucy asks immediately, noticing that Eloise isn't with you.

"Oh I actually left her with a friend, I know I said I'd probably have to bring her but if this is a real date, which I hope it is, then I wanted to be able to get to know you properly" this makes Lucy blush slightly, knowing that you genuinely want to get to know her and that you are on a real date.

"That makes sense, although I feel like I now owe her a cafe date otherwise it's a bit unfair" Lucy flashes a smile, indicating to you that she is interested in becoming involved in both yours and your daughter's life.

"Oh absolutely, I had to lie to her about where I was going so she didn't get jealous" you laughs slightly, a confused look crosses Lucy's face, this causes you to backtrack, "that sounds bad, I only lied to her because she is really fond of you and would probably throw a fit if she knew I was meeting up with you and she couldn't come" you explain.

"No you're all good, I understand what you mean. I just wasn't sure if you meant you were lying about seeing me or lying about dating but your explanation makes sense" Lucy smiles, grabbing your hands from across the table rubbing her thumb on your hand to calm you down.

"Well if I'm being honest I also did not inform her that it was a date, only because I've never really dated anyone while I’ve had her in my life and I want to see where this will go before I actually tell her" you explain, slightly digging a hole for yourself with all your over-explanations.

"You're fine love, it's fine, there's no need for nervousness or over-explanations" Lucy informs you, attempting to assure you that everything is okay.

"Not to change the topic or anything but I think we should order because the owner is glaring at us and I can only assume it's because we are taking up a table and haven't ordered" you state, almost jumping out of your seat with how ready you are to change the subject.

"Maybe he's just homophobic" Lucy whispers to you as she catches up to you, both of you making your way towards to counter.

"Should we make out in-front of him to see?" you joke, this makes Lucy laugh wildly.

"Maybe next time"

-

"Are you sure you have time for all these dates?" you ask as you cuddle up to Lucy on your couch.

You have again shipped Eloise off to a friend's house and invited Lucy to stay the night, an invitation the brunette could not pass up.

"I wouldn't be here if I couldn't be, I just have to sneak out really early like a booty call would" Lucy chuckles.

"I can get up in the morning and drive you if you'd like?" you ask happily, wanting to be able to spend as much time with Lucy as possible.

"If you can it would be nice but I don't want to put you out" Lucy wraps her arms around you, moving you so that you are straddling her waist.

"It would be my pleasure" you whisper, leaning down to give Lucy a quick peak.

Lucy takes it further grabbing the bottom of your shirt an indication that she wants to take it off you. She swiftly pulls your shirt over your head, leaving you in a bralette. The two of you don't do anything further than making out and feeling each other's bodies, but it's enough for each of you to feel extremely happy with the way your relationship is progressing.

The two of you end up falling asleep on the couch together, neither of you having the energy to move to your bedroom for the night. 

"Hmm" you mumble as you are awoken by movement from under you.

"Sorry love, you can go back to sleep, I'm just getting up to get ready to go" Lucy informs you but you only half take it in as you are extremely tired.

"Nooo I said I was going to take you" you barely manage to finish your sentence as you almost fall asleep again.

"I know, I'll wake you when I’m ready to leave but I need to shower and get dressed okay?" Lucy asks the basically sleeping figure.

"So I have to drive you around looking like a sleepy mess?" you try to ask pointedly while still not even having her eyes open.

"You look beautiful always and anyway no one will see you" Lucy reassures you, quickly kissing your forehead and making her way to the bathroom.

-

"Mum" Eloise speaks carefully, you two had been sitting on the couch with a football match playing in the background.

"Yeah what's up?" you ask, not looking up from your phone as you are busy texting a certain brunette.

"Why are things changing?" Eloise asks anxiously, this causes your head to snap in her direction, not expecting such a loaded question from the six year old.

"What is changing Ellie?" you put your phone down, giving your full attention to your daughter.

"Us" Eloise speaks sadly, "it used to be just me and you always but now you are on your phone a lot laughing and instead of us hanging out I always have to stay with other people when you go out" Eloise explains, quite eloquently for a six year old.

"Yeah I know what you mean Ellie and I'm sorry, I’m going to be honest with you because I know you are such a smart young girl" you inform Eloise which makes her smile due to the praise. "I've been dating someone, it's very new and obviously I've never done it before so I just don't want to introduce you to her just for her to not stick around. So instead I've been keeping it very private but I can see that it is changing the way we are as a family so how about I introduce you to her? Do you think that sounds good?" you ask, hoping that you are doing the right thing for you, your daughter and for your potential relationship.

