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cosmichorrorsarestillnicerthanme · 2 years ago

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Maki Zenin, Mai zenin and Nobara kugisaki with a Boyfriend who's pretty airhead and but he's incredibly strong, like he's either a Grade 1 or special grade Sorcerer but deslite his strength hes really affectionate towards his girlfriend.

Your Wish Is My Command!

(My first JJK ask and my first one back after my break! Hope I haven’t gotten rusty! But this ask gave me a pretty fun Idea for a simple but powerful technique! I also added Miwa because I’m weak to her in the same way I’m weak to Kobeni)

Spoilers For Certain Events During The Shibuya Arc For Mai and Maki’s Parts

Maki Zenin

Maki got paired up with you at the last minute because Panda was already on a mission and Inumaki nearly blew his throat out, again, and now is on watch.

And well Gojo felt like committing a smidgen of trolling.

So.

Here the two of you are.

(Barbecue sauce on your tiddies)

In this spooky ass old carnival, during the off season, which means it’s the on season for jujutsu sorcerers.

Hunting a, drumroll please!

A SPECIAL GRADE ONE CURSE!!!

Y’know if Maki didn’t know better she would think that her family was trying to get rid of her!

But that would require acknowledging her as a threat which is highly unlikely.

Then there was you.

From the look of you she thinks, grade three.

maybe MAYBE Semi-Grade two.

Which leads to now where the two of you are starting to comb through the old carnival and her starting to try and figure out why you were sent out here with her.

Her prevailing (And only) theory was because you had less going on upstairs than Itadori (bless his soul), but much like Itadori it was in an endearing way, like an exceptionally stupid puppy.

Then the Giant ass clown centipede fucker decided to crawl out of it’s hole.

Where you promptly literally and figuratively folded that fucker into the size of a washing machine.

As the cube of meat fell and splattered to the ground before fading away Maki had several questions run through her mind.

The most important of those being.

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“WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!!!” Maki shouted in confusion.

You simply turned to her, gave her a thumbs up and said “That was my cursed technique! Fold!”

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Afterwards she decided that she wanted to figure out who the hell you were.

So she decided to look you up that night in the Library with some junk food and soda she managed to smuggle in.

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“Let’s see, Date Of Birth, Boring, Name, I already know that, Favorite foods, yadda, yadda, yadda” Maki thought to herself as she scrolled through your profile and took a swig of her favorite soda.

Then Maki saw your Grade and promptly spit all of her drink out onto the computer screen with the words “SPECIAL GRADE JUJUTSU SORCERER” scrawled onto the bottom of your file.

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The next time Maki saw you was because Gojo assigned the two of you to work together because of your “Teamwork” on the last assignment.

But the smug smile on his perfectly punchable face told Maki that he knew something or there was a betting pool that he was determined to win and she was somehow involved in.

And let me tell you now, Gojo is going to win that “Hypothetical” bet pretty soon.

I say this because as soon as the two of you got back Maki asked if you wanted to grab a bite before submitting the report because both of you were tired as fuck.

Things rapidly snowballed from there.

So now let’s get into the relationship headcanons.

Out of everyone here Maki is the one most eager to start a relationship.

She’s also the one who would take the longest time to move forward with anything in the relationship simply because of one reason.

She’s afraid.

Afraid something will happen.

Afraid that she’ll get attached.

Afraid that you’ll get attached.

Afraid she’ll lose you.

Afraid you’ll lose her.

With you around she is both the bravest and most afraid she’s ever felt and that carries over to when you fight together.

Maki is the brain and you're the cursed energy muscle.

Anything out of her spear or sword's reach is well within yours.

Now with all that said the moment she most clearly remembers as the point where her crush started to develop was when you asked Naoya to “spar” with you after she told you a few weeks earlier about how shitty the Zenin clan was.

Long story short, you beat the everloving crap out of him and proceeded to fold him into as many shapes as possible without killing him.

Naoya wasn’t even able to get a hit in but then again I do suppose folding someone’s legs into themselves has a really big effect on their mobility and concentration and slowly folding them back out even more so.

Following all that you turned to Maki with a smile and said, “I’m hungry, let’s go get some burgers!” like you hadn’t just committed several violations of the geneva conventions.

Half a week later the two of you were dating.

And half a week after the “Sparring Session” Maki was back to comparing you to a really stupid and energetic puppy.

You followed her around almost everywhere.

Almost had more manic energy than Yuji and Todo combined.

And somehow could pop out of anywhere whenever you wanted to like Goro Fucking Majima from the Yakuza games.

And she wouldn’t trade you for anything in the world no matter how much she wanted it.

The two of you just *Clicked* when you were together kind of like the last puzzle piece that was lost but now that you found it you can finally see the whole picture clearly.

Along with being her second best friend (Sorry, Nobara has held that position for a long ass time and she ain’t giving it up for nothin!) and the love of her life, you were here partner, her cheerleader, her biggest fan, and one of three or four people she would actually take criticism from to improve, you were her northstar that kept her from pushing to hard, that kept her from getting sick, that kept her from being reckless, that kept her from giving in whenever she wanted to most.

Even after the entire shitshow that was Sibuya you were still there to temper her, to ground her into place.

It was also during this time that she noticed you looking her over more.

Well if she was being honest with herself it was ogling not looking.

When she confronted you about it all you did was something about her hair suiting her and her muscles but she wasn’t able to make it all out.

I’ll leave you to do with that what you will ; ).

Mai Zennin

Mai and you met entirely by accident.

And not in the fun “Hi new person I just ran into on accident and made a mess of” way, I mean in the “You looked at me wrong so I’m gonna cave your fucking skull in” way.

So, now the two of you are sitting in the nurse's office, looking like the two of you just got into a schoolyard brawl.

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“You killed my gun,” Mai said irritably.

“You folded it into a cube, that would be impressive if it wasn’t for the fact that it was MY gun you killed” Mai said as she glared at you with an Icepack over one of her eyes.

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The next day Mai walked into class where a box was on her desk alongside a bar of chocolate.

Mai asked Utahime who left this here.

Utahime proceeded to describe someone who looked exactly like you.

Inside the box sat a brand new revolver with a note that read “Sorry for killing your revolver, but at least you have a new paperweight now!”

All Mai had to say to this was a laugh and to call you a cheeky bastard while her chest started to feel a little weird, she should probably go and get that checked huh?

And for the rest of the month Todo was on his best behavior, almost like someone scared him into being as good as he could be.

Quite honestly it was pretty much as close to heaven as Mai could imagine.

And now she was interested to learn about you

So she swiped some food from a vending machine and went to search you up.

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“Let’s see, nope, nope, nope, nop- oh wait there you are!” Mai quietly exclaimed to herself as she took a bite out of her chocolate bar that was coincidentally the same brand of chocolate you got for her when you gave her her new revolver.

“I have started to buy a lot of that brand of chocolate recently now that I think about it” Mai thought to herself as she listlessly scrolled through your file.

“Yeah, I’m not going to read into that too much,” Mai told herself as an unfamiliar heat started to spread on her face and she reached the bottom of your file where she then proceeded to stare at the screen for several minutes before shouting so loud she could be heard in Tokyo “THAT DUMBASS IS A SPECIAL GRADE!!!”

Coincidentally during that day you sneezed far more than you should have for the time of year it was.

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The next time you ran into Mai was when the two of you were in the same area on patrol.

After the two of you finished patrolling Mai asked you if you wanted to visit a local cafe which you accepted because food always tastes better when it’s not all on your dime.

But now that we have the set up out of the way let's get to the headcanons.

Out of everyone here Mai would take the longest to actually ask you out but the one who would want to move forward the quickest.

The two of you had one of those relationships where EVERYONE who saw the two of you together thought you were dating when you weren’t

Oh and fair warning Mai is most definitely a Tsundere.

And I don’t mean Tsundere in the “It’s not like I like you” way

I mean Tsundere in the “*Fucking Kills You Out Of Embarassment If The Two Of You Are Called Cute Together*” way.

The two of you quickly become a duo capable of taking just about anything down, A duo that fully trusts in the other no matter what, A duo that fights in a manner more akin to orchestrating a symphony and dancing to its destructive tune.

A duo that helps improve the other to make them even better than they used to be.

And

a duo who lives to be a massive headache for the other.

Which leads into people saying you argue like an old married couple.

Which leads to more of Mai being a tsundere.

That being said.

You are Mai’s carer.

You care so she doesn’t have to.

She loves your energetic nature but it can be a bit much for her at times.

She’s a kitten and you're a puppy, and as long as the two of you listen to the other everything will be fine!

Her favorite activity with you is just sitting with you watching TV in her happy clothes.

Her happy clothes are sweatpants and a hoodie.

Her second favorite activity is when you stroke her ego.

During the Shibuya Debacle you and Maki saved her life through sheer stubbornness, being loud as hell, and folding her wounds closed.

Mai was simultaneously greatly displeased and overjoyed by this.

Here she was being a complete badass and then bam the two of you wouldn’t shut up or stop making a racket while you beat her sperm donors face in, it was extremely inconsiderate!

But despite all of this bluster and cocky attitude Mai still “died” the two of you managed to bring her back but Mai was… off for a long time after this.

She probably never would have been the same if it wasn’t for you and your antics.

Be glad about that.

Because now the two of you are officially dating and have your entire lives ahead of you.

Kugisaki Nobara

Nobara and you met when her group affectionately and officially named by Principal Yaga “The Four Idiots Of The Apocalypse” which consisted of Gojo, Yuji, Nobara, and Fushiguro went to a pretty packed restaurant and the gremlin that is Gojo was able to spot you.

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“Heeeeeey there old buddy old pal~! You don’t mind if me and my friends sit with you right?” Gojo asked.

You opened your mouth to politely decline but he had already shoved Nobara next to you and thrown Fushiguro and Yuji into the booth you were sitting in as he stole a chair to sit down in.

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So now you were eating lunch with The Vessel Of Sukuna, The World's Strongest Living Sorcerer, The Son Of Toji Fushiguro, and one of Maki’s few friends (Which is a far more impressive feat than it probably should be)

And your day was about to get even more hectic when Yuji asked Gojo how he knew you.

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“Oh this little ball of chaos? I know 'em because we run in the same circles inside the sorcerer world~! He is a Special Grade after all~!” Gojo jubilantly exclaimed

All hell broke loose soon after as Nobara and Yuji scrambled into your face and exclaimed “YOU’RE A SPECIAL GRADE!!!”

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After that you started to run into Nobara more and more often who was usually confused about how she got somewhere when you found her.

(Gojo it was fucking Gojo playing matchmaker)

Because of this Nobara has gotten to know you pretty well.

She also got to see a firsthand demonstration of your technique when you stopped a bag of hers from falling to the ground by folding the space between you and the bag.

She thought it was pretty cool.

But unfortunately for you that means you have been marked as one of her bag carriers, god bless your soul.

But unlike Yuji she actually buys you some things when you guys are out shopping.

Now that the set up is out of the way let’s get to the headcanons.

She loves your energetic personality.

She also loves how you dote on her and Stroke Her Ego compliment her beauty.

