#character: percival

[slimeguycentral]

CHARACTER INTRO: ZHANPENG

They/them. Token human character. Approximate English pronunciation of their name is "john-PUNG".

Their basic lore in the slimeguy storyline: 

After the main events of the first Slime Rancher, Beatrix decides it's time to move on from the ranch. Motivated partially by a mysterious letter, mostly by wanderlust, she plans to go explore Rainbow Archipelago. Before she leaves, she decides to pass on her old ranch to someone new like Hobson did, and she decides on hosting a raffle so plenty of people can have an opportunity to enter for a chance to buy the property and ticket to The Range. Of course, she doesn't really want someone who isn't passionate to nab the property, so she does have people send in applications (typed out and/or recorded in video messages) to determine who is eligible.

Zhanpeng wins. They say a lot of sappy and cheesy things in the application, but the main thing on their mind is making money. Due to the dangers of ranching on the Range, companies like 7Zee jump at the chance to get fresh meat on the planet, and this is a perfect opportunity to get their name on the list.

They quickly find out that ranching is a LOT harder than expected. Zhanpeng kind of went into getting off-world with the mentality that snagging the property would be the hardest part; once all the paperwork was done and they got there, they'd be able to figure all of the actual ranching logistics out on the way. Easy. Their cockiness ended up backfiring on them, though; Zhanpeng had zero experience in farming, and despite aiming for a career in the production of animal—er… slime—products, they knew jack shit about nature and biology. Due to being a horrible gardener and chicken farmer (all their chickens eventually escaped), they couldn't really even begin to ranch slimes. 

Staunchly refusing to give up, they'd instead just go out and explore the planet every day, picking up plants and chickens along the way to feed any slimes they came across. This work was waaay more grueling and inefficient than they'd expected. Zhanpeng quickly found out that slimes aren't the cuddly critters they were made out to be on TV; many of them were extremely dangerous, and very, very, hungry. Aw, man! They actually had to break out the Slimepedia and do some reading. Apparently you DO have to know your shit before you try to do anything. It was a bit of a reality check for them.

After a couple of kinda terrifying days of free-for-all, Zhanpeng suddenly got a call on the Range Exchange machine on the ranch. Honestly, they didn't really know who they were expecting, but it definitely wasn't MOCHI MILES, CEO of only the MOST successful interstellar tech company in the galaxy.

Mochi was immediately pretty disappointed upon seeing them. Her entire reason for calling was that Beatrix's ranch had suddenly come online again. In this timeline, Beatrix had disappeared from her ranch to Rainbow Island without much warning, and, during her voyage and first few weeks exploring, she had been too busy to contact her other rancher friends. Mochi, being Mochi, was concerned about her crush business partner and wanted to know what happened to her. Since Zhanpeng was currently her only link to Beatrix, she decided it'd be a good idea to keep them in her back pocket if Beatrix ever contacted Zhanpeng again.

Mochi offered them a job—the same one she'd offered Beatrix not so long ago, mostly because it was very mundane, very easily, and had no chance of putting her empire at risk—feeding quicksilver slimes.

Zhanpeng eagerly accepted, relieved to finally have a predictable source of income (and also somewhat afraid that she would smite them if they said no). Running around with quicksilver slimes gave them a chance to get a little knowledge about slime behavior through osmosis, and occasionally Mochi would exasperatedly point them toward ranching resources if they seemed to be having too much trouble on their exploration adventures (they got—and still do get—injured quite a lot). 

Some time passed—during which Zhanpeng finally brought slimes to their ranch, though not in any way they expected—before Mochi suddenly received intel on where Beatrix might be: a new, undiscovered archipelago of islands on the Far, Far Range. Unable to up-and-leave her business, Mochi (toooootally legally) sent Zhanpeng to the island, with a boat and the tools for a makeshift ranch setup, with the ultimatum that she would fire them if they said no.

Currently, they are exploring Rainbow Archipelago with their slime pals, trying very hard not to lose their job.

[merlinbbcolympics]

and that's a wrap!!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the Merlin Olympics this year! Congrats to everyone who managed to publish in time, and for those whose lives or brains got in the way this year, hang onto your wips! We will be back!

Merlin Olympics 2024 MASTERLIST

ART

olympic kickoff by @gyrhs | Morgana, Merlin, Elyan, Gwen, Arthur

archer leon by @nivellesart | Leon

FIC

vaulting forward by @shana-rosee | G, drabble, Morgana

ahead of the crowd by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Merlin

a good day for a swim by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Gwaine

serve, spike, dig by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Gwen

all terrain by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Lancelot

rushing water by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Arthur

striding forward by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Leon

target acquired by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Elyan

penalty kick by shana-rosee | G, drabble, Percival

love game by shana-rosee | T, drabble, Merlin/Arthur

diving in too deep by @fifty-5ty | E, 3k, Merlin/Arthur

those who win (bronze medals) by @sauraunderscore | E, 5k, Merlin/Arthur, Gwaine/Percival, Valiant/OFC

see you in two years for the winter games!! 💙🥶💙

[winterknights]

FIC: Ghosts of Christmas Past

Title: Ghosts of Christmas Past Author/Artist: Salamandair Pairing(s): Gwaine/Percival Prompt: 24: Canon era, one of the knights having bad memories about winter/snow/cold temperatures and getting comforted Word Count: 2,581 words Rating: Teen and Up Contains (Highlight to view): *Mentions of past child death* Disclaimer: Merlin characters are the property of Shine and BBC. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended. Notes: Thanks to ravenwilds for being an amazing and fast Beta!

