#callsign-righteous

[captain--price]

Doggo was holding treat like a cigar (kinda). Thought here would be a good place to put this

A cultured pup.

[hydrogenperfoxide]

So my lancer group is playing Operation Solstice Rain. My character is callsign PALADIN (they/he) who operates Juggernaut Star which just looks like Juggernaut Star's armor from Kill Six Billion Demons (see below)

They're a local who built Juggernaut Star with the help of the NHP (who has their own mech that PALADIN will eventually pilot, a Pegasus) named 3 Righteous Fire Forges True Steel.

PALADIN is a cultist who worships NHPs and RA as divine beings. Today we talked to other locals and impressed with PALADIN's armor (which is identical to the mech, and thus looks like the above). With a successful flat roll to charm/inspire PALADIN has gathered two fledgling cult members who were willing to get him more soup because they wanted to learn more about paracausality and NHPs

Other things to know: PALADIN speaks in Thees and Thous but it's entirely an affectation, his armor has a spring loaded spoon, his helmet has a slot that opens so he can shovel soup and food into because he doesn't take off his armor in front of others. Righteous Fire doesn't use audible words and resorts to text messages or canned noises or just notifications (like telling him to go somewhere by just setting a navpoint)

PALADIN will do ANYTHING that Righteous Fire tells him to. Once in the Pegasus, he determines things are the enemies of RA by if Righteous Fire shoots at them using the Ushtabi. By this point Righteous Fire will be even further towards permanent Cascade (as he believes that resetting an NHP is a heretical act)

[splendsay]

COD FF // Callsign: Sunshine // Ch. 30: I Wish I Knew What the End Is

hi babes. this one felt like a diary entry so...apologies in advance. I hope it resonates.

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Callsign: Sunshine

Chapter 30: I Wish I Knew What the End Is

!!MDNI!!

Chapters: 30/? WC: 70,433 Pairing(s): TF141 x Reader (You) Chapter Warnings: Explicit language, exploration of identity and personal growth (may potentially be heavy for some readers) Chapter Excerpt:

You have a choice in front of you that you don't know how to make. Time taunts you. Holds the answer just out of your reach, all the while coming close enough to sting you. 

Two people need to go on the supply run. You can't bear to part with Simon. But to leave Gaz here alone with Alex...you don't trust him.

You still haven't talked to him. You want to. But you can't. Something holds you back by the neck of your shirt -- let's you flail about like a windmill, kicking and screaming in place -- never moving forward, but exhausting yourself anyway. You can't even bring yourself to look him in the eye, which is just as well -- he avoids you like the plague. You would too, you want to tell him. You'd avoid yourself too. 

Your beliefs shift by the hour. Sometimes you feel defiant -- insistent that you're right, you're righteous, that you have every reason to be angry and upset and that, if anything, Gaz should apologize to you first. But then you feel -- wretched. Wretched because -- here you are again. Embroiled in an argument that centers on your pride. Your own sense of self-importance -- and why? You don't even know.

Who are you? 

Not just to the Task Force, though that's a heavy, unanswerable question in and of itself. But who are you? What's important to you? What do you stand for? Where are your lines, your boundaries? What counts as crossing them? What happens if and when they're crossed? 

Are they the same as they were? You think the answer is no.

How can you hold Gaz to a moral standard you can't even articulate? 

You're just so fucking angry. You're tired and you're restless and you're angry. All the time. It's relentless. Like lead in your veins, dragging you down to the earth, anchoring you to a time between the past and the future that never moves -- limbo.  

If you were really honest with yourself, you'd admit that Gaz has just become a scapegoat for it -- that anger.

In another, simpler life, it wouldn't have been difficult to forgive him. Hell, you already had, you'd thought. You'd thought...

But this life is hard. Too hard. It isn't simple. And you're selfish. Selfish people survive. And survival has made you an asshole. You don't know how to feel about that. You can't hardly admit it to yourself. 

So you stay quiet. You stay quiet and aloof and callous.  

Simon tries. Has been trying -- to form a bridge between the two of you. But something -- your ego -- keeps you from walking it. He badgers you every night. 

"Did you talk to Gaz today?"

"You already know the answer."

"Ace..."

"Don't 'Ace' me, Si, I'll talk when I want to."

And he always lets it drop. Part of you wishes he'd push you. Demand some accountability. You deserve it. Deserve to be pushed harder. You might even need it. You don't know. You don't...you don't know anything. 

And the guilt -- it eats at you. Mostly because Simon can't stand it. You see it in the tension in his shoulders. The perpetual furrow of his brow. The increasing frequency of his bouts of silence. The little nudges he gives you in Gaz's direction. 

He can't stand to have so much tension between teammates, though that's his classification, not yours. You still don't see yourself that way. As part of the team.

Hence the problem.

But the fact is, Gaz betrayed you. Prioritized his own feelings over what the team had agreed was the greater good -- not just you. And had threatened to do it again with Alex. You can't abide that. Can't...you can't...

That's not what friends do, you insist to yourself. You insist on it, because, if you didn't -- you'd have to contend with the fact that you would hurt Simon to protect your own feelings. You'd willingly cause him stress in order to avoid the reality that -- this problem is yours to solve. That you might be wrong. And not only would you do those things...you are doing them. Actively. 

Asshole.

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twenty questions for fic writers!

tagged by @syoddeye - Yippee! Thanks for the tag!

1. how many works do you have on ao3?

5!

2. what's your total ao3 word count?

