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quietmyfearswith · 4 years ago

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where our demons hide {dark!tony stark x fem!reader}

where our demons hide {dark!tony stark x fem!reader} part 1

status — ongoing series

warnings — non-con turns into dub-con, oral sex (giving & receiving), name-calling, swearing, porn with a bit of plot, dark!tony stark, unprotected penetrative sex (pls dont do this, use protection!)

word count — 3,205

a/n — so i’m not gonna lie this is a little self-indulgent and this was an idea i somehow had after reading a few fics/drabbles with the same premise. this will be a dark series featuring not only tony stark but also the other male avengers. i’m also considering on making a separate dark series featuring the female avengers with the same concept. also!!! infinity war, civil war, and endgame did not happen (totally not bc everything went downhill from there & i hate it but because it just would be more fitting for the story) and that tony & pepper are not in a relationship in here bc in this house we do not condone cheating. & this is my first ever time writing smut so feedback would be very much appreciated :>

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“Boss lady, you heading out already?” John asked as he knocked on the outside of my office door. Seeing him with his bag strap over his shoulder, it made me turn back my attention briefly to the desk clock I had, my eyes widening in shock as I noticed how it was already a quarter to 9. “Jesus, has it been that long?” I said to him and to myself in disbelief.

John chuckled as he approached my desk and moved some files out of the way and sat down, “Well time sure does fly when you’re working your ass off.” I threw my head back, trying to rub off of the exhaustion off of my eyes, agreeing with him by saying, “As the head of the research department, I don’t think I have time to slack off and mess around.”

As I looked into his eyes, I felt that he was conflicted — that he did want to help me furthermore, but there was also this part of him that wanted nothing but to spend a night out and enjoy himself and afterwards proceed with crashing into his bed. He inched closer to me, “You need to take a break though. Your report is like, 90% done, and that it is extremely well-detailed and comprehensive. I’m sure the mighty heroes of the world will understand if you go home now, rest and enjoy for the weekend, and come back on Monday to finish it up.”

“Do you think that these mighty heroes of the world always have the option to take a break on the weekends and come back to the job on Monday?” I sassed back as I moved my attention from him back to my computer, searching for more essential information for the team’s next mission. John, not taking a hint that I had already wasted time by talking to him, scooted closer and said, “Well for one, your work does not involve travelling suspects and mercenaries. You’re computer ain’t going anywhere, you know?” as he brushed a strand of hair that has fallen from my ponytail as he explained, “I just don’t want you to overwork yourself. I really care about you, Y/N.”

Creating some distance between me and him, I looked at him pointedly and told him, “I get that you may be worried about how I overwork myself, but I’m okay. If it ever gets too much, I will take a break. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to finish this research and report so that I can go home and get some rest. Unless you’ll help me in accomplishing this task, then I suggest that you just leave.”

John looked like he was in disbelief, but he quickly masked up what he felt and just walked away from my desk and awkwardly waved as he headed for the door. “What a bitch..” I heard him mumble lowly, not having enough strength to say it directly in my face — for in doing so could get him fired.

Following John’s departure, I was able to work peacefully and productively. Gathering and verifying information, confirm tipped intelligence, compiling these into an extensive and coherent report. As I was re-reading once more the final product of my long hours of labor and hard work, I stretched my arms up, hoping to provide some relief to my aching back.

“Mr. Stark would like to ask if he can swing by your office, Ms. Y/n,” the voice of the A.I. startled me briefly, but it somehow also brought me back to my senses. Wanting to look decent and not like I was mere minutes away from passing out, I quickly removed the hair tie from my ponytail, fixing up my hair as I replied to Friday, “Yeah, he can come up.” As I was done attempting to look presentable, it wasn’t even a minute until I heard the office door open and the man himself, Tony Stark, did walk in — wearing a tight dri fit shirt and sweatpants.

“Good evening Mr. Stark, was there anything I can help you out with?” I watched as he walked around the office, as if he was checking out if everything was in place — as if he had been there before and was making sure that things were the way he once envisioned. He settled down on an office chair, opposite from where I was sitting down.

Putting his chin on his hand as he crossed his legs, he stared at me curiously and intensely as he informed me about his sudden visit, “Was walking around the office wing when Friday informed me that you were the only employee left in the building. So I thought I’d drop by and see as to what was the reason as to why you were still working late and not going about with your weekend plans.”

I let out a sigh I did not know I was holding — probably out of relief that I was not in trouble — before sharing with him the reason, “I was just finishing up the final touches on the researched information for your mission next week.” He looked interested in that and rose to his feet and made his way to where I was sitting. “You mind if I take a look?”

I shook my head no and started to get up from my seat, when he placed his left hand on my shoulder, pulling me down to remain seated. “Stay,” he requested as his right hand operated the mouse in order to inspect the document opened on my computer, “I might have some remarks or questions about what you have researched.”

Beginning to feel a bit of uneasiness, I tried to fill him in about some parts I thought he was confused or curious about — judging by how he spent some time longer on certain pages compared to the others. “You did a good job, Y/N. Without a doubt next week’s mission would have already failed without what you have done.”

Avoiding his look and our close proximity, I shrugged off the compliment by responding, “Um, thank you. But it wasn’t just me, you know? Some other researchers also helped, I merely just organized and arranged it, Mr. Stark.” His hand still on my shoulder moved to turn me so I was facing him, he sat down on my desk and begged to differ, “I don’t think you would have been the overall head of the research department if all you did was compile shit, right?”

Fiddling with my fingers, I halfheartedly agreed with what he said. Looking up, I saw him cross his arms and his face lit up, as if he had remembered something he forgot to mention. “Which reminds me, I do need your help in researching something. Think you can handle it?” I was able to conceal my surprise, what was it he needed help with? And most importantly, why would he tell me about it now? There are procedures if an Avenger needs something to be researched relating to their work. But I could not bring myself to question him, so instead I buried those doubts in the back of my head.

“T-That would depend, I guess? What is it about? And w-when do you need it to be completed?” I couldn’t help but scold myself for coming out as timid and scared. He uncrossed his arms and checked his wrist watch while he answered, “I need it to be completed tonight. Possibly into the morning. It depends.”

My jaw dropped in shock and astonishment. Does he seriously think that a research can be completed in mere hours? But if I had wanted to keep this job, then I had to comply with what he wanted. “I think that it would be a challenge to do so, but yeah. I guess it can be doable. What would the research be about?” I managed to blurt out and started to roll up the sleeves of my white, long-sleeved blouse and preparing to type on the computer.

However, Tony held my hands and placed it in my lap, preventing me from moving towards the computer and looked at me deeply, “It’s gonna be about you, Y/N.” I once again found myself dumbfounded and speechless. Opening my mouth I stammered out, “W-What? Mr. Stark, what do you mean?”

He chuckled as he brushed the strands of hair that had covered a portion of my face. One of his hands stroking my cheek while the other had a firm hold on both my hands situated at my lap, he calmly said, “It’s gonna be about you, baby. I wanna get to know you better. Let’s start with me finding out what it is you’re hiding underneath all these clothes, hm?”

As he guided me onto my feet and pushed me against the office table, his lips grazed my ear and he kissed it lightly and whispered, “I like the way you call me Mr. Stark, makes me feel powerful.” His kisses started to descend, his lips leaving a trail in my neck as his hands started to caress my waist. Snapping out of my frozen state, I somehow managed to speak up and attempt to push him away from me, “Mr. Stark, please don’t do this. Please, stop”

With one hand, he quickly grabbed both of my hands and placed it behind my back. His other hand wrapped around my throat, just where his lips were and hissed out, “Why do you want me to stop, Y/N? Do you not like this, baby?” I shook my head, telling him I did not in fact like where this was going. He scoffed, “I think you do. You like the idea of someone taking you in your office, the place where you spend most of your days in. Can’t imagine you getting laid frequently with how busy you are, baby.”

Tears were slowly streaming down my face, trying to wiggle away from the hero that everyone adored and respected. He pushed his body into mine, causing me to stumble which he used to his advantage by lifting me up and sitting me down on the desk. His legs wrapping around mine, effectively trapping me, he lifted my jaw and looked into me as he smirked and said, “Tell you what, if I search you up down there and find that you aren’t wet, I’ll let you go. Think that’s fair, baby?”

He did not even wait for me to answer as he made quick work of removing my skirt as he knelt down on the floor. After unzipping my skirt and discarding it to the floor, he chuckled upon seeing that I was wearing red, lace panties. “For someone who claims to not want this, you sure as hell came prepared.” His hands were then fondling my thighs as he kissed both my kneecaps and requested, “Open those legs, baby girl.” I shook my head and tried to cover my intimate area with both my hands. This evidently displeased the billionaire as he harshly placed his hands on my knees and threatened me by saying, “Unless you want to walk away jobless, then I suggest that you fucking open your legs.”

