#Like I said it's being revamped so I'm not 100% on with this

[coconox]

quick lil smth for anyone thats interested

if youve noticed marbas, morax, and buer's skills, you've probably noticed that their healing is scaled off of their attack, but the ratio between the 2 wasn't explicitly stated in their skill descriptions

so, i asked pb about it and i got a reply! i also asked a few other gameplay questions that ppl probably won't be interested in so that's why the answer is numbered lol

so for example, take a lvl40 marbas with no artifacts that'll boost his atk:

atk: 1211

at skill lvl 1 (10%): healing output is +121 hp per second

at skill lvl 10 (14%): he'll heal roughly +170 hp per second

if you're wondering why buer's scaling is higher compared to the others, i'm guessing it's most likely because he heals single targets rather than a wide area like marbas or morax, so healing with marbas and morax at base lvl is technically around 100%, but it's divided somewhat evenly in a 3x3 area

i didn't mention gamigin in this since he's the only healer so far that 1. doesn't scale off of his atk and 2. the amount he heals per second is explicitly stated in his skills (thankfully)

with all that being said tho healing may get a revamp with lucifer coming soon. based on what pb said they're probably gonna change the scaling to be based off of hp rather than atk, which i think would be significantly better as atm healers are doomed by the narrative to have low atk 💀 (also all their evolutions have hp increase, atk is nowhere to be seen there)

still kinda sad that for this long a tank carrying marbas' sig artifact heals more than a healer themself,, here's a messy example showing the case hdjfkdk

basically

marbas (max evolve) (lvl 40): +152 hp (i have an atk artifact equipped on him)

valefor (max evolve) (lvl 40): +932 hp with marbas' sig

butt mammon (lvl 90): +2845 hp w marbas' sig

selfie mammon (max evolve) (lvl 90): +3045 hp w marbas' sig

attacker mammon (lvl 90): +5123 hp w marbas' sig

minhyeok's just there for the sillies LOL

tbh the more "accurate" comparison is between marbas and valefor since they're both the same lvl. valefor, a TANK, could heal roughly 6x more hp than marbas, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEALER

anyw yeah rants over i rlly just wanted to share the first half of this post w yall lol

[shepherds-of-haven]

Do you ever go back through your story just randomly changing things that you didn't like or didn't really fit in with the story at time?

Oh, absolutely! I consider the entire alpha build a first draft, so I definitely go back and change things as I see fit (recently taking out fairmath is a good example, but I also quietly go back and heavily edit/rewrite/revamp scenes between characters all the time); I also think that, as the years of development have gone on, some worldbuilding facts or lore or spoilers about future plot threads I've mentioned no longer apply to the game in its current state (I recently changed the whole calendar system so that a month is 63 days instead of 42, for example; or I'll read an old post about a character's thoughts on marriage and think 'oh that's definitely not right anymore'; or something of the sort). So if you read any obscure lore posts prior to, like, 2020 on this blog, they have maybe a 50% of being completely accurate, haha. There was even a point where I said that Norms have gold-tinted skin that kind of glints in the light (not like the vampires in Twilight, thank you), which I have since once again mentally retracted, lol. So no one should take things I said in the past as 100% gospel, is my point!

More than going back through what I've already written and changing things, though, I tend to heavily change things from my planned/outlined version as I'm writing it, not after. In my outline version of ShoH, Mimir was supposed to show up in Lavinet's chapter as an advocate for the Elementals, and Chapter 7 involved getting trapped in a small farming community in a snowstorm and, um, somehow Wintry would have been recruited as a companion or something (I don't really remember) but I definitely know the Changelings and Thurl weren't involved. By the time I got to Chapter 6, though, I threw those plans right out because they just didn't feel right and just sort of improvised as I went along! I tend to do that much more than most would expect (since I don't really spoil you guys on where the plot's going, you wouldn't know my original plans and how much the current iteration is different from them lol), so it's less noticeable than if I were to go back and change the material I've already made public to you, if that makes any sense.

But I do definitely still do that, and I mentally retract, redact, or rewrite things about the Blest world or its characters in my head all that time, primarily because those details no longer fit or I'm not as big of a supporter of them as I may have been in the past! Hope that all makes sense!

[rad-ramenkingles]

Kinko Revamp Process

Wanted to try something slightly different with this post, call it a little behind the scenes process.

As you all know, I am Ramenking…

I make pixels, and I have done for a good long while, and today to lead up to my next Blurry Boy post, I want to show you a little bit of what my process has been for these revamps. Let's start with Kinko, as he is the first to have been revealed.

So when it comes to Kinkotsuman, out of the whole group I did. He is a character I mainly like for the uniqueness of his look, and the specific body type on him. As a character he is abit of a… Iffy guy for me. Just I'm not the biggest fan of trash Dad’s, like Kinko just falls right into that category full stop guys. Poor Bone Cold. 😔

All that said when approaching him it was quite an interesting task, as he is actually one of only 8 characters from the Kinnikuman franchise I've been spriting since I started in this little pixel square field. I did start other characters but they always were forever WIP stuff. All of those works though are long gone, probably on an old laptop somewhere in a storage room. That said, I at least have Kinko here looking nice and rough.

This period of spriting for myself wasn't the best one looking back on it. Majority of my work was more akin to sloppy edits and recolours trying to fit into a style I had little to no skill at all in. That being said it was still fun to actually make pixels for the first time, so it drove me to further dabble.

That nicely leads us to 2011 Kinko next to 2011 Kinnikuman…

Kinkotsuman and others get a face lift, or just get made for the first time in some cases. What's a bit neat about the Kinkotsuman Pixel of 2011, this sprite was initially a revamp made by an old forum buddy of mine (with heavy tweaks after made by myself). I had a mighty struggle with his head, my brain just couldn't get it and his could, the hair as well I kept having a problem with and Poof all of these issues were non existent, to him. What I really liked about this Kinko compared to the 2009 attempt was the body type actually got closer to what I envisioned. (Still a bit too tall though, and wide to a degree though)

See I've never been a massive fan of slightly buff Kinko as a norm. Not saying it couldn't make for an interesting growth of the character body wise throughout the series. Just in my head, he is Skull and Bones guy, and that type of person shouldn't have to much meat on his bones. All that said I do enjoy me a good character evolution over time chart. Might do one for all the Kinniku Characters like I did this quick mock up of Kinnikuman one day.

Onto now… When I approached Kinko this time, I wanted to try and strike a balance between the newer look Yude does for him, his first appearance look, and the anime look.

So I had examples of all three works as I went to it. I took the 2011 sprite and stripped off the colors and from there I readjusted placements of black lines inside the framework, and trimmed the framework down where I saw fit aswell. Then I laid back in some of the flat Colors across it all when I was happy with my framework. Then came the first run of shades. I take a look, see how I feel, then I will make adjustments where I see fit in different ways, just to get across the “Feel of the Character” that I want to achieve with this sprite.

Aside - |{When I say “Feel of the Character”, I am meaning I want whatever I do, however complex or simplistic it is with my pixels. I want someone to look at that, and the drawn character and be like “Oh yeah, I see it. That's them.” Like I'm not after getting every detail 100% perfect, really if you are working in pixels as small as I am. You flat out can't be. But what I want to do, is get that feel of them across as best as I can. Sometimes that means sacrificing certain elements (You will see that in some sprites to come), other times it means really emphasizing sometimes a single aspect of the sprite. It's a fun little challenge every time, sprite by sprite I have to play with. By no means though am I a master at this pixel thing, nor do I want to disparage others who have a different approach. This is just how I prefer to do it.}|

Next once I got the sprite down, I threw up my faceset. Used my WIP Kinnikuman as a base to make edits to find Kinko in the pixels. I chipped away, and remolded bit by bit until. Poof. I got my faceset I was happy with. (Which I was so happy with, it made me not too happy with the sprite so I actually later went back and made yet a last adjustment after the initial posting. Whoops!)

