#alan oc tournament

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Mad Scientist Bracket Final Round

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Not sure if this has been asked before, but I'm curious; would Glyndwr and/or Alan mend Caladbolg? Would either of them *want* to?

(inspired by: I just finished HoT for the first time, and the Caladbolg quest. I accidentally crafted a whole narrative for my commander about that, then started wondering what you and your wife's OCs might do)

Hope you're having a good one! :D

ANSWERING THIS ONE BILLION YEARS LATE. HI

so actually, this quest goes to merrit + lorelei!! it's something that runs really deep for them, since the caladbolg quests in the personal story are what originally fractured their relationship.

in our canon, rather than there being one herald of the pale tree who then also gets the caladbolg quest, the sylvari reps of the three orders put on a tournament to find an adventurer to recover the sword. lorelei is desperate to do it, bc they've always been jealous and self-conscious abt not having a wyld hunt, and they want adventure; merrit is desperate to do it, bc they've been undercover for two years at this point with increasingly diminishing returns and if they don't make a massive accomplishment soon their nmc spymaster is going to lose patience entirely and just turbomurder them. so they make a pact to win the tourney as a tie and go on the adventure together, and they do... and on the way back merrit is supposed to steal caladbolg from lorelei and take it back to the court, and he can't bring himself to do it, and he spills everything about being a nightmare courtier to lorelei and there is a lot of explosive screaming and weeping and "GET OUT OF MY SIGHT OR IT'S AN ARROW IN YOUR NECK" and -- well i've told this part of it a lot before but you get the idea.

ANYWAY. by HoT they've made up, but obviously a lot of guilt about this is still festering very very deep in merrit. i think she would probably consider it Lorelei's Quest, and that she's just coming along to help as a form of atonement; at the end, when they have recovered caladbolg for the second time, i think it would be difficult to even convince her to show up to the omphalos chamber with lorelei to see the pale tree. but lorelei insists, and when they're there, the pale tree makes the blade branch into two parts, splits it, and gives one to lorelei and one to merrit.

idk if this really makes merrit feel forgiven. idk if anything ever will. but it's a lot.

[geoxstxrs]

【☆】INTRO ★ POST【☆】

Heyyy! I'm Geo (also go by Star, but that's up to you)

multifandom but REALLLY hyperfixated on ninjago. Other fandoms include:

-ROTTMNT

-ATLA / TLOK

-Monkie Kid

-Beyblade burst

-Sonic

-MCU

-etc.

My favorite ninja is currently Jay <3 I LOVE HIM SM!!! Seabound and Tournament of elements are my favorite seasons bc I LOVE worldbuilding and especially side characters!!

I go by He/Him pronouns and also Bi and aro/ace! ADHD with a hint of Autism and Anxiety, also a minor so....👍🏾 I'm also interested in sharks and aquatic animals / ecosystems (kind of a science nerd)

TAGS:

ART TAG: #geo draws

YAPPING: #geo drabbles

OC'S:

-#Oc: Alan

-#Oc: Sol

-#Oc: Axon

(Dni if you ship Lloyd w/ other ninja or DR kids, it's weird and uncomfy..)

KINS (bc I feel like it):

-Jay (Ninjago)

-Arin (Ninjago)

-Sonic (Sonic prime)

-Leo (ROTTMNT)

-Benny (The Lego Movie)

-Sokka (ATLA)

-Valt Aoi (Beyblade Burst)

-MK (Monkie Kid)

-Wukong (Monkie kid)

-Dante (Beyblade burst Rise)

~ 【☆】★【☆】 【☆】★【☆】 【☆】★【☆】 【☆】★【☆】 ~

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Fandom song animatic tournament: Bracket 1 Side A Round 3

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - Set it Off

"So could you Tell me how you're sleeping easy? How you're only thinking of yourself? Show me how you justify Telling all your lies like second nature Listen, mark my words, one day (one day) You will pay, you will pay Karma's gonna come collect your debt"

Ready as I'll ever be - Tangled the series

"Now it's time to step up or it's time to back down And there's only one answer for me And I'll stand up and fight 'cause I know that I'm right And I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready Ready as I'll ever be"

Remember that we're voting on how Iconic they are for ANIMATICS, not for the song itself. In order to make things fair, the tone and mood of the song should not affect how iconic it is (for example, a serious song should not be considered more iconic than a joke song just because it's serious)

Propaganda and animatic links of the songs under the cut:

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - Set it Off

Propaganda:

I was appalled when I found out this song had a chance if not appearing on the polls. This song is my everything. It was there for me in my darkest moments and for my brightest days. This song and all it's animatics got me through life both metaphorically and literally. This song is my everything

wolf in sheeps clothing turned me evil as a young child /pos

This had SUCH an effect on me in middle school

The anthem for edgy middle schoolers with tragic OCs everywhere Not to mention that "Burn. In. HELLLLLLLLLL YEAAHHHHH!" Is just downright iconic

Admittedly I still want to make an animatic for this myself, but it's a fun song that just OOZES villainous or anti-hero charm and popping up unexpectedly and the bridge???? Shifting from darker to hopeful only to drop back down?? "Start all over, start all over-- who am I kidding, let's not get overzealous here! You've always been a huge piece of shit" is just. mwah. incredible. And there's an official acoustic version of it too which I don't know if it's used as often but it has an entirely different vibe. Instead of the cocky or confident singer who has their target EXACTLY where they want them, it's someone who's given up and is tired of all of it. There's Options. it's fantastic.

Animatics with the song:

DSMP Technoblade animatic

Yandere Highschool

Your Turn To Die

Miraculous Ladybug

Scum Villain Self Serving System

Ready as I'll ever be - Tangled the series

Propaganda:

I can list at least three full animatics for this song for every major fandom I have ever been a part of, and still it's so hard to find them because there are so goddamn many

It's an absolute banger from the absolute King Alan Menken, originally from the pretty underrated Tangled the Series. I've seen animatics for this for like every fandom I can think of, and it deserves it because it slaps and has great vocal performances from Jeremy Jordan and Eden Espinosa.

i'm pretty sure this song is more well known than the show it came from is lol. i looked up "ready as i'll ever be animatic" on youtube just to confirm and counted 20+ of them, and i didn't even finish scrolling. it is a genuinely really good song from a /surprisingly/ good show that imo is super underrated. i definitely would recommend checking it out if you get the opportunity!

it's a fandom song that transcended its fandom and became a hit for twist villains.

The song really fosters creativity with how many animatics can create a darker AU where the usual protagonist (or a close associate) is made to be the antagonist because of injustice suffered and the other characters have to fight against them

I've seen *at least* one animatic of this song in almost every fandom I've looked into

It has a lot of Animaniacs because it is sung by an ensemble cast It is good for demonstrating a lot of different conflicting perspectives of characters for your big dramatic fight and its catchy and I love it

I mean everyone loves a scenario where one of the main cast becomes a villain for tragic reasons and the rest of the characters have to fight them while dealing with the betrayal and attempting to make them see reason

How in the actual hell does a song from a Tangled spinoff series go this spectacularly hard? More to the point, how does it have an animatic/AMV for practically EVERY FANDOM IN EXISTENCE?! Yeah, most people know it from that one Warrior Cats MAP, but there is SO much more. Not to mention the bucketloads of people who used this song for their own OCs, which is always a bonus.

