#by the other assassin guy whose name I don't know

[celestialgalaxyglow]

Batfam and Danny, Part 29

Jason: Hey Danny.

Danny: Hey.

Jason: You know my friend Roy. He's Arsenal, we've gone on a few mission together.

Danny: Yes?

Jason: So recently... well since before you and I even met, him and I have been close. And recently talked and decided to- ah-

Danny: You and your friend with benefits have decided to formally become boyfriends.

Jason (blushing): Yes.

Danny: Congrats.

Jason: Thank you. But I wanted to ask you something.

Danny: What?

Jason: Roy and I talked, and we would like to move in together. Yes it might a bit of a leap given we just started dating, but on the other hand we have been going on dates, been acting like a couple, and been... enjoying each other's company for the last eight months, so we've basically been a couple for that long.

Danny (laughing): "Enjoying each other's company?" Tell me, how have you and Roy been "enjoying each other's company."

Jason (blushing): None of your concern. Anyways, the two of us would be living with Roy and his two-year-old daughter, Lian. Thing is neither of our apartments are big enough for the four of us, so we are thinking about buying a house in the suburbs. But I wanted to ask you first.

Danny: Sure, I won't mind having another little sister. What about Lian's mom? She in the picture?

Jason: Lian's mom, Jade, works for the League of Assassins, she comes by once in a while. Strangely enough Lian and Damian came about in similar ways.

Danny: Seriously? What's up with vigilantes having drunken one night stands with League of Assassin members?

Jason: I'm not sure... Wait we're getting of topic. Are you sure? Again you'll be living with my new partner, and a two-year-old. Don't just say yes for my sake.

Danny: Yes I'm sure, it'll be fun. And I don't think you can call the guy you've been going on dates with, been acting like a couple with, and whose "company" you've been enjoying for the last eight months, your "new" partner.

Jason (smiling): Shut up, I meant in the sense we only just became boyfriends. I'll talk with Roy, and we'll start looking at houses.

Danny: So... when is your boyfriend going to become my new dad?

Jason (flustered): D- Danny!

Danny: Just wondering... One other question.

Jason: What?

Danny: If you and Roy decide to have kids together through adoption, cloning, magic, or whatever, what will their last name be?

Jason (laughing): Roy and I have talked about that, and agreed that if we ever have a kid together their last name will be Todd-Harper-Queen-Wayne.

Danny: Hmm, I don't Bruce will be happy that Wayne comes after Queen.

Jason: If your grandfather wants to be a baby about that, then that's his choice. Now stop asking questions and finish your homework.

Danny (saluting): Yes sir!

[A few weeks later]

Roy: And that's the last of the boxes.

Jason: Now we just need to get everything into place.

Roy: This place is beautiful, I still can't believe we managed to get it so fast.

Jason: Money makes the world go 'round.

Roy: Ah yes, my boyfriend and is deep pockets.

They kiss.

Danny and Lian: Ew.

Jason: Shut up.

Roy (laughing): Leave them be.

Jason (smiled and shook his head): Danny mind emptying some of the boxes in the kitchen?

Danny: Sure.

Lian: Can I help?

Roy: Sorry sweety, why don't you go play with your toys instead?

Lian: No!

Danny (kneeling down next to Lian): Do you mind if I borrow Teddy for a minute? Lian looked up at Danny and handed him her teddy bear. Danny casted a spell and it and the teddy bear started moving.

Lian (gasp): Teddy's moving!

Danny: Why don't you keep him company.

Lian: Ok!

Roy (to Jason): I like your kid.

Jason (to Roy): Yeah Danny's amazing. I like your kid.

Roy (to Jason): Yeah Lian's great.

Jason: Why don't we go unpack Lian's things? Danny can handle his own things later.

Roy: Ok, let's go.

(Master Post)

Character ages:

Roy - 22 (A few years back he took Oliver's last name so his full name is Roy Harper-Queen)

Lian - 2 (full name Lian Harper-Queen Nguyen)

Jade - 23

[nrilliree]

TG stans when Alicent, the daughter of a second son in Westeros whose fate was to either marry some lord and bear his kids or become a Septa, marries a king who treated her well and allowed her to have power and influence: Her dreams and girlhood were stolen!!! Evil Viserys ruined her life!!! She is justified in everything she does

The same TG when Rhaenyra decides to not force sex on her gay husband and Laenor willingly accepts her sons with another man as his own and keeps it between them and their family: Rhaenyra is an entitled whOrE and her children are bastards and their official father Laenor's words don't matter. Muh Alicent's rapist son deserves the throne because he has a cock.

They are really selective when it comes to applying modern values, aren't they? When it comes to poor Alicent and her sons, the context and norms of the fictional world are all forgotten but when it comes to Rhaenyra and her sons, they all become raging medievalists in a way that would put the average Westerosi to shame. Or maybe this show has done a number on everyone's critical thinking skills.

And as for Viserys not 'loving' Aegon, I find it really funny that for the stans, as well as for Alicent and Aegon on the show, Viserys could have proved his love in a definite way only by naming Aegon heir. As if doting on his son for as long as his health permitted him, watching over him and shielding him from the consequences of his actions weren't out of love. But just because Viserys didn't remove Rhaenyra as heir, we are supposed to believe that he didn't love or care for his other children. Isn't it plain entitlement on the part of Alicent and Aegon?

Now, if Baelon had lived, Viserys had still married Alicent and Aegon was still the spare, just not to Rhaenyra but to Baelon but still coveted the throne, he would be called entitled and greedy and rightfully so. Even if Baelon had been a useless Crown Prince, Aegon would be expected to stay loyal to him.

Funnily enough this is exactly what we are witnessing in real time with the shocked Pikachu face reactions from TG stans who cried character assassination and turned on Condal after Aemond attempted to murder Aegon. According to them, Aemond should have loved and remained loyal to his incompetent brother who cruelly bullied and humiliated him.

Now, why is it justified for Rhaenyra to be betrayed and usurped by her siblings but not for Aegon - who didn't even bother to learn the ABCs of kingship - and the hypothetical Baelon? The answer to this is the core theme of the Dance. Point that out and the TG will come up with their aggressive whataboutism and the usual monotonous points like, "All of them are bad anyway, no one deserves the throne, poison drips through, Team Smallfolk, blah, blah, blah."

Of course. Alicent was forced to marry a man she didn't love or desire, so she's a victim. Rhaenyra was forced to marry a man she didn't love or desire and vice versa, so she's a spoiled brat because she was looking for a solution so they could both be happy. It's logical. Right?

Aegon goes to brothels and sexually assaults servants because he's unhappy in his marriage, because Alicent forced him to marry his sister. So he's justified. Rhaenyra slept with the one man who wasn't her husband so she could have children (because you know, in vitro wasn't invented back then), so she's a whore. It's logical. Right?

A 15-16 year old Alicent who got married is a poor kid, but a 14 year old Lucerys was already a grown man, not a child. It's logical. Right…?

