#he’s a magma Drake!

[tharkflark1]

Drake Terra <3

[dizzybizz]

hiei....

more magma. we made a transgender page

[stormcried]

@overangeled

Drake's words were choking against his rapid breathing. He couldn't speak, it's like the words have really left his tone. Drake's sniffles light, letting Angel hold the young teenager against his grasp. Reminding him, he's still got someone. Even through all the bullshit, all the drama, all the paparazzi scandals. Drake just didn't want to think about it anymore for JUST ONE MINUTE. He simply nods to Angel's question about wanting ice cream. Sounded really pitiful when Drake thought about it. Drake's been through Hell and back again to Hell, only to act like a ACTUAL child. Drake tried so hard to make himself seem older then he actually was, but, just one night... one night could he just be normal.

"Could... we watch onnae those shitty movies yer always talkin' about?" Drake laughed sheepishly through his crying. Drake didn't care about what flavor of ice cream he got. He just wanted something to fill the void. Although, he wouldn't be surprised if the ice cream melted upon contact with his LAVA BODY.

[chongoblog]

My First Pokemon Playthrough

So I've noticed in my time of talking about Pokemon, I've told a lot of various anecdotes that are all a part of my very first time playing Pokemon. I was feeling nostalgic, so I figured I would share what I remember about this playthrough for everyone to enjoy. There may be a tangent or two in there and people who have followed me a while may have heard these before, but hey.

For context, I believe I was about 8 years old at the time, and after collecting some Pokemon cards, watching a kid play Crystal at summer camp, watching some of the anime, and generally being a pretty big fan (I even have Pokemon Yahtzee burned into my memory for some reason...), I finally got myself a Game Boy Advance with Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, some Frogger game (after looking it up, it was Temple of the Frog), Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and, of course, Pokemon Sapphire.

I remember that my starter was Torchic. I don't remember why I chose that one, although I remember really liking the color red at the time (which I still do), so that was probably why.

I don't remember too much about my team or the general progress I made in most of the game, but I do remember Slateport City. For those who do not recall, in Slateport City in order to advance you need to get into the museum, which is blocked off by Team Aqua Grunts until you talk to someone in the shipyard. There are also Team Aqua grunts blocking the route ahead

Now, my 8 year old brain for some reason concluded that the only way to get past the Team Aqua Grunts was to intimidate them with a high enough level Pokemon or something like that. So one night, while I was supposed to be asleep on a family beach vacation, I beat down more poor level 13 Pokemon than I could count. I learned later what I was actually SUPPOSED to do, which led to me finally fighting the Team Aqua Grunts.....with a level 42 Blaziken.

And since the Name Rater was in Slateport City and my starter had evolved, I figured it was only appropriate to give him the new moniker "MAGMA MAN"

The rest of the playthrough went about as normally as tearing through the game with mostly Blaziken normally would go. There were a couple exceptions though. First off, at the Weather Institute, after I saved the day from Team Aqua, they were kind enough to gift me a Castform, but my party was full, so I couldn't get it. My 8 year old self did not read this. (Remember this, it will come back later). But I managed to make my way through the game, catching Kyogre with my Master Ball and giving it the nickname "LEGENDARY"

Then we come to the Elite Four where I hit a brick wall. I don't remember my team at the time exactly, but I do remember it was MAGMA MAN which had reached about level 80 or so, LEGENDARY which was about level 48, a level 36 Pelipper, two level ~35 Tentacruels, and some other sixth Pokemon I don't recall. And for some reason, I just couldn't beat the Elite Four with this team for some weird reason. The best I could ever get to was Drake. I felt I was utterly defeated.

That's when we bring a new character into the story. A member of my friend group at the time who we'll call "John" to protect the innocent. Now John had a very "uncle who works at nintendo" type energy to him. The group used to play Gauntlet: Dark Legacy together all the time, and when I got the GBA port of it, he convinced me to trade my recently obtained copy of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Boy game for a Gameboy-Gamecube cables, only for me to learn too late that it didn't work like that, and from there, there were no backsies (but then I got ahold of a copy of Pac-Man VS and Four Swords Adventure then I learned to emulate, so who's laughing now).

Anyway, John saw that I was struggling and he decided that he wanted to help me out. You see, he had come across an incredibly powerful and rare Pokemon that couldn't be found in the wild. He had gotten it exclusive, and I had never seen it before. It was called a "Castform". Now John had Ruby version, so he decided that as much as it ached him to part with it, he figured it would be a reasonable trade to trade this powerful Castform for the slightly less powerful LEGENDARY. I agreed.

And then he moved to Ohio.

To this day, Castform is my least favorite Pokemon because of this betrayal. I was so distraught at 8 years old that I completely restarted my game of Pokemon Sapphire. I don't remember much about that second playthrough, but there's a reason why.

This rival battle on Route 110 is somewhat infamous for being quite the sudden difficulty spike. And since I knew how to get past Team Aqua now, I didn't have an over-leveled starter to stomp my rival with ease. After losing to her about five or so times, I got frustrated and figured that whatever team I had wasn't cutting it. So I restarted again.

In my third playthrough, I made it all the way to the rival battle on Route 110. Then she stomped me repeatedly. So I restarted again.

This cycle would go on for, like, 15 resets. I didn't count, but it felt like there was hundreds. As I would keep on resetting and playing through the early-game of Pokemon Sapphire (which I had practically memorized at this point), I would start to take things a lot less seriously, sometimes picking the girl character, making my name random gibberish, etc.

Eventually, on one of these playthroughs where I started with Treecko, I actually managed to beat the Route 110 Rival Battle! And on my first try too! And thus began the epic journey of a girl named DE.

Now, I'd figured at this point that maybe only leveling up one Pokemon wasn't the best approach, so I was trying to balance my teams a bit better (I guess my rival taught me something). I was making my way through the game, and one day I'm checking out my best friend's Pokemon in Ruby, and who do I see in his box, but a Kyogre. I take a look at his name, and I can't believe it. It was LEGENDARY. John had traded it to my friend before he moved.

My friend didn't know that it was originally mine, so he offered to trade it back, which I accepted. LEGENDARY was a disobedient little bastard since I didn't have enough badges, but he got the job done. I don't remember the team I ended up using to finally beat the Elite Four, but it included my Sceptile starter, a Sableye that somehow knew only Fighting-type moves, and two Kyogres, LEGENDARY and LEGENDARY2.

And that's my first playthrough of Pokemon Sapphire. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

[quinloki]

Hi Quin 💜

I once read that getting your guts rearranged helps against period pain.

Any thoughts which blorbo(s) would help his / their SO out during this time, even though it's a bloody mess down there?

asking for a friend >.>

I'm going to preface this with a bit of real-life advice - it does help for some, and for some it can exacerbate things. So if you're out there and trying this and it feels worse, don't think it's going to get better. What you're really after is increased blood flow - and you can do that with a vibrator and heat pads too.

But let's assume a nice deep fuck works in this case.

Sanji's for it, there's nothing about you that's going to slow him down, but unfortunately he tends to be a little too gentle. It feels better, but you really have to get him to work up to what you need with reassurance and guidance. He means well, but I imagine he worries about making it worse.

Don't worry too much, he'll get there.

Zoro's unbothered by blood and not one to hold back no matter the situation, so he's in there and taking care of you pretty quick. I think you might actually have to worry a little bit about bloodlust with Zoro. Which is to say he might keep railing you until you pass out because he's not going to register that you're begging for mercy and on your n'th orgasm.

The smell of blood is just a little distracting.

Eustass Kid isn't only into it, he's all for making an unholy mess of it, honestly. You look hot in red, whether it's his lipstick, or blood - and blood that doesn't require the risk of cutting? Even-fucking-better.

Good news, Aftercare King that he is, he's going to clean you up after he makes a mess of you. Few things top getting massaged in a warm bath to help keep the cramps away.

