#World of the Coinless Farkas Bulk Bulkmeier

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"One day, you'll be okay. For now? It's okay to hurt." + Coinless Bulk

Misery Loves Company

Even when things in their universe hadn’t swerved chaotically into the sulfuric pits of hell, Farkas Bulkmeier didn’t consider himself to be gifted with words. Unless, of course, they were of the insult and/or provocation variety. It wasn’t his nature to be a comforter… Not yet in any case.

Bulk hadn’t had the real-world experience or suffering with which to grow that part of himself. It was unfortunate that it had taken Ascension Day, the devastating defeat of the Rangers, and the leveling of their city to begin to cull the young bully’s innermost strengths.

He was still rather clumsy in his attempts, but to his credit, he did try.

Eugene hunkered behind a toppled wall of busted cinderblock tile, the moon reflecting on the parts of his signature leather jacket that weren’t smudged with grime or torn clean through to the orange cotton beneath. He was deathly still and, for a moment, Bulk feared his friend had done something foolish.

That decision was for later.

When Skull stirred slightly, shifting his weight imperceptibly and crunching the grit under his heavy boots, Farkas let out a breath he hadn’t realized he was holding. He gently skirted the lanky boy’s side and settled his girth upon the remains of Angel Grove High.

“Hey, buddy…” he started, uncertain where one would customarily begin such a conversation. “I’ve been looking for you. Thought you might’ve done something stupid.”

He winced after the comment left his lips.

However, Skull didn’t appear to be distressed by the selection of adjectives. He was staring at his hands which were still covered with rust-colored flakes of dried blood, the liquid coating his flesh until it ran like small rivers in the creases of his knuckles and palms.

“I had no idea you and Billy were…you know…together. Why didn’t you tell me?”

The muscles in Eugene’s jaw were tense as he grit his teeth in both anger and anguish.

“Because it was special…and it was just mine… Because I knew an explosive secret and my damned big mouth always gets me in trouble…”

He shrugged.

“That’s just to name a few.”

“I wouldn’t have thrown it in your face…you liking Billy, I mean,” Farkas whispered. “And I’d beat anyone’s ass who opened their pie hole about it.”

Absently, the larger teen picked at the frayed knee of his denim pants, the material covered in streaks of blackened soot and mud. And possible streaks of blood of their own. It was hard to say. He’d tried to clean them as best he could while on the lam, but the garment was hopelessly stained and chronically put through the wringer as Bulk navigated this new role of leader and protector.

“You did the right thing. I’m not mad that you didn’t run to me and give away the Rangers’ identities. It would have been a bad idea for us both,” he admitted after a few moments of silence.

Skull chuckled bitterly.

“For all the good it did, Bulky. No one listened to me about Oliver. Besides Matthew and look where he ended up…dead as a doornail just like Billy. And I didn’t have any other strokes of dumb luck that helped me save either one of them.”

Tiny particles of Billy’s blood fluttered from his flesh as he moved his fingers, floating about in the light breeze. The weather was beginning to get colder, which would have been odd for this time of year and the locale of California.

“They’re like little snowflakes…” Eugene muttered bizarrely, watching his lover’s essence drift into oblivion. “Delicate and beautiful…”

Hesitantly, Bulk put a large hand on the other teen’s shoulder, giving a soft squeeze.

“I considered throwing my worthless self off Angel Pointe, but I worried about that one doctrine that I’d end up in hell… Stupid, I know, since I’m not religious or went to church in my family.”

His hands stilled their aimless fidgeting.

“And I realized that if I did that, I wouldn’t be able to make things right…make them better… Honor Billy…honor Matthew…honor Jason…”

“That’s the right,” Bulk agreed, his voice firm. “One day, you’ll be ok. For now? It’s ok to hurt.”

This time Eugene giggled in a way that caused Farkas’s hair to stand on end. It was deadly…dangerous…full of malice.

“Oh, I’ll never be ok, Bulky, but you’re right about one thing. It’s ok for me to hurt right now. Because when I’m done letting my pain lead me around by the nose… when it finally hardens me into unfeeling stone…” he hissed. “I’m going to personally see to it that Lord Fuckwad is getting his turn to hurt…”

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I am so sorry Bulk and Skull fans. orz Just there’s not enough angst of these two out there and I just… ya know had to do it. Skull is just uh… taking a nap and Bulk is giving him a big hug! And that’s just ketchup on Skull’s face. Totally not the alternative… Also can y’all guess what the posing composition here is inspired by? Hint is a painting from the Realism movement during the late 1800’s! The first person to guess it gets to request a drawing idk.

