#go across canons and it'll get worse

[uncannydevotion]

a/n: this is kinda based on my creepypasta boyfriend scenarios that i sorta abandoned after quotev died fgdjksfgs i miss it but it's kinda bad so i might just start over one day. idk. anyways bc of tht it'll include all the characters i had in tht story so <3 this is gonna be pretty short btw!!

includes: slenderman, jeff the killer, eyeless jack, homicidal liu, the bloody painter, and brian thomas.

warnings: mentions of injuries nd murder in slender's part, thoughts of harm against reader in both jeff and ej's parts, depictions of murder in jeff's part, cannibalism in ej's part, i can't think of any warnings for liu nd helen, post-mh canon that im making up for brian where he lives, some vague depictions of the sickness in brian's part.

SLENDERMAN

Truth be told, Slender found itself feeling very confused after its encounter with you. It isn't sure if it has ever met a human that didn't flee at the mere sight of it. Even after all the static it forced upon you, you wanted to help it.

Not that it needed your help, really. It was used to people trying to hunt it. No human would ever be able to kill it, even if it did end up getting injured.

A mild injury, at that, but one you tended to nonetheless. Like it was a normal person. Like it couldn't tear you apart in the blink of an eye if it so desired.

And the weirdest thing is...

Slender doesn't want to kill you.

It was never fond of people trespassing in its forest, truthfully. Humans were annoying creatures. Expendable ones, at that. But you're the first one to ever worry about it. It found that to be interesting.

And it rarely ever found a human interesting. Perhaps that's why it didn't have any interest in killing you. Rather, it wanted to study you. Surely there must be something wrong with you to not be afraid of it, right?

Something it could exploit, something it could use to break you down and turn you into another proxy.

Hm...

Why does the thought of you becoming its proxy make it feel strange? How... interesting. Annoying, even. A feeling it wishes to study further, given the opportunity.

When it no longer felt your presence in the forest, Slender found itself hoping to meet you again soon. Preferably when there's not someone trying, and failing, to kill it.

JEFF THE KILLER

Jeff was feeling pretty damn frustrated, to say the least. He'd been eyeing you for weeks, planning out the perfect time and perfect way to carve you up so you'd end up on the news. He was never supposed to interact with you.

But then some drunk bastard had to get all up in your business on your walk home, and he was not going to risk some other guy killing you before he got the chance to.

Even worse, Jeff had given you his name. All because of your damn frown when he had tried to ignore you.

What the fuck was wrong with him!?

Really, the only way to vent his anger and frustration was by brutally murdering the man who had harassed you.

But even as the blood stained his clothes and his hands, you never left his mind. You, and your stupid fucking smile, and your stupid gratitude.

He knows you're not an idiot. You know that he's been watching you for a while now, and yet you spoke to him so easily. You thanked him like he was someone who deserved it. Maybe you were an idiot, actually.

The knife sunk into the drunkard's chest, and Jeff sighs in mild annoyance when he realizes the man had finally died.

It all ended far too quickly for his liking, and it looks like he went a little overboard this time.

This was all your fault.

He needed to see the life leave your eyes. Maybe then this annoying feeling in his chest will go away, and you'll finally leave his thoughts.

EYELESS JACK

Jack was feeling rather pleased with himself.

When he entered that neighborhood tonight in search for some dinner, he had made a pretty decent meal out of some guy. He was still feeling pretty hungry by the time he had finished, so it felt like fate when a light shined through the window and illuminated him.

He met your gaze across the street from the safety of your own home, blood staining his hands as he lowered the mans lung from his mouth.

You'd be his next meal, he decides.

And as soon as you looked away from the window, Jack was discarding his forgotten dinner and sneaking his way across the street to your home. It wasn't hard breaking in, your window to your bedroom having been cracked open.

It didn't take him long to find you either, sitting in your kitchen staring at your coffee machine, looking as if you were going to fall asleep right then and there.

You had acted so calm at the sight of him, and it didn't take him long to realize that you thought you were hallucinating from some form of sleep deprivation.

So, obviously, he was going to use that to his advantage. He asked to eat you, and you had agreed. Well, you set some conditions. Something about being on your deathbed. That's neither here nor there.

All he cared about was the fact that he was going to be able to make a meal out of you in the future, he just had to wait for you to drop dead.

He'll make sure to pay a visit to you again soon, to keep you healthy. He wants you to taste good, after all.

HOMICIDAL LIU

As soon as you left Liu alone in the church, he could practically feel the excitement coming from Sully, the man basically crowding his mind asking if they'd see you again soon.

He's not sure what you did, but you certainly made a lasting impression on his alter. Which was shocking, in all honesty, because there's not many things that can keep Sully's attention.

Maybe that's why you were still alive. He can't remember a single time Sully spared someone, even if it meant getting his ass beat and leaving Liu to tend to the wounds.

Of course, just the fact that you had tried to kill him left Liu with many questions. You seemed... trained. Like a professional, almost. Sorta like a hitman, honestly. Which made him wonder... did someone put a hit on him?

Crazy line of thought, honestly, but given the way his life has turned out, it's not all that shocking.

Sully is the one who comes up with the idea of searching for you. If you were a hitman, then they could employ you to help find Jeff.

And while Liu didn't like the idea of getting an outsider involved in his... family drama, if that's what you want to call it, it wasn't a bad idea. He had reached a dead end, so an extra set of eyes could be useful.

And lucky for Liu, he was pretty good at tracking people down. He'd see you again in no time, surely.

THE BLOODY PAINTER

Helen had joined this art class mostly out of boredom. He didn't need anyone to teach him how to draw, he just... needed something to do when he wasn't searching for a new person to make a project out of.

Honestly, a few weeks into joining the class, he had considered dropping out. But then you showed up, and you started interacting with him.

It was never anything major, just a small greeting every time you crossed paths. It was enough to make Helen aware of you, and that was enough to draw him in.

He knew you weren't interested in art. You were probably only there out of boredom as well. You rarely ever tried when it came to drawing, but he could see the potential in you.

So when the teacher of the class presented an optional project to participate in, Helen was already getting up from his seat to ask you to be his partner in this project.

He didn't need you to draw, he just needed you to be his model.

Not to mention you were the only person in this whole class that he felt remotely comfortable working with. The other people who attended this class were all... reminders.

They made him think of people he'd rather not think about.

But you were different. Special.

He'd make sure to paint you the perfect portrait.

BRIAN THOMAS

Brian was completely out of it when he had first met you, honestly. He was still trying to process that fact that he was alive, somehow. Memories of his death making his head pound, confusion the only thing he can feel other than pure and utter nausea.

Truth be told, a part of him thinks you're someone he conjured up in his mind to keep himself alive a little longer.

It's not until he takes a long shower and pops some pain meds that he's able to gather some of his thoughts and come to terms with the fact that you were one, very real, and two, he was... far away from home.

He's not even sure what town he was in right now, let alone what state. All he knew was that he had been taken to some shitty motel by someone who probably should've dragged his ass to a hospital instead.

And when Brian no longer felt like he was going to die from the world's worst migraine, he found himself revisiting the place you had found him.

