#Raven plays

[swampstew]

AO3/other platforms First Lines Tag Game 

Tagged by @quinloki and @some-piece ❤️

Rules: Share the first lines of 10 recent fics and tag ten people.

Sooo I don't even have 10 fics rn which is CRAZY, and my fics (which are technically in progress) are uploaded to AO3 and Wattpad so I'll share the first lines of the NEW unpublished chapters, including the few WIPS I have in drafts. Below the cut ❤️

Turn Back Time: “Killy, you know those kids can’t come on this journey,” Candy brushed the Massacre Soldier’s hair as they got ready for the day ahead of them.

What's The Magic Word?: “Kid, I’m so tired,” Rowena whined, trying to claw back the sheets he had pulled from the bed.

At First Sight: Nearly a month at sea had passed and Killer still knew next to nothing about Y/N, just like everyone else, Kid included much to his annoyance.

Rowena's Future Vision: Eustass Kid was no stranger to blood or gore, he was quite familiar with it, comfortable even.

Spoiling Killer WIP: You knew that the Massacre Soldier was one of the hardest working men you've ever met in your damn life.

TikTok AU - Killer Cook (working title): With the camera set in place, Killer dusted his apron and straightened his helmet one last time before pressing the Go Live button, muttering a quick, "It's show time," under his breath.

Modern AU - Messy relations (working title and tbh more of my daydream fantasy than something I'm seriously working on): The last of your boxes were unloaded into the empty garage and you took a seat on one letting out an exasperated breath.

Tagging: @cebwrites @goldenandhappy @zoro-kun @the-old-witch-writes @abysscronica @demonbanger @multifandomthoughts @icy-spicy @owlight @vinsmoke-vi

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

[allforthegaymes]

Neil playing striker meaning his job on the court is to prevent the ball from getting towards Andrew in the first place.

Neil who tried to prevent Prost from happening to Andrew by going to the Nest, trying to keep anything bad far away from Andrew. But instead at the Nest he’s forced to play backliner, representing that hes attempt to keep Prost from happening to Andrew failed, the ball metaphorically landing in the net.

Nicky and Aaron who play backliners, the last line of defense to try and keep the ball from getting at Andrew. Coming in later than Neil’s position as a striker, relying on Neil first to keep the ball far away, but stepping into their roles as protectors when it strikes too close.

Backliners being the players to get most aggressive, fighting with other players to protect the goalie.

Aaron being the one who brings the racket down on Drake.

Neil is there first, at the metaphorical ball, but it slipped past him, and Aaron is the one whose there to scoop it up and ricochet it back towards the other end of the court.

THE MURDER CHARGE AT LEGAL COURT REPRESENTED BY THE RED CARD ON THE EXY COURT

[cryptidkreates]

pov: you're nicky asking them to go to a social function after practice

[yeehawpim]

What is the will of a god to my hunger?

If you dare reach between my jaws trying to wrench Companionship and Happiness and Life from them, I will bite off your hand and swallow both.

Continuation of this au I have no name for lol

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

probably shouldn’t be laughing about this, but…

eubzlabakVia HAhfHahahHahhHayAH

THE JP SERVERS ARE OVERLOADED AGAIN 😭 First it was Jamil, now Ace…

I-Is this just going to become the new norm for every Relaxing in Room birthday… OTL

[wobubling]

Kori and Raven! I’m very fond of them

[illumi-nati-png]

The Magician

The solarium was a tiny tower, a fortress, a wizard's lofty lair thrust high over the Harvard campus, each of the many-paned windows looking out over the quaint dark roofs of Cambridge.

It looked like a place magic would happen. Which was another lie. Adam Parrish wasn't doing magic.

-Maggie Stiefvater

[taviacoolcat]

if i got disrespected like this i would end it all

[spoopy-nevermore-dump]

Annabel x Male Suitor Headcanons!!

She ignores your existence

[swampstew]

WIP Game

Thanks for the tag @quinloki - I have a few of these in drafts so I'll space them out between posting!

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it!

and then tag as many people as you have WIPs - or more!

TikTok AU

Draft

Tumblr draft 2

Tumblr draft 3

Aftermath

Untitled draft

Hickey Hockey AU

SDV x OP draft

Eustass Captain Kid OF AU

AU Khal Eustass Kid

Ro's FV

Modern AU

YC

Most of these are posted on Wattpad and AO3 and I will not make distinction on which is which😈

Tagging (no pressure doe): @mamaalpha @wyvernslovecake @demonbanger @greeneyedsigma @honey-deku @kaizokuniichan @lyndsyh24 @leakyweep @mewiyev @icy-spicy @sanjisprincesswifey @cebwrites @writing-yarn-goblin and anyone else who wants to play!

[lemonboyjosten]

feeling nostalgic over these covers.

(they are beautiful and they are 10 years apart btw. god bless @korakos for keeping the aesthetic.)

