#i haven't watched go ahead yet but i believe it's a similar idea

[lee-hakhyun]

Since you have no means of escape, let me tell you about my Merlin AU for ORV :D I haven't watched Merlin past some clips, making it clear, i just leveraged a very fun setting. Merlin spoilers ahead though.

Kim Dokja is the warlock servant who gets unceremoniously tied to Prince Yoo Joonghyuk by the whims of fate, meant to help guide him to become the Once and Future King. KDJ must keep this sunfish safe from perilous situations while hiding his magic, because magic is outlawed in the *flips notes* N'gai Kingdom.

Among this cast is fellow servant Yoo Sangah (Gwen), the king's ward Han Sooyoung (Morgana), a dragon in the basement (either Abyssal Black Flame Dragon or the Fourth Wall) the knights Lee Hyunsung and Jung Heewon, and on and on it goes.

In my head things would probably run similar enough to the show with the exception that every once in a while KDJ sees some strange cloaked figure that he can just feel the magic brimming off of, helping him in subtle ways when things get really tough. Who is that secretive figure helping him out?

KDJ kind of lets his guard down, able to trust this seemingly friendly (if extremely gruff) man with his magic in a way he can't with YJH. They don't have the same camaraderie, but it's still a comfortable companionship regardless.

And then this mysterious person kidnaps KDJ.

YJH and friends chase the evident sorcerer that kidnapped KDJ all the way to the ends of the Earth, having to combat power unlike any they'd seen before - until at a rift in space, this man finally uncloaks himself to reveal someone sharing YJH's face. It has to be a trick. It has to be.

But the man not a perfect reflection; he looks aged, older and wiser and with an undercurrent of grief that keeps him clutching KDJ to his side. KDJ is a warlock, the man claims. One that would, despite what YJH believes of magic practitioners, would give his heart and his life for over and over an ungrateful spoiled prince until he had nothing left to give.

And then he jumps into the portal. Into a parallel timeline/potential future.

This is where we get into spoiler territory for Merlin; in the series, Morgana betrays Merlin and Arthur, and Arthur kind of dies. In this AU, HSY and YJH were prophesied to experience the same thing, except KDJ gave all of his magic to abort said prophecy because it sucked and died, so now everyone in that particular future is in mourning.

Which is why, when the broken prophecy causes a rip in dimensions and into the past, YJH and HSY teamed up to nab KDJ from that other timeline. The people who MADE that prophecy though (either Olympus or the King Arthur legends from the universe of ORV's Main Story who are unhappy they didn't get the spotlight there, I'm not sure yet) are mad at KDJ for not following the prophecy and want to gank them. The future YJH (who will be referred to as SP for now) and future HSY have apparently become terrifyingly adept at fending off actual gods, but for how long? And how will KDJ get back to his original dimension?

Meanwhile, Prince YJH and friends desperately try to find a way to where SP had taken KDJ, as the rift had closed with their departure. Swallowing his pride and the biases that had started to form, he looks to powers he would never have trusted before...

(And somewhere in the future timeline, with the arrival of a reader to the world once more, a struggling writer finds himself startled to see a half-dead, malnourished young boy at his doorstep. To this boy that now rests in his home, he tells bedtime stories and fairy tales that he has no idea are now set to become another prince's adventure.)

This was very much abbreviated from the original thoughts I had, but I feel like I figured out a bit more of the details that I couldn't before (like what's going on with OD). Sorry for making your submission box my unwilling sandbox, but I hope you found some enjoyment out of it :>

[pluton514]

Chapter 6: Dreams

I feel at peace, but I don't know how this is possible. I'm asleep, so how am I able to stay conscious? Where am I? Everything is pitch black, and quiet. "You...you are special, boy. You remind me of someone. Someone from an era in which the Gods were unified and the world was at peace. It's as if there was a missing piece that was once lost. Yet, it has returned to finish it's puzzle. Oh I remember now, so it is you." Said a mysterious yet soothing voice. I replied with, "What? Who's there?" A speck of light appeared in the darkness, which then shined covering the entire area. Now, instead of pitch black, it's all white, but not to the point where it's blinding. It was just enough for me to see a tall man, with a black robe, blonde hair with silver stripes, pale skin, and blue eyes standing right in front of me. He then says, "Hello Pluto, it's been a while." Who is this man? How does he know my name? I then reply with, "How do you know me?" The man smirks, signals for me to follow him. So we make our way through the light, and as we walk a path starts to form beneath our feet. The light slowly starts to wear off and reveals a plain with tall grass filled with all sorts of animals and insects. The Sun and the Moon are on each ends of the sky. Half of the area is day, and other half is night. The side of the day has animals that are usually awake during daytime, and The night side has nocturnal animals. The man then stops and asks, "You really don't remember? None of this?" I look around and say, "No, I have no idea where I am, but it does feel like I've been here before.Anyways, you still haven't answered my question. Who are you?" The man sighs, and replies, " I am the God of dreams and Nightmares. I go by the name of Morpheus."

"Morpheus.." I mumbled. I then say, " No it doesn't really ring a bell, but I have heard stories about you. God of dreams and nightmares is it? I want you to answer me this. Why do you keep giving me that God awful nightmare about my mother dying?" Morpheus then replies with, " I don't give you the dreams nor the nightmares. Those are derived from the memories of your own experiences. I merely watch over them to make sure nothing goes wrong." I see, but why did he say that it's been a while? He acted as if he's known me for some time. I then ask, "Hey Mr Morpheus, why did you say that it had been a while?" Morpheus looks away and points to the moon. He then says, "There, that is the place where you would go to clear out your thoughts while you slept away from your sorrow." Wait what? I've been here before? I then say, "Uh, I don't ever recall being here. Are you sure you got the right guy?" Morpheus chuckle and says, "Oh right, you don't remember. I do though, I know who you are Pluto. I know why your parents died, and most importantly, I know why Zeus is targeting you."

