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[travelling-my-little-pony]

Flutter ponies are on the beach at Paignton.

In Devon, England.

[revelisms]

Excerpt: Smokescreens

Jinx reminisces. Sevika and Dustin stage a ploy.

From ‘fate is a sundress, ripped at the thigh,’ a oneshot exploring Jinx’s relationship to Sevika and Singed in the aftermath of S1. Full story on AO3 CW: Mentioned character death, grief

The mornings are long and sleepless and screeching.

The nights are worse.

Sevika pits herself between them, holing up in his office like a squatter in a stripped room. Afternoon sun smolders green through the panes, leaves the dust on the air glinting like firelights. 

She hand-rolls her spliffs, the way a medic rolls up gauze—sharp, swift, routine—and smokes them in slow, hissing puffs. 

On his desk, a new edict.

Fishbones had bludgeoned Piltover's trade at the knees. For three months, their sister-city (sister missed her chose the damned bluecoat over her) had been groveling for scraps, fighting to rebuild from the ground-up, while foreign imports withdrew at the snap of a finger.

No one wanted to invest in a volatile market—except those already out for war. The cowards were keeping their mouths shut and their heads down. The smart ones were already aiming at the Pilt: watching, waiting for the pin the drop.

Piltover—or Zaun?

Sevika was gone days and nights and hours and weeks and never here, never rifling through the right paperwork or stringing a map with blood-threaded schemes or flicking open a newspaper with lazy tosses of her knee, musing up to the rafters: What do you make of this wretched trade war? Too many ironies in it. Freider's toting oil as a saving grace—and driving his machinery straight into the fires. He's sooner to win himself a bloody barbecue. Fool should've gone into the meat business.

Silco would've had that pretty Medardan councillor by the neck, by now.

Silco would've had Noxus in the palm of his hand: stricken deals with Swain and the War-chief both, spun them up to be at each others' throats, with profits already lining his pockets.

Silco would've been Topside in a suit and glinting glasses and a ledger of policywork under his arm, bending the Council's ear towards an investment of seventy-thousand worth, to fund proper schools on the Promenade. 

Silco would've—

The door creaks open, wheezes shut with the throb of industrial drumming downstairs and the sauntering gait of crooked-toothed Dusty-head, boots clomp-clud-clomping off the creaking floor.

"You're late," Sevika gruffs, fingers pitted at her temple.

Dustin ducks, half-apologetic. "Hemmie got tied up with somethin'. You know how he is, heh."

"Two of you are supposed to be Lock and Key. Not Lock and a Door-jam." 

The door-jam in question snaps his head to the side, like a bird twisting its neck. "Hey, hey—"

Papers splay flat over his desk. With it, a metal hand. "Just tell me what you've got, Don." 

Dustin fidgets. His breath rattles out in a gusty sigh. "Trainband's on the rise, again. Without Bos—" He catches himself. Sevika's eyes lay heavily, unwavering. "Without'im around," Dustin corrects, "they're all gettin' antsy."

"That's what we've got Muka for."

"Only infiltrated the first rung."

Jinx could clean them out, in a day. Play it nice, hide Chompers and her chompy lil' crew under her clothes, set the belly of that rebel gang's hideout to a pretty blast.

Silco would've let her.

Silco would've let her—

These are petty matters, child. We've tiers to this business, for a reason. There are greater uses of your time.

By coincidence, or intention, those conversations would always bookend his injections.

She'd wondered how often he'd pushed off his doses, just to let it them mean something else. To be something else, in it all.

Your worth here isn't defined by the blood you've spilt. And he'd hold her shaking hand in his steady own, cool and rough and anchoring, frowning at her with those mismatched eyes, and rest his thumb on her knuckles. There are other ways you can help us.

He'd lay his injector in her palm, like a talisman.

It meant, I trust you with this.

It meant, You can do this. Any of this. All of it.

It meant, You are not defined by your destruction.

The injector was in his desk. Top drawer to the right, with a file of the doctor's reports that he refused to looked through, that detailed how quickly he was dying, how much of a patchwork of reconstructed blood cells and chem-altered tissue and rotted flesh he needed to be to keep his body still functioning.

Jinx carves her nails into her temples.

He would have wanted it to be you.

Dustin slips a river-pebble out from his pocket, spins it between his painted fingers.

"We got one of their guards to spill," he says, low and sly. "Second-up's Eva. Should be goddamn Evie, down here—but naw—Ee-va. Scarf for a Piltie, if I've ever caught a whiff of 'em."

"Where?"

