#evil morty my BELOVED

[invisiblegarabgetruck]

gang of weirdos!!!!

[stropharian-world]

@e-22912 :y

[conanssummerchild]

"you're crying? over a morty?" kills me every time :( he cares about morty so much he just sucks at expressing it

[countlessrealities]

Soft gestures || Accepting !

@mcltiples sent: 'Soft gestures' + 17 (rub shoulders) { To your E-Morty from my E-Morty 🤭 }

The warm weight of a pair of hands falling on his shoulders caught Morty off guard. He knew to whom the fingers pressing into the muscles of his upper back belonged to, and not just because he and his counterpart were currently alone in the latter's apartment. There were only two people in the whole multiverse who knew exactly how to massage away the knots from his body, and his Rick was currently occupied elsewhere.

The touch wasn't unwelcome, quite the opposite, but it was still a surprise. This wasn't what he had anticipated to get when his other self had gotten up to fetch more wine for them both.

Amber eyes fell shut as a pleased hum left his throat. His shoulders relaxed, even if not fully, underneath those palms and he allowed himself to enjoy the contact, together with the warm feeling it gifted him. He had been focusing exclusively on giving, to make sure that his counterpart would get everything he needed and more, to the point of it becoming addictive. Being on the receiving end of things was something he had almost forgotten he could have.

With a quiet chuckle, Morty opened his eyes once again, directing his gaze backwards as much as he could without abandoning his current position. He didn't want to dislodge those hands just yet, even if he was aware that he eventually would have to.

Was he selfish for wanting to be doted on, even if just once? Perhaps, but that wasn't going to stop him. He had come to terms with how greedy he could get a long time before.

"I thought I was the one tasked with giving you a good time, not vice versa," he commented in a light tone, even if he was only half-joking. "Not that I'm complaining."

His own hands fell on top of the ones massaging his shoulders and, after a few seconds of hesitation, he made himself hold them, pulling them off his body. It was time to get back into their assigned roles, no matter how much he wished he could spoil himself a little longer.

"Come here."

He let go of one of his counterpart's hands while tightening his grip on the other one, so that he could lead him to walk around the couch. Only then he fully let go and stood up in turn, stepping in his counterpart's personal space. The temptation to close the distance between them and kiss him was strong, but he chased it away. He would have done it, but not right now. First of all, he needed to make sure that he was the only thing on the other's mind.

He wanted his mirror image to forget everything else. Including their shared dead girlfriend.

"Lie down and let me take care of you. Give you what you need. I promise that you won't regret it."

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

Something I found really delightful about The Citadel was that while there were many who opposed to a President Morty (mainly the 1% but also those who knew there was something fishy going on), there was also a lot of respect for him.

Whether out of duty, condescending cuteness, or because they really thought there would be a change, you gotta give it to them. The loyalty the Supreme Guard Ricks showed was [chef’s kiss]

[stropharian-world]

"OH IT'S ON MOTHERFUCKER-"

(( No seriously I'm a GIGGLING MESS SCREAMING AND CRYING THIS IS PERFECTION TY TY TY 😭🥰 YOU'RE AMAZING!! ))

(The booping is not over ;y ))

@stropharian-world

"I TOLD YOU TO GIVE ME A FEW"

[mkycactusjuice]

evil morty my beloved

[ms-scarletwings]

A Messy, Sedulous Necropsy of Zib Membrane

That’s what we call him right? Not Invader Zib? Hell if I know, we’ll let the tags decide.

Whatever he is christened by his author, enemies, or fans, this titular villain of the Zimvoid is such a mind blaster to me. I wish we had more time with him within the comics. I wish he had been a concept explored in the show. I wish he had a movie. I am having fun with a little hyperbole here, but I truly do find him just as interesting and potentially pivotal of an antagonist as Tak was, if not even more.

Both, of course, were so badly underutilized for sake of the series status quo. To that, Zib was a much bigger threat than Tak, and especially to that of the comics’ own. He potentially changes everything, and somehow absolutely nothing by the end. The TV show always had a more overt tone of cruelty and the macabre floating about its themes. These print issues? I don’t dislike them. It’s still recognizably invader Zim, and the more the merrier, content-wise, but longtime fans can feel that there was this change of essence in the transition. More obviously, in the art, but more subtly, there was an audible softening of that bluntly darker, cynical tone the show was made iconic for. To put it very generally, they lean a little more into the whackiness of this world, there’s a lot more dark comedy to be found in what I’ve seen so far rather than in your face darkness, and in the absence of the ost and voice acting the show accustomed us to, the comics leave a lot more room to be read as you wile. To me, they’re goofier and more episodic in spirit.

