#Or living souls in general would be yeeted back in Earth

[casimania]

Next drabble idea I'll probably never write: AU season 4 where Lucifer still has to leave for Hell but it's Piercifer and he leaves Marcus behind who just... slowly spends more and more time at the penthouse until he's basically living there outside of work and moping around. Drinking, growing the depression beard back, cursing at Lucifer and God, badly singing sad songs and playing along with his guitar, just being a sad sack in general.

Except this is either also a Deckerstar AU (poly but a V with Lucifer in the middle) or Lucifer has been Chloe's closest friend and partner for years and she misses him, so one day she doesn't have Trixie and she just misses him a lot she sneaks up the penthouse. And there's just Pierce and his beard and a terrible bed head in his sweats and a t-shirt surrounded by empty bottles of not so cheap alcohol and half empty bottles of definitely not so cheap alcohol. And she's immediately backing away because she's good at second guessing herself and thinks she's intruding but he's like "He left you too behind, didn't he?" and waves a bottle in her direction. Cause of course she misses him too, and in a way they both remind each other of him. So she takes the alcohol and sits down. They don't talk much, just drink and sigh. She doesn't have it in her to leave when it gets dark outside so Pierce leaves her the bed since he's been sleeping there pretty much all the time. And he just throws his legs on the couch and passes out there.

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... Okay I'm definitely making it a Deckerstar + Piercifer V, I just like the idea rn. Anyway, they go on with this routine for a while. Chloe comes over when Dan (or Dan and Charlotte together) has Trixie with him (they alternate whole weeks now, he's learned to do dad stuff in a timely manner finally). They drink and sorta grunt or sigh in each other's general direction and just amble around the penthouse. Sometimes Chloe puts a movie on to take her mind off things (stuff she watched with Lucifer) and a couple of times Pierce just sits down and read one of Lucifer's books and they fall asleep in front of the tv some of those ones.

One evening Marcus finds Chloe going through the freezer and she pulls aside a few ice cream tubs with like, unicorns or puppies on them (Marcus already saw them and was kinda "??", Chloe says Trixie likes the big screen and Lucifer playing songs for her so he bought some snacks for her for when she came over. She dives more into the freezer and they both pretend she's not suddenly holding back tears) she hits jackpot when she finds some ice cream with a fancy name and no cartoony animals or overly sweet flavours and she doesn't even both with a bowl, just takes a spoon (then goes back for another she throws at Marcus) . And she sits disgruntled in front of the TV and eats it. She's stressed over a case and just murders the absolute shit out of the ice cream, she pushes it Pierce's way a couple of times and he gets like the tiniest spoonfuls and then she's back at shoveling it back in her mouth looking absolutely miserable.

Pierce surprised them both by asking her about the case (they usually don't talk much in these moments). He knows the gist of it because he assigned it to her but she was decidedly in a better mood earlier. And she says it's not as much as the case being overly complicated, she has hunch, but for the first time she was in the middle of an interrogation or a investigating and she was suddenly hit with all the ways Lucifer could have influenced the situation. And then her brain just couldn't turn it off and she basically couldn't stop thinking about him. Going back to the precinct didn't help, he was always sitting on her desk. There's Marcus himself who Lucifer always made a beeline for a couple of times at least and he's looking like as sad as a saggy bowl of cereals too and that made her only think more about Lucifer being gone. She thought retreating at the penthouse could have helped but instead of being a comfort and making her feel like he's still somewhat around, it just makes her feel more the fact that he's not there and could never come back. And from there it's like, the gates are open. They start to talk about Lucifer. They get angry at him, they get angry at God, they get angry at the demons who came for him and at all the angels who didn't help and they it just ends up with them just talking about Lucifer in general. The hit he pulled that exasperated them, that was actually kinda funny or just so Lucifery you just took it as it came.

And it's a first for them. Not just talking about Lucifer or with each other at the penthouse. Just the two of them talking in general. They sort of exist in the same space because they both love Lucifer in this AU. But Chloe has to digest the Sinnerman thing. Cause I think she wouldn't hold onto the First Murderer thing because in her mind, ideally one would have had a trial and appropriate punishment in that situation. But between the time it was and who they were he got himself a literal Curse. He did a bad thing but she can't really wrap her mind around the punishment, people go to prison and never get out or people go to prison and then get out and try to live a normal life. He had God himself him Mark him as forever wandering the Earth alone and she's just... what does she do with that?? Biblical stuff is just too fucked up for her. She acknowledges that's stuff that happens 6000+ years ago and Pierce is gonna deal with that with Pierce and Lucifer. She had more of an issue with his more recent crime boss things. Lucifer skirts the line of what she finds okay, Dan went dangerously over some times, Pierce has been living on the other side for so long she's just no ok with that. But they all have a complicated situation. And in the 2 years he got to know Lucifer he sort of, dropped the whole thing (and may have been sort of ratting out some people because it seemed to make Lucifer happy because it made Chloe happy). She recognizes it doesn't make what he did retroactively better but look, she has a complicated love life. If what it took to make an old ass immortal man a little more nice and human is the Devil himself making puppy eyes at him and naming him feel bad about fucked up shit he does forth first time in millennia... she decides she can sort of deal with it. And for Marcus is sort of :/ over Chloe being a mortal, cause he knows it hurts losing someone to time and he can just imagine how Lucifer will suffer, especially since he feels just so much (and it takes him a while to get out of this mentality, that doesn't makes him think Lucifer gets attached to humans only because he's gotten to know them for so little compared to him, that with enough time they'll be the same, cause his is the only logical way of feeling over this). And in general he's got some deep seated fear that Chloe was put on Lucifer's path for nefarious purposes. They all have that little moment of doubt, like okay she has her feelings and takes her choices?? But what if God knew Marcus and Lucifer would have crossed paths and Chloe is there to prevent it in osns way? Or to be used to send him back to Hell? They reflect on it a little and get over it mostly, but Marcus still has this little voice inside him saying that maybe she's there for Lucifer to think "Why have him when I can have her?" the only things he seemingly brings in the relationship is immortality and understanding through that, but Lucifer lurks defying expectations and just went "BOTH BOTH I LOVE BOTH I WANT BOTH IF THEY'LL HAVE ME" and told them in detail what wonderful things they both brought to the relationship (Chloe needed that too. From her pov she's the one that can't fully get Lucifer and will just hurt him by dying in such a short time and maybe never see him again. But he proves both of their fears wrong). So yeah, until this point they were never really making comfortable conversation all the time and hanging out together. Just recognized each other as someone important to Lucifer that makes him happy and they were trying to work out if they could live in close contact when shit hit the fan and Lucifer had to go.

