#creepy orphan cult

[plusanimablog]

Chapter 16: Maggie Coliseum Part 2

So Rose is about to fuck up the guards who kidnapped her younger brother.

She asks them if taking a child away from their family is how they do their research. They defend themselves by saying that Rose and Pinion's aunt and uncle released him into their company, saying it would be good for him to study with researchers. Rose ain't buying it, saying they just want him for research before she pounces on them. However, when she attacks one, a few people spot her and scream. They run and, with the authorities not far behind, she has to run too.

Back to the rest of the group. The rich girl offers to get them in the game, remaining cryptic when Cooro asks if she's a scout. Husky attempts to leave, saying entertaining a crowd and being betted on is idiotic (no doubt speaking from personal experience). Then the girl gets in his face, asking if he's a boy. When he angrily answers in the affirmative, she says he'll fight then unless his stick is for show.

Nana joins in the teasing (because of course she does) and Husky is onboard. Magdra goes up to a guy named Mr. Baum who reveals that Magdra is the daughter of this town's leader. Magdra then offers to let Husky and Cooro in the games. Mr. Baum is reluctant because they're literal goddamn children but Magdra insists, saying they want to, they can win a prize and winning will give them confidence. None of that actually addresses Mr. Baum's good point but he relents, leading them away. Before he leaves, Husky is stopped by Magdra. She tells him he has a quick temper and he'll be stronger if he stays calm. She adds that this isn't just a fight, it's a match. She then takes Nana to her room.

When they leave, Senri is left out of the girl talk...for being too big. That's when some burly dicks walk up on him, saying he's not allowed back there...and when Nana asks why Senri couldn't come with them, Magdra lies and says he said he'd keep watch. Nana is justifiably suspicious but goes off with Magdra anyway. Magdra's room is cute so of course Nana is entranced. Then some other little girl shows up before Magdra shoos her out, saying she's going to play with Nana now. Nana is a bit freaked out by that.

Again, Nana speaks up but Magdra says the girl is not as cute as Nana so it's okay. When asked for it, Nana finally gives her name while remembering that due to her isolated upbringing, she doesn't have much experience in playing with other girls her age. This is why she wonders if Magdra's red flags are normal.

Magdra dresses Nana up and offers her candy. The rooster crows a third time and Nana asks why she's doing all this for someone she just met. Magdra answers it's because they're friends and offers to introduce her to her other friends...

Back to Cooro and Husky. They'll be in an one-on-one match. Bout rules: If both knees or both shoulders touch the ground for more than ten seconds, you lose. If you give up, you lose. You can use dull-edged weapons that still hurt when they connect so watch out.

The weapons thing is an eyebrow-raiser and Husky tells Mr. Baum that he heard that serious injuries and killings are banned in the coliseum, the perpetrator risking a serious fine and heavy labor if they violate the rule. Mr. Baum answers yes, they made up that rule specifically to deter others that like killing. But in reality, shit happens. Cooro asks where Maggie is and they see her through a small ass-window. To their lack of shock, she is rich and old.

One of Maggie's retainers walk in with the researchers who are holding Pinion, saying they were attacked and they seek sanctuary in the coliseum. They try to blackmail Maggie by saying they don't want to tell their government that "Maggie Vil is unstable because of that coliseum that's an actual goddamn thing in the town". Maggie's understandably annoyed but grants them asylum, telling her guards to keep an eye on them. The researchers themselves? Well, they gotta rush now because of Rose but they will continue the research on Pinion...

So Magdra takes Nana to a room with other little girls in it, telling them to be nice to her. There are boys in there too who fight in the coliseum and want to be star fighters. Magdra asks if Cooro and Husky are the same and Nana stammers herself through an "Eh" answer (we all know Cooro just wants food). The girls are pretty much Magdra's cult, saying she gets them anything they want. Oh and they're all orphans so...a whole United Nations of red flags there. Magdra extends an offer for Nana to stay if she wants and the bat girl is tempted but a little boy named Shinon walks up, weakly asking if he can go home. Magdra tells him to wait in the next room for her before inviting Nana to watch the next match with her.

Husky is up against a guy named Dick (I'LL BE AN ADULT I'LL BE AN ADULT). Nobody believes in him and Dick is confident. Watching with Magdra, Nana notes that Husky seems...chill, despite the crowd's jeers stomping on his Berserk Button. The chapter ends with Husky advancing on Dick...

[batbabydamian]

DC April 2024 Solicitations - Comics Featuring Damian! 🦇

BATMAN AND ROBIN #8

4/9/24

Written by Joshua Williamson

Art and Cover by Simone Di Meo

Variant Covers: Kael Ngu, Ejikure, Jim Lee, Nikola Čižmešija (1:25)

As Batman finds himself in the clutches of a new cult that worships Man-Bat, Robin continues his own investigation into his High School's connections to Shush! Can the father and son dynamic duo uncover Man-Bat and Shush's master plans before Gotham pays the price?!

WONDER WOMAN #6

4/16/24

Written by Tom King

Art by Daniel Sampere and Belén Ortega

Variant Covers: Julian Totino Tedesco, Pablo Villalobos, Joshua “Sway” Swaby (1:25)

Wonder Woman vs. The Sovereign! After being captured by a team of villains, Diana finds herself at the mercy of the scariest of them all. Unbeknownst to our hero, the Sovereign has been pulling her strings since the very beginning of our tale, and now it's time for her to see the world his way as she falls under the influence of the Lasso of Lies! Plus, Trinity visits the past and unexpectedly changes the future!

NIGHTWING #113/Legacy #300

4/16/2024

Written by Tom Taylor

Art by Various

Variant Covers: Bruno Redondo (original cover+1:25), Dan Mora, Jim Lee (Artist Spotlight), Jamal Campbell, Serg Acuna

Since the 1940's, you've seen him go from acrobat to orphan; from Dick Grayson to Robin; from Robin to Nightwing. You've seen him work alongside the universe's most powerful heroes, against existence's most sinister villains. You have seen Dick Grayson do so many things, but now, in his 300th issue, you will see him.. well, you'll just have to pick up the issue and find out. Join us for this legacy 300 milestone!

*DC’S SPRING BREAKOUT!

*Cover feature - Damian hang gliding in the bg :)

4/30/2024

Written by Meghan Fitzmartin, Cameron Chittok, Joey Esposito, Morgan Hampton, Patrick R. Young, Tom Krajewski, Mike Barr, and more!

Art by Kenya Danino, Vasco Georgiev, Paul Pellietier, Nico Bascuñan, and more!

Cover by John Timms

Variant Covers by Dan Mora

Spring has sprung! Flowers are blooming, bees are buzzing, Harley is breaking King Shark out of Belle Reve prison. all is right in the DCU as both heroes and villains face all sorts of different spring breaks. Breaking out of a coffin? Lex Luthor has that covered. Spring break training? Send in Superman! Breaking out of your shell? Batman and Mr. Freeze explore that possibility through a connection in their shared past. Breaking down a worthy adversary? Katana and her sword of souls might just be able to tackle that. And it wouldn't be a spring break without a Teen Titans beach trip! All these and more in DC's Spring Breakout! -eight breakout stories to put a spring in your step (is there a zit breakout story? You'll have to read to find out!)

TEEN TITANS: STARFIRE

7/2/2024

Written by Kami Garcia

Art by Gabriel Picolo

Kori Anders' summer job at a ritzy Santa Monica beach club is fun, but she doesn't care about keeping up with the current trends, and she's not interested in rushing around to all the parties. She'd rather explore her inexplicable draw to the stars or hang out with her new friend, Victor Stone. Her sister, Kira, on the other hand, is the most popular girl around. With the hottest clothes, an even hotter boyfriend (the Tate Fairweather), and a take-no-prisoners attitude, she's Kori's opposite in every way. Their summer heats up when Tate's uncle asks the girls to participate in an EDS study his pharmaceutical company is running. During treatment, Kori develops some strange powers she never had before...and she might not be the only one. Can Kori persuade her sister to trust her before it's too late? And when a carload of teens with their own powers come looking for her to warn her about a creepy stalker, she'll learn that trust is a two-way street!

