#Red does not exist in rewrite canon

[descendantofthesparrow]

ROR is not apart of the Part of your world-rewrite universe as that version of the queen never leaves the isle when the barrier is altered.

[glitter-stained]

My very personal rating of every lazarus pit fanon side effects I've ever read, ranked from favourite to least favourite :

Tapetum lucidum (the thing cats have that makes their eyes gleam in the dark): that's so creepy and cool, eery in a more discreet way than a full-on glow, idk who hced that first but they are a genius

Contaminated blood laced with the lazarus protein: because our blood renews itself pretty often, this implies the existence of either a lazarus organ that continues to pump the lazarus protein in the blood, or, more probably, the contamination of one of the blood producing organs, maybe of the bone marrow, by the Lazarus pit. Like imagine the Lazarus Pit changing you down to the inside of your bone... The implications are so fascinating I'd love to read more about it.

Altered dna: this doesn't make sense, how does the magical healing pit change your dna, I love it so much, tell me more about the magic gatorade that rewrites dna

Accelerated healing/enhancements: what's funnier, that the pit gave Jason metahuman abilities like being able to withstand a meteorite and going toe-to-toe with Deathstroke (the wiki's words, not mine) and it was just never discussed, or that nothing Jason went through gave him these abilities that he really shouldn't have and he still does and it was just never discussed? I don't know but still, that stuff is top-tier

Glowing green eyes: on the one hand, eyes that glow when the person is feeling intense negative emotions (even better it's not just rage, like, imagine having a flashback or nightmare or getting fear toxined and their eyes glow and people think they're about to attack but they just scream that'd be so cool) but on the other hand, I feel like the colour is too limiting. Sure, Ra's or Riddler can fuck with the glowing green but come on, my girl Cass deserves eyes that glow gold (like the gold from the Batgirl suit). Jason deserves to have glowing red eyes. Cicero says that eyes are the reflection of the soul and while I love the idea of the lazarus pit being toxic, contaminating a part of the person's soul, in comics, a character's colour scheme is an essential part of their graphic identity, and I think altering it to the point of giving it a totally different colour is too much for my taste personally. Like, you are still the same person that you were before the bad thing happened. Yes, it changed you irrevocably, but you are still yourself and you should still have the right to your name and to the colour of your soul.

Lazarus Rage/Pit Madness: so I've seen this one criticized pretty often, often because of how unnecessary, and honestly probably damaging, to the understanding of Jason's character after his resurrection. And like, I agree, but also I've found myself to enjoy the fanon version of the Batfam. Like, I don't like that it's murky and confusing sometimes to figure out which is fanon or canon and that that leads people to judging canon actions from a standard of fanon information, and parts of it can be sexist or racist or classist, but the same can be said from canon, you have to be critical with what you consume. Basically to me there are two batfams and I consume both differently and enjoy both, and in the context of fanon I enjoy Pit Madness. The idea of uncontrollable, alien rage is fun, is angsty, and as someone with intense anger issues I'm telling you writing a lazarus rage episode was one of the most cathartic things I've ever written and it felt so good. I also think part of the upset on the subject is a bit undeserved because I see people complain that "the lazarus doesn't work like that because it didn't do that to other people" as if the way the lazarus pit worked made any sense. You're telling me this stuff healed Jason's malnutrition but it didn't fix his trauma? That it healed the Riddler's brain cancer but couldn't be bothered to fuck with Jason's hypertrophied amygdala and the fucked up connections between his amygdala and hippocampus??! Obviously we can't expect dc to know or care about science that much , but I still have the right to be nerdy about it. Jason went into the pit resurrected by God and with brain damage and Ra's said it was a plague and that could make him crazy, I fully believe he could have gotten Pit Madness even if the others hadn't.

Eye-colour change: that's the same thing as the glowing part but without the fun part, really dislike it. I need to be able to listen to I know these eyes/this man is dead from the Count of MonteCristo Musical while making up Under the Red Hood edits in my head please and thank you

Lazarus Pit brings people back to life: I hate it so much dc stop treating life and death so inconsequentially oh my gosh characters fighting life and death situations should not have a source of immortality right in hand I hate that lazarus resin lazarus toxin stuff they have right now and the idea that the pits can bring back to life plays into that idea so I really dislike it. I understand the appeal, it's the basics of coming back wrong with a side of rebirth in the water but instead of being purified it's being poisoned, but I just can't get over how frustrating it is to see a beloved character die and only be able to say I hope he doesn't come back for his own sake and then he comes back. Urgh.

[houseofthelilypads]

Shrek Princesses Rewrite Edition 🐸👑🍎👡😴💇

Based on my own headcanons & plans for their roles in my rewrite of Shrek 3. Because if I can redeem Artie and Charming then the ladies deserve that same chance!!

AND DORIS TOO >:[

Fiona

Had a private tutor during her time at the tower

When food wasn't available she took to eating lava bread and smoked rats and bugs

Is heat resistant

She did venture out the tower when dragon was away

Studied martial arts through books and watching on the magic mirror

Her friends often stopped by to visit her, but as they got settled in adult lives grew too busy

Fiona loves kids and hopes to give her own children a childhood she never had

Does carry some resentment towards her parents she only vents in private tho

She can sing but on a normal range. Any higher it well... The bird scene in the first film

She loves swimming and water activities partly due to being surrounded by lava half of her life

Her favorite colors are green and blue they remind her of nature and to her, nature = freedom

Has bleached her hair a few times

She makes mud based beauty products and sell them on the side

Still listens to Sir Justin's music and has been to his concert

Knows of Artie's existence; they bond a lot over their parental issues

Fiona mentors artie how to defend himself, he has some proficiency in martial arts

Inherited her red hair from her grandmother

The reason Fiona was an ogre is partly due to her father being the Frog prince and guess where frogs live?

It's also believed that one of fiona's ancestors actually married an ogre but VERY long ago; the curse just brought out her genes

Fiona loves to stargaze; she also collected obsidian and volcanic rock

Sleeping Beauty

Is in a long distance relationship with the Sandman

Her dress is green because that's the color her disney counterpart never wears

Is the last one to arrive at a ball and the first one to leave

She has beds in every room but is usually found sleeping on the floor

Doesn't want children because she's too exhausted and fears any potential kids might inherit her condition

She actually understands Fiona dating someone who isn't human nor royalty, she dates the freaking god of SLEEP

Has the most patience with Snow because she sleeps through her nonsense anyways

Just like the video game adaptation of the third movie, she has the power to summon an army

Was the most hurt by Rapunzel's betrayal, they were the closest due to their similar backstories and lack of a biological family

Rapunzel

Used to date another prince but he never came back to her tower so she eventually rescued herself. This is why she latched on to Charming in canon (and Bruce in my fanfic)

After getting charged with treason Rapunzel is made to serve community service. She hates it but considers it better than exile

She wears gold to match her hair

She owns a lot of wigs after suffering loss of her real hair (which she shaved off).

Cinderella

Cleans her own home

Lives in a smaller house compared to the rest

The others tease her for it but understands it's to make it easier for her to clean; having spent her whole childhood cleaning a giant estate

Is a master at blacksmithing and glassblowing; what she didn't JUST clean her home she had to do repairs too

Carries some cleaning supplies

Is VERY careful in leaving crumbs

Dislikes rats and cockroaches; she has a cat named Chandelier for this reason (my twist on Disney's Cinderella)

Is working to unlearn her people pleasing

has a better relationship with her stepsisters as adults

Her prince suffers from face blindness and as such gets her confused with other ladies. He even mistook Shrek for her

She doesn't mind kids but she rather work on reconciling with her stepfamily and heal from the abuse than pass down any baggage

The third strongest princess due to years of heavy lifting

Had the closest relationship with Fairy Godmother; was even considered a potential suitor for Charming but Cindy didn't like his vanity and immaturity.

When Cindy finds out about their plan to break up Fiona's marriage she is saddened but not surprised given Charming's past behavior

Snow White

She's my least favorite but I can explain why she acts like that

Developed an Ice Queen persona to protect herself

Living with seven bachelors rubbed off on her

Love rock music

Trained her animals to fight; found the larger animals surprisingly easier to tame

There's another Snow White but she is younger and has white hair.

If she ever sees her MGA doll irl she would be impressed that it's the only doll that managed to stay the most accurate to how she looks. She'd cut the hair

Does feel a little guilty for her mean girl attitude especially after it pushed Rapunzel away so post canon she works to be a little nicer

Her prince is actually the huntsman sent to kill her; he disguised himself as one to warn her of the evil queen

Still visits the dwarves time to time and even lets them live with her

Doris

Chose to reconcile with Cinderella after taking a good long hard look at herself

Is the girly girl of them all

The first thing she brought with her first paycheck was a purple dress, she couldn't afford the color after losing her home

Doesn't like to talk about her mother

After Fiona she is the 2nd physically strongest Princess

Knows every beauty trick in the book, every ingredient, foundation shade, even which brand of Lead

Shaves her legs using a sugar and lemon wax method, she doesn't use razors

She knows my OC Gwynn from when Gwynn was a teenager first arriving at the Poison Apple

She still has a crush on Charming, but tones it down after he starts dating Gwynn

Her friction with Mabel started after Doris expressed desire to make up wth Cindy, Mabel didn't see what they had to apologize for.

After Shrek 3 Doris works at the Candy Apple, which is an extension of the Poison Apple but FOR KIDS

[deafchild2000]

Okay, a few years ago, my mind played with some crazy and unique ways to explore or rewrite H2O characters (at most: Lyla being Dr. Denman's adoptive daughter and healthily researching mermaid magic.)

But I've cooled down over the years and settled on a few that make sense (Charlotte being a mermaid again under dubious circumstances - being one of them and Kim actually being smart and figuring out the Secret using photocopies of Cleo's diary before it was destroyed).

Or maybe I'm not above writing stories with second chances, but not without taking liberties such as avoiding dumbing someone down or giving credit where it's due.

So, I had this idea for a story I attempted but didn't quite publish. The context: What if Charlotte, Miriam, and Sophie were mermaids?

Considering I go back and forth between Reddit and Tumblr, I was surprised (and not) by the Antis and the ones willing to indulge in the characters - I ended up joining in too. But this idea was me really pushing the envelope, so to speak, and thinking outside the box. And another thing, I'm kind of not afraid to go into mature themes that exist in real life.

So why these three? Because everyone hates them, and the exact challenge of making them worth reading about is what I strive for. And since I do believe being in the Moon Pool alone is why Charlotte got three powers, then making her part of a group & dividing said powers avoids some problems.

Charlotte is the easiest of the three, she deserved better in character development and writing (and I'm not above laying blame on the girls for creating her antagonism, to begin with). If H2O had started off with the story of a girl finding out her grandma was a mermaid, it would have felt fitting as it would involve her meeting Louise and doing the supposed job of tying both generations of mermaids together. Essentially doing what S2 chose not to due when introducing a former mermaid having left a legacy behind. On that note, Charlotte is Cleo's foil, so she does get Hydrokinesis.

Miriam is...so fascinating! Between her and Sophie, it's so easy to imagine Miriam disliking having a tail to begin with. At best, she's unilaterally Emma and Rikki's foil (everything Emma's not and Rikki hates). With the Mean Girl/Ice Queen persona she had going on, I'm not too against the trope of her using being a mermaid for popularity but I imagine having Charlotte involved means the worst gets curbed. However, I do imagine the "One Drop" policy getting old pretty fast, and sick of it as well. It was actually pretty difficult (and felt generic), but in the end - I settled for Miriam getting Hydro-cryokinesis.

Sophie, Sophie, Sophie...Not gonna lie, getting the one who destroyed the moon pool for financial gain (and more of a villain than the other two) was when I knew I had my hands full! Not to mention, she's an ADULT! Not an elderly or a parent - an adult with bills to pay and a brother to take care of. And that's where I feel her arc should be (adulting and a caregiver who now has to deal with a tail). But because I don't mind taking liberties, I traced her actress back to her previous role (Rachel Samuels of Blue Water High) and that's where things came together! Overall, she does have hints of Emma but could be more dangerous than Rikki. So hydro-thermokinesis for her.