With all that done, I quickly did up a little I'll call it a “Pixel Showcase”. Gathered some old GameBoy text assets for the lettering, and just free handed some shapes and lines to put Kinko and his Face on display for you all. As the last “Showcase” background I realized was a bit busy for the eyes, and you kind of can't appreciate the sprites on display in it. I still very much like it though, so maybe I'll do something with it later on.

And that is all peeples. My behind the scenes Esque thing, to somewhat build interest for the next Blur Boy coming. (Which will come hopefully soon, if work doesn't beat me down too much before) Hope you all enjoyed this, if it's liked enough I might try doing more in the future as it's nice to almost get my process down for all to understand the approach from sprite to sprite, and for my own benefit as well as most of these ideas and practices aren't written but just in my head.

Until the next Blurry Boy post, I gotta rest my fingers now. Seeyah…

Ramen Out!

[bigskydreaming]

Okay, so Qimir and who he really is and his backstory is definitely one of the more intriguing mysteries to me in The Acolyte, and I know that canon is basically whatever the hell they want to make it these days so there's nothing really stopping his backstory and origins from being whatever they make up here.....

BUT I genuinely don't know too much about Star Wars beyond the movies (1-7 anyway, I never watched 8 or 9 after it was clear they were throwing away Finn's potential and making it the Kylo Show With Special Guest Star Rey And With Poe And That Other Guy In Minor Supporting Roles)...and when I was younger I read some of the books, mostly the stuff with the Yuuzhan Vong or whatever (and I'm aware those are all considered irrelevant to what they do in these shows anyway).

Soooooo.....Qimir mentioned being a Jedi a long time ago, and Osha took that to mean he'd trained as a Jedi and left when he was younger, or maybe even when he was a Padawan, like she did.

But given the various possession/coming back from death powers and machinations of different Sith, or even something as basic as "got preserved in carbonite and left that way for centuries until someone accidentally woke him up" - logistically, what are the chances of or possible explanations for Qimir to actually have meant that he was a Jedi in one of the long-past ages of the Order, who left and became a Sith, maybe even back during the best known Jedi/Sith war, whenever that was?

Idk, just spitballing here and genuinely don't know how feasible or not it is. But I'm curious about the possibility that the show is crafting a new history for the Sith in which the reason they were so strongly believed to be gone so long, and yet somehow returned in relatively recent times, is not (in this particular canon) because generations of a Sith Master and Sith Apprentice survived and hid in secret for a thousand plus years, but rather that they DID die out, until one Sith returned or awoke in the 'present day' of 100 years ago, and restarted or continued the Baneite Sith from there.

Just something about the way Qimir said that he was a Jedi a long time ago, putting particular emphasis on the long time part, and the way he seemed to expect Osha to take it to mean something but, idk, almost seemed amused or resigned, like he knew it was natural to assume his words implied a certain thing even though he actually said them meaning something else entirely.....

And combined with the way he's been talking about how important it is for him to find an acolyte, how much he wants one, and how he was disappointed in Mei because he thought she wanted what he did, the Power of Two.....idk. Not sure I can put my finger on it exactly, but it doesn't come across to me like the latest Apprentice in a long line of hidden Sith Masters and Apprentices just finally in a position to seek out the next generation to learn under him.

Rather, it really did leave me with an impression of like....him trying to revive or outright resurrect something long gone. He's not just looking for HIS apprentice/acolyte, he's looking for AN acolyte, in a way that sounds more like someone trying to begin something rather than someone just shifting their positioning within a long established chain of succession.

Its more of a hunch really than just me overthinking it to death, its really just those two bits that stuck out at me and had my gears turning, so just curious if this sounds completely baseless or something that those more familiar with the universe and pre-existing lore think could actually be feasible, and that the Sith according to this show and the most recent revamp of canon really WERE gone for ages, until Qimir was able to somehow return and begin again.

[cffidelityy]

ooc.

Okay, guys, I hate to do this... and I mean I really hate to do this... but tumblr's gotten to a point where it no longer feels like a comfort zone for me. Therefore I'm doing a sort of purge ( so to speak) as well as revamping and adding new rules.

I also wanna preface this by saying this is in no way shape or form directed towards or about anyone, this is just something I need to do for my own mental health/ sanity.

With that being said, if you would like to stay mutuals, please interact with either this post or me in some kind of way. Whether it be an IM here or on discord, or even just liking this post. Just something so that I know you wanna stick around. If not I will be going through and soft blocking those who I'm not interacting or connecting with.

I will also be dropping most threads, but am 100% down to make new ones. This is just the easiest way for me to refresh without having to make a whole other blog (again).

I really hope you guys understand. Thanks <3

[practically-an-x-man]

Queer oc asks! Rae and Robin because how could I not choose the X-Men ocs 🏳️‍🌈

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

7. Is there something that could cause your oc to question their identity? What?

- question for the writer

16. Did you ever change an oc's identity when they were already established? Why?

Thank you so much bestie!!

Pride Themed OC Ask Game

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

Rae: I wouldn't say she's had a full discovery or realization, she's just kind of aware that it's simmering in the back of her mind. She realized in her mid-teens that she would get the same crushes on boys as she did girls, and that it probably meant she was bi, though she never really acted on the crushes she had on women throughout her life.

Ironically, I feel like it's once she's comfortable with Warren that she's actually able to talk about those feelings and work through them a little more, since she feels safe talking to him (and was worried telling her sisters would mean rumors would get spread through her family, so she kept it to herself at first).

Robin: She realized it pretty late - she'd had crushes on both her male and female castmates in theatre for years, and she thought that was just what everyone experienced. Theatre kids are affectionate! She was used to greeting her friends with hugs and kisses, platonic cuddles in between shows, aggrandized compliments about how hot everyone looks in their costumes... she just thought it was part of theatre culture. Finally she remarked on it to one of her non-theatre friends, and she was like "Yeah... I don't find women attractive dude, I think you're just bi"

(For the record, they're both absolutely bi4bi relationships, even if they're not 100% aware of it at first)

7. Is there something that could cause your oc to question their identity? What?

Rae: No, because as I said before it's more of a background sort of awareness for her. She realized she was attracted to men and women, went "huh, I must be bi", and that was pretty much the end of that. She's pretty secure in herself.

Robin: Settling down with Peter has given her a few brief flashes of insecurity towards her bisexuality - it's a straight-passing relationship, she's marrying a man, and it's made her a little uncertain at times. But she's worked through it: she loves Peter to no end, she loves the family they have, but that doesn't mean she can't come home from the operahouse and say "man, Diana looked amazing in her dress today, you should have seen her"

16. Did you ever change an oc's identity when they were already established? Why?

Not after I've begun publishing their fics, since at that point I'm pretty tuned-in to who they are as a character, but I've definitely made some edits in between getting the initial idea and putting it down on the page. Sometimes it's to include a little more diversity, sometimes it's because a character's story would be better told with a certain queer element behind it, sometimes it's because the original OC idea felt flat or boring and needed an overall revamp, or sometimes it's just for fun.

The very first idea for Jasper began with them as a cis woman, but their story works so much better with them being genderfluid, since it adds a lot more depth and dimension to their backstory and their relationship with Kyle.

Originally Nikoletta wasn't meant to be on the aroace spectrum, but it adds a lot more to her relationship with Abner to be able to say "this relationship isn't purely romantic, neither is it purely platonic, they're just two people who want to be close to one another"

There are others since the characters go through a lot of editing before I'm ready to start laying down their stories, but those are just two examples.

