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xclevername · 9 months ago
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This post will explain my Senpai fanon timeline/story.
(This art is old, but it works for the explanation.)
LAST UPDATED: 7/11/24
In this fanon timeline, a lot of the aspects of the story are reflective of the canon events in FNF week 6, with a few changes.
Senpai is an AI inside of a video game called "Hating Simulator", Hating Sim for short. The main protag is Senpai, a student at the japanese-inspired school Hating Sim takes place.
Typically, Senpai would have no conscious as he would be just another AI in a video game, but this is not the case. When Daddy Dearest was upset over his daughter dating a boy, he trapped his demon soul in her copy of Hating Sim, never telling her.
The soul, or commonly known as just Spirit, needed a host body to take over, so takes over Senpai's AI. Senpai is initially was unaware of this change, until he found out a few things...
When the game day ends, he would no longer stand as idle source code in the game. He is aware of the day after, and remembers everything that occurred the day before.
After the day ends, the game resets entirely to how everything was at the initial start of the game.
He asks other AI (AKA, other characters) about the change and why he remembers everything, but each start of the day, the others will not understand what he's referring to.
When Senpai is extremely angry/upset, he will transform into a demonic-looking flame and lose control of himself. While the Spirit does not interact as a separate entity, it boosts Senpai's abilities in a few ways.
Fire Body (hot to the touch, but will not be put out by normal water)
Demonic Voice
Manifesting Rose Bush Vines & Manipulation
Weather Manipulation (clouds, wind, storms, rain)
Senpai spends years with these changes, enduring every reset of the game. Up until two foreign visitors enter the game known as Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Senpai does not remember GF, but his Spirit would.
The usual events of week 6 play out where Senpai tries to charm GF and swoon her attention, has a rap battle with BF, and loses to him each time. After a wave of frustration, his body contorts and reveals his Spirit Form. He threatens to take the place to trade places with BF; BF stuck in the video game, and himself let into the real world.
[In game dialogue from Spirit:]
SPIRIT: "Direct contact with real humans, after being trapped in here for so long... and HER of all people. I'll make her father pay for what he's done to me and all the others.... I'll beat you and make you take my place. You don't mind your bodies being borrowed right? It's only fair..."
In this interpretation of the events played however, Spirit succeeds and escapes into the real world, taking the form of Senpai in a physical, non-digital body.
He leaves the couple in the game, and flees before anyone catches notice of his actions.
Videos that inspired the idea for this AU:
"Burry Me Low" - Friday Night Funkin [[Animation Meme]]
Senpai Escapes From The Game (FNF Animation)
Roses (Friday Night Funkin' Animation)
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somnimagus · 1 year ago
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My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.
[id in alt text]
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the-witchhunter · 1 year ago
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DP x DC worlds greatest detectives ramble
You ever just get a bit tired of the batfamily being dumb?
Sure I appreciate a good “Danny is weird and the Bats try to figure out his deal and draw wrong conclusions based on incomplete evidence” fic as much as the next guy, and I’m definitely not saying not to write them
But the thing is, they’re all really smart. It’s their whole thing, they’re a family of detectives that dress up in colorful costumes and fight crime, but detectives nonetheless
And I get it’s for humorous effect to have otherwise intelligent people be incredibly dumb about one thing, but it’d just be nice to see them be smart sometimes. Even in a fic where they’re drawing the wrong conclusions, it’d be nice to see them use their detective skills
Like build a case so solid Danny questions whether they’re actually right about him and if he’s just confused
Or just apply it to more conventional situations/crimes
Because frankly it’s funnier if you show they’re smart before having them do something really stupid
If you build them up a bit, then it’s funnier when they fall down.
“Where did he go? It’s like he vanished into thin air!?”
“Don’t be silly, see these scuff marks? Someone recently went down this way. The gravel here has been disturbed indicating this manhole cover has been moved recently. Now if we just prop this up…”
“…huh, is that…?”
“Killer Croc and not the twink we were just tracking?”
“Yeah, that”
“Yeah, that’s killer croc… hi Waylon”
*large scaly hand darts out and drags Bat in question down in the sewers while Danny watches invisibly*
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tropicalcryptid · 1 year ago
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Ok so She-Ra pulled such a great hat trick with Hordak's characterization, and I LOVE it
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One of my favorite things about 2018 She-Ra is Hordak's story and development (and Entrapdak cough but that's not the point of this particular post), and the cleverest thing is that so much of it is actually being set up and told to us in seasons 1 and 2 before we even realize that that's what's happening.
