#and sigma's twin braids!!

[thestarlessdark]

I'm obsessed with this

this is not the final result yet, but it took a lot of time :"D I love them

[joltning]

here’s idiosyncratic/non portmanteau names for every ship done on rarepair week!(Not including the big ass polyship charts I don’t wanna be here forever.) if I missed you or you want another just ask

feel free to add or remove the ‘shipping’ after tag from these, it’s just to make them more clear. oh and if you’d like explanations just ask

sherry/ohio: sourberry

bitters/matthews: sunflowershipping

bitters/palomo: sunsetshipping

jensen/smith: licoriceshipping

bitters/smith: molten metal

ltsquad: seasonsshipping

bitters/volleyball: hibiscusshipping

ghanoush/mccallister: radioactiveshipping

jones/miller: flourrope

red zealot/blue zealot: from concentrate

ghanoush/mccallister/rebmedic: ultravioletshipping

kimball/dylan: headliners

hutch/wynn: blind judgement

georgia/utah: bubblejet

ct/south/girlie: back to backstabbers

maine/wyoming: pale indifference

carolina/ohio: analogous antithesis

blue fed/randy: festivalshipping. i mean you could also just call them funnelcake

carolina/kai: wallfighter

grey/south: psych and sike

grey/south/dylan: wiped record

south/kai: mardigrasshipping

rebmedic/volleyball: double dose

one/phase: prime integer

kimball/carolina: apex authority

grey/carolina: speedy recovery

jensen/volleyball: runner up

tex/sheila: Gadsdenshipping

chrovos/huggins: quantum gleam

dylan/carolina: insiders info

jensen/simmons: beetrootshipping

doc/donut: sugar pills

sleeves/demo: well I think they already called it iron and smoke but hm…brawnburst?

north/wyoming: sniper duel

locus/lopez: wild misdirection

church/temple: phantom chills

tucker/donut: sugar spike

delta/epsilon: ROM hack

carolina/york/tucker: beach day every day

tucker/lopez: handymanshipping

locus/siris: grapeshipping

donut/lopez/caboose: cobblershipping

kimball/felix: color negative

lopez/caboose: loading time

tucker/north: parental bond

wash/caboose: bullet train

one/danyell: (didn’t know if to separate this one from one/phase but uhh) Golden ratio

caboose/donut: come on. i can’t outdo pastry train

wash/felix: knife play

fake ct/tucker: high and dry

donut/north/south: twin braid

york/tucker: class clown

east/one (again didn’t know but um.) singular solution

sheila/cherry: sweet ride

tex/grey: call me crazy

simmons/doc: middle ground

sharkface/maine: brute-y and the beast

church/north: standard deviation

girlie/sheila: kiss goodnight

felix/jaunes mom: appletreeshipping

tex/omega: anger changer

tucker/grif: incompletely complementary

felix/north: heaven’s favorite angel

locus/wash: farawayshipping

grif/wash: roadkill

caboose/tex: heavy swing

temple/tucker: cryoblade

lopez/locus/donut: nature’s blessing

tucker/wash/donut: heavy duty spin

kimball/filss: revolutionary technology

carolina/kai/479er: flying by wire

jensen/palomo/volleyball: nerd’s tossup

florida/maine: hide and seek

florida/sarge/wyoming: usashipping (duh)

wash/grif/caboose: low speed chase

jensen/dos.0: iron giant shipping

wash/felix/locus: hook line and sinker

wash/sigma: crash and burn

sleeves/demo man/girlie: bloodbath

florida/vic: chillpillshipping

donut/felix: blood sugar

wash/donut: fresh batch

bitters/grif: solar flare

tucker/kimball: sponsored faith

donut/doc/kai: shotsshipping

wash/epsilon: recollectionshipping

texsis: yellowjacketshipping

locus/grif/simmons: mapleleafshipping

wash/tex: eclipseshipping

tucker/palomo: tsunamishipping

donut/lopez: easy bake oven

sarge/doyle: tyrannical bloodshed

felix/tucker: two of swords

church/caboose: engineshipping

[the-gay-overcoat]

The Stay

Silly little (likely one part) story

disclaimer!!! I do not have experience with mental hospitals, this is mostly based on research and stories from both doctors and patients I've heard and also most of it is made up

Nikolai sat in the waiting room, wearing nothing but a hospital gown and slippers. He stared at the floor, feeling far too exposed at the moment.

He had admitted himself after being taken to a hospital by... someone. He couldn't remember. The last person he remembered seeing was Sigma, but there was no way Sigma was going to do anything to help him, especially after the incident with his arm.

He overheard doctors and nurses muttering amongst themselves about his history. He knew they were describing him as violent, a monster, a danger to society. He could just tell, even without hearing them distinctly.

He stared at his right hand, it was his left arm that got chopped off after all. He wasn't bathed when taken to the hospital or admitted, the only thing cleaned was his wound so it could be treated and bandaged again, so he was still covered in mud.

Nikolai felt sick to his stomach. He wanted to leave and never come back, not just the hospital but Yokohama as a whole. He just didn't belong. He wanted to go back to Ukraine, not to his village but definitely back to the country. But this was good for him, he would finally stop being a monster.

A nurse came up to him and told him something, he couldn't hear it though. He didn't know why, he just couldn't. Then, the nurse seemed to expect Nikolai to follow, so he stood and followed the nurse.

He was taken to a nice looking room, almost like a college dorm. There were two twin sized beds, both neatly made, two dressers, and two desks. Only one of the desks had a journal and pen.

"Your new psychiatrist wanted you to try journaling so she can get to know you better before your first visit." The nurse explained before then taking Nikolai to a bathroom. One wall was lined with stalls and the other with sinks, though there seemed to be more to the bathroom past the stalls. "The showers are back there. If you need assistance there is a button on the wall opposite to the showers that calls a nurse or attendant. I'll be back with some clothes for you." And with that the nurse was gone.

Nikolai sighed and made his way to where the nurse indicated, and sure enough there were showers. They didn't have curtains though, just walls between each shower, and stools. Each shower had a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of body wash.

He removed his hospital gown and decided to keep his slippers on, who knew when the last time these showers were given a proper cleaning. He took his hair out of its braid and stepped into the shower to turn on the water. He was immediately blasted with cold water so he stumbled back, running into the wall. "Jesus christ-!" He hissed out, glaring at the shower head as if it were at fault.

He felt as if he were being watched and quickly looked around, seeing a camera in the corner, positioned so it couldn't see into the stalls, but it could see right outside of them. Immediately Nikolai attempted to cover himself, suddenly feeling insecure about his appearance. Slowly, he crept back to the shower and tested the water, relaxing slightly when he felt it was warm.

He stood in the warm water, just letting it run over him before looking at the soaps he was provided. Just standard head and shoulders two in one and some store brand sensitive skin body wash. They were both pump bottles, and kind of bolted to the wall in a way that made it seem like it was often for patients to attempt stealing them. He sighed and just pumped some of the shampoo into his hand before running it through his hair.

During this, he learned it was a pain in the ass to wash his hair with one hand, and likely going to be as much of a pain to wash his body. Hell, it would be a pain to just take care of himself.

He finished bathing and stepped out of the shower, searching for a towel. Great. He would have to ask a nurse for a towel. He searched for the call button and found it, pressing it and waiting, covering his chest to keep some of his dignity.

The nurse who brought him to the showers came back with a towel and some clothes, what looked like a plain t-shirt and sweatpants. They handed him the towel and he shuffled back into the shower stall.

Nikolai dried off and reached out of the stall for the clothes, quickly getting dressed and looking at the nurse. "Um. Thanks."

"You're welcome. Let's head back to your room." And the nurse began to walk out of the bathroom. Nikolai obediently followed all the way back to his room.

He looked down at the journal and then back at the nurse. "Um.. what should I write?"

"Dr. Kamiya suggests writing about what happened before you came here. Your thoughts and feelings, maybe memories. That way she can get to understand you a bit better before she meets with you." They explained as they pulled out a clipboard. "She'll meet with you tomorrow afternoon. So you have most of today and some of tomorrow to get some journaling done. She recommends taking your journal with you during lunch then turning it in to me during the activity time. When you get back to your room after activity time the journal will be back on the desk. I won't go through it, I promise. Also, I'm Yuuki Kato, I will be sort of attending to you I guess. Well, I'll be back to pick you up at lunch!"

