#clearing mirage

[schadenfredde]

Imagining N'Doul and Jotaro exchanging swear words in their native tongue

Jotaro: "We don't really have swears that isn't adapted from another language, but here's some very forceful/rude ways you can refer to someone."

N'Doul: "Cool, here's ten different ways you can call someone a bitch in Arabic, with increasing degrees of offensiveness."

[mothcpu]

love this thing

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Pretty alien princess comes to planet Earth, hyperfixates on human and decides they're gonna marry.

[humanmorph]

therapy, huh

[teecupangel]

I had a thought earlier: What if Ezio was Desmond's Sage?

Basically, the usual setup with Desmond using the eye to contact Ezio in the library and offering to send him back in time to save his family, but due to the damage he's sustained from the Eye, he can't come with. Once this moment in the Grey is over, he would die. Ezio begs him to come with him, through any means possible. He refuses to leave behind the divine being he is the chosen Prophet for. The being who is going against Fate itself to give him his family back. Desmond just can't say no to Ezio and tries to see if there's anyway he could come with Ezio. He doesn't want to die if he can avoid it. It's then, through the connection with the Eye and the Apple, that he learns about Sages. With a few modifications for Ezio's safety, that could work. Instead of consuming Ezio's mind to take over, he would just live alongside him. When he tells Ezio of it, Ezio accepts.

.

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When Ezio wakes up, it is to his childhood bedroom. Everything is how it was when he was 17. Is 17. It worked! His family is alive and well! Did the Sage thing work?

"Desmond, are you here?"

'Yes Ezio, i am.'

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Just a thought i had. I imagine that Ezio could let Desmond have control of his body, but Desmond is pretty chill with just watching though Ezio's eyes.

Ezio would have mind conversations with Desmond, which worries his family a lot when they catch him just staring emptily though the air. That and his complete switch in behaviour.

There's probably so many routes to go here, but i'm too sleep deprived to think atm. XD

It doesn’t take long before Desmond realized that all the modifications he made for his consciousness to become part of Ezio had turned him to be the least invasive Bleed to ever be conceived.

Did this count as possession?

Was Ezio even a Sage or was Desmond simply a sentient Bleed?

Wait.

Did that mean that the Bleeding Effect mimicked the experiences a Sage goes through when they start ‘getting’ the Isu’s memories.

Didn’t that mean that there was a possibility that the Animus was based on the research the Isus made to create the-

“Desmond, as interesting as your thoughts are about this subject, I’d prefer it if you were to. Focus!” Ezio was unable to stop himself from raising his voice as he punched one of Vieri’s hired muscles as Desmond liked to call them. The man staggered as he took a few steps back and Ezio swiped his feet before stomping on his groin.

There was a few scandalous looks thrown his way at that attack and Ezio just shrugged.

It wasn’t his fault that Desmond’s skills in unarmed combat bled through to him during these situations and Desmond fought shamelessly dirty.

‘In my defense…’ Desmond quipped from his mind, ‘I was taught that honor and shame have no place when you’re getting ganged up by Templars.’

Ezio grunted as he dodged a punch aimed for his chest, quickly grabbing the wrist and pulling him forward to unbalance him before delivering a high knee strike, making the man gasp as Ezio kneed him on the throat.

Okay, that one was from one of Desmond’s Bleed, not Desmond himself.

But then again…

Desmond was his Bleeds and his Bleeds were him. When he thinks about it that way…

“Desmond…” Ezio gritted as he smacked an incoming kick from another man, quickly jabbing the man’s side before suckerpunching him.

‘Sorry, sorry. My brain’s wacky at the moment.’ Desmond said.

That was an understatement.

Desmond had been in Ezio’s body for only a few hours. They had went outside to try and get a lay of the land and found out the date by Vieri throwing a rock at Ezio and giving Ezio the scar on his lips.

So yeah…

Desmond was still not used to being this… entity inside Ezio’s mind.