"Okay, I have a question though'' Eloise speaks confidently, no longer upset or worried about your recent odd behaviour.

"Ask away kiddo"

"Does she like football?" Eloise asks sincerely, you know it's a sincere question as well, Eloise would likely not approve of any woman you were dating if she didn't like football.

"She definitely does" you smirk slightly.

"Good, I will meet her then'' Eloise informs you, suddenly moving where she is sitting on the couch and jumping into your arms.

"I'm really excited for you to meet her Ellie" you cuddle your daughter tightly.

-

"Mum I thought we were meeting your girlfriend, why are we at Wembley?" Eloise asks you. 

"Firstly she isn't my girlfriend so don't go around saying that, we are just dating for now nothing official and we are going to see her here"

"Ooo is she going to sit with us and watch the game?" Eloise's inquisitive nature takes over.

"Not quite, we are going to see her after the game" you inform your daughter, attempting to not give away who you are actually dating.

"Ohhh does she work here?"

"Yeah something like that" you smile, while the two of you make your way to the family and friends section of the stadium.

"Hi, you must be (Y/N)'' Diane, Lucy's mother smiles kindly as you take your seat next to her.

"Yeah I am, and you must be Diane, I’ve heard a lot of great things about you" you politely respond.

"Mum, who's that?" Eloise whispers to you, although she hasn't exactly caught on to how whispering works so instead of only you hearing the entire Bronze family does as well.

"She's a friend of mine" you reply, giving Diane a look that suggests that the young child does not yet know about the relationships between herself and Diane's daughter.

"Mum you don't have any friends" Eloise replies seriously.

"Well Diane is sitting right next to me and she said hi to me so I think she is my friend" you reason with your daughter.

"You told me that if people I don't know say hi to me that I shouldn't reply" this causes Diane and the rest of the Bronze family to laugh at the small girl.

"Listen I know Diane and she is my friend so you can talk to her okay" you reassure Eloise.

"Okay" Eloise replies seriously, she climbs onto your lap and starts a conversation with Diane, "do you like football?"

"I definitely do" Diane smiles at the cute child.

"That's good, okay who are you supporting today? The Lionesses or the Netherlands?" she asks seriously, you giggle slightly, knowing the answer will determine how your daughter feels about the older woman.

"It would probably upset a few people if I didn't go for the Lionesses, especially my daughter who is playing for them" Diane informs the child.

"Your daughter plays for the Lionesses? That's so cool, who is she? Can I meet her? You know I want to play for the Lionesses in the future" Eloise rambles quickly.

"Calm down Ellie you might explode" you cover your daughters mouth gently to stop her from talking so much. “We still have to work on that rambling” 

"My daughter is Lucy Bronze and I'm sure she'd be happy to meet you after the game, although she might not be very happy if they don't win" Diane informs the small child.

"Oh I've already met Lucy'' Eloise states defeatedly, wanting to meet a different member of the Lionesses.

"Eloise!" you speak harshly, surprised at the way your daughter reacted.

"Sorry" Eloise whines, "I'd love to meet Lucy again, I just thought I’d get to meet someone else"

"You're fine darling" Diane responds, already taking on a grandmotherly role with the young child.

"Can I sit with you to watch?" Eloise asks Diane.

Diane smiles excitedly, "of course you can". the two end up watching the game together, Eloise in Diane's arms, the two talking and bonding the entire time.

-

"And your winners of the 2022 Euros, the England Lionesses" an announcer is heard throughout the stadium as cheers follow, the team lifts the trophy and Eloise excitedly cheers with Diane.

"Mum, are we going to meet your girlfriend soon?" Eloise asks after the excitement wears off.

"Ellie I already said she isn't my girlfriend yet but yes you will meet her soon, just be patient okay?"

"Here she is!" Diane yells excitedly as her daughter makes her way over to the family and friends section.

"Hey everyone" Lucy smiles happily, she greets her family thanking them all for coming, when she gets to you she quickly kisses you on the cheek, hoping to avoid anyone catching the interaction, "and hey you, thank you so much for coming, it means the world" Lucy cuddles into you, the interaction easily being able to be disguised as a friendly one.

"Oh my god, mum, is Lucy your girlfriend?" Eloise asks loudly.