This all is not a critique or rating on the comics.. It’s purely, I feel, why Zib stuck out to me all the more jarringly in his context. His reveal was a genuine twist that brought forth stakes higher than arguably any other threat in the entire franchise. He represents a plausible while horrifying prophecy of our main characters if only they made worse decisions. The most interesting of all, for every piece of amazing information he fed to us, he bred dozens more questions about everything than he answered, from Irken machinations, to his ambivalent backstory, to the secrets hidden by the sum of his parts.

Though he was left evidently alive at the end of his story, I don’t see any chance for him making a return, so he is memorialized as another defeated one-off the writers have brisked past and left behind for good. Therefore, I’m here today to take what we got and present it on the metaphorical autopsy table. I want to really pull apart why this character alone pulled me back into the TV series, really just flay open the bits I can’t get out of my own head and dig harder until we find something or we run out of threads to tug at. Starting with the one already hanging out of my mouth, but

• B.E.F

“Bad End Friend” is a term I learned the meaning of within the last 12 hours or so of writing this, and I’m exuberant over that discovery. It’s a niche trope i didn’t know ive been a giant fan of since I was a child. Summed up, fictional characters from beloved media, typically, animated child protagonists… given the worst case scenario treatment. Their “bad ending”, whether that means a corruption arc, demonic possession, a lovecraftIan tragedy… usually something that’s anywhere along the lines of a fate worse than death to a full villainous turnover. As a treat. The concept is strongly associated with fanworks and AUs of popular media, but just as often this is something that becomes explored in the source material as well. A couple great examples I know would probably be Ice Prince Finn from Adventure Time or what happens in Undertale when you decide you want to run the most depraved playthrough possible. From a more mature story, “Evil” Morty is another validly arguable sample.

Besides a bit of a fondness I got going for certain dark or spooky themes in general, what I REALLY love about canonical BEFs the most is their utility as characterization tools. They’re the “having your cake and eating it too” option! The perfect way for an author to explore certain things about any character without actually committing to well… a bad ending.

Almost always, they are necessarily hypothetical or reversible. If they’re not reversible, they go often hand-in-hand with a little universe tampering to make happen. Sometimes, this means the story goes the way of time travel and branching off butterfly effects. Sometimes it means confirming multiverse theory, which can be the same thing depending on your semantical position.

And Zib crossed off the BEF qualifications by far and away. His implications are extremely dark given any pause think about them, and he’s a living, disturbing tragedy in aftermath. If you want to view a rigamarole about that aspect of his characterization as he appeared in the comics, someone else long beat me to that and I’m enthusiastically recommending a peek at their own work. I’m thrilled to do so and build a little upon that with those extended what-if-wonders.

• Lessons From a Lost Episode

Elephant in the room I haven’t seen someone ask yet, uh..

By show rules, isn’t Zib supposed to be a clear case of the writers committing the sin of retcon? By show I’m including the unaired scripts, including “10 Minutes to Doom”. In that one we had what looked like the potential setup for a Zib case, and it was deconstructed across the whole episode.

In short recap, Dib learned the hard and reckless way about the true nature of what Irken PAKs actually are. This is not an inventory bag, it is not “gear”. It’s the actual Irken entity- at least, the primary component.

Detaching it from the organic shell essentially caused a temporary split into two instances of Zim, desperately trying to connect back together under threat of obliteration.

Like let me be very clear about this,

The PAK is an autonomous instance of Zim’s consciousness, and it’s the main one. We’ve seen it act to save his life when his body has been out cold or flatlined, and he doesn’t appear the least bit disoriented or confused once “he” wakes and jumps back into the action. There’s no known separate computer assistant AI or security autopilot in there. That code, that program, IS Zim. As Long as the PAK is active, he is capable of staying fully conscious and able to react to what’s happening around him, and that’s what we’ve been seeing, his own actions.

Zim proved me right when Virooz tried to replace him and detached the PAK. Take note of his phrasing after the chair event™.

“I” activated the protocol. Immediately after Virooz ran off with my shell.

“I” Voluntarily chose to do so.

I don’t remember it playing out like that in “10 Minutes to Doom”.

Attaching to a new host wasn’t the first reflex. Dib was not the least bit aware that that he has literally holding the actual Zim captive in sense, and the latter was fighting like a cornered animal to escape him. Failing that, alongside the distance between him and his original body growing fast, he made a last desperate gambit, and he willingly connected himself into Dib’s body.

