#ander high-hill

[baphometsss]

solas is canonically bi and i will die on this fucking hill.

trick talking shit about it on twitter in 2015 or whatever means nothing to me. oh you wanted to avoid the depraved bisexual trope, did you?? you mean depraved bisexuals like iron bull who will literally betray and try to kill you in trespasser if you sacrifice the chargers? depraved bisexual zevran who tries to kill you and will try again if your approval isn't high enough in dao? depraved bisexual anders who commits an entire act of terrorism? depraved bisexual isabela who will run off with the qunari artefact in da2 and never return if your approval isn't high enough?? i could go on and those are just the depraved bisexuals. there are plenty of good, non-depraved bisexuals in this game too (leliana, josephine, fenris kinda depending on how you play it), so it's a moot point anyway

esp since as far as depravity actually goes, he's fairly good about the romance. like, his ultimate goal aside, he makes a point of saying in trespasser that he wouldn't sleep with lavellan under false pretenses. that's more than can be said for blackwall, who doesn't think twice about the potential consent issue of sex with someone who doesn't know who you really are

if it wasn't the fact that a good chunk of solas's romance lines were voiced with the male VAs in both base game dai and trespasser, i would be inclined to believe that this was an intentional choice, but given that and the fact that both solas and cullen use gender neutral language in their romances, and only cullen has a line which specifically turns the inquisitor down for being a dude, i find it much more believable that they literally just ran out of time

iirc neither solas nor cullen were going to be romancable to begin with but then they had a bit of extra time and they decided to do it, only to run out of time before finishing the male VAs lines

honestly i'm just frustrated by the fact that we have inconsistent writing and weird cop-out answers that people cling to bc they're offended that their precious straight boy might not actually be straight. i actually saw someone complaining on reddit about how 'refreshing' it was to see a straight character in dragon age like?? what. are you playing the same game? blackwall, cassandra, cullen (who was meant to be bi too but ig had either the same issue or his va was just too much of a bigot to do it), morrigan and alistair all spring to mind lol you're not short on straight people

in any case we can retcon our inky to be nonbinary, so unless they fuck it up by deciding that he's only into female elves and lock out all the nb solavellans who had to choose between male and female inky in dai, which is unlikely, it seems like it won't matter much.

just let me be gay with my silly egg man and i will be happy

[skadilothbrok]

Given The Chance - Chapter 4

You had been sent out on a high importance recon mission that very same night, leaving no time for you and Anders to finish what you’d started. Even with the rotations of sleep and watch on the boat, you’d failed to find a single moment alone. Part of you thought the others were doing it on purpose.

You’d reached the coast of Belgium and quickly made your way to the target location that morning. Now you were lying hidden in the treeline as you surveyed the small camp you were here to gain intel on.

“Are we sure we can’t just kill one or two Nazis” Anders complained to Gus and you laughed at his comment.

“Just recon this time I’m afraid” Gus dismissed his comment as he continued to watch through his binoculars.

“You’re so impatient” you chided as you checked your watch, timing the guard rotations.

 “You can’t tell me you’re not bored too” he lightly pinched at your side and you swatted his hand away.

“I can promise you all the action you want when we’re finished” you wiggled your eyebrows suggestively.

“Don’t tease me woman” he warned as he let out a huff of annoyance.

“I’m not” you raised your binoculars back to your face “teasing implies no follow up”.

“Remind me not to group with you two again” Gus complained.

“We will happily go solo” Anders lifted his binoculars but turned to look at you instead “though I’m not sure how much recon we’ll get done”. You let out a laugh before playfully blowing him a kiss.

“Yeah, definitely sending someone else next time” Gus shook his head at the two of you.

“Ooh, send Freddy” you suggested.

“Yes, he loves our company” Anders added.

You looked just in time to see Gus roll his eyes at the two of you “I’m starting to wonder if the boss sent you to the team just to test me” he shook his head at you “and unfortunately I requested you specifically Lassen”.

“You’re mistake” Anders laughed “and my good fortune” he turned back to you and made a biting motion that reminded you of the mark still present on your inner thigh. You were so distracted for a moment that you almost forgot to check your watch as the guards reappeared.

 Silence fell over the three of you for the next half hour as you focused on the job at hand. It was an effort to keep your mind from wandering, especially when you kept feeling Anders’ eyes on you. Eventually, the sun started to drop to the horizon, and you were free to head back to the rendezvous point.

Marjorie, Apple and Freddy were already there so you didn’t have to wait before heading back to the boat. Just before you reached the dock though, a whistle sounded from a nearby shed and Hayes popped his head around, beckoning you over.

“There a reason you’re not on the boat Hayes?” Gus asked as your group made their way over to him.

“Sure is Sir, it’s full of Nazis” came his answer.

“Yes! We get to kill some Nazi’s after all” Anders practically jumped with excitement.

“What happened?” Gus asked.

“Think the dockmaster’s sold us out” he explained “half hour after you left, they showed up, made straight for our boat. I got away without them seeing me”.

Slowly making your way to the small hill that currently hid you from view of the dock, you lay down and shuffled to peer over the top. Sure enough, a host of soldiers swarmed the dock. There had to be three dozen at least. Apple and Freddy appeared either side of you for a look.

“No more than forty of them” you told them, “unless they’re calling for back up as we speak we can deal with them”.

“I don’t know” Freddy pointed across to the dockmasters shack “they’re packing some heavy fire power”. Following his gaze, you spotted the MG 42 the Nazi’s had bought along with them.

“A bit much don’t you think?” you sighed.

“Our reputation precedes us” Apple scoffed.

“But how would they know it’s us?” you asked before turning to the others “please tell me that’s not the same boat you used last time?”

“Boat’s a boat” Gus shrugged. You shook your head before moving back from the hill and heading over to him “honestly didn’t think anyone had been left alive to report on it”

“So, what’s the plan now then?” Hayes asked as the group gathered around Gus who was visibly running through plans in his head.

“I like that boat” Anders shrugged “I’m inclined to say we keep it”.

“You just want to shoot some Germans” Freddy shot back.

“Of course,” Anders shrugged “but I also want to get back on British soil fast as we can” the corners of his mouth turned up as he glanced at you.

“I’m not getting shot up because you want to get laid quicker” Freddy insisted.

“Nobody’s getting shot up” Gus cut in “as long as we take out the Buzz Saw, we can deal with the rest easy enough”.

“And just how do you suggest we do that?” Apple asked.

“I’ll sort it” you chimed in “they don’t know my face” you shrugged when they all turned to look at you “I can get close enough without getting shot on sight”. Gus was processing the thought when Anders spoke up.

“And how do you plan on dealing with that gun when you get there?” he rose an eyebrow in challenge.

“I happen to have a talent for killing Nazi’s” you winked before turning back to Gus, awaiting his go ahead.

“Alright” he finally agreed as he started to formulate a plan.

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

List of already polled characters:

2b/YoRHa No. 2 Type B - Nier: Automata: Hug

A.B.A - Guilty Gears: Hug

Abe - The Oddworld Series: Hug

Abed Nadir - NBC Community: Hug

Aborto - Filler Bunny: Kill

Abramar - The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood: Kill

Abuela Claudia - In the Heights: Hug

Adam - Hazbin Hotel: Kill

Adonis “Donnie” Creed - Creed movies - Rocky franchise: Hug

Adrian Andrews - Ace Attorney: Hug

Adrien Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug: Adopt

Aeryn Sun - Farscape: Hug

Ageha Hijiri - Hirogaru Sky PreCure: Hug

Agnea Bristarni - Octopath Traveler 2: Hug

Aidan - The Illuminae Files: Kill

Aiden Clark - School Bus Graveyard: Hug

Aiden Sousuke - Bleach: Kill

Aigis - Persona 3: Hug

Akane Sonozaki - Higurashi: Kill

Akira Kenjou - KiraKira PreCure à la Mode: Hug

Alan Wake - Alan Wake: Hug

Alexandra Trese - Trese: Kiss

Alex DeLarge - A Clockwork Orange: Kill

Alex Taylor - Good Game: Kill

All Might - My Hero Academia: Hug

Almalexia - Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind: Tribunal: Kill

Alphonse Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist: Hug

Alucard Tepes - Castlevania: Marry

Amanda Ripley - Alien: Isolation/Alien franchise: Hug

Amane Momose - MILGRAM Project: Adopt

America/Alfred F Jones - Hetalia: Kill

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader - Star Wars: Kill

Anacostia Quartermaine - Motherland: Fort Salem: Hug

Anders - Dragon Age 2: Hug

Andrew Minyard - All For The Game: Hug

Andy Knightley - The World’s End: Hug

Angela - Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruin: Hug

Angelica Schuyler - Hamilton: Hug

Angoramon - Digimon: Hug

Anthony "Tony" Prince - Grand Theft Auto: Kill

Antonio Madrigal - Encanto: Pat on the head

Applejack - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Hug

Apple White - Ever After High: Pat on the head

Aragorn - The Lord of the Rings: Marry

Archer - Pokemon: Kill

Argan - Winx Club: Hug

Aristotle - Billie Bust Up: Hug

Arthur Dent - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Hug

Arthur Lester - Malevolent: Hug

Arthur Morgan - Red Dead Redemption 2: Marry

Arvin Russell - The Devil all the Time: Hug

Ashe Bradley - Witch's Heart: Kill

Ashley Graham - Resident Evil: Hug

Ashley Williams - Mass Effect: Hug

Ashlyn Banner - School Bus Graveyard: Pat on the head

Astarion - Baldur's Gate 3: Hug

ASTRA - The Entropy Centre: Pat on the head

Astro Boy - Astro Boy: Pat on the head

Atlas - Cryptid Crush: Hug

Atropal Scion - Dungeons & Dragons: Kill

Atsushi Nakajima - Bungo Stray Dogs: Hug

Augustus Sinclair - Bioshock: Kill

Avicenna - Some Desperate Glory: Kill

Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity - The Locked Tomb: Kiss

Aya Maruyama - BanG Dream: Hug

Ayame Sohma - Fruits Basket: Kill

Aziraphale - Good Omens: Hug

Baba - Baba is you: Pat on the head

Babe - Pit Babe: Hug

Bai Wuchang - Word of Honor: Kill

Bandit Heeler - Bluey: Hug

Barbara Kopetski/Barb Wire - Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Comics: Kill

Barbra - Night of the Living Dead: Hug

Barnaby - Billie Bust Up: Hug

Barney - Barney and Friends: Kill

Barry Klemper - The Boys Next Door: Kill

Bart Simpson - The Simpsons: Pat on the head

Basil - Omori: Hug

Basil Exposition - Austin Powers: Kill

Battler Ushiromiya - Umineko: Kill

Bayonetta - Bayonetta: Marry

BD-1 - Star Wars Jedi (Survivor / Fallen Order): Adopt

Beatrice - Umineko: Marry

Becka - Scarlet Hollow: Hug

Beebee - Adventures with Anxiety: Hug

Benoit Blanc - Knives Out: Hug

Bernd das Brot - KiKa/German TV: Kill

Bernkastel - Umineko: Hug

Bibble - Barbie: Kill

Bierce - Dark Deception: Kill

Big Hill - Reservation Dogs: Hug

Bill Cipher - Gravity Falls: Kill

Billy Coen - Resident Evil 0: Kill

Blazer - Stray: Hug

Blitzwing - Transformers Animated: Hug

Bloaty - Invader Zim: Kill

Blood Pet - Magic the Gathering: Kill

Bob Newby - Stranger Things: Hug

Bob Pancakes - The Sims: Kill

Bog King - Strange Magic: Hug

Bolt - Disney's Bolt: Adopt

Bonnie - In Stars and Time: Hug

Boyfriend - Friday Night Funkin: Kill

Bradley Nicholson - Milo Murphy's Law: Pat on the head

Bradley Uppercrust III - An Extremely Goofy Movie: Kill

Brad Meltzer - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Pat on the head

Brahms Heelshire - The Boy: Kill

Brainy Smurf - The Smurfs: Pat on the head

Breezepelt - Warrior Cats: Pat on the head

Brian Flanagan - Cocktail: Kill

Brian Robeson - Hatchet: Pat on the head

Brian The Prethinker - Toontown Corporate Clash: Kill

Bridget - Guilty Gear XX: Hug

Brooklyn - Gargoyles: Hug

Bruce Wayne - Batman: Hug

Bucky Beaver - Shipwrecked 64: Hug

Buffy Summers - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hug

Buggy - One Piece: Kill

Cale Tucker - Titan A.E.: Hug

Camila Noceda - The Owl House: Hug

Camille Saroyan - Bones: Hug

Candace Flynn - Phineas and Ferb: Hug

Captain Pip Bernadotte - Hellsing Ultimate: Hug

Captain Haddock - Tintin: Hug

Captain Takeo Masaki - Call of Duty: Zombies: Hug

Carlos the Scientist - Welcome to Night Vale: Hug

Castiel - Supernatural: Hug

Catherine - The Gregory Horror Show: Kill

Catra - She-Ra: Hug

Cecil Palmer - Welcome to Night Vale: Hug

Celty - Durarara!!: Hug

Cerise Hood - Ever After High: Pat on the head

Cersei Lannister - Game of Thrones: Kill

Charlene "Charlie" McGee - Firestarter: Pat on the head

Charles Calvin - Henry Stickmin Collection: Hug

Charlie Cutter - Uncharted franchise: Kill

Charon - Hades: Hug

Charon - John Wick: Hug

Chelsea - Royal Scandel: Hug

Chibiusa/Sailor Mini Moon - Sailor Moon: Pat on the head

Chikai Kuji - Sarazanmai: Kill

Chilchuck Tims - Delicious in Dungeon: Hug

Child - Young Justice: Kill

Chloe Bourgeois - Miraculous Ladybug: Adopt

Chloe O'Brian - 24: Hug

Chococat - Sanrio: Pat on the head

Choi Chul-woong - Oasis: Kill

Chrom - Fire Emblem: Marry

Chrome - Dr. Stone: Pat on the head

Claire Fisher - Six Feet Under: Hug+Kill

Claud - Fire Emblem Genealogy of the holy war: Kill

Clay Puppington - Moral Orel: Kill

Clea - Doctor Strange: Kiss

Clint Barton/Hawkeye - Marvel: Hug

Clive Handforth - LittleBigPlanet/LittleBigPlanet2: Hug

Cloud Haetae Cookie - Cookie Run Kingdom: Pat on the head

Cogimyun - Sanrio: Pat on the head

Clyde ‐ Dreams of an Insomniac: Hug

Coco - Witch Hat Atelier: Adopt

Cole Brown - Martin: Hug+Kill

Colette - The Thea Stilton novels: Hug

Conan Edogawa - Detective Conan: Pat on the head

Coraline - Coraline: Hug+Adopt

Cordell Walker - Walker 2021: Hug

Cormag - Fire Emblem: Kill

Coro chan - Sanrio: Pat on the head

Crash Man - Megaman 2: Hug

Cream the Rabbit - Sonic: Hug

Crow Strider - Homestuck/Crow Strider AU: Kill

Crying Child - Five Nights at Freddy's 4: Adopt

Cully Barnaby - Midsomer Murders: Hug

Cynthia - Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum: Marry

Daijin - Suzume: Pat on the head

Daisy Johnson - Agents of SHIELD: Hug

Daisy Tonner - The Magnus Archives: Kill

Dale Cooper - Twin Peaks: Hug

Damian Wayne - DC Comics: Pat on the head

Damien Darhk - Arrow: Kill

Damon Salvatore - The Vampire Diaries: Kill

Dana Scully - The X-Files: Marry

Daniel - Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope: Kill

Daniel Matthews - Saw: Pat on the head

Danny "Danny Boy" Archuleta - Predator 2: Kill

Danny Butterman - Hot Fuzz: Hug

Danny Fenton - Danny Phantom: Hug

Da Quing - Guardian: Hug

Darcmon - Digimon: Hug

Darkiplier - Who Killed Markiplier: Kill

Dash Parker/né Arkadin - Minority Report: Kill

Dave - Total Drama: Kill

Daxter - Jak and Daxter: Hug

Dean Winchester - Supernatural: Hug

Death - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Kiss

Death the Kid - Soul Eater: Hug

Delenn - Babylon 5: Hug

Desmond Hume - Lost: Kill

Detective Noel/Charlie Dowd - Malevolent: Hug

Dewey Duck - Ducktales: Pat on the head

Dexter Morgan - Dexter: Kill

Diana of Themyscira | Wonder Woman - DC Comics: Marry

Dib - Invader Zim: Pat on the head

Dick Grayson - DC comics: Hug

Dieter - Monster: Kill

Digby - Dead Estate: Pat on the head

Doctor Strange Supreme - Marvel's What If...?: Kill

Dogday - Poppy Playtime: Adopt

Dominique de Sade - Vanitas no carte: Hug

Donald Duck - Ducktales 2017: Hug

Donald Trump - Real Life: Kill

Donald Trump - Real Life: Fuck

Donatello Splinterson - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003: Hug