[talesfrommedinastation]

My redneck neighbor Doug on Tech's Looks

(Me: "Doug, so you know, a lot of people are unhappy that the Bad Batch was made to be lighter then the regs. It's a hot topic."

Doug: "Well, here's my theory on the matter. I hope the kids on the Internet (his words for Tumblr) don't get too spicy over this. It's all in good fun. I hope it makes 'em smile and think a bit.")

After having a firm, peer-reviewed discussion (and by that, I mean endless texts with Doug) it has been concluded that Tech has lighter skin and hair, and a slimmer build, due to the Kaminoans leaning harder into the hillbilly part of Jango Fett’s genes, whereas the regs got the nicer, prettier, more amenable genes. 

In short, Tech looks the way he does…because he is a blue-collar white guy from the American South.  

A Florida redneck, specifically.  

And let me (by way of Doug) tell you: rednecks do not have beautiful tans, flawless fades, snatched waists, muscular thighs, diamond-sharp cheekbones, the ability to follow directions, or perfect matching armor, all of which a reg has. 

(Sorry, Howser, go back to guarding Ryloth or posing for GQ or whatever it is you do.)

Back to Tech. Look at that man and tell me the shit he gets up to would not be constantly at the top of r/floridaman

A lot of people might clutch their pearls, and be shocked at this revelation. 

“He has a fancy accent! He’s persnickety about certain things! He’s my fancy pretty boi and I’m going to dress him up in a gold thong in my fan art!”

You do you, kid. But let Doug and his neighbor here, Dr. Meat Muffin, defend this deranged argument, here. Using anthropological research applying autoethnographic methodologies that they conducted independently at one point. 

(By that, we mean that Doug is from the bayous of Louisiana and has lived in the Florida Panhandle before moving Up North. Dr. MM attended graduate school in a redneck hot zone, lived in said redneck hot zone for a while, and married a Texan as well. Hook 'em gig 'em and wreck 'em)

After all, if you want an army to win over the galaxy and work with the Jedi, you want well-mannered, shiny, handsome men with melanin and agreeable personalities.

You do not want a pale-assed weirdo in jeans and a receding hairline who can’t get off his phone to work closely with orphaned space wizards. 

Tech’s an anarchic Floridian piece of tornado bait and that’s why he look the way he do, says Doug.

Here's why Doug says Tech is a Redneck:

Mandalorians are Space Rednecks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trx7fDdlIo0. I do not own the rights to the video, but my God, it is perfection. A masterpiece. Mandalorians are rednecks in space, who end up colonizing Space Florida, no questions asked. Our theory is Tech is merely the concentrated, Waffle House-fistfighting, chew-dipping, Mountain Dew chugging, part of that. The Kaminoans just leaned into the trailer park part of Jango Fett hard when designing Tech, because no one can fix cars while shooting a gun and yelling at his crazy brothers like a redneck (more on that below). 

Hell, all of the Bad Batch are different brands of Florida Man:

Grizzled long haired tan guy with skull tattoo, obsessed with tracking, knife fighting, and hiding from normal society? Hunter.

Bald tanned dude with weird scars who loves blowing shit up and screaming for no reason? Wrecker

Pale, freaked out man who was kept in a cult’s closet for years? Echo 

Creepy, old, Second Amendment loving white guy with a gun themed tattoo who can’t seem to die? Crosshair 

Maladjusted orphan left behind at a bar by her inexperienced caretakers and almost drowns in the ocean? Omega 

His love of vehicles: We never see Tech whip out a manual to fix anything. The man says it’s because he has an exceptional mind, but that’s edging dangerously close to “Ah don’t need no schoolin’, hoss, I can fix any Ford!”.  Doug thinks it’s just because Tech loves playing with car parts, which is some grade A, hillbilly tomfoolery. And what is more redneck than some white guy ripping apart a vehicle in the dirt while the rest of his family bitches at each other in the heat? It happened right here in Season 2 (this exact scenario has played out many-a-time in Pensacola, trust me). All they need is some Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting in the background to make the picture complete. 

His clothing color scheme: “Oh, no!” you wail. “He just changed his colors to reflect Mandalorian heritage!” 

WRONG. 

Tech’s redneckery is blatant here, because his colors switch from 

Hot Topic goth to…UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA. 

“We’re loyal to each other,” says Hunter. And by that, he means the Gators, beloved of many an NCAA following redneck in the Sunshine State and beyond. Orange and Blue, indeed.

Notice how we first see him in these colors, is while he’s parked his stolen work vehicle on a beach while his brothers are busy being chased by huge-ass crabs as their sister is quietly fishing?! 

This is PEAK FLORIDA MAN. 

Tech was probably trying to get ESPN+ to work on the Marauder, because the Devil works hard, but the SEC works harder during football season. I wonder if he has a tattoo of Tim Tebow on his buttcheek.

His home is his car: Tech, as well as his unemployed brothers and underaged sister who the cops are looking for (how trashy is THAT sentence), live in the Havoc Marauder now that their home was destroyed in a fire fight with the government. 

("Jesus Christ, this argument just writes itself now, don’t it," -Doug) 

This attack shuttle, for all intents and purposes, is a stolen work truck that they live in. It’s filled with posters of guns, as well as other weapons and explosives, and has all the comfort of a Jacksonville gas station at 2 AM. All you need is some cigarette burns on the fender and some empty take out bags from Bojangles and it might as well be parked down by the river in Suwannee County. Just Florida redneckery. Speaking of which….

He loves guns and explosions: Won’t go into detail, but the man knows how to use multiple pistols, rifles, and different tactile maneuvers with glee. Tech’s only notable complaint regarding explosions is making sure Wrecker’s new fancy boom-booms aren’t parked next to his bunk. And the look of calm joy when his sister tells his brother ‘Do some damage, Wrecker!’ as Tech pulls a Bo Duke and flings his vehicle across a locked up work site, while his deranged brother giggles and fires some guns at a government-owned power plant from the back seat. PURE. UNADULTERATED. REDNECK. 

He’s a racer: It is a fact (with peer reviewed research) that rednecks really, really love them some racing. NASCAR, motocross, BMX, you name it. And if you’ve seen ‘Faster’, well, that’s all you need to know about the man. 

He has no fear of large animals: We’ve never seen him hunt, but Tech knows how to distract massive amounts of nasty animals using light, and the first response to seeing a terrifying monster isn't running away screaming, but whispering ‘FASCINATING’., before, ya know, firing a gun at it. It’s one step away from ‘IT’S COMING RIGHT FOR US’. You KNOW that man would be sponsoring gator wrasslin' contests if he could.

His actions towards His family: This is where Tech truly differentiates himself from the typical ‘geek’ character and leans hard into King of the Hill territory. Whereas a normal nerd character might nag and panic when his sister falls down a hole while drilling for explosives in a cave (dear God Doug, how much more redneck examples can you keep pointing out, I’m exhausted), Tech merely YEETS HIMSELF down into the abyss. Or when his brother picks a fight in the mess hall? Does Tech run away, or just start punching people like it's past closing time in the Applebee's parking lot in Daytona and the Dolphins lost? And let's not discuss the season finale :(. Rednecks are some loyal folks, family first, and that’s our man’s right there. 

There you have it, says Doug. Tech isn’t lighter because he’s better than the regs. The opposite.

You can not be a deranged, adrenaline filled, sassy, goggled weirdo flying throughout space and blowing shit up and not be pale AF with twiggy legs and a receding hairline that’s edging towards Hunter S. Thompson level, born out of America's Sunshine state while a hurricane chases you out.

::turns up ZZ Top::

[egg-crusher]

So

I was scrolling through my page and I saw something which made me reconsider some things about the FNDM (RWBY’s fandom)

For starters, I want to say i completely understand if you dislike the character of Adam for one or two reasons

You don’t like how he’s written

You don’t like how much overshadowed Blake in her debut

You don’t like his design (I personally hate the volume 4-6 design)

You don’t like his personality and think he’s creepy

You dislike his fans since some can be very aggressive

Etc etc etc

But please, if you genuinely believe the following statements, block me, don’t leave your comment and never try to approach me ever again, thank you

“Adam branded himself” and “Adam deserves to be one of the Schnee’s summons”

The first implies a minority branded himself with the name of a company which officially causes the death of minorities (leaving many orphans) for their negligence, are colonizers, and in the comics kidnap members of said minority to work on their mines…

So he could shit on them, their evidence? He’s not mentally stable and knows how to manipulate people

Do I have to discuss why this headcanon/theory is so dumb? I’ll do it just in case

Why would he cover the scar if he scarred himself on purpose? Remember, Adam wasn’t always a bloody murderer who wanted to radicalize the entire fang to make a personality cult but he genuinely wanted to fight back against humanity

And saying a minority branded himself so he could hate on the rich white men is… something.

