#dangit i got them out of order at first

[moniqa24]

UTY ANNIVERSARY DAY 1: Favorite Character

(BRO, IT'S BEEN A YEAR???? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!?)

So, I've been chronically on AO3 for quiiiite a biiiiit and it's come to my attention that there are a lotta good authors on there! So, I figured, what better way to show some appreciation than to sketch out some of my favorite UTY fanfictions that relate to said favorite character God,mywristhurts—.

This isn't really listed in any particular order, because I cannot in good conscience rank them all because I love them for different reasons. A brief review will be given for each story, so I hope you'll indulge me in this unwavering hyperfixation caused by this stupid neural virus who has yet to leave my brain why are they still there—

HERE THEY ARE! (Reviews are at the bottom so you can enjoy the art—)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52638082/chapters/133146358

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55105480/chapters/139718953

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54021868/chapters/136756735

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53578087/chapters/135622678

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56770771/chapters/144328246

(This was not on Ao3, but I added it anyway—)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53950621

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57605017/chapters/146578669

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55715032/chapters/141433246

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52345378/chapters/132417538

CSO: What I enjoyed most about this take is how it deals with the consequences of Clover choosing their life over their mission. It is a conflict of interest for everyone involved, especially themself, and one can only handle that external (and internal) pressure for so long until they finally break.

JiB: Who woulda thought just being a liiiittle bit curious could cause a lot of development for our main cast? It's a fine blend of wholesome family moments and a lot, and I mean a LOT, of dying and Flowey ruining everything. It's honestly been fun trying to see what the domino effect is.

RtF: Slow burn, complex relationships, reconnecting of characters, and the wonder of a new life for two lost, revived souls. This has everything I enjoy out of a story and more. As I am not only a sucker for Kanako and Clover interacting, but also watching friction between characters, how it happened and why, and what eventually leads to something greater down the road. It's a beautiful read <3

DJ: Chara and Clover have a dynamic that is genuinely fun to explore, and I enjoy the banter these two have in this work a lot. They aren't friends yet, buuut, maybe they'll start to grow on each other. As long as Clover's alright with getting their body hosted from time to time—

(CURRENTLY ON HIATUS)

UB: I am a simple person. I see Clover & Kanako, I click—

It fuels my euphoria in ways I can't describe, they're so wholesome ;v; Between this and the lingering tension between Clover and Chujin, and the overarching conflict of interest, I am more than excited to see where this goes >:D

UTDR x DR: Jesus, take the wheel, but, like, what if it did—?

I just remember scrolling through YT and suddenly this came up on recommended and I just remember being baffled by the ending. Now there's a multiverse apparently, when did that happen?

I almost hate how invested I got in this very NOT series, but I find it hilarious out of context, which only makes it better—

Intervention: This one's a rollercoaster, man.

Don't think I've said "ow" in a fanfiction before reading this one. It's more than just Martlet dying, but the buildup to what leads to this point and the brutal aftermath is what makes this so strong for me. It's a dosage of pain, but it's well written, dangit—

SWM: I was close to adding "Calling Out to No One", but this tops it only because its longer, really. And provides a HEAVY DOSAGE of pain. I felt my heart ache like it did first seeing Pacifist, man, it hurt—

I enjoy a lot of DiamondDeputy's takes on the default scenes from all the different routes of UTY (they somehow made the worst scene in the game bearable, how'd they do that—) so this easily climbed to some of my top favorites, I especially love the insight on the journey through Ceroba's perspective, really helps drive that conflict of interest I love a lot.

ASoJ: How bad can housing a murderer of at least fifty people truly be? It's not like they'd have any ulterior motives or anything, noooo, that'd be silly!

It's another story with a conflict of interest. Between Martlet letting her good heart win over reason, and Clover seeing just what their violence has truly caused, it had me waiting for the moment where everything would crash and burn for everyone involved. And boy, did it burn.

(How we have pain in pacifist and wholesomeness in geno is a constant that is beyond me—)

Fo2T: Aand, finally, the story that started it all!

An action packed, fun filled adventure of dubious dealings and chaotic consequences featuring the most dysfunctional trio to ever grace the Underground.

So many developments, story wise, character wise, I ended up binging this story way too fast, and I'm probably gonna have to read it all over again—. I'm excited for it though, Frisk (Chara) and Clover eventually meeting, the memory dilemma getting attention, and Clover f i n a l l y getting their hat back (very important, a staple, really)

It feels like I'm watching a shonen, the way I'm invested in it sometimes. I've screamed over it way too much XD

(The fact that it took 20 chapters to get out of Hotland is honestly hilarious tho—)

If you somehow ended up down here, then I implore you to check these out for yourself, form your own opinions on them, and brace yourself because Blind is VERY long (but very worth it)—

[colonelpancakes]

Watching the dragon prince season six episode four: The Starscraper. Under the cut as usual.

I love Callum but how is he not frozen solid. Those fingerless gloves may be stylish but they are NOT insulating. Give my boy a coat.

Ooh that’s a beautiful building. It does look a tad like a Minecraft beacon but, it's a very pretty Minecraft beacon

Callum, why would you just stick your hand in? For all you know it’s like a forcefield or something and it zaps you!

Okay, my question is what is the benefit of an elevator partially activating once you’ve read half the runes? That seems like a real safety hazard, like that seems like a magic bug that needs to be fixed.

Woah, wait a minute! Interesting, some of the Celestial Elves seem to have wings that aren’t bird wings. That one in the back looks like they have bug wings. Can that happen with skywing elves? I guess bugs are also flying creatures that inhabit the sky so that would make sense. Hmm… I wonder if you can get Mage Wing bug wings…

Aww. The leaflynx kitten is adorable but also the music is giving major flashbacks to the baby deer at the end of season two. Claudia. Claudia don’t you dare.

Also, glowing butterfly motif!

CLAUDIA NO.

Okay good. It seemed like her hand was almost acting out of her control, I wonder if this much dark magic is starting to like, impact her reflexes? Like she instinctively reaches for things even if she doesn’t consciously want to? Or maybe she’s just snapping herself out of it who knows.

“Are you feeling alright?” “No, I’m not. I’m so messed up, Terry. I’ve been stuck, just staring, for over an hour now.” Oughhh Claudia, honey. Its good that she’s at least able to admit she’s not okay, that’s a good start.

Oh, hey is Claudia starting to lean away from dark magic? Or, like, recognize that it’s not a good thing? That’s interesting, previously she’s been very adamant that dark magic is a good and useful invention, but now she seems to be realizing the negative effects it’s had on her? …Claudia redemption arc? 👀

Skjslkajfdkl that is the exact same face that she made at Zym when she first met him. Some things never change.

I love the little pose Callum does when he’s introducing him and Rayla, he’s so dorky I love him.

Oh my God that escalated quickly. Not a friendly lot got it.

No! Gosh dangit pearl stop rolling around!

CLAUDIA REDEMPTION ARC?! Let’s GO! YES GIRL! SELF-IMPROVEMENT!

I find it interesting how after losing her dad, Claudia turns to Terry, her only present loved one, for instruction. She needs someone to tell her what to do, she needs someone to do things FOR. She went from following her dad's orders to working to save his life and now she doesn't have him to give her direction, she looks to Terry. When was the last time she did something for herself without someone's instructions?

“Only you can decide the path you’re going to walk. You won’t be alone. I’ll clear out the thorny brambles if I see them, I’ll hold your hand as we trudge through wet, mucky leaves. But… you have to choose the way.” I love Terry so much he’s such a sweetheart. He clearly loves Claudia so much and he’s willing to stick with her through everything and anything, whatever happens.

Claudia... Again, it's interesting, how, because she doesn’t know what she wants for herself, she defaults back to finding what her dad wants, thinking that if she looks at him, she’ll find some clarity and she’ll suddenly know what to do. She doesn't know what to do without her family because she's been doing things for them for her whole life.

Aww. Okay, the leaflynx kitten is adorable but. Was I the only one alarmed by how big it is? Something about the perspective in earlier shots made me think it was a lot smaller somehow.

Also, I love the butterfly landing in Claudia's hair in the previous shot.

No, I think Callum has a point here. They did just drop you from the top of the tower.

Oh, hey! Kosmo has vitiligo! That’s cool, yay representation!

Also, I haven’t mentioned it yet but I love Sneezle’s hanging out in Callum’s scarf it’s so cute.

I love Sol Regem’s design he’s so big and menacing. Plus the lighting in this location is so beautiful, the way it illuminates him from behind like a dusky backlight is *mwah*

Sooo, what are we thinking Sunseeds smell like? ‘Cause personally, I’m thinking freshly popped popcorn.

Karim, man, he literally told you that his sight was unrelated to his lack of hope. I don’t know how you are surprised by this.

Sksjlfakj poor Rayla.

Ohh wow. This episode is really going off with the gorgeous scenery and lighting. The Starlooms are so beautiful and I love the name "starweaver spider".

Oh! So that’s what the bug wings are! That’s really cool and such neat worldbuilding.

Hey! It's the intro galaxy!

Okay, that sounds cool in theory but I feel like in practice being Timeblind would kinda suck. I feel like that would just be like. Too much information at any given time it’d be hard to make connections with other people or like, enjoy day to day life.

Continued in reblogs as per usual!

[evenmorefatallyobsessed]

Prof. Rose AU Concept

To be clear this isn't the only Au/ comic I'll put the model in but it is the one that comes to mind for me most often.

All of team RWBY are born into the previous generation.

Ruby would've never thought of herself as the teaching type of Huntress and yet here she was in Beacon showing students how to Huntress with the best of them.

So yeah she was a bit late to the classes she taught, and liked to dress... Um, a bit messily BUT THAT WAS HER METHOD GOSH DANGIT!

Besides she was a adult, and a awesome one at that. Heck Gynda barely ever scolded her... Anymore.

Today was no different either as she walked to the auditorium. Near the launch pad, watching as new students came flocking out looking around with stars in their eyes and hope in their hearts.

She remembered being like that back then... Okay, maybe not like that one blonde blowing chunks into the garbage can but still.

A bunch of Weiss's Dust packed, she was Enough reminiscing she had stuff to do like being a awesome partner, moving her friend's Dust to their room. Now she didn't need to pay extra for them to navigate Beacon and, and, ACHOO!!!

'Boom!'

What Was This Place Cursed!? Really? the same spot she blew up I on her first day her all those years ago!

