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st1ng1ngt0x1n · 1 month

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YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT BOUT BUG TYPES💯💯!! Poison types seem real chill too… learnin more bout them lately on account of the new Venipede. Been askin anyone with a Scolipede— ya got any care tips?

Oh yeah, definitely! This might be kinda disjointed since I tend to bounce from point to point but it gets everything across soooo. Idrc.

Getting your Venipede’s ability confirmed is a good idea. One of their most common abilities is Poison Point, and even if you’re able to touch your Venipede now without any effects, it can develop or strengthen later, especially if they’re young. (Alternatively, it can have one of the less common speed raising abilities, speed boost or Quick Feet, which isn’t very harmful now, but can be a mess when they evolve…)

Don’t cover their feelers! No accessories, no matter how cute! Their feelers help them “see” via vibrations in the air, and if those are covered, they won’t be able to use them to navigate.

Don’t let your Venipede interact with any Pokémon in the Sizzliepede line without intense supervision, and don’t let them interact with each other closely at all. In the wild, the Venipede and Sizzliepede lines will fight each other to the death, with the winner eating the loser. That is not something that you’ll want to have to get in between. Even if both Pokèmon are trained properly and won’t attack on sight, they will put each other on edge and may still eventually end up in a fight if they’re too close or startled by anything.

Make sure you stock up on Antidotes and berries (for Pokémon), but you should stock up on antidotes (for people) too. Using an Antidote for Pokémon on humans is like slapping a bandaid on a stab wound. Using an antidote specifically made to counteract the effects of a Venipede’s poison on a human is a LOT better, but not as good as a trip to the hospital. And please go to a hospital if you get poisoned. We can’t ALL be poisons georg.

Venipede, especially wild caught, can be very aggressive. They may impulsively try to eat your other Pokémon, especially ones that they see as easier prey (so, any Pokémon that are smaller than them), but they may also poison your larger Pokémon if they feel threatened. Which happens often. So it’s important to establish your other Pokémon as not-food and safe to be around as soon as you can. Or you may end up with a Scolipede who wants to kill soooo bad /hj.

Now we get to talk about whirlipede! They’re usually pretty stationary, since they’re storing energy for evolving, but when they’re active. They’re active. 60 MPH active, and even faster if they have speed boost or quick feet (which I mentioned earlier). And since they store energy with the purpose to evolve, if they don’t evolve when they have enough energy, they get the zoomies. FYI, there’s no way to “violent wheel that’s known for going over 60 mph”-proof a house. I know from personal experience. It was magical.

Anyway. When they’re stationary, they’ll also stab and poison any threats that come close, so don’t introduce any new Pokémon to them.

And now… Scolipede. If you think that maybe their final evolution would calm them down, you’d be wrong! In fact, they get even worse, since now they’re big! Their poison gets much more potent, and while they can’t get to the same speeds as a whirlipede, they’re still fast as fuck. Fortunately, if you’ve trained your Scolipede well, they’ll tolerate most other Pokémon, and will be less inclined to destruction of your property via body slams! Speaking of that, actually! Don’t teach your whilipede to body slam things or they will continue to do so when they’re a Scolipede! Every time I say the word “kill”, Venom finds a target to fucking get. I didn’t teach her it and yet I am the one facing the consequences.

All in all, Venipede are… probably not the best first poison type to have. Even though I love town a whole lot they can be really difficult to train. I heavily suggest getting a good amount of help from a friend or two who has a lot of experience with poison types.

But hey, at least they’re not the worst! Mareanie are awful as a first poison type for multiple reasons. Never give someone with no experience with poison types a Mareanie.

#pkmn irl #rotomblr #rotumblr #//hi sorry im late. to make up for it this is long as fuck! /hj

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spiked-tea-writing · 3 years

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Haha We’re Married

Wilbur Soot x Fem!Reader

Summary: After successfully hiding your relationship for years, twitter fucking comes and exposes you

Pronouns: She/Her

Warnings: Swearing

Word Count: 1kish

A/n: TBH I’ve only listened to Wilbur’s music, I don’t watch his streams. I just really wanted to write this trope for a streamer. This was kinda self-indulgent *cough* hella self-indulgent *cough*, so sorry if it’s choppy and poorly written. Also I’m trying out headcannon forms. Unedited and unproofed

The situation at hand was very complex

The two of you had been able to keep your relationship under wraps for a very long time.

-Since you were both pretty major streamers on the platform, it was just easier to eep your relationship a secret instead of in the public eye

Y’all were young when you got married had already faced judgment from the surrounding community, and you guys didn’t want to deal with the entire fucking internet questioning your relationship

The decision was made before he joined SootHouse, mainly so that your entire personas wouldn’t be based on being a couple.

It wasn’t that hard, considering that your internet careers had started separate from each other, but it was increasing in difficulty as your popularity grew and you guys had to interact more, especially on Dream’s sever

Then when Wilbur had started streaming in the apartment, avoiding revealing everything became damn near impossible

Of course, there was speculation, rumors, fanart, and a lot of shipping, but the two of you had never addressed it.

Fun fact: One fanart of you two was so good it was hung up in your flat, right next to a picture from your wedding lmao.

Twitter was always breathing down your necks, especially since yall both wore wedding rings, but there was never enough evidence to put two and two together

They were thrown for one hell of a loop after both of you had been on Love or Host

The backlash got so intense to the point where you both made statements about how you both weren’t cheating since the relationships on Love or Host aren’t always real-life partnerships.

Since you were known for your chill streams one day you were streaming a “painting and inevitably smudging my nails” stream when someone made a donation

It was for eight pounds, and the automatic voice read “when is your birthday, and what is your zodiac??”

You let out a giggle

“Um I’m in September and a Virgo I believe. Actually, funny story, my husband and I share a birthday which makes us both Virgos so I’m actually not sure what that means for our compatibility”

The stream carried on like normal and you didn’t think much of your answer

Then the motherfucking robot voice came for your weave as you were blowing on your fingers

“Are you and Wilbur dating???”

You went beet reed.

“Haha no, we aren’t. I’m happily married.”

And yet again, the stream went on with any further hiccups.

After the stream ended, you went to find Wilbur somewhere in the kitchen.

“Hello darling”

His arms wrapped around your waist as you let out a sigh.

“Stream was very long but at least my nails look nice”

He laughed and started fidgeting with your hands

Your wedding band caught his eye

“I’m glad I tied you down.”

“My husband, the romantic.”

Smiles grace your faces but the sweet moment was interrupted by a phone call coming from your streaming room.

“Ahh fuck, I should get that. Could you call the Thai place for takeaway??”

“Sure thing.”

You made your way down your phone kept ringing

You glanced at the caller id which read Father-In-Law before picking up

“Hey, Phil what’s up?”

“Hey, you need to check Twitter. And get Will.”

The line went dead

You were wondering if that was a advil enduced fever dream when you called for your husband

The sound of shuffling feet against the carpet followed by your lank boiTM walking into your room snapped you into reality

“I was thinking Pad See Ew and-“

“Phil called and told me to check Twitter, and I’m hella scared.”

You could see his face drop. Twitter never meant something good/ Either someone died or someone got canceled for being a perv

“Might as well rip off the bandaid and look.”

You nodded and pulled up Twitter

The number one hashtag on trending was #SootMarriageGate

“What the actual fuck.”

“I’m scared”

With a bit of hesitation, you clicked on the hashtag, which directed you to the top of a thread

“After Y/n’s stream today, I’m thinking that her and Wilbur are actually married. Like it’s no longer a bit”

That tweet had an insane amount of replies, and before you could change your mind, you started scrolling

There were a few arguements, but most of the replies consisted of evidence the audience had found of your relationship.

There were so many clips that either had you mention something about the other person, to that time you walked behind Wilbur’s chair, face just out of the frame of the webcam.

Unfortunately, people seemed to really be catching on

On reply had caught your eye

“We know Wilburs birthday is September 19, and if you look at Y/ns last birthday post, it was the nineteenth of September. And remember, she and her husband share a birthday. I think that that’s not a coincidence.”

You turned to Wilbur

“Maybe it’s time we just straight up tell them.”

“You’re right. Should we tweet it?”

“Or maybe stream. Just confirm it and answer a few questions. Is that alright?”

“Of course. Should we do it tonight with the Thai food and make it chill??”

“Sounds like a plan.”

And so you guys waited for a few hours before streaming, during which you guys kept an eye on Twitter and got the food. You built a sort of nest on the floor in the streaming room to eat dinner in and give the stream some cozy vibes.

After stalling for long enough, twitch got booted up and a stream was started.

“Hey guys I got Wilbur here with me and we are having a chill stream and eating some Thai.”

The stream was just y’all chatting about the food for a few seconds, ignoring chat until finally Wilbur casually said,

“Oh, and what do you want for our wedding anniversary?”

He turned to look the camera directly in the lens, face deadpan. You let out a giggle before playing along

“Hmm, maybe we should just have a day out as HUSBAND AND WIFE.”

Chat blew up as you both stared at the camera, stone-faced. Wilbur stood up, still emotionless, and ended the stream.

He turned to you with a smile

“That was easier than expected.”

“Honey the stream was 3 minutes long.”

He disregarded your comment.

“Well now that that’s out of the way, shall we ignore Twitter for the next day??”

You rolled your eyes at your fantastic husband

“I couldn’t have had a better idea myself.”

#wilbur x reader #wilbur soot fluff #wilbur soot x reader #wilbur fluff #wilbur fanfiction #wilbur fanfic #wilbur soot fanfiction #wilbur soot fanfic #wilbur x you #wilbur soot x you #wilbur x yn #wilbur soot x yn

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sinnabee · 2 years

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Tell me more about ur self insert? (not forced)

oooh don’t really know what to say? she’s pretty much just me lol! sinna in a mask but the mask also looks like sinna. idealized sinna? the me i want to BE (and tho i draw her thinner than i actually am, i could take or leave that bit - i like how she looks when i draw her this way but also i’m comfortable with how i am irl so it’s ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

details under the cut to avoid another super long text post lol

mmm sheeeee is a bit of a gremlin. likes to gently poke fun at people and act VERY put upon and innocent if they try and poke back at her. (dramatic bitch syndrome)

a bit of a goofball and much more prone to give into her childish instincts - less worried about what the people around her are gonna think and more concerned with having fun (as long as it is, at the end of the day, harmless)

favorite hobbies include:

- singing at the top of her lungs with friends in car rides

- doodling on any available surface (including her hands, sometimes especially her hands)

- spontaneous out-of-the-blue plans, like sudden decisions to go on a weekend road trip or go ice skating (read: she’s not good at ice skating lol)

- cuddling with friends on the couch and making gay jokes as often as possible. also platonic hand holding because fuck yeah that’s the good shit (good shit)

- making people laugh by Whatever Means Necessary™, even at the cost of her own dignity

- Specifically The Act Of Shoving Her Hands Into A Pumpkin And Pulling Out The Guts (also you know like, actually carving the pumpkin but holy fuck the whole process is so fun)

- making Official Looking Documents for stupid things and useful things both (i.e. a detailed step by step guide and it is color coded but it’s for like. how to find a Mans™ or How To Levitate Rocks™ (the answer is throw them))

- organizing things that would be fine left alone to avoid doing tasks she ACTUALLY needs to get done (incredibly well organized word documents my beloved)

- yes art and writing and reading obvs, but she’s a lot more consistent with it lol

