#did that mean i was left out of the rps? mostly. yeah

[lohstandfound]

ignore this.

learning to shut up when i dont have anything new to say to the discussions my mutuals are having about the treatment of the female characters in this show and fandom

even though ive just gone ahead and rambled in the tags a bunch of bullshit

[halfwaydeepunofficial]

give me something absolutely batshit raph has done, one in backstory and one in something you've actually written

OOOOOOOOH i am a fan of this question. love ya kye.

fair warning: this gets rambly and a bit hard to follow. sorry

honestly in most aus raph doesn't have a batshit backstory. it's mostly the same stuff - from manhattan, dirt poor, alcoholic, insanely ruthless social climber, his greatest ambition in all the world is to be a famous actor. and he's always abandoning his sister. it's this last part that has the most potential for batshittery, which reaches pretty much its full potential in the dreampack and remix dreampack aus. (especially the latter.)

he basically lives full time in virginia in those ones - he never goes home even during breaks. meaning he left his 12 year old sister in a not super safe neighborhood of manhattan, basically living alone because both of their parents are overworked to fuck in dead end working class jobs. their grandparents, who have more of an active role in raising both of them, are probably even more of a presence for olivia in those aus, but still. insane move. you were probably expecting murder or something, but yeah as much as he WOULD kill (and implied has killed in the six of crows aus), it hasn't really been an explicit part of his backstory in any au.

the most batshit thing he's done as an active part of an rp plot is in the (og) dreampack au.* unfortunately it's not something i actually wrote out, bc kinda the whole point of it is that he acts alone and in complete secrecy (except for charlotte, but she doesn't go with him, she just gives him what he needs to do it) and the downside of rp format is that you can't explicitly write about things that characters do alone unless you go out of your way to do a fun little google doc sidequest. now i love my fun little google doc sidequests, but usually those are for slightly more extended narratives or lore backstories, not single missing scenes. (dreampack/remix dreampack raph (they have the same lore and backstory, they just serve diff functions in the plot) actually DOES have a fun little google doc sidequest, but it's more of an origin story.)

ANYWAYS the thing that he actually does is he enacts destruction on sebastian's cult mansion (which is literally made of dreams btw) in retaliation for sebastian stalking olivia and hugh beating the absolute shit out of him to the point where he had at least one broken rib and had to go to the hospital. (tangent: thank god his boyfriend hunter was willing to foot the bill for that one, bc lbr otherwise he would've gone into debt. i've mentioned this a bit before but raph gets a LOT of plot convenient scholarships and hunter-footing-the-bill-for-things in order to justify putting him in the same circles as upper middle class and true rich characters. but it comes free with impostor syndrome and angst! ok tangent over.) anyways x2. he breaks everything breakable, steals anything valuable he can find, beats the shit out of hugh, and drains all the poison from the room where it's literally dripping from the walls. basically he completely and utterly snaps. it's really fun to play with - i haven't actually written his perspective in that au since before he did that, but it's already had so many fun effects on sebastian and charlotte and hugh. damn this is getting me excited about it all over again. maybe when nic and i wrap up the rp scene we're currently doing, i'll suggest we go back to it.

*i've never actually explained the difference between the og dreampack au and the remix dreampack au. basically, this happens when we want to mess with the character setup of a given au but the core premise remains the same. so in the og dreampack au, charlotte is dating sebastian. in the remix dreampack au, sebastian's pet dreamer (they are NOT dating) is will instead. in the og dreampack au meera is a ghost, in the remix au it's maddox. et cetera. similar things have happened with other aus, but the dreampack is definitely the most straightforward example of it.

[the-mandawhor1an]

Where did Maia get her first lightsaber from? Will we find out?

Woop woop, the first Maia Monday and we run right into (possibly) the biggest plot hole in existence.

To give the short answer: We don't know, and we'll probably never know (because keeping lore in mind, the original plan of how she stumbled upon them doesn't make sense)

Okay, let's talk about lightsabers for a minute.

I have to make a clear distinction here between the "original" Maia, whom I will refer to as "Maia Prime" from now on, and the Roleplay Maia, aka the one whose story I'm writing here on Tumblr.

Why do I have to make that distinction? Two reasons:

Maia Prime's sabers have an origin story, whereas Tumblr Maia's don't (yet?)

Maia Prime's sabers are different, both in materials and blade color

I'll start with Tumblr Maia:

Her saber is a split saber, which means it is two sabers (of equal length) that can be combined into a saberstaff (a double-bladed saber)

Think Cal Kestis:

Maia has so far only used one of the sabers while fighting (*cough* up until Chapter 10). The blades are lavender-colored, so ironically a little similar to the ones in the GIF, just a little more blue-tinted. This, in return, makes the blades look white-ish in yellow envorinments (like on Tatooine)

The metal is dark, kind of anthracite. Perhaps the dark-grey tint of Din's armor.

How she got it, we don't know so far. In fact, Din in the RP never asked so I didn't have to think about it. (Zaddy istg if Din asks her now I will bite your ass)

Now we talk about Maia Prime

The biggest difference is the blade color, it is also a split saber. Maia Prime's blades are ultramarine, a dark, rich in-between color or blue and purple, or lorvingly called

Why did I change the color to lavender? Well. I knew some day I would cosplay her and this intense dark blue will look TERRIBLE in pictures

See what the saber does to Ani's face? Yeah, a darker blurple blade would make the situation even worse (tbh I love that they used LED-lit sabers in the Obi-Wan Series but the blue sheen on the faces was a little distracting)

Also, the metal.

Maia Prime has saber hilts made of Beskar.

Does it make sense? Fuck no. Was it cool and a little self-indulging? Fuck yeah.

Maia Prime got these sabers as a parting gift from Raymond. He left them with the contact that would bring her away from the facility. It's her most prized posession and also holds sentimental value.

Why does it not make sense?

Where did Raymond get Beskar from? Where did he get kyber crystals from?

Looking a little further into the lore behind how a Jedi chooses their saber crystal, that's where things get a little tricky. The Jedi doesn't really choose their crystal. The crystal chooses the person (which is why the Darksaber is a little Diva, btw)

That's why it doesn't make sense why Raymond could just give his daughter sabers willy-nilly. Even if we forget that the resources are hard to get by, the chance of stumbling onto the right crystals is sheer impossible.

Now, as the Darksaber also 'allows' more than one wielder, the crystals could get used to Maia.

Mostly the availability of those resources is what made me scrap the idea of Raymond gifting the sabers to her. Combine that with Din and any member of the covenant freaking out about Beskar forged into a weapon. I also thought about making Raymond an undercover ex-Jedi, but then again... why would I?

Well, that concludes the first episode of Maia Monday, aka "Wolke yaps about Maia for too long"

Thank you very much for the question! 💜

[cosmereplay]

get to know your fellow fanfic writers better ༊ ✧.*

Tagged by @chaos-monkeyy (1000 years ago 😅)

1. when did you post your first ever fanfic?

I started posting in Feb 2021!

2. first character you wrote for:

I think the first chapter of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was from Shallan's POV.

3. main character(s) you’re currently writing for:

Not much has changed: Kaladin, Shallan, and Adolin take up a great deal of space in my head and in my fic, including my current WIP Plausible Deniability (Explicit), for which I'm currently procrastinating the last chapter as I do this, lol

4. character(s) you haven’t written about before but plan on writing about soon:

I don't think I've published any Elhokar! I do have a Moash/Elhokar I started in 2021 that I would like to figure out and get out there.

5. fandom(s) you’re currently writing for:

Stormlight Archive, my beloved. My obsession for the last three years!

6. platonic pairing(s) you currently write for:

I did an RP with @wanderingchanneler with Kaladin & Szeth reluctant road trip travellers to friends, and xe's been working on editing and posting it. It's updating weekly - Convergence (Teen)

7. romantic pairing(s) you currently write for:

Mostly Shakadolin, but otherwise it's fairly eclectic. Actually now that I think of it, I write a lot of sexual stuff, and I write a lot about love, but I don't write a ton of explicitly romantic stuff. Except maybe Shakadolin 😂

8. your top 3 tags on AO3 (if you post your works on AO3):

If it's only Additional tags, then it's Oral sex, RoW spoilers, and then a four-way tie of Fluff, post-canon, canon compliant, and PWP. If it includes character tags you'll never guess: Kaladin, Shallan, and Adolin, in that order.

9. your current platform where you post your works

AO3, baybee!

