#Just in this instance I really want to rub in the symbolism for my ship XD

[dreamboundedstar]

Linda: But trying to make people think you're cool is exhausting. And when you stop trying, suddenly the next person you talk to thinks you're the best person ever.

Cue the time-passing montage of Tina learning to let go of that embarrassing moment and stop trying to be cool. Most of the time it's with her family, at the restaurant, or by herself just investing herself in her favorite music again. However, there's this one frame I'm convinced has subtle symbolism!

The only time Zeke appears in the episode and it's to be in front of Tina while she looks out the window still sad from the event. Due to how this scene was set up it really looks like it's implying that Zeke is one of those that would think Tina is "the best person ever". However, Tina is too busy being sad to notice what's already in front of her. I mean, the window perfectly frames Zeke in (and sweet Susmita gets her moment too, even if it's just her hair and some of her skin) when they literally could have done whatever they wanted and changed the character in the seat in front of Tina. Heck, Tina could have been in the last seat and further symbolize the loneliness/self-pity Tina is feeling. It's possible they just wanted to stick with accurate continuity and have Tina, Zeke, Susmita, and the rest be in the same seating arrangements as they were in "Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang". For continuity reasons or not, I still take it as symbolism that Zeke already thinks Tina is the coolest person ever and Tina just needs to really look around her to realize it. The subtext I tell ya!

[thedistantstorm]

Tribute: A Kalluzeb Story

Fandom: Star Wars Rebels

Pairings: Kallus/Zeb (kalluzeb)

Chapter: 1 of 3?? (TBD, but I’m thinking 3)

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Summary: Zeb works on a gift for Kallus, to replace something he’s lost. It’s a gateway to a conversation Zeb wants to have in the future, but there’s something a bit more urgent they need to talk about first.

Notes: This is a little something I’m working on since this Thursday is #rebelsremembered day. I’m so so so new to the fandom, but Rebels has quickly ascended to be my favorite of all the SW series out there, so here’s a 2-3 part story featuring Kalluzeb + Hera, not too long after Lothal’s liberation. It's a little angsty, marinated in hurt/comfort, baked with love, and garnished with humor, but I hope you enjoy my first (official) Rebels fanfic.

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Garazeb Orrelios leans over his makeshift workbench in the Ghost's cargohold with a focus that borders on the extreme. He very carefully marks out each and every motion he plans to take with a tiny graphite writing utensil that threatens to snap in his grip without any effort at all. Hunched over the smaller weapon, he spares a glance toward the far larger one off to his left. Suspended between empty crates over a small tarp pilfered from Sabine’s room to prevent any lacquer from dripping onto the floor, his AB-75 gleams under the fluorescents. The metallic bayonet is polished, the weapon’s frame drying with the guards taped up to prevent any errant drips, though he’s done this enough times to know just how thick the lacquer needs to be to prevent it from running. It hardly takes an hour for the finish to cure, but he always gives it two to prevent any tacky, sticky residue from taking residence in his fur due to his impatience.

Though he doesn't have the five fingers his human friends have, his craftsmanship does not suffer for it. Besides, he knows his way around a bo-rifle. These weren’t weapons made by human hands. This one had been meant to be a happy surprise. These were made by his people.

And this weapon’s purpose was to be a gift that opened a doorway to a conversation, later on.

When Zeb learned that these weapons were still the preferred weapons of Lira San’s overwhelmingly peaceful regime, he had been overjoyed. Chava had seen to it that he be provided with repair parts for his own. Though they were designed to stand up to the test of time and be passed between generations, maintenance would always be necessary, and upkeep of one’s weapon mandatory.

Kallus had lost his, in the course of his defection. Zeb, having heard about Thrawn's "collection," was certain that Kallus's weapon, the bo-rifle he'd earned through skill and honor despite the circumstances that lead to it, was aboard the Chimaera. And Thrawn and Ez- the Chimaera was gone.

He leans back and shakes his head briefly, trying to reorient his brain. Focus on the design, he reminds himself. Don’t let your mind wander. He had done his own weapon first, sampled the design on purpose. This rifle is brand new, unlike his own. He wants it to be perfect. He looks over the stock and the first design he’d etched with painstaking care to the one Sabine had drawn, taped to the wall in front of him. It was more complicated, but he’d seen more ornate designs back on Lasan. Sabine might not think it as good as if she’d done it, but he had to be the one.

“Hard at work, I see,” Hera calls from behind him.

Zeb grumbles good naturedly, rubs the back of his head as he turns. “You should be sleepin’,” He reminds her.

She rubs her belly in response, eyebrows arching in a sarcastic reply. “I know my limits,” She reminds him. He hears what she doesn’t say: I’m pregnant, not an invalid.

He spends a lot of time with her, so to him, she shows. She’s been holding off on letting rebel leadership know, afraid they’ll ground her, but any day now someone’s going to figure it out. He understands that she needs to keep moving, understands the kind of loss she’s working through. The kind they all are, really, but she has reason to take it harder than most, if you ask him. He’s appointed himself as her watchman, and while he tries not to be overbearing, he’s not afraid to go toe to toe with her for her own health.

“I thought Kallus would be back by now,” She says, after a moment. That she doesn’t know where her people are is more of a tell to her frayed mental state than any emotional indicator.

“Some mission with a new agent,” Zeb reminds her. “Hush-hush Fulcrum business. You probably know more than me.” He pulls down a crate from a stack piled up in the corner to face him and she takes the hint to sit.

“Sounds familiar,” Hera supposes. She’s got the top half of her coveralls undone, and the baby belly is obvious without the extra layers. There’s nothing to her, Zeb thinks. “It’s all kind of a blur lately.”

“I know what’cha mean,” He growls, not unkind. “Chop’s constantly zappin’ me, askin’ if I’ve eaten. Apparently he and Alex have some kinda agreement. Sabine says he sends her messages, too.”

“He’s a good droid,” She says, leaning against the stack of mostly empty boxes behind her impromptu seat. He’s been following her around like a shadow, only leaving her alone for small instances at a time unless a mission dictates otherwise. “Just don’t tell him I said that.”

He rumbles something that might be an agreement but isn’t and watches her quietly. “Nightmare?”

“Can’t get comfortable,” She returns, and he winces at his suggestion. “But,” She relents, “The nightmare didn’t help.” Unwilling to talk about it, she nods with a lift of her chin towards his makeshift bench. “What’re you working on?”

“Gift for Alex. Since his weapon’s gone-” He exhales sharply, but Hera doesn’t react to that. She’s far more in control of her emotions than anyone gives her credit for. “I had Chava send me a replacement. He’ll probably have to mod it a little, but I thought he’d like it.”

“You two are cute,” She comments. He pretends not to hear her drowsiness bleed into her voice, and doesn’t mention that it’s taken her longer to answer than normal. Another moment passes. “You should-” Her eyes soften, and she’s very much awake again.

“Yeah,” He agrees, knowing exactly what Hera’s trying to say, even if she can’t get out the words. Then he sighs. “Yeah.”

“Don’t wait too long,” She tells him, softly. “Not because of me and-” She shakes her head. “I get so caught up on this war, and our cause.” Her fists clench. “It’s worth it, Zeb, we all know that. I just… you can be happy and be with someone and fight this war, too.”

Zeb reaches a hand out, covering one of her fists with his massive hand, uncurling her fingers and lacing them with his own. One of her major fears since with… everything has been the fear that those around her would do what she did. Not say the words, make the time until it was nearly too late. “I know, Hera. We’re gonna talk.”

She nods. “And you’re going to give him a gun.” She waggles her eyebrows, trying to lighten the mood. “So, is this some kind of Lasat mating thing or-?”

He laughs and the sound is so unexpected his ears perk, as if unsure that he’s capable of the sound. They exchange half-guilty smiles, one survivor to another, and he lifts the weapon from the crate that functions as a workbench to show her.

“No. Lasat aren’t nearly so formal with gifts and what-not unless you’re a royal.”

“And I don’t think Kallus abides by Coruscanti courting rules or whatever those snobby people call it,” She rolls her eyes. “Sounds like you lucked out.”

His ears flatten a bit, the only way besides his expression to betray embarrassment, but it’s just Hera, and he’s never been able to keep a secret from her very well anyway. She’s too smart for her own good, sometimes. “Yeah, doesn’t make me less nervous about it.”

Delicate green hands take the rifle from his hands, her eyes lighting up at the Fulcrum symbol etched into the stock. “Zeb, this looks ama-” She turns it over, slowly, seeing the etching on the barrel that curls around it entirely. “Oh,” Tears well up in her eyes, but she doesn’t stop inspecting it. “I’m sorry,” She says, when they fall treacherously. “Damn hormones.”

“Don’t be,” He says, ducking his head. “I, uh,” He looks up through soft, half-lidded eyes. “I might have gotten a little choked up working on mine earlier, so…” He rubs the back of his head and takes it back from her, clamping it in the stand he’s rigged so that it won’t move while he works over it. “Damn kid,” He says, sniffing as delicately as he can. Then, softer, “You don’t think it’s presumptu-”

“Garazeb Orrelios,” She barks at him, though it lacks the whip-crack it normally does with Hera in tears. “Kallus will absolutely love it. He- Ezra,” She exhales his name like it takes physical effort. “Ezra means the world to all of us, Kallus included.”

“Okay,” He agrees, swiping at his eyes with the back of his hand while he has his back to her. He hasn’t cried or anything, but he doesn’t want to take the chance of Hera seeing if he did. “Want me to grab you a blanket and we can hang out together while I finish this?”

The sound of a concerned droid echoes down the hall. “Well, right on time for his 0300 check,” She quips to Zeb. “Chop, could you bring me a-”

The droid barges into the hold, babbling in binary. Something about being where she’s supposed to be, doesn’t she know she needs sleep, and lacquer fumes can’t possibly be good for the baby. Even so, he’s got two pillows compressed by one manipulator and the blanket from her bunk in the other, and he makes a big deal about her putting one between her knees like some nursedroid before barking an order at Zeb to use the exhaust if he’s going to be doing weapon maintenance in the ship.

“I’ve been going outside to spray the lacquer,” Zeb tells Chopper, who ignores his argument entirely, turning on the exhaust anyway. It’s more like white noise, the rumbling hum of the fans reminiscent of spacefaring, almost.