When we first see Hordak in the show, he's giving "generic evil overlord" vibes. Garden-variety baddie. Maybe a little more reasonable than some and clearly capable of long-term thinking, but that just serves to make him intimidating. Everything about him--the way he runs his empire, his armor, his color scheme, his minion, his Villainous Eye Makeup(TM), even his name--are all projecting to the audience "yup, Acme Bad Guy here. Move right along."
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But then, backstory. And everything snaps into focus. Not only is it one of the first big oh SHIT moments of the show, where we suddenly zoom out and realize that there is SO much more going on than we realized--it's also the start of the audience seeing Hordak as a character rather than an archetype. Suddenly we realize that he's not conquering Etheria because he wants power, or hates happiness and sparkles, or whatever--he's doing it out of a desperate attempt to prove his worth to his brother/creator/god. This moment where Hordak lets Entrapta in is also the moment the show lets us in on what makes our favorite spacebat tick.
On top of that, we've also seen him bonding with Entrapta and opening up to this person that he respects and trusts...probably the only person he's ever respected or trusted apart from Prime. And she's Etherian--someone of a lower species, someone he's supposed to subjugate, someone who he has been raised and trained and programmed and mind-controlled into believing is below him in every way.
But instead she's brilliant and creative and mesmerizing. She's not afraid of him, and she's fascinated with his work. For the first time since being abandoned by Prime, Hordak finally has someone that he can talk to, who is on his level and both understands and cares about the science! (because he is a giant nerd). She's kind to him, a mere defect. And it just sends his whole worldview into a spin, and that's all before--
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Bam, mans is a goner. Entrapta's "Imperfections are beautiful" comment punches right through all the toxic bs that Hordak has been steeped in his entire life. You can see on his face here--I think it's the moment Hordak fell in love with Entrapta, but this is also the face of a spacebat reevaluating his entire worldview. If Entrapta, who is amazing, believes something different from Prime...what does that mean? If Entrapta, who is brilliant, believes that he is worth something, and that she herself is a failure...
Well. We know what happens after that, and how Hordak begins to doubt, and eventually fights back against Prime (and remembers his love for Entrapta after TWO mind wipes help my heart ack). But we also get to see what life in the Galactic Horde looks like: the only life Hordak ever knew before coming to Etheria.
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It's not nice.
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It's really not nice.
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Prime operates in a very specific way, and we learn a lot about it in season 5. Prime expects complete obedience, devotion and worship from his clones. He allows no individuality from his subjects, not even a name. Failure or deviations are punished, mind-wiped, or destroyed. We even learn from Wrong Hordak that facial expressions are considered a privilege reserved for Prime (apart from, presumably, expressions of rapture caused by being around Prime).
And once we learn all of this, suddenly thinking about season 1 Hordak becomes very interesting indeed. The time we spend with the Galactic Horde and Prime throws absolutely everything that we know about Hordak into a whole new context. Now all those traits that made him a generic villain are actually hugely effective characterization! And what that characterization is telling us is that Hordak had already moved much farther away from Prime than we (or, probably, he) had realized, even long before he met Entrapta.
Horde Prime does not allow his underlings to have names, personalities, or any differences of appearance. Not only does Hordak allow this among his own troops, he chose a name for himself as well! Season 5 tells us that his very name is an act of blasphemy against his god. And yet Hordak took one for himself, and that name is part of the core identity he is able to hold on to when rebelling against Prime.
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Horde Prime cast Hordak out when he showed signs of physical imperfections. Hordak not only keeps Imp (who is by all appearances a failed clone or similar experiment) around, he treats Imp more gently than we see him treat anybody or anything before Entrapta. Imp is not simply "generic evil guy's minion," he is proof of Hordak's capacity for compassion, and evidence that Hordak cannot bring himself to cast aside "defects" as easily as Prime. Considering where Hordak came from, Imp's existence is a huge, flashing neon sign telling the audience this guy here is better than the hell that molded him, and we don't even realize it until 4 seasons after it's been shown to us!
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Very cool, ND.
There's more, though. Hordak's red and black color scheme? His dark eye makeup and lipstick? Very Evil Overlord chic. But nope! Actually these are actually expressions of individuality on a level that Hordak knows would be abhorrent to Prime!