And now for the later… I’ll give some small context

When a Schnee (for example Weiss) kills a foe which gave her a very big challenge (for example that Nevermore from volume 1) is added to a galley of creatures she can summon, she later on learns to summon the Arma Gigas from the White Trailer, the Boarbatusk & Nevermore from volume 1, the Queen lancer from volume 5, and a manticore from volume 6 (it only appears una film)

This have a certain degree of autonomy since they can act out of the users view, and we are never told is ONLY Grimm which are turned into summons since they only say “enemies” so any being could perfectly become a summon, okey?

Now here’s the thing

they’re Adam, who’s a ex-slave of the SDC and has Weiss name branded on his face, deserves to be turned into a summon which is literally Slaving his soul to work for a Schnee for the rest of eternity

They think enslaving a ex-slave is worthy punishment because he wanted to slave humans for enslaving him… they’re proving someone (who’s super racist against humans) right, because is fitting (their words) and I think they meant is karma/ironic

This Is not karma, is just continuing the cycle of Abuse and proving him right

He was a monster but he was one because he was abused for being a Faunus and ended up thinking all humans deserved to suffer for what he went through, making him into a Slave after death only proves his point

Slaving Adam like he wanted to do with humans for slaving him only proves him right, “humans only enslave Faunus so Faunus should do the same”

Thats’s inhumane, but since is done to him for hating humans then is somehow right?! Slavery is never right, and people who think enslaving others is a fitting punishment then they aren’t better than the ones who slaved them, because I don’t think I should be saying this since this is something obvious every smart human being should know but… SLAVERY IS BAD and NO PERSON DESERVES IT specially since Adam already was a slave

Kill him and burn his body to ass, but making his soul into a puppet is not the way to go

And before you say “oh, him being a child slave is a headcanon” please go read the CANON descriptions of the character in amity arena

“Adam Taurus used to gaze up at the sky with bright blue eyes whenever he could, between shifts in the dust mines, dreaming of the day he would leave the tunnels behind to find his place in the world. But what he found instead was himself... on the ground, staring up at the three letters that damned him now and forever.

Scarred. Despised. Cold. Adam's heart grows black, his hatred red hot. The final traces of love, the beauty he let go, never returns, and as the last petal falls, Adam is cursed to forever remain a beast. Because, in this tale as old as time, there is no happy ending.

In this story... HE is the monster.

Adam Taurus had finally found his place, and he would watch humanity... burn.”

And before you say “oh that’s just form his point of view” you should check his other description which clearly states he’s in the wrong

“With a scar on his face and anger in heart, a wayward boy looked for a home. When he found it... oh, how glorious it was. Accepted and loved, here was his happily ever after.

But Adam was cursed with a gift few others had.

Adam had... talent.

And when Wilt tasted humanity's blood...

Adam realized he was... STRONG.

Now king without kingdom, he wonders where it went wrong.

Coming up with excuses, reflecting the blame,

Coming to a conclusion, all find insane.”

The descriptions are obviously from a narrator and not the characters themselves, so I think the narrator is reliable to some degree and isn’t Adam at all…

I understand not liking a character, but people have to think about what they say since they usually end up saying very racist things like this.

Adam was a villain and a evil one, but dear god, people treat him like he’s worse than Salem and cinder combined

[anonymous-dentist]

My little sister rates qsmp presidential candidates as trustworthy or not

Or: my sister has never seen any qsmp content, but she does like politics! (She thinks it’s fun.)

1. BadBoyHalo

Ranking: Trustworthy!

“He looks like a nice guy, and cults are pretty famous for their internal structure and organization. He probably knows what he’s doing.”

2. Foolish

Ranking: Untrustworthy!

“He looks too much like a Muppet to be politically motivated.”

3. Etoiles

Ranking: Untrustworthy!

“Isn’t he French? Screw that guy, he should be guillotining people instead.”

4. Baghera

Ranking: Trustworthy!

“She’s a duck. Enough said.”

5. Felps

Ranking: Untrustworthy!

“He looks like a sick orphan, and I don’t know how much I’d trust a little Victorian orphan boy as president. He should go to a doctor.”

6. Forever

Ranking: Trustworthy!

“He kinda looks like Edward Elric, and I automatically trust anyone that’s a FMA fan even if he also kinda looks like a sad Victorian orphan boy.”

(Author’s note: I don’t know why my sister has decided that all of the Brazilians are sad little Victorian orphan children, but she also thinks that they’re legitimately British. So???)

7. Mike

Ranking: Untrustworthy!

“He’s an emo Victorian orphan child who is also probably 22 and living in his orphanage’s basement. He should get his life together before he runs for office.” (Ouch!)

8. Cellbit

Ranking: Trustworthy!

“He’s the first guy on this list to look like an actual adult. Is he the Brazilian?”

9. Gegg

Ranking: Untrustworthy!

“That is a child. Her eyes spell darkness. Where are her parents??”

10. El Quackity

Ranking: Untrustworthy!

“His smile is creepy and I hate his Minion cosplay. Maybe he should just work in a circus instead.” (Ouch???)

[tubzthelilbeeboy]

Ok random ass mcyt fanfic prompts I have!! (Give creds if used for some reason-)

-Mcyt cult/experiment au, Tubbo centric where he grows up in Home Of The Eesempi where he is raised by brothers and sisters. He eventually realizes how weird it is and creepy and ends up getting out and meeting Ranboo and they team up to get the rest of the kids out of the home. (IM WORKING ON THIS RN HEHEHEH)

-AU where Phil runs a candy store and a random ass orphan child walks in one day and asks for candy (Tommy) and the two end up having a father/son relationship and they have silly adventures and ends with Phil finally adopting Tommy

-Addams Family mcyt au, Phil is Gomez, Missa is Mortica, Chayanne is Wednesday, Tallulah is Pugsley and Technoblade is Uncle Fester. Oneshots and stuff or follow the plots of the movies :3

-Tubbo is a scuba diver and ocean lover in general. He ends up accidentally finding a colony of mermaids and meets Ranboo. Silly adventures n shit.

-Bench trio are astronauts and Tommy goes on a solo mission and finds an alien (Purpled), he ends up befriending the alien and keeping it a secret from the others which is bad for the bench trio friendship, lots of angst and Purps cheering Tommy up. Platonic Purpledinnit undertones???

-Bench trio au where Tommy is a hero, Ranboo is a vigilante, and Tubbo is a villain. They all try to keep the secret from each other and angst angst angsty angst!!

Uhh ye :3

[positivelybeastly]

Is the krakoan era X-Men the most unlikable interation of X-Men?

"I - don't think that's fair to say about them. From what I understand, they put all of their hopes on the establishment of a new country, joined everyone together under one roof, and then . . ."

He'd never seen anything like it. The sheer amount of carnage. He didn't even know most of the people he'd seen being torn apart in the footage, but that hadn't stopped him wanting to throw up when he'd seen them being . . . God, and then, when Bobby . . . he'd dragged his hands down his face and wanted to wail.

Who could do that to Bobby of all people?

The short, glib answer is that Chuck Austen's run of X-Men continues to exist, so by default, no-one can be as unlikable as them.

But the long answer is that the Krakoan X-Men aren't really the X-Men for a lot of that era, and, in their hurry to enjoy the fanfic-esque tropical island paradise setting that Krakoa presents, the fandom forgets just how . . . weird, and culty, the island actually is.

Hey, do you wanna know something semi-embarrassing about me? I only read House of X yesterday. I've only ever read the finer details on other Wiki pages and the occasional plot synopses, never actually read the issues themselves, and . . .

It's fucking creepy, man.

I had an instant negative reaction to the weird shit to do with resurrection, and I just, was not comfortable. The way Cyclops was all creepy about Franklin Richards, acting like they have more claim on him than his actual birth family? I'm sorry, dude, that's fucking whacked out.

