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#please i have to know if i'm just a bitch or not#you can probably guess what my opinion is on the matter lmao#just orphan the fic if you don't like it anymore/don't want to be associated with it!!!!#that's what the orphaning option is for!!!! why are you taking away MY beloved reading material!!!!!! it makes me so mad#i've started downloading and keeping a collection of my favorite fics because i can't trust them not to disappear on me#if you've written a fic i love and deleted it you'd better count your days#ao3#archive of our own#orphaned works#deleted fics#fanfic#fanfiction#fics#batfamily#batfam#batman#fandom#i'm just gonna tag all the fandoms i've read fic for lmao#voltron#voltron legendary defender#the raven cycle#trc#aftg#all for the game#the foxhole court#yuri on ice#marvel#mcu#the avengers#young justice
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A compilation of Manfred during the final battle.
Everyone is so serious and stoic, then tensely sneaking around... while Manfred just rattles his bones along to the best of his abilities.
Bonus video: Manfred being a helpful little egg during the fight against the Venatori. The startled tiny "ah!" one of them lets out when Manfred jumps onto him is priceless.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#manfred#emmrich volkarin#lucanis dellamorte#taash#neve gallus#strife (dragon age)#rook (dragon age)#ugh I'm not gonna tag them all#I don't know if anyone had done something like this already#my gifs#guess I'm back
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"I don't know who I want to be, anymore."
Oc - Cirque | The Dragon Chosen by the Shadows |
| mary oliver / franz wright / chelsea dingman / mary oliver / sue zhao / can't find :( / can't find :( / i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth. - sciencedfiction / little weirds - jenny slate / the unabridged journals of sylvia |
#RAHHH guys I'm so crazy about her you all should totally ask me about her lore#web weave#webweave#webweaving#web weaving#oc webweave#oc web weave#oc - Cirque#definitely NOT the only webweave ill be making for her#still getting the hang of making these... gonna try to make some more for specific times in her life rather than just jumping around#on love#on longing#on grief#guys i love her shes so fun to squish#making these oc webweaves is so fun because i get to talk about them. also it helps me flesh out their characters#i need a tag for this specific universe of ocs lol#writing a book about them so i guess when i draft up some titles for that book ill use that for them#my webs#alt text
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Would you/ have you ever drawn Flower Ranchers fanart? (JimmyĂTangoĂScott)
I have drawn them before and I have done so again for you all!!!
I was originally just going to repost my previous art of them but my bestie gave me this banger idea for them and I needed to get it out there! (Also that art is like a year old now)
I've grown fond of snowbugs... they are so pretty!
I'll still leave my other art of them under the cut, as well as close ups of this one:
#Sorry to all people who requested ships and are expecting wholesome silly things I don't think that's gonna happen#I'm being so so normal about them all right now#didn't know if I wanted to post it but hhhgb here you go i hope it brings someone some kind of joy#Slightly inspired by the challengers movie though the dynamic doesn't exactly fit them#feeling positive since my last rancher thing wasn't hated on lol#This one is specifically double life! Hence Scott's doggy tail (from Pearl)#alek draws#alek answers#trafficshipping#suggestive#suggestive cw#tw suggestive#definitely Not tagging the individuals this time though lol#flower ranchers#snowbugs#uhhh yea i guess?#don't think this counts as ranchers or flower husbands tho#Frostember#Banger ship name btw tango/scott nation you are awesome#trafficblr
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A Shakespearean comedy of errors
bonus:
#ain't somebody gonna match my freak...#no hate to shippers! i think you can do whatever you want with nick and miles as long as its funny#i do personally enjoy them as ace and not necessarily romantically interested in each other but like. They're freaks about each other 4 sur#i also still haven't started apollo justice so if they're out of character IM SORRYYYYY#i'm the slowest gamer ever#ace attorney#gyakuten saiban#apollo justice#phoenix wright#miles edgeworth#naruhodo ryuichi#mitsurugi reiji#klavier gavin#athena cykes#ema skye#idk are you supposed to use ship names when tagging nonromantic iterations#i guess not#ace attorney comic#ace attorney fanart#the hardest thing about creating fan content before playng the apollo series is I don't know what they call Nick#bc they're adults they COULD call him nick but i'm guessing they don't bc japanese translation and honorifics?#i don't know what klavier calls nick. surely something snarky bc all prosecutors are required to be sassy to him by law#i should just play the game I KNOWWW I KNOW I KNOW#asexual phoenix wright#asexual miles edgeworth#asexual#my art
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Oh, to eat your heart out
#Okayyy I think I'm gonna start doing serious captions for these lol#Esp since a lot of these drawings are standalone and I'm really proud of them :]#siffrins of the past#in stars and time#isat siffrin#isat loop#sadfrin#uuuuuuuuuuuuh should I tag spoilers?????#I dunno#sure. I guess#isat spoilers
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Just for funsies, here's a painting I did a while back for an art class. It's Epithet Erased themed and is meant to be like the shattered triangle pieces in the show logo. Each triangle is meant to represent a different character (except for the one that's just all of the Banzai Blasters). See if you can guess them all!