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And so it went, just like that, for two and a half months. Nikolai was taken care of by Kato, and weekly he would visit his psychiatrist, Dr. Mieko Kamiya. He was diagnosed with a whole list of disorders, most notably being Borderline personality disorder, PTSD, and potentially autism. He was put on medication to help with his BPD, prescribed therapy, and told to keep up the journaling and visit Dr. Kamiya every two to three months.

He held his bag tightly as he walked back home, having just been checked out of the mental hospital after having a steady improvement to his wellbeing. He felt like a new person. He had been exercising more, eating more and healthier, and, with the therapy and medication, felt mentally better.

He began humming to himself as he made it to his apartment. He felt like a new person. He quickly went to his room to put all of his clothes away as well as put his medications on the bed side table before running around and cleaning thoroughly, as well as watering all of his indoor plants. He had been gone for two and a half months, so a good thick layer of dust had settled on just about everything and his plants were shriveling up.

Once everything was cleaned he set off to go find Sigma.

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quick tag list for those who may find this interesting: @justsigma-bsd @fukuzawa-armeddaddyagency @shopping-for-casino-rats

[relax-and-read-on]

I have to ask: What is your modern AU Headcanons For the primarchs. You know where everything Is NORMAL.

Ohboyohboy

That is... SO MUCH

Okay, just. Lemme get the basic ones down

BIG E: The emperor did *not* have 18-21 iligitimate kids. Instead, he own a huge appartment building downtown,and the way he choose his tenant is... Mysterious. The bros are all neighbor and more or less hate each others. There are monthly building hang out, and somehow they are all forced to participate. Currently happening in like... Random Ass Town, USA.

Roboute: His dad is a senator, his mom run a charity. He could ABSOLUTELY get a better appartment... But he love the location, and he does enjoy the weird insane vibes of everyone else. Will help Big E organise the community activities. Work as a lawyer specialised in taxation law, because he's a NERD.

Leman: Always seem to get a job and be fired two weeks later. Somehow always have money. Has TWO GIANT FUCKING DOG BRO ARE THOSE WOLFS in his 1 bedroom appartment. They are suspiciously well behaved. Will open the door fully naked. A lot of people miss identifie his runic tattoo and assume it's some white power bullshit, and he correct this by breaking their jaw.

Lion: He's european. No one is sure wich part of europe exactly, but bets are on Austria or France. The kind of man who probably relate to the Sigma Male meme. At least this time he's a bit more out of the closet... Use grindr like a pro, and def met Leman on it. Work as a Manager in an Office. Where? How? Whom? No one fucking know.

Mortarion: work as a lab tech, mostly taking care of the test animals. A TON of chronic health issues. Him home is filled with plants, vivarium and paludarium. Very quiet, he gets quite fussy about noise level. Was probably born in a cult and ran away at like. 16. Pescatarian. Wants to be more friendly but has no idea how.

Angron: He's a physiotherapist. He WILL make you cry, but by the gods you will be better after a few weeks. Volunteer at a few places. Do a lot of meditations and yoga, wich he learned in anger management place. Came from a horribly abusive home, and was in locked down youth center from 12 to 18. Very happy to be out of the system and has some STRONG opinion on over-sentencing. Rocking some badass dreads. Brazilian.

Magnus: Egyptian, vegetarian, and somehow still in college. Doctoral candidate and no one can clearly figure out what he actually do. It's something about the perception of human consciousness throu history. He has SUCH long red braids, no one believe that they are natural. Has a lot of weird new ages beleive and will try to make you come with him to his Reiki class.

Ferrus: He's Lakota and an industrial engineer. He does traditional metal artwork in his spare time. Incredibly in love with his husband, he "convinced" big E to let him fuse teo of the appartment together so that Fulgrim could build "the perfect work room". Has heavily tattooed forearms.

Fulgrim: He's chinese, and albino, and so god damn gay. Work as an interior designer, but actually build a lot of his design element himself, he's That Good. Dress like he stole a broadway closet and murdered a few ostrich on top. Genderfluid af, rock a cheongsams like no one else. Met Ferrus and informed him that they would get married like. 15 minutes in.

Alpharius/Omegon: The twins that live together. Some beleive that there us only one of them. Leman swore they are triplet. They are never seen together. They both work from home, and get WAY too much food delivery. Most of their job is running semi-legal crypto bullshit and nft trading scam. Talk 90% of the time in memes. Still not over vines.

Sanguinius: Syrian refuge. He doesn't want to talk about it. Currently work at an animal rescue, wich does wonder for his PTSD. Met Horus the first day he turned up in america, and the dude literally gave him an appartment. It took some time for him to trust again, but now he's hapillly in a relationship with Horus, and they live LITERALLY across the corridor from each others.

Horus: Eastern european, maybe Croatian.... And possibly run the local mafia. Has WAY too much money. He would be scary, if he wasen't so damn friendly with everyone and such a fool for Sanguinius. Kind of an asshole, but like, in a lovable way??? May or may not be the son of the landlord. Like to joke that he has a hitman on speed dial.

Konrad: He just... Showed up one day. Used to be homeless, and no one know exactly since when he was in the street. It took some time and a lot of effort from everyone, but he was able to enrol in school to get SOME diploma, and seem hyper focused on criminal justice. Talk to himself a lot. Will someone appear in other people home uninvited like he was always supposed to be there. Somehow, speak russian.

Corvus: Computer enginering goth trans woman who never leave her home. Yes, she has cat paw tigh high socks. And a crow Fursona. No, you will never see either. Somehow always have the best weed. Was raised on a commune by hippies, and she still call her parents often. She hate going outside and socialising, but she still has too.

Rogal: The handyman of the place. Everything get fixed in a timely manner, but he WILL tell you EXACTLY what you did to break the thing. Went to school with Perturabo to be a civil engineer, but found out that fixing buildings is more fun. Wear exactly the same outfit everyday, and eat the same breakfast, and in general has the strictest routine. Of swedish decent.

Lorgar: Algerian berber, and raised muslim (most specifically Ibadi faith). Currently doing high level theological study, and try REALLY hard to not be preachy about his religion. His home is the most transformed one, stepping inside transport you fully in Ghardaia. His door is often open, as he beleive in being welcoming and helping all. Often have late night study sessions with Magnus, with mint tea and good shisha.

Jaghatai: Mechanic at a local garage, specialise in bikes and muscles cars. Has the most BEAUTIFUL vintage chopper. First generation immigrant, he was legit born in central mongolia. He firmly believe that most of his neighbor are underfed, and as such, keep bringing large traditional homemade meals. Fulgrim love them.

Vulkan: Rwandais! And a machinist!! He send a lot of his money back home to his family. Loud, social, and so damn charming. He miss his large extended family, and he ends up socialising with the others most night. His appartment has rooftop access, and he spend a crazy amount of time up there. Grill the best barbecue. Always complain that its too cold.

Perturabo: Australian. Went to the same class the dorn, and he's SO MAD that the fucker had the GALE to get better grade but choose to become a HANDYMAN?!? work way too hard at a job he hate, and watch too much shitty reality tv to forget his pain. He's terrible at interacting with others, and usually come up as a rude asshole.

[darkpoisonouslove]

Can I give you a lot of work and ask you to answer all the questions in the otp question meme for Griffin x Faragonda, please? (I like them too much, and there's a lack of content about them...)

I love them, too, and I totally get the disappointment of having so little content about them. I feel it myself.

These are all set after season 1 in what is decidedly not an AU but canon keeps refusing to confirm.

1. Who is the most affectionate?

Faragonda has always been more touchy-feely but Griffin is completely on board with it. They’ve been apart long enough. She can more than use all of the clinginess.

2. Big spoon/Little spoon?

They switch but Faragonda is the big spoon more often. She loves giving Griffin all the affection. And Griffin melts in her arms.