And from then they form some sort of understanding. They talk more about Lucifer. They get Eve, Maze, Dan, Charlotte, Linda and Amenadiel and try to make him contact other Angels and then shit happen with Azrael and Ella joins the Celestial-knowing club. They make concrete plans to get him out. They start being more like themselves and interact more in general.

Then one day Chloe is under the covers of Lucifer's bed and Marcus is on the other side and has kicked them off (it's easier than just taking turns, and while they never got to the point with having Lucifer time all together in an intimate way, they don't find it weird, sharing living spaces was something they had been considering before things got fucked up) and they suddenly wake up in a tangle of blankets and feathers and ashes and there's Lucifer looking absolutely terrible but he lights up like the Sun upon seeing them and they immediately pounce on him. He thinks he's dreaming and they tell him they've been just sort of living there together when Dan has Trixie and they want to know what's going on. Unfortunately it's not permantent, the demons are chilling enough he can fly up for a little while but he still has to go back if they don't find a solution. He mostly does it to get his Chloe and Marcus fills and cry a little about how much he loves them and wishes he didn't have to leave them and will find a way to come back to them permanently and he's sorry he left looking intend on not coming back (he tought it was the best option, but he just missed them so much).

And nothing. Shit's fucked but slowly maybe they find a solution. Didn't really wrote a plot. I just wanted Chloe and Marcus moping together over Lucifer and talking about him and helping each other get out of the dark pit of despair.

[amythecinnabunny]

Space AU and Time Travel for Juke 👀 <33

Holy shit holy shit holy shit ok ok ok ok first of all AKDBJSJSJJEJE YES

Okay okay so let me try to iron out the mess in my head skxbjsjjd I hereby apologize if things get out of order or whatever but I am literally vibrating with excitement someone please write this I'll love you forever

Ok so I'm thinking also an aged up au for ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* reasons *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ sjsnnsn

Also, I've done this before and I'm gonna do it again, but Bobby and Trevor are two different people for the sake of the timeline here.

Time frame for this would be WAY into the future. Humanity has gone galactic. We also had our asses handed to us by several alien planets but we probably deserved it. Anyway, after we got rid of Elon Musk, we eventually made peace with the aliens and now roam the galaxy freely. 20-30yo generally try to get into a different fleet, just to learn about other races. Think all those alien ships adopts a human posts.

Julie, Carrie and Flynn are my three girl geniuses. They're like,,, the smartest people in every room. They've been like this since freshman year of college. Julie, Carrie and Flynn also all want to get into the student exchange program, which is exactly what you think it is. Alien races (and this now includes humanity) swaps out older students with each other so they get a feel of what the other race is like. It's fun, educational, and! You get to make super long distance pen pals!

I'd also have so much fun making up new memes???? It would be so fucking stupid tho but I love it.

Anyway, so after a few years of jumping through the exchange programme, hoping from planet to planet, unfortunately, without their bestfriends :<, the three of them qualify to board research ships!!!

So at like 23-25, my girls come back together on the same ship!! Its a massive thing and so they've hired so many interns from so many different races. It's like a landing hub for several smaller ships. They have like 10 interns per species and that's only because there are laws against having too many of one kind after they put 50 humans on a space station and the humans tried to take over. Also, humans multiply faster than the others. This terrifies some races.

Anyway, the ship's really just a bunch of college kids from different planets trying to avoid exam season by submitting research papers from their ship. They all bond over deadlines, breakups and coffee (or the alien equivalent thereof)

Flynn dated an alien girl for a while. They were cute. Flynn: as a lesbian, it's my duty to date all the women in space

This is also where they run into Willie!!! Yay, Willie!!!

Nick Danforth-Evans and Kayla Evans-McKessie are around ... somewhere ... in bunk beds like the little toddlers they wish they were, crying about the 15 page essay on why Xjsbsjdjd is a very intelligent race that we could learn a lot from (yes, that is a keysmash I'm too buzzed to be creating alien species names sjdjjdjd)

Carrie and Nick do date for a while but then Carrie hooked up with Kayla. Bisexual queen who?

Julie met Willie that time she didn't sleep for over 48 hours because she had a research paper due within a week and she hadn't started yet and it was 10 000 words on her experiences with the Psjxjjdkeiwj race. Luckily for her, the kid she bumped into and spilled an energy drink all over had the same paper and helped her finish it. Willie sometimes goes by the nickname Lifesaver, thanks to Julie. This confuses the metaphor-less people because Willie's never saved anyone's life?? So why is he a lifesaver??

ANYWAY ON TO THE TIME TRAVEL BIT

On their own, Julie, Carrie and Flynn are professional smart people who know what they're saying and are clever enough not to do things with too many risks. In the same room, however, they turn into dumb geniuses who can and possibly may blow up the entire ship. It's a good thing they have Willie, Nick and Kayla to babysit them, right? WRONG. Willie Kayla and Nick egg them on.

They decide there going to gather all the information there is on time travel and they're going to decipher it and make it work! Yay!

When they find stuff in alien languages they start calling up their alien pen pals "hello what's this word mean in this context? What, haha oh no, it's a research paper on why time travel projects were abandoned before completion. Okay, thank you!"

Before long, they have a working time machine. I mean,, they hope so. And so they enter a random date from the past and prepare to pop their heads through just to see what the world looked like approximately 200ish years ago

2020s, post covid because that exists for joke reasons later, Sunset Curve is performing live for one of their biggest audiences yet when mid-song, the floor just opens them up and swallows them whole before vanishing. The crowd things it's a stunt but Sunset Curve's managers are flipping their shit

Back on the ship, the machine starts sparking and with a soft boom and a hiss, the power in that quadrant goes out -- not before Willie's is pelted in the face with a pair of drumsticks and then a whole person.

It's a miracle the drums survived the trip, pet alone everything else.

So now these sleep deprived geniuses and co. have to hide three people and several musical artifacts, plus the smoking remains of a time machine, from their Supervising Officer, who is regrettably, a human too.