Don Ramón/Seu Madruga - El Chavo del Ocho/Chaves: Hug

Doorstopper - Animatic Battle/Object Fool: Kill

Dorana - Winx Club: Kill

Dr. Boris Habit - Smile For Me: Hug

Dr. Claire Finn - The Orville: Hug

Dr. D Light - It's Not Me, It's My Basement: Hug

Dr. Flug ‐ Villainous: Hug

Dr. Herbert Lankmann - Dreams of an Insomniac: Kill

Dr. Loboto - Psychonauts: Kill

Dr. Ludwig/The Medic - Team Fortress 2: Kill

Dr. Temnova - PAFL/Parties are for Losers: Kill

Dr. Two Brains - WordGirl: Hug

Dragon - Shrek: Hug

Draco Malfoy - Harry Potter: Kill

Dream of the Endless - The Sandman: Hug

Dylan Lenivy - The Quarry: Hug

Echidna - Fire Emblem: Marry

Echo - Star Wars The Clone Wars/The Bad Batch: Hug

Ecolo - Puyo Puyo: Hug

Ed - Shaun of the Dead: Kill

Edd - Eddsworld: Hug

Edie Finch - What remains of Edith Finch: Kill

Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist: Pat on the head

Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate - One Piece: Hug

Ego Core - Meet the Cores: Kill

Eileen Leahy - Supernatural: Hug

Eisen - Sousou no Frieren: Hug

El Chapulín Colorado - El Chapulín Colorado: Hug

El Chavo/Chaves - El Chavo del Ocho: Kill

Elena Shimabara - THE iDOLM@STER Million Live: Pat on the head

El Huachimingo - 31 minutos: Hug

Elias - Noli Me Tangere: Kill

Elias Bouchard - The Magnus Archives: Kill

Elizabeth Swann - Pirates of the Caribbean: Marry

Emily Kauffman - Gylt: Hug

Emperor Belos - The Owl House: Kill

Emu Otori - Project Sekai: Pat on the head

Ena Shinomome - Project Sekai: Hug

Entrapta - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Hug

Eowyn - The Lord of the Rings: Marry

Eri - My Hero Academia: Adopt

Eric Foreman - House M. D.: Hug

Ericht Samaya - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Pat on the head

Eric Matthews - Saw: Kill

Eric Wynn - Cube Zero: Kill

Erik (The Phantom) - The Phantom of The Opera: Kill

Eucerin - Object Fool: Kill

Eva Ushiromiya - Umineko: Hug

Evan "Buck" Buckley - 9-1-1 TV Series: Hug

Ezio Auditore da Firenze - Assassin's Creed: Hug

Ezra - On Air Island: Hug

Fan - Rockman Strategy: Kill

Fantoccio - Billie Bust Up!: Hug

Felix Fathom - Miraculous Ladybug : Pat on the head

Felix Kranken - The Walten Files: Kill

Feng - Balls of Fury: Kill

Fernando Vera - Mr. Robot: Kill

Fezzik - Home Movie: The Princess Bride: Hug

First Aid - Transformers Animated: Hug

Fitz Vacker - Keeper of the Lost Cities: Pat on the head

Five Pebbles - Rain World: Hug

Flowey - Undertale: Pat on the head

Floyd - Trolls Band Together: Kill

Flynn - Shin Megami Tensei IV (Apocalypse): Hug

Folca - Pathfinder: Kill

Fox Mulder - The X-Files: Hug

Francine "Fran" ("Flygirl") Parker - Dawn of the Dead: Hug

Francis Mosses - That’s not my neighbor: Hug

Frank Fontaine - Bioshock: Kill

Franklin Saint - Snowfall: Hug

Freddy Fazbear - Five Nights at Freddy's: Kill

Frisk - Undertale: Pat on the head

Fubuki Shirou - Inazuma Eleven: Hug

Fukase - Vocaloid: Hug

Furina - Genshin Impact: Hug

Future Edd - Eddsworld: Kill

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Bungo Stray Dogs: Kill

Gabe Ugliano - Percy Jackson: Kill

Gabriel - Ultrakill: Hug

Gale Hawthorne - The Hunger Games Franchise: Kill

Gamzee Makara - Homestuck: Kill

Garden of Thorns Gregor - Limbus Company: Marry

Garfield - Garfield: Pat on the head

Garry - Ib: Hug

Garu/Karu - Nu:Carnival: Hug

Gary King - The World’s End: Hug

Gelus - Death Note: Pat on the head

General Sarah Alder - Motherland: Fort Salem: Kill

Geno - Super Mario RPG: Hug

Gideon Nav - The Locked Tomb: Hug

Giles - The Shape of Water: Hug

Gilgamesh Wolfenbach - Girl Genius: Hug

Ginpachi-Senpai - Gintama: Kill

GLaDOS - Portal: Marry

Glenn Close - Dungeons and Daddies: Kill

Godzilla - Godzilla (Monsterverse): Hug

Gomamon/X-Antibody - Digimon: Pat on the head

Gonta Gokuhara - Danganronpa: Hug

Gorōbei Katayama - Seven Samurai: Hug

Gosha - Beastars: Hug

Grant Ward - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Kill

Gray Wing - Warrior Cats: Kill

Gray Yeon - The Weak Hero Webtoon: Kill

Greg Heffley - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Kill

Gregory - Five Nights at Freddy's, Security Breach: Kill

Gretchen - Scarlet Hollow: Pat on the head

Grillby - Undertale: Marry

Grimora - Inscryption: Kill

Guardener - Undertale Yellow: Hug

Gummigoo - The Amazing Digtal Circus: Hug

Gundham Tanaka - Super Danganronpa 2: Hug

Hal 9000 - Space Odyssey: Marry

Halsin - Baldur's Gate 3: Marry

Hal Stewart/Titan - Megamind: Kill

Haruhi Fujioka - Ouran High School Host Club: Hug

Harrowhark Nonagesimus - The Locked Tomb: Adopt

Hau - Pokemon (Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Moon): Hug

Heath - Blackstar Theater Starless: Hug+Kill

Heathcliff - Heathcliff Comic Strip: Hug

Heather Mason - Silent Hill 3: Hug

Heinz Doofenshmirtz - Phineas and Ferb: Hug

Hello Kitty - Sanrio: Pat on the head

Helob - Cult of the Lamb: Kill

Hernan Alvarez/Shades - Luke Cage: Kill

He Who Gets Slapped - He Who Gets Slapped: Kill

Heywood Floyd - Space Odyssey: Kill

Hideyasu "Sōki" Yūki - Onimusha games: Kill

Hikaru Sulu - Star Trek Continues: Hug

Himiko Toga - My Hero Academia: Pat on the head

Hinata Shouyou - Haikyuu!!: Hug

Hiro Hamada - Big Hero 6: Hug

Holston Becker - Silo: Hug

Homelander - The Boys: Kill

Homer Simpson - The Simpsons: Kill

Homura Akemi - Puella Magi Madoka Magika: Hug

Horrid Henry - Horrid Henry: Kill

Howard "Bunny" Colvin - The Wire: Hug

Huey Duck - Ducktales: Pat on the head

Hug Kiss Marry Kill Tumblr blog - Tumblr: Hug

Husk - Hazbin Hotel: Hug

Hwoarang - Tekken 7: Kill

Hyuk Lee - Sweet Home: Kill

Hyun Cha - Sweet Home: Hug

lan jingyi - The Untamed/cql: Pat on the head

lcb Sinner Gregor - Limbus Company: Marry

Ignatz Victor - Fire Emblem Three Houses: Pat on the head

Igor Grom - Major Grom: Hug

Ilya Oblomov - Oblomov: Hug

Indika - Indika: Hug

Inosuke Hashibira - Demon Slayer/Kimetsu No Yaiba: Pat on the head

Inuyasha - Inuyasha: Pat on the head

Invidia Bat - A Little Vice: Hug

Iris Black - Countdown to Countdown: Hug

Iron Giant - The Iron Giant: Hug

Isaac - The Orville: Hug

Ivan - Alien Stage: Hug

Izaya Orihara - Durarara!!: Kill

Jack Horner - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Kill

Jack Kline - Supernatural: Hug

Jaime Lannister - A Song of Ice and Fire: Kill

Jaime Reyes - Blue Beetle: Hug

Jak - Jak and Daxter: Hug

Jake Carter - The Marine movies/WWE: Kill

Jake Holling/Megaforce Black/Super Megaforce Green - Power Rangers Megaforce / Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Kill

James Wilson - House MD: Hug

Janet - The Good Place: Hug

Jason Todd - Batman: Hug

Jason Voorhees - Friday the 13th: Hug

Jax - The Amazing Digital Circus: Kill

Jay - Beyond Two Souls: Kill

Jeanne - Vanitas no carte: Hug

Jedah Diamond - Tokyo 7th Sisters: Hug

Jeff Whitman - The Devil in Me (The Dark Pictures Anthology): Kill

Jerry - Undertale: Kill

Jessica "Jess" Riley - Until Dawn: Hug

Jester Lavorre - Critical Role: Hug

Jiang Cheng - Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed: Hug

Jim Phelps - Mission Impossible: Kill

Jiro Yamashita - The Idolmaster SideM: Hug

Jobin Higashikata - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Kill

Joe Biden - Real Life: Kill

Johan Liebert - Monster: Kill

John Coffey - The Green Mile: Hug

John Crichton - Farscape: Hug

John Doe - Malevolent: Hug

John Gaius - The Locked Tomb: Kill

John “Soap” MacTavish - Call of Duty - Modern Warfare series: Marry

Jonathan Sims - The Magnus Archives: Hug

Joshu Higashikata - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion: Kill

Josh Washington - Until Dawn: Hug

Jotaro Kujo - Jojo’s bizarre adventure: Kill

Joyce Barnaby - Midsomer Murders: Hug

Juan Carlos Bodoque - 31 Minutos: Hug

Judy Hopps - Zootopia: Hug

Julian - Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Pat on the head

Juliette - Mushoku Tensei: Pat on the head

Kabru - Dungeon Meshi: Hug

Kagamine Len - Project SEKAI: Pat on the head

Kagome Higurashi - Inuyasha: Hug

Kakashi Hatake - Naruto: Marry

Kaladin Stormblessed - The Stormlight Archive: Hug

Kanba Takakura - Mawaru Penguindrum: Pat on the head

KAngel/Ame-chan - Needy Streamer Overload: Hug

Kankri Vantas - Homestuck: Kill

Kanta Higurashi - Zom 100: Hug+Kill

Kaoru Hakaze - Ensemble Stars: Kill

Karkat Vantas - Homestuck: Kill

Karma Akabane - Assassination Classroom: Hug

Kasane Teto - UTAU: Hug

Kata Akuna - Star Wars Jedi (Survivor/Fallen Order): Pat on the head

Kat Neese - Raising Dion: Hug+Kill

Kayne - Malevolent: Kill

Kazuya Kinoshita - Rent a Girlfriend: Kill

Keiju Tabuki - Mawaru Penguindrum: Kill

Keine Ron - UTAU: Pat on the head

Kel - Onori: Hug

Kellyn - Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia: Pat on the head

Ken - Barbie: Hug

Kendall Roy - Succession: Hug

Kensuke Kurosaki - Corpse Party: Pat on the head

Kermit the Frog - The Muppet: Hug

Kestrel - Wings of Fire: Kill

Kevin - Welcome to Night Vale: Kill

Kevin McCallister - Home Alone: Pat on the head

Keyleth - Critical Role: Hug

Khalida - Motherland: Fort Salem: Pat on the head

Kikunojo - One Piece: Marry

Kikuchiyo - Seven Samurai: Kiss

Kikyo - Inuyasha: Hug

Killua Zoldyck - Hunter x Hunter: Pat on the head

Kim - Kinnporsche: The Series: Hug

Kim Dokja - Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint: Hug

King Andrias - Amphibia: Kill

King Randolph - Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses: Kill

Kinito - KinitoPET: Pat on the head

Kinzo Ushiromiya - Umineko: Kill

Kira Seijirou - Inazuma Eleven: Kill

Kirby - Kirby: Pat on the head

Kitty Jones - Bartimaeus Trilogy: Hug

Klaus von Reinherz - Kekkai Sensen: Marry

Klavier Gavin - Ace Attorney: Hug

Klutzy - Club Penguin: Pat on the head

Kohaku - Dr. Stone: Pat on the head

Kokichi Oma - Danganronpa V3: Kill

Korosensei - Assassination Classroom: Hug

Korra - Legend of Korra: Hug

Kotoko Yuzuriha - Milgram: Hug

Kou Minamoto - Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun: Hug

Kris Dreemurr - Deltarune: Hug

Kurokumo Clan Captain Gregor - Limbus Company: Kiss

Kuzco - The Emperor's New Groove: Pat on the head

Kyle Drako - Milo Murphy's Law: Kill

Kyubi - Puella Magi Madoka Magika: Kill

Kyungsoon - Purrgatory: Hug

L - Death Note: Hug

La Chilindrina/Chiquinha - El Chavo del Ocho/Chaves: Pat on the head

LadyDevimon - Digimon: Kiss

Lady Eboshi - Princess Mononoke: Marry

Lady Sio - Afro Samurai: Kiss

LaFawnduh Lucas - Napoleon Dynamite: Hug

Lance - Pokemon Special Edition: Pat on the head

Lance Serrano - Voltron: Hug

Langly (X-Files): Kill

Lantern Gregor - Limbus Company: Hug

Lara Vega - Minority Report: Hug

Lee Doo-hak - Oasis: Hug

Lee Everett - Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Hug

Lenore "Lenny" Busker/The Breakfast Queen - Legion: Kill

Leo Valdez - Heroes of Olympus: Hug

Leshy - Inscryption: Hug

Lestat de Lioncourt - Interview with the Vampire: Kill

Lev Myshkin - The Idiot: Hug

Licorice Cookie - Cookie Run Kingdom: Hug

Lila - Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022: Hug

Lili Zanotto - Psychonauts: Pat on the head

Lisa Simpson - The Simpsons: Pat on the head

Liu Qianqiao - Qord of Honor: Hug

Lloyd the Lion - Indigo Park: Kill

Logan Fields - School Bus Graveyard: Hug

Luke Trapper - The Marine movies/WWE: Kill

Lonely Wizard - Inscryption: Hug

Looks to the Moon - Rain World: Hug

Luan Loud - The Loud House: Kill

Lucia Villanueva - Snowfall: Hug

Lucifer Morningstar - Hazbin Hotel: Marry

Luigi - Super Mario Brothers: Hug

Luisa Madrigal - Encanto: Hug

Luke Carder - Inscryption: Hug

Luke Skywalker - Star Wars: Hug

Lumine - LUMINE: Pat on the head

Luna Lovegood - Harry Potter: Adopt

Luz Noceda - The Owl House: Hug

Mabel Pines - Gravity Falls: Hug

Mademoiselle Anastasie "Tasi" Trianon - Amnesia: Rebirth: Hug

Madoka Kaname - Madoka Magica: Hug

Madotsuki - Yume Nikki: Pat on the head

Mafuyu Asahina - Project Sekai: Pat on the head

Maggie Simpson - The Simpsons: Hug

Magnificus - Inscryption: Kill

Magolor - Kirby: Kill

Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter - Sailor Moon: Hug

Malak - Dark Deception: Kill

Malcolm Merlyn - Arrow: Kill

Mallow - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars/Super Mario RPG: Pat on the head