All of the words were written with a toothpick I dipped in paint, so this was kind of a pain to make, but I think it was worth it.
#painting#epithet erased#epithet erased fanart#epithet fanart#i'm not tagging all the individual characters#you're just gonna have to guess them
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Drawing IdV survivors by memory
#my art#identity v#idv#I'm nit gonna tag them all hell nah#idv survivor#i guess you can clearly see when i stopped playing... still tried my best#sketches
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pygmalion and galatea for aroace people
you should tell your friends what I look like, riz gukgak.
#fantasy high#fantasy high sophomore year#fhsy#riz gukgak#baron from the baronies#fh class quangle#class swap babeyy! bard!riz that's whats goin on!#I really need tags for these now I think lmao#ask to tag#I feel like this should be tagged something. but I dont know what#in my brain after the initial kidnapping class swap baron's thing is every time riz keeps his story abt them up in front of his friends#they get a little bit closer. they send him pictures of where they supposedly are n stuff#theres a scene in my brain only of kristen and riz on top of the van and kristen is like everything kinda sucks rn can u tell me abt baron#cause what you guys have is so nice and beautiful. and riz almost doesn't but he ultimately can't deny kristen a little peace#lmao I feel like dipping into baron stuff with the class swap is like showing my whole ass online again I just. I'm a#horror person before all else... I cant stop myself. canon baron is Great and Cool but that is kind of the thing. for a horror thing theyre#Too Cool. I think cool is kind of the neutralizer of scary. when a monster is a certain amount of cool it overrides the scary#and now u just have a Cool Monster#its so fucked for bard!riz this year bc he doesn't have an office (he's mooching off the school wifi from the AV club room lol)#so there's no buffer between adventure and home life. so baron just shows up in the strongtower apartment lmao#sophomore year bard!riz looks like a slasher protag so I just leaned into it I guess. he gets a mr. x if mr. x is made up by leon kennedy#well. its worse actually. they can show up where he is at any moment theyve proven this. but they dont#they choose to punish him slowly as he lies to his friends instead. baron is mr. x if mr. x is made up by leon and also a bitch#I think its gonna pop up if class swap baron ever speaks in a comic I do but their voice comes from like. inside their hollow face#it sounds like it's a lot deeper in there than that skull should be#tbh what I have rn is kinda like a bag of loose pieces that Can fit together into something great but I dont have the energy to#really sit down with them yet lol. Im doing this inbetween other things#it comes or it doesn't! it's fine. funny how today's bad comic day also. I wont say this is for bad comic day bc all my comics are#flawless and beautiful and perfect and awesome and beautiful and the best#but u should. if u havent drawn a comic today or at all ever u should draw a comic
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I binge watched a playthrough of Peach Showtime and man she has so many cute fits I had to draw ALL of them
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I also will be selling these as stickers starting mid-May so đ keep ya eyes peeled on my kofi perhaps?
#rosyart#digital art#my art#artists on tumblr#clip studio paint#princess peach#princess peach showtime#swordfighter peach#ninja peach#mighty peach#mermaid peach#patissiere peach#cowgirl peach#honestly that one was my favorite to draw#kung fu peach#figure skater peach#detective peach#dashing thief peach#radiant peach#I THINK THATS ALL OF THEM#I know I like drew all of them but like tagging each one is like pulling teeth cause I'm bad at names#sticker price is gonna be like. $5? for like a big sticker#hand lamented and printed by yours truly#artist on kofi#buy me a kofi#spoilers#I guess??
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*japanese funky nightcore cover music in the background*
#They're making me publish this agaisnt my will#I'm not putting this up in the neoart tag at all#neopets#neotag#dr sloth#i guess??#I.................. I have no excuse for this..... thing........#there goes my neoblog#so beautiful until now#oh well JHSDK#it was so stupidly difficult to put headphoens on his head HJSADKF#I managed but.......... yeah#i guess it serves for not leaving this blog abandoned???? im so stupidly slow with both art and writing#vin memes#i refuse to put the vin doods tag in these HJDFJJSD#anyway yeah those are fae wocky headphones what about them#im not even gonna establish context to this just think of it whatever#thats it im out of here
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DP x DC, revenant!Jason Todd
Shortly after meeting, Danny and Jason have a late night conversation about what it means to come back. 1281 words
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Danny woke groggily, in a dark place that he didn't recognize, and took a moment to get his bearings.
