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Just another night on the Multi Train...
And so they continued gaming all night long...
WIP & sketches:
Working on the speech bubbles was a nightmare aaaaa-
My first finished comic ever wooo!! This was inspired by a daily submas art prompt on Twitter, "quarrel". I barely ever see them arguing about anything because they canonically get along so well but I wanted to figure out something, and eventually this struck my mind. XD
From that moment I sat on my computer for four days straight, each page taking 10 hours of work!! I knew making comics is hard, but now I truly understand why. Sketching was fast, but then I realised I need to find room for the dialogue before rendering the panels, and that alone took a huge chunk of time, not fun, eugh. I fiddled with the lines way too long too, hunting stray pixels. I ended up giving the comic my all so I was absolutely drained when I finally posted this on the fourth night right before collapsing on my bed.
The next morning... whoa. I was so taken aback of all the positive feedback I was instantly energised and started planning the next comic haha!! The effort was totally worth it!!
I always thought I would not be able to draw full comics because of my attention disorder and lack of time and skills so I never even attempted it, I was so sure I just couldn't do it. But then submas happened, and I got over that mental block just like that! Now I really want to get good at this stuff!!
Expect many more comics in the future! Of course they take a ton of time to make ahah, but they will make it here eventually! Until then,
Game on, subway bosses!!
#Emmet misheard in the chaos of the battle! Pls forgive him!#they're playing battle trains!#battleship spinoff#submas#sbms#ingo and emmet#submas ingo#submas emmet#subway boss ingo#subway boss emmet#battle subway#pokemon hilda#pokemon hilbert#pokemon#galvantula#crustle#multitasking masters#serious gamers#jun's comics
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You guys... please... think out loud with me... we can't keep saying the Serpentine War was 40 years ago... as of the time of season 7, yeah, it was 40 years ago, but literally one season later it was already 41 years. T
hen in Crystalized, Jay claims Harumi must have been evading them for years, so going solely by the lowest possible plural amount, that was still 2 years, one year between Seabound and Crystalized, and one year some time between Hunted and Seabound, so it would've been at LEAST 43 years!
THEN there's the added bonus of let's say one year between Crystalized and the Merge, so 44 years!!! Then, if there's 5 years between the Merge and DRs1, that means it's been 49 years !!!! THEN if DRs2 is one year AFTER the s1 premiere it has been 50 years since the Serpentine War !!!!!!!! (this is not a serious issue to me I simply don't think saying it was 40 years ago makes sense anymore)
#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#raine's rambles#i think then this could also kinda explain shit like as of s12 there were videogames 30 years ago...#like cmon gamers !!!#i think realistically a 12 year gap would make sense there !!!!#as for the subway train shit yea no clue lol.#raine's shitposting#bc this isnt rlly my most srs post .
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day of the dove, also known as the episode where spock gets cancelled
#star trek#tos#spock has the dryest speedrunning channel of all time meanwhile kirk is over there doing game grumps shenanigans#im stopping my train of thought right here bc i refuse to put more effort into a star trek gamer au
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MK11 Kuai x Liu x Hanzo —Training
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Liu Kang’s brows furrowed in frustration. The new god felt frustrated. It felt as if everything was connected to him in some way. The bustling clan outside of the gardens, the birds chirping, the smell of the overwhelming flora, the humming of insects, the—
“Calm yourself,” a husky voice commanded. Liu’s brows relaxed at the sound of Hanzo’s voice. However, the fire god was still tense. Hanzo’s warm palm grasped Liu’s shoulder. It was incredibly warm, not burning to the touch, but it made Liu Kang’s stomach tingle and his ears burn.
“You’ll get nowhere if you do not focus,” another voice chimed in, much gruffer then Hanzo’s. It came from Liu Kang’s left, while Hanzo was on his right. Liu snuck a peak at Grandmaster Kuai Liang. The leader of the Lin Kuei was dressed down into casual wear, something that the fire god was not adjusted to seeing. Kuai had his eyes closed, brows and muscles alike relaxed.
“Do not focus on your breathing,” Hanzo advised. Liu Kang returned to attention, closing his eyes and facing forward once more. He could feel Hanzo’s gaze on him. “I know it is the way you were taught but it does not work each time.” Hanzo removed his hand from Liu’s shoulder and Liu could feel the immediate difference of the heated hand leaving his skin. Liu Kang held back a shiver.
“Focus on your surroundings. Focus on nature itself and allow it to guide you.” *How was Liu supposed to do that if that was what was overwhelming him in the first place?* Liu Kang took a deep breath, holding it in before puffing his cheeks and releasing it. Puffs of air came out and Liu Kang could hear Hanzo’s body shift.
The busy bodies outside of the garden seemed to grow louder the more the god tried to focus. He clenched his fists, which were on his knees. The bushes were shaking with the breeze and the birds were practically squawking—
“Try this,” Kuai Liang interrupted. Liu Kang opened his eyes, seeing the grandmaster thrust something in his direction. Liu Kang opened a fist and took the object from the other, older man.
Liu Kang looked at it closely. A flower. Burning red petals that gleamed in the sunlight. Liu Kang held it by the stem with easy fingers, trying to be careful to not squish it.
“How is this supposed to help?”
Kuai Liang looked at Liu with dark eyes. Liu thought his eyes were inviting, like a warm hearth after trekking in a snowstorm.
“Focus only on this flower,” Kuai Liang instructed. Liu Kang closed his eyes. “Feel the softness of it, focus on the smell and shape of the flower. Only on it. Nothing else matters right now.”
