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captainofthetidesbreath · 4 years ago

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I personally think Warlock 11 is the better choice right now, the 3rd spell slot and Mystic Arcanum would do much more to increase Fjord's power and versatility than anything a ABI/feat could do. Especially considering their current circumstances. The only reason to go Paladin 4 now instead of later is Thirsting Blade, will Matt let him swap at Paladin 5.

re: Fjord’s level 14 options and my personal suggestions, I assume. Maybe just in general, but linking to my post about my thoughts on Warlock 11 / Paladin 4 regardless

While I agree that Warlock 11 is a strong option that would be fantastic to take at this juncture, and I know we’re talking personal opinions here, I so strongly vehemently disagree that Paladin 4 isn’t an equally strong option, is useful now “only” insofar as sorting out the eventual Thirsting Blade / Extra Attack problem, and doesn’t just as offer Fjord mechanical versatility or added benefit. Warlock 11 and Paladin 4 both offer Fjord these things. They just do so in very different ways. They’re equally strong paths to take.

Frankly, I think it’s underestimating the value and power of an ability score increase or a feat to cast both as not offering as much value to Travis as a player at this time and position Paladin 4 as a having no strong benefit beyond straightening out what will eventually be an Invocation problem.

After all, Warlock 11 cannot improve his AC, or as effectively improve his strength as a face, or make provoking opportunity attacks less risky, or increase his movement speed, or allow him to grant temporary hit points to the party, or more easily break enemy caster concentration. I find these all mechanically and strategically strong choices to make, both for the short-term campaign and in the longer run. Paladin 4 can absolutely grant him these things in this moment, and it is by far and away not a weaker option at this juncture.

The movement options, combat abilities, skill proficiencies Fjord could gain through a feat are all valuable ones, and a feat or an ability score increase improves his general versatility or push further into a niche in a certain and specific ways Warlock 11 never can, just as Warlock 11 can offer options in ways Paladin 4 never can. Travis has a fascinating decision on his hands BECAUSE this Warlock 11 / Paladin 4 split offers a wealth of options in both directions.

On top of that, taking Paladin 4 purely to work toward higher Paladin levels is a very strong rationale in itself. Having Paladin 5 (Extra Attack, 2nd level spells) and Paladin 6 (Aura of Protection) sooner is a strategically sound decision. For that alone, I think that gives Paladin 4 great weight.

Also, while one always considers the short-term in leveling decisions, I don’t think there’s anything “especially” about the weight of their current circumstances in Eiselcross and the Takers. I believed that the group could succeed against Lucien before level 14, and I remain staunch in that belief. Before anyone remarks “but Fjord needed three spell slots to get through that encounter with the Takers, so it proves the point”, I don’t personally believe one mistakenly missed spell slot in a recent definitively proves quite anything about how necessary or inherently better the third spell slot and Arcanum are as choices to Fjord’s build at this moment in time. Multiclass leveling is a very complicated beast, and one that absolutely requires one consider beyond the short-term benefits and consider the mid- and long-term math involved.

Additionally, the questions I have with the argument that Warlock 11 is clearly better in terms of increasing Fjord’s mechanical power and versatility are these:

What do we mean by “power” in this context? Combat effectiveness? General effectiveness? Is it derived from his versatility?

What do we mean by “versatility” in this context? Combat versatility? General versatility?

In what specific manner would Warlock 11 increase these things?

Does Fjord NEED to become MORE versatile, powerful, or effective—especially in a party this large and covering this many bases?

These are what I think is the central question to how I personally think of this mechanical moment, and it’s how I personally think of character builds and mechanical choices in general.

Generally, Fjord is already an incredibly versatile character in combat. He is, in my opinion, the single most mechanically well-rounded member of the party in combat. He is a nuisance at all ranges, can produce both high burst damage and steady poke damage, has incredible mobility, has a high health pool, and rarely finds himself in a situation where he cannot be of some use. When one remarks that Fjord would become more versatile, what does that mean in light of all that? And how does Warlock 11 specifically work toward his general versatility in a manner that Paladin 4 cannot?

As for Paladin 4, never underestimate how important an ability score increase can be. An increase of his Dexterity by even one point will increase his modifier to +1, which would improve his AC (historically terrible), his Dexterity save (currently +1 through Cloak of Protection), his Initiative bonus (currently 0), and his Stealth bonus (currently 0). It’s only by one point, but that one point makes a lot of difference very often, especially when these specific stats are extremely commonly brought up and Fjord’s Dexterity is truly awful. This alone truly makes Paladin 4 a strong option. I truly cannot stress how important Dexterity is as a stat, and Fjord’s poor Dexterity is one of his overall weaknesses. Yes, I absolutely think delaying Warlock 11 is worth it just for an increase in his Dexterity. That’s just how important I think Dexterity is.

I also disagree that a feat could not offer him versatility benefits or other options in a way that Warlock 11’s Mystic Arcanum, additional spell, or the third spell slot can. I included in my post about Fjord’s level 14 options my personal suggestions for feats. The idea that Warlock 11 would “much more” increase his versatility and effectiveness than a feat could is one I disagree with. It’s a matter of considering the value of what options are available to him.

A proficiency in Persuasion via Prodigy or Skill Expert (a Tasha’s feat) would be huge, given that Fjord makes so many Persuasion checks as the party’s face, and expertise in Intimidation or Deception would be a massive boon for the same reason. Taking Skilled would allow him to pick up proficiency in Persuasion and also bolster weaknesses in other skills he commonly rolls, such as Stealth, Insight, or even Acrobatics. Rounding off his skill bonuses is an underwhelming option on paper, but it’s in practice valuable. It’s a strong option that increases Fjord’s ability to do certain things effectively, especially in out of combat situations.

Inspiring Leader has been pitched repeatedly by myself and many others. It is a valuable pick for being a consistent and easy source of temporary hit points for multiple members of the party without anyone expending spell slots—19 points is a lot—and it serves Fjord’s narrative character as someone coming into his own and becoming comfortable with leadership.

Mage Slayer makes great use of Fjord being often in melee range. As we saw with Cree in 2.123 and historically throughout the campaign, breaking enemy concentration is an important tactical priority, and the feat’s language does not restrict the disadvantage on damage only caused my Fjord’s melee attacks. It also would be useful in a campaign filled to the gills with hostile casters.

I made a niche pitch for Martial Adept given that it works well with how Fjord uses a weapon as a primary form of attack, and Fjord having access to maneuvers from the Battle Master subclass would greatly increase his options in combat. I can spend all day weighing half the maneuvers list and what boons each offers Fjord, but just to talk about a handful: Maneuvering Strike allows a member of the party to move as a reaction on Fjord’s turn without provoking opportunity attacks from the creature Fjord strikes with the Star Razor, which would’ve been useful in any number of fights, including in the Takers fight in 2.123. Evasive Footwork, which bolsters his AC during one movement, would make provoking opportunity attacks less risky; opportunity attacks are historically very dangerous for Fjord. Riposte leans into Fjord as mechanically built to punish melee attackers for choosing him as a target.

Slasher, from Tasha’s, also works well with Fjord as a melee combatant and allows him to further control the spatial dynamics of the battlefield by allowing him once per turn to take 10 feet off the speed of a target he damages with slashing damage, i..e the Star Razor, until his next turn. Automatically imposing disadvantage on a creature’s attack rolls when he crits with the Star Razor is valuable, and he also can gain +1 to Dexterity, valuable for the prior outlined reasons.

I joke that Mobile is a joke pick, but Fjord having a movement speed of 40 and the ability to not provoke opportunity attacks from a creature he made an attack against is genuinely valuable and further increases Fjord’s intense mobility. Mobility is king, especially in a playstyle as positioning aware and movement efficient as Travis’ is. Again, opportunity attacks is a historical issue for Fjord.

This isn’t even all the feats I think could be valuable to Fjord at this time. This is just a handful of ones that I think illustrate very well how a feat can be valuable to Fjord’s mechanical build in this current moment. I could go all day. Fjord is a mechanical wonder to me personally because he is so intensely versatile that almost any feat Travis can opt to take is a massive boon to Fjord and the party. He is just so mechanically well built, and Travis’ mechanical choices so far have been, in my opinion, brilliant.

Again, I do agree that Warlock 11 offers very strong choices, and it is a valuable level to take as Fjord’s 14th. I think any choice Travis makes here automatically massively benefits Fjord’s mechanical build. It’s just the nature of where Fjord is and the carefully cultivated versatility Fjord has. My issue is the couching that Paladin 4 does not offer similarly valuable versatility and effectiveness. The things he can potentially gain from Paladin 4 all just as much increase Fjord’s ability to function, and these ways feel to me just as significant or valuable as a third spell slot, a Mystic Arcanum, and an 11th spell. And, I think it’s a disservice to the value of ability score increases and feats to cast them as not offering anything to Travis as a player in this moment.

They’re equally strong paths to take.

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thequietmanno1 · 3 years ago

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Thelreads, Vigilantes 47, Replies Part 2

1) “Also, love that even Koichi’s tag got featured there, my god I can’t believe someone is shitting on the hoodie

And it’s not even a ugly hoodie, my god some people are jerks, right Koichi?”- Actually, I think that’s CC’s hoodie he was wearing when the bomb exploded, so if anything he probably shares the sentiment. Hell, he probably made the tag in the first place.

2) “alright

holy shit Furhashi. Ho-ly shit.

The murder dome™ you could’ve called it, jesus christ if I hadn’t already figured out what’s coming I’d certainly would realize it after seeing this page. That’s gonna be a hell of a farewell party, that’s for sure”- Furuhashi couldn’t see off the American Celebrity hero without making a massive homage to one of the greatest American films ever produced

3) “Yeah, she worked hard to book this place for the sacrifice, and by god she’s gonna have that crowd watching as the captain comes tumbling down.”- It’s certainly going to be one hell of a spectacle, that’s for sure. Forget the 50,000 spectators with a front-row seat to the event, everybody in the surrounding area will be able to see a free show simply by looking up at the sky.

4) ““A killing” you say… “Going out with a bang” you say…”- Furuhashi continues to prove that his personal dictionary was missing the words for ‘subtle’, ‘insidious’, or ‘subliminal’.

5) “Wait, why are you guys surprised? Didn’t y’all thought you wouldn’t be part of the grand finale of this man’s career|life, did ya?”- Well, for most of them, this is a significant step up from their past public gigs, so they’re understandably shocked, then overwhelmed, by the unexpected rise in viewership of their act. That said, it speaks volumes about how ambito- I mean, confident in their act Makoto is to set them up on such a large stage, and it ensures that there’s personal stakes for CC in whatever drama’s coming with both his manager and personal fan club being in the direct line of fire. Of course, this means that Koichi is on track for getting wrapped up in whatever high-action tragic hero’s demise Scarface has planned for CC, as usual, without being aware of a thing.

6) “Yeah, that’s a bit larger than what you’ve been used to, but it all will be fine girls, fret not. Remember that you all have the talent, the preparation and the will to succeed, nothing will stand you way, not even the Cap’s death.”- Hell, if somebody gets good pictures of it, they could merchandise that shit and even put on a memorial performance every year once it’s anniversary comes around, assuming that CC dies so that they can live, of course.

