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coralinnii · 1 year ago

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❋ You said what now? ❋

↳ He accidentally found out your feelings

feat: Ruggie ⭑ Chenya ⭑ Lilia ⭑ Epel

genre: fluff (uhh for the most part), humour,

note: no pronouns used with the reader, no explicit spoilers for book 7 in Lilia’s section, reader is referred as human in Lilia’s section, reader is implied to be a first year in Epel’s section, bad cat-related wording in Chenya’s section

Fun fact: while not obvious in the English translation, if you listen to Chenya’s Japanese voice lines, he likes to say “nya” at the end of his sentences.

Will I keep that fact in mind anytime Chenya pops up? Absolutely.

Also, I just started my college classes again last week (which is why I didn’t post last week). All of my classes are dense with text and quizzes so…I need to study real hard which will most likely eat up my time for writing. Good ol’ inconsistent me~

Although, I’m taking History and we focus a bit on the age of nobility and old kingdoms…so maybe some inspiration for my villain/ess!au series (or maybe not cuz history is weirder than one thinks…)

How it happened

Perhaps a little sneaky, Ruggie is someone reliable, resourceful, and fun to be around. You started to fall for him and even that sneaky side of his became endearing to you.

But bigger, financial priorities occupy the hyena beastman’s mind more than anything else. Unless he can make a madol from it or get a freebie, his interest in anything else is seemingly non-existent. It was rather easy to keep your feelings to yourself when the topic of love rarely, if ever, comes up.

So it came to a surprise to you when the shaggy-haired sophomore mentioned his coworkers at a part-time job he picked up in town.

He started ranting about how a duo at his workplace started an unlikely relationship a few days ago. According to him, the two were from two different worlds and didn’t appear to be either of their types.

“Doesn’t make any sense if you ask me” he mumbled, scratching his fluffy head by the sudden revelation at his job.

You nodded and hummed as he recounted his workday with you, but in all honesty, you didn’t share his confusion over the so-called sudden pairing. By the way Ruggie described the couple, it does sound like their personalities wouldn’t mesh well and would theoretically clash too much for anything to bloom between them.

But attraction follows no simple formula. No one can stop themselves from falling for someone. You yourself were an example.

“Love is never predictable, Ruggie.” you commented without thinking, perhaps too distracted by the cute love story of Ruggie’s coworkers or it could be that you’re drowning in the warm feelings from being so close to your crush that your mouth is running too comfortably on its own. “I mean, I never thought you were my type but I still ended up-“

You shut your mouth before you could finish but looking at the wide-eyed expression on Ruggie’s face, the effort was moot.

“You still ended up?”

…Shoot.

What happens now?

Colour him shocked. Ruggie never entertained the idea that you would like him, out of all people.

He could’ve pretended not to figure it out, or convince himself that it was a misunderstanding. But he knew when he saw your flustered embarrassment and your cute stuttering trying to come up with an excuse, there was no misunderstanding. You like him.

Ruggie has a good amount of ego and he wouldn’t downplay his boyish good looks (odds are it got him out of a few close calls), but in a school of celebrities, royalty, and guys with money coming out the wazoo? He knows when he’s outmatched.

To be honest, his brain froze for a moment at your slip up. He clutched his heart which stuttered out of beat, his ears and tail stood in attention like a meerkat. Jack was worried watching his upperclassman in such a daze while folding laundry, heck it even got Leona raising a brow over the uncharacteristic clocked out look on his shorter dormmate.

But, Ruggie is a workaholic hyena. Always planning his way to work up the ladder to earn some good madol. Even if he likes the idea of making a family of his own, romance wasn’t in his peripheral vision at the moment. Not while he’s working multiple jobs at once. He would honestly feel a little bad because he knows he’ll end up ignoring any poor soul stuck with him.

As bad as it is, he might at first think to pretend he heard nothing about your feelings. He couldn’t bring himself to make you go through that, to be in a relationship where work takes precedence over you.

But then he thought it wouldn’t be so bad…snuggling up to you during one of his rare free time. Maybe you’re the type to surprise him with lunch and he could rest on your lap while you brush his hair. Would you maybe rub his sore muscles after an arduous club training session? Having boyfriend privileges means no one can complain when he slides up to your side, keeping your attention to himself without having to share…

Screw it, he’ll figure something out. He’s a greedy hyena through and through

Shyeheehee! Better be ready for what you’re asking for. Once I’ve set my eyes on something, I’m not lettin’ it get away!

How it happened

This man is a literal magic trick, appearing and disappearing to revel in the shock of his unsuspecting audience. As elusive as he is, the times he does show up brings a shock of joy and excitement to you.

It seems that the purple-haired student has made it a habit to join the Heartslabyul’s unbirthday parties from time to time, enjoying the occasional chaos and keeping you company to your conflicted delight.

You didn’t know why but Chenya made it his mission to fluster you every chance he gets, with cheeky comments and sly touches as he leads you away from incoming mishaps such as a stray splash of paint or a flying slice of cake. You don’t know why but the cat-like menace has taken a shine to teasing you out of the blue. Sometimes he would suddenly whisper nonsensical riddles into your ear, or tap your shoulder to then poke your cheek as you turn. Small silly pranks that should annoy you but your body becomes filled with butterflies when he smiles that charming grin at you.

How maddening, you thought as you fell for another sneaky surprise from the impish beastman. Once again, Chenya appeared right behind you, smiling just over your shoulder which gave you and your friends a fright (for different reasons) to which he took pleasure in, judging from the mischievous grin on his lips.

Your shouting caught the attention of the other Heartslabyul students and recognizing the white jacket and castle emblem, their eyes boiled with competitive rage. An RSA student? On Night Raven territory?!

“Ah, looks like fun time is over. I’ll just show meowself out~” and like a mirage, Chenya’s figure disappeared as the NRC students failed to catch even a strand of his fur. Not even when he took a second longer to fade out just so he could teasingly tickle the tip of your nose with his fluffy striped tail.

The students kept on making a fuss, eager to teach the mischief maker a lesson for trespassing on rival territory. You sighed at the wasteful effort, assuming that Chenya would be smart enough to have left long ago.

“Why must my crush be such a frustrating person?” Angry hollers and Riddle’s commanding cease-and-desist orders overwhelmed your tired voice, and your soft words ended up softly carried off into the wind.

But your words caught the interest of a curious ear before it disappeared.

What happens now?

Curiouser and curiouser. He was not expecting such a confession. Though to be fair, he supposed you didn’t mean for anyone to hear it.

Chenya found joy being in your company. The shock in your bright eyes followed by your cute laugh sends a warm, giddy feeling in his heart that he just could not stop. He had a feeling he knew what these feelings could be but he was content with what he could get in the rare moments he can see you.

But now, when he realized what your cute reactions meant? That sends whole new exciting feelings within him. It’s fuzzy and warm as usual, but now also shocking and thrilling. The sneaky beastman is grinning for more than one reason now.

He won’t immediately confess back. Considering this wonderful predicament where you don’t know he knows of your affections, his playful nature compels him to milk the fun of this situation for all its worth.

If you thought his cheeky antics were bad enough, you haven’t seen his flirty side till now. Playful taps on the shoulders become sneaky grabs by the waist, and just when you think he’s gone, his signature grin would grace your vision as he fades into view, a little too close to your own face. Sometimes when he feels emboldened, Chenya would sweep you off your feet for a spontaneous walk along the sweet breeze.

When you’re finally at your wit’s end, when all his teasing and heart-fluttering gestures fills you to the point of combusting in flustered frustration, that’s when he’ll finally tell you his reciprocated feelings, perhaps while stealing a quick kiss when you least suspect it. All to see that terribly adorable look on your pretty face.

Every adventure requires a first step. I’m excited to see where we’ll go together from meow on~

How it happened

See, you thought he already knew. You swore he did. Why else would he tease you so much with his sweet compliments and flirty jokes? The mysterious senior spoke to you as though you were a naive child crushing on their older peer, which you supposed wasn’t entirely wrong.

The way he treated you with so much care and love that you wondered if he already suspected of your feelings and was being considerate to you. He listens to your rambles as though he has all the time in the world for you, compliments you on your achievements as though he’s genuinely proud of your hard work, and he jokes with you with that boyish charm of his. But the scarlet-eyed fae never pursued further with advances with you, which made you think that perhaps this was just who Lilia was, a strange but friendly man, unwilling to hurt your feelings. Were you grasping at straws and misconstruing his intentions?

With a heavy heart, you tried your best to give up your hopes but maintained a cordial bond with Lilia, not wanting to avoid the jovial fae so suddenly (well, without having to explain why anyways)

But one day, when you were walking with the smiling senior, he started talking about a souvenir shirt that Kalim had given him during their club meeting. It was a shirt patterned erratically with various colours and pictures of tiny bats littered about. It was an eccentric visual of fabric but it strangely fits the equally eccentric man.

“What are your thoughts? Would I not look absolutely adorable in this?” Lilia asked, holding the shirt in front in his uniform with a boyish smile, his fangs peeking out slightly. But you rolled your eyes as you sighed exasperated by this man’s antics.

“Don’t you think that’s unfair for you to ask me?” You looked at him with a pout, somewhat irritated at the mature fae you’re trying to get over. “Of course I’d said you would, considering how much I like you”

For a rare moment, Lilia turned wide-eyed at your words. “Pardon? Do you by chance… harbour feelings for me?”

Turns out, he didn’t know at all

What happens now?

Guess you can still surprise this old man. He had his suspicions but for all he knew that was how the youth were these days. He was fond of your shy expressions whenever he was around and he could hear the quickening of your heartbeat, but he didn’t want to assume. Perhaps you were just more on the skittish side.

In the centuries he lived, he saw love in many forms. In the recent centuries he lived, he got to experience some of those forms of love he’s seen, with the pain and joy that comes with it. To him, it couldn’t ask for more as he lives out the last few centuries he has left.

You however, were still vibrant like a freshly bloomed flower in its prime. Was that why he just couldn’t take his eyes off you? He couldn’t help but watch in admiration as you lived with almost enviable vigour. He felt pulled, entranced to be by your side for even just a moment, just to see that beautiful gleam of life (and love, he realized) in your eyes.

But Lilia felt a beat of guilt in his heart. Your life is so short in comparison to his own. You should be sharing your youth with someone as brilliant as yourself, not pining over an old soul like himself. Humans are fickle creatures but he supposed with such short lives, it’s best to be curious and experience all one can without regrets.