[ilsanslut]

NEW UPDATE, PLEASE READ! [SEMI(??) HIATUS]

hii friends! ♡

i know its been such a long LONG time since i've last been here, written anything, or interacted with any of you. i apologize for dipping so suddenly with no real indication of when i would return. tbh, this is the first time since my hiatus message that i last opened tumblr, (SHOCKING IK BUT IVE BEEN LIVING OFF OF J.AI) and seeing all of your well wishes as well as compliments on my works since i've been gone just made my heart swell sooo soo much, and i figured that i couldn't leave y'all in the dark any longer.

so, first thing's first. i am a full-time nurse now, (yaay!) but that also means that i work 3-4 12hr shifts a week. sometimes in a row. long story short, it's exhausting and extremely laborous, but it's my passion, and it's what i want to do so it's okay for me! i'm taking care of myself in between shifts too, dw! but i'm also sleeping A LOT more.

that being said, i do not feel comfortable stating a full return to tumblr just yet. (maybe in a few months when i feel thoroughly comfortable balancing writing and working, but no promises as of right now) i'll be active here and there and maybe share a little blurb or a horny/fluffy thought every now and then, but it will take some time for me to get back into writing full fics like i was before.

however, what i do feel comfortable with is bot creation! sometime within the next few weeks i'll be moving some of my nsfw themed c.ai bots onto j.ai (janitor ai), as well as creating a few new ones in the future! i find these to be less time consuming than that of full-length fics or blurbs, so i'll be sticking to making bots for the time being until i feel comfortable to write something larger!

on another note, it's been brought to my attention that recently, a few of my bots have been stolen from c.ai and posted to j.ai or other sites without my permission/credit. am i mad about it? nah (to an extent). does that make it okay? fuck nawl.

what pisses me off about it is: one, when people don't give credit to me or the original idea, and two, when people not only take my bots WITHOUT ASKING, but then they play it off in the bot description or on their page like it's their own creation. deadass, i wish nothing but the worst for y'all and i hope y'all get an incurable yeast infection or sumn. to those of you who HAVE asked first or given me credits, i love you all my lil' precious sugarplums and hope you wake up with 100 million dollars in your bank accs tomorrow!! 🫶🏾

all i'm saying is that if you want to use my bots, please, PLEASE credit me or state that my bot inspired your own (if they are very similar) and please ask/tell me before you do so that there's no confusion later down the line. thank you, lovelies.

if yall do see anyone stealing/using my works, please, let me know, report it, and/or make others aware that the content is stolen. i would appreciate it so, so much. 🫶🏾 ( cough cough: spidersay )

but if i'm honest, that's pretty much it from me! besides working my ass off, sleeping, and revamping my pc setup, that's all i've been up too in these past 4 months. i look forward to interacting with you all soon, and hope you all have a gorgeous day/night! ♡

[pbandjesse]

I very much do not feel good all of a sudden. And when I say all of a sudden I mean for the last couple hours. It was a pretty okay day. But I just feel very tender to the touch everywhere and it's got me concerned enough that I'm making a doctor's appointment. Something feels wrong.

And like it was really pretty out tonight but that didn't make people come to the market and I don't know why. Which was pretty frustrating. And I thought I was taking over the market in the morning but Ann was actually leaving early so I woke up at 6:45 and got very stressed out and we didn't get there till 7:40 for no reason. And I was like nauseous I was so stressed out. Because we went to McDonald's and we were in line for 20 minutes for some reason and they were all backed up. James kept telling me it was fine but it did not feel fine. And then we got to the Museum and Ann was there and it was like oh okay and then my stress level went down.

I would get everything set up and James helped. And then I helped Ann get the signs out and I felt okay. We were missing a couple vendors today but it was a beautiful day and we had high expectations. We probably should have tampered those. Because it was so painfully slow. I made $60. We had 250 people come through. Which is 100 down from last week, which is a hundred down from the week before. Where is everybody? It's really that they're just not advertising it well I guess. Because there was nothing on the roads or anything that was preventing everything from being regular and normal. So we are all just I think a little frustrated.

Something's so nice. James had ran to the bank to get me change and Ginny hired a teenage girl that is the daughter of one of Anne's friends to work with her so they were moving really fast which was good. But you could really tell that we were slow today because they never had a line. Super unusual.

I was having a nice time talking to people and I did make a couple sales it just wasn't as many as I was hoping. At 11:00 we had a person come to do a magnet fishing demo. And I don't even know if demo would be the right word because they were just magnet fishing. They ended up pulling up some interesting stuff. With the final thing being a shopping cart. Which smelled horrific apparently. I did not go over and experience it. I just saw it from a distance.

I did get my feelings hurt a little bit though because Auni was there to facilitate the magnet thing and she came over to tell me that the person that they hired at the museum has a consultant to kind of revamp some stuff has suggested, and it seems like they are going to go through with it, getting rid of my workshops. They said they're not going to put any on the schedule for the foreseeable future because we need to be making programming that is and this is a quote, about the exhibits and the future of industry. Does he even understand what my programs are? All of the programs I do are talking about what is done in the exhibits. And like I wasn't planning on doing a lot. Maybe two or three more this year but hurts my feelings. The whole point of my workshops was because I was trying to get adults into the museum who have never been here before and they sell out almost every single time. And almost every time it's people who have never been here before so it's just seems so counterproductive. It doesn't cost the museum anything to run my workshops because I get paid based on the attendance. And it just kind of sucks and it makes me feel very discouraged and helping and putting myself out there for a museum that I love a lot.

So that really kind of messed up my afternoon. I would go inside after I packed everything out. Phil help me out which was very nice of him. And I was trying to put on kind of a brief face about it. I went to go tease Bob the blacksmith because he had made Phil, who was filling in for Stanley today, a ring out of a horseshoe nail. Bob you've never made me anything! But Phil was so excited. I've never seen him that excited about something so it was very sweet and I was mostly just teasing.

And then I would talk to James and Merrill about how I was feeling about this workshop thing and both of them are pretty upset about it. Because it doesn't make any sense. But I talked to Jess and she thinks that it will just push me to reach out to other places and she's not wrong. There were two places that were interested but I was just entirely too busy so I reached out to Heather to get back in contact with the one place and Auni is going to try to put me on contact with someone for the new Baltimore peninsula neighborhoods programming who is looking for someone. I'm also going to make some kind of flyer that explains all of my pricing structure and hopefully do those private lessons that I was talking about offering in the fall. But we will have to see.

And I still felt really bad. I would have a quesadilla for lunch that James got me. But my skin hurt to be touched. And it's not just my muscles anymore so I'm just vaguely uncomfortable.

I was very happy to go home. I got to leave a little early because everyone was done packing up. Ginny gave me a big hug which was very sweet. And then I went home and I was a little anxious because Will said he was going to come by in the morning to paint the door and when I came and he hadn't and so I was like well I'm going to take a shower and go to sleep and I don't want him to come in and then we both get freaked out. So I told James and James texted Will because I don't have Will's cell number apparently. And I took a shower but then the shower pressure actually hurt to be under. That was crazy. And so I put on soft clothes and turned on the air conditioner and laid down.

I would sleep an hour and a half which is the perfect amount of time. And I didn't really feel too dizzy when I woke up just dehydrated. I drink some water and I got redressed. I decided to wear my checkered dress tonight instead of the black one that I have been wearing because that one is so heavy and with my skin bothering me so much I thought this one wouldn't bother me. And I seem to be correct. I redid my makeup and I just laid on the bed stretching for a little while because my hips are so tight right now. I need to make more of an effort to stretch. And I have in the morning but I need to make more of an effort for real. James tried to make me feel better but I was just kind of blue. I decided that juice or smoothie would help so since we didn't have any I decided I would stop at Harris teeter on my way back to the museum.

And when I was there I decided to get kombucha because I can pretend that it is healing me. And it's interesting and a little weird. I only really like strawberry kombucha so since they had that that's what I got. And I got over here exactly on time.