7) “This is no time to panic, this is time for training montages, a lot of blood, sweat and tears, not to say many romantic moments to the sound of the Captain’s last breaths as he falls back to earth like Icarus flying to close to the sun, a small shooting star that soon will become a nice splatter on the floor.”- Much like the other Icarus Parallel we saw in earlier chapters, though at least CC will have the dignity of falling to his doom with his clothes on.

8) “Shut up captain, don’t get all touchy feely with them right now, you already have way too many flags piled on top of you, one more and you might even die due to the sheer weight of them alone.”- Plot twist: what dragged CC down to earth was the sheer weight of the death Flags Furuhashi planted on him, leaving him too heavy to fly when he needed it most.

9) “Neat, there’s already a plan of attack, they’ll all work together just like during their first show. Oh, this is so nostalgic, and it will all happen right before Captain gets executed in front of 50000 people. Lovely.”- On the plus side, the hero who loves being in the spotlight couldn’t ask for a better death scene honestly- it’ll even come with stage lighting and dramatic backing music to boot!

10) “ALRIGHT! TIME FOR AN ACTUAL TRAINING MONTAGE! YOU GO PRESIDENT, MAKE THOSE BASTARDS BLEED”-

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11) “JESUS CHRIST FURUHASHI, WE GET IT, HE’S GONNA DIE, CAN YOU CHILL THE FUCK DOWN FOR A MOMENT PLEASE?”- ‘Furuhashi has no chill: The chapter.’

12) “Also, which heroes are we talking about? I hope it includes Tensei. Fucking love Tensei, man.”- Tensei, Aizawa, Jeanist, the pussycats…- basically Furuhashi’s excuse to throw as many hero cameos at the wall as he can and see how many stick on there.

13) “yeah, no, moving on.”- And nothing of value was lost.

14) “HOLY FUCK THERE’S EVEN MORE

BEST DEADNIST, THE GREAT RABBIT, SNAKE LADY, FAT BABY, EDGY SOTOKA, FREE WILLY, CJ, McCREE, CONSTRUCTION-MAN AND MANUEL”-And these are all the heroes we can name. Odds are there’ll be even more mid-low tier heroes at the evet, just like during the UA sports festival, which also handily covers the event for security purposes as well.

15) “WHAT, WE’RE GONNA CALL KAMUI WOODS AS WELL? FFUCK IT, CALL ALL MIGHT AS WELL, YOUR BROTHER WOULD LIKE TO TAKE HIM THERE AS HIS DATE.”- I believe she heard you through the 4th wall there…

16) “HELL YEAH PHELPS, THAT’S REALLY SWEET OF YOU, NOW PLEASE INVITE ALL MIGHT ON THAT DATE, MAKOTO CAN EVEN GET YOU TWO A VIP SPOT.”- Hell, in such a packed Venue, All Might would have an even easier time with his ‘Superman clothes-changing’ routine- all he’d need is a dark corner to change in and he could switch from Yagi to All might whilst Phelps keeps watch. And for no other reason would Yagi drag Phelps away to a dark corner in a packed public spot…

17) “YEAH, NOW IT’S FOR REAL, HE’S GONNA DIE.

IN FRONT OF 50000 PEOPLE

WHAT A SHOW IT WILL BE”- Certainly one hell of a way to go out. I can’t image a more public method of execution than this, except perhaps what AFO intended for All might at Kamino, and luckily for us, Scarface doesn’t have the clout he had to take direct action to stir up such a massive public spectacle all on his lonesome. @thelreads

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daddychims · 5 years ago

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Offside Pt 10

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

Series Masterlist!

Genre: Smut, Soccer AU, College AU

Pairings: Soccer Player! Jungkook X Sports Trainer! Reader

Word Count: 2k

Other BTS members all make a cameo as well because I’m an OT7 Trash!

You work as a sports trainer, providing basic first aid and injury management for the Hanguk University’s soccer team. Going with your mundane life of caring for the dozen of guys hurting themselves in the soccer game takes a turn when one of the guys catches your eyes. It’s not his breathtakingly good looks or his muscular athletic body usually seducing girls at the campus that catches your eyes. But the action plan in your kit, indicating he is diagnosed with Asthma is what draws your eyes time and time again to the Golden Boy of Hanguk University.

Warning: Slow burn, eventual smut, Taehyung being a freaking tease the whole time, Also Jimin not letting the female MC live for one day, Fuckboy!Jungkook, Asthmatic! Jungkook , mentions of episodes of Asthma, Take your Ventolin kids, Take your medications kids!

"So what made you leave your house Y/n?" Jiwoo asks as he crosses her arms across her chest

"I'm just taking some time off studying," you sigh, shifting your gaze awkwardly "I deserve some fun in life don’t I?"

"Sure you do." She nods suspiciously as she interlocks his arms around your elbow as you both walk inside

You sigh as you quickly take your phone out and send a combination of soccer ball and field emojis to Namjoon as a metaphor for the fact that you have Jiwoo with you . He quickly replies with a couple of thumbs up and smiling emojis.

If only the girl walking alongside knew the only reason you decided to leave the comfort of your blanket and the long list of unwatched series on your premium Netflix account is the fact that your best friend wants to get in her pants and you're helping him succeed in his plan.

You both enter the place, squishing through the masses of youth who are chatting and drinking in the huge bar.

"I don’t really get it," You look around, glancing over at least half of your campus scattered around the place "What's the hype about this place?"

"Of course you don’t get it," Jiwoo laughs, pinching your cheek "girls like you don’t belong here!"

"Thanks for pointing out that I suck at billiard." you roll your eyes

"That’s not what I mean," she chuckles at your remark "Do you know what is this place called?"

"Casa billiard?" you point at the massive billboard flashing the name

"Correct," she nods "and do you know what Casa stands for?"

"Isn't it a abbreviation of some sort?" You muse as you try to come up with one "Computer Automated System-"

"Wrong," she cuts your off "Its short for Casanova," she hesitates, watching your lost expression as she adds "This place is targeted at the fuckboys from the two campuses near here, Hanguk University and SNU!"

You sigh, secretly scolding your friend for bringing you and his crush to a fuckboy zone like this when you hear him calling for you.

"Joon, I'm here!" you quickly wave for him but the moment you see the person walking by his side, your hands tops moving in the air and you whisper an inaudible fuck under your breath.

"Hey, sorry I'm late!" Joon quickly offers as he leans closer to give you a quick hug

"That’s alright, We just got here!” you whisper, trying to avoid any sort of eye contact from the guy who's watching you silently behind Joon

"Hey I'm Namjoon," Joon extends his hand to Jiwoo and introduces himself " I don’t know if you remember me-"

"Of course I remember," Jiwoo flashes a big grin to the flustered guy "I should have known the only person who can make Y/N leave her room is you."

"Not an easy task but I have my ways," Joon shrugs with a wink when he suddenly remembers he hasn’t introduced the guy standing silently behind him "This is Jimin, we play soccer in SNU together."

You finally look at him and find him staring at you with a tiny smirk tugging at the corner of his lips.

"I'm Jimin," he flashes an innocent smile to Jiwoo, contradictory to the vixen he hides inside "Nice to meet you Nuna!"

"Jiwoo," your friend quickly replies "Nice to see you too Jimin!"

"And you remember Y/N right?" Joon adds as he pushes you forward

"Of course," He nods with a knowing smile "She's the angel who fixed my neck with a just a touch.”

At his statement, both Joon and Jiwoo look back at you, searching for clarification from you. Your cheeks immediately rise in heat as you explain "I strapped his neck on the last game," you glare at the guy for the weird description he offered your friends "Are we just gonna stand here all night?" You quickly ask, trying to shift the subject from your first meeting with him

"Oh yeah," Joon quickly nods "Lets go get some drinks first and find an empty table!"

You offer to grab the drinks and before you can even object Jimin makes his way to help you, walking ahead of you to the bar.

"Hyung, give us four bottles of beer!" He waves at the bartender who gives him a quick wave and nods. He then rests his weight on the bar table as he turns to you "So do you wanna tell me why you've been ignoring me?"

"I-" you gulp nervously, not expecting him to be so direct "I don’t know what you're talking about!"

"You've been ignoring all my texts," He raises an eyebrow "And yesterday you blocked my number!"

"I've been just busy! and you keep texting me so I had no choice!" you quickly reach in your bag and fish for your credit card to pay for the drinks when he holds your wrist and instead offers his own card to the guy

"How about I'll take this one like a gentleman," he suggest as he leans closer to you "And you unblock my number?!"

Your eyes hesitate on his for a few seconds, parting your lips to respond to his proposition when you hear your nickname being called

"Eeeyyy, Sugar!"

You turn around, flinching at the sight of Taehyung along with his housemate walking towards you "H-Hey …" your voice trails off as you see Jungkook walking closely behind him

"I didn’t know you're a Casa girl," Taehyung beams, eyes curling into a mischievous smile "I've never seen you here bef-Oh"

His smile immediately replaces itself with a frown as he watch Jimin appearing over your shoulder, pressing his chin on your collarbone

"Hey guys," Jimin waves at the two guys "Nice to see you out of the field for once!"

You make a momentary eye contact with Jungkook who's standing beside Taehyung and his unimpressed eyes make you secretly wish you can just vanish from the face of the world right there and then.

"Park, I didn’t know you still come to Casa!" Taehyung asks with a dry tone

"Its been a while since I came here," Jimin smirks, as he wraps his arms around your waist "I heard Joonie Hyung is coming here with Y/N, so I joined them for the night."

"You guys seem very close now huh?" Taehyung points out with a dark tone, glancing over you in an interrogating way

"Oh well, this is Casa after all," Jimin shifts closer to your neck as he shows off his proximity to the two other guys "This place is the union of Hanguk and SNU right?"

This time Jungkook speaks up as he places a hand on Taehyung's shoulder, almost as if he's trying to stop the guy from charging towards Jimin as he murmurs "The girls are here, lets go!"

Taehyung glances at you with a betrayed expression all over his face, nodding his head at Jungkook's words as he murmurs "See you later, Sugar!"

You sigh as you watch Jungkook completely ignore you as he turns around and leaves followed by Taehyung who appears colder than most days all of a sudden.

"Lets go!" you murmur as you help grab a couple of the drinks off the bar

"Hey hey," Jimin holds your arm and stops you "What's wrong?"

"I'm just trying to process how this night is going so wrong so fast." you reply in a defeated tone

"Hmmm," Jimin furrows his eyebrows as he's trying to figure you out "So which one of them is it? Taehyung or Jeon?"

"What?" you ask in a lost tone looking at him "What are you talking about?"

"Which one of them is boning you?" He asks tilting his head to one side "Tae or Jeon?"

"None of them," you reply through gritted teeth "That’s all you can think about Isn't it!?"

You sigh, annoyed at the guy who is clueless that his existence might have ruined the deal you barely made happen with Jungkook.

You reach at the table where Jiwoo and Joon are already playing on, setting the drinks on the side as you watch them play together and chatting away in their own little world.