Some abandoned and overgrown park in the forest bordering this weird town where the locals pretended he didn't exist.

Partly because it was the only secluded place he could think of where he could look through footage on the camera he had been carrying with him for some reason.

But mostly because he wanted to see you again. To thank you for helping him out when you had.

Not to be dramatic, but he probably would've actually died if you hadn't been there, so.

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

You know that feeling when you want to make a good impression and eveything you do feels low-key humiliating

Or when you're just perpetually mortified about every word that leaves your mouth by default regardless of what's happening or who you're talking to like I am—

ANYWAY HERE'S SOME HEADCANONS ABOUT THE BOYS BEING EMBARASSED OR SOMETHING—

Oooh Nooooo

Zoro, Sanji, Shanks, Mihawk, Buggy x Reader

Needless pointless fluff with the tiniest bit of hurt-comfort or something

Live-action or anime/manga canon, either or both

I don't think there are any TWs?

Sorry for wasting all of our time with this silliness

Anyway here's some Nu.

Zoro

He just pushes himself much too hard sometimes.

Sitting down and "taking a nap" after training, when he's clearly well beyond his limit.

Or rather "passing out from utter exhaustion with his swords unsheathed across his lap."

It could have ended a lot worse than a rogue wave washing across the deck and a gash on his arm.

Grumbling about how he's fine and doesn't need any help the whole time you're wrapping bandages around his arm and chiding him.

Going silent and tense for a moment when you wrap him in a tight hug and softly ask him to be more careful.

No, he's not blushing, he's never blushed in his entire life, shut up

Hugging you back? What are you talking about?

Gives a little growl of annoyance, refusing to let you go for longer than he's willing to admit, and will probably say it was for your benefit if anyone asks.

Sanji

The old *whoops* with the pepper shaker.

It had already been a long day, he was just trying to wind down in the kitchen.

Trying to season a very simple, very straightforward sauce.

And the entire lid falls off of the pepper shaker, and into the pot, along with a massive pile of ground black pepper.

And he just lets out a groan of defeat, dropping to his knees and letting his forehead fall against the edge of the stove with a weak little thunk.

But no no no, you're already hurrying over to help scoop out the excess pepper, reassuring him that it'll definitely be fine.

Your rush to assist him is enough to make him smile in itself, to let out a small affectionate chuckle as he watches you grimace at the taste the ruined sauce, before you meet his eye and try to fake a smile.

Decides to repurpose the sauce in question, to get back at the idiots that loosened the pepper shaker lid in the first place.

The two of you are left snickering to yourselves while the rest of the crew fights over the nearest jug of fresh water after tasting it themselves.

Shanks

Man could probably drop a knife and sever three of his toes and still manage to laugh it off, what is "embarrassment...?"

Well, it's a little more subtle.

It's having to relearn how to use both a sword and a pen after losing half of his dominant arm.

It's laughing off how his handwriting looks like a child's now.

It's getting mildly annoyed at trying to button a shirt one-handed and simply tucking it into his belt instead.

It's refusing help with simple tasks that could be made far simpler if the stubborn idiot would just let you help already—

It's hearing him chuckle and agree when you call him a stubborn idiot for refusing any help, settling his hand in your hair and pulling you close.

The whole process is embarrassing in itself, but he's got you, and he's got his crew, and that makes it all so much easier.

Mihawk

What on earth could he possibly have to be embarrassed about?

World's Greatest Swordsman, one of the seven Warlords, with a sense of wit as devastating as his blade.

And yet, despite all his efforts to hide it, he's just a big softie.

As if it wasn't already evident from how he allowed Zoro to live after challenging him and subsequently trained him, with the convenient excuse of wanting a worthy rival.

He's going to glare at you with a sharpness that could slice clean through diamond if you suggest out loud that he did any of it out of kindness, much less fondness.

But he's also going to sigh in an irritable sort of defeat when you kiss his cheek and compliment him for finding such a perfect balance between mercy and murder.

And mumble just as irritably about how you're lucky he finds you endearing enough to keep around, begrudgingly proving your point without even realizing it.

Buggy

Lives in a perpetual state of embarrassment that he tries to mask with haughtiness and aggression.

It mostly revolves around the elephant in the room.

The very red, very round elephant in the room, attached to the very center of his face.

The one he might just slaughter anyone for mentioning in front of him.

Who nose what that could possibly be *wink-wink*nudge-nudge**stupidest-pun*

But the second you plant a kiss there and say how cute it is, in a way that makes it clear you're not condescending or taunting him about it, he's too busy blushing and sputtering over his words to remember what he was supposed to be angry about in the first place.

[scivors]

My genuine head canons about Eddie Gluskin that I wrote in my notes app:

I'd like to add a little disclaimer: these head canons involve some heavy topics, so, if you're not comfortable, you aren't obligated to stay.

Also, I do not support any of Eddie's actions..just to make it clear..

ANYWAYS I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS SO HERE WE GO

Like the idea of him being a tailor (if you don't know what that means it basically means a person whose occupation is making or altering suits, jackets, and dresses typically to fit a particular person.) He's so creative and almost patient enough to work with materials. I also like to think that's something he shares in common with his mother who must've taught him a good few things about creating and measurements..

He'll hum a little tune to himself as he's working, makes him concentrate more..

It's not always, though, sometimes he loses his patience if the sewing machine isn't cooperating like it should be..

Although his whole character is based on "love" and wanting to find a special bride who loves him just as much as he loves his bride, it's sad to say that his needs will never be fulfilled..

What I mean by this is that not only are his delusions serving him zero purpose but not only that, hurting anyone that comes across him cause he's so desperate to be loved. However, these delusions could be a result of a coping mechanism from all the trauma he went through.

It's like trying to break the generational trauma but instead making it far worse than you could imagine..

So, being severely damaged as he already is, he takes it upon himself to somehow create this little world where he has a family of his own, a beautiful wife and children.

I also like to think of him being trapped in his little cell where he has nothing but a bed and his own little imagination.., staring off into either the ceiling or some random thing and just sits there..,maybe even talking to himself or laughing..

- His mother's lack of acknowledgement for what had happened to him when he was small made him develop some sense of protective nature as a fully grown adult especially when he mentions the topic about having his own children..

- "He appears so charming and friendly" is what he wants some to believe, he cares about how he presents himself time to time..

He wants you to believe he can be good, a perfect groom, a perfect father he never had. He will show you this people pleasing, gentle, kind and loving personality before he completely switches up and becomes the opposite..

- So, about the love part. Some describe him as overly obsessive, which don't get me wrong, he is. Though, it might seem like this isn't much of a big deal to him cause he will show you every ounce of love he has and shower you with it, if you plan on giving yourself to him that is. You'd be his number one priority, you'll never feel like a choice, you are his everything.. It's always like living the dream from the very start, it'll feel like a movie in Hollywood but slowly yet surely this doesn't last how it should...

Imagine being taken care of by someone as charming and loving as he is, imagine him calling you loving words in his English accent and no I'm not just talking about "darling" , I'm talking about :

"Are you alright, my love?"

"Your virtues have so strangely taken up my thoughts.."

"I think you're stunning.."

"You look as pretty as always.."