I can see why he thought this was better than nothing, no matter how repulsive the notion might have been. If he couldn’t fend Dib off physically, he could incapacitate him in some fashion by trying to overtake his will. Maybe give the shell a better chance to catch up, maybe in the longshot hope of being able to pilot dib in order to become whole with the correct host again. And you can say he succeeded, at least in dominating bodily control away from Dib, but at the cost of his already tenuously held sanity. This could be because of the interference of Dib’s own mind still resisting to fully submit, or malfunctions because of the biological incompatibility; however, the thing that Dib mentally becomes is only the basic idea of what “Zim” is. Instead of remembering it needs to reunite with its shell ASAP, the PAK mistakes Dib’s body for its own and goes through the manic motions of following the Invader mission. And it does this, weirdly enough, with almost no regard for blowing its cover.

When things are set right again, Zim’s later words near the episode ending revealed that he knew that was an unsustainable state.

Such a risk was not just accounted for, he was actually banking on it if that clock had hit zero. If Zim had truly lost, if he was really doomed to meet his end on this nasty rock in the middle of Nowhere, Space, then by every damned circuit in his being, he was going to take down this insolent fool boy and as many other humans possible with him. A dying act of vengeful rage.

• The Exceptional… Exception

Now, wouldn’t all of this be the definitive reason for Zib’s existence to be an aberrant impossibility? Yes, but actually no. Fun thing about multiverses is if something doesn’t work in one setting, you can just tweak a few dials and suddenly you have a world where the impossible becomes possible. But that’s a pretty cheap answer, isn’t it? So, what exactly was that crucial difference?

What happened in Zib’s timeline that went down so, so divergently from the events of 10 Minutes to Doom?

Because the only one who was in any position to explain it for us was Zib himself, and he’s proven to be one of the most unreliable of narrators. It’s as @dana-chan-the-control-brain already spared no effort to demonstrate, when he does tell us something about his past, his story is pocked with contradicting half-truths or outright lies. Ergo it helps to break down each recount of events to pick out the real facts.

Version 1: This is an alternate version of dib who defeated his complementing Zim (logically sensible) and went on to achieve all of the success and respect he sought after in his timeline (absolute bullshit). He kind of gestures and only implies about what has happened to his body while explaining that he came to his current understanding of Irken technology by studying it through Zim’s lab (a partial truth). He lets slip in passing that he has in fact fused with the PAK in order to learn how to alter and reprogram its coding, lessons he has applied to Number 2 in order to have a brainwashed pawn (also apparently true).

Version 2, when cornered and red handed: This is an alternate version of Dib who managed to specifically stop Zim's mission (Again, makes sense) but somehow could not convince the world of his findings or his warnings about the Irken Armada (*VERY eyebrow raising). Frustrated with the people’s lack of cooperation, he decides he has no choice but to physically merge with Zim’s PAK post-mortem (concerning and evidently mostly accurate), dominate the Earth himself, and enslave humans to help him in his efforts (highly troubling and probably true). The construction of his EMP super-weapon is successful, but ultimately led to the creation of the Zimvoid when the device was field tested (self evident, absolutely horrifying).

You know what I noticed was missing from both of these accounts? Exactly how his Zim was defeated. Which honestly could have been some beyond useful wisdom to pass along to the main Dib??? More than anything else? I’m not going to fault our boy for not pressing that matter better under the awing circumstance; however, there’s an implication I’ve been reading between lines. 

When Zib mentions “defeating” his own Zim, he’s talking about something different than ours.

When our Dib has always talked about “defeating” Zim, he’s meant incapacitation and capture. Throughout the show he explicitly wants to present Zim before an audience alive and whole. Yeah, he fantasizes about other people torturing or disassembling him for study, but HIS role was supposed to be reaping the fame for an undeniable, ground-breaking discovery. Conspiracies and cryptids are all this kid breathes and lives by! And as long as pop culture has always been fascinated with the paranormal, and he has to know this full well, people keep bringing forward hoax after hoax after scam. I mean there’s a freaking current one or few still going IRL about this exact topic. Dib would want no room left for being dismissed as another one of those con artists. 

Nonetheless, I actually doubt this is the reason Zib couldn’t get through to the scientific community. A genuine alien lifeform, even a dead one, could still be confirmed by any basic medical examination. The world thinks Dib is too crazy to listen to, but his father is still Professor Membrane. In "10 Minutes to Doom" OUR Dib got as close as having Membrane literally analyzing a PAK, or at worst, preparing to. “Ultimate Dib” gets his hands on the same thing and pulls a move I’d expect from an HP Lovecraft Protagonist instead.