"Do you wanna play?" Jimin offers as he starts to chalk up his cue

“I’m not really good at this!" you shrug indifferent

"Not a problem," Jimin walks closer "I can teach you a thing or two if you want." he offers with a cocky tone

"How about I sit out instead and let you do your thing for the night?" You offer enthusiastically

"How about you sit on my face instead for the night?" he murmurs leaning closer so only the two of you can hear her lewd words

Your breath ceases on its way out of your lungs and you need to take a moment to digest his words. He then immediately smirks as he notices your tense reaction so he gently massages your arm

"Relax, It was just a joke" he laughs as he murmurs "except if you're down to take it seriously!" he winks

You sigh slapping his arm off your shoulder and walking away to grab a cue so you can at least look like you know the basics. You search for a chalk but realize that nothing's left so you turn around to grab some chalk from the counter when you find Jungkook playing with Taehyung and a couple of girl a few tables away.

He's leaning over the table, aiming his cue at a red ball but his eyes are locked at yours. You immediately pause in your footsteps, gulping nervously as he stares at you with his unimpressed eyes.

His tongue pokes at the corner of his cheek as he hits the ball before standing straight up. You gulp, the swinging of the ball around the table resembling your trembling heart.

He then leans his head down, eyes never leaving yours, as he puffs the cigar one the girls is holding for him, the girl watching in satisfaction as the smoke covers around them before pulling him closer for a kiss.

Jungkook captures the girl's lips, eyes still wide open and locked on yours as he moves his head around skilfully to kiss her back. You feel your blood boiling at the sight of him ruining his lungs, and for some reason you feel like he's trying to actively piss you off.

You immediately start to revise all the toxic substances and their damage on his lung in your head but soon remember that the last time you stuck you nose in his smoking business, you regretted it a lot.

You shift your gaze down, quickly walking past them to grab a cue and rush back to where Jimin is waiting for you.

"Took you quite long," Jimin smirks as he points at the table you paused over a few minutes ago "Anything exciting going on?"

"Nothing too exciting for you," you roll your eyes "The type of excitement you're into starts after 10 o'clock." you mock making a reference to the dance club downstairs that only starts after 10

"Your mouth I swear to God," he murmurs as he steps closer to you, eyes darkening in lust "I will put it to some good use one of these days."

"Well you’d have to wait until I text you back first Park!" you start chalking your cue watching him with a victorious smile

"Right," he nods, lips curving slightly on one corner as he turns around and leans over the table, hitting the ball he intended with a smooth movement of his cue, the ball dancing around the table a few moments before findings its way to a hole

"Nice," You acknowledge as he walks closer to you "Were you planning to play billiard if soccer doesn’t work out?!"

"I rather play you if you ask me," His lips curve into a smile as he cages your body against the pillar you're resting on "I’d have you spread all over the table and fill every single hole in your body with my balls!"

You gulp as a rush of arousal shoots between your thigh, eyes widening at the lewd description of the boy's fantasy involving you.

"Oh right!" he looks around as if he remembers something "You have to text me back first right?"

"Right!" you nod walking past him to lean over the table and play your turn

You flinch when you feel a warmth hovering over your figure, arms wrapping around yours while lips dancing fairly close to your ears "I think you're lying, you're actually good at playing," he whispers seductively as he positions your arm around the cue, aiming your cue at one of the balls "Just like how you've been playing with my heart!"

"Get off!" you hiss, glaring at the guy whose face is only a few inches away from you "you're distracting me!"

"Relax your wrist a bit," he murmurs softly as he presses your arms "Now stare at the tip of your cue and line it up with the hole, not the ball!"

You gulp, his hot breath hitting the side of your neck and the intimately close space between the two of you making it hard for you to follow his instructions.

You finally retract your cue and hit the ball, so you can quickly get it over and done with. You're surprised when the ball makes its way in the hole indicating you scored on your attempt.

"Woah!”

"See? Who would have thought you're a natural," Jimin claps for you "You just need a good Master." he says, emphasising the last word with a knowing smile

"Of course I do," you scoff walking past him to grab the chalk

"So are you gonna unblock my number or not?" He asks raising an eyebrow before pointing over at few tables away "Or are your Hanguk boys stopping you from hanging out with a SNU guy?"

Your eyes widen, like a rabbit caught in headlight, never expecting the guy to suspect that the reason behind the cold shoulders you've been giving him is your promise to Hanguk's Golden boy.

"So they're possessive over their little healing angel huh?" He smirks as he steps closer, locking you between his body and the billiard table as he rests his hand on the side of your hip "They want Miss placebo effect all for their own"

You part your lips, heart thumping against your chest "J-Jimin,"

"That’s not fair," He pouts, hands reaching up to stroke the side of your neck "I wanna make you cum so hard, until you spill your placebo effect all over my tongue."

You gasp as you feel his hardness poking at your core but before you can react he's quick enough to lock your hip against on the table with his hand as he grinds his hardness on your centre.

"Hey Park!"

You watch Jimin's lips breaking into a wide grin as he stares at you, his eyes almost disappearing because of his victorious smile hearing the familiar voice calling his name.

"Hey Jeon," He turn his head around, without changing his position against you but allowing you enough view of the guy standing behind him "Can I help you with anything?" he asks with a teasing tone

Jungkook stares at you instead, completely ignoring Jimin's question for a few moments. Your cheeks heat up as you recieve his interrogating gaze dancing silently on you.

"How about we play a round, Park?" he offers dryly, jaw clenching as he continues to watch you in Jimin's arms, tilting his head to the side as if he's trying to silently scold you just with his eyes "In the memory of the old days, you know!?"

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secretradiobrooklyn · 4 years ago

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Shroud of Pigeon | 12.5.20

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1. Yos Olarang - title unknown

This is a real score in my book. Generally known as Yol Aularon, this guy is Cambodia’s greatest rock musician, turning out garage rock that knows no equal in America or anywhere else, in my opinion. I tracked down this song on a tape attributed to “Yol Aularon” which includes his big hit, “Cyclo,” but also this song which I haven’t heard on any other collections. Honestly, though, I may yet run across it in a prominent collection, because I have no way of figuring out the title — every bit of the text I can find is in Cambodian. In any case, we LOVE this track! It’s almost like a catalog of Olarang’s laughs: there’s a merry snort, a giggle, and a malevolent cackle all built into the melody. I believe he’s the blazing lead guitarist as well. It’s just such a perfect gem of pure rock energy.

2. Gedou - “Scent” (I think)

Speaking of pure rock energy — DAMN, SAM! This was our introduction to Gedou, a blasting burst of Japanese glam rock whose costumes match the sounds you hear here. These guys were only originally active from ’73-’76, and then got back together sporadically after that; I believe this is from that original lineup. It’s well worth it to check the live video that this comes from. It’s an electric thrill just to see them leaning back to back, singing into the same mic, doing kicks and losing their minds in shining kimonos and silk hiphuggers. It feels like a Japanese MC5 whose wardrobe directly influenced David Bowie. One note I read says that they were popular with Japanese biker gangs at the time — and there are certainly bikes aplenty in the video. I’m looking forward to finding out more about the impact they had in Japan, and whether they made an impression in the rest of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHfBhJsqrD8

3. Clothilde - “Saperlipopette”

What a strange little slab of chamber pop! Clothilde was barely even a one-hit wonder in France — she released two 45s in 1967 and, as far as I know, that was it. But what a song! It’s like a vanful of pop records crashed into a classical instrument shop. I especially dig the xylophone or whatever that is back there — hardly necessary given the hyperactive harpsichord, but it takes the poppy flavor right over the top. So many bands have tried to get to this level of fizz, but I’ve never heard it succeed like this!

- King Kong - “Ten Long Years”

Slint is one of indie rock’s most unimpeachably cool bands, which makes the silliness of King Kong all the more endearing. Band leader Ethan Buckler was the original bassist in Slint, and all of the Slint lineup got into the act at one point or another. In 1995 Drag City released King Kong’s “Me Hungry,” a sort of funky concept album about a caveman, his yak, and an inhospitable world. Sean Nelson and I spent many not-sober nights enjoying that record — “I push em out, I push em out” — and got to see them play the Crocodile Cafe. I definitely remember appreciating how groovy King Kong was, like Neanderthal B-52s. Butler even looked a bit like a shaved caver.

4. Star Feminine Band - “Femme Africaine”

Born Bad is our new favorite label, right up there with Analog Africa. They’re based in France, and release music both archival and new. Star Feminine Band is based in Benin, home to so much of our favorite music. It’s definitely worth watching the video for this song just to see how young and full of potential the girls in the band are. They were assembled in a School of Rock sort of situation, taught to play instruments and encouraged to write lyrics. The lyrics of this song are so directly uplifting it’s enough to put a lump in the throat. Meanwhile, the music is such a pleasure to listen to! The whole album is full of good stuff, but this song is pretty much their theme song. It translates to:

“Oh woman, African woman

Oh woman, Beninese woman

Black woman, get up, don't sleep

You can become president of the republic

You can become prime minister of the country

Get up, something must be done

African woman, be independent

The country needs us, go to school

Africa needs you, you have to work

The world needs us, let's stand up we'll defend

African woman, be independent”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdDp6VAXXbk

5. Young Signorino - “Mmh Ha Ha Ha”

A few years ago a friend posted the video for this song on FB with a note that was like, “Ever see something you should hate but you can’t stop watching?” I watched it, watched it again… and watched it again. It eventually slipped out of my mind, but I was thrilled to remember it the other day in the context of WBFF. The song’s language, such as it is, is Italian, but it also just fits perfectly into the post-language mix that has been turning our cranks lately. I’m really glad to get a chance to present it here first as a piece of music, because the video really affects the experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9bf4PT-aEk

6. Yura Yura Teikoku - ゆらゆら帝国で考え中 “Yura Yura Keikoku de Kangaechuu” (I think?)

This is another sweet find in a broadcast full of em! Yura Yura Teikoku is a trio formed in 1989 and have a huge rep in Japan as a psychedelic band, but apparently by 2000 they were crafting super-awesome pop songs that rocked hard. The video of this song features a singer with adorably mussed hair and a striped shirt against an orange background, looking super hip and on top of the world. From what I’ve read they were gigantic in Japan but utterly unknown outside, which changed a bit when they played New York in 2007 and again a year later, to packed houses. But that didn’t seem to do the trick, and they finally broke up in 2010. They have several good songs from this period, but this one, from a three-song 45, is the one that has hooked us the hardest so far. We can’t seem to find out even what the song title is, but as far as I can tell the band’s name translates to The Wobbling Empire, and the song title is “Thinking in the Wobbling Empire.” It’s bizarre to us that this kind of hip tight rock didn’t find a way into the bigger world… but I guess singing in Japanese was the deciding factor. Really glad to have uncovered it though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CM44MohAs

7. Can - “Mother Sky”

I know a lot of bigger Can fans than me, but this track has so much of what we love in the drones, the freakouts, the lockdowns, the Engl-ish vocals, the long climb towards the climax… it feels sometimes like flying, sometimes like swimming, sometimes like burrowing deeper and deeper downwards.