At least she didn't have a fuming Weiss to deal with this time again... Right now.

She sat there sulking remembering back then to. That'd nearly broken her back in the day. But she knew better now, nobody would come to help he-

"You okay?" She blinked, looking up and meeting gazes with a boy.

"Aren't you the guy who blew chunks in the trash?" And like that she'd instantly insulted one of her students and a nice cute one too... Wait, cute?

"Hey I have motion sickness! It's a common problem that a lot of people have." They walked through the school, him quick to follow her lead. The boys name was Jaune, obviously he was a first year.

And he wielded a classic bastard sword with a mecha-shifting sheath/ shield. Nothing fancy but the metal was like freakishly durable and seemed immune to rust! She'd admit to drooling over the thought of what she could make with a alloy like that.

Oh And Jaune Was A Arc!

A Actual Arc! To most people that wouldn't mean much, heck to hear even just a few years ago it wouldn't mean much. But now that she and her team were Part of Ozpins super secret decret circle she knew better.

Jaune came from a long line of heroes, heroes who fought against Salem and in just about every war you could look up. Heck one of the two people exemplified on the statue were a Arc!

Yep Jaune was gonne do great, awesome things, she just had a gut feeling about these sorta things. He even got that she was older then him! And with her baby face that was saying something!

Though admittedly he did only think she was a senior, but still. Jaune was hitting every box to being her favorite student this year. She was so excited she was gushing about her new friend to Glynda and the rest of the staff that night.

Still if Jaune was gonna be her new favorite student she wanted to know everything about him she could. Some research was in order... And he cheated his way into Beacon...

Cool, and here she was expecting worse like him being a former terrorist or bandit like Blake or her uncle Qrow. He just never went to combat school.

That wasn't so bad, he probably had the basics down and could he taught the rest. Yep, everything would be A-Okay!

-0-0-0-

EVERYTHING WAS NOT A-OKAY!!! Heck It wasn't even C-Okay! It was F-Bad! Real Bad! Jaune Didn't Have Aura! Nope Nadda! HOW!?

What Kinda Parents Didn't Unlock Thier Kids Auras When They Wanted To Fight Grimm!

Thank God Pyrrha There... Touching his chest, unlocking his aura... One of the most intimate acts you could share with another person...

Huh? She, she didn't like that... At all. Though there were some hiccups Jaune and his team managed to pass, with Jaune leading it... Yeah she was getting flashbacks to her first year.

The party started and his team was the center of attention or to be more accurate Pyrrha and very very much not normal knees. Good thing Jaune seemed to catch on quick cuz he quickly took the lead and acted like a buffer between her adoring fans. And now Pyrrha was blushing as she looked to him.

Did she like him... No.

No no no no NO!

Okay, so maybe she had a few drinks, but she was a adult so it was fine... Besides the drinks just made Jaune look yummiest after all... Yummier?

She dragged him off for super secret team leaders advice that none of the other leaders needed. Why would they?

Nope Jaune was her friend and student, which meant she won, Pyrrha was just his partner.

So they talked, about how imitation went, about his family (And geez what a family) and what he wanted to be... Like her? Her?

"Yeah, I looked some videos up and figured out you were some kinda hero Craterfac-, I mean Ms. Rose.

Nope! She did not like that! And refused to let it stand. And when he dared to refuse her refusal she decided force was needed and tackled him down.

Pinning down her new friend/ student she threatened him to start calling her Ruby again like all her friends only to freeze up. Becaus something was pushing up against her. Something big and hard, and in Jaune's pants... Oh!

And like that he was off, rushing away with a absolutely tomato colored face. And she was left there, everything clicking in her head and tingling in her body... Oh, so she had a crush on Jaune...

And didn't that present a problem, Ruby Awesome Rose had butt tons of experience in a lot of stuff.

Fighting Grimm, Weapon Repair, Baking... But romance was very much not her field. And Weiss and Yang were nowhere in sight to ask for advice. Well, at least there was once source of study she had available on hand.

Thank Oum for Blake and her books, she was sure they'd make Great references material...

And great they did, especially with a drink or two... Yep Jaune could definitely be like these studs and... Heheh and do fun stuff to her.

Actually 'Hic' why did she never think about making babies? She was a grown woman, and Jaune she could chisel into a super hunky knight.

Yeah, the more she thought of it the better that idea got. And drinks made the plan all the sexier. utterly sloshed, she worked another orgasm off of watching a teacher student porno, and found herself quite annoyed.

Why was she using this? There was a cute dork who just passed Initiation AKA was totally and utterly legal.

Her mind made up she whipped out her Scroll and made her way down go JNPR's room. Knocking on it, waiting for someone to answer, for 'Him' to answer, the door opening her prize came half confused as and all flustered as he readied to speak. But she didn't let him, after all she wanted a taste really bad...

Lips smacking she pulled back and found him landing flat on him ass face red as a tomato and pitching a new tent.

Her drunk mind worked a lightbulb and she smiled. .

That was just the sorta reaction she wanted, she would pressed on, already getting ready to pull down her top but she could hear the familiar sound of Glynda's heels as she made her way there.

-0-0-0-

Jaune was flustered, not sure how he was gonna face Prof. Rose, yep, Professor, Ruby as it turned out wasn't just some quirky fourth year student. Nope, his dumb butt went and made buddies with his teacher... He could already hear the bullies cracking their knuckles. That team CRDL group had been bugging him ever since, but somehow that wasn’t even the worst of it. Nope, the worst was Ruby herself, well… What she did while drunk…

 His cheeks pinked, still vaguely recalling the taste of strawberries… He really needed to clear the air, he knew asses who tried to take advantage of his sisters when they were drunk and he had no intention of falling in with that lot.

All he could do was try to clear the air with miss Rose and hope she would be understanding, she might’ve kissed him but he did lean into it instead of rejecting it. So even if others would argue it he felt guilty… Still he was in his first class here and she was gonna teach it, fingers crossed she wouldn’t hate his… His. Sexy… Wha!? No he meant what was she wearing!?

-0-0-0-

One awesome thing about having a Drunkle Qrow was that Ruby Rose was a expert drinker, highly adapted and incredibly quick to bounce back. AKA no hang overs and a crystal clear memory… And oh did she make great memories last night!

Hehe, he tasted like honey, and his face got all red, she bit her lip thinking about it, okay so yep Ruby Rose had it bad. And usually she might hesitate, but Drunk Ruby had nailed the assist! And now Ruby knew Jaune was interested and that she wanted it!

Oh she panicked at first, but then looked up the rule book and yeppers it was all cool and legal! Heck her dating Jaune wasn’t nearly as bad as half the stuff her team got into back when they were students!

Maybe when she was a freshman she might’ve panicked, have second guessed herself… But that was then, she’d gone through to much, to many difficult experiences to be thwarted by romance… Mt. Glenn… Dr. Merlot and Salem’s sinister circle and the Hunters disappearing in Mistral. Ruby Rose had faced death and danger on scales most hunters would never know.

And from them she’d learned above all else the value in being decisive, and Ruby Decisive Rose had a new goal! And that goal was a blonde young knight husbando! Mark her words! Ruby Rose was Gonna get herself a man! And Jaune Arc didn’t stand a chance!

She would use all the knowledge and know how of Blake’s many smutty books, and years observing her big sis flirting to her full advantage! She was no longer a member of the itty bitty boobie club dangit, she had Ruboobies to match her Bubooty! And she was gonna use it to it’s full effect!

And Ozpin was all for her making some Silver Eyed Babies! Which meant Jaune Arc was as good as her’s! Ruby Rose had it going on and every student in the class had their eyes on her in her sexy dress including Jaune!

Operation Lancaster Start!

[greentrickster]

WIP game

Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word.

@shadow-pixelle tagged me with ECHO, so congrats - have some 'Got a Light?' (my RWBY fic) snippets! And, to have some extra fun, since they're all from the same fic, I'll get one snippet from each of the first two books I've written this fic in and two from the current book (because it's the biggest), and you'll get the sentences in the order I wrote them... but not necessarily in the order they'll come in the fic, because I'm writing non-chronologically. ;D Enjoy!

E

"Easy for you to say," Jaune gives up on meditating (because he's weak) to glare at Roman, "You're probably just saying that because you had a stupid one, like- like bad luck or making your pockets bigger or something!"

...Branwen had flinched at the first suggestion. Interesting. Neo'll have to look into that. More importantly, however, Roman has frozen in place, dust crystal fallen to the ground beside him. He stares straight up into the sky unmoving for a good twenty seconds before he lets his arm fall across his eyes with a distraught groan.

"Dangit, that second one actually sounds like an amazing- that would have been so useful for shoplifting or, hells, just storing extra ammo without ruining the lines of my suit- dammit, now I'm sad, thanks a lot."

C

"Consider: would any of you say you are quite the same people now that you were at the beginning of the school year? How about ten years ago?" he smiles at the range of reactions this elicits. "To me, it is much the same, albeit on a far larger scale. It seems as though we each carry a certain amount of... ourselves, for lack of a better word, with us to each new life.

"For example, it may surprise you to know that, in regards to myself, while I have heard many times that I seem to have gained a certain level of maturity overnight when my memories and powers are unlocked, oddly little in my personality or mindset of my new life seem to change beyond that. I will confess, it inspires a certain amount of curiosity these days, whenever the end of a current life draws near, as to what new myself I will have become the next time my memories return."

H

"Hey, what about all the nice things you were gonna say to Pyrrha?!"

"They will be formatted as an extremely flattering eulogy!!!"

Qrow is drawn away from this amusing interaction by Neo, who has removed a glove and stolen a fistful of bacon with her bare hand, wiggling it enticingly at Qrow with a big smile.

"I feel like I'm being mocked," he states, examining it with each eye suspiciously.

"You're not," Torchwick says, finally calm again and theatrically wiping his eye, "She just likes watching birds eat. Used to sneak into kitchens at restaurants so she could get table scraps for it."

...eh, fair enough. Qrow obliges and daintily tugs a strip of bacon free with his beak, holding it with one claw to peck at. Neo beams.

O

"Oh, um- yes! He says... 'Thinking of mew.'"

Ruby glances up from skimming her texts to see Weiss staring blankly ahead.

"...he's a dork," she says, voice dazed, "He's an enormous dork."

"Weiss-" Uncle Qrow groans, only for Jaune to hold his hand up.

"Don't bother, Mr. Branwen, I've got this."