Other Random or Weird Things She Has/Does

that bitch has heterochromia (as do i!) but hers is MUCH more obvious than mine is - my eyes are, yes, different, but HERS are less “oh wow yeah one IS more green than the other, the other is kinda hazel?” and more “one is is STRAIGHT UP brown and the other is STRAIGHT UP green holy fuck”

hair is FLUFFY. a little curly. it has FLOOF (this is essential, critical even)

obsessed with first aid kits, and better at bringing that dream into reality than i am. she has one in the trunk of her car that she keeps stocked and updates regularly, and one in the house. as well as some small ones in whichever bag she is currently using, her nightstand, and her glove box. (i have the small ones irl but not a big one - and these small ones are like, fr fr the size of a pencil pouch /sobs)

this bitch CLUMSY. she trips and stumbles and bangs into things constantly and is always getting little bruises or booboos because of it (and they have to be called booboos that’s what they ARE. that’s the OFFICIAL terminology. i work in a hospital trust me on this) she also delights and having (fun!!! cool!!!!) bandaids and what amounts to a small pharmacy’s worth of medicine on hand at all times

she will pull out a small black notebook and take notes on what people are saying in a heartbeat. sometimes she warns them sometimes she doesn’t. but if it doesn’t get written down it is NOT going to stay in her brain. for similar reasons the walls of her bedroom are covered in sticky notes (secured by cute washi tape)

alright, that’s a pretty wide assortment of random info (guess what’s true and what’s not lol) for you anon! thanks for the ask, i’m always touched/delighted when y’all are curious about me or my characters!!! 🥺🥺🥺🧡

#ask #anon #self insert #long post #i fr fr didn’t know what to say at first #but then my brain was like ‘hold my beer’ i guess #opens the flood gates #also ideally i’d have red hair 👁👄👁#i need to dye it again but that involves making an appointment and that’s like #basically my greatest weakness #fuckin rip #sinna babbles

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bookwyrminspiration · 3 years

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HI ITS DRUG ANON, U GOT ME THINKING

(also another warning this kinda goes into (body horror???) like weird organ issues and such)

You make a really good point about how like, the mental ability of an individual is so highly valued that anything that alters the mind might be negatively looked down upon. I didn't really consider that n it is interesting to consider. But it also got me thinking about elixirs in general, because elves PUMP those things down their throat, like the ratio of injuries being solved by elixirs to injuries being solved by casts/bandaids/literally any other method, is SO LARGE.

(Tbh im convinced that Shannon has become a little too reliant on elixirs and has sort of...created an elixir for everything therefore lowering the stakes of keeper, but thats an ask for another time)

There has to be a side effect to taking so much right??? RIGHT??? Like yeah theres specific elixirs? that might taste bad, or might give you weird dreams but wheres the real consequences??? Like at what point does an absurd amount of elixirs start to cause medical problems? DO THEY SLOVE THOSE WITH ELIXIRS TOO??

Like if you were to drink too much of the bone growth shit could that fuck up your bones? Would they get soft and collapse or would they simply start to 'over grow" and beef up, creating medical problems as they cause the narrowing of veins and shit??? HOW DOES SUCH A LARGE AMOUNT OF LIQUID EFFECT THE BLOOD?

CW for just general disturbing imagery

Radium is something people used to refer to as if it were some type of miracle serum, to the point where some doctors prescribed it as medicine. Obviously radium is not a good replacement for medicine and ended up seriously fucking with some peoples insides (rotting in particular, one mans jaw ended up just ??? straight up falling off??)

but THATS the shit Im talking about, like serious body fuckery that could be caused by over consumption.

ALSO!! BODY ALTERING ELIXIRS

Ex, if you were to get an elixir that made you taller - I feel like that would seriously fuck up your bones by the next day, so are there consequences? Do you need support when walking or can you just not walk at all? How extreme is the pain?

With elixirs that make you more muscular / heavier (ruckleberries or something) - is there excess skin afterwards? Id say there would have to be so I guess for the next few days youd have to wait for your skin to sort of ... fit back (I know thats not how it works in real life but just work w me here)

IF YOU FUCK WITH UR EYE COLOR TOO MUCH IS BLINDNESS AN ISSUE?? does it hurt your vision after a while??

Anyway you get the idea, but just GAHHH I WANT CONSEQUENCES SHANNON

(another point but this kind of makes me wonder if the elven bodies have adjusted over time to allow them to drink so many liquids or if they just constantly have to pee, I know Sophie probably drinks more than the average elf given her record, but I think its fun to consider?)

hello!! nice to see you again!! thank you for your patience and I got to this ask, as I know you sent it a while ago. also I think it's hilarious how you introduced yourself in all caps as "drug anon" !! Also thanks for the warning!

In elven society it feels like everything revovles around what your mind can do. Your constitution, your ability, your control, all those things. You are your mind and your worth is measured in how well it works. Drugs interfering with that...can't say I'd expect it to be seen well. Though it was brought to my attention that Oralie casually mentioned being intoxicated once offhandedly in a light tone, so there does seem to at least be some normalization of recreational drinking.

But maybe wine and other substances are viewed in the same way elixirs are, providing a benefit (if you see the effects of alcohol as a benefit) but containing a negative side effect (being drunk/hungover/etc) to keep them from using too often. Kinda like all those appearance changing elixirs where they taste bad to keep you from enjoying their effects.

And speaking of the weird medicine, I think I’ve talked about that before!! I brought up once that the number of elixirs these people drink is literally physically impossible (I wonder if I can find that post...)—also wondered why they didn’t use things like pills and topical treatments more often. There's the occasional burn cream and all that, but there are so! many! elixirs!

(also you're totally right about the relying on elixirs to fix things point. it's basically like "as long as you get to elwin the fight may as well have never happened in terms of physical impact!" Fitz does now have his limp and Biana her scars (and others have other injuries), but it does feel like a fix-all for any problem. I mean, I used Elwin like that in a way too in my au. I was like ah yes if I just get Elwin to them then I can set them to net-zero injury wise. but i'm also trying not to do that, yet I can understand how easy it is to fall into that pattern)

and the thing about mixing elixirs!! I might've briefly touched on that when I complained about Elwin's medical records in Unlocked, but I didn't go into detail. In human medicine, there are things you can't mix or have icky side affects when you do mix them. That's part of why it's so important to have thorough, unbiased medical records. And Elwin's...did not deliver that. Specifically it being written like "I gave her too many elixirs to count" no!! bestie!! that's part of your job!! to document exactly how you care for a patient!! and like while I do understand why this was done from Shannon's perspective, I don't think there's anything that will allow me to read those records without being furious about it. There are so many medical professionals in my family I cannot be unbiased about it; i’ve been infected with knowledge.

honestly “DO THEY SLOVE THOSE WITH ELIXIRS TOO??” sent me, nonsie. like they would. Elwin would walk up into the room like “hey kid!! I gave you too much medicine and now your body is shutting down!! but don’t worry, I have this other medicine that will fix it--” meanwhile Sophie’s just sitting there like finally. my time has come.

your example of Too Much Bone reminds me of that one autoimmune disorder I don’t remember how to spell (anklyosing spondylitus? I spelled something wrong there but that’s mostly right). I don’t know why I pointed that out but that’s the thought I had. Something something elven disorders and conditions are artificial proving how inhuman they truly are. Though I’d prefer they were written with actual disorders, both physical and mental.

But elven medicine is so strange yet it’s written like “oh because it’s all mostly immediate effects and you drink it so it’s really tame and friendly!!” as if that makes it good?? like I have so many questions. Maybe I also just like exploring the consequences of things--powers, medicine, etc. I’m also concerned for how often these patients need to use the bathroom like that’s a lot of fluids. Like bestie you good? I don’t think we’ve every canonically seen a toilet either so I wish them luck with that. This just in: elves produce no liquid waste. Wait would they still have a bladder/ureters?? What would their function be then--or is that space just...empty. Another thing just in: elves organs are in different places. Should we add...another organ? What would its purpose be?? My brain is saying it should be something to do with lightleaping but idk why. This is so off topic.

But I want consequences to the medicine!! Especially with such prolific use that we see with the kotlcrew! There’s probably some symbolism there about how the only thing that destroys them is themself and how they abuse their bodies for fun and aesthetic. Their vanity will be the death of them and all that.

(wait I didn’t realize the thing at the end was talking about liquids and peeing frequently. I just...invented an organ and rearranged their insides independently of you saying that. great minds think alike...? maybe? but either way I do wonder about their bathroom habits from time to time. Elves canonically fart (thank you for that information, Keefe), so if flatulence occurs similar to humans they have intestines. but they’ve never used the bathroom...)

#hnnngg clothing tags oh no #i t c h y #but also I went so many different directions with this one #medicine in media is a huge interest of mine #I'm gonna complain for a second hang on #I will never get over the CPR in twilight: breaking dawn part I #they literally had an entire fake bella doll #specifically so they could be rough with it #and it is!!#so bad!!#the hand shape and position #the rhythm #that cpr wouldn't do shit #bella would die #I mean she technically did and turned into a vampire three days before her eighteenth birthday #but ahhh #this is a passionate subject for me #every day I realize just how much I know about twilight #it's far too late to turn back now #...I should reread them #if I do i might share some thoughts as I go #but also I know them so well like what's the poit #*point #but also I'm going to #I should reread kotlc too #oh wait I need to order a dvd player #i hate being forgetful #oh wait I need to turn in an assignment #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities

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goatbi · 3 years

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Thoughts about Uryu?

you know exactly what you're doing here

Uryu was, and still kinda is, a complete mama's boy. Never really connected to his father when he was young and his mom was still around, and then when his mom died, well... Ryuken's a fucking dick, let's just go with that. When he was younger, Katagiri would hold him in her lap while she knitted or sewed, and he would watch her. Ryuken would wander in, make some comment, and Katagiri would wave him off with a smile, and Ryuken would indulge her, because for all his faults, I do believe Ryuken loved Katagiri. So that's where Uryu started learning to sew.

When Katagiri died, Uryu was devastated, as one may expect, especially with it coming so closely with his Sensei's death (his grandfather's, but I cannot remember that man's name rn) so Uryu was very withdrawn. Does not help that Ryuken also withdrew even more than he did before, and this was basically the moment that their relationship really took a turn for the worst. They could not say a kind word to each other, and for a grieving nine year old, that's fine, but Ryuken's a grown ass man, so he should choke.

So while that whole grieving was going on, Uryu started getting really really into sewing, because Katagiri enjoyed it, and he wanted to feel closer to his mother in any way possible. His original Quincy bracelet was hers, since Uryu had to sneak it so Ryuken wouldn't confiscate it, since, y'know, Uryu wasn't allowed to be a Quincy at the time. He started sewing a lot, and got himself a good amount of times, and would always come to school with a bunch of bandaids on his fingers. Teacher would ask this nine-ten year old why, and Uryu would either dodge the question or flat out lie, and sometimes Ryuken would get a call, but Ryuken couldn't care less if Uryu was hurt or not.

Uryu got a job at fourteen, with the help of a very kind shop owner, who was very willing to keep the whole thing under the table for the time being, so he could start saving money up for an apartment. This is a moment that I think Ryuken was not a complete ass. He does care about his son, in a weird abstract way, I think, but it doesn't excuse shit. He knew Uryu wanted out, and Ryuken still sometimes looked at him and saw Katagiri, so it was in both of their best interests to get out. So sometimes, more money than Uryu had on his paycheck would end up in his account. Uryu knew, but said nothing about it.

When we see him at the start of the anime, he's freshly moved out of his father's house, in an apartment close to the high school, ignoring the random money that still sometimes appears in his bank account, and still filled with rage, which he takes out on the wrong people. It gets to the point where he forces himself to be angry more often than not, since anger is preferable to any other emotion, but he gets so tired of being angry once he starts that duel that the duel was his way of proving, once and for all, that he didn't have to be angry at anybody anymore.

