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What are some Maria headcanons that you have?

( @izunias-meme-hole)

Lady Maria headcanons post (part 1) :

Alright! Well I already share those a while ago : https://www.tumblr.com/fantomette22/743244500505378816/lady-maria-vs-keeper-of-the-old-lords?source=share +couple of other around my blog

So I will try to share other things not just related to « Maria could do pyromancy from her living if she really wanted to but was actually terrified by it! Because she didn’t want to use her own blood to inflict pain and death. » also I won’t explain in detail how I hc she got her Rakuyo : by directly going to the East herself! (Yamamura’s country).

🍂But why did she name it like that? The Rakuyo? Well Rakuyo means « fallen leaves » right? Well, when she finally got her blade she needed to baptise it, to use it properly for the first time. And guess on what she uses it? A fallen leaf! (naturally falling in autumn). Cut it straight in two halves. And that’s how she knew how she was going to name it.

Enjoy the ride t's going to be long ;)

⚔️She got an Evelyn gun during her teenage years and before the Rakuyo she often train & fight with both a chikage and a reiterpallasch (she really like dual wielding 😎 or maybe with another sword like the shadow could have been a thing she fight with 🤔 but yeah I guess she was trained with all type of weapons) I wonder if she could have been a bit ambidextrous too.

⚜️Ok now concerning her family (tree) I have at least 5 different headcanons for it 💀but let’s just go with my main one aka the fic verse one (where she’s just Annalise’s cousin XD). Because if you get me started on the alternatives it’s just never gonna be over XD (those are really in very different timelines. It’s not really the same characters & events are different)

🩸I imagined she had quite a mixed relationship with her family. It’s like when you love them bc it’s your family, you like the good memories and nice moments you have, this little chill & special outings etc but there’s also some stuff you’ll never be able to forget or forgive them. You feel you need distance and be autonomous to not get hurt by them anymore, to not get frustrated and misunderstood. Just have news and share things outside.

She never really fit in with her peers. Kinda an odd one who just masks really well to fit into the mood when asked of her. I prefer to say « a (white) wolf » in a pack of hounds in context but yeah black sheep in a white flock if it’s easier to understand x) She had a lot of pressure on her shoulder as well (being the last pyromancer and not far in the line of succession)

But she really likes her close cousins which she grew up with (Annalise, Vled), a couple of other friends (Charles, Svetta, a couple of future young knights etc) as well as younger relatives and kids (Leo etc)! But she doesn’t get that much along with the others. Like she goes along better with the servants probably.

⚜️She mainly grew up between Cainhurst and where her parents had lands and their manor (in the north, near a coast). Her parents are often not there because they are sent by the crown to places so it's complicated . When her mother is in a good mood that’s mostly fine, her dad is a bit more chill (he taught her how to play a lot of card games and poker too! She probably played 2-3 times with money at stake. She prefers amical things. She will absolutely beat your ass at it too. She’s the definition of having a poker face XD)

👑She was a lil bit raised like a future lady in waiting but more as future knight (page (of the king), squire, knight training etc really rough training too 💀 very dark shit hm like beat the shit out of people while wearing a full weight armor, swim in a ice lake and idk shot hm dead things… I swear there’s more fun things but hm yeah…)

That one really isn’t fun as well but i imagined that during her teenage years she already had to deal with mental health issues (due to well some pb with her family etc). Thankfully, she did get better after spending a summer a bit far away at a friend's home (to simplify). Still she got scared for some years afterwards that some of those dark thoughts would eventually return. Thankfully it didn't for most of her life. She got some happy times…Bad times too but not that bad until well probably more than 15-20y later where you know… she would sadly not make it out this time.

🌌She was accepted as Byrgenwerth and went to mainly study sciences, astronomy, but did learn a bit of theology as well as medicine (basic medicine stuff, nurse & help midwife etc). She did 5y and got a master degree. She also participated in underground expeditions arranged by Byrgenwerth.

⭐️She probably know how to speak way more than 2 languages : whatever they speak in Yharnam, latin/pthumerian language, whatever the equivalent of Japanese is and probably a bit of other European languages too. Oh a north/slavic languages as well, because she had ancestors from there too).

🐴When she was very little they got some borzoi I guess but most of her life at Cainhurst she got 2 siblings crows (I have Phobos & Deimos names in my draft) as well as her own horse, named Filan. (mean little wolf in gaelic/irish apparently? Speaking of which Maria's nickname when she was little was "little wolf" maybe in another language too). She probably had a couple of plants too.

(suppose to be almost a full black horse but i’m not 100% settle because i could go full horsemen of the apocalypse aesthetic with other knights if i change the colors… but in my first draft that’s a black horse yes)

🔥When she was very little they discovered she could eventually have pyromancer blood power.It might have been a huge pride for them and honor for her but… clearly Maria didn’t want to become like the shadows of the antics pthumerian royals. A silent and hidden knight who kills without asking questions… clearly she wasn’t really found of this idea 😅 Thankfully for her she don’t know or to use such power and didn’t put much effort to try to learn it (in life she will probably accidentally use it 2-3 time…)

She highly respects a lot of traditions and culture from Cainhurst but there’s stuff like exposing the remains of animal prey that she found a bit barbaric. She doesn't mind others using blood blades and she will do it alone/ for training or even in choreography but she doesn’t wish to hurt or kill with it.*

💔So she was supposed to become a royal guard but things didn’t go like they should have…the poor young knights got into a fight with something by accident… a mortal trap they couldn’t win… only Maria made it out alive. Very hurt and slightly traumatized… She then had a huge fight with her family & relatives about what happened. She couldn’t even send news to her friends bc they forbid it to calm any rumors about what happened…Hm then Maria’s family decide to send her more north where her parents have lands etc so things calm down and she could ya know do her knight work or smt. Anyway she run away at Byrgenwerth💀

Sorry for the meme jebfekb I am not giving lot of details for now but it's highly link with my Knight & Beast of Cainhurst story.

(Why this meme too? Well due to rumours her friends legit thought she died 💀 she went to Byrgen only 1-2 months later. During the holidays. So she sent to like Ludwig & the other who weren't there letters to tell them she was ok. That's were came this meme XD)

❤️‍🩹Anyway she was partially disowned of some stuff for a bit and didn’t came back at Cainhurst for while. But after some times, her and her family wanted to both apologize and reunite, but without an occasion it would be complicated. Well, until a CERTAIN SOMEONE stole the forbidden blood to Cainhurst and tell them Maria helped 💀 (she had no idea, and he only did that bc he owns her one). So she didn’t approve but she kinda reconciled and they gave her the occasion to do a mission for them later on, in JAPAN (the Eastern land) and well you know the rest.

⚓️She had the occasion to go to « Japan » and have her dream of becoming like half in charge of a ship after getting her master degree! (she just did navigation stuff with the stars but maybe she was captain lol that’s what she wanted to do when she was little actually. But reading Evelyn diaries and not just the novels she realised how hard it was to always have such life h24)

Congratulations Lady Maria!

After really hard years.. and trauma… and a exhausting presentation

You win :

a master degree in astronomy (sciences & other things)

a nice meal with your parents & family that congratulate you

a big part of your inheritance back!

a super wine bottle to share with your friends

a trip to japan

finally your promised personalised double sword

a personalised hunting attire when you came back

to able to work with gehrman’s hunters & the healing church when you came back

So proud of you ❤️👏

✨Other lil hcs :

Laurence made her very interested in religion. I am not joking, I sincerely believe he converted her somehow. / Made her very interest into great one religion etc

Gehrman saved her life more than once, she did the same. They went into lot of hunt training/camping trip as the beggining of being hunters.

She became great friends with Ludwig, Rom, Caryll, friends Damian too etc back at Byrgenwerth. With Micolash it was a bit more nuanced for a while. Before becoming close friends they were roasting each other often XD but respected each other too.

Her brooch either came from her mother or the late queen (aunt) so a family heirloom I guess. Ressemble a lumenflower.

She helped the early healing church with treating people, make food, teach kids etc

She was highly respected by all the old hunters. Even if she had some tensions with dear Izzy at like the beginning they knew each other XD She earn their respect and everyone ended up very liking her being her kindness, abilities etc

When she was sent alone or with a couple of hunters to help in a secluded villages, people were of course really skeptical at first but she quickly proved them her worth.

I think sometimes she wears dresses… but hey she never wears high heels or ballerina shoes (she hates it so hey she still has her special style! aka huge boots XD) It’s often very simple ones as well. Except at Cainhurst, it’s not very extravagant.

She loves to read tons of books (cainhurst library is there for smt XD)

With her cousins they loved to explore and wander the castle! At night too.. got them into trouble more than once.

Sometimes she wears sunglasses when it’s very sunny (poor girl has white eyelashes you see! she have an excuse)

She really loved the lumenflowers too like i explained last time.

She got some scars at the base of her neck. That’s why she almost always wear a jabot with her broach. (maybe on the hands too. that’s why she often has gloves).

She made (with a bit of help) Gherman’s red scarf while in japan.

“Of the Astral Clocktower” because she basically funded its construction with her own money. So like it’s partially hers on papers. (She did mostly astronomical studies & took care of the patients kind of like a nurse during her time at the research hall

She could play a couple of instruments (especially violin and cello).

Of course she know many ballroom & court dance and taught other to others when they were invited to some places.

She actually can “sing” very well (but more music without real lyrics like the dream ost for exemple) ! She would probably almost never do that in public too.

Some books at the workshop are hers

Oh, did I already told she was very scared of pthumerian pyromancers before she fought the keeper of the old lords?

Ok now because I didn't know what to add to the post I asked some of my friends to help me with questions they wanted to know about! Thanks @heraldofcrow & @fareehaandspaniards there you go:

Was she comfortable with life at Cainhurst? (Before the Vileblood)

I think I answered that above ^ it’s very complex and complicated. Sometimes it goes well (especially in childhood) but sometimes it’s very complicated and not so good… (especially during teenage years and during some events where she got a lot of pressure and all. It got better after all this mess and Vilebloods mess of course (even if some distance was left compared to before).

🩸🐦‍⬛Bloody Crow’s relation to Maria?

In my main hc he’s the son of Maria’s cousin (Vled, the knight). So her little cousin basically. But to simplify I often say he’s like a nephew to her. I named him Voron! (I know very imaginative it means raven XD) Still unsure if he’s born before or after the hamlet (probably after too) but in all cases Maria was around to help with the birth and to help take care of him for the first couple of days. She loved him very much. Also In the case something were to happen to his parents, well the king & queen would take care of him but if somehow they can’t/something were to happen to them too, Maria promised she would be the one to take care of him.

Still, she died when he was very young. Probably like 3-6 years old. So he does remember a bit. But just a little and he has very good memories of her. But he also saw his family hurting from her disappearance and all and so he grew more mixed feeling but mostly it stays positive. He really looks like her in a lot of ways.

🕷️Rom and Maria friendship 🥺?

I see you want to know more about their friendship! I think They had a wholesome friendship overall! But it didn't begins great. I am trying to write it in my fic since a few months but it's all hard and idk how to do that exactly XD

Like they were doing a group exercise and Rom was pretty bad and it (supposed to be quite easy) and Maria who got frustrated to explain it so much lash out a bit and tell her like “are you dumb or something?”

Everyone in the class isn't very nice to Rom (and Maria) and said worst things behind her back so she thought that was, you know OK somehow and not that mean. But she quickly realized afterwards her mistake, that Rom was the Provost daughter and that she had some disability. But despite that, she was still trying hard and she must be very strong to have the lvl to be here you know!

Maria feels very bad about it (Micolash had dark looks to give her too lmao) but after a while (talking with other people cough cough) she decided to come to her and apologize sincerely and even try to help her on a few things.

Rom was quite surprised at first because nobody, you know approaches her like this to apologize and that's a huge thing considering Maria is from Cainhurst and a noble.

I mean she didn't even have hard feelings against Maria because everyone else is way meaner and she kinda forgot about it. She was quite surprised but also very thankful and they began to talk more. Micolash was the most surprised and he told Rom to be careful to not get walk over, to not believe lies and stuff but he quickly realized that it was genuine. And Rom had to reminded him (with Damian) that well, when he first meet Rom he was kinda of a bully at first! Before becoming a mother hen with Damian.

So yes the two girls began to talk about a lot of things! She even got invited to Rom’s room. There’s tons of insects and underglass and stuff but generally people don't like that but Maria found it cool! She got some back home too and found it very interesting actually! So they quickly became friends with all the little gang. And also they are basically the two girls of the squad! I mean Caryll is in the girls squad too but they can also be in the boys squad so yeah anyway you know how girl besties can be x) you don’t share the same things exactly. Plus Caryll & Rom are really in the must protected squad.

Maria even defends Rom from her family when she came back for the holiday and they asked her if she made some friends and who they were and stuff. And you know uh Mara had to told them in a very exaggerated manners that « oh I'm friend with the Provost daughter you know! » (You know because that's what they want to know, if she made strong connections with interesting people before anything else…)

But of course, you're going to have very rude comments from some relatives or something who’s going to say “oh the retarded one?” 💀 And everyone's looking at him like “can you please not say it like this?” Poor Maria just standing there and dunno what to say because she really cares about her as a friend. She doesn't just want to have friends to show off she has important contacts. She genuinely values those friendships. Sadly, she can’t just tell her family that her friends are mostly “the weird introvert group kids! just like me!”(so she talk about Ludwig too! but don't put too much details on others…)

So yeah they stayed great friends for years. Sadly, in tough moments they didn’t really share what hurt them to the other… (after kos etc maybe a bit but not too much)

🗡️🛡️What or who inspired Maria's path of knighthood in her youth?

History books & knight novels! Her grand uncle, the other knights, king etc, Her family push her/ “let her choose” that way as well.

Lady Evelyn stories (she was like Maria grand aunt/ cousin of her grandparents, mostly an adventurer).

The bodyguard of Annalise’s mother who was at first a mercenary sent to Loran before becoming a royal knight.

🍜What were Maria's food preferences?

Hm i think if it looks/smells average and edible she’s actually not that complicated XD She made a lot of effort through the years to get used to more common and simple food.

My poor girl couldn’t really cooked anything when she arrived at Byrgenwerth besides cutting basic things, make tea, made ramen and skins animal meat (like rabbit) before Gehrman thought her other recipes 😭 (she made great soups afterwards! hunters like it, she cuts aliments well XD but yeah my boy cooks well for everyone he made her liked many simple things that if not done well many don’t like. But bro is the only one who probably likes some chard gratin or something out of everyone…)

Like most of her family, i supposed she would very much enjoy some rare/medium rare meat XD but when it’s EVERYDAY she got very tired 💀 I mean she tried to tell her family it was too much so they respected her wishes and gave her only vegetables for a couple of days… but not like normal meals no! like a whole ass not decorticate salad or full ass carrots with skins and all! 💀 She rapidly apologized like you can guess. (still she can’t stand those damn carpaccio when there’s too much!)