You can come up with more and more reasons to point out that TG justify certain actions only when it concerns their side. Similarly, they everywhere call for the fact that there are no bad guys in this war! Everyone is equally neutral (but TB worse), no one won, and everyone who claims that TG are the bad guys in this story have not understood the nuances of this complicated story, because it is not about Rhaenyra being usurped because she was a woman… Absolutely not. If Rhaenyra had been born a man and was the oldest son from her first marriage, and not the oldest child, then the story would be the same! Right…?

[notcaring99]

Bad Decisions (Bucky Barnes x Female! Reader) Part 1/?

Warnings: Alcohol, Possible Smut, and Swearing

Ft: OG Avengers

Synopsis: You usually keep to yourself, avoiding significant social events. You are confident but never cared too much for lavish parties. After Tony and Wanda ask, more like beg, you to go to the party welcoming a new Avenger. The new Avenger is Bucky Barnes, who instantly has your attention. The others warn you of him and how getting involved is probably not best, but you feel drawn to him. May not be the best decision, but you can't help it.

A/N: I have not written fanfiction in a long while, but as I am currently stuck in my career writing, I thought I would give it a shot again.

Wanda and you have not been to any of Tony's parties. You were a bit too antisocial, and Wanda was too 'young' according to Steve. Tonight was different, though. Tonight's party was to welcome a new Avenger. You and Wanda were invited naturally, and after some pushing from Tony, you went. You both were in a corner of the party, watching as the rest of the Avengers were mingling with ease. "Great, we are outcasts," Wanda mumbled as she sipped her sparkling water.

"Well, it could be worse. I could not be allowed to drink," you tease her, making her roll her eyes at you. You bring your drink to your lips, looking around the party for someone to bring you two out of boredom. "Speaking of, where is Steve?" You ask her as you don't see the super-soldier.

"I heard the new Avenger is his friend," Wanda speaks up, making you look at her with a tilt of your head. "Before you speak a smart-ass comment, he does have a life outside of us." Wanda laughs, taking another sip of her water.

"I hate how you get into my head. Could you stay out?" you ask her, making her giggle just as you both hear a commotion. You turn around and see Wanda looking behind you. When you turn, you see Steve standing with someone who made your breath hitch in your throat.

The man was beautiful, with his stormy eyes and black hair hanging below his ear. He wore simple blue jeans, a white shirt, a leather jacket, and black boots. His eyes were darting around the room, and he avoided direct eye contact with everyone besides Steve. That is until you caught his eye, you both stared at each other for a moment till someone shouts your name.

"Y/N!" you feel a heavy hand land on your shoulder, making you look over. Thor stands there looking at you with a big smile, holding a flask in his other hand. "How are you doing?" Thor asks, making you smile at him and then at Wanda, who still looks at the man.

"I am doing alright. Do you know who the new guy is?" You ask him as you sip on your drink again. Thor looks behind you, making you glance as well. You still see Steve introduce the man to the others.

"That is soldier Bucky Barnes. He is one of Steve's friends from when he was a child." Thor tells you before taking a swig of his flask. You nod your head.

"How did he live this long? That would mean he is around 100 years old, and that man looks like he is 25 at most." You state, looking thoughtfully at Thor.

"Well, he is 106 years old. He is an ex-assassin from HYDRA." Thor says, confused at your sudden interest. You were usually one to keep to yourself, well,l besides Wanda. Thor clears his throat, drawing your attention away from the man to him. "Lady Y/N, you should know he is bad news; no one you should be interested in." Wanda chuckles behind Thor, making the two of you look at her.

"Don't you know Thor, that is how Y/N likes them? The bad boys." Wanda laughs as she takes a sip of her water. You are about to counterattack when you hear a throat being cleared. You turn around to see Steve standing before Thor with Bucky beside him.

"I hope we aren't interrupting anything," Steve states, looking at all of us as you stare at Bucky, whose eyes are already on you.

"Of course not, Steve." Thor cheers loudly. "You must be Bucky! Welcome to the team! You have probably heard of me." Thor booms before shaking Bucky's hand, which is covered by a leather glove. Bucky's eyes move from you to Thor, and his smile is awkward as the god greets him. Bucky was glancing at you as he greets Thor.

"I have God of Thunder. Thank you." Bucky smiles as Thor's hand tightens, his veins popping out more. Steve looks at you like your eyes haven't left Bucky's form.

"Wanda. Y/N. This is Bucky Barnes, the newest member of our team and my best friend." Steve introduces, and as soon as your name is said, Bucky makes eye contact. You quickly bring a smile to your face before outstretching your hand.

"Nice to meet you, Bucky. Welcome to the team," He smiles when you speak before shaking your hand.

"Thank you, Y/N." Bucky's eyes don't leave yours as Wanda approaches beside you. You notice the gaze lingering on you, so you quickly let go of his hand before looking at Wanda.

"Like Y/N said, it is lovely to meet you." Wanda nudges you with a shake of her head as her eyes drift elsewhere. You turn to see Bucky hasn't stopped looking at you.

"You two are both a part of the Avengers?" Bucky asks, not taking his eyes off of you. You smirked while you bit your lip, slightly drawing his attention to your mouth for a moment.

"Yes, we are. What intimidated by some strong women?" you ask as you take another sip. Bucky smirks, shaking his head as he takes in your whole form.

"Not at all, doll." You smile at his nickname for you. You snap out of eye contact as someone clears their throat, making you tear your eyes away, looking at Steve, Thor, and Wanda. Wanda has her eyebrows raised, making you sigh as you know she needs to talk.

"Steve, Thor, Bucky." You hold out his name a little longer than the others. "It was lovely chatting with you all. Wanda, do you want to get a refill?" You ask her, and she nods her head. You both loop your arms before smiling at the guys.

"See you around," Wanda calls out to the group before you both walk to the bar. You make sure to accentuate the way you swing your hips while you walk. When you get there, Wanda is quick to express her opinions. "I got a read on both your minds and you both are too broken for anything. You better not get involved with him." Wanda lectures, making you turn to look behind your shoulder discretely to see Bucky's eyes are on you. You turn your eyes back to Wanda, who is glaring at you.

"Wanda, he can't be that bad. He seems perfectly pieced together." You speak with a smirk as the bartender comes over. "One vodka tonic and a soda for her." You ask nicely as you feel your heart flutter. The bartender nods before you look at Wanda, who is still glaring at you.

"I am serious." She states, and you nod your head. The bartender sets the drink in front of you, and you take it, turning your back and leaning on the bar to look out at the crowd.

"It is already too late," You tell her as you lock eyes with him before winking at him, making him smirk deeper as Steve talks with him.

"I know," Wanda mumbles, chugging your drink.

"Hey!" You accuse, making her sigh at you.

"Helps numb the brain, and I can't hear your thoughts about him anymore. Nasty," She states, disgusted, making you glare at her as you return to the bar.

"Fine. Bartender!" You call out, ready to numb your own thoughts.