Animatics with the song:

Star Vs The Forces Of Evil

Miraculous Ladybug

Sander Sides

Danganronpa V3 fantasy AU

BNHA Villain Deku Animatic

DSMP

Please be cautious and read the title, description and warning cards on the animatic videos if you decide to watch them. If you've got specific triggers I'd recommend even more caution when watching animatics of fandoms you don't know, since sometimes canon-typical themes don't get warnings.

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AvA Fandom - Get to Know You Meme Thing

Favourite character: My fave character is King; dad-shaped former villains are my jam.

Favourite relationship (platonic or romantic)?: Chodarking, I feel like King balances out Chosen and Dark and makes a good middle ground for them.

Favourite episode: The King. No surprises here, I’m sure. I really do think this episode is the pinnacle of Alan and his team’s work so far and it will be very difficult to top.

Favourite actual short: I said it was “Cherry Blossoms” but now I’m not so sure it’s not “Corn Dog Guy”.

Something you’d like to see in the series: King again. Lol, aside from that I am both hoping for and dreading more world building and exploration as to how the world works.

Any interesting headcanons: I am absolutely a believer that fighting is natural to most stick figures and fighting tournaments are a pretty regular form of entertainment.

Any OCs (Original Characters): Mint and Royal, two kids designed by Dark, both generally considered failures: neither exhibited the powers Dark designed for them, though it turned out that Royal was a late bloomer who came into his powers after Dark abandoned him and Mint had one power - they are unkillable.

Aqua, a childhood friend of Gold’s, a normal stick with a normal life. Works in a convenience store. Very kind and the voice of reason in her friend group - most of the time anyway. May or may not have been dating Gold before he died.

Any AUs (Alternate Universes): Gosh, so many. Not gonna list ‘em all, but here is the first one that came to mind: Hermit!King, in which Gold is the equivalent of a Minecraft YouTuber whose world gets corrupted on stream with King present and playing with him. Gold disappears, King is damaged and goes into Minecraft to find his son.

Something I forgot that you might want to talk about: I forgor…

And the blank template!

Favourite character:

Favourite relationship (platonic or romantic):

Favourite episode:

Favourite actual short:

Something you’d like to see in the series:

Any interesting headcanons:

Any OCs:

Any AUs:

Something I forgot that you might want to talk about:

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Legacyverse: Olivia - General Miss Demeanor

Guess who's back at it again with them perfect leitmotif beats? This dumb bish, that's who!

So, a lil birdie told me that Olivia was in an OC Tournament hosted by @original-character-championship, so I thought I'd show my support by making her a new playlist, full of swagger, full of attitude, full of crushing on that quiet boy with the stupid haircut who's too cute for his own good.

Anyways, please do enjoy this contribution, especially @weekend-whip & @k1ngtok1 :D

4ever - The Veronicas

About Damn Time - Lizzo

Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz

Built For This - Becky G

Darkside - Alan Walker ft. Au/Ra & Tomine Harket

Don't Cha - The Pussycat Dolls ft. Busta Rhymes

Greedy - Ariana Grande

Goddess - NERVO & Krewella ft. Raja Kumari

HIP - MAMAMOO

How You Like That - BLACKPINK

How You Love Me - 3LAU ft. Bright Lights

I Am the Best - 2NE1

MAMIII - Becky G & KAROL G

Me Too - Meghan Trainor

Moment 4 Life - Nicki Minaj ft. Drake

Savage (Remix) - Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé

Sledgehammer - Fifth Harmony

Va Va Voom - Nicki Minaj

Whine Up - Kat DeLuna ft. Elephant Man

Worship - Lizzo

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If Simon loses, I'm making an Alan OC tournament poll

[soc-characters-as-songs]

oc characters as romantic comedies?

ivy: return to me ("heartbroken and struggling emotionally after his wife's death in a car accident, bob rueland (david duchovny) agrees to go on a blind date set up by his friend Charlie (david alan grier). though the date fizzles, sparks fly between bob and the waitress, grace (minnie driver), a recovered heart transplant patient with intimacy problems of her own. when bob discovers grace's heart came from his own organ donor wife, an unusual romance blossoms between the two.")

meredith: sabrina ("sabrina fairchild (julia ormond) is a chauffeur's daughter who grew up with the wealthy larrabee family. she always had unreciprocated feelings for david (greg kinnear), the family's younger son and playboy. but after returning from paris, sabrina has become a glamorous woman who gets david's attention. his older, work-minded brother linus (harrison ford) thinks their courtship is bad for the family business and tries to break them up -- but then he starts to fall for her too.")

diana: life partners ("a 29-year-old lawyer (gillian jacobs) and her lesbian best friend (leighton meester) experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.")

alassie: the wedding singer ("set in 1985, adam sandler plays a nice guy with a broken heart who's stuck in one of the most romantic jobs in the world, a wedding singer. he loses all hope when he is abandoned at the altar by his fiancé. he meets a young woman named julia (drew barrymore), who enlists his help to plan her wedding. he falls in love with her and must win her over before she gets married.")

ramona: under the tuscan sun ("when frances mayes (diane lane) learns her husband is cheating on her from a writer whom she gave a bad review, her life is turned upside down. in an attempt to bring her out of a deep depression, her best friend, patti (sandra oh), encourages frances to take a tour of italy. during the trip, the new divorcée impulsively decides to purchase a rural tuscan villa and struggles to start her life anew amid colorful local characters, including the handsome marcello (raoul bova).")

rhea: music and lyrics ("former music superstar alex fletcher (hugh grant) used to pack them in back in the 1980s, but now he is reduced to playing nostalgia tours and county fairs. he scores a chance at a major comeback when reigning pop diva cora corman (haley bennett) asks him to write a song for her, but he hasn't written anything in years and cannot compose lyrics anyway. noticing that sophie (drew barrymore), the plant lady, has a way with words, alex proposes that he and sophie make beautiful music together.")

cornelia: man up ("when a man (simon pegg) mistakes her for his blind date, a woman (lake bell) decides to play along to see what happens.")

kaden: my big fat greek wedding ("everyone in the portokalos family worries about toula (nia vardalos). still unmarried at 30 years old, she works at dancing zorba's, the greek restaurant owned by her parents, gus (michael constantine) and maria (lainie kazan). after taking a job at her aunt's travel agency, she falls in love with ian miller (john corbett), a teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not greek. toula isn't sure which will be more upsetting to her father, that ian is a foreigner or that he's a vegetarian.")

andreia: wimbledon ("frustrated at his own failures and disillusioned with professional sports, tennis player peter colt (paul bettany) resolves to retire from competition and become an instructor at an exclusive private club. but when colt receives a surprise wild-card berth in wimbledon, he can't help but enter the tournament. soon, colt meets lizzie bradbury (kirsten dunst), a beautiful american tennis player with an upcoming match of her own, and finds the inspiration he hopes will turn his luck around.")

suzy: you've got mail ("struggling boutique bookseller kathleen kelly (meg ryan) hates joe fox (tom hanks), the owner of a corporate foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. when they meet online, however, they begin an intense and anonymous Internet romance, oblivious of each other's true identity. eventually joe learns that the enchanting woman he's involved with is actually his business rival. he must now struggle to reconcile his real-life dislike for her with the cyber love he's come to feel.")

