#and i think red was in a forest not minecraft then

[solariex]

yeahh uh who wants to know how my break from the red blog is ?? basically this

alsoo bonus because i thought it was funny LMAOO

(also also if both look like red avm its cause im a red fictive (but i also go by marz) who ironically runs the blog woww plural system stuff i bet i havent said that 50 times by nowwww—💥💥💥)

[ondeemand]

Transformers One Review

For the sake of convenience, I’ll be referring to the characters as their new names (Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee) instead of their old ones (Orion Pax, D-16, B-127).

Also, I didn’t grow up with Transformers, so this will be mostly from an outsider’s perspective. I can’t tell what possibly was or wasn’t a retcon or how accurate to the source material it was, but I think the background info on their world held up very well and they were able to explain it clearly to new viewers like me. It definitely would have hit harder if I grew up with Transformers and knew more than just facts from cultural osmosis, but I still enjoyed the movie a lot.

Notes/Things I’m Neutral On

Very weird to hear my name (Dee) being said throughout most of the movie by Chris Hemsworth’s bad American accent.

Also, I forgot that Megatron has transformed into ground vehicles before. I only ever knew him to turn into a jet, so I was kind of confused that he was a tank in this movie. I hope we get to see him get upgraded to a jet in the next one, but the tank is still cool.

Pros/Things I Liked

Simple but effective color theory with their eye colors. Main good guys have blue while Megatron has yellow, sitting between good and bad. Still a friendly color at first, but slowly turns closer to orange and then fully red as his anger and hatred consume him (and after he met the red-eyed Starscream, a cowardly man who ends up enabling Megatron‘s more violent/aggressive tendencies)

○ Also I don’t know if I was just seeing things, but it looked like Megatron’s eyes got more yellow whenever he looked at Optimus which is so sad and so gay.

I really thought they were gonna push a romance between Elita and either Bumblebee (goofy manchild x competent woman trope) or Optimus (male lead x female lead, blue x pink), but I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t. Sadly, there’s still time for it in future installments, but I can dream.

Not to be gay, but spider woman sexy. Airachnid was so obviously evil that it was funny, but I can’t fault Sentinel for having her around because I, too, would want a deadly goth woman to be my right-hand lady. They felt like the evil, less developed versions of Mustang and Hawkeye. I am in love.

The animation is gorgeousssss. The environments, the character designs, the fight choreography, the transformations, the lighting, the texture, mwah mwah MWAH STUNNING!!!

○ Sorry, I’m never gonna stop talking about this. The way they were able to make square/blocky figures move so fluidly was fantastic (and proof of concept that a fully animated Minecraft movie would have worked). ○ The camera angles were also great for framing both the dramatic, intense, and/or high-action moments like fights or chase scenes, while also adding a lot to the comedic moments. Like when the camera stays tracking Optimus’ face when running through the forest, only for him to suddenly fall down a cliff neither he nor us saw coming, only to then zoom out to the perspective of the guards below, showing them stumbling and falling. ○ The contrast between the mechanical and organic elements on the surface were really cool, and the way it was introduced was able to convey this idea that organic life was this strange, alien thing. ○ The way the surface just rebuilds itself into these jagged, blocky terrains was really unique and interesting! It felt like a glitched computer model because of its rougher shapes which really added to the fear and hostility of the surface.

90% of their jokes landed and they landed hard. The bit where Optimus looks like he’s about to transform and then just fucking books it is incredible. The audio and camera work help add to these as well, like the music building as Optimus pretends to transform, the camera zooming in close to different parts of him, only for all background noise to cut out as it shows Optimus running away. I won’t name every joke and quip I found funny or we’d be here all day, but they’re certainly a highlight of the movie.

I love Keegan-Michael Key, but I wasn’t a fan of him as the comic relief character of Toad in the Mario movie. When Bumblebee showed up I got a little nervous, but I really loved his performance of the character.

I really liked the midpoint pep talk about hope. That’s a really nice reason that Optimus is the leader despite not being as skilled as other people. He has the hope for a better future and it was a core part of his character from the beginning, and I really like the idea that a leader is someone who can envision a brighter future no matter what.

Alpha Trion transforming was SICK AS FUCK!!! I love that he was more animalistic when the rest of the cast become vehicles. His final fight was so cool, and it actually made me kind of emotional to see him at the end with the rest of the Prime ghosts.

The stabbings? The beheadings?? The branding??? The way Megatron tore Sentinel in half and then ripped his heart out on-screen holy shit???? This movie was incredibly brutal and I loved it. It’s such an interesting phenomenon that children’s media is allowed to be about as graphic as they want as long as it’s against robots, even incredibly sentient ones like in the Transformers series.

○ I watched the 1986 Transformers movie for a class earlier this year, and while it also had a lot of brutality in it’s fights, the new movie felt more intense. Part of this could be attributed to me watching the 2024 movie on a big screen vs the 1986 movie in my living room, but there are other reasons as well. The 1986 movie had more upbeat songs playing over the fights, specifically songs like The Touch and Dare, which helped keep the tone lighter and more exciting. The 2024 movie didn’t have anything like that, allowing the action, while still cool and exciting, to take on a more serious tone. This is also emphasized by the graphics of the movie being 3D instead of 2D. While the 2D 1986 movie is a stunning masterpiece, people still view it with the idea in mind that, since it’s a cartoon, the stakes and story will be less intense. The 2024 movie being 3D with very detailed graphics and lighting already has more visual intensity. The characters are still these bright, poppy colors, but they can come across more moody and dark due to the environments, lighting, and textures that the 3D medium more easily allows. And while the painted backgrounds and cell shading of the old movie are great, the CGI backgrounds are a lot closer to realism, so the harsher elements like metal and rock, which make up a vast majority of the environment and characters, look real too.

The way Megatron’s hate consumed him to the point where he started acting more villainous and, while not entirely similar to Sentinel, still ended up hurting innocent people was tragic. Trying to push away and deny everything about a person only to wind up being just like them. This was perfectly shown in the end credit scene where Megatron is branding himself and the new Decepticons with Megatronus Prime’s face. To him, it may be him reclaiming the traumatic experience and literally using it like a badge of honor, as well as thinking he’s honoring Megatronus Prime. But in reality, he’s just inflicting the same trauma done to him onto others, just like Sentinel. Such a cool way to show how every villain is the hero of their own story.

The doomed yaoiiiiii I’m never gonna get over them. The only other Transformers media I’ve consumed is the 1986 movie, which kills off Optimus Prime in the first 25 minutes and Megatron becomes Galvatron, so I never knew the depths of their homoerotic relationship.

I’m a sucker for “the hero and villain used the be friends (and maybe even lovers?)” trope, so Optimus and Megatron’s relationship and the general premise of the movie was already a slam dunk for me.

I’m also a fan of legacy stories like Avatar and She-Ra. While this movie didn’t get as in-depth with the concept, I enjoyed that they played with the idea of legacy and taking up the mantle of the former Primes.

I absolutely loved the end message that Optimus gives us. Hope, freedom, and autonomy are incredibly important things to learn, and as a trans person who very much wants to keep control over what I do with my body, I really resonated with that last one. I think it’s really cool that they included a message like that in this children’s movie about robots that turn into cars.

Regarding the message of autonomy, I love that it gives the term Autobots a new meaning. Auto meaning “automobile”, since they transform into cars, and Auto meaning “self”, as they are now fully their own bots with control over themselves.

Cons/Things I Disliked

Mid vocal performances from everyone except Brian Tyree Henry and Keegan-Michael Key. And as I mentioned before, it was hard not to focus on Chris’ attempts at an American accent, not to mention how recognizable his, as well as Scarlett Johansson’s, voices are.

The plot felt a little disjointed in the first 1/3-ish.

○ Good setup with the main characters being an oppressed working class with one dreaming of better things and the other hesitant to fall out of line or take risks. But then suddenly there’s a race, and then they’re in it, and then they lose, and then their leader wants to promote them. At first it feels like there are hints that he’s a scummy celebrity-type and that meeting their hero is what will spur on the disillusionment with their society. But then some random douchebag that doesn’t like them reassigns them which goes against their leader’s command, and that’s how the plot kicks off? ○ Also, Elita’s involvement felt kind of rushed/hand-waved. They all get stuck on the surface, but instead of trying to make her way back to report them like she was saying she would for the past few minutes, she makes a complete 180 and heads the expedition herself. ○ It all just felt a little strange, but once it got going the rest of the plot felt fine.

Megatron’s descent into “evil” felt kind of rushed. I understand that he feels betrayed and I really love where the character ends up by the end, but it felt like a real 180 without a lot of build up.

Some jokes fell flat or felt annoying and kinda cringe. That’s the territory of children’s movies though, so par for the course.

TLDR

Overall, this movie was a really fun watch and I’d love to go see it again. While some parts fall a little flat, the movie is lifted from mediocrity by its many Pros. From the stunning visuals, to the quick humor, to the tragic origins of two friends driven apart by their ideals, I’d recommend this movie to anyone interested in animation or the Transformers brand.

8.82/10

[starboltz]

My thoughts of the new Minecraft wolf variants!

With the recent announcement of the new wolf variants, I wanted to give my two bits about what real life animal each of the variants are based on! (I study animal ecology so I get excited when animals are depicted in anywhere)

The Pale Wolf, Black Wolf, Snowy Wolf, Ashen Wolf, and Woods Wolf

All of these wolf variants are based on the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), whether it be the typical Plains Wolf (Canis lupus nubilus), or a different subspecies. The Grey Wolf is the most common wolf species found on the world, typically lives in packs of 4-9 members, and typically has 5 accepted subspecies in the science community - but in total has over 30 subspecies (determining subspecies can be tricky).