He is old fashioned, so he will eventually take it upon himself to act like a gentleman around you, he will make the first move, gets you flowers, he plans everything since he would love spend time with you.. It's all about getting to know eachother..

You'd never have to do such work, stay at home and he will do all the providing. 50/50 chance he comes back home with some nice flowers or small gifts..,like I said, old fashioned..

His thoughts would only be you. His number one priorit would always be you. But,... it's not you?..

You're you but also you're not?..

His mind creates this character of you, it's what he's expecting from you, how you act, how you talk, how you dress, how you walk..it's what he expects from you rather accepting you for who you are. This results to a lot of guilt tripping..

And I know, it sucks, but should've thought about it that before going for a psychopathic maniac that's in an asylum for a reason..

- It's quite easy to spot this one, but one of his most common triggers is when someone makes him think they're going to abandon him.

"I can't be alone!.."

By the way, his height and his strength is actually so scary that if you do eventually try to abandon him by walking away, he'll break the door down, he'll find you, he'll do unspeakable things to either you or the furniture that's in his way of trying to get close to you

(Speaking of which: I've noticed a lot of people using the term "Yandere" for an individual with mental illness. Please, stop that..)

Outside of the asylum I like to think his sense of fashion is probably top tier old money, just casual and nice..

Probably likes taking night walks with his nice coat on. That'll keep anyone from expecting him to be a psychopath..

Originally, the man ((((COULD)))) be from England, however, his parents decided to move countries from Europe to America cause they probably liked it more that way..

Eddie is definitely those kinds of people who have that one parent that's always been treating them like shit their entire childhood but still hold a special place in their heart for them cause they don't have anyone else.. That's Eddie towards his mother, I mean, he was her son...all he had was her and deep down he believes that, there was a point she wanted to help..(Even though her absence permanently damaged him)..

But somehow..that caring nature, that charming side of him, that right there, that came from her..

[aprillikesthings]

hello, and welcome to a catradora rec list

These fics all have three things in common (besides being catradora):

They're all canon-divergent/canon-verse

Catra and Adora have their first kiss at some point before the Heart

There's angst

Past that they all vary a great deal in length, rating, etc.

You will notice some other themes in common. I know what I like. (If you know of fics that are similar to these, drop a link in a reblog or reply!)

These two specifically include "They kissed in the Horde, and Shadow Weaver erased Adora's memory of it"

carry our bodies safe to shore by themoonsneverseenmebefore rated T, 9507 words

This one killed me.

They only get caught kissing the once, but Shadow Weaver makes damn sure Catra will never tell Adora what happened. Years later, Adora is going through old Horde files and finds a confusing incident report, and Catra reacts to it really oddly--

I really like the way the story is structured. It jumps around in time a bit, including quite a bit post-canon, but it's just really well-done. Also starring Glimmer as a supportive friend to Catra, which I really liked.

Give Up the Throne by n7punk Three of the fics in the series are T but there's an unrated fic at the end that would be mature or explicit, 67,162 words total across four fics

Yeah I know this series is technically unfinished/on hiatus but tbh I really enjoyed it anyway. It's a "Princess of the Horde" AU, aka Adora brings the sword back to the Horde instead of going to Bright Moon.

The kissing isn't the emphasis of the plot until that last fic in the series, but even in the first fic, you find out they've kissed multiple times, and Shadow Weaver erased Adora's memory of it every time she found out. The problem is, Shadow Weaver didn't erase Catra herself from Adora's mind, and so Adora kept doing it, and Catra is incapable of turning her down, even knowing the inevitable result.

AND NOW for one of my fave categories of fics ever: "they were totally having angsty, guilt-ridden hookups during the war," aka "enemies with benefits," because let's be honest, my number one thing in fics is "we absolutely should not be doing this....but we're gonna."

My Name on Her Lips by n7punk (lol yes another one) rated M, 17,924 words

This fic is mostly about "What if She-Ra's identity was a secret" (inspired by the 1980's cartoon), but the problem is that Catra knows that She-Ra is Adora--and worse, that Adora is a former Horde officer.

Also, Catra and Adora have been getting it on since before Adora found the sword....and they don't stop just because they're on opposite sides.

And you know how sometimes a line from a fic will gut-punch you and it'll just go around and around in your head for several days? Yeah. "An entire war and its casualties are between them but Adora still falls into Catra’s arms like it is nothing." ;_;

Anyway the plot otherwise is pretty much canon-compliant and covers events up to the end of the show and a little after.

Don't ask me how many times I've reread parts of this one oh my god.

falling feels like flying (till the bone crush) by ehj rated E, 72,316 words

Mmmmostly follows the plot of the show, except, y'know, they're banging the whole time--well, not the whole time. They hook up for the first time partway through the events of Promise, right there in the Crystal Castle.

The fic was abandoned right after it wildly diverged from canon around the end of s3/beginning of s4. Alas!!! (Still worth reading, imho.)

Author does have the fic marked as a series--there's a couple of explicit scenes in the series that didn't work with the main plot/threw off the pacing. They're both short.

Somewhat chronological Catradora one-shots (Post S1) by teaandsmut rated E, 14,439 words across four fics

Let me admit my bias here: the author is a friend and I read at least one of these before I even watched the damn show lol. The fics themselves can each be read as a one-shot if you want.

The first one takes place during Promise (they relive a memory of almost doing something from only weeks before--and once they're out of the memory, they keep going.) The second one has Catra sneaking into Adora's room in Bright Moon. The third one has them chasing each other into the woods when they're supposed to be fighting--this one has voyeurism and Catra's mean. If those are things you're into. (I am.) The fourth one, Adora sneaks into the Fright Zone. This one's probably my fave in the series--they do a little light bondage (and Catra's a brat, at least at first) but it ends on a sweeter note.

(Author has also written some glitra if that's a ship you like!)

[dw-flagler]

Case 70 Lily!! This isn't me asking you to come up with what she'd be like; I'm just using your askbox to think aloud because you're the official wormblr case 70 poster.

Anyway, back to Lily. She canonically triggers while touching her sister! And her sister is also going through a trigger-worthy event at the same moment: getting hit by a train! All you gotta do to make it work is make them twins (which also makes Lily's family situation even more fucked up).

Could be the first case of a case 70 cluster (suuuuper fucked up if May and Homer get pulled into the body sharing, but they probably wouldn't (although Homer was also touching Lily's sister when she triggered, so who knows?)). Assuming the body sharing is just Lily and her sister, then May and Homer get the same powers as in canon, since it's still the same trio of shards.

Lily's sister gets…hmm. There are elements of striker, brute, trump, master, tinker, and shaker there. So let's dig into her background. Why did she end up homeless when Lily didn't? Age probably was a big factor in canon, but that's not an option now that they're twins. So I'm thinking she's kind of the Byron to Lily's Tristan. Lily causes problems, but she's also fun, and people like her. Her sister is quieter, more withdrawn, but also angrier, and prone to occasionally lashing out. Side note: I can't keep calling her "Lily's sister" so I'm gonna use the name Kaiya came up with: Holly. So Lily and Holly are in foster care, Lily indirectly causes a situation that pisses Holly off enough to lash out at someone; I'm thinking an older boy is flirting with Lily, who's encouraging it because she's getting something or other out of it. Holly thinks he's a creep (he is), and kicks him in the balls or something. Lily gets mad, everyone takes Lily's side, Holly gets in trouble, it goes on her record, and a little while later Lily gets placed with a new foster family, but they refuse to take Holly. That's the last straw for Holly, and she runs away and ends up homeless. This is when she's 12 probably. She meets Homer (who's younger in this AU) and they help each other get by.