Besides that yeah only non meat dishes don’t bother her at all, she would even prefer most of the time. She likes both sophisticated but also very simple dishes she discovered. Exotic food from the east. Of course my girl liked sushis, fish, sea fruit etc. I mean she used to like it way more before… you know… afterwards many hunters couldn’t just smell white fish for a few days without feeling nauseous…. for Maria she just couldn’t bring herself to eat like 95% of white sea fish anymore… (I guess salmon and thon and lobster were still ok but that’s it really).

And well of course deserts are always so nice so whatever 🤤

🌻Her relationship with Adeline? /Who is Adeline to her in your interpretation?

(Yeah both of you asked me this one! x) )

Well depending on the interpretations I have two main interpretations for her! (in the AU/very different timeline where Gehrman is like Maria's dad, that's her girlfriend lol) but in my main interpretation that’s not really the case. I prefer to see them as friends and very close friends I think? during her early time at the research hall. Another close friend she made who’s mainly outside of her main group. But both have quite an evolution through the years they knew each other.

If i remember the draft in my head correctly it goes like this :

After Maria graduated (and came back from her mission trip) she went to help the early healing church develop itself and its activities between hunts and going in the pthumerians labyrinth and that’s where she met Adeline.

I supposed Adeline is a Yharnamite? but she lost everything (her family. not sure what happened) and basically didn’t have a home anymore and clearly saw herself as worthless (poor girl had terrible self esteem issues all her life afterwards…) So the early healing church took in some people in need, gave them a place to sleep, eat and heal them if they were sick. Maria took care and helped Adeline during that time (after it was Laurence too).

And so the 2 became friends! In the end Adeline (who had nothing left) decided to dedicate her life to the healing church and helped others as well, so they saw each other with Maria afterwards! They advised each other and could have been a bit confident of each other as well. Of course Maria wasn’t very hyped when Adeline became a blood saint fully (seeing the bad things it could do to people) but she respected her choices.

During the research hall, before Adeline took part in the experiments, she helped Maria, Rom, Caryll etc around with the patients & other things. I suppose because of some dreams/ exposure to something, the decline of everyone's mental health, and maybe other people asking her... she decided to give herself fully to those experiments as well in the end… Her death was one of the last straws for Maria...

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I know I have more questions left but I am reaching Tumblr word limit soon so I will reblog/make a 2nd post (or even a 3rd)💀 with the rest of the most interesting (and huge) questions! It's not quite written yet but for now this should be a nice distraction and a good reading I hope!

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youlikefanficdontyousquidward · 2 years

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RECOMe again?

The reader must navigate interacting with their fellow recoms despite having betrayed them as a human! Does anyone know their secret?

A shorter one to get us started!

This is a multiship fic be prepared to get passed around a lil :3c

Chapter 1

Notes: Y/N (Your name), Y/LN (Your last name), na'vi dialogue in bold, fic will contain swearing, nsfw scenes in later chapters (I will warn specifically which ones), violence.

If there are any specific triggers people would like warned for let me know (^・ω・^ )

Tag list: @buzzing-honeybee

Everything seemed off when you peeled your eyes open. Beside the stinging and slight blur from the overhead light, something wasn't right. The ceiling seemed closer and almost bowed? Like a fish eye lens but subtler. When the two doctors hovered over, their voices too distant to distinguish words, they felt somehow far way, despite how close close presence felt.

You groaned trying to sit upright, you felt their... finger tips? The pressure pushing you down felt so small, isolated to tiny spots on your abdomen. You looked down and felt your world shift. Tiny hands, these doctors where absolutely tiny. You felt a sudden flush of embarrassment, like when you'd accidentally told your friend Jake Sully to 'get it himself' when the item in question was on the top shelf. Only these doctors weren't just short or people with dwarfism.

It only really made sense when your vision finally cleared enough for you to see your reflection in the mirror that covered the length of the room. You stared, unwilling to move from the bed, both doctors attention now shifted elsewhere in the room.

Yup. There it was. Your features distorted across a na'vi face. You felt suddenly off, sick, it felt like you'd been stretched out. Your arms and legs long and thin, your torso pulled like taffy, stretched into this new shape. You'd certainly had your fair share of image issues growing up but this was a new level of body horror. As your anxiety grew you heard a thumping at your hip and adding to your horror you saw your tail. You let out a squeak, feeling your new ears twitch.

You remembered it now. You'd gone down to the lab with several other important members of the military team. You'd played along, Max assuring you the whole time that this wouldn't blow your cover, that he'd take care of everything. You thought he'd meant destroying your file somehow so that the RDA would never figure it out.

You'd turned sides, helped them escape and agreed to pass on in-tell from the inside. You remembered all of this and were terrified at how much the RDA knew. You cast your mind back but at no point in the process had anyone really explained how they went about the memory implanting. Had anyone reviewed your memories? Maybe not, it'd surely be a long and wasted task to go through that with everyone's memories? Though if they'd ever suspected you, maybe they'd make that effort.

You realized that Zdinarsik was having something of a melt down at the other side of the room. This was buying you a lot of thinking time. You really couldn't remember anything further then the spinning tube, which made sense. It really dawned on you then, you were a copy, a half clone of Y/N mixed with Na'vi DNA. The real you was dead. You wondered how it'd happened, had someone found you out and put you down. Maybe even Zdinarsik, you cast worried eyes to her. She was hyperventilating but seemed to be calming down, she made eye contact, smiling shakily at you. You supposed for now it didn't matter, she was a copy too, none of the clones here would remember if anything had happened after that day. You smiled back, your lip catching your fangs and nipping the flesh open.

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You were brought through into a locker room with a now put together Zdinarsik. Three others were already in the room, changing into their military issued clothing.

"Think I might have gone up a few sizes now eh Y/N?" Zdog knocked into your elbow. She'd definitely collected herself somewhat but her smile hadn't reached her eyes yet. You grinned back, she'd been a friend before your betrayal, though in her mind this likely had never changed.

"Really? I think I've slimmed down somewhat." You sucked your cheeks in, posing dramatically. Zdog's laughter was joined by the others who'd shifted over to greet you two.

"Wow Y/N? Zdog? Gonna need name stickers at this rate." It took you a moment to recognize Fike but something in his smile made it click.

"Dunno Fike, I'd know that big bald head anywhere!" You shouted over to Lyle Wainfleet, his head whipped up, huge grin plastered to it. He stalked over leaning down to your face.

"All those height genes and they still barely got you past 6ft huh?" You gently pushed his arm, exaggerating a frown.

"How dare you! I'll have you know they measured me in at 8'2!"

"Still over a foot shorter! Midget! Come on, they want us all in when they wake the Colonel." You all saluted, before you and Zdog went to your lockers.

Colonel Miles Quartich. You'd hoped you'd have seen the last of him but fate really had it in for you. Brought back in enemy territory, surrounded by your past and with little idea when the other shoe would drop. You'd had a terrible plan to get some time away from him, time to deliver intel to Jake and the others. It was going to be extremely embarrassing but highly effective, you were somewhat glad you didn't remember how it had gone down.

See since your first days at RDA you'd had something of a strange relationship with the Colonel. Having made quite an impression by first tripping and falling right into him, causing him to have to catch you and then shooting down a viperwolf in the field that had jumped your group. You'd become something of a favourite of his and in those early days that'd only made your little crush on the man grow. It was a silly thing, he was about 25 years your senior at the time but you'd by lying if you said you didn't find him incredibly attractive. Too bad life had pulled you both in very different directions. You spent more and more time with the scientists you'd been escorting and had come to really love the forest that surrounded you. When Jake and the others had finally gone too far and got locked up, it only felt right to help them and when Jake asked you to stay you couldn't refuse.

So you'd planned to 'confess' to the Colonel. It was a ruse, he'd let you down or maybe even call for your dismissal. Either way you could use your broken heart or leave to excuse yourself from duty and run off to assist Norm and Jake.

You wondered how it'd worked, or if you'd even gone through with the plan, as you dressed. You ended up asking for Zdog's help as you'd tangled your tail up down a trouser leg and were having some trouble getting it through the tail hole. She laughed at you, showing off how she'd managed just fine. She came forward regardless, gripping your hips to still you there. She popped her bubble gum in your face smirking as she gripped the base of your tail and tugged. You hissed, Jake had told you they were sensitive.

"Ow!" You complained, pouting up at her. She'd been taller than you before and still had more than half a foot on you.

"Don't be such a baby, see all sorted." She took a step back watching as you swished your tail.

"This is so weird." You couldn't get used to it. You felt like you never would, like a whole extra limb with a mind of its own. Norm and Jake had both talked to you about what it'd been like, entering their new bodies for the first time. Both had been ecstatic, loving every new experience they'd had, though you supposed they had wanted this. You'd never planned for this.

"Yeah you said it, come one we're late!" Zdog touched your arm, gesturing you to jog after her. You weren't late, the Colonel was still unconscious as you joined Wainfleet, Fisk and now Prager in the room. The doctors administered something into his IV drip and he began to stir.

It was strange seeing him like this. You hadn't really noticed with the others but you were all younger now. You must have all been grown around the same time during the trip out. So Quaritch now looked closer to his mid twenties. You admitted to yourself he looked good, even with the more Na'vi features.

You were too lost in your admiring to really catch what happened. Lyle had come forward as he woke and it kicked off from there. Quaritch swung knocking him onto his ass as the rest of you rushed forward. Wainfleet recollected himself and began ushering the doctors out the room. Quaritch dropped Prager and threw something at Zdog.

"Sir please! Colonel." You stepped forward with your hands raised, trying to calm him down. He struck you across the cheek, flinging you back against the mirrored wall. Your head hit it and you stayed dazed on the floor as the rest of the team struggled to restrain him. He continued to fight them off, hissing and backing up before they managed to finally still him. He recognized Lyle first, who smiled through bloodied lips, before looking shocked at the others who restrained him.

"I'm alright" he drawled out. They let him go and he began to examine himself, pushing past Wainfleet to look in the mirror. He stood above you, baring his teeth and touching his fangs. You felt your heart race at his towering form.

"Well, ain't this a bitch." At this moment he noticed you, still dazed on the floor. "Private Y/LN?" You offered a weak salute, he reached down pulling you up by your elbows. You caught your reflection, he'd cracked you pretty good, your nose was bleeding and some swelling was already forming under your left you. You let out a light chuckled turning to your commanding officer.

"I'd say those motor control tests are obsolete, Sir." Quaritch straightened, dropping his hands. Had he been reaching for you again? A doctor returned now, with another officer who commanded your unit to follow.

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If being awoken into a new body wasn't strange enough, now you had to endure the last week of space travel. The zero gravity had always turned your stomach, even the novelty of floating around the room wore off and you were happy to be called into the areas of the ship with working gravity. You watched the video log provided, a short clip of your human self explaining the Recombinant program and soul drive to you, shortly after having exited the machine. It was odd to watch, these clips were past the memories you had, this you was a different you now. It hurt your head to think about it, you focused on her expressions instead. She seemed calm, collected, you were still in the clear here.

Every time you were called upon or came face to face with higher ups you were sure it was all gonna be over. You'd be found out, it was only a matter of when.

To add to your anxiety you'd been made to join the others in a na'vi physiology 101 course. Tail and ear reflexes, body language reading, don't touch your queue and worst of the worst new instincts. You felt 13 again and were flushing like it was sex ed. You kept face by joking with Zdog and Prager, giggling in the back about how these animal instincts were gonna take over. Prager doing a werewolf impersonation that ended with you all being scowled at by an exasperated scientist.

It was true what she'd said however. You'd began noticing the scents of your colleagues, tiny little changes in their smells that you were sure you'd figure out the meaning behind. You feared what this would mean for your cover, you'd been a decent liar as a human. You were sharp, could stick to your story and didn't crack under pressure. Now however you had to worry about your ears and tail giving you away.

You figured you could lightly test it, come up with a little scenario to lie in to see if you could get away with it. Opportunity struck the day before you reached Pandora. Mansk had requested sunglasses be added to his regular kit and it had been approved. He however was in the gym with the others when they arrived, giving you an opportunity to hide them. It needed to be a little inconsequential prank, something the others wouldn't think much of if uncovered but that could be played off as an accident if not.

You sat relaxed on a bench, you'd found that your tail followed you breathing. If you could keep a handle on that then the tail wouldn't thrash around. So it stayed still when the group entered from the showers and headed to their respective lockers. You continued pretending to read as you kept an eye on Mansk. He'd been expecting them and was told they'd be there by now, so when his locker remained empty he grumbled. He turned seeing you and began coming over. Perfect, you thought. You looked up when he got close, you'd positioned yourself where you could catch your reflection in a long locker mirror. Your ears had perked up at his approach but this was normal.

"You see anyone come in with a package?" He asked, his tone wasn't accusatory yet just curious.

"Nope, been here most the day." You lied. You kept eyes on him, feeling for any changes. Nothing in the tail and ears felt relaxed. He grumbled kicking his feet.

"You sure." He looked at you again. You felt the slightest twitch of your ear, pulling back a touch.

"Nope, maybe I missed 'em but I don't remember anyone." You kept your face neutral, uninterested. You tail felt tight, the muscles straining to twitch but you kept it still. Mansk just grumbled again before stalking back to get his clothes. You glanced to the mirror, you looked calm, no swishing or twitching. It worked, if you would maintain calm like before then there would be no tell.

You stood to leave, turning and bumping right into a broad wet chest. You glanced up to meet Quaritch's quirked eyebrow.

"Oh, uh sorry sir!" You felt your ears pin back now, tail swishing behind you. You were not calm anymore, your heart having jumped its way into your throat.

"At ease" Quaritch stepped around you, walking off to his own locker. His broad back dripping, you followed a trail down to his narrow hips and gulped. There was an odd musk to the room now and you decided it best to scamper off before your odd behavior could be remarked upon.

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So it seemed being snapped back in age and given a new body had reignited something of your old crush. Even in your human memories you'd remained nervous in front of the guy, so maybe you'd just been lying to yourself about being over it.

Even now sat amongst the other recoms awaiting Quaritch's commands you felt on edge. Though you could easily blame that on the tension of being caught. Maybe this was the moment, he'd been informed of your past self's crimes and they were going to rip you limb from limb.