"Kid, it's Qrow."

Jaune ignores him, going to put a steadying hand on Weiss's shoulder. "Look, I'm sorry you have to find out this way, but the thing about guys is... we're all dorks. And Neptune is our king."

"...I see." Weiss nods, and Ruby goes back to her own texts, "Is it a bad sign that I still like him, even though he's flawed?"

"I mean, he didn't realize you wanted to keep seeing him after the dance until you cried at him for flirting with other girls," Nora comments, "You kinda already knew that he wasn't perfect."

"I suppose that's true... In that case, I'm going to respond in kind! Nora, I require your assistance!"

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(Told you guys it's not as dire as my research subject list makes it sound!)

I'll be tagging @fullbattleregalia and @elektricangel, along with anyone else who wants to play - your word is LIFE (because my fic's about Roman coming back as a ghost and I'm funny).

[sirdolraan]

Escape from Dalaran, Part One

Dalaran was in chaos. Lorellai had barely managed to link up with Dolraan and Janosis, and introduced them to her new friend Spiru before the Nerubians had appeared, emerging from portals to attack the entire city at once.

Lorellai pulled her scarf up over her nose to try and keep the dust and rubble from choking her as she fired her pistol at an advancing nerubian, silently thanking her da' for giving her a full box of explosive rounds. The four of them fought well in tandem, despite the chaos and screaming all around them.

Janosis ducked behind Dolraan's armored form, firing arcane bolts at the fliers overhead. "Please tell me we have a plan beyond shoot them until they overwhelm us!" he cried, doing his best to keep the skies in their immediate vicinity cleared.

Stroganoff lashed a Nerubian with his big tongue, allowing Spiru to land a flying kick to its head, cracking its carapace and casing it to fall lifeless. "I can hear calls from the mages to evacuate, where would they be trying to get to?"

"The landing!" Lorellai shouted, "that's the muster point for evacuations, since it has all the teleport runes and flying creatures! Hey! Everyone, get to the landing!" she cried, but her voice was lost amidst the chaos. "Dangit, it's too noisy, we'll have to go house to house?"

A glare of pure Light got her attention, as she turned to see Dolraan's armor and shield glowing along with his eyes, and his voice boomed out. "PEOPLE OF DALARAN! THE CALL HAS BEEN MADE TO EVACUATE! PROCEED TO KRASUS' LANDING! WE SHALL PROTECT YOU!" he shouted, punctuating his sentence by throwing his shield at a big nerubian and knocking it from the wall it was crawling on.

The effect was immediate, as several citizens began to emerge from hiding places, dashing towards the landing and covering their heads. "Alright, move with them, keep the spiders away, we'll worry about the rest later!" Dolraan ordered, taking the point and leading the survivors as the rest of them followed, Lorellai and Stroganoff taking up the rear. The nerubians began to swarm at them, seeing so many moving targets at once, and the four adventurers were hard pressed to keep them at bay. Lorellai unloaded her pistol at several advancing nerubians, but in the chaos she lost her count, and the click of an empty chamber filled her with dread as a cluster of flying horrors descended on her. She drew her spear and got ready to call out when she was knocked to the ground as Stroganoff lept in their path, the flyers striking into his massive hide instead of her body. He croaked in pain as he spun and lashed at them with his tongue, and Lorellai let out a cry as she lashed out with her spear, stabbing and sweeping the monsters off her, wincing at the deep wounds their fangs and probisci left. She felt two sets of arms pull her to her feet as mirror images of Spiru lifted her, while the third continued to hold off the right flank. Whistling for Stroganoff, they continued to retreat.

At the landing, things were calmer. The contingent of Dalaran guardians were bolstered by Silver Covenant and Sunreaver warmages, protecting the civilians and the mages who were teleporting them to hopeful safety down on the surface below. Lorellai breathed a sigh of relief until she heard Stroganoff's strained croak, and turned to see him looking very worse for wear. "Buddy! Dolraan help, Stroganoff's been poisoned!" she called, trying to lift her listing hornswog back into a comfortable sitting position as he listed to one side. Dolraan and Spiru came over, Dolraan's hands glowing as he called upon the Light. "Whoof, whatever it is, it's fighting back, I'm having trouble purifying him."

Spiru hopped up Stroganoff's back, peering into his eyes, and encircling him with mists. "The poison is tainted with void energies. He requires medical aid beyond my capabilities."

"Not likely with the city in shambles," Janosis said, "I'm pretty sure the medical quarter was one of the first hit!"

Lorellai looked into her buddy's eyes, tears stinging hers, and he croaked apologetically. "It's okay buddy, you did real good, I love you so much," she said, digging in one of her pouches, and pulling out a device. "Everyone get clear, I'm sending him home," she declared, activating her emergency Dimensional Ripper. "This is going to be loud!" she continued, tossing the device in Stroganoff's mouth so he wouldn't drop it as Spiru hopped down and Janosis moved behind Dolraan. After a three count, there was a beep sound, and then Stroganoff appeared to explode as the Dimensional Ripper activated. Lorellai held her scanner tightly, watching the light turn from yellow to green. "He made it... I think!"

"Your dad will take good care of him. Alright everyone, there's more people in need, I'm going back in for them. If you're able, I'd appreciate you at my back." Dolraan declared, adjusting his shield.

"I was afraid you were going to say that. I'm with you," Janosis sighed.

"I came here to help, and that's what I intend to do," Spiru declared.

Lorellai stowed her scanner and reloaded her pistol. "For Stroganoff."

Dolraan nodded at the trio. "Alright, let's go meddle!" he shouted, as he led them back into the chaos of the ailing Flying City.

[bakafox]

Beginning to wonder if there is a bloody bug in either Dwarf Fortress, DFHack, or the other mods I play with because I have been trying like hell to get a group of kobolds to learn the secrets of of necromancy by raiding necromancer towers.

My last world I generated, my kobolds raided SIX necromancer towers in range and got hundreds of books and scrolls, but none had secrets of life and death.

This world that I generated, I have raided my first necromancer tower, looting 35 books and scrolls, none of which contain the secrets of life and death. Even ones that had titles that sounded super promising when viewing them in the region map.

There's several more towers with lists of books to raid in range, but with how long raids take to even finish, I am really gritting my teeth over the chance that I will once again get six DAYS of play into a fort with constant raiding, run out of towers on the continent, and still have no secrets.

I found an old script someone wrote for creating a secrets book, but when I tried adding it in to DFhack it did not function, and now I can't even track down that forum post again, I just find one for creating a slab. Necromancers are stupid and so chaotic with their abilities as to be near useless, but I like them dangit, I want necromancer kobolds who got that way via reading stolen books.

Edit: I am also VERY SPECIFICALLY having problems with no one wanting to fulfill task or work orders for traction benches which is extremely bad since the king/overseer of my civilization is in my fortress and keeps demanding them. I've fiddled with work orders and workers and labor tasks and everything, and kobolds keep bringing the table and gear to the mechanics workshop and then leaving the job unfinished until someone else takes the table and gear back to stockpile. So I've always got some in the dungeon for ignoring work orders. Very annoying.

Edit on top of edit: I was not paying attention to the fact my workorders meant to keep me in chain or rope had fucked up. WHOOPS. So now my only problem is the lack of freaking secrets of life and death.

[the-return-of-ninetails]

I've had the splatoon brainrot for weeks now, and so in an effort to get it out of my head (it will fail), I have decided to make an actual post for the first time in who knows how long

SO, here is my Splatoon 3 character:

Octavia

AKA Grape AKA New Agent 3/Neo

Octoling, Splatana Wiper main, Preferred Ink Color Grape Purple

Generally calm and serious, but she does have an interest in Splatlands culture and history, and she's very fond of Tableturf Battle

-Hailing from the domes, she came to the surface after Splatoon 2, having volunteered to 'migrate' to the surface after a string of dome failures, caused by a lack of resources, lead to a housing crisis for the remaining Octarians (Resources were diverted to other domes in order to repair critical damages caused by Agents 3 and 4)

-No relation to Octavio, Octavia is just the feminine form of Octavio, and is a relatively common name

-Decided to make her way to the Splatlands instead of Inkopolis after leaving, in order to avoid running into an old friend who deserted after the Calamari Inkantation

-Said old friend is Agent 8, who only vaguely remembers having had a close friend in her unit, and that they had an argument/fight when Eight deserted

-While traveling towards the Splatlands, Octavia found the wandering Little Buddy, and they decided to travel together and became close friends

-After reaching Splatsville she started doing Turf Wars to save up for an apartment in the city instead of a tent out in the Splatlands

-Eventually, after a discussion with Little Buddy about Salmonid culture and their opinion on Grizzco, Octavia decided to start working at Grizzco with Little Buddy's blessing

Splatoon 3 Return of the Mammalians spoilers below

-After a few weeks in Splatsville she noticed Cuttlefish in his sewer grate, approached to ask him what his deal was, then gave chase when he ran away

-In the Crater she was recruited before she got a chance to speak, and decided to stick with it in order to investigate why, exactly, there were Octarians stealing Zapfish in the Crater

-She's not very comfortable being called Agent 3, but doesn't really get the chance to bring it up in the Crater

-When DJ Octavio showed up, she got caught up in battle before she had a chance to talk to him, and she then fell into Alterna before she could get a chance to cut in between him and Cuttlefish

-Inside of Alterna, she has a short-lived tense standoff with Callie, Marie and Captain 3, but eventually she decides to work with them to investigate Alterna (and also save Cuttlefish along the way)

-Here she makes her distaste for the name Three known, so she is instead referred to as Neo

-She gets very invested in completing the Alterna Logs, feeling a sort of kinship with the humans of Alterna who were forced to live underground, with only a fake sky to let them know what life on the surface was like

-She is generally unimpressed by Deep Cuts shenanigans, though after ROTM is over she becomes friends with them and experiences the wonder of Big Man Hugs (which does get her a bit teary-eyed because dangit, this is her first real hug ever since she left the domes)

-Also after ROTM, she stops doing Salmon Runs for a while, up until the NNSS makes sure that Mr. Grizz isn't still running the company

-Afterwards, although she does still work there sometimes, she makes most of her money playing Turf Wars and selling Power Eggs from Alterna

[callipraxia]

Well - the house is mostly in order, except that the vacuuming needs doing, but it's too late in the day for that now - too hot. With that therefore postponed to tomorrow morning and with my Spanish lessons done, I shall see if my DVD player will cooperate with watching GF S2 Disc 2.

