#he cares a lot more for people (especially the citizens of the underworld) than he admits

[samposillies]

[stay-midnight]

Fun through Harsh Times

Kim Seungmin x Male Reader x Bang Chan

W.C: 4.8K Words

Triggers: Explicit Smut, Human Discrimination, Conflict at the end, Some angst too.

THINGS TO NOTE: Demigod AU!! Seungmin - Son of Athena, Chan — Son of Demeter, Hyunjin — Son of Nemesis, Changbin — Son of Hades. Human Reader

Kinks/Warnings: Dom/Top Seungmin, Switch/Verse Reader, Sub/Bottom Bang Chan, Anal Sex, Unprotected Sex (make sure to cover the d to prevent std~), Buttplugs, Cuckolding, Daddy Kink, Master Kink, Use of Vines, Seungmin has a big dick, Degradation, Punishments, Usage of a different petnames, Biting, Mutual Masturbation, Lots of Cum, Multiple Orgasms, Creampie, Crying, Nipple Play, Ass Slapping, Use of Abilities and Powers during Sex, Bruises, Rough Sex, Soft Aftercare.

A/N: my works are getting longer I- and ooh~ this is my second? third? fic this month omg hshshsh. Also, I reread this alot of times to make sure it's okay cuz i didn't like it's based form so i had to rewrite and add new things. 💀💀, anygays hopefully you guys like this! oh and after the changbin fic which I may start writing at the 20th, in June i may open requests! this time though, ill accept three to not stress myself 💀.

You carefully remove the bread from the oven as to not burn yourself, looking at the clearly displeased customer at a call at how slow-paced you were working. You finally placed the bought breads at a plastic bag, handing it to him with a fake smile.

“Sorry, the dumb fucking human was too slow.” The customer spoke to the phone loud enough for you to catch as he walked away in a bad mood.

You sighed tiredly, remembering the amount of discrimination you received after living here for these past few months.

When Seungmin asked you to live with him and Chan at the island, you were ecstatic since you thought it would be amazing to move in with your boyfriends.

All your expectations were shut down as soon as the demigods that lived in the island clearly were not happy with you arriving. The constant murmurs and the glares were enough to tell you so.

Though, Seungmin and Chan didn't know how badly people treated you in the bakery.

You didn't wanna burden them as you were already thankful of living with them.

Changbin was there in the bakery with you anyway, if someone gets too harsh on you Bin was always there to scare them away.

Changbin was scary at first when you started working with him, when you found out he was Hades’ son — you were extremely careful to not get sent to the underworld. As time passed by, you found out he was extremely soft, so you became good friends with the man.

You blink tiredly as you picked up your bag and hauled it over your shoulder, before placing the "close" sign outside and bringing down the metal bars.

“I’m heading home now Binnie!” you shouted to the male at the back that was arranging boxes. You remove your apron, seconds later before fixing up your shirt and brushing your hair off your face.

“Bye! Stay safe on the way home, Y/N!” Changbin shouted back before groaning loudly and loud thud sound. You were about to check on him before he shouted again.

“I’m okay! Stupid box just fell..” he said out. You chuckle and slowly moved away.

“Be careful more, Bin!” you said back, before finally taking your leave with a last okay, bye! from him.

. . .

You sighed as you continued walking back to where you’re residing in — Seungmin’s mansion.

Seungmin has many times told you that you didn't need to work or and he could send a driver to pick you up. You rejected both offer, since you wanted to work and atleast help pay for your food. You also rejected the offer about the pick-up driver, opting to walk home instead.

Humming as you scrolled through the social media on your phone, you continuously walked to the direction of the place you called home with a smile on your face as you read through the cat posts.

You looked around a bit and caught the looks of disgust on the face of the nearby citizens causing you to freeze — before slowly moving again, trying to ignore them.

“What’s with them against humans anyways.” you whisper lowly as you try to ignore them, a slight pang shot through your heart, sad when you heard something.

“What did Athena’s son see in him anyways, he already has Demeter's boy. Why bring a human into the mix.” A lady near you harshly whispered.

You bit your lips trying to contain your flaring anger at her — trying to relax your nerves that was begging to have a go at her, just so you could finally arrive at the house.

. . .

You sighed in relief at the sight of the mansion gate, before even tapping the doorbell — you were greeted by the sight of the most beautiful emerald eyes, smiling brightly with dimples shown.

“Y/N~!” said male shouted in an excited manner, he looked as pretty as always and you just can't help falling for him like the day you first met.

All invasive thoughts left your mind at the sight of your bright and caring lover.

“Hi Channie~” you greeted as the gates slowly retracted to the side, removing the barrier between both of you. He ran to you and threw himself at you to which you caught him happily.

He then wrapped his arms around your neck and kissed you in a endearing way. “Where is Seung?” you ask after a bit, taking a peek at the front garden.

He let out a frown before grabbing your hand and led you through the path, “He.. He... still hasn't returned.. It’s been four days.” Chan said in a melancholic tone, his once bright eyes dimmed in sadness.

You look at him before taking notice that the plants at the sides were drying up and water was coming out of them. You frowned at the sight of it and continued as Chan led you inside.

“Chan... Seung has a lot of duties, he—” you waved your hand away at the maid entering with food to which she nods and leaves before continuing, “He has a lot on his shoulders especially dealing with the rebels, okay?” you reassured him, gently patting his head that was hung low.

Chan nodded understandingly before turning to you and leaning closer for a kiss on the lips to which you happily obliged — kissing him dearly.

“So no more, moping around. He wouldn't want that would he?” you smiled at him to which he nods at your words and gave you a lovely smile.

“He wouldn't..” he trailed off before climbing on to your lap to which you held him, you were still loving the fact that despite Chan being older than you and Min, he is the cutest.

Sure, Seungmin is cute as well but he has that scary side of him which leaves everyone shaking.

You buried your face on the neck of your lover and sighed. Chan smelled like flowers — fresh flowers to say the least, which calmed your nerves a bit. Chan giggles at you tickling his neck with your breath to which you cooed slightly.

A knock was heard from outside the door on the room you were both in, “Come in!” you said loudly for the person to hear.

A guard suddenly opened the door, “Sire’s.” he bowed deeply, “Uh, Sir Seungmin is coming home later at around an hour or so..” he said, pressing his lips to a thin line at the silent air he got and the stares from both of you.

The guard looked at you with a frown before smiling at the sight Chan. You looked at him with a saddened look to which he took note off, clearly trying not to scoff.

Chan also was suspicious at how the low demigod looked at you differently, Chan immediately raised his eyebrows at the guard

“He just wanted to let both of you know..” the guard quickly stated before leaving and shutting the door quickly due to the awkward tension he felt.

Chan bursted in a happy frenzy when the man left as he launched himself to hug you.

The flowers at the table suddenly bloomed after Chan’s was excited.

Chan slowly climbed off your lap and sat on the bed — he turned to you before raising both his eyebrows in a teasing

Then Chan smirked at you seconds later, his mind whirring thoughts. “Wanna give him a surprise?” he murmured.

You raised an eyebrow at the sudden change in demeanor — This was the Chan that teased both you and Seungmin in bed, the Chan that always had bratty plans in mind — the Chan that loved to be punished by Seungmin.

You nod without even knowing what will happen — little did you know about what’s Seungmin is gonna do to both of you later.

. . .

You look at Chan as if he was a crazy person, “Chan, are you sure? You know how Seung is when we start things without h-him?” you said in shock at the idea, shivering and stuttering at the thought when Seungmin caught both of you fucking without him. Let’s just say neither Chan or you could sit properly for days.

He tilted his head and smiled, “Cmon, Y/N.. It’ll be fun! Plus, he left us hanging for four days.” you look at Chan before sighing in defeat.

You knew Seungmin was just doing his job as Athena’s Son so Chan’s reason wasn't justifiable to say the least. But how Seungmin punished both of you was really hot at that time.. And you wouldn't mind seeing it again.

“Fine...” you said — giving in to Chan’s request, even though knowing it was a scary and terrible idea. Chan held out his hand before a pink flower and with red edges at their pollens appeared.

“Is that one of your drug flowers, again Channie?—” you asked, looked at him confused. To which Chan giggled and nodded repeatedly.

Chan is a son of Demeter, meaning he has control over nature’s plants, he is one of the tender of green life in the island but usually he isn't on duty because there are other children of Demeter on this island. You didn't know though, that Chan could create special types of flowers that contain a drug or an effect in them when inhaling their scent. The first drug flower you saw was a grey flower — it makes people fall asleep fast.

“What is it?” you asks, eyeing the flower carefully, he grinned at you before saying, “Aphrodisiac.” he said, moving the flower closer to your face.

You look at him before covering your nose immediately, “Why?!” you said through your hand, not wanting to inhale more of its alluring scent.

A smirk was back on his lips, “Maybe it’ll make you hornier therefore, maybe you can fuck me rougher?” he said teasingly before withdrawing the dangerous drug from your face.

You let go of your nose and sighed, “You could just ask..?” He looked at you straight in the eyes as you finished your statement — Chan’s orbs glinting with arousal, the aphrodisiac flower in his hand slowly wilted to gray dust.

“Hm? Would you be rough with me then?” He purred, pushing you down the bed — his emerald orbs staring down to yours, He grinded his ass on your clothed cock in a teasing manner.

A grin was plastered on his face before you switched positions with him, his back hitting the bed softly. He gasped, clearly suprised with the action.

You had both of his hands pinned on top of his head in a heartbeat causing Chan to squirm against your grip, “You’re such a brat, baby~... And I don't like brats.” you said the last part with a glare. He whined before looking up at you with puppy eyes, to which you chuckled at.

“That won’t work Channie.” you said, biting his neck harshly — him releasing a loud moan at the pain, Chan was such a painslut — he got off to Seungmin’s punishments so you expected no less.

You slowly lowered Chan’s shorts that he was wearing. Smiling at the growing dark spot at the middle of his underwear. “Already leaking? What a slutty baby, I have~” You taunted, squeezing his growing erection as you pressed your own clothed bulge against his thigh.

Chan moaned loudly at what you said his dick hardening even more.

You clicked your tongue in annoyance at the clothes you were both wearing.

You made quick work of the clothes on Chan’s body and yours as well. You noticed that vines with pink roses had appeared at the corners of the room, to which you smiled at — it shows that Chan was extremely needy.

You look at Chan — bare as the day he was born, your eyes raked over his form — from his face that had a red hue to the, to his chest and those beautiful pink buds — and to his pretty pink dick that was leaking precum down to his balls. He was so beautiful — inside and out. Fuck, his delicate pale skin was very enticing to fill with marks.

You wanted to ravage this man in front of you and savour the pleasure.

Chan let out a whine, “D— Do something, master...” he said, to which you raised an eyebrow at the sudden nickname.

You never expected Chan to call you that, so you looked at him with widened eyes before regaining your composure and moved closer to Chan as you hovered over him.

You lift his legs up shortly, licking your lips at the puckered hole — already shining and wet. “You prepped yourself already?” You ask, softly touching the ring of muscles with your thumb — gently.

He nods repeatedly, rolling his hips down impatiently — wanting some form of penetration, “Stay still, dumb pup.” you said harshly before finally shoving two fingers at his wet hole immediately. Feeling his walls clench against your digits.

“M-Master, please.... Puppy don’t need more stretching, puppy just wanna be fucked.” He begged, a tear slowly falling off his red cheeks.

You hummed, acknowledging his request — you took a condom from the drawer to which he pouted before plants came out of your hands and snagged the condom away and back to the drawer. “No condoms please...” he said, looking at you with a pout.

You smiled and lined up your tip against his lubricated hole — you smiled at his babbling words at the pressure on his entrance.

You spread his legs further — almost bending him in half, you cooed at the sight of his leaking cock — dripping a lot against his abs. You then slowly sink in to the welcoming warmth, savouring how his walls spazzes around your size.

“Ah f-fuck, puppy...” you almost howled out as your hips hit his ass. Chan was so cute — his eyes stinging with tears as he let out small moans. His chest was heaving and red was spreading all over his chest.

“M-Master, move. move, p-please...” He whined out, pushing himself back on your cock. You grinned as you remember his request earlier about being rough.

You pulled out slowly, before snapping your hips back as you fucked him precisely but rough at the same time. His useless cock was now oozing with cum at the tip. “F— Fuck fuck fuck.” he chanted repeatedly with every snap of your hips, as he rolled his eyes back at the pleasure.

You see red at the sight of Chan moaning "Master" while also cursing at the same time. You grip his muscular thighs as you pull him back on your cock, thrusting up to him in sequence.

“Pup, I’m close... God, you feel so good around me..” Chan moaned in response as you leaned down to bite a pink nipple, the bud hardening against your teeth as he arch his back against you at the sensation.

You disconnected your lips from his perked bud so you could take a look at the beautiful man underneath you.

Chan looked so fucked out, his hair was disheveled and his green eyes were shining through his tears. You were almost proud at how much you fucked Chan dumb.

“Cumming!! Master, ah~” he sniffed as he felt his cock shoot out spurts of white, reaching up to his pec — decorating his chest in his white sperm.

His walls clenched around you in a tight grip as you let out a low moan of your own as you emptied yourself inside of him — filling him up as you gripped his hips in a bruising way.

Chan’s body were trembling from the aftershock of his orgasm, you pecked his lips and smiled as you look down at him, his chest heaving and sweat and cum mixing on his pretty skin.

“I’m pulling out Channie, is that okay?” You asked in a warm tone, softly brushing your hand through his hair to relax him.

“Plug..?” he breathed out as you nod before reaching out to one of the drawers and pulling out a medium-sized buttplug before slowly pulling out of him — placing the plug to keep Chan full of your warm liquid.

He sighed in relief and smiled at you to which you smiled back, “I’ll go get a towel to clean you up, alright?” you said before getting up and placing your boxers on.

He hummed in agreement as he just laid there a bit tired of the activities.

. .

You opened the door out the room to run to the bathroom before a voice behind you stopped you, “Had fun, Y/N?” the male voice said in a cold tone.

You turned back and saw Seungmin standing, leaning at the wall as he looked at you with deadly eyes. “You both started without me.” he said blankly before trudging towards you as you stood there with cold feet.

“Why don’t you tell me, love. Who wanted it more?” Seungmin whispered to your ear when he stood in front of you his hand trailing down to your ass before grabbing a cheek.

“I— I did.”

He slapped your ass firmly — a moan slipped out of your lips from that. His eyes flashed a dangerous pink hue before it returned to normal. “Do you think you could lie to me?” he hissed out.

“A-Ah... Channie did..” You gulped at the slight anger that was hidden in his voice.

“As expected.” he chuckled darkly before pulling on your arm, slowly dragging you back to the room.

. .

A sudden opening of the door, made the tired Chan jump up from the bed. His mouth opened in shock as Seungmin was there with a grip on you.

Seungmin wanted to coo at Chan’s expression but instead kept his act on.

“Sit on the bed.” he said referring to you, to which you complied to easily. He silently grabbed the bottle of lube at a drawer — yours and Chan’s eyes following his form as he does so.

Seungmin then removed his clothes with ease, you almost drooling at his large length to which you eyed like candy, to which Seungmin took notice and almost smiled — just barely stopping himself from doing so.

“Tie yourself up, puppy.” Seungmin said in a voice of authority to which Chan lightly whimpered at, he nods slightly before placing his hand above his head and against the headboard.

A gasp left your lips as vines started to wrap and thicken around Chan’s wrists, tightening up and securing Chan on the side of the bed.

It always shocks you when Seung uses that ability he was blessed with, "Voice of Authority" as the demigods call it. Whenever Seungmin uses it, most weaker demigods will get on there knees and comply but much stronger ones can resist it. Whenever Seungmin uses it on humans though, it gives him perfect control over them.

— Seungmin promised you he will never use it on you as he doesn't want to take away your free will.

Seungmin sat on the bed, grabbing you and placing you on his lap harshly before he moved you and himself so he could face Chan.

His cock was hardening on your back as he bit your neck softly, he looked at Chan with a smirk, “Tell me puppy, what did you call Y/N earlier again?”

Chan looked at you and whined as his cock started to spring up. “I c-called him, m-master...” he said, looking at Seungmin with puppy eyes as his hole clearly clenched around the buttplug.

Seungmin chuckled as he kissed your shoulder, “And who am I to you, pretty?” Seungmin whispered in your ears huskily, clearly noticing your cock straining against your boxers.

“D— Daddy..” you asked, embarrassed as you felt Chan’s gaze upon you, a gasp left you as Seungmin pulled down your boxers in one go, his hands trailing over your thighs.

He lifted you up a bit so that your hole was exposed to Chan and so that his hands could near it.

He popped the bottle of lube open, circling your rim with a wet finger. You let out a sigh of pleasure when a finger finally went into you, slowly — it wasn't enough though, you needed more.