And we all know exactly how down hill that fucking went. Looks at the menos grande. Looks at the sword tied to head plan. Looks at the chop chop plan. Everything was hell there.

So Uryu is like, finally getting close to people, and getting friends, and I'm convinced he actually has a shrine to his mother like Orihime has to Sora, somewhere in his home. It's small, and he usually sits there to talk to her about everything, all his little regrets, and he sews at the same time. I'm pretty sure that Uryu also, without thinking, started making people things.

Up until this point, he's really not had many friends. The moment someone shows even the weird rivalry friendship he and Ichigo have, he's hooked. Pretty sure he's touch starved too, which is not a fun time, but Uryu's really trying, and he's so excited, in private and only to his mother, to finally have someone to care about him.

Even if it shocks him the first time Ichigo does something that shows he cares, even if it shocks him each time anyone does, even if it's so weird and confusing when they're just unrelentingly kind to him, without him having to do anything back, even when he tries to pay back their simple kindness a hundred fold.

Orihime is the first to sit him down and go 'you don't need to pay us with gifts for us to care about you' and she's also the first to see Uryu completely break down, because my man is full of Trauma(tm). Captial T and trademarked.

I have some other thoughts floating in this brain of mine, but a lot of this is meant to be headcanons and stuff, so, here's this nonsense ramble !

#bleach #uryu ishida #bleach headcanons #long post

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miss-choco-chips · 4 years

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The dangers of sugar coating

Dick tries to give his little brother nice things (and fucks up), Tim is paranoid (and too tired to think clearly), and Damian thinks they might actually be a good team (while they plot Santa Claus’ downfall).

(Beacuse @animemangasoul and I decided we’ve been too rough with Tim lately, so I tried to give him some batfamily fluff. Somewhere along the way I fucked up and ended with this. No edit, pure crack)

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-Before I tell you anything, you need to promise me you won’t get mad.

The Bruce of ten years ago, new to parenting and oblivious to its dangers, would have done his best to emulate any ‘How to be a good Dad- guide for new, utterly lost fathers’ book. Now, though, tired after raising Dick to semi-adulthood and still hurting over Jason’s… Jason, he knew better. Life had toughtened him up.

So he didn’t raise his eyes from his newspaper, and gave into the urge of sipping his coffee before humming under his breath. Not even the slightest show of acceptance over those terms.

If Dick was asking that, instead of hiding whatever this was or dealing with it himself, it meant the situation was either out of his control, bound to make its way to Bruce eventually, or both.

Probably both.

-Come on, B, just promise you won’t get all passive aggressive bitch on me. I did it for the greater good...

Another hum.

However, Dick has spent the same amount of time learning under his guide than he had raising him, so the younger was bound to develop some of his own tactics.

-...and I did it because Tim obviously needed it, so…

Warning bells ringing in his mind, Bruce gave up and shoot Dick a look. He didn’t seem overly guilty, so whatever this was, it probably wasn’t irreversible. But he was also shifting his weight from one leg to the other nervously, so… there was a catch here.

-What did you do?

-You didn’t promise.

-I won’t take your allowance away, but I may yell. It depends on how convincingly you make your case -compromise, he had learned after many, many mistakes, was as good a plan as any.

-Deal -then, quickly, like ripping off a bandaid:- I might have made Tim slightly more neurotic than he was. On accident.

The bells turned into firefighter’s sirens.

-What did you do?

They have had the fifteen year old living in the mannor for a few weeks at most. They couldn't possibly have already broken him, right?

Right?

Dick winced, but sat down by Bruce’s left (the side closest to the dining room’s window), which meant this was the only issue, but a hard to explain one.

-You see… We were talking, bonding over childhood memories and stuff, and… you know how christmas is just around the corner, and I asked him about Santa. I mean, obviously he doesn’t believe in that now, but the thing is, he never did.

-He’s too smart for that -growled Bruce, impatiente to get to the point and figure out just how much damage control would he be doing.

-No, his parents were too shitty. They were never there on Christmas, so no gifts under the tree unless he put them there himself, and whenever that happened, it was because his parents sent them and he wrapped them himself. Also no surprises, because he was the one asking for specific stuff. And I got a little sad, because how can a kid never believe in Santa? Like, come on. It’s part of the concept of childhood innocence. So...

Bruce waited a few beats, but Dick didn’t follow up. See, this was the moment where his parenting books would suggest waiting until the kid was good and ready for sharing his thoughts. But, since this was his younger child at stake here, he couldn't allow himself the luxury of letting a single second go.

-And? -he prompted, as gently as he could, trying not to spook Dick into abandoning ship.

-And I sort of… convinced him that Santa was real. Like, a full out super powered meta whose purpose in life was to bring joy to all of us. I texted Barbara and she planted some old looking reports on the batcomputer about it, to give credibility to the lie. I even drew parallels with Batman being thought of as a myth outside of Gotham to support the ‘Santa is real, people just don’t believe in him’ thing. And, after some hours of convincing and with Babs’ help, he bought it. So now, if Tim approaches you about it, you better back me up, because otherwise you would be ruining the last vestige of innocence Tim might still keep. Downside, though, Tim is now holed up in his bedroom searching the deep web for any Santa related info he can get his nerdy little paws on.

Silence in the room. Dick blurted out a goodbye and jumped out of the window. Bruce didn’t get up to check if he had landed safely on the other side. He probably had.

Tired, he looked down at his coffee. Black, just like he needed it now.

He should have stopped at zero children.

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Cassie watched, with no small amount of unholy glee, as Tim thoroughly convinced both Kon and Bart of Santa’s existence. One a clone with little social understanding and the other from a very dark future, they were unsurprisingly easy to convince.

This was the kind of hilarious shit that made being in a superhero team worth it. All the life and death situations were balanced out by this kind of drama-like absurdity.

Even better was Tim’s completely fucked up perspective on the matter.

-So you’re saying Santa is not only real, but a deranged psychopath? Who’s probably both a pedofile and a mind controlling scumbag? -Kon tilted his head, both confused and esceptic.

Cassie did her utmost best to keep a straight face while nodding along, as if everything Tim had laid down in front of them made perfect sense.

-I thought it was stupid, too. But Dick showed me evidence, old reports, both handwritten and digital, and I found footage of Santa sneaking into the Manor when he was still young, deeply buried in the Batcomputer mainframe.

-Couldn’t that video be, you know… made up? -Bart asked, frown unusual on him firmly in place.

-If it was anywhere else? Sure. But this is The Batcomputer we’re talking about. Why would Batman have that kind of thing there? It was too heavily protected to be placed there as decoy for anyone hacking, not like they could ever get over Oracle’s firewalls. Besides, what reason would Batman have to invent this? I’m fifteen, I don’t need the ‘Santa fantasy’. The only believable answer is that Santa is real and very dangerous, and some people have taken his name for capitalism’s sake and made a holiday out of that and some religious backing, to get more people roped up into it. The true mastermind is obviously hiding somewhere out there, and the Christmas propaganda is merely a means to get funding for his devious plots.

Both metas hummed thoughtfully, Superboy even crossing his arms as he examined the pile of photos and papers Tim had laid out in front of them. Bart was nodding, hand cupping his jaw. The looked dead serious.

Cassie wanted to excuse herself to use the toilet (lead lidden because this was Gotham, specifically Tim’s secret place, so of course it was super-proof) so she could laugh her ass off, but the temptation of seeing this trainwreck to its fiery end was too strong.

It was taking up all of her amazonian training to keep her straight face, though. Diana would be so proud.

-I even searched the deep web for Santa related crimes, and looked up his name in disturbing forums. You wouldn't believe what some people, serial killers and rapists both, do using Christmas as a theme. I couldn't sort through it all, it was that sick.

Kon looked utterly disturbed- So what do we do now? Christmas is just around the corner!

Bart got up and started pacing back and forth- We need to hunt this dude down. Christmas is about goodness and family! We can’t let this, this… psychopath ruin it! Think about the children of the world!!

Oh god, this was getting even better.

-But how? The man sounds like a velocist of some kind, I mean, running and leaving gifts everywhere in the world in the span of a few hours? How are we even gonna catch him?

-Maybe if we dress up as Elves? -Cassie couldn't stop herself from suggesting, voice choked in her effort to be serious, but most likely interpreted by the boys as clogged up on rage- From what Tim wrote here -she raised a paper from the pile, hand shaking- it looks like they are his mind-controlled slaves. If he thinks we ran from his captivity, he might take us to the North Pole with him to brainwash us again… Oh, but I probably shouldn't dress up, so you know, I can be back up if he manages to catch you three…

-That’s a great idea! -Bart’s skinny arms wrapped themselves around her neck, and she took the chance to hide her face in his mane of hair, corners of her mouth twitching up.

-Should I also record it? -she asks, almost begging- In case people don’t believe us later, when we have to explain why we imprisoned Santa.

-Yes, I think that might be wise -Tim conceded, eyes scanning his papers again.

Thank the gods. That tape was going to be Cassie’s most precious treasure forever.

-I think he has a way of controlling people’s minds too. Like, parents and stuff. And then he makes them be the ones to give his children gifts in his name, as a way of gaining their trust. Sick fucker.

-So you think it’s a kinky thing for him?

-Kon, he literally categorizes kids as ‘good’ or ‘naughty’.

-You are right, we need to stop this bastard.

Cassie loved her boys so, so much. She also owed Dick Grayson the biggest high five.

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Red Hood was just lighting up a cigarette when he saw Red Robin making his way to his rooftop. Cursing, he dropped the entire thing and kicked it away. The brat knew Jason smoked, but Dick had been on his ass lately about being a good brother, and he still felt kinda bad about trying to kill the kid twice, so he was actually trying to set a good example.

Besides, out of the two possible little brothers to take under his wing, he certainly drew the lucky ticket, because while Dickie had gotten stranded with the pompous brat, Jason had the all around good kid circling his radar more often than not. Like, Tim had broken him out of prison, a little after Jason had done his best to end his life; he couldn't get more forgiving and nice than that. It certainly beat making a murder League child let go of his katana on a nightly basis.

-I need your help.

He blinked. While they certainly had worked cases together in the past, they were always preluded by some kind of smalltalk, little banter, at least a ‘hello’. Not this straight to the point bullshit.

He had the urge to take out his guns, to protect them both of any threat following Red Robin here. He refrained.

-What’s the matter, babybird? What’s wrong?

Tim looked almost frazzled. The cowl was hanging around his neck, just a domino preserving his identity, and his hair was a knotted mess. Disveleshed was too little a word for his state.

-We need to make a plan to catch Santa Claus before Christmas this year. His reign of terror must end. It’s still not too late.

Yeah, okay, he might need that cigarette after all, to hell with Dick’s bitching. Besides, how bad of a influence could that be, when this kid was obviously already on some kind of drugs? Like, Santa? Really?

-What… do you mean?

What followed was an hour long rant on the dangers of a super powered, evil version of the myth that Tim had somehow cooked up on his mind.

Was this real? The kid looked far too distraught for a joke.

-… Does Nightwing know about this? -whatever ‘this’ was- Bats?

Tim shook his hands frantically. Jason was legit getting worried.

-N was the one who told me about Santa -there, he knew this smelled like a Golden Boy trademark fuck up-, but he seems to be under his spell. Bruce as well. They tried to convince me he is some kind of good-hearted samaritan. Jason -he stated, breaking the no names during patrol rule, a show of just how deep into the rabbit hole he was- you wouldn't believe what I found on the deepweb. Joker’s yearly special seems tame in comparison.

That, Jason could believe. But he was also fairly sure you could type about any word in the darkest side of the net, and find half a dozen kinky or deranged things that matched. Santa-temed crimes? More likely than anyone would believe. Real life Santa doing the deed? Not so much.