He felt the warning ache in his neck that came from being propped up against an arm rest. There were two sources of dim light in the roomâthe glow of city street lights, muffled behind a curtain, and the green eyes of the man whose lap Danny's feet were propped on.
Right. Danny hadnât meant to fall asleep on the revenantâsâon Jasonâsâcouch, but theyâd been talking for so long, he mustâve dozed off.
Jason had had so many questions, about ectoplasm, about the zone, about Dannyâs own experiences. Danny had done his best to clear up everything he could. A revenant may not be quite the same as he was, but still, it made Danny happy to be able to pass on his hard won knowledge and maybe save someone else a bit of the hurt and confusion that heâd gone through. It was what heâd always wished someone would do for him.
Jason was slumped into the couch, but he didnât look relaxed. Danny examined his still profile, cast in strange shadows by its own green glow, and wondered how long it had been since heâd moved.
Danny shifted slightly, purposefully producing the fabric sounds of a body against upholstery, to make sure Jason knew he was awake. No reaction. Danny gave him one more moment, then asked, âYou okay?â
Jason didnât look at him when he answered, âYou told me Iâm basically possessing my own corpse, and Iâm supposed to not be upset about that?â
Really, Danny shouldâve predicted something like that. How long had he spent, trying to pretend that death hadnât really touched him? It wasnât an easy thing to accept.
âWhatâs the difference between a body and a corpse?â Danny asked.
Jasonâs eyes snapped to Danny, their glow intensifying. âI am not dealing with riddle bullshit right now, I swear to-â
âNo, Iâm being serious,â Danny interrupted, pulling his feet from Jasonâs lap and sitting himself up. âThereâs one difference between a corpse and a living body, and thatâs that someone is living in it. Jasonââ he reached out, gripping one of Jasonâs hands in his ââyouâre alive. Thatâs what matters. The rest is details.â
Jasonâs shoulders bent inwards, his other hand raising to rub at his chest. âYou donât get it,â he said, quiet. âPeople donât just come back from what they did to me. It doesnât make any sense.â
âHowever you died, itâs not-â
Jason huffed an ugly sound, a short and bitter laugh that Danny hurt to hear. âIs it crazy that that isnât even what I was talking about? I meant after.â The motion on his chest was repetitive, like he was tracing something underneath his shirt, and Danny got the sinking feeling that he knew just what sort of scar it might be. âI was gone, okay? I was gone, and this body was still here. And they took it, and they cut it open and rummaged around inside to figure out what happened. Which isââ he cut off, sniffed, and Danny gripped his hand tighter ââwhich is stupid, right? Itâs not like it wasnât obvious.â His fingers twitched, and he continued, haltingly, âI mean, Iâve read the report. Pulled it off his stupid files. The smoke inhalation did me in. After everything that happened, it was the smoke.â
Jasonsâ hand pulled out of Dannyâs, and they both rose to cover his face, cutting off the glow while he curled in on himself even tighter. His voice was slightly muffled when he said, âAnd then they had to ship me home, right? So they bled me dry and pumped me full of formaldehyde, and they prettied me up so they could pretend I wasnât just some empty thing, and Bruce held the tiniest most depressing little funeral known to man and put my ass in the ground, and I had to wake up down there.â His words and his breaths were coming too quick, and Danny didnât know how to help. He didnât want Jason to stop, not when it seemed like he needed to say all of this, but he could see just how badly the revenant was hurting.
âBut you did wake up,â he whispered.
âWoke up in my own mutilated corpse!â Jason snarled. âEverything Iâve forgotten, and that memory is still crystal fucking clear! It stank in there, like death and vinegar and mud, and it was so small, and I couldnât even try to scream for help because they sewed my fucking mouth shutâ!â He broke off into a sob, and Danny couldnât stand it anymore, had to lean into Jasonâs side and wrap an arm around him as he shook with all the emotion he couldnât reign in.
âOkay,â Danny said. Not youâre okay, just okay. âOkay, so thatâs the most horrible thing Iâve ever heard, and I regularly hang out with a guy who wants to skin me.â
Jason sniffed. âWhat?â
âNevermind. Itâs just-â
âNo, I think we should go back to the skinning thing-â
âI just donât want you to let it define you,â Danny interrupted. âI did that. I got into my head about it, the whole âbeing deadâ thing, feeling like I wasâŚâ Danny gave himself a second, swallowed, âlike some sort of freak. A thing that didnât belong anywhere. But Iâm still alive, and youâre alive, and even if we werenât, it wouldnât matter, because weâre still here, and as long as youâre here you can find something thatâs worth staying for.â Danny rubbed what he hoped was a soothing pattern into Jasonâs admittedly impressive bicep.