Out of everyone here she moves at the most normal pace, not too fast or too slow.

You and her have made some pretty out of the box combos together, like folding the trajectory of her nails to throw curses off balance.

Her favorite activity with you is dancing and eating.

The two of you play off each other and with each other all the time.

Things like little pranks and cheering each other on all the time.

That said Gojo makes it his job to interfere in everything because fuck you I do what I want.

Yuji lives in fear of you two.

Kasumi Miwa

Miwa knew of you professionally for a couple years and met you a few times while she was off duty at a hole in the wall restaurant popular with other sorcerers, she heard that you were a very competent sorcerer despite your… less than intelligent nature.

Despite that, she never realized your rank until Principal Gakuganji called her in to bring him some papers to him in a meeting between the principals and highest ranking Jujutsu Sorcerers.

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“Here are the papers you requested Principal Gakuganji'' Miwa stated professionally with a bow.

“Oh thank you Miwa, while I have you here I would like to introduce you to someone who has requested to meet you personally” Principal Gakuganji explained to Miwa.

Miwa’s stomach dropped as she thought in a panic “Who in the world would want to meet me! Oh no! DID I OFFEND SOMEONE!!!”

Principal Gakuganji then pointed at a pair of empty seats next to him and near Gojo and Principal Yaga before saying “The person who requested to meet you is currently doing a favor for all of us so if you would not mind please sit there until he returns.”

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Miwa was sweating bullets.

She felt like she was about to throw up, cry, and explode all at once.

What made it worse was the fact that she was sitting with Gojo Satoru near to her and Principal Yaga right next to her.

She had both of their trading cards and she desperately wants them signed.

Luckily before she could die of a stress induced heart attack you kicked open the door and cried “LUNCH IS HERE!!!”

Food was then passed out among the sorcerers.

She was very surprised when you sat down right next to her and Principal Gakuganji and you gave him a couple of burgers rather than his regular tempura.

She was even more surprised when you set a bowl of her favorite type of stew infront of her.

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“Kasumi Miwa I assume?” You asked her with a smile.

“U-uh yes that’s me!” Miwa hastily exclaimed.

“Principal Gajuganji speaks highly of you, he greatly admires your work ethic and wishes that your peers had the same drive as you.” You started as you sat down before continuing by asking her “You use New Shadow Style correct?”

“PRINCIPAL GAKUGANJI ADMIRES MY WORK ETHIC!!!” Miwa thought happily to herself before answering the question.

“Wonderful! After this meeting is over I would like to speak with you more about New Shadow Style, perhaps we can talk over dinner?” You asked Miwa.

Miwa, who was still in a haze about the compliment and the stress of being in this room, accepted, neither of you realizing how this exchange could be seen.

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With the set up out of the way let’s move on to the headcanons.

Miwa and you have a very naturally progressing relationship.

Until she introduced you to her siblings.

The little shits took a shine to you.

And every day she comes home it’s “So… Do we have a big bro yet Big Sis?”

The poor girl is flustered red everytime she sees you because of this, especially when the two of you are actually dating.

She is by far the easiest person to fluster on this list, also probably the horniest but That’s not a rabbit hole I’m going down yet.

Her favorite activity with you is eating all kinds of food.

She’s very surprised that your Fold technique is based on the core of shadow style.

This has led to quite a few off the walls Ideas in fights.

With the two of you in one room it's a battle of who’s more energetic about awesome things.

She has your trading card, you’ll never know this unless you ask her to show you and even then she’ll try and come up with an excuse of some sort.

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Confession Time: I didn't Like Maki's new design at first but then I saw a colored version and my opinion quickly changed.

You know for my first ride back in the saddle I think I did good sure there are a few things I'd like to improve but I'm happy with this-Cosmic

#jujutsu kaisen x reader #miwa kasumi x reader #mai zenin x reader #maki zenin x reader #nobara kugisaki x reader

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phoenix-before-the-flame · 1 year ago

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I hear we're sharing headcanons.

Transmasc Elfman and transfemme Lisanna. They traded clothes as kids before Elfman's growth spurt.

One day when he was a kid, Gajeel woke up to a giant ass centipede crawling on his face and has been creeped out by them ever since. It's kill on sight. He doesn't care how many holes he puts into the walls and floors, he ain't stopping until the damn thing is dead. You'll hear the sudden sound of destruction, walk into a room that looks like a stampede ran through it, and Gajeel will be standing there with a straight face and say, "I'm fine, it's dead now." (Sorta inspired by that one Archer scene in the first episode of Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works abridged)

Okay, I know the manga has the little bio cards of the guild members and Droy's says he's afraid of spiders, but I've elected to ignore that. Spiders are friends and welcomed in his gardens and greenhouses any day. He loves watching them weave webs. I can see him getting a tarantula. JET is the one with arachnophobia. The screeching on top of a table and running a mile away kind.

*Takes a long drag from my cigarette* Trans Elfman you say.......

No no I understand Gajeel here. Not scared of it but if its in my space it has to die immediately. I can respect a man that stands by his principles like that.

Droy🤝Levy, spider enjoyers. Jet 🤝 Gajeel, wtf is wrong with them.

#fairy tail #fairy tail headcanon

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pielove123clan · 8 months ago

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Failure, for the OC thing!

Thanks for asking because I got that vampire autism and don't talk much about my ocs. The thing with my ocs though is I purposly leave them open-ended, im never done developing and changing them. I did all my ocs if you don't mind. The thing is, I need to give my ocs more trauma. I'm too nice with them. None of these are fandom related, their just general ocs in my head.

Question: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

Aparna: She is an undead zombie housewife who can turn into a giant rabbit kaiju. I think her greatest failure is going to be going to sleep when moments before her huband was trying to reson out why she should let him kill her. She was opposed but her husband was able to talk Aparna down like, "Ok honey, this idea was kind of silly, Your right, I don't know why I thought this would be a good idea. Let's go to bed." And then when she fell asleep, her husband killed her. No one else knows this and she's been trying to move past it, look on the bright side because the killing was done to make her 'immortal', it was just greatly delayed. I still need to do more research on how The Great Depression effected families.

Milicent: She is a woman made up of a bunch of centipedes but looks like a normal ass woman, just glossy. I need to give her a failure because killing people in a time when you were more controled by animal instincts and not fulling a conscious self doesn't feel like much of a failure to her. She just moves on like nothing every happened but she accepts that yeah, she did eat people. That was how she was before. She's not doing it anymore because she prefers engadging with not dead people, but she wouldn't care to do it. She'll tell her adopted child Fleshy when she's older.

Fleshy: Body horror child escaped experiment who is a living virus. Weird stuff I still need to write down fully. Her biggest failure is her existence because she was a mistake from the lab that made her. I think she's moved on fine so far but she's still young, still learning. Milicent is trying to teach her how to live in this human world while being true to her nature, im still trying to work out their dynamic. Milicent is doing her best but some of the stuff she's teaching is maybe questionable.

Fleshy has minor anger and violence issues actually. For example, if someone were to tease her, if they don't noticibly look bigger or stronger or if she knows she could get away with it, her immediate thought is "punishment" as in, she will punish the other person, just like the people at the lab did to her. That means hitting or trying to absorb them or their limbs, and she's ruthless. She's very shy and cowardly to juxtapose that and Milicent is trying to direct her to not solving situations like that with violence.

Marigold: She's an ecology student with a shovel that can dig holes to other dimensions. Letting her father vanish before she could completly say all she wanted to say to him. Before he had suddenly vanished, they had a verbal argument. What I'm working with now is that for some reason, the father is insisting on moving out just as Marigold got accepted to a local university. The day after while Marigold was gone from the house, the home was ransacked, her mother was beaten, and her father was no where to be seen. Im still working on lore for her. Long story short, she find the shovel and she's trying to find her father, the problem is she doesn't know what shes doing. No one knows about it. She used to be very social until her father went missing and her mother got transported to the hospital.

Zovasa: They are a vampire jumping spider person. I guess being easily bribed for their apperance? Because its a scay spider who seems to be around misfortune or bad events, people misinterpret them as the bad omen. It's in Zovasa's instincts and nature though to see misfortune sprits or demons and then suck their blood or ichor, or whatever magic demon juices are in there. But, if you thow Zovasa a bone or give Zovasa any sort of kindness that isn't hatred, that demon is free to do whatever in Zovasa's eyes. They get let off the hook. Zovasa doesn't see it as a failure, just that they'll go a little hungrier but its ok. Zovasa is alone so I guesss only the ones that bribe them know.

Cranberry: Gremlin bog otter cryptid. This thing has no thoughts in its head other than violence. The world is lucky that the Cranberry does not have highest intellect. We are all better off that way. I think the biggest failure is the creators of Cranberry have yet to find a way to control the Cranberry and weild them as force of destruction. A handful have tried only to die out of bloodloss from their fearsomely treacherous claws and mighty sharpened maws. Only few know of the Cranberry breeding lab under the bog.

Milly: Medical student in medical school studying to be a surgeon. How did she pay for medical school without the support of her parents? She signed a shady loan connected to a shady underground organ trafficing ring! That's her biggest failure so far and she can't move past it yet because she needs to work off that debt. She is pretty introverted so no one knows, im still playing around with the idea of Milicent, Milly, and Fleshy being a sort of found family and if that still sticks, Milicent would know and be there for her. Otherwise, I need to make Milly some friends.

Verdell: Haven't written much for him because hes relativly new but he will be a superhero oc, possibly influnced off tokusatsu stuff. He is Milly's brother and the much more favorited child in the family. It would be an easy cop out answer to say in his eyes, his greatest failure is not being able to help everyone while remaining in the spotlight and get that recogition. He does legitimately want to do good and help people but he's also a people pleaser and badly trying to over-compensate. He wants his good deeds to be seen, high praises sung in his honor, to be liked and widly revered worldwide. I don't think he's that subtile so if people wanted to really pay attention, he prioritizes what will give him more eyes, more fame in his heroic endevors. He feels the need to go higher and higher since birth because those high praises are what his family gave, he feels like he needs to live up to that severely. Experimenting on making him Marigold's housemate after the vanishing of her father.

Bake: My tanuki oc! She doesn't see herself as having any major failure in her life but for the most part all she thinks about is eatting and survival as a wild animal, and whatever would get her interest at any given moment. She's a younger character with no role model figure or adult figure in her life. She's really alone. Given her attitude as an animal, has little empathy for others experiences or feelings about death other than a dead thing should stay dead. I think her biggest failure is that she doesn't have any real goals or ambition, no actual reason to strive for continued exsistance other than for survival sake. She just exist, wandering around. She might be depressed but she doesn't know it, because she naps quite a bit. She also really doesn't have any morals unless its just, "This thing will get me killed so don't do that." or "There's food there, food is important for survival. I will take it." Id like to write her more but I get self conscious.

Malinda: This giant red and black spikey dragon. In her eyes, her biggest failure is not getting out of her cave and murdering the king yet because they keep sending these knights to her cave in order to steal from her horde of items. She has a personal vendetta against this one specific king but she can't be bothered yet to take care of it, she's procrastinating. I think her biggest failure is sort of being a hermit and shutting herself off from things. She's a very neutral dragon, almost passive with how much she doesn't care unless something really rouses her. She's just as likely to join a hero's party as much as she is to join the demon lord, its whoever gets to her first and impresses her the most. It's depending on her company how she'll develop.