Filled with fear and horror, I reluctantly opened my legs and showed him my lower half. He showed his appreciation by chuckling darkly and immediately ripping off my panties. Just as I gasped with what he did with my piece of clothing, he brought one hand to my entrance and scooped some of the juices that my body was involuntarily producing. “Well what do you know, you’re not just wet. You’re soaking wet,” he bragged as he used his other grab my leg and stretched it out sideways, giving him more room to work with. “Time to start our research on you, baby.”

As he slowly inserted two of his thick fingers, I could not hold back the whimper as he ruthlessly moved his finger in and out of me. “Please, Mr. Stark, don’t do this.” I pleaded, hoping that his conscience would slap him and somehow get him to stop. But shortly after saying that, I let out a moan of pleasure as I felt his tongue lick my bundle of nerves.

“Just stop resisting, baby,” With his mouth still attached to my pussy lips, he used his other hand to fondle my thighs — hoping to rub off the tension within me. I threw my head back as he thrusted his fingers hard and sucked hard enough that I forgot my earlier concerns of how I was at first reluctant in giving in to him. I threaded my fingers into his hair, pushing his face closer, urging him to continue with what he was doing. He complied and proceeded to focus his sucking my little nub while he added another finger inside before managing to go at even a faster pace than he previously was.

“Fuck,” I exclaimed, “I’m close.” Right after saying that, Mr. Stark abruptly stopped his actions. I looked at him, and there he was licking off the residual juices off of his fingers.”Can’t have you finishing just on my fingers, baby. Has to happen with me inside you. But before that,” he stood up and pulled down his sweatpants and briefs, “Show me how talented your hands and mouth are first, baby.”

Before I could even process what he said, my body responded to the words that just left his mouth and I was pushing him away in order to make room for me to work and dropped down on my knees. Despite being of average length, I took note of how he had an incredible girth. With one hand fondling his balls, the other swiped the precum that was leaking out and spread it around the tip. He let out a loud groan as I then opened my mouth and captured his length.

“Yes, that’s a good girl, baby,” he complimented me while stroking my hair and later on gathering it all up in order for him to control the pace and speed of how I was sucking him. I glanced up at him just as I started gagging around his cock and fondling the rest that failed to fit in my mouth. “Do I taste good, baby?” he teased me while probably noticing that I was struggling not only to fit his entire length in my mouth, but also to please him.

A gurgled yes was the only reply that I managed to get out and he suddenly pulled out of my mouth and quickly put me back into my feet. He ripped off the blouse that I was wearing and briskly unclasped my bra. I watched him intently as he sat down on the swivel chair where I spent most of my working hours on and called out for me, “As much as I love how you please me with your mouth, it would be a waste to not cum inside you. So come over here and ride me,” he demanded as he patted his thighs.

I slowly began to walk over him and climbed over his legs. His smirk widened upon seeing me slowly get into position to ride him — with one of my hands holding onto his shoulder and the other one holding his cock up, I sank down onto him fully. The action might have taken the superhero back as both his hands flew into grasping on my hips and he threw his head back in pleasure.

Moving in slow, circular motions I found myself moaning and panting loudly, breathing out words of praise that had stroke the ego of the superhero. He brought his hand to my clit and he rubbed me fast enough that got me to stop riding him because of how intense the pleasure was. Mr. Stark’s dissatisfaction with what I did was made evident by him slapping my ass with enough force to push my chest into his and reprimanding me, “Did I fucking tell you to stop? No! So keep riding me, you fucking whore!”

I let out a whimper as he once again slapped my ass cheek and rubbed me even harder and faster. Placing both my hands near his collarbone, I began to ride him even faster and started to feel the release begging to come out. This pleased him as he stopped his assault on my ass and began to twist and pull on my nipples. The simulation proved to be too much for me that my head fell into the side of his neck and I began to trail kisses on there and suddenly let out a loud scream as I had suddenly reached my climax.

“Fucking hell, you’ve become even more tighter,” Mr. Stark sounded like he too was already on the verge of reaching his climax. Both his hands then met my hips once more and he started to bounce myself on his cock, disregarding that I could have been sensitive, hoping to finish inside of me. “I told you that you wanted this. That you needed to be fucked hard. So much for the “I don’t want this bullshit,” huh baby?” He mocked me as he noticed the stray tears that were falling on my cheeks as I felt that the stimulation was too much.

“I bet I can make you cum again. That by the time I release my load deep inside you, you will also be creaming over yourself.” His overconfidence was once again being made evident and determined to make his statement true, he began to wrap his mouth around my nipple and one of his fingers was shoved right into my asshole. It might have been the sudden intrusion on my backside, or the feeling of his warm tongue on my nipple, or the fact that his cock was being rammed in and out of me at a dangerously quick pace, but I found myself squirting all over both of our legs.

“Fuck, baby, that’s a good girl,” he moaned out as I also felt him release his juices inside of me. He stopped his licking, fingering, and maneuvering of my body as he wrapped his arms around me and pulled my head to lay down on his chest. We both took this time in order to calm down and catch our breaths. His one hand was playing with my hair while the other lightly ran up and down my spine.

With his cock planted still deeply in me, he made me look into his eyes as his hard and demanding tone vanished and instead was replaced with a soft voice accompanied with a gentle look in his eyes as he said, “You did very well in accompanying and complying with my research, baby.”

His praise made me smile and I once again placed my head by his shoulder and briefly closed my eyes — still not having fully recovered from our sexual activity — when what he said caused me once again to be speechless and shocked, “Get ready because in a few minutes I’ll once again be conducting research. But I was thinking about conducting it in a different venue.”

#tony stank #tony stark #tony stark x reader #tony stark oneshot #tony stark x you #dark!tony stark #dark!tony stark x reader #dark!tony stark x you #dark!tony stark x fem!reader #tony stark x fem!reader #this is somewhat a fantasy of mine #noncon smut #dubcon smut #tony stark smut #dark!avengers #dark!tony stark smut #quietmyfearswith #my writing

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tsunflowers · 3 years ago

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autonomous by annalee newitz

a woman who works as a pirate in the 2100s reverse-engineering patented drugs and delivering them by submarine to people who need them cheaply realizes one of the batches she put out is killing people. it causes people to enter feedback loops like glitching computers and become obsessed with doing one action at the cost of everything else. since she made an exact replica of the drug she knows the company who made it didn't care about that side effect. now she has to make their evil known while also taking personal responsibility for the batch she made. at the same time, the company has hired a mercenary and his robot partner to track her down by any means necessary

this is the one that had the yaoi boy and the guy who fucks robots. it was pretty good overall but obviously I was invested in the robot fucker guy storyline and wasn't really satisfied with how it turned out. this guy is more empathetic towards robots than the average person in the setting and treats them as fellow people, but he represses his attraction for them and lashes out when people bring it up. in a lot of ways it was similar to the homophobic closeted gay man storyline. so I wanted to see him get it together. his robot partner is from a line that has a human brain inside it bc even in the future robots can't do facial recognition nearly as well as the human brain. since it also wants to fuck him it's like "hey. my human brain? belonged to a woman" and the robot fucker guy is like "oh so you're a woman robot? ok it's not gay to fuck you anymore" and the robot takes on a female identity and starts using she/her pronouns. at the end the brain is destroyed but the guy still loves the robot and he's like "I'm so glad I get to be with the woman I love." so I feel like he didn't learn anything? he sidestepped his complex feelings about robots by deciding it was fine bc it was still straight. idk I was a little disappointed by that

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

this one really reminded me of one of eva ibbotson's childrens books. the most boring and miserable man in the whole world is swept into the slightly terrifying and off-kilter world of a bunch of quirky magical children and their mysterious caretaker. the difference between this and ms ibbotson's books is that in this the main character is an adult social worker rather than a fellow child so his relationship with the kids is a complex one combining his fear of their powers with his duty as an adult to care for them. as I was reading it i was like "idk if this is totally my thing" but I did tear up a couple times

I think mr klune said he wanted to "tell authentic queer stories" and I think it was rights of him to make this protagonist in particular gay. he is the saddest lamest everyman who is worn down by his thankless job every day and he is also gay. I feel like straight people still think being gay is a personality trait that makes you quirky but that's not true. you can be almost perfectly generic and still gay. I mean this guy has a loving heart and stuff and he blossoms into a happier person over the course of the story but the way he's presented at first is as a sad lonely normie

#my book review corner

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hellbentwidow · 4 years ago

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–– CHARACTER STUDY.

LAYER 001 : THE OUTSIDE.

NAME : sadie jane adler

EYE COLOUR : dark hazel

HAIR STYLE / COLOUR : dirty blonde, wavy 2b hair type. reaches to her mid-back in most verses. typically always tied into a strong braid

HEIGHT : 5′5

CLOTHING STYLE : typical cowgirl attire. boots with loud spurs, high-waist boot cut jeans, button-ups. always wears her hat, a bit torn and dusty. bounty hunter/rdr1/fallout sadie is a bit more flashy– shiny, expensive belts, lots of weapon holsters, pricey and weather-resistant and super heavy duster jackets made out of genuine leather. several rings if she’s not wearing gloves, but she typically is wearing gloves since it helps with rope burn

BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE : she’s got an unfairly nice facial structure. sharp jawline, prominent cheekbones. her lips are full and feminine too. her overall face is nice to look at in my opinion, though some are turned off by her laughter lines. they make her look older than she actually is. (also her a++++ ass obviously).