Manny Heffley - Diary of a wimpy kid: Kill

Man with the yellow hat - Curious George: Hug

Marceline Abadeer - Adventure Time: Marry

Marge Simpson - The Simpsons: Hug

Maria Ushiromiya - Umineko: Adopt

Marie Whitman - The Devil in Me/The Dark Pictures Anthology: Hug

Mark Beaks - Ducktales: Kill

Marnie - Stardew Valley: Hug

Martin Blackwood - The Magnus Archives: Hug

Martin Payne - Martin: Hug

Martyn InTheLittleWood - Life Series: Kill

Mary Schmidt - Five Nights at Candy's 3: Pat on the head

Master Kohga - Legend of Zelda: Kill

Matcha Cookie - Cookie Run: Hug

Matsudappoiyo - UTAU: Hug

Matt - Eddsworld: Kill

Matty - Witch's Heart: Kill

Max Goof - An Extremely Goofy Movie: Hug

Max Madigan - True Jackson, VP: Kill

Medkit - Phighting!: Kill

Melchior - Riot Kings: Hug

Mia Dolan - La La Land: Kill

Miae Hwang - After School Lessons for unripe apples: Pat on the head

Michael - The Good Place: Hug

Michael Afton - Five Nights at Freddy's: Hug

Michael J. Caboose - Red vs Blue: Hug

Michael Kaiser - Blue Lock: Hug

Michael "Mike" Munroe - Until Dawn: Kill

Michonne Grimes - The Walking Dead: Hug

Mike Horvath - Saving Private Ryan: Hug

Miki Sayaka - Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hug

Miko Nakadai - Transformers Prime: Pat on the head

Millennial Tree Cookie - Cookie Run: Hug

Millie Fitzsimmons - FNaF Fazbear Frights: Hug+Pat on the head

Min - Parallel City: Hug+Kill

Mina Harker - Dracula: Hug

Mini Yaemori - Rent a Girlfriend: Kill

Minish Cap Link - The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Pat on the head

Mion Sonozaki - Higurashi: Hug

Miorine Rembran - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Hug

Misa Amane - Death Note: Hug

Misaki Ayuzawa - Kaichou wa Maid Sama: Hug

Miss Circle - Fundamental Paper Education/Basics In Behavior: Kill

Miss Kobayashi - Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Hug

Miss Piggy - The Muppets: Hug

Mithrun - Dungeon Meshi: Hug

Mitty - Made in Abyss: Kill

Miwako Sakurada - Paradise Kiss: Hug+Kiss

Miyo Takano - Higurashi: Kill

Molar Boatworks Fixer Sinclair - Limbus Company: Hug

Momo - Stray: Hug

Monika - Doki Doki Literature Club: Hug

Mono - Little Nightmares: Adopt

Monsieur Tidbits - The Who Was? Show: Kill

Moonwatcher - Wings of Fire: Hug

Mo Ran - The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2ha): Hug

Morgan Yu - Prey: Hug

Mothwing - Warrior Cats: Pat on the head

Mr Bean - Mr Bean: Hug

Mr Peanutbutter - BoJack Horseman: Kill

Mr. Puzzles - SMG4: Kill

Mrs. Asahina - Project Sekai: Kill

Mr. Scratch - Alan Wake: Kiss

Munehisa Iwai - Persona 5: Hug

Murmukusmon - Digimon: Kill

Mustache Girl - A Hat In Time: Pat on the head

Mylene Farrow - Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Kill

Narrator - The Stanley Parable: Hug

Naruto Uzumaki - Naruto: Adopt

Nastasya Filippovna - The Idiot: Hug

Nastya Rasputina - The Mechanisms: Hug

Natalia - The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Hug

Nate Wright - Big Nate: Hug

Natsukage Suoh - 1bitHeart: Pat on the head

Natsuki - Doki Doki Literature Club: Hug

Natsuki Shinomiya - Uta no Prince-sama: Hug

Near - Death Note: Hug

Ness - Earthbound: Pat on the head

Newton Pud - Little Big Planet: Hug

Nicholas Angel - Hot Fuzz: Hug

Nick - Zootopia: Hug

Nick Valentine - Fallout 4: Marry

Nico Robin - One Piece: Marry

Nicumond the Red aka Santa Claus - Violent Night: Kill

Niffty - Hazbin Hotel: Pat on the head

Niki Sanders - Heroes: Hug

Niko - Oneshot: Hug

No.96 Dark Mist - Yugioh Zexal: Kill

NOAH - Lancer TTRPG: Hug

Nobara Kugisaki - Jujutsu Kaisen: Hug

Noe Archiviste - Vanitas no carte: Hug

Norma Jennings - Twin Peaks: Hug

Norman - Honey I'm Home: Hug

Nurgle - Warhammer: Kill

Nurgling - Warhammer: Pat on the head

Obi - Akagami No Shirayukihime: Hug

Obscurum/Dark Argan - Winx Club: Kill

Oh Jung-shin - Oasis: Hug

Omnimon/Omegamon - Digimon: Hug

One-One - Infinity Train: Pat on the head

Ongsa - 23.5: Pat on the head

Onion San - Undertale: Pat on the head

Orel Puppington - Moral Orel: Adopt

Oroboros - Honka: Star Rail: Kill

Oscar - Malevolent: Hug

Ozen ""The Immovable"" - Made in Abyss: Hug

P03 - Inscryption: Kill

Pal Percy - Playtime with Percy: Kill

Patrick Star - Spongebob Squarepants: Hug

Pavel Yudin - Fear and Hunger Termina: Kill

Peacock - Skullgirls: Pat on the head

PearlescentMoon - Double lifesmp/Traffic life series: Hug

Peter Washington - Dawn of the Dead: Kill

Phaya - The Sign: Kiss

Philippines - Hetalia: Hug

Phillip Price - Mr. Robot: Kill

Phoebe Spengler - Ghostbusters: Pat on the head

Phosphophyllite - Land of the Lustrous/Houseki no Kuni: Hug

PicoDevimon - Digimon: Pat on the head

Pink - Everhood: Hug

Pinkie Pie - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Hug

Playtime - Baldi’s Basics: Kill

Pomni - The Amazing Digital Circus: Hug

Popeyes Employee - RDCWorld1: Hug

Poppy - Poppy Playtime: Kill

Portgas D. Ace - One Piece: Hug

Princess Leia - Star Wars: Marry

Priya Singh - Tenet: Hug

Prospera Mercury - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Kill

Qifrey - Witch Hat Atelier: Hug

Quark - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Hug

Quico - El Chavo/Chaves: Kill

Rachel Green - Friends: Kill

Radahn, Consort of Miquella - Elden Ring: Kill

Raelle Collar - Motherland: Fort Salem: Kill

Rainbow Core - Portal Stories: Mel: Hug

Rambley the Raccoon - Indigo Park: Hug

Ramona Flowers - Scott Pilgrim: Hug

Randy Random - Rimworld: Kill

Ranko Mannen - Akiba Maid War: Hug

Ranma Saotome - Ranma 1/2: Hug

Ranpo Edogawa - Bungo Stray Dogs: Hug

Rantaro Amami - Danganronpa: Kill

Rasputin IV - X-Men: Kiss

Rasta Beast - Everhood: Hug

Ray - The Promised Neverland: Hug

R.B. Sous-chef Gregor - Limbus Company: Kill

R. Daneel Olivaw - The Robot Series: Kill

Red Harvest - The Magnificent Seven: Hug

Reese Kelly - Scarlet Hollow: Hug

Regina - Dino Crisis: Hug+Kill

Regina George - Mean Girls: Kill

Reigen Arataka - Mob Psycho 100: Kill

Reimi Sugimoto - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Hug

Rei Sakuma - Ensemble Stars: Hug

Rem - Death Note: Hug

Ramy Hassan - Ramy TV show: Kill

Retsuko - Aggretsuko Anime: Hug

Riamu Yumemi - The iDOLM@STER Cincerella Girls: Hug

Rider - Centaurworld: Hug

Riku - Kingdom Hearts: Hug

Ringo Oginome - Mawaru Penguindrum: Pat on the head

Roadhog - Overwatch: Hug

Robert E. O. Speedwagon - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Kill

Robert Freeman/Granddad - The Boondocks: Hug

Robin - Honkai Star Rail: Hug

Robin Scherbatsky - How I Met Your Mother: Kill

Rod Sullivan - Ice Scream: Kill

Ronald Novikov - Jackson's Diary: Hug

Rory - Morgana and Oz: Hug

Rosa Ushiromiya - Umineko: Kill

Rose Quartz - Steven Universe: Hug

Rozy/Rozana - The Guy Upstairs: Hug

Ruby Rose - RWBY: Hug

Runaway Kid - Little Nightmares: Adopt

Ryland Tate - Good Game: Hug

Ryo Akizuki - The Idolmaster: Pat on the head

Ryotaro Dojima - Persona 4: Hug

Ryuji Sakamoto - Persona 5: Hug

Saburo Yamada - Hypnosis Mic: Pat on the head

Sakuna - Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin: Pat on the head

Sakura Haruno - Naruto: Pat on the head

Samantha "Sam" Giddings - Until Dawn: Hug

Sam Drake - Uncharted Franchise: Marry

Sammy Lawrence - Bendy and the ink machine: Kill

Samuel J. Stuhlinger - Call Of Duty:Black Ops 2 Zombies: Kill

Sam Winchester - Supernatural: Hug

Samwise Gamgee - Lord of the Rings: Hug

Sanetoshi Watase - Mawaru Penguindrum: Kill

Sans - Undertale: Hug

Sarah Lynn - Bojack Horseman: Hug

Sara Lance - Legends of Tomorrow: Marry+Kill

Sasara Nurude - Hypnosis Mic: Kill

Sasha Nein - Psychonauts: Hug

Sasha Waybright - Amphibia: Pat on the head

Satoru Gojo - Jujutsu Kaisen: Marry

Saturday Tasogare- vivid/stasis: Hug

Savannah - Milo Murphy's Law: Kill

Sayori - Doki Doki Literature Club: Hug

Scissors - Paper Mario the Orgami King: Kill

Scrappy Doo - Scooby-Doo: Kill

Scrooge McDuck - Ducktales: Hug+Kill

Scylla Ramshorn - Motherland: Fort Salem: Kill

Seliph - Fire Emblem: Hug

Senku Ishigami - Dr. Stone: Kill

Sergei Dragunov - Tekken: Marry

Sergey Razumovsky - Major Grom: Hug

Serial Designation N - Murder Drones: Hug

Sesshomaru - Inuyasha: Kill

Seungha - Odd Girl Out: Hug

Severus Snape - Harry Potter: Kill

Shaggy - Scooby-Doo: Pat on the head

Shannon LaFae - Heart Fragment: Hug

Shauna Shipman - Yellowjackets: Hug+Kiss+Marry

Shaun Riley - Shaun of the Dead: Hug

Sheryl Luria - Evil: Kill

Shigaraki Tomura - My Hero Academia: Hug

Shinobu Sengoku - Ensemble Stars: Pat on the head

Shinra Kishitani - Durarara!!: Kill

Shin Sato - The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Hug

Shion Sonozaki - Higurashi: Pat on the head must

Shirogane Ryo - Tokyo Mew Mew: Pat on the head

Shouko Komi - Komi San wa komishou desu: Hug

Shouto Todoroki - My Hero Academia: Hug

Shrek - Shrek: Hug

Shu Itsuki - Ensemble Stars: Kill

Shuji Ikutsuki - Persona 3: Kill

Shuya Nanahara - Battle Royale: Pat on the head

Siffrin - In Stars and Time: Hug

Simon Keyes - Ace Attorney: Kill

Sir Pentious - Hazbin Hotel: Hug

Six - Little Nightmares: Pat on the head+Adopt

Skull Kid - Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Pat on the head

Skyler White - Breaking Bad: Hug

Slate - Outer Wilds: Hug

Slaymate - Dungeons & Dragons: Pat on the head

Snow White/Red Shoes - Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarfs: Hug

Sojiro Sakura - Persona 5: Hug

Soldier Boy - The Boys: Kill

Solomon - Obey Me: Marry

Sonya - Fire Emblem: Marry

Sora Harukawa - Ensemble Stars: Pat on the head

Spamton G. Spamton - Deltarune: Kill

Sparkle - Honkai: Star Rail: Kill

Spencer Reid - Criminal Minds: Marry

SpongeBob SquarePants - SpongeBob SquarePants: Hug

Stanley Poole - Bioshock 2: Kill

Stan Pines - Gravity Falls: Hug

Stardust Cookie - Cookie Run: Kingdom: Hug

Star Flower - Warrior Cats: Pat on the head

Starscream - Transformers Prime: Kill

Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews - Dawn of the Dead: Kill

Steve Harrington - Hug

Stokely Mitchell - The Faculty: Hug

Stonemover - Wings of Fire : Hug

Strider Hiryu - Strider: Kill

Subspace - Phighting!: Kill

Suletta Mercury - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Hug

Sypha Belnades - Castlevania: Marry

Taichi Fujisaki - Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls: Hug

Taiga Kagami - Kuroko No Basket/Kuroko's Basketball: Hug

Takuto Maruki - Persona 5 Royal: Hug

Tali'Zorah - Mass Effect: Marry

Tally Craven - Motherland: Fort Salem: Kill

Tamaki Suoh - Ouran High School Host Club: Hug

Tangerine - Bullet train: Kill

Tarvek Sturmvoraus - Girl Genius: Hug

Taylor - Simulacra: Hug

Taylor Hebert - Worm (Parahumans): Hug

Taylor Swift - Real Life: Kill

Teddy - Among the Sleep: Kill

Terry - Deltarune: Kill

Teruki Hanazawa - Mob Psycho 100: Pat on the head

Teruteru Hanamura - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Kill

Tessa James Elliot - Murder Drones: Hug

Testament - Guilty Gear: Strive: Marry

Tetsuya Kuroko - Kuroko no Basuke/Kuroko's Basketball: Pat on the head

The Collector - The Owl House: Adopt

The Dud - The Simpsons: Kill

The Emperor - Baldur's Gate 3: Kill

The Goose - Untitled Goose Game: Pat on the head

The Grim Reaper - The Sims: Marry

The Maker/Reed Richards - Ultimate Marvel: Kill

The Mask - The Mask Animated Series: Kill

The Ninth Doctor - Doctor Who: Hug

The Nowhere King - Centaurworld: Kill

Theodore "Teddy" McDonald/Reed Thompson - Snowfall: Kill

Theodore Peterson - Hello Neighbor: Kill

The Once-ler - The Lorax: Kill

The Princess - Slay the Princess: Hug

The Puppeteer - Five Nights at Candy's: Kill

The Second Coming - Animator vs Animation/Animation vs Minecraft: Hug

The Shade - The Longing: Pat on the head

The Shapeshifter - Odd Squad: Kill

The Snatcher - A Hat In Time: Kill

The Stalker - Stalker: Kill

The Survivor - Rain World: Pat on the head

The Test - Baldi's Basics: Kill

The unnamed salesman who recruits participants for the Game - Squid Game: Kill

The Wandering Trader - Minecraft: Kill

The Works - The Works: Kill

Thomas Richardson - The Apostle: Kill

Thorn - Wings of Fire: Hug

Tien Shinhan - Dragonball: Hug

Tifa Lockhart - Final Fantasy VII: Hug

Tippi - Super Paper Mario: Hug

Titania - Fire Emblem: Marry

Tom Barnaby - Midsomer Murders: Hug

Tony Tony Chopper - One Piece: Adopt

Tord - Eddsworld: Kill

Toya Aoyagi - Project SEKAI: Hug

Trevor Belmont - Castlevania: Kiss

Trevor Garbo - Smile For Me: Kill

Tsubasa Yuunagi - Hirogaru Sky PreCure: Pat on the head

Tsukasa Okino - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim: Hug

Tulio Triviño Tufillo - 31 Minutos: Kill

Tulip Olsen - Infinity Train: Pat on the head

Turbo - Wreck It Ralph: Kill

Twelve - Zankyou No Terror: Kill

Twice - Boku No Hero Academia: Hug

Ubel - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Kill

Ukitake Jushiro - Bleach: Hug

Umi - Sharkgirl Umi: Pat on the head

Uncle Iroh - Avatar: The Last Airbender: Hug

Unpleasant - Regretevator: Kill

Uraume - Jujitsu Kaisen: Hug

Usami - Danganronpa: Hug

User Friendly - 3DV: Kill

Uta - One Piece: Hug

Vanessa - A Hat In Time: Kill

Vanitas - Vanitas no carte: Hug

Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko - Servant of the People: Hug