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Ship Opinion Bingo: World of the Coinless Bulk/Kimberly

Oh my sweet, broken babies 😭😭😭 They deserve the world and I love them together. I ADORE them together. Hell, I love Bulk and Kimberly even not in the world of the coolness haha!!

These cuties UGH

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG--WORLD OF THE COINLESS BULK X JASON; I’M GONNA DIE!!!

Secondary prompt (because their adult forms are actually quite nice...except for Jason's beard later down the line) for Bulk x Jason; post-Drakkon~

I did a lil sketch page for this one because I love soft affection

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fanfic titles prompt: here's to the damned, to the lost, the forgotten + world of the coinless; sentries AND the resistance fighters

Why are titles and summaries prompts so easy and nice and sweet to do sbdnnsnndns Anyway

Title: Here’s to the damned, to the lost, the forgotten

Rating: G

Characters: World of the Coinless Eugene Skullovitch, World of the Coinless Farkas Bulkmeier, World of the Coinless Zack Taylor, World of the Coinless Trini Kwan, World of the Coinless Kimberly Hart | Ranger Slayer, World of the Coinless Scorpina

Additional Tags: Adam died; yes Adam died, angst, major character death, off screen character death, canon compliant, post canon, PAIIIINNNN, trauma, fluff

Summary: In the aftermath of the invasion by Eclipta’s forces, the injured, the not so injured, and the almost dead, all the “Shattered” sat in the infirmary, together.

And Finster was bringing them all cookies and milk and whatever else they wanted, like they were all little kids who were getting a treat for doing well in a class play.

“How was piloting a megazord like, Skullovitch?” Zack asked, laughing, “enjoyed?”

“Oh, oH HECK yess” the zord had collapsed on him, he was half paralysed, and staring at the ceiling with a strap around his neck, but laughing till his eyes watered.

“It was CRAZY!” Bulk roared from another corner, getting up in excitement, but immediately falling back down wincing in pain, but still laughing,

“All the time we had” Kim panted, she was probably one of the least injured, but with a blade right to the collarbone, it was hard for her to speak “it’s really not so bad.”

“Here’s to the ones that stayed, and to the ones that couldn’t make it with us” Trini smiled, ruefully, “I mean, it’s all really nice, but…” she looked over to where Scorpina sat, her back towards the room, looking out of the window as a nurse bandaged her.

The room fell into silence, the light mirth from moments ago fading, as the weight of their loss settled in once again.

Then Scorpina turned around, probably reading the room, tears barely held back in her eyes, and she smiled, “I don’t— care… at all. It’s really not so sad. Despite the reservations you idiots had”

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A sort of-kind of review for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Darkest Hour #118. Kinda. Spoilers below the cut, because this issue was...kind of impressive. Ish.

Due to @ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface bringing to my attention that I should really read the latest Darkest Hour issue, I have pulled a speed run and...have some feelings...

I'm ALMOST 80% sure that this is Boom!'s way of saying that Coinless Trini is queer, for which we might all give infinite thanks. If she's not an old lesbian, she's at LEAST an old bisexual. Either is good and I will TAKE IT. Even if the implications moving forward aren't great.

On the one hand, the Tommy & Rita team-up is something that does mean that maybe we the audience will get to see Rita grow into Mystic Mother of her own volition; but on the other hand, if Tommy goes down into the road to forgiveness and ACTIVELY tries to bring her into the light, I am going to be sick.

Okay...I am more alright with Slayer Kim still having obvious Drakkon issues if it means Tommy gets to get tossed around like a ragdoll--but like, with good intention. This was kind of funny.

*Deep, Deep Breath* GROW YOUR FUCKING SKIN BACK AND I WILL BE MORE THAN OKAY WITH YOU TWO HOOKING UP. PLEASE, FOR FUCK'S SAKE, LET THIS UNION BE COMFORTABLE. Anything is better than going into a marriage because of a roofie. PLEASE.

I'm gonna say it: Trini actually looks really good in red. It FITS.

Also, one million points for giving both Trini/Zack and Omega OT3 shots for those in the fandom that multiship and just LOVE these babies being in shot together. I miss them as a unit. They fill each other out.