Liu Kang’s fingers trailed over the petals, rubbed against the stem. The fire god imagined the red, fiery petals and he inhaled. Sweet. He continued to caress the flower, envisioning the soft flora. With each detail he could feel along his fingers, Liu imagined a new part of the flower in his head. Liu Kang had no idea how long he was holding the flower, how long he was imagining the flora in his rough hands.
“Good job,” Hanzo praised. His voice caused Liu Kang to open his eyes. The flower in his hands burned to crisp as the fire for lost focus.
“Damnit,” Liu Kang griped. “I had it.”
“You did,” Hanzo mentioned with a small smile. Kuai Liang picked another flower and handed it to Liu Kang, who was flushed with emotion. “Now do it again.”
#my art#cryptidbait#fanart#mk#mortal kombat#gamer#writing drabble#writing#comic#MK comic#fandom#mortal kombat 11#mk11#Kuai Liang#hanzo x kuai#hanzo hasashi#subscorp#sub zero#scorpion#Liu Kang#fire god liu kang#poly#LiuKuaiHanzo#training arc
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Heartstar's Rise: Draft 1.0
Links: Heartstar's Character summary, Better Bones History Lesson
[ID: The Moonpool from Warrior Cats. It's a magical, circular pool with the starry reflection of the night sky on its surface. The milky way contains starry, ancestral figures. They're watching Heartstar, a gold-and-brown tabby with lightning stripes, walking away from them while soaked.]
While making Heartstar's Character Summary, I realized that when I got to Heartstar's Rise, the redux of Tigerheart's Shadow, it was a lot messier than the other "eras" of her life. So I figured it was be good form to post the fragments here, separate, until the story was more solidified.
Since then, this story's been hammered into place. While it's still open to suggestions and large edits, I'm comfortable calling this more than "fragments"-- it's a first draft of the major events of Heartstar's Rise!
This is the BB version of Tigerheart's Shadow. As opposed to canon, it takes place just after BB!AVoS instead of concurrent to, and just before Squirrelflight's Horror (BB!Squirrelflight's Hope). It details the rebirth of ShadowClan after the devastation of The Kin, the appearance of the Guardian Cats with a revamped culture, and her resurrection as Heartstar.
Current version: 1.05: The Guardian Expansion pack got more screentime at the very end, SkyClan's current deputy Waspwhisker has been mentioned, there is now a badger fight during Heartstar's stay with the Guardians, a raid on the Kin Remnants has been solidified, and Leafstar's been made consistent.
More links have also been peppered around, as well as new cover art by my partner who wishes to be credited as Gamer the Kittypet. My beloved lunatic <3
HEARTSTAR'S RISE! The book where Tigerheart becomes leader and resurrects ShadowClan.
I have a couple goals here for Heartstar's Rise, to keep in mind.
First is to show the "growing pains" for the newly arrived SkyClan, and conflict between them and the Kin refugees they're hosting. Why it doesn't work to just be one big Clan.
Show why certain characters want to go home (Blossomfall), why others want ShadowClan back, and also add a couple of characters who want to stay with SkyClan (Violetshine and her polycule of Tree and Dragonfly, as well as Olivenose of ShadowClan and one RiverClan cat, for later drafts).
IMPORTANT: Build out the Guardian Cats that Heartstar and Dovewing are going to encounter into a full culture, with their own idea of an afterlife, and "Leader Power" like the expansion I gave to the Tribe.
And here's a couple of key changes I want to point out;
AVoS was Kin-centric. Heartstar's Rise takes place right after the defeat of the Kin. BB!AVoS ends with the death of Darktail and fleeing of the Kin Remnants.
SkyClan was PRESENT for that final battle, helping to defeat the Kin and 'earning' their place at the Lake
A new code commandment was added out of solemn respect to the memory of ShadowClan; The Law of the Lake, that all Clans have a responsibility to the preservation of the others.
Several cats previously defected to the Kin, ones who felt excluded from the Clans after the Great Battle. Mainly young cats who wanted change, but also a fair amount of Dark Forest trainees, halfclan lovers, cats who will come to be called 'codebreakers.'
Blossomfall was one of them. Some of them stayed with SkyClan, others went home, lots followed Sleekwhisker into exile and became Kin Remnants.
Leaders can no longer give up their lives without losing them all, and they prevent the next leader from getting them as long as they're alive. EVEN IF they have only 1 life left. Rowanstar will call himself Rowanclaw, but he is still leader until he is dead.
Possible prophecy for Rowanstar: "Your heart will make ShadowClan rise"
Here's what I got so far;
Several cats had kittens during the Kin's reign; Ivytail (1), Yarrowleaf (2), and Blossomfall (still expecting)
I know I want to open up with Tigerheart in SkyClan, sorting through her thoughts.
First of all, she's thinking of how she spent time in ThunderClan as a refugee during the Kin Crisis, and got between 💕Dovewing💕 and bumblestripe.
She asked Dove to come with her when she left, but Dove felt that there was too much uncertainty. Tiger didn't even have her own Clan she was going back to.
Bitter, Tiger felt like she chose bumblestripe over her. The Drama.
But her Clanmates... well, what's left of ShadowClan, they need her.
Scenes of Tigerheart showing that she is friendly with lots of them, including Ivytail in particular who is suffering from lung damage from Yellowcough and the stress of the Kin Ordeal is just starting to catch up with her. Like she'd been hiding how badly the illness affected her so she'd stay useful.