Seungmin took your hips rocking as a go sign as another finger joined inside till it finally became three moments later, you were bouncing on his slender fingers now and Chan was watching all of this unfold with tired eyes but his cock that was standing provided enough that Seungmin knows that he is still needy.

“Want your cock, da— daddy..” you begged out in a high voice, wanting the man behind you to fully destroy you already.

Seungmin turned to Chan that was rubbing his legs together uncomfortably — in need of some sort of friction. “Look at your master being a pathetic cockslut, Channie~” he mocked you, to which Chan let out a short “M—Mmph~”

You whimper at what Seungmin had said.

Before he lifted you up and slowly brung you down on his large dick, your back flushed against his chest.

Chan moaned at the sight of your hole taking in Seungmin’s cock deliciously while you had drool dripping down your cheek at the amazing stretch.

Chan whined against his restraints as his cock leaked as much as it could.

You lay your head back on Seungmin’s shoulder as you panted in pleasure, Seungmin nuzzled his head on your shoulder before using his fingers to pulling at your nipples.

You moaned loudly when Seungmin shifted a bit causing his cock inside to prod your bundle of sensitive nerves.

Seungmin pulled you off his dick slowly before slamming you back down, causing you to let out a cry as your hole clenched around his girth repeatedly.

“Doing so good, baby.. You feel so tight around me, yeah? Well this is gonna be a long punishment isn’t it? Let’s if you can walk tomorrow, love~” He hummed, kissing the back of your ear as you let out whimpers of pleasure.

He then look at Chan who was still messy but pretty, “Don’t think you’re out of the punishment though, slut. You’re not gonna cum as you watch me destroy your cocksleeve of a master’s hole.”

Chan thrusts up into the air and whine in retaliation, with his mind set on one thing, wanna cum.

Seungmin then started a rough pace of thrusting up into you, chasing his own pleasure and using you as his very own fucktoy for your punishment.

. . .

.

You forgot now how long Seungmin was thrusting into you and rearranging your insides — how long he had speared you on his cock. You were on cloud nine the whole time so you didn't bother to take notice of the time.

But your body was aching from your third orgasm today and Seungmin hadn't even came yet — how the hell does he last so long.. Fuck. you wanted him to fill you up like how you filled up Channie earlier.

Speaking of Chan, you looked at him and saw him whining and writhing — hopelessly rubbing his thighs together. His muscles were flexing, the more he struggles.

White spots blinded your eyesight as you trembled, your tip spurting out little dribbles of cum as you moaned weakly. Your cock felt like falling off as the lewd squelching filled the room.

Seungmin was growling while marking your neck as every thrust of his, sends a dizzying shiver throughout your body.

“I’m close now, love...” He whispered to which you responded with a simple and short, “Want it inside..”

Seungmin chuckled deeply and wrapped his hands around your waist before thrusting up to you one last time and coating your walls in sticky white with a sexy groan — as you let out a weak moan at the wet sensation.

That was what it all took for you to collapse on the bed, your cheeks pressing into the warm mattress as you felt Seung’s cum dribble out your hole — down to your balls and wetting the mattress.

Seungmin licked his lips at the sight of your entrance loose, gaping and oozing with his cum.

Seungmin was also tired, so he grabbed Chan’s cock in his hand to jerk him off fast to which Chan came immediately with a howl.

“You can untie yourself now, Channie..” Seungmin said in a soft tone,, to then which the vines restricting his hands turned into dust immediately before Chan grabbed you softly and held you.

You look at Chan with droopy eyes, smiling at him dearly. Chan giggled before holding you tightly even though his body was sticky.

Seungmin had went out of the room to fetch some dry towels and water while also leaving his two lovers to cuddle with one another.

. .

“You okay, bubs? Minnie wasn't too rough? I could prick him with thorns if you’d like..~” Chan mumbles, pecking your lips softly while also letting out a tiny laugh at then end.

You nod, giggling afterwards to which Chan smiled — brushing through your locks with his hand, a loving grin plastered on his face.

Humming softly as Chan waited for Seungmin to come back.

. .

Seungmin finally arrived with a three damp cloth hanging on his shoulder while carrying a cup and a pitcher filled with water. He smiled lovingly at the both of you before setting down the water pitcher and cups at the nightstand.

He then moved closer to the both of you to wipe both of you clean. He started with Chan, thoroughly wiping his chest down to his abs before teasing him by pushing the buttplug deeper in his ass to which Chan let out a small whine too.

After that, he cleaned you up too by wiping the cum on your thighs and around your buttcheeks.

He started to finger your gaping hole slowly too, trying to remove any more excess cum that was left inside. While being fingered, you were biting your lips, trying to not moan at a sensitive part being touched.

He looked at both you and Chan sweetly, before leaning down to kiss you both at the forehead. “Such good babies, I have~” He said in a teasing tone.

Chan pouted, “I’m older than you, Minmin!!”, he glared at Seungmin which made him laugh, he then patted Chan’s head. “Doesn’t matter, pup~” You watched their interactions with a tired smile.

Before Seungmin remembered something earlier to which he turned to you, sitting on the bed. His smile turning flat. “So, I passed by the bakery earlier and your co-worker said something to me.”

You froze on the spot before looking at his cold eyes, “Why didn't you tell me that the other citizens treated you like shit and called you names?” He said, a small anger laced in his voice. — It was not directed at you though.

Silence.

Chan’s mouth hang agape a short while before he growled — taking into account what Seungmin said, “They do fucking what to you?” He snapped, venom clearly in his tone. Chan rarely gets mad and when he does expect a disaster.

Chan barely could contain himself as roots flowed out the walls and into the hallway, Seungmin looked over at Chan, “Channie, calm down.” His eyes flashing the same pink hue as earlier in the hallway encounter.

“Calm— What? Calm down? They treat him terribly, and you expect me to not choke them where they live?” Chan seethed, not happy at what Seungmin is doing — which is trying to stop him.

The roots on the walls enlarge and footsteps was audibly heard outside the walls of the room — possibly guards that were trying to run away to avoid getting trampled by the evergrowing vines

“I’ll deal with it, so don't worry. Just don't destroy the house okay?” Seungmin tried to reason as best as he can.

But Chan didn't stop still littering the whole room with dangerous roots and long vines. Angry Chan was a force to be reckoned with ans even Min had hard times to calm him down.

“Chan.” Seungmin had used his own ability now, wanting Chan to stop what he was doing — His jaw tightened in frustration while you sat there with fear at the conflict of your boyfriends.

Chan flinched slightly before growling lowly, challenging Seungmin, “Don’t you fucking dare use that on me outside of bed, Kim Seungmin.” he said darkly, glaring at black haired man.

“Bang Christopher fucking Chan. Wilt your plants, are you challenging me? ” Seungmin looked down at Chan with a dark pink flare at his eyes, displeased with the disrespect of the nature demigod.

Chan’s eyes slowly diluted back to normal and whimpered, his plants were now gone — turned into dust, he looked at Seungmin like a puppy that had been beaten up.

Seungmin sighed and sat back down on the bed, petting Chan is in his fragile state before he grabbed him so he could hold him properly.

He looked at you before speaking, “You’re gonna have a bodyguard with you at all times, I already assigned who. Hyunjin will detain anyone who bad-mouths you, okay?” Seungmin said clear as day.

“B— But-”

“No buts, Y/N. This is for your safety, not only physically but also emotionally. Plus, they can't get away with disrespecting what’s mine.” He fumed slightly.

Your eyes softened and rubbed his shoulder comfortably to soothe his anger. “Fine. But let’s sleep for now. Chan is tired, you’re tired, I’m also tired...” you whisper to him, hugging him before he laid Chan down to the bed.

Soon enough all of you fell into a comfortable sleep, you were hugging Chan as Seungmin was spooning the both of you. The fight earlier soon vanished like a wisp as the room fell into a comfortable silence.

. . .

Special Scene~:

“How dare you fucking touch me. I am a son of A— ow! ow!” The man getting cuffed by Hyunjin said out. Hyunjin made sure to tighten the cuffs more to make sure the rude customer felt discomfort.

“Do I look like I care? No. You are going to have jail time, bitch.” Hyunjin, a son of Nemesis sassed out as he grabbed his phone and dialed someone to come pick the detainee up.

You look over at Changbin at the scene you just witnessed, he looked back at you.

“Okay, but that’s kinda ho—”

“Changbin!” you look at him, secretly judging his word choices.

“What? It’s true..” Hades’ son trailed off.

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness - "Enter the Dragon"

Episodes 46 and 47 overall

Synopsis:

Po and the Furious Five come across a Chinese Dragon from the Underworld named Ke-Pa who is invincible to the powers of kung fu, and it's up to Po to stop Ke-Pa from ruling China.

Characters:

This special feels like a blueprint for the third movie:

Chi

Otherworldly realm

Po wilding Chi

Dragon design

Po's got a big head and is behaving more like a celebrity than a protector of the valley. He also makes the biggest fuck-up ever. Po knows people might die. He's tasked with evacuating citizens. Instead of doing the sensible thing, he brags about how he'll protect them from anything. At last, there is no time for evacuation anyway as  Ke-Pa showes up in his pig form.

Fuck-up number two. Po thinks he can take Ke-Pa in his weakened state alone and doesn't call others for help.That gives him enough time to get his power back.

Normally I hate how villagers turn their backs on Po who saved them many times for doing something wrong. But this time they are totally justified in being angry.

Shifu goes off on Po for his irresponsibility.

The Furious Five's reactions fit their character perfectly:

Monkey is the one to defend Po. Saying how there's nothing wrong with pleasing fans. They’re best friends and, besides Po, he’s the most laid back.

Viper worries about Po and how he feels. She even argues that Shifu was too harsh for him.

Mantis is the one to call Po on his idiotic behavior. He tells the truth not caring if it hurts.

Crane just plainly states that they need Po to stand a chance against Ke-Pa.

Tigress is angry and disappointed with Po but knows they need his help.

We later find out he did it to protect Po and beat Ke-Pa. This plan includes Shifu sacrificing himself, so his students can have a chance. All of them love Shifu, especially Tigress, so seeing them reluctantly grand their master's last wish is powerful.  

Meanwhile, when Po is moping and listing all things he's lost his father comes to help. Mr. Ping has his flaws but moments like this show why he's one of the best fathers in animation. He reminds his son how he was able to become the Dragon Warrior against all odds. That inspires Po to go back.

Great two-parter.

Villains: Fung and the Croc Bandits show up at the beginning to get beaten and show how awesome Po is. Later they help Ke-Pa let the Underworld Demons free. Not out of their own will but the threat of getting eaten by Ke-Pa.

Ke-Pa is intimidating even in a pig form. A lot of it is thanks to the brilliant voice acting. They do this thing where he yells so much it creates an echo. Sometimes it’s fine other times it’s awkward.

He talks about taking their home back and letting his family go. Those wants of a hero, the main character of a cartoon or an anime. Then you remember he wants to kill everybody and rule over the world. Doesn't turn him good but gives him some layers.

His most evil dead was letting Po hit him and indirectly make the last paddle fall of the peach. Ke-Pa could do it himself. He just wanted to torment Po.

[tvpeongsstuff]

Supreme Emperor Obiwan Kenobi

New story idea.

After Mustafar Obiwan and vader do not have another run in for a few years. But, the first time they do Obiwan makes one of his distract my enemies while fighting comments. Vader gets distracted and loses again and Obiwan runs away. It keeps happening.

At first vader does not realize what this means until he and one of his henchmen (inquisitors?) get into a fight with Obiwan and Obiwan starts flirting with the henchman like he does when he is fighting his enemies and turns to vader and flirts with vader like he does with his enemies.

Anakin Skywalker, Obiwan Kenobi's padawan/brother/son, realizes that he is now just another sith obsessed with Obiwan. And, that to Obiwan he is no different than Ventress, or Dooku, or Grievous!

He doesn't handle that knowledge well. He goes even more crazy looking for Obiwan. He cannot handle being just anything to Obiwan. He starts looking for ways to increase his power tenfold. He starts training like crazy.

He pays top dollar for holorecordings (old or new no questions asked) of Obiwan fighting against other darksiders, criminals, and imperials. There are a few new videos. If any of them get in a lucky strike, vader makes them fight him. Inquisitors, the criminal underworld, and officers start getting chopped to pieces or killed. The imperials that survive get cybernetic parts. There are also a lot of older videos of Obiwan fighting with other Jedi, especially Anakin Skywalker. Those were supposed to be destroyed after the fall of the Republic. They make him feel...

Unbeknownst to both vader and sidious, the rebellion realize what's happening and start using vader's obsession to get vader to turn his sith fury on the complacent core worlds. They were the ones comming the info lines saying that Obiwan was on X planet or Y planet. Then when vader and his troops show up, they would broadcast the carnage. And, they carry out covert operations on other planets as they know those planets are vaderfree. For example, creating a spy network on Naboo, moving ammunitions through planet A.

The Rebellion recruits Obiwan to their cause. Bail reaches out to him, tells him the plan. They need him to distract vader. It's twofold: They don't want vader getting suspicious and they need vader to keep destroying coreworlds. He needs to be filmed looking heroic, walking through rich districts, passing by Core senators mistresses second homes, in the same are as a new important imperial's kept man (misters?). He is going to be their Katniss Everdeen (an ancient hero). People are going to get hurt but every jedi knows that the good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one.

It works! If there is a rumor that Obiwan is on a planet, vader shows up with squadrons and tear the area apart, torture people for information, etc. This backfires on him because he razes so many places the empire can't completely censor the videos before they get out. People stop calling in as much, no matter how good the bounty.

Palpatine is at first happy with vader's obsession. He's all, "Give in to the power of the dark side" and he loves cyborgs. But, vader is single minded in his pursuit. It's like he transferred all of the love he had for Obiwan into this chase. Palpatine knows how much Anakin loved Obiwan so...on the one hand let vader find him and kill him, cementing palpatine's rule and ensuring vader's complete loyalty. On the other hand, vader is wrecking core planets and undermining his hold right now.

Sidious orders vader to stop and concentrate on other things. Vader does not listen. He receives a holo showing Obiwan on Naboo visiting Padme's memorial. He freaks out, goes to Naboo, takes the entire 501st and the 212th. He questions the queen. He rips apart members of Naboo's ruling class. He breaks public monuments. His purge troopers pull people out of their homes and beat citizens in the street. All of this is being broadcast galaxy wide.

Naboo's gentry are comming palpatine on his private line complaining and asking him to control his maniac. The rebel broadcast and the regular broadcast are wondering if this new empire is going to keep infringing on the rights of citizens? Are the people hurt by the rampaging vader going to have any recourse? Perhaps they should return to a republic? Sidious can't let this stand. He looks weak. Vader is destroying his home planet and ruining his image.

He leaves Coruscant and goes to Naboo. This was all part of a plan by the rebellion and it worked perfectly. They sneak Obiwan into Coruscant. They needed both vader and the emperor off planet so that no one powerful would be around to sense Obiwan. The rebellion are going to rally support to their cause, build up the capital's spy network, and film holos of Obiwan on planet to play at a later date to embarrass the empire.

On Naboo, vader is mourning at Padme's tomb when sidious catches up to him. The rebellion have set up holo cameras to spy on vader's every move. Breha told them to set up low tech motion detector cameras at the tomb. When the emperor comes in he berates vader and shoots force lightning at him while Vader writhes on the ground and screams in pain. It all gets captured on holo.

S: "I do not care about these morons, Lord Vader. But, you need to get yourself together and stop embarrassing me. Use your grief to channel the power of the dark side!"

Vader (gasping and panting): Yes my master

S: You have been letting Kenobi make a fool of you. Perhaps he is better than you? Perhaps you do not truly want to kill him? Did you forget how he turned on you and cut you down? Do you not want your revenge?

Vader: Yes I want my revenge

Sidious: Good good apprentice. When next you meet pull on the dark side of the force. Show Kenobi what you are capable of. Let him be the one to suffer.

V: Yes master

S: Good we leave at once for Coruscant. Gather your men.

Meanwhile Obiwan had met with senators and businessmen sympathetic to the rebel cause. He's gone down to the lower levels and spread hope amongst the poor and downtrodden. He's used the force to heal. He's filmed at the barracks and the senate. Finally, he's at the jedi temple. Obiwan has been making poignant propaganda films. Now, he has to make one about the fall of the republic and the murder of the jedi. He does. It's heart wrenching.

He talks about life in the jedi temple. He talks about the camaraderie and love all the jedi are raised with, how he didn't realize people thought jedi were baby stealers. He explains that the jedi only took unwanted children, or children whose parents could not help them with their powers. Every jedi who wanted to could leave the order. No one was kept by force. All jedi were educated on their culture and traditions. And, he talks about that final day, the murder of the jedi in the temple, the slaughter of the younglings. . He talks about finding all their bodies after, the futile search for survivors, the desperate he harboured. He cries.