....I imagine this is very much what others wanted to alert me to. And when I read it the first time I was over the moon. I made the most stupid fucking noise ever when I got down to Jason saying what these two DESERVE to hear. He's met their Coinless counterparts, he knows what they're capable of being, he is a leader and a shine can recognize a shine. But. Then I read it again. And again.

They are training to back up the Rangers if the fight comes to Earth and the fucking lava zombies come knocking. Zelya has just cast a very dark shadow of doubt and fear in their awareness of the Rangers knowing her and not being able to contact her. Bulk speaks the truth. Coinless Bulk is locked up for who the hell knows why with Scorpina and the others, and Coinless Skull is still missing in action AS a lava zombie.

I am...so scared for them.

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Hey umm!! Can I get a collection of all your commissioned art posts in one place somewhere 👀

...That's a LOT, honey. But lemme see...

I also sincerely hope you mean the ones by @felonius-glitch because otherwise there is not NEARLY enough room.

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AND LAST BATCH:

1) Billy/Skull/Matt (bc I wanna hear you rant UwU)

2) Kim/Bulk

3) Bulk/Tommy

4) Conner/Kira (I chanced upon a fic by you yesterday that I had read and could not ascertain if it was requested or not. Don’t ask I was playing that “is it fluff is it smut” game with some friends🫣🫣)

Billy/Skull/Matt: It will never be canon, it will never be a fandom fave. But that does not matter, because the palace of possibility that goes on in my head is something that canon will never be able to take away from me. They would be lovely as just mutually supportive friends with benefits, but could you IMAGINE these three as a poly? Like, to say that they could alleviate each other's trauma is not saying enough, because ALL of these young men have been through their own kind of hell in many different ways and it kind of feels like...nobody else wants them? There is something comforting in finding kindred spirits in rejection and mutual awareness. Plus, they've all had the friendship/antagonism/growth thing. Also, they feel VERY pretty as a group. Their Colors would work so smoothly together.

Bulk/Kim: Of course I am partial especially towards them in the Coinless universe, but at this point I would take them in any and every other dimension.

There is something so comforting about a character that half the fandom hates finding love with the fandom darling that makes me go feral and foam at the mouth. And in the Coinless universe this is EARNED so hard that I also want to take a baseball bat to defenseless objects lying around the house. Kim is broken and terrified of herself in everything that's happened and everything that she's done, but Bulk actually stood by her the second she came back to the side of the light when she was ready to get torn apart. This is not mentioning this Darkest Hour Arc bullshit where Bulk will apparently protect Kim in any universe. Hello, good knight; the princess is still alive and about to burn down the tower~

Bulk/Tommy: This is ALLLLLLLLL @lordkingsmith fault, and I am very grateful for the opportunity to think about it. Truly, I could ship Bulk or Skull with anyone if I thought about it hard enough, but there is just something about how they presented it that made it feel...realistic.

Tommy feels like the kind of guy whose relationships are always doomed to fail if he involves himself with his teammates. From Kim, to Kat, to Jason, to Adam. He COULD do his best to mend any breaks in the bond, but he also feels damaged by his life in the foster care system in a way that makes it hard not to let go of the belief that his partners will eventually leave him; so it would take someone with infinite patience to see him through that kind of baggage. And Bulk is a ROCK. They could be good for each other.

Conner/Kira: I know the fic you're talking about. It was a prompt, and I didn't especially like it. I could see them in a poly setting, OT3 or OT4, but never as a singular couple. Largely because Conner never learns and Kira always seems annoyed with him. Even at the end of Dino Thunder, they were friends, but better in a group setting than alone together.

@skyland2703

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So, in Digimon Adventure we have these things called "Crests", which are symbols that represents the most strongest qualities that each of the protagonists had. With that in mind, I was wondering, since there are nine crests, out of Jason, Billy, Zack, Trini, Kimberly, Bulk, Skull, Matt and Tommy, which crest do you think goes to each character?