3. Most common argument?

Where the line lies for witch pranks at official events. They really do not share the same view on that and the dissonance arises quite often. Not their most heated argument by a far cry but certainly the most common one.

4. Favorite non-sexual activity?

Having a tea party and just getting to talk to each other while they’re relaxing. It is the best stress relief to just sit together and chat about anything and everything.

5. Who is most likely to carry the other?

Faragonda. She totally sees it as yet another opportunity to be affectionate. Griffin is more surprised than Faragonda thought she’d be and she also seems more touched. That might have made Faragonda repeat it. Griffin is starting to feel spoiled.

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

Griffin’s is Faragonda’s eyes. She loves the contrast of their dark color that reminds a lot of a cloudy sky and how soothing they are to her. Just a look in Faragonda’s eyes lets her know that she’s home.

Faragonda loves all of Griffin but she especially loves running her fingers through Griffin’s hair. Or brushing it. Or braiding it. It’s super soft and just the lightest touch can send Griffin shivering which is Faragonda’s favorite part. She loves how responsive Griffin is to touches of her hair.

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

Griffin starts getting jealous which is definitely new at least in a romantic context. She’s seen Faragonda date before and even encouraged it but now it is unbearable to even think about it.

Faragonda is more subtle about it. It’s her body language that changes - lingering gazes and touches. Maybe a couple remarks that are more suggestive. She’s careful not to push them back into not talking to each other, though.

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

They don’t have nicknames for the other. They might just love saying the other’s name too much for that.

9. Who worries the most?

Both of them worry enough about each other’s well-being and the general state of things with the world at large - considering what they’ve lived to see - but Griffin actually worries a little more. Since she was the one who sort of initiated the rifts between them the previous times, she is worried about what might happen next and whether she won’t be stupid enough to let them get torn apart again. Faragonda has to reassure her that they will be fine and they will come out of anything together just like they always have.

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

Faragonda. She thinks it’s the least she can do when she drags Griffin out to a restaurant when Griffin would prefer to stay home even if she will be the one to cook in that case. Griffin also remembers what Faragonda orders, however, and then makes it for her at home.

11. Who tops?

They switch but Faragonda tops more often. Griffin totally loves leaving her in charge, especially since Faragonda makes her feel like the most loved person in the world.

12. Who initiates kisses?

Griffin does. Faragonda is not shy at all, especially with Griffin but she actually likes it when Griffin initiates the kiss and directs it.

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

Faragonda. Again, she is more about touching but once they’re holding hands, Griffin won’t let go of her.

14. Who kisses the hardest?

Griffin. She kisses like there’s no tomorrow and leaves Faragonda totally breathless but she’s not complaining.

15. Who wakes up first?

Griffin does most of the time. It is hard even for Faragonda to beat her to it when Griffin seems to have endless energy even if Faragonda is the one with the sunshine personality. Griffin claims that is exactly why Faragonda needs more time to recharge - she is spreading too much of her positivity around and it uses up her energy.

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

Both of them. They have actually been late for work because they didn’t want to leave the bed and each other’s company.

17. Who says I love you first?

Griffin. Faragonda actually wants to take things at Griffin’s pace and not rush them into something they’re not ready for that could tear them apart.

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

Faragonda does. Griffin is a little surprised by how Faragonda managed to sneak them in there without her noticing since she was the one who prepared the food. She knows the fairy has her ways, though, especially since Griffin is often distracted by her presence. And it makes her day so who is she to complain, really?

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

They don’t really say anything but Griselda figures it out a couple months before Ediltrude and Zarathustra do. Saladin, on the other hands, only learns from the twins a long way down the line and is pretty salty that they didn’t tell him sooner.

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

They are all ecstatic that it is finally happening because they all know how much Griffin and Faragonda have always meant to each other and how much not speaking had affected them. Seeing them finally taking the chance and making each other happy makes their friends happy, too.

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

Faragonda totally drags Griffin into dancing whenever she feels like it. Griffin only complains about it a little. Just for the sake of it. She actually loves slow dancing with Faragonda but she has to be dramatic. It’s good for the soul.

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

Griffin is the better cook and she cooks almost always unless she is dead tired in which case Faragonda might take the risk and try her hand at making dinner. She isn’t actually that bad at cooking but she feels her meals can never live up to Griffin’s even if Griffin claims they’re really good.

23. Who comes up with cheesy pick up lines?

Griffin. Faragonda has expressed profound shock over her never ending arsenal of those but Griffin keeps delivering.

24. Who whispers inappropriate things in the other’s ear during inappropriate times?

Griffin, most of the time. She is a witch; she has a reputation to uphold. And it is pretty fun (and hot) to see Faragonda get flustered. Except, Faragonda retaliates sometimes and it is Griffin that ends up flustered. But she has to face the consequences for her actions and Faragonda makes up for it anyway. ;)

25. Who needs more assurance?

Griffin. She has some guilt in storage both in regards to her relationship with Faragonda and just in general and is relieved when Faragonda reassures her that everything is okay, especially between the two of them.

26. What would be their theme song?

Find Me by Sigma ft Birdy (acoustic version)

27. Who would sing their child back to sleep?

Griffin. Faragonda might join her but she’s also quite content just listening and watching. She also gets pretty lulled by Griffin’s singing.

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

Griffin is impossible when Faragonda can’t be with her for whatever reason. She gets irritable and starts making everyone miserable by turning even more pedantic than usual. Zarathustra and Ediltrude do their best to keep her occupied which sometimes involves lots of wine and chess.

Faragonda definitely handles separation better by doing things that will make her feel closer to Griffin like reading Griffin’s favorite book or tending to the plants. It doesn’t mean that she doesn’t miss her super much, though.

29. One headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart

They’ve ended up seriously hurting each other - both physically and emotionally - while Faragonda was with the Company and Griffin was with the Coven. They didn’t necessarily want to fight each other but were forced by the circumstances. There was also a decent amount of anger and despair on either side and the possibility that they might have actually hurt each other on purpose freaks them both out.

30. One headcanon about this OTP that mends it

They retire together on Domino and help raise Daphne and Bloom’s kids. Also, they have a peaceful life because they have been through so much and deserve some rest.

[bookworm-2692]

For the ZE Ask Game: 1b, 1e, 2a, 3d, 5e, 5f and 5n!

Thank you for sending the asks! I love talking about Zero Escape so thank you for enabling me :D

Questions from here

1b: Favourite character design?

Okay, you know how hard it is for me to pick favourite characters because they’re all wonderful and that’s why you went with this question haha. Hmm. There are so many good designs (especially with the colour coding!!!). I prefer the designs in the first two games, since they’re really bright and colourful, and the third game is darker and dingier. I like that each character has a main colour that stands out and doesn’t really belong to anyone else (except for Dio and K who both have the red and gold aesthetics, but that’s valid because red and gold is a brilliant aesthetic). I think in 999, my favourite is actually Junpei’s - I love the blue colour of his vest, and the blue vest and red shirt just. Work super well together. It’s a fashion disaster but it’s also an aesthetic I vibe with so. (also love the red blue colour coding with Junpei specifically so). In VLR, much as I loathe him, I really like Dio’s design. The top hat and the braids and the red and gold work really well together and it’s fun. Dio is super frustrating though, but his design slaps!

1e: Favourite scene?

Oooo tricky. There’s so many good moments. I think I have to go with the classic though - the moment in 999 True End where Junpei gets the safe end code, and the narration goes “How did Junpei know? He knew because I knew”. It’s so chilling and also so satisfying to see everything suddenly click. I love it, and I love watching people experiencing that for the first time. It’s like. The best part of the game, I reckon.

2a: Least favourite character?

Okay I’m trying to not immediately say Delta but like.... Delta. I think he had a super interesting concept, but the way it was executed made it so much worse. I hated that they just.... hid him from view so then the twist was that this character you didn’t even know existed was Zero? It just felt cheap. Also ~complex motives~ got really annoying - I would have much preferred it if he had said “yeah I’m only doing this to ensure my birth (and the birth of my sister). soz lmao”. Because that motive feels more real? Rather than just adding a whole random “religious fanatic” in a vague sort of way. I do like the concept of him and Phi being twins and being separated in such a way that they’re very different ages now, but again the execution of Sigma and Diana’s romance was like. Not done well.