His speech mirrored the one he'd given on your first day on Pandora. While they might not have been about to tear you apart you still felt your face pale, though you kept your expression neutral. You were all here to hunt down and kill Jake Sully, along with any other rebels and former RDA. So you were technically on the kill list.

The others cheered, clapping shoulders and getting excited. You smelt the change in the air, you recognized this scent change now, anticipation/excitement. You were still working on a catalogue of these, they'd be invaluable tells if you could pin point them.

Zdog gripped you, her scent was especially strong, mixed with something else. A musky smell you'd caught on her before, though you still couldn't place it yet. You gripped her other hand, playing along with the team, hoping no one else was picking up the scents as well as you. You must reek of anxiety.

#quaritch x you #quaritch x reader #miles quaritch #colonel quaritch #zdog #Zdinarsk #zdog x reader #avatar imagine #avatar #the way of water #my fics #recome again

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I’m curious of other’s opinions on this: out of all the suitors, who is the most believable and least believable for “Belle” to actually fall in love with? Basically, how realistic would it actually be for her to fall in love with one of them?

I based my rankings based off a mix of Belle’s personality and the actual story and how it plays out - i tried to be as least biased as i possibly could lol

My ranking would be:

1. Leon: i picked Leon as most believable because of how quickly she warmed up to him and how compatible their communication styles are. They’re honestly almost too perfect that it makes me wanna gag (sorry Leon lovers lol)

2. Keith: He comes in 2nd similarly to Leon, the nice Keith and Belle get along so well and it seems like she has a soft spot for him from the get-go. It’s believable to me also because of how his story was written and i could definitely see MC ending up with him.

3. Rio: The boy next door has to be believable. Poor Rio lol. I put him 3rd because she has to get past seeing him as a friend which is a small obstacle, but it is totally believable because theyre already super close and it would make sense.

4. Chevalier: the “true” route. I love their story, and given their personalities, i think it was very well written for both of them to compliment each other. They have just enough in common to keep the stability, but also love languages to help learned and keep the spark alive.

5. Gilbert: the “bad boy”. He is believable to me because the slow progression makes sense, and you can see how both of them compliment each other and pique their interest of the other as well. It seems like a natural progression, and it’s one that we can see coming.

6. Clavis: the class clown. One of my favorite routes 🥰. I think the dynamic between Belle and Clavis are so quirky, that it works. It makes sense once she learns more about Clavis that she would fall for him.

7. Licht: Sweet emo baby. My first love. I put him lower on the list because he’s harder to actually get to know, so the likelihood of her truly being interested in him at first is likely low, but once she finds out he’s a sweet baby - she will be smitten and will fall.

8. Sariel: Daddy issues. I actually really like his route and i genuinely believe this could happen, the only reason hes lower on the list is because i think it would be less likely that Belle would sacrifice her “professionalism” but i do still think it’s a believable story!

9. Silvio: Loveable asshole. Okay, listen - i’m sorry Silvio stans… i ranked Silvio lower because it would take a lot longer for her to warm up to him… especially the way he talks to her - and quite frankly, with all the other options around, why would she fall for him when theres so many other princes?? BUT… i do think his route is very believable for what it is and i did enjoy it personally

10. Nokto: emo playboy. Let’s be real, she would be so turned off by his bullshit, i find it hard to believe she would even think twice about wanting to get to know him. When she does, i don’t think she would want to be more than friends.

11. Luke: Baby bear. I cant picture them together because of how young he seems honestly 😣

12. Jin: Titty idiot. His route felt so wrong and weird to me… it felt forced and awkward. This just doesn’t feel like a good match and it doesn’t seem like a natural progression to me. He doesn’t have much of a personality, and they both just don’t seem to fit

13. Yves: Baby girl. I cant take him seriously as a lover when even the game suggested that Belle questioned he may be queer. (Nothing wrong with this at all, just doesnt fit the narrative they are selling). I LOVE YVES and everyone needs one in their life, but he’s not believable as a lover… and we all know why 🙃

#ikemen prince #ikepri #ikemen series #ikemen ouji #ikepri thoughts

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thoughtsandbones · 1 year

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Take your time, then take your shot

Simon 'Ghost' Riley x F!MedicDoc OC (codename: Blue) 💀💙

WARNINGS: Mention of alcohol, war, self harm scars, profanity , fluff, just getting the POV of our friendly neighbourhood masked menace.

Plot: Doctor Ruhari Hari Kaur (OC is South Asian ☺️) joins the 141 again, but this time as their doctor. After the betrayal of Shepherd and Graves, Task Force 141 begins their hunt on his whereabouts and locating Makarov.

PLEASE reblog and like!

Song inspo: Tom Tom - Holy Fuck and Bennie and The Jets - Elton John

A/N: Flashbacks are getting messed up when I am indenting them and I am getting lots of errors when publishing the work, please bare with some mistakes and spelling issues.

I grew up with the OG MW2 game, so there are some references to the old one, so kind of a mix of both the OG and the new timeline... (Also I'm ignoring the OG Shepherd betrayal and keeping in line the one with the new timeline..)

spelling and some grammar mistakes as I am bad at times... :/

(FYI: bold sentences... that are like this... are supposed to describe redacted data/info to the plot... ;] .. )

Please do let me know how you all are finding this fanfic! :D

PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5 and PART 6

Part 7

A sick feeling woke Soap in the morning as the sun poked through his half closed curtains in his room. Rolling over from his front to his side, opening his dry mouth, trying to moisten it with saliva. Half opening his eyes he looks over to the side table near his bed and sees a glass of water. After a struggle to sit up, Soap takes a sip. His stomach lurches.

"Gonna boke" he mutters to himself, covering his mouth.

He vaguely remembered the events of last night. He remembers getting perhaps a bit too close to Ghost, Price helping him with his jacket. He remembers that tattoo. His head pounding, Soap gets up and rushes to the bathroom as he felt the sick travel up from his stomach.

...

"You still haven't told her Simon!" Price exclaimed as he stood beside Ghost at the assault course watching the marines go through one of their drills.

"Pick your feet up private!" Ghost bellowed at one of the marines who was dragging his feet when he scurried past Ghost. He turned to Price who was still giving him the look of disbelief.

"No, didn' get a chance" He replied gruffly. More like he couldn't say the damn words he thought.

"Bloody lucky that Soap didn't run his mouth fully last night" Price continued "Speaking of which, have you heard from him" Price asked shaking his head at the memory of Soap's outlandish behaviour down the pub.

"Knocked on his door this mornin'" Ghost said "Didn't respon'" he added

"Typical" Price says scoffing then rolling his eyes.

"Haven't seen Blue then?" Price asked, not taking his eyes off him during his questionings.

Ghost shook his head. Why was he calling you Blue now?

"Also don't think I didn't notice the little staring contest you were having with her last night" Price huffed at Ghost his arms held at his hips now.

Ghost turned to looked at Price, his face in a clear scowl. The disappointment reeking off him like the sweat off the marines backs. He swiftly looked back, feeling the back of his neck and ears getting hot and go red. Thank fuck I wear a mask

"We leave in two days for a mission" Price says. Ghost turns to look at him and sees Price crossing him arms over his chest and then pout slightly.

"I know" He grunted

"If you get injured-" Price began

"Won't get injured" Ghost snapped and Price just shook his head at Ghost's crassness.

"I'll let you deal with the fallout." Price sighs, giving Ghost a light pat on the back, about to walkaway from him

"It's hard" Ghost says finally. Price looks back at him, giving him a sympathetic look. Price walked back to Ghost, staying with him to observe the marines.

As Ghost looked on, he could not escape the itchy thought of you. Of last night. The look on your face of pure admiration and happiness when you were looking at the night sky.

"ARGHH!" someone shouted by the climbing wall on the assault course

One marine had landed badly on his ankle when jumping over. Price rushed over as Ghost followed through with a stroll.

"FUCK MY ANKLE" The marine shouted

"Easy Michaels, don't move"! Price yelled crouching on one knee near the marine. Price then proceeded to do a fireman's carry and hoisted the marine over his shoulder. Ghost stood close by watching.

"Let's get you over to the Doc" Price spluttered as he adjusted the marine on his back and started walking off the assault course.

"Lieutenant, keep the rest of 'em in check" Price shouted back to him. Ghost nodded and returned his focus onto the marines. As he stared at the marines finishing off the assault course, his mind unlocked a memory that was buried deep within his cerebral tissue.

<CUE FLASHBACK> Ashfield Base, Berkshire, 18th August 2010 "Keeping yer eye on the scope whilst reloading yer mag allows yer to be alert to yer surroundings" The Captain yelled at the three soldiers laying down in front of him holding their sniper rifles and trying to reload their rifles. The Captain noticed MG let go of his rifle as he reached for his pack where he had his ammunitions. He walked over to him standing near the edge of his feet casting a shadow over him. "And if yer a muppet like MG, yer'd get shot in an instant by an enemy sniper" He says standing behind him giving him a look full of contempt and kicking his boot with his left foot. "Sorry Captain" MG muttered as he looked over his soldier whilst grabbing more munitions. KD, the other soldier next to him snickers.

"Yer'll be sorry when yer dead" The Captain quipped, thick Scottish accent. The Captain moved back from the soldiers and stood next to a 6' 2.5" soldier wearing green fatigues and a blue beret that was on top of his short slicked back blonde hair, icy cold blue eyes narrowed, brows furrowed, focused on the soldiers in front. "Muppets eh Simon?" He muttered to the blonde sergeant Simon smirked at The Captain, in his hand he held a remote with two buttons. He pressed the button on the left, a target sprung out in the shooting range. One soldier, noticed the red target spring up to the slight left of the centre of their scope, you quickly slammed the magazine in the rifle, pulling the bolt, positioned the target to be in the centre, and took your shot, *BANG*, it folded back down to whence it came. "Not all of 'em Cap" Simon said after he watched you hit that target, looking back at The Captain who nodded in agreement. Simon then pressed the button on the right of the remote; a moving target appeared from the right heading horizontally to the left. Two soldiers tried to shoot but missed. As the target barrelled it's way, you manoeuvre your rifle to follow it as it comes near, you take your shot and reloaded. *TWHACK* The bullet hits the edge but the target kept going, you huff. *BANG* and the target gets jolted back. "Good shot Ru" The Captain said walking towards you. Simon presses the button again, another moving target pops up, this time coming from the left. *BANG* you hit the target. Simon pressed both of the buttons at the same time on the remote, keeping his focus on the back of you. Two targets appear, one running left to right at a higher speed and another coming straights towards the soldiers. They all try and shoot. MG and KD both miss. You aim and get the one that was moving towards you but miss the really fast moving target. "3 out of 5 not bad" Simon says towards you, gently tapping your left boot with his. You turn around to look him with a confused face. "The second one surely has to count!" You moan "You missed" he quipped, smirking at you "I got it in the end" "Still missed the first time. Take your time, then take the shot" he said bluntly. He sees you roll your eyes at him, returning your gaze to the range in front, and take out your mag, keeping your eye on the scope whilst your hands place ammunitions into the empty mag. SimSimon presses the button again on the remote. The running target pops out, right to left this time. He watches as you slam the mag back in, pop the bolt, and slowly adjust to the target, tracing its movement and then pull the trigger. *BANG* The target pops back down. "Good" He says moving towards you and crouches. You stay still ready for the next target. The Captain comes over to Simon tapping him on the shoulder "Great practise Ru, improved a lot lately" He said to you "Right, pack up and head back" He said aloud looking at the other two soldiers. The three of you get up, unload your guns and pack them away. "Ru, come see me in my office once yer done" The Captain says to you as you get up, wiping off dirt and grass from your fatigues. "Yes Cap" You respond, The Captain nods and then walks away, you turn to look at Simon, gazing at his stern face, blue eyes focused you. "Did good today" he said again as he watches you load the remaining loose ammunition into the magazine and place it back in your pack and then take off your safety glasses and beret. The ends of your short brown hair fluttering in the wind, you turn and squint as the sun hits your face. The sun was now getting low, taking its final descent into the horizon for this day. You turn back, sun rays bounce against Simon's face, making his blue eyes warm and sparkle slightly. "Cheers Simona" You chirp, giving him a goofy smile. "It's Sergeant Riley or sir" He grunted giving you an annoyed look but then lightly laughed at your ridiculous face as you walked off with MG and KD, whilst sliding the pack on and then swinging your rifle on your left shoulder. <END OF FLASHBACK>

As Ghost watched the marines head into the mess hall he couldn't shake the image of you from his memory.

How have you grown so different? You are so reserved now, not playful. He thinks walking down corridor, passing the infirmary. Ghost walks straight past, avoiding the inner itching feeling of wanting to go in.

Ghost knew he couldn't let you cloud his mind. He can't let the thought of you taking up his time. Can't let the thought of wondering how you will react when you realise the truth. He had to try and avoid you for the next two days.

Ice her out. He'd done it to others, can be done to you.

His focus will have to be on the next task at hand. Finding Makarov.

#modern warfare fanfiction #simon riley x reader #simon ghost riley #cod mw soap #simon ghost riley x medic #simon ghost riley x doctor #fan fic ideas #cod fanfic #ghost x reader #ghost mw2 #fanfic fluff #modern warfare ghost #simon riley #simon “ghost” riley x oc #mw2 x reader

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entomolog-t · 6 months

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Can you tell us one or more little ranfom facts about characters of each of your stories you just have but couldn't find a good opportunity to share? Because everyone who have ocs have these

HECK YES!! ANY OPPERTUNITY IS A GOOD ONE!! I gotcha!! But fair warning, this is gonna be a long post 😭💕 Some of these allude to much bigger plot points later on in the stories 👀

Bite Me

Aedes is very much enticed by the color red. Theres definitely some biological reasoning behind it, with him being drawn to blood and such. The same way the a particularly sweet/gourmand perfume may be enticing, that how the color red also stirs something in him.

June is a skilled musician, being able to play an array of instruments at an intermediate level or above. She is a regular at her local bar's open mic nights and karaoke nights.

The Shadow we Cast

Sal has a weird sort of hang up with being handled by people. He doesn't mind being carried- and actually quite enjoys it, having no issue with being near/on people. Despite the fact he's okay being picked up, he is firmly against being grabbed. He has no issue with physical contact on his own terms (and is quite the hypocrite with invading other people's space without it being on their terms) but any prolonged (especially restrictive) contact that was not initiated by him?? Big no no.

Mark struggles with body image issues. He's quite thin/small and has wanted to be in better shape for nearly his entire life but has struggled with feeling self conscious, especially in a gym environment.