We have the following Crests:

Courage (understanding the stakes and being able to assertively stand up against them for the sake of others) Friendship (being able to trust, connect with, and work alongside others) Love (caring for others and providing them proper emotional support and warmth) Knowledge (inquisitiveness, and a desire to know and understand more) Purity (being true to one’s feelings, simply keeping one’s feelings and intentions straightforward, not being underhanded, and, most importantly, not having malice, acting without any trace of evil or selfish motives) Honesty (doing right on principle – keeping one’s word or promise, not deceiving others, doing things in good faith, an understanding one’s duty to others) Hope (being able to endure hardships and not breaking when faced with impossible odds, holding tight to the bitter end) Light (treasure all life and the right for one to live) Kindness (being perfectly capable of not handling things kindly, but chooses to anyway and understanding when one must take feelings into account and treat things with that consideration)

.....Well, this is something I can play with, actually~

Light: TRINI. It's Trini. There is no contesting this in any universe except the Coinless--and even that Trini, while traumatized a little...not great at sticking to treasuring all life...cares about everyone at least getting a CHANCE at life. *Points directly at Scorpina and Kiya* Knowledge: Billy. But was there ever any doubt? The man collects facts and observes everything and defied Zordon just to SEE if he could get the Green Dragon Coin up and running again. He's a small badass with a brain and we love him. Courage: Jason gets this in any and every universe (including the Coinless, even if he is damaged horrifically because of it). His Primary Color is Red, but this works with Gold, too. It's largely just the rules, but also...he stood up and called his dad out on his bullshit in GGPR. This is his. Honesty: This could have gone either way between Matt and Zack, largely because they both exhibit this trait, but Matt won in the end because of his identity reveal in the Under the Dome Arch in Mighty Morphin. Also it seemed--and still seems--rather important to him in GGPR and most times after that (including this Darkest Hour bullshit). It suits him. Kindness: And moving right along, Zack gets this crest because...well, he IS the Kindest Ranger. In all dimensions, and timelines, he's never been cruel and considers things and people and situations from a very...soft place. And people love him for it--otherwise he wouldn't have seventy-billion acquaintances in Angel Grove. Friendship: Look, I'll level with you, Tommy is a pain in the ass to consider in any way, shape, or form from any dimension or timeline. BUT, BUT, BUT this is his crest. This is his one and only absolute from the second he came into contact with the Power and will probably continue on until he dies. Even Drakkon has a scintilla of this and he's a fucking psychopathic narcissist. *pats the young man with a ponytail on the head* Purity: ....Kimberly is Pink and meets, like, 98% of the above criteria for this crest. Do I really have to going into reasons why? Even Ranger Slayer--if we keep in mind the obedience spell--fits here. Love: *drags out a giant, five story neon arrow and points it directly at Bulk* People can whine and bitch about his og Season 1 bullshit all they want. I do not care. After they get that out of their system, I will simply point to his EVERYTHING involving Skull, the Rangers when he finds out about them, Spike, his personality in GGPR and the rest of the comics and then circle him in shiny gold gel pen ink when I get to the Coinless universe version of this darling man.

Hope: *starts counting off* Probably got dumped by Billy when it became obvious that they were just too different to be close friends anymore, but still tried to look out for him. Steered Kimberly away from making a really stupid mistake after her breakup with Matt. Helped save civilians in a monster attack and gained a (technically fake, but I digress) girlfriend that saw that humanity was worth saving which earned the Rangers an ally. Kept looking everywhere for Candice/Zelya even after weeks/over a month (??). Believes too much in Bulk and Earth to just abandon them when Zelya offered to take him to Eltar. Is trying to improve himself in the aftermath. And this is not including The Sentry Coinless Spy version of himself that survived until the last day before Drakkon became a god--which, by the way, ended with him dying STILL believing in the Rangers. It's Skull.

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3 Ship Ask meme; Skull/Billy, Hunter/Dustin, and Kim/Bulk

...Wow, so much to go through. Suppose I'll start off with the easy ones? Hunter/Dustin: -As Hunter had to be extra and call himself the Crimson Ranger, it does give a certain higher level of aesthetic value if he ever did hook up with Dustin. Yellow and Red are all very well in their place, but use a flashy word like crimson, and it adds a little extra pop, so to speak. -The sheer volume of piggyback rides Hunter would insist on giving Dustin. Dustin, who has a weapon that can cause earthquakes, so you know he's secretly built, but let's it happen because, well, it makes Hunter feel buff. Also it's fun~ -Looks like they could kill you: could actually kill you. Looks like a cinnamon roll: .....well, fuck around and find out.