Skip forward a bit, she sees Lily on the subway platform, she gets hit with some kind of power by some bored asshole (as a random example, maybe a power that forces people to commit to ideas they consider, but wouldn't normally do), she attacks Lily, Homer steps in to try and stop her, she gets hit by the train, everyone triggers. And May is there too I guess lol.

So, looping back to her power. I said there were elements of striker, brute, trump, master, tinker, and shaker. I'm gonna ignore the tinker and master possibilities, because it's too different from Lily's power. I'm also gonna set aside the brute and trump parts, but we'll get back to those. So: striker/shaker. Like Lily, Holly can touch an object (but not a person) and spread an effect across it. It probably spreads faster than Lily's power, and can go further. Like Lily, she sets a timer for how long it'll last, and then it vanishes when it hits that point. Instead of turning objects into weapons that can cut through anything, Holly's power eats away at the object it's on, destroying it no matter what it's made out of, and cutting through any powers protecting it. When she swaps with Lily, the power spreads slower (or stops if it's already past the limits of Lily's power) and switches to the cutting effect. When Lily switches back to Holly, anything her power is effecting starts destroying whatever it's on. Going back to the brute and trump aspects, whenever Holly switches out with Lily, she's healed and any powers effecting her are nullified. Lily does not get those benefits when she swaps out. Holly also has the same secondary thinker powers as Lily, though her accuracy power might be weaker.

A pattern in Holly's life is lashing out at others and ending up in a worse situation herself, so her power mirrors that by destroying her environment, but not being very useful as a weapon unless she's dropping buildings on people or carving out the floor under them, which is also going to hurt her. She can survive whatever harm she inflicts on herself, but only by swapping out and giving Lily the spotlight.

I haven't given much thought yet to how including Holly in the cluster changes the personality bleed, or everyone's trajectories in life. Probably Lily still wants to join the Wards, Homer wants to stick with Holly (who probably wants to stick with him too, depending on how much she blames him for ending up sharing a body with her sister), and Homer would be Wards age in this AU, so possibly all three of them join the Wards together (and then some poor schmuck has to figure out what the fuck to do with a power like Homer's). I'm not sure what May does.

Wow, this ended up being way longer than I planned. Whoops 😅

Oh, one last note! Lily is extremely gay and Holly is extremely straight, for more Vera parallels to make them miserable.

This isn't me asking you to come up with what she'd be like; I'm just using your askbox to think aloud.

OH THANK GOD

But I really do like this. This is a really good idea! Filling out Holly as a character is really cool, and I feel like not doing it was a missed opportunity for Ward. My only question is why she has to be hit by a power. That seems like kind of a... weak point? in the backstory. I can see how it's essential to the Trump aspect of their power, plus she's not normally angry enough to attempt murder so we need something to give her a final push, but it seems hard to justify some random master cape just happening to be there and just happening to hit holly with their power out of boredom...

This is a deep cut, but an old snip by OxfordOctopus called Cherished Father has an interesting idea that I think might be relevant here. So in it, Danny Hebert was a parahuman (named antipathy). He had a power that was theorized by wildbow (link here). He could, in essence, cause people and animals in a very wide area (almost an entire city) to go into a berserker rage and attack a target he chose. In the snip, he used this power to create mobs of, like, (metaphorically) pitchfork & torch wielding murderers sweeping the street to find his target. However, if someone was affected by his power and was nowhere near his target, they'd just feel a more general rage towards anything, making them more prone to lashing out.

So, my idea is that a parahuman with a really wide ranging power similar to antipathy, that could affect maybe the entirety of NYC, or maybe just whatever borough lily & holly were in, that caused a rage towards a particular target, or just made people way more prone to violence if the target wasn't nearby. And the target wasn't nearby, so Holly just felt a general aggression pushing her towards violence when she wouldn't have otherwise considered it.

[thehollowwriter]

Do you have any criticisms in regards to the official English translation of TWST?

I have many. So many.

Firstly is the unnecessary changes, mostly with Trey's UM and the name of magical shift.

See, the main thing is, a lot of people say "Paint the Roses" sounds way better than "Doodle Suit", which is goofy, and also works as an Alice in Wondeland reference The thing is, though, I'm pretty sure Doodle Suit is supposed to be a goofy name. It's a teenager naming his UM at about 16 or younger (before canon time), of course it'll be goofy. And on top of that, it is a reference! "Suit" is likely a reference to card suits!

The reason I find this change unnecessary is because you can't even say it was a translation complication, not only are the UM names and certain other words written in English in the JP game iirc, but after getting twst myself I CHECKED and they didn't even bother to RERECORD THE LINES. I can still hear Trey say, "Doodle Suit." I'm English when talking about his UM, but the text box says, "Paint the Roses"

The same applies to magical shift, which was changed to "spelldrive." Characters still say "magishift. " It's just such a useless bunch or changes to way too many names and stuff cause it was already right there in English.

Another issue I have with character names or event names that aren't said in English being different than the names fans have translated is that they often sound a lot worse or a bit weird than original. Like Baul and Baur. I think Baul sounds way better, but this overall could just be some fans not having a completely accurate translation? But tbh we have a lot of bilingual speakers who also talk about the strange differences.

My MAIN NUMBER 1 ISSUE IS THE CENSORSHIP

I'm still so mad that they removed that scene of Cater saying he would absolutely date Vil and that they altered lines from one character to another that could be interpreted as romantic or flirty (only to then, in some cases, ramp up the flirt vibes, ironically).

It's just so disingenuous and was definitely not a mistake.

And of course, iirc, replacing describing Vil as "beautiful" with "handsome" instead because we don't want to give the character whose whole thing is defying gender roles a feminine description, no, that's ridiculous/s

Then there's Azul's backstory. As someone who's only access to twst's story was through translations, both because Eng hadn't released and I'm in the wrong country, it was really icky to see how they watered down the things Azul's bullies said to him.

I just... they were calling him a fat, slow, ugly, and stupid octopus, among other terrible things, and then we got to twst Eng where it's just "silly octotwerp" ?????

Like they were either trying to make it kid friendly (even though this is NOT a kids' game) or they didn't want to put emphasis on the fact that Azul was bullied for his weight. If you ask me, in the official Eng translations, it's actually a bit harder to pick up on the fact that that's part of why Azul was bullied and hates his old self so much.

It's something that really frustrates me, because it makes Azul come across more as a bit of a spoiled kid who got lightly teased and held a ridiculous grudge over it (even if octotwerp is still a bit mean) rather than a deeply traumatised teen who's body image and mental state was badly effected by the severity of the bullying he received. He's constantly bringing up calories, Floyd mentioned he barely eats, etc.