~

As everyone left the compound, the Avengers settled in the living area, where pizza sat on the coffee table. Everyone was laughing and joking around as you leaned into Wanda, who was just as intoxicated as you. You are all chatting as Wanda was watching you as you were practically eyeing Bucky the whole time. He wasn't shying away from your stare. You would catch him sometimes already looking at you. You are so wet and wanting him so badly, practically licking your lips while looking at him.

After a few minutes, you decided to go to bed as everyone was tired. "Well, this was fun," you stand up, adjusting your outfit while swaying a bit. You were feeling just a little buzzed and felt dead on your feet from the socializing. "I am going to head to bed, though." you were a bit unstable in your heels, so you swayed a bit too roughly, almost landing on the floor, but Bucky was already beside you, grabbing your arm.

"Woah there, doll," Bucky mutters, his voice a bit husky. You hum in response as you take in his cologne that fills your nose. You wanted to bury your head in his chest. "You okay there?"

"You girls are really drunk, aren't you?" Tony asks, laughing a bit as Wanda leans onto the couch with a goofy grin.

"Yess, sir," Wanda slurs before falling slowly. Steve catches her looking frustrated as you take in Bucky's scent and warmth.

"I think we made Cap mad." Wanda laughs as she leans into Steve, who huffs and looks at Bucky holding you.

"I think we did. You seem more drunk than I am, though." Wanda looks at you with a glare as you are getting more and more sober at the thought of Wanda being unsafe and drunk.

"Bucky, can you help Y/N get to her room? I'll take Wanda to hers." Steve suggests making you look up at Bucky with flirtatious eyes. Bucky looks at you in his arms, helpless. He moves his thoughts out of the gutter and looks back at Steve.

"Yeah," Bucky states before guiding you to the elevator while Steve fights with Wanda to stand up. You stand up, stumbling a little, but not as much as before. "Come on, Super Soldier. Apparently, I need a chaperone." You mumble out, making your way to the stairs. Bucky is there instantly, helping you up the stairs.

Once in the hallway, you seemed to be getting more tired. You were slowing down, so Bucky eventually had to pick you up bridal style. You are looking up at him, his eyes looking straight ahead as you study him. "You know you are really handsome?" You ask as you reach out and trace a finger along his stubble if you don't mind. He smiles down at you, catching your finger with his human arm and bringing it to his lips.

"Thank you, doll," He kisses your finger before setting it back into your lap. You sigh as he makes it to your door. You are frustrated, and you let yourself get this wasted before you can make a move on this beautiful man.

"That's me." You try to escape his arms, and he lets you. "Friday, can you open the door? " A hiccup interrupts you." Friday opens the door, bringing a smile to your face. "I love technology." You try to go in, but the lip of the doorway causes you to almost fall into the room.

"Jesus, doll." Bucky catches you by the arm, bringing you to stand before wrapping it around his shoulders. He walks you into the room, turning on the lights to see. "You are really wasted, aren't you?"

"I am not that bad, honestly. I am just exhausted." You stumble on your words as he sets you on the bed. "I was up very early this morning training with Clint. The alcohol doesn't help my exhaustion." You try to lean over to remove your heels but give up with the tiny straps with a groan.

"Here," Bucky kneels before you to take off your heels. Your breath is shaky at seeing him kneeling in front of you. Your core is level to him, but he doesn't glance up. His eyes are focused on your feet. You breathe as his cold metal fingers hold onto your ankle while his warm human fingers undo the straps.

"I love this view," You whisper, your voice raspier than usual. He looks up at you, his eyes widen slightly, but a smirk is on his lips. He doesn't break eye contact as he slips off the first heel.

"Careful darling, you can't say things like that without consequences." Bucky's words were supposed to warn you, but it heated your core more. He moves his eyes down to the heel before working on removing it.

"I can't wait to see those consequences." You whisper out to him, and he sighs, standing up as he has removed the last heel.

"Now, I may be bad news, but I won't take advantage of you." Bucky picks you up, easily bringing you to the bed's head. His touch is electricity on your skin. He helps you get into the sheets with you fully dressed.

"Who says I am not trying to take advantage of you," You slur out to realize you are genuinely more drunk than you think as he pulls the comforter up to your chest. "Never mind, you are right, but my words are true." He chuckles as you settle into your bed.

"Goodnight," Bucky says, leaning close to your forehead as your eyes flutter closed. At the last minute, he moves away and leaves you alone.

[blazehedgehog]

After watching SAGE's 2024 trailer, you ever get the feeling that most people want to be making indie games instead of fan games nowadays,? Every year there's been less and less fan works there.

This is the first year I've really felt it in any meaningful way.

There have been attempts for more than a decade to rename SAGE to drop the "Sonic" part. I've always pushed back against that and at this point the branding is too strong to give up, I think. People know about and come to SAGE because the brand is strong. Renaming it would be a death sentence.

Taking off my business hat, it's a bummer to see fangames in the minority here. Everybody wants to hop on that indie game gravy train and chase the success of Pizza Tower (seriously, count how many Pizza Tower clones are in the trailer this year) or Freedom Planet or Spark the Electric Jester or whatever.

And it's easy to congratulate people for striking out on their own and making original games. I was one of the many voices urging Sabrina to divorce Freedom Planet from the Sonic franchise and make it into an original game she could sell. So she ran a crowdfunding campaign (multiple, actually), was successful, and now we have two Freedom Planet games. And that's great!

But... does that mean all fangames should go away forever?

The example I lean on the hardest is comic books.

A lot of the guys who created the biggest super heroes aren't around anymore. They gave up control long ago or are straight up dead now. These books are effectively officialized fanfiction now, as are the $300,000,000 movies based on them. An ever-increasing number of people writing, drawing and directing these characters today were not alive when they were originally created.

But people still keep writing Batman stories, officially or otherwise. Because there are some stories you can only tell with Batman. Now, you could break off and make your own character that's similar to Batman, build up this history for him, and then finally tell your original story with that character. And maybe that's satisfying, to have built something of your own like that.

But for one: that's a lot of work. Batman is interesting because he has decades (almost a century now) of history behind him to play off of and work with. There are people out there who will tell you to just start writing your dream story and forget about building up to it first, but that's more about motivation and confidence than the idea that stories don't need historical context.

And two: that's already been done.

There's a good chance you know who Rob Liefeld is from his, uh, "distinctive" art style. He also created Deadpool, a katana-wielding mercenary assassin that dresses in red and black, whose real name is Wade Wilson. But before Deadpool, he created Deathstroke, a katana-wielding mercenary assassin that dresses in orange and black, whose real name is Slade Wilson.

Here is a guy who has built a career on copying his own work (and the work of others) over and over and over again.

Did it make Rob Liefeld rich and famous? Technically yes, but he kind of got rich because other people made better work using his characters, and he's famous for being kind of a hack.

So which is better?

Creative output you can do right here, right now, today, but is considered "fanfiction" or "fanart" or a "fangame", which may or may not lead to you being the person handling the official thing at some point down the road...