samuel: 10 things I hate about you ("kat stratford (julia stiles) is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. unfortunately for her younger sister, bianca (larisa oleynik), house rules say that she can't date until kat has a boyfriend, so strings are pulled to set the dour damsel up for a romance. soon kat crosses paths with handsome new arrival patrick verona (heath ledger). will kat let her guard down enough to fall for the effortlessly charming Patrick?")

bianca: 13 going on 30 ("a girl who's sick of the social strictures of junior high is transformed into a grownup overnight. In this feel-good fairy tale, teenager jenna (christa b. allen) wants a boyfriend, and when she's unable to find one, she fantasizes about being a well-adjusted adult. suddenly, her secret desire becomes a reality, and she is transformed into a 30-year-old (jennifer garner). but adulthood, with its own set of male-female challenges, isn't as easy as it looks.")

archibald: sleeping with other people ("twelve years after a one-night stand, a man (jason sudeikis) and a woman (alison brie) run into each other and try to maintain a platonic relationship despite their mutual attraction.")

raphael: bride and prejudice ("with four beautiful daughters of marrying age, manorama (nadira babbar) and chaman bakshi (anupam kher) frantically seek out the perfect husbands for their children. yet their eldest daughter, lalita (aishwarya rai), is intent upon marrying at her own choosing, for love. lalita endures a number of hopeful suitors, but the american william darcy (martin henderson) seems different -- and not always in a good way. misunderstandings, schemes and lies threaten to keep the two from true love.")

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

Speaking of Cards, Hamefura Yu-Gi-Oh AU

So, here's the deal: Back in the Days, Konami (Cursed be their name), actually DID, for real, make a Harem/Otome based Yu-Gi-Oh game, in the Form of the Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force series, each set in a different Yu-Gi-Oh series.

So, all we need to do, is adapt that into thr context of Hamefura.

So, we have 3 strata of AU here:

1) First Strata, Yu-Gi-Oh: Fortune Lover, the Anime Series. Geordo is the Main Character (Warrior based Deck), Alan the Main Rival (Sea Serpent based Deck), Mary the Female Character treated awfuly by the Plot (Plant based Deck), Sophia doesn't duel, Nicol is the Best Friend (Winged Beasts based deck), Keith is the Rival Turned Friend (Rock Based deck). Sirius Dieke (Demon Based Deck, specifically Archfiends) is the main villain of the series but is actually being, like, controlled from the shadows by a bigger villain from next season, and gets redeemed by the power of friendship in the end.

(This is using a Duel Academy setting ALA GX, we could almost pinpoint it as a future sequel to that too).

In the Anime, Katarina isn't even a rival or a villain, she's the joke villain, the clingy female character with a subpar deck that shows up to annoy watchers and the main characters with her antics. She is ridiculed, disgraced, traumatized and mocked by the narrative and the plot, with a awful personality to boot.

2) Second Strata, Yu-Gi-Oh: Tag Force 7: Fortune Lover. For the first time in any Tag Force Game, you can FINALLY make a female character. Your OC, whose default female name is Maria Campbell, is like in any other Tag Force Game introduced in the middle of the series, there to choose a tag team partner, raise hearts with them as you follow their route and then finish said route after it reaches 8 hearts, fighting against other tag team enemies, either other OCs created specifically for the game or recurring characters from the anime.

You can Tag Team with everyone from the anime but Katarina. Sophia gained a in-game only fairy deck (Like Thea did in most other Yu-Gi-Oh games) just for that, and their routes have been greatly more romanticized (but only if your OC is the opposite sex, because Konami is a heteronormative prick), even compared to the already pretty romantic routes the other tag forge games had (Like, those games were really trying to sell your "bond" with the characters). Katarina is the first boss of most routes and is then promptly forgotten by the route, to die, off screen, during each Heart 6 Event, as a Victim of Sirius' Evil Plan alongside most other in game OCs.

Katarina's deck in Anime is BAD. She uses scummy tactics and lacks any real consistency or theme, and uses typical noob trap cards. Her tag team partners in most other routes are random OCs, where she always blames them for losing the game after their loss to the MC on the first heart event, with your tag team partner commenting on how weak their "bond" are compared to yours. They then "break up" and she remains partnerless till, again, her "death."

3) Third Strata, the one we see in the AU proper, is the one where Katarina grts reincarnated as Katarina. She ends up becoming Maria's tag partner, and she doesn't understand how or why since she shouldn't be possible to be tag teamed, and together they finish the game, deepening their "bond," as all the other tag team partners look at them in awe and some mild jealousy.

Maria's deck is based on the first deck you get in the game, and that deck is a Lightsworn deck.

Katarina, since she's filthy rich now so she can get all the cards she wants for once, now has a wild variety of decks for each heart event/fight. All her decks, however, contain Divine Serpent Geh as a signature card after she saw Geord disconfort over Venom cards, but not wanting to overcommit to the archetype. The fact she's using the signature monster of the villain of the original Orichalcos ark is missed by her by a long margin.

At 4 hearts bond (which she can't see since this is not a gane, but if the events and duels are summing up right she's getting close to it), Maria's partner will usually offer her the ability to fix up their deck (aside from chosen signature cards), to symbolize how much they trust them now, so she's wondering who will give Maria their decks now that she's stubbornly teaming up with her (Mary seemed present in most of the events till now fighting against them to "break" their bond, maybe she's the one who wants to team up with Maria, Katarina wonders, as dense as a brick wall)... except then Maria offers her to be able to fix HER deck instead, as do all other characters as soon as they hear this, and she's amazed and stunned by this because, the dense brick wall she is wonders: WHY ARE THEY ASKING HER THIS AND NOT MARIA?

As a side note, Sophia, for some reason, is also using a hyper competitive tournament deck rather than the bog standard Fairy one she had in the game. Maria doesn't understand why the sudden change.

Will Katarina survive her 6 heart event now that she's teaming up with Maria?

And will she survive the Yu Gi Oh curse on its female characters alongside Maria and the newly revalued Mary and Sophia, finally important to the plot? Or will Konami be sexist dicks once again?

And will their new hairs be as crazy as a standard Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist's?

[tsarisfanfiction]

Please can I ask E, L, O and Z from the writer asks list.

Of course you can!  I’m always up for answering things :D

E. Have you ever written a crossover?

Yup!  I’ve written a handful of them actually, from my first and only bashing fic Vampire vs Shinobi (Twilight and Naruto - I have always hated Twilight) which ngl is only still up on my accounts because it’s something I’ve written and if I prune fics to only be the ones I’m currently proud of... many fics would not stay up very long.  My second-biggest fic, both in terms of wordcount and popularity, it also a crossover.  The Combat School was my twist on the super common 2012 trope “the exorcists from the manga D.Gray-Man take part in the Triwizard Tournament”, and was my first 100k word fic and I think still ranks highly if you look at Harry Potter/DGM crossovers on FFN by reviews/favourites/followers.  I think at one point it was as high as 4th but I doubt it’s that high any more.  Slightly sneaky is my TAG/Fight Rising crossover Stolen Shadows, because strictly speaking you could just call it a dragon!AU for TAG, but they’re based on the fandragons I’ve got for the Tracy boys+Thunderbirds on the site and FR does have its own category on AO3 and FFN.

I think those are my only published ones, but I do enjoy prodding at ‘what if these two ‘verses collided’ in my head so there are a few others floating around that’ll probably never be actually written, but they’re fun to play with.