I'm sure this can apply to a lot of other chapters, especially Book 4 with Jamil and Kalim, but I'd like to rewatch YouTube translations and then go through twst Eng before I talk about them

Anyway, rant over now fjffj

[spiderman2-99]

✨ Miles Morales

[06.03.2019, RN-1610b]

Forgiveness is not something Miguel knows.

It was never given or received in those suffocating walls he and Gabriel and their parents called a home. In the business world, you either turn a blind eye or get struck. As a vigilante, then a leader...

Well.

That's different. Any mote of... leniency or wrist-slaps are few and far between; and only given if absolutely sure that escalating things further would have immensely worse consequences. Once Miguel knows someone's done wrong, gone out of line, become a threat, no matter who they are, he makes sure correction, justice is delivered. Culls the threat (not the person; not usually). Some call it harsh; others call it fair.

After all, what is mercy but a bright, shining leeway for things to get out of line? Go against order? Spiral worse and worse until not even the mighty Spider-man 2099 can fix it?

...

No, no, Miguel can't lie to himself anymore.

Can’t keep shutting out the truth when it electrocutes him; evades even the best members of the Society and makes its way home.

Not when he rallies a few rag-tag members to his cause and is the one to defeat a cosmic horror of an enemy. When he did what Miguel was too blind, too distracted to do. When he goes against fate itself and upends even the best-laid plans of how the universe works.

Not when the truth is that... maybe those plans weren't best-laid, or even good. That the Canon Theory was an attempt to assuage that yawning void where answers should be; an idea as broken and incomplete as the man who made it.

...

Forgiveness is not something Miguel knows.

It is not asked for, but he gives it; never once hoping to receive it.

...

In the rubble, Miguel finds the kid Miles curled around the limp form of his father; wide, shell-shocked eyes visible through shattered mask lenses as he holds up a pile of rebar with nothing but his tattered, trembling body. A cursory glance tells Jefferson is alive.

(Alive, and the universe doesn't fall apart.)

It barely takes effort to lift the burden from Miles's shoulders. It takes great effort to ignore the way his eyes widen in fear, the flinch, the way he squeezes his father closer, as if he thought Miguel would kill him just to force the Theory. There are a thousand things he should say, clawing at his conscience and up his throat like frenzied dogs. He should admit he's wrong. Take back the bile he spewed at him just hours earlier. Apologize.

A curt head nod and a gizmo is all he tosses at the younger before turning to clean up the bodies strewn across Brooklyn.

He doesn't know what Miles would have said and done if he'd stayed; doesn't want to know. Instead, he cleans the wrecked streets and pretends it'll clean his hands.

[dearinglovebot]

Just thought of Maisie's reaction when she found out what they actually all did to get to her. Like she was already so suprised that they for her at all. Now think about her reaction when she founds out that they both were chased through a city by dinosaurs and chrashed in a helicopter or jumped out of one for her. Like she would totally frecked out bc they probably would really told her just by that. She would probably overhears it somehow. Maybe when Claire wants Owen to get checked but he doesn't (no one really checked in on her either at this point) and she would say something like "You're crashed down in a helicopter!" And he would pull "Yeah and you jumped out of one, so you first!" And Maisie would be like "wait you're what?!"

i really wish the movie did a better job at portraying maisie's thought process at biosyn so i had more to base my analysis on than like... vibes and soft canon novels. but we stay balling!

in the first novel she says something like "i can misbehave and they'll still love me... it's weird" and thats exactly what i read from her reunion with them. she's very self-hating about being a clone and a Thing doesn't have parents so why would they have Parent Behaviors like rescuing her when she's flown across the world (and that would NOT be a quick flight. she's probably been in transit for, like, almost a whole day before reaching italy). i don't even know if she's in a state to process the fact they put themselves in danger (as in, what she saw escaping with them) for her yet. i think that would probably only kick in after the adrenaline crash.

and finding out how much effort the journey actually took... whew. the absolute GUILT that she'd feel. she'd view her actions as directly harming them rather than it being a choice they actively made because guilt is weird like that. and there are two main ways i can see her handling this: either becoming Worse because in her mind protecting them (claire, particularly) means they should give her up so her rejecting her mother is basically saving her OR being sooooo goddamn clingy that they (claire, particularly) cannot shit in peace. and i emphasize claire because maisie's last words to her were basically FUCK OFF STRANGER!!! and then her mom did... All Of That Anyways. she's going to feel absolutely terrible and undeserving of that kind of love. having a mother is already so hard for maisie and she doesn't know how to accept having one and now she doesn't know how to forgive herself for lashing out at hers.

her parents won't hold any of it against her and actively push back on these thoughts, but it'll take her a long time to not feel like she "owes" something for it all. there's no limit where the apologies will feel like enough because she disobeyed them and EXACTLY what they warned her about happened and they refuse to even be that mad at her for it because at least she's unharmed. and then you add in the fact they were getting terrorized left and right... maisie really could use some hugs and kind words.

[raayide]

Are you still doing the ask game from the other day? Is Bite Nite what you call some rhythm on your blood? I love that fic so much.

What is number 2 on the list about? I think I love all your fics.

ahh thank you so much!!! that means the worldddd

and yes! bite nite is some rhythm on your blood - way back yonder when i started this cursed thing, it was SUPPOSED to be a 20-30k exploration of making the titular bite night go much worse than canon, so that was my shorthand for it. then. y'know. I just kept exploring and now we're at the beast we are now lol

yayy dialectics! this is a planned series from a oneshot i did a little while back, are you still marking time? which is a second-person POV pre-canon study on Astarion, focused through his relationship with death. my plan is to do one for each of the tadfools, exploring their thoughts or specific metaphors on death, and generally being very indulgent since second-person is a blast for me to write haha

here's a little snippet from the karlach oneshot!

It’s really not that hard, the first time you kill someone.  Well. It's a little hard. There's a fair amount of heft you have to put into your baton, two hands wrapped, shoulders heaving. If you don't put enough pressure in, you won't crack something important, and then it'll get even more hard. If you did this all day, you'd get tired, perhaps sore.  But it isn't that hard to do the killing. Because your boss goes into a dark corridor with someone that wants to make a deal with him, only the deal is his brain matter splattered across brick walls, and you've been hired to stop that, so you do. And you do. And now someone is dead and there's blood on your weapon. Your boss thanks you, panting, appreciative, but he does actually have a deal to make so the guards are called in to dispose of the corpse and off you both go. Later, at the graveyard, you wonder which they're buried in—or if they got a grave at all. Then you wonder why you're wondering. You cannot dig them out. Even if you could, they are dead. That is why you kill things.