Or spending years of your life toiling to bring an original concept to life, and even if you struggle through all of the boredom and hardship of getting your original product out the door, it gets lost in the noise of now-million other creators trying to do the exact same thing. And then, at the end of your launch, after 2, 3, even 5 years of working and working and working, you've only made enough money to cover rent on your apartment for a month and a half.

Or, to put it another way:

Are you ditching fangame development because you have a legitimately great story you want to tell, or are you just doing it because you can't make money on a fangame?

Are you just creating another Bloodstrike?

As someone who has struggled to justify putting lots of hard work into a fangame myself, and have both made very popular fangames and some not-so-great original games, I don't know if I have a definitive answer for you. But I do wish there were more fangames at the fangaming event, and I will say, as always, if I could get paid a livable wage for making fangames, I would drop everything and do it in a heartbeat.

[akallabeth-joie]

Warning: rant ahead. Tomb of Dragons and Orb of Cairado spoilers below the cut.

Anyone else getting some serious bury-your-gays feelings after the latest installments in the series? At first I thought I was just salty about the Iäna reveal in Dragons, but after we had yet another "secret homosexual relationship revealed during murder investigation" in Orb, I started counting. We have exactly three* named queer couples over the 5 books (including events before the first book which are plot-relevant), all of which are in secret relationships to some extent, and 5/6 of the guys involved are dead by the end of their book, including 2 executed for murdering other people, 1 suicide, 1 premeditated murder, and 1 killed as collateral damage during an assassination. That's...a lot? At this point we haven't seen or heard of any queer couple except for the ones that keep dying. Fully a third of them are dead before the books even start! And, yes, there's a certain amount of homophobia within the world of the story which justifies having characters be discrete, but...could some of them just not die? Maybe?

*Thara does name-drop an earlier lover who is still alive. He never appears on page and has no effect on the story, but if you count him, that brings us up to 2/7 gays still living! I'm not counting Csevet (whose remarks have led many people to read the Imperial Courier Service as a popular job for marnei) because he doesn't have any canonical relationships with another named character. I guess we could add Eshevis Tethimar due to the flashback where he attempts to assault the young Csevet, but that's not really a relationship either, and it would just increase the number of queer characters who end up dead on account of doing murder. And that just leaves Captain Hot-Goblin-Introduced-at-the-end-of-Dragons, whose name I don't even remember. And, yes, it seems like he's meant to be Thara's next love interest, but considering the three-book build up of Iäna and Thara only to get "actually I'm straight", I'm not giving the author the benefit of the doubt here; they don't get counted as a canonical couple until there is an on-page conversation in which both agree on that fact.

[Rant-within-a-rant, but what was that with the Iäna arc? Yes, he could just be theater-kid-flamboyant and find Thara an interesting person to befriend, but the narrative framing felt like that was going somewhere else. Hella-repressed/depressed Thara who can't believe anyone wants to be his friend thought that Iäna might be courting him back in the first Amalo book, and they only get closer from there. The detail with the honey! Iäna introduces Thara to his mother, who outright says that she likes him better than most of the people Iäna's brought over (which...feels like a staple of romantic arcs, not so much something one sees in depictions of platonic relationships?). Iäna gives Thara an open invitation to his opera box and drops his actual job duties whenever Thara shows up wanting to talk. Thara actually seeks out his company. They're committing crimes together within a couple weeks of knowing each other! This relationship is really not treated like any of the other friendships Thara ends up making in Amalo, and it feels rather queer-bait-y in how it was developed and resolved.]

End rant. Not really sure where I was going with this, but I had feelings and my IRL people haven't read all the books yet.

[wolffyluna]

So, in April, I am planning to write the first draft of a novel, because who is going to stop me? Me? I don't want to stop me?

But, unfortunately, it turns out that to write a novel, you have to chose a premise to write. I know. It's criminal.

Below, is a poll, and then a description of the premises under a cut. The poll is not binding, but I am interested to know what people are interested in.

Sapphic Steppe Atrocities vs Space NGOs

Alit and Ngaya faced each other into battle-- until new warriors fell from the sky, clad in armour that could block all bow shot and using weapons that fired light itself. As they flee into the wilderness, they must survive and work out wtf is happening.

Sabina-- who does not have a Greek statue avatar on twitter because social media is for people who do not get shit done-- has a world to conquer, but she, unfortunately, may need the help of the locals to do it. Oh, and upper management is on her case about resources, but you can't strike terror into a populace without resources, okay?

Future just wants a future without smallpox. Humanity has done it once before, it can do it again. She would also like distributing smallpox vaccines to involve less a) space crimes and b) crash landing on planets with hostile weather and hostile people.

Things escalate from here.

2. Siege Engineer x Cavalry General

A century ago, a prophecy was spoke into being: from the steppes would come a rule of the world.

The Great Khan is doing pretty well to reach that goal, but recently, another prophecy has come forth: all empires fall, and this one will fall quicker under the weight of metal flying through the air, propelled by contained fire.

The logical response? Invent guns first. And you know-- capture the engineers who could make one!

Iskander the temporarily named is a siege engineer, with a side interest in explosives, who survived the sack of his city for two reasons: 1. by being forced to hid in a basement when he should have been helping design the last ditch fortifications, and 2. someone ratting out where the siege engineers were hidden. He may be alive, but he is very, very kidnapped.

Bob, the even more temporarily named, is a trusted general, which has unfortunately meant he has been given this task: get one of these engineers to make a gun, or it's his neck on the chopping block with the rest of them. And the only one who knows anything about blackpowder is a fighty arsehole with a death wish. But, it's okay, he's a horse trainer: he has experience dealing with fighty arseholes with a death wish, and he can at least win an arm wrestle against this one.

3. Orc Empress x Cave Elf Assassin

Dude McOrcface was a true rags to riches story, or rather, random guy to Emperor of growing Empire story. He drew together an orc coalition, created a new orcish identity, and was on the up and up. He had multiple wives, include Axeya, Whose Name Must Be Changed, our protagonist.

And then he, rather inconveniently, died. The Empire started immediately fracturing, due to a combination of multiple plausible heirs, steppe partible inheritance, and a lot of powerful orc lords all wanting a slice of that pie.

Women aren’t meant to inherit. Axeya wasn’t even his primary wife. *She didn’t even give him an heir.* But a combination of first mover advantage, sheer ambition, and buckets of charisma, she’s grabbed a sizable portion of his army and land.

But she is now at the head of an imperial shark, that needs to keep fighting and expanding or else it will die. (and well. seeing how many enemies she’s made, so will she.) It’s fine, it’s cool: she goretusk gaslight girlbossed her way into this mess, she’ll goretusk gaslight girlboss her way out.

And okay, maybe the nearest cave elf city has sent an assassin to kill her, but it didn't work! And hey, maybe she can parlay this from an attempted assassination, into a hostage situation, into a very strategic arranged marriage. Don't know if you don't try!