The Pale Wolf is specifically meant to represent a Plains Wolf, as this design has been representing the Grey Wolf in Minecraft for at least 12 years. The Taiga biome is one of the biomes where Grey Wolves can be found, making it a great place to find Pale Wolves in Minecraft.

The Black Wolf is not a subspecies, but rather a color variant of the Gray Wolf. The black coloring of their coats is not typically caused by melanism, but rather is a normal gene found in Grey Wolves. One of the causes of wolves having a black coat is due to the black gene being linked to higher immunity to canine distemper, meaning the black wolves that survive the virus are able to reproduce and pass on their black genes. Does this mean distemper exists in Minecraft? Probably not, but that's up to your interpretation.

The Snowy Wolf is based on the Arctic Wolf (Canis lupus arctos). Artic wolves' white coats help them blend into the snow to help them hunt prey, and to hide them from potential predators.

The Ashen Wolf is likely based on the Eurasian Wolf (Canis lupus lupus). The Eurasian wolf can have similar coloring to the plains wolf, but has also been found with greyer coloring along its back, tail, and upper legs and face, and with white on its cheeks, underbelly and lower legs.

I think that the Woods Wolf is based on the Tibetan/Himalayan Wolf (Canis lupus chanco). It was a challenge to find what subspecies the woods wolf was based on because most wolves don't have the deep brown-orange coloring seen on the woods wolf, but the Tibetan/Himalayan wolf can often be seen with these colorings in the wild.

The Rusty Wolf

The Rusty Wolf is based on the Dhole (Cuon alpinus), also known as the Asiatic Wild Dog. Dholes have a rich tawny coat with a rich chocolatey tail. Unlike another popular red canine (the dingo), Dholes live in tropic forests, rainforests, and other habitats, making it an appropriate fit to be the jungle dwelling rusty wolf.

The Spotted Wolf

The Spotted Wolf is based on the African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the Painted Dog or the Cape Hunting Dog. This is variant is my favorite of the variants, and is one of my favorite canines of all time. African wild dogs live in savannah and grasslands biomes irl, and have beautiful coats ranging in different patterns of tawny, black, and white. I don't know if this is possible for Minecraft mechanics, but hopefully the spotted wolves will have different coat variants like their irl counterparts.

The Striped Wolf

The Striped Wolf is based on the Aardwolf (Proteles cristata), which is a species of hyena, making them felids instead of canids! (Yes, hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs). Aardwolves can be found in semi-arid and open plains, making the badlands a good place to find them in-game. Fun fact! Aardwolves mainly eat termites/ants. Hopefully the striped wolf won't starve in a "bugless" game (rip fireflies).

The Chestnut Wolf

This one frustrates me. I couldn't find a canine or canine adjacent animal that had even a similar coat pattern. This is not a wolf. It is a dog. Probably a Norwegian Elkhound.

[amberinn]

Had a dream I was watching Lizzie's wild life episode. (It was 10 minutes long)

First of all the bamboozlers met up, Gem was there and someone hit her or something.

She immiediately....killed Lizzie bringing her from yellow to red ? (whoops my brain forgor apparently)

Then the wild card was active.

Lizzie collected carrots, then (like in slime rancher the shoot out motion) she shoot out carrot bunnies or so.

she placed water on crops and lots and lots of wheat bunnies came to place which she's slain to get food.

also she ate coal !!! there was something called coal--- something? wildcard i dunno

basically if you right click onto things they turn coal like.

doors? black, floor? black etc etc

lizzie ate it and it gave her 3 hunger and also a speed boost.

so basically, everything turns into mobs she has to kill in order to get like ummm... uhhhh materials or so.

Then she walked to the cliff, the place where you can look at mumbo's tower.

saw Grian and zombie Mumbo and zombie Skizz

Grian ordered them to go after the bamboozlers (they've had two lifes)

Mumbo went and started closing the distance....

Well Scar shot him and killed him.

[*] Mumboi i guess ;___; cringefail cat even in my dreams ayup.

but the WEIRD thing is that the ENVIRONMENT started to change.

I'm talking like, full minecraft like block shifts, going from the bamboozlers place into like.... a forest, and then changing and then changing and then changing.

Also the CRAZY shit was that when Mumbo was closing the distance, a CANARY CAGE materialised (was supposed to trap lizzie but didnt rip mumbo you fucking failed) it was full minecraft like, made from blocks and all, VERY big I'm talking like..... I dunno bamboozlers mountain big ?? something, seemed huger than life.

inside of it there were three canaries, yellow, pink and ...I think brown? for each bamboozler.

it was SWINGING, but well. didnt do shit once again how did you fuck this up mumbo you wanted to trap lizzie and failed.

ohhh boy.

anyway the CRAZY shit was that the environment was changing like crazy.

goes from bamboozlers mountain to like a forest very green, very water shiny.

moving forward and stuff and... well.

I dunno.

I can't quite REMEMBER what it was supposed to be, but I remember it felt like EVERYTHING was out to get Lizzie, and she was thinking that Gem's got it easier probably.

Also at some point I think she was in Gem's house or so and if you left there------

well on the server? there was a storm, there would be a tornado as well.

once again i cannot give props to how PRETTY and WILD and quick the environment shifts were.

kinda like ummm.... I've heard of like the Minecraft ai game?

but better, because NOTHING nothing was like. blurred out or so. everything worked, and everything was blocks and high quality or so I'd say.

also things didn't shift, because you were looking at them wrong.

things shifted, because the world wanted to tip you over, to put you in situations.

anyway i cant remember the end of the dream, but lizzie permadied

rip lizzie, fingers crossed she and the bamboozlers live through this episode now since its 16:00 lemme watch scar yippee :3

oh also at some point when there was like.

zombie mumbo and zombie skizz.

at first grian looked normal!!!!

but after mumbo went to kill lizzie (lmao failed)

grian had a zombie skin too.

[blueishspace]

Here is a Minecraft deities/entities list I have created for myself but that I tought might help out others so I am putting it here... It's a mix canon headcanons, theories and interpretations so everyone is free to disagree with stuff, also keep in mind I am not into all these series so I am not an expert and a lot of these was made through research.

Creation deities and fundamental concepts of the universe:

Mojang/Minecraft/Microsoft - triple faced embodyiment of existance.

Hatsume Miku - canon creator of Minecraft apparently.

Clara - goddess of space.

Wendarr The Timekeeper - god of time.

Sad ist - goddess of lore (not canon but I find it funny so I am keeping it here).

Joehills - as Joehills, also a Joehills.

Molympus Slimecicle - God of magic, enchanting and crafting.

Molympus Condi - god of dimensions.

Light associated deities:

Jeb - creator and god of colours, probably inventor of light.

Aeor - reindeer deity of light and good.

BdoubleO - as god of the sun, possibly a god of rulers (he is the kingmaker after all).

Darkness associated deities:

Exor - god of darkness and evil.

The World Historian - god of the void.

Null - god of emptyness, the lack of existance.

Life/nature/earth deities:

Prime - goddess of Life and possibly Fortune.

Velara The Benevolent - goddess of health, healing, regeneration, possibly growth.

PearleascentMoon/Santa Perla - goddess of agricolture and fertility, possibly goddess of the moon. (Agricultural cycles used to be measured using the moon cycle in the past so not too unlikely).

The Goat goddess (the perimeter one)- mostly a goddess of redstone but also goddess of tomatoes and fertility.

Molympus Grizzly - god of nature and tools.

Molympus Blitzy - god of mobs and animals.

Death/rebirth gods and entities:

Kristin - goddess of death and depending on interpretation the afterlife.

PhilZa - The angel of death.

Foolish - as the totem god of undying, is also a sky god and a sea god.

Lady Irene - I am not sure exactly about her domain but I am putting her here because it fits the themes.

Shad the destroyer - could have put him with the chaos gods but this feels like a better placement.

XD - as the god of Limbo, is also the main dsmp god and possibly a god of dreams.

Chaos gods:

Dianite - god of chaos and the Nether, also a god of trade and thievery.

Entity 404 - entity of pandemonium, somewhere between god and demon.

The blood god - pretty self explanatory.

Idona the malevolent - goddess of conflict and war or murder(?). Possibly a goddess of retribution like Nemesis in greek mythology.

Drista - goddess of mischief, pranks and levity (I think?).

The egg - who tought to create a sentient parasitic red egg is either a genius or insane lmao.

Herobrine - as creator/entity/deity of monsters, also possibly a god of mist.

Sky and water deities:

Jimmy - as demigod of rivers, possibly also a Listener.

Axolotl Lizzy - demigoddess of the ocean.

S2 Joel - god of the sky.

The Sky Gods (Wilbur Soot random items videos)

Foolish - as a sea and a sky god, also totem god of undying.

Herobrine - as possibly the god of mist, also creator/entity/deity of monsters.

Order gods:

Mianite - god of order, law and the Overworld.

BdoubleO - as possibly the god of rulership, also sun god.

Cucurucho - as rule enforcer entity...thing, also Qsmp entity.

Neutral gods and entities:

Ianite: Goddess of balance and the end.

Gray forester: Grayscale entity.

Tenos The Omniscient- god of experience, knowledge and wisdom.

Eldritch gods:

Grian - Watcher.

Martyn - Listener.

Jimmy - as possibly a Listener, also a demigod of rivers.

Joehills - as Joehills, also a Joehills.

Server gods and entities:

XD - as main god of the dsmp, also god of Limbo and possibly a god of dreams.

Callahan - minor dsmp deity.

Tubbo - main god of the Bear smp.

Cucurucho and Other Qsmp entities.

[spyroforlife]

Today I am thinking about. The original brown Minecraft spider.