Betty will knock things off Sal's shelves if she's not given enough attention. This will often scare Lucy who will scramble away from the commotion (Y'all gonna meet Lucy in the next 1-3 chapters 👀)

INSTAЯ

Bram has a wild array of sounds he can make. He can make these sounds whenever it suits him, however I've listed some typical examples

Example 1 - Frustrated

Example 2 - Scared/angry

Example 3 - This one is interesting, when mixed with more chittering and buzzing sounds, this is close to how Bram sounds trying to speak. Though the chirping/whistling sounds are also what it sounds like when he's laughing/crying.

Dawn is incredibly handy, and tends to fix things/make things herself rather than buying things. She is able to get by without working in a traditional sense, having a lot of odd jobs, favors, and skills that let her get money in unconventional ways.

Honey is a 1-2 year old yellow lab that has a talent for getting into trouble. She occasionally sneaks over to the neighboring farm to torment/play the sheep. The neighboring farm dogs don't mind her company too much, though she's gotten chased off the property for being a nuisance more than once. She has returned home with a calf more than once- much to Dawn's embarrassment.

Clyde is Dawn's brother. He left town to pursue a university education (*cough cough* play varsity hockey).

Finding Strength

Tamius is a highly intelligent borrower with a passion for learning and putting his knowledge to use. He is naturally incredibly gifted over a broad stroke of topics (math, sciences, arts). He is voracious in his search for knowledge and understanding, and is ever infuriated by the relative gap in both access to information and the sheer volume of opportunity had by humans relative to his own kind.

Rose is a varsity wrestler struggling with her identity outside of sport. Dedicated and skilled as an athlete, Rose is an average-ish student who has no clue what path lay ahead of her.

#g/t community #AskEnto #JuneOC #AedesOC #Bite Me #HoneyOC #BettyOC #SalOC #MarkOC #LucyOC #TSWC #BramOC #DawnOC #ClydeOC #Instar #INSTAЯ #FS #Finding Strength #RoseOC #TamiusOC

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chaikachi · 1 year

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Since the writing team simply refuses to have Oscar meaningfully interact with most of the main cast besides Ruby and Jaune (for now, at least) smh smh, what sort of dynamic and relationships do you think Oscar would have with WBY? Pine boy deserves more justice!

Ohhhh v good questions!! Basing off their respective characters and what few interactions he has had with them, it's still tricky to say, but I'll do my best. DISCLAIMER: RG GLASSES ARE ON FOR THIS, I AM VERY SORRY. IF YOU WANTED AN UNBIASED APPROACH YOU CAME TO THE WRONG PLACE 😭

Both him and Blake are fairly quiet and more introspective members of the group. I think if they had any sort of relationship they'd probably talk to each other about their shared love of books and stories. I do think it would be fun if Blake teased him a little bit like she started doing with Ruby in v8, although Yang is doing a good job of that on her own. My guess for their dynamic is dependent on where Blake's character goes from here though, which is yet to be seen.

As for Weiss... She seems to care about him a lot! And Oscar got super happy when she agreed to go to the movies with him and Jaune. It's hard to say what their 1-on-1 dynamic will be. Honestly i picture it being a bit like Oscar's existing dynamics with Jaune or Nora after the comic relief treatment Weiss got for all of v9. But it's also hard to say, I wish I could come up with more than that. :(

Lastly Yang... honestly she's the one I have the most hopes for future interactions. We've seen so far that their dynamic is a bit goofy with Yang teasing him lots, but she cares about him a whole bunch too. Very much living up to big sister energy imo. She also seems very aware of how close him and Ruby are with how often she brings him up when talking to her sister (Ex: Yang being the one to first call Ruby when Oscar went missing in v6, asking her how Oscar felt about lying to Ironwood, emphasizing that they brought Oscar back from Salem when trying to cheer Ruby up, etc.)

I think I'd really like to see a heart to heart between Oscar and Yang in the future. Not as much as a Ruby and Oscar or Ruby and Yang conversation, but Yang expressed a lot of frustration, hurt, and confusion after Ruby snapped. She doesn't understand why her sister hasn't spoken to her or the rest of their team about her struggles... but Ruby did speak to Oscar about them at one point. We've also been given direct parallels back to back of how Yang and Oscar both approach Ruby differently about the same issue. And I think there's a lot to explore there.

As much as I would love to look at this question as exclusively about Oscar + one other person, with no exterior influences, I really can't. When I think of the canon narratives around all these characters, it really skews my read on what to expect in the future.

During v9, we see WBY being setup to be more mindful of Ruby and her struggles in the future... compared to Oscar who has always paid attention to those things. And how any dynamic that mixes those two sides together could lead to Oscar and WBY learning to take better care of their Ruby together.

Also, while we don't get a lot of other relationship focus for Oscar outside of what's absolutely necessary for the story (curse you limited budgets), it is worth noting that Oscar is very often included in team RWBY meetings/arcs where the rest of JNR is not.

Look at our little deuteragonist go. I don't feel like I answered these questions well but I don't know what else to say ahh i'm sorry but thank you for listening😫

#the tl;dr is they can all bond w oscar over their respective dynamics w ruby because I have incurable brainrot #asks #ask #anon #anono

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* Tutorial levels revamp: There’s only 2 books in the first one where they have info related to the Companion’s controls and then you have a lot of illustrations across levels. Most other books were removed. This is my attempt at mixing both presenting enough info and making the tutorials less of a waste of time.

* The world titles that show up at chapters’ first levels have been changed to have stuff behind the latters. Feel free to check l3300n, b00k3r and h0lm3s to see the new versions.

* Because of this, the title disappears a bit sooner.

* It takes 15 coins to get a new life under the limit of now 10 max lives.

* Because of the above, I added extra coins to various levels.

* Some really tiny adjustments to z4r1n4

* b4rn3y/Massag level 4: Added a new basic NPC, a Dalmatian police officer.

* In the same level above, there’s a rope you can pull to hear the train’s horn.

* And an illustration of 3 NPC characters from this world.

* k4rl44/Massag level 5: Art for the cheerleaders.

* An option in the pause and main menu is a text with instructions about the game. It may be reworked better sometime in the future.

* p33tt3/Nort part 1 level 8: Fixed the van so it won’t reactivate again and its sound is in the proper sound channel.

* The "please read" button now says "current issues" so people wouldn't feel the need to read that thing for too long.

* Tutor1 and Krimb level 2/r1c0t0: There’s now moving platforms next to areas where ladders and water are close.

* Tutor3 has a new path that allows you to go back to the start.

The plans post also changed (Specially the Google Doc version, while Rentry version is way behind now).

* HirdrihLevel3/b0rhrr has 4 illustrations of Borhr, NPC’s and enemies.

* And the spider chips in the level above can be killed, classifying them as enemies.

* Some tiles were changed to have less unpleasant colors and a new set of tiles is just black outlines to make it clear some tiles are solid.

* Guest appearance: Ganyah (By FairyGodBomber), a sorceress you can meet if you destroy all targets in Nort part 3 level 3/sh1hr0.

* Guest appearance: Anna Fresser from Dreadhunter (By HemoGlobinWorld); You’ll find her in a new area added to MassagLevel2/mcshry where you press a valve to lower the water to reach a room with health.

I also did a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff for later updates, like art for future characters.

#gamedev #indiedev #indie dev #godot #godot engine #indie games #blog #game development #game dev #gaming #godot game engine #progress #update #video games

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Part 2 of Marina headcanons, might dive into her relationship with Jonah- Jonah headcanons will be coming up later on-

(If you want to search up Jonah, his full name is Jonah Karam and he only appears in season 3-)

1 - Marina likes physical affection a lot- she usually hugs her friends and Jonah.

2 - Marina holds people’s hands a lot. She’s always holding Jonah’s hands, her friends’ hands, and if she can’t hold hands, she’s grabbing onto any stray piece of clothing. One time Jonah was walking to fast and she couldn’t catch up, so she grabbed him by the sleeve and managed to walk next to him at that time.

3 - if you have therapy with her, she’ll write down your issues a small notebook dedicated to you, and no one is allowed to read any notebooks she has with her patients’ issues. Don’t worry about your issues being confused with others, everyone she gives therapy has a special little notebook dedicated to them to make sure there are no mix ups.

4 - she’s really really good at cooking- like really really good- her food tastes amazing-

5 - Marina has a child in the future. She ends up naming them Ruthie after a lot of debating on what name they should have with Jonah.

6 - Marina makes Jonah dance with her sometimes. She finds it really funny since Jonah can’t really dance that well- but he’s getting the hang of it. The both of them consider getting dance lessons together.

7 - Marina and Jonah have agreed there will be a time of the day where they will talk to each other…how their days went, how they feel, and if the other did anything to upset them. After any apologies are made, some comforting sometimes, the two of them go back to their normal lives.

8 - Marina and Jonah watched this one adult show that had a lot of hard hitting moments- and- They have never cried so much before.

9 - Alcohol? Marina drinks alcohol every now and then but won’t drink too much for the sake of her well being. But she does appreciate a glass of wine or vodka after a tough day.

10 - Marina watched anime movies like “Spirit away” and “my neighbour totoro” and she absolutely adores them. She made the little soot sprites from them and uses them to decorate her office, she thinks they are absolutely adorable.

11 - she likes the beach a lot…She goes there and collects seashells occasionally.

12 - she keeps a set of noise cancelling headphones and earphones with her at all times in case things get overwhelming for herself or anyone.

13 - she has some fidget toys in her bag, she used them sometimes, and lends them to Jonah and friends in tense or stressful situations.

14 - she can keep a cool head in most situations. At times her anger does get the better of her…But she does her best to act accordingly.

15 - she tried paper mache art before. She found it so fun…She really liked it too.

16 - when she’s sharing beds with Jonah, they are bound to fight over the blanket. They are always snatching it from each other until they snuggle up really close with each other and make sure the both of them are covered.

17 - Marina has good self defense skills. She’s quick to act in case of any danger, and will not hesitate to defend her friends and coworkers.

18 - she likes Armand Dupont. She finds talking to him rather enjoyable even when he goes on and on about history and facts sometimes. She plays chess with him sometimes too! Usually she wins, but when she’s caught off guard, Armand can secure a win.

19 - she can’t open jars sometimes- she tried opening a har of jam once but failed. She either can open jars, can’t open jars, or breaks them trying to open them.

20 - she always wonders what drives people to kill, or why someone would have such violent thoughts in the first place. She thinks this a lot especially when the killer has no clear motive for killing. During season three, Marina has tried to talk to the killers on why the committed murder, to find out more and see if she could help them in anyway.

21 - she has a flower pot with some roses in them. Jonah gave them to her, and she does her best to care for them.

22 - she studies what colours and flowers mean and notes it down. She finds it really important and meaningful to know what they mean too.

23 - whenever she goes to somewhere new, she buys a small keepsake from there. Whether it’s a keychain, a magnet…She makes sure she has something to talk about the experience.

24 - she has a photo album of her adventures with the Bureau and everything- she flips through it every now and then for old times sake.

25 - she has a stuffed animal of a black cat, that sits on her window sill quietly. She called the cat Kiki.

26 - keeps any gifts she receives for life. She keeps all the gifts she got in a small chest in her room, and will occasionally open them to look through all of them.

That’s all- if I can somehow think of anymore, I’ll post a part 3.

#criminal case #headcanons #marina romanova

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sakarrie-creates · 9 months

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2023 Fic Round-Up/Reflection

Got an early start this year! I technically was shooting to get it done before the new year but I feel like I’m still within a reasonable window, so I’ll take it! Here’s my 2023 Writing Summary! Overall, I think I actually did okay! As usual, my rambly reflection stuff is under the cut. Happy 2024 people!

2023 Stats:

Fics Started: 12 Fics Fully Written: 12 Fics Posted: 5 New WIPs: 0 Total WIPs: 20 (ish?) Words Written: 53,686 (55,598 if including fic outlines that haven’t been turned fic) Words Posted: 34,805 Fandoms Written For: 3 (+1 for Merlin FTH outline) Events: 4 (+3)

Posted Fics:

Supernatural (Gen): 2

When it Rains, it Pours (13,779): As part of Chuck's "reliving of his greatest hits," Sam starts having his painful visions again. He doesn’t want to believe it, but the nightmares keep coming true and now, he's beginning to worry it’s not just visions. During their last hunt, Sam could have sworn that the machete he was reaching for threw itself. Dean didn’t seem to notice anything but later that night, Sam finds a small trail of blood coming from his nose.

He needs to tell Dean—he knows that. But Dean’s been struggling a lot between Chuck and losing... well, most everyone. He's just barely beginning to bounce back, and Sam was his only constant right now. He’ll just have to keep a handle on it until they can take care of Chuck. Set around s15e4 Atomic Monsters.

Whatever it Takes (1,875): Gadreel's possession of Sam has more serious side-effects than Dean ever imagined. Now, his brother is sick, hurting, and close to giving up. But Dean is determined to make this right.

The Owl House (Gen and Implied/Background Ship - Huntlow): 2

What Doesn't Kill You (Gives You Trauma) (1,737): With the reconstruction of Hexside finally complete, a sense of normality has been restored. Fortunately, that includes Grom. Unfortunately one of their own has been declared King. Hunter doesn’t even know which fear he'll have to face. He certainly has enough painful memories for Grom to take its pick. With a bit of luck and support from his friends, though, he might just make it through the night.

Frenemies (1,737): Hunter gets a mysterious message telling him to meet them at the night market. He really should have realized Luz would be behind this. Or: Post-ASIAS, Luz doesn't like the idea of Hunter suddenly showing up at Hexside and almost kidnapping her friends.

Code Lyoko (Gen): 1

No One’s an Island (7,612): Yumi is tired. XANA's attacks have been relentless and it's wearing her down. Between school, home life, and Lyoko, she's not sure how much more she can handle. After all, there's only so much weight one person can take. Except, it's not just Yumi's burden to carry, and her friends are going to do whatever they can to remind her of that.

Specifics:

Events Participated In:

SPN Summergen (Fic), Player Appreciation Week (Art), Weird People MEP (Edit), Dear Fellow Traveler (Animatic), SPN Gencest Bang (Fic), Fandom Trumps Hate (Art/Fic), Mirage and Mischief Zine (Fic), and LOTS of zine apps (Fic, Art, Mod).

Best/worst title?

Best title: None of them super jump out at me, but Whatever it Takes and Between the Lines of Fear and Blame both come from songs where the song vibe/lyrics match the fic PERFECTLY. The latter is a bit long for my tastes, but it’s grown on me. What Doesn’t Kill You (Gives you Trauma) makes me chuckle too, but it’s got the same length issue as well as trying out a new style from my norm which I had mixed feelings on.