The rebellion thought that they would have more time. The emperor was supposed to stay on Naboo as is his wont and make nice with his fellow men. They did not expect him to come back immediately with vader, two starships full of clone purge troopers, and 7 inquisitors. They realize they cannot get Obiwan off planet. It's too late. Vader and sidious have sensed his presence.

Obiwan makes a decision. He could die trying to escape or he could make a heroic last stand. He has the rebellion set up holo cameras all around the area and go into hiding. He tells them to broadcast his last recording. Hopefully it will rally people to their side when he diies. They have to get themselves to safety. Obiwan knows he has to push vader into killing him quickly. He hides all of his most sensitive information deep behind his strongest shields. Then he meditates. He is as ready as he'll ever be. He has to trust in the force.

Sidious knows that this is the perfect PR opportunity. He has to counteract Obiwan's emotional appeal. He sends Vader with all the troops and inquisitors after Obiwan. Vader knows better than to fail him but back up couldn't hurt. Obiwan must die! He also orders all the empires holos to broadcast the fight throughout the galaxy. He goes to the senate and announces that "there have been reports that the jedi terrorist Obiwan Kenobi has been spotted on Coruscant. Not to worry. Not to worry. I have sent Darth Vader to deal with him. At long last we will be rid of the jedi menace and our glorious empire can finally know peace." This is also broadcast throughout the galaxy from the senate cameras.

The fight starts. It's epic. Obiwan battles Vader and the Inquisitors from the jedi temple to the senate rotunda. He knocks out 3 inquisitors and badly injures 2 more. He catches blaster bolts and directs away from him back to his enemies. He keeps flirting, and making jokes and puns. Vader is enraged. He starts fighting horribly. He loses focus and jumps in the way of his inquisitors. (They already know he's obsessed with Obiwan Kenobi and the suspect if one of them land the killing blow vader will destroy them.) He chops off one of vader's hands.

Obiwan: Did I unhand you? That must burn.

Vader becomes apoplectic. How is Obiwan beating him? Again? He remembers what sidious said and starts pulling on the dark side of the force. Vader is literally pulling all of the darkside energy on Coruscant into him. Here's the thing, there is no true dark side force energy. There is only the force that can be used for dark purposes or light purposes. The way the force is used taints the force around the user. Vader is actually pulling the force away from darksiders like the Sith.

Vader begins the drain Coruscant of its dark energy. He pulls the force out of all the inquisitors that surround him, draining them. This knocks all of them unconscious. He needs more power! He pulls on the dark energy around him that has been clouding the force on Coruscant. He pulls even harder. Several weak dark side senators fall unconscious. Dark side users around the planet start passing out. Still Vader needs more power!

Palpatine feels a drain on his powers. Too late he grasps what's happening; he tries to reach out to vader. "Stop! Stop!" he screams, " Stop this at once Lord Vader!" He tries to raise his shields but he and vader share a connection, sneakily placed there by him while vader was still a child. Usually the connection goes one way. He pushes doubts, fears, dreams, and pain on vader and sits back and enjoys the emotional turmoil. Today vader has blasted that connection wide open and is taking all of the force from him. He falls unconscious.

Obiwan Kenobi can see dark energy flowing into vader. Dark energy from teh inquisitors on the ground, dark energy swirling in from the air, an ocean of dark energy coming to him from the senate. Vadear is swarming in dark energy. Obiwan can feel the turmoil, rage, and hate. It feels like....anakin skywalker throwing a tantrum when he didn't get his own way as a child.

Obiwan knows how to deal with this, probably Anakin's biggest darkest tantrum. He opens the bond he has with anakin a little, looks into anakin, puts the right amount of force into his suggestion and says "Sleep." Vader collapses and Obiwan catches him with the force.

The flow of energy into vader immediately starts to slow down. From their connection Obiwan can sense all the people vader has been sucking dry. If vader stops draining them they will wake up, so Obiwan keeps the flow going.

All this time the battalions have mostly been standing by idly. They were ordered to take shots to incapacitate or distract the jedi, unless he somehow won. Then they were to kill him. They start firing immediately. With Obiwan's focus and the energy of all the darkside at his fingertips Obiwan is able to catch every single bolt blast. He starts moving towards the senate following the ocean of darkness, parting bolts in front of him like he is parting water. Some of the troops try to run up to him to fight him but they get caught and stuck. He is floating vader and the inquisitors behind him. The caught troopers start floating along with them also. As they pass, the bolts fire.

In the senate, chaos reigns. A few senators and the emperor have collapsed. Medics have been called for them. On their screens, Jedi master Obiwan Kenobi has bested Darth Vader and his inquisitors. He is walking through the blaster bolts of thousands of troopers. He has proven himself unkillable and now he is coming straight for them. Some of the weaker members of the senate try running away. Others call out to the Coruscant senate guards to protect them. An enterprising member orders the doors sealed. It makes no difference.

Obiwan Kenobi enters the senate. and jumps to the emperor's hover chair. Vader is hovering behind him still but he has left the inquisitors and the clone troopers at the entrance to the senate. The troopers are still firing at him indiscriminately. He is catching the bolts and directing them to the walls. He looks down at the emperor who is being treated by a medidroid, throws the droid away with the force, and closes his eyes for a few seconds. All the cameras are on him. Every household in the galaxy is watching. This is being projected to every screen on every warship. Imperial officers the galaxy over are watching from their posts.

He opens his eyes

Obiwan: By the ancient laws of this senate, and pursuant to charter 9 as set forth in the old republic, I name myself the vice chair of the senate Obiwan Kenobi. Alpha Tango Abera Cadebera Seven Five Thirteen.

There is a pause. Then a flurry of sound as all of the technology in the senate updates at the same time. The ancient code of the senate computers accepts Obiwan's passcode and turns the full power of the senate over to him. All connected systems update also.

Obiwan: Commanders execute order 4. Cancel order 66 and stop shooting.

All the clones stop shooting.

Obiwan: All powers are hereby handed over to me and whatsoever remains of the Jedi order. I declare myself Supreme Emperor Obiwan Kenobi.

Part 2

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Meet the character: Ainu

BASICS

► Name ➔  “Ainu”, the tiny lalafell answers politely and bows. “Ainu Wanyuudo. Pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

► Are you single ➔ “What an odd question.” She eyes you up and down, her eyes slightly narrowed. “Why are you asking? Are you up to something?”

► Are you happy ➔  She rolls her eyes. “’Happy...’ One of those words I’ve never truly understood. Oh well, I guess I’m happy enough. I have a job I like and steady income... Actually I’m making the most gil of our family, apart from my mother.”

► Are you angry? ➔  Ainu smiles widely. “Funny that you asked, since I haven’t been this angry in ages. It takes quite a lot to make me angry. This certain thug tried to murder my mother not too long ago, and I’m plotting a vengeance worth of such a deed”, she states casually, like she’d be talking about weather.

► Are your parents still married ➔  “I only have my adoptive mother, and as far as I’ve understood, she prefers to stay alone. Which I, of course, perfectly understand. Romance would only be a risk and hindrance in the criminal underworld.”

EIGHT FACTS

► Birth Place ➔ “Kugane. I stayed there for the first half of my life, and the second half I spent traveling and training around the far east.”

► Hair Color ➔ “Black?” she asks slightly confused, and glances upwards at her bangs. “Yep. So it’d seem.”

► Eye Color ➔ Ainu rolls her eyes again. She marches closer, looks up to you and pulls her lower eyelid slightly downwards, so that you can see the blood red orb clearly.

► Birthday ➔ “I have no clue about the exact date. I only know it’s sometimes around spring.”

► Mood ➔ “...bored. I am so... bored! You see, I was given this interesting assignment a couple of months ago, but my target has done nothing. Nothing! Either he chickened out just because he’s a coward, or somebody told him I was after him, and he chickened out because... well... he’s still a coward.” Ainu lets out a frustrated sigh. “I do know I have quite a reputation, but I wish people wouldn’t back off from the game because of it. How shameful. One should finish what one starts.”

► Gender ➔ Ainu raises her eyebrows. “Seriously, have you considered glasses?”

► Summer or winter ➔ “Summer absolutely. Working is easier in summer. No footprints.”

► Morning or afternoon ➔ “Afternoon. Most of my work consists of night shifts, and I’m more of a night owl anyway.”

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

► Are you in love ➔ She snorts and looks at you scornfully. “I don’t think I’ve ever experienced any kind of love. I grew up in an environment where such a thing didn’t exist. Besides, as far as I’ve been observing people around me, who are in love, it seems more like a nuisance than something worth pursuing.”

► Do you believe in love at first sight ➔ “I don’t believe in love at all.”

► Who ended your last relationship ➔ Ainu lets out a frustrated sigh. “It should be obvious at this point, but I have never had that kind of relationship. First of all: I would be insane if I let another person that close to me. And secondly: even if such a miracle happened, it would eventually fail, because the other party couldn’t handle everything a pact like that with me would bring with it.”

► Have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔  “I think I... maay have broken my mother’s heart at some point. She’s been trying so hard to save me. Though, I’m not quite sure what she’s trying to save me from. She should know by now that I’m not one of those people who need saving.”

► Are you afraid of commitments ➔ “Commitments? Do you mean my pacts with my customers? No, I’m not afraid of commitments. If I had to name one of those few things in this messed up world I find meaningful, it would be my reputation and bringing honor to the shinobi who trained me.”

► Have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ “Do hugs received from others count as me hugging them? They do? Then I’ve been hugged, yes.”

► Have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ “If I have, I’m not aware of it. However, in theory it could be entirely possible. People - well, mostly my family - keeps telling me how cute I am, so I wouldn’t be surprised if others would’ve noticed my charm as well.”

► Have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ “Hm. You nosy little cockroach just had to remind me, just for the sake of some interview? ...yes, I have broken my own heart. By believing that if I just was a good girl, she’d love me. If I just tried hard enough, I’d eventually gain her acceptance. And after she had left, I kept believing she’d come back for me. I wasted too many years telling lies to myself. Should’ve realized sooner the only living thing you can trust is yourself.”

SIX CHOICES

► Love or lust ➔ "Lust. Not that I’d be interested in it, but definitely lust rather than love. I think I already made my opinion about love clear earlier, yes?”

► Lemonade or iced tea ➔ “Iced tea, absolutely. I don’t know about you people here, but we drink quite a lot of tea in the east - both hot and cold.”

► Cats or Dogs ➔ “Cats. In general, I don’t like animals, but the less trouble they are the more I could say I like them. Besides, do you have any idea what a pain badly trained dogs can be especially to us smallfolk?”

► A few best friends or many regular friends ➔ Ainu repeats the word ‘friend’ and sneers. “Now there’s another thing I never learned to understand. People talk about friends like they’d be a good thing. I don’t call them friends, but backstabbers. I’d rather not have any of them.”

► Wild night out or romantic night in ➔ “Wild night out - alone.” Ainu smiles charmingly.

► Day or night ➔ “At night I feel most alive. Almost everyone else is asleep, and I’m free to do whatever I want, to whoever I want.”

FOUR HAVE YOU EVERS

► Been caught sneaking out ➔ “In the beginning of my training. I wasn’t used to suddenly having so much different rules to live by, so naturally I rebelled. I couldn’t understand why my mother... - Asagi at this point - would dare to leave me there. Anyhow... I soon realized one couldn’t be a good shinobi without discipline, so I never did it again.”

�� Fallen down/up the stairs ➔ “I don’t think I have. My balance is unparalleled.”

► Wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? ➔ “Love”, she answers without thinking. Right after her mouth is twisted into a slightly creepy grin. “But that was before realizing it’s not necessary.”

► Wanted to disappear ➔ “Oh, a couple of times actually, mostly back when I was still in training but had just started practicing with real targets. Not to brag, but nowadays I’m quite good at what I do. Nevertheless, even I can’t completely avoid mistakes. My area of work is one of those were mistakes will likely cost you your life. So, yes... after being sloppy I’ve had angry targets chasing me. Without my training I wouldn’t have had a chance escaping them with these tiny feets of mine.”

FOUR PREFERENCES

► Smile or eyes ➔ “I don’t care about either, but if I had to choose one... smile. To be honest, I don’t like to look people in the eye. From their eyes it’s fairly easy to tell are they lying or not. It annoys me, when people are saying something, but their gaze tells they don’t mean a single word.”

► Shorter or Taller ➔ “Shorter. I hate it when people look down on me like I’d be some piece of shite they accidentally stepped on.” Ainu falls silent for a moment, and after a while, shrugs. “Then again... it’s also quite hilarious when people have to bow or kneel before me, when they want to whisper or give me something. I guess being a stump also has its’ boons...”

► Intelligence or Attraction ➔ “Attraction of course. The more intelligent people are, the more trouble they usually give me. I prefer situations where I’m the smartest one around.”

► Hook-up or Relationship ➔ Ainu’s unimpressed expression hints she’d probably rather watch paint dry or grass grow than talk about this kind of subjects. “Well... if I had to choose... hook-up. That wouldn’t tie me to anyone in any way. The less I have people around me the better.”

FAMILY

► Do you and your family get along ➔ “My current family? We get along just fine. ...Apart from some minor disagreements usually considering work and how it’s supposed to be done. Sometimes it makes me wonder would they listen to me more if I had born roegadyn instead.”

► Would you say you have a “messed up life” ➔ Ainu giggles, but there’s no genuine amusement in her voice. “Well, at least it hasn’t been normal, if that’s what you mean. It... could’ve been better. I admit seeing happy families and people having fun with their friends tend to make me somewhat bitter, even angry. But perhaps those things just weren’t meant for me. I’m capable of things those regular people are not, and I believe the Kami have bigger plans for me than some boring everyday life.”

► Have you ever ran away from home ➔ “No, but I probably should have.”

► Have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ “Yes, and that’s the exact reason why I should’ve ran away. If I had just realized sooner what was going on... But meh... I guess it’s unreasonable to expect a five-year-old or younger to understand your parent is actually a piece of filth you would be better without.”

FRIENDS

► Do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ Ainu lets out a frustrated sigh. “Since you seem to be unable to grasp the concept of not having friends, I’m just going to answer your friend-related questions by using my family members instead. Does that sound good? Good.”

► Do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ Ainu pouts while shifting her hands behind her back. “Mostly. My adoptive sisters are both as... tolerable as siblings can be, I think. I’m not so sure about Bella, though, and what she’s going to do with her life. Same with my aunt, Silke. Those two are the only law-abiding citizens of our family - as far as I know at least - so that kind of forces me to keep my eye on them. If a betrayal were to happen, they’d be my main suspects.”

► Who is your best friend ➔ “Aya”, Ainu answers without a moment of hesitation. “If I had to name one thing I truly appreciate in people - besides not stabbing me in the back, obviously - it would be their ability to return my friendly bantering and not get offended by it.”

► Who knows everything about you ➔ Ainu smiles sunnily, before answering: “No one. Though mother is probably quite close to it.”

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what are your headcanons for andy and panchos relationships with the other characters in the kingdom? ❤❤❤ I love your blog!!

ohhh i love this question & tysm!! 🧡

it ended up being rlly long so here’s the cut ;)

Pancho

•Julien; Julien is like a brother or cousin to Pancho! He trusts the king more than anything after Julien basically saved .. well himself, but also him. any scheme Julien comes up with that he knows Maurice wouldnt approve of, he’ll go to pancho

•Maurice; maurice has a kind of wary vibe around Pancho ever since Pancho suggested eating him on the sub in exiled. he’s suspicious of him mainly because he wants to protect Julien tho, & he cant shake that Pancho is (or was) a sleeper agent programmed with the sole purpose of killing his best friend so

•Clover: Pancho is kinda cautious around clover since she’s always round the corner ready to bust him & Andy’s schemes. when it comes down to it they DO work together as they aknowledge each others skillsets. literally pancho is the only lemur (from the kingdom) who’s beaten Clover in combat. just once though.

•Mort; Pancho just......aknowlegdes his existance. he’s there i guess. doesn’t find mort as terrifying & creepy as the average citizen but Panch has probably seen worse. or he just doesn’t care. mort also does crimes so theyre just aware of each other.

•Becca & Abner; he’s kinda friends with them cus Andy’s friends with them. he goes round to deliver them stuff sometimes like moonshine or weapons from Andy. He probably shouldn’t pay too much attention to their government conspiracy theories though, they tend to really freak his paranoid ass out

•Timo; Timo is scared of Pancho or at least wary. He admittadly would like to study him tho & Panch is often a great help to him doing manual labour for any of Timo’s big projects

•Masikura; she mindmelded with him once & swore never again. she just doesn’t wanna know.

•Ted; Ted has a lil crush on Pancho (he’s one of Ted’s many crushes) & Panch will lightly flirt with him sometimes when he’s in the mood to. Pancho will bicker & grouch with him but they are really tight friends especially after their time together during exiled.