"Eighth quadrant, down by the steel mills."

"You think they've got a safe house there?"

"S'likely."

Sevika plucks out her spliff, pinches it lazily. "You've got two days."

"Bossman would've gave us three."

The smoke's cherry glows magmatic. Jinx stares hard, hard at a scuff of paint on her boot. The colors blur and swirl and fade. "He's not here, Dus."

He shifts his shoulder, chipped nails flicking. "Wouldn't have let you smoke that shit in here, neither."

Rage ebbs off Sevika's bones, stinks the room up like a chemical leak, like a tigress that just got a kill ripped out from under her. "Get out."

"I didn't—"

"Get. Out."

Dustin marches out quick as his studded boots will let him, scowling all the way, and slams the door behind him.

In the void, Sevika kneads her thumb into her brow. 

Her anger still sits in the room—still reeks like that cheap tobacco cut up with hashish, that's staining the floors and the windows and isn't juniper, isn't right, isn't his—and Jinx tries to blink it out, breathe it out, tears in her eyes and He hated being called that he hated it he hated it—

"Jinx."

She sucks air in through her nose, carefully quiet.

She knows the ogre's staring up at her. Can feel her eyes like knives, a million of them, all biting their little points into her skin.

She turns away from them. "I'm fine."

[guynamedultimax]

Smash Characters and people who main them

So, I was thinking about who mains certain Smash characters. Aaaand I got these ideas.

Mario: Probably Mickey Mouse. Or Emmet from the Lego Movie franchise idk

DK: Surely not King Kong because he has big hands and would break a Joy-Con just by touching it, not even a GameCube controller is safe. 100% Winston from Overwatch is the candidate, even better if he takes the blue DK skin lol

Link: Sora. This one is easy as hell.

Samus: Tony Stark is the first option that comes to mind.

Dark Samus: And since Rhodes can’t use Samus, might as well use the OTHER Samus lol

Yoshi: It is canonically stated in Deltarune that Asriel Dreemurr mains him and loves him to death.

Fox: I’m not sure how a red pirate fox animatronic holds a Joy-Con or two but probably Foxy from FNAF is the perfect main here.

Pikachu: It’s either Agumon or Jibanyan, too easy. Also put Jibanyan in Smash Sakurai pls

Luigi: Probably Donald Duck to parallel Mickey, the only difference between the two would be that Donald has a short temper while Luigi is a cowardly lion (and the plumber-sailor thing)

Ness: *MEGALOVANIA AND GAME THEORY INTRO INTENSIFIES* Ok jokes aside I think John Egbert and/or Sans are good candidates as Smash main.

Captain Falcon: Raphael, the red turtle from the Teena- wait why am I explaining an obvious character. His bros collectively main another character.

Jigglypuff: D.Va, full stop. She is a bunny person but may also love a Jigglypuff (now I want a drawing of Hana hugging the Puff help me)

Peach: Sooo, let’s see...Mickey has Mario... Donald has Luigi... I think you know where I’m going with this one.

Daisy: OH GOD I JUST REALIZED THAT DAISY DUCK MAINS PRINCESS DAISY, IT’S A “HI I’M-DAISY-CEPTION!”

Bowser: Is there any drawing of Bowser cosplaying as Peg-Leg Pete and viceversa? I’d die for that, it would be hella funny, especially with Mario and Mick dying from laughter in the distance.

Ice Climbers: Hmmm...twins...you can use them to make icy puns...I KNOW! IT’S GEORGE AND FRED

Sheik: Literally any of the ninjas from Lego Ninjago, bonus points for Lloyd.

Zelda: I have literally no damn ide-oh wait. I can use literally any blonde Disney princess lol

Dr. Mario: Undecided between Sorcerer Apprentice!Mickey and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Pichu: Shogunyan makes the most sense to me. I don’t know a lot about any other Digimon so I’m sorry if I don’t have Digimon ideas for Pichu.

Falco: I don’t know why but the thought of Chica maining Falco makes me laugh. Not that I ship Fox and Falco, of course, but seeing my FNAF OTP using two best pals looks funny enough to me

Any Fire Emblem character that is not Robin or Corrin: I literally have no damn idea.

Young Link: The first one that came to mind was Kenny from South Park and I don’t know, don’t even ask me

Ganondorf: I can just see Gamora giving Thanos a copy of Smash for the Switch and him curbstomping people as Ganondorf

Mewtwo: I still think that Beerus is an AU version of Mewtwo. If Beerus wasn’t a lazy dickhead maybe he would have been similar to Mewtwo.

