#and when they are able to get along

[violet-foxe]

Danny didn't know what was going on.

It all stemmed from the portal accident (obviously), but after getting electrocuted, going into a coma (with this extremely weird and vividly green dream that he can only kinda remember), and his parents just about completely ignoring their children in favor of the portal, he didn't think it could get much worse.

Apparently, it can.

His chest was feeling achy. But that's probably because his heart gave out at some point while he was in the portal. It's probably nothing. He was also doing this weird twitch thing with his hands, feet, and sometimes his head. It's kinda expected to have muscle spasms AS you are getting electrocuted, but days after? He thought he was free, but apparently not.

It's not like the twitches really changed anything big in his life. His hands and feet just moved every once in a while for a split second—no biggie. He could still do everything like before. It's just that it seemed like they were getting worse.

Danny could swear that the twitches were getting longer and more elaborate. Well, it's only been a week, so there wasn't all that much data, but that didn't seem quite right.

It was only a few days later that he found out why.

Danny was literally just reading. His twitches lasted a few seconds at this point, and seemed extremely random when they showed. But that didn't stop his left hand from flailing.

At first he just sighed in exasperation. The twitching had knocked the book out of his hands and onto the floor, it wasn't like it was the first time. Danny picked it up and continued reading Frankenstein for English class he was in the middle of chapter 22 and he needed to read through chapter 23 by the end of the night.

Then his hand twitched again. Danny was luckily able to keep his book this time with his right hand. So he just ignored the sad dancing arm and focused on reading, he did need to pass the test after all. That is, until the hand splayed out on the book, covering about half the words, and completely blocking him from continuing.

"Are you done yet?" He asked his rebellious hand like it was a child and he was a disappointed parent.

Unsurprisingly, the hand didn't talk to him. Surprisingly, it did answer.

The hand moved and twitched again, and made a pointing index finger, then twisted and pointed to the book.

"Yes, yes, I am reading, and I would like to get back to it, thank you." Danny rolled his eyes.

Weird freaking random twitches.

Then his hand lifted and fell on the page, pointing to the book again, at the same spot. It pointed to the word "need" in a letter from Elizabeth. Freaky.

"Need... And I need to read, you stupid appendage." Danny grabbed his left wrist with his right hand and tried to move it from the page. His left hand was surprisingly strong and stubborn, while it did initially move off the page, it went right back on it, but this time in a different spot. A little earlier in the letter.

Danny's left hand pointed to "help".

...

The teen stared at the page for probably much longer than he had awareness of, before he broke down laughing.

"ha- I'm losing my freaking mind!" he gasped out hysterically. Danny shook his head, trying to get the last of the weird creepiness out of his brain. "It's just a weird coincidence..."

Thankfully, his left hand was his to control again, so he turned back to his reading. Nevermind the fact that he was now sitting on his hand to stop it from moving in the future.

As soon as he got lost in the words of the second letter and was about to turn the page, his left hand spasmed away from it's pin and Danny jumped in his spot from the speed of his wayward arm. Once again, it pointed to the words "need" and "help", rapidly going between them. It was actually starting to hurt his fingers with how hard they were being jammed into the paper.

"...okay... okay. okay. okay, okay, okayokayokay. OKAY!" Danny was officially freaking out. Was his arm possessed or something? Crap, was HE possessed?

"Oh my gosh. Am I possessed?"

The hand paused for a second before making a so-so gesture.

"Right. Totally. Somehow kind of, halfway, not really, but also sorta possessed... why is this my life?" Danny felt like he might pass out.

Then he realized something. His parents are ghost hunters. He's possessed (kinda). They might be able to get him unpossessed (expelled? exorcised?). He just needed to get to them. They were in the basement (they always were these days), which means he had to go down two flights of stairs, no biggie, he does this all the time. "alright, screw this. I am not going to do this anymore. I'm getting Mom and Dad, I'm getting you out."

Danny set the open book to the side (he didn't have any bookmarks nearby) and stood up and quickly made his way toward his door, but before he took more than a few steps, his feet decided to betray him and wig out. He collapsed (obviously). Apparently, the limb-haunting ghost in him doesn't want him to find his parents. Well too bad. He doesn't want to be possessed any more. "MO-" and now his hand is covering his own mouth. Great. Fan-flippin-tastic.