So yeah, Delta is my least favourite because he doesn’t significantly effect the plot, barely exists, and when he is present his motives don’t make sense and his abilities are not foreshadowed at all (morphogenetic fields in 999 were good, the entire game was spent explaining the concept. Mind Hack? Right outta left field and also if we’re trying to make it work based on how morphogenetic field theory was explained in 999, the “reading minds” part of it is “extremely strong receiver”, and the “forcing people to do actions” part of it is “extremely strong transmitter”, so he should have one of the abilities but not both. And if he is a really strong transmitter.... he’s gotta mime out the action in order to write it into the fields to encourage others to follow! And I reckon natural transmitters, who are worse at receiving, are naturally slightly resistant to this, natural receivers are more vulnerable to this, and normal people somewhere in between. But yes, if Delta is gonna Mind Hacc Eric, then we should see him in the corner miming holding a gun, pointing, and firing!! Bleugh!

Wow that turned into a bit of a rant. Whoops?

3d: Rank the endings

I have been given the choice to either rank the true ends across the three games, or all the endings within a particular game. I am so bad at choices ugh.

Anyway, the true ends:

999 - it really tied everything together and explained everything. The sequence in the incinerator, seeing 12 year old Akane and 21 year old Junpei talking to each other, Junpei saving young Akane, Clover’s absolute joy at finding out Light is alive, the “he knew because I knew” thing that I mentioned above, just everything. It was a self contained story, so everything was addressed and it was good.

VLR - this is more second by default, since I love 999′s true end and hate ZTD’s true end. But overall, this is fairly solid, and I like the concept of them doing this in 2074 to change an outcome in 2028, but it loses points because it relies on ZTD to “complete” it

ZTD - I hate this true end. The game has very enjoyable moments, but unfortunately the true end amounts to “oh let’s just... SHIFT to a timeline where we all survive” and that’s it? Which just feels sort of pointless tbh. And is so unsatisfactory

Within 999, I feel all six five endings are extremely solid, and all have a part to play an a story to tell. Knife End may be the most unsatisfactory, but it’s still okay. True, Safe, and Sub Ends are the ends with credits, and they’re all full of great dialogue and story. Axe End is also great, and I love the way you get to see the other side of Clover (and I really like the art of Clover holding an axe, I actually drew it on Saturday (when I started writing these answers, but it’s Wednesday now because I’ve been busy) for a friend’s birthday, which is technically my first ZE fanart and I’ll post it here at. Some point. Knife end is a bit quick, but honestly that’s okay? Especially when considering how many bad ends the other two games have that aren’t even named. Coffin End was my first end, and I wasn’t expecting the “to be continued” so I basically just collapsed and lay face down on the ground for a fair bit, but again given how many plot locks the other games have, coffin end is chill. So 999 has the most solid endings overall.

Within VLR, there are nine named endings, one for each character, and 13 ish unnamed bad ends. The unnamed bad ends are all like.... basically as soon as you make the decision you die or whatever, they don’t continue onwards like they do for Axe End etc in 999. I like that the named endings are designed for you to learn about each character, even though some of them are kinda weak. Like Quark’s ending, we didn’t really learn about him, and most of what we learnt about him was from Tenmyouji’s ending. I agree with what you said, Finch, about how it would have been nice to get some more Quark content/bonding/something, after he wakes up. Clover’s ending was also pretty disappointing, since she vaguely alluded to 999 and then everyone killed themselves. But there were some really good ones, like Luna’s and K’s and Dio’s (very fun that Phi was about to smash his head with a rock even if betraying Luna to get to that point is painful). Actually I really like the whole murder mystery aspect of everything behind the Magenta door. 

Within ZTD, I do appreciate that the endings all served their purposes, but I disliked the way there were sometimes multiple endings in the same timeline, while other timelines... had none. It just was a bit all over the shop. Most of the endings were informative for the characters, but the true end sucks.

5e: Rant about something you liked from the games

I adore all the red/blue symbolism in the games, especially in 999. The way every time the morphogenetic field is described, the transmitters are red people and the receivers are blue people. And then when you learn who the espers are, you can see how the colours align. Clover is a transmitter, and her colour scheme is a lot of dark pink, close to red, while Light, a receiver, has lots of blue in his design. Junpei and Akane can both transmit and receive (with each other), and this is shown by Junpei wearing both red and blue, and Akane wearing purple, a mix of red and blue. It’s really neat. Also, Junpei is new to the morphogenetic fields, so his blue and red is still separate, but Akane is so entwined within them, and uses them so easily, that her blue and red have mixed to become purple.

In VLR, Clover is still pink, and Junpei still has blue (even though he’s lost the red, but that could show he’s lost connection to Akane and now has no one to transmit to, although I think it’s hilarious if he was still unintentionally transmitting to Akane over the years, and that’s how she kept tabs on him and found him again for VLR.

In ZTD, Diana is red and Sigma is blue. I actually headcanon Diana as a receiver and Sigma as a transmitter (as in, he transmitted his memories to himself across timelines rather than a natural receiver ability), so I like that in ZTD they have opposite colours/each other’s colours. Phi is blue in both games and still a receiver imo.

So the colour symbolism is obviously strongest in 999, but I really like it.

5f: Rant about something you disliked from the games

In VLR, Clover says that stronger espers absorb the powers of weaker espers, and that’s why she can’t contact her brother. I hate this “fact” actually, because it directly contradicts the way the morphogenetic fields work in 999 and ZTD, and also in VLR itself. In 999, we have nine sets of esper siblings during the First Nonary Game, and since they all survived, we know that their esper powers must have worked correctly.... which means we can’t have had one Super Esper absorbing all the powers. The true end of ZTD has the powers of all the espers working together to create a resonant effect so that even Eric and Mira, non espers, can SHIFT. I also dislike SHIFTing (a rant for another day), but the idea of multiple espers in a vicinity resonating/boosting everyone’s powers makes way more sense than.... one person absorbing everyone else’s powers.

And even within VLR.... Tenmyouji does the ally/betray swapsies thing with Sigma and Phi, which means he is also remembering another timeline.... which means his powers are still working and not being absorbed by Phi and Sigma. Also.... both Phi and Sigma are using their powers and SHIFTing everywhere. Why doesn’t one of them absorb the other’s powers? Also also, we learn in the True End that Akane was in K’s armour the entire time during the timeline where Sigma and Phi most use their powers for all the bomb passwords and locations etc. You cannot try to tell me that Akane isn’t the strongest esper, ever. She simply is. If absorbing was true, then we would literally never see anyone else use their powers, because Akane is always there (FNG, 999, VLR, ZTD) and would have to be doing all the absorbing. Gah.

So I reckon, even though Clover said that, that she was simply wrong. That was the current theory SOIS had, but.... they don’t have to be right.

In any case, there are other reasons why Clover might not have been able to contact Light in VLR. The first is simply that he is dead. Another is the idea that minds linked by the morphogenetic fields have a sort of... shape. That fits perfectly with those they are esper partners with. And as the espers grow, so do their mind shapes. Clover was frozen on the 22nd of December 2028, and awoke on the 25th of January 2074. Her mind shape was not able to evolve and grow, so it is preserved. Light however has been living those 45 years, which means that’s been a lot of time for his mind shape to grow and change. Clover can’t find Light’s mind in the morphogenetic field, since it no longer looks the same, and their shapes no longer fit together. This is my personal headcanon, and it means that when Clover finds him, their minds can get used to each other again and their shapes can align, and they can be linked again.

5n: Do you have any fanart/fanfic/fangame recommendations?

Boy, do I ever? The First Nonary Game by @airdeari . What it says on the tin, folks! Airdeari has named all nine pairs of siblings, and created unique sibling relationships and unique experiences with the morphogenetic field for all of them, and woven a beautiful story together, and it’s just wonderful. It’s my favourite fic ever, to the point where I literally bound it and it now exists as a physical book in my life. Like, I cannot recommend this fic enough, it is the best.

AO3 Summary: A tale of nine children aboard a sinking ship, and the unbelievable story of how they survived.