Worst title: Oof, well as usual, I didn’t particularly like most of my titles this year. I think Frenemies has to take the cake though. It started as a working title but then I got lazy and just left it when I posted. It feels so generic and not... aesthetic enough? Poetic enough? Literally no idea why it bothers me so much but it does.

General Questions:

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

I honestly can’t remember what I was expecting this year (and it’s tradition that I can’t look back at my goals ‘til I answer these questions, so it will remain unknown). I certainly hoped to be able to do more since last year was a fairly barren year creativity-wise, but I’ve also been quite aware for a while that being in school sucks out my soul makes it difficult to create. With that, I think I probably was in the ballpark of what I was expecting. I might have predicted it being more spread out, though, which is a rookie move considering that my classes are clustered haha. What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?

I think I’d just barely gotten into TOH at the start of the year, so that wasn’t COMPLETELY unpredictable, but I did write some Huntlow (aka, romance) fics, which is abnormal for me! Additionally, I can’t remember if I discovered The Sentinel this year or last, but that definitely wasn’t expected. Just got the DVDs so I can finish watching the series! Oh, also writing Code Lyoko was a new experience (not counting my random 6th grade fanfiction I wrote in notebooks lol).

What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

I’m split quite a bit on this one. On one hand, I really like my Grom fic (so far) so I’m hoping that will continue to flow as I wrap it up. I also like my unposted fic about Willow dealing with Hunter’s near-death and Camila comforting her. Of those that are currently posted, though, I think I might go with No One is an Island. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to write Yumi and the other Code Lyoko characters, and considering the small size of the fandom, it was fairly well-received too!

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

Same as the last two years! Fragmentation’s views are hard to really predict since view counts have been down since September, but the total views has officially surpassed the overall word count at 21.4k views (vs 20.7k word count). Which is AMAZING. It’s always a bit wild to me to consider, but I’m so great people are enjoying my fic. Next is still The Problem With Good Intentions at 12.6k, which surprises me less now that I’ve seen just how alive and well the Once and Future Fandom is haha. From the fics I posted this year, it would be When it Rains, it Pours at 1.5k.

Story most underappreciated by the universe?

A Letter to Never Be Read on FF.net never really got any traction, but I think I’m over it by now. As for more current underappreciated fic... I think I might actually go with When it Rains, it Pours again. Even though it had the most views, it’s a fairly long, multi-chap story and didn’t get many reviews in between chapters. That’s part of the challenge with bangs and posting dates, though, so nothing too shocking there.

Hardest story to write?

It’s really hard to say! I was struggling with burnout a lot during my zine app timeframes, but most of those fics haven’t been posted yet. It might be Whatever it Takes just cause I had such a hard time coming up with something that matched the prompts as well as my preferences. When it Rains, it Pours was also a challenge at times, but mostly in trying to find motivation to write anything.

Most overdue story?

It’s Only Natural is still very very overdue, but it’s not super popular (and is on FF.net), so it’s not one I’m stressed about. I think about A Long Ways Home a lot, though. I wanted to work on it recently, but unfortunately my writing energy needed to go towards FTH so that continued to be put off. People have left some very supportive comments on it recently, though, which I majorly appreciate!

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

It hasn’t been a very writer-heavy year, which means less opportunities for writing risks. Writing for Code Lyoko was something of a risk in that I had no idea how it would turn out, but it wasn’t actually that adventurous. I also explored different types of grief in an unposted zine app piece, but I think in the end it turned out solid! My biggest risk was probably a different ficlet I wrote for a zine app. It was of young Eda and Grudgy, so both about characters I’m less invested in and in the sports genre, which is totally new for me. Unfortunately, that risk didn’t pay off. I actually felt pretty good about it, but when I sent it for feedback from a mod friend, they really didn’t like it. Everything’s subjective so it’s possible that it would still be enjoyable for some people, but suffice to say, I didn’t use it for any apps in the end.

How’d this year compare to your goals of last year?

Okie here we go! I think my goals were fairly reasonable last year if I remember correctly so I’m tentatively optimistic I’ll have some stuff to check off!

Oof last year had a bunch of paragraphs of reflection here. I think I’m gonna focus more on bullets this year haha.

Goals from 2022:

-Unfortunately, keeping my scholarship has to be my biggest goal this year again so gonna put that here in case it's the only thing I can check off come December.

-A Long Ways Home (at least 1 new chapter) -SPN Summergen-At least 3/7 Player Appreciation Week days-Catch up on comment replies -At least do some more brainstorming for bigger CS aus -Huntlow/Owl House fics?-One zine?

If crazy inspired year: -All of A Long Ways Home -All Player Appreciation Week Days -WIP Bang with It’s Only Natural -Post More CS One-shots -Write out more big AU scenes -Other Zines

Oof, okay so apparently I was not crazy inspired this year lol. To be fair, I did do a bit more exploration in art and lots more in merch, so it wasn’t a totally uncreative year. And I doubled my word count overall from last year! Plus I did apply to a LOT of zines this year... I just unfortunately didn’t get in to nearly any of them. Next time maybe though! I’m a pinch hitter for a couple so that’s something at least!

It’s also been a year with lots of burnout and anhedonia for me, so brainstorming has been completely unachievable for most of the year. It’s been sad and I feel a little bad for my poor friends who love to brainstorm with me, but thankfully they have other sources. I’m scared to say anything, but I’ve felt more recently like maybe some interest is returning, so I’m crossing my fingers that it will still be there by the time FTH/Mirage&Mischief stuff is finished and school starts.

I actually met my goals this year too! In fact, my stretch goal had 25k posted, which I doubled in total and surpassed in written too, which is really impressive for me! Not to mention, I finished EVERY SINGLE fic I wrote this year!! That’s WILD for me. To be honest, it’s probably more a sad reflection on how I was writing purely for external deadlines rather than myself, but hey! Still got them all done and wrote a lot of words. Overall, thank you last year Sakarrie for keeping things achievable cause I actually did meet/exceed my goals!

What are your fic writing goals for next year?

Well, I was a little relieved to find that I’d met them this year, so I think I’m going to try to keep things not too high again. Overall, though, I think I want to have a little more room for creative freedom in what I’m writing this year. For how little creative work I was doing, I did a TON of events, and at many times, those obligations stopped me from working on something I was feeling more inspired by. My fandom interests jumped all over this year (main focuses include: TOH, Merlin, Code Lyoko, The Sentinel, Dragon Prince, She-ra, Handplates (Undertale), and Centaurworld). Honorable mentions to Amphibia, SPN, and Miraculous Ladybug too... and that’s all just the stuff I’ve had long hyperfixations on this year. There’s tons of fandoms outside of those that also grabbed my attention on and off this year.)

Anyway, my hope is that I’ll be able to write similarly or more this year, but based on my own fickle inspiration, rather than only writing when I hate to for events. With that, I think I’m going to just stick with the Gencest Bang and zine obligations as the only writing events I’m planning on this year. I also hope to do Player Appreciation Week and Summergen again, but both of those could be art if needed.

I also 100% failed in my comments goal from last year, but my mindset is slowly getting healthier I think. I do leave comments occasionally, but they still feel like way bigger deals than they should be. I’m getting better at letting old tabs go, though! I’m also fairly behind on responding to comments of my fics, but that one’s a lot more manageable.

Additionally, I want to have a pinned post on my tumblr page and ao3 profile page where people who are interested can see my current status on projects. I don’t expect it would be updated all the time, but it might help me keep track of everything.

Okay so! Goals for next year: -Have a solid zine portfolio -Make pinned update post -Post at least 4 stories -Embrace/follow the inspiration -Finish first draft A Long Ways Home -Gencest Bang -Summergen Exchange -Code:Swap -Player Appreciation Week -Apply to more zines

So, finally work counts goals are...

Easy Goal Word Count Goal: 20k (at least 10k posted)

Stretch Goal (aka, if I don’t die from school agAIN): 60k (at least 30k posted)

Ultimate 2021 Word Count Goal: 38k

#sakarrie's fic #the owl house #supernatural #code lyoko #gen #huntlow #ao3 #fic list #2023 fics #end of year reflection #fic roundup

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margridarnauds · 2 years

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for honesty hour: thoughts on tkz's adaptation of anastasia?

Honestly, I genuinely believe it's the best possible production we've gotten. Anastasia, Frozen, and Prince of Egypt are sort of my unholy trio of "musical adaptations of legendary pieces of animation that ultimately just couldn't live up to their hype/removed or reworked key aspects of what made people like the originals." It was difficult because they tried to both have their cake and eat it too, they wanted something that would both appeal to fans of the film while also...basically creating an entirely new musical, reworking key elements, removing fan favorite songs and fan favorite characters. Sometimes, it works -- I think most people would agree that Gleb works better as a villain than Rasputin. Other times, it doesn't (Dmitri, the odd infantilization of Anya in the Broadway/replica, the overall issues of tone with making it a significantly darker musical while also trying to keep a few cartoonish scenes in there, all the historical baggage that comes when you make what had been a loosely historical fairy tale into something closer to a historical fiction AU.) I remember looking forward to the initial run in Hartford, then listening to the audios when they were first released, and kind of going "this is it?" There were a few things I liked, but it just didn't quite live up to the hype of FINALLY having a musical adaptation of Anastasia. I shipped Glebya, I've been shipping it since basically Day 1, there's never been a time I haven't, really, but it was in a sort of....abstract way, especially since there used to be. So much. Discourse. (There still is every once in a while, but [1] things have calmed down since the Broadway closed down and [2] ...I blocked pretty much everyone involved.) I wasn't particularly interested in it. I didn't HATE it, but....I didn't really *care* enough about it to hate it.

Then, came the Zuka. And I decided that, before I saw the musical live, since I bought discount tickets, I might as well actually see it. And it was like "Oh. This is what it should have been." (Which almost was a disappointment when I saw it live, even though there was a lot I liked from that particular cast as well.)

Like, you have a cast that's firing on every possible cylinder, everyone cast perfectly, everyone throwing themselves into it. You've got a Gleb that's soft enough to be a plausible romantic interest to Anya even if we know it can't happen but who's ALSO hard enough to be a credible antagonist, who trades out the goofiness mixed with domination and chauvinism of some other Glebs with this....weariness. (Though he still gets his goofy moments.) Anya herself is the right blend between obviously being haunted and traumatized but also having a spine of steel, so she isn't 😲 gasping 😲 every 😲 five 😲 seconds 😲 like 😲 the 😲 human 😲 embodiment 😲 of 😲 this 😲 emoji 😲. (Not to name names, but if you know Anastasia...you know who.) I feel like the fact that it's Takarazuka and it's already stylized and most musumeyaku are going to be used to toeing a line between feisty and feminine means that Anya comes off as much more organic, as a character, than she does in, say, the Broadway, where her beating off the guys attacking her and Dmitri looks...cartoony, but in a way that's jarring with the tone of the musical. Here, it kind of fits in with the stylization we generally expect from a Zuka musical. Her voice is innocent and sweet, but there's also this strength and fullness to it that I really like

Dmitri...look. I don't like him. I will never like him. I feel like he's one of the original sins of the musical where it's like....they cut out most of what made Animated!Dmitri compelling and, by softening Anya up so much, they made the dynamic unequal in a really unpleasant way. But Suzuho has enough charisma that like...she does a good job almost convincing me otherwise. I really, really love the way that her and Madoka's voices go together in "A Crowd of Thousands." I didn't like the way that Dmitri is shoved into almost all of Anya's songs, except for "In My Dreams", but...I've been a Zuka fan for over....God, at least six years at this point. I know the drill, I knew what I was in for. I'd love for it to be a Sainte d'Amour situation where Anya really gets to be the heroine and protagonist, but like...I know the drill. I know the business. And Suzuho does so WELL with Dmitri's songs where it's like "Okay, I'm going to log out of the story and listen to the music here." I even liked the added song more than I thought I would, and it felt like it really fit the flow of the musical as a whole in a way that a lot of songs added for Zuka don't. (Like, yes...it's a shilling song for Dmitri, but it's a *good* shilling song, and it's incorporated enough through the rest of the musical that it feels like it has a place.)

And Gleb. GLEB. Totally steals the show, love of my life, I was so grateful to see that they put all that work into him instead of making him a one dimensional villain. Kiki has this amazing ability to just...throw herself into any role she's cast in. Like, if you'd told me that the woman who played the most fruity and capricious Moriarty I think I've ever seen ALSO played an absolutely heartbreaking and compelling Gleb...I'm not sure I'd have believed it. And like, yes, that everyone involved's a professional actor means that they SHOULD be able to do that, but for a lot of actors and actresses, both in and outside of Zuka, it can be very hard to break out of typecasting. But in her case...she's something very special.

Also: LILY. So much effortless poise and energy and charisma rolled into one. I did not expect myself to keep going back to her song, but she just...sells it, in every possible way. I can't take my eyes off of her. It's actually a little hard to see the Broadway/replica production now when I've seen how an ensemble + actress who are trained in dancing can pull off this scene.

99% of the time, I love the costuming and the set work, I think they really did a phenomenal job reinterpreting the costumes -- I especially love Lily's red dress, Anya's rags, Anya and Dmitri's night clothing (especially because I've always HATED the Broadway costumes for that scene) ,Dmitri's green coat (and then the blue coat) ....my one complaint is the opera dress, and that's mainly because the opera gown from the Broadway/replica productions is so iconic, I was really looking forward to seeing what Zuka did with it, and...it isn't a BAD dress, it's not ugly, I love the velvet, I love the lace, I love the hem, but it's just...not what I was expecting, it's a little on the plain side, and I was expecting a lot more sparkle from Zuka, known purveyors of sparkle. Like, this is Anya's BIG DRESS, her big Wow moment, and it just didn't quite translate with the gown they used.

Overall, basically an almost perfect production of a profoundly imperfect musical that smooths over a lot of the rough edges of its source. I'm really glad they were able to get the rights to put it on and then the rights to release a DVD.

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Force of Chaos - DCL short story.

I wanted to write about the "Magic" System and how the emotions work in it, and I wanted to develop some characters. Dwath is special because his character caused the system to be born, Ran is special for reasons you'll find. No edits, original piece. 13 Pages according to WordCounter.net 5847 words.

Written by: "DCL Representative: Grim" (Or DCL for short.)