Ivytail is the new mother of Gullswoop. Remember the Kit Rescue thing-- should Gullkit be taken from her right now and be possibly alive with the kin, and they don't know? May be nice to show her just wishing she knew what happened.
There's also been some tensions with SkyClan
SkyClan doesn't enjoy the bogland that was created during Blackstar's marsh project, and has set up camp in a patch of Pine Forest on the easternmost edge of ShadowClan's old territory, like they want to get away from it.
Leafstar is a fine leader and trying to integrate the big influx of new cats, but most of them are not trained to hunt well in exclusively pine forest.
Tiger's going to say it. Their food tastes like dirty butt. They overcook their prey so the meat is dry as hell, half of their favorite dishes have an unpleasant sloppy texture and the other half is ominously crunchy, and they don't even use juniper.
SkyClan, in response, is frustratingly polite about the cuisine differences. ShadowClan loves sharp, spicy tastes and will eat nearly anything, and the way SkyClan reacts to their palate feels condescending
The other Clans just go "YUCK" and ShadowClan cats revel in it. They're used to that, it's a point of pride.
SkyClan cats just go "ohhh, maybe some other time. There's no need for there to be frog and pellitory in this soup, there's already so much flavor in it already. You can just keep that for yourself. More for you :)"
So ShadowClan and SkyClan cats are having tension when assigned to Kitchen Patrol, unable to come together to make meals that please everyone, and that's 'the indicator' of the same problem everywhere else. For example;
ShadowClan cats are forming cliques and having difficulty joining the Clan broadly
SkyClan's positions of power are occupied by SkyClan cats, meaning there's no one that ShadowClan cats feel like they bring their problems to. They go to Tigerheart but her paws are also tied because of this.
Patrols are awkward as ShadowClan isn't good at hunting the same land as their hosts, this is embarrassing. SkyClan didn't even live here but they adapted to the pine forest REAL quick.
Some ex-Shadow construction crew cats are concerned that Blackstar's old dam will degrade and they'll lose cultivated marshland, but Leafstar doesn't 'get' the value in sacrificing several cats for a dedicated patrol to maintain that structure
And all the while, Rowanclaw isn't doing anything.
He hasn't replaced his deputy since Crowfrost died of lung complications due to Yellowcough and the Kin took over ShadowClan.
He's tired. There were so few survivors. Everything happened under his watch and he can't do this anymore.
IMPORTANT: I want to frame this less as "Rowanstar was an incompetent leader and this is all his fault" like canon, and make it more like Rowanstar has lost faith in himself, and THAT is what's making everyone mad at him.
It was Onestar who didn't share the Mullein they needed for the Yellowcough outbreak. It was the other Clans who didn't step in. Rowanstar should have asked for help sooner, but that aside, there was very little he could have done.
Though he's positive there must have been something.
All the while, Tigerheart displays her characteristic cheekiness. I want to adapt this fun scene I wrote where she passes Reedclaw a crayfish soup in the hopes of unsettling him and it doesn't work
DOVEWING TIME
Now that we understand why Tigerheart cares so much about her Clanmates, what they mean to her, and why she was so desperate to get back to them, it's time to visit Dovewing!
DOVEWING IS VERY HARD OF HEARING.
The hearing loss has slowed down, but there is still the threat that she could lose the rest of it.
She wakes up next to Bumblestripe, trying to sneak out of the nest to not wake him too, happy to have a little bit of alone time
Unfortunately he shoots up right away. She wracks her brain trying to think of what did it-- and realizes the nest is dry and probably made a creek she didn't hear
Sneaking has become really hard lately.
Basically some action to show some of the difficulties she's now having with her hearing loss
We get to experience a ThunderClan contrasted to the Shadow Survivors living under SkyClan. How Dovewing feels resentful to how she can't get alone time, the fact that Ivypool was rude to Tigerheart when she was around and their relationship is sour again, Mom Cinderheart and Aunt Fallenleaf and Dad Lionblaze and Stepdad Toadstep
Everything frustrates her, even harmless things.
But what's testing her patience is how cats who were telling her what to do when she had her powers are STILL telling her what to do without them
She's losing her hearing, and several cats are encouraging her to stick to 'regiments' of training. Glyph reading and writing, lipreading, picking up the modified battle command tail signs that Whitewing uses, not letting her leave camp alone
Lionblaze in particular sets her off pretty badly, even when he's 'being nice.'
Contrast to Birchfall who always makes her feel better, her mentor.
After some time of buildup, she ends up snapping at someone innocent who wasn't even really doing anything wrong. Probably Poppyfrost
Poppyfrost: "...I know you've been through a lot lately, but... you have people here for you, Bumblestripe is a good mate, you shouldn't be so afraid of having kits-"
Dove: "???????????????????????????????????? WHAT"
Poppyfrost: *about to repeat her sentence but louder but realizes, ah, that's not how she meant that.*
Dove runs off and has a panic attack
She doesn't want to raise kits now
She doesn't want to raise kits here
She doesn't want to raise kits with Bumblestripe
She doesn't want to raise kits with a bunch of cats breathing down her neck all the time, treated like she's just as much of a child as her children will be
But where will she go??
She turned down Tigerheart's offer to join SkyClan with her, and now she's pregnant with Bumblestripe's litter and he will never leave her alone
Who would take her, if not Tigerheart?