Lily: My self-insert oc. The easiest way I can describe her species is wolf tulpa person. She specifically has an identity crisis. I made her to try and get through my own trauma and digest it without attacking myself. Wolves are known for their packs and undying loyalty so betraying or deserting them is treason no matter what. She is activly running away from her problems by going around by herself in an RV. She is not able to move past them and that's a major part of her character. She's trying but activly, when she tries to go with other people, to have fun and move past it, feelings kind of consume her. Even one slip up and she gets all scared and withdrawn. She has SAD or Social Anxiety Disorder when she never had that before. She internalizes her greatest failure a lot, the failure to stay and protect the ones she loves and cares about, then seeing them seemingly get corrupted by a miasma right before her eyes, or that dillusion in her part? I purposly make it vauge. I think about Knight Of Despair when thinking about her sometimes. I need to write her but its like staring at a mirror. I can't do it for too long but I'd like to.

#asks #tanuki's ocs #tanuki speaks #thank you!

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firebuug · 1 year ago

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indirectly not really tagged by(stolen from) @scp-168 because i'm cracyyyy (want to type and ramble)

3 ships:

damian already went off about abc but i need more abel and hokma. you guys talk about old man yaoi but WHEREEEE is the old man x old man yaoi. your coworker aged you 40 years and then he remanifests in his office as a manifestation of his flaws and his trauma and he's old as balls too. tell me you arent all over his ass. also can we have a old woman yuri carmen.

literally all of the ships i've been going crazy over have literally just been oc ships but also i need everyone to know that even if i don't play it anymore gregor x rodya will forever be the bisexual fail ship of all time. they both get no pussy. they beat each other up daily. gregor is used as a headrest and is also boob height. what's more to love? but also gregor and meursault? there's no chemistry here whatsoever other than they were both done dirty by their society and also have a ridiculous height difference. i feel like gregor talks and says shit and meursault takes it too seriosuly or doesnt get it and they both sit in silence for the next 30 mins. i hate them

none of this matters (holds up my oc polycule that consists of a giant centipede a wriggling neurotic mass of wires a giant bird dinosaur beast and the occasional cockroach that needs some love and forces you to like them) (holds up my queerplatonic autistic distortion sex explosion that commits The Pianist 2 and kills thousands and forces you to like them) (holds up my giant centipede kissing the bug from limbus company and forces you to like them) (holds up my bisexual telephone who hates men but wishes the living cymbal piano man and knight butch would kiss her so bad)

First ever ship: ugh i wish i knew, i'm pretty sure it has had to be an oc ship of some kind, but that probably doesn't count since that's just playing with dolls, so my money is on some stupid hetalia shit (i refuse to actually speak the name of the ship but like. it was one of the most popular mlm ships in the fandom so fuckin. guess). although the first ship i actually started making content and reading fic for instead of just looking at pictures of (i have no idea if hetalia came before this or not) is skarso from tos sob

Last song: im currenlty listening to music lel...im listening to Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia by of Montreal one of the songs of all time nglll

Last Movie: Probably a movie i watched at my schools entertainment club, which was..across the spiderverse (it was really good but the ending was kinda disappointing)

Currently reading: I need to start reading again but I keep getting distracted by art and the Evil Devices, but I'm working on continuing Villain VS Villain by Rosalind B. Sterling and recently bought Chainsaw Man Buddy Stories and the first book of part 1 that i'm waiting to get brainrot again to read

Currently watching: i need to finish catching up on major adventure time episodes so i can watch fionna and cake and not be confused. also want to finish steven universe sometime...also need to finish watching madoka w my friends....

Currently consuming: also wateh

Currently craving: watermelon (we only have it when im not craving it like a dehydrated man in the desert)

#enjoy the insane ramblings of a madman #i'm distracting myself as much as possible so i don't think about the fact that i have to get up early tomorrow and think #txt #tag meme

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foxingpeculiar · 6 months ago

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Elden Ring/SotE:

Okay, its my Saturday from work and I was pretty determined not to do anything important today, so I got some shit DONE in this game.

Alright, so Shadow Keep. Went in and promptly got stomped by a giant Hippopotamus. Did not expect that, but okay. Went back in, prepared this time, and managed to eke it out.

Made my way through the castle, poking around. Eventually got to the Leda vs. Hornsent invader battle and helped the Hornsent, obviously. Leda was pissed, but y'know... maybe don't go around being all paranoid and trying to murder everyone?

So then I made it up to the storehouse, but got sidetracked on a path through the Ancient Ruins of Rauh. Some neat stuff in there. Lotta scorpions, not a big fan of that. Eventually, I sort of wandered into a cave with a bunch of Rot Kindred and wound up at the Church of the Bud, and hey, there's a remembrance boss/bug lady here. Romina wasn't that bad, really--took I think three tries? A lot of staying to the side of the centipede bits of her and dodging back from blade hits and spins and the like. The AOE butterflies were kind of annoying, but overall, probably the easiest remembrance boss so far.

Wandering over and finding the Divine Dancing Lion 2.0 was a little bit of a different story. I was doing fine until all of a sudden there's basilisks everywhere and an entire smog cloud of Deathblight over everything. Yikes. Eventually, I cottoned on to a strat of using Rellana's Twin Moons to kind of clear the field around me a little bit--that could take out several of the basilisks in one go. Then it was just kind of staying at range and taking careful opportunities to blast or slash when I could. The time I beat him, he killed my Mimic Tear and I ran out of healing, so it was a nailbiter, but we got there.

So I found the Sealing Tree behind the church, but I don't have Messmer's Flame (or whatever) yet, so I can't do shit about it.

Having poked around up top, I went back through the Gravebird Swamp and poked around in the Rauh Base area. Found a forge, fucked around in Temple Town Ruins, went up to the Northern Mausoleum and beat guy named Red Bear, got my ass handed to me by like 3 Runebears at once, but then snuck past them and beat an actual red bear (Rugalea, I guess? That makes two of them now.)

Then it was time to go down the hole in the Moorth Ruins and check out that shit over there. (For the record, I am looking at a general progression guide--which gives suggestions about where to go when, because I'm 102 hours in this game and I only have so much time in my life--but not one with any details about what I'll find in each area.)

Found the (not particularly) Bonny Village and its associated dungeon. Also found an emote on a statue, I think of Marika? It's the "O Mother." And like... I dunno. Getting an emote, but not from a character---my spidey sense is tingling. I'm gonna need that for something. Fuck if I know what, but something.

The Furnace Golems aren't THAT much of a problem at this point, but the one here with the armored legs. I figured out you had to use the Spirit Spring to get up to the ledge and basically play basketball with him, but I did have to look up what, exactly, it was I needed to throw to make it work. Cos man, I tried a bunch of things. Furnace Pots. Doy. Felt dumb after that one.

Anyway, went to the wizard's rise and then met Count Ymir in the cathedral and his "I'm too good for this and you" knight friend. Dude kinda gave me the creeps, but told me to go check out some ruins, and I'm not gonna NOT do that, so okay.

Next, I found my way down into the river. I found the illusory wall when I was fucking around in the castle, but saved exploring that direction until this point. Played basketball again and got the Sword of Light, which is pretty cool. Found Dryleaf's set chilling in a waterfall and I gotta say, I like this guy's style. Then found the Eastern Mausoleum and got a sweet katana that I think I now actually have the stats to use but probably won't.

Eventually stumbled on the Village of Flies. That was... pleasant. There's so much stuff in this DLC that's like "ugh, gross." Manflies, scorpions, those super-meat-boy things that are supposed to go in the jars. Yech.

Then found the Darklight Catacombs. Which was fine until I got to the boss arena. I've been rocking the Snow Witch's Hat, which is very large and tends to block my immediate view when I go through fog gates. And in this particular case, I was dead before I even knew what the fuck was shooting at me. Went back in, dodged immediately and eventually, when the magic bullshit clears, I'm starting down this spellcasting Inquisitor fuck. Thankfully, wizards have bitch-ass poise and I have a handy move that staggers like a motherfucker, so the second time I managed to put him in his place, although things did get crazy there.

Anyway, I understand this path leads to a deeper area, but I'll come back to that later.

So okay, let's go check out this thing for Ymir. I found the Eliac River Cave a while ago, so followed that down past a bunch of electric sheep (that's gotta be a conscious Phillip K. Dick reference, right?) and made my way out to an eerily beautiful night on the Cerulean Coast.

And promptly got ambushed by another Ghostflame dragon, this time with an army of bullshit skeletons fucking up my rhythm. That took some tries--maybe 5 or 6--before I got him. Again, the Twin Moons spell was very helpful here.

Fucked up some shellfish in the tunnel over to the little western island and found the Southern Nameless Mausoleum with the Dancer in it. She was the easiest of the mausoleum bosses, I think, but she did make an important contribution to Fashion Souls because I'm rocking her dress now. In the course of all this, I did also try a couple of other weapons I've come across that are INT-build compatible. The Spirit Sword was kind of fun--very flowy and dance-like, and I did use that for a bit, but goddamn, Transient Moonlight is such a good fucking move. And Moonveil is doing more damage than anything else right now, so I'm back to using that.

(Stats wise, I'm at 79 INT, 60 VIG, 40 MND, 30 END and DEX and 14 STR--haven't upgraded FTH or ARC at all, so they're both under 10. But still. I am a fucking magic-blasting machine. The base game endgame is gonna be a fucking cakewalk.)

The big Demi-Human Queen in the area was pretty easy, so I took her out and then made my way over to the Finger Ruins. Which was creepy and I didn't like it. But I blew on the finger hole or whatever (not a sentence I expected to write today), which made Ymir happy. Now he's cuddling a finger creeper and I don't like that either. But at least his edgelady knight will kind of talk to me. Anyway, he has more ruins for me to explore, but they're up past Shadow Keep, I think, so putting a pin in that for the moment.

So then I went and jumped down the Dragon Pit (after fighting the dragon inside), fought the Ancient Dragon Man (*sung to the tune of "Secret Agent Man"*) and then fought the Drake beyond the tunnel, found the Dragon Communion Altar at the giant dragon's corpse, climbed over said corpse and wound up in Charo's Hidden Grave. (I don't know who Charo is in game, but I know who I'm picturing, and that's delightful.)

The Tibia Mariner there was a pushover--he was dead before the Revenant he summoned even got to do anything. The Deathbird, on the other hand, was another story. Even trying to take out as many of the Gravebirds as I could before hand, still more would show up, and I'd end up getting pecked six ways from Sunday AND ghostflamed. Another one that took several attempts before I managed it, and another one where I was out of flasks and had only a minuscule shred of health left by the time I pulled it out.

Did the Lamenter's Gaol, which was... interesting (that corpse pile room with all the jars and the second key--another "yech" moment). Boss in there was kind of fun. I've seen the whole "I'ma spawn a jillion clones of myself" gag before, but it was well executed here. And it wasn't too hard to deal with because of... you guessed it, the Twin Moons (god, I love that spell).