57,624 words

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Kind of Dragon age and Baldur's gate but mostly Call of Duty MW (reboot baybeee)

4. top five fics by kudos

Only have 5 so I'll do top three lmao Retirement Party, Heavy Weighs the Crown, Two Graves

5. do you respond to comments?

I try to!

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Two Graves. RIP Ben you were the realest.

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Uh well. I guess You Drive Me Wild but in all fairness nothing else has an end yet.

8. do you get hate on fics?

Nope! I've been lucky that my readers so far are so wonderful

9. do you write smut?

Yes! I'm getting better at it. More powerful.

10. craziest crossover:

In a way Heavy Weighs the Crown is a crossover with my original works but like, only in the heavily borrowing fantasy worldbuilding way so I don't have to do it from scratch.

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

naur

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

uh uh

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

Working on something called the Righteous Hand with @mortuarywriting but we haven't gotten done enough to post anything anywhere yet. We're writing it a bit piecemeal as the mood strikes

14. all time favorite ship?

POLY 141!!!! I want four boyfriends and I want the boyfriends to be boyfriends

15. what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

The Devil You Know It's a modernish mafia ish Varric/Hawke fic and quite frankly it fucks. But I put in plot threads I'm not sure how to resolve. I have several more chapters written already lmao

16. what are your writing strengths?

I think dialogue and character interweave. Love talking about how guys

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

I don't always know where I'm headed because I don't plot out ahead. Sometimes things don't make sense.

18. thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I think it's a bit fun! I've only done a bit of it (Spanish in the next segment of Retirement Party). I'll usually go with the italics or bold option for "translated" text though. It's easier.

19. first fandom you wrote in?

Harry Potter. I started writing a Marauders Era prequel fic when I was a smaller person

20. favorite fic you've written?

Hard to decide! I'm kind of a big fan of my own work. No one else is writing so specifically for my own tastes lmaooo. Maybe Retirement Party though. It's been really fun to write. Maybe Sparrow if I can use one that's not posted.

tagging @mortuarywriting , @callsign-mimic and @cadashhh

[thegospelofstjohn]

"The Pot and its Lid." From the Gospel of Saint John, 17: 24-26.

Jesus identifies Himself next as what is called Purushotam in Hebrew, "the Fire Passion of the Holy Spirit" AKA "the place we retire."

Pur= "a lot" , the cooking pot of science

The verb פרר (parar) means to split, divide and usually make more, expand or multiply. This root belongs to an extended family that also contains פרץ (paras), to break (through), פרש (paras and parash), to spread out or declare, פרס (paras), to break in two or divide, and פאר (pa'ar) means to branch out or to glorify.

The Bible is not concerned with political goings on and only with the evolution of the wisdom tradition, and thus with the rise of information technology (from cave paintings to blockchain). That said: our word "science" comes from the Greek verb σξιζω (schizo), which means to split, divide and make more.

Verb פרה (para) means to bear fruit or be fruitful. Noun פרי (peri) means fruit in its broadest sense. Noun פר (par) means young bull and פרה (para) means young heifer. Note that the first letter א (aleph) is believed to denote an ox-head, while its name derives from the verb אלף (aleph), to learn or to produce thousands. The second letter, ב (beth) is also the word for house (or temple or stable). The familiar word "alphabet," therefore literally means "stable of bulls" or "house of divisions" or "temple of fruitful learning".

Noun פרא (para') is a word for wild donkey. The young bovines were probably known as fruits-of-the-herd, but donkeys in the Bible mostly symbolize lone wanderings and humility.

Noun פור (pur) means lot (hence the feast called Purim). Noun פורה (pura) denotes a winepress and פרור (parur) a cooking pot.

Osoth=

"The difficult adjective οσιος (hosios) means "sanctioned by the law of God or by nature" in the eloquent words of Liddell and Scott (A Greek-English Lexicon). God's divine nature can be clearly seen through what has been made (Romans 1:20), and is all about the harmonic oneness of all things (hence the many symmetries and preservations laws of physics: see Romans 8:28, John 17:21-23, Ephesians 4:3-6), which can be partaken in by men, who then thus become divine (2 Peter 1:4).

Language is ultimately a matter of common standards or rules: words are only words when they live in multiple heads at once. Feelings are private and thus lawless. Words are common and thus lawful. Our adjective οσιος (hosios), therefore, means lawful or: in harmonic agreement with the natural laws of God."

Am=am" (עם) in Hebrew means people, referring to a group ranging from all mankind to a specific nation or even the population of a town; essentially signifying a collective of kinsmen or a community. 

In this role He is the Manager of Affairs, another callsign used by the Tawuse Melek.

The chapter concludes as Jesus Himself explains. We have no glory by ourselves. We need faith, the government, the academy, meaningful work, and the indivualistic pursuits of the Self in order to know why we are here, and what we are to do:

24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 24: See my glory! The Number is 13564, יגךסד, ‎‎yigal asad, "a jug head."

The kipper, the hat Jewish men and women wear on the top of their heads is the "lot" or "cover" to the cooking pot. See my note above on the role of the Tawuse Melek ; the rules and laws instituted by the Manager are the ones that secure the contents of the pot.

Lot, Abraham's Nephew was "covered" by the Covenant, meaning he did not need to submit to the rule of Sodom and Gomorrah, "violence and oppression." Failure to submit to a loser is the beginning of wisdom which is why Jews wear kippers, as a sign of their defiance to the unnatural laws instituted by a tyrant.

v. 25-26: Continue to make yourself known. The Number is 17181, יזיחא, yaziha, "through a series of comings and goings." We discussed this in detail earlier in the Gospel. The etymology states:

"The verb יצא (yasa') is one of the most occurring verbs in the Bible. It means to go, and specifically to go out or forth (Genesis 31:33, 2 Samuel 11:8, Micah 4:10). Its opposite is the verb בוא (bo') meaning to come.