Like, I'm sorry, I think that mutant sovereignty is an absolute must and a mutant nation is a narrative necessity, but Krakoa's been fucking creepy and weird and cult-y since moment one.

The weird rituals about resurrection, the whole dying in combat to earn your powers back bullshit, the vilification of Scarlet Witch, everything that went down in LaVelle's Sabretooth books, the Quiet Council and X-Force (full stop, just - in general), the casual sex leading to popping out babies you just LEAVE ON THE FUCKING GROUND?

It's a fucked up society. It's dystopian. You conquered death, and guess what? That never ends well. Suddenly you have to redefine life's meaning, and they chose to make it just fucking around and being weirdos, and, like, sure, that's a mood, but it's also not particularly heroic, and it's very significant that it takes a while for the X-Men to reform as an actual hero team because, well, they decided to give up on protecting a world that hated and fear them for a bit there.

But that's in-universe. Out of universe?

They just aren't putting in the time to service the relationships between the characters properly, and a lot of the time, when those moments do happen, it's become extremely clear that almost everyone on Krakoa is a self-obsessed narcissist with increasingly toxic levels of coping with it.

Think about Kate Pryde just completely fucking flubbing her chance to spot that Piotr Rasputin was under mind control, think about Storm just fucking off to Mars and abandoning everything on Earth, think about what happens to Orphan-Maker at the end of Hellions, think about LITERALLY EVERYTHING to do with X-Force - this is not a healthy society.

And that's a good story.

But it feels like at some point, they just kinda forgot about the fucked up shit and decided nah, this is just paradise, this is great, let's sand off the edges. Like, when Jean tells Firestar to just throw X-Force Beast under the bus to make her cover better during the Hellfire Gala, it's read by so many people as this girlboss OMG SLAAAAAAY moment, but . . . you . . . guys do realise that, like . . . that's fucked up, right? You do realise what that moment means?

"You should invoke Beast's reputation as a butcher of humans and a genocidal maniac and a massive lying piece of shit, WHICH I KNOW ABOUT AND HAVE DONE NOTHING ABOUT, and in fact, I'm going to validate his work because it's useful to me now!"

Like, X-Force Beast would tell Jean that she did EXACTLY the right thing in that moment, would welcome it, compliment her on her cunning, and if that's not a sign that you fucked up, that your moral priorities are completely and utterly fucked, then I don't know what to tell you, man.

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Group C, Round 2, Poll 5:

Propaganda under the cut

Beroba

Teenage girl who is actually a creepy old lady. She’s like sadist horny for the most mentally ill man in the cast but don’t get me wrong she is happy to torment the girls too! He desire is to with was the Ultimate Suffering. Future bitch from the future who sponsors the monsters in the death game reality show the main characters fight in. Did I mention this is squid games the superhero show for Japanese ten year olds? She manages to steal the way to control the whole system from the staff and take everything over. She sets up all the trickery that has the main three guys fighting each other and the female lead to descend into despair. Her characters song can be described as “Beroba and her Bitch Boys” and includes a line that more or less translates to “Staff won’t let me bite you people of the past so I settle with red Jellybeans”. She eats Jellybabies, which are larger. She has such big dick energy she gets a giant lollipop and hands her male partner in crime a tiny one. The only reason she lost was her own vanity and desire to torment Michinaga (her bitch boy and also her Oshi who she wants to see suffer) with what he lost. Turns out he got it back. Her Ridersona is a four story tall bull mech.

Harumi

Oo boy where to I start. She emotionally manipulates the main character and then uses his emotions against him to revive his dad but evil. She ran a biker gang/cult and only let her three top generals know who she was. She went to extreme measures to get what she wanted, including burning down her palace and killing her adoptive parents.

some of her greatest hits include: Gaslighing Garmadon into hating Lloyd (his son), Gatekeeping being Garmadon's Son (even though she's not related to him and also a girl), Girlbossing her way to becoming the leader of a terrorist group while also being the Princess of Ninjago. siccing the terrorist group on the royal family, killing the king and queen because she hated them and didn't wanna be princess anyways, she'd rather be the evil puppet master behind a necromanced figurehead dictator.

Harumi is such a girlboss shes an orphan and was adopted by the emperor and empress and then BLEW UP THE PALACE AND KILLED THEM and she resurrected lord garmadon (evil!!!) and runs a criminal org/biker gang also she had this relationship with Lloyd where she pretty much just manipulated him but other than that I support her evilness

"Okay so after an unfortunate tragic pass of her parents dying in a freak accident, she has dedicated her life in taking revenge on those who are even somewhat linked to their death. I'm talking, she manipulated her way into the royal family to get resources, starts a cult/gang worshiping one of the worst villains to ever hit the realms, and also completely plays with one of the ninja's feelings to get what she wants. Oh, yeah his feelings? She knew he had trauma, issues, just wanted to be loved, AND SHE USED THAT before leaving him to die on multiple occasions. She's also one of the few villains to actually win. Like she gets what she was aiming for, she wins. So yeah, Harumi is a girlboss."

[spicyicymeloncat]

Okay weird post that I’m not sure anyone will get. But it’s late o’clock at night and I’m bored and going insane so here’s:

Ninjago villains if they were avatars from the Magnus archives

Skulkin: the slaughter, since they’re all fallen warriors and such

Garmadon: the corruption, due to his evilness being tied to the snake venom, and how he wants to infect the world with his evil. He also undergoes several bodily transformations

Serpentine: large connected cults with sects for multiple entities

Skales, and the hypnobrai: the web, due to their hypnosis. Skales in particular is always scheming behind the scenes, whilst being victim to being used and controlled by his superiors

Fangpire: the corruption. Contaminating and poisoning other things in order to grow their numbers

Venomarie: the spiral, their venom has psychedelics and trick and confuse others.

Constrictai: the buried. They literally dig and attack via choking, it checks out

Anacondrai: the slaughter. They are most feared and fiercest warriors and they ended up turning on eachother

Pythor: like Mary Keay, or Juergen Leitner, Pythor is a dabbler in a variety of entities, never truly being faithful to one. His ability to sneak up on others and be a childhood terror could be linked to the dark, his manipulative ways, the web, his anacondrai roots and being the sole survivor marks him with the slaughter and the lonely etc etc.

The great devourer: the extinction. Is a kaiju level threat, and acid attacks can be likened to radioactive waste. As well as this, the devourer’s own kind is extinct. The devourer is probably a failed ritual attempt.

The overlord: the web, he creates a web in s3 and has a habit of possessing and controlling others

Stone army: the slaughter. They are literally mindless soldiers built to fight in a war.

Nindroid army: the web due to their connectedness via the the internet and well as them being programmed to do what others say. Additionally they have control of the city due to the city’s reliance of technology

Chen: whilst his tournament feeds the slaughter due to it being about violence about each other, Chen, like leitner, would try to collect power from all entities

Clouse: the eye, he strives to study all about the dark powers

Morro: the end. He’s a ghost. The same for the preeminent

Ronin: the hunt. He’s a bounty hunter trying to avoid being hunted himself

Nadakhan: the spiral, twists one’s words into something else, lies and cheats and causes bafflement and pain

The time twins: idk probably the extinction. They’re connected to the great devourer due to the vermillion being created from it, and Krux hates technology which is linked to the extinction

Harumi: the web. She sings a creepy song about spiders and manipulates Lloyd

Iron baron: the hunt. It’s literally the name of the season.

The oni: the dark. They hide in the shadows and any who are lost in their darkness do not reappear.

Aspheera: the desolation. She has fire and her backstory is all about the sting of betrayal, and wanting to cause pain and revenge to those she felt hurt by.

The ice emperor and vex: the lonely. Zane is already incredibly inclined to the lonely, due to being an amnesiac orphan who realises he’s different from others and is afraid of forgetting everyone he loves. The ice emperor is that but more. Vex is also an avatar of the lonely due to his fury of being unlike the other formlings, and then being rejected by both the formlings and the ice samurai

Unagami: perhaps the spiral? Unagami creates a virtual world where the players can’t tell what’s real or digital, and the npc’s can’t tell if they’re real or not.