“Don’t think too hard.” Ezio backhanded a goon’s cheek hard and fast enough that he was able to topple the surprised and hurt goon with his mind quickly making it known that it was a common technique Altaïr used to do. Ezio tried to focus as he said, “Let’s just get this over with then we can have our mental breakdown in our room, okay?”

‘Yeah, okay.’ Desmond answered and Ezio felt Desmond focus.

It was like his senses became clearer.

His body became lighter.

And…

He could predict everyone’s next move.

To borrow Desmond’s expression at the moment.

Holy shit.

(Desmond doesn’t know it but because he made Ezio his Sage, he is technically a being that has access to Isu senses which he can pass down to Ezio. Ezio’s human body can’t take much of it though so there’s a time limit and that is how Federico comes in and save them because Ezio and Desmond starts getting a headache after using it too much.)

[decoy-sammy]

No ones heard him scream this loud before..

[slutnali]

[omniandco]

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[fatt-pinups]

hello friends! i wanted to run a follow up poll on timing for two reasons:

- last year by now the prompt list was already available, but this year i’ve yet to even begin soliciting prompt ideas. the prompt list wouldn’t be available until much closer to the event (i’d try to get them out at least a week prior, but that’s not much lead time)

- there might be overlap between folks who would want to do a pinup week and those who are participating in the hieron zine (which has entries due at the end of august)

[cloudystevie]

guys the election results are actually making me anxious why is he leading all the swing states im going to vomit

[deimcs]

the last chapter | FARE THEE WELL, YOUNG EAGLE.

[schadenfredde]

Headcanon: N'Doul has a (very understandable) fear of heights

[dissentersrising]

v models, sornieth edition

>dragons, unlike humans, do a lot of things with their mouths (biting people. carrying things. okay that’s about it) so while the v models weren’t designed to be super accurate to any given dragon, this still came through in the design philosophy >v1’s jaw has sharp spikes for slicing through things, mostly used just in case it needs to refuel immediately. did i mention these things run off blood because now i did um look that’s literally ultrakill canon don’t look at me man >anyways magic’s a lot more of a concussive force than, say, a whole bullet so a blast of magic isn’t guaranteed to make anything bleed, so it’s just a failsafe >not incredible for holding things, given the rest of its (and by extension, mirage’s) jaw is smooth, but that’s an afterthought in its case anyway >v2 a) isn’t designed as an actual warbot b) can’t absorb blood directly through its plating so its jaw is designed differently for actual grip >it can actually hold things. woohoo >also more emotive because it’s designed as an enforcer, ergo the average joe is expected to see one of these things running around sometimes. less uncanny when you can see some facsimile of facial expression, i guess >technically v2 is supposed to move its mouth when speaking. less uncanny or whatever. it stopped doing that after it ran off because it can’t be assed to bother >mirage just doesn’t because she doesn’t give a shit >i dunno if v1 can even talk actually

[mothcpu]

a new year is once again upon us. welcome to the fourth annual mothcomputer review post!

top ten - P03, leshy, trans V1, iron lung, green mage, halloween ultkl, sentries, P03 (again), raiden, and mirage.

more talk under cut:

with any luck, this year I will complete my degree, with everything else that entails. work on OVERTIME with my co-writer (& fiance) @catboycephalopod will also resume! my goal art-wise is to do a bit more more OC work, including but not limited to comic work. as of writing I'm coding an about page for my general characters (the next step will be putting together 10+ up-to-date refs); OT will get TLC in every plot-related department and maybe some new promo images... but for now, you can just check out its webpage on my site my stretch goal is the same as last year; to make some form of animation or animatic, just to keep in practice. other than that, the same robotposting will keep on happening :thumbsup:

hands down my favorite thing to work on this year was DECT, which gave me the confidence (and motivation) to keep working on my other large projects, and helped break the ice for bearing my heart a little more in my art. despite still finding ways to nitpick it, it means a lot to me. (...here is a shameless shill, and a direct link).

happy new year! stay safe, drink responsibly, maybe play a video game or two. thank you all for being here :) - S

[humanmorph]

the gig kent dynamic is so dear to me

[lovekia]