LAYER 002 : THE INSIDE.

FEARS : losing someone she cares about again. she lost jake, arthur, john and abigail. she craves romance but she’s terrified of having history repeat itself with her so she tries to avoid it. she’s not very good at it though.

GUILTY PLEASURE : sadie is pretty damn shameless and doesn’t feel guilty about anything she enjoys. when starting a relationship with someone she’ll be a bit embarrassed to admit to her uhh kinks, since she does like things on the rougher, meaner side, but once she warms up enough, she’ll open up about it.

BIGGEST PET PEEVE : she has a lot because she’s a very irritable person but people mistreating/abusing innocent people, taking advantage of the poor and all other things revolving around that are her #1 pet peeve

AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE : honestly once she gets her revenge on the o’driscolls… she doesn’t really have one. she wants to be free and wants to go on adventures but she also wants to settle down with someone and have a normal life. she doesn’t know what she wants the most. she’s a bit aimless and if you ask her this she’ll say “whatever my next job requires me to do”

LAYER 003 : THOUGHTS.

FIRST THOUGHTS WAKING UP : usually she thinks about what chores she has to carry out, or what her current job requires her to do. she will also always think about how she misses jake though it’ll dull down once she gets to wake up to someone again

WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT MOST : uhhhh revenge……. also money, and what she can do to help her friends/significant other

WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT BEFORE BED : what she has to do the next day, if she locked the door (always gets up to go check because she’s paranoid) or if she chose a safe enough spot to set camp for the night. also about how tired she is.

WHAT THEY THINK THEIR BEST QUALITY IS : ask her and she’ll snort and say none, but her determination to get shit done and her fierce, unwavering loyalty to her friends without a doubt

LAYER 004 : WHAT’S BETTER ?

SINGLE OR GROUP DATES : for the first couple of dates, definitely single. once they know each other very well then group dates would be fun, but she still prefers single

TO BE LOVED OR RESPECTED : respected

BEAUTY OR BRAINS : brains and brawn

DOGS OR CATS : dogs because they’re loyal and also very useful in a farm

LAYER 005 : DO THEY…

LIE : usually not. only does it to protect someone else, be it their integrity or their safety. she also lies to avoid further questioning on say her well being or something relevant, but it’s never with malicious intent

BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES : oh yes. she knows she can do whatever she sets her heart to, even if it may seem impossible to others. it ties into her stubbornness but she is very confident in her skills

BELIEVE IN LOVE : 100%. she was madly in love with jake. he was the love of her life and she still loves him. for a long time she wasn’t sure if she’d be able to love anyone ever again. she does eventually fall in love again (with who depends on the verse lmao) but she’ll never stop loving jake. he was her first love and he truly was the love of her life and her soulmate but that wouldn’t invalidate her future significant other

WANT SOMEONE : it depends on the verse???? most of the time it’s a sexual want before a romantic want but it ends up developing into romantic since sadie isn’t a “no strings attached” type of gal, unfortunately for herself

LAYER 006 : HAVE THEY EVER…

BEEN ON STAGE : she has not and doesn’t want to

DONE DRUGS : no, she’s just into cigarettes and alcohol

CHANGED WHO THEY WERE TO FIT IN : no. she’s a blunt, rough around the edges woman and she’ll never change that about herself to make someone feel more comfortable. it’s made her fight a lot of people (pearson, micah, bill) but she knows who she is and she’s not going to let her sense of identity be taken away

LAYER 007 : FAVOURITES.

FAVOURITE COLOURS : hmm she really likes yellow and red but not together. for clothing she always wears something black but dips into those two colors a lot

FAVOURITE ANIMAL : horse, no hesitation

FAVOURITE BOOK : honestly even though she CAN read, she’s not a big reader. she enjoys Frankenstein bc it’s fun and super creative

FAVOURITE GAME : five finger fillet and dominoes……….

LAYER 008 : AGE.

DAY THEIR NEXT BIRTHDAY WILL BE : i haven’t established this LEAVE ME ALONE

HOW OLD WILL THEY BE : uhhhhhhhhhh like late thirties/early fourties?

LAYER 010 : FINISH THE SENTENCE.

I LOVE : “My job.” (bounty hunter/mercenary)

I FEEL : "A bit worn out, but nothin’ some sleep and a cold beer can’t fix.”

I HIDE : “Ain’t got nothin’ to hide.”

I MISS : "Jake.”

I WISH : "…For that cold beer to be brought over t’me.”

#( &. ain't no shrinking violet [ HEADCANONS ]. )

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gayregis · 5 years ago

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Ok i love fashion. I dk fashion. I love doing fantady historical fusions and the fashion on the show deadass kills me SO hard. It doesnt. like. nothing feels good. Theres no clear cultural influence on clothes. In TW3 at least the clothes felt like.. like I could see art and go 'oh i know what influenced that' but it feels so vague and generic in the show???

LEGIT! and it’s such a shame too because they missed so many opportunities through visuals:

it’s definitely beautiful enough. medieval/renaissance (i say renaissance as well, because the continent is more advanced than earth’s europe in the 13th century) has such great beautiful examples of design that can even be quite whimsical to an audience that is unfamiliar with it.

re: the “it doesn’t feel slavic” argument that i’ve seen on reddit. specifically in regards to the art direction, costume design, and set design, i agree, because there is a lot of beautiful cultures that could serve as wells of inspiration for the art team, but they seemed to ignore it. i’m not anything of an expert or even an amateur, but just googling “medieval polish fashion” gives some good results. there are a lot of beautiful motifs on this page that could easily be incorporated into the witcher’s designs. (in regards to casting, i don’t agree so much with this argument, bc a lot of the arguing about it lacks nuance and voices from poc, but that’s an entirely different post to make!)

they could connect characters. the main issue in MY opinion is that the dressing felt individual to characters and random, meant to just look good or intriguing but not help in telling the story. visuals tell narratives, and outfit and dress are a large aspect of this. if there is not overall motifs that can connect characters to one another, then you’re missing a great opportunity. for an example of what they did right with this, i loved how everyone in cintra had those blue sashes with their three lions on them. (also, it even made me realize as a books fan that the three lions could represent calanthe, pavetta, and ciri… lol). but i do not see any connection between ciri, pavetta, or calanthe’s outfits. this is missing an opportunity to draw a connection between them.

they could create factions and visually represent being “other.” keeping with the previous bullet point, they could extend this opportunity to whole factions. as a base example, the cintrian and nilfgaardian conflict is represented by how they have different armors… but since nilfgaard is a rich and powerful empire, their armor should have reflected this. in more peaceful scenes, they could use historical influences from different regions/nations of europe to demonstrate a difference between different witcher nations. also they could easily represent an “other” by using this faction mentality, kind of like what they did with the dryads’ outfits, because they seem so different than those in human civilizations, but they could have pushed this contrast by making the humans’ outfits to be stylized and man-made with bright colors, decorations, etc.

they could demonstrate character qualities and contrast between characters. geralt dresses in a worn black leather jerkin in the first short story in the books, and carries his sword on his back. dressing in all black (with his white hair and shining eyes) creates this image of a man similar to ideas of death, in my mind - he’s intimidating. he’s also strange for even a swordsman or mercenary, he doesn’t carry his sword like every other man in vizima. and his equipment is worn, yet he does not look old… he obviously has been in many fights. compare this to jaskier, who dresses fancifully and elegantly, with colorful jerkins and lace shirts and a plum bonnet with a feather in it. he obviously is a performer (and also kind of looks like a noble with these fancy get ups, which hints at his backstory that’s only revealed later on!) compare this with yennefer, who although she dresses extremely elegantly and nobly, dresses in all black and white. she is refined, but not gaudy and looking for attention (no offense jaskier… that’s your job!).

they could demonstrate character transitions. ciri dresses like a princess in cintra, but when her life goes up in flames along with the city and everyone she’s known and she goes to train at kaer morhen, she dresses in a shoddily-made leather jerkin sewn together quite shittily. not only does this demonstrate how she has fallen a long way on the social status ladder, but it demonstrates how very much the witchers at kaer morhen want to take care of this child, even if they’re not very good at understanding her and her needs at first. and how much she in turn wants to be like them.

but instead we just got some outlandish bullshit where yennefer wears a cage on her shoulders and a lace mask that she immediately takes off, and nilfgaardian armor that doesn’t look like any kind of armor ever made in history or in the present. costume design is not just meant to draw your eye and have you say, “oh that looks weird,” but to help the story! this is part of the entire reason that a visual adaptation to a book series was wanted!

#ask #fish-mouth #tbh this series makes me want to shift my academic focus in design to costume design out of sheer spite #or at least delve into it more

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hellbentwidow-moved · 5 years ago

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--– CHARACTER STUDY.