Section 1 - 1717 words, 3.8 Pages

^Orbz Orbz, where the fuck is Orbz? How the hell did something like this slip?^ The only thought that can rush through their mind in the immediate moment is how the god-like mortal can crush this force. ^Oh fuck it, any one of you mortals, Gilc even, get the fuck over here and get rid of this.^

Ran looks over at them, seeing her rub her hands together to create a source of warmth, her fire element igniting and giving an orange glow around her. She seems curious why she is so focused on thought and not using her powers normally, looking over at Dwath before back at her.

“Hey, what are you thinking about?” Ran asks, her helmet’s visor off.

“I am praying that someone saves us, not to the gods of course, the last thing I want is for them to actually hear me beg for their mercy.” She responds, looking up at Ran from her crouched position through her light blue visor.

“But we have Dwath, he is Death’s son, I am sure we will be fine.” Ran looks over to Dwath again, him only giving a thumbs up and a smile, putting down his scythe to release the warm aura for Ran. “He doesn’t seem very scared.”

“Well you two can avoid death- and that thing can probably sense powers, so be careful with that thing Dwath.” She sees the slight flame from the scythe and looks behind the rock she leans against, turning off her under-suit’s overshields. “God these C-Tek suits are so annoying, this damn metallite somehow is elastic AND horrible at keeping me warm.”

“You have it set to Nitrogen, you sure you can’t breathe something else?” Ran looks closely at the armor on her, trying to see past the mix of metal and black cloth to look at the suit.

“Likely she breathes oxygen too, the manites make nitrogen function the same as it, of course providing mana.” Dwath says, not looking over as he looks the other direction, looking for the next place to go.

“When did you learn chemistry Dwath?” Ran asks, getting up from her crouched position to look at him.

“Huh? Oh that was a basic lesson in Real-Chem, they teach it in college ever since the standard was exploration.” He says, looking at Ran, her brown sweater and white pants contrasting his pure black reaper robes.

“Realm Chemist- YOU WENT TO COLLEGE?” Ran seems interrupted by her surprise, knowing Dwath struggles in situations like school.

“Y’all are making me feel under qualified, practically the highest ranking young adults there are around, casting your spells with no issue and knowing all this stuff.” She says, looking back over and matching Dwath a lot better than Ran, a mix of metal in her outfit over and cloth, high grade to absorb energy shots a lot better than overshields, and very good for fashion.

“Yeah- dad made me- Hey, Mraol, you are just as qualified. You were chosen for a reason, and I am sure the bounty hunter courses helped somewhat.” He responds, patting Ran’s head.

“And we are all different in our own ways- I have pink hair and white on, I stand out like crazy here!” Ran responds to her, hugging Dwath afterwards.

“Chosen? THAT THING IS AFTER ME! Also, none of us were chosen for this- Orbz would not send his DAUGHTER on a mission with whatever that is.” Mraol shouts, her orange glow being faded out by the scythe’s stronger aura.

“Hey it is okay, we’ll get through this. No need to sound scared and angry.” Ran says, offering a hand to hold.

“Why the sudden aggression anyways?” Dwath asks, keeping one hand on the scythe for the warmth to stay up.

“Because it’s not there.”

“What?”

Just as Dwath and Ran say “What” it immediately strikes, scaring both of them apart as the purple scythe-like claw hits between them. It would of hit Ran’s arm had she not put it out, startling her a lot before Dwath grabs her and warps behind Mraol.

“Oh yeah thanks for helping the more vulnerable one- WHY BEHIND ME OH NO-” Mraol quickly jumps to the side as she sees her concern lift the scythe and sweep. “HA! MISSED ME!”

“RUN MRAOL” Both Ran and Dwath yell, backing up.

“I am TRYING.” An orange glow releases from her eyes as she jumps up onto the scythe, blue surrounding her body as she swings around the thin pole of the purple scythe.

It shoots an energy blast right at Mraol, catching the end of her orange power and pushing her back. She quickly fires a blast from her pistol, a yellow ribbon wrapping around her arm to the gun as it shoots straight up at the source of the weapon. Mraol feels the impact of another swing, dropping her gun and holding against the pole, clinging on above the blade. Dwath releases Ran and jumps up, using his own scythe to slash at the pole, being surprised as it barely causes any damage.

“Fucking- HELP ME PLEASE!” Mraol stands on the blade and snatches her weapon back, a vine shooting from her hand to grab it.

“My scythe BOUNCED OFF THE THING, WHAT IS IT MADE OF?” He looks over to Ran, catching an orb she tosses.

“Oi I am just the support!” Ran uses her powers to cast a powered orb, much different then the tech orb tossed previously. She shoots the red glowing orb over at Mraol, seeing the aura cover her and cheering at the success.

“Hell if I know! FUCK-” Mraol deploys a see through green shield out of her fist and flings a shot explosive away, blowing up behind her. “That was sick as hell.”

More arms come down from the mass, one glowing yellow and being the source of the explosives, and another that simply has a claw. Mraol swiftly fires more shots from her gun, yellow only powering two more and her green shield going down. Dwath throws the orb up, catching the yellow shots in it, jumping up to grab it.

“The hell Dwath?”

She fires more shots, knowing without yellow powers the accuracy will be off. Dwath slams the orb into his weapon to gain the powers and cut off the explosive arm.

“You have LITERAL GOD MAGIC, WHY DID YOU NEED TO STEAL MINE?” Mraol yells, dodging the falling arm.

“For some reason mine doesn’t work! I used legendary magic and it only went through with no damage.” Dwath responds, dashing down.

The scythe arm changes its target to Dwath after losing the explosives, Mraol taking a moment to breathe a sigh of relief the explosives left after her shield. Her eyes then widen as she remembers the scythe and quickly fires, no aura to it. She panics even more as she sees the grab arm come down and try to block the shot, but the energy narrowly races past the claws and hits the spot weakened by the previous shot, breaking the arm off.

“Holy FUCK Dwath you almost got hurt.” Mraol says, deploying a red blade out of her left hand using a different power.

“WHAT? WHY DID YOUR NORMAL WEAPON HIT IT?’ Dwath asks, death not a concern for a reaper like him. Perhaps Death’s help could make this easier.

“Hell if I know-” She says before being interrupted by the claw, cutting through it with her red blase.

“Hey, does it not seem like it is going easier on us?” Ran asks, looking over to the two of them as the arms stop for a moment.

“Haha, maybe it knows what happens if it hurts you. It only targeted Dwath after he cut a limb.” She jokes, seeing her red sword shrink into a dagger.

“Wait what if it only wants you, Mraol?” Dwath says, wondering why another arm hasn’t come down- “Wait, arms? The report was something much different?”

“Oh, because you can hurt it!” Ran adds, beginning to look up with Dwath.

“The thing I said that was looking for me doesn’t care about fighting the kids of some of the strongest people? Really?” Mraol sarcastically asks, not looking up because she knows what is next. She holds her pistol up.

“Oh you already said- we should get out before it starts trying.” Ran says, looking back down to see Mraol holding the gun up.

“I thought we just beat it-” Dwath says, before hearing the loud shot of Mraol’s gun, legendary aura surrounding it and making a full cannon enhancer. “HO WHA”

“One is not enough.” Mraol says, a light shield beginning to cover all of them and dark spikes growing.

“Wait what?” Ran asks, looking at the shield.

“Wait for it.”

“For what? Dwath asks.

“Why do you still doubt me?” Mraol asks back.

“I don-”

Slam

A hammer comes down, green aura covering a hole within it to heal it, and a green shield covering it from further shots. Not as strong as it could be because of the massive amount of healing needed for the hole. It slams against the light shield, the green shield around it immediately shattering from the dark spike but in return shattering the shield.

“RUN FOR YOUR LIVES DWATH AND RAN, GO” Mraol quickly starts sprinting as several green claws come down and repair the other arms.

“What? OH-” Dwath sees the scythe come for him yet again and blocks with his own. “RUN RAN!”

“EEP” She quickly sprints after Mraol, shooting more red orbs at Dwath before pulling him, watching his scythe get pulled up out of his hands.

“IT HAS MY SCYTHE-” Dwath exclaims, backing up and following Ran.

“USE YOUR RED POWERS.” Mraol yells back, a familiar shade of purple covering her as a circle forms ahead of her. “GET READY.”

Dwath tries to cast a red spell, a group of red bones coming out instead. Ran looks over confused and he just shrugs, shooting white bones. The white bones don’t go through the purple and lift the scythe off for it to fall, Dwath swiftly catching it and grabbing Ran.

“JUMP.” The purple portal forms in front of Mraol, her swiftly sliding into it.

Dwath jumps in with Ran, pulling his scythe through just as the portal closes.

Section 2 1243 words, 2.8 Pages

“Holy SHIT that was close. I dunno if I was about to cast green or light again.” Mraol says, sighing as she yet again sits against a rock. She looks up to the purple sky putting her hands against her face. Her gloves touch her visor then her mask, but the feeling is still the same.

“Why was it so urgent we left?” Ran asks, looking at Dwath, who is checking his scythe.

“I have fought against that thing so many times, the arms are more like… fingers to a hand. The palm, which we got out before it came, would have shot a barrage of shots like the one I shot through that hammer.” Mraol states, holding her knees against her chest.

“Which finger was the hammer?” Ran says, following the metaphor.

“Pinky. A strong support that matters a ton. That was what, 4 fingers? We did not get to the ‘thumb’ of the hand either.” Mraol responds, looking up at Dwath.

“I see a town. Very very far in the distance.” Dwath says, yet again standing.

“Hey Dwath, what the hell was with the bones?” Ran asks, pulling his scythe away from him.

“I’m uh, an irregular caster, I have a large portion of abilities but I can only use them through bones. The scythe is my wand.” He says, fidgeting.

“Ah.” She hands it back. “Hey, you did well that fight, not scared at all and looking badass!”

“With your help I can fight off the depression easily.” He says, yet again creating a conversation Mraol is outside of.

“Awe, I will always be here for you Dwath!” Ran says affectionately, hugging him.

“Oi lovebirds, we still have a threat after us. A town you say?” Mraol interrupts, though their conversation did not have far to go.

“Oh, yeah, we could probably warp there now?” Dwath responds, letting go of Ran and pointing the direction with his scythe.

“Oh hell no, not with that thing on us. I say we go far away from it.” Mraol says, getting up.

“But they could have supplies and help.” Ran adds, looking over to Mraol then the town.

“Yeah, but unless you are ready to defeat that thing once and for all there is no need to go into the town and have them deal with it. It will think you guys are part of some sort of army, compared to new people at least.” Mraol responds, knowing last time she visited a town the town was fine.

“Oh.”

“Hey, we damaged it that much, we can defeat it!” Dwath says, holding his scythe ready.

“Mm, remember what I said about ‘fingers?’” Mraol asks, the worry in her voice concerning the others.

“Yeah?” They both ask, looking over.

“Those were the nails of the finger. The rest of the finger is like summons as strong as Dwath.” Mraol says, stepping on the stone she was against. The mist that makes up the clouds above compliments the almost night sky very well.

“Me?”

“Nearly impossible unless its power source is gone, then maybe you stand a small chance.” Mraol says, jumping down.

“Awe, thanks- where are you going?” He asks.

“Testing your theory about getting help!” Mraol says, opening a dark portal below Ran and bringing her with her.

“Eep!” Ran says, seeing the purple scythe coming down. “OH GOD WHAT IS THIS PLAN DEAR GOD IlLUSIONIST HELP.”

“Wait WHAT ARE YOU DOING-” Dwath quickly jumps to the portal but it disappears, him falling flat.

The purple scythe stops in an instant as Illusionist appears, pausing time with light magic and unfreezing the gang. Rams life almost began to flash before her eyes.

“MRAOL WHAT THE HELL.” Ran yells at her before Illusionist gently pushes her.

“Heard you called?” Illusionist says, the childlike god still in his colorful outfit, a light blue hoodie with paint stains all over and his huge paint brush.

“Do I have, like, an express call to gods?” Ran asks, confused why Illusionist showed up.

“Yeah Orbz would kill me if someone even push- oh no.” He says, looking up as Orbz falls through.

“What the hell happened?” All of the powerful orbs are on as he stands in front of Ran.

“Orbz!” Mraol exclaims with joy.

“Hi dad-”

“Big ass thing, I paused time to save Ran.” Illusionist says, scoffing knowing he did not need the help of Orbz.

“You are going away from here.” Dark purple surrounds Ran before she disappears, the paused beast being looked at in its paused motion.

“Hey Orbz, can you help me with this thing?” Mraol asks, her back turned to it.

“Hey wait, why aren’t you asking me?” Illusionist asks, crossing his arms.

“No, not my job to help with these affairs.” Purple begins to cover the same suit that warped Ran.

“Wait, do you not want to help save someone?” Mraol asks, looking at him.

“Not allowed to.” And just like that, gone.

“Hey I can still help-” Illusionist says, looking at her and then to the thing.

“Gods are cheating though.” She says, looking up with her hands to her face.

“And Orbz isn’t?” Illusionist asks, ready to help her.

“Yeah, you are right. Besides, Dwath can’t even harm it.” She says, dropping her hands and looking at Illusionist.

“Oh shit Dwath is here?” Illusionist looks up and unfreezes Dwath.

“Aren’t you like, all knowing? Would you not know that?” She asks him.

“Yeah but like, knowing everything gives a headache, so I only filter the important stuff. Hi Dwath!” Illusionist teleports Dwath over.

“Hi- hey is that still moving?” Dwath asks, looking over to the purple thing.

“Maybe I slowed time?” Illusionist says, checking his spell. “No, it is just doing that. How about that.”

“What do you mean ‘How about that?’” They both ask, staring at him.

“I honestly have no clue what is happening and why it is doing that, that doesn’t scare me anyways, the rest of it however, that is stepping here.” Illusionist says, looking closely at it. “Must be purple.” He mumbles.

“Well, can you help?” Dwath asks, looking at it.

“Uh, I don’t think so, not allowed to.” Illusionist says, looking at his paint book.

“WHO THE FUCK IS SAYING Y’ALL CAN’T HELP?” Mraol finally yells.

“Uh, Gilc, he learned how to read the script and is fixing some problems, you gotta go learn magic.” Illusionist responds, kind of wanting to help her, now for reasons beyond being offended.

“Oh, well I guess who I didn’t want to help is actually the nicest. Thank you Illusionist.” She says, holding out her hand.

“Hey where is Ran?” Dwath asks.

“I would like to help, see you around I guess.” Illusionist says, shaking her hand awkwardly.

“Wait, I do not know how to use my powers reliably, can you help?” She asks him, hoping maybe.

“Is she safe?”

“I can teach you after this-” He looks up to her eyes and sees the genuine change, accepting help from him. “You have all types, you just gotta master your emotions.”