[ask-the-freelancers]

Drift

The Project Freelancer/ Pacific Rim AU nobody asked for.

Rating: T 

Ensemble Cast, Minor Pairings if you squint

Warnings: Character Death

-- 

Drifting with Maine is exhilarating. She sees it all, relives two lifetimes the span of moments, and comes out stronger for it.

“Testing. Sigma Inferno, do you read.” Carolina and Maine nod together, the Jaeger mimicking the move, smooth and fluid. They nod.

“Excellent job, Sigma Inferno,” the Counselor says. He sounds pleased. He should be. They’re flawless.

“Alright,” 479’er says, taking over. “Let’s take ‘em out for a couple laps around the Mother of Invention, make sure everything’s in working order. Clear a path.”

The hangar bay opens, and they take one step, two. Her muscles burn with the strain of moving against the pilot rig, but it‘s a good burn. It works. —

York had expected to get partnered with Carolina. 

Well. Maybe expected is the wrong word. Wanted. He likes her, and, as far as he can tell, the feeling is mutual. Or she’s really good at tolerating him.

Then neural handshake simulation stats come back and he wilts. Their connection is shaky at best. She gets partnered with someone else.

North is the next best thing, but he’s more compatible with his twin, and that takes priority.

So York is just… partnerless for awhile. 

And then Texas arrives.

He doesn’t really know what to make of her, at first. She certainly doesn’t act like a rookie. Maybe they picked her up from some other branch of the military, because she doesn’t seem the slightest bit discomforted by life in the Mother of Invention. She’s got this dry, easy humor—not quite the jokester York is, but she goes along with his bits more often than not, and it feels like she’s joining more than tolerating.

They run a sim together.  And they crush it. 

— 

Theta Sanguinea sings.

South loves it. She loves the strength, the invincibility of it all, the knowledge that she’ll never be powerless again.

North is slightly more… measured in his admiration. She can tell he nearly as obsessed as she is—doesn’t even need the drift to tell, not when she’s had a lifetime of experience reading him. 

There are days, though, where he shows it.

Like when they react on instinct, throwing up their dome shield and blocking acid spit, and then open a gap just wide enough to slam their blade into the belly of a Kaiju, and North howls.

Their expressions are mirrored, teeth bared and eyes wide, and they feel powerful.

— 

According to official records, Gamma Sinensis rarely sees combat. It is, supposedly, largely defunct and outdated.

Its pilots would disagree.

“Good morning, Reggie!” Florida chirps. “You’re looking absolutely peachy on this fine day.”

“Butch,” Wyoming says dryly. “Energetic as ever.” Florida is awfully chipper for someone who’s probably sweat through his undersuit three times over, and also holding a trainee in a chokehold with his legs. 

Wyoming drums his fingers against his thigh, and his partner’s eyes brighten. 

“I’ll be right along,” Florida says, finally releasing the wheezing cadet and letting them crawl to join the ranks of a dozen other red-faced rookies.

He’s halfway down the hall by the time Butch catches up, tugging his hair loose from the long braid as his eyes crinkle.

“Where to?” he asks, running his hands through his hair, and Wyoming hands a datapad.

Florida’s smile turns sharp.

— 

Proditor Delta, they call it. 

“It’s equipped with self-repairing nano-tech that will patch any superficial to moderate damage to the hull,” the Counselor explains calmly. He pauses. “Perhaps,” he says, “nanotech is misleading. Bots, perhaps.”

York watches as geometric bots scuttle across the Jaeger, the shape shifting as it sets itself in place to fill a misshapen hole. Neat. 

“So why us, specifically?” he asks. “I mean, wouldn’t be more useful for one of the more active teams?” “Proditor Delta has a… unique weapon loadout,” Price replies delicately.

“Explosive whip-flail,” 479’er supplies helpfully. “And rocket punches.”

Tex lets out a low whistle. Price makes a faint, vaguely displeased sound, and Niner winces and fades into the background.

—

Holo Striker is… different. “Ran outta Greek letters,” York comments jokingly, and CT shakes her head. 

Beside her, Wash tilts his head, looking pensive. “It’s… kinda small?” he manages. 

“It’s not the size that matters,” North quips, “it’s how you—”

He only barely dodges the kick that South sends his way, chuckling softly. 

— 

Felix stares up at the Jaeger, head cocked contemplatively.

“We could steal it,” he offers, and Locus scoffs.

But then Felix turns to face him, and he’s got that look in his eyes. “I want to steal it,” he declares.

Within the hour, Disgraziata Fortuna is theirs.

—

Maine is acutely aware of the moment Carolina falls unconscious. He knows because, at that very moment, every ounce of the Jaeger’s control falls on him, and the weight is crushing.

They had been doing fine—better than fine, they were winning—and then the second fucking Kaiju tore out of the water and buried its claws in the cockpit, ripping out half the cabling and exposing the pilots, and Carolina had gotten flung against the wall. She slides down, limp, blood dripping down her temple and she’s not piloting anymore.

His head feels like it’s splitting open, but he needs to get them out of here, get them someplace safe, far enough that they can get out of the Jaeger and run. 

One step. One of the Kaiju screeches, and there’s a horrible, awful, wrenching sensation and there’s a vacuum where his left arm should be. Good thing, maybe. Less for him to control. 

Another step. A blow to the side sends him careening into a skyscraper, Carolina’s body rolling lifelessly, dangerously close to the hole in the cockpit, and Maine wrenches then upright. 

Another step. 

He can’t fail. Not now.

—

The Kaiju that comes next is only barely not a level five, possibly for the reason that no one wants to admit that things are bad enough for fives to be showing up. 

They call for backup.

479’er reports that they’re dropping in Sigma Inferno to assist, and Wash calls an affirmative and— 

There’s an ear-splitting crash. The Kaiju’s bladed tail cleaves through metal, cuts through to the Jaeger's core— 

Pain. Searing pain, lancing through his temples, and he doesn’t realize he’s screaming until his throat is hoarse and CT is—

CT is impaled on the Kaiju’s tail. Blood drips from her mouth, the end of the spike protruding from her back. 

He’s mouthing her name as the Kaiju roars and wrenches it’s tail out of the Jaeger. Metal screeches and bends, cables snapping—

CT is gone. There’s a gaping hole where his copilot should be. 

He’s still screaming. 

—

Tex crosses her arms, contemplating the Jaeger.

“It needs a name change, I think,” York comments. “Nice change of pace. Defecting and all that.” 

Tex makes a low, thoughtful sound. “...Omega,” she says. Her eyes are bright. “Renegade Omega.”

York grins crookedly, the raggedly line of his scar twisting over his cheek. “Catchy,” he says. “I like it.” Then, “We should paint it black.”

—

Carolina looks up. “Are you sure?”

Wash is staring at his hands. “No. But I want to.” He looks up, meets her eyes. “If it’s you, then I want to try.”

She sighs. The shadows under his eyes mirror hers. “Okay.”

The neural handshake connects—but just barely.

Barely is enough. Epsilon Memoriam is theirs.

[pleasurextreasure]

❜Moment in Time (pt. 1/?)

genre: yoongi x reader, angst, fluff, university!au

word count: 3k

warnings: cute reader tbh

prompt: heartbroken yoongi can’t get over an ended relationship. until he meets you does he begin to feel what love is again

a/n: I freaking love Min Yoongi okay  ➵admin kiki

I miss you. I miss you. I miss you.

It’s the only thing that runs through his mind whenever he looks down at the polaroid in his hand. Inside the white bordered frame is a picture of him and her. The him who is in the picture contrasts to the him now. He’s all smiles, striking the dumbest pose topped off with a peace sign high in the air. Her pose is no different. Their outfits are similar, and the two tiny ponytails on his head matches her long, frizzy ones. It was ‘twins’ day’ during their welcoming week of being First Year university students. That was back when times were good. When he was happier, and she was the reason for it.

This picture was well over two years old, yet it was still in good condition, save for the small crinkle at the corner due to it always being carried around in his wallet. He couldn’t find a good enough reason as to why he still has it other than the fact that he missed her. Namjoon says it’s a waste to keep it. But he thinks differently. It was hard for him to throw the memories of her away when there were approximately two years, eight months, and fourteen days that taunted him every day. How could someone so easily forget the one thing that made them feel so full of life and motivated them to keep going?