“Bah-bah bahbahbah bah ba-buah,” He grouses.

“Yes, mom,” Hera says for them both, tolerating his overbearing protectiveness. “Thank you for checking in on us. I’ll make sure he doesn’t stay up all night.” Then, placatingly, “We’ll go to bed soon, I swear.”

The droid clicks together the clamps at the end of his appendages in an ‘I don’t know why I put up with you people and your lies’ kind of gesture and then threatens to tell Kallus on them both, since he’s the only one of them that ever seems to be rational.

“C’mon, Chop,” Zeb pleads, using his most angelic tone. “I’m tryin’ to finish this present for him. He’ll be back in the mornin’ and then we’ll all rest easy. Besides-” He trails off, eyes sliding pointedly to an already dozing Hera, curled up on the weapons crate like it’s the most comfortable bed on base.

The droid wheels over to his master quietly and tucks her in, careful not to touch her and jolt her awake. He pats Zeb’s leg as he passes by, not shocking for once. “Bah bua bah-bah wah-bahbah bah wua.”

“Yeah. I know. I’ll come get you from your dock before I carry her to bed.”

“I can still hear you, you know,” She murmurs, but it’s slurred by sleep.

“We know,” Zeb answers, in sync with Chopper’s confirmation in binary. Then, softer, he murmurs, “G’night, Hera.”

She waves a hand in an indelicate flop before it finds her belly over the blanket. The astromech waves his manipulators around for show, but he’s hardly mad. He sees himself out, and then Zeb’s alone with his thoughts again.

The sound of the engraving tool he’d nicked from the hangar for his project isn’t loud at all. Zeb takes his time. Hera seems to sleep better these days with the sounds of work around her, and he’s committed to doing this right even if he’s working on it until dawn. He wants Kallus to like it. Wants him to know that even with everything that’s going on, he’s a part of their family. However he wants that to be.

Though, Zeb smiles to himself, just a little. He’s pretty sure they’ve been dancing around mutual feelings for a while now. With everything bad that's happened, it'd do them some good to make things clear. Get it all out in the open.

[sailor-cresselia]

Zi-O episodes 31 & 32 - AGITO TIME

Okay, I want to know how long this actually takes me this time around, so… I’m starting playback at about a quarter past midnight. (I got distracted earlier, when I told myself I was going to start. I’m not good at timekeeping.)

((also, as I mentioned in the previous liveblog, if you comment on any of the sections in here, I’d really appreciate it if you specify which statements you’re talking about. These recaps get really long, so… y’know, it’ll make it a little easier for a conversation.))

~cut goes here~

Bullet casings? In MY Kamen Rider? It’s more likely than you think!

(I haven’t seen Agito, but as with Ryuki and Blade, I’ve seen the History Of’s that Marcosatsu did. So, I… should be okay? Ish.)

But why do they want G3 units nationwide? Are they finally sick of all the yearly monster attacks, and doing something about it? … Okay, yeah, I don’t believe it either, but hey, we can speculate!

Ouch, rest in piece G3 user number 2. He got thrown so hard he’s stuck in the viewing window.

Another!Another Agito’s got some muscle on him.

aaaand this is the tribute arc where the Another Rider name scheme is going to be incredibly problematic, like people worried.

I get that there are six watches left to acquire – notably including Drive, since the one they currently have was brought back by Geiz. But would it have killed Toei to let the W and Kuuga watches be in-show? Would it? They had to make them appear in the movie? Specifically, the movie that the producer has said is only psuedo-canon?! 

Six left, and Sougo doesn’t want them to become Oma Zi-O. He wants them so he can stop Oma Zi-O, so that he can match his power. But, you know, the team kind of lucked into finding them, what with the Another Riders being created… or… hm. They get the Ride Watches because of the Another Riders. The Time Jackers are the ones creating the Another Riders, and they’re from the future, and know full well how Zi-O acquires his watches. The thing is, they initially said it was to ‘find a new candidate for king.’ We know that that’s not nearly so true as Heure and Hora were led to believe, since Swartz already had his candidate chosen. And we were led to believe that said candidate was Hiryuu, Another Zi-O. Except! “I’ll see you on the Day of Oma” wasn’t… exactly said to Hiryuu, was it? And then, we saw that an earlier version of Swartz was responsible for the bus crash, as he was looking for A Boy Who Would Be King. He found Sougo.

Sougo has been his choice all along. 

(un-Pause to hear Woz talk!)

“No, no, we just need to continue as we’ve been doing. The watches will show up.” … Well, you’re not wrong.

Junichiro rushes in, asking if they were watching. And, I mean, I don’t know Japanese, but I am pretty sure that under normal circumstances, people don’t usually use the English verb ‘to watch’ when referring to a news broadcast.

Come on, man, you just won me over in the last few arcs, don’t blow this.

Wait, the public knows about the G3 units?! Were they common knowledge in Agito? Or, at least, publicly available knowledge?

HAHAHA I didn’t even NOTICE that Woz hadn’t done his Recap yet! Oh man, I’m slipping! But no, now he does it, by Pausing the show, and incidentally casting everyone else in the room in shadow. … Wait, has he been actually doing that the entire time? Just? Pausing time for a moment to talk at us? I mean, I wouldn’t put it past him, the drama hog that he is. Also, where did you get the confetti, sir? And is that going to be in the actual room when time resumes?

Meanwhile, in… France, I think. “I must go. My planet city needs me.”

It takes four minutes into the episode to reach the Opening. It took me almost 20 to reach that.

Also, the shot of Zi-O II has been replaced by Trinity. I like how the pose they chose is basically a combination of all three of their styles. As a small note, it flashes over the faces in the order of Zi-O, Geiz, and Woz, before moving into a full-body shot. Also, I can’t remember if this change had been made last episode or not, but there’s no sign of the Future Note in the Kamen Rider Woz segment anymore. (I think it would have been a nice touch to have the Twilight Chronicle replace it in the background, but oh well.)

… and I just remembered that with Agito’s lore, that ‘my planet needs me’ quote isn’t nearly as out of left field as I intended when I made it a few minutes ago.

Okay, I know that we have the incredibly ominous “We really don’t know what Swartz is up to” discussion with Heure and Hora, and him interrupting as he is prone to do, and him being all “No, I’ve already got a plan going, as I am prone to do.” But what I’m stuck on is just how many sugar cubes he’s adding to his… well, I don’t know if it’s tea or coffee, but it’s far too many.

(Swartz has just joined Haruto and Kiriya in the ‘that can no longer be called coffee’ club.)

Damnit, Geiz, I wanted to make a crack about how ‘it’s less that the police are tracking the target, and more that the target is tracking the police’! It does make sense that this particular division would be fighting Another Riders, though, especially since they look even more like MOTWs than Kino did. Zi-O!Another Agito kind of has a toothy grin, too. I remember being weirded out by Kino!Another Agito’s design when I watched Gorider, but this is just. Eesh. Creepy.

Ohhh dear. If Tsukuyomi’s an amnesiac, that would explain her lack of last name. And since this is a time travel show, we’re all screwed! She could have been anyone! ...That sequence in the opening, with Tsukuyomi and the Time Jackers on the stairs, before they disappear and she’s alone is feeling really ominous right about now.

And this is a good arc for this reveal – since Agito’s Shoichi was an amnesiac protagonist. … hang on, wasn’t there a sibling confusion then, too, like in W? With… Philip… oh dear.

I have avoided shipping in this season at all costs, for precisely this type of reason. And because it’s time travel, to avoid whatever it was that happened in Den-O. (I haven’t seen past the first two episodes of Den-O. I’m working on it!)

OKAY! That aside! I’ve noticed that even though Tsukuyomi has the tablet, and pulls up all sorts of information on it, Geiz is usually the one to bring up who the past Riders were. He knew about Wizard, I’m dead certain there were other instances that I can’t recall off the top of my head, and he knows who the G3 unit is.

Okay, I love that we finally have officials trying to keep untransformed riders out of the battle field. It’s about time, and not just for Zi-O, it’s been lacking in the genre as a whole. I also like that the people in G3 armor don’t seem to trust the three Riders.

HEY! HOLD UP! SOUGO HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGA SYMBOL IS?! I thought you were terrible at math and science! Those are pretty much the only place you’d see that, these days – wait. Sougo’s a history buff; or, at least, that’s his only good subject. Or, was his only good subject, because he’s graduated. (Good for him!!!) Omega is Greek, maybe he actually could have picked it up in a history class!

Also, is this confirmation that Agito is supposed to be written using omega, like it its logo?

Mind you, it’s not as though anyone is going to be actually doing that, but still.

JESUS FUCK WHAT THE HELL DID FAKE!ANOTHER AGITO JUST DO? He tore off the chest armor, and ugghgh that sounded like he was trying to eat the poor man, but now said man is getting up, what the hell-

AAAAAGHAAAAGH! OH SHIT! OH SHIT!

Agito powers as zombie plague.

Kino was Another Agito because Agito is more of a powerset than a name.

It is now 1:10. I am ten minutes into ep 31.

This explains the excessively toothy mouth, at least.

Tsukuyomi used a Time Stop. With the same effects and sounds as the Time Jackers. And it was super targeted, too – it only hit the Another Agito that was attacking her and the officer. She didn’t know she could do that. Woz didn’t know she could do that.

It looks like Swartz didn’t know she could do that.

It looks like the time stop is an innate power.

Okay, okay, back to 9-to-5.

So, yeah, everyone thinks the Another Agitos are really weird. Sougo wants to try and find Kamen Rider Agito. Absolutely nobody is surprised that he has no idea how to follow through on that idea. “What if we try the internet?” Sougo, he was active in 2001, internet archives are terrible for going back to 2011, to say nothing of – Sougo.

Sougo. Kid. Why do you know how to get auto-correct to make the omega symbol? Did you actually learn that for a history class? I mean, good catch on the spelling of the name, and it worked, so. Points? I guess?

Okay, why is Woz’s voice echoing so much today?! I thought the first time I noticed it was because they were outside, but it’s happening inside, too. What gives?

Heure, no. No ‘proving you’re still useful’ to Swartz. Get OUT of there! Just go! It’s not safe for you! You just keep raising death flags!