LAYER 001 : THE OUTSIDE.

NAME : sadie jane adler

EYE COLOUR : dark hazel

HAIR STYLE / COLOUR : dirty blonde, wavy 2b hair type. reaches to her mid-back in most verses. typically always tied into a strong braid. far cry and fallout sadie has shoulder-length hair (see: bri.e larson in cap.tain marvel) but it grows up to its canon length later on

HEIGHT : 5′5

CLOTHING STYLE : typical cowgirl attire. boots with loud spurs, high-waist boot cut jeans, button-ups. always wears her hat, a bit torn and dusty. bounty hunter/rdr1/fallout sadie is a bit more flashy-- shiny, expensive belts, lots of weapon holsters, pricey and weather-resistant and super heavy duster jackets made out of genuine leather. several rings if she’s not wearing gloves, but she typically is wearing gloves since it helps with rope burn

LAYER 002 : THE INSIDE.

AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE : honestly once she gets her revenge on the o’driscolls... she doesn’t really have one. she wants to be free and wants to go on adventures but she also wants to settle down with someone and have a normal life. she doesn’t know what she wants the most. she’s a bit aimless and if you ask her this she’ll say “whatever my next job requires me to do”

LAYER 003 : THOUGHTS.

WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT MOST : uhhhh revenge....... also money, and what she can do to help her friends/significant other

WHAT THEY THINK THEIR BEST QUALITY IS : ask her and she’ll snort and say none, but her determination to get shit done and her fierce, unwavering loyalty to her friends without a doubt

LAYER 004 : WHAT’S BETTER ?

SINGLE OR GROUP DATES : for the first couple of dates, definitely single. once they know each other very well then group dates would be fun, but she still prefers single

TO BE LOVED OR RESPECTED : respected

BEAUTY OR BRAINS : brains and brawn

DOGS OR CATS : dogs because they’re loyal and also very useful in a farm

LAYER 005 : DO THEY…

BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES : oh yes. she knows she can do whatever she sets her heart to, even if it may seem impossible to others. it ties into her stubbornness but she is very confident in her skills

LAYER 006 : HAVE THEY EVER…

BEEN ON STAGE : she has not and doesn’t want to

DONE DRUGS : no, she’s just into cigarettes and alcohol

LAYER 007 : FAVOURITES.

FAVOURITE COLOURS : hmm she really likes yellow and red but not together. for clothing she always wears something black but dips into those two colors a lot

FAVOURITE ANIMAL : horse, no hesitation

FAVOURITE BOOK : honestly even though she CAN read, she’s not a big reader. she enjoys Frankenstein bc it’s fun and super creative

FAVOURITE GAME : five finger fillet and dominoes..........

LAYER 008 : AGE.

DAY THEIR NEXT BIRTHDAY WILL BE : i haven’t established this LEAVE ME ALONE

HOW OLD WILL THEY BE : uhhhhhhhhhh like late thirties/early fourties?

LAYER 010 : FINISH THE SENTENCE.

I LOVE : “My job.” (bounty hunter/mercenary)

I FEEL : "A bit worn out, but nothin’ some sleep and a cold beer can’t fix.”

I HIDE : “Ain’t got nothin’ to hide.”

I MISS : "Jake.”

I WISH : "...For that cold beer to be brought over t’me.”

TAGGED BY : stolen from @grandzealot TAGGING : take it and @ me cowards

#( &. no shrinking violet [ HEADCANONS ]. )

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highqualityblog · 5 years ago

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late night thoughts\ by me, who is drunk

long self post under the 8r8k ((((((((its me rambling abt myself and life ))))))))

dear future me u should 100% delete this dear everyone else dont read this unless u want to in which case read it its chill

NEGATIEVES\

even doin s\omethin i os\tens\ibly enjoy for work, in the world were in, or als\o thru brain problems\ and s\hit is\ like.... s\till pretty alienating and hard a lot of the time and s\omtimes\ i dont even want to do this\ thing that i care about

s\ome of that is\ jus\t the lates\t s\et of work and workin for caus\es\ that while like, s\eem like the bes\t outcome of a s\ituation and pay the bills\..... are not like s\hit i care about

not having buy-in, from mys\elf is\ frus\trating

im s\till fundamentally workin for money and for people operatin on a greater s\cale than me s\o its\ like.... s\till work

i feel lkie a mercenary altho tbo be clear im not workin fundamentlay agains\t my own interes\ts\ its\ jus\t like... goddamnitd be nice ttoo fight a fight i want but i gotttta pay the bills i guess

i probably s\houldnt be alone this\ much its\ never good for me ive been workin from hotels\ and not s\eein other humans\ very much and its\ like even if i talk to friends\ online and on the phone and s\tuff its\ lonely as\ hell

genders\ fuckin crazy and its\ s\omethin ive been like actualllly wres\tlin w for a while even tho i gotta deal w the fact that mos\t of the people i now deal w arent like trans\ or queer or nothin and its\ like... come on. i need that in my life. i mis\s\ home, and i mis\s\ bein around people that were like als\o workin with that and you dont really know that till yr gone i dont even think i could go back to like, old life, whatever but s\till

at leas\t i feel comfortable now openly bein like “yeah i us\e s\he/they pronouns\” in my online friend group and im probably gonna put it on my s\lack at work or whatever but that took time and s\elf reflection and s\hit and its\ nice

i gotta s\tp dirnkin alone at night lmao and cut back on the nicotine bc damn it\s gettin s\illy like come on tara

ON THE FLIP S\IDE :

work is\ pretty good when i can think s\traight and focus\ liek it aint as\ fullfillin as\ id like but its\ pretty good and im gettin better and goddamnit im gonna be a good organis\er even if im not as\ good as\ i want to be yet. im gonna fight

can a job even be totally fulfillin???? probably not lmao so thats a wild expectation 2 even have

bein on the sidleines for now is a bit of a bummer but some recent experiences say: i still got it, and im better than i have been in the past so :)))) gonna be the fckin best whatever the hell that means, im not 100% sure i know this path is still unclear

i got a good things goin w my current place w gender i got shit to do still dont get me wrong and shit to think about and prob always will but like.. its pretty nice and i also feel very comfrotable w my current aeshethics or whatever

im not as “Whoops wanna diE” as i used 2 be which is kinda nice???? its still there dont get me wrong but its easier 2 manage these days

im not a great person dont get me wrong but im workin 2 get better abd i guess thats all u can do

i got some good friends who i care a lot abt and that helps a lot and is good

hawaiian shirts is workin out pretty good for me overall getting som b4 comin to florida was the CORRECT decision bc im lovin this

also geuss my keyboard stopped adding the \ after sss at the end not gonna fix that because thats way 2 much effort

notes 4 future tara: chill out on drinking and nic, read some fuckignnn books, do some other shit idc also fistbomp Yr great and i love u ; )

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shellheadtmarc · 6 years ago

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Connections: Macready??

you just don’t know what can of worms you’ve opened, bc the fallout nonsense is like a mushroom: y’all get to see the cute little toadstool that pops up above ground, meanwhile it’s this huge, ever-growing bullshit under the surface we (mercifully) keep in discord until it sometimes spills over.

so this is gonna get long, strap in.

okay. let’s talk about tony’s relationship with robert joseph maccready: former mayor of little lamplight, ex-gunner, father, and tony’s emotional anchor in the commonwealth...and...everywhere else, at this point, as far as fallout 4 goes.

first things first, let’s clear up any lingering confusion here: mac and tony are an item. a thing. a couple. they do gross couple things and are sappy and disgusting and i literally hate them. in fact, in tony’s fo4 companion verse overall, if there’s no shippy intention and mac was never romanced/picked up by a sosu or otherwise, tony directly defaults to his relationship there. which is to say you usually get a tony that’s fairly settled and comfortable in that relationship and is usually out doing his own thing while mac’s doing his own thing, too. at the end of the day, it’s home - wherever they’re calling home, typically fort hagen or sunshine tidings, i’m thinking - to mac that he’s going.

anyway, instead of doing a ~how they met~ retelling, lemme hit the major highlights in their relationship that haven’t necessarily been discussed at length so that they make sense.

+ when tony handed over caps (mac said two fifty, tony said two hundred, mac said deal) it wasn’t to hire a mercenary. he didn’t think he needed one, didn’t want one, and thought mac would slow him down. instead, it was for information about the gunners because he’d gotten jumped by them down the hill from fiddler’s green trailer estates (the overpass with the big windmill) a couple of days previously. that was it. that was all. he’d inquired about the gunners in bunker hill and one of the caravan hands had pointed him to goodneighbor, telling him there was an ex-gunner merc working out of the third rail he could talk to. he could have walked out of the third rail that night (the third rail, those not in the know, is a bar in an old subway station in goodneighbor) and not thought twice about it. unfortunately (or fortunately) for tony, mac saw him win back his caps in a game of pool and decided to pretty much consider himself hired whether tony wanted it or not.