What?! HE KNOWS WHY ZEUS IS TARGETING ME?! Wait, what does he mean by he knows who I am? Wait a minute, that old man with one hundred eyes said something similar back then too. He said something along the lines of, "You don't realize what you are,boy. Soon, everything you've ever loved will be taken away from you." That's crazy talk! I know who I am, right? Morpheus then puts his hand on my shoulder and says, "I can help you, if you'd like Pluto." I stare at his hand, and grab it. I tell him, "Morpheus, you can help me by telling who I am. Apparently people think that I don't know myself. So why don't you just go ahead and spit it out?"  Morpheus sighs, and with a tone of disappointment he says, "Pluto, I can't do that. You have to find that out on your own. The only thing that I can do is tap into your dreams and replay a different dream or nightmare every time you go to sleep. You'll see different memories each time you close your eyes." I can't believe that I actually don't know myself. I guess that explains the feelings of Déjà vu, huh? I then say, "Alright, I'll do that. I guess it's my best shot at figuring myself out." Morpheus then looks at me with a serious face and says, "Pluto, dreaming every single night will have its tole in your body. Doesn't matter who you are, but if you go into the land of dreams and nightmares every single night then your mind and consciousness will slowly start deteriorating. You will go mad. So you have to figure it out quick, got it? We're running out of time so you will start tomorrow." I reply with, "Got it." Morpheus then smiles and snaps his fingers. "See you tomorrow, Pluto." The dream land starts to disappear along with Morpheus. Shortly after that, I wake up to Amelia holding my head on her thighs, and Zephilious looking at something on the ground. Oh, I just realized that I forgot to ask Morpheus why Zeus is targeting me. GODDAMNIT IT!! I'll ask him tomorrow.

[deerydear]

I love watching people fight over completely made-up shit.

I don't love it. I'm trying to be sarcastic, but it sounds stupid.

I really hate the TRA vs. terf wars. Maybe I do just relate to men more because I love my dad. My dad is awesome. So many children seem to have men who don't measure up to be good fathers. I've found this very sad.

fucking radfems talk about "the female experience", but then they say "no, we only think you need to be biologically female to be female", but then they get pissed off at some dude for playing out that a dumb coquette look. I have no idea. I don't know these people. I haven't met these people.

Most of what-you-call-'Misogyny' in my life has come from women. They saw something in me that they chose to tear out of themselves, and they saw it again in me, and they wanna tear it out of me, too. Like I was talking about "murderers". I don't think they're less offensive because they have the gall to play martyr in their heads. Fucking lunatics.

Some terfs need the self-martyring TRAs (who are always crying about the terfs) in order to complete themselves, since they've thrown that part of themselves outside of themself. They need someone to play themselves back to themselves. They need a stage show about their own life, about their choice. They need someone to play them as an actor, so they can get angry at themselves incognito.

In their head, they decided they can't disagree with themselves, with the mask off.

"I have to be right. I feel trespassed against. I must be right. My way must be right.

The other party is wrong, so I must be right."

but sadly, we aren't always right, even if we know someone else "has it wrong". There might be a solution, but we don't know what it is, yet.

Is the answer to then go full speed ahead? What if you're wasting energy while the solution is right outside? What if the solution requires all your energy, before you set off in folly...?

What if we just like feeling right? Do we need a villain to defeat, to feel better? Do we need to ritually cast off our enemies into the fire?

Well then, why don't you go build some straw dolls, while I gather the firewood.

I didn't need to read any of this.

Do we have to bravery to walk towards a road we haven't seen, yet?

Do we run down the first road we see, because we can already see down it?

What if there is a better way?

There is...

Yes, yes, I, the observer.... I also seemed to have 'wanted' my own stage-show with two similar-yet-opposite groups who hate eachother. A fucking carnival. I flip-flopped from side-to-side. The most intoxicating part of it is how much that the idealogues of both sides are so incensed into believing "I AM RIGHT, AND I KNOW EVERYTHING". Even if you could coax it out of them that they don't.... it's their actions, its the mindless thing behind the words that believes it is right when it isn't. It's the human will, the human spirit. The human folly.

We each have the capacity of folly. There is no guarantee. You have to hold yourself up with your own legs. You have to stand.

Yeah, I'm talking about myself. When I bitch about other people, I speak of myself.

Drink words until you are drunk, but you are still human. Get to living.

[kilignosis]

catching up on ep 13 now, and you know what... as annoying as it is that the love triangle is still a thing, it does serve a purpose and it's in line w the very theme that started all this. Jipyeong has had 3 unobstructed years to develop something w Dalmi and he hasn't moved an inch. He's once again fine with the relationship they have currently, until someone (Dosan, random dude) shows interest in her, and then he starts a pissing contest (the hand comparison lmao). Yet when he has a real chance he does nothing?

My take is that this is misplaced territorialism. He wants a family, so he projects those feelings onto Dalmi and mistakes it for romantic. At the beginning he felt no need to ever contact her again, and it wasn't until Dalmi herself took the initiative to find him that he sprung into action and brought the real Dosan into the fold. Dosan then, in his eyes, became a threat to whatever scrap of family he had managed to find. Now that he's become essentially a part of that family (and I love that for him 😭), he seems content in where he is with Dalmi... until what he perceives as a new threat to that shows up to "steal" her away, and by consequence the family he's a part of.

I think his journey is very much about accepting their love and finally understanding that he's a member of their family now, not a guest.

[twh-news]

"Loki" Director Kate Herron Talks The Epic Season 1 Finale And The Easter Egg Fans Should Go Back And Listen For | Buzzfeed

Warning: There are MASSIVE spoilers ahead for Season 1 of Loki!

Welp, Loki Season 1 just came to an end and I think it's safe to say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will never be the same. Following the Season 1 finale, we sat down with director Kate Herron to talk about everything — like how it felt introducing the multiverse and Jonathan Majors to the MCU, casting this incredible ensemble cast, Loki's bisexuality, and so much more. Here's everything we learned:

1. First, Kate has always loved Loki, so she knew she wanted to be involved in the "character's next step" in some way.

"Basically, I love Loki, and I found out they were making a show about him. As a fan, I was like, 'I need to know where he's gone.' Then, I just wanted to know what the story was going to be. I loved the character. I think Tom Hiddleston's performance is amazing. I really wanted to be part of whatever this character's next step was because I think Loki's had one of the best arcs in the MCU."

2. Directing all six episodes of the first season felt like filming a six-hour movie.

"Directing all six episodes was a really unique experience, right? Because normally TV is run through the showrunner system, and Marvel didn't do that on Loki. It was incredible. It was quite an undertaking to do six hours and run it like a giant film. I'm so grateful for the opportunity, and I'm really proud of what we made."

3. When Kate signed on to Loki, only the first few scripts had been written, the "rough shape of the show" was in place, and they knew Loki would be arrested by the TVA.