Vee - The Owl House: Hug

Vegas Theerapanyakul - KinnPorsche: Hug

Vertin - Reverse: 1999: Hug

Victoria Best - Wordgirl: Pat on the head

Vigilante - My Friend Pedro: Hug+Kill

Vinegar Doppio - Jojos Bizarre Adventure: Hug

Virgil - Portal Stories: Mel: Hug

Vriska Serket- Homestuck: Kill

Wabuu - Wabuu the cheeky raccoon: Kill

Wade Wilson - Deadpool: Hug

Wallace - Pokémon ORAS: Hug

WALL-E - WALL-E: Pat on the head

Wally Franks - Bendy and the Ink Machine: Hug

Warren the Eagle - Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: Kill

Wednesday Addams - The Addams Family: Pat on the head

Wes - Pokemon Colosseum: Hug

Wheatley - Portal: Kill

Whitty - Friday Night Funkin: Hug

Will Solace - Heroes of Olympus: Hug

Winry Rockbell - Fullmetal Alchemist: Hug

Winfrey/Speciment 02 - Dreams Of An Insominiac: Hug

Winston Byrd - Toontown Corporate Clash: Hug

Wombat - Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!: Hug

Wooly - Rune Factory: Pat on the head

Wu Xie - Daomu Biji: Hug

Xavier - Xavier: Renegade Angel : Kill

Xavier Riddle - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Pat on the head

Yadina Riddle - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Pat on the head

Yagami Eiji - Danball Senki: Kill

Yamato - One Piece: Hug

Yang Xiao Long - RWBY: Hug

Yato - Noragami: Kill

Yellow - Malevolent: Hug

Yellow/Amarillo del Bosque Verde - Pokemon Special Edition/Pokespe: Pat on the head

Yoda - Star Wars: Hug

Yoo Joonghyuk - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint: Hug

Yor - Yor, the Hunter from the Future: Kill

Yor Forger - Spy x Family: Marry

Yoshino Himekawa - Date a Live: Pat on the head

Youhei Sunohara - Clannad: Kill

Yui - Sakuna: of rice and ruin: Pat on the head

Yukito Ayatsuji - Bungo Stray Dogs: Gaiden: Kill

Yuki Yoshikawa - Horimiya: Pat on the head

Yura Beletsky - Pafl: Kill

Yuri - DDLC: Hug

Yurika Hakonaka - Yuri Kuma Arashi: Kill

Yu Shu Lien - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Hug

Yusuke Urameshi - Anime House: Hug

Yuugo Tennouji - Steins;Gate: Hug

Zenkichi Hasegawa - Persona 5 Strikers/Scramble: Kill

Zeus - Greek Mythology: Kill

Zhang Chengling - Word of Honor: Pat on the head

Zhou Zishu - Word of Honor: Hug

Zim - Invader Zim: Pat on the head

ZombieCleo - The Life Series: Hug

Zuko - Avatar The Last Airbender: Hug

[erin-unknown]

Thanks for the tag @hyperions-light. I've been working on one of the (fantastic) Rook Story Time Prompts that you messaged me and because I can never keep anything simple, it's becoming a whole thing that is still in its early stages.

@awardenandacrow and @arookacrow, if you want to share anything in progress that you haven't shared already, go for it 💕

22. GW!Rook encountering their first Darkspawn.

Dalgar heads off into the Wandering Hills with Senior Warden Olivier and two other Warden recruits to bring down their first darkspawn and prepare to take the Joining upon their return to Kasselwatch. The two other recruits—a young human named Conrad and Sybil, an elven graverobber—have different plans.

Here's the opening so far:

A misting of rain hung over the soggy yard, catching the pale yellow light of early morning and holding it like a breath. Dalgar lurked below, in the stark shadow of Kasselwatch, his numb fingers adjusting the strap that anchored his right pauldron to his boiled-leather vest for the tenth time in as many minutes. A stocky, red-faced human boy and a wiry elven woman with storm gray eyes and a pinched face lingered nearby.

“It shouldn’t be much longer,” Dalgar said. His smile was a little tight from standing out in the pre-dawn chill for so long. “I’m Dalgar, by the way.” He extended a hand to the boy.

“I-I’m C-Conrad,” he replied, voice shaking, and clasped the offered hand. If Conrad’s hand was cold, Dalgar certainly couldn’t tell. Callouses rasped against his own as they parted. “From down by way of Nordbotten. Did a few months of training there, too, but they sent me up here for the Joining.”

“I was wondering from your accent before.” He nodded amicably and turned to the woman, who glowered silently from under her knit cap. She kept her hands shoved firmly under her armpits. Dalgar’s arm fell back to his side.

Conrad’s mouse brown hair was plastered to his forehead from the rain and he pulled his heavy cloak around him tighter for better protection from the cold. It was slightly too long for him and had trailed a little in the mud. He’d left his pack sitting in the mud, too, Dalgar couldn’t help but notice.

“Do you have everything?” he asked. “Best to make sure you’ve got everything and your gear fits well.” Conrad shrugged.

“Thanks, I’ve probably looked everything over a hundred times already. Don’t think I could stomach the hundred-and-first. Anyway. You a Kassel elf? You sound it.”

“More or less,” Dalgar replied. If you counted the Warden fort, he added mentally. “Been here since I was about yea high.” He held his hand just above navel height, then tugged his wool cap down tighter over his short, black hair and adjusted his hood to better insulate his ears. Didn’t want to get bitten by the early Anders winter.

The woman was almost unnaturally still, but her breath still came in clouds before her face, so she hadn’t frozen to death on her feet, at least. Dalgar stomped his feet in the muddy slush and wondered if Dunhammer had been telling him stories again, or if he’d actually seen that happen. The state of her boots was concerning, he observed. He made a mental note to check that she had good socks on underneath. Dalgar had a couple spare pairs in the pack leaning against the wall nearby.

“Not your size, kid—you can stop eyeing them,” she croaked.

Conrad practically jumped out of his skin and Dalgar choked out a laugh around his surprise. “Yeah, I’ve got feet like shovels. No way those’d fit.”

She graced him with a grim little smirk, bringing out the fine lines around her eyes and mouth.

-

Writing today has been like pulling teeth!!

[thessalian]

Thess vs Companion Approval

Okay ... so ... turns out I was kind of right awhile back when I said, somewhat sarcastically, that it sounded like the Veilguard companions would be less helpful to you in combat if you didn't keep their approval high.

Look, I understand that this sort of worked in DA2. But that was relatively minor. You got a little perk once your friendship or rivalry with someone was high enough. That was nice.

However, if you were Rivalmancing Anders ... he did not refuse to heal you. Which is apparently the case with Veilguard companions - or Neve, anyway. From what I remember about the article, if your companions don't like you, they may do somewhat more damage to enemies, but they will not be as helpful to you and some abilities are locked off.

I mean, I'm the sort of person who wants companions' approval to be as high as possible anyway. But doesn't that feel ... I dunno, restrictive to RP? Like, I could Rivalmance Fenris all day long and see his character progression with a different viewpoint being expressed at him basically all the time, but that RP choice wouldn't lose me access to any of his Lyrium Ghost abilities. I could rivalmance Anders - same deal - and still count on him to heal me if I set up tactics right. But now I'm seeing at least a part of why we basically aren't allowed to set up tactics at all - because there's no guarantee that the ability we want a companion to use will be available because we might piss off that companion.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's better for RP that your companions won't be as helpful to you if they don't like you. But given that it's game over if you die? That seems short-sighted. I much prefer the option of them leaving if they don't like what's going on. Maybe plot doesn't allow for that either, but if I hated someone enough not to fling a bit of healing magic at them in a heated situation, I would rather not be in their immediate vicinity - and likewise if it was advantageous to have that person I dislike around, I would at the very minimum attempt to keep them alive.

I dunno. The more I hear about Veilguard, the more I'm concerned about it. I thought I might be getting it just to Let's Play run it to demonstrate how accessible the accessibility options really make it, but ... I am becoming less than enthused.

On the subject of games I'm Let's Play-ing, I'm making my way so slowly through Silent Hill 2, but I do have vid of my playing the first hour or so of it. I just haven't thrown it on YouTube yet because ... well. Imposter syndrome, mostly. My not being great at the game is kind of the point, but ... well, I am a potato. Also I admit I have been stalling a little because the spoiler-free blurbs I keep hearing are all about "Death a serious possibility even on standard difficulty" and I don't know how "light combat" difficulty goes with that but there have been a couple of encounters that have not been fun for me. Then again, at least one of those was a severely bad pain day. And honestly, however terrifying it is, it's kind of worth it. Terrifying though it be, and stalling as I might be, I am loving the game.

I have a lot of considerations about whether a game is worth it. Because there's a lot of "it" to consider when dealing with a game's worth. There's the price point, with money being so scarce. Am I getting value for that money? Can I actually play it? Will I enjoy playing it? How badly will it frustrate me on all the levels a game can? Those considerations are all weighed on scales already tilted by fibromyalgia, so I can probably come across as picky, but it is in self-preservation. I want to want Veilguard, but it's been raising concerns for me personally since the beginning.

Right. Coffee. I deserve more coffee.

[lenniharrisonsims]

Five Year Anniversary Portraits!

Hazel Hills, Newcrest

Her Royal Highness, Princess Francesca Colona

Full Name: Francesca Katerina Colona

Title(s): Princess of Newcrest, Duchess of Hazel Hills

Nickname(s): Fran

Birthday: April 27th

Residence(s): Hazel House (Newcrest)

Previous Names/Titles: N/A

Parents: TM King Cesare & Queen Misha Colona

Spouse: Her Grace, Duchess Olive Colona of Hazel Hills

Children: Lady Contessina, Rt. Hon. Miss Astrid, Rt. Hon. Master Anders Colona

Her Grace, Olive Colona, Duchess of Hazel Hills

Full Name: Olive Christina Colona

Title(s): Duchess of Hazel Hills

Nickname(s): Livie, Liv

Birthday: September 15th

Residence(s): Hazel House (Newcrest)

Previous Names/Titles: Miss Olive Tinker

Parents: Mrs. Yasemin & Mrs. Tina Tinker

Spouse: HRH Princess Francesca Colona, Duchess of Hazel Hills

Children: Lady Contessina, Rt. Hon. Miss Astrid, and Rt. Hon. Master Anders Colona

Her Ladyship, Lady Contessina Colona

Full Name: Contessina Olivia Colona

Title(s): Lady of Newcrest

Nickname(s): Tina

Birthday: October 6th

Residence(s): Hazel House (Newcrest)

Previous Names/Titles: N/A

Parents: HRH Princess Francesca & Her Grace, Duchess Olive Colona of Hazel Hills

Spouse: N/A

Children: N/A

The Right Honorable Miss Astrid Colona

Full Name: Astrid Francesca Colona

Title(s): The Right Honorable of Hazel Hills

Nickname(s): N/A

Birthday: December 2nd

Adoption Day: December 8th

Residence(s): Hazel House (Newcrest)

Previous Names/Titles: N/A

Parents: HRH Princess Francesca & Her Grace, Duchess Olive Colona of Hazel Hills

Spouse: N/A

Children: N/A

The Right Honorable Master Anders Colona

Full Name: Anders Alfonso Colona

Title(s): The Right Honorable of Hazel Hills

Nickname(s): N/A

Birthday: December 2nd

Adoption Day: December 8th

Residence(s): Hazel House (Newcrest)

Previous Names/Titles: N/A

Parents: HRH Princess Francesca & Her Grace, Duchess Olive Colona of Hazel Hills

Spouse: N/A

Children: N/A

[my-random-ocs]

Teen Wolf OCs

A-E | F-M | N-Z

Name: Aaron Horowitz

Story: Blackbird Fly

Faceclaim: Noah Centineo

Species: Human

Love Interest: Lydia Martin

Summary:

Name: Adelina 'Addy' Delgado

Story: Beautiful Wreckage

Faceclaim: Cierra Ramirez

Species: Human

Love Interest: Stiles Stilinski

Summary: Addy Delgado and Scott McCall were closer than most twins, despite Addy taking their mother’s maiden name after her parents’ divorce. After what happened at her father’s apartment that night in first grade, she wanted nothing to do with her father. Their relationship didn’t change when they went to high school, staying best friends despite her rising popularity and his lack thereof. And if Scott was getting dragged out in the middle of the night to find a dead body, then Addy was going, too, if only to make sure they all survived the ordeal. She never guessed that night would change their lives, but it did. And if Scott was going to be battling an alpha werewolf and werewolf hunters, then Addy was going to be right there by his side.

Name: Adina Reyes

Story: The Year of Your Wolf

Faceclaim: Liana Liberato

Species: Human

Love Interest: Liam Dunbar

Summary:

Name: Adva Harel

Story: Queen of Death

Faceclaim: Rachel Keller

Species: Human turned chimera

Summary:

Name: Anastasie ‘Annie’ Guillaume

Story: Inheritance

Faceclaim: Jenna Louise Coleman

Species: REDACTED-hunter

Summary: When the first Anastasie Guillaume saw her mother killed by a werewolf, she decided to teach her daughters to fight. Then their daughters taught their daughters, then their daughters, and thus became family tradition – the means to fight werewolves passed down to each girl until it hit Annie. Marrying into a hunter family wasn’t easy, and Lisa didn’t want to raise her daughter in the supernatural. So, Annie grew up blissfully ignorant, which was a feat in itself in Beacon Hills. Until she saw her mother be killed by a werewolf, and her father told her about everything that goes bump in the night. She spent her days learning how to fire an arrow, and a bullet, and throw a punch – how to take on an alpha werewolf. Then Scott McCall gets bitten by a werewolf, and everything goes to shit.

Name: Anders Kenner

Story: Free Falling

Faceclaim: Gaten Matarazzo

Species: REDACTED

Summary:

Name: Andromache ‘Andra’ Vitalis

Story: No Fear

Faceclaim: India Eisley

Species: Amazon

Summary:

Name: Arduinna 'Ari' Gajos

Story: Intertwined

Faceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld

Species: Druid

Love Interest: Scott McCall

Summary:

Name: REDACTED | Ara Edwards

Story: On the Angel

Faceclaim: Lily Collins

Species: REDACTED

Summary:

Name: Audra Mills

Story: Golden Moon

Faceclaim: China Anne McClain

Species: REDACTED

Summary:

Name: Avery Krasikeva

Story: You Will Be Found

Faceclaim: Zoey Deutch

Species: Human

Love Interest: Stiles Stilinski

Summary: The Krasikeva family has never had the best luck. After her sister’s mysterious death, Avery’s life went downhill. But when she gets locked inside her school with a group of classmates and a psycho killer, Avery knows that life isn’t all it seems. Especially when Paige’s old boyfriend is suspected of murder.

Name: Blaze Matthews

Story: Supernova

Faceclaim: Gregg Sulkin

Species: Human

Love Interest: Lydia Martin

Summary: “Where you go, I go.” That has been the Matthews twins’ motto ever since they were little. They held onto it through the years, through every bully, every school, and every hit from their father. They held onto it when they moved to Beacon Hills with their mother, but between new friends, keeping secrets from those friends, and werewolves, staying together is looking to be harder than ever for the Matthews twins.

