#droory

[hansnadia]

(Mar 2020)

based on @droory's oneshot, which you can read here.

[waifujuju]

-throws 👀s at you-

send me a 👀 and i’ll post a snippet of art/writing

It’s kinda hard to see the text but Yuffie’s sitting in front of a campfire and saying “Not to be mushy or gross or anything....but thanks for being my home away from home, guys”

[hartrathaway]

Sheba, Paralyzed by Fear uwu

Oftentimes, the world wasn’t as scary as people made it out to be.  Sheba realised this at some point during her quest with Felix, Jenna, and Piers.  She inhaled, exhaled, and often thought to herself that nothing would be worse than her captivity in Tolbi, or her kidnapping by Saturos and Menardi.

This time, though--staring down Poseidon, realising that one wrong move aboard their ship and in the rocky crevasses they could take shelter in, should they wish to make a melee attack--Sheba found herself unable to do much moving.  The roaring waves beneath them, which rocked the ship every which way, made her feel nauseated, made her terrified that something would happen--that something would cause her to be knocked off.

She couldn’t swim, after all.  Never had a reason to learn it; she grew up in a desert, and until this joining of the quest, swimming had been a very, very low priority, what with Lalivero being far away from the ocean.

The boat rocked again, dragging Sheba out of her thoughts.  She was stuck behind the mast of the ship, watching in terror, seemingly frozen in place.  She tried to summon some sort of Psynergy, to attack the great Poseidon, but it was impossible.  She couldn’t move, couldn’t think, only watch in terror as her friends put their lives and limbs on the line.

Why is it that Felix could move, when he had so much worse of an experience with the water than she had?

Sheba gasped for air as the boat tipped, sending her careening close, far too close, to the cold water beneath them.

Clinging to the mast, she looked up, watching as Poseidon approached the ship.  Was he going to tip it?

She heard Felix call for them to evacuate the ship, but she couldn’t move.  And then the ship toppled over.

[starlightmango]

@droory

In my defense, our friend was a bit late getting to our house, and the first episode we watched was suitable for audio, and and and yeah it was Mia so I couldn’t wait.

Edit:

@lostchasingsilver

Yeah, I know...

[sazandorable]

Hama vs Maha?

I’m gonna say Hama for no other reason than total personal bias, even though there’s no indication she even knows kung-fu or any other psynergy than Mind-read and Vision

gramps werewolf is probably super badass, but in my heart Hama is also Bad Ass

[skybean]

chris made a joke about how kalay has detailed record keepers and id be one in the margins going off on hama for not seeing ivan at all as he grew up and i went “you’er the one going on abt how beautiful mia is and drawing lil heart eyes emojis”

also he said to @ him next time publically so @droory

[darkpuck]

27?

Fanfiction Writer Asks

27) Do you make a general outline for your stories or do you just go with the flow?

I pretty much just go with the flow.  like, I’ll have a final destination in mind -- in my current work, Oathbreakers, the plotlines will converge at Altissia -- but how I get there?  That’s a ride.

[sailortentacle]

At @droory's suggestion, I'm playing on the Reloaded patch. I did get pretty roughed up by monsters in the prologue, which kind of made it feel more dangerous. So, so far I approve.

Anyway, I'm posting this screenshot to reference it when Kraden says that nobody died in the sequel. (Come to think of it, I don't think anyone else in the games uses the same sprite as the mom does. I wonder if there was a sideplot that was dropped at some point in development or something?)

[droory]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Garcia | Felix/Mary | Mia Characters: Garcia | Felix, Mary | Mia, Noble | Nowell Additional Tags: Fluff, Honestly just massively self indulgent, I wanted to write some softshipping because it's my bday so I did Summary:

Nowell is learning Venus Psynergy, Mia remembers when she was learning too.

It’s MY birthday I get to decide what unedited self indulgent softshipping fics I write

[x3machanx3]

saw @waifujuju s design on @droory s blog and had to doodle her!!!

[thezolblade]

Ship Meme! Tagged by @the-cryptographer​ ~

1) Ultimate Otps:

Which of them have ‘ultimate’ qualities...? GS Isaac/Alex would be kind of an ‘ultimate power’ ship, if they got a plot with twists and turns and character development and reasons to cooperate. I’d expect that more from fic than canon - so many other canons have lots of epic slow burn adventure fics for hero/villain-or-antivillain ships. But so far in GS, for those two, I’ve mostly found (good) crackfic, or non-shippy ‘they fight to the death and Isaac wins and marries Mia’  stuff that doesn’t treat them with even as much nuance as the canon.