The difference between these two verbs lies not simply in the direction of motion relative to the observer, but rather in a motion relative to either a focal point on one end or a state of dispersal on the other. The verb בוא (bo'), to come, is predominantly used to describe a motion away from being all over the place or considering various options, and toward one specific place or one final decision. The verb יצא (yasa'), to go, is predominantly used to describe a motion away from the focal point (being perhaps a point of origin or pause) and towards the wide blue yonder where everything is possible (Genesis 24:50, 1 Kings 5:13, Isaiah 28:29).

In Hebrew, when the sun sets it comes, and when it rises it goes. Hence the east is a place of going and the west is a place of coming. Hence the east has to do with past and the west has to do with future.

This verb's derivatives are:

The adjective יציא (yasi'), meaning forth coming. It's used only in 2 Chronicles 32:21.

The masculine noun צאצא (se'esa), meaning offspring (Job 31:8, Isaiah 22:24) or produce (Isaiah 34:1). This word occurs only in plural.

The masculine noun מוצא (mosa'), denoting a place, agent or act of going out: a going forth (2 Samuel 3:25, Hosea 6:3), an utterance (Deuteronomy 8:3, Jeremiah 17:16), a source or spring of water (2 Kings 2:21), a place of departure (Numbers 33:2), a mine (Job 28:1). This is also the word for sunrise (Psalm 19:6) and thus east (Psalm 75:6).

The feminine noun מוצאה (mosa'a), which is the feminine equivalent of the previous noun. It's used only twice, and always in plural: once of the going-forths of the Messiah (Micah 5:1) and once in the meaning of a latrine, that is the place of evacuation (2 Kings 10:27).

The feminine noun תוצאה (tosa'a) denoting a full collection of out-goings of sorts. It's used to describe the outer reaches of a territory (Joshua 16:3), the outskirts of a city (Ezekiel 48:30), the furthest reaches where life can develop into (Proverbs 4:23), and the furthest reaches of death (Psalm 68:20)."

Time is standing still and passing us by at the same time. The world has allowed a psychopath and a bunch of religious terrorists to take control of the United States government and it is not at all succeeding at remediating the problems this is causing, none of which are not at all surprising.

Donald Trump's former administration left a trail of broken lives and bodies behind it and these are still languishing in so called complex cases the government finds itself incapable of managing. We are losing our most valuable assets and gaining nothing in return for them because we refuse to follow the rules, the laws, our consciences, the scripture, everything is going wrong and there are no excuses.

Jesus said to come and go from tragedy and turmoil the same way He walked across a turgid sea. We, however have turned the ship whole hoggedly right into a squall and shall be picking up the pieces of our lives for decades if persons in position of authoritys do not take control, do their jobs, and fulfill the roles God has tasked of all of his saints.

This directive touches all of us in some way. All of us need to do what is needed to protect the world from danger and evacuate it to safety wherever danger lies. We cannot allow the Republicans to escape the consequences of their actions, tariff every trading partner on the planet, deny military and humanitarian aid to those in need or rape and pillage the people who live in this country. This has to end.

[virulentvirtue]

Dredgen Faith wasn’t normally one to avoid temptation in all its forms.

But a chance to laugh at that self-righteous ass is more than he can resist.

“Saladin.” He spat the name out, “That guy has a real bad case of thinkin’ the sun revolves around his ‘mighty shoulders.’ He was a self-important hypocrite in the dark ages, and experience has only convinced im’ he’s right.”

He rolls one shoulder, absently, the arm hunters normally use for a super.

And Old wolf telling a young wolf they’re putting away their teeth, for now.

“Shoulda figured’ you’d been to the tower. Your kinda cocky only comes from Vanguard types.  You got a name? Or...wassit...a callsign? Maybe one of those fancy little titles that goes in front?”

Hey hey old man

Fuck, marry, kill,

Lahkshmi-4, Mithrax, Crota

"Keep Lahkshmi's name out of your fuckin' mouth. She served the city for years; and deserves respect. Fuck and marry her, kill the other two."

[e-vasong]

I’ve already talked about a Leverage crossover where the Hargreeves are conmen but I'm. losing it thinking about. a Leverage AU where the Leverage team sees these kids on tv, and they just go.  oh shit, that’s just fucking wrong.  (I know the timelines don’t match up but let’s pretend the umbrella kids were born a little later, or that Leverage takes place a little earlier, or something like that.  I don’t know.)

But these fucking umbrella kids show up on TV, and at first none of them are paying much attention. Not right away.  They’re busy running cons, and none of them except Hardison watch TV for fun very often.

So they’ve all heard bits and pieces about this Umbrella thing, and aren’t quite sure what to make of it.  Superhumans, huh? Eliot mutters at one point. Whatever. Our lives are already so goddamn weird.

But eventually they catch a broadcast while they’re home in between cases.  it’s playing in the background while they’re enjoying a meal together at the brewery.

The Umbrella Academy saves the day yet again! the broadcaster declares cheerily. We go now to a statement at the Louvre from their leader, Sir Reginald Hargreeves.

It’s just novel enough to catch their attention--being who they are, they all perk up at the word Louvre--and it gets them half-watching as they chat over breakfast.