Name: Carys Geyer

Story: Love and War

Faceclaim: Vanessa Morgan

Species: Norse demigoddess

Love Interest: Brett Talbot

Summary:

Name: Chandler René

Story: Rise from the Ashes

Faceclaim: Ellie Bamber

Species: Phoenix

Love Interest: Scott McCall

Summary: Chandler didn’t mind moving to Beacon Hills, but she would have liked to have been given a choice. Waking up in a hospital, being told that her mother had been declared unfit, and then being driven by her new case worker to the small town wasn’t the best summer of her life. But she adapted- she always adapted. She spent the summer shopping with her cousin Lydia, getting to know her aunt Natalie, who was somehow over-bearing and distant at the same time, and preparing for junior year. Oh, and learning werewolves were real. Yeah, Chandler wasn’t expecting that in Beacon Hills. But meeting Scott McCall changed everything Chandler thought about the world.

Name: Charlotte Charlie Cooper

Story: Piece By Piece

Faceclaim: Madelyn Cline

Species: Mermaid

Love Interest: Scott McCall

Summary: Charlie Cooper grew up in Beacon Hills, best friends with Scott and Stiles ever since the first day of sixth grade. She thought that while she had a slightly more eccentric life than most, she was still normal, or her version of normal, anymore. But her definition of normal goes down the drain when she goes to find a dead body with her best friends, and Scott McCall suddenly doesn’t have asthma anymore.

Name: Charlotte Cooper

Story: Piece By Piece

Faceclaim: Lauren German

Species: Human

Love Interest: Noah Stilinski

Summary:

Name: Clarissa 'Clary' Nelson

Story: Divine Fire

Faceclaim: Natalie Alyn Lind

Species: REDACTED

Love Interest: Stiles Stilinski

Summary:

Name: Colin Michaels

Story: Dissonance

Faceclaim: Elliot Fletcher

Species: Greek demigod

Love Interest: Malia Tate

Summary:

*Percy Jackson crossover

Name: Desirado ‘Des’ Ferrer

Story: Ferrous

Faceclaim: Rachel Zegler

Species: Human turned werewolf

Summary:

Name: Diego Lovato

Story: This Be the Verse

Faceclaim: Alberto Rosende

Species: Born werewolf

Love Interest: Allison Argent

Summary:

Name: Ekko Holt

Story: The Sound of Thunder

Faceclaim: Devery Jacobs

Species: Thunderbird

Summary:

Name: Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Arquette

Story: Red Riding Hood

Faceclaim: Dove Cameron

Species: Hunter turned werewolf

Love Interest: Scott McCall

Summary:

Name: Ember Drakos

Story: Aflame

Faceclaim: Anya Taylor-Joy

Species: Dragon

Love Interest: Stiles Stilinski

Summary:

Name: Emilia Bianchi

Story: Genesis

Faceclaim: Millie Gibson

Species: Fury

Love Interest: Stiles Stilinski

Summary:

[blackjackkent]

OK. So I think Rakha's finished with everything in the mountain pass area, having shattered Lae'zel's faith, obliterated a priceless piece of Lathandran architecture, made an enemy of the entire gith race, inadvertently set Gale on a suicide mission, and adopted an owlbear.

The really funny thing is that almost none of this chaos can be blamed particularly on her murder urge brain. (Except the monastery I guess.)

The overall plan is to head for the Underdark next but we do have some things to clean up in the initial map first - particularly killing the Paladins of Tyr for Karlach. This has been high on Rakha's to-do list right from the moment she heard about it, because Karlach said, "hey, want to kill some people for me?" and Rakha was like "Boy, do I!" (Except she's Rakha so she just said "Yes" in a grumbly sort of way.)

So we'll do that first!

Karlach and Lae'zel have a banter as we make our way up the hill covered in dead gnolls, towards the building that the Paladins are using for their headquarters:

This banter definitely carries a different ring when they're traveling with Rakha. Both of them are definitely commenting on this while side-eyeing Rakha and trying to gauge if she's about to go off the deep end because of the blood smell.

She isn't, but she definitely does smell it and it's definitely got the beast urge in her head keyed up. For the moment, though, she's satisfied with the anticipation of killing these people who have been chasing Karlach.

I seem to recall that with Hector, I did a weird sneaky thing coming in from a top floor window of this building. Rakha, however, stalks right in through the front door like she owns the place. Immediately, they're greeted by a man in chainmail bearing a greatsword and a haggard expression:

"Please - no more!" he cries, his eyes widening dramatically as he looks past Rakha to Karlach standing behind her. "Leave us in peace and we shall leave you in kind!"

Karlach rolls her eyes. "Cut the crap, Anders," she snaps disdainfully. "I know what you are."

The man swallows nervously. "Don't let her hurt us. Please - we just want to go home!"

Rakha is already halfway to bursting out in violence and was before she came in the door. It's only Wyll's presence at her elbow that makes her take even a moment to consider the possibility of these people's innocence.

[INSIGHT] Assess his posture, his eyes. Is he telling the truth?

Narrator: There's something in the squint of his eye. You suspect he's lying.

"Enough of this charade," she says flatly. With a smooth motion she pulls both quarterstaves from her back. "I know who you really are."

The man flinches, his eyes narrowing. Then he smirks disdainfully. "Enough. Enough - I'll not play pretend anymore. Karlach... you're going home in pieces if needs must. And you--" He flicks his eyes to Rakha, looking her over, then spits on the ground at her feet. "You'll soon learn what it means to ally yourself with the likes of this garbage."

Rakha's jaw sets and the beast flares eagerly in her head. Kill. Make him pay. He would tear us apart. Show him pain. Show him death.

And it is not just the beast, either. As when Mizora invaded their camp - this is her own anger as well, roused on Karlach's behalf. Karlach is one of them, one of the only people Rakha has reason to know or trust. This man threatens her. And Rakha, not just the beast urge within her, wants him dead.

She feels the temperature around her spike up a few degrees. Karlach has stepped forward next to her, and the low hum of her engine heart has escalated to an unsettling, angry whir. Her eyes are narrowed in a mixture of rage and fear that Rakha has never seen in her expression before.

"Avernus was never my home," she snarls. "It was my prison. I'm free now."

Anders takes a step back and his cocky confidence flickers; a burst of flame surges up around Karlach's entire body as she screams into his face. "AND I'M NEVER GOING BACK!"

[petrichor-idyllic]

So, y'all seemed to like my last TMR OC/idea prompt list thing, so I thought I'd do another one.

But actually focus on OC ideas this time.

Okay, so here are some cool OC ideas because there's actually a lot you can do with this universe, but everyone does the same shit.

And I am here to provide:

A transfer character. Can be used for either the books or the movies, but an OC that starts off in one Maze and then gets moved to another with no warning could be an interesting concept. WICKED has made giant simulation Mazes, monsters, flesh eating floating metal balls and teleportation windows- I don't think it's that far-fetched that they could scoop a kid from one Maze and throw them in another.

So, Thomas and Teresa obviously built the Maze, so prodigy characters are a staple of the series. I think an OC that has a lot of knowledge about anatomy and biology, who could work as a Med-jack or a Slicer, who actually designed and made the Grievers, and obviously doesn't remember it, could be a interesting concept.

More male OCs pls. I love seeing these ladies, don't get me wrong because it makes things more interesting. But I think fanfiction can just be for fun and I love seeing some casual normal guy OCs kicking it around the Glade. (Saying this as someone who has male and female characters for this universe.)

I'd also love to see a trans character.

An OC that snuck into the Maze could also be fun. I feel like I need to explain this one more. Picture this: your character is like Teresa and Thomas and has enough of watching their friends be tortured and killed, so they set themself up to go into the Maze early. So they rock up early, like in the middle of two Greenie days and it freaks everyone out. (This could also be an easy way to make it make more sense for fem! OCs to end up in the Glade.)

OC with a cyborg limp of some kind. WICKED could make it happen, don't tell me they wouldn't.

Also, lemme give some names 'cause there was a phase a while back where OCs had the most random names and people completely ignored the fact that all the characters in the Mazes are named after famous people.

(I have used some of these names for my own characters, but I will not be revealing the name of my main OC because she is too precious to me and I am protective over her name. I may one day post about her if people are interested.)

MASCULINE

Otto - Otto Hahn: A German nuclear chemist who is often referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and nuclear fission.

Leo - Leonardo da Vinci: This one is obvious but just in case you don't know; a famous polymath of the High Renaissance who had several talents, including painting, engineering, science and sculpting.

Dalton - John Dalton: An English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry and researched into colour blindness (also known as Daltonism in many languages).

Al/Alan - Alan Turing: Cryptanalyst famous for his work during the Second World War.

Micky- Michael Faraday: A philosopher who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

GENDER-NEUTRAL

Clerk - James Clerk Maxwell: Scottish mathematician responsible for the theory of electromagnetic radiation.

Coper - Nicolaus Copernicus: A Renaissance polymath who formulated the model of the universe with the Sun in the middle.

Andy - Anders Celsius: A Swedish astronomer who invented the Celsius temperature scale.

Mo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Famous composer.

Hol - Andy Warhol: Famous artist.

FEMININE

Mea/Marie - Marie Salomea Curie: A pioneer of radioactivity.

Barb - Barbara McClintock: A famous cytogeneticist.

Emmy - Emmeline Pankhurst: A suffragette and women's rights activist.

Octavia - Octavia Hill: An artist and radical who pioneered affordable housing and can be considered the founder of the modern social network.

Lia - Amelia Earhart: The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Yeah, okay, there ya go, hope some of y'all find this useful, or maybe even interesting lmao.

[intonightcity]

total: 61 | female: 32 | male: 27 | tbd: 2 | private: 4 ( list under the cut )

Stephanie Acker. 24. homosexual not yet out. mikey madison fc. Make Up Specialist. Cosmetology assistant. Affiliate of Boutique Fresh Products. best friend of Angelica Ramirez ( @itsagraywcrld )

Veronica Allen. 33. bisexual. teyonah parris fc. Model. Glam Shell Modelling Agency. ex of Landon Wynter in Hollywood verse.

Veer Alvi. 31. bisexual. dev patel fc. Nightly News Network CEO. Media Millionaire.

Theo Anton. 50. heterosexual. andrew lincoln fc. Grace's Auction Authority President. Authenticator. uncle of Landon Wynter

Daniel Baker. 32. homosexual. david anders fc. Adult Star For Starduxxxe Studios: face of horror themed adult fare

Dawn Black. 29. homosexual. kristen stewart fc. Former Model. Adult Star for Starduxxxe Studios: where stylized adult entertainment brings more bang for the buck. Ex of Esmeralda Domingo.

Kurt Burrows. 33. bisexual. andrew west fc. Historian & Genealogist for NCHS (Night City Historical Society). half brother of Landon Wynter unknown at this time

Claudia Chen. 32. heterosexual. gemma chan fc. Actress. NYU Film friend of Landon Wynter in Hollywood verse.

Lavinia Cortez. 27. bisexual. sofia carson fc. Horror Host. Producer for Toxic Talk on the Frightful Follies Network.

Duncan 'The Scots Terror' Cloud. 45. tom hardy fc. Underground Fighter. Warrior Octagon.

Lucian Craven. 34. heterosexual. abel tesfaye fc. Owner of Diamond Casino. Severin Founder.

Lee Alonto Danger. 32. bisexual. manny jacinto fc. Adult Star for Starduxxxe Studios: the male face of the company

Esmeralda Domingo. 33. bisexual. shay mitchell fc. Executive & Acolyte. Diamond Casino. Severin. girlfriend of Landon Wynter (only in a default verse where he or she has no ship present).

Emeline Entwistle. 31. heterosexual. blake lively fc. Actress. canon ex of Landon Wynter

Tobias Fairchild. 38. bisexual. ed speleers fc. Producer. Head of Majestic Studios. Rival of Landon Wynter & Cosmic Vault Productions.

Holland Frost. 46. bisexual w/female pref. sarah paulson fc. Doctor of Technical Sciences & Gene Theory. Frost Synthetics. Outer District.

Jaime Garza. 35. bisexual. peter gadiot. Bar Owner. Neptune's Folly. Formerly Associated with Alejandro Silva's organization. selective muse

Munro Gordon. 38. bisexual. matt smith fc. Defense Attorney. Night City DA candidate. private muse ( @txnnesseehoney )

Natalie Hill. 31. bisexual. zoe kravitz fc. Tabloid Queen. Media brand Lipstick Gossip: where sex sells, lies are truth & celebrities get trashed. Former best friend of Jade Winthrope.

Susan Horowitz. 31. heterosexual. carlson young fc. Golden Girl of wealth. Owner of Ruby Casino. Rival to Lucian Craven. Obsessed w/ Landon Wynter since high school.

Jackson Hunter. 37. heterosexual. andrew garfield fc. Night City PD. Dabbler in Cat's Eye deals. PD partner of Dal Kang.

Charlene Jones. 44. bisexual. zoe saldana fc. Former Adult Star. Current Executive Producer at Starduxxxe Studios.

Dal Kang. 40. bicurious. gong yoo fc. Night City PD. Head of Corruption Crackdown Unit. PD partner of Jackson Hunter.

Alara Kaya. 28. bisexual. hande ercel fc. Dancer. The Pink Room: Erotic Dance Club. private muse ( @txnnesseehoney )

Ophelia Keal. 26. heterosexual. tilly keeper fc. Aspiring Actress. Socialite. friend of Frankie Hughes ( @stvrlyte )

Mark Lansing. 31. heterosexual. chace crawford fc. News Anchor for Nightly News Network. Film Agent (Hollwood verse only).

Camilla Luna. 28. lindsey morgan fc. Oceanographer. Ocean Ways Institute. fiancee of Lance Wynter in twin au. request muse ( all interactions take place prior to her accidental drowning )

Crystal Maddox. 25. bicurious. grace van patten fc. Venus Escort. Cousin of Jade Winthrope.

Gloria Mancini. 30. heterosexual. dakota johnson fc. Media Guru. Assistant Executive for Lipstick Gossip.

Cristobal Mardones. 48. heterosexual. pedro pascal fc. Gold & Gloss Loan CEO. selective muse

Natalya 'Talya' Mardones. 52. bisexual. salma hayek fc. Fashion Consultant & Design. Wife of Cristobal Mardones

Trent Miller. 43. heterosexual. anthony mackie fc. Glam Shell Modelling Agency CEO.

Talia Morgan. 40. bisexual. michelle rodriquez fc. Underground Fighter. Warrior Octagon.

Nadine Moore. 42. bisexual. freema agyeman fc. Doctor of Pathology. Dawn's Light Hospital.

Tabitha Nunes. 27. daniela nieves fc. Gold & Gloss Loan. Former Friend & Rival of Angelica Ramirez ( @itsagraywcrld )

Bijou Otieno. 36. lupita nyong'o fc. bisexual. Cat's Eye Black Market Madame. Voodoo Matron.

Karla Patterson. 52. bisexual. hallee berry fc. Madame of Venus. Sophisticated Escort Services. on again/off again with Ethan Wynter.

Selene Patterson. 27. heterosexual. tati gabrielle fc. NCHS (Night City Historical Society) Historian. best friend of Camilla Luna.

Miguel Perez. 26. bisexual. aron piper fc. Muertos Gang Leader. Enemy of Angelica Ramirez ( @itsagraywcrld )

Cassandra Porter. 36. bisexual. zazie beetz fc. Boutique Fresh Cosmetics. Youtube Beauty Guru. Infleuncer.

Angelo 'Bonecrusher' Reyes. 50. dave bautista fc. Warrior Octagon. Undefeated Underground Fighter.

Miranda Royce. 29. bisexual. nicola peltz fc. Fashion Designer. Glam Shell. Daughter of Holland Frost.

Elyse Saetan. 32. bisexual. prang kannarun fc. Owner of Fusion Implosion & Chef.

Yuri Sage. 25. bicurious. jennie kim fc. Escort for Venus.

Marigold Sinclaire. 34. bicurious. amanda seyfried fc. Failed Starlet. Telemarketer.