And none of them are very good at lying.

Luke and Bobby are though, and after piecing together bits and pieces from the frenzied rambling around them, Luke and Bobby save the group.

Shenanigans ensue as they try to rebuild the time machine under the watchful eye of the SO, while trying to mantainbfake credentials for the boys and trying to explain their very dated clothing. (Yes, Sunset Curve STILL rocks the 90s vibe. In the 2020s. It's their thing.)

Willex happens in the background -- and I mean that very literally. (Jukebox having a tension moment, Willex making out in the background.)

Honestly I'm not sure yet how theyd solve the problems, whether they'd send the boys back or not or what, but I do know that they will all cause a BUNCH of problems in between.

Sometimes they play music just because they still can. Sunset Curve becomes a house band for the ship. They get broadcasted to neighbouring or passing ships like "hey, losers, we have live music, SUCK IT!"

Focusing on the jukebox aspect of this whole fic, that's gonna be a fucking hilarious slow burn.

It will definitely contain the lines "Oh my god, I have a crush on Julie." "Congratulations, you're officially the last to know." "What? Even [SO's Name] knows??" "Dude. The ship's navigation crew knows." "Does ... Julie know?" "No, you're both morons."

Julie is having the exact same conversation four hallways away.

They'd talk a lot about sending the boys back home and it'd be really quiet conversations when everyone else is asleep.

Julie and Luke write music together and after a while, Julie performs a few of them too. Thanks to the concerts, they meet the other human interns that were on the other end of the ship and Carrie and Kayla form Dirty Candy.

The ship becomes known as the party bus.

A thing that will happen: Luke helps Julie write one of her history papers that she gets an A+ for and a comment about how dedicated she was to have delved so far back in the history records to get authentic insight.

Julie and Luke speak in memes but they don't speak the same memes and it drives them both up the wall.

Luke says yeet one day and Julie's soul leaves her body because she hasn't heard anyone say yeet since she was a toddler back on Earth.

Julie: odd display, but acceptable.

Luke, physically experiencing a record scratch: what the fuck did you just say

That is all I have to offer because I'm afraid of plotting further and causing angst somehow.

oh one more thing, someone gets to bang an alien and it's probably Flynn.

Oh oh oh another one more thing. Reggie says "this is just like in Star Wars" for literally anything. The band goes along with it for shits and giggles. The rest of them are very interested in this ancient tale called Star Wars. Reggie sees a picture of Flynn and her green gf and says "hey, you dated photoshopped Yoda" and Bobby just loses his shit.

[aurora-313]

Rift Soul Ryou - AU Proposal

Here’s an idea that I’ve been playing with for the last few weeks. And thanks @bbtree for being a kind ear and listening to my whacky idea that I’m trying (and failing) to turn into a fanfiction one-shot or cross-reality story.

We all know the absolute dumpster fire that was the Operation Kuron storyline. However, I would like to put a few preconditions onto this AU before we delve too deeply in.

Full disclosure: I have not watched season 8 but I am aware of its general plot beats. Also this is a mix of AU lore and drabble.

Condition #1 - the reason for the formation of the Galra empire 10 000 years ago was Zarkon’s response to a massive invasion from the inter-reality rift creatures that existed in the Quintessence field. The same creatures Honerva/Haggar was studying. It functionally serves as a dark shadow to the current era’s Voltron Coallition, had the Black Paladin’s virtues descended into vices.

Condition #2 - Haggar’s experiments on the gladiators, and Shiro in particular, over the eons was an attempt to find Quintessence resistant individuals to combat the impending Trans-Reality invasion of the Quintessence creatures.  Shiro himself showing particular resistance to it - insert something about the same genetic strand that caused his disease also grants heightened resistance here. 

Condition #3 - Both driven mad by exposure to that radiation, Zarkon signed off on the research and was attempting to create was effectively a massive meat-shield army to stall the Quintessence beasts until they could permanently scourge Quintessence from the galaxy. His end game goal of that project was to have Haggar create suitable, unfailingly loyal cloned pilots for the Voltron Lions, and using Voltron itself as the key to destroy the source of all Quintessence, effectively erasing the galaxy as well. Zarkon’s plan basically boiling down to a mutual annihilation. 

Bare in mind - these people are mad, hence the doom’s day plans. Okay, backstory out of the way.

Where does Kuron come into this?

Well, Haggar tried and failed to clone Shiro multiple hundreds of time, trying to keep that genetic abnormality while eliminating the nasty ‘terminal illness’ side effect. But even when she succeeded, she had little more than blank living dolls. 

No will, no drive, no spark of life to propel them forward. 

And of course not. The soul that is Takashi Shirogane is safely nestled inside the consciousness of the Black Lion, and Blackie ain’t releasing her grip any time soon. So, however does Haggar solve this problem? Why - but the cruel irony of capturing an enemy and making it fight for the Galra empire.

She captured a rift creature, tortured it into insanity, implanted it inside a fully programmed Shiro clone body - et Viola. We have our first sentient clone in poor Kuron. And the first thing he does, believing he is Shiro, is YEET THE HELL outta dodge before Haggar and her druids can capitalize on this success or replicate it. This also goes to show part of the reason why Black refused to let Kuron pilot her until literal hell was at their door, because she could sense what Kuron’s soul really was and Black (Voltron in general) was specifically made to fight Quintessence beasts.

The seasons proceed much as they did before, but the hat trick is Season 6′s finale when Shiro’s consciousness is revived in Kuron’s body. 

In this AU, I shall now call Rift Soul Ryou, Kuron’s body isn’t rejecting Shiro’s consciousness. In fact, Kuron - once again aware of his true nature - talks to Shiro and surrenders the body freely by way of apology and atonement before leaving.

As Shiro’s compassion boarders on the messianic, Shiro tries to convince Kuron to stay and help, understanding that he truly loved the family he found with the Paladins. They recognize and sympathize with each other as fellow victims of Haggar’s brutal manipulations and come to an understanding based on that commonality. And, shock horror, Shiro defends the clone whenever the other Paladins get too antsy at Kuron.

Touched, but undeterred, Kuron still opts to leave and allow Shiro to reunite with his friends and family. 