Vangelis: the buried. Vangelis traps and enslaved people under a mountain, and uses the powers of fossilised bones and skeletons

Kalmaar and Wojira: the vast. He believes in the superior power of the sea, and how it’s vastness can swallow any land dwelling life. Wojira is a creature tied to both the sea and the sky

[darkcrowprincess]

My thoughts on the horror movie Midsommar:

Oh Midsommar. How do I describe you without saying whats been told a million times? I will attempt to try. The movie is not only a horror movie about a cult in Switzerland, but also a dark fairytale. The story is basically a break up story with a very dark happy ending. And yes I'm one of those idiots who sees the movie ending as a dark happy one.

The story is about a young woman named Dani who goes through the horrible tragedy of losing her entire family. Basically becomes a orphan. Not having anyone else she clings to her horrible boyfriend Christian. In doing this she follows Christian and his friends on a vacation to Switzerland unknowingly landing in the hands of a cult called The Hårga. A Swedish pagan cult that brings new people in but also does human sacrifices every 90 years. Ergo where the name Midsommar comes from. Pelle the cults recruiter falls in love with Dani. Everyone in the cult falls for her too and desperately wants her to join them. After many weird, horrible and strange things happening in the movie, Dani becomes the May Queen. And Christian is killed under Danis orders. By the end it's implied she fully and happily joins the cult.

Things I loved about this movie:

Cinematography! The way this movie is filmed is so beautiful and creative! Its like reading a book play out on screen. With how horrible movies are today it's refreshing to see something so new and creative! A24 is like one of the few film companies now a days that are making movies. New intriguing ideas. Not just copy paste empty ideas that just want your money. My favorite shot is the opening scene with the snow. Plus the contrast of when they get to The Hårga conmmun with everything so bright and colorful.

The aesthic of the movie! I love the clothes so much and the earth flower like paganess of everything. Especially the cult. After watching the movie I looked for so many fashion videos describing The Hårga outfits. And and the May Queen flower outfit! Is so cool! How they managed to have her completely covered in flowers like shes becoming one with nature! So creepy and cool. But so pretty to look at the same time!

3. How feminine the movie feels. Like it feels like a woman directed this movie. But really its a man. And it makes me realize that man can up their game and actually get into the mind of a woman without being insulting.

4. How much I just dislike Christian and how happy I was when the asshole finally died!

5. Dani, I feel for this character so much. The whole movie I just wanted to give her a hug. I know its stupid, but I hope she and Pelle are happy in the cult.

6. Pelle and The Hårga are really cool and interesting villians. The whole cult is interesting. Would I want them to actually exist in real life? HELL NO! If they were real the cult would give me nightmares. Actually there are tons of cults probably just like them. Which for me as a person who has a interest in true crime and cults in real life, its cool how much Ari Aster got right about cults. Though most of my knowledge of cults come from watching true crime documentaries, reading books and magazines and watching YouTube videos and learning about it in school. Cool in I mean a really dark and terrifying way.

Overall those of my thoughts on Midsommar. It was a good movie, though read up on the trigger warnings of this movie because theres a lot. But its a rated r horror movie for a reason. Though I still think you should watch it. I really enjoyed it and plan to watch it again.

[lucresence]

Tharja Headcanons

DISCLAIMER: I do not write Tharja as obsessed with Robin, but definitely creepy and as a stalker. Please read headcanon #4 and #5 for more context.

[ cw // physical abuse, child abuse, child death, addiction, abstinence symptoms, cult, cultist, religious abuse ]

Childhood & Magic related headcanons

[ cw // child abuse, child death, religious abuse ] Sallya was born to a Plegian cultist and his wife, yet they never cared much for any of their children. Some of her siblings died at an early age, others were turned into followers of Grima by her father... not that her mother had cared about any of them. She simply enjoyed the high position her husband had claimed for himself. If one of her remaining children were to talk back, cause trouble, or simply were unlucky, they would feel her wrath and ill temper. Thus, Sallya was not too distraught when she was ordered to leave her family and stay with one of the orphanage houses instead. She never felt like she had had a father and mother anyway; she might have as well been an orphan.

Her experience with her parents had already hardened her shell more than enough to be considered one of the most cold-hearted children at the orphanage. There was more than enough fighting for a higher spot in the hierarchy every single day that, had she been a different child, Sallya would have drowned in the sorrow and loneliness. However, not her. She had always had a strong sense of survival, and perhaps she did inherit something from her father: a certain lust for power. Especially among the other children, who also were the lowest just like her, it was easy for the girl to gain a footing and make a name for herself. But she would not give her parents the honor of using her given name. Instead, she chose the name of a demon from one of the horror stories she had heard, one that was supposed to scare her to death. Her tormented childhood self, full of pain and burden, was finally able to rest, and she would rise as Tharja, installing fear in those who dared to challenge her.

[ cw // child abuse, religious abuse ] One of the reasons why Tharja was able to gain such a favorable position in the orphanage was her discovery of dark magic. During her early childhood, she had already come into contact with it due to her father casting several hexes upon her in order to increase her magic affinity. In a mere act of rebellion, Tharja - then still Sallya - pretended to still be unable to cast any form of magic, deeming her useless in her father's eyes. However, growing older, she rediscovered her now enhanced ability for dark magic and made good use of it whenever she required it.

[ cw // abstinence symptoms, drug abuse but the drug is magic ] Dark magic works in an obscure way; whether only for Tharja and her hexed body or for others as well, she does not know and does not care. If she were to be asked to describe the ways and effects of dark magic, Tharja would explain similarly to this: every spell requires a sacrifice - be it objects, blood, or life energy. For her, most spells are easily paid for with life energy, a rush of the pure essence of life streaming through her body and out of her hands until it leaves a certain sense of numbness in all of her body. This rush can indeed be quite addictive, as the numbness has a tendency to spread the more she uses her magic. At one point in her life, Tharja had been struggling severely, casting spells left and right simply to feel something. With the surprising help from old acquaintances, she had been able to return to a more stable condition again and started using objects for her spells and curses instead. Yet some of her life energy simply cannot be restored, noticeable through her even gloomier aura and weak body. Her fingertips are marked by a dark shade of gray from being drained too much life from them, and her hands are always cold.

Her affinity with dark magic is also the reason why she is drawn towards Reflet / Robin so much: they emit a certain energy that her very existence is more similar to than to those of others. It's like her energy is being replenished, and she feels alive in their presence. Therefore, she is willing to cross clear boundaries of privacy in order to enjoy this feeling some more, but it can be reasoned with her.

Additional Headcanons

She always carries a small satchel in order to collect items for her spells while out in the woods. She will also randomly start picking up things around camp if she deems them useful. Nothing goes wasted under her watch, everything can be used - a trait from her rather resource lacking childhood.

Tharja doesn't like Ylissean food. To her, it tastes bland, but she is willing to eat almost anything in order to satiate her hunger.

All of her spell books are scribbled all over, notes on every single free corner. She loves experimenting and testing both limits and possibilities.

Tharja feels a bit conflicted about her new companions. While she had to fight and curse others her entire life in order to stay alive and lead a more comfortable life, she doesn't have to compete in any form of hierarchy within the Shepherds. With others, she would not have hesitated to hex someone to death if necessary, but with them, she is willing to change her moral compass a bit and tone it down. Over time, she might even come to appreciate them more than she thinks.

While she is pretty decent at cooking and her dishes usually taste good, they do look ominous for some reason even she cannot explain.

Although her energy resources usually should always be enough for her spells, she also carries a cursed dagger with herself - just in case.