There's so much to this dynamic of the 2000s mermaids not being like anyone expected and the potential. Charlotte is the first to embrace being a mermaid while Miriam fights it every second she can (Sophie being between the two). Given what happened in Red Herring, I'm particularly fond of the idea both Miriam and Sophie have dyes in their hair and the transformation reveals their natural brunette and blonde tones. As an anti of Will Benjamin and his behavior with Bella in canon, perhaps exposure and learning how NOT to treat a mermaid from the source could go a long way. I'm definitely LIVING for Louise adoring Charlotte yet meeting Miriam and Sophie and having difficulty adjusting to someone like them being mermaids & far removed from what she, Gracie, and Julia were. How Zane fits into this as without Rikki, Miriam's all that ties him to her. Sophie's past and why teenage drama dictates Miriam be such a bitch (as well as whether Tiffany has a place in her life). Or better yet, Lewis was the researcher, so is he obsolete from this AU or can he be brought in? Does Miriam have an Elsa episode where she freezes everything?

I can't promise Linda Denman or other likes in canon, but like lightning - some things don't happen twice without reason.

But main question: Why would these three meet? Charlotte and Miriam make sense, Charlotte moving a year early isn't hard to do as well as placing Miriam with Zane & Nate and having her steal the spark plug. Given the lack of background on their folks, Sophie and Will moving to Queensland is easy to arrange with the right backstory. So in the end, it all goes straight to the beginning - the Pilot.

(And where are the original girls? Given the effect this AU would cause, a lot gets undone. Cleo and Emma were already friends, just not likely to meet Rikki - whose actions triggered the events of canon to begin with! So at best, side characters who interact but don't influence the narrative as much...possibly.)

[the-interidiot]

Inspector, what his deal is, why he exists and why I RP with him.

Since I’ve gotten back into RP and have pulled out of the closet my old roleplaying character and his lore, I thought I’d finally. Explain him? Since a few of my moots are people I RP with occasionally.

WHY I MADE INSPECTOR

[not important. just. kind of an interesting story. This is. VERY long, so if you just care about current inspector and not the IRL backstory, skip to the red part.]

So. Inspector was originally made a BMC oc. Yeah, that’s why he’s so weird. Originally he was SQUIP OC, when those were more popular, and was made for a whole roleplay group of 15 or so other peoples SQUIPS.

Originally his whole shtick as a character was that he has an almost infinite knowledge of anything he wanted (in the moment he wanted it, though it was often faded away once not needed), in exchange for being able to remember no details about himself. Essentially reverse Mrs. Holloway ahh deal.

There was some other role player [who I’ll call DS for the sake of this], whose whole thing was that HIS SQUIP could jump dimensions. It was admittedly a really overpowered concept for a BMC oc, but we were all little thirteen year olds. 🤷

DS teamed up with Inspector so they could become a weird like. Alliance against this one dude who was evil that I don’t remember? I think it was a malware character. DS could jump dimensions but not know where to go, and Inspector could tell him but not teleport on his own. Well one of these days DS had been in some. Betrayal w/ another character and halfway through teleporting tried to kill Inspector by portaling him into ‘white space��, which was death for the RP.

Inspector’s code got completely destroyed, and when he came back - which took a while (and was a nice offline time IRL for me), he was weird and glitchy, but his power had went to the extreme. He could hold intelligence of all dimensions, though he no longer had omnipresent intelligence. Just more than normal. But on the base scale, his drawback went from ‘I can’t remember myself’ to ‘I cannot form a real personality’.

The next part was super long so summing it up. Started working for some other girl. Replaced his eye and got cool new arm. Made his whole brand after the girl and formed an honestly pretty codependent relationship with her. The girl was a dick. Kept the branded eye. Felt like shit about it. Eventually unplugged himself from the SQUIP database, got a new eye, and left for good. I stopped the RP with that (or at least Inspectors story), and he faded into obscurity.

SO. WTF IS HIS DEAL NOW?

I kept some of the original story, but tried to make it more… general? His story rewrite was intentionally vague so it could apply to any fandom.

Inspector is something. Not a human, something.

He can traverse dimensions and has a good base knowledge of any universe he travels too once he arrives.

He’s not immortal, but dying is weird for him, so dying actually often makes him more knowledgeable when he comes back. But it takes him a LONG ass time to come back sometimes, and his emotional memory is muddied for a few weeks. Temporary grey memory.

Gets recruited by a interdimensional protection group for his abilities.

This part runs the same as his original story, he idolizes his boss and gets a branded outfit and fakr eyepatch in her brand. (For the aesthetic. Pirate stuff. Kind of.)

She sucks ass and he dies a shit ton because he sucks.

When the group is attacked and threatened with being erased, she pushes Inspector into the crossfire. The company dies anyway, he survives, and falls out of reality.

Fucks up his eye. It stops obeying the laws of reality.

He ends up actually needing the eyepatch. After a few years accepts he can’t really reclaim his identity and starts dimensional hopping.

Anywhere he shows up adds to his lore in that fandom, but in fandom stuff is boring and not something I’m going to use to make this post LONGER. Just know every RP he does (per fandom) is canon. So every HF role play is canon to HF Inspector. Every BMC role play is canon to BMC inspector.

uh. tagging two of my moots who. even know this fella because even if you dont respond to it i at least would like to tag somebody so i know at least one person read (part of it). since this took. literally honest to fucking god 40 minutes. @ashtxeman @crossnamara

[semi-imaginary-place]

umineko ep7 pt2

Slaps roof of character wow they get so many names and character designs and personalities/personas. We got ushiromiya lion and the red suit. Clair the white ghost witch who has the role of urban legend beatrice who also shows up as elder sister gold Beatrice in .. ep5? And then chick younger sister beatrice. Then we got the og italian beatrice, and her incest daughter kuwadorian beatrice2. Oh yeah and gaap is also a beatrice. Lion and beatrice have gold hair why does shannon have dark hair.

Natsuhi and battler are so right, go get rudolph's cheating two timing ass. Rudolph being all torn up about battler hating him and cheating, and kyrie is out there popping off champagne and dancing on asumu's grave. It says something that 12 year old battler was more emotionally mature than kyrie. Kyrie to some degree even resented battler and hated asumu enough she was resolved to kill her. Battler meanwhile doesn't hold rudolph's decisions against ange and even admires kyrie. 12 year old battler shouldn't have carelessly promised things he couldn't keep. forgetting about what he said is so 12 year old core. In a way you can think the ushiromiya family incident as rudolph's fault. It sounds like shanon was more infatuated with the idea of marriage than any one boy, like girl you agreed to marriage at 16. Also something insidious about george probably wanting marriage for children to continue the family line and what not and idk if shanon is even capable of pregnancy. In the long run 6 years is pretty short, it just so happens to be at a critical time in a kids life, Rudolph didn't get to see battler grow up. Shannon high off copium deluding herself that this is all a test of her love that the longer battler stays away the more devoted he is. vs. the reality that like most 12 year olds and he forgot and didn't think it was important.

Huh white beatrice took on shanon's love for battler. She just made kanon??? You can do that? Scary. Shanon so repressed she made an edgy emo boy alter. And then clair remade her form to be battler's exact type, which just so happens to look like og beatrice. Or did she rewrite og beatrice's appearance? white beatrice changing her hair color still doesn't explain why shanon and lion have different hair colors. Unless yasu's hair was originally gold but in making the shanon servant persona they changed the hair color from gold to black/brown. Beatrice 2 3 is also classic anime 1 drop of white blood makes your family white forever (see ann takamaki) where as in reality 1 european parent 1 east asian parent always (excluding rare mutations) ends up with dark haired children like you get a dark chocolate brown at lightest. So beatrice2 (F1) being blond is almost impossible. I'm not even going to think of why kinzo has white hair or the ushiromiyas in general have light hair i heard someone say this is just for audience interest where in universe everyone has black hair. So at best bea2 would also be dark haired with recessive alleles. And then incest backcrossing to the same dark haired alleles means it's still impossible for bea3 to have blond hair. Which brings it back to blond lion unless that is just visual design and not canon.

Ah the epitaph was to decide whether genji would reveal yasu or not.

The thing is battler doesn't know beatrice exists so even if he did come back he wouldn't love her. The one battler has a past and relationship with was shanon. In taking that love from shanon they doomed it. Also i get they're a hivemind thing but it's kinda disturbing that emotions can be cut and pasted from one person to another

Weird that the translation is using a mix of romanized and japanified names but very few of the actual taiwanese names which are mandarin chinese. Like the translation uses Tansui when it's actual name is Danshui which is an actual place. The eng translators probably don't know but replacing existing names with japanese ones is one of the main tactics of japanese imperialism and colonialism to forcefully assimilate the population, cultural genocide and all that.

Not genji dressing her up to be presented to kinzo, feels sooo bad. Ok i wasnt sure which version because this beatrice acts like shannon but is being narrated by clair. But kinzo's line about your face and voice resemble your mother part i want to throw up. Get away from them, i must protec. Yeah sure you carry beatrice's blood but you're also 3/4 kinzo. Every line out of kinzo's mouth just gets worse! Die right now. Hell is too good for kinzo. Making them cosplay as their dead mother is so messed up. Kinzo was a bastard until the end didn't natter that he was ruining someone else's life or dumping massive trauma on them or that they'd been a servant since 6 and so many labor laws broken like child labor little rest nor vacation verbal abuse with holding food, noo all the mattered was making himself feel better.

First order as head: i quit. I guess this vaguely makes the george shanon relationship better, even if it's beatrice side that became the master the one with love for battler, and not shanon. Although really now that bea/lion/shanon/yasu (i hate this series most confusing identities ever!) knows, why didn't you choose someone who isn't a cousin/nephew. Oh wait i just realized they are 19 i remember earlier they were talking about faking yasu's age. In some ways the george relationship makes more sense. Shanon/clair/beatrice is so passive about their life. She hands over the position of head because they don't want to decide anything, leave everything up to fate and go where fate takes her. George offers that kind of certainty were he decides things for shannon and she goes along with it.

I dont get whats going on are clair and will undoing the previous episodes and murders?

Yasu/shannon/beatrice/clair/etc. (am i missing any?) is soooo normal. Girl splits her persona when her preteen crush ghosts her that's not a healthy response. She is not coping well. Shannon chooses george to tell her how to live and what to feel (not dissing lifestyle subs or anything but girl what). She sets up a bomb to blow up the island with an elaborate serial murder plot. Girl is mentally unwell. Oh yeah and then kinzo trauma dumps and makes her spiral. Oh yeah and kanon. I cant tell if their character is meant to be coded with dissociative identity disorder like maria is autism coded or not. They need therapy, and feminism. Actually all the ushiromiyas need therapy and feminism.

Gun safety everyone. This is why you store guns and ammo separately, don't fight over a loaded gun, and don't put your finger on the trigger unless you plan to shoot. Wow hideyoshi "let's hide the murder and bodies". Something about that fascist gold fever making everyone go crazy and murderous (except erika who's already deranged, and battler who's battler). You don't even need the explosion plot you can always lie and say krauss and natsuhi got in an argument about hiding kinzo's death and the inheritance.

Damn kyrie killing everyone is cold blood. Forgot she's a yakuza heir. She really lets hate rule her life. Asumu's gone so she just transfers her hatred into battler. Kyrie and rudolph a match made in hell, they're both terrible people. I've honestly checked out of all the main romances (battler beatrice, george shannon, jessica kanon). the most interesting are eva hideyoshi which is girlboss + malewife but they're both deeply sexist. And kyrie and rudolph, they're such terrible people but they really do match each other and make good partners. I'm not sure rudolph and kyrie are on the same page. Oh that's how eva survives makes what happens with ange more painful given what she accuses eva of.

Eva is the luckiest person alive. The ange angst train continues. Wow kyrie might be an actual psychopath (the actual clinical definition not the pop psych twitter definition), utterly self centered and self serving, kinda impressive but wow. The truth huh, the inside of Schrodinger's catbox. I guess battler won in the end with the anti witch anti magic hypothesis. But battler isn't dead yet. And of course ange's fragment of miracles is one where kyrie and rudolph succeed in massacring everyone.

What does that red scene mean?? Beatrice is reluctant about kinzo's "feelings" ew this better not be incest round 2 with beatrice3. They hate their body because of a terrible injury which she describes as unable to love. Or is this beatrice2.