L. What is your favourite fic idea that you don’t think you’ll ever write?

Oh boy, this one’s tough.  I usually try to write everything I think is worth anything, but some of them are just huge, so whether or not they’ll happen is another matter entirely.  Because I’m really bored I’ll talk about all the current ‘huge and too ambitious to probably ever finish’ ideas.  If they do end up one day happening, ah well, you heard them here first :P

Love Makes Fools (One Piece) - A retelling of the Wano Arc (most likely to be scrapped because the daydreaming I call planning happened long before the arc started so none of it is anything like how Oda’s actually shown) that’s actually a shipping fic, unusually for me.  Shachi saves Kid’s life and Kid falls in love with him, leaving Shachi to handle the Kid Pirates while the StrawHeart alliance are off doing their usual crazy shenanigans and winding Kaido up.

Fight Against the Tide (Boku no Hero Academia) - A retelling of the entire manga except it’s not Izuku that’s Quirkless, but Bakugo, and unlike Izuku, Bakugo is determined to make it on his own and turns down the offer of One for All (but still manipulates All Might into training him).  Lots of Bakugo and Mei chaos as she gives him the support gear he needs to keep up without a Quirk.

If They Never Were (One Piece) - A retelling of the entirety of One Piece (ahahah) except if Luffy never met Shanks and therefore a) never wanted to be a pirate and b) never ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi.  Follows Luffy’s adventures in the Marines, and explores what would have happened to the rest of the Straw Hats if they never met Luffy - or at least, never met pirate!Luffy.  I actually have a cast of OCs ready to go for this but this project is so ludicrously big I doubt it’ll ever be finished.

TAGxPJO thing - The Greek Gods foresaw the creation of IR and agreed with it, but there was one problem: the Tracy family are all suited to the sky, but most of the Earth is covered in water.  Cue Gordon Tracy, son of Lucille Tracy and... Poseidon!  The Tracys all know about demigods and gods and stuff but still consider Gordon their full brother, and to keep the monsters away from the powerful young demigod they ended up on the island where Poseidon could protect them (and a promise from Zeus that he won’t blast Thunderbirds out of the sky for having a son of Poseidon in them).  Chiron’s going crazy knowing there’s a demigod out there somewhere that he can’t find and train.

TAGxDCMK thing - Okay, so this one is probably my absolute favourite.  Scott sees something on a rescue that the Black Org didn’t want him to, so he got APTX’d, and TB1 got stolen.  Conan and Haibara take him in and hide him from the world (including his own family) and he joins the fight to take down the BO.  Meanwhile, the Tracys are going crazy looking for Scott.  In this AU no-one knows who IR really are, so Conan and co. don’t know Scott’s real name.  However, the Tracys are still a rich family so they’ve rubbed shoulders with the Kudos before and Scott’s met Shinichi as a kid and realises who he is.  At some point they end up going to Tracy Island?  idk, not sure where it would go after that.  And KID is involved because you can’t not involve KID.

O. Is there any fandom you’ve been into that you haven’t written fic for? Why not?

Many, usually because I’m just not inspired enough to actually write anything for them.  If they’ve got a really complex canon, or something I just can’t get my head into, I tend to not write, either.  Same with if there’s a character I can connect to enough.  Examples include Homestuck, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures (although I do have a vague wip for a Steel Ball Run fic, actually) and Miraculous Ladybug, but I’m sure there’s more if I think harder.

Z. Post an excerpt from either your first fic or your most recent one.

Oh hell, why don’t we do both so I can cringe and cry and what I used to be like vs what I’m like now.  Going with posted only (wips are a whole other kettle of fish).

First ever posted fic, from September 2009: Unwanted (Naruto).  The opening:

There was not a sound to be heard. For once, there was no breeze caressing the emerald leaves in the forest surrounding Konoha. Not a single bird sang; nothing stirred. The bright blue sky didn't contain one cloud - the sunshine was unbroken.

A raven haired teenager stood in the heart of the wood, gazing emotionlessly at the Village Hidden in the Leaves with cold, black eyes.

"It's changed," he murmured quietly. There was a rustle behind him and his three companions appeared.

"So there's your hometown, Sasuke," the silver haired shinobi said, violet eyes inspecting the village. "It's pretty busy." He was right - they could just about make out the general hubbub of village life. The dark haired adolescent said nothing.

"What's wrong, Sasuke-kun?" the only kunoichi in the team asked, putting one hand on Sasuke's chest where his shirt was open, and the other embracing him. He shrugged her off coldly.

"Quit flirting with Sasuke you cow, Karin," the silver haired ninja told the red head.

"I'm not a cow, Suigetsu you...you..." she spluttered, unable to think of a bad enough insult.

"Shut up you two," the final member of the team said quietly, his fiery eyes glinting in the sunlight. Karin and Suigetsu quickly stopped bickering. With much trepidation, Sasuke started to walk towards the gate. He hadn't eaten for days - starving himself, pushing himself further. His vision blurred slightly, but he carried on walking. It wasn't long, however, before everything went black and he fainted.

Most recent fic, from July 2020: Grounded (Thunderbirds).  The ending:

"Scott?" Virgil sounded worried, and he opened his eyes – when he had closed them? – to look up at his worried brother. Alan and Gordon hovered nearby, and he looked at them all in turn, even John's silent hologram – his ginger brother hadn't been there when the test had started, hadn't been expected after he pointed out their holotech's range didn't reach that far. "Are you okay?"

Was he okay? He had a broken rib, was recovering from a near-fatal spider bite and its side effects of dehydration, bradycardia and hypotension, and the man who had almost killed his brothers multiple times was standing the other end of the same balcony.

But they were one step, one significant step closer to Dad.

"Yeah," he said, staring out past them, at the platform cradling the most important engine International Rescue had ever created. For the first time since that horrid trash mine day five weeks earlier, he could honestly say, "I'm okay."

I’ll leave you guys to be the judge on whether or not I’ve improved at all.  I’d like to think I have.

[yahoo-movies-uk]

What happened to Star Trek’s small-screen stars?

We know what Shatner, Stewart and the like are up to these days, but what about those other valuable Starfleet officers that entertained us so? Where are the crew members of 'Star Trek' now?

Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker (TNG)

Riker finally got to be a Captain before he bowed out of the 'Star Trek' universe at the end of 'Star Trek: Nemesis' in 2002, but he swiftly swapped the captain's chair for the director's chair. Having already helmed Trek movies including 'First Contact' and 'Insurrection', Frakes was the unlikely director behind 2004's 'Thunderbirds' movie. These days he balances acting gigs with directing TV episodes on series like 'Castle', 'Falling Skies' and 'NCIS', and he can be heard voicing Star-Lord's father in the 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' TV animation.

Brent Spiner – Data (TNG)

Ironically, we all shed a tear when emotionless robot Data said goodbye to 'Star Trek' in 2005 after a few guest spots on 'Enterprise', but Spiner hasn't stopped working since. He reprised his (second) most popular role in this year's 'Independence Day' sequel, with two revelations: not only was Dr Brakish Okun gay, but he was very much not dead as the first movie suggested. He can currently be seen in 'Walking Dead' creator Robert Kirkman's new possession thriller 'Outcast', or at a 'Star Trek' convention near you.