Killer's in a similar boat as Kid - at least in the aftercare section of it, but he's definitely into the gut rearrangement too. He's just less messy than Kid, but no less enthusiastic.

Marco's willing to do whatever he can to help, which includes cheating by sinking those healing flames into your abdomen as he's pounding you into the bed. There's no reason for you to suffer while you wait for the blood rush to make the pain go away. He'd much rather listen to you sing.

Sakazuki - since I know you - would be a great one-two punch, since he probably runs hot with that Magma fruit. I think he's putting down towels or plastic or something beforehand though - the blood doesn't bother him, but he's not wasting his time or yours trying to clean it up afterward. Alas, I think he's too tight laced to be kinky, so his aftercare game is lacking, but I think he'd be kind enough to his s/o to help them clean up. He's been shown to not be completely heartless, after all.

X Drake would do what he could to help, but I think he has Zoro's problem with blood and you're going to have him fighting to keep himself under control the whole time.

Though, to be fair, having him transform and knot the soul out of you might just be what you need.

And there you go, that's off the top of my head =3

[merchant-wizard-and-jerry]

“Hello, I’m the friendly wizard _____. My name got taken by a fey prince but it hasn’t really hampered my life. Anyways I am new to this wider wizard community and would like to get along. I have a magic book, a cart, and a friend. His name is Jerry, he is a fungus colony that has taken over my magic book and acts sort of as my patron. He…is a little weird but great fun.”

*sound of an explosion in the background, a book flys by being chased by goblin shamans casting fire ball*

“He is…”

“He is fine.”

“Anyways, I am here to sell goods and make a small profit. If you need something I’ll see what I can do : ) ”

“Also apparently I helped smuggle an amnesiac @fattocatto-wizard out of the city in my wagon. That was a shock, though he was just a cat.

Character Cheat sheet

( 3 currency to 16 silver crowns and 2 copper crowns)

(3 skulls to a coin)

(2 currency to 1 gold)

(100 currency to a 1000 grams gold bar)

(1 currency per 10 grams of gold)

(Current balance 89,359.250,001 currency, one penny, 23 meat pucks, 14 pounds, 2 gold coins one with Julius Cesar on it, 3 naturally-grown mana stones, 2 highly enchant able metal pieces, and one bar, 1 special bug corpse, 1576.5 gold, silver 18, 70 aus, 5kg silver, magic dirt house size. 24 counterfeit currency. Moss/lichen-coded bio stone. An inverse cold torch. 99 BG silver. EMERALD LINCOLN, GOLDEN CARROT, 200 SALTED MEAT DISKS, 200 POLISHED ROCKS, 82 FIGET SPINNERS!, A FULLY EQUIPPED LICH'S DUNGEON, and a cardboard box (magic black marble).” Invisibility stone, a bundle of drake feathers, quantum locked rock, raw gold. 9 Gold coming from the green goblin empire, 50 mushrooms, 92 secret society emblem. 5 trans enchanted gold coins, 2 skull coin, ancient lost civilization fragment, 5 glistening green metallic coin, 31 writhing bugs of gold, jade coin. Pile of gold coins and gold coin bugs, pile of shines from harpy, dust, quantum glass shards, bag of tooth shaped candy, 6720 candies from the festival, bag of holding money bag, 68 money bags, 500 flat Foxen, double sided dollar coin, 3 floppies, a Brahman horn, a medkit, a few candy bars, and an umbrella, 130 goblins eggs (goblin cooked chicken eggs.), 17 bars of pure gold, 1 crate of guns, temp singularity potion. 762 grasshoppers glow in the dark.Book on the formation patterns of natural portals - @serious-tabaxi. Edward Evandrian’s expired library card. Gems and frenicx mother gem and a junkarian leap amethyst. white mithril sapling. Timeseed, infinite note book, time tunnel. A nice gold bag. bag full of candied scorpions 💰, large gem stone. 💰 💰 💰, gems = 70currency. 1/3rd a gold bar. Compass map, it's keyed to the Island of Silence. N=10^7 menger sponge. 2416 shadow cloaks, 52 shiny stones. 20$, 3 gold coins 100 grams. Gummy worms. 100 journals of Ventus Asamuran, Last Peacekeeper of Har Aminas. car keys, box of a 27 rusted necklaces with warding spells. an amulet made of stone, with blue rectangular crystals growing out of it. 48 shiny stones, 30 currency worth of silver. 3 sets of custom made chips @crickled-thorn-thug. Gold potion It opens a portal to the realm of metals! It causes any land within 20 feet to be transmuted, temporarily, into a variety of metals. If left untouched, the land reverts after a day. If harvested, the stuff stays metal and can be used. It also causes uhh 20 gold peices to spawn, and anyone within the radius to get a bit of vertigo. Causes slight iron deficiency, for some reason. 23 bouquets of metalic flowers. They're grown beneath volcanic chambers, uses the heat of magma as a supplement for sunlight. Given their environment, they grow petals sharper than claws and harder than steel. They can be used for creating armours and weapons. one box of nightmare inducing Mac and cheese)

(Currently holding baby dire bunnies. A ring of mana (covers energy into mana. Only suitable if you don’t have mana)

(Jerry’s balance 13 gold, a fancy rock, 1 coin, flower petals (snacks for later), harpy eyes, feathers, vocal cords, and talons, a coin with @informis-the-many-faced on it, it is locked away for emergencies. bottle of magic mold rejuvenation powder, wooden key @crickled-thorn-thug)

(Warlocks of Jerry @fungal-boy-witch-yay @ignisuadaroleplay @life-is-okay-rn2 I think that is who it was…)

(Possessions - wealth stone, Antidote stone)

Owner of membership cards

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@the-final-knight-2

@confused-sorcerer

@bi-gender-sorcerer (+ 10% off for employee discount)

@the-mighty-dalob

@detectivewizzard

@goblin-wizard-in-the-making

@serious-tabaxi

@weltreths-wanderings

@ignisuadaroleplay (will)

@shittest-wizard-ever

@wizard-wylin-wylerian

@akronus-and-associates (the primordials)

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@hallowed-the-silver-gun

@jormungand-seas-champion

@crow-natures-wrath

@antros-ember-of-fear

@akronus-the-redeemed

@clockwork-time-watcher

@aldira-born-anew

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@wizard-ghost

@yeast-wizard

@crickled-thorn-thug

@sorcererest-sorcerer

@damnable-druid (+ 10% off for employee discount)

@informis-the-many-faced

@kittycatwizard

@gun-sorcerer

@crime-wizard-conglomerate

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Perks

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5% off all purchases

Special requested items

More favorable bartering

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[katyspersonal]

What are your expectations/theories for Messmer?

I have a few! I even considered making a predictions bingo on him specifically to check when DLC comes out! XD But overall the predictions resulted from me and @val-of-the-north bouncing the ideas around 🤔 I'll need to link a few of other posts here too to help clarifying some relevant topics!

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1) I think he is one of the children between Marika and Godfrey, or maybe even her first-born!

At first I was also thinking that him having red hair was a damning evidence that he had to be born from selfcest, like Malenia and Miquella! But Val brought this to my attention that in ER manga, which is apparently on a stronger level of directing than BB comics from my knowledge, Rykard is a blond!

So Val suggested that genes can work a funny way since Marika and Radagon are still the same person, and if Rykard got Marika's golden hair gene even from Radagon's body, the reverse is possible and someone in Golden Lineage could have red hair even from Marika! I also agree because Miquella is venturing into the Shadows Land presumably to discover Marika's secrets:

(Famitsu interview with Miyazaki, taken from this ( x ) post) But Messmer to me feels like he would be fully aware of every Marika's dark secret there is! I joke that he is very Lucifer-coded, but actually Satan-coded is a better comparison. He is the holder of "Hell", where the 'graceless' beings and those rejected by Golden Order reside, like that ancient Misbegotten(ish) creature! If he was the third sibling of this kind, why would he know more than Malenia and Miquella? (I mean, surprise me!) But if he had been there from the very start, carrying her (God's) punishment, then sure!