Given kyrie's love for ange turned out to be a lie i wonder about her relationship with rudolph. Maybe it was pragmatism afterall it can be pointless to love someone who's dead and kyrie sees thing that way but I've never met anyone with that degree of control over their emotions. Most of the time when people can control emotions it usually is just repression ignoring and stuffing down emotions rather than changing them. Less often people are talking about indirectly affecting their emotions like rewarding yourself with a cookie to bring your mood up or leaving an environment that is making you angry I've never met anyone who can turn love on and off like a light switch. Kyrie admits to testing rudolph so i do think it possible she would have killed him too if he'd been unable yo murder george and battler. Which makes me wonder if she did love rudolph in her own way as much as she was capable of. The two certainly got along well, had good chemistry, and seemed well matched in dispositions being able to keep up with and push each other, similar hobbies, etc. or was rudolph an achievement, a possession, a trophy husband for her. Kyrie did devote 18 years to getting him but it almost to me seemed more about destroying asumu for daring to get in the way of what kyrie wanted. The other thing is why does kyrie twice now monologue about her motives. Flipping the chessboard bern shows it to torment ange. But what about kyrie to vent? To distress her opponent?

[grapesforknux]

•°`Sonic and TMNT 2012 crossover headcanons•`°

|| Okay, so this is my first ever Tumblr post, so I hope this is good cause I've been rewriting this way too many times😭. Anyways, I've had an idea of this crossover for YEARS, and I finally decided to at least write a little bit of something for now, since I am working on this story idea, and hopefully, I will either write a fanfic or make a comic about it. Both are my childhood so yeah :)

|• Warnings: Angst

|•No shipping, the friendships are purely platonic, except for already canon crushes (like Sonic and Amy).

|•I hope you like it, and please enjoy :)

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•Home.

•Friends.

•Duty.

•Can all three terms ever be satisfied, without hurting one another?

•I wonder...

•Well... This is a sight to behold.

•A bunch of colorful mutants...?

•At first, our turtle boys would probably think our Mobian friends were mutants

•quite... adorable, for some odd reason

•mutants weren't usually cute

•well, there are exceptions of course (as Mikey had pointed out, **cough, cough, the sweetest orange masked turtle in the sewers EXISTS, if you didn't know**)

•wow...so it turns out they aren't mutants but rather... aliens?

•a colorful bunch indeed

•what now...?

•L:"For now at least, until we figure out what to do, they will have to stay in the lair with us."

•typical

•L:"Sonic, what part of 'stay in the lair', you didn't understand?!"

•Mikey was the first one that started liking them without thinking twice

•especially that cute bunny and that cool pink girl who wields a hammer twice her size

•bonus: Mikey tried Cream's delicious cookies and started cooking with her every day

•I mean how cool is that??

•Raph was the most difficult one to win over

•And what does that red punk with huge fists think? That he is stronger??? Let's see.

•needless to say that they had banter every day

•Donnie kept his distance at first, but he couldn't stay away from the genious fox boy

•he actually admired how an 8 year old could have such mechanic and engineering skills

•Over time however, Raph warmed up to everyone, as expected

•Okay, maybe that Knucklehead isn't that bad...

•And maybe that pink girl isn't annoying, but rather... comfterable to be around, once you get to know her.

•And maybe, just maybe he had warmed up to that rabbit and her little pet. Don't tell anyone that he had a tea party with her to cheer her up.

•Last but not least, there was Leo, who couldn't deal with Sonic's attitude at all.

•despite the similarity in color, they were polar opposites

•How was he supposed to lead the team twice it's original size (that was already hard to deal with), when that blue hedgehog on steroids keeps rushing into things without thinking??

•Who does he think he is??

•however eventually, they started getting along better

•Leo got used to Blue Blur's nature, and started using it to their advantage on missions

•Thank God they will be leaving at some point...

•They needed to escort them back home somehow

•no big deal right?

•not in the beginng at least

. . .

•Let's just say that the kitchen of our mutant boys got greatly...expanded when Cream and Amy came along.

•And boy, Mikey acctually learned how to make an edible pizza!

•Well, at least they are helpful around the lair.

•Sonic: "Hey, Mikey, what video games you got there?"

•Knuckles: "Dude, why is Mario trapped within a videogame???"

•Amy: "There are video games about US???"

•Tails: "A WHOLE SERIES????"

•Out of everyone present, Knuckles somehow ended up panicking the most

•Existential crisis is on the way, so beware

•It took them some time to process everything, but soon everything calmed down

•as much as it could at least...

•not that they understood how and why were they promoted as beloved video game mascots

•but they would soon forget about it when they go home anyways...

•home...

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L:"Okay... These little ones may not be that bad after all..."

M:"Hah! Told you you guys were just being grumpy!"

R:"Oh shut up Mikey, you could be friends with a dumpster with that blind kindness of yours."

M:"Hey! I was right this time! Plus, I'm sure you don't mind Cream's cooking, do you?"

D:"I agree. You can't deny the fact that they all helped out a lot in the last few months. Tails is an absolute genius."

M:"Yeah! And you also can't deny that Raph acctually warmed up to a certain pink hedgehog lady..."

. . .

R:"...I wonder will I kill you now or after we get the pizza?"

M:"LEO, HELP! RAPH'S CHASING ME AGAINNN!!!"

L:"Aw come on Raph, you don't have to hide that you acctually managed to make a friend who isn't one of us."

D:"Two of them acctually. I saw you having a tea party with Cream."

D,M,L:"AWWWWW..."

R:"DONATELLO HAMATO, YOU ARE SO DEAD, RIGHT AFTER I FINISH WITH MIKEY!"

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A:"It's been a while since we've been alone after arriving here."

T:"Yeah. I mean, as much as I like the turtles, I've missed being with you guys."

C:"I like the turtles. They are very kind, aren't they Cheese?

K:"Mostly. That red idiot was nothing but kind at first."

A:"So were you when we first met you."

K:"..."

A:"Yeah! In fact, both of you can be equal knuckleheads at times."

S:"I don't know Knux, he reminds me of you a lot."

K:"Oh, shut up already..."

C:"But you and Mr. Raphael seem to be getting along better than before. I'm sure you don't think anything bad of him."

A:"I think he isn't a bad person. He is just a little... impulsive, that's all. But he has a huge heart just like Knuckles does!"

. . . .

T:"Hey Sonic. You seem a little zoned out."

S:"Just taking in the view little buddy. This place sure has it's charm."

T:"Yeah. It does."

K:"And what about you Sonic? Leo seemed quite pissed at you at first."

L:"Hm? I didn't notice."

K:"Well, maybe it's because of your inability to stay still and do what he says."

C:"I'm sure Mr. Leonardo isn't mad anymore."

S:"Yeah. He seems to be accepting the facts, huh?"

T:"The sooner he does, the better...

S:"But... I may slow down just a little bit. Gotta let him catch up right?"

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•R:"Hey Pinkie. I know... I might not say it that often but... Thank you for dealing with my temper. Not even my own brothers want to do it sometimes..."

•A:"Aww, you act all tough, but deep inside you are just the sweetest cinnamon roll, arent you?"

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M:"My brothers think I'm too air headed to be considered an important part of the team..."

C:"Are you sad about it...?"

M:"Maybe..."

. . .

C:"My friends don't want to take me on adventures with them... They say It's too dangerous for a child."

M:"So we're both tired of being the outcast?"

C:"Mhm."

M:"Want to prove them wrong together bunnie?"

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D:"Hey Tails...Do you...ever get tired of being the one everyone relies on for answers?"

T:"...Not really. I think you are lucky. I wish my friends relied on me more..."

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R:"Don't you dare tell anyone that I acctually played dress up with you."

C:"Don't worry Mr. Raphael. It's our secret forever and ever."

R:"Okay, yeah, whatever. And please, just call me Raph..."

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L:"Hey. I have a question."

S:"Sure bud. What is it?"

. . .

. . .

. . .

L:"How do you never get tired...?"

S:"What do you mean?"

. . .

L:"I mean... You seem like nothing in this world can stop you. Don't you ever get...scared?"

. . .

S:"Tell me... If you were to watch a movie, and you knew everything that was going to happen...

Would you still enjoy it?"

. . .

L:"Probably not..."

S:"Exactly..."

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K:"Hey... I know we didn't start off that well but... If we're gonna be on the same team, we'll have to function, wether you like it or not."

. . .

R:"Yeah. I'll keep that in mind, Knucklehead."

...............................

A:"...You know, it's crazy how they are so similar, yet only they fail to notice that."

S:"It's just a part of their hotheaded charm..."

C:"But why can't Mr. Raphael and Mr. Knuckles get along...?"

. . .

S"Don't worry kid... they will. Just give them time."

_________________

"Tell me. Do you ever get scared?"

"Of what?"

. . .

"Letting go."

. . .

"Maybe..."

________________

"I cant wait to go home again!"

.

.

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"I hope mom is doing alright..."

.

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"Master Emerald isn't gonna guard itself you know...."

.

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"It's nice working in here, but sometimes, I miss my old workshop..."

.

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.

"Mobius is my home. But as long as I can keep running... I don't mind staying here."

•It's wierd.

•Things really change fast huh..?

•In the beginng, we could barely stand eachother.

•I prayed that you guys would soon be gone from our lives.

•Even though I never said it out loud.

•Maybe it was my own insecurity.

•My inability to lead the team properly.

•You weren't close to anything we've encountered before.

•How could someone be so pure and kind, as if this world wasn't full of hatred and hardships?

•It felt unreal. As if you came out of a fairytale.

•Your behaviour, the way you guys saw the world, the way you talked...

•It was something you could only see in a child here.

•I was scared.

•How will we get through this..?

•How will we take you back home...?

•I didn't know.

. . .

•But that wasn't the only thing I didn't know...

•I didn't know that a bunch of colorful animals would grow close to me and my family.

•You became our family.

•We shared everything.

•And as time passed by, I suddenly didn't want you to leave anymore.

•You guys weren't that bad after all...

•

•

•

•But you had to go.

•You belong in your home.

•With your people.

•You were unsafe here.

•Everyone wanted to go.

•I know it wasn't easy for them to say goodbye.

•But I could also see the joy on their faces once you guys were able to finally see your home after so long.

•But you.

•You were the only one who said you wouldn't mind staying here.

•As long as you had somewhere to run.

•I wondered how. How could you say goodbye to a place you've created all your memories in, just for a glimpse of freedom?

•I couldn't understand then.

•I probably never will.

•But that is something I always liked about you, hedgehog.

•I sometimes wonder.

•Will I ever again encounter a friend like you?

.

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.

The day you left, Raph cried. Mikey didn't hesistate to cry in front of you. Donnie kept his cool as well.

But as we were saying our final goodbyes, I could see it on Donnie's face. He wished you could stay just a little longer. He didn't want his two tailed friend to leave.

But you left.

The lair was now just as it was before you. However, it still felt empty.

Later that day, I passed by Raph's bedroom.

I could hear muffled sobs. I didn't want to go inside.

I knew how much it would hurt his ego, so I stayed away. I would talk to him when he calms down. But I knew who he missed the most.

Donnie was mostly in his lab, engrossed in his work. However sometimes, when I would go to get water late at night, I would see him making a board of our pictures for his wall. He was putting great effort into it.

Mikey would often cook by following the recipe book Cream made for him. He was determined to improve. He once asked Ice Cream Kitty would Cream be proud of him. I'm more than sure that she would.

Things came back to normal as time passed by.

Life goes on, and that's something that Master Splinter always told us, and I always tried my best to follow that philosophy.

Funny how both you and our father had the same mindset.

Life goes on.

•No... We aren't mad at you.

•I am not mad at you.

•I can only be mad at myself.

•I just wish I appriciated you more, while you were still here...