Tears are shed, hugs and bear hugs are dolled out like candy and The Paladins are headed home.  Meanwhile, in the depths of one of Haggar’s cloning facilities - a seemingly failed clone jerks to live, promptly wrecks the facility and escapes into the great beyond.

Sometime down the line, back on Earth and the steady rebuilding effort, Shiro is observing some work while the Paladins are recuperating with their families... and then a prosthetic hand claps on his metal shoulder.

“You know, I don’t mind the floaty arm - I just don’t understand the floaty arm. Digging the white hair though. Makes it easier to tell the difference between the two of us, I’d say.”

Shiro spun, only to be confronted identical face staring back at him with a crooked smirk. The same scar across the bridge of his nose, the same greyed eyes, but the hair dyed back to its natural black. “I don’t think we ever actually introduced ourselves properly.”

“I don’t think so, no.” Shiro laughed, unable to do much else. “I suppose I should ask your name. Something other than ‘Kuron’ I hope.”

The clone shrugs, “I’ve been going by Ryou. Thanks.”

“Ryou, it is then,” Shiro nods with approval and offers his hand out, “I suppose you and me have a lot to talk about.”

Ryou shakes it with a smile of his own ,“That we do.”

TL; DR - Haggar couldn’t replicate Shiro’s soul, so she kidnapped a Quintessence entity, brainwashed it into serving as a replacement soul. Kuron doesn’t die, because as an energy being, he can literally possess another empty shell and continue living his own life.

[ohwaitimthewriter]

Ner naak (My peace)

Pairing : Din Djarin x Earthling!reader

Warning : none, not yet. 

Summarize : Din Djarin meets you, an earthling, with no idea of the existence of an outer space. 

Words : 1 472

A/n : Well, here it is! The first part of, I believe, a series! I really hope you’ll enjoy the beginning of this story and if you like it, I’ll definitely keep on writing more about it, because I have a lot more to tell for this one! Enjoy your reading! 

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Masterlist. // Ner naak Masterlist.

Life could manifest itself in a strange way sometimes. It often had a funny way of interacting with people. It was surprising, disturbing and mysterious. And if you had lived in peace with it for a long time, it had found a scatterbrained way to impose its will on you. 

There was one thing you couldn't lie about. Something was wrong with you. You couldn't say what, you didn't have a better way to describe it either. You just knew it was there. That something was there, peacefully settled in a corner of your heart. It was resting and seemed to be waiting for something to wake it up. 

This thing that had been with you since your early childhood had made you a kind-hearted person, but despite your tendency to love people, it had also made you a lonely person. Not because you were not surrounded by family or friends, no, life had been rather generous on that point, it had made you a lonely person because you may have loved and been loved, it felt as if it was never enough. Like there's a missing piece in the puzzle. It was as if your soul didn't vibrate on the same wavelength as everyone else's. As if you didn't really belong there. 

You could only find inner peace when you walked in the woods with your dog, a 3-year-old Eurasian. Which is what you were doing, by the way. 

Your dog was happily running through the trees. You were watching him do it with a small smile stuck on your lips. Even though he was 3 years old, he still behaved like a puppy, amazed by the slightest little twirling leaf. You loved him a lot. He made you feel a little less alone. 

Autumn was in full swing. The leaves of the trees played with the wind and gave the forest a golden colour. You were watching their dance when you heard your dog give out a curious chirp. 

You looked for him and saw his curled tail waving frantically in a ditch. He started to yelp, jumping back on the path. You thought he had probably found a friend to play with, but when no dog followed him, you felt intrigued. 

"What did you find? " You said as you walked up to your dog. 

He stared at the ditch and his tail waved wildly. He clearly invited no matter what it was to play and out of curiosity you leaned over the ditch. 

Two big brown eyes were observing you curiously. 

A lot went through your mind at that very moment, but no matter how much you wanted to express your surprise, you were dumbfounded.

The little Being you had in front of you looked like nothing you had already seen before. His large ears that he turned to you as he heeded you, his green skin and his little coat left you speechless. 

The little creature was knee-high to a grasshopper and started stammering sounds like a newborn and you blinked several times before you realized that he had just reached out his little hand to you.

You looked at his big eyes without noticing that you had crouched down to offer him your hand. His three tiny fingers had wrapped around one of yours and a slight smile stretched on your lips. 

“But who are you, you little sweetheart?” 

The little Being cooed joyfully and you decided to carry him out of that damp ditch. 

"Look at you, your coat is all dirty, what are your parents going to say, huh? "You said as you gently rubbed the rough fabric. 

Your dog sat gently beside you, raising his head towards the creature in your arms. He waited patiently to make his acquaintance, his tail wagging against the ground. 

You quickly realized it wasn't an animal. The sounds he made, his hands, the expressions on his face. He wasn't an animal, but you didn't know any better. 

"What are you? "You thought aloud.

You took him at arm's length to observe him as a whole and you saw two small feet wriggling in the air under his coat.

"a gremlin? That's really all I can think about.” 

You took the child back against you and you felt your dog getting restless at your feet. 

"Yes, alright, it's coming, sweetie. "You said. "You take it easy, okay?”

You look at your dog to make sure he would be gentle and then crouch down and let your dog sniff the child. 

"Get that away from him! "Someone shouted at the other end of the road. 

The command had caught you so unprepared that you almost fell under surprise. Your heart had gone wild and even your dog got startled as he was so busy discovering his new friend. 

You turned around and saw a man several meters away. Or rather, what seemed to be a man. Actually, you thought that a legged armor was heading towards you. You didn't need words. Your mind was already looking for a logical answer to seeing someone walking in the forest, dressed in armor and a helmet coming straight out of the Daft Punk, and for the time being, its attempts have been unsuccessful. 

You stood up, putting one hand on your dog's head as he took a dim view of that man coming up.  

"He's not going to hurt him. "You said, gently scratching your dog's head. 

" It doesn't look friendly." 

"This is probably because of the whole... um, well, all this. "You replied, pointing to his outfit. "What is it anyway, a cosplay? You know, you shouldn't take it literally when people say you should go out in armor on hunting days."

The man made no reply. He had stopped right in front of you and you couldn't help but inspect the armor with your eyes. The sunrays shone on the metal, which reflected the light like a prism. And then your eyes landed on his helmet. The visor was shaped like a T. You were trying to see his eyes but the black tint was so thick that you wondered if he didn't look on the dark side of life. 