My other clue towards that is that he shares the "spartan" aesthetic in his clothes with Godfrey and his Duelists ( x ) (and actually Goldmask too)! This whole thing with leg wraps and waistwrap!

2) He is the first to historically partake in Dragon Communion, and the inspiration of Drake Knights

There are dragonic features about himself, the design of his armour and his snakes! Initially I thought of Dragonic Sentinels too, but their whole deal is to combat Granssax, who I concluded attacked after Farum Azula war and Placidusax' lord was fled. More than that, their deal is 'electric' line of dragons specifically, whereas Drake Knights and others who that partake in Dragon Communion are not picky! They eat dragon hearts to take their power, and that includes 'fire' line of dragons, like Greyoll and her spawn!

I speculate that he was the first person historically, with the bright idea of eating dragon heart to take its power, and this is where his fire powers came from. Fire is associated with heresy, but in his case it was both: assuming powers of dragons was heresy itself (so, before Godwyn made dragons 'friends'), but fire powers came from it! As a Demigod, he also did not meet the same miserable fate as Magma Wyrms! He had the privilege to really take something useful by being not mere mortal.

3) The snakes, therefore, are part of his body!

There are two of them, and I assume they're growing from the base of his spine and function like his tails! If Placidusax is anything to go by, this is part of him developing multiple heads but in the way that would not mess with his body too much. Funny enough, I had two dreams of Gwyndolin as a baby, and in both Gwyndolin as a child only had two snakes that did work as tails, so maybe I am biased!

4) Rotten Duelists also take inspiration from him

I am resharing the image by Val from a post I've already linked, but whereas they elaborate sign of Godfrey and hatred for the Giants in their design, the snakes around their arms and on their helmets are supposed to refer to Messmer!

I imagine Godfrey and Messmer being that super cool OG battle duo. Duelists feature two kinds of 'heresy' in their design - the snakes and the symbols of the Giants, and I assume they were proudly wearing these before being driven from the Coliseum! Back then symbolism of "taking power from the enemy" was something honourable, and so was what Messmer did - becoming 'sinful' to be the more powerful weapon of Marika was courageous and virtuous of him. So, snakes were also fine to proudly depict in the clothes! Until it was not:

5) He is banished for (attempted) burning of the Erdtree

This theory is coined in by @val-of-the-north! In this ( x ) post it is explained better, but in short, there are evidences that the big golden Erdtree we see is an illusion, most interesting one is ashes being all over Leyendell even before defeating Maliketh. So that's why it no longer is giving its blessed sap and is "only an object of faith" now, though its lower part is still physical of course. I agree with this idea!

I think he had to do something bad because of the huge sealed eye possibility! Ranni and Melina also have an eye sealed, and both are Demigods that had their 'privilege' within the Golden Order removed in one way or another. Messmer, on the other way, wows to burn whoever is devoid of grace, so I doubt that he would willingly divest himself of it! Whereas he's been heretical for dragonic powers and the 'Satan' to her system to take care of the 'sinners' from the beginning, but he got excommunicated from the family and likely erased from its records! Bonus points if Godwyn being the first in the Golden Lineage is just what they tell people now!

6) GEOOOOOORGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

I've always had a feeling that whereas everyone is anticipating him to become the first true Soulsborne sexyman, something just has to put a dent in it. Just something to sour the character. I can't explain it, it is like sixth sense...? But I think I finally know what it is. During answering this ask, I payed attention how even with other things put in consideration, he still appears to be loyal to his mother and the purpose she intended to him. He speaks defensive against her letting the "unworthy" to become a Lord. Like... this is not necessarily something weird, it could just be strong loyalty even against his self-interest like what we see in Maliketh or Morgott, but there is just strange sixth sense about perhaps some Freudian shit going on in his head that I can't shake, and not anti-climatic one after what they did with Mohg.

7) Motivation for attempted burning of the Erdtree were themes of ambition and perfection

I will link a couple of posts (with pictures) in which I explained how Erdtree is itself a Crucible and how I theorise existence of Omens resulted in denying and loathing the thing ( x ) ( x ). They're not too long tbh, and in both I forgot to bring up the fact that Ancestral Followers worship Minor Erdtrees :') But the main point is, everything sacred will eventually rot and die, however, giving the way to a new thing to sprout from it, and that was something Marika was unwilling to accept. Erdtree and Golden Order, were supposed to be Eternal, like herself.

Marika made everything that reminded of the other side of life, like Misbegotten and Omens, illegal, and ensured immortality in the best way she could, but Messmer took it even further. He attempted to remove the 'life' aspect of the Elden Ring, to separate the sacred power granted to his mother and relatives from the earth. So, from from inevitable death, from ever rotting, from 'cycle'... from everything "imperfect", so it could be just the one perfect, pure, 100% spiritual thing in their hands. + I think what he did happened after Gloam-Eyed Queen fiasco, so that was another point in realising the instability and imperfection. + to draw from the previous point, he might have been really pissed at Greater Will itself on behalf of his mother.

Except, what he did was not something even Marika would agree to. Greater Will specifically sought this "imperfect" world FOR its "imperfections", to gain form and purpose through births and deaths and feelings and struggles from the amorphous empty cosmic state. It was suffering from its superiority, there was nothing to love or hate or want. It gives me the same vibe as how in BB, the Great Ones are willing to trade their perfection for simple joy of loving a child; they don't need to give birth since they're immortal and their genes are not in need of surviving, but there is just... nothing in this immortality. This is something Messmer would not understand. Sellen is another example of this mindset, aspiring for the things the "perfect" beings were willing to escape. It is always the case of 'greener grass' lol

But yes, absolutely no one appreciated the attempt to separate the Elden Ring from being rooted into mortal "flawed" things. I think he still thinks he is right, and that whatever little dialogue he will have should contain quite the vitriol.

8) In the second stage of his battle, he will become far more dragonic.

I expect at least something happening with the snakes akin to becoming his wings. Maybe he will even turn into a dragon, a two-headed one! + also if there is no particularly gruesome (lethal) visceral attack by his snakes I will rebel lol

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Soooo yeah... This isn't much, but my imagination is weak when I have limited information x) I have also seen an idea that the thing that pierces Marika's body might be his doing since he is titled the Impaler, but for now I think this is not the case! Her hammer is full of similar sharp shards of Elden Ring, so I think this is just another shard, or, perhaps, something Elden Beast threw at her. Red coloration comes from being bloodied! Marika was a mortal once, after all!