He would be honest with you, sharing his thoughts with you as though warning that your affections were better spent with someone that suited you better. It would be up to you to convince the stubborn fae that he was your choice, that you already decided he suited you just fine. All you’re asking from him is if he shared the same feelings as you did.

“I may have tried to get rid of my feelings before, but I’m choosing not to run away this time,” in your eyes, Lilia sees that same vibrant gleam that mesmerized him, almost breathing a new sense of life into him. “All I ask is if you feel the same way”

And he does. He’s lying to himself if he hasn't thought of a life with you where he could steal surprise kisses throughout the day, where he could bring you to soar through the night skies as he takes you to explore the world with him. He imagines a life of silliness but also a life of blissful content as he gazes at you like a beacon of light in his life, a new reason to live a bit longer.

Lilia feels ensnared by love once more, but the burning warmth in his soul is just too invigorating. He’s looking forward to this new chapter in his life, with you.

I do hope you’ve prepared yourself, my dear. Eternal love with a fae should not be taken lightly. But rest assured, I look forward to our new adventure

How it happened

You were Epel’s close friend and confidant, someone who he can share his achievements and woes with. Being so new to the college, the two of you depend on each other through thick or thin and along the way, you grew to see the lavender-haired freshman as more than just a companion.

He has a bit of a temper and is quick to the jump at times, but he was always there for you and even though he doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with them at times, he respects his seniors and takes their lessons to heart.

When he talks about how much he dislikes his height or his feminine features, you nodded along for his sake but you couldn’t tell him that you were actually in disagreement. You adore his fluffy locks that you occasionally got to touch with his permission and his light blue eyes felt like calming waves of the purest lake. Epel constantly swore to you that he’ll have his growth spurt and will even tower Leona in height, but you like how you could hold him close to you without issue.

You love all that he is, even if he’s not too keen on some parts himself

But you kept this all to yourself. You thought Epel had other priorities on his mind and you were scared that confessing would ruin the friendship you’d built with him. For now, you were content to be by his side for however long you can.

You were dead tired during a particularly harsh Flying class with Coach Vargas and you were barely conscious enough to keep your eyes open. It took everything you had to just nod along to whatever Epel was saying, something about some Savanaclaw students?

“Who they think they are, callin’ me cute like that? I outta rip off their yapper for underestimatin’ me.” You weren’t helping his point when you thought how cute his accent was as he grumbled about his day. You were falling in and out of consciousness but thought you should at least reply back to your friend…anything at all…

“I’m sorry…that happened…even though…I think…you’re really cute…”

You were already out cold to notice your friend frozen in place as you finished your drowsy comment, your head landing on his stiff shoulders.

What happens now?

ALDFIUAHLBWAIGLH

Congratulations, you broke your friend and you don’t even remember it. When you woke up, you couldn’t figure out why Epel was as bright red as his hometown’s apples. Epel couldn’t even bring it up without getting too tongue-tied, his accent sputtering out incomprehensible words.

The blue-eyed freshman was raking his brain for an explanation. You thought he was cute…really cute to be precise, but what does that mean? Did you like him? As in like-like him? Is it normal for non-countryside folk to just say something like that? But most students around here tend to mean it like an insult but you weren’t like them, you would never do that to him. So what did you mean by it??

Left without a choice, Epel thought about who he could ask about this, maybe one of his seniors. But he immediately reconsidered when he realized who his seniors were (Vil and Rook will never let this go and there’s no way Leona would entertain this conversation) and turned to the only adult he can trust, his meemaw.

In his letter, he asked his grandma what it means when someone you cherish calls you cute (not mentioning who) and after a few days of fidgeting and awkward encounters with very confused you, he finally got an answer from her.

“STOP SITTIN’ ON YOUR KEISTER TWIDDLIN’ ‘ER THUMBS! GO AND ASK, DAGNABBIT!”

And that’s how you were confronted by a flustered Epel about your cute comment one random school day. To be fair, you probably didn’t fare any better when you realized you let your thoughts slip out.

You may have confessed your attraction to him but Epel can still be the first to make the first move. Relationships and dating are all new to the petite freshman and honestly he felt a little weak in the knees, all the nerves wracking his body like his first broom ride. But the past few days, he couldn’t stop thinking about being with you, sweeping you off your feet, impressing you the only way he can, to have your eyes solely on him like he does when you’re around. Heck, he thought what it’d be like to grow old with you, holding you like no one else can as you spend day and night by each other’s side. All these thoughts and more is what spur him to take the next step.

I ain’t too great on love and romance, but I’ll work hard to show ya how much ya mean to me. I promise that!

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lilac-den · 19 days ago

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Ok. So... You know that the fandom exist an au call Actor AU right? If the TSR ROs are all actors, how would they be?

A...Actor AU...? 😶 I'm not gonna lie, I am so clueless on this part. But from what I looked up, it tells of characters actually being actors who play in a movie, series, etc...?

So if u mean how the ROs are like if they were actors of TSR... 🤔 I'll answer, but I can imagine the casts all becoming pretty good friends cuz of how well the chemistry is.

Maverick: Still pretty stone-faced/hard to read but by then, his fellow cast members (mainly Rydigan, Ittania, Enid and MC) would have catch hints of how to read him. His parents r still horrible, but in the Actor AU, they're probably separated and he has already cut ties from them.

In his romance tho, he would probably stare at MC a lot, side-eying and taking glances. The crew would probs comment how Maverick is a lot more intense and focused when its scenes between just him and MC...

Rydigan: Even off screen, he's the life of the party and the one who remembers each and every crew members' names. If it isn't his charming smile people fawn for, it's his cheery personality. Wouldn't surprise me if he got the acting gig cuz he was scouted randomly on the street. He's also the one who would probs suggest hanging out together, cementing the bond between the little group.

In his romance, he would try to chat with MC and the crew would note how Rydigan just instinctively knew which direction MC comes from or when MC would arrive on set.

Ittania: She's the one most excited about the role - it's her first big role, but she has done a lot of voice acting and cameo/background roles. Lots of people sees her as a cool, big sister type while others can't help but notice her due to the energy she radiates. Some of the crew and her agency are a little protective tho, given her naive and oblivious nature.

In her romance, she'd be the first one putting an arm around MC's shoulder and greeting her really casually and closely. She'd want to hang out with MC and even ask them if they're down to practice their lines together to better prepare the scenes they have together. Might ask MC if they want to do some voice acting with her too, like a collab.

Enid: She's a very high-demand actress. The crew are surprised the directors and producers even managed to get her to accept the role offer. She's very diligent and doesn't like to make mistakes. She's a bit tough to befriend, but Maverick, Rydigan and Ittania got through her icy exterior. With MC, she'd thought MC might just be a newbie who got lucky until she had a scene with them or she saw how they acted out the scene of the Prologue (the one with the apartment). She's impressed by how much anguish MC managed to act and thus, her opinion of them improved (she refuses to admit that this was the moment she started being their fan).

In her romance, she'd be pretty tough on MC but not out of malice. She has seen how rough the acting world can be and while the gang provides helpful advice, she brings out the harsher criticism. Like how MC's body language isn't portraying right or how they're too casual instead of awkward for a scene about discomfort, little stuff like that. But on rough days, like if MC mess up big time, she'd stay near them and just be that comforting presence before passing a coffee can to MC, a silent way of cheering them up.

Bonus

Sylphina: MC's manager who got roped into the role because the director saw how she behaves with MC and just went "You'll do!" She didn't want to at first, but ended up relenting at MC's request.

Ben: One of the most well-known actors in the industry, a very A-list actor. Is probably the one who dragged recruited MC into the acting business, especially having them join the same agency as zim.

Thank you for the ask, anon!

#TSR #The Sole Reminiscence #ROasks #Maverick #Rydigan #Ittania #Enid #Actor AU

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cheriecelestial · 10 months ago

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Paper Rings

disclaimer *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ angst (?), canon typical violence, gore (?), crude humour, strong language, typos, grammatical errors, cliché moments

genre *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ drama, romance, action-thriller, fantasy

a/n *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ based on this one dream i had and also cuz pjo was my first comfort series and jjk is my current one (only s1)

╰ ┈➤ Chapter List

╰ ┈➤ Master list

Chapter One

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

If you're reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal

life. Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.

If you're a normal kid, reading this because you think it's fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened.But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel something stirring inside - stop reading immediately. You might be one of us. And once you know that, it's only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they'll come for you.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

My name is Gojo Kanao . Age fourteen, raised in Tokyo, Japan . As the youngest family member of the Gojo clan , niece of the Gojo Satoru and an aspiring sorcerer - my life was going as perfectly as it rightfully should . Except my uncle got a call from an old family friend three weeks back and before I knew it I were to pack my bags and enroll in a 'summer camp' meant for 'children like me' . And that's really funny because apart from my uncle , I'm pretty much one of a kind . It's not like ever other generation has a six eyes user gifted with limitless. My existence is what most people call an 'anomaly in the power balance of the world' and sparked much debate amongst higher ups but it stopped bothering me after a point considering how uncle Satoru threatens to decimate any person that as much as dared look at me wrongly .

He took me in after my father died when I was four and him eighteen . Following my father's death , the Gojo clan was pretty much reduced to me and uncle since not much was known about my birth mother . The first time my uncle got to know that he, in fact , not only had a sister in law but also a niece from his absentee elder brother was when the fore mentioned "family friend" came knocking to at the Gojo Clan's door with a drooling four year old with white pigtails in tow .

As much as a shock it must've been to know that he was now a single father , uncle or as I call him Satoru nii-san , seemed to have developed a knack for parenting much too quickly with his reasoning being 'the baby looks like mini me and I vibe with that' . And as he liked to say to me and my also-adopted siblings Megumi and Tsumiki Fushiguro "having you kids just adds to my dilf appeal" followed by Megumi deadpanning at him , Tsumiki awkwardly smiling and me audibly gagging. Needless to say , he isn't much liked and not even half as tolerable as he considers himself to be.

"How could you do this to me ?" I mumbled while my eyes trailing the silhouette of the trees passing rapidly by my car windows . Almost inaudible cursing was what my opposition was shamefully reduced to . After much fights , screaming , crying , scratching and attempts at running away I was forced to join this camp . His description of the camp with strawberry fields , flying horses , Greek gods and half goat people was enough for Megumi to call bullshit on it however I couldn't deny its existence because that's where I grew up from birth to age four.