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

2022 MOVIE OF THE WEEK #35

die hard. can you believe i had never seen this movie until this year’s holiday season? cuz i can’t really believe it. i went through such a bruce willis phase when i was younger, i used to own the dvd set of moonlighting and i watched him on friends and in movies with matthew perry and the fifth element was a classic in my house...somehow this one just escaped me, i think because my mom’s Action Men tastes were very specifically adrian paul and chuck norris. whereas mine can probably be best described as ‘aw shucks schlubby charm,’ dudes who just seem more normal until they are required to be badasses. bruce willis, david harbour...i can’t remember what other actor i realized he reminds me of while watching this, but i know i told leander and was pleased by the realization, so i’m sure there are more examples.

anyway, this was so not on my radar; i didn’t even know what it was about other than through cultural osmosis. when a movie is mentioned as often as this one, you Know It even when you don’t. though there is a specific kind of joy that comes from finally seeing the line ‘yippee ki-yay, motherfucker’ delivered in its original context. that was fun. 

until pretty recently, i didn’t know alan rickman was the antagonist--that was a large part of why i watched. and boy does he make a meal out of this role. a significant chunk of this movie was just me thinking about what a great actor he is in this. his line deliveries are so delicious that i made a mental note just to mention ‘ho...ho...ho.’ as something nobody else could have had as much fun with. i was truly sad when his character finally died, because of course that ending was always going to come, but i didn’t want it to. the mark of a good villain is actually wanting more of them when you’re not supposed to like them in the first place, and he was an excellent villain--clever and funny with his own moral code, perfect to face off against bruce willis’s unexpected hero.

besides alan rickman, the other reason i decided to watch this (with @actuallylukedanes​ and their fiance who had both seen it before) was that it was featured in an episode of you are good, a movie podcast i like, which meant i’d already heard about the plot and figured that might help me enjoy it more. (normally if they discuss movies i intend to watch, i skip those episodes to avoid spoilers, but i never planned to see this one. lol.) anyway, they watched it as one of their christmas picks, and i knew there was a big debate about whether or not it counts as a christmas movie.

now that i’ve seen it, i feel like the debate is settled and it is OBVIOUSLY a christmas movie, no question. it is in my opinion a movie about a bunch of people (including john mcclain) having the worst christmas of their lives, and there was something i found oddly comforting about that. with my shiny new holiday depression this year, i wasn’t in the mood for any holiday movies--but i would rewatch this one every christmas, because like any good christmas movie there is a party and people remember that family is the most important thing. but UNLIKE other christmas movies, it has alan rickman taking his craft super seriously while bruce willis is in his softest and prettiest young phase, which i adore. and things explode.

(i also need us all to move on from this ‘is it a christmas movie?’ debate so people can be converted to the cult of my much more underappreciated christmas fave, batman returns. tim burton said gotham christmas but make it creepy! and michelle pfieffer learned better whip skills than harrison ford just to manifest it. the true spirit of christmas is being reanimated by cats, and using your new nine lives to flirt with a wealthy orphan while seeking vengeance on anyone who wronged you.)

i’m sure i could go on, but you can tell how old this movie is from the poster up there--i was barely ALIVE when this came out, lol. so i am very late to the party and i doubt a ton of people need me going on and on about it. besides alan rickman and bruce willis, i didn’t know most of the cast, but they all did a good job, there was at least one plot thread that didn’t go the way i expected, and i was pleasantly surprised by that. this movie’s racial politics make me reeeeally uncomfortable, but it’s not at all unusual for its time. the one honorable mention i’d give in casting is to the actor i grew up watching on family matters who plays a central role in helping john survive. he’s portrayed as a black hero, but he can’t just be one because he’s john’s emotional support system throughout the movie--no, he has to become a ‘real’ cop again by shooting a guy. at the same time, you have two major comic relief characters, and both are young black men; one driving john’s limo and the other handling technology for the villain. there’s a same sort of ‘balance’ with the movie’s two asian characters, the seemingly kind company owner who’s murdered early on versus a team member of the villain whose role is also tiny.

the movie is also trying to say stuff (or is just accidentally saying stuff based on the era) around post-soviet american perspectives, but i feel like the racial element sticks out way more because it goes uncommented on. like since it’s clearly not something the plot thinks about, these choices are even more noticeable and important because they reflect the buried stuff.

idk, i just have a lot of feelings about the fact that john’s friend over the radio couldn’t be really redeemed unless he used his gun. or about the fact that he and john are both cops in the first place, so even this sort of ‘everyman’ action movie is promoting the idea that while the fbi and other bureaucracy is useless or will even make things worse, good cops are the only hope we have. 

and his marital reconciliation--i basically just threw up my hands with that one, because i don’t think a near-death experience on christmas will automatically save your marriage. but at the same time, if your wife’s problem with you is that you wouldn’t follow her to her new job, and you finally show up there and save a whole building full of people while she’s in it...then yeah, okay, whatever. maybe that’s all it takes. i mean, if i were her, i’d probably be willing to consider applying for jobs back in new york after that anyway. they’ve definitely earned some kind of happy ending.

in conclusion, i loved this movie. it is an action movie classic in the truest sense of how that felt in the 80s and 90s, and it features bruce willis at his finest and alan rickman briefly doing an american accent and a whole very huge lot of broken glass. broken glass is basically a character in this movie. die hard was an excellent christmas choice for me this year and i’m glad i was welcome to join in the watching. :)

[funky-sea-cryptid]

go apeshit!

TRAP CARD!!!! YOU HAVE ACTIVATED HYPERFIXATION TRAP CARD!!!!

it's all gonna be beneath the cut so i dont clog your dash

black clover time!! the protagonists are asta and yuno, who are fifteen year olds from a place affectionately called the boonies and officially called the forsaken realm because they're poor as shit. they're both orphans, both raised at the same orphanage under the care of father orsi and sister lily, they share a birthday they have an incredibly homoerotic relationship that depends on their rivalry to become the wizard king which is like. the head of the magical clover kingdom law enforcement, the magic knights.

the wizard king position actually has a fair bit of lore behind it. five hundred years before the start of the story, a demon was rampaging around the clover kingdom and it was so powerful that people were like "this is it this is the end :(" until the first wizard king defeated the demon and now its bones hang out in the forsaken realm.

the difference between yuno and asta however, is yuno is dripping with god sauce mana to the point where he gets a legendary four-leaf grimoire and asta uh.

area man has no mana. he's beefed up but beef means nothing when he has no mana no grimoire and everyone's like "well now you can't be the wizard king" except against all odds asta does recieve a grimoire, albeit like a few hours later. and this one has five leaves. which is where the devil lives. asta has officially become Bearer Of The Curse, and now owns fuckoff awesome swords coated in this shit called antimagic which nullifies magic obviously courtesy of the devil hiding out in his grimoire. demons and devils are different things btw jot that down.

anyways asta and yuno head out to do the magic knights exam and join one of the squads. yuno, because he's fucking doused in god sauce, gets into the best magic knights squad, the golden dawn, lead by prettyboy extrordinare william vangeance, while asta gets into the worst squad known to man, the black bulls, lead by man of all time yami sukehiro.

members of the black bulls include: yami sukehiro (legend with dark magic who's from a place called hino), asta (none mana left beef), noelle silva (water magic, owns 90% of the money), charmy pappitson (cotton magic and food magic because she's an eldritch deity, eats whatever she can get her hands on), luck voltia (lightning magic, tends to get into fights a lot but he's skrunkly so it's okay), magna swing (fire magic, luck's homoerotic rival, has the best aesthetic), finral roulacase (spatial (portal) magic, no attack spells, whiny lesbian), vanessa enoteca (thread magic, witch, her gender is alcoholism), gauche adlai (mirror magic, crippling older sibling complex), grey (shape changing magic (?), gender, god i wish they were me), and gordon (poison magic, he's really sweet but he looks creepy and everyone's scared of him which makes me so so sad), nero (bird). there are four other members but they're introduced later in the series.

asta and the black bulls have a giant found family arc and it means the world to me tbh <3. also the current wizard king, julius, is mega autistic coded and i love him.

in the first arc of the series the main antagonists are the nobility (sort of) and this cult called the eye of the midnight sun, lead by a guy called licht (who has the FUNNIEST TWIST KNOWN TO MAN) and the third eye, vetto, fana, and rhya. their goal initially is like. fuck the nobility (based) and they're gathering these magic rocks by any means necessary to redistribute the mana (also based). so the magic knights are out trying to stop these hoes from getting the rocks with varying degrees of success.

along the way, vetto and fana are blown up which is devastating to me, a third eye enjoyer. vanessa revisits her old trauma, asta gets both his arms broken and proceeds to "fuck it we ball" all over the clover kingdom until vanessa fixes them, there's a competition to become the "royal knights" in which finral is smote into oblivion by his half brother bc of langris vaude's intense superiority complex. but you know, asta claps him into oblivion which is very fun. introducing my best friend zora ideale to the black bulls roster. the royal knights head over to fuck up what remains of the eye of the midnight sun and what follows are successively the funniest twists known to man.