[sadisthetic]

jaya string of fate au

ive mentioned string of fate au a few times here. ive finally put it together into a post. okay so the reason why ive taken so long to transfer this is bc ITS FROM JULY OF LAST YEAR. i wasnt sure if i should lightly edit it or rewrite it. because it started out as me complaining about rebooted and then me fucking craving fanfiction and hurt (i do this 24/7) and then it morphed into this au that also doubled as character/relationship analysis and me fixing rebooted with my bare fucking hands in the context of this au

anyways. jaya string of fate au with emphasis on the heartbreak of s3. half of this was written half a year ago. man i was so mad about s3 back then lol

been thinking about s3 again. whats even more frustrating about the bad het drama. is that they didnt even give jay and nya a proper break up. granted their get together wasnt on screen either BUT IF YOURE GONNA OH SO RUDELY TEAR THEM APART LIJE THAT. THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS DO IT WITH MORE FUCKING PURPOSE. THE WRITERS JUST PITCHED A WRENCH INTO THE WORKS AT BULLET SPEED JUST BECAUSE! JUST BECAUSE THEY WANTED DRAMA. BUT FOR WHAT!!!!!!!!! MAKES ME FUCKING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL IT DID IS DO JAY DIRTY AND NYAS CHARACTER DIRTY

nyas fucking integrity spit on. you didnt have to make her be like that. it just really fucking made her look BAD. god i wont say jay was a perfect boyfriend but he didnt deserve THAT.

anyways. i want a canon compliant jaya breakup fic set in s3 (present jem speaking: I STILL WANT THIS BY THE WAY.) im so certain nobody has written this. i think heartbreak could be a form of whump if you make it hurt enough.

well. technically. it would be more emotional hurt fic rather than whump. but im a guy who has his definitions twisted. this is whump to me. also im a guy who thinks unromantic things as romantic but also loves love thats void of romance above anything else. i can do both. anyways.

i want jay to feel absolutely crushing heartbreak. i want jay to be hurt. i want him to feel it in his chest. unfairness— rending, jealousy— twisting, want— squeezing. all he yearns for is to be with nya. because he loves her. but apparently... nya doesnt feel the same way. and it hurts

i want to consume heartbreak. i think itll be crunchy on the outside but soft and squishy on the inside. absolute chewable pleasure. lightly salty and bittersweet. i also wanna squeeze jays heart like a stress ball and maybe cause arrhythmia. scratch it a little (a lot). jay is my emotional and physical fucking chew toy

and so to make heartbreak a bit more whumpy tho... i thought up of red string of fate au...

in this version of this concept, the red string of fate is something that needs to be tied by the pair together. and the feelings behind it is what gives the string color. but sometimes if a love is fated to be, the red of the string is instantly, intensely vibrant, almost glowing 

but you dont know who your soulmate is until you actually get together and tie the knot. it is not preexisting, the string does not connect people together for them to find each other before they even know the other exists. it only exists when two people make the decision to bind each other to themselves. most people dont find their soulmate but because its so often the case ppl are content with someone who isnt bc you dont need to find love in your soulmate alone, love is abundant in other places. but that isnt to say the red string of fate isnt romanticized in society tho. anyways. nya likes jay and their string is a pleasant warm red thats a little pink. its typical color for those who arent soulmates but its ok

jay is a little smitten in a slightly overbearing way tho. i think they are a couple who are a little bit mismatched in terms of showing affection. and also nya is very independent type so jays chivalrous tendencies grates on her a little but she lets it slide bc to her, jays positives outweigh his negs. hes cute and funny and they both can geek out and bond over tech stuff. thats a part of the fun. 

but then the match maker thing happens and nya doesnt immediately start considering cole as a romantic interest. but she does start... considering things tho. why cole could be her match. and if he really is her soulmate. why isnt jay her perfect match? its less nya becoming interested in someone else and more nya examining herself to think about what she actually wants for herself and what she wants in a person and if jay really isnt the right guy for her in the end. she doesnt know if cole would actually give her what she wants more than jay does. but she does grow more aware of the mismatch between her and jay

but before anything could be done about her doubts and dismiss it all and just carry on with their relationship, jay finds out in the trailer and is devastated. and intensely jealous of cole.. because hes been a bit insecure about his and nyas relationship for a while now also. he jumps the gun too quick before nya could reassure him so then that Fight happens and things get messy and ugly really fast. jay makes himself look really bad in front of nya which unfortunately reinforces her doubts in jay and she thinks. maybe they shouldnt be together after all. 

and so one night nya talks to jay alone. she explains herself. how shes been feeling about them. how she wants to focus on herself. and that hes too much for her and hes stifling her and she thinks it would be better if they cut things off and go back to being friends. and then she cuts the string that binds them together before jay could even object. it stings for nya but for jay it feels like his heart was sliced in two. literally. he feels a sharp pain that makes him clutch his chest. for nya, she had more time to process the severance. because she was sorta falling out of love for a while. her side of the string has become desaturated and dull. which is why she doesnt hurt as much

she doesnt realize how much jay truly loves her and how much it would hurt him when the string was cut. so when jay falls to his knees, tears falling, she just turns and walks away because she thinks its just from the heartbreak. she knew she was breaking jays heart

she doesnt realize how much hes literally hurting, how she left his heart bleeding. she knew but she didnt know. its most painful experience jay has ever felt in his life. a searing ache. theres a sudden painful void instead where there once was nyas love. its loss that was much too abrupt

heartbreak cant kill a person but it can leave them wounded. and with an abrupt disconnection like that, its why jay hung onto those feelings for nya for months after even tho he never acted on them. his half of the string refused to wither away and he didnt want to discard it either. how could he when he still loved nya. but he couldnt do anything about it though. nya made up her mind. and jay knew her well enough that she would probably hate him more if he chased after her. and so... he kept his feelings close to his chest and his sad, loose thread wrapped around his finger tight all the way until skybound...

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okay. now present day jem speaking. that was the end of original story i had written on twitter... its meant to be a missing scene (inbetween seasons) fic + au. canon compliant except for the fact its set in this au. so skybound more or less carries out the same way. except minor details being changed...

such as nadakhan approaching jay. he tells him he cannot fix or create strings of fate. but he can give him other means of winning nyas heart... 

although this isnt a part of the “fic” i do imagine at the end of their divorce era.... nya who had casted away her old string, remakes her string to tie to the end of jays (and her) old one where she cut in. the thing is making strings of fate is something anyone can do regardless of being fated to be or not. what the string of fate is in this au is more of an oath... an intention to be together to the end of time. the two people are choosing to bind their fate to each other. nya, who had felt stifled in a relationship and decided she didnt need to be in one back all the months ago, realized something in skybound.... the string of fate isnt a contract or a shackle. not like how she thought... its a sentiment of how much you care about somebody to want to be connected forever. till death do us part. and jay very sincerely wanted that. he wanted to be with nya forever. and nya realizes... despite all his flaws, she really cares about him. she does want to be with him forever. she wants to be together with everyone, all her friends, her family forever. i think she doesnt know the nature of her feelings for jay. they are a bit conflicted and shes not sure how to sort out her desires from her feelings. but i think she decides to give jay a second chance of sorts. when they tie the loose ends the color on nyas side is an ambiguous grey barely tinging pink 

she tells jay she doesnt want to just get back together. she wants them to start over. and jay isnt sure what that means. and by the color of the string hes not sure if it means theyre dating again either. its a very ambiguous ground theyre standing on. but... jay takes the fact that nya retied their string to mean something. that nya isnt rejecting him anymore. that she cares. that he means something to her. it gives jay hope. his feelings for her havent changed... but he decides that to just be. and take things slow. hes happy even if hes confused by what nya wants. hes connected to her again.... and that means so much to jay

i think that their relationship from the end of skybound and onward is a bit more slowburn. well its a weird sorta slowburn. because theyre together but not really. its about them figuring their relationship out. and also nya falling back in love for reals. i love navigation of ambiguous relationships. i think for a while for nya the term “girlfriend”/“boyfriend” is more loaded than the term “soulmate”. thats how fucking weird their relationship got. whats not ambiguous is that nya does love him. she wouldnt have retied their string if she didnt. whats ambiguous is the nature of that love.... its not quite platonic but shes hesitant to call it romantic. whatever. they have time to figure it out

okay. that turned out so much more aro than i was intending. but i do like leaving it like that tho. feelings are difficult to navigate arent they sometimes? how they figure it out is up to whoever. love is love. they are more than “just” friends. but romance itself is a difficult and different beast than love. but jay and nya.... they meet halfway somehow. even if it takes a bit of work

ALSO. LOOK AT THIS ART BY DAN @rotten-dan he drew it for me several months ago when i first finished this au’s original thread which ended at the breakup skdjgthulkd. HEARTBREAK!!!!!!!!!!! YEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you again dan for drawing this for me 

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also. heres some bonus supplemental worldbuilding that doesnt pertain to story stuff but fleshes out how i picture the world in this au to work. most of this was written to answer dans questions about this au lol... not necessary to read unless if youre interested in my take of string of fate concept lol. or unless youre interested in the bit about bruiseshipping in this au at the very end

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the string is often attached to the ring finger. so its a very romantic gesture when couples tie it together to each others fingers. like putting wedding rings on each other but its more of a cute fluffy thing rather than binding. not ceremony but its a Thing. its the same level of formality as asking someone out. and string is like. supernatural. its not completely physical but its definitely exists and can be touched. but not as if a literal string is tied to them if you know what i mean? like if the pair are far apart then the strings middle isnt visible but the ends that are tied floats towards the direction of their partner. the string is like. metaphysical. its a perceivable, somewhat tangible representation of love

but if desired the string can be cut if the parties want to separate. but it usually hurts. like a lot of breakups do.

okay so. the thing is with like. almost all soulmate aus. is that they know about their soulmate. or that the evidence of who it is is instantly visible. and like..... that sorta kills part of the fun? of falling in love?

so what if they dont know until they decide to try each other out first. thats the like. the thought behind the set up for this

like. theres sometimes the occasional dumbass whos going off constantly try to find their soulmate but ultimately a soulmate isnt someone you can simply Search for and find. so those kind of people end up being pricks who never will find a soulmate in their life because they dont want to work things out with ppl who arent their soulmate. the pursuit of a soulmate will usually end in disappointment

but sometimes. for the people who do find their soulmate. its because they gravitated to each other in the first place. 

like they fell in love with each other naturally. they liked the person for who they are. and so they decided to get together because they enjoy the other person so much. so when they realize they are meant to be they laugh like oh of course! they were meant to be. theyre like the hallmark movie couple of couples and the few of the very lucky ones

not being soulmates doesnt mean you can only fall in love with your soulmate tho. you can fall in love with anyone. regardless of whether theyre your soulmate or not. and even if theyre not. why does that fucking matter? the important thing isnt that they arent meant to be, but that they love each other anyways. isnt that more romantic? fuck fate the one i love is you

usually nonsoulmate relationship take more work. because the instant perfect chemisty of fated couples isnt there. buuuut. isnt that how love is like in reality? love is work sometimes. love is sometimes hard. but love is also worth it. so making the decision to work for it is more easy the more youre in love. not always the case. but in the healthy couples its usually the case

previously that the feeling behind the thread gives it its color. so. the string can end up being a different color if the feelings felt arent romantic love. most people dont know this though bc ppl who usually tie it are couples. and also it takes both of them to tie the string. every single relationship has a theoretical string color. its just most people who actually want the string are couples usually couples. and so for example, most aros dont ever even think of trying to tie it with someone bc they dont want that kinda bind. but if a curious aro wants to try it out bc they are questioning about their best friend if the two of them agree just to see. their string could actually be a different color than red. because the feelings behind it are platonic

its also entirely possible for a string to be entirely black between enemies hfhjskl. but however those kind of pair would usually NEVER tie the string together bc you know hbghsk. enemies. but if they were. it would be that color. but maybe some insane enemies who are obsessed with each other would do it tho. you know fated enemies and such

..... i have thoughts about bruiseshipping in this au also. theyre best friends, they can bind each other if they wanted to. they have the mutual sentiment required to. but due to the culture surrounding the red string of fate specifically, they never think to. even if they did consider it once they didnt ever bring it up bc awkward!!!!!! the string of fate is the symbol of love. couples treat it a bit frivolously but it is a loaded thing. the string of fate is conversely isnt strictly about love but its just often the case when you want to connect the souls of two people for eternity its usually because of love. theoretically i think their string color would actually oscillate between black and their standard representative color (maybe ill go with light blue lol....) depending on if theyre fighting or not. because it would be funny if it did. also. i think they might try it only after jay and nya retie their string of fate. because then they see its an option to tie strings of fate nonromantically. so theyre like... hey.... do you wanna like... just see? and thats that. two besties bound. jay has two strings of fate now

hysterically it would be funny if all the ninjas did it to each other. it would be a mess. but a colorful one. you know those ship charts where ppl draw lines for their otps and notps. its like that but its not shipping its just relationships and also every single person is connected to every single other person. not saying it has to happen in this au its just that the image of it is so fucking funny to me i had to say it. it would be useful tho if they wanted to find each other wherever they are. practical

maybe they should do that. idk

anyways. thats the end of my au. the post is longer than my og thread of it hjhklkjlkghjf. anyways. thats my weird subversion of string of fate au for jaya. writing the endgame jaya part tonight made think again. damn. im so fucking aro. i think the way i write romance always turn out not so romantic because of it. but also. THIS IS PEAK ROMANCE. SUBVERT BORING ROMANCE TROPES INTO SOMETHING LESS AMATANORMATIVE AND MORE INTERESTING FOR YOUR ENRICHMENT. I RECOMMEND IT. ITS MORE FUN. thats my biased aro ass speaking tho. but for reals. subvert tropes. find out what makes something truly romantic. anyways thanks for reading all of this. i am very fond of this au..... especially for the breakup scene lol...............