[brionbroadway]

THE TRAITORS IS SO FUN

watching dan gheesling say "it's black widow time" to parvati in 2024 is the best fever dream i've ever had

listen, i know janelle is problematic in real life, but i'll never not root for her on reality tv. she will always have an otev "i was harmed" moment.

congrats once again to mae martin for living every survivor fan's dream and dating parv. the poisoned chalice assassin was everything.

phaedra is incredible. obsessed.

"bananas has won the challenge like 7 times." "what challenge?" "the challenge."

if i walked into the traitors and dan gheesling was there, after not being on reality tv for a decade, i would 100% believe he's a traitor.

rip to maks. as a dwts girlie i just loved seeing him on tv again.

a fake fued with absolutely no lead-up between kevin and the other guy whose name i don't remember?? amazing. love unhinged strategic choices.

the spotlight tag game in the graveyard was sick as hell! bb scaryverse could never.

[keineahnung-ichhalt]

9, 10, 11 & 32 for the ace attorney ask game? ✨️

Thank you for the ask, I have not forgotten!

9. Favourite witness?

I think the obvious answer here is Ema Skye here (who would have thought), but to name some other ones: Shelly die Killer, I just think it's a great concept to have an assassin whose name is de Killer testify about an assassination that he carried out. And then having him get away with it. Several times. And Edgeworth still didn't recognise him. Amazing.

Also honourable mention to Herman Crab, he was so real and only wanted to best for his animals. And also he's canonically aromantic which is something I did not expect to see in these games.

10. Favourite quote?

This one was hard because there are so many that I liked and at the same time I could not remember any of them. After thinking for a while, I think I have to go with these few quotes by Edgeworth that show his character development through the game:

This one from Turnabout Samurai: "The guilty will always lie, to avoid being found out. There's no way to tell who is guilty and who is innocent! All that I can hope to do is get every defendant declared "guilty"! So I make that my policy."

From the next game, in Farewell, My Turnabout, this one: "It doesn't matter how many underhanded tricks a person uses… The truth will always find a way to make itself known. The only thing we can do is to fight with the knowledge we hold and everything we have. Erasing the paradoxes one by one… It's never easy… We claw and scratch for every inch. But we will always eventually reach that one single truth. This I promise you."

I just. I love him and the development he goes through during the Trilogy and also during Investigations. There's another piece of dialogue that references these in the end of AAI2 but it has major spoilers and is also very long so I won't include it in here but it is part of the trinity on my heart.

As for silly non serious quotes, I'd probably give it to "I was hoping to come up with a question while I was pounding on my desk, Your Honor. I didn't" from Phoenix, immediately followed by "I was hoping to come up with a question while I was objecting, Your Honor. I didn't" from Edgeworth.

11. Least favourite Ace Attorney game?

Dual Destinies, I was so sad when I realised that they took away the ability to investigate the backgrounds in all locations. Also the ending was a bit disappointing, the villain was just a spie from an unspecified organisation and we don't even learn about their real name or face. And catching this mysterious spy did somehow end the dark age of the law that has supposedly been there for seven years and restored the trust if the public in the court system. Eh, I don't know. I much preferred when all the lawyers were just some guys doing their job.

32. Your opinion on Dai Gyakuten Saiban?

They are the only Ace Attorney games I still haven't played despite preordering Chronicles before it came out like four years ago. Somehow whenever I was about to play it something happened but I'll play it soon I promise, hopefully after this exam period is over. The one case I did play in 2021 was fun.

(link to the ask game)

[teh-nos]

For anyone keeping track (no one), I have started watching the first Avengers film (MCU not the 60s TV show) but only while eating lunch so it's gonna take a while. So far Nick Fury has been assembling the Avengers (the film was initially released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - because of that 60s TV show - but it's not called that on D+ so I'm calling it what the Americans called it, just FYI) even though there's not yet anything for them to avenge as That Suit Guy (j/k I know his name too!!) isn't dead yet, and now they're on THE FUCKING VALIANT FROM DR WHO and I assume we're gonna continue assembling for a while as they're not all there yet.

MEANWHILE Loki (who is neither an alligator nor a woman in this???) is in a SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR with a bunch of his stans who are... idk something technobabble that involves irridium and anti-protons. He is there looking for the tesseract on behalf of ???? who I know will be revealed 47 films from now as... no, wait, it wasn't, was it? That was just announced on a website or something? So it could be LITERALLY ANYONE. The Avengers (in-progress) also seem to be after that thing, but I have already forgotten why everyone is wanting it, assuming it was mentioned (it probably was).

Thor hasn't shown up yet, but Arrows Hawkeye is working as a Loki Stan and there's Steve Rogers and THE HULK and The Only Woman One, whose power is that she's a Cold War assassin (??) and I think this one is the film where she gets called a cunt (!) and honestly I am not sure which of the men she's getting officially shipped with, I think Arrows Hawkeye though? Fairly sure, as the alternative is that a man and a woman like each other as people but not in a lusty way, which would never happen obviously. (Hey I may ship mostly het* pairings but I don't always like it!)

Based on the Valiant (if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!) I am guessing that the film ends with Loki dying in Thor's arms romantically but then I remembered that I know it can't because one of Loki got kidnapped from... either the end of this film or the start of the next one or POSSIBLY just from a later film's time-travel bit (???) but like... maybe they've edited this film secretly and I was right after all? But nobody else has watched it on Disney + recently so nobody knows yet? IT COULD HAPPEN.

Not sure what to make of this film so far, a lot's been going on yet also not much has been going on, and the one I like best so far (Suit Guy) is gonna die (NOT EVEN IN THOR'S ARMS ROMANTICALLY) and god Iron Man really hasn't aged well now that we have that one tech billionaire being a twat in public all the time to remind us what such people tend to be like. WHERE IS THOR????

*I say het but everyone in everything is bisexual, I know this because I thought of it and announced it on tumblr and will now say "I don't make the rules" to make it an objective FACT. I don't make the rules!!!

[lamialamia]

D, g,m,n for the HBO war asks :)

d. what was a character arc in any of the shows that left you unsatisfied?

oh boy. but I will be truthful, and the answer might not come as a surprise for you: Crosby's arc. Even though Anthony Boyle is intensely charismatic, this character arc is very half-baked. The first half (which i consider from episode 1 to 6) is really nice. We get to see Crosby become more confident, and grow into his role as the group navigator. But then the writers decided to engage in the romantic sub-plot with Sandra that is character assassination to them both, and instead of letting him sit and ponder about the shitty things that happen, Crosby always get a verbal hug from his bff, Rosie. Which means he never have to really face his demons.

I can go on and on. But don't worry, I'll be writing another meta analysis about this stupid arc 🙃

g. masters of the air and generation kill both seem to have more discourse surrounding them than the other two. which did you enjoy more, and why?

answer here

m. what do you think is the best quote of each show?

THIS IS HARD

BoB: "It's called wounded, peanuts. Injured is when you fall out of a tree or something."

TP: "You can't dwell on it. You can't dwell on any of it."

GK: "Point, Ray. I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper-middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art, and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than two thousand years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a Whiskey Tango trailer park by a bowlegged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver."