I think this was also the area with the Scorpion River Catacombs? Or maybe that was somewhere earlier, I don't remember. That shit sucked, though. First, getting death-stared by apparently unkillable statues the whole way down (and the floating ones in the hallways) and then running into a Death Knight. Cos Death Knights have no chill. None. Taking him out was difficult, but very satisfying, and involved a LOT of cursing.

Anyway, there was another Furnace Golem up there, but it's another one with armored legs and I don't have any Messmer's Embers right now to craft more Furnace Pots, so I'll deal with that later.

And so then, it was time for the Stone Coffin Fissure. And I get down to the Cross just fine, no problems. But the stretch between the Cross grace and the next site of grace... hoo boy, that was some BULLSHIT. Those fucking laser rock guys. You can kind of avoid one of them if you're careful and clean out the area from range before hand, but every time I'd have to fight something on the way to one of them, I'd get laserblasted to fuck, cos they pulse QUICKLY. And then there was that section with TWO of them. Fuck all that noise.

But okay, we did it, eventually. Got past the giant slime thing and the spirit Leonine Misbegotten. Finally made it down to the Depths grace. Talked to the spirit guy and realized what I had to do, and damn, that leap down into the pit was fucking cool.

Which is great, cos I got to watch it several times. Cos the Putrescent Knight... hoo boy. Yeah, he smashed me a lot. And froze me. And such. That, I think, was the hardest of the remembrance bosses so far--whether that's just my build, or him, or me as a player, I dunno. But it's the first boss where I really felt like I had to learn the moveset just to find the space to breathe--even with the Mimic Tear, she wasn't drawing enough aggro to keep him off my ass. And that move where he jumps off his horse and they're both coming at you... ye gods. But eventually, after maybe 8 or so tries, I got him.

So then I found Thollier and St. Trina. And he was like "don't drink the nectar!" And so, obviously, I had to drink the nectar. And it killed me. But this isn't my first Fromsoft rodeo--I wouldn't be able to do it if there weren't a reason to, especially with a character this important. So I did it three times. And died three times. And then got frustrated and looked it up. And oh, you have to do it four times and then something will happen. Hm. Okay. Damn.

But I did, and then told Thollier about it and he got all mad and tried to fight me but was a total scrub, and then I died/hallucinated a couple more times and told him about it and he was finally ready to hear me and then he... died? I dunno. That seems to be as far as that's going right now. Dunno if there's more to it, but I guess we'll see.

So okay. Next on the list is to go back to Shadow Keep and check out the storehouse, so we'll see how that goes. I feel like Messmer's in here somewhere, but I don't know when I'll come across him or what his deal is, exactly yet. Goddamn this DLC is big, though.

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grigori77 · 2 years ago

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Critical Role, Campaign 3 Episode 56

Yet again I'm repeating my constant (lately) plea ... for the love of the Wildmother and the rest, PLEASE tell us what's happening with the others ... we're DYING here, guys!

How did it go? Oh boy ... yeah ... Sam, you couldn't have been more wrong. But we're still SOOOOOOOO proud of our girl all the same! You rule, Marisha!

Wow ... WHY are you suddenly all FRENCH on this NordVPN ad, Samuel? What are you doing to us? That was just PAINFUL ...

The crazed way Laura delivered "in addition to that!" was just SO nuts it's adorable ... I loved it ...

COOKIES!!! YUM!!! ALWAYS room for cookies!

Yeah, I heard about Daggerheart! That looks SO COOL ... ooh, and JOE MAD ARTWORK!!! AWESOME!!! SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!

Yeah ... given no Marisha it don't look good for checking in with the wayward trio THIS week ...

Oh gods yes, the goats ... I cannot wait to see where THIS is gonna go ...

Matt's making notes already ... never a good sign ...

Oh, the travel roll on the D20 for the first day ... oof ... Aabria? Okay, roll good ... 12? Phew ...

Sam rolls fir the SECOND day? Oh boy ...5?!!! Seriously, Sam? Oh no ... gah ...

Yes! PROVE it to the Flatworlder the truth once and for all!

Third day ... 2? Roll a D6? Ouch ... 5? Hmmm ... what does THIS mean? Oh fuck, a BLIZZARD?!!! Aaaaaaaah ... Great, and now they're gonna FREEZE to death! Yup, Imogen got no pants! She's gonna get COLD!!!

Oh gods, Ashley, what X-rated fresh hell have you wrought?

Ah, so Chetney's freezing his tiny arse off too ... ZIP UP THAT CHEST, CHET!!!

Imogen asks Fearne to sit on her ... oh gods, seriously? There's NO WAY that can't be construed well, is there?

Laura rolls ANOTHER 1 for the next day ... 3 on the D6? Oof ... Aabria: "Dost thou like the taste of butter?" LOL

WAHEY!!! Matt found the map!

Fuck, what the hell just hit Letters? Ouch ... 18 points of bludgeoning damage? Ow ... what the hell is THIS?!!!

Oooh, Telekinesis on the rock? Cool ...

Giants? Hmmm ... OH!!! NICE!!! FLOATING ROCK FOR THE WIN!!! Oh, she gonna throw it BACK?!!! Nice ... yeah, roll good, Laura! Yes! Roll 4 D10 of damage? Whoa ... 22? Nice ... BOOM!!! Stunned the fucker mid run!

Oh wow, the goats SLED to get away from predators! That is so cool ...

NATURAL 20!!! 49 points of damage? Holy fuck ... that was almost TRAGIC ...

Imogen is now gonna TRIP the other guy up? Oh nice ... ouch, that must hurt too ...

"The full tossed raccoon" ... XD

Wait, so a giant doesn't count as a humanoid ... hmmm ...

Yes! Fearne! Torch that ass!

Whoa ... FRIDA's gonna SHOOT OUT the guy's knees ... ouch ... 18 points on the FIRST hit, 16 on the second? AND they're firing AGAIN with an Action Surge ... ANOTHER 10 points of damage! Oooooooooh ... that was just NASTY ...

Yeah, they sure shouldn't press their luck after that ...

Making fun of Matt's goat impressions ... XD Bonus chin lifts ...

CAN goats swim?

DOES Fearne have Speak With Animals? Let's see ... apparently some goats enjoy "water play"? Oh gods ...

Donny speaks ... oh boy ... "Like a goat centipede?" Oh my fucking gods! XD

Chetney: "They're not seals! They won't survive 30 degree water!" Yeah, make a proper boat instead, please ...

Fashioning a log raft ... Chetney's in charge, PROBABLY a good call. Oh wait ... Deanna? Hmmm ... WITH Guidance ... it's 11? Hmmm again ... oh, Chetney's helping? Thank the gods ...

Aabria: "We're not leaving the goats cuz I LOVE THEM ..." :3

Oh, so Deanna's having a talk with FCG zbout their INTENTIONS ... here we go ... FCG: "Oh man, just imagine me as a heartbreaker, leaving a trail of wreckage behind." Deanna: "A single tread." FCG: "Yeah!" XD

I love how FCG just reverses the tables on her in the funniest way. But they're also being quite sweet. Deanna: "I've always wanted to be that birch." LOL

Camping for the night, then ...

Components ... Aabria: "Oh man, we're playing with STUFF?!!!"

Imogen: "I can't tell if it's just warm here or I pooped my pants!" Chetney: "Either way you win!" Oof ...

Commune? Interesting ... hmmm ... is this a moment of truth for the metallic cleric?

Wait ... is FCG actually getting a response? Sweet ... yeah, it's subtle, but very cool ... nice ... wait, is he actually SEEING the Changebringer? That's so cool ... and the LITERAL coin flip! Nice!

FCG: "Do you need help?" Oh ... is that a YES? Wow ...

Oh man ... this is SO POWERFUL ... wow indeed ... affirmation for FCG. So cool.

Fuck ... the flat earth thing AGAIN ... LOL

FCG: "You believe? But you're so cynical!" Deanna: "I put my faith more in PEOPLE."

Hmmmm ... Deanna's CONSTANT fear ...

The Changebringer's a cool, VIBING god, apparently ...

Imogen's thinking about trying to contact Laudna in her dreams ... unless she get sucked up into Ruidus ... hmmm ... is it really worth it? Apparently she has Disadvantage in her sleep ... crap ...

Planerider Chetney's back ... XD

Taking turns on watch ... FRIDA goes first. Nothing happens. Yup ...

Deanna is ATTUNED to smoochies ... XD

Knock off one exhaustion point, then.

Laura (deep voice): "Mage buff! I'm so Mage buff, you guys!"

Matt: "Using Titanic logic ..." (snort!)

Matt: "Who has the highest intelligence here?" Travis (as Chetney): "I DO!!! Which is fucking terrifying!"

Fit the goats on the raft ... wow ... this is insane. And therefore hilarious ...

Wait ... did Deanna REALLY just KILL Gerry? O.O

Yes. The goats are now TERRIFIED. As they should be ...

1,000 to 1,200 pounds each? Blimey ...

Oh my gods this is a riotous clusterfuck and I am LOVING IT ... LOL

Fearne speaks to Donny Boy ... oh boy ... "He exploded!" Yeesh ... "I don't wanna explode!" Fuck! Cry laughing, I swear ... and Patchwork is EATING Gerry's annihilated remains ... dear gods ... "We're gonna stay and eat Gerry!" Fuuuuuuuuuck ...

Carrying on down the river on the raft without the goats, then ...

Ooooh ... suddenly it's all dark ... hmmmm ... and misty? Double hmmmm ...

Wow, this is just like some proper full on PRIMORDIAL forest, ain't it? Creepy ...

Sam: "Did you make a rollerblade warthog?!"

No wildlife sounds AT ALL ... oh, that is just SO WRONG ...

That's right, Chetney DID bite FRIDA ... and now it's actually OUT LOUD ... hmmm ... yeah, Deanna is FREAKING OUT ...

NO!!! Chetney CANNOT hear what Imogen and FRIDA are saying TELEPATHICALLY!!!

Now FRIDA's worried too. Yes. They SHOULD be ...

Ashley's rolling for the first day of travel on the river ... 2? OF FUCK!!! She has to roll a D8 ... Laura: "We're gonna die!"

Oh lawd, something's coming in the woods ... fuck ... yes. Kill the "engine" ...

And now it's pitch black ... put on some lights! Oh, that is NOT an improvement ... whoa ... oh great, Will o' the Wisps, lovely ... O.O

Uh-oh ... NOW what?

Hunter's Bane. Yup ... there's Fey energy out there ... oh shit, pixies? Never good ...

Oh crap, what the hell is THIS fucking thing? Please have mercy on us, Matthew ...

Ewwwwwww ... this thing is just ... yuck ...

Ashley (with her mouth full): "Guidance!" XD

Crap ... and now it's in the river ... and CHASING THEM!!! Matt: "And we're gonna go to break!" NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

We're back, and ... ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Nice map! And terrifying creature, too ... oh gods help us ...

Control Water ... and now they're going TOWARDS IT too ... great ...