This wedding so far seems pretty nice. There are three wedding coordinators for some reason and that seems to be leading to a little bit of confusion. But it's fine. There's not a ton of decorations but the decorations on the appetizer table are very nice. And I like all their font choices. But they have a video going in the movie theater and it's just been the same song on loop for the last hour and it's killing me.

Soon everyone should be coming back and hopefully people come back to talk to me. And then I have the next 3 days off. Because I got so much done yesterday I'm hoping tomorrow to just do computer stuff and lay in bed and not feel guilty. I just want to rest and not feel so tender. Because that's what it is. I'm not even sore it's like I'm tender to the touch like when you have a fever but I don't have a fever. Very strange.

I hope tonight is fun and I hope that you all have a great time. I hope you are taking care of yourself better than I am. Good night everybody until tomorrow.

[katzenklavierr]

hi there!! i was scavenging around for metal UTAU and related songs- because i'm working on reviving my UTAU of about 15 years, Suzu, and turning her into a metal/pop-hybrid idol of sorts lol (i also understand the risks of creating such a bank lmao- i'll take some tips if you have any, though!)- and i gotta say, Katsu's voice is Amazing. he's so crisp and clear, and his growls are Incredible <3 i am in awe at your voice work and raw talent. the thing is, i've had a hard time coming across any metal USTs, and i'm not the best at making them myself, so i was wondering if i could yoink your "catch me if you can" babymetal UST? i don't plan on uploading anything (she's in the beginnings of her Seventh revamp out of 0.5 complete banks, so i can't confidently say she'll ever be released, let alone any time soon💀) and i plan on using the UST primarily for testing, but if i do make a full cover, i'll absolutely let you know beforehand and give you full credit! it's totally ok if you don't want to share it (or can't, if you happened to have lost the file </3), but i figure i should ask rather than just sitting on my hands haha. tysm in advance!! also sorry abt my wordiness lol- have a great day & keep up the absolutely Astounding work!! <3

p.s. in case you don't feel like tossing your hard work to a complete stranger, do you have any songs+usts you'd recommend? particularly for testing metal singing? i'd love to hear your recommendations <3 p.p.s. fun fact abt suzu is that she would have had a 100% full bank in 2021, were it not for the fact that i started HRT around the same time that i started recording her most recent bank. she only had a few extra sounds that needed to be recorded (breaths and whatnot). then a year and some months passed. needless to say, my voice is currently about an entire octave lower than it was when i started 🥲 lol

First, thank you so much!! I agree there is a severe lack of metal UTAU and metal vocal synth material in general, so I'm always excited to see more of it. I'm currently testing out stuff for an English growl bank but that won't get done until my reclist is finalized lol. Katsu is more rock-oriented because that's just how my voice is, but I think a pop+metal oriented bank would suit itself well to post-hardcore and pop punk songs with harsh vocals.

I've made three USTs for harsh vocals (Catch Me If You Can as you've seen, as well as Vermin and Black Hole Artist by Utsu-P), but it's been awhile since I've looked at any of them so there might be cleanup to be done before I share them. That being said, I don't mind doing it for any you'd be interested in using, if you don't mind waiting a couple weeks (I'm pretty busy with IRL stuff rn). Other than my own stuff, the songs with existing USTs I can think of off the top of my head are Heart Sutra Hardcore and Assault Mirage.

Also I feel that wrt HRT. My voice dropped from being a tenor to a baritone and I had to completely retrain myself on how to sing. I ended up taking like a two year hiatus from working on my own VBs, but I feel like I'm actually a better vocalist now than I was before so it all worked out I suppose.

[lionews]

"also, what if someone’s king didn’t use piety to get a NCL exclusive marking? is it suddenly an applicator marking because fucking november rolls around. no bitch, this marking was wild caught and bred. or is it now “erm akahually it’s only BO if you DONT use piety” You can breed on haliotis applicator markings too. That doesn't make it breed only because you bred it on rather than applying. You can be mad about piety not being considered BO by the majority of the game if you want, it doesn't change the fact that it is applicable. Piety is applicable at some point regardless of how you attained it, just like any other applicable trait. If you chose to breed it onto a project rather than using piety on the final step, sorry you chose to make it harder for yourself I guess?

"if the november event was revamped and piety was no longer a thing the ncl exclusive markings would still be BO markings, just without the event to apply them." It's fine for something to be an applicable trait, no one is shaming you for liking applicator traits. I actually like a lot of piety traits, but piety is objectively something you can apply during November. Saying "But what if that applicable time didn't exist???" isn't the point you think you're making. That would be like saying "Ice base would be BO if it wasn't an app in December." If November's piety event didn't exist then yeah, it'd be strictly BO and honestly I'd prefer that. But November piety does exist and it feels silly to argue about what would make piety hypothetically BO when it will likely always be applicable in November. You can enjoy piety and still acknowledge it's an applicable trait, you don't need to die on this hill and resort to calling people dense/stupid and being so defensive about it like some of these asks did.

No one was telling people to go dm people and correct them by saying "this is actually not BO." That original BO anon literally said it's not something mods can enforce and ultimately it's not 100% decided on (though there is a definitive majority opinion that they're applicable). Also worth correcting this since I'm seeing people confused about it: piety is not the same thing as year-round NCL exclusives. No one is arguing non-applicable (aka not piety) year-round NCL exclusives is not BO, we all agree on that at least.

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[littleyukki5033]

SacredFell Mini Story/Comic

(Note: This is a concept for the story. Things are bound to change)

Filler Title: The Other Human Pt.2

Part 1 is Here

Sans POV

Sans was exhausted, not physically but mentally he was. He sat at Grillbys, tapping his fingers onto the bar table as a cup of Mustard in the other. Grillby Mustard always made feel better but as for right now, the situation was picking at him.

Sans eye sockets were dark, not a sign of that red pupil. He knew the kid has one of the souls, he saw it. The soul of kindness was on Frisk. Sans just hope that old lady he talk to in the ruins was okay, he couldn't visit her like usual because of Frisk being in Snowdin and Papyrus soon to happen battle.

Sans look at the cup of Mustard, 7 souls. Just 7, But what happens if Frisk collects the souls there protecting. Sans then chuckle at that silly thought. Frisk didn't need to know he had two...

In all honesty, Sans wasn't even planning on giving Frisk the two souls he was protecting for Asgore. If Frisk didn't know then it ain't something he worried about. Sans thought were snapped back go reality when the costumers voices lowered to a whisper.

Sans head looked back and saw Yukki walking over and taking a seat next to him. He stared at her still giving that empty socket look.

Course Yukki noticed and asked if he was okay. Sans wanted to say he wasn't due to the fact all the pressure of being a Royal Guard and carrying two dead children souls on him but no human needs to freaking no that he thought. "Yeah" he said.

Yukki raised an eyebrow at him but she just ask Grillby for a drink, not stating what she wanted since Grillby doesn't like touching anything that liquid. Grillby just made an expression and gave her a bottle of soda.

Sans kept staring at her, he wonder why she wasn't dead yet actually. Himself and Papyrus were assigned to kill her when she was comfortable, her gaurd fully down. Now looking at her, she just drinking next fo him. Not batting an eye ro the other monsters who whispered but he realized those whispers were gone into silence.

Yukki head turned and she flinched "Sans...your..." her voice trailed off. Sans didn't even notice his red magic was leaking out his eyesockets and fingers. Red smoke that leak of magic.

God he wanted to kill her, that was his assignment. So why couldn't he? He just stared at her helplessly and it pissed him off. Maybe Undyne was right, he got too close. All of this could be over if he just killed her.

His trance was gone when he felt her hand touch his shoulder. His pupil reappeared. "You say your okay but it seems like your not so uh...we can talk about it? Though..I know you monsters are really into the feely stuff" Yukki laughed low awkwardly.