Reading between the lines, I see this as Hordak desperately trying to reconcile two diametrically opposed beliefs in his head: (1) devotion to Prime, whose approval he desperately craves, and (2) maintaining some degree of unique personhood, of Hordak, from which to draw strength. Because a failed, defective clone cannot survive on a hostile world, cut off from the hivemind and from Prime's light. A failed clone cannot create an empire to offer Prime as tribute, nor build a spacetime portal from scraps and memory to call Prime back. A failed clone cannot create cybernetic armor to keep his hurting, weakened body alive; to force himself to keep going no matter what, to fight through the pain and the doubt by sheer force of will.
But maybe Hordak can.
And so there it is. Hordak had plenty of time to gain and explore his individuality while separated from Prime, but I think the reason he did it so effectively (while still deluding himself that Prime would forgive him for these little sins, if only Hordak could prove his value) is because he had to.
Wrong Hordak gained his individuality surrounded by kind, quirky people who took care of him; Hordak was ripped from the hivemind by Prime himself and had to fight for his survival against all odds. And that produced a dangerous and damaging foe for Etheria. But it also produced the one clone with the strength of will to defy Prime himself.
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This is long and rambling, but ultimately my point is that 1) I love Hordak, and 2) I love love love love that the show was so clever about his characterization. We learn so much about him and how much progress he's already made in breaking from his psycho abusive cult upbringing, and we don't even recognize it until the show wants us to. Hordak had come so far, all on his own, before he met Entrapta. She just helped push him over the edge and finally realize (at least consciously) that Prime's worldview might not be the correct one.
Idk, I just don't know if I've ever seen all the trappings of Basic 80's Villain(TM) so successfully subverted, where looking back 4 seasons later is actually a smack in the face with the "effective character building" stick. Amazing.
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sassypantsjaxon · 8 months ago
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Since there's nothing to prove me wrong and none of you can stop me, I've decided that TodoIida is canon
Okay. Look at them emotionally and physically supporting each other
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Look at them being recognized as a perfect pair
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You've never fallen in love with the boy who helped you find your right path? Because I have, and so has Iida
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Look at Todoroki using Iida for protection and Iida completely understanding
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Also, look at them graduating because they're adorable
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Yeah. TodoIida canon.
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diyasgarden · 2 months ago
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thinking about art/tashi/patrick doing some college inspirational lecture about athletics or sport and they both see reader and immediately are like good god 😳😳😳😳🔞🔞🔞‼️‼️‼️
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“what do you mean you don’t know her?”
“jesus, you think i know every student?”
“can you both shut up?” Tashi huffs, watching you walk off to the back of the small lecture hall. Pretty would be an understatement to describe you, but she’s too preoccupied in trying to figure out who you are to find the right word.
“I’m just saying if i was on campus–”
“You’d know the names of all the hot girls, I know,” Art says, cutting off Patrick with an eye roll.
Patrick lets out a sound somewhere between a laugh and a scoff. His gaze shifts to where you sit, admiring you scourging through your backpack for something. Art smiles at the boy before sneaking a glance at you too, his eyes shifting to the clock on the walk behind where you sit.
1:12 PM
The talk starts at 1:30.
Eighteen minutes. That would be enough…
Before he can even finish the thought he can sense Tashi’s eyes on him. He turns to meet her slightly raised eyebrow, and in an instant he knows she’s jumped to the same conclusion.
Patrick senses the silent confrontation and looks over to both of them, eyebrow raised.
Oh he thinks. That’s how it’s going to be.
When you look up from your backpack, you see three tennis players trying to get over to you first.
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badninken · 3 months ago
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These two rows of panels are several hundred chapters apart. Just putting them together.
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subwaylesbians · 4 months ago
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masai condescendingly referring to cleon as “miss”, and then a moment later cleon using it as an honorific when referring to cyrus, is such a slick way of acknowledging his hypocrisy without so much as breaking the flow of her argument
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justfriendsbestthings · 1 year ago
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Baking with Wilmon ✨
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strflr · 1 year ago
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I'm so excited to finally share the coming soon page + trailer for a game that I've been doing illustration and art direction for, Clever Girls! If you're curious, the very talented team and I would love for you to add it to your Steam wishlist to follow its progress! (:
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xclevername · 8 months ago
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"Lighter Conflict" (Pico/Darnell - Oneshot)
This was on my phone, and I never posted it anywhere I don't think. So if the writing style is different or more amateur than my current, that's why 😅 I don't remember if this was meant to be a ship? But it can be interpreted either way. They're my BROTP 💚💜
⚠ [CW // weed mention]
Darnell busted through the front door of his apartment yelling "Da-Da-Darnell in the house!" holding up two shopping bags in each of his hands.