•Dorothy; at first she saw Pancho as this ideal bad boy type, but then realised how bad he smells cus he hates bathing. She’ll offer him tea like she does with everyone & (begrudingly often) lets him crash with her & Ted when they all stumble back drunk after a night out. Literally her & Ted both just have a mutual crush on Pancho is that not canon though

•Willie; despite being mean to Willie like EVERYONE ELSE IS Pancho and Willie are quite good friends. He’ll go stay with him whenever he’s worried about something cus he knows Willie will understand. sometime’s he’s too panicky for Pancho to be around though cus it sets him off

•Hector; I WANT THEM TO BOND OVER MILITARY HARDSHIPS & EXPERIENCE I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL & HEALING FOR THE BOTH OF THEM! I should write about this sometime..........

•Horst; the DJ friend who he can always have a crazy sesh with; they actually get along pretty good. except when Pancho’s out here stealing his bolos. Like with everyone, Horst just rambles to Pancho when he’s drunk.

•Tammy, Butterfish & Todd; no real connection to them besides that him & Butterfish will often do the same jobs. They usually just make casual work chat. Tammy thinks Pancho is posessed by demons but he doesn’t let that phase him.

•Karl: he’s not rlly a “kingdom citizen” but he’s about there enough so. anyway Pancho just doesn’t treat Karl like the evil genius villain he portrays at all, since Pancho’s own morality is in the grey area, which kinda infuriates Karl that Pancho just talks to him like hes a normal person. he wants Julien’s people to FEAR HIM!!

•Dr. S; Absolutely not. they don’t even really have a friendship of any kind & Pancho is terrified of going to see the doctor as Dr. S literally experiments on lemurs...he’s not about that after what happened with the previous king.......Andy often has to drag him to the hospital kicking & biting to get him to go to checkups

•Nurse Phantom; u know what they’ve never interacted in canon but I think Nurse Phantom senses how troubled & anxious he is & takes a lot of time to talk to Pancho like if ever Andy or anyone else manages to drag him to the hospital, Rob will hold his hand if it comes to it; he goes into major helpful mode like offering him fruit & telling him he’s gonna be alright. He’ll also scold him for getting into so many dangerous scrapes & tells him he’s gotta look after himself!

Andy

•Julien; for some reason Julien just refuses to exile him even after all the bad shit he’s done BUT i think that’s because Andy is overall helpful to him like he ignores all the weirdness for example when they walked in on him & that rat holding a body wrapped in leaves because hey! we need tropheys Andy fast! thats the issue here!! perhaps its Julien’s awful adhd memory though & he just genuinely forgets. Julien is close with Pancho of course so Andy’s been round to the plane for parties & dinner as Pancho’s +1 of sorts— heck even he can be “polite” when he has to be.

•Maurice; Momo hates him. hates him hates him theres no turning back. i mean its hard not to when most of the citizens suffer from rediculous lemur stupidity & ur the only one who can see through this bat when he’s just standing there chatting shit. Very suspicious of Andy— plus he just thinks he’s creepy

•clover; LMAO bUT .....like obviously she hates him for good reason. but i do have this hc that’s way too long to write out that after Julien, Maurice & Mort literally fucked off to go with the zoosters in madagascar 2 Clover was literally responsible for two kingdoms cus she couldnt just leave them with a gecko in charge. I just want some situation where theres a proper twist & Andy ends up mellowing the hell out & actually being useful to her & the kingdom...he has skills but he uses them for nefarious reasons. She’d probably save his life somehow in the post-Julien chaos & he’d b like....”why would YOU of all people save ME?” n she’d b like... “well you are technically a citizen of this kingdom and ....i’ve gotta make sure you’re ALL safe for when ..... if King Julien ever gets back.....”

•mort; ??? sometimes theyre legit business partners. Mort can get in on a good scam. that second rub’s gonna cost ya. theyve probably been in the same prison before at one point. Mort’s so old.

•Becca & Abner; his fellow anti-establishment pals!! he doesn’t fully believe all of their ideas & theories but he loves em cus they’ll always buy self defence scorps off him. They get along & they drink a lot together by the stagnant watering hole. they’ve seen Andy in horrible states; all 3 of them are an idiot squad when theyre together. Becca & Andy argue a lot cus even she thinks some of the things he says are wack sometimes

•Timo; i have this hc that Timo, Andy & Karl knew each other when they were kids they kinda bonded together during school cus they were three non-lemur losers who got bullied for their eccentricity & varying levels of intelligence. Timo will sometimes go to Andy for stuff but he is his last resort really

•Masikura; probably mindmelded with him once & just saw a vision of him daydreaming about being kissed by Pancho & since then she was like. “Im not scared of the bird demon he’s just a big softie. where is my shipment of “ect” for my tea, that bird demon’s late again—“

•Ted; Ted is such an easy mark he can sell almost anything to him if he’s cheery enough. Helps that Ted thinks he’s really cute so Andy can just easily sweet talk him into buying whatever dodgy product he’s got at the moment. he knows & interacts with Ted mainly through Pancho being his friend!

•Dorothy; rlly wild hc actually that Dorothy used to be a propper crime don before she settled down with Ted— or when Ted was shifting into Snake more frequently back in the day for whatever reason—so Andy knows her from the criminal underworld. Cus of this he’s very respectful towards her... he’s seen what she’s capable of

•Willie; Andy could walk round the corner with his wings outstretched & say “boo” & Willie would pass out from shock. He’s also very easy for Andy to sell to- his fearmongering really works on Willie he’s very suseptable to it

•Hector; Hector doesn’t take any of Andy’s crap he’d probably just hit him with a broom if he came round his hut to sell him dodgy hand cream honestly

•Horst; Andy keeps him topped up with a steady supply of beverages...........Horst will actually sometimes ask him & Pancho for help with importing various new vinyl records

•Tammy, Butterfish & Todd; that family buys a LOT of product off him since they’re just typical americans basically he finds it rlly easy & reliable to sell stuff like drinks & toys to them. Tammy kinda hates Andy though & like Pancho, thinks he’s a demon. Doesn’t help that Mort nicknamed him “bird demon”.

•Karl; like with Timo i hc he knew him when they were in highschool—! Karl found Andy infuriating & so annoying though & didn’t consider him a friend at all. a lot of his early lazer guns were born from Karl’s growing need to shoot Andy out of the sky cus he’d fly up to get out of reach of his claws when he’d annoyed him.

•Dr. S; i hc that Andy and Dr.S are business or trading partners of sorts but they keep it very lowkey. Andy probably handles hits and the crazy snake doctor requires bodies and “test subjects” for his manic experiments. Andy is the perfect guy for the job! When Nurse Phantom is unable, Andy will hide the evidence of Dr.S’ malpractice for a reasonable fee, of course. He dislikes going to checkups himself though— he doesn’t like people knowing too much about him! Plus Dr.S always “””jokes””” about “””studying””” him because he finds the fact Andy is a flying mammal facinating & talks about using Andy’s wings to create a frankenstein flying lemur.

•Nurse Phantom; Rob just lectures him about being reckless & getting into fights everytime he sees him. Kinda the same as Dr. S really, but he does tell him like.. Hey I used to be pretty mean & put people in danger too. And that there’s always time to turn another leaf. Andy usually just scoffs, collects his paycheck, & leaves.

[dvbermingham]

Chapter 1: Hamachi

Chapter 1: Alonso

I was coming off one of the worst weeks of my career. My former boss, whom I knew only as Takuto and for whom I’d worked for about six days, was stabbed in more than two places on his torso, and once in the neck region. I found him splayed out like a starfish on the sidewalk down a side street with no street sign. There was a distant sound of running through puddles, and I swear I heard a muted trumpet echoing off the brick apartment buildings somewhere down the block.

As a bodyguard, finding your boss in a pool of his own blood, is generally hailed as the end of your shift.

It was rough. I always thought of myself as a natural guarder of bodies. I get very attached to bodies, whatever type they may be, and if I’m assigned to guard one, well, that protectiveness comes out and I get very difficult to peel off.

I tried not to fault myself too much. I didn’t have much time to get to know Takuto, it being a truncated work week and he living high on the untrusting meter. I gleaned through my investigatory talents and the brief synopsis from Alonso, that Takuto was a chef at a restaurant, probably a Japanese restaurant. I heard words like chirashi and P&L on more than one eavesdrop. Apparently in this particular field of work, this kind of thing happens. People in high places, especially ones in the high-stakes food and beverage community, often get violently replaced. Something about the number of knives at hand, the ambient heat of any given kitchen, the stress of maintaining fish at the right temperature.

That kind of thing did not deter me. Violence comes with the job. Why would someone hire a body guard if their body wasn’t in some kind of perpetual state of risk. It kind of goes without saying.

In the short time I knew Takuto, I hadn’t been given much insight into who his enemies were, what kinds of valuable assets he possessed, any of that sweet detail that might make my job easier. I got the impression that Takuto didn’t know either. He seemed like a man who hadn’t quite found his footing in his new job, an apprentice turned chef turned sushi-alderman in a manner of hours. He seemed like the kind of many who needed some thorough body-guarding, but without that information, the job was nothing more than looking scarier and more aware than you really are.

You’d have to ask Alonso personally if you want to know why he hired me. God knows he wouldn’t explain it to me. He simply said, “I know talent when I see it.” I was in the middle of a také course, miso soup included. I had become a big fan of sushi. I found the formality of the dining experience balanced me out. The beauty and grace of every aspect was a welcome vacation from my normal life. Plus such fish were high fatty oils. Perhaps you’ve gathered by now, perhaps you haven’t, but I promise, if you were to pass me on the street, you’d bet your life that I’m the kind of guy that likes his fatty oils. You might even say I look like a guy who deals exclusively in fatty oils. They’ve always held a special place in my heart. Maybe that’s why I was hired.

This was 1996, in case you couldn’t tell. Sushi was still an elusive cuisine in America at this point in history. The country hadn’t rediscovered its craft culture quite yet — the nineties had us all in a climactic frenzy whose origins dated to the fifties, probably earlier, but definitely at least the fifties. The factory processed food system had triumphed over its communist cousins, whose food system was undoubtedly just as factory-based but was somehow different, I’m not sure. Either way, we won, and in celebration we pumped our money into deep fried hot dogs and bloomin’ onions and all-you-can eateries and tuna melts. Not to say I have anything against those particular items. In fact, I choose them because they more or less define me as a consumer.

Sushi was just one of those things that flew under the radar. No one really trusted raw fish, they didn’t rate rice quite as high as bread and pasta, and wasabi was feared for its potency. It just so happened that a sushi bar opened up right across the street from my apartment. Me being the type that needed extended breaks from Dexter, presently my only companion and also my cat, I had the habit of trying any restaurant or bar I could find.

I was only one of a handful of people who frequented this establishment, whose sign simple read, in dull red lettering, Fishy Smell. Nor was it the best neighborhood for such a restaurant. People of that ilk, my neighbors at the time, didn’t have my unique brand of open-mindedness. It was almost as if they were attempting to deter people from eating there.

Still the sushi was good. The chef clearly took his job very seriously and treated me with respect. I did get the overall impression that they were somewhat nervous about opening a restaurant in that location. Whether it was the crime, the degenerates, the filth on the streets and sidewalks, the noise from the fire-escapes and roofs where in the heat of summer the chronically claustrophobic congregate, and how all this would influence the delicate nature of their fish, or something else, a concern uniquely Japanese, a concern about culture and its export.  I won’t brag but I did some research after my third or so meal in Fishy Smell and it turns out for most of history the Japanese were not particularly inclined towards cultural imports or exports. Such a recent and drastic reversal, I suspected, might cause a few of their more traditional citizens some mild anxiety.

While the rest of the country remained in their comfy, all-American reveries, the elusive world of the sushi magnates began to form before my very eyes. Perhaps America was right to dabble in a California roll once a year, perhaps at a holiday party, and leave it at that.  Perhaps they sensed that the sushi underworld was still afoot, and that stepping into an authentic sushi restaurant, and I believe I’m quoting Newsweek here, was one of the most dangerous things you could do in 1996.

As I was saying, I was in the middle of my také course, I think on my mackerel (one of my favorites re: fatty oils), getting eyed in a characteristically cryptic manner by the chef, when a well-dressed fellow walked through the doors. He was a regular, always sat in the end seat at the bar, far on the other end away from the door, and who always had a different guest with him. The chef greeted him with deference, seemed to serve him with a particular air of fear, as if at the slightest moment of disappointment, he guest could put down his chopsticks, walk outside, and shutter the restaurant, closing it forever and suffocating the staff and public unfortunate enough to be trapped inside.  

So that night, as I was sitting alone at the bar, drinking a beer and reading a book on mythology, a topic to which I returned rather frequently, eyeing my mackerel, best for last. The bar was empty — it was near closing time, and it was raining outside. At about 9:30, just as I was about to pop that little nigiri in my mouth, the door opened and the regular, the fellow, enters the restaurant, then locks the door from the inside.

I sat up. My antennae told me to. I do sometimes find myself trapped in places, but never like this. The chef and waitress disappeared. The man approached me, all smiles. In New York, this is a definite sign of danger. “Hi,” he said, his voice deep and velvety. “I’m Alonso. I was wondering if I could have a moment of your time.”

I made a face that said, sure, what else am I doing. Alonso took the stool next to me and began talking. didn’t have to say much to get the idea across. He had people who needed bodily protection, which was precisely the kind of protection I offered. I didn’t really care at that time of my life who I guarded, what they did for a living, the kind of people they tended to anger to a point of needed protection. That kind of information couldn’t really be trusted coming from well-dressed sushi bar patrons anyway.

“So what do you think,” he said after his spiel.

“You’d be surprised how many people in New York have offered me per-diem jobs as their goon or thug or even a pair of legs, a pair of shoulders, an extra set of eyes, a quick change of clothes. It sounds like you’re just looking generally for an all around frightening kind of presence in any given situation.”

“You catch on quick.”

“With nine millions people running around with their own agendas, sometimes people need reminding that their own agenda’s don’t align with other more powerful agendas. Guys like me tend to fill that job role well.”

The conversation went on. Alonso liked to talk. He liked to get you to see things from his side of the story. But since this is my side of the story I’ve decided I won’t give him any more space. If I do, we’ll be here all night. Suffice it to say, I was interested in money at the time and didn’t have a lot of use for myself other than precisely what he was asking of me. I could start the next day.

[undeadqveen]

✕ — isn’t that shiklah wandering the streets of new york? civilians know them as queen of the undead and see them as an anti-hero (or villain depending the day,,, yike). as far as i know, the one thousand+ year old stands with the legion of monsters & howling commandos and are rumoured to be pretty authoritative & cavalier. ( priyanka chopra /demi-girl / she/they )

{ trigger warnings : coma mention, war, sort-of-not-really-cannibalism (since u kno, demon, but still human eating), torture, medical/experiments  }

everyone say hello to my monster!baby, shiklah! she is the literal light of my life and i can only hope i do her justice. sooo here we go.

I. : INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION: //

shiklah hasn’t been around in the comics for too long. and all her appearances in marvel are entirely comic based

so this rendition of her is going to be based on that, with my own head canons filling in the gaps along the way to make her a fully fleshed out character

II. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: //

age: old. really fucking old. she was alive before the first humans.

gender: demigirl. her war demon form is gender neutral. she wears female human skin, however.

height: 10’3” in true form, 5’8” in humanoid form

species: succubus, sorceress

occupation: succubus queen, queen of the undead, queen of the underworld, queen of monstropolis

place of birth: the arabian peninsula

citizenship: arabian

marital status: married (two polyamorous marriages)

orientation: pansexual, panromantic, and polyamorous

pre-coma family: mother and father, names unknown (deceased); amjad, brother (deceased); baqir, brother (deceased); jenny, cousin (alive and a fucking badass)

children: cathan, adopted son (species: demon who prefers a werewolf form, sorcerer)

pets: bug, her pet dragon, who flies and breathes fire. he’s a good boy.

affiliation: leader of the legion of monsters

base of operations: monster metropolis (otherwise known as monstropolis), morlock tunnels, manhattan, NY

moral alignment: lawful evil

III. HISTORICAL INFORMATION: //

before humans were even around, shiklah and her family ruled the monster world. but the vampires wanted to overthrow their family. cue a war that lasted centuries and saw the coming of man. aka a long ass fucking war. my poor baby.

during the war against the vampires, shiklah’s kingdom had fallen, and her and her father witnessed the deaths of shiklah’s two brothers.

her father, in a,,,,, stroke of,,,, genius? well. a stroke of something. decided to lock shiklah up in a sarcophagus for. however long it’d take until the war ended or until she was going to be wed. surprise surprise.

well. dracula decides to hire deadpool to go wake up shiklah. so they could be married and end this long ass war and finally have peace. things were going fine until deadpool gets into a fight with a minotaur and shiklah’s sarcophagus shatters, awakening her and bug.