Kim/Bulk: -For context, for those that don't know, they were field partners in the World of the Coinless after everything went to shit. As someone who generally does not give a single care about that kind of scenario, this actually awakened something in my lizard brain. Which is to say: THEY BOTH GREW TO BE SO MUCH HOTTER, OMG. -The adorable, wonderful, feels inducing nicknames! Like, Bulk's nickname for Kim, "Kimbirino" was very basic, I'll give that, but they had just killed off sentries trying to wipe out a field hospital. However, years later in GGPR, Kim got to see tiny, baby, fluffy, very confused Bulk and called him MAGGELAN and HISTORY BUFF, and HUGGED HIM. -Bulk being literally the only thing standing between a returned Ranger Slayer and the rest of the Coinless out for blood--including Zack and Trini, btw. Like, what is the height of romance if not using yourself as a human shield?

Skull/Billy: -Tiny little babies playing in the sandbox in a tiny little town, who have probably been there for each other's first EVERYTHING. -Skull trying to apologize when Bulk is a dick and aliens have only just landed. It is slow going, and Billy absolutely does not notice, but you can see it all the way through MMPR and GGPR and just the growth of maturity for past deeds in Shattered Grid. And growth is very pretty on Skull, despite...y'know...Billy not being around to see it. -Billy having OPINIONS about Candice/Zelya. From her first introduction as Skull's "kinda girlfriend...kinda" to what I can assume is going on in his head during the Eltarian War. Now, if only the writers would be so good as to tap in on that introductory bit in GGPR again, that would be GREAT. (COWARDS.)

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I Love Your Tits.

--The written icing of the cake Coinless Bulk is presented with on his forty-first birthday by Kim. While wearing the Unibaby Virgin Killer Knitted Sweater she made him to really hammer her kink home.

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Trini: I don't think you know how big twelve inches is. Scorpina: *remains silent as the smaller woman finds a builder's tape and a pointer stick* Trini (pulls up to the 12): Do you see that? Just in scale--like, where is that going? Scorpina: *trails her eyes down for about half a second before finding her path blocked by Trini's glare* Trini: Not in here. Okay, the average gal-- *shortens the tape to 4* Trini: Is gonna get about this much. Maybe this-- *pulls up to 7* Trini: If they're a Pro. But the rest? Completely unmanageable. *She then proceeds to point directly to Bulk's lap with the stick* Trini: That is the biggest I've ever seen in real life, but for the rest of us who aren't Kimberly? Completely unmanageable. Now this-- *Has Scorpina hold the box as she adjusts the tape from the 4 and goes up as she continues* *points at Drakkon's poster with the dried egg impact stains* Completely fine. *points at Jason trying to ignore them and failing while drinking tea* Fabulous. *points at Billy's memorial photo despite feeling guilty* Almost too big. *points at Adam walking away as fast as he can* Definitely too big. *points at Rocky watching Adam speed walk, with interest* Fuckin' Sick Day. *points at Skull staring out the window, unaware of everything* ER. *points at Zack* 27 Club. *points back at Bulk who cannot hide even with Kim standing in front of him* Now I'm just skipping my next life. Anything after this is entirely unethical. I don't think we know what we're talking about.

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Scorpina: Make her pussy wet, not her eyes. Zack: Make his dick hard, not his life. Trini: Break her bed, not her heart. Bulk: Play with her boobs, not her feelings. Kim: Get on his dick, not his nerves. Skull: Always salt your pasta while boiling it.

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I wish you’d put these pieces on AO3. Bullet prompts and flash fiction are the same thing. And it would be nice to give you PROPER praise and review. 

library au + Boom! Comics; The Coinless~

there's six people in the picture so we're doing these six. also I'm not counted bullets so it's a numbered list

there's always been a different world in the mirrors of the library everyone knew that. it was not a world like there's but it was interesting all the same to look in the mirror and see the second library all the same

none of the librarians had chosen to be librarians they simply woke up one day dress in the robes that librarians wear in the town. some like to say the library chooses it's keepers

the library is at the edge of the town, towering over any other man made building. the building was always growing as well, Bulk knows they did not have a large print section, or road atlases of Istanbul from the 1890s when he was a child

something about the library protects the town, so it is a librarian's duty to protect the library with their life

skull was scared when he first woke up in the main hall in his robes surrounded by books on marksmanship and horse care. he wasn't librarian material you had to be really smart and read constantly and know everything or so he thought.

something lurks in the shadows at the edge of town it is dark and shadowy but it cannot touch anywhere the library's shadow reaches

Zach doesn't like to talk about it but sometimes he hears something out in that darkness calling for him. it scares him immensely whatever this creature could want with him

Trini probably spends the most time of all them being an actual librarian. she enjoyed putting the books back on shelves. she would wave to the other version of herself who sometimes would also be walking past with a cart of books. the younger version would often stop and show off a new book that had just appeared in the older's collection.