It’s Parker that sees it first.  She’s Parker, so what catches her attention is actually not the fact that one of them is covered in blood, nor is it the fact that their father is calling them by numbers instead of names.  It’s the way that they stand, tense and upright.  It’s the way that the one covered in blood is trembling minutely, so fine that it’s almost imperceptible. But she notices. And she notices the way that the one to the bloodied boy’s left--the fifth one in line--leans over ever-so-subtly when their father is looking away. Whispers something with the barest movement of his lips. And then, after a moment of hesitation, he links hands with his shaking brother, twining their fingers together.  Parker knows that whisper, knows what this is. She used to do that with her brother.  Used to hold Nick’s hand, just like that, when their fosters were scaring him, trying to provide comfort even despite the fear of being caught.

It’s not long before the others follow her gaze. She’s stopped engaging in the conversation entirely, is just staring at the television with a death glare, nose wrinkled.

“Parker, baby,” Hardison says.  “That’s your angry face.”

“I’m angry,” she says, and doesn’t elaborate.

“Got it,” Hardison takes it in stride, as he always does.

Eliot’s frowning at the TV.  Unlike Parker, his eye does jump to the most obvious thing first.  To the boy, no older than eleven or twelve probably, drenched head to toe with blood.  There’s no rips in his clothing; Eliot’s pretty sure the blood isn’t his. He’s standing up straight, but his shoulders are slightly hunched.  Like he’s injured.  Broken ribs, maybe?  And he’s been taught to hide them too. He’s also not the only one with that too-stiff posture. These kids aren’t standing up straight. They’re standing at attention.  Number One, their father calls one of them, and what are those? Fucking callsigns?  

Sophie and Nate are watching too.  Their faces are carefully blank.  They aren’t happy, Parker’s pretty sure, but they’re trying not to react.

“What the hell?” Hardison says slowly.  He’s the last one to catch on, though only by a very narrow margin.  He lacks Sophie and Nate’s cynicism, and the years of personal experience Parker and Eliot have, but he’s still too smart to not figure it out almost immediately.  And he is first one to abandon the stunned stillness that’s fallen over the rest of them, pulling his laptop out of his bag, already quickly tapping away at the keys.

“This ain’t right,” Eliot says, voice a growl in his chest.  “This is--this is--it’s televised child abuse.”

Sophie makes a quiet noise of agreement then. “It is,” she says, quietly disgusted. “Those poor children.”

Nate is still staring at the screen, lips pressed flat.

“This Reginald guy looks rich,” Parker says.  Then: “Can we kill him?”

Eliot chokes on his drink.

“How is this even legal?” Sophie asks.  She sounds curious, though not particularly surprised by the grievous violation of child protection laws before her. “It’s so...blatant.”

“Sir Reginald Hargreeves,” Hardison says, no longer typing.  “He is--oh shit.” And the typing resumes, faster and a little more panicked than before.

“Hardison?” Nate prods after a moment, giving Hardison a sidelong glance.

“Yeah, yeah, it’s all good,” Hardison says.  “The INTERPOL files on this guy are locked up tight though.  Almost tripped their security system there.  I didn’t, of course, but--”

“You couldn’t get in?” Eliot says, smirking.

“Yet,” Hardison says.  “Dammit, man, it’s been less than five minutes.  Give me a couple hours and that thing is mincemeat.  Metaphorically speaking, of course.  But I do see what’s going on here and,” he clicks his tongue, shaking his head in disappointment.  “Y’all, this is hinky.”

“Yes, I think we got that,” Nate says.  The corner of his lip twitches up.

“Yeah, yeah,” Hardison says.  “This guy has got friends everywhere.  No one knows how he got the kids, but it looks like he technically bought them--”

“He what?” Sophie sounds like she’s been suckerpunched.  Parker can’t think of the last time she heard Sophie sound so shocked.

“Oh yeah.  You think that’s bad?  The numbers aren’t code names  The numbers are their name names.  Like, legally.  I just found an article that said he ordered them by how useful he thinks they are, but judging by the adoption papers it was actually in the order he, uh,” Hardison coughs, “acquired them.”

Eliot is swaying where he stands.  “Common tactic.  He’s pitting them against one another so they’ll be easier to control.  It undermines the self worth of the ones lower on the scale and makes the ones that are higher up feel obligated to do what he wants.  Son of a bitch.”

“...And it looks like he leveraged their powers as excuse to gain exemptions from child protection laws,” Hardison continues like he hasn’t been interrupted.  “Claimed their abilities meant they don’t need the same safeguards.”

“That’s bullshit!” Eliot sounds thunderous.

“I know, buddy,” Hardison reaches over blindly, waving his hand around vaguely until he finds Eliot’s shoulder.  He gives it a comforting squeeze.  “I didn’t write it.”

Eliot heaves in a shuddering breath.  “That’s just--”

“Evil,” Sophie finishes.  

“I’m inclined to agree,” Nate says.  He’s not watching the TV anymore.  He’s staring off into the middle distance, arms crossed over his chest.

“Oh!” Parker perks up.  All the grief and distress that had been brewing on her face vanishes like storm clouds parting for the sun.  “Nate! Nate, are you scheming?  You look like you’re scheming.”

Nate makes a noncommittal grunt.  “It would be dangerous.”

“They’re in danger,” Sophie says softly, jerking her head in the television’s direction.

Eliot’s long-since gotten to his feet.  He’s pacing, and that’s how Parker knows he’s furious.  When Eliot is too angry to stand it, he has to move, has to find some way to handle the rage roiling under his skin.  Usually he cooks, chopping vegetables with furious aplomb.  And when he can’t cook, he paces.  