IV. MODERN INFORMATION: //

in her short period of time being awake in the modern world, shiklah was nearly assassinated by blade, was captured by hydra, and captured by aim, both of which wanted to exploit her powers and experiment on her.

she also fell in love with wade who taught her how to acclimate to the modern world, about technology, and about popular culture

when humans brutally murdered a centuries-old monster who resided in monstropolis, an elder monster who was completely senile and not a threat to anyone, shiklah sort of. snapped. she tried to handle things with civility at first, going in front of the courts and asking for retribution for the cold blooded murder of her loyal friend.

when the courts laughed in her face and told shiklah that monsters aren’t protected under the criminal code, she realized humans really are horribly discriminatory, and declared war against them.

to stop shiklah from killing. everyone. wade went to get dracula, who came to find shiklah and proposed. the two were also married and shiklah took a temporary leave of her duties to pursue their relationship and learn how to rule as a fair ruler, not a forceful one. she realized she didnt like using her powers to rule her own citizens by force. proud of you, baby girl.  

V. ABILITIES INFORMATION: //

succubus physiology

enhanced strength, speed, dexterity

supernatural beauty

royal-level mystical abilities

pheromones (my personal head canon, it hasn’t been written in the comics yet but her cousin jenny has succubus pheromones and it’d make sense shiklah does, too, as part of her supernatural beauty)

shapeshifting

hellfire/soulfire manipulation

enslavement beams,,, yike

life-force absorption

necromancy 

VI. ADDTIONAL INFORMATION: //

i wont bore you with all of my myriad historical head canons about shiklah’s life before her millennia long sleep, they’ll probably come up as flashbacks in her threads anyhow, plus theres so  much time there to fill in that i’m sure shiklah will also tell me things as time goes on

what’s important to know about this though is that shiklah is, in many ways, very traditional. she loves donning a maid outfit and cleaning her entire palace. shes a forceful female ruler who’s still subjected at times to her thousands of years old preconceived notions of gender roles

she loves to party. she’s admitted to wade before that she throws parties with her monster friends all the time — one’s that are orgy ceremonies actually

she eats humans, particularly in her war form. it’s cool  

she’s pretty naive to the ways of the modern world. wade fills her in on stuff, but it’s also wade, lmao. her perception of things in the modern era is very biased towards deadpools own views on things

she’s adorable sometimes? like. super scary evil murder demon baby who cracks jokes about the kardashians.

shes evil towards humans but she is a fair and just ruler to monsters. she doesn’t like asgardians because apparently her people were enslaved by them during a conflict thousands of years ago. this issue though was sort of resolved when her cousin jenny was tricked into starting a fight with jane foster, and the two ended up reconciling and becoming close

but she respects the inhumans and she respects mutants, especially ones whose powers altered their physical appearance

tbh she wants to mom every monster looking kid

she reads comics in the bath like a cutie

she also goes to conventions, especially comic conventions, where people think shes dressed in cosplay. their reaction to her answer, “no, this is just the human skin i’m wearing for the day,” is her favourite thing

she loves bug more than anything else

consequently she loves sex almost as much as bug

blood k!nk~~~

she will kiss you and drain some of your life force. she will. it’ll give you a rush of adrenaline like nothing else and it really gets her off.

personally i HC that she was actually taken by hydra for a while and she was actually taken by aim for a while. she was weaponized by the former and experimented upon by the latter.

actually i have a lot of angst head canons for shiklah that’ll probably come out more in her threads and flashbacks too

she knows the x-men and some of the avengers and the fantastic 4 because they were at her wedding with wade????????

similarly, i imagine she knows most of the people he was on teams with or worked with, tbh. she probably loves the kinneys actually

she has a son she adopted, a five year old little demon sorcerer who she named cathan (in honour of the elder god, c’thon). he’s a little monster baby who uses his shapeshifting demon powers to stay in a werewolf humanoid demon form — because he was raised by wolves before shiklah rescued him

as a ruler of one of the dimensions of the underworld i imagine she also knows the other hell leaders such as dormammu, the hellstroms, mephisto, etc. but also other hellfire users like ghost rider.

shes evil but she has a big heart for the people she cares about. she has a bad tendency of prioritizing her needs and wants over what the people she loves needs or wants but she’s actively working on that, too

shes full of juxtapositions? which is why i love her. shes cunning in some ways but naive in others. shes evil to some but a darling to others. shes a war demon but also a housemaid. shes so complicated and diverse and i can’t wait to write her with you all!!!

— i think that’s about it for now?! shiklah is my BABE honestly. so hmu for all the plots because im sO EXCITED for her ok thanks fam ily <3

[mittensmorgul]

what do you think is the in-universe/fandom/writers perspective of sam, and how do you think they vary? I was thinking about how i usually hear he is the responsible/intelligent one, which i dont think works really well, especially in later seasons and i dont know if that is the way the rest of the characters view him. And I also started thinking about how theres this general believe (1)

that the writers have over time, forgot sam's personality/way of thinking, which explains why we know more about dean, that we do sam. I don't know if this makes sense lol :p I guess I just think that even though there are different interpretations of the characters in the show, since sam is a lot more private than dean, its easier to read dean (2)

Hiya... this is a weird question, but I will do my best to answer. I... don’t think they really vary how they write Sam. I mean, some episodes deal more specifically with him and his point of view and internal drama than others, but I do agree that we are shown less of that side of Sam then we are of Dean. But I also don’t think this is a new thing.

Dean has almost always been our “audience point of view” character. Or at the very least our “audience emotional touchstone” character. With a few exceptions, like a good chunk of the time he was saddled with the Mark of Cain. But aside from that, yeah... he’s the one we most often see the story through.

Going all the way back to s1, things ~happen to Sam~ and Dean reacts. I think they may have originally been shooting for more of a balance, and maybe did even originally intend Sam to be the audience POV character. After all, he was being pulled back into this underworld of sorts of supernatural monsters and demons and stuff. We-the-audience could’ve so easily had our entry into their world through Sam’s eyes, being pulled from normal citizen into the hunter world through Sam’s adjustment to it all. But it never really worked for me. Sam’s pov was Traumatized™ from the end of the pilot episode, while Dean was already grounded in that world, accepting of it and ready to keep living the hunter life. It proved to be a far more stable pov and emotional engagement to the narrative, you know? Sam kept wanting to run away. Kinda hard to feel attached to the narrative through that sort of emotional standpoint, you know? *I* didn’t want to run away...

But then stuff KEPT happening to Sam-- the weird powers that terrified him, the loss of his connection to the normal world that put him off balance just as much, the realization that there might never be an end to the hunting... which put that burden on Dean as a character to keep pushing forward, and that’s the through-line for the audience to cling to emotionally.

Sam’s fighting against the demon blood powers, Dean keeps him grounded and supports him. John tells Dean that he either has to save Sam or else kill him, and we-the-audience are supposed to suspect there’s something Dark about Sam that we should be at the very least wary of, but Dean sticks by him swearing to save him no matter what. Sam’s kidnapped and killed, and Dean finally does save him, buy trading his own soul for Sam’s. In s4, Sam *is* hiding dark secrets, working behind Dean’s back with Ruby, basically succumbing to drug addiction while Dean tries to protect him from all that.

Sam’s soulless, Dean finds a way to save his soul. Sam’s halluciferating, Dean finds a way to save him again. Dean’s in Purgatory, and Sam hit a dog-- not even trying to do the whole saving thing... again, making it hard to put a pin on how we’re supposed to interact with the guy who keeps wanting to run away from his own story while we’re supposed to be engaging with it.

Sam takes on the trials, Dean supports him through it. Sam’s possessed by an angel, and unaware of the fact, so Dean is our window into that entire mess.

Then the Mark of Cain happens, and Sam goes off the dang rails trying to save Dean from himself... which is the only flip in this script, really, aside from Sam trying to save Dean from Michael now in s14.

The thing with s10 is that I personally had a really hard time trusting Sam’s assessment of Dean’s mental state, simply because he’s never really had a bead on it before. The show attempting to force us to see the emotional beats through Sam’s eyes just... didn’t fly for me. It was a disconnect. I’m much happier with the situation now in s14, because I actually *do* feel like I get Sam’s pov now. At least, more than I ever did back in s10.

I think the notion that Sam is “the responsible/intelligent one” is a fandom oversimplification. Like... I said above, Sam was always the one trying to run away from his own life. I mean, that’s not exactly “responsible” behavior. As for intelligence, there’s lots of different types of intelligence, and Dean is just as “intelligent” as Sam is, but in different ways. They think differently. Heck, I wrote a lot about this back during s11, but the tl;dr of all of it was that they are different people with different emotional coping styles. Sam might be great at research and getting people to open up to him and thinking through problems in a linear, logical fashion, but that doesn’t make him “smarter” than Dean. Dean’s more intuitive, and relies a lot more on his own understanding of the world to make logical leaps to solutions. I also think, for a vast number of reasons not least of which is the fact that Dean had essentially been a “parental” figure to Sam his whole life while Sam had unwittingly fallen into a “child” role because of that, that Dean is the more emotionally intuitive and Sam’s not even been fully aware of just how emotionally demanding he’s been of Dean while not offering Dean the same sort of emotional consideration in return. Because kids just don’t do that for their parents (or they definitely shouldn’t, despite Dean’s heaven memory of doing that for Mary in 5.16, but that’s another post entirely).

Sam understands the world through the lens of his own experience. He assumes that everyone else feels and reacts as he would in those circumstances. Dean, however, understands people. But he’s got a couple of huge blind spots when it comes to Sam, just like we-the-audience do. Not through any fault of his own, but because of how he was parentified and how his entire life to a certain point had been devoted to the cause of protecting Sam.

This is partly why I was THRILLED to hear Sam opening up to Rowena in 13.12. What a fantastic episode. Not only did Sam successfully take on the emotional burden of the narrative with aplomb while Dean was compromised, but he actually had an honest emotional chat with Rowena about trauma he admitted to having kept secret for almost EIGHT YEARS. 

I mean, he did pretty good in 12.11, too, when Dean was losing his memories. He became the “hand-holder” for the audience quite nicely in that episode too, even if some of his shortcomings were put on display. But it took him another YEAR after that to really begin to open up about his actual feelings, you know? Rather than clinging to Dean because he needed him (which is a theme that goes way back, long before his talk with Charlie in 10.18 even about how he’d resigned himself to this life, but only as long as Dean was in it with him), it took him rebelling and “picking a side” in s12 for him to really begin to figure out HIMSELF, instead of just what he is as an adjunct to Dean.

GROWTH!

And now he’s responsibly taking on leadership roles and learning about what Dean went through all those years taking care of him through helping to guide Jack through his own life. So I don’t think it’s so much that the writers have “forgotten” who Sam is, but they’re finally letting him grow up in a lot of ways, like they’ve shown us Dean getting to grow into his own person as well. And I think it’s spectacular.

I’ve written a bunch about the differences in Sam and Dean as characters, and a lot of it is tagged “sam sympathizes and dean empathizes”, and a lot of the parentification of Dean stuff is in the “performing dean” tag-- which also deals with this disconnect of how Sam sees Dean through this hazy lens of performance that was often structured specifically to hide Dean’s personal emotional turmoil beneath a Strong Mask for Sam’s benefit-- but as I’m getting into s11 now on my blog retagging project, there’s probably gonna be more stuff falling into that tag, with the perspective of hindsight. :P

[zorkaya-moved]

―  A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

It is important to remember where Zarina came from before coming to Japan. I will not be touching on Victor’s part in this meta, but it will come later because the older twin was able to slither around in the society and assimilate there much better because she was considered a “healthy” citizen. Let’s start talking about the past of Inspector Zarina Sokolova that is NOT fully known to everyone, but it can give hints about her behavior, word choice, and approaches towards missions and relations in general. 

Without hiding anything, both Zarina and Victor are children of a higher up in the underworld who have been one of the leading forces in Russia from “under the ground.” They were not known on the level of governors, but they were one of the leading forces that brought up corruption. With that in mind, Zarina and Victor have been taught how to protect themselves, kill, and how to lead. When it comes to Zarina, her arrogance as a child - since similarly to her canon - was caused by her not needing to be in company of kids and her being able to keep up conversations about complicated matters with adults as a teen made her think she’s invincible. However, once again, similarly to her canon, Zarina was abducted and tortured, unable to escape until she was saved by her mother who died while saving her daughter. Her father wanted to send his kids to Japan after pulling on the strings and being able to have the twins & Aleksey’s grandparents able to bring their grandchildren to Japan for safety. Oleg was killed while protecting his son Aleksey, who also passed away during the attack while twins were dragged out on a helicopter and moved to Japan. Zarina during that time was unable to move after being saved from the torture and has been recovering from her injuries, which were only fully healed in Japan while being cared for in hospitals with the best technology. 

After giving the short rundown on Zarina’s past and some experience, let me explain what it means in a better detail when it comes to skillset. Zarina is a survivor and a fighter at her heart. Her views and her approaches are cut-throat and straightforward, always calculating risks and creating the best plans without letting arrogance take over after the traumatizing experience. Inspector Sokolova is somewhat similar to a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, analytical and observant. She’s much less emotionally inclined than Victor, which lets her be much more logical and create plans without letting bias and emotions shake them. As someone who has come from the “lawless land” where a lot of things NEVER go according to the most perfect plan, she knows that the “true perfect plan” is a plan that is flexible, thought out, able to change based on circumstances. This is her true power throughout seasons of Psyc.ho P.ass as a possible villain: to understand your enemy, become the enemy and know every single weak spot they might have. Zarina develops her plan on bringing down Sibyl no by destroying it, but by making people face the truth when they are not ready, which may or may not happen depending on her developing interactions on this blog. Inspector Sokolova is patient, tenacious, 

Zarina has been in sniping position as a child, she has been as a fighter/soldier on the field, she has seen how people fuck up. Both Victor and Zarina have been child soldiers, assassins, whatever you can call it. Their parents couldn’t allow their children to have a childhood with all the pain in their hearts because the outer world was not kind to normal citizens and especially to them. Zarina’s interest has always been in human behavior and study similar to Saiga, it’s certainly important to note that they have a very, very similar behavior but Saiga is older and more experienced with age while Sokolova has experience with people from “the outside land,” which gives her another perspective when it comes to understanding the minds of ‘criminals’ and their actions. Saiga will know of Zarina’s innate darkness and coldness, her efficient nature and her “beastly” nature that not many have in general; if there is someone who is unpredictable, it’s her because you never know what will sway her interest (she is both fox and serpent). I will go as far as state that Saiga might be the very person to give Akane the knowledge of Zarina’s true nature instead of Sokolova being found out by Tsunemori after a year and a half by S2. The fact that there is something in her that disturbs him greatly; however, the fact that her CC is never higher than 37% it might be his deduction, but I can see him actually telling Akane about the possible way Zarina’s mind works, which is connected to efficiency, survival, but also... control, apathy, and sharp observation. 

The latter three being the most important because it will lead into another meta that will contribute to Inspector Sokolova’s unique ability of strategizing and planning. After all, there is no one who have yet beaten her in a game of chess, ladies and gentlemen. 

Zarina may pretend to be a funny happy-go-lucky and laid-back clown as an Inspector who keeps people curious, however...

It doesn’t take away the way she commands Enforcers with power and charisma. 

It doesn’t take away the fact that she is much more well-versed in dangerous situations that others may not be. 

It doesn’t take away the fact that she has been taught how to kill and how to “hunt” others for survival.

It doesn’t take away the fact that she is that good at her job is because she is a natural-born genius who is that good at hiding her true calculative and manipulative nature. 

It doesn’t take away the fact that she one of the most patient and tenacious people who will act her part for years and years until the bomb about her true nature will ever be dropped because there is almost no one who she cares about besides 2 people as of now. 

Zarina is dangerous because she is an unpredictable sleeping beast who is thankfully not into causing actual destruction in Tokyo nor have any plans for it as of S2. I will write more about her skillset and abilities in another meta because this got very long. 

All in all, Zarina’s environment is the reason for her merciless true nature but she does hold back a lot to “fit in” with the society. The thing is, her ability help her “fit in” but it doesn’t mean she “belongs” there. This is important to underline: Zarina is a pretender, an actress, and a liar. Her warm and friendly nature is a lie to many but who will believe if you say it to others when so many believe another truth and without proof your words are nothing but a lie? Think about it. 

Who has more weight in this situation? Someone who has a solid rock-hard reputation in consistently being “someone” or you who has no proof to showcase the lies hiding under the guise of sunlight? The sheep may actually be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but if you cannot pinpoint the ears or fangs, no other sheep will listen to you. If you cannot find the serpent whispering to Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, it’s all the humans’ curiosity fault and the serpent still remains in the Gardens of Eden as justice is not served. 