10. snippet of the wip you’re currently working on:

Here's Teen-rated excerpt from my draft chapter of Plausible Deniability:

“What do you mean, you don’t feel the same way anymore?” Laran demanded. “We. . . did things together! Didn’t you like it?” ���No, no, it’s not that,” Veil said. Storms, how could she describe what had happened to her desire? “I just don’t feel like doing those things anymore. I still want to do other stuff. . . ” Laran crossed her arms, lit from the side by Salas’ violet light. “What, like kissing? Over the clothes stuff? It’s not like you ever wanted to be out with me in public. What’s left?” Veil shrugged. “Okay, we could play Towers at the barracks. Have dinner at your stew–” “Oh, so you can ogle the Highmarshal while I dodge Lyn’s questions about the nature of our relationship? Yeah. Sounds great,” Laran fumed, turning abruptly to look out over the mountains. Veil could tell where this was going. “We could do whatever you want. What do you want to do?” she asked, trying not to sound like she was begging. The tall Windrunner was silent for a while, then let out a long sigh. “I don’t think I want anything else. You know, Veil, some relationships shine like spheres, and others flash like lightning.” She turned to look at Veil. “It was bright while it lasted, but I can hear the thunder now. Goodbye, Veil.”  Without another word, Laran stepped up onto the balcony railing and pushed off, flying at speed into the darkness. “Everstorms!” Veil cursed into the night. She hoped it wouldn’t go this poorly with Ral when she saw her tomorrow.

Tagging @felagund-fiollaigean, @rydiaasuka, @if-one-of-us-falls, @illustraterg, @cosmererambles, @meadowlarkx and anyone else I can't remember at the moment, pretend I tagged you if you'd like to do this!

[your-sweet-cookies]

Important announcement, please read

Mun speaking: Hey guys, I'm posting this now since I'm seeing that a lot of you are online so maybe you'll see and read this. I just want to let you know that I am honestly NOT doing okay at all emotionally speaking. I've been actually hurting deeply for quite some time and due to recent events, I have finally hit rock bottom and just can't take this anymore: Thing is that lately I've started to feel extremely unwanted and unloved by the community and that my relevance on here has dropped to nothing (best proof being my activity stats that dropped to under 10 notes on more than one occasion these past few days and maybe weeks), soo I guess the haters were right, in the end I am nothing but a boring person with an even more boring character.

And it's okay, you don't have to lie to try to make me feel better, because I just know it's true and even if I tried to be strong, I just can't do it anymore. There were more factors that contributed to this and I'll try to briefly explain them:

First of all, no one reaches out to me to send in stuff outside of memes and no one wants to talk to me, except 2-3 people with whom I'm mostly only talking about stuff outside of RP anyways. The stuff I usually got in my inbox were just memes that never got feedback or went anywhere and If I disappeared it's clear that no one even noticed, so it means that my presence on here truly is useless, life moves on without me anyways. All my ships are dead, all my threads ignored/forgotten and my inbox is an empty desert.

Then, there were of course the haters. At first I thought they were just a bunch of jealous people, but now I realize they were right, I am just a no one who nobody likes and I am just tired of receiving pity from others, since it won't change a thing. If people truly cared, then they would've proven the haters wrong with concrete action, but since no one did so, it's too late to change the facts now.

And lastly, what hurt most, was the way I was treated by those I saw as friends, who just decided to just abandon me one day without any further notice. I won't name names, but just know that what you did truly hurt me because I trusted you and I cherished you! Yeah, I am not perfect, I make mistakes, but I believe that I am entitled to at least one explanation and a 'break-up' note to at least allow me to move on knowing that there's no more hope left for that friendship. Ghosting someone is never the right answer!

With that said (which I am sorry if it came out as mostly bitter, but I'm emotionally drained completely), I've decided to retire from the RP community, since it's became literally painful seeing the dashboard go on given the current circumstances. This acc won't be gone, I'll keep it for memory's sake and to maybe post artwork related to Kukki and her friends from time to time, make memes and chat with the Muns I am still close with. In regards to the all-mad-hare's event, I will still deliver my entry since the sketch is almost done and I am very pleased with the result, but I just wanted to let you guys know that I will stop using this acc for role-playing because I just can't go on like this anymore. There's no pain worse than feeling horribly alone, despite being surrounded by soo many people. I just don't have any drive or motivation left for writing. It was fun at first while it lasted, but now it's just painful and I'm tired of crying everyday and feeling anxious and stressed whenever I see the dash going on and then remember that no one gives a fuck about me.

With that said, I hope there won't be any hard feelings and know that I still love you guys and so does Kukki, but even the strongest warriors have their limits and this one reached hers.

Wishing you all the best, S

[kokorowoutsu]

-- RP: @pkmn-spira

pkmn-spira:

Well, Morgan won't really blame Ashe on that, as that was mostly true in almost all incidents. She had read through the old newspapers the old man had. Collections of international news that happened over the years. The notoriousness of Rocket, Plasma, Magma, Aqua, Galactic and so on. Their actions made the world learn that anything with the 'Team' prefix would be harbingers of bad news. While Ashe spent her time reuniting with her young child, Morgan would glance over to the Celestial Grunts that were knocked out cold. While it would seem she was checking if they were to awake, or some of them were pretending to be unconscious and is waiting to pull a fast one on them... In her mind she was laughing. Mentally finding this hilarious. This chance meeting not only had her meet rather interesting individuals, these same faces also unknowingly turned a planned Celestial operation here a complete bust. Looks like she inadvertently caused that, too. The irony is almost laughable. Alas, this is but a minor setback, anyway. It would seem that Ashe's Pokémon has it out for her, what with the Garchomp expressing its agitation, now directed at Morgan and her Gardevoir. In response, Baobhan Sith would move in front of her trainer, staring intently at the Garchomp too, almost as if she was challenging the Dragon type to try anything. Noting this, the Fairy Type specialist would turn her gaze to them, and have a hand on her Pokémon's shoulder. "Easy now. Let's not set off on the wrong foot here, shall we?" Hence, her and her Gardevoir would exchange glances, before said Pokémon would nod in turn, yet kept its gaze locked on the Garchomp, staring at it, unblinking, its body unmoving even. Almost like a statue, of sorts. And now, Morgan would look over to the mother and daughter duo, giving the both of them a smile.

"Of course. Its always nice to be of someone's assistance, you see." She responded, bowing a bit in turn. "And a mother being separated from her child can be a cruel thing. I wouldn't want you to suffer from it. Though now that means we have one more left to look for, no?" "About these guys?" She began, now looking over to the unconscious bodies of Team Celestial's Grunts. "They're from an organization called Team Celestial, a group that had recently gained notoriety, just two years after the downfall of a previous organization called Team Andromeda. Quite the nuisance they are, you see, as this new organization is far more secretive than the previous. Its almost as if Team Celestial did their homework and made sure to not repeat the same mistakes Team Andromeda did two years ago that led to their ultimate downfall."

"This is true." Ashe had a tired expression just thinking about it, but there was a hint of worry in her tone too. She knew her husband could handle himself, but he did have a knack for having no sense of direction. She felt Willow shift, her blue eyes locked on Morgan in fear. "Willow... Sunshine... it's alright. She helped me find you." She reassured. Willow went to bury her face into her mother's shoulder then, shivering. Something was bothering her daughter about this woman but what? She seemed to be in tune with the fairy-types or fae even -- there wasn't a reason to fear their own kind... right?

Shifting her daughter, she felt her Garchomp nudge her shoulder. "Hey, you want Kumiko to carry you?" She asked and the girl was quiet for a bit before responding in a foreign language -- Fae. "Yeah? Alright." Handing Willow to the Garchomp, Kumiko held her what looked to be awkwardly, but it appeared she had done this before. With her arms free, Ashe strolled over to the Team Celestial grunts, grabbing a stick nearby and poking one of them in the head with it. "... You still got it, Kumiko." The Garchomp purred in trumph at that. "Whatever this is all about, you being one of the Elite Four should suffice enough for me to stay out of it. Besides, we're not from here and right now I just want to keep my daughter safe and find my husband--" Lucky tugs on their link enough to get her attention.

He had been tuning himself into the forest to try and look for said husband and apparently had located him. Pointing with his ribbons in a specific direction, Ashe looked to Morgan. "What's that way? Nothing too bad I hope?--" A distant boom could be heard as well as the roar of pokemon clashing as whatever Lucky had picked up on got closer. "... Uhhhh..." Ashe couldn't say much of anything except; "... Well I guess that could be my husband..."