We’re assuming way too much to what these two Dibs have in common, because this ^^^ is really what made the Zimvoid an outlier in the multiverse. That world didn’t only have a very different, more threatening Zim from the main timeline, it had the Dib who proved even more formidable, cunning, and ruthless, even before the fusion. 

He didn’t obtain that PAK ala the “10 minutes to Doom” accident, it’s a personal trophy. This is extra strange remembering that capturing an Irken is realistically more easy than killing one. They’re seriously more tenacious than kudzu and will even fight back in PAK form alone. I’m convinced that whatever sort of final showdown made the Ultimate Dib the victor, there are two optional endings on the table.

Option 1: There was not a body even left intact enough to bring in to research. Maybe Dib’s fault, maybe an accident, maybe even Zim’s own luck running out and his incompetent antics finally swallowed him (and possibly GIR). This theory assumes that the PAK was the only sort of remains to come into Dib’s recovery/possession.

Option 2: Curiosity Killed the cat,

but satisfaction brought it back.

Or, the one I personally headcanon. Dib… all Dibs, I assume, don’t just hate the Irken species. They are mesmerized by them, and all that they represent from his perspective. Firstly, the epic villain he gets to roleplay nemesis to in order to feel his own worth and importance. Secondly, an unknown wonder from beyond the boundaries of the cosmos. He’s not really a ghost buster or a Men In Black agent at heart, but a scientist, like his father. Underneath his contempt for Zim’s plans to destroy the world is a genuine and appropriately childish awe for alien presence, especially for Zim’s technology. His silent, dopey smile when Tak’s ship ended up in his backyard said more than words ever will.. 

Earlier in the show, a great deal of Dib’s time and effort was spent on trying to infiltrate the lower levels of Zim’s base. Sneaking into the house was hard enough, but the computer security can’t be bypassed like the gnomes. Not even by Zim himself unless he really is all himself. Perhaps you’re starting to sniff where I’m going with this one when I refer back to “Bolognius Maximus”. I’ve another reference that’s a little more on the nose, and a lot more… dark.

Were an expired Irken husk before you, you too might take your victory and cash in then. Still, who knows what sudden impulse may run through the head of a less humble version of yourself, one some could call greedier, obsessive to a fault, a screw or two loose, yet, a hell of a smart cookie. Smart enough to see it for what it actually was, the keys to a whole world of discovery that went so many layers deeper than they could ever imagine. It’s possible the Ultimate Dib already learned beforehand the same hard lessons about the PAKs that our own did, and took that understanding toward not repeating the same mistake this time. What happened to Zim? I think he was murdered in cold blood, body, and entity. “10 Minutes to Doom” showed us a fight between 2 brains clinging to one body, struggling until one overpowered another, but that’s not what this is. Through whatever means of science were available to him, this Dib has probably tried to “disarm” the technology by either erasing Zim’s consciousness out of it altogether, or by forcing the autonomous code into a kind of dormancy. His intentions were to render it back to its basic hardware without losing its precious knowledge and usefulness, something like the brain-filled tank that was wired into Skrang’s head. Zim’s PAK doesn’t cling onto his body like a parasitic teratoma this time; it’s merged in a literal sense with his nervous and circulatory system. As well, he has fooled the device’s ability to detect and reject a foreign host shell, the exact same way he deceived the the base’s security AI. If an Irken biology is what these measures authorize to command them and their secrets, then he had the tools on hand to give them just that- in an atrocity I like to call

the darker harvest.

Within this theory, there is not as much room to wonder exactly what became of Zim’s organic remains. 

But where Dib fucked up was, for the second time, in his ignorance to the true nature of what he was even playing with. That was a mistake that even the mighty Elder Brains of Judgementia lost themselves to; How much more vulnerable was the weak, human mind? Though Zim can be devoured, he can never be digested. In that fact was born this aberration against nature, sanity, and humanity alike.

"Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects… don't have politics. They're very… brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first… insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but… I'm afraid, uh… I'm saying… I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over… and the insect is awake." - Seth Brundle, The Fly, 1986

By fusing what is half-mad and what is utterly mad, neither being was cured, only assimilated into the birth of a new madness. The madness of the creature that snickers behind the curtain in the Zimvoid. I rightfully fear that lonesome thing, but not I think as much as I pity him.