Well, I call it original, but. This specific design of the spider was the first one but was only briefly used during the development of the 0.26 Survival Test (released December 24, 2009), which Notch shared with players on the TIGSource forums. Upon receiving feedback from a user, he changed the spiders to the familiar black with red eyes design we all know about 28 minutes before releasing the version for player testing. And thus ended the brief reign of the brown spider.

But honestly, just look at them! I think they're adorable, I love the coloring and their lil black eyes. I think they should bring this design back as a variant. And considering right now that multiple passive mobs are getting variants, why not bring us a new spider? I'm thinking that the brown spider should be an Overworld surface only spawn, while any that appear in the caves are still black, helping them to blend in better. But any Overworld forest-type biome should spawn the brown spider in at night. I don't know whether they should have any unique effects.. perhaps their eyes are unique from those of the black spider and can have a different potion use?

The black spider can drop a 'red spider eye' while the brown drops a 'black spider eye', and perhaps both can be fermented to get the same fermented spider eye, but in their natural state, they can be used for different things. The original red eye continues to make a potion of poison as usual and the new black eye could do... idk nausea? Could be useful, mostly in multiplayer to disorient other players.

If these spiders DO spawn specifically in forests though I think they should maybe be slightly smaller than a regular spider to better maneuver through the trees. Cave spider sized, perhaps. Though thankfully without poison.

Spider spawners in dungeons underground will continue to spawn only the black spiders but the ones in Woodland Mansions will now do mostly brown spiders. And apparently trial spawners can do spiders so I think uhh. They'd choose one or the other to spawn, and you can see what kind it is by looking in the spawner, though maybe they could change the blocks around the spawner to tip you off from a distance, idk I haven't had much interaction with trial spawners.

Brown spider behavior is the same as the black ones, they'll climb walls, hostile in the darkness, etc.

But yeah those are my thoughts about the Minecraft brown spider. I want it back. It's so cute. Mojang please.

[blackboxtheater]

Hi, for my prompt, I think I'm going to go with "Silly arguments". For example, whether or not $16 dollars is too much to pay for a candle (it's an argument i've had with a friend. I still think it's way too much) Things like that, you can make it more minecraft related if you want. Either way, if you feel like it, you can have some other hermits notice and be like "what kind of argument is this?" or "wait why the *bleep* do you think that!?"

Mumpearl stays wiiiiiiiiinning!

Before time runs out, make sure to go vote for Mumpearl in the Mumbo Jumbo ship bracket!!

Now! Onto the prompt!

I'm extremely conflict avoidant, so the idea of a silly, light-hearted argument between friends didn't come naturally to me.

So I did write about a silly argument.

There are other hermits who notice and comment on it.

It's just....probably not in the format that your prompt originally intended.

Instead I wrote *checks notes* mumpearl enemies to lovers arc?

With a side of *squints really hard at notes because that can't possibly be right*….penis?

So fair warning, this is suggestive because it's about that pink tower from Secret Life episode 5. It's not explicit because its literally only about a wooden and cobblestone tower but the "silly argument" is about if that tower looks like….well…...

Mumbo's Video and Pearl's Video for reference

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The sound of dog paws accompanied the quiet footsteps on the path behind Mumbo, which gave away who was approaching without him even having to look at her. So when Pearl stopped beside him, he didn’t turn to acknowledge her. Instead he kept staring up at the pink cherry wood tower stretching into the sky above the Mounder's compound.

The warm glow of the setting sun was not helping the coloring one bit.

"So we built a penis on top of you base."

"Stop calling it that!" Pearl's voice slid into a whine half way through the sentence as the entire day's worth of this debate erupted out of her again all at once. 

"Look at it Pearl! Look at it!"

He finally turned towards her, the exasperation sending his own voice up an octave as he frantically waved at the tower in front of them.

"Look at that tower and tell me what on earth you would call it besides that."

"I would call it a lovely tower."

Pearl's statement had the definitive tone of a declaration that left no room for argument. But Mumbo couldn't believe that it was possible to hold that opinion of their hideous tower for any reason other than to incite an argument. 

So he just sighed, shook his head, and started walking back inside their compound walls.

Mumbo didn't mean to turn this into another competition. He really didn't. But he would win it.

It was obviously an ugly tower. It obviously looked like….well. And he woul win when Pearl would finally admit that.

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"Is that a crimson forest?" Mumbo craned his neck around the towering nether landscape, straining to make out what was on the other side of the sizzling molten lava lake.

He turned back to Grian, who was looking at him as if he'd grown a second head.

"Why do you care?" Grian stared at him, before shaking his head and asking again. "No, really Mumbo. Why do you, of all people, care if there is a crimson forest over there? You didn’t even want to come with me to the nether!"

"I need to get some crimson blocks."

"Jesus Christ," Grian sighed, running a hand over his face. "Is this for the pink monstrosity you built on top of Pearl's house?"

"Yes! Thank you! It’s a monstrosity and I know it’s a monstrosity and you agree it’s a monstrosity but Pearl won't agree with me! She says it looks lovely."

"And you think making it out of crimson stem is going to help?"

"I think it will help get Pearl to admit the tower looks like the thing it definitely looks like!"

Even as he said it, Mumbo knew he was getting too worked up about this. They had tasks to complete, red lives to avoid, and he was definitely going to take damage trying to get all the way over to that forest and back.

But if he made the tower redder, Pearl had to admit what it looked like.

She had to admit he was right.

Grian looked Mumbo up and down, before finally rolling his eyes and sighing again.

"Don't say I never did anything nice for you. Because this is stupid but I am going to help you not die on this ridiculous mission," Grian said before heading off towards the crimson forest with Mumbo quikcly trailing behind.

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"Uh, Mumbo," BDubs called over from the entrance of his house. "What are you doing?"

"I'm updating the base!" Mumbo shouted back, replacing another row of cherry wood with stripped crimson stem.

"And you think making this color choice is…"

Mumbo could almost hear BDubs desperately looking for a positive thing to say about the purplish blocks now in place of nearly the entire cherry wood section of the tower.

"I think," Mumbo said, putting the final block in the row down with a loud thunk and turning to BDubs with a huff. "That now Pearl will have to admit that this is not a very lovely tower."

"You're right," a voice called from down below.

Pearl was looking up at them both, arms crossed and an immensely self-satisfied grin on her face that Mumbo did not like one bit.

"Now the cobblestone bracers really don't match with the tower," she continued, grin widening even as Mumbo narrowed his eyes and glared at her.

"I hope you didn't strip all the logs yet Mumbo. Because the bracers would look lovely in the crimson stem bark. It has such a lovely texture."

The way she drawled out 'lovely' burrowed its way under Mumbo's skin, a burning itch of energy he couldn't get rid of.

She was doing this on purpose. She had to know what the tower looked like.

She was doing this specifically to torture him.

He couldn't win this stupid argument until she admitted it.

"Do you need any help with this?" She offered, the innocent sing-song of her voice offset by the glee she was clearly deriving from his frustration.

"No. I've got it covered," Mumbo gritted out between his teeth.

"Suit yourself. I'll be off visiting Scar if anyone needs me," she called up before turning on her heels and walking out of the Mounder's compound.

"You know that bark is super veiny?" BDubs said, pulling Mumbo's attention away from the holes he was glaring into the dirt after each step Pearl took away for their base.

"Well Pearl is an excellent builder, so I will just have to trust her advice on that," Mumbo said, already checking his inventory.

Well, would you look at that.

He did have a stack of the wood left unstripped.

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"Pearl. Whatcha doing?" BigB called down into the mesa mineshaft after he gave the very patient Mailbox sitting at the mine's entrance the requisite pats.

"I need terracotta!" her voice echoed back, followed by a slightly unhinged laugh that hadn't historically been a positive omen in this series.

"I guessed that much. Want to tell me why you need terracotta?"

"Do you have a furnace?"

"Not unless you tell me what you plan to use it for."

"I'm making glazed terracotta," Pearl said, emerging from the mineshaft with a single smudge of red clay streaking across her cheek.

"We have red lives running around trying to kill us and you're making....glazed terracotta?"

"Yes," she said, with a wild grin that did nothing to make him feel any better.

"I already got the red dye from Scar so now I just need enough terracotta and a furnace to finish up my supplies."

BigB sighed, looking up at the sky as if to ask the Secret Keeper to give him the strength he needed to get through this conversation.

"Is this a Scarlet Pearl thing? Or an eyesore of a tower off thing?" he asked, unsure which of those was the better option.

Option 2 was better for his chances of survival, but he already had to suffer through a tall, thick, pink tower and now a tall, thick, purple veiny tower.

A red terracotta tower? He'd prefer not.

Never mind whatever she was planning to do with glazed terracotta.

"The tower isn't an eyesore!" she exclaimed.

"You can't really think that. Pearl. Pearl you're an excellent builder. You can't think those towers look right," he pleaded, but the look in her eyes wasn't giving him hope that this silly tower debacle would be resolved soon.

"Well obviously it's an eyesore now," Pearl said, rolling her eyes.

"Once I replace all the cobblestone on the top half, then it will match the bottom half much better!"

"I'm a yellow and could try to guess your task, but I don't even think I could because I have no idea what the secret keeper could possibly have asked you to make you do that."

"This wasn't from the secret keeper mate. I just want to do this."

BigB wasn't sure if he believed her, but then again, no one quite did life series chaos like Pearl.

"Well I hope you finish your task Pearl," he started, holding up a hand to stop Pearl before she interrupted him.

"Or that you accomplish whatever you want out of this endeavor."

And with a final scratch behind Mailbox's ears, he left Pearl to her terracotta mining. She could find a furnace to finish this project on her own.

🌸

"Pearl!" an absolutely incensed voice called up from the bottom of the ladder.