+ joke was on mac, however, tony has a thing about otherwise taking caps from people he considers needing them more. he does a lot of work for free. wasteland billionaire tony is not. more days than not he’s barely got two caps to rub together - he prefers to barter.

+ that was and remains a big bone of contention between them. it gets better, eventually tony turns the haggling of caps over to maccready and lets him do as he sees fit for the most part, but tony is focused on everything but money (i know, funny right) while mac is super honed in because he’s got a kid to look after - you don’t stop needing caps just because they’re not sick anymore. part of this is because zetta gives birth to quinn (to be discussed in another one of these asks) and that throws tony fully into parent territory, and part is because while he doesn’t necessarily need a lot of caps to get by and it takes him a while to realize that just because he can scrape by with next to nothing, kids in the picture change that a whole hell of a lot. the other is because there are just things you can’t make in the wasteland and need to pay for. medical services are high on that scale - i don’t think tony expects stephen to patch him up for free, and croup manor and the fort hagen blood clinic need caps coming through to keep running.

+ there’s a rewrite of maccready’s quest, because tony moves too slowly for the affinity nonsense in that he’s got his own job to do in the commonwealth which isn’t about pinging affinity goalposts. and because mac has a sick kid he’s gotta find a cure for now that can’t depend on tony being that slow. mac decides to take on the waystation of gunners on his own. tony wigs. zetta tracks mac down. tony shows up and it’s just...it’s a mess. i’m pretty sure he probably tried to fire mac right then and there even if he never really hired him in the first place.

+ we see how well that worked.

+ part of the above is because tony had already caught feelings and tried to grind them into the dirt with a boot heel. we also see how well that worked. he hadn’t intended to stay in the commonwealth for any reason.

+ tony blurts out them feels at the worst time imaginable and - for someone with no shame - immediately wishes a hole would open up under him and swallow him whole. unfortunately, he has to deal with that because there were no sinkholes opening that day. things go weird and awkward for a while. assuming - always assume (cough mala the smooch thread cough) - things go plan, things will get straightened out there in the dugout inn (another bar, this one in diamond city (fenway stadium)) when they finally both get their shit together.

+ another point of note/point of contention is the fact that stephen and mac...don’t...really get along. stephen’s weird, they butt heads a lot, it all stresses tony the fuck out.

+ to all of the above, tony was actually really leery about mac in the beginning. and almost all of it has to do with the fact that tony knows what someone seeing an easy payday in him looks like. the fact that mac, for whatever reasons of his own, sticks around when that doesn’t happen is what brings him around.

+ tony and maccready have a lot in common, as far as shared trauma goes. they’ve both lost people they loved in horrible ways: maccready’s wife lucy was killed by feral ghouls, his kid is sick with the new plague (a prewar disease that was also called the blue flu because of the blue boils someone would get with it - and is incredibly fatal) and may not make it. they both have an ingrained fear of losing someone else they love. the difference is, overall, mac has his shit together so much better than tony does. he’s the mature one, if we’re being honest, he’s the one that knows how to handle the day to day domestic in the way that tony actually never really has, even now. so while they share that, the fact is they’re different enough in the right ways to balance each other out pretty well. mac is also leader material, but on a smaller scale. the eventual plan is to get tony to semi-retire (never fully, he’ll never be able to not) and let mac oversee a settlement so tony can tinker.

+ third bone of contention - which isn’t really, it’s just a good example of prewar vs. wastelander mindset - is childrearing. tony believes in letting kids be kids as long as they can be, especially with how shitty the wasteland can be - but the degree to which he feels that way about it isn’t feasible for the moment. so it’s not really argument material more...you know you’re raising children of the corn, right?

+ mac absolutely calls tony a mungo, and tony has no idea what mungo means. he really, honestly thinks mac’s pulling his fucking leg and that it doesn’t mean anything at all.

+ the rock thing: tony mistakes a rock in the water for a mirelurk one time and maccready never lets it go. but: mac keeps handing tony rocks thinking he’s funny. tony has a box full of said rocks. he thinks nobody knows about it. everyone knows about the rocks. maccready has been known to send genuinely pretty rocks by way of apology when they fight and tony’s grumbling to himself in his lab (in the confines of fort hagen proper).

+ they don’t really agree about synths. tony is very, very pro-synths are sentient beings and not property. mac isn’t a fan. it’s one of those subjects tony actively avoids - and after fallout 4′s main quest endgame has very little bearing on their actual daily lives, though he does do some tourist work for the railroad and doesn’t exactly hide it from mac.

+ duncan (mac’s kid) finally does get brought to the commonwealth, for the record.

+ in the beginning tony is very much still...fly by the seat of his pants on a lot of things? he doesn’t think twice about spending longer in the glowing sea than he’s given an estimate for (and with no way to reach him most of the time because of the radiation) or taking off to vegas on a whim (and taking a month to get back because he returns on a caravan full of people important to someone else in this little group to make sure they get there safely), but as time goes on and he settles in, he tends to do this less and less without warning. he’ll probably never stop completely doing it - tony follows his nose and his gut and thinks it’s way better to ask for forgiveness than permission - but they get to be a rarer occurrence.

+ tony has never given mac a solid nickname. you know, like pepper or rhodey or happy. it attaches meaning to it, and for a long while he’s trying so damn hard to not get attached, and now...well, now it’s just a matter of how creative can he get with puns of mac’s name. he’s also never once in his life called maccready anything but by maccready or a pun thereof. no rj, no nothing.

+ they’re both rough and tumble - in the sense that playfighting ends with a higher than average amount of boo-boos. they are, honest to god, children. how many times has one or the other ended up with mud down their shirt who knows. not me. has tony had to have his jaw reset when a tickle fight goes wrong? you betcha. has one or the other punched the opposite in their sleep? oh yeah.

+ overall they’re very domestic? like they have a life and it’s not always fun and exciting adventure entering prewar ruins and fighting super mutants or deathclaws or whatever. a lot of it is day to day bullshit and being adults and chasing after the kids and fixing this generator or that water pump or herding binky the brahmin back into her pen because she got out again and their neighbor from three plots down won’t double check his gate and - point being, the angst level is actually fairly low, there’s not as much upheaval as you might think, though they do have their fights and arguments about actual life things - less so about iron man, amazingly - and most of that’s down to the fact that they, literally, come from such different worlds, between tony being prewar and mac being a dyed in the wool waster. like...it’s not a perfect coffee shop au relationship where everything is sparkles and rainbows, they function in a way real people do in that sometimes they don’t agree. and sometimes they argue. and they’ll make up and move on. it’s not dramatic, but honestly i love them so much, i love that about them, how they function like a real couple.

ask about muse connections : accepting @ofspaceandmyth

#ofspaceandmyth #⚛ (protocol: answered) / i stole the keys from the sky #⚛ (protocol: ooc asks) / hey big spender spend a little time with me #⚛ (compiler: tony x maccready) / cause they say a man is just a sum of his parts well i'm body i'm blood i'm a terrible heart #long post #long post for ts #// i told y'all #// i told y'all this got long #// you were warned #// anyway i love them a lot?#// and it's hard to believe this started out as a fucking joke #// to test a fucking romance overhaul mod #// but here we are #// and it's 100% mala's fault

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gothfield-official · 6 years ago

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Who Neopolitan is Based on (UPDATED)

Ok so a while ago my friends and I came up with this theory and I feel the need to update it with more proof. If you haven't read the original theory then strap in bc it's kind of wild. (Also I tried to upload this to r/rwby but evidently I’m still shadow banned for no reason so guess I’ll die?)

So everyone in RWBY has some sort of fairytale/classic literature ties to them. Obviously there's Ruby as Red riding hood, Weiss as Snow White, ect. Some of the connections aren't very deep, for example Roman's connection to Romeo Lampwick seems to be only in character design and the basic characteristic of being a criminal. However, there are a few characters who's fairytale backstory we don't know yet. And among them is Neopolitan.

Before I go into this I want to make it clear I'm not going to consider the "Neo is Mary Poppins" Theory. It's pretty much only predicated on the fact that she has an umbrella and many people seem to think this has been confirmed. The only thing Neo is, in canon, based on is the ice cream.

So, if she's not based on Mary Poppins, then who is she based on?

Frankenstein's Monster.

Now, I know Frankensteins monster is about the furthest thing aesthetically to Neo, but the connections are there.

But first, a bit of background for reference: Let's go back to the episode in volume 3 where we're introduced to how Cinder got her motley crew. Pay attention to who's introduced. First we hear Cinder, then we see her recruit Emerald, then Mercury, then Roman (albeit we only hear her recruit him). We even see her forcing Adam to join her and he's not as closely linked to her group as everyone else. But who do we not see? Neo. This leads me to believe that Cinder never recruited Neo, or even had the need to.

