#fallen hero rebirth imagine

[trebuchet151]

They agreed to let Anathema take ONE photo with their polaroid camera. And they got tipsy enough to forget their jacket somewhere so Ortega's helping them keep warm, that's all. Don't make it weird.

Sequel to this post

Gonna start dropping links to songs from Corey's playlist that match the vibe of the art so here's Sugar by Sleep Token

[disastersteps]

do you ever think that someday you could live like this? //happy ending AU

[extreme-neutral]

Aight, FHR fandom!! I've a very important question for all of you!

(don't fear the cut, it's not long)

We all know what you find while investigating Ortega and "associates" on "fansites" in Rebirth, right?

RIGHT??

[beastking-golion]

FHR SPOILERS

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I avoided to Argent’s romance because I didn’t think I’d like it but I finally played it and I was so wrong I was so wrong, she is so girly pop murder fiend “I have morals but only sometimes” ass kicking nanovore-made cupcake eating god princess

[oldsoul--newmachine]

Body horror ahead. A while back I conceptualized what look the description "a monster garbed in forbidden science" might apply to. I couldn't begin to present it visually and think it might have greatest potential in abstract imagination. Here's what I wrote down in attempt to paint that picture: A bland sort of stormy villainous grey. Subtle ragged tears of orange and blue in disturbingly natural tones, constructed in functional but bizarre ways. Like a walking flayed, but the flesh is incomprehensible. A suit with subtle and disturbing hints made to reflect the body horror of self incarnate. Powerful, horrendously real and alive. Metal/carbon suit pieces- functional -but the gaps and the textures are flayed, shaved and burnt. Smooth to the touch but looking so molten, bruised and torn, thus revealing damaged shades of orange and blue as to look akin to flesh and blood. Oddly mechanical. The ugliest most horrifying amalgamation of clearly intentional and crafted damage. It flows along the lines of the scars. A helmet reminiscent of itself tearing away from itself, from nondescript features. Where is the face? Which layer is it? Joint gaps rubbed away ragged. Half a chest piece blended into carvings like real muscle and ribbing. Built so that the suit holds up but damage purposefully shows. Each hit breaks and warps the body, seeming to bleed beneath. A force-sensitive skinsuit beneath that shows the illusion of more and more gore wherever it is hit and revealed. A basic blue that turns sickly murky but clear orange. Everything it reveals that it shouldn't, becomes a fractal pattern of orange that's different with every battle. Orange like old blood. The most fearsome person in the room is also falling apart.

[currently-evil]

Nobody understand its not about the shelf, Its about the fact that stealing food in a primal act of gathering makes it taste Better.

And yeah Rowan immediatley tattles to Rangers that all their food were licked. Both he and Argent got banned form staff room for a while.

MASTERPOST

[choiceofcrow]

more scribbly lara(s) making blorbo faces

[fallenstep]

Another track for Fallen Hero in progress. :)

I like to add electric guitar parts in these tracks, as I perfectly could imagine my boy Luke playing, composing music as his creative expression and also using it as his coping mechanism.

[valentinesparda]

imagine if i chose to replay fallen hero rebirth and played retribution and actually purchased and played wayhaven chronicles lol wouldnt that be hashtag quirky of me--

[dioti]

BACK AGAIN

a fallen hero: rebirth playlist about getting angry, switching sides and thriving as your new worst self.

play in order for the best listening experience!

[ youtube // spotify ]

tracklist:

weathers - always tired

lola blanc - angry too

des rocs - this is our life

rage against the machine - killing in the name

grandson - stigmata

madalen duke - how villains are made

oshins - darkside (ft. hael)

k.flay - run for your life

8 graves - beast

ksenia lewis - left for dead

margø - the other side

kevin mcallister - play dirty

barns courtney - rather die

the phantoms - fight for my survival

panic! at the disco - emperor's new clothes

imagine dragons - natural

jonny T, foreign figures - silver screen

set it off - catch me if you can

royal deluxe - i'm back

michael bublé - feeling good

[iwrite-sinsandtragedies]