"Give it back to me. "He finally said. 

You looked down at the child who suddenly seemed to have eyes only for this man in armor. Somehow, you felt reassured. You didn't want to leave a child, or whatever that adorable little creature was, in the hands of a dangerous being. Knowing that he knew him and seemed happy to see him removed all of your doubts. 

You handed him the child and the man immediately took him in his arms. You noticed right away that the man had just relaxed. His shoulders had lowered with relief and you watched him looking at the child for a long time. He seemed to check that he wasn't hurt. 

There was something endearing about this sight and you couldn't help but smile at the tenderness that was emerging from this masked man for his little creature. 

"Is it yours? "You asked. "I mean, is that your child?” 

The man turned his head towards you and simply nodded. 

"Forgive me the question, but, what... what is he?" You stammered.

Din was watching you through his helmet. He had never met an earthling before. There were many stories going around about the people of the Earth, many agreed that they behaved like children because the earthlings had too little knowledge about the world around them. Din had heard that they lacked intelligence, that what was unfamiliar frightened them and that their minds were so narrow that they even despised each other. Din had also heard that the earthlings were the shame of the galaxy for their stupidity and clumsiness. 

But after observing you, Din thought the rumors were unjustified. 

"I don't know. "He said. 

"Oh." 

That was all you could find to answer. You looked at the child again, he was desperately reaching out his small hand to you and when you offered yours to him, he grabbed it again, cooing with joy. 

"What a strange little thing you are. " You said softly before looking at your dog who didn't stop staring at the armored man. "Come on, let's go home Y/Dog's/N.” 

You were about to leave when the man called out to you.

"I would like to ask you a favor." 

"If you tell me you're stuck under that Daft Punk helmet and you want me to pull it off, I'm going to laugh." You teased. 

"Beskar helmet." He said.

"Oh, I don't know that band." You said naively. 

"No, It's not... whatever." He sighed deeply. "Do you agree to help me? I can pay you."

"Well, being helpful is free of charge. What do you need?"

[summerdownbeach]

Gonna edit for grammar and spelling later...

Getting a little irked here by the people defending Voltron S8, because they assume everyone's issues are purely related to shipping. I never really cared who ended up with who at all, (only that everyone should want to date Hunk because he's perfect boyfriend material). Guys, the writing was just bad. It was a poorly written season, a poorly written finale, and honestly, it gave a piss ass message about giving up and letting a friend destroy themselves for the greater good. Not gonna go into to much detail here but these are just a few of my complaints:

1. Pacing and Story telling. The pacing of this season was bizarre. They started off with essentially a filler episode to quickly throw in Allurance as cannon (with some hella stiff dialogue but we'll get to that later) and then had like... a few episodes to justify bringing back old characters so we could get a last glimpse. Then 2 filler episodes in a row, then a straight run to the finish with a thrown together plotline. Literally nothing in this show prefaced Haggar as the big bad. 90 percent of the time she didn't seem to even want Lot or around, much less want anything to do with Altea or her own affiliations. The Alteans who followed her never felt like fully thought out characters either. They ended the last season with the red haired Altean pilot giving way to tons of theories about her past and who she could be, but she was literally just a drone set to die 5 minutes after introduction. That's bad forshadowing.

2. Important off screen plot points. Why on earth would they do this? Why would pink general just suddenly switch to the coillition? Why did they make us think she died in the explosion and then backtrack two minutes later? Why did they end the show with Shiro and Adam's big gay kiss (yes, it's Adam, listen to the audio description, they literally day it's Adam) without ever establishing Adam's return? They could've easily spent a scene where team Voltron returns to earth to grieve and find that in this new timeline (because yes, it's a new timeline despite what the characters think, if destroyed planets are suddenly back) Adam didn't die and is waiting for Shiro. They could've given them a real moment, developed their (nonexistent on screen) relationship and at least made their big moment at the end less sudden and so clearly damage control from burying their gay last season.

3. Relationship dialogue. I don't want to harp on Allur*nce as a ship itself here. It's not my thing, but I'm positive fan fiction writers and fanartists have made some pretty awesome stuff that's well made and fun to read and look at. I'm strictly looking at the shows portrayal of it. My number 1 complaint? The bizarrely platonic dialougue whenever the two talk. I'll give Lance this, he seemed at least interested in their romance this season, but whenever she and Lance talked, it was all just so formal - and half of what she said was exposition. Even during their date, and Alluras big reveal about feeling alone on earth felt so strangely platonic, and I truly believe that is the gault of the writers. They should've planted moments of growth between these two seasons ago! Not simply kept going with this tired and unrealistic "boy wears girl down until she says yes" trope. Even if they w erent certain they were going to go ahead with Allura and Lance, they could've built in friendship bolstering moments. Then, this date could've been so much less clunky. And to have Lance tell Allura he loves her on the first date? Even if it wasn't unrealistic, it also takes out any of the impact that the phrase carries later. By the time of her sacrifice Lance has said it onscreen so much that "I love you" has little to no weight. No wonder it was so easy for Allura to yeet herself into the void - she never exactly returned his sentiments - being too busy with exposition dialogue to make any strides in their (budding) relationship. Again, I have no problem with Allur*nce, only the lazy and ineffective way it was portrayed in the last few seasons.

4. Allura's sacrifice. I'm not even going to get into the political implications of making the Black woman bear the burden of the universe on her shoulders to the point where she literally has to sacrifice her body and soul to save the cosmos. I'm talking the actual execution of how they went about it. There's this concept in fiction writing where your most dramatic scene, your climax, should use an economy of words and time to be the most effective. That's why it hurts so much in movies like Wonder Woman, and even Titanic, when lead characters die. There usually is no time for goodbye, or if there is, it's brief and visual. Instead, the writers chose to give Allura an absurdly long time to say goodbye to everyone, and what's crazy is, no one but Lance objected? Like at all? They just accepted right away that there was no other way. I never took them as a fatalist bunch but hey, why stick to human characteristics now. Clearly the only person who should object to you self sacrificing is your significant other. This is why so much sacrifice in narrative is done in a way that refuses to give loved ones time to react because any sane person would at least try to stop them initially, and grasp at straws for another solution. I hated how the team just shrugged their shoulders and let Allura kill herself for the greater good. Their silence wasn't tragic, it was lazy.