• Dejavu, or Re:Plagarism

One more thing about the Zimvoid arc I find curious is the way it makes you question more and more just how much of the aberration is actually still Dib, and how much of it is Zim's infection haunting him. He does nothing with all of his intellect, his resources, and his time in the void doing anything but surrounding himself in everything he claims he despises. He decries alien tyranny in one breath while lording over a homemade, cruel dictatorship in another. He calls for eradication of the very race who's technology and physiology he has thoroughly appropriated. He laments feeling unable to protect the Earth from the Armada alone, yet sneers literally through Irken teeth to insult humans as inferior and of no value to him any longer. Our Dib spent the whole damn show longing for the support of other people, but Zib pushes away potential allies in his arrogance. His broken timeline never became a Dibvoid instead because while only half of his mind can't stand Irkens, both of the souls inside him remember that they loathe and look down upon a Dib, deep inside.

The corruption goes as far as even subverting his own creativity. None of Zib's plans are wholly original. His anti-Irken weapon was already a concept blueprinted inside of that PAK before the merge. Our Dib has several times shown a propensity for some DIY ingenuity, sometimes dipping a toe into the supernatural. Zib entirely calls upon, scavenges and regurgitates Irken designs with a few modifications or upgrades. The Dib Virus, I think is his most uninspired creation yet, for it's original form was always something inside of Zim, even if the latter himself was not aware of the fact. Like all else, it is a weapon he has plundered, customized, and turned around on everyone else for his own selfish ends. This brief point I will end on one  more reflection. The one kind of help Zim ever allowed at his side were the likes of GIR and his own creations. Unable to connect and cooperate with his peers and own kind, his ego preferred to be around those defective machines he related to- drones to be owned by him and always loyally at his beck and call. A slave to admire him unconditionally is the only companionship he's ever been willing to admit to desiring.

And what was Number 2's purpose again? What role exactly were the arena combatants auditioning for, when you think about it?

[glitteringcrab]

NEGLECT, NEGLECT, NEGLECT

IF the theory of Evil Morty being a clone of Morty Prime is true (and if Evil Morty is aware of it), then...

...how much must it hurt to watch the original copy of yourself be pulled to safety while you are left to your own devices...

(There were a few possible explanations about why Evil Morty is mad here, but they all felt kinda weak to me... Why should Evil Morty care about how this random Rick is treating this random Morty? Except... what if he's looking at Morty Prime being taken care of and thinking "that could have literally been me"... before reminding himself to not think about such things any more and schooling his expression)

...to hear Rick C-137, the version of your grandfather you remember loving in your implanted memories, worry about the safety of your original self-- but you are being told to "stay out of my way"...

...to be reprimanded for bringing the beloved original in the dangerous battlefield, but not for bringing yourself, who gives a f*** about your safety...

...to have the version of your grandpa you remember loving shooting at you repeatedly (mostly for the lulz because of the forcefield, but this one time Rick was really mad)...

(alternatively: Evil Morty is extra mad here because Rick. Keeps. Wearing. Down. His. Defenses. Right. Before. The. Big. Battle. but Evil Morty can't actually say anything and reveal that his defenses are being worn down because then he'll definitely be shot at)

...to have the version of your grandpa you remember loving shoot at you without hesitation while another Rick is holding you as a human shield...

(thankfully, it didn't seem like Evil Morty ever became aware of this particular event)

Alternatively: I'm overthinking this, this is the Freaky Mortys Theory all over again and none of this is true lol. Evil Morty has plenty of faith in himself, he doesn't need any dumb Ricks' support in any fashion and would probably not only be offended if Rick C-137 tried to coddle him but fly into a rage if Rick moved to grab him. Not to mention, precisely because "Evil Morty could be in the beloved Morty Prime's place", it's also true that "Morty Prime could be in the hated Evil Morty's place" and be the one who is shot at. Even with Rick C-137's irrational attachment to Morty Prime, his affection is still a fickle thing.

[hkpika07]

Get ready for me exploding in the tags

what's everyone's favorite mario character?

[echoes-lighthouse]

F/O Masterlist

Okay, I'm at the point where I'm going to have to make The Big List. So this is just a list of everyone that I conceivably might post selfship content about, so if people need to block tags or ask me in advance to tag things, you're aware of the possibility! I'll do my best to update this and let folks know when it's been updated.

This is specifically a list of my romantic or semi-romantic f/os, since those are the ones people usually care about blocking. Maybe I will make a separate list for platonic/familial selfships!

Organized alphabetically by source: let's go!