@organized-chaotic-disaster Ahhhh gotcha gotcha!! I didn’t know there were any games with poly options tbh, that’s really nice to know 😭 and yeah, I imagine it must feel really jarring to have everything just take a complete 180 like that, with everyone ignoring the past romantic tension. Some kind of acknowledgment of it would be nice, but yeah, unfortunately I don’t see that ever happening 😭 so we’ve gotta rely on headcanons and fanfic, which sucks And thanks for responding to me!! I wasn’t really expecting a response tbh, but it’s really nice to talk about stuff like this ;v; I really enjoyed reading your thoughts!! Like I said, I didn’t know any games had poly options, so I learned something new o:

[original post]

No problem! I'm usually an absolute mess about talking to people myself - despite always wanting to - but, I've committed to doing what I want on this blog in particular and I want to talk about my favourite things with interesting people! So it was actually a pleasure to swap words with you!😊❤️

And yeah, I'd love for that to happen with OL but, I do understand why it likely won't be a thing.

On the topic of other games with polymance options though!

So, as I formerly mentioned. The game FH, or Fallen Hero is my primary example of a well done poly-capable romance route that's built into a good story driven game. It's a text-base 'build your own story' series that has a word count in the hundreds of thousands per book [steam link here] and is, in fact written by only one person!

It's, of course, the exact opposite type of story of Our Life, mind you😂and deals with a lot of dark subjects regarding mental health, dehuminization, trauma and morality/ethics. So, it's best to keep that in mind before choosing to play it. I would personally rate it at an 11/10 on a quality chart though! It's an absolutely superb game and the creator spends years putting their heart and soul into making sure each path you take is fleshed out and organic and that all your choices matter. They do actually have a tumblr here too, if you want to look into it more [fallenhero-rebirth] just be mindful that it might have spoilers.

As for other games with poly-romances, well... Unfortunately, most of those are purely in the 'R-rated maturity' kind of space. They're either dating sims with a heavy sexual focus or just straight up p*rn. Which is why I don't really include them so much, since it's kind of defeating the point of what I'd want poly-routes to be in, which is genuinely normal and story driven games like OL. Many of these games are simply PWP and so I wouldn't really consider them at all, unless you just wanted something spicy and exciting (which is absolutely cool! I'm such a ho, I have so many of these games honestly lmfao).

Overall, your best bet is really just searching for them😂it's not surprising at all that you didn't know they were an option because, truthfully, there aren't that many out there. I have heard the names 'Creme de la creme' and 'Tally ho!' thrown out there though, so maybe give those a peak and see if there's anything worth playing? I know nothing about them, honestly.

Personally, finding new games only partially scratches that itch for me, tbh. Only because it's not fulfilling my desire to have that polymance in the other games I wanted in the first place lol. I totally agree that it sucks having to live off of headcannons opposed to legitimate official content🥺Man, what I wouldn't give for that OL polymance... Still, at least looking into other games gives us an outlet and allows for some validation😭

[kittlesandbugs]

Okay so I ran into your blog and IF ‘cause I’m always hunting for something new(also the fanart has me in a frenzy) can you guide me on the demos? Or where I can find descriptions for the ROs?(Im bad at remembering face without descriptions)

Thank you!

Hi! I'm a one trick pony only good for FHR, there's two books published now, Fallen Hero: Rebirth and Fallen Hero: Retribution. There's no demo out for the third book yet and probably won't be for some time! Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean by guide you on the demos?

R.O. description bits are dropped here and there throughout the books. I don't know of any centralized hub. A lot of the fanart is just people's very lovely interpretations of what they piece from the books with their imaginations filling in! The patreon also has some lore pieces with additional info about the R.O.s, as well as a huge bank of other info.