Jason let out a sigh. âI must really be pathetic if youâve gotta pep talk me like that, huh?â he said, and Danny pretended not to see him wiping at his eyes. âSorry,â he added, âabout all this. Iâve got some shit I havenât dealt with, and this ârevenantâ stuff brought it up pretty bad.â
âI get it,â Danny said, and hoped Jason could tell how much he meant it.
Jason sighed again, heavy, like he was trying to release something else with his breath, and said, âIt still doesnât make any sense. Logically, I canât be alive. Where did my blood come from?â
Danny shrugged. âDo you have blood?â
âI definitely have blood. Iâve seen a lot of it.â
That gave Danny pause. âJust like, around?â he asked.
âYeah,â Jason said, deadpan. âIâve got a surplus, so I like to leave some here and there, make sure everyone gets a chance to appreciate it.â
âI have no idea how much youâre joking and it frightens me,â Danny told him.
âWeak,â Jason replied.
âAnyways, you gotta not think about it too much. The interdimensional goop is already logic-defying, and youâre mixing magic with it with your special soul willpower or something. Your brain will explode if you try to make it make sense.â
Jason huffed a little laugh, bouncing Danny on his shoulder, and this time it made him feel lighter. âCan I just say that I hate that Iâm full of interdimensional goop?â
âValid,â Danny said.
Even without looking at Jason, Danny could tell that he just rolled his eyes by the way the soft green light moved.
Danny had his ear pressed to Jasonâs shoulder, feeling his warmth, and if he focused, he could just make out the revenantâs pulse. Personally, Danny thought it was pretty cool to be full of magic and goop and blood. Much cooler than Danny, who was way more science goop than magic goop. Theyâd have to compare notes on that sometime.
Maybe Jason would come around to it.
#not me writing a short piece that heavily relies on my own headcanons and never explaining them#it wasn't supposed to be like this guys it was gonna be a little easily digestible text post but they just kept talking#i just wanted the 'what's the difference between a body and a corpse' bit and then next thing you know i'm googling embalming practices#bit that I didn't manage to fit in: 'Jason you're allowed to be mad that somebody stole your blood.'#'Like. They didn't know you were gonna need it. But you get to be mad anyway.'#don't worry about that stuff about jason's soul being magic. it is though. that's why he can get swords out of it.#pit rage is technically not mentioned in this fic but also Jason's eyes are doing the thing the whole time#so make of that what you will#dpxdc#dp x dc#dc#batfam#jason todd#danny phantom#danny fenton#revenant jason todd#my writing#could be friendship could be preslash I think it's legitimately ambiguous#i just really like gentle little intimacies i guess#okay maybe i will tag the ship#dead on main
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i took a break from suits because the only reason i was there in the first place was for how absolutely batshit insane harvey specter is when it comes to mike ross and once mike went to prison i kinda went okay i think the shows run its course for me byeeee
anyway i just started s6 and i'm happy to see harvey specter is still batshit insane for mike ross
#threatening gallo like that because he got under his skin about mike omggggg#harvey please be normal about mike ross for like 2 seconds#(i'm kidding never ever be normal about that annoying little twink)#i didn't really plan on picking it back up tbh#but i saw some marvey shit that takes place in s6#and threw my hands up like I GUESS and opened netflix#i'm probably gonna stop watching after this season because i heard it just gets worse lmao#my theory that shows get Bad after their 5th season has yet to be disproven#i'm still in that ao3 tag like no ones business though don't get it twisted#still want them to fuck nasty in the back of ray's car LOL#can i tag this as#marvey#suits usa#harvey specter#mike ross
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Heeere's the first chunk of [Weretober] prompts with Tim's finding himself on a ridiculous roulette of curses via bites, scratches, and other magical methods!
He's gonna be feeling this by the end of the month for real, but honestly he should just stop getting cursed. It's pretty easy. I do it all the time.
(Prompts #1-7 in order: Wolf -> Harpy Eagle -> Orca -> Polar Bear -> Highland Cattle -> Coyote -> Pangolin + Bonus Sketches under cut)
The explanation why the Orcaman doesn't have any clothes, unlike most of the others:
Eagleman's face prior to being told "It doesn't feel Ratman enough" (WHICH I AGREED WITH, IT DIDN'T CAPTURE HIS FERAL ENERGY ENOUGH):
And thumbnails of Cattleman and Coyoteman (the former had so many because I was incredibly undecided. The latter I came up with AFTER I had already finished drawing, which sucks because it's a way better pose HIOLKFJDL):
#artists on tumblr#weretober#weretober 2024#drawtober#werewolf#art challenge#wereeagle#wereorca#werebear#werecow#werecoyote#werepangolin#THERE that's all of them. I'm not gonna be specific like 'werepolar bear' or 'werecattle' or something cause IDK man. Vibes?#tim tag#ratman tag#...I..... I guess???#my draws#sfw#blood cw
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GUYS WE FINALLY HAVE SFTH LONGFORM CHARACTER TAGS ON AO3!! :D
(we still don't have any canon relationship tags as far as I know but this is still pretty cool!)