[gomzdrawfr]

wanted to draw Jelly and Ghost cuz I miss them

bonus with the rest of the bois + Raven and Price:

[riverstyxsarts]

QUICK SOMEONE PLAY TENNIS COURT BY LORDE

[shorthaltsjester]

there are literally no standouts in downfall because everyone sat down at that table and said hey you wanna see something cool and proceeded to Become their characters but idk if it’s because they’re beside each other and that aids the dynamic or just because it’s the delicious similarities and insurmountable distance between the god of death and the god of (in various ways) life but ayden and emhira’s interactions were so chewy and delicious. i’ll be thinking of their exchange fairly early on after ayden cast lesser restoration on that old man and emhira not cruelly but just simply stating “you cannot heal everything.” and ayden’s equally simple reply “we can always try.” emhira seeing the family trist has built and wondering at the presence of children, “surprised there is laughter in such a horrible place” and i know she’s speaking of hawk’s hill but i wonder if she is also speaking of exandria itself in some ways. the delicious space between in and out of character that only really happens in improv stories where as brennan is narrating and says “in this dark room” and nick interrupts and adds “it is not dark.” brennan’s incisive point in the cooldown that while the love that ayden and trist have for mortals and for exandria is warm and the kind of love someone would likely Want from gods, there is something maybe more honest or whole about emhira who says . actually these mortals are little shits that will kill you not because they fear you but because they hate you. whose very existence should be (and still often fails to be) a reminder that the gods can be usurped by mortals. the insight nick shared in the cooldown that ayden does not forget emhira’s origins but in a way dismisses them, that the god of death is a different beast. ayden wanting to find. way to save the people of aeor, insisting that the prime deities Win if they can find a way to do so. emhira reminding everyone that death is inevitable (and she does not add anything to clarify that she intends such a statement to only exist for mortals) as she argues for them to work to take down aeor and the people in it. the fact that the god with the most present connection to mortality is also the one given the most explicit clarification that she Is the god we know as SILAHA calls her the matron, brennan’s narration clarifies purvon is her champion, taliesin as asha asks for clarification on the recognition of emhira as a god and prompting the familiar spectre of a woman in a white mask.

i want to be very clear that when i say there are no standouts i Mean it because i’ve been awed and endeared and intrigued by every single character choice everyone made and as always brennan’s narration is so incredibly well suited for the mission impossible greek tragedy vibes that comes with this story and i’m so fucking delighted by the fact that laura, ashley, and taliesin are playing gods that their characters have known quite well in the past. i’m incredibly excited by what we’ve already gotten to see from abubakar, nashir, and nick and cannot imagine what other greatness is to come. i’m psyched to see the relationship between asha and the law bearer and am delighted that (perhaps for now perhaps for the whole arc) it is being seen through the lens of “my wife promised me a visit with apples and all i got was a rock ice emissary”. i also have many incoherent thoughts about the fact that, of the players who appeared as the same character in the opening and the story, taliesin’s ash and asha are the ones whose name remains the most unchanged.

i’m obsessed with the fact that this creature sent as a stand in by the god of law and duty believes his primary gift is love. while there is a certain mourning and sadness to every god we see, that SILAHA has a certain playful whimsy and jofyful curiosity about the world. that the only one of them who has been mortal before stops to steal an imp necklace from the neck of a drunk on the train (and that moment between brennan’s narration that this man will be dead by morning but, with death standing invisible in front of him, he is incapable of seeing it coming, and then laura as emhira breathing in deeply and brennan having that spark a coughing fit. they are Story Telling). asha seeing the erased image of a god, of a family member and saying “there’s a hole in all of us.” brennan narrating “this is a place where they tried to kill a story. it’s a very frightened thing to do.” (and god. the motif of fear. especially given the very present fear felt by the gods in current day exandria. they’re doing insane things in the critical role 3 part departure).

trist reminding ayden “he never tells the truth” and asha contesting “he only tells the truth, it’s just rotting.” emhira and asha both as perhaps the less Good™ much more neutral but doing so in such different ways, asha as bitter and hungry while emhira seems uncomfortable but there’s a familiarity and a certainty in her discomfort with mortality (the law bearer would also be included here but the emissary seems much more like trist and ayden (for now) than emhira or asha). something as insignificant as trist and her husband speaking to their children and affirming that little lies are okay while trist has lead a significant part of her life likely dishonest about who she is. the fact that there’s a certain childlike quality to the emissary who they’re all charged with ensuring makes it to the end of things even if they cannot. the fact that nahal (unclear which god they were, and i’m assuming it’s the first god of death but regardless still an absolutely compelling development in a short amount of time) in those opening moments is horrified by the concept of away which is unfamiliar to them only to soon after look upon their family and say. maybe away was better. Especially if those were words spoken by the god who would one day be replaced. these three episodes are going to haunt me and i’m excited to meet the ghosts.

[devilry-revelry]

Idk I just really love that Matt, Aabria, and Brennan were just like, “Do you guys wanna be friends and make fun stuff together?”

And then they did. And they trusted each other with their own creations.

I just think they’re neat.