In addition to this, while Neo is almost always seen with/associated with Roman, in the first episode he doesn’t have her with him and has to hire second rate mercenaries to help him rob the dust shop. Granted, it’s a small job but considering how much we see Neo with Roman afterward, it is odd for her not to show up. It's especially odd since Cinder shows up to help at the end of the fight, which is the role Neo fills in all other battles. I speculate that Roman didn’t find Neo, nor have they known each other for a very long time (they met some time after the events of episode 1)

Then we have Neo's connections to Frankenstien's monster, which, as I said before, seems as aesthetically antithetical as possible. However, that's only if you get caught up in the big discrepancies.

My first and main piece of evidence comes from Neo's name itself. Neopolitan. Neapolitan is an ice cream made up of 3 different ice creams. 3 parts, one whole. Frankenstein is a monster made up of many different humans. Many parts, one whole. Admittedly this sounds really stupid but it also makes a lot of sense.

We also have the fact that Neo never speaks. In the first half of the book "Frankenstein", the monster cannot speak. Granted, the monster does learn to speak through observation and study, but putting that aside for a moment consider that the lack of speech as abnormal and an imperfection. Imperfect because the monster, and Neo, both were created by men trying to play god. Imperfect men with imperfect creations.

Going back to aesthetics, consider the fact that Frankenstein is, in almost all interpretations, stitched together, clearly abnormally looking from the outset. Now, consider Neo, with her two tone hair that's split exactly down the middle, her heterochromatic eyes that inexplicably change color, and her overall doll like appearance. Both are very abnormal, even in the context of RWBY, no one else has two toned hair like Neo's, or eyes like hers.

The prefix "Neo" means new. Frankenstein's monster is a "new" form of man. The fact that her name is often shortened to Neo puts emphasis on the meaning and it's importance.

Homunculi are very similar to Frankenstein's monster. Interestingly, homunculus means "little man" Neo just happens to be the shortest character in RWBY by far.

So Neo has clear connections to Frankenstein. The next question to answer then, is who created her and why? My answer is from a person who has no canon interaction with Neo so far. Watts.

We learned in volume 5 that Dr. Watts is a disgraced Atlesian doctor and scientist. I find it very telling that Watts was able to get himself booted from Atlas, considering we know their science gets very morally grey (see the soul transfer machine in volume 3). Ergo, Watts must have being doing so really fucked up experiments. Perhaps fucked up enough to grab Salem's attention.

Watts is the odd man out in Salem's group. Cinder, Hazel, Tyrian as well as Emerald and Mercury, are all capable and used for their fighting skills. Watts, meanwhile, has shojo legs. He's not exactly the fighting type, so why does Salem keep him in her inner circle? Experimenting. Watts is making Salem a weapon, a living weapon, Neo.

With all that in mind the theory as applied to the story goes like this:

Watts was most likely disgraced for doing human experiments, gained Salem's attention, and began to work for her and continue his own research in human and other unethical experiments.

Watts creates Neo. Admittedly im not sure who she’s made out of (literally or figuratively) but we speculate it could be Cinder, Emerald and Mercury, since her semblance includes parts of Cinder (illusion shattering to glass) and Emerald (illusions). Obv Merc is just a guess since we don’t know his semblance yet (I also say it's the 3 of them because there's 3 ice creams in Neapolitan, so 3 people would make Neo). I assume Salem’s dark magic is involved in some way as well. Her hair could also be a clue as to who she's based on, however we haven't seen any characters with bubblegum pink hair yet.

Watts may have also used the same technology behind the soul transfer machine to transfer people’s semblances into Neo to make her more OP. the whole reason they tried to use the STM in the first place was to transfer Ambers powers to Pyrrha, not her soul. It would make sense if Watts attempted the same thing. (It also makes sense that Watts would have been involved with the STM, considering it's an Atlesian human experiment and ethically dubious.)

On the OP thing, something I didn't mention earlier is that Neo’s has a lot of powers. Clearly she can create illusions, which have a physical presence seeing as how Yang shattered the one she used in V2 Ep4. Also, many people have noted that during the Yang and Neo fight, Neo’s eyes switch when she’s about to attack. Then there’s also her teleportation at the end of that fight once Raven shows up. Suffice to say Neo has a lot of powers, more powers than anyone else in the show save for maidens.

It makes sense if she got all her powers either through the parts of others that were used to make her (i.e: Em, Cinder, Merc), through the STM, or a combination of the two.

Salem gives Neo to Cinder, most likely to test her ability in combat as well as test Cinder's ability to control her. While it does seem like Neo would be an important asset to have as a human weapon, Salem still needs to test her, she and Watts could probably duplicate their results or literally stitch her back together if they needed to. Not to mention that Neo is a flawed prototype (remember, she can't speak) so Salem wouldn't see her demise as much of a loss.

So there you have it. I think it's a pretty good theory and leaves a lot of interesting paths for reintroducing Neo to the story and for the story at large. Lemme know what you guys think, and if you have any idea where Roman fits into this, bc admittedly I haven't figured that out entirely either tho my inclination is that he's like the fire prometheus gives to man that they then depend on? Idk but ill update this if I figure it out.

#rwby #rwby theory #neopolitan #Neo rwby #rwby predictions

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iheartarrow · 7 years ago

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Random Arrow thoughts

Ok, I'm freaking out a little bit... Someone, pinch me... IS THIS REAL?! This episode of Arrow came straight out of fanfiction. It is too good to be true... yet it is... true... I am overwhelmed and befuddled and feel like a lost puppy right now. Because in this season (especially in 6x03 and6x04), Arrow is apparently, granting wishes and many fantasies of mine have become canon. No one has ever preparedme for this, this is why I'm freaking out, cuz what's next?!...

I know that the other shoe is gonna drop soon enough, and this bliss cannot last forever, that's just the way TVland works, and also, it's Arrow, our heroes can never be absolutely happy for too long, there has to be conflict to further the story along. And the formula is simple - the happier it is in the beginning, the worse it's gonna be later (before it gets better again). So I do know I have to prepare myself for the shit that's about to hit Olicity in a few episodes, probably after the crossover.

Anyhow, going back to 6x04, here are some of my thoughts during this episode..

- It should have been named "Let's get it on..." instead, LOL. How many times did they try to have desert and were interrupted?! Blue balls won't look good on Oliver, Arrow, have mercy!

- The episode opened with a "date", or more like a hookup, BS style. I gotta say, I liked the wig. Blonde Laurel looks like a bitch, brunette Laurel looks wickedly nefarious. I liked that, but why did she need a wig at all, this puzzled me? Or does she think, she looks more attractive to men with dark hair?! What was the purpose of that wig? Not to be recognized?! Well, then she kills people left and right with blond hair, so that's not it, right?!... Oh, I get it... KC wore the wig for the element of surprise, so the fanboys would guess her by her back and pee their pants happy that their beloved BS is back (or should I say, KC is back, cuz their fascination with her, that I will never understand, has become like a cult following). Anyways, this is done for one purpose alone. BS always likes to make a scene with her entrance (yes, she's a bit of an attention whore, didn't you know?!), this time they figured a wig will do the job for her as a "surprise" element. Whatever...

Arrow is already being redundant with BS, considering she's not even close to being the main villain, has no agency of her own and is just another mercenary for hire. As the guys from Slander Ent. pointed out, she's a glorified lackey. Arrow hyped KC's return to Arrow as a villain, so much, but the pay off doesn't match the hype so far. BS's storyline resembles that of LL already. Either give her some interesting storyline, or get rid of her like you did with Laurel. I liked BS at first, but the more I watch her (and as often as I watch her), the more she starts to suck, because there's no moving forward with her story, she becomes a stale character, just like LL had become, before they had to kill her off. Though, in this episode she didn't suck that much, and her fighting improved (though it was Katie's double who gets the credit, the fight scenes were so darkened out, so you cannot tell the double and the actual actor apart, but it was still too obvious Arrow, you cannot fool me). I feel like I have to make my peace with BS the way she is and not expect her to progress. She's here as an eye candy for the fanboys, a consolation prize anyways. But as she still is a small part of Arrow's overall story, I would expect the show to have learnt their mistakes with Laurel (and KC) from the first time around, and not repeat them with BS.

- Oliver and Felicity's date... I think now I know why Felicity calls BS "evil Laurel", because of her timing. Girl, couldn't you murder that poor sap some other time? William picked out the tie and wanted to go to dinner with Felicity, too... Awww, that's so adorable. And yep, the mini-Oliver totally has a crush on his father's girl. I love the relationship Arrow is building between the three of them! Oliver remembering that it's been three years since they had their first date... Squeee!!! "Don't jinx it!" LOL.

You know, I like that Oliver is still a bit nervous on their date. It's a good kind of nervous. He talks about not having been ready for their relationship then, not like he is now. This tells me that he knows, and knew back then too, that this is it, Felicity is "it" - the love of his life. So yeah, he is nervous in a "anticipating something wonderful in your life"-kind of way. Plus, that gorgeous woman is in front of him being all adorable and super sexy. But the status of their relationship is still unconfirmed. He looks at her for answer when the lady asks if they are back together. And Felicity got "the hint", called herself the mayor's girlfriend. It's for us to hear and for the Olicity haters. They are back together, so stop asking the stupid question, m'kay?! Get over it! There's also calmness to Oliver that I love. He's matured, more grounded. I cannot believe how much he's grown as a person. Adrian Chase was one heck of a therapist, LOL.