" Nyao-chan , this is the 33rd time you're saying this in the past fifteen hours of flight time . Do better" I could feel nii-san rolling his eyes from the front seat .

" Toru nii don't call me that" I hissed back at him and turned my face with 'hmph' so that maybe , just maybe I could appeal to his conscience. I remember that place and it wasn't particularly unpleasant and under normal circumstances I would really like visiting . However , he simply refused to understand just how it would derail my development as a sorcerer , quoting ' your development as a demigod is just as fundamental to your growth as your development as a sorcerer . Take it as a learning experience. Have fun and for the love of god make some friends that aren't the fushiguros or your pet snake .'

My previous attempt at socialising ended up with the boy calling me a brat and me activating my cursed technique for the first time in attempt to kill him , stunning breakthrough but not a suitable first impression. That meeting ended well for their family and the incident was ruled out as a 'all is well that ends well' . And after that I decided that I had enough and rated the experience 2 stars , do not recommend .

" I mean looking at how much you like small spaces , scratching and hissing you might as well be one . But hey cheer up ! you're going to see your Chiron sensei and Dino oji-san again . Won't it be fun ? Childhood memories all coming back to you. Plus I've heard summer camps are really fun." He shrugged with his emphasis on the names causing me to cringe inwardly .

" What sort of summer camp runs in November ?" I retorted followed by him sighing . It was much later that I found out that my 'Dino oji-san' was actually Dionysus , the Greek god of wine. I could only imagine the emotions he must've felt holding a toddler in his lap , butchering his name to her convenience. The embarrassment of the memory just made me even more unwilling to go . Our satyr chauffeur said we were fifteen minutes away from camp so of course going back wasn't an option.

Before I knew it , the car came to a screeching halt in the middle of road . There was nothing but an empty road ahead surrounding by dense vegetation on either sides . " What happened ? " I asked leaning forward. The saytr looked at me and blinked . Then I realised I forgot to switch to English while talking . Except for my struggles with dyslexia, English was fairly easy to learn . I credited Satoru nii's obsession of Friends and Britney Spears for this but learning , in general , was something that came naturally to me . I never had to try too hard to learn a skill and it puzzled others and even me . Apparently this was the trait of a true Gojo . Being godly perfect . It applied to everything but my cursed energy technique . Sometime back I realised I reached a plateau of my skills and no matter what method I employed , my growth remained stagnant . Maybe that's why he's sending me here .

" She meant why did we stop ?" Nii-san asked .

" We're here" The saytr plainly replied . I looked around in confusion because I saw nothing . He asked us to follow him , and with luggage in hand , so we did .

After a small hike through the woods , we reached a big stone arch . It was partially of wood and stone and looked really old with greek symbols carved at the top and several cracks and moss . I stared at the sign and noticed that the letters began to rearrange themselves . At first I thought it was my dyslexia acting up but the Greek symbols rearrange themselves to spell out the letters 'CAMP HALFBLOOD' .

"You look surprised. What do you see Kana ?" He looked at me . I explained my observations and he smirked and muttered something to himself .

I extended my hand and much like how jujutsu curtains worked by hand went passed the barrier emitting a faint blue light . " Nii-san you try it " I gestured him to do the same . The barrier pulsated against his hand as if resisting his touch . With a faint smile , he retracted his hand and said to the saytr " This barrier is stronger than I expected . I'm impressed"

"Nii-san if you were to break through , how long would it take ?" I asked out of curiosity . If you were to ask anyone to describe Gojo Satoru in one word the word would be 'strongest' . Once he put enough effort into it there was no barrier he couldn't break nor there was any curse he couldn't exorcise . " Hmmm it's strong I'll give it that . But we wouldn't want to endanger a camp worth of kids, right ?" I shrugged in a 'makes sense' gesture.

"It's just her from this point on. You can't go inside." The saytr said. Yeah we noticed. Satoru- nii clapped his hands and smiled," Just give us two minutes. You know I need time to see off my precious baby." The saytr blinked and moved out of earshot wordlessly. Satoru nii cupped my face and cooed as if he was on the verge of crying. I rolled my eyes at his dramatic display," you didn't feel any remorse for the last few days and you're crying now ?"

"It's not easy ! I knew I had to let my baby bird out of the nest because that's what's best for you but I -" his bottom lip wobbled and I was hit with a sense of guilt. I sighed and hugged him," I'll miss you too. I'll be fine."

"Call me everyday you hear me ? And eat and sleep well. Oh my god I'm starting to sound like an old woman !" Gojo Satoru was one man who liked to completely disregard the fact that me, Megumi and Tsumiki had mother -albeit absent, and very seriously behave as if he was the one who carried us around for nine months and birth us. But hey, who doesn't like being coddled ?

I rolled my eyes and gave him the signature Gojo smirk," I'll be just fine, don't you worry."

" I know. You'll be fine. Always. You'll be better than me, I know it." Satoru nii-san's voice dropped to a low and almost wistful whisper. " Even though you're the best there is ?" I asked offering him a kind smile. To that he said something in a tone I didn't expect hearing from him. "You've inherited only my powers , I don't want you to inherit my tragedies too ." The statement left a bad taste in my mouth. People often assumed that since he was the strongest, he had it easy. It’s people like him that suffer the most, so much so that sometimes it has you wishing you didn’t have power at all.

"And lastly. Don't kill anyone, and even if you do. Get rid of witnesses and call nii-san first, Nii-san will take care of it." I raised my brow in questioning. Firstly, shouldn't he be teaching his kid to be nice to other people or something and second of all why is he referring to himself in third person.

"Shouldn't you be saying 'dont bully people and be nice' or something ?" Though what he said wasn't the first of its kind. My brother Megumi had a track record of beating up people in his school but Nii-san never saw a problem because the people he beat up were hardly innocent and he never lost a fight so that was no shame brought to the family name.

"If there's anyone you think shouldn't be alive. Then they shouldn't be. This world is ours, the others are just living in it." One thing that everyone knew what that Gojo Satoru was a firm believer of the Gojo family supremacy. And he's not wrong. "Then what about those sleazy higher-ups ?" I quipped. I knew of his grand plan to demolish the old reign and establish a new jujutsu world, the reason he became a teacher. It was something I looked forward to since the day he showed me the dream of it, but for that I had to get stronger. To become more, to become unstoppable. So I would gladly accept any wisdom the Greeks had to offer and make sure that by the time I’m done here, I’ll be the strongest demigod they’ve had the honour of laying their eyes upon.

“All in due time Kana-chan.”

Taglist: @kentply / @sleepykittycx / @yourpersonalgaybird

#jjk #gojo!oc #percy x reader #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson x oc #jujutsu kaisen #pjo x reader #pjo x jjk #crossover #percy jackon and the olympians

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berrypass-de-murdler · 2 months ago

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2 - 20 Gathering the Suspects

To anyone who read my previous post, thank you dearly. I was scared to write the message because I didn't want to come off as cruel but I feel a lot better now that I've finally publicly got it off my chest. I genuinely hope to avoid any more drama within this fandom, and continue to post my work normally <3

Following the serious post comes an extremely dumb episode-

I didn't know how to lengthen it, and then I tried, and then it got really bad fast lmao

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE SQUISHY...

You will never get away from squishy grandmaster rose.

DON'T READ THE EPISODES WITHOUT READING THE BOOKS!!

VIOLET: Huh? What is it? Logico?

The only two others who showed up in the sitting room are Aubergine and Marble for some reason, even though they haven’t killed anyone (this series).

AUBERGINE: Logico! Buddy! Where are you??

Logico loosely creeps from the darkness with a glowing eye.

LOGICO: I know your secret.

They all scream and throw things violently!! Once they stop, they look down - and Logico has been sliced to bits! They scream even louder.

VIOLET: LOGICO WHAT THE FUCK?!??

Aubergine tries to piece him back together.

VIOLET: THAT’S NOT GOING TO WORK OH MY GOD-

Logico chuckles as he steps out.

LOGICO: That wasn’t ME. I knew you’d freak out, so I made a decoy just in case. You could say… a Logi-Faux. AUBERGINE: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! LOGICO: Would you rather me have actually died? SUSPECTS: …

Logico giggles. Before he reveals the lore, he must solve this ‘murder’.

MARBLE: We… all threw things. AUBERGINE: Yeah, does it even matter? LOGICO: QUIET, I NEED MY MURDER TIME!

Everyone rolls their eyes. Violet flutters over to the couch and sprawls out. Aubergine kneels by the fire and stares at it. She’s hiding something for sure. Logico is very blissful as he pads around.

VIOLET: So… how long is this gonna take? MARBLE: Wouldn’t all THREE of us be the murderer here? LOGICO: Can I please have my thing.

Marble’s face goes cold as she bathes in the dim light of the candelabra.

LOGICO: Oh… what happened to you? MARBLE: Many things happened to me, my child. And the more you knew, the more you’d want to stay away.

Logico grimaces. He doesn’t care about this person at all, must less want to blackmail her. He’s much more focused on Lord Violet. A painting of the animal is on the floor, probably used as a weapon. Lord Violet’s existence of being a completely feral beast always gives him the chills.

Drawling on as long as he can, Logico smells the false body.

LOGICO: OH! Like a tiny rodent.

Irratino is so proud back home. Logico really listened to his ‘Logi-Faux’ idea! But he still has a lot of concerns.

LOGICO: All right, all right. The ‘real’ killer was Lady Violet. VIOLET: You’re blaming me for- oh, forget it! ‘Killing’ a decoy is not a crime! LOGICO: Attempted murder is a crime! VIOLET: I wasn’t trying to kill you! You scared the crap out of me! LOGICO: All right! Everyone sit down. It’s time for me to explain my theory. AUBERGINE: Need your tinfoil hat? LOGICO: Fuck you.

The end!

Without Irratino, Logico seems to be fading back into his og asshole self...

WHO WILL RESCUE HIM??

Also sad fact is, since Lord Violet and Beryl are dead, they won't be getting standard official artworks, which sucks cuz I put a lot of effort into their designs

I'll still definitely draw them though

The power of Goat Lord compels you!

See you next time murdlers!

#murdle #cartoonmurdleverse

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wack-ashimself · 1 year ago

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The best philosophical show ever made (that I have seen).

"The good place."