Primaries

(I Have Posted About Them Before And I Will Likely Post Again)

Tate Langdon (American Horror Story - #my ghost boy), miscellaneous sideships with other Season 1 ghosts

Grell Sutcliffe (Black Butler - #don't fear the reaper)

Toshinori Yagi (BNHA- #sunflower time)

Shigaraki Tomura (BNHA- #my gamer boy)

Himiko Toga (BNHA - #bestie hours), includes a LoV polycule with Shigaraki, Spinner, Magne, Mr. Compress, Dabi, and maybe Kurogiri

Alex (Clockwork Orange - #clockwork siblings)

Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds - tag TBD)

Jester Lavorre (Critical Role- #my sweetling)

Monokuma (Danganronpa- #my evil lil bear)

The Joker (DC/TDK - #the lover who laughs)

Dirk Strider (Homestuck - #heart of hearts)

Vox and Valentino (Hazbin Hotel - #digital poison), includes sex work with most of the main cast

Emberlynn (Helluva Boss - tag TBD)

Stolas (Helluva Boss - #secrets of the stars)

Armand, Gabrielle, Lestat, Louis, Daniel (Interview With The Vampire - #messy vampire polycule)

Val Frizzle (Magic School Bus - #val <3)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives - #archivist my archivist)

Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives - #eyes on you)

Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins - #mary and me)

Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas - #my skeleman)

Zero Rick Sanchez (Pocket Mortys - #waiting in the stars), may include other Ricks as the mood takes me

Death (Sandman - #death becomes them)

Delirium (Sandman - #eyestrain pals)

Cecil and Kevin (WTNV - #listener and watcher)

Tumblr (Miscellanious Sources - #beloved hellsite)

Non-Primaries

(content about these is rare or hasn't happened yet, but it might! None have tags assigned yet, but I'll assign them if you ask.)

Garfield the Deals Warlock (The Adventure Zone)

Iroh (ATLA)

Tsuyu Asui (BNHA)

Nezu (BNHA)

Aizawa Shota (BNHA) only in a hook-up sense but still worth mentioning

Laudna and Imogen (Critical Role), currently on hold because I only got 10 episodes into C3

Hoid (Cosmere)

Celeste, Junko, Toko (Danganronpa 1)

Eventually I'll get through the other Danganronpa games and add f/os from those as well

L (Death Note)

Queen (Deltarune)

Judge Frollo (Disney's Notre Dame)

Captain Hook (Live Action Peter Pan)

Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Oswalda Cobblepots (DC)

Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who)

TARDIS (Doctor Who: my partner ships with her, not me, but I might post content for them)

Fandomstuck f/os are still to be determined

Sun/Moon (FNAF:SB)

Glamrock Chica (FNAF:SB)

The Creation (Frankenstein)

Garfield (Garfield)

Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton adjacent?? - #insufferable pokelovers)

Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)

Severus Snape (Harry Potter)

Honestly the entire Homestuck cast is a possibility for me

The Devil (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus)

Persephone (Lore Olympus)

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Michael (The Magnus Archives)

Minecraft Villager OC

Bert, Ernie, Gonzo (The Muppets)

Mae Borowski (Night In The Woods)

Haruhi Fujioka (OHSHC)

Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Erik (POTO)

Christine Daae(POTO)

Desire (Sandman)

Trencil (Smile For Me)

Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)

Charlie Bradbury (Supernatural)

Rorschach (Watchmen)

[starheirxero]

hey gayboy, tell me why evil sun is So? :keeptalkingily: what are his crimes, does he speak with gay little hand gestures, give me the Details

AHEJAHAJAHS HELLO BELOVED ^_^ I won't lie I used to find him kinda mid but in today's episode just Switched something in my brain. Something about his calm, collected voice very plainly stating that if Eclipse tries to do anything, he'll rip him to shreds.... UGHHHH IT HAD ME TWIRLING MY HAIR N GIGGLING FOR REALZIES HEJAHAJSHD

He's a pretty secretive and "speaks in riddles" kinda guy, so while we don't outright know everything he's done, he did very much tell us today that he 1) basically killed his Moon to take his knowledge because he thinks that his Moon just wasn't using it right, and 2) he has installed... something, into Eclipse's head painful style. We don't know what it is yet but he said that if he can do that to Eclipse, then he'll tell him how to maybe bring someone back from a dimensional collapse. Not that Eclipse had a choice either way LMAO

Before, I thought his collected mannerisms were a bit cheesy because it's so blatantly inspired by Evil Morty and it was like OOOOKAY MAN but he's actually shaping up to be pretty a damn interesting character!! He's more involved in the multiverse side of things and, considering he said he "reprogrammed" a bunch of the people in his dimension (<which, looking back, could be another blatant lie, like how he said he just made his Moon more "compliant"), he's just a very eerie presence.

He knows a lot and that leads to him being a very important person to talk to in most scenarios, but he also knows he's valuable to talk to, so he strikes these deals that people aren't thrilled about but usually just go "well. its this or I know absolutely jack shit" and it fascinates me.