Tim had been too young when Dick lied to his face, most likely. And nowadays, the young vigilante was running on three hours of sleep on a good week. And it wasn’t even too far fetched to believe, on their line of business, specially when dealing with metas and supervillains day in and day out.

Still…

-Kid, I don’t know how to tell you this, but… Santa isn’t real -he told him, slowly, hands raised as if to touch his shoulders but not daring to actually make contact. Tim looked so manic he might actually nerve strike him.

The icy blue eyes were hidden under his mask, but Jason knew from the way he tensed that Tim was terrified.

-He got to you, too -he whispered, almost too softly for him to hear. Then, without giving Jason the chance to inquire further, he turned tail and disappeared into the night.

....

He really needed that cigarette.

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When Drake told the family he was taking Damian under his wing for a case, everyone seemed so happy he couldn't just shoot the other man down. Besides, reluctant as he was to admit it, Red Robin was the superior detective in the entirety of the team, so there would be rewards for taking the blow to his pride and working with him.

He expected to be directed through some easy case, maybe a little puzzling but not too challenging. Or be sidelined while Drake worked through things, so he could learn by example.

This, though, this he hadn’t foresaw.

This case was way more serious.

-How come Father has allowed this depravancy to continue?! -exclaimed Damian, hands gripping the sheets of information tightly- This ‘Santa’s’ influence has been permitted to cement on too many people already! And it keeps growing!

-I know. Fuck, I know. But I can’t get anyone to help me. My team knows, but sadly we aren’t enough. Bruce and Dick don’t believe me, and neither does any other hero I contacted on the matter. It’s just like when B was missing in time; they either think I’m crazy, or try to sugarcoat things, like they would with a baby.

Damian snorted, disbelieving. Whatever his opinion might be on his predecessor, he at least knew to trust his insight in a case. Grandfather himself had recognized his genius on that field.

They were on Drake’s perch, his center of operations outside of Batman’s influence. He would never admit it out loud, but if Damian ever needed his own batcave, it would be just like this one.

Now, the long table in front of him was completely covered in information, case reports, photos taken from live footage, deepweb forums’ conversations, history books…

-And you say this… monster, targets children?

-I mean, he brainwashes the parents too, but that seems like a plot to both increase his economic funds and to gain the children’s trust.

-How are you so sure they are his objective?

-The parents tell their children Santa is ‘always observing them’, and ask if they ‘have been good’ that year. If they aren’t perceived as obedient, Santa leaves them coal, which incentives them to do their best to change that by next year’s christmas.

-Maybe the coal and gifts have mind control devices, or some magic?

-My thoughts exactly.

Damian frowns even deeper. He’s glad Drake is taking his detective training seriously, but if father himself is being deceived, he wonders what can the two of them (plus Drake’s team) do.

-What about Todd? Red Hood is proclaimed as Saint Protector of Children in Crime Alley, after all. He certainly has opinions about this ‘Santa’ person.

Timothy shakes his head- He got Jason too. I suspect he’s been under his control ever since he was a child at the manor.

-So, we are alone in this.

-Essentially, yes. Thankfully, not everyone celebrates christmas. Some religions flat out forbid it, so we won’t have as much ground to cover when we lay out a trap. We could choose a close by location and plan around it.

He nods, back straight with purpose. He -and Drake, he supposes- would be freeing Father and Grayson, along with the rest of the victims, from this madman’s control. Maybe even Todd, if he has the time.

-I’m with you on this endeavor, Drake.

-Good. Remember we need to act natural in front of the family. If Santa catches wind of what we’re doing, he might focus his efforts in getting to us.

Damian wants to say to let him come, he would show him why it's a bad idea to mess with his family. But Drake is, admittedly, the superior detective, and it seems he’s been working on this for a long time now. Damian will defer to his judgement this one time.

Drake’s superior knowledge and Damian’s unrivaled training might be what’s needed to orchestrate this ‘Santa’s’ downfall.

They will be a good team, he thinks.

#My writing #Tim Drake #batfamily #Batfamily Fanfic #core four #Dick grayson #Bruce Wayne #cassie sandsmark #kon el kent #conner kent #bart allen #jason todd #Damian wayne #this is just crack guys #Tim thinks Santa is out to get everyone #he's a tired boy okay #no edit #tw: mentions of child abuse #nothing graphic just Tim doing typical comic book research

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fmdkiana · 4 years

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*youtuber vc* WHATZ up famerz. i’ve got another SICK character for you to get to know! so SMASH that follow button! MAIM me with that like!

...anyway hi i’m demi, the famed hag, and this is my fourth child (following sung, andy, n jeonghwa) her name is kiana, also goes by ki and kiki, and if that nickname brings to mind anything But kiki’s delivery service u shall b Wrong. she’s fuse’s main dancer and lead vocalist, iconic qwen. here’s her pinterest, bio, public profile, private profile, timeline [wip for links], plots, & social media [wip for insta]. i’ll leave a condensed version under ze cut <3 you can reach me easiest at fmdjoosung or demi#6468 on discord if you’d like to chat abt this girlie!

okay first things first i’m gonna nip this in the bud. if ur like excuse? iu in fuse? ur coocoo for cocoa puffs for that one. u would be right! and i intend to prove to u that she Is fitting. example a-z demonstrates an at home kiki and a fuse ki. thank me later for all this pretty laydee content

background

may 28th, 1994 ya girl is a gemini

from seattle

born to a pediatric surgeon and a software engineer (who specializes in ai bc her mom is Cool) kiana developed a love for science... then tossed it away to be A Star

not immediately though

really it all stems from the desire to be unique in a positive way

with seattle’s large east asian population, she was lumped together with everyone else, and places where she stood out, kids made fun of her for

she felt like an outcast in every sense of the word, which is why when A Boy gave her the genuine time of day, she latched on

they quickly became bad for each other, codependent at its best

kiana’s lil ass rly thought they were romeo and juliet torn apart when her parents made them break up

she kept sneaking out to see him, and eventually it became troublesome enough that her parents decided to move the fam to korea

heartbroken and with the desire to feel desired, she auditioned for gold star

since she was young, she had dance classes, just as her mom did before giving it up for something more stable

dance isn’t what drove her as much as the feeling of a crowd being entertained by her

trained for 3 years, gold star had high hopes for her given her dance background + looks, hence her role in impulse’s a

a couple years after debut, the company manages to snag her an ost, and when that does well, they shove her onto as many osts as possible, but it manages to do basically nothing to help her or fuse’s fame, no matter the impact of the song itself, and they slow down on trying

that *big bad wolf vc* my dears, is what sets up her overall Thing, that no matter what she does, or how many people claim to love her, they don’t show up for her as a solo celebrity

it leaves her a little dejected, fearful, worried, but idol life isn’t something she minds doing anyway. part of her still wants to strive for more attention, and claw her way there, because she aches terribly to feel special and different, and to a degree, idol life will always give that to her

personality

the archetype of the kid in middle school who calls themselves L and only draws in anime style and comes to school in cosplay and naruto runs around and randomly speaks japanese........ yeah, that was kiana as a kid

and really, she’s only let the problematic parts of it go. she’s still a big fat weeb (& has lots of other fandom type interests too)

an internet kid, someone who never got a big following. draws fanart, has written fanfiction, engages on fan forums. stays at home unless she’s dragged out by friends

she’s a very Normal, Everyday type person in most ways, and that bugs her to no end

she’s someone who as a kid thought she had superpowers, like full on believed it, and to this day still thinks well maybe it’s just not kicked in yet

considers herself ~an empath~ because she naturally has very strong emotions, and seeing or “feeling” the emotions of others makes her feel that way too. that includes positive And negative emotions

she can and is wrong about what she “feels” from others, but the emotional effect on herself is still the same

and because that happens so much, kiana retreats into herself

she has a very small inner circle, and isn’t very interested in more than surface level relationships with most people because it’s exhausting to feel so much all of the time

that means usually, most people meeting her will meet someone who can be doin a little doodle, you’ll say hi, she’ll say hi back, then go right back to her doodle

she’s Nice and polite enough, but doesn’t take those first steps. some ppl might view her coldly bc of it

HOWEVA if someone were to bring up one of her ~special interests, she would come off like a completely different person

animated, kinda loud, won’t shut up. that’s more often the type of person her inner circle gets to see

she’s also a reversal of the hard shell soft inside trope, as a lot of her outward self and personality can seem soft, gentle, maybe even naive depending on someone’s view, but there is a core to her affection thats... dangerous

but i’ll leave that for the dms

and finally, here’s a phat list of personality traits that apply to kiana, depending on her relationships with who she’s talking to and how she’s feeling. yes some are complete opposites. see: gemini. if you wanna kno how to get a certain trait from her, i’ll be glad to explain

abnormal, apathetic, artistic, clingy, contradictory, dedicated, demure, disorganized, earnest, effeminate, emotional, empathetic, excitable, fanatical, guarded, hesitant, insecure, introverted, jealous, loyal, mercurial, modest, neat, needy, nervous, numb, obsessive, organized, overthinking, passionate, persevering, protective, quiet, romantic, scatterbrained, silly, stubborn, tactful, temperamental, vigilant, vivacious, volatile, wall flower, withdrawn

fun fax

claims her style inspiration is the 70s but really mixes in influences from ~the 40s to 80s

if she’s dressing herself, heavily prefers skirts and dresses over pants

doesn’t like being touched unless she’s really close with someone, then she likes a lot of it

plant mom. apartment basc a greenhouse

insists one day she will make her own jam but has yet to get around to it so she just has a bunch of jars in her apartment and uses them for plants and paper clip holders and the like

her fictional character romantic Type is the tsundere. is convinced fictional characters are the best dating partners

always wears glasses when at home, and a good amount of the time when not working in general

her mario kart main is link bc nostalgia and valuing a strong stat set that favors zoom zoom

the furthest she goes for environmental impact is always using a hydroflask

prefers having bangs and hair with a wave

always carries bandaids and bandages in her bag because she gets eczema patches when she’s stressed and it’s Embarrassing to her so she covers em up

#fmdintro #'condensed' i say #tbf this muse is well over a year old i just have a lot to say abt her #i luv her v much

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cloudywriter · 4 years

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vanilla pudding cups - 2

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A/N: hey guys, sorry i changed the name but i really hated the first one, it didn’t really fit. in a few chapters you’ll get the new title, but anyway i like it much better! im sorry if this chapter isn’t the best, i kinda pumped it out bc y’all were liking it & i like making people happy ya know, enjoy luvs

masterlist & AO3

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Feyre woke up with a surprising amount of energy, usually she felt fatigued and spent most of her days lounging in her bed with earbuds in and a sketchbook laying in her lap. She decided she would use this new found energy to tape up her accumulating pile of various sketches she wanted up on her wall.

She threw on a pair of loose, grey sweatpants and white t-shirt, stained with her attempts at using charcoal, soon setting out on her voyage to acquire a ladder.

Surprisingly, it was an easy task. All she had to do was sweet talk the maintenance guy a little bit, throw in the whole I have cancer and she had a ladder leaning against her wall in no time.

Rhys, however, had a less pleasant start to the day. Alis had let herself in that morning with a plate in one hand and the same clipboard in another.

She informed him that unfortunately his day would consist mostly of testing and scans to determine just how bad it was. She left Rhysand to get ready and eat his breakfast of rubbery, bland tasting eggs and one of those nasty little plastic cups of mixed fruit.

As the day went on, Rhys lost count of how many needles punctured his skin and how many cups of contrast solution he had to gulp for his scans.