"When I started, Michael [Waldron] had written the pilot. Then, there was a second episode written by Elissa [Karasik], and Bisha's [Ali] episode was written. So, there was a rough shape of the show. It was already fixed in that Loki was gonna be arrested by the TVA and then it had this twist that he was going to try and solve the mystery of who this other Loki was, but then it pivots and becomes this love story about him falling in love with himself. I just thought that was so inspired and the message that had about self-love. I just really wanted to be part of that."

4. And they always knew the show would end at The Citadel at the End of Time and the multiverse would be born.

"As we dug into it with Kevin Wright, our producer, the studio, Michael, Tom, and also our whole team, I think it was always thinking like what was the best story, in particular during the second half of the show. We always knew they were going to The Citadel, something would happen, and the multiverse would be born, but we didn't necessarily know it would come out of Loki and Sylvie fighting. That idea came out of discussions with me, the writers, and the studio."

5. It was "always the plan" to introduce Jonathan Majors to the MCU during the Loki Season 1 finale.

"I think me and the writers were just like, 'Well, they haven't told us we can't introduce that character. I guess we're doing it.' It was really exciting and I felt really honored that I got to be part of it."

6. Kate was involved with Jonathan's casting for He Who Remains/Kang alongside Peyton Reed, who will direct Ant-Man: Quantumania, and Marvel Studios.

"Being part of the casting discussion with Marvel and Peyton was amazing. It was massive. I was just like, 'Wow, I can't believe I get to be part of this conversation.' Everyone was just so excited about Jonathan. He's one of the best actors. I just couldn't believe we got him."

7. Jonathan brought a lot of "cool ideas to the table" once he was cast, and Kate gave him "space to play."

"He just brought so many cool ideas to the table. I think when you're working with an actor like Jonathan, it's really just about giving him space to play, and let him find the character and give him a cool way to do that. I really enjoyed working with him. We finished the shoot filming in The Citadel, so it was really interesting that we finished filming with Jonathan. I just felt very lucky I got to direct him."

8. Jonathan actually voiced the Time-Keepers in Episode 4, which added to the Wizard of Oz homage.

"Obviously, the Time-Keepers were being made in post, and we hadn't cast anyone [for the voices] yet, and I thought, 'Well, Wizard of Oz. Like it should be the wizard, right?' So I thought it would be cool if it was Jonathan, and I think the key thing then was just working with him in a way that we could disguise his voice. I think the fun thing was, Jonathan is an amazing character actor. So we just sent him the art and he was sending audio clips to me and Kevin Wright and being like, 'What about this voice?' It was just so much fun to do that with him. I think that was just joyful."

9. Kate's favorite Easter egg from Episode 5 was Throg — in fact, Chris Hemsworth recorded new lines and sounds for that small part.

"That one I was very proud of and it was very fun. I had that shot designed for a while. I think I'd seen it in Futurama, and a lot of animation does it, but I love the idea of going through the dirt and it reveals something. I always felt like that shot would be the place to insert an Easter egg. When we had Throg in there, it was so much fun and it was perfect. We also recorded Chris [Hemsworth] for that. It was just so much fun."

10. She also loved the Thanos Copter and said it was a "funny" detail the producers loved from the comics, so they had to include it.

"The Thanos Copter was great. Kevin Wright, our executive producer, was really obsessed with that copter, I was like, 'We have to put the helicopter,' and it was so funny. Episode 5 is our best Easter egg episode. There's so much deliberately because of the nature of The Void as a place where deleted things are sent."

11. There's one Easter egg/detail Kate hasn't seen fans catch onto yet, and it involves a "familiar" voice at the very end of the Season 1 finale.

"The one I would say is — it's less Easter egg and more cool story-wise. So, at the very end of the finale, when Loki is in this alternate TVA, there's a character that runs behind him and is going to the armory and people should listen to the voice. It's very quick, but it's someone familiar."

12. Loki was inspired by numerous iconic sci-fi movies, like Children of Men, Alien, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Metropolis, Starship Troopers, and more.

"Bisha, in the episode [she wrote], she spoke about Children of Men and also Before Sunrise as a reference, so I was really inspired by that and the idea of bringing these sci-fi things together. Across all the TVA, I wanted it to just be a big love letter to sci-fi movies, like Metropolis, Brazil, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, [and] Alien. A reference I could never talk about early was Starship Troopers just because, obviously, the TVA are bad guys and in that movie they also use a lot of propaganda film and we had our Miss Minutes film. So, that movie played a hand. There was so much across the show. We had references from everywhere."

13. And the inspiration for how The Void would look in Episode 5 actually came from Teletubbies.

"I never really spoke much about it, but basically in Episode 5, The Void was originally written like a desert, but when I pitched, I said I thought it would be cool if rather than like a Mad Max desert apocalypse, it's more like an overgrown garden. Like, this is the place where the TVA throw their rubbish in. I just loved the idea of that. I think I realized as it started to unravel that I'd basically pitched the British countryside. As we were building it, I was like, 'Am I just homesick?' I remember trying to explain it to the visual effects artists who were making it, and I was like, 'You know, it's like the Teletubbies. You know, rolling hills just one after another.' So, yeah, the Teletubbies became a useful reference when describing The Void. So, that's how they played a hand in it."

14. Kate was the one who suggested Sophia Di Martino audition for the role of Sylvie.

"Sophia was in a short film of mine called Smear. I was very happy to pay her, finally, for her talent. When we were reading for the role, I was like, 'There's this actor I know and I think we should ask if she wants to read.' Everyone was like, 'Yeah, sure.' So, she read in these audition tapes, and we were all watching the tapes back and I remember everyone at the studio was like, 'Wait, who's that?' And I was like, 'Oh, that's my friend Sophia.' They thought she was amazing."

15. Sophia's audition tape was so good that she was immediately cast.

"Basically, everyone was really excited by her tape and I think she got cast in the room, which is incredible. I was excited because I got to bring my friend along. She's such a good actor. She's fantastic in Flowers and I was just so happy that she was coming along for the ride. I think she's done such a beautiful job with Sylvie."

16. One of the most important things when crafting Sylvie and the other Loki Variants was making sure they were their own characters, and not just Loki copies.

"I think the most important thing, minus just tiny little gestures, was really making it important that Sylvie was her own character and that all the Lokis weren't just 'faded photocopies.' They were all their own Loki. It wasn't even that they stood in a similar way or looked similar, but what in their soul made them a Loki. I love that line, 'Lokis always survive.' That idea goes across all our characters who are Lokis."

17. Casting Sylvie was one of the hardest things, and Sophia was able to bring her own spin to the character and she was the perfect "sparring partner" for Tom.