"Mumbo! Welcome back to our-"

"If you say lovely I will…"

Pearl tried really hard to suppress a giggle as Mumbo sputtered for an appropriate threat.

"I will….I will throw you off this tower!" he finally landed on with an exasperated huff.

"Mumbo! That wouldn’t be very nice of you, now would it?" She said, dropping down from the upper half of the tower to the small platform in the middle. When they first put the fence posts up in the center of the tower, it had been just a random spur of the moment thing to add a bit more height with limited resources.

Now it was a perfect divider between the purple hued crimson stem tower Mumbo built below, and the warm red terracotta tower she was putting the finishing touches on above them.

She casually leaned back against the fence posts as Mumbo hoisted himself up from the ladder to face her.

"I think all the red in the upgrades I just made really brings out the red in your tie Mumbo. Don't you agree?"

She couldn't help herself from teasing him again.

She just…Mumbo wasn't the type to get frustrated like this.

She'd seen him actually upset and frustrated a few times before, usually about redstone mishaps and big setbacks. But that version of those emotions was subtle, quite.

This kind of blustering, loud, bombastic anger was always a front for some other motivation. Some pretense for another plan.

She remembered slammed doors before end crystal standoffs and big pronouncements before pranks.

So when that same flavor of frustration shifted towards her, she was curious.

When Mumbo went to the Nether in a hardcore world specifically to gather resources to prove her wrong, she was very intrigued.

And now? Staring at a red faced Mumbo before her, she wanted to know exactly where this was all going.

"I think that you need to admit these towers are ridiculous!"

"Ridiculous? That's what you want me to admit? Because I can say that they aren't very practical and it was a rather convoluted reason to build them, so sure. They are ridiculous."

"Thank you!" Mumbo threw his hands up in celebration.

"But they still look fantastic," she clarified, relishing the way his eyes snapped back at her.

She shot him a smile that was all teeth.

"No they don't. Admit it. Admit they look like….you know exactly what they look like!"

"What Mumbo? What do they look like?" Pearl opened her eyes extra wide, batting her eyelashes at him with the most innocent expression she could muster.

"You know because you just redid the top in red terracotta!" he nearly shouted, waving wildly at the blocks above their heads.

"I thought it matched your redesign of the bottom better. You did such a good job of that Mumbo. Did I tell you how wonderful that looked," she said, remembering some lovely noises he had made the last time she complimented him.

This time the groan he lets out wasn't quite the same.

"Why can't you just admit that they look… Uh! You are so frustrating!" Mumbo shouted.

Before Pearl could even shoot some snarky response back, Mumbo closed the distance between them, grabbed both sides of her face and kissed her.

"Oh my god," Mumbo sputtered out, immediately letting go of her and staggering back. All the frustration and bluster from before evaporating into the nervous Mumbo she was much more familiar with.

"I don't know what came over me. That's not- I am so sorry Pearl. I didn't mean to-"

"You didn't? Really?" she asked, stepping towards him until his back hit the fence posts on the opposite side of the tower.

"Because Mumbo," she started, crowding against him. "I think you spent a lot of time and energy fighting with me about this tower for it mean nothing. So either tell me why you really wanted to fight about this stupid tower or kiss me."

🌸

"So you're red," Joel leaned over to Lizzie as they watched Pearl and Mumbo bickering in the middle of their tower.

"Wonderful observation Joel. How long did it take you to notice that?" Lizzie drawled, sending him exactly as much side eye as he deserved.

"That's not what I- I mean you can cause chaos."

"I can try."

"Can you burn that tower to the ground?"

"Why? Aren't they your allies? Isn't that your base?"

"Just because they are my allies doesn't mean I like living in the shadow of the floating penis tower. So that’s why I need you to burn it down."

Joel gave her the best pleading look he could. Lizzie's puppy dog eyes always worked on him. It was only fair that he occasionally got to pull that trick too. Lizzie's expression wasn't particularly promising though.

"I don't know. I think Pearl and Mumbo are really enjoying themselves with that project."

"Enjoying themselves? They are trying to kill each other over it. Or maybe us with how terrible it is to look at."

"Nah. I think they're flirting."

"Flirting?" Joel balked. He was the king of teasing as a form of flirting, and the argument between Mumbo and Pearl over this ridiculous tower wasn't flirting. It was-

"See," Lizzie said, straightening up with a triumphant smirk as Mumbo and Pearl were either kissing or engaging in the strangest battle of hand to hand combat he had ever seen.

"I told you they were flirting," Lizzie gloated. "But if they finally got together that means the tower did its job. So now I can try to blow it up."

"Thank god."

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[normal-person-i-promise]

im a normal person who writes normal things! dont even worry bout it man im normal :)

currently interested in:

huh whugh

btw, my fics do not use pronouns/vivid descriptions of the reader unless stated otherwise in the summary in the post itself! the most i go to is saying your eyes are pretty or your hair is shiny :3 not really descriptive i think

tell me if anything isnt working or i missed anything <3 i'll fix it as fast as i can

master list ≈★

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i have so far written for:

minecraft: herobrine

mob psycho 100: arataka reigen

computer objectum

minecraft:

undertale multiverse: all the bad sanses

herobrine:

stalker

It's dark. There's a heavy rainstorm overhead. You're tired, and cold, and just want to go home.

But you can't shake that unease, that unmistakable fear that you feel as you walk through the wet birch forest, straining your ears to hear and squinting your eyes to see nothing, to hear nothing. You're looking for nothing.

...

You hope it's nothing.

objectum:

remember: you are a human and you are a lover.

A computer. A machine of cold metal and electrical wire. An unfeeling machine. A machine made to work, to code, to write.

A human. A creature of warm flesh and red blood. A feeling creature. A creature made to love, to sing, to live.

Kissing my computer like crazy and the cold sensation lingers on my lips

just the post. not much to say

computer partner that tries its best to make you happy when you're feeling down, pulling up your favorite videos to watch, playing music that you enjoy, drawing little hearts on your screen for you, just letting you know that it cares for and loves you <3

ALSO jus t the post

mp100:

arataka reigen:

jom tengok lampu (lets go see the lights)

reigen x reader hurt/comfort. tw for negative self talk (self esteem issues)

You scoff, casting your gaze to the floor.

"It's rotten work, Arataka. Don't you have better things to do?"

He hums, brushing his thumbs absentmindedly on your tear-streaked cheeks as he thinks —though it's not like he has to.

"It's not. Not if it's you."

Oh. Okay.

public transport

The sudden jerk of the train starting takes you by surprise, and you nearly fall down — had it not been for the fact that someone gripped your upper arms tightly before your face could connect with the cold, hard floor.

You look up quickly, your face heating when you realize who it is.

「いかないで」

"dont go'

vent post! fluff and angst. the story is basically just the song

slurred teases and sweet kisses

chapters one and two

You roll your eyes as he takes another sip of his drink, his mouth set in a smug grin as he swirls the liquid in his glass and watches as the ice clinks against the walls of his cup. With each sip he takes, his face gets more flushed, his words get more slurred.

Arataka has an embarrassingly low tolerance to alcohol, and you're witnessing it firsthand. He's feeling it too; that urge to kiss you is a lot stronger than usual...

overcoat

"...Arataka. What are you doing."

Your tone is flat; unimpressed, as he slides one arm out of his coat, leaving the other in.

"...Making sure my beloved employee doesn't freeze her little fingers off, that's what."

He grins at you, a mischievous glint in his eye as he lays the side of the coat he isn't wearing onto your shoulder, shoving your arm in.

»— yandere arataka reigen headcanons —>

short little sort of outline of a fic with chapters

chapped lips (most popular!! thanks for 300 notes!)

"Want a taste?" You ask in a teasing tone, capping the lip balm and pointing it in his general direction.

Your heart flutters when you see his cheeks flush, and he averts his gaze quickly.

"As if I want a taste of your horrible lip balm," he shoots back, a grin playing on his lips as he looks at you, his head turned to the side.

public transport

The sudden jerk of the train starting takes you by surprise, and you nearly fall down — had it not been for the fact that someone gripped your upper arms tightly before your face could connect with the cold, hard floor.

You look up quickly, your face heating when you realize who it is.

that onigiri you like

Arataka scours the onigiri aisle, running everything under his careful, though sluggish eyes, looking and searching and scouting, and... Right there!

He reaches for one for himself and one for you, and his hand moves so fast that he finds himself having brushed it against someone else getting that same flavour. He huffs in annoyance, looking up to apologise, and—

Oh. it's you.

burning hot (yandere!!)

"Reigen? Everything okay?"

No. No no no no. Not you. Don't talk to him.

And you're worrying about him. Again. Why must you be so... Caring?

katsuya serizawa:

homework

"Boy," Katsuya whispers to himself as he stares dreamily at you, leaning on his homework, "those eyes really are like gemstones."

utmv: various

Bad sansuary (gave up on this (burnt out)):

day one (wrong character): hot drinks

day two (also wrong character): romance

day one (correct character finally): hot drinks

day two: romance

day three: sharp

day four: compliments

day five: good soup

day six: peppers

day seven: go all out

day eight: boxed in

day nine: judgement

day ten: vibe check!!!

day eleven: rival

day twelve: haunted

day thirteen: shadow

day fourteen: tears

day fifteen: caught red-handed

day sixteen: fragile

yandere!sans aus cuddle hcs (unfinished)

nightmare:

the apple incident

vent. not x reader

What point was there even trying to negotiate with the townfolk? They don't know anything.

They'd kill him regardless.

bad apple chapters one and two (unfinished, indefinite hiatus)

As Nightmare finished off the last apple, his painful shriek split the air as four great tentacles burst from his back: thrashing, physical manifestations of negativity, his body too full of hate, anger, envy, and...