I ain't going to ruin ANY of it (because I watched clips before I got into the show, I KINDA knew what was gonna happen and regret it).

But it literally covers nearly every major philosophical concept. Even tho it is usually more a theme or in the background, you're learning about existence.

I will say SEMI spoilers cuz it covers something I said over....a decade ago(?).

If you stay in hell long enough, it won't be hell.

And if you stay in heaven long enough, it won't be heaven.

But those aren't entirely perfect opposites.

See, I came to the conclusion that if you were in hell, going thru every bad thing imaginable for all time, even if they erased your memories, your SOUL would retain SOME kind of recollection, at least in part. So if you are there long enough (may take millions of years)...you get used to it. Like a callous on your psyche. Eventually nothing they could do would bother you. It'd just be a typical tuesday.

However...on the opposite side of the spectrum, it's actually worse in a way. If you were in heaven, and got everything you could ever imagine (and more) forever....YOU WOULD GET BORED. Eventually, it would turn into your own hell. I mean think about that-everything that could and did make you happy no longer does. NOTHING makes you happy. Kinda like getting too drunk, you got TOO happy. Happiness hangover lol

They do resolve this too. In a way that I actually have thought about (returning to the void/source for peace/rest).

But damn does this show make you think*. And it is FUCKING HILARIOUS too. I did the 'have to pause it cause I'm laughing so hard' laughs. Few comedies can do that regularly. Especially more than once in an episode.

See the show if you haven't yet. ENTIRELY worth the watch. NOT A WASTED EPISODE>can't say that about even some of my favorite shows. Actually thinking out loud...I can not name a show off the top of my head that didn't have 'filler' episodes. Where if the episode NEVER existed, the series still would remain the same.

side note-both this show AND lucifer point to similarities in hell: YOU put yourself there because of your own guilt (known or unknown), and YOU can get yourself out. Lucifer points to this more, but if you pay attention, the good place does it in a lot of ways also.

*ie know the trolley problem? 2 tracks, 5 people on 1 track, 1 on other. Do you switch tracks? THEY ACTUALLY LIVE THIS PROBLEM IN REAL TIME. One of the darkest funniest things ever. And that wasn't even the funniest thing on the show. This is comedy gold. WHOLLY original in almost every way imaginable. We need more shows that take chances like this.

#the good place #lucifer #heaven #hell #philsophy #spoiler #spoiilers

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therhythmafterthesummer · 1 year ago

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Sliding into your ask again. I KNEW CHRIS WAS DEMI!!! I swear because you're demi Wereroomies are just... *sighs, can't choose the right words* one of THE series for me.

So-so-so-so could you please tell me about Chris' journey as demi? How he figured out, his past relationships etc. Anything you'd like to share 😉

If Pretty's gonna be demi too, I'm gonna scream!!!

P.S. I haven't seen your beautiful cat for a long time, how's kitty doing?)

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!! it's been a rough week for me

aww, i'm really flattered🥺 idk it makes me really happy to see so much acceptance towards the ace spectrum in general hahah and to enjoy the series because of it???? warms my heart.

it's been a rough week for me, too, and somehow tonight just got even worse dsfhsjdkhf but i'll live. i hope you get some time to rest and recharge, bb.

here's a pic of Raven from today!! she's doing fine. cute as ever.

now, for the juicy question.... i'll leave my answer under the cut cuz it's gonna be long.

first, i'm gonna say that, just like it happened with his thing for thighs, i hadn't realised i had made him demi until fairly recently while i was writing a drabble... i tend to just write whatever comes to mind and then it's like i have a revelation afterwards lol. so after i wrote a particular phrase i was like "wait a damn minute..." (i'll leave the phrase at the end for those that are curious), and i started back tracking to Chris' instalments and realised i had been writing him this way for a long time now (not to say from the very beginning).

with that being said, i am currently not 100% sure if Chris as a character is aware that he's demi or not. just because i haven't decided which option i want most lol idk if i want him to already know before meeting pretty mum, or if i want him to go through that journey of finding the label for him with her... regardless, the way he handles his romantic/sexual feelings has always been... like demisexuals do, you know?

i think Chris Wereroomies might've had two (max three) partners in the past, and i'm sure they were all either friends or someone he met through friends that he ended up hitting things off with fairly well. he never understood how Changbin was able to go sleeping around with random people, because, for him, what was the point of sex if it wasn't to enjoy a good time with a specific someone? it genuinely felt like a ginormous waste of time and energy otherwise.

Chris is an alpha, yes. which makes it so he probably has a high sex drive in general, but that sex drive only ever exists when there is already an important person in his life. that's why we've read his inner voice talk about having "a lot of self-control" and why he was able to spend ruts on his own. his already existing predisposition to not feeling sexual attraction from the get-go probably made it so his cravings during his rut were nothing but the very minimum his wolf had, so even if he was frustrated it was still manageable.

while i'm writing this, i'm wondering if he ever spent his rut with anyone at all... if his previous relationships lasted enough for that to be a possibility.... i'll have to think more on this one tbh lol

but anyway... being demi is also probably one of the reasons why he'd been told he was "too intense" in the past. it's very likely that in his previous relationships he had developed these feelings that the other person simply didn't have or didn't feel as strongly, so of course they thought he was intense. what i suppose happened was that his high sex drive and his predisposition to being a hopeless romantic was somewhat contained when he was going through periods of time without feeling attraction towards someone, but then he did meet someone he was attracted to and he suddenly had all these needs that were just too much to contain.

then pretty mum came along...

in Alpha Dog, the narration tells us:

"Chris often prided himself on being a rational being, with a lot of self-control even for someone with a condition just like his, but as soon as he took in the shape of your body, it was almost as if he could feel his human mind short circuit and hear his inner wolf howling in desire.

He’d never been much of having a ‘type’ when it came to his partners, at least not physically. Sure, there were certain attributes he preferred, but in the grand scheme of things he’d fancied people with all different types of looks. That day, though, as he struggled to make coherent sentences and act normal while he showed you the place, Chris realised–quite puzzled, he might add–that maybe he did have a type, and maybe that type was you."

the day he met our dearest pack mum was the first time he ever felt any sort of sexual attraction for a stranger.

this is obviously due to his supernatural bond with her (aka due to him imprinting. yes, he had imprinted then, he just didn't know), but at the time he was just confused as hell because he'd never gone through anything similar. i'm sure that many times in the past he'd seen people with similar body types to pretty mum's and he was like "ohh, that's attractive", but recognising someone as attractive doesn't necessarily mean he wanted to fuck them (if you're demi, you know how this feels like...). so of course he thought pretty was attractive, but to the point of wanting to touch her all over??? after hardly saying more than twenty words to each other??? nothing he'd ever felt before, tbh.

essentially, that day he met pretty those very minimal wolf cravings he had turned up a notch, but it wasn't until he actually got to know her that it all started escalating. his inner wolf's cravings, his human needs, it all started piling up inside of him once he started developing that personal connection with her... which is why the first rut he went into after she moved in was so unbearable. he no longer had minimal urges, he was full on horny for this woman and he could hardly cope.

this is so long, my god hahahah but those are the thoughts i have so far related to Chris Wereroomies being demi. hope this answer is satisfactory !

i still need to think more about pretty mum and her past in order to determine if she's demi or not... but that's something for another day hahahah

so, finally, if you're curious, the phrase i wrote that made me have this entire epiphany of demisexual werewolf chris was this:

"When it came to romantic partners, he never cared about looks or gender or designations. All he cared about was finding a connection. And, in a more shallow approach, about big juicy thighs he could hold onto… But even then, the physical aspect of it would never stop him from pursuing someone (...)"

thank you for this question, bb! it took me all day to answer, but i enjoyed thinking about it. hope it's coherent enough hahaha

#leedunno #ask #wereroomies ask

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devilsrecreation · 5 months ago

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since i was asked, i'm curious how did you get into the lion guard/posting it? :3

That’s a good question! I’mma be honest, it’s VERY similar to how you got into it lol

I first got sort of into it somewhere in HS. I think it was the music cuz oh my god does it slap. I wasn’t really attached to any of the characters other than the hyenas except maaaaybe Ushari since I felt bad for how he was treated but nobody else. I didn’t even finish the series, I think I stopped actively watching after “Battle for the Pridelands”. Still loved all the songs, but back then I was just aware that it existed

….Until like a year ago where I just randomly started watching TLG clips for the hell of it and I was like “This show is way better than I remember????”. Cue my very first TLG post about the Outlanders and my headcanons about them. At first it was mostly just the hyenas and Ushari, but the more clips I watched and the more fanart/fanfics I saw on Deviantart, I started becoming more attached to and intrigued by the other, more minor Outlanders like Kenge, Sumu, the skinks, and Kiburi’s float. Then before I knew it, I was giving depth to characters I originally just acknowledged. That seems to be a pattern with me: I see a minor character, acknowledge they exist, next thing I know I basically adopted them as my own by giving them unnecessary depth, even if they never/barely speak

#no bc my hyperfixations work the exact same as yours do #i obsess over one piece of media until i see another one i like and become obsessed with that one #idk man it just happened #thanks for the ask!#the lion guard

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littlemissagrafina · 2 years ago

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"Hi, bored, I'm Tony."

For @call-me-coley cuz she's the sweetest.

@comfortember Day 20. Self Care

Summary: "Nope." Tony frowned. "Nice try. Back to the couch, Kid. I'm not even joking. You're hurt and I don't care how bored or stir crazy you are, you need to let yourself heal. Then you can do all the cartwheels around the training room you want."

Peter sighed and slinked back the way he came.

Tony rolled his chair back towards the doorway, shaking his head to himself as he watched Peter settle back on the couch.

He loved Peter but damnit if the kid didn't contribute to the amount of hair dye he had to use.

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Tony looked up when the lab doors slid open. He jumped up from his chair when Peter started limping his way into the lab, crutches tucked under both arms.

"Hey! Nah uh, nope. Not happening, Kid. Kudos for at least using the crutches but you're not meant to be up." Tony moved forward and started gently ushering Peter back the way that he came.

Peter grumbled, half heartedly planting his feet firm to the ground but giving up quickly when Tony moved as if to pick him up entirely. "I'm bored!" He dragged out the word, and Tony bit back a laugh at his whiny tone.

"Hi, bored, I'm Tony."