"Oh. Sup." Pico responded, sitting on the couch, just chillin.
Darnell set his things on the table next to the door and plopped himself on the couch next to Pico, kicking his feet up on the coffee table and grabbing the TV remote already flicking through channels.
Pico sighs and says "Just don't be a nuisance, please. I had a long week and need to wind down.." He said pulling out a blunt from his pocket.
Darnell sees it in the corner of his eye, turning his head excitedly. "Oh! Oh! Let me light it!"
"What?" Pico raised an eyebrow.
"Let me light your shit man!" He said already whipping his lighter out.
"What? No- You pyromaniac. Get your own weed." He said already putting the blunt comfortably in his lips.
Darnell disregarding his answered, flicked it on and tried lighting it.
"Get the fuck away from me!" Pico said covering his face with his arm, but Darnell pulls his arm away as Pico struggled to keep him away. He tried backing off but eventually fell on the couch, back facing down. Darnell now had the high ground and had Pico pinned with one arm on top of his chest, leaving Pico unable to move. "YOU DICKSHIT GET THE FUCK OFF-"
The lighter flicked on once more and lit up the end of it.
"HA! Got it-"
"Alright alright. Now get off dickhead."
Darnell just laid on top of Pico, arms crossed. Pico pulls the blunt out of his mouth and taking a hit, then giving it to him. Pico rolled his eyes and decided to give in, spending the rest of the night with Darnell laying on top of him and TV white noise.
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rodolfoparras · 2 years ago
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Detective’s Work
Pairing: Spider Noir x Top Male Reader
Synopsis: in which Noir tries to keep you off the streets and you try to keep him inside the sheets
Content tags: rough blow jobs, exhibition kink, brat! Noir, Hard dom! Reader (kind of), detective! Noir, petty criminal! Reader
A/n: sorry for any mistakes it’s an 11pm Drabble kind of day
As far as anyone knows you and Noir dislike each other. He’s a detective and you’re a criminal. There’s no reason for you two to get along.
But what people don’t know is that every night he shows up to your hotel room, under the excuse that he has to make sure that you’re acting in line but he’s wearing nothing under his trench coat and he's got a pretty plug inside his hole.
There’s a knock on your hotel door and a smile makes its way on your face. There’s only one person foolish enough to wander around shady neighborhoods at this hour.
One second he’s outside your door, the next second he’s bent over a desk, stripped out of everything but his plug, legs spread and cock hard and leaking.
He won’t say a word to you, not until you fuck it out of him at least; a broken string of pleas or needy noises escaping his lips.
He’s not here to talk, he’s here to get fucked by the only person who knows how to do it right.
And once it’s all over and done, he’ll have you put the plug back in, puts on his coat and leaves your hotel room quickly, continuing on with his business like you didn’t just fuck and he isn’t full of your cum.
Sometimes he’ll act out of line and ruin your plans. You don’t mind it much though. He’s a detective after all. It’s his job to stop criminals.
“You sure you don’t want any help with this?” One detective says to Noir as he gets ready to head out to where you had last been spotted.
“Stay here. I’ll deal with it” Noirs responds before he heads towards the door.
Only if the detective knew dealing with it meant being forced down on his knees, hands tied behind his back and mouth pried open as you shove your cock down his throat.
“What were you supposed to be doing now again?” You pretend to think, fingers comically tapping against your chin while continuously rolling your hips.
“Weren’t you supposed to deal with me or something like that? Feels like you’re doing quiet the opposite here” you say with a dark chuckle, rolling your hips harder and hearing the gurgling sound as he chokes on your cock, fat tears rolling down his cheeks and drool dripping from his chin.
“There, there “ You say as you stroke his hair, tone condescending as ever “you’re this place’s ultimate hero or whatever it is. You can take it, can you?” And despite the humiliating position he’s in there’s still a certain spit fire reflecting in his iris as he nods his head and God if it doesn’t make your cock twitch in his mouth.
And as much as he doesn’t like to admit it, he can’t help but be turned by the fact that one day someone might just catch him fucking a criminal.