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Biden to propose free preschool, as speech details emerge (AP) President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in an address to Congress. The administration said the historic investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000. It calls for providing federal funds to help the states offer preschool, with teachers and other employees earning $15 an hour. The new details are part of Biden’s $1 trillion-plus package, an ambitious next phase of his massive infrastructure investment program, this one focused on so-called human infrastructure—child care, health care, education and other core aspects of the household architecture that undergird everyday life for countless Americans. Together with Biden’s American Jobs Plan, a $2.3 trillion infrastructure investment to be funded by a corporate tax hike, they add up a whopping $4 trillion effort to fulfill his campaign vow to Build Back Better.

Navy SEALs to shift from counterterrorism to global threats (AP) Ten years after they found and killed Osama bin Laden, U.S. Navy SEALs are undergoing a major transition to improve leadership and expand their commando capabilities to better battle threats from global powers like China and Russia. The new plan cuts the number of SEAL platoons by as much as 30% and increases their size to make the teams more lethal and able to counter sophisticated maritime and undersea adversaries. That decision reflects the broader Pentagon strategy to prioritize China and Russia, which are rapidly growing their militaries and trying to expand their influence around the globe. U.S. defense leaders believe that two decades of war against militants and extremists have drained resources, causing America to lose ground against Moscow and Beijing.

Scientist: Extent of DDT dumping in Pacific is ‘staggering’ (AP) Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected. The 27,345 “barrel-like” objects were captured in high-resolution images as part of a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They mapped more than 56 square miles (145 square kilometers) of seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los Angeles coast in a region previously found to contain high levels of the toxic chemical in sediments and in the ecosystem. Historical shipping logs show that industrial companies in Southern California used the basin as a dumping ground until 1972, when the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, also known as the Ocean Dumping Act, was enacted. Disposing of industrial, military, nuclear and other hazardous waste was a pervasive global practice in the 20th century, according to researchers. The long-term impact on marine life and humans is still unknown, said Scripps chemical oceanographer and professor of geosciences Lihini Aluwihare, who in 2015 co-authored a study that found high amounts of DDT and other man-made chemicals in the blubber of bottlenose dolphins that died of natural causes.

Electric Vehicle Appeal Loses Steam (Nature.com/ArsTechnica) California is the largest market in the US for plug-in vehicles. But a new study in Nature Energy has found that about 20% of those early electric vehicle adopters have given up their EVs to return to fossil fuel-powered transport. Survey responders said what they liked most about their plug-ins were recharging costs, reliability, and safety. What they liked least were the driving range and convenience of charging. Not surprisingly, those who decided to keep their EVS had more access to level 2 charging (240 V AC) at home, as well as more access to charging generally.

The real crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border (Washington Post) There’s a crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it isn’t the crisis that the media has been covering and that the Republican governors of Arizona and Texas recently blamed on President Biden. The crisis I’m talking about is the one that is eroding the livelihoods of U.S. citizens on the borderlands. Just ask Blanca Gallardo, 45, or her colleague Ivan Caballero, 39, two of the three workers left at La Familia, a mega-discount store in the border city of Nogales, Ariz. The store once employed 24 people. La Familia occupies a prime piece of real estate on Morley Avenue, Nogales’s Main Street. Like other retail businesses on and around this thoroughfare, La Familia depends almost entirely on shoppers who live on the other side of the border fence a short walk away—Mexicans who have not been allowed to enter the United States since March last year, when land ports of entry were closed to visa-carrying nonessential travelers in an effort to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The result has been devastating. Sheriff David Hathaway, a lifelong Nogales resident and the top law enforcement official in Santa Cruz County, one of four border counties in Arizona, said that 90 percent of local businesses have shut their doors and may never reopen. “There is no migrant crisis,” Hathaway told me. “What we have is a big economic crisis.” That’s not just a Nogales problem, though. One downtown merchant in the border city of El Paso told Border Report in November that his store had lost as much as 90 percent of its customers since last March.

López Obrador’s bid to alter Mexican Supreme Court seen as threat to judicial independence (Washington Post) He won the presidency in a landslide. His party dominates Congress. Now, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in a battle over the country’s judiciary, as opponents and legal analysts accuse him of making an unconstitutional power grab. Lawmakers from López Obrador’s party have triggered outrage by voting to add two years to the four-year term of the Supreme Court chief justice, Arturo Zaldívar. Zaldívar is generally regarded as sympathetic to the president. As in the United States, where some Democrats want to expand the U.S. Supreme Court, there are fears that the judiciary is becoming increasingly politicized. But the Mexican measure carries especially grave implications, analysts say, because it appears to violate a constitutional limit on the chief justice’s term. López Obrador is increasingly challenging institutions created as part of Mexico’s transition to democracy, including the national elections board and the freedom-of-information institute. Critics worry that the president, who came to power as a leftist political outsider, could use his popularity to reestablish elements of the one-party system that reigned here for seven decades.

With pools closed, Peruvians turn to open-water swimming (AP) The swimmers began gathering even before dawn glimmers on Pescadores beach, plunging into the Pacific surf for one of the few athletic endeavors permitted under Peru’s strict pandemic restrictions. Swimming pools have been closed for more than a year, but government has since Oct. 30 allowed open-water swimming, even if relaxing on the beach is banned to prevent mass gatherings. Forty-three-year-old Lorena Choy said swimming “relaxes me, unstresses me. ... It helps a lot psychologically.” Swimming coach Víctor Solís, 47, said he estimated that the number of swimmers out each morning has multiplied fivefold recently.

UK to come under scrutiny in Italy’s largest mafia trial in decades (The Guardian) In a high-security, 1,000-capacity courtroom converted from a call centre, Italy’s largest mafia trial in three decades is under way in Lamezia Terme, Calabria. About 900 witnesses are set to testify against more than 350 defendants, including politicians and officials charged with being members of the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s most powerful criminal group. Several of the defendants will be asked to respond to charges of money laundering over establishing companies in the UK with the alleged purpose of simulating legitimate economic activity. The ‘Ndrangheta—based in the southern region of Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot—is reputed to be one of the richest and most feared criminal organisations in the world. A study by the Demoskopita Research Institute in 2013 estimated its financial strength as more than that of Deutsche Bank and McDonald’s combined, with an annual turnover of €53bn (£44bn). Investigators say the secret of its success lies in its ability to connect the underworld with the upper world, where often the “upper world” stands for London. In the last decade, hundreds of investigations have asserted how the ‘Ndrangheta has laundered billions of euros in the City.

The U.S. Built the Afghan Military Over 20 Years. Will It Last One More? (NYT) President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that first propelled the United States into conflict, has prompted deep fears about the Afghan security forces’ ability to defend what territory remains under government control. For nearly two decades, the United States and NATO have engaged in the nation-building pursuit of training, expanding and equipping Afghanistan’s police, army and air forces, spending tens of billions of dollars in an attempt to build government security forces that can safeguard their own country. But despite this enormous effort, the undertaking has only produced a troubled set of forces that are woefully unprepared for facing the Taliban, or any other threat, on their own. What comes next is anything but certain. The Taliban already control vast amounts of the country, even with American military power present. Afghan units are rife with corruption, have lost track of the weapons once showered on them by the Pentagon, and in many areas are under constant attack. Some soldiers have not been home in years because their villages have been overtaken by the Taliban. Prospects for improvement are slim, given slumping recruitment, high casualty rates and a Taliban insurgency that is savvy, experienced and well equipped—including with weapons originally provided to the Afghan government by the United States.

In India, Illness Is Everywhere (NYT) Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Sickness and death are everywhere. Dozens of houses in my neighborhood have sick people. One of my son’s teachers is sick. The neighbor two doors down, to the right of us: sick. Two doors to the left: sick. I’m sitting in my apartment waiting to catch the disease. That’s what it feels like right now in New Delhi with the world’s worst coronavirus crisis advancing around us. India is now recording more infections per day—as many as 350,000—than any other country has since the pandemic began, and that’s just the official number, which most experts think is a vast underestimation. New Delhi, India’s sprawling capital of 20 million, is suffering a calamitous surge. A few days ago, the positivity rate hit a staggering 36 percent—meaning more than one out of three people tested were infected. A month ago, it was less than 3 percent. The infections have spread so fast that hospitals have been completely swamped. Although New Delhi is locked down, the disease is still rampaging.

US Navy fires warning shots in new tense encounter with Iran (AP) An American warship fired warning shots when vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came too close to a patrol in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday. The Navy said the USS Firebolt fired the warning shots after three fast-attack Guard vessels came within 68 yards (62 meters) of it and the U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Baranoff. The incident Monday marked the second time the Navy accused the Guard of operating in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner this month alone after tense encounters between the forces had dropped in recent years.

Hong Kong passes immigration bill, raising alarm over ‘exit bans’ (Reuters) Hong Kong’s legislature passed on Wednesday a controversial immigration bill, which lawyers, diplomats and right groups fear will give authorities unlimited powers to prevent residents and others from entering or leaving the Chinese-ruled city. The government has dismissed those fears as “complete nonsense,” saying the legislation, which will come into effect on Aug. 1, merely aims to screen illegal immigrants. The assurances, however, come in a climate of mistrust after the increasingly authoritarian path officials have taken the imposition of a sweeping national security law by Beijing last year. Lawyers say the new law will empower authorities to bar anyone, without a court order, from entering or leaving Hong Kong—essentially opening the door for mainland China-style exit bans—and fails to prevent indefinite detention for refugees. The Hong Kong Bar Association (HKBA) said in February the bill failed to explain why such powers were necessary, how they would be used and provided no limit on the duration of any travel ban, nor any safeguards against abuse.

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Gotham s4ep1 “Pax Penguina” Personal Review

“Outlaws have a code.“  

Warning spoilers below

/// Gotham has two new things “crime license” and  because of that after the ruby red TetchVirus a return of the muddy green “Fear Serum” ///

 “You know you can't commit a crime in Gotham now without a license from Penguin, right?” RA'S AL GHUL ominously lurks while BRUCE WAYNE safes some people from getting robbed, they have a license. This license is ridiculous. /// I know, I know that´s basically how mobs work, but still. But at least he´s got “organ donor” checked, which is great, but I´m afraid the way things are his organs will be sold to the highest bidder?  The umbrella stamp though.  /// Omg VICTOR ZSASZ at the wedding.  I love him. I love him so much.  He´s charming, he´s a great shot , he´s still very much evil.  He spreads the word about the new license system, scares MERTON'S gang away, accepts the thanks from the bride but also introduces the new robbers with licenses. Also you all just leave the poor groom alone, there is more important stuff than expensive rings.

 “But now you want to, uh, literally, unionize crime.” So we get to know since the Tetch Virus Chaos OSWALD COBBLEPOT got violent crime to drop down to 57%. He wants more and has a little chat with the new MAYOR and police COMMISSIONER. Oswald hints having hunted down aka killed the criminals. “But this is Gotham City; there will always be crime. What I am offering is crime in the hands of professionals. And held to agreed-upon terms.” “From which you'll profit.” “God bless America.” The press does not concern Oswald but the GCPD has to be in with it, everyone with a license goes free. 

“I'm a cop. I see a crime, I stop it.” JIM GORDON certainly isn´t in with the program. He arrests a robber with license. The GCDP looks at him unamused, like by now Jim should be used to that but he seems to get the notion that his actions are not approved. HARVEY BULLOCK gets lectured about the Penguin & Mayor & Commissioner deal.  He already is on board.  “Cobblepot worries about Detective Gordon. He has a history.” /// Look buddy, honey, pal, Harvey .. Oswald knows Jim better than you do. Also I can´t believe that Harvey and Jim didn´t already have talks and fights over this. Harvey just agreed to it?! Also how does everyone know about that just Jim doesn’t, is that the kind of thing that spreads through friendly gossip and talk with your coworkers?!  /// Harvey & Jim have a late and short talk about the Situation: “And before you get on your high horse, three months ago, this city was in a tailspin. We survived because Penguin took control of the underworld.” “I am not giving the city over to Penguin.” .. “Jim, we will bust Penguin one day, I promise you. But this city has to get back on her feet. Please?” “Harvey, I get that. But every day the citizens of Gotham look to Penguin and not the GCPD to keep them safe, the harder it's gonna be to win them back.” 

“You have to trust me.” BRUCE WAYNE´s reaction to the licenses is not good either. “There must be some way we can turn this against him.” Yet ALFRED PENNYWORTH reminds him that their mission is to prepare for RA'S AL GHUL  “Oh, just-just stop. Stop right there. How does this fit in to what we're doing? What was the initial reason that you popped on that mask and you went out there?”   Bruce feels responsible for the Virus situation despite not pressing the button. Alfred warns him that´s “mission creep” “You're trying to achieve not one but two objectives.” He needs a priority! But Bruce claims he can both prepare and make a difference for Gotham. Just trust me!

 “We just want to give someone a little scare.” GRADY takes MERTON to Arkham. He used to be an orderly there and got to know JONATHAN CRANE. They want the “scare juice”. Warden Reed hands him over for some money and tells him that he is haunted by some boogeyman figure, which he finds useful to control him.   They bring Jonathan back to his old place, he really shouldn´t be there after what´s happened he says. /// Indeed  ///  He states that he wasn´t present with all his father´s experiments. /// Yet it seems five minutes later he got everything figured out .. yay “science” ///   They rob a bank with the Fear Serum. JIM GORDON & HARVEY BULLOCK have an odd conversation about if the police should investigate the crime, but hey they don´t have a licence. “And you're gonna find them before Zsasz just to prove that GCPD still matters? That's not thumbing your nose at Penguin?” Jim recognizes the symptoms and they start the investigation at Arkham. Warden Reed claims Jonathan is fragile, he can´t see anyone especially not the guys who killed his farther.  He covers Merton and Grady but Jim and Harvey aren´t fooled. However police work isn´t quite sufficient so they threaten the Warden with Penguin and Zsasz. Which makes him listen. He didn´t know the fear toxin would be used against Penguin. Now he is scared. Harvey and Jim find Grady and Merton in their lair but get overpowered. And a little insight into Merton & Grady and how they see themselves  “Outlaws have a code”  They are better than criminals like the Penguin. They get away and we see Jonathan working for the gang, more serum is ready.  He begs them to  “please just get rid of it” , it being the scarecrow. But “We all have our fears to face.” they say and even lock him in the same room. /// Wow  I´ve had a moment of sympathy for Merton and Grady, despite them just fighting for their profit, they got a point about Penguin and spared Jim and Harvey but there it´s gone again. How they treat Jonathan is just vile. /// Thanks to that vileness all sympathy is gone when they watch the news and get to know Penguin is after them. Much later the remains of the gang turn to JONATHAN CRANE again but he´s been crafty in the meantime. “Jonathan Crane isn't here anymore. Just the Scarecrow.” /// If you can´t fight what you fear, turn sides. ///

 “Since Penguin´s been cracking down, life´s been good.” BRUCE WAYNE shows up at the GCDP to talk with  JIM GORDON “Apparently, crime is legal now.” “And you're going along with that?” “Not really.” /// I´m not sure if that not really is enough for Bruce .. /// Bruce reasons that the number on the licenses must mean that there is a list. Not only listing criminals but also crime that hasn´t happened yet. Jim points out that the judges are on board and it would not help.  “I see”  /// A moment of grave importance ///  “But you haven´t given up .. “  Bruce says but Jim has to admit the crime he is going after is one without license. Bruce suggests using the Penguin to get the gang. Jim says he would do it if he knew how, apparently a couple seconds later he knows. There is a whole operation going. Not every cop is happy about it a couple cops circling Jim in the locker room.  /// Boy if this were fanfiction .. ///  “What happens when he starts giving out licenses for murders? Huh? What then?”   /// (**) Look, buddy, honey, pal, Jim, Jimmy, JIM GORDON listen he already basically does that. I´m sure hunting the criminals down did not mean putting them in cages, pet their heads and feed them. That is murder too! I know this is hard to stomach and understand for you Jim but the lives of criminals do matter too. I know you got this viewpoint that committing crime just makes you deserve everything bad that comes your way but .. it´s still murder.  Makes me thing, maybe Jim is just pissy because he can´t just do things like that. Penguin basically is living his dream currently. . isn´t he?   Which kind of puts the “Fire me.”  “Hey, don't tempt me.”  line in a spot light, with Harvey as his boss Jim already has a lot of liberties he wouldn´t have otherwise./// The cops don´t care.  Penguin made life “good”.

 “It was called the Pax Romana” There is press at the ICEBERG LOUNGE. No one talks about the club opening though. Poor Penguin. They ask about Barbara Kean, no one has seen her but OSWALD COBBELPOT says her whereabouts aren´t his business. They also want to know more about the licenses. Which makes Oswald point out the low crime rates.   “You know, Augustus Caesar once presided over the longest period of peace and prosperity the world has ever known.  It was called the Pax Romana. Perhaps one day, this will be known as the Pax Penguina.” He further claims EDWARD NYGMA had a very rare brain disease. They froze him to wait for the cure. /// Did they mean to latch a story for a loving but misguides man and his wife who deserved better onto those two ///  Edward  begged him to not hide him away. Alone Oswald is talking to Ice!Edward claiming he banished all his feelings. He isn´t slave to his emotions anymore and has risen! Ivy interrupts and Oswald is not happy about that. /// Os, how about you be nice to actual people not the iceblock .. //// 

Before that JIM GORDON showed up challenging him infront of the press. He´s a fraud, the gang with the fear toxin doesn´t respect him. Oswald acts like he buys into it. It´s the Penguin that keeps Gotham safe.