MOTA: "It'd be me and it'd be you."

n. if you create content, which show do you have the most wips for? choose one to talk about in depth.

I definitely make the most stuff for TP. And right now I'm writing about 2.5 Wips for Sledgefu because they are my O-T-fucking-P.

So, there is this Pacific Rim AU. I wanted to write a vague one-shot. It is no longer an one shot >"<

Sledge and Snafu are two young guys who are fighting monster together and they are in love but don't know it yet and the psychic brain melt is making them crazy and now they engage in a co-dependent Co-pilots with benefits situation where they fuck and don't talk about their feeling.

And they are fighting giant monsters inside a Jeager named Dastard Queen that have a hidden blade (like Assassin's Creed, but with a giant robot) and a supersonic beam in the chest.

I have too much fun writing it, can't you see hahaha

Ask me anything from this cool thing

[draayder]

You beat IW right? Have you done the Yokohama dungeon? because the final bosses of the ex sector are obliterating my ass apart and I didn’t know if you had any party job/lineup recommendations...I’m in premium adventure and all possible party members match the boss level

I have! I've done ~everything~!!

I'll put specifics under the cut

I cleared it first try so I didn't have to strategize that much but imo the name of the game for beating the Amons is DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE

my party was Kiryu (dragon of dojima w/ just level 1 inheritances like burning arrow, trippy flipper ripper and bro-side bbq) Saeko (barmaid with kunoichi and idol skill inheritance particularly scattering flowers, throat slitter, healing voice, and whatever the idol one is that removes status effects from everyone) Seonhee (assassin with housemaid and night queen for scum scraper and candle rush in particular and I think also healing voice from idol) and Zhao (gangster and tbh I can't remember what inheritances he had. prob similar to Kiryu's tbh)

Ichiban and Adachi can both be good party members to bring because of their self revives, I really like Ichiban in desperado and Adachi in linebacker if you have the DLC

the big threat here is that Kiryu does not have a self revive unlike Ichiban so it might be worth putting a sacrifice stone on him. unfortunately for me, I busted mine doing the hawaii haunt EX boss fight lol. really just make sure Kiryu stays up on HP, maybe slap a dragon's binding on him and make sure his armor is as good as you can give him (even if I still have him in the dragon boots.....)

whatever amon you can burst down fastest is your priority target. for me I had a lot of ice damage I could throw at them and was using the dolphin bag on Saeko so whichever one was ice weak is the one I was hammering. bring a paella and as many party fruit cups and teas as you can scrounge up, you can buy fruits around hawaii relatively quick. Zhao was largely on support with homemade dim sum and then his aoe essences

scum scraper is great for knocking off buffs as well as being a grapple. Kiryu will usually do more damage with a proximity bonus regular attack in brawler (assuming you have his...... spirit? high enough to have that attack upgraded) than an ice weak trippy flipper ripper so if you're not snagging multiple guys in it just punch em. if they're really clustered up and you have the upgraded beast proximity attack, hoo boy that will do damage

don't sleep on ceremonial teas they clear status effects for everyone. Saeko's combo action fully heals and clears status effects so use it in a pinch. Seonhee's and Zhao's you can use right off the bat to soften people up, and I used Kiryu's a couple turns in once I had identified whose ass was getting kicked the fastest. they DID revive one amon once and I'm not sure the trigger for it or if it's a one time only thing but I beat him back down pretty quick. burns from candle rush and wok and a hard place are good extra damage

for equipment: eye of the dragon, dragon's binding, transcendent insole, goddess's ikali (sp? the one that ups ice/fire/elec attacks), bracelet of the four devas, any of the max atk/def/will/magic accessories, and I always keep the instant KO/curse nullifier on my party leader. armor is just gonna be whatever the best stuff you have is

if you're still getting your ass kicked it can be worth throwing everyone through the first dozen or so levels of the other jobs just for the stat boosts, usually that's just one or two fights. hopefully something in this wall of texts helps, good luck!!

[maprang12un]

Top 5 the best animes that i like❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

So this blog will show you about 5 the best animes that ranked by my personal preferences for those who don't know what to watch.Hope this blog be helpful and you guys enjoy reading so let's get started!

Top 5 The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Anime's genres are Comedy, supernatural.This anime is about Kusuo Saiki is determined to conceal his powerful psychic abilities so he can live a normal high school life, but his strange classmates are a trial.This anime is so much funny.I really like it.

Top 4 Erased

Anime's genres are Mystery, science fiction, thriller.It is about Satoru Fujinuma can travel back in time to save others' lives. When he wakes up 18 years in the past, he has a chance to save his murdered classmates.This anime is a good mystery anime.You should watch it.

Top 3 Oshi no Ko Anime's genre is Seinen manga. It is an anime that is really famous on the internet now.This anime is about a doctor and his recently-deceased patient are reborn as twins to a famous Japanese musical idol .It has an engaging storyline and great animations.

Top 2 Death note

Anime's genres are Thriller/Horror.Story is about a Japanese high schooler comes into possession of a mystical notebook, he finds he has the power to kill anybody whose name he enters in it.This story has a very exciting and interesting plot for those who like thrills. This anime is very suitable.

Top 1❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Assassination Classroom

Anime's genres are Action fiction, Science fiction comedy.It is about the E class students are tasked with assassinating the teacher advisor who destroyed the moon.This anime is so much fun in my opinion because it have a lot of emotions in this anime and the ending was very impressive. I watched it many times and never got bored.

Maprang 5/3 12

[greyware]

blake jennings-style "what your favorite ************ says about you"

hoatzin: so how's your family? bad? i know.

serval: you are hot enough that if you were a serial killer there would be hordes of 15 year olds putting flower crowns on your mugshot.

dragon: she is the tony hawk of borderline personality disorder.

swan: he wordlessly shows the autism spectrum picture and moves on.

wolf: ritalin will not work. you need 60 grams of methamphetamine stat.

hummingbird: this woman kills someone with no remorse in chapter 4 and gets assassinated by being flung into space. tumblr is calling. answer it.

alligator: you love animals a lot! sorry about your ex.

seagull: ahem. me when her love language is physical touch so i release thousands of hornets into a nursing home.

white cat: i don't care how hot she is. you need to spend an entire day in summer playing around in the sun.

tuxedo cat: this is just hamlet with a gun. dbt would do you wonders.

maned wolf brother: i'm not calling you gay, but you've listened to a song that is exactly 13 minutes and 18 seconds long.

maned wolf sister: i am starting a charity whose mission is to allow everyone who likes maned wolf sister one wild-ass night at the club.

fox: block him. this is directed towards any and all of: your ex, that conservative commentator you keep hearing about, or that guy on reddit who is always wrong and makes you fume with rage.

acoustic: look at xyr name. look at xyr design. look at xyr dialogue. this is the only possible conclusion.

heron: your default response to problems is punching. i am not sure if you know this, but this is a bad thing.

weasel: in your brain there are two cups. one is full of lemonade. the other is full of milk. they have both spilled. the milk is spoiling and you haven't thought of anything but food since 2018.

hyena: these are the girlies that made the us government create the 988 line.

demon: you're one of those guys on reddit who's posting on r/introverted that you haven't been outside in 2 months, sit in complete silence 24/7, and haven't spoken to another human being in so long that you have completely forgotten what hello means.

chickadee: arguing about politics is your only source of joy. have you considered hallucinogens?

penguin: you are either an ex-fundamentalist who wants to kill every pastor or a semi-ex-catholic who experiences life-ruining shame at least once a week.

