#idk what da hail going on over there but

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[hyena-frog]

Hey I’m sure you’ve been asked before but what’s your opinion on the audiobooks of Red Rising? Personally I think Tim Gerard Reynolds’ narration as Darrow is what elevated the series to being my absolute favorite. As for the other narrators in IG and DA, Ephrim’s narrator really grew on me and I’m so sad Ephrim is gone. I’m glad Lyria got recast in Dark Age. I skip her chapters when I re-listen to IG. I think Lysander’s first narrator was much better. His new voice sounds 40 but he’s only 20

Sorry it took me so long to answer this! Fun fact, but you actually sent this around the same time I decided to re-read Iron Gold (via the audiobook) to help flesh out a theory post I’m drafting. So I didn’t want to answer until I’d gotten a taste of each narrator. That’s some A+ psychic premonition on your part.

Unfortunately, I’ve yet to finish the IG audiobook because of Real Life but I’ve at least heard all of the narrators, so even if I’m still not very far in, I’ll give my opinions on them.

So, confession time, Dark Age is the first Red Rising audiobook I have ever listened to, even though I've heard good things about the RR audiobooks in general. Audiobooks aren’t really my thing. But I was taking too long to read that monster of a book, so I figured listening and reading at the same time would help me finish it faster. And boy, did it!

Now, Iron Gold is the second audiobook I’m listening to... I’m going about this all backwards, it seems. So, I’m going to give my opinions on the narrators in the order I experienced them.

Dark Age —

Tim Gerard Reynolds:

The GOAT. I’ve only heard good things about his narration, including from Pierce Brown himself at both signings I’ve been to. Now that I’ve experienced it for myself, I have to agree! I’m definitely going to need to listen to the original trilogy audiobooks at some point to get more of this guy.

He made you feel every ounce of exhaustion Dark Age Darrow felt, especially in Part I, and during the finale. His rare moments of levity (Sevro’s Palace) were delivered impeccably. His character voices were enjoyable; his Rhonna was great and his Atalantia gave me the creeps. Any moment Darrow thought of Virginia made me feel the full gamut of emotions. Anytime he summoned his righteous anger and went into Reaper mode, Reynolds sucked you in with the drama of it all.

Darrow’s always been my favorite but hearing Reynold’s interpretation of Darrow’s inner narrative really elevated why he’s a fantastic character. This guy is great.

John Curless:

Honestly? If Reynolds weren’t in the picture, he’d be my #1. Calling him my second favorite narrator doesn’t do him justice. His Ephraim injected much needed comedy into this narrative. Curless balanced Ephraim’s other nuances very well too. His deep psychological issues, his continued grief over Trigg, his budding love for the kids. It was beautifully executed.

One chapter that still haunts me is when Pax forces him off the Z cold turkey. Curless nailed Ephraim going into withdrawal. He was frightening and it was great. I also loved his reunion with Volga, even if his Volga voice was jarring to me after hearing Moira Quirk’s interpretation for most of the book. On that note, his generic Obsidian accent (Scandinavian-ish) never became too annoying and he differentiated the main players pretty well (namely Ozgard and Sefi). I really liked his Sefi voice. Quiet and whispery, very Sefi.

Don’t talk to me about Ephraim’s fate, I’m still in pain. 😭 I actually liked IG Ephraim a lot, not as a person but I thought his story was interesting. But his DA development was incredible. He really grew on me, and the fact he won’t be back, meaning Curless’ amazing narration won’t be back, is devastating.

James Langdon:

I didn’t mind his Lysander too much. I mean, I hate Lysander, but I thought he did a decent job portraying him. Maybe it’s just because he was my first Lysander voice. Although, I do agree he sounds too old for the role, but then again, Reynolds sounds too old for Red Rising Darrow (16) so? -shrug-

My main complaint with this guy is that sometimes, during the height of the action, he sounds as detached as a BBC newscaster. Which is fine, when Lysander uses the Mind’s Eye, but even when he’s full on panicking, this guy sounds so levelheaded.

His character voices are... ok. The growly voice he puts on for Ajax, and little bit for Cicero, is a bit weird. His Atalantia is sensual and creepy af and I loved his Atlas voice. One chapter that stands out to me is Kalindora’s confession toward the end. Langdon blew me out of the water with that one. Kalindora was never my favorite, but he made me really feel for her in that scene.

Moira Quirk:

I love her. I think she’s great. She has a very strong voice that pulls you along the story with ease. I think Lyria has the best DA story line and Quirk’s narration only made it better. She embodied Lyria’s temperament wonderfully; the anger, the kindness, and the stubborn resolve to keep living after initially giving up.

I keep harping on about character voices but they’re important, alright? Quirk’s character voices are some of the best. Her Victra is high and mighty and I felt Lyria’s annoyance along with her. But she also did Victra’s vulnerable moments wonderfully. I LOVE Quirk’s Volga. She’s so cute! Her accent reminds me of Sypha Belnades from the Netflix Castlevania series, which is not at all correct regionally, but it’s so adorable that it is officially The Volga Voice in my mind.

Not much else to say on this one, except, I hope the next book keeps this Lyria or I will be so sad.

Rendah Heywood:

Hail Sovereign! Another amazing narrator. At first I wasn’t sure what to think because I didn’t have any headcanon for what Virginia’s voice sounds like, but Heywood’s narration quickly convinced me this is The Virginia Voice. Very classy, very calm, could kill you but chooses not to, so don’t push her, understood?

She really gets across Virgnia’s main frustration of being smarter than everyone and being right like 99.9% of the time but rarely being listened to, VERY well, without making her seem unnecessarily whiny or something. It’s just a fact that she’s smarter than everyone else and the worlds would be better place if you took her advice.

Virgnia’s always been a bit of a mystery but Heywood really makes her into a Real Person, you know? Her fun interactions with Holiday and Theodora, her devastation after the Senate upheaval, her drive to escape from her captors... Expertly portrayed.

Her character voices are pretty good. I thought her Sevro was hilarious. I’m already missing her voice in IG (since I’m reading these backwards). I’m really looking forward to her return in the next book... Virginia will still be a POV character in the next one, right Pierce? Right??

Iron Gold —

Tim Gerard Reynolds:

I’m repeating this guy only to say: Reynolds is making sure I feel every molecule of exhaustion in Darrow’s body and I’m not very far in. I’ve already read IG, and I’m just coming off DA, so I know it won’t let up but still... have mercy on me.

John Curless:

Repeating again to say, goddamn, does this guy nail Ephraim’s development between books really well. IG Ephraim is no fun at all. Barely cracked a joke yet and is still very much wallowing in grief... Curless’ narration really makes IG Ephraim bearable, tbh.