But what Swartz is most interested in right now… is testing Tsukuyomi’s new power.

Sougo immediately asks if Kamen Rider Agito is in. Like the blunt little fool he is. His second try isn’t much better. Being Geiz is suffering.

But when the woman – Mana, right? When Mana recognizes the name Agito as a person, Geiz takes notice. Remember, boys, everyone else still remembers now, too.

Haha, see, Shoichi has the right reaction to the ‘he wants to be a king’ speech! Dumbfounded shock.

GEIZ! Why are you suggesting heading ‘overseas’ with the Time Mazine to find Shoichi? That’s! That’s Sougo logic! Noooo don’t let that be what rubs off on you!

Case in point, Sougo thinks it’s a good idea!

UGH Both Swartz AND Woz have had that stupid echo all episode, it’s driving me up a wall. It makes it feel like the audio’s balance is off or something.

So, creeper mc-purple-coat wants to… ‘test out’ Tsukuyomi’s power. Fair. She says that it’s none of his business, and that she doesn’t have any power, which is also fair. But I’d say that siccing one of the Another Agitos on her is overkill. And terrifying.

...wait, could Shoichi tell when enemies were appearing in his season? I legitimately don’t know.

(16 minutes in and 1 hour fifteen minutes later)

Okay, so, your choices here, boys.

Zi-O II. Good call, powerful, can read movements ahead of time.

Quiz. VERY good call. His powerset ‘asks’ the opponent to answer questions, or get electrocuted. Normally, I’m decidedly not okay with that, but from a tactical point, right now it makes sense. The rampaging Another Agitos are like, well, they’re Fast Zombies. They can’t answer questions.

BUT STOP USING REVIVE. I get why Typhoon is a good choice tactically. Like I said, FAST Zombies. Being even faster is a good survival strategy. But using REVIVE is a very BAD survival strategy.

Kudos for the touch of Sougo telling the cops to help their wounded – which they notably weren’t doing before he said that.

HI SPEAKING OF BAD CALLS! IN THIS CASE TRINITY IS A BAD IDEA!

Like Geiz says, you need NUMBERS.

Running Decade and Ex-aid would be a better choice right about now! That would give you two Zi-Os! ...and if Geiz gets Ghost, he can summon some of the parka ghosts to help, because they let THAT be a thing for the Ghost watch!

WOZ NO. You don’t need to IWAE this! This is now a no REJOICE zone! Go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

Although, now the cops are evacuating the heck out of there while Woz distracts the Agitos with his absurdity.

Unfortunately, he’s also distracting Sougo and Geiz with said absurdity.

Quick! Back to sanity! Tsukuyomi! We need you to be the impulse control for all three of the boys now! I’m so sorry, we kept Woz contained as long as possible, but this much proximity to Sougo at one clip has spread the cloud cuckoo lander traits.

“Oh, you don’t remember anything? Well, you’re probably better off not knowing, I suppose.” (F you too, Swartz.)

“Do… you know something?”

~The sound of a Legend Rider’s belt approaches from the shadows~

Kamen Rider Agito is on the scene.

And Swartz is smiling at that.

THAT! Is NOT how Bike Fu works!

OH LORDY the Power Knuckle buzzsaw and the spear’s… well, spear projections can combine into a massive, even pointier circular saw blade! Trinity really IS a fusion form, isn’t it?

“...wait, where’d the others go?”

It was! A distraction! And a very good one!

It is now 1:50. I’ve been at this for… one hour, 35 minutes. I’ve watched one episode.

Oh boy.

…

Time for ep 32!

Yooooo! Okay! So! Heure and Hora are stepping in because Swartz was ‘dragging his feet’, they weren’t invited, because he’s an ass. But Heure! Just! Pulled the Another Watch out of one of the transformed Agitos – not the main one, mind you, he’s ticked off now – and! He! Pushed it to Rider Agito, drained his power, and turned! The Another Watch! Into a real Ride Watch!

!!!!

Tsukuyomi stopped time to save Shoichi from Another!Another Agito… which is great! Good work! Except that it’s SUPER POWERFUL. She can move, but everyone else is completely frozen. COMPLETELY. ...Everyone but Swartz, who’s eyes are moving.

(click) AS IT IS WRITTEN HERE!

(GDI Woz)

(and with a SPOTLIGHT, too!)

(Theatre kid Woz confirmed)

Woz, you’re incredibly proud of Sougo for graduating, aren’t you? You mentioned that last Recap, too!

(insert 20 minute gap to take care of the dishes here, resuming at 2:20)

Huh! The title card came in from the opposite side of the screen this time! Interesting!

Heure, you can’t just put a regular Ride Watch into an Another Rider, That can’t be good for the poor host. And, oh, no, look at that, he’s just turned into a duplicate of Kamen Rider Agito. An exact duplicate. Appearance-wise, anyway.

WELP.

Okay, I rag on him, but Junichiro’s reaction to Professional Chef Shoichi complementing his cooking is great.

And then right back to serious, as soon as he leaves the room.

“I’m sorry… they took my Rider powers from me.”

“Which is really weird, since those are literally part of me. Trust me, things were weird in the early ‘00’s, kid. A whole bunch of us wound up being not entirely human.”

Hora? Hang on, can you clarify that? “Does that mean she’s a Time Jacker too?”

Are. Are you saying that being a ‘Time Jacker’ isn’t a group affiliation? That it’s the name of a powerset?!

… Just like how ‘Agito’ is?

Okay, so the current active party layout is:

Team One: Sougo and Geiz, dealing with a swarm of Another Agitos, while Heure and Another Agito Prime watch.

‘Team’ Two: Woz confronting Swartz about Tsukuyomi’s powers. Apparently Swartz is ‘the only one’ who can grant powers over time, which implies that he gave them to Heure and Hora. But he didn’t give them to Tsukuyomi, and he implies himself that the two of them are ‘cut from the same cloth’. Woz knows what that means.

Team Three: Shoichi goes to talk to Tsukuyomi. He’s the resident voice of experience on finding out you’re not who you thought you were, after all.

Well, him, Philip, and Sento, but the other two aren’t exactly here at the moment.

So, yes, as I thought he’d do, after bringing Tsukuyomi to the restaurant, he tells her about his past. About how Shoichi Tsugami isn’t technically his name. About how he tried to live his life the best he could, after losing who he was, and finding out he had powers. It worked out for him. And after all, hasn’t she already been doing that? The power is just a little more than she knew about.

And right after he says “Haven’t you already been doing that”, guess what starts playing?

The instrumental version of ‘King of Time.’

...Huh. It’s more noticeable with Geiz, who’s usually either frowning or exasperated. But… we never see Tsukuyomi smile, either, do we?

And then, with Sougo…

“I’m fighting to make the world better, and that’s what you’re doing too, right? So, does it really matter who you used to be?”

She responds with a smile. It’s a good look for her.

And of course, Woz shows up with bad news.

“So, fighting Agito’s a BAD idea, because once there’s one Agito, there can be countless Another Agitos. We are going to be overwhelmed. This is literally straight from Swartz. We’re screwed.”

“You better not be playing double agent agai-”

“Well, I mean, I already saw that was going to happen, so…. Besides, we don’t really have a choice in the matter, since we need to get that watch.”

““...fine...””

((It’s about 2:50 now, so I’m at… a little over two hours.))

Stop! Using! Revive! Unless you guys worked out how to keep it’s time compression from literally killing you a little more with each use, you! Need! To! Not! Use! That!

Unfortunately, Fury and Kikai make perfect sense here – the brute strength should help keep you two from getting too injured.

AAAND then they go for Typhoon and Shinobi for a speed-off. BOYS! Stop it! Although, I will admit, the flight and teleport spamming is pretty cool when you’re not using it on each other.

AHAHAH! Shoichi’s playing distraction in a G3 suit! That makes a LOT of sense! He can’t fight in his usual manner right now – on account of his powers being otherwise occupied. But the G3 suits were meant for humans to fight monsters on a more level playing field. AND the Another Agitos had been going after police facilities… which they haven’t mentioned again, but it sure seems to be drawing attention to him.

Tsukuyomi’s already got really good control, hasn’t she? The first time, she froze only the one Another Agito, and nothing else in the area. The second, she panicked, and was able to stop literally everything. Well, again, Swartz was slightly moving. Slightly. This time, it’s four Another Agitos, but Shoichi, who was right in the middle of them, is unaffected.

One direct hit from Zi-O II was able to knock the Ride Watch out of Another Agito Prime, and it rolled right to it’s proper owner. And for the first time, we get to see a Rider regaining their powers – the Ride Watch fades from existence, and Shoichi’s belt reappears on his waist.

“Transform!”

And then a (largely reluctant) transformation into Trinity. Geiz has had it up to here with Woz’s Announcements. You don’t have to do them every time, you know. You used to only make those when a new power was achieved. You guys have done this twice already.

(Tsukuyomi is in hell. That’s the only explanation she can think of.)

I like that ripple effect they used for Agito’s own Trinity transformation. I don’t know what sort of effects they used in 2001/2002, but it’s nice to see a nod to older FX in this incredibly flashy show.

(Tsukuyomi is definitely in hell. That’s the only explanation she can think of.)

Woz just has to do a proclamation. I don’t think it’s even part of his contract, I think he’s just THAT into this sort of thing. He was BORN to be a herald. Problem for HIM is, even Sougo’s had enough.

But!

He thinks this might work.

~Old catchphrases reappearing is actually my jam!~

~Who knew?~

...okay, everyone who’s been following me through this liveblog for the past… six months that I’ve been doing liveblogs for. Oh. Huh. I. Genuinely hadn’t realized it had been that long. I started doing these full reactions with the Gaim arc in November. Hm.

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Over-Time included LYRIC SUBTITLES!

Zi-O! Why! Why can’t you put the song credits in the credits!

I mean, that would have been an INCREDIBLE spoiler in this case! But! Holy shit!

It would be a huge spoiler because this isn’t one of Zi-O’s songs.

This is from Agito. It’s titled BELIEVE YOURSELF.

This is appropriate.