[taiblogcomics]

It's a Dogfight-Eat-Dogfight World

Hey there, alphabet soup. We're half done this miniseries by now! I dunno why this keeps being a thing I muse on. Kind of a running theme of the blog. I guess it's easy when it's a simple number like six issues. The one positive thing about Rainbow Brite only lasting five issues is that there was nowhere in those reviews for me to stop and muse over where we were in the series. No good halfway point. And I gotta fill up this preamble somehow, don't I~?

Here's the cover:

Another kind of simple cover. At least these covers are definitely things that happen inside the comic, unlike a lot of covers I could mention. This shot happens as early as panel two, arguably! But ye, it's where we left the last issue: the heroes have stolen a plane to get to America, and are pursued/intercepted by their friends. At least this one, you can also see Dick's moustache growing in. That's something, I guess! I dunno if that'll sell new readers, but if you're coming in on this halfway through, maybe you deserve to be confused~

So, Dick and Mutt are being transformed into exaggerations by a rainbow mist dropped from radioactive drone War Pig One. After escaping potential extermination by their own government, the pair steal a plane to fly out to meet their superior himself. Meanwhile, following the president's mental de-stablisation, the General sends two other pilots, Longman and Zee, to intercept the pair on the way. But they also have been affected by the rainbow gas, and we'll have to see how that interrupts their mission…

As Dick and Mutt continue to fly towards the US, Mutt also continues to argue with Dick about the strange outburst he made while stealing the plane--namely, referring to the pair of them as "Dastardly and Muttley". Dick protests that he did no such thing, and his moustache has always been like this! The argument is suddenly interrupted by two things. One, Mutt notices something beeping on the radar. Two, when he tries to articulate this to Dick, he suddenly becomes unable to do anything but bark like the dog he looks like. Instead, he has to seize the controls himself.

Meanwhile, over in Washington, the various cabinet members are having a hearing while the Vice President is being sworn in. Yeah, the President died last issue, sliced to ribbons when he ran through the harp, and the horrors of realism meant he didn't recover. Anyway, the various senators are arguing with General Harrier, finding several things suspicious. Yeah, those two CIA guys, Nixon and Perkins? They were actually undercover Air Force personnel, sent to take out Dick and Mutt. So they're highly suspicious why Air Force personnel would be assigned to assassinate its own men.

They're interrupted by the senator from Virginia, a visibly old guy they clearly all hate talking to. But for once, he commands the room, because he points out some of the actual oddities of the story--particularly, the radioactive test that started this whole mess. For example, does Unliklistan really sound like a real country? Or Unstabilium a real element? Isn't it all sounding a little… dubious? Like said Professor Dubious, the man behind the accident? You know it's concerning when what could be plot holes become part of the actual plot.

Up in the sky, Dick and Mutt just barely manage to avoid being shot with a missile. And rather than be grateful, Dick can only point out it wouldn't be so near a miss if Mutt hadn't started barking like an idiot, or a dog, or an idiot dog. He's recovered now, but he couldn't help himself and it scares him. Before they can ruminate on that, they're hailed over comms by the opposing plane. They recognise the voice as Zee, and she's demanding they surrender or she'll blow them out of the sky. In fact, she may not even wait for the surrender and just do it anyway.

Longman (whose callsign is "Uncle", by the way, so I will switch to that for consistancy) cuts in on the comms to inform Dick and Mutt that Zee got hit by the rainbow mists and is kind of losing it. He wants them to just land, so they can talk this whole thing over. She considers this insubordination, which I guess technically it is. Uncle then cuts off access to the weapon systems, and she decides in that case she'll just ram the planes together. And if this problem's just not enough for you, Mutt starts barking again.

Well, here we go. Dick decides that the only thing to do is take everything head-on, and flies straight ahead. Likewise, Zee considers it a point of honour to never back off from a confrontation. So the two planes are headed for a direct collision. Dick decides the only hope they have is to crash the planes together in such a way that they wedge together and fuse into one aircraft. He then realises what the heck he's just said, but by then it's a bit too late. The planes crunch together with the horrible squelching of metal on metal.

Dick yells over the comms that he's cutting engines and giving Zee the control to land them safely. And she initially tries to snarl that she'll not help a traitor, but then her personality slips and she drops into the southern-twanged damsel-in-distress version of herself again. And as they hurtle to the ground, trying to reassert Zee's better half, War Pig One drifts over a zoo below, causing the animals to become ones from The Jungle Book and Kung-Fu Panda. And a satellite from space reports a fuzzy image of the Earth itself, now sporting a pair of mouse ears. Well, they always said Disney would take over the world~

We don't actually get to see it happen, but the next thing we do see is Zee having somehow successfully landed the fused planes. All four occupants are unharmed, though Zee is not in a mood to leave it that way. Mutt's regained his voice again, trying to tell Uncle of what's been happening. At the same time, Zee and Dick are about to throw down. Dick's trying to talk her down, but his personality switch slips in and he threatens her to stand down or he'll spank her. She rightfully kicks him square in the plums.

In the senate discussion or whatever, they've since dug up the file on Professor Dubious. Turns out, his birth name was Alexander DuBois. He changed it shortly after his discovery of unstabilium, which is a red flag in itself. So how did a dubious professor wielding an unstable element set up shop in a country nobody has ever heard of? He had promised General Harrier he'd solve the instability issues, and ran off with the sample when he couldn't. And the General confesses, due to his own exposure to the element, he just let him do it. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Zee keeps beating on Dick in her fury, but as she does so, the cartooniness of it takes over and his injuries never get worse than his hand swelling up and throbbing red. Classic cartoon injury. Mutt's canine instincts take over and he bites her on the rump, letting Dick crawl away for a brief moment. Fed up, she draws her gun and unloads its contents. But between the act of drawing it and firing, it's turned into a harmless cartoony dart gun, leaving the pair covered in suction cup darts instead of being riddled with bullets.

So, now that Zee's perhaps calmed down since she's technically done her duty by firing upon them, they huddle up and begin a talk. They note that it's kind of odd that nothing's affected Uncle yet, despite his being around Zee ever since she got doused in the mysterious mist. It's proven that they affect stuff just by being around it, but he's not portrayed any noted personality shifts like the others yet. So the General will still be in D.C., and they decide to go calling on him. They turn south--just in time to witness an enormous mushroom cloud erupt from the direction they were about to head, ending the issue--and probably the city as well.