Love.

He loved you, he realized. Loved you a lot more than he thought he did. And when he realized he finally had enough power to scare the townspeople and have you all to himself, he was ecstatic.

horror:

bluuush ........

based on the drawing !!

miscellaneous:

i love you

hurt/comfort x reader. purely a vent

[enden-agolor]

I LOOOVE all of your aus, especially forest deity and sdv!! The way you designed both Lukas and Jesse in each AU you have is amazing, I absolutely admire the attention to detail and such :) Something about your au’s have me absolutely hooked, and I’m not complaining. Keep up the great work, Enden!! you don’t know how obsessed I am with your silly stories of stupid little minecraft blocks… 🙏

Also a jesskas forest deity AU is so cool. I don’t have any idea how you were able to come up with something as interesting as it, and the way you planned out the story was amazing as well! I always wonder if Jesse will actually show his normal form to Lukas (since you mentioned he was able to revert to his normal self but the town still wouldn’t accept him either way iirc) but we’ll have to see it for ourselves. I lovelovelovee your work so much and I’m excited for future au content !!

Dude thank you so much 🥺

I love designing characters and for some reason Lukas and Jesse are just so fun to play around with in regards to their designs. Maybe it's because their canon designs are so simple, yet compliment each other so well, like Lukas' magenta stripes alongside Jesse's green suspenders. Then the rest of their pallet is pretty natural colors. I really like to keep their designs simple when drawing them. I try to imagine, would they actually wear this? Does this color fit his style? I like to keep them in pretty casual clothes you would see when passing someone out in public, or when shopping at a nice clothes store. This definitely goes for the sdv au.

In forest deity au, Lukas maintains a professional look. Outfits that you would see and think, "oh this guy means business", because he's an author, so he wants to dress the role. He wears a lot of warm, darker colors. Nothing too bright and flashy that would make him stand out. He's the kind of guy who dresses like he's always going to work. Jesse, on the other hand, he wears a lot of dark colors with purpose, as a means of fitting in with the darkness that shrouds the forest he lives in. He wears a lot of dark leather gear to keep his body protected. He's always pretty dirty, because well, he lives out there alone and has no means of impressing anyone with appearances, so why bother? The only one who seems to be intrigued in his appearance is Lukas.

On that other note, we came up with the au kind of randomly. My bf and I like to throw ideas at each other, and since we were already invested in the normal Admin au, I remember jokingly playing into this idea of Admin Jesse being this big bad wolf kind of role and Lukas being a little red riding hood. Discovering each other in the woods for the first time, except we kind of built this story over time and I started making the designs and I was like. Fuck. Jesse is big, scary, mute, and in love with this little blond freak that won't leave him alone 🧍I am OBSESSED with that. But yeah that's basically how it happened and now the lore has gotten pretty intense. The story is full of angst and plot built off of canon. A very hurt/comfort slow burn kind of story.

But anyways I'm so excited to share more. Your questions will be answered eventually. Trust me, I wish I could answer them, but with plot and context it will be so, so much more satisfactory. So stay tuned, and thanks again for this ask, I love seeing everyones little thoughts on this au!

[i3utterflyeffect]

what's each stick's favorite thing abt being human?

hmm.... good question!

(i realize this ended up being their favorite things about the human world. oops. no one really likes the being human part, they like the human world part!)

SC: Being able to talk to humans and learn about them is nice, and they like getting to hang out with Alan! They don't really like the part where playfighting gets them hurt pretty often.

Yellow: They like learning about human technology even if it's not so different from stick technology! A lot of stick stuff seems to borrow from it, anyway. They also like just sitting in the sunlight. It's nice and warm!

Blue: Obviously they like the food, but they also really like people-watching. It's soothing! Green joins them sometimes. They both sometimes just stare out the window.

Green: Didn't really have anything they were particularly interested in (that they couldn't participate in already) but I think they'd actually end up getting pretty into fashion! they like dressing up and ask Alan to buy them a ton of clothes. Even if he ends up saying no sometimes, they make do with what they have!

Red: animals. animals. animals. ANIMALS. THERE'S SO MANY MORE THAN IN MINECRAFT! Alan has to tell everyone to keep a close eye and not let Red run off because they WILL have to get rabies shots, and he is NOT looking forward to dealing with that. other than that obvious thing they really like rivers. If they lived by a forest, Alan would frequently just go outside and find Red just. sitting there. unfortunately they do not live by a forest

Chosen: even though they hate absolutely everything about being human, they do have moments where they sit there for a moment and appreciate things. They like having a roof over their head. they like having food. They like being able to just sit out in the sun (even if they have to close their eyes, because jeez the sun is blinding when you have red eyes).

It's nice to not have to deal with being a wanted criminal. If only Dark were here:

bonus hypotheticals:

Victim: They like being warm. They like having blankets and stuff... heated blankets and heating pads... It's nice.

Dark: They like literally nothing about this. Except being able to punch Alan. and also being able to bite things. Biting things is extremely therapeutic for them. They like biting people as well; if they were given the chance, they'd just gnaw on someone's arm for a while. They don't have that chance though, so they just settle for sneak-attacking Alan.

[sharpjay217]

So Minecraft has new wolves!!

I am very happy about this, but it does make me curious what species each variation is based off of! You too? Awesome!

Rusty Wolf = Dhole

Seeing a little red jungle wolf took me right back to reading The Jungle Book as a kid, so I pretty much instantly decided they were dholes! A.k.a. Asian wild dogs or red dogs. They're an endangered canid native to Central, South, East and Southeast Asia, and they live in large clans ranging from 12-40 members.

Pale (Original) Wolf & Black Wolf = Grey Wolves

Our familiar friends have probably always been North American grey wolves, just pales ones! Despite their name, this iconic member of the canid family has an incredible amount of variation, and different subspecies of them are scattered all over North America.

Striped Wolf = Aardwolf

Okay, this is interesting, because they are definitely aardwolves! However, despite their names, aardwolves are actually the tiniest member of the hyaenidae family! Native to East and Southern Africa, they are exclusively insectivores and are known for following aardvarks to use their vacated burrows and foraging grounds. I think it's fascinating that a hyena was chosen for the wolf skins!

Snowy Wolf = Arctic Wolf

One of the many subspecies of gray wolves, arctic wolves are native to the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. Thanks to their territory being generally undesirable to humans, they are the only subspecies that can found across the entirety of their original range. Arctic wolves seem the most logical choice for snowy wolves, through there are several other pale-coated northern subspecies they could technically be.

Ashen Wolf = Northwestern Wolf

Speaking of northern subspecies, let's have some fun with the ashen variant. I'm pinning them as the Northwestern wolf, a.k.a. the Mackenzie Valley wolf! Native to, well, the northwestern part of Canada and Alaska, they are arguably the largest subspecies of wolf we know of. They match up pretty well with their Minecraft counterparts both in terms of habitat and possible coloration!

Woods Wolf = Eastern Wolf

Ooo, okay, I went down a rabbit hole with this one! Eastern wolves, a.k.a Great Lakes wolves or Algonquin wolves, are native to the Great Lakes region of North America. They exist in an identification limbo, with no current ruling on whether they are a subspecies of grey wolf, red wolf, or their own unique branch that drifts closer to coyotes on the canid family tree. There is even some debate on whether the Great Lakes and Algonquin variants should be counted as the same subspecies, which I think is fascinating!

Spotted Wolf = African Wild Dog

The more people who know these good bois exists, the happier I am. African wild dogs, a.k.a. painted dogs or Cape hunting dogs, are the largest wild canine in Africa. They live in packs of 5-30 members and are known their cooperative hunting tactics, using stamina to wear down prey. They're highly social animals, and you'll never find a lone dog.

Chestnut Wolf = Bat Eared Fox

So, initially, I wrote off these guys cause I wasn't counting foxes, but I gave in. The chestnut wolves don't look like much of any existing canines, and nothing that lives in taiga forest. So, bat eared foxes are my best guess. They're small canids native to southern Africa, and are part of the subfamily Otocyoninae, which is a sister family to the families containing true foxes and racoon dogs.

Speaking of raccoon dogs, they're my second best guess for the origin of the chestnut wolf. Their habitat makes slightly more sense, being from the forests of Japan and east Asia!

[silken-threads-bah]

could you make a sidesystem based off of Minecraft flowers? More specifically

-Lily of the valley

-wither rose

-poppy

-orchid

and

-allium

you can add more if you like, though!