8. Señor Coconut - “Showroom Dummies”

Can and Kraftwerk share enough DNA that they seem like a natural pairing. But… Señor Coconut’s version of this classic track of “Trans-Europe Express” is honestly my preferred version of the song. It sounds so sincere and strange, and I find myself thinking about the lives of mannequins even as I also hear the palm leaves switching in the breeze. The album “El Baile Aleman” — “German Dance” — was released in 1999, and apparently Kraftwerk was fine with it. Thank goodness.

- Lithics - “A Highly Textured Ceiling”

Every time I hear this track I think of Six Finger Satellite’s “The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird,” a crucial album for me. I learned about all of these tones for the first time from that record. I’ma write more about this band in a sec, when they show back up.

9. Schwervon! - “American Idle”

Years ago Mike Appelstein hipped us to Schwervon!, a two-piece band who were about to make the opposite journey of our own eventual path, moving from NYC to Missouri — in their case Kansas City. They turned out to be lovely individuals and an instant favorite band, and we hosted them whenever they came through STL. Their album “Courage” plays like a lost ’90s classic, and “American Idle” is one of the best tracks on there. The production of the album, by Matt Mason, is straight-up enviable. As is so often the case, good people have good friends, and they led us to Jeffrey Lewis, who has been a pleasure to get to know better since we made our own way east last year. I don’t think Matt and Nan are writing songs together anymore, but we’re glad that they did.

10. Boney M. - “Rasputin”

I saw this song peeking at me from my computer now and then, but didn’t check it out til recently. What a complete banger! The lyrics are absolutely fantastic — “Rah! Rah! Rasputin, Russia’s greatest love machine, it was a shame how he carried on!” — but so is the production… and the video, for that matter. Apparently this was a hit track in 1978. I’ve spent most of my life avoiding disco, though, so I had no idea. I love how the narrative weight shifts from the lead male voice to the chorus voices. It’s such a strange read of Rasputin’s life and death — the unkillable Casanova of Russia!

11. Rafaella Carrá - “Festa”

Did I mention that I used to hate disco? Well, this is my big comeup. We’ve been dabbling in disco on WBFF here and there, but this pairing is meant strictly for the dancefloor! This is the original Italian version, but Carrá became a massive hit in Spain and recorded most of her songs in Spanish as well. Obviously, the Spanish influence is strong in this song’s amazing flamenco claps and trumpet passages.

12. T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Benin et Loko Pierre - “Djo Mi Do”

There’s nowhere to go from disco but back to our prime fascination: Tout Puissant! This album is a collaboration with saxophonist Loko Pierre, and every track hits hard. But this track’s chorus, “djo mi do, djo mi do!” is such a gotdamn hook! This band continues to surprise and reward the deeper we dig into their catalog, and I feel like we’re still just getting started. So funky and fresh every time.

The chorus makes me think of a song we first heard on KDHX about a decade ago — “Dominos,” by The Big Pink. I really liked the hook of the song but loathed the cold-blooded lyrics, so I found myself hating it. You know how it is. I’m really glad to find a song that can replace it in my head — and it’s a way better song!

13. Bruno Leys - “Hallucinations”

Credit to Born Bad records once again for this song. It’s a true rarity. Bruno Leys fell in with some fellow students in Paris in 1967 including a guy named Emmanuel Pairault, who was obsessed with an instrument called the ondes Martenot, which is a very very early electronic instrument that works a little like a theremin — though it’s played by wearing a ring on one finger and sliding it along a wire, depressing the wire to change the note — but has a crazy range of sounds. The instrumental hook in this song, as well as the backing notes, are on the onde Martenot. Leys co-wrote and recorded four songs with the band, they got signed up with a label, released a 7”, then he had to leave for compulsory military service… and by the time he got back two years later there was no band and no label. The 7” was practically unobtainable til this year, when Born Bad records finally released it anew. I hope Leys is still alive to appreciate that it finally made its way into the world!

- The Psycheground Group - “Psycheground”

14. Troubadour Dali - “Spirit of ’67”

Oh, Troubadour… Sleepy Kitty shared a label with Troubadour Dali for several years, and we were big fans of their whirling swirling psychedelia. They had a couple of chicks (I think they’d approve of the word) projecting old-school colored oil-and-water light effects on the band, and when they were on, they looked and felt like the greatest band in the land. Troubadour went through an impressive number of players over the years, and there was generally some sort of drama or mayhem going on — not too surprising for a band who loved Brian Jonestown Massacre. The main songwriter was a lanky, handsome fella named Ben, though there were also great songs by Kevin and, every once in a great while, a powerful contribution by a quiet, snappy dresser named Benjamin. Benjamin apparently put this recording together entirely on his own. When he showed it to the band they flipped out — it’s obviously a winner — and they quickly got together a live version of it. Man, it tore the house down every time. At some point, though, in the midst of some of that drama, Benjamin started to kind of slip sideways out of the band. As they were finishing up their second full length, he declined to let the band record this song, or to make the demo available, despite their pleas. Eventually they went forward without it, and I don’t know what happened to Benjamin but I do know that Paige happened to rediscover her copy of “Spirit of ‘67″ recently, tucked into a stack of burned CDs. We’re very glad to get to drop this very special song into this secret radio mix.

- The Psycheground Group - “Psycheground”

Rare Italian instrumental noodles from the mid ’70s.

15. The Velvet Underground - “After Hours”

*Not ruined. Affected, but not ruined. She said so.

16. Jean Cussac in “Le Livre de la Jungle” - “Etre un homme comme vous”

One musical adventure we’ve really enjoyed is checking out familiar musicals in unfamiliar tongues. And though you may not think of Disney’s “Jungle Book” as a musical, you’d be mistaken. This version of “I Want to Be Like You” is a particular delight. It plays straight with the original, but the presence of the French language inflects the rhythms with a Parisian flavor that I’d never noticed before.

17. Duch Kim Hak - “Neary Sok Khley”

Another hit from the Cambodian treasure chest. Paige noted as we listened the first time, “This one has good chords,” and we took to referring to it as Cambodian ska. I think it’s meant to be a simple twist song, but there’s a royal quality to the chords that really puts it above a straightforward dance novelty. And his vocal delivery is ace!

18. The Fall - “Terry Waite Sez”

Not much needed on this one! This is one in a host of classics from 1986’s “Bend Sinister.” The Brix E. period of The Fall is just the BEST.

19. Twiggy - “When I Think of You”

Paige: “I was made aware of this record by The Deccas [a band she briefly sang with in Chicago]. They knew every single girl group song that had ever been recorded. This was the same band where the guy who was obsessed with Scott Walker and looked like him and his house was very /60s and he had a word processor. I didn’t even know what a word processor was. That’s unrelated to this song though. She’s one of the great singing models — and maybe next week we’ll play another one. There are three known.”

- Psycheground Group - “Psycheground”

20. Hallelujah Chicken Run Band - “Alikulila”

SO happy to have this album on vinyl at last! It was just released in this format, and Analog Africa is always so good at including notes about the album’s genesis. These guys are from Zambia, and they pioneered the translation of mbira parts into guitar parts, while writing these amazing songs that I’ve never heard anything like. Except for one. One of their songs sounds a bit like a Bound Stems song. Which is weird, because obviously we’d never heard them when we wrote “Cloak of Blue Sky.” It just proves to me that they were both way ahead of their time and working in an idiom that could and should be hit music today. It sounds so alive and creative and insightful, like good indie rock should.

21. Lithics - “Snake Tattoo / Twisting Vine”

Lithics is one of my favorite contemporary bands. They played Foam in St. Louis like five years ago, right after I’d discovered their existence via the excellent album “Borrowed Floors.” Foam was a tiny little club that fit maybe 50 people and was sure to go apeshit for this show. I was SO psyched to be there… but the night of, we couldn’t get out because we were staying out in the Illinois woods and it was snowing enough to make the return trip too treacherous. As much as that’s one of the main shows of my life I wish I’d seen, I’m glad that Brad got to see them and tell me about it later. I hope I can catch them in NYC.

22. Sunny Blacks Band - “Mission spéciale”

OK, I admit that I’m obsessed with Melome Clement — or Meloclem, as he is known by some in Benin. He’s the composer of hundreds of T.P. Orchestre songs, and I’ve written about him a ton. I know he plays some horns and I believe he plays the slashing guitar that you hear in this track. I don’t think that’s him singing but I’m not sure; his voice is very malleable. Sunny Blacks Band is the group he was playing with when the T.P. Orchestre guys found him. It’s hard music to track down, but I love how much it rocks — or “jerks,” as they said at the time. We’ve also played the track “Holonon Die” on here and it jerks too, with an extended, wild electric guitar solo over pulsing trap and hand drums. What a freakin powerhouse Meloclem is.

23. Betti-Betti - “La Vie de Bettie Bettie Chanteuse Camerounaise”

This recording is a beautiful mystery. It appears in a film called “Badiaga,” which I encountered while looking for music by Betti-Betti, a superstar within her nation of Cameroon. This comes from one of the final scenes in the movie. There are different summations of the film (we don’t understand the language of the film itself), but apparently the story is “inspired by” the story of Betti-Betti, who was discovered as a child wandering in a marketplace, brought up extremely poor and eventually sang (a cappella?) on the radio, whereupon she became an instant success. She played constant shows and played with many of the region’s heaviest hitters, including T.P. Orchestre (they recorded an album together, which is how we found out about her). As for this recording — I don’t know if this is sung by Betti-Betti or by the actress playing her. And I don’t know the male character singing alongside her, though I’m guessing he’s a real-life music figure himself. It’s a beautiful duet, rich with feeling, and the performance footage throughout the movie is electrifying.

P.S. This film is also how I found out about Eko Roosevelt, whose “Me To a Dey My Own” is an epic upbeat number we’ve played on WBFF!

24. Guided By Voices - “The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory”

A perfect song, meant for the opposite of social distancing: to be sung full-bore in a crowd with one’s arms slung around sweating strangers, straight into the face of the band (I’ll be the one hooting the recorder part). This is how legends are made.

- Janko Nilovic & Soul Surfers - “Maze of Sounds”

I love the bass part on this album as much as the album artwork, which we will surely have included somewhere around here. This guy’s story is pretty interesting: he was born in Istanbul to a Montenegrin father and Greek mother, and his career started by working with French singer Davy Jones (but not THAT Davy Jones) in 1967. He got into recording for sound libraries, working in soul and funk and psych music, gained a serious composing rep and eventually, maybe inevitably, his music started getting sampled by the likes of Dr. Dre and Jay Z. Not bad, not bad!

25. Gnonnas Pedro et Ses Dadjes - “La Musica en Verité”

Maybe someday we’ll release the version of this song that we recorded in the early days of the pandemic. This is the final track (if not the final song) on the immortal “Legends of Benin” album on Analog Africa. My favorite aspect is how the guitar plays the same mesmerizing piece throughout, but the percussion evolves over the course of the song until it has gradually changed completely. It’s a subtle dynamic but it’s a master clinic in how to run a drone song the right way. Also, that organ part is just beautiful.