[borreloadsavagedragon]

alright tell all of us your thoughts about kaito :)

I did not forget… I have just been con crunching but now I’m free to become the worse

Minor Zexal and Arc V spoiling ahoy

How I feel about this character:

Oh no you’ve opened a floodgate… welcome to oversharing hour with Jay

I’m very normal about Kaito, just ignore the two full cosplays + the EVA foam Orbital work in progress I have mapped out, the wall scroll that’s at my work computer, my ita pin bag, and the fact that I’ve done everything I can to make his deck competitive viable and god dammit am I still trying please print this deck a god damn banger starter, Konami, I can’t keep doing this without your help-

Short story but I used to be suuuuper YGO Vrains favoring from 2020 into early 2022, but I found myself drifting from it because one can only tolerate so much subtweeting and catty behavior over personal preferences, and I’d never really finished Zexal before, just has a half baked idea how it ends, like I watched a chunk of it when it first aired but never finished and proceeded to forgot most of it, so I picked it back up after deciding to pick up Kaito to write in an RP server with some friends because I remembered liking him and… well I didn’t stand a chance when I got back to him fjdhdhd

I deeply relate to the theme of self-inflicted loneliness because it’s easier to be by yourself, just getting walked out on, left in the dark, or even being shafted for reasons out of my own control, I really get that

Also taking on too much if it means the people you love will be ok even if the ending result is you’re not ok, where he is after his Duel with Yuma at the end of Zexal I and getting to repair all of those relationships he was damaged by is where I want to get to in life

Bonus fact that’s minor spoilers for another spin off, but I’m… not a huge fan of his portrayal in Arc V, I like that he’s there and acknowledge that it’s a different Kaito and I love all Kaito Tenjos as they exist, including the Structures Cosplayer, but… yeah, not a fan, I’m a big fan of showing vs telling and Arc V to me feels like it’s ALL telling for all of its supporting cast most of the time

All the people I ship romantically

The better question is who I don’t honestly because that list is far smaller, but if I had to pick favorites I’m very partial to Ryouga, Mizael, and Edo-

Something about rivals to lovers resonates with my very being, even if Edo is less of a rival and more of an enemy until Arc V does it’s usual-

I’ve written for Challenge and AntiHero both already actually, my docs is 99% Challenge Wips that are slowly coming along tbh, and GalaxyMaster takes more time to write since most of those are… you know what I’m getting at LOL

I stg Gallop's one mission was to make Kaito Tenjo a dating sim protagonist because I have no other excuse for why they gave him so many boyfriends and even girlfriends across Zexal and Arc V, Yugioh’s surprising most eligible bachelor

My non-romantic OTP

nervous laughter

Chris.

I like to think of them more as divorcees who are just fine staying apart

Also gestures vaguely at the first answer

My unpopular opinion

I don’t know if I have many tbh, besides disliking Arc V’s rendition of him / not liking mentor at all lol— Like maybe how I genuinely believe he’s the strongest rival bc his record was the best even after he was put up against forces behind human understand and was even considered dying majority of the time of Zexal while remaining arguably mostly human, Zexal’s wack

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon

Oh my god, the duel I hate the most in all of YGO is Kaito’s duel against Heartland because not letting Kaito win against someone who’s become representative of the garbage he was put through is SO UNSATISFYING

Yuma coming in and finishing it up is symbolic in its own right because of the importance of bonds, but to me that was and always should have been Kaito’s moment, let Yuma and Astral show up literally any other time and I’m fine with it

ALSO WE DON'T GET THE RYOUGA AND KAITO GRUDGE MATCH, though Kaito solos everytime, I’m so sorry Ryouga

[lyfrasilly-edda]

Lyf and Marius in the doctor’s lab

(Not an open RP)

Content warnings for mentions of abuse and medical malpractice, as well as description of a dead body.

Lyf couldn’t help but stare at the dark, messy room, too confused by what they saw to process they were out of the vents. Lab tables and beds, equipped with straps to tie people down with, sat side by side with machines Lyf couldn’t begin to theorize the purpose of. There were centuries old bloodstains, covered by layers of dust and the decrepit remains of what had once been science projects. The blueprints covering the table were annotated in harsh, scribbled lines, in a language Lyf didn’t recognize. It looked like the resting place of a madman. Or a madwoman in this case, they supposed.

“I honestly forgot this room was still on the ship,” Marius murmured, squeezing their hand. “I mean, after Carmilla left, there were too many memories, and nobody wanted to use it. We just…” He looked to the boarded up door on the other side of the room. “... Closed it up.”

“Did you ever actually meet Carmilla?” Lyf asked him, gazing over the rotted away lab tables. It was remarkable they weren’t in worse condition, considering it most likely hadn’t been touched in thousands of years. No decomposers in space, they supposed.

Marius took a shaky breath in. “I did. Didn't know her well, didn't really want to, honestly. Jonny let her back on the ship for a short while, a little bit before Camelot. Apparently she managed to give a convincing enough argument that he gave her a chance.” he pursed his lips. “She mostly just acted creepy and sad. Tried to talk with me, Raphaella, and Tim a bit, but kept calling us her ‘kids’ which was just weird. Nobody was interested in being her child, considering... everything. So she stayed in here a lot.”

“I’m assuming Jonny kicked her out pretty quickly?” Lyf asked, considering the few snippets of information they had gotten from the rest of the crew. They didn’t talk about her much, so Lyf didn’t have a lot of solid information. They knew the look of someone who’d been suffering an abuser, though, from the cases they’d worked. It didn’t take much to piece together why they avoided the subject.

“Yeah, we all put up with her for about a decade, before… Dr. Pilchard happened.” Marius replied, gesturing to the centerpiece of the room. The equipment to dissect the cadaver was still out, like a project half abandoned, but there was barely anything left of the cadaver now. “Typically, it wouldn't have been a big deal, just another capitalist rando trying to become immortal, but... Carmilla had promised not to mechanize anyone else.”

“Ah.” Lyf gave a small grimace. The metal parts in the late Dr. Pilchard’s body was evidence enough that she’d broken that promise.

“Obviously, she didn’t succeed, but it pissed Jonny off enough that he threw her out the airlock again. Didn’t even try to pretend it was an accident this time. We sealed this room up shortly after.”

Lyf took a few steps towards the rotted corpse, inspecting it a bit closer. “They obviously didn;t check for bodies first.” they muttered. “Was she trying to mechanize his liver?” Marius walked up beside the, resting a hand on their back as he did so.

“I think he might have had a bit of a drinking problem.” He said, raising an eyebrow. Lyf snorted. Given the song he featured in? The man being a drinker was of no surprise to them. Marius knocked on the hollow skull of the man, and it crumpled slightly with the impact. He wrinkled his nose. “Might’ve benefitted from a mechanized brain, honestly. Don’t think his was in the best of shape.” he took a step back and brushed his hands off. “At least this answers the question of what happened to him.”

Lyf let out a small hum, tracing a finger over the mechanized insides. They almost felt grateful for the fact they hadn’t needed to be mechanized. Not that their method had been any better, but getting your insides ripped apart and replaced with metal certainly wasn’t an idea they were fond of. Maybe mechanizing an arm or gaining wings was slightly more pleasant. They hoped so.

“Do you think…” Lyf began, before gritting their teeth and asking the question. “Do you think I’ll ever meet Carmilla?” Marius blinked up at them, and they ran a hand through their hair. “I mean, an eternity and all that? Statistically, it’s bound to happen.”

Marius thought about that for a moment, rubbing his chin with the hand that wasn’t gripping theirs. He let out a breath, leaning into them slightly, and giving a look to the remains like it was Carmilla herself. “Not if I have anything to say about it. Normal doctors are bad enough.” Lyf pursed their lips at the reminder of their own history with medical malpractice. They were fine in the room, as long as they pretended they couldn’t see the scalpels and bonesaws and syringes on the tables. “Immortal, emotionally unstable, deeply traumatised vampire doctors? I don’t…”

Marius took in a shaky breath. Lyf squeezed his hand tighter. “I don’t want you to meet her. Ever. or think about what would happen if she did meet you.” He turned to them, determination blazing in his eyes. “If she pops up again, I’m shooting her before she can do anything. You’ve already dealt with enough experiments.”

Lyf gave a soft chuckle and kissed him on the forehead. “Don’t worry, you’ll always be my favorite doctor. Even if you technically don’t have a medical license.” He gave them a grin and waggled his eyebrows.

“I’m enough of a doctor to say that I need to take your temperature, because you are looking hot today.” Lyf laughed and kissed his lips, silencing his horrible pick-up line.

“Love, we can flirt later. Right now we have to focus on getting out of here.” Marius snapped his fingers in response.

“Right! There should be a communication panel…” He wandered over to one of the walls, running his fingers over it until he found a small screen. He pressed the “on” button, then frowned when it didn’t work. He slammed his hand against it, giving a small wince. “Sorry, Aurora.” the panel flickered to life.