“They’re fucking child soldiers,” he says.  “I can’t--” he cuts himself off with a furious shake of the head.  I can’t believe, he was about to say, Parker thinks, but he had to stop because that’s not true.  Eliot knows better than anyone what the government--what the world does to people they find useful, whether its skill or power that makes them so.

“Y’all are behind,” Hardison says in sing-song.  “I’m already trying to burn this motherfucker down.”

“Hardison, do not tip our hand,” Nate says, snapping into his leader-voice automatically.  Parker grins.  He’s already got a plan, then.  She knew all that reluctance was just for show.  Sophie laughs, as clear and bright as the ringing of a bell, and even Eliot perks up.  

Hardison grumbles, closing his laptop and stuffing it back in his messenger bag.  

Nate is grinning a little too, though it’s that angry smile he gets sometimes when Parker knows he’s thinking about hurting bad people.  She understands.  She's wearing hers too right now.  Nate glances them all over, and for all the malice dripping off the knife’s edge of that smile, his eyes are soft.  Maybe even a little proud.

“Fine. Fine. You guys win,” Nate says, lifting his hands in defeat.  He’s putting on a show of being beleaguered, but Parker can hear the sparking anger in his voice, and oh, how could she have forgotten?  Sophie is so gently righteous, Hardison so achingly distressed, and Eliot so full of fire and fury that she almost didn’t notice Nate’s seething wrath, nearly forgot that Nate looks at every injured child in need of help and thinks of Sam.  “Everyone, get your things.  Hardison, get us some plane tickets.  Let’s go steal some children.”

“Okay, okay.  I ain’t complaining cause, like, fuck that guy,” Hardison says, slinging his bag over his shoulder.  “But stealing children?  Could you have made us sound anymore like kidnappers?”

“Hardison!”

“I’m just saying.”

[captain--price]

This my baby :) fluffy , small with a cracker addiction, what do you think , captain?

Can't blame the fella - I do enjoy a Ritz every now and then. Sweet little thing.

[sporadically-writing]

Alexis Wolf

Basics

Full Name: Alexis Wolf

Nickname(s): Alex, Lex, Wolf (Callsign)

Age: 15 when joining Blackwatch, 20 when Overwatch fell, 30 when Winston recalls Overwatch

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Appearance

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Nationality: American

Skin Tone: Fair

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Brown

Hair Style: She wears her long hair either in a single braid or pigtail ones

Makeup: Only when she has to for undercover mission

Build: Slim but athletic

Height: 5′ 5″

Style: Wears all black, leaning on clothing that helps her hide while comfortably doing all the high athletic feats that she has to do

Personality

General Personality Traits: Righteous, Volatile, Calculating

Strengths: Driven, Protective, Perceptive

Flaws: Stubborn, Hot-Tempered, Married to Her Work

Habits and Mannerisms: She pinches the bridge of her nose and drags a hand over her face when agitated; When she’s angry, she stomps either to her room to throw some pillows at the wall or to the training area to shoot some targets

Secrets: She may harbor a crush on Cole Cassidy but she would rather keep that a secret from herself as well

Regrets: She regrets allowing Blackwatch to become what it became, she unreasonably blames herself; She also regrets leaving Overwatch before it fell, maybe she could have done something 

Skills/Talents: Shooting; Acting; Stealth; Reconnaissance

Likes: Ramen, Training, Cool Night Air

Dislikes: Pompousness, People Taking Advantage of Others, Stupidity

Sense of Humor: Dry, snarky humor

Guilty Pleasure: Whiskey

Defining Moment: Saving Genji Shimada despite everything and everyone telling her not to 

Relationships

Friends: Gabriel Reyes (Pre-Retribution), Ana Amari, Reinhardt Wilhelm, Jack Morrison (Pre-Fall), Cole Cassidy, Genji Shimada, Lena Oxton (Post-Retribution), Fareeha Amari, Briggette Lindholm

Family: Andrew Wolf (Father, deceased), Juliet Wolf (Mother, deceased)

Lovers: Cole Cassidy (eventually)

Relationship Status: Single, married to her work

Reputation: Those who don’t know her are rightfully scared of her. She is one of Blackwatch’s best agents and marksmen, she is scary, you should be scared. Don’t tell her that people say this, many regard her as Commander Reyes’ adoptive daughter

Miscellaneous

Current Residence: New York City, NY (Post-Fall)

Collections: She does keep pictures of those she holds dear, Pre-Fall she keeps pictures of her parents, Post-Fall she keeps pictures of the happier days of Overwatch and Blackwatch

Accent: American, New York

Voice: Light but rough

Signature Quote: “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me...”

Song: Havana - Blue Steel

Backstory

Alexis Wolf and Omnics have a difficult relationship. When the girl was no older than fifteen she found herself orphaned by the Omnic Crisis, stuck living in the wreckage like many other kids her age. The only difference between her and many of the other kids was that she had a talent for protecting and defending others, not to mention a resourcefulness that kept her and others around her alive in that difficult time. So, when Overwatch found her in their campaign of offering aid to the poor souls of the world, they thought they might offer her a job.

After entrance exams, Gabriel Reyes and Blackwatch were more than happy to snatch her up and over the course of the year, nimble and quiet Wolf worked her way up to being one of Blackwatch’s top agents. Armed with a slightly downgraded model of the weaponry used by Strike Commander Morrison, some of Angela Ziegler’s miracle bandages and a chain-like bolas to help her in the field, she was excellent at what she did.