He catches himself gripping the picture tightly and relaxes his fingers, sighing in the process. He gently tucks the polaroid back into his wallet, into the crevice behind the plastic holder for his license and shoves his wallet back into his pocket. He grabs his phone, pressing the power button to look at the time. He notices a notification from Jimin and unlocks his phone to answer the younger one.

 From: Jimin P

Boys & I are going to

Delta Pi Sigma’s tonight…

You in?

 That’s right, it was Friday. Lately, the days have been blurring by despite his constant knowledge of what the date was. It slipped his mind that another week has ended, and he only had three classes today.

 To: Jimin P

I don’t know.

From: Jimin P

Come onnn, you didn’t party with

us last weekend either :(

To: Jimin P

I have a shit load of

assignments to do. The

semester’s kicking my ass.

From: Jimin P

Don’t lie to me?? Namjoon said you

were up for the past two nights

to finish homework to relax over

the weekend or some shit

 Curse his roommate and his big mouth that he can never keep shut. Despite it being true he was homework-free for the weekend, it didn’t give him an excuse to go out partying. The last party he went to with his friends and roommate ended badly. He woke up hungover with French fries in his shoes and the stench of alcohol stinging his nostrils with its pungent smell. Was it also worth mentioning he awoke in Jimin’s closet, apparently claiming the night before that he refused to ‘get out of the closet’.

His phone buzzes, again.

 From: Jimin P

…Please come?

To: Jimin P What time?

From: Jimin P

:) eight

To: Jimin P

We’ll see.

From: Jimin P

THAT’S MY BOY :’) Tae & I will swing by to grab you and Namjoon after our 5pm.

 He’s about to set his phone back down when he vibrates once more, the message’s preview leaves a bitter after taste in his mouth. He doesn’t bother to reply and drops his phone on his ruffled sheets, bringing himself up off the bed to get ready for his afternoon classes.

 From: Jimin P

You deserve to be

happy, Yoongi.

 ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴

 The History and Art of Rock n’ Roll had to be the most excruciating, time-consuming, and overall boring class Yoongi has had to take in the three years he’s been here at Seoul University. The class was ridiculously easy but was such a drag that most students struggled to stay awake. As he made his way to the back of the room, and began to take his seat, he was interrupted when someone bumped their backpack into him.

Turning around to see what asshole couldn’t watch where they were going, he was mildly surprised to lock gazes with big, round (y/e/c) eyes that were already looking at him.

“I’m so sorry,” you begin, bowing your head in apology. You offer a polite smile, “These seats are too close to the wall, and I have one too many binders in my bag.”

Yoongi couldn’t help but think of how similar this stranger looked like her, and it made his gut wrench in an unknown way. The hand that gripped the back of his chair tightens as he lets out a forced chuckle.

“I was ready to cuss you out,” he jokes, and you laugh at this. His heart stutters at the sound, something that hasn’t happened for far too many months now. “Anyway, no worries.”

You bob your head in a short nod and show him another smile, this one relaxed. “Thank you.” You begin to shuffle away from him without another word and take the chair two seats away. Yoongi takes note of this.

As soon as the digital clock on Yoongi’s laptop screen switches to ‘12:00’, his professor begins his devastating fifty-minute lecture. He spends his time scrolling through the Yamaha website, window-shopping their selection of electric keyboards and various piano styles. Every so often, he’d catch himself glancing to his left where you were seated, his interest piquing with your appearance.

You currently wore glasses, he assumes it’s to see the chicken-scratch handwriting on the whiteboard. Black hair is pulled to the side in a braid and he takes a few seconds to marvel at the braid type.

“It’s a fishtail braid,” she explained, holding the ends of the braid to give him a better view of the folded strands of hair. His fingers had gently run down the length of her hair, impressed at how talented his girlfriend was.

Yoongi forces himself to push away the memory, not wanting to sink into a pool of self-pity.

“Are you alright?” You, now noticing this guy staring rather intently at you, asks, leaning towards him to keep as quiet as possible.

He looks up at you, startled and embarrassed that you caught him in a moment. “Sorry… I, uh, like your hair. It suites you.”

You brighten at the compliment, much to his surprise. He was expecting an unimpressed look and for you to begin to think of him as a weirdo. A smile that made your eyes crinkle at the corners was the last thing he was expecting to receive. “Thank you.”

The conversation came to an end and you went back to listening to the professor. Throughout the rest of the lecture, despite his willfulness, Yoongi couldn’t help but sneak in a few more glances.

 ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴ ∵ ∴

 “Who’s ready to par-tay?” Taehyung’s excitement rumbles throughout the dorm room as he barges in, arms flying into the air and allowing the door to swing back into the wall. Jimin follows close behind, looking unamused by the outburst his roommate was making.

“Started without us, didn’t he?” Namjoon asks, and Jimin helplessly shrugs. The older rolls his eyes and looks over at Yoongi, who is battling to put on one of his black hoodies.

“You’re seriously going to wear that?” Jimin criticizes, crossing his arms over his chest for added effect. “Do you own anything that isn’t fifty shades of black?”

“Shut up,” Yoongi snaps as his head pokes through the hoodie’s hole. “I said I would go but I never said I’d dress up for it. Plus, who the hell am I trying to impress?”

“Yeah, sure, alright.” Jimin nods, refusing to bring himself into an argument he’s found himself in one too many times. It was hard to convince his friend that it was time to move on, to let things go, and move on. It pained him to see Yoongi suffer but it was out of his control on just how much of his help was accepted.

The group of friends depart for the party and soon find themselves walking up the steps of the hosting Fraternity house. After going through the usual ‘What’s the password?’ from one of the rushing members (this week’s party password is cheesy Cheetos), and being accepted into the house, Yoongi finds himself feeling suffocated.

There must be around five people per square foot and he doesn’t think that’s even physically possible. But from the number of grinding, dancing, and walking bodies, he begins to believe it as a possibility. He pulls Taehyung to the side, informing him he’ll be at the back of the house then proceeds to do just that.

He fights his way through the crowd – literally fights his way through because no one knows what ‘excuse me’ stands for anymore. He is finally free from the jungle of flailing limbs and breathes in deeply when he finds a less populated area out on the patio. He allows himself to sink into the cushioned seats of the swinging bench and props his head back, gazing up at the stars.

They used to do this quite often. Mainly at the request of her because she’s loved the stars since she was a little girl and could name almost every one that shone that night. Talking about the night sky and its wonders made her eyes light up brighter than the North Star or any star. Yoongi loved watching the raw passion she bore whenever she talked about or did something she loved.

“Beautiful, aren’t they?” The sudden voice makes Yoongi lift his head faster than he anticipates and a sense of rush courses its way through his head. His breath noticeably hitches when he sees the same girl, you, from earlier. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.”

To his disappoint, your hair wasn’t in the braid you wore earlier, and instead sat atop your head in a bun. He shakes the negative feeling off and offers a grin.

“Two in one day. Are you trying to set a record with me?”

“Who knows,” you tease in return, much to his pleasure. Your sense of humor reminded him of her and Yoongi enjoyed this. You motion to the empty spot beside him, “Would you mind if I sat with you?”

“No, not at all.” He makes the effort of scooting further from the spot and allows you to take the seat beside him.

His fingers are beginning to twitch, wanting to tap against something to calm his nerves. Yoongi wasn’t sure why he was getting worked up over this girl. Deep down, deep within his heart, he wondered if the similarities you bore with his first love is what’s causing all of this. 

He isn’t one to believe in love at first sight. It was a cliché that almost never worked out in the end. Yoongi preferred the kind of love that starts off as friends and gradually evolves into something more. Much like what he had until a few months ago.

“So…” you begin, “do you want to talk about why you looked like you were about to cry? Or is it too personal to tell a stranger?”

He’s taken aback by your brashness, which is something she never had. She had always beat around the bush when it came to questioning things, never directly asking the real question. Yet, he couldn’t help but think that he didn’t not like it. Not wanting to admit to you – and to himself – the reason for his solemnness, Yoongi utters the first thing that comes to his mind.