Not that I mind mudshipping - my ultimate GS polyship would be something like Isaac/Mia/Felix/Alex(/Veriti/The Ice Queen), with interesting dynamics between every two characters in that set of four (and Mia/Veriti), even with some of the bonds possibly being platonic. Though when I’ve written long plotfic it’s very easily gotten platonic/ambivalent/angsty bc it tends so much towards drama, and conflict may drive plots (hence its abundance in plotbunnies), but I find it hard to headcanon characters getting past hurts and grudges very easily; I want to see them make the effort, but it feels like they’d need a lot of time and personal growth to get there, and I might not even figure how well they do until I’m almost 100K words in. And in some very angsty verses there’s no chance. I want to read other people’s adventure fic too, with fun ideas that manage heel-face turns or antihero plots in a slightly lighter way...

PMMM Madoka/Homura is another ‘ultimate power’ ship, if they can get to a point where Godoka and Homucifer can deal with each other as equals again, both with full knowledge of everything that’s happened and the resolve to truly save themselves, each other, and the rest of the universe. :o

Utena/Anthy is quite an ‘ultimate reality’ ship, when they find their revolution.

2) A ship you’ll always 💜??

The Harvest Moon fan in me is going ‘purple heart? that’s not a very high level of affection??’ ...but taking it as an emoji for ‘love’... without repeating anything above, pokemon Green/Red is always nostalgic (gameverse Ash/Gary, the names get a little confusing as there are localisation differences and I like the old manga and anime too but haven’t watched/read anything recent in those canons).

GS Imilshipping, too, in fic verses where they had a close bond. FE Lucia/Ilyana, I wish they had epilogue content after their support, still mean to write out a plotbunny for them sometime. Soren/Ike, of course, and Tibarn/Reyson.

ToS Lloyd/Colette/Sheena/Zelos, again with strong bonds between all of the pairs in that foursome. They did so much to help each other find hope by striving to save and trust each other, creating a new kind of salvation together.

Skies of Arcadia Fina/Aika/Vyse, Vyse/Ramirez, and Ramirez/Galcian. Never found much fanstuff for it, but it caught the imagination.

3) Current obsessions??

Lots of MadoHomu vibes after getting a oneshot written for them. Confident!Madoka makes both of them happy when they’re not dying; it’s a shame she doesn’t get much screentime as her confident and cheerful self, since so much of her time as a magical girl passes offscreen. Even while she was more unsure during the series, she demonstrated her desire to protect her friends, and Homura commented time and time again on her kindness - she loves her for it, and when she discourages it anyway, it’s because she’s come to believe that it’ll be the death of her. If they were truly safe, they could support each other so well - it could be a world away from the desperation that marked the end of Rebellion, when neither of them are at all okay. :s

Also getting quite into darkfic plotbunnies, and I know ‘darkship’ is a term in some cases for character dynamics fulfilling their worst potential, descending into violence and destruction that at least one character Does Not Want, but in the verses of those plotbunnies I guess they still fit the label of antiships better than ships.

4) A ship you never thought you’d like??

Uh, a lot of the stuff on the gs kink meme caught me by surprise, when rarepairs got suggested and the fills or plotbunnies got interesting - Alex/Ivan, Eoleo/Rief, Alex/Amiti (in a BAD IDEA way). And on lj/tumblr, Mia/Sheba was pleasant surprise too. Not that I ever had any preconceptions about disliking ships, they just hadn’t occurred to me.

In FF7, I don’t think I expected to see compelling Cloud/Seph or Zack/Seph at first, all those years ago, but I quickly found that there are a lot of good AUs and darkfic. Especially when they’re alongside other good ships like Cloud/Zack, Aerith/Zack, Aerith/Cloud, Aerith/Tifa, Tifa/Cloud etc.

5) A ship you used to like but don’t anymore:

Uh idk exactly. I used to read a lot of Buffy fic by ship to find characters whose dynamics were interesting in the show, but iirc I ended up skimming any content that was really ‘shippy’ to get to the plot and jokes and emotional bonding over real stuff, not random physical attraction, and nowadays I don’t think I’d bother skimming so much stuff just bc I hoped it’d be interesting and wanted to keep giving it a chance.

6) A ship that should be canon??

Well some that are very strongly implied but not explicitly stated feel like ‘yep that’s canon’ but could maybe use some more in-universe and author confirmation when not everyone seems to agree - Ike/Soren, Utena/Anthy in some versions of canon, etc.

7) A canon ship you hate???

I like to hate the way darkships go sometimes, but that’s what makes them an interesting story, going ‘noo’ about characters’ bad decisions, though that usually only works if they had better potential that they’re falling short of, not necessarily in a romantic sense... Can’t think of many cases where that happens in canon. Uh I think most explicitly canon relationships are either one option among many routes (and I get tired of support grinding), or I’m a bit indifferent, or if I dislike how it’s done I’d still start playing devil’s advocate and wondering how it could have been done differently if I spend any time considering it.