5. Their lions just... left? The universe is done needing defense? Just like that? How did everyone get home from their princess death picnic? Do they make uberpools for space travel? Did they all agree not to be paladins anymore before this? What about Hunks dream of handing off the reins of Yellow to the next generation of paladins? Why did they write it this way? Who did this? Who do I blame?

I think what frustrates me the most is that the comedic episodes were still good. I truly think filler has always been the strongest asset voltron had. The dynamics were always much stronger in the funny episodes, and it seems like they wasted a lot of potential this season with rushed plot points and filling plotholes off screen.

I have more issues with this season, and I'll post them when I feel like adding to this list, but to say that people didn't like S8 because their ship didn't happen is obnoxious, especially when a season full of plot holes and rushed explanations is what we were left with. And on the subject of dissappointment, i didnt go over it here, but people being upset at the queer baiting are so valid. Even if you weren't into Kl*nce, the producers pretty much tried to sell the show on it. To use lgbt content, especially content that was never going to be cannon, as a marketing tactic is despicable. While strides were made by the show, airing the first animation of men kissing on screen in an show aimed at kids, the victory leaves a bad taste when the couple in question was never justified in the narrative beforehand, and was used as a ploy to fulfill the promise of lgbt rep, without actually using any of the budding relationships developing in the show (not limited to Kl*nce by any means. They could've done Sh*ith, H*ith, H*nce, ect).

If this season felt complete and left you with a feeling of contentment, good for you, I too enjoy a guilty pleasure as much as the next person. That said, this was a badly written season on all fronts. I think they did Allura and Allur*nce dirty with the resolution. They missed opportunities for character development in favor of more repetitive space battles. Don't try to invalidate people's contempt at this season by defending the creators for making the show in the first place, when they didn't live up to the standards of narrative fiction to get a passing grade in a creative writing class.

And because I want to end on something nice, I thought that the meeting of the old paladins and the new paladins was very cool, and it was really interesting to see Zarkon interact with the paladins in a new way. So... at least there's that?

[crissid5]

Why I Love Voltron Season 6

so there are many reasons to love Voltron season six but these are what i have to list

* Keith’s space wolf

* Lotor’s face when we meet his “nanny” (I have forgotten her name)

* Hunk yelling at Galra commander guys

* Krolia just Krolia

* Keith learning more about his past and parents

* Texas Kogane

* Lotor’s generals and the fact that it seems that Lotor and Acxa had this whole elaborate thing planed out

* Keith returns 

* It looks like lance is going for a hug when Keith first returns 

* Lance is the first one to notice all of the changes to Keith talking about how he looks bigger

* Haggar going to oreond (oreand? however it is spelled) returning to a more Honerva like form

* Allura yeeting Lotor

* the fact that i was right about lotor

* the Keith and Shiro fight scene 

* Keith telling Shiro he would be all right throughout all of the fight scene

* learning Coran is ripped

* Coran falling out of the vent

* Romelle

* living alteans 

* learning that Shiro did in fact die

* the conversation between Keith and Shiro on the astral plane

* Multiple moments of how much anime can i put in to a show before it becomes an anime?

* the whole Shiro’s soul transfer thing from the black lion to clone body

* the scene of the packing up there stuff from the castle

* the castle becoming a diamond

* they are going back to earth

* Allura not wanting to leave Lotor in the quintessence field 

* Pidge being forward thinking enough to make a thing that an disable Shiro’s arm

* white hared Shiro

* all the new white haired shiro fan art

* and finally when they are all looking up at the end of the show the fact that Keith must have left unconscious Shiro on the ground 

that is all just off the top of my there is more that i love. sorry for the lack of order i was just writing them as they came to mind

[bi-galassia]

Do all of the OC asks for Dawn and Nora!

Yeet!

1. What is your OC’s favorite color?

Dawn: Purple

Nora: Red

2. Does your OC collect anything? What do they collect?

Dawn: She collects crystals and witch items.

Nora: She collects shoes (only fashionable ones tho).

4. What kind of things is your OC allergic to?

Dawn: Nothing really

Nora: Latex 

5. What kind of clothing does your OC wear?

Dawn: Soft tunics and leggings

Nora: Her own styled outfits

6. What’s your OC’s favorite animal? Least favorite?

Dawn: Deer. None (she loves all animals).

Nora: Foxes. Koalas (idk what she has against them but she hates them)

7.What element would your OC be?

Dawn: Earth

Nora: Fire

8.What is your OC’s theme song?

Dawn: Literally any song from Disney (mainly Pocahontas)

Nora: (??)

9.Do you have a faceclaim / voiceclaim for your OC?

Dawn: No??

Nora: No??

10.What deadly sin would best represent your OC?

Dawn: None (she’s pure)

Nora: Envy

11.What are your OC’s hobbies?

Dawn: Singing, gardening, and reading.

Nora: Designing, Netflix, and dancing.

12.How patient is your OC? How hot-headed are they?

Dawn: Very patient. She rarely ever gets upset.

Nora: Somewhat. She can get annoyed pretty easily.

13.What is your OC’s gender / sexuality / race / species / etc.?

Dawn: cis girl / demi-pan / african-english? (she’s from the UK) / human-fey 

Nora: cis girl / lesbian / italian-english / human

14.What foods does your OC like to eat? What are their least favorite foods?

Dawn: She’ll eat anything except meat.

Nora: She loves spicy foods. Raw foods.

15.If your OC could have any pet, what would they choose? Why?

Dawn: A snake. She loves their smiles.

Nora: A hedgehog. She thinks they’re really cute.

16.What does your OC smell like?

Dawn: Lavender

Nora: Roses

17.How do they make a living? What kind of job do they want / not want? What is their dream job? What do they think of their current job?

Dawn: She’s a waitress right now. Once she’s done with college, she plans on being a choir director.

Nora: She sells her clothing designs. She’s already doing what she loves.

18.What are your OC’s greatest fears? Weaknesses? Strengths?

Dawn: Being alone, watching everyone she loves die. She almost too nice and sometimes people take advantage of her. She will always defend her friends.

Nora:  Heights. She can get a little cocky. She doesn’t give up.

19.What kind of music do they listen to? Do they have a favorite song?

Dawn: Honestly she loves it all (except rap)

Nora: Alternative, rock, pop, etc.