[holly-natnicole]

Here's (a part of) the canon info on the Hunters of Artemis:

Artemis said: "My Hunters follow me on my adventures. They are my maidservants, my companions, my sisters-in-arms. Once they swear loyalty to me, they are indeed immortal… unless they fall in battle, which is unlikely. Or break their oath."

"What oath?" I said.

"To forswear romantic love forever," Artemis said.

"So you just go around the country recruiting half-bloods–"

"Not just half-bloods," Zoe interrupted. "Lady Artemis does not discriminate by birth. All who honour the Goddess may join. Half-bloods, nymphs, mortals–"

"Bianca, this is crazy," I said. "What about your brother? Nico can't be a Hunter."

"Certainly not," Artemis agreed. "He will go to camp. Unfortunately, that's the best boys can do."

"Hey!" I protested.

"You can see him from time to time," Artemis assured Bianca. "But you will be free of responsibility. He will have the camp counsellors to take care of him. And you will have a new family. Us."

"I pledge myself to the Goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt."

For the Hunters, all romance is a nope coz of their oath (dating a fellow Hunter is confirmed in T.o.A. to not be allowed). However, the way that the oath is worded in canon is foolishly heteronormative. I think it should be:

"I pledge myself to the God of Chastity, Ártemis. I turn my back on romantic and sexual companions, accept eternal celibacy, and join the hunt."

That way, there'd be no ambiguity over whether the Hunters of Artemis can date and/or have sex with people who are female or in some way gender nonbinary.

Additionally, Hippolytus existed; the Hunt should allow people of any gender & sex and age instead of being limited to perisex cisgender girls (although, most members would probably still be dyadic cis girls coz that's the democratic that has the most motivation to be celibate with a dyadic cis female God as their teacher, leader, & protector). Hence me replacing the word maidenhood with the word celibacy.

In my Alternate Multiverse rewrite of the 'Percy Jackson' (2005) franchise, Nico would get the chance to join same as Bianca instead of being dismissed solely coz he's a perisex cis boy (actually, my version of Ártemis doesn't assume anyone's gender based on appearance coz She has for centuries corrected people who assume Her to be dyadic cis male solely coz of Her masculinity & Apollo to be perisex cis fem coz of His femininity and has met plenty of Gods, demigods, mortal humans, nymphs, etc. who are agender or genderfluid or in some other way transgender).

In my version of P.J. 'verse, it's the (okay with romance and sex) Amazons who are the ones who have a "gals only" policy whilst the Hunters of Ártemis have a "stay celibate" policy.

(Obviously, not every cis girl, trans girl, trans lady, and cis lady joins the Amazons plus not every celibate person joins the Hunters of Ártemis. People can be fem without being an Amazon and choose celibacy without being a Hunter of Ártemis.)

Plus Ártemis Herself is a perisex cis aro ace masculine fem Greek God who enjoys archery, hunting, dancing, seeing vegetation, running around in the wilderness, and seeing wild animals (especially bears a.k.a. Ursidae and hinds a.k.a. does a.k.a. cis female deer which is a broad term for red deer a.k.a. Cervus elaphus, fallow deer a.k.a. Dama of Cervinae, roe deer a.k.a. Capreolus capreolus,white-tailed deer a.k.a. Odocoileus virginianus , & reindeer a.k.a. caribou a.k.a. Rangifer tarandus). Besides the Hunt, Vegetation, the Wilderness, and Wild Animals (especially bears and does) being Her domains, Ártemis' domains also include the moon, chastity, childbirth, and care for children.

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

Hello, I read and love your Chained Series but only now noticed the Major Character Death tag on the second one, since I moved from part 1 to part 2 without checking the tags/summary. I normally really really really do not touch Major Character Death, it just... well it just makes me really sad in a way i don't enjoy, to keep it brief, even when it's plot or story wise fulfilling a purpose.

This is in no way me asking you not to do it, it's your story, and that's how it should be!

But I was hoping if you'd be willing to give me some information around the MCD, who for example (or if this'll straight up be a bad ending overall), so I can emotionally brace myself because I really don't want to stop reading the fic, because it's really good, but going further into it blind feels daunting, in a way. I will of course not relay anything regarding the fic to others, that you might tell me (since idk how familiar you are with tumblr: there is a way to respond to asks privately in the ask-post settings, if you prefer).

If you're not happy doing this I completely understand, it's your story, but i figured it's worth asking.

I hope you have a nice day, and that the writing will be easy 👌

I would be quite happy to explain what I've got planed with that! I deliberately read spoilers for similar reasons all the time; I totally understand wanting to be forewarned and forearmed. Also I'm just happy to ramble about my fic lol :3 If ya gotta drop it, no worries, glad you enjoyed the first sections and I don't mind anyone takin care of themselves

You're probably not the only one who'd want to know so I'll just put all the spoilers in a read more:

First of all, I don't consider this to be a particularly dark story (though granted I don't consider Death Note to be a particularly dark story so uh your mileage may vary) nor do I see it ending in tragedy.

The planned deaths:

The Joker - So, he's not really a main character in this fic, in fact, he might not even get speaking lines, I'm unsure right now, but he's major in the comics so I'm counting it. It's not going to happen for a VERY long time but it is so pivotal to the functioning of a main emotional plotline that I don't know how I'd write around changing my mind about this one.

Captain Boomerang - Like the Joker, I'm not really even sure he'll get speaking lines, but he's important enough to Tim's other canon stories he makes the cut. Unlike the Joker, I don't actually know if he's going to die yet! At the end of Red Robin Tim tries to kill him but fails. I don't know if my older Tim will do it, but I am certain he'll go at least halfway through a second similar plan. Much will hinge on what I read of his interactions with Huntress.

Other assorted villains, such as Darkseid and the Batman Who Laughs - This will depend a lot on, again, my reading of how Tim interacts with the kind of violence Huntress brings to the table. It also depends a lot on how a few in-fic decisions shake out. Tim has to make the decision as to whether or not they kill more people than just the ones on his small list from the first fic and I've got a more solid idea for if he does than if he doesn't.

Roy Harper (and a few other Heroes) - He's not gonna stay dead though, none of them are. So, due to hesitance and fear of fucking shit up Jason and Tim aren't going to make some key decisions in time to prevent the whole "Heroes in Crisis" plotline from happening. Once they learn of this they are immediately going to start doing mad science to figure out how to resurrect people safely. And, of course, they have the power to time travel.

Jason Todd... Kinda. - An increasingly large and loud elephant in the room is gonna be the fact that Jason doesn't have to have died. Ever. In any timeline.

Tim could save him.

But of course that would mean rewriting the Jason he knows out of existence. There really isn't a clear cut moral equivalent to doing this? But I feel emotionally it would count as this/our Jason dying.

On the other hand if Tim refuses, he is deeply morally responsible for Jason's actual already happened death... but will have saved our Jason's existence.

Tim's decision of whether or not to save Jason's child self is THE emotional climax of the story. One of the main purposes of Chapter 12 was foreshadowing how each character will react to this very situation.

I can't put another read more, so if knowing the two options is good enough for you turn back now! And if you wanna know what Tim's decision is (I sure would!) scroll passed the two big pictures!

Tim refuses to save Jason's childhood self. He loves this Jason too much to emotionally withstand losing him. I have had this story beat and the resulting fallout planned for absolute ages and I'm 100% certain on this one. Frankly, timeline erasing the Jason we know and love would make ME cry too much to keep writing it lmao, so this one I can guarantee.

[phoenixkaizen]

Yeah I have decided to rewrite They Don't Know About Us. I'm going to be adding in Uta and then probably a bunch of stuff will change and would go by the original storyline of the fic before the reader vote. Pretty much, it's just going to be an entirely new fic of it's own, but does have a similar family dynamic.

So what I now have in mind:

Family Dynamic Changes: Rouge is still the daughter of Garp. I f'd up the ages in TDKAU so Rouge is actually OLDER than Dragon. Uta will be added into the mix of the kids of Shanks and Mihawk.

It won't follow any of the spin off one shots of We Are (Family)

Rouge isn't a WBP as long as she was before. She starts of as a Roger Pirate until later on around God Valley.

Shanks will be born on the Oro Jackson instead and raised on the ship. There will also be a certain event that will happen. He was still born in the West Blue.

The WBP do not form until after God Valley.

the backstories won't be individual like TDKAU but they are being rewritten and events will be changed from the original.

Rouge does NOT become the Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates (This is up for debate, I might end up changing my mind again xD)

Rouge will remain alive like in TDKAU, and eventually goes into hiding following Roger's execution.

The HUGE debate of wanting to add Shakky/Rayleigh having Mihawk as their son is there because why not xD highly unlikely I will do this.

Ace, Uta, and Luffy are all going to be biological siblings (Angel xD thank you for talking me into that xD)

Sabo will end up a member of the Revolutionary Army and the adoptive son of Dragon since well, Luffy isn't his son.

Ace and Luffy will still go by canon names.

Because of Garp, Shanks is believed to be an orphan that Roger and his nakama found.

Unlike TDKAU, pretty much everything following Marineford in the fic is going to be scraped and will not happen in this fic. Marineford will eventually happen in the fic as their get back together for the very very powerful family xD

Ace, Luffy, and Uta are all known for being on Shanks' ship but no one knows the biological connection.

I can't have an Ace fic without the Daddy Issues. Those still exist.

Rouge was born in the South Blue before her mother and father moved her to the East Blue where Dragon was eventually born. Ace is also once again born in the South Blue, Luffy in the East Blue, and Uta in the North Blue.

Unlike Film Red and the filler episodes, Uta is not left by Shanks or the Red Hair Pirates on Elegia. She does eventually leave the ship in pursuit of learning more about music. She is the only one of them to not have a bounty until much later.

The siblings are pretty close together in bonds. With the "death" of Sabo, it sparks Ace and Luffy getting closer.

more to come but I probably won't reveal it until the fic.