[aestheticitii]

do you think the gym leaders+steven all text norman to let him know how his kid is doing

because norman is the only one with a kid among the gym leaders. wattson's got a niece but she lives outside of hoenn and drake from the elite four has grandkids but like he's not a gym leader

and it's just a way to bond with norman since he clearly loves his family and the only time he gets soft is thinking of them

like roxanne gets beaten by a lvl15 mudkip and nothing else, and when she asks why, the kid is like, "actually, i want to be a water type only trainer so that i can also be a gym leader"

she lets wallace know in the group chat that he has competition

steven casually drops the fact that his kid beat up a few team magma grunts and his dad is apparently very fond of norman's kid now to one of the others and it spreads like wildfire

brawly says that his kid's been camping out for like the past three days, trying to fish for a tentacool, and then they show up to battle with like 20 potions and their tentacool as their ace

wallace pipes in briefly to tell norman that he and his wife should turn on a specific channel and watch it together.

afterwards, norman jokes that his kid really is gunning for wallace's spot and thanks him for letting him see their kid branching out. wallace starts commenting more on them because lisia tells him a lot and he's kind of happy his niece has a good friend she can hang out with

wattson happily tells him about he caught them giving pointers to wally and how they gave their marshtomp bulldoze specifically for this match and won by the skin of their teeth

and also how they nearly got into a fight with the guy who gives advice because he was like "you can't fight with water types in an electric gym!"

flannery is oddly quiet when they come to town and that is because they end up befriending each other because they WANT to be a gym leader but they know they have to live up to their dad while flannery's already trying to live up to the sort of reputation one should have

all she says is "it's a secret"

norman shares a picture of him, his wife, and their kid at a restaurant he found specifically because they like that sort of food. in it, tentacool has evolved and they now corphish and surskit and a togepi

the togepi belongs to his wife now but he mentions that it makes for a great excuse for his kid to come home more often

steven says something about how they're very passionate and when prompted to speak more about the topic, he says they nearly fought with kecleon because it was preventing them from going into the gym

winona is grateful that they asked the kecleon to go away. she's the one who has the least amount of conversation with them but she does note them trying to convince gyarados to fly, then begrudgingly resigning themselves to being a land and water dweller

(steven has to laugh at that when wallace tells him.

he never says why but when he comes back from his travels, he has a swanna for them)

the twins hear about the kid being in town but the first time they meet is at the department store while they're arguing with a kid about the last slakoth plush. they pull the "my dad is a gym leader" card and when that fails, they end up resorting to a pokemon battle

everyone floods the chat with questions after the team magma/team aqua incident. norman shuts down the gym for a bit to be there for his kid and also do gym leader stuff and the only time the kid shows up on tv is a few days later when they're trying to get to the gym and a reporter stops them

they very confidently say they can be champion, but only if they can make it past through the reporter because they need their eighth badge

norman is SO proud

for wallace, he mentions how the first thing they say after beating him is asking him where he got his milotic from. they're actually extremely mad that they couldn't find any feebas and they didn't actually want to battle him without one but they also just want to head onto victory road

this actually jogs a memory of norman's, where he remembers that he took the family to petalburg before he moved to show them littleroot and just spend time with them while they're still in johto

and on one of the screens is wallace and milotic, and after that, the three of them decide to take some time to watch one of his contests on tv, which spurs a family tradition and the declaration that they will also have a milotic

he promised to get a feebas for them, but they turned him down so he kinda regrets not pushing it a bit more

so he like talks to his kid and they basically confirm his suspicions

milotic = happy memories so my own milotic = more happy memories and since i want to be a gym leader like my old man = water types only

it's all very wholesome

norman can't stay away from petalburg much longer and his kid doesn't want him to watch the matches because they're afraid of an ungraceful showing, but they do promise to send a photo with steven after the match and verbal confirmation from the latter that they won

also norman's kid just looks up to their dad so much, like the coolest person ever, and once they become champion, they go to him for advice on pokemon—it's a running joke in the family that it should be the other way around since they're the youngest champion in hoenn

as for the feebas, someone from the weather institute finds out that they want one so they call norman to tell his kid this secret for a guaranteed feebas

the next beauty master rank has people making the spiderman meme because wallace also enters with a milotic. he wins the battle, but they win the day because their parents come to watch them and they spend the entire day together

[ghostchanuwu]

YES YES YES YES YES YE-

Archenon Luthford is one hell of a name huh (his last name literally means 'loud one' which I mean he is pretty loud), he actually comes from a very wealthy family and after his parents passed he actually put a pretty sizeable chunk of that into funding Team Magma which in turn inspired him to form Team Aqua since Maxie had suggested that having a more oceanic based branch would bolster their overall strength, Archie has always had his Mega Anchor with it being a family heirloom whereas Maxie didn't always have his Mega Glasses (Archie got him a keystone with this having some context,yes I'm shilling my fic again fjfjdbnd)

Drake Holliday is one of the men of all time (yes I'm giving him a last name that he needs and Captain Holliday sounds really cool), his hair has always been white and he used to hate wearing shirts until Aster said that he looked good in purple and he never looked back (he still to this day denies having a crush on Aster back when they was still alive but everyone in the league at the time took bets on how long it would take Drake to realize that he's not straight), he can use mega evolution but literally nobody knows where his keystone is but they do suspect that it's hidden behind the feathers on his hat

Glacia is both the league's mom and wine aunt, she joined the league at 19 originally as a water specialist but quickly moved to ice since she had a ton of overlap with her original team and made zero changes (she actually got a Glaceon and a Weavile later on during a vacation to Snowpoint), most in the league think that if anything were to happen to anybody that Drake would be the first one to do something but nope it's Glacia since she can and has unleashed an icy hell on anyone who dares hurt her loved ones (she's actually the reason why Aqua-Magma's base in Lillycove was rendered unusable)

Wally is the purest cinnamon roll in Hoenn fourteen years and counting, he started off with his little Ralts and eventually caught a Zigzagoon and a Marill which is now an Azumarill (he spoils all of them with homemade PokePuffs and PokeBlock along with May and Norman's pokemon), he wants to become a Ranger since they recently opened up a Junior Ranger program around Fortree (it would also mean that he gets to take care of more adorable pokemon which he is all about)

[souurcitrus]

In my universe, Earth-18104, the X-Men had three schools in different times, the Xavier Mansion changed names every time a new "era" started, according to the story and the events of that time.

The story of the Xavier Institute is based in the comics and influenced by other events of this universe, that are based in other medias like the movies and comics, and don't follow the time-line of the comics in a precise way, because I wanted to give this universe a more real feeling of time passing slowly and the characters aging different from each generation.

So... yeah, some characters are older or younger than they are in the comics.

Here are some of the students that were enrolled in each school. And here the list of other groups of young superheroes.

• Xavier Institute for Gifted Young People (1972 - 1999)

The first school, of course, when Xavier still had to keep his and his students' identities a secret. People believed it was just a private school, even thought it had only a very few students, at first.

The first students were the original X-Men of 1972, trained by Xavier, Magneto, Mystique, Mastermind, Moira MacTaggert and Destiny (based on the movie X-Men First Class):

• Armando Muñoz / Darwin (16)

• Suzanne Chan / Sway (17)

• Vienna Adamsen / Petra (16)

• Sean Cassidy / Banshee (20)

They later all went to Muir Island to train with Moira, after Xavier suffered the injury that let him paralyzed.

In 1989, Xavier trained the second X-Men, the Original Five or X-Men '92:

• Jean Grey / Marvel Girl (17)

• Scott Summers / Cyclops (16)

• Bobby Drake / Iceman (15)

• Warren Worthington III / Angel (17)

• Henry McCoy / Beast (18)

Later in 1995, Lorna Dane / Polaris (20) and Alex Summers / Havok (17) joined the team.

At the same time, Moira had her own team if X-Men in Muir Island, trained by Petra, Sway and Darwin:

• Christopher Bradley / Bolt (14)

• Gabriel Summers / Vulcan (13)

• James Madrox / Multiple (16)

• David Haller (17/18)

In 1996 Kitty Pryde / Sprite (13), Alison Blaire / Dazzler (16), Gailyn and Joseph Grey / Shatter-Box (10) joined the school. And in 1997, it was Rogue (17) and Ruth Aldine / Blindfold (17).

*Shatterbox are minor characters in the comics. Blindfold is older than her counterpart in the comics, and acts as a mentor and counselor to the next students.

In 1997/1999, the Xavier Institute was turned into a real school, and thought he did not wanted to put more children in danger, Xavier created a new team of X-Men, the New Mutants:

• Illyana Rasputin / Magik (13)

• Xuân Cao Manh / Karma (15)

• Danielle Moonstar / Mirage (16)

• Sam Guthrie / Cannonball (16)

• Roberto da Costa / Sunspot (15)

• Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane (15)

• Amara Aquilla / Magma (15)

• James Proudstar / Warpath (14)

• Douglas Ramsey / Cypher (12)

• Warlock

* Illyana Rasputin was 6 years old before joined, however, after her time in the Limbo, she came back to her world as a 13 years old teenager. James Proudstar was brought to the school by his older brother after leaving the Hellions. And Jonh Proudstar never fucking died.