Bulk tended to have a much less friendly reflection who hung close to skull's, often making faces or trying to spark some kind of funny reaction out of him. he and skull avoided the mirrors where they could but ultimately ignore their doubles

Rocky probably behaved the least like an actual librarian. he woke up in the top room of the clock town, the highest point of the building that just keeps getting taller. he was in the classics section and had books on swordsmanship and war strategy. every knew the books given to a librarian their first time waking up in the library would the most important of their studies so it didn't bode well for him. as much time as he can away from the functional duties he has has he uses to practice with the wooden swords that are normally desplayed in the early mideveil section

Bulk had books on leadership and the tactical advantages of using a shield as a weapon when he woke up in the foreign language section

it bothers rocky to no end when he sees his reflection eating in clearly marked out 'no eating' zones of the library but his reflection being so much younger than him just gets a bit embarrassed but doesn't stop doing it

zach and his reflection tend to just shrug each other off. is it creepy that a younger version of himself seemingly lives in a very similar but still quite differnt version of the same library? yes. is there anything he can do about the fact that he doesn't have a reflection sometimes late at night? no. so it doesn't really bother him.

Trini started screaming because Rocky's reflection once showed up in a mirror she was next to and was stabbing some type of horrible lizard creature into a book. like the other zach had a blank book in his hands while the other rocky stabbed the creature into the book until it began to get sucked in. other zach slams the book shut, drops, and the creature is gone. the reflections pick each other up and leave trini alone to stare at the now empty mirror, her own reflection absent. she looks at the floor on her own side and sees a book that definatly was not there before and it was idenitcal to the one other zach was using.

Trini was a good librarian though. she picked it up and saw the title read "1001 wild activities to do with your friends" By Zach Taylor and Rocky DeSantos. huh.

the other didn't even hear her screaming because of how far away they had been. sound carries but not well enough in a place like their library

later when she was returning a book series that had been checked out by one of their more regular clients she walked pasted on of the many display's in the library to see the sword that the other rocky had used to trap the beast

none of them had ever known life outside the town the darkness that kept people trapped here was not to be taken lightly

Zach's books were on ax throwing and open communication when he woke up in the children's historical fiction section, more of a reading room with stuffed animals really. it was actually the first time anyone even knew that section and room existed, which also made it a pain getting to the main hall. since had not clue where inside the building he was

librarians are highly regarded in the town as those chosen to protect and teach the rest of the town but are also expected to live in the library and be relatively isolated from their families as a result

there's a loft above the fashion section with bed that match the robes everyone woke up in. being roommates might actually be one of the harder parts at times.

something about being in the library for extended periods of time changes the librarians. their first year or so they stumbled on their robes, got lost and constantly had to consult the MASSIVE map mural on the ceiling on the main hall and still write down instructions for themselves on how to get paces

rocky did not enjoy the day he had to make a sign with the words "due to technical difficulty the fourth floor is currently the sub basement and the scifi section is now in Quebec french"

the language thing Bulk was the first to figure out was the library rejecting books put back on the incorrect shelf and floors were the results of multiple books in incorrect sections

by the second year hand any of them a book and they could take it directly home. even into sections that hadn't been there before or had mysteriously moved themselves to the opposite side of the library without any of the rookie mistakes of their first year

Trini often wonders what happened to the librarians before their current batch.

she knew there had been a boy named Tommy who had honestly been kinda dick but had vanished a few years before by going into the woods after whatever was lurking out there and didn't come back

Zach remembered the kind old man Zordon who was perhaps one of their towns longest serving librarians who had helped him pick out joke books when he was a child

Bulk out of all of them pointed out they have entire rooms full of maps that show them places they've never heard of and can never go without the shadow of the library gowing far further far faster than before

Zach smetimes woke up in a cold sweat with a feeling that the walls of the library were almost hungry. on those nights he would track down any stray book carts in the halls and put away books until her felt better. walking past mirrors that won't show him in the reflection doesn't help though.

