#back from a long hiatus sorry

[horseshoe-bay-ledger]

NANCY DREW || 4x08: The Crooked Banister

"I'm not exactly myself today"

[its-hai-time]

WE'RE SO BACK

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[whumperofworlds]

Rules here!

[desultory-novice]

Apologies AU - Good Ending Drop

Hey, everyone. It was my goal to finish Apologies in tandem with the Tournament, but for health reasons, I won't be able to as I planned. Because I tied the story to the tournament and don't feel like untangling it again and making everyone wait more, I'm going to give you all the ending spoilers, as I promised I would if I became unable to finish the story.

What I'm about to describe is THE Good Ending. The True Ending I had planned out almost from the beginning!

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In the main-verse...

Susie, who sees too much of herself in Adeleine, decides to take matters into her own hands to bring the girl's older brother back.

She takes the vial of Dark Matter Swordsman DNA that was harvested from King Dedede. Meta Knight catches up with her and argues against it. It's foolish, dangerous, and liable to be nothing but painful to all parties involved. But Susie anticipated interference and asked Zan to bodyguard her. When Zan arrives (late) to the lab, the argument has caused the vial to begin to react to all the negativity in the room. Zan recognizes its contents as Dark Matter and insists on calling Lord Hyness, who in his own quirky way, analyzes their problem and suggests that while the contents are too weak to survive on their own, a resurrection could be possible, using Void's powers to mimic a hive queen, supplying whatever creature emerges the power to survive on Popstar without burning up into ash...

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In the tourney-verse...

White-Haired Noir is at peace with his life and has come to accept the death of his precious little sister many years ago, but...a part of him still wishes to make Adeleine happy.

Using his fairy-born dimension sight, he discovers an Alternate Noir who is 98% percent compatible with main-verse Noir. This is the Purgatory!Noir from the Re_Birthday post. And he drags this unstable, utterly clueless Noir out of this peaceful void without his permission and secretly "volunteers"  the massively confused, un-alive but un-dead teen boy for the Kirby OC Tournament.

It is White-Haired Noir that is the "good" voice on phone and in Noir's head, encouraging rationality. His goal? Get Noir some friends. Get him to face up to/open up to people about his past. And get him caring about his life enough that he wants to live...! 

White-Haired Noir has seen what the main-verse Star Allies are attempting and knows that the odds of them actually bringing "Noir" back instead of just an emotionless monster are low without a compatible "Noir Soul" (haha) to inhabit the new vessel.

Over the course of many in-tourney events, including Noir learning to have faith in the sibling bonds he built with Gooey despite being Dark Matter at the time, learning to separate himself and Adeleine as individuals instead of clinging to her to his own neglect, privately opening up to King Dedede, who put the pieces together post-possession, about some awful stuff Noir put up with for years in secret from Raquelle's father (who privately loathed Neichel AND her kids and took it out on Noir) to "pay" for Adeleine's good life...

And lastly, using the power of wishes to interrogate if THIS Noir's true wish is to die and be free, to have never been born, to have had a normal "perfect" life, or if he simply wishes for a second chance to be with those he cares about... White-Haired Noir determines that Tourney!Noir is ready and reveals his plan to him. Noir confesses to him that he really does want to live and be with his family again and offers up his stronger soul for Susie and the gang's vessel.

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Back in the main-verse...

The experiment is a success! They have brought, well, something back. It is not quite like Dark Matter Swordsman in form, nor is it exactly a human boy. It looks a little bit like a spiky haired-Gooey.

After some tense questioning of the emotionless, memoryless, unresponsive goo, it...suddenly seems to awaken. With the voice of a deeply shaken and scared young boy, the violet-eyed blob questions the mad scientist, cultists, and masked man surrounding him... Where the hell is he? And where are his little brother and sister?

Meta Knight welcomes Noir back to the world of the living.