Lyf came up beside him as the screen flashed white, then blue, then switched to the image of a very, very disgruntled looking Nastya. Judging by the sweat staining her brow, the dark environment, and the metal around her, she seemed to be crawling through the vents. “Marius von Raum and Lyfrassir Edda.”

“Hi Nastya!” Marius gave her a weak grin, and Lyf waved guiltily.

“What the fuck did you two do.” She narrowed her eyes at them.

“Well, it’s a bit of a long story…” Marius began, doing a spinning motion with his hands and avoiding eye contact.

“Box. And portals.” Lyf replied glumly. Nastya sighed, rubbing her temples as best she could while squished in the vent.

“You know what, you can tell the story later. Right now, where are you two?”

Marius glanced at the room around them. “Uhhh, Carmilla’s old lab?” He tried, and Nastya’s face immediately went flat.

“What.”

“I accidentally teleported us into the vents right above Carmilla’s lab.” Lyf admitted, rubbing their forehead. “Also, when you come grab us, could you please bring something to clean up Pilchard’s corpse with? Being stuck with a thousand year old corpse isn’t pleasant.”

There was silence from Nastya’s end for a few seconds, before she spoke again. “You are both idiots. I’ll be there in less than an hour.” The video clicked off, and Lyf let out a breath of relief. Now all the two had to do was spend an hour stuck in the lab.

[i-am-focused]

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I'LL POST ABOUT THEM even though no one asked

okay so i've been gone for... a bit. But it's cause I have a hyperfixation on this fuckin' cod oc that I made cause my friend also made one that is his special interest and we wanted them to be gay and we wanted to rp them. so yeah, that's where i've been and thats where i'm at. Okay, so i assume cause i'm doing this my friend will post his as well, so im gonna mostly focus on fly (his life) and his relationship with shark.

DISCLAIMER: we fucked these guys up, like big time, they are so mega traumatized and not just cause of the military. a lot of the stuff in fly's backstory is stuff i have experience with but honestly he just kept getting more fucked up over time cause the issues kept building on eachother and woof. damn. anyway, tw for sh, suicide, addiction, and just like, unhealthy shit.

Pt 1. FLY

okay so, his name isn't actually fly, its Jamie Flynn but that's his callsign. The callsign came from 3 things, his speed/difficulty when it comes to getting caught, his perspective on situations is a lil different, and his last name is Flynn so its that shortened.

RAPID FIRE INFO: Alright, so he's irish, hes got the ginger goin on cause i had to yk. he was raised in Dublin but his voiceclaim is hozier (normal speaking voice) cause i cannot be that stingy about accents rn. He is currently a Sergeant in the 141, youngest member according to hc and canon calculations. He's 25 and only recently joined, prior to that he was in the Irish military from the end of highschool till now. He's gay, he's cis, he has ADHD, he had a rough childhood (we'll get into that later), he is also 1 inch taller than ghost (6'5") and he's a demolition's expert amogst other stuff.

TRAUMA SHIT - so he has more recent issues but i'll start from the beginning, growing up he was in a not terrible family but his parents mostly ignored him and he sort of raised himself most of the time. He didn't have a ton of friends but he did have one named Ben. now, the issues REALLY kick in when he witnessed Ben get shot. This fucked him up and he didn't really have a support system and his parents weren't involved in his life so that grief and confusion and loneliness just sort of manifested as anger and poor behavior. he got in a lot of fights in highschool, he was a really tall kid back then but he got his ass beat a lot and his parents just made it worse cause they didn't want to deal with him and just yelled at him and stuff for it. eventually this became larger, criminal problems. he did do some drugs in highschool but nothing super super serious, but he did start hotwiring cars and going on joyrides, which got him arrested at the ripe old age of 16. His parents had just had his twin brothers at this point and didn't want him around or have to deal with him anymore after this so they passed him off to a family friend named Sean who was actually really good to Jamie. The first few months were rough and it almost seemed to get better but then Jamie's parents disowned him fr and he realized he was never going to be with his family before and it broke him. and here's were that tw comes in cause he did attempt by overdose. after that his relationship with sean improved, he went to therapy, he started boxing as an outlet, and he improved. He was by no means perfect, he was a C average student in school and he still got into fights but not nearly as frequent as before.

tldr: he's got abandonment issues, anxiety, depression stuff, and he turned out sort of okay? maybe? no that's a lie, you'll see.

MILITARY AND MORE TRAUMA - He joined the military out of highschool and after he had been there for a bit he decided to try training for demolitions cause Sean did construction demolitions and he always found it interesting. all was well for a while untill when he was 19 there was an exercise and things went VERY poorly, another trainee's device went off behind Jamie, it killed the trainee and left fly with a lot of very severe burns and scars on his back and other injuries that left him in a hospital for a few weeks. This left him out of commision for a while but he picked up again 6 months later and got back right where he left off, unfortunately he had developed a new issue. Oxycontin. it was perscribed to him for the pain during his recovery and they never stopped his prescrption because of his claims of long lasting pain. he was absolutely an addict for a couple years but he tried to quit and now while he still does take it, it is far less frequent and generally only when hes having some really really bad mental health issues, unfortunatley it does mean he combines it with alcohol. Anyway, he continued where he left off (just with some more issues) rising the ranks and gaining a rep until eventually he was recruited by the 141 task force.

Now how does all of this trauma affect him today? - welp. he doesnt maintain any close relationships, hasn't taken off his shirt in front of another person (unless forced or sedated) for 6 years, he has some pretty major anxiety problems, abuses substances to get through his hard times, severe intrusive thoughts, and has some genuinely awful intimacy/attachment problems. by that i mean he is still a virgin, never had a serious romantic relationship and keeps anyone (even sean) at an arms length. this includes shark, at least for some time.

see, he panics and has severe anxiety about allowing himself to get close to anyone, mostly cause he's got some past experiences that convince him that they'll leave again. so lets get into Shy.

SHY (shark and fly)

Shark, or Andy Lane, is another member of the 141, hes 29 and a Lieutenant. He is much closer with soapghost and everyone else in the 141 and has been there for a lot longer and has a romantic/platonic relationship with soapghost as well. He's autistic and hes got a lot of problems. he also has a service dog named Thresher who fly loves. anyway, so right off the bat, their relationship is gonna be genuinely awful for a very long time. We rp this, so no specific outcome is guaranteed but, yeah things are gonna be really bad i'm not gonna lie to you. they both have so many problems that collide in the worst ways possible. Fly has abandonment issues, Shark pulls away when things get super bad. Shark avoids his relationship problems, Fly cannot let things slide. Both of them are very secretive about their problems and its just not a healthy relationship.

So whats happened so far? well, honestly not a ton ig, they met, got off on the wrong foot cause Shark doesn't do well with unexpected meetings. they flirted a little bit, trained a tiny bit together, and then got sent on a really short mission. after that they sort of just saw eachother around, found out that both of them refuse to shower unless they're alone in the showers, and that's sort of it for the first couple months. After that they got sent on a extended mission, not goin into details of it cause truth is we just wanted to make them live in a house together for an extended period of time cause otherwise they prob wouldn't get to know eachother very much. so we put them in this house, they have a bunch of funny little quirks in their friendship that i'll talk about sometime in the future, and yeah. They chill. at one point fly gets a lil high on the weed and shark flirts with him which was a terrible plan cause it just makes fly a bit gay for shark. Then they watch the conjuring and fly is surprisingly terrible with horror movies so shark makes fun of him and then lets fly hold his hand for the rest of the movie which is cute. (this is just about as wholesome as their relationship has gotten/will get) and then more recently they went to a bar together, shark flirted with some people and a very drunk fly got real jealous and then they had a little confrontation in the bathroom and fly ended up kissing him :D so after that happened they talked about it a super tiny bit and then left it for weeks cause fly didnt know what to do and he was sort of confused by the whole thing. now, MOST RECENTLY and ongoing, fly was acting weird and shark noticed, he got defensive and then shark demanded some sort of explanation for why he was being a dick. fly sort of broke down and started getting really freaked out by the whole thing cause he genuinely has no idea how he feels about it and how to move forward. anyway, he cries, tells shark whats goin on, and shark talks to him, then flirts with him, then kisses him, and now they're making out in the kitchen. both of them trying not to freak out. So we have an outline, but i figure ill just give a monthly update on them or something cause this post is SO LONG OMG.

ill do another post with art cause i've been drawing them and i am way too proud of this borderline gay porn that i've drawn. anyway. yeah, i love them, i'm obsessed with them. i would love to be asked about them. i literally listen to their playlist all the time and yeah. swag. thanks for listening to this true nightmare of formatting.