The Zi-O team hasn’t had a real chance to fight alongside their predecessors. Not really. Zi-O and Geiz fought ‘with’ Build and Cross-Z, but they had to bow out shortly through the fight. Same with Ex-Aid. Ghost and Specter only fought together, not with the boys. Quiz and Kikai don’t count – they debuted in Zi-O. They fought AGAINST Decade and DiEnd. The next people to transform… were Blade and Chalice, and they weren’t working together. Their powers were taken before they could have fought as a team.

This? A fight with the Kamen Rider having his powers intact? Not just intact, actually, but returned? And not rapidly disappearing?

This is what we WANTED. I mean, hell, this is what the SHT movies SHOULD have been.

And the choice of song is incredibly fitting, too. I mean, here. Here’s the page on the KR Wiki. Go check it out, and you just try to tell me that’s not appropriate for Zi-O as a whole, but especially for the events lately, and of this arc.

Okay, okay, back to the battle. Which is glorious.

For one, Zi-O using one of the Agito Drones to hold part of his sword while he removes the mask element from it, so he can attach said mask to the other sword, and combining the two while the drone is still slightly impaled? That’s CLEVER. And I’m pretty sure that’s Sougo at work, too – he’s done similar before, getting others to turn his belt and complete his transformation. And the Kings Slash grows and impales several more drones before he swings.

And, interestingly, when Trinity and Agito prepare their finishers? Another Agito Prime forces his way through the drones to be the one to take the hit – to the point of standing directly in front of the two Rider Kicks, and putting his chest out there. Asking to be hit.

And that Dual Kick is SOMETHING ELSE! Driving him all the way across the plaza, knocking over any drones they encounter in the line of ‘fire’, and digging a trench into the ground! THIS is a fight scene!

Yet another entrusting of the watch.

Tsukuyomi has found her resolve.

Woz has found a secret.

And next episode –

Wait a minute.

(checks the calendar)

VERY nice.

Sougo’s birthday episode? Airs on his birthday. Nice planning, Toei! And you checked a calendar correctly this time!

(But you couldn’t be bothered to check the year when you set Kazumin’s phone, could you?)

Also, it looks like they might be aiming a little closer to the first part of Hibiki for the tribute arc, with the kanji appearing on screen in the preview.

((so, it’s now… 3:45, so I wound up taking… let’s see. Started at 12:15, so a complete time would be three and a half hours, but there was that twenty minute gap when I went from 31 to 32, so… about three hours and ten minutes to watch 40 minutes of a children’s Sunday morning superhero show.))

((WORTH IT.))

[carrieautumn-blog1]

Prompt 11: A journey to find a fabled mirror that shows one’s true path to love. It reflects a barren wasteland. Word Count 12: 2000

Love had never been a priority to Angelique. She had had her share of romance and first confessions but in her heart she was a skeptic. Love in the short term was a chemical reaction and long term what really kept people together was luck or instability. Even the most ideal couples were just two imperfect beings facing all the stigma and chaos of the world. The anthropology professor knew the evolutionary and sociological advantages to long term companionship, and why society had given love such a rosy complexion, idealizing to the point of obsession. The whole ‘true love’ thing only brought unnecessary pressure. Being happy or just content was a matter of probability and infinite environmental circumstances beyond one’s control. True love did not exist, yet, for some reason, she had been chosen for a project that potentially proved otherwise.

Four months ago a promise had come to Angelique Summers, a promise of the most profound discovery of this or any century. Invasive vetting process aside Angelique never lost the hunger that followed her across the seas to the coast of Algeria. In the small dossier she received all promises were delivered from a single photograph of a full length mirror with a black pane. Her small amount of renown and position as tenured professor at her university would never have been enough to earn her such a position on this highly classified, international project, but academic connections had given her this holy opportunity.

Her associate and dear friend  Nathan Carver had made the discovery, he had spent decades hunting an artifact that anyone else might dismissed as legend. For reasons that escape the average unimaginative person a single mention of this mirror had been enough to send Nathan into a near obsessive state. His fervor escalated to the point that all his colleagues had worried after his health. Carver had been fired and all but ostracized from the community, but in the end, he had found it. Using his personal wealth he had uncovered a secret that had been dead to the world.

“You’re so thin.” Angelique pulled away from his embrace shaking her head. Years had passed as they do, Carver was too thin and his umber skin had an anemic undertone, his hair receded, new lines folded across his face, but he had also changed in a different way. Puzzled Angelique could only think of it as something buried deep that had finally come to the surface, yet even as it was before her, it was entirely unrecognizable. She swallowed, “Carver I wanted to say-.” He raised a hand.

“The years have been kinder to you, come let’s get you inside before you get soaked.” The man looked up to the heavy clouds and out at the choppy seas before following her into dining quarters of the Naval Ship.  They exchanged pleasantries, Angelique gave strained smiles and managed to keep her foot from tapping, it was all she could do to keep from begging. Instead Carver denied her impatience for the length of their meal. Right as she was approaching her limits he asked, “Do you know why I requested you?” He left her no time to answer, his mouth a straight line, “They allowed me to only choose three.” He held up his fingers and repeated the number again. Angelique had only met soldiers and government agents her entire trip and she never been briefed on any others that would be joining her and Carver on this project although she had assumed that there would be others. Again he left her no time for questions, “After everyone had turned their back on me, I had few friends in our field. Fewer in my personal life. I lost respect, my wife and years; and yet what I have found is beyond me. This discovery may be classified but it hasn’t gone without notice, a number of my old colleges were inspired to try and return to my good graces. I know who my friends are but more importantly, I knew who would be able,” He paused and his lips crinkled before he continued. “Be able to handle this. You’ve always been stoic, you’re affectionate but you’re strong Angie.” His eyes never left hers and her gaze darted away from the intensity. “What do you think of the brief? Summarize what it is you think you about to see.” She thought on that for a moment scratching between her brow.

“Well hopefully a mirror with uncertain origins with unusual chemical makeup.”

“Yes, a mirror. A mirror with a obsidian pane that at a distance does not seem to take in any light but if you stand directly before it, even in a room without light it reflects. We can’t get a reliable dating on the pane no matter what method we use but the frame seems to be over five million years old, besides being buried for centuries its in perfect condition. I can’t explain it, it’s like the thing traveled through time.” He rubbed a hand over his scalp pulling the small graying tufts. Angelique could barely fathom what this could mean for all fields of science, including her own. Her heart was racing even though he was only repeating what she had already read. It seemed so impossible but she had seen the tests and numbers don’t lie. “If you were to look into it what would you see?” He stared at her, she wasn’t sure how to answer him. “Did you read how first I discovered this, thing?” He hesitated over certain words when referring to the artifact in a tone that was a spectrum between awe and scorn.

“You found an old myth.” She felt a wariness come over her, wondering where this was going.

“Yes, a Latin epitaph discovered inside a stone monument. The monument was a large pillar in Egypt but likely originated further into Africa, it had been hollowed out from the inside and on it’s walls there was this inscribing. I had been working in France when a friend of mine contacted me about this find. I was fascinated, why would such a tale would be inscribed in stone only to be hidden away.  I found traces of this tale all over Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa. Always in small traces and without real explanation of what it is or it’s purpose. Only the writings found in the monument contained any detail to its origin. It has a name I can best understand as the Path or Journey. It was created by a being who my guess is supposed be a deity or perhaps magician, I’m paraphrasing here but as I understand it reads, ‘they pulled apart the sky and gazing into this eye, allowed mortal men to see the path to their desires, their essence. It would take them and they would be undying.’ Perhaps it was meant as some variation of the fountain of youth, those who searched for it certainly seemed as ravenous to find it. There are warnings too, tales of the mirror stealing one’s soul and reflecting it back leaving them empty husks. In the latest record I found, in 1813 a Captain of a merchant ship spoke of how he wanted this Mirror. It is referred to by many names with many variations, but this man called it the Mirror of Love. He thought if he could find it and get a noblewoman he fancied to look into it, she would fall for him and his will would be her desire. I had followed this man’s writings to find further clues or mentions, I studied shipment records trying my best to track his movements. He mentions it only once more, he speaks of how he hid the mouth of hell away from where mortal souls wander. There was another warning in his words that I had read before, that any who go searching will find this mirror. I found it, buried in the ruins at the bottom of this sea.” He spoke very softly but his purpose was loud. He had stopped and Angelique was still for the first time in weeks.

“What is it you think this mirror shows exactly, Carver?” She did not hide her skepticism from her voice.

“The path to true love, or the heart’s most earnest desire. Don’t shake your head. I have looked into the mirror and it does not reflect any person.”

“It’s an illusion on the mind, it probably draws some sort of stimulus from the conscious, the expectation of what we are supposed to see. There might be hallucinogenic affect, something might be coming off the pane.” The man slammed his fist on the table and released his fingers slowly.

“No. No Angie, it’s not like that I promise. I had explanations like that too. I started wearing protective gear since the moment I saw it on sonar. Before you were here, there was Mylar and Hatem on the project.” He wrinkled his lips again. “Before you can see the mirror you have to be prepared. I have their reported experiences as well as some of the Officers. Some of them are dead now. This mirror can change you, explain it how you want, but I suggest you tell yourself that whatever you see is not real.” He slid a file across the table to her and bid her goodnight.

Angelique was in her bunk, a cramped space, reading over the reports of the people who had stood before the artifact. Every instance of they saw was different but all of them reported changes to their mental states. The reports read like people trying to explain concepts that were outside someone’s native language. Their words were reaching and often contradictory. The lighter reports had people walking around in a ‘dazed nostalgia’, or ‘euphoric melancholy.’ Others earned a deep obsession or felt a persistent disturbance since their encounter with the mirror. All of them spoke of it as if it were alive. ‘It watched them,’ ‘it knew them,’ ‘it loved them.’ Out of the 24 who had dealt with the mirror 8 had committed suicide, the rest have been quarantined for present or potential mental health issues.

The descriptions of what they saw were only interesting because they were so mundane. There was one who saw, and apparently smelled, a meat with a flavor he couldn’t name. Another saw the feet of a baby in the waves of the ocean. Perhaps it was meant to be symbolic or subconscious revelations because she couldn’t understand how such images could drive anyone insane. They seemed like the disconnected images of a dream.

“Are you ready Doctor Summers?” The Officer held his hand around the door.