Turmoil! Yay!

Tentacles! Yikes! 22 points of bludgeoning damage to FRIDA, and 18 points of bludgeoning damage ... and now they're BOTH GRAPPLED!!! SHIT!!! AND a tongue attack? Crap! No joy against FRIDA, though ... phew ...

Elect to FAIL? What?

FCG: "Nobody tongues FRIDA except for ME!!!"

Fearne tries to torch it! Strangely underwhelming, though ... damn water beasties ...

Inflict Wounds at 4th Level? Ouch ... 6 D10s of damage ... dice maths ... 40 points of Necrotic damage? Holy fuck! Nice, Imogen! Whoa ... cloudy black eyes? Scary shit ...

BOOM!!! FRIDA shoots and FUCKS SHIT UP!!! Sharpshooter! Yeah .... NO!!! Miss! One more ... A HIT!!! 46 points of damage overall! Yeah! Wait ... no, 52 points! DOUBLE yeah!

Evil pixies! Shiiiiit! Laura: "Is this Charmed? Am I being Charmed?" Matt: "No! You are Polymorphed into a fox!" FUCK!!!

Tries the same on Deanna ... FAIL!!! Phew ... Deanna: "No! Shoo! Go home!"

And Fearne just SHOOS the same off! Nice ...

Deanna full on fucking DROWNS the pixies! Nice ... and that BREAKS concentration, so Imogen is BACK!!! Phew ...

FCG wants to help FRIDA ... so what, they THROW THEMSELVES at the creature? Really? Ah, no ... they just fire the grapple at its "toothy maw" ... and Sam rolls a 2 ... hmmm ... Spiritual Weapon, then! Slightly bigger than Deanna's. "Because it's a competition!" Znd they try the grapple again and LATCH ONTO THE BEAST!!!

Deanna realises all the robits really DO have a deathwish! LOL

Chetney pours on beaucoup Slashing AND Thunder Damage with Turmoil! NATURAL 20!!! Nice! Double damage!

And now it's gonna bite FRIDA ... yeah, sage to say 26 hits! And now they're SWALLOWED!!! FUCK!!! And now more tentacles! Imogen takes 17 points of bludgeoning damage and now SHE'S grappled too ... but Deanna's a miss! Phew ...

Fearne gets an attack of opportunity! Slashing it with her sickle ... 6 misses! Crap! But now it's her turn, so ... NICE!!! Strangle the fucker! And now Mister chucks some flaming shit! Nice!

No telepathic attack with FRUDA in it! Okay ... Imogen casts Inflict Wounds instead. 29 points of Necrotic damage! And Telepathic Shove? Yeah, that works ... bur doesn't actually DO much ... yeah ...

FRIDA uses bonus action to reload and uses Sharpshooter ... despite disadvantage, Nat20! 29 points if damage from INSIDE!!! AND IT VOMITS THEM OUT!!! BONUS!!! And now they're getting washed away in the river! Shit!

Pathetic pixie can't do shit on FRIDA! Phew ...

And Travis rolls a NAT20!!! ALSO a fail for another one. It just vanishes in disgust.

Deanna casts Mass Cure Wounds ... and then COMPLETELY FAILS to do anything else ...

FCG let's go znd grapples a nearby tree! Now for a mace attack with Spiritual Weapon ... 16 points of damage!

Beastie is HURT now, might be looking to BOLT ...

Shatter? Oooooh ... Chetney trieste blow down the tree to flatten the fucker ... AND IT TANKS its con save? Whoo ... so the tree crushes it ... CHETNEY GETS THE HDYWTDT!!! "Timber, motherfucker!" Oh yeah, it is IMPALED ...

So that's that ... and they carry on like nothing happened. After Deanna finally shoos off the pixies. "Your guy's dead! Go home!"

So there's no light ... NO LIGHT!!! (Sorry ... went all Florence + the Machine there for a second ... XD)

Imogen, DO NOT invoke a waterfall right now!

Fearne wants to talk to the fish to see what's ahead ... IS THERE anything normal in this water? Oh boy ... catfish? Are we SURE?!!! Okay, here we go ... wait, is she GOING IN?!!! She is turning into a fish! Blimey ... no, she's just gonna stick her head in and cast Speak With Animals.

Oh ... UGLY BLIND FISH!!! Lovely ...

Wow ... Fearne completely blanks on what she's even saying to it ... ye gods ...

Fearne thinks the fish with the creepy second mouth is CUTE ... "the Wolf King"? What the FUCK?!!!

Fearne: "What's he eat?" Nasty fish: "Probably you."

Oh okay, and now it's ON HER ARM!!! Bloody hell ... "Bye!" as she YEETS it off ...

Chetney thinks perhaps HE is the Wolf King ...

"Recognise the Alpha" returns again ... Deanna: "I'm still weirdly turned on by that! It's the goat's blood!" Matt: "Nature's aphrodisiac."

Night falls and they go to sleep ... FCG's on watch ... CRAP!!! RAPIDS!!! AAAAH!!!

FRIDA's watch next ... and now Deanna's up too ... heart-to-heart ... and they're talking zbout the possibility of FRIDA being a werewolf, and the future in general ... hmmm ...

Prayers to the Dawnfather ...

New day ... Travis rolls a 17! Oh thank the gods ...

Chetney's keeping his nose open for unpleasantness ... particularly undead ... yup ...

Deeper, darker, more unpleasant ...

Another day ... Aabria rolls shit ... no! Here we go again ...

Curse Geysers? REALLY?!!!

Oh bollocks ... just FUMIGATED!!! This is SO BAD ...

Fearne and Deanna take a direct hit ... 2 points of exhaustion each and their hit points are reduced by 5? NASTY!!!

Fearne and Deanna both: "I don't like it!"

Ruins on the banks ... oh, here we go ... and they go aground now. Smart, especially after what just happened.

So there's a tower ... a mile or two away ... hmmm ...

FCG's viking blood bread ... okay ... AND it gives them BACK the lost hit points! Perfect.

Even telepathically Imogen's mouth is full ... "Thank you."

Wait, they are SERIOUSLY gonna walk a mile and a half through the Savalirwood?

Oh yeah, this place isjudt UNPLEASANT. There us just MALICE all around them.

The tower is in sight. And it's NOT the only one, either ... yup, this us what they've been looking for.

It's Elven ... oh yeah, this is DEFINITELY the place. Wait ... WEBS?!!! SERIOUSLY?!!! Come on! Do not do THAT to us, Matt ...

23 with disadvantage on Survival? Nice roll, Ashley!

Are there any trees around? Matt: "Oh yeah, there are SO MANY trees."

Those are some RIDICULOUS high stealth rolls, guys!

Thought Eater, the Crimson Shade ... so cool ... and a seriously SWEET entrance.

A massive elk? Whoa ... and it's AGGRESSIVE too ... fuck, that's it for the Shade, then. And this thing has NO FACE. And a FUCKLOAD of legs. With two it's just DRAGGING ... yuck! Oh my GODS and it also has HUMANOID ARMS ...

Travis: "This frequency's been compromised!"

"Long broken egg sacs"? REALLY?!!!

Deanna: "It is FUCKED in here!"

Imogen: "Chh -- we can only hear each other in or heads, there's no need to whisper." FRIDA: "Chh -- she's right."

BODIES in the trees? Actually IN the trees? Charming.

Matt: "And that's where we're gonna call it a night!" Just as he gives us all nightmares ...

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peregrineggsandham · 1 year ago

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Been playing Dark Souls I for the first time, blind. It's my first-ever Soulsborne game but after really enjoying other games that have been compared to Dark Souls for a variety of reasons (encouraging exploration, interconnected world, lore/plot that is drip-fed through sparse dialogue and item descriptions, combat that is challenging but fundamentally fair, environmental storytelling, themes of light/dark not necessarily corresponding one-to-one with good/evil, "dark fantasy" setting in general, secrets upon secrets upon secrets) I decided to give it a shot.

Have been completely blind so please no spoilers, even though this game is now 12 years old. All I know about the lore is... uh... Aviators music. Really enjoying having context for songs I've loved for years. Fading Light really hits now, it's awesome.

Thoughts below.

[Edit: an absolute shit-ton of thoughts below, sorry y'all, it just kept going.]

...I am loving this game, y'all. I understand why it's a classic and damn, I think I'm gonna end up playing through the whole series. Eventually. Too bad Bloodborne doesn't have a PC port, because I hear it has a more explicitly Lovecraftian vibe and I am here for that aesthetic.

...Will say that this is entirely blind save for one googling which amounted to "hey I consistently suck at bosses that require me to split my focus because I have a hard time tracking moving things on a screen, but... Ornstein and Smough are a pain in the ass for everyone, right? right? they are exactly the kind of boss I tend to be very bad at but it isn't just me right??"

(very glad to see the answer was yes, finally gave in and summoned another player for help. Thank you Percy, whoever you are. I think I could beat them solo, I was getting either of them in their giant forms to about half-health pretty consistently, but by then it had been far, far too many hours and I have real-world things to do, I really couldn't spare the time to keep trying. for now. maybe later.)

(felt kinda bad about it for a bit but then with the Lordvessel in hand holy fuck I have fast travel now and it feels amazing I went into the magma-y depths and took care of the... whats-his-name, the guy who acted just like the Stray Demon. Having beat the Stray Demon, it only took a couple tries, and then I one-shot the one after it, whom I think was called the Centipede Demon but whom I have dubbed Crawly.)

Currently throwing myself at the Bed of Chaos, who feels more "environmental hazard" than "boss" but after the rest of the... gauntlet?... kind of a nice break.

(Admittedly I realized late that it was a gauntlet - I beat Ceaseless Discharge right after Quelaag and then learned there was nowhere to go afterwards, whoops.)

Lore Musings:

(Look I know I'm probably super off - this game is very old and has sequels and I'm sure people have spent literal months of their lives piecing it all together, and believe you me I will be watching lore videos... after I have finished the game. By which I here mean "gotten all achievements". Which, google tells me [I like to check these things] will take three playthroughs. So it'll be a while, and it's fun to piece things together on my own! Feel free to hint cheekily at things that are right and wrong here but please don't spoil.)

I've been told I am to succeed Lord Gwyn and take his place to "link the first flame" and prolong the Age of Fire. Mm. Right. So. That seems lovely. Really, honestly, lovely - the world is beautiful. Worth keeping it going, I think.

(I had an initial theory that, having kinda passed its natural endpoint, the whole world was basically "undead" - lumbering on after it was supposed to have ended. So that prolonging it would effectively curse everyone to eventually go Hollow. But it sounds like "linking"/succeeding Gwyn would actually return things to how they were a millennia ago and solve this whole undead problem.)

......However. Two issues there.

First Issue: One of my favorite games of all time is Hollow Knight, which I've heard is rather DS-inspired. I definitely see how. Not just the metroidvania design and emphasis on challenging bosses and drip-fed lore, but themes. Light and dark. A sacrifice to keep something at bay, who is failing in their duty, who needs to be replaced. Now, I'm not going to rely on a completely different game to inform my understanding of this one's lore, but...