Marina Sirtis – Counselor Deanna Troi (TNG)

Born in London's East End to Greek-born parents, Sirtis played ship's counselor Troi in 'The Next Generation' but didn't really settle into the role until they gave her a proper Starfleet uniform to cover up her cleavage. Sirtis reprised her role in an episode of 'Star Trek Voyager' in 2000 but she's stayed with 'Star Trek' in several small ways, not just on the convention circuit but also as the voice of the ship's computer in unofficial fan series 'Star Trek Continues'. Watch her, if you dare, in 2016 horror 'Little Dead Rotting Hood'.

Michael Dorn – Worf (TNG/DS9)

Michael Dorn is the most experienced 'Star Trek' actor ever, having appeared in 175 episodes of 'The Next Generation' and then a further 102 episodes when he transported to successor 'Deep Space Nine'. Six 'Star Trek' movies bring his total appearances to 281. He's not done with Star Trek, either: Dorn is currently trying to raise interest on social media for a proposed Worf spin-off called 'Star Trek: Captain Worf'. Ironically, Dorn says: “I had come up with the idea because I love [Worf] and I think he's a character that hasn't been fully developed.” Make that 281 appearances... to date.

LeVar Burton – Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge (TNG)

LeVar Burton was famous before he clocked in to the Enterprise's engine room – he brought pleasure to millions of youngsters as the host of educational show 'Reading Rainbow', and thanks to Kickstarter, he was able to do so again in 2014 after raising £3.8 million for its triumphant return. Burton currently lends his voice to Dr Greene in animated kiddy spin-off 'Transformers: Rescue Bots', and made a 2016 cameo in the remake of 'Roots', the mini-series which made him famous in 1977.

Gates McFadden - Commander Beverly Crusher

The American actress originally found fame as a choreographer working on Jim Henson productions like ‘The Dark Crystal’, ‘Labyrinth’, and ‘The Muppets Take Manhattan’ before she was cast as the chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise. She starred in all four subsequent ‘TNG’ films, but acting roles soon dried up and she now teaches acting. McFadden, now 67, still appears on the Trek convention circuit and her last movie role was in the low budget comedy ‘Make the Yuletide Gay’ in 2009.

Wil Wheaton – Ensign Wesley Crusher (TNG)

The most hated 'Star Trek' character ever has done pretty well to turn his fortunes around, settling into his role of Ambassador of Geekdom (or 'King of the Nerds', if you prefer). An early adopted of all forms of social media and tech, Wheaton has amassed an army of followers who adore his TV appearances, tabletop game tournaments and cameos on the likes of 'The Big Bang Theory', where he plays Sheldon's nemesis. Now 44, he continues to star in his own D&D web series, on series like 'Powers' and as himself on panel shows like 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.

Avery Brooks – Captain Benjamin Sisko (DS9)

Unlike most of his fellow 'Star Trek' actors, Avery Brooks has shown little interest in hanging onto the show's coattails since his days on the bridge ended – Brooks' last contribution to a 'Star Trek' project was a voiceover for videogame 'Star Trek: Legacy' in 2006. A keen jazz musician, Brooks lent his talents to a performance at the Springfield Symphony Hall in February 2016 to celebrate Black History Month. If you're lucky, you can catch the ex-captain at Trek conventions around the world.

Alexander Siddig – Dr Julian Bashir (DS9)

One of the more successful 'Deep Space Nine' alumni, Siddig left Julian Bashir behind to play large roles in TV shows including '24' (where he played former terrorist Hamri Al-Assad) and movies like 'Clash Of The Titans' and Wikileaks dramatisation 'The Fifth Estate' opposite Benedict Cumberbatch. He was last seen being skewered by the Sand Snakes of Dorne in season 6 of 'Game Of Thrones' and plays Ruben Oliver in excellent drama series 'Peaky Blinders'.

Nana Visitor – Colonel Kira Nerys (DS9)

As Bajoran Major turned Colonel Kira Nerys, Visitor appeared in 173 episodes of 'Deep Space Nine' before moving on to Jessica Alba serial 'Dark Angel' and various single-serving TV appearances. Super Trek nerd Seth MacFarlane cast her, and a wealth of other Trek actors, in 'Family Guy' episodes and in 2015's 'Ted 2', and she'll next appear in low-budget Trek-inspired comedy 'Unbelievable!!!!!' (yes, five exclamation marks, so you know it's going to be good). She married and later divorced co-star Siddig – the pair have a son named Django.

 René Auberjonois - Odo (DS9)

The theatre actor was unrecognisable as Odo, Deep Space Nine’s head of security, thanks to a headful of deeply unsettling prosthetics but fans of ‘M*A*S*H’ (the film) will have known him as Father Mulcahy too. He directed 9 episodes of ‘DS9′ and has worked steadily as a TV actor ever since. He’s also a talented singer and voice actor having played Chef Louis in ‘The Little Mermaid’, and is the current voice of Pepé Le Pew in the ‘Looney Tunes Show’.

Colm Meaney – Chief Miles O'Brien (TNG/DS9)

Irish actor Meaney brought some Dublin charm to both ‘The Next Generation’ and 'Deep Space Nine' and hasn't wanted for work since the show was cancelled in 1999. He played Gene Hunt in a US pilot for 'Life On Mars' (before Harvey Keitel eventually got the role), played Don Revie in 'The Damned United', starred as Russell Brand's dad in 'Get Him To The Greek' and most recently took Norwich's finest hostage in 'Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'. You'll be able to spy him in next year's espionage thriller 'Felt', about the Deep Throat informant. (He's not playing Deep Throat).

Quark - Armin Shimerman (TNG/DS9/Voyager)

Ferengi bartender Quark appeared in three different ‘Star Trek’ shows, but is most keenly associated with DS9 where his money-grabbing character was often at odds with Odo, the station’s security chief. He’s a TV regular appearing in shows like ‘Boston Legal’, ‘Buffy’, and ‘Stargate SG1′ but he’s probably best known now for his voice work in the ‘Ratchet & Clank’ video game series playing Dr. Nefarious. 

Kate Mulgrew – Captain Kathryn Janeway (Voyager)

Mulgrew made her final Trek cameo as Vice Admiral Janeway in 'Star Trek: Nemesis' in 2002. She's proved adept at playing serious roles in confined spaces: Mulgrew plays Russian prison chef Red in the phenomenally successful Netflix series 'Orange Is The New Black', for which she won an Emmy nomination (fun fact: she was also nominated for a Golden Globe for playing TV detective Columbo's wife in spin-off, 'Mrs Columbo'). Mulgrew recently used her platform to speak out for prison reform. Janeway would approve.

Jeri Ryan - Seven of Nine (Voyager)

The lads mag favourite reportedly gave ‘Voyager’ a 60% ratings boost when joined the cast in season 4 as the liberated Borg Seven of Nine. Must have been a compelling storyline. After the show ended in 2001 she appeared in school drama ‘Boston Public’, and headlined the critically panned sci-fi comedy ‘The Last Man’, before appearing in TV shows like ‘The OC’ and ‘Boston Legal’. Aside from playing Sonya Blade in the short-lived ‘Mortal Kombat’ web series, Jeri can currently be seen in Amazon’s hit cop show ‘Bosch’.

Ethan Phillips - Neelix (Voyager)

Ship’s cook Neelix was a popular character aboard Voyager earning himself a spin-off cookbook featuring recipes contributed by actors from all iterations of the franchise. Since ‘Voyager’ he’s continued to act on stage, and has made a number of film appearances in ‘Bad Santa’, Michael Bay’s ‘The Island’, and more recently in the Coens’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ playing Mr Gorfeins, the owner of the escaped cat. 