"Sophia has this talent — and I think Tom has it as well — where she's so funny and naturally so witty and charismatic that you can't take your eyes off her. She's also really good at playing characters with a lot of anger, pain, and vulnerability. I just felt that those qualities were so Loki to me. She brought her own spin on it too. Tom's performance is so iconic, so Sylvie was a tough role to cast because you need to give him a good sparring partner, but also, it's another Loki and people love Loki. So, it was really making sure that she felt distinctive enough that she was different, but also that we gave Tom a really fun actor to play alongside. It was really fun watching them. It was really fun seeing their chemistry grow."

18. Sylvie's fighting style was actually crafted to have similar movements to Loki's, thus showing that they are basically two sides of the same coin.

"I know Tom and Sophia spent a lot of time together. I think the fun thing with Sophia was the little things, like the fighting styles. She has a very different life to our Loki. Loki is very balletic in his fighting style, because he grew up in the palace, whereas Sylvie grew up in apocalypses. So, she was going to fight a bit more like a feral cat. I thought that was fun to play with. We worked with Mo [Ganderton], our stunt coordinator, and it was really fun to find little mirror image stuff they would do when they fight. We did a little bit of that on Lamentis and there's little bits here and there where we've done that. There's also little gestures that they do that are quite similar."

19. Kate had a "four hour" phone call with Owen Wilson before he was cast. They talked about Marvel, Mobius, and Loki.

"Everyone was so excited to cast him. I remember, they were like, 'Kate, just call him and see if he's up for it.' That was a lot of pressure. But then, I spoke to him on the phone and we spoke about Marvel and Loki in Marvel. Also, we talked about what our show was doing, who Mobius was, and then just getting his take on it. It was a very detailed conversation. I think we spoke for like four hours. At the end, he was like, 'I'm in.'"

20. Wunmi Mosaku's role was originally supposed to be a male character, but Kate suggested having an "open casting" because she thought Hunter B-15 would be really great as a female character.

"When I spoke to the studio, I was like, 'This character is cool, but I just think it could be really interesting if this was a female character. So, could we do open casting? We'll have men and women read, and we'll just see who's the best person for the role.' So, Wunmi read for it and just blew everyone away. We were like, 'We have to cast this person!' So, we kind of remade the role, really, around her."

21. Kate loves the idea that Hunter B-15 joins this club of sci-fi female characters who were originally supposed to be men.

"It was cool because I love Ripley in Alien and I love Kara Thrace in Battlestar Galactica. In the original Battlestar, Kara Thrace's character was played by a man, and Ripley in Alien was originally written as a man, so I liked that Hunter B-15 was joining these badass women in sci-fi. That was really cool to me."

22. When Kate pitched her ideas to the studio, she include Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the actor she wanted to play Ravonna.

"Gugu was in my pitch when I spoke to the studio. I was like, 'I think she'll be really great.' I love her work as an actor. From Belle to the episode of Black Mirror she's in, everything she's in is so different. I think that's so interesting with Ravonna because in the comics, Ravonna's been good and bad, and she's such a big character. I was like, 'I'd love to see Gugu's take on that character.' The studio was really excited by that and so was Gugu."

23. Kate said it was "important" to recognize Loki's bisexuality in the show, and she loved how it was naturally worked into a conversation between him and Sylvie.

"It was just important for us to do it in a way that made it canon, acknowledged it, and also done in a way where like, if someone asked me, I would just be matter of fact about it, like, 'Yeah, I'm bi.' I think that was the important thing for it and building it into the conversation. It was important to the whole team and the way that it was written was really beautiful. It felt like the right place to do it because these two characters are starting to open up to each other and are being a bit more honest about who they are. So it felt like the right place to have that moment."

24. The TVA weren't always going to be Variants/humans. That idea was born out of conversations with Kate, the writers, and the rest of the Loki team.

"When I started, I think it was a bit more up in the air with like, who are the Variants who work for the TVA? Are they Variants? They actually weren't Variants when I first joined. Casey was an alien, for example. I think something we all locked onto was it was more effective to make them more human. It was already in there that the Time-Keepers wouldn't be real and that would be a big Wizard of Oz rug pull. But the extra rug pull we added was that, on top of all of that, the TVA don't realize that they're actually Variants."

25. One of the things Kate enjoyed the most was figuring out the "inner workings of the TVA," like how the Minutemen would operate.

"I think it was really fun, in terms of the bigger structural stuff, to work with everyone. Also, figuring out the inner workings of the TVA, like every squad of Minutemen would have a hunter and they'll be little details sprinkled across all the world building in the show. Generally, we always looked at the characters and what was the best story and how to get to the end goal in the most effective way."

26. The season finale intro — which included seeing space, the sacred timeline, and hearing quotes from the MCU and history — was an homage to Contact.

"Basically, Eric Martin, our writer, he'd written in this amazing idea that for the opening we do an homage to Contact, and kind of move through space to the end of time. Then, we'd see the physical timeline, and then we see The Citadel. I love Contact, and I was like, 'Oh, that's so cool.' We took that idea to Darrin [Denlinger], our storyboard artist, and me and him just nerded out about space and about how we wanted to pay homage to Contact but not be completely the same.

So we played with the idea of time and he was bringing in so many cool ideas. But then, the amazing pitch he had as well was like, 'What if when we pull out at the very end, the timeline isn't a straight line like how you guys have been showing it in the show? What if it's actually circular?' I thought it was such a good idea."

27. Kevin Feige helped come up with the idea to include Marvel quotes over the Marvel logo because it was something the MCU had never done before.

"I had this weird idea where I remember saying to my editor, Emma McCleave, I was like, 'Oh, can we add a baby crying or the sounds of the city? And it's like we just hear life.' So her, me, and Kevin Wright got really into that. So we were adding all of these different sounds into the timeline. We also had quotes from just life, not Marvel. Then, we showed that cut to Kevin Feige and the rest of the team.

They all thought it was cool, and then Kevin Feige was like, 'Oh, do you know what? We've never done quotes on the Marvel logo before.' So, we thought that was cool and we added the quotes to the Marvel logo intro. Then, me, Kevin Wright, Emma, and Sarah Bennett, Emma's assistant, decided to just put the MCU quotes across the whole thing."

28. Going from hearing all of the voices in the season finale opening to utter silence in The Citadel was also a way of learning something about He Who Remains.