... But... well, this isn't a permanent solution, is it? Something like a thousand years ago, as I understand it so far, shit went down. People started becoming undead, Gwyn went off to Do Something About It. (Also the Witch of Izalith fell to Chaos around that time? Will get there.) Havel went Hollow and was locked in his tower, presumably by Gwyn (which was my original clue that Gwyn/the Lords were still alive after their whole Lords vs. Dragons showdown, since it meant Gwyn had to still have been around when the zombie problem began - love this piecemeal lore).

Gwyn "linked the flame" (the First Flame? what did he link it to? current bet is the Shrine, since that is what it is named - maybe that has something to do with why its Firekeeper, of all of them, seems to have some terrible penance she is performing). Now it's my turn? But Gwyn was a Lord (whatever that means? current guess is Lord=God but we've heard of more gods than just the four, so honestly I'm gonna base my Lord=God assumption entirely on what happens when I collect a Lord's soul and whether they look like the other unique souls in my inventory, since that would imply they're a similar kind of soul).

I am not a Lord. I'm just some dude. a flawed vessel, if you will.

Meaning that eventually - and probably less than 1000 years from now, someone is going to have to succeed me. (Was Gwyn even the first?)

How far will this go? How long can this last?

We're prolonging the inevitable.

(Also what does "linking the fire" entail and is this a Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas situation.)

Now, you could easily frame "prolonging the inevitable" as either a good or bad thing.

(1) Theme of persistence and hope: Even if the end is inevitable, isn't it worth fighting to drive it back as long as possible? Just because everything ends doesn't mean we shouldn't give up and wait for it to happen. We must fight to keep the fire lit, as long as we can.

(2) Theme of acceptance and change: Yes, everything ends and the end is inevitable - fighting that will only lead to despair. Ends are not bad, change is not bad, and letting change occur is not giving up - it is only witnessing the start of a new age. Even if we can bring it back to its former glory in some day, is the world not, by this point, undead?

Is that a bad thing to be?

Even if it isn't, is there new life that we are preventing from existing?

Now of course you can argue that there is not new life! What is to come is darkness! It is devouring, consumption, end, ash, blindness! (Funny, though, isn't it how all of those things can come also from wildfires.) Dark is bad. Obviously. Of course we don't want the end to come, when all it will bring is despair.

But then, that's the Second Issue:

"Falling to dark", the end of the age of fire, it's all presented as quite horrible. Fair enough! It does, indeed, seem to be! Certainly darkness is a corrupting force - Gwyn's soul (?) split into four, Four Kings, falling to dark - don't know what that's about yet, I imagine I have to find some way to drain New Londo to find out.

Point is, darkness is bad! Very bad! Everyone is quite insistent upon this! Dark=bad. Falling to it = bad.

....

........Except I'm in Lost Izalith right now and it's. uh.

not gonna lie, it's pretty bad here.

and it's very, very bright.

Here, in this lava-lit city, where Solaire himself found a "sun" so blindingly beautiful he lost himself to it. Here, where the witches who had mastered fire - mastered light - fell just as hard.

Light, it seems, is just as corrupting a force.

"Chaos" is more confusing - I think it's effectively the primordial base from which light and dark arise, aka "Disparity", will have to watch the opening cutscene for a third time. But that doesn't seem quite right since seems to be more light-aligned, what with the chaos fire pyromancies and seeing how the witch and her daughters were corrupted by chaos. not dark. they did not fall to dark.

Again, haven't figured out what's going on with the Kings yet, but...

...I am not convinced that dark is evil.

And I'm not convinced that clinging to light is the right thing to do.

Fantasy likes to paint darkness as stagnation and death, light as life and change.

But as I understand it, both light and dark arose from Disparity, which had something to do with the First Flame. They were created at the same time. There is no such thing as light without a corresponding concept of darkness. They are equals.

Stagnation, emptiness, those aren't characteristics of darkness, they're characteristics of the ancient world, the one the dragons ruled/existed in. Dragons which might (?) have been made of stone, the #1 metaphor for something firm and unchanging and eternal (geologists everywhere just rolled their eyes). Eternity, immortality, that predates light and dark.

The concept of decay and death requires a concept of life, of change. A world of dark is not a world without change. Things still died in the Age of Fire; it is not eternal. (that's rather the whole "problem", actually). Hell, Nito is apparently "first of the dead" and he was born of flame like the other Lords as per opening cinematic. Things will, presumably, still live in some future Age of Darkness.

...the entire point of disparity, of fire, was the introduction of the possibility of change.

........so it kind of feels that the perpetuation of this world, a world of Fire Unchanging, would be just... a shallow and ill-fitting recreation of How It Used To Be during the age before disparity came to be.

Like. Look. Uninformed blind-playthrough timeline here: There was Stagnation, all stone and dragons. Then, Disparity was born, Change, and with it Light and Dark. The Souls of Lords were found, and used Light to fight against Stagnation. (I feel like Dark would have worked just as well.) They built a world of Light.

Now everyone is upset that Change is happening? My dudes you built this place out of one half of Change incarnate. It does that! It's almost as if you didn't really want Change, you just wanted a new world of Stagnation in which you ruled as gods.

A new eternal kingdom, made of fire instead of stone.

But fire isn't stone. Fires go out, eventually. And are rekindled.

....Funny, it's almost like a classic dark-light-dark-light cycle. The story is so close to "there was dark, then light, now dark is coming again and everyone fond of light is trying to stop it".

But it's not.

Because there hasn't been dark - at least, not a full-on Age of it. I think. I dunno, there are two more games and I haven't finished this one yet but...

...I suspect that that kind of cycle is exactly what would happen if this age ended! Dark is born of disparity, too! It'd end eventually, and a new Age of Fire would be born, and so on, ad infinitum, until even change itself changes and the cycle is broken, because an infinite cycle is really just its own kind of stagnation and one day someone will have to make that choice.

But that's not this story. This cycle hasn't even started, because fire is clung to so tightly.

Maybe that's not a bad thing. Again, infinite cycles, not great, but... more natural, certainly. And if dark is destruction without rebirth, decay without fertilization of new soil, despair and suffering without relief, then, well, I can't say I disagree.

...............but is it though? all I have been told of it comes from its kings and those who followed them. maybe they are corrupt and unwilling to give up their power. or maybe, more likely, they are only afraid of the dark.

....We are afraid of the dark when we do not know what lurks in it. Souls of Lords, found in the flame - they're children of light, then? What do I know so far, that is born from the dark? Anything?

........yeah I have no idea if I am reading really really really too far into this but from what I know of games that take inspiration from this and from what osmosis of its Themes has entered pop culture I really don't think I am. (and hell, even if I am, it's super fun)

I don't know if I'm going to have the choice to succeed Gwyn or not but I have a sneaking suspicion that the answer is yes given that the achievements list gives two endings named "To Link the Fire" and "The Dark Lord" (the latter of which... uh... vaguely ominous)

also side note what the fuck is humanity

and also talking about Lords why has no one mentioned the furtive pygmy since the opening cutscene. "so easily forgotten indeed"

Four souls for the Lordvessel: Nito, the Witch, Gwyn in four pieces via the Kings…. and Seath? The dragon? Not the pygmy. What happened to the pygmy.

[rewatched cutscene] "then from the Dark, they came" are those humans. those look like humans.

something is very weird here.

WAIT FUCK corollary to 49

"Then from the Dark, they came" humans. found lords in the flame. are humans are born of dark like lords are of light?

.....well what the fuck does that mean?

if lords=gods, are humans "dark" things that have been ruled by light for millennia? i mean, that's not so bad, light is lovely, big fan of fire, I am a bona fide swamp-dwelling pyromancer fire is my jam 10/10 would solve all my problems with arson wait are we the fucking "dark souls"

I mean we exist during this Age of Fire, but we're also turning undead. A problem the gods don't (?) seem to be having.

…We are afraid of the dark when we do not know what lurks in it.

What if we are what lurks in it?

...........alright now I'm reading too much into this. But I LOVE this kind of lore where things all just feel… kind of off? As if there is some big picture you can't -quite- see.

I am under no illusion these questions'll be answered perfectly in-game, and I'm well aware there are 12 years of figuring all this out for me to catch up on! But damn if it isn't fun to specul-

THE HUMANITY ITEM. IS A FUCKING. BOSS SOUL ITEM. IN INVERTED COLORS.

.........

Gripes:

...not many. But the one thing. My nemesis. In this game. Is the god-damned keyboard menu controls. Look, I get that this was made for controller! I do! But I do not own one! Navigating the weapon/item selection is one thing, I'm [checks steam] 84.7 hours in [...oh god, really?? holy fuck. dear lord.] and have finally gotten a handle on that!

But the button to unequip an item in the equipment screen is the same as the button to switch to inspection in the... item screen. whatever you call it. and I suspect this would actually be the same for controller.

How many times have I unequipped something when I meant to look at it? many. 84.7 hour in, how often do I do this still? usually.

...also I only found that bonfire in Sen's Fortress via combination of friendly player message and sheer dumb luck holy crap that would have been a nightmare y'all didn't need to make them that hidden.

......also it'd be very nice if NPCs had some sort of indicator of their name, or mentioned it more than once. I remember Solaire (...RIP, poor dude found his new sun, I carry his talisman in solidarity) and Quelana (because it's so close to Quelaag) and Eingyi (he's mentioned in an item description and the whole... egg... thing haunted me for ages before I met him) and Sif (because why would you make me kill a good pup, guard dog wolf with sword, best friend, she [? female name in Norse myth, not sure if character is also female] was protecting her master's damned grave she did not deserve this) and for some reason Laurentius (dunno why that one stuck) but everyone else gets monikers. Onionman. Bird Friend. Sad Friend. Blacksmith. Bigger Blacksmith. Deader Blacksmith. Sadder Blacksmith. Cheshire Cat Lady.

(Frampt is remembered now because Gwynevere says his name but in my heart he is still Mr. Teeth.)

..........yeah that's all I got, honestly, I have loved everything else about this game.

WAIT NO

ONE MORE THING THAT I REALLY HATE

so there are all these player messages before female characters with no tops reading "great chest ahead"

ha ha very amusing yes chuckle chuckle

BUT

you know who has a very well-defined chest on full display right there in your face and for whom I have never seen a single "great chest ahead" message?

SMOUGH.

i realize that he is wearing armor but i have no reason to believe it isn't form-fitting and true-to-life. dude may as well be topless. there is no smough boobs appreciation and i will not stand for it.

To conclude, I present two pieces of evidence:

"Since his sores were inflamed by lava from birth, his witch sisters gave him this special ring." - Orange Charred Ring item description

"...the Witch of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos..." - opening cinematic

Diversity win! Ceaseless Discharge is trans.