That nice lady was us, for sure. While she was fangirling over Olicity, I thought it would be funny if the news came out that Mayor Handsome and Miss Felicity Smoak are back together, with a poll attached to it, vote yes or no. LOL Star City ships Olicity. Also, why isn't there a man patting Oliver's shoulder and whispering "Good job on getting your girl back, son!"?!

- Oliver understanding how it was for Felicity when he had to bail on her and was "dangling maybies"... Now you know Oliver. It sucked! And I think he felt kind of alone and bored and useless, while his woman was neck deep in Arrow business and he just had to let her go, do her stuff. I think that is what got to Oliver the most - not being able to be a part of the thing that brought them together in the first place. That's how they met, how they've gotten closer and fell in love - because of Arrow business. And Oliver not only renounced that part of himself, he also renounced the part that allowed them to connect and was the major part of their relationship, it's basis. In S4 we saw how Felicity was struggling to live a "normal" life without Arrow business. She missed that part of her life, that's why they returned to Star City and stayed. Now it's Oliver's turn to be sidelined. He liked living in Ivy Town (on the surface), but after last year's crossover, Oliver realized that his life could be happy without being the Green Arrow, but it will never be full. This season he had to give up the hood again. Except now it's not because he wanted to, it was a sacrifice for the sake of his son. 6x04 showed how much Oliver actually misses being the GA, the action and being usefull, already!

Now, putting a mask on and chasing Felicity in the club, or helping Slade-cockblocker-Wilson... how is it different than being an active member of the team?! I don't get the logic of this. If you're out, you're out, Oliver. No exceptions. He could as well get killed on the mission with Slade, then little William will be the one saying "told you so!". Agrhhh...

- Those kisses... I love those smooches. Felicity, please kiss Oliver more like that! It's super adorable!

- I don't trust Alena. At all. Even after she was shot and was all cozy and friendly with Felicity, I still don't trust the girl. Look, she is responsible for an Argus agent being horribly murdered. And her reaction to that death was telling not nice things about the kind of person she is... Plus, she represents Felicity's past life, a rather dark past. I don't want a constant reminder of that on the show, in small doses Alena is ok, but not as a permanent fixture. Plus, this whole "breaking internet" thing was a set up by Cayden James, so it's obvious that either he gave Alena that shiner and told her to get Felicity involved, or he knew that if Alena smells trouble, she'd go to Felicity for help. And either way, she's a pawn in his game. I feel like if Alena isn't working for Cayden, and she actually is clean, she's still a redundant character, because she doesn't bring to the show any new skill or ability that isn't already an atribute of another character. So why keep her then?! "I thought you wanted to change the world, and look where you ended up..." I loved this burn! Why did Felicity apologize for telling the truth?! Also, this line reminded me of when paralyzed Felicity was hallucinating Goth Felicity. Goth Felicity said the exact same thing to her "you wanted to change the world, look where it got you..." This Alena character reminds me of that Goth Felicity, but not in a good way. I really hope she won't drag Felicity back to old hacktivist habits.

- Why doesn't KC wear her hair up in a ponytail more?! It actually looked nice, certainly nicer than her usual hair down over one shoulder. She calls herself "Dinah", so why does the team insist on calling her "evil Laurel"?! Call her evil Dinah then, she's here as a counterpart of the new BC anyhow, not of dead Laurel. This show has too many Dinahs with same abilities, it's ridiculous, Arrow!

- Felicity spent more than half of the episode in that gorgeous red dress. She looked so out of place in it in that club, and I loved it. It was very funny.

- Felicity should have asked for a backup while going to the club. Or at least telling her team where she's at. It was irresponsible. And later at Helix, almost got herself and Alena killed. Granted, she couldn't have known that it would be so dangerous, but still, she's going after someone who plans on killing hundreds of millions of ppl, gotta think smarter, girl. I get why she would feel guilty. Not only she let out Cayden James, but after Havenrock, if CJ manages to kill so many people, she would feel that it's on her, too.

- I loved Oliver's pep talk. Last episode it was with Diggle, now with Felicity. They both helped Oliver to become the GA. And all that effort is now for nothing, eh Oliver?! Where the hell did Felicity get the idea that Oliver was doing it all by himself?! He never did, well... he tried, but he never succeeded. He was killing ppl, until you and John set him straight (and Tommy's death, too), he was a crappy brother most of the time, super crappy CEO, failed as a boyfriend and a fiance, etc... So let's not pretend that Oliver wasn't a screw up just cuz he got his act together this season, okay Arrow?!

- Helix Dynamics... Nope, not liking it. I got an immediate recall of Fringe's Massive Dynamics,tbh. Plus the name Helix is rooted in Felicity's old life. Also, the name sounds rather ominous, like Kord Industries, where they make all kinds of dangerous stuff that bad guys later steal. I hope Felicity will rename the company, it doesn't roll off the tongue right.

- Michael freaking Emerson is amazing!!! I certainly got an evil Finch vibe from Cayden James. God, he's a cold motherfucker. I do not believe that he "changed" because of Argus keeping him locked in a shipping container. Argus locked him up for a reason, I wanna know what that reason is. He must have done something very very bad to earn such treatment. Lyla isn't Amanda Waller. I would love for papa Smoak to come back and have a hack off paired with Felicity vs CJ. It would be awesome. Also, I had an idea that Felicity will probably go to jail for hacking the vault's firewall (and probably, other crimes too), and Noah might take the fall and go to jail instead of her. It's the only way I see to redeem an absentee father like Noah.

Or Felicity will have to hide and lead a reclusive life until she figures out a way to clear her name with the FBI. Or she's gonna be recruited by the FBI. Either way, it would be interesting storyline and I wonder how it will affect her relationship with Oliver. I have a feeling Arrow might do something similar to what Smallville did with Chloe's character - her leaving the team and just disappearing. Felicity might be forced to do the same. And it won't be Arrow breaking Olicity up, just separating them for a while. Cuz it's Arrow and they can't let Olicity be happy on the background all the time...

If we are correct, then Olicity is gonna get married in the LOT crossover episode. If so, then won't marital privilege kick in then?! Oliver cannot testify against his wife, nor she against him...

- I really hate it when a side character is pointing out an obvious thing that all the fans have figured out long ago, yet the main character haven't got a clue about... I'm talking about Alena pointing out that Felicity should use her chip as an idea for helping people and get her company started. We've been cultivating this idea for 1.5 years, come on, Felicity...

- WTF is Arclight?! Damien's dome was called an Arc, right?! Maybe CJ was working for DD back then when the Arc was being built, and that's why Argus locked him up?! "Arclight" does sound like a cult thing, LOL. And Darkh's zombie population did look like cult followers...

- Loved all the grunting while Oliver dropped on the couch with hands full of Felicity!!! And the ass grabbing, and her hand sliding to his front... This new time slot is paying off bit by bit. Slade cockblocking them was not cool, Arrow!

- Did anyone else have a thought that Diggle's drugs might be provided by Cayden as well? He set up a trap for Felicity in today's episode, Diggle will probably become addicted to that drug, and will be off the team as well. Could be, Cayden will be picking all the team members one by one?

- The only thing, missing from this episode, was the repeat of the glorious line "It feels really good having you inside me...". It was such a right episode with a perfectly set up circumstances to bring that line back. Arrow, how could you miss this opportunity to remind us of such perfect comedic Olicity moment?

- Loved Oliver on the comms. He looked absolutely out of place behind Felicity's computers, but that was the point, and I loved it. The learning curve and the funny Oliver, loved every second of that scene.

This was a very good, solid episode. The reversal worked perfectly. One of my favorites of all Arrow episodes!! This season is gonna be so AWESOME!!!

@almondblossomme @hope-for-olicity @tdgal1 @taurusclh @geneshaven @eilowyn1 @felicitys @nalla-madness @coal000

#olicity #arrow 6x04 #random arrow thoughts #oliver queen #Felicity Smoak

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Fire emblem: Shadows of Valentia - A drabble about Celica’s army

On a side note before I begin: I played and loved SoV so much, Celica’s army is my favorite. I got inspired a couple of nights to write this. I will finally dump it here. Hope you guys like it.

It has spoilers for the game too and some extra stuff. It considers having both Sonya and Deen possible too bc why not. No shipping, just family writing.

Celica and her army had just beaten Grieth and were heading out of the desert. On their way back, they return back to the fort they held for a while, to rest before they return and fight Terrors that had returned to the cemetery that blocks their path to the village.