20.If they came from their world to ours (if not already in our’s) how would they react? What would they do?

Dawn: She’d immediately try to become friends with all of us

Nora: She’d all judge us lmao

21.What personal problems/issues do they have? Pet peeves?

Dawn: She doesn’t believe she’s worth anything. She hates seeing animal cruelty.

Nora: She hates rude people who pick on the kind.

22.What kind of student were they/would they be in high school?

Dawn: She was quiet and shy. She had like two friends.

Nora: She was someone everyone knew but not everyone considered her a friend.

23.What is a random fact about your OC?

Dawn: She’d sell her soul for broccoli 

Nora: She’s Armani’s cousin.

24.What is their outlook on life? What is their philosophy / what do they think in general about living?

Dawn: Life is beautiful

Nora: Do what you can in your lifetime.

25.What inspired you to create them / how did you create them? Were they originally a fancharacter? What was their personality / design like when you first made them?

Dawn: At the beginning, she was just “Gwyn’s older sister”. Now she’s a full character with her own past and story.

Nora: She just kinda appeared. 

26.Who is the most important person in their life? Why? Who is the least important to them (that still has an impact and why?)

Dawn: Either her partner Kem or her little sis Gwyn. They’re both always there for her.

Nora: She loves her girlfriend Gwyn and her cousin Armani. Armani is like a brother to her.

27.What kind of childhood did your character have?

Dawn: She had an okay one. It was bearable because of her sister.

Nora: Her’s rocked. She spent most of it with Armani.

28.What kind of nervous habits do they have? Do they stim? Do they have any kinds of addictions?

Dawn: Her stim is making a rhythm with her hands (she sometimes sings softly while she does this)

Nora: She picks underneath her nails when she’s nervous.

29.If they could choose their epitaph for their grave, what would they choose?

Dawn: “I shall return.”

Nora: “So long bitches!”

30.Do they want to get married? Why or why not? Would they ever want kids? Do they have kids? Why?

Dawn: Sure? She’s not really there yet. Maybe?

Nora: Yes. Just not now. Not really?

31.What is their most traumatic memory/experience? What is their favorite memory?

Dawn: When she was younger, she tried to eat a pine cone and nearly died. Her fave memory was when lil’ Gwyn hugged her for the first time.

Nora: She fell from a height that she had nightmares for months. Her fave would be when she used to play dress up with Armani.

32.If they could have one thing in the world, what would it be?

Dawn: A hug.

Nora: Sleep

33.Would they ever kill someone? What would someone have to do to push them to kill someone? If they would kill someone, why?

Dawn: No. Never.

Nora: She’d say she would but it’s all talk. Her conscience is too good.

34.What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually?

Dawn: She’s in a choir.

Nora: She was a theatre kid in highschool. She would still love to do it if she could.

35.How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories?

Dawn: She daydreams a lot.

Nora: She’s always thinking of something new.

36.What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain?

Dawn: ???

Nora: ???

37.What’s something that your character does, that other people don’t normally do?

Dawn: She can react to nature. (talk to animals, use some magic, etc.)

Nora: ???

38.What would your character do with a million dollars?

Dawn: Donate it to those in need.

Nora: Buy materials to make clothes for those in need.

39.What is in your characters refrigerator right now? On their bedroom floor? Nightstand? Garbage can?

Dawn: Tea and veggies. Nothing. House plant. Trash.

Nora: Food, shoes, flowers, trashed ideas.

40.Your character is getting ready for a night out. Where are they going? What do they wear? Who will they be with?

Dawn: The middle of the woods. Casual clothes. No one.

Nora: A club. Stylish clothes. Her girlfriend.

41.What does your character do when they’re angry? Why?

Dawn: She cries. She can’t help it.

Nora: She hits herself in the leg. She wants to hit something.

42.Does your character have any scars? Where did they get them from?

Dawn: One on her back where she fell out of a tree.

Nora: A couple on her hands from sticking herself with safety pins.

43.What was the most offensive thing your character had ever said?

Dawn: Heck

Nora: Don’t even wanna go there pal (let’s just say Dawn would faint if she heard it)

44.How does your character react/ accept criticism?

Dawn: She encourages it.

Nora: Depends on the criticism.

45.If your character was given a slice of pineapple pizza and they HAD to eat it (or something bad would happen), how would they react? Do they even LIKE pineapple pizza?

Dawn: She’d eat it. Pizza’s pizza.

Nora: She’d pick it off and eat it separately.

46.Your character is given a voodoo doll of themself. What do they do with it? Do they see if it actually works?

Dawn: She gives it a little sweater.

Nora: She makes a lil’ outfit and toss it in her closet.

47.Can your character draw? What do they like to draw? Do they doodle?

Dawn: She likes to draw animals and plants. She can’t draw humans.

Nora: She can only draw models.

48.What were their parents like? How has that affected how they are as an adult?

Dawn: Her dad was nice while her mom was an asshole. Not much.

Nora: Her parents were very nice and practically adopted their entire neighborhood when she was younger.

49.Does your character like candy? Do they get sugar rushes? What are they like when they get a rush?

Dawn: Yes. Not really. 

Nora: Kinda? She rarely eats enough for it to affect her.

50.If your character was presented with imminent and unavoidable death/fatality, how would they react? Would they try to avoid death anyways? Would they try to make their last days count? 

Dawn: She’d accept it and enjoy her last days with her loved ones.

Nora: She’d fight it. She doesn’t want to die and not do something successful.

Thanks for the ask, pal!!! :D

OC asks

[mikazukikannagisjourney]

Spiritual Log November 16 2019

Subtitle: Physical release after meditations, healings, clearings, all that icky and gross stuff plus some tips (yeah this post comes with icky warnings, just a disclaimer)

Hi everyone, how are you all doing? I am still hoping that you're all doing great, even so-so, or maybe even meh and eh are acceptable. It has been a bit gruelling the past few weeks, I personally felt it, so many old crap kept popping up and I just had to do so much clearing and healing, and I had to haul the remaining stuff I left behind at my old place, mostly books that I plan to send to my friend and Soul Sister who owns a learning center (and probably reads this now via Twitter lolz), some of the books I plan to keep, assuming that they weren't yeeted yet lol, and my drawing table. It's hard not to have a decent table, I mean, I do my card readings either on the floor or on the bed. Not that I mind, but I actually need a decent table to do my adulting activities, and I needed a large space to draw, so yeah, partly why I failed the Inktober challenge by not doing anything is because I haven't set a drafting table up. Yeah I'm not a pro because I can't work without my tools, I can admit to that. Just thinking about that makes me tired and sad about my state,living in a mudflat. More gunk and mud keeps me down, and the heaviness just zaps my energies even more, apart from clearing a lot of my subconscious garbage which can get pretty emotionally taxing and exhausting physically.