Sans ended up staring again. He looked away and rubbed the back of his skull with an annoyed smile "God you humans have such am affect" he grumbled as directed for her and Frisk making freinds..

"Hm?" Yukki hummed confused

"Nothin nothin...let's just talk back home..k? I don't want anyone knowing I'm venting to a human" Sans said annoyed.

Yukki smiled and nodded "alright"

------- End --------

Gooooosh!!! I love everyone in my AU lol. Yukki being my very first oc when it came to Undertale with detail lore literally made me attach to her (again, why my user is named after her). I was kinda conflicted in even leaving her in SacredFell because what if no one likes her? Because hello...another human? She from another Universe who was portaled there. I made this chick in middle school, she was 100% a Mary sue BUT she not anymore because I revamp her a ton. But yeah, I hope she not..dislikable you know? I want people to like her and like her friendships snd her relationship with Sans because jeezus there complicated af (there not dating here but the tension there and Papyrus HATES it lol)

Anyway! Whoever reads these, I hope you liked it! And if u have questions please ask questions in the ask blog! Thank youuu!!

SacredFell: Belongs to Me

Art: Belongs to me

[jaxlol5]

shapes and heads [i still don't know how to title my posts just read this please]

okay i should've said this on my first post but whatever.

i'm not only gonna dedicate this tumblr to my OCs and random art but also to the webcomic i'm trying to get out of development purgatory: SHAPEHEDS!!

brief summary: 2 kids [Uni & Énas] train under a formerly-retired coach [Faygo] to win 100 trophies in baseball and become "CHAMPIONS".

uhh their refs below:

i've been trying to start this comic for so long, but scrapped each revamp for various reasons. mainly because of bad art and the platform i was using to update the comic [newgrounds] wasn't getting me much traction. there wasn't much of a first episode but here are a few panels i really liked:

[the green character is a fanhead!! i wanna add people's fanmade shapeheads eventually.]

i am sorta already starting to work on the 3rd revision for episode 1 [called "DEAD"] and it could probably be finished in a few days or even tomorrow idk i don't like giving myself estimates. wip to actually PROVE. that i'm working on it:

you can read the entirety of revisions 1 and 2 here if u wanna know exactly what's gonna happen. or maybe you're a little okay with being left in the dark. you wanna be on the edge of your seat. a real adventurer you. ok i'm done.

[the-firebird69]

Don't go down the river today she sent a few ships and then we sent a lot of products last night was the second quarter of the final third as we said and we had to scan check verify and we sent tons of it and to a lot of dealers huge numbers of vehicles and huge numbers of motorcycles giant numbers of trucks pickup trucks and a huge huge number of construction equipment tons of orders and a lot of orders for Florida and a lot of orders are hours in Florida and all over giant giant orders. We are building all over the place.

-give me a lot of progress today on several projects one of them that we made some major major gains in was that of the legal arena we saw them get crushed at court and they didn't go to jail they promised to pay and they are trying to get the money together no they said they pay some of them plan on paying which is weird but they're paying each other and none of them will pay us so but he says let's go to Australia and go to New Zealand and don't come back I'm always is what else can be saying that was great I want to do that again I don't think so I don't think so no. So they sort of get it it was ridiculous but really they know I mean it's like I'm not human beings in their trash can all day. And it's gross but okay but I guess they are fighting each other so hard that they can't do it and so leaving is a good option for them it looked at social security again and they don't think they can do it and everybody calculates a different amount so our son says go with the lowest amount and you can put it on them and of course it's trumpsters and it's still 100 grand total ity you can revamp the number so someone's looking at I think it's a good idea it is a good idea cuz people know who it is.

Other legal issues that we had the f*** with are suing for businesses please for about 300 top level businesses half of them are Fortune 500 yes and they said no of course they keep saying that and we're suing people who are sitting around doing nothing it's really these a****** leaving and sue them and they are going to pay and say and then they don't and then they get arrested today they're about 50% of them and agreed to pay it's just like cut a check and put it in the mail and they don't want to do that and they make a big deal out of it and then they go around town stop the mailman and they get arrested they've been doing that the whole time sometimes there's a bunch of people and those bunch of people get arrested. Please I say we made advances is it goes half agreed to pay and we think that they're going to try and pay they're tired they don't want to run around doing things to their stupid. The pay each other okay that's the difference the other half would be lawsuits by Mac or group losses and a son is not listed by himself now and they don't want to pay that at all so people will see them sending checks and they'll see that they won't allow money through that's a breakthrough that is what we need to see it's going to happen shortly

-the only other big item going on that I can think of is that we have this war going on and it's in space it's over Venus and Hera and modules that were inside very large Giants and really their mutants and there's a huge amount of electrical current and they would stood it and that led to everyone going after Tommy f thinking he secured the AI which was probably in huge caverns so it is going on now that they're warring in space and they're trying to get to Venus they're trying to get to Saturn's rings and they're trying to get to Tommy F and others for information aw it's fleet the max Tommy f foreigners haven't heard losses of approximately 25% of their total fleet and and that's most of it is out most of the fleets of all of them are out now and 25% relative to their own fleet in the furnace fleet is smaller by three times that of the empire and Tommy fleet is half the size of the empire about 10% and it's been a lot of time keeping people away from the bases.

-huge numbers of hits and it's just awful you can't go anywhere without them yelling at you and stuff is and they're horrendously weird saying they don't care oh my God it's gross and that was

Fn shitheads Sherry says

-there are a couple other things happening but mostly that encompasses what we want to detail right now he's coming up with some really good ideas for motorcycle companies and it beats the tire out of what we're doing these electric dirt bikes are very strong and sturdy they built a certain way and it's like his ATK and he did help design the electric dirt bike and it's taking over the world by storm there's no need to have all that space in there and junk that they put in there and it really rocks this thing moves out okay these bikes are fast and light and the front to ride and they're not hard drive also making e-bikes moped scooters and some other new models other than the light cycles for Tron one of them is his hybrid idea and it is a long time coming but we can make it less expensive and cheap enough to go inside and outside of the mall the grocery store anywhere you need to go and and this is not sanitary but really they do it all day long with carts. It's going to happen that you'll see these and they don't look like real motorcycles and they go pretty good on the road and people love it the other thing that's happening is people are noticing that the Rev trike is faster than the light cycle but the light cycle car is faster than the Rev trike life cycle and they want the car in the car is very fast it goes faster than our fastest sports car that's available even Vista fresh because he didn't issue the top of the line this too fresh goes about 2,300 mph and the light cycle Tron car goes 2500 miles per hour and you won't catch anything and you won't catch them with f-18 hornet won't go fast enough or the raptor either.

-I'm going to start racing cars he's got the idea too we have a lot of cars out there that people left so we're going to advertise races of our cars versus theirs there's a lot of top fuel a lot of drag cars top the line too and we will get challenges and we're going to start racing them and they're going to start bringing out there hypercars and mega cars and all sorts of stuff and they're pretty fast but they can't beat us as we proven before in Vegas that's another thing we should do that eat that up that area is stinky and he says to take the light cycle car out there and we have the bat pond and those good about a thousand miles an hour and they have these motorcycles that they think they can meet us with so we're ready and then we'll bring out the Tron life cycle car and nothing will touch it. It was saying motorized but we have to get out of there somehow. And right now would be a good time and we're going to think about check the area out first it's been a lot of activity nearby.