"I loved the idea of all the noise and this Greek chorus building because when you finally pull out and see The Citadel and how isolated it is, it tells you so much about He Who Remains' psychology because he's surrounded by all this brimming life, but he's completely isolated and alone. I thought it tells you a little bit about his character and who he might be before we see him."29. Kate loves that the season finale opening is a "beautiful handover" from the previous phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into this one with the multiverse.

"It was a real group effort, and we were just really excited at the idea of it being this really beautiful handover from the previous phase of Marvel. Also, we get to encapsulate a little bit of our world as well, which was really fun. The editing team put so much time into that. I really want to watch it in a planetarium or something."

29. Kate loves that the season finale opening is a "beautiful handover" from the previous phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into this one with the multiverse.

"It was a real group effort, and we were just really excited at the idea of it being this really beautiful handover from the previous phase of Marvel. Also, we get to encapsulate a little bit of our world as well, which was really fun. The editing team put so much time into that. I really want to watch it in a planetarium or something."

30. And finally, even though Loki sets up a lot of upcoming MCU projects — namely, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Ant-Man: Quantumania — Kate didn't have a lot of conversations with other MCU directors and writers.

"Kevin Wright and Stephen Broussard from Marvel were our producers on Loki, and they worked with Kevin Feige, Louis [D'Esposito], and Victoria [Alonso]. They always steered us in terms of the Marvel big picture and let us know if anything was off base. It's so secretive at Marvel, so I only spoke to Peyton just because our timelines crossed [with Jonathan]. Generally, Marvel manages everything internally and keeps us all in check."

[lifeisadoozy]

sharing a short dousy video edit i made.

i don't know why but i really like this and thought i'd share it on here too.

should i rant about what goes in my head while making this video? no. will i? yes.

basically the song is beginning middle end by leah nobel from to all the boys i've loved before part 3. this song is basically about two people falling in love from the early years of their lives. since lara jean and peter met when they were kids. but then started (fake) dating in high school and their adventure together started right then and there. anyway, watch the movies if you haven't already. this song fits lara jean and peter so well (i don't know if it was written specifically for them or not).

but daisy and sousa didnt meet when they were kids because of one obvious reason: when daisy was a kid, sousa's dead; and when sousa was a kid, daisy hadn't been born yet. they weren't supposed to meet. so their journey started off separately.

daisy's beginning in shield was rocky, to say the least. but she found a home there with coulson, fitzsimmons and may (i'll get to ward) in season 1. they bonded quite quickly, mainly daisy skye and coulson. i think it shifts when she got shot by ian quinn. everyone in the team, especially ward was terrified and angry at the situation. now. she had a relationship with miles early on in the season, which was broken off. but within the context of the song, her beginning was ward. he was her s.o. she was falling for him when she uncovered that he's hydra. add that trauma to the ones she already had prior to shield. no wonder she has trust issues.

her middle was her powers. even though the story started early in the series, it's still the middle. because she struggled with her powers throughout seasons 2 - 5. the middle would always be the bulk of it all. it's where everything happens. it's the crux of a character, of a person. it's where daisy became daisy. now, in the middle of her middle (pun very much intended), was lincoln. the first inhuman who helped her and understood her. i'm sure they've got their own problems and everything, but it doesn't change the fact that he was someone who knew what she's going through. none of her found family could help her the way he could. this is where i think it gets interesting. seasons 2 - 5, where i said was her middle, and basically the peak/climax of daisy as a character, she was falling for and fell for lincoln. it was known that daisy was still in love with lincoln in season 5. possibly around 2 years after he died. but then we found out that she had moved on from lincoln in the beginning of season 6.

season 6 and 7 is the end of her journey with the team. they're still a family. just a family who occassionally see each other. now in season 6, like i mentioned previously, it was acknowledged that daisy had moved on. the past will always be with her, no doubt. the trauma would stick. hopefully just bits and pieces. but it would still be there until she either had alzheimer's, dementia, any other retrograde amnesia injuries or diseases, or the day she died. she would never forget lincoln or ward, heck even miles. she won't forget her past. unless it was taken away from her. so, back to the topic at hand, she wanted her own fitz. she had grown from the woman she was in the beginning, she had grown from the woman and superhero that she was in the middle. she knows who she is now. with the people she worked with. and the people she calls her family. and also with anyone. daisy's ending was perfect (to me at least). she wasn't looking for love right then and there. she was burnt one too many times. but she wanted that kind of love and support. the love and support that fitz and simmons have for each other. something that daisy lacked all her life. she ended up with someone who gave her what she wanted. and what she needed.

with sousa, it's a little different. because we didn't get to see much of his background and family life. we didn't get to know what his life was like during the war and before the war. we begin to see him in the ssr. we all knew, literally everyone knew, even the characters knew that sousa's practically in love with peggy. except for maybe peggy herself. but i'm sure she had an inkling. she definitely had an inkling. but then things go on and he became chief of the west coast office and he was in los angeles while peggy was in new york. he moved on (or so we thought). he started dating violet and was ready to marry her. he told her he loved her. and he did. it's just that he was also in love with peggy. still. and violet saw that. it's as clear as day. and they broke it off.

we didn't get to see much of sousa's middle. mainly because ac wasn't renewed for a third season. which was such a waste because it ended with so many things left unanswered. but we know that between 1947 - 1955, peggy and sousa broke up. we have no idea why. we don't know if steve was back. nada. all we know is that they broke up. when did they break up? again. no idea. but we know that peggy means a lot to sousa. she's like (sorta; i don't like making comparisons but anyway) sousa's lincoln in a way (i'm not saying that they're the exact replica. daisy/lincoln and peggy/sousa are quite different. but they do have similarities. those pairings are the kind where they want to be together forever but knew that it wouldn't work; my interpretation). she didn't die, we know that. but she's sort of the one that got away. my guess is that it's because shield and the world was more important than each other. which wasn't dissimilar to daisy and lincoln's situation. so, yes. peggy's sousa's middle. she influenced him a lot. and he found himself amidst ssr and shield (just like daisy did).

sousa's end was again, perfect. he went to the future. got to see what the organisation he helped build came to be. he went on an adventure to explore space. which he would geek out over. instead of dying, he got to live. with the love of his (new) life. he may be a man out of time, but with daisy and their ragtag family, he is right where he belongs.

daisy and sousa began with "who the hell are you" and ended with "it's beautiful" (just putting this here because i love that fact).