Julian Elfer:

Hmmm. I don’t know if I’d agree he’s better than James Langdon. They’re both ok to me. Elfer is certainly more age appropriate. However, he’s a bit monotone and his reading cadence is a little annoying to me. He sounds like someone reading his own writing at a book club more than a professional narrator. I don’t mean that as an insult! He’s pleasant enough to listen to but he’s not on the same level as the others imo.

Idk. I’m still not very far into the IG audiobook, so it’s not fair to compare him to Langdon without the full picture. Maybe he gets better. However so far both Lysander narrators are. OK. That said, I don’t think Elfer is atrocious enough to warrant a re-cast? I heard people complained about him and Lyria’s IG narrator and that’s why they were changed... but Elfer isn’t terrible so I’m confused on that one.

Aedin Moloney:

Oh dear. I hate to be so blunt but... I hate her narration. A lot. Coming off of Quirk’s incredible Lyria, Moloney’s performance is... jarring, to say the least. She doesn’t give Lyria the same spunk that Quirk does. Moloney’s Lyria is too out of character for me. Lyria’s life is a shitshow and her weirdly whimsical voice is way too out of place. And during the more frenetic scenes, she’s way over the top.

I guess the problem with this narrator is she gives Lyria Too Much. Lyria is a very practical, very down-to-earth person, not prone to expressing a lot of deep emotion. Quirk balanced this very well, making her inner narrative just emotional enough without contradicting her outer expression. Meanwhile, I can barely follow along with what Moloney was saying when Tiran got shot because she was So Distressed and Hysterical. Good thing I had the book open.

Again, I’m not very far in, so maybe she gets better... idk. Take my opinions on Elfer and Moloney with a grain of salt because I haven’t finished IG yet.

Thank you for the ask! I’d love to hear opinions from anyone else on the second trilogy narrators (because I think we all agree Reynolds is great).

[ghostmartyr]

Pokémon White Randomized Nuzlocke Run [Part 6]

Five badges down, three to go!

Hail the victorious living:

Frogger (Seismitoad)

Ptera (Archeops)

Palm (Breloom)

Batman (Escavalier)

Gelding (Tornadus)

Fido (Entei)

Clay invited our ten-year-old self off to see a cave in the middle of the wilderness, so that’s first on the agenda today.

Or is it?

Yeah, fight time.

Bianca has learned the way of the Hyper Potion. I would mind this less if she used it on something that didn’t know Hypnosis. And Defense Curl. And Lucky Chant.

Bianca’s Musharna is much like Bianca’s Patrat. It has murder in its heart.

STOP FEEDING IT HYPER POTIONS BIANCA. JUST LET IT DIE.

Sigh. Well. It’s BRNed now. So Fido doesn’t have to be awake for the rest of this fight. Aw, but it wakes up anyway, because Fido loves me.

All of my fucking yes.

I’m going to let Gelding tackle the Pansear, because I don’t think he can get too hurt from it. I’d very much like to not be wrong about that, and ta-da, all is well.

The final Watchdog is before us.

How fitting that Gelding knows the move Revenge.

Confuse Ray is nothing before it.

.

Confuse Ray, Super Fang, and Hypnosis.

Hey so Batman’s in now and I don’t like this at all.

Lemonade for Batman. And now a Hyper Potion.

Super Fang can’t be its only attack.

HA, BATMAN WOKE UP!

She fought through the Confuse Ray and killed the bloodthirsty Watchdog!

Hell. I hate those things.

Bianca gives us Fly, so yay. When’s Surf coming around?

This route is great for Palm, so I’m going to give in, let him lead the party, and throw the Exp. Share on anything that can’t do jack against the current set of wilds. I guess it’s nice that everyone’s getting a turn up front.

Time to open up our new area. Hopefully it’ll be full of things Batman can grind against. ...Gosh, that’s a sentence.

LOOK AT THE COOL CAVE.

Also N is there.

Fight time?

Oh hey, I forgot you things existed!

I guess they’re people. I probably should not call them things. Hey N, why do you get a ninja squad with your knight motif? What kind of Mary Sue nonsense is leaking out of your green hair and if you give me your hat will I stop commenting on it?

Also, fight time is apparently not until the end of this cave. If then.

Which means now is the time for finding pokemon.

...Not you. No repeats.

Chargestone Cave’s true power is bringing all of the characters with names together. Hi Professor Juniper. Are you going to give me free stuff again? You are!

It’s a Lucky Egg!

That is an incredibly useful item to have. Thank you, Professor. I am so glad you do something besides telling people where they can ride their bikes.

Actually I don’t know if she does that. I haven’t tried to ride my bike anywhere I can’t. I’m too used to being yelled at over that.

‘Ello, score. I don’t know how I feel about how many of these things I recognize from elsewhere, and let me tell you about how much I wish this Yanmega did not have SonicBoom, but Yanmega’s cool.

The trick is not going on autopilot. This thing can murder any number of my team.

(Yes, I forgot the Quick Ball again.)

Net Ball?

...Nope.

This has the feel of not going well. Frogger, you have the most HP, go soak up some hits.

If I have to knock it out just to avoid a wipe I’m going to be sad.

I need to buy some stuff at the next town. I have eight Great Balls left. They aren’t even earning a shake. Hey, wait, that one did. Yay?

Yay!

Dang, name. Name.

I don’t think enough people are reading these to judge me if I name it Fluttershy. That’s his name now. See you another time, Fluttershy. Hopefully never. I like the current squad.

The game’s now decided it’s Summer.

This matters because now the random Deerling we come across will be adorable and green and I can never have one.

I’m gonna give Gelding the Lucky Egg and toss him out in front.

There’s Chansey in here. This one knows Minimize. Another move I don’t care for, but yay for Revenge killing it in one hit. Plus, you know, actually hitting it. This cave is going to be gold for exp.

A wild trainer appeared!

I can’t remember if Archen has a Rock typing. This thing is conceivably very dangerous. Not while it uses Agility, but... Yeah, okay, Acrobatics brought Gelding down to 25, Fido, operating under the theory that it doesn’t have a Rock move, go murder it.

Murder achieved. Good dog.

Frogger’s going to be in front for a bit while I see about healing.

Frogger does not do enough damage to harm the Chansey with Softboiled.

Batman, get in there and try to fix something.

Future plans include never letting Gelding take damage. This is all a massive inconvenience of switching and walking around and switching and yay exp.

I think the next time I can buy stuff I just need to make a concentrated effort to pick up some Potions. Walking back to whatever Center equivalent is nearest to save items is very time-consuming. I should give up and buy all the health I will never need.

Look at my super special awesome ninja escort. Because I might fall off the bridge if I’m left to my own devices or something, idk.