One of her finest missions, in her opinion - do not ask Reyes what he thought about it at the time - was the night she sat vigil at Shimada Castle. The mission had been simple. Reconnaissance. See what the notorious crime family was up to, pose as a tourist and see what you can find out. What she ended up finding that night was an empty house and a half-dead heir on the grounds of their beloved empire. Incapable of letting the young man die, she called in help, bringing the man to Angela. Reyes had yelled up a storm at her for this but Alex stood by her decision. Genji Shimada ended up being a valuable asset to Blackwatch and more than that, a trusted friend. She had done the right thing.

There was also, of course, the Route 66 mission which, on the whole, was a successful mission. The few consequences of it fell heavily on Wolf though. She had been shot by the Deadlock Gang’s notorious leader. ‘Calamity’ Ashe was a crack shot, Wolf had to give the woman that but her arm hurt like hell for several months after. Not to mention the added seemingly unending headache that came in the form of Cole Cassidy. For some reason the young man her age had decided that out of everyone on base, he wanted to bother her, and their ‘will-they-or-won’t-they-though-Alex-screams-all-the-time-that-they-won’t-while-Cole-constantly-states-that-they-will’ relationship began.

Despite everything, Wolf’s arm healed and she learned to deal with the cowboy. But nothing could prepare her for the addition of Moira O’Deorain and the gang’s trip to Venice. After that, her relatively peaceful life and new family began to fall apart. Her boss - and to everyone else, her adoptive father - began to change. He wasn’t the same man she had signed up to work for and the two of them got in to fight after fight, leading to her transfer to Overwatch. She had made friends with the newly blinking operative, Lena Oxton but Alex didn’t stay with the organization long after her transfer. Tensions were far too high and she feared for what could happen if she stayed. She said goodbye to those she cared for, the tearfullest with Genji. (She hadn’t been able to say goodbye to Cole as he had left before she did, without saying goodbye).

Nowadays, she lives in New York City, her previous home, trying to continue her life without thinking too much about the past. That is, until a certain scientist decides to call the gang back again... She doesn’t want to go back, but if she remembers why she started, and what she gained because of it, she may be persuaded...

[hydrogenperfoxide]

So i'm joining a Lancer RPG group with a Pegasus mech (one of the Horus mechs). And now i'm on a refreshed Kill Six Billion Demons kick.

I've named my mech 3 Righteous Fire Forges True Steel and it comes with an NHP (non human person, a sorta extradimensional AI type. society then "shackles" them, limits them so they don't grow too alien).

My character is a zealot, callsign Paladin. Convinced that they are Chosen by the entity behind Horus, i'm unsure if they think it's a branch of RA aka Monist-1 as the lore states some think, or if they think it's a wholely separate entity

I'm really excited and the GM and I are finally convincing our friend to read KSBD cause she would love it

[jackalopey]

i am literally so bored rn so im gonna do An Entire Ask Meme for melyn

if your character switched factions, how would they react to having to fight an old friend/ally from their original faction?

awfully bold of you to assume anyone can make melyn do anything. she often befriends strangers from the opposing faction instead of fighting them; if she met an old friend on the battlefield she would be fine with it. she’d either talk them down, or if that wasn’t possible fight them and leave them unconscious / otherwise incapacitated. she wouldn’t take it personally and would expect them not to, either.

if your character could romance anyone, regardless of class or npc status, who would they have romanced?

*gestures to lana* shes already got the wife. genuinely dont think theres anyone else she’d be interested in. we really lucked out there (unlike poor quizzi, destined to never smooch ashara in-game)

do they regret any choices they’ve made in the past?

yes :) in my legacy, lyn sacrifices vette to save torian and that Haunts her. she does it bc she insisted on not taking lana’s advice & keeping the mandalorians safe. she realised that torian had a chance of being the next mandalore, or at least being influential amongst the mandalorians, so keeping him alive was strategically the right move. that choice was influenced by valkorion, and she considers her judgement to have been clouded. she often wonders if she could have done something different and saved them both.

are there any choices they wish they could’ve made?

redeeming vaylin, 100%. lyns big thing is choice - she strongly believes in the importance of personal choice, so the fact that vaylin never truly gained self-determination feels like a personal failing to her. she also wishes she could have saved more of the children of the emperor, for similar reasons, though as she was younger & less experienced back then she tries not to beat herself up for it.

if they switched sides (dark side to light, light to dark), how much would change about them?

i honestly have no idea. so much about who she is is a product of her jedi upbringing; if she hadnt been raised by the jedi i have no idea how different she’d been. if she just fell though she’d probably still be like herself - just carrying that righteous anger harder. but she wouldn’t fall, because she embraces the complexity of the force. i think to truly fall there has to be some degree of fear of the dark, or at least an awareness of ‘dark = bad’ somewhere in you. idk, its complicated & i have complicated feelings about it.

did they name their ship, or is it just referred to as “the ship”?

i think the consular’s callsign is the guardian and she’d probably call it that, or something else similar to that.

if they were a companion, what class would they be for and how would their missions go?

hmm. excluding the consular dsfhjsf i could see her as a companion for any class tbh, but i’d probably go with the knight, with her conversations revolving around the concept of self-determination & forgiveness.

if time travel existed and they were thrown into the prequel/original/sequel trilogy, how would they react?

im doing an rp like this actually fsdghfdsh but she’d primarily be curious about seeing how things from her time went down, and what people of the future remember of her and those she knew. she’d also end up being fascinated by the way people distort and misremember history.

have their light side/dark side actions changed over time? (i.e., a sith warrior who starts out light but ends up dark, etc.)