Interrogations that should go by quickly will last up to a good hour or so if you’re involved. Footage will go missing from both the camera and the microphone.
Noir would say that they malfunctioned. “You know that tech still has a far way to go” but what they don’t know is that a good chunk of that footage shows Noir pushed against the glass wall with you thrusting your cock inside his hole. And a good chunk of that recording is him just begging for more, more, more.
And he’d go out his way to get those recording developed, play it on whatever device he has access to and jerk off to them.
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hometoursandotherstuff · 8 months ago
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kedreeva · 1 year ago
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Okay if you haven't yet, and you have Netflix/Paramount+, consider giving "School Spirits" a chance.
It looks like a silly little cheesy teenage ghosts show, I put it on for background noise, and then got totally engrossed in the mystery. It's VERY well written, very well filmed, the mystery was GREAT and the payoff at the end is also great.
One of the things majorly lacking in shows I've recently tried to watch is that they try to do a twist/reveal at the end that comes out of nowhere. They don't want you to guess what they're doing. This show doesn't do that. This show wants you to guess. They give you seven different mysteries and enough clues to guess (most of) what is going on, so that when you get the final puzzle piece to any given mystery, it feels GREAT.
The story premise is this: a teenager in hs wakes up as a ghost in the hs, and doesn't remember how she died, and with the help of the other ghosts, tries to solve the mystery of her own death.
Simple premise. BEAUTIFULLY executed. Not all of the questions that arise get answered, but the main one (what she doesn't remember) gets solved by the end of the season, leaving the "why/how and what comes next" to be carried to the next season. It does a cliffhanger RIGHT. But now I desperately want to see the second season (which I believe has been approved, so it's a matter of waiting).
So pretty please, if you're looking for something to do and a great, engaging lil mystery to watch, consider! School Spirits!!
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spread-the-influence · 3 months ago
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"A snapdragon means grace and, due to its growth in rocky areas, strength. However, it can also symbolize deviousness. Snapdragons also symbolize grace under pressure or inner strength in trying circumstances."
"The Snapdragon flower meaning & symbolism can evoke a spectrum of emotions, from grace and strength to deception and intrigue, making them both beautiful ornaments in gardens and potent symbols in art and literature. (...) This stunning bloom, often associated with admiration and encouragement, serves as a reminder of resilience in the face of adversity."
"It’s not clear how the bloom became associated with hypocrisy and betrayal but in the past, it was worn in hopes of receiving protection against deception. (...) many people associate snapdragons with keeping secrets."
"You could give a snapdragon as a gift to someone who has overcome a challenge in life – or perhaps to someone who needs to get through a bout of bad luck." (Source
(Sources: Many many Internet researches.)
Oh OP, you sneaky motherfucker.
i'm gonna be honest i chose the flower because i associate snapdragons with ragatha , i did not mean to make it hugely play into the story's themes
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marlynnofmany · 1 month ago
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Fools, Fauna, and Music Appreciation
“I don’t like this place,” Paint said over the wind. “I feel like the bushes are yelling at me.”
 “Are they?” I asked from my position at the other hoversled. The blueish shrubs on either side of the footpath were making a staticky kind of rustling, but I’d assumed that was just the leaves brushing together.
 “It’s fauna,” said Blip, pushing my sled.
 “Small fauna,” added Blop, pushing the other.
 “Bugs in the bushes, then,” I said. “Makes sense. As long as they’re not yelling because they’re going to jump out at us.”
 Paint scrutinized the bushes as we passed, her lizardy face intent. “I’d like to think that there would be a warning at the spaceport about that.”
 “Probably,” Blip said.
 “Probably,” Blop agreed. “Though this site is pretty new.”
 “I saw at least two roving safety patrols,” I pointed out. “I think they’d notice if there was that kind of hazard right outside.”
 “Probably.”
 “Probably.”
 Paint was still looking around. “I got the impression that they were searching for something.”
 “Well, it probably wasn’t the yelling bushes,” I said. A corner was coming up, so I steered us a little closer to the center of the path. Bugs or no bugs, I didn’t want to end up in the shrubbery. The sleds were full of expensive batteries (airbus size), and neither delays nor a coating of alien cicadas would have reflected well on us.
 “The yelling just sounds so hostile,” Paint insisted.
 “I guess,” I said. “It kind of reminds me of the crowd at a rock concert.”
 “A what concert?” asked Paint.