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myhouseidea · 4 years ago

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OKHA created statement pieces for new luxury safari lodge, Cheetah Plains, which is set in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve. They worked in close collaboration with ARRCC (the architects and interior designers) and architect, Stefan Antoni of SAOTA. Photography by Photo: Adam Letch.

Stefan reveals that “No matter how good architecture is, it can only succeed when the interior upholds that level of sophistication.” He feels that OKHA is able to “design furniture that upholds and mirrors the beauty of architecture”. The project consists of three independent bush houses, named Mapogo, Mvula and Karula, each made up of several individual structures which include a central lounge, and dining room with bar area, a family media and entertainment room, a covered terrace, an open boma courtyard and separate freestanding bedroom suites. ARRCC Director Jon Case who was the lead designer for the project says that he chose to work with OKHA because of their “distinct ability to connect to a deeper narrative. They are rooted in Africa but always have their eye on an international aesthetic that is unique, and they are connected to artists and craftsmen which help to give the furniture a handcrafted feel which was so important to the overall language of Cheetah Plains.” Jon’s favourite pieces from the project are the Laguna coffee table and other bespoke coffee tables which he says, “added weight and solidity to the rooms because they are connected so well to the architectural theme.” Working on the project over the course of 10 months, OKHA creative director Adam Court says; “We wanted to design pieces that felt like an internal landscape, using materials that have inherent value and beauty which evolve and improve over time in the same way that this process happens organically in the external landscape. We wanted to create works of stature, substance and mass with a direct physical connection to the environment of Cheetah Plains.” Through this process, OKHA experimented with various metals and finishes exploring oxidised, patinated and etched processes on mild steel, brass and copper to create a lustre and depth that resonated with the project brief. Marble and stone were chosen according to grain and colour, and Court explains, “We went for deep rich earth tones, sienna, rust, ochre, copper, that resonated with the African bushveld.” Fortuitously, the client was able to harvest timber from trees that had fallen naturally in the veld which were put to good use for the monumental five metre long dining tables which anchor the open plan dining area. Court explains “The table legs had to be as robust and statuesque as the tabletop, matching it in scale” To achieve this, OKHA designed a custom table leg that would physically support the one ton tops and be an elegant and appropriate design that was part of the interior narrative. Each table uses a different wood type with a unique shape, which informed the design and position of the legs. The brass clad table bases are beautifully sculpted scalloped forms that stand at opposing angles allowing the best possible seating positions and spreading the massive weight equally. The shape of the table legs was also replicated in the brass “butterfly” inlays which are recessed into the tabletop. The table is paired with custom Tofu dining chairs, upholstered with a bronze coloured leather seat and back to complement the dining table’s solid brass decals. More bespoke elements include OKHA’s Nancy barstools in a custom metallic coloured leather, tailored brass footrest and unique wood stain, Nicci armchairs, Barnett dining chairs in a sunflower yellow velvet, Bijou marble side tables in antique brass with Nero Marquina marble tabletop, candleholders made from Iroko wood, circular copper framed mirrors with matching servers and custom life-size totems that create a completely novel atmosphere of a modern and ancient time combined. This ability to design for the environment and the architecture is a valuable contribution from OKHA.

The biggest safari story in Southern Africa OKHA created statement pieces for new luxury safari lodge, Cheetah Plains, which is set in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve.

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izmaeldubuque92 · 4 years ago

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romera-rp · 5 years ago

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Come one, come all, come big and come small to the wondrous, whimsical, wintery Kristall Carnival! For one week only, at the height of winter, the carnival arrives in Haegehend every year to sow merriness and joy. Stop by to participate in the many carnival games, experience the performances, and to dance until dawn at the Kristall Ball.

The carnival will be held throughout Runswick and is centered on the outskirts of town around a large pond and field. The Kristall Carnival set up their large silver tents there and put on trapeze acts and other wonder inducing performances everyday.

In the streets is the Frost Market selling hot drinks, sumptuous winter goods, and winter snacks like peppermints and roasted nuts. An alarming number of professional knitters have set up stalls selling scarves, sweaters, and hats.

IN CHARACTER DETAILS

This event will take place between January 10th to January 17th and your threads may take place at any point during those in game days. Only the Kristall Ball takes place on a particular night and all other activities occur daily.

PERFORMANCES

Kristall Carnival Acts Performances are set up in the large silver tents erected by the carnival. Feats of extreme strength and dexterity in one tent alongside fire-breathers, knife throwers, and jugglers; trick riding and horse vaulting in another; and in the largest tent, with the greatest number of attendees, is the trapeze act. Performers leap from platform to platform, flip off swings into each other’s arms, and all together ignore gravity.

Throughout the city are wandering troupe members. Stilt walkers meander through market stalls and toss candies and coins to children while jugglers amaze random citizens as they see fit. Acrobats leap from roof to roof trailing ribbons behind them and flip over stalls and citizens to the amazement of many.

CARNIVAL GAMES

Frost Giant’s Strength With the large provided mallet, hit the target on the ground hard enough to send the weight up to the top of the game to prove once and for all that you are as strong as a frost giant! Succeed in a DC 16 strength check to win the game and win a frost giant action figure.

Pin the Snowflake You’re presented with a board of many targets in the shape of snowflakes and given three darts. Hit at least one bullseye with a DC 20 dexterity check and receive a free ice cream. Hit all three to win a 300gp gift certificate to the Keep of Shops. If you win, note the success on your next submission to the Keep of Shops.

Serenade the Snowman With the accompaniment of the Carnival band (Frevy and the Frigids) compete with at least one other individual in a sing-off. The higher performance check wins the round. Win best out of three and be rewarded a music box that plays one of the band’s greatest hits, lose and receive a ribbon that says “frosty but not salty.”

Chilly Chalice Challenge Face off against your friends and your foes in this carnival funded drinking game. The available drinks match the regular menu of the Dead Nightingale in Khaggon. Competitors must agree on the drink and both consume the same choice. The one caveat: all drinks are in slushed ice form. Can you outlast your competitor? Can you survive the crippling brain freeze? Find out now. Each drink requires a DC 10 constitution check. The first player to three fails loses. The winner wins a Chalice of Everchill.

“Chalice of Everchill” An unnecessarily ornate blue and white glass chalice that is always cold and ready to chill drinks of any kind. If broken in anyway, the chill will fade forever. Warning: do not hold for extended periods of time. Frostbite is known to occur.

Romera’s Next Top Snowman A snowman building competition. Everyone wins and has fun! Carrot noses and coal eyes are provided.

ACTIVITIES

Ice Skating A nearby pond has frozen completely. With skates provided by the Carnival, many try their best to skate with grace and competency across the ice. Many more fail entirely and skid on their bums instead.

Ice Hockey Half the pond has been sectioned off for ice hockey competitions. The puck is sentient and quite insulting to all the players. It’s heckling inspires harder and sloppier strikes and will often be seen skidding across the ice yelling colorful insults and curse words. It does not censor itself for young audiences.

Sleigh Rides Take a ride through the scenic and idyllic snow-covered fields and forests around Runswick. The trails have been cleared of beasties and the world is aglow with fresh snow. A great place for a meandering conversation with friends and a fantastic backdrop for a date.

Ice Castle and Maze Grand blocks have ice have been erected and carved into a wondrous palace of ice. The walls, the arching roof, the parapets, the furniture and windows are all sculpted expertly from ice. Surrounding the castle is a winding and mystifying maze of yet more ice. Ice sculptures lurk in corners and at the center is a frozen fountain and a bemused hot chocolate seller willing to offer maps to the hapless wanderers.

Sledding On the hill above the pond and tents there will be sledding. Kids of all ages love to go sailing down the hill into the soft piled snow drifts at the bottom. Adults do too! Toboggans and disk sleds are provided.

Snowball Wars Beyond the tents and festivities are the frigid battle grounds where snowballs fly and alliances are as flimsy as frost. Snowball fights are limited to this one location. Across the cordoned off area are half-built shelters and piles of ammunition. No one is immune to a face full of snow once they step within the field.

The Kristall Ball As night falls on the last day of the Carnival’s visit, January 17th, Lord Horcryn is throwing a massive outdoor ball. Festivities will take place within the performance tents as well as in the surrounding field. Ice sculptures decorate the field alongside a week’s worth of snowmen. Food and drinks will be served throughout and the live band will keep many residents waltzing and swinging until dawn. The only rules are as follows: wear blue, white and/or silver finery and no one knock over any snowmen. The best dressed will be awarded a one-use invitation to any of Lord Horcryn’s upcoming parties.

OOC DETAILS

This event will run from January 7th to January 21st out of game at which point your event threads should be coming to a close.

You’re welcome to continue your event independent storylines throughout the event. You’re also more than welcome to participate in everything offered here or use this event as a backdrop for a self-para.

Be sure to tag your posts with “romevent” as well as “Kristall Carnival.”

THREAD IDEAS

Compete in one or all of the carnival games.

Attend one of their dazzling trapeze performances.

Attend the winter ball hosted by Lord Horcryn and dance the night away.

Go ice skating with a friend or an enemy.

Bring your lover on a romantic sleigh ride. Or, to mix things up, bring your nemesis on a romantic sleigh ride.

Have a snowball fight.

Try some of the tasty treats and drinks from the many food stalls.

PLAYER TASKS

Carnival AU Similar to the previous task found here, we’d love to see an AU of your character(s) in a carnival setting. What role would they play? Would they be a performer? You may use any form of media such as Pinterest boards, aesthetic compilations, playlists, etc. to demonstrate this AU. All guidelines from the original task post apply. Each au post will be worth 10gp in the Shop.

Ball Outfit Similar to the outfit posts from the Masyarakat Ball way back in the summer, you may post what your character would wear to the Kristall Ball. Your character does not have to attend the ball for you to post their outfit. Lord Horcryn’s rule states it must be blue, white, and/or silver. Example outfit posts from our first ball can be found here and here. Each outfit post will be worth 10gp.

#romevent #kristall carnival #magic rp #dnd rp #literate roleplay

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comicgeekscomicgeek · 5 years ago

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Their Hero Academia – Chapter 37: The Sports Festival Part 10: FINAL ROUND!

Presenting the next raw and unedited chapter of my on-going, next-gen, My Hero Academia fic, Their Hero Academia!

Earlier chapters can be found here

“And now we come down to the Final Four!” came the voice of Present Mic. “Let’s take a minute to recap our finalists!”

“Do you really think people’s attention spans are that short?”

“Were you saying something, Eraser?”

“…Never mind, just continue.”

“Right on! First up, we have Koharu Kocho from General Studies! This moth-maiden’s made it past some pretty challenging competition, but shown us to never count General Studies out! Then we have Mika Mineta from the Hero Course! She got past her first match with a smart mouth, but showed us she also has sharp skills in her second round! After that, we have Isamu Haimawari from the Hero Course, Class 1-A’s only non-legacy! With high speed and a surprise secret attack, he’s raced past some challenging competition! And finally, Toshinori Midoriya, who took us all by surprise with a massive gravity-powered Smash that would do his dear old granddad proud!”