“Yes.” He mentioned a few more reminders about what she was supposed to be doing, but couldn’t remember anything else after. She stood before the mirror in total darkness and gazed into its surface which she shouldn’t have been able to see. There was nothing and then there was everything. She was back in her bunk on her back but she hadn’t remembered returning there. Her mind had been captured in the endless rainclouds of sand and ruin. She was haunted, not by their meaning but because it had been buried so deep in her. Deeper than her, farther back than her DNA. Farther or perhaps it was further, than humans could know. Every time she closed her eyes it was there.  She wanted to go there, to know what it was waiting there. This place was beyond her and the void it left hollowed her and wrote itself on her insides. When Carter asked what she saw instead of answering she asked him, “Has anyone looked into the mirror more than once?”  

“No.”

“Why?”

“Because there would be nothing left to give.” She nodded.

“I’ve asked for the project to be shut down. They’ll fight me on it, I’m sure.”

“Good. Carter?” She asked as he was walking away.

“Yes?” He stopped.

“Did you ask for me because I told the board you should be fired?”

“Yes.”

[penthesilea1623]

"Sorry, were you sleeping?" Aaaaand random number 12?

12 is my Shepard,Ophelia. This one takes place in ME1, the night after she meets Talitha, theMindoir survivor. It turned out far angstier than I intended. .

Kaidan had known that Shepard had survived the Batarian raidon Mindoir, everyone in the Alliance knew that, but the reality of thatsurvival, of what she had gone through didn’t hit him until Lieutenant Girardhad requested her help with that girl Talitha, another Mindoir survivor, but onlyjust rescued.

Shepard hadn’t even hesitated. She’d dropped everything theywere doing and headed straight there. She’d insisted on speaking with the girlalone, and over his and Garrus’ objections, had left her weapons behind.

They’d been too far away to hear exactly what she said. Asalways, Shepard’s voice was low and calm. Talitha’s voice had been easier tohear; frantic, shouting at times, at one point screaming out, “Why are you alive?Why aren’t you like her?”

Shortly after that outburst, Shepard had returned, informingLieutenant Girard that the girl had taken the tranquilizers. She’d sounded as composedas ever, but there had been something in her eyes, a hollow weariness that onlydisappeared when Girard, his frustration plain, had asked her, “Why the hellare we out here if we can’t save one little girl?”

Kaidan had been watching her (hell, when didn’t he watchher), and he’d seen the look of utter anguish flash across her face, just foran instance: if he’d blinked he wouldn’t have seen it at all.  

She’d knelt down and picked up her weapons and her helmet,and when she’d straightened up that serene mask she was famous for was firmly backin place. For a moment he thought he must have imagined it.

But he knew he hadn’t.

“Bad things happen to good people, Lieutenant.” She’d said,and her voice was oddly flat. “That’s why you and I are here.”

She sounded cold, emotionless, and that alone let him knowshe wasn’t okay.  Ophelia Shepard couldbe distant, yes, reserved, yes, but she was never cold.  

She’d turned without another word, and left, heading not towardsCSEC where they’d been heading when Girard’s call had come in, but back to theNormandy, just one dock over from where they were. When questioned replied in avoice that brooked no opposition that CSEC could wait until tomorrow. Sheoffered no explanation or excuse.

Once on the ship she’d gone straight to her quarters andhadn’t reappeared.

It was past midnight now, most of the crew was asleep andthose who weren’t were up on the Command Deck.  Kaidan stood in front of the door to theCaptain’s quarters, trying to decide if he was about to make a mistake.  

Ophelia Shepard was a private person. She’d only mentionedMindoir that one time she’d said her parents been farmers.  

Obviously it was a topic she didn’t want to discuss. Heshould respect her privacy, respect her. He’d told himself that and had turnedto walk away half a dozen times, and every time he’d remembered that flash ofpain in her eyes and had turned back.

Before he could talk himself out of it yet again, he raisedhis hand and knocked.

At first he thought she hadn’t heard him, that she must be asleep,and then she spoke.

“Who is it?” Her voice sounded rough.

Shit. He had woken her up. “It’s Kaidan, Shepard. Sorry, were you sleeping? “Too late to doanything about it now if she had been.

The door slid open and she was there in front of him, andshe looked… different.  She was wearingblack boy shorts and of all things, a Batman t-shirt: ancient, the symbol fadedand flaking off as happened to old t-shirts, but definitely Batman. Her hair, abrown so dark it was almost black was loose: he’d only ever seen it inregulation styles, pulled smoothly back into a bun or a twist, not a hair outof place. Not like this, falling down in tangles around her, almost to herwaist.  

For a moment he could only stare.

He’d wondered how long it was.

She gave a short huff of a laugh, more an exhalation thananything, not seeming to notice his gawking. “No. I wasn’t sleeping, Kaidan.Not tonight.” She rubbed her forehead with one hand and then ran it through herhair, brushing it back from her face.  

That explained the tangles.

“Did you need something?” She asked when he failed to speak.

This was as far as his plan had gone. In hindsight heprobably should have come up with a plausible reason for knocking. “Uh…I…well…”

And to his surprise she smiled.  “Checking up on me, Lieutenant?”

He opened his mouth to deny it but she cut him off before hecould.

“It’s okay, Kaidan. Honestly, I could use a distraction.”  She raised her eyes to his, needing to forsome reason, and he realized she was barefoot while he was still in combatboots: normally they were the same height.  That, added to the unbound hair, and thebatman t-shirt and she looked, well, young. In the dim light of the cabin she could have passed for the teenagedgirl she’d been when the Batarians had attacked Mindoir and a part of himcouldn’t help wondering if that was a coincidence.    

“I just thought you might need to talk about today.”

This close to her he realizedher eyes were red and a little puffy. She’d been crying. She didn’tspeak, but she looked down and ran her tongue over her lips to moisten them, asif she wanted to but didn’t know how to start.

“You may not believe it but I can actually listen to otherpeople’s problems, not just whine about my own.” He said trying to keep it light, just in case he was wrong and she really didn’t want to talk about it. “I’ve been told I’mactually pretty good at it.” He offered.

She gave him a tired smile. “Actually that’s not hard to believe at all.”  She stepped aside. “Come in, Kaidan.”

He stepped into the cabin and the door slid closed behindhim.

The room looked very much like it had when Anderson hadoccupied it, looked very much every captain’s cabin on every ship looked like:bed, desk chair computer. There was a picture frame on her desk, face down, anda bottle of scotch with a shot glass filled to the brim sitting next toit.  

She saw him looking at it. “I’m not going to drink it.”

“I know.“ He said..“You hatescotch.”

She frowned, a small wrinkle appearing between her brows. “Ido. How did you know that?”

“I pay attention. It’s what you always order at receptions.And then you never drink it.”

From the look on her face he’d surprised her. “And I thought I wasfooling everyone.”

“I could never figure out why though.” He admitted.

She shrugged. “You have to drink something at those thingsor they think you’re stuck up. It makes me seem more like one of the guys. Ithelps my tough girl image. Unfortunately it also means that everyone and theirbrother sends me scotch when they’re trying to kiss up to me. I’ve got half adozen bottles in this cabin. If anything happens to me there are going to besome serious questions about Commander Shepard’s drinking problem.”  

But that didn’t explain the shot glass. “So if you aren’tgoing to drink this one why pour it?”

Her lips curved into a wistful smile. “Nostalgia. My parents didn’t drink much but there wasalways a bottle of good scotch in the house, and if there was something tocelebrate they’d each have a shot. Every time my father would fill it to the very top, sofull that it was impossible to pick it up without spilling it and when mymother complained he would say it was a sign that he loved her, and she’d laughand pick it up and of course it would spill and she’d complain again, and he’dkiss her…” her voice broke off, and she paused for a moment, clearing her throat.  “…and then they’d drink their scotch,” she concluded a little too brightly. Her eyes were brimming with tears, and sheblinked rapidly.

He pretended not to notice. “That sounds nice.”

She nodded. “Yeah. It was.” A single tear escaped and she brushed it impatiently away.

“Do you have a picture of them?” He asked. 

Her head tilted to one side, and she gave him an appraising look as if she was trying to figure out why he would ask it, but then she smiled. “Yeah, I do..” She reached down for theframe, turning it on and handing it to him.

He stared at it.  

A man with a Mohawk and a goatee wearing rectangular mirroredsunglasses, and a black leather jacket with no shirt under it.  A woman with bright pink hair in two ponytails high on her head and some sort of corset type top with a feather boawrapped around her neck a couple of times. Between them was a toddler that hecould only assume was Shepard wearing a rainbow tutu, and fairy wings, andnothing else.  All three of them weremugging for the camera, sticking their tongues out at the photographer.  

Shepard’s mother had a tongue piercing.  

He thought of his parents back in Vancouver, Mom with her pearlsand Dad with his cardigan. When heglanced over at Shepard she was smiling mischievously.

“Not what you expected?” She asked with an arch of hereyebrow.

He gave a rueful grin. “I probably thought they’d be a bit moreconventional.” He admitted. “Weren’t they farmers?”

Her eyes were dancing now. “They were. Of a sort. We livedin a commune. Part of a back to the sixties movement – the 1960’s that is.”

He could only stare at her as what she said sank in. “You’retelling me your parents were hippies?” He couldn’t help laughing, but shedidn’t seem to mind.

“Peace and love, baby.” She was grinning now, and it occurred to him that he’d never seen hergrin, not like that.  

She looked down at the picture, running her fingers slowlyover her parents’ faces. “They were a lot of fun, but not terribly practicalpeople. I mean packing up like that,probably on a whim if I know them, and moving to Mindoir of all places, in themiddle of the Attican Traverse. But they wanted a simpler life, back to nature,living off the earth and all that, and they found a like-minded group so off wewent to become farmers. I was about three at the time. And farm we did. We tried to be self-sufficient.  We didn’teat anything we didn’t grow ourselves. It was a lot of work but everyone pitched in together. We were a community.  Well, we were a commune, right?  A lot of singingaround the campfire in the evening. A lot of kids named things like Rainbow andRiver and Leaf.”

“So you got off easy with ‘Ophelia’ then?”  

She laughed. “Relatively. Easier than my brother and sister certainly.”