Before you are able to inform Eloise for the umpteenth time that you are not girlfriends, Lucy says, "I'd love it if I was" you stand in shock at Lucy's comment. "So would you like to be my girlfriend (Y/N)?" Lucy asks properly this time.

"I'd love to" you smile widely, hugging Lucy again.

"So cool, Lucy Bronze is my mum's girlfriend" eloise interrupts the moment making all the adults laugh.

"Hey Ellie, how would you like to walk on the pitch with me? You can even wear my medal” Lucy offers the child to which the young girl agrees almost instantaneously.

"You two will make a great couple" Diane informs you.

"I hope so" you reply, watching Lucy carry Eloise on her shoulders, the two laughing as they make their way over to the group of Lionesses who are on the pitch celebrating.

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The Dark Side (Jessie Fleming x reader)

Warnings: none

Description: reader plays for arsenal and has mixed feelings about Jessie signing for the blue side of London (though we all know the whole of London is red)

Transferred from wattpad. Not rechecked/proofread so any mistakes belong to past me.

Word count: 1466

"Chelsea? Really? Of all the teams!", I exclaim, holding my phone in front of my face, on FaceTime to my girlfriend. Jessie just rolled her eyes.

"When are you going to get over it?", she asked me, "I thought you'd be happy I was joining you over in the UK?", she questioned me, as she had every other time we'd had this discussion since she'd informed me she'd be joining the dark side.

"I am happy about that, but", I paused, "Chelsea? Really? I totally could have got you in at Arsenal!", I told her, for the umpteenth time.

"They have a good team!", she replied, yet again rolling her eyes at my complaining, "and I don't want to get onto a team because my girlfriend pulled some strings", she explained to me, "I want to play for a club that wants me".

"Yeah yeah, you're telling me you didn't get offers from any other clubs in England?", I questioned her.

"None that were in London", Jessie informed me with a raised eyebrow, "so I actually picked the team that was closest to where you are", she gave me a look, telling me I should be thankful, though I knew that I definitely wasn't the main reason she chose to sign with Chelsea, it's nice to think that me being nearby had a little to do with it.

"At least you didn't pick Tottenham", I told her, making her laugh as I made a fake gagging sound afterwards.

Jessie and I had been together for almost two years now, since we'd both been twenty. We'd met at UCLA, which she attended for the full four years, and I'd attended for about the first year and a half, before dropping out and heading back to the UK.

I'd grown up playing in both the Sunderland youth teams and England youth teams, following in the steps of players like Jordan Nobbs, Lucy Bronze and Beth Mead, but had made a rash decision when I turned eighteen that I wanted to play in the US, and the best way to do that at the time was to play at collage there. So I'd attended UCLA and the first year went pretty well, the football was great and the school stuff was alright. I'm not particularly academic but I studied sports science which was pretty easy to get through, considering I was surrounded by people who had studied it, all the time. But after a while I guess I just got board of the school stuff and just wanted to do the football stuff, so I made the decision to try to go pro.

I had planned on re-signing with Sunderland, this time for the full team, but when people heard I'd decided to quit collage and go pro for real, I'd got a few offers from a couple of different clubs, and not just clubs back in the UK. NWSL teams gave me offers, and even a couple of lesser known European ones. But I knew England was the place for me, at least for the moment, so I signed for Man City and played there for a year before transferring to Arsenal where I'd been ever since.

Jessie has supported me through it all, she always said that whatever I wanted to do, so long as I was happy, she'd be right behind me. And I was the same for her, it was just a slight kick in the shins that she'd signed with Chelsea, of all the teams. And let me tell you, when I say the rest of the Arsenal girls will never let me live down the fact my girlfriend joined the dark side, I mean, they will literally never stop mentioning it.

But I was glad she was going to be so close by, and I was reminded of that fact as I sat with her in FaceTime right now, while she sat in her basically empty bedroom at her parents house back in London, Canada and I sat in my seemingly empty bedroom in my shared flat in London, England. I'd cleared some space in the cupboards and draws in my room, which was soon to be the room I shared with Jessie, in preparation for her flying out the next day.

"I can't wait until you get here", I told her smiling, "have you packed everything?".

"I can't wait to be there", she told me, "and of course I've packed everything, unlike some people I don't leave all my packing to the last minute", she teased, because of course by some people, she meant me, "is Jill excited to see me?", she asked jokingly, referring to my teammate and roommate, Jill Roord, who was one of the prime suspects when it came to teasing me about Jessie's choice in signing.