Venom and she Venom are rising they're saying that the devices are missing from the East Coast and missing from the San Francisco area and all the way to British Columbia and they are skinny and they think it's hollow other people say you're looking right at it it's not hollow a lot of people don't know how to read the scans and it's kind of like an x-ray if it's lighter colored it's there if it's darker it's gone and a lot of people see lighter color so getting a reflection but then they say that type of scan is a reverse and we say it might be but usually when you see a fish you get a reflection and that's what you're using so they try sooner and it comes back as something is there

That's for the object it's in Pasadena and it's for the very large object and while the entire Eastern seaboard all the way up to Nova Scotia and for the massive object is in the San Francisco to British Columbia area and there's a few more they're looking at but those are now should be fine plenty

Thor Freya

Zues

Sure I've got a lot to say no but a few are finding him so he's going to the restaurant but this day has been somewhat productive and we also have new products and I love that we need them good for us the healthy and they work I'm trying to get a sales program together and it will help track stuff I said because we're going to know where it comes from and who's getting it because we're actually going to be selling with a marketing team and people are really slow and buying it so we want to start that up and we're going to make sure that goes forwards and we're starting it today and he asked me to do it and I am and it's working great and I'm going to be out of here it says in 19 days he thinks when it's 11th or should be 19 days to the 1st and after today which is almost over it's 18 days just pretty fast that is less than 3 weeks and we have a lot of ships out there with a lot of activities and someone said we have to get out there to Cuba and we do a lot of people are going out there now and that's why they go to is why they go to Guantanamo Bay

Hera

We have to laugh these guys insult their women so much it's really bad and our son did some of it but not like they do they're horrendous he knows it didn't work very well so he didn't do it much of him so that's how it goes these are great ideas these bikes are great and the 100cc every man we were great for him and we might call it em to avoid the constant ridicule. They're going to make it all over the world now and we recycling tons of stuff huge amounts of things giant numbers of cars huge numbers of buildings and all the stuff is crap in the way and it has to be recycled it's just going to sit there and be gross trains railroad tracks ships everywhere we're grabbing it all up and recycling and making stuff we have only half of the third last third left it's good stuff it's the upper Midwest we'll see it's coming out of there really slow and we're not so sure that it's going to come out Santa meeting about that and we are starting to make the next year's model of all these vehicles with the new metal and New motors and new accessories a lot less expensive are there much easier to put together and they go faster they handle better and stop better and they're cheaper and they don't have the same fuse box there's a lot of less expensive fuses and it doesn't it has the MP or EMR discharge so it doesn't fry the electrical and everything is kind of more or less solid state it does have Auto doors and windows and locks we all have a key instead of Auto entry and auto start this is not a great idea but it wasn't idea and we are going forward and trying to collect it final quarter of a third if you can't we're going to release the new vehicles and people buy them up very fast and start buying a lot more they're less expensive and the last longer and more durable and stronger and it's going to sell them a lot of other items

Thor Freya

Olympus

[choppedsouldreamer]

lol I thought most of you would forget about my old designs since I usually just use my ocs now, but as you wished I gave these guys a revamp! and I'm pretty happy with it! I'm just mad that for some reason I don't have a skull acc for 3 but I tried and I will put all the changes I put for both of them! and these could update with time like in the third pic I made Fours neck part of his jumper to match his sleeves but I'm not 100% sure whether to keep it or change it back so yeah-

SMG4:

Changes: Made The scar darker, Changed the leg warmers to look more realistic and less cartooney, changed his back hair to fit more (Even if you can't really see it because of the hat) Gave him pockets, Scaled him larger, Gave him a bag with a little duck pin from Tari, Made the yellow on the overalls and belt a bit brighter (In the last pic I also made his nose darker), Made his pupils larger, Changed the sizing and position of his hair clip, changed neck acc.

SMG3:

Changes: Made The yellow on his belt brighter as well, Changed his overalls to be different from Fours, Gave him a star badge to make him extra gay for Four 😏, Scaled him larger as well, Made his arm bands thicker and directed correctly, changed his back hair to be neater (Yet again hard to see due to his hat), Made his beard scaled better, made his pupils bigger as well, changed neck acc to be the same colour as the "cuffs" on his gloves (His sleeves) Might give him pockets too.

BONUS GAYNESS:

Enjoy and uh, I would appreciate it if you said what neck acc colour you preferred on Four! (Don't mind Threes overalls being wide in the pic, It's just how I scaled them on his body and when he poses it looks weird lol)

WOOP WOOP UPDATE POTENTIAL RAHHH

[i-was-nereva-rine-here]

So, a while ago I wrote a thing about my mc that includes the Breton Hero, I’m revamping the actual fic at the moment but here it is?

@daggerfall you asked, here it is

"We meet the King tonight," Gloria smiled, painting her lips red once more. Britta glanced at her and shook her head.

"Paint your lips one more time and you'll be badly thought of. Anyway, we may not meet the King." Gloria rolled her eyes and painted her lips again.

"You're only saying that because you don't like the King," Gloria shrugged, "it doesn't suit you, not liking people. You might meet the love of your life at this dance if you even know how to do any."

"Gloria we all know that it doesn't matter," Britta grumbled, "we'll be employed by some lord or lady and we'll go off to wherever they go." That was the truth of it, tonight was a party, yes, but it was the mage's opportunity to find some employment - or for it to find them. Britta had little interest in doing such and if she hadn't needed the money, she would have quite happily gone to do something else. Anything else. She had no desire to end up like her mother.

"Are you two done bickering?" Asked a voice. Britta turned around and gave a smile to the owner,

"Why hello to you too Amelie, could you warn us next time, in case we're, I don't know, getting dressed?"

"If you were still getting dressed then you'd have a problem," Amelie snapped back, "you need to leave and soon, the King is not one who is kind to those who are tardy." Gloria nodded and left without another word. Once she had gone, Amelie came to her sister and embraced her, tidying the collar of the blue dress she wore.

"Mother's dress," she remarked, her voice quiet, "she would be so proud of you, Brittie." Amelie kissed her sister's forehead, holding her face, taking a good look at her, "she would."

"And I'll make her proud by saying no to any Rielle who comes near me," Britta smiled, touching the tip of her ears, "I should go speak to grandmother before she bores Gloria to death." Amelie nodded and let her sister go, watching her as she descended the stairs. The Rielle would never leave them in ruin again, Britta would make sure of that. Amelie would stay here, as she had always wanted, and her sister would go out into the world. Adventure would find her, eventually.

"Baenemathir," Britta sighed, "I'm ready." The old altmer sat in her chair as normal, an anxious-looking Gloria stood by the door, Amelie at the top of the stairs. Was this really where she was saying goodbye? Britta stopped and closed her eyes, she imagined that her mother was there too, smiling at her, telling her that everything would be alright. Father too, fishing net over his shoulder, a grin on his face looking at his daughter with pride.

"You must not dwell on them," her Grandmother sighed, she had gotten up and come to Britta while her eyes were closed, "they would not want you to do so." Britta nodded, she understood the words her Grandmother said but could not give her own words. Her tongue twisted in her mouth and would not come loose. Golden hands, dulled by age touched her face before taking one of her hands, placing a ring on her finger.

"This belonged to your Albaenamathir," Britta's Grandmother explained, "and her mother, and her mother before. You come from a line of great mages, both of you," she looked up to Amelie, always anxious of her true abilities, "you will carry your name well, even if it is taken away from you." Britta smiled, her Grandmother had never liked that women gave over their surnames to the men they married, "now go, and make your own name." Britta went to the door, her fingers running over the ring on her other hand. She stopped at the door as her Grandmother added, "you too, Gloria." Gloria stuttered out a thank you to Britta's grandmother before the two departed.

The palace was by no means grand enough for a High King, the High King had commandeered the home of King Casimir for his party - celebrating the treaty between the Redguards, Orcs and Bretons that would pit them against the Mer and Eastern Tamriel dwellers. Provided there was no one on the throne of course, in name it was a trade treaty and it would stay that way until someone declared war. They dared not talk of it but in hushed whispers over tankards, everyone knew that war was coming.