There's no place to go besides twolegplaces
But she is panicking, overwhelmed, and can't handle the idea of being here for one more minute
IF IT SUCKS HIT DA BRICKS
She bolts east, beyond the territory, not caring where she goes as long as it's not here, leaving her entire family behind
TRAVEL TIME
Tigerheart catches wind that Dovewing left ThunderClan, they're probably surprised and alarmed that she didn't join SkyClan
Poppyfrost/Whoever the cat was that realized Dove was pregnant should speak to Tiger and tell her where Dove was last seen
Tiger, being the cat who knows her best, wracks her brain thinking about where she would have gone
Barn? No, Dovewing hates that Smoky guy
North? No, probably would have scented her on the territory, and besides if you go North enough you hit a twolegplace. She can't hear the cars anymore but she would still hate the smell.
East. Definitely east.
It pains Tigerheart to leave, though. Her friends are all here, she left ThunderClan and Dovewing because they needed her, and they still do... but Dovewing is alone in the wilderness!
So, she goes. She has to.
The chapters of Tigerheart traveling are much shorter, occasionally cutting between her and Dovewing.
We next see Dovewing already with the Guardians, developing a friendship with a big cat ironically named Ant
Cutting back to Tigerheart involves her trying to figure out WHERE Dovewing went. She has to work it out backwards-- eventually finding out from a strange, singing cat that Dovewing hopped aboard a train.
The language barrier is a problem. She is able to catch something about the cat going by... Scrimblesomething.
Seamew is an interesting language, she remarks, not realizing this cat is not speaking Seamew.
Either Rippletail/Buster or Spiderfoot is here, excited that they recognize Tigerheart, asking how everyone is and catching up on all they've missed since they've left ShadowClan
They translate for Tigerheart, cuddling to the cat with the strange language, and explains what trains they must take and how to get onto them.
At least a week or two later, she finds the old Church.
GUARDIAN TIME
(Want more details on Guardians? Go here)
It's a gorgeous ruin, surrounded by lush flora that she's only ever seen in Twoleg gardens. The church is one of the most beautiful dens she's ever seen, in spite of being half-human construction, the other half is well-grown vines and sod. Like a living structure.
It's half as beautiful as Dovewing, so surely she must be here.
BIG WIP TERRITORY
I know that I want the Guardian's thing to be that they are very good caretakers of their areas. This is because these cats are BREAKAWAYS from the ancient Lake culture, the fact that their home was lost to environmental destruction gave them this cultural value.
They are much better builders than any other group. Clan cats have a specialty for Combat, Tribe cats have a specialty for Hunting, Guardians are Construction.
They rely on managing prey-rich territory and their fighting ability is really just enough to defend themselves.
The same way that Clan cats have Stars and Tribe cats have a Stoneteller, Guardians have their own unique power. Their leader (the "Groundskeeper"; 'warriors' are Gardeners) has a supernatural ability to understand what's inside their 'sphere of influence,' and the needs of any plants that live there.
So in a roundabout way, the leader is all-seeing as long as their territory is verdant. Grass and moss can tell them exactly where an animal is stepping, and how large it is.
So it was known immediately that Tigerheart was just a single cat, not an invading group
Dovewing has been fitting in pretty well with these cats. They speak a completely different language, one that Dovewing couldn't understand even if she could hear it.
They have a couple chapters exploring how life could be different. Tigerheart aches thinking about the dam back home and how the simple lattices they use just to grow flowers puts Blackstar's ambitious project to shame.
They grow close with some of the Guardians' younger members, plus an older one who tries to meet Tigerheart's language halfway.
It turns out that this person is called Spiresight. He's been the leader of the Guardians this whole time, but Tigerheart was only able to learn this after learning enough Guardmew to understand it.
He teaches her the word for "spire," the highest point on the church ruin. A vantage point from which you can see for miles and miles.
Dovewing has her kits-- Lightkit and Shadowkit.
(I've cut Pouncekit for now... but I've got half a mind to bring them back and have them contribute to Shadowkit's trauma. Unsure.)
Around the time that Dovewing gives birth, a family of badgers digs a sett riiiight on the border of the territory.
By the time the kittens are toddling around, the sett has shown itself to be a problem that must be dealt with.
Tigerheart is bold and egotistical, but she's a very good commander. Clan cats have a cultural specialty in combat and battle tactics.
So I want her to be able to help the Guardians out by dealing with this sett, while also keeping in mind to avoid the way canon frames Clan cats as "superior" for this.
(Tigerheart should have problems sharing her battle plans with the Guardian cats because of linguistic and cultural differences, until she draws plans in the dirt and, suddenly, The Groundskeeper seems to have it click.)
But, in the process, a cat dies during the attack. We get to see a Guardian funeral rite, where the cat is buried in its family grove to become part of the territory.
This event is one of Shadowsight's earliest memories. That this cat died for a "heroic cause," and that it's important and meaningful that its body now becomes part of the earth to serve its family forevermore.
Still, some of the Guardians are growling about Tigerheart's gambit for this. If they'd just poisoned the badgers like usual, this wouldn't have happened.
Some time later, after the kits fall asleep Dovewing asks Tigerheart; "What does a Clan mean to you?"
she continues before she can answer: "To me it means trees, the forest, it's something you work for. Everyone gives something to it and that makes it greater than the sum of its parts."
Tigerheart frowns at that, thinking of how she's going to share her response.
Especially now that Dovewing is so hard of hearing. She starts to wonder if she can demonstrate this visually.