...initial efforts aren't promising, we only got as far as Dipper and Mabel declaring that twinship makes them "birthday experts" into "Blendin's Game" before the DVD player glitched out - turns out that the first disc of S1 might not be wonky after all, and that it's actually this DVD player. Still - perseverance!

Bad children. going through people's things...I tend to regard the interior of one's handbag and/or wallet as a rather private space, and would react very loudly to anyone presuming to go through mine. Soos is probably better-natured than I am, but dangit, Mabel, you at least definitely know this, because you outright admitted you were snooping for "Soos secrets!"

Y'know, I don't know if the problem with the giant hummingbird story is that "Soos is very naive" or "it's Gravity Falls, that's actually perfectly reasonable."

...yeah, forget perseverance, let's find the old laptop with a disc drive in it, I do not have the fortitude to watch the scene where Blendin invokes Globnar five more times, and in the past three minutes the disc has twice skipped back to the beginning before I could even get past the menu. Stupid rubbbish property.

[therobinbear]

Please check out a book that I particularly love, The Night And Its Moon by Piper CJ.

I want to tell you all about it, but at the same time I don’t want to spoil anything because everything I read sparked so much joy I’d hate to deprive you of that. So I’ll do my best to say as much as I can.

I first learned about The Night And It’s Moon when I stumbled upon a TikTok that the author, Piper CJ, made rating the reactions of her family when she came out to them in preparation of her book that would have the occasional non-heterosexual sex scene or two.

I don’t know about you, but I was immediately drawn in. I had to know everything I could about this fantasy book that caused a conservative family to want to disown someone. I was also in a point in my life where I was growing bored of all the books written by cis het white men. I dove down the rabbit hole.

I was hooked. I immediately pre-ordered TNAIM as soon as it was available and devoured it when it got in my hands.

Again, this is a spoiler free post, so please continue reading on about my favorite non-spoilery things about TNAIM.

First off, it has two things that every fantasy book should be required to have:

A map!!!

And a pronunciation guide!

Seriously, these are invaluable parts of a book that contains a hustling and bustling world inside.

Another terrific piece that gives you a unique insight to the author and her thought process is the dedication:

I was reminded of Lord of the Rings when I read TNAIM. It’s the feeling that you’re following a small story in a huge setting, and the story steadily gets bigger and bigger. The thing that puts TNAIM above LotR (wut??) is that queer people are front and center. Explicitly.

The book ends in a satisfying way, but also ensures that you want the next book as soon as possible to find out what the heck happens to everyone. So much crazy stuff happens. Several parties are split! How are they going to find each other again!? Which leads to my next book recommendation!

The Sun And Its Shade! (Also by Piper CJ! Coincidence?? I think not.)

I dare to say that TSAIS is even better than TNAIM. I’m assuming because TNAIM has to set up the world while TSAIS gets to go at full speed as soon as the book starts. We pick up pretty much right where the previous book left off, and zero time is wasted. Several burning questions were left unanswered in the previous book and thank goodness most if not all are answered here. But what drives the plot if not the quest for answers???? Rage. You will read out of rage. This is my reaction to finishing the book:

I already have a list that is two characters long whose deaths I am impatiently waiting for. Long, painful, slow deaths. And one of the book’s main antagonists isn’t on the list!!! (In an objective sense I want this antagonist to be murderized, but not on an emotional level like my main two.)

There you have it. A perfectly written, spoiler-free manifesto about why you should read these books, and then be all ready for The Gloom Between Stars in a couple months!

(I swear, if neither of the two characters on my list are dead by the end of Gloom, then by dangit I’ll be forced to buy and read the next book.)

[iviarellereads]

All Systems Red, Chapter 3

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In which that's awfully suspicious.

They get ready to leave in the early morning, but Murderbot checks MedSystem and finds that Bharadwaj is awake and talking.(1) As it's carrying equipment to the little hopper, it realizes it's going to have to ride with the crew. It's grateful it can stay in its armour with the helmet opaqued, but Mensah invites it to sit in the copilot's chair.

Everyone is so careful not to even look at MB as it goes to take the offered seat, that it reviews the hub camera records for the conversation after it got horrified at being asked to stay with the humans, like a person. The topic is worse than it imagined. They'd all talked it over, and agreed not to push MB's boundaries on interaction more than it wants to go. They were all so nice about it, dangit, and MB vows not to take the helmet off again.

I can’t do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.(2)

MB acknowledges that these are its first clients with no prior SecUnit experience, so it probably should have expected them to make this sort of assumption if it had thought about it at all. Still, Mensah and Arada had nixed any suggestion of talking to MB about its reaction. Just the thought of talking about its feelings drops its operating efficiency to 97%.(3)

MB thinks about that and looks out the windows and watches the hopper's scans of the scenery. It's not so distracted, though, that it misses the moment the autopilot cuts out. It being in the copilot seat, it could take over in time if needed, but Mensah had never even taken her hands off the controls.(4) MB thinks about how some clients would engage autopilot and then lean back or even go to sleep, but Mensah never does, and she doesn't let her crew do it either. She smoothly adjusts course away from the mountain they would have flown right into without autopilot.

I had cycled out of horrified that they wanted to talk to me about my feelings into grateful that she had ordered them not to. As she restarted the autopilot, I pulled the log and sent it into the feed to show her it had cut out due to a HubSystem glitch. She swore under her breath and shook her head.

They make it to the nearest missing map section fairly quickly. In the discussion that follows, about whether to land, MB realizes that the humans are definitely not ruling out sabotage to their files or their systems. Ultimately, they decide to land and take samples. Bharadwaj chimes in over the comm system to be careful, still sounding shaky.

MB does the security thing, leaving the hopper first and looking around some. Mensah and Arada follow, and everyone else starts taking samples of the weird glassy rocks and dirt.

It's a quiet spot, for a change. Only, Arada and Ratthi start moving toward a spot on the map that scans indicated might be hazardous. MB calls over the comms to stop them, as it runs for the spot. They stop, but they're both baffled, because their maps aren't showing the hazard markers.

MB compares their files to its, and in the feed, superimposes its map, with the markers. Somehow, the system deleted all the hazard markers on one side, and they can't reinstate them. MB spends the rest of the morning diverting the humans from the hazards, not always successfully. Mensah's call to leave is welcomed by all.

They get back to the habitat fine, and the humans go to analyze their data while MB manages security. It's just finished a perimeter walk, when HubSystem notifies it that there's an update package for it. It had tricked HubSystem previously into allowing it to cache updates on external storage instead of update automatically. It figures it will get around to sorting through the update some time before leaving the planet, but there's work to do right now.

The rest of the day is almost boring, right up until Mensah reports she can no longer contact DeltFall.

MB attends a meeting with everyone in the crew hub, with its armour and opaqued helmet. Mensah is outlining a plan to take the big hopper, because as Overse points out, it can go to their camp and back without a recharge if the worst has occurred. Ratthi is concerned they didn't launch their emergency beacon. Mensah asks MB, and when it realizes she was really talking to it, it says a hostile like the one that they already saw could take out the comms system on DeltFall's habitat. Pin-Lee says the beacon should trip even if other comm equipment is destroyed. MB ignores its governor module's instructions to defend the company, and says equipment failures aren't impossible.

Everyone falls silent, contemplating what might happen if the big hopper has an equipment failure outside rescue range of the little hopper. The trip will take so long, it will be overnight even if they leave as soon as they arrive at the other end. Gurathin asks about MB's system, and MB says it monitors itself.(5)

Volescu says they should prepare for a rescue mission. MB notes that he's still showing indicators of distress in MedSystem's feed.(6) He's pulled instructions from the info package, and MB sighs internally about them all being academics instead of the explorers in its serials.

Aloud, it suggests that it should go along, as the only one present with experience in "these situations". Gurathin questions what situations those are, and Ratthi's the one to say, potentially hostile ones. Arada, Bharadwaj, and Volescu are all also in favour of MB going with the contact team, just in case, since nothing's bothered the PreservationAux habitat yet.

So, the DeltFall contact team will be Mensah, as leader, Pin-Lee as habitat specialist, Ratthi as biologist, and Overse as field medic… And Murderbot. They prep the big hopper, and MB gives it extra checks on every system it recognizes to confirm nothing's been sabotaged. Mensah does her own checks, and tells MB to pack extra emergency supplies in case DeltFall needs them. MB hopes they will.

When everything was ready, Overse, Ratthi, and Pin-Lee climbed in, and I stood hopefully by the cargo pod. Mensah pointed at the cabin. I winced behind my opaque faceplate and climbed in.

=====

(1) Why did you check in, MB? What would prompt you to do that? Funny that you'd do so but not react to that in any sort of way. (2) Haven't you ever known someone who reacted this way to kindness? Who had never known enough to recognize it for what it is without suspicion? Have you ever been that person? My heart will not survive this reread. (3) MB has so little experience or framework for personhood and feelings. It's so sad-charming-endearing-agonizing to watch. (4) Safety! First! We respect a queen who doesn't take unnecessary chances. (5) Which is even truer than if it had a working governor module! Just look at the times the Hub's tried to get it to do something and it's like, nah. (6) Again with reporting the crew's conditions unprompted. Like, part of this is narrative, it's valuable to know how the characters are acting and reacting and feeling, particularly when you can't use a truly omniscient third-person perspective to narrate those things. But, consider what it says about MB. It's monitoring the humans' conditions even though it's not really relevant to the job at hand or the conversation in progress. Something something robots are reflections of what we think about humanity.

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #36: “Return of the ANT-MAN”

September, 1988

DOCTOR PYM must die!

Seems harsh but okay.

Also, return of the Ant-Man? Scott Lang is coming here?? =D

No. Alas.

So aside from everyone trying to kill Hank out of aggravation for this arc, what’s going on?

So last times on West Coast Avengers: Hank was passing the time as he is wont to do hacking Soviet computer networks. When he came across a clue that his dead wife was alive actually. After all this time.

The West Coast Avengers decide to help him investigate and they all fly to Hungary. Where the Avengers are almost immediately attacked by the local super team the People’s Defense Force - all former Ant-Man foes - and arrested.

Hank and the Wasp escape and using the power of talking to ants, find the prison where Hank��s first wife supposedly is being held. But all they find is a trap and in that trap the Vision and Scarlet Witch.