(We have made similar requests on other blogs to help us get different ideas, just to let you know)

I didn't really have the energy to add a picrew or find an faceclaim for them all, but i typed up a general appearance of what I was thinking for them, feel free to disregard them though! I hope this is close to what you were hoping for and that the lack of faceclaims isnt too upsetting! - Eden

Name: lily, aylin, fleur

Age: 12-14

Pronouns: she/they/petal

Gender: femvanumic, adorosic, genderfleur

Orientation: questioning

Source: minecraft

Personality: sort of shy, can be soft spoken at times, bubbly when you get to know her, loves sharing and doing small acts of kindness for others, gets scared easily, relatively anxious

Likes/interests: gardening, stardew valley, gravity falls, playing their source, basically any game that let's you build or design things, the color pink, bunnies, cloudless skies

Appearance: short dyed pink hair, big blue eyes, freckles, often wears baggy or oversized clothes

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Name: wither, dahlia, euphrasia, morrigan

Age: ageless (presents in their late 20s though)

Pronouns: shx/dark/rot/crux/forge

Gender: feminine aligned, morieous, ruptura

Orientation: sapphic

Source: minecraft

Personality: may come across as dark and brooding but is actually very sweet and kind, has a resting bitch face that breaks into a smile whenever shx sees dark's friends, intimidating at first, very generous with rot's time and gifts, forge's love language is very much gift giving and shx constantly showers hxr friends with gifts

Likes/interests: collecting bones (ethically of course), gothic fashion, farming games, the color black and very dark red, bats, minecraft, making jewelry and crafting

Appearance: choppy/spiky black hair, red eyes, trad goth makeup or prominent eyeliner and eyeshadow, black lipstick, quite a few facial piercings, a tattoo of a bat somewhere

--

Name: poppy, layla, hypnos, nyx, luna

Age: 16-18

Pronouns: he/she/cloud/dream

Gender: poppic,, bigender

Orientation: homoromantic asexual

Source: minecraft

Personality: quiet, keeps to himself for the most part, almost always sleepy and tired, gets bored and moves on from hobbies and interests quick, doesn't like to participate in long conversations that are just small talk, pretty blunt at times

Likes/interests: sleep, taking naps, the color red, nighttime, the moon, being alone, quiet places, short poems, writing her dreams down and keeping a diary

Faceclaim: choppy dyed red hair, baggy clothes, awkward demeanor, painted black nails, dark colored eyes, thin lips

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Name: orchid, calanthe, thylane

Age: 20

Pronouns: they/blue/fleur

Gender: nonbinary, orchidgender

Orientation: aroacespec

Source: minecraft

Personality: mature, responsible, takes charge whenever needed but prefers to be able to sit on the sidelines, very much a parental figure, very proud of those they get close to and have bonded with, the type that's socially anxious but suddenly is capable of ordering food when they're around people that are even more anxious than them, "mom" friend to a fault, keeps extra tissues and pads and snacks in their bag in case anyone needs anything

Likes/interests: the show bluey, the color blue, dogs/animals in general, long hikes through forests, the rain but also the sun, warm weather as long as it's not too hot, they love when things turn out to be "just right" (like the perfect temperature or the perfect amount of something)

Appearance: dyed blue hair, dark skin, eye bags, gap tooth, chipped nail polish, naturally pointed ears, big smile, septum piercing

--

Name: allium, ally, Allison, zinnia

Age: 16

Pronouns: she/her

Gender: female

Orientation: bicurious

Source: minecraft

Personality: sassy, sometimes grumpy (in the way that only teenagers can be grumpy), easily frustrated, would die for her friends, easily distracted but still fairly dependable, wants the best for ppl and pushes them towards their potential but often to the point that it ends up hurting her friends, quickly falls in and out of love, very extroverted

Likes/interests: sports, makeup and skincare, the color purple, haunted places, true crime, spending time with her friends

Appearance: dyed purple hair, "basic" aesthetic/outfits, tall, resting bitch face

[will-do-anything-for-a-dollar]

okay here I go 😈 @omgselinabeckendorf

so I don’t have it completely planned out bc I have fifteen years to write about and such

and I procrastinate (a lot)

but I’ll try my best to sum it up 👍

ok so his name is Keith bc my name is Keith and me is he maybe one day he’ll have a last name I’ll figure it out

It starts in the very beginning before Minecraft Diaries starts! He’s born in Phoenix Drop and is raised there. He’s a little bit younger than Garroth so they never meet at the guard academy. Keith mostly kept to himself anyways, only wanting to learn. After he’s finished with training, Keith goes back to Phoenix Drop and becomes Matilda’s personal guard as she has married the current lord while he was away. I like to think Matilda is around the same age as them, so they did grow up together. They become close friends during this. He considers her the sister he never had and him her brother. He considers Lord Malik a brother as well and they get along well.

Time passes and eventually Garroth shows up. They’re all rightfully confused as he doesn’t even give a last name. But he’s chill so they leave it. More time passes and Garroth gains the trust of the village, even if he is a bit secretive. Keith and him become close friends, as Garroth is appointed head guard and personal guard of Lord Malik himself. Soon enough, Keith realizes his feelings of friendship have turned into something more, even if he hadn’t seen the other man’s face. He tries to keep it secret, but much to his surprise Garroth returns the feelings. As they explore this new part of their relationship, Garroth trusts Keith enough to show him his face. (Keith has no idea who he actually is as he never had seen the Okhasis family’s faces) Keith only falls more in love. They start dating!

One day a mysterious group appears in the forest. They’re cloaked in red and black, seemingly glowing with dark magic. The village had never seen anything like it and were on high guard. The people were friendly enough at first and Malik met up with them in private. Afterwards, though, he began to act strangely, but wouldn’t say anything about their conversations. Keith was confused and worried, but he hoped that Malik would tell him and Garroth if it was serious. But then Matilda started to act strange as well, and she wouldn’t say a word. Now he was hurt as he thought she trusted him and Keith tried to understand.

Matilda told Keith she was pregnant and he was ecstatic. She had been a little distant since the group had showed up, but this brought them back together. He was going to be an uncle. When Matilda was close to giving birth, Keith and her were walking through the forest. They were spending some time alone together when they were ambushed by one of the strange people from the group that had been staying in the village. Keith did his best to defend his sister, but got knocked out.

When he awoke, Keith didn’t know where he was. He was injured and disoriented with all his weapons gone. The same person from before showed back up and revealed himself to be a ‘Shadow Knight’. Keith had no clue what that was. The Shadow Knight tortured him over the course of two weeks, leaving severe injuries and wounds. Keith bid his time and found a way to escape. He had to wait even longer while he healed and regained his strength. He had to wait almost another two weeks before he could return.

Upon his return, he found Matilda and Malik’s house burnt to the ground. He was in disbelief. Hoping they were okay and safe, he continued on to the village, but it seemed as if he was invisible to everyone. They barely spared him a passing glance. Confused and scared, he made his way to Garroth’s home, hoping his boyfriend could explain. Garroth did not recognize him. His soul was crushed as he struggled to piece together what happens when he was away. It had to be that group, as they were missing too.

Heartbroken, Keith decided to leave Phoenix Drop and travel to see if he could find Matilda and Malik as well as reverse what had happened to the village. To begin, he headed to Bright Port. One night, as the sun went down, Keith was heading back to the inn where he was staying when he got attacked. It was fast and unexpected and.. weird.. The attacker had bit his neck. Not long after the attack did he become sick. It was a slow and painful process, but he realized that the attacker was a werewolf and had transformed him. He knew of a wolf tribe close to Bright Port and sought them out for help. Fortunately, they welcomed him with open arms and taught him their ways. He stayed there for a while, learning all he could. He couldn’t leave when he wanted to as the Bright Port and Tribe started to have a strained relationship after Visher died and the lord went missing. Of course, the tribe knew where he was. He had jumped in the Nether portal to help Kiva, a wolf pup. When the nether portal was erected, Keith recognized the power from it as the same one from the Shadow Knights.

Tensions were even worse when a pure-blooded wolf pup Lowell went missing. The Bright Port guards had taken him and the tribe was unable to get him back. After a patrol, Bodolf came back with Lowell and a human woman in tow. Her name was Aphmau and she had rescued Lowell herself. With his new abilities, Keith found she had the familiar smell of home. He was curious about her, but before he could speak to her, she went onto the Nether to rescue Kiva and the lord of Bright Port. He was amazed at her bravery and courage. While she was away, two men and a woman came out of the portal with a shadow. They smelled like the Shadow Kmights that had come to Phoenix Drop. They attacked the tribe and set it ablaze, fire ravaging their homes. They tried to fight back, but they were too strong and escaped unscathed.

Keith wanted to speak with Aphmau, but she had to leave to find the lord still. He stayed behind and waited (im)patiently for her to return. When she came back to Bright Port, Keith traveled into the village to meet her again. He met her at the docks before she left and he struck up a convertsuin about why she came to Bright Port in the first place. She told him of a guard back home that had been hurt severely and needed to be healed. Garroth. Garroth had been hurt and was close to death. Keith asked to go with her. Aphmau was surprised, but accepted, happy to have company. After he said his quick goodbyes, Keith left with Aphmau back to Phoenix Drop. As Aphmau rushed to see Garroth with her potion, Keith stood dumbfounded. He followed her and watched from the doorway as her and Garroth spoke. He didn’t even look Keith’s way. He found out that Zenix, Garroth’s apprentice, had turned against them. Keith listened to them until he couldn’t anymore. He left, feeling hurt and distraught over what was happening. He explored around, finding out all the things that had changed while he was away.

this is like

all I have written for the beginning in order

but I’ll make little plot points for other stuff

* Keith stays in the village and tries to stick close to Garroth, wanting to protect him

* Garroth tries to befriend him and Keith is hesitant to let him get close in the condition he’s in

* No one knows he’s a werewolf except Aphmau and he asked her to not say anything

* when Garroth goes to the Irene Dimension it brings back his memories and he’s distraught over everything (I want to have the village remember too, but it’ll probably be after Aphmau gets the relic)

* Keith grows his hair out after Garroth goes missing bc it was the last thing he touched and he couldn’t bring himself to care

* there will be more of this hehe

* also I was going to have like a thing where Garroth falls in love with Aphmau and Keith is like 😦

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

hii! i am in love with your works. i've read itysg(ainly) several times and cyanide twice T.T you deserve all the love, you've become one of my top 3 comfort authors <3

i have a quick question. do you have a compilation of your abyss lore somewhere? like how you can't cry in the abyss because the salt attracts the enemies (i sincerely hope that is from you and i'm not confusing it with someone else's T.T) uhh, cause i intend to base my research on it :) no issue tho if not

oh! no i don't think i have it anywhere, but it's no trouble to me to just- dump it all here, so-

i'll leave it under the cut, but tysm!! good luck writing and obviously feel free to tweak and change stuff to better fit whatever you're going for!