some of the halls are completely covered in mirrors and they can see the reflects full of happy people who wear clothing very differnt than that of the people in the town and so many of them skull thinks if they got everyone to stand shoulder to shoulder they could fit the entire town in the north-east-west-down hall (it twists a lot)

it makes kat wonder what happened to all the people those reflections could have belonged to in town

it boggles bulk's mind sometimes that, that whole hall could be filled and the others can tell him they still see a more people in the reflections in other rooms

sometimes the town has events in the library and the librarians basically have to make sure everyone who walks in also walks out when its over other wise they will spend hours looking for one random citizen who didn't think to ask for an escort to the section they wanted to go to or even bother to look up at the map

once the librarians all went outside when they heard a voice in the forest that seemed to go through the entire building

they didn't pass the threshold of the doors that lead out back but what they saw was a being of green mist laughing in a horrible sort of way daring them to construct him some paper prison. it looked almost rotten from the way it twisted and moved. it rushed the doors and they all jumped back but it slammed into an invisible force feild and could not enter before it eventually vanished

they went back in and considered how well any of them knew how to fight and what they had in book smarts versus street smarts on how to deal with that thing

something they all hate immensily about having to live in the library is also when they see their reflections in the bath room mirror because the scars these young doubles have don't match their own and it can be alarming to see

Kat spends a lot of free time reading. it's a library what else are they going to do

when kat woke up she was in the education section with books on archery and psychology

her reflection looked rather sad, she wondered if she had looked that sad when she was a teenager or it was just the look of the reflections that live in their library

kat hated the creature after the initial encounter no matter how much research they did on things that live in the forest and even the history of their own town.

the library could tell them anything but their own history, how tragic

any event that leads to most of the librarians out of the library is considered a secured and somber affair with formalities that without any mentor or history books to guide them were awkward and based off of child hood memories of hoe the librarians were meant to act until one day skull heard someone mention it's normal for there to be at least one older librarian teaching the younger ones

everyone in town had assumed they had a teacher and weren't just winging it

there hasn't been any threats to the town since the library appeared but something is wrong and they know that for a fact now

Trini tells the others about how she got a new book once from the reflections

Zach talks about the voice

they end up deciding that maybe the creature that called them last time might know something

they go to speak with it armed with weapons from around the library Trini gives Rocky the sword she saw his reflection use and hands zach a note book and asks them to trust her incase anything goes wrong.

Zach still has his axes, Kat has a bow and arrow, Bulk has a shield, trini had a pair of daggers and Skull had a weapon none of them had seen before which he called a sniper rifle and cocked it loudly as they made their way to the back door

the creature wasn't there this time when the opened the door. they stood awkwardly at the thresh hold. very few people went beyond the library and lived to tell the tail.

kat, skull, and trini all figure they can just run back if something happens and they won't go in deep

zach, rocky, and bulk think if whatever is out there has begun to effect what's in there they need to wait

eventually skull and the girls lose the argument and when they were about to turn around they heard a woman laughing in the forest

"silly librarians, you'd think by now you'd know the pen is mighter than the sword?"

their breathe caught in their throats as they saw her, a childhood friend who had become a librarian when they were younger. who vanished like all librarians eventually do

"kim?" Bulk asked and she laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed at them. "not anymore, but once. though you all are right about one thing." "what?" "times are changing, this building alone can't do all the work anymore" "can you help us?" "I'm afraid I'm past that point, i set foot in there and POOF" she mimed and explosion.

"can you teach us from here?" "Librarians shouldn't have to be warriors" "well tough kim because some freaky green thing is messing with all of our heads and we don't think it'll be too long before it goes after the townspeople" that shut her up. "you need to prepaire an evacuation,"

"to where kim we don't know where our town is?" "what do mena you don't know?" "like we don't know," "this is angel grove, we all grew up here," "but where is here?" "california?" "what's california?"

[augment-techs]

Scorpina (trying to understand humans better): What are the ten characteristics of perfectly hidden depression? Trini: You’re a perfectionist and have a constant, critical and shaming inner voice. Zack: You demonstrate a heightened or excessive sense of responsibility. Adam: You detach from painful emotions by staying in your head and actively shutting them off. Kat: You worry and need to control yourself and your environment. Rocky: You intensely focus on tasks and use your accomplishment to feel valuable. Bulk: You focus on the well-being of others, but don’t allow them into your inner world. Jason: You believe strongly in “counting your blessings” as the foundation of well-being. Aisha: You may enjoy success with a professional structure, but struggle with emotional intimacy in relationships. Kim: You discount or dismiss hurt or sorrow and struggle with self-compassion. Skull: You may have an accompanying mental health issue, such as an eating disorder, an anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or addiction.