Mockingbird and Moon Knight also end up in the super jail cell. Mockingbird confesses to the manslaughter a cowboy because she can’t keep the secret anymore. Her jail cell friends are all sympathetic and understanding but Hawkeye and the rest of the team learn the news from said cowboy and a much more negative framing of it.

So when Hawkeye and the rest of the team rescue Hank and Jan and Vizh and Wanda and Bobbi and Moon Knight from the jail cell, Hawkeye and Wonder Man are super judgemental of Mockingbird.

Everyone piles into a Quinjet and tries to flee but get shot down, because Tigra is an idiot, and they crash in Latveria. Doom (the short Kristoff version) holds them captive and/or tortures them a little to try to force them into an alliance against the other Doom. But the god of the Moon Khonshu pops out of Moon Knight and convinces Doom to let them go.

By the way, Quicksilver was behind the Avengers’ captivity in Hungary. He’s feeling very villainy again. He goes to Latveria to try to negotiate for the Avengers to be released back into Hungarian custody but Doom hates Quicksilver and attacks him. The Avengers save Quicksilver but y’know, no gratitude.

Anyway, the West Coast Avengers head back to Hungary, to try to find Hank’s first wife even though I’m pretty sure the rumor about her was bait to lure them into a trap.

Either way, the West Coast Avengers are back in Hungary, in their secret base, beating up their dudes.

Hank, to himself: “I screw up once -- got drummed out of the group I helped found! Now the group’s beside me, as if nothing ever happened! Even Jan1 Being an Avenger is such a rare privilege!”

He can say that again.

The Avengers do seem to be a group about second chances.

Just look at Hawkeye, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch, and the Vision in this group. All started out as villains, now all Avengers.

Anyway, Hawkeye is also thinking. But he’s thinking about cowboy murder.

Between issues, he’s decided, without having a real conversation with Mockingbird about it, that he knows exactly how she feels and what she was thinking when she let a cowboy fall off a cliff. He decides that hey everybody wants to do murders sometimes but dangit you just don’t murder.

And Mockingbird is thinking: “Why can’t you understand, Clint? I didn’t kill the creep -- I just let gravity take its toll! And he deserved it! Why do you put the Avengers ahead of our love?”

Anyway, relationship drama is ho hum.

Lets do superhero fights.

They spot Quicksilver hanging out with some dude with a rad sound system and try to rush them.

But the man orders “Stop!” and they stop.

Because we weren’t done with recycling old Ant-Man foes! And I mean that positively. Its neat to get these deep cuts.

This guy with speakers for a neck brace is the Voice!

Hank fought him back in Tales to Astonish #42. Even though he’s a staunch capitalist, he hates Hank Pym so friggin much that he’s signed up with the People’s Defense Force.

His big beef is that back in Tales to Astonish, he was just a regular dude. Just a guy. He breathed in ionized atoms and because writers have a hazy understanding of science, the ions made it so that he had a mind control voice. Like Purple Man but nobody is ever going to write a dark and edgy story about this guy, one hopes.

For reasons unclear, the Voice decided he was going to kill Ant-Man and used his mind control powers to whip up a mob against him and even to command Hank to take a long walk off a short pier.

But Hank got the last laugh when he secretly dumped laryngitis germs on the Voice’s microphone and gave him laryngitis.

Apparently, it was turbo-laryngitis because it never cleared up. The guy lost his voice permanently and became homeless and unemployed. He was reduced to begging on the streets until Madame X found and recruited him.

That would be a tragic story about how capitalist society throws away those without use if it didn’t involve this dude who tried to kill another dude with mind control for reasons.

Anyway, communist Hungary cured his turbo-laryngitis through HUNDREDS OF OPERATIONS on his vocal cords and tongues. Then they built him that silly speaker system to amplify his powers. I wonder if a megaphone would have done the same but cost a lot less.

Also, he’s altering Quicksilver’s plan.

So another reason why Quicksilver is never, ever going to step into (not-)daddy Magneto’s big shoes.

This is Quicksilver’s debut story after declaring he wants to be the king of evil mutants. He’s been nothing but a chump. And he gets chumped again.

His own subordinate is bossing him around, with mind control powers.

I don’t know whose idea it was that Quicksilver would succeed Magneto but Englehart apparently can’t envision Quicksilver actually doing that.

But anyway, because this dude is so pissed over the turbo-laryngitis (a condition which usually clears up by itself in three weeks when its not turbo) that he’s back on the kill Hank Pym train.

He opens a door revealing a complex area for training superhumans. Basically, a big area with weird architecture and lots of passages and rooms.

Hank has a five minute head start before the Voice sends the mind-controlled West Coast Avengers and guest stars to kill the hell out of Hank.

Sporting of the Voice.

Hank runs into the complex and starts making plans to not die.

Dr Pym: “He said this place was designed to test people! I claim I’m an Avenger again, but since I have less physical power than most of them -- this is where Dr. Pym passes or fails!”

In a way, this is going to be a statement on Pym’s reinvention as Dr Pym.

A lot of Hank’s insecurity was fueled by how he wasn’t the strongest guy on a team with Thor on it. He can’t shrink or grow anymore so him being the strongest dude is off the table. He’s going to live or die by being smarter and on the strength of the random stuff he build and is carrying around in his pocketses.

Good thing Dr Pym carries around a lot of random crap.

Bad thing he isn’t carrying Rover, his ant-brained flying robot car that loves him.

For all the fanfare Rover got on introduction, Hank hasn’t used it a whole lot. Having a cool battle car doesn’t really slot smoothly into working on a team, I guess.

Unless you’re Robbie Reyes. He got to run people over while on the Avengers. It was neat.

Hank combines a camera with a flying drone to go fly around so he can get advance notice when someone is getting close to him.

Anyway, back at the entrance, five minutes elapses and the Voice sends Hank Pym’s friend to go beat him to death.

Hawkeye commands the team to split up because they’ll cover more ground that way. But he adds a “Blast it!” because blast it, he sure doesn’t want to kill Hank!

He and Mockingbird bump into each other, probably having chosen a similar path to go down. Then they glare and walk off in opposite directions to go murder a guy.

Even when they’re being mind controlled into killing a friend, the relationship angst continues.

I wonderrrr if this is going to tie in with the relationship issues at all. Hawkeye is being mind controlled into doing stuff he wouldn’t do. That’s relevant to the experience Mockingbird had with the cowboy she manslaughtered. And they’re all being ordered to kill a guy. And whether Avengers kill under any circumstances is most of what has Hawkeye up in a lather.

We’ve already had Hawkeye and Mockingbird have a big shouting match where they escalated into demanding divorce. So will this experience cool things down or make them double down?

Iunno.

Anyway, Khonshu! God walks among the Avenger no I’m not talking about Thor this one lives in a meat puppet.

Similarly to Dominus in the Lost In Space-Time arc, Moon Knight’s specific brain is resistant to mind control. In that it was because his different people each had to be individually mind controlled and it caused Dominus to think Moon Knight couldn’t be controlled.

This time, the Voice can’t control Moon Knight because Khonshu is in the driver’s seat and he has divine immunity.

But: there wasn’t a lot else he could do in the situation except pretend to play along.

Since he is driving around Moon Knight, he’d be screwed if the Voice set Quicksilver against him and he’d be outnumbered if the Voice set everyone against him. And Khonshu can only touch the minds of the dying so he can’t do anything psychically.

So, yeah, he’s going to pretend to be mind controlled and take what opportunities he can to save his fellow Avenger.

Meanwhile, Hank has enlarged one of his wishbone shaped braces and wedged it up against a wall. He used a jet to hide up in the crook of it just in time for his flying camera to alert him that Hawkeye is heading this way.

And other West Coast Avengers may have overlooked Hank here but Hawkeye’s senses are so sensitive that the slight heat from the growth of the brace attracts his attention upward.

Geez, is he a pit viper?

Hawkeye shoots an arrow up at Hank but Hank ditches his high hide and jumps down to blast Hawkeye with his Disruptor Gun. Remember? The one he used as Yellowjacket? Well, it’s not like he abandoned the technology.

But we’re in the realm of I know you know I know here.

The Disruptor Gun is apparently electricity based and Hawkeye set up a grounding arrow after realizing Hank was here.

Hawkeye tackles Hank but they both trained with Captain America so are both good at hand-to-hand.

Hank tosses Hawkeye off and then grows a shield and hucks it like a Frisbee. Hawkeye ducks it but Hank was aiming at the grounding line. With it cut, Hank again whips out the disruptor and blasts Hawkeye.

This time, it hits and it hurts. But even though Hawkeye can barely breath, he manages to pull out an arrowhead and huck it at Hank.

And its a water arrowhead. ... For watering plants from a distance?

Whatever.

Point being is that now Hank is the one shocked by the Disruptor. Not sure that’s how it works but then again I’m not sure how any of this works.

Hawkeye jumps on the collapsed Hank and starts choking him.

But... he can’t go through with it.

Even mind controlled into murdering a dude, Hawkeye’s belief in Avengers Don’t Kill is so deeply held that it turns out to be that moral line that cannot be crossed, even under force.

-Bendis laughs in Bendis-

Ignore that.

And ignore how Purple Man can mind control people into doing murders.

This is not that, I guess.

Anyway, Hawkeye is so distracted by “I must but I can’t but I must but I can’t” that Hank is able to knock out Hawkeye with a punch.

Hank knows Hawkeye won’t be down long so he books it.

He sees on his camera that Scarlet Witch is heading his way so he runs -- right into Vision.

Damn your intangible-ing!

Vision grapples Hank and Scarlet Witch walks in saying Just As Planned. She regrets having to hunt down Hank like an animal - as a mutant, she sympathizes - but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Except while Wanda and Vision discuss being forced to murder a friend, Hank pulled out a gas grenade and tosses it at Scarlet Witch.

Vision is pissed that Hank drugged his wife and starts to bear hug him to death. So Hank grows his flying camera which becomes too big to fly and lands on Wanda.

Geez, Hank.

While Vision runs to save his wife, Hank flees.

Dr Pym: “Too late -- to worry -- about doing things -- the nice way! She means more to him -- than anything! Thank god for a marriage that works!”

Oof.

Vision pulls the giant camera off of Scarlet Witch but doesn’t go after Hank again, too afraid to leave Wanda unprotected.

So... hm... Vision and Scarlet Witch are both too big guns that could cause Hank some grief in this West Coast Avengers plus guests vs Hank Pym set-up.