william vangeance rolls up to julius and he's like "julius :) thank you so much :) for being kind to me as a child :) i love you so much. however" and he takes off his mask to reveal: it's licht. william has been helping the enemy the entire time. licht loses his entire shit when julius refuses to die but eventually kills him. he goes back to his cult and kills all of them because it turns out him and the third eye are reincarnated elves and they HATE humanity. homie forcefed his cult the koolaid, reincarnated the rest of the elves, including....the actual licht. YEP. THIS IDIOT ISNT EVEN THE ACTUAL LICHT. TURNS OUT HE IS JUST SOME KID. HIS NAME'S PATRI AND HE WAS FIFTEEN WHEN HE DIED. vetto and fana come back btw this is important to me.

shenanigans ensue, the elves fuck around, turns out another devil manipulated everyone oh and remember the wizard king thing? 500 years, the demon, yeah uh the demon was actual!licht after the elves were all fucking murdered by clover kingdom nobility and the actual licht was married to mr 1st wizard king's sister, tetia. the devil who caused all this, zagred, has been manipulating patri's incredibly just anger at being fucking murdered and turns him into a dark elf and steals his fucking grimoire rip baby you did your best. asta undarkelfs him and they all fuck up zagred with the help of actual licht and the first wizard king who's brought into this with the magic rocks. also his assistant secre who has been nero the entire time. bird girl i love youuuuuu. the elves mostly get exorcised sans patri, rhya, vetto, and fana my beloveds. william gets really gay about the elf sharing his body. julius is back from the dead but he's 13 now?

also henry legolant enters the black bulls roster he's been living in the house and he eats mana. wonderful little man.

some guy named damnatio is like "devils bad" for obvious reasons but he goes about this by trying to kill asta and secre bc devilisms and almost murders a child for some bullshit. the black bulls get exiled to learn about devils more? very fun. they go into the heart kingdom, they have more found family shenanigans. secre's a member now. then these hoes known as the dark triad step up. the dark triad are. well. spade royalty (they got here by ursurping the grinberryalls, the actual spade royal family)

i mean. they're real fucked up. devil contracted hoes, all siblings in the zogratis family. dante (body magic, contracted to lucifero, giving him gravity magic too), vanica (blood magic, contracted to megicula, giving her curse magic), and zenon (bone magic, contracted to beelzebub, giving him spatial magic). they invade the heart kingdom to get princess lolopechka and open the gates of hell so now the magic knights have to stop them. yami and william get kidnapped because their specific magical attributes can open the gates of hell.

enter the final member. vice-captain nacht faust. contracted to four devils, and so SO mentally ill he's like "hey you wanna help right?" and asta's like "yeah" and nacht's like "alright time to do illegal shit" and asta meets his grimoire devil, liebe, and they become besties in spite of nacht's insistence they need to Not. anyways spade raid happens, the gates of hell are opened, devils everywhere, dark triad all gets fucked up by some epic meat fistery. nacht continuously gets folded on his quest to save his husband who he loathes. asta claps the supreme devil directly into hell and all is well.

WRONG.

remember juilus? well. he's just turned into the fourth zogratis sibling, lucius, and now he's calling himself god and a year after devil shit he turns a nun into a paladin (host of a purified devil spirit) rip sister lily, and then claps asta out of the sky and he's presumed dead.

asta wakes up in hino and meets yami's sister ichika hi ichika who's like "my brother sukehiro KILLED OUR FAMILY" and asta's like ">:( leave my captain alone" and he's training to get stronger so he can clap lucius back so hard he hopefully dies. the paladins roll up to hino to fuck shit up and asta unpaladins sister lily and that's as far as the manga is up to.

[all-pacas]

doing this part in a new post: So lemme talk about my Durge for my story. Because lol, for all my woe is me up there, I did plan it all out.

Born in blood and flesh as Enyo Atavia, last child of Bhaal, in the year 1369. She appears to be drow, but it's a bit complicated: she's an avatar of Bhaal. She's never been to the Underdark. It's more of a case of "my evil child should look properly evil uwu."

By 1372, Enyo has been thrown into Baldur's Gate as a random orphan to be raised until she's old enough to do useful murder things. She was taken in by a nice half wood elf family and renamed Chryseis (surname undetermined). She was often called Chrissy, which her party will decades later find hilariously unfortunate. She had some episodes of Creepy Child Bullshit growing up, but her parents, who did heavily suspect she was a Bhaalspawn, tried to nurture/lecture her out of it.

Early 1380s - Chryseis's younger brother is born. Due to differences in half elf and full drow aging, he appeared physically and mentally older than her for about half their respective childhoods. They were very close, in part because of this: she spent a few years "older" and protective, and then he was the "older" and protective one. His name was Taviel.

Early 1400s - Chryseis still has violent urges and a tendency to go overboard. At Taviel's suggestion, she joins a paladin hall, to channel this productively. She is also approached by the Bhaal cult, and finally finds out she is a Bhaalspawn. This causes a rift between her and her adoptive family, who had hidden it to protect her: Taviel included. Chyrseis starts to struggle with her nature. Once angry, it's almost impossible for her to put away her grudges. She is a paladin, but takes too much pleasure in the punishment of the deserving. Still, she holds on to her sanity.

1450s: Chryseis snaps. The Urges have been getting worse, and they take over. She kills her paladin hall. She kills Taviel. This is still enough to horrify her. In a fugue, she cuts off his hand as an offering and brings it to the temple of Bhaal. She is reveling in her power; she is terrified and traumatized. She begs her father. Carve her heart from her chest, and she will serve him without question or falter. Let her stop feeling, and she will kill the world in his name. It is unclear if her wish was granted, or if she merely manages to suppress her own memories and feelings.

1469: Enyo is 100 years old. An adult. She spends her first few years in the Temple of Bhaal killing and having fun, but starts to grow frustrated with the lack of scope. Yes, we'll kill everyone in the world, how fun! But most Bhaalites are too busy trying to one up one another and find creative ways to murder. Where's the efficiency, you know? She still has fun, finds the time to be a serial killer in 1482, but she's primed to be courted by Gortash a few years later, since his plans align with her own desire for a bit more organization and purpose. (She wants more -- more murder, she thinks. Something about this life dissatisfies her. She resents her sister-niece Orin, who seems to have no qualms and endless creativity. Enyo believes she is ambitious, instead of realizing she is less than perfectly happy.)

By 1492: Enyo envies Thorm and his control over death, but thinks what she feels is disgust for his perversion of her father's powers. She has a pseudo-relationship with Gortash, where she realizes the Baneite wants to conquer and rule her and the longer she staves him off the more he wants her. She pities him, but sleeps with him because she has a compulsive need to be wanted and needed. (To be loved, which she can no longer recognize or remember. She has forgotten her family. Taviel's hand rotted into bones, which she carries with her as a token. Her Father will love her, surely. When she kills the world for him. She will be loved.)

1493: Orin in her resentment can see Enyo's neediness for what it is, and yet Enyo dismisses and patronizes her. Orin betrays her, and Enyo is left for dead. She wakes up not as Enyo or even Chryseis, but with a name she doesn't remember is her brother's childhood nickname: Tav. It is Tav's form that the Emperor takes in her dreams, although he was aiming more for "subconscious love interest" than "beloved brother I murdered almost a century ago."

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Appearance:

Colors are blue/purple/white, mostly to contrast Orin. Ice toned Drow, average height and build; a bit emaciated due to weeks/months of living autopsies and hanging out in a fleshpit. Her most striking feature is her eyes, which are widely spaced and a very, very pale silver. It makes her hard to read, even when she isn't really trying to be.

She comes across as stoic and emotionless, but that's mostly due to her resting :| face and that she's naturally on the quieter side. Not shy, just quiet. Even as a crazed cult leader, she wasn't terribly flamboyant, doing her murders with a calm determination and pragmatism. She enjoys her work and takes satisfaction in it. Closer observations: she's always tense, always holding back. She's been restrained for so long she doesn't remember what it's like to relax. Everything needs to be controlled. Herself. Her kinder instincts (or her murderous ones). Her body. Her mind. Ice can burn as much as fire, if properly applied.