not so much? i guess she’s started to make some darker choices when those she cares about are in danger, but generally speaking she’s still very light.

are there any choices they wouldn’t have taken, knowing the eventual outcome?

not really? i dont think so at least. most of her regrets are more personal.

if they were the opposite class, what would change about them? (a sith warrior becoming a jedi knight, smuggler to bounty hunter, etc.)

im doing a play like this! i am... still on korriban fdsghdsfhsdf but imagine the most light-sided inquisitor you can get. that’d be her. she’d probably say ‘sorry’ to the ghosts.

do they wish they were/weren’t force sensitive?

nope! her force sensitivity is a big part of who she is - she wouldn’t be her without it!

does their past/background effect how they react to things?

yeah, she’s hugely influence by the sacking of coruscant in particular. this was what inspired her to become a healer! she’s also hugely influenced by yuon parr’s sickness- this is what caused her to become so fixated on the concept of self-determination.

do they consider themselves a hero?

yes, but not in a conceited way. she knows that she fits the definition of a hero. she won’t brag about it, though - she thinks that jedi are supposed to be heroes. it’s their job, to be heroes so others don’t have to.

if they weren’t “the” imperial agent/etc., who would they be? how would they react to the decisions the person in their place is making? (i.e., an agent who is not cipher nine, a smuggler who is not the voidhound.)

‘damn, that sounds rough. anyway, im going to go meditate under a fountain for a week.’

[aion-rsa]

The Umbrella Academy Powers Explained

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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2.

One of the most exciting parts of any new superhero story is finding out the characters’ respective powers and how they affect their lives and personalities. 

Such was the case in The Umbrella Academy season 1. And strangely enough, such is the case in The Umbrella Academy season 2 as well. For, while the abilities of the Hargreeves were established in the show’s first season, many of those abilities evolve and change in intriguing ways for season 2. 

We often forget the “Academy” portion of “The Umbrella Academy.” The Hargreeves family was never a super-proficient Fantastic Four-style crime-fighting team. They were more of a work in progress under the instruction of a truly terrible man. As showrunner Steve Blackman explains it: “(Reginald Hargreeves) was not a very good teacher.”

“All of them stopped their training in their adolescence when the family broke up, and they are still learning about their powers and their powers are still evolving.”

That’s rough for The Umbrella Academy as individuals but exciting for dedicated fans of the show. As season 2 reveals, the Hargreeves might have some tricks up their sleeves that even they didn’t know about. With that in mind, let’s run down The Umbrella Academy’s powers and how they evolve in the show’s second season. 

Number One – Luther

Per comic book lore, Reginald Hargreeves numbered his “children” by how useful they were to him. If that is indeed the case then Mr. Hargreeves was suffering from a severe lack of imagination. Because Luther, however useful he might be, has arguably the most unremarkable super power. Luther’s super power is basically the most generic, entry-level ability imaginable: super strength. Luther has always been strong and that strength seemingly magnified when he was injected with gorilla DNA to save his life. 

Our understanding of Luther’s power doesn’t progress much in season 2. Though there are some interesting inconsistencies with how his super strength is applied. His body is strong enough to stop a Soviet RPG but weak enough to bleed from some well-placed punches in a bare-knuckle brawl. Perhaps Luther’s mental state is important to the application of his strength. When he feels emotionally vulnerable – so too is his body. But when he’s all charged up on adrenaline, pity the Soviet soldier who tries to shoot him.

Number Two – Diego

Diego gets the biggest power evolution in season 2 of all his siblings. Number Two’s power had previously been understood as a supernatural skill for knife-throwing. Then the finale of season 2 reveals that that mastery in knife-throwing extends to the manipulation of any kind of projectile when he stops a barrage of bullets with his hands, Matrix-style. 

“If you think about Diego’s power, he can, with his mind, control the trajectory of objects,” Blackman says. “Basically he likes throwing, so he can throw his knife and he can make it go in weird, odd curvatures and directions. As I go through seasons we’ll see more of that. But moving a knife through the air – an extension of that is then being able to manipulate bullets through the air.”

In Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s comic series upon which the TV show is based, Diego has a different superpower altogether. Though comic Diego is indeed fond of throwing knives, his actual power is the ability to breathe underwater (or perhaps the lack of a need to breathe at all…it’s unclear how that works as he has no visible gills). This helps explain his superhero callsign “The Kraken.” 

During a season 2 set visit, Diego actor David Castañeda told Den of Geek that the show had ultimately decided against incorporating that power for the character. 

“You’ve got Jason Momoa doing that a hundred times better anyway,” he said. 

Number Three – Allison

Just about every superhero team has a character whose power is so useful and convenient that the storyteller often has to contrive of reasons for them not to use it. Allison Hargreeves is quite clearly this character for The Umbrella Academy.

Allison has the power of “prevarication.” Or to put it more simply: her lies become real. In the comic books, this ability is so powerful that when Allison lies about going to the library so she can sneak off to make out with a Polynesian knife-thrower, a second Allison actually pops into existence and goes to the library! 

Sometimes the show can struggle a bit with the rules and applications of Allison’s ability. As Five tells Reginald in season 2 “Allison can rumor anyone to do anything,” suggesting that her power is limited to bewitching human beings. But there are other times in which Allison is able to manipulate reality itself. She does so in the beginning of season 2 by telling Soviet soldiers “I heard a rumor I blew your minds” followed by their heads exploding. 

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It’s more likely then that Five just has interpreted Allison’s power incorrectly…or is just trying not to really freak Reginald out. Regardless, Allison is often intimated by the scope of her own powers. And that’s how the show frequently justifies her sparse deployment of them.