Danny wasted (almost) no time before licking his own hand to no result other than tasting his skin. Danny just writhed on the floor instead, but the ghost possessing him didn't let him get up, or away from the hand over his mouth. He was helpless.

Danny slumped in defeat. The hand over his mouth let go tentatively, but Danny didn't try yelling again. He could tell with the way that his left arm was tensing that it was ready to slap over his mouth again at a moment's notice.

Instead of yelling, he quietly murmured, "What do you want from me?"

The hand reached for the Frankenstein book and brought it back to Danny's lap, before once again pointing at the book's words: "need" "help".

"...I'm almost scared to ask..." Danny muttered to himself under his breath. "What do you need help with?" he addressed his possessed hand.

His hand kind of paused over the book, searching for a word, but not pointing to anything.

"Right. Old Victorian novels probably don't have all the words you are looking for." Danny could make a list thing of the alphabet and have his hand spell it out. "Will you let me stand this time?"

The hand paused for a bit, (thinking about it?) before giving him a thumbs up.

Right. Because this is something that people do. they just casually talk to their hands. Of course, why not? He totally isn't going insane.

Danny stood, got a pen and one of his school notebooks, (Mr Lancer won't mind if one less page is dedicated to something other than English, right? Totally.

Danny wrote out the letters of the alphabet, as well as a few answers that may come up. "Yes." "No." "Maybe."

It was only after he was finished that he realized, "Well then, I just made an Ouija board." Danny sighed and put his head in his one controlled hand, before looking back at the notebook. "Okay. What do you need help with?"

His left hand twitched into motion before pointing to some letters while his right hand wrote it off to the side so he could read it easily, as well as jot down any of his guesses.

s t u

"Stu... Stupid." His left hand flicked his own forehead, "Ow, fine, I'll let you finish." It then continued.

c k

"You're stuck. Are you stuck possessing me?"

Yes.

"Well, that can be solved by asking my parents. They are ghost experts!" Danny went to get up again before his limbs once again betrayed him and forbid him from getting up.

No.

"And why the heck not?"

h u r t

"Ugh. Do you know why you are stuck? Like, at all?"

h a l f a

"Half a what?

u s

"Half of us?"

No. h a l f a i s u s

"Half A.I. sus? Huh?" He was flicked again.

No. w e a r e h a l f a

"Wear e half a... No- we are half a... Half a what? What are we half of?"

h u m a n

"I hate to burst your bubble, but I'm all human." He was flicked, AGAIN.

g h o s t

"Half a human ghost? That's why you are stuck? We are half a human ghost? What even is that?"

The hand seemed to have given up on spelling out words and just clawed the air in frustration before forcefully stealing Danny's pen.

The writing was messy and slow, as Danny is not left handed... actually would that matter if the ghost was left handed?

"A Halfa is a human-ghost hybrid. We became a Halfa together when we fused in the portal."

"Wait. Are you saying I'm part ghost? Because you are in me?"

Yes.

The hand pointed to the totally-not-an-Ouija board for that one.

"Then we gotta get you out, right?"

Fused. Impossible to separate. It would only hurt both of us to try.

"Then what was that about needing help and being stuck?!"

I am stuck, and I do need your help. You need to shift.

"What?"

ghost form

"Ghost form... Does any of what you say make sense?"

You are a halfa. Half human, half ghost. You are in your human form. you need to switch to ghost form. We need balance.

"Ghost form... I need to be a ghost? WAIT! Do I have to DIE?"

His left hand waved quickly, swatting away his worries.

You don't need to die. Danny sighed out in relief

You already did that. Danny immediately sucked back in that breath and choked on it.

His left hand pointed back to the sentence You need to shift.

"And-and how do I shift?"

Focus on your core.

"Core?"

Cold energy in your chest.

Danny closed his eyes and focused on his chest... He was once again reminded that his heart felt achy from the electrocution. It took a bit, but he found it. The cold. It seemed sharp, scared. Somehow, Danny didn't exactly know how a temperature could have feelings, but it did.

Danny focused on the cold sitting next to his achy heart and realized it wasn't his heart that was achy. It was this core. The cold ached. Danny focused on it more, and then it grew. Danny's eye flew wide open and he got to see a ring of light spread past his eyes, and a weird distance-y feeling.

"Finally." His voice said. But it wasn't him. He saw his own hand move up to his face for inspection (he was wearing gloves?). They moved on their own accord. No, on the ghost's accord.