[milksnake-tea]

HI LUI (I stalked your profile and apparently this is your 'cooler' name)

Who would you: Enemies to lovers / slow burn / fake date. and why?

your choices are between: N from pokemon, LUDGER (IS THAT HIS NAME. IM SO SORRY IF I GOT IT WRONG) from that one manwha you like, and Kaeya from genshin impact ! (I was gonna add the ocean but decided against it, you can answer tho if you wanna)

HI CEE !!! oh my lords i totally forgot i also go by lui 😭😭 thanks for swinging by <333 now for the hard part ALSO YES LUDGER IS HIS NAME BYE 😭 YOU'RE GOOD

enemies to lovers - n. i feel like n fits this one the most mainly because. well. he is the pseudo leader of a cult for most of the game 😭 also i love how snarky he gets when he isn't playing nice, he's such a taunting piece of SHIT and it's beautiful. i love pissing off pretty people. also n does get a somewhat redemption arc at the end so it works!

slow burn - ludger. this is going to be the most painful situationship of my life but WHATEVER IT'S OKAY BECAUSE I LOVE HIM. i feel like with this man it has to be slow burn, i cannot see him falling in love easily if at all - he has several identity issues, a savior complex and doesn't view himself highly, we have to play the long game here. and by long game i mean way too many years like JESUS CHRIST MY GUY 😭 the real question is will he let himself truly love or is he gonna ghost you and appear across the continent wearing an entirely different name and backstory

fake date - kaeya. okay ngl. this is the most plausible for him BYE it's been a while since i've touched anything genshin but kaeya is canonically very very shy when it comes to stuff like this so 😭 might be the best option here. the problem here is if you actually catch feelings it'll likely repel him and he'll scuttle backward and you'll be stuck in the worse "what are we" of your life

[chasseurlegendaire]

🎲 A CHALLENGER APPROACHES - Twin D from VHD (if you know, you know)

send 🎲 to generate a kiss!

22. A french kiss/kiss with tongue

(( yeah this one is dark and not nice - canon typical violence, bad end, unwanted kiss and some gore. It's (Twin) D. Trevor isn't having fun. ))

The year is 12,XXX...

So. The thing about this one is that he is much too unpredictable than that D fellow he knew before. Well. This is D, right? But something is off about him. Everything about this man is the exact same as he remembered of that hunter; the cape, the hat, the style, the arsenal. A matching cyber horse too. Everything checks out.

Except that fucking grin.

That grin on his face is much like a killer. With a penchant of acting out in a morbidly humorous way, according to him, and nearly taking Belmont's head off in the process, too. That's when he also heard, in D's voice no less.

"You have a pretty mouth. Not as pretty as that babe's but... It'll do for what I'm about to give you~!"

Trevor is still, forced onto his knees among the fallen security guards and torn apart turrets, still sparking from being cut from the main power. His heart raced as he realized there must have been some way that this place? This place has been giving everyone in the group the run around, including D himself. Replaced by doppelgangers - this one had to be, right? Trevor is no stranger to those, having fought a few of his own. But this one even felt so much like D - from the one time he shook his hand to the time he had to pull his body from the acidic bite of a swelled river.

It's nothing like how he's being manhandled by the crazed twin who now giggled like he just thought up a great joke, pulling on his captive's neck with glass-like nails scratching him. He's bleeding again, his arm is broken - no, it's not, it's completely missing. Across the room, away from his body where it should be. Still grasping the Vampire Killer, glowing hot neon and raging against the presence of the Nobility.

"D" noticed the stare, gazing up at the arm and then back down to its owner before he leans in closer.

"Oh, I'm not going to kill you. At least not right away. But you can forget about that stupid thing there. You can use your other hand, can't ya? I know you can!" The twin laughs again, picking up his prize with the ease of a feather and slammed him upon a nearby alcove, using his other hand to squeeze the bloody stump where most of Trevor's arm used to be. In response, the severely injured hunter did his best to not scream, not give a strong response to the immense pain going through him.

The shadowy mirror is just making things so much worse, and is getting quite annoyed. Perhaps he changed his mind?

"Oh. You're going to make me do all the work, ain'cha?"

No such luck. Trevor felt those claws at his jawline and lightly squeezed. Bones are creaking under the gentle pressure and he rather not do whatever games this bastard wants to play with a broken up face, too. So Trevor opens up, pushed further into the alcove as his assailant wedges between his knees, snaking his other hand around his waist as he presses their lips together once, to lick up the sanguine mess he made there.

"... Hm. Nope! Still would have preferred a big breasted babe over you, but hey. At least you're still pretty. And I have you before he ever did! Lucky you!!"

"Wha-?!"

The moment he opened his mouth, Trevor felt it. A tongue slid right over his own. He jerks his head to the side as reflex, gasping for breath as soon as he's freed. But burning red eyes and crimson stained lips already capture him again, impossibly long fangs catch his lip and this "D" hisses out another command, apparently losing himself to the taste of blood and fast.

"What's the matter, baby? You don't like me anymore?"

Of course he doesn't, but at the same time if he wanted to kiss D, this isn't how he felt it would go. It isn't him. (Yet, maybe it is...?) Before he knows it he's kissed once more, the pain of defeat still blossoming from his missing arm. He can feel the snake in his throat again, kissing him like he’s a lover with each wet smack and demonic groan from the vampire menace.

It’ll be hours before backup arrives. But it may be too late for the thoroughly wounded and French kissed warrior caught by what should have been his companion.

[pico-digital-studios]

Into, Across and Beyond! Scripting: Locking In

(Funkinverse by @robovoidfrog)

After his failure to bring Bently Forceloyed into the Funkin' Society, Cam/Agent Blueballs returned to the HQ with a very nasty cut at his right eye.

Judith: Cam, what happened to you?

Cam: <Just a side-effect of failing to convince a -friend into our cause. I'll get over it.>

Judith: I really hope so. Lately, you've already been biting off more than you can chew with the later recruit attempts.

Cam: <Was Kenji successfully pulled back out of Earth-923 after his recruitment attempt was disrupted?>

Judith: Yes. He's back in the HQ now. What do you plan on doing about the bigger uprising against us?

Cam: <Wherever Salty's ended up in the multiverse, they'll be trying to track him down before The X reaches his dimension to instigate the canon event. We still need to put a stop to that threat before he spirals even further out of control.>

He approached Kenji sat down at a chair.

Cam: <What's been the more recent updates on the recruits?>

Judith didn't want to bring up how she didn't recruit Bidu (Arrow Funk BF) into the Society, so she just skipped to the worse news for them.

Judith: B3 and Lexi Robin both left the Society today and disconnected their watches, and Leo has been left unsure about what's going to happen next.

Cam: <Kenji?>

Kenji: Yeah, I'm back, after a close encounter against that Goatfriend. Man, I definitely bit off more than I could chew for that scene. I mean, then again, it gave me some more time to think about my past...

Cam: <Could you cool it with the reminiscing right now? We've already had to rescue you after you got in trouble twice; first with Gracie throwing you into a rift without your watch, then your really disgraceful failure in trying to bring BluBuni into our cause.>

Kenji: I know, man. We got sidetracked, but I promise we'll make it work this time.

Cam: <That'd better be the case, Tensei. Now, the kid who knocked you unconscious before is of similar lineage to you. An angel, having a pop star as a family member. However, he refused to ally with us and is actively rebelling against us. While we track down Salty, I want you to track down Ben and his cohorts and stop them from finding this HQ, or worse, disrupting the canon. If Gracie and Ben's groups cross paths, then you will need immediate backup. Got it?>

Kenji: Another angel? ...

Kenji's eyes lit up, recognising this was now serious business he had to treat correctly, especially with an enemy potentially on the same wavelength of power as him.