[stellanslashgeode]

Me and a friend were talking about how, in her mind, the light side of the force corresponds to the cosmic force and the living force to the dark side "due to how the Living Force is closely intertwined to life and its rhythms, of which intense emotions are an adaptation to survive successfully in, per its fundamental savagery and discord Conversely, the serenity in which is required to commune successfully with the Cosmic Force seems to be that which is prized by the Light" and something I find interesting is how (At least back in Legends. I have no idea what's going on in canon nowadays.) the light side seemed to deal more with matter and how the force interacts with it.

Jedi An'ya Kuro figured out how to walk through walls and teleport. Vergere (before she fell) figured out how to reduce her force presence to the molecular scale to both camouflage herself and tweak around with molecules with the force. A Jedi master on Mustafar figured out how to molecularly transmute things like full metal alchemist. The Jedi had something called a wall of light which fucking incinerated Yavin 4 in a planet-sized firestorm, cut off a Sith lord from the force permanently and was used to permakill a sith ghost.

Oh and Luke had something called a golden flash which I can only imagine as a black flash from Jujutsu Kaisen.

Something you may have noticed is that this involves a lot of precision and delicate work with matter and how the force interacts with it (except the planet-sized firestorm thing). The cosmic force is (As I understand it) the aspect of the force that deals with matter, space and time. It's the part that binds the galaxy together. The Sith only seem more powerful because they care enough to flaunt that power and make the power the point.

Honestly I think they should bring bring this aspect of the Jedi back. The entire reason for the Grey Jedi wank is that Jedi don't get any cool space magic BS in canon and most of the flashy stuff from legends is obscure and esoteric. Lightsaber duels are cool the first couple time but it gets boring without variety. Just let Jedi and Sith be shonen anime characters is what I am saying.

I think you and your friend are onto something here. The Sith would care more about the Living Force because it's more immediate, it's all about survival and is generated and diffused though living things. So, it fits their goals with altering and dominating others, natural lifespan longevity, stuff like that. To catch you up with canon one of the beloved things we lost are Sith Force ghosts, which would definitely tie them more to the Living than the Cosmic. Why care about the Cosmic Force at all if once you shuffle off this mortal coil, that's it. There's a lot of weirdness with Force ghosts in current canon, you wouldn't believe it (mostly having to do with Qui-Gon Jinn and Season 6 of TCW).

In my mind Cosmic and Living is a bit like yin and yang. Living beings radiate with the Living Force and once they die that life energy (soul?) is released into that space between atoms to diffuse throughout the galaxy. It eventually coalesces in stellar nurseries and when new stars, planets, and life evolves boom! It gets converted back into the Living Force.

The Cosmic Force also is associated with fate, visions of the future and the past, sensing things very far away (like mass-casualty events), that sort of thing.

Therefore, there's nothing inherently good or bad with either. It's just how the Force faith engages with them. Both are far older than the Jedi or Sith. Good and Evil are as well.

Come to think of it, wasn't Abeloth a Cosmic Force kind of gal? Seems like the Daughter was more a Living Force kind of gal and the Son and Father more Cosmic? I guess it's debatable. All that Mortis stuff is debatable. From a certain point of view.

[quietbluejay]

False Gods 7

back over to Horus and Magnus

horus' reaction: horror that despite nikaea, magnus is still doing magicky stuff as opposed to erebus who is of course not

okay welp he's calling out Erebus on this now

Magnus: :D Horus tells Magnus that he's not going to manipulate him either "you are no better than Erebus!" Horus is the Warmaster here!!

yeah you know when I said this was good? we've reached the end of that segment Erebus: yeah btw Lorgar sent me and he found some new gods to worship and he's super powerful now magnus: lorgar is loyal!!!

WISE LORGAR MOST BELOVED

well i mean he can hardly go "lorgar, my brother who is kind of a shit but i still care about"

but like Lorgar??? I mean it makes the most sense for it to be Sanguinius. It could even be Fulgrim. Heck, I'd pick Jaghatai or Morty over Lorgar

this could have been a thing about chaos #influencing him already except…he's really not written like that

scene ends on that lmao

back to Keeler and Sindermann Ing Mae Sing asks them through gritted teeth to close the door

…wasn't he reading out the original text?? keeler: emperor protect us the daemon shudders

okay so like is this 100% the power of human belief how does early emperor worship have power because they're worshipping the emperor is he empowering them against his will?