The fic's title: The World's Continuation

[yngai]

ON ADA’S LIFE AFTER RESIDENT EVIL 6, SOME RETRACTIONS / SOME ADDITIONS :

going forward i’ll probably walk back a majority of resident evil 6 canon divergence, for a number of reasons including that i’m too lazy to sit down & rewrite an entire resident evil game but also that as i’ve matured both as a person & as a writer i’ve come to better understand my issue with RE6 is that an it’s an incredibly interesting story told very poorly (where the chance of the characters wrestling with their discoveries is almost always whisked away by an overdrawn, jarring action set-piece that barely advances the plot) & the way to solve my issues is not removing some of the central themes of project ada but to attempt to make good on capcom’s blunder by adequately portraying them .  if you were to truly commit to rebuilding the game’s narrative from the ground up with ada in a leading role instead of a background one, then maybe some of my ideas would work but, again, who has the time to write endless drabbles about a stupid action-horror video game ?

joke’s on me, i have time

trigger warning, the following section contains mentions of implied assault, domestic abuse & forced pregnancy

my second reason is that i want to better work ada wong into the themes of resident evil 7 & 8, going in a direction for her character i’ve honestly never imagined myself considering but i think i stumbled onto a concept that’s a bit too good to pass up that involves making project ada just that little bit worse .  inspired partially by the series of files on derek’s transformation whose endnote detail the family’s plans to leave him for dead in china & usher in a new heir in his place, their displeasure & disappointment in him over all the wasted resources (& potentially the building of facilities in rival economies, his obsession with an asian woman, the family does exist to ensure global stability through white/western/american hegemony) spent chasing a docile, obedient substitute to a woman who will never love him back .  speaking of poorly told, by the by, the fate of the most powerful organization in the franchise after the death of its leader isn’t told to you in-game, you have to go to RE.net for it .

i doubt derek c. simmons was fully unaware that elements of the family were planning to oust him, he is meant to be the franchise’s overarching villain, with an heir prepared to take his role (a collateral descendant, i imagine), & his obsession with ada’s beauty & intellect, their compatibility as partners, tells me that he viewed her as more than just a showpiece to hang beside his throne, his desperation to have her back under his grasp because she, & only she, is worthy of being a mother to his child, of giving him a son that carries on his legacy, a child that bears their best qualities to lead the world into a future he envisions, him offering guidance from the shadows, clinging desperately to his power .  without a true heir, the coup would succeed even without derek’s death as him & carla had become a liability to the family’s ultimate goal & he is nothing if not a man made of contingencies .

i think you know where this is going .

of the many secrets ada finds through the lower levels of the quad tower, destroying carla’s final experiment & her research logs detailing neo-umbrella’s plans & operations, everything to do with project ada so that the theft of her identity is erased from stated record (though some reports from tatchi note the presence of two ada wongs based on cross-referenced sightings from BSAA personnel, plus, well one is dressed in reds & the other in blues, kind of hard to change clothing so often when you’re on the run from chris redfield), she uncovers a video diary of her doppelganger, one where she is constantly oscillating between extremes, between the happiness that derek, the one man who loves her most in the world, blessed her with the gift of motherhood & with a child that will show the world the love they share for each other & the other, the inner voice of the woman trapped within that screams to cut that thing out of her, take a knife & rip herself apart & spill its guts to show derek that she won’t allow his legacy to continue .  it sets the kernel of an idea she will build onto later, a child of her own incubating beneath the sea bed, a monster much like simmons, one that will destroy the world he’s created .

they stand at odds & fight as the logs go on with the inner voice ringing a hollow victory, carla realizing she can’t rid herself of the pregnancy, she has already done so much beneath simmons’ ever watchful gaze to ensure the world his & his family controls burns to the ground & failing to deliver the child would put her under too much scrutiny, she can’t allow her plans to fail .  the final few videos showing her, cradling a baby daughter in her arms, one final struggle between love & hatred that’s only decided when simmons enters the frame, enraged at carla’s failure to give him a son .  it’s wasted rage, he can’t afford to wait another nine months as the family accelerates their moves against him & ada averts her eyes the second she sees him raise his hand .  she’s seen enough, she knows what awaits in the dark laboratory that still stands in the quad tower & every nerve in her body tells her to run away, let it all burn down to cinders, but a pang of guilt pushes her forward, some kind of sick, perverted curiosity to uncover one final mystery that plagues her need to know everything .  a foregone conclusion whose answers & resolve she’s already internalized that she has to see through, for herself, for carla’s sake, for the ten thousand woman that suffered at her & simmons’ hand .

they wait for her, lost in a corner of the laboratory that has yet to burn, a room off to the side where something can be so easily forgotten,

whatever carla’s motivations were, the benefit of studying the offspring of a chrysalid mutant for the development of enhanced c, the strain used to turn simmons into what he always meant to be, or maybe a kind of unwanted bond formed the moment derek rejected his daughter, much in the same way he rejected carla despite her devotion to him in favor of ada (something to speak for a remnant of carla’s humanity), much like her reason for involving ada in her plans, either to see her burn with the rest of the world & pay for simmons’ obsession with her or because carla knows ada will put her life on the line to keep chaos from engulfing the planet, calling upon her as a way to quite literally stop herself, ada can’t parse it, not really .  she does like to guess, of course, & she’s the only character in RE6 that shows carla any kind of understanding & sympathy (what the hell did simmons do to you? / i don’t condone your actions carla, but at least now i understand them), aware that she can only really lay blame at the feet of simmons & trying to at least affirm carla’s humanity before she completely sheds it (but it was your conscience carla, that saw you fail. after all, isn’t that why you brought me into this? which is an oddly written & delivered line, but far be it from me to suggest RE6 isn’t the most well considered game in the franchise .  ada turns sour on carla the second she becomes an active threat, but there is a solemn goodbye to the carla that was after she starts biting back, some guilt in it too) .  which is why she carries out the only part of carla’s plans that should be seen through to its conclusion, ending simmons .

a young girl, two, maybe three years old at most, cowering away from the destruction right above them, left without carla or the scientists that took care of her .  the final unknown, the answer ada didn’t want to find .  a palpable fear hangs in the air, a dread that settled within her ribcage, she wished that the shadows could hide her, that she would only be a brief silhouette in the doorway that vanishes the second its seen but the flames flicker brighter, her face is shown in the fire, blood & dirt & watering eyes, & the child runs to her, she clings to her & it’s like a chain around her ankle, a weight to drag her down & a single word echoes through the chaos, softly spoken, relief, sadness, happiness, something that sinks ada’s soul, she drowns beneath the waves, in depths of herself left undiscovered—

in mandarin,  “  mother ?  ”

a sound like shattered glass, sharp & piercing, plunging its way into her heart, a new wound from which to bleed through, whatever & whoever ada wong is now .  she closes her eyes, daring not to glance below, tightening the grip on her MP9, placing her finger on the trigger .  it was her first thought, how she could end it all right here, project ada, simmons’ legacy, the decade of pain & suffering that led to marhawa, edonia, tall oaks & tatchi, but then she would become a monster too, wouldn’t she ?  beyond sympathy, beyond humanity, a hypocrisy that rings in her ear, makes it hard to hear whatever else the child says, the happiness of their reconnection, her cries of an undelivered promise, that they would one day leave this lab together .  she recants, a heavy sigh that brings no relief with it, as if from new lungs & she finally looks down, into a mirror of something she’d thought lost .  what she sees in that child is not carla, nor derek or the monstrosity that led to her birth, but ada’s own eyes reflected back .  an unwanted child born to a woman unfit to be a mother .  it’s a shock through her body, a jolt that forces her to act, holstering her gun & grabbing the child’s hand instead, another of carla’s promises she intends to keep .

another mess she has to clean up .

there’s a life out there waiting for them, one of many she’s built up over the years as a contingency, far too many times forced into hiding by those like simmons (as i doubt project ada was the sole outlet for his lust & obsession, why settle for a replica when you can have the real thing ?  & derek is a man used to getting what he wants), who would want to claim ada wong & her secrets all for themselves .  a small, tight-knit cantonese speaking community occupying an apartment block in singapore, where a travelling business woman returns home once every couple of years, now with a kid in hand .  there was a kind of slight heartbreak in hearing how “her” daughter could only speak mandarin, when so much of the ada wong persona is intertwined with growing up in cantonese-speaking hong kong, its culture, its cinema, her youth spent learning & performing cantonese opera, & the disconnect she felt in spite of it all, with a han chinese father & a mandarin name .  she wouldn’t expect simmons to have understood that, nor carla, it just lends itself to another way her identity had been perverted, degraded, lessened into a parody of itself that took center stage over the original act .  she can’t afford to be ada wong anymore, at least for now, & there is something at stake other than herself for once, a new purpose, a new way to be that has to be learned as she goes, & thus sheng ming hui & her daughter settle into a domesticity that is as much a welcome respite as it is a prison for a woman who has lived her life always wanting to spread her wings .

the child’s name is mei, a reference to the ada wong persona’s chinese name, 黃美芬 (wong mei-fan) & ada resolves to complete it with a flourish of her own, mei-li, something taken from her own mother’s name (judith yuen li-zhen (袁李贞), which, yes, is lifted directly off maggie cheung’s character from in the mood for love, i am nothing if not wholly unoriginal) .  though the surnames change as they move around the world in an effort to stay hidden, in time ada does begin affectionately calling her meimei .

there’s very few that know of ada’s fate after tatchi, among them :

jill  valentine  (@goetiya​),  her confidant, the only person allowed a peek beneath the veil in their mutual dance, a playful romance that dragged itself out from those precious few months before the raccoon city incident, who ends up taking mei-li under her own care after ada’s survival is discovered by the “ organization ”, the seedier underbelly of the federation of pharmaceutical companies that have begun sinking their teeth into the BSAA, as per my village verse .  through her, of course, other characters learn of mei-li, though not her connection to ada wong (subject to plotting, naturally), jill saying she has taken the child of “one of her contacts within the bioterror underworld” under her care, for a time .  chris redfield, rebecca chambers, barry burton & most importantly claire redfield, who ends up spotting in for jill as a babysitter when she’s at the beck & call of a darker BSAA .  it’s a risk assumed, how ada casts her shadows over jill’s life, forcing her to withhold the truth from the people closest to her .

leon  s.  kennedy  (@knnedy​),  whom ada drags to singapore one faithful autumn day, two years into her exile, a way to say goodbye, a way to air out the existential horror of carla radames to the man who stands the best chance of understanding it, something they both share, like raccoon city, like spain, yet ada knows her wounds run deeper than his .  maybe she’s grown softer, spending time as a mother to a child that shouldn’t have been born, maybe there’s still a few knives she’d like to twist into his back, some blame she would like to place, a way to motion guilt from herself onto him, but there’s an absence of choice here & so she serves him a warning, the cost of his bleeding heart .

mia  winters  (@terrorgone​​),  an old contact from ada’s days investigating tricell in ‘09, a riskier, more self-destructive side to her that’s shown after jill’s “death” .  a tumultuous relationship she holds no pride in that scorched prague for a month, someone she would be happy to forget about as she moves on to new marks & new identities but fate plays funny tricks on people & mia ends up being more significant to the world than she has any right to, in ada’s mind .  after dulvey, trading hands between various BSAA safehouses before being settled in romania, mia spots a familiar looking young girl following jill around as she’s interrogated at the BSAA’s north america branch .  she’s smarter than ada gives her credit for & she knows her & jill have something in common, peering down ada’s eyes up close .  it’s a chance to put a knife to ada’s throat much in the same way she once put a needle to her neck back in prague, to see the woman beneath the mask after ada didn’t give her the right .

anyone else is open for discussion .

some final thoughts, what, did you think we were done ? :

on the surface level the notion of ada wong as a mother is laughable, to me, but that’s usually because the avenue to motherhood people use is her relationship to leon & if this post wasn’t long enough i could list out all the reasons why it wouldn’t work, but like anything regarding the ada/leon romance you have reduce both characters to tropes they subvert in order for it to function & make their dynamic that much less interesting & that much more intense in a way that it isn’t portrayed on-screen .  

hopefully i’ve argued my case for taking her character in this direction, because keeping in with ada’s overall subversion of the femme fatale archetype, it’s not the narrative that treats motherhood as the end of her character (as her story goes on well into the events of village), but herself, she views it as a punishment, as a prison, as an end to the illustrious career of super spy ada wong when that’s not really the case, small joys though she finds in playing a doting mother to an unloved child, she can’t keep away from her calling & she continues observing the motions of the world from afar, as well as her side hobby as a grey hat hacker trading in sensitive information to dismantle legal & criminal organizations alike .  her inability to reconcile with her new life eventually leading to her capture & her separation from mei-li before the events of RE8 .

i think it gives ada more of an in with ethan winters & a reason to help him over the course of RE8 beyond just using him as a way to get to miranda & her research, as she too, like him, like miranda, is a parent desperate to reunite (or just reunite, in ethan’s case) with her daughter .  a woman otherwise unfit to be a mother (miranda, alcina) that does what she can with the broken pieces of herself to make a life for her child (mia) .  it also serves to tie an overall narrative between games that feel like they’re from different franchises, RE6 & RE7, through the uniting theme of family & the children who grow up in resident evil’s rendition of our very own global forever war .

anyway, i think that’s my piece, thanks for reading !