#sam says stuff sometimes #dark souls

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Dream of 7/19/23

Lived in this shitty mobile home sort of in the middle of the woods. I was on the computer playing a game when suddenly like... 900 emulators opened at once that I didn't even have downloaded and it started playing random games that I also didn't have downloaded so they had missing textures and like fucked up models I got so overstimulated and confused that I just started crying my mom comes in and is like wtf happened and I didn't know how to explain it to her so I just said something like "The computer died" and she was like I'll just trash it and get a new one and this made me even more upset but she didn't understand why and we were kind of arguing back and forth while I was on the brink of like exploding. Everything eventually calms down We have these 2 giant vertical windows with no curtains that were open and I asked if we could close them because I saw a creature that definitely wasn't of this world (it looked like a moose but.. not.) my mom's all like oh where I don't see anything and I was like.. ok guess we will die. The creature suddenly sprints full speed into the house and bites my mom and storms off and apparently they were very poisonous (not venom) she gets like paralyzed and starts turning blue and I'm just watching in horror she's still conscious she just can't move Im like. Im gonna call the squad and I take a phone start calling 911 and it's done old man for some reason like no introduction or prompts just some old dude like "Hello?" silence and I'm baffled I'm like panicked and say "This... This is 911 right?" and he's like "yes what's your emergency" and ofc at this point in my dream is where I get all fatigued and can barely speak I try so fucking hard to explain the situation but he is not helping at all so eventually there's more moose creatures that show up and take my moms body away and she becomes one of the moose things and I'm just . sitting there still crying btw and I'm just like . ok hopeless.

Dream Shift

Was inside a giant ass house I had a bf apparently who was also secretly a murderer the only reason I find out he's killing people is cause I happened to walk in while he was planning his next kill and he was like .. I have to kill you now and I was like no nah what if we killed together 😳 and he was like O_O so we became killer buddies that's literally the whole dream

Dream shift

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Worm dream. (I remember exactly what they looked like) ⚠️⚠️⚠️‼️⚠️ very gross

Was inside a school everything was normal then suddenly there's a bunch of screaming and ppl running away in the halls we all get up and try to make sense of what's happening and the only response we would get was "alien worm" I accept my fate that I'm probably going to be infected and have the worst experience of my life and I see the worm in its hungry form it's very thin but absurdly long kind of looks like a centipede but not segmented it had tiny little barbed hairs that worked like suction cups so it could literally be infused with your skin. But also the worm was sentient and could talk. I try reasoning with it like you don't want to do this man please. and he's all like I want to take over the world everyone will be part of my hive hehehehe I just say to him I'll have to do everything in my power to exterminate you and we become rivals like. For some reason I could get infected but I was still me like most ppl became zombies while I just had worms in me and I hated it. I find out that there is nothing in the world that can destroy this worm so I plan to just launch it into space aiming for the sun. I try collecting every single strand of this worm (cuz he broke himself up into parts so he could infect faster) I shove them all into this space pod and hope that I got them all. The worms in me started to grow and... the way they looked when they were full of blood was.. oughh..... it looked and was as fat as one of those big ass caterpillars I had some casually hanging from my mouth and I was scared to bite down to sever them but I did and tried to rip them apart I send the pod to space and I like sigh in relief for like a minute and I look up and see the worm again he had grown like 50x longer and is reaching all the way from space back to earth and I was just like. Dude. you win. Take over the earth. I go home my family is also infected but normal just like me we try doing research about it and find out the worm is called the smooth worm (I think) and it has 2 heads. It's extremely powerful suction is what makes it so painful and successful. We really wanted to kill them but couldn't. I think I start to go lucid here and I'm like please this is the worst let me wake up and I DISTINCTLY Remember opening my eyes for 5 seconds looking at my wall and falling back to sleep. Awful. I get sucked right back into the dream and I lose lucidity.

#post #beyond the tomb #helminthophobia #i need to explode

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kharmii · 2 years ago

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People keep saying 'you ship twins' then they block my ass, so here I am doing a post putting it out there I like other shit. Someone did a Giratina X Volo doujin full of lots and lots of ghost tentacle action, but there's also a touching 'how I met your mother' story. The Pixiv link to the entire doujin is in the first Twitter link.

(Under a cut for disturbing content, but nothing explicit)

I translated almost the entire thing with Google lens. It starts out something like, "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful child with blonde hair, white skin and big silver eyes, but he was all alone. He was given as a scapegoat to a raging god who was once considered an equal to Arceus. His pendant was taken away, and he was thrown into Turnback cave. Giratina had no interest in the world of life, but they kept the child who grew up into a happy young man who enjoyed reading about myths and legends."

As Volo grows to adulthood, he starts getting urges. Giratina leaves him alone quite a lot. One day, Giratina catches him touching himself as he bathes. Giratina asks if Volo bathed himself for them? Volo replies that before he arrived, he learned various things from God so that he wouldn't have any troubles. He bathes every day; it makes him feel better.

They claim ownership and say that only they are allowed to touch Volo from now on. Giratina tells Volo that once long ago, humans and pokemon used to have congress with each other, and it was considered natural to have the same offspring. I thought....yeah right. Giratina is just saying that to get Volo into bed. Obviously, there was never a point in time when humans were getting it on with something that looks vaguely like a giant centipede with ghost tentacles coming out its back. Anyway, Volo is a himbo, and he falls for it. He does express hesitation saying that Giratina is a God and shouldn't go that far. Giratina replies that this is their spiritual world, and that they want to love this messy and beautiful young man. There are several ghost tentacle scenes and a part that sounded almost like implied m-preg. Volo gets branded below his belly button.

Then the drama comes. Volo expresses being curious about the world of life, but something is said about 'what belongs to God must stay in God's world'. His curiosity cannot be contained, and he goes to the natural world anyway. He is only able to see the temple devoted to Arceus and offspring before he starts disintegrating, starting with his left leg. It's really vague, and I wonder if something was lost in translation. There's no info given on why this happened, and Volo appeared to enter the world climbing down from a vine. Distraught, Giratina goes on a rampage destroying the temple. When their anger is spent, Volo is reduced to ash, and the people are destroying the Giratina statue showed in the Celestica ruins in PLA.

Giratina is forever pining and is shown haunting ruins and graveyards where young men sleep. Then one day, Volo is reborn into a petulant and free-spirited human form who is able to exist in the world of the living. They reconnect, and Giratina gives him back his pendant and also bestows the spooky plate upon him. Giratina tells him that the time may come when Volo may no longer need them, and that they might not always be by his side, but if he's happy it will all be fine. It ends with Giratina saying they will always love Volo.

#volo #giratina #the god emperor of....you know #big himbo energy #review #a+++ and 100% recommended #how i met your mother #greatest love story of all time

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illmoraineakoi · 1 year ago

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@mebis-art-dump

[Doing this as a reblog because it got long]

Ahhh, the Wander's Journal is canon? I've not yet had the opportunity to buy it, so I haven't read it. But if it says it's a maw, then that is actually proof! I was wrong, and now I can't giggle about getting the King's Brand from the Cast Off Shell's ass. Oh well!

Personally, the Wyrm looks far more like a type of worm than any other sort of creature. I know people like to make them dragonoid or centipede-y/milipede-y, but that just doesn't jell right with me.

Basically, I think they're more like the typical Dune Worm type of worm. Giant Fantasy Worm Trope. But Again, that's just my preference/interpretation -shrugs-

Thus, I looked up how earthworms reproduce, because my logic was that if the King used his Wyrm body's natural biological processes to rebirth himself, it would stand to follow his egg would form where eggs would during normal reproduction: the reproductive system. The 'architecture' for developing/sustaining/protecting an egg would already be there.

Normal earthworms don't reproduce internally, so that idea went a little bust.

And honestly, that's okay! That's even more interesting! It opens up the door for more evaluation: because the egg IS in his old throat (apparently) and it doesn't even seem to be anywhere special. Just plonked right there, blocking off the rest of the way.

Why? Is that normal, for when Wyrms do this? Do they form a rebirth egg/cocoon in their upper throat to give their new selves an easy way out? Or is there another reason for such a spot? Protection from the remains of the mouth and teeth, while the new body is developing? Closer to the location of the heart, so it doesn't take as much energy to keep it sustained/alive while the old body is failing?

Is the egg developed while the Wyrm is still alive/in the process of dying, or does it happen after the actual death of the old body?

The later could explain the way the egg/cocoon seems to be tethered to the flesh of the throat in a location that likely hadn't been blocked before. If the body was already dead, and the rebirthing process occurs postmortem, it wouldn't matter it was blocking the stomach/digestive tract.

[But it's also fun to think about if that's the reason why the Old Shell body died in the first place; perhaps once the King started to develop his new form, his old body starved because it couldn't eat.]

It's all just really interesting to think about! There's so many possibilities!

It also brings into question how normal Wyrm reproduction DOES occur, if it's not like earth earthworms (which it still technically could be!)

If they reproduced internally, would it be more like a snake than insect reproduction? A sequence of eggs developing within the oviduct along the length of the Wyrm? Do mother Wyrms nest, or do they just lay and skedaddle?

Or maybe, hilariously, Wyrm eggs and Wyrm babies are actually REALLY tiny in comparison to their adult size, like ocean Sunfish fry? So Wyrms instead make a LOT of tiny babies where less than 1% survive! (Which would go a looooong way to explaining some things about how he handled the Abyss ngl…)

Or, even more hilariously, what if their reproduction system IS located at the front end instead of the back, and they spit up the eggs? No real life creature does this, but this is a fantasy land with magic, and that's neat to think about!

Or perhaps, Wyrms don't make eggs to reproduce with at all, they could do as the Boids do and do a live birth!

Or maybe they do internal matriphagy and eat their way out of their mothers and then eat the rest of her, which is a thing for some insects and arachnids.

There's a whole bunch of other possibilities, all across the board of reproduction styles, these are just the ones I think are most interesting.

Because this is one of my favorite things to think about, with fictional creatures: how their biology might work. Because for how fantastical the work of Hollow Knight might be, it's inhabitants all still have biological flesh. The King might be a Higher Being, but his body, both of them, still has to function. And it's neat to think about how!

It's also interesting to think about this: What if what the Pale King did isn't a natural behavior or ability for Wyrms? Because then, how did he do it?

I love Wyrms. They're such a mysterious part of the lore, for as big of a part as the King played in it.

Sorry for the long, nonsensical rambling, got a bit carried away, lmao. I just saw the opportunity to speculation vomit about Wyrms and took it.

Cursed Thought

But we never actually get any confirmation that the end we enter to get Kings Brand is the head end.

I mean, it’s implied by the horns/teeth…

But why would the King’s rebirth egg be located in his old body’s throat?

That’s not the flesh tunnel eggs normally come from.

#hollow knight #hk pale king #hk Wyrm

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cookie-crumblr · 2 years ago

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Butterfly

Part 5

F!Reader X Enix ~ Yandere Genius OC

His Info:☎️🔪

Part: 1 2 3 4 5 6

!!MINORS DNI!!

CW: DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT, BUGS, BUGS EATING A CORPSE, loss of self (not mc), reader has a vagina, use of pet names(darling, bimbo, love, butterfly ), rough sex, p in v, creampie, stockholm, blood, knives, stabbing

!!MINORS DNI!!

Inside the locked room~

A freezing and oh so tired Camron sits, trying desperately to stay awake, to keep his head up…

To keep from looking at the almost skeleton next to him, that’s being feasted on by large iridescent beetles…

and the completely bare skeleton sitting between them.