They’re too powerful to beat with a lucky sucker punch. He has to be clever.

And he is! Kinda!

There’s only so much page time this one conflict can get since we’re not high on turbo decompression yet and he has to confront and beat or escape from an entire team. But it still feels disappointing that the extent of this interaction is him knocking out Wanda with gas and then dropping something really heavy on her while she’s unconscious so Vision will be distracted.

It really makes Wanda the weak link in the Vision and the Scarlet Witch. And, sure, of the two of them she’s the squishy wizard. But she shouldn’t be the weak link.

I can’t say how it should have gone instead in the two whole pages this gets. I’m just iffy on how it did go as published.

Moving on.

Hank’s encounters with Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Vision have cost him his hideaway perch and his advance warning flying camera.

So while he’s running pell-mell through the complex, Tigra drops down on him without more warning than RROWWW!

Hank darts down a tunnel and Tigra follows right on his heels.

She sees Moon Knight leaning casually against a wall like a cool guy and he tells her Hank went that-a-way and goes off with her that-a-way.

Except Hank went this-a-way. Khonshu Moon Knight found a thing he could do to help Hank without giving away he wasn’t under control. He takes Tigra the wrong way and keeps her tied up and out of Hank’s hair.

You’re a cool guy, Khonshu.

Of course, Hank doesn’t realize that’s what happened. He was sure Moon Knight spotted him and just thinks he lucked out.

Then Mockingbird grabs him from behind.

Mockingbird tells Hank she’s going to snap his neck, nice and painless, the way SHIELD taught her.

Hank tries to argue that Avengers don’t kill but Mockingbird says she doesn’t think being an Avenger stops her from killing.

Hmm. This feels like something.

Hawkeye couldn’t bring himself to choke Hank to death despite the mind control but Mockingbird is probably going to go through with it. Meaning Hawkeye’s aversion to killing is more deeply held, a moral line that he wouldn’t cross. And Mockingbird just tries not to kill but if forced to...

Of course, choking as an action takes longer so Hawkeye gets further in the murder attempt before he balks. Mockingbird says she can break Hank’s neck clean - so she’s talking to him instead of just doing it. Maybe she has a similar aversion. We can’t know because its an instantaneous action. If she just breaks Hank’s neck, the plot derails.

It feels like its set up as a moral condemnation of her, that in the argument with Hawkeye, she’s in the wrong. But the comic doesn’t explicitly say that so who knows.

Anyway, Hank Pym’s powerset is pretty neat.

Even though he can’t grab one of his shrunken tools but since her arm is around his throat and he’s already touching that arm to try to not die, he uses his power to shrink the brace on Mockingbird’s arm, breaking the bone. And knocking her out from the pain.

Ow.

Having encountered and escaped all of the West Coast Avengers and guests, Hank wonders which direction to go now.

He sees a line of ants leading to a big, locked door. And even though he can’t communicate with ants without his helmet, he thinks maybe they’re trying to tell him something.

He busts the door down by shoving a brace against the lock and embiggening it.

And finds...

Holy shit.

So. Uh. Despite all my laughing at the possibility that Hank’s first wife was still alive and wondering why the hell the West Coast Avengers (plus guests) were going back to Hungary... Yeah. Here she is. She’s alive.

And only she has the brains to rule the Lylat system.

Now I’m wondering why we detoured to Latveria at all? From a writing perspective, wouldn’t it have been better to have the break out to lead right to the Voice putting them under control and then this whole thing.

Anyway, Hank is horrified to see his big brain wife alive but since he’s a scientist, he uses his science brain to investigate the situation.

He sees life support so she’s still alive and she doesn’t look atrophied so she’s been given physical therapy to keep her healthy. And there’s a narcotics IV to keep her under control.

Hank turns that off.

He grabs her by her chin (rude) and loudly asks if she can hear him.

So Maria broadcasts her entire life story to a nearby computer monitor.

Because comic books. People always be backstorying.

There’s some retcons to this Maria Trovaya backstory.

So they fled Hungary, as ya do. She married Hank, as ya do. She insisted they honeymoon in Hungary despite being a political refugee and got kidnapped, like an idiot.

Apparently this was to try to force her father to return to Hungary. But he learned better dead than red and kills himself. So the Hungarian agents blow up his lab to hid evidence that Dr. Trovaya was a real cool guy who didn’t bow to blackmail.

This is a retcon. Originally, it was portrayed like he was just killed for defecting. I don’t know why this wrinkle was added.

Anyway. Now the Hungarian secret police had a Maria Trovaya and no real reason for her. So they used the same intelligence ray that created the Beasts of Berlin on her. To give her a giant brain.

Why? I dunno. They told her they thought she knew her dad’s secret research. Doesn’t seem like shooting her brain big is necessary for an interrogation.

Anyway, this is similar to the process that created MODOK (laughs in irony) but differenty.

Anyway, they used her MASSIVE BRAIN to drive their superpower program.

Apparently she was the BRAIN behind Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man, Red Guardian, and more.

Lotta arc welding we’re doing right here!

Maria led him here, with ants, so she can put her out of her misery.

So Hank makes this face, the face of distraught.

HE DO NOT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT!

Anyway, then Wasp zaps him in the back of the head.

Whoops. I forgot about the Wasp when I said Hank had encountered every one of the West Coast Avengers and guests.

She did the job of get small, be unnoticed, so well that it even fooled me.

While Hank is flat on his ass, the rest of the brainwashed superheroes come charging in, yank him off the floor to recreate the cover, and prepare to murder him.

(And I really jumped the gun on saying Hank had encountered everyone because he also didn’t encounter Wonder Man. My brain bad.)

Hank begs Maria to save him, saying she has the POWERRRRRRRRR.

And she does.

All of the brainwashed heroes suddenly snap out of it.

Dr Pym: “Maria! You did it! You saved me!”

Computer monitor: “NO, HENRY YOU SAVED ME.”

Aw.

A little later, Maria also uses her brain power to call in all of the People’s Defense Force and Quicksilver and prevents them from using their powers.

Her brain is so big she can do that. With mind control.

... I guess what beats a bad guy with mind control is a good girl with mind control??

God, you suck, Quicksilver.

With the plot wrapped up, Hank Pym puts a bow on it.

He’s quitting the West Coast Avengers.

Feels like he hasn’t been on the team all that long, actually. He had a big reinvention of himself and now he’s leaving? I’d actually prefer one of the people who’ve been here from the start leave.

But Wonder Man already had his natural moment to leave and didn’t. And I doubt Hawkeye is quitting the leadership position he’s wanted forever, unless his relationship drama goes a weird way. Mockingbird is already maybe quitting or being fired. And Tigra is staying around to mack on Moon Knight, who just got here...

Still though, even though Hank has been around since the start of the team, he’s only been a member recently. Its weird that he’s leaving.

But if you have to write him out, this is how you do it. You let him flex on a bunch of people (Masters of Evil, his own team) and then he bounces.

In this case, he’s bouncing because he wants to devote his full attention to healing his first wife Maria from big brain. Get her so she can wear hats again.

Dr Pym: “It won’t be easy -- maybe it can’t be done -- but I’m ready to try! And all because she once told me -- ‘Go to the ants -- !’”

Sure!

I’ll wait one more page to ruin the good feelings.

And ruin them in another way right now.

Dr Pym: “When I came to the West Coast Avengers, I was a has-been, in disgrace! With you, I’ve recovered my self-respect, my powers -- even my wife! You’ve brought me, full circle!”

Wasp: “I guess -- we were never really married, since Maria was alive -- !”

Dr Pym: “If so, Jan, that means we were never really divorced, either! Maybe the bad times don’t have to count anymore -- but the good times will count forever -- !”

Ohhhh I hate this.

I see what it’s going for and I hate it.

In the West Coast Avengers book, Hank has had a groove getting back arc, where he rededicated himself to being a superhero. Now, his first wife is revealed to be never dead so according to the Wasp, she and Hank were never married so therefore they didn’t get divorced and him backhanding her that one time didn’t actually count somehow!

I hate this.

Also, I’m not sure it legally holds muster.

Maria was gone long enough to be declared legally dead so Hank and Jan’s wedding was legal. Probably. Who knows how things work or how long anything has been relative to anything else.

I hate this though.

I assume the idea is to wash the stank of Trial of Yellowjacket off Hank. Scrub him up nice and clean and viable a character again. But I prefer the ending of that, where Hank took responsibility and admitted that the good times in the relationship didn’t change that it wasn’t a good relationship. That he fucked up, there’s no wacky comic book out for his behavior and he needed to go work on himself.

I think that was better and more mature than this where Hank just says him hitting Jan and trying to murder his friends doesn’t count anymore.

Bleh.

Which makes how this shakes out medium term tragically hilarious.

It’s going to get retconned in Solo Avengers #16 (March, 1989) that this isn’t really Maria Troyvana. She’s actually lady MODOK, SODAM. She pretended to be Maria and saved Hank from getting beaten to death because....... Reasons.

Diabolical AIM reasons I don’t care to investigate any further. I haven’t even decided whether I’ll cover Solo Avengers or not. It’s not REALLY Avengers. It’s like Marvel Team-Up or Marvel Two-in-One but with a Hawkeye focus.

Anyway, I’m vaguely aware of Hank shrinking Tigra and putting her in a cat carrier so I’m sure he’ll return to the team.

Anyway again.

Scarlet Witch and Vision are being very cheerful and optimistic and That Couple about marriage being great so Mockingbird decides to just dump a bucket of cold water on the mood.

Hah. Oh, Bobbi.

You’re really making this everyone’s problem, huh?

Weird flex but okay.

Follow @essential-avengers​ because. Like and reblog and comment maybe?

[trilliath]

Guess!!! Who He!!! Is Talking!!!! About!!!!!!!!

you only get one guess and that’s all you need

[spiinsparks]

—  a child who raised a  child  /  on  homelessness  ;  food  .

   ( *  tws for homelessness / starvation mentions / malnourishment / and in general sonic having like really bad self-feeding habits )

       ||. so  @aeniqmata​  & i were gabbing earlier as we do and l i s t e n...

   Hedgehogs are omnivorous creatures similarly to foxes, except the diets are COMPLETELY flipped. A pet hedgehog’s dominant source of food is kitten food ( which does include high sources of protein, including meat sources like fish and chicken ) but they primarily eat veggies, insects (beetles, worms, etc.) and fruits. Foxes, on the other hand, foxes eat primarily meats, with less emphasis on veggies, nuts and berries. 