Kaidan couldn’t hide his surprise. “You have a brother andsister?” He’d never heard that. It certainly wasn’t in any of the bios he’dread or the vids about her that had been made soon after she’d been dubbed the Heroof the Skyllian Blitz. But as soon as the words had left his mouth he realized why he’d never heard of them.

“Had.”  She said,confirming his fear. She swiped her finger on the frame and the picturechanged. “Zen and Pixie.” She said, handing it to him. “Twins. My parents triedfor years to have more children after I was born. They’d just about given upand then there they were.”  

He took the frame. A picture of an obviously teenagedShepard, but young, maybe thirteen or fourteen, holding two chubby infants, onein each arm. Beautiful, even at that agewhen most kida were awkward and spotty, even squinting into the sun at the camera asshe was.

“They died on Mindoir with my parents.” She told him beforehe could ask. “The Batarians aren’t inclined to babysit so any children too young to take care of themselves are automatically killed.They were too young: they’d only just started walking. It wasn’t a sophisticated raid, you know,more of a snatch and grab operation. There was a nursery in the commune where all the littles would stayduring the day while the rest of us were working or at school. The Batarians just went in and startedshooting. They set fire to the place afterwards. I never understood why. They’dalready killed them all.” She was staring at the picture.

Jesus. “I’m sorry,Shepard.”

A sad ghost of a smile when she looked at him. “Me too.”

“And your parents?”

She swiped her finger again and the frame went black.“Killed, not taken. I identified their bodies when the Alliance was cleaning upafter. I identified a lot of bodies actually.” She took a shaky breath and looked at him sideways. “I’m sorry. It’s awful, I know. I never talk about this.But that girl, Talitha…” Her voicetrailed off.

He couldn’t help asking. “Did it bother you? What she said?”

“Why am I alive?” She shook her head. “No. I know why I’malive, there’s no mystery about that. I’d had a fight with my parents, and in afit of sullen teenage rebellion I hopped on the back of my boyfriend’smotorcycle and we drove off and stayed out all night. I wasn’t there when theraid happened. They must have been so worried.” She said almost absently.

Jesus, he thoughtagain. “What did you fight about?” Itwas the first thing that popped into his head.

She gave a small snort. “The boyfriend with the motorcycle,of course. I’d just turned fifteen and Skye and I had this overnight campingtrip planned up in the hills outside of the settlement as a birthdaycelebration. My parents of course said no, and we fought, and off Skye and Iwent. When the Batarians attacked at sunrise we had a perfect view of the wholething.” Her voice had that strangely detached sound it had had when she’d spoken to Lieutenant Girard.“The Alliance had sent warningsbut no one believed it would happen. When it started Skye and I both knewexactly what it was. He didn’t even hesitate. He shouted at me to stay there, to stay hidden and then he jumped on hisbike and went riding off to the rescue, leaving me behind to see it all, theexplosions, everyone I knew being rounded up, or killed.  I could smell the smoke and the smell ofburning bodies and see the fire. I saw Skye get shot, killed. I lay there, flat on the ground and I watchedit all.” 

He couldn’t think of a thing to say. She didn’t seem tonotice.

“I used to wonder, you know, if the twins had been olderwould they have made it long enough to be rescued?  You hear stories of slaves escaping or beingrescued like Talitha. I used to fantasize about that, about being part ofmission to rescue them, about finding them and taking them home with me andtaking care of them, but after seeing Talitha for the first time I’m almostglad they were killed, because the idea of them going through what she did…thatmight just have done me in.”

“Is that why you joined the Alliance?”  He asked.

She stood straighter. “Yes. The Alliance had known that theraid was coming, they’d been prepared. If we’d only listened to them we mighthave been. The Alliance rescued me. They patched me up and they got me throughthose first few weeks, and it only took that long for me to know that was whatI wanted to do: to spend my life doing everything I could to keep what happenedon Mindoir from happening to anyone else.”

“Like you did on Elysium.” Kaidan said, gently reminding her.

“Yes.” She said withsatisfaction. “Like I did on Elysium.” Her eyes were distant. “Watching thatday on Mindoir. I swore I’d never do that again, that I’d never stand there,stuck, looking down and watching as my whole world was destroyed in front of me,that I would never feel that helpless, that useless again.” She looked up athim. “It’s a promise I intend to keep.”

He didn’t doubt it for a minute. “You’re an amazing woman,Shepard.”

And to his surprise she actually blushed.“No. Justdetermined.  And stubborn.” She smiled at him and that haunted look seemed to have lessened. “Thanks for listening, Kaidan. You were right. You are good at this.”  She tilted her head watching him for a moment. “It’s atough story to hear, I know. There’s a perfectly good shot of whiskey overthere if you want it, and no one to report you for breaking regs.”

He wondered what he must look like for her to make thatoffer. “No one except my captain,” hepointed out.

“I hear she’s a good sort though.” She teased.

“How about I let you get some sleep instead. You can buy meone the next time we’re on shore leave.” He said and moved towards the door.

She followed him. “It’s a deal.” At the door she reached out, putting a hand on his arm. “Thank you, Kaidan. For listening. For being there when Ineeded someone.” 

Just that small touch reduced him to a babbling idiot. “I’llalways be there when you need me…not me. Someone.  For listening, I mean.  That is if you want to talk. Shepard. Ma’am.”

She wasn’t even trying to hide her smile as she removed her hand from his arm, reachingout and hitting the door control. The door whooshed open behind him. “Good Night, Lieutenant.” He could hear a trace of laughter in her voice.

“Good Night Ma’am.” The door closed and he somehow resisted the urged to bang his headagainst it, instead turning and walking away, shaking his head.

He could just hear Ash: You don’t get out much do you LT?

No, he really didn’t. But maybe he should change that.

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How To Make & Use Love Potions — The Traveling Witch

Love potions are among the most coveted potions in witchcraft. Songs have been written about them. Whole film plots revolve round them. And a few corporations have even named merchandise after them! 

Potions are liquids which are used to solid spells. They’re typically meant to be drunk, however you should use them in your ritual tub, to anoint objects in your altar, to diffuse into the air, or to rub in your physique. Some potions are supposed to be made after which discarded for magical causes. In that case, all the spell was most likely solid through the potion-making course of.

You may make them with any type of liquid—ingesting water, juice, tea, and even issues like ocean water or morning dew. In the event you don’t thoughts being a bit unconventional, you may create potions from drinks like margaritas and cans of soda! Potion-making might be fairly experimental, so don’t be afraid to make up your individual recipes. 

Until you might have some type of allergy to any of the components, all of the potion recipes on this article are completely protected to make (though not all of them are meant for ingesting). 

In the event you make your individual potions, please make 100% positive you analysis your components—all of them! Herbs, oils, and crystals might be extraordinarily harmful when used improperly and might trigger bodily hurt or trigger injury to your magical instruments. Additionally, if you happen to’re searching round on-line for potion recipes, be sure you look into the security of all of these components as effectively! Simply because it’s on-line doesn’t imply it’s protected. 

Nonetheless, take care when selecting and crafting your potions and also you’ll possible discover them to be useful additions to your witchcraft. 

In the event you make a love potion aspiring to make somebody love you ceaselessly, you’ll run into some difficulties if you happen to ever resolve that you just need to finish that relationship. You don’t need to find yourself with a stalker. 

Listed below are some tips to bear in mind if you’re setting the intention on your love potions. 

Contemplate maintaining your love intention extraordinarily normal. You could not need to concentrate on a selected individual, simply in case you uncover she or he is mistaken for you down the highway. I personally don’t prefer to restrict the methods the universe (or no matter energy you utilize in your witchcraft) can ship my end result. Generally magic will toss stuff manner higher than what you imagined at you!

Use intentions which are certain by time, reminiscent of a potion that’s efficient for one lunar cycle. That provides you extra management as a result of you may select to carry out the spell once more for the following lunar cycle to resume it. In the event you’re not pleased with the outcomes, you may let the magic run its course. 

You may need to carry out love magic with intentions that result in romantic conditions moderately than conjuring up love itself. You may make a potion to get somebody to think about you, a potion to get somebody to go on a date with you, or a potion to extend any romantic emotions which are already shared between the each of you.

In the event you’re able to make your individual love potions, learn on! Listed below are three love potion recipes which are protected, easy, and highly effective! 

Right here’s an astrological love potion that faucets into the immense energy of the celebs. It’s greatest used between two folks already in a relationship as a result of it’s designed to extend the love that already exists between the 2 of you.

You’ll have to know your lover’s start date since you’ll be working along with your lover’s solar signal. The energies within the sky are all the time shifting, so the timing of this potion is a very powerful half. 

Instructed Intention: “I name on the ability of the Solar, Moon, and stars. As my love and keenness for my companion will increase, my companion’s love and keenness for me matches that development.”

What You’ll Want:

Water

A glass jar with a lid

A rose quartz stone

A transparent quartz stone

Cinnamon stick

Search for what nights the moon will move by way of your lover’s solar signal. Mark these nights in your calendar. The moon will spend at the least a few nights in each zodiac signal over the course of a month, so you may maintain this potion spell going month after month if you happen to like. 

The day of your spell, fill a jar with water and set it exterior (or by a window to cost within the solar). As you do that, converse your intention to activate your potion. Use the intention supplied or create your individual!

Utilizing a cinnamon stick, draw the zodiac image of your lover’s solar signal within the water’s floor. (In the event you don’t know what the image seems like, you may look the image up on-line or write out your lover’s title as an alternative.) 

Place a transparent quartz crystal within the jar to amplify the love you’re sending out to your lover. 

Stir the potion eight instances going clockwise. Eight is a quantity related to the planet Venus and clockwise motion will give your potion “projective” vitality as you’re sending your rising love out to your companion.

That night, when the moon is passing by way of your lover’s solar signal, set the jar out beneath the moon. Take away the clear quartz crystal. Use the opposite finish of the cinnamon stick to attract the image of your individual solar signal into the floor of the water. (Once more, you may also use your title.)

Place a rose quartz crystal into the jar and stir the potion eight instances going counter-clockwise. This may can help you obtain all of the loving emotions of your companion. You’re attracting these emotions.

Repeat this course of with the solar and moon till the moon has moved out of your companion’s solar signal. 