Gelding wants to learn Agility. I do not want him to learn Agility. Guess which one of us has an opinion that matters.

Now a Maractus has appeared. Is this cave just the land of repeats?

One level below, Shiftry, Chatot, and Xatu wander the halls. So only the first level is the land of repeats.

These guys both just gave me a Nugget for no reason. Score.

Oh great, a few steps away is someone who heals stuff. That is so much better than free Nuggets. Naturally the healing’s only there because Team Plasma and plot stuff needs to happen elsewhere in the cave, but we can’t have everything.

Another pokemon I love is Scraggy. Team Plasma likes using it. How dare they. Same with the Sandile set.

This gen has so many good pokemon what even.

Like, yes, Watchdog.

But everything else.

Heyo, Batman’s learned Iron Head. Ptera’s going to get the Exp. Share now. I think the leveling is going to be a little absurd for a while, but I want it to be absurd with everything on the same page. We do not play favorites on this team.

Because the favorite is dead.

Gelding’s turning out to be surprisingly useful just because his moveset has so much variety. He has a Fighting, Psychic, Flying, and Dark move, and a focus on both Attack stats. It just walks on things. Floats.

Hahaha except for Watchdogs with Hypnosis. Why does that not ever miss. Hypnosis, Super Fang, and terror. These are the tools of the devil.

!!!!!!!!

!

I can’t catch it, but ! ! !

I’ve never seen any of these in any of the games! This is truly the cave of wonders!

Also our new way of dealing with Watchdog is sending out Palm and having Palm Mach Punch it into oblivion. Because we shall not suffer a Watchdog to live.

Another level down, and there’s Grimer, Electrike...

I need a legendary bingo card and I need it yesterday. The heck. The actual heck.

...

Am. I playing with a shiny clause?

...

Okay, here’s how shinies will be dealt with: I am allowed to catch them outside the realms of the standard challenge. They will not receive nicknames, so will not be used. But I can try to catch them.

“Them” meaning this Grimer, because I don’t think shiny odds are affected by the Randomizer. This is just some cool natural luck.

...Luck that I think I am going to use my one Quick Ball on. I haven’t yet figured out which move is least likely to kill this critter, but all of my pokemon have ten levels on it, and are fully evolved. If I can dodge hurting it, I should.

Hella!

I don’t usually dig the green shinies, but it is super appropriate for Grimer, and I am very happy to have it.

This floor has Zubat. My heart has a feeling. You have not been missed, you fucking bat, but no Pokemon run would be complete without you. It just wouldn’t be the same.

You know, I think I might have gone down the wrong stairs for plot progression. There were just normal trainers and items down there, and there are stairs that go up to the right of those stairs.

...I’m gonna heal before I address that.

Up the stairs, and we’re back to Entei.

As well as plot.

I was about to ask if there’s any other gen that cares as much about its color names, but then I remembered that yes, pretty much all of them are linked well to some kind of something.

I keep disagreeing with N. I can’t remember/do not know if that changes anything in the slightest, it’s just what’s going on.

Hey so I forget. How does N rationalize his use of pokemon for battles? Was that in one of the dialogue bubbles I didn’t read? Or just much earlier in the game? I don’t particularly care, I’m just curious.

Then there’s Professor Juniper and all the other adults who listen to this kid and go all, “Oh sweetie, we all go through the phase of thinking we’re the only ones with good thoughts. Lots of love, keep having fun!”

I’m paraphrasing.

Look, Flying Gym place.

If there is some other way of thinking of it, I do not have it on my memory record. Oh, Move Deleter’s in the house next to the Center. That would be maybe useful if I still had a legendary that knew Cut.

I don’t, if you recall.

Hey, we meet Professor Juniper’s dad. He updates our pokedex, so maybe we won’t end up with question marks where most of our team’s numbers should be.

Flying Gym Leader’s name is Skyla. Pretty sure she is one of the Gym Leaders I am continually searching out femslash fic for. Results make me sad, but then again, it’s been a while. Maybe that’s what I’ll do after beating her.

“Hey kid, wanna see a graveyard?”

Aha.

That is much more depressing in a Nuzlocke run.

This is a really tiny city. There’s the airport, a few buildings, and then BAM, back to nature. After being immediately outside a cave. This town just popped into place because the airport showed up, didn’t it?

But more importantly...

It’s a new route!

What will we get?

I’m walking around the grass because I can’t remember if there are other kinds of grass in this route and I want the illusion of choice in my completely random options. This has led to fighting a triple battle with a trainer who has a Watchdog.

At least it can only make one thing fall asleep per turn. It doesn’t bother trying, because this monster knows Hyper Fang, which is maybe even more stressful when its only chance at attacking is a critical hit, but the important thing is that it’s over now and another Watchdog is dead.

We faint the pokemon we attack. My team can be killed, but not their opponents.

Watchdogs still die.

#Canon

Hello, I accidentally took a step into the grass, and here we have our new friend!

...How not to kill it. I think the usual route is just Biting it with something, but everything except Fido and Batman has ten levels on it, and Fido and Batman are Fido and Batman.

Grass/Water, right? Hm.

Frogger, let’s see if Mud Shot can keep the little guy alive.

Heyo! Not even to the orange. Good boy, Frogger.

And oh geez, I have been very negligent in buying stuff. Poke Balls are still in good shape, but none of the other Balls are.

Oh, nice. That was pretty much painless. He needs a name, though.

You remind me of a ninja turtle.

Leotello. Bam. I hope I don’t need you, because I know I didn’t choose the Water Stone to have, and I can’t recall if I’ve picked one up.

I really need to switch Gelding out of the first slot. Fido needs some leveling, and Gelding really does not anymore. He’s 40 in a field of high 30s. ...Okay, the actual field is high 20s, but the field known as my team is high 30s, and that’s what I care about.

Anyway, Fido. Witness the power of the Lucky Egg.

...After I go and buy some stuff before I forget.

(That didn’t happen, I fought the next trainer instead.)

I FORGOT ABOUT AXEW.

Aw, you adorable dinosaur creature you. I am so sorry I’m gonna murder you, yes I am. Such a perfect, flawless critter. Best Dragon line is best, no question. Haxorus even has an amazing shiny form. -pats Axew on its perfect head-

Okay, purchases. Potions. Balls. Need them.

Have them.

Okay, yeah. Journey free to continue.

Male Nidoran is a thing in this route. So is Girafarig. So are trainers.

?

Mother?

Why are you caring about your ten-year-old at this point in the story?

...Huh. And that’s literally all she calls to do. Neat.

There’s darker grass over the ways. Let’s see what I could have had if I had been slightly more smart about where I put my feet.