So she draws Rowanstar, Strikestone, and Ivytail. A crayfish. A bowl around the crayfish like she was making it into soup. The grave of Flametail with the flowers around it. Frogs. Dawnpelt with three little kittens at her side.
She really gets into it, pouring her heart into the drawing, it gets bigger and bigger, she has to stand up and move around
And just when Dovewing thinks that either Tigerheart's lost her marbles or forgotten she's there, she starts drawing circles around the little doodles, and then lines that connect the circles all together
The last thing she draws is a final bubble, and connects that to a line in the web that binds all these things together.
In that empty bubble, she writes, "Clan."
Dovewing stares at that, unmoving, her expression serious and thoughtful.
It hits Dovewing, in that moment, that Tigerheart has a very different idea of what a Clan is. Dovewing believes it's about service, sacrifice, the things that Lionblaze taught her. That you're born as an asset, and your responsibility is to contribute to that collective as much as possible
But Tigerheart believes that a Clan is all the connections between the things associated with it. That it's a series of links between friends, family, land, and prey. That to be 'part' of a Clan is to be part of the fabric.
She thinks back to ThunderClan, even the people she loves like Birchfall, and the pressure they put on her to 'meet' her potential at all times
The contrast to what she likes about this life, with the Guardians, so much slower and more laidback. No expectations, no glory.
She thinks about her kittens, how Tigerheart fell in love with them immediately, her worries that she would have nowhere to go. That Tigerheart HAS somewhere to return to, where she wants to be.
I want to retool the line from the canon version, where Dovewing says "I will never make you choose between your Clan and me." Something about the line bugs me.
I want to retool it to either Tigerheart assuring her she'll stay with her no matter what and Dovewing deciding that's not right either, or the two of them having a synthesis where Dovewing decides that home is wherever Tigerheart is
Dunno, still thinking about it.
BUT IN ANY CASE--
Spire and some of the other cats Dovewing got close to come up. Spire is touched.
Drawing all that on the ground communicated something deep to him. It was a beautiful way to demonstrate Tigerheart's connections. Re:Guardian Power; connection to their territory.
He asks them if they're going back home. Tigerheart confirms yes, and Spiresight is not surprised. He reveals that some cats want to join them.
Ant, Cinnamon, and Blaze all have their reason for why they want to come
Ant has became a good friend of theirs, especially to Dovewing. She's big and sturdy and wants to help them get home with the kittens; she'll go wherever Dove goes.
(she doesn't doubt Tigerheart's enthusiasm or love of the kits or anything, but she's SO small. Ant has a mental image of this weasel-woman trying to carry the absolute badger that is Shadowkit and decides she CANNOT let them go alone)
Cinnamon is bored, she wants to try new things and go to new lands. She's tired of growing roses, and has never seen a 'swamp' before.
Blaze is a young cat, mid to late apprentice-aged by Clan standards, who REALLY loved being part of that battle and looks up to Tigerheart. Decides he wants to be a Warrior more than he's ever wanted anything else.
In-canon, Spiresight comes along too but I'm not keeping that in BB. He's the adopted father of Blaze, but he needs to remain behind as the Groundskeeper.
Part of it is that Blaze wants to make a new legacy separate from his father, be his own person. Tigerheart promises to watch over him.
REFORMATION OF SHADOWCLAN TIME
They go home and I'm still working on this
I do not care much about the journey back honestly, in-canon the whole thing with the train and drawbridge was cool but I'm not interested in retelling it honestly.
It's not what's emotionally important
I think I want to do something here where Tigerheart returns and we BRING UP THAT KIT RESCUE THING
Instead of Tiger like, dying to a random owl, she dies in this raid. In hindsight Canon!Tigerheart's Shadow feels like it's full of quicktime events.
Anyway, I need to construct a situation where Leafstar refuses to attack the Kin Remnants and steal children.
So, Yarrowleaf breaks away from the Kin Remnants to re-join the Clans, without her children in tow. and begs them to go back and help her win her children because they aren't safe with Nettle.
Leafstar can't tell if Yarrowleaf is lying or not.
She was part of the Kin just as much as Nettle was. How can Leafstar be sure that YARROWLEAF wasn't the abusive one?
"Why were you exiled?"
"Because Sleekwhisker believed him when he lied about me! I'd never hurt my own kits, he did!"
Leafstar remembers another situation scarily similar to this. That time her traitor of a deputy, Sharpclaw, dragged SkyClan into a violent conflict on Stick's behalf, giving an abusive father the power to murder his pregnant daughter for choosing Harley as a mate.
Red's blood isn't on her claws, but it is on her paws. If she hadn't trusted Stick without getting the other side of the story first, or if she hadn't let herself get bullied by her own deputy, or maybe if she'd rightfully done something about him after that...
Maybe she could have avoided how The Kin recruited so much of SkyClan in the first place.
Ivytail's child is with the Kin Remnants, but Gullkit is still being cared for as far as they know, and at her age she's definitely become attached to a caretaker. Leafstar does not feel right about attacking them and stealing three children.
Like... something like that. She's not being unreasonable, she does actually have very good reasons for not immediately organizing a battle patrol, but the Shadow cats are understandably upset.
When she tries to offer some kind of reasonable diplomacy to speak with Sleekwhisker about this, the ex-ShadowClan cats immediately start yowling and jeering in frustration.
Waspwhisker, Leafstar's deputy (Hawkwing is still just a warrior), is gazing at the angry crowd with a dour expression. Forest Four cats really don't respect anything but violence, it seems.