Peter's head whipped around to stare at him, betrayal written plain across his face as they stepped (and hobbled) into the elevator, and Tony did laugh this time.

Which apparently served to further Peter's disgruntlement if his pout was anything to go by.

They arrived back at the penthouse level and had Peter situated back on the couch in the living room, making sure his leg was propped up and that he was comfortable.

"Mr Stark, C'mon! I'm wasting away here!" Peter fidgeted, still frowning.

He very much resembled a puppy that was grumpy about having a toy taken away.

"You have homework, every movie and series that Friday has access to (which is practically everything that ever existed. And yes, I have parental controls on everything so no Game Of Thrones), and you have books and puzzles." Tony smirked at him. "Nice try, though. Not your best, but kudos for the dramatics."

Tony grabbed Peter's backpack and left it next to the couch. Anything Peter wanted was in it, and if it wasn't, then Tony would get it anyway.

"Cho has you on minimal physical activity until she clears you personally. And I, personally, don't like having to carry my kid who's covered in blood back to the medbay." And with that, as well as a pat to the top of Peter’s head, Tony went right back to his lab.

"Have fun wasting away, Bud! I'll check up on you later."

"Boss, Peter has just entered the training level."

Tony swore, waving his hand around, his thumb throbbing where he'd hit it with the hammer.

He sighed, pushing away from his workbench. When he last checked, Peter had been napping and Tony had assumed he would still be out for another half hour. Apparently not.

He left the lab and strode into the gym just in time to see Peter grab onto the enhanced and super spy proof monkey bars.

"Peter!" Tony barked, his heart clenching at the idea of Peter slipping from the bars and hurting himself even more. He took a breath and brushed the thought away, stepping back and taking momentary amusement at the way Peter froze and turned to him with an almost comical deer-in-the-headlights expression.

"Uhh…"

Tony raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, 'uhh' to you, too, Pete. You have three seconds to carefully get down and grab your crutches before I come over and carry you back upstairs. Got it?"

Peter slumped, but listened anyway.

As Tony once again escorted Peter back to the living room, he called out a request to Friday.

"Fri, block Peter's access to the gym, the garage, and the lab unless he's accompanied by someone. Spider baby is officially grounded."

He ignored Peter's spluttering, instead he ruffled Peter's hair and asked what snacks he wanted.

Instead of going back to the lab, Tony set up in Pepper's office just off the living room. Even with the temporary access ban, Tony knew Peter would somehow find a loophole and had decided that staying closer was the best option. Both to keep an eye on him and for Tony's own peace of mind. Hell, a deadline he'd already extended twice was the only reason he'd been down in the lab instead of with Peter in the first place. But he would push the deadline again, if he had to. He'd much rather be here.

The accident during Peter's patrol had shaken Tony, and even though Peter's healing time was a fraction of that of a regular person, the damage from the break had been bad enough that the teenager would be laid up for at least two weeks.

Nearing the end of the first week, Peter was almost bouncing off the walls with his pent up energy. He'd decided he was healed enough to be able to move around more, which led to today's shenanigans.

Tony had just managed an hour's work on the technical side of the project, various holograms floating around Pepper's office, when he caught movement from the corner of his eye.

Tony whipped his head towards the door, locking eyes with Peter as he tried to creep past.

"Nope." Tony frowned. "Nice try. Back to the couch, Kid. I'm not even joking. You're hurt and I don't care how bored or stir crazy you are, you need to let yourself heal. Then you can do all the cartwheels around the training room you want."

Peter sighed and slinked back the way he came.

Tony rolled his chair back towards the doorway, shaking his head to himself as he watched Peter settle back on the couch.

He loved Peter but damnit if the kid didn't contribute to the amount of hair dye he had to use.

Tony rubbed a hand over his face.

"Peter, c'mon, Bud. Can you please just stay here?"

"No, I don't want to." Peter mumbled from where his head was buried in his pillow as he lay face down on the couch.

He was so obviously tired and sore and it was driving Tony insane that he wouldn't just let himself rest. It was even making Tony restless and agitated at this point.

"Why don't you want to? And don't say you're bored, cuz you've said that all day." Tony sat on the couch next to Peter, careful that he wasn't in the way of Peter's legs as he rested a hand on his head. He gently brushed his fingers over the messy and slightly knotted curls.

"What's really going on, Pete? You're usually pretty bad at being on bed rest and whatever, but this is far worse than other times."

Peter was silent, but Tony waited, slowly working out the few knotted curls.

Eventually the teenager sighed and turned his head so it rested sideways on the pillow. "I didn't wanna be alone." He admitted gruffly and Tony froze.

"Oh."

Peter hummed and Tony carried on running his fingers through his now tangle free hair.

"You could have asked me, you know?" Tony prompted softly. "I would have stopped what I was doing and kept you company, Bud."

"I know!" Peter sighed. "That's the problem! You had to work and I know you already delayed that project. Besides, you were with me for most of the week already and I didn't want you to get in trouble from Pepper and the board."

Tony's heart almost broke. Even when Peter was hurt, he still tried to put it herself before himself. "Kid, I can promise I wouldn't have gotten in trouble. I know it doesn't always seem like it, but I don't actually take that much leave from work. I'm on time with 90% of what's needed of me, and if I need to have it officially stated, I know that the board would accept extension reasons if they knew it was because of you being injured. This project just became time sensitive because it was part of the 10% that I wasn't on time with, and that's on me. Not you."

Tony tilted his head down, leaning so I could look straight at Peter. "And if you need or want something, I will drop everything I can to be there for you. So why don't you scooch over a bit, and let's put on a movie and you can have a nap. Because I can see you're tired."

Peter stared at him, smile growing wider as Tony spoke. "Are you sure that it's okay?"

Tony smiled back. "I am."

Peter nodded then, hesitating for only a moment. "Okay. Can, uh, can you make me some of that butter popcorn?"

"Of course I can, Bud. And it's about time for some more painkillers. I'll grab those for you too."

Just before he could get up, Peter sat up and dove forward, hugging Tony tightly. Tony held back equally tight.

"Thank you."

"It's my pleasure, Roo."

#tony stark #peter parker #irondad #spiderson #fanfiction #mcu #comfortember #comfortember 2022 #comfortember day 20 #iron man #spiderman #irondad and spiderson #hurt peter parker

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serenemy · 4 months ago

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this is the Story of how max from [Redacted] was conceived:

max’s mom was a witch of one degree or another. for years she sought neither ring nor progeny. she used the Cycles of the Moon (aka natural family planning, in the human realms) successfully to avoid becoming with child. she believes strongly in this method and that it is critical for it to be taught to all people in all the realms capable of becoming with child and ideally to everyone

around the age of 34ish [in human years. in magical years She is Eternal. and Timeless] the sometimes inscrutable Goddess played a trick on her:

She flipped a switch some call a timepiece

max’s mom told max’s dad: “look boo this is the new reality. either you’re in or i gotta bounce now cuz all of a sudden i’m on a deadline”

max’s dad had experience fathering human children and said: “nah, grrrrl, it’s all good. i’m w you”

for a while max’s mom used the Cycles of the Moon for the opposite purpose as she had before: to become with child. but the Goddess and her Moon oft work in indecipherable ways and it was not then to be

max’s parents’ always stormy relationship stormed on, waxing and waning in cycles of its own for unrelated reasons, until the Moon charts had been long forgotten

until one night when their storm systems had collided most beautifully together again and max’s mom felt

a Spark

different from pleasure, deeper inside and unlike anything in existence. and she knew right there and then in that moment

the next morning she hied to attend the apothecary and acquire the witch medicine that might confirm it. her fellow witches told her to wait one fortnight to be sure the potential life inside her had grown strong enough for their medicine to detect

but max’s mom’s certainty grew with every passing moment. on the day before she was supposed to begin, she couldn’t wait any longer

and the witch magic spoke True

later that very day, max’s mom told max’s dad. he sort of crumbled with happiness and pulled her into a fierce embrace for though they were two storm systems who could never be one they cared for one another and were together wild in their excitement and longing to meet what magic their storms had wrought

later on, max’s dad would visit many merchants searching far and wide across the realms for all things pink (a rare and anachronistic colour in that time and place) not yet knowing the soul destined to land inside the life they had sparked would not favor it. when she’s being honest, max’s mom will tell you she also got many things wrong, and being a witch, had less justification to do so. there are so many things you think you can control when you work this kind of magic and of course it’s very nature demands it be a Force all it’s own. but those are different Stories

this is the Story of how max from [redacted] was conceived. and now you know how it goes

summer meadow pendant: labradorite in copper with embellishments (available)

“from the photo series yes i’m recycling old pictures but it’s just because i’m basically feral levels of lazy about detangling my hair and anyway i’ve technically gotten younger since then anyway so”

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the-somwthing · 10 months ago

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CRINGEFAIL AU WATCHER LORE POST

Cringefail AU is a life series rp I do with my sister starting from double life. A lot of the lore surrounding watchers is based on my own headcanons I had before they were like completely disproven. And then the cringefail part is just. Because it’s a goofy roleplay and we needed drama. You’ll see.

Look below the cut if you want to learn all about the Watcher Lore in cringefail au! You don’t need to know about the au to get it. In fact this would be the best introduction to it probably. If you don’t want to learn more then just scroll by lol.

WARBINF ITS VERY VERY LONG I SPENT LIKE 2-3 HOURS TYPING ALL OF THIS 😭

Before we get started, disclaimer that this is all the AU! I like to try to explain the canon lore but I am NOT doing that right now, don’t take this as an explanation of canon watchers.

SO WHAT THE HELL ARE WATCHERS?

I’m not sure exactly how I would describe them- something like magical beings, spirits, divine creatures… ghosts are even a good description. They tend to be purple and have wings and eyes as well as their classic symbol, but they can appear however they like. Most watchers look different from each other while still looking similar sometimes. HOWEVER, all of this explanation of their appearance was POINTLESS because nobody ever sees them! They’re pretty much impossible to see if you’re not in the void with them, and even then they might choose not to let you see them.

So they’re magical spirits that live in the void, anything else? Yes! As you might guess they feed on the emotions of players. They also have special powers, like the ability to place bedrock and make worlds to put players in (and of course the ability to take players and put them in said worlds). However, only powerful watchers can do these things. There’s different power levels, but they don’t have names cuz they kind of vary a lot. This will be expanded upon later, there’s something that must happen for watchers to gain power.