Danny was once again officially freaking out. He tried to move his own arm, but everything felt distant, disconnected. He could feel everything just fine, but he had no control over it. All that came from his efforts was a small twitch.

The body snatcher just sighed.

"Look, I know you are probably scared, but you shouldn't worry. I won't do anything. You just need to shift every once in a while or it will start to hurt. You'll get the hang of partial overshadowing soon enough."

Danny couldn't answer. He couldn't move his eyes, he couldn't focus on anything other than what this body hijacker was focusing on, he couldn't move his hands, he couldn't speak, he couldn't do anything but watch.

The ghost turned from the desk and looked at himself in the mirror in his room.

If Danny could breath on his own accord, he would gasp in shock. As it was, he could only be mentally startled.

His hair was white and he was wearing a hazmat suit. No, THE hazmat suit. The one he died was electrocuted in. The colors were inverted.

"Looks your death just inverted you," the ghost started "I guess it makes sense. You have a higher-quality image of yourself than I did. And ectoplasm is very malleable. Oh but it looks like I still have my eyes though." The ghost leaned in, and Danny could clearly see the toxic green irises.

"The name is Phantom, by the way..." the ghost, Phantom, looked off to the side, breaking focus on the mirror in favor of studying the floor. "Look, I know this probably isn't the best situation in the world, but it could be worse. I won't steal your body or anything, and I'll try not to do anything to get you in trouble. But I can already tell that you are freaking out, and may not want to shift ever again. I need to reinforce that if you don't shift, it will be very painful for both of us. It will start to hurt. Eventually it will put your body so far out of balance it won't work anymore. You'll die. We'll die now that I'm fused with you."

Phantom looked back to the mirror.

"You can't tell your parents either. They may call themselves ghost experts, but they don't know anything. They will hurt us, kill us, if they try to separate us."

Phantom looked down at his hand.

"I know you don't trust me, and I don't blame you. But you should know that I won't hurt you or anyone you care about. I promise. I don't want to hurt people. I just want to help." With those final words, Phantom closed his eyes and focused on the warmth inside of him. rings once again washed over the halfa, and turned them back to human form.

Danny immediately fell on his butt and started hyperventilating.

partial possession could be a fun way for phantom to communicate with danny in situations where he can't just take over his body for some reason or other

also he definitely would abuse that power at least once

[bluerosefox]

Glowing Green Puppy, Tiny Tots, and Damian 'I am not turning into my Father' Wayne.

I've been seeing a few DPxDC Dad!Damian ideas so I'd like to toss my idea into the void of the internet.

Damian is on a lead about a glowing green puppy, that can apparently change size and go through walls, and finally manages to track it down before even his father hears about it. The puppy seemed to be stealing random things too.

He was fully ready to use all the tricks in the book to get the puppy to trust him... and after a few days/weeks he manages to gain its trust.

He just wasn't expecting the puppy to drag him to abandoned warehouse and drop him in front of a few kids that were hiding out in it.

"Oh! Cujo you finally brought your new person over!" says the only red-haired one in the group, and she was holding a baby, as two almost identical toddlers ran over to the excited pupper that began to run around them.

[f1-stuff]

Monza GP '24 // Pre-Quali Show

Charles: (on he and Carlos racing each other last year in Monza) "(Fred) was quite worried. I don't think he enjoyed it that much." Carlos: "No... The tifosi also enjoyed it." Charles: "Are you sure? (laughs)"

[maybe-boys-do-love]

We all need to be mentally preparing for the inevitable Our Skyy 3: Marriage edition next year

[bugwolfsstuff]

Headcanoning the Stolls as sons of chthonic Hermes and Katie as a daughter of Demeter Erinys (Demeter when she was grieving Persephone and killing everything) is fun because

A. using the epithets gives ways to explore powers for non-big three kids (THEY ARE CHILDREN OF GODS WHY THE FUCK CAN THE HERMES KIDS ONLY OPEN LOCKS AND RUN 'FAST')

B. Demeter got another one of her daughters falling for a Chthonic dude and she does not like it.

[adairtrashart]

cotltober day 11 poison

shamuras crown helps them be more stable and have better memory retention chemachs crown is the source of her insanity

but at the end of the day all crownbearers have to deal with the consequences of wielding this power eventually as it slowly changes them like rot and decay to a discarded carcass

dont know what else to put here

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 154

Danny is very displeased. He’s going to bite Clockwork and complain his ear off because this is just utter bullshit. 