I want to display that Tigerheart as a leader will make controversial, ShadowClan-centric choices, and has a very, "diplomacy is how I get what I want" mindset.
Leafstar: "Wow this is a complicated situation and I'm not sure what the right call is here, I think I'll play it safe and watch the situation evolve before making a choice I regret."
Tigerheart: "Wow this is a complicated situation. Good thing I'm always right and incapable of being wrong, ever 💕"
Rowanclaw is still refusing to lead, backing up Leafstar. He says there is no ShadowClan.
--Tigerheart has entered the group chat
"damn bitches youre living like this"
Big damn speech: "I've gone far in my travels, met strange cats and lived by their ways. I've become a refugee of ThunderClan, a warrior of SkyClan, a grower of the Guardians, and a traveler with no home at all. I became a lover, a mother, like a Star with each life I became something new and yet remained the same. We are ShadowClan cats, and it's time we made our own choices!"
YEEHOOO
The cats who want to re-join ShadowClan return to the south of their territory, to the old camp in the marshier parts of the bog.
There, they start making plans to get their kittens back.
THE RAID ON THE REMNANTS
This is a big change from canon, btw, where Sleek comes home to escape the Kin remnants with Yarrowleaf, but then she decides she likes some of the Kin remnants, so they steal children as revenge on Rowanstar for letting the Kin happen?? And torment Yarrowleaf by threatening to KILL those kids because she's evil or something idk what the hell the writers were getting at
In BB, I want it to remain ambiguous on if it was Yarrowleaf or Nettle who was lying.
You can guess based on how awful The Kin was, and Yarrowleaf's moral character, but it's always that. A guess. There won't be a confirmation of guilt one way or the other.
Nettle dies in this raid and the Kin Remnants are going to go very far away after this, so only Yarrowleaf's side of the story remains to be told.
INSERT A BIG BATTLE HERE.
It's a surprise ambush by ShadowClan on the Kin Remnant's camp. Fast, hard, chaotic.
The Kin Remnants are small but fight back FEROCIOUSLY. Sleekwhisker is just as good of a commander as her aunt is, quickly recovering from the element of surprise and organizing her clowder into a defensive stance.
Ivytail, who was willing to fight to the death to get her kitten back, was reunited with Gullkit for only a brief time. She successfully grabbed her daughter but died of blood loss and infection later.
It's bloody, lots of injuries. Rowanstar arrives in the last minutes to aid the fight, and gets killed... along Tigerheart.
But Rowanstar comes back to life and Tiger doesn't
Got killed in her first fight. GIRLBOSS
Rowanstar wakes up at what should be his daughter's funeral.
Shadowkit is staring at Tigerheart's body (ANOTHER formative moment unlocked)
Dovewing should be sad, but she looks furious. She's a hulking, angry beast, glaring down at Tigerheart's tiny body.
Mid-obituary, interrupting whatever Puddleshine was saying, she straightup snatches the corpse
Explains NOTHING, BYE
In another draft I may just explain the aftermath here, have Rowanstar wake up after Dovewing has already done some preemptive graverobbing and learn from Tawnypelt that she's run to the Moonpool
In any case, the next scene is the climax
ROWANSTAR'S DEATH
Seeing Tigerheart here, at Dovewing's feet, the reflection of the pool turning her starry-silver...
Rowanclaw's stomach is cold like ice
Tawnypelt tries to reason with Dovewing, ask what she thought was going to happen
Dovewing doesn't answer, if she can hear her at all. The rage is melting away into despair.
Hope is slipping away like raindrops through claws, like stars at the start of a cruel dawn
Like a son to icy cracks, a daughter to a pied piper, a deputy to another leader's selfish games
The thought of several MORE lives of losing everything is unbearable. His claws slide out. He had rejected his name, but he is a leader now.
"Tigerheart is my deputy!" He bellows at the stars, charges forth, and splashes into the water with her under his paws
He kicks furiously, swimming as deep as he can.
His vision blurs and fades, bursting into a starry field of colors and awestruck ancestors.
They say nothing. His gaze darts from cat to cat, until he spots Tigerheart there among them.
When he plunges back into life, he swims harder
His lungs are burning and his muscles ache, the pressure of the water crushing him, and there's no bottom in sight
Each time he dies, he sees Tigerheart there, next to Flametail and Dawnpelt, Newtspeck, Littlecloud
And each time he comes back he sees her face below his claws.
When he comes back the last time, her eyes burst open and she thrashes at the claws gently lodged in her chest fur with confusion
Rowanstar is fading away, but finds the last bit of strength in his body to flip them, lodge his paws onto her belly, and thrust her up
Beams of starlight dancing on his face, Rowanstar is embraced by the endless darkness at the bottom of the Moonpool.
Heartstar bursts from the pool, coughing, sputtering, fur clinging to her body and looking like a wet rat
Without hesitation, Dovewing leaps into the pool, teary eyed and calling her name
"dOVEWING you wont BELIEVE what I've been through"
The newly-named Heartstar is marveling about her death, her fetching, how she was looking at the patrons of Silverpelt before Rowanstar plucked her out
Dovewing hauls her out of the water and starts licking her dry, and Tawnypelt moves to join them but hesitates. She look back at the Moonpool.
The thick ripples lap at the rim for a moment, vanishing rapidly as if the water was smoothing itself out.
Soon, it's as still as the day it was discovered, liquid-black and reflecting starlight as if it were a fallen piece of the night sky.