"Oh yeah, she can't wait for you to get here", I told her sarcastically, "she can't wait to hide all of you left socks", I laughed. Jill had made it particularly clear that while she was absolutely fine having Jessie move in with us, she definitely wouldn't stop the teasing and she definitely wouldn't go any lighter on Jessie. I'd also be lying if I said I wasn't going to tease my girlfriend about it constantly. It's just friendly competition, and I knew Jessie would definitely end up giving as good as she got, just as she did whenever we played each other internationally.

"Why the left ones?", Jessie laughed.

"Would you prefer she hid all of them?", I questioned her, raising her eyebrow, "or just the right ones? Do you have a special personal relationship with your left socks?"

Jessie just laughed, she would have shoved my shoulder if she'd been sat next to me.

"I miss you so much it's actually killing me slowly", I told her then, over dramatically of course, and flopped over the back on the sofa, right next to where Jill was sat watching the Manchester derby that was currently being played.

"I miss you too", Jessie said sweetly, before my phone was ripped from my hand, "hi Jill", my girlfriend greeted my roommate.

"Hello traitor", Jill said, "when are you getting here?", she asked, "she won't stop going in about how much she misses you", she tilted her head towards me, as I still lay flopped over the back of the seat.

"My flight is literally tomorrow", Jessie told her, rolling her eyes, "I've only been gone a few days".

"And she's been super annoying for all of them", Jill confirmed, I decided that was enough and snatched my phone back off of her.

"I will not take any more of this slander", I joked, "I'm allowed to miss my girlfriend", I defended myself.

"Y/n, we've literally spent the last two years of our relationship away from each other for months at a time", Jessie explained to me, Jill just went back to watching the game.

"Yeah but", I started, pausing to think of any excuse as to why I'd been complaining about missing her so much, "I'm allowed to miss my girlfriend", I repeated, "and now I know I'm going to have you around all the time I can't wait".

Jessie smiled, "I've missed you too", she repeated her statement from earlier, "so much that it's killing me slowly", she smirked, mocking me.

"Good", I told her, "there's a lot to miss", I said gesturing to my whole body, she just rolled her eyes at me again.

"I do miss your body", Jessie admits, "I can't wait to kiss you again".

"If you guys are going to have phone sex, could you at least do to the other room", Jill states, "I'm trying to watch the game", she turns her head to look at me, staring at me with a deadpan look.

"I'm flying tomorrow I'm sure y/n can wait one more day", Jessie giggled.

"Ugh fine", I sighed over dramatically.

"I'm gonna have to go now", Jessie mumbled, "I can't wait to see you", she informed me again.

"Ok, I can't wait to see you either, love you", I blew a kiss at the screen.

"Love you too", Jessie blew a kiss back before saying bye and hanging up the call.

"I can't wait until I have to live with all the lovey dovey shit 24/7", Jill commented sarcastically. I popped myself down on the seat next to her and she wrapped her arm around my shoulder, squeezing me in a quick hug, "Now we need to plan all of the pranks we are going to pull on Jessie when she gets here".

I just laughed and we spent the rest of the night watching the football and planning all the different ways we were going to tease my girlfriend once she arrived.

[ceescedasticity]

The more ambitious scenario:

Post KHIII & its various addenda:

It turns out going after Sora is going to be more complicated than Diving, this time. They have to get this whole computer thing set up, and Riku has to learn to use it, and then it turns out to be lucky Kairi also learned how to use it because she's going to have to send Riku in. Riku finds four planets already there, not just Sora's; Sora's sleeping where he's expected to be, but someone is obviously running around doing things and it's Vanitas. Riku needs backup. So Namine sends Kairi in, and then Xion and Roxas get involved, and then Ventus. …Then Ventus is clearly supposed to go into the Incipisphere, but no one is having any luck with that.

(People who have tried to act as server players and it wouldn't connect to the right people: Ienzo, Data Sora, Data Riku, Tron, Lea, Aqua, Terra, Isa, Yuffie, Pence, Olette, Hayner, Selphie, Tidus, Wakka. People who have tried to act as server players and it wouldn't work at all: Even, Ansem the Wise, Aeleus, Dilan, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, Leon, Aerith, Merlin (broke the computer), Fairy Godmother (broke the computer WORSE). Did not ask to try and wasn't invited to: Yen Sid.)

(Does this mean that Aqua, Terra, Lea, Isa, and Ienzo could if they tried have their own session, in which they'd probably find at least one currently missing person, probably X? Quite likely.)