Tim Russ – Lieutenant Commander Tuvok (Voyager)

Fun fact about the man who would be Tuvok – he also played the guy at the beginning of 'Spaceballs' who yells: “We ain't found s**t!” Work has not been so hard to come by: now 60, Russ has no less than 11 movie projects on his plate for 2016, and a few for next year too, including sci-fi TV series 'Blade Of Honor', which sounds a lot like a 'Star Trek' ripoff if we're being honest. And then there's 'Renegades', a familiar trek through the stars that flirts with copyright law, in which he plays 'Kovok'. Hmmm.

Jolene Blalock - Commander T’Pol (Enterprise)

Following the success of Voyager’s Seven of Nine, the last Trek series followed suit casting model turned actress Jolene Blalock as the Vulcan T’Pol. After ‘Enterprise’ she appeared in ‘Stargate SG1′ but her guest appearance as Sawyer’s love interest in ‘Lost’ never saw the light of day.  She had a starring role in the straight-to-DVD ‘Starship Troopers 3: Marauder’, and prefers to keep her distance from Trek fandom nowadays and has only ever appeared at one convention in 2005. In 2014 she played the wife of Jack Black’s porn baron in Cameron Diaz comedy ‘Sex Tape’.

[first-frost-fallen-snow]

Mad Scientists Bracket

Round 1

Veilrick Harrington vs Simon Harrington

Emerick Harrington vs Victor Hopkins

Jacob Williams vs Mallory Practice

Sacha Harrington vs Silas Sedrick

Clover Hail vs Esteban Shallows

Round 2

Simon Harrington vs Emerick Harrington

Mallory Practice vs Silas Sedrick

Rematch!

Final Round

Emerick Harrington vs Mallory Practice vs Esteban Shallows

[wyldblunt]

hi im ira and this is my gw2 sideblog!

adult | it/she/he | 🔞 18+ only please 🔞

likes/follows/replies will come from @baph0meat , more art at @iraprince which is essentially my main

i mention my wife a lot bc we love making ocs together and most of our lore is intertwined. she’s not on tumblr, but just fyi, her name’s marina and she uses she/they/he pronouns!

NAVIGATION:

⭐ my art - what it says on the tin

⭐ others ocs - also what it says on the tin. browse some beautiful blorbos

⭐ my ocs and marina ocs are mostly just little organizational heads-up tags, since i post about his ocs just as often as mine; i usually only bother throwing this on art, not text posts

⭐ oc notebook - non-art posts abt my + my wife’s ocs, general rambles (edit: this tag and the one below are kind of outdated now bc i never remember to actually use them lol)

⭐ oc aes - aesthetic/shitpost reblogs assigned to characters. posts for canon characters may sometimes be carelessly hit w this tag

⭐ answers - responses to ask games/questions; ones with art will additionally be tagged drawn answers

characters are tagged by name; [character]/[character] or a combined ship name is for ship dynamics, [character] + [character] is for platonic/friendship dynamics. spoilers will be tagged with abbreviations (i.e. “EoD spoilers,” “LWS4 spoilers,” etc)

⭐ character list below cut: ⭐

UNDER CONSTRUCTION, eventually i’ll have a cut with a proper illustrated oc directory here but for now here’s a bunch of direct links to characters i talk about a lot for quick access. 💛 means my oc, 💙 means marina’s oc!

THE BIG RELATIONSHIP CHART

(moooostly up to date, missing a few new courtiers/our charr and current art)

MAIN PLOT:

💛 glyndwr (my commander) - bitchy edgy ex-nightmare deadeye (previously the knight of deceit). insists he doesn’t want to be doing any of this save-the-world shit but also refuses to step down. merrit’s mentor/adoptive father. gender=mean old homosexual, he/him

💙 alan (marina’s commander) - radiant vigil posterboy (who is getting tired of being the posterboy). guardian, champion of aurene, hero of tyria, steadily splintering under the pressure. lorelei’s mentor. gender=battle angel, he/they

💛 lorelei - lieutenant commander. ambitious but naive vigil druid, formerly a tournament jockey from the grove. dragonslayer on a lacrosse scholarship. cute and kind, but often tactless; always dreamed of a life of adventure and has now kind of bitten off more than they can chew. gender=lesbian, they/he (+occasional she)

💙 merrit - lieutenant commander. miserable wet neurotic ex-courtier. once a spy for nightmare, fled and ended up under glyn’s wing. has shaken off a lot of the Evil, but not the aesthetics. midwest emo dyke transplanted into high fantasy. virtuoso. gender=lesbian, any pronouns

💛 viper squad - consists of daimhin (chronomancer, they/she/occasional he), damage (harbinger, she/her), and donner (daredevil, he/him) in addition to merrit. glyndwr’s personal task force (the guys who show up when he pops the ‘thieves guild’ elite skill). each is extremely annoying in their own special way.

💛The Dog - glyn’s dog. he refuses to name it because it doesn’t need a name to respond to commands. canach has named her pepper. alan has named her soot. merrit calls her ‘buddy’ but is too nervous to actually impose a name on her. donner has named her gamble. damage has named her Vice-Commander Big Fuck

COURTIERS

💛 callas - count of malice, spymaster, tempest. previously had authority over glyndwr, and later merrit; has gone absolutely apeshit with vindictive rage now that they’ve both escaped. building a new faction of the court in the power vacuum post-HoT. she/he, occasional they

💙 lisk - captain of the vanguard, berserker. once served under leurent, count of blood, but got bored of him and obsessed with callas, and helped her overthrow his former master. has some extremely Out There opinions (such as believing the dragons are inherent allies of nightmare). tirelessly helping her mistress hunt down court deserters. gender=lesbian, any pronouns, leans she/he

💛 fidelma - callas’ personal squire + bodyguard. extremely strange. seemingly chipper, but with a yawning emptiness behind it all. it is deeply loyal to callas, but even more loyal to nightmare, and will choose chaos (even if it inconveniences its liege) over anything else 9 times out of 10. believes nightmare is already the natural order of things and that the court shouldn’t have to put this much effort to spread it. it/she

💛 sorcha - vanguard hound, warrior. dipshit mean girl jock who just wants attention, but will settle for bullying everyone around her instead. desperately in love with lisk, and was perfectly content to share her with everyone until callas began entirely monopolizing her attention. she/he/they

💙 sigvas - scout/archer, under rhys until post-HoT, then afloat in the schism. a poisoner/alchemist (cough cough party drug synthesiser) who WANTS to be the game-of-thrones master manipulator of the court but is too busy freaking the fuck out, both /pos and /neg, over their own reflection. desperately in love with lisk. they/them

💙 tarahnis - scout/beastmaster, under rhys until post-HoT, then afloat in the schism. a ranger/thorn hound trainer who does his nightmare duties with an unusual amount of relaxed optimism. just here for a good time. desperately in love with lisk, but also wants to surpass her. he/they

💛 rue - squire/provisioner, in service of rhys’ scouting squads until HoT, then afloat in the schism. a weird little himejoshi who is just happy to be creeping around admiring all the nightmare knights that surround them. does not dream of advancing in the court at all, just of kind of skittering around and polishing everyone’s armor and sniffing their clothes. desperately in love with sorcha, sigvas, and tarahnis. they/he/she

(sorcha, sigvas, tara, + rue are all gender=sapphic and are collectively referred to as The Problemcule.)