Later, after Noir has time to dress himself in an appropriate scarf, Adeleine and Gooey are brought in and it is a happy and tear-filled reunion all around as Noir confirms that, while this form is strange, it's not dangerous and he's not in pain. He is then re-introduced to King Dedede, whereupon it's revealed that even though Noir likes him, he's still a snarky teen punk at heart, as he sasses the king horribly. (Dedede has gained another kid, but at what cost? XD)

...And that's it.

That's the ending to Apologies I've held onto for nearly a year.

For reading through all that, here is a short comic I drew a while back of the reunited family having a snowball fight in White Wafers.

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(Not to unnecessarily over-explain the story but because the comic is a little vague, I have to tell you that no, Noir does not ever return to human after his revival. I meant it when I wrote in several places that their parting on Shiver Star was the last time they'd see each other "...in this form." This is merely meant to depict a moment in which Adeleine, seeing her brother alive and smiling and laughing and having real fun for the first time in so long, is able to imagine his old self smiling and is at peace that her brother is finally free from the hurt and misery he bore up with for so long.)

(...And yes, he has a long, silly tongue just like Gooey. Which is why he hides all but his eyes behind the scarf. Gotta keep up that cool older brother look even as a little goo creature! While Noir can't become human - frankly, he doesn't miss having a human body, given the stuff in his adolescence and being over-stressed, underfed, under-slept and just overall sick all the time in his later teens - he does eventually acquire the ability to shift into his old "Swordsman" form for short bursts of time.)

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(Lastly, you might wonder how I could have had this exact ending in mind from almost the beginning when so much of it is tied up in recent posts like the tourney? ...Well, originally what was going to happen to allow Noir to be properly resurrected into the Dark Matter Goo body is that the Dream Rod from Star Allies was going to appear in response to a grieving Adeleine's wishes to see her brother again, bringing Noir-as-Swordsman back. At least for a LITTLE while, as it would be revealed that with Zero dead, Noir, who was entirely composed of Dark Matter at this point, couldn't survive on Popstar. Every moment he was there, his body was burning.)

(Still, he lasts long enough to have one final talk with Adeleine that helps heal him from the torturous events of DL 3 - in which we learn a highly disappointed Zero drove Noir to the absolute breaking point, shattering his mind and his newly regained soul. Adeleine also tells Noir she has finally realized everything he did for her during their childhood and apologizes to him for not seeing it before. With dawn on the horizon, Noir asks to look over Adeleine's sketchbooks with her before the end... He dies one last time, peacefully, while Adeleine finally gets to properly mourn him.)

(Then, all the "main-verse" sections proceed to happen as stated above!)

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(...Okay, okay. One last thing. There was also an alternate ending planned where Magolor, taking advantage of the fact that Merry Magoland was built on a nexus point, finds a way to reunite Adeleine and White-Haired Noir - still a teen in this version - using his theme park as a union point, as special birthday gift for Adeleine.)

(I was kinda fond of this one for reuniting the timelines, but it opened up a lot of questions such as, if Magolor made it so that Noir and Adeleine from two different dimensions can see each other as long as they're both in Magoland, could others from the WH Noir-verse see the main-verse this way? It invited too many questions, so that's why I scrapped that one and just let White-Haired Noir grow up instead.)

[coconut530]

BITTERSWEET REUNIONS

[zerotwoooo]

use all of your light and hope to kick zeros ass Kirby you can do it!

"C'mon! We can get up thisaway!"

"Are...ya sure the warp star can hold all of us?"

"uhhh.... I think so?"

"That doesn't seem too confident..."

"Perhaps it would be better if those of us who can fly didn't ride on the Warp star."

"I can certainly agree with that..."

"Oh well I guess that works too... We'll meet up in the sky!"

"Yeah...yeah... let's just get it over with..."

"..."