(Does this mean that the Twilight trio, the Island trio, Yuffie, and probably Seifer could have and may in fact be having at this moment their own session in which they obtain superpowers? Possibly. Has anyone checked on that?)

Anyway, the other planets are eventually discovered to belong to Replica Riku (who really needs a name) and, confusing everyone, Strelitzia. (Why Strelitzia? Because I had an odd number and wanted another girl, preferably one who would not logically drag in anyone else.)

Roster (details unchanged for all the players who were in the simpler version):

Sora: Knight of Heart, Prospit dreamer, Land of Waves and Shadows, consorts are doves, Denizen is Zagreus

Riku: Rogue of Life, Derse dreamer, Land of Flint and Specters Derse, consorts are parrots, Denizen is Ladon

Kairi: Witch of Hope, Prospit dreamer, Land of Bronze and Jellyfish, consorts are iguanas, Denizen is Hekate

Roxas: Prince of Rage, Prospit dreamer, Land of Arks and Statues, consorts are tuataras, Denizen is Sabaoth

Xion: Mage of Void, Derse dreamer, Land of Marsh and Catacombs, consorts are cuckoos, Denizen is Nix

Namine: Sylph of Mind, Derse dreamer, Land of Cycles and Eclipse, consorts are pythons, Denizen is Sphinx

Ventus: Heir of Space, Prospit dreamer, Land of Drains and Frogs, consorts are shrews, Denizen is Echidna

Vanitas: Thief of Time, Derse dreamer, Land of Spikes and Soot, consorts are moles, Denizen is Erebus

Replica Riku: Seer of Doom, Derse dreamer, Land of Ruin and Aether, consorts are porcupines, Denizen is Ananke

Strelitzia: Maid of Light, Prospit dreamer, Land of Rhythm and Ink, consorts are geckos, Denizen is Tyche

Many Hijinks Ensue. Vanitas eventually brings in Ventus, which is... interesting.

In the end everyone returns safely. They leave the Medium via Dark Corridor -- they probably COULD get out via gummiship or keyblade glider, but no one wants to try to go past the horrorterrors. No one other than Vanitas is happy about Vanitas having time powers but he's not being too bad.

I'm not sure which of these I'm more likely to write. They both have some appeal. Not making any progress on either, though.

Crossover classpect #idek

I have a couple fairly well-developed ideas percolating I haven't written any narrative for since I don't really have a handle on the character voices

So: Kingdom Hearts.

First, the modest and reasonable scenario.

Canon divergence during Days. It's DiZ's fault. He gets impatient with Namine and Riku dragging their feet over dealing with Xion, and adapts some code (which he really doesn't fully understand) to access a 'world where hearts may be mended and merged' (which he also doesn't understand) where he can send Sora and the Nobody and the shell to recombine. He tricks Roxas and Xion, pressures Namine, misleads Riku, and of course Sora's still helpless. DiZ doesn't plan to get Kairi involved, but Riku gets desperate eventually.

Roster:

Sora: Knight of Heart, Prospit dreamer, Land of Waves and Shadows, consorts are doves, Denizen is Zagreus

Riku: Rogue of Life, Derse dreamer, Land of Flint and Specters, consorts are parrots, Denizen is Ladon

Kairi: Witch of Hope, Prospit dreamer, Land of Bronze and Jellyfish, consorts are iguanas, Denizen is Hekate

Roxas: Prince of Rage, Prospit dreamer, Land of Arks and Statues, consorts are tuataras, Denizen is Sabaoth

Xion: Mage of Void, Derse dreamer, Land of Marsh and Catacombs, consorts are cuckoos, Denizen is Nix

Namine: Sylph of Mind, Derse dreamer, Land of Cycles and Eclipse, consorts are pythons, Denizen is Sphinx

It's a null session; they eventually leave via Dark Corridor.

In the end due to their universe's weird cosmology their worlds are all small enough most of the meteors miss (apart from a small one growing a miniature frog temple on Yen Sid's lawn). Sora's awake and has his memories, and though he doesn't have all his old skills back he has some new ones to make up for it. Roxas and Xion and Namine have their own, stable existences. Riku has at least 95% less Ansem in his head. Kairi can hopesplode things with her mind. Organization 13 is definitely not going to see this coming.

Everyone is still pretty mad at DiZ, though. Gonna be a bit of a headache for Yen Sid, too. And Axel is going to be very confused.

When I get a chance to write it up: The overly ambitious scenario.