Kenji: I will not fail you.

Cam: <Good. Search any dimension available for the groups, and do NOT let them fulfil their goals.>

Kenji headed out to track down Benjamin.

Judith: What do we do about Salty when we do uncover what universe he's at?

Cam: <Erasing Salty won't fix the problem; it'll only silence the symptom. If we're going to halt The X's rise to power, we must address the cause.>

He started walking off.

Judith: There's something else I must tell you.

He stopped.

Judith: Earth-1003 experienced a canon disruption, but hasn't collapsed in on itself.

Cam: <It's bound to do so sooner or later. Don't assume it'll get better thanks to one change in that Earth's continuity.>

Judith: ... XML also turned against us, and the watches that both rogue teams are carrying were not made by us.

Cam: Oh, for...! <I should've known. That lavender scumbag was doing this all under our noses and left at the last minute. Now I've got some explanation for how they're able to travel between dimensions, even though I had cut off Gracie's watch before. Let's just cut right to the chase and only intervene if absolutely necessary. For now, our attention's on disrupting The X's flow of power and stopping Salty from breaking his upcoming canon event. Is there any update on if The X was caught or not?>

Judith: Cam, I... Our focus has been solely implanted on Salty so much that The X has been causing trouble unimpeded. His threat level as it stands could endanger the entire multiverse. Fever and Serial Designation B's group have already been severely injured from the attempt to stop him themselves!

Cam: <Then how many -friends is it going to take to stop him?>

Judith: I-. It might need everything we've got! If we're going to be doing ANY more recruiting, it needs to be for the sole purpose of putting a stop to The X. We need to be willing to do the right thing.

Cam: <We ARE doing the right thing, Judith...>

Judith: By giving a multiversal threat leeway to destroy it all? This is one situation I'm not sitting out on.

Cam: <Judith, we are NOT recruiting that kid from Earth-25219. He's an anomaly in pure nature, like his original version linked to Earth-111723 is.>

Judith: Look, I get your view on anomalies, but millions of people will be in grave danger if we keep sitting on the wayside.

Cam clenched his fist and glared at her, his injured eye in full focus.

Cam: What did I tell you, Judith? Do not question my authority.

She gulped in worry.

Judith: Y-Yes, sir.

Cam: <Now, let's go.>

They departed both to track down Salty and to find a way to stop The X, as Softie watched secretly from a safe distance.

Softie: There's too much at stake right now. I'm gonna go find Romantic and negotiate what we're gonna do about this freak. I just hope Pico's alright back home.

He headed back downstairs.

[romana-after-dark]

But what if Lorenzo was in ROF? Hmm? What if he was Santi's second cousin? What if I got to kiss him?

(I'm so sorry)

What if???

NON CANON NON CANON NON CANON NON CANON

(This is mostly a crack fic, both The Wrong Way where Lorenzo comes from and Room's on Fire are post-apocalyptic, and ROF is not TLOU universe, there's no indication that ROF had zombies. And lets say Lorenzo and Zach aren't committed at this point. Don't think too hard on it all.)

Lorenzo was visiting his second cousin, Santiago. He heard he had a wife now and also husbands??? His side of the family was always a bit strange.

So his cousin was a cult leader! Lorenzo worked for a raider who had kidnapped a 20 year old

Well, this girl was 22 but she at least seemed to be there willingly.

"And then she'll have a child and he'll bring peace on earth." Santi explained over dinner, his wife sitting next to him. She was pretty, but Lorenzo didn't quite grasp why Santiago would want her when he had a slew of stunning men around him. At his right was his right handman, Francisco who he seemed more handsy than with his wife.

"Uh huh, right, that's crazy, man." Lorenzo wasn't really listening, he was too busy eyeing their guardsman. Jonah, he heard Will say. Older, crazy cheekbones, greying brown hair, and a cocky sway to his hips Lorenzo liked. He wondered if Jonah was gay. He'd find out.

Madonna was nodding along, looking up at her husband as he spoke and smiling. At the very least she seemed excited.

After a while, Madonna retired to her painting room to 'Allow the men some time alone', and Lorenzo and the guys went to the parlor for drinks. Francisco asked if Lorenzo smoked and when Lorenzo said yes, he gave him a blunt. The night was fun, minus Ben, Will and Santi bragging about their sexual escapades with Madonna. Lorenzo was more interested in whatever the hell was happening between the four men. Natural chemistry was radiating off Francisco and Ben, and Santi was clearly also eyeing Will, but nothing really compared to how much the focus was on Madonna. Funny, the world could end but straight relationships were still prioritized.

Leaving to go to the bathroom, Lorenzo ran into Madonna crying a tray of snacks.

When the tray fell, cheese and crackers scattering on the floor, the disappointment in her face reminded him of the young girl at his home.

"Hey" He spoke, helping her clean up. "Don't worry about it."

Unlike the girl, she didn't cry, she just seemed frustrated.

"This always happens." She mutters.

"What does?"

Madonna sighs. "I can't seem to get this right" She shakes her head.

Lorenzo was still confused. "What's this?"

She stops, knelt down at the floor with her pretty dress across her legs. "Being a wife. It hasn't really... come easily."

The girl and Madonna had similarities. Their youth, passivity, femininity, but there are differences. These things come easy to the girl, as soon as she had freedom she took care of Joel and Tommy, and even Lorenzo and Jack. "Sweetheart, you're doing great. I ran into you. Here, let's just..." He put the cheese, meat and crackers on the tray, reorganizing them with the garnish. "Bring this to them, I won't say a thing."

She looked at him hesitantly. "But, they were on the floor..."

"It's mostly the crackers on the floor, it'll be fine. Where I live, I've had to each much worse to survive. I promise they'll be okay."

Madonna looked at him, nervous but she acquiesced. "Okay... yeah, okay..."

She smiled up at him, and he smiled back. Lorenzo helped her up, straightened her dress and hair and let her go happily, excited to care for her husbands. As she walked away, a skip back in her step, Lorenzo wondered where she fit into this world. It seemed like she was almost a pawn. The four men had decades of life before her, and goddamn how many of them were sucking dick? She was only 22, how could she possibly navigate this world and complexities?

Lorenzo shook it all off. He had one young girl he had to keep alive already, he just hoped Madonna had enough people around her.

Speaking of which...

Lorenzo noticed how Jonah hovered over her, how she looked to him for reassurance. He seemed fatherly to her.

Lorenzo went to the bathroom and then went to find Jonah. He wondered, in a household of much more open sexuality, where Jonah laid on that spectrum...

**********************

Anyway IDK I just liked this

Jonah isn't necessarily gay or bi in canon, but I thought Fen would enjoy the idea of them fucking

I LOVE YOU FEN!!!!!

[cr1mson5returns]

Leaves (Drabble)

(Hello, have this.....thing that's been buzzing about in my head all day. I don't know where it came from but I'm making it everyone's problem. Under a cut for blood and canon-typical violence.)

Bart's eyes were open. That was kind of new, actually.

He could see the sunlight beyond the tree limbs high above him, heard leaves crunch beneath his arms when he moved. Distant shouts and battleground noise reached his ears. Oh, right. Mission. He pulled his arms closer to his midsection and made to prop himself on his elbows. A gloved hand gripped his left shoulder, hard, and pushed him back down.