#shoot from the hip#sfth fanfiction#these definitely aren't all of them but they were the ones that i was able to find#it's annoying me a little that jemima's canon tag isn't jemima steven but ah well#it's not a huge deal since âjemima stevenâ redirects to the canon tag anyways#also I guess her canon name is jemima jeffrey now (cause andre beetroot referred to her as such in the patreon podcast) so??#I'm sure the relationship tags will be wrangled very soon we just gotta wait for it :]#I should probably make a new ao3 tagging guide now that there are more canon tags#but I'd like to wait until there are some canon relationship tags before making it just so I won't have to make two separate posts for it#anyways I'm so happy that we have canon character tags now!!!#especially cause I've been a little annoyed by the lack of canon tags for a while now lol#(ever since I first joined the fandom actually I've been annoyed about it for a while now)#does anyone else care about this? probably not#but *I* care about this so I'm gonna talk about it
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HEY. POINTS FINGER⌠any thoughts on how everyone reacted when the other joined the team? as in how did killer react when dust came, how did he and dust react when horror came, how did they all react when cross came, etc. i love love LOVE your bad sanses thoughts way too much they make me so happy. if i write hurt you write comfort and itâs awesome. also how do you think they slowly started to get closer? just.. bah give me your thoughts on them!!!! any thoughts!!!!!!!!!
You fool!! Youâve given me a chance to ramble about my special little guys and now this post will stretch on forever!! Mwahahahahah >:3c
No but seriously this is probably gonna be wicked long cause I have 1 million thoughts about these guys joining and meeting each other so uh, readmore for everybodyâs safety and sanity
(^ I wrote that in the document before I started typing out my actual thoughts and uh
yeah no kidding, this is like a fucking essay so proceed with caution)
OKAY SO
Iâve said before that Nightmare got Dust for two reasons; one being that Dream had just recently started working with Ink (and soon Blue) so he and Killer were no longer able to gang up on Dream. He wanted somebody else to bulk up their numbers and give Killer a little back up. He also was starting to realise that Killer didnât handle being alone very well, since this was when he most often got worked up and broke things around the castle (and sometimes tipped over into stage 3). Dust would be a perfect fit since he had the same amount of lvl and fighting experience as Killer, and since they were so close in circumstance they would be practically like brothers right?
The irony that he thought this about a guy he was recruiting to help kill his brother was apparently lost on him.
They absolutely hated each other. Like, it was instant. Killer saw him as a replacement, why would boss go out and get another sans - one with almost the same backstory as me - when Iâm right here? Does he think Iâm not good enough? Am I disposable and this is the backup for when I die in combat? He didnât take it well. He took it all out on Dust too, not cooperating in battle, trying to start fights in the castle, etc. He couldnât outright kill him because Nightmare had given him strict orders not to, but Killer loves a loophole. If he roughed Dust up down to 1hp and something else happened to finish him off, technically heâd followed orders.
Dust just straight up didnât want to be there. Nightmare just showing up and yoinking him had worked fine with Killer, but Dust had wanted to sit in his empty au and die, he had no intention of joining a team or doing work of any kind - good or bad. The only reason he didnât just lie down and refuse the entire time was that he had to fight back against Killer, as much as he wanted to die he refused to give this ass the satisfaction or lvl. He didnât intend to be any help out in the field either, but again, Killer was making sure he got fired at so he had to retaliate to stay alive.
Eventually it got bad enough that Nightmare had to pull Killer aside and demand answers. In the year or so of knowing him Killer had never willfully disobeyed orders before, so Nightmare needed to know what had gotten into him. He dispelled the replacement rumour right away, he still wasnât quite softened up enough to be sappy about it but he made sure Killer understood what a good worker he was and that Nightmare had no intention of losing him. It didnât help a lot, they still hated each other for other reasons, but it eased a little.
Killer still had pretty frequent dips into stage 3, except now he would go straight for Dust usually. Nightmare had tried to explain what heâd learned about it to Dust, but he didnât really believe that it wasnât just Killer deciding to try and kill him for funsies. He only accepted it after a particular episode where he attacked Nightmare instead, which Dust knew Killer wouldnât try in his right mind.