In 1999, Banshee and Emma Frost took care of a new class of mutants, the Generation X:

• Paige Guthrie / Husk (17)

• Angelo Spinosa / Skin (16)

• Jubilee (17)

• Monet St. Croix / Penance (17)

• Claudette and Nicole St. Croix / M (9)

• Jonothon "Jono" Starsmore / Chamber (18)

• Everett Thomas / Synch (17)

These kids were gathered and chosen as X-Men after being rescued from the Phalanx, however Clarice Ferguson / Blink (14) was lost after destroying the enemy and was only found years later. Not by the X-Men.

In 2000/2001, Apocalypse was awaken from his slumber and the X-Men fought against him and his Horsemen. In 2004, the Infinity Gaulent arc happened, and half of the universe was gone (Like in Avengers: Endgame), and only restaured in 2010.

The people turned to dust in this break of time didn't aged.

• Xavier Institute for Higher Education / Xavier Academy (1997 - 2004) and (2010 - 2017)

After these events, the Xavier Institute changed names again. Xavier, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Hank McCoy, Logan and Scott Summers were the ones in charge.

The mansion was had more of a structure to resemble a real school, and even had a student body, more classes, etc.

In school year of 2011/2012 (September to june) the events of E is for Extinction and Riot at Xavier's took place. The students at the time were:

• Angel Salvadore / Tempest (15)

• Barnell Borhuk / Beak (15)

• Glob Herman

• Sophie, Phoebe, Irma, Celeste and Esme Cuckoo / The Stepford Cuckoos (14)

• Jebediah "Jeb" Guthrie (12)

• Melody Guthrie / Aero (15)

• Vincent Stewart / Redneck (15)

• Christian and Christine Cord / Radian and Tattoo (15)

• Quentin Quire / Kid Omega (14)

• Hong Liange (11)

• Lucy Priest / Butterfly (16)

• Carlo Brewster / Gelatin (14)

• Abraham Verne / Caput (15)

• Dana Holmes / Polymer (15)

• Alisa Tager / Cipher (11)

• Ellie Phimister / Negasonic Teenage Warhead (12)

• Kutsuna Yukio (12)

• Gabrielle and Michael Diwa / Galura and Arauto (13)

• Dean Boswell / Dummy (15)

• Martha Johansson (9)

• Ernst (10)

• Hisako Ichiki / Armor (13)

• Edward Tancredi / Wing (12)

• Quincy Marrow (14)

• Stan Finch / Silicon (14)

• Leong Cao Mạnh (11)

• Nga Cao Mạnh (11)

*Kutsuna Yukio is the version of Yukio from Deapool 2; The Stepford Cuckoos are only three years old chronologically, but aged faster, so they are 14 years old physically and mentally. Quentin Quire had just turned fourteen and lost his body, being stuck in his astral form, he couldn't age and stayed in this form for the next six years

*For the love of God, Beak and Angel didn't fucking had children. What the fuck these writers had in mind???? They're teenagers. Jeb and Melody Guthrie should be older, but they were among the victims of Infinity Gaulent.

During 2013/2014, the events of Academy X, New X-Men, and Young X-Men in 2015 took place. During this time, we had the events of M-Day, Civil War and the Stryke's attack took place.

• Jay Guthrie / Icarus; Dallas Gibson / Specter; Callie Betto / Dryad; Sofia Mantega / Wind Dancer; Phoebe, Irma and Celeste Cuckoo / The Stepford Cuckoos (16)

• Kevin Ford / Wither; Hisako Ichiki / Armor; Julian Keller / Hellion; Sooraya Qadir / Dust; David Alleyne / Prodigy; Noah Crichton / Hydro (15)

• Cecily Kincaid / Mercury; Santo Vacarro / Rockslide; Kutsuna Yukio; Brian Cruz / Tag; Sidney Green / Onyxx; Laura Kinney; Edward Tancredi / Wing; Nick Shelley / Flubber; Laurie Collins / Wallflower; Noriko Ashida / Surge; Josh Foley / Elixir; Eric Gitter / Ink; Maxwell Jordan / Quill (14)

• Alisa Tager / Cipher; Megan Gwynn / Pixie; Hong Liange; Paras Gavaskar / Indra; Sarah Vale / Network; Jessica Vale / Preview; Nezhno ABidemi / Gentle; Lazaro Kotikash / Kidogo; Alani Ryan / Loa (13)

• Andrea Margulies / Rubber Maid; Ben Hamill / Match; Mark Sheppard / DJ; Victor Borkowski / Anole; Jeffrey Garrett (12)

• Ernst; Roxy Washington / Bling!; Martha Johansson; Nick Gleason / Wolf Cub; Hope Abott / Trance; Carl Aalston / Rain Boy (11)

Like in the comics, some of these characters lost their powers and died, with a few exception surviving and leaving the role as X-Men. The few that survived and kept their powers after M-Day stayed and then later moved to Utopia/Genosha.

After this, the Xavier Institute was destroyed and the Graymalkin Lane was left empty until 2018. In 2017, with the return of Hope Summers, a new group of X-Men was formed in Utopia, the Lights, though they did not resided at the Institute.

• Hope Summers (15)

• Gabriel Cohuelo / Velocidad (16)

• Laurie Tromette / Transonic (17)

• Teon Savko / Primal (15)

• Idie Okonkwo / Oya (13)

• Kenji Uedo (19)

Hope Summers was born just a few years before the Lights, but since she was raised in the future she is 14 years old when she comes back. Later, Megan Gwynn / Pixie (16) joined the team, taking Oya's place.

After the Schim caused, the X-Men split in two. Quentin Quire had returned in a new body, but he was still 14 years old, the same age he was when he "died"

• Jean Gray School for Higher Learning (2018- )

In 2018, Wolverine went back to Westchester and rebuilt the mansion, trying to give the place the feeling of real school. The students also could only start training when they were in 9° grade and could train to be X-Men and join teams (like in Academy X) after they were in 10° grade.

He made a deal with the Shi'ar to have technology to protect the school, as long he accepted the son of Gladiator, asked to be Quentin's guardian and they had a clone of Krakoa as they grounds.

A few old students joined the school in the first year, and a few only in the second and third year. The school opened in August of 2018.

(This list of students include some of my OCs, since I'm writing a fanfic that happens in the Jean Grey School)

• Hisako Ichiki / Armor; Julian Keller / Hellion; Gabrielle and Michael Diwa / Galura and Arauto (19)

• Cecily Kincaid / Mercury; Santo Vacarro / Rockslide: Kutsuna Yukio; Ellie Phimister / NTW; Noriko Ashida / Surge; Eric Gitter / Ink (18)

• Alisa Tager / Cipher; Hong Liange; Paras Gavaskar / Indra; Nezhno ABidemi / Gentle (17)

• Cam Long / Tiger; Aura Charles / Aurora; Crosta (16)

• Ben Hamill / Match; Victor Borkowski / Anole; Iara dos Santos / Shark Girl; Roxy Washington / Bling!; Martha Johansson / Cerebela; Zane Yamaguchi / Juggernaut 2; Hope Abott / Trance; Carl Aalston / Rain Boy (15)

• Idie Okonkwo / Oya; Prince Kubark / Gladiator; Trevor Hawkins / Eye-Kid; Charge OC; Julian Creed / Menace OC (14)

• Evan Adel / Genesis; Jiang Mei, Sprite (13/14); Hunter Creed / Rescue OC (12/13); Broo

*Broo is only five months old, Evan is a clone so he aged faster than the Cuckoos, chronologically he was "born" a few months before being enrolled. The school was never moved to Manhattan like in the comics.