[dephirium]

So. I am leaving my fic's big ass infodump here because A) having it in the comments is ugly and B) I am too busy and tired to try to make it hmtl pretty on the author notes or whatever. Plus, AO3’s character limit is ass.

Here's the fic: Tha koimithó ótan petháno.

Funnies

Akire: I trust that mister Delamer and mister Maitsu are doing well together :)

Damon: *screaming, traumatized*

Jean: *screaming, also traumatized*

Damon: Why tf are you calling me a kid I am 18

Jean:

Jean: I thought you were like 16

Jean: I am worried about you.

Damon: Hahaha.

Damon: Oh you're not joking?

Damon: HAHAHahaHAhA—

Scrapped content

In chapter 2 I forgot to add that Jean notices signs of Petechiae (Red dots on the skin/cheeks, usually present after crying) on Damon's face, which he points out in the narration and mentally ponders "maybe he is not holding on as well as we thought." I don't fucking KNOW how I did not add it because I remember writing it into the doc but I guess I accidentally deleted it???? What-fucking-ever man I am too tired to rewrite that scene. Also, this chapter would not work as well if Jean was a lot more aware about how badly Damon was holding on. Sooo, yeah. Good forethought past me question mark.

(Jean knows general medical stuff because of his job / he binge read about it after the Edward thing to avoid any other crewmates being ill / hurt. Kind of comes out of left field in this chapter sorry lol I kind of gave up mid-fic so the quality is kind of bad)

In the titanic argument I was planning for Damon to respond “The debate was so bad I regret doing it sober,” or something of the sort. To which Jean asks Holy Shit You Drink ? Ended up scrapped because Damon, even while sleep deprived, is way too secretive about his abuse personal life for his own good. Besides, the scene was getting too long.

Also, yes, he does drink (/hc). Not by own volition most of the time, but he does. Legal drinking age? What is that? The Maitsu family never heard of it. (Wolfgang would have a stroke if he knew nobody tell him)

I actually planned a bit where, when Damon bandages Jean's wound (it was planned to happen on the bed and not the floor btw), Jean explains the items™ to Damon after he points out the first aid kit being the debater's and Damon looks at the ship captain like he grew a third head. Hence, explanation.

It felt too forced and I ended up removing it. You probably can figure it out with the context I left (I HOPE), but here is the explanation just in case:

(This idea was based on a fic by the lovely Insqmniac. I don't remember the name rn, sorry ;; EDIT: Acting and Pretending!!! They deleted the work but it was very good!) Tozu left an item for all the killing game participants with deep emotional and / or medical significance in their room’s nightstands. Be it a family memento, a candy brand you liked as a kid, a perfume that isn't sold anymore, prescription pills or eye contacts: That kind of stuff. It is like an intimidation tactic or something??? Something to scare the participants with bcs of the amount of information they have about their personal lives. Or something. I don't know man, it is 4 pm I have not slept in like 30 hours I have reached a new plane of existence. It just sounds so creepy and it is definitely something Tozu would do. Maybe. I already had the canon divergence tag so might as well utilize it in a angst way while at it /shrug

Jean received Edward’s marine dog tag, Damon received a first aid kit (and he's the only person in the killing game that has first aid equipment, fun). You can probably imagine why Jean reacted like that to seeing Damon’s item and his subsequent realization. Let's just say that Maitsudad was not kind.

I had a very lovely idea very late into this fic of playing on the concept of Dragons and snakes being very similar (in mythology/religion, anyways) but I couldn't figure out a way to include it organically in this fic (considering that the themes/metaphors of the fic were already too wonk as is) so I MIGHT get another Jean & Damon fic just to get that symbolism out of my head???

Not likely. I feel horrible about my poor characterization of the dude in this fic already.

I butchered Jean's characterization so bad I made salami with it,,,

In the Damon panic attack from Jean’s POV, I had to scrap a small line where Jean notes that some of the nonsense Damon is spewing in his panic is actually Spanish. Another hc of mine, personally Damon looks like the kind of guy to throw Hispanic slang and insult all your family lineage in one breath (and yes I am biased because I am Hispanic how could you tell. But no, he is not Hispanic, it is actually kind of complicated to explain). I will probably delve into that hc and my general mental illness about the backstory I made up for the guy (yes I am very normal about Damon shut up) in another fic I have planned.

I had to scrap so many Damon lines y'all. He is just. So easy to write. This dude is like depressed 14 year old me trying to seem edgy and pretentious istg.

Info dumping

I don't think I am doing a fic of Jean alone to actually write this down so, here, have the whole Edward situation and my delusions about it: basically, back when Jean was just becoming a ship captain by himself (he probably started as a cadet/assistant of one of his relatives, who was the ship captain themselves. Jean then took the job from them later down the line, idk) at age 18ish, there was this regular crew he had. One of the people in said crew was Edward, an asshole with self-worth issues who made it everyone else's problem.

On one departure, they get news of a big-ass storm happening, and they are very much stuck in the middle of the sea trying to just survive it(tm). Luckily it was a cargo ship so the only people they had to look for were themselves, but still.

Edward decides to be the main man on everything to prove his worth, that he means something to the crew, that his life has meaning. Everyone was kind of ignoring Edward's self destructive behavior (not their issue, they said). Jean in turn decided to try to do something about it, so new into the position and wanting the best for his crew, so he went to talk to Edward so he hopefully realizes he is being a moron and stops playing the martyr.

Edward, as you can tell by this fic, does not heed Jean’s pleas to take care of himself and decides to spitefully double down on his self-destructiveness so hard he fell ass backwards and killed himself due to sleep deprivation and starvation the fucking idiot.

(His crew, who were in their late 20s to mid 50s and had already seen some shit™, took care of the corpse themselves. They didn't want Jean, as young as he was, to see the body. He saw it anyways, if only on passing. Which is also the reason why he was more inclined to believe Eva when seeing the dummy, but details)

Jean blames himself over pushing Edward “too hard” and causing his death. (While at the same time he feels like he could have done MORE to avoid his death back then, ain't guilt fun?) That's why he fears pushing Damon too much until there's nothing he can do but twist the debater's arm into actually resting after days of watching the younger consistently get worse. And, welp, we know how that ends.

At least he tried tho. 乁( •_• )ㄏ

Another thing. Was the buddy system actually chosen at random or was Damon right about it being rigged?

... Who knows! Lol

Logically speaking I think it would make more sense for it to either be rigged in the random pairings to get the most optimal-ish outcome (List of pairings in chapter 1 AAA), or like Akire actually bullshitted the random bit to try to get Damon to cooperate. But in the other hand it would be too fucking funny if it was actually made at random and Damon is just being unnecessarily hostile and antagonizing for no reason. So, I wrote it to be ambiguous! probably!! Go have your own interpretation idk!!

Other miscellaneous notes

Eva had the exact same "You are doing this to keep tabs on us" train of thought as Damon, but unlike the debater she decided to cooperate on the plan without whining about it. She and Ingrid have an amazing time playing Dos in their dorm.

Desmond is having a shit time because he wants to help Ulysses have a, at least, decent sleep schedule since they are partners. They have a similar ish arc to Damon and Jean funnily enough, except all the trauma and accidental PTSD triggering.

The Titanic bit is actually a thing that happened. A dude legit predicted the Titanic it is bonkers (I learned this thanks to 999 and thought it would be funny to add it because sleep deprived Damon likes to info dump (yes I am neurodivergent how could you tell) and Jean is the fucking Ultimate Ship Captain what better chance can you get?). Also yes ships back then were bonkers it is hilarious.

When Jean returns with food after this fic him and Damon sit down to explain to the latter all the things he missed in the class meetings so Damon is not running with fake facts again (and hopefully avoid other panic attacks about it in the future). They are forced to communicate about being partners and while they are both still very emotionally stunted because of their respective traumas they at least have a semi-honest conversation for once. Mostly because Damon is too tired and worn-down to be antagonistic.

The roommate system prooobably gets ruled out at the week two and a half(?) by a very frustrated Tozu, but by then he will need a very strong/kill or die motive to actually get a crack on the partner system itself (which is too broad a concept for him to actually rule out the game entirely).

(Realistically speaking he probably would deny the system from happening as quickly as it was brought up because he would notice it as a liability to his killing game plan, but then again. This is fic. I like my Tozu very stupid in fic)

Damon slowly starts reintegrating back into the group when he feels less like "Hi I just had 4 panic attacks in a week what is life at this point." Jean personally helps him in it.

Damon doesn't exactly remember what happened when he was triggered (bcs I hc him to forget trauma to cope, only vaguely remembering things when triggered / having intrusive thoughts). He remembers stabbing Jean because of a "overreaction" on his part and that's pretty much it. He feels like garbage about it but doesn't know how to apologize.

Thankfully, the wound was very minimal so nobody really noticed it after the bleeding stopped and Jean removed the bandages. It is their shared secret that nobody shall know about.

After chapter 1 Damon has a 10 minute panic attack, call himself cringe for it, and forces himself to go for the futon. You could hear him cursing out to all the gods throughout the living quarters. Like La Llorona but it is a dude swearing instead.

Jean brings Damon food. From things like granola bars to small portions of meals (to avoid any accidental refeeding syndrome), every time Jean goes out, he brings Damon something to eat. The others question it at first but Jean only gives vague explanations so they give up (they know, somewhat. But it is not their business so they don't push about it).

Damon has never had anyone offer comfort or food without a catch to it so he is very confused to the whole ordeal but too tired to actually complain (he still compulsively checks everything, afraid of poison, despite never being any).

after a bit he actually somewhat warms up to the ship captain !! Yaaay Damon getting comfort !!!! Finally !!!!!

Writing this my entire thought process of Damon's characterization was "abused stray cat that hisses / scratches you but all it wants is love and a stable living environment and once it has it and gets used to it, it is actually very cuddly." That's just him in a nutshell. Just add some asshole pretentious vibes into the mix & you're done

I made Edward up very late (writing session 8 out of 10) into chapter 2 because I needed a reason as to why Jean would physically force Damon to sleep. When I said the man is a plot device I meant it lol

Tozu had a Live Tozu Reaction to Jean's and Damon's fight thinking that fINAlLY SOMEONE IS DYING.. And then nobody did. Oop.

AND THEN Jean gets killed and Damon suffers horribly /jkjk

[frogbehindthewaterfall]

When planning my Golden Flames AU of course i had to think about rewriting episodes, and I thought, hey, I can write Red into s2, and I still haven't decided how that particular thing is gonna be handled, if I'll even do it in the first place but that got me thinking.

What the hell is going on with Red Son's backstory in canon?

Like the whole samadhi fire situation is different than in jttw, but in dumpling destruction, the Red Boy storyline was, like, canon, so what the actual hell is up with that? Did all the Red Boy things happen after the fire was sealed and swk got beat up by someone much much weaker than before without the samadhi fire, which was the reason for Red Boy's success in jttw, or did he get his shit handed to him by a baby?

(Also the added fucked upness of all the punishments he received, which is something I'm already pretty loud about in the first place, I will never shut up about how wrong it was(actually made a post on it too, but it irrelevant now) and also another question about canon regarding Red's time with guanyin)

And yeah, it was Dumpling Destruction that started me on this.

It would have been really difficult to try and figure things out for this au given this confusion, because if all the Red Boy stuff happened after the sealing then it wouldn't have happened here, therefore the vase wouldn't be available, but if it happened when Red was a baby then it makes it really funny that swk got beat up by a baby, helped seal world ending fire that the kid used to beat him up inside the baby, then protested against killing him, sealed the kid's dad and went on to raise the baby

So because of that, dumpling destruction does not exist in the au regardless of whether ill rewrite the rest of s2 or not.

[kariachi]

Okay, re-liveblogging Store 23 for reasons. Haven’t seen this episode since it aired so, should be interesting.

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Beginning in Undertown, which I guess I have to keep given this is a rewrite but know that I’m doing it under duress. That whole thing is a tragedy waiting to happen.

I get the feeling everyone is having a day. Hello Liam.