so. they started pretty quickly, didn't they? 4 episodes in and sousa fell in love with daisy. 7 episodes in and daisy fell in love with sousa. though i doubt that they thought they're in love. but they're falling. or walking towards it. 7x03 was when they met. it's where it all began. in area 51 of all places (foreshadow much?). but what's even more interesting is that technically, they began twice. from daisy's perspective, they met in 6x13 (which plenty of people had pointed out; but @agents-of-fangirling was the most recent). even though they didn't actually meet because sousa was wearing that blue (seriously his colour really is blue) hazmat suit and daisy was disoriented (may dying and all that jazz). but from sousa's perspective, they met in 7x03. where they actually made eye contact and conversed. how many couples can say that the when of their first encounter was debatable?

now. their middle, in the video edit, i used the scene from 7x10. because i think that's a pretty good middle. they had their first first kiss. sousa had no idea that happened. yet, there he was, wanting to help. just like his time-loop self. he extended a hand and she accepted. she accepted help. do you know how much of a development that was??? because i think that it's a huge character development (i still haven't rewatched so don't take my word for it). i think that's a good depiction of their middle. oh yeah. before i forgot. they also had two first kisses. and again, i say, how many couples can say that they had two first kiss? figured i'd choose the scene in the middle of those first kisses (pun intended lmao).

sidenote: did y'all see the devastation in her eyes when sousa volunteered to stay in the 80s? or how her eyes went wide and she started to panic when he was injected in the time loops? sousa's a man of action. and when he says something, he means it. so, his constant concern over daisy and him wanting to help in any way he can, it's his love language.

and then we have their ending. the perfect end to an imperfect couple (because nobody's perfect *cue hannah montana*). daisy got sousa a typewriter. because he's from the 50s. since when did daisy buy gifts for her boyfriends/partners/lovers? and they watched e.t. together? that's normal couple things. even though they are far from normal. but they get to experience it all together. daisy didn't get to in the past. none that we know of anyway. and now she does. also, that smile when she talks about him. that fond smile that grazed her lips at the thought of him. i've never seen her smile like that before (none that i remember; and if she did, well then i'm so so happy for her). she looks happy. serene. and her saying "he's a dork" twice in the season just makes my heart burst with happiness for them.

sidenote: my headcannon is that "he's a dork" is code for "i love him too much to explain it in words."

i'd like to believe that even though it has ended, their story has just begun. they're going through their middle right now. and i hope that they won't end. in other words, their end was not an ending. it was a beginning of a new life.

as daisy said, "we're loving the journey together." keyword: journey. it's a long road up ahead. with countless of challenges and obstacles in the way. but in the end, all that matters is that they face it together.

that's it. thanks for coming to my ted talk (for those who actually read it all the way through, i love you).

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Source: @rkkelpie

Norkus November ~ Day 24 ~ Day or Night ~ Night

A (not really) quick and little Norkus/Jericho Squad fanfic for you guys!

Also, this is kind of a prologue for an upcoming fanfiction series (Living Deviant), so watch out for that I guess (???)

Who I Thought I Was

11:12 PM

"I'm just so glad we're alive, personally. All of us could've been killed, so many times. So this is for the android revolution. This is for all the lives we saved. This is for our peaceful actions. This is for the androids who we freed. This is for the humans who supported us. And most importantly, this is for us."

The tall, dark, peaceful android next to me raised his wine glass full of thirium and clinked it against everyone else's. We all cheered, taking a sip.

Maybe I didn't agree with him all the time, especially with his peaceful approach, but he and the others had helped us through the mess, so I couldn't argue.

The other tall, dark and peaceful android looked at me from my other side. I still enjoyed staring into his mismatched eyes. And now that I knew the story behind his look, I was ten times more fascinated.

"So, you enjoying the thirium?" he asked.

"Absolutely," I replied after finishing my long sip.

"I can tell."

We laughed, and the others, listening, all joined in.

For the past couple weeks, Markus, Josh, Simon and I had been staying at Carl's house. Connor had joined us a few days after we moved in, being too afraid to go anywhere else. After all of my own experiences, both during and after my time at the Eden Club, I couldn't blame him one bit.

As the others engaged in conversation around me, I noticed Connor hanging back, miserably staring at his glass. After a bit of hesitation, I departed from Markus's side and walked up to him.

"You feeling alright? I notice you aren't really talking much. Or at all, really. What's the matter?" I took another long sip of my thirium after I spoke the words. Even after a bit of help from Markus, I still wasn't exactly the best at comforting people.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just, a little..." He drifted off, staring blankly ahead of him.

"A little...?"

"I think I'm beginning to understand the concept of depression."

I bit my lip, glancing back at the others. They would be so much better at this than me. I opened my mouth to ask them for help before closing it, deciding against the idea. I should try to help him, instead of relying on others. After all, that's what feminism was about. And that's who I was and was striving to be.

"Well, why do you say that?"

Ah, shit. I was really bad at comforting people.

"Well," he hesitated, looking away before meeting my eyes again. "You know that's what Hank has, right?"

I nodded. What exactly does this have to do with Hank?

"I'm, well, kind of worried about our relationship. I haven't seen him or even heard from him for weeks now, and - I'm getting worried he doesn't like me anymore."

I put my thirium down on the paint-splattered table next to me. "Well, if I hadn't heard from Markus or one of these guys behind me for weeks," I gestured to the four men standing around, fully invested in their conversation. "I would go ahead and contact them. I know they love me, so nothing could go wrong with just saying hey and asking to meet up." I hoped that would be the right thing to say.

"But I'm afraid he doesn't love me." He put his drink down on the table beside mine and crossed his arms around his chest. I recognized the position as similar to his stature when we were collected in the large church after Jericho blew up. I remember he had truly believed it was all his fault. Luckily, Markus had been there to give him comfort.

I took a deep breath. Things were about to get deep. I just hoped all my thoughts would come out right.

"Look at all the things he did for you. He even risked his own life for yours. If that's not love, than I don't know what is."

"But that was a while ago. He hasn't even thought of me in weeks, for all I know. He doesn't support me anymore, I don't think. Ever since I went deviant."

I shook my head. "He always knew that the deviants were on the right side. Remember a few days ago when you told me what he had said? That maybe the deviants deserved a chance? You know, after you were going to be sent back and you were determined to not be destroyed? There is zero chance he would not love you because you were a deviant. I KNOW" I emphasized the word. "it would never happen. Then, look at what happened in the Cyberlife Tower. He had literally said, 'Maybe you really are alive.' Don't you think just that one sentence proves otherwise?" I put my hand on his shoulder. "You really ought to contact him. I'm pretty goddamn sure that he misses you and is just too afraid to contact YOU."