After he came back to his senses he sought Dust out. The air around Killer was very different after a stage 3, sort of sombre and almost calm, so Dust let them sit together and Killer apologised for giving him such a hard time. They actually talked for the first time in months while Killer was still calm (or tolerable, as Dust describes it), and it didnât magically fix everything but, things were a little better. They still fought and argued and bothered each other but it wasnât as sharp, there was a lack of real murderous intent in it all, and sometimes after an episode they would talk a little bit. It was the best Nightmare was going to get for now, so he took it.
They were still completely incompetent about taking care of themselves though. Neither of them would eat unless prompted and Nightmare didnât have good enough knowledge of mortals to know when that should be to stop them passing out from hunger on the job. Not to mention the stars were now a full team, and with the way Killer and Dust would sometimes rather target each other on the field he could do with more backup.
Horror was the first of the group to get a choice in joining. Nightmare had taken note of how much Dust didnât want to be part of things, and while it was in his best interests in the long run given his situation, Horrorâs au was still mostly intact - though a little in disrepair. Horror was also the first in the group to have a good (and ongoing) relationship with his brother, so Nightmare knew he couldnât just pop in and steal him, he had to be a bit more diplomatic with this one and offer a deal.
He gave Horror some time to think on his proposal - he would set up regular deliveries of food to Horrorâs au in exchange for him joining their team - and was quite surprised when Horror agreed, with some stipulations. Horror was equally surprised when Nightmare agreed so easily to his terms (that he didnât want his brother to know what heâd be doing, and that he wouldnât kill). A little down the line the terms were altered to add that he would also be left to visit his au every week or so.
Horror was not impressed meeting the other two. He didnât need his power as judge anymore to sense the lvl coming off them both, and given who they were working for he was instantly distrustful of them both (the uh, brother situation did not help). He was also in a place that had an abundance of food for the first time in probably years, so he was doing a lot of going hog wild in the kitchen and then getting very sick as a result.
Dust didnât particularly feel anything for him. This guy hated him, sure, but it wasnât forward and slashy like with Killer, it was just quiet loathing which was fine. Thatâs how Dust felt about himself so, yâknow, mood. He did kind of feel sorry for him though, not just because of the whole famine and everything, but also because he was watching this guy eat like his life depended on it and then get sick and undo it day after day. He was the one who suggested Horror getting his food in moderation to Nightmare, which did help but was an absolute ordeal to enforce. Yâknow how some people get hangry? Imagine that but you havenât had a proper meal in years and now these people give you tiny amounts of food and donât let you eat more for hours. The hunger mood swings were a sight to behold, you would never have guessed in those days that Horror specified not wanting to kill.
When his ability to eat had evened out and he was in better shape, Horror made a point of apologising to Dust for being aggressive with him. Over time heâd kind of softened up on him from his initial impression, since he could see plainly how wracked with guilt Dust was over his situation. It was a little easier to imagine that whatever heâd done was truly out of desperation and not just for fun, as Horror had assumed at first sight.Â
They also both retained that classic sans laziness, so it was easy for them to share a space while saying and doing nothing. It made Horror the first person that Dust willingly spent time around in the castle (and vice versa since Horror was still largely suspicious of Nightmare and Killer - the deal seemed too good to be true and the stage 3 episodes didnât help). As time went on, Horror kind of became Dustâs emotional support skeleton in a way. Dust had become quite averse to touch in his solitude and Horror very slowly brought him back out with casual gentle touches, until not only did he no longer freeze or stiffen at being grabbed but Dust would seek him out to flop next to on the couch. Horror claimed it was just returning the favour for helping with his eating situation, but really it was nice to have something resembling a friend here.
Killer, for his part, was going through This is My Replacement 2: Electric Boogaloo. Not to the same degree as with Dust, since Horror was quite a bit different, but Killer was still wary of this new addition. He didnât really instigate anything though since, to be honest, Horror had the intimidation factor. He was like a foot taller than both of them, he had a cracked skull and completely different magic and it seemed like every time Killer saw him he was eating bread like a wolf eats a deer. So while he was going through his food moderating, Killer mostly just stayed quiet and kept his distance.
Horror had not softened on him like he had with Dust, since Killer didnât openly show remorse. He still watched him with distrust, especially after seeing the way he scrapped with Dust for seemingly no reason other than for violenceâs sake. Killer was still mostly targeting Dust in his stage 3s, but Horror had to be careful to stay out of his way since he was still working with much lower hp than the other two. What did start to convince him was seeing how similar Killer and Dust were after a stage 3 episode. Once Killer was slightly more composed (ie stopped crying), he became so tired and quiet and blunt about things he normally joked his way around. It was a little startling, but also started to bring Horror around to the idea that Killer might regret his actions too, just buried under several layers of whatever the hell is also wrong with him at any given time.