Well, now we're getting into the interesting stuff, huh? (We better be, we're two-thirds of the way through the story!) We've got our backstory revealed, we've got our main characters all united and together, and we've set off a major noticable event to propel this thing towards its finale. And what a finale it'll be~

[queenharumiura]

META + family ( in general, not specifically her family! )

*         send   META   +   a   word   ,   a   name   ,   or   phrase   and   i   will   write   a   head  canon   based   off   of   this   !!!  ||Accepting|| @dyingresolve

Also a bit on the longer side, so readmore

Hm... in general, Haru is a person who puts a lot of emphasis on ties with people. She cares a lot for others, and is prone to prioritizing others over herself.

If it came down to it, if the choice was between her and someone else dying, she'd volunteer herself. She's just that kind of person. It doesn't mean that she's brave, mind you. She'd be absolutely terrified, but above all that, she couldn't handle knowing that someone else died in her stead. The immense guilt is one thing, but she also cares much more for others, so she'd literally never forgive herself.

We know that Haru is quite the friendly bean, and she gets along with a wide variety of people. She could probably view people as important to her like family. Lambo is like a little brother to her, Kyoko and say-- Chrome would be like her sisters. Bianchi is that cool older sister to get advice from. Ryohei can be the older bro type.

The rest-- she don't see them as siblings I can tell you that much lol. Friends, for sure. If they hid less from Kyoko and her, maybe she could view some of them with like sibling bonds, but nah.

Honestly, Haru wouldn't even think twice before sacrificing herself if it came down to someone like Kyoko or Lambo. Not even a thought in her mind, she'd just move on instinct. She's very impulsive like that, sometimes.

I'd said before that if the situation was such that Haru had the choice to choose between herself or anyone in the Vongola, she'd choose to save the other person. That holds true regardless. IF it was a dangerous situation, she'd hesitate with some of the guys mostly because she has trust in them and is pretty confident they have the situation under control. She doesn't want to but in and accidentally make the situation worse.

HOWEVER, Lambo is entirely a different story. She views him as a kid brother. She won't even think. No hesitation, she will try to protect him. It's not even a question.

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Haru's opinion on family is -- skewed. She did have a family, but she doesn't remember them, so as far as she's concerned, they're simply strangers. Then coupled with the fact that it's believed she died in the 'incident' and some other child was mistaken as her- she feels like any remaining relatives that are alive mean almost nothing to her.

They mourn the death of her parents and 'Haru Miura' so they made some other child their family. She feels disconnected to them, but admittedly she is curious about who they are. It's one of those things where you wonder about how your life could've turned out if things have changed, you know? (referenced in the one meme)

In a thread it was mentioned that she didn't feel the need to tell anyone the truth because she feels that finding out the truth that she became an assassin and she lives the days putting her life on the line for dangerous missions-- oh and she has literally no childhood memories, is that really something they want to know? Isn't it better to believe that the family had perished at the same time together? They can be together in heaven.

Then there is Bel who killed his own brother, Ravein whose parents have died because of a mistake he made so many years ago, she's just like DAMN families kinda suck and sound like a major lability.

Thus, I think I mentioned before that Haru in the Varia!au has no real opinion on romance and she has no drive to find one for herself. She's perfectly okay with being single- honestly, she prefers it.

She doesn't know what having a family is like so she only has like theoreticals to go off of. She really treasures Sentai-san, Bel, and Ravein, but she doesn't really know how to accurately describe their relationship. In truth, she does kind of view them as siblings, but she herself wouldn't know how to really put it that way.

She imagines what she feels for them is like siblings- but then she looks at Bel and is like 'mmm maybe not. I don't want to die' lol

[teecupangel]

Hey, guys.

So I got some comments asking how I’m doing in this weirdass world and… ooohhh boy.

First off, no, the assassin’s name is not Desmond… or Altaïr.

It’s Deneb.

Yup. The isekai gods have some serious irony boner or something because they named it after the last of the three Summer Triangle.

Oh… the other assassins are named after stars too. Their leader is named Polaris which means…

Whoever wrote this has a thing for theme naming and having names with meaning or something.

I’m honestly wondering if there will be a group of women named after flowers. Dear god, I hope they’re not the villainess and her cohorts. Since this is set up as having a male lead (hell, maybe the prince or that weirdass mage is the 2nd male lead), that only means it won’t be long until I have to get in contact (and go against) a villainess.

Depending on her backstory and her looks, I might try to push all the male leads away and try to seduce the villainess instead (not that I have any idea on how to seduce anyone).

Why?

Because I like villainess revenge stories! That’s the only reason why!

Other than that… uuuhh…

Oh.

For those who are asking if I’m planning to do a harem or reverse harem. God, no. That’s too much work and these kinds of setup would just railroad me to the main male lead anyway unless I actively go against the plot. For now, I’m not going to pursue anyone. I only talked to the duke once and that was after I was rescued by his assassin squad and I think I might have surprised and confused him by my insistence of knowing their names and where they got their skills (apparently from a sacred text or something).

Besides... I still don't know if this is a yandere story or not. I'd rather not risk it until I have confirmation that none of these male leads will go the yandere route if I try to go for a harem ending.

As for those who are saying that being able to predict the plot is an OP skill. Yeeaahhh. I guess. But… I mean… it’s not a transmigration story, it’s an isekai story. Shouldn’t I have… something more? Or maybe even… idk… status menu or quest menu or something video game-y? I mean, isekai stories are usually meant to be about OP main characters getting what they want and the plot has been more or less going down that direction. My lack of an actual OP power that I can use in combat (look, I’m an introvert whose parents once told me I played outside with kids once and never again because I hate sweating. You can guess my stamina and strength stat by that alone) like some OP magic spell or even an OP familiar to do the fighting for me is kinda… not cliché. And this has been cliché in every other aspect.

... which is fishy if you ask me.

Well… no use trying to think about it right now.

So just a head’s up, the next update will still be on Monday as usual. I’m already halfway thru it. Yeah, I know. I just updated today and I’m already halfway thru the next chapter hahaha. But I have a reason for that. The maid-in-waiting the duke assigned me (well, technically the head butler assigned her to me under the duke’s orders or something and I know she’s one of the assassins because her name is Spica) informed me that the duke will be returning from the frontlines this Thursday (which they call the Day of the Land, quite a mouthful tbh). Anyway, the duke wants to take me into some kind of secret vault underneath the castle or something where the sacred artifact is stored. It’s apparently supposed to only be used by the Saintess so, if I’m the real Saintess (which the duke has doubts on, yeah, screw you too, buddy), I should be able to use it.

So yeah, I wanted to have the next chapter done and ready before I go to that vault because we all know something’s gonna happen. I really hope it’s not me losing conscience after touching the artifact then waking up 3 days later. That would be annoying.

And that’s your head’s up that I might be late on my weekly update next week. Not sure yet XD

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this week’s chapter. Thank you for all the comments last week! And… uuuuhh… I guess… prepare yourselves because this chapter ends in a cliffhanger because I am evil.

Isekai where a fanfic writer is determined to get back to their normal world in time to post their next update on schedule