Oh in FE Awakening I kinda hated how Virion’s flirting in the main plot cutscenes was creepy and painted him as a bad joke, but his supports are much better and some of them are great - how do you explain liking his ships when he has such a bad start (and such bad English voice acting)? I also hated the way the player character’s support options didn’t all show up until endgame, so I missed them the first time and had to replay and wait until then to support grind, and then it all got repetitive grinding the same dlc maps so many times over just for such short supports, and the endgame marriage candidates that were most interesting (bc how the hell could the game make that work, with a head of state or a former enemy??) ended up with really rushed and unconvincing relationship development, and the child recruitment maps were hellishly difficult at that point in the endgame, and all in all it got a bit un-fun and not worth the effort. :/

8) A ship you shipped for years??

Most of the above. Also stuff like Saiyuki Sanzo/Goku, GS Alex/Felix or /Saturos, Jenna/Sheba, Karis/Sveta, Pokemon Misty/Erika, FE Florina/Lyndis, and, uh, probably stuff that I’m forgetting right now.

9) A ship everyone 😍 but you don’t care for?

...Was there anything? Some of the cliche stuff bugs me, but I’d usually think ‘what about writing the dynamic this way and maybe adding poly?’

10) Favorite rare pair???

Mm what's rare? Any gs Alex!ships at this point...

Edit: I forgot to tag anyone, so. If meme time sounds like fun, @sazandorable, @meganekkomeguca, @droory, or anyone who feels like it?

[waifujuju]

I cast Have A Great Day on you (つ◕౪◕)つ━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

Thank you!!! ;w;

[hartrathaway]

droory replied to your post: changed up my theme and such lol….  it was...

now you need a gay wrath icon

i got a gay dumbass icon does that count

[starlightmango]

@droory @sailortentacle

I thought to myself “I won’t hear the end of it if I draw Mia for the anniversary. I already drew Felix and Mia for the zine, might as well draw Isaac since it is his day and all that.”

Should have counted on you two :P

[sazandorable]

mcalhen replied to your post “mcalhen replied to your post: i keep seeing in my notifications the… ...”

when...when has tumblr ever done anything that was good for the users? I made a post about this the other day, but I find it kind of invasive and it clutters my notifs, too. Sometimes I leave a comment of encouragement, but the next person who does...that's for my friend to see, that's not for me. Even if it is public, sometimes that's just too personal, you know? :|

that too, exactly!!

droory replied to your post “i keep seeing in my notifications the comments/replies people are...”

i think i saw a post the other day that someone got an early tumblr update rollout or something thats in the settings to be turned on or off?

mm :x i’m looking but i can’t seem to find it right now...

[skybean]

droory replied to your post: i nearly did an ooc format on this post BUT! what...

do it coward

fine just because you asked for it

ya nuo exhales as they curl up under their desk.  they can hear the monster rap-tap-tapping at their window, trying to find a place in.  they cover up their ears, hoping that, if they cannot hear the monster, the monster will not be able to hear them.

ya nuo would cover their eyes so they couldn’t see the creature giving off the aura of fear that permeates every inch of them, but it’s a moot point; ya nuo cannot see.

God, our Father, ya nuo thinks, curled up as they hear the window open, Your power brings us to birth. Your providence guides our lives, and by Your command, we return to dust.

ya nuo wishes they had thought to grab something sharp.  bullets can’t hurt these monsters; they know, they’ve seen a man try.  the veteran who lives downstairs with his fiance--he’s helped ya nuo before.  maybe--

the monster half coos.  ya nuo knows it can see them.

Lord, those who die still live in Your presence; their lives change, but do not end.  I pray in hope for my family, relatives, and friends, and for all the dead known to You alone.

ya nuo adjusts their posture to run for the door they had left thankfully ajar.  if they can make it to the kitchen, they can make it out of the flat.  ya nuo waits til the monster has stopped moving, and then takes off running, towards the door, and into the kitchen.

in company with Christ, who died and now lives, they continue their silent prayer, screaming as they hear the monster chase them, may they rejoice in Your kingdom, where all our tears are wiped away. Unite us together again in one family, to sing Your praise forever and ever.

ya nuo grabs a knife on the way out from the knife block, spinning around.  their family should be home soon.  they can’t let this THING, whatever it is properly called--ya nuo calls it the monster--find their family.  these monsters hunt ya nuo day and night it feels like....

they feel a tongue lick their face and ya nuo freezes.  the knife drops from their hand.  is this the end?

Amen.