"But what if he hates me?"

"Nonsense. Look, Connor, he loves you more than anyone else in the world. He said, out of his own mouth, that deviants might not be so bad after all."

"You said you hated all humans, at one point, as well."

"So? My actions spoke louder than my words, and I had wonderful people to help me through. I turned around to face Markus, who smiled at me, cocking one eyebrow as to why I was trying to soothe Connor. I nodded to him, confirming that everything was going to be alright.

"Who's to say that's not the same thing happening with Hank?"

A tear slid out of one of his eyes as I tilted my head to tell him that I was listening intently to whatever he said next.

"But I haven't seen any kind actions from him. And I was the only person he had willing to comfort him, and now I'm gone. I'm a coward, aren't I?"

He was blaming himself again.

"No, Connor. You're not a coward at all. You're a really brave person, and you need to realize that. Now, please contact Hank."

"I've seen the news, North! He hasn't said a single thing about me."

"He also has refused to speak to the press at all. Hey, um, can I tell you something?"

Connor looked up at me, nodding his head somberly.

"A few days ago, when I was out with Markus, we passed by his workplace. I saw him walk out, and I noticed he was crying. He was also looking at his phone, which had a picture of you pulled up. Now tell me that's not love."

"Really?" Another tear slid down his cheek, this time on the other side.

"Really." I said the word confidently and soothingly as I realized the room had gone completely quiet. The men behind us had completely stopped talking, and as I turned around, I realized they were all walking over to us.

Markus put his hand on my back. "I heard the last few things you two said." I noticed his eyes and lips were turned down at the edges.

"Let us handle him right now, okay?" Simon asked, attempting a smile.

"I think he needs a bit of a rest," Carl continued. "Can you two help me get him upstairs?"

Simon and Josh agreed, Simon wheeling Carl out and Josh helping Connor to walk out. Carl turned around at the last minute, making sure Markus could comfort me after what had just happened. I tried to argue, but Markus stopped me.

"You did a pretty good job there, soothing him like that." His eyes were full of gratitude and admiration.

"Did I?"

"Absolutely. Even I couldn't have done that. Hey, do you wanna go out to the courtyard? It's pretty outside, with the stars against the black sky. Would you like to talk there?"

I bit my lip, thinking. "Yeah, I guess. I just need someone to lean on right now." I cringed at the words. This really wasn't displaying the girl power I had wanted it to.

"Well, I'm all yours." He picked up my thirium drink from the table.

At least he knew what I liked, even if I was being all soppy and weak.

He linked his arm with mine and lead us out to the courtyard. As soon as we entered, I felt a cold breeze against my skin. Clearly, my t-shirt and jeans weren't going to be enough.

He sat us down on a little bench near the sheet obscuring Carl's new painting from view.

"Connor will be alright. Don't worry." His arm slipped itself around my shoulder, and I leaned into his soft, warm skin. Wow. I was really totally completely showing off my true feminism. I backed off ever so slightly.

"Do you want to sneak in and see Carl's painting? He hasn't allowed me to see it, and I know he hasn't allowed you to either. We could always just take a peek."

Perfect. A chance to rejuvenate my wild, daring self.

"Yeah, why the hell not?" I smiled mischieviously at him. "Can we make sure everyone upstairs is alright, though?"

Shit. Why did I always have to mess everything up and make myself look all soppy like this?

"I'll send a message to Simon and Josh."

I watched his eyes close as he sent the message. I was a little jealous of him for being able to do that, to be honest. Being originally designed as a sexbot did have a lot of drawbacks that I absolutely hated.

After a few more seconds, he opened his eyes.

"They said he's doing better. He hasn't agreed to reach out to Hank yet, but both of them assume his opinion on that will change soon.

"Good," I spurted out. "Now, let's see this painting."

This was my chance to redeem myself, I couldn't blow it.

Markus stealthily walked over to the curtains and pulled them back. I helped him finish up the job before grabbing his hand and leading him back to view it.

Although it was clearly not finished, what I saw was stunning. It portrayed a light figure at the top of a cliff, and another figure, exactly the same but darker, falling off the edge. From their positions, I could tell the light figure had just dropped the dark figure to her soon to be death. Along the side of the cliff, there were several rocks, which I noticed appeared to be letters, forming words.

"Who I thought I was." The words from the rocks on the painting came out of Markus's mouth.

"Who I thought I was," I echoed.

"Wow. This is, well, really powerful."

I looked at his face, which was completely in awe.

"Just as powerful as you."

He put his hand to mine and lifted it up, the skin disappearing.

"That has got to be one of the most cringy sentences I have ever heard." I looked into his eyes. "But it's damn well true."

He giggled, although ever so slightly, as our hands finished deskinning.

"Have you ever felt like that? Where you just want to drop who you thought you were off the edge?"

I sighed. "I mean, I'm feeling something sort of similar right now."

Markus cocked his head to the side curiously.

"I thought I was a proud, independent, feminist woman. But with the way I've been acting lately, I feel like I'm dropping that part of me off the edge, although in my version of this painting I don't want to. I want to be strong, and I don't think I am." A tear rolled down my cheek. This was not getting any better.

"North." He moved closer to me. "You don't have to put up walls in order to be a feminist. That's not what being a feminist means."

Another tear rolled down my cheek.

"Feminism is all about showing your weaknesses to the world, and showing how proud you are of them. And that's exactly what you're doing."

"I just don't feel like it. I wanted to be someone that everyone could look to as being strong and courageous. And that's not what I am."

"North?" His eyes got closer. "Showing your weaknesses IS being strong and courageous. It takes a lot of bravery to be able to do that. And I think you've done a really good job of it."

"Really?"

"Really." He paused and smiled sheepishly. "Connor."

"Yes, North."

We both laughed.

"You are a feminist. And I'm really proud of you."

I looked deep into his eyes, his memories flashing through my head. The admiration for him was flooding through me. And most importantly, the admiration for myself was also coursing through my passionate veins.

"Now this is the part where you're supposed to kiss me."

A giggle escaped my mouth. "Oh. Yeah."

I closed my eyes and pulled him closer, our lips interlocking. I didn't stop or pull away, either. I enjoyed the taste of his thirium-covered mouth against mine, and no one's expectations were going to stop me.

I imagined dropping what I previously thought of as me off the edge of that cliff. The perfectness of that person was unsettling. When looking at myself, I noticed the wrinkles in my shirt and how it wasn't evenly tucked in. I loved it. I loved me. I was a feminist, and I was proud.