Hullo, it is a Staraptor.

That is such a damn badass bird.

Like, look at it.

Look at its soulless eyes.

Terrifying.

V cool.

Purrloin is also in the darker grass. And more Buizel. Back in the normal grass there is Ariados. I always had some degree of affection for that thing. No idea why. Never once used it, and I don’t like spiders. I guess it doesn’t have the right number of legs, so that makes it okay? Huh, there’s also a Durant.

...Did I enter a different area? I didn’t see anything to indicate that. There’s a Girafarig back again. Maybe it was just a percentage thing.

Ha. Yeah.

I don’t wanna go in.

A place I obviously should have come to long before.

I’m just going to run upstairs and dance around the graves until I find my next pokemon and trigger whatever’s necessary to let me battle the Gym Leader. Armed with the comforting knowledge that if any of my team dies, they will have a good, immediate resting spot.

I know I’m like the millionth person to point this out, but really. There are really trainer fights in a graveyard? Wherefore art thou respectless maggots.

Oh my gosh! You! You are a favorite thing! Hello!

...How the heck do I not kill you?

I think. I’m going to give Gelding a shot. Air Cutter isn’t too

.

..

...

No?

Gelding no. No no no no no no no.

Damn it. No.

To finish the thought above, Trapinch is Ground, so I was willing to chance Gelding’s high Attack against Air Cutter being kind of wimpy, and the type resistance killing STAB, and there was a risk regardless because of the levels and stats, but I thought Flying vs Ground wasn’t such a terrible thing to bet on, given the options, and.

Hell, now I’m sad.

Less meaningful things hanging out in the graveyard are Anorith Anorith and Anorith. Is it one species per level or am I just unlucky and growing sadder?

I picked up a Revive off the ground in a pokemon grave site.

That’s a yes on sadder.

Hey, so I’ve been seeing a lot of Swoobat lately that I haven’t screencapped, and that reminded me of something: I never went back to that cave, and I think there was more to it. It has one of the legendaries from this gen in its depths, I think, and I guess there isn’t much for me to do in it, but it’s weird to think there’s a place I didn’t really explore.

...Meanwhile.

Where is my bingo chart.

I don’t even know this thing’s typing. I think it’s from this gen, but it’s one of those that I maybe got from a GameStop event and never really looked at or used, and even that is foggy. My assumption would be Psychic just based on me shrugging and assigning Psychic to any legendary I’m not sure on.

Green could mean Grass, though. Wait, no it couldn’t. I used Flamethrower and it lived.

Fido’s setting a record for number of times it can hurt itself in confusion. Being put to SLP is practically a blessing, and I seriously need to switch before we see some legendary on legendary death action in the wrong direction.

Yeah, definitely Psychic. Batman is super effective against it.

So that was needlessly scary, and then on our way down the stairs to see the friendly nurse (this gen is so kind about healing stations and I love it), we run into a Dragonair.

I don’t think I could play a randomized version without Nuzlocke rules or something similar. I would go nuts training every single thing I loved to be a viable option. I’d be a hundred hours in and have four badges.

Plot?

To soothe the souls of our fallen friends.

Huh. This is kind of an empty detour. Skyla’s only up here to heal a pokemon off-screen, and then we ring a very pretty bell that gives me feelings that wouldn’t happen without the death clauses. It’s nice enough, but I could have sworn something a little more monumental went on. No?

Am I thinking of another memorial site? I think I might be... I think Golett is somewhere later in the map?

Maybe that’s what I’m thinking of.

I won’t complain about the free exp, this just felt like a bit of a non sequitor delay. Usually places like this turn out to be optional.

What are you doing on top of this tower. You are lunch for Palm and I appreciate that, but this is the opposite of your natural environment.

Palpitoad’s up here too. Palm is a lucky mushroom kangaroo this eve. His Attack stat will always make me sad, but his existence makes me happy.

The floor below the top has Muk in addition to the legendary song thing. So that’s neat. Actually wait, Frogger’s the only one not 40. Maybe I’ll let him beat up on the Muk.

Oh. He was closer than I thought. Anorith works too, I guess.

Every time I see a Trapinch I am going to feel just so sad.

So sad.

I don’t even know what I would have named her. But we would have been amazing together.

For now, though, it is Gym time.

It might not have aesthetic, but Skyla’s Gym is all about firing yourself through cannons repeatedly to find new opponents. Yes.

Ptera is going to be in the first spot. With Crunch in the place of Rock Throw (why did I do that again?), he only has Ancient Power for STAB + Super Effective, but he’s still overpowered as heck, and has a partial Rock typing, so he should be okay against other birds. I think most of my team can probably handle anything she throws out, though there will, of course, be the odd “wait it learns that?” moment. Hopefully nothing too catastrophic, but I do expect it.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane.

It’s a me.

Without the necessary syllables to make that reference fly home.

So, the cannon fodder seems to have early 30s for their squads. Ptera’s not having a problem with that, despite me using Acrobatics even though he has a Lucky Egg on him. Items and Acrobatics do not play well together. I’ll try to remember that before Skyla. It hasn’t mattered so far, but if it does matter, it’ll be against her.

Oki doki. Lucky Egg off, Ptera prepped. I was lazy and used a Potion for 12hp to top Ptera off instead of going back to the Center. It isn’t like I’ll have much use for standard Potions. It’s practically free healing.

Now then.

Let’s gooooo.

I can’t remember if I’ve commented on it yet, but the sprite for our protagonist just looks so serious this gen. It isn’t quite so noticeable when he’s on his own, but put him next to someone like Skyla and he brings Red to mind.

He is a little happier in the video chat things.

Maybe he just takes Gym fights seriously.

What a weirdo.

First up is a level 33 Swoobat, looking adorable. Yay for Crunch, and it is gone. Following that is a level 35 Swanna. I’m going to use Ancient Power and cross my fingers for that one. I was about to be happy with Crunch over Rock throw, but I really miss having a physical Rock attack.

One and done, last one up is a level 33 Unfezant. Ancient Power again?

Yes!

Another painless victory, another badge! Sweetness!

Skyla lets us go with a warning about seeing Team Plasma in the next city, but that is a thing for another day. Now is the time for basking in the glory of success and Pokemon Centers.

[foreverjover]

Answers by Netflix Original

(This is one of her birthday presents from me :D )

1. What do you think about All Hail King Julien ?

It's aMAZing! The characters, script and voice actors are just perfect!

2. What episode/s is/are your favourite and why?

Let's see, I really like Karl-Mageddon. Might be my fav so jovery That would probably be why I like it sm^. I REALLY like all of the episodes though, but if I had to pick one it would probably be that one.