“I forgot to blink.” He wants to slap himself for how dumb he’s sounded.

“You forgot to… blink?” your head tilts to the side as you questioningly look at him. He dumbly nods, and you snort, “Well, not everyone remembers to. I won’t judge.”

Yoongi’s not sure why he feels a sense of relief at you words. Maybe because there won’t be one extra person out there who thinks he’s weird.

“Anyway!” Your outburst shocks him. “What are you doing out here by yourself? Friends ditch you or something?”

“For your information, I ditched them,” he replies, smoothly.

“Mhm, gotcha. Still kind of boring to be out here alone, don’t you think?”

“You’re here now, aren’t you?” He notices the redness in your cheeks begin to deepen. He makes the effort not to put much thought into it. “What were you doing out here by yourself?”

“Same as you, I guess. The friends I came with are party animals and I’m… not.” You bashfully reply, scratching your upper lip as you refuse to make eye contact with him.

“Then why’d you come?” Yoongi internally flinches at how accusing he’s sounded but doesn’t verbally acknowledge it. Instead, he just waits for your response.

“To get out of the dorm, I suppose. Irene says I need to get some fresh air occasionally if I want to stay alive.”

“I see.”  

You two fall silent once your short-lived conversation ends, the duo unable to find words to create a new topic of discussion. Yoongi finds himself gazing down at your hands, noticing the monochromatic polish that your nails adorn and the slight chubbiness of your fingers.

You breathe out a sigh, attracting his attention back to your face. Your head was tilted upwards as a smile graced your thin lips. “Are you a fan of astronomy?”

“Not really, no.”

“Ah, I see.” You’re staring back at him now and Yoongi can’t stop the erratic beat his heart picks up. “You looked really interested in the sky just now, so I thought you were.”

“I took a class back in my first year, though.” he replies. “My… friend and I decided to take it together.”

“Sounded fun.” You muse. “I wish I could take fun classes like astronomy. I’m stuck with those boring ones everyone tries to avoid taking.”

“Well, if the classes are boring, then the major has to be on the same level.” Yoongi teases, taking joy in the fake gasp you give.

“Psychology isn’t as boring as everyone makes it out to be.” You defend, eyebrows furrowing to match your jutting bottom lip. He found the look to almost be cute. “There’s a lot of interesting things you can learn. If you really pay attention to the person, you could tell if they’re lying or telling the truth, for example. How can that be boring?”

“Sounds like a load to me.”

“Oh, really?” You scoff. “Then what do you do, huh? You look like you’re a business major, especially if you’re dragging mine down like this.”

“Music major, actually.” Yoongi corrects, a smug-tone accompanying his words. “My roommate’s in business, though.”

“Whoa, really?” Your previous episode of mock offense diminishes, and you brightly beams. “That’s so cool! Do you sing?”

“No, I’m studying to become a music producer.”

“That’s even cooler!” You clasp your hands together in excitement and Yoongi couldn’t help the smile from forming on his lips. “So, you write your own music then?” He nods in answer. “Wow.”

“It isn’t that interesting.” He meekly shrugs, growing bashful at your compliments.

Your reaction differed from hers. Despite the continuing support he was given by his ex-girlfriend, she was never truly on the same level as him of passion. There were times when she would gently urge him to pick a more practical career path, claiming that music wasn’t for everyone and it was difficult to pursue.

But this reaction he was currently receiving… it was refreshing. Someone other than his friends, was supporting him with his decision. And it was someone he didn’t even know the name of.

“What’s your name?” He found himself asking without a second thought to it. He inwardly screams, scolding himself for acting weird once again.

“(Y/N).” You answer, tone indifferent from the one you’ve been using. “Yours?”

“Yoongi.”

“Cute.” The word is out before you could stop yourself, causing both to grow flustered. “Ah, um… sorry.”

Yoongi says nothing in return, allowing the dismissive wave of his hand be enough of an answer. He currently couldn’t trust his voice because of how embarrassed he grew to be. Before another wave of silence could sweep over, your attention is brought to the screeching of the glass sliding door being pushed open.

“There you are.” Jimin says, his usual cheerful smile on full display. “I couldn’t find you anywhere and was beginning to think you bailed on us.”

“The thought crossed my mind.” Yoongi replies, forcing himself to stand up and leave the comforting aura he was beginning to indulge in. “What’s wrong?”

“So, before you get mad…” his friend nervously chuckles, hand coming to sit on the back of his neck as he looks off to the woodened patio. “Jungkook may or may not have snuck in through some connections and is wasted.”

“Jeon Jungkook?” you question, unknowingly stopping Yoongi’s outburst that was ready to unleash itself. “Isn’t he a freshman?”

“Well, funny story—”

“Where is he?” Yoongi interrupts. “Did one of you at least stay with him?”

“Of course! We’re not that dumb.” Jimin quickly defends as he re-opens the sliding door. “He’s out in the front yard with Namjoon. We figured you’d want to be the one to see him safely home.” He heads back inside, not waiting for Yoongi to follow.

“Ugh, that kid…” he trails off, glancing back at you who looked confused over the situation. “Looks like they need me. I’m sorry.”

“Oh no, go right ahead! Your friend needs you.” The kind smile you offer him is one he doesn’t deserve, not with how abruptly he must leave you and your comforting appearance. “It was nice talking to you, Yoongi. See you Monday?”

He purses his lips together in a polite smile of his own and nods. He slips through the opening and closes the glass door behind him, fingers momentarily squeezing the handle. As he made his way through the overcrowded rooms for a second time, the only thing that crossed his mind was how pretty you looked while smiling.

He wanted to see it again.

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#5

Men vadå - sju låter och ingen Thomas G:son??? Vart är han? Känner han okej?

5 notes • Posted 2021-02-06 19:52:46 GMT

#4

Christer Björkman, vinnaren av Melodifestivalen 1992, pratade med Arvingarna, vinnarer av Melodifestivalen 1993

6 notes • Posted 2021-02-06 20:32:12 GMT

#3

Oh also loved how Christer was nudging Arvingarna like “if you win you’ll sing in Eurovision in an English version right? Right?” And they were like “maybe. Or in Swedish!!”

10 notes • Posted 2021-02-06 20:34:05 GMT

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For the ZE Ask Game: 1b, 1e, 2a, 3d, 5e, 5f and 5n!

Thank you for sending the asks! I love talking about Zero Escape so thank you for enabling me :D

Questions from here

1b: Favourite character design?

Okay, you know how hard it is for me to pick favourite characters because they’re all wonderful and that’s why you went with this question haha. Hmm. There are so many good designs (especially with the colour coding!!!). I prefer the designs in the first two games, since they’re really bright and colourful, and the third game is darker and dingier. I like that each character has a main colour that stands out and doesn’t really belong to anyone else (except for Dio and K who both have the red and gold aesthetics, but that’s valid because red and gold is a brilliant aesthetic). I think in 999, my favourite is actually Junpei’s - I love the blue colour of his vest, and the blue vest and red shirt just. Work super well together. It’s a fashion disaster but it’s also an aesthetic I vibe with so. (also love the red blue colour coding with Junpei specifically so). In VLR, much as I loathe him, I really like Dio’s design. The top hat and the braids and the red and gold work really well together and it’s fun. Dio is super frustrating though, but his design slaps!

1e: Favourite scene?

Oooo tricky. There’s so many good moments. I think I have to go with the classic though - the moment in 999 True End where Junpei gets the safe end code, and the narration goes “How did Junpei know? He knew because I knew”. It’s so chilling and also so satisfying to see everything suddenly click. I love it, and I love watching people experiencing that for the first time. It’s like. The best part of the game, I reckon.

2a: Least favourite character?

Okay I’m trying to not immediately say Delta but like.... Delta. I think he had a super interesting concept, but the way it was executed made it so much worse. I hated that they just.... hid him from view so then the twist was that this character you didn’t even know existed was Zero? It just felt cheap. Also ~complex motives~ got really annoying - I would have much preferred it if he had said “yeah I’m only doing this to ensure my birth (and the birth of my sister). soz lmao”. Because that motive feels more real? Rather than just adding a whole random “religious fanatic” in a vague sort of way. I do like the concept of him and Phi being twins and being separated in such a way that they’re very different ages now, but again the execution of Sigma and Diana’s romance was like. Not done well.