[wonderlesscomics]

Green Lantern: Geoff Johns

Issues

- GL Rebirth 1-6

- GL 1-52

- GL Corps 1-47

Read January

Story: 8.5/10

So it’s hard to review because it’s an entire run and in retrospect I should have done a review for each arc but in reviewing this as a whole I really fell in love with the green lantern corp and it’s mythology. The spectrum of corps are fascinating and led to really well crafted stories and characters. The main cast is lovable and flawed and I cared deeply for all of them. The massive events hit like trucks with massive scale and scope, and the small stories in between all led up to amazing character development and revelations. Twists were abundant and well crafted, and plot points were layed out so far in an advance that it actually blew my mind that Geoff was allowed the time and resources to actually pull it all off. A complete reinvention of the character that is the foundation for this entire mythos for the rest of time.

Art: 7.5/10

The art in these titles varies wildly from not so amazing to stellar! Ivan Reis is the standout and is a lynch pin of the series. Whenever his name was on the book you knew you were going to get beautiful full page spreads, dynamic composition and sexy heroes and villains.

Special Notes:

- I can’t believe how many of the lanterns I’ve fallen in love with. Natu, Laira, Sinestro, Kilowag, Guy, Rayner, and so many more

- Geoff is so talented at setting up and paying off later on that it’s so inspiring to see such well crafted world building and dedication to long term storytelling

- The secret origins arc is fucking phenomenal and might be the greatest superhero origin story ever told

- The blackest night is one of the greatest comic events of all time. It was so powerful and I only wish I could have read it in the time it came out because I can’t imagine the impact it caused.

Overall Rating: 8.5/10

I honestly needed to take a break from this series it was ALOT of reading. Tons of spinoffs I didn’t list, 2 different concurrent series. But I will say it was worth it to learn and explore the foundation of a character. I will continue to read through this series and its conclusion. And I would love to read and explore the further mythos with this character into the new 52, and rebirth. I personally thank Geoff Johns for dedicating himself to this character and giving him real weight and depth, as with his entire mythology.

[increduloussausage]

im gonna rant to myself here i just like the formatting makes me nngh

Xie lian as a fool, (talked about in varied depictions of the fool, from contrasting backgrounds, talks about don qixote, the idiot, ivan the fool, etc) Xie lian as the fisher king, (parsifal)

Elaborate?

Transgression from naivety into self consciousness,

A fisher king wound is a wound that hurts but doesn’t kill

King fisher plagued with a fatal wound, yet fatality was proven futile. He was infertile, and his kingdom had fallen (just as xianle was damned to demolition, along with xie lian and his erectile dysfunction)

““A man must consent to look to a foolish, innocent, adolescent part of himself for his cure. The inner fool is the only one who can touch his Fisher King wound.”

Don quixote, quixotic, unable to distinguish reality from imagination. (jun wu????)”tilting at windmills” fighting imaginary enemies

And sancho pantha, (mu qing????) 

“Sancho’s realism contrast with his master’s idealism” AAAAAAAAAAA its tgem. Itrs them!!!! (xie lian and mu qing) the donkey can be feng xin. Lol

Fuck. the actual novel is sad… don qixote falls asleep, awaken by a dream, awakened from his madness, realising he’s spiralled down into insanity. And that he has wasted his life (lol jun wu) dies from an overdose of reality. And what did jun wu die realising? Actually idk, bro was relieved to find someone who couldve actually defeated him. 

Dsbkhdrfvgsk.j  

Ivan the fool leo tolstoy,

Ivan’s goodness piques the devil’s interest. Overcomes the devil, himself. Relies on his heart, his brothers relies on their mind. (i wish i was foolish) 

The idiot, fyodor dostoevsky, the prince is a fool. The price is an idiot. Paralleled to xie lian in the heavens. Prince myshkin, contrasts the world he lives in. he says what is on his mind, regardless of social setting “save the common people!” 

“The price assures that beauty will save the world!”

Always this fool who is the hero.

Fool, knows nothing of the world. And has no place in it.