3. What is/are your favourite season/s and why?

Hm...as much as it kills me to say this...I have to go with 5.

4. Who is/are your favourite character/s and why?

King Julien and Clover are my favs I also really like Ted too 😁 why? Well, I love Clover because she's so freaking awesome, I love Julien because he is such angreat king, he learns to care about others and take care of his people and will even sacrifice his life if he knows it will save his kingdom. As for Ted...he's just super funny 😂

5. Who is/are your favourite main character/s and why ?

KJ and CloClo

6. Who is/are your least favourite character/s and why?

Oh...mm... Sage,Maggie and Hans. Hans is just weird and honestly kinda freaky. Maggie is...well, ya know. And don't even get me started on Sage

7. Who is/are your favourite enemy/ies and why?

My favourite villians are magic Steve and Uncle King Julien. I like soysauce because the whole plot of someone stealing your identity and no one even knowing gives me the creeps and ukj is just SO evil, like how he trys to kill his OWN nephew *minachel laughter*

8. What is/are your favourite ship/s and why?

JOVER!! Clover and KJ's chemistry is soooo perfect!💟 I love how he cares about her and I love how Clover is always worried about him :D , also Xixi and Momo.

9. What is/are least favourite ship/s and why ?

S.A.G.E and CLOVER!! WHAT the heck DW?? You've got freakn issues😬 Why? Because Sage is so weird, and he also ugly , and weird and did I mention he's weird?

10. What is/are your favourite OST/s ?

AHH! Uh...Who's da King? Until the sun comes up, and won't stop, seriously though I love them all !!!

11. What is/are your favourite kingdom/s ?

Lemurs kingdom, duh...XD, if I had to pick another one, doesn the sharks count?

12. Which character/s do you want to meet the most and why?

Clover, probably because she's such an inspiration to me and it would be extremely awesome to meet her in person 😍

13. What do you want to change in AHKJ and why?

ENDING!!! DUH! Also, Exiled. I think DreamWorks could've done a MUCH better job with it.

14. Are you making/doing fanarts, fanmixes or fanfics ?

Yepper do! I try to do fanarts, and I have ONE that looks pretty good, if I do say so myself (it's the clover in a Hawaiian outfit XD) Also am currently working on Feelings Develop, and I finished my other fic The last goodbye, so yeah.

15. What do you think about the ending ?

It sucks, it sucks the most anything has every sucked in the history of sucking- Po, Kung Fu Panda

16. Which episode/s is/are the best for you and why?

The best for me? Um, the never ending Clover, and the eye of the clover... I guess because it shows just how much Clover means to Julien, and what he's willing to go through in order to keep her alive.

17. Which episode/s is/are to worst for you and why?

The worst, uh idk...maybe THE ENDING!! The words worst and hate are no where close in describing my feelings towrds the end.

18. What is/are your favourite scene/s and why?

The scene in I Maurice, when Julien is in a coma, and Clover is super worried about him, and she's touching his face and stuff💞 also in the pancharian canidate when she throws him over her shoulder to get him to saftey, and in Karl ma(something) when she gets worried in the room of mirrors because she can't find him Pretty much any/every Jover scene

19. What is/are your least favourite scene/s and why?

*coughs loudly* Clager! Sorry I need some cough medicine. Any Clager moments I would gladly wash down the sink

20. Have you ever cried while watching?

Mmm....I hate to admit it, but yeah.

21. Which scene/s is/are the funniest for you ?

XD, um, the scene when clover asks Mort what is wrong with him and he says probably lots of stuff and his eyes roll super far apart. But there are A LOT of halarous moments in AHKJ and I love them all.

22. What do you think about King Julien?

I think he's the most awesome character ever created in the history of television! He deserves more RESPECT!!

KJ: Respect-me! King-me!

Thanks a lot Netflix Original!!!

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Full Album-A-Day List in Alphabetical Order: 2017

Full Album-A-Day List in Alphabetical Order: 2017

Alright, it’s been too long since the end of the year, but here my list of albums I listened to in 2017. There are 365 albums here in alphabetical order by artist and then by release date in each artist. I am repeating the challenge for 2018 and so far I’ve listened to 62 albums. Let me know what you guys think of this list and please check out some of the music on here. Some of my favorite albums ever are on this thing.

A:

Actress - AZD

Alvvays - Alvvays

Alvvays - Antisocialites

Aminé - Good For You

America - America

Anderson .Paak - Malibu

Andy Shauf - The Bearer of Bad News

Andy Shauf - The Party

Angel Olsen - Half Way Home

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Angel Olsen - My Woman

Angel Olsen - Phases

Animal Collective - Marriweather Post Pavilion

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Ariel Pink - Pom Pom

Atmosphere - Fishing Blues

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

B:

BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG

Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

Beach House - Depression Cherry

Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman

Berhana - Berhana EP

Blank Banshee - Mega

Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous

Big L - The Big Picture

Big Sean & Metro Boomin - Double or Nothing

Big Thief - Masterpiece

Big Thief - Capacity

Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

Booker T. & The M.G.’s - Green Onions

Brockhampton - SATURATION

Brockhampton - SATURATION II

Brockhampton - SATURATION III

C:

Capital STEEZ - AmeriKKKan Korruption

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION

Chance the Rapper - 10 Day

Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

Charli XCX - Pop 2

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest

Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me

Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love

City and Colour - If I Should Go Before You

Clarence Clarity - No Now

Clipping. - Splendor & Misery

Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love

Connan Mockasin - Caramel

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Crywank - Tomorrow is Nearly Yesterday and Everyday is Stupid

D:

Daniel Caesar - Freudian

Danny Brown - The Hybrid

Danny Brown - XXX

Danny Brown - Old

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

Dave Brubeck - Time Out

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Death Grips - Exmilitary

Death Grips - The Money Store

Death Grips - No Love Deep Web

Death Grips - Government Plates

Death Grips - Fashion Week

Death Grips - The Powers That B

Death Grips - Interview 2016 EP

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Deerhoof - The Man, The King and The Girl

Deerhoof - The Runners Four

Deerhoof - The Magic

Deerhoof - Mountain Moves

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Denzel Curry - Nostalgic 64

Denzel Curry - Imperial

DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs

Dirty Projectors - The Glad Fact

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors

E:

Earl Sweatshirt - Earl

Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

Elucid - Valley of Grace

Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton

Everything Everything - Get to Heaven

F:

Fantastic Negrito - The Last Days of Oakland

Father John Misty - Fear Fun

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Feist - Let It Die

Feist - The Reminder

Feist - Metals

Feist - Pleasure

Fever Ray - Plunge

FKA Twigs - LP1

Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

Flying Lotus - 1984

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra

Frank Ocean - channel Orange

Frank Ocean - Blonde

Freddie Gibbs - Shadow of a Doubt

Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata

G:

Ghost Ship Octavius - Ghost Ship Octavius

Girlpool - Powerplant

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Greta Van Fleet - Black Smoke Rising EP

Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Grizzly Bear - Friend EP

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

H:

Harry Styles - Harry Styles

Huncho Jack - Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho

Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator

I:

Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai

Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

IDK - IWASVERYBAD

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo EP

Isaiah Rashad - The Sun’s Tirade

J:

J Dilla - Donuts

J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

J. Cole - 4 Your Eyes Only

Jaden Smith - SYRE

Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet

Jay Som - Everybody Works

Jlin - Black Origami

Joey Bada$$ - 1999

Joey Bada$$ - B4.Da.$$

Joey Bada$$ - All-AmeriKKKan Badass

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights

K:

Ka - The Knight’s Gamble

Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto

Kamaiyah - Before I Wake

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Karriem Riggins - Alone Together

Kaytranada - 99.9%

Kelela - Take Me Apart

Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

Kesha - Rainbows

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music

King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon

King Krule - The OOZ

L:

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

LCD Soundsystem - american dream

Lil Pump - Lil Pump

Local Natives - Gorilla Manor

The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed

Lorde - Pure Heroine

Lorde - Melodrama

Lou Reed - Lou Reed

Lou Reed - Transformer

M:

Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog

Madlib - Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note

Madvillain - Madvillainy

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?

Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds

Melvins - Eggnog EP

Melvins - Lice All EP

MF Doom - Operation Doomsday

MF Doom - Metal Fingers Presents: Special Herbs, Vol. 1 & 2

MF Doom - Mm.. Food

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Mick Jenkins - The Water[s]

The Microphones - Don’t Wake Me Up

The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2

The Microphones - Mount Eerie

Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Moses Sumney - Aromanticism

Mount Eerie - “No Flashlight” Songs of the Fulfilled Night

Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom

Mount Eerie - Dawn

Mount Eerie - Wind’s Poem

Mount Eerie - Clear Moon

Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar

Mount Eerie - Sauna

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers

Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives

The Mountain Goats - Goths

M83. - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

N:

NAO - So Good EP

NAO - For All We Know

Nas - Illmatic

The National - The National

The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers

The National - Alligator

The National - Boxer

The National - High Violet

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

The National - Sleep Well Beast

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

Neon Indian - Era Extraña

Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School

Neutral Milk Hotel - Everything Is EP

Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

Nick Murphy - Missing Link EP

Noname - Telefone

Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death

O:

Oddisee - The Iceberg

Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

P:

The Pablo Collective - The Death of Pablo

Paramore - After Laughter

Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It

Perfume Genius - Too Bright

Perfume Genius - No Shape

Phoenix - Ti Amo

Phosphorescent - Muchacho

Pixies - Bossanova

Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti

Portishead - Dummy

The Postal Service - Give Up

Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe

Q:

Quelle Chris - Being You is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often

Quasimoto - The Unseen

R:

Radiohead - Pablo Honey

Radiohead - The Bends

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom

Ratt - Out of the Cellar

Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill

Richard Dawson - Peasant

Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow

Run the Jewels - RTJ3

S:

Sampha - Process

(Sandy) Alex G - Beach Music

(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket

SBTRKT - SBTRKT

SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land

ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron

ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

Shabazz Palaces - Quazars: Born on a Gangster Star

Shapes & Colors - Love / Sex / War EP

The Shelters - The Shelters

The Shouting Matches - Grownass Man

Slint - Spiderland

Smino - blkswn

Snakadaktal - Sleep in the Water

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Solange - A Seat at The Table

Sorority Noise - You’re Not As ___ As You Think

Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things

Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note

Squarepusher - Go Plastic

Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?

St. Vincent - Marry Me

St. Vincent - Actor

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

Stan Getz & Cher Baker - Stan Meets Chet

Substantial - The Past is Always Present in The Future

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Syd - Fin

SZA - Z

SZA - Ctrl

T:

The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave

The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

The Tallest Man on Earth - There’s No Leaving Now

The Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home

Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

This is the Kit - Where it Lives

This is the Kit - Bashed Out

This is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse

Thundercat - Drunk

Todd Terje - It’s Album Time

Tonedeff - Polymer

Travis Scott - Rodeo

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Tycho - Past Is Prologue

Tycho - Dive

Tycho - Awake

Tycho - Epoch

Tyler, The Creator - Bastard

Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

Tyler, The Creator - Wolf

Tyler, The Creator - Cherry Bomb

Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy

U:

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

V:

Vagabon - Infinite Worlds

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend - Contra

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait EP

Vince Staples - Summertime ’06

Vince Staples - Prima Donna EP

Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

Volcano Choir - Unmap

Volcano Choir - Repave

W:

The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues

The War on Drugs - Future Weather EP

The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

Warren G - Regulate… G Funk Era

Wavves - You’re Welcome

We Made God - It’s Getting Colder

The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness

WIFE - What’s Between

Wiley - Godfather

Wolf Parade - Wolf Parade EP

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Wolf Parade - Expo 86

X:

X - Los Angeles

Xiu Xiu - Forget

The xx - Coexist

The xx - I See You

Y:

Yes - Close to the Edge

YG - Still Brazy

Young Pappy - 2 Cups Part 2 of Everything

Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls

Young Thug & Carnage - Young Martha

Your Old Droog - Packs

Z:

Zola Jesus - Stridulum

Zola Jesus - Okovi

#’s:

21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin - Without Warning

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My First Developed OC

Since some people were curious a long while back, I thought I would write a little bit about my first OC and stuff. 

Because... wow... it’s... a lot... a lot of edge, AUs, changes, and it’s kinda a roller coaster. This is gonna be really long as I am not just talking about my first developed OC, but also my first developed original story. This is gonna get wild. 

For those reasons, I am gonna put ALL of this under a cut~ 

SO I am gonna start at the beginning and I am just gonna warn you; this is VERY LONG as this OC is VERY OLD and has been through A LOT OF CHANGES. 

Now, technically, this isn’t my first OC. I had other OCs before this one, but this one is the first OC who I really went in depth with and got really attached to. 

Now, I created him when I was in 6th grade, when I was 12. This was basically my pre-edge years/the beginnings of my edge/emo years. Three Days Grace was my favorite band, I watched Warriors Cats Scourge AMVs on YouTube, and yeah. That was the time period. Ah, 2009. 

My favorite song at the time was, of course, Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace (typing that was painful hah). So while listening to it, I started to get an idea for my character one day while doing chores around the house (the fact I remember all these little details is weird, isn’t it?). At the time, I was really into The Legend of Spyro games. Like. That was my obsession. My first real fandom too, if you will. 