[theminecraftbox]

Do you think that if given the choice, Dream would still give c!Sam and c!Quackity happy endings? I mean, considering his larger plan to return the server to the good old days, it'd follow that he wants happiness for /everyone/. Also since he's someone who largely disregards morals, doesn't believe in heroes or villains, and doesn't have any sort of moral high ground, I think he'd still want c!Q and c!Sam to be part of the totally possible to achieve, perfect, Fixed TM version of the DSMP.

/dsmp /rp

Funnily enough, I’d sort of say yes. To a limited extent, anyway. I don’t think Dream really wants Sam or Quackity happy, or living long fulfilling lives—not on a personal level, at least.

But the fact remains that Dream did not torture or kill Sam when he had ample means, motive, and opportunity. Quite the opposite—he went out of his way to save Sam’s life. He could have simply walked away and left Sam to starve once he’d gotten what he wanted, but he didn’t. And Quackity has gone entirely unmolested. It’s been months.

I agree with you that Dream’s vision of the server, or at least of his plan as he envisions it so far, seems to include all the major characters alive and on the board. That includes Tommy, that includes Wilbur, and yes, that includes Sam and Quackity.

Of course, it could be that Dream has a really long term fate in mind for Sam and Q—I won’t rule that out. But I think it’s a bit less likely, for several reasons.

It doesn’t seem wise to deliberately keep them around as loose ends if he could, and wants to, otherwise eliminate them. But he isn’t.

What Sam and Quackity did to him was not something Dream was expecting. Therefore vengeance against them is not part of the plan he made before entering Pandora. Maybe he daydreamed about it in prison, but if that’s the case, why the wait? When Dream talks about his vengeance to Sam, he characterizes it as horrible and absolute. Sure, okay, Dream.

Related to the above: Dream’s taste for vengeance, such as it is, is more like what we saw when he finally let himself kill Sam. Even though he had the patience to wait for the right time, the act itself was mostly spontaneous. It wasn’t some huge premeditated thing. He paused, he shook, he stumbled over his words. Even at the moment of Sam’s death, he hadn’t decided which weapon he was going to use!

A huge part of how Dream is coping with what Sam and Quackity did to him is by devaluing his emotional attachment to it. He tells Sam the torture was understandable. He insists that he and Sam aren’t so different, that he doesn’t think Sam is a bad person. He moves back into Pandora. And he lets Sam go, with the implication that Sam isn’t even WORTH taking further vengeance on.

So, yeah, I think if Dream’s plan succeeded tomorrow and the server lived in harmony, he’d be fine (or tell himself he’s fine, anyway) with Sam and Quackity being a part of the big happy family.

[daandyli0n]

so, i (for whatever reason) decided to talk with @proudfreakmetarusonniku’s dreambot Chat.ai thing. however, i decided to do it In Character (as my sona)

to summarize: mc!p0psy has a talk with c!dream and gets. Majorly Concerned as well as afraid for their safety/life

(Note: mc!p0psy will have basically just met this guy. i’m pretty much trying to rp here like i know nothing about him and what he’s done. that and i also use a lot of neos)

here we go (paraphrasing from actual chats cause i don’t have the patience for screenshotting):

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mc!p0psy: hey man, i’m just exploring around the server! nice to meet you, i guess

c!dream: No, no! You don’t have to leave! I’m lonely :( Come have a seat and a cookie! I’m not gonna kill you...yet :)

p0psy, internally screeching and panicking: ...you know what? i’ll take the cookie and Not die, thanks

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c!dream: (rambling about his backstory to this poor kid in front of him)

p0psy, gently nibbling a cookie: ‘maybe if i just concentrate on eating this cookie hard enough, i can pretend i didn’t hear him say he was gonna kill me later’

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p0psy: so...do you like circuses?

c!dream: Oh yeah! They’re wonderful! Why do you ask? :)

p0psy, a clown: ...well, you see, funny thing actually-

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p0psy’s giving this guy some minor backstory of paws own:

-grew up in a circus

-was mostly an entertainer of younger children, which clown didn’t mind! of course, that didn’t mean that the circus wasn’t...overstimulating. not to mention all the kids that would grab on clown...

-mentioned that fluff left the circus and has been doing fluffs own travelling show for a while now! still loves entertaining the little ones!

-Her Very Weird Plushie Biology (more detail later)

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c!dream: I have this ‘Lab of Horrors’ where I do a lot of experiments! The things in there scare people :)

p0psy: 

p0psy: you have a freaking WHAT

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c!dream: (chats about revival experiments and such, talking like this is normal, etc.)

p0psy, nodding along: uh huh...sure...this isn’t an incredibly weird conversation we’re having!

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c!dream: You seem like you wouldn’t be all that grossed out by what I do!

p0psy: ....well, i can’t vomit due to, y’know, not having a stomach, but i’d still feel grossed out man!

c!dream: Ah! So you’d be a good assistant then!

p0psy: (externally) uh...nah man, i’m good! (internally) wtf wtf wtf when did i even bring that up i didn’t even indicate that i wanted anything to do with that wtf wtf wtf wtf-

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yeah...it’s. Going! p0psy’s Having A Time! their discomfort is Palpable-

this’ll be continued tomorrow!

[lazyliars]

/rp

Before I get into it, I want to state that is EXPLICITLY an analysis of the Characters, and is not intended to touch on how the cc’s played them in a meta sense unless specifically stated otherwise.

Also, this is technically a part two to my other post, which took a more in depth look at Techno and Phil’s reactions to Tommy’s death. It’s not necessary when reading this post, but I don’t address their reactions here.

So. The question must be asked.

Are we [the Syndicate] the baddies?

Yes.

The End.

 Why are the Syndicate the baddies?

They got damn logo is a wither skull.

The End.

That's not how this works.

Yeah, yeah. You’re right.

The Syndicate's goals as an organization are not inherently bad. They seem to have good intentions behind them, and the focus on the freedom of it's individual group members is important to remember when talking about it; It is not a government. There is no hierarchical power system. No one is forced to do anything against their will, or surrender any of their rights or power to remain a member. It is not a government.

I also want to address Techno and Phil backing Ranboo into a corner – I see them getting a lot of flack for this, but I personally do not think it is relevant to the greater discussion, or necessarily representative of any contradictions within the organization. It was clearly played for laughs, and after they back off they clarify to Ranboo that they won't force him. Then later when Phil and Ranboo are alone, Ranboo feels safe enough to express that he felt like he was pressured into it, and Phil assures him he is allowed to leave whenever he wants; He is not being forced to do anything, and he is not being coerced or blackmailed.

None of the Syndicate members have done any wrongs against each other in the context of the Syndicate, OR gone against any of the Syndicate's core principles.

That, said, holy shit are they the baddies.

Listen, there's trying to telegraph a meaning or message to the audience and then there's having your logo be wither skulls on blackstone. That is straight out of the skit I keep referencing, seriously.

Okay, but, they laughed at it! It was played as a joke, just like the Ranboo thing!

The Ranboo thing was improv, the Syndicate's headquarters were planned – the artistic choices that they made reflect on what role they want the build and the organization inhabiting it to play in the future storylines.

Wither Skulls kind of have some CONNOTATIONS. Techno is an English major, I don't think he chose the most threatening imagery possible on accident, and then joked about the way people would interpret it just to stir the pot. This reads as hugely intentional.

And beyond that, the jokes they make during this part aren't “haha yeah, we look bad but we're actually good!” they're “you can tell by looking at these that we're the good guys wink wink, this is good guy stuff right here :)” It is a joke about how they are definitely not the good guys. This isn't even a case of unreliable narrators, this is one step down from flat out saying the meta intent.

But okay, I hear you, I'm talking about things that haven't happened yet. The Syndicate hasn't used any Withers, they could be an aesthetic choice.  Lets look at what they do in practice.

So, they barge into private property, assess Snowchester's right to continue existing based entirely on their own ideals of what Freedom is, and then only once Tubbo assures them that they have no standing leader do they grant the place their approval to, and I gotta stress this part, continue existing.

 In my Quackity meta, I already talked about how Government in the context of a M1necraft RP cannot be compared to IRL Governments on a one-to-one scale. They don't serve the same purposes or have the same type of power. What I didn't talk about was Agency in the context of m1necraft governments.

In an irl government, if you are born into one, you can't really leave without committing a massive overhaul on your life, which can be expensive and difficult, if not impossible for many people. Even in a “benevolent” government, the simple physicality of where you were born can prevent you from leaving it easily.