 At the same time, Blip asked, “Your rocks sing?”
 “No, that’s just the name for a kind of music,” I explained.
 Blip asked, “One made with rocks for percussion?”
 “No, it’s — I don’t think that translates well,” I said. “I probably used the wrong word. In my original language, we use the same word for the hard things from the ground as for the side-to-side motion.” I tried to rock back and forth while I walked.
 Paint cocked her head. “So, swaying music, not stone music?”
 “Eh, kind of? Swaying sounds too calm. This is loud and fast.”
 Blip nodded. “Like beating rocks together.”
 “Sure. Like that. Though nobody does that to my knowledge,” I said. “But it could make for an interesting background rhythm if someone wanted to try.”
 It was at that point that we rounded the corner, and discovered what the safety patrols had been looking for.
 Two honest-to-goodness bandits on horseback.
 One pointed an energy sword at us, his blue frills flapping in the wind. “Step away from the goods, and we’ll let you live.”
 The other one was silent, aiming a vibro-knife at Paint. It looked like the kind that could launch and regrow the blades a few times. Paint was already retreating, not wanting to find out how many blades were left.
 I stepped back too, but Blip and Blop weren’t eager to admit defeat. They shoved the sleds aside and stomped forward, yelling and flaring both frills and muscles. Their outfits today were the tight-fitting kind, so those muscles were easy to see. The clothes offered zero protection from blades, though. That didn’t stop them.
 “Cowards, trying to be tall! Using little food-toasters instead of fists!”
 “Weaklings! That’s no way to fight!”
 It wasn’t really working, since the bandits were simply holding their ground and shouting back. Nobody had launched any blades, though. Maybe the weapons were just for show. But that sword looked dangerous enough.
 I scrambled for ideas, moving out of stabbing range. There were no rocks on the ground for throwing, and no easily grabbed branches in the shrubs. A handful of whatever alien bugs were making the noise might have startled the bandits or their mounts, but I wasn’t about to go digging for those.
 The mounts, though. They looked uneasy. They weren’t Earth-style horses at a second glance, though the similarities were there. Brown, four legs (paws, not hooves), and long heads with eyes on the side in classic prey animal fashion. The way they were turning their heads to keep Blip and Blop in view, flinching at abrupt motions, told me that they might be the weak link in this hold-up.
 I crouched behind the hoversled, thinking furiously while Blip taunted the one with the sword. Paint was whispering urgently into her communicator. I didn’t expect those safety patrols to get here quickly enough, but it was worth a shot. In the meantime, I’d just had a brilliant idea.
 My hair had been getting pretty long, and I kept it tied back in my usual braid. I undid that now, finger-combing it loose and flowing, and tucking the hair ties into my pocket.
 Then I dashed forward to where the horses could see me, and headbanged for all I was worth.
 The alien horses reared and stumbled back, dumping their riders in what was probably a glorious sight to see. I was busy whipping my head back and forth, so I had to imagine it. When the horses thundered off down the path, I stopped.
 Yup, there were the two failed bandits, groaning in the dirt and getting their weapons kicked out of their hands none too gently. The sword guy had already dropped his, but Blip kicked him anyway. Then she picked up the hilt, made sure the energy blade was turned off, and kicked him again for good measure.
 Blop claimed the vibro-knife. “This doesn’t even launch. You absolute failfish.”
 Paint called over the sleds, “Is it safe?”
 “Sure is!” Blip told her. “These idiots are going to stay very still, right?” 
 Two pained groans were answer enough.
 “Great; the safety crew are on their way.”
 I put a fist in the air, and my other hand on my neck, which was already sore. “Woo! Go team!”
 “Nice work with the animals,” Blip told me. “I did not know your head fur could do that.”
 “Right??” Blop added. “That’s a threat display I’ve never seen before.”
 “Not a threat,” I said, fishing out a hair tie. “Music appreciation.”
 “What?”
 “From those rock concerts.”
 The Frillians exchanged looks. “Of course it is.”
 I made a ponytail, then began braiding it. “Some music is meant to be appreciated quietly, and some with vigor. See, even the bushes are cheering.”
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These are the ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book.
Shared early on Patreon! There’s even a free tier to get them on the same day as the rest of the world.
The sequel novel is in progress (and will include characters from these stories. I hadn’t thought all of them up when I wrote the first book, but they’re too much fun to leave out of the second).
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