Finally, he fell back into bed later in the evening feeling drained, though he had barely lifted a finger. But the mass amount of poking and prodding he endured only cemented in his mind that he was truly right back where he started a year ago. The realization was mind-numbing.

He hadn’t even called Mor, Cassian, Az, or Amren to ask for their support. He didn’t feel like he had had the time to truly mourn the life that had become his over the last few months, the life he was losing. He needed a moment, when he got a moment he would let himself fall apart. For only a moment before he would have to put back on the mask of the Rhys his family had come to know. The Rhys that wasn’t afraid of death, the Rhys that still had faith that he could make it, that this new battle wasn’t a lost cause.

In truth, Rhysand was terrified of the idea of death, of leaving them behind. To think of the lives they would live without him was like a punch to the stomach, the kind that leaves you sprawled on the ground struggling to suck in air.

Just as his mask began to crack, just as the tears began to prick his eyes, as the sinking feeling in his stomach intensified, and the air felt heavy, too thick to breathe properly, the faint sound of a violin captured his attention. It was a small tether keeping him anchored to reality and he felt the pull.

Before he could fully comprehend what he was doing, he had slipped out of his door and was outside of another; the one that was undoubtedly the source of the violin.

It felt as if he was watching himself in a dream as he pushed open the door.

And there she was.

A nostalgic feeling as if he were reliving a fever dream took root. A girl was sitting atop a metal ladder. The setting sun sent light streaming in through the floor to ceiling window, illuminating her; her long, honey-colored hair was glowing gold. Her skin was pale, without any hint of a tan but her arms were dotted with faint freckles as if she had once spent all of her days basking in the sun. Strips of tape lined her fingers and she held the dispenser between her teeth, her free hand holding a piece of paper to the wall.

Rhys found himself staring at her rather than making his presence known. The combined sound of soothing classic music emitting from a laptop on the bed and her sun-lit silhouette had him mesmerized. She honestly looked like an angel in the flesh, if angels wore sweat pants and oversized, charcoal stained t-shirts that is.

As soon as Rhys started to regain his wits a screech came from behind him.

“FEYRE ARCHERON, GET DOWN FROM THERE!”

Rhys and the girl, Feyre, both spun to face Nurse Alis who stood in the threshold.

He heard the ladder groan behind him, the patter of bare-feet on tile, and the warmth of a body came to rest next to him.

His head pivoted to look at her to find she was already examining him herself.

She looked him up and down then met his gaze. Her eyes were vivid, so blue with a ring of grey around the pupil and they were so full of life. The same soft freckles that decorated her arms danced across the bridge of her nose. Her left cheek had a smear of charcoal across it. A small smile came to her lips as their eyes meet. He thought she really was an angel.

“Feyre, what the hell do you think you’re doing?”

She broke eye contact, “I’m hanging up some of my sketches.”

“Using a ladder? Alone? You could fall and crack your head open! And I’m your assigned nurse! They’d blame me and then I’d have to scrap your brains off the floor while looking for a new job!” Alis cried, eyes wide.

“I guess that sounds like a less than pleasant afternoon for you,” Feyre considered.

“Uh huh, less than pleasant. Where the hell did you even get a whole ladder?”

Feyre shrugged, “Tarquin, the maintenance guy, and I are pretty cool.”

Alis rolled her eyes. “You guilt-tripped him with the cancer card.”

“Works every time,” Feyre looked satisfied with herself.

“Yeah, well, next time guilt him into supervising you too.”

As their short exchange came to a close, Alis’s face lit up, “I see you met our newest resident, Rhysand.”

Feyre gave me another glance. “If you count meeting as found him staring at me then sure.”

Rhysand felt his cheeks and neck heat as the embarrassment that that is literally what he did set in.

“Sorry,” he began to sputter, “I-I heard the music and just ended up in here, I’m sorry, I swear I wasn’t trying to be a creep.”

Feyre gave him a playful smile and held out her hand.

Rhys hesitated only a moment before taking her smaller hand into his.

Instead of usual, mundane introductions, Feyre ripped off the bandaid.

“So, you’re dying too?”

Rhysand’s stomach didn’t drop as he heard the raw words, he felt weirdly at peace in her presence.

“That’s what they tell me.”

Alis cleared her throat, “I hate to interrupt this heart-warming exchange but I was actually here to grab Rhysand for a moment.”

Feyre tore her gaze from Rhys. “Oh, okay,” her shoulders slumped a microscopic amount.

Quickly, Rhysand found himself being led down the hallway, the calm aura dissipating. He wasn’t fully listening as Alis explained that they needed to draw a little more blood, his mind just kept wondering back to you know who.

He tried to focus his attention to his hands as he always did when getting blood drawn when he noticed: a smear of charcoal had been left across palm.

His lips tugged up at the corners ever so slightly.

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hope this is alright! kinda cliche but what are you gonna do? also leave a reply if you wanna be tagged in updates i think that’s a thing people do lol.

#feysand fanfiction #feysand #feysand fanfic #acotar #acomaf #acotar fanfiction #a court of thorns and roses #acotar au #feysand au #feyre x rhysand #feyre archeron #rhysand #feyre x rhys fanfic #vanilla pudding cups #are you dying too?

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citadelspires · 4 years

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A Marcanne thing I threw together to feed the people who aren’t here for Ducktales and to prove to myself that I am indeed, a multifaceted individual.

The concept here is that Anne and Sasha never ran into Marcy and became friends with her. In this version Anne naturally comes across the box on her own and thinks it looks cool (I know she had that thing about frogs so she probably wouldn’t but this is an au anyway and plot needs to happen so lets just go with it). Marcy had also been interested in that box, but didn’t have the money for it or the bravery and/or skills to steal it. She’s walking up to the thrift store when she sees Anne walking away with it, and she’s decidedly antisocial and nervous about talking to other people but her desire to learn more about the box wins out over her inability to talk to people. She rushes over to Anne and explains that she’s curious about the box and wonders if Anne will let her stay and see her open it. Anne is a little weirded out by this girl coming out of nowhere but also we’ve seen she’s absolutely down to just get into some shenanigans with just about anybody so she goes with it.

The opening of the box takes place in the same way it does in canon, with the exception of Sasha isn’t there this time (I swear I actually really like Sasha but Marcanne is my bread and butter and also the amount of writing and skill it takes to write Sasha’s relationship with either of the other two is just, way beyond the level I’m willing to put in so I just put her in the timeout corner I’m sorry, honestly I think the box probably only works with three people anyway but this is a self indulgent ship concept soooooo. anyway) the other notable difference being that Marcy and Anne show up outside Wartwood together.

At first Anne thinks Marcy did something and is really mad at her for getting them trapped in another world and Marcy is not really great at explaining herself or really focusing on what Anne is saying or doing at all cause she’s too busy being fascinated by the new world and creatures around her so Anne does all this angry jumping to conclusion and makes accusations and Marcy just kinda... doesn’t bother to refute or acknowledge any of them. But eventually they get it figured out and they both end up moving into the Plantar’s basement.

Anne naturally gets closer to the family than Marcy does. She still hangs out with Sprig and Polly to a similar level to what she does in the show. Marcy, on the other hand, spends a lot of time off on her own doing research and that kind of stuff. She doesn’t have a job or position to really use it for in this au like she does in canon but she does it for herself anyway. It comes in useful when Anne and co get in over their heads. And though she isn’t as overwhelmingly present with the family as Anne is she’s just as much a part of it. She has her own unique relationship with all the Plantars and they consider her part of the family just as much as Anne, it just looks different. She does; however, get less respect overall from the townspeople than Anne accumulates. With the exception of Wally, who actually really vibes with her solo-questing-for-learnings-sake thing. The rest of the town though just sees her as a less present more secrety version of Anne, particularly taking a dislike to her whole studious thing because that just is the general vibe I get from wartwood. They’re more about the old ways and classic farming type stuff than going out and learning new things.

And of course, when you’re in another world with only one other person in existence you naturally want to spend at least some time around that person. Their first real interaction as friends is when Anne feels bad for the whole “accusing you of trapping us in another world” thing and wants to make it up to her. The two find they really don’t have that much in common but they enjoy themselves a lot regardless. They talk about home lives and earth and everything they left behind, at least at first. Eventually they start talking about earth less and less and the things happening in their new lives more and more. Though during the earth talks Anne finds out that Marcy had actually gone to the same school as her, just had been one of those people who didnt’ really stand out or do anything worth noticing. Except when she ended up clumsily making some big accident again but everyone got used to even that eventually. What Anne does learn though is that Marcy had seen Sasha around and she kind of gets to hear what someone who only ever saw Sasha as “that popular kid at the top of the social ladder” thinks of her. That’s probably a small point of contention between them at some point where Marcy just has this preconceived notion of Sasha (that isn’t really the full picture) and Anne has her own ideas about Sasha that are tinted by growing up with her and having her as the prime example of friendship her whole life, and Marcy is just kind of, not socially aware enough to know she probably shouldn’t say non-positive things about Anne’s best friend. (once again I promise I do actually genuinely enjoy and care about Sasha despite what this looks like).

So basically the two of them are figuring out this new world while also figuring out new things about themselves. And that whole time they get closer and closer until that reaches its natural conclusion with them getting together.

Also it’s worth noting that Marcy is just. Absolutely Covered in little scars and bandaids cause she never got better at being less clumsy on her own and she didn’t have Anne or Sasha to help her out. But now she does have Anne, who starts helping her out more frantically and fawning over her when she does inevitably get injured on her solo quests the more her bond with Marcy grows. Eventually she starts restricting Marcy’s solo adventure time and makes her wait for Anne or just do her studying within eyesight of whatever she’s doing with Sprig.

I probably don’t have the skill or the ability to make myself sit down and write something this long but I genuinely do love the idea so maybe I’ll do something with it.

#marcanne #annarcy #Marcy Wu #Anne Boonchuy #you thought it was ducktales #but it was i #Amphibia

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cruddyborderlandstheories · 4 years

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THE SEEIN’ DEAD MOD IS A BAND-AID FIX

gearbox locked zane’s lazy fix behind a paywall

tl;dr: for the love of god, the seein’ dead class mod should be what the seein’ red capstone is and vice versa. also. MORE SYNERGY. also i redesigned all of Zane’s trees and augments for more synergy you’re welcome.

is 1am and i don’t want tomorrow and im angry and thinking about borderlands so this seems like the perfect time to immerse myself in remaking Zane’s skill trees (for the 5th time). mainly because some of zane’s skills are still irking me and i’ve written extensive essays for the bl3 subreddit about the seein’ dead class mod and just playing around with zane’s skills in general, but i don’t think i’ve ever posted here before about it. so here we are. i notice i usually save lore/theories/characterizations for this blog and meta/balancing/gear talk for reddit. not sure why that’s a split for me.

now i’ve remade zane’s skills a number of times, but honestly this was all before the seein’ dead mod was released. then, instead of fixing his skill trees, i wrote a lot of essays about why that mod was a terrible bad decision on gearbox’s part (you can read one of the shorter arguments in a comment from 5 months ago here). I’m just gonna remake the skill trees now with all his current abilities in mind.this post really should be titled: ALL THE PROBLEMS WITH THEIR BALANCING DECISIONS

so imma just talk for a bit about why i love/hate the seein’ dead class mod.

Obviously it’s a god tier mod, and you see almost no zane builds without it, and no top tier, can solo m10 true takedown builds without it (unless ur like, the 1% of masochistic players, in which case i salute you). and while that obviously means its a good mod, it also shows the problems with all his other class mods and his skill trees in general.