The same hurdles do not exist in the Dream SMP. People who join M1necraft governments choose to. They want to, either at the beginning when they form one, or later on when they join up. So far, no Government has just Sprung Up and forced the current residents of an area to become dependent on them, except maybe the Eggpire, who's status as a government is... shakey.

And even when people want to leave or separate from the government, they have been historically able to do so without any trouble or any effort from said governments to stop them. Jack Manifold emancipated from Manberg. Fundy and Quackity both left to start new nations. In all cases they were allowed to do so without any attempts on the part of the governments to stop them, either through force, or institutions preventing them from doing so.

The most anyone has lost when leaving a government is their house, which is still usually their property anyway, and is something that is easily rebuilt elsewhere and is inconvenient to move anyway.

The only exceptions to this might be Schlatt exiling Wilbur and Tommy - but even then, they weren’t trying to leave, they were trying to get back in, and of course the original L’manberg revolution, where Dream attempted to force L’manberg back into the Dream SMP, which wasn’t even a government at that point in time.

I don’t consider Phil’s house arrest an example of a government forcing someone to stay a citizen - that was treated less as a matter of a citizen wanting to leave the country and more as a threat to national security. Still pretty fucked up, but it’s a different issue.

What I'm saying is, If Tubbo wants to create a government out in the middle of nowhere, threatening no one, forcing no one to join either through force or desperation, and allowing people to join willingly because they want to, then he should be allowed to do that.

The Irony of the Syndicate, a group of people consisting of some of the richest, strongest people on the server, going around and enforcing 'Freedom' that entails no one person having more power than any other, is absurd. 

It shows an extreme lack of self-awareness and/or self-righteousness, as they seem to think that they deserve to be the ones who decide what constitutes a government.

Snowchester is a small independent nation - they shouldn’t have to live in fear of being obliterated if they don’t walk on eggshells to meet an arbitrary standard decided by people who’s only authority on the matter COMES FROM THEIR PERSONAL POWER. No one elected them! No one chose them! They were not “approved” by the server at large to enact this kind of law.

The Syndicate are not a government, but they are an unsupervised power structure exerting their ideals on a land that did not ask for them. Like, These people have invented an actual Authoritarian-Anarchist faction. How the hell did they manage this?????

Back on topic.

Tubbo shows them the crater left by his nukes. The reaction is oddly positive – the nukes are fine by the morals of the Syndicate, apparently. I'd argue that they come across as more impressed than anything else; they seem to respect Tubbo for having gotten ahold of “real” power.

(There's a few good memes out there about “We can excuse nuclear weaponry, but we draw the line at Government!”)

So. By the Syndicate's standards: A single person or group of acceptably equal persons with weapons of mass-destruction are only worth “keeping an eye on” because they might provoke other people.

Like, I consider Project Dreamcatcher to be one of, if not the most morally ambiguous thing Tubbo has ever done, largely because it was all on his own initiative. He holds some culpability for The Butcher Army and Phil's house arrest, but they weren't his ideas and he was mostly following Quackity at that point.

And Phil tells Tubbo, IMMEDIATELY AFTER SEEING THE NUCLEAR CRATER:

“Looks like you've reformed a little bit Tubbo, I'm proud.”

And it's fine. Crimes against nature? Fine. A sign of healing in fact!! Tubbo is having a sweeeelll time and he definitely didn't make these nukes specifically in fear of being attacked by these exact people! Tubbo is doing great. Tubbo is doing fine. Tubbo. is. FINE.

Anyway.

I don't think this presentation of the Syndicate was an accident. Looking at the greater lore of SMP right now, after the Egg is done, their list of enemies is slim, and considering that they seem solely invested in taking down governments, that leaves maybe Snowchester, Kinoko Kingdom, and Eret and the greater Dream SMP.

Snowchester has not been shown to be corrupt, evil, or have any intent to go down that route. The most ambiguous thing they've done is, again, is the nukes. Other than that, it's pretty much your average cottagecore snow village.

Kinoko is presented in an even more morally 'good' light, Karl having founded it specifically for his Time-travel library purposes, which are currently being treated by the narrative as a selfless act, if not downright heroic.

Eret is also a fairly 'good' aligned character atm. He's been on that redemption grind since the og betrayal, and doesn't seem keen on backtracking. He's actively tried to leverage his position as king to make things better, and hasn't been quiet about that. He was also 'validated' by Tommy*, a character who has been described both by his allies and enemies as “the hero,” so take that as you will.

What I'm getting at is, all of the current potential enemies for the Syndicate aside from the Egg, are currently being cast as 'good,' and if they were to be attacked, they would undoubtedly have the moral high-ground, unless something drastically changed.

The only potential shakeups I can think of is are a Dream escape and/or a Wilbur revival, both of which could draw the Syndicate's attention and ire, depending on how things go. That said, it's just as likely that either or both of them would join the Syndicate – Dream still has that favor, and Phil and Techno both seemed to think Wilbur would've agreed with their blowing up L'manberg.

Both of those characters are currently **villains – the fact that they're both prime candidates for the Syndicate is a huge indication of the direction it's going to go as the plot moves forward.

((*I know some people are gonna come at me for painting Tommy as the “deciding factor” of what is morally good, so lemme just stop you there. I'm not talking about Tommy somehow having the 'right' to decide who is and isn't good, and definitely not the right to decide who should and shouldn't be king. I'm saying that Tommy, a character who the narrative treats as, if not a good person, then a person who is trying to be good, was in support of Eret, a character who has also been trying to be good.

Eret doesn't gain the moral highground because Tommy said so, he gets it because a character who the narrative treats as trying to do better, acknowledged Eret's earnest attempts at doing the same.

**I'm referring to Wilbur here as a villain because Tommy seemed convinced he would be if he were to be brought back. There is always the possibility that he's wrong.))

So, to summarize this: I read the Syndicate as being intentionally positioned as future antagonists, if not outright villains of a future arc. They are NOT a Government but their goals are contradictory with their means, and it is important to keep in mind that they plan to enforce their own brand of freedom on people who did not grant them either the authority or permission to do so.

So, uh. Can you tell I loved these streams? They were seriously so good. I kept switching between Ranboo and Techno's POV's trying to keep up with everything. I still have to watch Niki's!

All in all, I'm super, super excited for whats coming next, egg stuff, Syndicate stuff, Tommy stuff, all of it.

[gingersp1ce547]

Eret and quackity’s relationship /rp

I don’t feel like this is talked about enough considering they have a very interesting one sided hatred going on but also I am not going to be talking about anything pre-nov 16 in regards to their relationship just bc I don’t know it as well as their current one so if you do please feel free to add on :D

Anyways quackity and eret are both extremely different characters which is interesting to me since their actually really similar in terms of experiences.

They both looked up to Wilbur as a leader and considered him a friend even when he didn’t.

They both directly opposed him when they believed that another person would do what was better for the server and also did so to gain power

They both believe violence is sometimes the only way of preventing more bloodshed and getting what you want.

They both were manipulated and neglected by that person once they gained the power they wanted

They both have (had in eret’s case? Idk that whole things screwy) a good relationship with fundy in which they showed him that he was important and loved (even if it was also manipulation in quackitys case)

They both have a soft spot for tommy, tubbo and l’manburg as a whole

And lastly they both would go into to regret their actions in opposition to Wilbur, betray the person that gave them power, and say that Wilbur was better than both of them.

But that long list of similarities ends when you look at their personalities and feelings about their actions.

Eret directly felt guilty for her betrayal of l’manburg because she realized it left her alone, she’s never been one to be able to talk her way out of a situation, she wants to use his power as king to make people feel safe, and she has to begun to acknowledge the manipulation she suffered under dream and has taken steps to not be like dream and instead try to help other people hurt by him. (Also somehow has a positive relationship with techno? Idk how it happened but it exists)

On the other side of the coin, stands quackity who felt upset that he didn’t realize Schlatt was never going to give him the power he wanted earlier, his main power comes from his ability to talk circles around people, he uses his power to make himself feel safe, and while he is aware of how Schlatt has mistreated him he’s only taken steps to put himself in the same position that Schlatt had in order to be able to be the one in control this time. He cares about people hurt by Schlatt in his own way but mostly is just interested in projecting his own issues onto everyone else (see the convo with fundy or anyone with tubbo regarding who to trust) (also we all know how that relationship with techno is going and it sure is something)

These differences in personality I think are most plainly shown by the Mexican l’manburg conflict; the one in which quackity, outraged by georges de throw meant and seeking to prove Mexican l’manburgs power as a faction, talked Karl into sacrificing himself in a faked peaceful protest where they planted tnt to make it seem like eret blew him up.