FLOATERS/NON-PLOT-ADJACENT

💛 clooney - secondborn pirate, with the jackdaws. mechanically a ranger but in lore has no specific profession. believes that the only way to counteract the pain and horror that filters into the dream through life’s experiences is to devote oneself to having as much fun as possible before you die; takes this extremely seriously. has a side gig smuggling people to safety from tight situations (ex-courtiers, pact deserters, etc). eventually becomes alan’s lover. he/him, but he’ll use any pronouns for fun

💙 rhys - (technically could go up with the nightmare courtiers, but he’s not part of the same group as all the above ones.) a nightmare count disgusted with what the court has become, frustrated with the way it’s been entirely derailed by vanity and internal politics and mindless violence. after fighting mordremoth, decides to form a splinter faction of the court on his own. gender=lesbian, he/they.

💛 bowyn - part-time actor, full-time con artist, professional babe. mesmer. though they insist they’re “strictly non-political,” they become involved with rhys and end up traveling with him and his new court. secretly feels deeply guilty about the fact that they had absolutely no involvement with the fight against mordremoth. they/he/she

💙 gann - a courtier in name only; you probably could not name the last time he actually did anything useful for nightmare. mostly entrenched in the court just as a criminal career choice. an expert at slacking off. he/him, but it’s not like he cares

💛 naoise - completely empty-headed pit fighter. a gladitorial prodigy who can barely count; they are so dumb that they don’t even realize that they’re a revenant, because the legends they’re channeling can’t even get enough foothold in their raisin-sized brain to speak to them. their gorgeous face and hollow skull have bewitched gann body and soul, and the two of them travel aimlessly around tyria, making shitloads of money and contributing nothing useful to anyone else ever. bliss. they/them

💙 cadair - a valiant of the wild hunt, whose dream is entwined with maelduin’s. woke two years later than maelduin did, meaning their dream has given them much more information about their fated partner, while maelduin knows almost nothing about them. enormous, gentle-hearted, but self-conscious about the fact that the dream has equipped them with everything they need to be a knight/hero but very little else. revenant. any pronouns, leans he/they

💛 maelduin - a valiant of the wild hunt, whose dream is entwined with cadair’s. woke two years before cadair, knowing only that they would one day need to protect him. while they waited for him, they became a mentor, while also becoming deeply preoccupied with death and medicine. specter. any pronouns, leans they/them

💛 benji daywaste - formerly an iron legion engineer, but hazed so badly over her infamous sire that she was transferred to ash legion. hangs out with the goths now. grumpy about all of it, even though he’s enthusiastic about his work. gender=lesbian, she/he/they

💙 roddar wastesteel - ash legion thief who lacks the temperament to match his position. easygoing, keeping his chin up despite the loss of his warband -- benji is the first addition in rebuilding. (’wastesteel’ was a joke name suggested by benji due to how often he fucks up the equipment she makes for him, but it stuck, and now they’re the waste warband.) gender=lesbian, he/him

SHIPS:

glynach (glyndwr/canach)

merrilei

alanglyn

callisk

alan/clooney

bowyn/rhys

gann/naoise

problemcule

cadair/maelduin

benji/roddar

(i do not generally follow the “top/bottom” ship tagging convention; to keep things consistent/easy to remember i mostly just tag in alphabetical order. sometimes i might forget or tag things inconsistenly and stray posts will get lost out of these tags lol)

[masked-disciple]

Can you tell me more about Laqir? His life philosophy sounds a lot like mine. :p

Laqir, dearest and one of my longest-living OCs.

Truth be told, his name isn’t actually Laqir at all. It’s Tarim. See, back in 2011-2012, I was big on Dragon Cave. So when I was writing my first NaNo novel, Vocal Paradise, Tarim required a name change halfway through to protect his identity. (He was in a tournament against his will- think slave gladiators.) So I hit up the Thuwed lineage and used an English-to-Saurian translator. A few dozen swaps later, I ended up with Laqir.

Now, in Starlight, Tarim is going to start out using his codename. I haven’t decided yet when he really starts using it, but I’m thinking he’ll be in his early 20s at the start of the novel, on Ilya Ustuxa.

Tarim uses a separate name and keeps with it mainly because he doesn’t feel like being tracked. 

So, with that out of the way.

Tarim is one of my longest, completely-original OCs. Wasn’t made for any sort of fanfiction at all. He was a little based off of Iban from @/khayr’s fic Dawn, but at the time, Iban was still a soulbond of mine and was overseeing my very first original works. So of course my protagonist was a little based off of him. Tarim later became more of his own person.

I don’t have any current drawings of him, but I do have a good description. A current one, dated about a fortnight ago. So:

-Thick eyebrows. Long nose. Sharp chin (anime bishounen sharp). Ashen skin (quite literally unsaturated silver with no sheen). Straw-like, dusty brown hair that falls around his face. Ear-length hair. Stormy, gray-blue eyes. Has tattoos that look almost like veins or tree branches on either side of his body: cyan on his right, blood red on his left. They glow and expand as he uses more and more magic, and fade to their normal, near-invisible form when he isn’t using magic.

Tarim is a Kaonai (kay-oh-naie (rhymes with pie).) They’re creatures that are related to dragons by way of the drakon (anthropomorphic dragons aka scalies) lineage; and related to the elves via the Silver Elves lineage. Kaonai usually have silver skin which are actually more along the lines of teeny ass lizard scales; but as Tarim has spent most of his life in Ilya Ustuxa, his scales don’t exactly shine.

His homeworld is Ilya Ustuxa, aka the New Moon World. Named such because vampires have ruled the kingdom for so long that when the Aethel shattered, they just kept ruling the place. Despite this, his birthworld is actually Ilya Loremmi - the Lorem. He comes from a civilization known as Isuparingu, which is the place’s original name and I’m not fucking changing that because that’s a badass name.

Canonically, Tarim’s godly side is more to that of Tom, god of time. 

(Side note- the gods Tom, Bene, and Alan; gods of time, space, and reality respectively, are named after Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Alan Rickman. For 13yo me, it was fitting. I could change their names, but I like the familiarity. Despite this, Bene’s name is pronounced like bane, as in the spelling of the full name is the bane of my existence.)

Tarim is one of the few people who can navigate Ilya Serina in its shattered and unstable state, especially in the Fragment Zones (more on that later). That is actually how he got his tattoos- the Fragment Zones gave them to both him and Naitofiara, another acolyte of Tom, in order for the two to navigate through the Serin and eventually fix the problem that made the Aethel go boom. (What problem? I have no effing clue.)

He’s a decent mage as magic goes, though he operates more in passive magic than active magic- instead of firing off lightning from his hands, he’s more adept at our kind of traditional herbs-crystals-and-tarot-etc witchcraft as well as passively stabilizing the spacetime around him. 

This is not a Kaonai trait, it’s a Serin trait. Time and generally Tom’s alignments really don’t like being out of whack. Space, Bene’s side of things, loves being out of whack. Look at fuckin gravity. But time? Time is relative a little, yes, but generally it likes being linear. Time gets upsetti spaghetti if it isn’t linear. Hence, Tarim, who is blessed by Tom and the Serin, stabilizes the spacetime around him. 