Retailer the jar of potion beneath your mattress (or someplace romantic). The potion might be efficient till the following time the moon passes by way of your lover’s signal. 

This potion is ideal for single or hooked up witches alike! Use it to manifest the vitality of affection scenes out of your favourite e book. I really like this potion a lot as a result of I imagine life might be simply as romantic because the tales! 

What You’ll Want:

A web page with the phrases of your favourite love scene printed on it

Water

A small cauldron

Two tea lights

Matches or lighter

Rose petals

Lavender

2 bay leaves

An athame or one thing to stir your potion with

Jasmine incense (or incense sticks)

Collect up your components, and—as with all potions—be sure you have cleansed every part. 

Mild some jasmine incense and permit your entire magical instruments and components to move by way of the smoke. I discover this best to do with an incense stick, however you should use any type of incense. Jasmine is an herb related to romance and this course of will cost every part along with your intention. 

Fill a small cauldron with water. Mild two tea lights and slide them beneath your mini cauldron to warmth the water. Be sure you’re engaged on a warmth protected floor!

Learn aloud your romantic passage from the paper you’re utilizing. This may talk your intention to the universe (or no matter supply of energy). You’ll be able to both tear the web page out of a e book, photocopy the web page, or write out the passage by hand. 

Then add the components to your potion one after the other. Stir the potion any manner you want between components. Use your instinct when doing this. 

The rose petals and lavender are for love and keenness. The bay leaves symbolize needs which add whimsical vitality to this potion. 

As you’re combining your components, visualize the scene from the e book taking part in out in your thoughts’s eye—besides as an alternative of the fictional characters, substitute you and your lover. 

Whenever you really feel that “butterflies-in-the-stomach” feeling, you may transfer on to the final step. 

Fold the paper along with your story on it and submerge it beneath your water. Use your athame or no matter you used to stir your potion to do that as a result of the water will most likely be sizzling. 

After that, your spell has been solid and you’ll get rid of your potion. 

This indulgent potion makes use of the ability of tarot playing cards and crystals to make somebody consider you. It’s good for a night if you’re alone and within the temper for some romance. 

What You’ll Want:

Crimson juice (cranberry, pommegranate, or cherry juice are good choices)

Amethyst

Clear quartz

Rose quartz

A sprig of sage

Tarot Playing cards: Eight of Wands, Queen of Cups, and King of Cup

Pour your self a glass of your juice. Add your clear, polished crystals, amethyst to open the energetic channels between you and your individual, rose quartz to verify this individual thinks of you fondly, clear quartz to strengthen your spell so it reaches your individual.

Use your sprig of sage to stir your potion as your state your incantation and intention. Sage will assist you join psychically to this individual.

 “I drink this love potion made so superb,

and plant ideas in (individual’s title)’s head of my very own design.” 

Then state the ideas you’d like this individual to have utilizing the individual’s title reminiscent of, “Dan thinks about me and all of the enjoyable we had on our date final week.” You too can add a desired motion like, “Dan thinks of me fondly and sends me a textual content.”

As soon as your potion is activated, take away your crystals. 

Prepare your tarot playing cards in your desk in a triangle form. The King and Queen of Cup ought to be positioned upright leaning in direction of one another, representing you and your individual. (In the event you don’t really feel a powerful connection to the recommended playing cards, you may select no matter tarot playing cards greatest symbolize you and the individual you’re casting your potion spell on. Any playing cards from the cups swimsuit work effectively since cups are linked to relationships, and also you’re utilizing a cup on your potion. The Magician, the Emperor, the Excessive Priestess, and the Empress are highly effective selections as effectively.)

The Eight of Wands will add velocity to your spell. That card will go alongside the underside of the triangle, laying horizontally to attach the opposite two playing cards.

Place your glass within the heart of the triangle if you’re not holding it. Savor your drink and take into consideration your individual till your glass is empty. 

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How To Make & Use Love Potions — The Traveling Witch

Love potions are among the most coveted potions in witchcraft. Songs have been written about them. Whole film plots revolve round them. And a few corporations have even named merchandise after them! 

Potions are liquids which are used to solid spells. They’re typically meant to be drunk, however you should use them in your ritual tub, to anoint objects in your altar, to diffuse into the air, or to rub in your physique. Some potions are supposed to be made after which discarded for magical causes. In that case, all the spell was most likely solid through the potion-making course of.

You may make them with any type of liquid—ingesting water, juice, tea, and even issues like ocean water or morning dew. In the event you don’t thoughts being a bit unconventional, you may create potions from drinks like margaritas and cans of soda! Potion-making might be fairly experimental, so don’t be afraid to make up your individual recipes. 

Until you might have some type of allergy to any of the components, all of the potion recipes on this article are completely protected to make (though not all of them are meant for ingesting). 

In the event you make your individual potions, please make 100% positive you analysis your components—all of them! Herbs, oils, and crystals might be extraordinarily harmful when used improperly and might trigger bodily hurt or trigger injury to your magical instruments. Additionally, if you happen to’re searching round on-line for potion recipes, be sure you look into the security of all of these components as effectively! Simply because it’s on-line doesn’t imply it’s protected. 

Nonetheless, take care when selecting and crafting your potions and also you’ll possible discover them to be useful additions to your witchcraft. 

In the event you make a love potion aspiring to make somebody love you ceaselessly, you’ll run into some difficulties if you happen to ever resolve that you just need to finish that relationship. You don’t need to find yourself with a stalker. 

Listed below are some tips to bear in mind if you’re setting the intention on your love potions. 

Contemplate maintaining your love intention extraordinarily normal. You could not need to concentrate on a selected individual, simply in case you uncover she or he is mistaken for you down the highway. I personally don’t prefer to restrict the methods the universe (or no matter energy you utilize in your witchcraft) can ship my end result. Generally magic will toss stuff manner higher than what you imagined at you!

Use intentions which are certain by time, reminiscent of a potion that’s efficient for one lunar cycle. That provides you extra management as a result of you may select to carry out the spell once more for the following lunar cycle to resume it. In the event you’re not pleased with the outcomes, you may let the magic run its course. 

You may need to carry out love magic with intentions that result in romantic conditions moderately than conjuring up love itself. You may make a potion to get somebody to think about you, a potion to get somebody to go on a date with you, or a potion to extend any romantic emotions which are already shared between the each of you.

In the event you’re able to make your individual love potions, learn on! Listed below are three love potion recipes which are protected, easy, and highly effective! 

Right here’s an astrological love potion that faucets into the immense energy of the celebs. It’s greatest used between two folks already in a relationship as a result of it’s designed to extend the love that already exists between the 2 of you.

You’ll have to know your lover’s start date since you’ll be working along with your lover’s solar signal. The energies within the sky are all the time shifting, so the timing of this potion is a very powerful half. 

Instructed Intention: “I name on the ability of the Solar, Moon, and stars. As my love and keenness for my companion will increase, my companion’s love and keenness for me matches that development.”

What You’ll Want:

Water

A glass jar with a lid

A rose quartz stone

A transparent quartz stone

Cinnamon stick

Search for what nights the moon will move by way of your lover’s solar signal. Mark these nights in your calendar. The moon will spend at the least a few nights in each zodiac signal over the course of a month, so you may maintain this potion spell going month after month if you happen to like. 

The day of your spell, fill a jar with water and set it exterior (or by a window to cost within the solar). As you do that, converse your intention to activate your potion. Use the intention supplied or create your individual!

Utilizing a cinnamon stick, draw the zodiac image of your lover’s solar signal within the water’s floor. (In the event you don’t know what the image seems like, you may look the image up on-line or write out your lover’s title as an alternative.) 

Place a transparent quartz crystal within the jar to amplify the love you’re sending out to your lover. 

Stir the potion eight instances going clockwise. Eight is a quantity related to the planet Venus and clockwise motion will give your potion “projective” vitality as you’re sending your rising love out to your companion.

That night, when the moon is passing by way of your lover’s solar signal, set the jar out beneath the moon. Take away the clear quartz crystal. Use the opposite finish of the cinnamon stick to attract the image of your individual solar signal into the floor of the water. (Once more, you may also use your title.)

Place a rose quartz crystal into the jar and stir the potion eight instances going counter-clockwise. This may can help you obtain all of the loving emotions of your companion. You’re attracting these emotions.

Repeat this course of with the solar and moon till the moon has moved out of your companion’s solar signal. 

Retailer the jar of potion beneath your mattress (or someplace romantic). The potion might be efficient till the following time the moon passes by way of your lover’s signal. 

This potion is ideal for single or hooked up witches alike! Use it to manifest the vitality of affection scenes out of your favourite e book. I really like this potion a lot as a result of I imagine life might be simply as romantic because the tales! 

What You’ll Want:

A web page with the phrases of your favourite love scene printed on it

Water

A small cauldron

Two tea lights

Matches or lighter

Rose petals

Lavender

2 bay leaves

An athame or one thing to stir your potion with

Jasmine incense (or incense sticks)

Collect up your components, and—as with all potions—be sure you have cleansed every part. 

Mild some jasmine incense and permit your entire magical instruments and components to move by way of the smoke. I discover this best to do with an incense stick, however you should use any type of incense. Jasmine is an herb related to romance and this course of will cost every part along with your intention. 

Fill a small cauldron with water. Mild two tea lights and slide them beneath your mini cauldron to warmth the water. Be sure you’re engaged on a warmth protected floor!

Learn aloud your romantic passage from the paper you’re utilizing. This may talk your intention to the universe (or no matter supply of energy). You’ll be able to both tear the web page out of a e book, photocopy the web page, or write out the passage by hand. 

Then add the components to your potion one after the other. Stir the potion any manner you want between components. Use your instinct when doing this. 

The rose petals and lavender are for love and keenness. The bay leaves symbolize needs which add whimsical vitality to this potion. 

As you’re combining your components, visualize the scene from the e book taking part in out in your thoughts’s eye—besides as an alternative of the fictional characters, substitute you and your lover. 

Whenever you really feel that “butterflies-in-the-stomach” feeling, you may transfer on to the final step. 

Fold the paper along with your story on it and submerge it beneath your water. Use your athame or no matter you used to stir your potion to do that as a result of the water will most likely be sizzling. 