Her butler would encourage and nurture her, try and get her to relax and enjoy herself. She's always been afraid of that, of what might happen if she loses control, although she would call it a hatred of inefficiency. She has a deep and almost compulsive need to be loved, to be admired. Fear and respect is also good, and what she believed this was. It leaves her very vulnerable to certain types of manipulation: she believes she ought to be loved and so takes any kindness as proof that she is.

As "Tav," she's slightly more relaxed: she's forgotten she's a Bhaalite and this is a more natural state to her, she has less to control and keep in check and keep suppressed. Still a bit Type A, every muscle in her body still held tense, but she has much less to remind herself to be. She's still utterly desperate to be loved.

Her hair is currently in a truly unfortunate sort of pixie cut hot mess, thanks to being totally ruined by all the fleshpit blood and guts she was submerged in for however long. As cult leader Bhaalite, her hair was fairly long and she dressed immaculately; it will grow out slightly over the story but only to about bob length. Her hair is white, but as a child she'd sometimes dye it red or black -- not for edgy murder reasons, but simply because she was a Drow in a family of auburn brunettes.

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My TTRPG OCs

Alright there's a bunch but lets get into it. They'll get a blurb here, and I'll add hyperlinks as I give them their own posts.

Vampire the Masquerade:

Faith Meade: Backstory | Viewforth by Night: I / II / III Faith is a Sandman Ventrue full of Catholic Guilt™ and Autism™. She's a brand new fledgling who has immediately lost her sire and fallen in with the wrong crowd, notably including her new accidental father figure, a Camarilla Tzimisce. She is not fucking coping, she is not hinged, she is not okay at all, she averages more than one mental breakdown a night. She juggles this, and her highly eventful nightlife, with a successful career as a Sales Trader.

Riccardo "Dino" Rossi: Dino is an Anarch, and a Siren Toreador. He is hot, often accidentally vulgar, and his sire is a creepy piece of shit. Dino thinks he's coping great, by aggressively hyperfocusing on sex and motorcycle racing. He is also an expert (after... a learning process) in managing his sire's emotions, so his unlife has become one of performing as the perfect prized pet. I wanted to make a tragic manwhore, and I was thinking about Gino D'acampo at the time. He has become one of my most beloved characters I've ever played, because when I play Dino, he actually possesses me. I flustered the storyteller more than once. I am not typically smooth.

Kellan Voss: Kellan is my baby boy. He's a Cammie, and a Bagger Nosferatu. He wears a gas mask with tinted lenses, although when he made his debut he was also wearing a bandit mask blue-tacked onto the lenses, rendering him unable to see. The coterie pretty much met because he brought himself, his sire, and a goat to the floor at Elysium, and they came over to help. He's coping by being the class clown and being aggressively extroverted - refusing to give in to any sort of "typical" Nosferatu experience. He is stacking an impressive number of social merits for a fledgling.

Honourable mention: Brendan O'Rourke. I haven't played him yet, but I've been working on him for over a year. He's my Malkavian, but I won't say too much until the details are Final and I've got a chance to play him.

Mage the Ascension

Bonnie Raith-Ballantyne: My most beloved WoD character, Bonnie is everything to me. She's a pretty new orphan, but she's already being pulled unknowingly between Hollow One/Cult of Ecstasy/Order of Hermes. She has SUPER high willpower, and that's the basis of her character: what she wants, she gets. She is pure determination and discipline and effort. Playing her brings me so much joy and I have improved my actual real life since starting her. The storyteller has implied her Avatar has at one point been the Oracle at Delphi.

Changeling the Lost

Alabaster: My only amnesiac character, this bitch remembers escaping a weird garden, being saved from a snake with a babies face by some fucked up scarecrow looking dudes, and waking up in hospital with only the single most infuriating man in the world to explain her situation to her. She only learned anything about who she is by finding it out in real time. She's a chav. She's full of rage. She thinks with her fists. She's protective of women. She's really, really skilled with martial arts? The first woman she met in uptime was a trans woman called Erin and they immediately commit a murder together. She has killed and would die for that tiny anxious woman. She has known her all of two days. She's a Treasured Fairest, she looks like a marble statue, and she's been walking around in a pink crop top that says "Pillow Princess" on it since the murder. She's going to wind up Summer Court, if I get to play her again - the campaign didn't last but it might come back!

Dungeons and Dragons:

Euphoria: My longest running TTRPG character of all time, and the only character who I might play a second time if I get the chance. Euphoria is a pink tiefling bard who was forced to wear uncomfortable molds all her childhood so her horns and tip of her tail would grow into heart shapes. She has tattooed heart freckles. Her clothes, upon starting the character, were all pink with heart details on everything. She was sold into the circus as a baby and brought up almost constantly under Enchantment magic to be obedient. I started her at level 3, and we're now level 22 and in space. I couldn't begin to be succinct about her story, so I won't try. I'm also playing her in my BG3 run and of course she's romancing Astarion. She's a force for chaos and their trauma is so similar.

Ivory "Angel" Darling: Her campaign ended - like, we got to the end of the story, we hit level 20, we saved everyone, it's done and dusted. She's had an epilogue. I think about her always regardless. She's a 16y/o half-elf warlock (she grew up over the campaign tho) from a rich, happy family, and she joined the party to study their tiefling, as she wanted to be a demonologist. Defeating Tiamat was just the cherry on top. She had a checklist - make a career, find a husband, finish this paper - and by god did she finish it. I'm so emotional about the connections between the characters of this campaign and I will talk about her so much more. I named my Elite Dangerous pilot after her. Her son is an NPC in a friends game, two of my friends have been playing her cousins, one of them has played TWO of her cousins. Her family lore is so deep.

Pathfinder

Groz: The bartender NPC from my D&D west march game found life in a pathfinder game with my colleagues. He has half a braincell but he hits things good. He will protect you. He will also decide that bashing a door down is preferable to finding a key, and donate flesh to weird cults because they asked kinda nicely, losing him a finger. I'm probably more likely to talk about him as my D&D NPC rather than as my Pathfinder PC because we've only done 2 sessions of that campaign and it runs SO rarely.

[bigboipyromaniac]

So because I like Walter Sullivan the normal amount (aka I have bad taste in men fhhdjeus) could I get some general stuff with him namely with a gn/masc leaning reader who expresses affection through quality time (and maybe some cuddles if it’s not to much to ask)

Mommy issue man! And I also like him a normal amount🤤

Had to do this on my phone cause I'm to lazy to get my computer. Hope yall enjoy it!

• Yall meet before he went on a murdering spread

• He saw you and was like

• Yea I want them

• When he started talking to you thought he was weird

• But a cute weird

• But he definitely had some red flags

• But it ok

• Youre color blind to the color red

• He's not used to being a relationship

• I mean all of his life was just trying to reach his mom

• Aka the room

• He never told you about his family

• The orphan hes lived in for years

• (Cause it a cult right? Man I need to replay sh4)

• His mom

• Nor the plan he has to reconnect with his mom

• He's just a creepy cute guy with many secrets

• He's has given you that doll

• You know what doll I'm taking about

• After he gave it to you

• You started noticing weird thing around your room

• Don't worry tho

• It's just the spirits protecting you

• Speaking of weird thing

• You also noticed a little boy always near him

• You always assume it's his brother

• But if you ask him about it he'll tell you not to worry about it

• But after dating for a couple of years

• You notice how clingy he is

• Like if your in the couch doing whatever

• He will sleep on top of you or sit next to you

• He's also enjoys spending time with you doing whatever you want

• No matter how many places you want to go

• He will follow you

• I think his favorite activity with you is just chilling with you on the couch or bed

• Also

• Please do cuddle with him

• He LOVES it when you rub his head

• He's like a dog

• But a old dog

• And have you seen this man's eyebags?!?

• Like let this man rest

• I mean he is forcing himself to do these things

• So do hold him hostage

• And also remove his jacket

• That jacket probably has like 20 disease on there

• But honestly

• Force him to take a shower

• He looks stinky

• But he's our stinky boy

• And consider yourself lucky that he loves you

• Or else you'll be come his victim

It's funny how I play games out of order

I have finished sh2 3 4 but have yet to complete the first one💀