You know what would make this make a lot more sense?

WATCHER HISTORY LESSON!!!

Watchers started as spiritual beings that could only spectate players. They’ve been around since the beginning of time, but back then they were so weak nobody even knew they existed, because it was almost like they didn’t exist at all. Despite being nothing but invisible eyes, they had a desire to exist, to enjoy life as the creatures they watched did. So began the strange evolution of the watchers. They began to absorb the energy of life from those they watched, all the joy and hardships the living faced eventually granted the watchers life. They had officially become living creatures, who fed off emotions. They were still undetectable by players, even when having their emotions eaten, it wasn’t even in NEARLY large enough quantities to be noticeable.

As time went on, the watchers ate more and more emotions and got more and more powerful, until eventually they started interacting with players by making puzzles for them to complete. Thus watchers began being known by a few players. They still weren’t powerful enough to create their own worlds yet.

To the small amount of players who knew of them, Watchers seemed to be playful gods. There was a couple who didn’t trust them, believing that one day they would get TOO playful and start toying with the mortals. So, in order to save themselves, they offered their firstborn child to the watchers in exchange for them to never bother the rest of the family (and any other children they may have) again. The watchers accepted the deal, now having a human child despite not having physical bodies to be able to take care of it.

So the watchers did what they could, and began the evolution of making worlds. They managed to create a pocket world for their child, still accessible from the main world. Now to introduce a new power the watchers have: marking. (wtf 😳) (SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO WHAT I ACTUALLY MEAN). They marked the child’s soul with the mark of a watcher, granting the watchers access to his head. They could now speak to the child as rhyming whispers in his head. This is how they raised him.

The evolution of the watchers and their powers had been very slow for the entirety of their existence, but this development caused a rapid growth. As they raised their son and fed off his emotions, giving him silly challenges to complete to stimulate emotions, their power slowly grew. People found the pocket world and became friends with the child, allowing the watchers to create more challenges and eat more emotions. He even got to leave his world, now being older. It was still where he lived though, so he would come back.

Eventually the watchers had gained enough power and decided to do something ambitious: create their own world, put players in it, profit. They transformed their son’s world into a new, closed off world, taking him and some other players who were interested and putting them in. This world became known as EVO.

Another thing that contributed to the large power increase; they elected two watchers to be leaders, giving them all the power so that they would be able to use it to feed their subjects. These watchers became known as Watcher 1 and Watcher 2.

Up until this point, watchers could be a little mischievous, but typically cared about the players. They also ate any type of emotion, and never consumed so much that it was noticeable. But then there was a divide between some of the watchers. Most of them started to crave more negative emotions, and cared less about the players. Others preferred the positive emotions and wanted the players to have more agency.

The second group had enough, and split off, calling themselves the Listeners. And they took their son in the divorce. That’s right. The mark of the watchers became the mark of the listeners, blocking off the son’s communication with the Watchers and replacing it with communication with the Listeners (the ones who did most of the raising anyway).

There was an evolutionary split between the watchers and listeners; the listeners got their own symbol, turned green wtf, lost the eye imagery and gained ear imagery. They functioned much like the watchers did. The watchers on the other hand, also changed. They became hungrier. They craved negative emotions so much, positive ones began to lose nutritional value.

The Watchers and Listeners were evolving too fast, for the Listeners it wasn’t bad (though they lost many powers that the Watchers had), but for the Watchers their cravings turned into needs and they could no longer live off positive emotions. While the Listeners didn’t need much emotions to keep them going, the Watchers began to need too much. They could no longer scrape a little off the top every once in a while like the Listeners could.

Watcher 1 and Watcher 2 knew if they wanted their species to survive, they needed to create a new game. Something that would generate enough negative emotions to feed all the watchers consistently. The problem was… they didn’t have that power. They could create a world, but they couldn’t create anything enticing enough to satisfy their people. It looked like a doomed situation, but they had a trump card. They could use their power for something… crazy.

They could turn a player into a Watcher. And if they did, that Watcher would be more powerful than even them.

They looked at their players and saw the most potential in one of them. He had the most potential for creating a source of food, the most potential for toying with other’s lives enough and making them suffer. Magically. Like, his soul had stored magic that looked like making people suffer. Idk man. IT’S GRIAN WE ALL KNOW THIS THEY WANNA TURN GRIAN INTO A WATCHER.

So they take all the players to the End, where they can most easily reach players. They make them kill the dragon, on their own, and turn Grian into a Watcher, essentially killing him. They promote him to Watcher 3, unlocking his powers. (What, did you think his watcher name would be Xelqua? Nah, it’s Watcher 3. Let’s call him 3 for short :P). They explain everything to Grian, letting him prepare to create the death games while they let EVO play out, feeding on what they can while they wait for Grian to be ready.

Speaking of the others in EVO… in order to protect their mission, the Listeners placed a curse onto their son, a curse that increased his chances of being forgotten, a curse that was able to hide his existence (name it in the comments below :P). The Watchers forgot about him for a bit and didn’t put him in the new spawn, allowing the Listeners to speak to him in private and let him do their mission.

(This curse also had the side effect of, after EVO had been abandoned, erasing all evidence of Jimmy’s existence. The only reason people investigating the abandoned world know he might’ve existed is because he was very close with Martyn. No, it didn’t cause people who knew him to forget about him, they all remember him, the Watchers also remember him they just temporarily forgot. People he knew might’ve also occasionally forgot he existed for a bit, but not Martyn.) (also am I gonna call him Jimmy instead of just “the son”? I feel like it’s obvious but actually if you aren’t familiar with EVO lore you don’t know Jimmy did a Listener mission and therefore wouldn’t have guessed it. Uh. It’s Jimmy btw.)

The other players (I don’t normally specify what things are different from canon cuz this is obviously an AU but since I briefly mentioned canon I feel like I should clarify that this bit is indeed different from canon) don’t know that Grian became a Watcher, instead only knowing he died fighting the dragon. Well that grief is probably pretty yummy to the Watchers lol.

The Listeners knew things were going to get bad for the players after this, and plotted how to free them and hide them from the Watchers. Eventually, they managed to guide every player out, except the Watchers managed to get BigB, Pearl, Jimmy, and Martyn. Who knows what happened to the others? Did the Listeners succeed in protecting them? Irrelevant to the plot. If I had to guess they’re in witness protection.

Now we FINALLY get to the death games. Well, almost. I wanna get some things out of the way first.

SO WHY IS GRIAN DOING THIS? IS BRO EVIL?

For many reasons, Grian was very distraught upon becoming a Watcher. He was killed, transformed, taken away from his friends and his life, and now being told he had to torture people for the rest of eternity. He obviously refused this at first.

But the problem was, Grian was now one of them. He had to eat large quantities of negative emotions to survive, just like them. Also, ye bet yer booty he was being guilt tripped to hell and back about how the fate of the entire species rests on his shoulders.

So eventually his hunger grew too much, and he got to work crafting 3rd Life. He can’t help that he wants to live and doesn’t like starving. He was a very fun loving adventurer before all of this, he loved life, and despite it clearly being long gone for him, he still clings to any bit of “life” he can, hoping it’ll come back to him.

“Wait poppy, are you telling me that if Grian just stopped doing this, the Watchers couldn’t do anything about it and would all die out and everyone would be saved?” There’s PROBABLY more complications to it than that, but basically, yes. You don’t need to tell Grian that he can save everyone by just giving up on his own life, he knows. He feels guilty enough about it. Curse him for wanting to live and having more hope than he should. He never really had issues like this while he was alive, but as a Watcher he hates himself so much.

He hopes one day he’ll find a way to be free with his friends, but it doesn’t seem likely, and he must torment them in the mean time.

WAIT… ISN’T GRIAN IN THE DEATH GAMES TOO? WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?

(The canon reason is pretty wholesome, this AU makes things ten million times angstier tbh) SO. Yes dear reader, Grian is in the death games. He is, as previously alluded to, The Most Powerful Watcher In Existence. Doesn’t mean he’s AllPowerful, just the most powerful. As the only Watcher to have ever had a physical body, he’s the only one who can create one for himself.

There are three main reasons he puts himself in the death games.

1. He misses being alive, he misses his friends, this is his only opportunity to just be a regular person instead of whatever the hevk a WATCHER is.

2. He feels guilty about putting his friends in this situation, so in order to feel a little less guilty, he includes himself in the torture. A form of self harm you could say, though as reason 1 says he also likes doing this so wtf. It’s complicated.

3. He doesn’t want to feed off his friends suffering so he puts himself in the games so he can simply feed off his own negative emotions when it’s over.

Now, number 3 has a lot to explain. Lets start with:

HOW DO THE WATCHERS EAT?

In the past (and how Listeners do it) they could just passively feed off a little bit of emotions. With these newly evolved voracious Watchers, they’ve stopped feeding on emotions, and moved on to souls. That’s why everyone must die at the end, so the Watchers can eat all of the suffering they went through in a nice packaged soul. They consume so much of it that the players lose the emotions they felt during those lives.

Souls are kind of like liquid btw! They like to call the collection of souls they eat “the soup”. Also, they tend to leave “crumbs”. Sometimes it’s by mistake, sometimes it’s purposeful, whatever the reason, the crumbs are feelings that carry over into the next lives, due to the Watchers not eating it.

Another thing, Watchers must feed once every 6 months to stay healthy.

OKAY. SO GRIAN EATS HIS OWN SOUL? WHAT’S THAT LIKE?

Well… since Grian’s a Watcher, not a player, his soul is… well, unless he has a body it doesn’t even exist (he IS his soul). When he creates a body he creates a soul to go with it, but since he’s dead, it’s not a very big or strong soul. But Watchers can only eat the souls of players, they cannot feed off the negative emotions of a Watcher, so he must work with that little soul.

As a result, even if he suffered greatly in the season, his soul isn’t very filling. He doesn’t share it with the others either, he kind of needs to eat the whole thing in order to live. Plus he hates the other Watchers.

His soul is just barely enough to keep him alive, and it worries the other Watchers. If he dies, they won’t have a food source and will die too. They try to get him to feast with the rest of them, but he refuses. Not only is it out of guilt, but Watchers get easily addicted to negative emotions and eating too much will cause them to need too much. Grian unfortunately has chosen to be constantly starving to prevent himself from falling into gluttony. With how hungry he is, he knows that if he ate just a little more he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from consuming as much as possible. That’s why he limits himself to just his puny soul.