They all kinda suck. and that wouldn’t be a problem, bc, hey, the seein’ dead mod is ez to get, just pop on over to the casino and kill a few baddies and they’ll drop like candy. Which is really awesome!

slight problem.

the dlc is locked behind a PAYWALL

now this is a problem because if zane was a top tier character BEFORE the dlc, and everything was hunky dory and people weren’t on their knees begging for gearbox to fix Zane, then him getting a new badass class mod wouldn’t be such a big deal. but the problem was this was gearbox’s solution to giving Zane a buff.

they literally locked a buff for a character behind a pay wall.

I recommend Zane is every single person I try to convince to play bl3, but i always have to add this like, commercial-esque asterisk. you know, terms and conditions or, side effects or whatever. *you probably want to get the seein’ dead mod if you’re looking at end-game play because unless you wanna struggle that’s his only viable play style.

what if they don’t want to buy the dlc?! for real...

There’s also the point that this class mod makes his (arguably) BEST capstone obsolete. so we have distributed denial which literally no one uses because its broken, double barrel which is always traded for seein’ red or more points in other skills, and seein’ red, WHICH WAS MADE USELESS BY THIS CLASS MOD

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okay and it wouldn’t even be so bad

IF THEY DIDN’T CHANGE HIS ENTIRE SKILL SET BEFORE RELEASE

like they lowered ALL his kill skills, then they turned Seein’ Red into his capstone instead of Death Follows Close, meaning they nerfed Death Follows Close so it could fit as just a game changer. my poor boy was g u t t e d.

so, imagine this, everyone is reaching the end-game content of bl3. it’s a month or 2 weeks or whatever after the game dropped and people are finally hitting level 50. and moze/fl4k/amara are all killin’ it, and the zane players have to work their ASSES off to do like... 50% of that damage output (now, they did also eventually nerf the crap outta moze and fl4k but the point stands).

so instead of gearbox going: “oh... shit that pre-release nerf was an awful idea, revert the changes guys” they decided to keep him gutted and then they released what was, in my opinion, a kick in the nuts with the maliwan takedown (aka the antifreeze mod, alongside the spiritual driver) ahahahahahaha. what good times it was. (I say this sarcastically.)

man i remember people were soooo livid with that class mod release. well, both of them. zane mains were pissed off (for good reason). “yes, let’s make the people who are begging for a straight damage increase jump through MORE hoops (LITERALLY) for a pitiful amount of damage. oh, also, let’s give their 28 skill point build to the strongest character in the game for free and also make it 10x better”. because it was 10x better than violent momentum (driver didn’t have a damage cap) until they fixed both the spiritual driver and the violent momentum skill. it was the worst of times.

i will note here they did, around this time, let zane have stackable kill skills, but it was only 2 stacks and also it was still *incredibly* difficult to achieve stacks because zane just. struggled to kill anything. I still remember when i grinded the shit outta an antifreeze class mod and it took me over 20 minutes to kill Wotan my first time solo on m4. Not the fight UP to wotan. literally. just killing wotan.

then the seein’ dead mod dropped and i had. a fuckin. 15 minute decrease to my time on killing wotan (5 minutes!!!!). now i am not perfect, and i 100% believe i could’ve lowered the time even more. but that... that shows a VERY CLEAR problem.

they never actually fixed zane, they gave him a class mod that’s stupid OP just to make sure he could hang on next to the other Vault Hunters. it’s just a bandaid fix. you remove the class mod, and he’s back to pre-jackpot power levels (which will NOT hold up at m10, let me tell you).

all his pre-jackpot problems are still here, and that’s why people are not using any other class mod of his. I bet we could have some really fun builds with the conductor mod! but nobody will ever use it because it’s just... not even close to the seein’ dead mod.

So what does the seein’ dead mod do that makes Zane so good?

IT BRINGS HIM BACK TO PRE-RELEASE VALUES

this mod, plus Death Follows Close, brings Zane back to pre-release zane. and i don’t understand how gearbox isn’t putting two and two together and going “Oh.”

it also is a BETTER VERSION of Seein’ Red!!! something players could have had at, like, level 15, but instead had to wait until they hit a capstone! the capstone is completely obsolete at this point. There is nothing seein’ red can give you that seein’ dead doesn’t do but better. Getting that capstone is a w a s t e of skill points.

AND they locked this fix behind a pay wall!!! i cannot say that enough. you don’t wanna get the handsome jackpot dlc?? guess u don’t wanna play zane at endgame then. too bad, so sad.

have i stated that enough? because it still blows my fuckin mind. THEY LOCKED A CHARACTER FIX BEHIND A PAYWALL

djhdgakjhakjdah. imagine playing without any prior knowledge and being like, aw man i love this zane character. can’t wait to get to max mayhem end game like all my favorite youtubers and friends!! then finding out you gotta drop 15 bucks or whatever it is just to actually be able to play at max mayhem level. that is not a skill difference, that is A BALANCING PROBLEM MY DUDES. like. my favorite zer0 build was still viable without the story DLCs. obviously grog > rubi, pimp > lyuda, rapier > law but, it was still fuckin viable.

guh. gufhgufhsdgkfjsdh. it bothers me.

ok so there’s a lot i just went over: my main issue? is that by making Seein’ Red a capstone, they did nothing to make it an actual legit capstone. They definitely nerfed Death Followed Close to make it a gamechanger, but they never gave Seein’ Red a buff to move it from a gamechanger to a capstone. It was the same exact skill. Seein’ Dead is what Seein’ Red SHOULD be and that’s what angers the crap outta me. they locked this obvious fix behind a pay wall (AND a gear slot!!!!!) n ur probably thinking ‘but cruddy this WAS really nice of them to try and fix zane... they could’ve just let him be suuc’ and like, yeah, they could’ve, and it is good they’re TRYING, but also, they’re leaving the people who DON’T buy the DLC high and dry.

keep in mind i DO own the dlc. have the season pass and everything. IM STILL MAD!!!

Zane should be strong no matter what class mod the players want to use. Same with Amara, same with Moze, same with Fl4k. FFS, it is not that hard. CHANGE THEIR SKILLS!!!!!

so im gonna be taking the time to go over all of zane’s skills and shit just to put him more on par with the others (WITHOUT THE SEEIN’ DEAD MOD)

imagine the seein’ dead mod doesn’t exist for this. we’re gonna make a balanced character since apparently THAT’S TOO HARD FOR A TRIPLE-A BALANCING TEAM

first things first, the tree with the most fuckin problems:

Under Cover

oh god this tree is a fucking train wreck what the hell were they thinking. good god. my eyes. they’re burning.

not actually, but it still kinda sucks.

Action Skill: Barrier is fine. I would not add the ‘picking it up decreases benefits’ when Zane’s whole schtick is running around fast. You get the full bonus no matter what form it’s in. also, you can hold down the action skill activation button to deploy the barrier directly on yourself.

Tier 1: Hearty Stock is a trap. never get this. so dumb. no synergy with his other skills. Adrenaline is okay, but not really great during end game. Ready For Action is similarly okay. Just a very MEH start to this tree.

Adrenaline: Zane gains increased Action Skill Cooldown Rate. 10% per level, up to 50%. this shouldn’t be tied to his shields being full because if your barrier is down (cooling DOWN)... your shield is taking damage. c’mon now. THINK GEARBOX T H I N K

Hearty Stock: (maxed) Zane and his clone gain 5% magazine regeneration while an action skill is active. This skill stacks. In it’s original state, this skill is such a trap skill. for real.

Ready For Action: i mean, it’s fine. We’ll keep it. +30% shield recharge rate and -29% (why????) recharge delay

Tier 2: ech. Stiff Upper Lip is not that good. Brain freeze is what u really want. Rise to the Occasion is also okay.

Brain Freeze: keep the same.

Stiff Upper Lip: when Zane is damaged with a hit that would break his shield, he gains (max) +20% bonus gun damage on his next shot through the barrier.

Rise to the Occasion: Zane and his clone gain health regeneration. +5% max health/s. Not determined by shield availability.

Tier 3: `screams in confident competence` oh lawd. this skill is good. the accuracy thing is kinda laughable. i tell you, i always thought that zane was originally meant to be the sniper with the Under Cover tree but they decided to swap Zane and Fl4k’s skills. which is why Zane has soooo many accuracy buffs.

Confident Competence: fine the way it is. I would also add, since this IS a game changer, that the Barrier’s damage amp is now 40%.

Tier 4: ew. tier 4. Really Expensive Jacket is literally the only skill you might want to get and EVEN THEN. ugh. Best Served Cold is so pointless. and so is Futility Belt. YOU TAKE MORE DAMAGE WITH IT

Really Expensive Jacket: Elemental Status Effects have reduced duration (-50%). Additionally, Zane is not slowed by Cryo anymore.

Best Served Cold: Remove the cooldown. Buff up the damage at least 200%. Make it an AOE Brain Freeze. That is, the cryo novas stack and if overkill damage is high enough, enemies hit with the novas freeze. Kinda like a discount Frozen Heart.

Futility Belt: HA. Ahahahahaha. Ha. Zane gains resistance to non-elemental and cryo damage (+15%). Futhermore, after killing an enemy, Zane’s barrier gains additional cryo damage (+20%) for 8s.

Tier 5: is oki. My only real complaint is with Nerves of Steel. Like. Seriously.

Refreshment: god tier skill actually. Keep the same.

Best Served Cold: also keep the same. The only change I will make is this: resetting your action skills’ cooldowns counts as action skill start and end.

Nerves of Steel: The longer Zane’s barrier is active, the more stacks of Nerves of Steel he gains (a maximum of 15). For each stack, Zane gains 2% shock damage, 2% cryo efficiency, and 1% damage to frozen enemies. (why shock damage? cryo doesn’t do well against shields.)

Tier 6: *cries in the worst capstone in the entire series* WHO DID THIS. WHY. WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU???

Distributed Denial: no. just. no. scrap this whole damn thing. IT DOESN’T EVEN WORK!!!! either fix it COMPLETELY or do something else. My recommendation? Whenever Zane throws down his barrier, his shield instantly begins recharging. If Zane’s shield is already full or recharging, enemies with no shields (or freeze immunity) that touch Zane’s Barrier for the next 10s are instantly frozen.

Augments: why the hell do i gotta place my barrier down when my entire fuckin’ character is about RUNNING. ALSO JUST AS A BLANKET STATEMENT: ALL THESE AUGMENTS WORK 100% EVEN IF HIS BARRIER IS PICKED UP. SO DUMB. a fully pointless restriction.

that last sentence immediately fixes Charged Relay and Nanites or Some Shite.

Redistribution: If his shields are full, Zane can sacrifice 50% of his shields to have his next shot deal 100% bonus cryo damage by holding F.

All-Rounder: Fine as is. Only thing I would add: whenever Zane melees an enemy, his shields are drained by 50% and his sliding augment is added to the melee attack.

Deterrence Field: Fine as is. But! I would add: whenever Zane sprints into an enemy, his shields are drained by 50% and slam augment is activated.

THAT WAY we can have both slam/sliding relics actually DO SOMETHING. because my god they’re so useless rn.

alright, moving on.

Hitman

Tier 1: is okay. nobody ever takes cold bore. ever.

Violent Speed: fine as is, but we’re taking it back to pre-release values. Max: 30%. can stack 2x.

Cold Bore: Zane gains (max) 20% bonus cryo damage to all shots fired while moving.

Violent Momentum: fine as is, but taking it back to pre-release values. 30% gun damage at default walk speed. Additionally, Zane can now shoot while sprinting.

Tier 2: my boy zoomer needs more fun.

Cool Hand: fine as it is. I would buff his base reload speed up to 20% and kill skill reload to 20% as well. 17 and 13 are such weird numbers.

Drone Delivery: fine as it is. Additionally, Zoomer’s base shots now take on the element of Zane’s grenade mod.