Later, Huang Lin / Nature Kid; Michela Ladak; Joseph and Josephine Bricklemoore / Tri-Joe and Squid Girl joined the school.

Even after the death of Wolverine in 2021 and the creation of Krakoland in 2023, the school stayed open, and the X-Men hope it stays this way for many years.

[theredpharaoah]

They say Bayle The Dread injured Placidusax, and so him and his line(the drakes) were allowed to be used for Dragon Communion. If we consider the Valyrian dragons to be descended from Bayle, then maybe that’s why they were allowed to be bonded and enslaved to humans as well. My current theory is that the “Blood of The Dragon” is obtained via some form of Dragon Communion - eating a dragon’s heart or blood or something. If we take the powers someone is able to gain using a dragon build in Elden Ring into consideration; it’s clearly the better option as opposed to bonding to a dragon and being able to ride it. But we do know that when humans practice dragon communion too much, they end up turning into Magma Wyrms - cursed to spend their lives crawling on their bellies as flightless imitations of dragons.

What I’ve always thought was really odd is that we don’t see Fire Wyrms anywhere else in the world but Valyria. We have massive Singer’s caverns in Westeros and there’s no hint or mention of Fire Wyrms there. Dragonstone is a Volcano and there’s no Fire Wyrms there either. Dragons populated the entirety of the known world once and their bones can be found all over. However we only see Fire Wyrms in the place where Dragonlords ruled. Then we have Aerea who had Fire Wyrms with human faces all throughout her body. If the Dragon Communion thing stands, then maybe the “children” a magma Wyrm produces wouldn’t be born fully Draconic as they aren’t originally lesser dragons. This opens up a very worrying beastiality avenue as well - that maybe those Wyrms could’ve been used to sire children with “dragon blood”.

Yes, I know dragon transformations are a staple of Soulsborne games, but I don’t think that means this can’t tell us more about GRRMs overall fantastical world. Also, Miyazaki cites many of GRRM’s own influences and GRRM himself as influences. The first Dark Souls game came out in 2011. I thought it was so random that GRRM wrote for Elden Ring but he probably didn’t feel at all uncomfortable in adapting the SoulsBorne staples or his fictional world because they have the same base influences, and ASOIAF is also one of the influences on the SoulsBorne lore.

[sinnohelitefourlore]

In defense of the hoenn league, I feel like a solid 10% of them are doing okay mentally

A good ol’ ten percent. It might be more than that. Let’s go through it!

Roxanne- She’s… okay. She had a severe panic attack in the story because she originally wasn’t picked to be gym leader until Steven put in good word for her.

Brawly- Probably the most well adjusted out of every single character in the story.

Wattson- Just very jolly, arguably uses it as a coping mechanism to all the dark shit that happens.

Flannery- Er. Doesn’t apply. The freshest gym leader, and has the need to prove herself. Becoming a gym leader in wake of the Hoenn crisis does a number on her.

Norman- This is probably the most normal guy in the story, which makes him an outcast lol but his daughter saving the region really irks at him. He had to be held back by the elites. He has a temper if his family is in danger. It’s actually refreshingly normal.

Winona- Not really the best mentally as a teenager. She still hasn’t fully let go of the fact that Wallace gave up a champion position for her. She thinks about it over and over that SHE could’ve been champion.

Liza and Tate- …lmao. Okay. This is a really interesting pair to look at. Liza and Tate…they belong to a group of a league members in which becoming one actually makes them behave worse - though they also have issues outside of it that I’ll get into later on in the story (and in a separate story with six chapters). In the beginning when introduced they were sweet, but they are thirteen when Magma and Aqua are around. Thirteen. And that’s when the problems start. When they become teenagers. Before they acted too immature, and then you’ll see them swing in the other direction. It’s not healthy.

Juan- In the story he never gets a girlfriend again after Clara died. He never coordinates again because of Clara. When his apprentice Wallace has his desires to get into it he is afraid for his life. Juan constantly stresses all the time, because Wallace makes his hair grey. When Wallace becomes champion, even more so.

Wallace- Lmao no this man is daddy issues personified, had a coke problem, displays extreme narcissism to cover up his deep insecurities, I could go on really.

Sidney- He is not okay as much as people thinks he is. He’s haunted by his own family tree’s past.

Phoebe- She is absolutely kooky. But I think her past before entering the league is something she tries hard to forget, and lives in fear that it could come up at any moment, so she covers it up with acting more kooky than she typically is.

Glacia- Having to seek asylum is traumatizing.

Drake- He once downed an entire bottle of vodka and kept it down. Enough said.

Steven- One of the more normal champions. Rants and rambles about rocks to his boyfriend Wallace. Rich boy problems *shrug*

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So what’s the scoreboard?

3/15

That’s 20 percent! :)

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Fic link here

[stormcried]

❝ you know the first rule of combat? shoot them before they shoot you. ❞

Cowboy Bebop Starters

A snort. As if insulted by Striker's comment. Drake's not new to combat. Sure, he's gotten into petty brawls before and he's KILLED people before to survive. Drake's not a weak baby like he used to be when he was nine and ten. He wasn't holding back anymore. Especially now that he's in Hell. His rock hard digits trace the rim of the revolver that Striker had given him. It's shooting practice. More like to give Drake a IDEA as to actually how to shoot something. It's loaded of course, so, it's now or never. Shit, he may have to use it one day.

"Pfft. Please, M'nah stupid. I know how t'fight people." Drake retorted back. Drake isn't sure how to use a gun at all. He's never HELD one much less SHOOT one. This is a real, actual gun that he's holding in his grip. Drake's orange hues glanced up to Striker. "So, wha's the plan? M'gonna shoot bottles or somethin'?" Half jokingly he asked. Drake figured Striker would start him off small. Or, at the least get used to shooting a real gun. Because if Striker is going to actually waste his time on Drake, then he better prove useful.

His eyes glance to a barrel. He kind of hoped it was filled with gasoline or something. In the Wrath ring, everything is essentially could explode. Drake would furrows his brows, gripping tight to the handle of the gun. Drake angled himself to mirror Striker. Both hands on the handle. His eyes furrow on the 'target' of their practice. It seemed that it were a few simple beer bottles that Striker either finished off or dumped for the simple purpose of getting Drake used to the revolver. A six shooter. It's gonna pack a serious punch. Finger on the trigger.

Drake's heart racing in his chest. Call it a small strand of nervousness in his system. Drake's survived the worst, yet, he's nervous of a GUN? Pitiful. Drake would shake the feelings off as best as he could. Striker is 'nice' enough to let him do this. Drake took a best aim as he could. Squeezing the trigger. No hesitation now.

'B A N G'

The shot itself had Drake stumble backwards slightly from the ricochet of the power of the gun. He's still not strong enough. Drake gritted his teeth. Miss. "FUCK!" Drake exclaimed in irritation. A exhaled growl follows. "Lemme try again. I ain' acceptin' tha'." Drake didn't wait for a response, taking back his position of the original mirror of Striker. Drake aimed back at the bottle of what he tried to originally aim at. This time, his grip tightens. If he wasn't careful, he might accidentally melt the gun itself. Focusing. His aim to be the bottle itself. The only sounds being his breathing... (also the internal furnace inside of his chest).

Take aim. Drake's getting used to it. Only for him to imagine his worst enemies. The bad people from before. Everything that was taken away from him. His happiness. His life. His family. Those memories burned strong in his head. Drake's anger growing again at this point. Picturing a vision of putting a bullet into every last one of them. Drake's teeth gritting and clenching his jaw. Slight orange wisps forming from his eyes. Eyes burning brighter until the same shot came forth, and sending him back a little bit, only for him to stand his ground again... although instead of a regular golden bullet, a lob of magma shot from the barrel and ending in the center of the bottle, creating it a shattered mess AND a messy after effect. Drake tilted his head. "How... did I do that?"