When he eats it, he experiences those emotions all over again, making the whole ordeal a pretty miserable experience. This does mean that Watcher Grian feels every emotion he has ever felt, while when he’s in the games he only has the crumbs (Grian doesn’t leave crumbs when he eats but since he’s making a soul with himself it kind of works the same anyway).

WAIT HOLD ON. HOW DOES GRIAN BEING A WATCHER AFFECT HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE DEATH GAMES?

Glad you asked! While he’s in the game, he doesn’t know he’s a watcher. He’s as clueless as everyone else about what’s going on (SIDE NOTE! NOBODY REMEMBERS ANYTHING FROM BEFORE THE DEATH GAMES! As a watcher Grian does but not while in the game). He does this on purpose when putting himself in the game, because he hates being a Watcher and just wants to be a regular player like everyone else, and the best way to do that is to truly not even know that you’re not the same as everyone else.

But he’s not… completely the same. He still knows very deep in his subconscious that he runs the games. It’s in case something goes wrong and he needs to correct it, the other Watchers aren’t powerful enough to do it so he keeps the power in his subconscious just in case. This caused a lot of problems in Limited Life but I only wanna talk about the “backstory” of this AU not the “current events”. I’d love to talk about them if someone asks (or if I get bored enough to make another post like this).

Also, by nature of being a Watcher, he enjoys watching people suffer more than usual. And in order to make sure he gets fed enough when he’s a Watcher again, Grian’s kind of rigged himself to make bad decisions. His tendency to kill the ones he loves isn’t a curse, it’s something he does subconsciously to generate more suffering for himself. Consciously though, he doesn’t know why he does these things. Makes it feel worse (good!).

A side effect of being a Watcher and not knowing, one that was not on purpose, is that he feels a constant guilt without knowing why. He’s the most guilt ridden man in the game, and with all the bad things he’s done due to his Watcher self wanting to create negative emotions, he doesn’t realize that he doesn’t know what he actually feels guilty about. He gets pretty bad mood swings and sometimes feels extremely guilty for everything. But even when he hasn’t done anything wrong, he has a lingering sense of guilt that he’s too used to to really notice.

OKAY, I THINK I’VE HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT GRIAN. WHAT ABOUT MARTYN? DOESN’T HE HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE WATCHERS?

Yep! Let’s rewind a bit. When the Watchers captured a few people from EVO when they tried to escape, they knew Martyn had a connection to the Listeners. As punishment for both him and the Listeners, they marked his soul, making him a Watcher Agent. Martyn doesn’t remember the Listeners though, and doesn’t know what Watchers are called. He just knows what he hears from them. As you might expect, they are voices inside his head.

WHAT’S A WATCHER AGENT?

A Watcher Agent is someone who has been marked by the Watchers and therefore is forced to work for them. Listeners have Agents too, as you might guess Jimmy has been a Listener Agent since the split in EVO. Listener Agents gain some sort of aesthetic ears, Watcher Agents don’t get anything cool who thinks we should change that (I can’t think of anything. He does get the symbol at some point tho). Lizzie also becomes a Listener Agent at some point but that’s during Limited Life (can you believe we did this before Secret Life, there’s probably something fun we can do about that).

As a Watcher Agent, Martyn’s main job is to kill and betray, to keep the suffering going. He eventually got a new job: kill Grian. The Watchers enchanted him so that if he gets a final kill on Grian, he would be banished to the void so he can no longer create a body to use in the games. The Watchers are tired of Grian risking himself and their lives like this and need Martyn to final kill him so he will no longer fool around in the death games he’s supposed to maintain.

As a Listener Agent, Jimmy’s main job is to. Um. Do whatever they need him to, I guess. The one consistent thing he does is when he dies. The Watchers turned his curse of being forgotten into the Canary Curse, making him die first every time. The Listeners take advantage of this by having Jimmy save a piece of everyone’s souls when he dies. This is so every life can have a nice afterlife (that nobody remembers) and in case the Listeners succeed in saving the players, they can return some of their emotions to them.

WAIT WHAT HAPPENS WHILE THE PLAYERS ARE DEAD ANYWAYS?

Well their souls are kind of in the void with the Watchers. OH SHOOT. There’s two different types of souls. FRICK. Can I come up with a new word for one? No? DAMN. Okay so like the Watchers use the player’s souls which are kind of like their bodies but souls. They use those to create the souls that they eat. You get me? The two are still connected, I mean the souls crack and fragment just like in canon. But the soupy souls they eat are in a separate location (the kitchen and then the dining room). Those souls only exist when the players are in a death game. They have a separate place they keep the main body souls. But the two are still directly connected (like soulmates) you get it? The soup souls are safer to mash like potatoes while the body souls are much fragiler and it’s better not to touch them.

To expand on that last statement, you can devour the soup souls and it’ll only erase the emotions. If you hurt the body souls, it’ll damage the mental state of the player. Immature watchers are not allowed in the body soul storage room. It’s only for those who are more qualified. When players aren’t in the death games, they only exist as those body souls. If they’re dead but the game is still going, then once Jimmy frees a piece of their soul (which since he dies first, is like before they even died) they can have a ghost that haunts the server. That ghost persists in the secret afterlife that the Listeners created, but is completely separate from the souls (yes Jimmy gets a ghost too he frees his own soul piece as well).

It’s impossible for physical bodies to exist in the void the Watchers live in. The only way for players to exist in there is as the body souls. However, Watchers keep them unconscious almost all of the time (they sometimes wake Martyn up to yell at him for effing things up during the game). When the souls aren’t being used, they are kept falling forever in place, so the Watchers can passively feed off their unconscious fear (it’s not enough to survive with just that, but it’s a nice treat to keep them going until the next feast).

IF a player wakes up in the void, they do retain those memories unless they get erased. The only Watcher who can erase memories is Grian btw. Okay maybe Watchers 1 and 2 can, I never thought about it because the plot… never mind. It might just be Grian idk not important. Basically, players usually only remember the death games because their memories from before are erased and they’re always unconscious in the void so there’s nothing to remember of it. Also whenever the Watchers decide to talk to someone in the void, they make it totally blank and are not visible, so the only thing to remember for people like Martyn are the conversations.

OKAY… SO… WHY IS THE AU CALLED CRINGEFAIL? WHAT’S THAT ABOUT?

There is a reason, and it DOES have to do with the Watchers! The main premise of the AU is that 3L and LL go like they do in canon, but in DL, Watchers 1 and 2 (the big bad canon guys) are so disappointed in Martyn’s performance lately that they don’t even bother watching and just wait for the feast. This opens an opportunity for less qualified watchers to sneak in Martyn’s head and boss him around. We call these watchers the “cringefail watchers”, because they are cringe and fail. They stop rhyming and being cryptic, they act like school bullies to Martyn, and talk to him wayyy too much.

Due to the name of the au and also trying to have fun, we come up with excuses that Watcher 1 and 2 can’t come back and take over like they’re supposed to. In DL they just didn’t want to, but now the Listeners have been messing around, trying to find Watcher weaknesses, so they’re busy dealing with the Listeners. This gives the cringefail watchers more time to clean up the mess they’ve made and prove that they can make Martyn do what needs to be done. Watchers 1 and 2 don’t know the cringefail watchers have been taking over, because they aren’t supposed to do that so the cringefail watchers are trying to be sneaky about it.

The cringefail watchers hate Grian, but they have to come crawling to him when the game’s over and something’s gone wrong, like people knowing too much. Sometimes it’s the cringefail guys’ fault, sometimes it’s Grian’s fault. Both parties hate each other, but agree that the players can’t know the truth about the death games, so they work together. Even when memories must be wiped, the watchers never let Martyn’s memories be erased, because they’re tired of him always asking questions instead of doing his job, and want him to have an advantage over the others.

About that, the cringefail watchers are Martyn POV only, and learn about what the others were up to during the feast when they eat the emotions. So they can’t spy on the others and tell Martyn information that way. I mean, regular watchers can watch anyone they want live, but these guys are locked in the Martyn POV in order to talk to him.

SO, WHAT POWERS DO WATCHERS HAVE EXACTLY ANYWAY?

Great question! Also very hard to answer lol. Grian is the most powerful, with Watchers 1 and 2 being second most powerful. Being a player turned watcher, Grian has powers no other watcher has, but isn’t allpowerful. He is limited in what he can do as well.

Only Watchers that have been promoted to have names can have powers, but the thing is after they got Grian, they mass promoted a bunch of watchers to try to gain as much power as they could. Nowadays every watcher is a promoted watcher and has a name (which is just a number lmao). So they’re all able to have powers, but the newer watchers (higher numbers) are less likely to have them, and their powers are much weaker.

While Grian is the only one who can create gimmicks, the Watchers have the power to control the gimmicks if they want. They even prevented Grian from being boogeyman cuz they were petty lol. One of our main watcher characters is known as “the guy who made 6 boogeymen that one time” (I forgot his number noo). So they can do a bit of running the game but still need Grian for a lot of it.

Watchers also have power over anyone they have marked. They can mute them and blind them. Listeners have this power too, except instead of blinding they can make them deaf. Listeners are not powerful enough to talk to players without rhyming, but Watchers are.

They can make curses too but I don’t really have examples. You gotta understand I need to leave this open so we can make stuff up at our convenience. The idea is they’re really powerful but also not really powerful and most of them can’t even do much at all. Also the Listeners are weaker, but can still do a lot of basic things Watchers can, as well as their own Listener themed powers.

ALRIGHT… SO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANTED TO INFODUMP ABOUT? I HOPE NOT THIS POST IS ALREADY SO LONG-

OF COURSE THERE IS!!! I just couldn’t find ways to fit these in!

- Grian’s watcher name may be Watcher 3, but that doesn’t mean you can’t call him Xelqua- it’s his title! In this au, a Xelqua is a Watcher who feeds the rest of the Watchers by providing a source of food. Basically the farmer or the chef. Kind of a leader type of role but they all hate him. He still has a huge amount of authority due to being the Xelqua but Watchers don’t have like, laws or anything, so authority earns you nothing except respect, which Grian tosses out. The only reason Watchers listen to him at all is because they need him to survive. But he can’t threaten them.