The fool’s journey and the hero’s journey, defeat his “dragon” (bai wuxiang) “treasure hard to attain” idk… about birth and rebirth. Return as ordinary, as xie lian does. Gasps “the fool is a wanderer, energetic, ubiquitous and immortal” XIE LIAN…..svbkgrdvb he is the most powerful of the tarot trumps. (trionfi, to trachotti, to tarot) (just info) journey to self realisation…

Carl jung… what does he say. Individuation!!! What is that. Omg… the fool is linked to the number zero. Why? Circular signifies infinity. Pleroma!! Ancient egyptian symbol of orouboros (tail devorurer) “one is all, all is one” fullness of being of past, present and future. God is an infinite sphere!! He is god.  Zero as in, no one believed in him anymore? He had no one!!! (hua chengzhu sit down you’ll be relevant soon….) (i hope….) 

Paradise. Bliss state of unconscious nature before falling into the reality of consciousness, the fool’s paradise, they call it. 

Learn about jungian psychology!!!! 

OMGGGGG XIE LIAN IS THE… what is it. THE tarot of marseilles, the butterfly one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT HAS A FLOWER ON IT TOOVJHGJHBVNJHV>>><ML<ML<KM>>>.... Fool depicted as, insight over eye sight. (french tarot, fool) Okie. cool…. Cool….. Omh….. the rider wwaite tarot….. Is holding a flower. In his hand……….. One sword, one flower. Srvjhyrebslkf what does the cliff fall mean… hua cheng? Idk,,, fall from grace. While also BASKING IN his GLORY MOMENTS PRIOR? HNN WAIT…… pamela colman smith. Arthur edward waite, hermetic order of the golden dawn. Precursor of transformation….. Xie lian is the start of everything. Nothing would start without a fool. Bvnjhbfjjhnjhbn….. The idiot, dostoevsky, “geniuses seen as fool at the start of their career, at the end of them too” “beginner’s mind” (shoshin) “the soul demands your folly, not your wisdom” Car jung… xie lian. Xie lian… folly!!! Be foolish!!!! Omg. “it is the fear of uncertainty that scares many to the point of paralysis” good lord this video… (me and amina) rumination, < failure. Rumination, spends more time in imagination than reality. (quixotic….) failure is beyond your imagination. “In filth it will be found.” (xie lian) he keeps going. “I WONT CHANGE!!!!” 

Omg… dark side of the fool… the voice of conformity. Omg (use that now lol) omg.. We need to be conscious of the fool within, the start of the video said the wisest people are the fools who acknowledge they are foolish. The dark side is when we don’t. Child, half into the world. Madman, half escaped from it. The fool is an archetypal religious figure…. XIE LIAN IS THE HOLY FOOL. “is one who is willing to risk ridicule, scorn and rejection to pursue the path of truth and love.” not conformist out of fear, not needing to be defined by others. Be himself in all circumstances. “The most threatening to the authorities and powers” hehhehe. Saint Paul, “god has made foolish the wisdom of this world.” inferior function leads to the healing of fisher wound… (elaborate. Will do. At some point.) 

[thekrazykeke]

title: just keep breathing

fandom(s): fallen hero rebirth/retribution

pairing(s): wei chen x sidestep. ricardo ortega x sidestep. wei chen x ricardo ortega x sidestep. ricardo ortega x wei chen. 

playlist/song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkz9JF7teY

rating: t+

summary: maybe it’s not about fixing what’s broken. maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better.

warning(s): pre poly relationship, comfort food, pining, mild spoilers for the alpha build, angst and hurt/comfort.

Listen. 

I played Fallen Hero Rebirth and rated it a solid 9, and the story initially left me crying my eyeballs out but mildly confused, wanting to understand things. So I replayed and replayed and replayed. I picked up things and the clues started fitting together. I paid for the Retribution alpha build and I’m still crying my eyeballs out at night over it but I wanted resolution. I wanted to give (one of) my character(s) a light at the end of the tunnel. 

So this is what it is. Or an attempt at it because FHR is really quite dark and not for the faint hearted. Those warning tags are not for show. 

Sidestep’s name is Tyndall Bowman in this one.

~

It happens on a Sunday. The last weekend before a new month started, technically.

Ortega frequently visits Chen’s apartment and brings food, lightly ribbing the other man for his lackluster kitchen space. Chen’s routine response becoming less and less exasperated each time. 