All boils down to the opening party. Even BRUCE WAYNE and ALFRES PENNYWORTH show up. “We were just admiring your frozen mate. Is he still alive in there?” “I fear we may never know.” “Well, you'll know when you finally thaw him out. When they discover a cure for his disease.”  Bruce also asks OSWALD about the license. “Everybody's talking about it, Alfred. I just want to know how it works.”   /// Saaaaaame.. /// “Anything you say stays between us.” “First, let me ask you would be agreeable to the idea of licensed crime?” “If crime had been licensed and controlled three years ago, my parents would still be alive.” Oswald reveals he only gives the guidelines and Mr. PENN cares for the details. Now they know who has THE LIST!   

The MERTON/GRADY Gang shows up. First Zsasz and Penguin should get the fear serum, then go crazy. Before they can do anything said targets show up behind them “Jim Gordon and his ham fisted manipulation.”  Oswald pulls them up on stage and gives a speech. “For the past three months, I have given this city a tranquility it has never known. Now I would like to ensure that peace for the future. In the weeks to come, you will hear whispers about what's happening in the streets of Gotham. All you need to know is without me this is what you get. Men who want to bring fear back to our city, who promise a return to the old days. So tell your families, tell your friends, it is Oswald Cobblepot who keeps them safe, not the GCPD.” BRUCE WAYNE wants to stop Penguin from killing the men. Alfred won´t have it. “You can make a difference. There is a time for masks, and there is a time for Bruce Wayne.” So Bruce interrupts with words not violence. “I do the dirty work no one else will” Penguin say but Bruce keeps insisting to have him turn them over to the police.

IVY PEPPER pulls the leaver, lights go out. She resents Oswald.   /// He isn´t nice enough, doesn´t give her spotlight ?! pls show tell me something about her motivations ///  Chaos. Penguin gets the fear serum, sees scary Edward /// Is this meant to resemble an underwater aesthetic ? Suggesting that those two almost being dead and drowning moments were traumatic enough to latch onto this fear scenario ?? /// 

Jim Gordon manages to handcuff Merton and makes a point in declaring:  “You're under arrest, by order of the Gotham City Police Department.” “Penguin or chicken” say the papers because scared Oswald hugs and clings to Jim. Jim doesn´t care about that he  just wants to find Jonathan  “I wouldn't expect too much help from these parts, though.”  “There's good cops out there. They just need reminding.”  /// That´s the nicest thing Jim ever said about them .. “ 

HoodieBRUCE shows up for the list and just takes it from PENN, then proceeds to prevent crime. At least he tries.

 “Don't turn your back on a guy unless you're sure he's down. Otherwise, not bad.” SELINA KYLE gets attacked, she wins. TABITHA trains her, they will get pizza. ZSASZ shows up and throws shade on their living conditions. Wasn´t she rich? Only until his boss stole her club. Zsasz points out a couple other things “call it even” he suggests. “Now, he could just kill you, but he figures it's time to let bygones be bygones.” /// look, really, I´m just not even gonna try to think about why, assuming Penguin indeed  just could kill Tabitha, he wouldn´t do it, okay I´m lying, I´m still very much thinking about it, I understand why Theo Galavan would be his prime goal but I don´t understand why he isn´t resenting Tabitha more, like the only explanation I can think of it that he buys into “I was just following orders” rhetoric .. but .. ///   Zsasz offers them an invitation to the Iceberg Lounge opening. “Kiss the ring, get the licence”  /// One would think that´s better than kissing Barbara Kean´s shoes /// Tabitha  wants to run but Selina came to here to move up, they are barely making it so far. Working for Penguin could change that. Tabitha says  “I´m not working for him, now pack” /// I was really worried for a moment that this is just gonna be one of Tabitha´s defining character traits, she could make it on her own she could be boss, like she has the skills but she keep latching herself to other people Theo, Butch (arg) Babs, now Selina and Penguin .. but no she doesn´t phew.. for now./// Later Selina shows up at the Iceberg Lounge alone. Zsasz is not amused but Tabitha is just right there. /// I hope with a hidden agenda. It´s sweet how relieves Selina is though, they really must have bonded off screen /// She was worried about her she states. Zsasz want´s to search them for weapons “Sure, if you want to lose a hand” /// NO! You don´t make that joke without an extension, like anything maybe a .. and I certainly can´t recommend that ///  SELINA KYLE is on top of the roof, with heels. /// WHY? Is the camera acting like we should slightly be worried she would fall ?!! /// BRUCE WAYNE shows up, like she knew he would, like he knew she would and stuff and things. Bruce wants to apologize, and appreciates her kind gesture. He´s sorry but not happy about her choice of a mentor. She doesn’t care. Alfred interrupts.

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 AVE PENGUIN * “We ain't kicking half our take to that little creep.” Wedding robber guy says about OSWALD. Good to see he still does have that reputation. So I ask you Gotham, why, why for the love of god do you keep skipping over the parts showing how he rose up high despite of that resistance. It´s the whole story all over again, Odgen Barker/Morton being a tiny hint of issues he had and has to face yet they just keep ditching the interesting part and just *plop* put the Penguin on the Throne.   * Also, look I like that they established Penguin as the competent one, and the mayor as well as the commissioner to be aware that they aren´t (but to be fair Oswald can operate outside of the law so that´s a huge advantage) but could they just for once show how he actually managed to do that? Just let Freeze, Firefly and F(V)ictor run through the streets just murdering everyone doing crime, or recruit them for the licence program? That´s just all a lot of effort that still needs to be organized well and could just go wrong. I wanna see that. * “I have affidavits from his doctor,  if you would like to see them.” I wonder if he really has them or if it´s part of the lie. It reminds me a bit of when he was claiming Aubrey James was illiterate, which was well documented. I kind of keep admiring his talent and audacity to just keep uttering such obvious lies.

ARKHAM ASYLUM * Hearing the Arkham Warden Reed utter a dutiful mechanic “We mustn't call them "loonies.” while he exploits his patients and worse while this show gives us another oh look at those mad, crazy, funny, dangerous, pathetic  people collage, like we are stuck in Victorian times and is just one inch short of selling us a stick to poke them with feels surreal. * Also that there is a Venn diagram that has an overlap between the “orderlies working with patients” circle and the “criminals” circle is further troubling. If just it were only fiction. 

RANDOM NICE THINGS * Zsasz & Food: No one shares food with Zsasz, he didn´t get the muffins, even after complimenting the cook and saying they smell good, Selina closes the box when he asks about the pizza. He keeps raiding the fridges of victims .. and Jim. Please never change him. * Zsasz and Alfred keeping each other at gunpoint. And exchanging a smile afterwards * “He's dead, remember? Not that that matters much in this town anymore.” * “Exclusive, but welcoming. Urbane and edgy.” * “Probably not a bad thing.” “How's that?” “Guys get to let off steam, resentments don't fester.” “Next time, you can get punched in the face.” “This beautiful mug? No one would dare.” * “What about the alarm?” “Forget it. We got a license, remember?”

 CODES and MISSIONS There are a lot of parallels again this week and self image / identity stuff. With  BRUCE WAYNE it is directly addressed that one needs to be aware of his mission and priorities. There even is talk with Alfred about the best method to reach them. Currently Bruce wants to have it all. They put him in contrast to SELINA who has extent her “Number1” credo to wanting more. She thinks she´ll reach that with siding with Tabitha and Penguin. Bruce only pretends to take that side to gather information to topple Penguin. Not once does Bruce think about if Penguins approach might be helpful. Neither does JIM GORDON who again stands both mirroring and opposing BRUCE this week. Both share the knowledge that Penguin is not the saviour he claims but while Jim pushes against him when confronted with the GCPD/Harvey/Politics his rhetoric changes when he talks to Bruce. He tells him everything that speaks against going after Penguin at this stage. He talks about the judges who are in with the licences. Something a Season1 Jim probably would not just have said without adding something amongst the lines of we  ( I ) have to change that. Despite discrepancies Bruce and Jim´s mission is still the same one. On the other side there is most cops and politics. Who see that crime rates are a historic low, and they as well got a point. That they are completely undermining law and law enforcement, of course is not less true. Surprisingly we got another group who is opposing Oswald´s ambitions. Criminals, pardon I mean Outlaws. MERTON/GRADY claim they are not like Oswald. “I'm an outlaw! Outlaws have a code. Criminals, they'll take everything. They'll take a man's livelihood.” Of course one could claim they only oppose him that they can keep in crime business but apparently it´s also partly personal for them. And they show a vastly different self image. It kind of reminds of JIM GORDON´s knack of splitting people into criminalsTM and not criminals, no matter their actions. It´s hard for Jim to recognize the good a criminal like Oswald does or face his own criminal(ish) actions.  Merton and Grady can´t pretend that they don´t commit crime, or claim they do it “to safe Gotham” but they can separate themselves from another “brand” of criminal. I really wonder if Jim listened to them talking, and if what his thoughts were about that. Another telling detail connected to that in the ongoing JIM&BRUCE parallel is how Jim Gordon does not even bat an eye at the frozen Edward. (Of course Edward tried to kill him so that kind of is a bad example.) Both Bruce and Jim entered the club with a different mission but only one was taken aback that there is a frozen person in the room, probably a murdered frozen person.  It´s as Oswald said “You have a good heart.” It´s a beautiful little nod to the much mentioned  Bruce even cares about the criminals lives thing, which stands in contrast to how Jim Gordon acts (**)

Link FearSerum Edward is not only in water but might be methaper for Oswald fearing himself for being ready to throw his self preservation over board

Link on the danger of the LicenceSystem   Link MoreLicenseSystem and about Jim

[transcending-chaos]

Mind if I ask for some opinions and headcanons on some popular creatures? Like, Maxxor and whatnot. I find your character analysis stuff really fun to read.

Sure thing :3 Since you mentioned Maxxor, I’ll make this post about him (mostly because I’ve got a ton of headcanons about this guy and if I tried to add on more characters, this post would be incredibly long).

(Under a cut because of length)

Headcanons supported by Canon evidence:

Maxxor doesn’t think of himself as ‘King’

Throughout the series, Maxxor never really lords his position of power over anyone, in fact, he seems to just act as if he was a general. He almost always counsels before he makes large decisions -even considering a human’s input (Castle Bodhran or Bust part 2), he has an advisory counsel that we see/hear from (Najarin is a constant in this, as well as the others we see in the M’Arillian Arc, along with known and valued ambassadors like Raznus) and he does not abuse this position. He does not force his warriors or allies to do anything, they just follow his orders; perhaps this is because of the unspoken rule of conduct in the OverWorld that they have strong communal values and will do what’s best for many (most of the time) so they have no real issue following instructions, but even if that’s the case, it’s strange to notice that Maxxor himself doesn’t seem to have an issue with changing his ways of thinking or following another’s suggestion. We see him do this readily upon meeting Tom and Kaz once they show resilience and that they’re not as cowardly as he’d assumed, and again in the Fallen Hero arc where Tom helps him recover what he’s lost. 

To him, being a leader seems to mean that he must be someone worthy of it, of setting a good example and making it so that others will trust him enough to follow, not because he puts them in a position where they have to. For him, being a king is more a formality and job, like how other people are everything from diplomats, to scholars, to bakers, what have you. This isn’t to say that he takes the position lightly, far from it -we see him late into the night going over documents, so we can also assume that this is a regular occurrence- but he’s definitely not one for luxury or standing. He probably skips out on events that are supposed to centered around nobility or the like because he could be using that time more productively elsewhere -like going around to see villages and see if they need assistance or other forms of aid. 

He just wants to protect his people, be it through achieving peace or personally fighting to reach that goal. 

The only time we really see him use his station as a threat is in Dangers of Diplomacy, where he’s depicted as a hot-blooded, young warrior who still has a lot to learn. (On that note, here’s an old drawing I did like a year ago for @firebird963 of a young Maxxor because I despise his canon one -teens are not mini adults:

I also tried making his relation to Accato more apparent.)

Maxxor does not actually hate the UnderWorld, he just hates Chaor and Von Bloot

This might take some explaining, but Maxxor does not demonize the UnderWorlders. He disagrees with them, sure, but he’s not too quick to judge a group of scouts. His mind usually goes to “I bet Chaor/Von Bloot planned this” and that’s when he gets mad; this is probably both due in part to how Maxxor conducts himself as a king versus how the others lead their respective factions, but also because of clashing values and ideologies.

To him, there’s a huge disconnect between an everyday UW soldier and their leaders; they might have some overlap in their beliefs and actions, but Maxxor differentiates between the layman and their authority figures. One is someone clearly (at least in Maxxor’s opinion) not taking care of their people, and the other’s actions are just a consequence. 

You can also see this with his interaction with the Danians and Mipedians. When faced with hostility from soldiers, he mostly has an annoyed attitude because they’re preventing him from taking down the larger threat (their leaders) or being a general nuisance. When faced with their leaders, that’s when he becomes hostile, because they are responsible for their followers and influencing them. 

This way of thinking is not always good, as it can make him paranoid that there’s always going to be a bigger threat coming, and causes Maxxor to be over protective of those around him. 

Maxxor is a diplomat first, and a fighter second

This one isn’t too complicated, but it’s shown that he’s more willing to solve things peacefully than the other leaders and just wants the fighting to stop because it’d be mutually beneficial. Why struggle constantly when they could find some Cothica-forsaken way of coexisting without fighting a war on three fronts?

Maxxor would have made a good parent

This might be a weird statement, but Maxxor is one of the most compassionate people in the show, if not the most. While he’s unafraid of being harsh or disciplinary when it’s necessary, his willingness to change his opinions and let people learn/solve problems by themselves (as long as they’re doing it safely) shows that he’d probably be pretty good at being a parent. 

Heck, look at his relationship with Tom and tell me he’s not already being a dad. This behavior is evident in most of the episode dedicated to their interactions (Bodhran or Bust part 2, Fallen Hero, Maze of Menace, and even a little bit in A Rare Hazard). It’s a good dynamic to have -especially considering the need for it that Tom has, but it’s also giving Maxxor a chance to be ‘normal’ (for lack of a better term) as it’s not like the typical relations he has due to his standing within his own people. It’s also a lot less stressful for the king because Tom is not only a human (meaning he is not much of a physical threat, and can be picked up easily by one hand if he needed to be) but he’s also a well-intentioned kid that doesn’t have ulterior motives. Tom’s just not really much of a negative presence, and while he can be annoying, he has his heart in the right place -just like many OW youth would. 

It’s why in the published version of Transcending Perim, I said this:

“Tom was an important outlet in ways that most Creatures could not be…most of the interactions that Maxxor had with his people and friends were respectful; if not almost curtly so…

“Surprisingly, that was something that the raven-locked boy did not do. If anything at all, he was more relaxed around the king than his own people. The child still viewed him as someone of importance, yes, but it was more of a genuine respect than a wish to not be trouble. The king had found an friend in Thomas, something that he’d definitely never expected…the blue eyed human was truly more of a comfort than he’d first, or ever, had tried to foresee. And times like the current one, such a presence was greatly appreciated.”

Maxxor values his citizens as individuals, not just as countrymen

This is a noticeable distinction between he and Chaor, most prominently shown on Chaor’s Commandos part 2, but Maxxor doesn’t really view the general populace as ‘masses’ or his allies as ‘soldiers’. They have names, they have stories, they all have abilities and weaknesses, they all matter. If he can save or help them, then Maxxor is obligated to not only because he knows they trust and rely on him, but also because they have his trust and thanks. It’s why he didn’t risk hitting Gespedan with a laser ballistae, he is someone who is valued.

Knowing this, it’s no wonder why so many of the OW Creatures we meet will follow Maxxor’s orders: their respect is returned, their trust is validated, and their leader cares for them as much as anyone else.

I have a few more, but I should probably move onto another category.

Headcanons not supported by Canon evidence

Maxxor had a complicated relationship with his father

I don’t know why, but I love the idea that Maxxor constatly feels the shadow of his father over him, and kind of resents his father for it. As great as a king the former ruler was, I’d like to think that he and Maxxor didn’t get along (ie. “you’re great at your job but you are a terrible person/father” kind of relationship), and that it pushes Maxxor to be great in ways his predecessor was not -hence a focus on diplomacy, and why he actively tries to be less severe and more understanding. 

However, that won’t stop people comparing the two kings, and it hurts the current ruler. People seem to revel in his father’s memory, but they do not know what he was really like; Maxxor is ashamed for feeling the way he does, so he buries these thoughts deep down underneath all of his other worries. 