Salvation: fine as it is. I won’t mess with this bc life steal is messy business (coughs in grog)

Tier 3: hhhynf.fdsg.

Death Follows Close: Kill Skill Bonus: +30%. Kill Skill Time: +7s. Additionally, enemies targeted by Zoomer take 5% more damage from Zane.

Tier 4: these two skills are actually p dope by themselves. it can stay as it is. I would MAYBE increase the violent violence max buff up to 20% but that’s just me.

Tier 5: ahahahaha. this skill. just remember, we’re pretending Seein’ Dead doesn’t exist, so imagine how this skill looks next to calm cool n collected. so pointless.

Good Misfortune: Killing an enemy with a critical hit adds (max) 10% efficiency to Zane’s kill skills for 8s. This does not stack.

Tier 6: WE’RE GONNA MAKE YOU RELEVANT AGAIN BOO HANG IN THERE

Seein’ Red: Zane has a (4%) chance to activate his kill skills upon dealing gun damage to an enemy. Additionally, enemies targeted by Zoomer now take 15% more damage from Zane.

so why didn’t we make good misfortune the infinite action skill build?? BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT CCnC IS SUPPOSED TO DO!!! why have 2 skills that do the exact same thing AT THE EXACT SAME TIER except ONE IS OBJECTIVELY WORSE!!!!!

what happens to the Seein’ Dead class mod if we’re giving its perk to this capstone? I’m so glad you asked. “Zane activates his kill skills when activating his action skills. Additionally, the kill skills activated this way have 15% more efficiency”. look how much better balanced that is!!!! that’s a class mod!!!!!!!!

Augments: these aren’t THAT bad, but they could be a lot better.

Winter’s Drone: Zoomer gains 20% bonus cryo damage to all shots.

Bad Dose: pump these numbers up. Fire Rate: +7% per affected enemy. Movement Speed: +10% per enemy. everything else is fine.

Boomsday: just make this more beefy. fr. It’d be a good choice if it were stronger.

Static Field: also fine. I would again give it better damage output, but that’s just me.

Almighty Ordnance: remove the build up honestly. Like i get the vibe and it’s really cool, but in combat it just DOESN’T WORK. maybe if Zoomer is targeting an enemy, he will unleash the missiles if they are above 50% health after 30s or something. I honestly think these should have a debuffing factor instead of a damage factor (you know, to not get in the way of boomsday). maybe something around 15%? the 1x per action skill activation thing would be easily subverted with CCnC with the changes we suggested, so it could work.

Doubled Agent

ahhh, Blane. Blue Zane. Love ya, buddy. One change: he prioritizes pinged targets. That way you can kinda get him to fight specific people. Also, lower the teleportation timer. pls.

Tier 1: actually p good. could be better, but its not bad.

Synchronicity: Zane gains 20% bonus damage per active action skill. While Zane has an action skill active, he gains a stack of Synchronicity. Max Stacks: 10. For each stack of Synchronicity, Zane gains 5% Action Skill Cooldown Rate and 2% Action Skill Damage.

Praemunitus: Zane and his digiclone gain (max) 30% magazine size.

Borrowed Time: For each action skill active, Zane gains 30% action skill duration. The longer Zane’s action skills are active, he and Blane gain a higher Fire Rate and faster Reload Speed, up to 20%. (the idea is you choose between this or synchronicity bc... either permanent action skills build or fast paced action skills build)

Tier 2: Donnybrook is fun. Fractal Frags is fun. Duct tape mod is a GODDAMN DISAPPOINTMENT

Donnybrook: fine as it is. I might buff the max numbers up to 20% gun damage and 3% health regen. But that’s really it.

Fractal Frags: Blane will periodically toss a grenade from Zane’s stockpile at his targeted enemy (cooldown: 20s). Kill Skill: Blane has a 45% chance to throw a free grenade.

Duct Tape Mod: this skill... why... No cooldown. NONE. Zane has a 1% chance to also fire a grenade from his gun. Kill Skill: This is increased to 15% for 8s (stays at 1% for the whole time, but the kill skill will increase by 3% for each tier)

Tier 3: Actually Quick Breather is one of my favorite skills. this can stay.

Quick Breather: Same as is. Additionally, Zane and his clone gain 25% Gun Damage after swapping places for a short time (8s). I really wanna promote swapping places. It’s really underutilized. they’ve ADDED stuff to this skill already!!! even tho it didn’t work until the next patch. BUT THEY SHOW ITS POSSIBLE TO ADD TO SKILLS!!!

Tier 4: actually a really good tier. a few minor changes.

Pocket Full of Grenades: Kill Skill: Zane gains (max) 15% grenade regeneration for 8s. If Zane’s grenades are full, any excess grenades are shot from his gun with 25% bonus damage.

Old-U: If Zane falls into FFYL while his digiclone is active, he can press the action skill activation key to destroy his clone and gain a second wind. When he does this, he takes the place of his clone. His clone will also drop a grenade when it is destroyed.

Supersonic Man: Zane gains increased movement speed for each active action skill: (max) 15% each. Additionally, teleportation is considered to be Zane’s maximum speed for its duration and 5s after.

Tier 5: oh god oh fuck oh god.

Like a Ghost: Oh god why. Zane and his digiclone gain a (max) 15% chance to ignore all damage while teleporting and for 7s after.

Boom. Enhance: actually a pretty swell skill. I would probably add Health Regen +3% per grenade tho. Blane needs help a lot.

Trick of the Light: bring back the shock damage. Zane deals 40% bonus shock damage for 7s after swapping places with his clone.

Tier 6: oh ngl I actually love this capstone lol

Double Barrel: Zane’s digiclone gains a copy of Zane’s current gun when it is deployed (and all the anointments work and he actually fires it like a reasonable person). Zane’s clone now deals damage equal to Zane’s base weapon damage. Upon swapping places, both Zane and his digiclone deal 50% bonus damage for 7s.

Augments:

Binary System: is okay. Kinda uhhh underwhelming tho. Buff up the damage and also maybe reduce teleportation time.

Schadenfreude: I like this one a lot. Zane’s shield is restored by 100% of the damage his digiclone takes and vice versa.

Dopplebanger: lower the waiting time. I get that u don’t wanna override the teleportation, but it’s really annoying. Buff damage and don’t make it dependent on action skill duration. If this explosion kills an enemy, the clone is reactivated with 50% action skill duration.

Which One’s Real?: I’ve never actually felt this work. Maybe for like 2 seconds? Make it work more like Zer0′s hologram or Timmy’s Jack clones or smth. Maybe give an activation cue? im v lost with this one. Enemies targeting Zane take 30% more damage from the digiclone.

Digital Distribution: 75% of the health damage Zane takes is distributed to his clone instead. The digiclone gains 5% Health Regeneration/s and sends out 3 [level specific damage] shock spikes to enemies that attack it.

literally all Zane needs is SYNERGY. if they can change a few skills, pump up a few numbers, and ffs fix the seein’ red/dead capstone/mod, they’d be in FUCKIN BUSINESS

but no instead

THEY LOCKED THE BUFF BEHIND A PAYWALL.

WHYYYYYY

#>:(#borderlands #im not redirecting my anger im legitimately angrey about this wat u mean #bl3 #zane flynt #but actually this is such a frustrating thing to deal with

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any hayley or steve childhood headcanons hell add stan if thats ok!!

oo !!

hayley ones:

hayley was always bringing weird animals inside and trying to convince stan and francine to let her keep them. multiple instances of her running inside, covered in dirt, and holding a garter snake begging ‘please please can we keep her??’ while steve screams in terror.

that hc i mentioned of francine always standing up for the other kids ,, hayley inherited that trait. my god she was The Most protective kid during her school years, she absolutely refused to let anyone get walked over when she knew they didn’t deserve it.

hayley was a wolf girl growing up,, change my mind. and black wolves were always her fave.

hayley definitely read animorphs growing up. those books shaped her and her fave character was cassie,,, also once she got more comfortable with living with roger she bullied him for not looking as cool as an andalite or a hork-bajir.

hayley went through an emo phase during her middle and high school years. she tried really hard to get an emo fringe, she was always blasting mcr and the used and three days grace, and her first job was at a hot topic.

hayley and stan were obviously tight-knit buds back in the day. like ,, she’d set up tea parties for them in the backyard, going out to movies was almost a weekly activity for the two of them, they were always planning picnics together,, they were really close. also every time they went to familyland together, hayley was always trying to drag him along with her to the more Extreme rides. francine kept telling her she’d go since she knew stan wasn’t the biggest fan of those rides like she was, but hayley kept insisting and it’d always end with stan near traumatized. big cia man goes on scary missions daily but he can’t handle a little roller coaster.

hayley’s hair was . pretty often a Mess when she was young. it was staticky, always sticking up at some angle, she often got too excited that she never took the time to comb out her hair in the mornings. plus it’s always been a habit of hers to play with her hair whenever she gets too excited or nervous, so even if she got it all straightened out it’d still turn into a mess by the end of the day.

hayley was always covered in scrapes and bruises. there was never a day where she didn’t have a bandaid somewhere.

she was a really tall kid during elementary school. she was almost always the tallest kid in her class. around high school everyone outgrew her though and now she’s . really short compared to most people her age, but yeah when she was little . Tall Girl (2019).

hayley skateboarded in middle school, and she was really damn good at it. she got in loads of trouble for skateboarding on school property and she thought she was the coolest kid for doing it.

stan and francine tried really hard not to curse around hayley when she was little (once steve came around they gave up trying), but occasionally something would slip out and hayley would always parrot it. stan looking at a bill and muttering ‘shit’ and then in the living room hearing what is obviously a toddler screaming ‘SHIT’

hayley, like steve, was always kinda lonely during her school years. steve eventually found friends in snot, barry, toshi, and roger too once he moved in, but hayley never really learned proper social skills as she was often pushed away for being the loud rowdy ‘annoying’ kid, and they always viewed her attempts to try to get close to others as too ‘desperate’. she has found friends in her adulthood, but yeah during her childhood she mostly just stuck around her family.

hayley was That Kid who would always use those fake clip-on earrings you’d get from claires, as well as cutting up the spiral from her notebook to use as a fake lip piercing, and she’d spend all day trying to convince her classmates ‘yeah no it’s real’

hayley liked stealing her dad’s camera and using it to film fake vlogs. they have multiple reels that go from cute family videos, to hayley making lps vids and fake cooking tutorials.

hayley drew a lot growing up and francine still has dozens of her drawings magneted to the fridge. hayley’s always cringing and asking her to take them down, but tbh francine’s never going to.

hayley’s always loved being outside at night. occasionally she’d sneak steve out with her to play in the backyard and it’d always lead to them in the treehouse, and stan catching them because they kept shining their flashlight against their bedroom window.

steve ones:

steve’s definitely adhd, autistic, and dyslexic. (the latter’s literally canon, and the two former ones are hcs that to me feel so obvious that i’m always a little hesitant calling it a hc). i really like imagining his parents being really patient with him in this area, even stan learned to be more composed and gentle with him when it came to this, and the two of them helping him find ways to cope. francine especially enjoyed nights helping him read.

steve’s interest in birds has been with him for pretty much his entire life, i like to imagine it’s always been his biggest special interest. also i’ve noticed there’s random scenes where stan’s displayed a bit of an interest or at least an appreciation of birds, so i kinda like to imagine stan used to take steve to the park for birdwatching trips when he was young before steve started going with roger. sometimes francine and hayley would tag along, but mostly it was just stan taking steve out and listening to him ramble about all the birds he’s spotting,, every time steve had a bad day stan’s immediate solution was to take him to the park.

when roger first moved in, he and steve were inseparable. steve was obsessed with learning everything about him and his species and his home planet, while roger saw steve as the one safe person to be around (francine, hayley, and klaus were still anxious towards him while stan was too strict and controlling for him). for a good few months until he started bonding with the rest of the fam roger would get really mopey whenever steve would go to school or leave to hang with his other friends, and the second steve walked through that door roger would excitedly hug him and try to lead him off to go do something together.