Alejandro Silva. 40. bicurious. diego luna fc. Owner of The Coast Car Dealership. Car Meet Street Racing Promoter. family friend of the Mendoza's ( @ixonmaiden @deathlycombinations )

Giselle Steele. 30. bisexual. ana de armas fc. Model. Glam Shell Modelling Agency. wife of Alejandro Silva (verse&plot dependant)

Calvin Sterling. 42. heterosexual. ben mckenzie fc. Cat's Eye Black Market. Bijou Otieno's Hired Gun.

Feng Tao. 59. homosexual. tony leung fc. Owner of The Pink Room: Erotic Dance Club. Head of the Viper Syndicate.

Yue Tao. 34. bisexual. meng'er zhang fc. Manager of The Pink Room: Erotic Dance Club. Daughter of Feng Tao.

Derek Thorton. 33. heterosexual. dylan o'brien fc. Cat's Eye Black Market. Illicit Trades In Protection & Killer services. private muse ( @txnnesseehoney )

Maya Tran. 40. bisexual. maggie q fc. Cosmic Vault Productions Affiliate. Celebrity assistant & publicist. Assistant to Landon Wynter in Hollywood verse.

Archibald Tumblety. 54. bisexual. daniel craig fc. Producer. Starduxxxe Studios Owner.

Vivienne Wilcox Violet. 26. heterosexual. zaria simone fc. Adult Star for Starduxxxe Studios: female face of the company.

Jade Winthrope. 30. heterosexual. shailene woodley fc. Night City PD Forensic Analyst.

Marius Wright. 48. heterosexual. omari hardwick fc. Former Underground Fighter. Owner of Warrior Octagon.

Aiden Wynter. 22. heterosexual. felix mallard fc. Photography Major. Son of Landon Wynter & Eloise Gray. exclusive muse ( @itsagraywcrld )

Benjamin Wynter. 21. homosexual. christopher briny fc. Street Artist. Son of Landon Wynter & Eloise Gray. exclusive muse ( @itsagraywcrld )

Ethan Wynter. 54. heterosexual. keanu reeves fc. Hitman. Business Partner of The Pink Room: Erotic Dance Club. Adopted brother of Julian Wynter. Uncle of Landon Wynter.

Florence Anton Wynter. 56. bisexual. michelle gomez fc. Author. Freelance Web Writer. Mother of Landon Wynter.

Julian Wynter. 58. heterosexual. greg kinnear fc. Executive Producer. Majestic Studios. Father of Landon Wynter.

exclusive muses ::: created solely for extended family or connections in specific ship verses private muses ::: reserved for plots, connections, ships with a specific mun only selective muses ::: highly selective in who they will interact against face claims ::: I do not adhere to banned lists for starter calls posted on this blog. So pls specify to avoid using a muse with a face that is on your banned as I will not use alts. DNI ::: Young child muses. Personal blogs. Non mutuals.

[ourblued]

welcome to ourblued ; a semi selective multimuse roleplay blog for both canon & original characters from various mixed media ! please read the rules to this blog before interacting ! promo template goes to @jessource. ( written by neptune, 21+, she/her, pst. )

RULES + OLDER MUSES. MEMES. BANNED.

with close affiliations , @naitfall / @knightinsourarmor - @whispcrcr - , could be you as well !

NEWER MUSES.

collette mendoza , played by genesis rodriguez . 36 , tour guide at a museum . bisexual , open & active .

valeria cardoza , played by karla souza . 36 , principal at a middle school . pansexual , open & semi active .

callisto holmes , played by brigette lundy paine . 26-29 , scavenger , avid believer in the rebellion , amateur pilot . pansexual , open & active , they / them pronouns .

hange zoe , animated . 29-31 , 14th commander of the survey corps , titan extraordinaire . heterosexual , open & active , they / them pronouns .

mei mei , animated . 33 , jujutsu sorcerer . open & active .

mindy meeks martin , played by jasmin savoy brown . 19-20 , former student at woodsboro high , college student at blackmore university , 1/3 of the ghostface killers . lesbian , open & active .

ethan landry , played by jack champion . 19-20 , student at blackmore university , 2/3 of the ghostface killers . bisexual with male lean , open & active .

petra ral , animated . 22 , hand picked soldier of the survey corps by levi ackerman himself , placed in the special operations squad . bisexual , open & active .

craig tucker , played by tanner buchanan . 18-21 , college student at park county community college , member of the boys only club . homosexual , open & active .

stan marsh , played by cameron cuffe . 20-22 , college student at park county community college , member of the south park boys only club . bisexual , open & active .

anika kayoko , played by devyn nakoda . 21 , student at blackmore university , 3/3 of the ghostface killers . lesbian , open & active .

barry berkman , played by bill hader . 44 , former marine turned hitman , amateur actor . bisexual , open & active .

billie callahan , played by brigette lundy paine . 28 , former assistant to roman godfrey , assistant to roman roy at waystar royco . pansexual , open & active , they / them pronouns .

marlene alraune , played by annie murphy . 34 , former museum employee , corporate executive , former social worker , former secretary , archaeologist , former student , wife . heterosexual , open & active .

maria hill , played by cobie smulders . 44 , former deputy director of shield , former commander of shield . pansexual , open & active .

dana d'angelo , played by emilija baranac . 28 , assistant in new market agro department in synthia east . heterosexual , open & active .

sydney adamu , played by ayo edebiri . 27 , sous chef of the bear . formerly owned a catering business called sheridan . pansexual , open & active .

tiffany jerimovich , played by gillian jacobs . 40 , ex-wife of richie jerimovich , mother to eva . heterosexual , open & active .

shiu kong , animated . late 30's - early 40's , a handler for curse users . close partner of toji fushiguro . bisexual , open & active .

anitta jo , aimee lou wood . 28 , former receptionist at a law firm , current bartender . pansexual , open & active .

marguerite blanchet , mimi keene . 25 , professor’s assistant . pansexual , open & active .

celestina anders , chloe cherry . 26 , self employed . pansexual , open & active .

himeno , animated . early to mid 20's , public safety devil hunter . bisexual , open & testing .

jeremiah adelman , milo manheim . 23 , college student majoring in film studies . pansexual , open & active .

floribeth bautista , chie filomeno . 27 , social media influencer . bisexual , open & active .

[goldenwanderer]

books i read in 2024

Okay so last year I made a post where I was like, wow, I only read 12 books in 2022, but in 2023 I managed to read 30, isn't that impressive...

So, um, this year I hit 75 by the end of June.

Quite a bit of reading got done during a slow period at work in January. Then the autism/adhd found the challenges on Storygraph and got a bit hyperfixated - my two biggest months were May and June, with 15 and 20 books respectively.

Things slowed way down after October, since I've mostly been reading Agatha All Along fanfiction, which sadly doesn't count toward my total. I did manage to limp my way to a grand total of 125 by the end of December.

Re-reads

Fantasy

The Shadow Rising | Robert Jordan

Green Rider | Kristen Britain

Fire Logic | Laurie J. Marks

Of Fire and Stars | Audrey Coulthurst

The Fires of Heaven | Robert Jordan

Lord of Chaos | Robert Jordan

First Rider's Call | Kristen Britain

The Lost Metal | Brandon Sanderson

A Crown of Swords | Robert Jordan

Bringer of Storms | L.B. Graham

Rhythm of War | Brandon Sanderson

The Path of Daggers | Robert Jordan

The High King's Tomb | Kristen Britain

Other

Cytonic | Brandon Sanderson

Carmilla | J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Like Me | Chely Wright

Snow Falls | Gerri Hill

New reads

Fantasy

The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin

The Winds of Khalakovo | Bradley P. Beaulieu

Earth Logic | Laurie J. Marks

Locklands | Robert Jackson Bennett

Ashes of the Sun | Django Wexler

Water Logic | Laurie J. Marks

The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri

Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse

The Obelisk Gate | N.K. Jemisin

The Daughters of Izdihar | Hadeer Elsbai

Of Ice and Shadows | Audrey Coulthurst

Among Thieves | M.J. Kuhn

The Never Tilting World | Rin Chupeco

We Hunt the Flame | Hafsah Faizal

Blood of the Chosen | Django Wexler

Shades in Shaow | N.K. Jemisin

The Stone Sky | N.K. Jemisin

Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree

The Bone Way | Holly J. Underhill

A Day of Fallen Night | Samantha Shannon

The Unbalancing | R.B. Lemberg

Awakenings | Claudie Arseneault

The Deep | Rivers Solomon, et al.

The Ones We Burn | Rebecca Mix

In the Vanishers' Palace | Aliette de Bodard

The Oleander Sword | Tasha Suri

Fevered Star | Rebecca Roanhorse

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain | Nghi Vo

Emperor of Ruin | Django Wexler

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | N.K. Jemisin

Daughter of the Darkened City | Willow Quinn

The Tiger's Daughter | K Arsenault Rivera

A Tempest of Tea | Hafsah Faizal

The Unbroken | C.L. Clark

The Weavers of Alamaxa | Hadeer Elsbai

Bones to the Wind | Tatiana Obey

The Ever Cruel Kingdom | Rin Chupeco

Sea of Broken Glass | Jenna Pine

City of Strife | Claudie Areseneault

A Hundred Vicious Turns | Lee Paige O'Brien

Chosen. Again. | J. Emery

Queen of the Warrior Bees | Jean Gill

The Third Daughter | Adrienne Tooley

Unseelie | Ivelisse Housman

We Free the Stars | Hafsah Faizal

The Broken Kingdoms | N.K. Jemisin

The Thousand Eyes | A.K. Larkwood

Queen of Coin and Whispers | Helen Corcoran

Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk | Coyote J.M. Edwards

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter | Brandon Sanderson

Sci-Fi

Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir

These Burning Stars | Bethany Jacobs

The Abyss Surrounds Us | Emily Skrutskie

Defiant | Brandon Sanderson

This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

The Edge of the Abyss | Emily Skrutskie

The Sunlit Man | Brandon Sanderson

The Splinter in the Sky | Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Gearbreakers | Zoe Hana Mikuta

Elder Race | Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Mimicking of Known Successes | Malka Older

The Outside | Ada Hoffmann

Light From Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki

The Space Between Worlds | Micaiah Johnson

Synthetic Sea | Franklyn S. Newton

The City in the Middle of the Night | Charlie Jane Anders

City of Shattered Light | Claire Winn

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country | John Jackson Miller

The Fallen | Ada Hoffmann

The Infinite | Ada Hoffmann

Tarnished Are the Stars | Rosiee Thor

The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei

Starshot | A.R. Knight

The Stars Too Fondly | Emily Hamilton

The Hades Calculus | Maria Ying

No Dogs in Philly | Andy Futuro

Shards of Earth | Adrian Tchaikovsky

Historical/Historical Fantasy

The Bones of Ruin | Sarah Raughley

Even Though I Knew the End | C.L. Polk

Spear | Nicola Griffith

Wormwood Abbey | Christina Baehr

Wrath Goddess Sing | Maya Deane

The Best Bad Things | Katrina Carrasco

Contemporary/Literary

The Girls Are Good | Ilaria Bernardini

Late Bloomer | Mazey Eddings

Dear Wendy | Ann Zhao

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating | Adiba Jaigirdar

Your Driver is Waiting | Priya Guns

Second Chance | Chelsea M. Cameron

Only for the Summer | Shannon O'Connor

Kiss Her Once for Me | Alison Cochrun

Horror/Thriller

What Moves the Dead | T. Kingfisher

Chlorine | Jade Song

Middle-grade

The Dragonet Prophecy | Tui Sutherland

The Lost Heir | Tui Sutherland

The Hidden Kingdom | Tui Sutherland

Graphic Novels/Webcomics

Ring My Bell | Yeongol

The Tea Dragon Society | Katie O'Neill

i love this part | Tillie Walden

Nonfiction

Ace | Angela Chen

Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum | Sarah Hendrickx

Nonmonogamy and Neurodiversity | Alyssa Gonzalez

All About Demisexuality | Demisexuality.org

Neuroqueer Heresies | Nick Walker

What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic | Annie Kotowicz

Ace and Aro Journeys | The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project

Poetry

Mules of Love | Ellen Bass

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On | Franny Choi

[g0atmama]

Throwing what I think goes into guacamole at you for the ask game!

🍅🌶🧅🥑🌽

idk if this actually a recipe or what but good luck!

by the power of wheel since no one was specified... dragon age baby Mi’Elgara >:3 i also don't know if this is an actual recipe

🍅 [TOMATO] How misunderstood is your OC? In-universe or IRL.

She's a special needs elf rogue living in a city that's practically run by the Chantry and the Circle. Her boyfriend is a mage, the core of the rebellion. No one outside their circle really tries. Even those within the Chantry, other than Sebastian, don't really try. The Maker can help her with her focus issues and need to stim, if she would just ask him to. But no, she refuses to follow anything! She must not want to be helped. She must be begging for attention when she gets overwhelmed, it's her own fault if she doesn't seek out the Maker's blessings herself.

🌶️ [HOT PEPPER] Who would your OC declare their sworn enemy if they could meet them?

Trick question, she already sort of declared Meredith her enemy. Though depending on who becomes Divine in Inquisition... Divine Victoria might not be high on her list either.

🧅 [ONION] What is surefire to make your OC cry? Who knows of this information?

There's so many ways to make her cry. She's very emotional. Say something to her the wrong way and all her problems will circle in her head. She and Varric playing off each other talking about a certain story he's helping her with, she gets the sort of vindictive "this is awful it even makes me upset, this is great" crying. Hell, she sometimes even cries from just how much she loves Anders and Justice.

🥑 [AVACADO] What will they never back down about, even if it makes them seem bad?

its a avacado! thaaaanks

I mean mage freedom? That one's a little obvious though considering the company she keeps. One of her most insignificant hills is that a couple proposing at the same time is the cutest proposal ever. Especially! When it's unexpected. When the person recording it knows they both planned to propose. It's a pointless hill but she loves it so much.

🌽 [CORN] How good are they at hiding and finding their way?

Give her a little time to know the area, she can sneak the team through Castle Kirkwall's secret passages. She'll wander around and explore and find everything. She also is just. If she's not actively talking to someone (or herself), she's utterly silent when she walks. To the point where she can and has scared Justice just appearing behind Anders. Elf rogues man. They're so quiet.

[alfried]

Top Tips voor Investeren in Vastgoed in Dubai

Dubai, de parel van het Midden-Oosten, staat bekend om zijn luxueuze levensstijl, indrukwekkende architectuur en bloeiende vastgoedmarkt. Voor investeerders biedt vastgoed in Dubai een unieke kans om aanzienlijke rendementen te behalen. In dit artikel bespreken we de voordelen van Investeren vastgoed dubai, de huidige trends en bieden we nuttige tips om uw investeringsreis succesvol te maken.

Waarom Investeren in Vastgoed in Dubai?

1. Hoge Rendementen 

Een van de grootste voordelen van investeren in vastgoed in Dubai is het potentieel voor hoge rendementen. Door de constante economische groei en de toenemende vraag naar onroerend goed, kunnen investeerders genieten van aantrekkelijke huurrendementen en waardestijging van hun eigendommen.

2. Belastingvrije Inkomen 

Dubai biedt een belastingvrije omgeving, wat betekent dat investeerders geen belasting hoeven te betalen over hun huurinkomsten of vermogenswinsten. Dit maakt het een uiterst aantrekkelijke optie voor buitenlandse investeerders die hun winst willen maximaliseren.

3. Strategische Ligging 

Dubai is strategisch gelegen tussen Europa, Azië en Afrika, waardoor het een belangrijk knooppunt is voor internationale handel en toerisme. Deze gunstige locatie draagt bij aan de stabiliteit en groei van de vastgoedmarkt.

Trends in de Vastgoedmarkt van Dubai

1. Luxe Woningen 

De vraag naar luxe appartementen en villa's in Dubai blijft sterk. Gebieden zoals Palm Jumeirah, Downtown Dubai en Dubai Marina zijn bijzonder populair vanwege hun exclusieve voorzieningen en adembenemende uitzichten.

2. Groene Gemeenschappen 

Met een groeiende focus op duurzaamheid zien we een toename in de ontwikkeling van groene gemeenschappen. Projecten zoals Dubai Hills Estate en Arabian Ranches bieden milieuvriendelijke woningen met toegang tot parken, golfbanen en andere recreatieve voorzieningen.