at what threshold does your faith help you vs daemons? is it pure fervency of belief that's doing it? or is it the external god that people are turning Emps into

also yeah the imperial truth being god-forging is really the only thing that makes sense because otherwise I don't think the Emperor as a God would have gained enough critical mass with just the secret cult guys

over to loken now it has been 9 days since horus went into the serpent lodge and it's raining

you know what, i like that line, that's a good line

there's some more fun description actually we can have some good writing, as a small treat in exchange for evil sexy lamp horus and now we wait there's an exchange with the mournival

well at least they're getting along now i kind of want to squish aximands cheeks and pick him up with a crane and put him in a better universe the weather cooperates with the drama there's lighting and a boom of thunder RIGHT as the doors open love it no sarcasm here, this absolutely feels like Someone is meddling "slowly, the gate began to open" but now we cut over to Keeler vs daemon Keeler: the power of Christ the Emperor compels you!

it works! the eagle is err kind of stuck to her skin and she immediately faints afterwards

back to loken, no one comes through the doors and he's convinced Horus is dead which is of course when Horus comes out

everyone is happy and excited, the whole crowd is cheering and chanting his name "the sheer physicality of his presence" being remarkably subtle for McNeill END PART THREE

timeskip time! and we're back with Mersadie who is watching Loken repair his armour Mersadie: war not going well?

Loken says actually they're pretty close to winning Mersadie: so why so gloomy? Loken makes sure they're not being overheard before he speaks again "because this is a war we should not be fighting" ok let's pull back a bit and see what happened so they left Davin with a new governor who once again begged not to be left behind (lol)

they had originally had plans to go somewhere else but Horus overrode it and they spent 16 weeks in the warp going somewhere else and no one had any clue where they were going

RIP then there's a scene of bitter street fighting from the ninth month of the war and okay i've got Roberts on the brain because of doing the Wreckers trilogy concurrently with this so my first thought is pregnancy

the technocracy is basically the interex 2.0 this time with tech maybe this was meant to be the interex, McNeill got told no or sth, had to change it, then found out later and it was too late to go through everything and make it interex compliant

here's the description of the enemy it's a good fight scene honestly

i really liked the ending of the scene so Loken cut off a guys legs earlier

:) it's also a real contrast to that one scene where Loken sees the dying guy in Horus Rising and refuses to bless him into his afterlife to be clear I'm not saying Loken is OOC here, this reads as character development back to the present and Mersadie is confused because didn't they try to assassinate the Warmaster? Loken was there for that meeting. It wasn't pretty. he's going to tell the truth though

ah so the technocracy dudes show up and everything about them is uncannily similar is this…is this a selling models thing

is this to sell toys

Horus: STCs? Salignac: yep and then Horus shot him in the face

yyyyep quelle surprise actual person horus has left the building only the evil sexy lamp remains

mersadie: but why?? loken: just following orders mersadie: well duh but i mean, why would he do that, it doesn't make sense

time for torgaddon POV, he's going to the lodge meeting, which he's avoided so far since Davin

okay so looks like the technocracy fight is rough just because of their sheer numbers oh yeah torgaddon took a newbie there's a lot of newbies because of the attrition they're taking

the interex died offscreen this this is how we cover it covers face with hands i am HOPING there will be SOMETHING, A SINGLE CRUMB later plz plz plz so there's hundreds of astartes at the meeting now also Erebus is there too Torgaddon pulls a knife on him

no, says abaddon, they failed because they were meant to, because they consort with xenos breeds yeah that's about what i'd expect abaddon to say Aximand pleads with Torgaddon to put down the knife and he does, slowly torgaddon does the "i'm watching you" gesture to erebus erebus just goes "bring it"

Targhost: both of you shut up Targhost: we have an actual agenda to get through here lmaoooo

everyone starts cheering and Torgaddon's been around enough iterators to recognize cued applause he figures this is being done for his benefit little egotistical lol, it's probably two birds one stone

Targhost: but now people get upset at us for being killers! even people in the regular army! how dare they torgaddon:……. it's time for Aximand to speak up and talk about all the sedition that's going on, like this one turbulent poet (heh) who is sneaking around or the emperor botherers aximand: we fight and die for them and this is our reward :(

i love torgaddon

anyways what they want him to do is kill Karkasy

trap these guys in a room with the imperium secundus trio and make them all argue about the definitions of murder, execution, and war it's what they deserve (ok except for torgaddon) torgaddon mocks them for wanting to make war on a poet torgaddon: yeah they'll sure tell stories about that snnnnrk

Torgaddon: also Karkasy is under Loken's protection and he'll have your heads

to be continued!

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

wouldn’t it be fucking insane (good) if rnm had pulled a Flash with the Mortys and Evil Morty just dropped a I am the future, Morty on the C-137s

[stropharian-world]

Absolutely brilliant.

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