He’s stuck as a baby, which isn’t his fault. Okay so maybe it was a little bit his fault, but no one had told him not to touch the thing! And Clockwork is apparently too busy to fix his situation. Personally Danny is pretty sure he’s just enjoying being able to carry him around, what with the purr-buzzing and all that. 

Which okay, it’s kind of nice and is making him kind of sleepy but still! He’s supposed to be angry about this situation and biting at his hands! Which he shall continue to do! … after this nap, it’s been a while since he was able to get some proper sleep. 

…

Okay whoever just woke him up is going to have to catch his itty bitty baby hands! At least Clockwork looks just as unimpressed as he is now, and the people around the summoning circle look confused- save for a trenchcoat dude who looks horrified. 

[theshadowrealmitself]

Harvey: Take care of yourself, your health is very important to me 🥺

Farmer: *immediately dives back into the mines to fight supernatural creatures*

[not-with-you-but-of-you]

Forgive me, Jess, please know that I tried To hold on to the days When you were mine

— requested by @emmafallsinlove

[ruporas]

pre-trimax

[flowerakatsuka]

pov : you're the rest of the sextuplets meeting kuroba for the first time.

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[tennessoui]

The ship takes off and Anakin and Quinlan sit there very politely and as soon as it clears Coruscant they try to kill each other

lmao they’re like two scrappy kids who are taken to the principal’s office because they got into a fight and then the moment you close the door and leave them alone they’re fighting again just as viciously as before.

[randomnameless]

Why do the FEH devs insist on ignoring Nabatean lore so much?

I recently had a surprisingly cordial discussion on redshit with someone about the "nabateans = colonisers" take, and one of the main points raised was that the game was purposedly foggy around Nabateans/Sothis/their story because it would obviously favor a certain narrative (and thus make another narrative look, uh, not that marketable anymore).

To be honest, we still ended up with a product that had a lead go "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and yet that lead is still marketable enough to have raunchy cipher cards and 5 FEH alts, so I actually wonder if, while pissing on that lore had that purpose, it was ultimately pointless since Supreme Leader can still sell goodies despite her incarnation in FE16.

And not only Supreme Leader - but the entirety of WC where we basically have 70% of the cast crying/complaining about their "mixed blood" or lack of and basically adding their 10 cents to the "this race and its blood is the reason why the world sucks".

I mean, can you imagine Sylvain selling any goodies and alts if Flayn replied to his "wah wah people only are kind to me and want to fuck me because I have Nabatean blood :(" by some uncharacteristic "good for you, I have to hide my ears, had to dye my hair, have to lie about my family because if the truth is found out about my identity, I will be hunted and vivisected like an animal and harvested for parts by people who call my kin abominations - just like what happens in the game where the same people who call my kin "abominations" ally with a classmate who calls me a creature and pretends I am incapable of human feelings based on my race".

FE Fodlan's main selling point is its cast of students, for various reasons, but even if I tried to kid myself, Nopes and FEH made it clears : students are the main selling point.

If you spare more time and attention to the Nabatean plot/lore, the students either grow from "likeable" to "despicable" or worse, you won't gaf about them because yeah sure, Hilda might be upset because people expect things from her due to her crust, but it would feel like a "peanut" compared to Seteth's irrational (granted, it's not so irrational since GW exists) fear that Flayn's newest friends would dissect her if they learnt she was a Nabatean, and being conflicted by finally letting her have human friends and form bonds she crave, or protect her due to the trauma from the genocide of their species.

Don't get me wrong, I love peanuts, I mean, not everyone can have a tragik of loaded backstory!

And yet, given how this verse's DNA is "can you fight against the red emperor who uwus about you", they had to add copious amounts of Earl Grey to their games so there's no clear-cut factions :

The "Your alien blood and its influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command" vs "I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

is turned to :

"Your alien blood Crests and its your church's influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command"

"I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

Sprinkle with the cast's hammering here and there that the "reforms" might be needed - but never develop on what they are - and add a few baseless and groundless takes as a toping (basically everything Claude says about tolerance and the general "isolationism/foreign policy" stuff) and you get FE Fodlan where the Red Emperor's war isn't seen as the catastrophe it is in the other entries from the series!

Now, for FEH...