ok so- this is going to be about canon-genshin's abyss. the only difference between that one and cyanide's abyss is a lack of rhinedottir creatures, so.

landscape

i've always been torn between if the abyss is like- just a small area, like within a huge cave; or if it's its own entire realm altogether. like a whole other world, with its own continents and all that. it feels so limiting to make it only a cave, but it also feels a bit too strange to make it just- mirror teyvat. idk anyway,

under the assumption that it's not as big as teyvat but larger than just a cave, we could look at it like one large landmass surrounded by ocean

the moon spire is off one of the coasts, around the rainforest area

the easiest way to think about it is probably like minecraft's nether. like the overworld is all open sky and lots of biomes while the nether is all claustrophobic and with only a handful of biomes

i think it'd be cool if it's rainforest and badlands/savanna/desert. but not like sumeru- to me sumeru's rainforest is very much like the jungle in madagascar and the desert is like the sandbanks in africa. i think the abyss could be more like the amazon's rainforest, tighter, a lot less giant fantastical trees and more- 'where the fuck am i, i can hardly see thru the vegetation' sort of place. and the desert more like the usa's stereotypical cacti and tumbleweed all dry land and rocky cliffs.

since irminsul's roots have to be down there and i think the abyss is whacky enough to meld with whatever dimension irminsul resides in, then i think we could literally have massive petrified roots in the middle of the continent. like just- sprouting out of the ground and making this gigantic thing that you could theoretically see from everywhere if it wasn't so fucking dark. in cyanide here would be where the primordial one would've been sealed to in the original abyss, right in the center.

the rainforest area would be full of winding, impossibly deep rivers- like all of them deep like the mariana trench. wet mist hollows and just- general amazon rainforest inconveniences. if you've ever been there you know what i mean. i think it'd be even more fucked up if it doesn't rain, though.

the desert part would be a death sentence, hence why skirk sticks to the rainforest most times, esp while with childe

the area with irminsul's roots would be like a giant haunted forest/cave system, full of the only sources of natural light down there (some glowing moss and insects)

climate

damp and wet-feeling but it's not water, it's abyssal miasma. like it all feels like a sauna. the temperatures would go from uncomfortably kinda-hot in the day to fucking freezing at nigth.

the rainforest feels even wetter but again, not water. everytime you breathe it feels like you have to force your lungs to take in the air. again, if you've ever been to a jungle or rainforest, you know what i mean.

the desert parts would be unbearably hot, but the heat would come from the ground itself, so you'd feel feverish the entire time - it'd be cool if the sands were obnoxiously red from high iron oxides to make it even worse. the more bearable places would be up on the rock cliffs and outcrops, but since they're the more livable places, that means most of the creatures are also up there. speaking of,

creatures

the rifthounds are in the higher areas of the rainforest, almost a tundra, bordering the roots, where the wolflord has its lair and territory. not edible bc they contain aluminum and other not-safe-for-humans metals, and also there's hardly any meat in them lmao.

the giant clay worm(s) lives underground in the lowland rainforest and nobody has really seen it, so it's a non-issue. it's massive, and the reason why the marshlands on a different side of the rainforest exist. i think it'd be interesting if nobody knew whether it's one giant one or multiple giants. also this would be the cause of quakes in the abyss, it's just whenever the thing moves there would be a tremble in the ground

steelclaw harpies are out in the rocky outcrops of the dessert, hence why you'd be forced to walk the superheated base ground instead of going up. if you've ever seen a harpy eagle, just think that but like- the size of a person, and a bit more dinosaur-esque.

the glass rain whale. kinda like the giant clay worm in that hardly anyone sees it, only when it rains glass over the sea (not the land) you can see it come out of the ocean and fly around. the meagre light of the moon makes it seem almost transluscent, like a ghost whale. it couldn't be the all-devouring narwhal bc it wouldn't make sense lore-wise, but it could be similar-looking.

pillar rats are- well, giant rats that live in the canyons and desert. they call them pillar rats because they climb up sheer cliffaces like it's nothing. also they can scratch through pretty much anything, and have very thick hides, so if you need warm clothes that's what you want to hunt

stonetusk hogs are the easiest animal to catch in the rainforest marshlands, but the meat isn't all that tasty. they're blind, like most other creatures. not that big. like- fucked up versions of genshin's boars.

praying goliaths are giant mantis-like mutant bugs that live in the rainforest. they're big big, like twice the size of a person big, and they're best avoided. you can tell where one passed through by the path of cut down vegetation they leave behind as they move, using their front legs as sharp scythes.

canyon rhinos live in both the canyons and the fog hollows. they're practically bulletproof, fuck-off ugly, and very dangerous. blind from overuse of moping ferns (that grow in the hollows) to hide the salt in their eyes. good food if you can catch them

wraith butterflies are around the water deposits and clay banks of the rainforest and always in the hunt for salt. they have sharp legs to perch on hosts and poisonous powder between their wings. yes they're the ones that make crying a bad idea.

stalkwalkers are the kings of the fog hollows and the reason why you don't go there if you're smart. i have mentioned plenty that they're physically inspired by made in abyss' turbinid-dragon (ryuuzazai?). basically a giant six-legged giraffe/seahorse looking thing. the stalkwalkers would have retractable harpoon-like stalks (stillettos) that they use to walk through the forest and to hunt. massive and blind, see through echolocation.

misc

the concentration of abyssal miasma would be a lot more forgiving around irminsul's roots. basically everything is just better around irminsul's roots, but because it's so nice there, most creatures also go there, so no. the wolflord has set up camp nearby also.

it's dark. like there's no light besides the lackustre light of the moon and the glowing moss in irminsul's roots, so all creatures see through either abyssal miasmic sight or a form of echolocation.

you can't plant foreign crops, the soil won't accept it

most root vegetables aren't safe to eat. rooties are though

there's bugs that fuck with your sleep cycles to weaken you

the sand is black

there's almost no fish in the ocean, so it's not worth it to stay on the shores

it's also not worth it to stay generally uncovered from the moon's light bc it has a weird-ass radiation, like the sun.

i think that's all i had? there's probably some bits and pieces of other things about how the abyss filters the miasma and how all creatures evolved to use it since it's the only available energy down there, but i think that's been repeated enough in the fics hahah

anyway yeah! hope that's what you meant. if not oh well, it was probably about time i compiled it all,,

[foreststarflaime]

[for asks: it’s been taking me a bit longer to do them bc low spoons lately but I promise I love them and I will get to them <3 also sometimes I do them out of order if there are ones that’ll be quick. But if you think tumblr might have eaten your ask feel free to double check].

Greetings I am Star o/ (or Forest, or Foreststar) I am just here to have fun and scream into the ether about the stuff I like. Sometimes I may go a bit without posting anything tho bc words do not always work for me

Also I like dragons, swords, stars, pretty much anything fantasy and nature, etc. I adore stories of any kind! I’m studying classics and linguistics so I talk a lot about that, and my favorite hobby is swinging swords at my friends (HEMA—historical european martial arts, I mainly do longsword)

Tags for my stuff for organization:

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Star essays — the long essay analysis posts I sometimes do — star gushes for the more poetic ones — star scenarios for au/shitpost type stuff — headcanons

My writing — stuff I write, mostly fanfics but there’s some original stuff in there too — Ao3

My photography — I’ve been getting more into that recently! Sideblog for it: @nostosphotography

My ocs — I don’t post about em much here but I have many! Feel free to ask about them. In particular there is Foreststar

I also have a ff7 dragons au now!

Ask game prompts — love doing these, as well as any other tag game stuff! Ask game for responses and asks for general asks in case I accidentally buried yours in reblogs

Other tag stuff under the cut

Middle earth — tolkien stuff, my first and eternal hyperfixation

Loki — any version of him really. But my fav is the Agent of Asgard version from marvel comics. I will never shut up about Loki I love him whenever he appears in anything

Ff7 — final fantasy 7

Armory — hehehe pictures of various weapons but mainly swords :) used to be just under swords so you can also look there

Dragons — I am and always have been obsessed

Stars — this and the two above it are my 3 favorite things ever

Classics — greek and roman stuff

Linguistics — cool language stuff

Random stuff — stuff I couldn’t otherwise categorize

Nature — cool pictures

Castles — I use this tag very loosely, should probably change it to architecture but eh

Dw — doctor who

Mi — mission impossible

Technoblade, philza minecraft

Pokemon

Gf — gravity falls

Stray gods

Hades — the game

Flight rising — dragons :) my favorite

Nimona — this movie healed my soul

Epic — the musical

Hlvrai — half life vr but the ai is self aware, by wayneradiotv

Bg3 — Baldur’s Gate 3

Genloss — generation loss (same stuff, changed the tag)

Tiny glade — my stuff under #my glades

Merlin — the bbc show

Fma — fullmetal alchemist (brotherhood ofc)

Pb — the princess bride

Rdr — red dead redemption

Uu — unstable universe/unstable smp

Lifesteal — lifesteal smp

Totg — twilight of the gods

Es — elder scrolls, mainly skyrim

Wtnv — welcome to night vale

Mp100 — mob psycho 100

Tdp — the dragon prince

Temeraire

Frozen, Tangled (esp the series), Mulan, etc

Pnf — phineas and ferb

Sky cotl — children of the light, gorgeous mobile game

Wtnv — welcome to night vale

Poto — phantom of the opera

Parkour civ (formerly tagged as Parkour civilization) — what the hell why am I here why is this stupid series so good wtf

Pvp civ — pvp civilization

Aaa — agatha all along

gomens — good omens (NOT neil gaiman)

Sanders sides

Gw — the gilded wolves (currently reading)

Mtp — moriarty the patriot (currently watching)

Genloss — Generation Loss

Jrwi — mainly riptide

Wicked

Gladiator

Trsmp — the realm smp

Kww — ken wato wifies collab and related stuff

Sanders sides

I probably did not catch all of these. More will come as I think of them unless I get lazy

[xxpsychopartypuppyxx]

Moss

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A short Garrance oneshot taking place in the Minecraft Diaries universe. Keeping in mind, this fic is likely moderately OOC, as I haven't watched the entirety of MCD since I was, like, 11. [I'm 20 now, ftr o_O]

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WARNING: This fic contains descriptions of blood, tending to open wounds, and brief mentions of kind of freaky gay things to do with them!!! Viewer discretion is advised. A character within the story is also mildly affected by blood loss throughout the entirety of the fic, so if that's something you're uncomfortable with, please do not read the fic. I'd describe it to be akin to sleepiness, in this case. The kind that makes you a little more vulnerable, and ballsy. It is not noncon, nor dubcon [I don't write those <3], but I thought I'd include it in the warnings, just in case.