"Do not move. I'm so serious right now."

Bart blinked. "Red?"

Tim moved into his field of vision then, all tousled, dark hair and worried eyes. His lower lip was split but scabbed over already, a rather impressive bruise forming on his left cheek just beneath a damaged spot on his domino mask. "Yeah, I'm here," he said, and his tone was clipped. "Just don't move, okay?"

He'd gone back to...wherever he came from before Bart could work up a response. The feeling was starting to return to Bart's legs, ever so slowly, and he realized they were angled a bit awkwardly where they lay. The sensations came back a bit at a time, in no particular order. His arms were heavy for some reason, his head hurt, and -

"Fuck!" Bart cried out, his body involuntarily curling on itself with the sudden realization that oh, actually, his gut was on fire. Tim's hand was pushing him down again, heedless of the pained sounds making their way past clenched teeth.

"You have to stay still," Tim commanded, and it wasn't his Red Robin voice, either. It was just Tim, angry and frightened. "I've got pressure on the wound but help is still far away. The more you move, the more blood you lose. Got it?"

Bart made a noise that could've passed for a dying goose. He didn't remember ever hurting like this before, not even - a bullet in his kneecap wasn't even this bad. Trembling ever so slightly, he moved to crane his neck, to lift his throbbing head and get a glimpse of the wound.

Tim's hand shoved at his forehead then, and Bart's head hit the ground roughly. "God, will you just stay still?" Tim snapped. "It's not going to help you to look at it, it'll just make you feel worse!"

Bart huffed. "I'm a big boy," he grunted.

"Yeah, well, I'm also all you've got right now and I can't keep you from bleeding out and stop a panic attack at the same time."

"What makes you....think I'll panic?"

Tim didn't answer. The leaves crunched again as he shifted his weight on his knees. Bart couldn't tell if the pressure on his stomach changed. Everything just hurt, fiery pain shooting through every muscle and vein and creeping its way across his torso. At long last, Tim spoke up again. "I don't actually know where S and Wondy are," he admitted. "Lost track of them ages ago. Otherwise I'd have one of them fly you out of here."

Bart blinked again. The breeze was cold on his forehead, where Tim's gloved hand had made contact. The puzzle-solving moment of understanding that came felt belated, even if it was realistically only a few seconds after Tim spoke. The gloves were bloody. "Eh," Bart said, more breathless than he would've liked, "they'll turn up. Besides, you're...medically trained. All that stuff."

Tim's face reentered Bart's vision at that. "If you make me use CPR on you, I'll change all your profile pictures to Cocomelon."

Bart huffed again. "You'll try."

[a-tale-of-legends]

Okay I had an idea.

In their search to find Kiran, Danica , Barry and Zora ( Kiran's little sister), with the help of Volo, stumbles across something that can potentially help them find Kiran. Before they could, however, something happens. Just as Danica is about to touch this item,Silver with Celebi besides him bursts into the scene, yelling at them to stop- but it was too late. Time slows down, and Dialga's Roar of Time is heard by all ears. And everything turns white

Barry, Zora and Silver all wake up in a familiar yet unfamiliar place. The surrounding area is absolutely horrific, decay and darkness all around. Barry and Zora are rightfully confused, especially when Danica and Volo are nowhere to be found. Silver, however, has some answers.

The place that they are in is a Doomed Future. One that was caused when Danica was about to touch whatever it was that would hypothetically help the group find Kiran. Silver doesn't know all the details though, but he knew he had to stop this future from happening. Zora points out that they could easily just go back to where they were before with Celebi,which is true but. Celebi isn't with them either. And Silver can't sense it, nor is his powers working. So to put it simply, they're stuck until they find Celebi or another method to get back home. And thus begins their quest in this horrid world.

To cut right to the chase: this Doomed Future was not caused by Cyrus, as Barry would have believed. It was created by Danica and Volo. When Danica touched and used the item they found, Barry and Zora disappeared. Alongside that, Zero ( who probably would have been with Volo btw) crumbled into dust right before him. Volo has changed a lot throughout the years he spent traveling the earth. He has changed for the better. But at that moment, he threw it all out the window. No matter what he does, the gods always punish him. Rip the one he loves right out of his arms again. He's so tired. He's so angry. As for Danica....she lost them all. Her most beloved friends. Two of them right before her eyes. She was completely alone. She couldn't take it. She couldn't.

Now they tried to get them back. They really did. They begged and pleaded but came up with nothing. So they decided to just bring it all down. And that's how this doomed future came to be. Danica was its Queen. Danica has Celebi. So the group knows what to do.

Fast forwarding again, they defeat Danica thanks to Zora ( arceus blood), make the Doomed Future not so Doomed, and get Celebi to get the fuck out of there. This doesn't take as long as pla does. In fact, for Barry, Zora and Silver, it's just a matter of days( thanks Barry) and for Danica and Volo in the present time, it's literally a few second( time did stop lol).

Side note: Silver is progressively getting worse throughout their journey. Somehow, whatever is being done to Celebi by Queen Danica is affecting him, so these three are really on a tense clock to fix shit, or else Silver fucking dies.

And that's the idea! No clue if it'll be canon or not! Also just saying this now, this entire thing was inspired by pokemon Rejuvenation and pokemon explorers of time!

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Can you tell us more about your 28 demon kings au it sounds cool... -haruna

So sorry for taking so long to answer but YES I can!!!

This AU takes place after Korosensei Quest, specifically from the manga. But I've also taken some moments from the anime version and put them into this AU too, so it's somewhat of a mashup of both?

So basically, it's about Class E training for a whole year in order to then go to Princess Aguri's world to defeat the new, true final hidden boss demon!! (It's not Neuro btw. I'm changing that.)

There'll be bonding!! Tragic backstories for only my faves!! More bugs/glitches because Koro Q canon didn't give everyone one for some reason!!! Slight outfit changes!! Possible ships but they'll always be teased and never made canon because that's not what I'm focusing on!!!

Oh, and of course I'm taking out the comedy tag and putting in angst and horror. Because all of Class E (non-simultaneously) get transformed into boss-type demons since the otherworldly boss demon activated a "get teleported all over the world and turn into a demon king and get amnesia'd idiots" trap card that caught all the students in it.

The students are scattered across the world, struggling with their rapidly declining humanity and memory loss, or they're fully lost to monstrous instincts and have become reborn as true demon kings. Though there are a few who are able resist the transformation, it won't take long for the rest to succumb to the overwhelming powers of a demon.

This throws Aguri's world into gradual chaos as most of the newly reborn demons wreak havoc upon the land. But what's worse is that a few of the demon students will have reality bending powers thanks to their bugs evolving with them. So it'll affect both the class and Aguri's worlds, as the air is torn and shredded and both worlds start to bleed into each other.

And amidst all that chaos, some past defeated enemies like Yanagisawa and 2.0 comes back like roaches with vengeance against the students. Korosensei, Karasuma, and Irina has to work with Aguri to save the students and both of their worlds, while the remaining still-sane students try to salvage what they can before they become full demons too.