        All of that to say  . . . finding a balance between the two of them that would benefit both of their needs was ABSOLUTELY incredibly difficult for Sonic and Tails. Tails needs more meat in his diet than someone with Sonic’s lifestyle could provide. Not to mention Sonic being 11-12 at the time. I won’t talk on flout’s tails’ behalf because honestly her thoughts on it are SO HECCIN COOL and I wouldn’t be able to do them justice - but I can say that while Sonic’s methods weren’t foolproof by ANY means, he did try to go well above and beyond his best.

      We’re talking research into carnivorous diets, with emphasis on foxes, asking other mobian foxes on their travels about THEIR lifestyles in as casual a way as possible because if he HAS to do field research then dangit, he will. Saving up from various odd jobs so that the two of them could go out and eat and purposefully letting Tails pick out whatever suits his fancy (and, by that, I mean he very carefully observes him to see what makes his eyes light up, even if Tails doesn’t pick it on his own... and then ordering that for him anyways, even if it takes up most of his savings, because it’s what Tails actually WANTS rather than what he’s resigning himself to.)        side note: but chilidogs being the sort of safe middle ground for the two of them??? Along with being relatively cheap to buy from vendors, and easy to make on the road.

         Anyways, Sonic struggling to juggle their VASTLY different diets and feeling terrible whenever Tails might fall ill from not having enough - in general, not just when it  comes to properly eating meats.  (But also to that extent, meats potentially being harder for someone of sonic’s former income class (being: none) to get sometimes because of the nature of the islands and mobian-dense populations .... even if the critters exist??? I am a Think.)

       There would be times when no matter how much Sonic would stock up, they ran out.  And, even then,  so often on the go, there’s only so much you can have with you physically on hand. Those times weren’t... great. But Sonic would go out of his way to make sure Tails ate what they had - usually the majority of what they had despite Sonic’s own speed very much meaning he needs to eat way, way more. (his logic: Tails is a kid, and the kid  gets food first. Sonic can eat what’s left and is willing and capable of supplementing with whatever is around that he can gather.)  And he knows he can’t outsmart the fox and he knows he can’t make him worry less, but he’ll play it off and offer to share if it means Tails Does Not Go Hungry Tonight. 

           Sonic is, even now, VERY used to going days without as much food intake as he needs and... at some point he just stopped noticing he was hungry until it started to physically catch up with him.  (intense fatigue, general sluggishness, the occasional stomach pain when it got really bad, etc) Like, logically he knows he needs food, but he can’t really tell anymore on the day-to-day. the signs don’t show up so drastically for him to take heed of it and if he’s preoccupied,  he’ll forget until it’s late, and then he realizes “oh i only had like (1) bagel today.  should probably fix that.”

[mminttae]

Blanket Of Lavender Scent

-> Pairing : Jimin x Reader

-> Genre : fluff fluff!, fluffy Jiminie, extra clingy Jimin cause he missed you a lot, Jimin wants cuddles, lavender and vanilla scented tees are perfect for eachother

-> Summary : After two weeks of attending meetings in a business trip Jimin is finally home and craves for your attention but you want to simply watch a movie..

-> Word count : 2.334K

-> A/N here's a Jimin one shot for y'all to enjoy until I actually finish writing the first chap of Jimin's series. Gif not mine, credit to owner.

Song recs ( to make your reading time more fun) - Serendipity\Serendipity instrumental - Jimin

Around 7pm 

You sit on the large sofa and look outside the window, the chilly weather outside making the window glass a bit blurry. Judging on how the weather is getting colder day by day you thought it wouldn’t even take one full day for the snowflakes to start decorating the window panes. An uncomfortable silence took over the apartment. Only the clock ticking could be heard. You kept glancing from the clock to the entrance door thinking if time slowed down. Diverting your gaze towards your phone you think perhaps his flight has been delayed or maybe he’s stuck in traffic. He did say that he would visit you first after stepping out from the airport. Did that bastard lie to me? there are possibilities of him lying to you based on how he loves seeing you get angry and all pouty, well yes you are indeed angry now. Just when you were about to call him the doorbell rang making you quickly get up from your seat and run towards the door. 

“What took you so long?!!-- “ You slightly shout as soon as you open the door but become silent when you notice  there’s no one in the doorway. you step out a bit and look to the corridor on your right but there was no one. You were about to turn around to check your left when two big arms wrapped around your waist, back hugging you. Your breath hitched but later relaxed when the familiar lavender cologne hit your nose. Your favourite scent of all time. Resting his chin on your shoulder he whispers in your ear, “missed me?” You brought your hand towards his and started fiddling with the silver promise ring he was wearing. You had the same one too. “no,” you whispered back to him making him give a small sweet laugh followed with a peck on your cheek. “Says the person who kept texting me to come back quickly.” He said while tightening the hug, your cheeks now warm with a soft rosy blush. OH hell YESS you missed him! But maybe he missed you more. Or maybe both of you missed eachother equally. You break free from his arms and turn around to look at him now for real not through video calls. His blonde soft fluffy bangs covering his forehead, his eyes turning to crescent moons  as soon as the corner of his lips turned up. “Jimin..” you take hold of his hand,(more like a sweater paw holding another sweater paw A/N : thaT’S sO cUtE uWu ok um back to the story AhEM)  “lets go inside” you pull him inside your comfy apartment and close the door. 

“Why does two weeks feel like two months” Jimin chuckles while saying , leaning on the back of the couch seeing your busy back as you take hold of a mug and pour in the peach juice which you made. (Jimin loveeeeesss the peach drinks you makes , he loves you too ;) ) Handing him the mug you speak, “maybe cause we never went without seeing each other over five days.”  Taking a sip from his favourite drink he replies “four days was the highest.” “It could have been if you didn’t ditch me for your video game,” you rolled your eyes making your way to the couch, Jimin following you with a pout and murmuring ‘it wasn’t my fault that I forgot, Jungkook and Taehyung practically went on their knees to make me play with them”  your lips break into a small smile but quickly went to poker face, you missed his whining and ofcourse that smoll pout. You looked on your side to see Jimin waddling like a duckling towards you before sitting down on the couch and pulling you on his lap, hugging you by your waist and nuzzling his face in the crook of your neck, inhaling your vanilla scent. 

“why are you late?” you ask, playing with his soft hair. “I lost my suitcase.” 

“stop joking” 

“I’m not” . 

You look down at his face, a bit innocence can be seen in his eyes. You scoff in disbelief bringing your hands to yourself from his shoulder.

Okay he’s not joking . 

You get up from his lap and sit a bit far from him (not too far though). “Y/N....?” Jimin shakes you by your shoulder but you don’t response . “Is my Y/N-ie angwy?” Jimin asks in a cute way in hopes of melting your anger away. He knew damn well that your anger doesn’t stand a chance against his cuteness. There was a moment of silence. Jimin kept poking your arm and kept calling your name but seeing no response he started slightly slapping your arm while giving his own background music and THAT’S when you snapped. “Are you- are you a kid?!!? HOW CAN YOU LOOSE A SUITCASE AGAIN YOU FU---” you stop when your eyes meet his puppy eyes. I shouldn’t have raised my voice dangit. Jimin’s lips curled to a pout and he stared at you like a baby about to burst into tears. You were having human glitch, you cleared your throat and sat down normally infront of him instead of standing on the couch. “Bu-but I found it again after asking the customer service system for help..” he said with a pout while fiddling with his fingers. You knew well that the stuttering was an act afterall you’ve been together for more than a year now. Your anger over Jimin loosing his suitcase would sound dramatic to many people but your anger ofcourse had reasons. This might be the 20th time he lost his suitcase ( the only difference today is that he found it again). Everytime he looses he buys MORE THAN EXPENSIVE ones and and like his suitcase contains his clothes??? files and documents too??? Does he have the Namjoon disease now?

You heave out a sigh once seeing him still sitting with a pout and stealing glances at you. You move towards him and lean in to leave a small kiss on his pouty lips. You pull away and found jimin following your lips, he definitely wants more. You chuckle and pat his head “be careful with your things from next time kay?” Jimin is like a lost friendly puppy but when it came to work he would become a wolf seconds. If anyone hears about his clumsiness they would start doubting if he’s really the CEO of the 2nd most popular and big company in the country. He snaked his hand around your waist pulling you closer, using his other free hand to tug a loose strang of your hair behind your ear then he proceeded with caressing your cheek with his thumb. “I promise I’ll be careful from next time, love” he whispered as his eyes travelled down to your lips. He slowly started leaning in BUT BUT you felt like TEASING him :) You pushed away his hand and got up from sitting making your boyfriend frown and... unhappy... “Why the pizza ain’t here yet?” you question yourself seeing the clock it was about time for your pizza order to arrive. Jimin ofcourse didn’t give a damn about pizza. He just wanted you, close to him. He tried holding your hand and pulling you towards him but your quick sensing ability made you walk away saying that you better start taking out plates for the meal, loud enough for your now grumpy and pouty boyfriend to hear. He stands up mumbling some rubbish under his breath, scoffs towards you before walking towards your room to grab a blanket knowing that you would want to watch a movie while having dinner. Jimin obviously has different plans. CUDDLESS!!

Time Skip ~ 

Lights off, all cuddled up sitting infront of the tv screen. You both wrapped around a blanket, Jimin’s arms wrapped around, his chin resting on your shoulder, his toe grazing yours. Although you both were stuck like glue to eachother Jimin wasn’t that happy. The pout on his face didn’t really get noticed by you as you were too focus on the movie playing infront of you. Out of excitement of spending time with you after a long time he forgot your love for the marvel series and clicked on the play button. Sigh. “Y/N..” Jimin trails off nuzzling to you. you hum  as a response to which he sighed ( might be the 30th sigh since the movie started) “ baby look at me..” he says giving you a peck under your ear. “What is it?” you ask in a voice that speaks ‘ I’m not that interested in what you’re about to say.’ “You acted like you were about to take a plane and come to me when I was away but now you’re not even giving slight look to me” he whines removing the blanket away and sitting up straight but your face still fixated on the tv screen. “ I doubt you even missed me hmph “ his chest went up and down as he folded his arms and looked away from you, guess he shouldn’t have done that cause the second he looked away you looked at him. You couldn’t help but stiffle a smile at the sight of his puffed cheeks. You tried unfolding his arms but instead he swatted your hand away. “ Ofcourse baby i missed you” you cooed to him to which he replied with “you’re a bad girlfriend.” You just laughed before going “oh my godd the war started!” and focusing back to the tv. Jimin scoffed in disbelief once seeing you. He never once hated a tv this much. He once again leaned on your shoulder ( angry or not he can’t stay away from you). Muttering a no to himself he moved away from you and leaned on the couch hand. Even though his whole being was itching to feel your warmth his ego kept him away. But your lips forming a smile didn’t go unnoticed by him.