They settle down across the fort, putting their stuff around the place. Before sleeping, Celica lit up a fire place to cook pieces of meat for one last dinner before she went back to plan their way ahead. All of them gathered around the campfire, having the Whitewings together in group next to Valbar’s group with Jesse trying to sit next to him as he was just shoo’d by the whitewings and Sonya. Boey, Mae, and Genny sit closer to Celica as usual. Atlas doesn’t know where to sit, but he is close to Jesse and Saber. Sonya sits on a random spot, right next to the Whitewings, with Deen right next to her, rather shy while looking as if he didn’t need anything else. All together they sat around the campfire. Celica looked at her group as she took bites from her small piece of meat. As there was a sudden silence she began to speak.

“I never thought I would be making this campfire with so many people this far away from home.” She spoke. “It feels…great. Back home I would only do this on my room with Mae, Boey, and Genny.”

“Yea, this time Celica made the fireplace because it’s usually Boey’s lame fire magic that does, there’s no way he’d made a fire big enough for all of us.” Mae added, unable to resist the chance to throw shade at him.

“That’s not true! I can make a fire place as this one! You saw me cast fire at an entire platoon of goons! I even saved your butt!” Boey answered a bit upset. Celica couldn’t help but crack a smile at Mae and Boey’s usual discussion.

“Look at how cute these kids are.” Sonya added. “I don’t understand how these children defeated Grieth.”

“Well, they're going to pay us well too so ...I can’t complain.” Deen was trying not to make any snarky comment. His job was to obey whoever gave him a solid sum of gold goins and nothing else.

“Is anyone else still hungry? I’m going to get some more.” Celica asked.

Everyone was saying they’re already ok.

“Are you sure?....Saber you’ve barely eaten two pieces of meat.”

“Me? I am fine Ms. Priestess, if you had an Ale that would be great however.” Saber said, while joking, with some truth behind it. “Just kidding, But I bet you I would be able to fight Terrors while hungover. Not like Terrors have any brain to use while fighting.”

“Alright…Atlas?”

“Milady I am ok, I usually do with this kind of portions, but when I return to town I will have a feast! Before we proceed to wherever you tell us to go, milady.” Atlas was quite compromised to work under Celica; he wanted to be efficient.

“Atlas, you don’t need to hold it, it’s still a bit of a long time, but we will certainly make a stop in the village…”

“You worry too much Lady Celica.” Valbar added. “We will be fine, and if someone isn’t, we’re still in good hands.”

“Of course! Lady Celica’s hands are most capable! It is no brainer why Mila assigned us this brilliant, strong, and beautiful lady as our leader! I am quite honored to serve such amazing lady and ---” Jesse was interrupted by Saber’s pat and squeeze on the shoulder while not even looking at him. “A-aah…”

“Oh you guys, thank you I am just doing what I can. Sure I will pay you in marks but I want to make sure you’re at your best. You still have homes and lives to return to.” Celica added.

“Come on, I will pay for these two boys right here, besides I really have no home anymore, so I am enjoying this while I can.” Valbar added.

“Valbar, please, I thought both of us were your new brothers. It doesn’t matter where you go, we’re your family for now yes?” Leon added, as if it wasn’t obvious he wanted Valbar to feel good about being near him.

“I mean I’m still here for the money, but so far this is the best job I’ve had.” Kamui added.

Celica couldn’t help to feel flattered and happy, knowing that she has kept some of her men happy during this mission makes her feel fulfilled. There was some quality time sharing each other’s dreams and hopes for the future, jokes here and there. It was a joyful moment.

“How about you? Do you need anything else?” Celica addressed the Whitewings.

“Catria wants some Altean pri—“ Est was interrupted by Palla, who patted her shoulder and spoke.

“We are fine, thank you Celica.” Yet Catria was briefly glaring at Est for that kind of remark. But in all honesty Catria thought from time to time about that prince, who was unfortunately already taken and will never return any feelings to her. “We can do with the portion given, we must save just in case. Besides the town isn’t that far away. To be honest I’m dying to try Valentian food. The one we had on the port was good.”

“We will get there quick and safely.” Celica added.

“I beg your pardon but, if I can makea remark, Celica you look tired, maybe you should take a rest.” Palla pointed out. “Even leaders need their time to rest. If you want I will take care of it.”

“I’m fine, thank you Palla.” But clearly Celica already had shade under her eyes and her eyes already half closed.

“Yes darling, you already need your beauty sleep.” Sonya spoke. “We will be fine, you already seem to have done your job for too long I can tell.”

“Come on lass, I know you wait until the last soldier that ain’t on watch falls to sleep for you to take your break.” Saber added. “We don’t want a sleep deprived leader out there, this has been going for weeks already, in fact, since you left the castle.”

“That’s actually true.” Boey agreed. “Celica, we will take care of it. Let us do it this once. If something comes up we promise to let you know.”

“If that something get out of hand, which I doubt we would let that happen. You rest soundly, and we will take care of it!” Mae joined the efforts to get their tired leader a break.

“I guess you guys are right. You’re more than my allies, you’re my friends, and I need to care for you all. After all you’re here to help me, and I want to help you back. Many of you are here instead of staying with your family, so I promised I would get you around safely.” Celica added, rubbing one of her eyes.

Saber huffs. “I always have to take this in my hands. Alright everyone, dinner’s over, you three have patrol this time, lass is going to sleep.” He scoops Celica up, carrying her bridal style to her place to sleep.

“S-saber please this isn’t necessary! The town is nearby and I ---” Celica pouted.

“I hate to differ but he’s right, Celica you were going to stay awake, let me help you sleep.” Genny sided with Saber in this.

“Leave this to us! we’re heading to guard this instant. Let’s get moving it is our turn.” Valbar commanded.

“Aw yea an extra coin!” Kamui yelled, while an ear pull followed from Leon.

“We will be heading to sleep somewhere in the other room, we will wake early to change shifts before sunrise.” Palla notified and signaled her sisters to follow her. Sonya, Deen, Jesse and Atlas followed the Whitewings and would share the room with them as well.

Saber carried her into the tactics room further in the fort where Celica, Mae, Boey and Genny would follow. “Alright, that’s going to be an extra 10 silver marks for transport…Just kidding, I couldn’t help to keep on seeing you as a wreck. Good night, lass.” Saber left the rest to Genny.

Genny, as a good cleric, pulls a bag with herbs, recurring to aromatherapy to help the group sleep. Those herbs she often had because she could spend a whole night writing, so to let herself sleep she relaxed with the pleasant smell of the herbs. She however didn’t took long before curling on her improvised bed floor, looking adorable as she did so.

Celica thought she should deposit some faith on her new friends as a leader should trust their loyal men and women. She went to sleep with that idea, relaxing a bit…but still having trouble as Mae and Boey would argue. It wasn’t until Saber had to shut both of them up.

Celica finally had her good and refreshing sleep after so long. Thankfully, Valbar and his men had no encounters with thieves or goons. They were lucky not to encounter any Terror on the graveyard in their way back to the village. Soon, Celica just told her allies that they will all have a day or two to rest before they moved north.

Leon took advantage of the very single leisure day to go shopping and not only for himself but for everyone. He actually got along with Sonya quite well as both enjoyed going for beauty products and overall caring for their image. Atlas got to see his family briefly during this time, inviting Celica, Genny, Boey and Mae to meet the bunch. The family was quite rowdy, but rather happy to see the heroes that brought the family back together.

Saber headed to the nearest tavern and got himself a good chug. Jesse happened to follow him as he was getting along with him, as well as a curious Kamui. To their surprise, the cold and stoic Deen also joined their drinking day fun. It all ended in Saber and Deen saving Jesse’s butt from some lady he flirted with who happened to have a rather burly husband. Kamui decided to stay sober and enjoy the lunacy drunk people do. The gang of mercenaries seemed to enjoy hanging together.

While Leon was off with Sonya for beauty tips and even Sonya encouraging Leon to tell Valbar how he feels, Valbar decided to spend his day with the Whitewings, helping the sisters out with shopping for supplies and visits to the blacksmith. He was quite the gentleman in helping them out with the heavier stuff. In the meantime of their walks, the Whitewings told Valbar about their job back in Macedon and he was pretty impressed. He even joked in saying “if you have trouble with pirates, just call me and I will swim all the way to Archanea to kick their butts!” With Grieth out of the way, he felt more in peace with what happened, and his temporal family in Celica’s army helped him heal better. This group didn’t took long before they met with Leon and Sonya who then tagged along.

On sunset the group reunited, wondering how they would all have a well-deserved sleep after such a long trip and the brief leisure. They were perhaps too many for the local hostel to take in, so they decided to camp outside Atlas’s house. Everyone agreed in having Celica enjoy an extra bed inside the house while the rest camped outside, despite Celica wanting to stay outside with them. They all gathered for another campfire before sleep, where they got to know each other better and kept on chatting. Celica was pretty happy that her bunch had grown a lot and also grown very close. While she knew she had to carry the task to find the Mother as fast as possible, she doesn’t know what will happen next when the mission is over, and the payment to the mercenaries wasn’t even on her thoughts either. She just enjoyed the moment with this new small family she has made.

#fire emblem #fire emblem shadows of valentia #fe sov #fe sov spoilers

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