3. Commercieel Vastgoed 

De groeiende economie van Dubai leidt tot een toenemende vraag naar kantoorruimtes en commercieel vastgoed. Gebieden zoals Business Bay en DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) zijn hotspots voor bedrijven en investeerders die op zoek zijn naar hoogwaardige commerciële eigendommen.

Stappen om Succesvol te Investeren

1. Doe Grondig Onderzoek

Voordat u investeert, is het essentieel om grondig onderzoek te doen naar de verschillende gebieden en soorten eigendommen in Dubai. Begrijp de markttrends, huurprijzen en toekomstige ontwikkelingen om een weloverwogen beslissing te nemen.

2. Werk Samen met Betrouwbare Makelaars

Een betrouwbare makelaar met diepgaande kennis van de Dubai vastgoedmarkt kan u helpen bij het vinden van de beste deals en het navigeren door het juridische proces. Websites zoals Vastgoed Dubai bieden waardevolle informatie en begeleiding voor investeerders.

3. Overweeg de Lange Termijn 

Hoewel de vastgoedmarkt van Dubai bekend staat om zijn snelle groei, is het belangrijk om een langetermijnvisie te hebben. Overweeg hoe uw investering zich in de loop van de tijd zal ontwikkelen en hoe het kan bijdragen aan uw financiële doelen.

4. Let op de Juridische Aspecten 

Zorg ervoor dat u volledig op de hoogte bent van de juridische vereisten en procedures voor het kopen van vastgoed in Dubai. Dit omvat zaken zoals eigendomsrechten, visumvereisten en belastingen. Een goede juridische adviseur kan u hierbij helpen.

Populaire Gebieden om te Investeren

1. Palm Jumeirah 

Bekend om zijn iconische palmvorm, biedt Palm Jumeirah luxe woningen met adembenemende uitzichten en exclusieve voorzieningen. Het is een favoriete keuze onder high-net-worth individuals en beroemdheden.

2. Downtown Dubai 

Thuisbasis van de beroemde Burj Khalifa en de Dubai Mall, is Downtown Dubai een bruisend gebied met een mix van residentiële en commerciële eigendommen. Het biedt een stedelijke levensstijl met gemakkelijke toegang tot entertainment en winkelmogelijkheden.

3. Dubai Marina 

Dubai Marina is een van de meest gewilde gebieden voor investeerders. Met zijn prachtige waterwegen, luxe appartementen en levendige sfeer, trekt het zowel expats als toeristen aan.

Veelgestelde Vragen over Investeren in Vastgoed in Dubai

1. Is het veilig om in vastgoed in Dubai te investeren?

Ja, de vastgoedmarkt van Dubai is goed gereguleerd met duidelijke wetten en voorschriften om de belangen van investeerders te beschermen.

2. Wat zijn de kosten verbonden aan het kopen van vastgoed in Dubai?

Naast de aankoopprijs kunnen er extra kosten zijn zoals registratiekosten, makelaarskosten en onderhoudskosten. Het is belangrijk om deze kosten in uw budget op te nemen.

3. Kan ik een hypotheek krijgen voor het kopen van vastgoed in Dubai?

Ja, zowel inwoners als niet-inwoners van Dubai kunnen hypotheken krijgen, hoewel de voorwaarden kunnen variëren. Het is raadzaam om met een hypotheekadviseur te spreken om uw opties te verkennen.

Conclusie

Investeren vastgoed dubai biedt een unieke kans om hoge rendementen te behalen in een dynamische en groeiende markt. Met zijn strategische ligging, belastingvrije voordelen en diverse vastgoedopties is Dubai een ideale bestemming voor zowel nieuwe als ervaren investeerders. Door grondig onderzoek te doen, samen te werken met betrouwbare professionals en een langetermijnvisie te hanteren, kunt u uw dromen van het kopen van vastgoed in Dubai realiseren.

Bezoek https://vastgoeddubai.nu/ voor meer informatie en om vandaag nog te beginnen met uw investeringsreis.

[criffyzou]

More random D&D transposition because overthinking things is my favorite hobby. All 3 of my Thedas girls conveniently fit into my fav d&d class, ranger.

Tini Brosca (legionnaire scout/assassin): Hill dwarf Monster Slayer Ranger I love tanky, warrior-like rogues; legionnaire scout is my fav for that reason. Monster slayer does not exactly scream tanky rogue, but it has the magic defense and wardenish vibes.

Emmanuelle Hawke (shadow/assassin): Human Gloom Stalker Ranger Hawke has the shadow spec because Isabela already had duelist; I usually don't like playing stealthy rogues. At least it gets her my favorite ranger subclass.

Sheana Lavellan (assassin): Wood elf Horizon Walker Ranger Sharing a specialization with companions was my least favorite part of DA:I, but assassin was alright. Horizon Walker has good Inquisitor vibes, with portals instead of rifts.

And now all companions with no explanation whatsoever:

Leliana (bard/shadow): Human College of Whispers Bard

Alistair (templar/guardian): Human Oath of the Watchers Paladin

Morrigan (shapeshifter/blood mage): Human Circle of the Spores Druid

Zevran (assassin/duelist): Wood elf Assassin Rogue

Sten (reaver): Goliath Path of the Zealot Barbarian

Wynne (spirit healer/arcane warrior): Human Divine Soul Sorcerer

Shale (no spec): Warforged Rune Knight Fighter

Oghren (berserker/champion): Hill dwarf Battle Master Fighter

Velanna (keeper/shapeshifter): Wood elf Circle of the Land Druid

Sigrun (legionnaire scout/shadow): Hill dwarf Phantom Rogue

Nathaniel (assassin/ranger): Human Hunter Ranger

Justice (spirit warrior/guardian): Scourge aasimar Oath of Vengeance Paladin

Anders (spirit healer/battlemage): Human Celestial Warlock

Fenris (spirit warrior): Drow Way of the Astral Self Monk

Isabela (duelist): Human Swashbuckler Rogue

Aveline (guardian): Human Oath of the Crown Paladin

Merrill (blood mage/keeper): Wood elf Archfey Warlock

Bethany (force mage): Human Graviturgy School Wizard

Sebastian (shadow?): Human War Domain Cleric

Varric (artificer): Hill dwarf College of Eloquence Bard

Dorian (necromancer): Human Necromancy School Wizard

Sera (tempest): Wood elf Swarmkeeper Ranger

Solas (force rift mage): High elf Aberrant Mind Sorcerer

Iron Bull (reaver): Goliath Path of the Berserker Barbarian

Vivienne (knight enchanter): Human War Magic Wizard

Cassandra (templar): Human Order Domain Cleric

Blackwall (champion): Human Banneret Fighter

Cole (assassin): Changeling Way of the Shadow Monk

Origins DLCs Bonus round !

Ariane (champion): Wood elf College of Valor Bard

Finn (spirit healer): Human Knowledge Domain Cleric

Jerrik (duelist/ranger): Hill dwarf Beast Master Ranger

Brogan (reaver/berserker): Hill dwarf Path of the Battlerager Barbarian

Rules were: max 3 characters of the same class (not counting my 3 ranger gals), every class has to be there at least once, and it has to be thematically coherent with my own lore builds. I didn't do multiclass as it is more fun to me to integrate the different themes of a build into one (1) subclass but, mechanically, some should put levels elsewhere. I will not be taking criticism at this time for my decision to make the reavers barbarians instead of the berserkers. I know I am right.

Now I know I said no explanation but I can't resist rambling about characters sharing a main spec in Dragon Age but not a D&D class:

Force mage: Bethany & Solas Rift mage is just reflavored force mage, but in Solas' case I wanted to imply that something sinister was afoot, even if some force mage essence was lost in the process. It does tie back to force mages using their mind as a weapon though.

Assassin rogue: Zevran, Nathaniel & Cole This one is very straightforward in the ways they differ: Zevran is the only trained assassin, Cole hides in the shadows, and Nathaniel is a darkspawn killer.

Spirit Healer mage: Wynne, Finn & Anders Despite Wynne technically being possessed, her spirit is not a presence she feels, more like an abstract protection; Finn is a book nerd; Anders is in a committed relationship.

Champion warrior: Blackwall & Ariane Champion is a team player spec and both fighter/bard subclasses match the support vibe, but Blackwall was trained to be in an army, and Ariane is recovering her people's history.

[cedarboughs]

The Californians

The posters had been up all over town and the hill for a month. The International Junior Freeriding Cup, presented by a major car brand. They would rip down the rails and groomed jumps of the terrain park underneath the Lynx Quad, and everyone would cheer. We were dreading it. A competition meant a flood of athletes descending on Raven River in a loose horde, high on glory and just plain high, and every modifier on the poster winnowed the athletes, already a particular breed, into a narrower clan. Junior: teenage athletes. International Junior: American teenage athletes. Given that so particular flood, then, maybe the conversation I had on Hemlock Street was inevitable. 

We were headed down Hemlock to the Trapper’s Cabin liquor store, three of us, lifties all, from the rental house. Antoine and Pierre had moved in there a few weeks ago, just after the start of the season, during the second hiring spree. Antoine, from Trois-Rivieres, was a huge birdwatcher, and had taught me how to identify waxwings by the way they flocked. I had taught him Ticket to Ride - the board game, not the Beatles song. Pierre, from Gatineau, had given me his password to an online indie short film festival out of Montreal. I had found his best golf disc when he lost it in the snow. 

It was a warm night for January. We were in little more than sweaters, and wide Hemlock was alive. There were no fences on the residential side of the street, and between houses you could see and smell fires cracking in backyards, joints being passed around them. Somewhere down a side street, a guitar was playing some cowboy chords. We were just passing the bottle depot when footsteps fell in behind us, crunching on the old snow of the sidewalk. 

“Where’s the party?” said a voice, male, barely broken, and with a faintly detectable American-style fry on the syllables. 

I was in a good mood, so I glanced back and said, “Right here, man! This sidewalk is the party!” 

I expected in response a half-ironic but genuinely enthused fist pump and a mumbled ‘Hell yeah,’ an acknowledgement of the simple joy of existing, of standing on the cusp of the night, the unknown and, for all we knew then, the endless night, like a fresh-powder chute hidden by cliffs, and we were standing at the drop-in, clicking poles, ignorant of what the line might hold but ready to drop all the same. 

But there was no fist pump, no feeling of the drop back there. Instead, I turned and started walking switch to look at round faces, unmasked, deadly serious, hanging over shelf-creased Arc'teryx jackets. The one who’d spoken, I think, had a green jacket and was a bit shorter. The other was in orange and a little lankier.   

“Are you guys going to a party?” Green asked flatly. 

Now, I did really think that the party was there on the sidewalk. Not to get too woo-woo about it, but on some level it’s true that a party is a state of mind. That said, we were also on our way to a real party, that is to say, a physical party, nothing wild, but a living room in another rental, some drinks, and a Bluetooth speaker. Whoever brought a speaker somewhere was always hailed as a hero. Tunes out loud always brought things up, but a speaker cost well over a day’s wages for a liftie, probably close to a week’s rent. I had looked at them a half-dozen times, but never yet brought myself to justify it. It was an expensive sacrifice to the altar of kicks. Kicks! Did anyone actually call a fun night out ‘kicks?’ anymore? Not likely, but I didn’t mind thinking it. Whenever I started thinking in Kerouacisms, I knew my energy was right for the night. It was Margot Frances and Jimmy Anders, who had lived in the basement of the rental house before Antoine and Pierre, who had left On the Road in the kitchen for me when they moved out, after all. I could do a lot worse than taking some of the slang from it and leaving the homophobic and misogynistic bits. I wonder vaguely if Margot and Jimmy would be at the other house tonight. I had heard they were back in town, after tree-planting somewhere in the Cariboo for the summer. I had cooked my best chickpea pasta for Jimmy and Margot and given them the recipe. Margot had taught me Norwegian Wood – The Beatles song, not the Murakami novel. I had given Jimmy the novel. 

So, yes, we were going to a party. But we’d already agreed, without a word exchanged, that these guys wouldn't be following us there. 

“We’re looking for hookers,” said Green. 

“Hookers and molly,” said Orange. ”You know what molly is?” 

MDMA. I did know. I’d seen enough videos of glassy-eyed people grinding their teeth in dark parkades to know. It wasn’t much of a Raven drug. Oh, don’t get me wrong, there were drugs aplenty in town. I’d heard the rumours about how to get shrooms, and testimonies from lifties who insisted it was the only way to watch 2001. And of course, by my calculations there was a cannabis shop for every one-and-a-half-thousand people in the region, which had to be some kind of record, and that was just the legal trade. From what I’d heard, most people still got back-alley stuff, whether out of price or habit, since there was almost no enforcement on it anyway. Last summer during the public concert series, there was an opening act by the guy who owned the disc golf course, whose legal name was Eternity Equinox. He’d sung four songs, and three of them were about how pot was an herb that he grew in his garden and so should be legalized. I don’t think anyone had the heart to tell him that this had been the case for years. Margot said it was the best act of the season. 

But I’d never heard of MDMA in Raven River. I knew what it was, but didn’t know what it was, and maybe that was the difference. The drugs people wanted here were plants and mushrooms. You could imagine every step from growing in the woods to a backyard fire. Ecstasy was a pill, wasn’t it? Like Tylenol. Totally synthetic. I had no conception of where Eternity Equinox’s garden might come in. 

“Bro, d’you know where to find hookers?” Green said again. 

I didn’t know if there were sex workers in Raven. It was certainly possible, but I’d never heard of it. I was still in a good mood, though, so I joked back at them: “Everyone’s a hooker for a price, right? For a million bucks I’ll do anything!” 

Again, no laughter, but in the dark patch between street lights I could feel more than see a smirk come to Green’s face. ”My daddy’s a millionaire,” he said, “I could give you fifty thousand right now.” 

“Right now? For nothing? Deal!” 

“I’ll give you ten thousand to suck my cock,” he said. 

“We’re from California,” Orange put in, as if to support the claim. Only millionaires came from California, I guess he meant to say, and not from anywhere else. 

Antoine turned around for the first time and asked, “How old are you guys?”  

“I’m fifteen and he’s sixteen,” said Green. 

“Ah,” said Pierre, and there was great understanding in the syllable. Fifteen. Children of the new millennium. It still struck me as odd that birth years could start with a 2 for people who knew what drugs were. The Californians were born well after the twin towers crumbled down, just around when the economy followed, when, as Arcade Fire put it, we watched the markets crash, and the promises we were made were torn. We had to make our own promises after that. It became clear after a few years that the things we were told in school, that we could all climb the ladder of work and profit, that hard work paid out in the end in the victorious capitalism in which we lived, all that was bunk. So, we had to figure out something else. I think we were all still trying to figure out what that was, but I don’t know. It’s not as if we talked about it. And for kids like these Californians, it was history anyway. They had their own shatterings. I sometimes lamented that my life beyond my hometown had been almost entirely pandemic, but hell, these kids’ whole teens had mostly been pandemic so far. 

“Ten thousand dollars, bro, if you want it.” 

“What do you guys do for fun around here?” asked Orange. 

I said, ”Ski,” just as Pierre said “Snowboard.” 

Well, it was the Kootenays in January. What answer did they expect? 

“I can do a backflip,” said Orange. 

“That’s really cool,” said Pierre, falling back with them a bit. It was cool. I couldn’t do a backflip. Pierre could, I’d seen it once, but he didn’t often. When we rode together we spent more time digging the resort and the sidecountry for hidden lines, untouched pockets of treacherous but ridable alpine terrain far down the remotest ends of ridges where no one had dared to go since the snow fell. Backflips by the chair were cool, but they took time away from that. 

“This place is kinds fucking lame,” said Green, “There’s really no hookers except you fags?” 

“We’re not hookers. Or gay,” said Antoine. 

“Ten thousand, dude.”

“Yeah, okay,” said Antoine. We crossed a side street and he picked up his pace, muttering to me, “Viens. On parle en Francais, ouais?” 