I was inspired by some other fan stories and fan characters online (mainly DA and a forum site I used to go on) to create my own fanon OC for the series. 

And thus, Broken the Dragon was born. Broken looks like... well... actually I drew him not too long ago to relive old times and he looked basically like this: 

 (Don’t worry, he doesn’t keep that name. Or even species. Or design. Kinda. We’ll get there).

Now, if I’m gonna be honest, the base idea of the story was.... weird. The idea was that the story took place post-Dawn of the Dragon (the last Legend game... which is kinda shit but I’m not getting into fucking. Spyro discourse or whatever I’m Done.) In which the main characters of the game; Spyro and Cynder, end up living in the main city of the game, Warfang. Along them, I also threw characters from the older Spyro series into it- Ember and Flame to be exact. They were all paired up too... because why not. 

The idea of the story was that another evil dragon rises up to wage war from a long-forgotten empire. Broken was an agent of this evil dragon and was sent to trick the four heroes for... some reason... but is outed by another dragon named Sophia. He betrays these five, then leaves back to his master. 

Then a journey begins of the five hero dragons proving to Warfang that they were all in danger, proving this long forgotten empire exists and is trying to wage war, and going back to Sophia’s home land to get help as well. 

While all this is happening, Broken is dealing with his own problems being the right hand dragon of his evil master. This is where the story gets a little more wavering. 

Now, in this original version of the story, Broken belonged to this race of... dark dragons... (look, I was 12/13) who were cast away due to being too dangerous and powerful. Broken, the last of his kind, also was the last who carried this dangerous “dark power” with him (snort). 

 And yeah, this is sounding stupid. Again, I was 12. And this was fanfiction I never really wrote...well... actually, it WAS going to be a comic and I even created several comic pages in a notebook I had. I don’t think I have the notebook anymore, unfortunately. 

Anyways! Broken realizes how unhappy he is with his evil master, his adoptive sister gets killed, his dead mothers visits him in his dreams, and yeah he ends up betraying his evil master and runs away. 

He meets up with the other hero dragons just in time to warn them that the dark army was about to march, and though they don’t trust him at all, allow him to join them to defend the city of Warfang. 

As you can imagine, the heroes win, the bad guys are all killed off, and Broken is hailed as a hero. The end.  

Except not really. 

Now, as stupid as this entire story sounds, by the time I was done developing it and Broken’s back story (which I will get to in a bit), I was VERY attached to Broken. When I started making a sequel to this original story, I cut out ALL the characters except Broken and Sophia, then set the sequel’s story in Sophia’s home land. 

Basically, the sequel was, for the most part, an original story. 

While planning this sequel, I realized this, and decided I wanted to make this entire series completely original with no ties to Spyro at all. This was also when I was finally coming out of my obsession with Spyro. I think I was probably in 7th grade now/8th grade. Probably 8th. 

I went back, changed the characters, created a proper world map, and world built a LOT. Like. Too much. Wayy too much. I was so stuck in world building every detail, a lot of the plot suffered. 

The main, first plot stayed mostly the same. There were... many changes... most of them I can’t completely remember anymore. A couple new characters were introduced (Rising Moon, and another character who’s name wasn’t important but I’m gonna call him Falling Rocks here bc I think that was close to his original name maybe? Both of them were love interests). 

Now, the world building I created for this world was pretty interesting, but I am not gonna go too in-depth with it because this is focused on Broken. 

With the new story and world, Broken’s backstory became more polished and his design got a bit of an upgrade. 

For now, he stayed a dragon, really the only change was that I gave him more scars and that his mouth was... fucked up. His gums were rotten and black, and he had metal fangs drilled into his skull because all his real teeth fell out. 

Now. Back story. 

Broken’s backstory actually didn’t change that much? Actually, it didn’t really change at all, since his backstory is such a big part of his character (lmao as it should be). 

Broken belongs to a species of dragons known as Dark Dragons. A long time ago, during a violent civil war, Inzuktia (The nation’s name... I think...) began to experiment on dragons to try and defeat the rebels. The magical experiments all failed, however, leaving many broken dragons with dangerous, uncontrollable powers. Inzuktia did end up winning the war and defeating the rebels, but they didn’t know what to do with the dragons they experimented on. So they tossed them into a large canyon known as “Dusk’s Strike.” 

They put a magic barrier over the canyon so the trapped dragons couldn’t escape and over time, Inzuktia just kinda forgot about these dragons. 

The dragons didn’t die off completely. They ended up forming a underground civilization in the loosest of terms. Years passed, Inzuktia fell (basically like Rome did lmao) and was a ghost of its former self. The dark dragons, in this time, had begun dwindling, as there was little food and water in the canyon. Dark magic poisoned a lot of the drinking water, and food was scarce, which lead to cannibalism. 

Broken the Dragon was the last Dark Dragon born. He only had his mother, and they were basically the last two alive. Growing up in darkness, with barely any food, and sickly water, Broken didn’t know anything about light or the outside world, and neither did his mother. 

When Broken was around 9, after a very harsh winter, his mother died, and he was forced to eat her corpse to stay alive. This, as you can imagine, broke him (lol), and for many years, he became feral. He lived completely and utterly alone for years till the last leader of New Inzuktia came down to see him and recruit him (I don’t remember this dragon’s name. Just gonna call him Evil Dragon. Yup, same one from the fanfiction story). 

Broken was given to a dragoness, who ended up becoming his sister to him. I don’t remember her name, either, but it was something like Darkness or whatever. Anyways, though he saw her as a sister, she saw him as a lover, and they had a very... interesting relationship. 

Anyways, beyond that, the original story stayed the same. 

Now, you’re probably wondering if Broken has the same “dark powers” as his ancestors had. The answer is yes, but they really... weren’t fleshed out? Basically, Broken has the power to summon/breathe a blue fire that can burn through anything. However, he can’t control it, and it burns him as well when he uses it, hence the burn scars around his mouth. They only react when he is very emotional (of course) which is kinda rare, as Broken has a perfect poker face, and has learned how to hide every emotion he feels. 

That being said, he still feels emotion, it just never shows on his face. He doesn’t know HOW to show his emotions. 

Yeah, it’s real dark and edgy. 

And this is where his story... splinters... a lot. I had a lot of story ideas, tried to use all of them, and thus there are a LOT of timelines in his story, a lot of drafts, and the like. 

Now, the original story follows the original sequel idea in which Broken goes to Sophia’s homeland. He is... very mentally scarred and Aria’s homeland is known for its healing and is pretty much the leading country in therapy as well. 