@a-d-lesbian got me into the hc that steve’s a theater kid and like ,, i’m always thinking about steve getting a tiny little background role in a 6th grade christmas show that they were required to do as a class, and he just loses his mind. he convinces stan and francine to let him invite the grandparents, he has francine film every scene he’s in where he just . Stands There. and then after the show when they get home he makes them all rewatch them all because he’s really damn proud of himself.

steve’s fave books growing up were always xenofiction. stuff like warrior cats and guardians of ga’hoole and redwall. he loved that shit. like i’m just imagining him trying to get his friends to larp warrior cats but none of them read it so they don’t know what he wants them to do, and he keeps assigning them warrior cat sonas and calling them by warrior cat names at school,, and he keeps calling god ‘starclan’ (which makes stan. Mad). am i projecting? that’s a secret, i’ll never tell.

steve was absolutely the Anime Kid in middle school. the amount of times he got yelled at for naruto running in the hallways was far too much. and his faves were fruits basket, nichijou, and k-on.

i’m so obviously projecting with my steve hcs here but i’m not gonna stop and i’m gonna say steve’s a trans guy. i know it makes no sense in canon, but canon’s dead it’s mine now. anyways he’s known since around the time he started middle school, and stan and francine love him and support him and i don’t have much else to say without getting Too Projecting, but yeah steve’s trans.

steve was pretty socially anxious growing up. he did get better as he grew older obv, but when he was little he was A Mess in school.

steve loved making flower crowns when he was little. he learned how to in his 2nd grade art class and just obsessed over it for a good few years and he was always making them for the fam. francine, stan, and hayley didn’t mind, they thought it was cute. i can see hayley learning to make them too and the two of them exchanging crowns,, and francine probably learned how to make some too during her college years and steve would always get really excited whenever she tried making some with him. poor roger though, once he moved in, steve took him as his new model and roger was forced to suffer through sitting in the hot sun while steve covered him in flowers.

steve never stopped singing. oh my god, stan loves him but he eventually reached a point where he started hiding their disney movies because steve would always loudly sing along and he just wanted some peace and quiet to work.

i like to imagine klaus has a sibling-esque relationship with pretty much the entire fam, but especially with steve. he was always pretty protective of him despite not really being able to do anything if he got hurt, and klaus was always there to talk to whenever steve needed it.

steve’s always liked to help francine bake. originally it was just so he could claim the mixer of batter before hayley could, but he quickly got really invested and he still loves helping out.

and in general for the both of them:

steve was the type of kid who bonked his head against the table a little and would spend the rest of the night crying while francine comforted him,, while hayley was the type of kid who could fly down the stairs and leave an actual dent in the wall and she’d still jump up assuring everyone ‘i’m okay!!’

hayley and steve used to play pokemon together growing up. hayley was more casually into it while steve was more obsessed (i like to imagine it was a special interest of his growing up). nowadays hayley doesn’t play it too often, but every now and then some big news will happen like new starters getting revealed, and steve will show her and hayley still can’t help but get at least a bit excited each time.

francine tried to do cute little family halloween costumes a few years. the idea of them doing an addams family group costume is precious.

francine always took them out for christmas photos every year. just dozens of photos of the four of them in the tackiest sweaters. they don’t do it as often anymore (or at least they don’t take as many photos outside of a few while they’re setting up the tree) but they still have framed photos of them that they set on the fireplace mantle every year.

listen …….. there were definitely multiple instances when they were really little of stan coming home from work ,, and steve and hayley excitedly tackling him,,,, and stan dramatically acting like he’s being attacked and losing ,,,

despite roger being a Dick, he was super protective of the two of them back in the day. either of them come home from school with a bruise, and roger’s already planning out an elaborate revenge scheme.

as for stan ,,

i’m adopting @stancine’s hc to say he was definitely a country boy. i kinda like to imagine his uncle on his mother’s side lived on a farm, and stan was really close to him growing up and it just sorta became monthly to take weekend trips to see him.

stan loved horses. he was definitely a Horse Kid, and his fave breeds are clydesdales and friesians.

sheep too!! one of his favorite yearly activities is during the springtime when his uncle helps him out with shearing the sheep.

also stan loved camping. he loved going out on walks through the woods and he especially loved fishing, but the second the sun went down he cowered in the back of the tent next to his mom because he was terrified of the noises coming from outside.

stan was a really quiet kid growing up. he sucked at properly standing up for himself, that’s kinda the reason he’s so harsh on steve for accepting mistreatment because he knows how hard it is and he doesn’t want his son to go through the same shit he did.

mother’s day was always one of his favorite holidays. he’d be obsessed with planning the whole day around trying to make it perfect for betty. making her breakfast in bed and saving up his allowance to buy her a gift, and he’d always make elaborate art projects for her every year.

stan . tried to learn how to ride a motorcycle in high school. it was this random obsession he got for no reason where he just really wanted one, but he always panicked whenever he got the chance to try one out. never even got his permit because he was so scared.

stan had a lot of pent-up anger as a kid that he never even recognized as anger until he got older. because of that he often broke his toys on accident because something wasn’t working correctly, and sometimes he’d snap at teachers on accident. obv he still had a problem with it but at least now he knows what’s going on and can at least try to work on dealing with it.

betty used to read to stan at night when he was really young. they didn’t have many books around so it was just stan listening to her read the same four dr. seuss books over and over. he didn’t mind though.

stan’s always loved writing and a good chunk of his free time was writing little short stories. he took a creative writing class in high school and he almost immediately became the teacher’s pet.

stan was a pretty lonely socially inept kid and i like to think growing up he tried getting a lot of his ‘advice’ on how to interact with others through television. one time he tried to get a girl’s attention by doing the ‘throwing pebbles at their window’ trope, but he fucked up and got too big a stone and threw it too hard, and just shattered this poor girl’s window. and stan spent the rest of the night crying in his room before caving and turning himself in.

i can see him being really into superheroes when he was younger. just him bounding around the house with a blanket for a cape, acting out random scenes he read out of the latest issue he bought.

stan was obv a dog kid. he’d often find himself going to the adoption shelter near his house just to see the dogs there whenever he was feeling down. and his fave breeds were golden retrievers, pit bulls, and shelties.

god i have tons more for all of them but i’m gonna stop because this is already long enough as it is.

#i’m so sorry i didn’t mean for it to get this long djbfdjdkdkd #i'm tired too so i'm pretty sure a lot of this is Worded Weird and Awkwardly and i won't find out until tomorrow #anon #asks #long #american dad

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YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE !! IM GONNA CRY OK THIS IS GONNA BE LONG SDLAKFLJKASD

23 years old ( part of our timeline ) youngest of the boys

university student, undeclared major.

very talented at a lot of sports! mainly track and field !

has the most muscle out of the boys! not a lot tho

but he is a normal dude! no powers (as of yet!)

he is about 5′6″

blonde curly hair & green eyes. freckles and later on scars on hands & face (when he gets his powers)

very good at hugging like i mentioned before! !

LOVES ANIMALS !! all shapes sizes!! even the “ugly” ones! he is the kind of dude who will pick up spiders either by letting them crawl on his hand or by napkin and puts them outside

a vegetarian!

he is a social butterfly and loves people! he sees the good in most people! (doesnt have time for shitheads though)

kind to everyone he meets and wants nothing but the best for people!

he is the kind of guy who would put himself in harms away for a total stranger

he has a job as a babysitter to make some extra cash and mostly watches Henrik’s kids since both henrik & his wife work (their kids are 4 and 8 both little girls)

he loves to play pretend with the girls! sometimes they dress him up. play doctor with henriks stuff like stethoscope, tongue depressor, and bandaids. and heroes where he picks up the girls like they are “flying” in the air like superheroes!

he also reads to them and cooks them meals they love! he is like their big brother to them

he meets marvin one night when he sees him standing in the middle of the road looking like he was having a panic attack and a car was coming but saw no signs of slowing down. he pulled him away from it and tried to talk to him and see if he was alright

marvin and him become friends over time, jackie helping marv out and finding a small apartment to live in (the marvin isnt from his timeline but jackie doesnt know yet)

jackie being good at cooking making marvin meals since he seemed to not understand the appliances he was given so he would often show up with meals while the two of them talked, usually over stuff marvin has 0 idea what he is talking about such as current movies, social media, and so on.

jackie does eventually find out about marvin having fire powers and he is THRILLED to bits about it cause he exclaims how he is like a superhero and now he cant believe magic is real!

he helps marvin become more comfortable over time with his powers and each time marvin did a trick he would be sure to cheer him on and that helped ease marvs mind and raise his confidence by a LOT

jackie also learns where marvin came from and the whole ordeal about that and helps marv figure out his powers even more so marv can go back in time

he also was the one that helped marvin find a job where he can preform for others again and really just wanted marv to feel happy despite the situation he is now in

jackie eventually ends up alone again though due to an accident with marvin and his fire magic. marvin leaving out of fear.

but also while marvin was gone, he soon hears from henriks wife that henrik is missing but isnt saying much about it to not worry the girls. she at first didnt think much of henrik not being there but after days went to a week she worried, all past errors of her and henriks relationship aside.

jackie shows up more and more at henriks house to watch the girls till he has to leave for university again but makes it known that he will be there for henriks wife to watch the girls if needed.

jackie shows up often and the girls really take to him as a brother more than ever, him giving the girls gifts for their birthdays and christmas.

he over the months becomes extremely vocal about henriks disappearance and gets it out there as much as he can that he is missing but no one ever contacts him or the family about it.

he still goes to school and lives alone in his messy apartment. its small but its home to him.

worry gets to him and ontop of school stress he starts running and working out more to let things out, sometimes in unhealthy amounts.

he has pictures of him and marvin hung up that they took on his phone, showing off new technology to marvin

he does hear from marvin again via written letter next to a photo of them and he is relieved to know that marvin is still alive

but...

he gets his powers at the price of marvins death, marvin transferring his powers over to jackie since he trusts him. how marvin was “never much of a hero” but jackie can be. ( i wont go full detail of this again KALSDJFDSLL to save the trouble )

jackie gains marvins powers that are mostly elemental but his key one is electricity.

he gets hellbent on finding anti and killing him for the pain he caused to so many. to fix the past

his powers are very influenced by his emotions similar to marvin

when he is happy tiny sparks form around him and his hair kinda does that ghibli thing where it rises up

when he is angry or in deep emotional sorrow storms form with a LOT of lightning

he does learn to control his powers though! but sometimes when he meets people and handshakes them they get shocked a tiny bit, kinda like when you touch metal or when static clings and you get a small shock sometimes

he one day gets in a very bad fight and has a run in with anti using marvins body as his own. he was asked to babysit before it happened but he saw a cat that looked like it was in pain. he was going to pick it up and help it but the cat ended up shape shifting into marvin and it took him aback. seeing his dead best friend in front of him. then “marvin” attacking jackie. jackie ends up making it out of there but comes at a price with a fucked up right side of his face being bloody.

when he knows he is safe, he rushes to henriks home while trying to hide his face and get ride of the blood while using his sleeve. he ends up lying to henriks wife saying he got jumped but no one followed and that he is fine. but of course the girls see him but he plays it off as him “playing superhero”.

#answer #that is all thus far thank u for letting me honk #chirpy-chase

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