This plan did not work out and led to eret along with his knights and dream blowing up Mexican l’manburg and then quackity arguing with dream over the validity of Mexican l’manburg as a state which ended with the birth of el rapids.

The things worth noting to me in this interaction is

A. Eret seeing the description as mexican l’manburg as the same swift act of violence eret saw as needed to stop further violence as the one he saw in the final control room, albeit this time it worked),

And B. Quackity’s incredible charisma being out on show both in convincing Karl to loose a canon life of his own volition, and being the only one to actually hold his own in an argument against dream and come out of it with some measure of a win

Though even more interesting to me is what they both took away from it.

Eret kind of just didn’t care? Like yeah they where absolutely pissed someone was attempting to slander their name which had already been dragged through the mud, but in the long term of things they didn’t hold any grudges against quackity.

Meanwhile quackity to this day dislikes eret not because of his actions but because they took the offer to be recrowned as king after George was dethroned.

An action which eret did as an attempt to regain power, something quackity should approve off considering his own beliefs about power but doesn’t because it hurt his friend.

In the long term would it not make more sense to be mad at dream? Since he would have most likely just given the crown to someone else if they refused? And that’s not to say that quackity didn’t dislike dream after this event because he did, but he also extremely disliked eret.

A sentiment he has held onto for a very long time, even expressing to ghostbur after doomsday that he still disliked eret for replacing George.

And that is the biggest difference between these two characters. Their outlook on people.

Eret chooses to forgive because he wants forgiveness himself. He is nice to people because he wants them to have the happiness he hasn’t really found yet.

But quackity chooses to hold grudges because that’s what people have done to him. He is not kind (atleast once you get past the surface level), because he wants people to feel the same pain he has felt.

I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s the difference between forgiveness and vengeance but more like stoping the cycle of abuse vs. embracing it.

I think the same can be applied to their views on their manipulators.

Eret is happy enough with dream in prison because it means he’s free to do what he wanted to do with the power given to him as king.

On the other hand, quackity, once he found out about glatt, decided to make a deal that would put him in the same place he was under Schlatt’s administration.

To conclude I would say these two characters aren’t foils because their too similar but more like too diverging paths on a road. Because at the end of the day they have experience very similar things but they decided to go about very different ways with coping with them. And I find that interesting.

Anyways give me more interaction between these two, I would pay actually money to have eret go to las nevadas once it opens to the public.

[thebadchoicemachine]

Yall want some MYCT Magnus Archive Headcanons I may or may not draw? (Pt 1?)

I will try to include individual trigger warnings at the beginning of each explanation as much as I can think of. They may seem a little overboard but better safe than sorry. Remember, TMA is a horror podcast. 

(ALSO, EVERYTHING HERE IS /RP. EVEN WHEN I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT A ROLEPLAY VIDEO PLEASE KNOW I’M MAKING UP A CHARACTER BASED OFF THEIR CHANNEL AND AM NOT ACTUALLY ACCUSING THEM OF BEING A SERVANT TO A MALEVOLENT FEAR ENTITY.)

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Philza 

1. An End Avatar (TW, Numb/Apathetic Mindset)

He’s a reaper. An immortal. You only live once but life’s become, not meaningless, more like desaturated. He doesn’t care in a cheery “oh well” way. He’s pretty chill about it. He’s extremely chill about it. He is disturbingly chill about it. At first it seems great, he’s just a nice chill guy! No evil schemes or vicious plots. Just spending time with him seems to calm your nerves. And then you spend more time and you begin to understand why, things aren’t as important as you make them seem. You catastrophize a lot. Then a catastrophe happens and you’re not... upset. Why... why would you be? It doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. It won’t in a hundred years and it doesn’t now. would end the same anyways. And then he starts to be less and less relatable. Why is he so happy? Why does he bother to go meet people and smile and eat or laugh or frown. You can’t belive you ever complained that he was so mild about everything, any amount is more than is worth. Why bother? Why... bother...

2. A Vast Avatar (TW, Heights?)

He just fucking tosses people into the sky instead of being upset with them. Do anything he doesn’t like? SWOOSH. It’s to the point it’s not even a malicious thing, it’s just routine. He gets up, goes to the store, picks up some groceries, sends a person who cut in line to a void of dusk with swirling black clouds where you fall so long you can’t tell if you’re flying up or down or left or right, maybe gets some mints, goes home, puts groceries away, does the dishes, etc. 

(the rest of the cast below the cut)

Tubbo

1. A Corruption Avatar (TW, Body Horror Surrounding Lungs, Swarming Insects, Implied Murder.) 

He has bees in his lungs and he loves them very much. If he ever gets something stuck in his throat or has water go down the wrong pipe he will FEAK OUT. He often has to cough up honey (and sometimes bees). It’s... a process. He just sits over a bucket or jar and hacks his little heart out. He sometimes saves the honey and offers it to people. Amazingly, his friends never take him up on the offer. Unsuspecting people who don’t know the.. supernatural origin of the honey find they have some... unpleasant side effects. (Bees. The side effect is bees. Specifically ones trying to fly down their throat.) Oh well, being a part of a hive isn’t for everyone. The really unfortunate ones make good fertilizer for his flowers, though! His lungs are literally a hive. If you tried to listen to his heartbeat you’d hear buzzing. He will sometimes hold flowers over his open mouth to let the bees get some easy pollon. He doesn’t usually actively seek out “prey” but when he is trying to feed on that good old fear he’ll act super sweet, too sweet, and then open his mouth and let the bees fly out. It’s very creepy but to him it’s just funny. (Also, all of the bees have names and he has a funeral for every single one that get’s killed.)

Quackity

1. A Spiral Avatar

I- I mean have you seen a single one of his videos?

2. A Stranger Avatar (TW, Unreality Depersonalization )

He mocks people as their own reflection, hopping from pond to mirror to camera to scream at them (sometimes literally) that they do not know who they are. It starts off subtle (Wasn’t your hair a bit longer? Weren’t your eyes a shade lighter? Did you always have that birthmark?”) but grows and changes until it gets to the point you stand in front of a mirror and every time you blink you look completely different. You feel your face, you look at your hands, but it’s no help. They change too fast. Your pictures change too, every single post on all your social media looks like different people posted it- wait... did you always have this platform? You don’t remember ever using it before. You have so many posts... none of them match up. You throw your phone away, noticing you never had the case on it. You turn to real photos for help but they are none. Of course not. You feel like just giving up as you shuffle through photo after photo, you don’t know what you really look like, so what? But then something catches your eye. A photo of you in the 5th grade concert. You don’t remember going to that school. You’ve never played an instrument, have you? Something screams yes and no at the same time. You throw the box down and grab your phone. You need to call someone. You pace throughout a house you recognize less and less searching for clues, reminders, as the phone rings. Your best friend answers. You throw the phone down again. You don’t have a best friend. You’ve never really been one for friends. No, that’s not true, you had a few really good ones but you’ve grown apart. No, that’s not true, you only have one real friend, your boyfriend. No, you don’t have a boyfriend, just a close friend. No, you have many friends just none that are close enough for this bullshit. You stop. No. No you don’t like swearing, do you? Do you? Who are you? Who are you? Your reflection laughs. It’s eating popcorn and making you do a stupid dance. What a bitch.

3. A Flesh Avatar (TW, Body Horror Surrounding Faces and Skin)

You’re a piece of meat, he’s a piece of meat, everyone’s meat. Like Chicken Nuggets.He’ll steal your face right off it’s skull and dance with one in each hand. He’ll put words in your mouth like you’re a puppet with bones. He’ll make you say the dumbest shit because it’s funny. Even when it’s obviously not YOU talking. 

Technoblade 

1.  A Hunt Avatar (TW, Stalking/Genocide) 

Many people have suggested a slaughter avatar but I don’t see it. Yeah, he kills (blood for the blood god and all that) but I don’t see it. The Slaughter is about the moment. The unplanned snap. The sudden outbursts. I don’t see that in techno. You know what I DO see that also involves quite a bit of bloodlust? The chase. The planning, the target, the unstoppable dread and panic that overtakes his victims once they realize who is after them. The power. Calculated genocide of victim after victim. The HUNT. My two pain points of evidence: His potato war videos, that time he took over the world, and his stalking speech to Quackity. Go watch an animatic of Technoblade chasing down Quackity and tell me he is not a Hunt Avatar. 