Mic continued, “And now, for the final match roll-out! First up, Kocho will face Mineta! Then, we’ll get to see Haimawari fight Midoriya! The winners of those two matches will then face off in the Final Round! It’s still anyone’s match!”

“I just want to reiterate that anyone breaking their bones or using this for dramatic pronouncements will be expelled.”

“Thank you for that, Eraser! Now let’s get to it!”

The Final Four of the Sports Festival. Koharu hadn’t believed it when she’d made the Top Eight; now she really didn’t believe it. If her heart bet any faster, she was pretty sure it was going to come pounding out of her chest.

She wanted to tell herself that she didn’t have to do better than this. That she’d already done better than almost all of the General Studies students who’d participated in the Sports Festival before her (Almost all. There was the Festival about six years ago where a General Studies student had actually taken first place, but that had been because their Quirk had been a particularly strong form of invulnerability and they’d just outlasted all the competition. She heard they were working in nuclear clean-up these days.). She wanted to tell herself that she’d already raised the bar for what a General Studies kid could do by a large amount.

Yes, she wanted to tell herself that. But some other part of her mind told her that it still didn’t matter. That she’d missed her chance when she’d failed the Entrance Exam and that nothing she did was ever going to make up for that. That she might have a useful Quirk, but she was never going to be a Hero.

It was really hard not to listen to that part of her brain.

Across from her, Mika Mineta was taking her place on the other side of the ring. The hooved and horned girl was known even to the General Studies classes and not much of it was flattering. After seeing her first match, it was easy to see why. But she’d also demonstrated some real skill in her second match. Koharu was going to have to be careful if she was going to win this.

Hawkeye pointed a finger at Mineta as she entered the ring. “If you speak right now, I will disqualify you. Understood?” Mineta only nodded in response.

The sharp-shooting teacher looked over both of them, then nodded. “Let’s keep it clean, ladies. FIGHT!”

Koharu flapped her wings hard, desperate to gain some air as quickly as possible. Mineta was dangerous at both close and long range, which meant staying mobile was most important than anything else. As she climbed skyward, Mineta lowered her head slightly.

Plop! Plop!

From the girl’s horns, a pair of purple balls fired out, starting small, but growing in size until they were about as big as softballs, flying through the air toward her. Koharu twisted in the air, letting the balls go flying past her.

“What?” Mineta asked. “You don’t want to touch my balls?”

Well, the rumors about the girl were certainly proving themselves to be true. Who even said things like that?!

Mineta lowered her head again and Koharu took in a deep breath, then fired a sticky blob of her String-Shot. It met Mineta’s balls in mid-air, smacking them out of the air and sending them falling back to the ground where the combined sticky attacks hit the ground with a wet sound that even Koharu found more than a little disgusting.

“Okay,” Mineta said, stomping a hoof. “Guess I’ll just have to make you come down!” She lowered her head again, filling the air with those purple balls.

Koharu was forced into an aerial dance, dodging the sticky projectiles as quickly as she could. It wasn’t enough to keep them from hitting her body, she had to make sure they didn’t hit her wings either. With her wingspan… she was a big target. She returned fire as best she could, spraying her String-Shot, but Mineta was at least as mobile on the ground as she was in the air. One thing was for sure though, they were leaving the ring a mess.

She shouldn’t have been surprised. Mineta might have been a loon, but she did have an effective Quirk.

Koharu folded her wings for a second, letting herself drop, then opened them again, catching the air. The balls fired by Mineta sailed over her head harmlessly. Koharu flapped her wings hard and unleashed her Scales. Orange powder filled the air, her Sleep Powder. Her Paralytic Powder might have been good here too, but she’d used that more during Quirkball. Too much of any one of her Scales would render her unable to fly and she still potentially had another fights to fight. She might be able to pull off a couple other Powders too, if she had to…

Mineta sucked in a breath before the Sleep Powder reached her, then fired a pair of sticky balls straight up into the air. They fell back quickly and she caught them in her hands, before throwing them in front of her. They stuck to the ground with a rubbery sound and she ran to them, bouncing off them and up into the air.

Okay, she really hadn’t been expecting that, even with having seen the same trick in Mineta’s fight against Dashi.

Koharu tried to flap out of the way, but Mineta sailed through the air and grabbed her around the middle. Instantly, Koharu began losing altitude. She’d been able to fly somewhat with Ojiro wrapped around her, but with those hooves and those horns, Mineta was a lot heavier than the invisible girl had been.

“Let me go!” she cried out, pounding her fists on Mineta’s back and head. The girl’s skull was harder than she’d expected, but it probably to be, to support those horns.

“Aw, babe, we can just cuddle!” Mineta taunted back. As Koharu struggled against her, flapping hard continuing to pound on the girl, Mineta reared her head back and fired a volley of sticky balls straight up into the air again. “Fine! Let’s see how you like this… PURPLE RAIN!”

Struggling to keep in the air as it was, Koharu could barely manage to look up and see them falling back down. One of them stuck to her back, but the rest of them stuck to her wings, three on her left side, two on her right. And one right where her upper and lower right wings met, sticking them together, another on the tip of her left wing. Combined with the weight of the balls themselves…

Mineta released her, landing in a three-point landing and quickly backing away. Koharu struggled to stay airborne, but she simply couldn’t. She fell, managing to stay upright, but her wings dropped under the weight of the balls, touching the ground. Touching it… right where the ball on the tip of her left wing was. She tried to flap it, but found her wing stuck firmly to the ground, pinned by the ball. She could barely lift her other.

The horned girl was circling her, looking for another opening.

Maybe she could still get Mineta with her String-Shot? One good spray, take her down? No. Too risky. It was all too risky right now. Real, true, fear started to grip her heart, and she felt herself shaking. Koharu held up her hands in defeat.

“Stop!” she yelled. “Stop, stop! I give up! I can’t… I can’t risk tearing my wings!” She wanted to cry. She’d made it this far and now she was blowing it all, just because she was scared. But she’d never really hurt her wings before. They’d gotten a little bruised, a little bent, but she’d managed to never tear them before, didn’t know what would happen if she did.

For her own safety, she had to give up.

“Kocho has yieled!” Hawkeye announced. “Mineta wins!”

Koharu let out a small sigh, clenching her hands into fists. She’d failed.

“And that’s it for this match, folks! It’s a new record for General Studies! This was one for the history books!”

***

Toshi honestly hadn’t thought about making it this far. While he gone’d in with no intention of costing on his dad’s reputation or giving it anything less than his all, placing really hadn’t been that important to him. He’d much more concerned about giving his classmates the chance to shine. Especially people like Haimawari, who didn’t have any legacies to draw on or connections in the Hero community, or people whose parents were lower ranked Heroes, like Koda or Sato. They were his friends, his classmates, and his family. He’d decided way back at the start of the year he’d do whatever he could to help them succeed, even before they’d elected him Class Rep.

He was impressed by Haimawari’s performance, really. He knew his friend had a lot of potential, but even he hadn’t been expecting him to do as well as he had. And he definitely hadn’t expected the long-range applications of his Quirk.

Now though, with first place in both of their grasps, he needed to give it his all and focus on himself. He wanted to do his best. That didn’t necessarily mean winning… but it did mean he had to give it everything he had. No half-measures.

Thinking of himself first didn’t come easy to Toshi. He’d always had a big heart, always tried to look out for everyone else. But if ever it was any time to do so, it was now.

“And here it is, Sports Fans! Toshinori Midoriya versus Isamu Haimawari! THE legacy to beat against the great unknown!”

“You know as well as I do where you come from doesn’t matter as much as what you do.”

“Yeah, but fans eat up the hype!”

As Toshi and Haimawari stepped into the ring, Hawkeye gave each of them a glance. “Try not to destroy the ring this time, Midoriya,” she said sharply.

Toshi gave her a sheepish grin. “Yes, ma’am.”

“I’m… I’m not gonna hesitate, Midoriya!” Haimawari said. “Got to give this my all!”

Toshi grinned. “So do I!” No animosity, just both of them doing their best. He might have only known Haimawari a few weeks now, but he was as good a friend as he’d ever had.

Satisfied with that, Hawkeye gave them both one last look. “Good luck to you both. FIGHT!”

Haimawari launched himself forward on all fours at high speed, nearly matching the Twins for acceleration. Toshi had just enough time to leap over him with one of his gravityless jumps, making sure he was high enough to avoid the reach of Haimawari’s long arms. He landed lightly on his feet, spinning around immediately. It was still a little too late though, Haimawari had spun around in place once Toshi had gone over him and accelerated again. It was too fast for Toshi, who managed only a slight sidestep, and Haimawari’s high speed charge slammed into him off center, knocking him back.

Haimawari spun around near the edge of the ring, coming at him again. Jumping over him… wasn’t going to work. Unlike Sora, his turning radius was a lot tighter. It didn’t give Toshi anywhere near enough time to get his own Quirk in line when it happened. But…

Toshi brought his right leg up and then back down quickly, increasing his gravity five times over when he did. The ground cracked under the impact, radiating out in a line from his foot. Haimawari was forced to swerve around it, giving Toshi time to take a quick step back and then launch himself forward. Toshi increased his gravity at the last moment, dealing him a glancing blow than sent him skidding away and knocking him out of his slide.

Haimawari scrambled to his feet, then pointed with his right arm, palm out. He fired off more of those blue-white energy bolts (That was so cool! How was he doing that? Had to be something with hos his repulsion field work…?), but Toshi was already moving and the blasts trailed behind him. Toshi canceled the majority of his gravity and took a leap towards Haimawari, but his friend was quick, stepping backwards while reaching out with one of his long arms. His hand slapped against Toshi’s chest and he unleashed a pulse of energy that made him feel like he’d been kicked hard, shooting him up into the air.

At the apex of the arc, Toshi increased his gravity enough to overcome his momentum, dropping straight back down to the ring in a three-point landing. The ground underneath him cracked, but not enough to disrupt the rest of the ring. Haimawari was already pressing his attack, firing more energy pulses. Toshi had to scramble to get out of the way, but Haimawari’s aim was getting worse. Like Toshi, he had to be getting tired. They’d both had a long day of rough battles.

Toshi took a low-gravity leap again, just a short one, carrying him over the distance between himself and Haimawari. Quickly, he shifted into triple-gravity, throwing punches as fast as he could move. Haimawari dodged, side to side, avoiding his slightly slow, but powerful blows. It looked like those lessons he’d been giving him had been paying off!

Haimawari peppered Toshi’s body with blows of his own, faster, but not nearly as strong. Each blow, he tried unleashing a burst of power, and Toshi winced against the impact. He was going to be sore and bruised, that was for sure. But with his gravity up, the repulsion blasts couldn’t knock him off his feet.

Seeing that this wasn’t working, Haimawari tried to step away, dropping back down into a crouch to start sliding again. He raced to the right, starting to circle around. But this time, Toshi was ready, anticipating where he’d go, using another gravity jump to put himself right in his path. Upping his gravity as soon as he landed, Haimawari slammed into him, but Toshi held his ground and Haimawari bounced off, stunned. One good blow would be enough to knock him out.