This is (unknowingly) a parallel shared by Accato -who is compared to his cousin often, and a personal issue he was supposed to revisit and conquer in TP with Tera. There was going to be a scene where the pair fought, ending with Maxxor actually blasting Tera and burning him on his left leg. It was a moment meant to snap him into re-evaluating himself and essentially starting over when faced with both his younger cousin and Tera.

Maxxor is a picky eater

I don’t know why I have this one. Simply put, the different Gherix clans have different diets, some featuring foods that are poisonous to the others. He’s used to people thinking ‘oh, I heard that ‘____’ is a dish they prepare/like’ and trying to be respectful when in fact it turns out that he’d get sick from eating said food. 

He’s terrible at banquets or formal dinners because of this, so he prefers to eat alone beforehand to avoid conflict. 

This was supposed to be an ongoing joke in TP, with him constantly teasing ‘don’t eat that, you’ll die’ to a very easily misled Tera. 

Money/wealth has no value to Maxxor

In the sense that he personally doesn’t care for money because his early life began in a place where ‘coin isn’t important when you’re living in the woods’ and thus he just never got accustomed to it. Even now, the only reason he has a jewel on his belt is because people expected him to. If it were up to him, he’d much rather go without anything like it. 

Don’t get me wrong, he understands why and how it’s important, as well as understanding the commerce system/has the treasury properly managed by the right people, he himself just doesn’t find pleasure in wealth.

Maxxor is demisexual

He doesn’t seem to show much interest in anyone besides Intress, but what struck me is that it’s really underplayed. So that lead me to some theorizing, and then to this conclusion. 

Maxxor and his father are exiles from their clan

I wanted an explanation as to why we never really see/hear anything about his relations (like his dad is mentioned once, while Accato and Prantix’s ties to his family tree are only implied) so I made one.

Long story short: Maxxor’s clan thought he was a disappointment and kicked him out while his father just left because he didn’t like being removed from the rest of the OverWorld. Eventually, Maxxor convinces himself that he left like his dad had, and not that his own mother chased him off.

Learning Mugic was insanely hard for him

I like the idea of him struggling with something like this, if only to share as a story with others who have the same issue.

Najarin took him on at the request of his father, and thus, Maxxor was unknowingly a way for Najarin to cope with losing his own kid

I just thought this was a cute idea, as well as helping to explain why the pair trusted each other so much

Maxxor’s underbite is common among most of his clan

Braxels tend to have this key trait, while others have things like softer hair, one variant is notorious for having claws, and the last one still has retained the trait of being furred (like Vlar was). 

Hopefully these were good (or at least fun to read) and even though I still have a quite a lot more that I didn’t put on this post, it’s already long enough.

[mountphoenixrp]

We have a new citizen in Mount Phoenix:

                  ��                    Hades, the God of the Underworld,                                           whose origins stem from Ancient Greece.                                 He is now the director of Asclepius General Hospital.

FC NAME/GROUP: Lee Hyukjae / Eunhyuk - Super Junior GOD NAME: Hades PANTHEON: Greek OCCUPATION: Hospital Director (come on, the irony, he loves it. “welcome, ma’am, our director Hades will make sure you make it out here safely.” just imagine.) HEIGHT: 1.76m WEIGHT: 60kg DEFINING FEATURES: perfect skin, not a blemish to be found

PERSONALITY: Despite common belief, Hades is actually quite the lovely chap, always down for a good joke or a funny prank - so long as he isn’t the subject of either of those. He is jovial and friendly, seen more with a smile on his face than with a frown, and enjoys other people’s company, so long as they can provide him with a decent conversation.

Due to his plentiful dry jokes, not everyone is as happy with his presence in a conversation, but he doesn’t really mind people’s eyerolls or prejudice - he’s used to that, after all, from years as being the ‘evil’ god. He will never pass up on the chance of making an ironic comment or statement, and maybe enjoys pointing out other people’s mistakes a little too much.

But he is respectful to those who respect him, and sees no reason in treating people badly - unless they cross him of course. All in all, Hades is easy to get along with if you just give him a chance. And you’ll find that the god of the Underworld has a very big and warm heart for one who has spent the bigger part of his life among Hell-hounds and dead souls - or perhaps that’s exactly why.

HISTORY: The story of how Hades came into existence and how he defeated the Titans together with his brothers is more than well-known enough, so let’s skip that part and start from where it gets really interesting. The story of Hades, after all the public drama.

When all the tumultuous events eventually led to the humans moving on from the Greek gods and Zeus stampeding out of Mount Olympus in a fury, Hades figured that there was entirely no reason anymore for him to go above ground. Leaving the Upperworld to the worldlings, he spent all of his time guiding and ruling the dead. Hades felt more than comfortable enough where he was. With his fateful Cerberus as a pet and his wife Persephone with him one third of every year, he saw no reason to go anywhere else.

But even the Underworld, filled with the souls of the dead, gets lonely after so many millennia, and Hades found this out one particular day when he was looking down into the pit of lost souls. Listening to their wails and cries, he was suddenly reminded of his brothers and sisters and all the other gods from Mount Olympus. And he missed them.

Well, not all of them. But he did miss his brothers - Zeus and Poseidon - and he especially missed the contact he used to have with mortals and immortals alike. Those still afraid of him, those still capable of feeling afraid of him, those not yet dead. And so, for the first time in a very, very long time, Hades ventured above ground, to look for a sign of others.

Imagine his surprise when he found the world entirely different. Of course he’d heard some stories from the dead, but stories don’t do the technological advance of this world any justice whatsoever. Unwilling to embarrass himself by walking among mere mortals with his meagre knowledge, Hades returned to the Underworld, thinking it was the place for him after all.

Until one specific day his wife Persephone, possibly having noticed his rather down state, tells him of Mount Phoenix. The new place for gods and their children to live. Not only the Greek ones, but those from many different pantheons. And so, draping himself in the robes of this Modern Age, Hades finally leaves the Underworld again, this time to head to Mount Phoenix and figure out what the modern life is all about.

POWERS: - travels to and from the Underworld at will - summons Hell-hounds whenever the weather seems nice for it - can see/summon/talk to ghosts of the dead, as well as send them on to the Underworld - inspires blind obedience in any dog he comes across

STRENGTHS: - very intelligent and cunning - joyful and full of dry humour - loves to interact with other people, to hear their view on things (and disagree with those things most of the time, just to bug them) - cares a whole damn lot about the people who matter to him

WEAKNESSES: - easily flares up when he is not treated with respect - knows little to nothing about the current world & technology - he’s still learning - cares a lot about his brothers and wife so will do whatever he can to defend/save them and kill whoever tries to harm them - sometimes his humour goes over people’s heads (or under their feet, you know, underworld)

[kairoskrp]

                                             — On the wicked wings of time, thy kingdom comes

Meet [ Kim Yoohyeon ]

She is a [ twenty ] year old  [ receptionist at safer shores ] currently residing in [ studio 57, #202]. Visit  and greet  her today!

Personality:

Yoohyeon is surprisingly cheerful for a psychic medium who has seen so much cruelty in this world. You will hardly ever see her without a smile on her lips. On top of that, she is very playful and loves to pull pranks on her friends and loved ones. After the tragic event with her brother, she has been suffering from monophobia. She hates to be alone and will always surround her with kind people. She is very flirty (because she knows it helps to get people to like you), but is also afraid to commit herself for one single person. Besides all this, she gets easily absorbed in things that fascinate her so once you have drawn her attention she will be hard to push away until she decided to walk away herself.

Spirit: Charon, ferryman of the Underworld

Power: Mediumship

Yoohyeon is the vessel of Charon, ferryman of the Underworld, which granted her the power to talk to the dead who haven’t crossed to the other side yet. Her connection to the deceased grows stronger as her connection to the one they connected through grows stronger. It starts with a dark glow on someone’s shoulder, a second shadow at a person’s side, a blurry aura over their heads.  Then there are the subtle whispers of voice that no else can hear. Finally it grows to a fixed form, a person with a face, a voice and a personality. The soul’s final form is a reflection of how they would look like if they were still alive. People who have died years ago would seem to have grown up.

As the deities are considered dormant (dead), Yoohyeon can feel them within their human vessels. She doesn’t know what they are exactly and simply believes the two souls within one body are a reflection of a strong spiritual personality, which some people have and some have not. She thinks the people with “the strong aura” are more susceptible to spiritual influences and hopes some of them might be able to connect to the Other World if they would open up to the unknown.

Biography:

The Beginning

Incheon, 7 January 1997. Yoohyeon was born to a couple named Kim. The Kim family were quite normal, ordinary Korean citizens. The husband was a clerk in an international business, the wife was a sales assistant in the mall across the street. The little girl grew up without much difficulties or hardships. She was a normal kid, except her dreamy nature and unusually large bunch of imaginary friends. She was loved by everyone from her family and her classmates to her neighbours and passer-bys.

Although Yoohyeon was a wonderful kid and her parents loved her with all her heart, their desire to have a second kid (preferably a son) grew a little as the years elapsed. It was no surprise that they were thrilled when they found out they were pregnant for a second time. At first, Yoohyeon was a little worried to have a baby brother or sister, but as her mother’s belly grew the 5-year-old kid got more and more excited about being a big sis.

In July 2002, Kim Junseo was born. He was very different from Yoohyeon, demanded more attention as he was often sick and cried a lot. It was difficult for Yoohyeon to watch her parents spending so much time with the newborn, but she was very understanding. She knew he needed them more than she did and she did everything she could to help them take care of her baby brother.

Junseo grew up well and the siblings got along very well, but in July 2007, not long after Junseo’s 5th birthday, tragedy struck the happy family. The little kid died in a horrible accident when he slipped in between the bunk bed and the wall and suffocated himself in his sleep. Yoohyeon was the one to find him, skin pale and eyes glassy. They tried to revive him, but it was too late.

Junseo was no more.

Faced with such a trauma most children would shut themselves off from the world, but Yoohyeon ran towards it. She promised herself to keep smiling, to keep believing in the beauty of the world. She surrounded herself with family and friends, joined multiple after school activities and almost every evening she would go to a friend’s place or invite one at hers to play and do their homework. She kept herself busy and she never allowed herself to think about that one night. Not one single moment she wished to be alone, because then the voices would start. And the voices were the thing she feared most, because they had woken her up that night.

The Awakening

She was 14 years old when her Awakening took place. It was exactly four years after the horrible accident in which her brother died. Her parents were in the kitchen, both sobbing while they were holding a picture of their son. But there was something very peculiar about the moment. There was a third figure sitting at the table, a young kid who resembled the kid on the picture only a few years older.

It was clear that her parents couldn’t see him, but Yoohyeon could. She could see every little detail on his face and the colours of his clothes and she could hear his sweet voice. Confusion – and a slight hint of fear – was written all over her face. He wasn’t supposed to be here. She wasn’t supposed to see him. This wasn’t supposed to be happening.

“Why didn’t you hear my screams?”

It was not her voice, but the words did come from her lips. Her mouth was moving on its own without any consultation of the brain. Her parents looked at her as if they had seen a ghost (the irony). They pleaded her to stop, but she no longer had control over her body. Her parents were terrified. Her mother was bawling like a child, her father called her names that no parent would say to their own child.

The Breaking Point

Yoohyeon was confused. She knew what she had seen was real. She knew what had happened was not a dream, but how could she make other people understand? Simply telling them proved to be ineffective. Going into details terrified people, especially when it was about people she had never met. She knew things that she wasn’t supposed to know. Her parents concluded that she was going crazy, that her strong appearance was finally crashing after the trauma of her brother’s death.

For two years, she tried to convince them that she wasn’t bonkers, that what she was not making things up, that she could seriously see and talk to the dead. But it only resulted in discussions that often escalated in straight out fights. The situation at home was always tense. It was like a tea pot about to boil.  

Her 16th birthday was the drop that spilled the cup. The situation was untenable. Her parents were too narrow-minded to see her for who she really was. Thus, she decided to flee her hometown, moved to Seoul and start a new life.

Being only 16 and having hardly any money, she had no place to go. Luckily there was a place called Safer Shores, where women were provided with shelter until they could return home or in Yoohyeon’s case until she had the means to live on her own.

The Present

When she first arrived at Seoul, she decided to keep her power hidden (knowing that people didn’t react well). But the amount of dark auras drifting through the city was too high for her to ignore. Those lost souls needed help to find their way to the other side and no one else besides her could assist them. Finally, she found a way to use her freaky talent to help fulfil the ghosts’ dying wish and guide them to the Other World.

[mountphoenixrp]

We have a new citizen in Mount Phoenix:

                                Jeon Wonwoo, who is known by no other name;                                                      a 20 year old son of Charon.                                                 He is the owner of The Flower Mill.

FC NAME/GROUP: Jeon Wonwoo CHARACTER NAME: / AGE/DATE OF BIRTH: 17 July 1996 PLACE OF BIRTH: Changwon, South Korea. OCCUPATION: Owner of the Flower Mill HEIGHT: 182cm WEIGHT: 63kg DEFINING FEATURES: Tattoo of a crecent moon on the inside of his wrist.

PERSONALITY: Wonwoo’s personality is one that is kind of reserved. He tends to stick to himself and lives inside his head the most of his time which definitely didn’t help very much as people would then assume that he was intimidating or anti-social, which is definitely not the case. He’s actually very sweet and warm and has a lot to give, especially to those which he cares about. He’s very loyal and trustworthy and while he might be a tad bit standoffish at first, with a little bit of friendship and coaxing, he opens right up.

HISTORY: It wasn’t until he turned the legal age of nineteen did Wonwoo even get an inkling of who he was or what his abilities were though it was still up in the air whether or not he felt like they were a blessing or a curse. Wonwoo’s childhood was nothing special or even worth mentioning as far as he was concerned as he was adopted at a very young age and never had a super close connection with his foster parents. They did a lot for him and he was thankful that they had taken care of him for so many years but as soon as he was old enough, he decided it was time to leave and be out on his own, never really speaking to them except on the occasion of his birthday or a holiday. But even then, it was simple greetings and well wishes and nothing more.

Growing up, Wonwoo had discovered his love for literature, flowers, and language– studying all of these things as much as he possibly could. It was what he was passionate about he spent a majority of his time learning, even if it wasn’t exactly required of him. In fact, more than a majority of the time, you could find him at a local coffee shop doing just that which then lead him to his love of coffee and latte art, something he later picked up and decided when he was of age, that was what he was going to do: open up a place of his own.

But– all of this came to an abrupt halt as soon as he turned nineteen. It was only then did Wonwoo start noticing that he was feeling strangely, resting much more often and then one night when he was out with his friends to grab a few drinks, Wonwoo noticed there was a person nearby that had a glowing aura around them. He had never seen such a thing before and he blamed much of what he was seeing on the alcohol. Maybe it was even the lights but when he motioned for his friends to look over at said person, they could see no one. Joking that Won must of been truly gone and with a half-hearted chuckle, he reluctantly agreed. Until it happened again, a few days later. Growing more and more curious of this, he decided to speak to one of these people that had this shadow of gray mist surrounding them and it was then that he learned that it was only he who could see these people and communicate with them. It didn’t take him very long to realize that these people were those that had passed and he was able to talk to them, interact with them, as well as help them over to the underworld where his Charon, the ferryman of Hades, would take over and lead them the rest of the way.

Now, Wonwoo was never the type to be cold. Yes, he usually wore all black and he had a black, shaded in crescent moon tattoo on his inner wrist but even this ability was a bit dark for him. Though, this dark also had a gleam of light as well. He was able to be with these people until it was their time to go, he could listen to all that they had to say and Wonwoo found comfort in their words and he only assumed that they did too– as they would usually confide in him all the things they wanted to say before they went along their way.

After doing research about greek mythology, Wonwoo was casually browsing when he stumbled upon information about a place called Mount Phoenix. A place where there would be others like him and he would be able to learn more about where he came from as well as about himself in general. He also hoped that maybe he could open up his own coffee shop. (Which he was finally able to achieve after many months.) He wanted the place to be filled with light and he wanted to emit light even though what he was doing wasn’t necessarily what he considered to be all sunshine and rainbows. It took away his stress and anxiety and was a place in which he always felt that he could relax.

Wonwoo was very much one to find light in even the darkest things and that’s what made him so unique. Even though it took some getting used to, Wonwoo embraced his powers and wanted to shine through, take care of those around him as well as lead people happily and safely, changing the way the world viewed what he was.

PANTHEON: Greek CHILD OF: Charon POWERS: Wonwoo is able to communicate with the dead as well as lead them to the next step towards the underworld and from there, lets the gods take over. STRENGTHS: His strengths are that he’s incredibly loyal. He also extremely trusthworthy and quite empathetic. WEAKNESSES: His demeanor is quite cold due to his sharp eyes, deeming him intimidating by most. He also is a bit reserved and quiet as well as being blunt when it comes to conversation.