“Thank you.” She says.

“Guys?”

Illusionist hugs her tightly before warping out, time slowly fading back in. The purple scythe slowly picks up speed as Mraol backs up, opening her hand and seeing something, quietly putting it into her pocket.

“Yeah shut up, Orbz took her.” Mraol grabs Dwath and slams him through the portal, the two of them landing on a bed in the town.

Section 3 - 1757 Words, 3.9 Pages

“Oi, off! Taken!” Dwath says, pushing her off him.

“You dummy, we had to go through the portal like that or else I would not have been able to cast it.” She gets off him and looks around, seeing the wood of the building and the warm yellow light. “Well, I guess we are in the town, one way or another.”

“Yeah, let's hope it takes a while. I wonder why it was so fast last time?” He asks, looking at her as he sits.

“I’ll explain to you after we are sure this is a place okay to be.” Mraol opens the door and peaks her head, looking down the hall and not seeing much, but hearing some chatter. “Might be a tavern, come on out.”

“Well I wasn’t going to sit in this bed forever.” He says, getting up and following her.

“You could convince me with those sleep ropes.” She responds, walking down the halls with him before. “Aha, it is! Can you drink? I’ll buy you one.”

“Yeah, I am fine, I don’t often though.” He says, looking around.

“Well, today you are lucky, I need to have a drink with me to see if someone is attempting to drug me, so you get to get a drink too!.” She grabs his hand and pulls him over to the bar, sitting down.

“Hello! Did you come from the rooms? I don’t remember checking you in.” The tender is seen messing with a device under the table, seeming to fix something.

“Yeah, random portal again, thankfully the room was empty!” She says, joking around. “Best I pay for the room for the night, and some drinks to go with it for me and my friend.”

Dwath covers his surprise over how much more joyful she seems here, looking around and seeing the odd devices around. He hears a drink being poured and the cup slide towards him, instinctively grabbing it. The oddest thing for him is the amount of clear mages, despite this being a known world.

“So, come here often?” The tender asks, pouring her drink next.

“Eh, not really, I am being chased by this odd thing that is really set on destroying me, and I seem to be the only one that can harm it.” She says processing the motion behind the table with her purple powers. “Met god though, he was pretty nice.”

“He? Thought god was supposed to be genderless or something.” He says, her magic revealing that he was fixing a control for the light switch.

“Odd spot for a light switch.” She comments, remembering the item in her pocket. “Kind of like a kid, too. But there are others, I thought they are commonly discussed on Spy News?”

“Oh, no access, this is a semi-protected world. Our vast magical enhancement here helped stop the others from coming here. Typically helps mages by giving them the spell they need, and making those who know which spell they need stronger.” He says, realizing she saw through the table. “More than a light switch, it is the party switch. Colorful lighting for fun events and lots of variety instead of the calm brown. How about your friend?”

“Oh him? He is the son of the Grim Reaper.” She says, taking a sip.

“How about that? Well, hope your adventure goes well. It won’t destroy this town, will it?” He asks, concerned for the safety of others.

“Nah, only after me, I am sure it will find a way to only get me. It is smart, knowing who to go for.” She says, leaning back in her seat.

“Well, if you need our help, we will try our best.” He says, putting a glass back. “I have to go serve others, but I hope your night goes great.”

“You too!” She says, then turning to Dwath. “So, how is it?”

“The drink?” He says, coming back in from being zoned out.

“The place, is it different than what you are used to? I imagine you see all sorts of people and places.” She says, looking at the door as someone walks in.

“I mean, Segmentia feels like rubble, Nelchgotoy feels too industrial, the colonies are a bit… cramped. But this place is comforting, and the people here feel so different and unique- I mean different crystal C-Tek or Mechas still exist, but it is different here.” He says, looking at the colorful outfits of each person and the furniture, vines make up the stands for some tables, others use a solid rock, some have games on them.

“In the Lost Worlds people learn to become a bit more expressive, their powers and them adapting to do all sorts of unique things compared to the same things we see on the news. People from here make the best champions. Red powers for example are only a sword and armor meta because Xile uses them.” She says, seeing the man who walked in purple and a reddish pink outfit. “Odd, he has the same vibe as that thing.”

“So, my bones would be more welcome here?” He asks, seeing the unique weapons.

“More than welcome, you would fit in. So would Ran with her orbs.” She responds, looking at the guy closer. “Speaking of the thing, it has been a while since it appeared.”

“Maybe it went on break.” He jokes.

“Wait, it has never attacked me while I was sleeping- maybe it is?” She chuckles, before being immediately startled by the man she was looking at appear in front of her.

“Keep looking at me like that and I’ll think you like me. You have to be a bit more discreet with your looking.” He says, leaning forwards and looking at her, one eye looking to her through her mask and the other covered by shadow.

Dwath chuckles, not commenting.

“Eep, sorry, you just have the same colors as something that's been chasing me. Hard to forget about it.” She says, apologizing and seeing his eye, a beautiful mix of purples with stars, mimicking a night sky.

“Haha, an ex? Not every mage of the same color is the same, though it may be the same emotions.” He says, catching a drink slide from the tender.

“No no, an actual creature! It is huge and hides behind the clouds; I need to tell Dwath about it anyways, so I can share with you too.” She turns around to put her hands on the table.

“Ah, I am interested.” He says, facing the same way.

Dwath looks over, “How hard is it to beat anyways?”

“Ah, so to start, I have not been too sure with my spells. I have mostly been randomly casting and it has worked, and I learned that the convenient one popping up is because of this planet! The thing though, it has been after me for a while~ I would say a few months by now? It started out very slow, only using the hammer and oh god I was scared when a hammer came from nowhere. Green powers kept me by, making shields and healing the heavy damage. If it had not moved so slow at those times I doubt I would be here- especially since it has broken bones!”

“Oh- why has it not done that now?” Dwath asks.

“Well, aside from us dodging well, it was stronger before I started weakening it. Each new spell I showed it also showed a new thing, making it harder and harder. And the one mage who knew about its legacy only told me about how it was a tier 2 Chromatic caster, stuck in Dark powers and all the colors, elements, and such. At first I thought I had an advantage, I have more than that! But when I went to fight it, it clearly had way more.”

“You are cute when you ramble.” The starry eye stranger says, still facing her.

Dwath watches carefully, wondering what he wants.

“Eep, at least you are fine with it.” She says, taking a sip and lowering her mask. “Anyways, it appeared to have a bit more than that, I have seen it use Soul powers and Legendary Magic, and a very small amount of Light, Black, Shadow, White, and Clear.”

“What has it not used?” Dwath asks, the stranger amused.

“Crystal and Void. It has basically doubled in power. Not even I can use Void yet, and crystal rarely comes out.”

“Oh, most people do not have access to the void tree- wait.” Dwath pauses.

Both of them ask the same question, “You have access to the Void tree?”

“What is wrong with that?” She asks.

“Mraol, not even Illusionist can use that.” Dwath says.

“Only Keeper of Duality’s people have that power- Mraol? You can call me Starry.” He says, his eye still in shadow.

“I am not affiliated with him at all- what does that mean?” She asks.

“You have a special power. Be wise, typically that much power consumes somebody.” Starry says, getting up.

“Oh wow- where are you going?” She asks.

“Places to be.” He says, leaving coins on the table before pausing and leaning forwards to her. “Unless you want me elsewhere?”

Dwath hears this and carefully grabs his scythe, casting telekinesis to Mraol tell her to be careful before feeling it swiped away and realizing.

“Maybe your contact information, but nothing tonight, don’t want to abandon my friend.” She says, looking at his lilac colored hair and light skin tone up close to her.

“Shame. You will see me around, trust me, I am something of a… legend.” He backs up and bows, warping out.

“VOID CASTER.” Dwath says, looking to Mraol.

“Huh? Wait, do you think he is like me?” She says, confused.

“Yes- maybe he was looking for other non-keeper of duality casters?” He responds, a bit more excited.

“I guess we will look for him in the morning, let's go get some sleep.” She pulls coins outside of her pouch and waves to the tender, putting down more than enough.

“Hey wait, how many beds is the room?” Dwath asks her.

“Uh, one, we landed on it.” She says, walking him to the room.

“Bone bed.” Dwath summons a number of white bones and grabs a blanket.

“Dwath that cannot be comfortable.” She says, sitting in her bed and lying down.

“You’d be surprised.” He wraps himself in a blanket and uses a bone to turn off the light.

“Eh, well, see you tomorrow.” She responds, unconfident of his comfort.

“Goodnight.”

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Mraol wakes up and stretches, looking over at Dwath, she throws the bone he forgot to desummon from the light at him.

“Oi, what the heck?” He says, annoyed to wake up like that.

“Can’t have you sleep all day, off we go before it gets us.” She says, fixing her bed.

“Oh right.”

“You know, instead of using a bone bed, you could have teleported home or something.” She says, folding her blankets.

“Did you sleep in your armor?” He asks, desummoning the bones and folding his blanket.

“Did you sleep on a row of bones?” She asks back, putting his folded blanket on the bed.

“Right, fair. So let's go outside.” He responds, rubbing his eyes.

“Want to see something cool?” She asks.

“What?”

A portal opens from the center of the room and drags the both of them outside the tavern. One dark claw flips the do not disturb sign to open and leaves as the portal closes.

“Was that you?!” He asks, quick to hold his scythe and surprised.

“No, and here we go again. I think I figured it out.” She responds, looking up at the thing and side stepping the first scythe attack.

“Figured what out?” He asks, looking to her and smacking a bomb away.

“That’s Starry, he is learning the powers from me. Dark, Red, and Purple mage. He learned the other powers from other people.” She says, holding up her shield to block the next attack.

Unexpectedly the thing attacks a different way, slamming its hammer down above Mraol. She hears the sound of the hammer coming and looks up, confused, before being pushed by the bar tended. He seems to smack the hammer away with green fists, his aura manifesting into fist weapons.

“Careful– To be honest I did not know you were actually being chased.” The bartender says, looking around.

“Oh shit, he is fighting for real now. Watch out!” She wipes off the sleepiness off by using water elements, cold watering Dwath as well.

“I’M AWAKE!” He yells, grabbing his scythe.

“You need this.” She says, determined to defeat Starry once and for all and casting red over each of her companions.

“I’ll stop it from harming any of the town.” The bartender says, nodding as she green enchants his clothes as armor and white enchants all of it. The kindness to help the town out.

“See, I spread my powers Dwath!” She jumps up, blue covering her and enhancing her abilities, being enough to beat it.

“I’ll take the summons!” Dwath says, seeing several warriors come down, a mix between dark warriors using electricity and light warriors using fire.

^For me, I will gain enough power to impress the others.^ She warps the top part of it to the open area of before, getting behind a rock and repeatedly using light powers to undo its warp attempts. Several blasts shoot down destroying the rocks, the purple sky being as prominent as ever.

“You think that is a good shot?” She holds her pistol up, aiming directly at the heart of it. Knowing the perfect spot to shoot as the yellow enhanced shots fire.

It yells as it comes down, scaled down quite a bit due to needing to compress itself to reform. A spiked head and a number of legs from the back come out, crawling like a spider towards her.

“You know, the legends of a caster really were what interested me in continuing to learn.” She says, firing consecutive blasts from her pistol. “I looked at you since you looked like the legends.”

It slams a claw into the floor next to her before she jumps up.

“But I didn’t think I would be good enough.”

Its weakened claw turns into a dark vine grabbing at her leg.

“Or if I was doing the right thing.”

Several dark tendrils rush to her spot.

“If I had to get it perfect.”

Seemingly, they miss and she appears behind it.

“If I was really going to be helping others.”

It swiftly turns around and slams a red sword into the floor, becoming smaller in size.

“But I kept trying.”

It recollects its sword and forms into a dark humanoid, wielding a red sword in one hand and a dark wand in the other.

“But I didn’t feel much until I had friends come.”

It slashes at her spot before she slides under and fires a few more shots, hitting its chin.

“And also, I could have beaten you earlier, Starry, back in training days.”

A large purple light glows before she appears in several spots, using Void Magic to remove several sections until it is just him.

“Maybe we could go out!” She says, smiling and looking at him.

He looks up at her, void crystal in his right eye where shadow once was, the void in it fading away. “Really?”

“No- did you not see the purple? Signing up to be a villain is not how you win someone's heart.” She says, looking away from him.

“How did you realize I was from training?” He asks, looking up at her.

“Everyone else here does not use stereotypical stuff, and you were after me only. And when only I could damage you, it was a clear sign of the purple mage I once had, especially when you were nothing like the legends! And when you came as Starry asking if the thing after me was an ex, it was so clear! What was the plan, learn all spell types as that thing and then appear after being gone for like, a year?”

“Still cute when you ramble.” He comments.

“Shut up Starry.” She says, ready to take him to justice using void magic when time seems to slow. “Illusionist I swear to god.”

“One, he is god. Two, wrong god. I will be taking him.” In a moment, Keeper of Duality takes Starry away.

“Damn it.” She takes the item out of her pocket and looks. A note around a crystal. She puts puts the crystal in her C-Tek suit and warps back to the town.

“Mraol!” Dwath cheers, greeting her with excitement.

“Dwath! GET YOUR ASS TO RAN IT HAS BEEN 12 HOURS SHE MUST BE WORRIED YOU DIED!” She yells, startling Dwath.

“Eep- okay, good job! I’ll see you around.” Dwath bows before teleporting with a bone rather than his scythe, smiling.

“How did it go?” Mraol asks, looking at the bartender.

“It went good, they were not too hard with your enhancements.” He responds.

“Oh good, I’m taking a map and then seeing god.” She says, warping to the room.

^Shit, she actually met god.^ He looks up and sees the sky back to its natural state, a mix of all colors of powers.

End

Bonuses

Note:

I do know a lot, like you will open this note when done! Here is a reality crystal, it is equal to my crystal, only a bit different. If you would like to come join me, this should let you warp up to the legendary realm, and you will be recognized as either a demigod, or maybe, a god. -xoxo Illusionist

^Lord why did he do xoxo-^

Extra Scene:

“Ran, do not interact with our plans.” He says, looking to her.

“Our? What do you mean?” She asks, looking up.

“Keeper of Duality, he is bringing some change.” He responds.

“What if someone gets hurt?” She asks, holding a green orb. “No one got hurt, I promise.”

#dcl #my ocs #short story #short stories #fiction #dwath sape #ran aster #mraol chromatic #illusionist keep #the orbz #oc rp #character dialogue

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This was likely from an old meme thing I never finished but enjoy;

1. Who is the most affectionate?

They’re both equally affectionate, but Reaper’s far more physically affectionate

2. Big Spoon/Little Spoon?

Reaper’s Big Spoon while Jysella’s Little Spoon, they just really enjoy cuddling with each other.