Sometimes the bugs touch him, and that’s not even what really bothers him.

What really bothers him is the incessant noises of their chewing, the sound of their feet scritching against each others’ hard carapaces, the sound of their wings buzzing when they try and get to better more meaty spots.

It’s horrifying. Maddening.

And Cameron is losing himself quickly.

He’s huddled himself in a corner.

He fears when the beetles will come to him. Fears hearing their horrid noises in his own ears, as they chew his flesh from bone.

Back to Y/N~

You sit on the floor staring at one of the giant centipedes, wondering about where Enix might be.

You wonder if the bugs like their little enclosures, and their simple, easy lives that Enix provides for them…

You realize that you haven’t had your phone this whole time. You hope no one has tried to contact you, how would you even explain this situation?

How do you explain this situation?

Why are you going along with this? With having a shackle, and chain?

You don’t know why, but you feel so safe with him.

The door made a few unlocking sounds, before Enix stepped in carrying paper grocery bags, you can see veggies standing out of one of them. You hadn’t realized you were hungry until just then.

“Hey brains!” you hopped up excitedly to greet him.

“Bimbo!” He sat the bags on the counter, before meeting you halfway and scooping you up into a hug.

Your stomach fluttered, and you giggled.

“I’m making your favorite lunch right now, then we’re going shopping. I hope you’re feeling up for the day!” He turned towards the cabinets to rummage around. Who would have thought he’d be such a good house husband!

h-husband?! ops. Too fast dear reader!

“w-wait, what about this? aren’t you worried?” you held up your shackled wrist.

“Oh, darling, that’s only for here. I trust you, it’s just for your protection.” he hummed as he continued preparing your food.

You couldn’t help forget the shackle again and smile, completely enthralled by his willingness, and happiness to care for you.

After eating, Enix takes you to the bedroom. His lips are on your neck from behind.

You sigh, pleased and excited for him.

He licks his finger and his hand finds your breasts under your bra, and he rubs those perfectly teasing circles around your nipples you love so much.

Your stomach tightens, almost painfully pleasured.

Your chain rattles as you reach up to his head. You let yourself fall into his body with a sigh.

“You’re so good for me Y/N” He kisses his words into your neck leaving reddish stamps of his presence on your skin.

“Please, Enix, I… Need you…” you say in between little gasps of pleasure. The coils winding up in your guts so tight already, you really can’t stand it.

“mmm, your wish, my love,” he purred.

He lifts your body, you don’t know how a bug keeper gets as strong as he is, but you aren’t trying to figure that out right now.

He slams you on the bed, face down ass up. You imagine if the bed was even just a little bit harder you’d bruise.

His face comes up beside you as he pulls your panties to the side and lines up with you.

Enix didn’t prep you as much as he usually did, but you were certainly wet enough already.

He slapped his hips against you and started pounding. His hand grips your scalp and pushes you as hard as possible into the mattress, you can’t breathe well and feel dizzy.

He grunts in your ear “I love you Y/N, I love you so fucking much!” you don’t think you’ll tire of hearing that as he takes you so roughly.

You’re yelling is muffled but you’re crying out “Yes! Yes! Yes!…” He loves it, he loves that you love him, and he pounds harder.

You feel him bruising your already purple thighs. It hurts so bad but you can’t help but love it.

His love so strong, and passionate that he has to pound it harshly into you.

His grip in your hair tightens as he pulls you into his chest and rises up, pounding up into your cunt.

“Yes! Enix! Please!” You cry out, able to breathe again you gasp.

His hand leaves your skull in favor of your neck, and his other finds your clit.

“Ah! Oh!” you scream to him noises of your pleasure. Your brain is melting into just pure bliss.

His grip tightens you think you hear your neck crack, and you instantly see spots.

“E-Enix” you try and make out.

your hand rises to tap his arm frantically, but he continues to squeeze and pulverize your pussy from below.

“UH,” He comes with a final grunt, and his grip lets up just enough to allow you some air, but not enough for the spots to really leave yet.

He sits there, inside of you, the white ring of your mixed essences around his cock now dripping onto the duvet.

He breathes against your back, and you try to as well.

You hold his arm and try to pull at it to release you, but he squeezes again.

“Don’t ever leave me, you won’t leave me… Right, Y/N?” his heavy breath tickles your ear. “I don’t think i’d manage without you. I know i wouldn’t.”

“No! of course not, Enix” his name was harder to get out without the air you needed and you slurred.

He lets up.

Not saying anything he pulls out, and for a split second he just sits there, his eyes far away.

he looks…

broken.

Then, he all of sudden gets up silently, and goes to grab a soft cloth as usual.

Your heart sinks a little, and your guts twist…

Later,

you’re both outside, wrapped crepe in hand, shopping bags on both your arms, and giggling. He offered to carry them, but you always love carrying your spoils.

As your walking through the bustling crowd you notice one person that stands out and Enix grabs you causing you to drop your sweet.

Darla.

He knew this could happen, but he had hopped she wouldn’t show up at least until you had clothes at home.

He wanted-no, needed to finally end her bothersome existence.

Your bags shuffled around, the paper, wirey straps digging into your skin, as Enix pulled you into an alley.

She appeared not seconds after and blocked the entrance.

Enix pushed you behind him, and a knife had come out of nowhere into his palm, pointing straight and steady, right at her.

She produced a large knife just as fast, and before your eyes could catch it, they rushed each other.

Before your eyes could catch it, blood pooled on the ground beneath them…

“ENIX!” You cried!

With your shopping bags long since forgotten, you run to him, Darla becoming background.

People rush into the alley and she jumps onto a dumpster then climbs the fire escape above us.

You and Enix are covered in his blood, an unknown sized wound under your combined hands.

“Shit, shit shit!” you yell, pressing your hands against his as hardly as you possibly can.

“Call an ambulance!” you yell!

“No!” Enix growls back…

“Wh-What?!”

“I said no, Y/N,” he repeated in the same gruff tone.

You begin to rip your clothes, not caring about the people near you. You try and rip your skirt upward so it spirals and becomes a longer strip of fabric, the stitching gives you some problems, but the adrenaline counters it with new found, but temporary strength.

You start to strip his top forcefully.

He seems to look adoringly at you, as if he doesn’t even feel his bleeding wound.

Blood is also dribbling out of his mouth which you can tell he’s trying to hide.

Once you patch him up as best you can and apply pressure, You notice small puddles of blood trailing from where she left as well…

Your brain rattles for seconds not knowing what to do now, then you realize and call for your driver frantically.

#oc enix #my fic #yandere x reader #my oc #oc x reader #oc x you #yandere x you #yandere #dead dove do not eat #tw yandere

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galpalaven · 2 years ago

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!!!!! Truth serum time !!!

For Cal - what is the most exciting adventure you've been on?

For Riz - What's the most embarrassing situation you've ever been in?

For Ravan - What's your beef with Banu-Haqim inquiring minds must know

TRUTH SERUM EEYYY

READMORE FOR LENGTH I DIDNT MEAN FOR CAL TO RAMBLE LIKE THAT

Cal

"Most exciting, huh? That's a tough one. I've had some pretty--well, pretty bad 'adventures' in my time. Suppose it'd have to be the contract I took first starting out monster hunting."

"It was about--pfff--five or so years ago now? Losing track of time as I get older, heh. It was my first time back to the Underdark after I'd left when I was younger. I had luckily had the foresight to ask a couple of friends to come with me, offered to share the wealth as the local Adventurer's Guild had pointed me down into the nearby entrance to the Underdark for a monster problem the town was apparently having."

"Anyway, we go down there, me leading the way because I'd actually spent quite a bit of time around the city when I was a kid. Had reports of something in the tunnels nearby that was giving some of the locals a headache trying to get to and from their homes that were outside of the town. The people out that way had been cut off for about a week when we went down there."

"It was a good thing that it was me, probably, and not someone else less experienced with the Underdark that got sent down there. I was at least familiar and had an idea of what we might be dealing with, though I was concerned all the same. If it was what I thought it was, well..."

"Turned out it was exactly what I thought it was. Biggest Carrion Crawler I've ever seen to date--and I mean, those things get pretty big but this thing was massive. Just absolutely fucking enormous. I have no idea what it was feeding on that got it to that size--don't wanna know."

"Dunno if you've ever seen one of those things, but they're these giant centipede things with like these tentacle things," he wiggles his fingers as he talks, "that eat people and smell like rotting bodies. Ugly, nasty beasts. Killing them is straightforward enough, but they're fast and if they grab hold of you, it's not fucking good."

"So my dumbass is apparently feeling heroic that day, and when my friend Mel was about to get grabbed by about ten of those nasty tentacle things, I jumped in the way. It literally was big enough that the fucker swallowed me. Whole. Didn't even bite me."

"I, uh, well. I blacked out a bit. Woke up covered in giant bug guts clutching my sword and shaking. My friend Maya laughed so hard that I thought she was going to throw up. Apparently, she was no longer worried about me going into this profession if that was how I handled being eaten. Go figure."

Riz

"Aw, shit, goin' straight for the kill with that one, aren't ya? Man, it's--ugh, it was stupid. Early days of smugglin'. Didn't know my way 'round yet. Got myself in a dumb fuckin' deal which ended up bein' a setup for a robbery somehow. They took everything from me including the clothes off my back and my fuckin' shoes. Had to walk my happy ass into town butt naked and pray that the innkeeper was generous enough to let me run up to my room through the servant's passages."

"She did end up lettin' me run up the back, but not after laughing her ass off at me. Gave me a pot and the lid to cover myself after she stopped wheezin'."

He tilts his head with a smile, a far-off look in his eyes. "Nice lady. I'd like to stop by the inn again and see how she's doin'. Most other folk would'a just run me outta there whether I'd already paid the day before or not. Not easy bein' this pretty, ya know?"

He grins and winks, but his grin doesn't quite meet his eyes.

Ravan

His smile is venomous as he tilts his head, looking you up and down. "Brave one, aren't you? Hmm."

He stares for another moment, before looking away, a bored expression on his face.

"It's not the Banu Haqim I have a problem with, usually. The ones I see around Vegas are just fine when they pass through. I have many friends in their ranks. No, no--the one I have a problem with is far, far beyond my equal, unfortunately. I may be an elder, but even with the strength of my blood, I'm no match for a methuselah."

"The creature is known by many names. The Black Shepherd. The Herald of Haqim. The Skinless One. I believe the current followers of his order call him Ur-Shulgi, now."

His eyes are hard and vicious, full of hate when he looks back at you. "He killed my wife. I'd been with that woman for 700 years. We raised my daughter together. He doesn't know about Nox yet, but I'm sure he will. It's why I Embraced her when she asked--I won't repeat the mistake I made with her mother."

*Note: Nox is not related to Ravan or her late mother by blood in VtM! She was a baby they found abandoned after cleaning up a Masquerade violation. The fact that she looks just like the two of them combined just felt like fate.

THIS WAS SO FUN~

#calimmar tassarion #riz the smuggler #ravan pendragon #THIS WAS REALLY FUN

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