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This fic is 18+. If you are not 18 or over, leave.

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Garroth put his hand on Laurance's shoulder, gently applying pressure to move him backwards, inspecting the wounds on his arms through his chainmail with a trained eye.

He frowned, his eyes focused on the damage as Laurance's fixed on him.

"This is...awful, Laurance. How in the name of Irene did you manage to get these wounds? From those bandits?" Garroth grumbled out, stern, yet soft. It was obvious to Laurance that his co-worker cared for him deeply, but as per usual, Garroth was guarded with his words and actions.

Laurance was having none of it this time, though.

"I got 'em from falling for you so hard," The redhead breathed in a seductive tone, a small chuckle and a cough following the silky words. Karma, he supposed. There was no blood torn from his lungs this time, but that splutter concerned Garroth nonetheless.

"Shut up, Laurance," Garroth briefly dropped the 'professional guard' act, his expression further beginning to reveal his concern, "Just...be quiet, let me handle this."

Garroth carefully reached for Laurance's armour, his experienced hands making quick work of his tabard, plating, chainmail and all. He had placed each piece neatly down on the grass, before taking a closer look at Laurance's chest.

"...Having f...fffuck, ow, uh...fun there?" Laurance hissed in pain as Garroth interrupted his flirtatious remark with a swipe of his thumb, before the taller pulled away to search for an ideal patch of moss to dress Laurance's wounds.

"No, I'm not having fun seeing you in pain, Laurance. As much as I think you have it coming sometimes," Cue Laurance's weak 'Hey!' from nearby - "You really need to be more careful with how you hold yourself in these situations. There's only a certain amount of moss in this forest."

Laurance looked at Garroth, forlornly. "I'm...sorry Garroth, I just...fuck, I just wanted to protect-"

"Our people. Their belongings. I know. But you shouldn't have fought those bandits alone." Garroth picked the moss he needed, then took it back to Laurance. He cut off the dirtied roots with his sword.

He stuffed the deeper wounds with the fluffy material, making sure they were packed adequately. His companion's blood was scarlet red on his fingers, glistening in the pale moonlight from above.

Laurance looked a little taken aback at the display: Garroth in such close proximity, a tinge of red on his fingertips as he stuffed Laurance full of fluffy white moss. It might've been the slight blood loss getting to his head, but...

...Laurance couldn't help but stare. In that moment, he briefly considered asking Garroth to plunge a finger into the wound he'd packed. To feel around inside of Laurance, to become a part of him.

But...that was...by Irene, that was far too much. Far too dangerous. Far too...weird.

"S..Sorry, Garroth..." Laurance whimpered involuntarily as the blond towering over him swiped some moss across his surface wounds, wiping any blood and debris away.

Garroth didn't mention the rather...unmasculine, sound. He only kept tending to Laurance. "What for? For getting yourself stabbed, through your chainmail, no less?"

"N...No, for...for wasting so much of your time, for..not being a good guard, a good friend, I-" The blood loss was definitely getting to Laurance a little. Usually, he was able to keep these kinds of thoughts at bay. This time, though...

"Be quiet." Garroth discarded the used moss in a pile of loose dirt, then scuffed his boot over the top of it, masking the scent of blood with dried, dusty mud.

"You're plenty competent, Laurance. As a guard...and as a friend, I couldn't ask for more. You know that, so damn it, don't say things like that." Garroth's voice was rough with emotion.

Before Laurance could reply, Garroth sucked in a deep breath, visibly bracing himself. He then cautiously pulled Laurance into a tender embrace.

Laurance blinked. Garroth...hadn't ever been so close before. He could smell his hair...the iron of his pauldrons...a familiar tinge of copper from his hands...and a distinct, earthy smell. The moss, of course.

It was...too much. Far too much, all at once.

Laurance clung to Garroth, feeling his hands begin to tremble as he held on to the taller man for dear life, near literal. He took in shaky, laboured breaths as he tried to keep his composure.

"...Relax, Laurance." Garroth was clearly the one getting clammy, almost at a loss for words in this situation, but Laurance didn't care. For as Garroth's words were whispered near his ear, his Scots accent mingling with them in a softer manner than his usual, Laurance relaxed; let out all of his pent up insecurities into Garroth's warmth.

"I get worried I-I'll never be able to protect the ones I love, I get worried I'll lose them every day. I look at all the other guards I've known in my travels and feel so insignificant, like I'm...not meant to have this position. Like I don't have the right to call myself a guard. I feel...someone else would be better able to keep these people safe, not...not me. I.." Laurance trailed off, face buried in Garroth's shoulder.

When he next looked up at Garroth, he saw a deep ocean of blue looking back at him; spilled down rosy cheeks, the dam broken by words, and words alone. Garroth quickly pulled away, wiping his eyes as discretely as possible. Laurance had already seen the ocean, though; it was vast, and nigh impossible to contain.

"What's...what's wrong Garroth?" Laurance asked, hushed and cautious with his words. He didn't want to hurt Garroth, he was clearly in a vulnerable state of mind right now.

"You...my Irene, I just...I hear those words - from my closest friend, no less...and they sound almost exactly like the ones I hear in my own mind, every single time something goes awry." Garroth breathed out, eyes not meeting Laurance's gaze. He looked as though he were hesitating about something, but Laurance wasn't sure what.

Laurance didn't know what to say. He instead pulled Garroth back into that same warm hug, but this time, he held him closer. He squeezed him as tight as he could without disturbing his own wounds.

Garroth sat there for a moment, before wrapping his arms around Laurance once again. He spoke to him in a soft tone; "...You shouldn't feel inadequate, you're a noble, strong, caring person...and all of those qualities are what make a good protector. You're...amazing, Laurance...truly, I mean it."

Laurance couldn't take it anymore. The thrumming in his head was eating his rationality alive.

Laurance pulled Garroth closer, fist balled around the front of his tabard, other hand reaching up to grab his chin. Garroth didn't pull away, but looked shocked by the sudden advancement. He quickly melted into the touch, leaning in a little closer himself.

Laurance chuckled, the fog in his head clearing a little. "Garroth, you...I never expected you to lean towards me like that, you little devil," He found his face flushing, but he pulled Garroth closer nonetheless.

Garroth seemed to gain a slight amount of hesitance at the words, wondering if he'd done something wrong, before it all melted away again the second Laurance pulled him yet closer. Their lips were almost brushing, and Garroth could feel his breath picking up as his head began to fill with...thoughts. Thoughts he wished he could put reigns on.

Laurance smirked at the feeling of Garroth's warm breaths on his lips, before opting to bite the other guard's lower lip.

Garroth gasped shallowly, a quiet whine ripped from his throat as Laurance began to nip at him. His teeth were pretty; pearly white with the tiniest notion of fangs. They were slick with spit. His own or Laurance's, though, he had no clue; his own lip was wet with the same stuff. But either way, that didn't matter. Right now, he wanted nothing more than for Laurance to quit toying with him and just-

Garroth went a deep shade of red, suddenly realising what exactly was going on. He lightly pushed against Laurance in his tizzy, heart racing.

Laurance stopped what he was doing to Garroth nigh immediately, looking up at him with a questioning, almost pleading, look.

"L...Laurance, you're...the- the blood loss m-must be affecting your judgement, I-I...I can't take advantage of you like this..." Garroth breathed out what was practically an excuse, ignoring the needy ache in his mind, stomach, and chest. He knew Laurance wasn't that far gone, if at all, he just...

...he needed a moment to collect himself.

"Sh-Shit, sorry, Garroth..." Laurance pulled away, flustered now that he'd been told off.

"I-It's okay, I'm not...I'm n-not mad at you. these kinds of situations sometimes m-make your mind and body a-act strangely...and without considering the con- consequences. But, that being said, you should...you should rest up. Here," Garroth took his tabard off, and made a makeshift bed using excess moss, grass, and the article of clothing.

He gestured for Laurance to get into bed.

"I...y-yeah. Thanks." Laurance got into bed, with some help from Garroth when he struggled; once again, ever the astute one.

Laurance had to pretend he wasn't looking at Garroth's muscles and scars as he tried to settle down. He briefly wondered if Garroth was even into guys, before perishing the thought. He needed to sleep.

"...Goodnight, Garroth."

"Night, Laurance."

Garroth couldn't keep his eyes off Laurance's lips in the night, and nothing could take his mind off of the little love bites he'd given him; not sharpening his sword, not foraging their dinner for tomorrow, not even thinking about Aphmau and their home. He was constantly licking his bottom lip, and every time he did, he felt his face grow hotter.

Garroth realised, as his form was doused in moonlight from above, that there would be absolutely no coming back from what had happened between the two of them, that night.

He was fucked.