Tawnypelt stares down into the darkness, seeing nothing but the sky above.
"Be starlight that lights my path, Rowanstar. I love you."
She goes to help Dovewing dry off Heartstar.
Epilogue
One week later, Heartstar is assessing her Clan.
The cats address her as Heartstar; confirmation that it is bad luck for cats to share a title.
That's a reason why the ancestors are consulted before warrior name ceremonies, and they gave Heartstar a new name when she rose
Translator's note: Though her suffix was -babun, "heartbeating," her new prefix is the future tense, Babi, "heart will beat." It's in reference to her resurrection.
The kittens that were won in the raid are acclimating.
Oatkit and Flaxkit are doing pretty well, all things considered. They are surrounded by family, after all.
(Yarrowleaf isn't Snowbird's daughter anymore, but she was her apprentice. Likely a niece-in-law, making her the cousin of Berryheart.)
Gullkit is still having a hard time. Her mother succumbed to her injuries days after the rescue, dying suddenly in the middle of telling Gullkit a story about her grand-uncle Blackstar.
As the oldest kitten, just a moon or two away from apprentice age, the younger kits tend to flock to her.
But she has behavior problems, telling lies and starting drama on purpose.
Solid mentorship will help her a lot, Heartstar's already thinking of options. She would take the little slug herself, if she hadn't chosen to give Blazepaw an official mentorship.
While making the rounds, Blossomfall approaches Heartstar.
"I've been thinking about what you said, about living a dozen lives but still having ShadowClan be part of you. I think I feel the same way... I want my kits to know their auncles"
Heartstar does the cat equivalent of clucking her tongue, "will they take you take you tho"
"Yes assholestar. They reached out to me, my family wants me to come home"
Heartstar sighs in lament. One adult warrior and three future ones is a lot to lose. But,
"Divided loyalties won't do anyone any good. Well, if ThunderClan wants you back, it's worth taking a crackle at!"
"Your puns suck" (Blossomeese for thank you)
Construction patrol comes back, caked with mud. Cinnamontail fits right in. She's got some great ideas about lattices, whatever that means
Antfur is with her, along with Happyface. Ironically, this is the first time she's ever seen the young cat look happy.
After all this, assuring that everything is running smoothly, Heartstar finally gets to loaf down next to her wife and a crayfish soup, perfectly spiced.
There are still problems; SkyClan takes territory to the east, and RiverClan got waay too comfy with having exclusive fishing rights in the dammed pond and marshland to the west. Knowing Mistystar, she'll start throwing her weight around in the next moon as the seasons change, and when that happens SkyClan will be an issue as Shadow needs that territory
But for now, ShadowClan is thriving, Lightkit and Shadowkit are growing well, and Juniperclaw is a fine deputy like his father Crowfrost.
Next to Dovewing and the rest of her friends and allies, in the mud and the mushrooms, marshy moss underfoot and wet, chilly breeze that calms a wild heart above... they are finally home.
#Heartstar's Rise#Better bones au#Heartstar#Bb!tigerheartstar#Amazing what free time while waiting on a train can do for your writing#BB!Tigerheart#BB!Heartstar#Gamer-the-kittypet art
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#hey gamers#twisted wonderland#twst#idia shroud#floyd leech#lilia vanrouge#karma#jojo siwa#i had such terrible artblock help#ya'll have no idea#anyways#i may start posting more of my art here do to insta being shit#(they're taking our art to train ai#and have made it impossible to object against that AUGHHH)
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Logan Lerman
Gamer
#logan lerman#my edit#loganlermanedit#llermanedit#lermanedit#actorsedit#celebsedit#dailycelebs#dailymen#dailymenedit#dailymencelebs#dailymensource#dailymale#dailymalestarsedit#dailymalecelebs#dailymalesource#flawlesscelebs#flawlessgentlemen#mancandykings#menedit#mensource#malesource#we were the lucky ones#perks of being a wallflower#the perks of being a wallflower#percy jackson#hunters#bullet train#gamer
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Streamin’ Dragon Age!
#gamer girl#gamer gf#gamergirl#girls with piercings#girls with tattoos#egirl#cam gurl#hot egirls#bimbo training
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toku oc repost dump (+ my spider-sona bc she's toku themed)
Haiki Bombus/BumbleOhger - KingOhger OC
White & Violet Beast-X Rangers - Beast Morphers OCs
Kamen Rider Haunt - Geats OC
Ann-Marie Jane/Spider-Rider - Spidersona
#power rangers#super sentai#kamen rider#kamen rider geats#kingohger#beast morphers#go-busters#astv#spidersona#my art#my ocs#tokusatsu oc#haiki's an engineer from n'kosopa who claims to be kaguragi's illegitimate daughter bc the reality of her situation is too much for her#(her real bio dad's just some deadbeat from toufu who abandoned her mom)#she builds her own ohgercalibur and faux shugod to help out the kings - eventually she's officially adopted by kaguragi#and welcomed into the dybowski family#white and violet are grid battleforce trainees who are stuck in a virtual recreation of coral harbor when their training sim#got infected by a bad virus - instead of beast bots they have holographic assistants called beast-xtels#(Beast-X Intelligences)#i flip-flop on their relationship but right now they're bi girl and her gamer bf coded#haunt is kind of an anti-hero from a previous dgp who projects an air of laidback chill friendliness#- but they'll backstab if they see an opportunity to get away with it#they're a street kid who didn't grow up with much and that kind of made them a bit cut-throat but their wish is to live comfortably#with a loving family - but they die saving another rider they'd grown close to#which would be the first selfless act they've done in YEARS#yeah theyre kind of a tragic figure *pretentious*#then spider-rider is just an alt version of mj who accidentally got possession of a bio-mechanical symbiote (device on her wrist)#codenamed PP-62 by the Osborn Collective (she calls him pete)#her villains are mercenaries and scientists that come after her from OsCo to reclaim pete#her love interest is also a version of gwen who gets her own symbiote codenamed EB-88 (eddie) and helps her out as ghost spider
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He's ok! I think! Maybe! Probably...