[storyteller-confessions]

Confession from anonymous

Knight x Barron for life I will die on this hill

[deus-ex-mona]

my five surviving braincells when something remotely good happens:

[holocene-sims]

for better or for worse, i've been bitten by the fallout 76 bug 🫡

[raouwul]

I remembered to be active yay! Here’s what I promised to draw for my sibling

They don’t post their art but it makes me prideful cause I think their art is very cool, love the way they pick colours and fashion and no one else gets to see it but me, Yea it’s me who gets the cool sibling and they think I’m cool enough to show it to me

Anyway Now that I’m 20 I really really SHOULD put more effort, like something I noticed recently is that I usually eat like 1 meal + snacks a day and was like “whatever I already know I’m a human snake, inhale meal and I’m good to not eat for awhile” WRONG it was school lunchtime that was holding everything together and I didn’t notice until now, I think I should make a bunch of meals when I am able to make food and save them for later so I don’t have to when I’m low energy.

I could do some foraging to get outside the house and other reasons. My mom has a guidebook about that, I wish I was born in spring so this revelation came at a time there’s actual stuff to forage. Or or like maybe it’s bad to eat plants you found on someone’s lawn cause you can’t drink rain water anymore fuck. Being 20 is scary

[sonknuxadow]

i kind of want to read stc because ive never read it before but i also never finished the sonic x comics but i also kind of want to re read at least part of archie because certain sections of it are just a huge blur to me because of the fact that i read the entire series including spinoffs and side comics over the course of like . 2 months tops. so many choices so many sonic comics to read .

[ringneckedpheasant]

i’ve been reading a book that’s an edited down version of decades worth of journals that some lady inherited from her gay uncle when he died in the late 80s (early 90s?) & in the foreword she talked about how he kept ridiculously meticulous records of like 60 years of his life that she had to sift through and I am just. having fun thinking about inflicting that on one of my sister’s kids when I eventually kick the bucket

[deadthatmetalhead]

Depths of Decay

By Rotting Obscene

Spotify Link - Bandcamp Link

Genre/s: death metal, brutal death metal

Released March 22nd, 2016

[mooodyblue]

rambling in the tags ignore me

[bb-elite-stellar-carmine]

AU Pecharunt:

"So, you're all of the Mask Maker's descendent's team right? Tell me, has Carmine ever opened up to you about what happened to her parents? I remember an ask saying that a Pokemon killed her mother but not what Pokemon. It's either that 'Hidden Treasure of Area Zero', or 'The Poison Puppeteer'. I'd say the latter. Also, how's Kieran doing? Is he in his megalomaniacal phase? Trust me, that doesn't end well."

Sipsy:...Oh, yeah... she has! It was a... Drednaw or something...

Knight: Yes, it was. But that is not anything of your concern.

Milo: What's a... Hidden Treasure of Area Zero?

Sipsy:...Oh yeah.. you weren't there... it's

[The transcript abruptly cuts off for some moments]

ZHUT. UP! ARZEUZ, keep on blabbing with that big mouth of yourz and we'll aczidently zlip up an- ZZT!

Knight: But didn't we explain what occurred in our previous answer?

...

Knight: ...Rotom?

ANYWAY! Next part of the queztion, zzt!

Bella: Hm... In my vast knowledge, I am unable to recall a "Poison Puppeteer" Pokemon... I cannot help but assume you are lying... so confess up!

Knight: Bella! Can you not try to accept that there is something you may not know about?!

Tell us, just what is this poison puppeteer?

Az for the last part...

What happened to Kiki iz NONE of your buzinezz! He'z doing fin-

Sipsy: He's dead... I feel like Carmine's said that before, right?... I dunno...

... ... ...

Milo:... Are you okay, Rotom?

... ... ...

GET OVER HERE YOU LITTLE ZHI

[The transcript stops suddenly.]

[raihankkibana]

hi i need you to use your chatter fame to cancel gender please :)

-@stow-on-side-ghosts

Oh, of course. Gender isn't fuckin' real, never has been, never will be. About as real as Rose's sense of style.