Summary: Everyone loved Christmas time. Except Percival. Or so it appeared to Gwaine, anyway.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52174675

[eryniell]

Love them 🤍💙

[artsycrapfromsai]

Some doodles of Amaryllis as a fairy, + a kiss sketch animation

💕💌🎀✨🦄

[number-one-shadisper-shipper]

[cradle-of-darkness]

project sekai stamps but make it epithet erased

(stamps used as base under cut)

[caramellody]

Yall i dont think im gonna be able to stop thinking about usha and g13, actually.

Ushas an old old woman, clueless with tech. Lived long enough to develop various bonds with a LOT of people and relies on them a lot for help. In turn, shes VERY loyal to her close conpanions (a great example would be how she tends to back paula up a LOT, the way she sets up russel and paula to 'fake date' wink and all). She's very warm and very emotionally intelligent even if she's a bit clueless sometimes. Her logic is borderline incomprehensible, but it has heart.

G13 on the other hand, is a hacking prodigy. Hes young, hes sought after for his skills for better and for worse. But in turn, he's essentially lost himself in the process. He may be able to scrape nuke codes, but he'll never make a friend. He lacks any loyalty for anyone and anything except for himself and his interests, and if they dont satisfy those two points, then its worth nothing to him. His logic may be sound, but its cold.

[head---ache]

did u see @/emthimofnight's lady archfedd art? i was wondering what a satbk version of emmie (and/or the rest of your fankids) would look like?? 🥺

This is the post anon's talking about btw

I did see it! Very good food mmmmmmmm nice nice

So uuuuhhhh this was going to be just a quick doodle bc yknow it wasnt my idea and yea but ermmmmmmm i got carried away so yea here u go

So lets just ignore mordred is the son of an incestuous relationship between king arthur and his sister in the arthurian legends, and that king arthur eventually kills him, this is Arthur and Lancelot's secret daughter and that's that:] if we're being honest satbk does the same thing of just chosing a name from the legends almost at random (with like a biiit of actual story context) so yea 👍

[monarchetype]

my hottest Critical Role take is that Percy isn't actually any more morally gray than the rest of Vox Machina, it's just that his storylines and character conflicts take a much more direct look at the omnipresent violence in the setting and treat it the most seriously

[blorbologist]

"Drowning in guilt won't bring you what you want"

"And what is it I want?"

👀

[nataranta]

The Gentleman Scientist

The Puppet Master

[scientistservant]

My redesign of Sir Pentious. He’s mine now.

He’s a sorcerer/illusionist instead of an inventor. He can use magic, including hypnosis, as well as store things in his hat.

Penny’s stripes and eyes, including the ones on his inner hood, glow in the dark. His amount of eyes have also been greatly reduced, because holy shit, I pity the animators. The eyes on each side of his hood are false ones, merely patterns.

Haven’t designed them yet but his eggies are still around! I love the idea that he lays them himself, because oviposition is rad, and Sinners being unable to have offspring while Lucifer and Lilith were able to have Charlie is incredibly stupid and makes no sense. So Pen has been given egg-laying privileges.

And a new name. I just have to think of one. It’s 5 am and I’m going to bed.

[brainpilled]

(REPOST)

Crawling back to Vox Machina fandom and spitting out my take on Percy (Came to peace with Orthax and now they live in the same body) made a tiny lil editing mistake but dw bout it

[andi-o-geyser]

*record scratch*

Yup, that’s me, watching my future wife fall to the ground dead from a trap I set off. I bet you’re wondering how I got into this situation. Well, my life’s a little crazy, but it all began when my family was murdered in a political coup and I made a pact to create the first gun with a smoke demon...

[artsycrapfromsai]

Some silly doodles from twitter/bluesky of Amy and Percy 💕🎀✨💌🦄

Some fun little details:

🎀 Percy's grestest desire (post campaign this takes place in) is Amaryllis 🥰

💕 if Percy had a phone, he'd eventually get a pop socket of Amaryllis' face commissioned lol

💌 Percy can play piano, and Amy can sing, but she gets really shy about singing in front of others (she has no issues fighting in front of others, only singing lol). Percy enjoys her singing a lot

✨ doodle request for outfit swap - neither enjoy it lol Percy's clothes are far too restrictive for Amy (she Does Not like wearing pants), and Percy finds her outfit too poofy and revealing (he prefers his buttons ups and pants)

🎀 Amusement Park date - Percy won a plush that Amy wanted, but is teasing her saying it's rightfully his lol she'll probably find it on her bed later or something, he just enjoys messing with her