You think that he not so secretly fears that you’ll both starve or subsist off canned food and cheap takeout. ...Which probably isn’t a far off assumption, considering the implication day one of your temporary living situation.

It could be considered sweet, if it wasn’t so very funny. (You had to get your kicks somewhere).

Your legs are still broken. 

Progress is frustratingly slow. 

You’d tried to move to a schedule of crutches-only by the second week out of sheer boredom and the flat look Chen had leveled in your direction caused you to nix that idea stat. 

There’s a tension between Chen and you now. 

Not to say that there rarely isn’t tension, but that’s usually due to an aftermath of an argument. Now? Now, you’re aware of him. Aware of him in a way that you’d only been aware of Ortega.

Fucking hell.

Someone’s knee brushes lightly against yours, breaking you out of your reverie. You glance to the left and catch sight of Ricardo watching you with soft, worried eyes. Chen also watching, but less obvious in his concern, features more stoic, controlled. The three of you are in the living room, they are siting on the couch, you’re in your wheelchair. 

They probably asked you something and you were zoned out.

The lie is on the tip of your tongue, “I’m fine,” you mumble and grip your bowl which has half melted blueberry swirl ice cream and salted caramel cheesecake. Sweets are your kryptonite but Ricardo has pulled out your top favorites...

“You’re fine?” Ricardo scoffs, his tone skeptic. 

A muscle jumped in your jaw. “Yep, just fine,” you reply, using your spoon to scoop up some ice cream, take a bite and enjoy the flavor. Refusing to give an inch and let him win. 

The two of you had played this game many times, too many actually, and it usually ends with you being the one to fall for the prodding, and then you get angry, lash out. 

Walk away.  Only this time you can’t. 

Another scoff. “Typical. You do this every time, you know.” There’s a surprising amount of bitterness in Ricardo’s voice now. 

“Ricardo,” Chen starts to interject, the strain clear in his voice. “Tyndall. Stop.”

It’s too late though. 

Placing down the bowl on the nearest surface, freeing up your hands, you clench then unclench your fingers, trying to avoid cracking your knuckles. “And what about you, then huh, Saint Ortega?” The sneer on your face is ugly. “You’re always on about me being honest with my feelings and talking, but the truth of it is, you’re just like me, or worse!”

Ortega looks dumbfounded. As if he can’t believe you’d dare to throw the truth in his face like this, so obviously. He recovers quicker than you’d like, much to your annoyance, though. “...Maybe so,” he acknowledges, his voice softer. Enough to lull a more gullible individual into complacency or just anyone not paying attention. You know better. “That’s a topic we can revisit in a moment. I’m more curious about how long the two of you expect me to play the idiot here.”

Unwillingly, your eyes dart to Chen’s, then away. 

Not focusing on any particular point in the room. Does Ortega know that you’re Mastermind? Since when, and did Chen tell him? Or is he bluffing right now and he doesn’t know? Is he talking about something totally different than what you’re thinking about?

Quick! Think up an appropriate answer and throw him off the trail!

“....I don’t....know what you mean.”

That’s not what you should say!!

Chen sighs deeply, pinching the bridge of his nose.  He looks pretty much done with the both of you right now, not that you can blame him. “Be clearer, the two of you have a propensity for telling half truths which leads to the majority of these absurd arguments.” 

Ricardo winced and you feel the sting from that particular burn as well. 

“In response to your statement, though, no one is expecting you to play the fool.” He looks a little nervous, guilty. “ I... We’ve kissed.” There’s a pinch to his brow, the tips of his ears turning pink. “That wasn’t an example of being a good friend to you, kissing Tyndall and murkying the waters further when I knew the two of you were...” There’s a pause as he tries to find a word for what you and Ortega shared before you and he tentatively stopped antagonizing each other and bonded over Spoon. 

You snorted, lips twisting into a wry smile, “The phrasing of that sentence makes it sound as if I found it a chore to kiss you or something.” Chen cuts you an admonishing look which you temporarily ignore as you turn to glance at Ortega who’d been watching the byplay between you and Chen with an unreadable expression. For the nth time, you wish you could read his mind, and at the same time, you’re grateful that you can’t. 