3. Most Common Argument?

During Krell’s reign, it’s over who Reaper’s loyalty lies.

After Krell’s reign, Jysella’s need to constantly be active in the Clone Wars, despite having Aryn to worry about too. It’s also over Jysella convincing people she’s casting a spell on them, Reaper knows it’s funny but they have to be professional.

4. Favorite Non-Sexual Activity?

They both tend to watch holofilms when off-duty a lot, and occasionally go planet side when on Coruscant to eat out or something.

5. Who is most likely to carry who?

Defiantly Reaper, since his little Jedi tends to get in more fights than necessary.

6. What is their favorite feature of their partner’s?

Jysella loves Reaper’s sense of humor and the way he smiles when he gets away with something. As well as how his white hair mixes with the black.

Reaper loves Jysella’s fiesty attitude, he hadn’t been expecting the shy little Padawan to be so much trouble. He also loves the way her her tribal tattoos and dark auburn hair contrast with her overall pale complexion and how warm her icy blue eyes.

7. What’s the first thing that changes when they realize they have feelings for each other?

Aside from Reaper being promoted to a commander, nothing much. Their relationship went from close friends to being inolved with each other.

8. Nicknames? & if so, how did they orignate?

Jysella tends to call Reaper “her Commander” or “her Captain” in a way that’s more in line with flirting than professional. As well as calling him Reap, which is an old nickname used by all the Hellions.

Reaper tends to call Jysella by ‘Sella or Ella, which he thinks just sounds nicer for her. He also tends to say her name with his Umbaran accent, which gives a rather pretty twist to it.

9. Who worries the most?

They both do, which comes from the fact they served under Krell.

10. Who remembers what the other one always orders at a restaurant?

Neither, they both aren’t picky at all and order different things every time.

11. Who Tops?

It really depends on who’s in the mood to top.

12. Who initiates kisses?

Both of them. Reaper tends to go for a forehead kiss or lean down to peck Jysella on the cheek or for a quick peck on the lips. Due her height disadvantage, Jysella usually as to pull Reaper down by his collar or pounce on him to kiss him on the cheek or the lips.

13. Who reaches for the other’s hand first?

Reaper, he likes to make sure Jysella isn’t getting herself in trouble or just needs support.

14. Who kisses the hardest?

Depends, but it can and will result in somebody ending up against the wall or a piece of furniture, or escalate into something else.

15. Who wakes up first?

Reaper, he has an internal clock so sleeping in isn’t much use.

16. Who wants to stay in bed a little longer?

Both, although it depends on the night/day. Reaper rather just stay in bed and cuddle with Jysella (and Aryn if she’s having issues sleeping) instead of having to deal with another long day.

Jysella usually wants to stay in bed after long missions or days where she has meetings with the Jedi Council, plus Reaper’s warm and Aryn’s using her mama as a pillow.

17. Who says “I love you” first?

Reaper, he just kinda blurted it out during a stressful situation.

18. Who leaves little notes in the other’s lunch? (Bonus: What does it usually say?)

Neither.

19. Who tells their family/friends about their relationship?

It’s balantly obvious to all the Hellions and Captain Maze. Jysella ends up telling Arligan Zey after Aryn’s born.

20. What do their friends/family think of the relationship?

The Hellions and Jysella’s “Jedi” family of sorts all support it, even if Zey’s a bit worried about the consequences if the Council finds out.

21. Who is more likely to start dancing with the other?

Jysella, simply because she loves catching him offguard.

22. Who cooks more/who is better at cooking?

Jysella tends to cook more and is a better cook than Reaper, who’s perfectly happy with rations.

23. Who comes up with cheesy pick-up lines?

Defiantly Reaper, he has a very playful sense of humor and loves making Jysella laugh.

24. Who whispers inppropriate things into the other’s ear during inapproriate times?

They both do it, just to see how far they can push each other or embarrass each other, Reaper usually wins, mostly due to his helmet.

25. Who needs the most reassurance?

They both do. They served under Krell and that alone had a lasting effect on both.

26. What could be their theme song?

Parachute by Cheryl Cole

27. Who would sing their child back to sleep?

Both would actually, but Aryn and the twins are picky on who.

28. What do they do when they’re away from each other?

Continue on with work as normal, unless it’s one of the AUs where Reaper’s recondtioned.

If it’s during an active battlefield, then they’ll worry about each other.

29. One headcanon about this OPT that breaks your heart

In some AUs, Reaper ends up being reconditioned, which results in him forgetting everything, including Jysella. Or other AUs, Reaper ends up widowed (apparently).

30. One headcanon about this OPT that mends it

Regardless of the AUs, the two always have a happy ending with their kids.

#reaper/Jysella aru #TCW era ocs #naaklasolus’s random thing

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This is what our son would look like and he's ripped and a little bit more bulky but he's giant okay this is a giant what they look like and he's not really trying too hard he wouldn't have to use all the drinks the mixes and the pure protein and The elixir and the bain formula all that's not necessary, he would be the science just on the diet he's having now but a lot more of it and it wouldn't be have to be that much different just healthier portions and maybe less canned stuff it's not too good for you. His arms would be a little bit larger and more rounded and forearms and his legs will be your little Buck here and torso probably add about an inch to all of it and that's his normal size of this height. Probably since 2 in to the the torso and the last the traps a little small but other than that it's pretty close and of course the deltoids would be here not much for you triceps that is. My son is correct though here he's going to look like the other the other version no this particular version but the one you see in the movie almost exactly because he's kind of like eating this weird stuff a little to be kind of flabby he's doing it on purpose and he kind of has to because of what's down here at this time it's going to go away shortly all the poop and radiation is going to go away and he'll look more like this. This is him more or less it's only about 10 ft it's not much bigger than Lou ferrigno at full heights is 9 ft 9 and he was only that height as Louis here and there are pictures of him when he's gargantuan and people cannot believe it. This one pic like this where he's more or less going to look like his brother but really he won't he can walk around normally and lift only regular stuff and he'll look like the Juggernaut from the movie and he'll have both it's real muscle and you start trouble you'll be in trouble one punch from him would be deadly to any human except another giant or someone who's Giant form which is difficult even in giant form most Giants who do that are only about half as strong as they look and right here he's twice as strong as he looks he looks very very strong at the bench he'll probably bench about 8,000 lb in this physique and as a regular juggernauts 4,000 lb and squat probably 8,000 as the movie version and this version about 16,000 it really it's it's quite a bit different if you're in shape better but the oxygen might be here I don't think it's going to get that big anytime soon

There's a lot of lipoma but the empty out of the chemical so it's hard to say and he's only nearing the 8-year mark I believe 7 and 1/2 years when 10 years is how long can last and we did tests and we have samples and when it seemed lipoma of a living person that the fat is not sitting there it's leaving and it's coming and going and flowing in different chemicals come in and salt is when it rots the medicine he's on a lot of salt so we have someone who's doing almost the same diet and we estimated 8 years and they're in trouble too and sick a little bit more than he is but we have stuff in vitro that's underground the same chemicals and it says 8 years so still another six or seven months next year really. He's a very big boy we're big and we're trying but we look more like Colossus and a little bit beefier and we did beef up ourselves but he's actually not gone with her because it's it's not hard to do but he went ahead and added some things for protection and so where we're wondering why this im taking the job seriously. So wonderful boy and she's a wonderful girl and a love life and have a good time usually and you guys are big downers.

And there's a an issue that when you grow to a different size Giant you dwarf the prior sizes and his full size he'll be five times the mass of this size and about 20% more dense it's just the way it is and that's full size and full strength and full power and we don't want to see in that picture you won't be able to go anywhere it's too huge feel to call the cops all the time

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Hi! If you will have any inspiration about this

What do you think would be little things that brothers would bring you as courting you? As like birds or penguins with rocks and sticks?

Thank you 💜

sjdaj this was fun! i did have an image of lucifer bringing feathers as a meme in my mind for a sec

what the brothers bring you while courting you/wanting to impress you:

Lucifer:

He is what many would consider to be a classic idea of a man. Tall, dark, handsome with refined taste. Because of this he tries to be refined in what he brings you as well. Why should you two not share such traits?

Lucifer because of this relies on the extravagant, classic choices. Most of all – jewelry.

Rings, necklaces, bracelets – everything he sees while out on an errand that catches his eye.

He also tries to match some items with you. He has a golden pen, why shouldn’t you have one as well?

However, one thing that gets in his way is that: no matter how strong his impulse to buy or obtain rare jewels is – he cannot always give them to you.

He overthinks it.

‘if I give them two rings two weeks in a row, would that be too much? Would they then spend money to buy an outfit that matches it? Would the gifts lose their meaning if I don’t space them out? If I continue to give them so many gifts, they would feel responsible to return them so they would spend more money on me and we both know that I am the one who has more money so--’

All these thoughts come to him. Sometimes Lucifer even thinks that your pride would be hurt if he gives you jewels so often.

He tries not to go overboard but he knows that there is a whole desk drawer of little boxes just waiting for the right time to go to you.

Mammon:

No matter how much Mammon may chase gold and sparkles – he is no Lucifer and there is no way that he can just rely on jewels.

Sure, on very special occasions he manages to surprise you with them and that does make it more meaningful.

Mammon puts aside everything else and actually gets a job whenever your birthday is close.

So what else could be bring you?

He is well aware of how birds bring branches or rocks – how sometimes they even spend so much time flying high above and continuously dropping walnuts for others on the road until they crack. His approach is similar.

When you have issues or need to open something – he always offers himself.

It is a bit silly but being there for someone counts.

Besides this – every trinket that he sees somehow ends up in your room

Plushies, fun masks, nail polish that matches his, a leaf that fell in his hair while he was sleeping under a tree and dreamt of you.

He also brings postcards, magazines, photos you might enjoy.

Once he brought you a heart shaped stone and bragged about how his keen eye managed to observe it in the clean river!

Something in every corner of your room will be adjacent to him.

“What if I brought you branches?” “What?” “Nothing!”

He just wanted to ask!

Leviathan:

Lucifer is impulsive in buying just one thing, Levi, however, is impulsive all around.

And that impulsivity goes in many directions.

He is able to use and calculate all his Akuzon points to make sure that you get 10 products instead of just 1.

He takes it very, very seriously.

Sometimes he buys you way too many snacks, other times he orders 5 costumes

Often his courting relies on the thought; what if we shared this!

His mind says that the more you have in common the better match you are.

This is why he brings matching keychains or slippers or even computer backgrounds and mousepads.

He still knows that ‘matching’ does not fully count but it really warms his heart when he sees that you are willing to share and indulge in those small things that would not really matter to others.

It gives him a confidence boost and reassures him that you are in fact open to him.

However, something still has to be yours alone.

Yours alone, from his hands and he needs to make sure of that.

Levi does bring you pearls like penguins do.

And he did in fact spend a long time underwater making sure he brings the best ones.

Just... never show him the video that trended of a female penguin cheating on her partner in the human world.

Satan:

Satan, no matter how much he tries to deny it, is in many ways similar to Lucifer.

He might dress the way he does but he tries to be a classic gentleman in this regard.

He does bring jewelry too – however he never brings it without a deeper, more profound reason.

‘so what if this ring is rare? What does it matter to them? Nothing.’

He has to hear you say it is very pretty to give it to you.

The necklace needs to remind him of your eyes or he is not buying it at all.

Because of this – he is very picky so few gifts are of this nature.

What else does he bring?

Satan writes you notes all the time.

Sometimes they are there to remind you of water or meals, other times they are short quotes.

In fact, he brings you annotated books; lines that remind him of you; quotes of feelings he knows thanks to you.

He brings you parts of himself and looks for parts of you in everything.

This is his idea of courting.

And don’t be surprised to get letters (wax made by him) under your door even if you live close by.

Asmodeus:

Unlike the others, Asmo has no problems with giving you whatever his own impulse says to.

Why should he hide these 2 perfumes that he bought thinking of you and wait for 3 weeks to present them to you?

No, do it right then and there because your heart felt the love or do not do it at all!

Because of this, his impulse costs a lot. Only second to Lucifer.

Asmo wants to give you luxurious things but he knows that jewelry alone can get boring rather fast and is limited by time and fashion and practicality etc.

So he gives you luxury in everything.

New lines of fragrance are yours as well as his, new skin care products that few humans can buy just show up at your door.

Does he also give you framed photos of him? Yes

Does he give you best silk? Also yes.

Why should the two of you not enjoy these things? You deserve it after all.

Still, Asmo is very sentimental too.

He gifts you photo albums of things that make him feel so. Memories of trips and walks; of sleepovers and quiet nights as well.

Yes, luxury is there but this small pretty pen is cheap and has hearts on it! He simply has to give it to you!

Beelzebub:

Beelzebub knows the ‘proper’, ‘correct’ or expected ways to court someone.

He knows what gifts others give and why.

But, all of that seems slightly...like vanity or showing off to him.

It just wouldn’t feel right to give you a framed work of art or color stones that glimmer if it does not really awake something.

His gifts are as gentle as him.

Yes, food is the most obvious choice but he really does worry if you are eating well because humans are fragile.

Flowers that he sees in shops or on walks.

While once walking with Luke he saw some and said how pretty they would look on you. Luke taught him to make flower crowns for that reason.

Most of his gifts are handmade.

He wants to help you on his own no matter what.

The most consistent gifts however are those that you said you needed.

Doesn’t matter when you said it or how, maybe it was just a passing thought, but he remembers and he gets them for you.

Belphegor:

it wouldn’t be wrong to say that he manages to mix up all of these ways and refuses to settle down on just one type.

This is because he is similar to Beel.

Beel gives you thinks you said you needed; Belphie gives you those you did not even notice.

He is constantly observing you and being as smart as he is – nothing escapes him.

You don’t have to complain how you grew bored of your boots or how annoying those headphones are.

He just notices it and gives you new ones.

Sometimes he looks at you during a party in Diavolo’s castle and things that a necklace is missing and would actually be useful in the future as well; so, he buys it.

Books for assignments you are not aware you will need next year find their way to your table. Yes, it is a year but he is a published Devildom scholar so trust him with this.

Paintings, matching rings with stars, a keychain of some small alien from a human TV show etc.

He treads the lines of outlandish with luxury and simple.

Seeing you surprised no matter what because you never mentioned these things always brings him joy.

a/n: how tf do you spell jewelry is it this or jewellery or i hate his word pls

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