Mr. Game & Watch: Bendy. Just, Bendy. And not even moster Bendy, just, regular Bendy.

Meta Knight: I wonder how much does Bruce Wayne play Smash when he is not being Batman. Although it’s probably possible that his favourite is Brawl.

Pit: I can just see Tony Stark losing at Smash against Pit and saying: “Fuck you, Barton.” AHAHAHAHAH

Dark Pit: This is for Hawkeye post-Decimation. Sorry if u lost ur family pal. Really sorry. I wanna kick Thanos in the groin for this.

Zero Suit Samus: Of course Natasha Romanoff mains Zero Suit Samus. Fanservice girl for fanservice girl.

Wario: I know Roadhog isn’t greedy and doesn’t care a lot about money except for his fee from Junkrat but he looks like the perfect Wario main in my opinion.

Snake: A spy for a spy. The name is Snake. Solid Snake. *mashup of James Bond theme and Encounter plays in the distance*

Pokèmon Trainer: Literally Ash Ketchum is the only possible choice here.

Diddy Kong: Uuuuh, the Apes from Ape Escape. Yup.

Lucas: Ok listen up, it’s Darwin Watterson. A squishy adorable fish boi for an adorable psychic blondie kid. It’s the perfect matchup! Almost...(Thank god Ninten is not yet in Smash)

Sonic: Me. What, can’t I reclaim one of my mains? The fella here introduced me to gaming with Sonic Rivals on the PSP. Thank god I didn’t buy a PS3 or ‘06.

Dedede: King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph. At least before he reveals himself as the fucker known as Turbo.

Olimar: Keroro from Sgt. Frog. Don’t ask.

Lucario: Sasuke? Idk

R.O.B.: Shared between C-3P0, R2-D2 and BB-8. Easy.

Wolf: Idk Boris the Wolf? I really dunno I suck at this.

Toon Link: Happy from Fairy Tail. JUST LOOK AT HOW MUCH OF A CAT TOON LINK DOES LOOK LIKE

Villager: Chara from Undertale. I don’t need to explain this.

Mega Man: Give me any blue Power Ranger.

Wii Fit Trainer: Hard one. I have no idea help

Rosalina and Luma: IT’S TINKERBELL

Little Mac: *Rocky theme intensifies* ROCKYYYYYYYYYYY BALBOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA

Greninja: Naruto full stop

Palutena: Cosmos from FF Dissidia.

Mii Fighters: The Xbox avatars. I think this one was pretty obvious.

Pac-Man: Donnie, Mikey and Leo all collectively main Pac. Best part they stop literally any attempt from Raph to spam Falcon Punches lol.

Robin: *Hedwig’s Theme intensifies*

Shulk:...Kirito?

Bowser Jr.: My other main, the one I use the most. For you, I shall summon the perfect main! *Lancer pops out from nowhere*

Duck Hunt: It’s Pluto. You know, Mickey’s dog? Jeez, why doesn’t Disney focus a little more on Pluto?

Ryu: KAME....HAME...HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ken: *insert Vegeta reference here*

Cloud: FINAL FANTASY TIME, COME ON AND GRAB YOUR FRIENDS, WE’LL GO TO VERY DISTANT LAANDS, WITH JAKE THE DOG AND FINN THE CLUD STRIFE MAIN- ok enough I think you understood the reference.

Corrin: Danaerys Tyrgaryen. Did...did I write that right? I really dunno

Bayonetta: *Insert Dante quote here*

Inkling: de Blob. You...you don’t know de Blob? You should go check that game, it’s fire.

Ridley: Smaug. I know, I’m out of ideas.

Simon: Van Helsing, of course.

Richter: ...I HATE WHEN i AM OUT OF IDEAS

King K. Rool: Does Godzilla count? Or is he a King Kong issue? Ok no wait, any member from the Croc tribe of Legends of Chima is fine

Isabelle: Lucy Heartphilia, easy.

Incineroar: Ok, listen up, before I get in this one, I DO NOT SHIP ISABELLE WITH INCINEROAR. That being said.....Natsu. I can just imagine him and Lucy playing Smash in such an intense way while Happy just plays calmly and beats both lol

Pirahna Plant: Actually the first one that came to mind and gave me the idea for this post. Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Cause, you know, teeth.

Joker: Robin Hood. I know Joker is not an archer user but the gentleman thief thing is there after all

Sorry for the long post, here is the word “potato”. See ya next time and if you have any ideas for missing characters I’d be glad to get them