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Mr. Eye's -START- (Wattpad story)

(Head up this is my WATTPAD story. I've acknowledged that many don't have it. Also, that it would be easier for people to access it here. I still encourage to read over in WATTPAD therefore people read it right away. This is my story SHIFTERS (Emotions). Wanting to clear that up.)

*THIS IS 1ST CHAPTER*

In the beginning everything was dark. Empty confined space. That's all I remember. I don't know how or when it happened, but it happened.

As I opened my eyes taking a deep breath watching my surroundings I started to waddle. I mean I never knew I would get an actual body! (I thought) The thing is we shifters don't have bodies. I realized this as I kept moving forward. Leg one forward then leg two forward. Humans call the things stuck to the body legs. Those that make them look tall or short depending on how long they may be. I had no idea if I was long or short. I just knew I needed to keep pacing through.

*BUZZZ* *VVVVVVVVRRRRRR* *BZZZZZ*

Huh!? What the- What was that?

I ignored the odd sounds and continued ahead. As I continued walking through the empty space called veil. I started to see a light up ahead. Needless to say, the light was dazzling. I didn't only have legs. I had hands which I didn't start using until the magnificent aqua colored light started to illuminate the black non-living surrounding, I was currently on.

*BONK*

"Well, that wasn't the best of landings." Chuckled the odd-looking shifter.

"Guess I wasn't prepared for the toughness of change!"

This new shifter started to waddle and get the hang of its new body as it mumbled a bunch of non-understanding things. This new shifter had gotten so used to moving the legs and hands of their own body that it practically looked like a pure professional. Suddenly the new shifter stopped whatever it was doing and turned to face our shifter.

" YOU! You look just like me! wow it's incredible really, I can't believe an exact copy of- Oh? Your eye, it's um unique your gem thingy it's on your um . . . where your eyeball is supposed to be. "

-Claimed the new shifter, which continued looking astonished at the look of our shifter. Was it judging? Or was it simply curious to know why our shifter looked the same yet so different.

Meanwhile our shifter didn't feel the same.

" Who are you supposed to be? and what do you mean by looking the same, from what I know you don't look anything like me. Heck! your noisy, you have too much energy, and YOU haven't even presented yourself?! How am I supposed to respond to someone I have no idea what they go by?!"

-Our shifter cautiously got themselves closer to this new shifter. Hinting with a judging expression. Almost as if our shifter wanted to portray power along with dominance.

"Woah, relax I get it. I understand why you're so skeptical. Let me start right with you okay." "My name is Ruby. I am a shifter like you that acquired a physical form directed to the fictional world named Steven Universe. It seems like you also liked a character from there. I just thought how incredible it was to see someone with almost the same traits as me."

-The new shifter no, Ruby gaining posture. Ruby started to fidget with its own hands. Ruby seemed to be a bit nervous. This was no surprise to our shifter. Our shifter had shown dominance. It portrayed power with excellency and that was something nerve wrecking to Ruby.

"What's um your name, I told you mind so it's only common sense if you tell me yours. Or else it wouldn't be fair . . . right?" - Ruby exclaimed gaining a bit of confidence in tone.

Ruby was right. It was only common sense for our shifter to formally present themselves as well. It wouldn't be fair to them after confronting them with such excellency. (Our shifter thought)

"Of course, I will tell you, my name." Our shifter sighed proceeding to explain

" I'm Mr. Eye and I am indeed a *Ruby* (the gem) but I am not like you at all. That is indeed true. I acquired a similar appearance yet a different personality. I don't remember well the name of the character I took form of, but I enjoyed them much that at some point I must've shifted into them." Mr. Eye continued

" I also need to mention I am a negative emotion thus I pardon my authoritative behaviors. You see I believe there is a clear difference in emotions. You seem to be very cheerful, while I tend to be more aggressive."

- Mr. Eye stopped explaining when they noticed Ruby had a lost expression painted in their face.

"Did you understand anything of what I just said?" -Mr. eye's eyes pointed at Ruby's direction.

It took Ruby a moment to come back to their senses, but they finally spoke.

" Yep, I understood everything you said." Still looking with a dreamy expression Ruby express further on.

" I just think it's quite impressive. How negative and positive met. It's kind of funny but maybe it's just me and oh!"

- Ruby gets closer to Mr. Eye while Mr. Eye tries to escape Ruby's touch.

" Get off me you weirdo! What are you trying to do!" - Mr. eye exclaimed as Ruby tried getting closer to them.

" What are your pronouns? I mean you go by MISTER, but I don't know if I should refer to you that way. You know the "he, him, his" pronouns. "

Ruby stopped trying to get closer to Mr. Eye as they noticed that they clearly didn't want to be touched.

" My pronouns are just that. What about yours." Mr. Eye said as they finally started to calm down when they noticed Ruby had stopped the odd touchy behavior.

" Mine are "She, her, hers" I identify as a girl" Ruby expressed with a big wide smile. Winking back at Mr. Eye. Mr. Eye in disgust just kept ignoring the affection.

" Well now that that's been settled, I will keep moving forward. Nice meeting you aaaand goodbye."-

Mr. Eye turned. Leaving Ruby behind continuing its long empty journey that led him to the aqua light. Ruby in the other hand didn't like the idea.

" Huh?! Hey, wait up you can't just leave me behind. I don't know where to go in this empty looking planet. I don't even know if I am currently on a planet!" -

Mr. Eye turned back but didn't stop his course. As he continued his journey to the shimmering aqua light he had seen before he explained.

" Well, it's called veil for your information and no this is no planet |he took a slight pause then continued| at least I don't think so. Besides if you are going to join me, I suggest you remain silent. I don't like you being such a chit chat on the trip."

" Okay! Got it I won't say much but um one more question, where are going exactly?" - Mr. Eye frowned to the question.

" I am following that aqua light in the distance. I can't believe you haven't noticed it. What are you blind or something? Is too much positive energy blinding your eyesight or something?"

Mr. Eye chuckled just a bit to the thought of Ruby being blinded by positivity.

" No, I'm definitely not blind. I just wasn't paying attention to the aqua light. Not when I had you to admire." - Ruby responded.

Mr. Eye didn't know what to say. He was surprised by what Ruby had told him. Yes, this was indeed the start of something. Something new, greater, dangerous, and unique.

Both Ruby and Mr. Eye continued walking as they kept moving forward. The aqua light increased its spark. This would indeed be a long trip. It wouldn't take long for these two to find themselves with other shifters too.

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