25 minutes before the ending of the movie

You stretched your arms and looked at your now sleeping fluff ball boyfriend beside you. He must be tired from the journey. He is tired but still wanted to spend time with you. A sudden hint of guilt hit you as you got reminded of his whining to turn your attention on him. You leaned towards him and gently brushed his bangs away AND--- OH HE’S NOT SLEEPING. You blink a couple of times staring at his face when you realize he’s trying to not smile. Jimin you sly fox. You were about tell him to stop acting when a sudden idea popped up in your head making you smirk to yourself. You move back from him and fake a yawn, pretending sleepy you say to yourself knowing he’s hearing, ”what to do I was planning on giving Jiminie hugs and kisses but he is already sleeping” you spare a glance at him and saw him frowning. You stood up before saying “ I should go to bed as well,” before you could take a step forward his hand pulled you back making you fall on top of him, your hands on his chest supporting you from not falling flat on his face as his arms snaked around your waist hugging you. “You are not going anywhere,” he whispered scanning your features. Your heart beat picked up its speed due to the very small distance between both of you. You have experienced ‘no gap between eachother’ before a lot of times but still to this day you never got to get used to the tension. “I thought you were sleeping..” you say while brushing his soft hair locks away from his eyes. Without saying much Jimin just used his hand to push your head forward as he leaned in as well , connecting both of your lips. This wasn’t just a small kiss or peck , this time it was an actual kiss he wanted to share with you since his arrival here. You craved for it too but didn’t show. Jimin sat up straight before making you comfortably sit on his lap. He broke the kiss for a couple of seconds to whisper “I missed you..” you whispered back “ I missed you too” before joining lips again. Both of your lips fitted eachother perfectly, like puzzle pieces. Your surrounding seemed to have gotten more sweeter due to the lavender smell on Jimin. He smelled like lavender and honey and you loved it. Both of you were enjoying the moment when.....YOU HAD TO GET INTERRUPTED :)) Your phone screen lighted up with the name ‘mom’ on the display as the ringtone took over the comfortable silence making you two break away from eachother. You sigh as Jimin groaned. You were about to reach for the phone when jimin stopped you, he hugged you tightly and said “let’s just continue” with pleading eyes. “Let me just receive the call..” 

“no no no you are finally giving your attention to me I don’t want you to look away” he whined shaking his head.

“If I don’t receive--

“I HATE phones, moms and televisions they keep stealing my Y/N away from me” he pouts, you laugh seeing him get so clingy.

“Why don’t they understand ?!!! Y/N IS MINE!!” he shouts out of frustration and the phone goes to silence at once indicating the call ended. He didn’t get himself for shouting suddenly but he just wanted you to only look at him. “You didn’t had to get worked up babe,” you chuckle to which he reply “your mom is thinking you’re asleep if not then tell her tomorrow you were sleeping.” he say giving a sheepish smile “now where were we?” he asked before attacking you with kisses making you laugh from ticklish feeling. “Ji-Jimin stop it tickles!” the apartment soon gets filled with both yours and Jimin’s laughter and giggles. 

“If you try waking up before me tomorrow I’m going to make sure you don’t get to shower tomorrow” he says playing with your promise ring. “what kind of threat is that?” you ask not getting him. He just simply replied with 

“I love you”

“love you too... Jimin”

[boom-fanfic-a-latta]

Mission Briefing

Raz: You needed me, Agent Forsythe?

Hollis: Yes I do, Agent Aquato. There’s a mission that’s come up, and we need you on it.

Raz: A mission?! Sure thing! What do you need me to do?

Hollis: We’ve received reports of strange activity occurring in Paris, France. From what our sources have gathered, a terrorist calling himself “Hawk Moth” has started attacking the city using innocent civilians he’s somehow able to turn into powered-up supervillains. Agent Cruller, care to explain to Razputin what you told the rest of us?

Ford: Sure thing, Miss Forsythe. Now, this here sounds to me like the work of a Miraculous.

Raz: What’s a Miraculous?

Ford: Well, it’s a bit of a long story. You see, before I met Otto and we started bringing together the Psychic 7, I was a young’n being trained by a secret order of Psychics who were in charge of guarding a collection of enhanced jewelry with phenomenal powers—the Miraculous. Each Miraculous grants its wearer a different power, linked directly to concept.

Raz: Hold on, magic jewelry? I thought you said magic didn’t exist!

Ford: I did, and it doesn’t. See, the Miraculous get their powers from little creatures of the astral plain called Kwamis, spirits embodying the abstract ideas that make up our universe. Creation, Time, Mathematics, Love, Transportation, things like that. Long ago, a powerful Psychic managed to look into the astral plane and discover these little guys, and created the Miraculous as a way for them to gain physical form. In return, the Kwamis allow those who wear their object to transform and take on a more controlled version of their powers.

Raz: Woah…how come I’ve never heard about any of this?

Ford: The very existence of the Miraculous is a carefully-kept secret by the Order of the Guardians, Razputin. Something they’ve kept hidden from the world for years. I should know, I used to be one of them, till I stole the Miracle Box we were guarding here in America.

Raz: Wait—you stole it?! Why?

Ford: Well, the Guardians…didn’t treat the Kwami very well, son. And I was a boy, a very rash boy, who didn’t like the idea of treating living creatures unfairly like that. Sure, they aren’t beings of our plane if existence, but gosh dangit, they were still beings! So in a moment of bravado, I took the Miraculous from the Order and ran away.

Raz: …But if you took the Miraculous, how—

Ford: There’s more than one Miracle Box, Raz. The Guardians I trained with looked over the Native American Miraculous, while from what I know, Hawk Moth has the Butterfly Miraculous from the Chinese set. That specific box is home to some of the most power Miraculous in existence, and it seems he’s after the cream of the crop. He’s after the Ladybug and the Black Cat, Creation and Destruction. If he gets his mitts on both, the world’s even more doomed than we were a few months ago!

Raz: That bad?!

Ford: Yep, that bad. Luckily for us, the locations of the two are confirmed to not be with Hawk Moth. Instead, it seems a pair of plucky youngsters have gotten their hands on the jewels are are using them to fight back against the man. Call themselves Ladybug and Chat Noir, according to what we found. Mighty fine holders, if I do say so myself. They’ve already got a couple wins under their belt by themselves!

Hollis: Agent Aquato, our plan is to send you in with Agents Nein and Vodello to investigate, posing as a family moving into the area near where the first recorded incident began. Hopefully you can find out more about what’s going on and help these two “superheroes” aprehend the villain.

Raz: I’m on it, Agent Forsythe! I won’t let you down!

Ford: Wait—before you go, Raz, there’s something I’ve got that might help you out. Meet me at the Heptadome if you get a chance.

[durotoswrites]

Rick/Elli (64) for the Ship game?

Okay, let me start by saying this is an adorable rarepair!  So many possibilities for two characters who don’t really interact in-game, but they could have a lot in common!

SEND ME A SHIP and I’ll tell you:

Who said “I love you” first

Elli, and I’d imagine she says it shortly after their first kiss (see the answer later in this ask).

Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background

They’d have each other’s.  I feel that they’d both be a big inspiration to one another and keep that reminder with them throughout the day.

Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror

Rick’s notes on the bathroom mirror would be math problems he’s pondering for his latest project.  If Elli had used the shower before she’d leave some hearts on the mirror, either making Rick melt into a puddle and have mush for brains or focus his resolve further to work on his equations depending on the project, hehe.  I like to think he’d want to invent things to help the bakery.

Who buys the other cheesy gifts

Rick would make them.  Beautiful clockwork novelties or music boxes.  Elli would absolutely adore it, and be sure to bake some of his favorites at work to bring home. <3

Who initiated the first kiss

Elli.  I imagine they’d been together for a long time, but they’re both shy about confessing how they truly feel about one another.  Rick attempted to give her a smooch, but got very nervous.  When she saw that’s what he wanted, she went for it!

Who kisses the other awake in the morning

Elli.  Rick can’t even acknowledge the world around him without a loud alarm and some coffee.

Who starts tickle fights

I don’t think either of them would care for tickling very much.

Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower

Rick would shyly ask Elli.  She’s self-conscious about her body in-game, so I feel like she’d only agree once she has accepted herself and believes Rick when he tells her that he thinks she is beautiful.

Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch

Okay, so when I saw this ship in my ask box, I could already imagine Rick ordering something for lunch at the bakery, notebook in hand while he’s drafting an invention.  He absentmindedly pays for his food, and turns around to leave, scribbling down his blueprints.  He hears the soft patting of Elli’s leather shoes on the cobblestones as she jogs to him, paper bag in hand.  In that moment, their eyes meet, and, well, Rick finds something that catches his attention more than his inventions.  Elli returns back toward the bakery, giving him a wave and a smile and a flustered Rick manages to yell his thanks to her before she’s out of earshot.

As friendship and romantic feelings bloom, I can definitely see Elli bringing lunches to him regularly, making sure he takes the time to remember to eat something. <3

Who was nervous and shy on the first date

Both, and visibly so.  They could have a cute picnic up in the mountains and go fishing together.  Once Elli casts out her line, though, she feels more relaxed doing something she’s comfortable with and she’s happy to give Rick some pointers, which has him already thinking of modifications he can make to their fishing rods, hehe.

Who kills/takes out the spiders

Elli screams bloody murder if she sees a spider.  Rick will insist on using one of his inventions, like an automatic bug net and the spider would wind up on him, and he’d end up squirming as he hurries outside, eager to get the bug off of him.

Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk Rick!  And everyone in the bar would be happy for him, because dangit, HM64 Rick has found love! ^-^

Thank you so much for the ask!  I feel like there would never be a dull moment with this couple, and there would be plenty of hilarious interactions, but they’d be really sweet together. 🥰 Thank you so again, and have a great day! <3

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