Rising Moon is assigned as his therapist for.. reasons. I mean she is still a student technically and like. 16/17 but she is assigned as his therapist anyways. 

This sequel is... quite stupid. There’s this weird love triangle/rectangle between Sophia, Falling Rocks, and Broken. Rising Moon falls in love with Broken. Broken is jealous because he is in love with Sophia and Sophia is in love with Falling Rocks, and Falling Rocks despises Broken because... reasons. He’s racist. Idk. 

There’s a lot of pointless drama. Broken suffers a lot from heartbreak and jealousy, and then dead dragons start showing up around the village. People blame Broken, but as it turns out, it’s actually Broken’s father! (y E A H it’s DUMB) Broken’s father somehow left Dusk’s Strike. Who knows how it’s never really touched upon. He’s totally crazy and he was killing dragons because you know. He’s crazy!

Yeah, poor villain I know. 

Anyways no one really believes Broken, he’s run out of town, Rising Moon is kidnapped by Broken’s father, Broken goes to rescue her, and kills his father, then takes his body and Rising Moon back to the village to prove his innocence.

Broken is taken back, people trust him now (except Falling Rocks ofc) and Rising Moon admits she’s in love with her patient. 

Yeah it’s. Kinda fucked up. 

Now, if all THAT sounds bad, the story becomes even more broken (haha) after this. 

Broken gets worse instead of better for reasons he can’t explain. He’s still in love with Sophia and jealous of Falling Rocks. Falling Rocks finally decides he really can’t stand Broken and tries to off him. No one cares to listen when Broken tries to report him- everyone but Rising Moon, that is- and Sophia gets pissed at Broken for believing that. 

Now, instead of anything rational or logical happening here, Broken decides that he is sick of Falling Rocks and murders him brutally and sends his soul to this world’s version of Hell using magic (yup). 

During this, Rising Moon is the only one who knows Broken murdered Falling Rocks as she walked in on the murder scene. She keeps his secret, helps him cover up the murder, and this is when they finally get together. 

As you can imagine, Sophia ends up figuring out what happened and is distraught. 

The... story gets even more broken after this. 

Rising Moon and Broken are nearly killed or something, but instead of dying they get sent to the future or something via magic...? And find out that the entire world is in ruins and that an evil, insane version of Broken is ruling over it all. 

They scramble around in the future as well. Rising Moon is dead, Broken is in danger as literally every dragon on the planet wants to kill him, and they eventually get to the castle where Future!Broken is as that’s the only place they can get back home... somehow. 

Future!Broken and Broken end up fighting, Broken almost ends up dying as Future!Broken is a lot more powerful- his dark power is purple instead of blue and he can control it- but Rising Moon steps in and shocks Future!Broken enough so she can save Broken.

See, Future!Broken is still in love with her. 

Broken and Rising Moon get back to their timeline, and through... idk magic and visions and other shit find out that it’s not just a dark future- the magic between alternate timelines is failing and it will cause their timeline to fuse with a timeline in which Broken is evil. This somehow leads to Broken going insane and killing Rising Moon then taking over the world. 

Yes, I know NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE also understand I was in middle school when writing this. 

Also it’s soooo fucking edgy I want to cry but welp. 

Anyways this is KINDA where a split happens as there is two versions of the end of this timeline of the main story- the happy end and the depressing one. 

In the happy end, Rising Moon and Broken end up doing some Grade A Magical Bullshit so that Broken defeats his evil side/twin/dimension thing and they run off together to become nomads and everything is happy and great as Broken is the center of the universe and legit the only difference in that entire alternate timeline was that he was evil. 

In the sad timeline, Rising Moon and Broken fail, she dies, and Broken goes to take over the world. 

Rebels fight against him (Sophia is one of them) but they constantly fail. The entire dark future comes true, Broken builds a castle of dark crystals as his fortress, and he basically broods for the rest of his days. 

That is, until, Rising Moon is reborn as Iris, a special golden dragon with light powers. She is trained in secret to kill Broken. 

She ends up facing Broken off in a fight. Broken, for SOME goddamn reason, I guess for love?? Realizes it’s Rising Moon and he can’t stand killing her. 

Iris knows that Broken can’t be reborn like she can because he’s a dark dragon. Why she knows this, I got NO fucking clue. She puts him in a deep slumber and lies and explains that Broken is basically a god and she can’t kill him.

Broken is locked in his own fortress under the most powerful spells and is left to rot. The world rejoices, and Iris helps rebuild the world. 

Jump hundreds of years into the future, the magic finally wears off and Broken wakes up. Except now he has amnesia. Of course. Also he somehow lost all his powers due to said amnesia so he’s weak.

He leaves his now ruined fortress and wanders the world. Most dragons kinda fail to recognize him, tho some do and spread fearful rumors. 

Another incarnation of Rising Moon finds him and it’s basically instalove between the two and she does end up healing him more or less and Broken and her end up living together peacefully until the end of their days. Broken never recovers his lost memories, but he does know what he did and is remorseful. The end. 

Yeah this version still ends kinda happily. 

And as you can tell, this story is very very broken. 

Now, there are other drafts of this. In the second draft, Broken instead goes with Izuktians who surrendered at the war back to Izukia to rebuild it. The exact same shit happens, it’s just in a new setting and there’s a couple more side plots with Broken being outcasted by the Izuktians and many Izuktians disliking him due to how he treated them when he was still evil from before. 

There’s a human version of this story in which the entire dark future shit is dropped and instead, Broken (now Braxous as a human) and Rising Moon (now Reluz) run away and are tracked down. In the happy version they fake their deaths after killing Falling Rocks and end up having children together, in the bad version both of them are killed and justice is served.

More subplots are piled up too such as a civil war happening in Sophia’s (now Aria’s) home country and shit. But yeah. 

There are a lot of other pieces to this hot, flaming mess but I don’t really remember them or know how to describe them. But I think you can tell that this is a complete mess. Over the years I’ve tried to salvage something outta this. There are bits and pieces of ideas I really like! World building ideas, at least. Nothing really from the story. Unfortunately, it just hasn’t been working out for me, and I’ve kinda accepted that I probably won’t ever get this story together. 

But that’s okay. I worked on this story from 6th grade to roughly 10th grade or so. That’s about four years, maybe five. And I had a lot of fun with it. It’s what really got me into storytelling, what made me really want to write, and is kinda what kicked off the idea of writing novels and original stories (which I have returned to as of last year or so).

As terrible as these ideas and this story is, it still does mean a lot to me, and it still holds a special place in my heart. The characters are also quite dear to me as well- at least Braxous (Broken) and Reluz (Rising Moon). 

Though I will never really work on this story ever again, I do keep it in mind and close to my heart.