FWIW, the F!F!Billy's trailer had them try to explain that Sothis was a bit pissed about her slaughtered/massacred children when Nopes never gave any reason about why she was pissed - maybe on Billy's behalf bcs Jerry's dead, but come on, she would indeed deserve the medal of the worst parent in the franchise if that was the case, since Billy can murder her daughter without Sothis taking over ! - but given that they cannot write/go against the source game those characters are from.

They tried a bit, with B!Supreme Leader and Hegemongard's FB, but then it stopped (because she had no "new unit" released since then lol) and I can understand why : Hegemongard came out before the Supreme Emblem, and Hegemongard hates dragons who are seen/perceived as gods by some of their human followers. Come FE17, and now Supreme Emblem accepts Alear because they are "one of the good ones". We can come up with HCs and details and talk about what are emblems or if Hegemongard's views were only hers at the end of AM all day long... But imo, Doylist wise, it still feels it's a retcon because the devs from the main games tried to scrap and remove the most "controversial" traits she had.

For the other characters... Well, you see what Marianne is in FEH (but even in her base games), she's one of the few characters who reacts - in a way - to the partial history about relics and demonic beasts and all... only to give sad uwus to Maurice.

FE16 (and Nopes) refused to have any "student" character react to the Nabatean lore/reveal, about what are relics and all. There are no lines, Claude shared some knowledge in the explore section of VW's last chapter, but we don't have anyone muse or think or even talk about what are relics, what are crests, and what kind of fuckery their ancestors or the ancient humans of Fodlan did.

With that in mind, FEH can't do much : either they write Marianne in a retcon-y way like what happened for Hegemongard (and they're not afraid to piss on characterisation, look at Lyon!), or they flanderise her "character" and develop her around 3 lines she had in the game in her paralogue, and continue to give sad uwus about Momo when he was at best a guy who slaughtered and murdered so much that he abused the Nabatean turned into a relic to the point where he turned in a demonic beast even if he had a matching crest, or at worst, had been part of Nemesis's piñata party in Zanado and was something of a genocider.

Tldr :

Why FE Fodlan never gaf about Nabateans : earl grey + the marketable cast has to stay marketable and you can't sell peanuts at the same price you'd sell swordfish

Why FEH dgaf about Nabatean lore : they can't afford to retcon characters + they have to sell peanut alts with the same seasoning they had in their base game.

For what it's worth though, I think FEH is more daring than the base game(s) given how they gave more lines and screentime to Rhea - through her different alts - than GW. And they even designed her Halloween!alt's lines to piss on some of Claude's assertions, while the various FB involving members of the church also - indirectly - reply to some accusations thrown their way in FE16 when, FE16, never gave them an opportunity or lines to explain that those takes were full of dung.

*"but random, maybe she doesn't know that the crests she often decries is "dragon blood"!"

It's highly debatable, especially given what she and Hubert throw to Billy in CF - but even if she doesn't, Doylist wise we still have a character who, knowingly or not, says "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and who is never called out on her prejudice. That's more of an issue regarding the general writing though, she has to be a red emperor and took pages from Ashnard's book, and yet, the player must still feel bad and want to romance her, so her mindest/goal cannot be looked at too closely, because, I guess, even the devs thought it would be difficult to romance her (thus sell goodies!) if more light was shed on the "blood from this race corrupts our people" schtick -> which in turn would also make characters whose backstory and gimmick rely on "crying about crests" be way less likeable, thus marketable and able to sell goodies.

[popdrop]

I STILL CAN'T GET OVER HOW IN THE BEGINNING, CALE PUSHED EVERYONE AWAY. You may say it's because of how "dangerous" and "trouble packed" their journey will be in the story later on— BUT. I JUST CANT HELP BUT FEEL LIKE MAYBE , JUST MAYBE. He didn't want them to be affected by his "curse" (side effect of WS) whether he knew about it or not. Just consider the fact that he KNOWS what will happen to them and how they'll be fighting for a better world and it'd be MUCH better if he's not there. Just in case he worsens whatever will happen.

He's such an unreliable narrator <3 the Worst Kind Ever.

[mettywiththenotes]

Something about how Singed and Viktor say the same things to someone manipulating them (Ambessa and Singed himself)

"I've been expecting you." (They're dramatic lol). "He isn't a monster, he was once a man. / But he isn't a specimen, he's a man."

The way they refer to Vander is telling. Singed uses past tense (he was once a man but not anymore, there is no humanity left) and Viktor uses present (he is still a man and he needs help, I will not sacrifice his humanity for your cause)