Killer and Horror only really started interacting after talking about Dust. Killer was asking how he got Dust to like him since he seems to hate everyone and everything else, Horror told him very pointedly it was because he wasnât trying to kill Dust. Killer admitted he wasnât trying to kill Dust, at least not anymore, he just wanted to fight for fun. It opened up a better channel of understanding, knowing that Killer did not actually have murderous intent behind his swings (stage 3 notwithstanding). It made it easier for Horror to occasionally get involved in the roughhousing which Killer delighted in, knowing that the other two knew how to hold back enough to keep him from dusting.
Speaking of stage 3, it was around this time that Killer and Dust made a very important deal. After a particularly rough episode with a little too close of a call, Killer showed up in Dustâs room and begged him shakily to make a promise - that if he ever got too out of control during one of his stages, Dust would kill him. Heâd been told over and over by Nightmare that it was impossible for Killer to hurt him since he was immortal, but now there were more people around him where that wasnât the case, and he wouldnât be able to live with himself if he came out of a stage and found himself alone. Dust promised.
Itâs also worth mentioning that, once they were all close enough to be on speaking terms, Horror started bullying the shit out of these two about eating. Now that Horror knew neither of them were going to kill him, he felt safe enough to pick them up by the scruff and set them at the table to say they werenât leaving until they had at least a snack. He let them pick what they would eat - he wasnât that cruel about it - but he had to see them eat at least 3 times a day or they would hear about it.
It was by no means perfect or regular, but after about half a year Nightmare finally had henchmen who ate food and worked together (mostly).
Now hereâs the problem⌠I still havenât really figured out how or why Cross joined the team. Like, obviously thereâs some kind of point in the events of underverse where it splits off into an alternate timeline, but I havenât really figured out where yet so. Leave that one with me just a little longer. Cross joins.
Nightmare really truly didnât intend to take anyone else in. They were (mostly) getting along, they were pretty well matched to fight the stars, he had no need of more mortals.
âŚbut he was also pretty soft at this point. Every one of them had taken a blow to his Iâm immortal Iâm an island I donât get attached to others persona and heâd gotten pretty damn fond of them all. This was why when he felt the sheer weight of loneliness radiating off of Cross, he just couldnât bring himself to leave him.
So Cross entered the castle.Â
He did not particularly intend to stay or make friends, he was trying to get his world back and nothing more. He even revealed a little down the line that he outright refused to kill, and was quite surprised to find that Nightmare was fine with that. At the start he was polite but not friendly with the others and mostly kept to himself.
Dust, as is often the case, did not really have an opinion. Another new guy, this one was self sufficient and didnât bother him so he had no reason to get involved. He was content to be in the same room as Cross but didnât start up any conversations.
Horror felt the need to speak to Cross, since Dust would happily stay silent for years and Killer was, well, Killer. Horror was somehow the closest thing to normal they had, so he was the one that made small talk. Mostly asking what Cross would like for meals and encouraging him to pick something he liked when he got the answer of âanything is fineâ. As Cross settled in a bit more and actually opened up, they bonded over being the only two to enjoy food. Horror made a point of adding chocolate to the stock they kept in the kitchen and making tacos here and there for Cross.
Horror was also the first Cross kind of warmed to, mostly because he was the one devoid of lvl and Nightmare had mentioned heâd also said he wouldnât kill. Learning a little about his auâs situation only softened Cross to him more, especially seeing that he still cared a lot for his brother and was trying to protect his home (even if Cross found it unthinkable that he lived away from it). It was through Horror that he also got accustomed to Dust, how being quiet and distant was kind of his default and that he also felt deeply haunted by the loss of his world. They werenât exactly friends, but it was comfortable enough.
So now boss had taken in another new person, someone who takes orders like a soldier and fights with knives and ruthless precision and aims to be his righthand man, and Killer was ecstatic. By now heâd mostly put his fears of being disposable behind him, Nightmare had gotten a bit less subtle in showing how important they all were to him and Killer felt confident he wouldnât be replaced. Which was a little bit funny, because the only guy he didnât feel threatened by was the one who absolutely competed for his spot.
Cross needed to prove he was useful, he had to feel like he earned his keep and that all the training and suffering heâd done was for a reason. When Nightmare sent them on missions, Cross aimed to be the fastest and the most efficient and to report to Nightmare without question. Horror and Dust looking on would have expected Killer to see this 100% as a threat to his position as (self proclaimed) Nightmareâs second in command, and to go for this guyâs throat when nobody else was around.