My French was hardly good enough to hold any sort of conversation even in the enunciated Parisian accent of school memories and Duolingo. In Quebec French I was hopeless. Antoine knew that, though. He was trying to talk so that the Californians couldn’t overhear. He would go easy on me. 

“D’accord,” I said, wondering if the Californians could tell how bad my accent was, how transparent our attempt at coding our words was from them. We had no clue that they didn’t also speak French, I suppose. Somehow it just seemed unlikely. 

“I think they are rich,” said Antoine, in a French that was much slower and more scholarly than his and Pierre’s usual cheerful chatter, “They think they can pay for anything. It changes you as a person.” 

“Oui,” I said back, “I mean, ouais. And they’re fifteen!” 

“Are you gonna suck my cock for ten thousand dollars?” Green shouted again. 

“You are going to do it?” asked Antoine, a smirk in his voice. 

I struggled to find the words in French to explain. Even “Non,” was too transparent, as it sounded just like the English word. So, I just said “They’re fifteen,“ again, ils on quinze ans, and Antoine nodded sagely.  

Pierre was hanging back, speaking with the Californians quietly. Antoine glanced at the three of them. “He’s good at talking to them,” he said. We were getting close to the liquor store now, and they could tell. The sign with the trapper in his David Thompson hat was lit and visible. They knew where we were going, and switched tactics accordingly. The ten thousand dollars to be added to a sex offenders registry seemed to be, mercifully, put to the wayside. 

“Will you buy us beer?” 

“Maybe,” Pierre said diplomatically. 

“We want PBR. Do you know what PBR is?” 

Do you know what PBR is? I wanted to say back to them, it’s cheap shit. Instead I said, “Yeah, I know PBR.” 

“Pabst?” asked Pierre. I nodded. “Ah,” he said, ”Cheap shit.” 

“Not bad as cheap shit goes,” I said, granting a concession to the Californians. It was true; it wasn’t like it was Kokanee. 

Pierre held the Californians back again as Antoine and I went ahead. With Pierre distracting them, we could talk in English now. 

“There’s no price for sucking underage dick,” he said. 

“No, of course not.” 

“I don’t want to be on a registry. It’s selling your freedom.” 

“And your self-respect. It’s just a horrible thing to do. I wouldn’t want to do it even if they were our age, but at least it wouldn’t be criminal. They think they can just pay us to become criminals. Do you think they were joking? They have to be just joking. Right?” 

“I don’t know, man. I really don’t know. Money does things to you. They think they can just own people.” 

We came to a stop at last, across the road from the Trapper’s Cabin, the five of us hemmed into a two-by-two line by the snowbanks.  Pierre came over to us, a messenger crossing No Man’s Land, and leaned in. “I told them we would get them beer as long as they don’t follow us.” Antoine and I nodded. This seemed like a fair price for peace. 

“Will you get me a six-pack of PBR?” asked Green. 

“I’ll get you one can,” I said. 

“Two,” said Green. 

PBR was cheap shit, and there were two of them. “Alright,” I said. 

We started off across the road. As we went, Green dug his hands into his pockets and said to Orange, “Bro. It’s kind of lame. I thought the team was gonna party.” 

The team. Somehow, until then, I hadn’t thought about the freeride competition. But of course, that was why they were here, wandering the streets unsupervised. This was probably one of the first times they had a weekend away from their parents, who were back in Los Angeles, busy with their millionaire business. If they were millionaires. As we crossed Hemlock I thought about the bad teen movies I’d seen, where the heroes - to stretch a term – pulled off such elaborate scams, whole layers of lies. I thought about the party scene in every movie like that, with flashing coloured lights coming from who-knew-where in a house full of people with their arms up, music blasting, not a speaker in sight. Part of me still thought that maybe parties like that did exist, and just like in high school, I still wasn‘t in enough loops to know about them. But no, I’m sure I would have seen one by now. I thought about pop songs and trap-hop songs, music videos and lyrics, popping pills and hoes in the back seat. Like I said, Hemlock is a wide street. 

There was only one car parked at the Trapper’s Cabin. I hadn’t noticed it across the street, but it materialized in the red light up close. I was terrible at recognizing cars – these days they were uniformly bubbly and monochrome, the better to resell you to someone who might not like a certain colour, my dear - but this was a car I would remember for years. It was a pale green chevy pickup, circa early nineties model, with “protect parks” stickers on the tailgate and no less than three Rasta bobbleheads all lined up in the windshield. The roof was folded in a way that was definitely off-model, and I knew it was because it had collapsed in after a huge dump of snow, and then been punched back out and reinforced with two-by-fours nailed to the inside. This was Margot Frances and Jimmy Anders’ truck, a Genuine Kootenay Beater. When walking along the ski hill road with intent to get up there close to opening, it was generally known that if a clean black Mercedes SUV passed by, it wasn’t worth the muscle motion to send up a thumb. If a GKB the colour of road salt grumbled past, though, that was usually your way. And absent the quasi-trusty shuttle bus, Margot and Jimmy’s truck was my favourite way to ride up or down. There was just one back seat, which I had to fold into and sit sideways in, and feeling not at all like I’d be safe in a crash, we would set off around the hairpin switchbacks on the hill road, playing The Doors out loud on Margot’s Bluetooth and talking about our runs for the day.  

If one of them was shopping, I’d say hi. 

I’ve never thought of a liquor store as a refuge before, probably, and thankfully, because I’m not an alcoholic. But it was kind of nice having a place that we knew the Californians couldn’t follow. We could talk freely here, albeit with the restriction that we couldn't explicitly mention our plan to toss some cans to underage Americans, although in fairness, it was the Trapper's Cabin, the less refined of the two liquor stores in Raven River, and given it was Raven River, that was saying something, so I doubt the cashier would have cared in the least. He was slumped over the counter, head in his hands, hands breaking up the fall of his blond hair, which fell too around wire-framed round glasses – blond! Round glasses! So that was why the truck was outside. Jimmy was the cashier! 

“Hey!” I said, just as I’d promised myself. 

Jimmy jumped up a bit, activating Customer Service Mode, but shut it down when he saw me. “Jay!” he called out, “You’re still around!” 

I always went by J, or Jay, in Raven River. Jerry, what I’d been in Calgary, had been ditched after the first few weeks of jokes. I’d vaguely known that a Jerry was a term for a bad skier, but not realized quite how prevalent it was, or all the implications. Jerry wasn’t just someone who didn’t know how to ski, who was new, trying to figure things out. Jerry was someone from Calgary, or Toronto, who had a fresh snowsuit that matched pants to jacket, and slick skis with oiled bindings, and his toe in the heel piece of the bindings, because with the cash he’d spent on coming out here, somewhere along the line he must have bought the understanding of what he was doing. 

“I’m still around,” I said, “I heard you were back. And working here!” 

“Ayup. You’re liftying again?”  

“Yeah. Probably my last season.” 

“You said that last winter.” 

“I did. Yeah. I don’t know. Can’t beat the free pass, I guess.” 

“Yeah, for sure. It’s tough going back to paying for it. Margot’s just doing day passes, ‘cause she tore her ACL climbing in November.” 

“Oh, shit! Hope she’s alright?” 

“Yeah, she just lost enough riding days that buying the pass didn’t make sense. She’s working at the Lark Café now. Jill got her the position she used to have.” 

“Right, ‘cause Jill’s at that mid-mountain coffee hut now. I always get free hot chocolate from her. Well, if I’m scanning at the base, I’ll just let Margot up.” 

“Much obliged,” Jimmy nodded, and I went off to look at beers. 

For what I called a less refined store, the selection at the Trapper’s was good – two walls of beer and cider fridges and warm packages in pyramids between, good breweries from all around the West and any flavour profile or drinking style you might want. We rolled past plain sours and fruit sours and salted sours and goses, milk stouts and peanut butter porters, you name it. Antoine lingered in front of something called a Show-off Double IPA. I thought he might take it, but he pointed instead at the peacock on the label and said, “Green peafowl.” I think his bird-identifying was mostly somatic at this point, totally involuntary. 

The PBR was tucked in the slightly dismal back corner, under the little selection of Budweiser and the like. I grabbed a six-pack and brought it to Jimmy. Antoine settled on a box of ginger ciders. Pierre was still in the back, weighing a nice pack of honey ales with another pack of PBR. 

“I didn’t know you were big Pabst guys,” said Jimmy. 

“No,” said Pierre, “This is for someone else maybe. I will try to decide if I want to get it.” 

“Party?” 

“Yeah,” said Antoine, in a quick, shut-us-down sort of way. He didn’t know Jimmy, though. With any other cashier, not an old liftie, he’d have been right to be cautious. But I knew Jimmy. 

“Jimsy,” I said, using Margot’s pet name for him, which I didn’t know if I was allowed to do, but whatever. “You remember when you sent Napalm Chute in the work jacket and I didn’t tell?” 

“Yeah,” said Jimmy, unsure where this was going. 

“Right, that’s all. So you don’t need to tell whoever your boss is here that there are two fifteen-year-olds outside who won’t leave us alone unless we get them beer.” 

“One of them is sixteen,” said Pierre. 

“Sure. Some of the PBR is for them.” 

“Some?” 

“Two cans.” 

“Did they give you money?” 

“No,” said Antoine, “But they’re rich. They could have!” 

“I don’t think they were really rich,” I said. Putting it out loud changed the situation somehow. 

Jimmy went to the window, to the little maze of gaps between his back counter and the posters above, and peered out. “Those kids by the light?” 

I joined him at the window and looked. The Californians were kicking at a frozen snowbank under the halogen glow of a streetlamp. Maybe they were trying to cut a path through. That bank was solid ice though, weeks old, thawed and frozen a thousand times. It was hardly just snow anymore. At best there was a layer of avi-chute choss, three-day-old plow discard, on top of gravel ice. What’s that thing about the Inuit language having ten words for snow where English has one? Whoever started spreading that one wasn’t a skier. 

“They look kind of beat, don’t they?” I said. 

Jimmy nodded and considered this. “D’you mean like beaten up, or like, The Beats, like Kerouac?” 

“Both. Isn’t it the same thing, anyway? Like, he used the word the way it was used, beaten up, but then he added the other definition, the thing about beatific.” 

“You read it, Jay!” 

“Yeah. Thanks for leaving it there.” 

“I’m gonna get the honey ale,” Pierre broke in suddenly, “And I’m gonna give some to the kids as well. It’s more expensive but I’ll keep some.” 

“They wanted PBR,” I said. 

“But this is better,” said Pierre, “It’s sweet. They’ll like it. I’ll give them two.” 

“I was going to give them two of the Pabst,” I said. 

Jimmy leaned in and laced his fingers conspiratorially. “Tell you what,” he said, “If you’re getting two half packs then you’re just buying one, really. Then the kids can have the rest. They look pretty beat, after all. So...” he took off his glasses, laid them on the counter, and looked to the ceiling, “It’d be too bad if you put one of those packs in your bag and I didn’t see it. You might forget to even pay for it.” 

Grinning, Pierre unshouldered his backpack and slid the honey ale in. We paid for the Pabst and Antoine’s cider, which came out to not much more than the honey ales by themselves. The cost, then, was around an hour’s liftying. Two if it hadn’t been for Jimmy. Of course, to say two hours of liftying meant nothing without specifying. Was that two hours of the top station at the out-of-the-way chair on an uncommonly quiet day, sitting in a hut with a thermos of hot chocolate and a paperback, watching snow fall on the valley cedars outside, and then occasionally, every two minutes or so, someone would get off, give a wave, and glide away? Or was that two hours at the base, the main base, on a mobbed-busy weekend, with an endless crowded maze of beginners needing the chair slowed down or even full-stopped for them, and others trying to skip the line while you were occupied, and rich Americans who didn’t think the rules about masks in line applied to them, and even the best most courteous guests were still part of the back-aching cycle of bumping, holding back the mass of each and every chair with a special calculated one-leg-up leanback and never a moment to sit down or even to simply stand at attention? Those shifts paid the same: not quite a six-pack per hour.

“Thanks, man,” said Pierre, as he packed up all the beer, ”From a liftie to another.” 

Jimmy only shrugged. “Not a liftie anymore,” he said. 

“But you were, man, and maybe you say, once a liftie, always a liftie. What were you saying about calling people Beat, Jay? It means two things?” 

“Sort of,” Jimmy explained, “It means, like, poor, beaten up, had a bad time. But these guys back, what, seventy years ago, made it that, but short for beatific, like, spiritual. Godly. They thought that one led to the other.” 

“Yes!” said Pierre, jabbing a finger, leaning close in over the glass bit of the counter where Jimmy scanned wine bottle bar codes, “And Liftie is like that. It’s the job where we put people on the lift, but it’s also, like. Hey. Answer me this. When you work on a chair, who’s your favourite person to see in line?” 

Jimmy and I had no answer for this, but without missing a beat, Antoine said, “Another Liftie.” 

“Exactly!” said Pierre, getting way into it now, “Because they are your friend, but not just that. Because they make you feel good about doing the job. They know what it’s like! And...” he was practically vibrating now, “Wherever you meet another liftie, an old liftie too, even years later, they also try to help, because they know you’re down, they know you’re working hard and you’re tired and they LIFT you up... and you LIFT them up sometimes. The people who own the ski hill, who own the shops, they want you to pay for everything. They want you to work more, they want you to be better than the other guy by buying more stuff by working harder so you have more stuff than him. You compete, always competition. Lifting just yourself up...” 

“By your bootstraps,” I nodded. I’d never understood that expression. The only boots I even knew of that had straps were ski boots with ratchet straps, and they were too tight to the boots to lift anything by. They were too busy holding you to the snow. 

“But you don’t have to. Instead, you let people have free beer. That’s what Liftie is. You lift each other!” 

Jimmy stood stunned for a long hanging moment. I thought about the songs we sang and taught on guitar, free beers and hot chocolates, bird facts, board games. I thought about Pierre and Antoine and Jimmy and Margot, and Jill at the mid-mountain hut. Then Jimmy hit a button on his screen, and my short receipt began to print with a sound like the Lynx Quad powering up in the morning, and he nodded, slowly at first and then picking up, and said “Hell yeah.” Then he turned to me and said, “Holy fuck, Jay. Where do you meet these people?” 

I said, “At the hill. Liftying. Where else?” 

The Californians were still hanging out under the streetlight when we left the store. They perked up when they saw us heading back their way. 

“You got our stuff?” Green called. 

In response I twisted two cans off my six-pack and tossed them one at a time at him. He caught each with the flawless reflexes of a seasoned backflipper. 

“Take some of this too,” said Pierre, tossing them two of his honey ales. 

“What’s this?” said Orange. 

“Try it!” said Pierre, “Expand your taste!” Then he jogged off. Antoine was already headed back the way we’d come from. 

The Californians didn’t comment on getting four beers when they asked for two, but then, neither did any of us.  I never saw them again after that, so I never got any more hints on whether they really were millionaires’ sons, or just ski team kids on the tournament dime. Right then, when they were huddling with their gloveless hands in their armpits on a lonely street, I decided it didn’t much matter. Green gave me a peace-sign salute, a universal gesture of cool accord, and we parted, we two victims of disparate hoped-for nights. 

As I ran to catch up with Pierre and Antoine, a big raven fell with a sound of wind from a nearby powerline, landing in the middle of Hemlock Street. I took a pause to curtsy a bit. I always bowed to a raven when I saw one alone. One of them, an immortal one, pulled the first humans out of a clam shell on the beach in Haida Gwaii, so it was always good to be respectful, because you never know. Two years ago, when I was browsing a list of ski resorts that were looking for applicants, I had seen Raven River and thought of that. 

Two days later, on the final day of the International Junior Freeriding Cup (presented by a major car brand,) I was working the Lynx Quad at the mid-station. A remarkable oddity for a chairlift, Lynx Mid lets riders get off halfway, or else to sit tight and carry on through. For those who carried on, up to where they entered the start gates at the top of the terrain park, all I had to do was watch them pass by, thrusting their numbered bibs out to the safety bar for all to see. I passed the time by collecting high-fives. As they glided past, all I had to do for a high-five was to extend my hand, inches from where the chair slid by. I always got one back, and they would cheer for me.