[as-above-rp]

 🍃 - Have my muse pose tastefully for your muse’s art project 

Riot modeling for Rach as she tries sculpting.

@splinter-sister

Casual Nudity

 🍃 - Have my muse pose tastefully for your muse’s art project  @splinter-sister

"Ye wanna sculpt me?"

That was the first thing Riot said when Rachael posed the idea to him. There was a part of him that was flattered, of course - it wasn't every day that an artist asked him to be their muse! But they both knew what his body looked like at this point; plated scales with rough finishes and sharp edges, spikes along his shoulders and down his spine, and glowing veins like magma scattered across. It wasn't the type of body he'd really think of when it came to models for a sculptor to reference. If choosing a model was like choosing a difficulty setting, he'd put himself somewhere closer to the "hard mode" side of the range.

Furthermore, Riot never thought of himself as someone attractive enough for this sort of thing. He knew he was fairly good looking, but he also understood how 'monstrous' his appearance was to the average human. His size alone was intimidating enough for folks, but her had a nasty resting bitch face on top of it all that left people thinking he was either perpetually pissed at the world, or up to no good. Rachael was a special case in many a regard, and Riot was more than aware of how attractive she found him--scales, fangs, size and all. Despite this, the little voice in the back of his mind still persisted in moments like these.

Of course, Riot didn't mutter a word of these concerns to Rachael when she asked him to model for her. He only clarified that she was serious, and with a little hesitancy, agreed to be her model. They discussed and agreed on a pose that would be comfortable to stay in for an extended period of time, and after stripping to his birthday suit, he took up that position on the chair. For a moment he had a throw blanket on for some modesty, since that was what he'd seen before--but she quickly told him to drop the cover, 'for anatomy purposes', with a cheeky expression. Riot did as she asked with a shake of his head and a smirk on his lips.

As the seconds turned to minutes, and those minutes worked up to becoming hours, it started to sink in for Riot just how...intimate, this felt. Not once did she touch him, and she hardly spoke a word as she concentrated on her art. But it was being under that intense scrutiny in a near perfect silence that left Riot feeling more vulnerable than any intimate moment the two of them had shared up to this point. He didn't care about being nude in front of her, she'd seen it all by now. And he was in a comfortable, casual pose--nothing outwardly provocative or visually titillating. But for some reason, being in this position left him feeling more exposed than ever. The whole thing just left the drake feeling very flustered!

For once, he was thankful for the silence, Because he felt like if he tried to speak now, he was sure that he'd make a fool of himself.

[astarab1aze]

➥ Sunset Flash

⸻Technical Information. // Face, Voice, etc.

001 Faceclaim. Ichigo Kurosaki [ Bleach ] 002. Voice Claim. Johnny Yong Bosch

⸻Profile Information. // Name, Age, etc.

003 Name. Yuuya Kei [ a play on the word 'yūyake', meaning 'sunset' ] 004 Alias. Yuu, Legendary Swordsman of the Black Isle, Blade of the South 005 Sex. Male 006 Gender. Male 007 Age. 542 008 Birth Date. July 7th [ Cancer / Hexbreaker ] 009 Blood Type. Sub-type HDO- 010 Race. Half Magma Dragon, half Wildling ; Shattered Isle by nationality. 011 Marital Status. Single [ Multiship ] 012 Orientation. Biromantic Demisexual 013 Residence. He has a semi-permanent home on the Black Isle, a mysterious hidden island in the Shattered Isles said to be the home of the Southern Drakes ; A cottage made of dragon glass, black sand, and volcanic rock.

⸻Physical Information. // Body, Equipment, Family, etc.

014 Physical Description. Yuuya stands at a plain 5'10", but is otherwise lean, muscular, and built for a fight. His hair is a shaggy but vibrant sunset orange and can be altered at-will, usually thick with some amount of volcanic ash that he naturally produces. It feels a bit strange under the fingertips, like faux suede. His eyes are hazel-orange, like a cloudless sunset in the desert, angular and keen. There are some patches of non-iridescent red, orange, and black scales all over his body, particularly on his arms and legs, and on occasion, he may have a single bone-white horn. His body is littered with scars, though perhaps not as severely as others, and he's a story for each and every one of them, even the smallest and least noteworthy ones. He tends to wear Yuureian garb - that is, black hakama and a tattered black haori, given the time he spent there training under Satra. He may or may not wear shoes, usually Yuureian sandals. His fingers are clawed, fingertips and palms more like this in texture but more fine. He does also have a tail, ridged, spiked, and layered with scale plating of the same color as the rest, though it isn't terribly thick and he tends to hide it when it suits him, like his horn(s).

015 Equipment. He will always have his sword, Safyra, with him no matter the circumstances and he's very uncompromising about this; As well as various metals in the form of shavings or dust, crushed dragon bone, singing stones, an infinite pocket pouch full of rubies, topazes, and magical treasures fit for his hoard, 016 Occupation. He's a wandering fighter first and foremost, interested only in the thrill of battle and becoming stronger through it. 017 Job Performance. Lazy as sin and hard to convince at first, but there is no more terrifying a swordsman...

018 Parents. His mother, Safyra of the Xanthean Wildlings, who died of natural causes in her 40s, and father, Dragon Demiurge Vulkaris, current leading sire to southern drakes ; He is 74th in line for the Demiurge position. 019 Siblings. Many, none he knows by name.

⸻Personality Information. // Likes, Strengths, etc.

020 Likes. Dragon glass, volcanic rock, obsidian, blackstone, metals of all kinds, ash baths, ruby, topaz, magical trinkets, weapons, and armors, avulisk eggs, beholder flesh, fire lilies, dragon's breath, fighting, training, war drums, stuffing his face, money, tinkering, challenges and competitions, traveling, exploring, etc. 021 Dislikes. Cowardice, dishonorability, trickery, lack of action, having to sleep, big words, larger pure-blooded dragons, vegetables, rot smell, frankenleeches, pointless theatrics, blue, undeserved arrogance, lack of understanding, widows, canaemery, gryphons, chimeras, summertime heat, etc. 022 Positive Traits. Resilient. Determined. Somewhat principled. Honorable. Loyal. Sincere. Serious. Brave. Earnest. Hopeful. 023 Negative Traits. Prideful. Arrogant. Greedy. Volatile. Somewhat lazy. Dense. Singleminded. Hot-tempered. Desperate. Reckless. Hardheaded. 024 Goals. To amass as much power as possible, particularly in the area of swordplay and his magic. 025 Desires. To at last earn his father's approval and pride, to do his mother's memory justice. 026 Alignment. Chaotic Neutral...good?

027 Personality. Yuuya is something of a complete idiot - rather, he's incredibly singleminded, simple, and dense. He's not going to pick up on any complicated emotions and he's not exactly going to be tactful in stressful social situations, especially if there isn't any single combat involved. He is so devoted to his cause - amassing power, earning his father's affection - he will occasionally derail conversations, prattle on about old battle stories, challenge folks to a match in passing, or always engaged in some form of fight without many exceptions. He loves the heat of battle, throwing down with the best of the best and growing stronger for it or inspiring others to become stronger as well. He is, however, in part, truly doing it for the purposes of earning the Demiurge's love, his favor, not because he hopes to take Vulkaris' place, but because he is lost and alone without his mother. He's honestly sort of a big kid in many respects, just in need something or someone constant, someone strong enough to keep up with him - be it in mind, body, or spirit.

⸻Sorcery Information. // Affinity, Talent, etc.