But Killer was fascinated. Cross was completely different from any of them, bar Nightmare whose au is a whole different kettle of fish, so he had a certain element of unpredictability to him. Horror and Dust were both based on classic sans just like him, so to a certain degree he knew how they would feel about most things and what they might say, the only differences being in what they had experienced through their own timelines. Cross was based on a swap sans and his au had taken wild twists and turns away from usual events, so Killer had to learn everything about him by poking and prodding for answers or observing from a distance, much like back when it was just him and Nightmare. Cross was something new to be studied and Killer loved taking notes.
Cross did not see this as friendly. He was competing with Killer for approval, not realising Killer was playing their contest like a game. When he saw Cross training he would jump in to spar for fun, but Cross saw his rival trying to get a jump on him and take him out of the running. When Killer would hang around and pester Cross in their off time with questions, it didnât seem like someone taking interest, it seemed like someone being nosy and looking for weaknesses to exploit. When Horror mentioned that Killer was being surprisingly contained and friendly, Cross really thought he was fucking with him.
The first time Cross was willing to even consider this was the case was when his locket came loose on the field and Killer ran back to find it, since one of the notes heâd taken was how the locket wasnât something Cross would play about (the same as Horror with food). It didnât make sense for someone who was seriously competing to have him kicked out to just hand his necklace back, no ransoms or attempts to crush it to upset him, just some vague remark about âowing him oneâ and then right back to Nightmare for orders.
Cross had to give him something of a chance after that, Horror helped a lot by telling him âhe doesnât want to hurt you, he just doesnât know how to be normalâ. It was mostly a playful jab at Killer, but reframing their interactions changed it significantly for Cross. Now they were sparring playfully and having friendly competition on jobs. He wasnât as put off when Killer went into stage 3 because he knew he could match him in combat and the others were always on hand to help restrain or distract him. Cross also took note of how Killer calmed down a lot for physical touch, not unlike how Dust had warmed up to Horror. It went a long way into not only making him a little less combative for attention every day, but it seemed to put longer stretches between his episodes (which Cross had also started tracking so they wouldnât be caught out by them as much).
For his part, Killer has disobeyed instructions in the past to benefit Cross, usually ignoring the task to help him if heâs hurt. Heâs also given Nightmare nudges towards praising him because heâs noted that thatâs what Cross needs in the same way he needs touch (not that Nightmare doesnât praise them normally, but when Cross is going through it and needs something). He also doesnât particularly like chocolate but has made a point of not admitting this to Horror so he can give his chocolate to Cross.
(Itâs also worth noting that Cross is the only one, besides Nightmare, that has been to Horrorâs au. He offered to help out during the food delivery and got to meet Horrorâs Papyrus (who he is a little intimidated by but ultimately friendly with, even though itâs a little weird since heâs a good bit different from his own Papyrus). Dust and Killer canât really visit for a few reasons, mostly because everyone will notice their lvl immediately and know what theyâve done. Dust especially doesnât know how he would react to having a Papyrus in front of him again and doesnât want to put Horror's family at risk to find out. Whenever he visits, his Papyrus asks about Cross now and sometimes tries to make tacos for him (key word tries, heâs still a Papyrus after all). He may have joked that seeing Cross sometimes is âlike having another brother but younger and less lazyâ and when Horror told him this Cross may or may not have cried.)
And thatâs where we are now!
Theyâre a very strange group whoâve been through some inexplicable events and have all changed each other in one way or another. And whether or not it can be admitted, they are a family c:
Now onto how Nightmare was made emotionally open by each of them!! In this essay I will no just kidding could you imagine this is already like 7 pages long
If you got to the end of this post please drink some water and get yourself a snack
#Ask#Wickjump#UTDR#UTMV#Truce au#Tagging that since this is the events I'm working off for these guys#My fanon canon if you will#Also I am SO sorry oh my god#This is like an essay for a degree I could submit this for peer review akdghjdjfsjl#I didn't mean to say so much I swear this was me trying to keep it concise!!#I think I've genuinely spent like 6 hours writing this between last night and this morning#Which is wild because like whose attention span is this??#Anyway I have a lot of thoughts about these guys (clearly)#I have given them a lot of events that I haven't really drawn or written about yet#There's a couple of things in here that I've referenced before here and there#But I guess this is kind of a masterpost for it all#Man I have to go to work in like an hour this was wild akdguigfgy#WICK THANK YOU!!!! This was really fun to do and it's got me excited to work on my other stuff in the background :D#And when I get back from work I'm gonna think of an ask to get you rambling next >:3c#But for realsies thank you so much this was super sweet and really fun <3
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