anyways late night saturday vrchat session was a thing that happened and it sure was chaotic as you'd expect we didn't get a lot of pictures but we do have these ones! :D hoping to add emotes to the tempo soon, but alas....visemes are hard to work with. hopefully i can get it sorted out soon! i def wanna get the silly emotes working oh yeah don't mind the basil omor in the third image that's just @komasan192
also im fully willing to plan out a vrchat session for harmoknight tumblr! i usually do em on friday, saturday, and sunday nights since thats when im mainly free :D maybe this weekend? :0
#harmoknight#phione's rambling#vrchat#i shared the tomodachi life lore with a friend during the gamering#most of us lost our shit it was so fucking funny#i wanna work on more avatars...maybe tappy next#i looked at gargans model and i've come to the realization that im legally not smart enough to figure out how to make the face work#meanwhile tyko's model ended up being in multiple parts and i dont think thats how it works???#i might end up seeing how ninja ripper works for ariana lyra and woodwin#oh and training tempo too#i really want those models ripped aaaa#OH yeah#i think tempo is ready [even though literally nothing has changed with him since last post]#im not. great at modeling or unity so his visemes are a little wonky#they dont really. move with the face which is weird#but you know what he works and that's what matters to me#he also has his staff toggle but idk how to make it work on pc im sorry pc users#im really not familiar with all the unity stuff!! sorry!!
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Mr. Game & Watch doesn’t get the love and recognition he deserves!
🍳🎮🐙
#history#game and watch#nintendo#1980s#gunpei yokoi#video game history#japan#bullet train#busniess#invention#nintendo history#video games#gamer girl#super smash bros#super smash bros ultimate#ssbu#japanese history#portable gaming#gaming innovation#gameboy#ds#3ds#ps vita#nintendo switch#steam deck#nickys facts
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#blightbrxt#alternative girl#girl with tattoos#alt girls#alt girl#sexy redhair#red hair#emo girl#long hair#egirlvibes#orange hair#neon girl#great legs#scene girl#altgirl#alternative girls#big smile#girls in jeans#only friends#soft uwu#so hot so hot#pink hair#cute aesthetic#gamer girl#sexy outfit#outdoor photoshoot#brat training#brat things#brat goddess#bratlife
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who has the dan colorblind list i have something to add
dan saying 'blue donut' in his guild wars 2 interview and then the actual game designer sayings its purple (x)
'maybe that's just us weird europeans' girl no you just can't see red
#also rewatching those two videos is a secret comfort of mine like despite not understanding any of it i love nerdy fanboy dan SO MUCH#i love his reaction to spoilers and his passsion for the game and encouraging people to get out their and join guilds#and how he flips between presenter dinof and dweeb gamer living the actual dream#and how he seems legitimately starstruck and nervous around lena and frosty so he keeps directing everything back to rubi#which i wonder if it was just thats who he'd talked to and was comfortable with or she just happened to exist on his right side#and his body is kinetically trained to turn that way#anyway ily gw2 nerd dan you are so one of us <3333333333
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guess who got fucking rejected by the trans clinic for the second time 🥰
#I love trans healthcare#fuck this shitass country#like I paid 40 euro for a train trip early in the morning to get asked weird questions and to get told I'm too fat for any fucking treatmen#like wow at least it's a different reason than before#a fucking bmi decided my fate#that was the only thing that mattered in the one and a half hours of conversation#just that fucking number#I mean idk what I should expect we used to require trans people to have confirmation of sterility for legal gender change a few years ago#but fucking hell#I'm incredibly pissed#welfare state my ass#I tried to convince myself I didn't want bottom surgery before because I knew this could happen#and I know I'll probably never be able to afford that outside of the official channels#yay yippee#death to finland#fuck the world#idk#bad post sorry gamers
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Just got fucking drowned in the rain good lord
#gamer txt.#i srtated getting stressed near the end of my walk so i started singing devils train to myself#i almost finished singing it when i got to the train station
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me pulling out a whiteboard: okay so here's how us sparrow apologists can still win-
#cal rambles#dndads spoilers#OK BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH#at some point Hero's training stopped and they stopped going as hard on her right.#like she would NOT have the time to have a part time pizza job and a NASA internship and be a weeb and a gamer if that was not the case#and i genuinely believe at one point Sparrow realized this was not what she wanted and backed off#leading to the kiddads focusing more on finding a solution themselves instead of involving Hero#OKAY thats my thought process#also think Lark was the main one training her tbh#like Hero's relationship with her three parental figures are all strained#and im not saying what they did was RIGHT or that it makes up for it#but like. Somehow at some point Hero was set free of her duties and someone had to be the one to let her go#and I dont think its Lark 'gets really intense about killing the Doodler' Oak#ALSO SOMETHINGS UP WITH REBECCA
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