Britta and Gloria kept to the sides, mixing in with crowds as they watched people enter to grand announcements, all walking in as if they were the best thing that had happened to Mundus. Britta looked upon them all with a distaste until the King entered, afraid for her head should he see her. He was tailed by two generals, both dressed in Daggerfall guard's garb, and a third man followed. He seemed to prefer the comfort of familiar clothes that allowed him to move. Although he was not armed here, there were pockets on the front of his clothes that would hold knives, a slot for a bow to go over his torso. All he carried was a sword, as all the men and some women did, however, it was not at his side but strapped to his back.

"You're staring," Gloria whispered, "don't miss bowing to the King."

"I won't," Britta mumbled back, her eyes still on the third man. He had a box-like jaw and wide nose, short mousy hair went where it pleased and blue eyes shone like none she'd ever seen. Maybe Gloria had been right. 

She did not miss bowing for the King and when she lifted her head the man who trailed his King was looking directly at her and only her. She watched him, her head still slightly bowed, he returned the action, lowering his chin a little before lifting his head and turning back to follow his King.

"Look at you," Gloria remarked, they had been set free and allowed to mingle, "catching someone's eye, do you know who that is?" Britta shook her head, looking around the room, rescuing two glasses of wine from a server who happened to walk past. Gloria shook her head at her friend.

"That, dear friend, is Rohan Dalorien," Gloria smiled, "some say he's the King's personal assassin, the Dark Brotherhood have their own contract on him because he takes work from them - well, that's the rumours."

"I'd say they're rumours, assassins don't tend to parade around showing themselves to be almost completely unarmed," Britta remarked, sipping on her wine, "he'll be a Captain in the King's guard, they've been called assassins before." Britta sipped more from her wine. Her eyes danced about the room, looking for the man again. There must have been something about his eyes that was...she couldn't describe it. Perhaps he'd had some curse put on him, or if he was the King's assassin a payment for being able to hide.

"Why, if it isn't Brittanna Highmore," a voice called across the crowd, making their way towards her.

"Duke Rielle," Britta sighed, "you're here," Britta hated the man with a passion. Once, her mother had been in the service of the Rielles as their mage but had struggled under them and been driven to something Britta preferred not to speak of. They often got her name wrong as well, it seemed that would be passed onto Britta. Gloria tried to leave but Britta grabbed her wrist, she wasn't leaving her alone to deal with this.

"I did not think you'd attend, your mother-"

"Don't talk about my mother, your grace, you were a child," Britta interjected, "I'm sorry to hear of your father's passing, I'm sure you will make a great leader in his place."

"Every leader needs a mage," the Duke remarked but Britta was quick as she had been before.

"I won't be offering my services to the Rielles I feel that should be plainly obvious to you, Duke Rielle, though I thank you for the offer."

"And I'd advise you leave the Lady be," another voice came into the conversation, Britta let go of Gloria's hand and allowed her companion to slink away. She turned to see the very man they had been speaking about not moments before. Rohan Dalorien. He did not look at her but Rielle, who quickly departed, going to find his wife no doubt, or some other girl. The Rielle's took whatever liberties they wished and had done since they had fought at Glenumbra - they thought they had a right to it, immortalised in song.

Rielle gone, Rohan turned to Britta and took her hand, kissing it, introducing himself to her with a smile. Britta did the same, Rohan finding his own glass of wine, glancing around the hall before he turned his smile to Britta. She found his eyes again, wondering if they were something magical at all, perhaps he had just been looking. However, from his eyes, Britta found her own eyes wandering to his mouth before they quickly snapped up again.

"You don't ever feel like you belong here," Rohan sighed, "I can see it on your face, castles don't suit you."

"I prefer my little house in the Daggerfall streets, I doubt I'll do well under these lords," Britta smiled, she looked at his mouth again and could have sworn one side was scarred but nothing was there, aside from stubble.

"There's always Lord Sidrad, he's...he's not the most powerful of men, likes to entertain guests and more of a merchant than a lord but he can pay you and you'll stay in Daggerfall," Rohan suggested, he took another look at Britta, who shied away from his gaze, "you don't look the type to want power anyway, especially if castles seem to put you out of place." Britta smiled, looking the other way, seeing that Gloria had been cornered by two Ladies of Emeric's Kingdom. It would be a shame to see her friend go all the way to Wayrest without her.

"I will endeavour to talk to this Lord Sidrad then," Britta nodded, "home is where I belong."

"I wish I could say the same, this is the first time I've returned in...years, since I was seventeen," Rohan sighed, looking around the castle, "though I'm not sure the castle would be somewhere I call home. I belong to the fisher's district." Britta almost laughed, letting out something that sounded like joy.

"Myself as well, father was a fisherman, lived there all my life," Britta couldn't keep the smile off her face. She felt Rohan's eyes on her and turned her head to smile at him but he was looking at her with something of an interest. His eyes studied every part of her; her ears, amber eyes and thin mouth, the tint to her skin that wasn't quite Breton.

"You're a Highmore," Rohan smiled, pleased with his deduction, "what happens when an Altmer and a Breton come together, we get you. No wonder you're a mage."

"It doesn't benefit us all," Britta's voice became harder and she instead occupied her eyes with the room, she wasn't sure how she felt about his words, "my sister is...she could have fared better and although we are Highmores, we...we are diluted, my last Altmer relative is my Grandmother - don't believe what they wrote about mixing of races, or at least, don't take it at face value, my mother looked like a Breton."

"I'm sorry if I've caused offence, it wasn't my intention," Rohan sighed, "but being who you are, I'd almost advise you to approach the King for position."

"I do not have the untapped Magicka others have, my mother did, it appears to have skipped Amelie and I," Britta smiled, looking back at Rohan, "anyway, you're far too right about me not liking castles, I don't think I'd be suited to working for a King. If you'll excuse me, my friend seems to be in a spot of bother." Britta smiled and when to leave but he caught her arm and turned her back to him. For a moment he looked at her, his blue eyes wild.

"When the King calls for dances, come find me," he asked, "it'll keep you from Rielle." He let her go and disappeared into the crowd, leaving Britta to go and rescue Gloria from the Wayrest women.

It turned out she wasn't saving her at all, Gloria seemed quite fond of them and pulled Britta into their conversation with ease. They asked about her a little but Britta feigned nervousness, should their attention turn from Gloria to herself, she'd never be able to forgive herself. They asked about who she intended to find work with, told them of Rohan's suggestion to which they shook their heads.

"He'll take some work," one sighed, "he's not stingy though, he'll pay you well." He's no Rielle then.

"I'm sure she can handle it," Gloria smiled, "she's good with peo- Britta?"

"The king's about to call for dances," Britta mumbled, "find yourself someone to dance with, Gloria." She disappeared again, Gloria staring after her.

"I think your friend may have found someone, pity he can't employ her," one of the ladies smiled.

The King called for dances but Britta had not found her companion and looked around for him, trying her best to avoid the eyes of the Rielle Duke. She felt a hand on her waist, guiding her into the fray of dancing. They spun her and revealed it to be Rohan. He had quick feet and Britta found herself fighting to keep up with him at points, glad he was slowed by group dances that people were no better at than she was. Where does a fisher's boy learn such skill at dancing?

It seemed to last forever, the twisting and the turning, only taking a moment to kick off her shoes and toss them to a startled Gloria. She could have done this forever. She found herself laughing and smiling throughout, Rohan doing the same, eyes never off one another. Changing partners they would always find one another again and when it came to the final dance, exhausted, they clung to each other, content with slowly moving around.

Then it ended, just like that, Rohan was called away.

"You really did everything but find a lord, didn't you," Gloria sighed, "you're a piece of work, Britta Highmore."

"I take it you'll go with the women you were speaking to?" Britta asked.

