#both wandering star

[dreams-of-wind-and-void]

I think @derinthescarletpescatarian wrote a whole story about it.

You’ve awoken after a light year travel to a new planet, only to be greeted by other humans because they invented a faster spaceship after you left.

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[qingxin-dream]

~Teyvat Adoption Agency Board~

source: u/Renegade_Syx on reddit

art credits: @/unik0503 on twitter

[kindrehd]

doodling my pookies on my iPad :3

[nach0]

wanted to draw fanart for @remxedmoon's isatscryption au but i realised i didn't actually know the plot yet which. whoops! so i settled for chucking my oc at it

OH YEAH INSCRYPTION IS 60% OFF ATM!! Consider this my official propaganda to go get this game

[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.)

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

Is it really brainrot if you haven't had a dream where you were a character in the show

[ifidogaysomyself]

me, before playing cyno's second sq, knowing nothing about sethos, seeing the leak that he has a voice line about wanderer: oh thats hilarious, honestly good for them because god knows kuniboy needs normal friends lol

me, after playing cyno's story quest 2 months late to the party: oh god okay he's not normal. why did i ever think he was going to be normal. he and wanda are fully going to have the worst interactions ever arent they

[kira-light0]

Trying really hard to simplify my art style because attempting realism was destroying my motivation

[izar-tarazed]

In the beginning, long before Izar learned to understand his sign language, this is how they communicated: Ensha signing his messages into her palm.

A painfully slow form of communicating, but at least he didn’t have to waste her treasured ink, and there was another aspect to it: With those brief, invisible messages, fleeting words traced against her palm, Ensha didn’t have to worry about anyone—not even his master—ever finding out what he was sharing with the stargazer.

Then again, it required enough trust on Izar’s end to let him touch her hand. You might not want someone within arm’s reach who previously attacked you in a supposedly safe space.

She was rather tense when she first held out her hand. But she still did.

[xelilow04]

Just a thought but I like to imagine/think that in another universe, they're kind of like "star-crossed lovers" and were supposed to be destined to have a tragic end together, but fate has a funny way of working things out, and they actually end up becoming the most unlikely but best of friends. Since they're technically no longer "lovers," they're not doomed or anything like that.

Then there's the fact that because they were supposed to be "lovers," some of the things they do can come off as romantic to those who are quick to assume (You can imagine the horror on their faces :0) In reality, they just really trust each other and have become each other's emotional support. They definitely give each other tough love: backhand compliments, sarcastic remarks, all of that good stuff. A normal conversation between them would probably go like:

"Get your 💩 together."

"You first."

But yeah, it's all out of love.

[ventique-genshin]

To wish upon a star

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

oh yeah, it’s all coming together

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok makes a holoprogram that’s literally just a complicated system of caves with many outlooks that allow you to gaze at the majestic Vulcan scenery and whenever he’s in there he’s there for hours, ostensibly exploring. Janeway goes in to find him one day and after traversing through the complicated system of caves she makes it out onto the cliff where he’s literally curled up on a large cushion, fast asleep. Janeway smiles, thinking about how she’s definitely going to poke fun at him but actually that pillow looks pretty comfortable and there’s another one really close...surely Tuvok wouldn’t mind if she rested for a bit. She did travel all this way and- (she also falls asleep and Chakotay has to come get them both)

[mar1omar1a]

OMG GUYS I GOT WANDERER E6

[junkpile-of-eterna]

Recently, I came across a YouTube short of "Wanderer meets Ruan Mei's creation", and since it's a short, I figured it would be silly.

It was so sweet, my heart was going to explode. Emotional about it still

Here's the short, in case you also want to experience Feelings.

I knew I loved Ashy Paste for a reason, besides that they're just so sad and I have an intense need to hug them. The abandonment issues, man.

Though, Ashy's situation is a bit different from Scara's. In the end, Ruan Mei shows that she does care about her creations, even if she still considers them a mistake, and she communicates with them and doesn't completely abandon them. Even though it's been shown that Ei did care about Scara and was misguided in abandoning him, she never made any effort to reconnect, and in fact, seems to be avoiding him, possibly due to her own ideas that he should be "free" of her.

Another major difference is in their reactions. Ashy will (unfortunately) always love and worship Ruan Mei, no matter what she does, and believe the fault lies with themself. It's possible Scara may have felt this way at first, we don't know, but along the way, and especially after his other "betrayals", it turned into resentment. Those feelings also make Ashy's situation all the more painful. The saddest, most painful thing in the world to me is someone who is abused or neglected, but continues loving and devoting themselves to the one that hurt them, believing they deserve it.

However, the "Molten Cheese Tart and Grey Bean Paste's Schedules" post shows that Ashy is somewhat overreacting. Ruan Mei does care about them--she makes meals for them, makes bedding for them, and compliments their singing (adorable!!!). It's a bit of a fault with the writing, since these things are never shown in the actual game. The only slight indication given that she might care about them is in her departure cutscene and the ending to Critter Pick. I've seen many people turn to hating Ruan Mei because of the things Ashy says...if the schedule text was included somewhere in the actual game, I'm sure they'd think differently. My own opinion of her improved a bit after reading it.

Even though they are cared for, I think Scara's advice in the video is really wonderful. Him caring for Ashy Paste and helping them learn to value their own life, not needing Ruan Mei's approval, is a beautiful thing for both of them. Almost like the sick boy in the past, Ashy is a kindred spirit to him. I...kind of want to write this as a fic, as you can see, I have a lot to say about it.