So yeah, Delta is my least favourite because he doesn’t significantly effect the plot, barely exists, and when he is present his motives don’t make sense and his abilities are not foreshadowed at all (morphogenetic fields in 999 were good, the entire game was spent explaining the concept. Mind Hack? Right outta left field and also if we’re trying to make it work based on how morphogenetic field theory was explained in 999, the “reading minds” part of it is “extremely strong receiver”, and the “forcing people to do actions” part of it is “extremely strong transmitter”, so he should have one of the abilities but not both. And if he is a really strong transmitter.... he’s gotta mime out the action in order to write it into the fields to encourage others to follow! And I reckon natural transmitters, who are worse at receiving, are naturally slightly resistant to this, natural receivers are more vulnerable to this, and normal people somewhere in between. But yes, if Delta is gonna Mind Hacc Eric, then we should see him in the corner miming holding a gun, pointing, and firing!! Bleugh!

Wow that turned into a bit of a rant. Whoops?

3d: Rank the endings

I have been given the choice to either rank the true ends across the three games, or all the endings within a particular game. I am so bad at choices ugh.

Anyway, the true ends:

999 - it really tied everything together and explained everything. The sequence in the incinerator, seeing 12 year old Akane and 21 year old Junpei talking to each other, Junpei saving young Akane, Clover’s absolute joy at finding out Light is alive, the “he knew because I knew” thing that I mentioned above, just everything. It was a self contained story, so everything was addressed and it was good.

VLR - this is more second by default, since I love 999′s true end and hate ZTD’s true end. But overall, this is fairly solid, and I like the concept of them doing this in 2074 to change an outcome in 2028, but it loses points because it relies on ZTD to “complete” it

ZTD - I hate this true end. The game has very enjoyable moments, but unfortunately the true end amounts to “oh let’s just... SHIFT to a timeline where we all survive” and that’s it? Which just feels sort of pointless tbh. And is so unsatisfactory

Within 999, I feel all six five endings are extremely solid, and all have a part to play an a story to tell. Knife End may be the most unsatisfactory, but it’s still okay. True, Safe, and Sub Ends are the ends with credits, and they’re all full of great dialogue and story. Axe End is also great, and I love the way you get to see the other side of Clover (and I really like the art of Clover holding an axe, I actually drew it on Saturday (when I started writing these answers, but it’s Wednesday now because I’ve been busy) for a friend’s birthday, which is technically my first ZE fanart and I’ll post it here at. Some point. Knife end is a bit quick, but honestly that’s okay? Especially when considering how many bad ends the other two games have that aren’t even named. Coffin End was my first end, and I wasn’t expecting the “to be continued” so I basically just collapsed and lay face down on the ground for a fair bit, but again given how many plot locks the other games have, coffin end is chill. So 999 has the most solid endings overall.

Within VLR, there are nine named endings, one for each character, and 13 ish unnamed bad ends. The unnamed bad ends are all like.... basically as soon as you make the decision you die or whatever, they don’t continue onwards like they do for Axe End etc in 999. I like that the named endings are designed for you to learn about each character, even though some of them are kinda weak. Like Quark’s ending, we didn’t really learn about him, and most of what we learnt about him was from Tenmyouji’s ending. I agree with what you said, Finch, about how it would have been nice to get some more Quark content/bonding/something, after he wakes up. Clover’s ending was also pretty disappointing, since she vaguely alluded to 999 and then everyone killed themselves. But there were some really good ones, like Luna’s and K’s and Dio’s (very fun that Phi was about to smash his head with a rock even if betraying Luna to get to that point is painful). Actually I really like the whole murder mystery aspect of everything behind the Magenta door. 

Within ZTD, I do appreciate that the endings all served their purposes, but I disliked the way there were sometimes multiple endings in the same timeline, while other timelines... had none. It just was a bit all over the shop. Most of the endings were informative for the characters, but the true end sucks.

5e: Rant about something you liked from the games

I adore all the red/blue symbolism in the games, especially in 999. The way every time the morphogenetic field is described, the transmitters are red people and the receivers are blue people. And then when you learn who the espers are, you can see how the colours align. Clover is a transmitter, and her colour scheme is a lot of dark pink, close to red, while Light, a receiver, has lots of blue in his design. Junpei and Akane can both transmit and receive (with each other), and this is shown by Junpei wearing both red and blue, and Akane wearing purple, a mix of red and blue. It’s really neat. Also, Junpei is new to the morphogenetic fields, so his blue and red is still separate, but Akane is so entwined within them, and uses them so easily, that her blue and red have mixed to become purple.

In VLR, Clover is still pink, and Junpei still has blue (even though he’s lost the red, but that could show he’s lost connection to Akane and now has no one to transmit to, although I think it’s hilarious if he was still unintentionally transmitting to Akane over the years, and that’s how she kept tabs on him and found him again for VLR.

In ZTD, Diana is red and Sigma is blue. I actually headcanon Diana as a receiver and Sigma as a transmitter (as in, he transmitted his memories to himself across timelines rather than a natural receiver ability), so I like that in ZTD they have opposite colours/each other’s colours. Phi is blue in both games and still a receiver imo.

So the colour symbolism is obviously strongest in 999, but I really like it.

5f: Rant about something you disliked from the games

In VLR, Clover says that stronger espers absorb the powers of weaker espers, and that’s why she can’t contact her brother. I hate this “fact” actually, because it directly contradicts the way the morphogenetic fields work in 999 and ZTD, and also in VLR itself. In 999, we have nine sets of esper siblings during the First Nonary Game, and since they all survived, we know that their esper powers must have worked correctly.... which means we can’t have had one Super Esper absorbing all the powers. The true end of ZTD has the powers of all the espers working together to create a resonant effect so that even Eric and Mira, non espers, can SHIFT. I also dislike SHIFTing (a rant for another day), but the idea of multiple espers in a vicinity resonating/boosting everyone’s powers makes way more sense than.... one person absorbing everyone else’s powers.

And even within VLR.... Tenmyouji does the ally/betray swapsies thing with Sigma and Phi, which means he is also remembering another timeline.... which means his powers are still working and not being absorbed by Phi and Sigma. Also.... both Phi and Sigma are using their powers and SHIFTing everywhere. Why doesn’t one of them absorb the other’s powers? Also also, we learn in the True End that Akane was in K’s armour the entire time during the timeline where Sigma and Phi most use their powers for all the bomb passwords and locations etc. You cannot try to tell me that Akane isn’t the strongest esper, ever. She simply is. If absorbing was true, then we would literally never see anyone else use their powers, because Akane is always there (FNG, 999, VLR, ZTD) and would have to be doing all the absorbing. Gah.

So I reckon, even though Clover said that, that she was simply wrong. That was the current theory SOIS had, but.... they don’t have to be right.

In any case, there are other reasons why Clover might not have been able to contact Light in VLR. The first is simply that he is dead. Another is the idea that minds linked by the morphogenetic fields have a sort of... shape. That fits perfectly with those they are esper partners with. And as the espers grow, so do their mind shapes. Clover was frozen on the 22nd of December 2028, and awoke on the 25th of January 2074. Her mind shape was not able to evolve and grow, so it is preserved. Light however has been living those 45 years, which means that’s been a lot of time for his mind shape to grow and change. Clover can’t find Light’s mind in the morphogenetic field, since it no longer looks the same, and their shapes no longer fit together. This is my personal headcanon, and it means that when Clover finds him, their minds can get used to each other again and their shapes can align, and they can be linked again.

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16 notes • Posted 2021-04-14 00:07:55 GMT

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It was my friend’s birthday the other month, so I gifted her a sketchbook and decided to a Clover in it to christen the book! The drawing was accidentally too big for the page so I had to add a flap haha.

Enjoy a Clover drawn traditionally in coloured pencils!

41 notes • Posted 2021-06-23 23:36:16 GMT

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