"Miss Highmore?" Interrupted a voice, that of a middle-aged man, whom Britta discovered was wider than he was tall and losing more hair than he seemed willing to admit. She bowed her head to him and nodded, "I've heard about you, seen you as everyone else has, I believe you're looking for employment."

"I am, as every other mage here, to who do I owe this introduction?"

"I am Sidrad, you were suggested to me by the King's man, Dalorien," Lord Sidrad answered, "I require a mage, you need a lord to serve. I believe I am your answer."

"If you are offering than I accept," Britta tried to smile, trying not to be preoccupied with the room, "if that is what you are suggesting."

"It is indeed, come by the docks tomorrow, I shall see if my decision is wise," Lord Sidrad nodded, "enjoy the rest of your night, Miss Highmore."

The castle began to clear at the stroke of midnight and the two women walked home with one another, hand in hand, discussing the night. Gloria was to leave within the week, her ladies worked in the employ of the King, digging up the ground and Gloria would protect them. It suited her, she'd always excelled at healing magic. Britta was to remain here, she might even be allowed to live in her home, Sidrad didn't seem to fear for his life as other lords and ladies did.

"You’re home," Amelie smiled as Britta tiptoed into the house, "I've heard about you already, dancing with a King's man."

"He found me employment, I can't complain," Britta brushed it off, "he was very kind, from Daggerfall."

"You found yourself a native of this lovely city, our lovely city, who finds you employment," Amelie was almost laughing, "he sounds too good to be true. Is he handsome?"

"I've never seen eyes so blue," Britta grinned, "saved me from Rielle as well." Amelie wrinkled her nose at the mention of the Rielle duke but before she could say anything was interrupted by a knock at the door. The two sisters exchanged glances and Amelie retreated into the darkness of their home. Britta turned to the door, her hand tense and ready to spawn something to defend them. She opened the door a crack, peering out. No one there. Odd. She looked down to see a note on their doorstep.

She cast upon it but there was no rune that would go off when she picked it up, nor any other enchantment on it, so she knelt and retrieved it from their doorstep. There were a few lines on it and it looked as if they'd been written in haste.

Write to me, use this and they'll find me wherever the King has gone, I'm the only one with my name

Rohan Dalorien

King Emeric's Employ

"What is it?" Amelie hissed as Britta shut the door, casting fire on the candles so the room lit up.

"Rohan wants me to write to him," Britta smiled, "I might have gotten more than just a dance it seems, I suppose I should thank him." Amelie smiled at her sister, coming to her and embracing her. Britta engulfed her sister in a returned embrace, holding her tightly. What if she had to leave? She didn't think she could leave her sister alone with just their Grandmother - she may have been an Altmer but she was growing old - all had to die eventually. Yet, to earn her keep, go out into the world like everyone else.

"Don't worry about us, sister," Amelie smiled as she pulled away, "just come visit every now and then."

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COWBOY BEEPBOOP NETFLIX SERIES RECAP (EP 1-3) - spoilers

Ahhhhhhhh...

He's so perfect that he makes me crazy. I'm in love. I'm in love. I'm in love with hiiiimmm 🎶

Just had to get that out of my system lol, anyway.

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Before I really start: I can see why there's some people that don't like this adaptation. I don't think it's fair but I can definitely see why. It's already unfair that people come into a live action version of a story expecting it to be an exact replica of the animated version. But with a series like Cowboy Bebop where there are quite a lot of open-ended questions and theories, I kinda predicted that no matter how good this show is some people would be pissed about someone filling in some of the gaps in the story without their own approval.

I say this to say...

I'm loving this series so far! And I can accept it as it's own adaptation.

- I'm so glad they opened with the scene from the 'Knocking On Heaven's Door' movie because it really was the perfect intro to the Bebop universe and more specifically Spike

- I'm also super excited about the fact that each episode is 30-50 mins! I could LIVE in this universe

- I love every entry to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack but 'What Planet Is This' has been my favourite joint for the last 3 years. It's almost as fire as 'Tank'

- Daniella Pineda as Faye is so great and I'm lowkey missing her in episodes 2-3! Her revamped outfit is dope and I'm starting to realise that I can probably trace my personal wardrobe choices to Bebop characters... I'm in an Ed faze right now. I also love how swear-y she is in this version lol

- Mustafa Shakir as Jet is pretty much pulled from the anime and he just fully gets the character 100%. I love that they made Jet an actual Dad in this! It was always sort of shown through his relationship with Ed in the anime but I feel like in the show they use it well to add gravitas to his character and his choices.

- I really love that the show gives a lot of interpersonal character moments and isn't afraid to flesh it out. Sometimes it does tenddd to be a bit on the nose and right in your face but the whole show has this feeling of 'playing it cool' while not being afraid to be goofy so I don't tend to mind those moments too much.

- Spike and Jet actually feel like friends in this?! And not just co-workers?! Again, I think making Jet a father in this really fleshed out his character and made him a little warmer (so far), so we get loads of nice moments of Spike and Jet actually bantering and laughing together whereas we only got one moment of that in the anime... But anyway, it's nice to see how close they are without it just being said.

- I love the implication that the name 'Spike Spiegel' is an alias, I never really thought about that before! It adds really well to the whole Bebop chapter of Spike Spiegel's life being a dream/fantasy/rebirth

- It annoyed me a littleee how hand-holdy they were with Azimov's girlfriend reminding Spike of Julia. The anime really took a chance with the audience by having that episode as the first one in the series when it's essentially a callback to a time the audience is not familiar with until they go deeper into the series. It just felt like they didn't have faith that their audience would get it but I'm not too mad at it as I feel like this show isn't as interested in 'quiet' storytelling than it is invested in being bombastic - which is cool too!

- They really made that Red Eye drug look as nasty as it did in the anime 😖

- I love the glaring difference between the Bebop life and the Syndicate life. Bebop life kinda falls in line with the look and uniqueness and fashion and feel of the solar system where as the Syndicate life feels so... clean and sanitised and high functioning. There's a thought here that I'm building up but I'll leave it till next time lol

- Making Hakim a black guy disguised as a white guy was a great turn around from the anime and says a lot without saying it. The 'through' line they're making so far with these last three episodes, where all the bounties are essentially victims of the society that's been constructed, isn't all too different from the anime but it's weaved together better in this series.

- All the side characters and acting matches the feel of the show exactly, no one has any chill in this universe and I love it lmao

- GREN! Love, love, love them already and I'm super curious as to what their episode is gonna look like

- I'll be honest: in the original series, I couldn't give a damn about Vicious and Julia. (It's a big part as to why I get frustrated with Spike's death). So, giving them more individual dialogue and scenes that explore their characters rather than just relying on other people's information or Spike's flashbacks is already better than the anime for me... personally.

- I totally thought that Jet's daughter was gonna be Ed for a minute and tbh I wouldn't have been mad at it!

- Ok, lastly. John Cho. This guy just. GETS. SPIKE. When he was first announced to be cast, I'll be honest - I wasn't completely convinced. I always thought Spike should be a little taller just because those long legs are literally 70% of him (damn you, weird anime body standards!) and I wasn't too convinced about John Cho learning martial arts so naturally that I'd believe he was a fighter. (That being said, the fight scenes in this show aren't a 'Shang-Chi' level of amazing so far... and they actually feel a little bit slow paced? But, again, it kinda matches the look and feel of the rest of the show and they're still very entertaining and fun scenes so I'm not too mad about it)

BUT

He's completely loyal to the standards of the character while making it his own interpretation and fleshing out and bringing his own understanding of the character... (cos we all have our own individual 'hot takes' on Spike lol) This version of Spike is a little less vague and poetic with his words which I appreciate and even when he is, he's so gosh darn charming that I can't even roll my eyes like usual at it!

That scene between him and the dominatrix... 🥵Jet's so pure lmao

Not me following the 'John Cho' tag on tumblr...

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