029 Affinity. Earth & Fire - masterful manipulation and sourcing with certain elements depending on the circumstances. 030 Shapeshifting. Innate Dragon Shape, natural anthromorphic presentation, and human form - he is capable of changing into multiple forms to best suit his environment, as most dragons are ; Despite his mixed blood, he was luckey enough to have been born with full-blooded capabilities. 031 Utility. Telekinesis, barriers, curses, Silence, Dispel, alteration, charms, enchantments, seals, alchemy, beast communication, summoning. 032 Specialization. Magma & Metal-based magic - not unheard of for an individual to possess, though his particularly brands are both uniquely fine-tuned to his body, and such elements will react to his will as he enacts it. 033 Graduate School. Not applicable, however he did study swordplay under Satra Shen for some 20 or so years, following the killing of Dessudora. He took his lessons to heart and adopted some aspects of Satra's unique version of the Shikabane Style into his own. 034 Classification. Anthromorphic Dragonkin, 74th Heir to the Demiurge throne.

⸻Background Information. // Past to Present.

Yuuya was born in an... we'll say, unholy union between Demiurge Vulkaris and the Wildling Safyra of Xanthe. Through no fault of his own, he was loathed by his father, just another heir to vie for the position as Demiurge of the Black Isle produced by yet another Wildling woman - but even as a hatchling, that was never what Yuuya wanted. For the most part, he was raised by Safyra, taught how to somewhat navigate the tricky language barriers between dragons and Wildlings and how to act like a Xanthean Wildling. He grew quickly, from a hatchling to young salamander, and though his mother wasn't particularly nice to him, she was kind to him - encouraging him along in her ways toward achieving all the little and big goals he had, even if that meant ravenously eating all day.

But a few years pass in a blink of an eye for a dragon. Some 15-20 years after Yuuya was born, Safyra came down with a fever she ultimately did not survive. Black Isle dragons usually aren't susceptible to sentiment - what is natural is natural, so there is no point in wallowing in the sorrow and grief of it - but Yuuya was different. He depended on her in many ways, needed her guidance, her help, because in the end, he didn't want to be a dragon. He wanted to be a Wildling like his mother. Strong and hardy, built like a stone wall and a champion of many fights, fair and just and kind and- loving. But of course, he was still only a juvenile, a boy, thus these feelings, these wants, were twisted into something else. A vie for power of his own, and the recognition of his father - his love.

Shortly after his mother's death, he pleaded with Vulkaris for- something. Attention, a path to approval, standing, just to be seen as his son. But he was turned away by the drakes at the foot of the mountain, and he took that as his answer. If he didn't have his father's approval, then he wouldn't have the approval of his kin either. So, for some time, he wandered the Black Isle, attempting to survive on his own. Some larger, meaner drakes came upon him and attacked him, and such was a relatively common enough occurrance - until he got sick of it and started fighting back. Alone and alienated, he decided to put all that quiet time to good use and got to work, beginning his journey to becoming a dragonkin mage that would surely win Vulkaris' favor. Training day in and day out, transforming his body, bathing in the lava flows the drakes left unguarded, and he took on every one that tried to break him.

That first fight, however, was when he discovered his love of it. Didn't so much like the killing part, though.

Reinvigorated, feeling invincible, he approached the mountain again, this time wrangling the drakes at the foot without issue. Forcing his way down volcanic tunnels until at last he made his way to Vulkaris' magma chamber, where he...foolishly, challenged him to a fight. The Demiurge obliged, and in a few short moments, the battle was over with Yuuya defeated. This loss was predictably crushing, and to add insult to injury, Vulkari uttered only cruelty in the fledgling's ears, giving him false hopes contingent on success in gaining power and skill - a 'reward' for his attempt.

Ever since, Yuuya's been traveling between the Shattered Isles and the main continent in search of honing his magical skill and combat prowess. It wasn't until he managed to reach Yuurei that he first picked up a sword, and upon hearing rumors of his cousin Dessudora's defeat, he made his way to the man who felled her - Satra Shen, the Panther of the East, whom he studied under in Southern Yuurei for a small handful of decades, steadily incorporating aspects of Satra's wild style into his own. While he didn't quite study or train under too many others, he did go on to learn a little something from each person he fought in the interim, or from the fights themselves, growing and growing as the centuries went by.

He's still...he's still doing that. Like, he hasn't stopped. It's been 500ish years and he's still--

[raayllum]

Re: S4’s highlighting of Duality, taking what had previously been a background theme in prior seasons and bringing it to the forefront

The show has always had this theme of good and bad being wrought from the same characteristic or choice. On the one hand, this is just good writing; choices, like Callum smashing the primal stone to save Zym or doing dark magic to save Rayla, should have consequences. Ezran’s big heart and trusting nature is his greatest asset but also allows him to be taken advantage of. And of course, we have Rayla and Runaan as dual wielders, Viren’s two faces (corrupted and disguised), light and dark spelled out for us (ha!) from the start...

Viren: This place held both the promise of our salvation and the threat of our destruction. (2x05)

The Magma Titan mission itself, which kickstarted the latest phase of the cycle, was a small sacrifice of life that greatly impacted our main characters and their relationships, but ultimately revived the land. 

All of this to say that S4 Rayllum are both truly only working with half the equation, particularly when it comes to themselves and their own experiences. 

Rayla comes back in S4 with light on only half of her face. For the first few episodes, she seems saddened if fine, but 4x05 quickly shows that this isn’t true and that her experiences alone have radically changed her. She’s simultaneously exactly the way she was before (going off on her own, loving Callum dearly, going after Viren again) and completely different (walking away from the drake in 4x05, even arguably threatening Terry in 4x09). The best part of her selflessness - her heroic side - is gone, with the worst part of her selflessness - her blanket disregard for her own life - is still here. She’s still compassionate and caring and while not risking her life for anything is a slight step in the right direction (and so is coming back), it’s still not there for entirely the right reasons. 

Callum is in a similar predicament. His openness and ability to be honest about his feelings was one of his best qualities in Arc 1, and largely what allowed him and Rayla to bond as quickly as they did. But we see in S4 that, as a result of her absence, he’s far more reserved, shut down, and less willing to talk. Not just about her, but also about his worries (he interrogates Soren in 4x01 rather than confiding in him) and about more pressing concerns (Ez has to coax him to talk about anything that’s bothering him, including Aaravos, in 4x05). But his cleverness, his love of magic and his family (Rayla, Ez) is still just as strong as ever. He’s more talented as a mage than he’s ever been before.

So Callum and Rayla are working with this duality in their characters. Rayla expresses only her love for Callum and little to nothing of what she’s been through without him; Callum refuses to express his love for her throughout much of the season, too consumed only by what the loss of her by her own hand has put him through. 

Likewise, this duality and missing pieces extends to their understanding of one another. On the one hand, they have a better understanding of each other than ever before, as they’ve become more like each other. Rayla is more patient and open with expressing affection and wanting to talk things out; Callum is more closed off and sacrificial. 

On the other hand, they’ve also never understood each other less. Rayla came back expecting a confrontation or argument, but got stony silence instead. Callum has no clue she walked away from the drake in the forest. He asks her to kill him because in his mind, she’s already chosen the world over him once by leaving; Rayla refuses because in leaving, she chose him over the world in many regards. 

Additionally, it would not surprise me at all if Rayla thinks that Callum is mad solely because leaving hurt him, and not at all comprehending the fact that he’s also probably mad because leaving hurt her as well. 

All of this is to say Rayllum’s previous symbolism in the background is being brought to the forefront. Rayla was his enemy and now Callum will be forced to be her enemy; they’re both enemies and lovers. Aaravos is tied to dark and light (with Rayla tied to that same light). She’ll either be the death of him and/or save his life. Her coming back into his life is both good and bad, forcing him to carry pain and love in his heart at the same time. They’ll be both helpful and hurtful to each other going forward. 

And I think it’s an excellent display at 1) good character writing, 2) how layered their dynamic really is over the course of the, and 3) how steadily the show evolves their themes alongside Rayla and Callum’s dynamic, keeping perfectly in step, and I cannot wait to see where it all goes (or is deepened further) this summer.