After that, your spell has been solid and you’ll get rid of your potion. 

This indulgent potion makes use of the ability of tarot playing cards and crystals to make somebody consider you. It’s good for a night if you’re alone and within the temper for some romance. 

What You’ll Want:

Crimson juice (cranberry, pommegranate, or cherry juice are good choices)

Amethyst

Clear quartz

Rose quartz

A sprig of sage

Tarot Playing cards: Eight of Wands, Queen of Cups, and King of Cup

Pour your self a glass of your juice. Add your clear, polished crystals, amethyst to open the energetic channels between you and your individual, rose quartz to verify this individual thinks of you fondly, clear quartz to strengthen your spell so it reaches your individual.

Use your sprig of sage to stir your potion as your state your incantation and intention. Sage will assist you join psychically to this individual.

 “I drink this love potion made so superb,

and plant ideas in (individual’s title)’s head of my very own design.” 

Then state the ideas you’d like this individual to have utilizing the individual’s title reminiscent of, “Dan thinks about me and all of the enjoyable we had on our date final week.” You too can add a desired motion like, “Dan thinks of me fondly and sends me a textual content.”

As soon as your potion is activated, take away your crystals. 

Prepare your tarot playing cards in your desk in a triangle form. The King and Queen of Cup ought to be positioned upright leaning in direction of one another, representing you and your individual. (In the event you don’t really feel a powerful connection to the recommended playing cards, you may select no matter tarot playing cards greatest symbolize you and the individual you’re casting your potion spell on. Any playing cards from the cups swimsuit work effectively since cups are linked to relationships, and also you’re utilizing a cup on your potion. The Magician, the Emperor, the Excessive Priestess, and the Empress are highly effective selections as effectively.)

The Eight of Wands will add velocity to your spell. That card will go alongside the underside of the triangle, laying horizontally to attach the opposite two playing cards.

Place your glass within the heart of the triangle if you’re not holding it. Savor your drink and take into consideration your individual till your glass is empty. 

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Love potions are among the most coveted potions in witchcraft. Songs have been written about them. Whole film plots revolve round them. And a few corporations have even named merchandise after them! 

Potions are liquids which are used to solid spells. They’re typically meant to be drunk, however you should use them in your ritual tub, to anoint objects in your altar, to diffuse into the air, or to rub in your physique. Some potions are supposed to be made after which discarded for magical causes. In that case, all the spell was most likely solid through the potion-making course of.

You may make them with any type of liquid—ingesting water, juice, tea, and even issues like ocean water or morning dew. In the event you don’t thoughts being a bit unconventional, you may create potions from drinks like margaritas and cans of soda! Potion-making might be fairly experimental, so don’t be afraid to make up your individual recipes. 

Until you might have some type of allergy to any of the components, all of the potion recipes on this article are completely protected to make (though not all of them are meant for ingesting). 

In the event you make your individual potions, please make 100% positive you analysis your components—all of them! Herbs, oils, and crystals might be extraordinarily harmful when used improperly and might trigger bodily hurt or trigger injury to your magical instruments. Additionally, if you happen to’re searching round on-line for potion recipes, be sure you look into the security of all of these components as effectively! Simply because it’s on-line doesn’t imply it’s protected. 

Nonetheless, take care when selecting and crafting your potions and also you’ll possible discover them to be useful additions to your witchcraft. 

In the event you make a love potion aspiring to make somebody love you ceaselessly, you’ll run into some difficulties if you happen to ever resolve that you just need to finish that relationship. You don’t need to find yourself with a stalker. 

Listed below are some tips to bear in mind if you’re setting the intention on your love potions. 

Contemplate maintaining your love intention extraordinarily normal. You could not need to concentrate on a selected individual, simply in case you uncover she or he is mistaken for you down the highway. I personally don’t prefer to restrict the methods the universe (or no matter energy you utilize in your witchcraft) can ship my end result. Generally magic will toss stuff manner higher than what you imagined at you!

Use intentions which are certain by time, reminiscent of a potion that’s efficient for one lunar cycle. That provides you extra management as a result of you may select to carry out the spell once more for the following lunar cycle to resume it. In the event you’re not pleased with the outcomes, you may let the magic run its course. 

You may need to carry out love magic with intentions that result in romantic conditions moderately than conjuring up love itself. You may make a potion to get somebody to think about you, a potion to get somebody to go on a date with you, or a potion to extend any romantic emotions which are already shared between the each of you.

In the event you’re able to make your individual love potions, learn on! Listed below are three love potion recipes which are protected, easy, and highly effective! 

Right here’s an astrological love potion that faucets into the immense energy of the celebs. It’s greatest used between two folks already in a relationship as a result of it’s designed to extend the love that already exists between the 2 of you.

You’ll have to know your lover’s start date since you’ll be working along with your lover’s solar signal. The energies within the sky are all the time shifting, so the timing of this potion is a very powerful half. 

Instructed Intention: “I name on the ability of the Solar, Moon, and stars. As my love and keenness for my companion will increase, my companion’s love and keenness for me matches that development.”

What You’ll Want:

Water

A glass jar with a lid

A rose quartz stone

A transparent quartz stone

Cinnamon stick

Search for what nights the moon will move by way of your lover’s solar signal. Mark these nights in your calendar. The moon will spend at the least a few nights in each zodiac signal over the course of a month, so you may maintain this potion spell going month after month if you happen to like. 

The day of your spell, fill a jar with water and set it exterior (or by a window to cost within the solar). As you do that, converse your intention to activate your potion. Use the intention supplied or create your individual!

Utilizing a cinnamon stick, draw the zodiac image of your lover’s solar signal within the water’s floor. (In the event you don’t know what the image seems like, you may look the image up on-line or write out your lover’s title as an alternative.) 

Place a transparent quartz crystal within the jar to amplify the love you’re sending out to your lover. 

Stir the potion eight instances going clockwise. Eight is a quantity related to the planet Venus and clockwise motion will give your potion “projective” vitality as you’re sending your rising love out to your companion.

That night, when the moon is passing by way of your lover’s solar signal, set the jar out beneath the moon. Take away the clear quartz crystal. Use the opposite finish of the cinnamon stick to attract the image of your individual solar signal into the floor of the water. (Once more, you may also use your title.)

Place a rose quartz crystal into the jar and stir the potion eight instances going counter-clockwise. This may can help you obtain all of the loving emotions of your companion. You’re attracting these emotions.

Repeat this course of with the solar and moon till the moon has moved out of your companion’s solar signal. 

Retailer the jar of potion beneath your mattress (or someplace romantic). The potion might be efficient till the following time the moon passes by way of your lover’s signal. 

This potion is ideal for single or hooked up witches alike! Use it to manifest the vitality of affection scenes out of your favourite e book. I really like this potion a lot as a result of I imagine life might be simply as romantic because the tales! 

What You’ll Want:

A web page with the phrases of your favourite love scene printed on it

Water

A small cauldron

Two tea lights

Matches or lighter

Rose petals

Lavender

2 bay leaves

An athame or one thing to stir your potion with

Jasmine incense (or incense sticks)

Collect up your components, and—as with all potions—be sure you have cleansed every part. 

Mild some jasmine incense and permit your entire magical instruments and components to move by way of the smoke. I discover this best to do with an incense stick, however you should use any type of incense. Jasmine is an herb related to romance and this course of will cost every part along with your intention. 

Fill a small cauldron with water. Mild two tea lights and slide them beneath your mini cauldron to warmth the water. Be sure you’re engaged on a warmth protected floor!

Learn aloud your romantic passage from the paper you’re utilizing. This may talk your intention to the universe (or no matter supply of energy). You’ll be able to both tear the web page out of a e book, photocopy the web page, or write out the passage by hand. 

Then add the components to your potion one after the other. Stir the potion any manner you want between components. Use your instinct when doing this. 

The rose petals and lavender are for love and keenness. The bay leaves symbolize needs which add whimsical vitality to this potion. 

As you’re combining your components, visualize the scene from the e book taking part in out in your thoughts’s eye—besides as an alternative of the fictional characters, substitute you and your lover. 

Whenever you really feel that “butterflies-in-the-stomach” feeling, you may transfer on to the final step. 

Fold the paper along with your story on it and submerge it beneath your water. Use your athame or no matter you used to stir your potion to do that as a result of the water will most likely be sizzling. 

After that, your spell has been solid and you’ll get rid of your potion. 

This indulgent potion makes use of the ability of tarot playing cards and crystals to make somebody consider you. It’s good for a night if you’re alone and within the temper for some romance. 

What You’ll Want:

Crimson juice (cranberry, pommegranate, or cherry juice are good choices)

Amethyst

Clear quartz

Rose quartz

A sprig of sage

Tarot Playing cards: Eight of Wands, Queen of Cups, and King of Cup

Pour your self a glass of your juice. Add your clear, polished crystals, amethyst to open the energetic channels between you and your individual, rose quartz to verify this individual thinks of you fondly, clear quartz to strengthen your spell so it reaches your individual.

Use your sprig of sage to stir your potion as your state your incantation and intention. Sage will assist you join psychically to this individual.

 “I drink this love potion made so superb,

and plant ideas in (individual’s title)’s head of my very own design.” 

Then state the ideas you’d like this individual to have utilizing the individual’s title reminiscent of, “Dan thinks about me and all of the enjoyable we had on our date final week.” You too can add a desired motion like, “Dan thinks of me fondly and sends me a textual content.”

As soon as your potion is activated, take away your crystals. 

Prepare your tarot playing cards in your desk in a triangle form. The King and Queen of Cup ought to be positioned upright leaning in direction of one another, representing you and your individual. (In the event you don’t really feel a powerful connection to the recommended playing cards, you may select no matter tarot playing cards greatest symbolize you and the individual you’re casting your potion spell on. Any playing cards from the cups swimsuit work effectively since cups are linked to relationships, and also you’re utilizing a cup on your potion. The Magician, the Emperor, the Excessive Priestess, and the Empress are highly effective selections as effectively.)

The Eight of Wands will add velocity to your spell. That card will go alongside the underside of the triangle, laying horizontally to attach the opposite two playing cards.

Place your glass within the heart of the triangle if you’re not holding it. Savor your drink and take into consideration your individual till your glass is empty. 

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