Most wouldn’t call him a powerful mage because he can’t fire off active magic like it’s nothing for hours on end, but that’s because passive magics are very difficult to measure in the same way. But Tarim is indeed powerful. Few active-magic magi can do what he does.

And of course, personality. I’ll be honest, he needs an entire renovation on his personality. At least, so he isn’t identical to Thea and Tarathiel, my other two main protagonists. So: He’s a little shy and kind of unsure of himself the moment he leaves the Ustux. He knows the laws of the Ustux pretty well and that generally sums up to everything has a catch, and anything you take must be paid for in full, even if it’s meant to be a gift.

But his shyness only extends so far as small talk and being personable. If he’s got a mission to do and he needs answers, he’ll be just obnoxious about getting them. Hence his part of the quote- “That’s bullshit and you’re bullshit, so I’m going to ask someone who isn’t bullshit”. He does beat around the bush when he’s trying to be nice, but if shit needs to get done and you’re in his way, then get lost.

He and Tarathiel go back a few years, from her original trip to Ilya Aethela. Some point during Fall of Ilya Serina, Tarim arranges for a gift to Tarathiel that he promised and finally managed to get to her: a baby Vustrian wyvern that she happily named Ophiuchus and took with her during the events of the novel; which so far has been bitching at Kinefira and Jules and using the wyvern to steal Lusmos’ tea. How dare you, Tarathiel.

.... I’m off topic again.

As for his role in upcoming NaNo 2017 novel Starlight, I honestly have no idea. All I know about the novel is that the Aethel goes boom and shatters into all these new realms and Tarim has to help fix it but oh whoops now there’s two gods that are fucking shit up and somehow there’s a prophecy and shit needs to get fixed.

The prophecy in question is pretty simple, and it goes like this:

Two princes to tear the world asunder; five heroes to rise and quell the thunder.”

I for one think that’s a pretty sick couplet for my week-three delirium last year. (Week three of NaNo is hell and usually involves a depressive episode or two. Famously, it has also included a suicide attempt that lead to me not finishing the novel because of bad medication that killed my creativity and motivation.)

Now, Tarim is indeed one of the Heroes that has to fix the shit that the two Princes (Jules + Prius) pulled. Now, this prophecy means that somehow the Princes are why the Aethel does the thing. I actually don’t know how I’m going to do that yet, but it’ll happen at some point.

Next question!

[fandomanimatic-tournament]

Fandom song animatic tournament: Side A Round 1

Your Stupid Face - Kaden MacKay

"I just really like your face You don't have to look so happy I'm not really into love that you flaunt In some glittery font But if that's what you want Make it snappy"

Ready as I'll ever be - Tangled the series

"So gather around now (ooh) It's time to sing It's bittersweet (ooh) but it's a hell of a silver lining I tell the same old stories As y'all get your wings And I get better every time I kiss a weathered cheek And watching doves fly Sooner than me I guess I'm ready, ready as I'll never be"

Remember that we're voting on how Iconic they are for ANIMATICS, not for the song itself. In order to make things fair, the tone and mood of the song should not affect how iconic it is (for example, a serious song should not be considered more iconic than a joke song just because it's serious)

Propaganda and animatic links of the songs under the cut:

Your Stupid Face - Kaden MacKay

Propaganda:

Ultimate enemies to lovers potential as it starts with tge singer hating the other party and slowly growing to love them. Also has an excellent tma animatic (haven't watched any other animatics for it but a quick search shows there's a lot)

Animatics with the song:

Helluva Boss Stolas x Blitz

Don't Starve Together Wxwood

The Magnus Archives

DSMP TNTduo

Toilet Bound Hanako Kun Mitsuba Animatic

HFJONE Sodapack

Ready as I'll ever be - Tangled the series

Propaganda:

I can list at least three full animatics for this song for every major fandom I have ever been a part of, and still it's so hard to find them because there are so goddamn many

It's an absolute banger from the absolute King Alan Menken, originally from the pretty underrated Tangled the Series. I've seen animatics for this for like every fandom I can think of, and it deserves it because it slaps and has great vocal performances from Jeremy Jordan and Eden Espinosa.

i'm pretty sure this song is more well known than the show it came from is lol. i looked up "ready as i'll ever be animatic" on youtube just to confirm and counted 20+ of them, and i didn't even finish scrolling. it is a genuinely really good song from a /surprisingly/ good show that imo is super underrated. i definitely would recommend checking it out if you get the opportunity!

it's a fandom song that transcended its fandom and became a hit for twist villains.

The song really fosters creativity with how many animatics can create a darker AU where the usual protagonist (or a close associate) is made to be the antagonist because of injustice suffered and the other characters have to fight against them

I've seen *at least* one animatic of this song in almost every fandom I've looked into

It has a lot of Animaniacs because it is sung by an ensemble cast It is good for demonstrating a lot of different conflicting perspectives of characters for your big dramatic fight and its catchy and I love it

I mean everyone loves a scenario where one of the main cast becomes a villain for tragic reasons and the rest of the characters have to fight them while dealing with the betrayal and attempting to make them see reason

How in the actual hell does a song from a Tangled spinoff series go this spectacularly hard? More to the point, how does it have an animatic/AMV for practically EVERY FANDOM IN EXISTENCE?! Yeah, most people know it from that one Warrior Cats MAP, but there is SO much more. Not to mention the bucketloads of people who used this song for their own OCs, which is always a bonus.

Animatics with the song:

Star Vs The Forces Of Evil

Miraculous Ladybug

Sander Sides

Danganronpa V3 fantasy AU

BNHA Villain Deku Animatic

DSMP

Please keep in mind that I don't know all the media and fandoms of the animatics provided as examples and I don't have the time (nor the will) to research them all. Don't come into my notes or my ask box complaining about them being included, I will simply block you. HOWEVER, if a ship animatic includes a minor and an adult, do tell me, I'll remove it.

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I Padrini di Antonello to Hold 2nd Annual Golf Tournament for Kids in Need May 19

(Some of OC’s Top Philanthropists To Gather For Daylong Event)

Some of Orange County’s most notable business and philanthropic figures are seeking golfers for their 2nd Annual I Padrini Di Antonello Charity Golf Classic, a daylong series of events that include 18 holes on the green, lunch, 3-course dinner, live entertainment, awards and both live and silent auctions.  All activities will take place at Oak Creek Golf Course (1 Golf Club Drive) in Irvine on Friday, May 19.   Registration starts at 10 a.m., scramble/best ball golf at 12:30 p.m. and, for non-golfers, cocktails/auction/dinner at 5 p.m.  Cost is $400 for all day participation and $150 for evening festivities only. All proceeds will benefit several children’s charities. “Last year’s tournament was such a success that we decided to organize one this year,” said event chair Robert Venezia. Added co-chair Alan Caouette, “This is a top-notch event that we hope will attract golfers of all ages and abilities as well as non-golfers who want to enjoy dinner, live entertainment and the other festivities planned for the evening.” Among the other notables involved are Paul Musco, founder, and president of Gemini Industries; business tycoon Dick Marconi, who owns the Marconi Automotive Museum; and restaurateur Antonio Cagnolo, chef/owner of Antonello Ristorante, Quattro Caffe and Antonello Espresso Bar, all located at South Coast Plaza properties. For more information or to register to attend the 2nd Annual I Padrini Di Antonello Charity Golf Classic, visit ipadrini.golf@gmail.com or call 949-290-7874 or 714-928-1223.