Liam: Sorry I’m addicted to theft kidnapping I swear

Tell me Pax does not put up posters with his own face on them? Tell me he just has fans, or is the face of a movement. I can’t remember, he might be canonically, but please Faranth-

And here’s Benji, blasting the criminals and then posing for fan photos in the middle of a fight. tsktsk

Two rules: 1) Never blast your enemy into a weapons shop. 2) Never utilize electric weaponry against a navivore specializing in electricity. You ain’t dealing with Kevin, there’s no trauma keeping Ben from working with it here

Okay, two things- 1) I can’t believe I’m siding with Max but here he’s right, can we focus more on rescuing the kidnapped not-yet-hatched babies, pls? 2) Can, can somebody check on those because Ben blew up the cart. Like, sorry Grey, I don’t know what sorta shit Nova does in these cases but I am gonna have to make a change there because Ben just blew up a cart full of babies and I can’t let that slide as much as I know the episode will. Executive decision- Nova ain’t blowing up a cartload of babies

“What are you doing?” “This video’s gonna go viral” Benjamin!!!

Again, I’m with Max, this is what we call ‘police brutality’. Stop the criminal, rescue the babies, don’t blow them up, call it a fucking day.

The Kineceleran girl filming is upset now

Not supposed to be a weapon, Max~

Ben, 1) being the ‘good guy’ does not mean you’re always right (as you will learn as the episode goes on) and 2) you can say you’re good once you’ve gone and made sure those babies you blasted are safe and unharmed

And nope, he just fucks off to get a smoothie. Seriously, Ben? Seriously?

I hope we get an update on those eggs, I really do, because 1) if Ben caused them damage I’m gonna have Opinions, and 2) you know if he did the Plumbers’ll try to put that shit on Liam

Hello Blukic, Hello Driba

Ben is so serious about finding this Mr Smoothie.

The boys, coming to the logical conclusion that they’re looking for a roach coach Mr Smoothie otherwise there’d be some consistency in location at least

Ben is just full of good decisions today- a Mr Smoothie is not worth pulling out in front of moving traffic, Benjamin! Somebody couldn’t gotten hurt, and if you’d been hit Blukic and Driba probably wouldn’t have survived the pile-up, they’re small, only Blukic has anything resembling a helmet, and you’re on a motorcycle

But they’ve found Schrodinger’s Smoothie Store, cannot decide if it wants to be there or not. Make up your mind!

I’d forgotten just how much of a Cow And Chicken reference this episode had. !!! Okay, I had to go check because the voices are on point that is fucking Charlie Adler! The same fucker who voiced them in their show! And did the top voices in I.M. Weasel but that’s an aside. Also he apparently is the voice of Servantis? And he voices Hokestar which explains why they went with the reference, it was just a perfect storm. Also he apparently voiced Servantis? Talk about some fucking range. Managed to make him sound more evil than The Red Guy.

Welp, our references just got yanked out into the opalescent glowing void in which the store sits when it’s not settled elsewhere

‘Cross-dimensional sunburst aurora’ These are the names they give betta fish varieties in 2123

Blukic and Driba, arguing over whether it was a sunburst aurora and apparently pinwheel auroras (also definitely a betta fish variety of the future) are worse than sunburst auroras

Hello Professor Hokestar. Please do not have any more screegits hidden around here and also why do you have cross-dimensional shit in a franchise drink store?

A Mr Smoothie that exists in every dimension at once. I can’t help but feel that has to violate some sort’ve health code.

Utilizes a broken warp-field generator. Sir I don’t think that’s the sort’ve thing you should be fixing yourself. Sounds like the sort’ve tech you should be calling in a licensed and unionized repair technician about. Or at least a Kevin. Fucker probably builds them for fun.

“We’re not moving between places, we’re staying in one place while rotating through different dimensions. This is a dimension-skipping Mr Smoothie.” Thank you, Driba, for the explanation.

Also I know the captions are spelling it Mr Smoothy but fuck them I’m tired and still pissed about those poor eggs.

Hokestar I really don’t think a lack of competition is the only thing you should be hoping for when being stranded in another dimension. Somebody who can fix your tech should probably be at least #2 on that list.

Love that ‘alien making trouble’ is treated as a ‘yep this is Bellwood’ thing when it’s more a ‘there’s definitely at least one Ben in the tri-county area’ thing

Little bit of fucking destruction. Whoever you are, chill the fuck out

Oh look, Tetrax 23. Chill the fuck out. No reason to wreck a bus and crash a train, for fuck’s sake. What is with people this episode?

Ben: Hello it is me wtf Tetrax 23: ...whomst?

Only Ben 23 could see somebody nearly identical to himself and immediately call him a ‘yokel’. Also who the fuck says ‘yokel’ in this day and age?

‘Stick a fork in yourself- you’re toast’? Who let’s this boy out of the house? He needs, he needs something.

Also, can I just ask who on staff decided we needed more Bens. Like, was that really our big issue? They looked at this show and went ‘‘we need more Bens, endless fields of Bens’‘? Really?

Oh gods preserve me the little brat has flying speakers to make sure everyone knows when he’s going to be awesome and to hype his ass up. He still hasn’t blown up a cart full of babies yet, so he’s got that going for him, but damn is that obnoxious

Driba, Driba this is the second time you’ve specifically mentioned aliens, you do know you are one by the standards of Earth, yes? I just, I’m wondering. Given the amount of species you work with, and that you’re living on a world you aren’t native to, I would think specifying ‘alien’ would’ve died down a bit.

‘Freeze Lizard’, this boy really needs some friends or something to tell him when his shit is stupid

Oh gods the flying hype machines also do advertisements. And there’s apparently a fucking club bingo card or something for fans.

Random aside: I fucking love gyros. I don’t trust a fast food gyro place in the states, but I do love them.

Tetrax 23 is just, completely unimpressed. Understandably because so am I

Ben Tennyson, everybody- worries about changing history but not blowing a cart full of babies. No, I will not drop this until I learn whether or not those eggs came out of that explosion okay.

Oh gods that pun

Hokestar: I have no competition! Ben: Yeah, but I think you might get killed if you stay here

“It got a little drastic there for a while” child the fight lasted maybe a minute and you dominated

Oh god there’s a special Ben 23-themed Mr Gyro poster, save me

Oh look, Tetrax 23 wasn’t taken down by having one empty water tank dropped on him. Also maybe y’all should’ve waited until you knew everything was clear before you crowded in? Just in case? Some basic self-preservation pls?

Ben jumps in to help and of course immediately fuckers start shit, because of course

Bens: *see another person with an Omnitrix* Dude!

Damn Azmuth 23 (and yes they’re calling you Intellectuary but seriously), don’t know shit about this second Ben and already out for blood. At least investigate, goddamn.

People are way too big of fans of this kid. I assume because the alien thing is public. See this is why we got Kevin in the reboot, he’s to keep Ben humble. Every time he gets too big for his britches and Gwen can’t bring him down, Kevin can show up and just like, use him as an armrest or something.

Ben, trying to explain that he’s famous and awesome but not a rich and spoiled (given what we see of his future and that there’s shows and action figures and shit, my money is on either 1) all of the money he’s making off his likeness is going into a trust fund and he’s not getting that for a few years, or 2) Argit and/or Kevin has taken charge of the situation and are making money off Ben’s likeness)

There are Ben 23 themed hamster cages and I am concerned

Oh god tell me he doesn’t have a movie he has a movie wtf

Ben in the background just, stuck in some sort’ve pained smirk. Careful, your face’ll stick like that

I want to punt this kid. I know that’s the point and he does grow but, I want to punt this kid. He’s just so fucking full of himself

Ben 23 has never heard of Vilgax and trust us we can tell

It’s just 23s all the way down...

The allure of paying customers is gonna get Hokestar killed at this rate. Hokestar, pls tell me you invested in an ID Mask? They’re out there

Why does this child have a tower

‘Plug-Man’ gods help us somebody buy this kid a dictionary and thesaurus at least

Gotta love when writers have a character learn their lesson by putting them beside a version of themself turned up to twelve

Sudden Thought: wtf is going on with Camille in this dimension? I mean, her husband’s cousin is running around offing people like her. Did she nope out? Did she and Joel both fuck off the planet? Is she okay? Is her family okay? We know there were alien populations on Earth before the masquerade broke, wtf happened to them in this dimension? Are they okay? Did they fuck off? Just a whole enterprise smuggling refugees off Earth. Do you think Ben 23′s parents, aunt, and uncle just sort’ve quietly agreed not to mention that Frank and Carl are half alien? Just in case? I assume they still are, given the big change seems to be ‘Max died’.

OTTO’s goons out here robbing a bank and 23 gives no shits. Purely because it’s not aliens so it’s not his problem. Ben, meanwhile, is taking the job.

And the fucker wants to wait until he can get the cameras rolling

Ben handles things with ease. And 23 doesn’t know about the Plumbers. Don’t know why Ben is shocked by that.

Oh gods. They’re really doing the ‘3 aliens in a trenchcoat’ thing back at the store. And badly at that.

Love that they manage to have bad movie poster art

Ben: Consider- not everybody not from this planet is evil 23: *gasp*

I love how Ben uses the “like my bestfriend” and you have no idea who he’s talking about because all three people in line are- at this point in the show- considered aliens

Aww, hair ruffling

Hi SixSix 23

Oh damn, we have a timer on an arm. Not the right one to take off an Omnitrix but, certainly an arm

Thankfully Ben is XLR8 and can just run through ever fucking possible code real quick, which certainly ends that bought of drama fast

Welp, that was the last straw, Azmuth 23 has dragged the whole squad out for a de-Omnitrixing

Grey I hope you are happy to know I will not let Nova 23 run around with alien names this stupid

You would think any Azmuth would at least be smart enough to make sure you can’t just overcharge their damn suit when going up against a Ben. Especially a Ben whose line-up is so fucking well known. You shoulda been prepared. But no. Don’t know what I’ll do here...

Oh look, there’s a whole swat team at the restaurant, fantastic

How think is that road, goddamn? Tetrax 23 is up to his damn waist in melted asphalt

23, sit your ass down

“You’re rich and you haven’t killed anybody yet, kid, stop while you’re ahead” Thank you, Azmuth 23

Ooo, Max 23 died pre-Omnitrix arrival. That’s interesting. Wonder what happened there.

And we get heartfeltness out of fuckers

“How am I supposed to know the good aliens from the bad ones“ Step one, don’t just attack everybody you see who isn’t human. Step two, don’t go encouraging the idea that all non-humans are evil in others so that any non-human that ends up on Earth ends up attacking first out of fear for their safety or attacked without provocation for just trying to live their lives

Azmuth 23 pls do not give him his watch back right away, at least take him through a training course or something

Ben don’t give 23 his watch back right away, holy shit

Smelt petunia flavored smoothies. Something is wrong with that franchise. Give 23 this, at least he eats actual food

Holy shit Azmuth 23 is actually teaching! And being good about it! I didn’t know that was a thing an Azmuth could do! I thought all they knew was winge, make dangerous items, and condescend!

Ben: I will come back and kick your ass if I have to. Don’t make me have to.

And we’re back home! Ben running in to check on the grandpa he still has. Wonder if he has grandparents on the other side. We never learn anything about his mom’s side of the family. Or Gwen’s mom’s side of the family. It’s a wasted opportunity.

But more importantly, we see if we hear any updates on the eggs

And confirmation that OV Ben is still 16 which is *sighs in this fucking show*

And it’s a happily ever after for Ben and Max and we know nothing about what happened with those eggs. Were they returned safely to their parents? Were they damaged? Did Ben fuck up some poor family’s unborn children? Was luck on their side and they all landed safe and sound? Did that Kineceleran girl catch them all and put them aside before she started filming? We don’t know! They tell us nothing! I am pissed about that!

[sunnylovesgirlythings]

I have a question for the people in fandom spaces who hate non canon compliant fanworks?

Why?

Why does it bother you non canon media that was never and is never going to be canon, doesn’t act like it is?

I’m talking severe redesigns, crack ships, cosplays that take creative liberties, rewrites that actually rewrite the whole story instead of just a tweak or two, shipping with Ocs, etc.

All completely harmless and actually incredibly creative and time consuming pursuits!

But some people get so incredibly angry at them existing? Like white knuckles, fists clenched, steam out the ears red hot mad.

Why?