- Some Watchers were in charge of taking care of the body souls (as I called them), but they went to help Watchers 1 and 2 when the Listener drama happened, so the cringefail watchers haven’t been taking good care of the souls. This is why they’re all much angstier than in canon. Yeah you’re supposed to take good care of the body souls or else the soup souls aren’t as nutritious or filling. They’re mostly okay for now but as the seasons go by things may get worse…

- In case it somehow wasn’t clear, Watchers are indeed mortal. They don’t have physical bodies but they need emotions to survive and can starve to death. They are technically an endangered species due to the sudden increase of food needed to survive. They’re not a very well known species tho.

- Martyn knows Grian is a Watcher but he doesn’t know what that means exactly, just that Grian’s the same as the voices in his head and isn’t supposed to be there. He also knows Grian doesn’t know, but this was something he had to learn.

- BTW Canary Curse did turn Jimmy into a canary hybrid. He’s had it since the start so he doesn’t realize he was once human, and everyone thinks his lack of knowledge on how avians work despite being one is just Jimmy being Jimmy rather than very strange.

- Okay, I actually don’t wanna get too deep into the characters here, and I forgot what I ACTUALLY wanted to put here. If you’re interested or just want to give me a chance to gush about this AU/RP I love, please send an ask about it! This post was only about the history lore of this AU, the things that actually happened during RP are really interesting as well as how all of this affects certain characters and their relationships!

#trafficblr #life series au #watcher lore #traffic cringefail au #I honestly wanna give Pearl and BigB more but I like. I got no ideas. I’d need to discuss with my sister (the other person in this RP)

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oddygaul · 1 year ago

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Ahsoka

fights good writing bad I mean it’s all good, I knew it wasn’t gonna be no Andor.

The interesting part of this experience for me was watching something that so clearly expected me to be familiar with the relationships and story it was picking up from, and going in anyway without that context. As someone who’s terminally online, you know I’m always fuckin with a reading order, or a ‘where should I start with x’ article, or at bare minimum reading a wiki summary or two before I go into a sequel for some shit I’m not familiar with. For this, though, I kinda just blithely sat down and watched the cool Rosario Dawson fites and ate oreos during the dialogue and it was pretty chill. I liked when the Doctor Who droid got in a fistfight.

The story didn’t land for me at all, but I honestly think that’s just because I didn’t have pre-existing emotional attachments to any of these characters, and the show doesn’t really make much of an effort to create those for new viewers. Sure, it introduces everyone, and gives you some starting points to understand their past together and what motivates them, but it’s all pretty cursory, and all of the formative, defining moments of these characters have already happened by the time this show starts. And that's kinda neat! Look, it’s still Disney Star Wars, it’s pretty fuckin safe, but I have to at least respect a show getting made in that pipeline that’s willing to alienate some percentage of their viewers at least a little bit.

So, did being that much less approachable ultimately give the series more time to focus on what hardcore Rebels fans really wanted? Were these conclusions to long shelved characters satisfying for longtime viewers? Are this show and its story beats way better if you do all your recommended reading first?

I guess I’ll never know, cuz you better believe my ass is never watching Clone Wars lmao

#will's media thoughts / virtual brain repository #shows #ahsoka

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chaosxyz · 1 year ago

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Vent:

It sure feels weird to get back into a series that I watched when I was younger…

These fictional characters are exactly the same as before (stuck in time once the anime concluded), but I’ve gotten older and older…

I used to be the same age as Yuma Tsukumo, when I watched ygo Zexal for the first time on german television… now I’m almost 24…

I had a mild crush on Vector back then, and now I’ve returned with a full on obsession. Feels just a tad odd…

I’m still exactly where I was all those years ago…

(Only difference is that I finished school and lost my 3 irl friends cuz we grew apart.)

I guess I changed somehow, but also not quite?

The depression got worse with age, but at least I’m content with my existence. I am okay with being alive. I don’t dread waking up anymore (mainly cuz school ended in 2017… no more meanies, no more fear.)

Tho it is still strange… I am the same, maybe a bit more tired looking, but if you knew me then and now… you’d immediately know that it’s me. Same old. Same ugly. Hasn’t grown up one bit.

Still unhappy with my life. But I’m fine.

I avoid thinking about reality. It’s hard to grasp and understand… Perhaps the loneliness is getting to me? Tho I’m not exactly alone… I still live with my parents (for better or worse. I would starve on my own.) It’s a good thing that they are nice… but maybe they are too soft?

There is no need or pressure for me to change and get a grip… Everyone is okay with me being a lazy blob. But I hate it. I hate my room. I hate myself. I don’t want to keep living like this… but I never learned how to change for the better.

Whenever I try to get my life in order, the day ends. And it just keeps repeating… until I give up and just leave it as it is… before I try to change again…

But it never goes anywhere.

I never go anywhere.

My friends gave me a reason to get dressed n leave the building… then one by one they got busy with life and no longer had a use for me… and now I just wear pajamas 24/7 and lay around.

I think I’m turning into mush.

#vent post

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blueflipflops · 5 months ago

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Love that. Thank you. I enjoy our talks so much!

Oh thank god I can say it. The thunder saga low key disappointed me. A lot of things were going on that was vital to our boy's character. The siren song wasn't even about mainly Penelope but his want to know. His thirst for knowledge. The hades saga was missing Agamemnon (that bastard. I finally started reading illiad and i finally understood why people hate him) which, in a storytelling standpoint, was a very vital keypoint in the story, along with Anticlea which emphasizes and urges Odysseus to get off his ass and get back home or else.

Or else something bad will happen. Them emphasis on a ticking clock, a hard deadline. The amazing and deliscious foreshadowing in homer's narration is so good.

I might not know much about the odyssey and greek myths but i DO know about contemporary and emergent literature and adaptations. The thing is, that every adaptation is different and will always ALWAYS mess with the original story in the name of "Creative Liberties". Every bard tells the story differently. It was done often enough even in the past as we have discussed last time with Aeneas and the seperate plays that influenced the public's POV on Odysseus. Those are adaptations with Creative Liberties. The famous Wooden Horse thing wasn't even expanded on (if I remember correctly) if it weren't because of a seperate play adaptation cuz that was easier than making up an original story when they could have had a play with characters people ALREADY liked and cared about. (Also why sequel, trilogies, franchises and even remakes WORK. Because we already know of this character we gotta at least check it out right?)

From the Cyclops Saga on foward, the main point of the storytelling aspect is focuses on the morality trope that goes apparently hard for the modern audience. Which. Is. The. Point. for Adaptations. To adapt the stories for the modern palate. The modern majority of monogamous and 'high' moral upholding audience is not gonna care as much about a character that is not beholden to the apparent moralities we have. And we just LOVE characters that are "just like us"! Thats why there are people out there calling random characters "problematic" when it its actually just thematic storytelling.

This is also why, when I got into epic the musical, I immediately read thru the Odyssey before the Thunder saga is released BECAUSE I knew it was gonna be different as an adaptation and if theres something I like doing most, it's analyzing and comparing adaptation vs original. ESPECIALLY if it's using a different media from the original. (ex. Book to movie, novel to comics, etc etc.) So after reading thru it, I suddenly became uhhh kinda disappointed in the storytelling aspect of the musical. Although in the musical aspect it is very impressive. Nice beat. Catchy. Orchestra is on point. Singers are very talented. Its hard to use music as a medium for story telling although now that I typed it i remembered that the odyssey was originally supposed to be sung so...huh.

Kinda disappointed that they never explained WHY exactly Poseidon is beefing with our boy Odysseus and the very funny and cleverness of the 'Nobody— Odysseus, son of Laertes, King of Ithica' when it is EXACTLY when and why our boy's extended voyage became from "Unfortunate Events Yeah We Can Deal With This" TO "Series of Unfortunate Events WITH Divine Intervention (the bad kind)" and how he's fated to go home at some point but not without suffering and losing every man that he brought to war and only coming back on a foriegn ship. Which I think is very vital in the storytelling standpoint.

The thing that FLOORED me was the existence on Polites like where tf did you come from lil dude? Which is in the storytelling aspect, supposed to a thematic foil and symbolism of when all things gone to shit. But, reading thru the Odyssey, why would they need that when the story already had Agamemnon? Anticlea? Polyphemus? Why would Zeus be against him personally when in the story he is somehow someway 'on his side'? With the eagles and the law of xenia and such and such.

But I'm still ultimately game for creative liberties. I love seeing how people make the story their own. That is why we love telling the same story over and over and over. Give a little twist. A hey what if's. A little personality. Outside POV stories. Humans just love telling stories and i love hearing them even if i have to wince a bit at some points. Which part of the musical disappointed you the most?

EPIC THE MUSICAL:

Zeus: I am gonna appear personally to you because why not and now choose my dear fellow! Yes I know I didn't give you a REAL choice years prior but now I am being clear this time so you choose them or your sorry ass?

Odysseus: Please don't make me do this! (Because the same thing worked wonders before!)

Zeus: Nope I think I will!

Odysseus: I'm sorry guys my wife waits

Them: Wtf?!

Odysseus: Sorry guys you must now join the other souls we so dramatically saw a few songs ago in the underworld. Bye!

The Odyssey:

Zeus: *never appears personally but he works as divine retribution against Odysseus comrades because Helios Hyperion wishes justice for his slain animals*

Odysseus: Makes one last attempt to save his men by sailing out of the island and actually TRYING to go home with them despite the fact he knows they are doomed from Tiresias's words and from Circe's warnings because he ACTUALLY CARES and he doesn't want to suffer the sea by himself and he wishes once more to try the inevitable and change fate even though he knows is impossible in a way adding more to the hubris thinking he can challenge fate.

#i fell in love with homer! Odysseus so much that other adaptations just pale in comparison now #people are so psyched up for the thunder saga that i feel kinda bad for feeling disappointed #really wanted more on scylla. my girl just wanted to eat six men. not her fault odysseus didnt tell his men about it #i thought for sure Odysseus wouldve still had the chance to come back to circe's island so she could explain about charybdis and scylla #charybdis is a lady who eats everything she's my fave character after odysseus #(the emphasis on my reading that charybdis is a she is kinda funny. i too eat everything at a schedule)#sorry for the long reply #really just wanna get this out of my system and i dont wanna ruin other people's fun with the musical #im not gonna tag this as spoilers the story is almost 3000 years old #the odyssey #odysseus #epic thunder saga #epic the musical #greek mythology #i got a little excited on explaining the effect of modernization and adaptations there. i dont mean to sound rude if it came out that way

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