“...He’s right though. It was an epically shitty thing to do, kissing your oldest friend, who’s probably had a crush on you since he’s met you, while we were kissing. Totally and unnecessarily complicated.”

He just looked at the two of you for a moment. Then Ricardo sighed heavily, running a hand over his face, wearily. “Esto es un desastre.”

You say nothing, staying quiet because honestly, you agree. This is a mess, and it was poorly handled, on all sides. You’d already spilled the beans about Chen having a crush Ortega before it got to this point because you sincerely thought the conversation should have come up properly over seven years ago, your ‘death’ should have been a nonfactor. 

They likely would’ve been a couple already if they weren’t such obtuse idiots.

“Okay... okay...” Ricardo seems to have come to a conclusion. He nods resolutely, turning all his considerably intense focus onto Chen who seems taken aback by it. Leaning forward into the other man’s space, slow enough that it’d be easy to shove him back, but of course Chen doesn’t. Ricardo’s hand went to the nape of his neck, lightly urging Chen forward, the other man obeying that silent request, and in the span of a breath, they’re kissing.

Your don’t avert your gaze, as much as you want to. 

This is a private thing, you shouldn’t look, shouldn’t stare like a pervert. 

‘Isn’t this what you knew would happen?’ Of course, your brain isn’t nice. 

This is what you wanted right, for them to get their act together. 

Humans falling in love with each other is normal and acceptable. (Although your education depicted of men and women falling in love, primarily). It happens all the time. 

Such emotion is a luxury a Re-Gene cannot afford, nor can they sincerely feel it, that’s what you were taught on the Farm. So resistant to the idea of going back to being treated as an unfeeling thing, your re-education had been particularly brutal.

“Whatever horrible thing your mind is telling you, it isn’t true.”

Once again caught off guard, lost in thought, you’re unprepared for Ricardo to kiss you. He tastes faintly of blueberry swirl ice cream and sweet tea, and maybe it’s your imagination, but maybe even a little bit like Chen. It’s that stray thought that has you jerk your head, trying to turn away from him. “W...what the hell, asshole?”

He snorted. “You know you sound really cute when you curse.” 

Baring your teeth, you snap, “Tomber d'une falaise!” Although the idiot clearly didn’t know what you said in French, basically telling him to fall off a cliff, it didn’t stop him from dramatically clutching at his chest, as if he’d been stabbed in the heart; he could probably guess it was at least an insult.

“Stop teasing him, Ricardo.” Chen admonished. Ricardo mock pouted. “I mean it. Can’t you see that he’s overwhelmed?”

“I am not overwhelmed!”, you vehemently protest.

“Out of your depth then,” Chen countered and before you could complain that it was pretty much the same thing, only with differing meanings, he continued on, “What our resident idiot is clumsily trying to show instead of explain, is that he wants both of us.”

“If you want a threesome, fine. It’ll have to wait, as I’m a bit physically impaired at the moment.” You’re almost surprised by the bitterness in your voice. 

Chen stared at you for a brief moment and then he braced both hands on either side of your wheelchair. Heart slowly turning over in your chest, oddly feeling as if you’re caught in the gaze of a hunter, you stubbornly keep eye contact for a second or two, but can’t maintain it for long. That doesn’t stop him from murmuring in your right ear, “Stop being so stubborn. Stop lying. You want this. To be in a relationship with both of us.”  A brief pause. “Correct?”

Fucking hell... 

Swallowing thickly, wondering the logistics of how that would work out. Wondering if you were about to once again make a horrible mistake. Then again, since you’d come back to Los Diablos, since Ortega found you again, that’s all you’ve been doing so far, haven’t you. Making mistake after mistake after mistake. 

“Yes.” 

As Chen’s left hand buried itself in your curls, taking control, tilting your head back, idly you wondered if the next time you hit the ground, if it’d hurt less. This is after a freefall into madness, it feels like, and twice as foolish. Yet you surrender, and you stop thinking, enjoy the kiss. 

[paladinofsol]

👁👁

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