Toshi closed the gap between them, readying a gravity powered punch…

Haimawari’s hands snapped up and he unleashed blast after blast, hammering into Toshi’s chest. They were low powered shots, stinging more than they hurt, especially against his increased durability. But they made advancing almost impossible.

Suddenly, Haimawari dropped his hands, firing a single, powerful blast at the ground beneath Toshi’s feet. The blue-white bolt practically exploded shattering the ground and knocking him off his feet, breaking his concentration. Haimawari moved after that, hitting a high speed slide that enabled him to slam into Toshi before he even hit the ground. One arm wrapped around Toshi, he kept going, pushing Toshi along. He tried to pump up his gravity, but Haimawari just applied more thrust, barely slowing down. His repulsion force was way different than Sora’s Jetpack, taking the extra weight a lot more easily.

Haimawari braked as they neared the edge of the ring and Toshi kept going on pure momentum. Increasing his gravity, he dug his fingers into the ground, barely stopping himself. He staggered back to his feet…

And then Haimawari hit him with one last blast, dead on. It hit him dead center and knocked him off his feet and out of the ring.

He bounced once, twice, three times, then landed. Back on his feet in an instant, let out a cheer. “That was awesome!” Who’d known Haimawari could do that?

“Midoriya is out of bounds!” Hawkeye yelled. “Haimawari wins!”

Then the reality of what had happened had sunk in. He’d lost. He… didn’t know what to think about that. He’d been going all out, as best as he could, and still lost. He’d made it pretty far though, better than Dad had his first time out. That was something. And he’d helped get a lot of his friends pretty far too.

Maybe that was enough?

“Now that was one heck of a match! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! But now, Sports Fans, it’s time for the Final Round! Be back in five minutes for the Fight for First Place!”

***

“And here it is, folks! The Final Round! Will it be Mika Mineta or Isamu Haimawari? Who’s it gonna be!?”

The burn-coma theory was really starting to look pretty good right about now. Because that was the only logical explanation for how he’d managed to get to the last round of the Sports Festival. It also provided as good an explanation for how the victories that had propelled him here had been against Izumi and Toshi. It was his unconscious mind working something out.

What that said about the fact that this fight was against Mineta, Isamu wasn’t really sure. He hadn’t had long to strategize for fighting her, but after watching her other fights, he’d come up with the basics. He just had to not get hit, that was all, and watch where he was going if she tried putting some of them in his path. She was strong and had a kick like a mule, but he was fast and capable of fighting at a distance if he had to. He may have blown the surprise of his new technique, but at least he had a new technique to use. None of his classmates had seen him use it before his fight with Izumi; even having used it against Toshi, that still gave him the advantage.

He’d been pretty sure he was never going to crack the top sixteen, let alone the Final Four, and he definitely never expected to be competing for first place. Even if he got knocked out now, that was something to be proud of. Deku himself didn’t even make it this far his first Sports Festival.

From across the ring, Mineta blew him a kiss. He tried not to flinch.

Hawkeye fixed Mineta with a glare, but didn’t say anything. A small blessing, at least. He couldn’t let her get inside his head.

“You both ready?” Hawkeye asked. Isamu gave her a thumbs up and a nod. After confirming Mineta’s agreement, she stepped out of the ring. “Then… FIGHT!”

“Tell you what, Haimawari,” Mineta shouted. “When you lose, I’ll let you touch my boobs to make up for it, okay?”

Behind the bandanna covering the lower half of his face and the goggles covering his eyes, Isamu felt himself go red. Just ignore her. He had to just ignore her. She was trying to mess with his mind, throw him off.

Isamu didn’t wait for her to speak again, instead making the first move. He pointed his right palm at Mineta and unleased a volley of low power shots. Probably not more than enough than to knock a can over, but she didn’t know that. None of them hit her anyway; she dodged out of the way easily.

With Mineta on the move, it was time to get moving himself. Isamu got his hands on the ground and fired up his Quirk, sliding along the edge of the ring. Mineta had stopped running by this point and laid down a volley of balls right in his path. He took in a sharp breath and unleashed a small pulse from his hands and feet, lifting him up and over them, while his momentum still carried him forward.

“Is there anything you can’t do with those hands?” Mineta asked, firing off another volley of balls. Isamu shot sideways, directly to the right, narrowly avoiding them. He was grateful most of his shorts were landing outside the ring. The more that stuck to the inside of it, the less space he’d have to slide around.

He gave himself an extra burst of thrust, racing towards Mineta, then turned at the last second, stretching his legs out to full extension. Her reaction time was good though and she jumped over his legs as they passed, then struck out with a kick when she landed. He had just enough time to jerk his head out of the way, her leg sailing by the space his head had been occupying. He didn’t even want to think about how much that would have hurt.

His hand shot out and touched her leg, applying his adhesive force to it.

“Hey, that kinda tingles!” Mineta said, trying to keep her balance. “I like it!”

Keeping the adhesive force going in his left hand, he applied thrust out his other hands, sending him sliding back, dragging Mineta along with him. He spun, straightened out, but kept his grip on her. Able to drive forward now, he continued to drag her along. He just had to make it to the edge of the ring and he could throw her out…

“Okay,” Mineta said, “this has gotta stop! I’m gonna hurl!” He couldn’t spare the moment to look over his shoulder—maintaining two different outputs for his energy was taking up a lot of concentrating—and couldn’t see what she was doing, but the slight plop sound of her using her Quirk told him it wasn’t good. A half dozen purple balls sailed past him, hitting the ground in front of him. He was forced to swerve and that sudden directional shift cost him his “grip” on Mineta, letting her bounce a couple times on the ground but roll to a stop. Narrowly avoiding the balls, he swerved again, bringing himself back to facing her.

Keeping his left hand on the ground as he slid around, he brought his right hand up and took aim at one of the balls on the ground between him and Mineta. Concentrating on drawing up his energy, he pushed out another blast. It struck the purple sphere head on and the ball exploded in a shower of purple gunk. It splattered all over Mineta, covering her face and eyes.

“Eyuck!” Mineta yelled, wiping the gunk away from her face with her hands. “Really? Didn’t know you liked to play dirty!”

Isamu used this time to rush forward, slamming into her at high speed. The impact knocked her back and down, but as he tried to press his attack, she drew back her legs and then unleashed a powerful double kick. Her hooves struck him hard in the shoulders, throwing him back as well, wincing in pain. Mineta had a kick like a mule, that was for sure!

And then Mineta was back on her hooves. She pressed her attack, firing another pair of balls while he was knocked down. Protectively, he threw up a hand.

WHUMP!

One of the balls missed, but the other hit his hand with a thick, wet sound. No, not his hand, he’d activated his repulsion field! The ball was adhering to that, the attraction field he used to cling to surfaces, not his hand! Behind his bandanna, Isamu broke into a grin. He pointed the ball and unleashed the repulsion part of his Quirk.

Ka-POW!

Boosted by his Quirk, the ball rocketed away from him at high speed. Mineta, too surprised by this sudden shift (especially after how the same trick had pretty much taken Dashi out of the fight) to move, got struck head on. The ball bounced off her head with a rubbery sound, but the impact was strong enough to knock her flat on her back.

Isamu sprang back up to a crouch and rocketed forward. He had scant seconds before Mineta was up. He closed the gap between them just as she was pulling herself up, slapped his hand against her… against her… against her… chest and unleashed another repulsive charge. The force it shoved her back like a shot and out of the ring!

She didn’t look particular put out by any of it, landing on her rear. “And here I thought you didn’t like me! she called out. “Don’t worry, I won’t tell Kana! It can just stay out little secret!”

She was going to be the death of him!

“Mineta is out of bounds!” Hawkeye announced. “Haimawari wins!”

So… he’d won.

He’d won the Sports Festival.

Him. The son of a couple long-retired vigilantes against a bunch of children of Pro-Heroes. The crowd was cheering, cheering for him. It was almost deafening.

If this was a coma, he hoped he’d never wake up.

“HAIMAWARI WINS! HAIMAWARI WINS! THAT’S GAME, EVERYBODY! FROM UNKNOWN TO FIRST PLACE! LET’S GIVE HIM A BIG HAND!”

“…I have to admit, I did not see any of this coming.”

“Did you just admit you didn’t know something?”

“Don’t get used to it.”

#my hero academia #their hero academia #fan fiction #fan fic #my writing #isamu haimawari #toshi midoriya

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Doctor Who: The Witchfinders, written by Joy Wilkinson. In the history of Doctor Who we've had three stories both written and directed by women. The last was Barbara Clegg's Enlightenment in 1983, an unusual story which stands out from its era and is easily one of the best of the 80s. The Witchfinders is a very solid tale, and you might say it succeeds as a traditional Doctor Who story more than any other this year. I've seen someone on Twitter call it the best so far and I can't concur with that, but this is a good opportunity to look at what's really been happening with Doctor Who this year overall.