Wilbur

1. A Desolation Avatar (TW, Abuse/Torture)

Everything he touches burns and hurts. Sometimes it’s on purpose, sometimes on accident, but either way he’s caught up in enjoying the drama. I’m gonna be honest, my main inspiration was the Villainbur aesthetic but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. Look at nearly any of his 100 player videos; designed to create maximum pain for hs enjoyment. Even the Dream SMP where he was mostly a good guy and more tragic than anything else fits. Maybe that Villain Arc was his first dabble as an avatar of destruction and pain. Even making his own father kill him could have been along the lines of “how can I milk as much despair out of this as possible.”

TommyInnit

1. A Slaughter Avatar (TW, Straight Up Murder)

Now HERE is a character right up that slaughter’s alley. No thoughts, not plans, just unbridled passion and rage and violence. He just stabs people whenever he feels like it (which is often) sometimes just with sticks. Like a rabid raccoon just jumps straight at people’s faces out of nowhere, always starting shit and stoking fires to make people angry at each other. 

2. A Buried Avatar (TW, small tight spaces)

Tunnels and caves and sticks and spots. He’ll burry you under a mountain, he’ll lock you in a tree. Dirt man. His usual MO is trapping people under an avalanche of stones and rocks and rubble. Basically just lava casting your bones. Everything he makes is ugly but not just in a ”that’s literally a pile of rocks in the middle of the road” way in a bit of an indescribable “looking at that makes me feel like I’m breathing in straight gravel.” 

Bonus: Ranboo as a Dark Avatar/Victim. He is not a willing avatar like Jude or Helen, he’s more along the lines of Oliver and Jon.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

What is your class/role in your home game? If you don’t mind me asking. Would also love to know race and background and any other details you would like to add!

Anon, I love this question! Thanks for asking it!

I actually had two characters for this campaign. One left about 2/3 of the way through for a secret mission with another party member. So, I’ll tell you about both of them!

This got long, because I had a lot to say hahaha. So, this is under a cut.

My first character in this campaign was Amaya. She’s (now) a level 15 Ranger/Rogue/Monk. 9 levels in Ranger. Gloomstalker subclass. 5 levels in Rogue. Assassin subclass. 1 level in Monk. I did 5 levels in Ranger, multiclassed into Rogue for 5 levels for meta reasons, went back into Ranger for 4 levels for RP reasons, then took 1 level in Monk for RP reasons. The background I chose for her is Outlander. Her role in the party was basically Striker/DPS. The amount of damage she can do on her first turn in combat is fucking beautiful (sorry for the language lol). And here’s a ton of specific information about her. She’s mostly your stereotypical first D&D character. You know, no living family that she knows of, ultra traumatic backstory, huge scar on her back from the time a dragon and the cult of the dragon killed the druids, rangers, and gnome scientists she grew up with. Speaking of her parents, her mother was a half-elf ranger and her father was a human druid. She’s demi/bi. She loves music, likes to draw, loves libraries and books and I wrote an entire journal about dragons for the table before her departure episode, because in game, she gave them all the notes she’d been collecting for the 20 years she was traveling alone. Her Charisma is abysmal and sending her on a secret deception mission was probably a horrible idea, but she is very good at sneaking, so if they have been sticking to stealth, she’ll probably be safe. But she’s been growing and figuring out how to express emotions and I love her so much. I love my second character, too, but like... Amaya’s so special to me. We keep talking about doing higher level oneshots once the campaign is over and if she survives the last fight, I’m always going to be bringing Amaya back. I just love her so much. She’s currently developing feelings for the person she’s traveling with and she’s incredibly annoyed by that, because he’s an asshole and she knows he won’t ever genuinely return those feelings. Also, her unarmored AC is 21 which frustrates the DM almost every time he tries to hit her. Like I said. I LOVE her. She’s more emotionally messy than Mariette, which makes her more fun for me to play.

The character I’m currently playing is Mariette. She’s a Glasya Tiefling Rogue. All 15 of her levels are in Rogue. I had fun multiclassing with Amaya, but I think I prefer not multiclassing. Oh yeah, she’s an Arcane Trickster. Mariette is massive DPS/striker. She’s got a cat familiar named Eloise and similar to Caleb, her familiar is only a cat. Except she’s actually only ever a cat. Mariette technically knows that familiars can change shape, but she would never ever change Eloise into something else, because that’s offensive to even think about. She first summoned Eloise because she was lonely and considers Eloise to be her best and truest friend. She also dismisses Eloise as soon as she thinks a battle is approaching, because she saw her get ‘killed’ once and still has nightmares about it. Her background is Sage - Baldur’s Gate (she grew up in a town outside Baldur’s Gate). Both her parents are human. When she was very young, she was kidnapped by the cult of the dragon and Amaya was the one who rescued her. Since Amaya is an Aasimar, she helped give Mariette some confidence in being different and Amaya would go back through the town every year or two to check on her and her family. Mariette has a huge crush on Amaya that is not reciprocated, because she’s way too young (Amaya is 28 and Mariette just turned 19). She doesn’t care to label her sexuality at all, but she falls for almost anyone very easily. But her crush on Amaya is persistent and will probably be persistent for her whole life unless an RP reason comes for her to shake off how much she idolizes Amaya. When she was like 12, some people came through town and noticed she was pretty smart, so they offered her parents the opportunity to allow Mariette to study at a fairly prestigious school. But Mariette got bored and left and fell in with a crowd of thieves. She doesn’t really care about stealing, but she’ll do it if someone prompts her to and she’s way too good at it. But before she left the school, she stole a bunch of magic books, which led to the eventual Arcane Trickster subclass. Oh, and her Persuasion is the highest out of the group. Even better than our “face” because of Reliable Talent. Can’t roll lower than a 23 lol. She hates lying and leaned toward Illusion magic for her spells. She doesn’t want to think someone is friends with her because she magically charmed them. But just because she hates lying doesn’t mean she’s opposed to fucking with someone. She actually really enjoys guilting people. Mariette also gives away all of her money all the time. I keep having no money, because she either sends it to her parents or gives it to people who she thinks needs it more.

[soc-characters-as-songs]

Pick your favorite lines from each of the practice challenge RPs?

there's still a few not posted I think, but I will add to this as they come out!

why do I like the things I do? idk, I just do.

anyway.

andreia + archie: "*She crosses her arms and gives him a small but amused smirk as she watches him* One sixty. Don’t jip me out of those last two centimetres. I value them dearly. *She looks up at him, and her tone is still amused* Though I’m guessing that’s not a struggle you can relate to."

cornelia + archie: "She frowns, picking the book up to see what has been drawn there, but she can’t really make out what it is. She brings the book closer to her face, narrowing her eyes to see if that helps. The doodle was mostly lines, but with some imagination she could make out a shape. Is that a cat?"

ramona + samuel: "*he's glancing between the pan and its contents and Ramona, hesitates a little before speaking but finally says* It's like breaking a vase, you wish you hadn't broken it, you would do anything to prevent it, yet it happened, you can't undo the past but you can always glue the pieces back together... it might not be perfect, but it can be functional again

*she looks down at her coffee for a moment, lost in thought, then says softly* yeah. *she looks up* but functional doesn't mean it’s how you want it to be. *she sighs a little through her nose, then finishes off the little bit of coffee she has left, before looking around for the sink to clean the mug*"

ivy + samuel: "What? * she turns her head to frown up at him* Since when are people objects? * this man is making her /bristle./* It’s—it’s a photograph. Artistic. A snapshot of something I wouldn’t be able to capture anywhere else. * she starts to stuff the broken pieces of her camera into her back pocket and hang the camera back around her neck* Those men are not furniture. They’re serving their country and they happened to look nice. * then she holds her palm out for the piece he had picked up, meeting his gaze evenly* I’ll take that lens back please."

meredith + bianca: "*she has things that might not be fantastic for people to find out about but she does want to be honest to the best of her present ability… so she sucks in a breath* I… almost failed out of university my senior year. Does… that count?"

rhea + bianca: "Bianca stops when they reach a pair of guards waiting by one of the function rooms where the Selected's breakfast is happening. “Just so you know, it's a buffet this morning. A really good selection of food for today, honestly.”

“Ha! Selection. I see what you did there.” Rhea smiles and turns to face Bianca."

alassie + sylvan:

diana + bellamy: “She looks over at her curiously, "Are we still talking about the cupcakes?" She has a small amused smile

*she chuckles* according to parents both things are connected... and I happen to be a parent too”

suzy + sandra: "Haven't had the opportunity to have a say in which department I work in. I'm just someone working in their food segments. All I have to do is provide new recipes, new chefs. *she makes a face just thinking about it* It's nothing entertaining unless I get to travel for some of them. So don't give me that look, you make me feel like the bad guy for even mentioning my career."