“(Her power) has always backfired maybe not immediately, but in the long game,” Allison actress Emmy Raver-Lampman says. “She sees them as more of a curse than a blessing.”

Number Four – Klaus

There’s a reason why Klaus has “Hello” and “Goodbye” tattooed on his palms. He is quite literally: a human Ouija board. Yes, Klaus’s main power is his ability to communicate with the dead. This has extremely useful applications as seen in season 1 when he uses it to intimidate Hazel and Cha-Cha.

In season 2, however, this power gains more physical implications. As seen in the season’s opening scene, Klaus is able to summon ghosts to do battle with his enemies. We saw a little bit of that in season 1 when Ben briefly became corporeal but the application is even more destructive and useful this time around. Klaus is also able to let the dead inhabit his body. Ben discovers this to his great delight in season 2.

Like Diego, however, Klaus is missing one of his powers from the comic book series. Number four in the comic possesses the power of telekinesis and can move stuff around with his mind. This proves to be so powerful that he’s able to stop the moon from crashing into Earth. Not bad! The weird drawback is that his power only works when he’s barefoot. Klaus in the show is frequently shoeless as well but that just seems to be a personal preference. 

Number Five

Number Five doesn’t have a name but he does have a pretty righteous superpower: time travel. Here’s the thing about time travel though…it’s hard, even for someone who possesses the innate ability to use it.

In season 1, Number Five tried to prove to his father that moving back through time was possible by jumping years ahead and then returning. As it turned, out Reginald was probably right as he usually, annoyingly was. 

Five was able to return though, but only after years of experimenting and crunching the numbers, trying to get the equation right. In season 2, Five discovers some easier uses for his power. For starters, there are his “blinks.” Five blinks through time and space to essentially teleport. This is tremendously helpful during the many fist fights he finds himself in. 

“He gets a lot stronger in season two in terms of how many blinks he can do,” Five actor Aidan Gallagher says. “I think in season one, it was like six blinks, and now it’s probably double that. And that just means that our fight scenes get to be a lot cooler.”

In addition to the blinks, Five also realizes that time travel on a smaller scale is much easier to pull off than his big jumps. 

“Five definitely understands a lot more about the science of time travel this season. So he’s able to operate it a lot more efficiently. In episode 10, you see Five use Hargreeves’s advice to travel back a few seconds instead of decades. And that saves the family.”

Number Six – Ben

For much of the series, Ben’s superpower is simply being dead. Yes, Number Six tragically died (of a still-unknown cause) in his teens. Since then he’s been mostly hanging out with his spooky brother Klaus. 

Prior to Ben’s death, however, his real superpower was quite imposing. As the comic explains, Ben is able to summon monsters from other dimensions and manifest them through his body. That’s why he’s known as “The Horror.” In the comic and on the show Ben exclusively uses this power to procure enormous tentacles through his stomach. He’s like a forward-facing Doc Ock.

Now that Ben is alive again (albeit in a new timeline) it will be interesting to see if he maintains this power or receives a new one.

Number Seven – Vanya

Reginald’s insistence that he numbered the children by usefulness might make more sense if he numbered them in reverse order. For, while all the Hargreeves children are powerful, only one of them was so powerful that their father had to subdue that power with pills. 

With Leonard’s help, Vanya ditches those pills in season 1 and unleashes her awesome might. Dubbed “The White Violin” in the comic series, Vanya is able to manipulate sound into truly awe-inspiring spectacles of energy. Her eruptions of sound-based power are near nuclear in nature – able to shred apart an FBI building or blow a chunk off of the moon. 

One interesting thing to keep an eye on as the series moves forward is how Vanya is able to use her powers for good now that being the harbinger of the apocalypse is presumably in her rear view. 

Lila

The Umbrella Academy season 2 finale makes explicit what was pretty apparent early on. Lila (Ritu Arya) is indeed a Hargreeves’ “sibling.” Well…sort of.  Though she obviously didn’t grow up with them under the tortured tutelage of Reginald Hargreeves, Lila was born on October 1, 1989 just like the other 42 extraordinary children. 

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And just like the other 42 extraordinary children, Lila has an extraordinary power. She is able to mimic the power of any other super-powered individual she comes into contact with. This is how she is able to match Luther’s strength, out-Rumor Allison, and ultimately jump through time away from Five after she’s defeated. Little is known about exactly how that powers work now but we’ll undoubtedly get to see more of it should The Umbrella Academy receive future seasons. 

“She’s one of the 43 going forward,” Blackman says. She’s one of them and they have to get to figure out more about who she is.”

Harlan

Harlan is a most-expected power-user in The Umbrella Academy’s second season. As a child in 1963, he is certainly not born on October 1, 1989 like the rest of the super-powered individuals in this universe.

So how does Harlan suddenly display Vanya-like powers? Well, due to Vanya’s actions of course!

“It’s supposed to be a little mysterious. But when Harlan has seemingly died, Vanya did something to him in the way she revived him. She’s not realizing at the moment, but she gave a little bit of herself and some power to him. The effect there is that you can see a little bit of this yellow glowy stuff go from her to him,” Blackman says. 

Harlan is a bit of a red herring superhero then. Thing is though that even though Vanya stops his near-apocalypse inducing freakout, a superpowered Harlan might live on into the ‘70s, ‘80s and beyond. 

“Was she successful? Because (Harlans) seems to still have a little bit of an ability when we see him in the last episode,” Blackman says.

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