Even the collective has been feeling super-tired and stuff, a lot have been complaining about feeling deadbeat and not being able to finish what they plan to do, unless it was something that had to be finished. Well, that's Mercury Retrograde (Rx) for you. Don't start shit, just finish what has been started or planned to get done. So don't push yourselves too hard, these are the times we need to pull back and check our progress, set reunions with our past selves, or our old friends, just don't start new stuff, that eats up a lot more energy because it's new, and more or less unknown. For now, just take that chance to rest, we're just getting the usual body and spiritual upgrades. Pains and aches can also occur, so if you can tap those out or remove those trapped energies, then all the better for you. And if you've been at it with your clearings and healings, then your comeback will be even stronger! Yay! Also... We're just a few days before Mercury goes direct, and then the magical days of 23-24 when Jupiter and Venus goes conjunct so we can manifest our BEST LIVES EVER!!! Also if you're into spellcasting yeah that's the golden date my friends, let's do this!!!

Ok, now for the heart of this post, which is mostly about the physical manifestations of releasing stuff from our bodies. If you've been in this blog long enough, you would probably know by now that my favorite form of release is crying the heck out of me. Yep. Like a child. A baby. I was really good at it when I was a kid, and I never got sick. I felt at peace whenever I finish crying out my emotional crap. The mental issues started when I was forced to grow up and repress all the crying. But lately after having to accept that crybaby part of me as a part of my true self, some of my chronic issues decreased. And I guess acceptance helped a lot. But of course, that's not the only form of physical release when dealing with trapped emotions, trauma, etc. You can search the web for more information on the matter, but I'll just mention stuff here that I experienced first hand, as well as any actions I did to release whatever it was.I mean, any Mercury Rx is a great time to heal these things because the process is faster, but these are great anytime, anywhere because we are all timeless beings living in a time-bound space.

Ok! Releasing emotions or trauma (repressed or not)

1. Crying -When you feel it welling up, just acknowledge that it is a part of you that no longer serves your best interest, and just cry it out. No questions asked, no judgement. Let it flow. Most-likely it has anger, sadness, bitterness, depression,feelings of unworthiness, feeling unsafe, betrayal, all the icky stuff that we just wanna forget, but they won't let us unless we remove the emotional charge.

How to deal: If you find that a memory resurfaces while crying, dwell in it, and MAX OUT YOUR EMOTIONS. Try getting the emotional levels to the highest intensity that you can, as you recall all, if not most of the nitty-gritty details of the event. It sucks, I know. But just max it out. Get as angry or as sad or bitter as you can, summon the demons out, let them roar, release them from their chains. After you've felt like you've released as much as you can, say thank you to those negative energies, they only wanted to keep you safe. Send them back to Source, God, the Central Sun, Mother Earth, whatever Higher Power you believe in, and ask them to be transmuted to their best selves. To calm yourself down, you can hug yourself, or have a thought anchor: You are safe, they can't harm you anymore. Let the love of the universe envelop your entire being. Just stay like this. Ideally this is to be done with a therapist, a healer, counselor, someone who can catch you as you fall. But if you can manage doing these on your own, well, hugs for you. Great job!

2. A bad case of diarrhea with unknown origins -This applies to most people, but more importantly if you're a person whose lower 3 chakras have been clearing lately, or you focused on clearing them. If you know your human design and you're a Generator, Pure or Manifesting, this can also be a clearing of our sacral center, so we can harness even more of our personal power.

How to deal: First of, don't take drugs, unless they're rehydration salts. Or if symptoms such as fever and vomiting appear, plus some blood in your poop or vomiting, see a medical professional. But if it's just loose bowels, then let the bowels move, they're just adjusting to your energetic upgrades. Also, try eating light foods, less oils and fats and simple sugars, drink more water, get some rest. Your body is dealing with physical manifestations of clearing, so just be patient. Symptoms usually clear up in 2 days, 3 at most. Any longer, see a doctor. As a person who gets easily affected by food poisoning, yeah even if I don't take drugs the bowels usually become normal after 2 days. The body is smart, it knows what it's doing.

3. Peeing a lot -Whenever you do sound healings, it is essential to stay hydrated not just to allow the sounds to reverb within your body (because water is a smooth and really good sound conductor compared to air), but also because dehydration can cause uncomfortable symptoms like dizziness and headaches whenever you listen to certain sounds. Plus staying hydrated can help calm you down, regulate body temperature properly, and balance cellular integrity in between healings (because the water helps clear our cellular debris, and dehydration prevents exchanges between cell membranes due to an imbalance in osmotic pressure. Seriously whoever thought science and spirituality can't mix just didn't learn cell biology a bit more lolol). However, this can also cause you to pee more.

How to deal: Unfortunately, peeing more IS the healing part, the more you do it, the more stuff you flush out. This can't be helped. But if your only issue is with rehydration aka water becomes too boring, just flavor your water with natural fruit or veggie juices.I personally mix sliced apples and cucumbers in my water jug, and drink them. Mint is also a great addition, as are sliced grapes. I squeeze lemon directly into warm water and drink it, while I just letthe peels sit in cool water for 30minutes. They get bitter if they stay more than 2 hours though. But honestly I don't mind drinking just water, just gotten used to it I guess. Simplifying life, I guess.

4. Tension within the body - this is definitely something that warrants professional help, because sometimes there are hard-to-reach places that even we can't touch.

How to deal: Honestly I just get a massage or a back rub, but I also shield myself and transmute so the massage therapist won't absorb my gunk. Even if I do an energetic exchange aka pay them.

Well, I hope this post serves you well. Please let me know what you think about it, or if it helped in any way. Thank you for stopping by. And may you find the healing you seek.

Love and hugs from Source above

I remain your friend and Soul Sibling

三日月

Mikazuki