Chris Chibnall as showrunner has brought us a Doctor Who which functions better as Genuine Adult Drama (GAD) than the Davies and Moffat eras did. You can feel the influence of Davies, but they've shaved his trademark silliness off the whole thing for a more muted feel to the proceedings. This is paired with an anamorphic desaturated feature-film look to the visuals. At times the series even feels bland and flavorless, but at its best we feel the weight of the adult concepts the TARDIS team are faced with - American racism in "Rosa" and the British-sparked conflict between Muslims and Hindus in "Demons of the Punjab." The Witch trials of the King James era are a weighty, depressing subject, and it seems a little bit of a shame to bring traditional Doctor Who alien monsters into it. To the episode's credit, it goes full horror movie with this. There's some CGI but it's mostly makeup straight out of a zombie film - specifically the Evil Dead series. It feels too scary for kids, and Doctor Who should occasionally feel like that. And oh, let's talk about King James. Russell T. Davies established the traditional of the "celebrity historical" where The Doctor meets a well known historical (or sometimes fictional) personage, often played by a recognizable guest-star actor. So here's Alan Cumming, a big-name actor coming in to play his part as an absolute lark. Openly gay and affecting a comical upper-class Scottish accent of some kind, he's a delight throughout, whether flirting with Ryan or trying to learn The Doctor's secrets. The half-comedic performance does undermine him a bit as a threat, but it's nice to see a guest actor having fun with a part. Cumming is a smart enough actor to never go fully over the top with it, pitching his performance at the right level so that it doesn't break the scene. The three companions have been reliably good, but not in a showy or cartoonish way. They only occasionally get standout moments. There's a lot of humor and energy to Jodie Whittaker's performance as The Doctor, which is not unlike David Tennant's popular Doctor, but it often feels like that energy is muted by everything else around her, as if she's acting in a tank of water. The Witchfinders is the first episode to show The Doctor struggling to get anyone to take her seriously, due to her gender. King James doesn't recognize her as being in charge, and she's sentenced as a witch and drowned. I'm glad an episode dealt with this, but it also speaks to a fundamental, and peculiar, powerlessness inherent to Jodie Whittaker's version of The Doctor. In the 60s-80s series, it was common for The Doctor to be mistrusted by everyone at the beginning of a story, and locked up until he could prove his worth. Jon Pertwee's Doctor spends much of Frontier in Space going from one prison cell to another. The faster-paced post-2005 series rightly dispensed with that as padding they didn't have time for. Psychic Paper was introduced to give The Doctor credentials and credibility at the beginning of a story, along with other tricks often involving the Sonic Screwdriver - which by this point is an all-purpose tool but can also be used for its traditional purpose of opening locks to get The Doctor - and the writer - out of a dead end. The Psychic Paper fails The Doctor in this one, as King James doesn't respect a woman's authority. It was usually easy for The Doctor, as played by Eccleston, Tennant, Smith or Capaldi, to talk his way into a position of authority, and Whittaker's Doctor managed that in her first scene. But increasingly it's become apparent that The Doctor is not doing an amazing job of solving every problem in an episode like an all-powerful God, or kid's TV hero. The Davies and Moffat eras often wanted to show you how amazing and powerful The Doctor is. This Doctor keeps ending up with endings in which some immediate threat has been vanquished, but larger societal problems linger, and people we care about are dead. Last week's episode, Kerblam!, set up an apparently dystopic capitalist future, where an Amazon-like retailer had replaced 90% of employees with automation, and was required by law to keep a 10% human workforce. The employed workers were treated like machines, and were miserable, and the unemployed were apparently living in even greater misery and poverty. The episode couldn't, or wouldn't, imagine an automated future where the unemployed are cared for. Capitalism can't imagine that either. The Doctor sees that misery and doesn't do much to help. She solves the immediate problem that is killing workers, so that the company can keep on running, more or less as it did before. This has been something of a running theme. The Doctor doesn't fix anything for citizens of this galaxy at large. The Doctor can't improve the racism of 20th Century America, only observe it and make sure that Rosa Parks' protest happens as scheduled. You could say the same about the border dispute tearing India apart in 1947. History isn't changed, only observed and mourned, and the role of the colonizing British in creating his situation is not dealt with in any overt way. Grace dies in the course of The Doctor's first adventure. The Doctor feeds the dangerous Pting, calming it for awhile, but sets it loose afterward. We never see The Doctor deal with the giant spiders or, more importantly, the toxic waste that created them. That waste was itself the product of deregulation under the laissez-faire rule of Chris Noth's Robertson, an uber-capitalist narcissist psychopath who is compared to Trump (though not as vile). The Doctor and Ryan are seen to trap the large spiders for a natural death, but what happens after that is not dealt with onscreen. Instead we get this companion team officially joining The Doctor in the TARDIS. In every episode this year, we witness a very messed-up situation, often caused by some intersection of capitalism and racism. But it's not a situation The Doctor can fix by the end of the episode. She can only mitigate the stranger, monster-based elements, the threat that they're facing immediately in the moment. She removes whatever is gumming up the gears of progress so that the actual horrors of the society in question can continue unchallenged. Of course in the more historically-based episodes it's too much to ask that The Doctor Solve Everything, in capital letters. Is she supposed to solve racism? But the more fantasy-based episodes like Kerblam! have much less excuse. It's telling, I think, that these episodes overall are better at dealing with America's failures than Britain's. The Doctor is powerless to deliver a truly happy ending, or even to show she's trying for one, and I wonder if that's intentional or due to a lack of political consciousness on the part of the writers and showrunner. This year on Halloween, the leftist Youtube channel Philosophy Tube did a piece about the horrors of the witch trials, and how they were used to break the power that women had in a feudal agricultural society, including traditional medicine, and how this led to modern capitalism. He covered the same material on Twitter, and I'll link to that here. https://twitter.com/PhilosophyTube/status/953277894813536256 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmk47kh7fiE "The Witch-Hunt is classic Divide and Rule: paint women as dangerous so the new proletariat are busy fighting 'witches' instead of joining together and fighting the rich. There are massive rollbacks of women's rights … Records were often kept of how much land or money was seized from them, but not how many were murdered." It's an interesting take on just how bloody the transition to an industrial capitalist society was, and how the people and their "old ways" had to be broken for this to happen. It was a means of controlling women's options, and the options of the average worker, something that's still relevant to today's society. In some ways we still live, today, in the cages that the witch-hunters built. Today's politicians like Mike Pence are just witch-hunters in different clothes. And that's something this Doctor Who story doesn't deal with. I've mentioned this, but when the Rosa Parks story was announced, I saw a lot of people on Twitter, who aren't Doctor Who fans, assuming that a Doctor Who take on Rosa Parks would by nature have to be a disgusting exercise in tastelessness. Maybe they thought The Doctor would be taking on some kind of Racism Monster. Apart from introducing The Doctor and a villain into the proceedings, "Rosa," as an episode, was tastefully done. While it didn't show clearly that Rosa Parks planned her protest beforehand, it did show that Parks was an activist who planned her actions alongside others (including Dr. King), which is more than many history books do. But their fears were not unfounded. It's common for pop culture to create extended and elaborate metaphors about bigotry as if they're making some grand statement, but also reinforce that bigotry as somehow justified along with it. In Disney's Zootopia, there are classes of predator and prey animals, and the predators are discriminated against and find it difficult to get ahead in society. This is a metaphor about racism, but it would be entirely justified for a rabbit to be afraid of a fox. In the wild, a "predator" would eat the "prey" animal. If this is truly taken as a metaphor for white racism against black people in America, it's an offensive one. Race is a social construct, and racism as we know it was created to enforce slavery. It established people with dark skin of African descent as an underclass, to exploit in order to grease the wheels of capitalism in the centuries before the Civil War (and afterward, if we're being quite honest). Black people and white people are genetically identical, and without the shadow of slavery (created by the rich to enrich themselves) would have identical rights. Foxes and rabbits are not genetically identical. One is likely to eat the other. In the X-Men series, mutants are feared and shunned by society. They have superpowers from birth, and are genuinely extremely powerful and potentially dangerous. So if the public fears them, that's actually entirely justified. The mutants are different from "normal" humans and could assert their power in very dangerous ways if they wanted. Wolverine is virtually an immortal with knives for hands. Phoenix could easily destroy the earth. The endless comics, TV series and films featuring the X-Men have positioned Xavier and Magneto as the "Dr. King" and "Malcolm X" of their story, in that Xavier wants mutants to have equal rights and is more palatable to the mainstream, while Magneto is "too radical." But this is an offensive metaphor when you break it down. Of course neither Xavier nor Magneto are black Americans. Both Dr. King and Malcolm X were considered extreme radicals in their time, and they agreed on many concepts. Dr. King spoke out for worker's rights generally, and for class consciousness. He was murdered for his beliefs. Magneto has magnet powers and runs a club called "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants" which seeks to dominate over humanity. He's a bad guy who does bad things and constantly emperils the world in general. Comparing him to a 60s civil rights leader is an offensive metaphor, unless you accept that the X-Men series just wants to touch on the history of bigotry in America as subtext without accepting everything that comes with it, which is fair enough. It's not a history lesson. But like almost all sci-fi stories, it makes no sense without our understanding of how black people and other groups have been marginalized in America, but makes the story about white people instead, like a cartoon fox played by Jason Bateman. The history of slavery, oppression, bigotry, Nazism, fascism, and so on is the subtextual backstory for pretty much all sci-fi media. So many villains are based on the Nazis, but this rarely takes into account the racist ideology behind fascism. Hitler came to power after Germany's economy had collapsed, partly due to the Great War. The average worker was living in hopeless poverty, and either they were going to develop class consciousness and tear down capitalism, asserting their rights as a worker, or they were going to need someone to blame. Hitler gave them someone to blame. He rounded up the socialists, communists and Marxists who were preaching against capitalism. He blamed it all on the Jewish people, who traditionally had been excluded from many professions and were often involved in banking. It was apparently easy to make up conspiracy theories about them Actually Being in Charge of Everything. He rounded up the LGBT people, burned gay and trans literature. He targeted the Romani "gypsies" who had been marginalized for centuries. There was no logical underpinning behind this. There never really is, with racism. Hitler only wanted power, and he saw that the people had lost faith in the world, with capitalism and their government. They were being oppressed by economic depression, and had a general unfocused rage. He used that anger and directed it toward groups that were already marginalized in some way. He distracted the people and consolidated his power by giving them something to hate. He slaughtered six million Jewish people in an apparent bid to wipe an entire religion off the face of the Earth - the religion which gave us Christianity, for that matter. Since the 80s, Capitalism and greed has gone unchecked by any desire to actually help people and have a functioning society. After George W. Bush's trillion-dollar wars for oil, the economy has crashed and not really gotten better. People are noticing. The rich are getting obscenely so, as if they're being gifted the equivalent of a brand new car every few seconds. The poor are begging for scraps. There is a general unfocused rage. Donald Trump, a fake billionaire, has gotten a large chunk of America to blame it on non-white minorities, such as people from Mexico. This is what Hitler did. I've gotten way off topic, but for a reason. The people who burned witches in the 17th century and thereabouts were not actually killing people who had any magical powers. They were murdering their neighbors, and consciously or not it helped the world change. The world's economy was changing. Land was being seized. Power was shifting. People were losing rights and property they had previously been entitled to, as part of a series of steps which led to factory work in the 19th century. They killed women to kill off the old ways. And I'm watching a rather good Doctor Who episode about that, about killing witches to "fight the powers of Satan," and it turns out that in this episode they actually have good reason to be killing off their neighbors, or to fear the powers of Satan, because there's actually some evil alien stuff going on, and it's infecting people and raising people from the dead and it all looks very scary and supernatural. If you're in the mood to be offended it does feel a little like a Witch Trial but with Actual Witchcraft, portraying the witch-hunters as absurd and awful but also somewhat vindicated by the events of the story, not unlike our X-Men and Zootopia examples. So it's a good Doctor Who yarn, but as a metaphor it doesn't even get started. The episode isn't that interested in the larger societal issues at play here, although it does deal with sexism, which covers a lot of that territory in a general sense. It largely focuses on female characters (except for King James), and both the writer and director are women, for the third time in Doctor Who history. And that's been due to sexism. There haven't been a ton of women writing Doctor Who, or directing it (despite the big-name appeal of Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay). And that's a problem. And it's a problem the show has temporarily solved, by hiring women for this week only. The larger cultural problem remains. And the show keeps fighting for diversity, this year. British writer Malorie Blackman OBE handled "Rosa" with real sensitivity. And Vinay Patel handled "Demons of the Punjab" with full awareness of its historical background. Between them they've probably delivered the two best episodes this year. Indeed these have all stood above the episodes credited to Chris Chibnall. The diversity this year has been welcome, as it's resulted in some good television. But like The Doctor's actions in these episodes it's just a band-aid placed over any larger cultural issues. She can stop the problem of the week, but she really can't fix everything. Which is fine. Realistic, even, which fits the tone of this year in general. My question is, does she want to fix everything? Are The Doctor and her writers socially aware enough to use these larger issues responsibly? So far, in terms of social consciousness, this year's Doctor Who raises a lot of questions it can't actually answer. Not in a way which satisfies the kids, or the adults - for different reasons. It's still very good television, and I'll give it points for asking some of these questions in the first place.

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